The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, March 27, 1924 z 4 HE DAILY WORKER POLICE AND KU KLUX RAID SAN WILL YOU HELP? mh Aid Is Needed | { PEDRO RADICALS of Jacob Dolla---4 Years In Ja. For Fighting Gary The DAILY WORKER publishes the following letter from Jacob Dolla without his knowledge or consent, but with the hope that the response to the appeal contained therein will be lh Destroy and Confiscate $6,000 Worth Property (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN PEDRO, Calif., March 26— ‘Police raided the Workers. Party hallcat San Pedro where Comrade Lavine, of Los Angeles, was conduct- ing the usual weekly class in Amer- ican history. The audience was placed under arrest charged with criminal ssyndi- calism and taken tw Los Angeles where we had ovr finger prints and photographs taken and kept in the lousy, overcrowded jail two days. On returning to San Pedro we found our hall a pictere of wanton destruction, the police having even gone to the length of smashing a plaster partition in order to destroy two pictures that one of the com- rades had painted on it. I. W. W. Hall Wretked. The interior of the I. W. W. hall at Twelfth -and Center, streets was likewise wrecked last night and benches, chairs, blackboards and a piano piled into. the -street, while four alleged delegates and organ. izers of the I. W. W. were arrested by. police. While the raid was in progress a slow. drizzling rain fell outside, and approximately 100 white robed fig- ures in lighted enclosed automobiles encircled the hall three times. The officers said that a half-ton of literature, valued at $6,000 was confiscated in the raid. One of the most complete radical libraries ever taken in this district was discover- ed, they said. Charges of suspicfon of criminal syndicalism were placed against the men taken in the raid. I, W. W. Kidnapped. Fourteen men who came to break up an I, W. W. meeting addressed by Rev, C. Taft at the union’s hall in San Pedro kidnapped Randell Altnow, a youth of 18 who came out to get the numbers of their auto- mobiles. ae Blindfolding him they rushed him 15 miles into the country, then strip- ped off his clothes and let him walk away in his underwear. The kidnappers said they were after Albert Kohn, secretary of the Los Angeles branch of the General Defense Committee of the I. W. W. and seized the youth by mistake. Altnow is a seaman. 5 For Family so generous that its action will be justified. Jacob Dolla was framed up and railroaded to jail by steel trust detectives because of hig activities in the great strike of 1919. Promises to pardon or parole him.have been made time after time by the authorities of Pennsylvania after all doubt as to his innocence of the charges on which he was convicted has been removed, but Jacob Dolla still remains in prison while criminals and degenerates of the lowest character have been released. Must Care for Families. The DAILY WORKER believes that the least that can be done for working class fighters like Jacob Dolla is to see that their families do not suffer physical want while the vengeance of the employers is being satisfied anu it therefore urges its readers to respond to this appeal and to send their contribu- tions for Jacob Dollas’ family to the office of this paper, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill., or to Earl Brow- der secretary of the Trade Union Educational League, 1009 N. State St. Chicago. Here is the letter sent to Tom Tippet by Jacob Dolla. Read it carefully and then send in your contribution: Pittsburgh, Pa., March 4, 1924. Dear Brother Tippett: I just heard from my wife yes- terday, saying she was sick for a few days again. Now she is all right, but our little daughter is sick now and my wife fears she must be operated on. My wife is highly alarmed, saying she has no funds, and she fears if she appeals to put the child under a charity operation, they may take tht children from her. My persecutors hound her as well as they do and did me, because the agents of the steel corporation when I was arrested and after ,I_ was sentenced and since then asked her to divorce me, saying they will help her get the divorce and it won’t cost her a cent, but she refused to do 80. My wife knows our persecutors THE AWAKENING By JOSEPH McDONALD. On awakening one- morning, my eyes rested upon a little calendar, hung on the wall close to my bed- side. I noticed the date, March 21st. Why it was the first day of spring. I was filled witn the. desire to ‘stroll thra the country lanes and so witness its arrival, Half-an-hour later I started on my. journey and in a fow minutes had left the dingy, miserable streets of the district in which I live. On entering into the cpen country my whole being seem- ed to change. I felt radiantly happy. Why this was so—I could not tell. I breathed the sweet invigorating air of Spring as a thirsty man drinks clean, fresh water. Above, in the clear blue sky, the lark was trilling a merry little song which to me was a song of welcome to the Spying. Ferkeps this was so. Who can tell. I paused to view the green carpeted fields from over the hedge- rows and as I gazed upon that beautiful scene, I dreamed—and lo; the fields were no longer empty. Here and there were little bands of children romping merrily. Their faces were radiating with health and hap- piness as they gambolled hither and thither. My eyes rested upon one little group playing ring of roses. Their fuccs seen:ed familiar 1 There was little Tommy Jones who lived next dgor, and the two little girls who lived opposite to me. Somehow or other they seemed to be so different, Never had I seen them so*happy and contented, nor had I seen them so clean and nea‘ dressed, The desire to romp wil them sprang up witntn me, but as 1 placed one hand on my mouth to shout to little Tommy Jones, the whole scene changed. No longer were the children gambolling there. The fields were deserted save for one thing which stood out promi- |’ nently as tho it were mocking me. It was a sign post, and on it was the notice: “Keep off; this is private roperty. Pra Tread the notice my sou was filled with bitterness a: =i ee 7 No lenges did I feel happy. lo longer did I enjoy the scenes around me. I hasten on my way back to the sordid and little streets where I and all the other w: slaves dwell. On turning down street where I live, I saw the little ‘oup of children I had seen in my ream, but how different they were. Their little faces were dirty and their clothes saeees and patched. I noticed their little faces ha; NIT cu the filthy gutter, breathing the foul air, This was the awakening. This ‘was no dream but the brutal reality of life. What I saw there, I could see in England, Germany, France and Italy. The children of all lands are suffering the same living death as this, their little hearts are pining for the fields. Can you not see their faces or hear their cries. WORKING CLASS CHILDREN! THESE FIELDS ARE YOURS, YOU MUST PREPARE TO TAKE THEM FOR YOURSELVES, Childre: Organization Puts junco” On Program. “Bunco” isnot necessarily the “bunk.” Especially, when: it is run for the benefit of a growing work- ing-class_ children’s | organization. This was the general: opinion of the parents at the Central Committee of the United Workers Sunday Schools at their last session. Some of the parent-delegates pointed out that. in order to build up an effective children’s organiza- tion, to combat the nationalist and religious dope peddled under the guise of education in Chicago’s pub- lic schools, money is necessary. But, that is not the only reason for making this announcement. The children-parents’ organization caters to your egoistic as well as your altruistic nature. Do you want to say: “I've had a fine, grand, glo- rious time,” then just come to the bunco party and dance given by the United Workers Sunday Schools of Chicago on Sunday, March, 30, at ki Prudential Hall, North avenue and Halsted street, at 3 p.m. Besides bunco and dancing, refreshments will be served. Tickets are 50 cents payable at the door, JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chicago, Ill. UNCLE control the town and have every- thing their own way. I myself don’t know what to do, I am_ helpless and innocent here in prison serving for labor’s cause because I am a militant worker, For this crime I was railroaded to prison. If I could save my sickly wife and two little children with a drop of water from starvation and ruination, I am not able to do so, as much as I would love to, and willing to rush in in the eleventh hour of grave need to rescue them from complete ruina- tion, but my persecutors won’t let me, My faithful wife is struggling to make ends meet since I was jailed —Oct. 6, 1919—much over four years, and never before was she in graver need than now, Altho she was many times in danger she never asked for help and wrote me hot to ask for any help, saying they are satisfied with one warm meal a day as long as I am in prison, For myself I do not care what tomes or goes any more, as J know { am in the clutches of the blood- | thirsty steel kings and they will not break their bloody teeth until they have sucked life and blood out of me, but I do worry about my wife and children, as I don’t like to see them persecuted because I am their father and husband, When I was arrested my perse- cutors told me if God and all the angels came down from heaven it will not help me. I considered them mad because they praised . them- selves. above God’s power, but I found they were right on that point. Brother Tippett, this appeal is not for me but for my wife and children, and I hope you carry this appeal to the hearts of every bro- ther, sister, and comrade. Brother James H. Maurer and Clinton S, Golden of Pennsylvania are doing their very best; they are fighting a brave battle to secure justice and-my freedom so I can go home and support my family. Last Christmas, Brother «Golden sent $50 to my family. My wife wrote me that this $50 just came in time; she needed coal and paid the store bill and bought shoes and clothes fof our children, saying the children had to go to school in summer clothes. I hope you will bring this letter to the attention of the workers and T. U. E. L., Chicago Federation of Labor, and others, In all the world there is not anybody who is in graver need ot help than my family at the pres- ent time. I don’t make any appeal to Brothers Golden and Maurer’ as I feel they are both doing more than enough. I wish you would tell Comrade Moritz J. Loeb, that I am receiving The DAILY WORKER O. K. It is a great paper and a real fighting weapon for us work- ers. I don’t know who paid the subscription for me, but I am thankful to the comrade who did, _ With best wishes and kindest re- gards, believe me,JI am fraternally yours for the solidarity of the. farmers and workers everywhere.— JACOB DOLLA, Box A12891, North Side Station, Pittsburgh, Pa, “Perfect” Cook in _ Germany Gets Bare $7.50 Per Week (By The Federated Press) BERLIN, March 26.—If you are a perfect cook in Germany, the high- est wage you may expect is 30 marks per month—about $7.50. If you are a male married servant or butler, you may expect 40 marks. or less than $10 per month besides eep. P Girls under 16 experienced as maids must be content with $3.25 per month and keep. A _ girl who is maid and cook com can claim $5 per month; a housekeeper who cooks may get $8.50. schedule for a nurse girl from $4.75 to $6.25 a month, Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- eevee se once, { varies WIGGLY’S TRICKS “Watch it, Male Butler’ The |al RENEGADE LABOR 4: W. W. Sailor Tells What He Saw ‘LEADER HUGHES VISITS AMERICA This Australian Faker A Rotten Egg By SYDNEY WARREN. (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) VANCOUVER, B, ©., March 26.— William Morris Hughes, Australian renegade labor leader and rabid war- time conscriptionist, has arrived on this continent, for a lecture tour thru the United States in which he will speak of the necessity of con- verting the Pacific ocean into an armed sea for the protection of the allied sugar and other financial in- trests. Hughes pretends that this profiteering dodge is in the interest of the white race against the yellow. “Sound” Views On Labor, In announcing Hughes’ arrival here, the lecture folder describes this palavering decoy-duck of the bosses, as a labor leader who holds “sound” views on labor. ‘From the beginning' of his career,” the an- nouncement prattles, “he has taken a firm stand against radicalism, and in recent years he has displayed un- daunted courage in combating the ac- ceptance of bolshevism, syndicalism and other extreme ideas,” Hughes is one of the most out- standing examples of a man’s com- plete betrayal of trust. Beginning life in Australia as an itinerant tink- er and umbrella mender, he joined the labor movement and subsequently was elected to union offices. Later he became a member of the New South Wales state parliament and later still a member of the Federal Austrialian parliament. ip Betrayed Labor Interests. In 1915 he was elected prime min- ister and as head of the Labor party he betrayed its historic ideals by at- tempting to deliver Australia’s man- hood into the hands of Great Britain’s war junkers. Gathering about him a coterie of other renegades and com- bining this aggregation with the min- ority capitalistic party, he proposed a vicious measure of conscription. Lacking the courage to bring in the measure by government proclama- tion, he granted a referendum on the question, and proceeded to subsidize and intimidate those who dared offer opposition. The referendum having been defeated, he announced that he would never again bring up the ques- tion of conscription. Less than 14 months afterwards he brought for- ward the same proposals for the con- seription of Australia’s man power, despite his pledge to the contrary. Fed At Profiteer Trough. During the war, Hughes as premier of Australia virtually turned over the country to the war profiteers and for his servitude to them was presented with a cash fund of £25,000 (nearly $125,000). This sum was donated anonymously and his acceptance of it was a contributing factor to his de- feat within his own party as leader and prime minister. Hindoos on Trial For Attempting To Free Country CAWNPORE, India, March 26,— Yesterday a trial was begun against eight Hindoos who were charged with having made an attempt to establish a Communist organization in all of India. Four of the atcused were not present. Material was presented which pur- ported to prove that in 1921 the Hindoo revolutionaries met in 4 ol the Hin- cow and agreed on a program for shevist propaganda in India. The accusation was th: doo Communists on trial had utilized workers and farmers’ organizations for the purpose of attempting to bring about the separation of India from England and. for establishing the complete control of the Indian National Congress. “To Be or Not To Be” _ Is Big Question that Faces Greek Monarch (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘BUCHAREST, March 26.—King George of Greece announced today he will refuse to abdicate the Greek throne until a national plebiscite confirms the action of the assembly at Athens in dethroning the dynasty and declaring a republic. The Greek constitutionalist com- mittee issued a proclamation today inst dethronement of the dynasty, ahexite that a “republican militar- istic minority” was ifs, geet for the assembly’s action. It urges the Greek people to make any ;sacrifice to support their constitutional rights. Preparations are under way to hold a national plebiscite. — In Russia Where Seamen Enjoy the Best Conditions In Europe By M. FILL. When I saw Bill Haywood on one of my visits to Moscow, he told me, “The one thing which stands out as the most glar- ing fault'of the Industrial Workers of the World of today is that it does not seem able to understand the Workers’ Soviet Republic—it does not understand Russia.” Later, when I decided to come back to the States, think- ing that other I. W. W. sailors would be sure to respond to the call put out last year for a united front of all transport work- ers in the joint Committee of Action set up by the Transport Workers affiliated to the Red International of Labor Unions in co-operation with those af- filiated to the Amsterdam In-} ternational, I thought that I would be able also to explain Russia to the I. W. W. member- ship as an ordinary worker like myself saw it, but I was not given: the opportunity. I’m going;to get a job on a boat that will take me back to Russia. But before going I want to tell the members of the I. W. W. the simple story of what I, as an) ordinary worker, saw when I went to Rus- sia, and how things there compared with conditions I found elsewhere. The United States government had turned over to the “ARCOS” or All Russian Co-operative Socie- ties, the ship “Tobolsk,” which sailed in February 1923 with a crew of which I was a member. When we reached Blythe, England, the London representative of Arcos put the ship up for repairs while the crew was sent on to Petrograd. Treated to the Best. The Russian conductor on the train from Riga to Leningrad told us he was instructed by telegram to tell the “crew committee” to phone Zinoviev’s secretary when we ar- rived at Leningrad. We did, and a bunch of automobiles were sent for us in which we sailors, firemen, oil- ey¥s and so on were driven to what used to he the chief hang-out for rich foreigners, the Hotel Interna- tional. For us rough working stiffs of the “Tobolsk” crew, the elegant dining room and tables looked very unusual, but the workers are given the best there is in Russia, and hungry as we were we forty-five men enjoyed the supper of steaks, chops and other things to order on a menu like a fine hotel in the States, printed in English and Rus- sian. It was in the middle of March, an anniversary of the French Com- mune, and singing crowds filled the streets that night, while Russian gypsies were dancing in the hotel ball-room until 3 a. m., at an en- tertainment the crew arrived early. enough to attend. Ex-I. W. W. Secretary In Charge. A few days later I got a job on the “Trans-Baltic,” fixing her up for a trip to Odessa, but after the ice broke up I shipped on another, “The Red Profintern.” On it and other boats I made a few trips to London and several to Hamburg. Between voyages I made three trips, with free fare, to Moscow, where I met a number of old I. W. W.’s. In Petrograd, Lipshitz, once I. W. W. secretary at Detroit, is secretary of the Petrograd govern- ment stores, both wholesale and retail. > By agreement made collectively between the Russian Union and the government, sailors’ pay is made in English money as soon as their ship passes Kronstad outward bound. In German waters, where the German sailors get only 60 gold marks, or about $12, Russian sailors are paid five pound ten shillings a month, in English waters they are paid six pound ten shillings and in western waters, ten pounds a month. What time I was out of work in Petro- grad, the Union supported me from a fund raised by deductions of from two td five per cent (never over five) from the wages of those em- ployed. The unemployed get from the Union a daily ration of one good ‘arm meal, an additional pound of bread, a comfortable place to live, free theatre tickets by turn and money for subsistence equal to about one pound English money per month. Seame! On the Rus: ’s Committees. ships all the old conditons so infamous in the old days of brutality are gone, The captain is a navigator, and there his authority stops. He has L sini to say about the crew, its behavior, organization, hours, food wages or anything else. The collective agree- ment of the Union with the govern- ment covers all that by fixing the general conditions, like wag id hours, and the crew verns by an elected committee of five. is Committee sees to supplying arters and food and regulating the’ shifts. When a ship reaches A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ‘Tcant see it anywhere!" a foreign port the crew are paid up and given two weeks advance! Think of that being done on any other boats! The quarters are clean and fitted out with bedding such as no other sailors have. It is taken from houses of the rich of old Rus- sia. In addition every ship has a piano and a large library for the use of the crew. Imag*he that on the boats you sail on, you I. W. W. sailors! Four-Hour Shifts. Shifts on deck work four hours on and ‘eight hours off, below deck being harder work, three on and nine off. All around, conditions are so much better on Russian boats that hundreds of sailors from Ger- many and England are continually trying to get into Petrograd and get on+a Russian boat. Russia thinks lots of her sailors because they have always been revolution- ary. But all workers are given the best that Russia can get. Soviet Russia takes from speculators and gives to the workers. The specu- lators and Nep-men are social out- casts. Business Men In Bad. When a fellow becomes a “busi- ness man” in Russia he loses his right to vote and about every other right as well, along with the re- spect of the people. Everything costs him ten times more than a worker has to pay, until quite often, his real net profit is less than a worker’s wage. For electric light I paid ten ko- pecks gold, but a speculator paid two rubles. For a room I paid thirty-five kopecks (while working), a speculator paid four rubles, and no better room than mine. The speculator or business man under Nep lives in constant terror, with some reason. His prices are set by the government. If, in order to make something to cover the high rates he is charged for vverything, he should overcharge, he may be arrested and exiled and his goods confiscated. They are so deathly afraid of being reported by a mem- ber of the Communist Party that they will hardly talk to anyone they do not know. They must keep their mouths shut apout politics, about the workers’ government, and that is no joke! One “wrong move” and they are arrested. “Political Prisoners.” In Russia I saw both speculators and priests being taken thru the streets to trial. As soon as they are pinched, speculators often begin to claim that they are “socialists.” That’s the kind of “political pris- oners” American workers are asked to worry about. It may be well to note, that Emma “Goldman, who could not hoodwink the Russian workers, is living in luxury and _ idleness, at the Hotel Plaza at Charlottenburg, the millionaire suburb of Berlin. With an I. W. W. who went to Leavenworth in 1918, I met Kmma at Hamburg. My companion, re- quiring change, turned to Emma Goldman, who astonished us both by searching thru a great roll of Eng- lish five pound notes for something smaller. Later, he visited her Ber- lin apartment, where they were waited upon by serving maids with fine foods, champagne and cognac. At the same time, the German work- ers were starving and begging by tens of thousands around her, and Communists wete being pointed out on the streets by Social Democrats | for arrest and often secret execu- tion, Emma Goldman was living lux- uriously, calmly and safely in the same suburb where Karl Liebknecht was murdered. Her neighbors and companions are German exploiters and the White Guard generals and “nobility” of Czarist Russia. It is fit company for those who lie about the revolutionary workers and peas- ants, I see some Meth’dists in the east got somewhat het at a lovefeast, de- bating whether not ’'twus right to send their young men off to fight. I think perhaps in these peace calms their consciences wuz having qualms, because they sprung so many gags and blessed so many service flags when Wilson called ’em all to be the heralds of democracy. I think their consciences should twitch and mage ‘em scratch their weak souls’ iteh. A One man, who teaches in a school, sed he was gonta make a rule that he would rather go to jail before agen he'd ever fail by sending school boys off to fight. That man has sure- ly saw the light. But Bishop Wilson wuz on guard to shoo peacemakers off the yard, He got the resolution altered, so that 4 tae sly as Sa DAUGHERTY FILM GRAFTING SEEN | IN CALIFORNIA | Quimby Fixed Dempsey Picture Deal There By MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.— | Echoes of the thunder storm breaking around official heads in Washington are reverberating in San Franciseo. Indictments returned by the Log An- geles federal grand jury in connec- {tion with the showing of Dempsey |Firpo fight films in California, have revealed that Frank C. Quimby, who first exposed the Dempsey-Carpentier film graft to the committee investi- gating Secretary Daugherty, also had charge of arranging matters in San Francisco for the Demsey-Firpo films. “Everything Fixed,” They Heard. Quimby masqueraded under the name of Walter Jackson. Among the local men indicted are W. O, Ed- }munds, who released the films here, and’ Maurice Blache, who produced them. Both state they were assured by Quimby (alias Jackson), that “ev- erything was all right with the offi- cials” and that “it was all fixed with the government.” Later Blache. who had threatened to make trouble by protesting against producing the film, ‘was given the double cross—payment being stopped on his check for the work. Fined Only $100. Perry Oliver, Los Angeles, also in- dicted, assisted in distributing the film here, and was fined $100 by Judge William Hunt on the plea that he was a war veteran, was ignorant of the law and was merely taking the films thru California to Australia. The usual fine for this offense is ten times $100. The most prominent name under indictment so far is Alexander Pantages, vaudeville mag- nate. His local manager, J. J. Klux- ton, is also named, the Dempsey- Firpo films having been shown at the Pantages theater here. Attorneys for the indicted men say the trial will lead straight to Wash- ington and will be definitely con- nected with the chafges against Daugherty. California Building Trades Urge Suits Against Monopolies SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 26. —The state Building Trades Council of California, in convention here, threatens action against shipping and lumber firms on charges of vio- lating-the interstate commerce and anti-trust laws. It is charged that lumbermen and ship owners have discriminated against boats carrying union crews, in an attempt to de- stroy the Seamen’s Union. Com- plaint has been made to the depart- ment of justice. Other matters taken up by the convention include child labor, state water and power act, labor banks and oriental immigration. President Frank C. MacDonald, in his opening address, touched on abe war prob- lem, and stated that “the same con- ditions which were responsible for the wars of the past still exist, and unless these conditions are remedied future wars are inevitable.” The council’s big victory of the year was a judgment against the San Francisco Industrial Associa- tion’s “American plan” and the | practical end of the open shop war in the building trades of that city. The last labor convention held in Sacramento, the state strategy meet- ing of the I. W. W., was raided by the police and 23 delegates arrest- ed. The convention of the Building Trades Council was undisturbed by the authorities. Probe Wallace Crookedness. WASHINGTON, March 26,—In- vestigation of expenditures in the de- partment of agriculture is about to start in the house. This is the first step to review publicly Secretary Wal- lace’s violation of the packing house control Jaw and the placing of numer- ous pro-packer employes on the staff of the packers and stockyards act ad- ministration. il Epics bY Bill Lloud it sed in words that faltered, that church and preachers should oppose all tricks to lead ’em by tl war agen on the offensi' ferent with the wars DEfensive. I think that word “agen” unwise. |It seems to say the textbooks lies. ‘It seems to say that we have fought some battles that we hadn’t ought. They otta given him a jog that his remarks had slipped a cog. When preachers’ minds has grown so strong that like Gene Debs they think war wrong, and like old Gene they go to jail before their con- seiences they fail, when at the risk of losing dough they tell the youths they should not go to shoot their fellows in the guts because some oe a has tay ae whee oe ive up campaigns of hate, a nickel in the ite. Z Perhans.