The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1926, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER | & HINTS WAR ON MILITANTS. IN BOSTON GL. U, Movement for Expulsion Believed Started By PHYLLIS FENIGSTON. (Worker Correspondent) BOSTON, Dec: 27.—The plot against progressive workers in the trade union movement ts maturing and rum- bles of the expulsion policy again to be pursued were clearly heard at the meeting of the Boston Central Labor Union Sunday, Dec, 19. é Would Expel Communists, In disctssing plans for the proposed convention of the Workers’ Education Bureau in Boston next April, ex-Pres- ident Kearney took occasion to warn the delegates of the necessity for hold- ing such a conference of the “correct brand” of A, F. of L. education in ‘Boston “to counteract the growing in- fluence of the T, U. E, L. brand. From week to week,” he said, “there are delegates sitting in our midst carry: ing on their poisonous Communistic propaganda and agitating to tear away from the labor movement.” He served notice that he was investigating these members of affiliated unions and will move to have them expelled from the oe Ab To Start Anti-Red Paper. In accepting a gold charm, usually given by the C. L. U. to its retiring presidents, Kearney made another in- teresting announcement. In January he intends to begin the publication of a labor newspaper, The Boston Labor Herald, which is to be. run, he says, entirely- by himself. This announce ment caused much comment among the delegates, who are wondering what forces are financing Kearney in his anti-red activities. Gary Adds to Police Force; Officials Fear Industrial Outbreak By JOL PLOTKIN By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Dec. 27. — The local board of safety at its last semi- monthly meeting has increased “safety for Gary,” by adding a num- ber of new men to its police force. Tt-is, believed this was done, be- cause of the present industrial de- pression, and the fear of the city au- thorities that trouble will soon break out because of the slack period. Get a copy of tne American Worker Correspondent. It’s only 5 cents. BISHOP BROWN’S NEW ROOK The autobiograhy of an idea. “Bishop Brown’s book will do much to soneet i the minds of those who still it the doctrines of supernatural- im. ie will help to destroy illusions about the sacredness and holiness of the pillars of the Church, in this case tepresented by the House of Bishops. It reveals a man whose honesty and courage win win t miration and view of “My Heresy’ ei which will ap Seton issue of the Wor! Chicago, A NEXT WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, Part Proceeds to Inter: WORKER, - Subscription rates; By mail $6 large executive committee of the Workers’ Carnival Bazaar will be held in the Freiheit Hall, 3209 W. Roosevelt Road, WORKERS’ CARNIVAL BAZAAR FEBRUARY 11-12-13 at ASHLAND AUDITORIUM, Ashland and Van Buren St. Auspices DAILY WORKER and Jewish Daily FREIHEIT, WHAT ARE YOU—-SLOVAK OR AN AMERICAN? Tt you are American read the fighting labor daily paper—The DAILY If you cannot read English, subscribe to the only Czecho- slovak workingclass dafly paper in the United States and Canada— THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1810 W. 18th Street, Chicago, tl. : WHOLE FAMILIES ARE EXPLOITED By L. P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS. ANGELES, Calif., Dec, 27.— The C, & C, Employment Agency, 535 Towne avenue, Los Angeles, Calif., is hiring workers for cotton picking near Bakersfield, Calif. The pay is $1.50 for 100 pounds, which is the very limit any average person can pick in a day of ten or twelve hours. During cloudy weather (to say nothing about rainy days) there is no picking going on at all, Why? Because the dampness in- creases the weight of the product, and therefore also the earning power of the pickers to such an extent that the workers may become millionaires (?) in a short period of time. The person who averages $8.00 a -week in Cali- fornia and Arizona cotton fields is doing well. After the board and lodg- ing bills are paid, there is nothing left tor clothing, etc, Takes Whole Family to Earn $5, The “House of King Cotton” is an exploiting and law-virlating institu- tion. The writer 1s fairly well posted on this matter. He came in contact with thousands of cotton slave labor- ers during his work as a roll maker for the Southwest Cotton Company, Phoenix, Arizona, a few years ago. During the war and up till the winter of 1920-21 the scale for picking was 4 cents a pound, As no average worker could make a decent wage at that time, what can be expected now when the pay is only 114 cents a pound? Under the present conditions it takes the’ whole family ‘father, mother, half.a dozen children, and a few aunts, uncles and cousins thrown in for good measure) to make $4 to $5aday. The majority of the pickers used to be, and still are, Mexicans. These workers are all victims of the old regime of the Catholic church in Mexico, School Laws Violated. Instead ‘of going to school, the chil- dren have to work.” The cotton must be picked, the authorities say, so the | school laws’are violated every day in the. cotton season. .In the opinion of many, however, the children may be better off by staying away from flag- waving exercises staged by super- ~- patriotic pa(y)triots. These law vio- lations can also serve as evidence of the fact that the master class is judging the sacredhess of American institutions only in proportion to the them, The scab-herding Water Users’ As- sociation, Phoenix, Arizona, used to IN THE CALIFORNIA COTTON FIELDS number of dollar marks stamped on break agreements with Mexican: con- tract laborers right and left. Free transportation back to the home land was provided for in the contracts, but nothing of that sort took place. When the price of cotton dropped from $1 a pound to nothing at all in the winter of 1920-21, the suffering amongst the cotton pickers in Arizona was great. Renters of land went bankrupt by wholesale and left the country, leaving nothing behind but bad checks, if anything .at alj. Yards, vacant lots and streets were the dog-like camping grounds available for hundreds of ragged, homeless, penniless and food- less families. At last, thousands of workers were sent back to their native land at the expense of the Mexican government, Porto Ricans Hit Hardest. According to reports from the sage- brush state, the cotton pickers im- ported from Porto Rico are the victims hardest hit this season by the said association. Although the rank and file in Arizona is fairly progressive, these Uncle Sam's stepchildren can't expect to get any help from the cop- per-colored labor fakers of the Arizona State Federation of Labor. A few years ago, Thomas Croaff, Liberal- Democrat, and George D, Smith, Com- munist, lost their jobs in said federa- tion as president and secretary-treas- urer, respectively, because the kings and queens ‘of the mining industry succeeded in packing the convention with red-baiters, In bloody Roumania the royal lead- ership is in the hands of Queen Marie, but in Arizona the leading forces of “royalty” are such infamous corpora- tions as the “Copper Queen.” Spying System. Outside of mining, cotton, stool pigeons and Huntized democracy, it isn’t much of anything in Arizona. Mining being the leading industry, the spy system derives its support chiefly from that source. During the Walsh- Wheeler investigations of Harry M. Daugherty and William Burns, of the Burns detective agency, it was brot out that spying in Arizona was out of all proportion to the number of industrial slaves in that state of long- eared democrats, kluxerdom and illit- eracy. Sixteen per cent of the popu- lation can neither read nor write any language. The greater part of these people are cotton pickers who are too poor to educate their children for any- thing but slavery in the fields of King Cotton. Rochester Industry Increases in Value, But Workers Get Less By a Worker Correspondent. ROCHESTER, N, Y., Dec. 27.—The value of the products of industries here for the year 1925 was greater by $5,000,000 than for the year 1923, while the number of wage earners decreased by 6,000 and the wages paid to the workers by nearly $4,000,000 for the same years, according to statistics is- sued by the U. S. department of com- merce census bureau. The statistics follow: The value of products for 1925, $342,404,548; for 1923, $337,362,162. The number of industrial establishments for 1925 was 818 as compared with 964 in 1923. The number of wage workers in 1925 was 52,852 as compared with 58,649 in 1923, while the wages decreased from $77,645,800 in 1923 to $73; 971,375 in 1925, Simultaneously with this report comes the report that the common stock of the Eastman Kodak Co., which is notorious for the intensive exploitation of its workers, has estab- lished a new high mark for all time, POPULAR’ BARGAIN DRY GOODS STORE Ladies’, Gent’s and Children’s Wear 236 E. 23rd St., New York City Lowest prices. Extra discount for those presenting this ad. Attention! , at 8 p. m., the first meeting of the ‘national Labor Defense. a yeur; for Chifeago $8 a year ZAUSNER GETS UNION VERDICT INLOSING HIS Painter, Charged With Graft, Is Defeated By a Worker Correspondent. NEW YORK, Dec, 27.—The mem- bership of the Brotherhood of Paint- ers of the New York district have shown definitely how much they be- the charge of graft against him by defeating him at the ballot box, Zausner, with the audacity of a true American labor faker, in the face of is held responsible for a shortage of $30,000 in the union treasury, yet tried to be re-elected to the office of secre- tary of the district council. Every trick employed by professional poli- spent $15,000 to be elected to a job which pays only $6,000 a year, it is reported. But he might have saved himself*that sum, for his defeat was inevitable, The total votes that were cast was 7,964. By great effort Zausner man- aged to get 3,817 votes, but his mili- tant opposition won out by a majority of 320 votes. The rest of the ticket which was elected is reactionary enough to keep on fighting, but the main culprit is out, which will enable the opposition to closely investigate the record of the past regime, After that the union painters of New York will know exactly how much corrup- tion was actually carried on at the office of the district council, The elected secretary, Thomas Wright, is a left winger, tho not a Communist, He deserves consider: able credit for having unearthed the criminal activity of Zausner, ‘GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. SIXTH ANNUAL a Meved Zausner’s plea of innocence in| the chargeyby the membership that he | ticlans was good enough for him. He | ‘|raised for the class war prisoners. Movement for Imposing Alien Has Been on NEW YORK, Dec, 27—~ the ‘The idea that ien In America ought to be penal- seems to be behind the series of bills that have been introduced at each se: n of congress since 1922. inning at that time, the secre- tary of labor has steadily maintained that in order to keep watch on the for- eigner so that We may know he is| | surely a desizable citizen, and in or- jder to prevent crime, it is absolutely |necessary to inaugurate a system of! registration of all alieas. This propo-| sition has ‘een outlined in various | bills, most afrnen have been so ob- noxious thaf¥they have roused wide | opposition and therefore been dropped or modified... But Secretary Davis seems deter- mined that tegistration of aliens and according to the terms of c ain pro- posed measuie® of naturalized foreign. born citizens, ‘shall be put into effect | even in spite of the protests from all over the country. Aswell’s Bill, Last springRepresentative Aswell, | Louisiana, introduced a bill requiring | that all alietsmust be finger-printed nd photographed, must register every T, paying $10 the first time and $5 succeeding year; must report to the Officials amy: change in his persona} appearance (such as the raising of a rd, or shaving it off); must report | y change of residence, or any in-| tion to travel; must be ready at| y time to show his identification d upon the demand of a federal, state, county or city officer; and at any time he must respond immediately to the order of the president that he report wherever he is required, or 2lse he will be deported. Deportation Bills In, At the same time that Aswell intro- luced this bill two other representa- tives brought in bills proposing to de- port anyone who did not become a cit- izen within a Specified time. These bills are still in’committee waiting to be brought Up at this session of con- gress, BANK CLEARINGS AND BUSINESS: IN_ DECLINE IN MONTH'S FIRST WEEK — WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. — The gradual decline in business, which liberad economists have been pre- dicting “and. the conservative ones frequently hinting at, is proved by statements .of the department of commerce on conditions for the first week in December: Carload ship- ments are less'than a year ago, a decline in production of beehive~ coke and lumber is shown, and re- ceipts of wheat‘and hogs have fallen off as compareéd-with the correspond- ing week of last year. In corroboration, bank clearings are reported t6be less than for the corresponding week in 1925. A check of 23 leading cities shows a falling off in Glearances of about a billion -dollarss The figure of 8.7 | represents the decline in cities out- | side of New York, which city shows | a falling off of 11.9 per cent. Small and Barbour Feel “Christmasy”’ Just when the hearing in the $50,000 | {James J. Barbour against Governor }Len Small was becoming “hottest” | |the suit was suddenly dismissed at the request of both parties. The “Christmas spirit” was given as the | jreason for the cessation of hostilities between Smalb and Barbour. The suit was originated when Sena- | | tor Barbour resented statements made |by Small in avpublic address that he | had been actimg illegally in accepting pay as assistant attorney general of | the state while-he was a member of the state legislature, | Both partieaeadmitted in court that each were “acting in good faith,” that they misunderstood each other, and agreed to dropithe suit, » Alien Property Fraud Is of Long Standing, Says Senator Borah wasHINaTow, Dex Dec, 27 — Charges that fraud, graft and theft have ex- isted in the alfén property custodian’s office for the past eight years and that all save the present administration have been tinged with corruption, were made in the senate by Senator Borah, republican, of Idaho, Denver Aids Class War Prisoners. DENVER, Dee, 27.—At a box social held by the International Labor De- fense at Waiters’ hall quite a sum was A Greek who is prominent in the trade union movement made a speech in his language to a number of his country- men who were present, urging them to support the work of the I. L, D, And Drop Libel Suit | libe)] suit instituted by State Senator | jlarities, but all the money is 2 jed for.” j that some of the “discrepancies” Espionage Upon Since 1922; Series of Persecution Bills Have Been Drawn Deportation on a wide scale is also permitted by the terms of the Holaday bill, which passed the house of repre- sentatives last spring and is now to be considered by the senate. It would allow deportation of an alien who had served a year in prison for any cause | It would also deport not | only those who are in this country | whatsoever, illegally (which would include politi- cal refugees), but it would also de- port any alien who gave refuge to} such an exile or knew of his presence here, Forget Debt to Foreigner. Back of all these proposed Dills | seems to be the idea that any alien | who comes to America is a suspicious | character. Our legislators seem to ’| forget that it is the foreign-born who have built this country, that it is the | alien of generation after generation | who is responsible for our greatness and prosperity. To introduce any such espionage system. as the pro- posed registration measures would be to make the aliens a segregated, de- |spised class from the moment they reach our shores, Council Combats Idea. It is this idea which has prompted the formation of the National Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers, with branches already at work in Chicago, Pittsburgh, West Brownsville, Pa., New Haven, Phila- |delphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver and Boston, The work of the National Council for Protection of Foreign-Born Work- ers is being endorsed by city and} state labor federations thruout the country, Need Co-operation. The co-operation of everyone inter- ested in this campaign for the foreign- born is needed in order to fulfill all its possibilities. You can help sending a contributicn to the National Council for Protection of Foreign- Born Workers room 817, 41 Union Square, New York, N. Y. ALIEN PROPERTY ‘SCANDAL LOOMS; TO BREAK SOON : Congress ‘Delving Into New Crookedness WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—Crooked- ness and graft in the administration of alien property seized by the United States government during the war will be given an airing which may re- sult in stench equal to that of the Teapot Dome and war veterans’ bu- reau scandals immediately after the reconvening of congress following the holiday recess, it is indicated. Is Greatest Looting. A little of the aroma surrounding the alien property was allowed to es- cape in the senate prior to the recess when Senator King presented a mo- tion asking for a special appropriation to allow an investigation by a senate committee. The eight years’ admin- {istration of alien property was charac- terized by Senator Borah as the “worst system of looting that this | country has ever known,” declaring it | is “tainted with theft, graft and ex- travagance.” Accountant Reports. Controller General McCari’s audit report on the alien property custo- dian’s office was delivered to the sen- jate just before congress closing, and altho it is an obvious attempt to white- | wash the office, the accountant could not help presenting damning evidence, The report says there “were irregu- McCar! attempted to in were due to “inadequate accounting knowl edge.” Accounts Incomplete, Some of the conditions he cited were: “Trust accounts that are in- complete by several millions of dol- lars, illegal withdrawal from the U, S. treasury of interest income on trust tunds and their deposit in 24 banks, cumbersome records on real estate dealings, poor co-ordination of work, excessive lawyers’ fees, commissions, and other expenses.” The expenses covered many thousand of dollars for personal trips and indiscriminate and unchecked activities of the office di- rectors and employes. Property Sold for Trifle. Great amounts of property, valued at millions of dol were disposed of by the office to “friends” for sums which were mere trifles compared to the actual values, Controlier McCarl, in his report, said that his investigation is incom- plete, as there are some circumstances which need more investigation to de- termine their exact nature. “The pen te mightier than the | sword,” provided you know how to use 't, Come down and learn now in the worker correspondents classes by | | The Manag | There are class is Comrade Molasses whé reads DAILY WORKER booster, the kicked into doing anything, even a Bolshevik, one who is known t the revolutionury field, a regular reads The DAILY WORKER to doing it. | fact, of course. And then again reads The DAILY WORKER wi absorbs its contents. all about the paper itself. thought to its promotion. As soo vantageously, who would be inte the issuc | best distributed. Comrade only for what he can get out of i it. He feels that he is part of the When a fine feature is published personally elated. make use of an opportunity for sense of disappointment, as During the long hours of toil in ning, thinking, paper?” and we thinking, thinking, “1 will soon have a power for the workers. | Military Preference Goes to Junk When | You Become Surplus WASHINGTO? Mrs. Annette F. Gudget of Richmond, Virginia, a sten- the Richmond regional Veterans’ Bureau, loses }ographer in | offices of the jher position by a decision of the Dis- | trict Court of Appeals here, reversing | a decision of the district supreme | | court. | Mrs. Gudget, as a yeoman, first | class, in the naval reserve, claimed a preferential;status under the law and | contested her removal from the ser- Bae The court held that the military ference status governs only so long | |“as there is work for her to do.” | | Her chief had contended that she was let out because she was “surplus” and there was need of a reduction in force, New York Central Distributes Assets and Conceals More NEW YORK.—Another melon will} be cut in the financial district. The | New York Central has announced aj stock dividend that will distribute | more than fifty millions to stock- holders. On top of its large earnings as admitted by its financial state- ments, there is talk that more js con- cealed in “hidden assets,” chiefly in valuable real estate holdings in the | Grand Central zone which are carried on the books at nominal values. California Legislator Demands Probe of Bad Conditions in Prison SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—Assem- blyman C, R. Reindollar of Marin county has announced he will ask the | | state legislature to appropriate $2,500 | {to be used to conduct a probe of con- ditions in San Quentin prison, i : charges inhuman treat- prisoners in San Quentin, un- conditions, poor food, and parole system. Anti-Fascist Mass Meeting. | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec, 27.—An | anti-fascist mass meeting was held | [here at St. George’s hall, East Main street and Stratford avenue. The speakers were Sylvan_A, Pollack of New York in English and Luigi March- igiani in Italian. Class Di 3 among DAIL it has been actually crammed down his throat by some agi Go-Getter does not read The DAILY He tingles all over. when he meets his fellow workers outside, er’s Corner | ewer errs | oe Tvistons Y WORKER readers. There The DAILY WORKER because €88ive kind of fellow who has to be to reading his own class paper. Then there is Comrade Fashion Plate who wants to be known as 0 be well wp on all the news in fellow in the radical sense. He be in style, because everybody's Among conservative workers he does not advertise the we have. Comrade Sponge. He th avidity. He sucks it dry. He Then he drops it like a hot coal and forgets Finally we have Comrade Go-Getter, who not only reads the paper himself, but also serious on as he has completed his read- gives ing of the paper, he speculates on ways and means of exploiting the information which he has found in it, what he can clip ad- rested in the various articles in , and how and where the issue or the clippings may be WORKER, t, or because le is forced to read paper and that it is part of him. in The DAILY WORKER, he i When the paper fails to agitation, he feels a personal he himself had failed in his duty. the factory, and during the eve- he is constantly Vhat can I do to help my own Give us a battalion of Go-Getters, always on the job DAILY sharper thorn in the side of American capitalism, and a mightier WORKER, which willbe @ BERT MILLER. MRS, BELMONT SAYS HER “COTTAGE” ISN'T WORTH (Special to The Daily Worker) NEWPORT, R. I., Dec, 27—Mrs. ©. H. P, Belmont, who was for merly Mrs. W. K, Vanderbilt, says that her summer shanty here is worth but $317,500, instead of $696,- 000, assessed for taxation. She is one of fifteen who are suing the city for a refund of money paid in taxes on what they claim were excessive valuations, The rebates sued for amount to about $30,000, of which Mrs. Bel- mont’s claim comes to over a third. URNTLUUAUEOGERUNEQESEGHEGGOEUOUITOGEHOND WE BEG you— New Yorkers COME OVER! JOIN US AND ENJOY YOUR- SELF AT THE DAILY WORKER NOVY MR New Year's BALL Over cartoons by 17 leading ar- tists, Siz 12 on heavy paper—bound in attractive brown board covers, PRICE ONE DOLLAR DANCING UNTIL 2:30 A. M.! ‘ <s ans pe coe KUEL BLL NEW YEAR'S EVE MASQUE BALL i BENEFIT OF hapon SATURDAY JANUARY YORKVILLE CASINO 212 East 86th Street, New York. Russian Balalaika Orchestra. ADMISSION $1.00 643-45 N, Clark St. Ch Letchinger’s Orchestra 50 cente—at door 76 cen (oe gals SO AWFUL DARNED MUCH | - t - 2 Ponte ee rea o> ore en exec