The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1928, Page 2

Scceeaenrosaae: “were going around in circles. Page Two THE DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1928 1928 Lewis-Fishwick Machine Moves to Force Illinois Miners Back to Work OFFICIALS URGE | “Boy Wanted;”\EDITORS BRIBED Army) REVISED SCALE; NEW AGREEMENT History of ‘Betrayal Is Pictured (Special to The DAIL HERRIN, IL, June seen as a back to work move by the Illinois operators a gether with the Lewis-Fish i the demand made pub cials of the local | mine union for “a release from the present policy pursued by the adr istration of John L. Le tional president” in the existing wage scale. WORKER.) The resolution condemns the pres- ent day wage basis for mechar mining devises for the coal miners of the state and demands that a con-! tract on a tonnage basis shall be set} up. It also demands that the policy committee be assembled with the ob- ject of releasing the Illinois district from the present “agreement.” machine pretends the miners who are employed are operating under the Jacksonville sgale, pay is much less. There appears to be no doubt that the move is to be used by Lewis as a means of abandoning even the sem- | blance of continuing the strike andi to throw the blame on the miners! themselves. The Lewis-Fishwick machine was reeently ousted from the contro] of} the organization and the urion taken over by a rank and file district con- vention at which George Voyzey, mil- itant mine leader was chosen presi- dent. * * . SPRINGFIELD, Ill., June 22. — Increased activities are manifest amongst the Illinois rank and file coal miners in their struggle for con-! trol of the local openly coming out for wage cuts. This represents two lines of activ- ities heading for definite and decisive | clash. They ,have been expressed $n the special sub-district conference held by the rank and file members, on the one side, and on the other by the recent meeting held by the dis- tri¢t executive board, sub-district of- fcials and seale committee of the Mishwick administration held at the Smerican Annex Hotel in St. Louis, The special sub-district conventions held gave particular attention to or- ganizing for the coming elections, and to take over all,offices down to the local. unions. Wide Representation. The first convention held in the —What is| The | TODAY FOR USSR: but actually the | | anions, while the |B. old Fishwick administration is more |], a Jobless ‘Answers Advt.| EVERAL ae young boys. | | “ stood outside of 80 E, 11th St. | yesterday morning and fought to get | to the entrance. Police appeared and after shaking up several of the boys, they were formed into a line stretching around Broadway. An ad inserted in a morning | newspaper by the Eureka Leather Goods Co., of 80 E. 11th St., asking | for an office-boy, had brought down | this army of unemployed boys, some of them out of jobs for months, | many in shabby, bedraggied clothes, | others looking as if they had hardly | entered their teens—all of them after one job. One of them got the job. He was momentarily happy. The others went away, downcast, discouraged, to beg again at the doorsteps of the bosses for a few crumbs of the Coolidge “prosperity.” TEACHERS LEAVE Dewey Heads Delega- tion of 25 Educators (Continued from Page One) ten days in Odessa, and four days in Constantinople. Some of the members i plan a general survey of the entire system, and others will make special investigations of their own, Miss Bran- ham said. American educational ex- periments and practices, many of them initiated by members of the pres- ent delegation, have been widely adopted in Russia, she pointed out. The delegation will land at Rothen- burg, Sweden, and proceed to Lenin- grad by rail; where it will be met by . Dewey, Dr. Stephen -P. Duggan, y Textor, and Dr. and Mrs, J. last month. The members of the delegation are: John Dewey, Columbia; J. McKeen Cattell, Lotus D. Coffman, president University of Minnesota; Donald J. Cowling, president of Carlton College; Evelyn Dewey; Dr. Stephen Duggan, Institute of International Education; \Fola La Follette, City and Country School; Robert H. Gault, professor of psychclogy, Northwestern University; Mary L. Hinsdale, professor, Grand Rapids College, Michigan; Florence Holbrook, University of Chicago; Parke R. Kolbe, president, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institution. { | £ of New York; Kenneth G. Matheson, president, Drexel Institute; James K. Norris, Massachusetts Staunton sub-district had a represen- tation of forty-six delegates coming | from nine local unions representing | thirteen mines. The next special con-| vention was held in the Belleville sub- distriet with thirty-nine delegates present. The third convention of the/ Franklin county sub-district held at} Christopher, Illinois, had a total of seventy-two delegates present. Sim- ilar special conventions are being held in all the rest of the sub-dis- tricts. At the meeting of all the officials of the Fishwick administration about one hundred being present, the ‘whole desperate situation of this official- dom beeame apparent. Trained in treason to the working class, but now having reached a point where the movement which will finally eliminate them has grown by leaps and bounds, they are falling out amongst them- selves. A serious break is develop- ing between the Fishwick administr: tion and the national Lewis admin istration. Fishwick Opens. At this meeting held by all the deposed Illinois officials at the Ame r- ican annex hotel in St. Louis, Mo., Mr. Fishwick opened by calling for Teports on the situation in the vari- ous sub-districts. were uniform in character: traction of the men working, none of whom are on ful] time; great dis- satisfaction amongst the rank and | file miners bordering on open rebel lion. The Save-the-Union movement 4g everywhere.” This was the gist of the report made. Like chickens without a head they They not seem to have great fears of the wage cuts threatened by the oper- | but they did fear this move- ment. In fact the only remedy they | could offer to save themselves and: a ——————— The reports mado! “Only a| Technology; George D. Olds, president emeritus, Amherst College; Kurt E. a ‘hter, New York University; Emily ein, James Monroe High School, New York; Lucy Textor, Vassar Col- lege. Thomas Woody, University president of the Principals’ As- sociation; Lucy Gwynne Branham, Secretary American Society for Cul- tural Relations; John Barry, special writer. ' POWER BARONS McKeen Cattell, who went to Russia’, | ridges shua Kunitz, College of the City | Institute of jeotton mill villages—Eno and that of | |economical printing plant, we ‘will be of | Pensylvania; Katherine D. Blake, for- | | was once more est: | Newbern, BY TENNESSEE Schools Flooded With Publicity WASHINGTON, June 22.—The complete cooperation that exists be- | tween the power trust and the p hed when Hugh Doak, As- was revealed today that president of Tennessee Pr: sociation and itor of the Ma ter ‘Times, is in charge of all the| publicity of the Tennessee power whe assists Doak in the This was work, in his testmiony before the eral trade commission. Newbern cha: tem “3 polite bribe: ed that a sys- is used by the jecure newspaper of $18,000 a year is spent on publicity by the Ten- \nessee trust, he said, and a large | portion of this goes to entertain edit- jors at luncheons and’ dinners. | A total of 21,246 news columns and 4,644 editorial columns has been ob- tained by the power interests since November, 1927, Newbern” stated. Most of this material was suppliéd by the trust itself thru its publicity department. Newbern also said that propaganda pamphlets supplied by the National Electric Light Association had been distributed in the schools of Tennes- see. Ten thousand sets of three pamphlets each were placed in schools and libraries and sent to newspapers and state officials during 1927. Bring on the Prosperity in North Carolina! (Continued from Page One) much of that.” Eno mills was established in 1896. Its village for 450 workers runs down the gully behind the mill fie up the beyond. The ‘ain board houses are fairly well built but very much in need of painting. Cement walks have been put in to hurry feet | that would otherwise lag in the slip- | pery clay paths. Bucket-dip wells | serve the workers water—one well to |}25 or 30 families, | Mill children are taken through the | fourth grade in the village school and | then must go uptown to Hillsboro, a jthile or more, fort higher grades. But most of them go into the mill at 14. {“There’s a little girl in the shipping room can’t be over 13 or 14,” said |the old man. jand of Lord Cornwallis’ presence in |revolutionary war days. But its tw ithe much smaller Belle Vue Mfg. Co. | |—are poked off in a corner against the big hill. Travellers on the main highways never need see the strag- gly mill section. HOLD COUNTERFEITERS Five alleged counterfeiters, ar- rested Thursday night in a raid on a printing shop at 1064 Willoughby ave, Brooklyn, were arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Epstein, Brook- lyn, yesterday. cut. “But”, said one official, “Kentucky will further reduce wages; then wages will be so low that high dues will be impossible, and salaries could not be paid.” The volicy of uncompromising fight side by side with the Pennsylvania and Ohio strikers was never men- tioned. These old traitors had no !solution for the problem. In saving | the union they had no actual interes‘ except insofar as their own salarie: were concerned. They could, o: course, as “respectable” fakers con- any Save-the-Union Committee. Operator’s Step. their salaries was to accept the wage | | This meeting marked one further | | step of the campaign of the Peabody Coal Company for a wage reduction in. the Illinois coal fields. |campaigh as well as the policies of | | t |wick’s old fri | Frank Farrington, whe is on the Pea- body Coal Company’s payroll draw- | ing $25,000 a year. The meeting showed only_one definite action, name- ly-to-eall—upon Lewis to call the nationat policy committee together !“to deaw up a uniform scale for Il- Both the | district, linois.” Meanwhile the installment of load- ing machines, mechanical devices in every Illinois mine of any size is ecre- ating ® constant problem for the coal miner and increasing the deep. going dissatisfacticn, whereas previ- ously loaders could load not more than twelve tons of coal a day. of the big loading machine: southern Illinois mine, operated by nine men, is now capable cf loading total of 423 tons a 7 tons per man for ceive a wage of $8 hich they- re- Ss Thus, the} loading machine means a drastic wage if ent, and hence displacement of labor power and consequently increasing | the great unemploy: ‘ment. The coal miners are tired of a/| union which does nothing whatever | to solve these j-roblems, but merely |} meeting weze directed by Fish- | retaliates upon the militants by mass | Wwe nd and fellow traitor | expulsions, 187 progressives were | recently expelled in the BellevilJe sub- istrict, 22 in the Springfield sub- These are some of the reas- ons that the fight of the rank and file members led by the militants for complete control of the union is con- stantly gaining in volume. LABOR I IS CHEAP ON. SIXTH AVENUE] Thousands of High School, College College Graduates on Slave Market By FEDERATED PRESS. GTEP vient up, Mr. Boss! Take -your choice here from thou- sands of eager youngsters, fresh from high school. $12 too much? Well, bere’s a bright young kid, well dressed too, polite and with a nice diploma im his hand $9 a week, Tho kil will pay me his first week's salary. Next please, , 'O it goes im the New York of- fice slave market, where prac- tical employers arg selecting the cream of high school graduating clazses to train ints clerks, sales« men stil minor exeestiyes, Plenty of bockkeepers and typists for $12 to $18. Exporienced office work- ers ary knocked down for $20 to $25. With thousands milling about the employment offices, they grab eagerly at $20, | | nape graduates are also demand slog the Sixth Aye, Pleat $29 is enough to bring 6 horde of likely-looking young fel- lows fresh from the esmpus and ready to work lete at nigh} down in Wall St, keeping ap with the avalazwhe of ste merkel.. specu- lation, Brokers dangle indefinite bonuses to “reward” them for ex- tig labors, ealed by Guy P. | Hillsboro’s boast is of its antiquity | | This means | | , While tha} of the real solutions for | Jacksonville scale called for a ton- t union’s existence proposed by the |nage rate of $1.08 a ton. | Chiefs of Tammany Ring Headed by Boss Olvany Leave for Houston The Tammany delegation, silent as Boss Murphy, left for Houston Thursday to extend the operations lof Tammany Hall, if possible, to a national scale. Ryan, David H. Knott, Joseph Johnson, George W. Olvanij, James F. Eagan, John F. Carew and Charles L. Kohler. The real boss of td Tammany Hali, as is well known, is not Olvany, but Al Smith. From left to right, in the photograph are Daniel L. | SECURE “DAILY” ; All Groups on Workers Reached by Paper (Continued from Page One) but also among workers in the most reactionary unions is The DAILY WORKER gaining a foothold. A Chicago worker on the Balti- more “and Ohio Railroad, who re- writes: Dear. Comrades; The workers.on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad must be pro- spering. At least if we believe the stuff that is handed out through the monthly magazine. 1 know that there are workers who have -heen in service on this road for years who are only draw- ing $23.60 a week, so I don’t see where the prosperity comes in for the workers. 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Save yourselves the great financial and nervous strain of another sudden \ crisis which might prove fatal to the “Daily.” Prevent future crises by sending funds NOW. The following is another list of militant workers who helped to save The DAILY WORKER: Richard Bjorkbacka, West Concord, N. , $6; Camp Trombenick, Glenham, N. C. Davidson, N.'¥..C., $13.8. v3 $1; Jennie Silverman, m Lambrojo, Bronx, es West N. Y,, $4, 50; F. Shuster, C,, $1; I. Birn- baum, Nin %. Ae *Saehiss Hedrich, |Boxbuty, , $5; Anthony Karbel |N. c Kristofik, Cab- ridge “Mas: teh, Kelsport Pa, Ye. 2 | Blo, ta: aay, N, nectady, | tad _N, Sala, Schenec- M. Miller, Schenectady, ers, Schenecctady, N: Schenectady, N. ¥ ICs 1 mis {Potts Wyo., $1; Bon, $5; Canada, $10; "Dr, Leon Henri Gold- (collected) Bronx, 4 \c " Crise, Lyman, W: Warcester, Mass. gis range” 2 | cester, cester, H, Stankus, Wor- cester, M Jucius, Worcester, Mas 4 Worcester, Ma. 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Steel Co. has paid $1,000 to an im-| migrant Polish priest to come here to preach to the Polish workers so that they will not interfere with the hosses’ profits or participate in any industrial erganization work which might take place at Weirton. —P. °REDERAL PRISONS CROWDED WASHINGTON, (FP) June 22-— Federal prisons, Atlanta, held twice as many prisoners, | in June, as those prisons'were planned by their builders to hold: The Depart- ment of Justice, announcing this con- further over-crowding when the fed- eral courts begin to grind again a) the autumn. Soonhard, er! 3s, Brook H. Person, N- ig, Brookl Detroit, } ected) ‘Detro Baily, Detroit ; Wm. Molenhauer, De , $10; om Davenport, 5; Shop Nucleus No, 60 yy Ss located at’ McNeil) Island, Wn., Leavenworth, Kans., and | TRACTION LINE SEEKS 7¢ FARE Tammany, Republicans in on Deal (Conttnued from Page One) I. R. T. over the control of the new city subways and the resulting scram- ;ble between Walker and Smith held up the deal. Now all forces are in harmony and they are now .merely stalling until after election. William F. Kenny, contractor, and millionaire traction owner, who con- trols the Third Avenue Railway, con- | tributed $70,000 to Smith’s campaign fund all “for love of Al,” he declared. Kenny and Smith last- winter went to ti aicts that th will bi | the south together on the famous pil- , Aysemebenilamy led De) Nbc ear cae 4 grimage to spread Tammany Hallism in the land of Dixie. - Truck Driver Injured_ in Brooklyn Accident Wet pavements caused a triple auto- mobile collision and injuries to four | persons yesterday at Rugby Rd., and | Ditmas Ave., Brooklyn. A light truck crashed into two heavier trucks and overturned. The Detrot, Michigan, \$5: A. Avrin, $1; Andrew Pastrick, | eveland, Ohi B. Welzen- Wolf Point, Mont, $2; Dave| Shoichet, Brooklyn, $1; Sol. Zip- er, Brooklyn, N. ¥., $1; Jack Feifer, "Julius Mandel, N. . Sam Feifer, N. $ Brookiy n, »§ N. 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They continued to wear the flowers in court. Despite the knowledge that their union leaders are unable to appeal further to avoid going to prison, the striking textile workers, led by the rank and file picket captains, eonduc- ted what is admitted even by the capitalist press to be one of the larg- est and enthusiastic picketing dem- onstrations yet held since the strike began on April 16. 1,200 Picket Mill More than 1,200 strikers gathered Jast night at the gates of the Wam- sutta Mills, where a squadron of pol- ice attacked the picket line a few days ago, and sang strike songs while patrolling the plant. The shouting of strike slogans and the singing of songs went on continually, despite the fact that the police expressly pro- hibited this. Nearly all the arrests to date were so-called “peace disturb- ances” caused by singing and whist- ling. * * ° NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 22.— Four men and two women striking textile workers, picketing the faectory_ gates of the Wamsutta Mills, were arrested this morning after they had defended themselves against a new attack on the picket lines by police. A picket demonstration was also held at the Nonquitt Mills where the own- ers and their straw bosses vainly try- trying to open the mills with a hand- ful of imported scabs. Free Visés (Extensions Arranged for to Visit Any Part of U. S. S. RB.) Return; WARSAW — 69 FIFTH AVENUE St, to W: take SAILINGS: S. S. “AQUITANIA” — July 9 S. S. “ROTTERDAM” — S. S. “PARIS” — — — — Aug. 10 Via: LONDON — COPENHAGEN World Tourists, Inc. Telephone: ALGONQUIN 6900, UNITY CAMP PROLETARIAN CO-OPERATIVE SUMMER HOME, WINGDALE, N. Y. Now open for worker vacationists and week-ends. ~ Busses leave 1800 — 7th Ave. every Friday evening at 6:30 P. 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