The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, June 5, 1924 a—>—$—&—_——_———— ee - TROTZKY IS NOT TOO HOPEFUL OF BRITAIN'’S LOAN Tells Railwaymen Not to Despair (Rosta News Agency) MOSCOW, April 21. (By mail.)—In speech to the All-Russian Railway Men's. Congress at Moscow, Leon Trotzky, People’s Commissary of War, pointed out that the most acute issue of Russia’s international situation at the present time was the Russo-British conference. The outcome is most un- certain, reflecting the generally unset- tled policy in Europe as a whole. Referring to the loan whfch the Union of Soviet Republics wishes to obtain, Trotzky states that it would be profitable not only to the Union, but to all Hurope, including England herself. The latter needs a market for her merchandise, and the Soviet Re- publics afford a huge outlet, Jarger than all the British colonies. Helps Defeat Poincare’s Policy. Then, if Russia obtained credits, close economic co-operation could be established between the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and British Labor on the other. This would spell economic progress for all Europe and would de- stroy the militarism of Mr. Poincare, who is now trying to strangle Europe. Financial conditions in America and England would make it possible for both to lend money to other countries. America does not wish to grant cred- its either to Germany or Soviet Rus- sia, because she says no country in Europe but England pays debts. America does not admit that she lent her money not for constructive, but for purely destructive purposes, that she enriched herself at Europe’s cause, and that under such conditions the non-payment of war debts is rather natural. U. S. Fattened On War Profits. If American money had been lent for reconstruction purposes, Europe would have been able to pay and would pay. So, too, would Russia, for reconstruction loans would have en- abled the Soviet Republics to restore the railway network, stabilize the gold currency, raise wages and develop in- dustry and agriculture. If Russia ob- tained adequate credits, she could within 3 to 5 years become able to meet all her obligations. England does not wish to give loans to Soviet Russia, saying that Russia won’t pay her debts. The Soviet Re- publics say they will pay to the world potrgeoisie so “long this bourgeosie exists and the Soviet Republics must needs deal with it and be concerned to have its trust. Thus the best eco- nomic guarantee that the Union would pay her debts is the element of in- terestedness, while the best political guarantee is that the Soviet Govern- ment is the strongest in the world— fact which no enemy of the Soviet denies. Soviets Will Go Ahead Anyway “We should not,” declares Mr. Trotz- ky, “be too optimistic as to the pros- pects of the Russo-British parley. Bven if no loan is granted it, the Union will develop its resources, tho more slowly; it will accomplish in some ten years or so a work that otherwise could be done in three or four years. Referring to the military situation, the People’s War Commissary warns his hearers that the present conditions in Europe make it mecessary to pay due attention to the armed forces of the country as well as to the work of its economic recovery. There are quite as many men under arms in Bu- rope today as there were on the eve of the war of 1914. Red Army of Peace. The Red Army, which is a tool of peace, must be on the watch. Tho weaker than many other countries technically—at an epoch when tech- nique plays so large a part—we must ot forget, 's Mr. Trotzky, that the let Republics can better than any fother country rely on the live force of their armies; they need have no doubts as to the spirit in which the Red workers and peasants’ battalions will march against an imperialistic on- slaught. It is, in fact, this confidence and firm belief in the spirit of the Red troops—states the War Commissary— that has made possible to gradually pass from a system of ordinary bar- rack and field army to that of militia and territorial diversons. This transi- tion is in itself a most conclusive proot of Soviet Russia's peaceful aims, Send In that Subscription Today! lie moldering. THE DAILY WORKER REVOLUTIONARY HEALTH FACTORY SAVING LIVES IN MOSCOW UNDER DIRECTION OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT By ANISE. (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) MOSCOW, June 4.—Downstairs scores of patients are wait- ing in line to see the various doctors; upstairs dozens of carpen- ters are sawing and hammering. For the building is only half repaired to its present use as a health factory; yet even now five hundred patients daily pass thru its doors. It is a new institute for the study and use of all physical methods of healing, from electricity and X-rays to gymnastics and light and heat. It is being installed by the health depart- ment of the soviet government in what was formerly a great nobleman’s palace. It is even rumored that in this lofty stone and marble dwelling Napoleon was housed when he took Moscow. A Revolutionary Health Factory. In later years it passed into the hands of merchants who put in extra oors under its high ceilings, and made of it a great warehouse for all sorts of restaurant keepers of Chicago. The clean up the filthy conditions in these Greek “joints” and goods. During the revolution it was completely ruined. And now the Health Department has it, and is making out of it a Health Factory, unique in the world. “All the methods of healing we have here are used elsewhere,” they told me, “but we are the first to combine them and make a great clinic of them for purposes of further investigation. At least we know of no other”.... The directorium consists of three spe- cialists, one on Roentgen Rays, one on nervous disorders and one on ortho- pedic work. Under them many other doctors and nurses and students work. Life-Saving Rays. I glance thru the glass door of a room and see two men lying on tables, with X-rays carefully applied to cer- tain spots in their bodies. In another room is a woman sitting erect. On her bare back is a hideous red spot on which rays of special kind of light are being focussed. In other roomg are patients taking baths of hot dry air, of hot damp air, of electric charged water. Here is a man lying patiently'on a table with an electric current passing thru his head. A short time ago he fell on his’ Read and cracked his skull; there followed complete paralysis of sight and hearing, together with bleed- ing from the ears. Now already he is improving; his eyes follow me intel- ligently around the room and he can move his limbs with some control. Saving the Children. I pass into a room where they make plaster casts, and another room where all sorts of manual and mechanical massage are given. Then comes, most charming of all, the room of children’s gymnastics. -A little girl is swaying from some rings, swinging her body in a circle around the point onthe floor where her feet are firmly placed. An older girl is holding her and directing her movements, Everywhere the chil- dren are helping each other, as they fellow Refugees Against Soviets Russian aristocrats who fled from Russia since the successful revolution of the workers and peasants are now seeking aid in the United States. It is of course none other than the fol- lowing capitalists and bankers, who would do anything to restore the old order in Russia, who are supporting an appeal sent out by the Russian Refugee Relief Society of America, Inc.: R. Fulton Cutting, director of the American Exchange National bank, American Exchange Securities corpo- ration, American Tube and Stamping company, City and Suburban Homes company, Manhattan Storage and ‘Warehouse company, Mexican Tele- graph company, Paterson Ranch com- pany, Wheatland Industrial company, and Wyoming Development company, Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, the wife of the railroad magnate who is direc- tor of some thirty odd railroads thru- out the country. Mrs. J. Harriman, whose husband is a member of the firm of Harriman & Co., president of the Harriman Na- tional bank, director of the Midvale Steel company, director of the Mid- vale Steel Ordnance company, and a score of other corporations. Some of the less known, but no less reactionary are Bishop Gailor, Charles 8. McFarland and Allen Wardwell. The funds given the Russian refu- gee relief quite likely will go for coun- ter-revolutionary work in Soviet Rus- sia. boss has loved too well The Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union is try- ing to save its mem- bers from the sad fate of “A. Waite And the union is teaching the workers to do more than cry about conditions! The organization declared a strike against certain Greek Union is determined to pereaihd go thru the movements prescribed to correct some bodily defect. A little girl is lying on a sloping board, with her weight held by two wooden pegs under the arms. The weight of her body is thus forcing in- to position her deformed shoulders, Still others are in other positions, while their friends amuse them by talking or by going thru their own prescribed gymnastics. “Isn’t this like a torture chamber of the Middle Ages,” remarks the doctor with a smile as she opens the next door. Here all kinds of strange me- chanical appliances are attached to people. One woman is pressing down a step witl-her foot, at regular inter- vals. Another ‘is making certain mo- tions with her hand, shoving again and again at a machine which comes back to meet her. Instruments of Healing. “Some of these were actually adapt- ed from old instruments of torture, which were used to pull peoples joints out or to wear out certain muscles and nerves,” explains the doctor. “But just as poisons under proper control be- come medicines, so the rack, instead of pulling people's joints apart, can be used to pull them just enough into position. All these machines are strengthening certain nerves and muscles, or readjusting certain de- formities. Quite without pain or even serious discomfort.” Upstairs I saw the laboratory where they were experimenting on “dyed mice.” They inject coloring matter under the skin until the mouse is col- ored; then they subject it to various light treatments, in order to discover the effect of different qualities of light and color. A Revolutionary Institution. This is only one of the institutions organized since the revolution by the Health Department of Russia. It has gone slowly with hard effort for want of enough money, but it is definitely forging ahead to put Soviet Russia in the. forefront of the investigators of healing methods. At present it is han- dicapped by the fact, among others, that the government cannot pay full time salaries to the doctors, ‘and so must give thén part of their time for private practice. They work toward the day when all the time of these ex- pert investigators may be at the serv- ice of the public clinies, where they can much more easily pursue their widest investigations into methods of healing disease. Vladivostok Port Exceeds Pre-War Freight Turnover (Rosta News Agency.) VLADIVOSTOK, June 4.—At the beginning of 1924 the freight turnover of the Vladivostok port exceeded its pre-war volume. Thus in 1913 the freight turnover of the port amounted to 25 million poods; during the years of intervention it dropped to 14 million poods; in 1922 rose to 37 millions and for the period of nine months of 1923 it amounted to 41 million poods. In addition to the natural advant- ages of the port, an enormous part in the growth of the freight turnover was played by the reduction of the railroad and freight rates. Send in that Subscription Today! Presbyterians Dodge Vote on Jehovah’s Meaning, Fearing Split u RICHMOND, Ind., June 4.—Fearing a disastrous breach in the relations of various churches if the articles were adopted or rejected the general assembly of United Presbyterian Churches today deferred a vote on the revised statement of faith until the next general assembly. | Modernist and Fundamentalist fac- tions had been expected to clash over the adoption of the faith state- ment and assembly leaders averted the break temporarily at least by postponing the vote. Send in that Subscription Today. FOOD WORKERS, DON’T CRY! DON’T DIE FOR GREEK BOSSES! ORGANIZE! There are a lot of graves in the world besides that of th: Water hemes kom tee scared the bosses into the courts for injunctions. * Greek bosses who love their workers too well work them 14 and 16 hours a day every day in the week. No seventh day off. The bogs can't do without his beloved wage slaves. The 8-hour day and the 6-day week are the big demands the Amalgamated Food Workers make. The union is show- - ing up the overwhelm- ing self-love of the what they want, tenes to the workers and teachii DENMARK LABOR PARTY HAS ITS COUNTS AS WELL AS BRITAIN COUNT VON MOLTKE The foreign minister in Denmark’s Socialist cabinet. Danish socialists may believe in the law of surplus value but they don’t believe in the law of surplus counts. Only the Communists insist on dumping the old order with its counts and no ac- counts. Wall Street Flatly Repudiates Servant Who Runs Amuck (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 4,—Senator Fess of Ohio made a frantic speech of protest against congressional investi- gations and disloyalty to the presi- dent’s leadership at the New England Codlidge dinner in Boston on April 16, and the Harriman National bank sent printed copies to its friends. Then he joined the disloyal on a number of is- sues, including the soldier bonus veto. Whereupon, on May 20, the bank sent out more copies of the printed speech, with a written apology scrawled across the face, signed by J. W. Har- riman, president of the concern. “We apologize, for having sent to you the original of this article,” says the scrawl. “We were fooled by this speech of Mr. Fess. We thought him to be a sincere man and took his word at face value. This repudiation goes in this form to all of our 2,500 read- ers.” Brutal Deportation of Hundreds Feared; Ellis Island Filled By the Federated Press. NEW YORK, June 4.—What will be- come of Moses Gottlieb? Moses is nine months old. He is an American citizen because he was born in this country. But the United States su- preme court has ruled that his mother and brother must be deported to Pal- estine because they entered the Unit- ed States in 1922 after the Palestine immigration quota was full. Lower federal courts granted their entrance on the ground that the father of Solo- mon Gottlieb was a rabbi whose fam- ily were not affected by the quota ex- clusion clause. Gottlieb says the ef- fort to save his family from deporta-| tion has made him penniless. The fate of several hundred wives and children of aliens held at Ellis island for deportation depends upon the labor department’s interpretation of the supreme court ruling, Assistant Immigration Commissioner Landis an- ttounces, Send in that Subscription Today. Congressman Makes Scab Bikes. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.—Non-union bicycles made by Congressman H. P. Snyder in his Little Falls plant, are called to the attention of union men by the Metal Polishers International Union. Local 42 of the polishers have been fighting against the non- union shop for the past year and see chances of victory if unionists every- where will call on bicycle dealers and point out that Snyder bikes are a bad buy for labor men or the sons of labor men, The painters local in Lit- tle Falls is out in sympathy with the metal polishers. fon Don't © a was Conditions: ORGANIZE! ing them to organize and get ADMIRAL BENSON IS DENOUNCED FOR STRIKE-BREAKING ACTIVITIES (Special to The OAKLAND, Cal., June .—The A Daily Worker) lameda County Central Labor council denounces Admiral Benson for having, while chairman of the United States shipping board, “grossly betrayed the people and the country.” This denun- ciation is based on charges that Benson contributed $175,000 of government funds to break the San Francisco waterfront strike in 1919. The council also demands that the Waterfront Employers’ association make a public account- ing of the government money. Military prisoners, sent from Alcatraz island to break the strike, risked | their lives and mutinied against the work. They won their protest and were not used again. ELECTRIC PLANT FIRES WORKERS (Continued from page 1.) year to work up a speed of two ca- bles a day, and that is only $6.50 a day. Every other man in this depart- ment is an inspector or a straw’ boss. They watch you like a hawk. The men soon learn that they can’t make over the day work rate, and the bosses watch them to keep them from loafing.” In front of gate 31, leading to the employment office, the DAILY WORK- ER reporter met a shipyard worker who was also looking for a job. He said he had worked in the Western Electric plant for a year as an inspec- tor in the milling machine depart- ment. “The day rate in the machine shops is $24 a week,” this man in- formed the DAILY WORKER. “The highest wage a man can make in the Western Electric plant is $1 an hour. Even the machinists very seldom reach this figure, but if they go over it the company refuses to pay any more. The day rate on the milling machines is only 29 cents an hour. There are as many bosses as there are workers in the machine shops.” Any Bum Can Inform. ‘The former shipyard worker char- acterized the straw bosses and many of the non-union workers as “the dirtiest bunch of informers in the world.” He said that when a man can’t do anything else he goes in and gets a job as inspector. “In the departments using precious metals, like irradium, the workers are guarded like prisoners,” he went on bitterly. “They work in inclosed cages, and every time they come out of their cages they are searched by armed special Western Electric po- licemen.” While the DAILY WORKER report- er and the shipyard man were con- suming a “lunch,” a pint bottle of milk, the unemployed worker con- fided that he had been strenuously job hunting for two weeks. He had just $1.39 left and had not paid his week's rent. He tried to get the DAILY WORKER reporter to go with him to get a job as firemen on a lake steamer, but the DAILY WORKER man made a date to meet him the next morning and went into the em- ployment office to try for a job. No Jobs Now. In the vestibule of the employment office, facing the entrance, a man in civilian clothes stopped the DAILY WORKER reporter and asked what he wanted. “I want a job. open?’* “There’s not a thing. We hired seven men at 7:30 this mtorning, but there is nothing doing.” “Tt heard there was a job in the cable forming department. I need a job bad, as I only have 15 cents to my name.” “This is a bad place to look for work, bugty. We're laying men off all the time. You might come around tomorrow morning, but I can’t prom- lise you anything.” The employment man got chummy, opened his coat and pulled out a large gun about eight inches long. “This thing is heavy as hell,” he said. “I |get tired of carrying it around all day, but orders are that I must keep it on me at all times.” A Little Gun Play. A uniformed guard came up and pulled out his gun, and the two, jocu- larly compared guns, forgetting that an unemployed “stiff,” with only 15 cents in his pockets was standing by, They finally waved the DAILY WORKER reporter off with the rep- Is there anything jetition that there was “nothing ao-| ing.” ern Electric building is nearing com- pletion, the contractor said the only men neéded were bricklayers and la- borers. He said he hired all his build- ing help thru the Landis award office, downtown, and if the DAILY WORK- ER reporter wanted a job he would have to go down there and get one. At the shipping room, gate 28, the guard said that truck drivers were not hired. “They get 49 cents an hour,” he said. Can't Make Living Wage. Another worker loitering at lunch time around the gates on Cicero Ave., seemed pretty well satisfied with his job. “I haven’t been able to make $25 a week since I started, but they tell me its always that way at first. They rt you in low and as you get faster you make more money on the piece work system.” This man had swal- lowed whole the drivel of the em- ployment office. Overtime Work, A husky middle-aged Italian, with a drooping mustache, told the DAILY WORKER that times are very hard. “Up until this morning I was work- ing in a brass finishing factory at $28 a week. I was laid off at 11 o’clock this morning. Before that I worked in the Western Electric, but couldn’t make more than $20 a week.” “Many of the men in my depart- ment work overtime until 10 o'clock at night,” a man in department 37, the automatic department, told the DAILY WORKER. “There are as many young boys in this department as there are men. I make $25 a week and I work from 7:30 in the morning until 6 o’clock in the evening. Every- thing in this department is piece work.” “About every two years the man- agement calls in efficiency experts, who look the plant over, and find out who they can get rid of.” They are doing that now, in the office, too, a white-collar office worker confided to the job-hunting DAILY WORKER re- porter. “Men are being laid off every day, not only because of the efficiency men, but because of slack times.” Send in that Subscription Today. Young Lady Rabbit Hunter and Escort Lost in the Woods MOUNTAINLAKES, N. J., June 4. —If Helen Cole, young ‘sculptress, who went into the New Jersey woods to ¢atch a rabbit with her bare hands, and Charles Carter, who went with her, are alive and pursuing their back to nature adventure, no flickering camp fire betrayed their whereabouts last night. State troopers and volunteers who have hunted the couple for 48 hours watched thruout the night from the water tower atop the highest hill in these parts without catching a glimpse of a fire. The girl and her escort, who were at a house party here, disappeared Saturday night, shortly after a dis- cussion as to whether a man and woman could survive in the “wilds” with no equipment or tools other than their hands. They have not been heard from since. Montana Federation of Labor. BUTTE, Mont.—The Montana State Federation of Labor convention opens in Butte June 24, It ain’t most likely I’m the first to try to figure which is worst, our Warren Harding’s normalcy or Calvin's own prosperity. By normalcy us folks wuz jipped by thorogoing hounds what lipped their great devotion to this land, from which all Reds should sure be canned. Their normalcy was rigged to rob, but Cal's prosperity, it took our job. All folks what read the papers knows that lots of factories gotta close, and men is tramping on the streets with tired legs and aching feet, Some are hungry, almost faint, a-look- ing for the jobs what ain't, Men are ‘thrown out, it beats the Dutch, be- cause they has produced too much. Meanwhile us working guys is told the banking vaults is full of gold ‘which came to us in grateful showers while we wuz fighting furrin powers, to save ideels to which we cling and i wasn’t asking for a thing. It seems, while cleaning up our task, we got a lot we didn’t ask. Which shows that profiteers has sense to trust in wars and Providence. It seems we parted with ideel, while heaps of shining gold we steals, ‘Well, ennyway, the work’s shut down, in city, hamlet, village, town. All profiteers is on the hop to force upon us open shop. They're out to cut us in our pay, to lengthen out the working day. They're after Reds with torch and dirk, and want to throw us out of work. It's getting back to normalcy by way of Cal’s prosperity. If I live thru, I'll know for sure which is the worse, disease or cure. With “No Help Wanted” on the shop, I gotta chase sum grub and flop, And while I lay me down to fast, I pray prosperity ‘won't last. At gate No. 29, where a new West-/| vue Three ‘LADY PAYTRIOTS | CRY BOLSHEVISM AT WELFARE BILL | “Revolutionary” Plot | to Stop Child Labor (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 4.—Bolshev- |ism is, of course, the motive seen by the opposition to the child labor amendment and the Reed-Sterling fed- eral education bill as inspiring its ad- vocates. Mrs, Florence Kelley, Miss Grace Abbott, Miss Julia Lathrop, Anna Louise Strong, Owen Lovejoy, Victor L. Berger, Mrs. Marguerite | Prevy and Miss Alice Paul are among | the notables listed in the “expose” of |revolutionary forces behind this meas- ure, in a 15-page memorandum from | the directors of The Woman Patriot, | printed in the Congressional Record by Senator Byard of Delaware. Anna | Louise Strong comes into the plot be- cause, thirteen years ago, she man- aged some child-welfare exhibits for Miss Lathrop, and now she has writ- ten a great book on Soviet Russia and has acted as correspondent for the radical Federated Press. The Woman Patriot group is gen- erally identified with Mrs. James Wadsworth, wife of the Tory senator from New York and daughter of the late John Hay. Miss Mary Kilbreth is its secretary. It has opposed suf- frage, prohibition, maternity care, and educational appropriations, “The spearhead of the communist campaign in the United States,” it says, preliminary to a long attack on Mrs. Kelley, (“an American socialist leader, translator of Marx and friend of Friedrich Engels”) “is the joint promotion of two measures—of this amendment, to prohibit the .avor of all youths, making government financial support for children a necessity, and of the Reed-Sterling federal education bill, engineered by the selfsame groups to obtain central control of the minds of American youth, destroy their love of country and willingness to defend her by means. of doctored textbooks, pfepared in the interlocked interests of socialism, pacifism, international- ism and bureaucracy. The youth of the nation cannot be placed under the guardianship of the pacifist interna- tionalist federal children’s bureau without endangering America’s future means of national defense.” Send in that Subscription Today! Russian Asbestos is Competing with-—_-— Canadian Product (Rosta News Agency.) MOSCOW, June 4.—Over 60,000 poods of raw asbestos and over 93,000 poods of assorted asbestos were pro- duced in the Ural Asbestos Trust mines in the first quarter of the work- ing year, 1923-24. The working ex- penses and the net cost of assorted asbestos have been considerably low- ered. The technical improvement of the working of the asbestos mines is very important, as the Ural asbestos is being sold in foreign countries and competes on the world market with the Canada product. Soviets Store Goods in Vienna; Open Shops Soon MOSCOW, June 4-—-The Trade Representative’s Mission of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics at Vienna has organized permanent |store-houses of Russian goods which are in demand on the Austrian and neighboring markets. Shops for sell- ing such goods are also to be opened. RECENT JAPAN ELECTION OVERTHREW OLD MINISTRY WHO WERE ANTI-RUSSIAN | VISCOUNT KATO. He may occupy the post of premier in the new Japanese coalition gov- ernment. He is known to favor reo- ognition of Soviet Russia,