The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1924, Page 5

January 23, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER NEEDLE INDUSTRY MILITANTS CALL NATIONAL MEET Will Mans Fight to Save the Unions Declaring that demoralization faces the needle trades unions unless effec- tive’ methods are taken to stop the campaign of expulsion initiated and being carried out by the “motley crew of labor bureaucrats and their socialist allies,’ the International Committee of the Needle Trades Sec- tion of the Trade Union Educational League has sent out a call for a na- tional conference of the left wing elements in the needle trades to meet in New York on February 9th and 10th: The call follows: Comrades and Brothers: The influence of the militants in the American Labor Movement is as- suming ever greater proportions. In the Needle Trades, the militants can with just pride, claim the honor of being among the pioneers of all ad- vanced ideas in the trade-union move- ment in America. As far back as 1923 they organized into various groups. No matter under which name these groups functioned, their pur- pose was to make a better, cleaner, anda stronger union. From. small, isolated groups, the militants haye grown into a power- ful movement, counting many thou- sands. Never before has there been an opportunity of realizing progres- sive policies in our unions as at pres- ent. In great fear of the tremendous growth and prestige gained by the militants this motley crew of labor bureaucrats and their socialist satel- lites have formed @ holy alliance “for suspensions and expulsions. Raising the bogey of dual unionists, disruptionists, outsiders, etc., they are expelling the most active mem- bers, thus demoralizing the ranks of the workers. At a time when the industry is shattered, when many shops are mov- ing out of town and working on an “open shop” basis; at @ time when the employers are getting more and more aggressive trying to take away all the gains achieved by us thru long years of bitter struggle; at a time when strikes are imminent in almost every branch of the industry, the reactionary bureaucrats, instead of unifying and consolidating the tanks of the workers in a combat ainst the employers, are pursuing licy of creating chaos and demor- j tsation amongst the ranks of the rkers. In the I. L. G. W. U. they started a campaign of expulsions and suspensions of the most active mem- _bers, In the Amalgamated Clothing Workers the old discredited labor fakers are brought in as “False Mes- siahs.” In the Furriers Union r4 terism and slugging prevail as a means to suppress the ever-growing protests of the membership, In order to stop these treacherous actions of the officials, in order to meet the attacks of the employers, it is the task of the militants to work out ‘a definite fighting policy, which will tend to consolidate the ranks of the workers and prevent further de- moralization of our union. A na- tional conference of Needle Trades militants of United States and Can-| ada, has been called to convene in New York on February 9-10, the conference to open Saturday, Febru- ary 9th, 10 A. M. All leagues affiliated with the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. of U. 8. and Canada are entitled to send delegates. Let all militant le workers rally to this call, International Committee of Needle Trades Section of T. U. 4 fs . Koretz, Secretary. The action of President Sigman of the I. L. G. W. U. in expelling several of the leading members in the Chicago unions has aroused na- tionwide anger among the rank and file. That this policy will not have the effect of intimidating the mili- “tants is indicated by their increased activity. DO YOUR WORK AT J. KAPLAN’S CLEANERS AND DYERS EXPERT LADIES’ AND GENTS’ TAILOR 3646 ARMITAGE AVE. Albany 9400 Work Called For And Delivered ro are judged by the books they All the best books, old and new, can be obtained from Merris Bernstein's Book Shop, 3733 West Roosevelt Road. Phone Rockwell 1458, Stationery, Music and all Periodicals. Come and get a Debs calendar free. TO THE DAILY WORKER—T speaking Communist daily is definite’ the whole international movement. Nowhere are the difficulties to be of Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Nowhere We in Britain, whose socialism American conditions and contacts, bi from the experiences gained among you by many of our own leaders, look with admiration and emulation to the magnificent progress of the Workers Party of America and its press, In the front rank the work of the Trade Union Educational League in awakening and welding together the nascent class-conscious forces in American trade unionism has struck imagination here because of the sim- ilarity of the problem to be faced and of the enemy to be fought. Both in America arid Britain a a sleeping working class hemmed in by corruption, to battle against lead- ers without disruption, ‘to unite the scattered and desperate revolutionary forces and end their isolation, to overcome the instinctive distrust of the masses against all parties, lead- ership and polities, to combat the deep-rooted industrialist and syndi- calist tendencies of many of the best and most class-congcious ele- ments of our own forces, and to cre- ate a real living revolutionary move- ment capable of arousing and organ- izing the mighty mass forces which lie still unstirred beneath the sur- face of American and British capital- Red Letter Day for International ___ international proletariat more tremendous. heavy task is laid upon us to awaken! he day on which the first Englishe ly established is a red-letter day for surmounted greater than in the realms are the results to be achieved for the has derived so much stimulus from oth from militants and writers, and ist society. Gigantic issues await our move- ments, which involve the whole fu- ture of the world working class, The American and British ruling class, united for the moment in insecure partnership in the exploitation of the world, may at any point find them- selves face to face in mortal oppo- | sition. When that time comes, on } Our readiness all will depend, Al- | ready the seeds of hatred are being sown among the masses, Already the machinery of power to replace the mockery of democracy is being prepared, Against these forces, no vague aspiration, no negative oppo- sition will avail, but only the em- battled force of the world working class united in the Communist In- ternational. May we be quickly ready to take | our place and prove ourselves equal j to the events that await us, | With Communist Greetings, R. PALME DUTT, Editor of.the Labour Monthly. Editor of the Workers’ Weekly. Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Great Britain. WITH THEY CONDUCTED - BY TH League,” is the latest ste Legion to kill the bonus bill now pen | j against the rank and file of ex-serv- ice men who are heartily disgusted | with the repeated attempts to side- track the facts behind the failure of the capitalist government to pro- vide a bonus to those who suffered loss of limb and health, not to say working-time, during the war. The Daily News ad, addressed to “X-Service Man and: Patriotie Citi- zen,” is undoubtedly inspired by some of the reactionary officers who were instrumental in organizing the Amer- ican Legion, before that. body was flooded by the rank.and file who have succeeded in hcg iyo attention of that misdirected body toward a bonus. Says the ad: “The Bonus was NOT born in Paris in 1919, when the Amerjean Legion was formed. No official demand for a bonus was made at the organization meeting of the Legion held in St. | Louis, nor at: its first national con- vention at Minneapolis.” Every ex-service man knows that the bunch of sullen and over-pom- pous, scurvy officers who organized the Legion in Paris were not mindful of the wishes of the great mass of buddies who ate mud for grub and bound their wounds in filthy rags dur- ng the war. The gang that organized the Legion in the dives of Paris did |not demand the bonus because they never dreamed that their control over the men in the ranks would disappear when they were mustered out. The usual bunk about a bonus be- ing wages for. patriotism is again handed out, by the shady group of alleged “public spirited citizens and ex-soldiers” responsible for the latest anti-bonus gas attack. The billions of Yollars wasted in the interest of profiteers is a story that every intelligent war vet knows; and will take a good deal of search before you find a real worker who was‘forced into the ranks of the slaughtering force who does not want to get back some of the wages he lost because Morgan needed the services of 4,000,000 American young felléws to t the princi) and interest of vast loans to the Euro) capitalist nations. The story about the Government ordering more curry- combs than there were horses and mules in use by the United States army, is just one of the illustrations that makes the dough boys when you try to fill them “don’ -for-you a. American capitalism is not only | fi) wealthy snouts 0 @ bonus with- ft f the f out feeling eftests o' ow Eat Where All Friends Meet Gordon’s High Grade Restaurant and Oriental Kitchen VISIT OUR CLUB DINING ROOM ) We also cater to banquets and parties ‘1259 S. Halsted St. We are open CHICAGO late at night. Start Campaign A costly advertisement by the so-called “Ex-Service Men’s Anti-Bonus in the organized campaign by the American Not content with the rebuke of the soldier-audience at the bonus mass meeting in Chicago recently, the army-officer officials at the head of the American Legion are now carrying on a disguised mud-slinging campaign reith the | from WORKERS UNG WORKERS LEAGUE to Bury Bonus ding in Washington. books, but they should be relieved somewhat, likewise, to provide in pro- per manner for the thousands of dis- abled soldiers who receive the most miserable treatment in the govern- ment hospitals at the present time. The size of the bonus proposd by the capitalist politicians is by far too small for the sacrifices made by the American soldiers during the world war. With 85 per cent of all taxes paid for war purposes, the sdldiers can rightfully demand that a stop be made to the increasing expenditures for armaments. The intended mobili- zations of 400,000 men thruout the United States, is a great waste of money that coald be used for the bonus. Instead of the North Pole trip of the Shenandoah, the cost of this war preparation could be chipped in for the measly bonus that the soldiers want. Money just oozes out of the war de- id yet not a penny is x-soldiers for their in- describable suffering and misery while in the lousy trenches over in France. You will never be able to tell the ex-soldiers that they were not cheated | —yes, robbed—-out of a bonus, | should the pending bill fail to pass. Ex-soldiers, you can get that bonus; you can get what belongs to you. But not under the rship of your present Legion officers who are sworn against any such benefit to you. De- mand the bonus out of the swollen military budget and dont be brow- beaten with the fossilized, not to say brazenly lying retort of “no compen- sation for patriotic service during the war.” The bonus belongs to you. Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Cake-eating Cadets Strike! The can fascisti know the utility and the effectiveness of a strike. The en- tire sophomore class, numbering 113 men, of the Virginia Military insti- tute at Lexington, V: strike recently st against punishment imposed a vigilance committee upon one of its members. lesson can be learned by future officers of the Ameri-| ¥% DARK TENEMENT ROOMS MUST 60, SAY N.Y, WOMEN Unite to End Horrible} Housing Conditions | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—Shameful housing conditions, rivaling those that Jacob Riis exposed in “How the Other Half Lives,” are being unveiled by the commission appointed by Governor Smith. e Tubercular breeding dark rooms are still common. The commission found as many as fourteen persons crowded into four dark rooms with- out improvements or sanitation. Many tenement flats lack water and toilets. Tenement houses which would be condemned by enforcement of existing laws are doing a thriving blood-money business. While Governor Smith’s commis- sion is laying bare the secrets of the tenements the working women of New York have come together in an organization to force remedial action. The new organization, is called the United Council of Working class Women. At the first meeting of the Central Committee, Jan. 16, plans well. laid for a series of demonstra- tions and meetings, Kate Gitlow is secretary. At an earlier conference which ruled in favor of a women’s organiza- tion to abolish the home-wrecking dark room, 46 organizations were represented. They included the Workers’ Party branches of New York; the Workmen’s Circles; the Lithuanian Progressive Women’s Al- liance with 2,000 members; the In- dependent Workmen’s Circles Auxil- iary, the Socialist Consumers’ League and 11 mothers’ leagues from Boston, OWEN RENEWS FIGHT ON SEGRET DIPLOMAGY IN THE U, S, SENATE (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. — Renewing his fight against secret diplomacy, which he has charged with responsibility for the world war, Senator Owen egme to the support in the Senate, of Senator Borah’s denunciation of French evasion of the American debt. He argued that restoration of pro- duction in Europe must follow upon restoration of confidence in the sta- bility of the governments, and this will require that the French get out of the Ruhr, and that the French and German governments and press shall ¢o1 if Propaganda campaign of good- Then, as a guaranty for the fu- ture, the French foreign office must be put under the control of the Chamber of Deputies, just as Ramsay MacDonald proposes that Britain’s — office respond to the parlia- ment, More Unemployment, BOSTON, Mass.—Owing to trade depression the mills of the Hamiton Woolen Company, Southbridge, will ALBANY, N. Y,—Two thousa: the New York Central in order th: conducted. ** throngs of American tourists who in Rome. Just Facts! nd shopmen are being laid off by at the annual inventory might be ae NEW YORK, N. Y.—Five liners left here for Europe carrying are on their way to spend Easter Three hundred tourists left on the United American liner, “Resolute,” for a 30,000 mile tour of the world, UNIST-CoILOREM-COLUAEH Fad A a CHILDREN’S COLUMN Tommy the Newsboy By H. LANE Thomas was a little newsboy. But wae he one of the rough, uncultivated little newsboys who stick their papers under our nose as we are rushing to catch a car, and shout the news in coarse strident voices? He was—not. He was a little gentleman. Thomas was a little newsboy in a book by that great student of human nature, Horatio Alger, Jr. A gentleman came along. “My lad,’ said the (gentlemen always say | “my lad” to Horatio newsboys; they know intuitively that they have the happiness to patronize a diamond in the rough) “I should be delighted to buy one of your papers, but I have nothing smaller than a five dollar bill.” The gentleman was well dressed; expensive simplicity, and all that sort of thing. “That is all right,” said our little hero, “it is a pleasure to be of service to you. Take a paper |dollar bill. free. Take one home to your wife, too.” And he thrust two papers into the hand of the courtly gentleman, who iwas dressed with expensive sim- plicity. The next day the gentleman came by again. “My lad,” said he, and his little friend gave a low bow with true Horatian courtesy, “I appreciate your honesty and generosity. I know merit when I see it. Here is a thousand I hope you will come to work for me at a hundred dollars a week, and when you are old enough I want you to marry my daughter. I should be proud to have you for a son-in-law. Your -work will be to at- tend school thru college.” This is the way things always hap- pen in real life. Heaven only knows how Horatio got such a keen insight into human nature, but there you have it. Bread cast upon Algerian waters (Horatio Algerian, that is) al- ways returns ‘in the form of cake, ready iced, with birthday candles on it. How to Get Thin, The organ of eminent respecta- bility and conservatism—‘Saturday Evening Post”—offers the following advice on how to get thin: Several cups of hot water on ris- ing. A brisk walk of about a mile, Breakfast. Brief rest, A five or six mile road jog. Rubdown by servant, Luncheon. Another period of digestive rest. Workout in gymnasium, sparring with partners. Shower and vigorous rubdown. An undisturbed hour of recumbent relaxation, Dinner. A few gecreationa] hours before bedtime. “What about my job?” asks a‘rude proletarian reader. Well, what about your job, we reply. If you read it in the Saturday Evening Post, it is so. Just tell your boss that you are getting too fat and he’ll tell you. ... cininsiaceen seas, Find Thin Safeguard. WASHINGTON.—Farmer and labor interests are to some degree safeguarded by the amendments to the House rules which .have been; adopted in the fight of the past week on the floor. One hundred and fifty members can now, by joint petition, force to @ roll call the issue of whether the House shall proceed to debate and vote on a railroad bill. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first allment of “A Week,” the operate only four days per week. ¢ Pacific Mills worsted division has also shut down a few looms. great epic of the n revolution, 100 Per Cent Americanism. Cotton prices fell down, reaching the lowest level of the last two months amid general _ liquidation. Cotton farmers are unable to borrow from the banks. The Japanese gov- ernment is making a loan of $50,- 000,000 and the Argentine Govern- ment $40,000,000. Soviet Furs Arrive. NEW YORK.—The first consign- ment of Soviet furs arrived here, under Arcos contract, tonsigned to Elrington-Schild Co. Fur dealers commented favorably on the quality and the first consignment had no trouble in finding buyers. Additional shipments are expected to find as prompt buyers as the first arrival. McAdoo Out of Nebraska the Nebraska primary Democratic presidental nominations he wired Governor Charles W. Bryan today. early days of its existence. Our reade: Worker from by the brilliant young Russian writer, lury Libedinsky. It will start soon, LINCOLN, Neb.—William G. Mc-; Adoo’s name will not be entered on! the next three months as he has Boost the News Stan Page Five NEW ATTACK ON DAIRY FARMERS AUGURS STRIKE Agreement Is Violated, Say Angry Producers Representatives of the Milk BPro- ducers Association charge that the Bowman Dairy Company and other milk middlemen are out to break the farmers’ organization and Chicago is confronted with another and far more widespread milk strike than the one ended a few days ago by a compromise settlement between the Bowman Dairy Company and the Milk Producers Association which the company has now violated. The Bowman Dairy Company, which controls a third or more of the milk distributing business in Chicago, is now announcing that it will refuse to buy milk from farm- ers who do not sign a year’s con- tract at the present price of $2.67% per hundred, which the farmers ob- tained in the last settlement. The company’s arbitrary demand in bulletin form was posted at all its depots within fifty miles of Chicago, and states that farmers must agree to deliver a minimum quantity of milk to the company “at the prevail- ing prices’ and ‘warns the farmers that contracts must be signed today or their milk will not be purchased by the company agents, A penalty clause is also contained in the company ukase to the effect that any milk producer who fails to bring in the quantity demanded by the contract, may, at the pleasure of the company, be paid at the rate of $2.03 per hundred instead of $2.67 44. Mr. Fowler, secretary of the Milk Producers Association, called atten- tion tq the fact that the present agreement expires April 1 and that the Bowman Dairy Company, by forcing long’ term contracts at this time, believes it will he able to have things its own way after the expira- tion of the present understanding. Fowler charges that the Chicago middlemen are out to break the pro- ducers’ organization; that other deal- ers refuse to be bound by the Bow- man prices and that the dealers ac- tually provoked the recent milk strike by their arbitrary attitude. “This fight,” said Fowler, “together with its origin, is something more than prices. There is no logical rea- son why the farmer should not get the same price for his milk during received during the last six.” Work Daily for “The Daily!” dSaies The Daily Worker can now be secured on the news stands in the city of Chicago. it is of great importance that those who have chai of such stands should be given encouragement to display the Daily Wo in the are therefore urged to purchase at. least one copy ef the Daily Worker each day -until it is well advertised. It is of special importance that our readers should ask for The Daily the news agent near t heir homes. 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