The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1926, Page 5

sethensepineansasnyincvtstttnh TAXI DRIVERS “ARE. VIGTIMS OF EXPLOITATION Milwaukee Company Is Horrible Example By a Worker Correspondent i MILWAUKEE, Oct, 31.—Boynton Cab Co, that controls the city’s cab system, keeps its employes on the | verge of starvation, paying a miser- able wage of from $6 to $15 a week, Drivers are hired on the basis of | 27 per cent commission which is so low that in order to make a living, one must work 12 to 14 hours a day and keep right at it for full 7 days, because to lay off a day means only one meéai a day, or none. After working a whole week await: ing the pay day, you find in many cases that you have nothing coming, and if you have, it’s very little. Al- ways on the back of your check you will find that the company has held out on you for something you know nothing about, This of course is an every day occurrence. Graft System, The graft system is in full swing, everybody from the lowest strawboss to a manager, always expect some- thing for nothing, and at the end you will find that the poor driver is gen erally the one to take the conse quenceS. In order to get your 2 per cent raise to which every driver is entitled to after working 3 months, % will first cost you a lot of extra work for some punk who was hired to watch over you, or almost your week's wages. Loyalty and Hard Work. The main slogan of the company is hard work and loyalty. If you ex- pect any promotion or increase in wages, which very seldom occurs, you must be a loyal and a hard worker. At every one the so-called “driver's meetings” you will see al: the fat boys delivering mice slick speeches on how the company treats its employes and how it expects to treat them and so on, but never a word is mentioned as to how and where a driver will eat tomorrow, and for what. And never a word about an increase in wages or how the con- ditions of the drivers would be im- proved. As a matter of faot, the driv- ers have no say at all thruout the whole meeting. They just sit there and listen to the slick speeches where one would think that the drivers are making a fortune working for the company. Worker Near Death From Carelessness in a Hospital Operation By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31.—Comrade Sid Bush is near death, it is reported at party headquarters, because: of carelesshess with which he was op- erated on at the county hospital for a tonsil operation. A vein was out by mistake. Lack of care caused the wound to bleed all sight, and now he is very weak and in a serious con- dition. This is not the first time workers have suffered from carelessness at this hospital. During the world war, the misuse of imitation “606” caused the death of six workers, About a year ago, three working women died at the hospital on account of care- lessness when they were given too great a dose of some poison before be ing operated on. NTS BY oui 38 THE DAlLeX% WORKER UL JANUARY 13 1927 THREE PRIZES OFFERED WORKING CLASS. WRITERS FOR BEST NEWS STORIES Three splendid books will be given | as prizes to the workers who send in the best worker correspondent stories between now and Nov. 3. The first prize will be an in- tensely interesting and important book by Frisdrich Engels, “The Peasant War in Germany.” This Is just off the press and is a classic in its first American publication. Who will be the worker correspond- ent to get this fine book? The second prize will be that famous collection of vivid Red Car- toons. There are over seventy car- | toons by seventeen tarian artists, For the third prize, the board- leading prole- | bound edition of the famous Russell- Nearing Debate has been selected, | Bertrand Russell is known as an “intellectual giant” of England, and Scott Nearing has one of the keenest minds In America. It is a book worth having. The prizes will be’ awarded Thurs- day, Nov. 3. Send In that story now that you have been thinking about. It may win a prize—and, anyway, your fellow workers want to read it! RAISES MINERS’ WAGES TO KEEP SCABS WORKING Coal Demand © Forces Concession By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Oct. 31.—The Pitts- burgh Coal Co,, after breaking»the agreement with the coal miners in District 5 aac using every. means in trying to starve and terrorize the coal miners into going Back on the 1917 scale, has now announced a ratse in wages, in some cases even above the Jacksonville agreement. The. notice says that the raise is only temporary, as it seems that the price.of coal on the market has-risen and that as soon as {t will go down the wages will be adjusted accordingly. é . To Keep Scabs..- ¢ Tho this is what the coal company is telling the men, it is not the real reason behind the raising of wages. A lot of miners wefe actually starved into working on the 1917 ‘sCale, but because of the British strike the de- mand for coal from across, tho it is temporary, has opened up @ lot of in- dependent mines in the district.""With the opening of these mines the Pitts- burgh Coal Co, is losing even what scabs it did get to’ work for it. So; in trying to stop the scabs from drift- ing away and leaving it flat, it has now announced the increase in wages. Union's Choice, It the district officials at this time would pursue a fighting policy of mass picketing the Pittsburgh Coal Co. would be sure to give in to the union in a very short time, and this is the only way that the district of the U. M. W. A. can put the union on the of- fensive against the operators. U are invited to attend. THE DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTY to be held Saturday Evening, November 13 at the COOPERATIVE CENTER 2706 Brooklyn Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. RUSSIAN TEA AND DANCE MUSICAL PROGRAM AND REFRESHMENTS AUSPICES:—Nucleus No. 26, Workers Party of Los ‘Angeles arranged Music by the Refreshments BRODERNA, BERGQUIST'S ‘by the Scandinavian Clubs of Chicago Saturday, Nov. 6 and Sunday, Nov. 7 at VIKING TEMPLE Sheffield Ave. and School Street well-known . _ ORCHESTRA » Adinission 50 Cenis MINER LEADERS JOIN DRIVE 10 “SELL MORE COAL ‘But They Neglect’ to Boost Union By a Worker Correspondent, PEORIA, Ill., Oct. 31.—The local as- sociation of commerce, in collabora- tion with leaders of the Peoria sub- |the midst of a campaign to sell more | Peoria dug coal in order to put more | miners to work, association of commerce is to better | business for storekeepers, Three mil- |lion dollars more per year would be |spent by the miners with local mer- chants if the miners worked full time. ‘Don’t Mention Union, It should be the aim of the local sub-district to put more union miners to work, but the word “union” is never |mentioned by the campaign commit- tee, just “Peoria dug coal.” If Warner ye, president of the Peoria sul+dis- trict, really had the union miners at heart he would see to it that “union dug coal’ was boosted and not co- operate with the local babbitts, with the hope that in so doing the cam- paign would indirectly benefit the union miners he represents. As one union miner puts it, “It’s the little mines like the scab Hilltop mine that are gatting the benefit of the campaign. Most of the union dug coal goes to the Rock Island road, which uses about @ million tons a year. The railroad uses it because it makes bet- ter steam coal, and not because it is dug by union miners, If more union dug coal is sold it’s because of the cold snap we are having.” Coal Dealers In On It. A glance at the names of the men on the campaign sub-committee will reveal why the association of com- merce igs sponsoring this campaign. There is Herold Moffett, sales man- ager for Dooley Bros. Coal Co.; Rob- ert Ronk, superintendent for the Hanna City Mining Co., and George Deemy, superintendent for the Cres- cent Coal Co. What’s the use of ad- vertising unless it brings in more profits for yourself? The local. op- erators expect to gain by the cam- paign. The advantage for the union miners will be incidental, As matters stand now, retail dealers report that they have not noticed any marked effects of the campaign so far. Peoria industrialists, long noted for their hatred of union labor, use scab coal because it pays them to do so. And even if scab coal from Kentucky would cost more, and it doesn’t, be- cause ‘of cheap labor and low freight rates, they would sooner use it than put union labor to work. » ‘ Still Talk of Farrington. Expressions of hatred for Frank Farrington are heard on every hand. The militant miners of this district are incensed pver his betrayal, more particularly because of his statement that the miners of Illinois should ac- cept a reduction in pay in order that union dug coal might compete with scab coal, A local miner sums up the case like this: “Frank Farrington is where he belongs, with the coal opera- tors. He should take Fishwick and Sneed with him; they are his right- hand men and are as much in the mud now as he was, All this talk about a reduction in pay is bunk. Suppose we get only 50 cents a ton instead of $1.15, coal would be only about 50 cents a ton cheaper, That ia not enough of a reduction to compete with scab coal, ‘The only policy to pursue is a real trade uniontst one, and that is organize the scab miners. Bring them up to our standard; do not lower ourselves to theirs.” Baltimore Socialist Candidates Approved By Capitalist Paper . By a Worker Correspondent. BALTIMORE, Oct 81—The Balti- ‘more Daily Post, the local edition ot the Séripps-Howard newspaper syD- dicate, carried an editorial on Oct. 26, that should serve as @ lesson for the American working class as to the true character of the socialist party. The editorial entitl to Our Readers,” /deals with the com- ing elections and endorses certain candidates regardless of party, Some of the candidates endorsed are as follows: Addison B, Mullikin, publican, governor; for comptrolle! The Post considers the following can- didates equally qualified, one repub- lican, one democrat, and James L. Smiley (preacher), socialist; ¢ court clerk, a democrat, a republican, and John A. Baker, socialist; for sem ator: William A. Toole, socialist; for congress from third district, S$. M. \Neistat, socialist, All in all we have in the company of 24 democrats and 22 republicans, 4 soctalists, No comments are necedsary. When a capitalist news sheet considers the socialists on an equal plane with demo- eratic and republican politicians and strikebreakers, all we can say is that at least.the gocialists are in the right company, ny more proof of whom the socialists serve necessary? / he lel Nl 6 itn |CHICAG district of United Mine Workers, is in | The object of the | | CLAS§\GET. Workers who desire to enter the | Chicago olass in Worker Correspond- \ence, and who did not attend thé first \meeting last Friday, are urged to at- |tend this Friday night without fail jat the editorial rooms of The DAILY | WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., |third floor, The class starts at 8 | o'clock and all are urged to be prompt so that no time will be lost. Actual work in the class will start | this Friday. At the first meeting the | Program of the class was discussed, | but no study wasrdone, so those that jdid. not attendi’should not feel-they have missed out on anything and therefore feel ‘hesitant about coming jthis Friday. But everyone should come on Friday prepared to do some real work, . vt Bring Smal} Note-Book, | Members aré @sked to bring with |them a small ‘note-book, the size that | will fit conventently in their pockets. N.Y, BOXMAKERS UNION CARRYING ON GOOD FIGHT Police Recruit Scabs and Abuse Pickets By ROLAND A. GIBSON. (Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK CITY, .Oct. 31.—The | strike of the paper box workers is | now in its fourth week. The union | is holding enthusiastic mass meet: | |ings every-afternoon in the Church of | All Nations, § Second avenue, ant) the workers are. picketing the shops daily. | The pickets" are meeting greater | | opposition from the police than at any | jtime since the strike began. Monday | ltwo pickets‘were brutally assaulted | while they were peacefully picketing. | When they ‘were taken to court “and \ testified that they had been molested |by the police, the judge added insult | to injury by fining each of them $5. | | ‘Police Help Bosses. One of them, Morris Wray, charges | that one officer spit in his face and called him nates while he was being | detained in the Mercer St. police sta- | tion. The officers who attacked and arrested themichave made a large number of similar arrests since the strike began. The police are also recruiting work- ers for the eniployers. The secretary of the union “Ras observed cops on Wooster stréet asking workers if they wanted jobs. ~ Fail to Get Negroes to Seab. | The employers. are endeavoring to |bring in colored scabs to break the strike. A scah agency at 799 Broad way is handling this work for them. This agency has advertised in the pa- pers for colored girls to “learn weil- |paying trade, $18 and $20 while |learning.” The victims do not know jthat if the strike is broken their wages will be forced down far below what their fellow-workers will get if the union wins, Very few of these scads work long, however. Whén informed that there is a strike on and that the union does not discriminate against Ne- groes, most of them are willing to quit and look for work elsewhere. Frank Crosswaithe, special organizer for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, addressed the strikers on this matter at Wednesday's mass meet- ing. " The union is now demonstrating its attack upon the shops that make up the Paper Box Manufacturers Assoc!- ation. This association is bent or @QuWORKER CORRESPONDENCE DOWN TO WORK THIS | FRIDAY, DON'T FAIL TO ATTEND! open shoppers, the chamber of com- This will aid them in the work that is planned, | The main purpose of this class is to | train the workers to write, And for that reason, practical experience will be given the members. The class will be conducted on a question and an- | Swer basis. Everyone will take part | in the discussion, It is felt that more will be gainéd from the class in this way, than if lectures alone are given. Examples of work done by worker | the class as a means of emphasizing | good points and bad points in writ- ing. x Then one evening there was something in a magazine that correspondents will be criticized in | Bunny wanted to read, and towards midnight he slipped away to his own cabin, and settled himself in his gold-plated bed, with hand-embroidered pink silk pillows, and a gold-plated or pos- No Homework, There will be no home work for the members to do, so that those ewho | By Upton Sinclair — {Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) sibly solid gold lamp-shade at his head, and presently was far away—in Russia seeing the famine stragglers dying by the road- would be unable to find time to do/|side, or maybe in Hungary, where they were putting down the ahy work outside the class will not|social revolution by the simple plan of slaughering everybody lose out in any of the work, The class will meet every Friday night, Keep that date open! Bunny was so much absorbed in |who believed in it; using, as always, machine-gun bullets made in American steel mills, and purchased, with an American loan, these unhappy far-off things, that he did not hear the door of his cabin very softly opened, nor The first thing he the key very gently turned on the inside, j |noticed was the faint elusive sweet odor, and he gazed upon a FORE IN OPEN SHOP CAMPAIGN Cleveland Unions in a Serious Situation By a Worker Correspondent vision standing by his bedside, clad red hibiscus flowers. The vision could hardly hear, “Bunny, may I Of course Bunny had to say lonely and so unhappy! come like this but I have to tell yo CLEVELAND, Oct. 31.5-Another: step in the fight of the open shoppers | against the building trades of this city | was taken when non-union painters | Bunny didn’t know any reaso: they were. in a purple kimono with huge looked timorous, and had its two hands clasped in front of it, and it whispered in a voice he talk to you a little?” that it might; and the vision sank down on its knees by the bed, and gently one of the soft hands touched his, and the soft voice trembled, “Bunny, I’m so I don’t know if you can understand what it means to a woman to be so lonely, but you are the first man lye wanted to trust for a long, long time. I know I shouldn’t u and why shouldn’t men and women be frank with each other?” m why they shouldn’t and so The substance of the frankness was that the dream and glaziers filed a petition for an in-|of love had stirred once more in the soul of a woman who was junction restraining the union men | utterly bewildered about life, He must not thinle that she was from interfering with the scabs in ful- filling their agreement with the con- tractors, | Last week, the contractors sought | an injunction preventing the union |shallow or light, she had never done anything like this before, land it was honest—the tears came into her eyes as she said it, and oh, please, please not to despise her, she wanted to be happy and there were so few people you could love. “Bunny, tell me, leaders from calling the men off the |@re you in love with any other woman?” Job. ‘Cited for contempt, the leaders declared that they had not ordered | the men off the job and therefore | could not order them back. These | It might have beqn a kindness this was his first adventure of the s to tell her that he was; but ort, and he told the truth, and it was like sunlight after an April shower, as the smile shone Geen ace. pondiok’ ant will be heard, | through her tears. ‘ There was a little catch in her voice, as she before the court of appeals. It af-; Whispered, “I’m being silly, the tears will come, and they make jfects the building work on the Ohio @ Woman look so ugly, let me put out the/light.” So she pulled Bell Telephone building, on which |the little golden chain, and was no longer the Jeast bit ugly, but 600 men are working. Import Judges, Three judges have been brought in- to the city from out of town, The petition of the scab painters and gla- aiers: will be heard by Judge Westen- haver of the federal court, thé per- sons cited being the president of the Cleveland Federation of Labor and the officials of thirteen building trades locals. Things have not stopped! there. Men working on the old First Nationa) Bank building also went out on strike beeause two non-union painters were working on the job, At first the police, allowed a large number of pickets, but finally they decfded that no more than three would be tolerated. Detec- tives and police squads are guarding the place. Serious Situation. This is a serious situation for the building trades. Little by little the meree and the citizens’ league are cutting the foundation from under the unions. The unions, pretending to have unusual strength, are allowing this procesg to continue, evidently trusting to the courts to vindicate them. The situation is very threatening. The open shoppers are clearly prepar- ing for the fight in spring, and are do- ing everything in their power, both legal and extra-legal, to break down the unions. The unions, on the other hand, continue in their disorganized condition, The two building trades breaking the union. The union's an- swer is a fight to the finish. Support is coming in from other unions, se'- tlements are being made every day or two, and the ‘union looks for an early break in’the ranks of the em- ployers. ; ‘ Milwaukee, Council Honors Debs, Lauds Labor Defense Work By a W-rKer Correspondent MILWAUKEE, Wis., . 31.—At the last meeting of the Federated Trades Council here the delegates rose to their feet and stood in silence one minute in trlbute to Eugene V. Debs, e At the meeting one of the delegates mentioned the fagt that to pay tribute to Debs we would have to keep up his spirit toward. seeing the political prisoners freed, and that one of the latest activities of Debs was his work in the International Labor Defense, of which he was a committeeman, ] EUREKA, Cal,, Oct. 31,—A charred hull, fast on a bar 80 miles south of here, was all that remained of the steam shooner Everett: today follow- ing a spectacular fire at sea yester- day. OVERCOATS Good, slightly used overcoats (also suits) at ‘ $19.00 FOGEL'S - 949 W, MADISON councils still hold eway. The first step, therefore, is for the rank and file not to let any obstacle remain in the way of merging the two councils, Neither persons nor things should be permitted to keep the work- ers in the two councils apart. There must be unity or the workers will face the fight against the bosses divided. The fight will be sharp, for the Cleyeland open shoppers are deter- mined to follow the way of the De troiters, and obtain and maintain the open shop, Company Union In . Passaic Denounced by Union President PASSAIC, N, J., Oct, 31—-Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America, de- nounced the company union as it ex- ists in the textile mills of the Passaic district, at a mass meeting of strik- ers held in Belmont Park. He urged the workers to continue their fight against this menace until they were victorious. “We have no use for company un- fons,” said Mr, MeMahon, “We must win recognition of our own union, the United Textile Workers of America, | which has fought the battle of the workers for 41 years, 3 American Killed in Isle of Pines. WASHINGTON, Oct, 31, — ‘rhe tol- lowing Americans were killed in the Isle of Pines hurricane, Commander Clark H. Woodward, egmmanding the cruiser Milwaukee, , ‘ted to the Navy Department today; Mrs. R. G. Day, Mrs. Bleanor Nedlex aud. Jame Pearson \ , a little?” He had to say it, somehow o: began—but she stopped him: “Thelma—I hadn’t thought—” “T know, Bunny, I’m older tha: pers, how empty their heads are! care for you, I would do anything for you, you wanted.” jonly sweet-smelling, as she clung to his hand with her two hands jand whispered, “Bunny, do you think you could love me just r other. “Mrs, Norman,” he “Thelma.” He stammered, n you; but look at these flap- And believe me, I really do give you anything Bunny learned something from this incident. He knew that he had only to stretch out his arms and take her; and he knew what to do—Eunice Hoyt had taught him how to love a women. He could have swept her into ecstacy and from that hour forth she would have been his slave, he could havo owned; he might have mistreated other women, but still she wuold have been his slave. could understand things that went on under his ey world that was a gambler’s paradise. There were men w had everything she used her money to keep So now he S, in this ho would her, hot share Bunny’s lofty indifference to luxury and power, but would go bodily charms and social graces were many names for them, lounge lizard; cats, Romeos, ocean, and a ten times bigger on these treasures were body, clad in—well, the dress so filmy that it was nothing, pair of soft caressing arms, and li “Bunny,” whispered the voice, in deliberately to seduce Dame Fortune, turn sheiks. How may years had old slaved to build a great steel plant and.a floating J ing their into weapons of prey—there is, parlor snakes, tame August Norman mansion in the e on the shore; and here all magically incorporated in one feminine kimono had slid off and there was a night and a faint sweet odor, and @ PS pressing hot, moist kisses. “I would marry you if you wanted me to. I would give you everything you asked for.” Bunny ~~ learned from Eunice that when you are to love, the | no, Thelma— lent. “You know, need anything.” “I know, and I’m PS Can be seductive; * Thelma,” he a horrid vul my poor blundering way to make you und. mustn’t think ill of me!” for you, and you That gave him his lead. never, think ill of her; but sank down in be sure to loathe her, he pleaded that that was not 80, there was no reason to quarrel love. She was so abject, he was hand to comfort her; but he sa she had caught his hand and wi tempted by his sympathy. i Away tury, one of the English poets had pity moves the soul to love. (To be continued.) Corner Summer ani BEN RASKIN'S FAMO! that when you are not so dis First Fall Costume Ball Arranged by the EDUCATIONAL CLUB OF LYNN ODD FELLOWS HALL - For the benefit of The DAILY WORKER, at ‘FRIDAY EVE, NOVEMBER 5, at 7:30 Prizes to be Given for Best Costumes <* Admission 50 Cents disposed he now learned from Mrs,— posed, they are repel- pleaded, “I don’t happen to gar thing. But I’m trying in erstand that I do care ad thought of laxed, and she that he would her again, He there was no disgrace about it, because you did not happen to sorry for her, and he put out his Ww at once that this would not do, kissing it, and he was bein, back in the eighteenth pins announced the discovery that id Market Sts. US ORCHESTRA. . , and he explained to her that he w. ‘ ; he did not love her, he h wai ae her as a friend. And so gradually her clasp rel a pitiful heap by the bedside, sobbing would never want to see .