The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 3

= Thursday, March 6, 1924 LABOR PROTEST DELAYS PASSAGE OF PEONAGE BILLS Anti-Foreigner Acts May Wait Year (By The Federated Press) NEIW YORK, March 5.—Now that the hour is drawing near when Con- gress must enact an immigration law, New York Labor, aware of the dangers latent in this issue, is making its voice heard. The existing im- migration statute will expire on June 30. Consequently, a decision must be reached before that date, It seems, however, that a majority .of the federal legislators is unwilling to provoke the sweeping indignation of millions of workers in America by passing the proposed series of reac- tionary measures to control immi- grants. More accurately, Congress appears eager to delay settlement of these bills until after the expiration of the present immigration law, so that this statute will in all likelihood be continued for another year. Czarist Police Supervision, Labor is generally informed con- cerning the nature of certain contem- plated restrictions, which would im- pose Czarist police supervision upon alien workers entering the United States, as well as upon innumerable laborers who have long since been naturalized American citizens. While some of the proposed laws would re- quire that each immigrant worker would submit his finger prints to the authorities and would be obliged to report to the police periodically, other measures envisage deportation on the flimsiest pretexts. In addition, the quota arrangement under the suggested laws would re- duce the number of immigrants per- mitted to enter America from Euro- pean nations in which labor is known to be highly organized and of’ rev- olutionary tradition. Favoritism would be shown to countries in which the labor movement is notoriously primitive or reactionary. Big Labor Protest. These issues have been aired be- fore large meetings of working men in New York lately. The most re- cent of these protest gatherings was held this week at the Stuyvesant Casino, where 160 delegates of la- bor groups representing nine nation- alities formulated their policy towards the immigration dilemma. A resolution passed at this meeting re- flects the opinion of the militant workers in this region. The resolution reviews the rise of American imperialism, with its echoes at home in “open shop” cam- paigns, suppression of trade union ac- tivities and the use of terror against all revolutionary spokesmen and their followers. The plea that immigration limitations prsposed would protect American workers from immigrant competition is refuted, and the res- olution asserts that this argument is intended to cdnceal the attempt to shut out class-conscious workers from the country. The threatened control of immigrants is branded as a vicious method to silence and thwart attempts to resist exploitation. The __state- ment finally appeals to organized la- bor to unite against this campaign of intimidation and repression on be- half of the owners of industry and financial powers. Soviet Government Gets 50 Pct. Profits of Fish Concession (Special to Thé Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 5.—A concession has been granted to the Berlin firm, Reuben and Bielefeld, for the prepa- ration and export of fish exports. This firm is entitled to buy, in the regions of the rivers which flow into the Black, Caspian and Baltic seas, fish scales, glue, fish essences; etc., and to export such products abroad. The export of the goods abroad is to be carried out by license of the Commissariat for Foreign Trade, and the firm is to be subject to all the laws and regulations in force in the Soviet Union. In return for these rights the firm undertakes to pay to the Soviet gow ernment fifty per cent of the net profits from the sale and working up of these products, to submit its books to representatives of the Soviet gov- ernment, and to give all required in- formation ing the conditions, prices and numbers of operations car- ried out. All disputes arising out of this agreement will be submitted to an arbitration court. The period of the agreement is for five years, Superior Co-op Booms. | SUPERIOR, Wis., March 5.—A lively extension of business is re- peeps by the Cooperative Central xchange of Superior, wifich reports total sales in 1923 amounting to $504,177—an increase of 20% over the previous years’ transactions, A surplus of more than $5000 is being distributed to groups which have exchange. Injunctions Can’t Sew Clothes! LABOR’S ANSWER = y EHE DAILY WORKER Gouged Tenants ‘Will Rally To On Landlords, a big factor in determining the terday. success of the Labor Party in program,” said Miss Harte, who recently returned from an investigation of English hous- ing conditions. “The Labor Party there sponsored a law that no land- lord could raise his rents above ten per cent of what they were in August, 1914. Here in Chi- cago such a program would have the endorsement of the Tenants’ Protective League and would poll a surprisingly large vote.” Find Housing Outrageous. “We have ample proof that hous- ing conditions in Chicago are acute,” Miss VWierte stated. ‘From all over the city we receive complaints of un- warranted raises in rents. I have visited every part of Chicago, investi- gating housing conditions and every- where have found that houses and apartments are being subdivided, and rents raised. Overcrowding affert: 90 per cent of the working men and women of Chicago. By working men, I mean clerks as well as labor- ers. ; “The bad results of this over- crowding are apparent. Families sandwiched together have no privacy and the children in hundreds of homes have become cowed and spirit- less because their parents cannot give them the proper mental and physical eare which requires room to live de-- cently.” T G. Vance, president of the Ten- ants Protective League, said that the recent general increase in rents was partly the fault of the tenants them- selves. “The Chicago tenant is a long suffering animal,’ Mr. Vance said. “There is no justification what- ever for the raise in rents. I have the figures to show that the average wage in Chicago has not increased in the. last two years, whereas un- employment has greatly increased. And yet rents have been raised from 50 to 200 per cent all over the city.” Negroes Worst Sufferers. “I stated in the March issue of the DAILY WORKER that the Negroes on Chicago’s South Side are hardest hit by the unfair rent inerease. The reason for this is that the steel and other large industries have been us- ing colored labor, enticed North by agencies who have promised them high wages. On their arrival the Negroes find they are as badly off as they were in the South because their higher pay is being taken away by gouging landlords. It is easy for the landlords to charge higher rents to the Negro, because he is largely restricted to certain districts.” When asked if he did not think there was a connection between the large factory owners who give the Negro higher wages than he received in the South, and the large real estate owners, who take over 20 per cent of the negroes pay, Mr. Vance said he thought it probable. At any rate, Mr. Vance agreed that the Negro works harder in the Northern factories, and due to higher rents, is no better off than the Southern Negro. jome complaints of exorbitant rent increases which have just been received by the League are from: 511 East 46th Place, rent increased from $50 to $70; 720 North Dear- born, increased from $130 to $170; 5740 Calumet avenue, increased from $60 to $72.50; 1256 West Madison street, increased from $48 to $60; 4544 South State street, increased from $35 to $60; 1030 East 40th Place, increased from $45 to $60. Can’t Sew Clothes! Injun: Dawes’ Loan Plan Means Mortgaging ' German Railways (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Mar. 5.—-The Dawes com- mittee of experts completed today a plan for organization and exploitation of the German railways as the basis (for an international loan, it was re- ported. The plan is understood to include a scheme for international supervision of the German lines. It is the opinion of the experts that the railroads are worth 25,000,000,- 000 gold marks. Therefore, they can be used as security for a loan and possibly as securities for France, as well, in view of the latter country’s attitude. The sub-committee on railroads re- rted to the Dawes committee that it will be necessary to cut down the personnel of the lines and to increase rates in some instances. TO CORRUPTION. AT WASHINGTON TO TEAPOT DOME AND WALL STREET Labor Party That Will War Says League Head The present crisis in housing conditions in Chicago will be result of the next election, and a Labor Party which sponsors the tenants’ fight against crowd- ing and raising of rents is bound to poll a large vote in ‘Chi- cago, said Grace H. Harte, attorney for the Tenants’ League of Chicago, 21 N. La Salle street, to the DAILY ,WORKER, yes- “The main issue, in my Opinion, which determined the Great Britain was its housing PICKETS Where stood a girl There stands a man: Club, star and coat of blue: A guardian at each door, They packed the girls Off to the jail Because they dared to stay Defending thei They were a Against poor jobs For those who sell themselves Too eagerly to grasping boss. But now the law Is picketing To keep the strikes off. The boss will slip A dirty bill The boss will add a card: “Vote for the boss’s man.” Injunctions Can’t Sew Clothes! J. Hamilton Lewis Doing “A McAdoo” in Mexican Deal TO the DAILY WORKER.—Ac, cording to a despatch from Mexico City to the Los Angeles ‘Times,’ J. Hamilton Lewis, the whip of the United State Senate during Wilson’s regime, is “understood to be the un- official representative. of the United States in the proposed loan of $25,- 000,000 to the Mexican government by a group of New York bankers.” Mr. Lewis, however, does not ad- mit to have any other connection with said loan than that of “legal adviser” (like McAdoo). His sole object, of course, is the drawing up of the contract “in accordance with the laws of Mexico and the United States.” “The only political matters dis- cussed with President Obregon, Mr. Lewis indicated,” says the dis- patch, “were the present conflict be- tween the two major parties over the recognition of Mexico and the sales of arms to this government. Mr. Lewis said he informed Presi- dent Obregon that the policy of the political parties of the United States in relation to foreign affairs was to support the administration in any attitude it adopted.” Now, finally, this former whipping master of the Senate allowed the cat to slip out of the bag unwhipt— if not unwept by democrats. Have we not always said that both repub- lican and democrats, nationally as well as internationally, were badly mixed up. in the same stink-pot? L, J. RINDAL, Los Angeles. Agriculture and Credit Improve * in Soviet Russia (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 5.—Success of the New Economic Policy in Russia was described by M. Kaminev in a speech before the Soviet Congress. He dwelt in particular on the rapid regeneration of agriculture, whose productive capacity has now reached 75% of the pre-war level (the aggre- gate value of agricultural produce reached 2,400,000,000 gold rubles in 1928, against 1,900,000,000 in 1922, and 1,100,000,000 in 1921). The partial fuel and transport erises are now over, and there is a coal surplus in the Donetz fields. Ex- porting of Russian coal to foreign countries is now considered. The concentration in the towns of the urban proletariat, dispersed during the years of civil war, is rapidly progressing. Organization of credit hag greatly developed, the State co-operative movement having been supplied with credits aggregating to 532,000,000 gold rubles. ie speaker sums up his statement of the internal condi- tions by declaring that a tremen- dous progress has been achieved in the people’s welfare; the “new eco: nomic policy’—he concludes—has been amply justified and does not call for revision, Scarlet Fever Still Active. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 5.— Prevalence of scarlet fever in Illinois continued unabated last week accord- ing to the weekly report of the de- partment of health, Injuncti: CAPITALISM AND CHURCH UNITED IN RULING PERU Fight Against Tyranny Told by Student By Victor R, Haya de la Torre, (By The Federated Press) (The biggest figure in the South American student movement is the recently exiled Victor R. Haya de la Torre. This student movement is closely associated with the labor movement. Peru, like the majority of the South American countries, ii the domination of U. S. he oil lands of Peru belong to Standard Oil. The revenues of Peru are supervised by the United States. Social functions such as health and sanitation are run by Americans. The U. S. military- naval commission, under Admiral Woodward, is preparing Peru for possible war with Chile. At the same time the U. S. president is impartial arbitrator between Chile and Peru over the disputed pfov- inces of Tacna and Arica. Haya de la Torre, the leader of the students movement in Peru has founded six peoples universities out of which a powerful Peruvian labor movement is developing. This ex- plains why his government took the first oportunity to get rid of him. —Ella G. Wolfe, éranslator.) * * o% There dominates in Peru a stron political tyranny of capitalism and o. the church. President- Leguia has imposed for the last four years an autocratic government without any program save to remain ~in power. The government of Peru is a reac- tionary dictatorship. More than a tHousand men of all social classes; have been exiled, In May, 1928, Peru decided “to offieially consecrate the nation to the effigy of the heart of Jesus.” This meant the end of religious toleration. It counted on the influence of the Catholic clergy who participates di- rectly in the political life of the country. Police Slaughter Eight. The students and organized work- ers formed a united front to prevent’ this attack’ upon religious freedom. We were joined by the Protestants and Masons. On May 23 we held a large meeting in the University of Lima. I was chosen to preside. We asked for separation of church and state. This demonstration of nearly 5,000 people, chiefly of workers and students, marched to the university square in orderly procession. There we were attacked by police. From the tower of a nearby church firing began. Eight were killed. This out- rage awakened formidable public protest. More than 50,000 people turned out the following.day, to bury the victims. The government de- clared martial law in Lima; but the “eonsecration” was not put over. Then the police got busy. For some time I was in hiding. The Catholic clergy charged that the stu- dents were in the pay of the Chilean government interested in promoting disorders in Peru. But this propa- ganda failed. Hunger Strike in Dungeon. Five months later, after the presi- dent had offered amnesty to the workers and students, I was rushed from my house by the chief of po- lice in an automobile to the port of Callao, taken to the island of San Lorenzo, a political prison, in which Many men have lost their liberty without judicial process. I was placed incommunicado in a cell with- out light, air or bed. went on a hunger strike. After nine days of fasting I was put on a German boat. I was without clothing and money. They refused permission to see my farily. The boat steamed to Colon in the Canal Zone where I landed. From Colon I went to Cuba and then to Mexico on invitation of the min- ister of education, Jose Vasconcelos. During all this period the workers and students of Lima were protest- ing. Three hundred students of the University of Lima were arrested. In the university towns 6f Trujillo, Cuzco and Arequipa, there were many arrests. Two youths, Santos | Levano and Antonio Calderon, were | killed by the police at one of the protest meetings. The student agi- tation continues. The new genera-| tion of my country is working for social justice, Australian Koo Koos Fear the Boys Will Treat Them Rough SYDNEY, New South Wales, March 5.—Members of the newly formed Anglo Saxon Clan—the Aus- tralian name for the Ku Klux Klan —report that they have been threat. ened with personal violence should they pursue their klan activities. So New England capacity. families. Such depression in the textile industry is the first appear-| ance of cut-throat competition on a world scale which will be well known to millions of workers in this country before an- other decade is out. British textile concerns ,are foregoing profits in order to capture not only America’s foreign market but her domestic market as well. German and Italian cot- ton manufacturers with cheap- er labor are also snatching markets from American _ in- dustry. Exploit Cheap Dixie Labor. The answer of American capital is seen in the rapid building up of a new cotton manufacturing industry in the south where labor is cheap and women and children can be ex- ploited for 60 hours a week. In the week ending Feb. 16 sales by Fall River manufacturers fell to about 50,000 pieces while in the fol- lowing week only about 35,000 pieces were sold. Production has been re- duced to keep pace with these orders. Normal production is 350,000 pieces a week. At Pawtucket, R. I, the Tamarack mill of the Manville- Jenckes Co. has been closed and_ its machinery will be removed to Gas- tonia, N. C. During the war it em- ployed about 1,000 workers. North Carolina Busy. Massachusetts with 11,985,346 spindles reported 150,000 fewer spin- dle hours, activity than North Caro- lina with only 5,715,207 spindles. As competition develops northern oper- atives with some pretense at work- ing standards are goin to be elimi- nated by cheaper competitors in the south. That foreign competition is re- sponsible for the slump in the Amer- ican textile industry appears in U. S. department of commerce reports that exports of cotton cloth fell from 587,492,582 square yards 1922 to 464,298,759 square yards in 1923. At the same time imports of cotton cloth increased from approxi- mately 142,000,000 square yards in 1922 to 216,000,000 square yards in 1923. British Imports Gain. Great Britain broke into Ameri- ca’s domestic market for unbleached | goods altho American manufacturers have always been considered in an impregnable-position at home. Im- ports increased from 35,000,000 yards in 1922 ,to 90,000,000 yards in 1923. The department of commerce says the British cut prices below cost to obtain this market. They sold at 43 cents a pound compared with the American price of 53 cents. In South American markets Ger- man textiles have again come into the market with prices from 10 per cent to 15 per cent under the Ameri- can, As a result Germany gets heavy orders and the textile industry in that country is reported booming. In Peru both British and Italian manu-|- facturer's are offering cotton goods at prices varying‘from 15 per cent to 20 per cent below American prices. In Asia and the Philippines the commerce department - reports that the products of cheap Chinese and Japanese workers are under-sell- ing American goods Low Wages—Poor Market. The present state of the textile in- dustry is @ warning to labor. The British cotton industry, in scite of its capture of Amcri‘an markets, is reported depressed with mills em- ploying 100,000 workers reducing weekly hours from 48 to 26%. The inhevent tendency of the present in- dustrial order to force the develop- ment of various industries far be- yond the capacity of low paid work. ing populations to purchase their own products is resulting in a com- petition of the various groups of owners for some sort of final supre- macy which will mean to labor un- employment with increasing pressure for lower wages and longer hours, Czechoslovakia Can Put 3,730,000 in Arms, She Boasts (By The Federated Press) PRAGUE, Checko-Slavakia, March 5—A Prague daily, “28 Rijen”, pub- lishes an estimate, gauging the num- ber of men .Checko-Slovakia could enroll for military service in case of war at 3,730,000. The country’s ag 9 ane standing army was recent- vy reduced from 150,000 to 130,000— | a number which must be regarded in light of the fact that the populace far they have not made any start in their activities in Australia and parently a warm time awaits them i) Can’t Sew Clothes! when they start operations. of Checko-Slovakia is only one-ninth of the United States. Injunctions Can’t Sew Clothes! MASS PROTEST MEETING Se a —_ Cotton Mill Workers | Lose Jobs As European Textiles Arrive; Southern Industry Gains By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor). Fall River Cotton Mills are operating at less than one-fifth Thruout New England cotton mill operatives are unemployed or working but a few days a week. depressing hardship to upward of 200,000 workers and their iny i] This means | Here and There SONG OF THE PEARL-DIVER. I, Wash, wash, wash— Dishes gueasy and cold, Wash, wash, wash— Water soapy and hot. Service plates piled in a. mound to the sky, vibe bag dripping and waiting to dry. Garbage stinking and dish-cloths wringing— Wash, Wash. Wash Il. Chicken bones heaped up and lob- ster-shells tered, Four days to pay day and rent al. most due- Just like to sneak out a fat, brown roast chicken; Wife and the kids’d appreciate too —but lll. Wash, wash, wash— Bréad plates and butter plates small. Wash, wash, wash— Hours bitter as gall. Feet just a torture and back on the rack Eyeballs burning and knees kind of slack. Pitchforks and hot coals I’m saf-| fering now— Wash, Wash. Wash. INSOMNIA. Senator Fall must have made a clean sweep while he was secretary. The senate has just passed an appropriation bill for the interior department. ROSE. Criticized by their wealthy pa- trons for the evident lack of patriot- ism, the directors of the Art Insti- tute are going to secure paintings of our presidents. We are patriotic, and lové art ‘for art’s sake—but for God’s sake, don’t, gentlemen directors, don’t let them influence you to include paintings of the cabinet members! It will be ungodly hard for us to decide whe- ther you have an art—or rogues’ gallery. Get wiser daily—read the DAILY. A local paper runs on Saturdays a*column called “The Week in Con- gress.” But we like The DAILY WORK- ER’S many columns on “The Weak in the Cabinet.” WE'LL INSIST THEY DON’T DO Bag Please prevent the following things from happening because— I WOULD DIE IF— Gompers approved Russia. Daugherty joined the Party, or Coolidge bought a share of stock in The DAILY WORKER. RED'S WIFE. Workers boss, is to Mr. Brennan, political sending uninstructed delegates the democratic convention. Are there any other kind in that party? Or if you do subscribe—see that your friend does! On Thursday last, a friend of ours dropped into town and complained bitterly about ‘the “yards.” To be fair, we thought it was quite notice- able, too. And our civic pride was somewhat dampened. But before he left, we again threw our chest out. It pi the yards— Daugherty was in town! eee weWALT CARMON. Studebaker Cleans Up Juicy Profit of $18,342,222 in 1923 (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Studebaker Corporation profits for 1923, after depreciation and _ federal taxes, amounted to $18,342,222. This rep- resents payment of .60 a share on common stock, as compared to $23.21 in 1922. Total net sales, says President Er- Page Three TRAGHTENBERG TOUR IS CREATING FINE ENTHUSIASM |Party May Book Him to Pacific Coast The lecture tour of Alexander Trachtenberg is being enthusiastic- ally received by Party organizations thruout the t and middle west. Applications are coming into the na- tional office of the Workers Party every day and present indications are that Comrade Trachtenberg will be obliged to remain on the road sey- eral months in order to fill hig en- gagements. The tour begins in New York City on March 4. From there he will go thru the northeast territory and will commence to travel westward in the latter part of March, About European Labor. It was originally planned to have the tour of Comrade Trachtenberg cover only the eastern and middle western states. However, on account of the great educational value of the lecture of Comrade Trachtenberg, the national office desires to give every section of the Party the op- portunity to share the priceless ex- perience of his fourteen months’ study of the Russian and European Communist Parties and labor move- ments. Comrade Trachtenberg’s tour will be extended to the Pacific coast if sufficie: response to the special proposition of the national office is received quickly from the Party or- ganizations in the west to assure the meeting of the heavy expenses for railroad fare. The subject of Comrade Tracht- enberg’s lecture will. be “What 1 Saw in Russia and Germany.” It will be a review of the International Communist rhovement, based on his fourteen months’ study at first hand of the labor organizations and Com- muiuist Parties in Russia, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, France and Aus- tria. This lecture tour will undoubtedly have a profound influence on those who hear it and will help to draw them closer to the world-wide Com- munist movement. Trachtenberg Dates. The dates already definitely ar- ranged for Comrade Trachtenberg are as follows: Brooklyn, N: Y., Tuesday, 4; New York C Wednesday, March 5; Waterbury, Conn., Sunday, March 16, 2 p. m.; Bridgeport, Sun- day, March 16, 8 p. m.; New Haven, Monday, March 17; Gardner, Mass., Wednesday, March 19; Boston, Fri- day, March 21; Worcester, Saturday, March 22; Providend, R. I., Sunday, March 23; Phila . Pag Monda’ March 24;~Baltimore; Md., Tuesday, March 25; Washington, D.'C., Weds nesday, March 26; Binghampton, N. Y., Thursday, March 27; Utica, Friday, March 28; Rochester, Satur- day, March 29; Rochester, Sunday, March 30; Buffalo, Tuesday, April 1; Jamestown, Wednesday, April 2; Erie, Pa., Thursday, April 3. N. Y. Conference for Foreign Born Elects Executives (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 5.—“Without the foreign-born workers there would be no United States, because the greater bulk of the workers in the basic industries of this country are foreign-born,” said Ben Gitlow, the chairman for the Conference for the Protection of Foreign-torn Workers held at Stuyvesant Casino. Ludwig Lore, editor of the German daily “Volkzeitung”, impressively outlined to the delegates the way the capitalist class of this country is weaving a net to enslave not only the foreign-born but also the American workers by fostering the passage of immigration as a weapon against their exploiters. The Secretary of the Provisional Council, Benjamin Lifschitz reported that then different nationalities have already organized language councils. Executive Council Named, A representative from each lan- guage council together with the fol- lowing seven elected by the Confer- ence will compose the Executive Committee: L. Haufbauer, Litz, Lud- wig Lore, Lash, A. Bittleman, J. Monik and Benjamin Lifschitz. Tie Executive Committee was <instructed to start a big press propaganda campaign against the passage of the bills. A resolution of greeting from the Lithuanian Conference for the Pro- tection of the Foreign-Born empha- sized upon the importance of the workers of all nationalities inelud- March skine, amounted to $166,153,683, an increase of 24 per cent over 1922. Erskine says the corporation expects a big volume of business for 1924, What are you doing Sunday, March 9th? Tell the F. S. R. ‘THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 8 P.M. ro REPUBLICANS AND Democrats | WICKER PARK HALL, 2040 \ W. North Ave. | Speakers— District Organizer, Workers Party ing the American workers to create a united front in a move against the octopus of capitalism threatening the workers of this country, was and unanimously adopted. A ringing resolution against the slave laws was enthusiastically car- ried. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, WM. F. DUNNE, Editors, DAILY WORKER ARNE SWABECK, MAX SCHACH Editor of YOUNG WORKER Admission Free! Everybody Welcome! Auspices Workers Party, Local Chi