The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1927, Page 5

2 33h She News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Polities Ve | (By Federated Pre Building trades strike mg their lines as they pr -) je po Cut their struggle, and nov goq Trades Employers’ be} New York. threatens seiation to req called off. wafeature: of the Brooklyn strike. ny cent with the craftsmen. rey mand unidn ‘ recognition, the Building Trades Have ‘Won in. Brooklyn. and | (New Jersey Battles e harden- on for higher wage demands. The strike of Ri 3,000 plumbers and plumbers’ help- in Brooklyn, has so fat resulted in victory for 400, the others continuing, the Building of lock | out his journéymen and Helpers in Manhat- e@f;tan, unléss the ‘Brooklyn strikes are | e solidarity’that unites the help- ers and journeyimen is the significatit’| Till cently the helpers were unorganized. They de-/ 5-day | co 4 ae Ce 1G The tine Che egieer bor—Trade Union Activities | Sabotage of Work for week, and the $9 day. Journeynien big? an increase of $2 over the $12 Ti: lé, and the 5-day week. Th Painters Win Despite Injunction. Painters in Brooklyn are not cowed te Supreme Court Justice Cropsey’s injunction. Most of the eimployers jg) have settled at the $14 scale demand- sed, but 28 of the 30 bosses who swore taj out the writ are still standing pat. , The union’s official position is that na the strike order has been recalled, as fq Cropsey required, but that individual ; workers have the right to continue ud idle until their wage requests sre } met. 3 , The union is encouraged by the vic- Weory of Passaic, Paterson and Ruther- i ford, N. J. painters who struck for a Nf s12 scale. And they point out that $14 in Brooklyn is no more than $12 in New Jersey, because of the differ- n a ai Fy ence in the cost of living. a BUY THE DAILY WORKER dj AT THE NEWSSTANDS u i Celebrate i] Ps . CRE CHO ~* COMMERCIAL CHEMISTRY CREATES GOLD leé you ride ti FOR | INVESTORS; BUT NEEDS MONOPOLY AND LABOR | of applied chemist The statement, however, conceals the real return on the actual invest- ment by owners of. common’ stock. {The books show the value of *his jstock at $5 a share, so the stock- holders in Allied Chemical & Dye got about 195 per cent of their invest- menty In the 5 years 1921 to 1926 this {company has taken profits totaling !over $105,000,000, For the common stockholders this means a return of | $40.69 on eaeh $5 share or more than 800 per cent in 5 years. Texas Sulphur’s Monopoly. Texas Gulf Sulphur shows how control of a limited natural resource |; enables New York millionaires to levy hidden tribute on consumers. The (By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press) The rich profits opened up for the investiig ¢lass by the development | ious protest @gainst allowing labor is revealed in the 1926 report of the Allied Chemical} officials to preach even “brotherly |& Dye Corp, This big combine,,Which grabbed German business and patents /love.” The church federation was in jas a result of the war, reports a fet income of $24,072,820. |holders get a return of $9.78 a share. oe Force Doll Makers To Sign Contracts Not to Join the Union By CLARINA MICHELSON, “Sign on the dotted hne, or you're fired.” The 5,000 doll makers in New York | City are being given “contracts” by | their bosses, and told to get out, if they don’t sign up. The bosses know D ' } i ! \ With a bundle of the SPECIAL of the DAILY WORKER } } i } On May Day a Special Issue of The DAILY WORKER will. be issued. ORDER A BUNDLE There will be special articles on the world labor; special cartoons and photographs. ORDER A BUNDLE A whole section will be de- voted to greetings to the world of labor from individ- ual workers and from work- ing clats organizations. ORDER A BUNDLE This issue should be brought into the hands of thousands of workers. Order a bundle for yourself to give away fd be sure to order a bundle FOR YOUR MAY DAY MEETING THE DAILY WORKER $3 First St, New York Eh cloads | Ae tor ..., coptes of the MAY DAY SPECIAL Name . Street .. City .. 1926 profits of this concerit amounted | their stuff, They call one or two to $9,383,818 or, more than half the} workers at a time into the office, hand value of the goods it sold to industry. them the pledges, and tell them if The gross-income of the-company-was | they ‘don’t want their jobs, they know only $18,152,030. they can lose them. In signing, the The report shows the profits as a| workers agree: THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1927 Policies and Programs The Trade Union Préss Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism ‘Churches Invite A. F. ‘To Take Over Churches ‘In Los Angeles Sunday By WM. SCHNEIDERMAN. | LOS ANGHLES, April 25,—in con- |nection with the approaching A. F. of L, convention to be held in this city |next October, the ehurches of this |¢ity have invited the officials of the |American Federation of Labor to |take over the chiirehes on the Sunday beforé the convention opens. Thé terms upoti which they make} this genérdus offer aie quite inter- esting. Most of the churches are linked up with thé radio- broadcast- jing station of the Los Angeles Times, jnotorious dnti-labor paper, and the! |ehurches urge otir labor leaders to be! |gentle and kind in their speeches if jthey do not wish the privilege of broadcasting their talks taken away | from them. | Gentle As Lainbs. Wm. Green’s representatives have | assured the churches that they will be @entle as lambs, that they will preach} tonly brotherly love and will not hurt | the sensibilities of the kind bosses of Los Angeles and vicinity. | -But this pound of flesh is not suf- | fitient for the Chamber of Commerée }and the Metchants and Manufactur- | ets’ Association, who entered a fur- |a-quandary, as they did not like to lincur the displeasure of their meal- ticket, even to stage such a publicity stunt as they had in mind, so they jinvited speakers from the M. & M. |and the Central Labor Council to de- {bate before them the question “whether labor should be allowed to} | discuss unionism in the churches.” | The answer of officials of the Cen- {tral Labor Council is quite interest-| ling, and no doubt satisfactory to even the miost rabid labor-hater City of Angels. }not intend to violate the hospitality of the churches by preaching union- | ism from the pulpit.” What they will | preach, thén, will undoubtedly satisfy lion and the lamib shall lie down to- gether.” Public Relief for Half Orphans in-Washington WASHINGTON, April 25 (FD).— L.} I, 48 D. Protests Iny ‘Sidelights on Passaid Campaign = By SYLVAN A, POLLACK and. working for the ‘election of Weis- Tervified atthe support that the, bord, Bambach and Smelkinson (pote pes labor candidates are Yeceiving-in the; #8. individuals: but ms labor. repre... present election campaign in’ Pas-iSentatives) “hat? no conception with saic, N. J., ‘the henthtven of the éapi-}few exceptions of the class. straggley talist candigtttes + aré “desperately: at- On: Picket “Line. {temjbting to disetganine-the mettings Troe they’ had low’ wages, *lonz jwhere Albert Weisbord and the’ other| tours and unsanitary Conditions biit Sacco and Vanzetti PHILADELPHIA, ‘ april a rm working class .represeritatives speak, they could not understand their rela a result of the Socialist and Tight They attend meetings in”a blo¢ to) tions to the world about them. The wing labor union sabotage of the | heckle Weisbord in the hope of pre-| strike came: Picket lines... Tear ne Sacto Vanzetti conference: in thi8, cipitating a fight: ‘That is the man-| bombs, Water hose.:. Beatings. Ar- ¢ the local branch of the Intpr-| ney in which the attempt to beat the | rests, Martial law. And .@ll this national Labor Defense, thru its se- Rone : 3 workers is being cartied ‘out. time..they attended their daily strik Not Successful. meeting: where..Weisbord and.otha But all the moves to provoke Tights’ speakers, ‘many of them Cominunists, are futile. The workers have passed) anatyzed the bappenings of the day - the stage’ where they can be fooltd! and explained their relationship 40% DéAS Brother Rudovws as they vbete in the past. After more/ the class government that ‘was~7e Having’ read. in -the newspapers | than a year of strike, battling om the sponsible for it. variolis conflicting reports regarding | Picket liné against’ the combined te outcome of the- Sacéo, Vanzetti | forces of the hosses and the® Ssamie Conference held at the Labor Insti-| 1" be petatille bass, Zhen derstand that their interests as work- tute on Wednesday, April, 20th, Learned of great els "fers. means independent working class, fake, the Gppar Emr oe 2-1, The 'wdrkers now realize that their/@ction and that is what they are press! ur, View On.the matter, | i scpbats’ ad wokers make it neces. Practicing today with’ Communists as You remember that the ére- | y for’ them to carry out a collec’ their standard bearers. dential committee took exception tol es 5 abide ag@nst "gheie ‘enorme: t The Passaic ‘strike was an -im’ the delegations from: a _tiumber of 7 ‘“ af N "| portant’ step. in. the advangement, of bratiches of the Intetnational Labor) hediacestol pears |the American labor movenfent. The Defense. We wish to state that the The entire working class of Pas-| election campaign now taking place delegates from the various branches’ saic is’ aroused, excited as it has not there shows that the policy followed went to the conference with the earn-| been since the strike. The capitalist| was a correct one. It was a step est desire and hope to be able to con-| candidates are also excited, for to! forward forthe workers of that city: tribute the campaign to help save | thém Wieisbord is an unknown quan-| 1. eretary, sends the following letter to Sam Rudow, Manager of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers: I. L. D. Letter. ¢ Have. Learned. Today they know more. They un- hereby in the} It is that “we do! \ the s of our brothers, Sacco and Vanzetti. | Followed Conference Call. | I, as Secretary of the International | Labor Defense, wrote to my. branches | asking them to sénd delegates. bas-| ing myself on that section in the call} to the . conference which Says: | “Please be sure to attend. If your) jorganization is not in session, call} your special officers—two dele-} gates are requested from .every Jo- cal or branch.” } We therefore believe that the) branches of the International Labor | Defensé should have been seated.) However, the great necessity to -de-| velop a national protest niovement | against the attempts to exeeute Sac- co and Vanzetti must place in the background any consideration of the seating or unseating of any dele-| gates from any organ ion. I. L. D. Active. The activity of our National Or- ganization on behalf of Saéeo and Vanzetti must be known to you. We jhave helped to conduct their défense, and we have during the last two years carried on intensive propagan- da work for their release. if We therefore state categorically, that the whole labor movement of} Philadelphia must stand united: as }one man in the defense of Sacco and | Vanzetti. We, as part of the con- ference, will cotitihue in our efforts on {for Saeco and Vanzetti as tirelessly} our OWh: working cla: {as ever, | A number of organizations’ werd! | &c tity who will interfere with their well] calculated plans of how the vote'is to, >. For example Abrant Preiskel, commissioner of public safety, one of the five commissioners, is a candi-| date, for reelection. Running With him ate George Hoffman, a deputy} sheriff and a Thomas P. Case. Now this little group feels uncom- fortable with three labor candidates in the field. There are only five to Ke elected, and in addition to the just mentioned there are many others runiting—such as the “liberal” Judge | Cabell, who runs an open shop. Try To Diserganize. f So they carry on their move of dis- organization, women -being used. to) start the noise at campaign meetings.| They hope that if the laborites at- tempt to stop women, that would be! an excuse for the gangsters to break) up the’ meetings and attack the work- | ing class candidates. j The plot will fail, The workers have learned too mucl to” stand for! any sth trifling with the attenipt to advaince the labor movement. | Any move to terrorize or suppress. the labor ‘ campaign~ will- be vigorously met by the ‘legions of labor. They ay, “We hive folght on the picket line," Wow we will fight: some more to, gaim the fruits. of our struggle another .move towards a clearer un derstanding of the goal of ‘the work- ing ¢lass“a workers’ and farmers* goveriment, American Home Grows More and More of an Apartment, Says Goy’t. WASHINGTON, (FP). Amer- cans are becoming not merely a na- tion of town dwellers but of ‘cliff- dwellers, since the new construction ofsliving quarters is mostly in-apart- ments, says.the U. S. Bureau of La- bot Statistics. It presents building permit ‘sumntaries for 294 cities Hay- 4 ing an estimated population, .Jaky 1; 1926, of 42,700,000 to prove the ease. In, 1921 these cities had new. con- struction which included 130,878 oné- family dwellings, 38,858 two-family dwellings, ‘arid 64,814 dwellings: for three: or more families, including Stores, In 1926 there were constrne- ted 188,074 one-family hones, 64,-* 298 two-family dwellings and: 269,- 2 dwellings occupied by three or more families each. A table is. pre- sented showing the change, year by year. ““These figures,” says the buteat;"> “would tend to show that we vare becoming a race of cliff-dwellers. The During.;the strike jrest hati us arrestéd the On Preiskel and the d beaten ‘on will support Ss candidates:” Women In Fight. eof the most significant . fea- year 1926 was the first year that apartment houses have provided more new family accommodations than hive one-family dwellings.” picket line. Now w |which 4 shares were issued to the | owners for each $10 share held pftor to 1926. Thus the owners got a re- profit of more. than 147%. In the 7 full years of operation, 1920 to 1926; Texas Gulf Sulphur has made a total profit of $33,753,661, equiva- lent to $53.14 on each $10 invested. This 7-year return of 531% was pos- |sible because the owners share with | Freeport Sulphur a monopoly of the | }market. Texas Gulf has suth rich | jand easily wotked deposits that it) stands practically alorie in the -field:| | Powder'’s Profitable. | Hercules Powder Co., formed as an loffshoot of the Dupont powder ¢rust | | when the U. S. supreme court dered | \its dissolutidn, classes with thé very | profitable chemical concerns. Its 1926 profit of $8,483,919. meant a return | | of $18.18 on'each share of common | stock. In view of-the 100% stock | dividend declared in 1922, this repre- | | sents a real return of 36.4% on the | | investment. | | In the last 5 years Hercules Powder | | has taken profits totalitig $13,363,754) | | giving eommon stéckholders a 5-year | return of 136.5% on their iirveabaeat. | | All the stock of this concern was dis- | | tributed to the owners of Dupont stock} | when the court ordered ‘the dissolu- | tion of the trust. Hereules Powder, |makes, among other things, the black | ‘blasting powder and dynamite which | the U.S. bureau,of mines brahds as | jan unnecessary menace to the lives | of coal minets. | Dupont Gets Rich. |ported a 1926 profit of $41,969,574, equivalent to $13.98 on each share of common stock, But as ayresult of ‘stock dividends Dupont stockholders return of $3.69 a share oh the common | stock. But this is no-par stock. of | turn of $14.76 on each $10 invested, a} The giant Dupont trust, itself re- |, 1.—Never to join a union. 2.—Never to go out on strike. 3.—To give thé boss 80 days notice, | before quitting the job. (The boss | to give thé worker a 5 day notice). 4.—To let the boss take 5 per cent hoff, his weekly pay, to be /returnéd (later as a “bonus,” | Four hundred doll makers in the |last few weeks have refused to sign. | Nine shops are now locked out. The |hogses are organized. The workers are not. The doll making industry is new. Before the war Germany provided the dolls and toys for American children. But new there are probably 50,000 toy mukers—unorganized—in New | York City. Of these about 5,000 are doll makers, half of them women who éarn at the most $16 and $17 a weék: They start at 712 and $13. They make the dresses and hats for the dolls, put on the hair, and pack them in} | boxes. The men average $85 a week; | a few getting as high as $60. They make the composition, paint the dolls, éut the bodies and dresses, and set the eyes’ The work is almost entirely piece work. ‘ost of the sHops employ from 50 or 60 up to 200 workers. The large majority are in the downtown district. Louis Ainber# with a factory at 158 Spring Street, is president of the Manufacturers’ Association. Former Socialist Heads Speakers On Americanization | In its first six months of application, |ROt Seated at the last conference, jtures of the campaign is the interest, the new law providing “mothers’ pen- |*t¢h as branches of the Independent! jt has stirred among the women. sions” in the District of Columbia Workmen’s Cirele, Workers Clubs, | Especially among the working wom- haggiven yegular financial support | Young Workers League, etc., ete. We!en. The enthusiastic labor campaign to 350 children in 99 families: Two: | believe that a wrong impression ‘Will! meetings have women as half of their thirds of these families are white. |be left in the minds of the niember-! andiences. Not mere spectators. but More than two-thirds of the total ship that these delegates represented | the most interested anc ve people population of the district is white, but | that their efforts in behalf of Sacco | among those present. the colored are as a rule far lower in| and Vanzetti are not wanted. “THis; Anyone who feels thé econdmie scale than are the white| would be unfortunate. We thére- cai working class wage workers. This fact is reflected |fore propose that the International! turn their eyes tow: in the fact that twice as many colored | Labor Defense attract these organi-!fote January 24, 19 persons as whités ate on the books jzations around itstlf and have them | of workers who how of th» various charities and public-|work in coordination with the deci-| —— = aid affencies of the district. |sions and policies of the géfieral con-| Death of the bread-winner is the|ference. We believe that in this chief cause of application by mothers jmanner all organizations willing to t the Ameri- hould Be-| the thousands | are campaigning BE SURE TO GET THE SPECIAL ISSUE, MAY FIRST agro vere oeMeRDEMET ETT I Given by expert teacher. For reasonable rate’, write te JOHN WEINROTH €15¢ LARCHWOOD AVENUE, *hone Granite 7252, Philndelphia, Pa. Sith Anais ob Rie Mol cinch Saar: "| CHICAGO for this public allowance for home- help will be drawn into this mote-| keeping of their children. The pay- | ment. | ment is made for the child, to the mother as agent of the public in ear- ing for the child’s maintenance. In each case the investigator for the Board of Public Welfare, a govern- ment body, recommends to the board |a detailed budget for the family, based 6n its individual needs. All such allowance are teviewed at in- tervals of six months or less. Géo. C, Wilson, secretary of the board, favors the further enactment’ of sick and aécident insurance laws for the district, by congress, in order that thé causes for child dependency may be further reducéd. Many bread- | winners are sick for long periods be- fore they die, and their savings of many years as wage workers are cén- /Sumed by the expense of their final | illness. ‘Express Workers Sign ‘With Company After a As far aS we are concerned, we! shall work with the conference, ‘be | Guided by its devisions and do all in| jour power to \intensify the move-/ | ment to save the lives of Sacco and; Vanzetti. \Lock Out Printers In Chicago; Change Name; Now Open Shop GHICAGO, April 25.—The printing trade whions here have sent out a/ hotice calling the attention of thion | men to the fact that the Regan Print- | ling House, 523 Plymouth Court, has changed its name to the White Print- + ing House, locked out its union work- ers and decided to run as an opeh shop. The union effected are Typo- graphical Union 16, Pressmen’s Union | 3, Franklin Union. 4, Bookbinders’ } Union 8 and Binders’ Union 80. | MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY, MAY ‘FIRST, 1927, at 8 P. M.: ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Ashland Boulevard and Van Buren. Street. SPEAKERS: WM. 7. FOSTER MAX SHACHTMAN—Recéfitly returned from Moscow.’ C. T. CHI—Member of the Kuomintang. MELECH EPSTEIN—Editor of the Freiheit. ARNE SWABECK—Chairman. Film of Ruthenberg Funeral Will Be Shown. MUSICAL PROGRAM “ADMISSION 50e. Freiheit. Singing Society and. Symbolic, Hammer Drill by Finnish Gymnastie Society. Year of Negotiations | WASHINGTON, April 25 (FP); | —J. J. Forrester, president and R.| \h. Walters, general chairman, of ‘the | Amefican Federation of Express Workets, announce the signing by their committee with the officials of the Ameriéati Railway Express ©6,,’ of a settlement of the ¢:oputes as to wétking cohditions whie'; has been in negotiation between them fof more than a year. The working ajtee- ment between the company and its now hold 41% shares for every. share, George R. Lunn, a few years ago originally -purcha#ed so the their | one of the bright and shining lights 1926 return was veally about 68% on |6f the socialist party, former preacher, their investment in the industry. later a Tammanyit® leutenant-gov- RE SRI TE, efnor of New York and phil ty de- | | feat for that office appointed by Al Bill Posters Locked | Stith as public service Rempel ' . * is one of the list of patriotic speakers Out in Union-Smashing yi) vin nadtess “Amercanteaton’ £ apt She | meetings the coming week. The week Campaign in Milwaukee lis. devoted by’ the political lackaye of i | Wall Street to an endeavor to arouse (By Worker Correspondent) | patriotic frenzy among the youth of MILWAUKBE, April 25.—Bill| the state in order that Morgan may a iy rat th local No. 12, re-| have willing dupes to furniéh cannon ported to the Federated Trades Coun- | fodder for his various imperialist ven- i here fat yd Rae at the | tures, especially in China at the pres- reani y ‘osting Company | ent time. had been locked out by thé company tom = = igh! ~ ao ree oir oe eee socialist | Company. Ps | 1” a d the | ate Brig, General wi mar TIRE Tey TE. job. ws Riese eer ienatah jae teeta Colorado Labor Meets June 6, | Union pickets are busy and the| William A. Dawkins and Capt. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (FP) lockout is being treated by the com- | I ce. From to end 26. $2 annual eonven- pany as a strike, The company is out Practical to smash the union—and controls the city. tes vy, . Joyee. cam} be a tmperidli "whis’and “the tae t#idtic perversion of history. U aa Among others who will engége in|® Adjusted its différence With the the | April 26—The 1 of} tion, Colorado State men. The American Federatién of Bx- ress Workers split off ftom the Potherhood of Railway Clerké, Ex- press and, Station Employés some years ago. The Brotherhood has al- organized employes affects 65,000 Junction June abor, opens ‘at Grand 6, strike ablow for la twn~$§ 6.00 ~~ ae B00 re -=AVAINA - Mg 4 F960 SRP .