The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKE January 16, 1924 WALSH CALLS FOR} AID TO STARVING GERMAN LABOR He Will Speak at Big N. Y. Mass Meeting (Special to “The Daily Worker”) SW YORK CITY.—Frank P. Walsh, noted liberal attorney for the organized workers, whose serv- iees in the packing house and rail- road strikes, and whose famous ex- pose of the brutal exploitation by the Standard Oil Company and more recently his services on behalf of the Communists in the Michigan cases, have made him well known as .a friend of labor, has now ap- pealed for aid to the workers of Germany. Mr. Walsh’s statement made to the Friends of Soviet Russia reads: “The workers of Germany, with their wives and helpless children, have been slowly dying of starvation since the close of the war, with all the horrors that such death agonies im- ply. With cruel indifference world has looked on. Subconsciously, perhaps, our own country, always generous to suffering humanity, may have visioned them as an enemy people, No one could be so base today as to have such a conscious, deliberate thought. “With millons of honest working people, peace loving and industrious, upon the brink of death in Ger- many, it is my hope that the work- ers of America, roused to action, will pour their aid-into Germany So promptly, and in such generous fashion, as to surpass every previous outburst of generosity.” Signed: Frank P. Walsh. The mass meeting at Cooper Union, Sunday afternoon, Jan, 20th, is the opening event’ in the cam- paign being conducted by the Friends of Soviet Russia (American Committee, International Workers Aid). A conference of all workers’ organizations to plan wide-spread re- lief, will be held Sunday afternoon, Jan. 27th, at the Labor. Temple, 243 E. 84th St. All workers should see that their organizations are rep- resented at this conference, and that they give this matter their energetic support. Capitalists Come To United States As Europe Totters er Babson, the prophet of the enslave Foreign Born Workers to aid Attack on threatened with deportation, the as means of arousing the workers. The Councils for Protection of the Foreign Born are to carry on cam- paigns for organization of all work- ers in unions and for a Farmer-Labor Party as part of the struggles against the employers. The statement follows: FIGHT THE REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN BORN WORKERS Laws before Congress propose to employers in fighting unions and re- ducing wages. The employers of this coontry are trying to forge a new weapon to aid them in destroying the unions, estab- lishing the open shop and cutting down the standard of living of the workers. There are pending in Congress, two laws which propose, through “‘selec- tive immigration” and registration of foreign born workers, to create for the capitalist employers an army of serfs who cannot organize or strike. These laws are backed by the big em- ployers of this country...Through them the employers hope to smash the unions and reduce the standard of living of native and foreign born workers alike. The Registration of Foreign Born Workers President Coolidge, in his-message to Congress, recommended that every foreign born worker in this country be registered. Others have proposed photographing and finger printing of foreign born workers, like criminals, as part of the registration. , House Bill No. 691, by Representative Ros- enbloom, now pending in Congress, is designed to carry out. the President’s recommendation. “Selective Immigration” House Bills No. 2900, by Repre- sentative Kelly, also pending in Con- gress, goes further in endeavoring to provide the employers with a slave army of workers. Under this law workers desiring to come to this coun- Ameri¢an busine: in his weekly : Sts Ak NN: el Btw 8 TUTETUET wo uid CTS WS Ga ae ae of gold from Europe to America in the effort of the capitalists to protect their wealth from the dangers that threaten them, Russia and Germany have already collapsed he declares, and the Freneh franc is now selling below five certs on the New York market. The capitalist being a good inter- nationalist who loves all countries equally provided he can invest his money profitably in them, turns to America where the prospect of a -revolution appears to be away be- yond the horizon. The European capitalists are busily engaged in transferring their hold- ings to America in one form or another. This is capitalist patriot- ism. Their love of native land dis- appears as soon as that land shows inability to provide them with luxury and ease. Danes Organize for Russ Trade MOSCOW.—A mixed Russo.Danish joint-stock company, under the name of “Nordisk editaktieselsk,” has been organized, with a capital of five million Danish crowns, for financing imports into and exports from Soviet Russia. Mr. Ashberg, Chairman of the Russian Bank of Commerce, Mr. Levin, representative of the Russian State Bank, and three Danish repre- sentatives are on the board of direc- tors of the new combine. Engineer Lange, counseller of the Danish Trade Delegation to Russia, arrived in Petrograd to get acquaint- ed with the conditions of co-operation between the Danish and the Petro. grad industries. It is proposed to import machines and also semi-manu- factured articles from Denmark to grad, where the latter will be completed and then sold on the Rus- sian market, Band in Yorkville, N. Y. An international Band which will play for the workers is being organ- ized in New York City by the York- ville, New York, Hungarian Branch of the Workers Party, At present it 30 members and plays at all the affairs of the Hungarian Branch, Ambitious musicians of every nationality are invited to spetes The band practices every Sunday, 10 A. M., at the Hungarian Workers Home, a 8ist St. Bring your instru- men _ MRS. R. BROOKER Office Hours: 9-12 M. THE PARTY AT WORK Workers Party Fights Bosses’ The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party today issued a statement calling upon all workers, country to unite to fight legislation for registration of foreign-born workers and “Selective Immigration,” These proposed laws, the Workers Party declares, are part of a new attack on the labor movement of this country. Thru creating an army of foreign-born workers who will be afraid to organize or strike, employers hope to smash the unions, | establish the open shop and cut down the wages of the workers of this the Foreign-Born native and foreign-born, in this because country. : and the ji life and rush of the city The statement calls upon native born and foreign-born workers to unite! is depicted. The second movement to ergan Jouncils for Protection of Foresign-Born Workers to fight the js ms‘ancholic, brooding, breaking proposed Mass meetings, litera- | —~— —-—_——-——-———* | out into fierce and futile cries against ture distri yn are proposed| in Congress will not dare pass these | srayery and hunger. In the third slave laws, Organize Councils for Protection of | Foreign Born Workers | The way to unite the workers for | through the organization of Councils the fight against these slave laws is | for the Protection of Foreign Born | Workers in every city of the land. Native born and foreign born worker: should unite in these. councils. temporary committee should be cre. ated in each city to organize a con- ference” through which the Council | for Protection of the Foreign Born} can be set up. Every trade union, every labor | political body, every fraternal organi- of foreign born workers should send | delegates to these conferences. How to Fight the Slave Laws The Councils for Protection of| Foreign Born Workers must through | mass meetings and distribution of literature arouse all the workers of | this country to the danger which is menacing them in these proposed | slave laws. | The slogan of the Coujicil for Pro- tection of the Foreign Born Workers must be: DOWN WITH THE REG- ISTRATION, PHOTOGRAPHING AND FINGER-PRINTING LAWS. | The Council for Protection of the | Foreign Born should demand FREE IMMIGRATION, so far as capitalist laws are concerned. The only limita- tion upon immigration should be through a LABOR CONTROL COM- MITTEE which should be created by an International Conference of Labor Organizations, This committee should be empowered to control the flow of labor from one country to another in the interest of labor and not in the interest of the capitalists. _ Tke Councils for Protection of For- eign Born Workers should endeavor to rouse the unorganized work- ers to the need of joining the unions in order to fight against the capitalist bosses. Théy should carry on cam- paigns in favor of the Farmer-Labor Party, through which the workers, na- tive and foreign, can fight their politi- try are to be inspected by agents of the government in their home coun- fused entry into this country. be allowed-to enter. “ |tries betore being allowed to come. This means that every worker who shows the slightest sign of readiness to fight against the employers for the right to organize in unions, for better wages and shorter hours, will be re- Only the meek and submissive slaves will To make sure that these meek and submissive slaves will remain so, they cal NO HOPES FOR POOR zation of labor and every organization |, bosses. " ———SPECIALIST. FOR REMOVING SUPERFLUOUS HAIR PAINLESSLY AND PERMANENTLY BY THE ELECTRIC NEEDLE Moles Removed in One Treatment are to be registered and > threatened with deportation should they show the slightest sign of rebellion. Menace to Native Born and Foreign Born Alike The proposed laws are a menace to native and foreign born workers alike, The carefully selected, reg- istered, photographed, finger printed foreign born workers are to be the IN WILLIAMS SYMPHONY AT ORCHESTRA HALL By ALFRED ¥ FRANKENSTEIN. Music shot full of the blind, stumbling hatred of the starving was to be heard at the concerts of the Chicage Symphony orchestra, last Friday and Saturday. The principal composition was “A London Sym- , by R. ‘Vaughan Williams, Inglish composer. The symphony opens with a slow, mystit, deep prelude descriptive of : s. Then the scene changes, movement is the Saturday night jol-| lification in the slums of London, It is a sordid sort of merriment, with suffering in it, and revolt, and deep burned animal hatred. The last movement is the sul’en inexorable Hunger March of the starving. Vaughan Williams holds out no remise of victory for them in his nusic, only grotesque and gaunt lespair. The Thames, the deep flow- ng, century old river is brought back. absorbing the hungers and sviferings of men thru its ages of solemn wait thru time. Another British composer, Gran- ville Bantock, was represented on the program. with his comedy over- ture, “The Pierrot of the Minute”, This is a light, fantastical work. picturing in sound the momentary erotic dream of figures of air. The soloist was the American pian- ist. Arthur Shattuck, a tall, thin man, with ‘long, carefully marcelled hair, after the style of Percy Grainger, He played the Saint-Saens nfth con- certo, Now it is proverbial among com- posers that a concerto, being a tech- nical work, shall not contain much music, but shall contain ntuch show eff of technical brilliance. So it is that most concertos are exceedingly boresome to all who hear them with ule possible exception of che type of musician who concerns hiinscif with the technique of music, rather than the end results of the art in the human soul. Camille Saint-Saens was some- times great enough, in writing a con- certo, to forget this rule and write some real music here and there. This he did in the second movement of his fifth piano concerto. The move- ment is a.mysterious, shadowy, noc- turnal sort of thing, and in it is in- corporated the sheer beauty of an Egyptian folksong. Brilliance and sprightly cleverness, with a certain sentimental quality, characterises Dvorak’s “Scherzo Ca- priccioso,” which closed the program. Puncture Fictions | Circulated About ‘Dying Petrograd’ Note: In view of the frequent long range observations by apolo- gists of counter-revolution. (and other ill-wishers of Soviet Russia) that Petrograd is dying, the fol- lowing report on an important in- dustry on the Neva is of signiti- eance. It indicates a picture of re- vival rather than rotten timbers; indeed if we are to believe the last paragraph, a dyeing rather than a dying Petrograd.) BY JESSICA SMITH. MOSCOW.—This week I had a talk with Comrade Bricker, “Red Director” of the Petrograd Clothing Trust, one of the five major trusts embraced in the All-Russian Cloth- ing Syndicate, I caught him or a business trip to Moscow. where he had come to talk cver with Bogra- chov, head of the Syndicate, the al- lotment of some of the substantial orders for apparel that are now coming to the Syndicate from ev- ery corner of the Soviet Repub! The Petrograd Trust, Bricker tells me, sells 80% of its goods through the Syndicate and thus, relieved of the bulk of its trading opera- tions, it is able to concentrate its attention on production problems. The Trust, at present, comprises five factories employing 3,500 work- ers. Formerly there were 13 facto- ries, most of them military, but with the reduction in military work and the general policy of economic con- centration on the most efficient fac- tories, the Trust has been working three large factories and two smal- ler ones. Most of the work up till last spring was military, but now fully 80% of the output of the Petrograd clothing shops is for civil and_ industrial use. “Our main problem at the present time,” said Bricker, “is to create an effective credit system which will enable the industrial workers of Russia to obtain the clothing they need. The Petrograd clothing in- dustry was the first to introduce the system of extending credit to the workers, and I have been specializ- ing on the development of that. end of the work. At present we are making contracts with the manage- ment of many industrial enterprises to clothe all the workers in a given establishment. The | management guarantees the payment for the bulk lot and we allow the workers six months’ credit, In some cases, they pay 25 per cent down and the remainder in installments over the six months period. More often we simply divide the sum into twelve Next week Cecilia Hansen, the vio- club through which the big employers hope to beat down the standard of living of all the workers of this coun- try. If the big employers are permitted to create an army of workers, such as these laws will bring into existence, they will have the weapon through which they can smash the unions, establish the onen-shop, beat down wages and cre. e worse conditions of work for every worker in this coun- try. The registered, finger printed, photographed foreign-born workers will be afraid to join the unions, the employers believe. They are certain these workers will be afraid to par- ticipate in strikes. Over their heads, if they dare organize, if they dare strike, the. big employers will hold the club of deportation. Even the American Federation of Labor has recognized the menace of these laws to organized labor. The Portland Convention adopted resolu- tions denouncing them as measures in the interest of the*bosses. Fight Registration and “Selective Immigration” But resolutions are not enough for the fight against these laws, The only way Congress can be prevented from enacting these. laws for the bosses is through a mighty mass pro- test by native born and foreign born workers alike. The whole working class of this country must raise its voice against this attempt to enslave it. The workers must sent such a mighty protest to Washington, that even the tools of the bosses who sit The 2708 Crystal St., 46 Block North of Division St. ARMitage 9217 » 2-7 P. M., Sunday Till 3 P, M. FOR PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK, DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Years Near 7th Avenue yl Center A ie » Arthur Street members, ral sia and parts, and require bi-monthly pay- i Birthday Greetings to The Daily Worker” DULUTH, MINN. Kaarlo Mustajarvi John Wentzel Elli ja Carl Toivone E. P. Junttila be FINNISH BRANCH, PITTSBURGH, PA. Ida and Jalmar Siljander Lydia and Emil Niskanen Kalle Kallio Matt. Kivioja s Alex Ranta Giva Gronlund : Kustaa Salo | Charles Nyber: Laura Koivisto | Carl Mikkola’ Martha Koivisto John Maki Eddith Maki Jack Latuala Alina and Alex Kangas Einar Andelin Elma and T. Maki John Warell Mary and T. Tuomela W. M. Tynismaa Margaret and A. Nenonen Kalle Wirta Alma Laitinen Matti Jutila Carl Kari Kusti Nurmi Antti Salo Herman Nurmi WILKES BARK, 1 A, eee ee J. Senkus Esther, Mrs. and Mr. Niemi Paul Ralszis Victor Nyman A. G. Degiatis Martin Olson Comrade Mrs. J. Salmi Mrs. M. Ulinski John Koivisto Comrade Asarias Ramunen M. Swingle A. H. Pelto George Grigatis Mrs. J. Hanninen Gral Granon Mrs. and Mr. Mattson A. Stikliunas Lauri Kulonen J. Stankevich Andrew Oksa Mr. and Mrs. Miller Tyyne Rajala Mr. and Mrs. Lutaskas Henry Hill Greeting Out of Germany (We print below the translation of a letter of greeting to The Daily Worker by August Thalheimer, the intellectual leader of the German Com- munist Party. We will print his article which is mentioned in the letter in a later: issue of our paper. In the midst of the terrific strain of trying revolutionary activity this Communist leader does not forget us and our Daily Worker”.) To the Editors of the “Daily Worker”. , Dear Comrades: We are glad at your sutcess which enables you to issue the “Daily Worker”. We wish that success for your work which will make the American Party one of the biggest and best sections of the Com- munist International. The tempo of the German revolution has slackened somewhat. How- ever, the exaggerated overestimation of the moment for the seizure of power has not given place to any hopelessness. We are making extra- py yet Ag otc se Hs reckoning of the German working class wi eir Garys, Fords an organs will not ki iti this reckoning will be a thoro pie. oe eee, ae Enclosed you will please find an article for your be ituati in ane, ae the Somunnist bats of Gettnany' ee ill you please send us regularly several copies of your if. With Communist Greeting, is ie AUGUST THALHEIMER. Berlin, Germany, Dec. 13, 1923. . italist | liniste, will make her second -| ments. This arrangement applies, battles against the capitalist) soe. with the hahestte this pve 3 of course, only to civil clothing. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. | John Paasio - | plavine “Saint Spore? “thied vinlin! Smacial industrial clothing is paid ew. Nes aL, ‘The Workers Party Calls Upon AU | S500, id Gita Sees) gies tema oa _— vat . . ; . ra plays al for by the indus itself, ang wnere ©. s.adisn Yew padrent bebaiag ft reg, pea det po ae Enesco, and al necessary, we bo allow the in- Seminoff Henry Laine ‘Tie Woskeve Paste ok Anasice ry er and Dvorak. dustry credit on such orders.’ S. Shulemovitz Otto Kaivee 1 tiv a3 : re id The average basic wage in Petro- R. Rosenstei Everd Tuomaiz Corie jh ae ee the sttugile Publicity for Stee sud) Vansetti. | red. 18 now: 26. tevarne ii (eonds) L. Ps ar Onni Hytonen against these slave laws. It pledges|_ BOSTON.—A new service in be- eee a he sa bart M. Rosenstein Hugo Wilkman the support of its members and of its | half of Nicola _Sacco and Bartolo- priate = — at pe egaened a: Be organization as a whole to fight, to|™meo Vanzetti, New England Italian i ex lexgi rare intenash A, Rosenstein rtha Kaleva prevent the further enslavement of | Tadicals, convicted on perjured evi- This - slightly “i te ‘then tie S. Tilles ' Impi Katainen the whole working class of this coun-|dence of a payroll murder, has been M gf hes te ost of liv-| J. Talsky Sanna Lindell tev thegueh these et, established by the defense commit-| MOScow wage, bul in Palsegradsl 3 You Antti Kotikangas DOWN WITH REGISTRATION, | tee. ae i 2} Oauiddotiey tha sutteralc cmd aiden >. Peter M FINGER-PRINTING AND PHOTO-| | The case is still before the trial! (O08) opportunities opened to the| * .heinholtz er Mustonen GRAPHING! judge, Webster Thayer, on motions| “°rey. through the trade unions,| C+ Simon Impi Nordblom DOWN WITH “SELECTIVE IM- | for a new trial. A favorable ruling | Workers through the trade unions | — N. Rubin Arnold Aarnio MIGRATION!” from him will result in a second] ‘Sdations ‘cooperative purchasi L. Rubi John Rasan, Central Executive Committee trial, Denial will mean appeal to| ovations konariont real. wa ee "Rabin Lilli i Wier eee ot, fines ahs the Massachusetts supreme court. oe ats pbopulh te. die manly Fig en jovitz E a pr . BE. nN ’ ee ere . erson Exexcutive Secretary! Amalgamation means strength! peace tine eee oh CRIEE PIE | Sea: Myers Emilia Rahko : ne % The pevduction Per man has greatly L Strier Mini Kuusisto ‘ im tl Resist Attacks on the Foreign-Born|™?y°t.2 (he, org" it) Ida Rabinovitz ae half the time it took before the| S- Solomon aris Ranpray war. However, the output of the Jackheim BROOKLYN, N. Y. By ABRAM JAKIRA. Petrograd plants has not yet reached; Rossie Yelliv O. Weil « Lee tea At a meeting of leader of the Language Federations of the Workers| quite the standard of the Moscow I. Betz . Weil © Party held Thursday, January 10 plans were outlined for an extensive|factories for they have not had the) © pet, Morris Tykulsky campaign for the protection of the foreign born workers of America. Com-|@dvantage of the large supplies of/ 4° oi W. Ty! y rade C. E. Ruthenberg made a detailed report on the policies of the Party Forest id ecg m Wis latter P. Bi i I. Weissblatt on this question, which js now becoming one of life and death to the millions ae ey a eine oak Ja - Brownstein R inowitz of foreign born workers living inthis country. He gave a teview of the ‘e divi de tha wack on fred ‘the pa oid Y. Brownstein G. Wareten various new bills introduced in Congress for the establishment of a system ad clothin Cantoren sid that each Max Borenstein ret As of registration and finger printing. Even Czarist Russia did not dare to go on have Harabaclaligesone to make K. Borenstein Sol, Nurenberg hs far - " ied eee ge by the reactionfries of the American Government: |women’s wear exclusively, and one S. Braer S. Warantz cease, BORE SBS 21 men's suis tnd cverscty cus mhe| ft Coke M. Mendelowits the “Selective Immigration” bill: ee MENTIONING THE MOVIE taty unitorms, otc, <A. start hea st H. Comink I owitz before Congress, vrhabe bills, if i $ ready been made in this specializa- D. Doniloft N. Ni passed, wil make onside of bake By PROJECTOR. pucnnak chad Lng etal tbe G. R, Evans Sophie Nuren| ers direct slaves 0: ie arys an ig Anna Rockefellers of this “land of the free.” “g, cks” eyeing oo tie wi , —— S. Evans H. N: none Both these and the “Registration” peejacks” Good Trayel Picture. atl Webe hace ‘econo’ ci B. Farber ieee it bills are a menace not only to the| The fourteen month’s honeymoon| make their own dyes and are doing| 1. Chatnover F. Haurdl foreign born, but to the entire work-| voyage of ...... in the ninety- excellent work. Their greatest need D. Gordon B. Cohen ing Save ct this country and must be doce pest ipseiacks wee) Te-| just now is for more raw material I F Sanders ombatted. col in a real fine of its . Feinberg , The plan of action proposed by the | kind. ‘The photography . is_superb|sh.machinery in onder to carry their! C.Gurevitz BRULE, WIS. Party 7 te be found elsewhere in this ant Se pesaree fe geo more equipment, they need more capi K. C. Gittlemen Victor Koski ips issue of the paper. places vi are int as we orien, from Goodman The Lithuanian comrades pointed a8 instrvctive. The titling 4s Justa] Smerican brother the Russian-Ames| Mole suet Sante out that last year they were con- |little too well done—so well that one|ican Industrial Cobpoiaticn Goodman Elias Kinkainen confronted with a similar problem, can see the mechanism at work. For CBS Anna Hartman P. Aho Lithuanian government pro- instance savages are labelled “head : me M. Hittleman Fred. ceeded to register all the Lithuanians hunters” and “cannibals” without|, Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of | 7" Hittleman living in this country, Under the any pictorial evidence to support the| The Daily Worker. ‘Send in your sub- C Hi ‘Chas. Lahti leadership of the Lithuanian Federa- charge and the way a lay-up to clean|seription at once. . Hittleman David Lahti tion of the Workers Party a vigor-|the propeller and a oe of blacks H. Iroff Arnold Aho ous campaign was organized against |Tunning toward the beach is hashed Chicago Printers Busy John Lah this step of the Lithuanian govern- | UP as an attack by cannibals is really| 4p, ion of the trav cards} Z. Klein ‘ 5 ment. This campaign has aroused all ® little too raw. ¢ blacks are run- deposited with Typogra; union L, Liebori H. Aho the Lithuanian workers of America |ning away from the camera and to-|No. 16 reveals about 100 out-of-town tz Mrs. Mikkola and the Lithuanian authorities were|Ward the beach, Probably they] union printers who headed for E. A. Katz John Tuury compelled quietly to withdray their brine peek, and ate the camera man| Chicago within the past month, The| M. Lunin Waino Hile vets federations pledged themselves "That such “non-theatrical” pictures gue at oan’ maine, ba . Sn to get to work at once, putting into|#ne being taken up the bi dis- Illinois, Memphis, i ey M. Karacek STAMFORD, CONN. motion ail their press and organisa: Cr ba tg shown in the i Angeles, Portland (Ore,), ‘Omaha, H. Mintz ‘ John Valezise tion machinery to combat these ef- s is a big compliment to the i forts, ‘The are to keep in close touch gradually developin, Tcernnt x Minnespol is, met ison, swavies thee, — ISLAND, N. Y. Soe Vartuli the Nationa! ice of the Party. le goers. = ottish , Bach Federation is to submit to the aes ery kind. should be mp. (Sh og printers’ union was} N, Fishman Felice ‘ational e copies of the publicity le 08 f members ” Pres, Kugler Giordano matter used in the campaign. The | @nti-labor pagandists should be| KE, Ve Petske says. “The n yer com- Dolnicoff E Metallo National Office will supply the Fed-|soaked in the only place where they|ing from out of town is about bal-| , Fradki eration whe. oo ies of me sae ae have any feeling, ut the box office, anced by those leaving Chicago. Our i Weiner | e Ciordallo portant ti Foreign Born’ is keeping rates for ma- ‘ Gabriele now before Congress. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the. phan operators up to about $60 a Jewish Branch G. Francisco The conference of the Federation | first installment of “A Week,” the |Week Without our eae ; J. W. Crane L. Dedda leaders also considered the question great opie of the R . [egies api ea a ¥ Louis Abste of intensifying the rep ig new | the ussian revolation, | mum of +h ; i of Rus- | by the brilliant young writer, ; ; Wofsky lury Libedinsky. It will stast seen. , ‘ ; ‘ t