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Smyrna times., 1926-04-14
FOR SALE

DWELLING, six rooms and bath, sit
uated corner Of Frazier and Union
street, recently the home Of Mr.. A.W.
Phillips. Property has double gar
age and large corner lot.
RESIDENCE-6-room dwelling, on
Delaware ST., with nice yard on both
sides of house.
RESIDENCE-11-room dwelling, on
Delaware street, will be sold at bar
gain.
FARM of $50 acres, u good tillable
land, balance good muskrat marsh.
TRUCK or Poultry Farm, 45 acres,
on State Road.
GARAGE-2-story, with one-car
garages. Centrally located.
FOR RENT
STORE on Main Street, good location
DWELLING, ,6-rooms and bath. S25.OO
a month.
APARTMENT, rooms and bath,
$500 a month.
DWELLING, corner Of Commerce and
Pearl ssrsst, rooms and bath.
AUTO INSURANCE a Specially
Money to Loan Rents Collected
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS ACT AS
BUILDERS OF THE WORKERS PARTY
BY A Worker Correspondent.

ONE the effective ways party thru worker
- respondents comrade Lenn had say
must rally around constant fighters
the workshops who will write struggles
must become part Of the immense bellows
sparEc general
fagraton He constantly agtatng larger
work Of correspondents places
must be put In the Of
collective Opanlzer collective sor collective popsss
What better way is there interest
DAILY WORKER getting about
his shop7 Every member Of the Party develop
writing articles for The DAILY WORKER
particular place Of work. These articles
the working class The DAILY WORKER abstract
talking AS result the
WORKER will be slmplhed and that
Party and greater numbers Partys campaigns
Let the soganFWe Thousand Worker BY
become an accomplished fact Let all
ING our Influence the workers.
create enormous BoIshevk corspon
dentswho by their vigilance will working
workers. This Of Worker gathering
every corner Of the country will bring
Justice and besaes Of their machinery
the government ntt
Our Immediate task form disciplined
Correspondents who by drawing daily struggles
will secure the Of the
build up the powerful revolutionary DAILY WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Painters Local Insists
on Company Living Up
to Union Conditions
81 a Worker cOrrespondent

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March A.
AT the last meeting of Painters Local
No. 1876 the business agent reported
a job at the Powers Mercantile Co. a
large department store, where the
company wanted sixteen men to work
ten hours a night. The union decided
that the job should be done by thirty
two workers working on two shifts
Of six hours.
This was the proper decision for
the union to make for this gives en-
ployment to larger number of work
ers and does not let a few hog big
wages. The men will be paid time
and a half for night work, and this
will mean nine hours pay for them.
Actions such as these by an organiza-
ton show the workers who are not
yet organized the benefits Of organ
ization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

Why worker correspondent Why
not7 Is there nothing Of interest hap.
penIng around your Write II up and
send II Inl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05

are many other special magazines
published in the Soviet Union for
worker correspondents. Prior to jan
uary, 1926, the Worker-Peasant Cor
respondent of the Prayda was
monthly magazine, but the movement
is growing so fast that the magazine
was turned into bi-monthly. Its chief
editor is Comrade NJ. l. Ulianova, the
sister of Lenin.
The magazine is divided into many
departments. Among them: How to
write for the press, the worker cor
respondent movement abroad. con-
ventions of worker correspondents,
the wall newspaper, prosecutions Of
worker correspondents, what to read
etc. The magazine is richly illustrated
with photographs of wall newspapers,
conventions of the worker correspond
ents, active individual worker CORE
spondents, etc. tut
In an old issue of the magazine
april, 1920 which was sent along
with the latest, we find an article on
the worker correspondent movement
in the United States. An excerpt from
Comrade DUNES article on worker
correspondents is reprinted along with
the editorial notice of the first worker
correspondents department that was
started by The DAILY WORKER I'M
der the head; How we live and
work"
AS the readers Of The DAILY
WORKER are aware, since that time
we have made quite some progress.
From a two column head appearing
once in a while we have reached the
three and four columns of worker
correspondence daily with full page
once a week. But. of course, this is
not enough. We will strive to reach
greater masses of worker correspond
ents than we have now, and also to
grow to the need of special publica-
ton for our worker correspondents.
The job of bringing about a Com
munist society is quite big one and
the worker correspondents are expect
ed to do their bit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
BY M. PERLIN.
worker Correspondent

There is a common saying: Tell me
who your friend is, and will tell you
who you are?"
But to-day, we have another means
of being able to recognize people Of
our ideals, and that is by the books,
journals, and papers they read.
1t is true that some people read GER
tain material that is not in harmony
with their opinions, for the purpose
of information, but these without ex-
ception alsoTread their own litera-
ture. Therefore, we can easily Judge
our company by the material they
read. 31s
On a" recent trip from Chicago to
st. Louis, wanted to read my DAILY
WORKER paper. I was somewhat re-
)elled, because my environment was
entirely strange to me. 1t is true that
all the people in the train were read
ing newspapers and journals, but the
predominant type of literature was
capitalistic.
A little later as turned to my right,
was greatly surprised to see a young
couple reading Communist literature
The young man was reading a DAILY
WORKER, and the young woman a
Workers Monthly. This at once radi-
ated enthusiasm within me, because it
made me feel at home, and put me in
an environment of my own comrades.
l pulled out my DAILY WORKER, and
read with spirit.
l was soon approached by the young
woman: Pardon me, friend, how far
do you travel?"
TO st. Louis" I answered.
Very WE'LL" she said, 1--WE are
travelling the same direction, and we
will be very glad if you will accom-
pany u.s."
We Immediately introduced our.
selves, and then she introduced me to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Hotel Proprietor
Cuts Wages of His
Underpaid Workers
BY WINNIFRED G. SHORT,
worker correspondentl

SEATTLE. Wash, March 4-George
H. O'Neil of the United Hotels, also
a stockholder in the Olympic Hotel Of
Seattle, is here investigating. He
says the employees of his hotel are
getting too much money-especially
the girls. Maids were getting $50 a
month, coffee-shop girls SIG week,
bus girls $14.5O a week and counter
girls SIC week.
Maids were cut to $50 a month, cof-
fee-shop girls to s14.50 a week and
all of the others accordingly, also the
walters. butchers, bellhops, banquet
chefs, bakers, cooks etc.
Several have been discharged and
the others made to do extra work.
1t is the same old story, mot union
lied, can't do thing"
There is now a surplus Of $4,000
every month to be divided among the
fat-bellied bosses, while they lounge
around with their hands in their peck
cts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
ONE MUST DO
WORK OF TWO
IN HOSPITAL
Operating Room Worker
Has Hard Life
BY a Worker Correspondent


The rotten working conditions in
hospitals makes the workers employed
there candidates for becoming pa
tients there.
I am working in the operating room
department of a Chicago hospital, and
for very good reason cannot give
its name.
My job is to do sterilizing for the
operating room and for some of the
other floors.
Must Do Work of Two.
There is enough sterilizing to do to
keep two men busy the entire day, but
in order to save money the hospital
directors insist on one doing all the
work.
My working hours are from 1880 in
the morning to $50 in the evening
and half an hour for lunch. Saturday
and Sunday l must work till o'clock.
But never get off on time, as all
The sterilizing has to be done before
/ can get away.
Must Do Other Work.
If / only had the sterilizing to do,
it would not be so bad and l might
manage somehow to get off on time
but l am always called here and there
to bring or to take away patient,
to fix the gas machine, to prepare a
patient for the operating room and
thousand other small things.
When | come in Sunday morning
find room filled with material enough
for two days work. l steal out in
order to get away On Monday morn
ing am sure to get "bawling out
Ventilation Poor.
The sterilizing room is so hot and
stuffy with no ventilation except a
small half-closed window, and this is
so situated that when there is a high
wind or storm the window must be
kept closed.
When a sterilizer door is opened hot
air comes out with heavy pressure
and goes right into the nostrils and
makes one feel the nostriIs becoming
dryer and dryer.
The worst part of II is that very
often while / am sterilizing | am
called upon TO take over some speci
mems to the Institute, which is 10.
Gated across the street This has to
be done in hurry. Wet with perspira-
ton and wearing light clothes, one
must run to do this work. For all
this get $62 month. with meals
that are badly prepared.
II we were organized into some kind
Of a union, then we would he able TO
better our condition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
COMP ENSATION
| Avn S BROKEN
BY COAL BARONS
BY a Worker Correspondent

CHRISTOPHER, ILL.,, March 4.-The
Illinois compensation law means little
to the coal operators of this state.
Vincent Yalavich, a coal digger, was
badly injured at the Ben Coal Com
pany Mine No. II, located at Cecilia,
ILL.,, the latter part of 1918. He was
given 1884 a week until the month
of May, 1923. Then they refused to
pay him any further compensation and
the operators demanded that he settle
FOR next to nothing
This miner has three children under
sixteen years Of age. The miners
union lawyer told him that he could
do nothing for him. He refused to aid
this miner as he is a foreign-born
worker
Last week this miner went to the
manager of the mine in which he was
injured and asked for permission to
work. mo, you can't work here any
more!" declared the mine head. He
then went to the mine committee.
They told him to go.to the doctor and
get a certificate and that they would
see that he was given a job in the
mine. The doctor refused to give him
certificate. This miner does not
know what to do next.
He is a foreign-born worker and It
is the foreign-born workers that the
legal department and the labor takers
of District u treats in this worst
fashion imaginable. This is done be-
cause the machine is able to run
things to suit themselves. The rank
and file. who oppose these policies, do
not attend their union meetings as
they should, fearing the terror tactics
Of the Harrington machine. II the
union miners would make up their
minds to attend the union meeting and
carry on the work of the union as
they saw fit these actions Of the union
heads would be corrected and the
state forced to enforce it's compensa-
ton laws.
Brother Yalavich has only received
about one-third Of what he is entitled
to under the compensation law. What
happened to him can happen to the
rest Of MS. Are we going to allow
such things to happen? II not, then
let us attend our meetings and run
them to suit our best interests and not
to aid the operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Lumber Companies Hire
Men to Spy on Workers
81 > Worker correspondent.

SEATTLE, Wash, March 4.-The
experience l have just had with the
employment offices of this city has
shown me that they have regular spies
to spot the radicals.
The McDougall Employment bureau
Of this city charges me dollar for a
railroad job with the West Fork Log
ging company up in the mountains
Wages were to be 1925 day Board
would cost $500 a week and s1.O0
weekly would be charged for lodging
After I was given the job. was sent
to the labor clearing house.
Among other questions ! was asked
IL ! had ever applied for work to the
company before and where and when
| had worked during the months OF
April and August of last year. On
my stating that ! was then working
for the same company he inquired II
knew one Charles Mildred. ans
wered did. Then he replied: THAT
sticks YOU" meaning l wouldn't get
the job
| was then pumped about my knowl-
edge OF the I. w. w. and Communists.
| told him the workers in Russia were
better off under the Communist sys-
tenn and that | would not stay on the
job II an l. w. w. strike took place
in the woods. Finally he yelled to me
excitedly: you're a Communist and
an / w. W. and handed me my dol.
lar, with a warning to vget to hell out
of herel"
This man Charles Mildred is one of
those numerous spies the lumber cor.
porations hire TO report what the
workers on the job are doing and say.
ing. ee
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COMRADES MEET ON A TRAIN

her companion, who was her brother
I'VE are both member of the Workers
Party" he said
A discussion followed Immediately
about the U. S. S. R., conditions in
China, and the recent coal strike,
which was so badly betrayed by I'M
ion bureaucrats.
A short time few by, and we heard
the conductor call out st. Louis. Here
we had to depart. We bid each other
hearty good-by, and concluded that
one can easily recognize a comrade,
by the literature he reads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
U. S, S.R. WORKER
CORRESPONDENTS
PUBLISH A PAPER
Teaches Workers how to
Write for Press
RY M. a. s.

We have just received a copy of the
Worker-Peasant Correspondent, a BIZ
monthly magazine published by the
Moscow Pravda for its worker CORE
spondents. Another Russian daily
newspaper, Gudok, is also publish
ing a special worker correspondent
magazine. Besides these two, there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
FIRST PRIZE WINNER.
MINNEAPOLIS
STEEL COMBINE
HAS new POLICY
Lengthen Hours, Speed
Up Workers, Cut Wages
BY a Worker Correspondent.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March A.
The Minneapolis Steel and Machinery
Co., the largest manufacturing plant
in Minneapolis, is starting its second
year of production under new pol
icy. The substance of this new policy
is larger production and further re-
duction in economies" SO reads the
report. With these words the com
pany describes its scheme of intensi-
flying the exploitation Of the workers
employed in its shops.
Introduce Speed-up.
w. c. McFarlane, who is now presi-
dent of the company, came to Mime
apolis last year from Chicago as an
efficiency expert" The effect of his
work was Immediately felt by the
workers. All production was put on a
piece work basis. The nine-hour day
was established as the minimum work
day. The night shift worked IL and
a half hours, five nights a week.
Overtime required many workers to
put in twelve and fourteen hours.
This was followed by systematic
cutting of the piece rates. Work was
rushed thru at terrible pace and
piled up in all corners of the shops.
By the middle of summer the lay-off
began. The majority of workers were
turned onto the streets.
This January the company opened
up again on large scale. This time
with the system better organized and
more oppressive. All production work.
ers work ten hours and overtime. The
average rate for a skilled mechanic is
sixty cents an hour. 1t is only by the
most intense work that piece worker
can make more. For working IL and
IA hours at the machines the workers
receive measly seven dollars.
Foremen Organize.
An incident happened in the ma
chine shop which is of real interest.
The foremen, who are also being OPP
pressed by the new economics" or
ganized and approached the company
with demand for more wages. They
were turned down. Then they tried
to get something out of their men.
2 Leo Crumholtz, foreman on the
balcony, approached his men with the
soft stuff" that they were making
more money than he was. He put a
proposition up to them by which he
would guarantee them sixty cents an
hour providing that they would give
him one-half of what they made over
that. The men saw thru the idea and
were not in the mood to accept it.
How far the company vas behind this
move to speed up workers cannot be
determined.
Workers Must Join Union.
The workers in the shop should fol-
low the example of the foremen and
organize for higher wages and shorter
hours, and attain their demands fight
ing the company and not going with
the company as the foremen attempt
ed to do.
The new policy is part of the policy
OF the steel trust to beat down the
standard Of living of the American
workers. This is the local expression
of this campaign. The only way that
the workers can prevent this on
slaught on the American workers is
by organizing into strong unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
Greetings Received
From Comrade in USSR
icy a Worker correspondent.)

10y worker CorreSpondent.)
Comrade onufry Michaluk, formerly
OF South Bend, Ind, who Is at present
In the agricultural commune "Califor-
mia" in Soviet Russia, in letter to
the Russian District Committee OF w.
p. Chicago writes;
Greetings to all comrades and
members OF the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party of America. Best wishes
for your work of building up the party.
Of building Communism.
"The Soviet Union Is becoming
stronger and bigger day by day, and
already It is an example for the toilers
0f the world.
'Long live Communism
with the Communist greetings,
"ONUFRY M1CHALUK."
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administration of the union. They
were afraid of the members of the
union becoming revolutionary thru
participating in real organization
work and tried to keep them from
doing so.
Members Drawn Into Work.
The new administration wants the
organization and other important
work of the union to be handled by
the members themselves. They have
succeeded in making the members of
the union active. No wonder the
bosses have always supported the
right wing.
The next morning altho it took me
over an hour to travel l was at the
arrangement hall at $50. / had ex-
pected to be the first one there, but
to my surprise | found the hall al
ready filled with workers-men and
women of all ages. Not a shadow of
fear could be found on those enthusi-
astic faces. They were all impatient
to get to work. They all wanted to
be on the first committee.
At last the committees are sent
out. We walk to the first shop we
have picked ready to meet any OBJ
stacle. This is the first day of the
campaign and the bosses are unpre-
pared. They laugh at the idea of the
rank and file committees organizing
their shops. We go up to the third
fol he IL torn .-ko -,
at US that there was an ad in the pa
per looking for workers.
Boss Enraged.
Another minute and we quickly
open the door and walk over to the
workers at the machines to ask them
to join the union. Some of them quit
their work and come with us, the
others follow. The boss enraged at
our success picks up an iron and tries
to hit one of the union girls. The
iron is quickly taken from him by one
of his own workers, and he watches
biting his lips-his entire shop
walk out with us.
The next shop. We walk up to the
shop, one by one, and meet at the APP
pointed floor. Before the bosses real
ize what is happening, we have the
workers stop working. One of our
committee speaks in Italian to them.
The Italian workers decide to walk
out with us. The boss in his distress
is heard to exclaim Even the Italians
turn against u.s." Seeing the whole
shop struck he decides not to fight the
workers but goes to the union for a
settlement.
Pull More Shops.
We have half an hour left till noon
and two more shops must be covered.
We walk up to the next shop The
boss has been notified that we are
coming and refuses to let us enter.
The workers inside are awaiting us.
They have been prepared. They hear
the noise in the hall and stop work
The boss finds his resistance useless
and the workers are taken down. With
the aid of these strikers we take down
another shop.
We return to the arrangements hall
tired but victorious.
At least in this organization drive
the workers are drawn into the work.
the struggles Of the union. The union
is being built up into a stronger and
more powerful organization than we
4.
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SECOND PRIZE WINNER.
NEW YORK DRESSMAKERS' RANK
AND FILE COMMITTEES DO GOOD
WORK IN ORGANIZATION DRIVE
By a Worker correspOndent.

NEW YORK 4The York job
ganzing the shops with
motto EARLY
chairman adjourned
ganzaion Of the non-union
For long time the organization industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-05
THIRD PRIZE WINNER.
WINDOW Gil EANER
FREEZES HAND ON
JOB AND STARvES
Family of Four Must
Live on SIS a Week
81 a Worker oorrespondent

Ed Gratz had his hand frozen while
making profits for his employer and
now his only means of support is the
SIS week sick benefit which he re-
ceives from his union and which will
last thirteen weeks.
Brother Gratz is window washer
While employed by the Standard Win
dow Cleaning Company, on a day the
thermometer registered eight below
zero, washing windows on the outside
Of a building, he suddenly discovered
that his right hand would not obey
his will His hand had frozen. He
made the mistake to plunge It into
hot water, instead Of rubbing e with
snow or cold water.
The whole right side Of his body
became numb, his hand swollen and
sore and his arm weak. At the medi-
cal examination he was told hen be
alright by next June, but in the mean
time be must have treatments three
times week costing IS a week.
Family Must stave.
Gratz has wife and two children
Just now one child Is sick with some
contagious disease, and because there
are no coupons to be clipped, they are
lacking the bare necessities of life.
The window cleaning companies
carry insurance for their employees
because Of the many accidents occur
ring regularly, but this case Is not
considered an accident, and conse-
quently this man whose whole life has
been spent in making profits for the
bosses now has to suffer with his
family and there is no help forth
coming.
Different In Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia, where there 10
workers and peasants government,
the workers are provided for in any
case of disability with full wages. But
the American workers are at the mercy
Of the bosses, and until the workers Of
this country realize the necessity of
changing this order Of things, the
working class will be exploited while
able to make profits for the capitalists,
and thrown on to the scrap pile when
unable to do that.