The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 14, 1924, Page 3

{ | Saturday, June 14, 1924 SEATTLE LABOR BOYCOTTS SCAB HEARST SHEET All Crafts Joining Fight for Striking Printers (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, June 13.—Boycott of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, morning daily owned by William Randolph Hearst, is proceeding among unions of the northwest. Local street car men organ- ized in Division 587 have threat- ened Hearst with withdrawal of 1,500 readers if he does not make terms with the striking printers and locked-out stereo- typers and mailers by signing the same contract that is in force in all the other daily news- paper offices in Seattle. After months of negotiation the Hearst paper refused to sign. Mean- while it had held a squadron of strike- breakers in readiness who marched in from Los Angeles and a Spokane printers’ school and are trying to get out the paper. Advertisements are appearing in eastern papers offering steady jobs on the P-I. for stereotyp- ers and printers. Firing at Whim. Besides lengthening working hours from seven to seven and a half daily the Post-Intelligencer management set aside the old agreement forbid- ding the discharge of an employe tor lodge affiliation, political belief or other unwarranted cause unrelated to shop efficiency. In place of this old clause the “P.-I.” gives the foreman the sole right of discharge at his own whim. A special standing committee of four members, two from the union and two from the bosses is set up but has virtually no power. This committee has no power to order the reinstate- ment of a discharged worker unless all four committeemen so decide. Life of Union at Stake. Since two committee members are employers’ men the union loses all power to protect its affiliated mem- bers. The typographical union had no op- tion but to strike. The alternative was eventual destruction of the union. Se- attle union labor of all crafts was quick to rally to this challenge. FOUND! CANDIDATE FOR VIGE-PRESIDENT MORE REACTIONARY THAN ‘GAL’ Charles Curtis, senator from Kan- sas and mentioned at Cleveland as running mate for Coolidge, is one of the wheel-horses of the old machine. He is from Topeka, where he entered politics in 1884 thru the usual avenue of the county attorney's office. Schooled under the notorious “Dave” Mulvane, Curtis, being a bright young man, quickly forged ahead, went to congress as a repre- sentative, and then as a senator, succeeding Burton, a henchman of Mark Hanna in national politics. Curtis has been in the senate since 1907, carrying into his Wash- ington activity the same sedulous service to capitalism In its crudest forms that brought him recognition in Kansas. Curtis has always been a standpatter, being more reaction- ary than Coolidge, if such a thing is possible. Send in that Subscription Today. WAGE GAINS GO TO UNION LABOR; OTHERS SUFFER Engineering Organ Gives the Statistics (By the Federated Press.) NEW YORK, June 13.—That wage gains depend upon unions and that un- organized workers get it in the neck is demonstrated by a survey of wages in the construction industry in the last 50 years made by the Engineering News-Record. Common labor with the least proportion of union organiza- tion is shown to have received the least proportion of wage increase and suffered the most from unsettled working conditions. Bricklayers are recorded with the greatest gain, from 43 cents an hour in 1872 to $1.50 today, both for an 8- hour day. Carpenters are shown sec- ond with an increase from 23 cents in 1874 to $1.31% today, with the 8-hour day since 1890. Structural iron work- ers are rated third with a present average the same as carpenters. Turning to building materials the report states that common bricks have almost tripled in price in the 50 years pine lumber has more than doubled, and structural steel has almost dou- bled. FRENCH POILUS REFUSE 10 FIGHT GERMAN WORKERS Communists _Exerting Strong Influence (Special to the Dally Worker.) BERLIN, June 13.—French poilus have become so much more class con- scious and internationally minded than in the 1914-18 period that they fraternize and openly sympathize with the oppressed German industrial workers of the Ruhr, says Rote Fahne, often suppressed but irrepres- sible Communist paper of the Ger- man party. Made Separatists Fail. The lack of support of the French soldiers prevented General Degoutte from lending the Rhineland separatist gang the necessary aid to make their movement effective, says the paper. The work of the Ruhr Echo, which printed special articles in French. for the occupation troops, is commended as particularly valuable. German Police Use French Arms. The French authorities actually had to give arms to the German police to use against the striking German work- ers of the Ruhr when French soldiers refused to act against the strikers. Mayor Lutherbeck of Essen was given permission to distribute 200 French bayonets to the German reaction- aries’ police to use against their coun- trymen, who were rebelling against industrial slavery. Even the French colonial troops were strongly influenced by the Com- munists when the latter printed their message in Arabic. | HE’S HARD-BOILED | Another view of the hardest-boiled guy in the national republican con- vention—Theodore E. Burton, tem- Send in that Subscription Today. | Send in that Subscription Today! | porary chairman. Ce ne 2 a : : = z e g : S : : : : Upton Si Chicago, Max Eastman J. Louis Engdahl C. E. Ruthenberg Jay Lovestone Eugene V. Debs Hugo Gelert | Name ....secsereees | | THE LIBERATOR THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN POLITICS, LETTERS AND ART The Only Masiains of Its Kind in America Editor: ROBERT MINOR | CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: | William Gropper John Pepper Fred Ellis Leon Trotzky Wm. Z. Foster Art Young William Dunne Floyd Dell Scott Nearing G. Zinoviev inclair Use the Coupon below. Illinois. I enclose $1.00 for six months subscription . ‘ Boardman Robinson Mary Heaton Vorse Cornelia Barnes Lydia Gibson Michael Gold Moissaye Olgin Joseph Freeman James Rorty Claude McKay AGUOS ANE AGAUAMOAHOO AAU OUUUAG EGLO The Liberator, formerly The Masses, has won for itself a unique position in the world of revolutionary politics, literature and art. Become acquainted with this interesting and live monthly magazine. $1.00 brings The Liberator to you for six months. ee IP CRRA OR AESIRtae THE LIBERATOR, 1009 N. State St., senennracneneenenenenseseeneneseeereresessseeeens ie a Al al i pd ii ih THE DAILY WORKER Unanimously Calvin By Lydia Gibson—at Cleveland “—Not that he should give the people what they want, but what they ought to want.” . Great ap- plause. And who shall choose what we ought to want? Calvin, of course, with the altruistic assist- ance of Wall Street. Gem of thought from the New Jersey seconder of the nomination: “He answered the nation’s every call from Boston Common to the Rhine!” “Look well to the hearthstone—” We've been looking for years, not “to,” but “for” a hearthstone. They seem to have become a ruling class, luxury. Let’s found an Association for the Intalling of Hearthstones in Tenements—in which ‘the majority of American citizens live. Everything was sung, from “I Love You Only” to “Onward, Chris- tian Soldiers,” and especially “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.” But they left out that dear old ballad, “Merrily We (Steam) Roll Along.” It would have been too true to be funny. It's a great pity Billy Sunday didn’t make the nominating speech. He would have enjoyed the fervent singing of “Onward, Christian Sol- diers,” by the assembled thousands at the moment of victory. Couldn't hear the words, but they sounded like “With the cross of Coo-oolidge going on before.” The Jewish dele- gates must have appreciated the tri- umph of “his very Christian maj- esty.” The prayer was so long and so political that many forgot them- selves and applauded. We hope God forgave them the oversight. Mathematics is reformed. If you don’t like the result of your figur- ing, you declare the minus quantity non-existent; 100 minus 5 equals 100. Very simple. Thus the con- vention went unanimous for Cool- idge in spite of the stubborn minor- ities for LaFollette and Hiram John- son. What you don’t like you ex- communicate. Has the national anthem become Calvin’s private property? If you won't stand up for Calvin are you lacking in respect for “The Star- Spangled Banner”? When Wiscon- sin wouldn’t stand up they sprung the anthem on them. Sousa ought to have known better even if the rest of the multitude didn’t! But then Bob LaFollette, Jr., says they couldn't hear the band, because the gang was so disrespectful as to hoot and hiss all thra the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” BUY AT Low THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3 tubes Pepsodent Tooth FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Bivd. We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 672; Austin 4117 We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, etc. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. 73 W. VanBurenSt. Phone Wabash 6680 CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO——— WE DO ?ainting, Decorating and Paper Hang- ng. Our work guaranteed and reason- ble. Call Nevada 8601. GOOD RIDDANCE,’ WORKERS’ REPLY TO MR. HOPKINS Stinging Reply From Salem, Ohio Mr. J. A. H. Hopkins had not the least idea that he was stumbling on a hornet’s nest when he sent out a letter announcing his withdrawal from the June 17 convention. The replies to his letter are interesting. Boiled down, they mean “good riddance.” Many of the workers and farmers ex- press surprise that J. A. H. H. ever succeeded in glueing himself onto the arrangements committee of the con- vention. But all sincere men and wo- men are glad the pesky dictator has taken his position among the motley crew of discontented capitalists, petty bourgeois and other elements, at the rear of the LaFollette political cart. Among those favored by a copy of the Hopkins epistle is Charles Bonsall of Salem, Ohio, who is active in the Farmer-Labor party movement. He makes the following reply: “Mr. J. A. H. ‘Hopkins, Chairman Executive Committee, The Committee of 48, 15 E. 40th Street, New York City, N. Y. “Dear Sir:—Your letter of June 6, together with copy of a lengthy state- ment entitled ‘Special News Article 53-A for Immediate Release, Why the Committee of 48 has withdrawn from the St. Paul June 17 convention,’ have been received and carefully perused. I inclose my answer to the query as to my ‘desire to certify as a delegate to the Cleveland convention.’ “Will you please tell me the plank or planks in the Communist declara- tion of principles that you believe are wrong? “You appear to be nervously alarmed about the ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat.’ If ‘the Committee of 48’ should get control of the U. 8. Govern- ment and enact laws and execute them, would it not be a ‘Dictatorship of the Committee of 48? Are not all actual, functioning governments dic- tatorships? Will you answer? Sup- Pose you test it out, by refusing to pay your taxes and defy the present capi- talist government by refusing to obey a summons to deliver your body in a court as a defendant or witness in a suit at law. “Are not you and LaFollette playing the role of Dictatorship with a ven- geance, in dictating in advance, what ideas on government, economics, etc., the men and women delegates to the St. Paul Convention, shall entertain, before you would tolerate their un- holy right to a seat along with yeu? In the name of fairness and common sense are you not able to defend your assemblage, against what you conceive to be the erroneous ideas of the Com- munists? “In the light of your present posi- tion and that of LaFollette, it is evi- dent that the political, economic and moral atmosphere of the St. Paul con- and that we shall there build a plat- form that shall recognize the God-giv- en rights of the great proletarian army of the nation, without which you and LaFollette and the aggregation now assembled at Cleveland, would all starve to death and our civilization be- come a howling wilderness. “Yours for Righteous government, “CHARLES BONSALL.” A Souvenir From Walla Walla Prison. 18 Pen Pictures drawn by a class war prisoner. Neat booklet; 25c each. Address Mrs. Eugene Barnett R 2, 12th St., CLARKSTON, WASH. YOUR Made To Measure At Wholesale Price You Will Be Surprised at the Amount You'll Save! 100 PER CENT UNION ORGANIZATION GOLDMAN TAILORING CO. 803 W. Madison St, 6th Floor. 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