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feature is that the petty bourgeois
elements are giving their financial and
moral support to the strikers. AS an
example, the East Side Merchants
Association of Passaic has donated
$1,000 to the strikers relief fund.
Workers Against Low Pay.
The strike developed out Of the
wage cut the workers received last
October. Their meager wages were
then reduced by ten per cent cut
bringing their low pay down to be-
tween $12 and s22 week, some re-
ceiving only 50 weekly.
Workers of all ages are employed in
the mills, many working on the night
shifts which are conducted by sew
eral of the mills. In many cases the
entire family, husband and wife, as
we'll as their sons and daughters are
working for the textile barons, some
working at night and others on the
day shift. In such a way family
life" is developed in the United States
Of America!
But the time came when the work
ers could not stand it any longer and
revolted against the unsanitary work
ing conditions and low wages. In
masses and spontaneously they united
their forces under the direction Of the
United Front Committee of Textile
Workers and are determined to strug-
gle and fight until ultimate victory
will be theirs.
The mills which have been paying
their workers starvation wages have
at the same time been piling up enor-
nous profits for their owners. The
Botany mill which employs 6,4O0 work
ers, has during the year 1925 earned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Restaurant Worker
Finds Conditions in
Factories Unbeatable
By |. s., Worker Correspondent.

BY L. s., Worker Correspondent.
EAST YOUNGSTOWN, O., March
22.-I am a cook, but owing to the
inhuman conditions under which the
bosses Of the restaurants compel us to
work because we are unorganized,
had to go look for a job in a factory,
having the idea in mind that l would
work under better conditions.
After calling at employment offices
every day for two months and always
hearing their reply, Nothing today,
boys" I went to look for job at the
Republic Iron and Steel company.
/ went there at o'clock in the
morning to get the first chance. AS
soon as reached the mill l saw about
ten or fifteen workers who went there
with the same idea as myself. AS
time went by more workers were com
ing to look for job, some in overalls
ready for work, and others with their
collar and tie on, as If they knew
beforehand that they would not get a
Job.
At z o'clock the Office opened up.
The place could not hold more than
ten persons. All of us tried to get
into the Office, pushing one another,
and we were so crowded that we
could not even move our hands. After
we had waited about an hour, until
the timekeeper would finish reading
IA fc IN he
with swollen eyes, caused perhaps
from the after effects of the night
before, said that they needed only
carpenters and that the others should
leave the place Immediately. The
workers looked at each other and then
one by one they started to go. On
account of the cold some hesitated
and did not leave the place as quickly
as the timekeeper wanted them to.
He again told them to get out and
that it was no use to hang around
the office. Then each one started to
leave.
l had a few copies of the DAILY
WORKER, which l gave away to
those that were leaving. The next
day l went again to the factory, be-
cause it was said that they would
employ some workers. One hundred
and fifty workers were hired They
led us to a place where we had to dig
bitches eleven hours a day at Al cents
per hour. l. understood that this kind
of work would not last long, and three
days later we were all laid off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

a net profit Of s1,5OO.OOO. The Gera
mills which employs 1900 workers has
during the year 1924 obtained a net
income of .s1,S56,5O9, paid $431,914
dividends and had surplus Of $1S,639.
These two examples are cited to
show that when these mammoth cor
porations make larger profits they
only develop an appetite for larger
profits which they try to obtain at
the workers expense by reducing
wages.
Statistics Of the United States labor
department show that wool workers
between the ages Of 25 and "a die from
tuberculosis at the rate of ALI per
cent as against 80 per cent Of the gem
eral population. Deaths from pneu-
monia and Bright's disease also shows
higher percentage than among the
rest Of the populace. Between the
ages Of "a and Al the percentage of
deaths from heart disease Is also
higher.
Militant action that is credit to the
best traditions of the working class is
now taking place at Passaic, Garfield
and Clifton N. ]. The workers who
are on strike are learning thru bitter
experience how the state comes to the
support of the bosses and does it's
dirty work, sweeping all that is before
it in a ruthless manner. They are
also learning who are their friends
and allies-those who can be depend
ed upon for assistance in their hour Of
need.
Interesting events are still to come
and will result in the organization and
strengthening Of the position of the
textile workers who are now on strike.
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siastic over this cheap stunt, so he
esumed his seat, and then Hugh Ker
win, since the Wilson regime a mem
Der of the department of labor in
charge Of its cancellation department
who claims to have at one time been
a miner, took up the question and sug-
gested that any number of ways
might be found to settle the dispute,
the favorite one being direct negotia-
tons between the men in the mills
and the individual bosses, or between
the individual workers and the boss.
Walsh turned to him and asked him II
he really meant such a suggestion
TO be taken seriously. Even a lackey
in the strike-breaking movement
ought to be more discreet than to pro.
pose such an absurdity. Even Davis,
himself, among the very few things he
does know, ought to know that the
individual worker has no chance
against the employer representing
great combines OF capital.
Fears Publicity.
The secretary OF labor insisted that
the conference be secret and that all
newspaper men be excluded, hence
all of the known newspaper men had
TO wait out in the hall, but the DAILY
WORKER was resourceful enuf to get
the facts FIRST hand without the pres
ence of its representative becoming
known. In other owords, we scoopedl
all the capitalist press. The reason
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
JEWELERS. WAGES
FORCED TO Low
LEVELS BY BOSS
Workers Must Organize
to Better Conditions
BY SAUL WHITE
worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, March 20 - Down!
Down! goes the standard of jewelryt
workers. "Jeweler, Platinum Worker
Wanted" reads the ad in the paper.
How much were you getting in
the last placer" 1925" is the reply.
How much will you work for now?"
well, / know It is slow; I'll work
for a $1.10 an hour" "$1.10 an
hour? You want too much, we can't
afford that much. / want a man for
75c or SOC an houri Are you a fast
mani" "Quite fast; this ring will take
me about . FIVE OF six hours"
"I'll tell you" says the boss, leave
me your name and address and I'll
notify you"
This is the usual end of one effort
to earn living. A typical CONVEX
sation in the hunt for job.
We have come to the stage, when
we must ask ourselves where we are
going fellow jewellers, where will it
stop? Our standards for which we
fought and starved in 1915 and 1919
are nearly all gone. All the evils
Of the pre-union days are back Home
work, piece work, long hours, hire
and fire at Wilt is all back. Men
drop dead working, as was the case Of
Isidore Hoffman, lately of Kalishers'
shop who dropped dead from exhaus-
ton. The more that fellow worked,
overtime and home, the less he earn
ed, because the boss kept on cutting
the piece work rates in order to keep
down his earnings to an average mi
nimum of $40 a week. After working
4 years in this shop, a collection was
necessary after the funeral to feed
the family for a few days. Men work
8 and 10 hours a day without extra
pay and thereby keep other men out
of work who in turn cut their own
and all other jewelers. threats in or
der to grab job.
Jewelry workersi The time is
rotten ripe for a showdown. Join
the union and fight back. Our organ.
lied might is our only protection
You can't run away from the trade.
You are entitled to make living at
the trade which you spent several
years learning.
Local No. Jewelry Workers
Union, meets every second and fourth
Thursday Of the month. Come around
to the meeting this Thursday. We
meet in the World Building and the
Office is Room SO7A. Organization!
the only argument the bosses under
stand. That should be our motto
With this slogan we'll win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Johnson Objectionable.

sSHHogH
II the bosses objected to Weisbord
because they fear he is a Communist
the strikers very definitely objected
to Johnson, proving that all his talk
about patriotism was bunk, that the
Botany mills are part Of a European
concern with mills in many European
countries; that II was in the hands Of
the alien property custodian during
the war, and that the circumstances
Of its return to its present owners are
open to suspicion Of corruption. as II
is we'll known that the office Of the
alien property custodian was a hotbed
of graft. Johnson was objected to
because of his establishing and main.
tanning despotic system OF terror
against his workers and is further
accused Of encouraging the police cos.
sacks to beat up women and children.
all OF the terror occurring before his
mills.
Furthermore, attention was called
TO the fact that the industry is one
OF the most highly protected OF all
and that instead OF paying a living
wage the workers receive far below
sufficient to enable them to exist In
decent healthful surroundings. AS
many strikers express themselves
they are better of on strike than
when they work for such starvation
wages, because on strike they at leas.
are assured strike relief from other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Cleveland Unions
Aid Passaic Strikers

Especial to- the Daily Worker)
CLEVELAND, March 22-The Cap
makers UnionlNo. IS made eontribu-
ton of S15 to the Passaic textile
workers relief, and also passed vol
untary tax Of 81 per member.
Bakers Local No. 10 decided to
make a contribution to the relief.
Local No. 1O5 of the Carpenters
Union discussed the matter at the
last meeting, and the sentiment was
favorable for making a contribution,
when it was announced that the
Workers (Communist) Party, District
Six, had sent the list to the local ask
ing for a contribution, which was to
be sent direct to the strike relief COM
mittee. The president then immedi.
ately declared that the matter would
have to be dropped, because the local
is not allowed to have any relations
with the Communists.
What has relief for striking textile
workers to do with the Workers (Com-
munist) Party? Only one thing, and
that is that IN District Six the Work
ers (Communist) Party was the first
to raise the issue of relief of the strik-
ing textile workers. This disproves
the Carpenters Union false statement
that the Communists are trying to de-
stroy the uniSns. Helping striking
workers to win a strike is destroying
the union? isNot by the boldest
stretch Of the imagination can this
be asserted. IT is time that this non
sense was dropped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Passac Strikers Secretary Davis Is Tool of the Boss

owners that he get out Of the fight
was merely one of the methods used
to break the strike and destroy the
organization created in the process OF
the struggle.
Government Strike-Breaker.
Frank P. Walsh. for the strikers,
told Davis fatty that If the depart
ment of labor were responsible for
the proposals contained in the bosses
offer It was acting the role Of strike
breaker and added that surely the de-
partment Of labor would not want to
indicate by its actions any such
charge.
At this point Davis sought to divert
the discussion into personal channels
by relating some of his own expe-
rience in strikes. The secretary of
labor told about how he was at one
time puddler in a steel mill and how
he was on strike for seven months.
In order to emphasize the fact that
he claims to have once worked this
popinjay cabinet member and messen-
ger boy Of the Mellon political ma
chine in Pennsylvania walked over to
corner in the approved manner Of
the herd leader OF the Loyal Order Of
Moose Ian organization which has
made Davis a very rich mani, took
two nickle-plated puddlers tools in
his hand and posed before the strik.
ers. oavd An
No one seemed to get very enthu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

NIT defeat and go back like whipped
ours to await the pleasure of the
bosses, who would take action within
a reasonable time" which might be
ten months or ten years.
After forcing" this great conces-
sion from the bosses. the department
Of labor, according to the statement
of the secretary, Mr.. Davis, then
agreed that no Outsiders" be included
in negotiations and that particularly
Albert Weisbord, the leader OF the
strike, who is charged with being a
Communist" should not be considered
and that he must drop out Of the pic
ture.
Davis remarked that he did not
know WeIsbord, but that he presumed
he was with the delegation. Frank p
Walsh then pointed to Weisbord and
Davis raised his hand in a sort OF lazy
greeting. and then asked the strike
leader II he would agree TO "step out
of the picture" IL II would benefit the
strikers. Before Weisbord could an
swer the question the whole delega-
tion OF strikers in unison asserted that
he would not be permitted to do any
thing Of that sort. This was appar-
emily quite sufficient for Davis, bur
Weisbord added that he would do
anything that would aid the strike and
that he had no personal ends to serve
In the struggle. He emphasized the
fact, tho. that the demand OF the mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

strikers who come to their aid. Fur
hermore, the strike committee at
Washington. in its reply to Davis, in
sists that the strikers will not return
10 work until they are guaranteed a
living wage, based upon the budgets
prepared by the department Of labor
itself
This statement puts the political
puppet, Davis, in a hole. Either he
will have to wash his hands OF the
whole affair, in which case he would
be attacked and exposed by those
who are demanding a senatorial in
vestigation Of the industry, or he
would have TO repudiate the millown-
ers--an unheard OF thing for a mem
Der OF a government that has as one
Of its real heads such a creature as
Senator Butler of Massachusetts.
who is a scab textile baron and who
profits thru such conditions as those
existing in Passaic.
In the proposed investigation A
would be well for the senate com
mittee to include the conditions under
which the proposal OF the department
Of labor to settle the strike were ar
rived at. Communists know how
hese things happen. but II would be
well to have the facts brot out so that
,ther workers may understand the
character OF the government az the
nemy OF the workers and TIN de-
.ender OF the exploiters Of labor
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Davis did not want newspaper men
n was because he did not know what
he mill owners had told the news
papers and did not want to make any
assertions that might be used against
them. He wanted II distinctly under
stood that the department Of labor
acted merely as "conciliator" and
that It dare not make any sort OF
statement that would bar It from act
ing in that capacity.
Lesson for Strikers.
Again the strikers who had been
disillusioned regarding the president
of the United States in the morning
learned another valuable lesson in the
afternoon. They spent more than two
hours in conference with Davis, dur
ing which time he exposed himself as
far below the average worker In intel
ligence--a mere figurehead who is ut
terly incapable of being anything
other than a cog in political machine
manipulated by Wall Street. Again
the strikers learned that the men IN
the United States government are
nothing but ordinary strike-breakers
who serve the master class. Failing
to hoodwink the strikers into accept
ing the strike-breaking proposition OF
the bosses, Davis and Kerwin seemed
relieved when Walsh for the strikers.
said that counter.proposal would be
presented the nextNdAy, giving the
strikers demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Laundry Trust Being
Formed by Bankers
81 q Worker correA pondent

NEW YORK, March 22-Following
closely upon the great bakery consoli-
dation which resulted in the bread
trust, the laundry industry of the coun-
try is taking the first step towards
classification. Twenty upstate New
York laundries have completed plans
for huge merger.
Similar combinations have already
taken place in Kansas City, New Or
leans, Los Angeles and Cincinnati.
Preparations are now being made for
the formation of a great national sys-
TEN Of power laundries to be known
as Associated Laundries of America,
Inc. New York banks are the mott
waiting influences in the creation of
this national laundry trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
u. S. China Trade for
1925 Was $3.50, 5O2,913

SHANGHAI, March % - According
to statistics released to the press by
the United States consul general
here, the trade, between America and
China for 1925 reached total in gold
of $159, ,913., Half of this consist
ed Of textiles, with silk coming a
close second. Furs also constituted
considerable item.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
chamherIain,s Motive.

GENEVA, March 22-It is agreed
here that Chamberlain's motion for
a conference of representatives Of
states adhering to the league OF ma
tons to consider the American reser-
vations to the world court was made
with view to preventing any Of fits
members rejecting in whole or in part
the American reservations until every
effort had been made collectively to
secure such a unanimous approval as
that required by the resolution Of the
senate of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

Watch the Saturday MGgGSine
Section for neto features every
'ceek. This is good issue to give
to your fellolO loOrker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Choice and Common Flesh.

OTTAWA, Can.-FP)- In Canada
losses of limbs and other injuries
during the late war for democracy are
accurately measured by the status OF
the victim. A private gets a pension
of $500 year for the loss of leg
while a general gets $3.50 a year for
the same injury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKE STIRS
THE AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT
nx SYLVAN A. PoLLAcK.

PASsAC j. March 22For the last months in the state OF
New there taking sensational strike that has stirred
the working America seldom stirred the
Over 10000 textile nonaes united together
and putting a splendid fight.
beating OF
capitalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
Stamford Held Tag Day
for Passaic Strikers

SANFORD, Conn, March 22.-The
Stamford branch of the International
Workers Aid held a successful tag day
for the relief Of the Passaic strikers
and collected $215.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24
REQUEST
STIRS UP fires
OF court Fight
World Court Opponents
Renew Struggle
tspeoIaI 70 rhe palIy workerl

WASHINGTON, March 22-The re-
quest Of the council Of the league Of
nations that the United States send
a representative to the conference OF
its signatory states which is to meet
at Geneva in September to consider
the reservations attached by the sem
ate to American adherence to the
world court has stirred up the whole
controversy over the league OF ma
tions, its relationship to the world
court, and the attitude of this coun-
try towards both.
According to the reservations in the
resolution which passed the senate,
each of the 55 nations adhering to
the world court must accept in writ
ing all the reservations attached by
the senate to the adhesion Of this
country before the decisions can be
binding. Even then it is specifically
provided that the court shall be asked
for no advisory opinions on matters
affecting the United States without its
prior consent.
The Gold Dust Twins"
Senator Borah and the irreconcil-
able opponents of the court and
league state that this provision links
up the two bodies in an inseparable
fashion. How, they ask, can such adj
visory opinions be prevented if the
league Of nations should request the
court for one in matter involving the
United States unless the latter were
officially represented in the league so
1t could voice its objections then and
there? AS Borah ironically remarked:
"The government to be consistent
must send a representative to the
leagues conference in Geneva"
Gibson as "observer."
The administration is trying TO
solve the difficulty by having Gibson,
the American minister to Switzerland,
sit in at the conference as the unofi-
cial delegate of this country. In other
words, he will be what has become
common to the devious methods OF di-
plomacy as practiced by our state de-
partment-an observer"
The Contradiction.
| It is a safe conclusion that the
course of events at Geneva has greatly
strengthened the hands of those who
are opposed to the United States TAX.
ing an active part in European po-
litical affairs. On the other hand,
such political interference is bound
to follow the increasing economic and
financial control which the fast-grow-
ing investments of this country bring
about in that continent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-24

Your pen must be stronger than the
hired pen Of the boss.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

seat, made more or less tacit bargains
among themselves to admit other
members to permanent seats on the
council and then tried to ram this
bargain down the throat of the
league, first by sheer weight of au-
thority and then by the braZen device
Of calling upon one nation to give up
it's seat so that the favored nation of
a great power might be admitted in
the face Of the league protest.
One may question the motives of
Brazil or. for that matter, those of
Spain and Sweden, as much as one
may choose; one may explain their
actions as one pleases. but the essen
tial fact is that the combination of all
three protests has been to drag into
the open facts which must be faced
and conditions which must be dealt
with if the league is to function at all.
The outstanding fact at the March
meeting at Geneva, which saw the
initial fiasco, was that there was no
league, no central authority, no col
lective will which acted or strove to
act in the interests of world pacifica-
ton, but only the representatives of
some 5O-odd member nations, who sat
by passive and helpless while the rep.
resentatives of three great powers
which were members, and q fourth,
which was>not, bickered and bargained
to get a compromise satisfactory to
themselves which might be imposed
upon the league. And but for Brazil
the thing might in the end have been
'tput over" and represented as AN
other victory" for the league.
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