The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 28, 1926, Page 5

W.VA, MINERS IN REVOLT AGAINST SLAVERY TO BOSS | Are Ready to Join Union Under Real Leaders By PETER HAGELIAS. (Worker Correspondent) WARWOOD, W. Va., Doc, 26.—The unorganized mine workers in West Virginia, particularly in Warwood end Triadelphia, work from 11 to 12 hours a day for moager wages. In five mines at Warwood, W. Va., there are work- ing @bout 1,500 miners. They are paid for one and one-half out of every three tons they produce, Cheated at Weighing. In case any complaint is made. by the workers that they are cheated in the weighing scales they are told to “go back where you came from” if |they are foreign born, or that they are Bolsheviks, and told to leave the mine grounds, . In Revolt. The miners in this section are re- volting against the wey things are run in the unorganised mines of Tria- delphia and Warwood, and they are ripe for organization into a union. They know that the reason they are not organized is the corrupt leader- _ (ship of the Lewis machine in the U. M. W. of A. and they watch with great interest the elections that are jgoing on in the U. M, W, of A., hop- jing that the progressive group headed 'by Brophy will be elected. These aro the feelings among the miners in West Virginia, and partic- ularly among hundreds of Greek min- ers, to whom I spoke in a tour of West Virginia and Ohio. ‘Princess’ Pours Out ' Anti-Soviet Buncombe on Cornell U. Campus (By a see Correspondent.) ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. 26. — Petty re- formists, youasacas society secreta- ries, and ancient university women graduates, forming what the Cornell University newspaper calls a “@istin- guished audience,” wallowed here in anti-Soviet Russia propaganda given eut in a speech by “Princess” Catcu- zene, American wife of a miember of thé” czar’s~ family, om the Corsell campus. The “princess” was invited to’ talk by the American Association of University Women. “The best thing that the American women who have lived in Russia un- der the old regime can do is to bear witness to the virtue of the people and the old government under which they lived,” pleaded Catcuzene. “Never had such butchery been equalled in the history of mankind,” she chortled, “as that under the Bol- shévist rule.” And to inspire more fear in the hearts of the old women, she added: “The Russian people,are existing under starvation, misery and oppression under which no people have ever before survived; 300,000 children, covered with vermin, suffer- ing from famine, and all of them crim- inals.” Progressive students on the campus are protesting against the college newspaper for neglecting to enlighten the students on the real character of the “princess’” talk. WZ LENIN ON ORGANIZATION The collected speeches and writings of the great leader and teacher, Lenin, on fundamental problems of vital im- portance to every worker. Attractively Cloth Bound, 300 pages, Library Edition—$1.50 Other Books By, LENIN * STATE AND REVOLUTION —25 Cents IMPERIALISM—Final uae of Capitalism (New English Edition) —60 Cents INFANTILE SICKNESS —15 Cents THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM - By |, Stalin 36 Cents. GINSBERGS BOSTON CITY COUNCILORS CHARGE TELEPHONE COMPANY STAGED FAKE By a Worker Correspondent, BOSTON, Dec. 26—The New Hng- land Telephone company is charged with staging 2 fake “strike” in order to decrease wages, boost telephone rates and discharge a large number of employes by two members of the city council. Councilor Thomas H. Green of Charleston and Joseph Mc- Grath of Roxbury brought charges be- fore the council, and declared that the last strike at the telephone com- pany wes engineered by the company itself. The council has appointed a com- mittee of five, including Mayor Nicols and Council President Keene, to inves- tigate the charges, the company imported men from New York to join the union in order that cuse to discharge veteran employes jwho were “too wise.” Many other men and girls were brought in to replace the fofmer em- | ployes under a lower wage scale. The council was informed that the action of the company complicated the already grave unemployment problem because of the wholesale discharges, | were already feeling the burden. Unemployed Worker Tells of Attempt to Finds a Job During Slack Season By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec. 26—Hunting for a job in slack time is not so gay. Only a few advertisements for dress opera- tors appear in the papers. No matter how early I get to the shops there are already many waiting before me, The shop ig still closed and while we are waiting more and more are coming. I decided then to leave and go to the other addresses. Everywhere there are crowds before and after me. In some places the elevator man ex- plains that the boss told him not to bring up any more, He only needed two operators and fifty have applied already. After 9 o’clock you are too late. In many places we meet the same people. We get acquainted and even friendly with each other. What It Means. We are talking about the misery | { that unemployment brings to our homes and families, lack of clothing, lack of food. Some of those unem- ployed had to give up housekeeping and stay with friends until they are employed again, TRICK WORKER OUT OF COMPENSATION DUE HIM FROM INJURY IN SHOP By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Deo, 26.—A case of tricking a worker out of his com- pensation for injury Incurred while at work is reported from the Amer- ican Bridge Co. here. The victim of the capitalist greed, js Wilson, 55, American. While op- erating a riveting machine Wilson fell 12 feet to the ground, breaking several teeth and perhaps fractur- ing his jaw. After a period of treat- ment by the company doctor he was told one day by this doctor to sign a check for $50, which the doctor said was sent by an insurance com- pany. The doctor assured Wilson that more compensation: was forth- coming. During a recent lay-off Wilson found himself among ‘others who were laid off. When Wilson began to ask ques- tions about compensation he was told that by signing the check he signed off yr claim to compensa- tion. His case le. typical in the unor- ganized mills of this region. N. Y. Times Suddenly Becomes ‘‘Pro-Labor” ; Joins Drive on the Left By JOHN NEVA, (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Any worker who reads the arch-capitalist news- paper, The New York Times, must wonder why. this “respectable” organ has suddenly turned pro-labor. To my mind there is some reason for it. Mr. Sigman and company, and now Mr. Green and Woll, all wolves in sheep's skins, are crying crocodile tears for the “ruined” I. L. G. W., and at the same time are killing the morale of the cloakmakers, supporting the boss- es by encouraging them to win against the workers. There are many workers who “fall” for Sigman’s bluff. Progressive work- ers here feel that the removal of The DAILY WORKER to New York will certainly be a great thing to sive the workers the real facts. City Employes Get ‘Xmas Gift’; Same Pay By a Worker Correspondent. BAST. CHICAGO, Ind., Dec, 26, City employes of Bast Chicago were presented with “Christmas gifte” by the local mayor. The gift is the same old pay checks, which they receive Friday instead of the customary Saturday, “The pen ts mightier than the sword,” provided you know how to use it, Come down and learn how in the worker correspondent’s clasves. NEGRO LAUNDRY WORKERS SLOW Long Hours, Low Pay Is Rule in New York By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec, 26.—The work of organizing the Negro women workers in steam laundries proceeds very slowly, says Rose Schneiderman, of the Women’s Trade Union League. There are several reasons for this slowness, Owing to the very bad con- ditions under which the girls work, the labor turnover is large and organ- ization must constantly begin anew. Union Idea New. The union idea is new to these young girls and it is hard to convince them of the value of combination for bettering their lot. Then again, the hours are long and these tired labor- ers must go home to tasks there. It is almost impossible to get them to meetings after such a tiring day. Is First Industry Attacked. The steam laundry, employing many colored women, was the first industry tackled for organization by the com- mittee on organization of colored women workers of the Women’s Trade Union League. This is one of the in- the worst imaginable. The work is filthy and unhealthy. The hours are long—the working day lasts till 7 o'clock—and the pay, $12 or $15 a week, is pitifully small, Get Men First. The work was started with an or- ganizer in the fleld, but owing to lack of funds, no active worker is on the job now. The work will continue, however, tho on a new line. The new effort will be to get the men in the ‘industry first. Street Car Service Poor, Making Workers Late; Fined by Boss By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Dec, 26.—The workers of the American Bridge Co. complain of unreliable streetcar service by the Gary car lines, Often the American Bridge car, which is supposed to start around 6 a, m, at 16th avenue and Broadway, does not appear. After long waiting the workers are compelled to take a different car ani make a transfer at Fifth and Broad- way, coming late to work. They are docked one-half hour for being five minutes late, altho they start early enough and cannot be blamed for be- ing late. Subscribe to the The American Worker Correspondent 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Chicago, Attention! NEXT WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, at 8 p. m., the first meeting of the large executive committee of the Workers’ Carnival Bazaar will be held In the Freiheit Hall, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road, WORKERS’ GARNIVAL BAZAAR FEBRUARY 11-12-13. at ASHLAND AUDITORIUM, Ashland and Van Buren St. Part Proceeds to International Labor Defense. _ Auspices DAILY WORKER and Jowtsh Daily FREIHEIT. eter nee Councilor McGrath declared that | the company would have a good ex- and the overseers of public welfare i: TO JOIN UNION dustries where working conditions are | THE DAILY WORKER | ‘USE EALTH TO CHEAT GALLOWS | OF BOY SLAYER Confession |Croarkin Will Repudiate ‘STRIKE’ FOR DECREASING WAGES | | The fight of. money to save Herold | -———— J. Croarkin, 26-year-old scion of a wealthy family here, confessed slay- | er of little Walter Schmith is on with the announcement that he would re- pudiate that part of his confession | which gave a.motive for the slaying. | | Part of they defense, it is indicated, i \he had been drinking. j police of wearing down his resistance |should allow them to refrain from will ‘be based, on an attack on alleged “third de; "methods used by police jon the sh | Adm s Abusing Boy. | Croariin aintained during more | than 15 hour of grilling after sur-/| rendering satis: that, while angry | at the six-yegifold boy, he struck him | from behind With a hammer: He said | Suddenly @roarkin told police he had abused the lad, and fearing the penitentiary: df: Walter told his par- ents, decided to put him out of the way. To Plead Not Guilty. Croarkin will plead not guilty, ac- cording to present plans and accuse tha repeated questioning and loss of sleep so that he gladly edmitted any- thing to end: the ordeal. Retain'Many Allenists. The defense fight began with the summoning of alienists to examine Croarkin, Members of the Croarkin family maintain he is subnormal. Dr, William Held, allenist, who already has told the county court he believed Croarkin needed institutional care, was the first of what apparently would be a long line of alienists call- ed to bolster the defense. Protests U. S. Judges Accepting Employment Outside. of Their Jobs WAsEinghOn, Dec. 26.—Repre- sentative Blahfon of Texas has an- nounced thatphe will present a Dill providing that mo federal judge can perform services outside of those for the government and receive Pay for them. Blanton declared that the re- cent salary iticrease given the judges 4 seeking outside employment. In some caSes the judges have ac- cepted emplofment which could not be described as “ethical,” Blanton said. He cited the case of a federal judge of the District, of, Columbia: who was appointed: iecturer-in a university, with an annual salary attached, by the president,of the university, who was also president of a street rail- way, company, that had litigation in that judge’s court Washington Farmers Lose Holdings Under Foreclosure Auction WALLA WALLA, Wash., Dec, 26.— The Walla. Walla Union, in its issue of Dec. 14/ carried a full page adver- tisement offering farms for sale at public auctionsunder foreclosure pro- ceedings. A.part of the advertisement reads: “All farms listed in this sale were ac- quired by mortgage companies which | made loans of from 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the actual value of these properties. Hard times forced the farmers to lose.” It is said that fully 60 per cent of all farms in the Inland Empire would be similarly sold out, if buyers enuf could be found to bid on them. Only a sales agent’s name is signed to the advertisement, but it is gene- rally believed that a Spokane bank is the actual sellér of the farms. Senate Committee in | Sticky Lot of Dough, Probing Bread Trust WASHINGTON, Dec, 26.—How it happened that the case against the bread trust was dismissed by the fed- eral trade commission under the im- pression that the federal court in Bal- timore was hearing the case, while the federal court was dismissing it under the asgymption that the com- mission had it in hand, ts one of the things to be ‘iifvestigated by the sen- ate judiciary sub-committee, The’ combination of the Ward, Con- tinental and General Baking compa- nies is under scrutiny, Bring Christmas . Joy to Centralia Inmates SEATTLE, Dec, 26.—The eight Cen- tralia class war prisoners in Walla Walla penitentiary were remembered on Christmas with gifts of money and food packages by the International Labor Defense, The Pioneer Youth of the Seattle Labor College aided the I. L,_D. in raising funds and collect- ing packages of wearables and eat- ables, Class war prisoners in Walla Walla are: Eugene Barnett, Ray Becker, Bert Bland, 0. C. Bland, John Lamb, James Mclnery, Britt Smith and Loren Roberts, We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friendem | ois The Farmers’ Section will appear regularly in every Monday morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER. Watch for it. Page Fivgs® Voice from By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. EPRDSENTATIVE L, J. DICK- INSON, of Iowa, was applauded in the lower house of congress the other day when he declared that, “after five years of time there are a great many of our friends who have gotten at least to the point where they are admitting that there is an agricultural problem.” Dickinson, of course, errs when he thinks the troubles of the farmers started only five year ago. Farmers had their grievances even back in the days of the colonies, before this country cut itself off from the Brit- ish monarchy, to rear a tyranny of its own. It is only true that during that last five years the agrarian crisis has become more acute. The applause was rather vociferous, even from the old party congress- men, since these middle class capi- talist politicians are anxious to make a display, even tho it be one of noise only, before revolting toil on the land, It is just at the moment when finance and industrial capital are making an effort to appease the farmer, and persuade him to accept his lowly lot as inevitable, that salt is rubbed into the deep wounds of agriculture by the profit takers. The agrarian masses smart under the knowledge that the steel trust an- nounces a 40 per cent stock divi- dend, dividing more than a quarter billion dollars among its parasite owners, The cotton-surfeited South espe- cially cries out in protest, since it looks upon the tariff protected United States Steel Corporation as one of its worst enemies. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that even the conservative, moss- backed southern democrats in con- gress should deliver themselves of wildly ‘denunciatory orations for publication in the congressional rec- ord for home consumption. se Even the voice of a democratic congressman may sound the protest of the southern cotton farmers against the great capitalists. Thus Representative William C. Lankford, of Georgia, under “exten- sion of remarks,” which means that the speech was never actually de- livered, only published in the rec ord, declared: “The Washington Post of this city points with pride to the recent 40 per cent dividend of the United States Stee] Corporation and in ef- fect shouts now there can no longer be doubt of the great prosperity of our country, “Let us not think that because bandits hold up a bank and get away with a hundred thousand dol- lars and are prosperous then that everyone else is prosperous; neither let us believe that because the Profiteers of the nation are prosper- ous then that all the people of our nation are prosperous. What is the real truth? The United States Steel Corporation, from its mass of stolen goods, has declared a 40 per cent stock dividend and this is hailed with delight by many as a token of prosperity. “Away with this false idea of pros- perity, On the contrary, it means that a few individuals have gotten together a large accumulation of stolen property. It means that heartless, soulless, conscienceless, big corporate interests, managed by men in many instances who are cold to every appeal of humanity, jus- tice, and patriotism, are plunder- ing, within unjust and basely dis- criminatory laws, a hundred million bleedini juffering, and dying men, women, and children, “It means that there are too man®& yet, who rejoice over the un- just accumulation of wealth by one millionaire rather than over the prosperity of the great common peo- ple. It meang that the plundering of the nation, or the common people, of hundreds of millions of dollars is to be hailed by many as an act of patriotism and that the perpetrator is to receive the plaudits of those engaged in similar business or well- wisher to it. “Such dividends in the midst of the human suffering and financial distress which is abroad in our land is not indicative of the prosperity of our nation, It is a glaring signal of unjust and corrupt favoritism in leg- islation and government. It is the result of the grossest sort of high- price fixing of what the common people must buy and of a stubborn refusal to give the great citizenship of our nation even a square deal, “For every chuckle of delight which dulls the conscience of the Bankrupt South Protests Against Huge Steel Trust Profits other similarly ill-gotten wealth there results the degradation, pov- erty, and death of countless millions of outraged men, women, and chil- dren. “And this is called prosperity. It is the prosperity of the lion destroy- ing the lamb. If this {s prosperity, then the early settlers of our coun- | tty were prosperous when the In- dians were burning their homes, de- stroying their property, scalping their wives and children, and carry- ing them into captivity and to tor- ture and death, ; “This is prosperity such as came FARMERS GET BILLION DOLLARS LESS IN 1926 FROM WORK THAN IN 1925 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Dec, 26.— Farm- ers in the United States received more than one billion dollars less for their efforts in 1926 than they did in 1925, according to a report on value of principal farm products in 1926 issued by the department of agriculture. There was a decrease in value of $1,149,000,000, the re- port says. Lower prices paid for the produce were definitely blamed by the de- partment for the decrease. Decreas- es in production had no effect, the report says. The estimated value for 55 crops in 1926 is $7,801,313,000, while the value, for the same crops in 1925 was $8,949,321,000. The, cotton crop showed a de- crease in value of $581,000,323. Corn showed a decrease of $353,331,000. proportionate decreases in value. FARM RELIEF TO COME UP BEFORE Minnesota Pr Progressives | to"Recommend Action ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec, 26.—Farm relief legislation will be the outstand- ing legislative matter to be taken up at the farmier-labor political confer- ence to be held here Jan. 17-18. The progressive farmers who will gather | ‘here from all sections of the state of | Minnesota will make recommendations of procedure to force congress and President Coolidge to agree to farm | relief measures, State Compensation Fund. for worker compensation created to prevent gouging by regular insurance | companies will be given consideration by the conference, The potato and apple crop showed | | to the Belgians when the German hordes were at their doors, when death and devastation were on every hand and when the cannon roar rocked their hills, “This ig success of a fa wrung from the great c ple by taskmasters more ever lashed Egyptian ored few ley slave. It is the fiendish pros. perity of those who put money ahead of men, property ahead of people, boodle ahead of boys and girls, criminal profits and p sures ahead of children’s rights and ‘wel- fare, the profiteer ahead of the pa- triot, conscienceless greed ahead of our couptry’s need, and gold ahead of god.” The words are brave, but what has this Georgia congressman to offer? Nothing at all, except, to beg favors from the profit beast that he so vehemently denoun a pfo- posal in which Lankfor¢ fellow Di of opposite capitalist political faith, congressman from Iowa, inson, energetically joins. Pe ee: But the farmers of the South, in common with those of the North and West, will learn that it takes something more than heated speeches to overcome and destroy the power of their class enemies. It is not sufficient for the so-called ‘friends” of the farmers to realize that there is an agricultural prob- lem. The farmers the Ss must realize that t ei s “problem’ that can only b olved thru the unity of the land with the cig” workers on an anti- claes bai Every announ f the, a ion of huge s < dividends mong the parasite of in: dustry is a challeng ke to the agricultural as well as the city ® workers to organize and iio. "ied for their own interests oa F.-L. CONFERENCE WE BEG | | The campaign to have a state fung | Another proposition to be advocated | by the farmer-labor party is legislation to permit municipal plants establish direct systems. This is a scheme for placing municipal plants on the same basis. with large privately-owned super-power stations, . Taxation, Revision of state tax laws on prop- erty, and particularly on ore mining royalties, will be taken np. All elements in the progressive movement of Minnesota are urged to be represented at the conference. Representation. Representation at thd conference is as follows: Members of the state central committee, farmer-labor party; members of the state committee of farmerlabor association; executive council of State Federation of Labor; members of state committee of Non- partisan League; legislative board of railroad brotherhoods, members of legislative board of women’s non-par- tisan clubs; each county in state will be entitled to one delegate-at-large, and one additional one for each 1,000 in 1926; farmer, each labor, co-operative, or other economic organization is entitled to | one delegate; each member in the Min- | nesota state legislature elected with | farmer-labor endorsement {s entitled to full membership in the conference, POPULAR BARGAIN DRY GOODS STORE Ladies’, Gent's and Children’s Wear 236 E. 23rd St., New York City Lowest prices, Extra fount for those presenting thie ad, farmer-labor votes cast for governor | local of a bona fide! You— New Yorkers COME OVER! 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