The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 3

Friday, June 6, 1924 RAPID TRANSIT WORKERS FORCED TO BUY STOCK Company Needs Money for New Cars The Chicago Rapid Transit com- pany wanted to add one hundred new steel cars to their “L” lines, so they have made their employes cough up with a million dollars’ worth of “Se- ries A Prior Preferred Stock” to pay for the improvements. The inducement offered in the whirlwind campaign, which ends to- night, is that “the interest on the new stock will come first in payment of all other company indebtedness, with the exception of the bonds.” The ‘fact that the Rapid Transit company is capitalized at $18,563,000 of adjust- ment debenture bonds, due 1963, and mortgage bonds and equipment obli- gations of $47,600,000, the latter bear- ing interest before the stock now is- sued, does not seem to deter the com- pany in whooping it up among the employes. It was stated at the stock sale de- partment of the Rapid Transit com- pany, twelfth floor of the Edisor building, 72 West Adams St., tha‘ “they don’t want the employes to get the impression that it is compulsory to buy the stock.” However, it is an- nounced that over 70 per cent of the employes of the “L” lines have al- ready paid up the first installment on their stock, and many more have signed up and promised to pay. This has been accomplished by the determined efforts of every boss in the company to rake in the stock sub- scriptions. A special “Stock Sale Daily News” was issued in the inter- ests of the campaign. “How about the shops?” says one item in the Rapid Transit sheet. “The road department took a vacation on Memorial day and the electrical department slipped one over on them, bringing their average up to 94 per cent. Watch our smoke, says Captain Toner.” Officials of the company have dis- claimed any attempt to force the men to buy stock, but every effort was brought to bear to get every employe to subscribe and buy those new im- provements for the “L” roads. President Britton I. Budd of the Rapid Transit company tries to in- duce the men to buy with the offer of more work. “All employes are vitally interested in the securing of capital to go ahead with a well-defined plan of progressive development, because an expanding business means more work, more runs to choose from and better prospects,” says the altruistic Budd. “Employes of the Chicago Rapid ‘Transit company and members of their families are now given a chance to become part owners in the com- pany, following the authorization by the Illinois commerce commission of an issue of $5,000,000 prior preferred stock, paying 7.8 per cent dividend,” says the High Line, the agi ‘Tran- sit magazine. An article in the High Lins de- clares. that “the return on this invest- ment, under the employes’ fund pur- chase plan, will amount to 8.66 per cent.” But Budd’s letter declares that “this stock will pay dividends of 65 cents per month, which equals $7.80 per share ($100 a share) per year.” It is not explained what hap- pens to the other 0.86 per cent, Here’s another statement in the Rapid Transit newspaper which shows that the company is not at all indifferent as to the amount of sales made to employes. “We heard a complaint the other day that the per cent for the general offices was too low. That is the per cent of employes who are subscribers. We do not think the complaint is warranted, be- cause 85 per cent of all the employes is a good showing—but there are some who think that it should be higher. How about it, Mr. Kretsch- mer?” “Well, it’s all right, boys. The main thing is to get the subscriptions, and that you certainly are doing. The old flag is flying at the masthead, and we'll nail it there if necessary.” Perhaps the explanation of the frenzied attempt of the Rapid Tran- sit officials to line up their employes to put their hard earned money into the company is explained in another statement in the High Line. “In- creases in traffic,” says the company magazine, “due to longer trains and platforms and more efficient opera- tion, it is estimated, will increase the earnings of the company about $400,- 000 per annum,” ‘ On ne ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. MILLIONAIRE MURDERERS BROT UP IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE MONEY COULD WORK MIRACLES For the unbelievable callousness which formed the psychol- TH ogical background of Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, con- fessed murderers of thirteen-year-old Robert Franks, money— and the brutal system under which money is gotten today—are responsible. Leopold is the son of a wealthy manufacturer. Loeb is the soy of the vice-president of Sears, Roebuck Company. Out of the dafly toil, the sweat and the blood of hundreds of children, wage- slaves in the factories of these men, came the wealth that afforded luxuries for their two boys. young Leopold and his chum Loeb cared nothing for all this, it could not be expected that the taking of one life more would affect them very deeply. They had been trained to inhumanity by witnessing a long series of slow murders. Leopold coldly discussed the crime. “It was an experiment,” he said, “and it is just as easy to justify such a death as it is to justify an entomol- ogist in impaling a beetle on a pin.” Sophistry little worse than some of the arguments by which manufactur- ers attempt to justify child labor. Upper Class Rottenness. Involved in this case are three fam- ilies which stand out as shining ex- umples of the respectability which noney can give, until some unexpect- ad turn of affairs brings to light the brutality of character and the utter rottenness which is the spirit of mid- die and upper class life today. The father of the murdered Robert Franks is no different from the rest. That he made his millions in houses of prosti- tution on the South sid@ of Chicago is a matter of common report among newspapermen, altho none of the cap- italist papers has dared to mention ‘the fact. Secure in their knowledge that their millions are all-powerful, Leo- pold and Loeb maintain a perfect mental poise in face of an impending prosecution for the most horrible murder of years. Power of Money. “Money can do anything,” is the way in which Leopold explains ‘his self-assurance. The buying of the courts, an ordi- nary recourse of the rich criminal, is a procedure with which Loeb is well acqainted. “You know, we've got lots of dough; I don’t know how many millions,” he confided to State’s At- torney Robert E. Crowe. “How about fixing this thing up by getting to a few of the jurors?” Crowe smiled cynically. Good Election Stunt. In spite of all the bluff and bluster of Robert E. Crowe, he realizes that the two criminals will’ not hang from the end of a rope. But with election coming, and Crowe none too sure that he will be sent back to the state’s attorney’s office, this case is a god- send. With properly arranged pub- licity, Crowe will manage to make this case wipe from the minds of the voters of Cook county all recollection of his rotten labor record. When he has been put into office again, Crowe knows that there ‘will be plenty of time to get these boys off thru appeals. The notorious labor hater knows that if he is re-elected it will be because he secured conviction in this case. An appearance of zeal- ousness in a “righteous” cause is a trick card that can be played to ad- vantage in an election. McAdoo Promoters Promising Plums to Ohio Democrats NEW YORK, June 5.—Promises of patronage to supporters of McAdoo are weapons being used against his opponents for the Democratic nomina- tion and against a possible third par- ty candidate, as revealed in a cam- paign letter signed by Hamilton G. De Weese, Ohio state manager for Mc- Adoo. Al photograph of the letter is published in the New York World. It follows in part: “Mr. McAdoo’s nomination can and will be secured in much the same manner in New York (as Wilson’s nomination in 1912) and will leave no excuse for any Democrat to join the third party movement. ... Will you Ip bring this about?’ “In making this request of you per- mit me to say that all Democrats con- tributing time, influence or money to the McAdoo cause prior to April 29, primary day, will be made a matter of record, I mention this because we are confident that his nomination is equivalent to his election, and those responsible for his nomination will be in great favor with the McAdoo-for- President Organization in Ohio.” DeWesse says he sent out the let- ter on his own responsibility, but after discussing the matter with Judge Rockwell, McAdoo’s national cam- paign manager. DON’T MISS IT! “DAILY WORKER” MAGAZINE SECTION Next Issue, Saturday, June 7 4 Will contain among other articles the following: “MAY DAY IN MOSCOW,” “WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OUR SCH “COMMUNISM IN INDIA,” A Review of Losovsky's Latest So Sang “THE WORLD'S TRADE UNION Impression by M. J. Olgin LS?” By ine yl Baye N. Ray MOVEMENT,” Frank Evans “THE VANISHING LAFOLLETTE ILLUSI . By Alexander Bittelman ee WORKERS OF ALL THE NATIONS! 10 THE AID OF THE GERMAN MINERS TO THE WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES. The German miners have entered the struggle in order to check the capitalist pressure upon thgir wages, hours and conditions of labor. Four hundred thousand workers quit the mines, subjecting themselves and their families to great hardships. Should united German capital de- feat the striking miners, the miners of England, Belgium, France, Czecho« Slovakia, Poland, etc., will come in next for the blow of capitalism; and not only the miners, but the work- ers of all industries. “The struggle of the German miners is the caus: of the international proletari: Only by the united front of the workers of all tendencies will It be possible to check the offensive of the brazen magnates of the German heavy industri The all-Russian central council and the central committee of the Russian trade unions appealed to the workers of all countries to come to the aid of the striking miners of Germany. Assistance must be ren- dered without delay. Especially great is the responsibility of the miners, transport workers and metal workers of England, France, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and Po- land. To the workers of these coun- tries in general, and to the miners, metal workers and transport work- ers in particular, the entire Russian trade union movement sends the call: TO THE AID OF THE GERMAN MINERS! Anyone who stands aside in this struggle, who remains a neutral ob- server of the gigantic battle of our German brethren, is a traitor to the working class, unworthy of being a member of the proletarian family. Long live the struggling miners of Germany! Long live the united front of the international proletariat against the capitalist offensive! ALL RUSSIAN CENTRAL COUN- CiIL OF TRADE UNIONS, CENTRAL COMMITTEES OF ALL THE RUSSIAN UNIONS. Moscow, May, 1924. E DAILY WORKER YOUNGPIONEERS CARVE LIFE OUT OF VOLGA BANKS John Reed Colony is Big Success By ANISE, Federated Press Staff Correspondent. KVALINSK, Russia.—Fifty children with their teachers haye dug them- selves into the prairie along the River Volga, and are creating a living and an education. There have been men and women pioneers, These are chil- dren pioneers 14 years old. They have named themselves the John Reed colony, after John Reed, ho was also a pioneer, first in America and then in Russia. One Year’s Work, It is a wonderful story of achieve- ment—what they have done in the single year since the government gave them the land of an old monas- tery near Kvalinsk. Here was a beau- tiful location in the hills, with dozens of old wooden houses falling to ruin. The orchard was old and in need of care. The arable land—was at least five miles away and in many different pieces. How Russian—I thought—to start a model children’s colony in a place like this. Yet they started. They had to. They were 14 years old and the gov- ernment in Moscow, pressed by young- er children’s needs, could no longer afford to keep them. It gave them the land and a little food. Ten instruc- tors joined the group. They were not teachers as we know them in America. They were a blacksmith and a shoe- maker and a carpenter—for these children needed first of all to make their own beds and shoes and tools. Learned Trades. Fifty little wooden beds with sack Mattresses of straw were put up by the children, and larger beds for adults, and two visitors’ rooms looking over the river. They learned leather- working and made shoes. They made garden tools, crude things. Out of some lining given by the Quakers, the girls made skirts and blouses. But the boys are still dressed in ragged American street costumes, from an old clothes donation. They were he- roic scarecrows. Keen Bargainers. The largest single gift of money this school has had (aside from the government supplies and teachers’ wages) was $100, which I sent them last Christmas for a celebration, But hhow did they celebrate? The school council sent the manager to Siberia to buy horses. He brought back five horses, which cost $20 each in Si- beria, but $80 in the famine-devastat- ed province of Kvalinsk. Two they kept; the rest they traded to peasants for cows, chickens, pigs and food thru the winter. They got $300 worth of stuff for that hundred dollars. BIG BUSINESS PASSES BUCK IN DEPRESSION TO BOOST CALVIN (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 5.—Further attempts to influence business men and wage-earners to vote for Coolidge for president is seen in a monthly bulletin published by The National Employment Exchange, founded by Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary and others. The bulletin, prepared by Prentice Hall, Inc., is distributed wholesale. “uncertainty in the domestic political taxation and publicity of returns.” It attributed the growing business depression to situation” and “threats of burdensome MINNESOTA! VOTE FOR THESE MEN JUNE 16! FORGET OLD PARTIES! MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 5.— Here are the men the Workers Party members of District nine are urged to support in the primary elections, June 16, in accordance with the instructions of the accom- panying proclamation: For U. S. Senator—Hjalmar Dan- tos, Orr. For Governor—Dr. Wm. A. Scha- per, Minneapolis. For Lieutenant Governor—Emil’ E, Holmes, Hopkins. For Secretary of State—Susie W. Stageberg, Red Wing. For State Treasurer—Carl Berg, Erskine. For Attorney General—Thos. V. Sullivan, St. Paul. For Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner—A. E. Smith, St. Paul. Representatives for Congress. Ist District—Otto Baudier. 2nd District—O. F. Swanjord. 8rd District—J okkesmos. 4th District—J. F. Emme, St. Paul. 5th District—J, O. Johnson, Min- neapolis. 6th District—Halver S. Halverson. 7th District—O, 8th District—J. O. Bentall, Duluth. 9th District—Knute Wefald. 10th District—irving G. Scott. Send in that Subscription Today! American Plan. SAN FRANCISCO.—So persistent is the San Francisco Builders’ exchange in its fight on the building trades unions that it is circularizing every- one who secures a building permit, no matter how small the job, to use only “American plan” contractors. Send in that Subscription Today, y Victoria Forced to Give Fire Fighters Seventh Day Rest ‘(By The rated Press) WASHINGTON, June 5.—Ten new locals of the International Association of Fire Fighters, with headquarters here, have been formed since last Sep- tember. These are Calgary and Medi- cine Hat, Alta.; New Westminster, Victoria, South Vancouver and Port Grey, B. C.; Walfiedville, Ont.; Alli- ance, O.; Appleton, Wis.; Boone, Ia., and Kankakee, Ill. Locals in Parkers- burg, W. Va., Bellaire, O., and Regina, Sask., have been reorganized. A law recently adopted by the Brit- ish Columbia legislature requires that all cities grant one day’s rest in seven to fire fighters. The city council of Victoria, the capital, proposed to ig- nore this law, but when they offered to give the six-day week with a 12 per cent reduction in pay they were pub- licly warned that they were setting a dangerous precedent for defiance of public order. The council backed down. Congress has recently passed a law granting the six-day week to fire fighters in the District of Columbia, while Alberta has passed a similar statute, subject, however, to d refer- endum of the cities affected. Negro and White Homes. OAKLAND, Calif.—The controver- sy between Sidney Deering, Negro, and the residents” of the exclusive Piedmont district, who are trying to oust him from the home he bought, is in a new phase. Deering is willing to sell his home for $25,000 “nuisance price.” He paid $10,500 for it. He has moved his family, a wife and two children, back to West Oakland, but remains in technical possession, occu- pying the house with two guards. The National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People is backing him. Send in that Subscription Today. Page Three Hopkins--Political “Gandy Daneer” By JOSEPH “PH MANLEY, Secretary Federated Farmer-Labor Party. Mr. J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman of the Committee of 48 (“Count Them—48!"), never was—and, of course, is not now—either a farmer or an industrial worker. And his greatest claim to fame was his “Bull Moose” activity in 1912. Since that date—with the help of those modern aids to publicity, the typewriter and mimeograph—and an unlimited amount of gall, Chair- man Hopkins has been heroically endeavoring to organize Progressive parties of the type that recently met in the Ohio State convention, at Columbus, with seven delegates present. Hopkins first “horned in” on the real Farmer-Labor movement last winter, at the first conference called in St. Paul. There he insisted upon reafing voluminous documents and making frequent interminable speeches; and he “demanded” that the» St. Paul conference become a part of the “national conference” called by the mythical Committee of 48, to meet in Chicago a few days later—with Chairman Hopkins and half a dozen delegates present. In the St. Paul conference, Hop- kins eventually agreed—after con- siderable “gandy-dancing”—to ev- erything there decided upon. And he accepted the proposition that the Farmer-Labor convention which was then called for May 30th, should include all farmer and labor elements. Hopkins did not attend the second St. Paul conference, which changed the date of the proposed convention from May 30th to June 17th. And previous to this second conference Extremist Germans Ousted Professor— He’s Communist (By The d Press) JENA, Germany, June 5,—The ex- treme German nationalists who cap- tured the Thuringian government by an election held under bayonets have added a new scalp by refusing to let Professor Korsch of the law faculty resume his position after he had for a short time served as minister of jus- tice in the short-lived Thuringian la- bor government. Korsch’s ‘Crimie is that he is a Com- munist. Nobody accuses him of hay- ing used his chair for propaganda. When he returned to the university, the president of the university de- tailed a squad of janitors to shoo away people who came to hear the lec- ture and the president himself locked the doors of the lecture room. Nothing daunted, Korsch proceeded to the People’s house, owned by the labor unions, and delivered his lec- ture. _He has sued the university for reinstatement, but pending the deci- sion, which will probably be delayed as long as possible, he will lecture regu- larly at the People’s house. Send in that Subscription Today. Henry’s Slaves Turn Out One Million Flivvers in 132 Days DETROIT, Mich., June 5.—The ten millionth flivver was launched here today. The motor was finished this morn- ing and a few hours later was as- sembled into a touring car at the Highland Park plant of the Ford Motor Company. Car No. 10,000,000 is to be shipped to New York within the next few he gave wide publicity to many and conflicting statements with regard May 80th convention. First, he unalterably gpposed to any delay Then he was in favor of calling off that convention altogether, and go- ing to Cleveland. And he wound up by accepting all the decisions of the conference- June 17th and the rule including Communist organizations. Also he persuaded somebody to place him on the new Committee of Arrange- ments. During all this ‘time, the Hopkins mimeograph poured out a flood of | letters in support of the coming | Farmer-Labor convention. At one | stage of its dizzy whirl it went so far, in fact, as to defend against the attacks of the newspaper “Labor,” the St. Paul convention’s right to include all the elements in- vited. While at another time this publicity machine flooded offices with a referendum containing a long list of names, supposedly of the St. Paul convention’s potential presi- dential candidates. This list bore the names of all sorts of “progres- sives,” ranging from Borah to Debs—and modestly tucked away in the center was the name of J. A. H. Hopkins. Little results have been heard of this referendum. But it seems that Hopkins has now be- come a “national figure,” since throwing in his lot—and his “Com- mittee of 48”—along with LaFol- lette and the latest attack upon the Communists. As a part of his involved “alibi” for now turning tail on the St. Paul, convention, Mr. Hopkins says: “In view of recent developments, it appears that one of the other signers—namely, the Federated READER WOULD LIKE SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES RUN IN THE DAILY WORKER Max C. Zange, a Cincinnati read- er of the DAILY WORKER, has written us for articles on science, particularly on late discoveries, We cannot pay for special articles, but if any of our other readers are able to contribute snappy scientific articles, written briefly and to the point, we will be glad to publish them in the DAILY WORKER for the information of every one. Fact articles of all kinds are wel- comed by the DAILY WORKER, but we request that they be as clearly written as possible by type- writer, or at least in ink. Items of labor activities are always accept- able. as Send in that Subscription Today. Essay Prizes Lure California Kids to Bosses’ Propaganda By The Federated Press) SAN “RRANCISCO, June 5.—How California schools are being used for reactionary propaganda is evidenced by several recent prize essay contests offered to school children by news- papers. The Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle both offered prizes for essays on the federal con- stitution, based on Randolph Leigh’s “The Citadel of Freedom,” a book full of misstatements of fact and enthuias- tically indorsed by the anti-labor Bet- ter America Federation. Now the days and then driven on a cross- country trip to San Francisco. According to the company’s an- noyncement it took seven years to produce the first million Ford cars and 132 working days for the last million, Send in that Subscription Today. Japs Reply to U.S. Exclusion Law by ce Ne Committing Suicide TOKIO, June 6.—Three more Japa- nese committed suicide today in pro- test against action of the American congress in passing immigration leg- islation excluding Japanese. A man of 20, who threw himself be- fore a train and was ground to pieces near Chiba, left a will urging his countrymen to boycott American goods, At Okayama an elderly man took poison and another recently returned from the United States, committed hari kari, both in protest against the exclusion act. Similar suicides earlier in the week. were reported Send in that Subscription Today. Another German king Loan? NEW YORK, June 5.—George Solmssen, head of Germany’s largest industrial bank, was met by a rep- California Republican offers a $500 scholarship to a high school student for an essay on “Why Coolidge Should be Returned to the White House.” At that, it is worth 9000 to find out why. Send in that Subscription Today. to the propdésition of postponing the | —with the. date of | { Farmer-Labor party, whose co-oper- ation in calling the convention we took in good faith is being used by the Communists as a means of entrance to. the . convention, The Communist movement in this country is admittedly controlled by the Moscow International. Thus the whole situation in regard to the St. Paul convention has changed.” Having participated in the first conference held at St. Paul, Hop kins had then a full knowledge of the Federated Farmer-Labor party and its affiliations. He knew per- fectly well that our insistence on the point that the proposed conven- tion should include all ‘working class elements, meant to include also the Workers Party. And not only was he quite conscious of that, but he rather seemed to “welcome the fact—because he had evidently become impressed with the strength of the sympathetic support which the St. Paul conference gave to the question of admitting all such ele- ments. This very lame excuse now com- ing from Hopkins may satisfy his following of disappointed capital- ists, in the shape of struggling lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc. But it will not sound convincing to any- one else. Hopkins and his little handful are not of enough importance to waste all this good newspaper space upon, but for the fact that the capitalist press—true to the interests of its owners—is now using this other- wise unimportant individual and his busy mimeograph, to slander the cause of the exploited farmers and industrial workers. Hopkins is just another of the long line of little tools whom capi- talism uses in its ruthless fight against those it oppresses. Rumor has it that he served a long ap Prenticeship in Wall Street. He was entirely out of place in the brief period that he associated with calloused handed workers and farm- ers. He is back now where he be- longs—in company with Robert M, LaFollette and Warren S. Stone— the left wing of Wall Street. The Primary Cause Of 85 per cent of all diseases is due to EYESTRAIN Consult GEO. HOFFMAN, Dr. Opt. Suite 1608, 59 E. Madison HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT 215 S. Halsted Street WM. FRIEDMAN CO. PROP. MEETING PLACE FOR THE NEEDLE WORKERS Strictly Home Cooking and Baking DETROIT, MICH. Mikel Sherman, N. D. Naturopath & Chiropractor ‘When other methods fail try Nature's road to health. Hours: 11 to 4 and 6 to 8 P. M. 4863 VAN DYKE AVENUE, betw. Forest and Gratiot PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Export et ors 4, SMITHEIELD 5 ST., one yes: m Aree FOR A ROYAL GOOD TIME ™mntnmnmniunmys COME TO THE JOINT Entertainment and Dance OF THE W. P. of A. Workers Party of America Y. W.L. 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