The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1927, Page 5

Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities News and Comment CHICAGO SLAVE MARKET SHOWS FEW JOBS SOLD; _ OPTIMISM IS ALL IN RANKS OF BIG BUSINESS Labor Education Labor and Government aE WUGAER TRwis Trade Union Politics (Special To The Daily Worker) CHICAGO, ILL, Jan, 80.—As January’s parting wintry blasts.cut thru to the bones of the thotisands of Chigago’s unemployed the problem. of the jobless is seen to be more ¢ritical than it has been since the winter of 1922. There are no statistics recent enough to prove this with figures—but a look round the slave markets on Madison, Halsted and South State Streets and an ear for tales of endless job hunting is mote convincing than what Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—Injunctions Labor and: Imperialism Organizing Cab Drivers European Transport Union In Philadelphia Workers Badly Paid THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. MONDAY, * the English language, other than the| agreement and reduced Ke miners | koe college sad moniter of the Lost row xoeed yp machinery. A goneral “Daily Worker” can serve the Work-| pay 33 per cent on the pretext that! United States congtessman, is also discontent swept through the tele- But Getting Increase How the motor bus meri of Brussels tooks a sudden vacation and drove théir buses in a big parade for higher wages is told in an interesting report received by the Federated Press from the International Transport Workers Federation, with headquarters in Am- sterdam. Responding to an appeal from the union the bus men motored their heavy vehicles to the Grande Place, a big square in Brussels, and queued up the house of the governor of the province of Brabant, A deputation presented the demands’ to the gov- ernor and he was so impressed that he said he would order the bus com- pany to comply with the demands. Wage increases of 10 and 11 francs were asked,-over the 24, 26 and 27 frances now paid the conductors and motor drivers, Berlin Chauffeurs Win. Berlin taxi drivers—7,000 of them —have won their first collective wage agreement, with wage gains. of ap- proximately 25 per cent. Two marks a day ave guaranteed, with 20 per cent of takings and time allowances for repair work in garages. Two thousand other drivers, employed by the big companies, are not included, but the German Traffic Union is working at that problem. German Sea Wages Up. German seamen gain wage in- creases of 4 to 7.6 per cent in a new agreement negotiated by the seanien’s section of the German Traffic Union. Able seamen get 100 marks a month and marine firemen 112 marks, with two marks allowance for food. The union embraces all divisions of sea- men, from ordinary seamen to deck officers and from greasers to en- gineers. Belgian Watermen Also. Belgian inland waterway workers win 75 francs a month average, or something. less than 10 per cent, but a further increase of 500 francs would be necessary to bring the purchasing power of their wages up to the 1923 level. Gold, Strikeleader, Calls For a Showdown it is a great satisfaction to know that there is in the United States at least one daily newspaper in the Eng- lich language that has its columns open for real labor news and that champions the cause of the workets in their daily struggles with the em- ployers for a decent livelihood. The enemies of the working class are powerful. Their strength lies in the control of the means of produc- tion which they maintain through their control of the governmental agencies, and control of the schools, colleges and press. They thus enslave thé workers not only economically bub also mentally, But the woikers’* revolt against thelr enslavement is growing, and cannot be stopped by the direct agencies of the capitalist class. The rnling class therefore resorts to the control of the workers’ organizations trade unions; the ruling class seeks toscontrol trade union leaders, To a grfat extent the employers have suc- cedded in this direction, The present sithation in the needle trade unions demonstrates how so-called trade unfon leaders worked hand-in-hand with the employers. The betrayal of thé Sigmans, Beckermans, and Schachtmans, and the blessing on this betrayal by the A. F. of L. of- ficials show to what extent the bos- figures might be available, About Two Men Per Job. The last index of the Illinois Labor Department gives Chicago applicants for jobs at free employment bureaus as 172 to every 100 jobs available. This is for December. Officials at the Chicago office of the department, while they are reluctant to make any sort of estimate, even roughly, as to the actual number, say that every in- dication points to the fact that since December the number of jobs has materially decreased. In November, for example, the ratio was 167 to 100, showing a steady decline of jobs. Keep On Tramping. Building trades workers and ma- chinists to whom I have spoken tell of interminable tramping from build- ing to building and shop to shop. Stockyards workers relate that there are more butchers out of work than since 1922, The state figures for fac- tory employment show a drop of 1.4 per cént between November and De- cember. “Short covering and speculative buying, stimulated by cheerful steel earnings’ report and the equally en- couraging reports from other branches of American industry, brought about a good reéovery in stock prices,” says the last market re- port from the New York exchange. The optimism of which sits very well with the coupon clippers but | which cannot be shared by the un- questionably large lay-offs in the steel mills at Gary and South Chi- cago, a compliment of a general re- cession of production in most branches of industry in this city. "PAPER BOX STRIKE (By a Worker correspondent) NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Another labor organization is being attacked. Another group of workers is waging a desperate struggle to maintain its union. Again organized employers, using hunger and cold as_ their weapons, are seeking to annihiliate a labor organization that it has taken years to build up. This time it is the paper box work- ers of New York City that are carry- ing on the struggle. For fifteen weeks they have fought against the mandate of their oppressors which would reduce them to the status of unorganized workers, Would Crush Union Fifteen weeks ago, the hundred and fifty paper box manufacturers of Greater New York determined that their employes give up their union. They themselves were bound together in a solid organization. They pre- ferred to act as a unit, although they wanted their employes to act as in- dividuals, The workers did not yield to the demand, although they stood desper- ately in need of employment. They held to their union and struck for its maintenance, Standards Low Surely, these workers need a union if any workers do. -It.is very badly needed to build up the terribl; standards that prevail in this indus- try. most desolate section of Manhattan, along Greene and Mercer and Prince Streets, where old buildings _ stand that have been out of date for many years and whose contemporaries in most part of the town have long since been pulled down to make way for modern structures. In these dilapi- dated edifices of the middle of last century the paper box workers are huddled. Go down and look at them ‘some day. A large part of the work is carried on in basements, for the rent of upper floors is not as cheap as the discarded, uninhabitable base- ments, The misery of the basements is in- tensified by the fact that the heavy cut board must be carried up by the] perate struggle like this, workers as there are no elevator fa-| sent soon has twice its value. cilities in 50 per cent of the shops. Steel Firm Nets Big . Profits After Paying Miners’ Union Scale NEW YORK, (FP),~Paying the United Mine Workers seule to sev-| eral thousand employes in its. coal miens has not prevented Jones & Laughlin Stel Corp.,.from making | high profits. Its 1926 profits rose low | every case the The factories are housed in the | time. PARALLELS PASSAIC 2 In that dampness and darkness, the paper box workers spend their labor hours. Workers Driven The seasons vary in intensity and there is approximately eight months of each year part time employment. Always there is the most hellish driv- ing of workers. The wages, the state department of labor reperts, ate next to the lowest of those. paid in any in- dustry. And sanitary conditions are indisputedly the worst. Here we have truly a sweated in- dustry, one of the last survivals of that hated race, the principal cure for which is organization. A Second Passes For fifteen. bitter weeks the strug- gle has gone on. Picket lines have been maintained morning and eve- ning, with both men and women ap- pearing upon’ them. Young girls in In Spite of Discharges PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30 (FP) Taxicab drivers of Philadelphia are seeking to build up a union. More than 30 men suspected of union sym- pathy have been fired, but the move- ment continues. The Yellow Taxi Go. now owned by Thomas R. Mitten interests, discharged 10 of these drivers, when they were seen read- ing copies of the Cab Driver’s Bul- letin, The Cab Drivers Union demands call for a guaranteed wage of $4 a day; 10-hour day and 6-day week; time starting on arrival at garage; time and half for overtime; abolition of criminal identification—finger- printing and photographing; instal- lation of lockers and sanitary wash- rooms; no discrimination, and recog- nition of the union. Mitten has lost much of his popu- larity in Philadelphia. Poor service on his Philadelphia Rapid Transit street car system is being criticized severely, Quaker City citizens, bus- iness groups and district associa- tions are howling that Mitten keeps the P. R. 'f. street cars few and far JANE RY 31,1927 LABOR SECRETARY DAVIS CHANGES “HYMN OF HATE” Never Favored Alien Bills, So He Says The Connecticut Council for the} Protection of Foreign Born Workers sees a ditect connection between its very successful state conference held) in New Haven on Sunday and al speech delivered in that city by See- retary of Labor Davis the following day. Mr. Davis speaking over the radio} denied emphatically that he had ever| favored registration of aliens fuvolv- ing finger-printing or espionage, and] claimed that he had in fact always) strenuously opposed such proposed | imeasures, He said he was merely) advocating a voluntary registration| system Which would benefit the alien} by making naturalization easier and simpler, | Seems To Be Change. | This statement was surprising to the Council for Protection of Foreign} Born Workers which has been fight-! ing ali anti-alien measures such as the various proposed registration bill, The council seems to remember very distinctly that a year ago the Secretary of Labor was backing the pernicious Aswell bill which not only calls for finger-printing but also for taxing for conscription at the will of the president, and for such a Prus- Page ive M anager’s Corner A POUND OF NEWSPRINT V8. A GRAIN OF NEWS Leon Trotaky once commented sarcasticaliy upon the*fact that certain issues of American newspapers weigh four pounds. The average Sunday paper weighs this mueh and sometimes more. This enormous load consists of all the trash which ean be thrown together to stupify and confuse the minds of the workers, inane comic strips, cheap sob stories, social sewage from the divoree courts and the domestic lif of the idlé rich, advice to the lovelorn, lurid murder tales, and similar insipid vaporings which emanate in a poisone cloud from the pages of the capitalist press. The careful reader of the news is foreed to wade through this mass of intellectual garbage, to find here and there a shred of real news of social importance, usnally not more than a yrain of news to @ pound of newsprint. Within the six pages of The DAILY WORKER is cram- med all the meat, in the way of news, that can be put into such @ limited space. If you will scan the payes of The DAILY WORKER you.will notice with what care the news is selected. Each itent is chosen for its particular import- ance or genuine human interest. Each topie is developed with an eye to bringing out its social significance. Each ar- ticle is written with but one thought in mind, that of its service to the workersé 3 The worker who-is led to chose his newspaper by the flashy appeal of the capitalist press, by its glaring, but empty headlines, or by its vapid pictures, is like a child who re- sponds solely to the immediate sense impression, and grasps at the brightest object which comes within his reach. In choosing a newspaper, cheap novelty alone should not be the standard, but rather the novelty of that which is intel- lectually stimulating and socially useful. A newspaper should furnish real food for thought. —BERT MILLE, sian system of registry that it would result in constant spying upon a workers’ every move and action, Davis Yields, The Secretary of Labor in his an- Gifford Pinchot, before his-term| ual report, issued: in December, As governor expired, urged the Pub-| stated that in view of the fact that lic Service Commission to make “an|so many people scemed to object to immediate inquiry into transit con-|the proposals for compulsory regisy between, while pushing his Yellow cabs under.everyone’s nose. Mitten cabs solicit crowds waiting on cor- ners forthe long delayed Mitten trolleys. ditions in Philadelphia.” Pinchot’s|tration—such as had been brought up reguiar Republican successor, John] at every session of Congress since Fisher, has not yet called for a re-}|1922—he .was willing to try some port. scheme of voluntary registration of Cab drivers boosting. the union|aliens. In other plan” of company unionism which} pressure of public opinion against Mitten is trying to extend into taxi|this attempted atiack upon the for- service. Mitten has fought trade] cign-born. their teens have braved the snow and the rain and cold in helping to keep them. They have been one of the most effective ways of demonstrating the strength of the strike, Police- men’s clubs have been wielded upon] 90 breaking a Buffalo car strike.} of this year, calling upon Congress to unprotected heads for the offense of walking along the sidewalks and in- forming would-be workers that a strike was on. Four hundred pickets have been arrested, in almost every|Dunn, speaking before the Young nearly | Democracy Ope: rson has been dis-|phia, pointed ou’ fe has committed no| Workers owned a large minority of Union men and women have |the common stock their share in the by | total outstanding securities of the ease for no legal offense. In missed because been beaten by the thugs employed the nianufacturers. This has been another Passaic strike in all except two details. The details are: 1. This is a strike to de-| therefore far below what it was fend a union already formed, rather |¢racked up to be. than one to establish a new union. 2. have been wise enough not to attack reporters, so the strike has not been given the newspaper publicity that the Passaic strike received. In most other respects we have a Passaic strike here right in our midst. Come quickly with your help. Con- tribute from your own pockétbook. Get your friends to contribute. Get your union to contribute. Ina des- every dollar Help the paper box workers to win. ‘Carry Anti-Syndicalist Law Fight to State Legislature on Coast By L, P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal.—-Indications are that a hard fight will be put “up before the California legislature to unions since 1911 when he broke a Insetting The Thin Edge. stteet tailway workers’ strike in} In line with this change in Mr. Philadelphia. His son boasted re] Dayis' plans, Representative Holaday cently that the father spent $5,000,-| introduced a new bill, on January 10th which ended with the introduction of} cot certain dates for a voluntary’ the company union. registration of aliens to be carried The Mitten plan calls for employe on. This is presumably for the pur- stock ownership. ‘But Robert W. pose of aiding them in becoming naturalized, But the Council for Protection of Foreign Born Workers asks why there is need of passing a law if the registration is to be optional. They feel confident that what will eetually result is a demand for com- pulsory registration when the volun- tary scheme has failed as it surely will. If a certain proportion of aliens register—perhaps at the com- mn Forum in Philadel- that though the company amounted to only about three percent and their share in the total earnings of the company was can then say that those workers who did not register must be suspicious characters and therefore ought to be forced to register. Whatever Mr. Davis may say at this time, the Council for Protection of Foreign Born Workers is con- vineed that he desires—and proposes to introduce as soon as the public will stand for it—-a compulsory system of registration of aliens. After ‘that! will come registration for all of us. Mr. Dayis said in his New Haven speech: “I know that many of you here are opposed to the enrollment of aliens in the United Stats. I am ‘The men and women discharged or| UPable to fathom why. I have pro- given indefinite furloughs cave been | Posed no espionage, no finger-printing, company between two and|%0 other identification other than the fifteen pe Reraa r ee fact of enrollment. Finger-printing Discharge Telegraph Operators With the Speed-up ¢ on the Job By SIDNEY TEPPER (Wotker Correspondent) Hundreds of Morse telegraph oper- ators are being discharged by the Western Union Telegraph Co. and many more put on ® part time basis all over the United States, as a re- sult of the speed-up system and “economy drive.” words he felt it} ~ hope to forestall the famous “Mitten | necessaty to yleld to the tremendous| * The police and ‘hired strong-arm men|Roll in the Subs For The DAILY | ™and of employers—the authorities! wo | LETTERS FROM Come Back for More. Editor, DAILY WORKER: I. twas at the Bramhall Theatre at -27th Street and Lexington Avenue to see the play “The Difference in Gods” Ti was very well acted and the thouht behind it was a very fine one. However, the seating capacity of the theatre amounts to 300 approxi- , and only one-fourth or less filled. Any movie house is filled, no mat- ter how stupid the picture may be. The prices in the movies rank: any- where between 25c and 65c, whereas the charge the Bramhall Theatre is well within the reach of the work- 25e only; 25e to see a play. su- perbly acted. But this is not all that I want to bring out: Butler Davenport, hero of plays and owner of the theatre, is the only.one (ex- cept the Workers’ Theatre) who .of- fered a. free seat to the papes box striker to see “The Bells.” I’m sure any striker who sa wit enjoyed it. 1 beseech every worker who reads this paper to dig up but one quarter and go to the Bramhall Theatre in- stead of going to a nonsensical pic- ture, and I’m sure you will come hack for mere. Cowmradely” yours, FroRENcCE PRorky. An Appeal to Women Dear Comrades: Reading The DAILY WORKER every day, your “challenge” letters have interested me very much, because they show how little the majority of your Party aré doing to help Keep The DAILY | WORKER. If every member of .your Party would have done his share, you would have gone “over the top” a long time ago. If the majority would have any interest in the paper or really realize that The DAILY WORKER was in a‘ precarious qpndition, they would answer those “challenge” let- ters much faster. Appeal to Women. Although neither my wife nor | for low ‘wages, long hours, single] have strenuously opposed them”. make a suggestion. On account of ‘time for overtime after 9 hours, with the hope of havirig a permanent job. (During the war the government se§ have succeeded in using. labor] to $15,149,004 .from $9,954,404 inj TPC#! the criminal syndicalism law.| (ots the company to grant. the leaders. in their efforts to destroy the! 1995, saya the annual report. And nae oaem er kinveon horns 8 hour day and: time end a half for only economic weapon of the work-|its‘1926 common stock dividends elimb- ers, the trade unions, We must unmask such leaders, and throw the light of day upon their treachery. No daily newspaper in ers in their struggles with the bosses in their efforts to rid their’ uuions of the disguised agents of the 8. No other newspaper can help them build their unions, and their I therefore « greet the first New York issue of the “Daily Worker” nt New York workers are for- tanate in the, addition of this mighty weapon, which will help them. to or ganize and make them more success- ful in their daily struggles, and which will bring them nearer to their final goal, their economic emancipation.— B. Gold, Manager, New York Joint Board, Locals 1, 6, 10 & 16, Inter. in ‘the fiscal year ending June 380, Af atecent election the following| (2) Stool. pigeons demoralized the national Fur Workers’ Union of U. S. gg Bova ig gy taboo officers were elected: T. B. Webber, fe and (ay any men were afraid and Canada. - RACINE LABOR DENOUNCES Pi COOLIDG f RACINE, Wis. (F. P.).—Condem- nation of the Coolidge imperialist policy toward Nicaragua and Mexico was formally expressed by the Ra- cine Trades and Labor Council in vedolutions forwarded to the Wis- cogsin delegation in congress. in the Subs For The DAILY : i ie ANDRE BB Riso 55 i owe RR RLY an to Janua ed to $19.46 a share as compared to $10.89 in 1925, During the same: iod Bethlehem Stel repudiated the Jclgonvie y ‘ it could not operate its coal properties protiably: at the union figure. Jones & Laughlin coal is mined by the Vesta Coal Co., one of the three big concerns continuing to deal with the U. M. W. of A, in the Pittsburgh field. It does not recognize organized labor in its steel mills. BRICKLAYERS" RELIEF INCREAS- G. WASHINGTON, (FP).—Old age relief and mortuary benefits paid to members by the Bricklayers, Plaster- ers and Masons’ International Union Treasurer Gleeson, This was the highest total for each of the two funds that has yet been expended. BELATED WAGE INCREASE TO + BHOPMEN, — < ELMIRA, N. Y. (F. P.).—At the tail end of other roads the Erie Ratl- road has come forward with small wage increases to its shopmen. The road granted 2 and 3-4 cents an hour a survey of this act for the American Civil Liberties Union, and he charac- terizes it as a “farce.” So does Leon R. Yankwich, professor of law at strong against the law, aceording to a statement in the South \ fornia Labor Press (A. F. of L.). Forum, organ of the A.C, L. U. branch, and the liberal (sometimes al- most radical) Los Angeles ‘Record are both putting up a strong protest against thé savagery of California, The Saceo-Vanzetti United Front Defense Conference has held two meetings already this year, on Jan-|. uary 9 and 16. The number of dele- gates has gréatly increased, as many craft locals have voted to take more active part in the work to free these workers, , president, George Timberlake, vice- president, Joseph Spizak, treasurer. Mike Shulman, secretary, and Dave Rapoport, assistant secretary. Arrangements have ‘been made: to hold a big mass meeting in the near future, —. sete yh Rest For Hotel Enipl 10j ABBANE, N Ph Jan. a a | employes would be granted one of test in every seven under a a ana dogistavine:todaya Open The company being alarmed by the overtime, in large offices only.) The slave driving supervisors were always on the workers’ necks, asking for biggér records. The company spent millions of ‘dollars to devise graph workers. Hundreds joined the union of commercial telegraphers. general restlessness of the workers sent stool pigeons to spy upon the men. Every union meeting was filled with stool pigeons who are ready to 1 their fellow workers for a few dollars, higher job or a smile from an official. The most active workers} Miss Samorodin, “who came all pre- were reported and fired, A @ savas called .in 1918 but it was lost. There are three reasons the strike Was lost, (1) Union nt the strike in one office only while the other were uneffected. Scabs brought in from other places. to lose their “steady jobs.” The Western Union alarmed by these events tooks measures to safe- itself against their repetitions. y organized the fake company un- ion and discharged anyone who was suspected of « “belonging to the commercial phers. Mf this company’ union and the other “welfare” measures we will write in future yin’! th Couneil Gets Results. What my wife has done, The Connecticut Council for Pro- has come to me that if you make an| tection of Foreign Born Workers be- A alah en Baglin f lieves that nothing could . hate}'° “ arin brought forth such a statement but ¥ come to the resene of The DAILY its gathering of more than 850 dele- Acker the, reaponss .wonld. bp gates at a conference which opposed — —— f all-such measures, and voted to con- When the Passaic Retief Commit- . tee sent out an appeal for relief ai nln Tong as they’ funds it was my wife who urged me Miss Nina Samorodin, Secrdtary of the National organization, had rep- resentatives of every union, of cen- tral trades, of fraternaf and religious! ~~ organizations from 8 different cities, | : Couldn’t Break It Up. ANTI IMPERI |ALISTS IN MEXICO CONGRATU- the same source. - Again it was my “There were twenty delégates re-} fomcave certain Workman's Circle ranches and the Socialists”, says pared to break up the meeting. But after they had had a thoro hearing, they were flouted by the delegates, part of them withdrew, and the con; ference proceeded to a most success) ful conclusion.” If one couneil conference could uot influence Seeretary of Labor Davis, a hundred councils if established} thruout the country could ‘no doubt crush out all attempts to persecute the foreign born worker with any more proposed registration and de-! ortation measures in Congress. rite to the National Council for! Protection of Foreign Born ‘Workers, | 41 Union Square, New York, N. Y.| for information about a council in| your city, | Mexico City, Mexico, Jin. 20.—In the name of the Cdén- tinental Organization Commit~ tee of the All-American Anti- Imperialist League, I greet the DAILY WORKER on the ocea- sion of its first Now York is- sue, I take advantage of this op- portunity to wish all success to the newspaper which has been the greatest defender in the United States of the struggle against Tmpe- vialism=JULIO A. MELLA, Vv the thought | te go out and collect funds for them. | OUR READERS | wife who urged me and went with fe to collect more money. With | her help I raised another $25.00 and | 150 pounds of new and old clothing. A Real Wife. Then when you made. an appeal to keep The DAILY WORKER in | existence, and my wife read ts the | lists that I gave only $4.00 (as much as I had at that’time), these are ie exact words she used to me, “Is. | that all you gave? Why, what would we and all the other workers do jf The DAILY WORKER stopped pub- | lication?” | She made me promise to send | $5.00 immediately (the amount you fqeill find- enclosed), and to send an- | other five as soon as possible (which { shall also do). That’s why I say. , \ to the jwomen folks. They know wh | it nade to fight isten jand they ae save our DAILY. | If this letter will do any good, you ; may publish it with pleasure. | With Comrade Greetings, MAX MILLER, Cleveland, Ohio. | Worker in New York City, | Editor, DAILY WORKER: With | unconfined joy, I add my voice in ywelcoming to New York, the only English language labor daily in America voicing the hopes and aspir- ations of the avorking S$ move- }| ment. | The arrival of The DAILY WORK- ER in New York will serve not only to dissolve the countless falsehoods spawned by the mainstays of capital- — ism, such ds the New York Times and the rest, but will also counteract directly the vicious fabrications ands ‘fairy ‘tales disseminated by thé” fei low socialist New Leader. The first day out on New York’s sea of struggle saw the sale of The’ | DAILY WORKER rise to great and For years those workers have slaved| measures have been advocated, but I]am a Party member, I would like to/ glorious heights—and my newsdealer | who often complained of left-overs, | was more than glad to announce that all his dailies, fifteen in all, were sold out. In a feverish hunt thruout the lower Bronx, for a copy, I dis- covered much the same situation, | Comrades and fellow - workers! | Keep up the good work, and let the reactionaries know that our much- heralded weakness and oft-reported GUG. , BRITISH UNION REJECTS LONG } HOURS. |, NEW YORK, (¥P).—The United | Textile Factory Workers Association | of Great Britain has rejected the de- jmand cf employers that working hours be increased, say Manchester | dispatches to New York textile | journals. The union {s asking parlia- | Ment to amend the factory act and |make 48 hours the legal limit. The | proposed amendment is intended as a blo wat overtime. STRIKE FOR UNION SHOP TILTON, N. Jan. 30.—Two Jey hundred members of the United Tex- tile Workers employed in the Elm mill here struck and tied up the shop when an attempt was made to establish a non-nuion shop by hav-, ing John Perthel, weaver, withdraw from the union, and work, This scheme was tried once before, four years ago, by the same man, 0 ? “slow death” is only a fanciful dream, Sunday's conference, according to / raised $25.60. | Long live The DAILY WORKER in.” We received another. appeal from| New York City.—JOSEPH J. PAD- ¢ontinud © at’* A short strike resulted in the ~ » _ y