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Nogales international., 1926-08-01
THEODORE GEBLER ILL

Theodore Gebler, 90 year old
Nogales pioneer, is in very
serious condition at his home on
Grand avenue. He is sinking
rapidly and little hope is held out
{ II his recovery.
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NEW HOME

The beautiful new home being
erected at West and Plum streets
bv S. C. Jung of the Nogales Ma
tional Bank is nearing completion.
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Ajo- $125,000 appropriation
asked, for construction of road
through Indian reservation, be-
veen Tucson and Ajo.
Nogales international., 1926-08-01

Dudley Ellis, of Cajeme, man
ager of the Yaqui fruit company,
has gone to Los Angeles to spend
few days vacation.
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Tll tlaeHk !. fEsreyl1lh
the WANT ADS

FOR SALE Gray reed baby
sulky, almost new. A bargain.
1O8 Potrero st. e. 1t)
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Mrs. Manuela Barteda de AS
tiazaran Of Navajoa is spending g
week visiting her parents on In
ternational street.
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Furnished roen1s for rsat.
SIC Noon st. (6-19 IT,
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Mrs. E. H. Crabb, Mr.. and Mrs.
Haskett, all of Phoenix, and
Charles Burton of Ask Fork, were
here for the conference. Mrs.
.Crabb is secretary of the Ari-
zona Cattlegrowers Association,
and Burton is vice-president of
the Arizona Woolgrowers Asso-
citation.
Nogales international., 1926-08-01

Mrs. Maria o. Retes Perio, own
er of Hacienda de Pericos, Sina-
loa, passed through the city Tues
day enroute on a vacation trip to
California. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Telleche and Miss Mar
tinez Of Culiacan.
Nogales international., 1926-08-01

L. M. Cummings, mining engi-
neer Of Ell Paso, passed through
last week enroute home from a
two weeks trip to La Dura and
Santa Rosalia Lower California.
He is employed by the Ingersoll-
Rand mining company of Ell Paso.
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race for international president. Were
this the facts Brophy would retain the
position he has and keep quiet, the
position of president of his district,
which he has held these past twelve
or fourteen years.
Pans Lewis.
Lewis says he cannot organize the
nonunion fields, the fields which are
daily strangling our organization. II
the administration is not big enough
for the job then let them get to hell
out and give Brophy chance who can
and will do it.
Lewis says the injunctions are tie
ing his hands in the nonunion fields.
To hell with the injunctions! We de-
fed it in Kansas. Let them just try
to put all the miners in jail; they just
won't do it for the miners have too
many parasites on their shoulders to
support and were they all in jail the
loudest shouters for their release
would be the parasites whom the min
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Statement by the Central Executive Committee OF
the Workers Communist Party

was given under heavy pressure OF
the left wing. An assessment of $1.00
per member was voted by the shop
chairman of the Amalgamated but no
money has been turned over from this
assessment. The left wing furriers'
New York joint board, one-tenth as
large, contributed 100000.
In addition to this lack of support,
Beckerman, head of the New York
Amalgamated, without opposition from
Sigman, fought the strike in a manner
without precedent in the history of the
American labor movement. He de-
nounced it on all occasions, openly CIV
ing comfort and aid to the bosses. He
prohibited the collection Of strike
funds and even went 80 far as to drive
workers out of the industry merely
for collecting money in the shops to
assist the striking cloakmakers. His
treacherous conduct even went further
by restoring to producing scab cloaks
in the shops of the Amalgamated in
Newark and other centers. A scabbing
policy which, by the admission of their
own agents, was the official policy Of
Mr.. Beckerman. Against these shame
full tactics which have enraged every
honest needle worker, Hillman and
Schlossberg have said not one word.
These erstwhile socialists lent their
active support to fascist Beckerman
(who is their man by special appoint
ment) in his open war against the
cloakmakers' strike.
Led BY Daily Forward.
A Ill these destructive activities of
"A the right wing leadership Of the
I. l.. G. w. U. and A. C. w. were led
and supported by the arch misleader
OF the needle workers, the Daily For
ward On the eve OF the strike, the For
ward attacked the joint board daily.
It spread defeatism all thru the strike,
And now, with the union fighting the
jobbers, it has launched a vicious and
reckless attack on the whole strike.
Confronted with these vile and
shameful strikebreaking activities OF
Beckerman 4 Co., Sigman, the right
wing leader of the l. L. G. W. u, had
not word to say. This policy of
Beckerman and Hillman, we're part OF
the one general policy thruout the
whole needle trades Of defeating the
cloakmakers' strike.
The Left Wing and the Strike.
TN the face OF this right wing be-
trayal, which Slapped the vitality and
strength of the strike. the position of
Hyman was one OF weakness and vacil-
lation. Nor is the left wing exempt
from criticism in the matter. There
was necessary much more militant
exposure of the right wing sabotage
OF the strike and greater pressure be-
hind the demand for the smalgama-
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Why the Boss Wants Piece Work

other workers for a livelihood and
makes organization difficult.
The fast workers arouse jealousy.
Petty rivalries result in many kinds
Of classification such as fast workers,
medium workers, slow workers and
apprentices. Certainly under these
circumstances, organization seems al
most impossible Aside from this, to
aggravate the situation, there is gen.
eral distrust created even within the
groups, and while the workers will
often confde their intimate lives, they
will never tell one another what they
have earned. In fact they consider
this an extremely personal question.
Piece-work causes the loss of health
and vitality. At the age of fourty-tive
the industrial worker is old. He finds
himself replaced by younger men. On
his application for new job, he is
told very plainly, that he hasn't the
pep" of youth, that young men work
much faster and better than he. Piece
work has sapped all the energy out
Of him, it has dimmed his eyesight.
bent his back, dUlled his mind.
1t would be well for young workers
before they ruin their health to stop,
look and listen" The old, discarded
workers wandering around looking for
job, have story to tell The wiser
and more practical method of obtain
ing more wages is by organizing into
unions
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ton Of the needle trades unions. The
effects of this right wing sabotage
were to seriously weaken the cloak
makers strike and prevent them from
winning greater concessions from the
bosses. In strikes it is basically neces-
Esary to maintain the unity and solidari-
ty of the workers. and prime essen
tial to this is a prompt exposure and
vigorous combating such practices as
those Of Sigman. Dubinsky and Becker
man which tend to weaken or betray
the strike
THE settlement still leaves some
4 10000 workers on strike. Their at
tack is levelled against the main evil
of the industry-the jobbers. 1t is a
fundamental necessity that this strike
be supported-morally, financially and
every other way. The strike against
the jobbers must be won. Until these
sharks, who are the real employers in
the industry, are checked up and made
to be responsible for conditions pre-
vailing in the needle industry, no real
progress can be made in improving
conditions. In the cloakmakers' strike
so far the Workers (Communist) Par
ty and the left wing in general has ex-
tended its heartiest support in every
possible way. This will be continued
and intensified in the struggle against
the jobbers.
The Lessons Of the Strike.
THREE great lessons, among others,
4 stand out with crystal elearness as
result of this strike, and the cloak
makers will do we'll to learn them. The
first is that the class Of leaders typi-
fed by Sigman, his followers, and
other right wing leaders are not quail
fed to lead the cloakmakers. These
leaders have become saturated with
corruption and a general spirit Of reac-
ton. They have become practically
indistingulshable from the ultra-reac-
tionary Gompers type Of trade union
officials. Such officials can only lead
the cloakmakers to defeat. II must and
will give way TO more honest, more
militant and more class conscious lead.
ership The needle workers are fast
awakening to this fact, and the cloak
makers strike will hasten this
process.
The second great lesson to be learn
ed from the strike is the necessity for
the workers to theoretically support
the movement for the formation OF a
mass political party OF their own--a
labor party. During the strike the
union has been, attacked aggressively
on all sides by the state power, the
attack being led chiefly by Governor
Smith, who has the backing OF the Of.
fetal labor bureaucrats. including the
so-called socialist" leaders of the
needle trades unions. For the union
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to continue to support politically these
agents of the employers land all on
the two old party tickets as such)
demOralizes the workers and sacrifices
their interests. The needle unions
should free themselves from such
policy and from all leaders who ad-
vocate it. The needle workers should
raise the slogan of the labor party and
lead the fight aggressively for it thru
out the entire labor movement.
AmaIgamstion.
THE third great lesson made clear
l. by the cloakmakers' strike is the
imperative necessity to amalgamate
the several needle trades craft unions
into one powerful industrial organiza-
ton to cover the entire clothing indus
try. Further progress of the needle
workers as a whole depends upon the
carrying thru of this vital strengthen
ing of the organization off the clothing
workers. A host of problems are con-
fronting the entire body of the needle
workers. The employers, rejecting
the prosperity Of the capitalist class
generally under American Imperialism,
are constantly growing richer, more
powerful and better organized. The
jobber is spreading like cancer thru
out the industry. The scattering Of
the industry into outlying small towns
makes impossible for the separate
unions and more difficult the basic
task of organizing the unorganized and
it weakens the position Of the organ
lied workers in the big markets. The
courts, the press, the police, all
branches OF the government are be-
coming increasingly hostile.
TN this situation the interests of all
L needle workers thruout the country
are as one. Every section of the IN
dustry is menaced by the new and
growing problems. Fighting alone, the
individual unions cannot cope with
them. II Is the common task OF a
united body of the needle workers
There must be one union Of all needle
workers led by real fighters. This will
enable the workers to forge ahead to
victory For years the left wing has
fought for amalgamation. The great
rank and file favors II and wants It.
Only the right wing, fearful of losing
its position OF control in the unions,
has blocked the amalgamation by the
suppression OF the will OF the mem
bership. But this resistance will soon
be broken. The cloakmakers' strike
will make the movement for anal
gamation irresistible. The question
Of one powerful union In the needle IN
dustry stands before the workers.
General Executive Committee,
Workers (communlst) Party.
c. {. Ruthenbero,
General seeretary.
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BY lillian eREENswEIe.

TINE piece-work system demands Of
l. the industrial worker maximum
energy, speed and concentration. Is it
any wonder, then, that the bosses
prefer it to week-work and that they
persist in their efforts to get rid Of
the week-work system?
In a desire and need to get more
pay, the individual worker puts forth
his best efforts towards speeding up.
Efficiency, therefore, is secured almost
automatically. So much so, in fact,
that the bosses find that they can
easily do away with the high-salaried
efficiency experts" and supervisors,
and replace them with mere foremen.
Il myself worked in factory of con-
siderable size where the only over
seers were the two partners of the
business.
!. There are some workers, tho, that
prefer piece-work to week-work.
Needless to say, these are for the
most part very fast workers, who are
often the bosses favorites and get the
choicest kind of work allotted to them.
There are others who realize the
futility Of this system, since piece
work wears them out, so that the
extra money earned is consumed in
frequent rests from the strain, either
Immediately or in the future. They
also realize that it is an unfair system
since 1t spoils the chances of the
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and before the strike had greatly
weakened the position of the union in
the industry.
The long unemployment before the
strike was a handicap. The existence
of the governors commission and its
award, which had practically the eff
feet of an arbitration decision, laid
great obstacles in the way of the
strike, especially as the bosses knew
and counted on the fact that the right
wing leaders, Sigman, ct al, favored
the acceptance Of the commissions
award and were fighting for it in the
union.
In addition to the opposition of the
employers and their thugs, the union
was subjected to unusually vicious
attacks from the New York police who
arrested the cloakmakers wholesale,
from the courts which imposed heavy
fines and sentences, and put over the
most sweeping injunction in recent Ia
Dor history, as we'll as the attacks
from the press and from the govern
or of New York State, AL Smith, the
so-called friend of labor" who showed
himself bitter enemy of the workers.
The Right Wing and the Strike.
OF these obstacles undoubtedly the
~ worst was the sabotaging Of the
strike by Sigman, Dubinsky, Ninfo and
the other right wing leaders who are
strategically situated as leading OFF,
Gals in the l. L. G. w. U. All thru
the struggle, there has existed prac-
teal united front between these re-
dictionary leaders and the bosses
against the strike from the start. They
accepted the governors commission
award, which conceded the employ
ers the vital right Of reorganization,
and their whole policy has been to
force the union to accept the essen
tails of that award. The bosses we're
we'll away Of this and all thru the
strike they based their policy on CO.
operation with Sigman, ct al, to put
across the harmful governors COM
missions award. To this end they not
only constantly spread pessimism and
defeatism among the strikers, but also
actively sabotaged the strike in many
definite instances. In Philadelphia,
where the joint board is controlled by
the right wing, open scabbing has
gone on for months. When workers
protested against it, they we're heav-
lily fined and otherwise disciplined.
Everywhere the sigman group sab
otaged the collection OF funds Their
policy was to make great cutlery in
their press about how much they were
collecting, and then In reality TO do
nothing or even to actually prevent
the let's from raising money. sigman
refused to induce the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers ofroisis to support
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
new PACT is A
: STEP'FORWA ARD
BY CHI. LABOR
But Scab Clauses Must
Be Eliminated
BY ARNE swABEck.

One more step toward closed shop
working conditions has been record
ed by the proposed new agreement ac-
cepted unanimously by the Chicago
Building Trades Council However,
many of the obnoxious and notorious
ly scab clauses of the old Lands
Award still remain in force in this
new agreement.
The proposed agreement will, If
finally accepted by both sides, remain
in force up until January 1, 1929, but
it will not cover wages or specific
working. conditions of the various
trades, which are to be negotiated
separately.
Paragraph IA Killed.
The famous paragraph IA of the
Lands Award, which prohibits
strikes or stoppage of work individ-
ually or collectively on any building
fixing penalty for such stoppage,
has been eliminated In substitution
thereof clause is being proposed
which upholds the right to sympathe-
tic strike by laying down the prin-
ciple that union men are not required
to work with non-union men Of any
trade, nor for bosses in Cook county
employing non-union men of any 9th
er trade.
One Step Forward.
While this is one step toward the
closed shop, it will become real only
when followed upa theoretically tC
eliminate whatever remains of the
old Lands Award; for instance, the
provision which permits the use sot
non-union made material and which
seriously initiates against organizing
the inside shops or the building ma
| terial factories. The clause of so
called mo limitation of the amount
of work man shall perform during
his working day." which in othel
words means to permit to give th'
speed-up system full sway, SHOULD
also be eliminated.
The next step in the same direc
/ ton is to establish complete job con
troll with functioning stewards, with
hiring and firing not to remain at tht
will of the employer The building
trades workers should compel thc
leaders to step in that direction.
Bosses Not Unanimous.
While the reports are that thii
agreement win be likewise accepted
by the Chicago Building Trades EN-
ployers' Association, it is also saiC
that about 100 Lands Award con
tractors viii refuse to sign and will
form an organization OF their owl
and continue to hire non-union labor
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THE !. L. G. w. u. STRIKE

the strike. Not a word Of criticism
did he make Of the strikebreaking
policy followed by the leaders Of that
organization. When Governor Smith
tried to force the union into arbitra-
ton, he knew very well that he had
Sigman's support. When the left wing
general strike committee, correctly
analyzing the necessity for mobilizing
the full power of all needle workers
against the employers in the crucial
fight against reorganization and the
jobber evil, called upon Sigman to
move for general conference OF all
needle unions when definite steps
could be taken to amalgamate the or
CARNATIONS and unite them all In joint
fight against the commission, Sigman
opposed the proposition. His policy
was to leave the oloakmakers isolated,
for which no doubt the bosses were
duly grateful to him. Innumerable in
stances Of the sabotage Of these right
wing leaders of the international can
be given in the conduct, open and Sc
cret, of these right wing leaders head
ed by Sigman, Dubinsky and Ninfo,
in their work in New York and out Of
town.
The Amalgamsted and the Strike.
MO less active against the cloak
IN makers strike were the leaders Of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
Once this was the most progressive
union in the needle trades; now it is
the most reactionary; its leaders open
ly and shamelessly betrayed the cloak
makers strike at every stage OF the
struggle. Just before the strike be-
gan, the New York Joint Board Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, under
the leadership of the fascist, Berker-
man, signed up the disastrous agree
ment with the bosses which complete
ly compromised the demands Of the
cloakmakers. The Amalgamated
Clothing Workers never even demand
ed the 4O-hour week and established
no general minimum scale OF wages.
much less made fight for them. They
furthermore prepared the way for the
introduction OF piece work. There
after their position was TO kin the
cloakmakers' strike from the double
motive OF hatred for its left wing
Leadership, and the determination to
Justify their own treacherous settle
ment. In these endeavors Beckerman
& Co. knew no limit.
WITH the cloakmakers In dire need
w of financial assistance. the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers leaders
gave them only s2750O or about 25
cents per member. This small con.
tribution relative, to the strength of
the Amalgamated clearly showed its
attitude toward the battling cloak
makers. Even this small contribution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
HOWAT HOLDS
HUGE RALLIES
in ANTHRACITE
Throngs of Coaldiggers
Cheer Kansan
Especial to The Daily Worker)

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 2S.-Alex-
ander Howat, idol of the American
coal miners, has dropped his pick in
the Kansas mines and is touring the
nation campaigning for the Brophy-
Stephenson Brennan Save the Union
slate in the forthcoming elections in
the United Mine Workers of America.
Wherever he goes large and spirited
meetings are waiting for him.
Howat opened the anthracite tour
with meeting in the large High
School Auditorium in Olyphant, spoke
the next evening in Luzerne and on
Sunday was the principal speaker at
three large mass meetings in Scran-
ton. Old Forde and in the evening in
Pittsto. He has gone on to other
meetings in Shamokin, Shenandoah
and Hazelton. and then returns to Dis
trict / to speak to the miners Of
Wilkes-Barre from whence he will be
rushed by auto to Nanticoke for an
other big meeting.
Much Enthusiasm.
At all Howat meetings in the an
tracite not a single Lewis defender
raised his voice altho ample oppor-
tunity was given at all meetings. All
the enthusiasm was for the Save the
Union Program.
Alex Campbell, former member OF
the International Executive Board Of
District 1 and at present president Of
the large local 1903 of Pittston, pre-
sided at the Pittston meeting Sunday
evening. Speeches were made in Po-
lish, Italian and Lithuanian, and by
Pat Toohey and Howat.
Cheer Howat.
AS Howat entered the Armory doors
the $500 assembled miners Of Pitts
ton, hitherto considered a Cappellini
stronghold, gave cheer after cheer.
They cheered him again and again as
NE said:
John Brophy has program that
will save our union, the only program.
Ee does not stand for these things
merely during the course of this cam
paign for he has stool for these things
sall these many years He will lead
n movement to organize West Virginia
end the other nationwide nonunion
melds.
He will work for naturalization Of
Ehe mines and for a Labor Party. l
have known Brophy for years and
Eouch for the fact that he is absolute
ay an honest man. The charge is made
by administration forces that Brophy
wants a job; that is why he is in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-25
JEWISH CANTORS
ORGANIZE UNION,
JOIN The C. F. OF |.
VIII Send Delegates to
Federation

Besides the announcement that the
municipal doctors had formed union
Organization and were affiliated with
the Chicago Federation Of Labor, the
announcement that the Jewish can
tors had also organized" was made
at Sundays meeting of the C. F. of L.
Get A. F. of L. Charter.
President Fitzpatrick told the dele
gates that Cantors Union, No. /, of
which Theodore Greenburg is presi-
dent, would be represented at the
next meeting of the federation, having
been granted a charter by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. Sixty can
tors Of sixty synagogues in Chicago
are members.
The reason given for the organize
ton of the religious leaders is that
too many persons unqualified to be
cantors have been taking those post
tions. The singers organized to pre-
vent this.
Binders Get Increase.
/ An announcement that was greeted
with much applause was made by the
Bindery Women's union that they had
obtained an increase in wages of 81 a
week, and signed three-year agree
ment with the employers.
Discuss Labor Temple Dream.
Discussion of the possibility of erect
| ing a labor temple in Chicago was
held at the meeting The plan was
advanced to the delegates that a 2
story building, occupying an entire
block in the loop, be erected. Few
of the delegates received this idea SER
iously, but many expressed the opin-
ion that some kind of a labor temple
should be erected here.
J Announces Protest Meeting.
Anton Johannsen, vice-president Of
the federation, urged the delegates to
work for a large attendance at the
Sacco-Vanzetti protest meeting Friday
night at Ashland auditorium.
"Sacco and Vanzetti stand today in
a critical position" he said. Unless
the trade union movement comes to
their aid, these two men will be sac
rifced." He recounted the evidence
that demonstrated the frame-up
against the two radicals