The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 21, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER NATURE AIDING LW. W. BOYCOTT ON CALIFORNIA “Hoof-Mouth” _State’s Fruit Not Wanted SACRAMENTO, April 20.—“By God, I'm governor—I'm going to run this state,” is Friend Richardson’s an- swer to the pleas that he call a spe- cial session of the legislature to help fight the hoof and mouth epidemic. “I don’t intend to call a legislature that is hostile to’me.” Arizona and Oregon forbid any one to cross the state line from or to California with- out safeguards, Nature and the ad- joining states are aiding powerfully in making the I. W. W. boycott of Cali- fornia products 100 per cent effective. s* * Washington Bars Fruit. OLYMPIA, Wash., April 20.—Califor- mia fruit and vegetables are excluded from the state of Washington unless accompanied by certificates that they have been fumigated. This is a pre- caution against the spread of hoof and mouth disease which is epidemic in California and which can be spread by dust clinging to food or clothing. Washington authorities are taking this precaution as a health measure and not out of sympathy with the I. W. W. boycott on California prod- ucts. Washington has almost a dozen class war prisoners in her jails. The I. W. W. boycott is intended to call attention to the persecution by Cali- fornia of workers who are imprisoned from one to 14 years, under the syn- dicalism act, beeause of membership in that labor organization. se Deaf Ears to Coolidge. SEATTLE, Wash., April 20.—Wash- ington state, thru its lieutenant- governor, temporarily in charge dur- ing the absence of Governor Louis F. Hart, informally refused today to ac- cede to President Coolidge’s plea to modify its embargo on California products and vehicular traffic in the fight to prevent hoof and mouth dis- ease infection. see Cal Begs for Poison Products. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Presi- dent Coolidge’s telegram to western state governors urging them to call a conference to discuss modification of quarantine restrictions they have im- posed against the hoof and mouth dis- ease in California, was made public at the White House today. The message said that many of the restrictions are more severe than nec- essary, and if enforced will result in unnecessary hardship and loss of mil- Hions of dollars to fruit and producc growers in California. The message was sent to the gov- ernors of Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Colora- do, New Mexico, California and Ha- waii. Appropriate $1,500,000. By unanimous vote the House yes- terday appropriated $1,500,000 to com- bat the outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in California. This is addi- tion to one of $1,000,000 made for the same purpose in the recent deficiency bill. All Chicago Labor Rallies to Support Of Garment Strike (Continued from Page One) declared that a float showing how un- fair Sullivan and Foell were to orga- nized labor would be more good than anything else. i Tells of N. Y. Strike Betty Hawley, vice-president of the New York Federation of Labor, and prominent member of the Buffalo cen- tral labor council, described to the Federation the bitter strike of the New York garment workers. She told how they were brutally beaten and herded off to jail, where it was made difficult to get them out on bail. No mention was made at the last meeting of the “Committee of 15” of the much talked of mass meeting which was planned to give Sam Gom- pers a chance to show he was be- hind the striking garment workers. Nothing further can be learned about getting the scabs who are related to union men out of the shops. In the meantime, according to union officials, a large percentage of the scabs in this strike are wives, sisters, mothers or daughters of union men connected with the Chicago Federation of Labor and nothing is being done to expose them. Wheeler Gives Bonds For Appearance On Montana Oil Count WASHINGTON, April 20.—Senator Wheeler, Montana, appeared before U. 8S. Commissioner MacDonald and gave his personal bont of $1,000 for his appearance when his trial on a charge of illegally accepting a retain- er as a U, S. senator is called in Great Falls, Montana. Wheeler was not formally arrest- ed. He was notified that a warrant issued by the federal authorities in Montana had arrived in Washington and he promptly presented himself to the commissioner. ——nd How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today, Mase s Foell a Fool? The DAILY WORKER has become the big issue in the courtroom of Judge Charles M. Foell, Room 807, County Building. It is to this courtroom that much of the judicial strike- breaking hitherto carried on in the courtroom of “Dennie” Sullivan, notorious injunction judge, has been transferred. * * * The DAILY WORKER is an issue because the lawyer of the struck garment bosses, Mr. Charles Hyde, does not like to have the strikers read it. “Are you a reader of the DAILY WORKER?” was the pet question of Mr. Hyde. It was never, “Do you read the Tribune, or the Herald Examiner, or the News?” or any of the other kept gutter sheets of the big employers. It would, of course, be impossible for Mr. Hyde to visual- ize working class readers of the bosses’ press going out on strike for the right to organize, for higher wages, a shorter workday, or improved working conditions. He could not, in all the scope of his imagination, dream of a worker defying a judicial ukase not to picket, unless he had committed the terrible crime of reading the DAILY WORKER. The garment workers are not on strike, they are not on the picket line, they are not waging their present heroic struggle because the DAILY WORKER is being published in Chicago. Their brilliant battles under the standards of their organization are the direct result of the oppression they have suffered under the brutal lash of the profit-hungry garment bosses. Greed drove the workers to strike. Greed forced the strikers to take their places on the picket lines in the strug- gle for their rights. Greed dragged the pickets off to the police stations. Greed summoned the pickets to court. And greed, thru its petty tool, Lawyer Charles Hyde, wants to know of the pickets, Bed you read the DAILY WORKER?” * Greed not only wants to buy and control the physical strength of labor to run its machines, Greed also wants to control the brain of labor, to dictate what it reads, to impose a censorship thru fear and intimidation. Hence the question in the court room of Judge Foell, nr read the DAILY WORKER?” he mere asking of that question is a tribute to the service that the DAILY WORKER is rendering the cause of the strikers. The DAILY WORKER did not inaugurate the strike. Greed did that. But the DAILY WORKER is effec- tively aiding the workers carry on their struggle, and that is its task, and that is why Greed hates it and fights it. * * “Do When Judge Foell allowed the lawyer of greed, Mr. Hyde, to press his questions, so-called justice became a farce, as all capitalist justice is in its treatment of the interests of labor. Judgw Foell allowed his courtroom to become the stalking place for the inquisition of the bosses. The master class in all ages has tried to put a straight jacket upon the minds of the oppressed class. Every domi- nant class has resorted to all forms of censorship in order to maintain itself in power. But one ruling class after another has gone its way down thru the centuries. The courts constituted one of the last bulwarks of chattel slavery in the United States. But court decisions did not prevent the sweeping away of the system of chattel slavery. Today the courts are the staunchest defenders of wage slavery. Censorship in its vilest form stalks into the court room of Judge Foell and is permitted to remain and carry out the work of the blackest reaction. No excuse need be offered for the paid hireling, Mr. Hyde, of the garment bosses. He gets his pieces of silver. But Judge Foell must be a fool if he thinks that a cen- sorship-buttressed court edict against the right to picket can settle this strike so that it will stay settled. Or were the of- ficials of labor fools when they endorsed Judge Foell for elec- tion last fall? These are things worth considering along with the question addressed to the strikers, “Do you read the DAILY WORKER?” PLATOON SYSTEM (LIVELY WORKERS IS CONDEMNED BY PARTY BRANCHES CHICAGO LABOR) «AT WORCESTER Wears Out Children,|Finns, Swedes, English, Says Resolution . Lithuanians, Active. A resolution condemning the pla-} WORCESTER, Mass., April 20.— toon school system on advice of the|The Finnish Branch of the Workers best educational authorities, which| Party held a well attented opening has been sent by the Illinois Federa-| mass meeting of two months drive for tion of Labor to all City Federations|membership and subscriptions for thruout the state, was favorably re-|Party papers Sunday, the new hall ceived yesterday by the Chicago Fede-| being crowded. ration of Labor. H. Puro spoke about one hour, ex- Letters attached to the communica-| pjaning the program and aims of the tion sent out by Victor Olander, secre-| workers Party and emphasizing that tary of the [Illinois Federatio n of|the Communist movement is only one Labor, declared the platoon school|tnat jeads workers to emancipa system, which the big industrial inter-| tion, Aji those present, that are not est are trying to saddle on the people,| yet members of the Workers Party, to be “deficiency run wild.” were urged to join. The speaker al- “There were many defects in our! s. asked Party members to get busy school system before the platoon) sq pring in new members and take system, but the system does not do subscriptions to Party papers. away with these defects, it emphasises ‘A good musical and athletic pro- them,” declares Dr. John Hall of De-| 01. was given, The meeting was trot. “The platoon system increases) yon, successful. Thirty new mem- the strain on the children and on the), Joined ‘ee Workers Party and teachers. No periods of play or re-| 14y subscriptions were taken to laxation are provided for. Eteenpain and DAILY WORKER, School! Machine System The membership of the Finnish “The platoon system is an effort to branch here is now over 200 and install the machine system in our chanel nebo ave doraine, Schools. Where it is in use many)’ mhe first open air meeting at the complaints of its evil effects on the City Hall held by the Rngtiah children are heard,” states the reso-| City ‘ baby re aa 6 ng . lution adopted by the Federation. “To Gone prnann lg pps hy cree ioheceve: thy: chides PRE. ree literature was sold and some leaflets from room to room under this system, {s like watching the train of unfinish-|lstributed, The meeting was very successful. ed autos in one of Henry Fords Fac- tories, Everything is mechanical. The| Every line of Party activitt show improvement, Representatives spiritual and moral welfare of the of the Lithuanian Branch at the City child are disregarded. Children who have studied under the platoon system | Central Committee say that about 16 youngsters are ready to join the are made hard and less responsive. They are dulled and worn out nervous-| Young Workers League. ly, and have no intollectual curiousi-| The Swedish Branch is getting new ty” members continually, one COMING GERMAN REVOLUTION TOLD BY TRACHTENBERG Communists Preparing For Speedy Event. Chock full of enthusiasm for the revolution he sees coming soon, Alex- ander Trachtenberg made the North Side Turner hall audience glow with some of his own feeling Friday night. “They are getting ready for the final conflict in Germany,” he declar- ed. “When Communists meet, they aren't talking about social activities, but the question is ‘How Many Guns Have you got?’” German Revolution The Starter. A united international movement will back the German revolution, said Trachtenberg. Today in French pris- ons, you find the comrades who were doing work in the Ruhr occupation army. In France, Belgium, Poland, Jugo-Slovakia and Czecho-Slovakia the Communist Parties with their nu- merous adherents are ready to rise with their German comrades. They look on the German revolution as the starter for the world revolution. Communist Military Preparation. Trachtenberg told of 4 great red fun- eral procession led by a Young Com- munist vanguard, every man .with his gun. In the rear were the stretcher bearers. Organized preparations are being made for the armed conflict and the educational work with the masses is carried forward with papers and huge meetings. And the masses are com- ing to the Communists for leader- ship and inspiration. The speaker told of an open party meeting attend- ed by 10,000, tho there were only 2,- 000 members in that community. Socialist Traitors Losing. German social democracy, which betrayed the workers during the war and after is waning. The proletarian elements are coming over to the Com- munist Party. With biting sarcasm, he scored the coalition policy of the yellows. “The socialist government got lonely and invited the bourgeois politicians into the cabinet”, he said. “Pretty soon there were no socialists left.” Stinnes And The Socialists. “In Russia,” he declared, “the work- ers and peasants under the leadership of the Bolsheviki confiscated the fac- tories and the land. The power of the bourgeois was destroyed. In Germany, under the leadership of the socialists, Stinnes made more money than he had made in his whole life before. With the rise of his wealth, his power rose too.” The first part of the lecture’ was occupied with what Trachtenberg saw in Russia, the land he was forced to leave when the Czar reigned. Every Red Soldier Can Read. What a change now. “Every sol- dier in the Red Army can read. When I was in the old Russian army, I had to spend most of my spare time writ- ing letters for other soldiers.” Trachtenberg told of the Russian industrial unions,—23 in all, a union to an industry. He told of the 8- hour day, with overtime absolutely discouraged and often entirely pro- hibited. Of the 6-hour day for office workers and the 4-hour day for youths between 16 and 18 who attend school the rest of the time. Two weeks’ va- cation with pay for all workers. Mothers get rest with full pay eight months before and eight months after pregnancy. A large percentage of the earnings for each industry are put aside for social insurance of various kinds and this money is controlled thru the unions. Unions’ Power In Russia. * Lies of Sam Gompers and his rene- gade socialist propagandists, Chester Wright, Walling and Co., about the German labor movement, were smashed by the speaker. He told of the tremendous power of the unions in the government of Russia. The unions are officially a part of all so-| cial institutions; they have the veto of all labor legislation and the rep- resentatives are chosen for the most important posts, as is shown in the trade delegation sent to England, which includes the president of the Russian Council of Trade Unions, Labor Alderman Elected MONTREAL, April 20.—The muni- cipal elections here have resulted in the return of two Labor candidates to the city council. They are J, Schu- bert and F. J. Hogan. Schubert is a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers’ union. Hogan is connected wtih the railway trades. ‘The Poor Fish says that many an- other dog would take a chance of ting himself to death like Paderew- ski's poodle, od JAPANESE-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST U. S. AND ENGLAND MAY FOLLOW EXCLUSION ACT By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 20.—Because an earthquake has re- duced Japan to the status of a second-rate imperial military power and because Ambassador Hanihara misunderstood, the fundamental facts in the Coolidge presidential campaign, the break with Japan on the issue of positiye exclusion of Japanese immigration has come. The Hanihara note, suggest- ing “grave consequences” to the relations between the United States and Japan if this Asiatic exclusion brand should be plac- ed upon his countrymen, has given the anti-Japanese ele- ments and the anti-Hughes ele- ments their chance. No man can foresee the results, in America and in Asia and in Hurope, of this conjunc- tion of interests. Russia may gain a new ally in Japan. Cal in Bad Either Way. If Coolidge vetoes the congressional exclusion of Japanese immigrants from this country, he will lose what little political following he may have among the people of California, Ore- gon and Washington. If he does not veto the measure, he will have repu- diated the eager support given by Secretary of State Hughes to Tokio, and will have given the democrats a basis for immediate ‘demand that Hughes resign. Even tho Hughes stays and Coolidge signs the bill, Cali- fornia will go for La Follette or for the democratic nominee next Novem- ber. Hanihara did not realize this when he sent his strong note—almost as strong as Coolidge’s own note in defense of Mellon a few days earlier. Nor did he realize that party strategy in a campaign requires of the profes- sional politician that he become a jingo. Forces Treaty With Russia. When the dust shall have cleared away, some result of the explosion will possibly be found to be: 1. That Japan’s repressive mili- tary government wil! be pulled down by the liberal parties, and a new foreign policy adopted. 2. That this policy will call for Japanese recognition and close ties with Russia, as an obvious defense against the British-American com- bination in the far east, while Japan slowly builds up again. 3. That agitation for freedom on the part of the Koreans will be re- sumed, and that Russia will insist that the conditions to an under- standing with Japan shall include better treatm&nt of the 15,000,000 Koreans, 4. That senate politicians who have championed the early inde- pendence of the Philippines will lose interest while the army and navy and big business lobbies in Washington will unite to “keep the flag flying in the east.” 5. That, far from removing the Japanese immigration problem from discussion, this move will simply project the issue into the <field of world intrigue, and thereby increase the probability of another world war in this generation. Anti-Asiatic For Politics. Fundamentally, the politicians in senate do not care whether an addi- tional 146 Japanese come inte the United States each year. But the democrats saw in the Hanihara- Hughes correspondence an opportu- nity and they became, all of a sud- den, violently anti-Asiatic. In this they had the encouragement of the three California rivals — Senators Hiram Johnson and Sam Shortbridge, republicans and ex-Senator James Phelan, democrat. Shortbridge helped to railroad Tom Mooney to prison; Johnson kept him there, and Phelan stood proudly on his early record of having sent out the police, when he was mayor of San Francisco, to club the striking teamsters, from the ferry terminal to the city hall. Now they chorus their loyalty to the California workingman. 3,500,000 German School Children In Want of Food More than 3,500,000 of Germany's 14,000,000 school children are in des- perate need of food, according to in- formation in the hands of the F. S. R. Diseases which were rare in Germany before 1914, are now common among the school children, due to the lack of milk and green vegetables. Children are suffering from many skin troubles, due to the lack of nourishment and a great many are afflicted with vermin, the latter con- dition being caused by inability to bathe and a lack of proper changes of underclothing. Most of the pub- lic baths in Berlin have been closed, as the public baths are used by the workers and the wealthy, Germans don’t care if the workers and their children go unwashed. Tuberculosis is increasing in Germany, particularly among the younger children. ONLY THE WORKERS OF OTH- ER COUNTRIES CAN HELP THE CHILDREN OF GERsrANY'S WORK- ERS. The Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany, 32 8, Wabash Ave, Chicago, is the American Branch of the International Workers Aid, which is furnt the relief. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to FEDERATION HITS MUSCLE SHOALS BOUNTY TO FORD Says Grafting Reigns In Government. Two resolutions against the letting of government contracts to private corporations which thereby reap huge profits were passed by the Chicago Federation of Labor at its meeting yesterday. The federation unani- mously passed a resolution demand- ing that Muscle Shoals be retained and exploited by the government. The resolution condemned the turning over of this vast power resource to Henry Ford or any other private in- dividual, or corporation. The meeting went on record in favor of the Norris-McKellar bill now before Congress, which describes Muscle Shoals as being capable of unlimited development of hydro-elec- tric power. Oppose Private Munition Plant. The other resolution which was unanimously passed, was presented by the International Association of Machinists. The machinists’ resolu- tion showed that the Rock Island arsenal and in fact every arsenal and navy yard in the country, is now ly- ing practically idle, while the mot- ors, munitions, aeroplanes and en- gines needed by the government are being constructed by private corpor- ations. The union machinists all over the country have been thrown out of work. Those living near the arsenals and navy yards have been thrown out of work. In addition, the government is throwing away millions of dollars of the peoples’ money, for, the resolu- tion points out, the government in its own plants can make the sup- plies much cheaper than can be con- tracted for. Raps Government of Grafters. Graft in the present administration has not stopped in spite of the Tea- pot Dome investigation, the Federa- tion’s resolution added. Ships, it de- clares, are now being contracted for in private yards, which could be more cheaply constructed in the govern- ment’s own shipyards. At the pres- ent time parts of aeroplane engines are being bought from private firms all over the United States and as- setnbled on the field, while the aero- plane manufacturing machinery of the government is literally rusting away. Pullman Strikers Not Allowed To See Famous Robot Play (Continued from Page 1) play with feeling and skill to a full house. Harry Pires as Harry Domin, Gen- eval Manager of R.U.R. factory, ad- mérably interpreted the part of the hopeful capitalist who expected that in time the world would be peopled with a happy aristocracy supported by the robots, the laboring machines. Geraldine Udell made the character of Helena Glory the truly feminine role it should be under capitalism— the girl who comes to the factory full of idealistic liberalism to inspire the robots and give them “Son! The other members of the cast showed sympathetic understanding of their characters. The unusually fine musica? program which accompanied the play was fur- nished by the Young Workers’ League orchestra. Sixty-five dollars for the Labor De- fense Council was collected during one intermission while William F. Kruse spoke. Capek’s drama is a mirror, imper- fect of course, of the European situ- ation since the war. The robots are everywhere learning their power and uniting to destroy, not man, but those inhuman forces working thru cer- tain men against the workers of the world. In the Epilogue of Capek’s play the only man left alive vainly strives to recall the secret of robot manufacture to sava the world, but the concluding scene shows Primus and Helena, the robots, discovering their own romance, and we are left to believe that thru them the world will be continued. In spite of the weak ending of the play, Capek succeeds in picturing the mechanizing of the workers under modern industrial conditions and makes the robots all that the capital- ists would like their workers to be: totally without feeling or more than average thought. Slowly the work- ers, like the robots, become more conscious of their power and in the climax they, too, will raise them- selves to the seats of the mighty and make for themselves the new world. 4 ’ Monday, April 21, 1924 FINNS ELECT 18 COMMUNISTS IN SPITE OF RAIDS Hundreds of Arrests Can’t Cow Party. (Stockholm Cable to Tyomies) STOCKHOLM, April 15—In the Finnish parliamentary elections held April 1 and 2 the Communists polled a total of nearly 100,000 votes, accord- ing to final returns from election dis- tricts. ee @ @ 5 In the 1922 elections the Socialist Labor Party (Communist) received 127,527 votes, or 15 per cent of the total cast and elected 27 members to the parliament. In that year the Com- munists were able to take part in the elections with their party organiza- tion intact and in possession of their press, having thus at least some op- portunity for making an organized campaign, altho even then their activ. ities were largely restricted. In the recent election, however, the Communist Party had been subjected to systematic attacks and raids, Party organization was crushed by the gov- ernment and bourgeoisie parties, hun- dreds of influential leaders have been arrested and the press suppressed, with the exception of a tri-weekly newspaper. Under such conditions no organized campaign of any magnitude was possible before the present elec- tions, so that the fact that the Com- munists nevertheless received over 98,000 votes and elected 18 representa. tives is evidence of the fact that Com- munism cannot be checked or stamped out for any length of time. The various parties elected the fol- lowing number of representatives to the parliament, the figures in paren- thesis indicating the representation in the last parliament: Communists Agrarian League Coalition Party Progressives Socialists The Finnish Communists will have more power in parliament than their numbers imply. JAP EXGLUSION AND REGISTRATION UP TO CODLIDGE Cautious Cal Won’t Say What He Will Do. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D.'C., April 20.—~ Senate and House have both passed the immigration bill and now it is up to Coolidge to pass or veto it. The coming conference between the Sen- ate and House will iron out a few details, but the broad phases of the bill are expected to remain unchang- ed. Coolidge has not said what he will do. Cautious Cal has been playing a “watchful waiting” game. He has no definite and stubborn policies of his own, but waits to see how the cat will jump. Jap Exclusion And Registration. The outstanding issues of the Im- migration Bill can be summed up as: 1. Japanese exclusion. 2, Registration of immigrants and a rule putting the burden of proof on the immigrant, not the government, as to whether he had complied with regulations and was a “desirable” resident or not: 3. The restriction of immigration from each country to two per cent’ annually of the number of nation- al residents in America at the time of the 1890 census; Farm Serf Clause. 4. Modification of the two per. cent rule in the cases of agricul. tural countries by which quotas could be raised up to 25 per cent. Such agricultural immigrants would be required to come to certain specified and restricted farming areas in this country and could be deported if they left their jobs. (This clause, known as the “Farm is a senate amend- .) Regarding the Japanese exclusion issue, Ambassador Masane Hanihara says his recent warning letter to Secretary of State Hughes, was mis- interpreted. He stands, however, by his statement that enactment of the Japanese exclusion act would “create, or at least tend to create, an unhappy atmosphere of ill feeling and misgiv- ings over the relations between our two countri i Kansas Mines at Low Ebb. TOPEKA, Kans., April 20,—Kansas mines averaged only 118 days’ work during 1923, according to state mine inspector, This represent: than 40 per cent of a normal working year, It marks a decrease from’1922, The number of mines increased by 383, reaching a total of 10,469. The production of the state amounted to 4,650,479 tons, an increase of 1,132,236 over 1922, — How many of THE DAILY WORKER. them to subscribe toda ir shi ates read Get ene of one