The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 3

: : ] Tuesday, April 1, 1924 CRISIS OVER HIS BLACKLEG PLAN Strikebreaking Threat Is Resented (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, March 31.—The Labor ment of Great Britain is ed with a serious crisis today, following the decidedly hostile re- seption accorded by organized labor to the strike-breaking activities of the MacDonald government. Premier MacDonald, faced with a street car strike, the sympathetic strike of the bus workers, and the threatened walkout of the subway workers, instead of backing up the workers which he is supposed to represent, publicly declared his plans to maintain as far as he could, the traffic of the city. Cabinet Strikebreakers, As @ result, Premier MacDonald and his cabinet, regardless of the outcome of the present traction strikes, is exposed to the workers as a tool of the capitalists, even go- ing to the extreme of threatening to call out the military forces to break the strikes. Workers in all trades are today renouncing the “Labor” government as a_ strike- bs agency which has &etrayed r, The present crisis follows on the heels of the action of the miners a couple of days ago, in forcing Mac- Donald against his will to introduce a miners’ minimum wage bill into parliament. Premier MacDonald, dt that time, lost much of his labor support when he tried 1o dodge the miners’ demand by saying that the bill could not pass at any rate, be- cause it would be opposed by the liberals as well as the tories. The miners, however, forced their pseudo-leader to yield, declaring that the “Labor government is there to pass labor legislation, and if it can’t do that-it might as well quit.” Opposition Growing, In the face of the growing oppo- sition to him within the ranks of organized labor, Premier MacDonald is making frantic efforts to settle the various strikes that are coming upon him one after the other. To- day (Monday) the striking street car workers will ballot cn whether or not to accept the final compro- mise agreed to by representatives of the employers and the strikers, last week. The bus workers, who were striking in sympathy wilh the traction employes, will not ballot, but will await the decision of the traction workers. But no matter what the outcome of the present traction strike, it is evident that, due to MacDonald’s betrayal of his supporters, an in- creasing number >of Laborites will voice their opposition by voting in their councils, against his govern- ment, Philadelphia Wiitl Celebrate Second Freiheit Birthday PHILADELPHIA, March 31.— The second anniversary of the only Communist daily in America in the Jewish language, the “Freiheit,” ning, April 12, iat Mo 2 Hall Broad 12, at Moose Fi ind ‘Master. ai 3 The celebration will start with an ‘Freiheit” banquet. Mina Dolores, Philadelphia’s best soprano; Alfred Seyden, dis- tinguished Russian violinist; Mau- and to crown it all, the “Freiheit” men’s revolt “ Loic fwinke Comrade 8, of New Yor! will speak on bel of the editorial .M. L. Olken, Philadelphia, man- ager of the “Freiheit,” will preside, Tickets a to 83 cents. They in the office of the 8. Fifth street, or 521 York April 7, 7 p.tm Bentleyville, Pay , 8 &. hy Mga Ohio, edneoday, 9, Youngstown, Ohio, meee fa Ba Rae i 1 7140 p.m» Cleveland,| most of them are wooden, esate Be 15, 8 p. ot ered April 16, 8 p. may of Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ay dated. ie, 2 Y, sao Delete, Chie THE DAILY WORKER Page Three Insanitary, Tube: MACDONALD IN |Chicago Children Growing Up In rculosis Breeding Homes, Says Civics School Report Many sections ofthe city adjacent to railroads, industries, and cheap commercial centers, house thousands of workers in insanitary, ill-repaired homes, which the landlords, waiting to sell their property at a profit to the incoming factories, make no effort to make livable. In the Jewish and Italian districts of the West Side, fac- tories and business houses have and into the heart of the rooming house district from more obviously commercial streets like Halsted, Twelfth, and Jefferson. The whole territory, between Hal- sted and the river, from the South to the North branch, has been awaiting the invasion, The Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, which some time ago published ten pamphlets on housing in Chicago, says of this district, ‘In the mean- time, while landlords and dealers wait, poor people continue te live in insanitary houses, tuberculosis breeding there, and children grow- ing up in dark, ill-ventilated rooms, without proper place to play. Alley Houses, “Unfortunately, che clearing of areas where improvements were made, has not meant the destruc- tion of the old frams houses which occupied them: .They have been sold at a very low rate and the enter- prising neighborhood landlords who bought them moved their old houses to the rear and placed the new ones in the front spaces thus vacated.” It might be incidentally remarked that Chicago is about the only city in America which ‘would let the landlords get away with such a practice, which is so obviously a menace to the health of her work- ers, These houses which have been moved back to make room for an- other in fromt have caused the men- ace of the alley or rear tenement, which all housing investigators agree is one of the most character- istic, of the bad features of Chicago’, housing, iJardly another city in the world would allow these old rear shacks to go unconderined, “The alley houses,” says an expert investigator, “are not only objec- tionable because the windows look out on the dirty, fll-smelling alley, but because they are old, in poor repair, and in general without ade- quate sanitary provisions. The al- ley house is much more frequently dependent upon a yard water closet or privy than is the newly built house.” “Little Sicily” Disease Hot-Bed. In the district known as “Little Sicily 30 per cent of all the houses are- front on alleys, The ma- jority are frame houses, dark. .and in poor repair. Because of these rear tenements, according to the University survey, “Hundreds of people in the lower North side are living in houses where the condi- tions not only cause great discom~- fort, but are frequently dangerous to the health of the tenants. One of the worst features of the condi- tion of the age a ig ann walls. Frequentl, s leak, destroy- rts! the. Tieiling and flooding the floors. In numerous cases the sinks are frozen and the water supply en- tirely cut off. The landlords refused to make even the most necessary repairs. Some of the cellars are So damp they cannot be used. Often they are in a condition which makes them not only dangerous to those living in the cellar apartment, but to the other occupants of the house. With the dilapidation of the buildings goes a general lack of cleanliness in the yards and alleys.” Speaking of the region south of Polk street, a Hull {louse writer says, “Rear tenements and alleys form the core of this district, and it is there that the densest crowds of the most wretched and destitute ¢ te. Little idea can be given of the filthy and rotten tene- ments, the dingy courts end tumble- down sheds, the dilapidated out- houses, the broken sewer pipes, the piles of garbage fairly alive with diseased odors, and of the numbers of children filling every nook, work- ing and playing in every room, eat- ing and sleeping in every window sill, pouring in and out of every door, and seeming to pave every scrap of yard.” 1,200 In 4 Chicago Blocks. “In the Stovak district of the Twentieth Ward,” a student of the Research Department of the School of Philanthropy and Civics tells us, “a house set on the rear of the lot means invariably two houses on the lot, and between them a small court or yard, sometimes ont: aa width of a narrow passage. omes an abi place for rubbish, even for scraps of rotten ‘ater seeps down from the higher level of the street or alley and stands here, often in stagnant pools, Twenty-tw MN RR RE ten ts, over chil- dren live in four blocks fn this neighborhood.” ‘ “Not only are the houses old, EXEMPT FROM ‘ore COMPLIANCE WITH OUR PRES- ENT LEGAL STANDARD iy and tly affected by aye.” They are, Eferetorgy amon uniformly pie are almost uni- versally damp, and the walls are Mouse) often white with mold, and ‘so damp pol Re alley os yt? isa bone ih te : been moving across Canal Street pendent privy.” Chicago Densest Population, The menace of these old houses, built before even the present inade- quate housing laws were passed, moved to the back of the lot to make room for.a newer nouse, or another old one in front, is one of the most glaring of Chicago’s housing evils, Even in New York, the municipal government would not allow the profiteering landlords to get away with such an obvious crime as this, Chicago, unlike New York, is a city of 2, 8, 4 and 5-story tenements. In proportion to the height of the buildings, Chicago has the densest and most overcrowded population in America, Add to this overcrowding, the many tenements fronting on alleys, and the age of the houses—very many of them being over forty year ! old—and it is seen why Chicago has the reputation, among even the most superficial social investigators, of being the unkindest and cruelest in housing its working population. Pennsylvania Rail Workers Hit by a Series of Layoffs upon a water closet or By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Workers engagéd in the manufac- ture and repair of railroad cars in Pennsylvania have been hit by a successions of layoffs, according to the monthly employment reports of the federal reserve bank of Phila- delphia, Reductions in force be- tween January and February amounting to 12.8 per cent followed a layoff of over one-third of the forces between December and Jan- uary. Altogether since October, the number employed in these estab- lishments has been reduced by one- The February report covering all manufacturmg in the state shows employment for that month lagging far behind the normal seasonal gain Employers added less than 1 per cent to their working forces and the total number employed was still 2.5 per cent below the December level. An increase of 6 per cent in the total amount paid each week jn wages is considered the most hopeful feature of the report because it indicates that some of the indus- tries were resuming fuller operating schedules, Impeachment for Theft Confronting Friend of Walton By ERNEST R. CHAMBERLAIN. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY, March 31.— Oklahoma’s extraordinary session of the legislature has’ adjourned but the senate still sits as a court of impeachment in the case of John Whitehurst, president, state board of agriculture. Departure of Fred Par- kinson, state examiner and inspec- tor, for California on “official busi- ness” at a time when he was to be called to testify as to an alleged shortage of $130,000 at the Agri- cultural and Mechanical College, has thrown a monkey wrench temporar- ily into the proceedings. White- hurst as chairman of the college board is charged with knowledge and with failure to have a report of it eee for several years, itehurst was a bosom friend of Gov. Jack Walton until Walton's farmer-labor support forced the a) pointment of George Wilson to the college, Whitehurst then turned on Wilson and Walton was forced, this time by the other crowd to fire Wil- son as an alleged red from college. But Wilson was at the college long enough to learn something of the sad state of its past juct. With leads thus obtained Wilson and former associates of Whitehurst have brought Whitehurst to trial, Swiss Defeat 54-Hour Week. BERNE, March 31.—By a po; vote of 431,342- to 317,746, amendment to the factory Jaw, which proposed to establish a 54- hour week instead of the present 52-hour week, in times of national economic crises, was defeated. mine MASSACRE OF “HINDOO REBELS IS. PROTESTED Lansbury Denounces the Jaito Killing (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 31.—A big de- monstration in Bombay, of persons applying for relief and protesting ae the inaction of the British “Labor” government in face of the strike of 160,000 cotton-mill work- ers, has been reported here. Pitiable scenes of starvation and distress are being enacted, and over fifty-thou- sand workers have fled from Bombay in their quest for food. - Mr. Lansbury called to the atten- tion of the Under Secretary for In- dia, Professor Richards, that the gov- ernment should meet representatives of India to discuss how more self- government might be given them, and so preserve the peace of India. Mr, Lansbury protested against the massacre at Jaito, where 21 persons were killed and 33 wounded, when ae and soldiers fired into crowds, any more are now in prison. Attack MacDonald Imperialist. The Under-Secretary replied that the “Government was full of sympa- thy for the ultimate ideal of self- goverment for India, but it is diffi- cult to keep the peace among differ- ent religious sects, We are attempt- ing to settle these difficulties by set- eae a joint board,” ie Communist Party of Great Britain, backed by thousands of workers who realize that the indus- tries of India are British owned and British controlled, has issued this imation to the workers of In- dia: ‘Workers and peasants of India: The British Communist Workers hold out their hands to you in comrade- ship and declare: Do not mistake the countenances of a Haldane or an Olivier for the British working class. Our struggle and your struggle is one against the bloody British mili- tarists and imperialists. The British Communist Party, which is winning to its influence larger and larger sec- tions of the British working class, stands for the complete liberation of the independent Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Republic of India.” Workers Protest Massacre. Large numbers of British workers are protesting against the Jaito mas- sacre and the earlier MacDonald mes- sage threatening the Indian forces of revolt, which they point out, was a brandishing of the sword of conquest which was triumphantly acclaimed by Mussolini. Olivier, the autocratic secretary for India, in the MacDonald govern- ment, has now closed the doors on even the mild proposal of a round- table conference, proclaiming instead the “right of the British to rule In- dia.” MacDonald has broken his Janu- ary pledge to India that “No party in Great Britain will be cowed by threats of force; and if any sections in India are under that delusion that this is not so, events will very sadly disappoint him.” One month after making this pledge, came the great massacre of unarmed Indians at Jaito, and for that reason, the mili- tant laborites are withdrawing sup- port from the MacDonald govern- ment. New Poincare Cabinet Decides to Continue Militarist Policy PARIS, March 31.—“Continuance of previous foreign and: domestic policies” was decided upon today by the new French cabinet at its first meeting. Premier Poincare’s ministry held a cabinet council at the Quai D’ Orsay to discuss drafting of the Ministerial Declaration which the Premier will make before the chambers Monday. Selection of a cabinet ‘whic! + ‘a coalition, including leaders he left, is considered a clever piece of litical maneuvering on the part of Daily Worker Chicago Real Estate Board Potnbare in view of the KF pew td elections which will be held in May. The premier brings under his hand elements which would otherwise have opposed the bloc national and, in the af agate of political observers, assures his own re-election. Moreover, three of the new minis- ters opposed and criticized the pre- vious government’s fiscal measures. They now are charged with enfore- ing them, Considerable criticism is levelled against the new cabinet, however, by the press, except those papers thut are subsidized it the Comite Les Forges. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Exposes the THE POWER COLUMN Some of the Cities Just Won't Stay Down A DOZEN or more of towns have sent in their complaints to our office that they were not entered officially into THE DAILY WORKER subscription drive for 10,000 new readers by June 15th and were not assigned quotas, We are, with no reluctance, listing them here. Menanga, Minn. ........++ Sieeotoese cane re International Falls, Minn. oe . 16 San Bernardino, Cali - 15 Marshfield, Ore, 15 Neffs, Ohio . 25 Ely, Minn. . + 25 Monesson, Pa, . 16 Daisytown, Pa. . 15 Turtle Creek, Pa. Denver, Colo. . . W. Concord, N. H. Miles City, Mont. Providence, R. I. . Many of these towns have already sent in subs covering a large percentage of their quota, and all enthusiastically promise to go over the top of quotas assigned, ask for more sub blanks and sample copies of THE DAILY WORKER so that they can systematically canvass the town for subscribers. The results achieved, in some cases thru efforts of one or two active comrades can be seen from the Honor Roll, for instance Turtle Creek and Miles City, Montana. “We have no difficulty,” they say, even tho many of them cannot speak English well, “in getting subscribers on the special offer of two months for one dollar, We are keeping track of all the trial subs we get and when the new subscriber’s two months are almost up, we will make it our business to secure renewals from from each one of them for a year at least!” And from our experience in dealing with these comrades, we know this is no idle bpgst, { * * * * PABTICULARLY good work for THE DAILY WORKER is being carried on in Kansas City, Mo. In addition to the city agent, Nelson Sorenson, whose name accompanied by a few subs always appears on the Honor Roll, who supervises all the work in both Kansas Cities and now also in Independence, Mo., (a town of some 10,000, fifteen miles away from Kansas City) they have appointed a comrade who is active and well-known in the trade union movement in Kansas City to take care of the sale of DAILY WORKERS and getting of subscriptions in and thru the trade unions in these cities. Of course they are encoun- tering some very bitter opposition from the reactionaries, (beg for- bidden to solicit subscriptions in the meeting hall), who are afraid that the rank and file may learn some truth about them from THE DAILY WORKER. But our comrades in Kansas City have these digni- taries beat. They distribute sample copies of THE DAILY WORKER as the members of the union come inte and come out of the hall and solicit subs at their homes, when the workers have had time to read the DAILY. Solicitors say that in this way they find it much easier to sell the subs. ‘They also have one comrade in charge of distribution and sale of subs in Jewish communities and C§#mrade Massey in charge of news stands and regular delivery route distribution. They have put out very effectively 1,000 TEAPOT SPECIALS in workers’ residence districts, every copy going into the hands where it did most good, This systematic organization accounts for the growth of our Kansas City mailing list, s * s N TOLEDO, Ohio, the second Saturday in April has been set aside for a street selling campaign, all the party members Jand other militants will be out on the streets of Toledo, at entrances to the factories, ete. selling THE DAILY WORKER. Our agent there is preparing an interesting advertising stunt full details of which will be published later. i When properly organized, street selling has proven quite success- ful. Detroit has tried it and over 80 copiés were sold in two hours on a downtown street there. Ba ah A » Organization for the DAILY WORKER distribution and s stematic soliciting of subscriptions has not been perfected in many of the cities. Subs received from those cities are merely efforts of some of the most active comrades; However, hae Pa re 9g is being rapidly estab- lished, and effects of it can already e! It is with confidence in the comrades in charge of DAILY WORKER activities, whether they be inthe city, within the branch, in ‘the shop and T. U. E. L. units, it is with the feeling of assurance that every militant realizes the full significance of the ee in the minds of workers, that we say by June the 15th we will have on our mailing list 10,000 new readers, THINK! 10,000 workers to whom we can interpret events in terms of Communism! je Are you doing YOUR SHARE to reach this goal? Is your name on the Honor Roll? Will it be on next time this column is published? YES! We have no use or place for “no.” * * * * HONOR ROLL CHICAGO, ILL. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO P. Matenko ... Chas. Williams . Jack Johnstone S. D. Collette .. Plav, N. W. En; JERSEY CITY, Henry Silta ...... KENOSHA, WIS. MeN, @ sph sb caes sc was a2 DAISYTOWN, PA. MUNISING, MICH. L. Shamberger . SUPERIO: Mike, Brklacich CHARLEV' F. Novotny .. LEAVITTSBU! J. Indrika .... L. Spiegelman K. Harris rm tw © oto Jack McKeown . _. KANSAS N. Sorenson ... Jos. Palin ..secceccccccsssees 8 Tyomies .... NEW YORK CITY Carl S, Stern ....seceesseees 1 Israel Aaronson ... . Milton Weichenberg . May Helfgott . Edw. Schwartz .... M. Rosenberger . MILES CITY, MONT. J. H. Wilson......seeeeeeee sdb TURTLE CREEK, PA. eR omRH i S) Q EY 4 5 5 Jos. Raynovicly ...+.+++++0+4010 PHILADELPHIA, PA, J. A. Bekampis Louis Zoo! J, Dulinskas BOSTON, MASS, Hyman Shaineg ..... Robert Zelms Wm. Simons .'......+ DETROIT, MICH. W. Reynolds .....ss0s005 J. A. Singer.....s.se00 Lepponen ..s..ssseeees WINDSOR, MASS. a ee TOLEDO, OHIO A. W. Harvitt.........sse000 5 FoF. MBODAR oink 01s eek dicta HOUSTEN, PA. E. ST. LOUIS, ILL, Wm. CTA steesssscoces B T. I. Danjotas.....ssserseseee OAKLAND, CALIF. SANDUSKY, OHIO P. B, Cowdery ......ssseseeee Chas, Lets oo oscrercvesscsees AMBRIDGE, PA, EBEN JUNCTION, MICH. Geo. Match ...cssscescsecioes Carl Norberg .......-ssssssee PROVIDENCE, R. I. SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Jas, P. Reid ........ A. EB. Phillips ..scnsseevssose f W. CONCORD, , CRANSTON, R. I, Richard Bjorkback . Hugo Siegel .........0+s+005 Wm, Wentela ..... YORKVILLE, O10 W. Pannanen .......esseeee 1 Agat PHOGION coi sesessssces GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, McKEES ROCKS, PA. james ROS .....seseeseeeees Winkler ... y Jacob Korf .....sssseseeeeee KINGSTON, MINN. Dietrich ...s.ess.ss0006 2 MARSHFIELD, ORE. CLEVELAND, OHIO | Sam Maan ass sere oo" 2 Barnhard i , A. eesesecevecesoes by Re pSeYOR So abet ‘- GERMAN PLUTES WINE AND DINE CORRESPONDENTS Then Beg Writers for Sympathy By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) BERLIN, March 31.—The incredi- ble thing has happened, The junkers of Germany, the big landholders, who have been holding their annual convention in Berlin these days, in- vited the foreign correspondents, es- pecially ‘from the United States, Great Britain and Holland, to a tea at which they solicited the sympathy of the outside world for their situ- at which they describe as desper~ ate. To understand this maneuver one must remember that these are the simon-pure 100 per cent nationalists who only half a year ago disdained asking for foreign publicity. “Ger- many for the Germans” was their motto; they had no use for foreign- ers; Jews, or for any policy of in- ternational understanding. Wined, Dined Scribes. The reason for now calling in for- eign correspondents, who were re- galed with delicious pork and ham and egg sandwiches, expensive liquors and genuine tea and coffee while being harangued on the “grave distress of our fatherland,” was evi- dently to solicit foreign credits, to complain of the labor: policy, and to maintsin that the latest taxes upon the big agrarian estates were pro- hibitive. The big landlords want foreign credits thru the rentenbank, but complain that they must pay too much into that rentenbank since the 6 per cent mortgage levied upon their property is based on the pre- war assessments, An inquisitive Bri- tish correspondent interposed, how- ever, to say that the junkers ,were not telling how their fixed property had increased in value during the in- flation period. 8-Hour Day Got» Their Goat. The junkers are furious because the farm workers secured the dight- hour day during the revolution and got rid of feudalism. The biggest squeal emitted by the junkers was taxes. By erecting houses, barns and other improve- ments which increased the value of their estates tremendously, they es- caped paying taxes on a large part of their fortunes, while the city wage earner and the government official had his income tax deducted regu- larly every payday. The new taxes under the state-of-emergensy law will if drastically administered, make the junker come acrosts —. he is finding little sympathy in the rest of Germany. Peace League Gave Wilson Some Points, Says Jane Addams (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 31,—The fact that the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom gave ;Wilson a few ideas for his hypo- critical 14 points was the outstand- ing Soap ad in Ayr Jane Addam’s speech to several hundred mi gr by iy ies iss ms recounted the work of the League during and after the World War. She had practically nothing to point to except a few local attempts by the league to ease the execution of the onerous treaties. Her program for the fatere was disappointing, Despite her repu- tation as a pacifist, she omitted all teference to a program for stopping the next war or for removing the deepseated causes of war. Her avowed purpose went no further than the creation of an atmosphere of good feeling which might put off the war of to-morrow until the day, after to- morrow. -Altho there were many wealthy people in the audience, the chair could not raise the proposed , sum of $1,000, This money is to help defray the expenses of foreign dele- gates to the fourth biennial confer- ence of the league to be held in Wash- ington during the week of May 1, In the evening there was a public meeting at Mrs. Sargent Cram’s Peace House, 109th St. and 5th Ave. Two German Women delegates from Munich spoke. They emphasized the uselessness of violence in the class- war and urged the workingmen to be “heroic” and submit. Miss Addams also spoke. Half the audience of several hundred got Up and left at the beginning of the collection, It was stated the Mme. Kollontay had been interested in having the women in Soviet Russia send a dele- gate to present their viewpoint on peace to the International mee at Washington. Connecticut Labor Bank Coming. — NEW_HAVEN, March 31.—Work- ers of Connecticut are expected ha their first labor bank soon, as the result of a conference of 150 sentative trade unionists which here under the auspices of the s federation of labor. ‘The which was favorably debated at last state pig is to be mitted to a referendum, How many of your shop-mates ; THE DAILY WORKER. Get