The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 4

& Page Four PHILADELPHIA IS MAKING BIG FIGHT ON DAVIS LAWS All-City Conference Is Coming March 10 (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 25.—The Council for Protection, of Foreign- Born Workers, organized here several months ago, is urging all labor or- ganizations of this city to send dele- gates, Monday, March 10 at 8 p, m., to a Philadelphia conference at 521 York avenue for the purpose of planning definite action against the alien slave acts. The coming conference is expected to be still bigger than the origi- nal organization conference several months ‘ago at which 50 organiza- tions were represented, . Reasong for organized action by labor is given in the following letter of invitation to labor bodies sent by the council: 25 Anti-Labor Laws, There are now pending in Con- gress not less than twenty-five is which propose, ‘thru “Selective Immigration, registering and fin- ger printing of all ‘foreign-born workers, to create for the employ- ers an army of serfs who cannot organize or strike, these laws the big employers hope to smash the unions and reduce the standard of living of native and foreign- born alike, ‘The American Federation of La- bor at its Portland convention, adopted a resolution vigorously de- nouncing these laws as_strike- breaking measures intended to pro- vide the employers with a slave army of workers. The Portland convention of the A. F. of L, pledged itself to combat these at- tempts of the employers with all means at its disposal Council To Resist, Tt was because of the urgent need to carry on an effective strug- gle against the attempts of Con- gress to pass these strike-breaking ! laws that the Council for Protec- tion of Foreign-Born Workers was organized in this city. A confer- ence of all labor organizations of Philadelphia is called by the Coun- By Herminia Zur Muhlen. HE WAS an ugly little grey dog with long silken-soft ears and a bushy tail.. He was born in a splendid stable that belonged to a rich man. Thig rich man’ lived ‘on a large estate in which were many fields and meadows. And in these fields grew sugarcane, in great quan- tities, great, round, smooth canes that contained the sweet sugar. On the sugar. plantation worked hun- dreds of Negroes, men and women, and all the Negroes belonged to ‘the rich. man who had bought them in the market as he would buy cattle, for this story happened long ago, in those days when slavery existed in America, The rich man could do anything he wished with his slaves. If he was in a bad mood he would presi them to be whipped; if they lared to protest against this cruel treatment they were more cruelly punished—they were stripped naked, smeared with honey, and tied to a tree. The smell ‘of the honey tracted the bees that came in large swarms, settled on the body of the slave, sucked the honey and stung the bound man till he collapsed with in, Also, the master could sell is slave, did this ntly, with- out the least consideration tearing mother from child, separating man and wife, sister and ther. The poor Negroes were entirely helpless, they had to work all day long in the hot sun, received very poor food, lived in wretched- huts, separated from the house of the rich man, near a mighty river. Here lived Ne- grey dog who was pg ge EK “What is this little doing here in my Take it out; drown it in The coachman 3 rah of ii ete e isinne ] A i lovely little animal! ie famped At that filled with yes ot the little eo ct he eid 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. Address all mail to the Editor, The Daily Worker, 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. cil for Monday, March 10, 8 p. m., at 521 York avenue, near Sth and Spring Garden streets. The confer- ence wiil work out ways and means how best to fight the slave laws which are a menace to the entire working class of this country. Brother workers, the interests of labor and of your own organ- ization make it imperative for you to send delegates to that cunfer- ence without fail. Let us act be- fore it is too iate. Wall Street Nervous Over Results Oil Probe Revelations (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Wall Street is more than concerned by the oil scandal. It had hoped, and its rep- resentative men are frank to say s0, that the year would be politically quiet—that the country would sit back and accept Cal Coolidge with- out a thought One industria] banker is quoted as follows: “The blowing of the dome off the Teapot means more than just a scandal of political interest only. It means, for one thing, that the country is in for a ‘political year,’ and it is this phase of the question that is disturbing to capital. Until the Washington scandal broke, every- one had settled back in anticipation of an orderly and easy election cam- paign; now there is doubt in some minds as to whether this will be the case; in fact, it looks as if it would be the reverse. As every observer knows, a strenuous and bitter elec- tion campaign always has the effect of making business nervous.” master._hag .. don’t obey severely.” The little grey dog licked. Benja- min’s face, looked at him with his large eyes that seemed to implore him, “Save me, save me.” “Give me the dog,” pleaded Ben- jamin. “I will hide him carefully so that the master will not see him.” The coachman thought for. a mo- ment, then replied, “Good, you may hide him. But,” he said warningly, “you must not betray the fact that I have given him to you. If the master should ever see him you must say that you saved'him from the river. Then he will give you a bad beatin; ed “That doesn’t matter,” cried Ben- jamin eagerly. “As long as the little dog is allowed to live.” . The coachman laughed, removed the string from the neck of the dog, and Benjamin ran to the hut with ,him, patting him, kissing him, full of joy. At evening when Benjamin’s parents came home, he showed them the dog, and the parents also were happy because they had to be away from home all day and always feared that the little boy might go to the river, fall in and be drowned., But now he would stay near the huts with his playfellow, so that he might hide commanded..me.._ If I him he will punish me might pass by. It was as tho the little grey dog knew that Benjamin had saved his life. He did not leave the side of fyi liz’ AgEEEPi E5927 fue HEE Brees ' himself quickly in ease the rich man | da: THE DAILY WORK ER ‘WORK SLACKENS AS GAL DENIES UNEMPLOYMENT 500,000 More Jobless Since June Your Union Meeting Fourth Wednesday, Feb. 27th Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Boller Makers, Monroe and Racine. Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 8. Bivd. and Lexingtos 5443 8. Ashland A Carpenters, 505 8, Stati Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. 6414 S. Halsted St, Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave,, Evanston, By LELAND OLDS. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Pr. Yes, we have no unemployment day, is the latest song hit jointly produced: by the president’s accom- plished cabinet and officially okayed by Coolidge himself. Will it be popular among the tens of thousands hanging around the em- loyment agencies where there are reported to be 166 applicants for each 100 jobs? 500,000 More Jobless. Evidently the cabinet members leave the hard facts behind when Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. Firemen and Enginemen, 3811 Archer ve. Spinners, 5445 S. Ashland Ave. 1 Trades Council, 119 Carriers, Adam: * 5 St Workers, 328 W. Van they go to confer with the chief. ex-| ® ecutive, for the most recent report 5 t, ee the U. 8S. copecenent of ssid macil, 5445 8. licates that at! least 500,000 workers who had work in June, 1923, are out | ,$%) Bp opconge rer Bhim wore ete of a iq. nd that takes no account | 219 y Trainmen, 426 W, 63d St., of the steady increase of the popu- 7330 p.m. lation which would normally add at} 44 posee a Ot ty least that many more. In Illinois and | 485 % ot Indiana there are tens of thousands of coal miners out of a job or work- ing only two or three days each week. ers, 175 W. Wi (Meat), (Bone), 810 Then there’s the scientific labor Harrison St. market indicator of the federal re- eaee Ses otherwise stated all meetings serve board which shows a steady decline in the number of jobs avail- able for each hundred applicants. Since the high point in 1923 this barometer has fallen more than half way back to the depression level of 1921. That means unemployment, but somehow the president and his cabinet can’t see it anywhere. Per- haps they are looking too high, over the heads of the workers, at the sen- ate, There’s full employment there, at least in the Teapot committee. White House Bunk. This official White House utterance goes on to assert that everything that can be manufactured in the country seems to be finding a ready market. That’s putting it a little strong. How about the great locomo- tive concerns, Baldwin and Ameri- can, working only 25 per cent of ca- pacity because they can’t get orders? Baldwin laid off more than 14,000 workers during the last months of the year. How about the car building. plants that laid off more than 36,000 work- ers between October and December so that the IMinois department of labor refers to the collapse of the car building industry? Shoe Industry Down. When, however, t! White House utterance turns to individual indus- tries it is most unfortunate in its choices. The boot and shoe industry, it says, is active and able to dispose of products as fast as they can be made. How about it?” According to the Feb. 12 statement of the’ U. S. department of commerce production of shoe factories fell off 8,000,000 pairs between October and December and reached a point 5,000,000 pairs below production of the same month @ year ago, And incidentally in January the boot and shoe industry was employ- ing “8 1-2 per cent fewer men than in the preceding year. Hoover's en- gineers’ committee reported this in- dustry badly overexpanded. Textiles Worse. The textile industry is an even more unfortunate choice. All re- ports show that the textile industry has been unable to dispose of all its products for many months with the situation growing worse. As a whole it has laid off one-tenth of its em- ployes since March, 1923. During December woolen mills consumed about one-fifth less wool than in the preceding December. While the cotton mills are averag- poh less than 86 per cent of single shift mill B. V. D’less Russian Prince Says He May Get Job (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—This is the sad, sad story of Prince Simon Nico- las Korsakov. The prince was an aide to General Wrangel, at one time the New York Times’ favorite de- fender of civilization. Prince Kor- sakov did what he could to hamper the Russian workers in their effort to build a new government, and what he could to help starve the peasant. That done, he got away and went to Monte Carlo, What money he had left he spent there, and borrowed some more. Then he came to America. He knew that in this democracy, and only in this democracy, do people crowd around the feet of titled loafers from the old world. Counts and dukes and princes wrote him that the going continued good in the land of the free, and. he managed to get here. Luck ‘brought him up against a “friend” whom he had met in Monte Carlo; and this friend invited him for a visit in Boston. ‘fhe prince went and ran up a hotel bill at the Copiey-Plaza Hotel, which is ‘a toney one, and his next move was to a police station. When he said he was a prince they treated him gently, and supplemented their respect with reverence when he said he had fought the Bolsheviks. His friend, he explained, had $200 and all the prince’s nicest under- wear, and then disappeared. He was released. Somebody paid his hotel biM. The prince says his brothers in arms are scattered over the world from Sofia to Peking and Chicago suburbs; and he_says Further that he thinks he may Zo to work. Some of the others have tried that, and told him it wasn’t so had. Kaufman Betrays Militant into Hands of Canadian Officials (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—WMorris Kaufman, president of the Fur Workers’ Union, added another shameful deed to black record when he betrayed ny Warshaf- sky, a member of Local 15, of the Fur Workers’ union, to the Canadian authorities when she was on her way to Canada to make a tour on behalf qf our Jewish organ, the Freiheit. Morris Kaufman was on the same train with Warshafsky, and there is every likelihood that he took this train on purpose, as the tour of Fanny Warshafsky was announced a num- ber of times in the Freiheit. When the authorities tried to send Com- rade Warshafsky back she demanded to know more particulars. Thereupon she was led to another car of the train and was shown. the president of the union who had given the gov- nment authorities information that e was a Communist, and that she was going to Canada to make tour in behalf of a newspaper that was in the pay of the Russtan soviet ent. One reason why Morris Kaufman attempted to render ‘this little serv- ice to the Canadian ent is that Fanny Warshafs! one of the most active militants of the Fur Workers’ union, which is same Kaufman rules with a “strong arm This time Kaufman failed, for the Canadian authorities permitted Comrade W: to proceed. Morris Kaufman 1 most likely console himself for his failure by having some more dastardly assaults made upon members of the Fur Worker’ union by the gangsters in his pay. ' capacity with most northern operating only two or three ness will probably pick up somewhat as the spring approaches. But not enough to absorb gll the un- employed workers. And for an offi- utterance from the chief execu- tive by Pas nation Pe os the ree ence of very considerable unemploy- ment today suggests that he is sup- posed to be either an official ‘ostrich bate f to avoid the sight of danger al by burying his head in the sand, or a dispenser of false optimism to the people. Russ Co-operatives Taking Charge of Silk Cocoon Industry By GERTRUDE HAESSLER ‘Correanondent of (Stat the Federated Press) MOSCOW, Feb, 26—The All-Rus- sian Union of Consumers’ Co-opera- tive Societies (Centrosoyuz) entered on an entirely new field during 1923. Batra be Cnc is inning to recover the disorganization it suffered World Women to Gather. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26,—Dele- gates from 20 n countries -| county, took up the fight for “old STEEL PRESIDENT LAUDS FRAMING OF MACLACHLAN Pats Prosecutor of Miner on Back By RICHARD A. SCHAEFTER. (Special to The Daily Worker) MONTREAL, Feb. 26.—In the Nova Scotia Legislature, Foreman | Waye, labor member of Cape Breton J. B.” MacLachlan, who was expelled by John J. Lewis from membership -{in the United Mine Workers for his firm stand in behalf of the Nova Scotia rank and file, and later on pro- secuted and sentenced to a two years’ term for seditious libel. Wa stated that the Attorney-General ceived a telegram from Roy Wolvin, the president of the Britisn Empire Steel corporation, on the plants and pits of which the strike took place. The telegram congratulated the At- torney-General for his success in rail- roading MacLachlan. Waye asked the house if it was “not peculiar that Mr. Wolvin the head of the corpora- tion that was squeezing the life blood out of the province could be so inter- vd. | eSted in the persecution of MacLach- lan that he should have something in common with the Nova Scotia gov- ernment to the extent of sending a congratulatory telegram.” We should say sa. Canadian “High Standard.” / “Canada is a high standard country as regards labor, and full advantage should be taker to. advertise this fact” was stated to press representa- tives by Dr. W. A. Ridell, former deputy minister of labor in the On- tario government and now in the In- ternational labor office of the League of Nations, when he arrived in Hali- fax to tour Canada on “league and labor.” Well, we don’t know where the | Serre got his information from ut the only high standard as far as we can see is the number of un- employed. Neither do the wages of those who are still employed look like a very high standard, Spurn $15 Month Wage. “We are very much, disappointed with the failure of the organized Bri- tish harvesters to accept the farm positions we have secured for them,” said the superintendent of the gov- ernment employment bureau in Tor- onto the other day. Several hundred British harvesters, once lured over here by conscience- less immigration agents with fairy tales of steady employment and high wages, are now stranded, jobless and on loose ends in Toronto and provided for only by organized labor and the municipal authorities of this town while ,the government, provincial. as well as federal, refused strictly to do anything to aid the poor. devils. But that they refused in a body to accept the farmhand jobs offered them for the sky-high wages of $15 a month caused the officials go up on their hindpaws and claw the air. “They refused to.adapt themselves to Canadian corgition:’’ the afore- mentioned governmental chairwarm- er ended his story to press representa- tives when the expected rush for those eminently favorable jobs did not occur, “Canadian conditions’ that’s the high, standard. An _anti-labor legislation campaign is launched by The Employers Asso- ciation. of Manitoba demands that the provincial cabinet work for the abolition of all labor laws, in- cluding the workmen’s compensa- tion act, proposes laws prohibiting strikes on public utilities, protecting Wednesday, February 27, 1924 Mexican Labor Notes MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.—One thousand railroad workers are threat- ened with the loss of their jobs here for alleged. voluntary aid to the fascisti during the period that the latter controlled the railroads from Puebla to Vera Cruz and from La Barea to Guadalajara. A careful investigation will be made in each case, the government promises, be- fore action is taken. . * & A strike of nurses and doctors of the state hospital of Puebla has broken out. The-strike is due to the fact that it is almost two months since the institutional pay roll was met. ae | A textile convention of the Con- federacion General de Trabajodores (anarcho-syndicalist) is meeting in the. capital. It is to take up the problem of preventing wage reduc- tions, partial or complete shut downs in the textile factories, avoiding ap- pearance before the arbitration and conciliation: commissions in the fed- eral district because they are under control of the -Laboristas, a labor political party controlled by the rival Mexican Federation of Labor. Free- ing class war prisoners thruout the world is another subject up for dis- cussion. ie Striking Garment Workers Hear T. U. E. L. Speaker (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Feb.’ 26—The second day of the Garment Workers’ strike in Boston finds the workers in fine spirit. The previous’day, five manu- facturers were ready to sign up. The snow storm did not keep the men from the picket line: Another in- junction has been applied for, which will be heard in the supreme court today. The mass meeting held this after- noon listened to speakers from the Cigarmakers’ union, and the New England organizer of the A. F. of L., who spoke along the usual lines of solidarity during the strike. The ex- ception was Ida Rothstein, member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, prominent member of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. who last spring made a tour of needle trade centers in the United States and Canada on behalf of amalgamation. She pointed out the need of greater interest in the union, not. only at strike times but during normal periods. If the union is not what it ought to be, it is our own fault, because of our own lack of interest. The forty-hour week was not the ultima goal in the needle trades industry; in Russia, they became the arbiters of their own destiny. The workers responded warmly. McAdoo’s Dryness, Not His Oiliness, Angers Jim Duncan (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, —James Duncan, of Quincy, Mass., first vice- president, Amer eration of Labor has passed the black spot to W. G. McAdoo, From offices just established in the Willard Hotel here, a press state- ment has been issued by Duncan, as chairman of the “Joint Legislative Committee of the American Fede: tion of Labor, National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Constitutional Liberty League of Massachusetts, Moderation League, Inc.,” in which it is bleakly set forth that McAdoo, the presidential candi-+ of employment contracts, forbidding affiliation of provincial and municipal employes with indpstrial trade un- ions, and the repealing of the Fair Wage Act. Villard to Ta’k on Europe. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Nation, will be the guest of honor at a dinner prepared by_ his date, is a dry. There seems to be nothing that McAdoo can do about it now. They went to his hotel here, when he came to explain his Doheny money to the senate committee, on Feb. 13, and they asked him where he stood. He said: “I’m dry. discussing the subject. That’s all there is to be said. I’m dry.” friends at the Auditorium Hotel, March 6. He will tell of European conditions as he observed them in the sae the Ruhr and the Pala- inate, Every new DAILY WORKER reader means a new recruit in the ranks of militant labor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : N CHICAGO | NAME BY MAIL— 6 monte $480 | Duncan, for the A. F. of L. and its wet allies, says: “We represent a voting membership of over 5,000,000 members, comprising the A. F. of L. . «» ete.” And “We present the fa: to the people for their information on the attitude of Mr. McAdoo with re- spect to the modification of the Vol- stead, Act.” r THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. HALSTED ST., | Chicago, Mm. ~ Enclosed please find Cre yh fOF.......00.....months’ to THE DAILY WORKER. © sstecanesecenessnesanesnenneunaransnneannensnanssunasasenssenepasnssnnenarssssene sensseseanennasseanentencsessenten STREET............. MUSCULAR PARTY ‘OF ATHLETES, 1S CONFERENCE AIM N. Y. Communists Start Sport Movement (Special to The Daily-Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 26.—-The revo- lutionary youth of America must have sound bodies, declares the Ath- There’s no use in | pu letic League of the Finnish Federa- tion of the Workers Party which is calling an athletic conference at the Finnish headquarters. in New York, 2042, Fifth Ave., for 11 a. m., March 23, with the co-operation of the dis- trict office and the Jugo-Slav and | Cheko-Slovak Sport Clubs. All branches of the Workers Party | and the Young Workers League are urged to send delegates to work out plans for a vigorous athletic” move- ment among the young people on the party. Muscular Communism. Urging’ the importance of museu- lar communigm the Athletic League points to the fact that the capitalist class spends millions of dollars for the bourgeois sport movement in or- der’ to bring the young men and women where it can preach patriot- ism and hatred of the revolutionary movement to them. On the other hand in Russia, it declares, the workers government is building up the sport movement among the workers and peasants. Red Sport International. An international working class sport and athletic movement is in existence with two international or- ganizations, one of which has been organized by the communists of Europe. This is the Red Sport In- ternational of Moscow; it works in harmony with the Comintern and the Young Communist International which have discussed the sport prob- lem and have told their sections in different. countries to build rival sport organizations to the bourgeois sport organizations, to draw the young workers to them and propa- gate the principles of communism among them. Outside of Russia there is strong working class sport movements in Germany, Cheko-Slovakia, Finland and many other countries embracing hundreds of thousands of members. Athletes On Barricades. In America it is our duty to sta organization of a Workers Athletic League that is controlled by our party and the Young Workers League. Some comrades might think that when we organize an athletic club into our midst our activities in the class struggle cease. But ex- perience ‘shows us differ Yor in- stance in the civile in_ Finland ers’ sport clubs were amo: first to step to the workers’ side of the barricades to fight for the rights of the working class. And in_ the Workers Party branches where there already is a sport club the members of the sport clubs are just as active in the party work generally as are those. comrades who do not belong to # sport” tub: U. S. Is Railroading Speaker. for Soviet Russia to Prison Workers and Friends of Labor:— Help raise five hundred dollars and give John L. Cooper, formerly busi- ness manager of the Novy Mir, a fighting chance. He was arrested after speaking at a Soviet Russia recognition meeti Feb. 3, at Bayonne, N. J., and w: held on the federal charge of con- spiracy to overthrow the government of the United States. He will be railroaded to jail unless a fight is it up. Five Sundred dollars must be rais- ed instantly—more money be needed. Will you be one of five hundred comrades to donate a dollar or more and keep him out of jail Send contributions to National De- fense Committee, New York Division, 208 E. 12th St., New York City. Work D: for “The Daily!” DOES YOUR NEIGHBOR KNOW ABOUT . THE DAILY WORKER When You Are Thru with Your Copy Let Him Read It Then Get Him to Subscribe. You'll Be Surprised How Easy It Will Be. “Every DAILY Reader a Subscriber” — “Every Subscriber a Booster” od subscription | Ls 5p SRT ne STATE: Rees tarert he pia ae UR ¢ in 1918 the membership of the work-_