The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1926, Page 5

HOCHMAN FIGHTS PLANS FOR AID OF GLOAKMAKERS Boston C. L. U. Is Scene of Heated Battle By a Worker Correspondent, BOSTON, Noy. 28.—Boston Central Labor Union has appointed a commit- tee of 10 to study the question of cqm- pany unions in this jurisdiction, in con- nection with a national movement started by the A. F, of L. to investi- gate and collect data and devise. ways and means of combatting this menace to labor, A request for funds from the Pas- saic textile strikers received favor- able action, and affiliatedtunions which are yet unaware that these workers have been received into the A. F, of L, will be urged to send in their contribu- tions in aid of the strike. Commends Cloakmakers, In recommending financial support to the striking cloakmakers of New York, ex-President Kearney of the C. L. U. added to the motion a commen- dation of the manner in which the strike had been conducted, A heated discussion arose on the reading of a communication from the capmakers of Boston, They had sug- gested that the C, L, U, and fraternal bodies organize a conference for col- lecting funds to aid the striking New York cloakmakers, . Hochman Shows Colors. This request was vehemently’ op- posed by Julius Hochman, vice-presi- dent of the I. L, G. W. U., whe had come before the C. L. U. for the pur- pose of speaking against the proposal. Hochman’s' purpose was rather thinly vailed behind a formal request made by the joint board of sanitary control, thru its secretary, to come be- fore the executive committee of the Cc. L., U. to explain the “Prosanis” label. The joint board of sanitary con- trol is an auxiliary body of the gar- ment workers’ union, and when a del- egate asked what it was all about Brother Hochman was “Johnny-on-the- spot” to explain. And he remained for further business, Opposes Conference, When the question of the capmak- ers’ request came up, Hochman got the floor and gave as his reasons for ob- to such a conference that there ly. 7,000 workers now on strike, ~ ---+ he does not believe in relief conferences. Then he blew off on his favorite theme against “those outsid- ers” who seek to disrupt “our beloved trade union movement”—meaning, in this case, the capmakers, the most ac- tive and unselfish of all the needle trades unions in Boston, Miller Answers. J. Miller, of the capmakers, took the floor to answer what he called Hoch- man’s insinuations and false state- ments. Some of the delegates tried to shut him, off, but others objected to this procedure and demanded that he be allowed to give his side of the story. Miller told how the attempts of the capmakers to organize a com- mittee to make a thoro canvass of Boston unions, in order to secure money for the strikers, had been first postponed, and then ignored by Hoch- man, who then proceeded by his own methods, which were deliberately made inefficient, to bring in as little money as possible for the strikers, Held Down Contributions, “Brother Hochman boasts about the money ra¥sed in Boston,” said Miller, “but it was not nearly enough, nor what it should have been when, due to the New York strike, the Boston cloakmakers were earning $100 and $150 a week, and were working night and day. Not until the 18th week did the Boston union take any steps to help the New York strikers, and then taxed itself .inadequately one’ day’s pay. -And now, in the 21st week of the strike, there are still 7,000 work- ers out, and in need of relief.” He said the conference that they expected to» organize would have raised many times more than $13,000 turned in by the Boston garment workers. When Miller stated that scab shops had been opened in Hoch- inan’s jurisdiction without his pre- venting it, and challenged him to deny it, Hochman tried to turn Miller's words into a statement that the Bos- ton cloakmakers were scabbing. Would Have It a Failure, “Edo not wish the delegates to leave this. meeting with the~ impression Brother Hochman has tried to create, that the New York cloakmakers’ strike has been a failure,” Miller continued. “He would have liked to see ft a fail- ure—because it was conducted by the left wing leadership. Yes, and he and the Sigmans have done all they could to make it a failure—by sabotage and laying down on the job, Hochman ac- cuses the left wing of capitalizing fail- ures in strikes for their own purposes. And here he is trying to capitalize the so-called failure of the settlement With inside manufacturers. As a mat- ter of fact, those terms are better than his own right wing wished for.” “The pen is mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use It. Come down and learn how In the worker correspondent's clasres, ' if RRES PEN DENTS BY PRIZES FOR JANUARY 13 1927 +. THIS WEEK. Three books that will be /an asset to every worker's library are to be given next week for the best worker correspondence story sent to The DAILY WORKER. The prizes are: | Baoan OF POLITICAL EDUCATION, by A. Berdnikov and A. Svetlov. This is a new book of should have it in his library. 7 ROEMS FOR THE NEW AGE, young revolutionary poet ‘whose of the coming new order. such great value that every worker by Simon Felshin, The work of a verse carries the courageous spirit Cloth bound. |}—RUSSIA TODAY, the report of the British Trade Union Delegation. Every worker correspondent should send in a story this week. Workers in every section of the country are eager to_learn of con- ditions in American industry. The worker knows them. We are count- ing on you, workers, to tell us about them, Send in that story, today! Striker Approaches Negro Problem with Intelligent Outlook By RACHEL WEINSTEIN. (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.—The question of the Negro as-a strikebreaker had become an imminent one. The ranks of the paper box makers were unbroken save for a stray boy or girl who wandered from the line, wavered, but surely came back, Our colored sisters and brothers, however, presented a greater problem. A solution was sought and, as we thought, found. A committee, com- posed of two colored girls and two white ones, of which I wag one, was selected to visit Harlem ‘and, thru the medium of churches, theaters, dance halls and cabarets, convey the mes- sage that was of vital significance in the fight we are waging. ‘Our success Wag negative. The churches and similar places of worship. were all difficult of access. We were sent away with promises and assur- anceg of further interest in our sub- jects, etc., but we were not permitted to make our appeats there and then. One church, ‘indeed, accepted us and even went so far as to read-the mes- sage to the congregation. See Thru Dark Shadows. However, so far as I was concerned, the days’ experiences were of totally different significance. For the first time in my life I came in actuai con- tact with the Negro people. I talked. walked and laughed with them, and was delighted with them. I seemea to have been re-awakened. The people were alive, moving, breathing, not dark shadows on’ the horizon of my life. We visited one home with a view to obtaining a speaker for an evening performance at a theater. I talked,| with the lady of the house for a few all-too-short minutes and went away a slave to her charms, her vivid per- sonality. I succumbed completely. Her color, ‘her race, everything was forgotten in the pleasure of her con; versation, her presence. The barrier that formerly loomed so large in my eyes has dwindled away to nothing. It no longer exists. Jiarlem is a vast, comparatively un- explored area. The boys and girls, ostracized for no other reason but that of difference in color, are unorganized, untaught in the matter of workers’ solidarity. Employed by unscrupulous manufacturers to break the ranks of their white sisters and brothers, they are fed on poisonous propaganda which eats their minds and hearts and an- tagonizes them to the point of slash- ing blindly, at the smallest provoca- tion, at those who attempt to stop them on their way out of the shops simply to talk to them, These, our sisters and brothers, are the innocent victims of a social system so unspeak- ably vile, so contemptible, that one stands amazed at the realization of its existence. Sowing to Wind, A party of friends, far superior in- tellectually to many white people were once forced to leave a well- known restaurant because of their color. “These tables are all reserved,” was the reply they met with on re- questing accommodations. Similar i cidents, occurring daily, hourly in thi lives of these people, tend toward uniting them still more strongly in their hatred for the color which took it upon itself to lord it over them and which go cruelly manffests the differ- ence which they pre! exists, Is it any wonder that those lower in the social order and of lesser intel- ligence are only too eager to take ad- vantage of a strike to come back at us? Is it to be wondered at that our strike is a tool for revenge eagerly sought and unhesitatingly reeked »nom those of our boys and girls unfortu- nate enough to be the victims? Our organization, far from recogniz- ing color barriers, accepts into its ranks everyone, regardless of race or creed, Our colored boxmakers are as active as the white, as tireless in their efforts to finish this bitter struggle victoriously. Our union plans to or- ganize all boxmakers, regardless of color or creed, WORKERS’ SCHOOL LARGEST LABOR COLLEGE IN U.S, Thousand Students Are Enrolled By AL SCHAAP. e (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Noy. 28.—With a fall enrollment of 1,000 students, the Workers’ School has become the larg- est labor college in America. Altho the addition of a new Building to school quarters doubled its floor space, enrollment jumped from 300 last year and has severely taxed even the enlarged facilities. “The workers’ response to the school has proved the decisive suc- cess of a broad left wing labor col- lege,” declared Director Bertram D. Wolfe. “Our enrollment of 1,000 by no means represents the number who want to take courses, more than 100 have already being excluded, due simply to lack of space. Dozens of prospective students are applyjng daily.” Draws Non-Members. The new policy of the schoo] Has drawn in ‘students, instructors and even members of the advisory board who are not party members, in an effort to establish an educational cen- er for all militant left wing members. Eighty per cent of the students are members of trade unions, Emphasis has been placed on Ameri- can working-class problems, declare Wolfe. “Altho we are teaching 40 dif- ferent classes,” he said, “each one is handled in a manner best suited for the needs of students who work in factories and shops dnd study by night. We are grappling in every class with the pressing, practical prob- lems confronting the labor movement. Even the important theoretical classes keep the application of their theories to American workers’ needs ever fore- most in mind,” Unions Interested. New York’s trade unions are taking an active interest in the progress of the Workers’ School. Many are send- ing promising students, with tuition paid, to train themselves in the school, These students, Wolfe pointed out, will return to their unions better equipped to take up their, problems and to serve effectively. “The policy of the Workers’ School,” the director emphasized, “differs from that of other so-called workers’ schools. Our school is interested first, ast. and all the time in educating the workers for effective service to the working class. Other schools dilly- dally in promoting general culture.” Correspondence Courses Planned, Due to the heavy registration and the pressing need for such a school ag ours, plans are being formulated to give the school a broader field by int- tiating correspondence and circuit courses. The circuit courses will bring teachers and lecturers to New Jersey, New York state and Connecti- cut industrial centers, _ Interested workers should write to the Workers’ School, 108 East 14th street, New York City, for catalog and information. Milwaukee Railroad Workers to Demand Substanial Raises By O'ZIM, Worker Correspondent, (Woeker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Novy, 28-The Ma- chinist Local No, 234 is issuing invi- tations to a mass meeting next Fri- day to initiate what they call a “get the money campaign.” The invitations point to the “heap the hat slogans” of unsavory memory during the war, and recall the prom- ises of the bosses for better wages and conditions, which were, of course, not kept, ; ; This is to be a mass meeting of all crafts, to set up a demand for 85 cents an hour instead of 72 cents. Boiler- makers are asking 75 to 80 cents an hour and helpers 65 cents.an hour. The carmen are reorganizing and are picking up. The men will not be satisfied with a 2 or 3-cent as has been the case on other roads. |They are in a fighting mood and mean busin Why don’t you write it up? it may ‘| be Interesting to other workers, Use your braing and your pen to aid the workers In the class struggle, THE! DAILY WORKER THE CO! URTS — DRUNK WITH POWER ANTI- LABOR soutpTon 1s convert | /UNIONS APPEAL TO PROLETARIAN ART; WORKERS AS MODELS CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. 28—The new proletarian art has found an ar- dent supporter in Max Kalish, a lo- cal sculptor. Returning from a trip to Europe, he has exhibited his five latest pieces of sculpture, for which working men (Posed. He admits that he is now finding his inspiration in overalls, Working men, he says, are full of grace and beauty as Greek gods. » “In most of my new groups of fig- ures,” Kalish says, “I have attempt- ed to carry out by idea that the modern artist, living in an indus- trial age, must depend on workmen for his subjécts, “The old Greek sculptors found themselves living in an age of sports and games. it was only natural that they took the athlete for their subject, “Today we are living in an in- dustrial age. Consequently | can find more beauty of form in the laborer than the ancient sculptor discovered in the athlete.” ALTON SHOPMEN DEMAND UNION RECOGNITION Repudiate ‘Rump’; May Bring Test Case (Special to The Daily Worker) BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Nov. 28—Rail- road .shopmen of the Chicago and Alton railroad company have formally repudiated thé “company union” forced on them after the 1922 shop- men’s strike and have demanded rec- ognition of their affiliation with the Federated Shop Crafts of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. It is expected that the railroad will deny them recognition, and the shop- men are prepared to file a test case with the new U,. S. railroad labor board to take advantage of the epro- visions of the Watson-Parker act that the railway workers may designate gny representatives they agree upon. Organize System, A system has been organized with representatives from Chicago, Joliet, Peoria, Bloomington, Springfield, Roundhouse, Venice, Slater, Mo., and Kansas City. Immediately after the shopmen’s strike the C. & A, railroad organized the company union and forced the men to accept officers chosen by the com- pany. Elect Old Officers. But when the next election was held the men elected to office all of the former labor union officials. Grad- ually, then, all of them left the com- pany union and became affiliated with the various bona fide shop crafts. Their test case will be important, as it may result in a supreme court de- cision on the constitutionality of the Watson-Parker act, Employes in Motion. ' Pictures May Strike .LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28,—Unless motion picture producers discontinue the open shop, 3,500 employes of the Hollywood studios, members of the Big Four, are preparing to strike on Dec, 1., The Big Four includes stage employes, electrical workers, carpen- ters and joiners, and the Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhangers and Deco- rators, While the producers assert that the effect of the strike will be negligible, as most of thelr employes are non- union men, the strikers will rely upon & sympathetic strike of the picture- machine operators thruout the coun- try. Besides demanding a closed shop, the men are asking an eight-hour day, with time anda half for overtime after 5 p, m. Getra copy ot'the American Worker Jorrespondent, it’s only 5 cents, ‘ INJUNGTION IN BOSTON STRIKE Court. Tells 13 Trades Not to Aid Unskilled BOSTON, Nov. 28.—Thirteen Bos- ton building trades unions are appeal- ing their right to conduct a sympa- thetic strike. Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Bishop granted be ad Construction Co, and their sib-con- tractors an injunction against the building unions forbidding further con- tinuance of the workers’ strike on five jobs. The unions have been on strike since Aug. 26 on the buildings of the Pittsburgh Glass Co., Ginn Pub- lishing Co,, National Casket Co., Mack Truck Co, and Packard Motor Co. Violate Wage Agreement, The company claimed that the Build- ing Trades Council business agent de- manded pay of $96 per week for men in the gravel pits and on the wharves of the firm handling building mate- rials. The company held that it should not be subjected to paying the agreed rate of wages on non-construc- tion work, altho it is a member of the Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion, which makes the wage contract with the union’s council. The unions demand union wage rates thruout the concern’s employment. $500,000 Strike. The unions’ officials and their mem- bers are enjoined from continuing the strike, urging others to continue, inter- fering with the employment of union men who work whether they be of the defendant unions or others, from pun- ishing or reprimanding such union workers, or from jinterfering in any way to injure or damage the com- pany’s work. Half a million dollars’ worth of work is represented in the construction work tied up by the strike. Hoisting engineers’ local No. 4, hod carriers’ and building laborers’ local 49, and local 71 and local 23 of the same, local 17, sheet metal workers; local 33, roofers; local 7, ironworkers; local 3, bricklayers, local 103, electri- cal workers; local 12, plumbers, and local 537 also; local 4, elevator con- structors, and local 1044, painters, are named in the injunction, Paper Box Strikers Set Up Restaurant NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Every strik- ng paper box worker and his family may eat free of charge at the restau- rant established by the Paper Box Makers’ Union in the Church of All Nations’ building. George Powers, chairman strikers’ relief committee, is in charge of the restaurant. Bread will be donated by the bakers’ union and the United Councils of Working- class Housewives will raise funds to buy other food. PY Fred Caiola, manager of the union, finds that the response to the strik- ers’ appeal for funds from other yn- ions will help the fight for the 44-hour week, collective bargaining and min- imum scale of wages. Paper \box manufacturers, organized in an asso- ciation, are endeavoring to establish complete open shop conditions, ‘New York police still co-operate with them in this attempt by riding on each strike-breaking delivery wagon leav- ing paper box factories, Autos and Buses Put . * : Electric Line in Junk MARION, Ill, Nov, 28—Automobiles at midnight brought about the final abandonment of the Coal Belt Electric Railway, which has connected, Ma~ rion, Herrin and Carterville for 25 years, Passenger receipts have been showing a deficit for four years, but authority for discontinuance was not obtained from the Illinois commerce commission until the first of this month. Concrete highways, individual automobiles and bus lines are given ag the cause for the abandonment of the line, which is credited with a great deal of the coal mine development in Williamson county, . + By Upton Sinclair (Copyrignt, 1926, by Uptom Sinciaira XII des completing Bunny’s political education, this incident ‘tant to him in another way; it was the cause of Vee im acy’s taking over the management of his life. Ross senior got the moving picture lady on the telephone that very evening, and he said, “Look here, Vee, you’re laying down on your job!” “How do you mean, Mr. Ross?” “My name’is Dad,” said the voice, “and what I mean is that you're not taking care of my son like I wanted you to do. He’s been a-gettin’ into trouble. with these Bolshevikis again, and it’s all because you don’t see enough of him.” “But Mr.—Dad—lI’ve been trying to make -him thought that was what you wanted.” “Well, you forget about him studying, that’s all bunk, it ain’t a-goin’ to do him no good, and besides, he don’t do it; he jist goes off to Socialist meetin’s, and he’d better be with you.” “Oh, Dad!” There was a little catch in Vee’s voice. ‘“There’s nothing I'd like better! I’m just crazy about that boy!” “Well, you take him under your wing and keep him there, and if you can get him loose from these reds, I'll remember you n my will.” . So after that Bunny found that he could have a date with his beloved at any hour of the day or night. She never told him the reason—no, her idea of truth-telling did not go that far! She let him think it Was because of his overwhelming charms, and his male egotism was satisfied with the explanation. She would snake feeble pretenses at’resistance. “Oh, Bunny, Dad will think °m w ig your time, he’ll call me a vamp!”’” And Bunny would answer, “You goose, he knows that if I’m not with you, I may be off at some Socialist meeting!” They were so happy, so happy! souls and fresh young bodie&, eager, quivering in every ner Their love suffysed their whole beings; everything became touched with magic—the sound of their voices, the gestures of their hands, even the clothing they wore, the cars they drove, the houses they lived in. They flew together—the telephone girls were overworked keeping them in touch. Bunny became what in the slang of the time was known as a “one-arm driver”; also he studied the arts of cajoling professors and cutting lectures. His conscience was easy, for had he not done his duty by the Socialist movement, with that “one grand’ of Dad’s? Besides the strike was over, and the clothing workers had won a few con- cessions; the leaders had been réleased, and the promised “Mos- cow revelations” forgotten by the newspapers, and therefore by everybody else. 5 Vee would still not let Bunny come to the studio where she was working. For the next picture, perhaps, but not.this one; he and his Bolsheviks wouldn’t like it, and he must put off seeing it as long as possible. But all the rest of her time was his— every precious instant! The elderly housekeeper received a five dollar bill now and then, and was deaf, dumb and blind. Vee’s room in the bungalow was upstairs, the only second-story room, open on all four sides, and with ivy wreathing its windows: in- side it was all white, a bower of loveliness. Here they belonged to each other; and tears of ecstacy would come into Vee’s eyes. “Oh, Bunny, Bunny! I swore I'd never do this; and here I am, worse im love than I ever dreamed! Bunny, if you desert me, I shall di¢!” He would smother her fears in kisses; it was a case for the application of another old saying, that actions speak louder than words! There was no cloud in the sky of their happiness; except just one little cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand! Bunny did not see it at all; and the woman saw it for an instant or so, and then looked the other way. Oh, surely the rose will bloom forever, XIII The hands of destiny, turning upon the face of the movie clock, had brought Vee’s hour of glory again. The great pie- ture was ready, and once more she was on all the billboards of the city: “Schmoslky-Superba presents Viola Tracy in the twelve reel Superspecial, The Devil’s Deputy, Million Dollar Heart Drama of the Russian Revolution.” The scene which ornamented the billboards disclosed Vee, as usual with her lingerie torn, crouch- ing the arms of the ineffably handsome young American secret service agent, and the agent presenting a revolver to a mass a pavers black whiskers, behind which hideous foreign faces urked. Also there was publicity in the newspapers, columns and columns about the picture, the authors of the book, the continu- ity man and the director and the writer of the titles and the art- ists and the decorators and the costumers and the musicians: but most of all about the star. Was it to be expected that the pub- licity man should drop no hint to the reporters about the fascin- ating young oil prince who had now become Miss Tracy's most intimate friend? It had been expected by Bunny, and maybe by Dad, but assuredly not by anyone else. The reporters laid siege to the young oil prince, and sweet, sentimental sob-sister ladies sought to lure hifn into revealing how it felt to be the very, very dearest dear friend of such a brilliantly scintillating star of the movie heavens. Ohne day it was rumored they we vagzed to marry, and the next day they were not; and if they said nothing, the reporters knew what they ought to have said, And when tan petite not ae is picture, they snapped him on the street and when he turn is face away, they ye yc r “Oil Prince Is Shy!” y 'Y gave it a jolly caption: study—I The rapture of fresh young (Continued Tomorrow) Cun RESISTOR unI PP tt an Seek Girls to Get Meat Cutters Here Get : Dope on “King” Ben| $2.50 Weekly Increase BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Nov, 28. An intensive search wag started for ex-girl, members of the House of Approval of the $45 wage scale negotiated by officials of Local 546, Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen, was voted at a membership meeting Nov. 21, The new rate is a $2.60 weekly increase. The demand for 7 p. m. closing on Saturdays in- stead of the present 9 p. m, time was referred to a joint committee, David,..with a view to bringing addi- tional charges against “King” Benja- min Purnell, head of the House of David, SEND IN A SUB TODAY. The SUNDAY WORKER Slogan Contest Ends November 30 ’ SEND YOUR SLOGAN TODAY to win one of the 7 prizes of $100 in books $i racenih Sh nah ‘ We Bo