The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 4, 1927, Page 4

eet tata € Md. GP oy Organi News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics CAN USE UNION FUNDS TO FIGHT Local to Pay for Defense of Officers NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Seventeen of- @cials of Electrical Workers’ Local 3 &re entitled to use the union’s funds in @efending themselves against the @barges preferred by H. H. Broach, vioe-president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Justice Thomas €. T. Crain ordered vaeated the injunction secured tem- porarily by Julius V. Timko prevent- img such use of local union funds. Charges Looting. ‘Timko asserted that the accused union officers were intent on looting the treasury. The court ruled that the union might protest if the officials presented too large bills, but that the | present injunction was untimely, | Would Try Selves. No decision has been given by Jus- tlee Crain on the other injunction, | which the accused officers secured | temporarily against, international of-| ficers. The local men insist that they | be tried in New York by their own | executive board, while the interna- tional officers hold that they should be | tried by the parent body in Washing- | ton, since most of the trial board | would be made up of those accused | otherwise. | The local officials are charged with misconduct office, failure to obey union rules and accepting bribes from employers, among other things. About 500 affidavits in support of the | charges were filed by Broach against | the injunction. Union Teachers Seek State Legislation to Get Adequate Salary NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Pass the Cole- Rice bill ts the word the Union , organ of the New York teachers’ union gives city teachers who have struggled repeatedly for pay increases. Only by getting state legislation se- curing state financial aid will the teachers in New York City be safe in their pay raises, the claims, Two years ago the legisla- ture gave the teachers pay increases, but Governor Smith vetoed the bill on the claim that there was no money provided and that it was up to the city to take care of its own teachers. ‘The union says that the teachers’ pay today is no more than in 1913, and maybe less, with the cost of living up. Library Workers in Queens Demand Equal Pay with New Yorkers NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Library work- ers of Queens borough petitioned Mayor James Walker for equal pay with other New York City librarians. A “Fable for Father Knickerbocker” was the title of the lfbrary, workers’ appeal. It cited the pay increases announced for firemen, policemen, street clean- ers and other city workers from the $1,000,000 contingency fund. Owen J. Dever, director of the Qneens brary, said workers there do 50 per cent more work than employes in the New York library and yet are paid less. He asked for 32 more work- ors. NOW READY! LITTLE RED LIBRARY No. 10 CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.5.R. Rights of the Trade Unions in the U. S. S. R. By V. Yatotsky. Sooial Insurance in the U. S. S. R. By N. Yekovsky. This little booklet is intended as a manual for American workers con- taining in the form of adopted laws all of the demands that they them- selves must fight for in the United States. But it also shows what can b@ done in the way of protection of labor in a country where a child labor aw cannot be declared unconstitu- onal because it interferes with pro- %. In Russia child labor is judged t from its effects on profits but on 8 health of the children, Published by the LY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 11: W. Washington Bivd., 4g, CHICAGO, ILL. OF ew — union organ | mn zed Labor—Trade Uni on Activities - | LABOR PAID THE DIVIDEND (From Minneapolis Labor Recorder.) F a worker took a man of wood with him on the job, stood the dummy up and safd to the employer, “This is John Smith, he is going to work here, put him on the payroll and pay | him off at the scale every payday,” jit would be branded as an outrage, jand it would be. Newspapers and magazines would declare this to be the height of Bol- | shevism, and if thousands of worxers | |adopted the same plan and insisted | upon it the newspapers and magazines | would aver that the revolution was on in full blast. | The United States Steel Corporation \has done practically this very thing in | |the declaring of a $200,000,000 stock | dividend. It is almost exactly what | happens every time any corporation | declares a stock dividend, | Owners of steel stock will receive stock in the amount of 40 per cent | of the stock they now hold as a result of the stock dividend. This means that hereafter dividends must be paid sar on $200,000,000 more of | every stock by the steel company than pre viously. For this extra stock not one penn has been or will be paid by any stock- | holder who receives it, It is true that this $200,000,000 will | not leave the coffers of the steel trust. | But if it is used for buildings and | equipment, as«it may be, in addition | to depreciation, there must be paid the dividends. While if it had been put directly into buildings and equip- ment without the issuance of new stock or paid in a cash dividend the employes of the steel trust would not have been compelled to produce so much more to pay the dividends on the extra stock every year. It is difficult to see the difference between paying a wooden man who cannot do any work and issuing stock for which no money has been paid. The only apparent difference is that the employer would pay the dummy, while the workers must pay the divi- dends on the stock for which the hold- ers pay no money, ‘This huge stock dividend is not an- nounced by any daily newspaper as having any revolutionary significance. But where did the money in the steel trust surplus come from that made the stock dividend possible? What ‘was it that piled up this great finan- | clal resource. | It is the result of the most bitter {exploitation of labor that has perhaps |been known since the building of the pyramids. It represents the blasted hopes of thousands of workers: who left European homes to come to Amer- ica to work for the steel trust in the | belief that they were coming to a land of freedom and plenty. It represents the curses that have come from lips of workers for industrial conditions in this country, from lips that would rather have blessed and praised, In that stock dividend are contained the homes that are rightfully the steel workers’, while they shiver in the squalor and discomfort of the shacks of steel trust towns. In that dividend are the educations which belong to the children of the steel workers that they will never receive. It contains the pretty things and com- forts that steel workers’ wives and daughters long for as ardently as the Come Out and Record Your Protest at Rule of Fascist Terrorism Tomorrow, Tuesday evening, there will be a meeting of protest at the fascist terror in Lithuania, which will take on also the nature of a memo- rial to the four comrades who were recently executed by a firing squad in that country, now in the grip of the deepest reaction, Poschela, Greifen- berger, Tschiorny and Giedris, The meeting will be at Lithuanian hall, 3133 South Halsted street, under tae auspices of the Lithuanian branch of the International Labor Defense. C. E, Ruthenberg, secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, will speak, as well as others. Lithuanian comrades are urging by cabled messages that the working class of the world protest against the white terror, The same request comes from Moscow. The need of action is urgent. Every man and woman who attends this meeting will, even by his presence alone, add to the volume of resentment that the proletariat of the world must show at the atrocities now being inflicted on the Communists, and thru them on the whole working class, by the present forces in power in Lithuania, in Printing Trades, Passes in New York NEW YORK, Jan, 2. — After failing in health for two years, Edward B. Bessette died here @& the Knickem bocker Hospital. Bessette was for a quarter of a century a labor leader in the printing trades of the Middle West and Pacific Coast, having been largely instrumental in securing the 48-hour woek for printers in Chicago in 1905, He also had a part in drafting the firat workingmen’s compensation legis wives and daughters of the owners of the steel trust. In it are the broken romances of young steel workers who wish to marry and establish homes, | but who were prevented by the low steel trust wages and the long steel trust hours that prevailed until re- cently, Hours spemt by the workers in the terrific heat of the blast furnaces; the injured whose families were never recompensed for their injuries re- ceived while employed by the steel trust; the murder of Fannie Sellins by steel trust thugs for her efforts to organize the slaves of steel; the frameups to break the unions of the steel workers; the sweat and blood and toil of those who work in steel— they are in that dividend. Newspapers will tell you about all the stock steel trust employes own. They count the holdings of Judge Gary, president of the trust, as em- ploye stock. But they fail to mention that the holdings of Gary and* other company officials are far more than the stock owned by the other em- ployes. The benefit that will accrue to steel trust labor compared to the benefit of a decent wage will be smal! ndeed, Granting management all the credit to which it is entitled, the fact re- mains that labor paid the stock divi- dend, even tho it did not declare it. Labor will continue to pay on a larger scale in proportion to the increased unount of stock. Declaring of this mammoth dividend iscredits every statement steel trust s have ever made that they can- not pay higher wages and grant better working conditions, It should encour- age the steel workers to renew their forts for ofganization. . Steel trust workers lured from other ountries by gaudy advertising must realize again that this is a wonderful e country, rich in every resource, but | that it is only wonderful for those | workers who organize and develop sufficient power to bring the results of their toil into pay envelopes rather than t@ the declaring of stock divi- dends that are apt to spell less re- ward for those who toil unless they organize and insist upon industrial justice, i - * vA E DAILY WORKER Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism TAXI DRIVERS IN N.Y, FIGHT ‘GZAR’ IN POLICE DEPT, Licenses Are Revoked at Whim of Officer NEW YORK, Jan, 2—New York taxicab drivers are watphing with keen interest the test fight the Taxi Men's Association {s making against Second Deputy Police Co! issioner John Daly, license dictator.j Suit has been filed by the taxi men’s, organiza- tion in behalf of a driver ed Theo- dore Zanghi, whose lice! was re- voked by Daly on the charge of the New York Hare Chase corp. When Zanghi paid $35 under protest for the alleged “larceny of tools’: hig license was restored. Is Collecting Agenoy. Repeated complaints of taxi drivers have brought the editor of Taxi Weekly, & trade paper, into the fight on Daly’s abuse of power. The driv- ars assert that Daly is acting as a col- lecting agent for the collection of ivil. debts—as in the Zanghi case. Daly is also accused by the drivers of jrevoking their licenses, and thus de- |priving them of their means of earn- ling a living, for minor offenses and | sometimes trumped up charges. | Actions Arbitrary. | The second deputy police commis- sioner of New York Cify has sole charge of licensing of hacks and cabs. Daly, while in that office, has’ made a Bike sami emma CENTRAL TRADES OF NEW YORK VOTES FULLEST AID TO PAPER BOX STRIKERS NEW YORK, Jan, 2.—Fullest sup- port and consideration for the ap- peal of striking paper box workers was voted by the New York Central Trades and Labor Council. The Paper box workers, numbering nearly 4,000, struck thirteen weeks ago for a 44-hour week, minimum wage scales thruout the Industry, and complete unionization. Police played a strong part for the employ- ers in the course of the strike, ar- resting many pickets on minor charges, intimidating others, and guarding delivery wagons, Judge Lindsay Hears How Augustin Morales Was Beaten by Police Judge William J, Lindsay withheld decision after hearing evidence in sup- port of issuing bench warrants for the arrest of Oak Park and Melrose Park policemen for assault on Augustin Morales, now held in the county jail in connection with the shooting at ‘Melrose Park Dec. 7. Morales was represented by his attorney, Mar) Belle Spencer, Dr. Sylvester M. Loyola of the John B. Murphy Hospital testified to the injuries inflicted on Morales, as did also the Mexican consul, Luis Lupian. and a representative of The DAILY WORKER. The official reporter of the coroner's office also appeared un- der subpoena with his transcript of the testimony at the inquest into Of- ficer Stahl’s death. Judge Lindsay agreed to give his decision in the matter later. In the meantime, Henry Pein, the chief of police of Melrose Park, was seen about the corridors of the crimi- nal courts building, either in anxiety over the case or possibly in an at- tempt to.bring politica] influence to bear. Morales says that one of the beatings he got was from Chief Pein himself. The chief had supplied him- practice of calling drivers ‘into his |office whenever any sort f report is | made against the worker,‘ ' A The driver may or may hot be given \a chance to explain his sid to Daly. | Usually he is threatened and too often \actually penalized by suspension or revocation of his driving Meense. self with an Italian to interpret from Spanish to English. Becoming en- raged that Morales could not under- stand the Italian’s alleged Spanish, the chief beat him up. We will send sample coples of The DAILY WORKER to vour friends— Workers (Communist) Party - Experiences with “The Ford Worker” PITTSBURGH IN CALL 10 ALL WORKERS IN THIS BIG INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT To all members of the Workers Party, Young Workers’ League and working class in general in the Pittsburgh district: The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club is organized—and has already began showing its color. It has arranged the greatest af- fair ever held in our district for Sat- urday Evening, January 15, 1927. Help wanted, male and female, ages between seven and seventy, no discrimination against sex, only A-1, first class live wires (that means business! wanted. Ones that want to work their way in to the Build- ers’ Club—the foundation of per manent SUB getting, FINANCE SUPPLYING force in this district. The party as a whole, particularly in this district has always been busy trying to do something for The DAILY WORKER but never had satisfactory results. It Is be- cause an organization like The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club has not been organized to carry on the work systematically. You only have one problem to solve now, and that is how you are | going to become a member of this organization—The DAILY WORK- ER Builders’ Club. The Following is How You Can Be- come a Member. Do either one or every one of the following: Get $6.00 worth of sub- scriptions to any of the Workers Party publications, $6.00 worth of donations or sell one strip of eleven (11) tickets for the January 15 af- fair. Unit secretaries and The DAILY WORKER agents are requested to send in the names of those that have fulfilled the above require- ments, since Nov. 1, 1926, so they will be recorded as members of the Builders’ Club, All the names of The DAILY WORKER Builders’ Club will be published in the program. for Janu- ary 15, 1927, dance. Also their deeds, the bigger the better. Watch The DAILY WORKER for interesting write-ups, particularly for the January 15 affair. To keep better record and do the jobk more systematically send all subs to either one of these parties, Rose Dictor, Young Workers’ League Campaign manager, D. E. Farly, The DAILY WORKER Agent, John Kasper, City Agent. Address all mail to 805 James St., Room 5 N. S&S. Pittsburgh, Pa. where the sensational January 15 affair dance will be held. Fraternally yours, John. Kasper,Secretary, DALLAKWORKARulidoreCivh 3 faxampoes Tenet spe: EVERAL arrests and attempted prosecutions have been ‘part of the experience of the Ford shop nuclei of Detroit in issuing the Ford Worker, their official organ. In spite of this opposition of the Ford Motor Co, and the Highland Park and Fordson po- ‘lice and judges, thé monthly sale at the factory gates reached @tone time a total of 13,000. } Our experience will be of benefit to other shop nuclei who are striving to issue their shop paper. The first ob- stacle that the nuclei was confronted with was the question of financing the paper in order that it could come out regularly each month. We held a raffle under the auspices of an edu- cational club and raised $367.50, One hundred dollars of this money was donated to The DAILY WORKER last May. The balance of the money was used in printing the paper for free distribution. Beginning with the fifth issue, in July, the paper has been sold at 1 cent a copy. The paper is more than paying for itself. There was a surplus of $100 for September, This was donated to Thg DAILY WORKER. Twenty-five hundred copies of the first issue were distributed fee at the Highland Park plant, and this total was increased at the rate of 1,000 cop- jies until we reached 5,500 with the fourth issue. The reason that more papers were not distributed was that | Ford secret service and the municipal | police interfered with the distribution. There is an ordinance forbidding free distribution in Highland Park and Fordson, especially in the case of lit- erature pertaining to the ¢ducation |and organization of the workers. May 1 three comrades weré arrested for distributing and were ed $20 }each, The case was appealed to the | Wayne county cireuft court ‘and the | decision was reversed. By refusing to ‘submit to Ford dictatorship @xercised thru the municipal police, Ford Shop Nuclei No, 1 won an important vic- | tory. In the free distribution we organized a distributing squad of comrades who did not work at Ford’s—women com- rades for afternoon and men com- rades for midnight distribution. We had to work under cover and fast. Toward the last the comrades dis: tributed about five minutes, and at the most ten minutes, and then dis- persed, The police, together with the Ford Motor Co., have made it so hard for us to distribute any papers that in the latter part of June we decide to get newsboys’ licenses. Comrade Sarah Victor, the Detroit DAILY WORKER agent, was arrested three timés in one afternoon. The next mornifg Chief of Police Charles W, Se; d the clty attorney could not con’ the jude that the Ford Worker not > dis~ SECOND TERM OF CHICAGO WORKERS’ SCHOBL OPENS JAN 10; ADD NEW COURSES The second term of the Chicago Workers’ School begins on Monday, Jan, 10, The classes are given every evening. Some new subjects have been added to the curriculum, which is as follows: Problems of Labor Movement, with particular reference to Chicago, Monday; Swabeck, teacher. Elementary Economics, Tuesday; L. Fisher. Elements of Political Education, Wednesday; W. Simons, American Imperialism, Thursday; M. Shachtman, American Labor and Political His- tory, Friday; R. Cooper. Classes in English: Monday at 1902 W. Division street; L. Reiser- off. Thursday at 1806 S. Racine avenue; L, Beidel. The enroliment fee is $1.50 for each class. Classes given at 10 South Lincoln street, missed the case the chief told Com rade Victor that at the next session ; of the city council her newsboy li- cense and the licenses of six others would be revoked. The council has met many times, but has not yet taken action against this growing shop paper. In spite of this opposition, we have succeeded in reaching a mass of work- ers who not only buy the paper to read themselves but who distribute it among their shopmates and contribute stories about shop conditions. The Ford Worker gives us the op-; portunity to agitate or propagandize among our shopmates. When the paper comes out we naturally ask our shopmates if they read the last issue of the Ford Worker and if they liked it. In the conversation that follows we get suggestions, pointers or val- uable criticism, Even boys in the trade schoo] and women in the plant ate interested in the paper, Thru our activities with the Ford Worker we are also convincing the comrades who have stayed out of the party that the reorganization of the party along the basis of shops, mills and mines is effective. Thru our ac- tivities all comrades are taking more interest in the party work, Iron Works Up In Smoke, STERLING, Ill, Jan, 2—The Nov- elty Iron Works ‘was a mass of smoul- dering ruins today following a fire which completely destroyed the plant, with a loss of from $75,000 to $106;000, 70 trmay) Why. don’t you write it up? WITH THEY | ,CONDUCTED = BY TH UNG WORKERS LEAGUE THE GERMAN COMMUNIST YOUTH By IRVING M, GLAZIN. HE working masses in the after- the-world-war Germany, under the Versailles peace treaty and the Dawes plan, find themselves in a most de- plorable situation. More than 2,000,- 000 are unemployed. A great number work only part time, The German capitalists, not satisfied with their in- creased profits thru combining them- selves into syndicates and trusts, are also cutting wages, extending the working hours and introducing the speed-up system (like we have in the United States) in order to enrich themselves still more, The big agrarians even went so far as to increase the number of their Polish agricultural laborers to 130,000 in spite of the tremendous unemploy- ment of the German workers, just be- cause a Polish worker costs them 150 marks less. “The present German gov- ernment is fully controlled by the reavy industrialists and the big agra- ians, who usesthe state power for heir own interests. The government subsidies they get is already 1,000,- )00,000 marks, while the tax burden is borne almost solely by the toiling nasses, whose share of taxes» in- sreased since 1924 from 64 to 75 per cent, Y. C. L. Fights for Young Workers, How much worse the conditions of the young workers are I have pre- viously mentioned in my correspond: ence from Berlin (D. W. Youth Col- umn, May 25). No changes for the better have occurred since then. On the contrary, the conditions of the toiling yputh, the situation of the 350,- 000 unemployed young workers, have Educational-Social Meeting Held Here by Young Workers Last Sunday night the Chicago Young Workers’ League held its first monthly educational-social member- ship meeting. Comrade William F. Dunne spoke on the new drive against the left wing in the trade unions, and the tasks of the young workers in helping defeat it, Comrade Dunne’s speech was well received by the audience, which filled the hall at 1902 W. Division street. After the lecture discussion=followed. At 8 o’clock the hall was turned over to dancing and games, which continued till 11:30. A splendid time was had by all. The Chicago league plans to make these educational-social meetings (to which outsiders are invited) a regular monthly feature. Young Workers Will Remember Liebknecht On Jan, 16 at 8 p. m. the Young Workers’ League, Local Chicago, will celebrate Karl Liebknecht Day. The meeting will take place at the North- west hall, corner North avenue and Western. Comrades Williamson and Zam, both well versed in the activities of the international youth movement and life and work of Karl Liebknecht, have been secured to speak at this meet- ing. Comrade Max Bedacht of the C, EB, C. of the Workers Party will also talk. The Pioneers and the Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Sport club will participate, In St. Louis the Liebknecht meet- ing will be held on Jan, 9 at 2:30 p, m. at the Croatian hall, 1826 Chouteau avenue. They will have, besides a prominent speaker from the national office, a musical program and a Pioneer speaker, Why Not Become a W orker Correspondent? Dunn... ean and Luxemburg ... Zur Muehlen ... THE CRY FOR JUSTICE, by The Young Workers (Communist) become worse yet. In face of this situation no other youth organization except the Young Communist League fights so sincerely and energetically for the interests of the toiling youth. It is the Y, C. L, that carries on a fight against the compulsory labor laws which are being introduced against the young workers, against the speed-up system, against the Dawes plan, for youth protection laws, against increasing the age of electors from 18 to 21, etc, The Red Youth Front, The Y. C. L, is leading quite a suc- cessful fight for the united front of the young workers, or as they call it in Germany, the Red Youth Front. The new league leadership (elected at the last congress in October, 1928) had quite a hard job to start the united front activities, after the ultra- left leader, the renegade Katz, while one of the party leaders sent out in- structions that Communists must not greet social-democrats or shake hands with them, whether they are workers or non-workers, that they must wear red gloves when coming to meetings of the town councils, eto, Correct United Front Poltey. Now, of course, the Y. ©. L. has a correct united front policy, which con- sists in leading increasing numbers of the toiling youth in the daily struggle against the capitalist class. Thanks For Young Workers! | THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH, by Sam Darcy... YOUNG COAL MINERS, by Toohey, Nearing, Shields and THESES OF THE FOURTH Y. C. I, CONGRES: THE WORKERS’ CHILD, a magazine for children’s leaders..,...10c INTERNATIONAL OF YOUTH oss FAIRY TALES FOR WORKERS’ CHILDREN, by Herminia MY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA, by Leon Trotsky TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, by John Reed to this correct policy, the Y. ©. L. was successful in spite of the young socialist leaders, in forming united front committees in the campaign for the expropriation of the royalty and in sending working youth delegations to the Soviet Union. (To be continued.) Berkeley Y. W. L. Plans “Hard Times’ Social” and Dance for Jan. 22 BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 2. — Once more the hoboss are on the march. This time bound for Berkeléy for on Saturday, Jan, 22, at Comrades Hall, near University and San Pablo, at 8 p, m, the Berkeley group of the Young Workers’ League will give a “hard times” party and dance. Spe- cial hobo numbers are on the program as well as “eats.” Then @ real sur prise—Al Kelly’s Union Orchestra will play and a free, sub to the Young _ Worker for four months will be gtven with each ticket. The Berkeley group of the Young Workers’ League expects to trtple the quota of District 18 and promise a program even more interesting, bigger and better than the Hallowe'en Masquerade held on Oct. 29. A special officer will arrest every- one wearing good clothes and the eul- prits will be fined 25 cents. Tickets are 50 cents in advance; 60 cents will be charged for ail bums who fail to get a ticket in advance. Famous East Bay radicals will dance with us. Don’t forget the night—Jan. 22, at Comrades’ hall, 1819 Tenth street, Berkeley, \AAAAAAAABABARADBADLDLLD LS LOS ANGELES, ATTENTION! You are cordially invited to celebrate the 3rd ANNIVERSARY of The DAILY WORKER, the only militant American labor daily, by attending a . BANQUET, to be held on Saturday, Jan. 15, 1927, 8 P. M. at Co-Operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., Los Angeles, Cal. Elaborate musical program. Orations. Plate Dinner. Admission $1.00 Los Angeles Daily Worker Ageney, 322 West Second St. aneeeasanneensegenersnnnsennennenmen LENIN. LIEBKNECHT AND LUXEMBURG. by Max Shaoht- JANUARY FIFTEENTH, collected writings on Liebknecht ..cloth $2.00 paper $1.25 Upton Sinclair... Check the books you want and order from League, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Enclosed find $user fOr literature checked above. Send to: