The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 4

aa pene nine RCE ‘in hy he ws organization. “Page Four MINOR HOLDS MANY MEETINGS IN MILWAUKEE Workers Learn Tactics for Labor Movement MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 28.— Re- bels of almost all shades of. opition had the opportunity to hear Robert Minor, editor of the LIBERATOR, and well-known revolutionary writer, speaker, and cartoonist, discuss the part the various workers’ groups must play in the crisis of today and tomor- Tow. Negro. Workers Interested. Lovett Fort Whiteman and Minor addressed a large meeting of negro and white workers on the subject of the American negro and his relation to the. American labor movement. Minor emphasized that the workers of the two races must unite in the fight against the common enemy. He said that the negro is branded as prole- tarian by the very fact of his skin’s color and that discrimination against the negro was chiefly due to his class position as a worker. The negroes were urged to join or- ganized labor and to fight for the right to belong to unions where discrimina- tion against them exists. Minor re- iterated that the Communists- are fighting in the unions to do away with the intolerable division by race. Join Workers’ Party. ‘Whiteman urged the members of his race to join the Workers Party. He brilliantly outlined the necessity of such action by the negroes and gave a clear exposition of the Work- ers. Party program which was well re- ceived. Minor spoke to two Junior Schools of the Young Workers League, and then addressed the Hungarian branch of the Workers Party, urging them to send delegates to the Farmer-Labor convention in St. Paul, June 17. The organization promised to give moral and financial support to the Farmer- Labor movement and adopted plans to send a delegate to St. Paul. S. L. P. and 1. W. W. Hear. At the Socialist Labor Party state convention, Minor called upon that group to adopt united front tactics. He asked the members to study the lessons of the Russian Revolution and pointed out that the revolutionist must work within the reactionary trade unions. Minor spoke to the Industrial Work- érs of the world meeting on the role of, the political party in relation to He analyzed the Russian Revolution carefully and pointed out the tactics of the revolu- tionary movement from that historic experience. ~ Mob Lynches Negros FORT MEYERS, Fila., May 28.—Ac- cused of having attacked two white girls two young Negroes were lynch- ed there. They were riddled with bullets and then dragged thru the town. Block Greek Smugglers ANTWERP, May 28.— The local police arrested on board a Greek ves- sel 74 Greeks who were trying to get into the U. S. without passports. The captain was transporting them for 10,000 francs each. | fe: ar Are you self-conscious about the impression you make on people? age apie appearance has a lot to do with the way you feel. Clothes count, of course. But still there is one thing so many people- overlook—something that at once brands them as either fastidious or teeth. Notice today how you, yourself, ‘watch another person's teeth when he or she is talking. If the teeth are not well kept they at once become a Tiability. Te teeth age ry Rhpend Paste on « boyd hos svete, soon ‘muh tering te amel—adificrh brolom A large tube of Listerine Tooth Paste is only 25 cents; at End drug- mbert Pharmacal 's.—La Co.,Sains : is, U.S. A. ———————— : nT You are invited to eat at the ‘Mohawk Restaurant & Lunch Room 836 W. MADISON STREET (near Green St.) where you will get quality and service. Prices melanable . our motto FRED. SCHWAMB, Prop. RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY RUTHLESSLY EXPELS MEMBERS WHO LIVE LIKE BOURGEOISIE (Staff Correspondent Federated Press) MOSCOW, May 28.—The housecleaning of the Russian Com- munist party, and the party conferences are the chief questions taking attention in Moscow at present. They put in the back- ground the Anglo-Russian conference in London. Since the standpat pronouncement of the English bankers there has been a loss of hope of good results from the conference with England. Russians rather?¥—————________— doubt the ability of the English labor government, even with the best will, to put thru: any sub- stantial assistance ‘to Russia against the will of the English bankers. Building Without Foreign Help. Such is the comment one hears, not from government officials, but from workers’ letters to the press, which are copiously published, and from general discussions among lesser offi- cials and in workers’ groups.. There is absolutely.none of the glow of hope that preceded Genoa in 1922. There is rather a brief comment: “How won- derfully we could put things on their feet with half a billion dollars’ worth of goods”—and then a turning. to the harder ways and means of building from within. Soft Livers Expelled. The cleaning of the party is one of the methods of internal building. It is very drastic. A central commission takes up one factory group of Com- munists after another, investigates their manner of living and acting, hears complaints from all sources, and ruthlessly cleans out of the party those who are “living. like bour- geoisie,” “associating too much with profiteers,” “acting in a dictatorial and uncomradely way in dealing with the workers under them,” or doing any of the other things that may injure the morale of the Communist party in its program of building Russia towards a Communist state. Many Expelled. Many high and well-known Commun- ists of long standing have been thus expelled and many more of the petty officials, who have been exalting them- selves in red tape at the expense of efficiency. Some of the economic de- partments, connected with state in- dustry, were announced to be espe- cially bad in having Communists who were seeking personal advancement and luxtries. In the party conference one of the main problems is the trade crisis. In- dustry is producing better, but the gap between price and purchasing power is still high. While the gov- ernment has turned it main attention to production and wholesale exchange, the private traders have been captur- ing the retail trade. This is not so important, since it gives no control of basic resources, but it puts the price- fixing power partly in their hands. Hence sacrifices made by workers in industry for the sake of giving cheap goods to the peasants and thus build- ing up agriculture, are thwarted by the high profits of these small middle- men. Lithuanians Protest Polish Imperialism; Raid Frontier (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, May 28.—Two hundred armed Lithuanians crossed the frontier to attack the Polish rail- way station at Agnaline, near Vilna, last night, while a second band raid- ed the village of Wojslawice near by. The uprisings were spontaneous out- bursts of protest on the part of the Lithuanians against Poland’s imperi- alist policy in holding Vilna and other cities along the frontier, which are Lithuanian in speech and sympathies, as part of Polish territory by force of arms. Polish military invasion in 1922 ended in the conquest of this ter- ritory. Lithuania has never made for- mal cession of her land. “Our Civilization” —Lecture Subject For Prof. Schevill Ferdinand Schevill, University of Chicago, will lecture on “Our Civiliza- tion” under the auspices of the Chi- cago School of Social Philosophy ‘Thursday, May 29, 8 p. m., in the Athenaeum hall, 59 E. Van Buren street. Tickets at 75c are obtainable from the secretary of the school, M, C. Winokur, 3236 Cortez nue, Chi- cago, or at the door. Schevill will analyze the factors in modern civilization, including science and technology that underlie its dom- inant industrial character. What Yale Education Does NEW HAVEN, Conn.—After four years at Yale the college boys grad- uating this spring show the following results of goose-step education: In the scientific school 111 of the 125 voting stated that they expect to belong to the Republican party. In the liberal arts division 221 out of the 270 voting made the same declaration. The Democrat party got 50 votes in both divisions combined. Asked who was the biggest world figure of the present time, the scientific students gave Coolidge 26 votes, leading the second highest man by 8. On the liberal arts side, Lenin got four votes, one more than Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Coolidge got 28. Cis So Democrats Desert A Progressives At * * oe Rail Bill Crisis WASHINGTON, May 28.— Because a large proportion of the 203 members of the House who voted to take up the Howell-Barkley railroad labor. bill on May 19, failed.to stay, in} the fight thru the evening session, the enemies of this labor. measure were able to carry a motion to strike out its enact- ing clause. The friends of the bill then battled: for hours. to restore the enacting clause, which was accom- plished, but they adjourned at 10:17 p. m. without bringing the bill near to passage, The session was marked by hostile manuevers led by Mapes, Sanders, Graham of Illinois, Blanton, William- son of South Dakota, Free of Califor- nia, Newton of Minnesota, Sinnott of Oregon and Burtness of North Dako- ta. At the end, the railroad lawyers were jubilant, claiming that they could filibuster thru the next calendar discharge day, the first Monday in June, and that’ adjournment would then kill the bill until next winter. There is now a demand by the pro- gressives that the Democrats join them in refusing to permit adjourn- ment of Congress until this filibuster has ended and the bill is put to a final rolicall. Failure of great numbers of Democratic members to stand by the railroad labor measure in the evening session of May 19 by remaining on the floor, has disclosed the insincere char- acter of this. support. When every- thing depended upon having 200 friends of the bill on the floor to pre- vent its being throttled by adverse ac- tion, just 134 were there to vote against striking out the enacting clause. The roll was called a few minutes later, and 211 voted against adjournment. But they ran out as soon as another hostile motion had , | been stopped. Women Voters Lay Down Planks; Want U. S. In World Court (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 28.—Federal child labor laws; entrance of the United States into world court, in- creased appropriations for the wo- men’s bureau, children’s bureau and bureau of home economics; enforce- ment of the merit system in office, and the equalization of educational opportunity thruout the country are a few of the biggest “planks” laid down by the National League of Wo- men voters in the platform that they will present to the conventions of all arties in the forthcoming elections, The women are making their main fight against war by urging the part- icipation of this country in the world court and their plank includes an emphasis to the senate to take the action necessary for United States entrance into the court. The elimination of legal discrimi- nation against women is demanded by the Women’s League in the plank urging “specific measures’ not pre- judicial to women’s labor laws or to special welfare legislation.” Noah Not Malthus Favorite Prophet Of U. S. Farmers CHICAGO, May 28.—There is no race suicide on the farms, the Sears- Roebuck Agricultural Foundation stated today. But tlie only effect of this is to enrich the cities, the Found- ation said. “Comparing the entire farm popula- tion of 32,000,000 with the same num- ber in cities, America’s farm families have 4,000,000 more children under 21 than the city families: the report stated. “Farm communities, also. have 4, 000,000 fewer grown-ups than do the cities, so with 4,000,000 fewer produc- ers, the farm families of the nation are carrying the burden of rearing, feeding, housing, clothing and educ; ing 4,000,000 more children than their urban neighbors.” Steals Bread; Hangs Self in Cell NEW YORK, May 28.—Frank Okon- ‘sky, a longshoreman unable to find work, stole a bottle of milk, some rolls and a loaf of bread and when he was arrested hung himself in cell. THE DAILY WORKER BIG BUSINESS WILL HAVE PERFECT HOLD ON-G 0. P. CONCLAVE WASHINGTON, May 28.— From the opening prayer to the final word, the .convention of _ the Repub- lican Party to be held in Cleveland, June.11, promises to be one of com- plete harmony and accord, with the machine in complete control. The program Is all worked out. Present indications are thatthe convention will last about three days. Three perfect pe: and Harmony Is the schedule. According to the dope the first session will open.by John T. Adams asking a reverend gent to offer. a prayer. It will be done and then the delegates will sing and Adams will suggést that Theodore Burton be made temporary chairman. This will probably be done. Burton - will spread the apple sauce and then the committees will be appointed. That will not amount to much and it will probably end the day. The delegates will then get down to the serious business of having a good time while they are away from home, The second day the committees will report. Someone will be nominated for permanent chairman. It will, no doubt, be Burton. The suggested platform will be read and adopted. Eminent leaders of the G. 0. P. will arise to shoot the bunk and the delegates will ad- Journ to serious’ business. The third day the convention will nominate Coolidge for President amid cheers and then nominate a candidate for vice-president and the show will be over. That is how the great conclave of G. 0. P. harmony and good will look: If it will ar- range itself. Big Business. will ‘rule the whole show without fuss or fumble. No- body will deny it and nobody will do anything about it because that is as it should be. Coolidge May Not Deliver Muscle Shoals To Flivver Kaiser (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON,, May 28.—Henry Ford's grab of Muscle Shoals power has been defeated in the Senate com- mittee on agriculture by a vote. of 10 to 6, and Chairman Norris is confident that he and Sen. Johnson of Minne- sota will win their fight for straight public ownership of that resource. Judson King, secretary of the Na- tional Popular Government League, urging the committee to vote for pub- lic ownership and operation, put in evidence receipted bills for residence and hotel rates, here and in Ontario, showing that for 334 kilowatts in Washington the charge was $23.18 for a month, while in Niagafa Falls, Ont., it was only $3.55; for the Hotel La Fayette here the charge for* 12,000 kilowatts was $425.00, and for. the Hotel LaFayette in Niagara . Falls, Ont., for 8,000 kilowatts it was $93.42. The half of the Niagara Falls in- ternational bridge lighted by the pub- licly owned power system of Ontario paid $8.43 for a month’s service, and the American half was lighted in ex- actly the same degree by privately owned power for $43.10. Carl Vrooman of Illinois, former as- sistant secretary of agriculture, urged the committee to stand for govern- ment control as against private ex- ploitation. More Churchmen Want To Forget Civil War And Outlaw All War GRAND, RAPIDS, Mich., May 28.— Steps toward mending the schism be- tween the northern and southern branches of the Presbyterian church, existing since Civil war days, may be taken some time this week at the 136th general assembly of the Pres- byterian church in the United States of America, (Northern). The break between the northern and southern churches came at the general assembly of 1861 in Philadel phia, when a resolution declaring for union and loyalty to President Lin- coln was adopted. In protest against the resolution, the southern churches withdrew and forced a separate body. As the assembly got down to work today, it appeared that the first order of business would be discussion of a resolution to outlaw. war. Correction On Authorship. “The Future Belongs to Union Mili- tants,” an article on the Boston con- vention of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Ufion, published in last Thursday's issue, was credited to Rebecca Grecht, thru an error. It was written by another careful stu- dent of the situation who took part in the convention. DON’T WORK SO HARD IF YOU WOULD REACH A HUNDRED YEARS KIRKSVILLE, Mo., May 28—A million persons die unnecessarily every year, Dr. Eva Kate Coffey, Los Angeles, told the annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association here today. “You can live to be 100 if you live right,” she said. People die not of “old age,” but caused by incorrect living, she said. “Old people don't play enough,” s' as the result of some definite ailment he asserted. “Further, old age doesn’t cause round shoulders. Round shoulders instead cause old age. 2 RR cor ewe IE BE IEEE SI SEN te ie AI ee A a: tt 2s Sant AI | 2 | ARORA A FRNA ERI A RC oes HPA IOC RUE, SN CPOE Ye re er WARM PROTEST AGAINST DAVIS’ PLOT TO DEPORT 15 RADICALS UNDER VICIOUS IMMIGRATION LAW (By Defense News Service.) So many protests have poured in upon President Coolidge opposing the threatened deportation of the 15 alien-born I. W. W.|Dist. 5, Wales: Party, ex-political prisoners that the Department of Labor, to which these protests’ are passed along, ‘has taken to using: a: multi- graphed form-letter to reply to them. This is made evident by the procedure of the federal labor $$. department in answering a letter written to Secretary of Labor Davis recently by 28 residents of Hull house here. These residents wrote at length, giving strong reasons why the de- fendants in ‘question should not: be banished. Each of the 28 protestants received a multigraphed reply from Robe Carl White, second assistant sec- retary of labor, beginning with ‘the words: “Your letter! addressed to the president ... has been referred to this department for... attention.” Signers of the Hull, House protest included: Ellen Gates Starr, one of the founders of that institution; Dr. Rachelle Yarros, Dr. R. W.. Gerard, Clara P. Paige, Amelia Sears, George B. Hooker, Thomas Holland and Wil- liam F. Byron. “Undesirable” to Capitalism. The 15 deefndants are facing depor- tation on the ground that they are “undesirable residents,” because they have served prison terms under the espionage act. “It is our understand- ing,” the Hull House residents wrote, “that your department has consented to reopen the ‘cases of two of the de- fendants, and we urge that you give the other 13 the same opportunity.” “Aliens have played a great part in the upbuilding of this country.” All of the 15 defendants. were workers in the industries of this country before they went to prison; they did uséful work; then were convicted amid hys- teria and the prejudice attached to an unpopular labor organization, an or- ganization which had been more ag-|> gressive than tactful in its criticism of working and living conditions in various fields of industry. “As a matter of fair play, will you not ‘agree to give all the 15 men men- tioned a full opportunity to be heard? “Those for whom we appeal are: Herbert Mahler, Joseph Oates, Wil- liam Moran,. Pietro Nigra, Richard Brazier, John Avila, Don Sheridan, James Slovick, Joseph Graber, Peter Green, James Mulroney, Morris Le- vine, James Phillips, Bert Lorton and Harry Lloyd.” Prison Treatment Caused Death. Since the Hull House protest was dispatched, James Mulroney has died in Arizona of tuberculosis contracted while he was in the Sacramento, Cal., jail awaiting trial, and made worse by the conditions in Leavenworth peni- tentiary. Second Assistant Secretary of La- bor White said in his reply to the Hull House residents: “I cannot be unmindful that congress by the act of May 10, 1920, has directed that aliens convicted of violations of certain acts shall, if found by the secretary of labor, after hearing, to be ‘undesirable residents.’ Under our general immi- gration laws aliens who have com- mitted or advocated acts amounting to opposition to organized govern- ment are subject to exclusion and de- portation..... The cases are being reviewed with those considerations in mind,” Ex-Post Facto Law.” But White said nothing about the fact that the exclusion amendment he mentions was ‘enacted after the con- victions of the I. W. W. defendants, and thus is a clear violation of arti- cle 1 of the constitution, which stipu- lates that “no ex-post facto (after the fact) law... . shall be passed.” Cruel Millionaire Allows Heart-Hungry Frau Lots Of Dough BATTLE CREEK, Mich., May 28.— John L. Kellogg, son of W. K. Kellogg, millionaire breakfast food magnate, was divorced today by his wife, Mrs. Hannah Christine Peterson Kellogg, on charges of extreme cruelty. Circuit Judge Walter H. North grantec. the decree, which was not contested. Mrs. Kellogg was allowed $200,000 in cash, the Kellogg mansion with its furnishings, an automobile, and a monthly, allowance of $200 for their two sons, Will, 16, and John, 12. The Kelloggs were married in 1901. © Kellogg is secretary of his fathe company. : Flat Janitors’ Head Aaeber . Given Diamonds By . * Belgian. Admirers —_— . William F. Quesse, on his reelection as head of the Building Service Em- ployes’ International Union, was pre- sented with a gold watch studded with diamonds by Belgian members of the organization, who are employed as janitors in this city. Quesse was recently pardoned after conviction on a charge of boycott in connection with a strike against the big real estate builders of Chicago, Central Body Helps Debaters. DETROIT. — The defenders of unions won in a debate in the Teach- ers’ college, Northwestern high school, on the subject “Are Labor Or- ganizations Necessary for the Promo- tion of Democracy in Industry?” The affirmative had gone to the Detroit Federation of Labor for information, ‘Gompers Asks Labor Voters To Give ‘Cap’ Parties Even Break/|: WASHINTON, May 28.— The American Federation’ of | Labor will make a big drive to’ nominate mem- bers from its own ranks for the ‘vice- presidency in the coming elections, ac- cording to a statement issued ‘here by Samuel, Gompers. Gompers did not say that it made any difference which capitalist ticket the labor aspirants should be hitched to.° Labor in that worthy’s opinion, should mafntain ‘the sacred principle of non-partisanship to the last ditch, and therefore, bestow its favors impartially’ on Republicans and Democrats alike. Gompers hopes: by using this tactic, a sufficient number of: labor leaders, listed’ as ‘progressives, will be bitten by by the vice-presidential: bug, which may induce them to lay-off even flirt- ing with a Third Party and devote their energies’ to getting a'job pushing either: one or the other of the broken- down capitalist political: bandwagons up the hill toward the summit of vic- tory. Already two notorious strikebreak- ers, George L. Berry,: and John L. Lewis, have thrown their pocket books into the ring, one for the Demo- crats, the other for the: Republicans. The rank and file, however, are look- ing toward St. Paul. West Virginia Miners Vote On Abolition Of Four Sub-Districts CHARLESTON, W. Va.,.May 28.— Abolition of the four. subdistricts of District 17 (northwestern and central West Virginia) will be voted on by immediate referendum of the coal miners of the district. The proposal to concentrate administration of the union in the district officers and board was carried by the special Charleston convention of 600 dele- gates held in May. It is an economy measure to make relief of the starv- ing unemployed miners possible. In the Kanawha field 10,000 union miners and their families are hungry because the operators refuse to ac- knowledge the Jacksonville (Fla.) agreement that rules in ‘the central competitive field. The convention voted that any miner unable to get two days a week work outside the in- dustry shall be entitled if destitute to food from the district office for himself and family, consisting of flour, meal, bacon, lard, sugar, coffee, salt, baking powder, pepper, soda and also soap. Carpet Workers Walk Out When Company Cuts Wage (By The Federated Press) AMSTERDAM, N. Y., May 28.— Workers in the Sanford Carpet Mills of Amsterdam have walked’ out fol- lowing the company’s attempt to double-cross them. -When the mills opened this week, after a shutdown, the skilled workers were promised that wages would be cut only 10 per cent. But weavers have ‘been cut 20 per cent, and setters 27% per cent. in the spirit of _ SELF HELP. AND * Today It Is Germany. | 19 So. Lincoln St., Chicago, Hil, Enclosed please find §. victims and their families. | Name: 600,000 Miners Locked-out In Germany 7,000 Workers In German Prisons Shall the al ahd children of these class-war Yhitiene be permitted to starve? Or shall we come to their rescue WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY Tomorrow It May Be America. Sign that German Relief Brigade List .THEY ARE ‘CALLING! Committee for International Workers’ Aid, www for aid to Germany’s class war | Thursday, May 29, 1924 REBELS ACTIVE DESPITE SLUMP IN BUSINESS Boosts the Battle By VINCENT KEMENOVICH. SOUTH BROWNSVILLE, Pa., May 28.—Working conditions here are very poor. The H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Co, closed about ten of their. mines in Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Over 3000 men are out of jobs. Many of the small concerns are closed down and mines that are- working are on a part time basis, working two or three days a week. The Monongahela Railroad ‘laid off over one hundred men in the South Brownsville shop and the Pennsyl- vanid Railroad laid off the men in’the ‘West Brownsville shops. Building Only Booms. Building trades are sailing well um- der the present boom in the Browns- ville towns. Laborers signed a con- tract at 62 cents an hour and with the cloged shop. Local No. 2086 of the United Mine Workers, subscribed $12 for the St. Paul convention. The Trades Coun- cil couldn’t act because it had ‘mo funds, Splendid Donations. The local branch of the Workers Party collected $30 for the St. Paul convention; sent $50 to Comrade Mar- tinovich just released from prison; $62 to the ~Defense of the Farrell cases; $10 to the Federated Farmer- Labor Party. The branch members assessed themselves $5 a month to build up the District 5, Workers Par- ty, treasury. The members of the South Browns- ville branch are launching a vigorous campaign for the DAILY WORKER and other party organs altho the bad working conditions hinder their work considerably. Pay More Wages Or °* We Strike, Declare New York Waiters NEW YORK, May 28.—Demands for a 15 per cent wage incfease, com- plet$ shop unionization, atid union recognition and agreement guaran- teed by cash security by employers, were voted by 3000 members, Waiters’ and Waitresses’ union, lo¢al 1, and handed to the New York. Restaurant Keepers’ Association. The old con- tract expires May 31. Unless the em- ployers sign, the union will strike, ° ROCHESTER, N. Y., May 28.— Dugan & Hudson, Rochester shoe manufacturers, recently fell into heavy debt fighting a long ‘union strike. Creditors have now forced it into bankruptcy. THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF, SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY Our Civilization Determining forces and modern tendencies a lecture by PROF, FERDINAND SCHEVILL (U, of ©.) Thursday, May 29th, 8 P. M. | Athenaeum Hall 59 E. VAN BUREN STREET Admission 75¢ INTERNATIONAL — » l \ | eel