The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 7, 1926, Page 5

LS CHIGAGO GEAR SHOP IS DEN a EXPLOITATION Long Hours, Speed-up, Bring Accidents By N. SCHAFFNOR. (Worker Correspondent) The Wm. Ganschow & Co, GearNand Motor company forces its workers to work nine and three-quarter hours a day of 54 hours a week. The wages are the lowest possible, They start you off at 45 cents an hour, with a promise of a raise in a fewt weeks— | which you don’t get. If a worker asks for the proniised raise more than three times he “gets the gate.” Ri Sanitary conditions in the factory are the worst, Speeds Them Up. The company speeds the workers to the utmost. The foreman comes uround to the worker every hour to see how much work he is producing. if the worker is not a “good slave,” as the foreman thinks he should be, he gets bawled out, and many times is discharged. Many Accidents, This speed-up system causes many accidents, resulting in serioys injury to the workers. There is no worker im that shop that is not decorated with blood or white bandages on his palms, or fingers, every day a different finger. Many times the workers cannot find materials to prevent blood poisoning. Poor Medical Care. Recently a worker had an accident «the machine caught his :palm and cut the meat out of it to’ the bone. ‘The worker didn’t have a doctor’s at- tention and was compelled to go to work with’ a‘sore hand. As the ban- dage wasn’t properly fixed, he asked the foreman for better attention. He was told that that “was good enough.” But the worker had nerve enough to answer back, and told the foreman that he was hurt in the shop, and in no other place. He was then given what he wanted. Recently seven workers were deco- rated with bandages on their hands.- They had to take a two-week “vaca- tion” without pay. The company doeg not pay for accidents, it says, High Los Angeles + Officials On Trial for Graft Charges By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5.—All the supervisors, five in number, and three other high county officials have gone on trial, facing 13 felony charges. At the last election Supervisors R. F, Me-_ Clellan and Henry W. Wright were candidates for governor and congress- man, respectively, “When a poor man steals a loaf of bread he goes to jail, but when a rich man steals a railroad he goes to con- gress.” The first part of this saying always holds good, The second part, however, did not work out just right this time. It was one of these excep- tions proving the rule. The main charge against these of- ficials is that they used public funds to build” beautiful homes for them- selves. On the other hand, hundreds of workers are walking the streets at night in this Mayor Cryer’s. city of “abundance” becatise they are out of work, have no money and no place to eat and sleep. Detroit Workers Are Enthusiastic Over Passaic Strike Film By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Dec, 5.—Fifteen hundred workers saw the Passaic strike picture here at Majestic Theater, Dec. 1. The enthusiasm was tremendous when the picture started. Many work- ers almost jumped out of their seats when the part showing the reading of the riot act was thrown on the screen. After five reels were shown a col- lection was taken up, to which the workers of Detroit seemed glad to contribute, altho must of them have already contributed before, Leather Workers Help Paper Box Workers Win By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec, 5, —- The Leather Workers’, Union hag donated $300 to the paper box makers’ strike ‘fund, The union also calls on all unionists to demand that scab articles should’ not be used in union shops. They urge class-conscious workers to demand x. of their unions, DECEMBER ISSUE JU | PRIZES FOR stories this week. They Include: splendid addition for your library. Weite that story, workers! ( 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY Three very fine books are offered as prizes for worker correspondence 1—Gelected Eésays by Karl Marx. A new book, and an unueual one of unpublished work of the great leader, 2-——-Red Cartoons. A collection of the work of 17 proletarian artists. ( 3—Education in Soviet Russia, by Scott Nearing. A new book and a | w THE DAILY= WORKER } ; ae c . MRS. CATT PROMISES MILITARISTS THAT HER CONVENTION WILL NEVER . SABOTAGE WARLIKE | APPROPRIATIONS: JANUARY rr) 1927 THIS WEEK. By a Worker Correspondent. | ENDICOTT, N. Y., Dec. 5, — An article has been posted on the bulletin board at the Endicott Johnson Shoe factory. telling the workers how they can-become rich by saving money! by loaning their money to the company at.6 per cent interest. Thus, his letters pretending to be a friend |of the workers, is trying to get back ‘the Httle money that the workers re- ceive from the hard work they have to do, How Can They Do It? The workers want to know how they can save any money out of the wages jhere, The writer had an average pay | of $18 a week all this year. And here nearly every married man has to have his wife go to work in the shop to help support the family. Uses Bonus System. The bonus system is used in the Endicott Johnson to speed up the workers and to keep them from quit- ing their jobs. The workers are work- ing their best now because the bonus time is near, All are speeded up now so that they can’t go any faster, You have to put out good work and plenty of it to make $4 or $5 a day, The bosses are always behind your back, WORKER CORRESPONDENCE GLASS IN NEW YORK IS MAKING GREAT PROGRESS By a Worker Correspondent, NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Much prog- ress is being made by the class in worker correspondence at the Work- ers School here. Extensive practi- cal work In news reporting is being given the students, who are sent out to cover and write up actual hap- penings. e The class is enthusiastic about the work and is learning fast the prin- ciples of workers’ journalism, There are more than 20 students enrolled in the class now. Stories written by the students are already being pub- lished in the party press. It is the goal of the class to develop a group of liye-wire news writers in New York for the workers’ press. Paper Box Bosses Try to Use Race Hatred in Fight on Workers By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec, 5.—The bosses in thé paper box makers’ strike are using every means to keep alive the ancient hatred between colored and. white workers, boys and girls which they gather in EXPLOITED WORKERS OF ENDICOTT, JOHNSON SHOE FACTORY TOLD TO SAVE MONEY BY BOSS; WHAT MONEY? “Friend” | George F. Johnson, as he signs all of | of from $15 to $20 a week they make’ f | watching you and bawling you out, if you don’t “step on it.” What The Bonus Is. Every worker that works for the |E-J for two or more years is entitled ‘to the bonus providing he doesn’t quit his job before the last of the year, and if he or she puts in less than 24 hours a week, the workers lose a | week’s bonus. Last year each work- lers received $87 for 52 weeks, which does not amount to much when you figure the time you have to put in. They have no regular hours of work in the factories, Some workers work from 6 o’clock in the morning to 6 o’clock at night, especially girls who make the upper part of the shoe. ® Piece Work, When they hire an employe they start him on piece work. Some of the | new workers don’t even make a dollar a day. (And how some of the suckers praise the company!) The bosses tell you that if you spéed up you can make good money, Some of the older work- ers in the shop don’t even stop for lunch, but stick to their machine so ‘hey can make enough to live on, The workers should not pay any attention to the articles put out by the boss, They are urged to subscribe for The ‘DAILY WORKER, the one paper that speaks for the working class. Rank and File Must Wake Up to Threat of Company Unions By a Worker Correspondent. Editor, The DAILY WORKER:— The Central Labor Union of Boston announces that the American Federa- tion of Labor will carry on a nation- wide campaign to investigate com- pany unions and see what they are doing for the workers in regard to wages, hours,..and betterment. It seems that the officials of the C. L. U. are discovering America, The C. L. U, officials of Boston are always deciding to do something and then never attempt to carry out their decisions. We might remind you, gen- tlemen, of the “Organize the Unorgan- ized” campaign. What have you done for the unorganized? The only results so faryis a demonstration and some printed blanks—and that was the end of it. The campaign was dead and yet your communications went out to the local unions in an appeal for funds. Why did you need funds, when your committee was no longer meeting? The workers of Greater Boston dre asking you what became of that cam- paign. Where did Mr, Vanwetrnick disappear to during the campaign? Now the C. L. U, is undertaking the investigation of company unions. Well, let's see whether you mean business, Class-qpnseious workers know very Every cab load of colored well what company unions are doing to the workers. Let’s look at the Gen- Harlem is told that the bosses would |! Blectric Co., the textile industry have hired colored workers long ago, only the white workers objected. They tell these young people that the white workers have refused to work with therh heretofore, in New England, and the shoe in- dustry, Let’s see what the company unions are doing, How Company Unions Work. First, the bosses in those industries In reply to this wail of the bosses, |are keeping the workers unorganized one of the strike leaders says that |by means of clubs, sports, and collect- some time ago the white workers forced the hiring of colored girls, and ive games. They teach them class col- laboration. Even in the so-called or- that these girls went into the union. | ganized shoe industry, the bosses have Some of these colored girls are now |a new scheme, called the Golden Rule, strike leaders in the present trouble. |Every worker who wants a job must Many strikebreakers are using raz-| become a part of the concern and buy ors in arguments with strikers. Some |shares, and at the same time sign a girls have been hurt and several have | Yellow Dog contract, which leaves the come. into headquarters. with their | workers with no right to organize or clothing slashed, ns to strike, The youth especially suffer in the Prolet-Tribune Will Be Qut Dec. 18./above mentioned industries, All their The next number of Prolet-Tribune, |/eisure time is being absorbed by the the Russian living newspaper pub-|Company union schemes. lished by the worker correspondents of Novy Mir, will be out Saturday, Dec. 18, Only the left wing, with the help of the rank and file, can force the ©, L. 8 p. m,, at the Workers’|U. to start an immedinte campaign House, 1902 W. Division St. A picture|#s@inst company unions and have of the audience will be taken at the|"@nk and file committees elected by requ of the worker correspondents | °Very local union. ‘We know that in of the Soviet Union. The picture will| early every trade the poison germ of be sent to Soviet Russig. ST OFF THE PRESS! GHEDICAN WORKER. CORRESPONDENT Magazine By and For Workens si the Frctories, the. Mines, the Mills and on the Land Price Scents Subscribe! Only 50 Cents Per sear! Receme a Worker Correspondent! AMERICAN WORKE/, (11/0 4. ONDENT, 18 W. iW. mNaTel BLVO, company unions is developing, and we must stop it before it is too late. Otherwise we shall have company un- jong instead of trade unions. It remains for loft wingers and mill- tants to take up this question in their local uniong and make this campaign a success and not such a failure as the officially conducted one of “Organ- ize the Unorganized.” © 8, Winn, Boston, Mass. FORD THROWS WORN WORKERS INTO THE STREET Those Who C: Can’t Speed | Must Go, He Says By A Ford Worker, DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 5.— Charles Lorenson, Ford’s right hand man, in an interview recently for a capital- istic paper, declared that in order to be successful in rynning all plants on a 5-day basis with a raise in wages, the management Must get rid of “drones,” that 18 those who are loaf- ing on the job. No doubt the capital- ist press believes every word of this, but we workers know better. Get Rid of Worn-out.~ We can see every day who is be- ing laid off. Those workers who have been sweating om production lines for several years, prematurely physically worn out, ready: for the industrial scrap heap must be gotten rid of, Ford says. It is said that @ few years ago the management could-put disabled work- ers on some lighter jobs. But those days are over: Now, even workers who were crippled in the process of the speed-up system are also thrown out on the street. Now, these work- ers, whose Sweat and blood made mil- lions for Ford are useless to this in- dustrial moloch. So they must suffer from cold and hunger. “And the work- ers who are fortunate enough to re- main on jobs are speeded up taster than ever. How They Speed. For example: ‘In the motor assem- bly building, Jast year there were from 7 to 8 lines in operation, with a production of from.60 to 65 motors. Now there are only 4 lines, and these produce from 75-to 80 motors per hour. So, nOty.many workers have benefitted from the loudly heralded raise in wages. . There is also much discontent among the workers, but that is only the beginning. Production has been curtailed to su extent that only 2 or 3 days are being worked weekly. L. A. Unionists Tax Selves Hour Pay for British h’ Coal Miners By RAPO (Worker. reepondent) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5. — As a re- sult of an hour's.” -Work tax on every Los Angeles tr: unionist, decided upon by the trade union conference and approved by, the Central Labor Council, the first’ $952 has been for- warded to the AF of L, for the Brit- ish miners, More money is still coming as many unions are still collecting the hours pay from their members, Altho the hour's work for Btitish miners was a voluntary tax, marly unions responded wonderfully, and those who have be- fore thru their internationals, gave again, The example of labor solidarity is even more significant with the fact that in the late “American miners’ strike the C. L. C. could not raise more than $500 for our own striking miners. Buffalo Workers Are Inspired by Weisbord in Talk on Passaic By ISADORA GREENBERG (Worker Correspondent) BUFFALA, N. Y., Dec, 5 — Albert Weisbord, renowned Communist lead- er of the Passaic, textile strike, spoke to a large audience in the Elmwood Music Hall on “The Lessons of the Passaic Strike.” The meeting was ar: ranged by local Buffalo of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, The many experiences which the working class. went thru during this struggle were forcefally put before the audience, and the lessons of the strike hammered home thtil even a reaction- ary union leader would have been able to understand them, if such a type had been present. — As a result of this meeting, financial aid for the party: Was raised, and an application for fiembership in the Workers (Communist) Party, and one for the Young Workers (Communist) League was recelyed. DODGE WORKERS WORK ONLY HALF TIME SINCE BANKERS BOUGHT PLANT By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Dec. 5—In the Dodge Motor Works here the workers are employed only three or four days a week and are making. about $500 less a year than they did before Dillon and Reed, the Wall Street ‘bankers, took the company over, Rumors are now going ut that there will be only about 9 days work in December. , « oe The American, _ Worker Correspond- ent is the worker correspondent’s own magazine, | WASHINGTON, Dec, 5.—Mrs, Car- tie Chapman Catt, once prominent ‘n the woman suffrage movement, assures | an alarmed army and navy that she | jand her friends, while they will hang |thefr clothes on a hickory limb, will positively not approach the aqueous fluid. The occasion {s the assembling in | | nie city of the second meeting of the Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, Alarmists in army and navy cir- |cles, to whom even the mildest liberal lis a red and anyone who does not {rattle a sabre ig a dangerous pacifist, |cook fright at this invasion of the capital just when congress is assem- bing to be bombarded with pleas for greater appropriations for military, naval and aeronautic strvices. Every department of the service has proved to its “own satisfaction that it is the weakest point in the national defense and therefore entitled to the biggest slice of the melon. Was a bunch of women and long-haired men to upset their strategy? Now Mrs. Catt rushes so ardently to the defense of the organization of which she is chairman‘that she upsets the bean pot. She gives assurance that by no manner of means will she throw @ monkey-wrench ifto the ma- chine, “There is no one in the coming con- ference,” she exclaims, “who is any redder or any pinker than Mr. Coo- tidge.” The conference’s attitude, she adds, is practically the same which the president has expressed in public Page Five ldresses, “Why this weasel-minded | nt?” she asks tartly. ” ince we now know that the confer- ence igs no more pacifiistic than the} commander-in-chief of the army and } uavy, we shall expect no clash be- | tween it and the department of jus- | jtice, It Je strictly kosher, State Senator bin Predicts Passage of His Franchise Law | SPRINGFIELD, general assembly of the state will pass legislation authorizing termin- able franchises sis: the prediction of State Senator Richard J, Barr, who} has been, holding hearings on the} question in various cities of the state. | A bill of this nature, sponsored by | Barr, was defeated in the last legis- | -That the next | lature, | On thé success of this legislation depends one of the several possible solutions of Chicago’s traction muddle. Another angle of the question is the extension of ell icity to the farms of the state, which, it is claimed, is now hampered because the control of franchises is in the hands of the cities where the power plants are lo- cated.’ “One expert on the subject estimates that it will require an In- vestment of over 125 millions to elec- | trify the farms of Illinois, which are now far behind those of Wisconsin in the supply of current. BRANDS COMPANY UNION BIGGEST FAKE IN NATION Untermyer Lauds Fight of ‘Porters (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 5. — “The two biggest fakes in America are the open shop and the company union,” said Samuel Untermyer, millionaire attor- ney, at the annual banquet of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Yorkville Casino. Untermyer ap- plauded the fine fight the union is waging on these two fakes in the Pullman system. \ Brought Enthusiasm. ‘The dinner was an enthusiastic af- fair, with several hundred colored porters and.white friends around the board. They came to celebrate the union’s success in organizing more than half of the 12,000 Pullman por- ters and maids in the first year. The union is now demanding the right to officially represent the Pullman work- COUNCIL IN L.A, REFUSES TO AID PASSAIC RELIEF Won ept Picture or Give’ Credentials (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, — Centra! Labor Council denied Mother Bloor, Passaic strikers’ relief worker, dentials to appear before unions in be- half of the strikers. Secretary Buzzel said he objects to giving credentials or to accepting {by force and violence of the }means of existence. W cre-|7 THREE WORKERS OF FALL RIVER ARE DEPORTED | Editors of Portuguese Paper Expelled (Special to The Datiy Worker) FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 5. Portuguese workers their anarchist journal “A finally been deported by government despil a vigorou: carried on for the m by the here }national Lebor Defense The three men, I nio Da Cos and Anto Per sira, all textile workers, were rested seven months ag¢ ed-up “anti-sedition” of their activities to } textile workers aga ditions prevailing i the charge advocating ment of the Commonwea ed a charge of bootl were held under a each i. L. D. Defends, Boston Office of |. L. D. took up their defense r arrested on a feder rant. Attorney Hoffr D. proceeded to Washing the secretary of labor; the cas e acted upon by the board of which refused to change 2 In the federal dis dence, the defense of habeas corpus were Judge Brown Th ported to Portugal! a Leave Famili€s. Two of the deportee to leave their tamil desperate circumsta ict ¢ were obl behin had neither wife nor child, ¢ the other two men had to in the United States so owners of Fall River modated by the departme at Washington. All ‘efforts were made by the Bos ton, district office of I. L. D. to secu a favorable outcome in the case. As a result of the moyemen veloped a Portuguese b L. D. was formed in 1 River the greatest part of t ony ther was aroused in behalf of the defen- ants. which de h of th “movie propositions.” “Mother Bloor and her kind are Comntiunists,” he said, “and if we should permit her to appear before unions she would in- ject her propaganda. President Johnstone ruled an amendment motion to give “her ere- dentials with the understanding all money was to go to the A. F, of L. out of order. Delegates from the cigarmakers and painters pointed out that the A. F. of L. has supported Communist ers amd is answering the rival claims of the Employe Representation Plan or company union. Power is Only Method. A. Philip Randolph, organizer for the Brotherhood, was cheered as he sounded the note of power. The only recognition the porters’ union or any other labor organization would get, he said, would be thru its collective power. Union is Lauded. Speeches by editors and race lead- ers showed hew strong the tide of popularity of the Brotherhood is now running. Robert L. Vann, owner and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, sec- ond largest Negro paper in America, told of the buying up many of the Negro papers by the Pullman com- pany, early in the union’s career. He advised the porters to take the labor press as their authority in place of the papers whose principles are for sale. Financier of Boston Talks on Imperialism BOSTON, Nov, 26.—A high light on American imperialism is thrown by A. M. Pope, executive vice-president of the First National corporation of this city, who has just returned from a three ménths’ tour of South America. He comes back with visions of more American-made goods following a flood of American capital into the republics to the south. He sees South America as a field rich in raw mate- rials which the older countries need, with natural resources “barely scratched,” and ‘with “very general consistent improvements in political conditions,” South America, he says, lost her banker ‘when Europe went bankrupt after the war, and there now “remains little doubt but that American capital will hold dominion over the rest of the world in extending aid” to these countries. He sees hore good roads in the southern republics calling for Amer- lean road-making machinery, to be followed with more American automo- biles, and, of course, more gasdline, And, as Nicaragua can testify, the American government is not adverse to doing its bit to bring about the “general consistent improvement of political conditions,” which is a con- dition precedent to the embarking of American capital in greater volume to points south, “The pen le mightier than the sword," provided you know iow to use leadership in the Passaic strike and if: the counci! denied credentials to Mother Bloor, they would be acting contrary to the A. F. of L. However, the recommendation of the executive committee to refuse cre- dentials and turn down the showing of the Passaic movie, was adopted. Revenue Agent Would Have Army Scab on Boston Hotel Work — A high light on in United States signal corps men to install telephones in the new Stat-| ler Hotel has been made by C. J. McLeod, federal officer in charge of revenue agents, whose office on the sixth floor of the building is still without phone service because of the electrical workers’ union dispute over the work. Union men doubt Mc- Leod’s authority to secure signal corps men for the job. Massachusetts public utilities de- partment has been hearing both sides of the dispute and is expected to give a decision soon. BOSTON, Dec. Workers Are Sharing Prosperity, Same as Capitalists, He Says Arguing that comparative show that the United are recéiving the st wa, the world, Magnus W lexander, presi dent of the national! in jal confer. ence board, told the Il turers’ Cost Association th perity in the United States shared by the working men and women as truly as by capitalists and business leaders.” “The problem of wages and prod tion is one of the most serious rea ties of our normal life,” he said, and warned against even a slig rerease in wages for fear it would ‘disturb our economic bé@lance.” Cannon to ‘Speak at Jewish I. L. D. Branch, Dec. 14, All Invited James P. Cannc of the Internation: will speak at the No ish I. L. D. branch on and the Class Struggle” evening, Dec. 14 meeting will be held « hall, corner of Rock Hirse Blvd. All are invited no admission versnbakt d Bishop Brown at Cleveland | Bazaar. The electrical workers’ union de- mands that its members get the tele- phone wiring jobs in the. building. The Hotel Statler Co. upholds the un- ion’s stand. But the New Englantl Telephone Co. claims its own com- pany-unionized men should do the work. The hotel company charges the phone.company with bad faith in the matter. Hits Lack of Safety Enforcement in'N. Y. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec, 5.—That less than a dozen inspectors are em- ployed by the state of New York to inspect the thousands of building con- struction operations going on was de- nounced as “shameful” by President John Sullivan of the New York State Federation of Labor at the Rochester hearings of the New York industrial survey commission. _ Weakness of en- forcement of safety laws is responsible for numerous accidents, said Sullivan. Win 5-Week Strike NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — (FP)— Dartmouth Mill workers have ended their five weeks, strike, claiming vic- tory on most of their demands,. The 1500 workers are returning with the complaints of weavers on the fining or grading system adjusted. William Morgan Butler, lame-duck senator 't, Come down and learn how In the mill owner of the olty. from Massachusetts, is the dominant types Cleveland's biggest effort: in work ing for the $$0,000 drive of ‘ se aldateld national La n. will be the bazaar, cone oa bea to be held at Gardini I 6021 St. Clair nue, on Dec, #19. The the success of this photke ery day. The latest announcement is that Comrade Bishop Willia M. Brown, framed “heretic” and mem- ber of the National Committee of the I. L. D. will speak on the second day of the bazaar, Sunday, at 7:30 p. m WILL BE OUT IN JANUARY IN PHILADELPHIA There are only two places to eat— HOME AND AT Hartung’s Restaurant 610 Spring Garden St. Home Open from 6, a. m. Cooking. to 7 p.m. GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2308-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. me L. D. ———