The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 22, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, April 22, 1924 GERMAN HARBOR WORKERS WIN BIG 8-HR, DAY STRIKE “Technical Aid” Scabs Proved Useless By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) BERLIN, April 21.—It paid for the harbor workers of Hamburg and Bre- men to hold out to the finish. They have scored a signal victory. The bosses wanted to introduce an 11-hour day but the 8-hour day remains, The bosses wanted to introduce a two- shift system but the three-shift sys- tem remains. The bosses wanted to reduce wages but wages will be raised from 4.50 gold marks a day to 4.80. The bosses were determined to break up the works councils system but @> works councils remain. fre strike involved 20,000 workers in S«mburg and 7000 in Bremen. Much fuss was made in the capitalist press about the activities of the tech- nical emergency aid, an aggregation of strikebreakers recruited from busi- ness men, technicians, etc. Their un- trained help did not cause a ripple. The strikers were careful to keep public opinion with them by seeing to it that perishable goods and food were handled and distributed. Another strike now in Stettin in- volves a small unit of the Marine Transport Workers’ Union, a branch of the American I. W. W. HINDOOS NOT NIGE ANY MORE, WAILS RICH AMERICAN Coolies Gave Eleanor Rough Treatment. Press’ BOMBAY, Mpril S1--"Nobody is nice any more among the natives of India, acording to the observations of Elea- nor Franklin Egan, an American who traveled thru India both during the world war and recently. The lordly white ladies (mem-sahibs) are no long- er treated as divine, this wife of a J. P. Morgan lieutenant has discovered. “I followed my baggage down into the customs shed,” she relates, “when I got caught in a vociferating horde of unmannerly humanity. A filthy, foul- smelling coolie brushed up against me and shoved me with his shoulder. He was of the great untouchable tribe, and knew better than to touch a Hin- du of castle, let alone a mem-sahib. “I moved out of his way and turned upon him with a brief but emphatic re- monstrance. Whereupon he looked me up and down with a rudeness I have never seen equalled, then with a sneer on his face, spat copiously at my feet out of a mouth that was hideously stained with the red juice of the betel nut. “I then began to observe that no- body was nice any more. I know that only a short time ago such a perform- ance would have been unthinkable and absolutely impossible.” Minor Speaks In Boston May Day; Concert Saturday (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., April 21.--A grand concert will be given on Saturday, April 26th, at 8 o'clock, by local Bos- ton of the Workers Party in Dudley Street Opera House, 113 Dudley St., Roxbury. The combined chorus of the Lettish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian branches will sing and there will be soloists in addition. The Young People’s Orchestra will play. Admission P cents. 7? 1 Robert Minor, editor of the LIBER- ATOR, and celebrated labor cartoon- ist, will be the main speaker of the May Day celebration in Boston. He will speak at 8 p. m. in Lorimer Hall; ‘Tremont Temple, Boston. Minor is as well-known as an orator as he is as| writer and artist. Russian and Italian speakers will also address the workers. The com- bined chorus of local Boston will give the musical program. Admission is free. Co-Ops for Cheap Houses. BERLIN.—To insure cheap houses for workers and setting aside of land for workers’ colonies, the General Federation of Trade Unions, the Of- fice Employes’ Federation and the As- sociation of Civil Servants have joined in forming a co-operative stock company capitalized at $12,500. Antidote to Monarchism. BERLIN.—As an antidote to mon- archistic organizations of ex-service men and officers, the League of Re- publican Hx-Service Men will defend the republican idea and promises di- rect action in case of forcible at- tempts against the republic, Freight Cars Go Astray. FREEPORT, Ill, April 21—Four freight cars on a westbound Illinois Labor News - - Political and Industrial Activities of Farmers and Workers BRITISH MINERS DEMANDING SHARE OF $100,000,000 PROFITS; LABOR BECOMING AGGRESSIVE By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Settlement of the London street railway and bus workers’ strike on the basis of an immediate advance of 6 shillings (ap- proximately $1.50) in-the weekly wages of platform men has en- couraged other branches of British labor to make increasing de- mands for higher wages, according to a cable from acting U. S. Commercial Attache H. D. Butler at London. specifically the transport, en- gineering, shipbuilding, coal, woolen, building, and distribu- tive trades as parties to the movement. The street railway strike started March 22 and the bus workers struck in sympathy. Altogether 40,000 work- ers were involved and London’s sur- face transportation system brought to an abrupt halt. In addition to the 6 shillings advance the settlement also provides an advance of 4 shillings a week to shop and other employes, a guarantee that no reductions will be made in wages until the cost of liv- ing index declines eight points be- low a point 75 per cent over the pre- war level and a sliding scale of wage advances for every four points rise in the cost of living above the 75 per cent level. Latest figures place the cost of living 78 per cent above July, 1914. * 2 0 $100,000,000 Coal Profits. Following the settlement of the street car strike the most critical la- bor situation is the dispute over coal miners’ wages which have been no- toriously low since the one-sided set- tlement of 1921 which provided a minimum wage only 20 per cent above the pre-war level with the workers sharing profits after the owners had secured so-called standard profits. As [ a result of this agreement the own- ers’ profits for 1923 are estimated at more than $100,000,000 or nearly three times the pre-var figure. But miners’ wages in the great fields of Soutu Wales, Lancashire and Scotland, have fluctuated between 40 per cent and 50 per cent above the pre-war level at a time when the cost of living was up approximately 80 per cent. Stingy Offer From Bosses. This agreement expired April 17 and the national conference of miners has urged the Labor government to pass the miners’ minimum wage bill to avoid a strikes. This bill proposes a minimum wage for all coal work- ers on the basis of the 1914 wage plus an amount equal to the increas- ed cost of living. There appears lit- tle expectation of its passage. The situation during the first week of April is described by Butler in his cable as follows: “Last week’s na- tional wage negotiations brought an- other final offer from the coal own- ers conceding a further 2% per cent, making their offer 32% per cent in- stead of the present 20 per cent as the minimum standard or basic rate above the 1914 level. Other previous concessiohs included the ratio of standard profits equivalent to 15 per cent of standard wages, the miners’ demand being 13 per cent while the present basis is 17 per cent; the shar- ing of the surplus 87 per cent to wag- es and 13 per cent to profit; the agreement that no adult shall receive less per diem than 50 per cent above the lowest 1914 day wage standard and the existing minimum subsist- ence wage to be increased one-eighth. South Wales coal owners on April 4 announced further local concessions by removing certain restrictions to the earnings of unmarried men and absentees.” Miners Voting Against Offer. The latest Dow Jones & Co. cable indicates that vote on acceptance or rejection of the owners" terms is run- ning very close with a probable ma- jority of about 15,000 out of 660,000 votes in favor of rejection. The whole basis of settlement pro- posed by the.owners is calculated to allow them to cut prices to meet com- petition in the foreign market. This would réduce wages tn proportion. The coal miner’s family is made to carry the burden of this competition by accepting a deprevlated standard of living which approaches slow star- vation. Hunger Strike for Lenin. ESSEN, Germany.—A humble story of devotion to Nicolai Lenin has just come to light here. When a group of political prisoners heard of the death of Lenin, they asked permission to hold a ceremony of mournin; French administration of the prison here refused the request, whereupon the politicals showed their respect for Lenin and defiance of French capital- ism by a 24-hour hunger strike. 4 Probe Miner's Death. BELLEVILLE, Ill, April 21—A cor: oner’s inquest was held today investi- gating the death of Cal Leiskau, 28, Central train were derailed at Charter|coal miner and member of a dance or- Grove, near here, early today and im-|chestra, who was fatally injured early peded passenger service for a short|Sunday when thrown from the run- time. A broken wheel caused the de-|ning board of @ car into a telephone Butler mentions Pickets In Boston Cap Makers’ Strike In Court Tomorrow BOSTON, April 21—The case of the arrested capmakers has been post- poned until Wednesday, the 23rd. Those under arrest are Jacob Miller, organizer of Capmakers’ Local 7, and Joe Korshun, of the administration committee. The strike was called on Friday, April 11, for the unionization of the shop, a small one. One of the worst evils the union has to contend with is that of the corpo- ration’ shop, whereby a few workers go into partnership, employ workers and work as many hours overtime as they please. They take the work from the organized shops and leave the union men and women without the means of making a living. During the past year seven strikes were called by the union. The plague of corporation shops is spreading, and the union has determined to uproot them. Union representatives went on the picket line Saturday and were insult- ed and then beaten by the bosses. The capitalist cop got on the scene, and arrested the two workers and the two bosses. But when they got to the court, lo and behold, a charge of dis- turbance was put against the work- ers, and it was the bosses who placed the charge. The union is determined to fight the cases to a finish and to carry on the strike until the petty bosses are made to live up to union rules. WORKERS PARTY MAKES DRIVE FOR GERMAN WORKERS Big New York Tag Days This Week End er aa to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April 21— A city-wide canvass for the relief of the starving workers of Germany has been arranged by the local committee for International Workers’ Aid for Saturday and Sunday, April 26 and 27th. “The distress of the German work- ers is increasing daily. For want of proper food and clothing, a whole generation is threatened with death. We ask the workers of New York to give a few hours of their time to help the German workers in their strug- gle,” the local committee announced. Volunteers for the city-wide can- vass are to report to the committee at any of the following headquarters to get the necessary material for the collection. Report Saturday at 2 p. m. and Sunday at 9 a. m., to: Mobilize In 10 Places. Lower Downtown, 153 E. Broad- way, Freiheit Building. Downtown: Room 1, 208 EB, 12th Street. " Yorkville: Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East-8ist St., also La- bor Temple, 243 FE, 84th St. Harlem: 143 B, 103rd St., W. P. headquarters. Bronx: W. P. headquarters, 1347 Boston Road: and Wondraks Hall, Bakers’ Union headquarters, 3468 Third Ave., near 167th St. Queens: Queens County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave. Williamsburg: W. P. headquar- ters, 715 Broadway. Brownsville: W. P. headquarters, 1844 Pitkin Ave. Boro Park and Bath Beach: Club House, 764—40th St. All affiliated organizations should see that they have as many yolun- teers as they can recruit for this pur- Dose. —_ Go-Getter Gets Increase. ANN ARBOR, Mich—The annual salary of the handsome go-getter president of the University of Michi- gan, Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, who has inspired an extension of campus espionage under the college deans, has been increased from $18,000 to $24,000 by the state regents. A rea- son for the increase, it was reported, is the large amount of “official enter- taining” he is required to do, tee Depression in Poland. WARSAW, Poland.—Industrial de- pression has come over Poland, due Partly to the fact that the govern- ment, in its effort to stabilize the cur- rency, has withdrawn credits to in- dustrial enterprises, ‘ THE DAILY WORKER FRENCH-GERMAN VOTERS URGED TO DEFEAT REACTION U. S. Progressives Send Appeal To Europe (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 21.—Seeking to avert a new tragedy in Europe, due to the tendency toward political re- action in the German and French elections of next month, the Emer- gency Foreign Policy Conference has Summoned its national committee to meet here April 30 to consider send- ing an appeal to the voters of both countries. “Saye the German republic!” is the burden of the appeal which the Con- ference, comprising senators, con- gressmen, labor union officials, pub- licists and others in the progressive Movement, is expected to send to Europe. Fear Reaction In France-Germany. The German elections were set to take place one week ahead of the French elections, and when this ap- peal from America was first suggest- ed it was agreed that fear of Poin- care would probably lead to great po- litical gains by the German militarist and monarchist element. Such an out- come of the German election would result, almost inevitably, in gains for the militarist imperialist element in France, and a new war would be pre- pared by the rival groups of reaction- aries. In preparation for that war, teaction’ would crush out all demo- cratic powers and institutions in both countries. The world would swing back toward barbarism. Germans May Delay Election. Unofficial report is now made that the German election will be post- poned ‘until the date of the French election. This change is hailed with relief by the Conference promoters. Nevertheless they believe that the ut- most moral strength of America should be asserted now, to the safe- guarding of the German republic against monarchism and militarism and further collapse. If this be in- tervention in the affairs of another people, it will at least be friendly to the hopes of humanity in general, and it will run counter to most of the di- Plomatic interventions with which governments at Washington and else- where ‘muse themselves. Senators Frazier, Howell, Magnus Johnson, Ladd and Wheeler are mem- bers of the national committee. Most of the La Follette group in Congress will attend. IND, GOVERNOR TRIED AGAIN FOR $155,000 STEAL Forged Notes, Says District Attorney INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 21.— After being out of court just one week, Governor Warren T. McCray to- day went on trial a second time on charges of criminal acts growing out of the collapse of his personal fortune last summer. McCray’s federal court trial on charges of using the mails to defraud opened this morning with nearly 200 Indiana bankers called to testify for the government. xt : District Attorney Blliott Wilt ' at- tempt to prove that McCray used false financial statements and forged notes to deceive the banks and secure addi- tional credit from them during the months preceding his failure. McCray’s first trial, in the Marion County Criminal Court on charges of embezzling $155,000 from the State Board of Agriculture, resulted in a hung jury. Y. M. H. A. Announces House Warming For This "Wednesday Night Plans have been announced by the Young Men’s Hebrew Association for an elaborate house warming for this ‘Wednesday night, April 23, at the new home of the organization, 1208 North Hoyne avenue. The Y. M. H. A, boasts @ big membership and good prospects for the future. Big Meeting in Sait Lake City. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 21, —The Federation of Labor here in- dorsed Alexander Trachtenberg’s meeting scheduled for May 2 at Unity Hall. The federation will assist in financing the meeting. The third party has also been in- dorsed by the federation, and the or- ganization expects to send a delegate to the June 17 convention. The DAILY WORKER and the Farm La- bor Voice are circulated among the members of the federation. The Salt Lake City carpenters re- cently voted $9 for an eight-hour day.| p. m,, at 3322 Douglas Boulevard. The Huge Pictures of Lenin and Carillo are Shown on the Stage. The Workers Party CELEBRATE MAY DAY 1924 (Special to the Daily Worker.) NEW YORK CITY, April 21.—Monster May Day demonstrations to be held in New York and Brooklyn have been arranged for the afternoon and evening of Thursday, May ist. In the afternoon there will be open air rallies in Harlem, 110th street and 5th avenue; downtown at Rut- ger’s Square; and in Williamsburg at Grand Street Extension. In the evening two grand indoor celebrations will be held. The New York workers will gather at Central Opera House, 67th street and 3rd avenue, while in Brooklyn the meeting will be held at the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Prominent speakers will address both gather- ings. 5 Besides speaking there has been arranged an excellent musical pro- gram with special May Day selections. The Freiheit Gesangs Verein which has given several concerts at Carnegie Hall recently, will sing at Central Opera House. In the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum the Lithuanian Mandolin Orchestra will be heard. : All workers dre asked to come to these May Day celebrations and make this a memorable event in the history of the radical labor move- ment of New York. Tickets can be obtained at all Party headquarters, the Party press, and 208 East 12th street. As the capacity in both places is limited all | those desiring tickets are advised to secure them in advance. Leaflets are on hand at the District Office, 208 E. 12th street, and comrades are urged to come and get them for distribution. strike situation and other tmportant questions will be discussed. Forty new members were admitted into Local Chicago Workers Party rat “the last meeting of the C. C. C. This is the highest number taken in for a long time. Out of these forty members, eleven joined English Branches. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Membership Meeting April 22nd. The Labor Party Policy and its present decisive stage will be dis- cussed at the General Membership Meeting of the Workers Party, which will be held Tuesday evening, April 22nd, at 8 p. m. sharp, Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Comrade C. E. Ruthenberg, National Secretary of the Workers Party will open the dis- cussion. The call for the June 17th Convention at St. Paul, has already been sent out to all unions and other Workers’ organizations. Our Com- rades must be fully acquainted with the policy of the Workers Party, es- pecially in relation to the June 17th Convention. At the Tuesday night meeting our tactics, future plans and immediate activities will be laid down and we must be thoroly acquainted with every aspect of our work for the for- mation of a Class Farmer-Labor Party in the United States. Every party member is instructed to be present at this important meet- ing and Branch meetings scheduled for that night are declared cancelled, Members of the Young Workers League are also requested to be pres- ent at this meeting. Outsiders who are interested are al- 60 invited to attend. eee Branch Meetings. Asbeike All Branch meetings scheduled for Tuesday, April 22nd, will be cancelled so that every member can attend the General Membership meeting held that night at 2409 N. Halsted St. tie: Regular Branch Meetings Wednesday, April 23rd. Czecko Slovakian Branch No. 2, at Vojt Nakanstek School, 2550 8. Homan Avenue, Corner 26th St. Czecko Slovakian Branch No. 1, Spravedinost Hall, 1825 S. Loomis St. Scandinavian Lakeview Branch, Viking Temple at Sheffield and School Sts., North. 9 aE Polish, South Chicago, Soleynski’s Hall, 8715 Commercial Avenue. Roumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Avenue, North. All branch meetings are at 8 p. m., unless otherwise stated. Visitors are especially invited. All local members should watch this column for news of all rou- tine and special Party meetings. — Martin Abern, City Secretary. 7s? @ 5g RRR ie a Tickets Go Fast for May Day Meeti os The Eve dl ah tas Casio Big Debate Between to work out plans for the May Day Celebration will meet Wednesday night, April 23rd, at 8 p. m., 180 W. Washington St., Room 200. On Thursday, May ist, at 820 N. Clark Street, North Side Turner Hall, the United May Day Celebration will be held, beginning at 8 p. m. eee Literature Agents. A meeting of the Branch Literature Agents will take place at 3322 Doug- las Boulevard, Thursday, April 24th, at 8p, m, GH NG 8!) Mee Meetings—Public. ~~ Comrade John Edwards will speak at the Maplewood Branch of the Y, W. L., 2733 Hirsh Boulevard, Thurs- day, April 24th, on “Youth And The Labor Party.” Comrade William F. Dunne, editor DAILY WORKER, will speak at the Englewood Branch of the Young Workers League, Thursday, April 24th, at 8 p. m., 6359 South Ashland|153 Broadway, Volkszeitung, 15 Ave. on “Youth In Industry.” Spruce §t.; Workers’ School, 125 Nearing and Seligman epestal to The Daily Worker) N! YORK CITY, April 21.—Tick- ets for the Seligman-Nearing debate on April 27th, are s€lling so fast that @ full house is practically assured. The debate is undoubtedly, the big- gest of the season and will prove to be one of the most memorable, too. There are probaly no two men as well qualified to meet in debate as Frofessors EB. R. A. Seligman and Scott Nearing. Professor Seligman will maintain that capitalism can solve the gigantic problems that face the modern world, while Scott Near- ing will contend for the opposite point of view. The chairman of the debate will be Bishop Paul Jones, The debate will take place in the Central Opera House, 67th Street and 8rd Avenue. It is scheduled to start at 2:30 sharp. Tickets can be obtained at Freiheit, in Action MANY MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS BY WORKERS PARTY Industrial Cie Will Hail Great Day, Preliminary preparations indicate that the May Day Celebrations this year will be the largest and most extensive in the history of the Par- ty. The National Office is being flood- ed with demands for May Day speak- ers in all parts of the country and | every available speaker is being mob- ilized for service on this occasion. Speaking assignments so far defin- itely made by the National Office are as follows: Chicago—W. F. Dunne and Alexan- der Bittelman. Kansas .City—Max Bedacht...4 Cleveland—C. H. Ruthenberg. Pittsburgh—Ludwig Lore. Boston—Robert Minor. Philadelphia—H. M. Wicks. Zeigler, Ill.—Arne Swabeck. Johnston City, Il.—Arne Swabeck. Christopher, Il.—Arne Swabeck. In some cities the May Day Cele- bration will take place on Sunday, May 4th. Speakers assigned from the National Office for these meetings so far are as follows: vented St. Louis—Arne Swabeck. West Frankfort, I1l1—W. F. Dunne, Valier, IlL—W. F. Dunne. Toledo, Ohio—Joseph Manley. Minneapolis—Earl Browder. St. Paul—Earl Browder. In addition to the above each dis- trict Organizer is arranging meetings in the smaller towns thruout his dis- trict with local speakers, All Workers Party organizations are urged to send in full information about their May Day plans. Send names of speakers, addresses of halls and time of theeting, so that this data can be run in a special display no- tice for several days before May Day. a Big Detroit Meeting. DETROIT, Mich., April 21—In his Detroit meeting Tuesday, April 15, practically ever seat in the auditorium of the Houses of the Masses was taken and an interested audience lis- tened eagerly while Comrade Trach- tenberg described the relative merits of revolutionary class warfare as car- ried on in Russia versus the German method of “class collaboration.” Russian revolutionary workers smashed the bourgeois state appara- tus and established the proletarian dictatorship, The less courageous leaders in the German revolution suc- cumbed to the delusion of a “people’s government” and the logic of events has “coalesced” the workers out of all governmental influence, until today the Social-Democratic President Bbert and his government are the mainstays of German reaction. Such were the lessons to be drawn from the Russian versus the German revolutions, Detroit Federation Addressed. ‘Wednesday evening Comrade Trach: tenberg addressed the delegates of the Detroit Federation of Labor on the Russian trade unions. The trade anions in Russia, according to the speaker, have an extremely influen tial position in the Soviet state They feel that they are the owners o! industry. The Soviet government car take no step regarding industry with out consulting the trade unions, whict There will be a meeting of the T.|-Fourth Ave.; Trade Union Wducation- U. B. L. members of the Internation-} al League, 208 B. 12th St.; Jimmie al Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, | Higgins Book Store, 127 University Saturday afternoon, April 26th, at 2| Place; Ginsburg’s Book Store, 1821 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, since the revolution are “organs o production” rather than weapons o the class struggle. Herein do th Russian unions differ from the tradi unions in every other SOUR yy aa Ate ett