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The Washington times., 1926-11-27

With building perIfsits In the 500
leading cities Of the United States
during the last six months only
slightly less than two and one-half
billion dollars. the Nations winter
building program will. from present
indica tions, be of such magnitude as
to absorb all available labor in the
building crafts. While a number Of
wage readjustments outside the larg-
er cities are being made on the basis
of slight increases. the building stu.
alton generally is well-esta blished
and free from disturbing elements.
These facts represent the consen.
sus of reports submitted to S. w.
Straus & Co. from all parts of the
country and made public yesterday.
Labor conditions in the building in.
dustry were summarized as follows:
/. Wage scales have reached a
peak and any attempt to boost
wages in the spring will be met with
resistance by the building public.
Some slight adjustments of wages
may be made in similar cities. how.
ever
2. Depite numerous reports there
has been no concerted action for the
4O-hour or nve-day week.
3. Jurisdictional disputes have
practically been eliminated in build
ing labor circles because of the ex-
ce,lent work Of the National Board
OF Jurisdictfonal Awards.
4. There is no shortage OF men In
the building craft with the excep.
ton of bricklayers and plasterers,
of which there seems to be a pres
ent deficiency in numbers. amount.
ing to approximately 10000 men.
5. Tranquility is assured. between
builders and the building crafts gen.
orally, despite some difficulties yet
unsettled in San Francisco and
Cleveland.
East Is Busy
In New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh. Wash.
ington. Worcester and Springfield,
Mass, builders report there is suf-
ficient work contemplated for this
winter to keep resident building
workers employed on a full-time
basis. New York builders report
a slight shortage of bricklayers and
plasterers: also a slight shortage
in the interior trades. Employment
in Philadelphia hit a snag early
this fall and builders report many
of the resident building workers
have procured work In other East
ern cities where building is more
flourishing.
High. wage scales prevail in. New
York city. where builders there re-
port that a rate OF $14 day is
being paid to bricklayers. plasterers,
stone masons. and hosting engi-
neers and structural iron workers.
In Philadelphia the wage scale for
carpenters ranges from 81 to $1.25
an hour; painters, 81 an hour; plas-
terers, $1.75 an hour, and electri-
clans, from 81 to $1.1Sh an hour. An
average between the New York
scale and that paid in Philadelphia
The Washington times., 1926-11-27

is the prevalent wage rate in mosl
Eastern cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Are You Ready for
the Chicago Workers
Party July 5 Picnic ?

Workers going 10 the Chicago
Workers cCommunist) Party picnic
It Chernauskas Grove, Monday, July
!, should make sure to buy their
ickets at the station at the end OF
he Archer Avenue car line. The
price will then be only 15c. Either
he Willow Springs car or the Justice
Park car goes direct to the grove at
18th Street, starting out from the
station at the end of Archer Ave
street car line.
The Russian Workers Chorus, com
posed of so voices has been invited
and is expected to sing at the Grove
There will be a soccer football game
played by the Labor Sports Union
Team VS.. the Workers Communist
Party Local Team, a tug-o'war be
tween the South Slav workers and
he Scandinavian workers. Comrades
c. E. Ruthenberg and Alexander Bit
lehman will be the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Workers Communist Party
The Fourteen Hundred

FOURTEEN registered
the paid United
Ticket fifty
The special all the
nuclei remittance direct National
MEMsERs-HAVE MAKING THEIR PAY
MENT SIX WEEKS LATER.
orgnona unctonIns will do
nothing collecting fifty
difficulty
o. he party mad
COLLECTION THIS SPECIAL ASSESSMENT MUST
COMPLETED
Secretaries who made the collection
wi
NOT FOURTEEN HUNDRED MEMBERS BUT TWELVE
ASSESSMENT AND THE WHOLE OF THE MONEY
COLLECTED MUST IN DAYS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Bosses for Over
< Education of Their
Child Wage Slaves

PHILADELPHIA -(FP) July g.
When manufacturers organizations
and other big business groups can't
find any other reason to use against
child labor laws, they spread the idea
that workers children should not be
"over-educated" by sending them be-
yond the elementary school, Grace
Abbott, chief of the children's bureau,
United States department of labor,
told the annual convention of the
National Educational Association
Back of this opposition is the desire
of the manufacturers and big business
men to get poor boys and girls into
their kitchens and factories. They
always evade the issue. They never
plead industry's cause.
IF the child labor measure is ma
tional bill they stick up for state
rights. If it is a proposed state law
they base their opposition on the con
tention that the rights Of communi
ties would be outraged. The mere
fact that they realize the unfavorable
ness of their position shows theil
fights are unfair"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
UNORCANIZED MILLINERY
YOUTH NEED YOUTH
CONFERENCE
BY a Young Worker Corre-
spondent.

NEW YORK CITY.-The mill
linery trade of New York City,
especially for the youth, is still
in bad condition. I'll take for
example my shop which is sup
posed to be in a good condition.
When a learner enters the trade
he or she has to work at least
a year for $12 per week, and in
order to make a decent salary
you must be five years in the
trade. The majority of the
young workers employed in the
millinery trade are morgan
lied. 1t is therefore very impor-
tant to organize the young
workers. The youth conference
calls all the youth to organize,
to secure better conditions. The
youth conference will there
fore be considered the first step
towards the organization Of the
young workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
YOUTH CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
DETERMINED TO CONTINUE WORK
OF ORGANIZING YOUNG WORKERS

workers would Immediately be organ
lied into union, or that strikes would
be called In the shops which they rep
resented. The youth conference was
understood as the first step towards
the organization of the young workers
in THE already existing labor unions.
In the individual shops the first task
was understood to be the setting up OF
strong shop committee.
Youth Want Organization.
From the conference we Learned
that the young workers want to be or
ganized. That the various tricks that
are invented by the bosses are really
powerless in preventing the young
workers from thinking about their
miserable conditions and recognizing
the necessity for organization.
On the zone hand the conference
realized that the trade unions must or
ganize the young workers, must lend
moral, organizational and other sup
port for the drive and on the other
hand it realized that It will have to
do much itself to realize it's aims.
This was shown by the election OF the
permanent committee which will push
the work forward. Shop committees
were also organized in the majority of
the shops which were represented
The tasks now before the youth
conference are very great. The re-
spouse of the young workers 30 the
call Of the arrangements committee
should encourage us, ths present COM
mittee, to work with greater determin-
alton towards the 100 per cent or
ganization of the young worders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Many July Fourth
Meetings Planned
by Workers Party

New York, New Jersey, Connect.
cut.-There will be mass encamp.
ment at a beautiful spot on Long Is
land Jay Lovestone will speak on
July and ]. Louis Engdahl, editor OF
The DAILY WORKER, on July 5.
Boston, Mass, July 4.-Boston Com.
mons, Bertram D. Wolfe.
Utica, N. Y, July 8.
Niagara Falls, N. Y, July 4.-Ru-
dolph Katz.
jamestown, N. Y, July 5.-Herbert
benjamin
Syracuse, N. Y, July SIS. Essman.
Philadelphia, Pa, July 8. = ]. Louis
Engdahl.
Pittsburgh, Pa, July 5.-Robert
Minor, at Gajdas Farm, Cheswich, Pa.
McKeesport, Pa, July 4.-Robert
Minor.
Erie, Pa, July 4. - Herbert Benja-
min.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 4.-Ben Git
low
Akron, Ohio. July $3.50 p. m. Ben
Gitlow.
Youngstown, Ohio, July 5.-Ben. Git
low.
Superior, Wis, July $3.50 p. m.
Workers Hall, VIM. 2. Foster.
Duluth, Mimi, July $3.50 p. m.
William g. Foster.
Detroit, Mich, Monday, July 5, Yo
hoo Park, Is Mile Road, near Main St
Stanley j. Clark.
Chicago, Ill, July SC. E Ruthen
! berg
st. Louis, Mo-, July &C. E. Ruth
enberg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04

The conference did not represent all
or the greatest portion of the young
workers in New York and vicinity.
There are many reasons for this. First
the election of the delegates from the
big shops, where young workers are
employed, were not held openly. With
the exception of the unionized shops
and the labor unions, the delegates
were Illegally elected. Under the
threat of being fired the young work
ers had to assemble. in secret to elect
their delegates. In some instances
not all the departments could partici-
pate in the elections.
Some young workers who were &C
i've in their shop for the youth con-
erence were discharged. In general
employers finding out that the young
workers employed by them are think
ing of coming together, bitterly fought
5he youth conference. At the start
the delegates most of whom for the
first time in their life took up the
problem of organization and took up
the conditions under which they labor
ifelt kind of embarrassed. But as the
conference developed this situation
changed. Young workers who were
branded till now of only being cap
able of watching games and moving
pictures were sitting for hours and
listening to reports on their condi-
tons.
Future Work.
The delegates understood correctly
the purpose of the conference. No.
body had any illusions, that at the
closing of the conference the young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Workers Athletic
Club Wins the "Uj
Elore" Prize Cup

PERTH AMBoY, N. d., July 2. =
The Workers Athletic Club soccer
team defeated the New Brunswick
Liberty eleven. The score was 3-2.
BY winning this game the Workers
added another cup to their collection.
This cup was given by the ELY
Elore" Hungarian Communist news
paper.
The game was very interesting
from start to finish and was witness
ed by about five hundred fans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
"SPEED UP" YOUNG WORKER
AT WESTHOUSING PLANT

BY a Young Worker Correspondent.
WILLIAMSBURG, Pa.-Young work.
ers, many thousands in number (maIe
and femaIe) work In Westinghouse
under the work-fast ole-fast system
called "the standard time-piece
work."
Due to the meager wages that par
snts receive, young boys and girls are
forced to quit the schools and earn
their own board. AS the desperation
grows along with the wage cuts of
adult workers, schooIboys and girls
crowd the employment office gate Of
Westinghouse plants. For the "big'
sum of $3o-$5o per month they are
hired as office boys and girls, Iaborers,
machinist helpers, and mostly as ap-
prentices.
These young workers are doing the
work of adult workers and receive lots
of ambitious talk and promises and
low wages. They work so hours day
turn per day and 9 hours and sc min
utes night turn, only half an hour for
| lunch.
A pitiful scenery" is absorbed by
one that could go through the sections
of the plant. Young workers, ex
hausted by the speedy working, hall
dizzy and half unconscious with sleep
lessness, their tired bodies swinging
back and forth like a drunkard, reach
for another piece of casting to ma
! chine the same as the previous pieces
The commanding looks of the rat
faced bosses lash our young slaves Il
produce with more speed, and the ma
chimes are kept running more castings
are turned as finished product, more
profits for the boss. With bitter feel
ings the young slave bows his head
cursing the boss, damning the life ant
the date of his birth.
Life is miserable, the bosses are
making it unbearable, their Interest
requires that we speed up the produc
ton under inhuman conditions so they
could have everything that their blacl
hearts desire. These conditions will
exist and grow worse as long as work
ers remain unorganized. 1t is up I,
us workers to organize to protect ou
own class interest. Andy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
PATERSON UN E r w EAR
SHOP SEND MESSAGE ON
WORKING YOUTH CON-
FERENCE
BY Young Worker Correspondent.

Patterson, N. i'm Doufenkle q
Rettner Underwear shop there are
about 400 workers employed and for
eight hours Of hard labor, a young
worker receives at most s12 to SIS
per week. There is no form of or
ganization in this shop, as the boss
will not stand for even a social or
ganization. Most OF the young work.
ers work piece work. II girl breaks
more than one needle, she has TO pay
two cents for each additional needle
she gets that week. You are not per-
mitted to lift your head from the ma
chine while you are at work. To
speak TO the girl next you is consid-
cred one OF the greatest crimes.
You are allowed TO use the ladies'
room but twice a day, and then you
are watched that you should not speak
to each other while you are in there.
The young workers Of the G.. Il r.
company will have to realize that they
must organize into q union in order
TO better their conditions. The union,
Is our only hope.
We must organize and start Il right
now. In this sense the working YOUTH
conference is a good start.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
HELP FEED The
HILDREN IN
PASSAIC STRIKE
Relief Committee to
Open Camps

PASSAIC, N. J., July 2.-The Gen.
eral Committee of Textile Strikers,
743 Main Ave-, appeals to every work
er to support the children's campaign
in every possible way.
The children's campaign is launched
to raise 100000 to buy milk for
strikers babies, and supply nutritious
food for the old children. It is a part
of the 100000 victory relief and de-
Tense campaign authorized by the
Support the Passaic Strike Confer
ence" of May 20, in Passaic, at which
the delegates of several hundred la
Dor unions and workers fraternal or
carnations pledged their organiza-
lions to support the Passaic strikers
in their struggle for a union and
against the wage cut.
Fairgrounds.
The general committee plans to es-
tablish children's Fairgrounds in the
strike area, as well as increase the
number of childrens kitchens now in
operation. The committee believes
the workers will do everything in
their power to bring little joy and
sunshine into these young lives so
darkened by the pail of oppression
From the pitifully small wages of their
parents nothing could be spared for
outings.
Care for Children.
One phase of the children's cam
paign is to get workers to take strik-
ers' children into their homes for as
long a period as possible while the
strike lasts. This will help relieve
the economic pressure on the parents
and the relief organization, as well as
give the children the benefit of new
environment, and wholesome meals
If each working class family will open
its home to one or more of these chill
dren for a few weeks they will be do
ing an immense service to the cause
of the Passaic strikers.
Communicate with the General Re-
lief Committee of Textile Strikers at
once, and let them know how many,
children you can take into your home
and for how long. A few weeks of
proper food and pleasant environment
will help bring back the faded smile
to these peaked faces and give their
undernourished bodies the power to
resist disease. Each child will be Civ.
en- a medical examination before be-
ing sent out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Cotton Crop Figures.

WASHINGTON, July BIASED on
condition of 75.4 per cent of normal
upon the 4S,S9S,OOO acres in cultiva-
ton on June rs, the United States
will have a cotton crop this year of
15,635,O0O bales of 500 pounds gross
weight, the bureau of agricultural
economics of the department of agri-
culture, estimated today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Register Now If assig
You Wish to Go
to Picnic by Truck

Special trucks are to leave the
Workers House, 1902 West Division
ST., Monday morning, July 5, at 10
O'Clock for the Chicago Workers
(Communist) Party picnic at Cher
nauskas Grove. Fare will be so cents
both ways. All those wishing to 80
should register now at the Workers
House. .r j.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
NEW YORK HOLDS BIG UNITED
CONFERENCE FOR PASSAIC RELIEF

Norman Thomas, Of the League for
Industrial Democracy, was unable to
be present, but sent the following
telegram: 81. /. D. conference JOINS
in greetings. Strikers must not be
starved back to slavery"
Miss Susan Brandeis, daughter of
United States Supreme Court Justice
Brandeis, told the conference the
strikers were doing a magnificent job
in Passaic. "They are looking to you
to help them. Employers of Passaic
have sent out a call to employers of
every trade to help. The workers
must show their solidarity, too. Union
men of New york must stand by union
men of Passaic."
Louis Hyman, manager joint board
Cloak and Suit Makers Union, Inter-
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, pledged anew the help of his
organization to Passaic relief, declar-
ing that tho they were on the eve of
strike, they would continue to do
everything in their power to help the
strike.
Ovation To Striker.
The conference gave a rousing ova-
ton to Frank Benti, a striker from the
United Piece Dye Works, who told of
conditions in that mill, prior to the
strike. Benti told how women worked
in the mills for Is and 16 hours a day
for rs cents an hour. The workers in
the United Piece Dye Works had to
wear wooden shoes, he explained, and
rags around their legs, and rubber
J gloves, because of the dangerous acids
with which they worked.
An endorsement of the conference
was given to the Coney Island open
air concert to be held August %. All
organizations represented are urged
to give it their full support.
Elect Executive Committee.
The conference elected an executive
committee, composed of the following
delegates: Cosgrove of the Shoe
Workers; Baum, Carpenters Union;
Kate Gitlow, United Council of Work
| ing Glass Housewives; George Cara
car, Local No. 20; Meyers, Hotel
Workers; Jacobson, Furriers' Local
No. Is; Rose Kuntz, Local No. %, In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, Goldman Workmen's Circle,
Branch 54S; Landy, International La
Dor Defense; Benjamin Weinstein,
Local No. 5, Furriers; Marion Emer-
son, International Workers Aid; Mrs.
Karover, Socialist Consumers League,
Branch No. 4 William Weinstone,
Workers (Communist) Party of Amer.
lea; Fisher, Local No. 2, international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union;
Robert w. Dunn, American Civil Ii
berries Union; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American Fund for Public Service;
/, Nevein, United Council of Working
Glass Housewives; Alfred Wagon
knecht, Relief Chairman, General Re
lief Committee Passaic and vicinity
Frankfeld, Young Workers (Commun
ist) League; Norman Thomas, League
for Industrial Democracy; Baily, Civil
Liberties Union; Zeldin, Local No. 2
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union; Feins, No. 500, Workmen's
Circle; Samuel Rigger, Amalgamate6
Clothing Workers; Morris Pinchevsky
No. 305, Workmen's Circle; A. Gersch
New York Relief Committee; Clariss
Nicholson, Emergency Committee fol
Strikers Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Chicago Women Party
Members Will Hold
Membership Meeting

Women members of the Chicago
Workers (Communist) Party will hold
membership meeting Wednesday
night, July 7. The meeting place will
be announced in a later issue of The
DAILY WORKER. The main topic of
discussion will be: "How the Women
Party Members Can Aid the Passaic
Strikers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 2.-Dele
gates representing 26O labor unions
and workers fraternal organizations
attended the Support the Passaic
Strike" conference at the Labor
Temple, and pledged their organiza
tions to raise 100000 for Passaic
strike relief.
OF this amount, $4,000 was imme
diately pledged on behalf of some of
the organizations represented, and
5000 donated in cash. BY this action,
organized labor gave notice to the
textile barons of it's determination to
defeat its attempt being made to
starve the workers back into the
mills.
Elect Executives
The conference was called to or
der by Karl Brodsky, temporary sec.
rotary New York relief Conference.
Credentials were read and the con-
ference organized into a permanent
body. Robert w. Dunn, of the Civil
Liberties Union, was elected perma-
nent chairman, with A. Wise, of the
joint board, International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, secretary. A
I resolutions committee was elected
composed of the following: Samuel
Rigger, Local No. 10, Amalgamated
Clothing Workers; Charles Krum
bein, Workers (Communist) Party OF
America; Goldstein, Local No 35, In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, ]. Meisler, of Branch No. ZIG
Workmen Circle; Justine Wise
daughter of Rabbi Stephen Wise; ant
Ruth Seinfel of the Nation.
The chairman, Robert w. Dunn, ex
planned the main issue of this strike
as the right of workers to have &
union.
Alfred Wagenknecht, chairman o.
the general relief committee of text
lie strikers, told of the needs of the
strikers, and outlined the relief worl
being done in the strike area
Relief Needed.
All unions, fraternal organizations
and sympathetic associations were
asked by the relief chairman to agar
open their treasures for the strik
ers. Money in the treasures mus
be made to work for the labor move
ment in order that it may grow" He
asked for shop collections, assess
ments of memberships, collection o
contributions of food shipments, col
lection on contribution lists, buying o
childrens campaign seals and mill
tickets, and the taking of strikers
children into workers homes. HI
informed the conference that a mo
ton picture of the strike would sool
be ready.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn told tn
story of the heroic struggle of tn
striking textile workers against tn
brutality of the bosses and the boss
controlled police and courts, declal
} ing that the strike, on the threst
old of its twenty-third week was stil
100 per cent solid.
1.-THE workers will rather starve O
the picket lines" she told the Grove
ed hall, ethan starve shaving in tn
mills. This strike is demonstratin
that the unorganized in America ca
be organized. 1t is demonstratin
that the textile workers are capabl
of dealing with the textile barons. ]
is demonstrating that the unorgani;
ed are again stirring"
Spy System,
Justine Wise, daughter of Rabt
Stephen Wise, told of the bosses SD
systems and determined efforts t
|, keep the workers separated into ma
tionalist and racial groups. Miss Wise
in an effort to find out what the cor
ditions of workers in these mills were
worked in them for a year.
y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
.Gitlow VIII Speak
at Cleveland Picnic

CLEVELAND, July 1. - Benjamin
Gitlow, will be the speaker at the July
4th picnic and outing of the Workers
(Communist) Party at Minona Park.
A sub a day t0iH help to driUr
capital Gt0Gy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Chicago Ukrainian
Fraction Meets on
Wednesday Night

The Ukrainian fraction meets We'd
aesday night, July at s o'clock at the
Workers Club, 1882 West Chicago
Ave.
All comrades from Pullman, Bridge
port and other parts of Chicago should
be present and on time. Bring your
membership card with you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-04
Chicago Soda Clerks q.
Organize Union to
Fight for 7-Hour Day

Over 600 soda clerks have Joined
Local 951, Soda Dispensers Alliance,
in the last 60 days in Chicago. The
present aim is to reduce the 10 and H.
hour day to hours. The local belongs
to the Hotel and Restaurant Employees
International Alliance.