The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 21, 1926, Page 5

News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics EVICT STRIKERS FROM HOUSES TO FORCE YIELDING ‘Bridgewater Foundry! Workers Firm (Special to The Daily Worker) RAST BRIDGHDWATER, Mass., Dec. | 19.—Families of members of the Iron Workers Union who were locked out by the Old Colony Foundry company when they refused to accept wage decreases of 50 per cent have been ordered evicted from their homes. This is the latest attempt, following attacks on the workers by company ; gangsters, and town police, to coerce the workers to accept the wage scale of the company. The Old Brown House, tenement ) owned by the company, houses a num- ber of families of the strikers. The |familes received notice by the com- ,Pany to vacate the premises by Dec. ;20, the same date the company has set for the closing of negotiations ‘with the union. Familics Threatened, Prior to the delivery of the eviction tnetices, families in the tenement re- ceived anonymous telephone calls ‘that their homes would be dynamited ‘if the unionists did not accede to the ‘demands of the company. The number of pickets around the foundry is being increased by the *\union, despite the court injunction procured against_ picketing by the | company. Still Guard Plant, Deputy sheriffs and state officers, jas well as local police, are &till guarding the company’s premises. No further trouble has occurred since the fight between scabs and unionists last week. ‘ ‘The company is operating with half force. Strikebreakers, were imported from Brockton. They are taken back to Brockton each night in a company bus, escorted by armed guards, as the scabs are afraid to remain in the city overnight, Sentence Unionist. Two of the strikers arrested after the fight were sentenced to two months in jail, charged with assault, and fined $50 each. Both entered ap- peals from the decision. They were William Harris, president of the union and Romanti Duranti, Albino Henrique was fined $45. The other 12 arrested were dismissed. Stim | { | BUILDING BOSS ASS'N OPPOSES | FIVE-DAY WEEK Also Resolves» Against Wage Increases PITTSBURGH, Dec. 19.—The five- day work week for building trades workers and wage increases are em- phatically opposed by the National’ Building Trades Employers’ Associa- tion, meeting in Pittsburgh. Resolu- tions against both were adopted by the 160 delegates from all parts of the coyntry. The five-day week resolution of the American | Federation of Labor is stated to be of profound economic sig- nificance to the building industry. The resolution against it cites various rea- sons: that the building industry is sea- sonal and needs to have work done every fine day; that the shorter work- week would increase costs, especially since overtime rates would commence more quickly; that the amount of available labor would be that much reduced; that the workers might be extravagant spenders in their in- creased idle time and want more pay. The meeting endorsed the proposi- tion of each locality establishing a permanent apprenticeship system for building trades work. The builders contend that there is a shortage of skilled workers and the immigration restrictions heighten this, so that some offset must be made, I. L. D. in Twin Cities Reorganized and Busy MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec, 19.— The International Lebor Dofense in the Twin Cities has been put on a solid foundation and a new start has been made following the recent visit of James P. Cannon, national secre- tary. In Minneapolis the reorganized branch has adopted the name of the “Eugene V, Debs Branch,” in honor of the late labor leader and member of the national committee of the I. L. D. A Finnish branch is already in ex- istence, and Lettish and Jewish branches are in process of formation. A city central, committee is being formed, with Harvey Watts as secre- tary in charge of the work. Comrade Watts is also secretary of the Eugene V. Debs Branch, Florence Hathaway has been elect- ed to head the organization in St. Paul, A “Mooney-Billings Branch” has been organized there, The reorganized locals in both cities are working now on the Christmas fund campaign and are putting forth strong efforts for successful meetings for Elizabeth Gurley Flynn upon her visit to the Twin Cities in January. 8-Year-Old Son of Paper Box Striker Delivers Stirring Speech to Workers NEW YORK, Doc, 19.—The follow- ing speech was made by thé 8-year-old sgn of Ben Gelbart, an active striking box maker. The intelligent manner in which he delivered it brought an ova; tion from his enthusiastic audience: “I welcome this opportunity in hav- ing a little heaft-to-heart talk with you. I feel that your struggle now for ‘etter conditions js also my. struggle, and your suffering is my suffering. “J feel that my whole future is at stake now. Should you surrender now, after ten: weeks of brave and militant fighting, all my dreams and hopes of becoming a man useful to society will ‘be at an end. All I may expect in the future is a4 cellar around Wooster, Greene or Mercer streets twenty foet deep. That applies to each and every ‘fatho* in this hall, 6 Boston Electricians Strike Against Scab Telephone Co.’s Work BOSTON, Dec. 19.—Boston electri- cal workers local 103, has won for the time in its fight with the New Bngland Telephone & Telegraph Co. for the right to install phone wires fn new buildings. Company unioniz- ed telephone workers are the losers, unless the phone company appeals to the courts against the decision of the Massachusetts public utilities com- mission. In the Hotel Statler, Inc’s. appeal to the ‘commission to compel phone service, it was’ ruled that the phone company’s policy must be ac- ceptance of properly installed and suitable wires deeded to it when Phone connection is asked and that service must be given. Building trades workers of Boston supported the electricians by threat- ening a general walkout from the new Hotel Statler job. The — eloétrical workers had a contract with the build- er to put in phone conduits and pull the wires thru along with the rest of the electric wiring of the build- ing. The phone company refused service to the hotel, which began renting its office floors before the residential floors were finished. SEND INA B TODAY, © “It you give up that glowing fight- ing spirit which you so gallantly dem- onstrated for the whole labor move- ment, so as to win their sympathy and also their support, if you give up now when victory is in sight, you will be condemned for the rest of your life; not only from the working. class, but from your own children as well, ‘I therefore appeal to you in the name of those honored men and women who are 80 costly sacrificing theler lives on the altar of freedom for this union. Also in the name of the little innocent children who are de pending upon you for support and their future happiness, “Make this fight a sacred one for Uberty and victory tor the Paper Box Makers’ Uniow” ‘ 74) —By Wm. Gropper. Lacking support among the workers, the right wing in the New York needle trades unions fall back on the darkest forces of capitalism. ANTI-FOREIGNER BILLS LOOM FOR PRESENT SESSION Legislative Slate Is Now Cleared for Action (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. —(FP)— Rapid progress made by the house of representatives in the considera- tion of appropriation bills may pave the way for the taking up of one of the numerous anti-immigration meas- ures now pending. Circularizing Congress. Organizations for the protection of foreign-born’ workers are circulariz- ing members of congress with a plea to defeat the proposals. The Aswell bill, which is regarded as the most reactionary of the plans that have been submitted to congress to establish an espionage system over ‘}with the latest machinery,” he said. all who are not citizens, is singled out for special attack. Another dan- gerous bill is the Holladay bill. Coolidge Sympath®tic. Members /of the house committee on immigration have not indicated whether they will press any of these bills for consideration at this session It is thot that the legislative prograr will. depend on how soon the hous: disposes of routine business, of whic! the appropriation bills are the mos important. If any time remains, th road will be clear for the taking vu of these measures. The sympatheti attitude of the administration 1 likely to aid in their enactment. Liberalize Quota. A slight step in the direction of more liberal and humane policy in ir migration was taken by the senai when ff voted to open the immigra tion gates to 35,000 wives and mino: children of aliens admitted prior to July 1, 1924, who have applied foi naturalization. The plan has the sup: Port of Secretary Davis, and will probably pass the house. Expect Settlement in Jewelry Workers’ Strike in January By FRED HARRIS. (Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Dec. 19. — The strike of the Jewelry Workers’ Union of New York is now in its fourth week, and is not expected to terminate until the latter part of January, when the sea- sonal work starts again. _ Anthony Capraro, manager of Local Union No, 17, stated that he expects to reach an agreement with the Jew- elry Novelty Manufacturers’ Associa- tion before the end of January, Demand Closed Shop. The demands of the union are for strict closed shop conditions, a 44- hour week, payment of time and a half for overtime, abolishment of home work, a 10 per cent increase in wages and the principle of collective bargaining and arbitration of indus- trial disputes, A worker who has been employed for a period of two weeks shall not be discharged with- out consultation with the union, Tolls of Soviet Progress. TULSA, Okla.--N, G, Conley, Tul- sa construction engineer, who built the first castinghead absorption gaso- line plant in Russia for the Soviet government, returned after a two year's stay in Russia, and is acquaint- ing Tulsangs ‘with made by the Soviet Union, progressing, rapidly and contentedly under its new form of government,” ‘Conley tld reporters for the capi \talist newspapers. In the industrial field, and espectally in the ofl indus- try, Russia ts modernizing production 5 | [COURTS ENJOIN N Four Unions Ordered to | % THE DAILY WORKER tivities Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor-and Lmperialism WORKERS FROM JOINING UNION Stop Taking Members (Special to The Daily Worker) ~ NEW YORK, Dec, 19.—Four injunc- tions against Workers and unions have been handed‘out by courts in New York City and Newark, N, J. i Leaders of ‘the July unsuccessful MO AT, |The Manager’s Corner __ OF NURSES HERE Doctors’ Society Sets Up | Scab Registry The Chicago Medical Society has launched a drive to slash the wages | of the graduate nurses of the city and | have set up what amounts to a “scab” | nurses’ registry to force the nurses | to submit to what the doctors say are fair working conditions and wages. This is revealed by the meeting of the | society this week, when the organiza- | tion’s council decreed that “it was the | duty of the medical profession to in-| terfere in behalf of the sick against | prices charged by the nurses.” Want Them to Work 24 Hours. That the nurses should be on duty 24 hours a day and that they be forced to care for more than one patient at a time is demanded by the doctors. The nurses now receive $7 a day, and the majority work 12 hours a day. subway workers’ strike are enjoined from organizing their former fellow- workers in the’ Amalgamated Associa- tion of Stréét! and Hlectric Railway Employes’ Union, with which ‘they have affiliated. -Fur workers are en- joined from “organizing employes of A, Jaeckel, one of the big fur firms retailing as: well as wholesaling, and H. Jaeckel &|§ons. Bonnaz embroid- erers of Local 66, International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union, are enjoined from attempting to unionize the Real Embroidery Co. Newark cloakmakers of Local 21, International zadies’ Garment Workers, are en- vined from appealing to employes of Louls Sandler, non-union contractor, who has been doing work for struck New York firms. Violates Union Rights, Only on appeal to @ second judge did the Interborough Subway Co. se- cure its injunction against the strike leaders. Edward Lavin, one of the men enjoined, asserts that the court order is in) flagrant violation’of the rights of men to organize and bargain collectively, as. established by 100 years of experience in the labor move- ment, Work to Go On. “Injunctions will not provide the workers with better standards of liv- ing, ner will they prevent them from organizing toy ecure better standards thru their union,” Lavin declared. “The tractiongstrust organizes as it sees fit to st ze profits out of the workers andthe public, and no injune- tion is issu@d"jagainst them.” The union's orgaiiization work “has been going on and ‘will continue,” Lavin emphasized, with Harry Bark, also named in the injunction. Sues Leaders, Counsel Nathan P. Perlman may ap- peal the injunction in behalf of the subway workers. The damage suit brought by the Interborough for $230,- )00 against the strike leaders is still 1 the courts,. The company hopes to oilect on the precedent of the Dan- iry hatters’ case. ‘olish Speaker. for I. L. D. Silenced by Passaic Authorities PASSAIC, N. J., Dec. 19.— y Frank Magzur,:a Polish ex-priest, n the political prisoners of Poland, rhich the Polish branch of the Inter- rational Labor Defense had planned hold in Monchauka Hall, was orokén up by the Passaic police’ just a few minutes before time for the meeting to start. Several hundred persons who had gathered to attend the meeting were turned away pro- testing vigorously, The police said that the meeting could not be held because two Polish priests had appeared at police head- quarters and charged that Mr. Mazur was going to-attack the church and government. The name of the com- plainants were not to be given, but | union officials°say they have w good | idea who the two priests are. A deposit had been accepted by the hall owner and no intimation that the meeting would be prohibited was given until a few minutes before time for the lecturesto start. The commit- tee attempted to hire two other halls, but the-police refused to allow the crowd of Aye or six hundred who followed the committee thru the streets to entér either of them, Mr, Mazur spoke a few words in ‘the street in fromt of Workers Hall, 27 Dayton avenue, before he was stopped by the police. «: The ex-prieat, who was to give his lecture in P@lish, is on tour for the national offigg, of the International Labor Defense. Rota Gives Divorce to Child, Former Diplomat ROME, Dec. 19.—-Roman society is gossiping over a report that the Rota tribunal has annulled the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Washburn Child, /Child, well known as a writer was formerly United States ambassa- dor to Italy. The Childs were granted a divorce in Paris last October, The Rota tribunal was loath to make statements upon its action upon annu)- ment, followlfig the publicity which resulted fromthe announcement of the annulmem of the marriage of the Duke of yorough and Consuelo A lecture 0 The medics seized upon an extreme case, where a patient demanded two graduate nurses to be in attendance at all times for 24 hours, which, in- cluding board, brought the total cost to $119 weekly. The doctors point to this case as showing that the “poorer” persons cannot afford such expenditures for nursing. But the doctors admitted that such special nursing was in most cases unneces- sary in Chicago hospitals. Have Own Registry. The nurses now have a registry of their own, which serves as an employ- ment exchange. But the doctors have set up another registry in compett- tion with the nurses, which will rec- ognize only graduate nurses from “recognized schools” and those who will abide by the wages and working conditions approved by the medical so- ciety, The conditions that the doctors ap- prove include that the nurses should work 24 hours a day with the same pay (sleeping when they get a chance), accept half-time jobs at half pay, and accept group assignments. Group assignments are those in which the nurse will accept more than one | patient at a time and work for the pay of one patient, The Chicago nurses are expected to fight this attempt of the doctors to control their wages and working con- ditions, especially the competition of the doctors’ registry. TRY TO DEFEAT MATERNITY ACT BY CRYING ‘RED’ (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Attempts of the Woman Patriot, formerly the official organ of the Association Op- posed to Women’s Suffrage, now spokesman against the maternity act before congress, to discredit the act by branding it “communistic and so- cialistic’ are exposed in a letter writ- ten by Grace Abbott, chief of the children’s bureau of the department of‘labor. The letter, written to Sen. Sheppard was introduced on the floor of the senate and ordered published in the Congressional Record. a Mention Kollantai. It is interesting that the name of Mme. Kollantai, Soviet envoy to Mexico, recently barred from the U. S. by Sec. Kellogg, was brought into the controversy between the maga- zine and Mrs. Abbott. The children’s bureau recently published a bulletin in which it stated: “The most com- prehensive study on maternity bene- fits and insurance which has yet ap- peared in any language is the volume by Mme. A. Kollantal.”. The Woman Patriot seized upon this statement as showing that the children’s bureau was “communistic and supported the Bolshevik government.” The maga- zine calls Kollanta! the “worst com- munist in the Soviet Union—too radi- cal even for Lenin and Trotzky.” Wanted, Attack on Prussia. Mrs, Abbott then points out tha the magazine launched an attack or the bureau for not denouncing th« “Bolshevik corruption and national ization of children — the greates: crime against childhood and mother hood in history.” Mrs. Abbott an- swers this ridiculous statement by saying,” A reply to this is unneces- sary. The children’s bureau was not established to expose political corrup- tion in other countries,” “The Woman Patriot brands every- thing that it opposes communistic or socialistic, using these terms inter- changeably,” states the bureau director. RED CARTOONS with over seventy cartoons and drawings by seventeen proletarian artists. Size 9x12 attractively bound, $1.00 4 4, The Col or Cure. Dr. Ponza of Piedmont reports some interesting results with the use of color in treating pati ents at his hospital. “He placed @ patient afflicted with morbid taciturnity in a red chamber. After a period of three hours, the patient became gay and affable. . Another patient who had refused all food wntil he had reached the danger point asked for breakfast after twenty-four hours in the red r6om.” From a London physician w tage with red walls, red carpet a e get the following: “Into a cot- and red incandescent lamps with red shields, he placed a number of despondent melancholy women. A growing spirit of cheerfulne. overcame the great depression,” Why not try the red color ex ers and friends? There is noth ss and contentment gradually ure om some of your fellow work- ing like a stirring issue of The DAILY WORKER, the red labor daily, to jog into activity, life and spirit the fellow who is ind ifferent. There is nothing like @ good red pamphlet of the deepest hue, to stimulate the thought and the temperament of your fellow worker. It is this stimulation that th aroused intelligence amd activity It is for this reason that they en black publications, those which stimulative in character. Boost capitalist class fears. It is the of the workers which they dread. courage the workers to read the are clearly depressing and non- the red press among your fellow workers. Get them to shun the black prese, the press of reaction, the press of the ewploiters and enemies of labor. BERT MILLER. Tomaz F. Deuther, of North-West Side Commercial Association, Talks About City’s Traction, and Favors Elevated “The problem of transportation for Chicago calls first for a consideration of another question,” said Thomas F, Deuther of the Northwest Side Commercial Association, “and that is a policy of tity development. Shall we have a policy of centralization or expansion? As it has been in the past, we have had, a highly central- ized Loop and then a collection of lo- calities connected with each other by very poor transportation accommoda- tions.” Deuther has made an intensive study of traction problems. In 1913 he formulated a plan, and has issued at different times three editions of a handsomely printed booklet, “Civic Questions.” In his opinion, subways are imprac- tical for Chicago, for the reason that there is not as dense a population as in New York to supply the revenue per mile. The solution, in his opinion, is rapid transit by elevated lines. He once pointed out to the elevated in terests that the Halsted stre line alone, a main north artery, carried half as many passen- gers in one year as the entire ele- vated system. He, therefore, urges the necessity of a north and south ele- vated line to parallel that route. “In 1913,” Deuther said cows actually pastured in the vicinity of Logan Square. At that time exten- sions of elevated lines could have beem made at reasonable cost, but the en- tire’ question was muddled up by one scheme after another of subw and consolidations. Today every terminal of the elevated is blocked by high- priced prdperty. It will now take mil- lions to break thru where earlier it would have required but tens of thou- sands. But it must be done.” Deuther has no objection to termin- able franchises. Ship Owners Prepare to Rob Sea Workers of Legal Protection NEW YORK, Dec, 19-—American seamen are faced with another attack apon the standards set up by the La | Follette seamen’s act. The New York board of trade and transportation is considering the report of its commit- tee on harbor and shipping to asi congressional modification of the act. The clause particularly objected to is that which provides that ships’ mas- ters must pay any seaman on an American vessel half the wages due him while the vessel is loading or dis- charging in foreign ports. e The amendment the board proposes to substitute would give the master discretionary power to withhold wages “for the safety of the vessel and cargo” or “for the preservation of | discipline” and for other causes. Striking Box-Makers in New York Testify to.Police Brutality NEW, YORK.—One police captain and se¥eral patrolmen were accused by striking paper box makers of brut- ality before Police Inspector Thomas P. Cummings of the first inspection division, which is in a locality where many of the box factories are to be found. Affidavits of 14 men and girls, re- citing illegal interference with their picketing and in several cases with clubbings, were presented, while sev- eral witnesses against the policeman CENTRAL LABGR | BODY BACKING TEACHER FIGHI NEW YORK, Dec, 19.—“Justice for three teachers whose promotion in the | school system has been denied” will be demanded of Mayor Walker of New | York by the Central Trades and Labor Council. The central labor body alsé voted financial support to the Teach- ers’ Union in its fight to have its three teachers given their deserved Promotion. Each is head of, or high on, the respective eligibility lists. Labor representation in the board of education is another demand of the central body as a result of this series of discrimination: Authorities Firm in Preventng Lynching MBDIA, Pa., Dec. 19.—In an effort to prevent the threatened lynching of Ollie Strickland, Negro, confessed slayer of Braily Collins, the jail and all roads lesding to it are guarded by police, constables, deputy s i the constabulary. In the co the jail tear bombs are sta ready use if necessary and the jail itself bristles with rifles and shotguns, County Board Wants Raise. Now the county commissioners ask for a raise in wage. Commissioner Wilson introdueed a resolution to in- crease the salaries of the newly appeared in person. The inspector's report will go to ‘lice Commissioner McLaughlin. elected commissioners from $7,000 to $10,000 a year. Nothing was said at the meeting about starting a union. PITTSBURGH, PA. \5 INTE canara om gueniieiiamonamipaans mene nee ce aarenees Due Het t te mies ee: mem ne SNR oh mm ho BUILDERS’ CLUB BALL on January 15 SOCIALIST LYCEUM, Ri RNATIONAL