The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 4

Page Four HIGH PRICES OF U.S. FLOUR DUE TO SELLING COST 43 Million Squandered In Bunk Advertising By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) When you eat bread you are pay- ing your share of a tax of more than $40,000,000 levied each year by the giant milling interests to pay their exorbitant selling and advertis- ing expenses. This unwarranted charge has been unearthed by the United States tariff commiesion in the course of its investigation to fur nish President Coolidge with a basis for his futile efforts to please the farmers by increasing the import @uty on wheat and wheat flour. It is a charge quite in addition to the profits of the milling interests. Selling Alone Costs 39c. The commission shows that every barrel of flour purchased in the United States carries a charge of 39 eents for selling and advertising ex- pense. The extent to which this represents overdevelopment of the selling end of the business is appar- ent upon comparison with the selling and advertising expense of Canadian millers which amounts to only 16 1-2 eents a barrel. On the 111,840,000 barrels purchased in 1923 by Ameri- ean consumers millers in the United States actually collected $43,530,000 for the uhtproductive side of busi- ness. The Canadian charge on the same quantity would have cost the consumer only $19,616,000. American mill workers, the {nves- tigation shows, produce the flour for about 2 cents less a barrel than the labor cost in Canadian mills. But this saving is swallowed up 11 times | ' | over by the excessive cost of the American selling and advertising system. Itemized Cost of Barre!. The following table shows the itemized cost of producing a barrel of wheat flour in the United States and in Canada as found by the tariff commission: U.S. Canada Cost of wheat 702 $4.349 Labor cost (mi 120 141 Factory expense ... .148 134 Containers B15 278 Advertising 064 O11 Belling expense .... 828 164 Administrative cost .136 144 Interest charges ... .029 070 OAs. ees oe cdes $5.840 The higher cost of wheat in the United States is due primarily to the greater exhaustion of the soil Which results in a smaller yield of ‘wheat “in the United States ranges from 5.3 to 18.5 bushels while in Canada the yield is from 19.5 to 40.8 bushels per acre. As a result it cost American tarmers from 85 cents to $2.19 to produce a bushel of wheat in 1923 while Canadian farmers were producing whent for from 53 cents to $1.31 a bushel. The exorbitant advertising and sellirig expense in the United’ States is justified in the brief preseated by the Millers’ National Federation on the basis of “the constant need of advertising well-known brands of flour in order to create and hold eorsumer demand.” “Fortunately or unfortunately,” they say, “advertis- ing is an Americanism and seemed to be inescapable in this country for many lines of well know: “goods.” Advertising a Waste. It is hardly necessary to epend $43,000,000 a year to persvade the people of the United States to pur- chase necessary quantities of the “staf of lite.” And as wheat flour has become pretty much a standard product preduced by a standard process, the choice of one trade mark has little bearing upon the nourishment of the nation. The vestigation of the tariff con.rmission has thus uncovered one evidence of the extent to which the United States has entered the vicious circle of commercialism in which the cost of food 1ises without bencftting producers in the slightest. District of Columbia Citizen Urges Fight For Suffrage There To The DAILY WORKER:—The Workers Party should agitate for suffrage in the District of Columbia, especially at this hour when the Teapot Dome scandal is boiling over. Washingtonians in the main are in- censed over the actions of govern- ment officials, and read the WORK- ER avidly whenever they come across a copy it, because it tells the truth about the oil robbers. Now is an opportune time for the DAILY WORKER to champion the cause of District of Columtia_suf- frage.—Fidward James Irvine, Wash- ington, D. C. UNCLE WIGGILY’, Note.—-Today ‘the DAILY WORK- ER concludes publication of letters written by Leon Trotsky, Minister of War in the Soviet government and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Commun- ist Party. Our readers will see from reading these letters on what a flimsy structure the capitalist press liars hang a revolt in the Commun- istranks. We have published Trotsky’s letter in three installments. Next will come speeches by Stalin, Rykov and other leaders of the Russian revolution. Members of the Work- ers Party in particular should read this debate very carefully. Trotsky wrote to the enlarged session of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party as follows: many of its essential aspects, in or- der not to occupy too much of your time. But I hope, that I shall soon succeed in getting rid of the ma- laria, which—in my opinion—is ob- viously in opposition to the new policy of the Party, and then I shall try to expound in free speech more precisely thut which I have not expounded in this. letter. Fraternal greetings, LEON TROTZKY. a ae Moscow, Dec. 10, 1923. P. S—tI take advantage of the fact that my letter is published in the Pravda with a delay of two days, to make some supplementary remarks. I understand that, when my letter was communicated to the ward meetings, certain comrades expression to the fear that my ob- servations on the relations between the “old guard” and the young gen- eration might be exploited for op- posing the young to the old (!), It is obvious that such apprehcri- sions would only confront those comrades, who, only two or three months ago, repudiated with horror the mere idea of bringing the ques- tion regarding the necessity of a change of policy up for discussion. In any event, the expression of simi- lar apprehensions, at the present moment and in the present situa- tion, can only be the result of a false valuation of the dangers and of their importance. Tendency of Apparatus. . The present state of mind of the Youth which, as is quite clear to every reflecting Party member, largely symptomatic, has been pre- cisely promoted by these methods employed for the sake of “absolute tranquility,’ which are condemnec by the resolution unanimously adopt: ed by the Political Bureau. In o' words, the “absolute tranquil: has itself promoted the danger c/ an increasing alienation between thr leading Party stratum and the younger members of the Party, i e., of its overwhelming majority. The tendency of the apparatus t think and to decide for the’ whol Party. gave is s apt to lead to the author Swivel Chair Hero Runs From Debate With Roger Baldwin (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 20.—The oper forum at the University of Penn- sylvania doesn’t mind taking the bull by the horns, if that expression may be employed with reference to Joseph Kurnor, the for- 2 resident, has been searching for seme champion patrioteer, who eonfront Roger Baldwin, Civil i on director, on the and take the affirmative Ived, That Reds Should be Suppressed.” R. M. Whitney, Washington direc- tor of the American Defense So- ciety and author of “Reds in Amer- ica” (more popularly known as Un- read in America), was given a chance to argue his theories before Baldwin. Whitney’s reply to the university group’s invitation sug- gests the peculiar delu¢fons of gran- deur of our indigenous fascists. It also sheds light upon their, so to speak, manners. “fT am amazed,” writes the ag- grieved Whitney, “that you have the temerity to insult me by asking. me to appear on the same platform Avith Baldwin.” “I would no more appear on the same platform with Roger Bald- win,” continues the garulous, if in- sulted, Whitney, “than I would have stood beside him during the war.” war, you ask? Oh, valiantly trying to remove the creak from his swivel turned black. he has changed his color, dog it is rather strange. If he is a S TRIC Where was Whitney during the’ ity of the leading circles becoming yased solely upon tradition. The respect towards the tradition of the Party is undoubtedly a very neces- sary element of the Party educa- tion and cohesion; but it can be a vital and resistant factor only, if it is constantly nourished and strengthened by means of an inde pendent and active control of the Party tradition, i. e., by the collec- tive elaboration of the policy of the party at the given moment. Without this activity and initia- tive, the respect towards the tradi- tion might degenerate into a stage- managed of an independent and active control of the Party tradi- tion, i. e., into a form without con- tents. It is quite obvious that such a kind of contact between the gen- ee ae : e ly °AM far from Having exhausted | erations would be entirely insuffi- I the question. I have, intention-| cient and unreliable. It could re- ally, ‘efrained from examining] ‘in & solid exterior, right up to the very moment at which the threaten- ing rifts are revealed. Precisely in this lies the danger of a policy of the amaratus based on “absolute tranquility” within the Party. And, as far as those representatives of the older generation who have re- mained revolutionary and have not become bureaucratized (and this, as we are convinced, applies to the im7| mense majority) will see quite clearly the perspectives character- ized above, and, on the basis of the resolution of the Political Bureau, will do their utmost in order to aid the Party to carry out the resolu- tion, just so far will the main possi- bility of opposing the various gen- erations against one anothbr, dis- appear. “Absolute Tranquility.” It will then be relatively easy to overcome these or those “excesses” or exaggerations on the part of the Youth. But before all, it is necessary to create the safeguard against the concentration of the Party traditions in the apparatus, and thereby. en- sure its remaining vital and rerew- ing itself in the daily practice of the Party. it is only by this, that | also another danger can be avoided: That of splitting of the old-gencra-! tions into apparatus men” charged to maintain the “absolute tranquil- ity,” and into those, who have nothing in common with that. It need not be said that the apparatus i. @., its organizatory not be weakened, but strengthene by abandoning its aloofness, But there will be nao ioubt within our Party that we need 2 powerful centralized apparatus. Perhaps it could still be objected, that the example of degeneration of vocial democracy thru its apnaratus in the reformist epoch, which I| sited in my letter, is nox <ppropriate | ~ view af the profaund difference between the epochs; the former stag- atuung reformist one, and the pr nt revolutionary one. It ‘ourse, understood that on exampl s but an example and in no way dentification. However, the revolutionary char- acter of our, epoch is no guarantee of the Party, skeleton, an| | the past period, > the result in the form of an increas- level of the Party culture-~-LEON in itself. It is not for nothing that we point out the dangers of the New Economic Policy, which are closely connected with the present |such a big one that it should be taken moderate tempo of the international | revolution. Opportunist, Degeneration. Our daily practical work in the administration of the state, which becomes continually more detailed and specialized, involves, as em- phasized in the resolution of the Political Bureau, the dunger of a narrowing of the horizon, i. ¢., of opportunist degeneration. It is evi- dent that these dangers become the more serious, the more of a monop- oly of authority in the hands of secretaries tends to substitute the i“Committee of 15” Trotzky’s Letter to Russian Communists the law to them if he Yound any- THE DAILY WORKER Friday, March 21, 1924 Send in Your News The Daily Worker ‘urges all Gives Girl Strikers Promise of Support (Continued from page 1) mombers of the party te sead in the news of their various sec. tions, Every Party Branch should appoint ite own correspondent and make him responsible for the news that ought to be sent in to The- Daily Worker. The Party Page should be the livest page in The Daily Worker. Help make it so, Address all mail to the Editor, The | Daily Worker, 1640 N. Haleted St., Chicago, Il. up with the regular injunction com- mittee of the Federation, also ‘a committee of 16, on Monday, when the combined committee of 30 Federation as a whole to follow. In the meantime the committee will put the ugly facts of police brutality up to Mayor Dever this morning. That politician assured the union visitors two weeks ago that he would call his underlings into his office at once and lay down Modern Music Wins Over Old Time Stuff thing wrong. Since then the spe: cial citizens’ committee has given a deadly list of police crimes Party leadership, We should be bad revolutionaries, if we were to rely upon the “revo- lutionary character 0: the epoch,” to help us in overcoming all difficul- ties, in particular, all the inner diffi- culties. It is the “epoch” which must be helped in a proper manner, by a rational carrying out of the new Party policy proclaimed unani- mously by the Political Bureau of the Communist Central. A farther remark in conclusion. Two or three months ago. when the questions forming the object of the present discussion, were only begin- ning to engage the attention of the Party, some responsible comrades of the provinces were inclined to treat the matter in an off-hand manner; it was, they di |, merely a brain wave on the part of Moscow, in the provinces, however, everything was at its best. And now also we observe this at- titude of mind in one or the other reports from the provinces; infected or excited Moscow {is opposed to the “quiet and reasonable province.” This means nothing else than a vio- lent expression of the sare bureau- cratism, tho in a re edition As a matter of fact, the Moscow organization of our Party is the largest, most vital and the best equipped with forces . Moscow For Revision. Even in the moments of the great- est stagnation, the activity and the initiative of the Moscow organiza- tion were, in spite of everything, | more intensive than anywhere else. | If Moscow at present differs from other localities over something, it is only due to the fact that it has taken the initiative for the revision of the policy of our Party. This is| not a defect, but a merit. The whole Party will follow Moscow in passing thru the necessary period of tne transvaluation of certain values of The less the provincial Party ap- paratus opposes itself to this, the more systematically the provincial organizations will win, thru the un- avoidable period of ¢riticism and self-criticism, The Party will garner ed firmness and a raising of the TROTZKY. (Tomorow: Stalin's Reply.) 5 —— s | | { { i} The Poor Fish Says:—This oil probe should be stopped. Not that I have anything to fear personally, but it destroys confidence Mm our govern- ment. How can we charge the Soviets of having stolen Russia from the Czar when our own government has stolen its oil from the navy. It's jeven worse than stealing the shroud from a corpse. oh Chicago Machinists | Begin Organization Drive: Fees Lowered A special dispensation is being granted for a limited time by the International Association of Ma- chinists, District No. 8, in an organ- ization drive. This drive, according to Business Agent J. J. Uhlman, when the special dispensation is con sidered, should make the organiza- tion in Chicago one of the strong- est unions in the metal trades, The initiation fee and the re-in- statement fee during this limited |Legion Refuses jthe American Legion offices at 21 | N. La Salle street have not only de- Hs } Help to Negro Ex-Service Men Charges that the american Legion has been discriminating against Negro ex-soldiers, refusing to help service men who have served in France in adjusting bonus claims be- cause of their color, have reached the ears of the DAILY WORKER. An ex-soldier who served in France | under the Sth Illinois regiment, who | lives on, 48rd_ street, charges that | clined to help him, but have been impolite and abusive when. he called. “Twice I asked the American against strikers to Deyer—yet the beta Lage aco ve inged Per continues to flourish his club in front ere geese 3) of frail girls, (Officer $181 is the|By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. brute who beat up Sophie Alt-| Musical antiquity and modernism schuler.) were forcefully contrasted at the The comm‘ttee knows now from/| concert of the Chicago Symphony the girls themselves that Dever’s| orchestra at Orchestra Hall men are guilty with Crowe and it| Friday and Saturday. The palm for the mayor passes the buck to Crowe| artistic value must be awarded the in the morning they will know it is] moderns again, if this contrast is nk, any criterion. The antiques mere- Question of “Guts.” ly tickle the ear, while the modern The question now is what the spe- bitin go deep, each is a new emo- cial injunction committee of 15 ap- {| “onal experience. pointed by Gompers here will do| Wanda Landowska performed against the Suilivan injunction, The | Concerto for harpsichord by Handel. A. F. of L, declaration on injunctions | The \harpsichord is the instrument are plain. As Anton Johannsen told | that preceded the modern: piano, and the Chicago Federation of Labor|it has not been in general use for last Sunday the question is how] arly two centuries. It is doubtful At Orchestra Hall\ New. Haven intends holding a mass meeting to double its membership. The Young Workers League of Stamford will hold a meeting to be last |] New York. Ai | admited. | berstein, many men there are “with guts.” Meanwhile committee is having a most import- if one has been heard in Chicago the special citizens’ |@t a big public concert. before, Mme. Landowska’s instrument looked like ant session tomorrow at which the|# gtand piano with over a third of issue of a atand against the injunc-| its width chopped off, and whittled tion will be taken up. Did Not Call Reporter. Victor Zokaitis, the representative of the DAILY WORKER, who vol- unteered to testify before the com- mittee as to the beating on the picket line which he had wit- nessed and the arrest of himself as |r, @ newspaper man when he asked a Policeman for his number, Anton Johannsen, chairman of the committee, told the reporter the committee would call him if thi needed him. They did not call hi More Pickets Arrested. More pickets were terday while the “Committee of 15” was discussing whether they should or should not go on the picket line. Among these courageous pickets were: Eva Boenseld, Andrew Trimm, Morris Tigerman and William Elaska. New York Teachers Urging Legislature For Higher Wages NEW YORK, March 20.—Repre- sentatives of 70 organizations répre- senting 30,000 teachers of the City ot New York met at the West Side Continuation School, 208 West 13th street, and succeeded in forming a joint committee to draw up a com- plete salary schedule for presenta- tion at the present session of the legislature. In a preliminary report, Mr. Sil- chairman of the salary committee of the H. 8. T. A., showed that the per capita expenditure per. child was 23 cents a week or less than 5 cents a day. Mr. Whiffen showed that teachers salaries would have to be increased 1,72 times to secure the purchasing power of 1914. The Teachers’ Union led the fight for action. Two Words Come High. NEW YORK, March 20.—It cost Harris Beckelman, landlord, $1,000 a letter for saying “hello, sweetheart” to Mrs, Bertha Goodman, a_ tenant. Mrs. Goodman was so surprised, she said before a supreme court jury, that she tripped over a broken stair rod im. Legion to write me a letter asking for an adjustment of $300 bonus money whi ‘ the ex-soldier told the WORKER. “They have not written ey: are always willing to do such services for ex-service men. When *|I complained over the phone that they were discriminating against me, they said if I showed up at the office again they. would smash my face and run me back to 35th St,” Thts colored soldier was highly in- tion Employes, addressed a meeting |cal Negroes. Under the tute! dignant and said that several colored ex-service men had made similar| 4400 for president, The attendance | Miller, complaints to him of unfair treat-| 8S small and enthusiasm the same. | sciousness ment at the hands of the American Legion. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Frightened To Death, A coroner’s investigation was started today to determine the cause of the death of Miss Anna Rubner, 19, high school student, who died just time is only $6.50, covering also $500 life insurance, which is a big reduction from the regular fees, BURNS MUST GO! as she was about to be anesthetic for a min Dr. Williem K. Gray, operate, said he believed from fright. or operation. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ch is long past due me,”| hospital for six months. put under an| 7 who was to|ed the girl died | g2 and fell downstairs. She was in the The jury husband $1,000 damages against is letter, altho they advertise that | Beckelman, hianpeainea dine, Y: Labor Faker Still for McAdoo. NEW ORLEANS, March 20.—E H. Fitzgerald, president of the Rail- way Clerks’ National Bank of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Express and Sta- here in the interest of William Mc- Question Zoe's Friends, KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20.— Friends of Zoe ‘Wilkins, romantic adventuress who was found murdered in her home Tuesday night, were questioned closely by police today in an effort to obtain trace of her slayer,” World’s Fair Relic Burns, he old World’s Fair flat building, telic of the famous fair, was destroy- by fire early today with a loss of 50,000. Sixteen families were driven to the street in scanty attire. Two persons were overcome by smoke, Siberian Farm Machinery, CHITA, Siberia, March 20.—-The Siberian state agricultural stores here muh selling seeders) ma- chinery at pre-war prices, on long- term credit. The demand on the part of the peasants is enormous. up of girls m: rrested yes-| and “Festivals.” to a point at the end. It had two keyboards, The harpsichord sound- ed like a piano made completely of es or like a sort of glorified music IX. The concert brought to perfor- ance, for the first time in Ameri- ca, a symphony by Arnold Bax ot ondon which is barely a year old. Rax generally writes in a distinctly was not | Trish idiom, but this symphony con- tained little of that. There is noth- ing gentle and soothing about it, but passion there is and trouble and ’Y | deep gloom. Other comparatively modern, works were Debussy’s nocturnes, “Clouds” ) All the peace and calm that Bax lacked Debussy had, and he put it into these tone pic- tures, one of the peacetul, areamy passage of clouds, and the other of the ecstatic, inspirational effect of | darkness. Mme. Landowska played three un- accompanied harpsichord solos, They were quaint and novel, but coming right after the symphony as they ‘did, they illustrated how far instru- tinkling tunes of Scarlatti and ‘the other old timers. > sh To contrast the harpsichord and the piano, Landowska played a con- certo for the modern instrument by Mozart. Even dear old Mozart sounded modern by comparison. But the concerto came at the end of'a long and heavy concert, and, being long itself, it soon proved tiresome. For next. week we have been promised one of the most tremen- dous symphonic works of modern times, the symphony “Ilya Mouro- metz,” by the contemporary Russian Richard Gliere. Ilya Mourometz was a Russian legendary hero, and the symphony depicts his life in four great tone, poems. Two contempo-, rary Chicago composers are on the program, too, John Alden Carpenter with his “Pilgrim Vision,” and Adolf Brune, with two movements of a symphony. Government Will Continue Support Of Negro University ‘By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 20-—With |. 116 southern Democrats voting DAILY | g2ve Mrs. Goodman $15,000 and her|‘‘nay,” the house has agreed to the appropriations for Howard universi- ty, insisted upon by the senate after a series of temperamental outbursts by the Bourbon politicians against the race conscious tendencies in the seat of learning of the colored peo- ple in the District of Columbia. The Southern Bourbons are really shying at a shadow, sa! aga such weak liberals as Dean Kelly little ssive race con- will taught at the school, and the labor issue will be particularly ignored. This was shown by Miller's handling of the Sanhed- rin. The Republican administration, knowing Miller’s policy, has given its support to Howard university. OUT WITH DAUGHERTY! “CHICAGO EL 748 South Halsted CTINICAL RATES. 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