The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1924, Page 2

“tn which Dr. ‘Woodward exprested Page Two DOCTORS TELL OF GRAFTING IN MEDICAL TRADE “Pig-Head” Politicians Aid Stealing “The malevolent pigheads who make our laws and the cuckoo execu- tives who veto any beneficial bills that happen to slip thru have got to be taught by severe measures if pro- gressive medical legislation is to get anywhere,” said Dr, Allan Nelson, representing the state of California at the meeting of the bureau for medical legislation of the American Medical Association, at 535 North Dearborn Bt. “A medical practice law was, by some miracle, forced thru the last session of the California legislature. Powerful lobbies of quacks and of groups benefited by the practice of quackery effected a quick combina- tion, with the result that the bill was vetoed.” Provinclalism and Profiteering. Middle class provincialism and stu- bidity, combinations of manufacturers who in some way derive profit from disease and suffering, inertia of city and'state officials, red tape procedure, in whose tangles bills get lost, and “polities” are the factors responsible for the standstill to which medical legislation has been brought, for the fact that, as Dr. W. H, Woodward of Chicago said in his introductory ad- Gress, medical legislation is “as far om the road today as it was when this bureau met for the firgt time in 1921.” Here are a few of the “accomplish- ments” which these forces have Drought about within the past year: Legislators Bought. Bought legislators in New York state caused the failure of a medical practice act, providing for means of securing and presenting evidence against fakers. Immense sums of money spent by lobbyists were re- sponsible. Attempts to take prosecu- tion in such cases out of the hands of the dishonest district attorneys and to turn it over to impartial agencies were defeated. Anti-vivisection laws, which would have put a stop to ex- perimentation of any.sort on any ani- mal, barely escaped passage. Christian Scientists and members of other religious and semi-religious cults worked to secure the passage of anti-vaccination laws in Denver. A terrific outbreak of smallpox was the only thing that prevented their suc- cess. Circus Graftere. “Criminal negligence,” was the way himself when he asked for his opinion of the passage of Barnes’ circus beasts across the borders of Arizona during the time of the epidemic of} hoof and mouth disease. Physicians who use their diplomas | as a means of entrance into the boot- legging profession were denounced by the house of delegates of the Ameri- can Medical association yesterday. Promiscuous prescriptions of liquor and the self-administered drug treat- ment of addicts were vigorously de-| nounced in resolutions acted upon by the house. Negro Housing Segregation. “For the Negro, health problems are | badly complicated by the discrimina-| tions which he meets in trying to find | suitable quarfers,” said Dr. Henry H. Boone, Negro physician of Chicago's | south side. “Wherever conditions are | crowded there is sure to be poor san-| tation and an increase of disease. | Negroes are hard hit by discrimina-| tion such as is practiced in nearly all | of our large cities.” Federated Gains in Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, June 12.—Farmer-La-| bor party advocates, including former | members of the quiescent Farmer- Labor party of the United States, are enrolled in the Cincinnati local of the Federated Farmer-Labor party. A. J. Feldhaus is secretary. Send in that Subscription Today. You workers of the Western Elec- tric! You have been following the stories each day in the DAILY WORKER about the company you work for. A lot of you workers have said, when you bought the pape: paper doesn’t tell enough,” or “We know more about Western Electric than you can tell.” Of course, you know best of all what the actual conditions of your work are. You're the fellows and girls and men and women who do the work every day that makes Western Electric such a big wealthy compa We want yoy to help us. We want 'y. Western Electric Workers! Tell Your Story to Us “One Big Family” By EARL R. BROWDER. The Western Electric Company has been forced to take notice of THE DAILY WORKER exposures of their methods of exploitation of the workers. - Like all institutions of the capitalist class, it falls back upon two mainstays of the system—force and fraud. Force-—the police are called in to the Western WORKER from reachin revent THE DAILY lectric slaves, Karl Reeve, reporter for THE DAILY WORKER, was arrested yesterday on the request of the corporation tools, to prevent him-from handing out bills to the employes. Fraud—the Western Electric Company is running high- priced advertisements in the capitalist press, in which they describe the slave conditions in its plants as ideal. “The Western Electric people are all one big family,” says the advertisement. “One big family"—thousands of young men and women toil long hours for a mii rable wage, to produce the profits that keep a few parasites in idleness. “One big family"—with a system of industrial espionage, family"—where all organization of the workers firing and re-hiring in order to reduce “production costs,” which means reducing wages and living standards. “One bi is strictly forbidden, on pain of from the industry. ismissal and blacklisting Force and fraud against the workers, is the method of the capitalist class everywhere, So it is also the method of the Western Electric Company. Organization of the workers, in shop committees and unions where the workers control, where the agents of the bosses are kept outside—this is the only way in which the employes of the Western Electric Company can protect their own interests, Organization—and education, which makes organization possible and keeps it strong. THE DAILY WORKER is giv- ing the information and education. It is now up to you, workers in the Western Electric Company, to form your organizations, THE DAILY WORKER is in the battle to the end. Use it to wake up your fellow workers! up-to-date and well-informed! Use it to keep yourself Use it to lay the foundations for a mighty organization of the Western Electric workers! TRUST FIGHTS DAILY WORKER (Continued from page one) The lad had been given two sand- wiches at his meal hours. He was de- spondent, as his mother is dying in a sanitarium close to Chicago. This may gave his name and address to the DAILY WORKER reporter, but asked that his mother be ‘not in- formed, as he felt the news: of his ill luck would kill her. “I /don’t care what they do to me,” he said, “just so my family doesn’t hear of it.” Reeve gave the lea dollar and a pack of cigarettes: He was trying to sleep on a hard, narrow wooden shelt swung out from the wall. There were no covers of any kind, and the lad had contracted a severe cold from the pre- vious night's exposure. The narrow cells were ranged along two sides of a dingy room, the rest of which was taken up by the power plant which supplies the water to the town of Cicero. Let Old Woman Suffer. The noise precluded all possibilities of sleep. During the hour stay of the DAILY WORKER reporter, an old drunken woman, who had been ar- rested on the same corner, was moan- ing and screaming continually trom the cell next to the DAILY WORKER reporter. Altho she was obviously terribly sick, nothing was done for her by the police. Thomas Myerscough was required to put up $26 bail, altho he was given a receipt for only $25. Myerscough demanded a receipt for the other dol- lar. “That's the fee for approving the bond,” said Desk Sergeant H. 8. Getting Away With a Dollar. “Who approved the bond?” Myers- cough asked. “I did,” the desk sergeant replied. He persistently refused to give My- erscough a receipt for the extra dol- lar which he charged. ‘The only re- ceipt received by Myerscough was No. 10472, on the official receipt blanks of the Cicero department of police, 2617 South Fiftieth St. The case will come up at the above ad- dress tomorrow morning. Some of the Cicero policemen told cial gang of the world. We're telling you things. Now, you tell us. The DAILY WORKER wants to know, and all Its readers all over the country want to know. You tell tem. Tell us what kind of work you do and how you do it. Tell us how the boss makes you do It faster. Tell us How you like being speeded up. Tell us what you think of the ar- ticles running in the DAILY WORK- ER. Tell us what yeu think of the Western Electric company. Tell us anything you want to tell us to re- lieve your minds. Write to the DAILY WORKER, Western Electric Editor, 1113 West your co-operation, We're telling | Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iil.,,and you what we know. We're telling let him know what you know. The you how Western Electric and Gen- | best letters will be published. Your eral Electric are sister compantes. We're telling you how Western “Electric and Western Union are re- lated. We're telling you how West- ern Electric ie part of the House of Morgan, part of the greatest finan- names will not be printed, jurse, $0 that the boss can’t use the letter against you, Tell us your troubles, workers of Western Electric. Write to the DAILY WORKER. Reeve that the Western Electric com- pany undoubtedly instigated the ar- rest. “They are concerned about the articles in the DAILY WORKER, and they are ing tooth and nail to try to keep decent union conditions out of the plant.” Big Effect of Daily Worker. The DAILY WORKER articles are being favorably discussed thruout the entire plant. One Western Electric worker told the DAILY ‘WORKKR re- porter that the bosses in several de- partments have made speeches trying to counteract the tremendous effect the DAILY WORKER expose of the secrets of the bosses has had upon the men. Another strong union man, who has been with the Western Electric com- |pany for three years, told the DAILY WORKER reporter: “For the first time since I have been with the West- ern Electric company I find the work- ers susceptible to organization and wage scale talk, The DAILY WORK- ER articles have vividly put before the men the true conditions. Now we are able for the first time to go ahead and show them how much higher the standards of wages are in the union- ized shops.” (Continued from page 1.) Lodge. “Why, he hasn't faith even in his own crowd,” he muttered. “ . . entire confidence of both capital and labor . . . believes in the family... .” A sigh of relief)went up when the speech was finished and the delegates roared. their relief. “Poor Calvin, he is going to his doom like a real martyr,” was the gen- eral comment. The humorists may ery over the competition, the old guard may yaoan over the ghosts of their former #reat- ness, the insurgents from Wisconsin and North Dakota may chuckle over the prospects of having something to spill from the platforms during the election campaigns, but Wall Street knows its man. Behind the candidacy of Calvin Coolidge is the mighty pow- er of American finarce and while the money kings will make the best of a bad bargain and accept with the best possible grace, whichever capitalist politician finds his way into the White House after November, Calvin is their favorite son and even if defeated in the coming elections as he is almost sure to be, one must. forget that only recently the Wall ‘Street Journal expressed its dissatisfaction with con- gress and declared the time was ripe for a Mussolini to lead the blackshirts on Washington. ‘Wall Street has the men; it has the guns and it has the money, too. Wall Street does not play all its cards on election day. the expense of the United States, Dr. Marion Leroy Burton managed to keep a sleepy audience in their chairs while he described the smallest candidate r passed the mental tests of the Wall Street political psychologists, When he got thru by presenting to the convention: “The virile man— the staunch American—the real hu- man beigg, Calvin Coolidge,” the dele- es with the exception of 28 dele- tes from Wisconsin and six from North Dakota, grabbed their banners and marched around the hall singing WALL STREET’S SON NOMINATED THE DAILY WORKER HE MADE COOLIDGE | FRANK O. STEARNS, This is the little old guy that “Made Coolidge”— If anybody can make you believe it. j | HARD-BOILED BURTON This is Theodore E, Burton, who was temporary chairman of the na- tional republican convention at Cleve- land. He helped run the Coolidge imrolier. WHAT ARE YOUNG REDS? WHO WANTS TO KNOW? EVERYBODY—TONIGHT “Who and what are the Young Reds?” Everybody Wants to know, All the young people are asking. And here’s a chance to find out, Thomas J. O'Flaherty, the “As We See it” column men of the DAILY WORKER, apd Max Schachtman, editor of the Young Worker,.are go- ing to tell the world tonight in the biggest mass meeting of young peo- ple ever held in the city of Chicago. Get it straight now: Tonight, Fri- day, the 13th, (no J'nx can stop it), at 8 p. m., in North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark street, near Chi- cago avenue. Everybody will be there and it won't rost a cent! If you are a young worker, why don’t’you belong to the Young Work- ers’ League? That's an organiza- tion of—well, come tonight and find out all about it and meet the pep- piest bunch of young people in the city. er bloody hymns, The manner in wh‘ch the vast audi- _ | 9nee received Dr. Burton, was remark- able. Tho he had the Coolidge O. K., the delegates were suspicious of him. Scattered applause greeted him. When he finished his speech, the elephants knew he was their man. He Does Splendid Job. He did a splendid job. His task was to explain Coolidge, tne unexplainable. He explained something sure enough, and the delegates accepted the explan- ation. When they threatened to start thinking, he cracked a joke and got them Jaughing. “What a first-class vaudeville monologist he would make,” remarked a reporter, The puzzle in the White House grew more puzzling as Dr. Burton proceeded to rayel the riddle, but he did it in such @ way that it was a pleasant re- spite from the moth-eaten stuff that was trotted out by the other eulogists. It was the best act on a bum bill. There was very little excitement as everybody did just about what the dopesters predicted. South Dakota cast ten votes for Hiram Johnson. Cgfi- fornia did not give him a smile. total count was Coolidge, 1,165; John- son, 10; LaFollette, 4. A motion to make the vote for Coolidge unanimous, was carried, but the vote was not unanimous, Wisconrin supplying the “no.” ‘ The vice-president is still missing, tho convention gossip now favors Ken- yon. ha owt Communists’ der of Breslau * Thrown in Fortress lal he Dai IN, June '12-—Richard Mon- den, secretary of the Young Com- munist League of Breslau, was sen- tenced by the supreme court for the defense of the republic in Leipsic to one year and six months in a fortress. He was charged with “treason,” of course, and the court claimed to make allowance for Monden's “youth and “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and oth-| idealism.” By THE POOR FISH, (Special to the Daily Worker.) CONVENTION HALL, Cleve- land O,, June 12——(Just Before the Nominations Were Put Over).—! have had the honor of being the only Individual who has openly an- nounced his willingness to accept the assignment of running In the presidential Marathon with Calvin POOR FISH BOOM FOR THE VICE » PRESIDENCY GOES INTO COLLAPSE Coolidge on the Republican ticket. Coolidge may be popular with the bankers and in the primaries, but devotion stops short at being his side kick when the revolver cracks and Wall Street’s boys put on thelr togs for the big race. For the first time in my fishy po- lItieal career | have conf id my- self in doubt as to the causes for this unwillingness to accept a per- MEXICAN LABOR SUPPORTS CHOICE OF TWO EVILS Calles Only Promising But Flores Worse By E. G. WOLFE, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, June 12.—Plutarco Elias Calles is a sure winner in the Mexican presidential election July 6, with the united if not overenthusiastic support of almost all the workers and peasants, Gen, Calles is supported by the Mexican Federation of Labor, by over 90 per cent of all the peasants, by part of the anarcho-syndicalist work- ers, part of the railroad workers, by a large part of the bureaucracy who believe he will be elected and wish to preserve their jobs under the new ad- ministration. The second candidate, Angel Flores, is the candidate of the large landowners, the employers and the Catholic church. Calles Makes Promis Calles pledges himself to continue the repartition of common-lands but more effectively, Under the Obregon government 2,500 villages were given common lands, but this was not fol- lowed up with distribution of farm machinery, nor with money to intensi- fy production which means that the handling of tne agrarian problem by Obregon was practically a failure. Calles pledges machinery and money. He pledges himself also to encourage investment of capital but to protect the workers. He pledges faithful car- rying out of articles 123 and 127 of the Mexican constitution, However, neither the workers nor the peasants have absolute faith in Calles. But between Flores and Cal- les tke workers and peasants of Mex- ico cannot hesitate, Fair to Both 8? Flores pledges himself to protect the big landholders. Flores also be- Heves in the right to strike, but that the workers on strike have no right to prevent other workers from filling their jobs, He pledges excellent con- cessions to capital; also a more se- sure position for the Catholic Church. The Mexican Federation of Labor has a membership of 750,000, all for Calles. The General Confederation (anarcho-syndicalist) has 78,000. Its attitude is anti-political, but it does not control more than 38,000 of these members, so that about 40,000 are pro- Calles. The railroad workers, an in- dependent organization, before the revolution were all practically for de la Huerta, but it is said that more feotly kosher task, with few re- sponsibilities. The vice presidency should be the lay man’s paradise. It would be the best possible hiding place for a man wanted by the po- lice. Nobody evi embers. the vice pre: | wonder name. why It never struck Albert B. Fall to take the Job. Of course there is very little to sell, but a fellow could keep his open and threaten to squeal ui the hard- working cabinet officers divided the spoils of office, It Just struck me that Coolidge might unload all the crimes of the Republican party on me during the campaign. He did it to congress. Perhaps that accounts for the re- luctance of Republica: to with him. | would not urprised if he had to make the race all by his lonesome, It is rumored the White House parrot is willing to make the sacrifice for the good of the party, but as Calvin is his only human companion, and the presi- dent does not do hia thinking out loud, the parrot would make poor copy for the press. But he would be quite satisfactory to the capital- ists in case Coolidge dropped dead, He could quote Lincoln and make a reputation for himself, I am beginning to fear that my candidacy has fallen flat. | know too much. Not for nothing have | been in the company of the great political wizard, Arthur Young, the man who practically brought Hard- ing from obscurity with the ald of Jake Hamon’s dollars. Arthur is behind me now-—about 900 miles— but there is no Hamon In sight. My boom has collapsed. The Vir ginia delegation took the last swig out of my campaign bottle. NOTICE TO OUR AGENTS AND READERS: Much time will be saved and bet- ter service assured if all mali ad- id to the various organiza- at 1113 Washington Bivd., plainly written on the en- velope the exact organization for whom such mail is intended, viz: The Dally Worker, I! Lavoratore, The Workers Party, Young Work- ers’ Leagu: ite. Do not use the same envelope for communications to more than one organization, than half of its membership is for Calles, Similar conditions exist among the carmen of the capital. The million active members of the National Peasants’ organization can muster 90 per cent of the peasants for Calles; the other 10 yer cent are con- trolled by leaders who have had per- sonal differences with Calles and will swing their constituents away. The only labor organizations opposed to Calles are the Catholic unions (of which there are quite a number in the country) which are controlled by the priests, Congress Counts Votes. With such a lineup Calles’ victory would be certain were it not that the congress of Mexico counts the votes. In this congress Calles has not an as- sured majority, and most of the rep- vesentatives are quite unscrupulous. {n the senate the Calles sympathizers are even fewer than in the house— and to the senate is left the ratifica- tion of the election. It is said that should the house count enough votes to elect Calles, and should the senate ratify, that the landholders will start another revolt to impose Angel Flores, Rumors are current that the large landholders have made preparation’ in the north of the country, and that is the rea- son that Obregon has suddenly left the capital to go to Sonora, India Plans for Juvenile. BOMBAY, India, June 12.—The gov- erament of Bombay has published its plan for the protection of children and young persons in the form of a bill to be introduced in the Bombay Legisla- tive Council. This bill would create separate courts for children’s cases and abolish hanging and transporta- tion as punishment for youthful of- fenders. It would prevent the sending to prison of any children except those adjudged by the court to be too un- ruly to benefit by admigsion to a re- formatory school; would introduce a system of probation and also establish industrial schools teaching trades to offenders under 16, Send in that Subscription Today. UNEMPLOYMENT IN SHARP INCREASE; ANOTHER 100,000 ON N. Y. STREETS ALBANY, N. Y., June 12—A reduction of more than 7 per cent In the number of workers employed in the state, showing that more than 100,000 workers were dismissed from the factories during the months of April and May, Is the startling condition revealed in the report of Industrial Commis- sioner Bernard L. Shientag. “The number of factory workers has now fallen back to where it was two years Shientag. » before the strong upward movement of 1922-23 had begun,” sald No improvement is noticed, or expected in the immediate future, In the clothing and textile Industries, In which the present depression first showed itself. In the May report the metal trades are shown to be suffering likewise, losing decisively in production and employment. The depression is general at this time. | Friday, June 13, 1924 GREAT CHORUSES FILL COLISEUM WITH MELODIES Singing Societies Hold 75th Celebration The tremendous ocean of sound from the 8,000 voices of the mixed chorus of the assembled German sing- ing societies of the country, swelling in the strains of the finale of “Die Meistersinger,” made a magnificently impressive conclusion to the first program of the seventy-fifth anniver- sary of the Saengerbund and left the Coliseum audience thrilled as it poured out into the perfect spring night. The other song which most stirred the great crowd was ‘Du Hirte Is- raels” (Bortinsky), sung and repeet- ed as an encore by the mixed chorus. The quiet, strong melody filled the ugly building with pure sound beauty. With 4,000 singing the Tannhaeu- ser “Pilgrims’ Chorus,” the old fa- vorite could not fail to thrill the re- sponsive hearers, nor could the “Hal- lelujah” from “The Messiah,” sung by 3,000 mixed voices. Symphony Splendid. The simple excellence of the Chti- cago Symphony orchestra, led by Frederick Stock, added great deat to the pleasure of the evening's offer- ings, altho the fineness of the open- ing number from “Die Meistersing- er,” played by tbe orchestra, was somewhat lost in the disturbance of late arrivals and unfinished conver- sations. Mme, Marie Sundelius, Swedish so- prano, and Alexander cst ae basso of the Civic opera, were the soloists. By contrast to the perfectly unified volume of the choruses, and because of poor acoustics, the soloists’ voices were thin, The unaccompanied male chorus was one of the finest disci- plined musical instruments one could The conducting of Wil- Boep- pler was all that could be desired. Dever Has His Word. The interruption of spe in the middle may have been necessary, and probably was satisfying to the many visiting Germans, but to the rest it was annoying. The flag display of the various societies meaht most to them. The greetings of Mayor Dever may have appealed to some, but one could not but think how his praise of the wholly admirable “great German spirit” as shown in the preservation of the old folk songs by the societies would not have pleased the hysterical war maniacs of not so many years ago. He concluded very truthfully: “I hope your stay in Chi’ cago will be profitable as well as pleasurable. I know it will be profit- able for Chicago.” The inflection he gave to “profitable” almost twisted it into a dollar sign. The Saengerbund almost outdid it- self in decorating the hall and the out- side of the Coliseum with American flags. Concerts were held yesterday after- noon and evening and will be held this afternoon and evening. 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