The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 3

Veta y bey avers ar btyck Daily Wy Gavan — - 20 PER CENT CUT NON-UNION MINES IS NEW THREAT War to the Knife to Crush Union A 20 per cent cut in the wages of non-union miners in the Eastern Ken- tucky fields was announced today and brings into bolder relief the danger of non-union-competition and unem- ployment in the unionized fields of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. More than 40,000 union miners are now, jobless in Indiana and Illinois alone; in N- linois 85 mines were permanently closed yast year, | Spokesmen of the United Mine} ‘Workers look upon the cut as notice served upon the union by the coal op- erators association that a strike will be forced on the expiration of éxist- | ing contracts the end of March and | believe that the reduction was timed to coincide with the coming conven- | tion of the United Mine Workers of America, which opens in Indianapolis | next Tuesday. With the expectation | that it would have a strong influence | upon the deliberations of the 1,800} delegates who will attend. The ever keener competition be-)| tween non-union and union mined coal, the extension of the non-union , fields, their securing of markets nor- | mally supplied by unionised mines, the evidence of the war of attrition launched against the union by the coal operators association, will in the opinion of both officials and rank and le members’ of the United Mine Workers, be the most important ques- tion dealt with, barring the policy for April 1, by the Indianapolis con- vention. EXHAUST SOUVENIR EDITION Because of the tremendous num- ber -of new subscriptions, THE DAILY WORKER mailing depart- ment has up until now been unable to enter all the new names as promptly as desired. As a result some of the new subscribers have | not received their paper on time. | This condition has now been remedied and the business office claims that it can now absorb all the punishment in the way of subscrip- tions that the live wires of the coun- try send in. In answer to the many requests for the first souvenir issue of THE DAILY WORKER, the business of- fice wishes it to be announced that the supply has been exhausted. Some of the Workers Party city central committees have smal] supplies on hand and those who want to have this historic birthday issue are ad- vised to get in touch with the Work- _ ers Party headquarters in their city. | | High Rents Great Burden HEARST MISSION, of Growing Jobless Army; MEMBER TO SPEAK Negroes Lured Here Suffer|\] MAS How bad is unemployment? Statistics say that Chicago is the center of unemployment in human story. Illinois, Statistics don’t tell the Trying to get the human story of a typical family that had suffered from unemployment, a went down into the West-Side. It was found that most of reporter for The Daily Worker the unemployed struggle along for weeks, and even months, before they will bring themselves to ask charity, or help in other form. The real first aid that is meeting the unemployment crisis is being done by people who have very little to help those who have less. ‘Working people help their relatives first, then their | for the recognition of Soviet friends and neighbors. Without the helf of friends and _ relatives we would have hundreds of people public charges. Rent is the greatest bur- den the unemployed have to meet. Without help from others many fam- ilies would homeless, “Many families manage to meet unemployment by. sending children who should be in school to work. “T had a case this morning, where the father, a building laborer was out of work for two months. Before that he had been working only oc- casionally, The son was taken out of school and he got a job at the Western Electric plant. Until he got paid they were in need-of help, Unless they got help he might lose his job because he was unable to work steadily.” “A growing boy can’t work with- out enough to eat.” “Time and again we are appealed to for help to tide a family over till pay day when some one in the family has gotten a job following a period of unemployment.” “Just a little while ago there was a young woman in here asking for help. She had been the bread win- ner of the family. Her father was dead and she had managed to sup- port her mother and two small: chil- dren. She had been employed in a 5 MEETING Campaign for German Relief Gaining Seventy delegates representing labor unions and other workers’ organizations attended a conference called by the Friends of Soviet Rus- sia and Workers’ Germany in the Workers Lyceum, on Thursday even- ing and voted to support the mass meeting which will be held in the Ashland Auditorium on January 27th| ussia Daily W While it may be that some of the time, accounts of how some of the capitalist daily papers are adding |live wires are making their daily into more subscribers to their roll than is |a power. THE DAILY WORKER, there is no| Detroit Organizes “Booster Club” payer in the country that is gaining One of the most effective methods circulation at so rapid a rate, The! of boosting the circulation of the mili- business office has been swamped |tant labor press has been devised by with new subscriptions for the past | Edgar Owens, district organizer of two weeks. Moritz J. Loeb, business | the Workers Party in Detroit. The manager, says that at the present | Workers Party in Detroit has organ- rate, THE DAILY WOKKER wiil!ized a “Boost Our Press Club” to double its circulation every four} carry on a drive to gain new readers weeks, for the militant press in general and In every section of the United | for THE DAILY WORKER in parti- States and Canada, militant workers | cular. are busily adding to the list of} Beginning Jan. 8, and winding up DAILY WORKER readers, To recite | with a “Press Banquet and Ball” on the details of the activity of all of | February 16, the drive will be con- the loyal DAILY WORKER boosters | ducted with the concerted effort of ceeenentnenanecatarprestinecicecsccliasaninitittes and aid to Workers’ Germany. department store, During the Chi Intense enthusiasm was created at mas rush she was not well and after) the conference when a letter was read the holidays, she was laid off because{ from the Friends of Soviet Russia! she had not been efficient when most stating that no money would be sent| needed. Her wages had been 80/to Germany but that the money small that she could save nothing.) would /be used here to purchase food It was a wonder, in fact, how she had managed to provide for four people with them.” “Today she is unable to get work in a store because she does not have the clothes ape fi to make her- self neat looking. e has been un- able to get factory work so far.” “The colored people who have come to Chicago, from the south, are really pitiful. They are without friends or relatives on whom they ean call for help. And usually they are the first to be laid off when a lay off is decided on. It is a shame and an outrage.” “Every cold snap makes the con- dition of the poor just that much worse. There is hardly a family where more than one person works that does not have one person out of work just now. “In such families the wages of everybody are so low that they suf- fer, unless all the workers are em- ployed. They and the families where there is one bread winner who is not working come here for coal ‘at every cold snap.” THE PARTY AT WORK Full Calendar In Chicago Local Chicago, Workers Party, with some sort of activity destined of our Party. meetings would surely be held. the immediate future. Sunday, Jan. 20, Liebknecht Da Party, at Prudential Hall. North A’ A. Mirroff. Sunday, Jan 27, Mass Meeting and Demonstration for Recognition of | lit Soviet Russia and Relief for Workers’ Germany, at Ashland Auditorium Speakers: Prof. Morse Lovett, Max, = Silinsky, Albert Johnsoty J. P. Can- non and Max Bedacht. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, lury Libedinsky. It will start soon. Friday, Feb, 1, Mass Meeting for Freedom for the Philippines, at Sho- enhofen Hall, Ashland and Milwau- kee. Speakers: Pedro Guevara, Res- UNIST-CHILDREN-COLUMIN ay. = HOW WE START TO ORGANIZE A CHILDREN’S GROUP ARTICLE No. 3. Nothing in the world is easier than to attract children, Youths, boys and girls of the Young Workers League, go in a group to the place where chil- dren are—on the streets in the eve- nings, in parks, public playgrounds, or at some outdoor celebration, They watch the children at play and grad- ually and tactfully join in their games, perhaps teaching them a new circle game which all can join, Other children are attracted and approach | to play the new game. After a time when the children are a little tired— | “Shall we learn a new song?” At! first the little ones may be suspicious, | then they will be shy, but eventually | they will all join in the “Interna- tional” or some other revolutionary song. Or else—“Will you play with us again? We poor children have to do without so many things the rich children have—it is so nice when we can all play together.” Meanwhile we distribute our papers, the “Young Comrade,” inform them that this is the children’s paper and that there are children’s meetings. “Would you like to come?” Or else we go among the working class parents. “In this trade union hall, or that club house, or some other room or park or garden we meet on these. days, Let your chil- dren come! The children often beg | Well known Violinist and Pedagogue presents his Artist Student Sam Antek February 10, 8 P.M. at the ASHLAND AUDITORIUM their parents for permission to at- tend and they bring their friends and playmates. Children are natur- ally excellent agitators. Of course there are cases where the parents refuse to permit the children to come. The mass of the adult working class is extremely petty bourgeois in its home life. These parents are made the subjects of especial attention of the Junior Leaders. Special parent’s evenings and conferences are organized or public celebrations, whatever will create a closer bond between the adults and the children. Incidental- ly thru this means many a working class father ov mother, previously antagonistic or indifferent, is won to our cause. Their are instances where the adults use coercive mea- sures. If the child is determined and energetic it opposes the will of re- actionary or backward parents and attends the meetings despite the prohibition of the parents. More sensitive children endure great in- ternal conflicts and with these, espe- cially, great understanding and pa- tience is used. The active measures which are used by our leaders de- pends upon whether the parents are merely backward workers or con- scious reactionaries and social pa- triots. (Watch for Article No. 4 of this series: General remarks on the ac- tivities of the Children’s Groups.) y- ve. and Halsted St. Z. Foster, Max Bedacht, Robert Minor, John Edwards, is filling in every date on the salendar to reach the w If more dates were available, ‘orkers with the message more demonstrations and These are some of the affairs arranged for Young Workers League and Workers Speakers: William Peter Herd, and ge ee ident Commissioner of the Philip- Pines to the United States, member of Congress, organizer of the Sea- men’s Union of \the Philippines and leader of the first strike on the Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Ash- land Auditorium, Second Ahnual Red Revel Masquerade Ball. Benefit Daily Worker and Labor Defense. Every Sunday Evening, cago is conducting an at the Capitol ilding, State St., Corinthian Hall. ‘Ss: Jan. 20, James P. Cannon on the subject, “The I. W. the Communists.” Sunday, Jan. 27, J. Whiteman, writer and lecturer of the African Blood Brotherhood, speaks on the subject, “The Racial Prejudice.” The Workers Party School The first course of the Workers |}, Party School is nearly completed. The remaining few lectures will be given by Max Bedacht, Earl Brow- der, Robert Minor and Martin Abern. The second course, which will deal with the history of the American labor movement, including the trade unions,- labor political parties and economics is now in _ preparation, Branch Secretaries are empowered to make enrollments in their branches for this second course. Anyone en- paying the fee of $1.25 will receive the balance of the first course gratis. Our branches are also urged to request their mem- bers who attend the school regular reports to the branches of the subjects they have been study- ing, This school offers an oppor- tunity that every Party member should take advantage of. Some Branch Meetings Following are the meeting places of Chicago English Branche: South Side Branch, every first and third Thursday, 8 P. M., at emaeital ty Center, 3201S, Wabash ve. j Irving Park Branch, every first and third Monday at 4021 N: Drake Ave, Monday, Jan. 21, lecture by Max Bedacht, subject, “The Present Situation in Germany, Mid-City Branch, every first and third Wednesday, at Emmet Memo- Ha Rell Ear ce he Ogden Ave. 4 gepor ranch, every secon and fourth Wednesday at 3600 S, Union Ave, — Cicero Branch, vere on call at|to the first 8 Italian Hall, 1402 bein one Bra and third Monilay, at Imperial Hall 2409 N. Halstyd ‘ste? 4 North West} Side Branch, second and foutth Tuesda: ers Lyceum, 273 Hirsch Boul, Tues- dav. Tan. 22, discussion on Party Re- ization, uglas Park Branch, every first and third Monday, at 2783 Douglas Boul. fourth 6414 every to make | ,, h, every first] of meeting at Work- | this for shipment over there. This re- moves all doubts created in the minds of the workers that the funds contributed to German relief would be used for propaganda or to support any particular group in that coun-| try. In contrast to this action is the| policy of the Gompers relief commit- tee in sending funds to preserve the power of the counter revolutionary trade union bureaucracy and the bankers relief which goes to the Fas- cisti. Among the unions were the following: Local 637, Brotherhood of Painters and Paperhangers; Carpenters Local} 1784; Painters Local 275; Metal Pol- ishers Local 6; Machinists Local 830; Woodearvers Chicago Branch and Machinists Local 337, The local organization of the Friends of Soviet Russia and Work- ers’ Germany is arranging a house to house canvas to begin on Feb. 24, Thousands of workers are expected to participate in this drive. Each succeeding mail brings tales of misery from Germany not even surpassed during the dark days of the Russian famine, The January 27th meeting prom- ises to be the largest in the history of workingclass meetings in Chicago. represented Among the speakers already secured are Robert Morse Lovett, Max Silin- sky of the Journeymens’ Tailors Union of America and candidate for Secretary-Treasurer of that organi- zation, Albert Johnson, member of the Hearst mission to Russia. Max Bedacht, editor of the Soviet Russia Pictorial and James P. Cannon, Chairman of the Workers Party of America, With the campaign for German re- ief getting under way the recei: of ‘the national office of the Frie: Soviet ia~aFe- on the ine running now between $250 and $350 aday. A large shipment of food for Germany is planned for next week. The purchasing of food is already under way. man workers. “The story of the suf- fering of the workers in Germany will be told in dozens of mass meet- ings all over the country”, declared Rose Karsner, national secretary of F. S. R. and W. G. Your Union Meeting | Every local listed in the official di- rectory 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, afterwards our rate will be as fol- lows: Monthly meeting—$3 a year one line once a month, each additional line, 15¢ an issue. Semi-monthly meetings — $5 a year one line published two times a month, each additional line 13¢ an issue. Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year one line a week, each additional: line 10¢ an issue. tte THIRD SATURDAY, Jan, 19th, 1924 No. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 25 Asphalt Paving, 209 E. 35th St. 2 Bakers, 218 W. Oak St, 4. p m. 14 Blacksmiths, 180 W. Washingtow St. 206 Blacksmiths, 75th Dre: 193 Coopers, 3257 Sheffi 4471 Court Reporters, 21 Pp. om, 143 Engineers, Capitol Bidg., 2 p, m. 281 rs (Loc.), 6238 8, Princeton m. 35th and Wood Sts, 26 W. 63rd Firemen and Engineers, 311 8. Ashland Ave. Hod Carr@rs, 850 8, - Mechinists, Sith and’ S Chicago” Lt cago Machinists, 113 8, Ashland Bivd. re. Main. of Way, 1217 W. Taylor St, Wote—Uni The Daily Worker for a month free e member of any local union sending in change of date or place 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 we next meeting. Your local should have a weekly dis- play card as well as the running an- nouncement under date of meeting. St. me Enginemen, 426 W. 63rd! 3 Halsted St, 5/3 Ave. | $ wie. of Way, 2311 8. Central Patk| 4 ve. : hp oa of Way, 62d and Cottage Grove | 45 8. Ashland Ave,| 3 592 Railway Carmen, 54 Cai 2001 W. Chicago Ave. | 4 626 Sheet Metal, Stock Yards, 35th and| 4 Wood Bt. ga : 734 Teamsters, 220 Ashland Biv. a. 3 er hers (Com.), 812 S, Clark St.,| % m. otherwise stated all meetings | ¢ ould require a page of the paper | every day. THE DA:LY WORKER will, however, publish from time to every member of the Workers Party in Detroit, Prizes will be given to the individuals who secure the great- VIOLENCE UNDER SOGIAL ORDER OF PROFITEERS Negroes Among Victims Under Bosses’ Rule 1. Delaware. Ku Klux Klan oppo- nents attacked Dr. J, W. Hawkins, Klan organizer, at a meeting he was addressing at West Chester, Pa., on Dec. 19, and chased him and ‘his wife out of the town at the point of re- velvers. 2. Oklahoma. Eight men are held im connection with the shooting of A. L. Berch, proprietor of a hotel at Marlow, and his Negro porter, Robt. Journegan, on Dec. 19. Marlow is one of the Oklahoma towns in which Negroes are not allowed to remain }over night. When Berch disregarded |the warning to dismiss the porter a ;mob went to the hotel threatening |to lynch the Negro. Berch attempted | to intercede and was killed. |. 3. Alabama. In order to avoid a lynching, the authorities at Tuscum- bia have spirited away Sam Green- jhill and Dave Dewberry, two negroes {arrested in connection with the | murder of a white man on Dec, 16th. | 4. New York. According ‘to a statement just issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, therg were 26 lynch- ings in the Unit@ States during | 1928 against 61 in 1922. The decline is laid to the agitation for a federal anti-lynching law and the northward | migration of Negroes. | 5. Washington. All of the I. W. W. | literature, membership cards and other papers of 4 I. W. W.’s arrested at Walla Walla recently have been ordered returned by Prosecuting At- | torney A, J. Gillis, who rebuked the arresting officer and declared that membership in the I. W. W. is legal. 6, Leavenworth, Kansas. Bert Lor- ton, an Englishman, Jacob Torie, an Italian and Harry Lloyd, born in In- dia, three of the political prisoners recently released by President Cool- idge were immediately rearrested and held for deportation. The men will make a legal fight to prevent depor- tation. 7. California. Patrick D. Ryan and Sam Peterson, I. W. W.’s arrest-| ed at Loyalton on Nov. 8 have been | Teleased and the criminal syndicalism | charges against them have been dis-| missed. 8. Missouri, At the request of the | Southern Manganese Steel Co., the! Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Liebknecht Day—Day of New Tasks. International Liebknecht Day will soon be celebrated in this country. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem- berg, leaders of the German Sparta- cists (Communists) were brutally murdered Jan. 15, 1919, by the Kai- ser’s officers, with the connivance of the German Socialist ministers. These same Social-Democrats have since betrayed the German workers in more ways than one. All over the world, on Liebknecht Day, the enlightened working youth pay homage to the work of Karl Liebknecht in behalf of the young toilers. It is not a day for mourn- ing; but rather it is a day of ac- counting, of setting new and more difficult tasks before the young. In the United States, Liebknecht Day is celebrated under the auspices of the Young Workers League of America. The new tasks to be stressed ig the widening and the jintensifying of the “Hands off Work- ers’ Germany” campaign and the gathering of funds for the relief of the starving German workers and their families, Then, too, the anti- military activities in this country receive a push on Liebknecht Day. s+ * Shop Unit Contest On Organization on the basis of shop units (also known as shop nuclei) is proving to be the direct roud to a@ mass revolutionary organization of adult and youth in Germany. Of course, conditions play their very im- portant part, From England we get the news that a large number of shop units are being formed by the young Brit- ish toilers in the steel mills, ship yards and coal mines At me Feet! Lewenncs an Ay the 2oarth Sarcay so the Young Communist International, held last summer, there arose a ver- bal contest as to which country was the more suitable for the immediate organization of shop units, the United States or Great Britain. In practice Great Britain is win- ning. The Young Communist Lea- gue there has by actual count more shop units than there exist in the United States. By no trick of ex- planation can the members of the Young Workers League be said to be asleep, tho, the work of shop unit organization is progressing fast over a very wide territory. Our’ field being larger, we will undoubt- edly. produce a bigger crop than the British Y. C. L.—tho we might need more time for cultivation. s+ h # Religionists Admit They're Bad Eggs Cirenit Court of St. Louis County| has granted a temporary anti-picket- ing injunction against the Interna-| tional Molders’ Union. This compa-| ny is one of the few which refused to renew the wage contract with the union. | £. Pennsylvania. Twenty Negroes arrested in a raid on a pool-room at Johnstown on Dec. 24 were fined $50 and ordered to leave the city by) Mayor Joseph Cauffiel. “Go back! south and don’t show your face again above the Mason-Dixon line”, the! ‘Mayor ordered in disposing of the cases, Take It or Leave It DETROIT, Mich.—Henry Ford’s offer for Muscle Shoals still stands and no new proposal will be made, it was learned today, ——___ Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. Coupons Sell for 10c, 25c, 50c and $1. A full set sells for $6. Anti-religious offensives take up a goodly share of the time of the Young Communist League of Russia. Seeped in superstition, the Russian peasant makes a difficult pupil, and the youth in Russia are the edu- cators, Religion is a problem that is not peculiar to the Russians. All rev- olutionary organizations must conti- ually let down the cudgel with a smart tap on the head of this all mitelism., Especially the yout! should perform this function. In speaking of religion it brings. a smile to the face of “unbelievers,” when they hear their religionist en- emies admit (this is from “The Vine- yard of the East,” a paper for the devout), that “The Christian people do not live Christ-like lives. In fact their lives are no better than those of the Pagans and unbelievers, and, alas! sometimes even worse!” Only, the cloak of religion is supposed to excuse their missteps. LABO RA. LD. 4 orker Fastest Growing Daily in Americ Militants All Over Country Campaigning for Subs. | iméo sa est number of subs and to the W ers Party branch which makes best record. In connection with 3 DAILY WORKEKR at the country subscription price of $t per year the other militant peri cals are being sold in combinatio: reduced rates. The Party in Det is using the commissions gener paid to Branch DAILY RE agents to finance the drive: How successful this method work has been is indicated by dozens of DAILY bptomy * . which come pouring in from Det: every day. Details of the Detroit plan can secured from THE DAILY WORK or from Edgar Owens, 2101 Grai Ave., Detroit, Mich, ¢ Cigars, Cigarettes, Candie M. KAPLAN DELICATESSEN AND ICE CREAM PARLOR Orders taken for Parties, Weddings, Picnics, ete. 2559 W. Division St.. Chicag Phone Humboldt 8285 WORKERS, ATTENTION! We carry Union made Cigars « Tobacco, Pi Toys, Magazin Confection d Statio; Buy Your Herald and Daily Werl Here. CHAS. RASMUSSEN 2621 W. NORTH AVENUE Phone Armitage 0366, ie PAPA AAAAPALAAAIORA, GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros, UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE, Call REPUBLIC 3768 Telephone Brunswick 5991 DR. A. FABRICANT DENTIST 2088 W. DIVISION STREET CHICAGO, IL Dr. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 7 -sraction Sueetalint 2000 N. 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Reg - “ssemse- - Send for several sets—or one set—or part of a set, paying in advance for as man as you think you can sell, We will send you Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons for the amount you can sell them to your fellow-workers and get your money back. LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, 166 W. Washington St., Chicago, I