The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 3

January 26, 1924 ATL YW Ot east FRANK MUNSEY Building Trades Council 7 MERRICK GOING BUTCHERS THIRD | Demands Public Schools Be | BEFORE JURY ON NEWYORK PAPER Made Safe for the Children| poyp cRaMe-Up : he one pales of conversation in union offices and halls ees: +1, | Yesterday was the campaign of THE DAILY \WORKER for safe ?. Buys and Kills Mail: and adequate public schools. Unemployed workers, who sat Shoe Owners’ Conspir- Mitbn Falatiee to! repedsentation. Gh. teain’ denatchare etanloyed by the Workers Need Daily prouna mae offices waiting for jobs, expressed keen interest | acy Backs False Charge| °te#on-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. re “f Faken of school children were particularly interested ton wwarraats a moet omphatte ro i ba ig mg pheard of huse of . >t e ati Many building trades workers who are Compstent 16 judge the triat | Suthority. Oe ee ee ‘ next week of John “Under the decision of the majority,’ says Wharton, “the carrier, with estes of pelldinge, kre one oer have sg ae: that their Kigat the Superior Court in Salem, Mass.,| the full knowledge that the majority of the board is in sympathy with the h bs hd 1 are fire traps but that they were unable to} on @ dynamite-planting charge, fol-| idea that it is proper procedure, may — ina ——— rN at they could ee to remedy the situation. lowing his activities in the Haverhill | initiatg and install a company union| the men wished to be represented by If we say anything to the politicians about the schools and the need| shoe strike a year ago, bring to| offerin® the equivalent of a $40 in-|the national organization or by 2 of new brag tet ap accused of wanting to see new schools built so we caN| memory the Etto-Giovanitti frame-| Crease per month far employe as a}company union which had previously get work,” said one carpenter who up, now discredited, and the Breen| bribe to vote for such organization| Ro existence. The train dispatchers Page shres Wharton Charges Railroad Labor Board in Bribery Plot to Smash Bona Fide Union Organizations By LELAND OLDS ; (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Connivance with a campaign of bribery to destroy all bona fide labor organizations on the railroads is charged against the majority of the U. S. POR : AITS PHOTOGRAPHY I2* $15 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—New York will soon have as few capitalist papers as Chi- cago, if Frank siaeey, continues buy- ing them up and liquidating them. His latest purchase is the Evening Mail, just announced. This paper will be consolidated with the Even! ng Telegram into the Telegram an (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVERHILL, Mi Evening Mail, as the New York) was in line to pay his dues at the Globe, which he reoenny purchased,| office of Local No. 1, of the Carpen- was combined with the Sun. ters’ Union, The Mail got into trouble during} Edward Ryan, president of the Building Trades Council of Chicago anid, “I believe that every building in Chicago should be made safe and fireproof. But first of all common humanity demands that all public schools should be made safe. They should be ‘the safest buildings in the city, That is the first thing that should be done. They should also be made sanitary,” All buildin; had seen the DAILY WORKER sai that they were glad that it had started its campaign for safe schools the war for alleged. German owner- ship and Rumley, its publisher, was indicted. Its editorial tone was not wo liberal as that of the Globe, under the. Bliven regime, but it was far » and above ahead of anything under { the direction of Munsey. } Three Notches On Gun 4 Several years ago Munsey pur- chased and killed the New York Press. There are now three notches on his newspaper-game gun, making more true than ever the witty re-| mark of a New York editor that “All trades workers who: eS pupils who were already on thelr way down from coming on and many would undoubtedly be smothered to death, Because of this possibility the prin- cipal does not permit their use dur- them, panic would result. The Board of Education has de- layed the erection of a new building neighborhood. Factories were mov- ing fire drills, It seems certain that Haverhill. if they were used during a fire by ba children who were unaccustomed to Pehle ky Minti dynamite case, when agents of the woolen trust confessed they had planted the dynamite themselves in order to discredit the strikers, Merrick was arrested two weeks fter the finding of the “bomb” in After the necessary time ers” the police staged a raid on the room of the young strike leader and later in the police station produced for the Brown school because they de Jockwork were doubtful of the future of the oS eae sg eg ‘ot phic there. Curiously enough, the arrest ing into the district and the board Imost immediately an an- thought that the entire district might | <etocest of the heaa of the Knipe be given over to manufacture and the | Bros.’ firm of a $2,000 reward for because it could not be accused of a selfish interest in demanding new buildings. Studente Aid Campaign. “With the DAILY WORKER cam- paign against fire trap public schools hardly under way, pupils who are attending such schools have already manifested an interest in it, good newspapers when they die go to Munsey.” Hardboiled pagiGon te £he tone of all Munsey papers. Matter appears in its Sicmie et if Mr. Munsey’s editors: consider it wholesome for his large steel and chair store inter- ests, wu Papers Worst Prostitutes Te Nee York Herald distinguished) Students from the Medill High itself, even among newspaper pros-| School, West 14th Place and Throop titutes by the McCullough cables St., report that their school, altho a about Soviet Russia which were dis- comparatively modern building, is in credited even by the stories of the| many ways unsafe and unsanitary. New York Times. Two summers ago| The school which is in the heart of the Herald ran a fantastic series of| the west side ghetto serves the dis- articles on the radical movement in| trict from Harrison to 18th streets, America which showed that the De-| and from Westery Avenue to Halsted rtment of Justice had turned over) Street. The main building was erect- At theled in 1895 and additions made in| last convention of the American Fed-|1897 and 1907. It is a three story eration of Labor the Herald cor-) brick affair without fire escapes. The respondent was assistant chief aid to) lighting is far from good. All day Chester Wright in engineering the! artificial light is required in most of publicity campaign against the left wingers which reached its climax with the unseating of Delegate Dunne. New York radicals do not relish the consolidation of the newspapers into the most reactionary hands but they take comfort in the fact that every half-way liberal paper that meets its death at the hands of Mun- sey makes the nacsaaity of a daily workers’ paper more evident. its files to the staff writer. the rooms. “Fireproof” Laws Ignored. | The interior is not fireproof as is required by city ordinances. The‘ lunch rooms are used as study rooms on occasion and when used as lunch rooms are not clean. Numerous stu- dents complain that they have seen roaches in the lunch rooms and that they are so numerous that they crawl on the tables and trays. In the wash school population reduced. Last year| the arrest and conviction of the man the city zoning laws were passed out-| who planted the bomb. lawing factories in the Brown school Merrick was held under $20,000 .district but nothing has been done] pail, later reduced to $15,000, which about a new school building. was finally secured by his friends. fhe school has 945 seats and about| He returned to the automobile shop 1500 pupils. The two shift system| which he had opened up after the has been introduced. The pupils at-| shoe firms blacklisted him for organ- tending the Brown school are the|jzing activities, He is married and children of factory workers, Altho| has lived in and near Haverhill all most of the children céme from| hig life. homes where both the mother and} Shoe factory owners regard the \father work the school does not have | conviction of Merrick as very import- a lunch room. . | ant to their open shop program. A few years ago a new heating The defeat of the frame-up is equal- plant and plumbing system was in-| jy important to the labor movement. rooms, which are seldom clean, there is often no water. Free Luanches For aoe schol ‘winter Ticcen heoted| year ago she had taken her two chil- . conditions in the school became so/to a Catholic school. Starving Doctors bad that a few of the more unafraid/if a bec “building were put up she bees 2 * students called a meeting to outline | would send them back. “I know that tales Latest in Germany a program of action that would re-| children learn more in public schools} heen destroyed. (By The Federated Press) BERLIN.—Free lunches for doc- tors are the latest form of charity in Berlin. The lot of the German medical man is such that hundreds of physicians, if not thousands, are literally starving, The average Ger- man is so impoverished that giders the docter to be about the Jast luxury that he can afford. Already countless physicians have gone into other professions. The other day one appeared at my house two students avould not be forced to use one locker as they are at present. Recently the|dren out of the school and sept them jnew legislation is to destro; sult in better conditions. The call to|than they do in the Catholic schools, ae eens set down as tau haeree ree yea school building is not safe. ‘of the students, more light, better) Until there is a new building my kids t the as: idea is wash room facilities, more heat, clean| will go to the Catholic school,” she pievad Lad fai! spp oR the lunch rooms, more lockers so that|said. stalled at a cost of $125,000. It is e case has been investigated care- felt by many parents whose children fully by the Workers’ Defense Con- attend the school that the cost of the| ference of New England and the \heating plant will be used as an 2r-| facts of the frame-up shown thoroly. gument against the scrapping of the| A defense fund drive is now being present buildings and the erection of | carried on by the Lawrence General a new and modern one. Labor Defense Committee, 180 Essex Parents Afraid of Firetrap. street, Lawrence, Mass. Because of the PU vinig belief among the parents of the pupils that the school is unsafe and unfit for :, use many sey on takin, re Alien Foe Plans to children out of the school and send- ing them to eens paves ae sa Destroy U. S. As A canvass of the neighborhood o’ ° the school reveled that the parents World Melting P. ot of the pepe are hopeless of getting a new building. GTON.— i Al- The first mother of school children EY ag tae taiatire- visited by an investigator of the DAI- tion committee confirms The Fed- LY WORKER said that more than 4) (oateq Press’ statement of a week ago that the purpose of the pore ie She said that’ nelting pot of racial stocks in Amer- litical re- as already the, asylum for “In this country In the current Outlook he declares “that the name melting pot is a mis- conclusions reached by himself and his committee. He proposes that relatives such as Would Let Kids Die. A grocer who comes iw contact The meeting was not held because the| with many of the mothers near the pare e con pringiple of the school managed to be | school said that it was generally real- hoebore See ‘and ped inthe room at the time of the meet-| ized that the school was a menace to a ing and the students were not willing | life but that he did not see what could to proceed under official scrutiny.|be done about it. He had taken it/ all im: The demands, however, were brought|up with the alderman from the dis-| 10 years to his attention, but nothing has been | trict who said that nothing could be|that other dependents than those| habitants of the globe. parents, of aliens already here, shall be admitted. He claims that 85% of; rants coming in the pas' ve come to relatives, and while at the same time refusing to grant any concessions to the same. employes so long as they elect to be represented by a bona fide labor organization.” This decision carried to its logical conclusion would permit the railroads to spend over $900,000,000 a year out of funds derived from high freight! rates for the purpose of supplanting real unions with company unions. The case submitted to the board by the American Train Dispatchers’ Assn. involves the attempt of the Union Pacific to establish company unfons on all its lines. The Oregon road is one of its subsidiaries, First the road got the labor board to establish rates of pay for train dis- patchers and to abolish two weeks’ vacation with pay which had former- ly been established by agreement be- tween management and the train dispatchers’ organization, It then turned around and offered these train dispatchers higher pay and restora- tion of the two weeks’ annual vaca- tion with pay provided they sur- rendered their right to representa- tion by the organization they had voluntarily created and accepted as a substitute the company union created by management. The proposal to change represen- tation admittedly originated with the carrier. Yet the board ordered a secret ballot to determine whether Se BED TIME STORY By ROLAND QUILLAN, Now once there dwelled hooked a full petty ideas. to sign passports for the Bahamas things, above all to assume a dig- i " appearance. This he did fairl well. had kept that they ideas. Their one great A was to live at peace with the world. in the} is what has state department at Washington, D.| yelled, it C. a full grown beard, on which was | Eureka, I have it; them dirty Bolshe- wn man with very |viks are trying to overthrow the Wall he official duty of|St. government. this man, dear littte children, was] I’ll get them yet.” and other oasises and do many other | py, ° Now it happened that across the} the White House. sea in far away Russia there dwelled| echo, dear children, to this wail of other men with beards, but these} woe knocked the pro: men’s minds, dear little comrades,| the sounding board a asked the board to prevent the car- rier’s open use of bribery and econ- omic coercion by including in the ballot a statement that train dis- patchers would receive the same treatment regardless of the form of organization they voted for. But the majority of the board refused on the ground, as stated by Chairman Hooper in a supporting opinion, that: “The carrier in this case has ob- viously reached the conclusion ‘that as a matter of economic and efficient operation it can afford to pay its dis- patchers more money if it is permit- ted to deal exclusively and directly with them” and that dispatchers must be left free to weigh this fact in reaching their decision. Such a cynical statement of the open shop view that corporations can afford to pay more for sub- servient spineless employes, by the socalled impartial chairman of the country’s leading arbitration board, would be enough to discredit that body if it had not already thgroly discredited itself by a series of de- cisions showing unmistakable bias toward the employer’s viewpoint, In this case one representative of the public, Mr. Hanger, could not stom- ach such open partisanship, but the decision was carried by the vote of the advocate chairman plus that of Judge Barton who has never failed to show his partiality for the em- ployer’s position. UNISTCHILDREN/-COLUAIN cate note he jumped five foot from the floor—that at least, dear children, been said. He then is reported, ‘Eureka, Curses, and damn, It was then, my hearers, that he ‘oadcasted the wail of woe to the effect that the Reds in this country, because of instructions frem- Moscow; were going to plant the red flag on The answering from under Washington. ce with their beards 80] The answer was a loud guffah heard great and wi? | grown | thruout the land. ei! It was voted the best joke of the season. Yet it was not original, So they sent greetings and friendly | my children, for it had been pulled overtures to Washington with a de-| before, yet not in a manner that sire to establish trade relationship| evoked such laughter. and general friendly relations among two hundred and fourty million in- Now children, the moral of this story is that if you want to be real funny buy a false beard and) BERTRAM DORIEN BASABE 1009 N. STATE §T. “ PHONE. SUPERIOR 1961 OPEN ON SUNDAY 12 T059M Many Greetings to THE DAILY WORKER from The Radical Inn The place where you can enjoy an interesting discussion while having @ special Mrs, Smith’s own cooked meal or drinking a Russian Tchei- nick (pot) of tea with Mrs, Smith’s own home made cake, Arrangements for services for par ties, organizations and private gatherings made at any time. Mrs. Smith's Tea Room 1481 S. SAWYER AVENUE Phone Rockwell 0202, DR. A. J. CHYZ Osteopathy Physiological Adjustments Chiropractic « 1009 NORTH STATE ST, CHICAGO Office Hours: 9 a. m. te 12 N., 1 P, M.to6P.M,7P.M. too PM FURNISHINGS LADIES’ MEN’S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your M Buys the Most. basins MARTIN’S ~F23 West North Avaue East of Hal St. Res. Phone Crawford 0381 _ Violin Office Phone Rockwell 0112 ‘Feather HENRY MOSS ORIENTAL JAZZ BAND Music Furnished for All Occasions Members American Fed. of Musieians 1215 S, LAWNDALE AVENUE Chieago, |ll. to sell me some steel engravings by celebrated German masters. “ commission on these,” he said, “is. bigger than all my medical fees put done about them up until now. done until the zoning law was passed hove should be ad- All the pupils attending Medill are|and the future of the palghbarioed Syals tees ae Teate. saphaadi the children of foreign-born factory | made certain. Nothing has beea done and needle trades workers and‘the|since then the alderman said because Now when the man with the beard] try to save the country from the in Washington received the Russian | Wi icked reds. f Disavow Independent Party. OMAHA.—The Progressive Party Phone Arniitage 8529 Paraguay Carmen On Strike, together.” offices, as floor walkers, and what- students who came to the DAILY/the gece pigeleny eer 3 ae Sb dap d ssa heb be rcpebapmg the money, as nk clerks, as scribes in public|lieve that the poor conditions in their |,around here have very little time t ; : school are the result of the indiffer-| worry about the beeet, Sia | aeey ee eee ae Seseemge, Board of Education has ro| ASUNCION, Paraguay.—S treet “But most of the parents| railway workers are still on strike. If the kids| The workers’ refuse to return until not. And as for young graduates,| ence of the school-authorities to the|are away from home they are salis-!the company guarantees reinstate- find the cost of purchasing} poor and foreign-born workers who | fied.” ey medical instruments‘ so prohibitive} have no way of making their protests that they must first work at some/felt, trade for a few years before they Story of the Brown School ean return to their chosen field of] The Brown School, at Warren ave- human Komitee: nuc and Wood street, is housed in one But meanwhile there. are those] of the oldest school buildings in Chi- men of medicine who remain in the leago, The building is so old that profession and who haven't énough| parents of children . attending the to live on and too much to die. It} school have repeatedly written to the} ig for these that special doctors’ feed-| president of the Board of Education ing kitchens are being established.| demanding that the school be put in The doctors are to have wholesome proper condition to safeguard the food, supplied by the various for-|jives of the pupils. eign relief nizations, especially) “411 the president did about the the Austrian, either at a ridiculously] coniplaints was to send an inspector low cost, or else moped bees °f!to the school who pronounced it safe. charge, depending upon tr auestion. {The School is housed in two build- stances of the physician in question.l;10, the oldest of which was erected WORKERS, ATTENTION! in 1857 and the newer one in 1870, We carry Union made Cigars and| The two buildings are connected by Tobacco, Pipes, Toys, Magaxines,|® one-story frame shanty. In order ‘and Stationery. to get from one building to another Buy ald and Daily Worker Here, CHAS. RASMUSSEN 2621 W. NORTH AVENUE Phone Armitage 0366. rooms and a dark narrow hallway. In both buildings the stainways anions | Escape Is Farce. ire The two fire escapes instead fad See ore pies ce to e. May our DAILY WORKER grow daily in power and prestige. M ing on end with slides inside down which the pupils are su; to come. The door at the is ys when a wei it, but septate MASS INI Van Buren St. and Ashland Ave. of be-| 9° ‘They are merely tubes stand-|highly paid officials, - ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Sunday, January 27, 8:15 P. M. ment of every striker. COAL MINERS! Talk To Your Convention Thru Daily Worker Coal Miners! Your convention is on at Indianapolis, Ind. It will be responsive to your needs if you will talk to it, talk to it in loud and emphatic tones. fe You can do this thru your paper, THE DAILY WORKER.| You can do it every day. You can make yourself heard. Every day THE DAILY WORKER goes to the convention at Tomlinson Hall, at Indianapolis. The miners’ delegates are reading it, from first page, first column, to last page, last column, If you will write to THE DAILY WORKER, telli: needs, the delegates will read your letter. peg oik One of the big things you are interested in is unemploy- it is necessary to pass thru two class! ment, If you don’t work there is no pay envelope. If you don’t work, there is nothing with which to pay the lepaived, he fact are narrow winding affairs, The land-| grocer, with which to buy the things your family needs. How | ‘°™ do you get along? How do you make both ends meet? What you demand? , Tell it to the delegates at Indianapolis. Tell it to your | 'f be id not risk whose salaries go on the whole year| Work Daily for “The Daily!” | Weite about all the other great prbolems confron coal miners of this country: Your letters will be ae THE DAILY WORKER and read by the delegates 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. ETIN Speakers: ers Party, Max Bedach' Freihett Singing Sbelety’ phyenerg in na 16 increasl at your 111, f the pends vention at Indianapolis. Write to the Editor, The Daily Worker, against and other entertaining features. Mussolini Going Before Italian People in Apri (Special te The Daily Worker) ROME—It is Mussolini and his followers against the Communists, socialists and left wing of the popu- lar party at the general election which the government has just an- nounced, thru the Popolo d'Italia, nal organ of the fascist chief. This will be the first time Musso- ini has gone before the people for ti mandate since he climbed into power by force. The fascisti believe that a sufficiently strong political machine has been built to return their movement to office. The treaty of friendship with Jugo- Slavia is expected to be signed Jan. 26 and the next day the king will sign his decree disso i f the cham- ber. January 28, us: scheduled to unfold the deta electoral policy to his .follo Mussolini’s opponents point to the that the fascisti are themselves by as serious dissensions as those of their enemies and that his administration would be sabota into powerlessness in a short the election, More Jobless in Breslau. BRESLAU, Gormens—Upemper: ing. A survey shows ms seeking work as nia vacant places, ‘The Land for the Users! for RECOGNITION OF S RELIEF FOR THE WORKERS: IN GERMANY Film—“RUSSIA AND GERMANY” All Proceeds Go for the Relief of Workers in Germany. Prof. Robert Morse Lovett, Max Selinsky, of the Journey- men Tailors’ Union, Albert Johnson, member of the Hearst's Unofficial Congressional Commission for Investi- gation of Soviet Russia, Jas. P. Cannon, Chairman \Work- Editor Soviet Russia Pictorial. of Nebraska has no connection with the Independent Progressive party. This assertion is made on behalf of the Progressive party by Rev. J. L. Beebe, chairman, and W. H. Green, secretary, to clear up false impressions that the party was asso- ciated with the various Roy M. Har rop organizations,- including the league. “The Progressive Party of Ne- braska has not affiliated with any national Farmer-Labor party,” its officials say further, “but has joined with Farmer-Labor groups and par- ties from the various states in the calling of a national convertion to be held either at Minneapolis or St. Paul May 30 to form a national par- ty and nominate candidates for pres- ent and vice president.” Strikebreaker Electrocuted. NEW ORLEANS.—O, L, Sherman, 28 years old, a resident of this city, and a_ strikebreaking lineman e@- ployed by the New Orleans Public Service, Inc., was electrocuted while touching a live wire in the dis- charge of his duty. Under the work- men’s compensation act the company will be obliged to compensate hi fam id gi CHRIST BORNER UNION BARBER SHOP 1631 N. CALIFORNIA AVE, Res. 1632 S. 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