The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1924, Page 1

Toy 2 SEE psa eee et THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 30. SUBSCRIPTION RATES HITS FOES OF THE Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. ye by mail, $6.00 per year. cE 290 500 on Strike at Pullman Works BIG DRIVE ON TO ORGANIZE LARGE PLANT 15,000 Men Restless In Huge Shops. This week will see a tremen- dous drive to organize the 15,000 workers employed in the Pullman Steel Car Works, at Pullman, on the far South Side. That the thousands of work- ers employed in this plant are restless, under the conditions they are now facing, was shown by the spontaneous walkout of 500 unorganized riveters, ream- ers, fitters, buckers and heaters. Impose Heavy Wage Cut. An effort had been made to force a heavy cut in wages upon these men. They refused to accept it and quit. The men have no union. They hold daily meetings at 458 E. 107th St., and are represented by a “Committee of Five,” one from each department. The strikers include Italians, Swedes, Poles, Lithuanians and Ukrainians. A , 2 is being proposed to increase the strike committee to ten, to in- clude one representative of each na- tionality. This is being considered. It is declared that the powerful steel car company, fearful of the spread of organization among the workers, has proposed peace thru a “Company Committee”. It is propos- ed that the strikers return to work under the, same conditions they had when they quit. The strikers, how- will. net return un- ave a written agreement embodying their demands. WILLIAMSON JURY ACQUITS 4 KLAN TRIED TO FRAME Shots at Glenn Young Led To Trial. MARION, IIL, April 20.—Ralph Hill, Irwin McCown, and Hosea Cagle were acquitted by a jury in Williamson county court here today, of firing in- to the automobile containing Glenn Young, local liquor czar, and driven by Leonard Stearns, son of the Mar- ion cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan. Stearns was slightly wounded. The klansmen were on their way to Herrin the night of February, HUSBAND SACRIFICED TO MARS, FURNITURE TO GREEDY LANDLORD By SYDNEY WARREN. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., April 20.— If Canada isn’t “a land fit for he- roes” read this. Mrs. Mary Leach, whose husband enlisted in the world war and was killed at Vimy ridge, owed a local landlord $3 rent which she was unable to pay. The landlord, a more practical and busi- nesslike patriot than. the widow's husband had been, straightway sent in the bailiff. The bailiff raised the necessary $3 by taking posses- ion of $450 worth of furniture and in addition presented her with a bill for feés as follows: Warrant $1.50, appraisal $2, man in possession $3 a day plus 10 per cent, and adver- tising, ete. The bailiff seized the furniture. during the absence of Mrs. Leach but magnanimously left her the kitchen range because there was no furnace or heater in the house and he feared that her young children would not be able to stand the cold. JAPANESE PAPER TELLS OF CHICAGO POLICE SLUGGER Writes Up Assailant Of Sophie Altschuler VANCOUVER, B. C., April 20.—The brutal actions of a certain Officer No, 3181 of the Chicago police force, who beat up a girl garment striker named Sophie Altschuler, are related in the pape: Under the headline, “Oapitalistic America Not Safe for Ladies,” the Japanese daily tells how Miss Alt- schuler was beaten unconscious by brute in uniform No. 3181 on the pick- et line in the Chicago “Loop” district. Columns are being given to the gar- ment strike. Organ of Jap Union. The Daily People is the organ of the Japanese Workers’ Union of Can- ada and made its initial appearance April 1 with the militant declaration: “Coming out as a daily paper, we are holding a strategic fort in the class war.” The paper is edited by Takai, Su- zaki, Mitearai and six associate edi- tors, including several Communists, Its circulation is rapidly increasing. Japanese total one-seventh of the en- tire population of British Columbia, and the paper is devoted to the land as well as the industrial worker. Asiatic Labor Big Factor. Japanese and Hindoo labor is an where the klan had raxen control fol- | important factor in the British Colum- lowing the killing of Caesar Cagle, | bia industries. Barred from the con- Klan constable, that evening when /servative A. F. of L. unions, the Japs their machine was fired into from the |have formed their own sidewalk. “Japanese Workers’ Union,” which has often dis- Hill, saloon man, McCown, son of |Played a solidarity that the whites the coroner, and Cagle, owner of an | Could well emulate, amusement park and several time de- fendant in the klan's liquor prosecu- | MiacLachlan tions, proved to the satisfaction of a jury they were in the county jail at the time serving as guards uffder deputization of Sheriff Galligan. Killing Seamen’s Bill WASHINGTON, = April 20.—Fear | occasions “Strike On Job” Talk Drives Politician Nutty ort. a aNure Federated Press) Can., April 20.—On two Senator David, lately COOLIDGE HIS OWN EXCUSE, SAYS HUGHES Imperialist Tool By H. 'M. WICKS. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 20. “President Coolidge is his own platform,” declared Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes be- fore the delegates of the Repub- lican State Convention at Town Hall here. “No other platform is needed.” The “convention” roared ap- that the lack of proper step from in-| French supporter of the Liberal par- fluential quarters, against the joker in| ty, has tried to get the Canadian gov- the immigration bill aimed at the sea-|ernment to recall the parole issued men’s act, will result in killing the | to J. B. McLachlan, former secretary seamen’s emancipation law, is voiced|of District 26, United Mine Workers by Andrew Furuseth, president Inter-|of America, David urged as reason national Seamen’s union. Telegrams |for “sedition” the speech Jim made in support of the seamen’s act should|in Cape Breton, recommending the be addressed to Representative | miners to revert to “the strike on the Shneider of Wisconsin and Senator | job.” No other senator has discussed King of Utah, the question. CANNERY BOSS DRIVES MOTHER OF SEVEN CHILDREN TO SUICIDE (By Federated Press.) - SAN JOSE, April 20.—Life was pretty hard for Mrs. Beatrice Mignoli, deserted by her husband, and with seven small children to support. Uncomplainingly she toiled in a cannery to keep them and herself alive. Then the foreman told her she was to be fired. Out of a job, and utterly despairing, Mrs. Mignoli killed herself by taking poison. She left a note for the foreman, accus- ing him of having taken away the livelihood of her children, Now her work-worn body-lies in the local morgue. a proval of this unique proposal for a political platform as Mr. Hughes launched into the pero- ration of a laborious speech he had carefully prepared and read with stilted diction. : The procedure of the “convention” was as cut and dried as the speech. It was called to order at 8 o’clock in the evening with the reading of the official call. A personal representa- tive of Jehovah intoned the invoca- tion. State Chairman George K. Mor- ris announced that the state commit- tee recommended Mr. Hughes as tem- porary chairman and advised the dele- gates to hasten the proceedings, as the radio “is to start at 8:30, so we must have a ragged roll call.” Some one read the names off with such ra- pidity that they were inaudible. There were a few lazy grunts from various parts of the house in response to the roll call and then Mr, Hughes and, after joining in the laugh= ter that accompanied the roll call, which revealed the crude operation of the steam roller, proceeded to read his speech. Hughes’ speech lasted one hour and four minutes, and the convention ad- journed for the “day” just twelve min- utes later. Spectators and delegates were so intermingled that it was im- possible to separate them, but it made no difference, for everything had been arranged by the state committee, and the delegates were just so many vot- (Continued On Page Thpee) WHISTLES BLOW IN VAIN IN Bie KENTUCKY STRIKE 10,000 Miners Stand Pat Against Reduction. By TOM TIPPETT. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) CENTRAL CITY, Ky.. April 20. Altho every whistle in Western Ken- tucky coal mines sounded for work on April 16, not one union coal digger showed up. This was the answer of the rank and file members of District 23, United Mine Workers of America, to the operators who refused to make an agreement with the union. There are 10,000 men affected by the strike which was ordered by the district offi- vials after wage negotiations that had been going on for a month were brok- en up by the operators. Union main- tenance men remain on duty for the present. The mines had been operating since April. 1 pending a settlement, The operators demanded a reduction as against the union's insistence upon the Jacksonville (Fla.) settlement. All the union miners in Kentucky are now on strike both in District 23 and District 19 which takes in also Tennessee, except those mines belong- ing to another operators’ association which has an overwhelming contract with the union that expires next year, The difficulty here is the large number of non-union mines that main- tain a scale of wages far below that demanded by the organized men. This state, like West Virginia, is overrun with operators’ guards and militiamen. The western Kentucky district is one of the oldest unts-in the United Mine Workers of America. William Webb, one of the members of the first international executive board of the miners’ union, 34 years ago, was from this district, N. Y. Convention Hears LOW PAY, HIGH DEATH RATE---GO HAND IN HAND, N. Y. INVESTIGATION SHOWS , (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK.—High death and sickness rates due to low wages, employ- of minors and women, are revealed by the six-year survey of the Mul- district in New York made by the Association for Improving the Con- of the Poor. The investigation covered a typical working class popu- lat of 35,000 in the foreign-born quarter. “At every age the death rate is far above the average prevailing for the city at large,” says the report. housewives 28.8 per cent. were gainfully employed; 4.8 per cent. were el jed in ‘home work’ (piece work done at home), and 16 per cent. were e ved in factories, stores and ‘outside domestic service.” The infant mi lity rate age under 1 year was 138.1 per thousand. One half of boys and girls between 14 and 20 are wage earners. Y WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 “W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. SOVIET RECOGNITION Workers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition .of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Farmers! RUSS REPRESENTATIVES IN CANADA EXPOSE “RED PLOT” PROPAGANDA OF KEPT PRESS MONTREAL, Canada, April 20.—Denying that he and his staff have brought any literature which might be construed “Red propaganda” into Canada, and deolaring that the consignment of literature sent to him here was made up of reference books and volumes on Russia which he might need in connection with hig work, Alexander Yazikoff, official agent for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Canada, today issued a statement in reply to information contained in press dispatches from Ottawa that the Canadian government treats the Soviet Trade delegates with suspicion pending the thoro investigation of the alleged importa- “The Japanese Give Strike Aid IF WORKERS DON'T USE ~ FLIVVERS OR BOOZE THEY MAKE TROUBLE NEW YORK, April 20.—If you man you've got to keep him busy or amused,” said Pres. Samuel M. Vau- ¢clain, Baldwin Locomotive works in a@ moment of upper class philosoph- ing. He was addressing a dinner of the Purchasing Agents’ associa- tion in New York. He continued “When the pleasure the workers de- tived from alcohol was taken from him something had to be substitut- ed for it. This has been supplied in the cheap automobile which is enough to keep him and his whole family busy. The flivver has saved this country real trouble.” In Rome it was “bread and the circus.” MASS ARRESTS AND TORTURES IN BALTIC STATES Drive On Communists In Esthonia and Latvia (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 20.—The Baltic states—the buffers between ~prole- tarian Russia and the capitalist world —answered Britain’s recognition of Russia by renewed persecutions of radical laborites and renewed anti- Russian propaganda. In Esthonia mass arrests have re- cently taken place. The majority of the prisoners were representatives of labor in municipal councils, trade union workers, deputies to parliament, and leaders of Communist organiza- tions. All workers’ organizations—le- gal and illegal—were suppressed, their offices raided by the police, and all literature and records confiscated. Labor papers were suppressed. Over 200 persons were arrested in one night, and the arrests continued for several days. There are 500 political prisoners in Esthonia at present. The workers have found it difficult to piro- vide for their imprisoned comrades because unemployment in Esthonia has caused great poverty. In Latvia numerous arrests have also taken place recently. American third degree methods are nothing compared to the horrible tortures used by the Lettish authorities to wring confessions from the political prisoners. Both Reval (Esthonia) and Riga (Latvia) have been extremely active recently in sending out false dis- patches about Russia. Helsingfors, Finland, has given hearty co-operation. The American newspaper public, par- ticularly readers of the Chicago Tri- bune and the New York Herald-Tri- bune, have been the principal consum- ers of these lies, Child Slavery Issue On Congressional Floor This Week WASHINGTON, April 20.— The House will take up the proposed child labor constitutional amendment this week, Representative Longworth an- nounced yesterday, A vote probably will be reached be- fore Friday, it was believed. The amendment would empower Congress to regulate or forbid the employment of all persons of less than 18 years of age. ‘want to get along with the working | ALL CHICAGO UNIONS BACK BIG STRUGGLE Plan Canvass Of All Organized Labor. The appeal to all labor unions in the city of Chicago to give financial aid to the striking In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, sent out b “The Committee ‘of 15,” was unanimously approved at the meeting of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor yesterday. “The Committee of 15” wag |empowered to select 20 federa- tion members to visit the dif- ferent unions in the city and make a personal appeal for funds to help the strikers fight the injunction against picketing. The Officials of the Federation of Labor were instructed to issue the necessary credentials to the men vis- iting the union. “The Dress Manufacturers Associa- tion has the backing of all the anti- labor forces in the city, including the courts,” said Anton Johannsen, in re- porting for the “Committee of 15.” “It is therefore necessary for all the labor forces of the city to unite in aiding the striking garment workers.” “For several days during the com- ing week we shall run a float thru the loop, which will describe what the union is fighting for. The float divided into two parts, will show the Sweat shop system and the union shop. “It will point out that the present strike of the garment workers is just a continuation of the fight on sweat shop conditions,” “Garment strikers will sit at sew- ing machines on the float, and there will be music to attract the attention of the busy people in ‘the loop.’ The float, according to present plans, will be 30 feet long and ten feet wide. It will demonstrate that the union de- mands are extremely reasonable, and that non-union conditions are unbear- able.” Lauds the Amalgamated In making a plea for the Federation to get behind the garment strike in a more concrete way than formerly, President John Fitzpatrick declared that altho the Amalgamated Clothing Workers had not yet come into the Federation of Labor, its spirit in giv- in the strikers $10,000 was laudable, and the Federation should take the good example set by this union. Sam Gordon of the Leather Work- ers, commenting on the report of the |“Committee of 15,” declared that a second float should be run along with the first, depicting the atrocities of “Denny” Sullivan's high handed treat- ment of the girls in the court room. Gordon was given 30 days in a labor dispute which came before Sullivan, (Continued On Page Two) Stole In Churches To Bury Children Killed By Poverty MILWAUKEE, April 20.—Edward Wallis confessed in tourt that he had stolen $120 from overcoat pockets in the cloakrooms of various churches in order to pay the funeral expenses of his two children. The children died when he was‘unable to get proper medical attention for them. Judge Backus gave him his freedom, under probation. tion of Communist propaganda. M. Yazikoff admitted that minister and his cabinet recently to him had not seemed to satisfy his explanations to the prime regarding the books consigned the government and he is of the belief that further investigation is to be made. He further declares that, Great Britain and the Union of the immunity from seizure of personal effects, etc., usually af- forded political emissaries. The Soviet Trade Commissioner has established headquarters at the Wil- helmina Hotel, Mountain street, Mon- treal. It was under the shadow of a wall picture of Trotsky that he spoke of the suspicions directed against him in official circles and described the na- ture of the imported literature. The disputed literature is still held by the customs officials, Mr. Yazikoff Y | said. Books in Russian Language. The following official statement was issued this morning: “I think that the authorities were under a false impression, since the books are in. the Russian language and no one but a Russian could look} them thru and know what they are. I believe that persons who looked them over misinterpreted the nature of the literature. It is quite impossible to even imagine that some one who is coming to establish trade relations would bring literature for Red propa- ganda. “As I have explaned to the govern- ment officials, it is necessary to have every kind of information, coming to another country. “In vain would one try to find some data about the new economical and political condition of new Russia in the Congressional Library of Wash- ington, D. C., where there is a special Russian section consisting of many thousands of books. I visited the gov- ernment library here, and there is nothing even about former Russia. There is, therefore, nothing amazing in the fact that there is such ground for spreading false information about Russia, Hits Soviet Enemies. “For a Canadian, it is difficult to understand the conditions nowadays in the Soviet Union because they are very different from Canada’s. I am not going to try to change them—it is not my task. But it is my duty, and it is quite necessary for business re- lations, to acquaint Canadian business men with present day Russian condi- tions, All this noise raised about the books is, in my opinion, the result of @ propaganda by the enemies of the Soviet Union, who are availing them- selves of the appropriate moment— the beginning of negotiations. “In the notices that I have read in the press I have found a whole series of incorrect statements, each of which changes the meaning of the facts. Re- garding the question of my status here, it has been founded on the agree- under the ment between Great Britain and the Union of the Soviet Republics, and agreement between Soviet Republics, he is granted LEAGUE FAILS; AUSTRIA IS IN GRIP OF PANIC Hocking Nation Adds To Misery (Special to the Daily Worker.) VIENNA, Apr. 20.—The much advertised league of nations re- construction plan for Austria has collapsed and with it the financial system of the nation. Blame for the crisis that has- gripped the whole country is placed upon the big financiers by the Austrian press; they have speculated in French francs and the government has been forced to spend 300,000,000,000 paper crowns in protecting market prices of stocks. A syndicate of Vienna banks has spent 220,000,000,000 crowns in an attempt to stop the drop in stock quotations but stocks continue to fall, until they are now worth 50 per cent less than a mionth ago. The government has about reached the limit of its resources, but stocks are still dropping rapidly with the few solvent financiers trying frantically to halt the downward movement. The money which has been used by the government in a vain attempt to stabilize the market, has unbal- anced still more the already one-sided budget while the financial depression makes the collection of taxes almost impossible. It is openly Stated here in financial and political circles that the expected recovery of Austria has been retard- ed for years’ at least and probably been made entirely impossible. Vienna banks have served notice upon the directors of the stock ex- change that their customers are short over $10,000,000 and expert estimates from other sources believe that that this shortage should be multiplied by 15. The league of nations scheme for the rehabilitation of Austria is today a failure and Austria is heading straight for a breakdown while a therefore leaves no room for misinter-| condition of utter financial and in- pretation.” dustrial chaos prevails, ROBOT COPS STOP ROBOT PLAY FROM BEING SHOWN TO PULLMAN STRIKERS Pullman police would not permit the famous Capek play, “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” as produced by the Labor De- fense council, to be given before the strikers of the Pullman works and to other inhabitants of that portion of Chicago on Saturday night. The law stepped into Strumel’s Hall, Roseland, Mlinois, in the persons of five burly police robots who claimed that the hall owner had no license to operate his place. The audience and players were giv- en five minutes to clear the hall and no amount of dickering would change the captain's mind. Manuel Gomez announced that any of those who wanted their money back could col lect, but only one fourth of the audi- ence responded. The others gener ously allowed the Labor Defense Council .the disposal of their ticket money. Saturday night's hold-up did not prevent the “R,U.R.” players from bringing their message to their Chi- cago friends on Sunday afternoon at North Side Turner Hall. The players presented Karel Capek’s splendid (Continued on Page 2.) >