The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 11, 1924, Page 4

Page Four CONGRESS MAKES NO PROVISION TO MAN RUM FLEET Coolidge May Call an Extra Session (Special to The Dally Worker) ‘WaSHINGTON, June 10.—President Coolidge today was faced with the possible necessity of calling an extra session of congress. Failure of the urgent deficiency bill to pass in the last minutes Saturday, because of a filibuster by western reclamationists in the senate, caused the following embarrassments: 1. No money is provided to make the 25 per cent reduction in current taxes authorized by the new tax Dill to those who paid their fall taxes in March. The deficiency bill would have appropriated $16,240,000 for this purpose. 2. No funds are available to pre- pare during the summer for distribu- tion of the soldier bonus, and issuance of the policies may be delayed almost a year. Of the $132,000,000 included in the deficiency bill for the bonus, $32,000,000 was for administration. 8. The coast guard is left without funds to employ the more than 4,000 officers and seamen to man its new rum defense fleet. Its operations will virtually be brought to a standstill. In addition to these embarrass- ments, congress also let slide the bill appropriating more than $100,000,0000 for construction of eight new cruisers and modernization of the fleet. Mr. Coolidge will confer with Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon, director of the budget lord and others this week, to learn what may be done to keep things running without these badly-needed funds. If the situation proves very serious, he may take the extra session question up with Re, publican leaders after the convention. Peasants Hoot at Jugo-Slav Royalty; Opposition Strong BELGRADE, June 10.—The Repub- licans and Peasants Party of Jugo- Slavia scored against the royal dynas- ty in the Chamber of Deputies when M. Radich, head of the opposition, received hearty support in leading the | hooting of the government. Representatives of the Peasants Party were seated by the Chamber, and presented a formidable front. “Beer Not Medicine Says United States Supreme Court WASHINGTON, June 10.—The su- preme court today held the act of con- gress expressly forbidding the pre- MASS ORGANIZER OF UNITED ST, LOUIS AND CHICAGO DISTRICTS Recognizing the similarity In the political and industrial problems that exist in’ the St. Louis and Chi- cago districts, the National Execu- tive Committee of the Young Work- ers League has decided to amalga- mate these two districts, The St. Louis district consists mainly of branches in the mining towns in Southern Iilinois, with a few branches in St. Louis. There is no doubt that the amalgamation of these two districts will greatly help the work being carried on. Barney Mass, who was organizer of the St. Louis district, which com- prises the greatest number of branches, and the broadest field of work, has been appointed district organizer of the combined district, replacing Comrade Al Schaap, who was organizer of the Chicago dis- trict. Leningrad Port Has Improved Facilities for Loading Ships LENINGRAD, April 29. (By Mail)— Representatives of bodies interested in export trade from the port of Len- ingrad have agreed to a number of measures for the reduction of port ex- penses. The commercial port of Len- ingrad has been fitted out with im- proved warehouses, approaches, and mechanical contrivances. The ex- penses of timber export will be re- duced by means of direct loading from the shore on to the steamer. The ice- breaking campaign which has been energetically carried on this year has enabled the port to deal with cargoes of more than 750,000 ton weight. Send in® that Subscription Today. Klansmen Who Shot Up Williamson Seek Change of Venue HERRIN, Ill, June 10.—Judge E. N. Bowen will rule Tuesday in the peti- tion of the Ku Klux Klansmen, in- dicted for alleged offenses in connec- tion with the February disturbances in Williamson county, for a chatge of venue from Herrin city court. The klansmen filed affidavits claiming Judge Bowen, who called the grand jury which indicted them, was preju- diced. The cases are scheduled to come up for trial today. Send in that Subscription Today. Old German Bank Kicks Off. FRANKFORT, June 10.—One of the oldest German banks is quietly dying because of overstraining its credits. Daneufville & Co., founded 257 years ago, is passing, altho the Frankfort scription of beer for medicinal pur- poses as constitutional. Bankers’ association is easing the last difficulties of the institution. THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS Bosses Beg and Rob For Charity. To the DAILY WORKER: Did you ever hear about the City of Capitalist Beggars? This is the name we work- ers have given to the City of Canton, where the capitalists extort the work- ers in the name of public welfare, when in reality the half a million dol- lars raised in this city among the laboring class in every local plant, is for the purpose of keeping up an ar- my of loafers connected with charity organizations and other institutions such as the Y. M. C. A. the Y. W. C A., hospitals, etc, etc. About threo months ago they had a drive to en- large one of the Canton hospitals and the poor workers paid the bill. Dur- ing the month of last May, they again made a drive for $385,000 to be distributed among the above good for nothing organizations, and in the plant that I am working, the United Alloy Steel Corporation, the manage- ment had the foreman of every de- partment take down the check num- ber of all their foreign employes, and on pay day we found a deduction from our pay checks, of from $12 to $15 per man. The worse thing is that if you complain about this extortion you get your walking papers and they will never give you a job again. Pay Foreman to Hold Job. We poor workers of this city have to pay from $25 to $50 a year to these destructors of society, in order to al- low them to enslave us, and besides we have to buy presents and give cash money to the bosses if we want to stay on the job. They have inter- preters of some nationalities that claim to be employed for the good of the workers and when we complain to them of these conditions, they tell us that no such thing is going on, for job and to stay on it he has to pay the foreman $10 or $15 a month. I could tell you lots about these plants I have no education and cannot ite English good. I like your paper also is my paper, for you are to better our lives and some we will change these terrible con- ...+ Yours fraternally, Andy 32 FE i re of Little Business Men. DAILY WORKER, and all To the. attend the June 17 who may convention:—Don’t any of you run away with the idea that the little business men are in any way dis- gusted with either of the two old parties. If they endorse a third party at any convention, it will be with the under- standing this third party is to wheel right back into the old party rut, at the first opportunity. They Vote Against Farmers. Here in Williams County, North Dakota, business is on the rocks, be- cause it is wholly dependent upon the farmers, and the farmer is down and out. Yet on every measure to be voted on that would give the farmer an extra dollar to spend with them, their vote was solid against the measure. On the small item of saving the dock- age in grain for the farmers, they voted, men, women and all, against the bill. On a measure which would make it nearly impossible for a working man to run for office, their vote was 100 per cent for it. They voted 80 per cent for Coolidge; 20 per cent for Hiram Johnson. Let's Make Class F. L. Party. I am pleased to hear that LaFollette and the whole bunch of camouflagers will not be at the June 17 convention. We will have no opposition in launch- ing a real working class Farmer-Labor pary.—A. C. Miller, candidate, 4ist District, Williston, N. D. Unemployment Increases Voteless. To the DAILY WORKER:—The St. Paul convention is close at hand and, in view of existing conditions because of the president's veto of the vets’ pen- sion bill, would suggest that a plank in the workers’ platform be inserted granting old age pensions to all after arriving at an age to be decided upon by the delegates. The bankers are at their tricks again laying off thousands of men be- fore election, Thousands tramping the country looking for a job lose their vote, have not established their residence, and almost all of them are in favor of our party, principles. Watch the concerted efforts of the dailies to scatter jobless workers over he country by means of fake ads of men wanted at this place and the other, place; they have the: whole scheme reduced to a science. Watch hem,—Yours for success, A Sub- seriber, Chicago, 1 POVERTY LEADS TOTRAGIC DEATH OF THREE BOYS Hopelessness Follows Loss of Job By JOHN HARVEY. Three boys, the oldest fifteen, died by gas when their struggle to keep a family of seven alive seemed almost hopeless. The dead boys are John Olesky, 15 years old, Stanley 13, and Joseph, 10. ‘When the father of the boys died some years ago and the family ceased to provide a worker for the Pullman bosses—the widowed mother and her six children were forced to live as best they could on scanty funds sup- plied by a city charitable organiza- tion. Drive Lad to Work. But as soon as John became four- teen this insignificant aid was cutin half and he was told to find work. From this time the responsibility for his poverty-stricken family hung heavily upon this young boy’s. shoul- ders.. When he lost his job and the suffering of his family increased the young boy lost hope. Other things that added to the despondency of the older boy were: a summons to court anda threat that if he was not able to find work he would be sent to a re- form school. John’s two younger brothers were equally discouraged and saw ahead of them nothing but the same hopeless struggle to support a large and hungry family. Stanley, 13, had announced a few days before that he was going to quit school and look for a job and due to the straits the family had reached his mother was forced to agree that this was necessary. Joseph Belonged to Y..W. L. The youngest boy Joseph, 10, was a member of the Pullman Junior sec- tion of the Young Workers League and John was thinking joining a branch of the Young Workers League which had just been formed. The Pullman Juniors feel the tragedy painfully. They think that if their comrade belonged to the Young’ Workers League longer and learned that there was an organized fight against poverty and the Pull- man bosses, the boys would not have become so despondent as to end their lives. Detroit Women Fight to Welcome “Peace Special’’ By SHERMAN BOWMAN. THE HAGUE, Holland, June 10.— Committees of the Women's Interna- tional League for Peace and Freedom, who are welcoming the Peace Special in various cities of the country, are learning something of what it means to be a conscientious objector in war time. The special train bears the for- eign women delegates to the recent inte-: ational peace meet in Washing- ton. In Detroit Col. Burt Shurly, medical reserve corps, commander Detroit post, Military Order of the World War, has written a long letter to patriotic societies urging them to join him in defending Detroit against the invasion of the Peace Special. He has writ- ten also to pastors urging them to re- fuse to permit the visiting women to speak from their pulpits. The woman who was chairman of the arrangements committee of the local league committee resigned. She is at the same time an organizer for the Democratic party. The pastor of a large church who had promised the use of his pulpit said he had to with- draw his offer because his congrega- tion would be split wide open if his church were used. But there were women left who thought enough of peace to fight if necessary, and the special will be wel- comed. German Praises High Standard of Art in Russia BERLIN, June 10.—Art flouris' mich more readily in the kindly con- ditions offered by Soviet Russia than anywhere in western Europe, reports Alexander Moissi, the famous German tragedian who has just retutned from playing an engagement in Moscow. Business interests control the west- ern stage too completely, Moissi says, while in Russia artis free from mer- cenary corruption. The artists in Russia really live for art's sake.” Suggestive plays such as those so prevalent on the stages of Paris, Vi- enna, London, and Berlin are not found dominating the Russian theater. Realistic drama is more favored among the Rusisans. Moissi was fa- vorably impressed by the decency of production in Russia, “Non-Paftisal Gompers Talks to irties. Sammy Gompers, in line with his “non-Partisan” plan of clinging to the skirts of the old parties will continue his efforts.to bind the labor move- ment to reaction by appearing before the republican national platform com- mittee next week, it is announced, Gompers and ‘other reactionaries of the A. L. of F, officialdom will also appear before the democratic party committee in the near future. s a THE DAILY WORKER ‘ : Party Activities Of Local Chicago At the last City Central Committee meeting, a very lively discussion took place on the unemployment question. Resolutions were submitted by Simon Felshin and one by the City Executive Committee. The resolution on un- employment presented by the City Executive Committee was adopted by the City Central Committee by a vote of 22 to 6. The resolution will be printed in a forthcoming issue of the DAILY WORKER and comrades are requested to study the resolution and Program carefully in order to further our activities amongst the unem- ployed, Twenty-four members were taken in at the last City Central Committee, among whom were 12 members from various unions. Of the 24 applica- tions, twelye were from English branches. There has been a very steady and excellent growth of the membership in Chicago, The work. of electing delegates to the June 17th convention is going on and reports are already in of dele- gates elected. The call for the for- mation of a Cook County Farmer- Labor party will be issued tmmediate- ly after the June 17th. convention and comrades should be on the job when the call is issued to present it before their union, fraternal and other workers’ organizations. The Farmer-Labor party assessment issued by the City Central Committee should be paid up entirely in the next few days. English branches are paying up swiftly and we expect the language branches to make a similar swift response. The Speakers’ Class will be in charge of Comrade James P. Cannon, assistant executive secretary of the Workers Party, and will start very shortly after the June 17th conven- tion, exact date to be announced later. Branches shall send in imme- diately the names of those whom they Tecommend for this class. The class in Trade Union Conduct and Activity will also start soon after the June 17th convention, exact date to be announced later, and will be in charge of Comrade Arne Swabeck. Branches shall immediately inform the city organization whom they pro- Pose sending to this class. Preparations are being made for carrying on street meetings. July 4th and August 10th Press Picnics. Branches shall elect a committee which will be ready to stage some affair at the July 4th Party Picnic and August 10th Press Picnic which will serve as a means of attracting workers of their language to the pic- nic. Branches should also inform the city organization at once of the com- rades who can be depended upon to help ‘in the work at the July 4th Party Picnic at Stickney Park Grove and August 10th Picnic at Riverview Park, Daily Worker. Branches are to take up for the next three meetings the matter of getting every member to subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. | All branches are being visited by speakers from the city organization to take up the matter of advancing the campaign for subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER, All branches are also being visited to speed up the in- dustrial activity. which is being bet- tered steadily. This is especially true since the very enthusiastic Trade Union Educational League meeting attended by some 300 comrades at which reports were made on the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, Illinois miners’ convention, ‘Illinois Labor Party and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ convention by Comrades I, Davidson, Jack John- stone, Martin Abern and Earl Brow- der. Work of getting delegates elected to the Machinists’ convention on Sep- tember 10th in Detroit is being bet- tered among our comrades. More- over, the Party caucus is not function- ing as well as needed and the ma- chinists’. Party comrades should get in touch with Comrade Paul Simon- son, in charge of the metal trades group at 1113 W. Washington St. The work in Chicago has improved very swiftly, chiefly because the Party has been active in the various strikes in Chicago, especially the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike, the present strike of the Amal- gamated Food Workers, and the Pull- man strike. See Our comrades, by getting into the thick of the daily struggles, have been able to get real and valuable contacts with the workers, who are thus made acquainted with the Communist pro- gram and sympathetic tothe Work- ers Party. Trade union activity, strike work, and not sterile discussion in the branch about matters remote from the workers are the things which build a Communist party, Our com- rades are more and more awakening to these facts and are therefore at- tempting to get into the daily strug. gles of the workers. fe Regular Branch Meetings. WEDNESDAY, Ju! I Mth, Lithuanian No. 3, | Semin, M. at ex 4 Ex ee and gd iN _ Send in that Subscription Today. HARRY JENSEN DENOUNCED AS PLEDGE BREAKER Carpenters’ Czar Hit by Progressives Harry Jensen and his satellites, Tom Radcliffe and Mark Taylor, cannot point to one constructive promise which they have fulfilled during their term in office, is the claim of Frank Stahl, who heads the progressive tick- et in the coming election of officers of the district council of the Carpen- ters’ and Joiners’ Union, to be held June 14, At the last election campaign, Jen- sen rode into office by promising to clean up the carpenters’ union label situation, which was then one of the main issues in the union. Jensen promised to prosecute the large con- cerns which were putting fake union labels on scab milling work. A But when Jensen got into office he failed in any way to prosecute these concerns and did not produce the evi- dence he had boasted about so much during the campaign. Union Label Disappearing. At the present time, the union label is fast disappearing on the work turned out by carpenters. Jensen has ignored this issue, and let the carpen- ters’ union label sink into disuse. One large non-union mill turning out win- dow sash and mill work, which by means of a court injunction against the business agent of the district coun- cil has prevented the carpenters’ un- ion from insisting that the fake union label be taken off of the scab goods is the firm of Anderson and Lynn, large mill owners. Supporters of Frank Stahl declare that at the present time large flat buildings are being built, under the Jensen regime, with non-union sash and trimmings, and no effort is being made by Jensen to remedy this. He is too busy with his disruptive poli- tical trickery. How About Landis Award? Jensen, Stahl progressives claim, has been promising the carpenters’ membership a written agreement with the two contractors’ associations ever since he has been in office, but there is at present no agreement with the union. In the last campaign Jensen said he was going to put the Landis Award Citizens’ Committee out of business, and said their position was very weak. But Jensen failed to take advantage of the building boom last year to drive the scabs out of town anc to organize the unorganized car- penters—a program he could very readily have carried out during the boom. Stahl’s supporters declare that Jen- sen is claiming great credit for the signing up of a few independent con- tractors on the union scale, but the fact is they say, that these contractors are based on the Landis award and create a situation, where union car- penters are forced to work with scab painters and other building crafts un- der the terms of the Landis award, Amalgamation at Issue. Stahl and his candidates are declar- ing for organization of the other crafts into the union, and for unity among the building crafts. They declare such harmony is the only solution of the carpenters’ problems, and that Jen- sen cares nothing about such amal- gamaticn. Drunk Who Gnaws Bank Roll Made to Cough up for Bulls BALTIMORE, Md., June 10.—Whole- sale consumption of paper bills by George Raubacar, locked up in the po- lice station for drunkenness, brought a rescue party of three to batter down the door of his cell. George was tight in more ways than one. But thoughtful self-examination wasn’t in his line, and when he found himself locked up in solitary confine- ment he gnawed his bank roll with rage. He had just completed a first course of $20 when Turnkey Carney gripped him by the throat, and two policemen got their fingers between his lips. A hand to mouth struggle ensued, in which George lost out, and finally spat out the dough which he had kneaded well with his teeth. Tenants Applaud The Federated Press) New York, June 10. Sfenants in New York are applauding the decision of Justice Lazansky, who has ruled that a tenant who is forced to vacate premises on the false statement that the landlord desires them for his own use may recover damages. Damages, says the judge, should cover moving expenses and the increase in rent, if any. Gold Deposits in _ Unusual Quantity F ound in Russia MOSCOW, Jute 10. 10.—Gold deposits, ‘containing about six times the quanti- ty of pure metal usually found in the ¢jcrude ore, have been discovered in the central mines of iat ‘Tomsk-Altai '] mountain region. Send in that sermon Today, DAILY WORKER PING IN PHILADELPHIA ON SATURDAY--REMEMBER PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 10.— A great picnic for the DAILY WORKER is to be held, rain or shine, at Schuetzen Park, Eighty- third and Tinicum Ave. on Satur- day, June 14, from 2 to 11 p. m,, with all the workers in this vicinity invited to join the merriment. The Lithuanian Singing Society and the O. Lyman Union orchestra will make plenty of good music for entertainment and dancing, and H. M. Wicks of New York will speak. Admission is only 35 cents. From Philadelphia, take the sub- way car, Chester car No. 37 at Thirteenth and Mar! Get off at Eighty-fourth street and walk one square south. Everyone be there early and stay late to enjoy the dancing, the music, the games, the speaking and the refreshments, is the word of the Philadelphia DAILY WORKER com- mittee. Indiana Kluxers in Threat to Bolt the Democratic Party INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 10.—Bel- ligerent members of the Ku Klux Klan today announced their intention of bolting the Democratic party and rallying to the support of Ed. Jack- son, Republican candidate for govern- or, as an aftermath to their defeat in the Democratic state convention here yesterday. Reputed strength of the Klan bloc in the cohvention, much touted before the meeting, failed to materialize. Senator Samuel L. Ralston easily was the center of interest with his announcement that he had mo desire to be a candidate for the presidency. As a result of Ralston’s announce- ment, Indiana’s delegation to the New York convention was not instructed. Albanian Rebels March on Capital Leaving Many Dead LONDON, June 10.—Battlefields be- fore Tirana, the Albanian capital, are strewn with dead, the casualties ex- ceeding 1,000, according to an Athens dispatch to the Daily Express ‘today, quoting Durazzo advices. The Albanian Nationalist revolution and drive for the capital is being car- ried on with desperate fighting, the report says. In fighting around Ti- rana scores of dead lie where they fell. The Nationalists are accused of cap- turing 50 government soldiers, lining them up and executing them in batches of five in the presence of the remainder. Ancient Landlord May Have Housed Hard-boiled Heart SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 10.—A heart that surgeons say may be that of a human, with two nails driven thru its center and carefully wrapped and sealed in an earthern crock, was found in the center of a street here today. The nails were in the form of a cross. The heart was boiled. Gay Daughter Sells Memoirs of Monk, Czar’s Harem-Thief PARIS, June 10—Memoirs of the monk Rasputin, confidant of the for- mer Czarina and general manager of the Czar’s harem, killed in Leningrad in 1916, are on sale at Paris. Money from the sale will go to one of the monk’s many children, Marie Gregoi- ovna, so that she may disport herself in the French capial. JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Chicago Tel. Monroe 2241 “KOMMENTS ON THE KU KLUX KLAN” The stan, ‘Sy : esis of a ur: Byare ‘BUY ‘Your AT Low DRUGS PRICES _ THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL ($1,503 tubes Pepsodent Tooth” 16c—8 cakes Cuticura Soap... 596 FOR CONSTIPATION AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMAGY 1 MADISON STREET at Auatin Biv We Deliver F: Phones: Oak Park | 3929 571, 672; We wits and rot ‘ig Polish, Lithuanian, etc, vvaciiseday, June dune AE, 1926 THIRTY SHOPS SIGN UP WITH BAKERS’ UNION | Injunctions F Figure on Both Sides a By HYMIE HARRIS, The struggle of local 237 of the Jews ish, Bakers’ Union against the Master Bakers’ Association ‘is still going strong with the odds on the side of the union. Thirty shops have, already signed agreements and have refused to accede to the demands of the boss- es’ association that they produce be- yond their usual quota in order to make up for the shortage caused by. the strike. The strike committee had a confer- ence with the bosses” committee, but no agreement was reached. »The men are standing pat on their demand for a $5.00 per week raise. According to business agent Lipkin, the bosses, for the first time in la- bor. struggles have secured an injunc- tion against the members of the bak- ers’: union individually. The union held a consultation with its lawyer and is going to demand a counter injunction. But knowing that the courts are in the hands of the master class, the un- ion is not relying on injunctions to win the strike. Mass meetings are be- ing held and other unions in.the food industry are being appealed to. The Amalgamated Food Workers have announced that their members will.not handle any scab bread. This is a settled policy of that organiza- tion, tho not affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. Local No. 7 of the Waiters’ Union will refuse to cut any bread that has not the union label and local 544 of the Carpenters’ Union voted not to purchase any non- union-made bread. Delegates from the Bakers’: Union will bring the strike to the attention of the Chicago Federation of Labor next Sunday. Sam Lipkin, the business agent who was shot by boss gunmen, is now well and is energetically carrying on his strike duties. The union proposes to divide the work in the settled shops among the members of the union. The capitalist papers are carrying advertisements for scabs, but there is no response. DR. A. H. TAMARIN Dentist Wishes to announce the removal of his Division: St. office to 4805 N. CENTRAL PARK AVE. Phone Juniper 10210 Chidago, ML YES! | Oh yes! They ' found it guilty! In the judgment of 8—count eight— well and healthy looking, swell dressed, and rich Protestant Epis- copal Bishops, the little booklet by Bishop William Montgomery Brown: Communism AND hy Christianism is, guilty of telling the truth about the false teachings and beliefs and superstitious doctrines, preached and fostered by pai fat bishops— for calling on the donne masses to: “Banish the gods from the skies and the capitalists from thé earth.” You should help appeal this sen- tence, by spreading the truth con- tairied in the pamphlet; to be read by millions of workers and farm- ers. IT COSTS JUST 25:CENTS, Send us $1.00 and we will send you 10 of: them, postage prepaid, to any address in U. S. and Canada, and you sell or distribute them amohg your friends and neighbors. ' Literature Department, Workers Party of America, 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL. 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