The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, N 'W YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1927 USSR. Grain Exports Rise; Wheat Exports 46% of World’s Total MOSCOW, July 4. — Grain ex- port from the U. S: S.R. during the first’ 7 months of the current campaign (July, 1926 to January, 1927) breaks the record sinee all the post-war years. During this period 2,150,000 tons (more than 151,000,000 poods) were exported. Last year the export for same period amounted to 1,600,000. tons, and in 1923-24 to 1,700,000 tons. This rise in export was chiefly due to inereased export of food pro- ducts, particularly wheat. Simultaneously, the relative im- portanee of Soviet grain on the world market..also increased, U. S. S. R. wheat exports constituted this year 9 per cent as against 6 per cent of last year of the total world export of wheat to Europe. The export of rye, likewise, in- creased from 29 per cent of the total world export last year to 46 per cent this year. U.S. S. R. ex- ports of barley increased to 24 per cent pof the total :world exports duriyg the past 7 months. The U.S.S.R. exports grain this year to 17 different countries, thus the number of creditor countries and firms has considerably in- creased, As a result of the stability of the conditions of the internal mar- ket, and the successful process of the grain prepaartions, the grain export this year of the majority of agricultural products is very profitable, Curtis Sheet Spreads ‘Prosperity’ Bunk; but Farmers Know Better WASHINGTON (FP).—The few progressive farm congressmen and or- | i | | ‘the vacant lot, thinking that the shark “A cafeteria, News and Comment Labor Education Labor and Government Trade Union Politics Employment Shark Gets Worker Job at Empty Lot; Won’t Return Fee (By A Worker Correspondent.) The employment agencies are still at their old tricks. Their latest stunt was to send a worker cut as a cook, to a vacant lot. The employment sharks are full of tricks, They do anything to get the worker’s money. There is an employment office who called an Italian cook into the office to take a job as order cook. The fee was ten dollars. The cook gave five dollars and promised to give the other five after working a week, The shark said, “All right,” and so he is- sued the working card to the cook. They cent the cook down on Green- wich street. When he arrived all he could find was a vacant lot. Looking For A Job. He walked a block each way from might have made a mistake on the location, one block one way or the other. The number still remained the vacant lot. The cook asked a police- man where the place was. The police- man said, “What is this place sup- posed to be anyway?” The cook said, I was sent down from an employment office to take an or- der cook job.” The policeman looked! around and discovered that the num- ber really was the vacant lot. So the policeman told the cook to go back to the employment office and get his money back. When he returned the shark said, “Well, how’s the job?” ganization chiefs remaining in Wash-| The cook answered, “There’s no cafe- ington this summer snort angrily at| teria at that number and no such leases, and next to enfo |eration of employers’ organizations, \engineering societies, insurance com- | panies and government officials. This | body is entrusted by the U. S. bureau |TRADE UNION COMMITTEES WILL DRAFT NATIONA Organized Labor—Trade Union Activities SAFETY CODES TO PREVENT LABOR ACCIDENTS By ART SHIELDS. pare its own health and safety stan- dards for the dangerous trades. Fl-- yent the pr lowing the National Labor Health | Conference at Cleveland, committees | have already been organized in the building, shop trades and mines, | rs’ Health Bureau nounces. Safety committ other trades will be orga: The National Trade Union Safety Standards ‘ Committees here as they are called, will demand d ic safety | codes, Thirty-five thousand workers | are now killed every ron Amer- ican jobs, and 2,500,000 others in-| jured. The lives of millions more are | shortened. Study Industrial Mishaps. The trade union safety campaign will be directed first to a thorough study of industrial accidents and dis- ement of safety requirements by federal and} state laws and trade union agree- ments. The labor committees are ex- pected to go much further in behalf of the workers than the Engineering Standards Committee, which is a fed- of standards with the task of pre- paring safety codes. To date it has prepared 10, which only 3 states have put into law. Aim to Prevent Deaths. The miners’ section also discussed a set of tentative regulations pre- pared by the bureau, which the dele- : | &- 3 ‘approved Organized labor has set out to Pas to be | Health @ | eonference’s re unions. compre four Mike Ma Local iners’ Local an, educatic Workers’ He: secretary of Trade Union § mittee. ational ards Com- Delegates to nferen Lak ng the ations to their ional Since the tions wete favorably mous | vote, prompt r 1 xpected, Urge Fe The conference urged federal safety sues | Policies and Programs | | The Trade Union Press | Strikes—Injunctions Labor and Imperialism rush of offers of Midsummer Carn held on July 2: Park. In a (3000 New York Painters | \Charge Graft in Council \9 and Ask Suspension | a big mass meeting of painters June »2 Sth Avenue and} a resolution was passed | demanding from our reneral Executive Board the rein-| tement of Thomas Wright, legally! jelected secret: the suspension of | the District Council for a period of} 8 months and th n entirely new rict Council. | Members who were present at: this | lm meeting also signed individual ards demanding from the G. E, B, immediate action on the above pro- posal five of the biggest local unions of control for the mining and |New York City, namely, 261, 499,| ver sahe wonteolof indus oigons, (848, 905 and 1011. Representatives with standanl fede from each local union brought out for safe, prop f robbe graft, corruption, ely dadaatr if m, sell-outs on the jobs to! pensation administration for railway workers. For trade union action the | drafting of national health and safety standards, with the cooperation trade union committees and the Wo ers’ Health Bureau is recommended; safety clauses to be included in trade union agreements: the 40-hour week; trade union inspection committees on every job and equal representation for organized labor in all lab ments. Effective state la wise demanded. are like SOCIAL EDUCATION FOR SCHOOL, TEACHERS FIRST NECESSITY OF UNION, SAYS PRESIDENT 7 dope |the bo: | 0 ise neil controlled by the holy “So-| s’ Sauzner and Silverman. | work voted by the Silverman machine | jto be paid out. t mention a few. | The council ordered to arrest the | | thie At the ngxt meeting the| \J Ss. | Sil man majority in the council | I ed a motion that the council pays the expenses for their defense; of} course to hire one of the best law- ~ Organizations and Individuals Rall 10 = 4 Help The DAILY WORKER Carnival The office of The jis having a hard time to handle the} lowing: The Cooperative Unit will furnish |a cake, candy and ice cream booth. Factory District an Art Booth. Sub-section 1-B laneous booth. Section 7, Branch 1 and 2 will sup- ply a shooting gallery and a number of prize games. Branch 3 eorganization of = we. § Tai Island comrades will furnish a Nail a punching board. Driving Contest. Sub-section 3-B | toonist who will sketch the | to the Carnival and also a pyrographic! St. dition to the offers previ- {ously published in these columns we | have just received reports on the fol-| DAILY WORKER ; expert who will bu assistance for the} and Fair, to be at Pleasant Bay Carpenters. will Carpenters’ Local ters living in the | Comrade Norma jare thus assured will be completely | magnificent scale. | Tickets for the 2, 1-D will supply will give a miscel- will give | feature will be Coney Su Dance, On Su open air Chauve | with many noted promises a car- tors designs on souvenirs at the aff: ises to give us enough men tc |the construction work. us free engineering servi | good for two days. be on sale at 108 Ea |mie Higgins Book § rn out magnif: be furnished 2090, whict The ca Coope also promised their aid. n Silber that t Midsummer Carni- the The mass meeting was cated wy FEWER STRIKES IN UNITED STATES IN 1927 THAN IN 1926, LABOR DEPARTMENT INQUIRY REVEALS By LELAND OLDS (Fed. Press). The industrial truce between labor! s and the betrayal of the|4nd capital in the United States con- | portant cause of : five day week by the majority. of the| tinued through 1926, as indicated in aj chiefly responsible f . S, department | strikes and lockouts in that year. The |strikes. Other Bills of expenses in hundreds and|epartment reports fewer strikes and | discharge of employes, ¢ thousands of dollars were submitted |fewer Workers involved than in any|non-union men and open vs. cl to the council for any little thing and | ¥ear since the record began in 1916. | chop oper The record shows 1035 strikes or {lockouts in 1926 compared with 1301 Out of the pile of facts which were |in 1925. For the last 5 years strikes | brought out at the meeting I will|@"d lockouts have averaged 1250 a year. Fewer Strikes. The department ing the number of workers involved in 783 of the strikes The total for the jeompared with 428,416 % . |1012 strikes in 1925. The disputes in|that the bulk of union ac Ww Wage disputes ¥ of labor review of recognition 979 |272. There were clothing industry, § dustry, 78 in coal the metal trades. | strikes in the entire \dustry including "| steam railroads, | The department’ has reports cover- occurring in 1 year was 329,59: workers in strikes in 1926, being re Disputes Cause. Union in 106 ent of sed for 4 pl aged the most ponsible for 194 strikes in the 90 in the textile in- mining and 75 in There were only 8 2 transportaticn in- b electric and s f suggest vity is in iy " Palacs. 4 ; i yers in the city to defend them. aes E A the regi rth of the Ohi 1: east claims made by a Curtis farm paper | Place in that neighborhood.” The Lia loeaas Bre rea g ton, |which the workers involved were re-|the region north of the Ohio and eas that the “farmer is getting more and | Shark said, “Oh, the job is there all) CHICAGO, (FP) July 4—Social these recurring displays of the Maine Pe sag eerie cca cP asunonle rted and the number of workers|0f the Mississippi 1 I spending more.” |vight, go back down there and go to/ education for school teachers is an/thinking or the uninformed or the|<)ould also defend them. "~~ |year by year since 1916 were: jeurred 869 of the 1035 stri The magazine, which clai 1 | work and shut up about it.” ‘important function of the American | anti-social mind in the present gen- beets ich i air ace ¢ Ito « lockouts compared with 69 eat Samat How To Get Right. ii i . F i A check was found of $1,500 dol-) & 3 » |the Ohio and east of the M 500,000 circulation among “country 8 | Federation of Teachers, Pres. Mary|eration let us lay the foundation to |)... with which our officials gambled| * » a) Dg ¢ 3 | gg # tho Migsiasipp! and § sdilen gentlemen,” quoted the higher level| Hotel and restaurant workers who | C. Barker told the 11th convention of|make a more creditable showing in|, Wall Street. The check had to be| $ = ge pa ee La old ory meg kes — . ere of grain prices on the Chicago market |@7¢ Seeking employment in the hotel | this union of classroom educators at | the training of the next.” |paid out to a Wall Street firm. |i 3 £2 rid 5 = pl ae pain ins ci pi ie 4 lace as proof that the farmer is better off | and restaurants of Bene pats and, its opening session in Chicago aes Membership Increases. | Brother Thomas Wright, the sus-|% 5 z z BE 4 &lin New York, New Jersey, Pennegved now. “Yes, but those are the prices | Vicinity, should come over to the of-| 28. 3, 2 a | Delegates representing locals fyom|pended secretary, who was legally| 5 is nia‘and Massachusetts, _ the gamblers are getting,” they point-|fice of the Hotel and Restaurant) “Not the least in need of stimula | every quarter of the country are.at|elected by a majority of 4,000 mem-| 2916 2,667 1,599,917 600 | y ea ling ed out. “The wheat farmers sold their | Workers’ Union, 183 W. 5ist street, | tion in the field of social intelligence] | on the problems of education | bers, expressed his doubts of the will- | 1917 ats aeatee 528 | 5 i m crops last fall at distress prices.” |New York City. ee ee en eee and of strengthening the union’s po-|ingness of our G. E. B. to clean out {1918 ae bet iawave Railroad Workers With last year’s crops mostly in the | < Wate z , "I Ad | sition. Its less than 4,000 members, |the corruption and thieves. ass nig ete per soa ; r a possession of speculators, wheat Washington Residents eae oe es ha ee felt though an increase of 10 per cent| He stated: “This fight is no local | 1830 fe vee oo Ate Killed Down See prices have advanced 19 cents a bushel | . : ‘ 5 4 “| since 1926, are but a minute fraction |issue. Our G. E. B, is mixed up in| {0° : Nae BAG Baal + ' ts Bia in the last two months, Cotton, sold | Hit at Power Trust |e hen ir eae Peag tA the more than 800,000 teachers in|this crime; they are « party to the | seas as pee noes evapo tag Sie Ai st | > 7 3, ts ey 2? 923 ‘ 1584 : i he: i hy growers at 9 cents a pound last) | % 4 : af valdAsan! eaat Miwa Barker 3h reviews the United States. Many of the most | robbery.” ert | i904 298 654,641 7g \tenisy when = freight train jumped ~ fall, is-now agpted at-tZrents. |, WASHINGTON, July 4 (FP)—-This |} Ka year'd work |progressive..teachers are enrolled in| The G. E. B. was invited to the! s495 £012 498.416 48h) anicteacks near Golkey, Hutieroel beige, Asta jcity’s voteless citizens have voted by ng Ms ate Peni ite social | the federation, making it the van-|meeting but they didn’t show up. Mr. | 1996 783 329,592 421! Count: . “New Negro” Editor to oe cate e chien aan Li whose "oe the caisher “sneihk that | evar Gr lie Bregeenion: Kelly, representative of the G. E. B.| i u: ——— 4 r trust’s ambition to grab the i ? . Secretary-Treasurer Florence Cur-|in New York City, did not show u: z | Power @ i g % | ecretary ence Cu n yy P| ~ Study African Slavery |Great Falls of the Potomac, teat | oe ae ra Gee No rcay tis Hanson reports 6 new locals and either. | BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY : N, WE Bey oe meager it! ‘as they gather there.” A f ton 1s aftiiia-/mined to clear all the betrayers and | ¢ Dr. on Locke, professor of phi ae He pe M05 v8 Pauli A cuesrs: |ted with the American Federation of | thieves out of the union. ; i| Health Food hel, Labigh 6088. . osophy at Howard University and /PYo ‘ 1 PHN : i | Labor. The rank and file is awakening! | Dr. ABRAHAM MARKOFF 4 editor of “The New Negro,” is leaving | 2 city council, they not only asked the| A sinister omen in American educa- | tc ape | armeohyes scl | Vegetarian Restaurant ||| . ; d ; for Geneva to study the work of the | federal power commission to keep the/| tion, she suggested to the delegates, | Bertaud to Fly to Rome. | ‘ | pane oe en Weg oe League of Nations in African recon-|Byllesby utilities interests out of the is the fact that most of the attacks Lloyd W. Berteid U.S. mail pilot, Candee RubberWorkers 1600 Madison Ave. \| “Datly Except Friday and Sunday. struction, with particular eo eo Falls but demanded that ile Shae of pad a sresear to the administration of African man-| Potomac Electric Power Co., another | of speech come from people who have) . eae | dates. He will center his attention| power trust subsidiary, eut down its |had 12 to 16 or more years of school-| eat aes ergs Alias pal on reports of slavery in Abyssinia |exorbitant rates. Although steaming themselves. \eeeek ta diy 40° seen Rite b: i and Central Africa and will report|plants manufacture electricity for 14 | “Surely we teachers and the eurri-| °“ < baek to the Foreign Policy Associa-|cent a kilowatt hour, the Potomac firm j|culuyn have been at fault,” she} tion on his findings.* is charging 614 cents. frankly admitted. “As we deplore PHONE: UNIVERSITY 6865. 249 EAST 116th STREET Cor. Second Ave. New York. who was originally scheduled to|\On Strike Against Cut con-| NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 4, —} The | Over 80 workers of the L. Candee | contract calls for the take-off be-| Rubber Footwear Co. are on strike tween J | against a reduction in wages amount- | eanstSee g to 28 cents on 100 pairs of rubber | shoes. The L. Candee Co. is one of } the richest subsidiaries of the U. S.} We allow you to make Rubber Co. which employs in New| $105.00 PROFIT Haven about 3,500 workers in all de- | }partments. The arctics department | | in conjunction with the is affected by the strike and is prac- | Fieiheit Picnic tically crippled. It employs mostly | SAT., JULY 30, 1927 skilled, experienced workers who can- | afternoon and evening not be easily replaced. | The wages and hours of the Can- | At ULMER PARK, Brooklyn Phone Stuyvesant 8816 John’s Restaurant SPECIALTY: ITALIAN DISHES A place with atmosphere where all radicais meet, 302 E. 12th St. New York Dr. J. Mindel Dr. L. Hendin Surgeon Dentists 1 UNION SQUARE Room 803 Phone Stuyv. 10119 | THIRD BLOCK COOPERATIVE HOUSES== IN THE WORKERS. COOPERATIVE COLONY Orchard $783 Strictly by Appointment DR. L. KESSLER SURGEON DENTIST 48-50 DELANCEY STREET New York Tel. 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Gum shoe workers average $10 to $12 a week, The workers are on a piece work basis, and work from 50 hours a week lup. They never know when they will leave the factory. Work starts at 7 in the morning, and very often they don’t leave until 7 or 8 at night. The treatment by superintendents and foremen is miserable., The workers lose hours of their own time waiting to be supplied with materials, -The management has refused to deal with the representative of the workers elected by the strikers. In| a circular letter mailed to all the| strikers, the business manager, Rob- | inson states that he will deal only with the shop council which is the name for the company union in the factory. The workers have no faith in the shop council, as it is the bosses’ | union, This the workers see from the fact that the representative of | the council is seabbing. They are bit- ter against the continuous policy of cutting their wages. 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