The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 24, 1924, Page 4

— Ly Page Four THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50....6 months $2.60....38 mont'as $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, IIlinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL ) WILLIAM F. DUNNE) MORITZ J. LOEB... .. Editors jusiness Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. <> 20 Advertising rates on application, More About Progressives In an attempt to explain the why and wherefore of the American Federation of Labor becoming more of a subsidiary of the American Defense So- ciety than a trade union body fighting for the workers. “Public Affairs,’ a somewhat liberal Washington monthly: offers a clarification which has a most unclean covert thrust in it. This “non-partisan” magazine attributes labor bureaucracy’s fear of the Communists to the belief “that the Communist Party in this country is sub- sidized, promoted and maintained by Wall Street thru provocatory agents.” In discussing the fin- ancing of “Labor” and the DAILY WORKER, the editor tells the readers that union members support the first publication, it keeps mum on the source of the DAILY WORKER’S support, and then goes on to emit an impotent wail about the “undoubted sin- cerity of the Communist outfit and the frequently useful contributions of the paper itself.” But— and here is the big “‘b” in nine of every ten so-called liberal lamentations—the fair-minded journal con- cludes with the statement that the effect of the DAILY WORKER: “can only be to retard any progressive movement in America, or perhaps to destroy it utterly.” This is insolence with a vengance for a spokes- man of the self-styled progressives who still hand out thrash about the magnanimous role that a Ralston can play in the life of the country, in the everyday events of the working and farming masses. While Wall Street was banqueting Mr. Gompers, its government was hounding and persecuting the Communists. There has never been launched a campaign against the Communists of this country that has not been inspired and financed by Wall Street. While Mr. Gompers, who is a constructive progressive in the eyes of the excited liberal editor, was joining hands with the strike-breaking United Chamber of Commerce, which is the recog- -mouthpiece of finance capital in this coun- try. The DAILY WORKER, brought into life by the contributions of the poor workingmen and farmers, was under fire from the Farringtons and the Leweses for its serving the demand that the United Mine Workers of Illinois be returned to the hundred thousand miners of the state. The Communists and their press and propaganda are the most constructive forces in the labor move- ment today. In every recent hig strike, in every bitter struggle of the workers against the exploit- ers, it has been the Communists who have been in the front ranks. The Communists are the dynamic force in the whole Farmer-Labor political move- ment. The DAILY WORKER, as the organ of the Communists, has never failed the workers. It would be useless to ask where “Public Affairs” and the so-called progressives were in the recent struggles of the workers. The answer to this ques- tion would tell us where this group stands today, where it will be found tomorrow, and would settle the dispute as to who is who in the class conflict between the exploiters and the working and farm- ing masses. In Wall Street’s Grip Slowly. the whole truth is leaking out. J. Pier- pont Morgan is now giving his orders openly to the proposed Herriot “socialist bloc” government in France. “Morgan Warns Paris Radicals to Cut no Taxes,” is the outspoken headline in the Chicago Tribune over a London despatch from its British correspondent, John Steele, May 22. One of the big promises of the “socialist bloc” during the recent campaign that put it in power, was the reduction of taxes, a bait that caught many workers and farmers. But the “socialist bloc” accepts the capitalist system as the basis of its rule, and its orders from Morgan are that it must continue the heavy taxes of the imperialist Poin- care government, that rest most heavily upon the broad masses of the people. It doesn’t help the next premier, Herriot, to pro- elaim he has made no pledges to Morgan. He may try to blackmail the Wall Street financier by threatening an investigation of the recent smash- ing of the price of the franc, and its later specta- cular rise, out of which Mr. Morgan is reputed to have reaped a golden harvest of about $100,000,000. Byt the threats and blackmail do not bother Mr. Morgan. He knows that the “socialist bloc” has accepted his social system, the capitalist sys- tem, as its own. There is only one government that will not take orders from Morgan and his Wall Street pals. That will be the French Soviet gov- ernment and that must rise on the abject failure of Herriot's “socialist bloc” to solve the problems of the French workers and farmers. The injunction judges don’t like us. Neither does Frank Farrington, the henchmen of the re- publican party, who still hangs on to the labor “movement. There must be a reason. It shouldn't be difficult for an intelligent worker to find it, Watch Your Wages! It appears as if the expected business slump has arrived somewhat Sooner than many high-priced economic experts prophesied it would. A perusal of the leading financial and industrial journals re- veals unanimity about the sharp fall in business. The Magazine of Wall Street in summing up the present dark economic outlook soundly declared: “The fact is that for several years we have been going along smoothly filling out the post-war de- mands for sundries, such as new housing, railroad equipment, automobiles to ride around in) and many other essentials and non-essentials. That demand has to an appreciable extent been satis- fied.” Of course, the disturbed world conditions and the increasing competition confronting the United States, particularly in the market for agri- cultural products, have only aggravated the ten- dency towards a decline in production and busi- ness. As usual, it is the workers and poor farmers who suffer first and most in all economic crises. Not only is the air thick with plans to slash the workingmen’s wages, but recent weeks have seen substantial wage cuts come with increasing fre- quency. Steel, cotton, shoe, and carpet manufac- turers are cutting wages and reducing their operat- ing forces. New York rug and knitting mills have just. re- duced the wages of their workers by ten per cent. At Worcester, Massachusetts, the Whittall Mills, making carpets, have ordered a similar wage re- duction to take immediate effect. In Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, thirty-nine shoe factories have reduced wages by twenty per cent. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania wages have declined last month. The Woonsocket Rubber Company, as subsidiary of the United States Rubber Company, has just shut down, Leading locomotive and cap shops are go- ing on a five day week. In the Birmingham dis- trict the Republic Iron and Steel Company is put- ting in force lower wages. Financial circles are expecting an early announcement of a general wage cut in the steel industry. Steel is the baro- meter of the wage trend in industry. It is now obvious that the summer will see the tendency towards wage cuts become more pro- nounced. What are the workers going to do about it? Preparedness is the best policy in the class war. If the working class is to maintain even the meagre advantages it has won thru the bit- terest of struggles over long years, it should forth- with take steps to put an end to the new wage- cutting campaign before it gets beyond control and visits untold difficulties and suffering amongst great masses. Every trade union, every organization of the working class is vitally concerned with this new menace and cannot act too quickly to take effective steps to meet the danger to the workers’ homes and lives. eyes 5 The Filipino Strike A serious revolt by a great mass of’ Filipino tenant farmers has broken out against the sugar barons. The present strike, declared to secure better payment for the sugar workers: is of more deep-going significance than surface indications would tend to indicate. The struggle of the Filipino tenants is primari- ly a fight against a vicious system of petty bos- sism, known as caciqueism. The strike is a mass protest against social and political oppression as well as against economic exploitation. The out- come of the conflict will have far-reaching effects on. the political and economic life of the Philippine Islands. The vicious system of caciqueism under which the sub-lieutenants of the poWerful sugar barons rule over the tenant farmers working the fields with an iron, ruthless hand is fighting for its very existence in this strike. Should these dauntless workers win, the victory would undoub- tedly prove a signal for a general onslaught against the whole tyrannical order, an attack which could result only in a successful ending for the working and farming masses. The American working and farming classes are interested in this strike especially at this time. The unrest among the tenant farmers is merely a phase of the general unrest and dissatisfaction that. is gripping the entire Filipino people. The fight now being waged by the twenty thousand ey a sugar workers in Hawaii against the inhumane working conditions and the starvation wages forced upon them by the sugar capitalists under the leadership of the American Governor General is more evidence of the rebellious temper of the Fili- pino people at this date. And the increasing de- mand being made by the Filipino masses for com- plete national freedom from the imperialist Washington government is, today, the dynamic force of the widespread discontent that has seized the Islands. These events show the mood in which the Philip- pine nation in general, and the Filipino work- ing and farming masses in particular, are at this moment. Since it is our capitalist government, our own exploiting class, that is today the prin- cipal oppressor of the Filipinos, the working and farming classes of the United States should take full heed of the developments in the Philippines. We should do everything in our power to hasten the evacuation of the Islands by the American military and naval officers and by the Yankee ex- ploiters. The achievement of national freedom will be of tremendous aid to the Filipino working masses ‘towards their establishment of complete working class freedom in the Islands, towards ridding the Philippines of all exploiters, native as well as foreign. THE DAILY WORKER not only believes in the six-hour workday, but it believes, with the late Charles P. Steinmetz, that all the necessary work in the world could be done with a four-hour work- day. Workers! Demand the shortening of the workday. THE DAILY WORKER |MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION UNITE WORKERS BOOSTS SOVIET RUSSIA; MAY TO SAFEGUARD FORCE GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION HEALTH, LIFE By LUDWELL DENNY (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Conference Demands Preventive Action NEW YORK, May 23.—Despite Hughes’ anti-Russian policy, Russia is recognized by the United States business men to the extent that the National Association of Manufacturers devoted an entire session of its annual convention, New York, to “The Truth About Russia.” ' There is a stable government in Russia and economic con- ditions are improving. These truths supported by facts and figures were brought out by the speakers, who refused to deal sy discredited propaganda tales H t nationalizati economic chaos, and the Immic| | OARMENT STRIKERS ENJOY CONCERT OF ITALIAN OPERA STARS By LUDWELL. DENNY. (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 23.—A 40-hour week in all dangerous trades is the demand of over 50 labor organizations in the Workers’ Health bureau, which has completed its second national conference {in New York. Painters and hatters who told how they had won the 40-hour week in parts of New York and Connecticut, inspired the conference to launch the new cam- paign. Methods for combatting lead poison- ing and other diseases were outlined by Prof. Yandell Henderson, Yale uni- versity, Emery Hayhurst, Ohio State university, and Joseph Renikoff, Har- vard. Direct Action for Health. “Direct action by the workers in the field of-health is more effective than anything legislation can do for them,” said Dr. James P. Warbasse, Co-oper- ative League of America, in describ- ing the co-operative health organiza- tions in Europe. “The death rate in Milan is 21 per 1000, but is only 9 per 1000 among members of the work- ers’ health co-operative. Plans adopted by the conference for reducing “sickness, disability and pre- mature death” among workers, in- clude the following: organize the un- organized on the health field, health safeguards in union contracts espe- cially on state and municipal jobs, eli- minate dangerous devices like paint spraying machines, better law enforce- ment and uniform and adequate com- pensation laws in all states, eliminate harmful materials like white lead wherever satisfactory substitutes have been found. nent fall of the government. Isaac J. Sherman, president of Ar- cos-American Inc., Russian ‘co-opera- tive organization, was more enthusi- astic than H. Dana Durand, U. 8S. de- partment of commerce, who said Rus- sia’s trade importance is over-esti- mated, and Irving T. Bush, Bush Ter- minal Co., the remaining speaker. But all of them dealt with Soviet Russia as a reality that has to be reckoned with. Soviets To Stay. “There is no question but that the present government is going to last,” said Bush. “I didn’t find one person (in Russia) who thought it would fall.” But he expects it to change its methods and enlarge the Communist party. Russia is destined in the end to be a conservative country like France because. 85 per cent of its population is peasantry, owning land, he added. He “saw no disorder of any kind,” “leaders of the revolution are sincere,” “second strata of gov- ernment officials are about like those in U.S. A.” He praised Russia’s edu- cational system compared with the Czar’s. He disagreed with Hughes’ statements regarding Russian propa- ganda in this and other countries. Many things for the betterment of Russia and mankind have come out of the communist experiment, Bush admitted. “The Soviet government has shown ENRICO CLAUS! Forty per cent of the hatters are victims of ‘mecury poisoning accord- ing to an investigation among Dan- bury workers made by Harvard doc- tors, delegates reported. “Lung dis- eases have increased 144 per cent in the granite stone industry due to sili- ceous dust,” Director Harriet Silver- man, Workers’ Health bureau, told the conference. A trade union advisory health coun- cil to the bureau was formed by la- bor. delegates from New York, Pa., Conn., Mass., N. J., and Wis. The bureau, which co-operates with un- ions all over the country, is located at 799 Broadway, New York. | Our Daily Pattern A Popular Play Suit. no disposition to abandon its funda- mental policy of state operation of industry and trade,” was the worst Hoover's assistant, Durand could. re- port. His figures for Russia in 1923 showed crop acreage increase of 17 per cent over 1922, grain exports 1-5 of pre-war, and major manufacturing and mining production 1-3 of pre-war. Bolsheviks Keep Their Word. “Prejudice and lack of knowledge” only stand between the U. S. and Rus- sia, said Sherman. “There does not exist in Russia any party or group of importance which would desire or pre- tend to desire to overthrow the gov- ernment. First, the regime is too well intrenched; second, all factions pin their hopes on peaceful evolution and gradual adjustment. Still another bogey is the widespread belief that the Bolsheviki do not keep their word. I challenge anybody to present a single case where the soviet govern- ment disregarded its obligations, has not fulfilled its contracts or failed to keep its word.” “Russia’s trade grows, her produc- tion increases, her political prestige steadily gains, and her economic strength begins to influence the world markets,” he said. Measured in gold rubles her imports rose from 29,055,- 000 in 1920 to 144,059,000 in 1923, ex- por-s from 1,397,000 to 205,747,000, and total turnover from 30,452,000 to 349,804,000. Her present favorable trade balance is 10,000,000 a month. The currency has been stabilized and put on a gold basis. Agriculture is 75 per cent of pre-war average. Since 1920 coal industry has ‘increased 59 per cent, oil 25 per cent, metal 186 per cent, textile 223 per cent. “Four firms in New York during the first four months of this year’ did with the Soviet Union a business exceed- ing $20,000,000.° If Russian trade has taken such a spontaneous develop- ment, in spite of many obstacles, what wonderful results could one not ex- pect if the relations between these countries were placed on a.normal.ba- sis.” He said 20 countries had recog- nized Russia. “The Soviet Union is a fact whether you recognize it or ig- nore it. It is also a fact that it con- trols territory representing 1-6 of the earth, with 150,000,000 inhabitants, with enormous riches undeveloped and with wealth beyond estimation,” Sherman concluded. MARIO CARBONI Mario, Carboni, baritone, and En- rico Clausi, tenor, stars of the Italian Grand Opera, entertained the: strik- ing ladies’ garment workers recently with a well-chosen program. Miss Reed accompanied the singers. Jack Pfeiffer was responsible for the splen- did concert, which was the fifth one he has provided for the strikers’ pleasure. The music was much enjoyed by the strikers, as their applause indicated. The garment workers thanked the singers heartily for their generosity. High Accident Rate Due To Employment Of Strikebreakers (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, more industrial accidents in the coun- try are reported by the American As- sociation for Labor Legislation in its survey for the year. The increase ranged. from 13.4 per cent in New. York to 53.1 per. cent and 52.2 per cent in Utah and Montana, where mine accidents were common. Em- ployment of inexperienced workers as sttikebreakers, is given: as one of the chief reasons for the high ac- cident’ rate. 4706. ‘Quite as much a favorite with children as the “one-piece dress” with grown ups, is .the Romper Dress. The style here portrayed may be finished with wrist length or elbow sleeves. As here shown brown wool repp was used, with collar, sleeve and 6g ‘bands, embroidered with dots Pa ré&l worsted. This is a good style for pongee, gingham and chambrey. The pattern is cut in 3 size: 4, 6 and 8 years. A 4-year size re- quires 2% yards of 32-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on reecipt of 12 cents in silver or stamps. The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Examinations May 26 for Mine Jobs. SPRINGFIELD, Il., May 23.—Fran- ces M. Devlin, of West Frankfort, and Patrick Gillen, of this city, will repre- sent the miners of the state on the state mining board which will conduct examinations here beginning May 26 for mine managers, hoisting engineers, steam or electrical, and mine examin- ers. Two representatives of the coal operators and Martin Bolt, director of the state department of mines, com-|Senator William EF. Borah writes in plete the board. the New York World, UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS Russia Needed for World Health. NEW YORK, May 23.—“The unrest of the world, the lack of prosperity in all lands—the many symptoms of uneasiness—all these things are due to a large extent to the refusal of many nations, the United States among them, to recognize Russia a sister in the family of nation Mellon Will Go. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Pasgage of the soldier bonus bill by the senate, over the veto of the president, did not lead to the resignation of Secretary Mellon or any other member of the cabinet. Mellon's resignation will come later—and for quite another reason after Francis Heney and Sen. Couzens start the official investigation into his administration, of the internal revenue bureau. Saturday, May 24, 1924 AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY Chicago Tribune scribblers, in Rigas Berlin and London, are drawing liber- ally on their imaginations to keep the Americans, who believe what they see in the World’s Greatest Liar, posted on what is not happening in Soviet Russia. There are almost as many innocent bystanders murdered each day in that country, according to the uninspired correspondents as the Eng- lish used to wipe, out in France in the early days of the world war, when several German armies were anni- hilated weekly, by the British propa- gandists. se 8 It is not surprising that the capl- talist correspondents should work overtime, now that. the Communist International is about to go into ses- sion. We will surely hear of large appropriations of Russian chervonetz to-support the candidacy of Robert LaFollette for the presidency, and perhaps to hefp finance the Teapot » Dome investigation. There will plots to start another civil war Ireland, another political party Germany and dual Ku Klux Kian ganizations in America. nd The only possible excuse that could be offered for the appointment of W1- liam J. Burns to the position he held as chief of the investigation bureau of the Department of Justice, would be that “it takes a crook to catch a crook.” Instead of catching crooks, however, Burns proved to be the greatest crook in America, with the possible exception of Harry Daugh- erty, who seems to hold the lead over them all. Since the graft investiga- tions opened in Washington, it is re- ported the “forty thieves” have gone out of business. « ieee Sake Edouard Herriot, the so-called radi- cal socialist and probably the next premier of France, is assuring the bankers and big business that they need not fear his “radicalism.” They need not. He is quit esafe. So are the socialists who are a little more to the left than he is. The socialists protest that they will not accept port- folios in the new government. But we fear they protest too much. Some people are of the opinion that their protests serve the purpose of enabling them to strike a better bargain. They are itching for office and having no principles to lose, we cannot see how collaborating with the bourgeois left bloc in the government can pollute them. be in in or- se @ Ramsay. MacDonald is assuring the Tories and Liberals in England that if they have patience he will prove that big business has nothing to fear from the so-called Labor governmént. At that he declares that the Tories are easier to get along with than the liberals. Yes. Sometime the liberals vote against war credits and larger navies. But the Tories never do. MacDonald fears.only one element in England and that is the working class. 2 * If all the patriotic ladies who pro- fess a willingness to die for the coun- try should jump into the lake, the pic- torial supplements of the Sunday pa- pers would be easier to look at. So far as we are aware nobody is offer- ing any serious objection to the sacrifice of our patriots for what they think is patriotism with the least pos- May 23.—One-third | sible delay. What we object to is to have space which could be devoted to legimitate murders and bootlegging feuds taken up with the pictures and statements issued by maids of ancient vintage. The Poor Fish Says: John D, Rock- feller gave over one million dollars to the Union Theological Seminary. This generosity shows the advantages of an economic syst which places great wealth in the hands of those who know where to expend it. true that Rockfeller stole this money from the workers, but it is better it should be devoted to Godly work than be wasted buying food, clothing and amusement for the workers. The more miserable they are on this earth, the happier they'll be in the next. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN it is.