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i aa objections Page Forr scinotnansinananttasiniisbaineucsiat st ainamninsadinnnbettianicantlenenieantiieiaranesrannnasiliat: 6. FEUDAL SYSTEM The Kind of Service ea ne thel. IS IMPOSED ON FLORIDA WORKERS, Bosses Chest for War} on Unionism | ty a Worker Correspondent) The. combined for capitalism | Floric ng to} stablish a more galling mode of in- ustrial feudalism in the state than has yet e3 here, altho the pres- nt conditions of labor are almost in-| leseribably bad. But, taking advantage of the con- ditions of unemployment (Jackson-| is reported to have an unemplo »), and the pres- nce tourists who| ave been flocking into Florida for} he” past two months, from centers | north, the | seeking the| f their slaves Bosses Speak. As evidence of this fact note the etter printed below, which was sent ut with other printed matter, under late of Sept. 8, 19: by the Florida Omployers’ Association—since re- shristened “The sociated Indus- ries of Florida.” To the Business Men and Indus- tries of Florida: The Florida Federa- tion of Labor is asking the business men, industries and politic‘ans of the state to contribute to the war * chest of organized labor the sum of $125,000, hk which they hope to publish the Annual State Labor Review, spreading the doctrines of Closed Shop Unionism and to have a considerable sum left over for a fund to be expended in an endeavor to elect labor candidates to the next legislature. We understand that Bribe Fund. The entire state is now being can- yassed for advertising in the pub- lication mentioned above at $250 a page—or for donations from those who do not care to advertise. It seems strange that a business man should be called upon to con- .tribute money in support of some- thing to which he is fundamentally opposed and* which he knows will be a detriment to his -business and a great drawback to industry and the general welfare of the state as a whole. These are results which have been observed time and again in other states and in many in- stances in Florida. Closed Shop San Francisco lost Gentleme the State cut, two to one, with its Open | Shop competitor, Los Angeles. | San Francisco has finally broken | from union control at a cost of more than five million dollars, but, the business men of that ¢ gave and gave gladly and still give tens | of thousands of dollars a year for the work of the associations that won and are maintaining this in- dustrial freedom Tt is generally conceded that one of the greatest attractions which the ‘south has for industry is its freedom for Closed Shop Unionism! Florida can ill afford to allow its industries to become throttled by submitting to the Closed Union Shop and the dictation of radical leaders and business agents, or by permitting radical and restrictive, syndicated, organized labor laws to be passed. Through the efforts of this a: ciation during the last two years, a large number of concerns have seen the folly of supporting” the Closed Union Shop with one hand and the American-Plan Open Shop with the other, and are now, not only ving ‘themselves co able sums of mone continued this practice, but are also saving such associations as ours the work and expense of having to counteract the influence of the work of the unions and publications which thcir donations had helped to finance. Very cordially yours, FLORIDA EMPLOYERS’ ASS) E. T. Lay. Executive Sec’y. CC 5 R a Accompanying the above letter was a circular entitled: “Political Free- dom,” which among other things makes a rhost vicious attack upon the American workers, and closes with the assurance to its readers that the Florida Employers’ Association is on the job. It reads in part as follows: What Is Open Shop” POLITICAL FREEDOM: There can be no “Open Shop” nor Indus- trial Freedom with Union Political Control. The leaders of the Nation’s American-Plan Open Shop Move- ment in semi-annual conference at Dallas, Texas, last November freely predicted that a national revival of union political intrigue was at that its influence would be every industrial center in America—that there would be a , . betraying a common source of inspiration and direction. A review of this year’s record ercp of the syndicated, radical and organized labor bills presented in ihe various state legislatures and R. T. Wants Te) An idea of the service given by the subways of New York can be gleaned from the above photo of milling mob of passengers on the I. R. T. passengers leaving the trains. obsolete condition of many of the above all the subwa: as possible by squeezing suffi all these contribute to the brazenly demand : a 7-cent fare. WASHINGTON port of the S: be made public until Secretary of the Navy Will it has been announced by the 9.—The re-| -4 investigation will not ir sees fit to act upon it, Navy e made by Department. Charges we witnesses in the investigation of criminal neglect on the the Na De- partment’s part in failure to safe- guard the lives of the submarine by sailors on the taking proper precau- tion in clearing the submarine’s field of operations it of the by properly warning | other craft.| approach of This was the d. ect cause of the dis aster to the S-4, witnesses charged. LISBON QUAKE. LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 9.—Slight earthquake shocks were felt here and southeast of Alemtejo beginning at 1:45 o'clock this morning. The shocks were accompanied by subter- ranean rumblings. No loss of life nor serious property damages were ported. city governments is sufficient proof that this prediction has literally come to pass, Some of the most eommon of this type of legislative measures attempted in the various states this year and passed in some were as follows: Measures estab- lishing or increasing compensation insurance; creating old age pen- sions; ereating mother’s and wid- ow’s pensions, providing for un- employment insurance; creating minimum wage commissions; grant- ing special immunity to labor unio creating state licensing boards for building engineers, plumbers, electrician barbers beauty parto Y operators and others bi providing for shorter hour week; for government in business; for labor on Sunday; for amend- ments to mechanics’ lien law; for the adoption of the child labor amendment; for the restriction of employment of married women; for the regulation of hours of drug store employes, for the establish- ment of industrial relations courts; for the prohibiting of payment of wages by checks; measures provid- ing for rest in anti-di injunction laws; full crew bills; many others. These efforts of a great nation- wide organization to gain thru leg» islation what they have failed to gain thru strik boycotts, intimi- dation and nm, has brought those in the firing line of the Open vement to the inescapable n that the .political ‘and legislative angle of this cause can no longer be ignored and that there ean be no Open Shop with Union political control. The legislatures of California, illinois, Massachu- setts and Ohio, thisg*year were scenes of most desperate legisla- tive struggles on a new syndicated, organized labor measure which has come to be referred to as the “Yellow Dog Bill.” This measure would make individual contracts of employment involving any agree- ment not to join a labor union, null and void, and prohibit the same under severe penalties. The Florida Employers’ Associa- tion is serving for the business and industrial interests of this state by keeping in constant touch with such activities as are mentioned above and also serving its members in numerous ways that cannot be men- tioned here. The association in- vites those who may care to know more about its objects and activi- ties to address any inquiry to: Florida Employers’ Association, Suite 1530, Lynch Building, Jack- sonville, Florida. A national conference on the American-Plan Cpen Shop will be held in Jacksonville in February, 1928. re- seven; coe P ‘The Background. Preparatory to this coming na- tional Conference, John E. Edgerton 2 s’ attempt to run the cars with as few employees ient number of workers to the limi disgraceful service for which the subways ALBANY, Feb, 9.—-Second degree murdere n be sent to prison from twenty years to life under a | bill passed in the senate yesterday. | |The measure, sponsored by the Baumes Crime Commission, already | ) { |work of the association, incident to |Daisytown miners thru their efforts |the coming conference, is quoted in| | | | | | from |dom? |open shop. . subway struggling to get on the cars against the tide of Note the women in the crowd. The ars, the lack of sufficient cars, and WILBUR TO KEPT" Sentence Bit S-4REPORT SECRET has been approved by the assembly and now goes to Governor Smith. Under the present law, a judge can- not impose a sentence of more than twenty years on persons convicted of second degree murd@r, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the killing. The bill w: ssembly as ‘ haracterized in the ious” but was passed | with only three republicans and three democrats voting against it. Clothing Injunction Practically Permanent POTTSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 9.—The hearing on the preliminary injunction obtained by the Prominent Shirt Company of St. Clair Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, which is conducting an or- ganization strike against the firm,| was continued by Judge Hicks of the Schuykill County Court until the next term of the Equity Court. of Lebenon, Tenn., president of the National Manufacturers Association —notorious labor exploiter and open shop advocate—was invited by the secretary of the above association to speak to its members at a big ban-} quet given in his honor at the Hotel Mason on Tuesday, Jan. 9. More than a hundred of the leading capitalists of | | Florida sat at the banquet table and |took part in the three-hour confer-| jence that took place at the time. A Lesson in Economics. In the course of his address given at the meeting, Mr. Edgerton, in out- | |lining the preliminary plans for the ithe Florida Times-Union of Jan. 10, as pointing out to his fellow antl | talists, that, “The south is going to | be,a land of exploitation for the next few years.” He then launched into an attack on the labor unions. “Open Shop Aids Workers.” “Two things have carried the | United States to the industrial su- | -the protective tariff and the He asserted that there ‘would not be a closéd shop except for the cowardly fear of employers.” In the meantime the officials of the American Federation of Labor are reported to be devising ways and |means of ousting the “reds” from the labor unions. When, one is tempted to ask, will | the working class of the United States | rise up in their power and dump both | sets of the above named parasites off their backs, and achieve their economic and industrial free- The writer cannot say. But he advises in the meantime that the workers watch the coming open shop conference. against the} cy of the world, the speaker de- | ‘COAL AND IRON POLICE UNABLE | TO COW MINERS |Move to Keep Florida| Labor Enslaved (By a Worker Correspondent). Joseph Angelo, national organizer of the U. M. W. of A. stationed at Vesta No. 4, gave instructions to miners on | strike at Daisytown, Pa., to be ready to carry on mass picketing at the mine. The following day about 50 men, women and children were on | the ‘picket line. It was about 5.30 a.m. when a group of coal and iron poli¢e “employed by the V Coal} Worker Baritone to Sing At Russian Exposition This Afternoon Stefan Kozakevich, who worked im Ford’s automobile factory in Detroit before his remarkable baritone voice was discovered, will sing this after- noon at the Russian Exposition, 119 West 57th St. His program will in- clude modern Russian music. The programs for the remainder of the exposition which closes on Febru- ary 15 was announced today. This evening, James N. Rosenberg will dis- cuss the nationalities of the Soviet Union, Saturday afternoon, Avram Yarmolinsky and Babette Deutsch, co-authors of an anthology of Modern | Co., under command of Jolin Nagison,| Russian Poetry will speak on that | arrested 88 men, women and children | subject. Electrification in the USSR | After the miners were arr d they| will be the subject of Colonel Hugh asked what the charges were. Police} L. Cooer, Saturday evening. A con- | charged disorderly conduct in inter-|cert by the Russian Art String | fering with the state highway traffic | Quartette will supplement the lecture. | Coal Company Police Cold Feef. | Surday afternoon, Raisa London Ash- | | When the men were about to be| man will give a piano recital. | taken to Washington, Pa., for a trial. Deems Taylor, composer of “The the coal company was unable to} King’s Henchmen,” will talk about} frame-up the charges on the 38 min-' Russian folk music Monday afternoon | ers. It was decided to take them for at 4.30. Dora Rose, soprano, will sing | a hearing before the Vesta Coal Co.| the songs Deems discusses. | The coal and iron police were unable Monday evening, Co-operatives in| to prove the charges of disorder'v|the USSR will be discussed by An-| | conduct, and interfering with the traf-/| drei I. Boehm. Charles E. Stuart will | |fie on the high They had va give an illustrated lecture on mines withdraw all charges against the 38) and workshops of Soviet Russia Tues- men, women and girls. The squire|day afternoon, and in the eveninz, al who w: to carry out the wishes} piano recital by Sara Sololsky Freid. | ers had to dismiss the| The closing concert Wednesday eve- | |ning will be given by the extremely | popular Balalaika Orchestra of the} Anton Chekof Society. | An elaborate and extremely inter- | esting exhibit illustrates every phase of education, the theatre, mus’ movies, architecture, peasant handi- craft, textiles, publications, and every phese of working class life in the Soviet Union. The exposition is spon- sored by the American-Russian Cham- ber of Commerce and the Society for Cultural Relations with Russia. Ad- mission to the exposition and to all programs, is free to the public, This the Vesta Coal Co., Jones and Laughlin, was merely to} carried out by a subsidiary of| mass arrest, intimidate the miners on strike at California, Daisytown, Richville and other places that will, soon begin to carry out mass picketing to break the injunctions and reestablish their rights as workers. This arrest did net make any effect in intimidating the miners, but on the contrary, the following day there was stronger mass picketing. The pickets were ready to be arrested. They carried their lunch. The previous day had given them more fighting experience. Union Leaders Two-Faced. While Joe Angelo who ordered mass picketing knew, directly or indirectly, that the coal and iron police were making the mass arrqsts, Angelo, Harry Wadsworth, president of Lo- cal Union 2399 at Daisytown, Pa., Henry Mankining and Andrew Dure- seck went to picket at Reachville, | Pa., where systematic picketing is be- | ing carried on. Many union mine leaders keep away and abandon the real mass struggle of the miners and | show up after the arrests. These! | leaders, if sincere, would take their) Places at the head of the mass picket} |lines. If they fail to do this they are |playing two cards, and any labor leader who plays two cards, must be kicked out. | The victory Chicago Tailors Ask Convention August 6 CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—The general | executive board of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union has recommended to | the membership that a national con- vention be held beginning August 6 for the purpose of making numerous changes in the constitution of the union. The last convention held by the Journeymen Tailors’ Union was in 1921. A general referendum will ibe held on this question. a |and bravery, and not thru the union leaders. The fight is just begun, Mr. Coal Operators. If the union is to exist, the miners must carry on a bit- eg struggle, till we win our slogan {of save the union and defeat John L. Lewis. was gained by the —A. R. FOR YOUR HEALTH Strictly Pure FLORIDA HONEY Guaranteed by the j-FARMER, Special Prices During Run of This “Adv 5 Lbs. $1525 6 Lbs. $1.40 10% Goes to “Daily Worker” ORDER_BY MAIL. JACK FEURER 3656 Park Ave, Bronx New York City. ) Announcing! No. 4 | of the | WORKERS | LIBRARY! | A New Pamphlet ||| by Jay Lovestone | | | | | E) Analyzing the political and economic back- ground for the 1928 Presidential election. Given YOUNG WORKERS (COMMUNIST) LEAGUE, DISTRICT 2 AT HARLEM CASINO 116th St. & Lenox Ave., New ‘York Saturday Eve., February 11 Music by Harvey Stoller’s Syncopaters, ELECTION WORKERS JaAVv LOVESTONE by the WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 E. 125 St. New York jof “The Silent House.” »|“Whispering Friends,” will have its THE MERRY MALONES, REX CHERRYMAN Co-starred with Ann Harding in “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” Bayard Veil-| ler’s forceful drama at the National Theatre. Leslie Howard is continuing “Es- cape,” now current at the Booth The- | atre, with the possibility that in “April | and May, Howard may make a brief spring tour in the Galsworthy play. Joseph M. Gaites has acquired the American rights to “laughter in the Storm,” a new comedy by John G.} Brandon and George Pickett, authors Felix Krembs, seen recently in «al Distant Drum,” will have an impor- tant part in “Kidnapper,” the new melodrama by Samuel Shipman and Max Marcin, which Mr. Marcin will produce. George M. Cohan’s new comedy, premiere the week of Feb. 20, at the Hudson Theatre. The cast will in- clude William Harrigan, Chester Mor- ris, Anne Shoemaker and Elsie Law- son. | $1,445 by working 24 |80c in the year 1920 to 1927. Correspondents Tell of Coal Strike Struggle and Open Shop Drive ‘HIGHEST MINER WAGES 100 LOW TOGET ALONG ON |Poor Pay for Few Days Labor, Report Shows (Continued from Page One) States in 1926, the federal report shows, averaged 214 days work at $6.46 per day or a total of $1,382. But they could make this total only if they worked every single day when the mines were open. The highest aver- age earnines were possible in Illinois | where 172 days of work at an average of $8.90 made possible annual earn- | ings of $1,531. Tennessee represents j the other extreme with 234 possible | days work at an average of only $3.49, | giving annual earnings of $817. In | West Virginia, the leading non-union state, miners might have averaged days at $5.85. Can’t Catch Up. The report shows that the union tonnage rate for hand loading ad- vanced from 58.5¢ a ton in 1913 to This increase of only 861% over prewar compares with an increase of more than 70% in the cost of living. In the same period the tonnage rate for | hand or pick miners advanced 56% %. |The Jacksonville scale, which opera- tor propaganda proclaims does not provide a maja miners with even as satisfactory a standard of living as they had in prewar } Their condition was extremely serious in 1920 when the cost of living ranged to more than 100% over prewar. Tonnage rates show very nearly the trend in average earnings for these miners who represent nearly 60% of all mine workers employed. Over the entire 25-year period the rate for loaders has advanced only 81.8% and that of pick miners 95.4%. Throughout they have failed to keep Hazel Mason, Herbert Bergman, George N. Price are new additions to “Hoboken Blues,” scheduled to open. at the New Playwrights Theatre. on Friday of next week. The settings are designed by William Gaskin. pace with the. increased cost of liv- ing. The coal industry does not af- ford a decent opportunity to earn a living either to union or non-union miners. Ser 2. 8:30. Ma Winter Garden Txs*, 258... Mats WORLD'S LAUGH SENSATION! Artists § * Models WINTHROP AMES presents JOH™ GaLSWORTHY’S with LESLIB E Ss Cc A P HOWARD BOOTH The2: W., 88t, Evs. 8:40 ats, e Broadhurst Sininweaesetsoo crorce A REL Is Ss in THE =e MERCHANT OF VENICE e veNion } RACH |: Biway, 46 St, Eva. 8.30 Mats. Wed.&Sat. 2. “BETTER THAN THE BAT” ERLANGER'’S Thea. W.44 St.Evs.8.30 Mats. Wed. & Sat. with GEORGE M. COHAN Nati 7 e, 41 St. W. of B’way ational yeast Mic Wola ee tae | Guild — The Theatre Guild presents. — ONG Goel Strange Interlude John Golden Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Hvenings Only at 5:30. EUGENE O'NEILL'S MarcoM Millions Th 8. a 5 * 330 Feb. 13, “The Doctor's Dilemma” PORGY «a Th. W. 42d. 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