The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Tuesday, April 1, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Il (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50. .6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chieago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .3 months Address al] mail and make out checks to 2 THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J, LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE } MORITZ J. LOEB...... Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. a $8.00 per year Chicago, Illinois Editors . Business Manager Advertising rates on application. ed “Birds of a Feather’’-- Expose Them Both Strike-buster Robert E. Crowe was exposed in the columns of the DAILY WORKER, Mon- day morning, when we made public the com- plete report of the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The DAILY WORKER now urges the “Committee of 15” to fearlessly expose the strike-busting record of Mayor William E. Dever’s police as well. Uniformed city policemen are beating up girls on the picket line. Uniformed city police- men are arresting them and aiding the state’s attorney’s men in arresting them. Even where an arrest has technically been made by a plainclothesman attached to the state’s attor- ney’s office it is the city policeman who shoves her into Lowenthal’s doorway and acts as the willing assistant to the Crowe dick. Sophie Altschuler was technically arrested by jWilliam Schroeder, a detective assigned to Crowe’s office, but Officer O’Rorke, No. 3181, took her off the detective’s hands and beat. her up. Officers 5159 and 3609 beat up Ethel Spink. Officer 3401 beat up Olga Levin. Many more such cases of brutality to strike pickets are on our files. The DAILY WORKER demands that the “Committee of 15” present the workingclass public with as full an indictment: of the mayor’s strike-breaking activities as it has given of Robert E. Crowe. The Committee has the facts of police bru- tality in this strike. They submitted these facts to the mayor. Let them broadcast these facts as they are broadcasting the expose of Robert E. Crowe. Otherwise one capitalist politician will merely gain at the expense of his political rival. Dever and Crowe are birds of a feather as far as the workers are concerned. Pick their ~ feathers and expose them both. Recognizing Soviet Russia The latest government to signify its inten- tion to recognize the Russian Soviet Républic is Canada. There is a Soviet Trade delegation in Canada already and the country as a whole is jubilant over the prospect of getting down to business and brushing aside the legal ob- stacles that have so far prevented free com- mercial intercourse—between the people of the Dominion government and Soviet Russia. Foreign Minister Benes of Czecho-Slavia predicted that this year would be remembered by the establishment of complete diplomatic relations between most of the European and Asiatic countries and Soviet Russia. This prediction is being borne out by the developments in Europe since the opening of the New Year. Two of the most powerful nations in the world, the mighty British Em- pire and Italy, have granted de jure recogni- tion to the first Workers Republic in history and this action was followed by Norway and Greece and the extension of de facto recogni- tion by other countries. Canada, a powerful influence on the American continent, is the first country on this hemisphere to signify its intention to recognize Russia. This is a testimony to the growing power and stability of the Soviet Republic. The capitalist nations have come to the conclusion that they cannot defeat the Workers Republic so they decide to make the best of a bad situa- tion. In the meantime the Teapot Dome gov- ernment of the United States raises its hands in horror over the state of affairs in Russia and refuses to have anything to do with the wicked Communists. It is only fair to say, however, that the present administration has been quite busy peddling the country to various hucksters and had to depend on the old fossil Gompers and the Jewish Daily Forward for most of its Russian information. Once the cabinet is de- oiled perhaps what is left of it—if there is any —might step in line and follow the example of Britain in its foreign relations. ~ Meanwhile the workers of Russia are pro- ceeding nicely with the work of laying the groundwork for the establishment of a Com- munist society. '- A’skull of a more primitive shape than that of the Neanderthal man has been discovered in California. The find is puzzling scientists as no California senator has been reported missing. ‘ The French navy, with five capital ships, has sixty-seven admirals. This is reported to be causing great unrest in the Honduran army which has only forty-two generals. Small and Smaller The workingclass are constantly told during election periods that its future welfare de- pends on its choice of a candidate from the ranks of the capitalist parties. They always make a choice. But their condition does not show any impévement. In fact it grows worse. Its friens turn out to be enemies and its enemies never change for the better; they cannot change for the worse. Here in the state of Illinois two rival groups in the republican party are at each other’s throats over the spoils of office. Governor Small, with as unsavory a record as any public official who ever held office in this state is op- posed by another gang of blackhearted crooks and anti-labor open shoppers. Both factions are controlled by the enemies of. labor. Until quite recently the American Federa- tion of Labor in this state was committed to independent political action. The leaders of the movement sponsored a Farmer-Labor Party which attempted to rally the workers under its banner on the political field against all the parties of capitalism, alleged friends and open foes. The workers were slowly gaining confidence in themselves. The capitalist parties could see Jthe day approaching when grafting labor offi- cials could no longer barter the labor vote at election time.—But a change has taken place. Those who in the recent past sponsored the Farmer-Labor Party movement have now be- trayed’ it and are eating from the capitalist trough along with the consistent reactionaries who have always looked on the labor move- ment as their legitimate prey. The executive committee of the Illinois federation of Labor has endorsed Small and iow the leaders of the Chicago Federation of sabor, John Fitzpatrick and Edward N. Nock- els, respectively president and secretary, have ssued a public statement calling on the mem- ders of organized labor to support Small in the primaries on April 8. The only ray of light in this discreditible situation is the resolution that was passed by the Cook County branch of the Farmer-Labor Party urging the workers to stay away from the republican and democratic primaries next week, and severely criticising the purchaseable labor leaders who have espoused the Small candidacy. Governor Small has a record that fits ex- rectly with his name but he is a moral giant sompared with those leaders who have be- ‘rayed their principles and turned their backs on the movement for Farmer-Labor political action, which they helped to bring into exist- ence. They are a million times smaller than Small. Lewis Chan ;es His Mind John L. Lewis is International President of the United Mine Workers of America. His brother George is a member of the Legislative Committee of the union. The political at- mospheric current generated by brother John is as agreeable to the sense of smell as that caused by the presence of a skunk. His brother did not follow in the footsteps of Caesar’s wife. Suspicion sticks‘to him like the smell of araw onion. But that has nothing to do with the story except by way of introduction. Recently Mr. George Lewis appeared at the White House to inform President Coolidge that the United Mine Workers of America would not look with favor on the appointment of Judge A. B. Anderson, of Indianapolis, to suc- ceed Judge Francis E. Baker as judge of the United States Circuit Court. Judge Anderson was the author of one of the most wicious in- junctions in the history of the American labor movement directed against the United Mine Workers Union in the year of 1919, restrain- ing the union and its officials from using the funds of the organization to aid the great coal strike that was then going on. : It was then John L. Lewis made the declara- tion that “we cannot fight the government” and was branded a coward by Samuel Gom- pers. for declining the fight. F Something happened after Mr. George Lewis visited Coolidge. It was authoritatively stated in Washington that Lewis was slated to be the Coolidge running mate on the republican ticket in the next election. Hardly had the rumor time to filter out when John L. Lewis appeared in Washington and announced that the United Mine Workers of America has no opposition to the appointment of Mr. Anderson the strikebreaker. It seems that further com- ment would be syperfluous. But this gives a nice picture of Mr. John L. Lewis. The Y. M. C, A. is planning to erect a build- ing in South Chicago. Judge Elbert H. Gary has contributed $300,000 to the fund of $750,- 000 which is being raised. He knows what he is doing. A Y. M. C. A. dope factory in the vicinity of his steel mills will help to keep the slaves gazing in the general direction of where Jesus is supposed to live. While they are looking upwards the Judge, aided by experts from the Coolidge administration, can go thru their pockets. William Randolph Hearst says that Daugh- erty got the gate because of his vigor in prose- cuting Standard Oil.. At the same time Mr. Hearst’s literary monkey, Arthur Brisbane, uses up half his daily column singing the praises of the Rockefellers. How the pair must laugh! \ Frank A. Vanderlip wants a housecleaning in the republican and democratic parties. We are in favor of that and after some degree of | sia is at this moment more fo F grqycntes i po should be to 0! a successful operation, wit both patients waking up in heaven. EAA RCRA tee: —— ] “The Story of John Brow toughest pro-slavery ruffians who lived there, “We expect to be butchered, every Free State settler in our region,” one of these men told John Brown, Here was a story John Brown heard a few days before from the lips. of \a pretty young girl named Mary Grant, a settler’s daughter in the region: “Dutch Bill arrived at our house, horribly drunk, with a whisky bottle with a corncob stop- per, and with an immense butcher knife in his belt. Mr. Grant, my father, was sick in bed, but when they told, him that Bill Sherman was coming, he had a shot gun put by his side, ‘Old woman,’ said the ruffian te my mother, ‘you and I are pretty good friends,) but damn your daughter, V’'ll drink her heart’s blood.’ My ‘little brother Charley succeeded in cajoling the drunken man away.” - Reprisals Begin. An old settler named. Morse was hung and let down again by this same group of ruffians. Then they threatened to kill him with an axe, but his little boys set up a terrible wailing, and begged for his life, The ruffians spared him, but gave him until sundown to leave the community. He wander- ed in the brush for two or three days with his children, frightened to death, and finally died of the excitement. There were other such tales, including one horrible story of a similar attack on a woman in childbirth, The ruffians had also put up a notice, advising every Free State settler to leave the community in thirty days or have his throat cut, John Brown and his men dis- This is “The Story of John Brown,” by Michael Gold. | Pub- lished by the DAILY WORKER thru arrangement with Haldeman- Julius Company, of Girard, Kans. Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman- Julius Company. * ° The Liberty Guards. oe of these companies was the Liberty Guards, as commander of which John Brown: first receiv- ed his historic title of Captain. Besides four of Brown's stalwart sons, there were fourteen other Free State settlers, and they were present at the first attempted raid on Lawrence, which had resulted in a compromise and an abortive “treaty.” Captain John Brown had gath- ered his men, and was on the way to Lawrance for the second time when they were informed by a messenger that Lawrence had al- ready been destroyed, The Border Ruffians had captured the town without meeting any resistance, and razed it to the ground, the breathless courier reported. This startling news was received in a bitter silence by the little com- pany. They pushed in, neverthe- less, and encamped near Prairie City, hearing from passing strag- glers further reports of burnings, killings and drunken threats of the Southern invaders, Border Ruffians Active. It was a period of great excite- ment. The Kansans felt as if war had commenced. in earnest on them, and that they were to be wiped out. Some of the men who lived on the Pottawatomie Creek, near Dutch’s Crossing, heard re- ports that their women had been threatened by a group of the cussed this matter, and grimly decided to “do something to show these barbarians we have some rights.” They moved. down that night’ on the Pottawatomie. and calling out the five men who had done most of the killing, threat- ening and burning down of houses in the region, executed them as a measure of self-defense, John Brown Guerilla Captain, It was a bloody, stern act, but it proceeded out %f the same in- flamed spirit with which the min- ers at Herrin recently shot down the armed strikebreakers who had had been brought into their sec- tion. Many, including some sym- pathetic historians like Oswald Garrison Villard, have condemned this brutal deed, and have called it a stain on John Brown’s life. Murder. is murder, and it ¢annot be defended on ethical or logical grounds. But when a thug assails one with a gun, or thréatens one’s wife and children, is one to prac- tice non-resistance on him? Is his life more valuable than’ one’s own? In such moments men do not think, they act as nature tells them to; even a Villard would refuse. to yield up his life to a thug; he would forget logic and ethics, and defend himself. And that is what John Brown did; his act was a stern and immediate answer to the. ldng-continued murders and threats against the Free State men of Xansas. It shook the territory to its founda- tions, and it made of John Brown a hunted outlaw. Thereafter he grew no more corn and built no more cabins for his family; he was a guerilla captain in the field. (To Be Continued Wednesday.) (After Pottawatomie) Oriental Peoples Grieved For . Lenin’s Death; Soviet Policy Forges Bonds of Unity In East (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW (by mail).—The following is an excerpt from Leo Kameneft’s speech, of January 30, at the Second All-Union Congress of Sovigts, being a part of the Soviet Government’s report to the Congress. Referring to the Soviet Union’s Orien- tal policy, the Acting President of the Council of People’s Commissaries said, in part: “You know that our Oriental policy may be put in a very few words: constant friendship with the oppressed nations of the East was and still is immutably the slogan of the Soviet Government Friendship with Oriental peoples, striving at an independent national develop- ment, is not the result*of such or other policy of the day: it 's one of the fundamentals of the general policy of the Soviet power, it is its token. Don’t Barter Friendship. “Brotherly sympathy with the Eastern nations, fraternal assistance to them in the cause of the powerful movemen, wmen 1s hotnd to bring about the era of national mdependence and emanci- pation of these nations—are laid out at the very base of the policy of the Soviet Power. (Loud ap- vlause)./ Differently from all the other governments, we do not bar- gain this friendship, we do not bar- ter or sell it, we transuct no deals with it. “On the occasion of the terrible grief that has befallen us and all toiling masses we have received thousands of messages of every de- seription. However, those received from the Orient are especially in grief. “The following woras were said, among other speeches made in the Turkish Parliament: -‘Lenin’s death has grieved us all. This great man has stood by us, assisted us, in our blackest hours and ever hed us success in our fight for independ- ence. Lenin never missed an oppor- proee) ¢ to weleome our National As- sembly.’ The speaker concluded by moving the despatch of a condolence telegram, most warmly worded. One of the next speakers, Deputy Djelal Nurim, added that ‘when our peo- ple were living thru their hardest days, Lenin stretched out his hand to us. His letters and telegrams were ever a source of encourage- ment for us,’ Straightforward Oriental Policy. “Such utterances,” continues Mr. Kameneff, “are the prize of an open and straightfo policy of as- sistance rendered to tnd Feendahip with the peoples of the East, ai this tribute surely is the best token of the correctness an@ far-sighted- ness of our policy. The history will forever record that, in the black days of the liberative struggle of the Oriental people, Lenin stretched out a brotherly hand to them, and this shall also be a precept for further policy.” (Appiause). The acting president of the cil of P. 0. of the U. S. 8, R. reports that “from far-off we have received, over the ture of Sun Yat Sen, the the democratic forces of telegram whose contents acteristic, I would say, historic era cy into history, which at serve as precepts or our Sun Yat Sen's message reads, “Resolved that the assembled in National Te. cord its profound at the death of Comrade whose work as chief architect of New ea i A : Dr. toads ons of the, ini principal a of * advancement and welfare of the Chinese People under democratic institutions; and as a mark of re- spect the Congress stands adjourned for three days,’ Russia’s Program. “We are proud, declares Mr. Kameneff, “that our leader inspires, in remote China the forces of a democratic nation onto a new liber- ative work. This precept we shall never abandon. And so again do I repeat: the tenor of our policy is, friendship with all the nations of the world, brotherly sympathy for the oppressed peoples, business and peaceful relations with all the gov- ernments” (Loud applause), Argentina Workers Pensioned on Full Pay After 25 Years BUENOS AIRES, March 31.—All persons in Argentina who have la- bored for 25 years are pensioned to the extent of their present salaries, as the result of a new pension law, President Marcelo T. De Alvear has officially announced, The workers themselves, however, must supply half of the pension fund by donating to it 5 per cent of their |the state legislature to revise the salaries, the other half being sup- plied by the employers, who also do- nate 5 per cent of the amount of their payrolls. The law, which was bitterly opposed by the employers, is to take effect in two months. 18 WORKERS LOST LIVES WHEN BOSS VIOLATED LAWS Criminal Negligence by Explosive Firm Bared (By The Federated Press.) TRENTON, N. J.—March 31.— Eighteen workers killed and 200 in- jured by explosion! Oh, no, the company was not to blame, it was much more interested in protecting its employes than in piling up prof- its—at least according to the com- pany officials and capitalist news- papers. The workers who escaped say the company was_ responsible, do they? Well, that’s only red propaganda. . .~. That was the story at the Nixon plant of the Am- monite Company, on. March 8. Law Was Violated. Now comes the report of Dr. Martin Szamatolski, consulting chemist New Jersey department of labor, declaring that the company Was carrying on dangerous opera- tions just before the explosion which were very different from those in progress when the plant was in- spected and approved on Jan. 1. “It would be idle to speculate on the true causes of the exynosion,” the expert reports, “beyond the fact that it was due to gross negligence and violation of the law.” The report of State Labor Com- missioner Andrew F. McBride which includes the Szamatolski re- port, has forced Prosecutor Joseph E. Stricker, of Middlesex county, to summon the grand jury in special session to fix responsibility, Gov. Silzer may have to act upon Com- missioner McBride’s recommenda- tions and call a special. session of laws governi! manufacture and storage of explosives, Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in scription at once. your sub- exaust nn”? MOVEMENT FOR SHORT WORKDAY AT STANDSTILLE ‘Workday ‘Outside New York Lengthens By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Generally speaking the movement for a shorter week in New York state stands today almost exactly where it stood in. December, 192i, altho outside New York City the number of men on an eight-hour day has ‘been reduced from some- what over a half in 1921 to less than a half in 1923. More than 60 per cent of the fac- tory workers of New York state have a working weex of 48 hours or less, according to the chief sta- tistician of the state department of labor. He bases his report on in+¢ formation from 1,300 manufacturing establishment employing over 400,- 000 workers, Workers in New York City. Wage earners in New York City where organized labor is strong have made the greatest progress toward the shorter working week while the detailed figures- indicate that many employers by moving te small upstate towns have succeedeg in putting off the day when they must conform to union conditions, The report says: “Over 80 per cent of the factory workers in New York City have a basic working week of 4 hours or less, and one-third have a 44-hour week. Up state the working week is longer. Not quite half the mew and somewhat fewer of the women | worked 48 hours a week and the . 44-hour week was almost unknown. A substantial proportion of the men upstate work over 54 hours as compared with almost none in New York City. Two-thirds of the women upstate work 49, 50 and 51 hours a week.” The figures shows that 31,785 men in factories outside New York City are still working “more than 54 hours a week and that 59,455 out of 207,844 or 28 1-2 per cent work more than 562° hours a week. Figures Tell Tale. The following table shows for the state as a whole’ the proportion of workers» in different industries working the various basic weeks: Seat ocanaes g , Brciciccucds |e 6 3 pee aenanenane |S” SgessaaSasg5n 1s A nen imence E Segseutedees |3 ee Gy ta ae aiid age : lSgREe ites yseze ig i223 i peesa ie ees : pe andc eae. & £2325 k25338 aaBRORL SORE The iron and steel industry in New York proves to be still much in the reactionary class wil 86 1-2 per cent of its employes working over 54 hours a week. Ac- cording to the report a large pro- portion of them worked 60 and 72 hours a week, Only 5.7 as secured a week of 48 less, Tr cent ours OF Hours of Labor, In the manufacture of machinery approximately 69 per cent of the workers are on a week of 4% hours or less. In the automobile industry 43 per cent work 48 hours or ‘less and 33.5 per cent work from 49 to 51 hours per week. In the manu- facture and repair of railroad rolle ing stock approximately 60 per jcent of the workers have a basie 48-hour week. The shoe indust = New York appears wyarticularly progressive with 93.1 per cent of its employes working a basic week of 48 hours or less, In the manufacture of paper 75.1 per cent of the employes industry 72 per cent of the silk workers and 808 the cotton mill workers on a. week basis as compared only 16.5 per cent of the em of woolen mills working the week. Approximately Se per of the employes of the woolen dustry still work from 52 to hours a week, Workers who have led in estabe lishiy 44-h comp the our week include _-_ ciriten Made Reliance Shirts KLAHOMA CITY, March Tho defeated in the nat ‘Sie cance sialing ¢ prison, lution the