The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE CHEWING GUM CANDIDATE MAY STICK TO SENATE -Wrigley, Jr., Said to Be Gumming the Works (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—If Hiram John- son ever lands in the White House he will not have to thank spearmint gum for his victory. The DAILY WORKER correspondent was_in- formed that the financial backers of the Californian political white hope, chief among them being the Chicago millionaire who made his fortune by giving the people some- thing to chew on, are considering tightening up their wads and let- ting Hiram paddle his own canoe. There are other ways of enjoying ife besides betting one’s money on political dark horse. A candidate for the presidency nowadays is in constant danger of having oil squirt- ed on him, and the millionaires do not like to handle an inflammable proposition. They do not want to risk burning their fingers. So far Johnson has escaped the storm in a teapot, wnich is now whirling thru the closets of the Washington statesmen and throw- ing open the skeletons therein to public view. But nobody can tell fwhen he may get hit by a stray oil can. Today every candidate for the presidency is guilty until he is proven innocent. If the California senator quits the race and leaves the country to its fate and in danger of entering blind- folded into foreign entanglements, who will be the jockey to drive the unwieldly hulk of the Republican elephant to victory? Always a hard animal to manage, it is now ex- pected that the sight of a gasoline station will throw him into a frenzy during the coming campaign. Before the automobile came into such general use, his trainers might be able to sneak him across the country in the presidential race without falling into an oil well, but one can hardly cover a block now- adays without running into some animated hunk of tin that gets its motive power from the Teapot Dome. = Not that the Democrat jackass is - any better off. He was laughing and wagging his ears at the predica- ment in which his more dumsy brother was in, but when a gusher gushed in |the vicinity of William Gibbs McAdoo, the Democrats be- gan to look around for a candidate among the celebrities in the comic strips of the Sunday supplements. Barney Google, or Jiggs, may be selected. They cannot be any fun- “than the gentlemen--thab-have. already made laughing stocks of themselves. a Calvin Coolidge’s presidential bug is not biting any more. While he has escaped a frontal squirt from the petroleum fusilade, most of his cabinet are now busy trying to ex- plain why they were working twen- ty four hours a day auctioning off the United States of America to the highest bidders. His intention to hide his intellectual bankruptey behind a mantle of silence until the voters returned him to his present residence is now broken and he is giving long statements daily of his intention to punish the guilty. While the capitalist parties are grovelling in filth and political cor- ruption, the movement for a real farmer-labor party is growing by leaps and bounds. The opinion in Washington is that the Teapot Dome scandal and the assumption of the powers of government on the part of the British ee orig hive ive a great impetus is moye- oy The Coolidge machine which spent a good deal of time staging milking contests and staging other contests to seduce the progressive senators are too busy painting signs reading “Handle with care; this is inflammable” on the superstructure of their presidential platform. It is soaked with oil and it requires only a spark to burst it into flame. COHEN & HORVITZ Well Known Insurance Salesmen Office: 737 W. Roosevelt Road Phone Roosevelt 2500 Harris Cohen, 2645 Potomac Ave. 8. M. Horvitz, 1253 N. Hoyne Ave, Iury Libedinsky. It will start soo: “A Week” Feb. 16. DAILY WORKER will live from day to day. It wants everyone to feel it. be swept away forever. But this means that all now on. The Power Column The Bulwark of THE DAILY WORKER. There has been some lack of understanding regarding the 20 per cent commission which to branch agents, for all subscriptions secured by them. In some instances objection has been made to the granting of commissions on the grounds that class conscious workers will serve their paper, without having to be “bribed” by the offer Spanish Dictator Likely to Tumble from High Horse (By The Federated Press) MADRID. -— Primo de Rivera, military dictator of Spain; after completing the ninety days of dic- tatership, authorized for cleaning up Spain, now talks of the necessity of six or seven years of dictatorship. He no l6nger talks of resigning, but the growing chorus of his opponents is beginning to talk quite energet- ically of it. The republican move- ment is growing and there is a schism in the army itself, the basis of the dictator’s power. When Rivera exiled the powerful Marquis of Cortina for mere criticism of him in the press, the conserva- tives charged that he did not have the courage to the marquis for more serious ministerial crimes. Significantly enough important mem- bers of the high militery command went to see the marquis off, a direct political manifestation against the dictator. Liberal and even conserative po litical leaders have issued statements to the effect that the king so in- sulted them by giving over the power to the military directorate on the ground that “the political parties are all too corrupt for the parlia- mentary system to continue,” that if the directorate should fall they will refuse to honor the request of the HE decision has been made. The world-famous story of Russian life since the great revolution of November, 1917, will appear DAILY in the DAILY WORKER. The first installment of “A Week’ will appear Saturday, The daily installments were decided upon ve that the “A DAILY.” ‘Our paper is a DAILY. It wants its readers to realize this fact. stallments of this great novel would still perpetuate the idea that we are working on a weekly basis. This must more, must get on the mailing list and stay there from Get others to subscribe. See that your own subscription ig renewed. There will be no chance to get back numbers once this serial has got under way. Send your subscriptions and renewals to The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. king to form a new civil govern- ment. The king in that event would be forced to abdicate and either a new sovereign or a republic would result. Rivera, to save the situation, has granted various reforms, including a dummy civil government that rep- resents nobody. He is on the de- fensive against powerful papers not easily censored. The conservative foreign press associations predict his downfall and that of the king as well. Rumor says that the French government has a hand in the affair in an effort to protect itself from the isolation resulting from the al- liance of Italy and Spain. Power- ful Franco-American financial inter-| P' ests are opposing this new line-up, it is said. Hillman Still Sick Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is still sick at the Hotel Morrison here. He was confined to his bed early last week with the grippe and has not been out of his room since then. Altho not seri- iusly ill, he is unable either to work or to return to New York, and said yesterday, that he is eetting the first rest that he has had for several years. Hillman’s doctor hopes to have him able to get back to work by the end of this week. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, COME Bolos by . Minna Isaeva . . ~.e«-.Soprano Sam Amtek . . ...++,+-Violinist Nita Abrastzova , ......Soprano KKKAAAA NNN ANNAN NNN NNN NNN MINIT ND To The GRAND CONCERT: For Defense and Relief of Those Expelled by the Perlstein and Sigman Machine A — AT THE — ASHLAND AUDITORIUM ASHLAND AND VAN BUREN ST. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH, 8 P. M. Freiheit Singing Society Auspices of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. Everybody ‘Welcome—DON’T MISS IT—Admission 25¢ COME Speakers: Alexander Bittelman, Sec. Jewish Federation of .P, Earl\ Browder, Chairman, Man- > Aaa of The Labor e) % The Land for the Users! Every Day up to its best traditions as It is in the fight Publishing only weekly in- our readers, and thousands THE DAILY WORKER allows of commissions. Others hold that the commission system is too capitalistic a way for a working class organization to do business. It is unfortunate that so many good workers for the militant labor press are accepting these false ideas, We do not bribe anyone by the offer of commissions; rather we realize that many militants, as much as they would like to spend time and money in building the labor press, find it agence to do so, but with the small commission which THE DAILY WORKER offers it does be- come possible to devote the necessary time and energy to the circulation work. While working to destroy capitalism, we still are willing to learn from the capitalists, and if the 5 commission system for building up a DAILY WORKER circulation works, we are for that system. By giving commissions to branch agents THE DAILY WORKER can assume that the agents are responsible for | the carrying out of the work assigned to them and that the necessary work will be done more surely and more quickly because of the small remun- eration given. Some of the branch agents find eed ae sarets themselves to e task of making THE DAILY WORKER grow, on a_ voluntary basis, and many of these are remit- ting the full amounts for the subs they sell without deducting the com- missions, That is all the better and in some instances some cf the very best DAILY WORKER boosters are those who do not «pdiict for their commisions. _At the same time it should be pointed out that those who do accept the commissions are fol- lowing their instructions and_their| services are valued just as highly as those of the volunteer agents, It has been brought to our notice that some Workers Party branches have decided that the commissions should be turned in to the branch or to some other labor organization, Of course THE DAILY WORKER does not presume to tell the branch agents what to do with the commis- sions they earn, and we certainly would not discourage financial sup- ort to the various militant organ- izations of labor. At the same time it should be understood that Work- ers Party branches have no right to legislate for THE DAILY WORKER and therefore no right to decide what oe se shall do with the payment he receives from the DAILY WORKER. That is a matter for each agent to decide for himself. To place that decision in the hands — pedal haces is ber oe the value granting o! ie commissi 1 Py ig mmissigns see @ New and good suggestions for se- curing new DAILY WORKER read- ers continue to come in to us, Com- rade P, Smernoff, city agent for the DAILY WORKER in New Haven, Conn., has the latest one and we Pass it along to all DAILY WORK- ER boosters to it out if they believe it will work. It seems to us {hat particularly in the smaller cities the idea is practicable. Here is Comrade Smernoff’s suggestion: “We will send you names and addresses of those who wish to re- ceive the DAILY WORKER but who can't afford the whole subscription eee at one time. The DAMY ‘ORKER will then be mailed to each of them every day, just as if they had subscribed and we will col- lect from them every two weeks and send you the money, . “For instance, if we get 100 sub- seribers here on this basis, you (The DAILY WORKER) would send these subscriptions by mail and we would collect from the 100 subscribers every two weeks at the rate of 18 cents per week or 36 cents for two weeks. Out of this amount we might have to pay a boy for mak- ing the collections but you would still get more than $6.00 a year from each of this kind of sub- scriber.” rf @ We would be glad to co-operate with any city or branch agent who wishes to this experiment. We would also like to hear from others who have other suggestions to make which will help to make The DAILY], WORKER grow. WORKERS’ CITY | EXPELS IDLERS AND PARASITES Moscow Gives Bums Rush to Social Lice By GERTRUDE HAESSLER. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) MOSCOW.—For some time the municipal authorities in Moscow have been struggling with the hous- ing problem. A vigorous campaign has recently been initiated to expel from Moscow all “undesirable” and “socially dangerous” elements, and those not engaged in sociatry neces- sary labor. In connection with this campaign, the following notice: ap- peared in all the daily papers in Moscaw: To All Citizens of Moscow The acute housing crisis and the fact that Moscow is being filled with socially dangerous elements, has led ‘the State Political Department (G. P, U.) to undertake the clearing vf Moscow and the other large centers of the R. 8. F, S. R. from the dregs of nepism, which, instead of taking part in normal trade and production, are exploiting the New Economic Policy for the purpose of leading a parastic existence. In fulfillment of the instructions of the Government and of the newly elected Moscow Soviet regarding the clearing of Moscow of persons not engaged in socially necessary labor, the G. P. U. has for the last few days carried out the arrest and ex- pulsion of socially dangerous per- sons, Parasites Classified, So far 960 people have been ar- rested, of which 532 have been ex- pelled from Moscaw. The others will also be expelled shortly. The arrested and expelled persons are as follows: (1) Traders in illicit spirits, 110. (2) Swindlers and sharpers, 156. (3) Smugglers of precious stones and valuta, 120. (4) Persons with no definite oc- cupation and living in luxury, 453. (5) Cocaine dealers, 24. ‘ (6) Keepers of houses of ill fame, Total, 916. The G. P, U. announces that simi- lar arrests and expulsions to outlying districts of the R. S. F. S, R. of per- sons without definite occupation and living a parasitic existence in Russia will be continued in future and the only way to avoid arrest is for such persons to leave Moscow and the Moscow Province voluntarily. The G. P. U., however, desires to announce that persons engaged in normal trade and industry, pay- ing the required duties, and con- forming to the laws of the Uy S. S. R. may continue their occupations in security, since they are not liable to arrest and 4xpulsion. Chairman of the O. G. P. U. F. DZHERZHINSKI, Moscow, Dec. 24, 1928. Contrast with America. The conception which the G. P. U. has of “socially dangerous” persons brings to mind the case of old Tom McDermott, who was a_ staunch wobbly. In 1920, in San Francisco, he was arrested under the criminal syndicalism law and after his jury disagreed, he was dismissed by the court. Immediately after he shipped out for Australia on a windjammer. In Australia he visited wobbly head- quarters and he agitated among the sailors on his boat. When he came back to San Francisco seven months later, with all his pay in his pocket, he was arrested as he stepped off the boat on the charge of vagrancy— “no visible means of support.” He was_convicted to six months in the County Jail. Tom was. out of work at the moment, it is true, and the authori- ties wanted to “get him.” But the G. P. U. does not consider as “so- cially dangerous elements” the work- ers who are unemployed—unless they have a mysterious source of income which permits them to live in luxury. Political Con Men In Workmen’s Circle Terrorize: Members| The reactionary machine of the Workmen’s Circle, which is an or- ganization ‘ of 80,000 members, is pac Robt means to terrorize the membership into re-electing it to office, thus perpetuating the rule of a clique of unscrupulous, dishonest politicians of the blackest stripe. A regular drive hhas been started against the left wing of the Work- men’s Circle, against all those who dare to criticize the shady dealings of the backstairs poli In line with this policy of ter- rorization two of the most active members of the Workmen's Circle, Abe Epstein and David Siegal have been made members at large, which deprives them of the right of being active in the branches. Besides, the machine has commits ted all kinds of frauds in elections in various branches. member- machine against the radicals in the organization, and the money to de- fray the expenses of this cam of propaganda and abuse is taken from the treasury of Workmen's Circle. It is obvious that the yellows at ge the head of the Workmen’s Circle will or at nothing in order to hod pet themselves and their vic- ious rule. All methods are good enough for fighting the honest mil- itant elements in the organization welfare of the Workmen's Circle labor movement n-COLU THE ROSE BUSH By HERMINIA ZUR MUHLEN The Rose-Bush did not know where she was born, and where she spent her early days—it is a well known fact that flowers have a bad mem- ory, but, to make up for that, they can seen into the future. When she first became conscious of herself, she stood in the middle of a magnificent green lawn. To one side of her she saw a great white stone house, that gleamed thru the branches of a lin- den tree, to the other side stood a high trellised gate, thru which she could see the street, A thin, tall man carefully tended the Rose-bush; he brought manure, bound the drooping twigs of the Rose-bush together with ~ bark, brought water for the thirsty roots of the Rose-bush to drink. The Rose-bush was grateful to the man and, as the buds she was covered with, opened into the dainty roses, she said to her friend, “You have taken care of me, it is on account of you that I have become so ‘beauti- ful, Take some of my loveliest blos- soms in return.” The man shook his head, “You mean well, dear Rose-bush, and I would gladly take some of your beautiful blossoms for my sick wife, But I dare not do it. You don’t belong to me.” “I don’t belong to you!” exclaimed the Rose-bush. “Don’t I belong to the person who has taken care of me and troubled himself about me? Then ‘to whom do I belong?” The man pointed with his. hand to the gleaming white house among the trees, and replied, “To the gracious lady who lives there.” “That can’t be,” replied the Rose- bush. “I have never seen this lady. It is not she who has sprinkled water on me, loosened the earth at my roots, bound together my _ twigs. Then how can I belong to her?” “She has bought you.” “That is something different. Then the poor woman must have worked hard to save so much money. Good! Half of my blossoms shall belong to her.” The man laughed a little sadly, saying, “Oh, beloved Rose-bush, you don’t yet know the world, I can see that. The lady did not lift a fin- ger to earn the money.” “Then how did she get it?” “She owns a great factory in which countless workers drudge; from these comes her wealth.” The Rose-bush became angry, lifted a bough up high, threatened the man with her thorn-claws, shout- ing, “I see you enjoy yourself at my expense, because I am still young and inexperienced, telling me untruths about the world of men. Still I am not so stupid, have ob- served ants and bees, and know that to each belongs the things for which he has worked.” “That may be so among’ bees and ants,” the man sighed, deeply, “yet among men it is different. There the people receive just enough to keep them from starving—all else belongs to the master. The master builds splendid mansions, plants lovely gardens, buys flowers.” “Is that really true?” “Yes,” ‘The man went back to his work and the Rose-bush began to medi- tate. Yet, the longer she thought the worse her temper grew. Yes, even tho she usually had very fine manners, she spoke roughly to a bee who wished to visit her. The bee was still young and timid, and flew off in fright as fast as his wings could carry him. Then the Rose-bush was sorry for her rough behavior, because she was naturally friendly, and also because she might have asked the bee whether the man had spoken the truth. While she was so engrossed in thought, suddenly someone shook her and a mischievious voice asked, “Well, my friend, what are you dreaming about?” The Rose-bush looked up with her countless eyes and recognized the Wind, that stood laughing before her, shaking his head so that his long hair flew about. “Wind, beloved Wind!” joyfully exclaimed the Rose-bush, “You come as tho you had been called, Tell me whether the man has spoken the truth.” And she repeated eyery- thing the man had said to her. The ‘Wind suddenly (became se- rious, and whistled thru his_teeth so violently that the branches of the Rose-bush began to tremble. “Yes,” declared he, “All this is true, and even worse. I came here from all over the whole world, and see everything. Often I am so seized with anger that I begin to rage; then the stupid people say, ‘My! what. a storm.’ ” “And the rich people can really buy everything?” “Yes,” growled the wind. Then suddenly he laughed. “Not me. They can’t capture and imprison me. I am the friend of the poor. I fly to all lands. In big cities, I sta- tion myself before ill-smelling cel- ars and Toar into them, ‘Freedom! Justice!’ To tired, overworked peo- pe, I sing a lullaby, ‘Be courageous, keep together, fight, you will con- quer!’ Then they feel new strength, they know a comrade has spoken to them.” He tittered, and all the leaves in the garden stirred. “The rich would like to imprison me, be- eause I carry the message, but I whistle at them. At night I rattle their windows, so that they become frightened: in their soft beds, and then I ery, ‘Hoho, you idlers, your time is coming. Make room for the workers of the world!’ At that they are frightened, draw the silk- en covers over their ears, try to comfort themselves: ‘It was only the wind!’” (To be continued Tomorrow.) Send in Your News - The Daily Worker urges all members of the party to send in the news of their various sec- tions. Every Party Branch should appoint its own correspondent and make him responsible for the news that ought to be sent in to The Daily Worker. The Party Page should be the livest page in The Daily Worker. Help make it so. s all mail to the Editor, The Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. February 8, 1924 RUSSIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY TRIPLES ITS PRODUCTION Nogin Describes Meth ods of State “Trusts” (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK. — Production has tripled in the textile industry Russia since 1918, says Victor P. Nogin, President of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, who is making @ survey of the textile industry in America. The Soviet republic does not hav to import any cotton goods, declared Nogin. She produces all that she uses under the direction of the state “trusts” in which the labor unions participate, The earlier nationalization metho with the old owners as lessees, di not give good results, said Nogin Nor was the plan for centralizing | the industry in a special textile “dee partment,” which ruled from De cember, 1918 until 1921 and 1922 sate isfactory. Tell of “State Trusts.” “Since then,” he continued, “¢he various textile enterprises were grouped into industrial units, which were formed on the following basiss Geographical and industrial, By in- dustrial we mean plants which had in common, raw materials, spinning, weaving.and finishing. These groups ‘were united into units which are popularly called in Russia ‘trusts.’ These trusts have the rights of a legal person. “The capital of a trust is based on the property of the enterprise. By property is meant buildings, raw materials, goods, but not the land, because in Russia there is no pri- vate ownership of land, the land all belonging to the national govern. ment. “Many of these trusts have re- ceived from the government the privilege of using the forests and the peat deposits. Peat is known in Russia as the special textile fuel, There a special decree issued by the national government regarding these trusts; The management of the trusts is appointed by the Su- preme Council of National Economy, Labor Unions Participate. “Each industrial unit or trust is governed by a committee of from five to ten individuals appointed from Moscow. by the government after consultation with the labor unions, If there is a dispute in any trust the workers apply to their local dele- gate, who, in turn, takes it up with a committee. If they cannot come to an agreement they go to the local. council. In case they are un- able to come to a decision the matter is taken to Moscow, where the head- quarters of all the unions are lo- cated, and the representatives of _ the textile union take the discussions | of the matter to the Executive Com- ; mittee of the Supreme Council of Nationa! Economy. This council is appointed in the same manner es the National Cabinet of the Sotiet Government.” é Nogin has worked in the textile industry for 30 years. He was a leading official in the first central textile administration of the textile industry after the revolution. Do American Workers Know a Good | Thing When They See It? WE SAY THEY DO AND CITE A RECORD OF A 50 PER CENT } ¢ INCREASE IN THE DAILY WORKER CIRCULATION DURING THE LAST TWO WEEKS TO PROVE IT. Cynics and pessimists and renegades excuse their impotency by bewailing the lack 3 of intelligence and class-consciousness of American workers. The reception which THE 3 DAILY WORKER has received everywhere it has appeared, disproves this conception once and for all. \ There are hundreds of thousands of American workers, “been looking for a daily newspaper just like THE DAILY WORKER. rebels at heart, who have ; How to notify these thousands that THE DAILY WORKER is here, how to make them aware that at last there IS a daily labor paper that supplies all the newspaper needs of the working class is the big problem which THE DAILY WORKER must solve. ¢ ‘ Those thousands for us. who now read THE DAILY WORKER are the ones who can reach these If every reader of THE DAILY WORKER will make it his business to distribute copies of the paper among the workers he meets, will advertise THE DAILY WORKER everywhere as the Militant Organ of the Advancing Working Class the problem will be solved and for every thousand workers now participating in the struggles for working class emancipation there will be TENS OF THOUSANDS, each of them a militant fighter in labor’s cause. , For a limited time THE DAILY WORKER will send FREE to anyone making the request, a bundle of sample copies of THE DAILY WORKER for free distribution, USE THE COUPON BELOW IN ORDERING THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. 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