The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1926, Page 4

Page Four - Organiz News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government , Trade Union Politica THE MINERS OF PITTSBURGH, Kan., Dec. 2. NiGE-SOUNDING POLICY DOESN'T | |in the coal mines around Pittsburgh. FOOL WORKERS ¢ | Howat interested himself in the case. ed Labor—Trade Union A ITHE FIGHT OF ALEX HOWAT AND DISTRICT NO. 14; A CHAPTER IN LABOR HISTORY ARTICLE II. By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. The McNally Iron Works, a non-union concern of considerable size, had a practical monopoly of machine repairing Boilermakers, machinists and other metal tradesmen who belonged to | no union would be working side by side with union miners, All attempts |made by the metal trade unions to organize. this concern failed until Alex He came to the conclusion that this Steel Slaves See Thru | was an intolerable condition which reflected upon the miners’ union, | Company’s Idea | miners’ agreement did not By a Steel Worker. | such work but Howat in turn pointed GARY, Ind., Dec. 2—Entering the} out that the United Mine Workers mill last Monday the workers of the] had jurisdiction over “all men work: American Sheet and Tin Mill Co.| ing in and around the mines” and in- could not help noticing on the wall] formed the operators the coal miners nt the entrance a big sign. | would be within the contract if they Byerybody stopped to read. It said| stopped work in mines where these in large letters: nonunion men were repairing machin- “Policy!” } ery. “Our policy is to have this place Metal Workers Join Unian. The operators saw McNally and known far and wide as a good place| altho he complained bitterly the met- cover+ “workers about the new policy of the to work. | “A place where everyone has a} al workers employed by his company chance. | joined their respective unions. “Where every worker is paid the} highest wages that can be paid and} yet leave room for the business sec-} tion to be successful. | “To safeguard work just as far as it can be safeguarded. “To recognize good work and to appreciate the helpful assistance of every co-worker. “(Signed) N, A. Irvin, Vice-Pres. “American Sheet and Tin Plate Co.” Nobody Takes It Serious. The workers read this policy and just wave their hand. “What do you think of this, Bill?” “O, it’s full of This is the opinion of the steel Sheet and Tin Mill Co. Soon Wear Out. Of course, the first roller gets at times as high as $20.00 a day. This may appear a high wage, but try to stand at the hot rolls 8 hours a day, working at top speed and you will not think the wage too high. Day by day these men give away their life ener; until after a few years they are dried | out, lifeless. | What if they saved up a few thon- | sand dollars? Their life is gone. ‘The company meanwhile makes mil- And\what of the common laborers? These do not get above $4.50 to $5.50. We don't believe that the company pays us the highest possible wage, and that everyone has a chance. We work at top speed, but our families live in want and we cannot make both ends meet, not speaking of getting the fat steak which the vice- resident, A. Irvin, is getting, who signed the “policy” of the American Sheet and Tin Mill Co. | The real policy of Jo. is: “Skin ’em alive!” ! the Tin Mill} | strike, that the labor movement, five It is to be noted that not a single one of the international union heads, whose organizations received assis- tance of this kind, have ever raised their voices in defense of Alex How- at in his 5-year fight for honesty and militancy in the miners’ union. None of them came to his assistance in his fight against the Kamsas Indus- trial Court law—a fight that involved the entire labor movement. The incidents listed above are only a few of a long list of events in which the miners’ union, under the leader- ship of Howat, took the side of other workers against the bosses with noth- ing to gain-for itself except a consci- ousness of duty well done, Why They Hate Howat. These incidents explain the hatred of the coal operators of Kansas—and other capitalists—for Alex Howat® It is an indisputable fact that the capi- talist and middle class elements, par- ticularly in the Pittsburgh territory, hailed John L. Lewis as their savior when he began the war on Howat, the other officials of the miners’ union and the membership of District 14. It is likewise a fact that the Kan-) sas capitalists, Governor Allen—the sponsor of the Industrial Court law— and other enemies of labor were un- able to defeat the Kansas miners and were themselves being defeated until President Lewis became their ally. Importance of Kansas Fight. The rank and file of the American labor movement has, in my opinion. never understood fully the tremen- dous importance of the struggle against the Industrial Court fought by ‘the Kansas miners. It is only now, since the United States Supreme Court has ratified the decision of the Kansas court which sent Howat and other militant officials to jail for 17 months for defending the right to years later, begins to understand that elementary rights for which labor has Howat informed the operators that union miners could not be expected | to work with non-union men. The operators made the counter-claim that the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PATS SELF ON BACK AT CONCILIATION RESULTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—During the fiseal year ending June 30 the federal government, thru the direc- tor of conciliation service, took a hand in 551 industrial disputes, ac- cording to the department of labor's annual report. At the end of the year 43 cases were still pending, while the board had failed to effect a settlement in 61 others. Secretary of Labor Wil- son expresses himself as highly pleased with the results. who saved the state of Massachu- setts from the striking Boston police- men. Why could not Allen become president by putting thru legislation which would make ALL strikes ille- gal except those called with the sanc- tion of the capitalists and capitalist agents? It has long been a favorite dodge of capitalists, when preparing an as- sault on the workingclass, to put over the needed legiflation in an agricul- tural state, under various guises, and thus secure at least formal support for their scheme from the agricultural sections. There can be no doubt that had the Kansas miners made no resistance to the Industrial Court we should have seen a wave of similar legislation sweeping over other states. They fought almost alone as we shall see. (To Be Continued) Will Show Passaic Strike Picture in Denver, December 4 By a Worker Correspondent. DENVER, Colo., Dec. 2.—The Pas- saic strike conference has accepted the use of Grace Church Auditorium in which to show the Passaic strike film, on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 8 o’colck, The conference has made complete and fina] arrangements and a large crowd is expected which will fill the Grace Church Auditorium, which seats close to a thousand persons. THE DAILY WORKER ctivities.. Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism HUDSON COAL 60. SPREADS VENOM ~~ AGAINST UNION Turkey Dinners Given Miners as, Dupe SCRANTON, Dec, 2,—(FP)—Hud- son Coal Co, is laying the basis for a company union among its 22,000 em- ployes by a series of monthly chicken and turkey dinners in every colliery town, Anti-union propaganda and ef- ficiency lectures are served out as after-dinner courses, along with music and songs. Put on Sketch. The way the union is ridiculed at these affairs is illustrated by a sketch put on at one of the recent dinners given to the Olyphant colliery em- CHICAGO T, UE, L. MEET PLANS ITS LEFT WING WORK Cops Come But Decide They Got “Bum Steer” The local general group of the Trade Union Educational League held a very interesting and successful meeting Wednesday evening at Mirror Hall, 1140 North Western avenue, where a number of actions, them the election of a new executive committee for the Chicago league, testified to new life and interest in left wing activity as did the packed hall. Curious Police Get Education, An additional zest was added by the police department, when it inserted an item on the agenda by sending in a batch of “dicks” who nosed about, questioned the chairman, J. W. John- stone, and finally decided they had been given a “bum steer.” Their alibi was that they were looking for a ce1> tain Shoe Repairers’ meeting at which thelr old friends, “Scar-face Al” and “Big Tim” Murphy and his ilk were expected. They left after Johnstone presented them with the T. U, E. L. pamphlet on “Organizing the Unorgan- ized” and would have taken a batch of tickets for the T. U. E. L. New among The Manager’s Corner FOUR ADDITIONAL NEWSPAPERS HAVE BEEN PUR- CHASED BY THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER | ORGANIZATION AT A COST OF APPROXIMATELY $2,400, | 000. Thereby the number of newspapers under this control is in \ creased to TWENTY-ONE. William’ W. Hawkins, the general. | business director of the Scripps-Howard service, also records a | number of consolidations of smaller newspapers all over the country. THE SCRIPPS-HOWARD CHAIN. now controls one or more newspapers in the following cities: Memphis, Knooville, Denver, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Wash- | ington, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Toledo, Columbus, Akron, Birmingham, Houston, Youngstown, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Evansville, El Paso, San Diego, Terre Haute, Covington and Albuquerque. The Scripps-Howard newspapers are in turn affiliated with the United Press, which along with the other gigantic combines, like the Associated, Hearst’s, Munsey’s, etc., controls the news which is transmitted to the nation. The Scripps-Howard organization and similar combina- tions constitute TRULY a chain—a chain which capitalism has forged to preserve the bonds of wage slavery, by which facts are hidden, distorted and misinterpreted. Conclusions are drawn to confuse and mislead the workers rather than to enlighten them. To cite a recent and glaring evample one need only mention the insidious propaganda now being carried on in connection with the moves toward interven- tion in Mewico and Nicaragua. The capitalist press is replete with such examples daily. For this reason the establishment of a workers’ paper be- comes a matter of paramount importance—a paper which shall give not only the facts truthfully and correctly stated—but what is of far more significance—a clear interpretation of these ployes. The sketch was a caricature take-off of a union meeting. The ac- tors were three company “suckers” the super has chosen for the role of the active union men he wanted to burlesque. It began with the first miner arising and bawling that he wanted more pay. “All right,” shouts a second, “let’s have a convention and take action.” “No,” roars a third, “let's just go on a big drunk tonight and tomorrow we'll go on a big strike.” ‘The bosses and their satellites led the snickering. At the last Olyphant dinner “effi- ciency” was dished out to the workers in shovels. As the last mouthfuls of food were going down and the com- pany’s big black cigars were lighting the superintendent gave a demonstra- tion of how he liked a car to be loaded. Year’s Eve ball, had not Johnstone gently reminded them that these tick- ets are 50 cents each. . Gitlow Speaks. Owing to the illness of Wm, Z, Fos- ter, who was to be the speaker of the evening, Benjamin Gitlow of New York spoke in his place, and delivered a lecture on the events and signifi- cance of the T. U. E. L, in the needle trades that held the audience in rapt attention. With the T. U. EL. struggle against the right wing in the needle trades, said Gitlow, the left wing ended its period of existence as an opposition and became the administration. This placed a new problem before the left wing as a whole—the practical direc- tion of the unions, Graphic accounts ‘of the struggle in the furriers’ and cloakmakers’ strikes were given, in both of which the right wing had used tactics designed to sa- botage the strike in the hope of charg- ing its loss on the left wing adminis- tration. In the furriers’ strike the left wing was better situated than in the cloakmakers’ strike, owing to the situation of the industry, the position of the union in the industry and the stronger position of the right wing in the I, L. G. W. and its more cunning tactics, Amalgamation the Big Issue. In both strikes the right wing had “That's the way to load a car,” the | worked hand in glove with the bosses. superintendent cried, clapping his |In the furriers it had done so openly, hands. “You'll make twice as much |and was openly discredited. Sigman money that way.” had learned from that lesson, and in He did not add that the three feet | the cloakmakers’ strike had cunningly of topping could not possibly stay on pretended to support the strike, while all the way from the coal face to the | secretly knifing it in combination with tipple as the car was rounding curves |the right wing in all needle trades and bumping roofs. Nor did he men-| unions, particularly in the A. C, W., tion that the coal that fell off would | which had become a bulwark of reac- be gathered up by. the company in tion. special cars sent along the track for] The right wing in all needle unions this purpose and that the tonnage | had combined in a new offensive, said Lesson in Loading. One of the new extra-big cars the company is introducing was exhibited jon the stage. This new car, instead jof being three boards high, has a |fourth 10-inch board, along the two sides. Two miners began to load it from a coal pile on stage. They loaded it flush to the top.board and then kept on piling up, the coal. They loaded it to the sixdnch topping the union agreement calls for, and kept on piling up the coal until three feet of topping towered over the sides, facts and current events from a Special Meeting of Russian Fraction W. P. Monday, December 6 An important meeting of the Chi- cago Russian fraction of the ‘Workers Party will be held Monday, Dec, 6, at the Workers’ House, 1902 W, Division St. A special committee will be select- ed to insure the success of the Rus- sian masquerade ball to be given for the benefit of the Novy Mir on Satur- day, Dec. 25, at Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave., near Division St. Russian Masquerade in Chicago, Dec. 25, to Benefit Novy Mir A Russian masquerade for the bene- fit of the Russian Communist weekly, Novy Mir, has been arranged for Sat-’ urday, Dec. 25, at Mirror Hall, 1140 N. Western Ave., near Division St. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs on that date, Weisbord Speaks in Many Cities Youngstown, Dec. 5, Ukrainian Hall, 525 W. Rayon street, 8 p. m. Cleveland, Dec. 6, Moose Auditorium, 1000 Walnut St. Toledo, Ohio—lota Hall, 716 Jefferson Ave., Dec. 7. consecrate his utmost time and. working class viewpoint. Upon the building up of such a paper depends the growth and \pro- gress of the American labor movement. The hold of the Scripps- Howard chain and alt similar capitalist propaganda chains, can be broken only by the influence of a fearless labor daily. Toward the establishment of such a daily every honest worker should effort. BERT MILLER. Proletarian Hikers Plan Sunday Outing’ Sunday, Dec. 5, the Tourist Club off New York will hike to Hillside, Jam maica Woods and Creedmoor, Longi Island. This section which is well known for its picturesque scenery ig one of the few remaining undeveloped portions of the city of New York. Giant oaks, white birch thickets an@ dwarf poplars with occasional woods land ponds offer a pleasant trip low cost. Meeting place, foot Jamaica L End Station, 168th St. ang Jamaica Ave: (downstairs); tima 9:30 a, m.; fare, 10 cents; walking time, 3 hours; leader, Will Beck. Non- members are welcome guests at alt times, provided they are nature-loving proletarians. YOUTH BALL FOR BRITISH STRIKE RELIEF CHICAGO, Nl.—The youth commit- tee for the relief of the British coal miners will-hold a grand ball on Satur day, Dec. 4, 8 p. m., at the Workers* Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. There wilt be good music and refreshments. The affair is run for the benefit of the million striking British miners, Pat Devine Speaks In New York. A lecture by Pat Devine, who has recently returned from England, on the British general strike and the Minority Movement, will be given on fought ever since the decay of feud- | alism, were at stake in that struggle and that in view of the decision of the Supreme Court the same fight will have to be made by the whole labor movement. The Kansas miners were the shock troops of the labor movement. Kansas is primarily an agricultural state. With the exception of railway Famous Poet Ends Life with Poison SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—Admir- | Ts are mourning the death of George | iterling, famous poet, found dead in| is apartment late yesterday. By his ide was a bottle, believed to have ontained poison. Scattered about his ooms were fragments of paper—-| terminals, the small industries in erses and letters he had destroyed. | Kansas City, the Pittsburgh coal Sterling had been ill for about a| fields and scattered ofl properties, Jeek. His illness prevented him from cting as host to his friend, H. L. Tencken, magazine editor, during the | there is no industry on a large scals. Frightening the Farmers. The farming population for years \eter’s visit here. {had been fed with tales of the hor- We will send sarsple coples of The ‘AILY WORKER to vour friends~ tnd us name and address. Chicago Daily Worker Agents’ i Meeting FRIDAY NIGHT, Soon. 3 at 19 S. Lincoln Street ~— BUNCO PARTY AND DANCE will be given by the SOUTH SIDE SCANDINAVIAN BRANCH OF I. L. D. Friday, December 3, 1926 at |. 0. d. F. HALL, 647 EAST 61st ST., Chicago, lil. Admission 50 Cents. VHAT ARE YOU—SLOVAK OR AN AMERICAN? If you are American read the fighting labor daily paper—The DAILY If you cannot read Hnglish, subscribe to the only Czecho- WORKER, slovak workingclass daily paper ip THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1510 W. 18th Street, Chicago, III. Subscription rates: By mail $6 a year; for Chicago $8 a year. rid deeds of the “foreigners” in” Pittsburgh led by Howat whose doc- trines were redder than his hatr. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce, frightened by the threatened revolt of the farmers among whom the non- partisan league had made some in- roads, was only too willing to have an issue to distract the attention of the farmers from their wrongs. In addition many of its coal operator members were smarting under de- feats administered in clashes with the coal miners’ union. Governor Allen had presidential ani- bitions. Coolidge had become a vice- president by being made the hero verybody Welcome, the United States and Canada— One of the novel ways of advertising the film showing will be the showing of one reel at the trade union promo- tional meeting and entertainment j which will be held on Friday evening, Dec. 3, at Carpenters’ Hall and the chairman will announce to the audi- lence that the balance of the 6 reels of the Passaic film will be shown at Grace Church on the next evening, | Saturday, Dec. 4, The Promotional |League meetings are well. attended land in this way a large number of |union workers wil Ibe acquainted with the news of the Passaic film showing. The admission to the Passaic strike |longer still. film showing will be free, but there will be a collection taken between acts which is expected to net quite a large sum. The Drive / For $50,000 to miner would get nothing for it. Tons Are Long. % These new big cars the company wants the men to swallow along with the turkey have aroused much pro- test. Piling heavy lumps over the high |fourth board is exhausting. Also the men complain that some time ago, when the cars were raised from the two to three boards, that they seemed to get paid no more than before, de- spite the increased weight. A Hudson Coal Co. “ton” is officially 2,800 pounds at Olyphant tipple. But, actually, the men complain, the ton is They demand that ex- Gitlow, and this made imperative that the left wing also combine and carry out the only policy under which these unions could advance the interests of the workers—the policy of amalgama- tion. Amalgamation is the big issue before the needle trades, and only by united effort and a militant fight by the left wing can this be accomplished, as altho the unions are officially on record for it, the right wing is ob- structing it, The meeting instructed the various industrial groups to take new lines of activity looking to building up the pro- gressive movement and strengthening perts examine the scale, but so far | jeft wing organization. Detroit, Dec. 8, Majestic Theater, and Wills. Sunday, Dec. 5, at 8 p. m., at 108\B, 14th street, N, Y., under the auspices of Section 3, Y. W. L. AH comrades and sympathizers are invited to at- tend. Gary, Dec. 18, Chicago, II, Dec. 16, Mirror Hall, Western Ave. and Division St. Kenosha, Dec. 15. Milwaukee, Dec. 19, Freie Gemeinde- Hail, Eight and Walnut Sts. St. Paul, Minn., Deo, 20. Minneapolis, Dec. 21 Superior, Wis., Dec. 22. Duluth, Minn., Dec, 23. To better.understand the present situation in the read the earlier and now historical differences ex- | Russian Communist Party, | plained in Greek Fraction to Entertain. the company has blocked this demand. And thig is one of thg irritating griev- ances that may lead to a strike. Editor Paints Lily | in Opalescent Tint —- / BOSTON—Asking his hearers to contemplate the “lavish generosity of America,” in getting nothing out of the war (except of éourse, the world’s gold supply and the leading position in world-capitalism), and branding 11:00—-Alamo Entertaing rm ‘ Under the auspices of the Chicago Greek fraction of the Workers Party there will be given at Hull House, Bowen Hall, on the evening of Dec, 11, a dance and entertainment. It will be for the joint benefit of the Greek labor weekly, Empros, and The DAILY WORKER, A good time is assured and it is urged that the friends of both these papers respond to the invitation to attend, LENINISM vs. TROTSKYISM zh G. E. Zinoviev 1, Stalin L, Kamenev The Daily Worker Pub. Co, ~ 1113 W, Washington Bivd., CHICAGO, ILL. i our former allies as “odious detrac- EE THE D. Wi / tors,” George W. Oakes, editor of Cur- Lenin Memorial at Detroit. AILY ORKER rent History Magazine, addressed a The Workers Party in Detroit has f: e meeting here on the subject of Eu- arranged a huge Lenin memorial ‘ rope’s debts to this country. He pro- meeting for Sunday afternoon, Jan. 23, DONATIONS—NOVEMBER 23. ‘ {i3| tested eapectally againet forelen am-|it"tne armory. All organizations are dake. ah rich, Chie 2.00 DOTS, OR: ART ONN RT rer eer requested to leave this date open and ot & Ghlnses 2.00 help make this memorial meeting a P zioh, Chicago 5.00 Pioneers See Movie, success, |. LeBosky, Chicago 3. 5.00' Pioneers who want to come and see 8. Dutka, Chicago 1:25} 1.00 J. Elman, Chicago 2.00| r (len ‘ iw ms nape me ray ply ew D. Gault 25 “so \Friday at 7:00 p. m. at the uglas | i ‘50 y D. 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