The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00, 1640 N. Haleted St, Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $8.50..6 months $2.00..8 months mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per Sagi $4.50..6 months $2.60..3 months Address a.1 mail and make cut checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J, LOUIS. ENGDAHL i WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Baie st Chicaxe, Til, under the act of March 3, 1879. ape 64 Advertising rates on application. Chicago, Illinois Editors .Business Manager Daugherty Days The oil investigation is taking a back seat. A new scandal is now in the spotlight. Mr. Daugherty, who is charged with the task of ferreting out the criminals of the nation, is now appearing in his true light as the arch- defender of the worst criminals and as an active participant in all the heinous crimes that his own department is supposed to pre- vent. The testimony of Miss Stimson before the Wheeler committee has already revealed Daugherty as the perpetrator of sufficient crooked deals to warrant not only his im- peachment but his immediate imprisonment for along term. Yet, it is known by all that thorogoing as the present investigation might possibly be, only an infinitessimal fraction of the corruption and fraud with which the De- partment of Justice is reeking, will be dis- closed. It is no accident that the man who is the connecting link between the secret chambers of the government bureaucracy and the finan- ciers and industrial Czars should be guilty of the worst crookedness with which our govern- ment is infected. It is natural for the man whose task it is to do the roughest and dirtiest | work for the employing class to be found sell- ing privileges, dealing in shady oil stocks, and sheltering every notorious lobbyist in the Capi- tal. Who could do a better job in protecting bootleggers, in cleaning up on the Stock Ex- change, than the head of the Department of Justice which has railroaded to jail large numbers of workers and has organized an army of thousands of strikebreakers to smash the labor unions and break the strikes? In- deed, it is most fitting for the government offi- cer who personifies the highest degree of the strikebreaking power of the state, who sym- bolizes all the harshness and cruelty of the ruling class, to be the essence and incarnation of capitalist government at its worst, in the lowest depths of the nadir of corruption. -sx~*>For-the workers and farmers whom Mr. Daugherty has terrorized and hounded these Daugherty days afford a splendid opportunity for action in self-defense. Now is the time when the working masses must force the gov- ernment to get rid of Daugherty and his ilk. Now is the time to make Mr. Daugherty, at least in part, pay for the crimes he has com- mitted against the workers in breaking the last shopmen’s strike and in sabotaging ine numerous other struggles of the workingmen. Rattling skeletons in Mr. Daugherty’s face is not enough. The workers and farmers must bury Daugherty and all that he stands for as a political force in the country. 4 A Worthwhile Task Qur attempt to bring home to the great mass of workingmen in the industrial centers and in the rural sections the rude realities involved in the disclosures of the oil investigation is an effort which concerns very vitally every man and woman who is compelled to work for a living. The primary purpose of our getting out a special edition chock full of facts and giving a sound explanation of the whole sordid drama now being enacted in the national Capital is to prevent the employing class from pulling out of their present hardships unscathed. What we are striving to achieve in our “Teapot Special” is a straight-forward, clear-cut presen- tation of the relationship between the govern- ment and the bosses in such a fashion as to help the organization of the workers and farmers who are only the victims of the con- ditions giving rise to the vicious thefts which our present capitalist body-politic is sweating from every one of its pores. ‘The fact that American warships have be- come the taxis of the Standard Oil interests, the deplorable man-killing conditions of em- ployment in the oil industry, the imperialist world struggle for oil are all part and parcel of the whole capitalist system of exploitation of the workers and poor farmers, and are as much the concern of the laboring masses as is the Teapot holdup. What the working and farming classes must do for their own self- preservation, is to organize themselves polit- _ ically and economically to uproot every trace and vestige of the capitalist system of produc- _ tion and exchange giving rise to these oppres- _ sive conditions. et That is precisely what our “Teapot Special” ‘is aiming at. That is exactly what we are The distribution of this issue is most worthwhile task which every working- man and farmer should gladly undertake to carry out in order to hasten the end of all _ these mortal dangers confronting the working people—in order to make impossible the re- currence of all Teapot tragedies and their dire consequences Curfew of ‘‘Socialism’’ The German Reichstag, in which the Social Democratic Party of Noske, Scheidemann, and Ebert was the majority party, has at last been dissolved. The “Socialist” Reichstag, which has served as the bulwark against the victory of the German workers, is no longer needed by the Stinneses, the Thyssens, and the Prussian military clique. The Crown Prince “is again appearing publicly on Unter den Linden! The same papers that lauded the Noske party and the Reichstag when Liebknecht and Luxembourg were murdered and when thou- sands of Communists were thrown into jail be- cause they fought against the capitalist mili- tarists who led them into the war are now gloating over the Reichstag being disbanded. The Reichstag which was once the best means for misleading the workers and chaining them to capitalist slavery has become useless, a fetter on the very system of capitalist tyranny it served to preserve. The industrial and finan- cial magnates and the Junkers feel today that they can rule openly with an iron hand. They have no need just now of maintaining the par- liamentary illusions of an impotent Reichstag. But our. capitalist press is dead wrong when it heralds the dissolution of the Reichs- tag as the curfew of Socialism in Germany. The dismemberment of the Reichstag is of two- fold significance. First of all, is shows the power attained by the German employing class. Secondly, it is proof of the fact that the capitalist class of Germany has no use today for the Noskes and Eberts. These hangmen of the working class have outlived their historical usefulness even as assassins of the proletariat. Therefore, the very ones whom they saved from. the heavy hand of working class revolu- tion, the very capitalists in defense of whose interests they slaughtered helpless workers by the hundreds, are now throwing them over- board. This is the course pursued by the capi- talists everywhere. All of this does not for a moment mean that Germany has arrived at the curfew of social- ism. In so far as socialism, the socialism of Marx, is concerned it is far from dead in Ger- many. The recent election results nail this lie. Asa matter of fact the collapse of the French franc is to no small extent due to the fear of the Poincare government that the coming Ger- man elections will witness a tremendous in- erease in the strength of the Communists. Despite their being declared illegal and being subject to the most ruthless persecution, the Communists of Germany are making remark- able headway. The dissolution of the Reichstag does not toll the doom of Socialism in Germany. It only presages sharper and more revolutionary class conflicts. Time to Act The Workers Party, which has for the last two years waged an energetic campaign for the organization of a national Farmer-Labor Party along class lines, is launching a cam- paign to redouble these efforts. Ne wetter time could have been chosen for rallying the exploited workers and poor farm- ers to decisive political struggles against their capitalist enemies. No one can deny that there is a tremendous wave of disillusionment, disappointment, and enlightenment amongst the mass of workers as to the real role of the government and the constitution in their day-to-day struggles. But this great discontent, this powerful mass ac- tion, will peter out and lose its momentum as a force for fundamental social change unless it is organized and turned into channels of effective action to uproot the capitalist control of government and industry. The best and most efficient weapon that the workers and|. farmers can now employ in this great political crisis is a mighty political party of their own, organized to fight uncompromisingly in behalf of their class interests and against the class interests of the capitalist exploiters. The appeal of the Workers Party for fund to intensify this campaign of organigntinl amongst the farmers and workingmen should bring a most generous response. The Capitalist interests will pour more millions into their cam- paign propaganda this year than ever before. The employers see danger ahead. The work- ers and farmers should utilize the favorable opportunity to organize themselves to strike telling blows. A successful campaign means the sending out of speakers to the shops, mills, mines, and farms. It means the printing of a vast amount of literature that will tell the story of the bosses’ plunderbund and its rav- ages amongst the city workers and farmers. A successful political campaign that will hit the enemies of the working masses where it will hurt most, and when they will be able to stand blows least, involves the expenditure of funds, the spending of money to put over all these activities. The appeal of the Workers Party is an ap- peal not in behalf of the Workers Party mem- bers, but in behalf of every worker and every farmer. It is a call to action, action which is more pressing than ever, against Teapot politics, farm bankruptcy, government by in- junction, low wages, degrading working con- ditions, and the whole capitalist system of exploitation and oppression of those who work in the city and in the country. This great ap- peal should meet with the heartiest response. The workers and farmers should give and give until it hurts their enemies. Give to the Work- ers Party, Room 214, 1009 N. State Street, Chicago, Ullinois. THE DAILY WORKER Saturday, March 16, 1924 STIR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO AID GARMENT STRIKE Holland and Dr. Gerard Indict Police By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. Thomas Holland, labor manager for Hart, Schaffner and Marx, and Dr. Ralph Gerard, of the General Medical College, presented the re- sults of a sw made by Hull House residents of conditions per- taining to the strike of Chicago gar- ment workers before a meeting. of University of Chicago students held at the university. Holland said that essential condi- tions in regard to labor and its re- lations to’ its exploiters had not changed in the last hundred years. Picketing Best Weapon. Picketing, he said, was the only effective weapon the labor unions had, and courts of “justice” prohibit that by meang of injunctions, He passed about several copies of the injunction against the garment work- ers to show how the bosses’ writ at- tempted to tie them hand and foot. This injunction prohibits picketing, but does not define the word, leaving the police, whom he said, were sub- sidized by the bosses for the purpbse of breaking the strike, free to arrest anyone they saw fit to arrest, Because policemen were all on “picket duty’ now, he said, cases wherein arrests should be made for actual crime could not be made, He said that on the whole the strike had been remarkably peaceful, most of the disturbance being due to police officers, detectives from the office of State’s Attorney Crowe, and thugs, or “private detectives.” Holland saw some 35 girls brought to trial Wednesday morning for disturbance of the peace, and all but five imme- diately acquitted, proof of the indis- crimate wholesale arrest of workers by the boss-subsidized police, for the purposes of intimidation, Praises DAILY WORKER. Conditions in the strike area, in Evanston were just as bad, said Hol- land. Here one is taken from the train, put inte an automobile and spirited out of the town. There is no pretense at arrest, one is just de- ported. This had brought a protest to Chief of Police Leggett from cer- tain ministers of the suburban city. The DAILY WORKER was the only Chicago paper which printed the truth about the strike, declared the speaker, Dr. Gerard said that State’s At- torney Crowe told Meyer Perlstein, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, to clear out of the city or he would break the union, This he is trying to do by his mass arrests of the strikers, which have already put the union in debt for vast sums for bail. Dr. Gerard said that in the same union’s strike in 1917 there were 1,400 strikers ar. rested, and all but three released afterward, because there was no evi- dence to convict them. Militant Amalgamated. Prior to 1917, Dr. Gerard said, con- ditions in the clothing industry were horrible. The Aner lothing Workers led the fight for organ- ization of the needle workers, and has always been in the front rank of progressive labor organizations. He divided the 200 odd employers of women’s clothing workers into three groups. In the first he put six large employers, who run completely scab shops, and require their work- ers to sign an anti-union pledge; in the second he put an organized group of bosses whose shops are ly un- ionized; the third comprised a great number of small, unorganized manu- facturers, some 60 or 70 of whom have already signed up with the union. Tuberculosis In Scab Shops. Conditions in non-union shops are very bad, he said. Many of the build- ings are firetraps, with bad sanitary conditions and poor light. Many are simply filthy lofts, and in all tuber- culosis is rampant. jome factories are in good condition, but most of Fs work’ done by these is farmed out individual slaves, who do the work for a pittance in their own homes, Wages, said Gerard, are on a piece work basis, and the determination of them is solely in the hands of the bosses, The wages paid in Chicago are a third lower than those paid in other cities. Only five per cent o: the women’s clothing workers in Chicago receive as much as a thou- sand dollars a year. He said that there are 5,000 of these workers in Chicago, 3,000 of whom are organized, and 8,500 on strike. They demand a 40-hour week, a 10 per cent increase in wages, un- employment insurance, since the in- dustry ig a seasonal one in which there are only about 30 or 40 weeks’ work, installation of machinery which would standardize * and, most important, recognition of the union by the empl The bosses’ howl that they cannot meet these demands, he said, was untrue, since the bosses of other cities have complied with them, and their profits still go on. Visit Strike Area! In conclusion, Dr. Gerard. the students to read the DAILY WORK- ER, to go into the strike area and see the actual conditions, and to or- fanize and get behind Hull House investigations and agitations for the workers. Several subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER were taken from the stu- dents at the meeting. The torch of the Russian Socialist bhi ve ne aes inte the “ala magazine ol blood-dripping ad rope.—Bucharin. fjread. All the best books, old and MENTIONING THE MOVIES By PROJECTOR. “THE FOOL’S AWAKENING,” Yes, it’s a motion picture described om the billboards as a “super-fea- ture.” The title refers to the au- dience after they have paid their ad- ission. A taxi-driver wants to be a novelist ‘but his stuff misses fire until he palms off a Russian dairy as his own ex- Periences, Right away he gets a big reputation and a rich wife. He is found out in time, she goes thru tha routine “struggle between pride and love,” and while she is making up her mind he tries to drive over a cliff. The property man was on the job, |however, with a tree properly placed for the rescue, so Harrison Ford is saved for the next “super-feature.” Enid Bennet as the leading lady is particularly wooden, but with such story and direction it is well to be . charitable, A nasty little stab of anti-Bolshevik Propaganda enlivens the show. The stolen diary was taken from a dead White Guard by an escaping British spy. ‘The White lay under a road sign reading, “To Finland” in three languages so that refugees might make no mistake about the road out of Russia. It is a humane govern- ment, after all, that substitutes road signs for sentries at the border. A newspaper ‘clipping also pays its re- spects to the Reds in this: senseless, foolish film. The anti-propaganda is not good enough to make the picture worth while seeing even from this angle. Few worse films have been made. Shown Sunday Strand, ——___., See Trail of Maniac. LINDEN, N. Y., March 14.—Three ersons, Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Whal- ley, both 55 years of age, and Mrs. Mable Morse, 80 years old, residents of this village, ten mileg south of Batavia, were slain recently appar- ently by a maniac, ————__ -Business By Radio. 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Hundreds of gar- ment strikers attended free at her invitation. 7 On Tuesday evening the Greek Ballot “Dionysus” to the music of Nicolas Tescherepnine proved a most delightful number in her re- ertoire for this season. Afid no ess delightful was the rendering of “Ajanta” on Monday evening. “Ajanta” goes back to a period of about 500 years B. C, and brings to life pictures found in the ancient temples of India. There are three scenes in this production. The first scene is powerfully dramatic in its parade of pilgrims on their way to the temple In the second scene the ,Pilgrims, tired and worn with their Jong journey lie down to rest. The third scene gives us their dream. The picture on the wall translates itself into a, living scene in which the drama of 2,500 years ago is re-en- acted, This scene is a gorgeous spectacle of beauty and color and the dances are most exquisite. 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