The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1926, Page 4

Page Fou THE DAILY «ada News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politica BOSS ATTORNEY DEFENDS THUGS IN N.Y. STRIKE Paper Rox Workers in 6th Week of Battle NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Last Thurs- day night a fight took place between colored strikebreak employéd) by the Best-Made Paper Box Company. 124 Wooster street, and striking workers. An Italian striker, Dan Tulo, was wounded in the head by one of the colored scabs and two Ne gro strikebreakers are being held for «be grand jury on charges of feloa- fous assault. At the hearing of the two Negroes, Warren Brewster and Eric Boyd, Tombs Court Monda: out that Brewster s a straight an accomp! duced in evidence by the officer who made the arrest Bosses’ Attorney. Samuel L. Wallerstein, attorney for hed Iulo with the United Paper Box Manufacturers | Association, defended the two men, who had been employed by the Best- Made company, a member of the as: sociation. The union maintains that Wallerstein’s appearance in behalf of the defendants shows that the em- ployers’ association is behind the bosses in their efforts to break the strike by employing colored strike breakers. The strike is now in its sixth week. The union is fighting for un- jon recognition, a 44-hour week, a $5 increase in wages which would bring the minimum up to $23 a week, and double wey for Sunday work. Glove Workers Rejoice Over Wage Raises Won GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 11.— Fulton county glove workers, num- bering nearly 10,000, have ratified the wage schedule offered them by the conference of their own committee and the employer. Wage increas- es of 10 per cent and *more have been won. Equalization. increases of 2 per cent to 6 per cent have been given certain classific ons of work- ers, but all get at least 10 per cent more than previously. The workers decided in a m meeting to con- tinue the activities of the committee which represented them in negotia- tions, thereby retaining some sem- blance of organization. The glove workers’ union has a total of only a few hundred members. Mak in- elude silkers, hammers, closers, and other workers employed in finishing cut leather into glo at | FIGURES SHOW THAT MUCH VAUNTED | B. & O. RAILROAD PAYS ITS WORKERS LESS THAN DO OPEN-SHOP vile "| By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press How can Henry Ford pay employes of his Detroit, Toledo & Ironton rail- road an average of 94.4c an hour when other carriers, the Michigan Central, for instance, pay only 63.7c? ! Why does the unionized Baltimore & | » pay its employes an average of hour less than the openshop| Pennsylvania? in looking over the report of the in- \terstate commerce commission stat: | tistical bureau on comparative oper- ating averages for the years 1921 to 1925. These averages include all the employes paid on an hourly basis, Wide variation between the major | ms in, the average wages paid | railroad workers is an outstanding feature of the report from labor's point of view. It shows average hourly pay ranging all the way from These questions arise | N. the 94.4c paid by Ford down to 48.8c an hour paid by the Central of Geor- gia, an Minois Central. land still keeps the ratio of or and that Boyd was!wages to operating revenue consid-|Seaboard Air ce. The razor was Pl} erably below the average of the other | Atlantic Coast railroads. If we leave out the Detroit Toledo & Ironton, the most obvious variation in average wages |tween northern and southern carriers, presumably due to lowpaid colored labor in the south. variations between roads in the same | Northwestern. region which are harder to explain. Gives Figures. Figures showing for 24 leading rail- roads the average hourly pay of their | gion. | Conductors Tell Why Pay Should Be Raised NEW YORK—(FP)—Claiming that increased -effict y should mean more pay in their pockets, the 89,000 con- ductors and trainmen on easterii ratl- roads through their union officers pre- sented their demands for increased wages before the first arbitration board acting under the new Watson- Parker ra!! laber act. Road and di- vision ch men and general officers of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhocd of Railroad Train- men packed the first session, so that later meetings were held in a larger room. L. E. Sheppard, conductor president, compared the basic hourly rates of conductors with building trades work- jers and other groups.in train serv- jice. He stated that the conductor rate had dropped from 80.5¢ in 1921 to 77c in 1926 while other trades have had advances of up to 37.5¢ in the} same period. Sheppard said that con- duetors had to act virtually as travel- ling superintendents of the roads, with great responsibilities at all important subsidiary of the|Santa Fe .. Applying his notorious speedup tac- | Ill, was brought | tics, Ford pays higher average wages | Louisville & Nash Del. Lacka G0.6 46.6 Big Four . 60.4 38.0 Northern Pao, 60.9 43.1 Balt. & Ohio 60.6 45.0 New Haven .... 0 60.6 39.6 | | Boston & Maine 1.3 61.0 40.2 St. Paul . 1.3 61.0 48.0 Burlington 1.0 58.6 43.2 Ches. & Ohio .. 0.9 60.2 42.2 Great Northern 0.6 60.3 41.3 Northwestern 0.2 60.5 48.4 | Union Pacific 60.2 60.3 38.6 Southern Pa, 0.0 60.9 41.2 Norfolk & W. 8.5 60.7 39.3 8.5 59.0 41.2 Missouri P.: -58.1 58.5 44.5 Central 7.7 67.9 464 5.9 56.3 343 total | Southern... 5.5 56.8 40.3 54.6 45.4 52.5 40.9 is be-|adopted the so-called B. & O, plan of But there are|Chesapeake & Ohio and Chicago & times, and that their basic pay was only $6.70 a day. Out of this wage the conductors pay for extra meals while away from home and for, lodg- ing. They buy their own uniforms, perhaps two a year at about $43 each, I employes in 1921 and 1925 and the 1925 percentage of operating revenue | absorbed by wages are: Average % wages Rallroad hourly to reve- wages nue 1925 1921 Pennsylvania 86, 6c 62,.8c 48.2% Nickel Plate 64.0 42.6 Y. Central 60.3 43.0 Some Left Out. Railroads in the list which have cooperation with the shopcraft un- ions include the Baltimore & Ohio, The average pay of employes on these lines in 1925 was below rather than above the average of corresponding systems in their re- and -their caps at $3.25, as a New York €entral conductor on a crack train related. Conductors usually have to serve as brakemen 10 years before they be- come conductors, Sheppard statod, lic, emphasized the hazards of rail- road workers’ lives and their {ncreas- ed efficiency as evidenced by higher tonnage per worker. | Brief crossexamination indicated that the companies would claim in- creased efficiency due, not to the workers, but to the elimination of | grade crossings, switches, and im- proved equipment. The trainmen gave the same effi-| ciency argument as the conductors. | The trainmen’s brotherhood is com- posed chiefly of brakemen but has some switchmen. The brotherhoods jurisdiction over switchmen is chal- lenged by the Switchmen’s Union of North America, affiliated: with the American Federation of Labor. The wage demands were first made Feb. 1 on the rail mediation board appointed by president Coolidge. The board failed to bring the roads and unions to agreement so each side chose two arbitrators who chose two others, electing Edgar E. Clark chair man. CHICAGO Entertainment and BALL SUNDAY, NOV. 28 given by The Ukrainian Workers’ | Club for’ The DAILY WORKER and ‘The UKRAINIAN DAILY NEWS—at WALSH’S HALL Milwaukee, Emma & Noble Avenues Tickets 65 Cents DOORS OPEN AT 5:30 P. M. DEBS MEMORIAL MEETINGS IN SCORE OF CITIES Some twenty cities thruout the United States have already held or are arranging memorial meetings for Eugene V. Debs under the auspices of International Labor Defense. James P. Cannon, secretary of I. L. D., has already spoken at a number of these meetings in cities from Chicago east- ward to the coast and will speak at another few meetings in the egiye west. The meetings that will be held in the next few days are as follows: Los Angeles, Nov. 12, at Music Arts Hall. Milwaukee, Nov. 14, with William F, Dunne, Kansas City, Nov. 14, with James P. Cannon, Portland, Ore., Nov, 14. Rock Island, Noy. 14, Labor Tem- ple, with Max Shachtman, Buffalo, Nov. 14, with Elizabeth Gur- ley Flynn, Erie, Noy, 15, with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 7 9th and Market ST. LOUIS, ATTENTION! Debs Memorial _ Meeting Saturday, November 13, 1926, at 8:00 P. M. DRUID’S HALL Speaker: JAMES P. CANNON. Auspices, International Labor Defense. Street, 4th Floor A. F. of L. Views Its Detroit Convention WASHINGTON, Noy. 11.—Conclud- ing an editorial review of the recent convention of the American Federa- tion of Labor at Detroit, the American Federationist, official magazine edited by President Wililam Green, says: “The convention marked a high level of constructive deliberation, . . . While every decision was practically unanimous and no point of order was raised against any delegate, agree- ment on decisions did not indicate identity of thinking, but was the re- sult of real effort to reach a concensus of opinion... . Dignity, charity and tolerance gave high distinction to dis- | cussion and decision... . “The convention did not convene to make war on industry or on society, but to determine how best to promote the interests of wage earners in the rapid social and economic changes i which we live. The federat gards the welfare of wage interdependent upon the welfare of ali other social and economic groups, Labor offers its co-operation in work- ing out problems and in carrying thru plans for the achievement of higher ideals of excellence for all groups.” ORIGIN OF THE WORLD A New Book By Alphonse Guerten Origin of Species Presented in a New Light 35 CENTS A COPY Published by the author at 542 N. State St. Chicago, IL OVERCOATS Good, slightly used overcoats | (also suits) at $10.00 FOGEL'S - 943 W. MADISON | 1 Organized Labor—Trade_Union Activities *' Policies and’ Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism , BARE FORGERY OF LEAFLET A FASCIST RUSE Pittsburgh _ Blatkshirts Try New Ruse By ABRAM JAKIRA. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov, 11. — The election campaign of ‘the Workers Party aroused the ire of the fascisti and white guard hoodlums of this city, Comrades Ben Gitlow and Harry M. Wicks wera to speak at a mass meet- ing in the N. S. Carnegie Music Hall October 12. On the day of the meeting several fascist representatives of Pittsburgh called upon the superin- tendent of the North Side Carnegie Library, who is in charge of the meet- ing hall, demanding that the hall be closed to the Party and that the meet- ing be stopped, threatening with a riot in a real fascist fashion if the meeting was allowed. Mysterious Leaflet. The same day @ police officer pres- ented the librarian with a leaflet print- ed in Russian and supposed to be an advertisement issued by the Workers Party. Shortly after, a special delivery letter, bearing the postmark of Oct. 12, 4 p. m, and addressed to “Super- intendent, Carnegie Library, Ohio and Federal streets, North Side, Pitts- burgh, Pa.” reached the, librarian. The envelope contained no return ad- dress. The letter contained) what was supposed to be the translation of the printed Russian leaflet ‘in possession of the police officer. Needless to say, that the Workers Party never published either this or any other leaflet in the Russian lan- guage in connection with this or any of the election campaign meetings held in Pittsburgh, or in any other part of this district. The contents of the leaflets are so brazen and ridiculous that the |librarian from the very start took it to be a forgery and refused to: stop the meeting. Later on the translation was turned over to the Workers Party for investigation. Strange Sounding. Starting out with the subject which the speakers were supposed to cover and giving the date and place of the meeting, the leaflet forged by the fas- cist and black hundreds of this city, proceeded to say, “Come and hear Ben Gitlow in a stirring speech against the murdering, blood-sucking capitalists of this country, as represented by the crooked, thieving, pork chop pol- iticlans and their ward heeling thugs of Pennsylvania. “Hear him tell how the red star of the revolution is rising in the east to soon cast its red rays over this im- perialistic land—hear him tell how the red wave of revolution will soon engulf this decadent country and sweep be- fore it the social parasites—the human leeches—the bloated monsters who are suppressing and oppressing the prole- tariat. Obvious Fraud. “Hear Comrade Wicks, the Commun- ist candidate for governor of this state, tell how we will baptize this country in a shower of blood—how we, the workers of the world, will seize the press and the industries and turn their products against our common enemy, the capitalists, and their lick- spittle cousins, the petty-bourgeoisie of America, “Comrades! Arise! Come and join us-in this, the first real step taken to follow in the path of our comrades ‘of the Russian revolution.” The forged leaflet is in the hands of the “police and bears no marks which would indi¢ate where and by whom it was published. According to Mr. George J. Schaeffer, the attorney for the Workers Party, ‘who is in- vestigating the matter, the superin- tendent of police, Walsh, knows noth- ing as to the circulated leaflet, altho a copy of it is kept in the files of the police. Jury Demanded for Workers Who Put Up Anniversary Posters Jury trial for the two workers ar- rested by Chicago police Saturday for distributing posters advertising the celebration of the ninth anniversary of the Russian revolution was de- manded in police court Monday by Attorney D. J. Bentall for Interne tional Labor Defense. The case will probably come up in two weeks, it is announced. The workers, D. Stevens and N. Plasin were released on $50 bail. An ordinancé that is never en- forced, except against workers, was dug up by the poslce ag an excuse for jailing the workers. The ordinance is said to prohibit the placing of post- vs on light poles in th city, but he poles are covered with announce. sents of bourgeoisie affairs, / ANALYZE U, S. PROBLEMS IN MARX MANNER Workers’ ‘Schaol Offers Important Course NEW YORK, Nov, 11. —- The most advanced course offered at the Work- ers’ School this year is “Problems of American Marxism,” Bertram D. Wolfe instructor. Only those will be admitted to this course who have al- ready completed a course in Marxism- Leninism and who have a fair know- |ledge of American history. However, |a limited number of students will be ladmitted who can pass an examina- tion given by the instructor or who can show the equivalent of the train- ing indicated above, Sketch U. S. Problems, The aim of the course is to sketch the problems that American Marxists are called upon to solve; to develop a program of work for Marxism in the U. S, and to apply the Marxian method to such problems. There has been comparatively little done in this field. “American Marxists” for example, are able to give a Marxian explanation of the Protestant Reformation; of the Anabaptist movement; the Moravian Brotherhood; the Waldenses and Albi- genses, They can give an explanation of Why certain districts of Switzerland remained catholic or the North of Ireland protestant; why the protestant Reformation centered in Germany; the significance of the Lollard move- ment and the like, But there is no American Marxist who has undertaken an analysis of Mormonism or Christian Science or American Evangelism or Hard-Sheli Baptism or any of the specific relli- gious phenomena that bear the stamp “Made in America.” In the same sense, a materialist interpretation of the Revolution of 1848 or the French revolution is much easiér to have than a proper interpretation of 1776. They know much more about the peasant movement and the agrarian situation in certain European countries than about the situation in the United States and can give a clearer picture of class relations and class divisions in France in 1848 than in the United States in 1926, : In the field of philosophy, German idealism is much more familfar than American transcendentalism and a Marxian analysis of pragmatism has not been undertaken. The course in “Problems of Amer- ‘can Marxism” has as its sub-title “America Today.” It aims merely to open up all of these indicated fields of study and similar related ones; to plant the problems, to make the stu- dents in the course sharply conscious of them and to direct them along the lines of investigation which will lead to the solving of some of them, This becomes doubly important at a time when “Americanism” has_be- come a European and a world problem and when the European proletariat is also forced, under pressure from its own master class, to undertake a study of the “Problems of American Marxism.” Some of the subjects taken up are: American Capitalism; Amer- ican Political Structure and Parties; Class. Relations in the U. 8.; the Agra- rian Problem; American International Relationships; Development of Amer- ican Ideology; etc. This course begins Nov. 17, Preparatory courses to be taken by those desiring to enter into the “Prob- lems of American Marxism” course’ next year include: Marxism-Lenin- ism; American Economic and Political History; History of the American Working Class; Advanced Marxian Economics; Theory and Practice of Work in the Trade Unions; History of the American Communist Party; Com- munist Party Organization, and others. Cleveland Local of I. L. D.. Making Good Progress Toward Goal CLEVELAND, Noy. 11—The Clevé- land Local of I, L. D. is going for- ward toward its goal for 1,000 me) bers, With the organization of an- other new branch which is known as shop branch No, 1 starting out with nine members we are going forward at full speed toward a greater and bet- ter I. L, D. in Cleveland. Sacco-Vanzetti meetings are being. arranged in all sections of the city at which new members are being signed up. These meetings, too, will help to- ward popularizing the I, L. D. and building up its membership. Russians and Ukrainians Will Have Concert and Dance This Sunday A concert and dance will be given this Sunday, Nov. 14, by the Russian and Ukrainian Workers’ Walsh's Hall, corner Mliwaukee Ave. and Noble St. The following will participate in the program: Russian folk dancer, A. Kotov; Russian String Orchestra, Ukrainian Singing Society, Russian Ballet, youthful dancer Minnie Brodsky, Russian actress Vera Mazer, and other: Beginning at 4:30 p. m. Tickets in cernenartinimareienteclias Get a copy of the American Worke! Clubs. at advance 50 cents, at the doors 66 cts, { ‘Passaic Film Returns The marvelous film drama of the Passalc textile strike will be shown once again In Chicago on Friday, Nov. 12, at Schoenhoffen Hall,;Ash- land Ave, and Division St. under the auspices of the Polish Relief Committee for Passaic Strikers. Many workers did not have a chance to see this historical pic- ture when it was shown at Ashland Auditorium on October 29 and where four thousand workers came ‘to see it. They will have a chance to see it gh Nov. 12. Admission is 50 cents. Two showings, at 7 p. m. and 9 p. m N. Y. Sacco-Vanzetti Committee Needs Aid in Conducting Drive NEW YORK, Noy. 11, SACCO AND VANZETTI! If you want to give your services to help free these two persecuted work- ers, come to the office of the Sacco- Vanzetti Emergency Committee, 80 West 11th Street, Room 422 any time during the day or the early evening, on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. The Committee needs help in ad- dressing envelopes and sending out tickets and circulars for the. great Sacco-Vanzetti Pretest Mass Meeting at Madison Square Garden, Wednes- day, November 17th 1926 at 8 p. m. If you can give an hour, or a day of your time, you will be helping, to free these two persecuted fellow- workers not only from death, but from the living death of a life sentence in jail. — SAVE Mayor of Herrin in Threat on Gangsters HERRIN, Ill., Nov. 11—Mayor Mar- shall McCormick today issued a dec- laration of war against the Shelton gang in a statement in which he told of a visit of the Sheltons to Herrin Saturday night at which time Chiet of Police’ Griffin was caught by the gangsters and notified to return some guns captured from the gang about three months ago. The mayor said the chief recog- nized Carl and Bernie Shelton, Ray Walker and “Jardown” Armes. The mayor declared that the arms which were captured in a raid on the Pal- ace Hotel here would not be returned He added that he would “get 1,000 men together if necessary to drive the Sheltons away from the city. Show Real Plight of the Workers WASHINGTON—(FP)— Pres. Fred W. Baer of the Intl. Assn. of Fire Fighters explained that the grip of loan sharks upon members. of city fire departments had become so com- plete in some parts of the country, a few years ago, that public senti- ment demanded and secured legal safeguards for the men against pay- ment of usury by garnishee process: Ten per cent a month was general- ly exacted and when payments wexe not met on time a debtor would be permanently unable to diminish his debt. Under present conditions a creditor with a just claim can collect by bring- ing his claim to the fire chief or fire commission, which gives the debtor the choice of resigning or paying up. But no usury is countenanced by the employing officers. We will send sample copies of ‘The DAILY WORKER to your friends~ send us name and address, Step Over We Need Help! The campaign for funds for The DAILY WORKER —shortage of help in the office—makes us ery for help. Step over and volun- teer your services if you can spare a few moments during the day. Any time from nine to five-thirty you’re welcome! Step over to 1113 West Washington Blvd. Call Monroe 4712 if you want to talk it over! ATTENTION, NEW YORK! All those interested in the work of The Daily Worker and especially All Daily Worker Agents. An important meeting of the New York Daily Worker Agents, Builders and friends will be held on Sunday, Nov. 14, at 108 Hast 14th St., at eleven o'clock in the morning sil? f Pete fT 7 CELEBRATION IN CLEVELAND ENTHUSIASTIC Workers Sie Party Af- ter Meeting CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 11—“If you are ready to fight for the same kind of a government in the United States as in Soviet Russia then all of you who are not party members raise your hands and show your willingness by joining the Workers (Communist) {| Party.” Forty workers raised their hands amid the plaudits of the 1,000 workers Present, They were furnished with application-cards and wild be enrofled in the ranks of the party. The young boys and girls present, carried away with enthusiasm by Com- rade Bert Wolfe's speech, clamored to be taken into the party. Seventeen of they were enrolled in the Pioneers and will work to build it up, The celebration.of the Russian Rev- olution was more enthusiastic than in many years. The district committee prepared a fine program, especially distinguished by revolutionary tab- leaux staged and arranged by Sadie Amter, to npems read by Mr, Leteira. The effect was tremendous and the applause overwhelming, The Freiheit Singing Society and Freiheit Children’s Chorus, the Ukrain- ian Singing Society and the Hunga- rian Workers’ Chorus furnished the music part of the program, together with soprano solos by Mrs. N. Gross. is Inspiration to All. Comrade I, Amter, district secre tary of the party, called upon the workers to realize the importance of the Russian Revolution. not merely as an achievement of the Russian workers, but as the inspiration of the workers the world over. The Chinese problem is an American problem and until the American workers under- stand that they will continue to be exploited as they are today. Together with the colonial peoples, the work- ers of this country will have to fight for emancipation. “Nine years have passed, a tenth and an eleventh will be added to ft, and just as one socialist republic after the other has been added to the union, so with the recurring anniversaries. more republics will be added till we have a Union of Socialist Europe and then of the world.” Compares Nations, ‘Comrade Beft Wolfe compared the “Russia of. Lenin and the United States of Coolidge.” Comrade R. Licic spoke for the Young Workers’ Communist Leagué, without which the revolution in the United States and everywhere will not be possible. Dancing ended the celebration, which was pronounced one of the fin- est that Cleveland has enjoyed. 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