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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-02-26

Dover-no-burn-out electric irons
$500 alta. w. Lund Co.--adv.
Khaki unionalIs of good quality.
$2.25. Bierstedt & Benson.-adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trig. Smuland spent
Sunday and Monday in the Twin
Cities.
A special treat for breakfast, Vita
creme pancake -four. Ask your
grocer,--adv.
Mrs. ]. 0. Thrush spent the week
end at the home of her son, Waldo
Thrush, in Minneapolis.
Lars ]. Erickson, 80, resident of
Trenton township for over half a
century, died there Feb. Is.
Mrs. A. L. Ewing returned Satur-
day from a visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Robert Hilpert, at Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Sutherland
spent Sunday at the home of the
formers sister, Mrs. j. W. Davis, in
Minneapolis.
APPLES.-Yes, and they contain
iron and vitimines, much needed by
growing children. Get them from
Van VoOrhis & Davies.
j. L. Chapman, Sr., returned home
this morning from Milwaukee where
he attended meeting of the Wis
consin Holstein Breeders association.
B & b canvas gloves, heavy, 1Sc,
2 for Csc. Bjerstedt & Benson.-adv.
"A good work shirt Sc. Always
do better at Bierstedt & Benson.
adv.
Heinie Lynch, well known New
Richmond baseball player, has re-
ceived an offer to play with the
Raleigh, N. c., team of the Piedmont
league.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Nauth and two
children, motored here from Kiel
arriving here Sunday for visit at
the home of Mrs. Nauth's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Nicholson.
DR.. Clark w. Brown, veterinarian,
has returned to his home town, Ellis
worth, and opened an office in the
Swain block. DIR. Brown has been
practicing at Glidden the past two
years.
See d. w. Griffith's Zone Exciting
Mite. An eleven reel movie for only
Csc. Normal auditorium Wednesday
evening, Mar. A, at 1880. Good
music.-adv.
Dist. Atty. Kirk of Hudson is to DC
candidate for st. Croix county
Judge at the Spring election, and is
circulating his nomination papers.
Judge Otto w. Arnquist Is to be q
candidate for reelection.
The radio broadcasting station
WHAQ at Osseo has been sold and
moved to Ashland, where it will ne
! put into operation by the Ashland
Commercial Club. TIE closing pro-
gram at Osseo was given last Sun.
day night.
For household remedy, to keep the
family in healthy condition, We de-
pend on Tubbs Bilious Mans Friend
We find it always satisfactory. Any
time you get to feeling a little off
it's a good time to take few doses
Of Tubbs Bilious Mans Friend.
V. NJ. Owen, Coleraine, Mimi
"The Juggler," sport columnist OF
the Eau Claire Leader picks River
Falls to win at Superior this week
and will finish the season in third
place in the conference race. He
picks La Crosse to win the champ
ionship, with Oshkosh second. Stout
won from Eau Claire 1922 Tuesday
night.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-02-26

Rag carpet and rug weaving. PlaiE
and fancy work. Leave orders at
Falteisek's Barber Shop, 119 So.
Main St, River Falls, Wis.-adv.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02

Give your shopmate this copy
Of the DAILY WORKER-but be
sure to see him the next day to
get his subscription.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
New York Janitors to
Organize and F i g h t
40 Per Cent Wage Cut

NEW YORK-Jack-of-all jani-
tors may be but they don't get paid
as we'll as a union worker in any trade
apartment house caretakers in New
York claim and so they are joining the
union, Superintendents and Janitors
Local 32 affiliated with Building Ser
vice Employees International.
The complaints of these handy men
we're aired at mass meeting recently
and the astonishing fact that wage
cuts up to 40 per cent have been
imposed on janitors came out. Every
apartment house dweller expects his
buildings janitor to be on the job
every hour Of day or night. He
doesn't object to the janitor's living
in the damp, low ceiled easements
He never thinks whether the man
is paid enough. He knows that the
janitor's wife often is seen helping
him out with his work Of caring TO-
the. house. But all these grievances
make the janitors Of New York's cliff
dwellings more eager to organize 100
per cent and get better conditions and
more wages.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Anthracite Speeds
Up Preparation for
September Strike

NEW YORK CITY-"The anthracite
miners are at present working under a
contract which will expire Aug. 81 of
this year." says the circular Of large
Brooklyn company, land we have no
assurance that new agreement will
be reached at that time, or what the
terms and conditions may be. 1t is
our desire to fill our customers bins
as quickly as possible, and to that
end we announce the opening Of our
new spring prices"
The company quotes stove and nut
coal in Brooklyn at $14 ton, put in.
This is decrease of so cents a ton
from recent peak prices, but an in,
crease of so cents from the minimum
price last spring. This increase issue,
it was explained, to an equal increase
at the mine.
Because Of the threatened suspen.
sion" of mining next fall, the circular
continues, there is bound to be de-
cided increase in the demand for coal"
1t warns that the reduced prices are
subject to increase after May 1.
In similar circular another COM
pany quotes the same prices, and de.
clares: Because Of the threatened
strike at the mines on Sept. l we will
be able to guarantee the above prices
only up to May 1, 1926"
Several coal men admitted yester-
day that talk of a strike is being used
to increase sales.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania anthra.
cite fields, the usual slack period in
working during summer will give way,
according to announcement of the
companies, to full time and speed
up all summer, evidently hoping to lay
in enought supply to fight the strike
likely to begin on September 1.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Governor Admits Law
Aimed at Injunction
Is "A Mere Gesture"

TRENTON, N. J.-Possible trial by
jury in contempt cases arising from
injunctions against picketing-the
room for which organized labor has
been fighting many years-is seen as
the result of the passage and signing
Of the Richards bill.
The bill provides that vice-chancel-
lor may at HIS discretion grant a jury
trial to workers charged with picket
ing in defiance of Injunction and it
makes it mandatory on the chancellor
to refer all contempt cases to another
vice-chancellor than the one granting
the original restraining order
In signing the bill Governor Silzer
seeks to dispel optimism with which
1t may be greeted, for he says: IL am
quite sure that this bill will not ac-
complish the end desired, and that the
bill in its present form does not give
the relief which organized labor feels
it is entitled TO. 1t is a gesture, moth
ing more"
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Non-Union B a nds
Hurt Union Mucisians

NEW YORK-As the air gets
warmer and the ban concert season
approaches members of the musicians
unions are wondering how many of
them will be done out Of Jobs through
the competition of the police band, the
ireman's band. and the street clean
ing band, all nonunion. Competition
from the bands of private corporations
as the National Biscuit company is
also a disturbing nonunion factor, but
the union feels its chief grievance is
against the use of taxpayers money
to furnish nonunion music against the
interests Of organized labor.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Community Chest" Is
Not for Strikers Who
Fight Against Cuts

UTICA, N. Y, Mar. 31.-Not q cent
for needy strikers families is to be
had from the community chest fund,
tho the community chest drive had re.
ceived considerable support from
many OF the 1900 textile workers
who are now out against a wage cut.
Directors OF the community chest told
the general organizer for the AmerI.
can Federation Of Labor that he was
very sorry but all the assignments
Of the fund had been made early in
the year.
Generous support has. been coming
TO the strikers from local unions from
other crafts which have assessed their
members in some cases and given
lump sums from their treasures in
other cases The strike committee
distributes bread and meat to the
families Of the strikers.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Philadelphia Auto
Workers Organizing
Despite Obstacles

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-At an enthu-
siastic meeting held in the carpenters
hall, the Automobile Workers Union
has been definitely established with
40 new members. The chairman of
the evening pointed out that the
meeting was called by the temporary
executive committee elected by a
group of auto workers who had or
ganized the local two weeks ago.
Five large automobile shops were
represented and all the workers were
of the opinion that the time is ripe
for the organization Of successful
union. After short discussion it was
unanimously decided to affiliate with
the Automobile and Aircraft Workers
of America. The men were conscious
Of the fact that an industrial union
alone could successfully organize the
workers in the auto industry.
Before the meeting opened, the COM
mittee was notified that they could
not meet in the carpenters hall any
more and no reason was given, but,
the members of the Trade Union Edu-
cational League, who are active in
the organization Of this union, easily
solved this mysterious" eviction and
pointed out that the Carpenters Local
No. 8 and the carpenters district coun-
Gil, who have recently upheld the il
legal expulsion Of Fred Burgess, own
this hall, and further most of the men
who have poined this union are auto
body builders over whom the car
penters' union claims jurisdiction al
though they have never made any ef-
fort to organize them.
The automobile industry is COM
posed of no less than eight trades
over which eight international unions
are fighting for jurisdiction and in the
fight neglecting the possibility of or
ganizing the industry. The Automobile
and Aircraft Workers Union of Amer
lea is an industrial union and is out
to organize every man that works in
the auto industry. Members of the
new Philadelphia local are conscious
of this and are determined to do
everything possible to build power
full militant union.
The next meeting will be called
thru mail due to the difficulty of sec
uring a suitable hall. Further inform
alton can be secured by writing Frank
Winkler, 521 York Ave., Philadelphia.
GET A CUB AND GIVE oNEI
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
POTTERY
WORKERS DEEP IN
UNEMPL OYMENT
Wage Cut Looms and
Election Near

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio.-The no
minees for the national offices Of the
National Brotherhood OF Operative
Potters have been announced by the
headquarters of the union. For pres
ident, John T. Wood and William H.
Cox, both of East Liverpool are the
candidates; for secretary-treasurer
John d. McGillivray of East Liverpool
stands against Edward McDeyitt Of
Clarksburg, W. Va.
There are about thirty potteries
here, the largest pottery center in
America, and the largest single pot
terry in the world. Sanitary ware,
bathtubs, etc, are made in Trenton,
N. j., the East Liverpool potteries
makes the table ware. 1t is the chief
industry Of the city of $4,000.
Prepare For Wage Cut
The bosses are evidently preparing
for wage cut, using the part time
starvation preparation as beginning
The D. E. McNichols plant has been
working two days a week-some-
times; c. G. Thompson and Laughlin
both work about five days a week; the
Hall China company about four days
a week; the Dresden pottery is doing
nothing-and so it goes.
Across the river in Chester, West
Virginia, the sheet and tinplate mill
has shut down indefinitely. The Mills
vile mill about four miles away, is
working three days a week.
One Of the brickyards has cut its
forces one half in one department.
Bricklayers average about five days a
week since Christmas. Altogether the
building trades have been on half
time since last fall.
Wage Cut for Miners
The mines, soft coal, have done 1T
tie for year The West Point mines
will start April provided (there is
always a joker the miners take So
a day for day work and the diggers
do all the dead work for nothing.
Members of the Pottery Workers
Union should write to the Trade Un-
ion Educational League, telling what
their candidates stand for in princi-
pie and program-if they have any.
about their lives in the union and ON
the job-and whether or not the union
is going to fight against any wage cut
as it should fight.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02

Reaction and Revolt in the Furriers' Union

collected by the union as back pay
for overtime.
Busy Working For LaFoiIette
Our business agent stan was too
much preoccupied collecting funds for
the democrats and republicans in the
LaFollette campaign to devote any
time to reclaim the lost money of the
workers. No wonder that out of $3.50
complaints recognized even by our So
called representatives, 1850 were lost,
and out Of the 1000 supposedly set
tied In favor of the union, the great
gain was on the side of the manufact-
urers.
Now as to the joint board. Fruitless
were the efforts of the few sincere
delegates to the joint board to force
the officials to attend to their duties
and responsibilities to the workers.
In vain did they attempt to uncover
the graft system in the joint board.
In vain did they struggle to do away
with paid sluggers at union meetings.
Unsuccessful were their efforts to So
lidify the ranks of the most abused
and demoralized workers, who alone
can halt the growing appetites of the
bosses for larger profits.
Decay In Union
In vain were their efforts to secure
a favorable decision from the so-called
impartial chairman. In vain was the
effort of these few delegates to re-
organize the union and mould it into
weapon of offense in the interest
Of the workers. In vain too, were
there efforts to institute democratic
reforms in the management Of our
union, and draw into activities the
loyal, devoted and conscious workers.
The black and treacherous fascist
regime of Kaufman and Braunstein
like a deadly plague continues to
rayage our union and to hold it down
in the swamp Of treachery and fake,
which has reduced our organization
built on the sweat and blood Of the
workers to the shame of the labor
movement.
There is but one ray Of hope PEN
etrating this evil of darkness-that
is the T. U. e. L. section of the fur
riers' union. The fight, to be sure, is
not an easy task for the militants, but
the greater the corruption and the
more injurious the influence of the
Kaufman machine, the more the mem
bership turns for deliverance to the
left wing represented by the Trade
Union Educational League.
7. U. E. L. Program the Rallying
Point.
The hope Of the workers is the
program and tactics advocated by the
T. u. E. L., inspired and encouraged
by the rank and file. The militants,
Notwithstanding the determinations,
expulsions and prosecutions, are con-
Quoting their fight fearlessly and
vigorously, gaining step by step and
driving Kaufman to desperation.
The symptoms Of decay Of his ter
roristic machine are more and more
evident. The day is not far distant
when the militants of the furriers' un-
ion, together with their comrades in
the other needle trade unions, will
join hands in the erection of a really
militant industrial union for the work
ers. This day is beginning to dawn.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Marine Workers Are
Deported in Attack
on Both Seacoasts

BROOKLYN -FP)-Secret depor-
tation by the United States of foreign
born workers is arousing the Brooklyn
branch of the Marine Transport work
ers, two of whose members, Olaf Elk.
engren and Oscar Ollikainen, are
among the victims. They were
whisked away without the knowledge
of their friends or fellow workers.
The only clue was letter from them
dated Feb. "a at Ellis Island but not
delivered in Brooklyn until March 4
five days after the deportation.
SAN FRANCISCO. = Two sailors,
members of the Marine Transport
Workers Union, are still held at An
gel Island immigration station for de-
portation. A third, Alphonso Rodri-
quez, arrested at San Pedro, has ship
ped to South America. Authorities
were unable to find of what country
Rodriguez was citizen, and therefore
offered him his choice of shipping to
any foreign port or staying in Jail
indefinitely.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
BANKERS SAY TOO
MANY SPINDLES
AND WORKERS
Remedy Lies in Inter-
national Unionism

NEW YORK.-There is no need
for working 20 per cent of the cotton
spindles of the world, Hicks & VIII
liams, New York bankers, state in ex-
planning the reason why Lancashire
spinners in British mills are accept
ing reductions of time.
The American bankers would like
to influence American cotton mill
workers, their statement indicates, to
accept the lower wages and part-time
work that has been their lot since
the war.
During the war, the bankers say,
he spindles Of the world increased
tremendously. The 100000 spindles
China, Japan and India are all busy,
the bankers claim. United States mills
gained 6.50O,OOO spindles since 1914.
Accepting the figures Of the bank
ers on these items, however, the Com
munists and members OF the Trade
Union Educational League do not ac-
cept the remedy" proposed by the
bankers, who want TO persuade the
American workers to compete, in
speed up systems, low wages and long
hours, with the textile workers OF the
Orient.
On the contrary, say the revolution
ary unionists, the only hope for Amer
lean workers, in textiles as in other
Industries, is to cooperate with the
exploited workers Of China, India and
Japan, join with them thru the Red
international of Labor Unions to fight
together in a solid front to raise all
their wages, reduce all their hours,
and finally to emancipate the whole
working class from the international
capitalist class. ~-
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
The BEST PLACE
TO M { ET is ON
The JOB ITSELF
Providence Hosiery Girls
Win Fight

PROVIDENCE, R. I.-Boyden and
Sons, knitters of hosiery, employing
about 400 workers, mostly girls, posted
q notice in the shop increasing the
hours to a 54-hour week. AS excuse
it said:
Owing to the sacrifice we have had
to make in selling our products this
year In order to obtain business and
keep our mill running full time, and
J, rather than make 10 per cent wage
Production as most corporations have
done, we have decided to adopt the
following schedule of working hours"
Heard That STUFF Before.
This didn't sound so good to mem
ber of the Young Workers League
who has heard that sort of bunk be-
fore. A meeting was arranged in CO.
operation with the Workers Party,
for the workers to come to meeting
outside the shop. But that didn't seem
to bring many. So, what do you think,
we discovered that the best place to
hold a meeting was right in the shop!
A canvass of the shop was started.
A paper was passed around which
said; 1--WE refuse to work 81 hours
and will not accept a cut in wages"
Half Of the 400 signed the paper.
Meeting Right On the Job
Then on Thursday the girls called
a meeting right in the shop on the
company's time. The superintendent,
Mr.. Cordin, was very indignant but
that did him no good. He attended the
meeting TO present the case for the
company. He said that the great sac
rifce" the company was making to
keep the mill going deserved better
consideration for the poor company"
by the girls.
The answer was that the girls would
refuse to work 81 hours whether the
company would sink or swim; that the
pay was little enough as it is, and that
an increase of six hours a week is cut
in wages of 1914 per cent
Strike Forced Three Hours of.
The super then was forced to COM
pAOAhAoO anu RaSAAOO bAC SlAAb Ny
reducing the hours posted to 81 hours
a three hour difference. He stormed
about, saying he didn't want to see
such a congregation In the shop again,
and complaining that the girls should
not "come to him, as he always did
what he could" He said that there
would be no wage cut as long as he
was there.
The difficulty Of holding solid front
here is the conflict artif1cially kept up
between the piece workers and day
workers. The piece workers had the
mistaken idea that they can make
more money, disregarding the fact
that the company is hiring more help
every day in order that when the rush
is over, the rates will be cut on piece
work.
Piece and Day Workers Must Unite
Another difficulty is that two years
ago when the piece workers struck,
the day workers scabbed; then when
the piece workers won their strike
and went back, the day workers struck
while the piece workers scabbed.
Nevertheless both strikes were won.
Now our task is to show both of them
to forget the old row and work to-
gether, because If the day workers
lose the piece workers are bound to
get their rates cut. The program will
be pushed.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02

They knew that the workers could no
longer be trapped by the net of lies.
In mortal fear less their day of
reckoning had arrived, they organized
their own strong-armed squad, who to-
gether with hired sluggers succeeded
in electing an election and objection
committee" of hand-picked machine
supporters. They then, removed all
opponents from the ballot and de-
clared themselves the legally chosen
representatives of the fur workers.
The Rank and File in Action
1t is understood that organization
problems of the union continued to
remain on ice. The army Of unemploy-
ed came to the Office and organized
mass demonstrations demanding that
immediate steps be taken to improve
their miserable lot.
In the beginning, Manager Braun
stein had planned to disperse the
gathering of unemployed with the aid
of the strong arm-squad, but he soon
realized that the terrorism In this in
stance could not be used with success.
He was forced to permit meeting Of
the workers in the office of the union.
The unemployed stormed the Offices
with their protest, they openly expos
ed the shameless treachery and fakes
Of these job holders and demanded an
explanation for the false promises in
the agreement.
The manager, realizing the difficulty
Of his position, again called to his aid
his much abused schemes of deceit
Under the pressure of the workers,
he instituted an organization commit
tee of volunteers, who were to engage
in the immediate campaign to exter-
inmate the sweat shops.
On the following day, this commit
tee of the rank and file was declared
illegal and forbidden to undertake any
organization work.
In the month of August, the busy
season came, the fur workers, exhaust
ed from hunger, welcomed this op-
portunity to get back to work The
bosses, fully aware of the great needs
of most of the workers, utilized this
condition to their own advantage and
forced the workers to submit to re-
duced wages, single pay for overtime
and more ruthless exploitation.
Betrayed Anew
How did the oficials of our union
meet this new situation? Not only did
they fail to organize the sweat shops,
which was a simple task because Of
the great amount Of work in the trade,
and the consequent demand for work
ers, but our faiaous manager even
dared to recommend that the workers
be permitted to work overtime for sim
gle pay, trusting the lord almighty
that when the season will be at an
end, the union will collect back pay.
The result of this week-kneed policy
was that thousands of furriers were
compelled TO accept reduced wages,
single pay for overtime. They worked
day and night. Hundreds of thous-
and of dollars were added to the huge
profits of the bosses from over time
alone, and now our poor manager is
shedding crocodile tears over the fact
that no more than $4,000 out of this
huge sum of workers money had been
The daily worker., 1925-04-02

Talk it up-your shopmate will
subscribed
The daily worker., 1925-04-02
Hutcheson's Pal In
Losing Fight to Keep
Graft Won In Strike

NEW YORK CITY, March s1s-- A
verdict for $3.50 against Robert p.
Brindell, former building trades coun-
ell leader, in favor of Joseph H. Gold
blatt, a contractor, was returned by a
jury before Supreme Court Justice
Cotille.
The amount included interest on
$4,000 which Goldblatt alleged Brin-
dell, John Chapman and Richard Pike.
two labor delegates, compelled him to
pay in order to have a strike called
OFF on a building he was erecting IN
West Forty-fifth street.
The daily worker., 1925-04-02

Give your shopmate this copy
of the DAILY WORKER-but be
sure to see him the next day to
get his subscription.
Evening star., 1925-03-15

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