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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
open SHOP HELD
I'm CHECK BY K. C.
BUILDING TRADES
But Contractors Wait for
Opportunity

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-In spite OF
jurisdictional quarels and lack OF
unity among the building trades work.
ers in this city, the "open shop
drive, inaugurated by the Kansas City
Builders Association, has fallen fiat
This is primarily due to the increase
in building projects, number Of the
largest jobs having to be completed
at certain time, with penalty clauses
in the contracts if this is not complied
with.
The arbitration proceedings re-
ported some time ago, have been
abandoned. Still the open shoppers
are busy. Meetings have been sched
iuled for April 14th and 18th, and three
speakers representing the American
plan open shop conference will try
to convince the Kansas City contrac
tors that it is best to place Kansas
City upon an open shop" basis.
However, most of the large jobs
such as the 100000 Sears and Roe
buck plant and the new President
Hotel, must be completed within {
given time and this can only be done
providing there is no labor trouble
And so the Butler Bros, Chicago con
tractors, as we'll as other large con
tractors, have agreed % hire only un
ion help.
This burst of prosperity is, o.
course, temporary. And Butler
Brothers will mount the open shop
band wagon when conditions become
more favorable for the success of the
so-calIed American plan.
Let's hope that the progressive
movement within the building trades
of Kansas City will strengthen its po
sition before the next building sea
son, so that instead Of discussing ar
bitration as a solution OF the problem
they will be able to unite the building
trades forces to Illustrate by struggl,
any attempt to place Kansas City OF
an open shop" basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
Lumberjacks of Coos
Bay Badly Exploited
and Poorly Organized
BY s. G.

COQUILLE, Oregon, April 2.-The
Coos Bay Lumber company last year
cut wages twice, first time 20 per cent,
and the second 10 per cent, mean
while raising the board from S1.O5 to
FS1.25 a day.
Labor organization is very weak
here, and only about 100 workers be-
long to the l. w. w. Last year when
the Lumber Workers industrial I'm;
ion 12O OF the l. w. w. demanded that
men be supplied with bedding, this
was "given" but charged for.
When a worker walks all over the
country looking for Jobs, he has no
chance to carry decent bedding or
to keep it clean IL he does. Now they
furnish two sheets and two blankets,
but force the workers to pay 81 week
for the laundrying Of these.
There are about 10 camps of 200
workers EACH and II one figures it up,
the company collects about $4,000 a
month for this laundry. The total
wear and tear and laundry bill costs
them about $1,000 a month; so the
company makes the difference.
The bosses used to make money on
us when were in the woods and
awake, now they make money Of us
even when we are asleep. Ever since
March Is, the camps have worked
only FIVE days a week.
Many of the workers, altho they
complain that the union don't do any
thing" for them, won't join the union
and get action thru Il. They expect
somebody to come and do something
for them, while they merely look on.
They complain against paying dues
to the union, but are the first ones in.
To town-to lose all they have in a
crap game.
Lumber workers, join the Lumber
Workers Industrial Union No. 100 OF
the I. w. w. and make it a union that
will unite all lumber workers to fight
for your interests. But no union can
get something FOR you" on a tray, the
union is what You make It by your col
lective power. Line up and fight the
bosses for more pay and better condi-
'tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
"B. and o. Bill" Gives
Left Wing Program an
Introduction to Union

The activity of the Communists and
the left wing in the Machinists' I'm.
ion election is getting under the
skins Of the takers. In a circular
letter sent broadcast to every lodge in
the country headed in large type
"Note What the Communists and the
Anderson Group are Doing" they
make fimsy attempt to discredit the
left wing.
The letter is supposed to have been
put out by District Lodge No. As at
Portsmouth, Va, at least it is headed
that way. But the envelopes in which
the letters were sent are addressed by
and addressograph with the number
OF lodge to which the envelope was
addressed. Outside of the grand
lodge there is very little possibility
that any district lodge would go to
the expense of having addressograph
plates made for the entire country
The usual line of bunk and flag wav-
ing is contained in the letter. These
mutton heads can not answer logic
anywhere. 3trF
Thanks to their simple minds, the
DAILY WORKER will be brot to the
attention of every machinist lodge in
the country. But, most of all, the
statement Of the left wing on the cleo
ton and the candidates will be known
to every active machinist. The en-
tire statement which the DAILY
WORKER carried, is reprinted in the
aforementioned circular letter.
few statements of bull about "B. &
o. Bill" and that's all. This shows
the utter bankruptcy of the official
dom. s'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
Hosting Engineers
Strike Alone on
St. Louis Jobs

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 6-The
hoisting engineers have been on
strike in this city since April LIST to
enforce their demand for wage scale
OF s1.65 per hour instead of S1.50
They have tied up completely some Of
the largest jobs in the city which in
citdes the new Masonic Temple on
Lihdell Blvd, and the new Jewish
Hotpital at Kings Highway and For
est Park Blvd.
AS usual. as in all craft strikes, the
other trades remain at work, merely
expressing their sympathy for the
strikers. The carpenters, on April 2
came out on strike at the new Jewish
Hospital.
This, however, was not in sympathy
with the engineers, but was the usuaI
Hutcheson' jurisdictional quarre
against the sheet metal workers who
had been given the work of installing
metal window frames. Hutchinson
would consider II revolutionary IL the
carpenters had struck to aid the en-
gineers, and probably would have re
voked their charter IL they refused tc
go back on the job.
But as long as the carpenters are
merely fighting the metal workers and
not the employers then they will re
seive Car Hutcheson's o. X.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
OKLAHOMA MINERS IN
CONFLICT WITH BOSS
OVER 1911 WAGE SCALE
(speeIaI 70 Lie oaIIy WOrksr.l

(Speelal 20 Inc Dally Worker.)
OKMULGEE, Okla, April 6.-The
superintendent Of the 3. and A. coal
mine at Sehulter, 10 miles south of
here, is raising loud complaint be-
cause scabs are not "gIVen protec-
ton" from the miners who refuse to
90 to work under the low wage
scale Of 1917. The mine has been
forced TO close down.
Ten days ago flare up took
place in which a seab was beaten
and his supposed assailant arrested.
Miners surround the workings and
Ieer the scabs when they quit work.
The superintendent complains,
zone of our men was beaten up in
Henryetta and threats Of violence
have been made against all of
them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
CONVENTIONS OF
INTERNATIONAL
UNIONS IN 1925
Left Wing Must Note
These Dates

The T. u. E. L. groups will take no.
tice of the following list of conven.
lions which take place during 1925.
Each group, in their respective indus
try should prepare for thes conven-
tions by supporting the nomination
and election Of left wing candidates
who stand openly on the program of
the T. U. E. l..
Each local industrial group should
report regularly to their respective ma.
tional committees of prospective dele.
gates. f an
Where there are no national com.
mittees, these groups should report di-
rect to the national Office of the T.
U. E. L.
Convention of international Unions
1925.
April 7-1e, Pittsburgh, Pa, Anal.
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers of North America.
May lilo, New York City, Cloth,
Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers In
ternational Union.
May Ala, Kansas City, Mo-, Hotel
Baltimore, Brotherhood Of Railway
and Steamship Clerks, Freight Hand
lers, Express and Station Employees.
May 11-16. Niagara Falls, N. Y,
American Federation Of Musicians.
May 1916, New York City, Meal
pine Hotel, American Wire Weavers'
Protective Association, Executive
Board Meeting).
July 6-1S, Baltimore, Nd, Glass Bot.
tie Blowers Association.
July 6-13, international Brother
hood of Bookbinders.
July 2O-27, Washington, D. c., In
ternational Plate Printers and Die
Stampers' Union.
August 1915, Kalamazoo, Mich, In.
ternational Typographical Union.
August 1917, Montreal, Canada, In.
ternational Longshoremen's Associa.
ton.
August 1917, Montreal, Canada, Ho-
tel and Restaurant Employees Interna,
tional Alliance.
August II, Seattle. Washington, In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers.
August 1919, Cleveland Ohio, In.
ternational Photo-Engravers Union.
September TIP, Kansas City, Mo-,
National Federation OF Post Office
Clerks.
September 7-12, Boston, Mass, Ma
tional Federation Of Federal En-.
ployes.
September 7-12, Detroit, Mich, Ma.
tional Association OF Letter Carriers.
September 1921, Commercial Tele.
graphers' Union of America.
September 1924, United Brother.
hood of Maintenance Of Way En-.
ployes
Oct, 5-19, Seattle, Wash, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Transfers
Chauffeurs and Helpers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07

general headquarters at a given
price,"
Here we see the complete negation
Of industrial unionism. We see a
general headquarters" and
branches" That is all that would
be left of the l. w w. and its boosted
industrial unions if this plan wins ap-
proyal by the aid of the editor of the
Industrial Worker. There are seven
teen other numbered paragraphs in
this wonderful plan, but all only elabor-
ate the above program of liquidation
of industrial unionism. This after
twenty years Of education, organiza-
ton and emancipation"
But not if the adherents of the Red
international of Labor Unions can
prevent it.! And it should be noted
that the first voice to be raised, the
only voice to be raised, in strenuous
protest against this liquidation OF the
industrial unions of the I. w. w. is
this article of the Red International
Afflliation Committee. And it should
be noted that the anarcho-syndicalis
are silent, and that even the element
which wishes to be thought Of as revo-
lutionary is silent, tongue-tied.
A Duty to Perform.
Only the Communists and Red In
ternationalists in the l. W. W. really
care to uphold the key principle of
the I. w. W., the theory Of revolu-
tionary industrial unionism. Every
where they must urge the membership
Of /. U. $40 to vote against the plan
and to kill it overwhelmingly.
For revolutionary industrial union
ism.
RED INTERNATIONAL AFFfLIA-
TON COMMITTEE,
1914 w. Madison st., Chicago, m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07

and second class postoffices. In pri-
vate industry this association would
be regarded as a managerial group.
The genuine trade unions of postal
workers were not involved in the sem
ate scandal which was exploited by
the capitalist press of the country as
an alleged stain on the organized pos
tai employees.
Protesting against the whispering
campaign the executives of the real
unions issued statement at Washing
ton signed by Thos. F. Flaherty, secre-
tary Natl. Federation of Postofice
Clerks; Edw. J. Gainor, president
Natl. Assn. of Letter Carriers; VIM.
M. Collins, president Railway Mail
Assn, and Victor H. Stonesifer of the
Natl. League of District Postmasters.
"The subordinate clerks, carriers,
and other postoffice workers are not
eligible for membership in this or.
ganization OF supervisory employees"
the statement pointed out. "These
subordinate groups have separate or
CARNATIONS of their own, none Of
which are involved in these charges"
Being in the boss category the guilty
men did not lose their jobs outright
but were taken care OF elsewhere in
the service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
MINERS WORKING
IN WATER WHILE
LAW IS SCORNED
Union Officials Give No
Heed or Aid

MCDONALD, Planners officials
help to weaken the fighting spirit of
the diggers and expose the organiza.
ton to attacks from the operators,
by refusing to take up the grievances,
thereby playing into the hands Of the
coal barons. A favorite method of
the Pittsburgh Coal Co. in attacking
the men is refusing to drain water
out of the rooms where the men
work.
Here in Mcdonald we are forced to
work in water because the company
will not spend any money to install
drainage. If you ever had to work in
water you would know what it means
either to dig or load under those
conditions. Water splashing every
time you strike with the pick or lift
shovel full Of coal.
Wet Every Day, All Day and
All Over.
When we come out of the mine we
are soaking wet from head to foot.
stiff and in many cases pneumonia is
developed, which means death in
some instances. But what do the op-
orators care for the life OF a coal
digger and our officials agree with
them. They claim there are 100000
miners too many in the industry. This
method is an easy way of eliminating
some of the surplus.
Altho the mine laws of Pennsyl-
vania plainly state that, "The mine
foreman shall see that the water is
drained out Of working places before
the men enter, and that the working
places are kept as free from water as
practicable during working hours
yet the operators refuse to conform
with their own laws or pay any com.
pensation. Our officials do nothing
either to have the law and the agree
ment enforced or force the payment
for death or time lost as result OF
sickness from working in water.
Rank and File Must Clean House.
1t is up to the rank and file miners
to take the organization into their
own hands. officials must be made to
fight for the interests of the miners
and not the operators or we must
throw them out and put men in these
that will do so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
Progressive Miner Told
to Get OFF Ballot or
Be Expelled 80 Years

WILKESBARRE, Pa.-There seems
to be no limit to the lengths the Lewis
administration will go in order to re-
tain their stranglehold upon the
United Mine Workers OF America. We
are now in the midst OF district cleo
ton in which the left wing has put up
their candidates against the reaction.
airy district officials. One Of the can
didates was e. Sabatelli, who was
nominated for the office OF secretary.
treasurer
In Alberta, Kansas, and other places
the progressives were defeated by
the very simple process of removing
them from the ballot and declaring
the reactionaries elected by acclama.
ton. In this district they even 20
little further. They have notified
Sabatelli that II he does not take his
name of the ballot he will be expelled
from the union for 80 yearsi
This, as well as the other illegal
acts Of the Lewis administration,
shows how seriously they take the
last national election where, in spite
Of the machine control. they were
forced TO count $4,000 votes for the
progressive candidates.
This latest act OF bureaucratic
treachery will avail them nothing
The strength OF the progressive min
ers is growing every day, class con
seriousness among the miners is be.
ing awakened, and the day of the rule
Of Lewis is drawing to a close.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
STRIKE IN HOLYOKE
TEXTILE MILL FOR
INCREASE OF WAGES

HoLYoKE, Mass, April 6-Three
hundred and fifty workers are az
fected by a strike at the HadIey
mills for a 10 per cent increase In
wages. Mill officials admit that the
past year has been prosperous for
them. The strike is under the con-
troll of the Holyoke Viewers Union,
an independent organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
Get So a Month Wage,
P ay Fifty Cents to
Government In Taxes

LONDON, April G.--Native agricul-
tural workers in Kenya British East
Africa get less than SO month ir
wages and the British government
takes one.fourth OF this back in taxa.
tion.
Publication Of this and other facts
about British administration in this
colony was termed unfortunate" by
under-secretary Of state for the colon.
les, Ormsby Gore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
Thousand Painters Strike.

WASHINGTON. d. c.. April g.
Delaying the new alliance OF Wash
ington builders, real estate men,
bankers and commercial bodies which
refused their demand for raise from
so to $40 day, the 1000 members
Of the local union OF painters and
paperhangers have struck. -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
KEEP MAY End OPEN
FOR 7. U. E, |. MAY
CARNIVAL AND DANCE

NEW YORK, April Con May
2, Harlem Casino will be the scene
for a workers. frolie and daneel
A grand May carnival and dance
has been arranged by the Eastern
District Trade Union Educational
League and the Needle Trades Sec
tion, T. U. {. L.
The entertainment committee an
nounces that this years affair will
be a unique event in the history Of
the left wing movement and urges
all miIitants to keep Saturday eve
ming, May 2, open for the Trade
Union Educational League eelebra-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07

conclusion, there is quite a consensus
Of opinion that the thing to do is to
close until the relation between prices
and cost Of production becomes such
that loss can be avoided"
Then it let's the cat out Of the bag:
Elm a sense" it says, "the determine
ton now reached is an outcome of the
failure of the Cleveland meeting to
occur. 1t is no secret that the pro-
moters of the project fully contem-
plate closing mines if nothing should
come of the overtures. Possibly they
had in mind plan to close at once
when starting to make overtures and
having the mines lie idle while the
United Mine Workers officials and
members were thinking it over"
Operators Dodge the Word Lockout"
The Pittsburgh G. West Virginia
railroad, after a canvass of the situa-
ton which showed that practically all
the mines on the road were going to
close, started preparations to close
the road as far as coal traffic is con-
cerned. The closing of mines in the
northern part of the district is ex-
pected to be complete, in the rest of
the district more or less so.
Black Diamond wants to be sure
there is no suspicion that the OPP
orators are actually going on strike
for better conditions. A lockout is not
lockout unless the operators call it
lockout. The journal says: "The
operators who are closing their mines
are not doing so in the spirit or form
Of lockout, tho practical result will
be that the miners will lose what lit
tie employment they have had. The
position is simply that of ceasing to
produce because production is I'M
profitable"
That should furnish labor with a
good precedent when the next big
strike is necessary. The workers will
not strike but will simply cease to
produce because production at exist
ing wages is Improbable"
Four Million in Profits Laid
to "a Loss"
A glance at Melons Pittsburgh Co
which has closed and dismantled 16 of
its 80 mines in the district shows that
altho it claims a loss from last years
operations this loss is fictitious. With
a production of 9 million tons the com.
pany paid all expenses, all interest
depletion and depreciation charges
and had profit left over for stock,
holders of $2S1,SSS. But this figure
UNDERSTANDS the profit. There have
been excessive deductions for deple'
ton since 1917 when the company had
engineers revalue it's coal reserves in
order to put value behind the capital
stock which was originally half water
The actual income remaining to the
owners in 1924 after paying the cost
OF production was S3,S65, 401 or 43c a
ton. And the company can keep on
paying dividends indefinitely out OF
stored up surplus profits which
amount to over $7S,OOO,OOO or more
than the entire par value of both com
mon and preferred stocks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
COAL MINE OPERATORS OF
PITTSBURGH DISTRICT LOCK
OUT MINERS TO FORCE CUTS

PITTSBURGH, April 6Union Pittsburgh
them consider
field shutting
conference called Ohio proved
enced into discussing
pact. April 1
A
appear production
puts
acted Individually
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
POSTAL EMPLOYEES UNIONS NOT
INVOLVED IN LOBBY SCANDAL:
DENOTED MAN WAS STRAW BOSS

William Sansom the Chicago postofice
senate clerk help push thru the salary
trade the word but subordinate
of 100 assistant
suspension and returns to the railway
With five other guilty higheups
Membership first
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
PLAN TO DISSOLVE INDUSTRIAL
UNION IN |. w. w. OPPOSED BY
RED INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

Amaon Committee previously asserted that
confused revolutionary theory
practice following anarchist
effectiveness union by pachsm
control by the
file.
Amaon Committee has times pointed out
Numerically opposed the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
THE T.U.E.L.

Represents the Left Wing Of the Labor Movement. It's
Purpose Is 10 Strengthen Labor Unions Amagamaon
Of Existing Unions Organization Unorganlzed by
Replacing Reactonary Glass Collaboration Policies with
Unified Program Transformation of the Unions
Organs Revolutionary Struggle for the overthrowa
Of Capitalism and the Establishment of Workers and Farm
ers' Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07

Get a sub for the DAILY
WORKER from your shopmate
and you will make another mem.
Der for your branch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-02-12
Big Cows Produce More
Milk, Declare Experts

The COW producing 100 pounds Of
bHtterfat a year on the average re.
turns So to her owner above cost Of
feed, and the COW producing 400
pounds returns $780, With four times
the production, over II times the re-
turn above feed cost Is secured.
1t is significant also that Dana OF
Vermont, Pearson of Illinois, and
others have furnished evidence from
which the conclusion can be drawn that
large cows produce more, make more
efficient use of feed and produce more
economically when all items of cost
are considered than do smaller ones.
In this way the size Of the COW is one
factor that Influences milk costs. Again
mature cows between the ages Of five
and eight as a rule produce more
efficiently. This is shown by McCan-
dish, OF Iowa, who after making a
study Of over 10000 official records,
concludes that milk is produced in
larger quantities at lower cost by
cows between FIVE and eight years Of
age.-H. r. Lascelles of the Colorado
Agricultural College.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-02-12
"SiIence" Picture

Scene Kensington gardens at eleven
Armistice day Two children and an
Aberdeen terrier are playing with a
bail. The girl, six years old, throws
1t to the boy, who is about year
younger, just as the silence gun goes.
The boy does not try to catch it
and it rolls down the sloping path
way. The Aberdeen retrieves 1t for
his young master, who II standing
unaccountably still with his hat in his
hand Tired of waiting, he drops it
and looks up motjonless and rather
puzzled. One fancies one sees g look
of wonder come into his great brown
eyes, reflection, maybe, of that In
his young masters. SO the trio stand,
paying not the least touching of the
tributes London offered to the i'm
mortal dead.-London Post.