The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 4

eration—another panacea for the troubled rival masses! Pulling the chestnuts out of the fire for Coolidge, the prince of the Boston bankers and the hope of Wall Street! We are not surprised at Capper. But what of Mag- nus Johnson? And what of Frazier? Is this what they were sent, for to Washington? Is this their duty? And yet some would say that the time is not ripe for the formation of a powerful na- tional farmer-labor party organized along THE DAILY WORKER class lines to make impossible just such dan- 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois} ger menacing the working and farming masses ti ae ee ee OF Se COUNTS J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ..-»Editors -_ IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Il. (Phone; Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $8.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .3 months $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to Seseeeeseene WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB...,........Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928 at the Post- rr Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act. of March 3, 1879. The Japanese Crisis =—™ The censorship of news that has been in wr force in Japan since the earthquake cannot Militants on the Job conceal the tremendous growth of mass dis- content. The International Ladies’ Garment Work- hut theredkin sockm ol forniaiinn aacnue ers, on strike against the open shop in the Tha prene nee si pop Chicago industry, are meeting with the com- red mt ge i gram Ga . “sade : ;|and industry is shown by the fac at the bined opposition of the — = ee middle-classes—students, intructors, lawyers authorities expressed in ae 6 ie eR “land journalists—are apparently in sympathy TE ce tea sacs thee bones ae onwen with the demands of the mass of the workers r and peasants. end sluggers who operate without any inter- Aiea Tanahoes “solve tases tn tateno ears ference from the police, but defensive meas- a g g; rs i much to its surprise, that the state religion no uxes taken by the workers immediately place] longer fills the bill as a somnolent for the popu- them outside the law. More than a dozen/jace The attack on the person of the prince arrests of strikers—men and women—have| \nich took place shortly before his wedding already been made. F is indicativ he f, 1 family in Most of the shops involved in the strike are caplet aged sos Sepa RL gk gaan “gabe : popular estimation. Such an occurrence has those of cockroach capitalists—small business] ¢) deepest significance to those who under- men who depend upon their ability to sweat : C i heeplik v of the their employes to meet competition. When this Sane the: Rites Sole nnne faye anny ; : Japanese for their rulers. kind of cattle can rally the police force of a The Japanese cabinet is in a chronic state of city the size of Chicago to their assistance the , oR : crisis and its policy of non-recognition of united front of law and exploitation is plainly Soviet Ratadestavests the result = ‘Ameri- perceptible. : e can influence—is bitterly opposed. The Ladies’ Garment Workers are putting Th: : ent: h favor- up a splendid fight and not tiie least interest- © Soviet government has mate a Ke ; ble i i th le and ing aspect of the situation is the fact that the igh Nae etre Rel tt del te tha Aenea Advertising rates on application. GERMAN CLOTHING WORKERS SAVED BY AMALGAMATED American Aid Came in Nick of Time By LOUIS P. LOCHNER. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) BERLIN, Feb, 28,—International solidarity has kept the German Clothing Workers’ union from going under. The contribution of $3,000 by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, more than any other gift received from abroad, has made it possible for the German workers in the needle trades to continue their organization. Some months ago the German tailors had turned to the clothing workers’ organizations of the world with an appeal for a loan to help them out during this grave economic crisis of the German nation. The Amalgamated responded, not by a loan, but by an outright gift of $3,000.' As General Secretary Schlossberg put it in the letter an- nouncing the gift: “You asked 'for a loan; we decided to make it a donation, a gift to you from your more fortunate comrades in America, We are not asking you to pay back the amount to us in the future as you offered to do. We know that when you will be on your feet again you will gladly come to the aid of other workers who might need it.” Deaply Touched by Gift. In commenting upon the gift, First Vice President Ploog ‘said to your correspondent on behalf of the Ger- man organization: touched by the THE DAILY WORKER Upton Sinclair Tells How National Education Ass’n Keeps On Neck of Rank-and-File Teachers of U. S. One hundred and twenty thousand teachers in this country belong to the National Education Association, now meeting in Chicago, which is utterly controlled by Big Business. Big Business set about gaining this control years ago and its grip on the educators of America is now tightly fixed. The following series of articles exposing the N. E. A. are taken from Upton Sinclair’s latest book, ‘“‘Goslings,” which ex- poses the public schools as thoroly as the “(Goosestep” exposed the universities. By UPTON SINCLAIR (Author of “The Goslings.’’) HE National Education Association is a very old institution, . Saturday, March 1, 1924 SLIP COVERS Including Labor and Material Davenport - - $9.50 $5.50 Satisfaction Absolutely Guaranteed , Also a wonderful selection of imported Coverings at a tre- medous reduction due to our wide experience in the making % of Covers, enabling us to give ¥% you superior quality. % Save 30% on your Automobile % covers. Order direct from— GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With: Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very AB predating the Civil War. It has always been controlled en- tirely by the supervising force; in other words, it has been an employers’ organization. During several decades of its history no classroom teacher was ever elected to any office. At the present time some well trained teacher is occasionally admitted to office for the sake of appearances. It required many years of struggle to get the National Education As- sociation to give any tensideration whatever to the living and working conditions of the classroom teacher, or to recognize salaries, pensions and tenure as legitimate subjects for dis- cussion, Dod, It required a revolution in the or- ganization to secure in the year 1903 the appointment of a committee on salaries, tenure and pensions; and this committee made a report which was full of misrepresentations, Not until 1911 was action taken even to gather the real figures on these ques- tions. ‘ I will give you a glimpse of the organization in those early days, just “We are deeply | splendid gift ana by the wonderful ‘spirit of international solidarity of which this is an evidence. Our first ; ; the proximity of Russia facilitates the constant expelled members of the left wing are leading] gow of information concerning the advances the struggle, i made by the Russian workers and peasants ol pao prt = nie Us Bee under their own government; with the increas- - >hgh ey . Prange 2 = | ini ical strength of th lab ing the organizing ability and the militancy of ida te So age ge kn gata A oar gr en " -potk mov it th is a growi ire to learn the strike and in their devotion to the cause of Paty: intel ee ee ee ee the union which they did so much-to establish] yy, joa te 3 7h they have forgotten for the time being the fact poe eeeny, Copan ia ins bad Way, 4 » : penetration policy in China has not been sig- of their expulsion by officialdom and the cam-| nally successful and the stupidity and reaction paign of persecution that has been carried on g of her rulers deprives her of a natural market against them. for manufactured goods in Russia. If there has been any doubt that the expul-| The recent leads Mpaten here by the house sion of members of the Trade Union Educa- of Morgan mortgages Japan to the Amer- tional League has nothing to do with their de-|ican financiers and the favorable position in sirability as fighting unionists the present strike has dispelled it. It was upon this group that the-officials were forced to call when the strike occurred; they were confronted with the » alternatives of seeing the strike die stillborn op of calling for assistance from the militants ‘* they have been mding and slandering for months. The union has gained in strength from the strike altho it is only four days old; many open shops will be eliminated and organization thereby extended; much of the ground lost because of the resentment stirred up by the official attack on the militants will be regained and for these advances fhe expelled left wing- ers and their sympathizers must be given the credit. What are the officials going to do about it when the strike is ended? More important still, what is the bulk of the membership going to do when the strike is ended and they have complete proof that a union which drives out the militants because the officials fear for their jobs is helpless un- less, as may not always happen, the militants stay on the job and fight as they always have? The job now is winning the strike. After that the struggle for the adoption of a fighting policy in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ will be resumed with additional vigor so that more and bigger victories can be won. longer exists. Japan today is, torn by the conflict of forces which rends small nations without great nat- She played at imperialism just long enough class and these now lead in the struggle that will end with Japan becoming one of the peo- forming in the womb of the orient. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! The Capitol Sanctuary Closer to the White House creeps the in- vestigation of the Teapot Dome leases. Ed- ward late President Harding, owner of the Wash- ington Post, man about town and bon vivant, atives to handle his leased wire messages dur- ing his frantic attempts to keep the Teapot Fall. Is there a normal child who believes that President Coolidge knew nothing of the tem- pest that was gathering and of the mad dash for the cyclone cellar by his friends and sub- ordinates? fe Of the fund of general information pos- sessed by the president we know nothing, bu certainly he is skilled in interpreting the gyra- tions of the political weather-vane. To. attempt to place the presidential product resulting from the combination of stale crabmeat and a weakened constitution on a pedestal that lifts him above the crass criminalities of his associates is evidence of gross stupidity or of deliberate purpose to deceive. President Coolidge has shown no intention of aiding the investigating committee to ar- rive at a full knowledge of the facts and per- sons connected with the oil seandal. On the contrary he has shielded to the utmost the at- torney-general whom he dare not, in the face of public disapproval, entrust with what is the work of the office he holds—investigating the acts of and bringing to trial federal offi- cials known to have been the agents of pri- vate oil interests. President Coolidge, instead of scourging from the capitol premises the thieving gentry gathered there, sits silent and allows them to control the machinery of government, to sa- botage by every means known to the under- world of finance, the investigation that even under these unfavorable conditions has brand- ed them as hired men of powerful corpora- tions engaged in exploiting the workers and farmers of America. Like the cathedrals and chapels of the mid- dle ages, the capitol today under Coolidge is sanctuary for thieves big and little. Is it too much to ask that a president, who IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Danger Ahead! While the President’s private secretary, C. B. Slemp, that C. O. D: wholesale dealer in post office jobs, was away telling the Teapot Committee that he went to see Fall and Mc- Lean at Palm Beach merely for his “health and recreation,” there was being perpetrated before the momentarily deserted Coolidge an act of the basest travesty on the good faith of the suffering, bankrupt farmers. And who but Magnus Johnson, elected by the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota and Lynn W. Frazier of North Dakota should find themselves in the company of that false farm- ers’ friend, Capper of Kansas, pleading the cause of the rural bankers before his royal highness, Coolidge, the sworn enemy of every poor farmer! There is danger ahead for the farmers when these Magnus Johnsons and Fraziers join hands with the multi-millionaire Cappers to put trust in the War Finance Corporation headed by Eugene Meyer, one of the financial wizards of Wall Street! Coolidge was informed by these so-called militant defenders of the dispossessed farmers that this plan was worthwhile not only be- cause of the financial help it would bring to the hard-hit rival sections but also for the rea- son that “this movement would have a splen- did effect because of the assurance it would give to the bankers and agriculturists of the sections in question that the Federal Govern- ment realizes the acuteness of ‘the present situation and is not indifferent to the needs of those in trouble.” So here we have it! Farmer banker co-op- ¥ peached and driven from office? Dome investigation from involving him and] = defies in such a brazen manner the masses whose servant he is supposed to be, be im-|_ expenditure will be that of starting our official organ, which for many months has appeared only sporadi- cally and in a small edition, as a regular bi-weekly journal to be fur- nished to all our members. “In how sad a plight we were be- fore aid began to arrive from abroad you may judge from the fact that for a while only 10 per cent of our num- bers were working full time, and that the income of the union per month was not enough to pay the postage for one week.” The German clothing industry, ac- cording to Ploog, is at very low ebb. Custom tailoring is especially pre- carious. More than 50 per cent of which Japan found herself after the war no| the custom tailors are out of work, because the average German hasn’t any money to buy tailor made goods, In the ready-made-clothing branch about one-third of our members are ural resources very soon after they launch| working full time, one-third part buti _seas-of imperialism... time, an one-third are out of jobs. 8-Hour Day In Danger. to industrialize large sections of her working|_ As in the rest of German industry, in the clothing industry the bosses are trying to profit by the workers’ misery in forcing upon them a work- ple’s republics whose embryos can be seen|ing day of more than the legal eight hours. In the ladies’ garment indus- try of Berlin, for instance, the union had to agree during 60 days of the year the boss may keep the workeif: at work for more than eight hours without paying extra for over-time. In the boys’ clothing industry the weekly period was lengthened from 46-48 hours. % Pi As the strike funds of the unions McLean, close personal friend of the|2%¢ slready gone, having become valueless thru the depreciation of the mark, the unions are in no position to resist by a strike, and can only is shown to have had free access to all ave-jhope that at a later period they will nues of White House information including|>e able to win back their rights. the privilege of securing secret service oper-|¢ Eva’ Wins Applause at Performance by Deutsches Theatre The Deutsches Theater gave a very fine performance of the operetta “Eva” by Franz Lehar,at the Athen- aeum, Southport and Lincoln -ave- nues. The Deutsches Theater has been reorganized under new manage- ment and will continue, as in the past, to produce plays and operettas in the German language. The acting and singing in the production of “Eva” was more than good, and holds out promise’ of worthwhile accom- plishment in the future. Those in- terested in German drama would do well to inform themselves further on the activities of this organization. In the production of “Eva” the leading parts were taken by Max Bratt and Adelina Ernster-Ba’ ‘ai both of whom really distinguished themselves by their splendid sing- ing as well as acting. Kurt Schlegel and Anna Berneck supplied most of the comedy, especially Kurt Schlegel who as the farceur in the — produced plenty of laughs in au- dience. The next pertonenes of the operetta “Eva” will take place Sunday evening at 8:15 at the Turner Hall, 820 North Clark street, 23 1. W..W.'s Arrested. A new raid on the I, W. W, was holding a “state strategy confer- ence” here, resulted in the arrest of 28 men, including Roy Atkinson, the local secretary, and the cont of a large amount of literature and supplies. y! More Jobs In Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb, 29.— Business in this city is on the in- crease according to a report of. municipal employment bureau states that last week inquiries we for 257 workers with 189 work. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! — placed, Only 82 persons asked for| to let you see how these things re- main the same, At the 1901 conven- tion in Detroit, the United States Commissioner of Education gave a paper outlining the progress of the schools. 5 He wag an aged dotard; as an eye- witness said to me, “In the educa- tional system we don’t bury the dead. We let them walk around to save funeral expenses,” This speaker congratulated the country upon the growing number of school pupils, but said not a word about the need of more school money. An orator who roge to applaud him declared that the educational sky was without a cloud, and his only regret was that the American public schools had not been able to get a donation from Rockefeller. é But suddenly a cloud rose:upon the educational sky. A thing happened which had never before happened ii the history of the N. E. A.—a class- room teacher rose up from the floor of the convention and asked to speak! To make matiers worse; it was a woman teacher. This female rebel declared that she for one was glad that the American bee schocls had not got any money m Rockefeller, and she hoped they would keep clear. of all corporation influence. If the rich wanted to help the schools, let them pay their taxes; let the railroads, for example, pay taxes on their franchise valuations, which they were everywhere evading. ‘ou may not need to be told that this was Margaret Haley, making her debut to the N. E, A. twenty- three years ago. The great assem- blage was stunned; to attack the railroads, the N. E. A.’s main source of reyenue! At that time, you see, when you bought your ticket to the convention, the ticket included your soon and the N, E. A. got the rake- off! . | Friend of Vanderbilt. | The aged commissioner felt called upon to put down this insurrection. He got up again and stated that all the we: of the railroads had come from. economy in administration—he knew, because he was a_ personal friend of Commodore Vanderbilt. He urged the delegates to pay no attention to this; the teachers were worn out from the schoo] routine, and were not in condition to think sober- ly. Moreover, the delegates must bear in mind that Chicago was no criterion of the rest of the country; Chicago was “morbid and cyclonic.” Sixteen years passed, and revolu- tion came in Russia, and our school superintendents realized the danger the lower classes to get | %. held, and these would: be ninety per cent classroom teachers, They were the only classroom teachers who could ‘attend the con- vention without great expense, and they represented, and properly felt that they represented, the great mass of the teachers who could not at- tend, but who had a vital stake in education, and had ‘needs to be ‘voiced, 7 Signs of Class Struggle. | So at N. E. A. conventions there was beginning to be noticed that major phenomenon of our time—the class struggle. Here were the high- up and prosperous and powerful superintendents and “great educat- ors”; and here were the common riff- raff of the school proletariat. _ In any big city it would happen, inevitably, that the proletariat would be in the majority. They jwould have little idea what was going on, or how they should vote; but here would come a dozen or two of the New York and Chicago and‘ Milwaukee “Bol- sheviks,” who would get up in meet- ing and ask questions and explain matters to the classroom teachers, and induce them to vote for their own class—or shall we say for their own classes? This was the thing which the educational employers decided to change. They worked out the scheme at their midwinter convention of 1918—the Atlantic City meeting of the Department of Superintendence. Instead of the N. E. A. being gov- erned by the democratic vote of its active members at the annual con- vention, the N. E. A, was to become a representative body, like the United States of America; the members in the various cities and towns and counties would elect delegates to the state bodies, and both local and the state bodies would elect delegates to the national convention. The gang, of course, would be on hand at every stage of these elections to pull wires and get its own politicians chosen. So, when the convention assembled in some big city, the classroom teach- ers of that city would no longer have votes as active members of the N. E. A.; instead of that, they would be represented by delegates on the floor, one delegate for every hundred teach- ers, and, in case they had more than five hundred members, one delegate a each five hundred members there- after. - Disfranchising So the classroom teachers of the convention, instead of having one vote per teacher, would have one- hundredth of one vote per teacher, or maybe one five-hundredths of one vote per teacher! And so the N. E. A. would be made safe for the superintendents! There was oy one difficulty with that scheme, and that was explained to you when you were a child and read Aesop's “Fables,” The mice wanted a bell put around the neck of the cat, but how was it to be done? At some one convention of the N. E. A., the classroom teachers of an American city must be induced, not merely to disfranchise themselves, but to disfranchise the classroom teacher of the entire country forever and ever after! Such was the job; and I repeat that the doing of it was one of the most amazing public crimes in the history +} of the United States. of permitti: out of hand. They resolved to put down the classroom teachers in the N. E. A. and to them down, The lure by whic! constitutes one of the most amazing blic crimes in the history of the Inited States. Bear in mind; this National Ed- ucation Association was a public in-|¥% they did it|¥ reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE, Call REPUBLIC 3788 JOHN H. 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