The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 11, 1927, Page 5

‘7G. P. 8. U, (Me DAT WURKKRER WORKER CORRESPONDENTS BY GARY RESTAURANT |L4UNDRY WORKERS UNDER SLAVE-DRIVING CONDITIONS; UNION FIGHTING BOSS EXPLOITATION WORKERS MAKING GAINS FOR UNION Outcome of Drive Rests with Workers By a Worker Correspondent. GARY, Ind., Jan, 9—With a few ad- ditional restaurants signing the union agreement, the campaign to organize the restaurant workers is continued by Local 241 of the Hotel and Restau- rant Workers of Gary, Solomon's restaurant, located on 6th Ave. between Broadway and Washington, was picketed. The pick- eting revealed a widespread feeling of sympathy for the efforts of the union among the residents of Gary. Teacher Pledges Aid. A public school teacher approached the pickets and said, “I will not pa- tronize this place any more, since the union is refused recognition. I am a school teacher and I will tell other teachers not to eat in this place. I am a member of the teachers’ union myself.” Workers With Them. Workers passing by expressed themselves briefly but strongly: “Stick to your shift, boys!” “We are with you, boys!” “That’s right, step on them, fellows!” “You ought have done it long ago!” e Some of those who came’ out of scab places told the pickets: “I did not notice this place is picketed. I will not eat here any more.” The boss was trying to put up a brave front coming up to the window and grinning at the pickets. But his face grew more serious as the time wore on. Service Depends on Workers. With the sympathy of the workers and residents of Gary back of the union the success of the organization campaign rests with the restaurant workers themselves. What we need is, more getting to- gether, more meetings of the work- ers; more solidarity; more of a friendly approach to those of the workers who have not yet made ap- plication to join the union. Join! Every worker knows where the Labor Temple is located: There is no need to wait until some one ap- proaches you to join the union. Look for the union yourself. Ask for Brother Parlee or Brother Foley, the international representa- tive and the business representative of the union: they will advise you. Let’s go and build strong! Now on Sale! TWORUERS NONTUY January, 1927 26 Cents Contents: Towards Leninism By Bertram D. ‘Wolfe +++ Prsition and Opposition in the By Max Bedacht +++ The Problems of the Enlarged Executive of the Comintern By John Pepper +++ The Struggle in the Needle Trades By Wm, Z. Foster +++ The Soviet Economy on the Ninth Anniversary +++ Ultra-Left Menshevism By Heinz Neumann . +++ More About the First American Revolution By Jay Lovestone +++ Civilization—An Historical Category By Emanuel Kanter +++ The Youth and the Labor Movement By L, Plott +++ With Marx and Engels— A Review Reviews, By a Worker Correspondent. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9. — The laundries have been able to speed up the workers by playing one against the other with the hopes of steady work and by keeping them continually under the threat of being fired if they protested against the slave-driving conditions, The following is a fair example of how the workers are handled, Get Half Overtime, When the workers put in three hours overtime they are paid for only half of the time. If there are any protests threats are hurled against the head-worker by the superintend- ent. The superintendent is not satis- fied with paying the workers under the union scale, but tries by all ways and means to rob the workers of what is due them. Slave Drivers Paid Well. In one of the laundries the head- washer gets $55 per week, not because he does more work than any other head washer, but because he is a bet- ter slave driver and cussee the work- ers right and left. Knowing that the union is a strong weapon in the hands of the worker, he tries as much as possible to bring in non-union men JANUARY 13 1927 IN FRISCO WORK and pays them under the scale. Health Conditions Bad. The washing machines and wring- ers are not connected to draing and the water streams all over the place. Most of the workers suffer rheuma- tism and all kinds of disease because lof these unsanitary conditions, while the bosses pile their profits sky high. Girls Treated No Better. The girls in the laundries are treat- ed no better. Mangle girls get $19.50 per week. The girls don't last long on |the job because in the speed up sys- tem two mangles do the work former- ly done by three, The tricks played on the girls are varied, They are hired Monday and laid off Thursday even though the week calls for a full |week employment. The markers, the | most dangerous work in the laundry, |get only $29.50 for sorting all kinds | of.diseased dirty clothes, Forty-eight |hours is a week's work according to |the union regulations, but these girls work often from 10 to 12 hours a day during the rush periods, The workers in the laundries are now putting up a strong campaign against these violations of union con- ditions and the unsanitary conditions in the shops, Polish Women of a Textile Town Learn How to Run a Council and Aid Strike (By a Worker Some twenty-odd women sit around a red hot stove in the corner of a dim- ly lighted hall. It is a meeting of the Workingwomen’s Council in Walling- ton, New Jersey. They have more members, fifty altogether. Where are the others? Well, one has young children tg mind, another a cranky hus- band, another is tired. It is hard for women to come out to meotings. A God-forsaken hole, Wallington. Streets of mud, scattered frame houses, half a dozen stores, a popu- lation of Polish workers. Only once Wallington got on the map. That was when in Passaic and Garfield, those towns seething with the strug- gle of the textile slaves, strikers’ meeting halls were closed, Walling- ton offered a place for mass meetings. Generally Wallington is outside of things, on the outskirts, a back-water of life and of the strike. A ‘Meeting in Action. The women are jolly tonight. They are planning a Christmas ball (that is, Russian Christmas) which will be ‘ight here in their own town and where all the workers can come, All want to talk at once, The chairman, an active young woman with bobbed hair, less backward than the others, raps on the table. ‘“Slouchaete, ko- biety,” she says in Polish. “Kapusta y hot-dogs we will have. We must get committee to serve them. Katie— you!” The woman designated grins sheepishly, twists her fingers. “Me? No, I no smart enough. Some one else!” They try another. This one has five young children at home, and Correspondent) they think she can be there to serve hot dogs. At last they get the com- mittees for the hot dogs and all else necessary. Next to the chairman sits the sec- retary, a beautiful young woman of sineton holding a sleeping baby. She herself has the face of a wide- eyed, rosy child. A fine girl, withal. She is not a striker, but a striker’s wife, and she understands the strike from A to Z. She is also the secre- tary of the union block committee in her district (she being the only one who can write English). “If only I didn’t have such a young baby,” she tells you wistfully, with a childish pout, “I’d be the first one on the picket line every day, you bet.” They Know What Strikers Are. They are nearly all textile strikers, these women. The strike has jogged them out of their sleep, their back- wardness; brought them together: They wear the round woolen caps, the shabby, shoddy coats you see everywhere here. Broad Polish fac- es, simple, open faces, marked with toil and struggle. Some of them are still a little puzzled at the meeting. All this talk about “order of busi- ness” and committees for this and that—they haven't quite got on to that yet. They were organized in Sep- tember. At first they said, “Let’s win the strike first. Then afterward we will think about Women’s Coun- cils.” But now they have seen that the Women’s Councils have helped a great deal to win the strike, and so they support them. Switchman Discusses Papers for Workers (By a Switchman Correspondent.) The December 8 issue of “The Boss- es’ Voice” which is fooling the work- ers thru its name, “Labor,” comments very strongly upon the fact that The DAILY WORKER is short of funds. If The DAILY WORKER was forced upon the workers in the same man- ner that “Labor” is forced upon the railroad workers who are members of the so-called standard organizations, it would not be asking for donations. There are thousands of railroad workers who receive this paper, not because they subscribed for it, but because their local lodges are com- pelled by the officers of the Grand Lodges to remit the annual subscrip- tion price for each member. Labor does not beg, it takes by force. The copy of Labor which I have was given to me by a Brotherhood member who had not unfolded it yet. When he handed it to me, he re- marked: “Here take this scabby sheet, I know that you like to look it over for reasons of your own. I will not have it in my home to pois- on the minds of my children. I lis' ed to its doctrines too long.” Railroad men have stood still for thirty years. There are hundreds of railroad workers in Chicago that can see no difference between Labor and the Chicago Tribune, they both champion the same cause. While I am not a Communist, I cannot see how a worker can be rep- resented by a democrat or republican. None of their-candidates are workers, nor do they associate with workers. It is my opinion that representatives usually represent their associates, Why don’t you write it up? It may be interesting to other workers, GINSBERG'S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 8. PE RR Bi SL Ph th ooh SE RE na OO a al ee The next issue of Prolet-Tribune, the Russian living newspaper isswed by the Chicago Novy Mir worker cor- respondents will be out next Satur- day, Jan. 15, at 8 p. m., at the Work- ers’ House, 1902 W, Division St, All who understand the Russian language are invited to attend, Prolet-Tribune is issued regularly every month. , Sheboygan Comrades Do Well; Pledge More Editor, DAILY WORKER: This is a small city, about 35,000. Most of the population is German, with a few other nationalities. Among them are about 200 Croatians. There are a couple of fraternal societies, one ed- ucational and dramatic club, and a Jugo-Slav fraction of the Workers Party with 12 members. And it is worth noticing that these few com- vades are in full control of every society and organization and are work- ing to the best of their ability for the working class, We have obtained subscriptions to Radnik and The DAILY WORKER. We have distributed literature to the amount of $80. Now we have raised $40 for “The Keep The DAILY WORKER Fund.” This ds a very small sum of money for such a big work that our party has undertaken, but when we consider the kind of people we are dealing with and the small group we have to do the work, we believe that the comrades in She- boygan are doing well, There is prom- ise of better Work in the future, Fraternally yours, M. Muzewick, Sheboygan, Wis. WRITR “AS YOU FIGHT! Ae CLEVELAND LABOR, MEETS 10 FIGHT ANTI-ALIEN ACTS Conference Called for Protest on Jan. 13 CLEVELAND, O., Jan, 9.——A confer- ence of representatives of all labor and progressive organizations has been called by the Cleveland Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers to protest and lay plans to fight against the proposed anti-alien legislation Bel neta The confer- ence will be} held Thursday night, Jan, 13, at 7:80 o’clock in the Insur- ance Center building, 1783 East 11th street, A meeting of editors of foreign lan- guage papers was held on Jan, 4 and a huge publicity campaign has been launched as/a@ result among the for- eign born. .Protest meetings are to be arranged in the various neigbor- hoods and a Monster mass meeting will be held soon at Grey's armory. A fund of $1,000 is to be raised by the committée to further the work. The council is endorsed by the Cleveland Federation of Labor, and larry McLatighlin, president of the ‘ederation, is a member of the ad- sory committee of the council. Says Labor Must Fight Bills Aimed at Foreign-Born That the ills for registering and fingerprinting aliens are likely to be rushed thru congress in its closing hours next March is feared by Secy. Max Orlowski of the Chicago coun- cil for protection of the foreign-born. Orlowski, who is on the district exe- eutive board of the machinists’ union says: “Chicago leber must voice its pro- test against the bills in such a man- ner that the sponsors will not dare bring them out of committee. Their silence now is, rather a sign of dan- ger to labor than of security.” The Aswell, Johnson and Holaday bills are particularly vicious, he says, placing the happiness of every alien at the whim of government officials. | These bills have been condemned by} the Detroit and Atlantic City conven- tions of the American Federation of Labor. Tacoma Hears Griffin Speak in Lieu of Flynn TACOMA, Wash.—Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was billed to speak here on the Passaie strike "Gn “Dec. 29. She was sick, and unable to appear, but thanks to C..R. Griffin, the meeting was a success anyway. Griffin will be remembered as one of the I. W. W. leaders who were sent to Leavenworth in 1917 after the trial under Judge Landis in Chicago. He has been doing active work for the I, L. D, in the northwestern states lately. He made a fine speech, dealing first with the Passaic etrike. Then he spoke on the L L, D., discussing Sacco, Vanzetti, Mooney, Billings, the Cen- tralians, and other victims of the frame-ups of the capitalist class in their war on the workers. He stressed the need of class conscious- ness, organization, and the united front of all the workers. Those who were disappointed by not hearing more news of Passaic, because of Miss Flynn’s illness, will be able to hear it from Albert Weisbord, leader for many months of the Passaic strike. He will speak at 8:00 p, m., Tuesday, Jan, 11, at Bagles Hall, E St. sar 13th, in Tacoma. a The Farmers’ Section will appear regularly In every Mondoy morning’s Issue of The DAILY WORKER, Watch for \* PY A a BIG DEFLATION IN FARM PROPERTY GIVE FARMERS ECONOMIC GRIEV ANCE By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. While record-breaking profits have been boosting the property of indus- trial capitalists to unheard of heights, while the wealth of these multi-mil- lionaires has been swollen by an orgy of stock dividends, deflation has brot the value of the American farmer's capital down 30 per cent to a level whose real worth is 10 to 20 per cent below pre-war, This is the signifi- cance of the U. S. department of agri- culture’s report that farm real estate values on March 1, 1926, averaged 30 per cent lower than on March 1, 1925, and that they are still shrinking. The slump in farm values, accord- ing to the report, has hit the grain and livestock states of the middle west hardest. There have also been severe declines in several mountain states and in certain cotton states. Here ‘is solid economic foundation for the spread of radicalism among farm- ers of these sections. “It is estimated,” says the report, “that the average value of farm real estate per acre in the United States on March 1, 1926, was $76.47 compar- ed with $107.89 on March 1, 1920. Fig- ures for some of the key states reflect the shifts that have taken place in lifferent regions, In Massachusetts average value of farm real estate per acre increased from $100 to $109 between 1 and 1926, In lowa op he other hand there was a decrease n the same period from $ to $155. In Geo: a there was a decline in the game period from $57 to $30 per acre; in South Carolina from $74 to $45; in Montana from $42 to $25, and in Cali- fornia from $240 to $180.” The sapital in Iowa, depreciation of the farmers’ Montana and South Carolina amounts to approximately 40 per cent. In Georgia the shrinkage amounts to 47 per cent of the valu n 1920. Comparing the real value of the farmer's land today with the pre- war value the report says: The figure for the country as a whole means that in a single year more than 103,000 farmers lost their farms because they went broke. If we include the forced sales on ac- ount of delinquent taxes averaging 4.1 per 1000 farms, the number of farmers losing their farms on account of bankruptcy mounts to 130,000. Such forced sales in the Dakotas and Mon- tana ran from 6 per cent to 7 per cent of all farms. WOOING THE FARMERS From the Locomotive Engineers Jour- nal for January, 1927, HE president's message to congress so expressed tender solicitude and touching sympathy for the bankrupt and near-bankrupt farmers of the west. But the ungrateful farmers do not seem inclined to be satisfled with political platitudes. Their war paint is on. And they are bound to get something more than cheap promises from the administration before they go back contentedly to slop the hogs. President Sam Thompson of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the most conservative of the big farm organizations, declares that farm property has shrunk $20,000,000,000 in value during the past six years, while industrial and city property has inereased in value. indebtedness is now three times as great as in 1920; while the farm pop- ulation, comprising nearly a third of the country, gets only one-fourteenth | of the national income. Organized business has already seized the opportunity to take advan- tage of the farmers’ discontent by sending its speakers to the various farm organization conventions to tell them how necessary it is for big busi- ness and the farmers to stand to- gether against the encroachments of organized labor. Representatives of organized labor at these farmers’ meetings are conspicuously absent, de- spite the fact that the workers and farmers represent the two basic pro- ducing groups of the nation and that high pay for the one means a good market for the produce of the other. Is it not high time that intelligent labor leaders join in mapping out a method of reaching the farmers of America with a message of friendship and good will and proffers of sincere co-operation in meeting their common problems? It has recently been sug- gested that labor co-operative banks The Drive For $50,000 to DONATIONS—JANUARY 3. CALIFORNIA— J. P. Roe, Berkele; Gus_Daubenick, Ca: M. Bragin, Los Ange! A. Daniloff, Los Ange! Dr. 1. C. Decker, Los A E. Gainsburg, Los Angel J. R. Nucieus No. 26, L Goldsmith, Los A s Nucleus ‘No. 26, Los An: M. K. Nucleus No, 26, Los Anegel Fred W. Kaplan, Los Anegel Dr. N. Kavinoky, Los Ang Mrs. Klapperman, Los Angel D. F. Nucleus No. L 3 88 888 & 88388888838838883: egogBase 2s98Re Fred Thompson, 1DAHO— E. E. Ramey, Pooa 4 ILLINOIS— K. Ulourt, Chicago .. 4 rewn, St, Nuc. 5. S. Gilberg, Chicago 2. CHUSETTS— ih Workers Club of Boston 4.' Louis F. Weiss, ‘Worchester ~ 3. MINNESOTA— &. W. Hel, FOCHEBEEE sss 4:25 NEW JERSEY— L, Masevich, Elizabeth . 1.00 Pp lizab 1,00 1.00 7,00 5.00 Alex Chait, Accord 1,00 Fio. Steinbech, Bronx 2.00 Peter Margolin, Hurleyville 2.00 Joe Garelic, Hurleyv: 1,00 Louis Raskin, 1,00 GS. 2.00 2.50 2.00 2.00 2.00 3.00 2.00 3,00 KEEP THE DAILY WORKER / Liza Poda' Toiran, New York ... Geo. Maincos, New York ol. GW. U. Local N New York M. C. Underwood, New York t jor lors New York jchneider, N Ri Kuntz, New York “~ Esther Levine, New York erm Sara Friedman, New York .. Golyman, New York yy kkot: Alex Hytonen, New York .. M. Shainen, New York sm Robbins, New York .. Abraham Yollis, New York ... P. Kaupe, New York OHIO— South Slavic Workers Club, SseeeragasssaggaensasSaae sung AKPOM sssssssressenensoten weersrrneerses 100,00 OREGON seeennenenneenenneeronen V. Gosheff, Portland . 5.00 PENNSYLVANIA— bay | bh nde ere 50.00 jodrigez, Brownsville 8.00 itzeff, “Brownsville 5.00 AGALOSB....sssesseseseseeserrseeeteee » MeKeesport 6.00 in Progressive Women's Branch No, 63, Nanticok 10.00 sesenesenenransansnsanenns J. Smolcich 25.25 N 3.00 City... on 5.00 10.00 Moreover, farm Seexsssessessssssessssess sesess é might find it greatly to their advan- tage to aid the farmers’ co-operative marketing organizations in financing the sale of their crops. This and a hundred other ways of mutually help- ful assistance could be worked out if the leaders of the organized farmers and organized workers could sit down around the table together. And since labor was the first to prove the value of organization, might it not take the initiative by offering to arrange such a meeting? To Help Farmers Buy Seed. WASHINGTON.—Believing that any permanent relief from legislation now before congress will be too late to affect the farmers during the 1927 crop year, Senator Norbeck, and Rep- resentative Johnson have introduced a bill to set aside $6,000,000 to be used in purchasing grain and flaxseed. The luse of the fund would be limited to jareas suffering from drought. The bill has the endorsement of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Sacco-Vanzetti case. is _— in your Pin 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, }chairman, care of Ishpem |the Cooperative League 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 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 speci their support of Sacco and Vanzetti as well as their support of the only daily paper which a real fight for their freedom. Send ollar for your greeting NOW! — Working class organizations may secure advertising space at $100 per page. * your dollar to the blank below and mail it to The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chi- cago, Ill, before January 10, 1927, Proper Case of Alien xclusion; Send Mr. Corn Borer Back Home CHAMPAIGN, IIL, Jan. 9. — The Buropean corn borer has invaded Illi nois, The first specimen was found on a Kankakee county farm near the In diana line and advices to P, A. G chief inspector of the state agricultu ral department from Washington where it was sent for absolute ident fication, confirmed the presence of the pest. W. H. Flint and Dr. T, H, Frison of the state natural history been conducting an ext Kankakee county for ences of the corn borer w cess, it was declared. Authorities declare the pest will do little damage for several years, in which time it is hoped the invasion may be stopped. Co-Ops Collecting for Mine Victims NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—(FP)—More than $1,000 hasbeen subscribed by various cooperative societies for reliet of widows and orphans of the Michi gan iron miners lost in late disasters. The mine accidents have cost some of the Michigan cooperati staunch members, The entombing of 60 miners near Ishpeming cost the Consumers Cooperative Association of that town many members, the cooperative board- ing house its part time manager and* two boarders, The cooperative boarding hon North Lake lost its part ti in the Barnes-Hecker di Relief is coming from cooperative societies made up chiefly of workers in Min- nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, New York, Ilinois, a miners’ coop in Dillon. vale, Ohio, etc. Donations may be sent direct to Jalmar Nukala, relief z Coope Mi 23 New York ative Store,. Ispheming, headquarters, Russtan Council to Meet. There will be a meeting of the Rus- sian Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born on Sunday, the 16° at 1902 W. Division street. All Russian organizations are urged to send delegates to this meeting and become acquainted with the work which it intends to do. i Send in a Sub WORKER today. to The DAILY We can think of no issue to indicate 2. t oa. ESOT