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Page Four THE DAILY WORKER A Saturday, March 29, 1924 RRA THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill, (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2,00..8 months mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per sae $4.50..6 months $2.50, .8 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois RS a page tt ea Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE §:""*"""*** MORITZ J. LOEB.........+++ Business Manager i he Post- Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at t! Office at Chicago, Ill., under the ‘act of March 3, 1879. Pawnee. \si Mis Ett deine a >=” Advertising rates on application. ‘‘Ancient History’’--But the Workers Never Forget The Chicago Tribune and the Union Trust Company wonder why the DAILY (WORKER eannot consider their school land lease ‘deal “ancient history” and let it go at that. They feel that the workers ought to forget. When the Tribune put over its 99-year school lease steal in 1880, it no doubt hoped the workers would forget. It showed its brazen indifference to public protest when, in 1895, it had its lawyer, president of the school board, wipe out the 10-year revaluation clause. al Both the Tribune and the Union Trust Com- pany are rich and powerful. But 99 years is a long time and many things are more than likely to happen before the year 1980. The 56 years ahead are not yet “ancient history. They contain many days of retribution for the plunderers of the at present poorly organized masses. The Union Trust Company now has the school land lease to the property at the corner of Dearborn and W. Madison Streets, which it calls the “heart of the business center of Chicago.” It is able to put up a big fight for its robber’s loot. i It has on its board of directors: William R, Abbott, president of the Illinois Telephone f the phone trust. ay en rt pt scandy of the Pullman Co., trust. ; Oe lice, sceaiaiiat of the Chicago, Burlington juiney id. <3 Qe ackite ol vice-president of the Chicago western Rail By neste E. ereay president of the Armour Grain trust.’ , ee st Pog vice-president and treasurer, Harvester Co. 1 George G. Thorp, vice-president of the Illinois Si zg Sool in addition to a lot of smaller fry. What a power facing the workers and farmers in this one financial institution: a phone mag- nate, heads of powerful railroads, of the food trust, of the farm implement trust, and the trust. ; i "Ty feel secure, no doubt, in regarding their past crimes, including the plundering of the Chicago school children’s land lease as “an- cient history.” : But the day of the workers and farmers is coming. The oppressed are organizing polit- ically and industrially as, never before. The crimes of the present masters will never become “ancient history.” An enraged people will demand that the criminals of today atone for every crime committed. (THE WORKERS NEVER FORGET! Hiram’s “Victory” - In a contest marked by .a most shameful squandering of money and purchase of influ- ence, Hiram Johnson has nosed out Cal Cool- idge in the republican primaries of South Dakota. The contest was close all the way thru and was the best proof of the fact that the repub- lican membership sees no difference beween the conservatism of Coolidge and the “progres- sivism” of Johnson. The very fact that the race was within the republican party shows that they are both reactionaries of essentially the same stripe. ni Hiram Johnson cannot afford to celebrate the South Dakota victory with too much pomp and sati§faction. This state was the one place where he centered his heavy artillery. Here Wrigley spearmint chewing gum dollars, not pennies or nickels, flowed freely. There was a bitter anti-administration fight because of the fierce struggle between Governor Mc- Master and Senator Sterling for the senate nomination. The indorsement of Sterling by Coolidge automatically put the powerful state republican machine of the governor at the dis- posal of the Johnson forces. Yet, the Califor- nia senator won only by a scratch. The best evidence of the collapse of _ the Johnson candidacy is afforded by the decision of Wrigley, the millionaire backer and chief supporter of the Californian’s aspirations, to stop financing him. Wrigley is jumping on the Coolidge bandwagon. This dooms the hopes of Johnson. Without plenty of money, capitalist politics cannot be played successfully. Apparently there is a reformation of lines in the republican party, with all shades of big capitalist opinion staking everything on Cool- idge in order to beat back the assault on the organization and the fundamental class inter- ests involved. The other day, William Ran- dolph Hearst, who was a loud-mouthed backer of Hiram Johnson all the time, came out with a song of pi and hearty indorsement for Coolidge. Now Wrigley, another Johnson angel, jumps into the openly reactionary fold. These are the signs of a decisive fight in which Johnson, attempting to pose as a middle of the roader, stands no chance, su ctunmegn din Sr at: : May Day In Europe Not since the masses of France and Germany demonstrated in an ugly mood on May Ist, 1920, has the European political powder maga- zine been in such danger of explosion. Soon‘national elections will be held in Ger- many. All observers are agreed that the par- ties of the extreme right and the extreme left will make heavy gains. The Social-Demo- cratic Party, occupying the middle role but serving as the kept handmaid of the reaction- aries in their dirtiest work against the fam- ished German proletariat, is losing ground rapidly and steadily. (fhe effect on the Euro- pean politico-economic situation of the in- evitable sharpening of the class conflict in Germany ensuing from such a parliamentary situation is inestimable. The French elections have been deliberately put off until the German results are known. French imperialists will then use the growth of Right and Left strength as a club over the masses. An alarm of new, serious dangers to France will be sounded to mislead the workers. The bogus of Junkerism and Bolshevism. will be raised in all wiciousness to stampede the masses in support of Poincare and the iron and steel interests organized in the Comite des Forges. But the French masses cannot be misled so easily now. The workers, poor peasants, ex- soldiers and even some sections of the lower middle classes, are enraged at the Morgan loan and its terms binding the French masses hopelessly to American finance monopoly. The hundred million dollar loan is a drop of relief in the sea of financial and political troubles in which the imperialist French government now finds itself. There is trouble brewing in the Dawes Commission. The German industrialists are showing signs of restiveness with its pros- pective terms. Poincare is having the time of his life holding on. His resignation and imme- diate acceptance of the task of forming a new cabinet are only straws showing which way the wind is blowing. A storm of serious dimen- sions is threatening to overwhelm his present precarious hold on the government. Under these circumstances the Communist Party of France is bound to make considerable headway. With Communist gains in France and Germany the European volcano is soon bound to rock the continent to its very foun- dations. May Day in Europe, 1924, deserves most careful watching by the workers of the world. The Poison of Pacifism The appearance of a young pacifist, Brent Dow Allinson, at the Northwestern University in behalf of an anti-war movement making rapid headway amongst the students of the country has aroused the ire of the “best citi- zens” of Chicago and its fashionable suburbs. The Tribune and the Hearst Herald and Examiner, supposedly actuated by the common danger of the pacifist “scourge” overwhelming the nation, have buried their sharp hatchets of yesterday and are now vieing with each other in a call to arms against the anti-war move- ment in the local schools. In a series of vicious attacks and malignant diatribes, these saffron journals of the exploiters have denounced pacifism as a danger primarily because of its poisonous effect on the plastic mind of the youth. ‘ Let us analyze a bit this poison in pacifism. Is the opposition of the young students to force, to infernal wars in itself a poisonous doctrine under all conditions? Would the Tribune have the working masses believe this as the cardinal truth of the controversy? If so, would the Tribune indorse the opposite policy of general resoirce to force, to wars under all conditions? Would the Hearst sheet applaud the use of force by striking coal miners in defense against attacks by hired armed thugs of the operators on the defenseless women and children of the coaldiggers? -Would not our morally indig- nant Tribune and Examiner then engage in denunciation of the force employed by the workingmen in self-defense far more vigor- ously than the denunciation now resorted to b: the pacifists of the capitalist recourse to hellish destruction of the lives of the workers and farmers in support of the imperialist interests of our bosses? , No one will be fooled by the cries of the capitalist press about the “poison” in the paci- fist propaganda against militarism and par- ticularly regarding the opposition to supporting this or any other employing class government in its decimation of hundreds of thousands of workingmen in order to defend billions of dollars of capitalist profits and investments. Wars, force, armed struggle are all sacred and moral to the capitalists, their newspapers and churches when employed in behalf of the in- terests of the exploiting class. Wars, force, the mind of youth” when employed against the capitalist class. Non-resistance and pacifist doctrine are most holy to the bosses when workingmen are on strike and are terrorized by gunmen in and out of uniform; when bank- rupt farmers are being driven off their land at the point of the gun by sheriffs serving the banking interests. Capitalist class interests are the sole criterion of holiness and morality to the Tribune and Hearst. The poison in pacifism, in so far as the capitalist class is concerned, lies in the fact that it may develop, sooner or later, under cer- tain conditions, into the sound revolutionary workers of the world should capitalism. Chicago Has Made No Effort armed struggles are unholy and “poisonous to| the In Twenty Years to Clean Up Its Ghettoes and Slums No effort has been made by the city to clean up Chicago’s slums and ghettoes in the twenty-four years intervening be- tween the disclosures by the City Homes Association in 1900 of dangerous housing conditions, and the present time. Charles Ball, who has been a chief in the sanitary depart- ment of the city Department of Health for over a decade, told the DAILY WORKER yester- day. that all the evil conditions, described in the first extensive survey of housing conditions in this city, still remain, intensi- fied by increasing population and proportionally higher rents. “For the past twenty-five years,” said Mr. Ball, “Chicago has ignored the fast Ee slums. She has been content to let the private in- terests control the housing of her citizens. Private interests have cared nothing for the welfare of the people as a whole, ‘The city ordinances governing apartments are entirely adequate, and the De- partment of Health hasn’t enough men to enforce those we do have,” Many Problems Await Attention. ‘There are many housing prob- lems in congested portions of the city, which are awaiting attention,” it is mildly put in a Department of Health report. “These are found in buildings constructed prior to the last three years, and mainly build- ings constructed for two or more families. Coupled with these are poor insanitary conditions existing in many places of employment. There are also many crowded areas with front and rear tenements with conditions many of which could and should be remedied.” Look in any yearly report of the Chicago Department of Health and you will find similar statements, Always it is pointed out that un- bearable housing conditions are still “awaiting attention,” and that the number of sanitary and’ building in- spectors is “inadequate to cope with the situation.” Compare this state of affairs with any yearly report of the Board of Health of almost any European city. Liverpool Depart- ment of Health report states that in one year 2,342 new aparimenm houses were erected and 886 were caused to be torn down by the De- partment of Health. The two investigations into Chi- cago’s housing conditions which are considered by housing experts to be the most authoritative and the most thoro, are the report of the City Homes Association mentioned above, and a survey of the “Cost of Living in | merican Towns,” com- piled by the British Board of Trade, admitted to Parliament records, and recently made a United States sen- ate document, Chicago Noted For Slums, The latter, reporting on Chi- cago, shows that conditions have not been improved in this century. On the contrary, they have been al- lowed to get worse until now Chi- cago has an unsavory reputation for its slum life. Chicago is known as the town of millionaire packers and steel magnates. Thru its neglect of the congested district, Chicago is also known as a city that cares nothing for the physical or moral welfare of her working citizens, People are too busy making money at private pursuits * take a pub- lic spirited view of the housing sit- uation, “The building of houses for sale is done almost entirely by private speculation,” the British experts point owt. “In the past a large proportion of the houses in Chicago, particularly in’ the poorer districts, have been erected with little regard for either building or sanitary reg- ulations, and in large areas condi- tions exist today which call for determined action on the part of the healih authorities. Statistics reveal appalling conditions of hous- ing, great overcrowding, and acute destitution, . “An inspection made for the pur- pose of this report of the districts lescribed in the report of the City iomes Association in 1900, show that no general improvement has taken place in housing conditions, and that in some respects they are getting worse. “The crowding together of these several storied tenements would of itself be prejudicial to ‘the health of the inmates, but when workshops and stables are found in the rear, as often happens, the evil ig inten- sified. Moreover, a large ir tion of the frame buildings, which were but flimsily constructed at the outset, are now old and in a ne- glected condition.” Buildings Erected For Profit, “Most of these buildings were erected without any sion against damp, a defect ich is all more serious in. Chieago owing ‘to the marshy soil, and the fact that during heavy rains the sewers ENN NIIENE NEI TONOFONE The Phonograph Needle With the Flexible Point overflow, and to the large number of basement and cellar dwellings. “During the heat of summer the pavements are overcrowded at night with men, women and chil- dren who, finding the stifling atmo- sphere of’ their overcrowded quarters insupportable, prefer to sleep in the open air, A generation of slum dwellers is growing up in this large district of squalor which in the future will hardly fail to increase the gravity of Chicago’s social and municipal problems.” The above districts mentioned by the London visitors. did not include South Chicago and the stockyards district, as they were recognized to be, by far, the worst in the city, Of these two sections, it is briefly mentioned that “Back to back houses of wood, resting on piles largely predominate, and a great number of cellars and basements are inhab- ited. Beds are crowded together and are often occupied by day and night workers in turn.” “Large sections of the city,” the report concludes,’ are constantly filled with dust and clouds of smoke from vast numbers in adjacent foundries and railroads in adjacent districts. The air is further pol- luted by piles of refuse accumulat- ing in the streets and alleys. Forty five per cent of the people live in rear flats, rear buildings or base- ments, with small windows and no sunlight, Consumption is steadily increasing among the poor of Chi- cago generally, and~the need for better housing is urged.” Nothing Has Been Done. In a quarter of a century, the municipal government has done ab- Solutely mothing to remedy these conditions. Private real estate con- cerns, have been the cause or the death of hundreds from disease, and the ill-health and extreme discom- fort of many thousand more. It is time the working people of Chicago saw to it that the city departments were no longer used as mediums to carry on graft, or to give favorites political patronage, It is time the wishes of the private real estate concerns were ignored, and their in-/ fluence curbed, in order to get something done to abolish the frightful slums of the city. Our Advertisers help make this Paper possible. Patron- COU P O N—Good for One Package of ize our Advertisers and tell them you saw their Ad in The Daily Worker. : HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT 215 S. Halsted Street WM. FRIEDMAN CO. PROP. MEETING PLACE FOR THE NEEDLE WORKERS Strictly Home Cooking and Baking MEET AT S. FEINMAN & SON 338 W. Van Buren St. Chicago THE ONLY PLACE TO EAT _—— Established 1899 JOHN B. HESSLER SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN 2720 North Ave. CHICAGO GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE, Call REPUBLIC 3788 MAC’S BOOK STORE 27 JOHN R STREET . 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