The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1928, Page 6

Page Six (By a Worker Corres “PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail).— In answer to Signalman Mason, U. S. Navy, I certainly believ tion when he states that the city of ashamed to allow picketing by the chi knows that the workers’ children of the future, and that their class enemies, the capitalist owners pondent) strike by their wage cut, speed-up, etc. e that he deserves correc- New Bedford ought to: be ildren. I don’t believe he today workers of are the THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928 LET NEW BEDFORD CHILDREN STRUGGLE BESIDE FATHERS, WORKER ANSWERS NAVY MAN| of the mills, mines and industries, are the ones who caused this The fathers of these workers’ children are striking to protect their children against a lowering of their standard of living, and are thus protecting their children’s interests. Mason states that children “are the sunshine of the home,” Yes, but they are also effected by hunger. and brothers agai owners of the mi And navy man ete. So where is the and mothers and wrong in letting the children fight alongside their fathers, mothers Even the workers in the United States service are tools of the oppressors of these strikers and their children, and if they were so commanded today, they would be forced to murder the fathers nst the conditions of beasts which the capitalist lls impose on them? dren the cause of strikes, stop the murdering of Chi children in New Bedford to protect the inter- ests of the capitalists who cause their misery. Yes, shipmate, it is the duty of the workers to teach the chil- , picketing, wars, ete. and get them to fight alongside the workers, in and out of the service, to over- throw the capitalist owners of the mills, mines, and navies; to | inese and Nicaraguan workers; to stop | the beating and murdering of the coal miners, Philadelphia Policemen Seize e Ajax Hosiery Strikers, Correspondent Wnites FibHT AGAINST WAGE SLASHES: SPEEDUP SYSTEM Bosses Ship Machines, | Men to Scab Plant (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., (By Mail). —The striking hosiery workers of the Ajax Hosiery Mill, at Jasper and Or- leans St., in the heart of the Ken- sington district, are feeling the re-| sults of the recent conference of the| hesiery manufacturers. “The strikers state that the Ajax | cSmpany is playing a shrewd game sénding the machinery and some of the workers to Phoenixville on con-| dition that they will work with the scabs there and in this way break | down the union. The bosses have also tried to force the workers to operate from two to six machines in place of the one they worked formerly. This would resuit in increased production and more profits for the bosses and more work for the workers. The pickets on strike are beginning | to feel the effects of the bosses’ tools, the police, who arrested three of the pickets, among them a militant girl. After a taste of this kind of oppres- sion, they were released with a lec- ture. The scabs are protected by willing To Protect the Rights These armed seamen are types against their officers in 1917 and eagles of w worl of the Working Class of the Russian sailors who mutinied ized their war vessels to aid the ” government. se ILLINOIS MINERS MUST (By a Worker (By Mail) —Fish CHICAGO, IIL, OUST LEWIS; AID STRIKE Correspondent) wiek, Nesbit & Sneed boast about Il- taols of the bosses, but the strikers linois being 100 .per cent organized, but the conditions we labor under c@n expect not only lectures but, as with the miners, the clubs of the police. ‘There are rumors of the bosses securing an injunction against the'l union. There is unrest among the! hosiery workers here in Philadelphia | ag the exploiters, the capitalist own- ys of the hosiery, mills, have in their,| ‘scent conferencesformed plans to don| yoy the hosiery union. They also| tan to slash wages and speedup the | ers so that the owners can make | profits and by, the speed-up Timinate some of the workers who} @ill thus find themselves among the | iaillions of unemployed. =The strike has been on for two} weeks and is beginning to convince | the hosiery. workers that their in-| terest is with all other workers who| are fighting the bosses’ wage cuts, speed-up and the breaking up of their | unions. ‘The hosiery workers of Philadelphia ¢an look forward to other attempts to break down their unions if this | strike is lost. —wW. ¢ DAM DISASTER: KILLED NEARLY 400 Most All of Le Los Angeles Dead Were Workers (By a Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, May 18.— ing to a complete and offic tion just announced, the St. dim catastrophe, March 13, a tStal of 378 lives. The majority of the killed were workers employed in Edison construction camps or as farm “hands.” Of the number 297 bodies were recovered. “Lives lost in Santa Paula, 81; Fill- | more, 72; Ventura, 51; Oxnard, 18; Moorpark, 12; Piro, 10; Edison com- iny camp at Castaic, 10; in another | ison carip 40 and in the Newhall | ict 84. «No one has been held Sleccaniinn | r the disaster. It was all “an hon ! est errer of judgment” on the par’ of William Mulholland, chief engineer of the Los Angeles power and water | bureau, said the “prosecutor.” Mayor Cryer is still keeping his “expert” dam-builder on the job with ls a they say. | Worker. Killed by Fumes In Textile Factory pOrTH BROOKFIELD, Mass., » 18.—According to Dr. Frederick dl Ka "Baker, Worcester medical examiner “Award M. Revane, who with seven wther men collapsed some time ago} while employed in the North Brook- field factory of the Asbestos Textile | Co., died of benzol poisoning. \ecore took BRITISH CONSIDER PACT. | LONDON, May 18.—The foreign office’s' conversations with the gov- ernments of the British Overseas Dominions regarding the United States’ proposals for a _ so-called pact” will be uded within learned to- e next 24 hours, it wi tear | to be ready for motor. | mines as there is no square turn kept. | also push out their loads. The dirtiest | nothing. are a disgrace to ners of West Alabama, have bet conditions. No | doubt District No, 12 has higher ton- hnage “and yardage rates, but other: wise all they lack to make them slaves while at work is a ball and} chain around their ankle when in the| | mine-sa far_as conditions exist. “Let sit illustrate some’ of the con+ ditions in District No. 12 which can- |not be denied except by traitors and | office holders. _, Men As Mules. The average ‘car holds four tons, | these cars have to be of from 250 to 300 feet.. I have witnessed men put- | ting their backs to ears and pushing them foot by foot until they get them to the face. These men were ex-| hausted and yet had to hurry and load I Have Seen track layers hitching themSelves up like mules and drag- ging motor rails two or three hundred yards or packing heavy motor ties material that is delivered to them in non-union fields. A company man dare not be caught eating during working hours for if caught by the boss he is either fired or put in the t gang (slavery). The dirt gang ans up new territories to be opened up. The refuse is absolutely dry.. The men work in a cloud of dust all day and do not get one minute rest during working thours. A boss stands over the gang all the. time. I have seen a boss ex- changing his lamp for the laborer’s lamp when it needed carbide and go and put carbide in it and hand it to him so as to keep him at work. If A company mar he is put into penal gang. He has| no redres: 12. 0. On t nd R. R., 100 men went | out nday and loaded and hoisted | -oal, while thousands of their brothers | have been idle since last April one year ago, and yet Fishwick and Nes- bit would have us believe this is the | banner district. There is.no such thing as 8 hours in |the Peabody Mines. Motor men haul coal all day. If they refuse they are | put in the dirt gang or fired. There is no redress for them as the pit com- mittees is a joke. Free check exists at nearly all Gang men get all the cars they can | load in preference to room men, and seab in any district could not stoop | lower than.the-gang men of District No. 12 and no square turn Js kept for room men. Déad work ‘is a farce. There is no pay for any class of de- | ficiency. Falls are cleaned up for Bottom from 1 to 8 feet is | blowed up and-eleaned for nothing. Dirtiest Vein. This vein of coal in District No. 12 is the dirtiest, vein. in the U. S. barring none. It is ,impossible to | load it clean enough to satisfy con- |tract. If two handfuls of impurities are found in a four or five ton car of coal you are docked (fined) and the most unjust and cruel feature 13 you are not allowed to see the impurities you are fined for. Convicted without a chance to defend yourself. The fine for first offense is 50 cents and for the second $1.00, for the third $2.00 body of organized men, and I am positive the non-union | nia, Kentucky, &@ in and it is easy to find impurities. This continues till the end of every. month, District No. 12 is paying from $13 to $15 per month between dues and assessments. Where is all that money going to? The men deprived of work since last April got very little of it. Company stores exist at nearly every mine. You can purchase any thing from a lamp to an automobile. If you have produced enough coal you ean get a $10.00 sticker. Or you can get serip if you are willing to trade it off for 75 cents on the dollar. Scrip is issued at Buckner. And yet Fish- wick, Nesbit, and Eneed will holler | there are no company stores nor stickers or scrip issued in District 12. Ninety per cent of the miners in Illinois are dissatisfied, conditions are unbearable. They are bled to death paying dues and assessments, als» dock fines without realizing any bene- fit. But, brothers, there is a reason our officers are not trying to protect us against this damnable unjust dock- ing. All fines, (blood money) goes into the sub-district treasury to be squandered and used to keep the gang in power. Previous to the expiration of our last agreement there was $18,000 doliars collected for docks for 3 months from the miners of No. i8 Peabody mine, West Frankfort. Good God, the docking system is a gold mine for the sub-district officers. Will they try to remedy this injustice, No, not as long as we fools stand for it. Is the car of coal that is docked dumped on the refuse pile? Bless |your soul no, it is sold to the public for clean coal. Can we remedy these humble condi- | tions we are compelled to work under while our present officers control our organization? I say no, they have been feeding. Too long in idleness and luxury, they will have to he kicked out and their places filled hy officers that will take their orders from the rank and file that pay them their salary. Brothers, the United Mine Workers of America is on the rocks thru in- competent officers. When Lewis he- came president we had a membership of 650,000. Today we have less than 275,000, and if the miners of TWlinois continue seabbing on their brothers in Pennsylvania and Ohio and West Virginia, it will only be a short time until the 275,000 membership will be reduced. —JOHN BROWN. Preacher Held for Trial Dr. Charles W. Dane, preacher of St. James United Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, has been held for. trial in the court of special sessions under $2,500 bail on a charge of prac- ticing law illegally. EX-SOLDIER IS PREY OF SHELL SHOCK ARTISTS lFenning Gouged For- tune From ‘Our Heroes’ A factor to be taken into considera- tion in connection with waging war is its aftermath. What becomes of the poor derelicts of humanity who have passed through the actual con- flict ? We know now that the pitious wrecks who came home from our last war, gassed, shell-shocked, maimed in body and mind, broken in. spirit by the horrors of militarism, have been ‘used since for the purpose of exploitation. Their disability has pro- vided a means for gain for crafty in- dividuals who never got near the front. A whole crop of professionals sprang up like mushrooms to “care” for them, and in caring for them have picked their pockets and made profit out of their condition. Out of the hell- holes of asylums swarmed a pest of money-hungry and heartless ‘“ex- perts” who entered into the service of| the Veterans’ Bureau. More money is handled through ales bureau than through any other U. S. department. And the biggest pay adeckes go into the envelopes of the neuro-psychia- trists, who are legion. Head Hunters. | These head-hunters draw big sal- ‘aries while they “study” and “ “study” | P our boys who perish in a system] which is fiendish. The veteran knows he is being observed and that h's men- tal processes are under question. He can’t, get over the effect of the battle- grounds, and the suspicion cast upon| him gradually breaks him down, in the procedure. Then he is dumped off into a psychopathic ward, a prisoner for the rest of his days at the mercy of cruel attendants, to be explcited by the grafters who have him in charge. The cases which draw the highest compensation are total disability of the mental cases in confinement where they do not need the money and where someone else has the use ana benefit of it. The writer can name specific instances of soldiers being robbed, starved and beaten and killed while drawing good government com- pensation of which they got nothing. These have been repeatedly brought to the attention of responsible offi- cials who do nothing, except white- wash the horrors so the public won’t learn the truth. The most glaring instance of this exploitation of our ex-service men was that of Frederick A. Fenning who raised himself from obscurity to a high position in the government by. it. He became commissioner of the District of Columbia, taking exorbi- tant fees for handing the money of the unfortunate soldiers while acting as their guardian. Had Access to Files. He is related to Dr. William A. White, superintendent of the big fed- eral asylum, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. He had access to the files, knew the cases who had the most means. Dr. White would petition to have him appointed as guardian. He had over a hundred cases whose money he handled but searcely ever saw. his charges. He was in close touch with the Veterans’ Bureau, and had been an officer of rank. Fenning made so much easy money that the scandal of it stirred congress all one session when impeachment charges were brought against him Things got too hot for him so he was graciously) let down and out by Cool- idge and has since been sojourning somewhere in Europe in luxury, in: stead of doing time. But as a result many of the veter- ans fared badly. They were rushed | out of St. Elizabeths to heaven knows | |where to smother up the terrible sit-! wation and to prevent further inves-| tigation, i Such is the actual result of war ar) |has been shown here in our midst. | —MYRTLE DE MONTIS. | Secretary, American Equity Associa- tion. | | FIREMAN IS KILLED. | CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 18.—-A| fireman was killed and three others were injured, two severely, when a! ladder truck overturned with them. } i | or $3.00. A day’s layoff follows in some mines after the third offense. It is a continuous two dollar dock on| every car the impurities are found} Se A al ec ema alias ok a ANNUAL Entertainment & Dance SATURDAY EVE., MAY 19th at 35 East 2nd St. (Cor. 2nd Ave.) Auspices Downtown Branch of the I. L. D--MUSIC BY FIRST CLASS UNION JAZZ ORCHESTRA.—Proceeds to Political Prisoners in U. S. The Property of the bate Class cael tha plants in the Caucasus. No bosses own these machines. They belong to the workers who operate them. WORKERS IN SERVICE MUST FIGHT BOSS WAR (By a Navy Correspondent) Fellow workers in the service, this great imperialist nation of ours at present has $25,600,000,000 invested in the foreign field, according to de- partment of commerce figures. In 1927 it held a world record with a total of several billion in excess of Great©— Britain. It has ousted Great Britain, ers, who have no foreign investments, from first place as a supplier of capi-| going to allow this damned inhuman tal to Canada and Latin America.| System to exist? ‘LURE GASSED MAN TO ARMY PRISON ON PENSION BAIT | Jail Ex-Soldiers For Life as “Insane” WILMINGTON, Dela., (By Mail). —Another example of the reward of the capitalist government of the United States for those who fought | and were gassed on the battlefields of | France’ has just been discovered by The DAILY WORKER correspondent: here. It is the case of Herman Brad- ford, who was lured, like a wild ani- mal, into the cell of a military prison on the pretense that a government | pension was waiting for him. Bradford, a young Delavare worker, was an orphan boy. When | the war began, he went overseas for | “his” country—to make the world | safe for democracy.” While in the service of Wall Street, he was gassed. As a result, he occasionally becomes practically unconscious and wanders, away with no knowledge of where he is going. After he had helped “save | the world for democracy” and returned | Latin-American securities underwrit- You servicemen, you workers of the ten in this country were $359,000,000, compared to $118,000,000 by Great Britain. And now, buddies and ship- to America, Bradford thought he had ; finished his job and returned to his | home without waiting for the formal | certificate of discharge. mills and mines, you farmers, must study for -your class, and fight for your class, to overthrow this cause of | Great Britain give up these markets? mates, comes the very reason for war, the ever important outlet for our sur- plus goods or capital must be fought poverty, unemployment and misery and wars, the capitalist system. You must establish a workers’ government for. for there is no other real solutjon for In - Africa, the Far East where| our existence. —SERVICE. Great Britain leads the U. S. in points of investment, our capitalist owners of this great wealth are challenging Great Britain for her markets. Will Cigarmakers Win TACOMA, Wash. (FP), May 18— The scab I. M. Cohen cigar factory has become a union shop with its purchase by the Van Huystee in- terests, giving the organized cigar- makers a well deserved victory after a long fight. We workers know that the capitalists of Great Britain won’t and can’t. Now we, who are in the service and out of it, who are asked to murder each other to keep in power the capi- talist owners of the mills, mines, in- dustries, what are we, knowing in ad- No attempt was made to arrest | Bradford until a short time ago when | he made application for a pension as | a result of his injuries in the war. He was instructed by the miiltary | He was instructed by the military | post for his pension. Arriving there, | he was immediately placed under ar- | rest and is being held in the guard | house and will soon be court- martialed. This case is typical of the. treat~ ment given ex-servicemen who are no , longer useful as cannon fodder for American imperialism. vance the cause of the next war, to do? Are we to allow our bosses to plunge us into war on some flimsy, pretext and kill our fellow workers | and see our children die like dogs from effects of germ bonds, gas, etc.? Are we going to see our class slaught- ered like animals? Are we, the work- Candela Active Chicago Worker Leaves For N Y CHICAGO, Ill., May 18.—The Ital- ian Party fractions, together with the local of the Anti-Fascist Alliance were to give a farewell party Satur- day! evening at 2301 West 22nd Place. in honor of L. Candela, who is leaving for New York to assume the secre- taryship of the Italian Bureau of the } Workers (Communist) Party. Candela has played a leading role in the Chicago Anti-Fascist Alliance and also within all the activities of the local Italian Party fractions. He was a member of the Chicago district executive committee, in which he served as a member of the political bureau. to For President of of Speakers: William Z. Foster B. H. Lauderdale, Tex. Sen. Chas. %2. Taylor, Mont. Scott Nearing, N. J. Lovett F. Whiteman, Ala. ; Stanley Ulark, Okla. AMERICAN FIRM BUYS DOCKS RIO DE JANEIRO, May 18.—Re- ports persist in spite of denials that the docks of the Santos Co., the strongest privately owned company in Brazil, have been sold to an Ameri- can syndicate. The docks are at Sao Pao. MECCA 133 West 55th ADMISSION 50 CENTS. Mass Demonstration To Greet the Delegates National Nominating Convention Workers (Communist) Party of America Friday Evening May JAY LOVESTONE, Chairman the the United States the Speakers: Ben Gitlow Ben Gold James P. Cannon Wm. F. Patton, Iowa Anita C. Whitney, Calif. 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