The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 20, 1924, Page 5

neal Thursday, March 20, 1924 a: HE DAILY WORKER WHEN MACDONALD FAILS NEXT STEP IS COMMUNISM Is Labor’s Only Hope Then, Says Nearing (Speci) to The Daily Worker? ~ NEW YORK, March 19,— The attempt of British Labor to inaugu- rate a new social system by due pro- cess of law is the last chance of the social-democrats,” declared Scott Nearing in the course of a talk be- fore the Rand School. _ “If British labor fails,” he con- tinued, “there is no hope for the workers of the world save in the methods of Communism,—that ‘is in the seizure of political power, the dictatorship of the workers, and the expropriation of the capitalists. Should Help Unionism. “Tf MacDonald is to succeed in lay- ing the foundations for a new social order he must soon make an issue, and go before the country in a gen- eral election that will strike at the root of thé present social order, He must do this, either in domestic politics, or in foreign affairs, or in both. “In domestic politics, for example, he might push the bill providing for the erection of 200,000 new houses for workers thru the employment of those now out of work; or he might push the bill providing that the work- ers who are unemployed should settle on the great estates and farm them; or he might push the capital levy; but it is doubtful whether he could obtain @ basic issue in any of these fields. Certainly the most hopeful of these is the capital levy. If he were to turn the mines over to the miners, or if his government were to push the organization of labor with the same vigor that other govern- ments have pushed the organization of capital, he would probably be able to go before the country on a real test question, “In foreign affairs, Mr. MacDonald has taken the first step—the recog- nition of the Soviet Republic. His next step, however, is to protect the German workers in their right to revolution against the French and German capitalists, and his third step is to call a world conference (includ- ing the Soviet Government) the ob- ject of which is to liquidate imperial- ism and to take the necessary steps to prevent another world war. With Bosses In Strike. “What has happened thus far? “No sooner had the MacDonald ministry assumed office than it ran head on into the class struggle in the form of a railroad strike. The re- sults were interesting and extremely significant—the labor government treated the strikers as obstruction- ists, and altho the strike has been called by a 6 to I Strike vote, as a protest against a cut in wages, the representatives of the Labor Govern- ment denounced the strike leader, spoke of “community interests,” and sought to harmonize the viewpoint of the workers and the management. “Community interests, in the case of a strike, are the interests of the established order—that is, of prop- erty. Labor interests, in a strike, are the interests, nét of property, but of the producers. Faced with this dilemma, a government must choose to side with the property owners or with the producers. The MacDonald government in this first test, chose the side of the owners. MacDonald’s Dilemna. “Why did the Labor Ministry act thus? Because they are proceeding on the assumption that the new social order can be brought about thru political means, A strike is an Industrial act, and as they stand to- flay, necessarily a “direct act,” and thus opposed to law and order and to the interests of the State. “The first effort of the Mritish Labor Party was to get power. Now it is striving to keep power. But to do this it must work closely enough with the established order to command tonservative and liberal support. What does this mean in a war, a strike, or some other crisis? It means lining up with the owners against the workers, “There are only two fundamental economic in Britain at critical moments. ien must then line up with one group or with the other. “Ts this inevitably so? Probably. Meanwhile the world watches ani waits while the British Labor Party seeks to demonstrate that a produc- er’s society can replace a profiteer’s society by due process of law.” “Polikushka” at Warren. WARREN, 0., March 19.—“Poli- kushka,” the screen production of the Moscow Art Theater players, will be shown here A Hij rome Theater, ‘igh street. is film is an adaption from the. Leo story of serfdom, written Tolsto. k a” BURNS MUST, GO! UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS— The state department has stabilize the political and finan- cial position of Poincare in the face of anticipated defeat in the French elections, $400,000,000 Graft. Senator Shipstead has asked the senate to read Walter Hines’ Page’s disclosure that, when the United States went into the world war, the British government had overdrawn its account with J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. to the amount of $400,000,000 and did not have the money to make good that overdraft. A few days af- ter we went into the war that sum of money was taken from the federal treasury, loaned to Great Britian, and deposited in the Morgan bank. Flag Follows Dollars. “If the American flag follows the American dollar,” the inquisitive Farmer-Labor senator suggested, “it would be interesting to know what that. overdraft in the Morgan bank jhad to do with the desire that became so prevalent here to enter the war Morgan Loans France Money To Starve Ruhr, Shipstead Charges By LAURENCE TODD . (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Pressy WASHINGTON, March 19.—Investigation as to how far the state department has involved the United States, thru J. P. Morgan & Company, in the military venture of Poincare as) against the reconstruction plans of Ramsay MacDonald, may be demanded by progressives in Congress. hand of the $100,000,000 loan arranged by the Morgans to admitted that it knew before- for liberty and democracy. It would also be interesting to know whether this new loan by Morgan to the French imperial government of Poin- care will be used in dragging us into another war to save the world for democracy and Poincare. We are asking donations from the American people to help feed the starving wo- men and children of Germany. At the same time Morgan & Co, lend money to Poincare’s government so they can keep up the war and starve the women and children. “I would like to know where the constitutional lawyers with their fine hairsplitting have been, while all these dollars that have been wrung out of the labor of the American peo- ple have been shoveled out in billions to support the imperial governments of Europe in their struggle to deter- mine who shall control the destinies of the world and who shall collect the taxes in order that they may have ,interest on their war bonds.” “DOMINICK’S SICKNESS” By PAUL PAULOWICH Y NAME is’ Paul, and I am 12 years old and I am in the sev- enth grade. My teacher says I write the best stories in the class, but my grammar ain’t no good, and it’s be- cause my parents are foreigners and don’t talk English, But my sister Mary, who graduated from the same school I am going to, and who works in a department store, talks English all right and she says I am going to be ‘a writer some day, but I know I ain’t because I don’t know nothing to write about even if 1 am pretty good at putting my ideas down. Anyhow, I am writing this story because I told my sister Mary about it and she said I should and she’d give a quarter. She belongs to a club called the Young Workers League and she said they might put it In their magazine. But I don’t think they will because there’s noth- ing exciting in it and besides they must be awfully hard up for writ- ers if they put in anything by a kid. But gee, it would be peachy if they would and could show the kids my own words printed in a book. Any- way, what’ I wanted to write about was something that happened at school last week. We got a kid in our class named Dominick and he’s a whiz at arithmetic and memorizing things. He is always the first one to learn a poem by heart. \He’s only 12 years old, but Jiminy, he’s big! Every night he seems to grow a lit- tle. I guess that’s what makes him so skinny and pale and jerky. Some- how or other he can’t sit still very long or keep his hands still. He’s always twitching and moving his hands and feet and winking his eyes and gee, but teacher gets sore, even if he is the smartest one in the room, up on the walls for us kids to read and they had some junk on them about how to be healthy. Each idea was put down in a little poem and teacher made us copy them and learn them by heart for home work. One of the poems went like this: The proper foods for me to eat Are simple ones and clean, A pint of milk each day I need, And vegetables green. The time to eat is during meals And never in between. There weresfive more like this and they were all about washing your teeth and going to bed early and taking baths often. Next morning when teacher asked us who knew all the verses by heart, Dominick was ithe only one who did. That’s pretty good, ain’t it, but teacher never raises Dominick because his twich- ing gets her nerves. tt morning I went into the pen- ny lunchroom in the basement and bougl worth of sand- ht a nickel’s wiches and Dominick looked at me so hun} that I gave him one, but the ail rang before he could eat it ‘all up, so he put the rest in his pock- et. Afterwards when we were sup- 1 15, at the | JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chi I "No use 3 URIST- CHILD So, anyway, they put some signs) ae posed to be studying our geography, he tried to eat it up, but he was out of luck ’cause the teacher caught him. Jiminy, but she was sore. She yelled: “You big idiot, do you think this is a lynch room? And what of the health poem you recited this morning? Didn’t it say you mustn’t eat between meals?” Roor old Dominick was so scared he began to twitch and wink and this got the teacher so sore she yanked him out of his seat and shouted, “You go home and bring your mother!” In the afternoon Dominick brought his mother to school and she came into our room. She was dressed real poor and she had a baby on her arms and it kept on making funny faces and us kids could hardly keep from | laughing. Anyway teacher asked her | what was the matter with Dominick and why was he such a bad boy. But I guess Dominick’s mother didn’t understand English, cause she only kept on shaking her finger at him/ and saying: “I give. him the good lick. him the good lick,” Gee whiz, I was sorry for poor Dominick. He didn’t do anything. And I guess that got the teacher's goat, because Dominick’s mother did- n’t answer and she said loud and fast | like when she’s bawling us kids out | and has that mean look on her face. | “I think there is something wrong with, Dominick. He’s got some sort of sickness or he wouldn’t eat the | way he does. I can’t do anything with him, You go\to the doctor with him, and find out if he can’t be cured, or else we will have to send him to the parental school.” | Then she said: “Dominick you ex- plain to your mother what I said.” But poor Dominick was too scared to| talk, so he just shook fis head and! blinked and then feacher said he should go home with his mother. Dominick didn’t come back to! school for two days and when he did, I asked him what the doctor had said about his sickness. And guess what? He told me the doctor said he wasn’t sick at all, but he was growing real fast and wasn’t getting enough to e: So I asked him why he wasn’t getting enough to eat and he said. that his father was only wie | $20 a week and_ there were five kids younger. than him in the family and they only got one I give CAPITAL DOFFS. HAT TO LEWIS, SAYS SCAB SHEET Operator Lauds Him for Attack on Howat By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 19,— John L, Lewis is a labor leader af- ter the heart of Al R. Hamilton, the most notorious anti-union coal opera- tor in western Pennsylvania. In the “Coal Trade Bulletin,” published in Pittsburgh and owned by Hamilton, Lewis is lauded as a labor leader to whom “Capital can doff its hat.” The editorial is reprinted from “Financial World” of New York and follows, in part, under the _ title, “Lewis a Fearless Leader.” “Lewis A Fearless Leader” “At times’ Capital has had a good reason for feeling resentful towards certain leaders of organiz- ed labor for their unfair attitude towards it and their exploitation of their unions to further their personal ambitions. It has felt that, were it not for this self- Pampering, numerous str and walk-outs could have been avoid- ed and considerable financial luss to wage earners prevented. “There is no ground for such a complaint against a labor leader like Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, the Internatior.al union of soft.coal miners. Capital can doff its hat to him in admir- ation and deep in its heart wish there were more like him, for it is the kind of leadership based upon the mutuality of understand- | ing. Lewis is capable of appreciat- ing there must be an amicable partnership between capital and labor to secure the maximum ad- vantage for each of them. “He is without fear as a labor leader. This he has shown in his handling of Howat at the union's recent convention at Indianapolis when the fire-eater, who served a jail term in Kansas for preach- ing anarchy, tried to force his re- instatement. Howat found out what a two-fisted fighter Lewis was and that he was no match for | Kim. In such hands the interest ve soft coal miner can be trust- e Has Army of Thugs “The Coal Trade Bulletin” which carried the above as an editorial is owned by the notorious coal operator | and financial wizard of .Pittsburgh, and is edited by an arch enemy of | union miners whose name is R. Z. Virgin. The latter is best known for his exploits in West Virginia, where he made a bitter fight to prevent the United Mine Workers from estab- lishing itself in that terror ridden state. In 1914 when the U. M. W. of A. was making a fight to estab-} lish a local union at Golliers, West Virginia, in connection with its drive | in that state, Jimmy Oates “Second’’ | Caleff, Frank Ledvinka and the late | lamented Fannie Sellins, (afterwards | clubbed to death) all organizers of | the union, were attacked by an army of thugs and hoodlums unger this | man Virgin. | Get Rid of Lewis | This man who was so bitterly op- | posed to the union then, is now the| editor of a coal trade paper, owned | by a non-union operator and is loud in his praise of Lewis. It has come | to a nice pass when publications own- ed and controlled by non-union oper- | ators serve as the mediums of pub-| licity for union leaders, But the! editor evidently knows what he is| talking about when he says that) “Capital can doff its hat” to a leader | of that type. The miners must take | advantage of every opporgity that presents itself now ard in the fu- | ture and remove from their midst that type of leader. They must know that a leader who can win the praise of a scab operator can not serve ; them and win for them the things that they so much need. quart of milk a day and they didn’ have enough money to buy any more. It’s kind of funny, ain’t it? Here’s Dominick, the smartest one in the class and the first to memorize the health poems, but what good does it do him to memorize about drinking one pint of milk a day and eating green vegetables when his pa can’t earn sonal to give him as much bread and butter as he wants. BURNS MUST GO! Crown Prince A Salesman BERLIN, March 19—The former Crown Prince is selling farm ma- chinery and living at Potsdam now. He expects to “do very well” thru his pull with the big German landowners, most of whom are monarchists, No Scuttling of Oil Probe! Denver Socialists For June 17 Meet; Get After Officials (Special to The Daity Worker) DENVER, March 19.—The social- ist party of local Denver at its last meeting massed a resolution to co- operate with all forces in the state of Colorado who will go on record for independent political action, The socialists decided to invite all such Ku Klux Klan Hit In Resolution at Ohio Miners’ Meet Peee Five nn BROPHY SOLD OUT TO LEWIS; Your Union Meeting | Third Thursday, March 20, 1924 (Special to The Daily Worker) No.» Mame of Loca! and Place of Meeting. . | i e inting Trades Council, 59 E. BELLAIRE, Ohio, March 19.— Van Buren St., 6:30 p. m | Opposition to the Ku Klux Klan and| 271 Amal, Clothing Werkers, 409 S. Fal. demands for enforcement of safety a <a AE a Oe ea y oiler Makers, . Nor! ae pi edb lg ag Od dgiean of 93. Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Ave, | soci z I ine: ong rdslutions. passe 14 Brick and CI ermanvitle, 1 | by the annual convention of sub-| 186 Belek and i GP egreceltg § A | Former Progressive s district 5, district 6, United Mine| 13 Carpenters, Pe eens a | N kk: 4 ; : 62 Carpenters, 6416 S. Halsted St. | ow ellow Lacke’ beisterie gee sorts here. : i aa Corpentars, Hol Mage 4 a pidhusa' wit y q cig 2 Cart ers, Sor wat, - | pro! peel atal accidents in 5S} 504 Carpenters, Ogden und Kedzle. | (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) sub-district alone during the past| 2103 Carpenters, 758 W. North Ave. | ALTOONA, Pa., March 19.—When year, and that most of these acci-} 180 Drug Clerks, 431 S, Dearborn St., Room) | 14 phiet Seine Oren oes dents could have been prevented by ts Isbor countenance the infuse: f ci Pp . “| 184 Electricians, 1507 Ogden Ave, on and when shall it oppose this proper safety laws, 796 7475 Dante Ave ; I 2 Thi WM pdaotabionithats ho| 115 Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. instrument of the 7 This issue Usha ihe) - yi sorte iti 429 Firemen ‘and Enginemen, 38th and|Cccupied the I 2 convention Join: bdvahie “in the WHE FOErele Die Campbell Sts, 7:45 p. m. Jof the mine wor! when the oppon- mem! ig in the miners’ union,] 269 Nol Carriers, South Chi., 3101 E. 92d) anis of President John Brophy tried edn ig apo 60 Janitresses, City Hell, Hearing Room.,t0 put him in an unfavorable light William E. Green, Intl. secretary-] 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van| because he had resorted to the in- treasurer, Unite} Mine Workers, ad- ‘ Buren 8t. ¢ " 3 junction a number of times during dressed the convention urging it to| ere Aarment Whre., 1214 N. Ash-/hi; present term of office. ratify the three-year contract re-} 199 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 828 W. Van) ‘The miners voted for unionization cently negotiated with the mine oper- Buren St | thruout the open shop sections of ators at Jacksonville. Local officials of the union predict ratification by a large majority. Kentucky Miners’ Wages Cut, With Officials Ignoring (Special to The Daily Worker) CROMONA, Kentucky, March 19. A cut of 20 per cent in the wages of the miners in the Kentucky coal fields was permitted without protest by the officials of the United Mine Workers of America, the DAILY WORKER is advised today. District 23 of the U. M. W. of A., which has made no real effort to organize this field, shifted the responsibility of fighting the recent cut in wages to! | District 19, in Tennessee, after M. J, them that coal diggers are only re- and other miners had r Shappin peatedly urged President Jackson of work. Sell a Year’s |District 28 to effect some organiza- And Get Your Choice FREE! Get a new subscriber for YOUR DAILY PAPER and increase 12 Leather Workers, 810 W. Harrison St. Moulders, 119 8. Throop St. Painters’ District Council, "\their territory. Not only are there -|15,000 unorganized miners in Somer- " ri * i set county, but in Jefferson, Indiana, f Phang S Onenn Wie tucaee Heights. Armstrong and Cambria counties Plumbers (Railway), Monroe and Peoria| there are about 5000 nonunion men. Plumbers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. Now that peace has been made with Caanem, 75th and Drexel Ave.| the international union, District 2 9 ‘ashington. | - ‘ i ; 6138 Commercial Ave.| hopes for co-operation in organis- Sign Hasan ian Yi, Jpticloen _ jing. Brophy explained that they are Slate, Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwaukee. | attempting to maintain recruiting lo- Btage Employes, Mesonlc Temple, 10:30) 41. in the nonunion afeas to keep alive the union sentiment. To prevent mine accidents, month- ly inspection instead of quarterly, as at present, is demanded. 1446 OW. Adams St, a. m. Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington St. Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. Teamsters (Dairy), 220 8, Ashland. Upholsterers, 180 W. Washington St. (Note—Unless otherwise stated al! meetings re at 8 p. m.) Missing—Found Dead. 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