The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 8, 1927, Page 5

| | \ ‘ BY 1000 WORKER. CORRESPONDENTS BY (SECOND PRIZE’ WINNER) GARY POLICE ARM FOR INDUSTRIAL WARFARE, QUERY More Cops Employed— County Gets Guns By JOE PLOTKIN, (Worker Correspondent) GARY, Ind., Jan, 6.~-First, the Gary | bankers gave the local police depart- | ment a Christmas present of a $10,000 automobile, bullet-proof, and contain- ing tear bombs and riot guns. A few days leter the police force ‘was increased by 17 new officers. | Now the news comes that the Lake , oounty sheriff has purchased 24 large, }and very powerful riot guns, Wonder Why? Whet is the reason for all this preparation? The Gary workers are | wondering. At the time that all ‘these preparations are being taken eare of more and more workers are being laid off of their jobs at the United States Steel Co, and subsid- farfes. More workers are lning up @t the employment offtoes every morn- ing, bet none are getting jobs. In all probability the authorities \of “Jaw and order,” are getting ready for industrial outbreaks, which are bound to come if present conditions continue. GARY RESTAURANT LABOR CONDUCTS UNION CAMPAIGN ‘Organization of Eating - Houses Progresses By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Jan. 6.—Organization of restaurant workers is progressing here. The following places have signed the union agreement and are there- fore declared fair to organized labor by Local No, 241 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ International Alliance and Bartenders’ International League of America: Boston Restaurant, 812 Broadway; Nelson Chop Honse, 26 Highth ave- nue; Ryan’s Restaurant, 706 Washing- ton street; Merchants’ Restaurant, 17 West Seventh avenue; Witte’s Res- taurant, 542 Washington street; Don- nehy’s Restaurant, 662 Washington street; Boulevard Restaurant, 135 West Sixth avenue; Union Lunch, La- bor Temple; Baltimore Lunch, Balti- more Hotel. The campaign is on for thé unioni- zation of other restaurants. The only demands of the union at present are: (1) Recognition of the union; (2) that each member of the union, Local No, 241, shall receive one day of rest in seven at the same weekly wages now being paid. Conditions Appalling. The conditions of work im some of the places are appalling. The worst example is perhaps the case of a girl in Solomon’s Restaurant. The girl is working seven days a week, split watch, for the sum of $6.25 a week. Such conditions must not be per- mitted to exist. They are caused by lack of organization among the work- ors. NOTICE TO CHICAGO READERS According to a new and more economical system | of newsstand distribution, The DAILY WORKER will _be on the stands by noon each day. Watch for it. GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant _ 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, _ LOS ANGELES, CAL. CHICAGO DAILY WORKER AGENTS MEETING Friday Night, Jan. 7th at 19 So. Lincoln Street re shbseription ratea;/By mail $6 PRIZE WINNERS THIS WEEK John Crockett of Bremerton, Washington, is awarded first prize for worker correspondent stories this week. His story telling of unusual condi- tions In the Puget Sound U. S. navy shipyards appears on this page. He will receive Upton Sinclair's workingclass novel, “King Coal.’ Second prize is awarded to Joe Plotkin, worker correspondent of Gary, Ind., who tells this week of what appears to be preparation in Gary for in- dustrial warfare. THE PRIZES FOR NEXT WEEK Two books dealing with Lenin, whose memory will be honored by all workers soon, will be given next week as prizes for the best contributions from worker correspondents. And another prize book, that deals with eco- nomic conditions in Russia, which is also especially fitting at this time, will be given. The prizes are: FIRST—“Industrial Revival of Soviet Russia,” by A, A. Heller. SECOND—“Imperialism—Final Stage of Capitalism,” by Lenin. THIRD—“Lenin—His Life and Work,” by Yaroslavsky. More worker correspondents are wanted, workers! Join the ranks of the American. worker correspondents this week by sending in a story today vy Y THE DAdbhY WORKE WASHINGTON, Jan, 6—(FP)—Supreme court justices have a habit of drawing from leading law colleges the private secretaries who aid them in Because the salary of a secretary for thig re- the study*of difficult cases. search job.{s small, they generally stay only a year or two. experience and prestige of having wi teaching in colleges of law, instructor in Harvard law school. BOSSES:PRATE OF SAFETY, BUT TALK I$ ALL THEY DO Workers Are Not Fooled By Smooth Phrases By a Worker Correspondent, on conditions and incidents affecting the worker as you see them in your community or trade, (FIRST PRIZE WINNER) WORKERS AT PUGET SOUND SHIP YARD FORCED TO PRETEND THEY WORK; U. S. WHAT ARE YOU—-SLOVAK OR AN AMERICAN? If you are American read the fighting labor daily paper—The DAILY we . If you cannot read English, subscribe to the only Czecho- slovak workingclass daily paper in the United States and Canada— THE DAILY ROVNOST LUDU 1510 W. 18th. Street, Chicago, Til, MAINTAINS PLANT BUT DOES NOTHING By JOHN CROCKER. (Worker Correspondent) BRPMERTON, .Wash., Jan. 6.—One of the best places in the country to work is for our own “Uncle Shylock,” in the Puget Sound navy yard, at Bremerton, Washington. The difficult part of the thing is to get a job there, for there is seldom enuf work to keep the men busy, and @ man ‘has to fill out a questionnaire, take a physical examination and go ‘hru a line of red tape that would tax the dexterity of a Philadelphia law- yer, but once a fellow does get a job there, and he- works up. to the top, he has something better’than an old- age pension, for there hasn’t been a good day's work done in the place for the last 40 years. Pretend Work. Once a fellow gets a job there the only thing he has to do is to keep on the lookout for the “Gold Stripes,” and make a- noise lke he is doing something when one of them comes around. Even if you aren’t producing anything, you are supposed to be go- ing through the motions which would make the passer-by think that you were working. Hard Work! One man worked three years, dig- ging a ditch which was 20 feet long, three feet deep, and two feet wide. Another instance of creative work- manship occurred when it took two men three weeks to put a three-quar- ter inch brace screw into a piece of hard wood. Keep Away from Boss. The first thing a worker learns in the place is to keep as far from the boss as he can, One day an Irishman got a job in the place, The boss or- dered him to move two loads of brick about 20 feet, from one pile over to another. The Irishman finished the job just before noon, looked up the boss, and told him that the job was finished. The boss ordered him to move the bricks back again to the original pile, Cranes for Children’s Work. Large cranes, mounted on cars, are moved several hundred yards, and put in operation to pick wp. things that a child could carry in one hand. The Officers Live High. The officers, with their social aspir- jing brides, live in large, white, spac- ious houses’ atop'a’ hill, overlooking a \golf course, and whose elevation in the material realm of nature, no doubt, provides them with a high- brow altitude in the social, moral, and mental, as well, Get Repair Work Sometimes. The monotony of the thing is bro- ken at times by the salvo from an incoming battleship, that comes in for repairs, and provides something for the workers to tinker around on. Much Money Appropriated. The money to carry on this work is appropriated annually ‘by the govern- ment, and the press, pulpit, bankers, business men of the town, and other parasites, in their spare moments, are Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WOFL is on the air with regular programs, It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT. 6:00 p, m.—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour, 61) Brevoort Concert Trio. ei Cook, Rosalia Saaifeld, Ge jssaint, WI Rossiter, Radio Ray Nobii 9:00—Alamo Cafe Dance Orchestra. 11:00—Alamo Entertainers, a yoar; for CHiCags FS a year,” provided entertainment by harangu- ing directed at their local political representatives at the capital for more and larger appropriations. This round of ape-like goings-on is taking place every year, with no ap- preciative change, making parasites and schemers out of workers, and dupes and cheats out of government functionaries, grafters out of business men, Denver, Colo., Cigar Makers’ Strike Now in Its 16th Week By a Worker Correspondent. DENVER, Colo.—On Sept 11, hun- dred and fifty cigarmakers employed at the, Cuban Cigar company, makers of M. &,O. and Dry Climate brand cigars, struck for higher wages. .The reason for asking for an increase was that the cigarmakers’ wages were 80 low that it became impossible for men to live on the amount earned. The in- crease asked was less than a third of a cent on a cigar. * The men pointed out in their de- mands that the two mentioned brands of cigars have been popularized to a great extent by the union people of Denver, making the sales so great and profits accrueing to the company accordingly, that the company could well afford to pay the increase de- manded, but the owners are so ar- rogamt and flushed with the newly ac- quired riches wrung out of their ex- ploited workers that they would not listen to the demands of the workers and have moved their factory to Webb City, Missouri, where they employ non-union workers and where they have the cigars machine-made, The cigarmakers have been suffer- ing from the 16-weeks’ strike but are holding ont good and have resorted to tactics which look like a final vic- tory for them. The union has been able to have re- tail stores quit handling the brands made by the above named company and by urging a boycott on the cigars they have out the eales down consider- ably. Most of the smaller union shops have dncreased their business as a re- sult of agitation for union-made cigars. One union company has ar- ranged to employ quite a number of the strikers, The strikers held a benefit dance YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan, 6.—The December issue of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Bulletin, a monthly publication aiming to expatiate the community of interest of masters and slaves, carries an-article on safety by J, A, Campbell, president. Mr. Campbell's article is, in part, as follows: “And it is a fact that nearly all accidents might be avoided. Sta- tistics show that 90 per cent of all those occurring in our works are due to what is known as the personal equation—another name for careless- ness and thoughtlessness on the part of workmen. We strive in every way possible to make work in our mills safe,” Grind Out Statistics. Statistics, like steel, are turned out according to the law of supply and demand. They are made to suit th: Buyer and are Seld to the highest bid- der. ‘So let US not be surprised at Mr. Camipbell’s*@iscovery, If the ‘Sheet"ind Tube officials are striving for saféty ‘it is for the safety of themselves, their large salaries and their fat dividends. It certainly is not for the safety of the workers, their limbs or even their lives. Concéals Truth, Campbell's article all the way thru is a concerted effort to conceal the truth.” Safety, im’mills where the most and can be nothing more than an empty phrase and a futile expression. Anyone who eve} worked in a steel mill knows. that more than 90 per cent of the acciffents are caused by ne speed-up systém exclusively. Production: Not Safety. Production, not safety, is what counts in a steel mill, and it is woe be unto him who lets his mind get away from the production idea, for he quickly receives’ a passport to the time office and finds himself outside the gete before the whistle blows. ‘On page 2 of the Sheet and Tube Bulletin (dope sheet) we find the suggestion prizes awarded. A prize of $10 is given’to a Mr, Fisher for his suggestion ofa wearing plate for butt shears, to’ @liminate numerous repairs. This hélps the company to reduce the number of repair men and at the same ‘time increases ayount of prodiction. So they could well afford to throw a crumb to Fisher, " To put the crowning touch on their 19 pages of trash, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company wishes all a “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.” But just how we can be merry and happy while receiving almost empty envelopes is something they left to ourselves to figure out. Gary Tries One-Man Car System at Risk of Passengers’ Lives (By a Worker Correspondent.) some time ago which netted the strike Tarvard Law Teacher Shows Congress Has Power té Demand Testifying in Inquiries; Supreme Court Delays Daugherty Decision court, these young lawyers move on to the practice of their profession or to No Decision on Daugherty. Justice Brandeis’ secretary of last year was James M. Landis, now an During last year the federal supreme ——* court tried in vain to reach a decision uthless exploitation is practiced, is | the j fund several hundred dollars. GARY, Ind—New cars, operated For the past three years the cigar | by one man, havéjmade their appear- makers have had to contend with the |22Ce on the Hammiond-Gary line. The La Dez Cigar company, which has Gary Street Railway Co. is compell- been running as a non-union shop, but|'™% One man to do the work of two, by persistent boycotting of the pro- for a few additional cents a day, duets of this firm.they have forced The one-man car system is causing thig firm to change their minds and much dissatisfaction not only among way of doing business. The union has the carmen but ationg the passengers, entered into a contract with this ¢om- The system is the cause of delays in pany and after the first of January the transportation. The company does LA Shen clperk’. will, be aunde!' ander not care, for the’patrons are mostly union ‘conditions, Quite « ‘abmber of workers and are not to be seriously considered. Not only is mueh time rindi vay will find employment in| iogt to the passengers, but. the lives of people are endangered in riding on While the international union is pay-| ‘hese cars. There is a great increase ing strike benefits, yet the union is|in the possibility. of accidents while receiving many donations from va-|iaking on and letting off passengers thous parts of the country thru ap-|and at the numerous and dengerous peals they have made for help. grade railroad crossings, Many of the strikers have been fair-| There is a strong feeling here that ly conservative while they enjoyed|the street railway company must not steady work, but since the strike has|be allowed to continue on the ‘one- taken place a lot of them have been] uan plan of operation and thereby awakened to the fact that they are be-j endanger the lives of its patrons, ing exploited under capitalism so{ that they only receive an existence wage, while their employers live in luxury from the wealth created by their wage slaves. The strikers are even reading rad- foal literature, many copies of The DAILY WORKER having been sold around strike headquarters, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! “SUBSCRIBE TO mester this Friday night, Jan. 7, at 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Work this seri SCH ig, 1M, the sessions already hejd and an extension of the work. Oily 60 Canta a Year. Studenta are rvaudeted to be am ting for the elase—Gi00 p'aloeky 4 Second Semester of Worker Correspondence Class Opens this Friday Night, 6:30 O’Clock The Chicago class in worker correspondence will open the second se- The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd, and new students who desire to study labor journalism should attend this The. purpose of the class is to help develop worker-writers who can The American Worker Correspondent | effectively help the workers’ struggles by “writing as he fighte,’ er will consist of a review of what wae taken up during Page Five Then, with the orked with a justice of the highest on the Mal Daugherty case—the re- fusal of Harry Daugherty’s brother to deliver to the Brookhart-Wheeler investigating committee of the sea- ate his bank records which would show what deposits were made to Harry Daugherty’s credit when the latter was attorney general of the United States. Shows Congress Has Power. Now Landis has an exhaustive dis- cussion of this legal issue, in the Harvard Law Review. It covers 216 pages, and recites the history of at- tempts made by the executive power, since the beginning of the American government, to limit the power of congress to make investigations af- fecting federal officials and federa! administration. From 1818 to 1920, the senate made 56 important inves- tigations in this field. Hundreds ot secondary inquiries were undertaken, With only one exception, legal tests of the power of congress have upheld its authority. Delay Two Years, a Yet the court has for more than two years—since the ‘decision and ap- peal of District Judge Cochran at Cincinnati on May 31, 1924—failed to render a decision on the right of the senate committee to compel Mai Daugherty, banker, to show the hooks which record the wealth gained when in public office by Harry Daugherty. Judge Cochran held hat the senate had no such right. His decision, since the Supreme Court has let it stand for this un- precedented length of time, has beer made the basis of refusals by coal dealers in the District of Columbia to show their books to a senate in- vestigating committee. It is the ex- cuse for Harry Sinclair’s immunity against punishment for contempt of the senate when he refused to an swer questions concerning his Tea pot Dome oil lease. It was Sain In sull’s pretext for refusing to answer questions of the Reed committee as to his political expenditures. Landis says the long line of prece- dents shows that congress has al- ways realized that committees of inquiry “are necessary in order to make government effectively respon- sible tothe people.” Whether his statement reflects the views of his |former chief will only be disclosed | when the members of the court finally vote to report their opinions, majority and minority. The decision in the |lower court in this case, as Landis points out, “elevates executive power beyond the reach of responsibility.” From a Child of a Pater- son Millworker Pioneers! Pneumonia Aid And Starving Tuberculosis Strikers Enter And Ruthlessly l-fed Some Children Old of Neighborhoods PASSAIC of PATERSON Radical Lawyer Loses Fight, GARY, Ind.—(FP)—Primarily be- cause he defended workers in the steel strike of 1919 and the railroad shop strike of 1922, Atty. Paul Glaser of Gary again failed in an attempt to have his American citizenship re- stored. His naturalization papers were cancelled during the red hysteria after his successful defense of strik- ers in the courts. The loss of citizen- ship makes it impossible for him to practice law and the banks are driv- ing him to financial ruin by refusing to renew mortgages on real estate though the security ig more than ample. DEAN MATHEWS WOULD JUNK WARLIKE HYMNS AND BAN COLOR LINES Dean Shailer Mathews, divinity school of the University of Chicago, is opposed to warlike hymns, he told a recent meeting of Chicago preachers. He said they fostered “a bloodthirsty feeling.” He pleaded also for the oblitera- tion of color lines. “Forget the pig- ments of the skin,” he advi: ‘and work together without discussing our race problems.” 30 o'clock in the editorial offices of All present members ~ ' 1 The Manager’s Corner | oe mes Three Ideas Dr. Harold de Wolf Fuller is the latest knight errant to enter upon a bold expedition in the field.of journalism. He proclaims that he is about to publish a weekly, which will at- tempt “the ambitious task of lodging three of our illuminating ideas in the reader’s mind each week.” Think of it THREE ideas, and ILLUMINATING ideas to the bargain, Dr. Fulter is ‘a. professor of journalism in the New York Univer We can think of none but a professor in a capitalist university, who would have the temerity to assume the role of Don Quivrote in such a foray against the windmills of the capitalist press of the present day. ity. We have. small hope for your expedition, professor, we who have so-long wandered thru pound upon pound of capitalist newspapers in the vain search for at least one spark of stimulat ing thought. We look for no brighter illumination from your weekly than we do from the other sections of the plute press. On the contrary, we ewpect the same black clouds of capitalist propaganda, which emanate from the flickering torch of cap italist culture thru the organs which have preceded your own. But, professor, you have aroused ow curiosity om one point. We crave enlightenment. You mention “OUR illuminat ing ideas.’ We venture to ask, “Whose illuminating ideas?” Will they be the ideas of the workers? Or will they be the ideas of the owning class, the ideas of those who control the thought of the nation, thru the subsidized press, as well as thru the swb- sidized university? Perhaps we might venture to advise the brave and adven- turous professor. Why beguile us with the promise of THREE IDEAS? Why not tell us truly that your weekly will play upon one idea, and one idea only, that of submission to the present order of society, to the degradation and misery of the capitalist system? . We have been disillusioned too often, professor. We have learned to have no faith in the promises of enlightenment and ideas, when they come from the capitalist press, or from noble professors, in capitalist universities. We have learned thru cruel and bitter experience, that true enlightenment and real ideas can only come from a paper, supported by the and devoted to their interests. BERT Real United Front at Cleveland to Protest Laws Aimed at Foreign-Born workers MILLER, speak from the CLEVELAND, Jan, 6, — A united {been found willing front of Polish Catholics, Jews, Pro-|same platform in ( testants and local labor speakers will Since the formation protest the Aswell and other bills dis-} cil for the protect criminating against foreign born | workers, with the workers here on Jan. 7. The meeting} !ocal labor, will be under the auspices of the] against discrimina y American-Polish Chamber of Indus-| been growing in volum¢ try and thé Alliance of Poles in Amer-} The Hungarian cc ica. held protest meeti Besides nationally known Polish-| other foreign-born groups a American leaders, Councilman Peter| ing for similar action. Th Witt, President Harry McLaughlin of} Cleveland’s many foreign the Cleveland Federation of Labor, the y has already y all ar- language. papers have met and accorded their and Jeanette Pearl, Ohio organizer of| Support. A general mass meeting is he National Council for the Protee-| Planned for Jan. 26, which will be ad- tion of Foreign Born Workers, will | dressed by labor and other local lead- 1ddress the meeting. It is said to be| ers. the first occasion upon which a Po- lish Catholic Monsignor, a Jewish Rabbi and a Protestant minister have Why don’t you write it up? be interesting to other workers, it may | Birthday Issue |—Out Next Week! ' On January 13, 1927, there will be a Special Birthday Number of The DAILY WORKER in honor of our Third Birthday. The issue will be devoted to special articles, pictures, stories and a full account of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. We can think of no better service to which to put our Special Birthday Issue than to the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti. We can think of no better way of celebrating our birthday than by making a strong plea for their freedom. We are ask- ing that our readers place their names on the Honor Roll in this special issue to indicate their support of Sacco and Vanzetti as well as their support of the only daily paper which is waging a real fight for their freedom. Send in your dollar for your greeting NOW! Working class organizations may secure advertising space at $100 per page. Pin your dollar to the blank below and mail it to The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chi- cago, Ill, before January 10, 1927, HERE’S MY DOLLAR, COMRADES, to greet The “DAILY WORKER on its third birthday, for which you will please enter my name on the Honor Roll in your Special Birthday Edition, Name.. AGATeSB...ciesesssseseateressseees City... State. caw