The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1926, Page 5

i) , ©ne meaning for the workers in the WORKERS OUT OF JOBS WHEN MILL MOVES TO SOUTH | the time the prayer originated was evidently far from a desirable one. ‘Unorganized Conditions Draw Factories By a Worker Correspondent, WARE, Mass., Dec, 1—About 1,500. cotton mill workers will be thrown | ‘upon the town of Ware when the Otis Company, manufacturers of awnings, | denims, cotton suitings, cotton under. | wear and other cotton products closed | \down their plant here. The mills, es- ‘tablished in 1839, constituting the town’s oldest and most important in- | xiustry, will be moved to the south, where reduction of manufacturing costs to meet the southern competition ‘was given as the main reasof for the ‘ction taken by the directors, Self Out Holdings, Recently the company sold the Ware Gas Company, which it had operated. ‘Under the plan now submitted to the stockholders by Treasurer Harry G. Nichols, the mills and other property hhere, including a number of tene- ments, would be sold, as well as the company’s mills at Greénville, N. H. Part of the, manufacturing wopld be removed to two modern plants owned by the company at Palmer, Mass., but the majority would be ¢aken south, Industry Reorganizing, A great reorganization process is @oing on in New England’s textile Sndustry. The Hayward Woolen Mills of Douglas, Mass. has recently #crapped most of its old machinery nd built a new modern plant equipped with the latest of textile machinery. Whe Wauckentauc Mills, of Urbridge, ‘Mass., have just installed new looms $n its plant. Last month the Jenkes- Manville Co., of Rhode Island, who have always called in the state militia and constabulary on the slightest man- Sfestation of discontent among its em- ployes, has closed its Nourse Mill at ‘Woonsocket, R. I., and moved its ma- chinery to units already in operation | 4n the south: Are Consolidating, The Nashua Manufacturing Co, has ust purchased the plant of the Tre- mont and Suffolk Mills of Lowell, Mass, in order to concentrate for Sheaper production. The Pepperell Manufacturing Co., Which ‘put up a born fight against its striking em- . Sibel. organized in the American Fed- eration of Textile Operatives, who re- sisted a wage cut in the recent wage- @iashing campaign, has merged with | the Massachusetts Cotton Mills. All these recent developments have. but textile industry—greater and more in- tensive organization of the unorgan- ized textile workers in the south and also in the northern states. With the @rop in the “price of raw cotton, some of the mills are doing a little more work, but the manufacturers are not eontent with cheaper cotton as an in- @ucement for operating. More wage puts are coming soon. Use your brains and your pen to ald the workers in the class struggle. Even if you have to shake out every penny from the old coffee can— do it if you ielick to attend the SUNDAY, DEC. 4 at the International Work- men's Home ‘ 3014 Yeamane St., Hamtramck, Mich. DANCING AT 4 P. M. CONCERT AT 8 ‘ “Auspices Section 6 Workers (Communist) Party and Russian and Ukrainian Unite, — | wage is $9 to $10 a week, ete ae aa THE DAL _WOMEN LAUNDRY WORKERS EXPLOITED LY WORKER Page Five AKE-UP F POLICEMEN ta CURE CRIME, BY BOSSES IN STEEL TRUST TOWN puck Is Transferred to (By a Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind., Dec. 1—“Praise be god D. | Pious Jews offer this prayer every morning. The condition of the woman at Jone of the favorite games in the Chi- | cay lice department. those days the moderp laundries were Barty The modern version of the Jewish prayer would be: |for not having created me a laundress.” | clusion after the study of the conditions of the laundry workers in Gary, Ind. Work 10 Hours a Day. . + The women in the laundries of Gary work 10 hours'a day. Their average Perhaps the work is easy and en- joyable, that so little is paid for it. Work Is Hard. “We work harder than the men in the steel mills,” say the women laun- | dry workers. And work in Gary steel | mills is no joke at all. The strain of work in the laundry | is so great that only a few women | can stand it for a considerable time. The labor turnover in the laundries is very great indeed. Boss Gets $60—Workers, $1.65. | At a busy season a “finisher” would | turn out as many as 300 shirts a day. | 4 The boss would take in $60 for the work. The woman doing it would get only $1.65, No matter how hard you work, the boss is never satisfied. “Can’t Afford to Pay More.” Ask him for a raise, for a few more cents an hour, and hear him come back at you with this: “I can’t afford to pay you more. There are plenty of women willing to do this work for $5 or $6 a week.” The boss, it appears, is very gener- ous, Paying his help as much as he does, The laundry business is a flourish- ing business. Poor fellows who man- aged by hook or crook to get a start in it are rapidly growing rich. The sweat and blood of the laundry work- em produce the wealth of the exploit- ers. The Steel Trust is in no small meas- ure responsible for the prosperous cpn- dition of the laundry owners and the pitiful condition of the laundresses. Many a wife of the steel slaves is com- pelled to work as a laundress. The | wage of the husband is not sufficient | to cover the needs of the family. Many Are! Negroes. The (greatest number of laundry workers are Negro women. While in | the mills the men of this race are forced» thru “discrimination into the | most hazardous and lowest-paid oceu- pations, so the women of the race are forced even into a greater slavedom. Oakland I. L. D. Indoor Picnic Great Success By a Worker Correspondent. OAKLAND, Calif., Dee, 1. — The indoor picnic given by the Oakland branch of International Labor Defense on Sunday, Nov. 21 proved a very suc- cessful affair in spite of the steady downpour of rain that continued ‘thru. Out the afternoon and evening. The afternoon was given over to games and contests of various sorts chief among which was “barnyard golf, made possible by the use of rub- ber horse shoes, : Many of the women had brought’ Junch boxes which were auctioned off and realized a substantial amount. The American Worker Correspond- ent Is the worker. correspondent’s own magazine. It will be off the press this week. in his subscription today. year, Every worker should send 50 cente a FE : : on Organization worker can con- his reading com- © without this in- valuable work, Add it to your piers tHe. wi ings of Eerire on the first “and most necessary steps of la- bor. In a splendid cloth-bound Ubrary edition. $1 50 Lat BAY wo: W. Wash inngton "pivd. Chic HES) ‘ for not having created me a woman.” In not in existence, “Praised be a | At least one is forced to this con- District Captains “Passing the buck,” seems to be | After a conference between Chief of Police Morgan A. Collins and | Mayor Dever, an order was issued dis- | tributing 21 of ‘the detective bureau | sanads to varlous police districts, to which they VHll hereafter report in- WIFE OF JAILED UNIONIST HURT IN FACTORY JOB Husband in Jail, Wife Suffers Mutilation By a Worker Correspondent. MOUNDSVILLE, W, Va., Dec, 1.—~ Serving @ long sentence in the West Virginia penitentiary for his part in defending the miners’ union against the machine gun of the open shop op- erators in 1921, Edgar Combs worries about his wife and children. His wife has twice suffered amputation of fin- gers in accidents in the factory where she is working to keep the family alive, “I am well and in as good spirits | 4s possible under the circumstances,” | Combs told a friend. “The worst worry and anxiety I have is about my family. They are well as far as I know to date, but my wife had quite an accident, “She caught her hand in the press she was working on in the factory and lost part of one of her fingers. This is the second time she has had the same accident, only different fingers. She had been off from work four weeks. i think, tho, that she will be able to go back soon.” Basic Industries Can Be Organized Now, Says Weisbord in Rochester By a Worker Correspondent, ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec, 1, —Al- bert Weisbord, leader of the Passaic textile strike, spoke at a well attend- ed meeting at Carpenters Hall on Thursday, Nov. 26, under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party. Weisbord discussed the restriction of immigration, installation of new machinery with its resultant abolition of the skilled workers and other fac- tors that have arisen since 1912. He pointed out that these factors have tended to level the ranks of the Amer- ican working class thus making pos- sible the -succéssful conduct of the Passaic strike with its many national, religious and craft divisions. He asserted further that corditions were ripe for the organization of the unorganized masses in the basic in- dustries of America and that the re- actionary A. F. of L. leadership, thru the sabotaging attitude which they assumé towards this most important task, are proving themselves to be the lickspittels of the capitalist class. GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, ead ANGELES, CAL. DIRECT FROM THE | ee BATTLE FRONT! ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN THE NOTED LABOR ORATOR 4 at Music-Art Hall, 233 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Sunday, December 5, 8 P. M. Joint auspices I, L, D. and Civil Liberties Union of Los Angeles, ALSO —— Cal. Monday, December 6, 8 p, m., at Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. and Wednesday, December 8, 8 224 South Spring Bt., Los An p. m,, at Needle Trades Hall, ‘eles, Cal. stead of, as formerly, to Deputy Chief | of Detectives'Dohn Stege. The inten- tion, it is sal@j4s to make the district | captains respoustble in the future for | crime in theinialtstricts. | It 4s charged that many crimes have | not been repomted by district captains to headquartemsy but even those which have been soapported have been nu- | merous enough to cause uneasiness in the chiet's offi The shake-up has brought out some fecling in the, police department that it is top-heavy. Too many bosses and too few workers. There are 53 captains and only 39 districts, the detective buréai, and the traffle di- vision to need them. In spite of this surplus, immediately after the elec: tion, five moré captains were appoint- ed. No place Was yet been found for them. As theré was no appropriation to cover their salaries, this was got- ten around by giving them an in- crease in pay of $300 over that which they had received as patrolmen. This latest of the many so-called “shake-ups” in the department comes after a grand jury had indicted 74 | politicians and policemen for being implicated in the booze traffic. To a man from Mars, it might ap- pear that there have been too many “shake-downs” and too few genuine (Special to The BOSTON, Mass., Hall last week, was attended by forty Shoe Workers’ Protective Union and The conference marked one of the mo: strength and to initiate the very much + needed campaign for amalgamation of the existing unions and for organizing the leather workers on a national scale, Purpose of Meeting. The chairman opened the conference | by reading the call and making an ap- propriate address stating the purposes of the meeting and the program to be adopted. He spoke of the expulsion policy in the S. W. P. U. and in the B. & 8. W. P. U., showed how each city competes with the other, the bosses promising steady work in one center if the workers will submit to lower prices existing in some other shoe center, thus making the lowest scale the standard for all. He out- lined the organizational means to make the conference permanent by electing an executive committee with headquarters in New York City and a large national committee. He said the immediate task is to initiate a campaign to organize the unorganized shoe and leather workers, (2) to carry on a fight for amalgama- tion of all existing shoe workers’ un- fons, (3) to enter the fight to stop wage reduction and for wage in- creases, (4) to carry on a campaign against state boards of arbitration and agreements made thru them. Issue Manifesto. The. conference also outlined the points for’a manifesto to the shoe and leather workers to be issued by the incoming executive committee, dealing with wage reductions, hours of labor “shake-ups” Hy the city department of Dolice. Herrin Killer Carried Enough Ammunition to Supply Army Regiment DANVILLE, Dec. 1. — A sale in the office. of the late S. Glenn Young, ku klux klan leader of Will- jamson county, who died in a gun battle a yeat ago, revealed enough ammunition te-equip a regiment, A box in the office contained 1,500 rounds of 30-30:rifle cartridges, sever- al hundred stgel jacketed 45 calibre revolver carttidges, four boxes of shells for. aute @N assort- ment of 32 and 38 calibre cartridges and a number of machine gun cart- ridges. bs It is recalled that in the last months off his warfare in Williamson county Young “possessed a machine gun mounted’ in his car. T. U. E. L. Will Hold Educational Meeting Here, Thursday, Dec. 2 The Amalgngoated Trade Union Educational, Jyeague will hold an edu- and general conditions in the industry and the need for militant leadership and an adequate program, and for amalgamation and unity in the trades, etc. After discussion and reports upon the local situations each resolution was unanimously adopted and the del- egates were enthusiastic in their sup- port of the program outlined at the conference. In each case the execu- tive committee was instructed to issue the adopted resolutions in a bulletin giving an account of the conference. Plan of Action, The organization committee brought in the following. report, which, after considerable discussion, was unani- mously adopted: Permanent Orennieation”’ to be ef- fected and called “National Progres- sive Shoe and Leather Committee.” 2. National committee to be com- posed of two members from the fol- lowing centers: Haverhill, Brockton district, Lynn, New York district, Chel- sea, Rochester, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Manchester, N. T.; Auburn, Me.; Sa- lem, Mass.; Philadelphia and Mil- waukee, 3, District shoe and leather confer- ences to be get up in New York dis- trict, Boston district, Philadelphia dis- | trist, Rochester district and St. Louis district. 4. An executive committee of five to | cational meeting Thursday, Dec. 2, 8 p. m., sharp,,at 3209 Roosevelt road, Freiheit Hall. , | Jack W. Johnstone, assistant na- tional secretary of the T. U. EZ La will speak on a subject interesting to all militant. trade unionists, “Why Trade Union Minorities Participate in Union iene: v4 Will Debate Primary Law at Chicago Forum “Shall the Direct ick dielaiaey be Aban- doned?” will be the question of a de- bate at the Chicago Forum Sunday afternoon, Dec. 5. Robert A. Taft, son of Chief Justi¢g Taft and speaker of the Ohlo legist ture will speak in the affirmative, and Professor Charles B. Merriam of the’ University of Chicago in the negative. Mr. Taft was a leader in a referendtim’in Ohio this fall for the repeal ofthe direct primary law. The meeting’ will be held at the Erlanger Thedter, Sun afternoon at 3:15, Tackle ‘Chfipany Unions on k Island, Shop employes ot the Mlinois Cen- tral and the ck Island roads in Chicago are erly aeceptlng hand- bills passed ont’ at the gates entitled, “Destroy the ‘Ubinpany Unions.” The Intl, Railroad’ ‘Amalgamation commit tee, Room 8, E. 63 St. Chicago, has distribute’ pier 10,000 to Mlinois Central work: WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ora Chicago Yederation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs, It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Muntelpal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour. 6120-—The Brévoort Concert Trio; Little Joe Wart Hazel Nyman, ac. eordion; Ude, baritone; Anna Boehm; Ms Whibers Great Lakes En- tertainers. 9 hestra, Ham 11:00—-Alamo interainers: be elected by the conference, All the Working Masses will be at the greatest Freiheit Mask Ball at the new MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49th St. and 8th Ave., New York City | Saturday, Dec. 18,1926 LEFT WING CONFERENCE OF BOOT | AND SHOE WORKERS PLANS NATION- WIDE CAMPAIGN OF ORGANIZATION Dali W Worker) Dec, 1. — A conference of left wing and progressive unionists in the boot and shoe industry held im Boston at Wells Memorial} representatives of local unions of the | the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union. st energetic and successful efforts so | far made by militant forces in this disorganized industry to consolidate their | 5, Headquarters of the committee to be in New York City. 6. ecutive secretary-treasurer to | be elected by the executive committee | and submitted to the national commit- cost are subsidizing thes FOOD, HOUSING, DISCUSSED WITH WORKING GIRLS Shop Cafeterias Wages Down Keep (Special to The Dally Worxer) NEW YORK, Dec. 1 Employers who feed their gir) workers in com pany cafeterias and lu jhelp keep down w: Andrews, professor nomics at Teachers’ Co. old ecc tee for approval , Columbia oo it gical University, told the Association for 7. Local progressive conferences to thé. Praber Jaane cot .( nial be formed in each shoe and leather | oonterence. Paeants. eubah ‘aid town, a! - 5: ay workers who live at home in New 8. Secretary-treasurer to be the | org City an average of $2 a week chief executive officer of national, lo-}1.° neured trom: his examination spf ae Cae 100° girlsy budgets, some of the. girl 9, Each loca) and district conference | to accept the direction of the national | committee and its executive com- mittee. 10. Each local conference to make regular monthly contribution to the executive committee in order to finance work on a national scale, 11, Executive committee to have charge of and issue an official monthly paper to be called “The Progressive Shoe Worker.” 12, Slogans to be: “For the organi- zation of all unorganized shoe and leather workers;” “for the amalgama- tion of all existing shoe and leather workers’ unions into one powerful in- dustrial union;” “for militant leader- ship and a progressive program;” “for a labor party and working-class politi- cal action;” “for wage increases, shorter hours and better working con- ditions;” “for unity, militancy and progress in the shoe and leather in; | dustry.” oe Blind Workers Strike at Chicago Lighthouse There are in Chicago at least thirty- five blind men and women who see the | light of unionism—which should de | illuminating to some who claim to have perfect vision, At the Chicago Lighthouse, an insti- tution for the blind, thirty-five have gone on strike. They are rug weavers and electrical appliance workers, de- manding the resignation of Miss Edith L. Swift, the executive director, who is a daughter of a former mayor of Chicago, At the same time, the strik- ers ask that the resignation of Super- intendent O. W. Freeman be not ac cepted, John Fitzpatrick, of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor, has started an investigation. Why not a small bundle of The DAILY WORKER sent to you regular ly to take to your trade union meeting? How to Help The PASTE THIS | The DAILY most any kind of printing. logues, Magazines, Newspapers or can be entirely printed in our shop. We will be items we list prices below. Prices ink on mod ‘ate oe stock. 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