The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 3

4 i \ them daily to the mayor, Wednesday, March 26, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER OTHER POLICE THUGS: BAD AS OFFICER 3401 All Girls’ Assailants Should Be Fired Mayor William E, Dever’s promise to the “Committee of 15,” to see that Offcer 3401 was put off the force, does not satisfy members of the strike committee. They point out that if Officer 3401’s assault on Olga Levin is an offense worthy of dismissal that the still more violent assault on Sophie Altschuler in front of 237 S, Market street by Officer O’Rorke (3181), pea 14, should lead to similar ac- tion. Dever's Excuse Doesn't Go, Mayor Dever’s ‘excuse to the sub- committee, consisting of Anton Jo- hannsen, John Fitzpatrick and Victor Olander, which presented the gar- ment workers’ union written report, was that the other assaults listed there occurred before their first visit to him and before he had promised to take up the matter of police brutal- ity—whereas, the assault on Miss Levin took place later. Strikers. are indignant at this crude attempt to side-step the issue. Regardless of when the assaults by uniformed police occurred the mayor must do what he can to rectify them now. But the facts are that the mayor is grossly incorrect as to time. Beaten Seven Days After Promise. Johannsen, Olander and Fitzpat- viek made their first visit pf com- plaint to the mayor March 7, on a Friday morning. Sophie Altschuler was not beaten up until the follow- ing Friday, March 14, seven days after the mayor promised to make his police behave, The ‘cruelty of the crime was in- tensified at the S. Clark St. station, according to the text of the docu- ment which the committee present the mayor and a copy of which is in possession of the DAILY WORKER, In the police station the matron re- fused to get a doctor for the injured gitl tho she had been unconscious for a time after the attack. This, in spite of the fact that there is a doc- or on the fourth floor of this building. She was kept in the police station for several hours, without medical attendance, before she was finally booked at six o’clock. Five hours after she was assaulted Dr. Maltman, a private physician, examined her at the hotel and found her wrists still “badly swollen.” Made Mouth Bleed. On the same day Fannie Yannes, 2229 Iowa street, was struck so vio- lently in the HO by Officer Wil- liam “Hankin ‘in’ front of 228 Market “street that her teeth were loosened and her mouth bled. The beating of Ethel Spink by offi- cers 5159 and 3609 on March 18 and the arrest of a DAILY WORKER re- porter who got the policemén’s num- ber is further cited by the report which the committee handed fhe mayor and which was prepared by the garment workers’ union. The date again. refutes the mayor’s statement that these other assaults ‘occurred ee the first visit of the commit- ee. The same day officers Collins and Schroeder, who assisted in the arrest of Sophie Altschuler, several da earlier, arrested Gussie Cohen, 1413 N, Larkin street and amused them- selves by taking her hands and hit- ting her in the face with them. Union Has the Proof., All these cases are authenticated by numerous witnesses. Of the lat- ter the garment. workers’ union makes the statement, which is ap- proved by vice-president Meyer Perl- stein, that: “Freda Reicher, a striker in. whose intelligence and honesty we have the utmost faith, saw this at- tack and is willing to ap, before your committee and tell it.” Other instances are given and the union is ready to furnish the com- mittee of 15 that they might present PBastires Boze o Birth Control Clinics U: BERKELEY, Cal., March 25,— “Free birth control clinics and muni- cipally sup health clinics only: solution of the protinne tee sented by a too large birth rate in families “ile Be proper crest ewman, a Long Beach PI lian, "addressing “the Berkeley It is from the selfish mani, ways exists between the Negro and white laborers. “There is a mistaken notion current among those who have had few dealings with working people that race prejudice plays an important part in the relations between white and colored workers,” Mary Mc- roper care,” said Dr.| j _learned this lesson. Real Estate and the Colored Tenant SETHE negrd real estate dealer frequently offers to the owner of an apartment house which is no longer renting advantageously to white tenants cash payment for a year’s lease on the pfoperty, thus guaranteeing the owner against loss, and then he fills the building with colored tenants. It is said, however, that the agent does not put out the white tenants unless he can get 10 per cent more from the colored people. By this method the Negroes now occupy many large apartment buildings, but the negro real estate agents obtain the reputation of ex- ploiting their own race.”-—From Investigation of Juvenile Dowell puts it. ‘ + The antagonism that has some- times arisen is due to the fact that Negroes have so often been im- ported as strike-breakers, usually with little knowledge of the condi- tions to which they came or ‘the sig- nificance of the strike. This feel- ing has nothing in common with race prejudice. The trade unions. are increasing in hospitality toward colored workers and the Negroes themselves are now awakening to the need of putting an end to their use as strike-breakers. The labor union leaders of the stockyards have taken a determined stand against race prejudice.” Negroes and Whites Combine. We are further told by the De- partment of Labor, that “Union workers in the stockyards charge that the packers have used Negro leaders to prevent unionizing of the Negroes. The Negroes of Chicago have become almost as putty in the hands of the employers and politi- cians.” This statement means that the recent competition, between the Southern and White employers—the one trying to induce tne Negro mi- grant back to the South by offering him fair treatment, the other trying to keep him here py playing .up Southern lynchings—is not a change of heart on the part of the em- ployers toward the black race. The employers controlling the Negro’s job, and hence his way of living, regards the Negro, not as a prob- lem, but as a supply of cheap labor with which to keep wages down. Between Two Fires. James Weldon Johnson, of the As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, tells us that the Negro is badly off, whether in the North or the South, “Heretofore the Negro has had two choices,” Mr, Johnson says. “That of living in the South where most of his manhood and a rights aeed ae nied him, but re econom is ‘condition was secure; or that of liv. ing in the North where his rights were guaranteed him, but where his economic condition was always pre- carious. In this attitude towards the Negro the North has been al- most. as cruel as the South; for al- tho the South denied him life it offered him bread; while the North offered him life, but refused that whereby he might live.” It is always to the interests of the powerful employers to divide the workers up into opposing factions. If groups of workers .can be pre- vailed on to fight each other, they will not have the energy to fight the employers for better working '¥8 | conditions and higher wages. Hence instead of telling the truth in the daily papers which they control, the bosses make it appear that the white workers object to admitting Negroes to their unions. They try to play upon race prejudice to divide the workers so that they will not com- bine to better their economic con- ditions. Job Competition Harmful. times, altho rarely, it hap- an that a white unionist is taken in by this attempt of the bosses to split the workers up, and it is this exceptional person who advocates barring the Negroes from his union, thereby unwittingly helping his em- ployer to keep wages down. It is then to the Negro to show his white ther that competition be- tween classes or groups of workers for the same eeps down the standard of the workers’ Organizati all ol sae nization of Ips: work- ers in the same unions gives them the power to raise the workers’ et mh he g ie , aed tl oc is power. is why they combine into trusts wn wages increase hapa ost) of the goods which they and which the work- ers largely x They Stood Together. On the whole, the workers have “The relation South Denies‘Negro Rights But Gives Him Bread; North Gives Him Rights But Little to Eat pulation of the large employers of labor, and not from organized labor, that the Negro in indus- try finds his chief embarrassment. between the 98 per cent of the Negro adults who work and the 92 per cent of the whites who work. All wage earners are oppressed. In that sense every race is an oppressed race, and good feeling, therefore, almost al- There is a common bond between the White and Negro work- ers in Chicago is good,” we are told by the Interchurch World Move- ment. “During the riots of July, 1919, separate white and Negro workers in the same unions stood manfully together in condemning the outrage. Negroes are organ- ized for the most part in the pack- ing industry. In 1919 Negroes were found in 37 of the 39 various local of the stockyards labor council.” Another example of the solidar- ity of the workers of all races is observed in the present garment workers strike in this city. Every morning, Negro as well’ as white girls can be seen on the picket lines along Market street. The workers have learned the lesson that it ia not only disloyal and unprincipled, but is against their own interests to att as strikebreakers, no matter what their race. In a union of the workers there is strength for the workers. _ Whole Family Works. ‘ It is especially necessary for the Negroes to organize in their unions. The Department of Labor recently wrote: “The total average income of. the white family is $300- larger than that of the Negro family. The Negro husband’s income is not ade- quate for the family and the wife and children are called upon to as- sist, In addition, lodgers are taken in. The results are often . serious. The wife’s strength and attention are the family circle is invaded. In the United States 43.7 per cent of the Negro’ mothers are at work, while only 8.9 per cent of the white mothers are at work. Twenty-five per cent—one in every four—of the Negro children are at work while 18.6 per cent of the white children are working.” In spite of this added labor of the entire Negro family, the income of the Negro family is $300 less than the white family income. In the light of these facts, is it any won- der that the living standards of the Negro families are often lower than that of white families? New Leaders Needed. The old type of leaders of the Negro Race instead of facing these figures, talked of “good feeling” be- tween the races. They ‘tried to teach the Negroes that by learning a trade, even tho a humble one, Bey would demonstrate their value and the white employers would have to raise theig’ standard. his type of leader was generally not a work- er at all, but a professional man or wealthy banker who was out of touch with the workers’ problems. It is time recogniton was given the new t; of Race leader: the scientific thinker who shows the workers that their standards will not be raised by the bosses until the workers organize themselves and force higher standards. The workers and their employers have nothing in common, Socialist President Guzzles Food While Cooks Picket Hotel (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, March 25,—Ebert, the Social-Democratic president of Ger- ‘many calmly dined on food cooked by strikebreakers at Hotel Adlon, one of the most sumptuous Berlin hotels, while pickets representing twenty- fivé cooks paraded in front of the Ad- lon Hotei with placards tel! about the strike. When the regular kitchen force had gone out on strike the management of the hotel engaged strikebreakers. The pickets were on duty to deter the scabs from working and they displayed their posters in an effort to deter people from going in to dine. But the Social-Democratic president! of Germany di ‘ded the striking workers and their pla- ecards and went in for his sumptuous meal cooked by scabs. As So- cial-Democratic Party of German: has lost most of the workers +h were members of it, it would seem that, in desperation, this Social-Dem- ocratic Party is turning to scabs for sympathy and support, One Good Reason Why The Chicago Tribune Dislikes Mexico BOSTON, March 25.—The copper trust can't a with the depor- tations pt oan in Mexico that it used at Bisbee, Ariz. The Phelps-Dodge — corporation, which e: the of terror in Bisbee in 1917, eee mines in Mexico. The com; clared a lackout at its Seciown plant but the mine did not shut elegy tak a 8, on old bi ar 4 but under the direc- tion state. Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, then a state seer, took over the operations. com~ pany sued for damages but calmed down when produced the wiics focbide « tetanes whit ies whi for! a unt! ar- bitration and conciliation boards employe is entitied. to three montin’ violates this wages ie the employer divided, children are exploited, | di: ~TAGQUIT KEENEY OF MURDER FOR ARMED MARCH W. Va. Jury Acts Quick- ly in Miners’ Behalf FAYETTEVILLE, W. Va., March 25.—It took the jury only a few minutes to determine that Frank Keeney ,president District No. 17, United Mine Workers of America, was “not guilty” of participating in the armed march of miners in West Virginia in the summer of 1921. The uprising was provoked after many union coal miners had been mur- dered by the private ¢#fmy of thugs that is maintained in this state by the coal operators to prevent union- ization of their mines, Indicted For Armed March. Keeney, as well as other district officials and many other union min- ers and their sympathizers, were in- dicted in connection with the trouble and have been defending themselves in the courts ever since. The armed march trials began at Charlestown in April, 1922, a few days after the national coal strike was called. Wm. Blizzard, a sub- district president, was freed from a murder charge at that time but other miners were convicted. J. E. Wilburn, a union coal digger preach- er, and his son, who were con- victed and sentenced to jail at Charlestown, have since turned state’s evidence—on the promise of freedom—and testified . against Keeney at this trial. The defense exposed thir perjuries. Operators Financed Prosecution. When the jury’s cleat verdict was read in court a storm of applause broke forth. The prosecution was irected and financed by the coal operators altho the crime was sup- posed to have een committed against the state. The state’s at- torney did not take part in the trial, his place being aken by law- yers for the operators. The Keeney verdict is a big victory for the miners, especially since the opera- tors had engineered the courts suc- cessfully to hold the trial in Logan county, the hotbed of gunmen and non-union control. Plenty of Fun and Darned Good Donkey In Sancho Panza Play The well-known tired American business man need have no fear of straining his puny bump of philoso- phy when he goes to see the new fantastic comedy, “Sanch Pancho,” presented at»the Powers. Theater. The play furnishes good entertain- ment with a dash of home-made wisdom here and there that takes very well with the audience. Into the court room of a king whose throne is toppling under the threats of a tax-burdened -prople, walks the simple-hearted peasant, Sancho Panza, with his faithful little donkey Dapple. He asks for food, and the good old king gives him not only food but an island to govern, thus fulfilling the promise of his master, Don Quixote. Slept With One Eye Open. Sancho finds himself surrounded by traitors, with only one loyal man supporting him. His peasant common sense warns him not to trust his flatterers—so much so that when he wants to go to sleep he says to his faithful friend, “Watch my throne—I’m going for a pillow,” Sancho believes that the only way to govern peasants wisely is by go- ing to them and talking things over. ‘The new governor goes down to the.market place among the people who are seething with discontent and administers justice after the fashion of King Solomon, winning the distrustful people over com- pletely. The king who gave him island is in the crowd disguised as a poor stranger, observes Sanchg, and approves of him. The incidental romance between the king’s daugh- ter and the handsome Gregory is consummated by the simple wisdom of the new governor who fleems it better for the young lady ‘to be at home with her husband than abroad with her lover. Has Masses With Him. There is an uprising of the. trai- tors in which Sancho is temporarily put down, the king and the loyal Gregory are put in chains; but Sancho calls upon his adoring people and the plot is foiled. ‘Sancho gives up his position, de- spite the protests of the king and the people, realizing that it takes a hard, cruel man to govern—and Sancho, being a peasant himself be- longs with the peasants, and not over them. “I came with empty school land, lease is just’ as telephone. in the DAILY WORKER. 2 and the underpaid printers succeeded Just now the Tribune is Have the Tribune Thinking It Over OSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON, editor of the Chicago Tribune, says he is considering whether he will reply to the charges growing out of the recent transfer of the Tribune’s school land lease to the Union Trust Company. Margaret Haley, speaking for the Chicago school teachers, says that the smell’ arising from the Tribune paign against what it calls “Pacifism.” | on under the cloak of “pay-triotism,” wrapping itself in Page Three bad as the stench that comes from the dealings of Sinclair and Doheny in naval oil leases. We had a reporter for the DAILY WORKER camping for two days on the trail of the editor of the Tribune. secretary declared “he was one of the busiest men in town” and hard to get. Our reporter finally landed him over the His “I don’t think it is necessary to reply to these charges,” said Patterson, known around the Tribune Building, in Tribune Square, as “Captain.” take any notice of these charges.” It was pointed out to Mr. Patterson that the DAILY WORKER would continue its fight, that it would bring the facts about the Tribune’s steal into the daylight. suave indifference of the Tribune editor began to melt. Patterson would not admit that he had read the charges He said he would get a copy, however, THAT HE WOULD THINK IT OVER, but that if he had anything to say, he would not say it thru the DAILY )WORKER, but thru his own paper. ‘ “I don’t believe we will The carrying on a hysterical cam- It is carrying this the folds of the American flag. This is a good maneuver, | for the Tribune. If the Tribune can worl: up a “pay- | triotic” hysteria, it can draw the attention of some more Dubbs away from its own crimes, and perhaps get a few more votes for one of its owners, United States Senator Medill McCormick, who is now up for re-election. It was easy work for the Tribune to cover up its crimes public protest is over. at the expense of Chicago’s the naval oil leases. WE DO NOT BELIEVE | N. Y. Printers (Continued from page 1.) International Union on the original demands, \ The first two propositions were voted down overwhelmingly and the proposition to ask strike sanction was carried by a majority of 10 to 1. A strike vote will probably be taken Sunday! This will mean im- mediate stoppage, and no papers will appear Monday morning. Under Militant Leadership. Ever since the beginning of the ne- gotation with the publishers it has been increasingly apparent that “Big Six” is swinging to the left under militant leadership, In, dealing with the newspaper publishe 's the old ad- ministration of the International Typographical Union, under the lead- ership of the infamous “Wahneta” ag- gregation of reactionaries, headed by .the odious James M. Lynch, labor fakir and Tammany Hall political outcast, kept the members of the union in a state of complete subjec- tion to the whims of the publishers. The chief boast of this administration was that it was always on good terms with the publishers. This machine was shattered in the elections of 1922 when the progressive administration under ‘the late John McParland came to power. A militant attitude was adopted toward the newspaper owners in winning raises in wages and reduc- ions in hours in many of the prin- cipal jurisdictions*of the union, But in every controversy the spokesmen of the reactionary machine are al- ways found fighting on the side of the publishers and bewailing the good old days when the union had no dis- pute with them, At a number of meetings in” the early period of the controversy these advocates of peace and harmony in the industry tried to throw a scare into the members, but in December H. M, R chaggg hes as ms Cinna Ba esenting icago ic nion No. 16 led a fight that silenced the “white hope” of the reactionaries, Jim Lynch, at the Atlantic Cite Con- vention in 1922, opened up a broad- side on the apostles of submissiveness and defeated them decisively, arousing a wave of enthusiasm such as has not been witnessed since the famous hands, and I go away with empty hands—so you see I’m not a real governor.” Nor a real cabinet: mem- ber, said we, thinking of a certain Teapot. Sancho Makes a lit. The line in the play that struck an answering chord poate Riis: some an aoe - ncho al governing ‘ople with laws, and he replied, What has justice got to do with law?” Bravo, Sancho Panza, ths sullence daptpased the thargtt audience e it that the sey is. the best titoe in the cast. is Skinner makes a delightful Sancho Panza, and his wire dade tired, want a f few Mauehe, and don’t want to tax mental cay to play.—IDA DAILES. ni 4 in. the weiter | "2! inion, but the election Four pine gt ln rf ‘y "our WITH DAUGHERTY!) forty-four hour strike in the job print- ing industry here, The floor leader- ship has definitely passed to the hands of “Big Six” are elated at the en- thusiasm displayed by the member- ship under the stimulus of such lead- ips Publishers Panic Stricken, The Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion are panic stricken at the threat of a strike as they know they can never operate their plants without the assistance of the membership of “Big Six.” They have frantically tried to aid and abet Jim Lynch and_his treacherous crew labor-fakirs, anti-red “Militia of Christers,” ete., in of the Internationa! phical iterna- is not until next May and should they win (which they can- not do) they could not take office and sell out the membership until next November. In the meantime the before the DAILY WORKER arrived on the scene. as we stated yesterday, the day of Tribune indifference to The cheap jingoism of this kept sheet of the big interests will not be able to profit longer But, school children, without the workers of the city learning about it. The facts are coming to light in Washington about The Tribune and U. S. Senator Mc- Cormick will be compelled to tell how much they profited by the recent transfer of the school land lease at one of the busiest corners in the city’s business district, Dearborn and Madison Streets, to the Union Trust Company. THAT THE TRIBUNE CAN STEAL FROM THE SCHOOL CHILDREN OF CHICAGO AND.GET AWAY WITH IT. Vote to Strike | New York strike will have become a brilliant page of labor history. Workers Daily Paper. Realizing the importance of a work- ers press arrangements have been made to launch a daily labor paper that will present the strikers side of the story and also furnish important news of the day so that the public will not be deprived of newspapers all together. Thus the New York printers. will show that they can not only print papers, but edit them even better than the hirelings of capitalism that fur- nish: the daily soporific for the read- ers of this city. With this weapon of struggle and a militant and-determined union lead- ership the titanic struggle betweén these colossal forces of capital and labor will culminate in a brilliant vic- tory for the workers in the newspaper composing rooms. of this city. “May First” E “Teapot Special” edition of It is great. of the progressives and the officials|% their campaign to again gain control | J The enthusiasm of our readers orders for the “Teapot Special”. better. IN. Y. FARM-LABOR- ‘DELEGATES FOR JUNE 17 MEET } |Big State Convention Is Coming in May (Special to The Daily Worker) | NEW YORK, March 26.—With jtinging applause the delegates to the Federated Farmer-Labor Party convention—200 stron g—endorsed the convention.of workers and farm- ers to be held in St. Paul, June 17 and pledged themselves to obtain a large delegation from the New York movement, Another resolution instructed the incoming executive committee to is- sue a call and organize a state con- vention to be held in May. This May convention will come at the climax of an organization campaign among the workers and farmers of New York state. Want Unity Conference. The American Labor Party was urged to join in a unity conference with the Federated Farmer-Labor Party and all possible steps will be taken to that end. Other resolutions endorsing the DAILY WORKER, the recognition of Soviet Russia and scoring the monumental stealing of the nation’s resources exposed in the Teapot Dome scandal were passed with en- thusiasm by the assembled repre- sentatives of Tabor unions and fra- ternal organizations. Sebres Yellow Disrupters. Joseph Manley, National Secre- tary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, made a full report of the St. Paul convention recently closed at whieh the foundation for a mass political movement of America’s producers was laid. Manley merci- lessly assailed Lefkowitz and Na- than Fine, who have proved such disruptive forces in the independent political movement of New York, and who protested to St. Paul in the name of the Farmer-Labor move- ment. He arbdused a laugh when he referred to: “Lefkowitz, the modern Don Quix- ote,” exclaimed Manley, “and Fine, lately of Hoxie at University of Chicago, now trying to qualify as horny handed sons of toil and heretic hunters.” O'Neil and the Reds. As. for James O’Neil, the arch foe of Farmer-Labor unity, Manley de- clared in making his report: “I don’t know who this person O’Neil is, I am not sure if he is a member of the Department of Jus- tice or the socialist party. Judging by_his letters of protest against the reds written to St. Paul he is quali- fying for a job soon to be vacated by Burns.” ® More Danes Can Come. WASHINGTON, March 25.—Den- mark is the only country still entitled to send 1000 emigrants to the United States before July 1. France’s quota is down to 888, Norway’s to 953, Esthonia’s to" 741, and Sweden’s, to 425, Russia and Armenia can send 58, Iceland 53, Jugoslavia 36, and Austria 32. : Moscow To Greenland. LENINGRAD, March 25—Negotia- tions are under way between the Russian Academy of Science and the Danish scientific institutions regard- it the orgapization of a joint scientific expedition to South Green- land. Special To Knock Dome Off Teapot THE DAILY WORKER is the talk of the country. The workers everywhere are writing in telling us what they think about it. Some call it the “Oil Pot” issue bat no matter how they put they all agree it was excellent. ‘ One reader writes us as follows: ‘ Cincinnati, Ohio, March 20, 1924, Dear Comrades: I am reading I am out of a job near three months but still I send you $1.00 for fifty extra copies of the Oil Pot. That is all I can spare—A Worker. the “Oil Pot” issue. * resulted in tens of thousands of Our May Day issue will be even May ist is the day of the International working class, the day on which they meet and celebrate the victories they have won and take lessons from their defeats. In every country in the world, where a revolutionary workingclass organization exists, that day will be celebrated, in mass meetings and demonstrations, Millions of copies of revolutionary publications will be in circula- tion. their best for that occasion. The best writers in the world workingclass movement wil write The special May First issue of THE DAILY WORKER will have articles from the foremost figures in the ranks of the world revol moyement—from, the great leaders of the Russian revolution and from those who in other countries yet under capitalist domination are leading the workers to final victory. The time to start sending in orders for the May i Dax jeans Se cae now. We expect to treble the run of the “Teapot S~ A Chicago, Illinois. farmers learn the real Labor on its International NAME: Here Comes “The May Day THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., ' Send me...............copies of “The May Day Special” Edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, April 26, 1924, at the rate of five cents per copy; $1.75 for 50; $3.50 per 100. I want to help the workers and ADIREBB occ as See cs of the world struggle of