The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 4

— Page Four BRITISH DOCKERS APT TO REJECT | COMPROMISE Majority “of Bosse 8 Ready to Pay (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 24—As_ reports some in from districts outside Lon- fon the chances of the dockers ac- eepting the compromise offer of the employers appear smaller. Latest figures indicate that some- thing like 80 per cent of the employ- erg are ready to pay the two-shilling imcrease demanded; most of those iwho insist on the compromise offer of one shilling are in the London dis- trict. With these exceptions the ‘whole British population seems to be with the dockers. The strikers know this and there is no reason to believe that the dele- gates will be able to induce them, to abandon the strike on the compro- mise basis. Labor officials agree that the strike will probably continue for another fortnight. One hundred thousand spinners are W@le because supplies of cotton are held up at the docks and the hours in industry as a whole have been re- duced to twenty-six instead of the sya) fortyeight. American mail has been loaded ana forwarded to London by volunteers ‘without interference by the strikers at Plymouth but at Tilbury sixteen mail trucks were held up and the mail returned to the postoffice. Meat prices dropped about 3 cents per pound at the earlier news of the spects ofa strike settlement but ve risen again, altho 60 per cent of the usual meat supply was deliv- ered at the London markets. The first strike pay has been is sued by the union and to many of those who received it, it was the first money they had had for a month due to unemployment. First-class passengers from the Berengaria had to proceed to London without their baggage when the en- gineer at Southampton refused to run the train unless the baggagecars, which had been loaded by non-union labor, were detached. New York Bakers Are Boosting for The Daily Worker NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Bakers’ Local No. 1, of the Amalgamated Food Workers, is getting behind the |Bulgarian Government Has 5,000 Rebels In Jail; Demands Turkey Surrender Those Who Escaped m (By The Federated Press) SOFIA, Feb. 24.—The Bulgarians who took part in the popular uprising against the autocratic military government of THE DAILY WORKER Bulgaria are between the devil tute and homeless, and when they are able to find work, they are given such small wages and such bad living con- ditions that they are dying off from privation and disease. Those who fled to Turkey are in imminent danger of be- ing handed over by the Turk- ish government to the self-styled authorities in Bulgaria. Those who are still in Bulgaria and have not been arrested, are in continual dan- ger of being tortured and killed. Thousands Were Slain. A member of the central commit- tee, Bulgarian Communist party, has given the latest estimate of impris- oned insurgents at over 5,000, exclu- sive of those who have been re- leased. Figures on the number of killed are incomplete, but run into the thousands. Those who fled to Jygoslavia are engaged mostly on railroad construc- tion on the piece work system, and are pitifully exploited, buying in company stores, living in company houses. The Bulgarian government has de- manded of the Turkish government that the refugees on Turkish soil be delivered up to Bulgarian justice on the ground that the refugees are not pelitical refugees but common criminals, The Turkish government has been inclined to accede to the request. Tells of Butchery. What is going on in Bulgaria is illustrated by the following letter which was written by the priest, Athanas, in Kritschin to his student son in Austria: “On Oct. 1 Boris Gentshev, stu- dent of medicine in Gratz (Aus- tria) came 45 our village with his brother, Ivan Gentshev, an officer. Fifteen cutthroats from Philipopel met them here. All day long this gang drank with the Gentshev brothers in Felo Popov’s house and continually threatened that when they were thru with drinking wine they would drink blood. “Toward 7 p. m. they loaded 13 peasants, among them your bro- ther Petko, upon a truck and drove them to Philipopel. We begged them to transport the men dur- DAILY WORKER. They want to see every member of their lecal subscribe to it. their last meeting an ap- get new subscribers for the “DAILY” and it met with the promises of many members to help put the DAILY WORKER into the hands of every bakery worker that could be reached by the members of local No. 1. ‘The meeting also pledged to raise $1,400 for German relief, to be rais- ed by assessing every member $1. ing the day but were ordered to be quiet at the points of bayonets. The commandant forbade anyone fw leave.the- village. truck. drove off to the accompaniment of the screams and cries of the chil- dren. Days went by, and we knew nothing of the fate of the arrest- ed men, until this terrible news came: when the truck arrived near the mill between Rurtev and Kara- Tai, the chauffeur said that there was something wrong with the motor; that he could not proceed. HIT WEY ‘2 CONDUCTED - BY TH, WORKEDS COUNG WORKERS LEAGUE America’s Young “Lifers” By J. 0. BENTALL. “J sentence you to prison for life.” You may hear this in almost any’ court on any day in this great land. But I heard it in a much more heartless form the other day when I was talking to a fellow-passenger on a New York Central train, He was from the South. He wa: was a millionaire, and boasted of ft. He had been to Washington on the hearing of the child labor law, and had given expert advice to the Supreme Court, or, rather, to indi- viduals thereof. “That isn’t it at all,” he protested against my insinuation that child- og was cheaper than that of ad- Its. Which made me prick up my ears like a dog hearing a new noise. And it was a new noise. “Child labor is no cheaper than ether labor,” he declared definitely, as if that had been settled in his mind for a long time. “We must hold our mill classes in our textile districts,” he preached. “If you don’t get them into the mills before they are fourteen or fifteen they will stray into other industries be lost to us, We cannot bother about training old people to do this work and who leave us if they know other trades.” “Hold our mill classes” has been sag to in my ears ever since. lany things rolled out of the mouth of the self assertive million- aire textile lord. He thought it as natural to talk about the children who worked in his mills as of the spindle or the cotton or the engine in the power house, He made no secret of the fact that m: thousands of children in the eishern mills are under ten years of age. He defended the practice of getting them hig in exactly the same way as the Sunday School mis- sionary of the mountain states pleads for his cause. As the preacher in the big city calls upon the parents to baptize the little ones and get them into church early. As the evangelist calls upon the young fo eee eeivsticn before it is too late, ise they will leave. That fis the nightmare that haunts the textile Se that in many cases children are 4 more than the nataral rate i) ou Pe teas a mill owner and proud of it. He in order to get them to stick till they are properly caught. When they have reached the age of twenty they are quite secure. They have then gotten rather nicely fitted into their niche. By that time their mind is narrowed along the line of every- day life and the outside has no fancy for them. The young man edges up to one of the girls and the two get mar- ried.- After that they have to stay, They dare not seek other and better jobs. Their offspring: multiplies and in turn becomes baptized into the textile eommnnion. Familv after |family in a long string of genera- tions follows faithfully the beaten path, The schools are under strict con- trol of the textile industry. Sp- called manual] training is highly de- veloped, but only along lines that make the children acquainted with the machinery that they are to han- dle the rest of their life. Even the kindergarten has spindles and looms and spools. Here the little ones get their first lessons in the industry that is to become their prison. A fixed population, “the mill classes,” is the underlying cause of | child labor. This fixed population seldom goes on strike. It knows not any other life and refuses to become organized. Its brain is of the “fun- damentalist” kind that hangs to tra- dition and authority. There is not the slightest danger that this fixed population may come into contact with such strange things as thoughts. Thinking is declared altogether un- constitutional. Any child caught with it is tried for treason and shot. I have seen many “lifers” in prison, who are condenmed to an existence of monotony and confinement and hardship. But in no way are y more pitiable wrecks of capitalist de- struction than the industrial “lifer” who begins his term at the cradle and ends it in the paupers’ grave. and the deep blue sea. Those who were caught on Bulgarian soil were either killed or imprisoned. Those who fled to Jugo-Slavia are desti- The ruffians cried out: ‘That fat one should get off.” Your brother was torn from the truck and tortured and maltreated in the most frightful manner. After they stabbed him 50 times with a knife, they crushed his head, and Nikola was killed in the same manner. The rést of + them fled, but three of them were shot. This sad news soon spread and put the whole village into a state of agitation. At 7 p. m. the truck returned with the naked, mutilated corpses. The commandant ordered us to have them dressed by 8 o’clock the following morning. At 8 o’elock the funeral took: place. The investigation committee we asked for did not materialize. “When you get this letter, write immediately to your brother in America that he should give the facts to the newspapers. Do everything you can to give these facts the widest publicity in the German and English press. The whole world should know that Bulgaria is being ruled by beasts who drink human blood.” ‘ SOVIET RUSSIA SHOWS MERCY TO TERRORIST FOES Wielders of Assassin’s Dagger on Probation (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Feb. 24.—The Soviet government issued a declaration giv- ing the decision of the government to pardon the social-revolutionary leaders, most of whom were sentenced to death. They have all been in prison for some time, as they were repriev- ed, the carrying out of their death sentences being put off for an in- definite period of time. Now those sentenced to death have had their sentences commuted to five years’ imprisonment, other to two and a half years’ imprisonment, while still another group of prisoners was freed altogether, but they are to be placed on strict probation. The decision was made in view of the fact that” the Soviet government is in a stronger position; and need not fear the ter- rorist conspiracies against it. But should this party e more lift its head within Soviet Russia, there will be no mercy shown as has been shown now. It was the socialist-revolution- ary party which caused the assassi- nation of Volodarski, which caused the wounding of Lenine, and which planned the assassination of Trotsky and other leaders of the Russian revolution. The following have had their death sentences commuted to five years’ imprisonment with solitary confine- ment: Gotz, Donsky, Gerstein, Gen- delyman, Lichatch, Ivanov, Ratner, Timofeyev, Agapov, Altovsky and Ivanova. The following had their long pris- on sentences commuted to five years: imprisonment without solitary con- finement: Liberov, Artemyev, Rakov, Fedorovitch and Vedenyapin. The following had their sentences com- muted to two and a half years’ im- priggnment: Utgoff, Berg and Lvov. Still another group was freed al- together, but those composing this group are not allowed for the next three years to live in thickly popu- lated localities, and are to be on strict probation. The Soviet govern- ment, tho it is merciful, will see to it that another campaign of terror- ism never breaks out against the workers’ republic. Wealthy Ladies Fear Wine Cellars NEW YORK, Feb. 24th.—Society women of New York are greatly con- cerned lest the working man gets it into his head that prohibition was a little bit of adroit class legislation. Two hundred of them have joined the Women’s Committee for Law En- forcement which has for its purpose the spreading of propaganda among the upper class against too ostenta- tious serving of good wine and booze from cellars that were stocked before the dry law came into effect. ‘the late Andrew Carnegie is chair- {man of the committte. She admits that her cellar is full of wine, but says she doesn’t ever serve it. “I think,” she said, “it is unfair to the | poor who have no cellars.” Mrs. William Jay Schieffelin, grand- daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, who ig another member of the com- mittee, said she is a prohibitionist, and a Mrs. Frances McN. White de- clared that “legal drinking by the wealthy” is a “dangerous thing for the working classes.” Two hundred of them are, in the phrase of one, in “favor of locking their cellars.” Ungrateful proletarians point out that they have always been in favor of locking those cellars, double lock- ing—armor plating them, in some in- stances—as a matter of fact. How- ever, the dear ladies feel they've done a lot to modify social unrest. Work Daily for “The Daily!" ~ INDUSTRIAL CRISIS Make Poor Envious | \Coolidge Won't Mrs. Roswell Miller, daughter of | SPELLS DOOM OF SPANISH RULERS So Says Besteiro, the Socialist Leader (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Feb. 24.—The Spanish in- dustrial crisis will destroy, the Fas- cisti government there, declares Senor Besteiro, president, of the Spanish socialist party, on his way thru Paris to London where he will meet Ramsay MacDonald, of the British Labor ‘Party government. “If the present government dis- solves,” he said, “the socialists might -sueceed to power in much the same way the Labor Party did in England, tho the Spanish social- ists\ were not very strong at the present time. e “An industrial crisis reigns in Spain,” declared Besteiro. “Every- where there. are: jobless people. The military directorate is ridicu- lously incapable. It: was formed by the military leaders responsible for the Moroccan debacle.” * * * Censorship on Press. (By The Federated Press) MADRID, Feb. 24.—“Liberty but not license”—where have we heard that shibboleth before? After the military dictator of Spain, Primo de Rivera, had mastered the lesson of the value of comic opera red plots, he decided to tear another leaf from the Book of Acts of the American autocracy, and adopted the Creel slogan of press censorship. Trans- lated into Spanish and adapted to the Spanish temperament,, it sounds even better than in the original. Hence the press of the fascist king- dom ruled by the Marquis of Estella was treated a few days back to the slogan: “Libertad pero no liber- tinaje.” “Sedition” In Air. “The directorate. knows . perfectly what it is, that the country. needs,” confesses the message on freedom of the press. “For some time rumors of conspiracies and seditious maneuv- ers have been reaching our ears. However, we shall continue perm ting everybody to express his opin- ion freely, always providing such opinion bases itself in loyal and hon- orable judgments and foundations. But we will not tolerate mendacious nor seditious campaigns which poison and disorientate public opinion . . . It is rebellion and insidious attacks that oblige us to act with rigor. ... “We who work in the name of and representative of the army and nayy and of the. whole. Spanish pspple, would be unworthy of pity if out of weakness we exposed ourselves to public ridicule.” Egyptians Allow Public to See Tut’s Tomb; Bar Carter LUXOR, Feb. 24.—The public will be admitted ta the tomb. of Pharaoh Tut-Ankh-Amen this week, follow- ing forcible entrance into the ex- cavations by authorities of the Egyp- tian government. . £ Meantime it was reported effort: are under way in Cairo to settle the dispute between the Carnarvon es- tate, which originally held the li- cense for the excavations, and the Egyptian government. According to these reports the government proposes to reissue @ il- cense to Lady Carnarvon, with addi- tional clauses designed to avoid. the difficulties of the past, but will ig- nore Howard Corter, who has been in charge of operations for the Car- narvons. Pierre Lacau, director general of antiquities, superintended the fore- ing of barriers erected around the tomb by Carter, after the Egyptolo- ‘Rad refused to surrender the keys. It was found that the heavy lid of the sarcophagus containing the body of the dead Pharaoh was still sus- pended in midair, as it had been left when Carter quit work because of his dispute with the government. Chuck Wallace, Farm Seeretary (Special to The Daily Werker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24,--Presi- dent Coolidge will take steps within a day or two to dispel the impression that he desires Secretary of - ture Wallace to leave the cabinet, it was learned today. Reports that the secretary of agri- culture was about to step out sur- prised the president. Mr. Coolidge is said to regard as relatively tri the differences between Wallace himself over the farm relief program and Wallace's difference with Secre- tary of Commerce Hoover over for- eign trade policies as they relate agriculture. In any event, the \- dent is understood to feel that these differences can be ironed out without causing Wallace to resign. “Wallace, one of his close fri said today, is ready to quit the net if that would be conducive td harmony in the administration, Thus ‘far H nee not ss Coolidge the question resigning, but it has been discussed among some of his close associates. How many read the DAILY one of them to «1 with Mr. | ’ By LEL (Federated Press year’s:income? ‘The National the order book. future as a definite threat to Secretary J: T. Tregoe of the National Association of Credit Men looks upon the extrava- gant use of credit as an at- tack upon our whole system of economy. Installment Buying. : “Pay a little each pay day.” “$5 starts buying a Ford,” or “Furnish your home on easy payments.” These slogans are leading people to buy clothing, furniture, automobiles, elec- tric appliances and what not far beyond their current incomes and are therefore giving business an artifi- cial stimulus. But when the major- ity have thoroly mortgaged their future this artificial boom will come ple oartah ak We canine a st sen a Pe od OILY PUBLISHER'S EMPLOYES DIED OF HOG CHOLERA Well in Schaffer’s Hog Yard Caused Deaths (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., Feb. 24.—People here are beginning to recall the old stories about John C, Schaffer, owner of the Chicago Evening Post, the Denver News-Times and other papers, who is one of the latest figures to bey into the Teapot Dome oil scan- dal. Because ‘Schaffer was immensely rich: and owned one of this city’s principal newspapers, he has been able to keep the stories out of print. Employes of the board of health are beginning to talk again about the death of five employes of Schaffer who worked on his ranch and died of hog cholera. in 1916. Where Hogs Wallowed. The five men who died were all working on Schaffer’s Ken Karl ranch near here. They ate and slept on the ranch. The water supply for the ranch “help” came from a well in the middle of the hog yard where hundreds of hogs wallowed. One day five of the men working for Schaffer were taken violently ill just after dinner. Four of the men died the same day. The fifth, Dan Mackey, lingered for two weeks. No investigation was made into the cause of the death of the first four men. But Mackey’s parents had the doctor attending him investigate. After his death the doctor succeeded in getting the board of health to go to the Ken Karl ranch and examine the water from the well. They or- dered the well cleaned and in it was found, among other things, a drowned hog. © Schaffer Was Tight-Fisted. The matter was hushed up. The parents of Mackey were compelled to pay $200 for the doctor and in- vestigation. They never collected a penny in damages from Schaffer. This story was ‘sent to the Colo- rado Transcript at the time it hap- pened but was not published. U. S. Government Pays No Heed to Irish Free State WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Reports that the Irish Free State had applied to the United States government for permission to send its own diplomatic representative to Washington were denied by the state department today. ‘ The American government con- siders separate representation of Ire- Jand in Washington a matter for settlement between Ireland and Great Britain. CHICAGO Party Membership Meeting Tuesday, Feb. 26th, 8 P. M. IMPERIAL HALL 2409 N. Halsted St. Important Matters Teapot Dome Scandal Labor Party Movement Campaign for Protection of Foreign-Born Workers Membership Book Admits to Hall. P are judged by the beoke they eg All the best books, old and new, can be obtained from Morris Bernstein's Book Shop, 3733 West Roosevelt Road. Phone Rockwell 1453. Btationery, Music and all Periodicals. Come and get a Debs calendar free. — Artificial Business Boom Due to Credit System Is Headed for a Smash---Unemployment Coming Have you spent all your cash? , OLDS industrial Editor.) Are you buying on next Association of Retail Clothiers says so and they ought to know for it is going to hit them in They see in this tendency of consumers to mortgage their the future of business. While to an end and industry will be found to be badly overexpanded. The tendency of farmers and wage earners to make purchases on the} decide time payment plan, say the retail clothiers, presages a serious prob- lem with which all industry - and business will soon be confronted. Debt Is Increasing. According to President A. H. Ham of the Provident Loan Society, “Debt is rapidly increasing in this country; by just how. much nobody knowa but there are signs of it everywhere.” It is noteworthy that pawnshops report that their loans are today as heavy as in times of serious industrial depression. The automobile ranks among the leading calls upon the future in- come of consumers. Approximately 75 per cent of all automobiles are sold on a time purchase basis and special finance companies have been organized to handle these credits. $528,000,000 Fords On Time. It is estimated in Detroit that total outstanding credits furnished to retail purchasers of automobiles during 1923 amounted to approxi- mately $1,900,000,000. While the total credits granted on wholesale and retail purchases combined amounted to between $3,650,000,000 and $4,200,000,000. Credits granted on Fords alone during 1923 are esti- mated at $528,000,000. Such facts must enter into any attempt to forec: the fufire of industrial activity in this country. They indicate that in the not far distant future the present demand of consumers will slump. Industries will be unable to continue full activ- ity. And incidentally such facts forewarn of the eventual breakdown of the whole competitive system. Monday, February 25, 1924 |UPHOLSTERERS FEEL CONFIDENT | INBOYCOTT CASE Union Men’s Case May Close Today The five union men who are on trial in Judge Wells’ court charged with conspiracy to, boycott for their part in the strike of upholsterers fec! 8o confident of victory that they may to let the case got to the jury without calling a single witness. When the state closed its case on Thursday and the jury had been dis- missed the lawyers for the defens« asked if the state considered that i! had made a good enough case to ask a jury to send five mep-to prison. As sistant State’s Attorney Micha Roniano said that he thought he had proven a “technical” case of boycott against the five unionists and that he would not nolle prosse the case. If the men on trial do not put up a deferise then the state ard the de- fense will merely make closing state- ments to the jury and the case will close today, Whether or not the unionists make a defense they fee! very confident .that they will be acquitted by the jury. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. DO YOUR WORK AT J. KAPLAN’S CLEANERS AND DYERS EXPERT LADIES’ AND GENTS’ TAILOR 2546 ARMITAGE AVE. Albany 9468 Work Called For And Delivered PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Serviee for 2¢ Year 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near ‘th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. 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