The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 5

<4 Yriday, April 11, 1924 THE DAILY 7 (ENTUCKY MINERS “The Stor :NSLAVED BY NEW YC AB CONTRACT Sour-Year Pact Pro- vides for Open Shop By J. A. HAMILTON. (Special te The Daily Worker) HUNTINGTON, W. Va., April 10. Coal Age for April 3, 1924, re- yorts the contract just signed be- ween the Kentucky-lennessee Coal perators Association and District J, United Mine Workers of America, chig is one of the several “Provisional yistricts in the union, whose officers, ¢m. Turnblazer, president, and E. . Reed, secretary, are appointed by resident Lewis. It covers South- astern Kentucky and Eastren Ten- essee, which are but partially or- wanized. This contract has several note- vorthy features. First, it runs un- April 1, 1928, thus overlapping contracts in the other districts by var. In case of a strike in 1927, ke union men in this district would xe scabbing on their brothers, yet mable in view of their agreement, to on strike as members of the union. |santracta Union Scabbed in 1922. The same situation existed in 1922, nd undoubtedly handicapped the trike, altho the railroad shopmen’s trike prevented the situation from veing as serious as otherwise. The continuance in operation of the Ken- tueky mines was the occasion for one f the charges. in the new-famous otter of Frank Farrington to Lewis, 1 which Farrington repeated the umor that Lewis was well-paid for ‘lowing these mines to operate dur- ing the strike. Something other than the good of the union must have in- Suenced Lewis in allowing. his ap- rointees to sign another over-lapping ontract, and one for four years, hile the rest of the district are only or three years. Wages Cut 20 Per Cent. Another feature is the low wage vale.» Tonnage rates are nov given n the report but are said to be cut 20 per cent below the 1920-1922 vate. The» day-rate varies from 53.64 for outside yard couplers to 5.40 for inside machine runners. (In ther districts machine runners are aid tonnage, and often make two or wee times $5.40.) Wonder what ind of “Reds” was responsible for 3? In misrepresenting the Nova otia matter, Lewis has done his est to blame upon Moscow and the Nova Scotia radicals the cuts made n that unhappy mining section, and n reality encouraged by Lewis’ emis- aries and henchmen. A third feature is the absence of | heck-off for the union but there is ‘1.00 per day taken from each mem- ser-of the union to maintain an arbi- ration committee of two miners and wo operators (one of each from ‘ach state) and an umpire selected vy these four. Open Shop Recognized. Another mark of distinction is the open-shop clause, which provides for ‘reedom of members or non-members (f the union from discrimination or interference .by the company or by {i opposite. group of workers. If join the union, all right; if not, right. ‘That Lewis should approve of such agreement for such a length of ne as four yeags, and especially overlap the other agreements, ould certainly lead to the picion ‘hat something is the vith the union policy. It may well e inquired whether such a rotien ‘greement is not better suited to jiscourage rather than encourage -omplete unionization of this South- astern. Kentucky-Tonnessve ‘owever, Lewis see.ns to be more in- crested in “stabilization” than in unionization” of the industry. “leveland Labor Conferring May 14 On 3rd Party Issue (By The Federated Press) CLEVELAND, April 10. — By “ndhimous action delegates to the ‘leveland Federation of Labor in- tructed their officers to send out a all for a progressive political ma: eeting May 14, All local uni ~e askéd to elect three delegates id instruct them to vote on the lowing propositions: 1. Shall we form a non-partisan political movement independent of all existing political otganizations to protect the rights and interests of the workers and secure honest government? 2. Shall we confine our efforts, as heretofore, for labor repre- sentation in and thru the exist- ‘ny litical parties? "Phe Ohio state Federation has Mfiliated with the conference for wolitical action by vote of its ‘onvention in Mansfield months ago. Fy eS RS a hi: deacee thn Pee UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS Billy, field. | P 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. His Soul Goes Marching On. OHN BROWN was hung on December 2, 1859. Exactly eleven months later Abraham Lin- coln was elected President of the United States. Exactly eight months after that, Northern troops were marching southward, to put down the rebellion of the slave states that had hung Brown. No one at the time believed events would march so swiftly af- ter Brown's death. \ There were many who knew that some sort of conflict between the North and South was inevitable; it had been. brewing for decades But there were a8 many more who were confident that slavery would win its legal fight, and would spread over the whole continent. And the great mass of Americans just faintly understood the issues in- volved; to most of them, John Brown seemed some kind cf mad fanatic. Abolitionists Gain Strength President Lincoln’s election un- doubtedly provoked the Civil War. And hig election was undoubtedly due to the discussion on slavery * y of that raged after John Brown’s deed, Lincoln was the first North- erner to be elected in forty years; the . South had always carried things before it, and would have done go again had not John Brown roused the entire North to a con- sciousness of what slavery meant. And yet even most of his friends thought him mad at the time of the deed. Abraham ‘Lin- coln, in a campaign speech at Cooper Union, in New York, said: “Old John Brown has been exe- cuted for treason against a state. We cannot object, even tho he agreed with us in thinking slav- ery wrong. That catMot excuse. violence, bloodshed and treason.” Only men of the stamp of Wen- dell Phillips fully understood what John Brown had done. His funeral oration at the last resting place of John Brown’s body had all the vision of the prophets: Phillips Eulogy “Marvelous old man! .. . He has abolished slavery in Virginia. You may say that this ig too much, Our neighbors are the very last men we know. The hours that pass us are the ones we appre- ciate the least. Men walked Bos ton streets, when night fell on Bunker Hill, and pitied Warren, saying, ‘Foolish man! Thrown his life away! Why didn’t he measure his means better!’ Now we see him standing colossal on that blood-stained sod, severing John Brown’ COLUMBIA NEGRO. that day the tie which bound Bos- ton to Great Britain. That night George III ceased to rule in New England, History will date South- ern emancipation from Harper's Ferry.’ True, the slave is still there. So, when the tempest up- roots a pine in your hills, it looks green for months, for a year, Still it is timber, not a tree. John Brown has loosened the roots of the slave system; it only breathes —it does not live—hereafter.” Wendell Philliys was a pro- phet; and even men of wide vision like Lincoln could not attain his lofty view. At fitst there was a rush of Northern politicians to disavow and condemn John Brown’s deed. Later, there was approval; still later understand- ing; still later, worship. Madne®s of the Brain Yes, the old man seemed mad, as all pioneers are mad. Gorky has called it the madness of the brave. But such madness seems necessary to the world; the world would sink into a bog of respect- able tyranny and stagnation were there not these fresh, strong, ruthless tempests to keep the waters of life in motion. Who knows but that some time in America the John Browns of today will be worshipped in like manner? The outlaws. of today, the unknown soldiers of freedom. “And his soul goes marching on.” (THE END.) WITH THe Y CONDUCTED - BY TH JOIN THE SCHOOL ARMY! By JOHN HARVEY. Tt AT big capital should control the schools is just as normal un- der the present system as their con- trol of the government; but only now and then when there is a scandal does the “public” awaken to this re- lationship, At present there is no scandal affecting the schools such as the public scan exposing the gov- ernment, and for this reason the com- plete control of the schools by busi- ness cannot be exposed in such a spectacular and convincing manner. But fortunately there are always garrulous principals and superintdhd- ents who in their haste to please the interests they serve are unnecessarily frank and their speeches when print- ed in the papers help to destroy the illusions of the . workers. ' Talk Is Cheap. Such a man ig William McAndrew, superintendent of the Chicago public schools. During the short time he has been in Chicago he has talked a great deal about the correct mani in which to educate children. It is significant that almost all of his speeches have been delivered before business organizations, his first pub- lie speech in Chicago being before the Chicago Association of Com- merce. His speeches show that he is a man of great ambitions. If he could carry out successfully the plae of education that he laid before the Chicago Association of Commerce he would succeed in making each child a soldier in hig school army for the defence of the private property hold- ers in Chicago and Ameriva. “The public schools are not for the children; they are not run so the upils who attend them may become better fitted individually.” All the property owners of the city and state are taxed for public education, irre- spective of whether they have chil- dren of school age or not—thercfore, reasons McAndrew, they should be trained to serve and support the tax payers (property owners) in return for their kindness. With this debt hanging over the heads of the chil- dren, they should only cancern them- selves with purposeful . education which will help them to repay it, and shuuld not be concerned with their advancement. These are the convic- tions of Superintendent McAndrew. “Children should go to school for me reason that men join the atmy—for the sake of patriotism,” says McAndrew. From his previous statements it would appear that he were willing to substitute “private property” for patriotism, and had no ueions about why men join the my. Speeches Before Business Men, But even in speeches before busi- ness tnen the schools must maintain For information concerning the Young Workers League of Amer- fea, address Y. W. L., 1009 N. State St., Chicago, Ml. in a hurry +” |e WORKERS ING WORKERS LEAGUE a front of public service, especially when the speech is to be printed in the papers, so McAndrew descends to a few misstatements in an attempt to prove that this service to the prop- erty owners is a service to the whole ‘community, state and natich, In his desperate attempt to show that this service of the comparatively | small number of capitalists is a pub- | lie service, he makes the mistake of {saying that all of the people of the | United States are taxed to educate ‘the children of some. If this state- ment were true it would show that | the “school served the interest of the |entire population when it served the ‘taxpayers. But, bape eelibaye 6 for McAndrew it is not true, and he, as superintendent of schools should know from what taxes the educa | tional fund and his own salary are derived. | The educational fund in Chicago as |in practically all cities thruout the country, is derived from city and state taxes on real property. When making the statement that all the people of the country pay the school taxes he overlooks the fact that the working -class, the majority of the population, contains practically no owners of real property while many of the middle class also are property- less. And in place of saying that all are served when the tax payers are served, he should state that the schvols are beirg used t+ serve a minority of the population (owners of real estate) against the vast ma- jority of the population, the workers and others who own no property. Also, Superintendent McAndrew fails to point out that real estate is taxed proportionately, and, therefore, the even smaller minority of big in. dustrialists and financia interest: since they own the most property pay the biggest school taxes, and they chink they ehoulc in proportion receive the greatest support from the schools. That this small group has complete control of the public school is shown by the following: Capitalists Benefit From War. Only the biggest capitalists will benefit by the coming imperialist war, while all of the farmer and mid- dle class tax payers be hurt by it, many of them ceasing to be tax payers as a result. Yet in the public schools of Chicago, as in the schools thruout the country, the children are being busily trained for war. In Chicago high schools the girls as well as the boys are receiving military drill with guns. The extreme antagonism against the workers is not characteristic of all the tax payers, yet it is this an- tagonism characteristic of the big capitalists (antagonism nxgainst the unions, labor party, strikers, ete.) that the schools are feeding the chil- dren, especially the working class children. The government which has heen. shown to act only in the inte ests of the big capitalists by the Teapot Dome scandal and which nghts against the farmers and other small tax payers, is continually held up to the children as perfection, and its; living and dead presidents are held | befofe the children as the country’s great men. In certain working class districts ‘the public school children are required to swear allegiance to the government every day. Thus Superintendent McAndrew in his speeehes only shows us the more clearly how the “public” schools are training their students for the army of capitalist supporters—to aid the capitalist class in its; imperialist wars—and its continuous warfare against the workers. Our Musical Critic Loves Color Tone of Madame_ Butterfly By ALFRED VY. FRANKENSTEIN. “Madam Butterfly,” with Tamaki Miura, the Japanese singer, taking the leading part, was the offering of the San Carlo Opera Company for last Saturday afternoon at the! Auditorium theatre. A detter But- terfly than Tamaki Miura cannot be desired. Grace, delicacy, refinement and a distinctly Oriental atmosphere rcharactefize both her acting and her singing of the pathetic, lyrical music. Her appearance, beautifully costumed, small and comely in form, was not the least pleasing quality of her charm. The most impressive performance outside that of the name part was Francesco Curci as Goro, the old marriage broker, a comedy character admirably played. Mario Valle as Sharpless, the American consul, and Anita Klinova as Suzuki, Butterfly’s servant, gave adequate and satisfy- ing performances, but femetrio Onofrei as Pinkerton left much to be desired. It is difficult to costume a Euro- pean opera chorus as Japanese and not have it look like a sort of pa- jama party. But the San Carlo did it, and did it well, But when all dicta are said and forgotten it is the performance of Tamaki Miura that sticks in the memory. At the conclusion of the famous aria of the second act (“One Day He’ll Come’), the oboe player in the orchestra was wiping his eyer And if a composer can write music and a singer sing it in such a manner than causes an oboeist in an opera orchestra to weep they have both achieved the ultimate. Following the opera the Pavley and Oukrainsky ballet put on six short dances. The famous “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” from the Russian Bat theatre was used by them in a charmingly graceful French polka, Mlle Elisius danced to a Chord: nocturne in a way quite sugrestiv# of the interpretive move- ment of Isadora Duncan. The pro- gram ended up with a whirling, bril- liant hymn of joy in which the full ballet corps participated, Carlo Peroni directed thruout. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. JOIN THE JUNIOR SECTION For Information 1009 N. State St., Rm. 214 Chicago, Ill. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN WORKER REFUSES TO MOVE DESPITE KLUXERS Wells Will Defend Self Against White Bigots (Crusader Service.) NEW YORK, ‘April 10.—Opinion among Columbia students living in} Furnald Hall concerning the desir- ability of Frederick W. Wells, a col- ored law student, remaining as a resident in the dormitory became more sharply divided yesterday after a cross had been burned on the campus early in the morning in an effort to terrorize Wells into moving. A petition. in behalf of Wells found many ‘signers and a movement was begun to force the students house committee to with- draw its resolution that the Negro find lodgings elsewhere. Will Defend Himself. Wells himself, while affected by the demonstration of the burning of the cross and white students run- ning thru the hallways crying, “Down with the Negro,” did not) weaken in his determination to keep his room. He declared that if at-| tacked he would defend himself and | that only a request by university | officials would make him leave the dormitory. The officials, however, | are expected to make no such request, “Tt will take more manly men than those who now oppose me to oust me,” Wells said. Sentimen§ in Furnald Hall ap- pears to be rapidly swinging in sup- port of Wells. Joseph Zavatt, senior law student, who heads a yroup of students that circulated a petition against the action of the hall com- mittee, said: “There are other students who support my stand. They don’t want to sign their names, but they will protest against the committee’s ac- tion, just the same, by secret ballot.” _ Charges of existence of a Colum- bia klan came from a former promi- nent student of Columbia College who said he was present, but did not join, at a klan organization meeting held near the campus in 1921. J. B. Rucker, of Norfolk, Va., chairman of the hall committee and leader in the fight against Wells, re- fused to deny or affirm klan connec- tions. Tndignant at Southerners, L. R. Goldberg, of Marblehead, Mass., a member of the hall com- mittee, announced his resignation because of ‘adoption by this commit- tee of the resolution urging univer- sity authorities to ask Wells to leave. At least four other members, all of Northern birth are cxpected soon to resign. In resigning, Goldberg, who is a Jew, attacked Rucker, Southernér, “deliberately misrepresenting the feelings of the majority of students | in the hall with regards to the Wells matter, . “I believe Mr. kuckcr, self-ap- pointed chairman, is not the type of man I desire to associate with,” Goldberg said. Dean Herbert E. Hawkes said no racial discrimination will be per- mitted at Columbia and, in cvidence of the attitude, Herbert I. Howe, director of dormitories, accepted a five dollar deposit from Wells for a room for the summer. Whitewash Coal Barons for Deaths In W. Va. Explosion explosion which No. 2 of the Coal Co. here March 27. It was just a regular blowup that killed 24 coal diggers. There had to be a mock investigation, however. A coroner's jury that visited the ill-fated mine reported April 4 that the explosion was caused by “powder or electric jetonations and assisted by coal dust.” It does not blame anyone. The wrecked mine is located in McDowell county, owned and con- ‘rolled by non-union coal onerators. This const charters the infamous Baldwin-Felts detective agency whose thugs have by brute force occurred in mine Yukon Pocahontas Page Five THREE - GREAT - ARTISTS Will Take Part in the Majestic CONCERT Given in Celebration of the SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE “FREIHEIT” A Jewish Daily FRIDAY, APRIL 11th, 1924 At the ORCHESTRA HALL 220 S. Michigan Blvd. Ivan §teschenko, Bass, Chicago Civic Opera Co. Ivan Dnieproff, Tenor Star, Russian Grand Opera Co. Minna Ysaeva, Soprano. FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA aaa TICKETS: $1.10, 85 Cts., 55 Cts., 40 Cts. To be obtained at the following places: “PREIHEIT” Office, 1145 Blue Island Avenue; Cheskis Restaurant, 3124 W. 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But a jury in McDowell connty does not consider laws where work- ers’ lives are concerned. Peovle here cantiot remember a single “il- ag oo accident in the mines, lo one was even held reeponsible for the murder of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers on the courthouse steps of Welch in this county, Blot Truth From Histories in Behalf Of “Americanism” (By The Federated Press) ALBANY, N. Y., April 10.—All textbooks in the schools of New York state are being searched for “un-American matter,” according to Frank Gilbert, deputy commissioner of education. Any book found to assail or “misrepresent the motives” of American patriots in the revo. tionary war, will be declared tabu. The state legislature provided for thie probe, In Violence Crusade Against Jewish Mayor (Crusader Service.) BUFFALO, N. Y., April 10.—The Buffalo Council of Churches, repre- senting virtually all of the itest- ant denominations in this city, is backing the Ku Klux Klan in a bitter Rendering Expert Dental Service for 10 Year 646 SMITHFIELD ST, Near Th Ave 16a CENTER AVE., Ger. Arther tA HERE IT IS! That second hand upright piano in good condition and within reach of your purse. Write to Box A. C., Daily orker, for particulars, campaign against Mayor Frank X. Phone Spaulding 4670 Fy Schwab, who is a Jew and a mem- ASHER ®. ‘ORTNOY @ co. ‘ ber of those groups outside the PAINTERS’ SUP’ § charmed circle of Klanism. Betimates on New and The campaign a, t the mayor opened today with the burning of a 10-foot oil soaked Klan cross in South Park Avenue, near the Wood- side Methodist Church, of which the Rev. Robert Doherty, Klan sympa- thizer, is pastor, and ended with Police Chief Zimmerman callin upon the preachers to keep out o' police affairs. The campaign against the Jewish mayor and chief of police ig camouflaged behind a so-called “moral issue” which sup- porters of the mayor declared is made out of the whole cloth. Love More and Take Less, Young John D. Will Tell Workers NEW YORK, April 10.—John D. i Rockefeller, Jr., has been called in to pmeify 5,500 workers Standard il’s Bayonne _ refiner who refuse to accept President W. C. Teagle’s rejection of their wage demands. The men want 10 per cent more pay. Naughty boys, naughty boys, says Teagle. “It is a time when we need the most loyal co-operation of every employe if we April 10.) are to maintain the present wage at the Equal Wages for Women. MELBOURNE, Austral -Unions thruout Australia are de-|scale togethor with the supple- manding that the same wage be given| mental benefits and yet make @ gme- to women as given to men. cess of the business,” ‘ ree