The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 3

January 18, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER CUT LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER PRICE ONE-HALF, URGED (By the Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—James P. Noon- an, president, International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers, who is agitating for the public development and operation of hydro-electric power and federal and state control of power-transmission, told The Fed- erated Press that by development of coal-burning power plants at the mouths of the mines, and by utiliz- ing hydro-electric power in one su- per-power system, the cost of light, power and heat could 4e eut in half thruout the Unted States. “There is no reason why the sav- ings effected in Ontario should not be made by the consumers in every section of this country,’ he said. “It is a question of publie develop- ment and control, diverting the pro- fit of improved machinery and meth- ods to the pockets of the people at large. But unless we take finite and immediate steps te protect our- selves, the power companies will pocket all the new profits that be- long to us.” Noonan is backing the. proposed federal development of Great Falls, which would furnish current enough to light the capital city. . # Pension Plan for Workers TORONTO. — The Hydro-Electric Power commission ‘of Ozitario and its ‘workers have a joint pension fund for “permanent employes,” for men of 65 or 60 after 20 years’ service and for women of 60 or of 50 after ten years’ service to those totally disabled. The pension is fixed at one-eightieth of the average salary, during the five years when it is greatest, multiplied by the number of years’ service, the minimum is fixed at $865 a year. The annual payment by the com- mission is to be 5 per cent of the total salaries of all permanent em- ployes, while each permanent em- ploye will pay 2 1-2 per cent of his salary. If a permanent employe leaves the staff of the commission he will re¢eive back his contributions with interest at 4 per cent. » * * Ford Fights McAdoo, LaFollette WASHINGTON.—Sentiment ‘in fa- vor of public ownership, development and operation of hydro-electric power at Muscle Shoals and elsewhere in the South has been rapidly promo- ted among Democrats in Congress by the action of Henry Ford in declar- Ing himself for Coolidge, After in- vestigation of the activities of the Ford staff of lobbyists, they find that Ford is fighting McAdoo on the one hand and La¥ollette on the other. Hence they are not surprised at the political handsprings which ‘ve, been turned by a few Ford enthusiasts since the pro-Coolidge anouncement. Staff Correspondent of The Daily Worker to Cover the United Mine Workers’ Meet A convention representing half a million organized workers will begin its sessions in Indianapolis on January 22nd. This great gathering body of industrial workers in this country, perhaps in any country. The proceedings of this convention will be watched with keen interest by every by the capitalists as well as the workers. will the union take on the issues that confront the miners? Will Alexander Howatt be the union? Will the reactionary elements maintain con- trol or will the progressive forces gain? The Daily Worker will your bundle orders now! Street, Chicago, Illinois. Subscribe now! afford to miss the story of the greatest convention of the year. Order from The Daily Worker, 1640 North Halsted GERMAN AlD FUND Writes Message from Sick’ Bed Eugene V. Debs, veteran labor leader, sent a letter and a contribu- tion of $5 to the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany for German relief yesterday. Debs, who is very sick, was more concerned with helping the German workers n he was with his own health. The letter from Debs received by the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany follows: “Dear Comrade Rose Karsner: “IT am ill and in pain and able to do but little for the present. But I cannot resist the plea in behalf of the starved German workers and their families, “I am appalled as I contemplate the conditions there, and if ever the American workers had a call to tax represents the most powerful section of American society, What stand reinstated to membership in give you the facts. Send in You cannot all their resources and do it prompt- Page Thri 7 EUGENE V. DEB$|\Democrats Will Reward Tex CONTRIBUTES T0|Rickard for Bringing Donkey Convention to NEW YO! Rickard not only has decided to the entertainment committee, but he plans to make the “freight” so easy that it will be staggering. z While the city in general is prom- ising not to plunder the convention visitors, Rickard, it is understood, will take a shot at those who have been clamoring about the commer- cial end of the game by giving them a big fight at bargain counter rates, The promoter of Madison Square Garden has definitely decided to stage the Dempsey-Gibbons bout, which he has practically signed, during the convention. He figures that Gibbons is the big hero of the West and Mid- dle West, and that he would be a big attraction, Rickard already has practically saved boxing in New York by putting over the deal which brought the con- RK.—For the entertainment of the thousands who gather here next June to nominate or see nominated the democratic candidate for presi- dent, Tex Rickard is going to stage a heavyweight championship fight. New York City put on a big bout to be featured on vention here. Wise political observers are sure that the Democratic politicians who have been ‘after him cannot be so un- grateful as to continue the campaign against the man who put over the eenvention deal after they had failed. Rickard has volunteered to make alterations in Madison Square Gar- den that will increase the capacity to 20,000 and he is going to pay the cost, estimated at $25,000, out of his own pocket. Several bills aimed at boxing have been introduced at Albany, but it i the unanimous opinion now that they! If} will be allowed to die naturally. the Republicans insist upon forcing action, the Democrats out of grati- tude will be forced to rally and kill| ‘them, politicians believe. BIG AIR SHIP BATTLES STORM: BACK TO HANGAI Was Guided to Safet by German Captain LAKEHURST, N. J.—Another te i disaster of the air was avert: when t giant United Stat naval dirigible Shenandoah, with { officers ‘and men aboard, torn fro her mooring mast and swept inte tl night by a 70-mile gale, beat h way back against tho storm @ was nosed into her hangar at 8:1 a, m™. | For nine hours, the airship, part disabled, fought the elements th threatened her destruction. The night air was alive with wit less messages as anxious officia followed the progress of her strugel Thousands, sitting safe and snt in their homes while the fury : the winter’s worst storm beat ou side, followed, too. with the rad Two Workin In Bitter Fight; Every Vacant Job In Illinois By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The bottom of the present unemployment wave is not yet reached, says the Illinois department of labor in its review of the industrial situation during December. During the month two workers applied for every vacancy in Chicago and three for every two opportunities to work in the state as a whole, According to the report “the free employment index shows that unemploy- ment is regularly worse in January than it is in December,” The down grade, upon which industry started six months ago, has con- vue 8.8%. 8 Car building took a sharp down-|ment conditions were best and 117 a ward turn in December. tinued. At the end of 1923' there Illinois factories than there were in the middle of the year. Employment in December reached the same level going down that it reached going up in December, 1922. Considerable importance is at- tached by the review to the fact that six of the largest iron and steel pro- ducers in the state laid off 7% of their employes while three other producers employing between - 600 and 1000 workers cut their forces by 20%. Conditions in the steel indus- try are universally recognized as an important barometer of the general industrial situation, One-sixth of the building trades workers were reported out of a job during the month as a result of the seasonal let up in construction work. But the fact that declines are also repotted by some of the industries producing building materials in con- trast to large increase a year ago indicates that less construction work is assured for the coming year. Glass factories report a drop of 4.3% in the number of their employes where- as in December, 1922, they increased tha womhar ag thair nowgglis by asunanree Ok gnewen aver ‘Anti-Alien Attack Is Favorable To K u KI ux! Klaners (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—Agitation against the coming of immigrants to the United States becomes more intem- perate under the stimulus of Secre- tary of Labor Davis—himself an im- migrant—and under cover of the mask of anonymous pamphlets, which are sent to all press correspondents and members of Congress at frequent intervals. One of the latest of these irre- sponsible pamphlets is entitled, “The Foreign Language Press—America’s Greatest Menace.” It asserts on the cover that “Jewish and Roman Cath- olic efforts to seize America by grad- aal usurpation are being fostered in Practically' year ago. were 4,5 per cent fewer workers in every car building concern laid off some of its workers, The decline of the industry as a whole amounted to 9.3%. Car shdps operated directly by the railroads also showed a falling off in the number of employes on their payrolls. A Shoe factories which normally ex- pand in December showed a consider- able drop in employment. Tanneries also laid off 5.5% of their workers. Employment was reported on the down grade generally in the food in- dustries, automobile production was at a low point and furniture factories 3 ime that they were laying off help .. The few lines of manufacturing ac- tivity reporting expansion include planing mills, paint factories, print- ing plants and clothing concerns, Expansion in the last two branches of industry is seasonal. The Illinois free employment offices reported nearly 4000 fewer workers placed than in December, 1922, The index of the service shows 145.5 ap- plicants for every 1000 opportunities to work whisk » vOmer sarad Nov- Was SMINVOReD wiv 40d LL .ember, 86 in April when employ- line ence a month, each additional line, 15c an issue. year one line publishe ly and with willing hearts and eager hands it is in response to the ery that eomes out of Germany to save the working class, This especially is true of the little children who are perishing from starvation. My mite is enclosed. I wish that I could do a thousand times ‘more. “Fervently wishing you all success in this most humane and dutiful undertaking, I am as ever, Yours fraternally, EUGENE V. DEBS.” At the same time the contribu- tion from Debs was received a cable- gram arrived from Germany saying on the increase in that country. The cablegram follows: “Friends of Soviet Russia: “Unemployment is growing. Mis- Double your We serve daily 15,000 meals. Have opened children’s home. Your Help with money ery is on the increase, aid. support urgent. and goods.” Signed, International Workers Relief Com- mittee, The Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany is the American branch of the International Workers Relief Committe, Your Union Meeting Every local listed in the official di- reetory of the CHICAGO FEDERA- T.ON OF LABOR will be published under this head on day of meeting free of charge for the first month, niece aed our rate will be as fol- lows : monvhiy meeting—-$3 a year one meetings — $5 a Semi-monthly 3 two times BITTER WEATHER (CANONSBURG, PA. MEANS AGONY WORKERS IN DEFY TO JOBLESS ONES'TO THEIR BOSSES Cold Wave Adds to|Wallop the Schemes o Misery of Hungry Business Barons The second cold wave that unemployment and misery were a month, each additional line 13¢ an Recognition Meeting In Pittsburg Arrangements are now being made in every important industrial center of the country to hold big mass demonstrations Feb. 3, in favor of Recognition of Soviet Russia. Pitts- burg was first to report to the Na- bac aga meeting have already been ie. the bp nig Theater at 2 P. M. The meeting will be. held at In Chicago a big Recognition Mass Meeting will be held Jan. 27, instead of Feb, 3, at Ashland Auditorium, jtional Office that arrangements for a corner Ashland and Van Buren Aves, Petite Feet Will | Twinkle at Food and Metal Frolic The Food and Metal Trades groups of the Trade Union Educational League have extended a cordial in- vitation to the workers of Chicago to attend the dance which will take 1,400 alien newspapers, printed in 40| place in Wicker Park (small) Hall, different languages, working for|on Saturday evening, Jan, 19, for the the destruction of the Protestant] benefit of the two bulletins which American institutions established by] are published the left wing ele- nat in ee taken immediate legislation.” Favorable mention is given the Ku Klux Klan in this pamphlet. JEWISH. WORKERS FIRST TO AID RUSSIAN FAMINE Snay music supplied ‘by a union ‘seananed will satisfy the devotees of terpsichore, palatable food will be served by union food workers soft drinks will be there aplenty. A committee of female militants is bending every effort to make this affair a success and of course they GIVING BEGGARS’ DANGE| =: no: coine to be disappointed. The Jewish Workers’ Relief was the first organization to come to the assistance of the famine stricken ple of Russia and the work to Pal build the Russian schools, ‘this organization is giving FE cael gars’ Dance, Jan. 19, at the Wicker Park Hall, The price of admission is 51 cents. All friends of Soviet Russia and readers of The Daily Worker are invited to attend, Shoe Strikers Back at Work MONTREAL.—When manage- ment tion of rad Vgc) re- men ments in shop conditions, 400 strik- ers at the Tetrault Shoe Mfg. Co., at Masonneuve, near Montreal, waived union recognition and re- turned to work, Coal Miner Killed ST. LOUIS, IllJoseph EAST Watch the “Daily Worker” for the| Lipi, a union coal miner, Collinsville, first installment lury Libedinsky. “A Week,” the| has died at the epic of the Russian thei Mi result of injuries as the brilliant young Russian writer, | of slate in the mine in It will start soon, employed. Weekly? Daily or Our mail is going to undergo coh fast tt Gomiat, But that bs We want to know from the we is what big increase in the hours just ahead. it RUSS RECOGNITION MASS MEETING AWAITS DECISION Schenectady, N. Y. City Councilmen to Act SCHENECTADY. 'N, "Yer at a meeting of the English Branch of the Workers Party of this city, it S ded to arrange a mass meet- for “Recognition of Soviet Rus- sia” to be held Feb. 3, in accord- ance with the instructions from the National Office. When the arrangements committee applied to the mayor of the city for permission were informed they must secure ission of the Commissioner of Public Safety, © The Commissioner informed the committee that it was unlawful to hold any meeting unless sanctioned by himself, He ited a writ- ten application in which the precise Hgisieod of the organization should This was done in the f letter sent to the Commissioner: “Complying with ir request that J. sobgit ta writing. (actarding’ to our interview) the desires of our day night, Feb, 8, at Turner ass Albany Street, I am sending you is letter. “The subject will be “The Workers tic Answers Lacrigg? of State i s on the subject, ‘Récognition of Soviet Russia,’ 4 “The time and place are indicated agg nt hy We expen ie iat one thousand tickets of admission at org perm Ibi wk allele’ for " for meeting at which there ji “Meer charge on Sunday perm! is requested for a meeting at which saniaion ‘i free.” . 3 “i n- fe our agen postponed de- Sneds tie Ceiperstion Gaencl: The Land for the Userst . ‘ Party to hold a mass meeting, Ban-| this issue, Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year one line a week, each additional line 10c¢ an issue. ‘THIRD FRIDAY, Jan. 18th, 1924 . _ Name of Local and Place of Meeting. NWT Bakers and Conf, 3420 W. Roosevelt. 8 Bookbinders, 175 W. Washington St., 6p, m. 29 Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison St. ilding Trades Council, 180 W. Wash. Carpenters’ "District Council, 505 8. State St. 1 Ca 175 W. Washington St. Carvers, Wood, 1619 N. California Av. 9 Electricians, 2901 W. Monroe St, 214 Electricians, 4142 W, St, 779 Electricians, R. R., 6824 8. Halsted St. 564 - Machinists, 113 8. Ashland Blvd. 33_E, 111th 8t. 2432 8. Kedzie Ave. it 8, Chicago Ave. School and Ave. Highwood, Ul. Railway Carmen, Villege Hall, Kolzie, — Carmen, 92nd and Woodlawn ve. Railway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashland Ave. Reilway Clerks, 20 W. yet 9 W. 1 eas Sy South Chi. Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave. bay iad 208.N. Wells St., 10:30 Stove Mounters, Wolfram Ave, “ein Roomar 38 Women’s City Club 4:30 p. m. wi 1 . Adams St, 3 p. Label League, 280 otherwise stated sll meetings (Note—' are at 8 p.m.) The Worker for a month free to the sending in change of date or place of meeting of locals listed here, Please watch for your local and if not listed let us know, giving time and place of meeting so we can keep daily announcement complete ,{and up to date, On Tuesday of every week we ex- pect to print display announcements of local unions. ites will be $1 an inch, 50c¢ for half an inch card. Take this matter up in your next meeting. Your local ld have a weekly dis- play card as well as the running an- nouncement under date of meeting. New Quakes RO} ing verification by the Ja of Tuesday of Prof. i's prediction of dis' on that date, the Ital- ian 1 who claims to have discovered secret of darthquakes, now that the Japanese seismic m will extend to other por- if There “4 new quakes in the {8 and 96 end on the Asiatic coast on the or ‘the 30th, member of any local union | be ! of the win- ter hit Chicago yesterday, With thousands unemployed and more thousands homeless, suffering was general, Charity organizations re- port the usual rush of the very poor to get a bit of coal for warmth. In the districts behind the stock yards the poor had little concern for food. Their interest and worry was confined to getting heat. Many char- itable agencies not expecting the cold wave, did not have enough coal to go around. Late in the day such doles as were handed out were cut down so that all might have some- thing, Many of the rv said that they had received so little coal that it was hardly worth their while to take it home as it would only delay aad suffering and would not relieve it. The worst sufferers from the cold were the thousands of homeless men who make West Madison and Canal Streets their headquarters. A light snow gave employment to only 400 extra snow shovelers. The Dear- born Street branch of the state free employment agency reported that seores of stiff, half frozen men were at the door ‘waiting for the opening hour in the morning. Most of them were geste | 80 from exposure that they would not have been able to go to work if work had been offered them, They were permitted to sit around the waiting room and get warm. Up to a late hour yeggerday afternoon many of them had not left the place. One Negro who had been there all day said that he had come up from the South several months ago urged by rosy promises of easy work and high wages. After working a few weeks he was laid off and not managed ta get a job since. The night before being without the price of a bed, he had been compelled to walk the streets all night in the bitter cold, A He declared his intention of go- ing back South as soon as he could. Old timers around the employ- ment office said that they had not seen so many men looking for jobs for seven years. “The tragedy of the thing is that most of these men have been out of work so long that they are not properly fed and could not do a good day’s work if they got a ji boss would fire most of t! a couple of hours.” Minority Democrat imnic| Ally of Reaction WASHINGTON.—At the first op- portunity, Floor Leader Garrett of the Democratic minority in the House has come to the rescue of reaction by a betrayal of the prin- ciple of majority rule in the nat i legislature. He has stood up against .| some of the conservative spokesmen lof his own party, and argued for nick (RANK AND FILE WILL the retention of rules under wl the House may be gag: thru a trick on the part of a single mem- r. Push “The Daily” in Unions, The DAILY WORKER should be hed in union meetings and on the fo writes William Kern of Chicago in a letter to the editor. “On the job and in their unions the workers are most open to te eae wie home they don’t do muc! » Push the DAILY WORKER where it is est to get a h vises. flow of profits and they figure un- doubtedly that inasmuch as have to pa way, the CANONSBURG, Pa.—Workers of many crafts assembled in a “Union Mass Meeting” in the Star Theatre here, and thru competent local and district speakers of known ability and tendencies, flayed the attempts of the money and business barons to remove the present chief of police, Chief of Police J. W. Crum had evidently been “falling down” in the estimation of the bosses of Canons- burg and vicinity, in that he has not been “knocking off” the active workers and the “dangerous Reds.” In this section of Washington County, Pennsylvania, which is known as the Chartiers Valley, there abides the best bunch of fighters for the rights of the workers, that | have ever been gathered in one sec-| tion, and the result is “A forward | receivers to their ears, the plight : the gale-driven dirigible. Then, after being carried as £ as Newark, sometimes at a spe of more than a mile a minute, # Shenandoah proved herself mistre of the storm. Under the guidance of Capta Anton Heinen, a veteran Zeppel expert the ship was nosed back im the teeth of the driving rainstorm. Slowly her propellers gained hea: way against the diminishing wind Back at the avation field, whe her commander, who had been : mess when the airship was whippe off into the night, officials of # naval air service waited, strainir their eyes inte the inky darkness. The nose of the Shenandoah he been torn off completely and flappe from the masthead at the end « her mooring chain. Prof. Harry Wan Brands Daughert As An Ignoramu. Attorney General Daugherty’s le ter to Federal Judge Martin J. Wad of Iowa, justifying the sentences « political prisoners during the wa was characterized as “ignorant. alik f looking Labor movement.” So it is that a “CHIEF” is needed | who will see to it that the activi-| ties of such men are not only curbed | but actually stopped for the Tin-| Plate and Mining interests do not} want to be continually shutting down/ their plants in order to get rid of) the undesirables. { x This method usually checks the they a chief of police any- ad better have one who of the issues of law and public pol cy” and “unworthy of the chief la officer of the government,” in a stati ment issued by Prof. Harry F. War chairman of the American Civil Lil erties Union. Quoting the verdict of Senat Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania i the case of the Chicago L W. W 101. Ward B,cciee eater dd we gabe had been considered on their meri! the men would have been out som years ago.” The Chicago case is typ cal of all the others. Daugherty’s attitude, the state will do eir bidding. | ment says, “represents his own bitte it earing for it,”] an The workers were not lang in de- ciding that action was necessary, and this meeting which was well attend-} ed and very enthusiastic, was ad- dressed by the officers of the local tin-plate workers union, the Central Labor Union, the Business Agent of the Machinists (District No. 6) and by the Rev, G. W. Williams, a local colored preacher. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Lovett Speaker at Recognition Meeting Jan. 27 Robert Morse Lovett, professor of English in the University of Chicago, and one of the editors of the New A| Republic, will speak at a mass meet- ing, called to urge the United States government to recognize Soviet Rus- sia, Sunday evening, Jan. 27, at Ash- land Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren St. The meeting, which is to be held under the auspices of the Friends of Soviet Russia, will be the first effort in a drive for German relief and Rec- ognition of Soviet Russia. All pro- ceeds of the meeting will be devoted to German relief. Amalgamation means strength! DEFEND THOSE SIGMAN, PERLSTEIN EXPELLED A concert for the benefit of the expelled members of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union will be held in Ashland Audi- torium, the evening of Feb. 10. There 1 be an all-star program d it is hoped that the rank and file militants in the needle trades will crowd the hall to capacity for the de- Publish It Daily fense of their fellows. Tickets will To The Daily Worker: I say\be 25 cents. that “A" WEEK” should be pub-| lished daily.—-A. Weiss. Get unity thru the Labor Party! World War Crippled 10,000,000 WASHINGTON.—Over 40,000,000 men were disabled as a result of the Mary war, says the rehabilitation report of the International Labor . Of these disabled, Germany has 1,537,000, France 1,500,000, Britai Son ag hen at least 775,000 and Poland 300,000. 900,000, Italy 800,000, in Voluntary systems of co-operation by employers in restoring these war cripples to industrial life have been only moderately successful. Legisla- ti ing employers to @ certain perc of disabled men has been enacted fn owt aly arbia, Polead ead feomanis, and bas been in France CzechoSlovakia, " feeling about radicals and is un worthy of the chief law officer of th government. It is understood the the Attorney General opposed the re lease of the political prisoners in th face of President Coolidge’s dete: mination to let them go, desiring t attach to the commutations of ser tence humiliating conditions whieh h knew the prisoners would be unwil! ing to accept.” COAL MINERS MEET IN PRE-GONVENTION COMMITTEE SESSION INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Memb: of the convention committees of United Mine Workers of America gan arriving in Indianapolis preparatory to the opening of International convention here ex Tuesday, The committees on resolutions an constitutions started going throug hundreds of resolutions and sugges tions sent to headquarters by loca unions and individual miners. John L. Lewis, International Presi dent, conferred with other union lead ers on the convention today. THINK CRUISER TACOMA IS TOTAL LOSS AT VERA CRU) WASHINGTON, — Navy official fear that the cruiser Tacoma aground near Vera Cruz, Mexico, i: a total loss. A dispatch received by the Nay) Department early today said th cruiser was virvually on its side with three of its four compartments flood ed with water, No information as & the crew has been received, Hatters Victims of Disease. DANBURY, Conn.—An old me’ of dying hats has been revived the Danbury hat shops. The he dyers are compelled to dip t hands and arms in the vats with th hats. Many serious infections bs | occurred, in some cases resulting gangrene. The Hatters’ Union ha sent samples of the dyes used & chemists in New York for analysis The hatters declare that they an the victims of enough occupations diseases without running w sary risks to make more profits the bosses. Molders Meet in St. Louis ST. LOUIS.—The Molders’ Con ference board, representing five lo- cals of St. Louis and vicinity, will hold a joint mass meeting here on Jan. 31 in furtherance of an ization drive among the craft. St, Louis correspondent of The Fed- erated Press has been asked to ad: dress the meeting on labor’s news service, a 0)