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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
TREAT WORKERS
like ANIMALS
IN SHIPYARDS
Sunny California Not
Luring to Workers
BY VINCENT leNATIUs.
worker correspondent.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 21.--
We hear so much about this sunny
south land, in the advertisements that
are circulated in the east and central
states. 1t is referred to as the land
of opportunity where the sun shines
and the palm trees grow. As to the
latter two conditions, it may be true,
but when worker tramps around for
weeks begging for a job, chances are
that he will forget altogether that
there is a sun, let alone palm trees.
Looking for work here can well be
illustrated by a farmer in the central
states buying stock at some stock
yard, the worker being the stock or
the animal, and the bosses the buyers.
Looking For Prey.
Hiring men at one shipyard, for In
stance, where there were about fifty
men one morning, it was done in iden-
tically the same manner. There was
high steel fence on the other side
of which the bosses, two of them,
painted like tigers waiting to devour
LAgAl RAEgs OkIcNoAbAAaAAJ lnEg HUuAu
see a strong husky looking man walk
to the outskirts of the crowd, directly
he would be pointed out and called
up to the steel fence thru the bars
Of which he would impart the neces-
sary information about himself, and
he would be given a card evidence
that he got job.
Then there was another type OF
man they picked out, men that had
long grey boards, evidently this was
done for the reason that these men
had a smaller chance of getting a Job
than the younger ones, therefore, they
would be more loyal and work for
next to nothing. These men, two OF
which were hired that morning, were
altogether too old to perform any
kind of work.
Only One Way Out.
When the farmer goes out to buy
horses for himself in order to con
serve funds he first buys a few strong
and sound ones and then to fill out
his team he gets the ones that he
thinks will take him thru the season,
thus making little more profit on
his investment for that period Of time.
Evidently it is the same case with the
shipyard. They want to make a lit
tie more profit on their slaves.
1t is indeed shame to be endowed
with human emotion to see all of it.
] 1t is time for the workers to join
together and throw off their backs
these institutions which compares
them to animals. To do this it be-
comes their duty to join their nearest
Communist nucleus, the only organic
alton capable Of accomplishing that
end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
WEALTHY WOMEN
LOYAL TO THEIR
CLASS INTEREST
Set Example for the
Working Women
BY Norman Bursler.
Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 21.-
ITO reform the Communist Party is
much bigger job than l ever want
to undertake." laughingly said Anita
Whitney when shown an article from
the Los Angeles Times in which Gov.
Richardson's stand on her case was
endorsed by the modern female
Judases, otherwise known as the
Republican Study Club of Los Angeles,
who, during their discussion on the
Whitney case, asserted that wide
spread propaganda favoring Comrade
Whitney's release was attributed to
her having Joined the Communists for
the purpose of reforming their party.
How these female betrayers fawn
before their lords and masters, who
classed them with imbeciles, until mi
litant women, one of the most ACTIVE
of whom was Anita Whitney, gained
for them the right of political expires
sion, is shown by their unanimous
vote endorsing the stand Of the big
corporations mouthpiece, and in
their support of the world court.
With their usual disrespect for
truth, some of the liars asserted that
the news organ of "a radical group
had come out with threats of violence
against the governor in event he re
fused to pardon Comrade Whitney
The name of the paper was conven
iently ignored.
The loyalty of the woman Of the
bourgeoisie to their class is an ex
ample which proletarian women
might we'll follow. There is M
"woman's question" with them: mere
ly the class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23

minutes, the noble custodian of the
law handcuffed the victim of his de-
pravity and dragged him away to
Jail.
Women Seated First.
Much of Houston's industry is To-
Gated at the Turning Basin, Port
Houston. The employees are white,
colored and Mexican, with the color
ed workers in the majority. They are
carried to and from work by street
cars operated by the Houston Elec-
trio Co. The employees live in many
instances, ten miles from their work.
It frequently happens that they must
stand up on the cars the entire ten
miles. This is because of poor
scheduled car service. For most of
the workers two transfers are necess-
airy, especially for those living in the
Heights, Fifth Ward and Bowling sec
tons. After transferring from many
parts of the town, the workers col
lect at the shuttle (dinky) line which
carries them to the Turning Basin.
1t has always been a point of honor
among them that the women are to be
seated first in the crowded cars and
after that every man for himself.
Those who win in the friendly COM
petition to get in, get the seats and
standing room. The losers wait for
the next car. It is only natural that
in the morning after standing up from
one to one and half hours, or in the
evening, after shaving at high speed
for ten hours handling cotton, one
should like a seat White girls and
colored girls stand up frequently in
spite of the efforts to give them seats.
1t was this friendly competition to
get the seats and standing room that
caused our brother to be made the
victim of the Dragging advocate of
might not right. The car company
originated the unique idea of having
plainclothes man come out in order
to prove to us workers and to impress
indelibly upon us that we are inferior
| and to show the workers that they can
be beaten at will as the early Christ
ians and the lowly workers ancient
and modern.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23

The beaten man in attempting to
board the car was attacked by the Of
ficer, (the man did not know that he
was an oficer). After the law" drew
his gun, the unarmed man made NO
resistance, but this did not keep the
policeman from knocking him down
with the pistol and then beating him
in the face as the man, whose great
crime was in being worker, lay up
on the sidewalk defenseless and dazed.
Vice on all Sides, Attack Worker.
The Turning Basin is the habita-
ton of a very vicious criminal class:
gamblers, prostitutes, drug peddlers
and murderers daily scatter disease
and destruction. This is known to
the police department and our three
Brass Check daily papers. The edi-
torials are continually harping, why
is our police system unable to cope
with this cancer in the community's
side?" This week the body Of e. b.
Wilson was churned to the surface Of
the basin by passing ship. When
last seen, Wilson was at one Of the
dives at the Turning Basin. The po-
lice have not solved the murder; so it
is evident that there is work for po-
licemen other than breaking the heads
of honest workers, white or colored.
The writer heard a street car man
today telling a passenger that the
niger" was pushing a bunch of
white girls, but the intelligent work
ers at the Turning Basin will readily
see that this defense is the old one
Of playing the white workingman a.
gainst the colored workingman. 1t is
safe to say that not single worker
will be taken in by it. The writer has
never seen among any class more con-
siderate, gentle and courteous treat
ment than given the women folks
both white and colored by these work
ers. They put the watch words,
Women First" into practice. The
workers must organize as a class re
CARELESS Of race, creed or religion, and
then abuses and outrages such as
| this will stop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
THE WINNERS:

The DAILY WORKER prizes for the
respondents contributions this Pullman
shops, prize, laundry
Chicago, who the prize worker the Turning
Basin Of Port Houston winner Of the third prize.
prizes prize, "captalv by
Voume prize, Society,"" Morgan third
prize, original Of a DAILY WORKER cartoon framed
The following will contributions:
FIRST PRIZE-"Fyng osip," stories Russia Eleven
written presenting
the significant o lie writer's
SECOND PRZE-"Whither Engand7' Totsky. brill
liant Engand's
sharns prophecy Ensand approaching
omic political decline
THIRD PRZE"Russa Today" the official Of the British
trade union delegation social economic conditions
including special report
which responsible downfall Macdonald
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23

mlJteeS representing IN name the
interests of the workers, but in real
ity consisting Of company agents. The
workers are not permitted to nomin-
ate and elect their own delegates who
would truly represent the interests of
of the workers.
Workers. Demands ignored.
The Pullman management nomin-
ates the delegates who are elected"
for one year. The delegates do every
thing to prevent the workers from
striking and from demanding better
working conditions. The Pullman
workers rejected this fake "repres-
entation" system. They voted over
whelmingly against 1t at the time it
was first proposed by the Pullman adj
ministration. But the administration
paid no attention to the workers. The
exploiters used this system to keep
the workers from setting up their own
Organization and they have so far sue
| ceeded.
They are now using another means
for undermining the fighting spirit OF
the workers. The Pullman company
now offers to its workers for sale the
stocks of the company. The object is
to make the workers think that they
too Gown" the company and to make
them work harder in order to produce
higher dividends for the exploiters.
Not many of the stocks which some
foolish workers will buy will remain
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
Portland Chamber of
Commerce Won't Hear
Anna Louise Strong
BY J. STEVENSON,
worker Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 21.- Anna
Louise Strong addressed several well
attended meetings in Portland, rails
ing funds for the support of the John
Reed orphan colony in Russia. At a
meeting under the auspices of the
Portland labor college, she delivered
a very able and interesting lecture.
showing the difficulties that the Sow
let government had to contend with
and their success in coping with them.
Many questions were asked and an
swered.
She also addressed the Women's
Progressive Club. AS was to be ex.
pected, she was refused admission to
that sacred body, the Portland cham
Der of commerce, the reason for re
fusal being that Miss Strong was a
radical
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23

colored to the white workers.
A Negro worker is never called by
his real name. "Nigger" or "Snow-
dark" that is how they are usually
called. When a driver, who is better
aid because he is organized, tries to
Exchange few words with the laundry
workers., he is sure to have some
rouble sooner or later with the boss.
he boss is afraid to let the ';organ-
zed" drivers talk with the "unorgan-
zed" laundry workers, because they
may hear about the better conditions
organized workers have.
The workers in the boots" those
who do the hardest and most UNI
lealthy work, get as low as SIT to
SIS for a 6O-hour week. But if they
work the S5-hours week Ga very usual
thing in every laundryf they get
about S23 to SIS. a
on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day work begins at a. m. Other days
Il 1880 a. m. Lunch is at IL and back
to work at 1890, until all the work
DIOubuI III uuIlHb ludl udy 10 huioutui
isually at 8 p. m. and Mondays not
iarlier than 10 or II at night, without
bite since lunch time, because you
are not permitted to do so even while
you are working. II you do not obey,
you are fired.
There are a lot of old women and
young girls white and colored) who
work for SIS TO SIT a week without
being paid for overtime. They are
sent at $500 D. m. TO punch their leav
ing time and then they are sent back
to work Immediately. They do this
to get around the law.
No Food 11-hours at Stretch.
The old women working ~ and II
hours a. day are also not allowed q
rest, even not to eat, so they are with
out nourishment from ~ at noon un
III very often about IL at night.
There are few white collar slaves
like those who make out the laundr,
tickets. They used to get about $40
$50 week. But now they are beinl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
Butchers Union Starts
Membership Drive in
New York Meat Stores
ey . W0rker correspondent.

NEW YORK, Jan. PA campaign
to organize all unorganized tenders in
butcher stores and meat markets is
to start tomorrow. It is said that
there are 5000 of these workers in
this city who are unorganized and a
great deal Of effort will be made to
bring them into the Butchers Union.
The aim Of the union is to get modi-
fed working hours on Saturday and
on holidays. AT present these tend
ers work unlimited hours. In Staten
Island 1t is now violation OF the I'M
ion agreement for butchers TO work
after D. m. or for the bosses to com
pei the workers to labor after that
hour. The agreement runs on satur-
day nights only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
MOVIE EXTRAS
STAGE REVOLT
AGAINST HAYS
Demand Hiring Bosses
Get the Can
BY L. p. RlNDAL
worker correspondent)

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. 21.-
Movie Extras Revolt" says a big
headline in the Los Angeles papers.
One thousand or more male extras
are protesting against rotten condi-
tions in movieland to Will Hayes, the
papa of the Motion Picture Producers
Association"
Louis Lacas, SIG Temple street, and
A. w. Jacobs, 655 North State street,
are circulating a petition which will
be sent through Fred Beetson, per-
sonal representative of the little faith
err on the Pacific coast. The extras
want to be treated respectfully" and
they are also kicking about bad
deals" on one hand and "favoritism
a certain few" on the other.
They demand the discharge from
noviedom Of certain casting direc-
ors in the Central Casting Bureau,
the employment agency of the big
bosses in the picture industry. The
exploiting private employment bu-
reaus we're put out of business recent
ly, by the order Of higher ups, after
much criticism and numerous scan.
dals. But the new system seems to
be no better-if not worse-as the
same people are in charge. The boys
ire making a serious kick this time
Z is called rebellion" by the cap.
talist press.
Several months ago the women ex-
ras were raising hell"-good and
trong-with the employment sharks
as well as with the almighty. scab.
ierding bosses. Will Hays ordered
IN Investigation" by the industrial
commission Of the State of California
What will come out of it remains to
be SEEN
The collaboration speeches made
under the roof Of the chamber of
commerce did not sound the very best
the ears OF the writer, TO say moth.
ng about the flattery scheme OF the
losses OF calling the extras artists. "
)ne may die on account of false pride
out one can't live very long on a
diet" like that.
Neither VIII Hays nor said indus
rial commission will do anything
9orth mentioning for the extras. They
lust learn to take matters into their
wn hands. Brothers and sisters
cad The DAILY WORKER! Talk
hings over with members Of the
forkers Party Organize under the
ight kind Of leadership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
Deeds Do Not Match
Up with Words of
Western Electric Co.
BY a Worker correspondent.


A foreign-born worker in the wood
work finishing department of the
Western Electric company took the
company's profession of American
ISM" seriously and became a citizen
expecting thus to get a fair deal from
the bosses. At time when the reg
ular scale in his department was 60
cents an hour he was getting so cents.
The scale was later raised to 20 cents
but he was given only 60 cents. When
the rush was over and slack came,
this worker, altho an old hand, was
discharged, and a new man put in his
place. When he complained a new
job was given to him in another de-
partment but at Sc cents per hour
When the holiday season came he
was laid off. New men were left work
ing. This after the continuous pro
paganda by the company of the "value
of long service with us"
Again he complained to the social
led personal manager" who put him
back to work at the foundry, but al
only So cents per hour. altho it is
much harder work.
This is the way workers are treat
ed by this great industrial corporation
who is doing a lot OF talk on "Amer
icanism," value Of service" and othel
bunk for which some of the workers
are still falling.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
EACH Mine IN
POLAND HAS A
WORKERS PAPER
illustrated Newspaper
Is the Most Popular
(By a Worker correspondent

(By a Worker Consequently
POLAND, Jan. 21.- AS everybody
knows, Poland Is a country Of iIlite-
racy and police terror, and these con-
ditlons are certainly not favorable to
the development Of workers. newspa-
pers. Nevertheless, they are appear
Ing.
In Upper Silesia, in the Slionsk
mines at Chropaczowa, the miners
have published the first two numbers
of a newspaper Storm. In this news
paper, the workers correspondence
appears in the Polish and German Ian
guages, as the Upper Silesian work
ers pass thru the German schools and
read and write better in German than
in Polish.
Workers Write for Paper.
The paper contains workers let
tiers from various mines, and articles
describing the struggle of the Upper
Silesian proletariat in defence of the
eight-hour working day in Upper ST.
lesia. Besides this, song by one of
the comrades was published, which was
written i'll honor of the political pris-
oners. This song has acquired extra
ordinary popularity. 1t is already be-
ing sung by the revolutionary workers
turnout almost the whole of Silesia.
The nucleus in the Ferdinand mines
also in Upper Silesia, has published
a paper called The Sword
The paper in the Nikisz mines de-
scribes the abuses of the local factory
committee and conducts electional
agitation. The paper also contains an
article consecrated to the Communists
executed in Warsaw and Ivoff, who
were victims of the white terror now
reigning in Poland. The paper calls
upon the workers to protest, and to
give donations in aid of the political
prisoners.
The paper of the Buck mine in Up
per Silesia is extremely interesting
Crowd Around Wall Paper.
Having to deal with illiterate work
ers, this wall newspaper is composed
of drawings only. One of the mum
bers, which is stuck up thruout the
whole mine, is a geographical map Of
Poland covered by gallows. In the
background of the picture lies work
er who from one side is beaten by g
police bully and from the other side
by trade union bureaucrat. Beneath
the drawing is written: This is thC
fare Of the workers in democratic Pc
land" The workers crowd around
this paper all day long. and during
the night the police made a larg,
number of searches in order to tr!
and find the paper and its editors.
This kind of illustrated paper is al
ready, being initiated in other Uppe,
Silesian mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
The Men Ate Beans,
But Higher Officers
Divided the Graft
BY An Ex-SoIdier Correspondent
not a Member of the Workers
(Communist) Party.

kCommunlSt) Party.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21--I am an ex-
service man. To begin telling of what
saw at Camp Devers, Mass, would
fill pages of your valuable paper.
Did | save anything by being a
soldier on this side only? MOI The
moment | was drafted the firm / work
ed for put the men on piece-work and
they made nearly $50 week, while
on $50 a month this is what | had to
spend: $685. for a $4,000 insurance
policy, barber, tailor and also for food
in the Enlisted Mems Club, Camp
Devers, where meals were very high
All we got were beans and a piece of
pickle. On Sunday, the meal was a
bit different because our folks would
come visiting. aa
Whatever the mess sergeant saved
on food he shared with few lieuten-
ants, while the commissaries would
also be run forgprofit, and the higher
officers would divide up that graft.
At Camp Upton, Long Island, the
well-known Acker Neral & Cordit
company grocery store, catering 70
the wealthy class in New York, had
their branch. There was sign put
up by Major General James +. Bell
stating that an ex-service man would
suffer IL he'd touch anything from the
counters, $500 worth OF tickets bought
you almost nothing and every man
who had some money saved when he
was drafted spent It for food and to
bride the sergeant or lieutenant.
need an operation need an over.
coat, shoes, underwear, eyeglasses,
dental work and am given a piece Of
paper that the government may re-
deem in 1916 which is for two hun
dred and some odd dollars and the
value Of the federal insurance bonus
in January 1927 means that you can
only lend per cent OF its value from
your banker from the notice in the
American Legion once. New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
COMPL AIMS LEFT
WING NECLECTS
SHOP COMMITTEE
How About 1t, Needle
Trades Workers?
By S. FISHER
Local 1o,piA. C. w. of A.
(Workerd correspondent)

The left wing in the needle trades,
and the Trade Union Educational
League have always fought for the re-
organization of the present craft
unions on industrial lines and SHOP
committees"
l think shop committees are most
vital not only for the needle trades,
but for the entire labor movement as
well. Still this question has been ne
elected by the left wing in the needle
trades.
Says It is Neglected.
At the convention of the l. L. G.
w. U. nothing was heard about any
resolution being introduced to this
effect. In New York the left wing
are in control of the Furrier's Joint
Board, and nothing has been done to-
ward reorganization on the basis of
hop committees.
/ may be wrong but the fact re-
mains that if the needle workers are
TO become more militant we must re.
organize the unions where our com
rades are in control on the basis OF
shop committees, in order to prepare
the workers to take an active part in
the organizations, and also for leader
ship. This can only be done under
the system of shop committees.
Can cehtroI Officials.
1
If not every "demagogue" can run
on left slate, and afterwards when
he gets into Office he forgets who
elected him SYe cannot recall him
till the next election. Meanwhile the
machine becomes stronger, and the
left wing suffers by it.
This has been done in number o.
cases, in the Amalgamated in New
York, and recently by the Furriers
Union at their convention and in man!
other places.
Under the shop committee system
the joint board of many organization
meets, and canorecall these betrayer
Immediately. doT
| However, realize the comrades il
the New York Furriers' Union had
great task to carry the organization
thru the slump-that the kaufman
gang dragged it into. In this on
comrades were successful.
Seek Some Discussion.
In order that the left wing in tn
needle trades should become a rea
power, which 4 have no doubt the
gill become inHthe near future, the,
hust be the advance guard" of tn
abor movmeent like in many othe
occasions. They must be the first t
introduce the system of shop commit
ices. This will strengthen the lief
wing movement, and the T. U. e. L
as an organization.
| would beg comrades earnestly t
consider this question and to hav
some of their views.