The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 5

ENTS | Sf VPACIOE AGTION NEEDED IN CLEVELAND. ON OPEN SHOP Labor Faces Serious Problem By a Worker Correspondent | By M. PERLIN (Worker Correspondent) woman. On the sunniest day, M+ SMUCLER, 2 young man of about 27, 8 a custom tailor, He worked seven years for Ben Romer, | 219 South Dearborn street, Room 512. The room ts 8 feet wide and 12 feet | ror gy long. In this small room ‘he worked | mnig with four others, three men and one they | | pay baok to the bose, remarking that | she wasn’t like the rest of the work- ers. She had sympathy with him. lars, told her with a smile that she was a very good wom Later the same Max was working Askerow, 105 Dearborn street. is also a custom tailoring shop. | There are 18 workers employed there, of which 17 are foreigners and one is CLEVELAND, Nov, 4—Sixty unton | WOrk by electric Nght, When Max once | ay American-born, The Americans1s leaders, comprising some of the Cleve- | land Federation of Labor and officials of locals, have been cited for ‘con- tempt for refusing to order back to work the 600 building workers who have been off the job since Sept, 20. Won't Work with Scabs. Since the termination of the strike | , of the painters and glaziers, four non- “union glaziers have been doing work | on the Ohio Bell Telephone building. | The union workers refused to work | with the scabs and left their jobs. The court ordered the union officials to re- turn the men to their jobs. Their re- joinder was that they had not ordered the men off and therefore could not penses, organized labor does. In thie same place there is Mrs. Shiden, suggested to his boss that it would ‘be | advisable for him to moye into a more | | Spacious room, on account of it being |too crowded, and that if he was there | much longer he would be sick, the boss al ge jtold him that he would rather losé| |his best worker than have bigger ex-| ‘That is an illustration of what un- Isa woman, of about 40, whose name She always tells the other workers that they should have pity on the boss. Many tinies she gave a few dollars of her $17 | Mr. Axelberg. He is a very loyal slave. |sometimes he hears the workers talk- themselves about shorter hours and bigger wages, the “wise” Mr, Axelberg begins to yell: “You are socialists, Communists, Bolsheviks, |robbers, ete. If a man wants to work up you won't let him!” The boss likes Axelberg very much. It the workers ask for a raise, Mr. Askerow tells them that the foreign- ersers aren’t of any use, that they are a bunch of trowble-makers, and that the best thing is to have American workers, = order them to return, A meeting, however, was called, where the men overwhelmingly refused to go back to work, regardless of what the union of- ficials might say. nf Imported Judge. Thereupon a judge from out of town was brought to Cleveland to hear the charge of the contractors against the union officials. Sixty of the officials were cited for contempt and a date set for the hearing. A new development has now taken place. The non-union glaziers have brought action in the federal court before the “well-known” Judge West- enhawer on the grounds that they have individual contracts with the contract- ors and that they are being “mo- lested, intimidated amd prevented from working on construction jobs in Cleve- land.” The non-union men clafm that the union leaders threaten to call other strikes than the one on the Ohio Bell Telephone building, Important Issue. It is apparent that the non-union glaziers are the means whereby the contractors, the so-called “citizens’ league” and the chamber of commerce hope to be able to break the hold of union labor on the building trade of this city. This battle is one of the most important that has taken place’ in Cleveland, If the court should de- cide that union men are interfering with the work of non-union men it will foreshadow a desperate attempt of the contractors and chamber of commerce to introduce the open shop and thus ~ destroy the trade union movement, Need Action. The local leaders will have to wake up. This is a most serious situation for all organized labor in this city. It the city hordes of scabs, up the trade unions generally. Spring Strike Leoms, settlement, but a truce. prepared for the struggle. amount. in order to get it, “The pen - WORKERS WHO PLAN TO JOIN CLASS This is to again remind Chicago workers that the class in worker cor- Tespondence here opens this Friday night in the editorial office of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Wash- ngton Blvd. ' ¢ " The meeting is very important and all who intend to join the class in news writing should be there with- press their ideas. Remember: PRIZES TO BE OFFERED NEXT WEEK. best examples of worker correspondence of the week. stories, workers Here are the prizes: aes Information. new writers, workers’ magazine. » } STRIKE STRATEGY By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER . ARTICLE VII In established unions, where the left wing is in @ minority op whete its control of the official machinery is weak, the fight against the right wing takes on other forms. The general policy of the right wing leadership is to use its control of the union to dampen the fighting spirit o! the workers and to sell them out over the conference table. Hence, the policy of the left wing in strikes of or- ganized unions must be to spur on the masses to fight and, by mobilizing- them against the reactionary leadership, | prevent the latter from betraying them in the settlement, This policy proved successful in Illinois during the 1922 national strike of the bituminous miners, The union was in a desperate struggle, fighting for a national agree- ment. And just at the most critical moment, when its ’ very life was at stake, President Farrington of the Illinois union, who has since gone openly into the service of the mine operators, declared that he would make a state agree- ment for the Illinois miners. ‘ went If he had been able to ae this it would have broken the strike. But the wing, by holding a series : Ne en ee the state, so S he I % ue d i nc Oa faust eee dent will have been established where- by, by entering into individual written contracts, with non-union men and de- manding the’ support of the courts, contractors will be able to bring into This can and will happen, provided the trade union membership of the city does not immediately taken action to also fight the.case outside the court, provided it does not mobilize its forces and build The likelihood of a general strike in the spring makes the case more acute. The building trades workers know that the calling off of the paint- ers’ and glaziers’ strike was not a The building workers face the prob- ability of a general strike, and yet nothing has been done to get the trade union movement organized and The rank.and file of the trade unions must demand action. This action must be, it is suggested, to form a “commit- tee of action” composed equally of the officialdom and of the rank and file of the unions. This committee must be authorized to take immediate steps to The name, DAILY WORKER, at- . mobilize all resources for the fight. tracted 4 Tt will not pay to walt ill apring. ‘The | ‘7 much attention and the work. $5,000,000 of the citizens’ league may |¢, or may not be a reality yet, but there | spout “ ” ig no question that it will be a simple bn agers matter for the people in the league to | are tai » raise that amount, or twice that abihanesg prego ee tal The open shop.is the aim of these people and they will go to any lengths Is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use’! this case is won by the contractors |{t. Come down and learn how In the and the non-union glaziers, a prece- ber danas correspondent’s classes. 1 IN WRITING SHOULD ATTEND TONIGHT out fail at 8 o’clock., The full course will be outlined at the meeting Fri- day and suggestions will be asked for from the members of the class, so all are urged to attend im order to ex- Friday night, 8 o'clock, 1113 West Washington, Blvd.,* third floor. Be there, ready to go to work! sa, SIR Cas SANSA NEA REPO RNR IT" Se YUEN Uk JER Pe Three very splendid prizes will be given for stories sent in by worker iP correspondents between now and next Thursday that are considered the | Send in those First, “Left Wing Unionism” by D, J. Saposs. A new book that Will- fam Z. Foster advises every trade union rebel to read for Its valuable _Second, “Flying Osip,” short stories by nine of Russia’s leading Ul Third, The Workers Monthly, a six-months’ subscription to the best through with his ‘betrayal. from disaster. POLICE HELP IN DISTRIBUTION OF “FORD EDITION” Kearney Workers Eager to Read Daily By a Worker Correspondent NEWARK, N, J., Nov. 4—Last week a comrade of the Young Workers’ League and I went over to Kearney to distribute the Ford issue of The DAILY WORKER. At 4 o’clock, just |@s We were crossing the Passaic river | bridge, we saw a stream of workers walking out of the enormous plant. The factory is in the meadows far away from any houses. We imme- djately made our headquarters on the bridge (we were half in Newark and half in Kearney). and distributed the papers to the workers as they passed by. Workers Interested. stopped in-their run for the bus read the article on the front page “Good stuff. They know what they workers. One of them told us to wait, as more workers were to come out, Police Help, As we waited one of the two cops who were stationed in front of the plant came over to us and asked what we were giving out. He apparently had never heard of The DAILY WORKER, but he took one and soon came back to us. “There are some workers going the other way,” he said. He took a few from us and soon we saw the Kearney police force giving out The DAILY WORKER. When he finished he came to us and spoke about the summer uniforms ‘they still had to wear on the cold @ays, which are much colder where he stands because of the river. There were many workers who came out in the last shift, and they expressed their regret at not receiving @ copy. All Are Read. We rode home with some of Henry's slaves and everyone that did not fall asleep from fatigue was reading The DAILY WORKER. Not one was thrown away. Such lifeless people I had. never seen, hollow cheeks and expres- sionless looks in their faded eyes. But we brightened their eyes quickly, for The DAILY WORKER pointed out Henry’s scheme to make slaves out of them, KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / aroused the membership that Farrington could not go This saved the entire union What would have happened had the left wing in the Illinois miners been afflicted, with the “cannot fight on two battlefront” theory? ‘ ’ Mostnizine THe Mempgrsnipe The recent strike of the New York Furriers was an- other instance of a successful mobilization of the member- ship by the left leadership to balk a menacing right wing treachery. The local Joint Board which actually conducted the strike was in the hands of the left ‘wing led by Ben Gold. But the machinery of the International was con- trolled by the right wing. All through the strike the fight was sabotaged by the head of the International, Schact- man. Finally, believing his opportunity had arrived to deal a decisive blow, he, in close ¢ombination with Presi- dent Green of the A. F. of L., made a tentative agreement with the employers, the famous “eight points,” But the left wing leadership rejected this agreement, |" mobilized the strikers against it and carried on the strug- gle till a much better settlement was ‘arrived at, This was a major defeat for the arch-reactionary, Green. Pow- erful enemies of his among the upper bureaucracy of the A. B. of L, are now using it against him, claiming that the A. F, of L,-badly by permitting ‘#o badly out-maneuvered by the Communist | And the boas, taking her few dol- | | He works 58 hours a week for $22. It} co amy DAILY WORKER © PASSAIC IS NOT STRANGE CASE, SAYS WEISRORD | Conditions ‘Typical All Thru Nation By a Worker Correspondent PERTH AMBOY, N. J, Nov. 4. —| | An enthustastio and large crowd heard | |Comrade Albert Weisbord, leader of | |the Passaic strike, at the mass meet-| |Ing arranged by the party, In intro- | ducing Wejsobrd, the chairman told how they were refused a permit to is-| sue leafiets if Weisbord was to speak, | but later *the permit was issued after | a fight was threatened. But they were not,-allowed to distribute the | leaflets in, the factories. | Not Single Instance, .Weisbord emphasized the fact that Passaic 1g not an isolated instance of poor economic and social condi- tions, but, as @-matter of fact, the| same conditions of long hours, poor | sanitation, and low wages prevail all| thru the country: Passaic, he said, was well known because of the strike. Passaic is a. wonderful example of | the awakening of the American work- ingclass messes, he pointed out. No longer will the workers be willing to be slaves, Now at last they are ready to fight. W. P. In Front Line. It is equally clear, he said, that the Workers (Communist) Party not only talks, but fights in the front line of every struggle. Its leaders are not| afraid of the bosses, no matter what terrors are imposed upon them. He closed by calling upon all workers who are ready to fight for their class interests to join the Workers (Com- munist) Party of America. One worker asked Weisbord if he would be willing to help them in case of a struggle in Perth Amboy. His answer was characteristic. Not only will he help them in their struggle, but he will also be ready to help them in the preparation for the struggle. TRY TO BREAK UP MEETING IN BROWNSVILLE, PA. Grafting, *Cops Trump le smd By a Worker Correspondent. BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Nov, 4— An attempt was’ le to break up the political campaign meeting held here by the Workets (Communist) Party, which was addressed by H. C, Wicks, candidate for'governor ®of Pennsyl- vanla, The ciairman of the meeting, A. Rodriguez, was fined $10 and costs. The charge that was trumped up against the workers was that an “American flag was not displayed, ac- cording. to. law.’t Cops Unsuccessful. The cops were Unsuccessful, how- ever, in stopping the meeting, for the crowd ‘waited until the chairman and speaker had come back from police headquarters and the meeting was re- sumed. y Constable Linn, known as a notor- ious petty grafter here, led the offi- cers’ raid on the hall, Brownsville is notorious for its bootlegging estab- lishments and houses of corruption under the regime of Linn. It seems he is active only in denying rights to the workers. Police for Underworld. Linn and his gang of deputies, who are recruited from the red light dis- tricts and underworlds of other cities were attacked at the meeting by the speakers, and this is one of the rea- sons the raid was made. Another reatson is that Vare, the republic sen- atorial Candidate, was also attacked. The Brownsville Telegraph came out with its usual lines on the case, in order to rf a the Brownsville workers against the Workers (Com- | | \ HUGE PROFIT REVEALED BY REPORT ISSUED BY BU PONT DE NEMOURS CO. Huge profits made by the E. I. Dus Pont de Nemours and company are revealed In a quarterly statement lesued, the firat In recent years. | The statement shows that the total , | Income for the three months ending | Sépt. 80, 1926, was $13,874,874. Af- | ter deducting taxes and Interest on funded debt, the net Income was $13,437,866, Dividends on debenture stock amounted to $1,183,907, leaving more than $12,000,000 for common stook holders. This Is equal to $9.21 a share, compared to $4.74 per share for the quarter ending Sept.* 80, 1925, and $1.63 per share for tho quarter ending Sept. 30, 1925, The company has a huge amount of money Invested In General Mo- tors. Surplus at the end of the quarter amounts to more than $70,000,000, an increase of $8,000,- 000 this year, NEGRO WORKERS SHANGHAIED IN STATE OF TEXAS Labor Bootleggers Put In. Appearance AUSTIN, Tex.; Nov. 4.—Blackbird- ing and peonage is being practiced in the handling of cotton pickers ip Texas, H. J. Croker, labor commis- sioner, charged in a statement on Wednesday. One man has been fined and six others are under heavy bond as a re- sult of the activity of the labor depart- ment, which is seeking to end the practice, Commissioner Croker said. Hold Up Men, “The facts are that there are a num- ber of men who own large trucks who await cotton pickers on highways go- ing out of San Antonio and other labor centers and offer the pickers a bonus and free transportation to go with them to some fictitious plantation they own to pick ‘cotton for them, thus evading the private employment agency law. The cotton pickers hay- ing accepted the terms, are taken to some distant point outside of a town and there go into camp, Auctioning Them Off. “The would-be employer leaves them under guard and finds farmers who need cotton pickers. He enters into negotiations for the sale of the cotton pickers at so much a head, often $5, depending, of course, on how bad the farmer wants his cotton picked. Often the labor bootlegger comes back and gets the same bunch of pickers before the cotton picking is completed and by offering further ‘bonuses, takes them on to some other place and sells them again, getting another $5 a head for them. Labor Bootleggers, “In five days the forces of the labor department have captured nine of these labor bootleggers. One was fined $46.50 in Anson, Tyesday, and five others are under heavy bond awaiting trial betore various county courts. If we can get the judges to fine them the maximum, I believe, with the,co-opera- |tion .of the sheriffs in the various | counties, we can break up this nefa- |rious practice of bleeding our farm- | ers,”——Pittsburgh Courier, ‘Want FE. W. W. Barred | From? U. S. Vessels Board Asked to Act GALVESTON, Tex., Nov. 4.—M. E. Shay of the Galvestion Labor Council and Alex Thrash, business agent of the International Seamen’s union lo- cal here, appeared at the hearing of the United Shipping board in Galves- ton and pleaded that members of the I. W. W. be prevented from manning shipping board vessels. a The I, W. W. is a menace of Amer- munist) Party, trade union lead If treachero struggle. ~~. said. ler, Gold. us strike settlements are special Forcrine tue Tssun {Copyrigat, 19%, by Uptom Sinclair) “Yes, and they will do the same thing fn California!” cried propped Menzies to find! thought now? a bunch had her steeples the other brother. That was a new word, and a dreadful one, it appeared. ;question was whether the tottering capitalist system could be ers of: their own of thinking. than ever; life appeared so complicated, and happiness so hard “You are a bunch of class-collaborators!” The up for another ten years or so; and the “right-wingers” would take office under the capitalists, and help to save them. “You make yourself their agent,” proclaimed Joe Menzies, “to “ bribe the workers by two cents more wages per hour!” And so there was a bust-up in Local Angel City, as every- where else in the world; the “reds” withdrew, and presently split, into three different Communist groups; and Joe and ‘key left home, and set up house-keeping with two girl-work- So Bunny was more perplexed m One Saturday the telephone rang, and tt was Vernon Roscoe calling Dad. Bunny happened to answer, and heard the jovial yoice, “Hello, how’s the boy Bolsheviki? Say, Jim Junior, I you were coming up to my place! Hyentually—why not Annabelle is resting from ‘Pangs of Passton’—she’ll be glad to'see you. Vee Tracy is there, and Harvey Manning—quite of people over Sunday. Sure, I'll be up! You go ahead, your old man will tell you the way.” Bunny told Dad he had aceepted the invitation, and Dad sald that Mr. Roscoe’s domestic arrangements were such that Bunny ought t obe told about them in advance, Annabelle/Ames, the moving picture actress, was what the people called his mist- ress, but it Wasn’t really that, because she was’ devoted to him, and all their friends knew about it, and it was jist the same as being married; only, of course, there was Mrs. Roscoe; who lived in the house in the city, with her four sons. Mrs. Roscoe went in for society and all that, and had tried to drag Verne n, but he wasn't cut out for’ that life. go out to th emonastery, as the country place was called, but of course not when Miss Ames was there; Dad said they must have some system to keep from running into each other, Miss CAmes Sometimes Mrs. Roscoe would own house, near to the studio, and the Monastery was a “show-place,” where they took their friends over week-ends, . You drove up behind a chain of mountains that lined the coast: another of those wonderful roads, a magic ribbon of con- crete laid-out by a giant’s hand. The engine purred softly and you raced ahead of the wind, up long slopes and down long slopes, and winding through mazes of hills; there were steep grades and yistas of tumbled mountains, and broad sweeps of valley, and stretches of shore with fishermen’s huts, and boats, and nets dry- ing in the sun; then more hills and mountain grades—for hours you flew, as fast as you pleased, for you were twenty-one now, and Dad no longer expected you t oobey the speed-laws. There was a road that branched off towards the ocean, and after climbing ten miles or so, you came t oa high steel fence, and steel gates, and a sign: a wide place in the road, made especially so that you might obey! The gate was open, so Bunny drove on, and climbed another hill, , and came over the brow, and then, oh, wonderful!—a great bow! of yellow and green, two or three miles across, with one side ~~ broken out towards the ocean, and in the center of the bowl the grey stone towers of the Monastery! Mountains on every side, and the oil magnate owned everything in sight, both the land and the landscape; if the public wanted to see his retreat, it would have to get a row-boat or swim. You came down the winding drive, through tumbled masses of rocks and clumps of live oaks a century or two old, and came to a fork in the road, and one way said “Delivery,” and the other said, “Guests.” road led under a porte-cochere big enough for double-deckers; a footman appeared, and summoned a chauffeur to take your ear to the garage, and you were escorted into a living room—well, it was like going into a cathedral, your eyes would follow the arches overhead, and you might trip yourself on the skin of an aurachs or a gnu or whatever the dickens it was. What grim sardonic architect had played this jest of Gothic towers and “Private: Turn Back Here.”—and If you were so fortunate as to be a guest, your half a dozen and crenellations and machicolations—here in the midst of a new pagan empire, and called by such a vrey suggestive name! Assuredly, the onastery would need to be of pre-reforma- tive style, to fit the ways of the monk who occupied it! * The transcept of the cathedral concealed an elevator, Bunny discovered; and out of: it tripped suddenly a diminutive vision in lemon-colored chiffon, with lemon-colored stockngs and shoes, and a big lemon-colored hat such ag shepherdesses used to wear when Mhaving their portraits painted. It was complete and costly, for Bunny was one of that ninety per cent of all males in the civilized world, and perhaps seventy per cent in Madagascar, Paraguay, Nova Zembla, Thibet and New Guinea, who could have told the number of lashes in each of Annabelle Ames’s eyelids, or drawn a diagram of her dimples, and the exact course of a» tear down her cheek. He had seen her as the “wild” daughter of a Pittsburg steel king, duly chastened and brought to faith in mother, home and heaven; as the mistress of a French king, dy- ing elegantly to expiate elegant sins; as the mistreated and elop- ing heiress of a Georgian manor-house;\as a bare-legged “moun- tainy-girl” in the Blue Ridge—‘Howdy, stranger, be you-all one of them ican shipping, the two gentlemen she was in the “speakies!” ‘ points that the left wing strategists must guard agi their fight against the right wing, so also are tho: tions when the masses are in a state of great foment and the right wing leaders refuse to mobilize-them for the . Cases in point were the failure of the Brotherhood chiefs to strike their men in common cause with thel rail; road shop mechanics in 1922; and the failure of Lewis to call out the bituminous miners in 1925 in conjunction with the strike of the anthracite miners. which amounted to treason to the workers, were disastrous. Tn one case the great shopmen’s strike! was lost and the backbong of railroad trade unionism broken, and in the otlier the very life of the Miners’ Union has been threat- ened by the disintegration of its bituminous section. Both these failures, _ The left wing strategists must find ways and means to foree the hands of the right wing leaders in such critical situations by mobilizing the membership against them. This | is a real test of our strike strategy, especially where the, left wing has but little organization. In the past, in such ‘instances, there has been too much recourse to the unau- thorized, or “outlaw” strike, and, dual unionism. Sometimes, in especially desperate circumstances and i‘ ' danger it in situa- reyenooers?” All this iin the “movies”; and now here (To be continued.) after carefully weighing the situation, the unauthorized mass strike may be used with success, but in American labor experience it has been mostly a failure. In nearly every ease where there is sufficient sentiment,to call am ef- fective unauthorized strike the same sentiment could be better utilized through the regular union channels to set the organization as such into motion. A case in point was the so-called outlaw railroad switchmen’s strike of 1920, which completely paralyzed the railroads over great sections of the country. There was a tremendous volume of rebellious sentiment behind this ill fated national struggle. With intelligent left direction the movement could dave forced the Brotherhoods officially into action and probably would have driven numbers of the bureaucrats from power. But the leadership of the “outlaws” was afflicted with utopian dual union illusions H and the great movement went down to crushing defeat, | In the coming Spring the left wing will have a severe test of its strategy against the right wing in the Miners’ Union. Its task will be to force Lewis to call out all the bituminous miners and then to hold them out till a victor- ions settlement has been secured. At every step in the struggle it will have to defeat the most ruthless and cor rupt bureaucracy in the American labor movement, the John L, Lewis machine. ile (To be continued) ii a oh ° a