The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1924, Page 5

Me —_ MOTHERS DENIED DOLES DONATE BABES TO CITY German Government Shuts Off Aid BERLIN, May 26.—The wives of unemployed workers in Nu Scharen, @ small industrial town, took their babies to the town hall and left them there when it became known that the -unemployment doles would be Stopped. The biggest part of the pop- -Wation of this small town are unem- Ployed, and the misery there is much eteater than in large cities. City Refuses Responsibility. ‘The wives of the employed declared ‘that they had to leave their children to the care of the municipal admin- istration because they ‘themselves could not nourish them. The desper- ate mothers knew no other way out; they rebelled against their own moth- erlove, Only after hours of pro- tracted negotiations was it possible to. get the women to take their chil- dren back. Law Deprives Neediest. The new law passed regarding gov- ernment support for unemployed, is that the unemployment dole is to be paid only to workers who have been “unemployed for a period of not more ‘than twelve months. But as many workers have been unemployed for a slonger period than 12 months, this pfovision is causing very great hard- ‘ship for thousands. Even the wounded war veterans are ~not provided for. Of 1,637,000: wound- ‘ed war veterans who were entitled to <compensation after the war, 752,000 shave already been taken off the books “as settled cases altho they have not received the full settlement money to which they were entitled. International Workefs' Ald. ‘s<Child mortality in Germany is con- ‘stantly on the increase, and little pro- vision is made for the protection of child health. Hospital after «»spital is closing down, and this in face of the-wide-spread epidemic of tubercu- losis among children. Sickness. -in- surance is practically impossible for the worker because the charges are too high. The same is true of all other kinds of government insurance. The. committee for Internationa: Workers’ Aid is the only. organization in America helping the working class population of Germany in its present plight. American workers express their international working class solidarity by coming to the rescue of their destitute brothers and sisters in Germany before too late. The working class of Germany, abandoned by the government of Socialism and capitalism, oppressed by the employ- ing class, enslaved by foreign im- perialist powers, this mangled work- ing class is turning to the workers of the world for aid in the fight which it is carrying on against tremendous odds. Quy OUR DAILY PATTERNS NLESS all the press reports now being circulated by La Follette’s associates are just that much smoke screen to hide the real plans of the Wisconsin Senator, one can safely as- sume, in analyzing the present poli- tical situation, that ‘Fighting Bob” has at last made up his mind to con- tinue his fight against the big busi- ness interests with practically the same ineffective weapons he has been using in the last twenty years. At no time were conditions more appropriate for organizing a power- ful. movement of political opposition to the controlling financial and indus- trial interests of the country. Only recently La Follette’s closest co-work- er dectared that “all hell can’t stop the organization of a third party now.” Yet, at the moment of action, at the period of decision, La Follette tells the world, thru devious channels, it is true, that the best that one should expect from him under these circumstances making aggressive ac- tion against the enemies of the mass- es so urgent, is his running as an in- dependent candidate. It ig evident, that La Follette is still adrift. He is floundering. La Follette has. been in politics too long to take seriously what some of his agents would have the world believe, that entering the presidential lists in this fashion, will net more votes or be conducive to.the welfare of the big movement against reaction. The Wis- consin Senator knows only too well the power and value of organization to base his policies on such untenable notions. There cnm be only one rea- son for La Follette’s refusal to lead in Gompers’ Gang Seen Stalling Movement With Red-Baiting WASHINGTON, May 26.— Public Affairs, a magazine edited here by Ira Nelson Morris, which supports the pro- gressive group in Congress, says: “The American Federation of Labor, which seems to have become a sub- sidiary of the American Defense So- ciety, and to be devoting more at- tention to anti-red propaganda than it is to the upbuilding of the labor move- ment in this country, has become vig- lently exercised over the alleged com- munist control of the Farmer-Labor Party.” ne 4 . 6 * Strike-Fighting Sends Shoe Boss Into Bankruptcy ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 26.— An antilabor policy did not pay in the case of Dugan & Hudson, Rochester shoe, manufacturers, The company|164, of the Amalgamated Food Work- recently fell into, heavy debt fighting a long union strike. At the same time it lost trade to Its rivals. Now that it is unable to meet its financial obliga-| vention. tions, creditors have forced it into bankruptcy. GROWING GIRL 4712. Mohair, jersey ot the DAILY Women. daw ‘ Ria ’ . / THE DAILY WORKER LA FOLLETTE ADRIFT the most effective manner a move- ment which will tend to smash the organized political machinery of the most powerful reactionary interests. La Follette in his long career in poli- tics has never dared to make a de- finite and sharp break, has never tak- en a fundamentally radical step against the capitalist class. LaFollette, at his best, has been, and still is, only a spokesman for the middle class. To- day, as yesterday, LaFollette symbol- izes and personifies all the shortcom- ings, all the hesitating wavering, char- acteristics so inherent in the middle class. No matter what LaFollette’s final decision will be it is clearer than ever that the working and farming masses are confronted by a two-fold task. The city workers, in a closely-knit alliance, with the poor farmers must get together to line up for a gigantic battle against the big reactionary capi- talist interests, the greatest niasses possible, There is only one way of do- ing this and that is for these exploited and dispossessed masses to join in the organization of a Farmer-Labor Party genuinely independent from and un- alterably opposed to the two big capi: talist parties, a party organized on a national class basis. LaFollette’s way’ ering at this ‘critical moment only proves the Communist contention that the movement of revolt against the capitalist overlords stands the best chance of success only if it is actively led by the working and farming classes as classes. As a matter of fact, the LaFollettes, the Norrises, the Wheelers, and the other numerous lesser lights and satellites of “prog- ressivism” will move forward and at- By JAY LOVESTONE. tack, even feebly, the powerful busi- negs interests only to the extent that they are forced to do so by the organ- ized pressure of the masses. Even a fifth class grammer school observer of politics knows that the time to crystalize the sentiment of op- position, the moment best suited for organizing an effective opposition to so skilled and well-disciplined an enemy as the one confronting the working masses of the country, is be- fore the election. The election cam- paign itself affords an unexcelled means of uniting the masses and set- ting up @ permanent political organiza- tion of the workers and farmers against the exploiters. To refuse to set up @ machinery for the campaign is the best way of throwing away all the opportunities that the election struggle affords. It is unpardonable political stupidity and veritable polit- ical suicide to hold off organization until the enthusiasm jas waned, until the energy of the struggle is dissipat- ed, until the election of a reactionary capitalist champion as president is made sure by the employment of use- less weapons against his class and his party. refusal to move forward, LaFollette’s tendency to avoid giving open battle to the big capitalist class interests |} that he has threatened to declare war upon, only make more urgent than ever the need for the working and farming Classes to unite their forces for definite, decisive action against the employing class, thru the organization of a mighty national Farmer-Labor Party, a class Farmer-Labor Party, at the St. Paul convention. NEW YORK VOTES |HOOF AND MOUTH MORE DELEGATES TO JUNE 17 MEET Federated Farmer-Labor Party Active NEW YORK, May 26.—A drive has just been started by the| Federated Farmer-Labor Party of New York City to have as many delegates as possible elected to the June 17th convention from local unions, fraternal and other organizations. Speakers’ are being sent to various organizations to ad- dress the gatherings ‘on the necessity of attending this convention to form a national Farmer-Labor Party to rep- resent the exploited farmers and In- dustrial workers, on the political field. Expect Thirty Delegates. Bakers’ local 1, and Bakers’ local ers of America, and the Hungarian Benefit Society have already elected their delegates to the St. Paul con- The prospects from New York are very bright and there is no doubt but that New York state will have about thirty delegates to the St. Paul convention on the 17th of June, The United Farmer-Labor Party of New York which held its state con- vention at Schenectady on May 18th, has also elected a delegate to the St. Paul convention. Speakers Furnished. All local unions desiring to have speakers address their meetings on behalf of the formation of a class mass party at the coming St. Paul convention should communicate im- mediately with HARRY M. WIN- ITSKY, organizer of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party of New York, at 81 East 10th street, or W. J. Kelly, secretary of the F. F. L. P. informing him when and where the meeting is to be held and in which language th speaker is to address the meeting. He must know at. least one week in ad- vance of the date of the meeting if @ speaker is wanted. } N. Y. Subway Co.: Union Bucks Wages Cut; Demands More (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 26.—The compa- He fis 2 & 53 ul i 3 g )» hour, (some higher). vided that it amounts to a 1 BAN A CIRCUS FOR BARNES’ OUTFIT Graft Greases Way For Elephants And Lions By Defense News Service. LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 26.— How did it happen that the quaran- tine designed to prevent the spread of the hoof-and-mouth disease was lifted. for. the express. benefit of the Al G. Barnes circus? This question is being noised about widely in the vicinity of Los Angeles. It became known this week that the Barnes show was permitted to leave Califor- nia on April 19. No publicity was given to its departure. There are per- sistent rumors here that a lot of money was paid to somebody to “fix things” for the move. When the existence of the hoof- and-mouth epidemic became public news, the circus was playing Long Beach, 20 miles from here. Immedi- ately it was ordered back to its win- ter quarters at Culver City, ten miles nearer to Los Angeles city hall. And shortly afterward reports began to spread that the Barnes management had “arranged” everything with the authorities, and that it would be pos- sible to get the show out of the state as ‘soon as “things quieted down.” Inquiry discloses that the officials in charge of the quarantine knew all about the move of the 28 cars of cir- cus stock and equipment, and that permission for it was given “very quietly.” It appears that they didn’t want to alarm any sensitive persons unduly. The Quarantine for Circus. Getting away without trouble, the Barnes outfit showed in Kansas, and then jumped to Illinois. Then it played four Indiana cities—Conners- ville, Bluffton, Kokomo and Muncie; Ohio towns—Lorain, Barberton, lion, Wooster and Lima; and its next date was at Fort Wayne, Ind. Allotment of this special privilege to Barnes, which is declared to en- danger the health of thousands of hu- man beings and animals, has aroused everyday citizens who have had dif- ficulty in obtaining a permit to move a canary from one street to another, and whose pet cats and dogs have been shot by the authorities, BUFFALO, N. Y.—A pair of syme- trical legs are worth $40,000 to any || American girl, says Frances Orlando, 17 who was run down by a truck and her knees and ankles so marred that she fears their beauty is lost forever. She sued the truck owner at once. LaFollette’s hesitation, LaFollette’s | FAMOUS GRAVE DIGGER TELLS OF FINDING KING TUT Monarch Was Versatile As To Religion By ALFRED FRANKENSTEIN Howard Carter, discoverer and ex- plorer of the tomb of the pharoah Tut-Ankh-Amen, (The Living Image of Amon) lectured on his discoveries at Orchestra Hall last Wednesday and Thursday. Carter said that the finding of a cup with the seal of King Tut on it led to believe that the monarch’s body was buried in the Valley of the Kings, the royal cemet- ery of ancient Egypt. After six years of fruitless investigation the tomb was discovered. The burial chamber of Rameses the sixth had been dug out of the rock above Tut's tomb, and all the rubbish of ‘that construe- tion, amounting to over 200 tons of Tock, had been thrown over the en- trance of the sepulchre of the earlier rulers. This accounts for the fact that Tut was not discovered before. him On November 4, 1922, the stairway to the tomb was discovered. Excava- tion of it revealed a door, sealed on the one part with the seal of Tut- Ankh-Amen and on the other with the seal of the royal necropolis. This, with other circumstances, among them the confusion of the relics found later, led Carter to believe that thieves had entered the tomb some ten or fifteen years after the burial of the king, and had been caught by the royal police force. Like An Open House Further excavation led to the ante- chamber in which the king's personal effects were stored. Carter said the first glimpse of it looked like the prop- erty room of an opera house, and the pictures he exhibited of it showed this description to be perfect. Couch- es and beds, war chariots, chests, vases still containing perfumes and ointments, benches and chairs were stored in the room in the uttermost confusion, Most of the first lecture was taken up with pictures and detailed de- scription of these articles. Almost everything connected with the royal personage was either made of gold or covered with it. A couch in the form of a lion, made of wood covered with sheet gold, and couch in the form of the cow goddess Hathor were the bulkiest objects in the antechamber. The chestsy contained the kings’s clothing and jewelry. The frequent- recurring inscriptions showed the monarch in triumph over the enemies of Egypt, always portrayed as an Asiatic with a long beard and a Negro. A chair showed the name Tut-Ankh-Aton (Living Image of Aton), proving that Tut had first professed the monotheistic Aton re- ligion, but had reverted to the poly- theism and sun worship of Amon. A Lively Walking Cane The idea that Egyptian art was al- ways stereotyped and almost diagram- matic was refuted by a picture of the head of a walking-cane, on which was carved in exquisitely colored and real- istic figures the heads of an Asiatic and a Negro, the ancient foes of Egyot. The second lecture dealt with the discoveries of last year. A sealed door, guarded by two statues of the king, revealed what apparently was a wall of gold. It proved to be a huge shrine, in which were three other smaller shrines. Inside the fourth was a sandstone sarcophagus, inside that a golden casket, in the form of the mummy within. as Carter got. was made in this chamber. It was a lamp which apparently was undecorat- ed, but, when lighted, showed a picture| SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.— The It was] wearing apparel employers have form- made by the insertion of one alabas-}ed an association here under of the king and the queen. ter cup within another. That was as far; aging editor and industrial editor, re- When the shrines were | spectively, of the Federated Press and removed piece meal and reassembled, | Dr. Lovett is well-known for his con- trouble with local authorities occur-|nections with the university of Chi- red, and further work was impossible.|cago and the New Republic, weekly One of the most curious finds of all| magazine. Page Five “ ” Food “Cheaper; Workers Alone | Fail To See It A drop of 2 per cent in the cost! of your food budget in April as com- pared with March is indieated by the} monthly retail food’ index of the U./ 8. department of labor. Dairy prod-) ucts and dried fruits were chiefly re- sponsible for the decrease while meat | went up. Compared with the Previous | year the cost of providing your family | with food April 15 should been 1 per cent lower. The cost of food is now about 41 per cent higher than in 1913. on have In many cities the increase during the ll-year period has been greater,| among them: Chicago, 50 per cent; Richmond, 48 per cent; Baltimore, 45 per cent, and Pittsburgh, St. Louis | and Scranton, 53 per cent. Kansas City, Minneapolis and Newark in-} creased 39 per cent. Fall River and/ Seattle, 87 per cent and Portland, Ore, 30 per cent over 1923 food prices. Wholesale prices are going down. The decrease between March and April amounting to slightly overt 1 per cent, principally in foodstuffs and metals. Clothing and fuel prices also declined slightly, while building ma- terials and housefurnishings remained unchanged. The wholesale average for all commodities is now 45 per cent above 1913. NEW SCHOOL OF SOCIAL STUDIES OPENS IN CITY Literature, Economics, Philosophy Classes A new educational institution sprang up in our city recently. The founders christened it “The Chicago School of Social Philosophy.” The schooi aims to stimulate an ac- tive interest in vital problems as re- flected in modern literary, economic and philosophic tendencies. It makes its appeal to both students and in- structors, who are interested in, and willing to freely discuss, the princi- ples governing ‘modern society. The school aims also to develop an intel- lectual center which in its various ac- tivities such as lectures, debates, etc., will bring together those who are seeking for expression. Regular Courses. The school is now successfully com- pleting the first term of its activities which consist of: 1. “Conflicts in Modern Philoso- phy,” under Dr. Carl Huessler. « Fri- day evenings at the City Club. 2. “Social Forces in English Litera- ture” under Prof. Robert M. Lovett. Wednesday evenings at the City Club. 3. “Trends in Modern Economics” under Dr. Leland Olds. Tuesday even- ings at 1100 N. Kedzie ave. Special Lecture Coming. A special lecture will be given by Prof. Ferdinand Schevill on “Our Civilization,” The lecture will review the earlier phases of modern civiliza- tion and analyze the main forces and agencies which have determined. the modern world. The place of science, technology and the industrial evolu- tion will be taken up and an attempt made to evalue the significance of the period of which we are part. The lecture will take place on Thursday evening, May 29, at the Athenaeum Hall, 59 E. Van Buren street, at 8:00 p, m., and will be pre ceeded by a musical program. Dr. Haessler and Dr. Olds are man- S. F. Garment Bosses Unite. the auspices of the chamber of commerce. Several chambers remain unopened.| This one big union of employers will Some were opened, but, closed again|take in all branches of the wearing so that the temptation to enter them|apparel industry, comprising about 66 could be resisted. Every new subscriber increases the|ers and other organized influence of the DAILY WORKER, UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS manufacturers. It is a counter-move to the Amalgamated Clothing Work- garment workers. LUMBER WORKERS FACE WAGE CUTS; INDUSTRY SLACK Many Unemployed In Pacific Northwest (Special to The Dally Workers SEATTLE, V h., May 26.—About 10,000 more workers in the lumber in- dustry in Western Washington will have their wages cut now. Common labor will be cut to $3.40 a day. Skil- led labor will be cut 10 percent. Rum- ors are current, but can not be veri- fied, that many mills will soon close to reopen soon at still lower rates. There are thousands of unemployed, thousands coming daily from Califor- nia, Seabbier Union Than Pullman's One organization here the “4L’s”— Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumber- men-—is an even scabbiler company union than the Pullman company union concerning which the DAILY WORKER has had much to say, Anacortes, Port Angeles, Belling- ham, and Everett will be affected by this cut, also many smaller towns. Tacoma, Aberdeen, and other parts of Southwest Washington have alteady been cut, as has the Oregon region around Portland. Some of the mills in the Gray’s Harbor did not cut wages, as they were already down to $3.20, Scab Told To Shut Up Even the scab union, the Four L’s, is too much for the Dollar mill in Portland owned by Capt. Robert Dol- lar. When it cut below the $3.40 mini- mum of the L.L.L.L., the scab ution protested, and was told to shut up, The policy of Capt. Dollar was ex- pressed some years ago when he said that we needed plenty of ambulances to take union men to the hospitals after they had been properly beaten up. Fight Spirit Revives He is said to be the “Cappy Ricks” of Peter B. Kyne’s stories, Kyne being a brass checker who never misses a chance to show his hatred of the workers. Dollar recently secured a number of ships from the shipping board at less than half a million each, this being about one fifth of what they cost the taxpayers, In the Willapa Bay region, Jyii tween Gray’s Harbor (Aberdeen) and the Columbia ‘the wage cut has brought about a strike. The L.L.L.L. is dead here now and there are signs that the 1917 spirit of the Industrial Workers of the World is reviving, Company Union Uses Direct Action To Get Workers To Pay Dues SALT LAKE, Utah—Union organ- izers who find membership dropping off may take a hint from the follow- ing letter: Mr. Lamb—Car-washer—Dear Sir. It has come to our notice you have been automatically expelled from Shop Employes Association for non- payment of dues. Make arrangements to pay same at once or get off of the job. This is final— NORTON, LE- MON, STANCLIFFE, Committee. The letter is the final step taken by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail- way in keeping the men lined up in its company union. The men sign- ing the notice are the committee at one of the company’s shops of the Shop Employes Association. The ob- ject of the company is to show the U. S. rail labor board a large mem- bership in the handfed union so that bonafide railroad unions cannot speak for the men. Workers’ Education Association To Hold London Conference LONDON, May 26.—The second in- ternational conference of the Work- ers’ Education Association will be held at Ruskin college, Oxford, Au- gust 15-17, under the auspices of the (Amsterdam) International Federa- tion of Trades Unions. It will be at- tended largely by delegates from all over the British empire who are coming to London for the Common- wealth Labor conference, which opens August 18. Ruskin college is the old- est residential workers’ college in England. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN