The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1927, Page 5

tHE DAILY WORKER Organized | abo -Trads Union Activi iki HIER LEWIS MACHINE USES PRESSURE FOR LABOR DEFENSE: CONVENTION; DELEGATE ELECTIONS a a IN ILLINOIS UNION HOTLY FOUGHT ig “Ny meng Egan on Road for I. L. D. (Special to The Dally Worker) . In response to numerous requests O'FALLON, IL, Jan. 16.~+Local 705, United Mine Workers of America, urgently made by the West, arrange- elected a progressive delegate to the Mine Workers’ International Conven- ments are being completed for a West- tion, But it is doubtful whether the machine will let him go. ern tour for International Labor De- | This lowal met at the regular time to elect delegates, and voted from fense by the internationally famous | early evening until two o'clock In the morning, The machine succeeded in “heretic bishop,” William Montgom- | throwing out of the meeting various progressives, so that it was impossible | ery Brown. Approximately a dozen / to secure a majority vote for any candidate, meetings will be held with Bishop The meeting was adjourned until next evening for further voting; word Brown as the chief speaker in the spread around the locality of the situation, the progressives turned out and main centers of the West. when the vote was taken the next night, the progressive, Luke Coffey, got Interest in Book. z Fs : s 87 votes to 29 given his opponent, A. Campbell. It is reported that the ma- Nation-wide havesca’ in Bishop | editors speak when they pass opine oR the events of the day. chine will ask for an order prohibiting Coffey from attending the convention, Editors assume a detached or impartial manner which often on the grounds that he was not elected on the proper date. | Brown and hig work was first creat- | jed with the publication a few years| misicads the wnwary reader. But the period of personal journal- Pass. Resolutions. ago in this country of his famous! ism is gone when a newspaper isthe mouthpiece of this or In this same local all of the progressive resolutions were passed. There booklet, “Communism and Christian- that individual. The newspaper of today is the expression of was little opposition to any of them but the resolution in favor of recogniz- i : i u i rf : mtiouitiah a ing Soviet Russia and the resolution ordering international officials not to certain forces in society rather than that of any particular in- Page Five Th rn The Spokesman. “T rise to a question of personal confusion,” said Senator Reed of Missouri on the floor of the senate the other day. “For some weeks I have been wandering in mists of dowbt and un certainty in: reference to the public business of the country. There was suddenly interjected into the newspapers a nameless individual called ‘the spokesman of the president. I have been questioning whether he was some mythical creature created by the wicked newspapermen of Washington.” The “spokesman” is a@ typical example of the hypocrisy and lack of straight- forwardness of the representatives of American capitalism im their dealings with “the public.” Senator Reed might well go further than the president's “mysterious phantom” and ask who it is for whom the capitalist tie * 4 ame Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism 0, & A RAILROAD -ANTI-LABOR WAR WRECKING ROAD Equipment Near Junk to Avoid Recognition é e Manager’s Corner receced : News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics TAXIGAB DRIVERS ARE MADE DUPES BY NIGHT CLUBS Victimized by Petty Plottings By SYLVAN A. POLLACK, (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 16.—The taxi drivers of this city in addition to The attempt of the bankrupt Chi- cago & Alton railroad to operate its shops on a company union basis is rapidly reducing its rolling stock to ism,” which he wrote with the slo- gan of “Banish the Gods from the mesting the persecution of the po- negotiate or sign any contracts of more than one year’s duration. A bitter lice officials, must face the intrigue | attack on each of these was led by Dan Thomas, sub-district president, and and petty plotting of the night club; Dan Wilson, for many years an appointee of the machine. owners. i These night clubs, owned in many cases by gunmen and criminals at- tempt to secure the assistance of the drivers in their drive for more suck- ers to part with their bankroll. They are promised 331-3 and 40 per cent of what the clubs receive for steer- ing the “lushers” (taxi terminology) to the particular speakeasy, but rarely ever receive it. At the most, they obtain a very small fraction of the bill. Give Out Cards, Almost every afternoon, and some- times in the evenings, cards are giv- en out to the passing taxi drivers in the Times Square district. They state the name and address of the night club and the amount of commission paid. Several of them are Crystal Club, 230 W. 48 street, who pay 40 Der cent to the drivers; Club Seakret, 143 W, 53 street, who pay 38-1-3 per cent; Louis’ Restaurant, 47 W. 58 street, 40 per cent. Many of them are “fly by night joints” opening one day and closing within a few weeks, others opening | up in many cases right next door to take their place. A taxi driver in an interview with The DAILY WORKER stated that “thesé speakeasies open up all over the eity like mushrooms. Whenever the owners find the situation getting too hot for them, they close and open up under a new name and continue their hunt for new fish.” Beat Up Two Men, He also told how recently a taxi driver who took one of these “butter and egg men” to one of these speak- easies in the roaring forties, was giv- en $4 commission by its owner for steering the sucker there. This was supposed to have been 40 per cent of the total bill of the “lusher.” The next day the taxi driver met the same man and was told that he | had spent $120 the previous night. He pointed to the stub of his check book as evidence. They immediately returned to the night club and protested. ‘Thereupon they were brutally beaten up and thrown out upon the street. SL ON 4 Fight Company Union on Gotham Bus Lines, Ask Franchise Clause NEW YORK, Jan. 12.— Unionists will demand that the board of esti- mate insert in the new bus franchise to be awarded soon that bus workers be allowed to join any organization they see fit without interference from the employers, A delegation repre- senting the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Street and Electric Railway Wmployes, the New York State Fed- eration of Labor, and the A. F, of L. will call on the board and insist that no franchise be given unless the com- pany agrees to the desired provisions. This is demanded to prevent the toreing of a company union on the bus workers, such as the Interborough “brotherhood” on the I. R. T. SCAEUOTENOEE ANGERS READ Imperialism—The Last Stage of Capitalism By N. Lenin Price, 600 in paper, $1.00 Cloth-bound, An indispensable book for the under- ftanding of the most recent events in Latin-Amertea, China, and the sountries now in the throes of "thls | ays Finance Capital and The Export of Capital, id Thelt New Role; Financial Oligarchy; C ballet’ Greener the | rot . Division of ihe Work Among the Great Powors; Imperialism as a Spocial Stage of Capitalism; Parasitism and the Decay of Capitalism; ‘The Critique of Imperial- bes ie rite dA yon ae in History. pages pu Com: Varty of Great Britain. oar Daily Worker Publishing Co. ua 1 jes riment an he estes! First Street, New York, N. Y. GINSBERGS Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL, — the World Amo: All the locals in Collinsville are international convention, In machine delegates, and two doubtful. sending progressive delegates to the Belleville there are four progressives, four Most of the delegates from Springfield sub-district are progressives. Further Reports of Miner Union Votes Received by Daily Worker President Local Unions 2 2 = e e 2 4 a 2603, Kansas « 80 240, Illinois . 52 4639, Illinois 282 304, [Illinois . 189 5714, Ohio ... 99 2202, Pennsylvania 31 4917, Pennsylvania .... 49 136 2881, Pennsylvania ... 3 253 Peach Orchard, (Continued from page 1) ret, and announce only that the agree- ment has been renewed. ‘A shop chairman’s meeting to con- sider that situation has been called at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th street, for Thursday evening. Covert Agreements. “It is probable that these conces- sions to the manufacturers are not the only ones that Sigman has made,” Louis Hyman, manager of ‘the joint board, said today in discussing the terms of the agreement. “We know from past experience that he is likely to make a ‘supplementary’ and secret agreement with the employers, prac- tically nullifying important points in the agreement that he announces to the workers.” Happened Before. Such a case occurred in 1925 when it was discovered that former Vice- President Feinberg had made a “sec- ondary” agreement with the Ameri- can Association of Dress Manufactur- ers that nullified the most important points in the agreement by stipulat- ing that such clauses would not be enforced. Sigman is perfectly willing to sign away the hard«won rights of the workers in hig unscrupulous ‘at- tempts to crush the honest and pro- gressive elements of the union. It has been openly announced in the trade papers during this past week that the employers would deal with whichever side would consent to their terms, and they have realized that the joint board would never allow the terms they are getting from the In- ternational, Sigman is’ making a united front with the employers against the workers in order to fur- ther his own nefarious schemes, An attempt of the International to H.C, FRICK COKE CO. Safety The First Consideration In Patch Color Hair Slave Conditions of Miners in Scab Fields Patrolman Pass Bearer sneneemanssovensantonnsnnnssnnnsssnnsssnessseeeserseseeseeon SINC Height...scsssssonssseasesasessseesees WE8GHtrun The above is the reproduction of the Vice-President Sec’y-Treas. < > 3 2 a £ ¢ F e & > € s 3 & o 2 = 7) x 0 8 80 8 75 20 36 19 30 93 231 49 180 117 142 62 81 89 86 70 55 23 26 25 22 43 129 36 88 2 249 2 248 _Sigman’s Pact with Bosses in Secrecy Cloud | obtain money to carry on its fight against the joint board and at the same time gain control of the office buildings of the “ousted” locals and the joint board has been checkmated by appeal to the courts, Hyman an- nounced today. Try to Mortgage Property. Locals 2, 9 and 22 have filed pleas / for orders restraining their holding companies from mortgaging or selling the buildings of the locals. After he had “ousted” the officers of these lo- cals, Sigman appointed new officers who have attempted to negotiate mortgages with the incorporated hold- ing companies that have the proper- ties in trust for the locals, Thus the International would be able to raise large sums to use in its fight against the ousted leaders, and would menace their tenure of the buildings. The suits are expected to checkmate this scheme. Frame-up Collapses. An attempted frameup of Isadore Moskowitz, organizer for the | joint board, who was arrested last week on charges of felonous assault, collapsed in court today when Magistrate Joan Nortis refused to take the charge ser- jously, and dismissed it, imposing a small fine on a substitute charge of “disorderly conduct.” The arrest of Moskowitz grew out of an attempt of the International to cover up its own methods of gangsterism and terrorism by “proving” gangsterism against the| joint board. A “committee” which represented itself as coming from the joint board under orders of Moskowitz spread terror in one of the shops and Moskowitz was “identified” as its leader, altho he was not on the scene and was able to prove in court that he had been eating breakfast in a res- taurant at the time of the attack. No. 15 seeeseseee BUSINESS face side of a “pass” whieh no one is admitted to the coal mining camps of the H. CG. Frick Coke Co., the well known scab mining company. It shows how the workers of | st these soab corporations are kept In practical serfdom—and cannot even re-| Waited for the pBlice, He pleaded with celve visitors and friends without the company’s permission. The reverse the fudge to sed Rint to ‘the: peniten- side of the. pass contains questions as to height, weight, color of hair, color | {0% MO Nephy Ot Ms Mite. of eyes, ete. and the signature ef the beamoins 4 ‘ junk, according to reports from shop points along thé line. The belief is growing among” the employes that the company Will attempt to save the situation in ‘they spring and summer by sending its decrepid freight cars to contract shops for repairs, Turn’ Over Repairs, This belief that the C. & A. intends to turn over-the maintenance of its equipment to, outside contractors to avoid union recognition ig supported by the fact thdt"the company has con-| tracted out its “coach cleaning and the coal chute. work at the Chicago terminal, Colliani & Son, who took the contract, expected to do the work cheaply with inexperienced common} labor. The conditions established by this contractor caused most of the experienced coach cleaners to throw 1p their jobs. Labor turnover has been high and the sanitary condition of trains on the Alton is bad as a result. Is Uneconomical, Too. Prior to the 1922 shop strike the railroads had résrted to the contract- ing out of maintenance work in or- der to undermine. the shop unions. Skies and the Capitalists from the Earth.” Not only did the booklet sell in tens of thousands of copies in this country, going thru one edition after another, but it was translated into numerous other languages and print- ed in countries in every part of the world. His second book, “My Here- sy,” gives the complete story of his life and work. The non-comformist opinions ex- pressed in his booklet, together with Bishop Brown’s open sympathy with the labor and radical movements of the United States, came to a head with the attempt of the house of bish- ops of his church to unfrock him, -A number of trials and appeals were in- stituted with the result that, after a sensational trial in New Orleans, the bishops decided to convict Bishop Brown of entertaining heretical opin- ions. Despite that, he is now bishop of the Old Catholic church. Aids Labor, Previous to that time, and since, Bishop Brown, despite his advanced age, has given a great portion of his time to aiding the progressive labor movement, Since its inception, he This proved) yyery uneconomical. Where the intergtate commerce com-| mission investigated it found repair: costing 2 to 8 times the expense when | done by union*shopmen in the rail-| road shops. | Workerg’i-Morale Low. The present,policy of the C. & A. management has brot the morale of the shop forces to a low ebb. The unions altho 86" per cent of its shop- | men are members of these unions. | It continues to check dues to the com- pany union out.of their pay contrary to the wishes.of 99 per cent of the employes. © The percentage of bad order cars on the road is néreasing. Only such light repairs até ‘being made as are absolutely necessary to keep a mini- mum of cars in operation. When cars are carded for heavy repairs at cer- ‘tain shop pointa the foremen are tear- ing off the cards and sending the cars tn to other pdifits without repairs. By this means they hope to create a false appearaneerof cutting down ex- penses. Cre |. ea Connecticut State Conferénice to Fight Alien Bills, Jan. 23 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 16.— A state conference of the Connecticut Council for Protection of Foreign- Born Workers is to be held at 2 p, m., Jan, 23, at Fraternal Hall, 19 Elm street, New Haven. Trade unions and fraternal organ- |izations thruout the state are elect: | ing two delegates to represent them }at this meeting. Secretary F. Alfano of the New Ha- ven counci] has arranged a special Italian mass meeting for Sunday af- ternoon, Jan, 16, at Music Hall where Arturo Giovannitti will be the speak- er. Leaflets will be handed out giv- ing an account of the vicious anti- alien bills whiéh the council is fight- ing, and where the workers will be in- vited to send delegates to the Jan. 28 conference. *& LR ce CHARLEROI,"Pa., Jan. 16.—Charle- roi branch of Connellsville region will hold its first conference Sun., Jan. 16, at the Slovak Hall, 700 McKean Ave., Charleroi. All trade unighs and labor fraternal organizations are requested to send delegates. Thdése organizations that will not meet before the date of the conference, may be representd by their officials. Unemployment and Low Wages Make Workers Desperate in Calif. By L. P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16, — Work- ers, some of them, are getting desper- ate here, Two dishwashers, who for some time had been working for their board in a restaurant on Pico street, “helped” themselves to $60 in cold cash in a cold-blooded manner the other day. They probably thought that they had earned the money, $30 each, without | and then some, Another man, 76, broke a jewelry ore window, grabbed a diamond and WRITE AS. YOU FIGHT) road refuses recognition to the shop|° 4 has been a member of the national committee of International Labor De- | ense and has spoken at numerous | meetings under its auspices. His | meetings thruout the country and in} |Canada have been highly successful | tion depends on the choruses whic. |and thousands of workers have gath- | }ered to hear the interesting and un- | jusual viewpoint of the “heretic bisb- | Definite dates are being arranged swiftly in the forthcoming tour for In- | |ternational Labor Defense, and as | soon ag these arrangements are com- pleted the dates, cities, and halls will be made public. -Specia) efforts are being made to make these meetings unusually successful, and if the opin- ions of leading workers in the field is an indication it is certain that thou- |- sands of workers will be present at the meetings to be held. oe Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Ill. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, nationally- | known labor orator .and organizer, who is chairman of Intl. Labor Defense and active leader of the Pas- saic textile strike, has been making @ coast-to-coast tour for the I. L. D., has been taken jll during her stay in the northwest and is now confined to bed at Portland, Oregon. This in-| formation was today regeived by the national office of International Labor Defense. Altho the illness is not a very seri- ous one, and Comrade Flynn is under excellent medical care, she is tnable to speak at the meetings scheduled for her in her swing back to the east. | Her physician has ordered her to rest | for some time and many of the meet: | ings already arranged in the tour, which was to end at the starting point | of New York, will unfortunately have to be postponed. At some of the meetings in Minnesota at which Com- rade Flynn was to speak, Ralph Chap- lin, the noted I. W. W. poet, who is a member of the executive committee of the I. L. D,, spoke in her place to the satisfaction of the audience. It is hoped that the illness of Com- rade Flynn will be of very short dura- tion so as to enable her to resume the work into which she has put a life time of energetic struggle and ability. Filibuster on Bill for Mothers’ Care WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, — Fill bustering against any vote on the re- newal of federal aid to the states under the Maternity and Infancy act, Sen. Bayard of Delaware, Blease of South Carolina and Reed of Missouri have blocked the progress of that measure since the middle of last ses- sion, Sen, Sheppard of Texas has now served notice that he will use all pos. sible means, without obstructing ne- cessary appropriation measures of the departments, to keep this measure be- fore the senate until a vote is per- mitted by the opposition, Labor and other organizations having humanitarian ideals have en- dorsed the continuance of the work ot saving the lives of mothers and babies by teaching proper care of health at the time of childbirth and early infancy, Teng of thousands of lives have beon saved by this work in two years, according to public health officials. Why don’t you write it up? It may be inteveeting to other workers, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT) \ dividual. How and by what interests the newspapers of the day are supported and therefore the elements in society for whom they speak is shown clearly by the following figures recently issued by the U. S. department of commerce for the year 1926. Newspapers printed about 1,290,000,000 lines of advertising during the year. The first ten months of the year showed 1,043,148,000 lines of advertising in newspapers and 22,191,000 lines in magazines, the latter being a gain of 9 per cent. National newspaper advertising amounted to 922, lines up to October 31. Toilet articles and medical prepara tion advertising led the list with 54,598,000; foods, grocéries and. beverages being second with 38,312,000 lines, and cigars, tobacco and cigarettes 23,624,000 lines. BERT MILLER. STILL ROOM FOR MORE RECRUITS IN REHEARSAL oO 922,000 An Answer to Our Challenge. Dear Comrade: Have been named, have been challenged to let you know at once what I have done in the last few weeks to Keep The DAILY WORKER and help it to overcome the OF MASS RECITATION Rehearsals are now going on for the mass recitation “The Strike” which is to be presented at the Lenin Memorial Meeting Sunday, Jan, 23. Rehearsals take place Tues- day and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:30 p. m, and Sunday mornings from 10:30 to 12 m. The effectives of the Lease | have speaking parts, short stories, which can be learned easily. More volunteers are requested to come to the next rehearsal, Sunday morn- ing. All rehearsals are at the Rus- sian School, 1902 W. Division. Come and make this a success. Members of language choruses are especially urged to attend. Workers desirous of attending the financial crisis. The party members and supporters of The DAILY WORKER want to know what I have done during this |serfious emergency to Keep The | DAILY WORKER, to KEEP OUR SLOGAN going. Must state it is past history and could not be jthis critical stage to K | DAILY WORKER. Instead, my challenge is that all comrades and supporters of The DAILY WORKER who have been em- ployed or earned wages for the last six months should unite to act like- ‘wise within a fortnight and to CON- , TRIBUTE ONE DAY'S WAGE TO | KEEP THE DAILY WORKER. Enclosed you will find‘ a money order of my ONE DAY'S WAGE con- tribution of $10.00 TO KEEP THE DAILY WORKER: “WILL THEY ALE j giving roheareal’are ‘invited, |JOIN WITH ME AND ALWAYS BE ‘READY TO CARRY FORWARD TO {VICTORY THE CAMPA |KEEP THE DAILY WORKE ! Comradely yours, Leo Hofbauer, Judge Postpones Decision. Judge W. J. Lindsay postponed for one week his decision in the matter) of admitting Agustin Morales to bail, } no reason for the delay. Morales is held to the grand jury on| 2 charge of murder as a result of the Melrose Park shooting affair of Dec. 7, “Ma’s” Pardon Total Climbs. AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 13.—Governor Miriam A, Ferguson's two-year clem- ency total is now 3;257 with the an- nouncement of 42 more pardons, GET A SUB. The XIV Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union— The XV Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union— The VII Enlarged Executive of the Communist International— At all of these world-important gatherings THE RUSSIAN PARTY DISCUSSION stood in the front rank. WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? READ Max Bedacht: Position and Opposition in the C. P. S. U. in the JANUARY LENIN ISSUE of FAWORKERS MONTHLY This Is Only ONE of the Valuable and Timely | Articles in, This Issue of the Workers Monthly NOW ON SALE{” 250 ACQPY