The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1924, Page 4

F ” Page Four ‘THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640. N. Halsted St,; Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50;.6 months $2.00, .3: months By mail (in Chicago. only): $4.50..6 months $2,50. .3 months By carrier: $10.00 per year $1.00 per month $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL,.. WILLIAM F. DUNNE. MORITZ J.. LOEB Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. = Minneapolis Makes Good The workmanlike manner in which the mili- tant trade unionists of the Minneapolis labor movement dealt with the attempt of middle- class politicians to postpone the Farmer-Labor convention scheduled for St. Paul, May 30, and thereby create cénfusion in the ranks of the. workers and farmers will bring joy to the heart of everyone who sincerely desires to see a national class party of workers and farmers getting its first fighting experience in the arena of the 1924 campaign. The DAILY WORKER is out to build a solid- ly organized, class-conscious and _ well-dis- ciplined Farmer-Labor party; it knows that the task is too big for it alone, and for the Work- ers Party of America whose official organ it js. It therefore welcomes such able assistance in the movement to which it is commmitted as was.rendered on last Menday evening by the militant trade union elements who, tho they may not see eye to eye with us on many thinyzs, are for the Communist policy of the united front against middle-class politicians, reac- tionary labor union officials and the capitalist system. Our comrades in Minneapolis have reason to be proud of the efficient manner in which the offensive against the May 30 convention was halted. The result of the attempt to postpone the May 30 convention has been to strengthen the movement in the Twin Cities, to bring closer all elements sincerely committed to a national class party and to prove to the LaFollettes, Shipsteads and: Johnsons with considerable conclusiveness that leadership and ski!}.“in practical maneuvering are not solely in the possession of middle-class senators fortunate enough to be elected by workers and farmers. We believe that the action of the Minneapp- piig meeting-—will-deomuch-to cota William Chicago, Illinois o Editor ++». Labor Editor Business Manager Advertising rates on application. teliahoney, editor of the Minnesota{ Labor Advo- : yte, who broached the postponement proposi- tion, that. he has made a mistake and seriously under-estimated the strength of the sentiment for the convention’ which he -was largely in- strumental in calling ’in’his home town for May 30. The Monday night meeting was not only a victory for Minneapolis militants. It -was also a victory for,the national Farmer-Labor party movement. A continuation of such efforts will make cer- tain the consummation of the efforts for the formation of a national Farmer-Labor party in St. Paul, May 30. The Den of Thieves A New York judge waxed indignant in sen- tencing the head of one of the metropolitan bucketing firms. This wizard of finance was given a sentence of from six months to three years in the penitentiary. Judging from our experiences with such sentences on the sons of the wealthy, we are sure that this will be a Maximum sentence of six months. What was the crime of this “bucketeer”? In the judge’s charge we find a rather inter- esting explanation. At one juncture the judge explained: “This man’s firm operated bucket shops, and they were dens of thievery! Piti- able stories have been told me by customers, some of whom have been widows who lost all B e World” Is a Lia orrespondent of the New York World, for some time been engaged in maligning id slandering the Soviet Republic. The other day, writing up the hearings on oviet Russia conducted by Borah’s sub-com. mittee, this correspondent allowed his imaizi- nation full play. Quoting his story, apearing in The World of January 22nd, we read: “Menace of Death Compels Secrecy Regarding Russia: Secretary Hughes made known thru Hilton Young, Chief of the Eastern European Division, that confi/ dential information upon which. this attitude was based would be supplied the committee— but only in secret session. It was explained that otherwise the lives of the State Depar- ment’s informants would be imperilled.” The question in dispute before the Senate Committee was whether the American Com- munists were being financed by the Third In- ternational. The State Department charged, but could not prove it. Borah demanded that the State Department make good its charge or withdraw it and cease spreading misinforma- tion: The ‘World correspondent was present thruout the whole tussle between ‘the State Department witness and Senator Borah. It was a vital point in the proceedings. Every newspaper man was on the job to get a big story. The next morning the writer showed The World’s report to the Associated Press mim and he was revolted by its outright lies. The DAILY WORKER correspondent then con- sulted the stenographer’s official minutes on this point. We find on page 83 of the proceed- ings the following record of what actually was said: “Senator Borah: ‘You state now that your fear is that the life of the party who con- veyed you the information would be im- perilled?’ “Kelley (State Department) : ‘No, sir; I state that there is certain information ef which the sources cannot be disclosed that is available to the committee in executive session.’ Sena- tor Borah: ‘Of course, the Committee may do as it pleases, but I do not want any secret in- formation myself. You may proceed.’” Here we have it. The World correspondent is just a plain liar. He was merely serving the capitalist owners of his job. This incident simply shows that the workers must have their own press, that the workers cannot trust even the most liberal of capitalists newspapers. The workers must have their own press to serve them as the capitalists have their press serv- ing the employing class. Gompers’ Democracy We are not going to recite all the anti-demo- cratic acts of Mr.Sam Gompers. But the other night after the State Department fired its first gun against the movement for American recog- nition of Soviet Russia, Mr. Gompers and his agents held a “rousing rally” in the Capitol against the resumption of normal relations with the First ‘Workers and Farmers Republic. At this meeting, addressed by a gentleman traveling under the rather modest name of Mr. Sensinoff, and posing as an advisor of the de- '] funct Kerensky regime, there occurred an in- cident typifying the democracy Mr. Gompers and his ilk stand for. i After Mr. Sensinoff had delivered his weird tale of the horrors of Sovietism, a delegate to the Central Labor Union of Washington, Mr. Primoff, got up and requested that both sides be heard and that someone be invited to ad- dress the Central Labor Body on the other side of the Russian recognition case—in favor of Russian recognition. Forthwith, E. F. McGrady, one of Gompers’ legislative advisors, and others, leaped to their feet in a mad at- tempt to stop the treasonable remarks of dele- gate Primoff. These aristocrats of the Amer- ican labor movement, who have shed so many tears in behalf of the rights of freedom of speech and press for all pogrom hooligans and counter-revolutionists in Russia showed their hand. They showed by their threat to have Primoff withdrawn as a delegate from one of the Fede eral Employes’ Unions, that they believe in democracy only when it serves the interests of the exploiters and enemies of labor. Mr. Gompers’ agents in putting the lid on delegate Primoff, exposed themselves completely as OPYICAL MIRACLE ON GARRICK STAGE Chauve-Souris Succes- sor Has Many Surprises By ALFRED V, FRANKENSTEIN Balieff’s second bill at the Chauve- Souris, in its last week at the Gar- rick theatre, is a series of surprises in stage setting. In spite of much music, and the much talked-of verbal scrambles of Mr. Balieff, the prin- cipal appeal of the show is to the eye, and the credit for these optical mi- racles must go to Soudeikine, the stage designer, Sometimes he sur- prises us by his elaborateness, and then again by the simplicity of his means, In the sketch entitled “The Duke of Marlborough Goes to War,” five priests chant many verses of a song, the melody of which is a glorified version of “We Won’t Go Home Till Morning,” and the action is carried on by a series of huge and grotesque painted silhouettes in the background. One number, called “The Chinese Billikens,” consists of a Chinese altar, around which sit four red billikens, immovable, except for heads and wrists, sneezing rhythmically, while a glorious lady, in Louis XIV. dress, who doesn’t really belong in the pic- ture at all, dances daintily. In the famous “Katinka” scene a color bomb explodes all. over the stage, and somewhat the same effect is. produced in the one called “The Barber of Seville:” In this last, sev- en characters from. the popular Itali- an opera sit in a sort of brilliantly colored semicircle. Their bodies are built into the scene, but the heads and arms are their own, An example of Soudeikine’s sim- plicity is in the setting for a Danish dance. The stage holds only a huge dinner plate, stood on edge, showing fishing boats painted in blue. In a few places the show falls flat. These are the sentimental songs, which are a little better than the hor- rors perpetrated between’ pictures at our movie “palaces,” relieved, per- haps, of some of their banality by the fact that one can not understand the language in which they are sung. Balieff himself sometimes actually uses a word identifiable as English. His principal effect lies in the way he ends his sentences when one is ex- pecting him to say more. Musically, the climax of the sec- ond bill, is in the gypsy scene. Some forty voices join in a great, roaring, a wild chorus, as the curtain alls. British Rail Tie- Up Ends; Victory, Says J. Bromley (Special te The Daily Worker) LONDON.—The new labor gov- settlement of the national railwa: strike which was reached at 5 o'clock this morning after an all-night con- ference of railway mangers and union leaders. Premier Ramsay MacDonald learn- ed the news over the telephone be- fore breakfast and left for Edinburg shortly afterwards on a private visit, obviously a greatly relieved man. J. Bromley, leader of the striking locomotive engineers and firemen, said after the conference broke up: “The terms reached were most satisfactory. The men will return to work immediately.” Another strike official said the service would be back to normai by nie ike 1 strike lasted just eight days, The men went out on Pg in of the 20th, after negotations failed. The strike was timed to coincide with wage reductions authorized by the national wage board, to which engineers and firemen objected. ~ out affected some 70,000 men, traffic was tied up on some lines and ran disjointedly and spasmodic- ally on others; there was. some vio- in Scotland but no casualties; m : lorries acl airplanes were used in great numbers to relie situation, is og The Land for the Users! ernment cleared its first hurdle thru | y, _ Work in U. S. and Mostly Poorly Paid SYRACUSE, N. Y.— Industrial hygiene, social legislation, compensa- tion work and labor education were foremost among the issues discussed at the Consumers’ league conference here. Speaking on occupational diseases, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Harvard medical school, dwelt upon. the primitive status of protection against industrial disease’ in America. The frequency of lead poisoning is 15 times greater in America than in British potteries, she said, “Meanwhile,” added Dr. Hamilton, “the use of dangerous sub- stancés in our industries is increas- ing.” Difficulties which confront the American worker, seeking compensa- tion in case of illness or injury, were described by Mrs. Maud Swartz, Na- tional Women’s Trade Union league. The, worker does not know the law. Often, he does not even understand the language of the court. Mrs. Swartz concluded by indicating mea- sures nqw being undertaken to aid women workers in legal and medical affairs, Miss Mary Anderson, director, women’s bureau, U. S. department of labor, reported 8,500,000 women at work in the United States, and more than 2,000,000 of these married. The * by Daily Worker Show Probe of Firetrap Mere White Wash The report of the second day’s work of the investigator® from the board of education, the. bureau of fire prevention and building commissioners’ office gives further ground for the charge made by the DAILY ‘WORKER that the inspection be- ing carried on by these offices under the direction of the busi- ness manager of the board of education is a mere whitewash. Mr. Daniel E. Burns, the business manager, said the reports indicated that ‘There is nothing to be alarmed about. Nothing startling has been uncovered. inspectors passed the inspection All the schools visited by the all right.” The investigation is being carried on under Mr. Burns’ per- sonal direction. Inspectors from the bureau of fire prevention and the building commissioner’ work with an inspector from the engineer’s office of the board of education. These three inspectors make their re- ports directly to. Mr. Burns, A week ago when the bureau of fire prevention’ made their yearly report to the Mayor they said that a list of public schools which are a menace to life would be sent him. In spite of the fact that two inspectors have been speaker described women’s situation in American industry as “the most monotonows and most poorly paid.” High Living Costs Hit France Hard; People Dissatisfied PARIS.—The high cost of living has hit France with a vengeance. France is at the beginning of the same economic crisis thru which the little “neutral” countries had to pass right after the world war, and which Austria and Germany are still facing. The best index to the dissatisfied temper of the people is the recent demonstration of the Paris police- men who were mercilessly clubbed down by the soldiery. Following the police, the civil serv- ce and government employes of every description are now holding a series of protest meetings, in Paris,, Lyons, Angers and many provincial cities. They are urgently clamoring for bet- ter pay to meet the rising cost of living. wa French Legions Dominate Europe : But Franc Drops PARIS—France has taken the Position formerly oceupied by Ger- many in- Europe. The legions of France are now superior in numbers and efficiency to the armed hosts of the Kaiser before the fatal Au- gust day in 1914, when the goose step of Wilhelm’s \atmy corps shook urope. | \ In. spite of a declining birth rate, France hopes to maintain her present military hegemony by military alli- ances all the way from Belgium in Western Europe to Poland in Eastern Europe. The only fly in the French oint- ment just now is the Franc. It is falling steadily and while not yet a vaudeville joke like the mark its con- dition is serious enough to warrant calling in the financial doctors. Courts for the Orgy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The in- junction sought by the government to restrain the New York coffee and sugar exchange from speculative dealings in futures which was re- fu: by the federal court in New YoNc, was also refused by the su- ar ceutn % Os, ein in a 0 the su e court, the attorney general charged that an “orgy of speculation in raw sugar from February to April, 1923 resulted in the artificial increase in the price of ‘sugar from $3.56 to $5.97 per hundred pounds, SWEET CHARITY sou gout0' for the fling of is fe 000. ph mg iy to meet the rie of its destitute citizens for the coming year. working on the preparation of the list for a week it -is not yet ready. Is this list being held up until the board of education white washes it- self? New Architect Appointed It will be recalled that the board of education appointed a new archi- tect, who will have charge of the engineering department, and the de- partment which handles the repair and remodeling of old school build- ings. This appointment followed within a few days: the statement of the chief engineer of the board that more than fifty public’ schools are unsafe and unfit for use. Has the board of education ap- inted a new architect and given ‘im control of the engineering de- partment in order to have some one to stand between the public and the man who declared fifty or more schoo] buildings unfit for use? Visit Fallon School One of the schools visited by the inspectors Monday was the Fallon school, at Wallace and Root Sts., in the district “behind the yards.” The Fallon school has classes for crippled children and is not an ordinary school, Special. attention has been paid there to the needs of crippled children. The fire inspectors found every thing “all right.” That they should find every thing “all right” is not rising since the Fallon school has devoting itself to special problems. Mr. Burrs did not say what other schools were visited-by the inspectors but did say they found every thing “all right” in the schools they did visit. Yesterday the DAILY WORKER investigator visited the Mosel school, at S. Michigan Ave. and 24 St. In that school more than a thousand children are accomodated in 24 rooms with 882 seats. Twelve divisions of the school are on the double shift system. The first class attends from 8:00 a. m. to 12:15 and the second from 12:30 till 4:00 p. m. Built in 1856 ~ The school, a three ‘building, the original of wincetwe €rect- ed in 1856 fae not have either fire escapes or a sprinkler system. The fire extinguishers are of the oldest style and few in number. chil The pupils are mostly’ Negro chil- "The discipline / be dren, seems to very lax. The stairs are of the winding nar- row sort in most of the older school buildings. There is nothing fire proof about the ‘building. In many of the-class rooms a’ low parti- tion a few feet from the wall serves as a cloak room. The assembly room is an ordinary class room, e chairs used are not fastened to the floor. The gyrinasium is also an ordinary class room with very little gym equipment. There are classes for subnormal, anaemic and tubercular children. The rest room for the tubercular wi Sy eS Sea army al no-way adapt- nat Kaa the special use -to itis of 8 office have been assigned to Welcome the Daily Worker Distributed at Public Schools Members of the Young Werkers League, in co-operation with The DAILY WORKER, are distribut- ing copies of The DAILY WORK- ER at various schools in Chicago. Sam Green, who is in charge of the work for the Y. W. L., reports that both the older children af the schools and their parents are very much interested in the arti- cles on the schools, In South Chicago, near the Thorp school, Green says the par- ents to whom he gave The DAILY WORKER praised its courage in exposing the school conditions and the point of view of the articles. Many of the people to whom je gave the papers asked where they could get copies regularly so as +» be able to follow the articles from day to day. windows and has the most modern system of ifidirect lighting. The school ashes and garbage are piled up in the playground next to one of the entrances. The club has its garbage taken from an alley in the rear, far away from the entrance where the members pass, The club has a fine library; the school has none, The people who belong to the club are rich, the kids who go to the Moseley school are the kids of the DEFENSE. COUNCIL TO TELL SENATE LIST OF OUTRAGES Pennsylvania Facts to Go Before Committee (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—Facts re- garding the violation of constitu- tional rights of the workers by offi- cers of various subdivisions of the United States government will be Presented to the senate committee on education and labor of which Sen- ator Borah is chairman. After a conference with Andrew T. McNamara, president of District Council No, 6, of International As- sociation of Machinists and chairman the Labor Defense and Free Speech Council of Western Pennsyl- vania, and Fred H. Merrick, district organizer Workers Party of Pitts burgh, and Jay Lovestone; Senator Borah agreed to have the facts of the denial of civil liberties to the Pittsburgh and McKeesport workers presented to his committee when it will open the hearings on his bill making the violation of civil liber- ties by an officer of the United States government punishable by a fine of $5,000 and imprisonment of ten years, The Labor Defense and Free Speech Council of Western Penn- sylvania, is now gathering all evi- dence regarding the violation of con- stitutional rights of the workers and is preparing to put its whole case before the senate committee as soon ‘ V onieeningucinscslatliies e papers are full of slush about the Re ta*itelled. In the shen going on in Wall StrectT believe the race [Deine svoeates. of capitalist democracy—of|U/, of M. Students Jerad Now fie oleae] LatehRaom Tendon, ai, Stee eit il be zoned ee that fraudulent democracy under whic e to relieve the suffering of lou i : This ewer ees We have always workers are exploited, their bg og joni oe Show Value of these Surbectanatan, se ae nadeauate “thet on ollet i Ae gralyaces nt z the farmers are dispossessed, an e mass 0; ;, eside o: 8 ie Starv-| the basement and been told _ baad me was the sanctum phous kept in Beran g Mr. Gompers and Higher Education ing workers is ¢ pas ae Comp of the oldest sort, The bia place t Work Daily for “The Daily? ; ' Pensa 0 » ag ual initiative, of capital-lhis friends in this meeting unmasked them-| MIssoULA, Moat —< Th MR! Cleese ep pacToanh bel preci) ae Brsahy OP, 3 Beste pee What Will Do Now? success, of the greatest achievements of selves as enemies of genuine democracy—| versity of Montana oo and dirtier on cold and wet days| 41 LINCOLN, Neb.—President A.A. , American enterprise. Why this complete right working class democracy. confessed that they framed the hold- This Bid Leads Yord. many of the boys hidonid Murphree of the University of Flor- | yop pease ctocs Ee Scree teas) ee aaa Sat tl ois oie etree lit ep aie oe | er i | . Many of the ’ t he trouble is just this: Rabiner got caught.| Resentful Renegades | 3j_smzced by volice, They ane| for Muscle Shoals made by the Ala- class Toome von the third for. Feta st" principles of . 7 Bernard house esca) tutions argued te under, Tat lads peers ae All of the pag ay 0 Pes Hperan itatlaen uesnell, Kalispel, Sen ( - tnday’ by Representative Hull, i ay nue ot athe pinot a ae wisceved by Ghanedlor vA h 4 Toads ” e ebraska have rots a word about the Boor widows who ow 4 pi = pinay psig B easy aed d | Don't be a “Yeo, But,” supporter of | sevice Me sagan ye phys not see the ood of ‘fire encapes tis fone protestors at the Oulveradey of mae. of "maividual pero en % aed war, haye been writing articles to show that boa ois vi Soatienaereae The Industries for the workers! poet use Ky She herself se [a meee ee Rabiner had succeeded in shoo for a num.|Soviet Russia and the Communist Party of tad not sure she could use one, she| The Land for the Users! ‘ber of years longer, who knows what he might |Russia have forsaken communism, and gone added. na been the job of Se f Uni back to capitalism. Bases vk there ic eettian that oa Now that renewed efforts are being made seeds like suocess—especially in Wall Street, |to force recognition of Soviet Russia by the | House of Morgan Pt gpg of ~~ rota ny Just helpful suggestion to members of |these same renegades are ing the cap’ what will > aon in laaele ae the “Teapot — with articles showing that Soviet Russia DETROIT, MICH. READERS ATTENTION NOTICE—A meeting of the members of the Workers Party in Detroit is called for Friday, Feb. 1st, at 8:00 P. M., in the Send in Your News| The Daily Worker urges all. members of the party to send in. the news of their various seo tions, Every Party Branch should SS cabinet,” we quote the following from one of|has abolished private property in natural re- is appoint its-own correspondent and Zh George Ade’s Fables in Slang: \ } sources and want to have a do the same thing. pai on hag pres weet so seaipoe = pare Soe earnest aeake Lie taoiouinle fox sha news f “One time an investigating committee Traitors are hard to satisfy. rial Meeting, which will be held in Arena Gardens, 5810 <a to be conve ig was about to Get Something On Him for time for admirers of President || Woodward Ave., Sunday, Feb. 8rd, at 2:00 P. M. sharp. ect Bee ioe pe Ep eae, nse 1 Mew te the, tne Se etme oe An overflow meeting is expected, and an efficient handling of ag lg a Fresh White Tie and made a (Coolidge to dig up 0 es r nomena the crowd will require a perfect organization. All Party priate p ange error ns and most «: bodbdyparr4 use aolie pth ran some ‘been connected | Members will therefore attend the Friday evening meeting Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted that ‘a Thunderous Pafrict nat ony manner with the theft pf | ® Tecelve their assignment of work for Sunday afternoon. St., Chicagé, I. phe arog" = nw the paval ofl reserves. ' >