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is not an imperialist government but Paige Four A accemmremcerr en THE DAILY WORKER MOREL SAYS U.S. AND ENGLAND CAN PREVENT WARS Free Germany, Recog- nize Russia, He Urges (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb, 20—E. D. Morel, England’s famous peace propa- gandist and Labor M. P., was not an entrant in Mr. Bok’s peace prize con- test, perhaps because only American citizens were eligible and also per- haps he thought, in the words of the cartoonist, that the contest didn’t mean anything anyway. But Mr. Morel has a plan. The text of it follows: America can best help to save the world from further catastrophe by initiating, or co-operating with Great Britain in Suggesting a world con- ference for the purpose of: Seven Points of Peace. 1. Enabling the German people to resume a national life free from external interference, and to recov- er financially and economically. 2. Securing a wide measure of disarmament among all the nations in every branch of war organiza- tions. 8. Abolishing the private manu- facture of armaments, 4. Establishing a scientific ra- tioning of the world’s raw mate- rials in order to prevent imperial- ist economies, especially in par- ticularly weak or uncivilized com- munitie: ating, either thry the ex- isting League of Nations, strength- ened and reformed, or thru some other medium, an_ international mechanism designed to be a sub- stitution for the institution of war; and to examine with impartiality the economic, political and racial problem of all states with a view to providing for their respective needs without their being driven to war in the attempt to secure them. 6. Recognizing Russia. 7. Ensuring the neutralization, on some such plan as that laid down in “Africa and the Peace of Europe” and in “The Black Man’s Burden,” of the greater part of Africa including also the tropical regions; and abolishing the mili- tarization of Africa. Must Revise Peace Treaty. No. 1, as Mr. Morel points out, involves the wide revision of the Ver- sailles Treaty. No. 5 involves the re- examination of all the peace treaties of 1919 with a view to the protection of racial minorities. “America,” adds Mr. Morel, “can | convince herself, if she chooses, that the British government now in power is sincerely and deeply anxious to start a new chapter in the history of international relationships, “Its capacity to do so depends in large measure upon American action, or inaction. “The best in America and the best in Britain associated officially and unofficially in the unselfish task of preparing a new and better future for humanity can change the face of the world.” Now if some of our left wing agi- tators would speak up as to their opinion of this British legislator’s suggestion the first steps toward such a conference would be accomplished. “The “plan” as outlined above was sent to Julia Ellsworth Ford, Amer- ican peace worker, by Mr. Morel at her request. ; Newton Baker are all Youth Views By HARRY GANNES High School Students Forced to Quit. More than half of the high ‘school students are forced to quit before completing their courses is the latest information obtainable from the United States Department of the In- terior, which is concerning itself with this phase of education in this country. 2 It is worthy of emphasis that the increase in the number of students leaving high school is coincident with the increase in unemployment and the epidemic of wage cuts now evident, if Most of these children that are forced to leave school before com- pleting their meagre courses are sons and daughters of workers who have lost their jobs or have suffered a wage cut. Not only is child labor increasing, but the legal exploitation of young, undeveloped boys and girls between 14 and 18 is a growing factor that must be faced by the labor move- ment precisely for this reason: These children are placed in jobs formerly occupied by adult workers in fac- tories, shops and offices and do the work for less wages. Result: More unemployed workers or lowered wages for those older workers kept on the job. Publishers Greedy for Wilson Matter, Since He Is Dead (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Publishers and editors of this city are hungry for Wilson material, acting on the “hunch” that the country wants and will pay a good price for a lot of it. We may therefor expect a veri- table deluge of “intimate, outspoken” sketches and memoirs of the late president. George Creel, so it is said, has a restless fountain pen; Josephus Dan- iels is already working on something. So is William C, Redfield, formerly secretary of commerce; Brand Whit- lock, Colonel House, Jo Tumulty, said to be anxious to write books about the man who kept us out of war. His daughters, his widow, his phy- sicians and other intimates have, of course, been besieged by editors of newspaper syndicates, magazines and newspapers as well as book publish- ers. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Austrian Finances at Standstill from Bank Clerks’ Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) VIENNA, Feb. 20. — Austrian banks are shut down by a walkout of the bank employes, The strikers refuse to increase théir working week by two and a half hours, It is impossible to replace the strik- ers. Austrian bank workers have to be accomplished statisticians to deal with the financial figures that run into the billions and trillions since the depreciation of the currency. For- eign exchange is particularly taxing. So far the efforts of the capitalist papers to shame the bank clerks back with sob arguments about the hard- ships the government is suffering dur- ing these reconstruction times are dismal faiiures, Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. UNIFT CHILDREN COLUM = Frogs and Children. By EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH 2.014 frogs were unkindly treated last year in Illinois alone, according to a press dispatch from the DAILY WORKER'S own home city of Chi- cago. 15 ostriches and 95 monkeys | were abused. A cage of songsters were bothered by jazz music on a} phonograph, Chickens, alligators, dogs and gold- fish were also unkindly treated, ac- cording to the state humane society, which made public the report, Also, as an afterthought, perhaps, we are informed that complaints of cruelty to children numbered 1,437. * * 8 It may just have happened, or pos- sibly the order of mention reflected 8 state of mind all too common un- der our grab-and-gulp social order. Looking out for frogs, alligators and gold-fish requires a brand of sym- pathy that is safely narrow and has nothing to do with serious, funda- mental things like the industrial sys- tem and just distribution of wealth. Kindly and prosperous ladies and gentlemen, all on fire for unselfish service, can thus have an outlet for their impulses without having to let of cherished privileges, and, what Sore definite, without having to seldom or sent to school without any breakfast. ae ee Humane societies do good work, but their work is woefully circum- scribed, and it may even mean a serious misdirection of energy. When the labor movement has found itself and has more fully justified itself, the eruelty to children which is deep and damning, the poverty and*the suffer- ing, the stifling of worthy ambition and the refusal of equal opportunity, will be ended, not all at once, but surely promptly and permanently. In that hour, too, frogs, alligators and gold-fish will not be forgotten. A genuinely civilized human race will not allow cruelty anywhere at any time to anything. ¢ * 4 The Young Comrade, The March issue of the Young Comrade, official organ of-the Junior section of the Young Workers League, is out. It contains articles on child labor, Lenin, a short story, and an appeal for help for the starv- ing children of Germany. It is well illustrated. There is also a new song for rebel kids, news about the junior groups and many other interesting features. go to work. *“* # @ Now children happen to be differ- ent dumb things. They are erally acknowledged to be human cag All kinds of possibilities are wrapped up in them. All kinds of big and far-reaching changes are in prospect if their present is to be improved and their future made se- cure. If one honestly starts to help children, there is no telling in what radical surroundings he may land, for, quite plainly, Gees Pom ope ) at see! t children are no! stop at seeing at slapped too often or BUSY TONIGHT? Volunteer workers are needed at the office of THE DAILY WORKER Phone: Lincoln 7680 and say you'll be up tonight to help 1HE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted St. [NICK LONGWORTH FIGHTING THAT 44 PER CENT TAX Mellon Champ Leading Forelorn Hope (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Having killed the Mellon plan and written the Garner income tax rates into the revenue bill the Democratic-Progres- sive coalition in the House today stood its ground against efforts of the administration forces to reverse this action. Republican Leader Longworth to- day insists, however, that there is still a possibility of forcing the adoption of a compromise which would not destroy the Mellon program. As a result of the vote of 222 to 196 in the House late yesterday, the income tax schedule now stands: 44% On Big Incomes, 1.—Normal taxes on incomes up to $5,000 are two per cent; four per cent between $5,000 and $8,- 000 and six per cent above $8,000. 2.—Surtaxes beginning at one Per cent on $12,000 are graduated to 44 per cent on $92,000 incomes, 8.—Personal exemptions for single persons are $2,000 and for heads of families $3,000. With the adoption of the Garner plan in the “committee of the whole house” the fight will lag until the bill gets into the House proper. Demo- erats intend to support most of the administrative features of the bill. When the bill does come before the House proper, Longworth intends to fofce a record vote on his sub- stitute for the Garner plan. It provides for a 25 per cent cut in both normal and surtaxes. It pro- ‘poses the Mellon normal rates of three and six per cent and a maximum surtax of 37%4 per cent on incomes of $100,000. 8S G8 Melon Cutting to Be Taxed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Demo- crats scored their second victory in two days when the House this after- noon adopted the Garner stock divi- dend tax by a vote of 162 to 112. Profits from the sale of stock divi- dends, regardless of when the stock is sold, would be subject to the regu- lar income tax rates, under the amendment offered by Representa- tive Garner, Texas. Under the present law, profits from the sale of stock dividends more than two years after the divi- dends are issued are subject only to the capital assets tax of 2% per cent. Only 274 votes out of a total of 435 in the House were cast on the amendment and the Republican lead- ers hope to be able to reverse today’s action when a record vote is taken in the House proper. Willie Hearst Spurs on Cons to Pursue Gilda’s Highwaymen Two bombings, a little holdup that ended in the shooting of one holdup man, and the capture of six persons supposed to be connected with the holdup of Gilda Gray, friend of W.R. Hearst, shimmv dancer who was robbed of $150,000 worth of jewelry, disturbed the peace and quiet of the police ‘of Chicago yesterday. Unknown persons for unknown rea- sons placed a bomb under the porch of the home of Anthony Czarnecki, 6877 Hobart avenue, Norwood Park, a member of the board of election commissioners, and did about $1,000 damage. Fiore Lamonttagna, a gro- cer at 2327 W. Harrison street, failed to settle with black handers and as a result, yesterday his place of busi- ness was Lombed. He was asked to give tke biack handers $2,000. He estimated tnat the komb did about $1,000 damage. Two men held up a drug sfore at 6260 Champlain avenue and tried to escape in a taxi. A policeman from the Woodlawn station commandeered a passing auto and gave chase, He caught the two men, who are said to be ex-convicts, and after a tussle shot one thru the chest and took them both to the staffon. : For the forty-eleventh time the police have captured ‘¥e bad, bold bandits that robbed Gilda Gray. This time there are six of them in custody. Up till a late hour last night Gilda had not called at the detective bu- reau to identify them, The detective bureau promises that if Gilda feels she can’t identify the men they now have they will get several more for her. The Herald and Examiner men " 0 have been privately urging the police to get busy and recover Gilda’s lost jewels, because of her friendship for William R. Hearst, it is believed. Porters Win Increase. An eight per cent wage increase for 10,000 Pullman porters was an- nounced today by the Pullman com- nanv. The annual total will exceed $1,000,000 officials said, Conductors recently were given a six per cent in- crease. German Socialists Hit Toboggan. BERLIN, Feb. 20.—The Socialists lost out in the elections held in Mecklenburg-Schwerin on February 17, when the conservatives secured a majority of 21 in the State As- sembly. Polish War Head Quits. WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 20.—Ow- ing to dissatisfaction over the war Genera] Sosnkow- ms Sikorski, former premier and ! minister of the interior, minis' budget, ski, sotalnter of war, resigned He will be i ae Heresy Trial of Bishop Brown, Denies Belief Christianism.” ‘i Altho no date for the trial has been set, it was expected the hearing would be held here early in the summer. 4 Secret Decision to Oust. Bishop Brown intimated that the decision to try him was’ made in secret at the last meeting of. the House of Bishops in the early Winter of 1923. He asserted that news of this leaked out thru remarks made by Bishop Thomas F, Gailor of the diocese of Tennessee in # sermon. Bishop Brown said that even if the trial did take place it would affect his status in the church but little, since the “sacramental graces of baptism and ordination are indelible.” He said that he could be as good a Christian on “atheistic and mater- ialistic lines” as could any other member of the House of Bishops on “theistic and spiritistic lines.” Bishop Brown in the letter an- nounced his willingness to resign if a committee of three named by the House of Bishops argue the matter out with him and still find him at fault. He also said he would re- sign if the House of Bishops placed itself on record that the recently promulgated declaration of ortho- dox faith the House of Bishops at Dallas really was not such. The “extreme heresy” charged against Bishop Brown consists of twenty-three quotations from “Com- munism and Christianism.” Among them are; Doubts Christ Lived. “T doubt that Christ lived.” “The Holy Ghost sees to it that the slave class is kept in ignorance.” “The birth, death, resurrection, de- scension and ascension of all the Saviour-Gods not excepting Jesus, are versions of the sun-myth.” “There is no rational doubt about the fictitious character of the Divine Jesus.” Bishop Brown was accepted as a member of the Modern Churchmen’s Union, even tho he took extreme pains to acquaint its leaders with his radical social ideas. Evolution of Superstition. The Bishop’s views on the evélu- tion of religious thought are given in the following excerpts from his public statement: “The works of Frazer, Tylor and others have scientifically established the revolutionary fact that the his- tory of religion is continuous from the savage upward, and that it is the histary of an evolution, From the savage to ourselves there is no break, one phase of religious belief has given way to another, and there has been the same .tevolt and the same resistance to change at every step. “The history of religion becomes more and more a question of phsy- chology. It is not a question of cer- tain events having occurred at some particular date in history, and at some particular place, but one of what caused people to believe that these things have occurred, “We have the same problem, in kind, presented to us by the growth of new religious beliefs among sav- age and civilized people. H is re- ally a question of studying the cul- ture stage at which a people are living and relating the beliefs in the supernatural to their existent stage of culture, The question no longer is, ‘Did miracles occur?’ The ques- tion now is, “What led people to believe they occurred?’ t Witchcraft and Religion. “In one direction the new view- point is quite openly adopted. We do not ask when did witcheraft cease to exist, for no one believes that it ever existed, but when did people cease to believe in witchcraft? This is a distinction of first-rate impor- tance, os The whole study of religion now consists in an investigation of man’s intellectual evolution from the pre- scientific stage, where he believed in miracles, to the scientific one, where he ceased to believe in them. Mir- acles are left-offs from the age of traditionalism, and have no place in that of scientism as Tealities, but only as symbols, . Still Near Stone Age. “Heresy charges are at this day almost enough to make one despair of human nature. They compel one to realize how near we are to the stone age, and how very thin is the veneer of civilization we have put mn. “The fact is that we are in for a wave of reaction toward tyranny all over the world. The United States is today at least fifty years behind what it was before thy war, and our government can do with impunity | hea Bg it ole not have to do twenty-five years 5 There are few, comparatively, coda who have any real regard free- dom as such.” No Point of Agreement. While Bishop Brown stands so far 0 the left in the opposition move. ment inside the Protestant Episco- pal church, or it is quite di ; ncn to see any point of agreemen' tween him and the rest of the Mod- ernists on the religious a delivered last in Gatch of the, Aone York, he requested those of Communist, Is Put off Again; He In “Saviour Gods’’ Special to Worker) GALION, 0., Feb. 2 if death@in Dallas of Bishop Alexander L. Garrett, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America, may delay the heresy trial of the Rev. William|missar is not confined to bed but Montgomery Brown, who is to be tried by the House of Bishops he is leading a quiet life in the open because of statemgnts contained in his book, “Communism and] ‘Trotzky is fortunate, OR SS rare Cae eR RS gregation who could accept literally the Apostle’s Creed to stand up. No one arose, Brown Versus Grant. Grant believes that superstition or religion can be reformed. Bishop Brown declares it must and will go the way of belief in witchcraft and other delusions of the past, ,_ Dr. Grant is in favor of eliminat- ing the more obviously out-of-date religious dogmas such as the Virgin birth theory. It is true this plank was an after thought on thy part of the Catholic church and did not put / se ee piacianrs until several undred years after the alle; of Christ's birth, ex Archbishop Hayes of the Catholic Peal has bared ta @ mass meet- ing where special sacrifices will be offered to God for the Pain caused Hits the Hien reap of moral ‘urpitude against the Hol his favorite field worker. yee Christ a “Mad Artist,” Another New York divine declared that Christ was a “mad artien? meaning of course, that he was an idealist who would feel quite at home in Greenwich and. very probably would not be able to pay his rent with teh degree of regularity. This familia: ty. with Jesus is ringing the latter into general disfavor with respectable church patrons. , Not only was Christ a “mad artist” but he was also a poet, declares the Same accuser, who evidently does not appreciate the seriousness of the last charge, else he is no friend of the meek and lowly Nazarene. In the meantime the New York district of the Presbyterian church igs proceeding in a normal manner and is demonstrating its regularity by putting on a drive for a million dollars. The motto of the Presby- terians is “O Lord, give us’ this day our daily pay,” William Z. Foster Will Speak at A.C.W. Open Forum, Feb. 22 William Z. Foster will speak on the Trade Union Educational League, and its program at the Open Forum, conducted by Local No. 39, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, on Friday evening, Feb, 22, 1924, 8 o'clock, at the Ashland Audi- torium, Room, 237. All members of the Amalgamated are invited. ee Bank Employes Dance Tonight. The Chicago Bank Employes As- sociation will give their first annual dance Thursday evening Feb, 21, at the Morrison Hotel, Cameo Room, Madison and Clark Sts. This is the only bank employes’ association in. existence and all labor should support it, to help organize the hundreds of bank employes in this city. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Trotzky Recovering; Is Expected Back to Red Army by Spring (Special te The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—Trotzky’s convalescence will be over by the beginning of spring, it is believed by his physicians, The military com- say his friends, in that his breakdown did not come earlier, The Red Army is now in such well organized condi- tion that he can be spared now far better than he could have. been spared two years ago, Butcher Kills Four. HOMER, Ill, Feb. 20.—Louis Kuntz, 65, a butcher, exterminated a family of three nine miles from here following a family quarrel, according’ to a report made to the coroner to- day by Constable Elliot. Kuntz, us- ing a rifle, shot and killed Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Whistle and their 18- year old daughter, and then killed himself, Inventor Found Dead. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 20th.— Search for William J. Davis, inventor of dairy machinery, who has been missing since Feb, 1, ended when his body was found among the unidenti- fied dead of the wreck of two In- diana Union Traction trains at Fort- ville, Ind., Feb, 2, Cupid Loses, Ag: EDWARDSVILLE, Ill, Feb. 20.— Joseph Lavora, 42, died in a hos- pital today of. gunshot wounds, in- flicted by himself in his attic yester- day after he had fired upon and slightly wounded Miss Frances Spind- ler, 30, who had repulsed his ad- vances. Rail Connections to Ru MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—At the inter- national railway conference, recently held at Riga, with the object of -co- ordinating the time-tables for thru communication with Russia, a satis- factory agreement was reached be- tween the delegates of the Union of Soviet Repuviies, Germany and the Baltic States. ° Thursday, February 21, 1924 COAL MINER WHO DEFIED LEWIS IS FIRED; HAS 7 KIDS Fakers Get Company to Do Dirty Work (Special to The Daily Worker) YUKON, Pa., Feb. 20.—Tactics of the Lewis machine in the coal min- ing district of western Pennsylvania, District 5, are illustrated in the case of Thomas Ray, a militant unionist who has just been discharged by the coal operator for whom he was work- ing at Wyano, Pa., at the request of the officials of the district. Bay was fired when he returned from the International convention. The reactionaries charged that he worked with the radicals there for the reinstatement of Howat and for other anti-Lewis measures. This union man they have put out of a job is father of seven children, the oldest only 13. The machine has been trying to get him for a long time—even since he became identi- fied with the Progressive Miners In- ternational Committee. They per- suaded the company to fire him after they had failed to get his local un- jon to expel him. Earljer, when he was working near McDonald, and in a machine controlled local the district officials made a demand for his expulsion and Bay quit his job and went to work at: Wyano where he had friends. Tut’s Nap Continues. LUXOR, Feb. 20.—The Egyptian government today cancelled the license under which Howard Carter is excavating the tomb of the Pharaoh Tut-Ankh-Amen in the valley of kings, Somebody’ll Walk. GREENWOOD, Ind., Feb. 20th.— Thirty automobiles and four busses were burned in a fire which destroyed the garage of the Greenwood Motor Transit Company early today. 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