The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1924, Page 3

‘ January 25, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Daily Worker Publishes List of Unsafe Schools O'GRADY FIRST AMBASSADOR OF BRITISH TO RUSS Thomas Quits Trade Union Post (Continued from page 1.) ference with the members of the unions involved and the executive of the Trades Union Congress of which he made a report to the first meeting of the cabinet, The Trade Union Congress exec- utive has appointed an emergency committee to intervene in the strike when the moment is considered op- portune. Thomas Quits Secretaryship. J, H, Thomas, has resigned’ his po- sition as secretary of the Nation: Union of Railwaymen to devote hi whole time to his duties as colonial secretary. It is believed that this will tend to diminish the hostility which exists between his organiza- tion and that of J. Bromley, secre- tary of the Society of Enginemen and Firemen, the union now on strike. A meeting of the railway managers adjourned after long debate without answering the offer of the strikers for fresh conferences. ** * @ Britain’s Labor Ministers. LONDON.—After the excitement of watching the first Labor party ministry take over the government of the British empire London has settled down to its old routine with the feeling that this new govern- ment’ will make few if any basic changes in the political and economic system. Even the conservative press ‘and the big industrialists and bank- ers with few exceptions point out that the Labor party chiefs aye “moderates” who are apt to steer a “safe” course under the “sobering pressure of responsibility.” The se- verest critics of the new cabinet are the left wing Socialists and the Com- munists, “Safe and Sane.” Examination of the records of the new cabinet officers supports the be- lief that most of them are “safe,” which explains the co-operation of Asquith and the Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald, the new pre- mier and foreign minister, has long __. been sa leader pi. the Centrist group in his party and the European So- cialist movement. Born in Scotland in 1866 of peasant parents, he began work at the age of 12. At 19 he was a Socialist. First a teacher and then a journalist, he began his po- litical career as a secretary to a Liberal M. P. In 1906 he was elec- ted to parliament from Leicester and served till 1918, He was the first secretary of the Labor party, Dur- ing the war he was prominent as a pacifist, and as such resigned the chairmanship of the parliamentary Labor party which supported the war, Clynes for League. J. R, Clynes, lord of privy seal and deputy leader house of commons, is the chief of the moderates of the right wing of the pd and ag such succeeded MacDonald as official par- ty leader during the war hysteria. He was a member of the coalition war government as food controller. He is a strong advocate of the pres- ent league of nations. Of Irish par- ents, he began work at 10 in a cotton mill. Long a union organ- izer, he later became president of the National Union of General Work- ers. Henderson Ex-Sky Pilot. - Arthur Henderson, the new home secretary, is the organizing expert oft, the party, an able politician. Known as “Uncle Arthur,” he is a prominent Wesleyan lay-preacher. Thomas Conservative Unionist. J. H. Thomas, new secretary for colonies, is another conservative La- borite, president of the (Amster- dam) International Federation of Trade Unions, Sydney Webb—Fabian. oe Webb, president board of trade, is a noted British economist, founder of the London School of Economics. With Bernard Shaw, he began carried on the Fabian Socialist society, the intellectuai and theoretical side of the Labor move- ment. He is the oathor of many authoritative bool:s on co-operatives, unions, and Socialism. Tom Shaw, minister of labor, is a joint secretary of the Amsterdam Socialist International. He came into the Labor party as a trade anion official in the Amalgamated Weavers Association. Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, is a brilliant intellectual | % and one of the ablest speakers in liament. of the Independent Labor party of the civil service, which he entered | ¥ it 22, - . Pai Haldane, lord chancellor, has held various in_several Liberal t ormer! » was viceroy of i Wheatley—Lone Leftwinger. Th only man in the Wheatley, ‘minister ‘of, health is one of Tho edt wing Gl group, 50 Firetrap School Houses Peril Chicago Children, But School Board Does Nothing Since THE DAILY WORKER began its investigation of fire trap public school buildings the chief engineer of the Board of Education has inforthed the buildings committee of the board that more than fifty public schools in the city are fire traps. According to John C. McDonnell, chief of the fire preven- tion bureau of the fire department, the Board of Education and the superintendents of schools are the “hardest people in the world to convince of the necessity of fire prevention equip- ment.” The chief of the bureau made this statement in a report to the mayor on the work of his bureau, city council for action. REFUSE TO CLOSE The report was submitted to the UNSAFE SCHOOLS. The report of the bureau says that all sorts of buildings now being used by city and state instButions are unsafe and a menace to life. engineers of the bureau are working on,a list of such buildings which they Public school buildings which should be condemned are in use because of alleged lack of funds. declare are unsafe. states that if all unsafe schools and The The report of the bureau other public buildings were closed the | and an addition made in 1883. It public would protest so much that|has 82 rooms and 1099 seats. that bureau of fire prevention would be forced to reopen them. As an example of the difficulty the |; bureau of fire prevention has to meet with in dealing with those in charge of schools the report recites the fol- lowing incident. “I have in mind a recommendation | #74 Walnut streets. ,made by this bureau in March, 1923, concerning the Wentworth schoo] and the Perkins Bass school, both on the south side: asked for in both instances, Sprinkler systems were | Loomis and 18th streets. Dore school, (27th ward), 758 W. Harrison street. ‘The original build- ing was erected in 18 7 and an addi- tion made in 1900, It has 2 rooms and seats for 854 pupils, Hayes school, (28th ward), Leavitt The original building was erected in 1867. It has 16 rooms with 624 seats, Holden ichool, (11th ward), The orig- A fire |inal building was erected in 1867. It escape and changes in the fire drills/has 39,rooms and 1381 seats. were urged, Also that the loose chairs in the assembly hall be fasten- ed to the floor, tions were sent Carpenter school, (31st ward), N. Racine and Huron streets. The ori; the Board of Education and Superin-|rooms and 1123 seats, t tendent Mortenson, who sharply knocked out all recommendations in per Pl. and Larrabee street, a letter to the fire commissioner.” Nothing Is Done, Lincoln school. (44th ward), Kem- The original building was erected 1870 and an addition made 1894. It has Since then nothing to improve con-|13 rooms and 945 seats. ditions in these _ schools done, Is the Board of Education interest- ed in the safety of the children who attend the public schools? In submitting the report of the bureau of fire prevention to the coun- cil the mayor said that on account of the present shortage of buildings he hesitated to close any and hoped that tragedy could be averted till vaca- tion when he would advocate emerg- ency measures be taken. The mayor’s message together with the report of the: fire prevention bureau were re- ferred to the committee on buildings. 60-Year Old Buildings. Engineers of the Fire Prevention Bureau are at work making up a list of public schools which they consider unsafe. School children are being housed in buildings more than sixty-years old. The Board of Education has an- nounced as its building policy that no building that can be made “safe, san- itary, and usable will be replaced by a new structure.” Their plans for the repair of old buildings and the erection of new ones makes no men- tion of the J. N. Thorp school the condition of which was described in has been He was an early mem-|% ents. Y rd, first lord of | poate ae woe yesterday’s DAILY WORKER. This school building is only one of many in the city that are unsafe, not sani- tary and not properly usable that the board does not plan to do anything about. Some of the Firetraps. The following is a list of school buildings in Chicago more than forty years old, built before the days of modern fire prevention construction and sanitation. The DAILY WORKER will publish reports of all these schools. Moseley school, (1st ward). The Nein gor building was erected in 1856 and an addition made in 1875. It has 21 rooms: seating 882 pupils. Brown school, (27th ward), War- ren ave, and Wood,street. The orig- inal building of this schoo! was erect- ed in 1857 and an addition made in 1870. It hag 29 rooms with 945 seats; product of war. and 1421 pupils, Newberry school, ori Burr school, (83rd ward), Waban- sia and Ashland avenues. The orig- inal building was erected in 1873 and additions made 1885 and 1897. It has 52 rooms and 1466 seats. King school, (25th ward), 2420 W. Harrison street. The original build- ing was erected in 1873 and an addi- tion made 1885. It has 23 rooms and 1119 seats, Schiller school, (43rd ward), 700 Vedder street. The original build- ing was erected in 1873 and an addi- tion made 1893, It has 32 rooms and 1119 seats. Ward school, (1st ward), Shields avenue and 27th street. The original building was erected in 1874 and an addition made 1897. It has 28 rooms with 992 seats. Pickard school, (21st ward), 21st Place and Oakley avenue. The orig- inal building was erected in 1874 and additions made 1893, 1903, 1916. It has 35 rooms, 1375 seats. Vanderpoel school, (19th ward), Prospect avenue and 95th street, The origina] building was erected in 1878 and additions made 1898, 1911. It has 16 rooms and 528 seats. Otis school. (31st ward), Grand and Armour avenues. The original building was erected in 1879, and ad- ditions made in 1893, 1906. It has 38 rooms and 1467 seats. Raymond school, (2nd ward), Wa- bash avenune and 36th Place. The building was erected in 1879 and an addition made 1886. It has 23 rooms and 720 seats, How Much Goes For War? “It is estimated that $2 out of ev- ery $10 you spend is taken out in taxes. The galling part of this tax proposition is that only 17 cents out of every dollar taken out of the tax- payer’s pocket for our federal gov- ernment is spent for the general ex- penses of our government. The re- mainder goes to pay interest on our war debts, the upkeep of our army and navy, pensions, and the support of our Veteran’s Bureau—all the The pensions and aid to our ex-service men we do not (48rd__-ward), | begrudge, but if does seem hard that Willow and Orchard streets. The|our al building was erected in 1858 | yea ople shall be burdened for ‘with this great war debt.” and an addition made in 1895. It has|‘ This is the gist of a speech deliver- 80 rooms with 1007 seats. ed by Solomon Levitan, State Treas- Skinner school, (29th ward), W.|urer of the State of Wisconsin, be- Jackson Blvd. and Aberdeen street. | fore the Community Club of Denas- The building was erected in 1859. It| ville, Wisc. He made the argument has 22 rooms with 900 seats. in favor of the Mellon plan of tax Clarke school, (26th ward), Ash-|reduction. How this would wipe out land ave. and 18th street. The ori inal building was erected in 1865; the war debt was not made plain, -|Tinkering with the tax machine is ditions were made in 1910 and 1913,|merely a method of benefitting one It has 46 rooms and 1872 seats. Wells school, (32nd ward), N. Ash-' other. of capitalists as against an- grou 4 In the end the worker pays land ave, and Walton street. The 'all the freight. The way to wipe out original building was erected in 1865 Special Issue of Daily for the Lenin Memorial Meetings For the week ending Feb. 2, the Magazine Section of THE DAILY WORKER will be issued in the Wednesday (January 30) edition, instead of Saturday's as heretofore. This change is made in order to make it possible for those in charge of the Lenin memorial war debts is to wipe them out. NMS Worler RUSSIA TAKES LAST LOOK AT NICOLAI LENIN Masses File Past Body on Red Dais in Moscow (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.— While Moscow was still in the throes of emotion that followed Lenin’s death, foreign min- ister Chicherin announced that the Russian government would continue to follow the basic policies of the great departed leader. * Peace with all the outside world and the building yp of the industries and agriculture of Russia will be the aims of the administrative forces of the nation, now, as before. The farewell viewing of Lenin by the scores of thousands of mourners who filed past his bier was an im- pressive and solemn occcasion such as has never been seen in the metrop- olis, The enormous crowd waited while Lenin’s immediate colleagues and the leaders of the trade unions took their final look at him when the doors were opened and the masses of the people marched past the body. Lenin lay in a black casket on a dias draped in red in the hall of the House of the Unions in Moscow. As the crowds marched past the quiet figure in its gray-brown suit sounds of sobbing were heard from the peg- ple who loved him for his unsur-/| These recommenda- | inal building was erected in 1868 pr Passed career of devotion to their to the President of|an addition made in 1891, It has 27 welfare. The crowd filed past, eight abreast, with the lines stretching out for half a mile outside. The mournful farewell continued until late in the evening, while new crowds added themselves to the pro-| ion. Lenin’s body left the village of Gorky, when the premier died, early in the morning. It was borne from the Moscow’ railroad station on the Shoulders of devoted colleagues to the House of the Unions, where it Jay in state thruout the day. Flags hung at half mast all day over embassies, legations and head- quarters of missions which have rec- ognized Russia or established trade relations. A solemn quict marked the city. Party Will Carry On Lenin’s Work, Says Ruthenberg Pledging the aid of the American Communist movement, in working for the world working class revolu- tion, to which Nicolai Lenin dedi- cated his whole life, C. E. Ruthen- berg, Executive ‘Secretary of the Workers Party, sent the following eablegram to the Communist Inter- national in Moscow: “In the name of the Communists of the United States and hund- reds of thousands of adherents to the cause of the workers and peasants of Russia, the central executive committee of the Work- ers’ Party expresses deep symp- athy with the workers and peas- ants of Soviet Russia in the loss of our great leader Lenin. In his bape? 4 we pledge ourselves to work wit ter ener, and with unshakeable determination for the principles he gave us and to cal forward those principles until the triumph of the world proletarian revolution of which he was the great leader. Omaha Meeting Will Be Held In Lenin’s Memory OMAHA, Neb.—The Lenin Mem- morial meeting which the Workers Party will hold in the Labor Lyceum, Sunday afternoon, Feb. 3, will be one of the biggest held in Omaha this year, judging from the emotion which the passing of the revolutionary lead- er caused in the hearts of thousands of persons hete. A tribute to Lenin prepared by the Omaha branch of the party says: “He brought peace to Russia. He drove out misery and strife. He gathered together’ the twisted rails and built railroads. Where amine laid waste the land he planted wheat. Idle smokestacks were returned — to their task. A great nation was re- stored to unity. But he paid the price.” Memorial day speakers will include Tom Matthews, Rev. J. L. Beebe, W. H. Green and D. Reznik. Russia A Friend Says Mongolian Political Leader PEKING, China.—‘The Mongolian | people are sympathetic with Soviet Russia,” says Dunsan Bagatad, chair- man of the central committee of the | People’s Revolutionary Party in | Mongolia, who is visiting Peking. | “Soviet Russia has repudiated the rapacious policy of the Tsarist gov- |ernment and the Mongolians realize |that she is helping the Mongolian |people in gaining and consolidating |their freedom.” |. Economie conditions are improv- ing steadily in Mongolia, largely thru the influence of the co-operatives, | says Bagatad.. In the city, of Urga, for instance, the co-operative move- ment is running a leather mill, meat, | works, and other enterprises. The cost of seed grain for the farmers is financed in part by the Ministry of _ Finance, \Strike Will Halt Dressmaking In Open Shop Plants A general strike of all the non- union dressmaking plants in Chi- cago next month is the program of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers, in case the open shop man- ufacturers refuse to enter into an agreement, it was learned at the Wells street office last night. A big pre-strike mass meeting will be held in Schoenhofen’s Hall, Ashland and Milwaukee Aves., Tues- day evening, Feb, 5, at which plans for the walkout will be announced. Strike agitation has been carried out by the rank-and-file militants fora iong time and if the organiza- tion officially throws its strength into the program, it was pointed out, the remaining non-union portion of the ladies’ garment industry in Chi- cago can be organized as effectively as was the men’s garment industry after the successful 1919 strike. Salzman Starts New Tour. Max Salzman, national organizer of the Young Workers League, will tour the New England district and visit all the important towns of that district, strengthening and building the youth movement. Salzman just concluded a tour of several months in the Minnesota and Michigan dis- tricts where he organized new branches of the league. The industrial district of New Eng- land with its thousands of child (signed) Ruthenbergw.ss| Jaborers, is a fertile field for organ- i Lenin Greatest Statesman, Says Frank P. Walsh Euk could geld higher than Frank P. Walsh’s ute to Nicolai Lenin, which he telegraphed to the Friends of Soviet Russia. “The greatest revolutionary states- man of all time’, says the noted lawyer who has been taking an active part in the last few years in the movement for the recognition of the bese lie and in the defense of on trial under re- actionary laws, ‘ The telegram follows: “The death of Lenin marks the passage of the greatest revolutionary statesman of all time, As thinker, strategist, and executive his place is unique in the history of revolutionary government. Regardless of agreement or disagree- ment with his principles and politics the world must pay tribute to him, as an intellectual marvel and a brave and honest man.” Cleveland Party Mesting. CLEVELAND,—The campaign for the Rivretion of the foreign born discussed fully at a gen- eral parser | meeting of Cleve- land local, Workers Party, Sunday, Jan, 27, at 2:30 p. m,, at Sou Slavic Hall, 7 St. Clair avenue. A tea on the national convention will given by the Cleveland dele-| gation to the convention, Max Ler- ner, district organizer; N. Schaffer and Angelo Severino, zation and it is expected that Salz- man will have good results. All Party branches and language sections should give. their unstinted support. The tour is as follows: Gardner, Mass., Jan. 27-28; Fitch- burg, Jan. 29-30; Worcester, Jan. 80-Feb. 1; Maynard, Feb. 2-8; Low- ell, Feb, 4-5; Lawrence, Feb. 6-7; ‘Amesbury, Feb. 8-9; Boston, Rox- bury, Lett Branch, Feb. 10-18; Lynn, Revere, Norwood, Feb, 19-20; Quin- cy, Feb. 21-22; Brockton, Feb. 28-24; Providence, R. L, Feb, 25-26, Furriers Fight Low Wages. MONTREAL.—Montreal and Tor- onto locals of the International Fur Workers’ union combined their forces for defending their present wage standard does not allow any reduc- recently under Internation Presi- dent Morris Kaufman. Resolutions, claiming that the present low wage standard does not allow any reduc- tions without degrading the wages to a starvation limit and asking the international to use every possible means to maintain the present rate, were passed, Moral and fi- nancial support was pledged to the Toronto locals, already actually en- gaged in the fight to maintain the present agreement. Poles Accept Inevitable. MOSCOW.--The Polish Govern- ment has addressed a note to the Soviet Government, whereby it th | acknowledges without reservations and takes to cognisance the notifi- cation of the Soviet Govrnment re- garding the formation of the Union of let Socialist Republics, The note re-affirms that Poland “agrees! to maintain normal diplomatic re- lations with the i ‘The Industries fer the workers! - Socialist 4 Cries Starving G ISTAL YELEGRAPH SHORE 92/3" VHA RCA SEMIN sate 16 1926 SOUTH wataen ave $2 Gee CACHEENOES ARGE: TOLOSEMEER GTOP Double Your Aid or We Will Perish; ermany to World COMMERCIAL CABLES | soveves (Cmmittas Atrailibreat Meatione’ he. } STRREENCE NOT STOP HILFE WeRtOOORe STOP TACOL ICH AUEGASE 16008 COCEH STOP KINDEmGee CeOgrrNEY Gree ORINGENO UNTERSTUETZT HILFE UIT GELO UND HARER UFIMPLOTEMEEE GROWTRO S/R = DOUBLY YOUR AID S70? OPENED CHILDRERS ROMR STOP ADD 90008. Gale Vite MoseT SEAT FOR EVERY KID, IS CANNON’S SCHOOL SLOGAN Party Official Attacks Firetrap Buildings “A seat for every school child in a safe school,’ is the slogan James Cannon, chairman of the Workers Party of America, suggested for the DAILY WORKER’S campaign against fire trap schools. “The conditions existing in the J. N. Thorp school and exposed in the DAILY WORKER are shameful. I feel sure that there are no schools along the North Shore that are in the same condition. I am very glad to see the DAILY WORKER go after these conditions and am sure they will be able to arouse the work- ers to the danger their children are facing,” he said. Find Conditions “Rotten” _ The exposure of the conditions in the J, N, Thorp school contained in yesterdays DAILY WORKER is only one example of rotten conditions in the public schools of Chicago. Mem- bers of the Young: Workers League and of the Junior Section of the Y. W. L. have long known of these con- ditions from members who attend public schools. It is not only in Chicago that school conditions are rotten, in every large city in the country they are the same. = The Young Workers League is) glad to get behind and help the DAILY WORKER in its campaign for better schools and exposure of present conditions. In the investiga- tion of conditions the Young Workers League is willing to place the entire resources of their organization at the disposal of the DAILY WORKER. We will do all in our power to help get better schools for the children of the workers. Workers Made Goats The refusal of the board of educa- tion to recognize the existence of fire- trap schools is part of the boards polltical lot to keep down expenses, As in all public economy plans the workers are the ones on whom the economy is carried out. The part time plan now in vogue in many of the crowded schools of Chi- cago supplies the bosses with part time Ghd slaves. When not in school many of the public school pupils work at home helping their parents earn a living in ‘all sorts of “home indus- tries.” The Young Workers League and the Junior Section of the League will fight unceasingly against fire trap schools, and part time education and calls upon the Chicago Teachers Fed- eration to join a joint campaign against these evils. Part-Time Democracy “The proud boast that free educa- tion in our public schools is the foundation of the American demo- eracy looks rather cheap when we realize that nearly all the children attending public schools in the cities of America are housed in schools such as the one described in Wednes- day’s DAILY WORKER. Part-time democracy is the only result that we can expect from part-time education, The overwhelming majority of the future workers of America will re- ceive only a public school education. They should receive the best possible education. How can they get a decent education in miserably inadeqyate schools? “The Workers Party in Chicago will get behind the DAILY WORKER in its campaign for better and safer schools and help to arouse the work- ers of Chicago to the educational needs of their children,” That is the statement of Arne Swabeck, organizer of district 8 of the Workers Party of America re- garding fire trap public schools and the campaign of the DAILY WORKER for better and safer schools. Protect the Foreign Born! BUENTEN AE RG ba orm veered 9 BAILY 18000 YOUR SUPPORT MISERY INCERASING STOR ore * Noted Shethers Will Tell About Hungry Germany The foregoing cablegram received by the Friends of Soviet Russia emphasizes the desperate crisis which the German workers and their children are facing. Thousands of Chicago imen and women will fill Ashland Auditorium next Sunday evening in a mass meeting for the sake of organizing relief for starving workers in Ger- P.| many and for demanding recognition of Soviet Russia. Professor Robert Morse Lovetts Max Selinsky, of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union; Albert Johnson, Congressman lately returned from .Russia; James P. Cannon, Chair- man of the Workers’ Party, and Max Bedacht, who spent many years in Germany will speak on the cen- trasting coinditions in the two coun- tries—where workers are dying in the ruins of German capitalism and conditions are steadily improving under the Russian Soviet system, ANOTHER COOLIDGE REACTIONARY LINED WASHINGTON.—Cyniecal onlook- ers at the capitol, who know the ste- ry of the packing trust investigations and reports by the Federal Trade Commission, and of the way in whieh the sheer weight of the packers’ money and business power has crush- ed out the hope of punishment of jtheir law-breaking, do not expect to \prevent the confirmation of George B, Christian. Jr., as a member of the Commission to succeed Victor Mur- dock, resigned. They know that Christian, with the other two reactionaries on the Com- mission, will put an end to the sort of work that Murdock and the two surviving progressive members have been doing, both as to the packing trust and the Minneapolis grain buy- ers’ monopoly and the lumber and coal combines. Business ownership of government makes a distinct move forward. At the same time, the cynical judges of politics believe that Mr. Coolidge will regret this particular affront to the farmers and_ wi workers of the Sate is was private secre arding, the intimate friend of Fall, and represents all the indifference to public interest which ‘ked the Harding regime. He knows ni of the economic matters with wl the Federal Trade Commission must deal, and is not inclined to study. He will be surrounded by advisers who know precisely what their em- ployers want. They'll Fight Underwood Anyway. (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—Underwood can and must be defeated in the pres- idential primaries in Alabama, 9 the Conference for Progressive it. ical Action, in a circular letter to the trade unions, farmers and teachers of that = ‘3 “We sen you greet says the letter, “with the reminder that you will soon have within your power to show the big banking interests, corporation attorneys and unfair em- ployers that they cannot deceive nor control the votes of Alabama citi- zens. Complete victory will be won for L H. Musgrove, the poor can- didate, when Alabama farmers and industrial workers unite their strength at the presidential prim- aries, Feb. 1. The ambitions of Un- derwood will be completely shattered. Foreign corporations that are back- ing him will be defeated,” Export Much Russian Butter, MOSCOW.—One hundred and twenty thousand pounds of Russian butter was exported to England dur- ing this year. Next year it is proposed to export 450,000 pounds. And He Might Have Been Lynched GOLSBORO, N. C.-—Jim Barnes, » negro youth, was identified by a 13 year old harged he attacked her but said he had a moustache. ped agli ‘te ia. Barnes was dismissed because he couldn't grew a beard, red, _.. UP_AGAINST FARMERS