The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 6, 1924, Page 4

Page Four aa THE DAILY WORKER Thursday, March 6, 1924 eer RRR RA ET METALS RE ARONA SRA ETO NER PAUL RUSSIA PENALIZES FRANCE AND GIVES ENGLAND TRADE Kamenev Speech Gives Foreign Policy (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 5.—“We have been compelled to transfer part of our trade apparatus from France to England,” Commissar Kameney said at the Soviet Congress. “We prefer dealing with countries with which we are settling trade relations and Youth Views By HARRY GANNES ‘HOUSES AT COST,’ SLOGAN IN FIGHT UPON RENT HOGS Women’s Council Active Campaign Farm Youth Doing Alger Stunt. F the two million farmers who left the land during one year, a vast number were the youth. The Horatio Alger plot, where the young boy leaves the farm to make his fortune in the city, was multiplied several hundred thousand times dur- ing the past year, without, how- ever, the closing chapter—that is, the successful young man carrying home the bacon, The great number of young fel- lows who are driven off the farms by the depression and hard times, come to the city either to join the ranks of the ragged unemployed, or the not much better off poorly paid in (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Mar. 4.—Twenty thousand copies of the following ap- peal to working women for action against the high rent evil have been distributed by the United Council of Workingclass Women: It is clear now to everyone that The Poor Fish Says: Daugherty bears unmistakable evidence of being a stubborn cur. When they try to make it hot for him in Washington, his AMERICAN LIFE DRIVES MEXICAN VISITORS INSANE Our Brutality and Job Conditions Too Hard By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) MEXICO CITY, March 5.—The large number of immigrants deport- ed from the United States to Mexico every year, were driven insane by cruelty and exploitation and neglect in the United States, concludes Dr, Jim MacLachlan Is Appealing Case to London High Court (By The Federated Press) HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March: 5. —The case of Jim MacLachlan, de- posed secretary treasurer of District 26, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, will go to the privy council in London, the highest court in the British empire, by permission of the Supreme court of Nova Scotia. Mac- Lachlan was originally convicted of “spreading false tales,” which was later changed to “seditious libel.” The charge resulted over a circular issued by MacLachlan during the July, 1928, miners’ strike. The cir- cular made public the acts committed by the provincial police against strik- Our Advertisers help make this Paper possible. Patron- ize our Advertisers and tell them you saw their Ad in The Daily Worker. Big Boston Mass Meeting to Flay Davis Slave Bills (Special to The Daily Worker) ~ BOSTON, Mass., March~ 5.—The Council for Protection of Foreign Born Workers, representing tens of thousands of workers who have or- ganized to fight the enactment of laws directed against foreign-born workers now pending before Con- gress, will hold a mass meeting at Scenic y Auditorium, Tremont and ; s answer to go still further | nothing has resulted from ail the hub- Luis M. Orci, health officer of the| ing steel workers of the British Em-| Berkeley Sts. Sunday, March 19, at Peldeate, oO 7itk of ondestrable| oun, He insists om having hie placelbob' about the Rent and Housing — F 4 times, | Mexican’ immigration department in4 pite Steel Co. gon lua ¥, March 19, a “ano ole app question. ven in the so-called good times,|Cuidad Juarez. The case will probably come before] Ludwig Lore, editor of tht New to realize that | what has been nationalized remains nationalized; our gallant soldiers of the Red Army did not shed their blood in the struggle against inter- | ventionists for the Seine Tribunal | to be eventually allowed to reshape | that which was conquered with blood. Believing in that business | relations are mutually profitable, we ! the young boys and girls do not want to stay on the farms because they are worked too hard. Now there is a wide-spread desertion from the farms by the young people. To halt this movement from farm to factory, the agricultural colleges, the farm clubs and the ¥, M. C. A.’s have been trying everything possi- ble—more entertainment, better edu- The Governor had appointed a spe- cial commission. This commission in- vestigated and submitted a report. This report gave a terrible picture of : agi 4 overcrowding, of unbearable housing International Policy. conditions, of unsanitary surround- Summing up his report on the in-|ings, of exorbitant rents. ternational policy of the Soviet gov- It was a damning indictment ernment, Mr. Kamenev formulates it | against the laws that were passed in thus: Friendship with all the nations | 1920, for the report proved that these The peoples of the Eat must know that our friendship with them is as sacred to us as it is to themselves.” of Prosperity. paragraphs: the surpr: Environment Too Hard. The doctor’s report is a scientific one, made without animus and after a careful study 6f the case histories h ngly large number’ of Mexicans who were deported because they became insane in the Land of Here are the salient “Our countrymen go into an en- Lord Haldane in July. The attorney general of Nova Scotia will person- ally oppose the appeal. Meanwhile MacLachlan will remain, in Dor- chester penitentiary where he i learning the trade of a shoemaker, He is at liberty to receive letters and papers but rules permit him to write only oge letter a month, which al- York Volkszeitung, who made the report on the proposed legislation before the Workers Party National Convention, will be the chief speaker at the meetings. James P. Reid, of Providence, R. I., will be the chair- man. It is expected that this meet- ing will bring a big audience of workers opposed to the proposed 8 ways oes to his family. drastic exception laws. are ready at any moment to start|of the world, brotherly sympathy |laws failed to relieve the rent andjeation, and a lot of other entiicng| vironment entirely unknown to negotiations, but not unless there be|with oppressed peoples, business housing crisis. The extension of the|forms of diversion, but all to no|them; language, customs, climate; en TT Te ee recognized certain simple axioms/ and peaceful relations with all the|Rent laws for another three years | avail. as already acepted by England and| Italy.” ; : ‘ comes: unemployment and the im- V OLUNTEER ! Friendship to Orient. lics have reached a turning point| repairs! we are compelled to live in|the attempt to organize boys and|perious necessity of bringing bread if In the next part of his report, | of their international position, the | unwholesome housing conditions: fire | girls’ clubs among the farming pop-|to the family. And that, in an en- Kamenev spoke of the mutual rela-| acting chairman of the council of | traps are still our living quarters. ulation of the nation by the city| vironment so hard as that in which cag tions with the nations of the East.|P. C. | recalls Lenin’s words, to Laws Aided Landlords. youth-exploiting organization, Sears| they find themselves located, tends “Our friendship with the Orient, striving at independent national progress is one of the cogner stones of the Soviet government’s policy. governments, Remarking that the Soviet Repub- The rents remain high; the landlords make few or no will not relieve us. The latest wrinkle in the scheme to keep the youth on the farm is the effect that “the later the recog- nition, the worse the conditions set forth by us with regard to it.” Roebuck Company. The less people on the farms and in the farming communities, the less customers for this prison-commodity Even these rent laws were passed four years ago thru the agitation among us working class women who organized and demanded relief. But infrequent cases they: receive treat. ment that is almost brutal; later to weaken more and more their minds, already exhausted by the pre- vious suffering. All this in a body GERMAN RELIEF badly nourished, badly fed, and more badly clothed to support the rigors of the latitude, must in my opinion, originate functional disquiparance and especially affect the brain.” Immigrants Are Workers. Yet the imperious necessity of seeking empléyment, added to the sweet promises of the Engancha- dores, the employment agencies that paint glowing pictures of the land of plenty and promise where the eagle screams and oil turns into gold, results in thousands of unskilled workers crossing the border every year. They go to the beet fields, fruit regions, cotton fields, wheat harvest, Alaska fisheries, steel mills and other Yankee paradises. Sometime: they cross with their entire families, The Imperial valley is a part of the climate-famous California in which, to quote the feudal barons there, “no white man would work.” Here every year thousands of Mexi- can families enter to pick fruit and cotton. Find Child Labor Here. Child labor is more common than adult labor because every family has more children than adults. Nobody Miner Pays Last Price. BUCKNER, Ill, March 5.—Sher- man Cutrell, 58, was crushed under proud that our leader inspired, in the|a fall of rock and instantly killed far China, the forces of a democratic | while working in mine No. 14 for the nation to a new liberating work. Old Ben Coal Corporation. UNIT . " cull THE LAND OF THE BEES. By H. Lane H A | bells. Little Mary was crying bitterly, be- ig the bee city was more wonder- cause a bee had stung her. Mother! fy] than the tall flowers that nodded explained that she should not have jabove it. There were thousands of touched the bee, but that was no'large hives, in orderly rows, and in consolation for Mary. She meant 'the centre one larger than any other. well, and she did not see why the'“That is where the queen bee lives?” bee resented her kindness. Mother ee rg who fears cs ate ld her something about bees, but the |thing of her mother’s explanation. terennauies muddled itself with what |“Up here we have no queen,” ex- Bar dese must ee saree sgt Mary knew about fairies, and she |Plained her guide; “we have not} erful Dr atand + agen ae ¢’ %, bed at night quite confused, ‘needed her since the revolution. I that will stand ready ai Be ge 8 spe vie fone erat the uae suppose you think we have drones| notice to take up problems that c y ” This friendship we do no, bargain. “The manner in which was met the news of Lenin’s death makes us ‘dispensing organization. It is really funny to hear the plans of the organization: “It is the hope of the foundation to formulate pla: for extending the boys’ and girls’ clubs much the same way as sag Roebuck &, Co. started a movement more than twenty years ago which resulted in the establishment of the first county agents in America.” About a dozen different organiza- tions are cooperating with the mail order house, among which is the Y. M. C. A,., president of the Mis- souri board of agriculture, and rep- resentatives ‘of several agricultural colleges, No amount of organization, whe- ther in the interest of retaining cus- tomers, or upon the firmer founda- tion in order to keep the youth on the farms as laborers when the farm- er cannot hire help, will stop the movement of the rural youth to the industrial centers, Enroll Volunteers to Canvass Sunday for German» Relief the real benefits went not to us workers, but to the landlords and the property owners who got their new buildings free from all taxes. And the rents in these new buildings were so high that a workers’ family couldn’t ‘ afford to live in them! The trouble was that we working (0 class women fought each in a sepa- Q rate group. When the law was ex- tended we thought we had won and ,soft breezes, which, carried faint per- | fumes and the tinkling of tiny distant House to House Canvass on SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH Millions of men, women and children doomed to die unless help is immediately forthcoming—AND THE HELP WILL NOT BE FORTHCOMING—UNLESS YOU DO YOUR SHARE! Sena in your name and address immediately to Room, 307, 166 W. Washington St. (State 5959) or call for your supplies and instructions on Sunday, March 9th, 9 a. m. at the place nearest your home: THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St. VILNIS, 2513 S. Halsted St. FREIHEIT, 1145 Blue Island Ave. LIBERTY CLUB HOUSE, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road WORKERS LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard “POLIKUSHKA” LEO TOLSTOY’S IMMORTAL STORY OF SERFDOM : ADAPTED TO THE SCREEN BY gave up fighting. Our organizations fell to piecds; and the politicians stopped being afraid of us. The working class women must again take up the matter. 1. All existing working class women must organize and affiliate to the existing working class wom- en’s organization. 2. All the unorganized women must organize and affiliate to the existing working class women’s or- ganization. 3. We must work immediately for lower rents, better housing and abolition of firetrap. tenements. es thai ite Meee wadiaaes |too. We used to have all that sort ed brad bcs gt tg e fangs in California ever talks about en- MOSCOW ART THEATRE ee, larger tha: my i ; a % - e ; clock ticking away on the shelf. | ook at the thing objectively.” Mary }cil of Workingclass Women." Its aint: [coming in rapidly now,” “Workers ot) 405 busy with criminal syndicalism, “Mary,” said he, “do you wish to see |hesitated to ask the meaning of this |The Protection of Workingclass Inter- Chicago are responding to the call On Feb. 16, 1,500 Mexicans crossed I Vv A N M Oo S K V J N how the bees live?” Of course, Mary |long word,-but decided to look it up| ests. eS i for aid from the German Workers.|the line at Cuidad Jaurez bound for : did, and she was too young to be/in the dictionary the next day. “In 46 Organizations United. beter a Sg from Pk: Be volunteers the center of the Michigan sugar Coming s afraid of strange animals, when their | America, where you live, instead of a| Forty-six workers’ organizations] Will start out on Sunday morning,| beet fields, They are only the van- queen bee, who does a resonable jamount of work, you have™. lot of | politicians, who spend all their time jin office buzzing around trying to jcollect enough honey—don’t you call it honey?” “Money,” replied Mary politely. “Enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. Or else they bugz for re-election. And, of course, you a api the drones... . . x “We do not have any drones,” cor- rected Mary proudly. “Teacher said that in our country all men are equal, and of course, they all work.” i “Do you mean to Say your teach- March 9, have been established at Vilnis, 2513 S, Halsted street, Work- ers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Frei- heit, 1145 Blue Island avenue, The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted street, and Liberty Club, 3420. W. Roosevelt Road. Cicero also will be covered by a committee for German relief established there. However, many more volunteers are needed adequately to reach Chi- cagoans who are ready to donate their share for the relief of their fellow workers in Germany. Those wishing to do their share in this campaign of international working vaices were kind. Now whether ee ew larger or Mary grew small- barge nee possibly tell, but she found it quite easy to mount on his back and sit comfortably between the transparent silvery wings. Like a breath of the night breeze he sailed thru the window and up high into the air. Mary had always thought it would be easy for a bird to brush against the goid-pointed stars, but they tlew ever so high without coming notice- ably nearer a single star, And as are already affiliated, and are sup- porting the Council. Recently, the Council took up the Rent and Hous- ing problem. It started a campaign against fire-trap tenements. It is working to organize the working class women upon a concrete program for housing and rent relief. The United Council of Workingclass Women will hold a monster demonstration on May 17 in which tens of thousands of working class women and their chil- dren will march to City Hall. There they will demand that the City Ad- ministration or the State build hous- es for the workers that will rent at guard of the exodus in that cirection, Last year 879 Mexicans were de- ported from the United States, the overwhelming majority of them be- cause the land of freedom of con- tract and unconstitutional. safe- guards for labor had driven them crazy. What figures has 1924 in re- serve in the matter of this lament- able “balance in trade?” ORCHESTRA HALL, MARCH 19, 1924 The Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany, Room 307, 166 W. Washington St. Proceeds for German Relief Reserve Your Tickets Now Comrades Having Automobiles Can SAVE MONEY AND TROUBLE By Having Their Repairs Done at Rail Men Get Rai: NEW YORK, Mar. 5 fe per cent wage increase has been given to employes of the Wheeling & Lake alxe: . rf f , . Erie railway, after a conference be- they flew they talked. , |S teach you what is untrue?” asked | cost, as is being done in England.|class solidarity, should either im- presentati e A Service and re “he bees are so used to the|the bee incredulously. “In the very| Seven working class women or mediately send their names in to er pla roredaon = Ady ie reer Paramount Auto Garage cruelty of men that they cannot un- derstand that children are not arways cruel,” he said. “Men rob them of the honey for which they work con- stantly, and it is not good to work to feed tall hungry mouthed masters. The agree- ment is to run for three years with possible wage increases after the “avek ysiy worst stages of the bee society we never taught our children lies. Of course, men are not all equal in your country. You have a lot 6f aoves and you have bees—men, I mean, who work so much harder to keep the more can get together and write to the Council for an organizer. Don’t wait. Get your group and send in the names and addresses. Our land- lords are organized 100 per cent. To- day they send us notices. Tomor- the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany, Room 307, 166 W. Washington street, or call at the headquarters mentioned in a fore- going paragraph, to receive supplies and_ instructions. Expert Auto Repairing—Examination Free Cheapest Because Done Right MIKE LANG and EDWARD RUTTER Phone Spaulding 4670 ASHER B, PORTNOY & CO. When you touched my wing today, I was afraid of you.” ; Mary looked closer, and recognized i : and keep all from the WORKINGCLASS WOMEN. |Gi ur services on Sunday, March al Pe tie gi. There waren our drones are ‘the Office: 127 University place. 9, to J clecinat relief. Voliutees! . isn’t the decided difference in bees| “ffow qiq you) have the revolu- Office hours 2-4 daily, except we find in men, because bees do ~ dress in accordance with their class. “I was bigger than you, then,” | ‘she. said, and, fearing that the bees drones comfortable that the; ar slaves. We never really had wens nor did we ever give everythi the drones hese row, when we are strong, we will send them notices. UNITED COUNCIL OF Workers of Chicago, join hands with the workers of other countries in support of Germany’s proletariat. Saturdays and Sundays, Bet. 2-4 o’clock. low, Secretary. P. S. Any workers’ organizations Tel, tion?” asked Mary, with interest, Kate Git-| “We saw how thin 8 were amon; men, and we grew ashamed to be oi Montana Smelter Workers Demand Paimters and Deceraters PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES stimates on New and Old Work Ea 2619 MILWAUKBB_AVE., CRICAGO MASQUE BALL 3126-28 GREENVIEW AVE., CHICAGO Telephone Graceland 3505 t much like them. So we b. i i ii Nie feelings might be hurt by this refer- kicking out the drones, and makie® edge tn e tha Caromell Bleet Dollar i Day Raise “Ms. : ee ence to her superior growth, “bees | them work or starve, one delegate to cil. Elec don’t usually grow as big as little iris.” Some of the your delegates and communicate with common bees took charg: Gay The Fodsented:: Wreu) : é of the revo-|the secre’ e ey ee ; ’ a, lution, Then the queen abdi K whe _ BUTTE, Mont., March 5.—Thirty- By borg ar oy wa /agal pthel base is, gave up the throne, hae and Tectile Waskein Aaa Fight, six thousand workers in the Montana urm aZaar an xX 1 on { shaft of shimmering light, bred ‘corganized our entire society, Every- copper industry, members of the} \" which the bee floated lazily. ts | body works now.” NEW YORK, March 5.—Concen-| International Mine, Mill, and Smelter . golden splendor dyed his wings, ara : : a Workers’ union, are demanding a rm cast a ence he the ae ~ an, rose-colored light, and Mary felt th és pegs ta the Bangs aren ate dollar & day pay: increase, The Ane igiuii of the uppose the light is made by fire-|morning air. “Ww. tile Workers’ union S opened a da C x Minin; company has . * lien” said Mary, who had read fairy | mother will be frightened ee ys odo paign for the establishment of sartiad that aroma ina ae. aber Jewish Workers’ Relief Committee tales, and was quite well-informed. | pring me back again.” — Please | the 44-hour week in textile trades. do not justify a wage raise. $ é * “Ob, no!” exclaimed the bee in 2) «1 will come soon,” promised the; Under the leadership of the local.) ‘The men, when they are not un- For the Children Homes in Soviet Russia shocked voice, “what do you think we bee, “and take you to much more | Secretary, R. J. Stoudt, mass meet-|employet, ‘are at present on the are—men? We do not make slaves wonderful places than this Now, | ings and intensive propaganda are | following daily scal Sm at the’ oT pam ti joe Sora ip ti diet taste this honey.” . , bene nonthete valig on Deg $4.25; engineers, $5.! ; minated pollen, give ‘a y i laborers, lentown textile factor- |.¢o , $5.50; firemen, $5.00; oilers, ih ghy pared. ‘glimmering Mary felt (oe prollgfl eae ggan yy Rome ies are now operating on a 50-hour |$4.25-84 Of the pee affected . ASHLAND AUDITORIUM a en 7 n ii # beaweay: Gikde a golden gossamer, aside he te atienin of a dosers basis, et bri oe eee Le ng 2 a ree Van Buren St. and Ashland Ave. transparent but firm, All about them | $° ag a es. en she awoke in IMPEACH COOLIDGE! in Butte eee et e+ ormes : SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 8 P. M. (UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS— A LAUGH FOR ‘TIE CHILDREN “No, thank ' Entire Program of Bazaar: pier ys ; Opening, Concert . ssesesMARCH 20, 7 p.m. i Trial over Hamon.. .MARCH 21, 8 p. m. i CKildren’s Masque Ball. . -MARCH 22, 1 p, m. P ' Masque Ball for Everybody... .»MARCH 22, 7 p. m. The clouds were drenched with | ¢*the their initial efforts upon Al- Concert and Close .. Combination Ticket bought before the Bazaar for all four days or for four visitors, 50 Cents. JEWISH WORKERS RELIEF COMMITTEE, 3159 W. Roosevelt Rd. Write or call: Phone Lawndale 2899 . MARCH ® lp. m, .