The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1924, Page 3

& a on Saturday, May 17, 1924 SEND FIRE-TRAP SCHOOLS AFTER FIRE HAZARDS School Board Removes Little Risks Only Fire hazards but not fire-traps are to be removed from .Chicago city schools, according to the latest re- port from Business Manager Byrne of the school board. The hazards were not even noticed until after the Dun- ning Insane Hospital disaster, when Assistant Fire Marshal McDonald of the city fire prevention bureau, made a casual inspection of schools. The DAILY WORKER pointed out months ago the fire hazards and fire traps among city schools, Begin On 87 Schools, Thirty-seven schools will be visited at once and a fund of $37,000 is avail- able for the removing of refuse under wooden stairways, tearing out wood- en partitions, putting in assembly hall “exit” signs, building iron fire escapes, etc. Several schools were closed when the startling fire hazards were dis- covered. Inspector MeDonald was amazed that the dangerous conditions had not been discovered earlier, as the fire-breeding conditions have been in existence a long time. In domestic science rooms the tables under the gas plates have not been covered with metal, Refuse has been allowed to accumulate under stairways and in basement store- rooms. Lumber has been stored un- der school buildings. Inflammable scenery has been stored in attics. School room seats are not always fast- ened to the floor and shades or ob- scuring hangings have been placed over “exit” ck, ba Not Even Enough Alarm Bells. Tn some cases obstruction such as statuary have been placed in front of fire escapes, Fire ladders are not all secure. Fire alarm gongs have not been placed in all halls and rooms. Steps are frequently found missing from fire escapes. Even after the clean-up and repair campaign, the fire-trap buildings will remain just as menacing as ever. Re- moving fire hazards is like ploughing the ground with a sharp stick, assert fire prevention authorities. The real need is for new sanitary, fire-proof buildings. r Phone Spaulding 4070 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO, Painters and Decorators Betimetey on New “and Old Work al ‘or 2619 ILWAU EE Vi, CHICAGO PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 ¥ jor ‘ears 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor, Arthur St. George E, Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial ‘ Hall CHICAGO BUY AT LOW YouR DRUGS PRICES THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth Paste ..... 75c—3 cakes Cuticura Soap. SALEMS $1.00 59c AREEN TABLETS FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Bivd. We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 572; Austin 4117 We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, etc. Amalgamated BSS EMBLEM Trachtenberg Gives Great Lecture On The Pacific Coast Alexander Trachtenberg’s great lecture on “What I saw in Russia and Germany” will be heard in the radical atmosphere of Puget Sound today when he speaks in Seattle, Wash. His next dates run as follows: Vancouver, B. C., Sunday, May 18. Butte, Mont., Carpenters’ Hall, West Granite St., Wednesday, May 21, 8 p. m. St. Paul, Minn., Labor Temple, 416 FrankJin, Sunday, May 25, 8 p. m. Minneapolis, Minn., First Unitarian Church, Hight St. and La Salle Ave., Monday, May 26, 8 p, m. Superior, Wis., Workers Hall, Tower Ave, and North Fifth St, Tuesday, May 27, 8 p. m, REVIEW PULLMAN STRIKE ISSUES IN MASS MEETING Point Need Of Class Political Action The Pullman strike is to be re viewed .before a mass meeting in Stancik’s Hall, 205 Hast 115th street, Pullman, on Tuesday, May 20th, at 8 p..m., under the auspices of the Work- ers Party. The struggle of the ex- ploited Pullman company workers against their dictatorial bosses is not to be allowed to die with the conclud- ing of the last strike. J. Louis Engdabl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Jack Mc- Carthy, circulation manager of the paper, and Manuel Gomez, well-known speaker of the Labor Defense Coun- cil staff, will bring clearly before the workers of Pullman and their families the issues of the late strike and show how that fight merely pointed the way to future action. Polish and Slavic Speakers. Speakers in Polish and South Sla- vic will also help to give the work- ers an understanding of their true situation and relation to the industrial lords of the country and of their par. ticular community. The course of the strike will be explained and the reasons for the workers’ inability to make a more: effective showing against the powerful Pullman com- pany. It will be shown that the workers’ fight in this small field indicates the need for greater class consciousness and for a mass class organization to gain political power for the workers of the country. * Smith And McAdoo ° Boosters Fight For Michigan Support FLINT, Mich, May ict.—Neither supporters of William G. McAdoo or Governor Al Smith appeared able to- day to claim a complete victory in the Michigan democratic convention, which adjourned yesterday. An attempt to put Michigan’s 30 delegates to the national convention under the unit rule, was abandoned when serious opposition developed. Henry Ford, who defeated Ferris by about six thousand majority in the preferential primary, was read out of the party in a resolution which passed without opposition. Muller’s RESTAURANT A good place to eat. 1010 RUSH STREET Tel. Superior 7079 Downstairs of National Office. DETROIT, MICH. Mikel Sherman, N. D. Naturopath & Chiropractor When other methods fail try Nature's road to health. Hours: 11 to 4 and 6 to 8 P. M. 4863 VAN DYKE AVENUE, betw. Forest and Gratiot Pe re eT TTT LLLLLLLLLLLLLLcLLLLLLLALcLLLLL LLL LLL Food Workers GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry THIS IS OUR RUSSIAN FILM SEEN BY GREAT CHICAGO CROWD Enthusiasts Fill Every Seat in Huge Hall A great crowd attended two per- formances of the motion picture “Rus- sia and Germany” Wednesday night at Orchestra Hail. Long before the doors opened many people gathered for the show and within fifteen minutes time all seats were taken for the first show. Not the least feature of the program was the musical accompaniment, play: ed on the great organ by one of the leading professional motion-picture or- ganists of the city. “The Internation- al” and many other Russian army tunes roared thru the great house—, and not a pipe cracked. The audience was tremendously responsive and all thru the picture there were punctua- tions of applause and laughter. Some In Wrong Church There was in attendance a very small contingent of German Fascist sympathizers who started to applaud when a_ steel-helmetted apostle of “democracy” stood guard over the crushed labor government of Saxony, A roar of whistles and cat-calls left no room for doubt as to the sym: pathies of the great mass in attend ance. In showing the international labor response to the German workers’ ap- peal for help, the applause was unini- mous, especially when the Interna- tional Workers Aid World Congress in the Prussian Senate was shown to have in attendance delegates from practically every country in Europe and from practically every faction of the labor movement. The spectacle of Edo Fimmen, of the Amsterdam In- ternational of Trade Unions, and Ma- thilde Worm, Social - Democratic Reichstag member, speaking from the same platform with the noted Com- munist Willie Muenzenberg, and the French Communist deputy Baptiste, certainly proved the I. W. A. German Relief activity a united front support- ed by all except the blackest bureau- crats. William F. Kruse, who photograph- ed most of the scenes shown in the film, spoke briefly of his experiences abroad, and a collection of over $500 was taken up. John Brown’s Body” “a Moldering, S@ Is\. American Democracy LAKE PLACID, N. Y., May 16.— Sixty representatives of the Negro race joined with the John Brown Me- morial association in a pilgrimage to the grave of John Brown at North Biba, near here, on the one hundred and twenty-fourth anniversary of the birth of the celebrated opponent of slavery. . A suitable monument to Brown, to be erected by public subscription, is planned by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple, Field Secretary William Pickens announced. “During the civil war,” said Pickens, “the northern armies marched to the song, ‘John Brown's Body Lies a Molding in the Grave,’ and it is in an obscure spot that his body still lies.” Canadian Russians Moving Back. MOSCOW, May 16.—Representa- tives of a group of more than 3,000 Dokoboras from Canada have arrived in Moscow to negotiate terms for set- tling as an agricultural commune in southern Russia, The Dokoboras have a fine outfit of the most modern farm machinery and several million dol- lars in capital. During the time of the czar these people left Russia to settle in Can- ada. They are leaving Canada be- cause the business men of that coun- try are intent on exploiting them to the limit. Phone Armitage 8529 CHRIST BORNER UNION BARBER SHOP 1631 N. California Ave. JOHN H. JARVIN, M.D, D.D.S. DENTIST 3223 N.. CLARK ST., near Belmont Chicago Hours: 1 to 7 p. m.—Evenings and Sundays by Appointment. Phone Buckingham 2909 MEET AT S. FEINMAN and SON 338 W. Van Buren St. Chicago THE ONLY PLACE TO EAT Meet us at the Prudential Restaurant 752 NORTH AVE. The only place to eat. WM. P. WELTMAN Representing New York Life Insurance Co, Insures You Right 39 S, LA SALLE ST., PHONE CENTRAL 5501 THE DAILY WORKER Congress Defies Coolidge, Passes Jap Exclusion Bill WASHINGTON, May 16—The immi- gration bill containing the Japanese exclusion provision was sent to the White House today for final action, Action by congress was completed when the house adopted the confer- ence report, 308 to 58 and the senate took the same action, 69 to 9, All efforts by the president to de- lay the date of exclusion so that a treaty might be drawn with Japan, was*futile. He has since given indica- tions to congressmen and senators that he might not veto the measure even tho it did not conform to his ex- act desires. COMPROMISERS GONTROL PENNSY Fi-L, CONVENTION Vote To Send Delegates To Cleveland Meet By ABRAM JAKIRA. ‘Special to TheeDaily Worker) ALEENTOWN, Pa., May 16.—The Farmer-Labor convention closed here after a terrific seven-hour battle which resulted in the defeat by the official machine of the resolution call- ing for delegates to the June 17th con- vention in St. Paul, altho the temper of the convention was markedly in favor of the June convention rather than the July 4th at Cleveland, and four of the seven state Executive Committee elected were for June 17th, The DAILY WORKER was exhibit- ed and the “red” cry was raised by the official machine, led by Chairman Kutz, who succeeded in clouding the issue and getting over the officials’ program of endorsement for July 4th. Resolutions Committee Leads Offensive. The resolutions committee appoint- ed by Chairman Kutz, a member of the Fitzpatrick Farmer-Labor party, would not accept the resolutions for St. Paul and condemned the July 4th convention. The committee sub- mitted a substitute resolution to send delegates to Cleveland and not to affiliate with a national body without ,yaction from the state convention. Delegate Kushnie, of the resolu- tions committee, submitted a minority report in favor of June 17th and against the July 4th convention. Practically every delegate spoke on the question during the succeeding debatty Pat Toohey, a miner, opened the fight for St. Paul. It was really a magnificent sight to see the 18 year old miner standing in the center of the large, luxurious convention hall, giving the old-timers an excellent les- son in politics. His speech was met with general applause. He was followed by Delegate Mark, vice-president of District 2, United Mine Workers, who spoke for the ma- jority report. Not a single delegate dared applaud him, so strong was the sentiment for June 17th. He had to admit he had nothing against St. Paul. Fred Merrick, in an eloquent speech, made it clear that the leaders of the July 4th group are against in- dependent political action and that the convention is called to sabotage rather than to form a Labor Party. Speaker after speaker spoke in favor of June 17th, with the excep- tion of a few union officials who de- fended July 4th. Resort to Red Tricks. The official machine saw its defeat, when Lever, of the Machinists’ union, and a half-baked progressive, came to the rescue by proposing a compromise to send delegates to both conventions. Up to that time Lever opposed June 17th. - The radicals refused to compro- mise, Then the officials began a cam- paign against Communism, exhibiting the DAILY WORKER as proof’ of their foul contentions. Chairman Kutz refused to recognize numerous objections against the attempt to ob- scure the issue by dragging Commun- ism into the debate. Before closing the discussion, the chairman decided to resort to a tactic usually applied by union officials in critical moments, by making a most vicious and false report of what hap- pened at the July 3rd convention and pointing out that, as part of the na- tional Farmer-Labor Party, this con- vention must send delegates to the July 4th convention. Roll Call Impossible, Chairman Kutz would not allow Fred Merrick and other delegates to make corrections to his misstate- ments, and succeeded in putting over his trick, The Lever group joined hands with the reactionaries and jointly defeated the June 17th proposition by vote of 32 to 21. Roll call was impossible as no list of the delegates was available. The same delegates who voted for July 4th, turned down a resolution condemning Pinchot for failing to keep his promise to pardon political prisoners. The so-called “progressive” Lever of Philadelphia politely re- frained from voting on this resolu- tion. A resolution proposed by Fred Mer- rick, on the Pittsburgh car strike, was unanimously adopted. The same officers were re-elected and a state executive committee of seven. Four of these had stood solidly HICAGO | for June 17th, which illustrates the sentiment of the convention. NEGROES WILL SMOKE OUT THE KU KLUX KLAN Hooded’ Terrorists Get Own Medicine (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 16.—In an effort to smoke out pussyfooting politicians on Ku Klux Klan lawlessness and make the klan an issue in the polit- ical campaign, the National Associ- ation for the Advancement of Colored People, New York, calls upon Indiana Negro voters to defeat the Republican nominee for governor, indorsed by the klan. “The klan should be made a direct and paramount issue by colored vot- ers in Indiana, and the N. A. A. C. P, is urging Negroes to defeat any candi- date or party failing to make their po- sition in this matter clearly and un- equivocally understood,” says the statement. “The N. A. A. C. P. went definitely on record at its conference last year in Kansas City in favor of the polit- ical emancipation of the Negro from allegiance to any party on historical grounds. Not what parties have done in the past, but what they are doing today concerns the Negro voter. In a number of states Negro votes have retired congressmen who voted against the Dyer anti-lynching bill, one of them being’ Dr. Caleb R, Lay- ton, Dupont’s candidate in Delaware. There is every reason for Negro votes to be cast against candidates for of- fice, of whatever party, who accept klan support or indorse and repre- sent the klan point of view, with its religious bigotry, its racial intoler- ance, and its appeal to crude mob sentiment.” a Se BALLSTON SPA, N, Y., May 16.— Ku Klux Klan members who have been trying to make trouble in Sara- toga county, New York, got the worst of it in a free-for-all fight, when sey- eral hundred anti-klansmen broke up a klan meeting here. Local police were unable to protect the klansmen. Ex-Gary Officials Try To Dodge Jail Studebaker Theatre 418 S, MICHIGAN BOULEVARD Tomorrow (Sunday) Morning Eleven o’Clock Great Public Debate BETWEEN Percy Ward The Eminent Rationalist Lecturer AND Rev. CarlyleSummerbell, D.D. Formerly at The University of Chicago. Chaplain in the American Legion, Captain-Chaplain, Reserve Corps, U. S, A. Ex-Chaplain, American Expeditionary Forces in Franée, On the Question: “Can a Man of Modern Culture Be a Christian?” Mr, Ward:*No.* | All Seats: Fifty Cents Dr. Summerbell: “Yes.” ITALIAN COMMUNIST DAILY SOON The Italian section of the Workers Party is preparing to transform its weekly paper, “Alba Nuova”, into a daily Italian workers’ paper. The first issue of the new daily, which will appear under the name “Il Lar voratore”, is to appear on May 18th. The Italian daily will cover the news of the labor movement the world over, giving first attention to In Booze Appeal Attorneys for former mayor Roswell Q. Johnson, of Gary, Ind., the former chief of police of Gary, and 38 others convicted with them in Indianapolis in 1922 in connection with violation of the Federal Dry Act are scheduled to appear in federal court this afternoon in an effort to secure an appeal from the decision of the Indianapolis court. 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