The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 4

Railroads, 2 # the bituminous field Page Fotr THE DAILY WORKER. EW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928 PENN GOVERNOR, MELLON IN DRIVE, - TO SMASH UNION Blow to Rail Workers as Well as Miners By T. J..O°’FLAI PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company Which is owned by the New York Central Railroad, and of which Goy- ernor Fisher of Pennsylv director, together with the Pitt Coal Company in which Andrey lon, se¢reta dominant the/ union-sw stroy the United and Ohio. The Pittsburgh Coal Company, the largest producer of coal in the world, is recognized the leader in the fight. Two officials of t Mellon eorporation signed th onville | agceement which was to expire on Mreh 31, 19: The eretarie Heover and D: sestowed the bless- ing of the Coolidge administration— which is run by Mellon—on the agree- ment, Mellon’s company violated the pact and shortly afterwards declared | war on the union. Enter Mr. Lewis. John L. Lewis, president of the in- ternational union, supported the Cool- idge administration in the last elec-| tion and still is a supporter of the} Republican Par’ So highly did the | G.O.P. strategists think of Support that the miners’ made a member of the onal re- publican campaign committe The union coal diggers are now r ving the reward of their president’s loyalty | to Mellon’s party—in cheerless barr- | acks, without adequate food or cloth img and at the mercy of the brutat| coal and iron police, deputy sheriffs | and the state constabulary. | "The open-shop Pennsylvania Rail-} voad is allied with the Pittsburgh! Coal Company, the Hillman Coal and | Coke Company, the Jones andj) Laughlin Steel Corporation, the In-| land Steel Company, the Wheeling | Steel Company, the Bethlehem Mines | Corporation, the Pittsburgh Terminal | Coal Corporation and others in the drive against the union. Whenever @ scab coal company finds itself in} meed of counsel’ the experienced! strike-breaking lawyers of the scabby | Pennsylvania Railroad are at the si Vice of the non-union coal company. ' According to information submitted to the senate by counsel for the Uni. te Mine Workers, big coal-owning coal-carrying roads like the New! York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio, and giant | Corporations like General Motors, thru a refusal to supply cars and thru figancial pressure from controlled banks, were le to prevent several | ¢oal operaio: rom keeping contracts | With the union. A Hl B. & O. Sttike Breaking , | it is timely to call attention here tothe B. & 0.’s strike-breakir -| tivities in w of the high favor in} Which modified company union plan! has been held by conservative trade | Unionists, because of its adoption of the famous “B. & O. plan” which was Biled as a solution of the conflict be- tween capital and labor. That plan| Was a modification of the company union policy which the B. & O. found| ofitable, but was ruinous to the| Machinists Union. | * John H. Jones, head of the Bertha} Consumers Coal Company, with large | Mime holdings in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and a yearly produc- tiin of 590,000 tons, 600,000 of Which was purchased by the General Motors Corporation, was forced by General Motcrs to break with the} Union after having worked its mines} With union labor for 37 years. The| Be tesinc agents for General Motors | Matormed Jones that if he signed up| With the union the automobile con- ern would not purchase any more of this coal, and that he should follow lead of the Pittsburgh Coal Com- pany or they would ruin him. Bankers 46m Philadelphia who held his com- y's paper called him on the long distance and warned him that any further contractual relations with the ion on his part would mean bank- Paptcy for him. oy Runs Open Shop. “~The Bertha Consumers Coal Com- pany, which professed to be so sorry for having to break with the union, is new running open shop and its treat- ment of the striking miners has not m a whit better than that of the 4ittsburgh Coal Company. Our read- ‘@@s can place whatever value they Please on Mr. Jones’s sincerity. The Mifference between the “good” capi- falist and the “bad” capitalist is the ference between organized and un- ‘Organized workers or miiltant union- im and the opposite kind. ¥ Union-Smashing. The Pennsylvania Railroad refused ) Sign contracts with several Ohio ‘operators unless they broke with the Union. The B. & O. cancelled a con-| | ae industries adjustment of industrial disputes on > | railroads, on municipal traction sys- |gard to the law quite as labor itself Class Collaboration By Ben M. Selekman. Russell Sage Foundation, POSTPONING New York, E outstanding | cientific” investigator is the claim that they | ir studies, They approach an inquiry—-so ete “detachment.” The results of their | a they tell us—in effort under the ¢ of cou be anything but impartial, “scientific. “Postponing Strikes just such a y. Evidence of its ins with the first t chapter: “How | 8 in public utility ed?” the author ible over a for the | | | ‘impartiality” entence of the can continuous se be secu “Ts it po: | ash method in the United in coal mines and other ba Qn Russell aim a: he ter of the Foundation states i improvement of social living con- ditions in the United States.” It is accordingly somewhat amusing and instructive that the ienti- nvestigators of the Foundation should so naively assume that the furtherance of their commendable aim must ¢ ide with the “preven- tion of strikes in the United States.” The Industrial Disputes Investiga- tion Act of Canada, which became a law on March 22, 1907, makes it il- legal to declare a strike or lockout in industries connected with public utili- ties until there has first been a resort to arbitration. Intended in the begin- ' to apply only to coal mining it ice been extended to railroads, telephone and telegraph lines, power stations, water sy Three crucial questions | | | The | | Anthony B author of | :/ Van Kleeck, director of the Depart- | Has the act prevented s' y ment of Industrial Studies of the Rus- has labor fared in the adn ration sell Sage Foundation broadcasting | of the law? What has been the at- some too innocent chunks of propa- titude of labor tsward this act? ganda for the adoption in the United | The answer to the first question will States of a law similar to the one in} show the real purpose behind the agi- Canada. . | tation now being carried on in its Ree uf | favor. What stand has labor taken on the| The yearly average of strikes in|issue? At first it was bitterly op-| all industries in Canada for the years | posed. Especially so were the miners. | previous to the passage of the act is “Labor” has since come around. This} 5. The average subsequent t is a “vietory,” the author tells us, He} passage is 119. In the coal mining i also attempts to tell us why: “The dustry the average is 6 before and 11, war opened the eyes of the union of-| after the enactment of the law! ficials to its advantages.” Some ra- The law has had no effect in pre- ther significant references are like-| venting strikes! Indeed, this is free- | wise made to the fact that “conserva- | ly admitted on all sides. Why then tive” leaders saw in the act a good} is there still so much agitation in its barrier against other “factions” in | favor? The answer wiil be found in the labor movement. \ the examination of the second ques-| This is not the whole story, by any | tion: How has labor fared in the ad- means. | ministration of the act? The labor bureaucracy in Canada No detailed account can be given | quite like the labor officialdom in the here. In periods of rising wage lev- | United States—the same fakerdom, in els, labor found itself forced to fight fact, since International Unions ex- the bosses, public opinion, courts of tend to both countries—has surrend- arbitration—and delay. Frequently | ered to, the capitalists. It is no acci- months intervened before increases dent the eyes of the labor officialdom even when granted, were announced. Were opened promptly after the war Mostly the workers were forced to t just about the time that labor lead- resort to a strike in the end. The | ¢TS here suddenly regained their “eye- good “scientist” who has compiled Sight.” this study does not tell us this, but! Those unionists in Canada who have his facts do! refused to indulge in this—for the In periods of declining wage levels, | Workers—rather expensive “eye-open- the employers found no trouble, gen- ¢F” have been segregated by our au- erally speaking, in putting through | decreases, in some case without re- members of the T. U. E. L., with the | “One Big Union” followers and with has disregarded the law with impun-|thers no more respectable, all o. ity on many occasions. In fact, it is whose activities are rather vividly re- | the boast of the advocates of the Dis- | Ported in this volume. | | * +* & | utes Act that its penalties have nev- i | Le been enforced. 4 | The importance of the issue in- | volved, rather than the value of this | Chairmen of arbitration courts b i : | were uniformly unsatisfactory to la- | ook is the reason for this lengthy | Rove fareine. wall own reasons, |7°View: And since there have been certain attempts to have a law sim- | Awards were never quite what labor '* ‘ q ilar to the Canadian act passed in the desired. Decreases were always great- er than expected. Here we find the answer to the | more to be emphasized. question as to the reason why the law tt would be easy, however, to ex- | is so much advocated. | While this re the labor press throughout the coun- try is carrying hundreds of reprints of a news release sent out by Mary { who signed a temporary agreement | with the union. The Pennsylvania} Railroad is reported to be shouider-| ing 60 per cent of the losses that may | be suffered by a scab coal company) near Shadyside, Ohio. | Here is irrefutable proof of the} united front between the railroads} and the big coal company, which are} largely under the same financial con-| trol. It is regrettable that a similar relationship does not exist between! the coal diggers and the railroad| workers. FROM U.S.S. R. of the First American Rank and File | | Relief Necessary. | To win this strike, adequate relief | oe the miners is essential but relief alone is not sufficient. The Pennsyl- vania Ohio Miners’ Relief Committes| | Labor Delegation bjs headquarters at 611 Penn Ave., to ‘ittsburgh, Pa. gives relief not ¢ “y merely to feed "the hungry, but to Soviet Russia i encourage the miners with slogans . i p \ as well as with food and clothing, to Price 25¢. fight more militantly to save the | union and win the strike, to smash J Vii the strike-breaking injunctions issued ust O the Press by corporation-owned judges, to raise “A Land Full of Real oO signed a temporary agreement h the union. ‘The Pennsylvania uraged operators to start up ‘ir mines with scab labor offering em profitable contracts. The Wa- ih Railroad refused to supply cars a Jefferson county, Ohio, Pied ie with a Bellaire, Ohio operator the slogan of a Labor Party, to strug- gle for all progressive policies that Achievements Where will invigorate the miners’ union and Organized Workers supply it with progressive, militant Rule.” leadership that will conduct a fight for the eventual ownership of the mines by the miners and the elimin- ation from the industry of all para: | WORKERS LIBRARY PUB- LISHERS, 39 East 126 St. NEW YORK. | chain |Loan Co. Shuts Doors; Small Borrowers Afraid |tion said to be backed by assets | jof the government and not due to any thor with the Communists, with the i} | United States, the issue is all the | ew is being written, | | Report | NEWS BANKERS PLAN TO, GET CHURCH CASH & j|Hampden Revives “Caponsachi” for Short Engagement Zoe ALBANY, Jan. — Religious in-| stitutions will be entirely controlled; by a group of bankers, military and} big business men, if a bill to central- ize funds, given for religious purposes| | e ‘ under a Religious Education Founda-| laid aside Shakes anc tion, is passed by the legislature in|¥evive for a period of four weeks Albany. | “Cape »” until his next tart Not content with the service the | tion is ready. ee ied reine ihe churches are giving capitalists, big | SC@50" ‘to capact ve TEE SE Ame business wishes to control the purse | theatre dane ih pea ae strings more directly through incor-|SPOnse to a demand for try porating r ion into a financial in. The ie by a a sistas ira stitution, it is reported. U.S, Attor-| Rose A. Palmer, and is based on | Np EOE “The Ri ney Charles H. Tuttle, former war | Robert Browning’s poem) “The Ring and the Book. lord Newton D. Baker, Orion H. Chen- | ‘i cor ae tied a eid In the Hampden play, the priest, ey of the American Exchange and Irv-| os reed with misconduct with a ing Trust Co., Russel Colgate and} ; ain je maratas eeeanceny 2 | woman, is made to appear innocent of oR Pee oe tice fhe charges, which accounts for its posed members for the foundation’s | Widespread popularity among certain board/of trustees. | sections of the population, especially , }the Roman Catholics. In the Brown- {ing work a number of witnes {late their versions of the affai | mere study in human reactions, with- }out at all endeavoring to establish | praise or blame. Edith Barrett again plays Pompilia, MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 26. — The doo’ of the Dade County Security Company | Ernest -Rowan, Guido Franceschini were closed yesterday by State Con-| with Hampden of course in. his old troller Er Amos. Although the} role of Caponsacchi. Many new| taking over of the building associa-| pla: 's are in the present production. HELEN MENKEN ‘TO AV- PEAR IN “MRS. DANE’S DEFENSE” amounting t terized as a $18,500,000 was charac- | endly” act on the part | suspected crookedness of officials of } the firm, depositors are alarmed. | Nos On Saturday night, February 4, an aggerate the danger of such a law.| organization to be known as the In its operation in Canada we find a| Chamberlain Brown Artists will take vivid illustration that laws are but|over the Cosmopolitan Theatre for the reflection of an already existing |the presentation of a series of well state of relationships. Confirm-|known plays. Each production will ing as they do on the political field|run for two weeks and will have a what has already taken place on the | prominent player as the star. The industrial field they are capable of | best seats will sell for $2. passage and enforcement only when a rs. Dane’s Defense,” by Henry preponderance of class power is at | Artaur Jones, a play well known here their base. {and abroad, will be the initial produc- Their significance consists in this: Bae with Helen Menken playing Mrs. that they confirm a betrayal alread sconad ; a = carried out of which suk lage pad The second play will be “Sherlock the inevitable consequence. Thus un- Hone bia ae uaa derstood, it was necessary for the la- scores Stes Joete hear bor officials of the United States to betray the country-wide strike move- ment of 1922 before the B. & O. plan and the Watson Parker law could be | established. It was necessary for the! Schiffer and Shifrin will present at ritish labor officials to betray the | the Comedy Theatre, this evening. General Strike of May 1927 before|“So Am J,” a new comedy by C. M.| the British Trade Union Bill could be Selling, adapted from the Italian of passed. | Camillo Scelari, The cast includes To free labor from these enslaving | Betty Linley, Vernon Steele, Walter enactments it will be necessary to re-| Kingsford and Louise Carter. vitalize the workers’ struggles, to} eliminate the betrayers of their inter-| est within its own ranks, —ROBERT MITCHELL. “Mongolia;” the Conrad Westervelt drama now housed at the Mansfield | Theatre announces that it will con- |tinve at that playhouse indefinite) ee nar TEN INCINERATOR © eannace Opposite Bronx Park Opposite Bronx Park j2 ROOM APART MENT 2 Blocks of CooperativeHouses are being built in the Co-operative Workers’ Colony by the UNITED WORKERS’ COOP. ASS’N | Come right now and select an apartment of 2-3-4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. TEL. ALGONQUIN 6900, AD EMR Getting FINCO Co-operative BAKERY PRODUCTS - (Union Made) If not, let us know and we'll instruct our driver to call at your home, Finnish Co-operative Trading Association, Inc. Tel. Windsor 9052. 4301 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Are You Walter Hampden has temporarily | SE AMSENENS, WEN .{number represents all the subscrip- Coal Barons and Government Officials Unite in Open Shop Drive MARKET 1S EASY; =" WORKERS JOBLESS An increasingly easy labor market is reported in the Monthly Labor Re- view for January, just issued by the | Department of Labor. The review re- | ports that employers find the market jeasy because of ‘the “available em- |ployment becoming steadily less | throughout the last year.” Voluntary {quit rate is becoming consistently | tc er, while the layoff rate shows a | steady rise.” The U. Labor Department made | its survey in over 300 factories which | they have chosen a cross section of cHICAcO MEETING ‘ON MINERS BELIEF | | | An enlarged Pennsylvania-Ohio- Plays the leading male role in “‘The|Colorado Miners’ Relief Conference Enemy,” Channing Pollack’s tense | Will be held in Chicago, Friday, ae i yes i _|ruary 10th, 8 P. M. at the Redifer film drama of war-ridden Vienna now | Wells Sti, Chicage. ‘ a | Hall, 30 N. Saeing ab theron Theatre, | Among the one huridred fifty organ- ap lizations invited to attend are trade The Theatre Guild sends out an an-| unions, and workers’ fraternal, cul- nouncement that its subscription books | tural au ae Ft een Be 25 |large number of which have already Bore nue Bone au U00) ented: zt letected their delegates for the confer- ence. The conference is planned by the Chicago local of the Pennsylvania- Ohio-Colorado Relief _Committee, which was established at the January 13th conference to centralize all of \the relief work in Chicago. All organizations and groups of in- Gividuals are ruged to attend the Feb- ruary conference. All contributions of funds and clothing in Chicago and vicinity should be sent to the Pennsylvania-Ohio-Col- tions that the Guild organization can handle comfortably, and has decided to close the books for the balance of the season. This is quite a jump from the 500 subscribers when “John Fer- guson” was presented at the Garrick Theatre, nine years ago. “Meek Mose” a drama dealing with Negro life in the oil fields of Texas will open at the Princess Theatre on Monday evening, February 6. The producer is Lester A. Walton, and the ei 7, author is Frank Wilson, now playing |orado Miners’ Relief Committee, 23 S. the title role in “Porgy.” “Meek |Lincoln St., Chicago. Mose” is the initial effort of a group =e RARE CE of colored actors and writers, headed| Albert Terrasi, Rose Calvano, Ta- by Mr, Walton, to establish a Negro |tiana Polinoff, Carlos Benetti, Doris theatre on Broadway. 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