The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1926, Page 5

s t News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics GERMAN TEXTILE WORKERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASES Strike | in Gar- ment Industry (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—German tex- tile and. garment workers are seeking highér wages in different sections of the industries, New York textile trade papers tell. Chemnitz manufacturers of textiles refuse to ‘gtve their work- ers the 6 per cent increase awarded by government arbitrators. Upon the appeal of the unions to the govern- ment for compulsory enforcement of the award the Berlin ministry of labor answered that it could not compel the acceptance of its arbitration awards, but only “advise for the good of the union,” Demand Increases, The Associated Garment Workers of Germany have cancelled their wage contracts expiring on January 10 and demand 12 per cent increases. In Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin fur dressing and dyeing workers have also given notice that they will not continue the old agreement, but want higher pay. The governmetit has been asked to arbitrate. The Federation of German Industries is investigating the situa- tion, the textile papers report, and may hold a conference to avert the possible strikes threatened. 150 Women Printers Employed in N. Y. Newspaper Offices NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—One hundred and fifty women are employed on 53 newspapers of New York state as proofreaders, linotypers or monotyp- ers, Nelle Swartz, director of the bu- reau of women in industry for the state labor department, reports. Most wf the. avomen are day workers, tho the no-night-work-for-women law was amended in 1921 to exempt this group. Women working under union condi- tions get the same rates as men, but upstate firms were varied on wages and hours where no union agreement exists. Differences of $20 to as much as $40 a week were found between union and non-union wages. Swartz points out that with only 40 women printers working night the efforts made to change the night work law seem of doubtful need. Twenty-Eight I. W. W.’s to be in Jails After _New Years, is Report NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—New Year’s Day, 1927, will see only 28 members of the Industrial Workers of the World in prisons of the United States, says Peo Monoldi, secretary of the general defense committee. Decem- ber has seen the release of three crim- inal syndicalism law prisoners from Walla Walla, Washington, leaving only the Centralia boys in that peni- tentiary. Five men have left San Quentin, California, this month and three more will be out by New Year's, Petroleum Explosion Takes Another Toll of Workers’ Lives LOS ANGELES, Calif. Dec. 29, — A terrific explosion partially wrecked the Hawaiian-American steamship pier at Wilmington, near here, today. Four men were badly injured, two ‘haps fatally. One man is missing. ie blast was caused when a pe- traleum pipe line underneath the pier blew up. } erican Railroads .Make Big 1926 Profit WASHINGTON, — A return of a b8iion and a quarter dollars was made as a net operating Income by Class i railroads in the country in 1926, ac- ing to the American Railway As- sociation This amounts to 5.23 per cent on what is in most cases an in- flated valuation, The return is the highest since the war. Judge Rules for Labor Officials. NEW YORK.—A_ruling of interest to union men was made by supreme court Justice Crain, when he decided that seventeen officers of Local No. 8, Electrical Workers’ Union were en- titled to have their legal expenses paid out of the local’s treasury, They are accused of having accepted bribes, The judge ruled that, since the mat- ter was one of interest to all mem- bers of the local, such payments for legal defense could not be considered as a misyse of the loval’s funds, lcLass CONSCIOUS LEATHER WORKERS | URGED TO FIGHT FEDERATION ACTION AGAINST CZECHO-SLO The following appeal from the Red Trades Union International, leather workers’ section, is sent to all leather workers in all countries: The cause of unity for which the progressive leather workers of all countries have already been fighting tor years has been dealt a fresh blow, and by the leaders of the Interna-; tional Leather Workers’ Federation, Expel Czecho-Slovakians Not satisfied with constantly sabo-| taging all efforts to establish unity, these leaders have not admitted into the federation the revolutionary SLOVAKIAN ie by aan principles of the class a in order to clear the way for admit- ting the union headed by Johannis and Srba and openly cooperating with them, We were right: From continu- ous and direct opposition to the cause of unity the leaders of the Leather In- ternational have taken to fresh acts ot disruption, thereby continuing to weaken the forces of the organized workers in the leather industry and their power of resistance to the em- ployers, Against All Class-Conscious. These splitting tactics, so adversely li. DAFLY Wu leather workers’ unions of. the U. 8. | affecting the cause of International S. R., of France, and other countries. | Trade Union Unity, are directed not More, they have entered the camp Of/only against the fellow workers of the open enemies of international | (zecho-Slovakia, They are also being -KER ILLINOIS CORN Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism SEE PROSPERITY Dloensinetin de Example | of Conditions By SCOTT NEARING, BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Dec. 29. lidge prosperity has not yet over- whelmed Bloomington. In fact, no one in town seemed to know anything about it. Bloomington is an Illinois city built IMMIGRATION IS UP IN CONGRESS FARMER DOESN'T : ae Crisis Insarance. In the face of the heavy drain wpon the party and its syii pathizers for money to support The DAILY WORKER, in the face of the crisis which still exists, we are forced by the gravity of the situation to do some serious thinking dbout what we shall do in the future regarding the maintenance of our paper. For one the management has determined to adopt what might be called @ saner, more conservative, financial policy. We shall br guided by our resources in formulating our plans for the futu rather than by our desires. This will be a determinant factor deciding upon the size of the puper, the price of bigs eh hic in a rich corn belt. At the peak this farm land brought $500%an acre. IN MANY FORMS Sabath Bill Aims to Join Families $50 per acre. picked up on foreclosures the few years, have made matters worse. Broke Either Way, | “We are the world’s real benefac- | tors,” scoffed a farmer. “Every time we sell a bushel of corn this year we Pp WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The re- strictive imnpigration law is scheduled to face a bannage of amendments from a large congressional group as soon as congress gets back to work, At} a recent sale a first-class farm brot | It is whispered that one | of the banks has 30,000 acres of land} This year’s low corn DHbes | the features to be included, credit, ete. Secondly we must learn to exploit all owr resources fa finance the paper, such as the sale of advertising space-to friend- ly organizations and individuals, as well as tradesmen, the solicitation of printing orders, and the lil | Thirdly, we will never be rid of the fear of impending finan- cial disaster until we have developed reliable DAILY WORKER agents and boosters in every important city and town. This t# basic. Without this essential factor we are building upon sand, These agents must build up a loyal army of DAILY WORKER unity by expelling from the ranks of the international, at the 1925 Paris congress, the Czecho-Slovakian unions | in the boot and shoe makers, leather | workers and glove makers, The only crime these unions were guilty of was that suffering persecution at the hands of their reactionary government which had dissolved the Boot and Shoemakers’ Union, they affiliated as a: leather workers’ section to the | Czecho-Slovakian One Big Union, the sole organization ‘that afforded them shelter after the dissolution of the leather union in question and enabled them to continue their activities legal- ly, Admit Black-Legs, But that was not enough for the International Federation leaders. Atfer expelling the Czecho-Slovakian unions, they decided at the Frankfort meeting of the international executive in June, 1926, to admit into the Inter- national in place of the expelled un- ions the Czecho-Slovakian black-leg union’ “Unie Kozedelniki,” which had played a double game in 1922 when the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union of Czecho-Slovakia was closed down by the government in view of allegations made by Johannis and Srba, leaders of the said Unie Kozedelniki. Altho the leaders of the Nuremberg Inter- national knew this, and had even en- tered a protest, they admitted Johan- nis’ union into their ranks. without investigating the matter, without un- dertaking any careful and objective examination of the behavior and ac- tivities of the Unie Kozelniki on the one hand and of the revolutionary unions on the other. Long Foreseen, This was long foreseen by the revo- lutionary Workers’ International pro- paganda committee. We have repeat- edly warned all honest workers of our industry of its likelihood and predict- ed that the International Federation leaders were prepared: tO expe] the Czecho-Slovakian union which stood , organizations cted against all leather workers’ recognizing the class | struggle and working for unity. The ame international executive meeting that’ admitted Johannis’ union also decided to add a clause to the Inter- ational constitution to the effect that “admission shall be refused should the organization’ making application for {admission belong to any other trade union international,” By adopting this clause the leading lights of the feder- ation betray their conscious and pre- meditated desire to prevent the entry into the International of all unions ding on the platform of consistant class struggle. Comrades! this fact, like that of the expulsion of the Ozecho-Slovakian un- ions and the admission in their stead of the reactionary and black-leg “Unie Kozedelniki,” constitutes a fresh ini- mical act towards the the cause of {nternational Trade Union Unity. The Leather Workers’ I, P. C, calls upon the workers of the industry in all countries to join with it in entering their strong protest against this split- ng policy of the Nuremberg Interna- tional leaders and against their at- tempt to isolate the leather proletar- of many countries from their low workers organized in unions af- filiated to the Leather Workers’ Inter- national, Demand the rescinding of the dect- sion adopted by the executive body at the next International Leather Work- ers’ congress. Work for rallying and iting the scattered forces of the ather workers everywhere. Advocate and insist dn the setting up of a single fighting international fpr the leather workers to include all unions recogni- zing the class struggle and standing for the defense of the vital interests of the working class. Down with the policy of disruption! Long live international unity! Revolutionary Leather Work- ers’ International Propaganda Committee. Lieberman, Executive Board Member of Furriers’ Union, and Slugger of Left Wing, Recei In direct violation of trade union agreements and ruies, which strictly prohibit individual agreements, M. Lieberman, executive board member! of local 45, Furriers’ Union, Chicago, is accepting commissions and bonus on a certain grade of furs sold by Siegel & Barth, 39 S. State street, this city. This information comes to The DAILY WORKER trom a_ reliable source. Lieberman is chief aid to Millstein, who is one of the sluggers employed ceives Bonus from Boss to beat up the left wing of the or- ganization. Lieberman is himself in violent opposition to the left wing. ‘The question which arises is wheth- er Lieberman is influenced in his atti- tude to his union because of this hith- erto secret agreement with one of the bosses. Do the rank and file of the right wing wish to trust its interests and the interests of the union as a whole in Lieberman's hands, already full of a secret bonus from a boss? What is the answer? Gangster Attacks Work er in Restaurant While He Is Talking with Labor Group Messenger’s Lunch Room at 1063 West Madison street is a gathering place for working men, who frequently sit about and talk things over in an orderly manner after a lunch or late supper. There, too, it appears, a bunch of gangstrs have also been loafing, Bill Harris, a painter, was in Mes- senger’s recently, talking with a may, who is a member of the “Amalga- mated,” Harris’ had noticed on for- mer occasions that two or three men sitting about had watched his. group. As he stood there, Harris was sud- denly wheeled around by a gangster, who, with the words, “So you'd like to know how tough we are, would you?” dealt him a blow on the right cheek, Harris instinctively squared off, whereupon the tough knocked him over the head with the butt of a 45- calibre revolver, Harris had to go to the hospital to have stitches taken ih his sealp. The manager of the restaurant said that the group of which the assailant was one had been in the habit of hanging around there; that he ‘had heard them at times say something about “sapping up” on somebody, but that he had no reasoh to guppose they would pull any of their @trty work in his place. Harris knows no reason for the as- sattt, save that he was talking with a union man and presumably, to the gang, on labor matters, We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER te your friends~ Sipineteehareenilen Age iad COAL STORAGE YARDS ARE BULGING WITH RESERVE IN PREPARATION FOR STRIKE The stocking up of bituminous coal as a reserve for the expected miners’ strike in April is reaching the bursting point and coal prodic- tion is falling off. Figures of the National Coal Asso- ciation show that the third week in December produced 13,600,000 tons, about 1,000,000 tons less than the first week. The production was nev- erthe about one-third above the normal weekly output of about 10, 000,000 tons, Navy Yard Machinists Ask Cal for More Pay WASHINGTON— The Washington navy yard machinists are the champ: jon optimists for 1926. They are seeking to interest President Coo- lidge in their demand for higher wages. The Navy Department wage board has so far ignored’the demand of Local N. 174, International Associ- ation of Machinists for an increase. The men now receive 84 cents per hour, while pointing out that machin- ists in the government printing piant, and bureau of engraving are getting $1.10 or more. More than 800 men ise codoansed in. Cay Behe foe. Haner rate of pay. Cue al | Wan one asad Winds The contrgversy is expected to re- solve chiefly’ardund the so-called “na- tional origing?}provision which Presi- dent Coolidge is directed to proclaim by April 1,"and around the charges that the 1924 law inhumanly separates families of imthigrants. President @bdolidge has been advised that it is mafidatory upon him to pro- claim the “ational origins” provi- sion. The law required the chief exe- cutive to do“this if quotas would be worked out. Attack “National Origins” Section. A virtual flood of propaganda for repeal of this section has swelled in from Scandinavian strongholds. Sen- ator Shipstead, farmer-labor of Min- nesota, is expected to lead the sen- ate fight for repeal. Under the “national origins” section the annual quota of immigrants would be cut from 164,000 to 150,000. Quotas would be in proportion to the past con- tribution of aiiy nationality to Amer- ican population, as’ revealed by the 1920 census.” This scheme’ would increase the quotas of somie’nations and decrease those of others. An estimate eubmit- ted to the semate by Senator Reed, republican of Pennsylvania, showed that the combined a: of Norway and Sweden would be om 16,014 to 6,140 annually, that t Britain and Ireland would be raised from 62,- 458 to 91,111 aiid Germany's would be cut from 50,129 to 22,018. Quotas of many eastern Huropean nations would be reduced. Sabath Urges His Bill. Representative Sabath, republican of Mlinois, is.Jeading a fight in the house for pasgage of his bill which would base quotas on the 1900 census and would peymit American citizens to bring. in ag,non-quota immigrants wives, fathers, mothers and unmarried minor children. Aliens who have de- clared their ,intention to become ens would be:allowed to bring in wives and chifdren under eighteen years of age... The present ‘aw, which only allows American citizens to bring in, outside the quota, wives and minor children has resulted, in the separation of families of thousands of immigrants, it is asserted,, A score of other bills are pending which propose various changes in the immigration law affecting more than 500,000 people, but it is doubtful if any change will be made because of the short life of the present session. Advocates of the present immigra- tion policy will try to push thru the deportation bill now pending in con- gress, according to Representative Johnson, republican of Washington, chairman of the house immigration committee. Tiiig measure, Johnson said, would make possible the deporta- tion of aliem gunmen, narcotics’ peddlers and bdotleggers, Ben Reitman Dines Ex-Service Men, Three hundm@ men who had served time in twenty[@ifferent penitentiaries were given ‘hristmas dinner and party by Dr. Hen Reitman at the Bos- ton Oyster use. [aN Y Dear Ghpreee Miller:—In The noticed a-tetter that carried my last few weeks fn the present drive ti HER CHALLENGE ANSWERED and the customer a quarter. Yes sir,” le insisted, “if you add 25c a bushel o the market price you will know ust how much it cost us to raise this year’s corn crop. We're broke if we do and we're broke if we don’t.” Business Poor. One of the Bloomington merchants complained about the slack Christmas trade. His attention was called to the reports in a Chicago paper of very extensive Christmas sales thru Illi- nois, “You'll have to show me,” he snap- ped back, “They haven’t been near my store, nor any of my neighbors’, either.” Wages Low. - Workers in Bloomington wonder what is coming next, Wages are low 6c an hour is the going wage for unskilled men, - In the railroad shops, which employ about 700 men, there have been many layoffs and much part-time, There are other difficulties. The unions were broken in the 1922 shop strike. Company unions took their places. Recently attempts have been made to revive the unions but the active spirits have been laid off one by one, Not for union activities, of course. But the layoff has come none |the less surely to those who have been trying to get the union going. Andrew Mellon should visit Bloom- ington before he makes another state- ment about general prosperity. His Presence is needed to help farmers, merchants and workers to realize how fortunate they are, Attorney for Coal Company Named for Commerce Position WASHINGTON.—The sinister m fluence of Mellon is seen again in the appointment by the president of Cymis E. Woods to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Wood was counsel for the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany when it sought to have the com- mission reduce freight rates to the lake regions, contending that West Virginia and Kentucky had a better rate on soft coal than the Pennsyl- vania operators. But as the non-union fields were being favored at that time, Pennsylvania lost out. Woods en- deared himself to the administration by working for Pepper in his cam- paign. The appointment will likely bring a sharp conflict in the senate. NO CHOIGE OFFERED 10 STRIKERS NOW AS TO WHO SHOOTS THEM UP Chicago police were on even terms with gangsters today following the arrival of a consignment of 30 ma- chine gunr. The guns aré of the same variety as those usea by the powerful beer gangs whose depredations have spread terror in underworld circles. Each detective bureau squad will be equipped with a machine gun. Miami, Florida, December 24, 1926. DAILY WORKER of December 22 | name in regards to what | did in the o Keep The DAILY WORKER. 1 can say that, for the /‘rst thing, | do not know in what district Miami is and what other cities a district is filli district. n our district, so that its quota, after we 1 must all> say that | did little in this drive because of the late storm which we had jin our city and the fact | also canjsay that | am not an old timer in this district and it is harder a drive than for somebody who lived in this district for a long I these conditions | have collected $60 in this drive. remember, in the last drive for subs for The DAILY WORKER for me to lea time. Under If you wi we knew wh the country i were in our branches In thtse two cities had helpe: leader. So | say too, | am su of Jacksonvill our district consisted reaching the quota. if Comrade Max Merlin will stay by Miami and Atlanta, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Fla., istrict in the last drive for subs and if the Workers Party at if Atlanta and Jacksonville are in our district in this drive, we can organize and see to it that our will know what the quota is for the that life is not settled yet. of and Miami was the second city in d, District No. 16 would have been the porting the paper. agent. have a DAILY bone of It is these comrades who year, DAILY shock troops, who shall devote themselves to the big task of sup- Every unit of the party must have such on Every trade union group should have such an agent. Every fraternal organization with a left wing group should WORKER agent. and hig squad of DAILY WORKER boosters is the living baek- The DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER agent will establish a sound founda tion for The DAILY WORKER on the basis of increased cirewa- tion, thru subscriptions and sales. arrange suitable affairs for the benefit of the paper all thru the not waiting until a critical WORKER agents and The DAILY WORKER boosters are the only reliable insurance agents against the future recur- rence of our financial difficulties. It is these comrades who will situation is reached, The —BERT MILLER. Professor Adams to Represent America at Geneva Tax Meet WASHINGTON—The United States will be represented at the league of nations economic conference in Gen- eva next month, the White House an- nounced. The treasury indicated that Dr. T. S. Adams, professor of economics at Yale, would be selected as the Amer’ ican delegate. Would Parcel School Fund to Meet Needs SPRINGFIELD, IIl., Dec. 29.—Fran- cis G, Blair, state superintendent of public instruction, speaking here at the 78rd annual convention of the llinois State Teachers’ Association, “1 something to say about the dis- ribution of the school fund. He charges that under the present listributive law $8,000,000 is collected year from and sent back to thy districts, when, to equalize cational opportunities, it sould be tributed where most needed. As it he said, the poor districts are un- ible to meet the educational stand- ards set by the state. City’s Crooked River to Be Made Straight Mayor Dever has thrown the firet shovelful of earth in Chicago’s $9,000,- 000 project of straightening the river between Polk and Eighteenth streets. Three years will be required to com- plete the work, which will open sev- eral streets south of the loop and re- lieve the congestion on a few streets that now carry the traffic. The property of several railroads was involved and considerable difi- culty was encountered in making finan- cial settlements with them to make the project possible, ach Autos Keep Rallroads Busy. NEW YORK, Dec, 29—-Automobiles, trucks and their parts required 832,- 719 railroad cars for their transporta- tion in the past year, according to the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, WASHINGTON, Dec. 29—A wail of grief has gone up from U. 8S. army feaders as the result of news that the to be made at the expense of the army personnel. Instead of recruiting 1, 248 new men for the air service, as contemplated, the men will come out of the ranks, it has been ordered. Army leaders are declaring that |" such action is “dangerous” because the strength of the army has already been decreased, of Atlanta and Comrade Louis Bernard work in this drive, and | ALSO CHAL- LENGE COMRADE MENDLIN OF NORTH MIAMI who is an old timer in our elty, to help in this drive, we will keep The DAILY WORKER in this district before}the eyes of the labor movement. Enclosed find check for $10 ae a start of this drive. Fraternally youre, L, TOoUuBy. Ee om pi aR ceil Max Amsterdam, violin solo extension of the army air service is|- “THE PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE”. A Motion Picture to be shown at Forester Hall, Olive and 10th St. LOS ANGELES, CAL. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, ADMISSION 28 CENTS Proceeds for relief of textile strikers’ c! | SAD REWS TO BANKERS; | THEY'LL HAVE T0 SPEND OWN MONEY FOR ARM! be MADISON, Wis. Dec. 29.—Orga.. ization of vigilantes by the Wir consin Bankers’ Association receiv- ed a setback today in an opinion by Attorney General Ekern advising D. K. Allen, district attorney of Winnebago county, that county boards have no authority to appro- priate money for arms and ammunl- tion to equip members of the so- called vigilance committees. A number of counties have already made such appropriation. Guards Around.Jai} | to Protect C?hfessed Slayer of Family iL, Texas, Dec, 29.—Hxtra guards; were placed around the jail here today, as a result of the latest statement by George J. Hasseli, ad- mitted slayer of his wife and eight step-children, Efforts were being made to check details of the statement with Califor- nia authorities. After admitting he beat, obokea and shot to death his wife and chil- dren, Hassell last night told of kill- ed to give the names of the victims or the place where the killings are alleged to have occurred. —_—_——— Six Die in Auto-Train Crashes, DETROIT, Dec. 23—Six persons are dead today as aresult of injuries suf fered im two automobiletrain eolli- sions. ~~ crossing in Wyandotte, ‘Three others met death when | car crashed into a Wabash train at a crossing in Puce, Ont, GINSBERGS Vegetarian 2324-26 Brooklyn ore Several plan with lectures and Ler Progen ey is a week in Chicago and ands te ee ati bg nis pith igh-ciass work, onl best, will be considered, A Fa tion, For Bureau, Dept. Nashville, Tenn,