The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1928, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928 _ Page Three Argentinian Policemen Murder Dock Pickets as ‘Strike Spreads in ‘Rosario DEMAND GENERAL ARGENTINE PORT STRIKE AT ONCE More Police Killings Enrage Masses BUENOS AYRES, killing yesterday by the police of sev- eral more dock strikers who were | picketing the wharves at Rosario, Puerto, San Martin and elsewhere has brought an insistent demand from the mass of the workers that the gen- eral strike which officials announced} they would call in twenty-four hours be put instantly into effect. The growing mass sentiment rien a generai strike thruout the. Argentine! ports has brought an outery from the owners, and the authorities are mass- ing police reserves and troops. Attempts by the owners government to bring strikebreakers into the paralyzed zone have been practically total failures as a result of the solidarity of all the unions with ihe Rosario strikers. The few men Lrought in have been unable to work. The discharge and loading of car- goes here is at a complete standstill with many vessels idle in the harbor. ; tosario is the second largest port in Argentina. Tension in the situation is height- ened by the growing unemployment which is especially severe as the cold weather increases here. UNEMPLOYMENTIN ILLINOIS GROWING Less Work in State Since 1921 By LELAND OLDS, (Federated Press). Factory employment in Illinois in Apr'l fell to a lower level than it has reached in any month of any year since the state started to gather sta- tistics in August 1921. A regular reader of the monthly reports of the state department of labor over the last five years begins to wonder how long this steady decline can go on without producing some soyt of dras- tic reaction. For Illinois wage earn- ers the Coolidge regime has serionsly, damaged the good old myth’ of re publican prosperity. Factory employment in Tilinois fell 1.3% from March to April’to a level 6.5% below April 1927, 10.1% below April 1926 and 19.2% below April 123. That means 120,000 fewer jobs than in April 1920, 120,000 workers turned off by the factories to hunt some other chance to earn a meagre living for themselves and their fam- ilies. Continued Decline. Where they ean have found work is a puzzle. The department shows that in the last five years employment | has declined in trade, has declined in, coal mining, has declined. in building and contracting. The public utilties alone of all the industries in the state| have gained in this period and they’ could not have provided jobs for all the workers laid off by the other em-! May 16.—The | | and the; ‘Donetz Trial tan Start is Friday (Special Cable to The Datly Worker) s408COW, May 16. — Seventy-six | foreign and seventy Soviet journalists have been granted permission to witness the trial of persons aceused of participating in the Donetz conspiracy it was announced today. ‘The trial | will open on Friday. yeaa cy seats have been renin for mér CUTS WAGES THEN JACKS UP RENTS | {Company Union Agrees to Both | SOUTH MANCHESTER, Conn., | May 16. (FP).—The recent pay cut of 10 per cent at the Cheney Silk Mills |has been followed by a rise in rents SAVE BELA KUN, INTERNATIONAL _ SEAMEN DEMAND USSR Seientists Urge World-wide Protest (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, May 16.—The Congress, of Scientists of the Soviet Union has | issued an appeal to scientists thru-| out the world to protest against the| threatened extradition of Bela Kun. The congress of physicians of the Soviet Union has also passed a reso. lution protesting against the thre ats | of Bela Kun’s extradition. Fartory | meetings to demand the release of the! Hungarian Communist leader are still | being held thruout the Soviet Union. | International Seamen’s Clubs wh ich| heid protest meetings expressed the| conviction that the workers of Austria} would prevent the extradition of Bela. | The meetings were attended by British, German, French, Norwegian and Swedish seamen. | | {of company-owned houses. _ Cheney Bros., one of the largest silk manu- | | facturing corporations in the United | | States, employs more than 4,000) ; workers. The company owns the | town} one of the brothers is a director | |of the town water supply, another of | the town electric light company, and the entire community is built around |the mills and the beautiful estates of | |the orvaing family, Even the scenery | ) is company-owned, Company-owned houses are pro- vided for 450 families. Single men pnd ingle women live in company rding houses. The petty foremen Bod their own cars, and swear by the company.” Nothing is said about |the low-paid majority. “We are all one big family here,” asserts the personnel manager with |pride. The company has beaten the union to it. It has provided baseball ‘grounds, basket ball field, silver cups |as trophies for the winning teams, |and above all the company union, called “employe representation” by the industrial relations department. Company Union Here. A Council of 25 representatives from the various departments is care- fully supervised by the company. “Oh yes, we supervise the elections,” said the young industrial relations man. “An election committee meets. before- hand, and the employes may vote for one of the three names highest, on the list. “We had no trouble at all when we put through the wage cut. We, talked the matter over with the coun- cil of employes and they agreed with {us that a cut was necessary.” Increased Output. Just before the cut went into ef- fect, an article appeared in the Monthly Labor Review describing the | inerease in output per worker in the| |Cheney Silk Mills. The number of |wage earners in relation to each | $1, 000 of product had decreased by! '46 per cent from 1914 to 1926, piel number of salaried employes had de- creased 5 per cent, and power con- | ‘sumed per hotir had increased 21 per | cent. Or, in terms of 1914 dollars | value of individual production had in- | | creased by 86 per cent. A silk worker who produced $1,000 | | KANSAS YOUTH | Kansas City Young People’s Miners’| ployers. in silk goods for his masters, the Including all these industries in the) Chaney brothers, in 1914 was, pro- comparison, industrial emp'oyment in| ducing $1,860 for those same masters Vlinois fell 8.5% between March and} in 1926. | TO AID MINERS 23 Organizations Open Relief Drive KANSAS CI TY, Mo., May 16. Relief Conference was held at the} Linwood Christian Church. There were 23 organizations renre- sented, among which were: Brother- hood of Sleeping Car Porters, Ind trial Departments of the Young Wo- men’s Christian Associations of both Kansas cities, Office Workers’ Union | International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, Journeymen’s Tailors’! Union, United Mine Workers’ Union, Railway Clerks, Young Workers (Communist) League, Friendship Baptist Church and many others. The conference heard a report on| the situation in the mine fields by. R.| Shohan and the report on the condi-| tion in the Kansas mine fields by} Fred Stathem of the United Mine Workers. Asheley Totten of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters promised the full support of his or-} ganization to the conference. | An executive committee of 15 was elected. The conference decided to te- convene every six weeks and to im- mediately begin work for a tag day. a house-to-house collection and to hold a picnic. The headquarters were selected at the Musicians’ Union Hall. The com- mittee is showing the picture “Pas- saic” under the auspices of the Car Porters’ Brotherhood and the commit- tee. ‘TWO PROVIDENCE © STRIKERS HELD PROVIDENCE, R. R. I, May 16.— John L. Brown and Charles L. McC: two workers of the Darlington Textile | Co,, now out on strike against the company’s reduction of wages and} lengthening of hours, were arrested | here yesterday and held in contempt | similar tests to small selected groups Four Coramunist Londen Rrome:left te right are Kark Pojella, Joseph Greifenberg, Kasis Kedris and Rafael Tschenry, four Lithu- anion Comtninists: who-weresmurdered by the Lithuanian white terrorists. Hundreds of workers have been jailed and“tortured by -the Wotlomaras regime in Lithuania. BRITISH TEXTILE © Be | nancial panie has followed the closing f the Credit Bank of the state of Sao Pao, aceording to a report from | the capital, Sao Pao. Long lines of depositors, many of them Brazilian workers, besieged the doors of the bank at an early hour yesterday, the report adds. The rea- son for the suspension is not given. USSR LABOR AIDS STRIKE IN INDIA | Panic as Brazilian | State. Bank Closes! Workers Demand Strike | to Fight Wage Cut MANCHESTER, May 16.—Manu- facturers at Blackburn are making | ‘ations to loek out their workers | in. order to enforce; ‘creo eee TRUST FIGHTING FERTILIZER BILL reduction, it was authoritatively sta- | Dukes, DuPonts Cause Farm Bankruptcy | | | (agesint Cable to The, Dafly Worker) OSCOW, March 16. he Cen- tral Committee of the Textile Workers Union has sent 10,000 roubles to the | sbeitein textile workers in Bombay. At the same time, the Central Cor | mittee of the Textile Workers Union and the International Propaganda Committee sent the striking miners of | Bombay a letter of greetings expres ing their class solidarity and fives fervent wish for the success of Bombay struggle. * * prepar: ted after a meet-| ing of the exee- | utive committee of | the Manufacturers’ | Association. Numerous meet- ings have been BOMBAY, March 16. reserves have been ordered out, — All police | with | servative trade/ union leaders are believed to be op- posed to a strike. Avalanche in Italy Causes Nine Deaths senate, for the past month, that the Norris-Morin Musele Shoals bill, as veported to the House, would destroy Ben Turner, Misleader -.|a great private graft. Brand did not 3 u i leader of the tert morte gt|use the word “graft,” of course. He| ANCONA, Tigly, May 16. — An leader e textile workers | .5oke of a great privately owned in-|@Valanche to the south of here last) unions, jnight caused nine deaths. Ten more dustry, the making and sale of fer- tilizer for the American farmers. He begged, in the name of sacred private | enterprise, that congress halt before jit committed economic treason. Unfortunately for Brand and his del Tronto. fertilizer department of the power) combine—for the Duke, DuPont and} other power trust units are tied into) \nersons were killed and eighteen in- a pile of earth which had comple ACCUSE SCHOOL HEAD IN CHICAGO Over-Charges ; for Gas ere the fertilizer trust—Congress now i i at igs thee sGania . = + |seems hell-bent on passing the ‘igures to show that the Brooklyn | McAndrew Faked Evi- Muscle Shoals measure. Southern| Borough Gas Co. overcharges its new customers alone many thousands of | dollars a year were presented by Dr. John Bauer at the hearing before Public Service Commissioner George R. Van Namee. Dr. Bauer in eross-examination set | his overcharge figures at 52 cents a month for each customer. The over- charge, he Pointed out, occurs in the public service commission’s order by which the gas company charges a |minimum rate of $1 a month, whether (oe not the customer uses all of the | 200 cubic feet of gas allotted. members discover that the fertilizer manufacturers have been charging them robber prices for many long years past, while the farmers have sunk lower into bankruptcy and des- | pair. They have made up their minds | —sueh as those minds are—that if the federal government can produce fertilizers at Muscle Shoals, by any process, cheaper than the trust is selling them, then the Southern farm-| ers are all for it. dence, Teachers Charge CHICAGO, Il., May 16.—The union high school teachers of Chicago, Lo- cals 2 and 3 of the American Federa- tion of Teachers, have decided that it is time to explode the -glory.. bunk surrounding’ the enforced departure of Supt. Wm. McAndrew from the school system. In a statement, “Why McAndrew Failed,” plain charges are | leveled against him by the union. He jis described “as an educational erook /Craming false-evidenee to belster, up his pretensions of great. achievements under his rule. *“He. manufactured proof! of his al- legations,” ‘the teachers state, -“He| | gave tests to large unselected.groups without warning or preparation; then much latér he gave the same or Slurs Declared ‘Inexact’ BOGOTA, Colombia, May 16.—“ exact” is the word the Panaman ister here employs to characterize rumors that members of his govern- ment had referred to the new Colom: bian minister in Panama City, Dr. Luis Felipe Angelo, as persona non grata. The rumors have aroused con- Police Reserves Out as/n3 Textile Walkout Grows! jured when a fast train collided with! blocked the tracks near San Benedetto | \the rank and file 0 What I ne in China by TOM MANN For the past three years the Chinese ma struggling for freedomi from the clutches of Imperialism. JAPANESE RUSH MORE TROOPS 10 NORTHERN CHINA ‘Worker-Peasant Armies Nearing Peking from Page One) ott to pro- ention in reports re- da Morning newspaper. | Workers anc who demon- {strated on “H ion Day”. (May 9th) against were attacked by poe rs and _ ng to the Twenty per- ted to have been port received by ikow both Chiang o-lin were de- ng attended ,000 workers. Ka nounc by moré POWER CONCERNS FORM HUGE TRUST |New York Corporations Under One Head Unification of almost all of the New | York gas and electric power corpora- | tions under one head ha: pen agreed the | | ti eee ; ie : |upon by the local companies. The workers to demand) WASHINGTON, (FP) May 16— fhe spread of the textile strike here) Brooklyn Edison Co. will be taken sesieat the pro-[ Dal? lasts from the office of|are involved, All cotton mills but | °C". PY Ne hich will thus posed wage cut and Charles J. Brand, lobby direetor for! four have been’ shut down by the walk- | P2"Y of se ss ee eset I shend pie National Fertilizer Association | oy, | gain practical ol of the entire ae Tara oF | have reminded press correspondents as | Sp Ate OUR a ts ed |field in New York City, Westchester, Seine . con-| well as members of the House and }and Long Island, with the exception Brooklyn Union Gas Co. and Co. Acquisition npanies : will be it is be- of the the Long of the other two ected in the near future, }@ | lieved. \Amnesty of Sigman Is\ Branded a Fake (Continued from page one) convention national of- tloeked out ill fight the r ;ficialdom the union has been com- [pletely rebuilt, they state. The latest report from the Sigman make convention show th the Schlesinger f struggle for control of the I nal has not ended despite continu tempts to on’, jpateh up differences t n the two union wrecking ga y still re- jfuse to accept 1 ion for the n their con- jseveral vice-presid | trol. Resolutions of passed to the thre The New York T: jthe Jewish Forw dered them in thi The World, and for the aid ren- truggle against union. s have been and'repeated those tests until the de- sired results were.attained. Publish- ing the results of these two entirely incomparable tests he claimed that the difference between them indicated siderable resentment in government circles here. Everyone nowadays is either talking or writing China. of the British labor move- a stay of six Tom Mann, “grand old man” ment, contributes his observations after April to a level 4.3% 1927, 11.8% below April 1926 and 16.1% below 1923. In a paragraph] that inadvertently reflects the uncer- tainty of employment under the cap'- talist system the department indicates that the situation is likely to grow worse rather than better in the next few months. It says: " Is Usual Event. “The experience of the manufac tvring industries during the majority of the last five years indicates that a falling off in factory employmen’ during April, May, June and July is ¢ usual event. August ordinarily wit- nesses increased activity) which con tinues through October and some times into November. December are January are usually dull months. This dullness has, in each of the last « years, been broken in Februa marks the shatpest and most de seasonal upturn during the year. In spite of all the palaver about curing unemployment that has gone on since the futile Harding confer- ence in 1921 capitalism has done nothing toward stabilizing employ- ment. If each year continues to show a lower general level than the pre- ceding the trend will appear to the workers to be in the direction of sta- bilizing unemployment. Drop Was General. In Ulinois the drop in employment from a year ago was nearly general. Decreased employment was registered in 46 of the 55 manufacturing indos- tries and in 51 out of the grand total of 67 industries covered by the re- port. pine naciher. of omplored Jp. brit construction declined. below April) Cleveland Youth Will | | CLEVELAND, May 16. -- To pre- | pare the members of Cleveland for the election campaign and to acquaint | them with the youth demands and the importance of rallying the young workers behind these demands, meeting to be held Friday, m., at the League head 2046 E. 4th St., will discuss Vag a teat n detail paign. New methods of League work and the further intensification of the campaign for the Young Workers ; Training School will also be on the $ declined. The ‘yambers em-! in making boots und shoes and; in fact all kinds of clothing, with the exception of women's hats, declined, Machine Work. Industries producing all kinds. of locomotives, railroad end vapid trans.t cars show fewer employes than a you: age, In this group auio and agrheu!-| tural implemenc makers sloxe show clined ta all branches af th: food beverage and tobacc. group with th exception of miscellaneous groceries and diery preducts. The major chem- lead Industries report decr:ac2s tam- pared with a year ago. And, perbape the most unexpected o° v!!, printing. both job and newspaper, his na’ gar ployment sharply since i Such x situation running: thrangh show tie sonnets, hye > ‘Discuss Election Issues the role of the League in the cam-, machinery, electrical apparatus, tools, | temporary gains. Exnvloymen: d- | of court for having violated a court order prohibiting picketing of the company’s plant and for approaching men who were working as scabs. The two workers were ordered to pay the costs of proceedings. During the testimony, all that was brought out against them was the fact that they had ‘peacefully visited two men who were scabbing at the | the Darlington Co. in order to induce them | A Young Workers League membership | to quit scakbing. This was in viola- }above all, true to the ideals of educa- at 7:80 p. | tion of an injunction that the company |tion and the real welfare of the pu- |pils, he would have secured teacher- had procured on April 24. The com- pany in an attempt to make the in- | junction permanent, will soon procure | | a new Lege in court. |were made by this educator, who, the Bottle Worker Killed Vincent Robejick, a bottler in the soda water plant headed by Henry Bruckner, borough president of the Bronx, was killed while at work on a bottling machine in the factory, at! 406 E. 161st St. The electrical cur-| pg rent of the machinery passed thru the workers body and electrocuted him. the dreadful: condition in which he found instruction when he came and the splendid achievement of his ad- ministration.” Other crooked months in China with the gation. statistical dodges ‘teachers charge, was “carefully build- ing up a barrage of false informa- tion,” and not giving this publicity. 10 Cents WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS 39 EAST 125th STREET, International Workers Dele- NEW YORK CITY. “Loyalty begets loyalty. If Mr, Mc- ndrew had been true to the teachers ————————————— Song s \ of the Mass Dem cooperation and support. The vast majority of teachers think the humil- lation of McAndrew was merited.” TRADT, UNICINS TH PRINCIELES! OF Ww FOLMS MOR WRI. MME AMD ENGL ON \ COMER CITY CL TOE MM CON so to x tr. Onder | LITTLE RED LIBRARY Ebven ore few AMINRICS.. CLASS STRUCMLA VE. CLASS! COLAO ATICS., CORNISH, TR) (CORRES CHENTS, ‘TH DAMNED ACIENTOR A OTHER STORIE. IBT}--THE) PARIS COMMTINT. HOW CLASS COLLANGRATION WORKS. 1, miaicen IIDC, Imgentiant: Guiestigies ‘envied Sy ondistamdiing; kad: of the, | i Ane:'can Jaghe Mowement, q WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS — et eee eee ee eee, Revolution “",. Then sing a rebel song, as we proudly sweep For President of of { ”» > rH along . ae $ Speakers: Speakers: ; ts { f! William Z. Foster Friday Ben Gitlow i 1 A compilation of revoln- ; | B.H. Lauderdale, Tex. Evening Ben Gold REMOLUTION IN AMEETCR. ff); tionary songs, including | | Sen. Chas. B. Taylor, May Wa P. Pancn, Tog ! 1 t . Be > | recently tramslated Ger- ; |) caught s Anita C. Whitney, " ci | Seott Nearing, N. Je Calif, Uh RB. igi A sain | Lovett I. Whiteman, Tom Rushton, Mich. sign bymns o! Labor. | Ala. Scott Wilkins, Ohio Stanley Clark, Okla. Only Five Cemis: econ WORKERS LIRRARY PUR- MECCA LISHERS, 39 East, 125c S. 183 West 65th New York City. ADMISSION 50 CENTS. To Greet the Delegates to the National Nominating Convention Workers (Communist) Party of America news JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman onstration the United States the William W. Weinstone TEMPLE St., New York.