The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 20, 1928, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1928 ti GIANT GAMPAIG scrip,” or company money, it was re- | ported here yesterday to the Na- | pirrsBuRGH, Pa., June 19.—Two|tional Miners Relief Committee.| POWER BARONS | hundred and fifty non-union| «gerip» tittle brass tokens, which| t | miners of the Sonmon Shaft coal com-| are worthless except in company- ee | pany in Sonmon, Central Pennsy!-lowned stores, is a symbol of the Yr T 43 ae gereal Nation- Wide U.S. Militarism is Proud of Him Drive in Schools | s | WASHINGTON, June 19. — A} giant campaign by or 1 electric power and interes seize con- | trol of the count educa- tional system, cl t ay for domination of economic and political action, was disclosed yest . The immediate object is to instil “sound” doctrine all ricans from the child ven to “poli | _ legislative, ative and regu-| latory bod | To th interests are and college students in more than 30 states,” re-enforced by powerful pres-| sure upon textbook writers and pub-| lishers and the home =| inte | “sound” ideas in of free newspap Of such overpow is this movement t ing propagend ing led to the neutrali nd his fellc Capt. Emilio Carranza is being employed by American and Mexican to play the role formerly given to ranza’s recent flight from Mexico to the United States reflects the grow- understanding between the big busin ation of the oil legi Col. Charles Lindbergh. Car- interests of both countries ation, The picture shows tly, notorious militarist, with his hand affection- “BUILD THE CAMP” few years he ows would| Major-General Hanson “ereate for the first time in the long| ately embraci ng the Mexican fladgling. histpry of mankind, a definite, sound | —— Fae ae: ee school of economic thought, not only vl among econom: but amng all the | people.” | These disclosures were made in a! | hitherto secret dc poenaed opnices H § S i by the trade com ing in at Wii fullest detail at a eens meeting of 19 direc propa- - % ganda activity gathered together|Cites Value of Soviet! from all sections of the country. | Union for Americans This document is considered in of-| ficial quarters a ma paganda activities w for years past, in mounting volume, flooded with material what the power | interests demanded should be thought It throws wide doors the comm sion has opened little | ittle, and summarizes and inte s — in the ;| “Russia is still a closed book to the ,| millions in America, and a sensible method of building up a firm basis of friendship between these two great countries, is closer personal contact and the sweeping away of distorted pictures of each’ other’s lives,” said M. Maurice, a director of the World language r_ spokesmen | Tourists, Inc., of 69 Fifth Ave., New themselves—reams of written reports | York City, who spent the past winter which h; gone into the commis-| in Soviet Russia securing the renewal sion’s record -piece-meal. of the contract given to the World The extravagant prophecy that the | Tourists, Inc. to arrange tours thru- first “sound school of economic|out the Soviet Republics in coopera- ught” in history was to be set up| tion with the official travel bureau of vas made by J. B, Sheridan. of -St.|the Soviet government. Louis, director of a network of pro- “No country has more beautiful na- paganda in Missouri which | has | tural wonders or greater treasures ot reached out to virtually every section | art than Russia,” continued Maurice. of the country. He will be a witness | “One can within a week, brouse thru in the investigation tomorrow. | the sub-tropics of Tiflis and Crimea, The power interests delegated to| | travel thru the scenic marvels of the this man, the task of reviewing the | Caueas s and trek the rich soil of textbooks on ¢ and economies | the Volga a re, wage used in all parts of the United States, Sond Tourists, iTnc.,/at dace to find out what was being taught | | visualized the tremendous tourist pos- that they did not want taught, and | sibilities of this vast country and was Sb 46 have’ tt “eliminated.” | the first company to hring this field 4 . 4 jof unusual tours and interest to the His accomplishments and his aims | American people. were set forth at the meeting de-| scribed in the document. It was held | during the seventh annual conventi ion | of the American Ga: ciation in| Atlantic City in C ber, 1925, wi many utility leaders sitting in with} the propagandists at their session. ceiving honorary degreas today’ at ; i ece pie. that ae, ne conan F the 150th annual commencement at Pat Shows, hundreds of thousands | pa tmonth=- College... ‘They’ were ef dollars been poured into pro- awarded the degree of Doctor of paganda work, and every form of © | Laws, has been extended. Bomb Injures S Seven In Detroit Building |" DETROIT, ee were injured today ploded in the cox DEGREES FOR POLITICIANS HANOVER, N. H., June 19.—For- mer Secretary of War Newton D, Baker and United States Senator George H. Moses were among those | KILLED BY TRAIN WRECK ; ONTARIO, Cal., June 19.—One [man was killed and two others are ieved to be dead as a result of the 19, Seven persons when a bomb ex- freight train, one half mile west of here today. Building here. SCENE EG covered in nd carried i DONN BYRNE DEAD the corridor wh exploded while CORK, Ireland, June 19.—Donn several people were throwing water | Byrne, short story writer and novelist on it, Three men seen running from | was found dead today by his secretary the scene were arreste | beside his overturned automobile. ilment of a Southern Pacific fast | STAMPS NOW OUT W.LR. Builds Vacation Place for Children “Build-the-Camp” stamps to aid in the building of the new children’s camp of the Workers’ International Relief are now ready for distribution,. it was announced last night. The fund to establish and maintain, this workers children’s camp must re- ceive immediate support, if the pro-| ject to invite non-paying children of strikers and unemployed workers is to be carried out, it was stated. “Build-the-Camp” stamps come in twenty-five, fifty and one dollar de- nominations. green-tinted. woodland picture of a camper’s tent out of which six healthy youngsters peep merrily. These stamps are to be sold to those labor organizations and individuals who re- alize the importance of providing the children of the working class with a camp where they may vacation in an atmosphere friendly to labor. Those interested may apply for the stamps at the Workers’ International Relief Headquarters, Room 604, 1 Union Square, New York, Plan General Strike in Bogota; Phones Tied Up BOGOTA, taped 19.—In spite. of as- surances by representatives of the British telephone company that they | will grant the wage increase for| which their ‘operators have been on strike for some weeks, the strikers | are going ahead with preparations for a general strike and boycott, in | view of a breaking off of negotiations | by the company. The walk-out of the telephone work- | ers, which has tied up telephone com- | municatigns in Bogcta for some time and has sed considerable los |to the Brit interests has had the full ‘support of all sections of the Colombian workers. A recent drive te raise funds for the continuation of the strike brought about an un- usual demonstration of solidarity with |B the strikers. SLAVES IN BYNUM’S COTTON YARN MILL “Tm So So Tired, > Complains Gir Girl Worker in Ca support of their family. The mother works as “midnight hand” from 6.20 p. m. until 12 or later, until she makes what she thinks she should for the shift. The day work- ers, one 21 and the other 16, go en at 6.20 a. m. and quit at 6,20 p. m., with one hour out for tunch., Night workers get only 20 minutes out for eating at midnight. YNUM, N. C., June 19. (1'2) — “This is a cheap place,” ex- claimed an 18-year old night work- er in Bynum’s cotton yarn mill. “They won’t put electric lights in the houses or do anything much for you. And they don’t pay as much as some other places.” With electric street lamps near- by, she thought the J. M, Odell All Are Slaves. Manufeeturing Company could put The father, carpenter, finds lights into its village houses. Only | work in his line | the super’s house has electricity, The workers and under-bosses have to use coal oil lamps. Tired, “l’m so tired,” the girl complain- ed wearily, “Tending 14 sides (spinning) is hard work.” She had worked from 6.20 p. m. to 5,40 a, m., the previous night and was up at noon. “Can’t sleep any more after I’m once awake,” she said listlessly, slumping into her chair. “T hate cotton mill work—not go- ing to do it all my life, if I can help it” This girl, with her two sisters working day shift, are the chief ton mill village vegetable patch, chickens and pigs and docs most of the cooking. The son, 12, has two more years at the county School before he will be taken into the mill. H “None of us has ever had. any high school,” the 18-year old girl | said. Her oldest sister, now mar- ried, had started work at 18, and the rest at 14. She coughed harsh- ly, although she had no cold. * * * RyNoM is another of the south’s little country mills. North Carolina especially has many of them. It is on the same Haw river which gives power to Saxapahaw mill farther up. The Bynum mill was established in 1888. Its vil- lage is set on the steep hillside in blocks, most of the houses gray in- side and out, or drab tan, and of similar pattern, with sheet iron roofs. Water has to be drawn from the half dozen pitcher-pump wells, Toilets are rough outhouses. For a month the Bynum mill has been on short time—four days a week. It gives the workers a chance to catch up with their sleep but it does cut their earnings. The bright young spinner who speeds to tend 14 sides boasts that she can make up to $4 a night occasionally. Her weekly pay envelope is much fat- ter than the $2 plus daily average for southern mill workers, Her own sisters make considerably less as winders—$2.25 a day when they are lucky. Bynum hasn’t even a movie. The nearest is at Chapel Hill, the uni- versity town 12 miles away. -The mother is pleased at this “because the children want to go every day, when one’s near.” It has an attractive}. rolina Village * consider it, The announcement follows on the | heels of the third wage-cut made by | the company-since the beginning of the year.. -Daymen at the diggings are receiving $5 a day. Loaders are paid for-net tonnage though they load ‘SOVIET WOMEN PLAY BIG ROLE, Banquet for Veteran Leader r Saturday (Continued mee Page One) where the power of the bourgeoisie has been destroyed. “The workers accept the lead nist Party and r Party,’ even tho they themselves may not be members. And the Soviet government is a government under which women have equal rights, both political and economic, with the men. | The condition of the women and chil- | dren is the special care of the govern- {ment. The maternity law excuses | women from work two months before |andtwo months after the birth of the | child with full pay. After she re- turns to work, the mother is permitted | here take one and a half to two hours daily to nurse her child. The gov- reat also provides clothes for the | infant and hospital care is free. Nurs- Jer ies for children are attached to the | factories, Educational Program. “A wide and intensive educational | ener, | continued Comrade Git- ow, ing women and the workers’ wives. as well as among the peasant women. This work is carried on by the Com- munist Party, chiefly thru the women comrades. The results are truly re- markable. Only those who have known as I have the condition of the working and peasant women of Russia before the Revolution can appreciate the tremendous change that -has taken place. Women who five years ago were illiterate, unable to read or write, are now active on workers’ newspapers and are writing leaflets and pamphlets. I met an old peasant woman who is now 68 years old and has learned to read and write only within recent years, -This old peasant: woman is! the author of a pamphlet on the homeless waifs in Soviet Russia which has had a tremendous circulation.” Attended Womens’ Conference. Comrade Gitlow attended a number of women’s conferences during her stay in the Soviet Union. She was one of the speakers at a conference of factory women’s delegates at the 10th anniversary of the Soviet Union. This gathering was also addressed by Clara Zetkin, Krupskaya and by a number of rank and file factory women. One of the most interesting meetings she attended was an All- Russian conference of the writers and readers~ delegates of a women’s newspaper, held in Moscow on, International Woman’s Da y> March 8. This paper has a daily cir- i the poor peasants hip of the Commu- er SAYS K. GITLOW to it as ‘Our| is carried on among the work-| | | 85 | paid ‘women worker correspondents. working {has been arranged by the vania, will receive their next pay in peonage of the miners, and they so cars which are designed to hold three gross tons. None of the loaders knows the exact pay he receives for a ton, Unable to trade elsewhere, miners in scrip ‘must ‘pay exorbitant prices at the company stoves. The mine management is generous with Flies Across Atlantic | Amelia Earhart, an flier to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean. Hopping off from the first wom- Newfoundland, Friendship, in which was made, landed in than 21 hours later. MORE JOBLESS IN SHOE INDUSTRY | WASHINGTON, (FP), June 19, — Unemployment is worse in the shoe the airplane the flight Wales less PROGRESSIVE 7 “SCRIP” IS SYMBOL OF THE PEONAGE AMONG THE COAL MINERS Is ORGANIZED BY | Special to The DAILY WORKER.) |" advances to employes between pay-} days, which come only once in two weeks. The miners often, find: them- selves with no money and in debt to the company swhen pay-day comes. An attempt to leave town under such circumstances means a beating and a jail sentence. FUR BLOG JOINS FIGHT FOR UNION Hold “Mass C Caucus” Webster Hall (Continued from Page One) by this action they did not intend to organize a third union in the indus- try, a resolution read by Winnick was passed by a ‘unanimous vote.e The resolution, after recounting the his- tory of the disastrous struggle, made | these demands of the International Union and of the A, F. of L.: Make Demands. 1. That the workers be again re: < united into one union;, that all dis-| criminatory measures aimed against | workers of the trade for their poli- tical opinions, or for their party af- filiations, be completely abolished. 2. Honest elections be held, thru which | all workers will choose their admin- istration officers and representatives. 3. That one union be established for the restoration of union conditions, and.for the honest protection of the workers’ interests, 4, That an imme- diate declaration be made by the Joint Council that the struggle is at an end and that a call be speedily issued for | a conference of all warring sides in order to realize the demand of the workers for one union. STONE GUTTERS’ industry this month than in May, ac- ‘cording to the mid-June.report of the U. S. Employment Service, which al- ways is optimistic. --Seasonal: slack- | ness of activity is given as the reason why shoe workers have been laid off in great numbers. New England cities in general show a “Surplus of labor” in many lines, while the middle western states re- port better employment in the auto- motive industry and in farming and road work. Textile centers report no improvement, Significant of the permanency of unemployment in America, as ma- chinery has replaced man-power, is \the report from Anderson and Koko- mo, Ind., among other towns: “All plants were in operation throughout the month, but the volume of em- ployment was not great enough to absorb all resident workers.” Blackstone Comp. Asks $300,000 Damages. Following the precedent set in the New Bedford stonecutters case of last year which denied workers the right to refuse to work on non-union materials, another company has filed suit against the stonecutters’: union for vefusing to handle their non-union products, The company is the Black- stone Company of New Haven, which has filed suit against all organiza- tions of the Stone Cutters’ Union, both national and local, for $300,000. The company, according to reports, has already secured federal injunc- tions against the union, : Gime to:the« Comrade Kate Gitlow will probably have more to tell of her experience in the Soviet Union when the militant ‘women workers of New York officially welcome back this veteran of more than 80 years in the American revo- lutionary movement. The welcome} will be in the form of a banquet ited United Council of Workingclass Women for| Saturday evening at 6 o’clock at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E 4th Street. A Marge crowd is expected at this affair. jculation of 200,000 and has 4,000 IM WORKERS’ SAVINGS Are Being Utilized for Workers’ Co-operative Enterprises ORM ‘Subsidiary of the United Workers’ Co-operative Ass'n. dividends are being paid from the first day of deposit on gold bonds in denomi- nations of $100, $300, $560 and $1,000, secured by the second mortgage of the second block of houses in the Co-opera- tive Workers’ Colony. THE GOLD BOND CAMPAIGN WILL BE ENDED IN JULY Subscribe now, don’t be left out! CONSUMERS FINANCE CORP. Office: 69 — 5th AVE., TELEPHONE: ALGONQUIN 6900. Branch Office: 2700 Bronx Park E. (Co-operative Workers’ Colony) Telephone: Olinville 8947. UNION IN SUIT BOSSES OPENLY ADMIT CHANCES FOR CORRUPTION | Hillman is “Blind” to Rich Pickings . | An extremely clear connection is |heing established, between the immi- jnent introduction of piece work in |the ‘men’s clothing industry, which the union officials are enthusiastically | putting thru over the protests of the tailors, and the recent exposures of a deeply intrenched system of graft in the New York Joint Boi, of the Amalgamated Clothing *'orkers’ Union. Even employers are beginning to admit openly their fear that the sys- tem of piece work will be used as a inexhaustable source of graft by the corrupt machine controlling the workers organization. It is even ad- [iaied that the graft disbursements along this line are by no means in | the future, information being avail- able to the effect that first payments | have already baen made. While all this is going on Presi- dent Hillman is still conducting what’ he terms “an unrelenting investiga- |tion.” Despite all his “probing” it is -stated that he also knows of of- ficials in the administration who are on the payroll of the Contractors’ Association. There are also individuals in the union administration who are at the same time partners in certain cloth- ing marufacturing firms. Officials have been known to receive appreci+ ative “gifts” not only from individ- |ual employers, but from an employ- ers’ association as a whole. Heads of the machine, it is further learned, have been sent on lengthy and en- joyable vacations, paid for by money given by doting bosses, | With all those facts easily avail- |able to Hillman, the “holy president” | still continues to declare that he is | diligently digging for “evidence” of misbehavior. Another interesting fact: At the recent convention of the A. C. W. jin Cincinnati, the 200 delegates to the convention were accompanied by about 700 “guests.” These were the paid officialdom, who did ail neces- sary arranging for the maniacal | horn-teoting and hammoh'-banging {demonstrations that remained the | outstanding achievements of the con- vention. It was now brought to light that the money necessary to pay for the numerons parties and banqucts, indulged in by the machine “guests” from New York, came from a so- called voluntary tax of one hour's work levied on the workers here. oes with convincing arguments by the Beckerman officials, that the job would be forfeited, most workers de- cided to “volunteer” the one hour tax, ; ‘| r il iG ‘PLEASANT BAY PARK : ssascacics Spike oi ores New York, N. Y.’ WORKERS CENTER, c Labor « and Fraternal d Digaixatlont Attention! Airy, Light Rooms | To Rent for OFFICES and MEETING. ROOMS at the Elevator Service. Telephone Stuyvesant 1201. 26-28 Union Square,