The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 17, 1924, Page 4

Fat REP: Page Four CELEBRATE A SANE JULY 4TH WITH WORKERS International Picnic at Stickney Grove As Independence Day approaches and the bloated manufacturers of the red-white-and-blue flags, bunting, ro- settes, and similar “patriotic” sym- bols prepare to receive back the shek- els previously paid out to the workers in wages, the hundred per cent Amer- jeans are busy with plans for joyous celebrations. But not everyone will be waving red-white-and-blue flags on July 4th. Class-conscious workers will be dis- playing red ones. Many of them have already bought tickets for the festive International Independence Day pic~ nic of the Workers Party, Local Chi- cago, which will be held at Stickney Grove, out beyond the terminus of the 22nd St. car line. As befits a working class July 4th celebration, the day will be given a distinotly international charcter. The various language federations of the Workers Party will provide special entertainment, in the nature of folk dancing, songs, tableaus, etc. There will be sports, games, re- freshments, and open-air dancing in the pavilion of the grove. James P. Cannon, assistant sec- retary of the Workers Party, and one of the most popular speakers in. the country, will make the address of the day. It will not be patriotic. Tickets purchased now are 35 cents. They will be 50 cents at the gate on the day of the picnic. French Knitting Industry Grows. NANCY, France, June 16.—Since the war, the knit goods industry in the Nancy district has expanded to a sur- prising degree, and in the presence of the increased demand seven spin- ning mills, with 80,000 spindles, are now in operation, in comparison with four mills in 1914. In addition, it is estimated that 30,000 persons are em- ployed by the factories in the Depart- ment of the Aube, as compared with 22,000 before the war. TECHNICAL AID-FREIHEIT PICNIC POSTPONED 10 JUNE 28—TAKE NOTE ‘The plonic planned for last Sun- day by the Society for Technical Aid te Soviet Russia and by the Freiheit ned.on aecaunt of the bad weather to June 28, at Stickney Park, Lyons, Ill. These who had tlekets for June 8 can use them on dune 28. ‘Those who have not yet procured tickets may get them at the Soviet Schoo!, 1902 W. Division St.; Rus- sian Co-op Restaurant, 1784 W. Division St.; Freiheit offi 1145 Blue Island Ave.; Cheski’ tau- rant, 3124 W. Roosevelt Road. OUR DAILY A Pretty Frock for the Growing Girl. 4781, This is a good style for a combination of materials. It is also nice for organdy, batiste, pongee or Printed fabrics. ‘The pattern is cut in four sizes: 8, 10, 19 and 14 years. A 12-year size re- quires 3% yards of 32-inch material of one kind. To make as illustratea will require 1% yard of figured or striped material and 2% yards of plain material. Without the panels the dress will require 2% yards of ma- torial, Pattern mailed to any address on Feceipt of 120 in silver or stamps. Send 120 in silver or stamps for our uptodate spring and summer 1924 Book of Fashions. Address: The Daily Worker, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The being sold thru the DAILY pattern department are fur- by a New Zor, ae. of y+] . Orders are forw: LY WORKIN every, day as re an by eo man- the customer. The is |THE DAILY wi one Party Activities Of Local Chicago City Central Committee Meeting. The next meeting of the C. C. C, will be on Tuesday, June 17, 8 p. m., at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. At this meeting J. W. Johnstone will speak on “Workers Party on the Industrial Front,” and Comrade M. Kalousek will report on “The Crisis in the CzechoSlovak Federation.” Meetings open to visitors, The third annual picnic of the Workers party, Local Chicago, will be held Friday, July 4, at Stickney Park Grove. A very elaborate program has |been arranged, consisting of speakers, jof whom Comrades James P. Cannon, jassistant executive secretary of the |Workers party, will be the main jspeaker; dancing, music, games, re- freshments, ete. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE HOLDS BIG MEETING Many Subscriptions and New Members Secured By M. GOLDSTEIN. Over two hundred and fifty young workers were present at an enthusi- astic mass and membership meeting held by the Young Workers League of Chicago at the North Side Turner Hall. Speaking about the “young reds,” comrade Tom O'Flaherty, associate editor of the DAILY WORKER, de- clared that they, in conjunction with the Workers Party were the only forces in América interested in and To get there, take any car to end of the 22nd St. line. Then take a Lyons- Berwyn car to Stickney Park Grove. Admission is 35 cents and 50 cents at |the gate. GET YOUR TICKETS IN | ADVANCE. | NEW YORK CITY Party Activities NEW YORK, June 16.—The Work- ers Party gave its answer to the at- tacks of LaFollette at a well-attended mass meeting in Cooper Union, Tues- day evening, June 10th. LaFollette was exposed as the enemy of all work- ers’ attempts to organize a class Farmer Labor Party for independent political action. Hisses and jeers greeted every men- tion of the name of LaFollette. Com- rades Wicks, Poyntz, Lore and Krum- bein pointed out the great need for a class party of the workers and poor farmers this year. ‘ A collection was taken up to pro- mote the sending of delegates to St. Paul and to further the work for the formation of a class Farmer Labor Party of close to $100.00. The following resolution was passed unanimously: “Believing that the only solution of the immediate prob- lems of the workers and exploited farmers in the United States is acting Politically thru a political party of their own, we therefore urge the con- vention to be held in St. Paul on June 17th to ‘organize a powerful class fighting in behalf of the workers. The recent exposures in the DAILY WORKER of the terrible conditions prevailing at the Western WBilectric plant in Cicero has shown that the thousands of young workers employed there have been neglected by the on ganized workers of this city and that itis up to the Communists, and par ticularly the Young Communists to bring the question of organizing that great plant to the attention of the trade unionists in Chicago. League members have been very active in selling the DAILY WORK- ER at the gates of the Western Electric; thousands of copies having been sold there during the past week. “Young Worker’ Sub Drive. Comrade Max Schactman, editor of the “Young Worker,” speaking about the drive being carried on by the League for three thousand new subscribers to the “Young Worker,” made a smashing indictment of the capitalist newspapers, with their scandals, stories of sex perversions and sensational “red scares.” It is al- most impossible for a worker to find anything in these “rags” dealing with the struggles of the workers, with un- employment, with the misery and poverty that is prevalent today. A stirring appeal was made by com- rade Schactman to all those present to subscribe to the “Young Worker,” the only working class youth paper in the country that concerns itself with the life and struggle of the exploited young wage workers. Over forty subscriptions were obtained, most of them from young proletarians who had never before been in contact with any revolutionary propaganda. Farmer Labor Party to challenge alike the power of the two major class politicians of type.” NEW YORK, June 16.—Capttalists who get rich by dishonest methods and exploiting workers cannot square themselves with God by donating money to churches and charities. This was the awful burden of T. Rhonnda ‘Williams’ remarks to the New York Clergy club. Williams is an English parson-member of the British Labor party, who carries about on his Ameri- can lecture tour credentials from the Labor premier, Ramsay MacDonald. PATTERNS The Chicago League is well on the way to realize its quota of four hun- parties of capitalism and the middle;@red subs before the 15th of August, the LaFollette|the day set for the end of the drive. Nine applications for membership were received; many of the young workers present also expressed their intention of visiting the league branch in their neighborhood and becoming better acquainted with our aims and activities. The meeting adjourned with sing- ing of the International led by the boisterous “young reds” from the Marshfield Junior Group. Doctors Decry Greed Which Daily Murders Industrial Workers Selfishness of employers in hinder- ing medical aid to working men was bitterly assailed by D. L. E. Cofer, in a talk before the American Medical Association convention. “For good reasons, the employer fears the ‘doctor with police power,’” said Dr. Cofer. “He feels that the doctor has come to‘stick his nose in- to the affairs of the factory. He fears q A Practicable Costume for Ourdoor Sports, , 4688-4789, Comprising blouse pat- tern 4688 and knickers 4789. The blouse is cut in six sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. The knickers are seven sizes: 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 87 inchés waist meas- ure with corresponding hip measure, 36, 73, 39, 41, 43, 46 and 47 inches, To make this costume for a me- dium size requires 56% yards of 32- inch material. Two separate patterns mailed to any address on recetpt of 12c for each pattern in silver or stamps. Send 12¢ in silver or stamps for our up-to-date spring and summer 1924 Book of Fashions. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chic How many of ir shop-mates ¥ WORKER, Get ene of them te subscribe today, that trade secrets might be discovered. Above all, he is afraid that the med- ical man will be friendly to labor.” “Piece workers are made to feel un- favorably toward medical examina- tions because of the time spent away from the factory. Needless to say, employers will not make up the 1o: Figures compiled by the Nationa! Safety Council prove conclusively that sheer selfish negligence is responsible for most of the industrial accidents and disease with which factory work- ers are afflicted, and that the only remedy is to impose heavy fines on employers who violate the laws, thus touching them in their only vulnerable spot—the pocketbook. Assailing the National Education Association for its backwardness in the spread of the knowledge of pre- ventive medicine, Dr. J. M. Dodson, Chicago practitioner, said: “It is crim- inal that the prohibition question should absorb all of the time of erfergy which the N. BE, A. gives to health matters.” Infamous Fink Was Millionaire; Notorious as Enemy of Labor It pays to be a stool pigeon. While men who have contributed to the bet- terment of the world die poor, Wik liam Allen Pinkerton, whose work consisted of breaking strikes and framing up workingmen, died, leaving an estate rated at $2,000,000. The first estimates of the estate placed its value at one and a half millions, but further investigation brought the fig- ure up to $2,000,000. Pinkerton started his career as a la- bor baiter by helping the capitalists of Chicago hang the Chicago labor leaders in 1887. That gave him na- tional tame among the plutes, and for years he was almost alon: the head of a stool pigeon agency ized in “labor troubles.” THE DAILY WORKER DETROIT TO HAVE TWO SHOWINGS OF MOVIE RUSSIA AND GERMANY DETROIT, Mich. June 16.—The Detroit Local Committee of the In- ternational Workers Aid has met with such a successful co-operation of the German population of that city that they have arranged for two showings of RUSSIA AND GER- many instead of one as planned be- fore. Proceeds of the showings will go to the Committee for International Workers Aid which is at present actively engaged in ig funds for the Ruhr miners, who are fight- ing a hard struggle to preserve the eight-hour day. Their families are starving and they can't expect help from anyone but workers. The pic- ture will be shown on Wednesday, June 18th, at Yeoman Hall, 3014 Yeoman street, Hamtranck, Mich., and Thursday, June 19th, at the Carpathian Hall, Elmwood and Pres, ton streets, Detroit Mich. Admis- sion 50 cents. Detroit Delegates To St. Paul Will Report at Picnic DETROIT, Mich, June 16.—The Workers party of Detroit is holding its first international picnic of the season in Campbell's Grove park, Sunday, June 22. The success of this Pienic is assured by the fact that every party branch in the city is en- gaged in putting it over big. ~ The program committee has de- vised many new and novel stunts for the entertainment of the picnickers. The Finnish band, the Russian orahes- tra, the Finnish and Lithuanian cho- ruses and other numbers of a similar character will cater to the aesthetic sense of the high-brows, while the ath- letic events will furnish a variety of entertainment for the roughnecks. The famous Italian United Front, which proved so effective in routing the Fascisti out of the House of the Masses recently, will give a demon- stration in the newest methods of crushing the counter-revolution. The hot dog man will be very much in evidence, and there will be an abundance of cold bottles and hot cups. Detroit delegates to the St. Paul convention will have returned and will be present to tell about that his- toric gathering. Campbell's Grove is an ideal picnic grounds. The dance pavilion fur- nishes an irresistible temptation to the nimble toed to do their stuff, and special arrangements have been made with the weather man to loosen his bag of balmy breezes. It is but two blocks from the end of the Mack Ave- car line, and there is adequate space for parking cars. Admission is 25 cents. Send in that Subscription Today. Prussian Co-ops on Increase as German Misery Shows Growth KOENIGSBERG, East Prussia, June 16.—The co-operative movement in} eastern and western Prussia within the past year, has increased the num- ber of stores from 682 to 732. There are 31 central warehouses. The members in the Union of Eastern German Co-operative societies increased within the year from 335,- 943 to 380,989. In this union are in- cluded only co-operative’ societies of more than 40 members. It is reported that there are many small co-operat- ives in close touch with the union, Employes in the stores and ware- houses increased from 3,531 to 4,224, 19.6 per cent while the previous year the increase was 4.8 per cent. Send in that Subscription Today! NEW YORK WORKERS! SEE RUSSIA, GERMANY BY FILM THIS WEEK! NEW YORK, June 16.—The new Soviet film, “Russia-Germany” which has been shown with great twice before, will be again shown on June 18, 19 and 20, at the East Side Open Forum, 9 Second Avenue, corner Houston Street. All workers who have not had an opportunity to see this picture to date, should by all means avail themselves of this opportunity. The film Is being shown under the auspices of the International Work- ers Aid. Only one performance will be given each evening at 8:30. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS By EARL R. BROWDER. Those young men and women who have been able, thru parental posses- sfon of property or thru exceptional ability, to finish a formal education in our capitalistic school system, are now receiving diplomas certifying to their preparation for Hfe. It is customary to give these young- sters a sermon on the dangers and vicissitudes they face, and some good homely advice on how to get on in the world. Inasmuch as the DAILY WORKER always wishes to do the usual thing and observe the tradi- tions, herewith is a sermon for you, June graduates: You have been given a training as servants or members of the ruling class. It is very important for you to know which you are. If you are @ servant (that is, if you come not of a family of millions) you must carefully scan all persons with whom you come in contact, and judge if they are superior or inferior to you in the hierarchy of capitalist servants. If they are inferior, you must culti- vate the most haughty arrogance to- wards them, and put them in their place. This will gain you the favor of your superiors, and procure ad- vancement and increased salary for you. On the other hand, you must be ex- ceedingly careful not to make the mis- take of speaking thusly to a superior or a real member of the ruling class. Toward all such you must be very respectful, and even fawn a’bit. When they make jokes, you must be able to [JUNE GRADUATES laugh loud and long, or give a quiet appreciative smile, according to the desires of the master which you must learn by intuition. When they state anything as a fact, you must swear to it whether it is so or not. You must feed their. sense of superiority. Of course, if you are dealing with a su- perior servant, you may try by any means to discredit him and take his job away from him. If you happen to be an honest soul, to whom all this sham, servility and spiritual corruption is abhorrent, then you are in bad, indeed! We have but one bit of advice to offer you: Go get a job in the freight-house of a Chicago railroad hustling boxes, or in the packinghouse shoveling fertili- zer. Wither will allow you to retain your self-respect, earn a meagre liv- ing, read the DAILY WORKER, join a union, become a member of the Workers Party, and begin to fight for the abolition of the rotten system that makes schooling, which should be one of man’s noblést activities, to- day a producer of tyrants and syco- phants. 2 June graduates, you are coming into a world of struggle between classes— the working class and the capitalist class. You will have to take your position on one side or the other. If you have any idealism, any aspira- tions for human progress, any desire for an intelligent ordering of life, you will find that you have to join the exploited working class and partake in its struggle. And then you will find that to do that most effectively, you must join the Workers Party. SOVIET FINANCE | POLICY SHOWING GOOD RESULTS Czarist Refugees Now Threaten to Work (Special to the Dally Worker.) MOSCOW, June 16.—Success of the Soviet financial palicy is shown by the immense surplus of receipts over expenditures, declared by the report of the treasury on the national budget for the last three months of the cur- rent fiscal year, July, August and Sep- tember. Shipments of large quantities of grain, cotton and wool from Russia by way of Rotterdam, which is fast be- coming the base of Russian commerce in western Europe, give evidencs of a tremendous boom of the trade be- tween Russia and Holland. Prophecies of opponents of the So- viet government that the pressure brought to bear on private capital in Russia would decrease the deficit, bring about further emissions of char- vonetz and disorganize the whole eco- nomic system, have proven to be gtoundless assertions of propagan- dists. Hoping to influence the mar- ket, these agitators declared that by June 15 the Chervonetz currency would begin tobogganning on the path to depreciation. Today the budget shows that expenses for the coming three months will amount to 480,000,- 000 gold roubles, and that receipts will total 498,000,000. “The policy of rigid exclusion of dis- honést and undesirable business men has been mercilessly followed. Altho negotiations between Holland and Russia were breken off, business between the two countries is flourish: ing. Representatives of the Russian commercial mission are now visiting Amsterdam, and Rotterdam mer- chants have placed huge orders for raw materials, chemicals and colonial products, Russian refugees are seeking the aid of the League of Nations, which has undertaken the task of finding jobs in South America for former scions of the nobility. Send In that Subscription Today! Police Murder Two Strikers in Kingston, Jamaica (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 16.—Two strik- ers have been shot to death and sev- eral injured by the police in Kingston, Jamaica, reports reaching New York say. The municipal government has been trying to break the strike of city laborers, Send in that Subscription Today. “RED RAIDERS” WRECK POLISH FORESTS BUT REDS ARE ELSEWHERE WARSAW, Poland, June 16.—The Polish government is attempting to keep Communists out of Poland by chopping down the forests along the Russo-Polish frontier. For several miles along the border line, not a tree is left standing. Farmers who own land along the border are not to till this soil. The government fears these farmers may be in secret touch with Russian Commun ind afford them oppor- tunities of ‘crossing the border. The frontier is also to be fitted with radio stations to help the border po- lice hunt down Communists in flight. People coming out of Russia via Poland, tho of neither Russian nor Polish nationality, and tho merely transients, are searched for bolshe- vik Indicatioi : Political Prisoners 4 in California Jails Strike for Fellows SAN QUENTIN, Cal., June 16.—An- other protest strike is on at San Quentin among criminal syndicalism prisoners, Following imprisonment in solitary of R. Kuilmen and R. A. Gib- son, their fell6w workers stopped work immediately, the men in the jute-mills standing at the machines with folded arms. Kuilman, sent up from Eureka, and Gibson from Sacramento had served as long in the jute mill as any prison- ers except criminal syndicalism vic- tims would have been required. They applied for other jobs, and were re- warded. by being thrown into the dark, damp dungeon which has ruined the health of many _ labor prisoners. Eighty-six other men then struck and are confined in solitary cells on bread and water. Warden Johnson announces he will “starve them into submission.” As on several previous occasions, he may find that an impossible task. Other protest strikes lasted for months, e exe * Dismiss Syndicalism Case. MARYSVILLE, Cal., June 16.—The criminal syndicalism case against Al- fred Erickson, who has returned here after the appelate court had reversed sentence, has been dismissed. Hrick- son served several months in San Quentin on a charge which was not proved against him, as admitted by the court. - Iron Workers Still Fight. CHRISTIANIA, June 16, — Two thousand striking iron workers have spurned the Government’s proposition to return to work as a preliminary to an attempted adjustment of the dif ficulties existing between Norwegian employers and workmen, and are de- manding that the former's lockout against employes in other industries should first cease. « Tuesday, June 17, 1924 RELIGIOUS DOPE PEDDLERS BLOW THEIR FOGHORNS But Figures Show Up ' . Pulpit Pounders By HELENE WOOLF. “Iam an atheist!” proclaimed Na- than Leopold defiantly as he faced his inquisitors. Here was fuel for all the religious fanatics who search the newspaper for horrible examples. A youthful murderer, a cold-blooded criminal and a self-styled atheist, who declares that we must have gods and devils to frighten the workers with. Of course the rabbis made use of it against the irreligious; the orthodox against the reform Jews; the gentiles against all Jews; the Christians against the atheists. And the Ku Klux Klan chuckled audibly. Atheists in Minority. Yet if these venerable gentlem with their admirable piety, were to e: amine the jails of today they wou! find the atheists by no means in the” majority. . Says Professor W. A. Bonger of Am- sterdam in ‘his “Criminality and Eco- nomic Conditions”: “The first place” (a reference to the percentage of criminality of different religions) “is almost always held by the Catholics, the second by the Protestants, and then come the Jews (except in cases of receiving stolen goods, etc), and the minimum of criminality (in all crimes without exception) is shown by the irreligious!” This hardly proves the contention of our pious friends, that lack of faith in a dictatorial God, who metes out reward and punishment like an old- fashioned schoolmaster, is the cause of most crimes. Religionists Aplenty. In the Cook county jail the report for 1923 shows that the total number of atheists was 307, while the number of religious inmates, ranging from Confucionists and Catholics to Chris- tian Scientists, was 8,362, In other words, the irreligious represented 36-10 per cent of the total; the re- ligious 96 4-10 per cent. Undeniably the Catholics are more strongly imfluenced by their religion than those who profess other creeds. Yet of these prisoners, 4,253, nearly 50 per cent, were Catholics, with the certainty of a future on a diabolical toasting fork to dissuade them from crime. The so-called “Protestants” could boast of 1,303, 15 per cent of the to- tal and five times as many as the athe- ists. Even Baptists in Picture. The Baptists and Methodists, both of-whom are known for the-strietness———-- with which they impress righteous- ness on their children, and the cer- tainty. each has that he alone has the correct prescription for a future of blessed laziness, had 1,077 and 608, respectively. And the Jews, who are becoming deplorably lax in their religious devo- tion had 354-in Cook county, which certainly suffers from no shortage of Jews. Professor Bonge says: “In the Netherlands we can éstimate the in- crease of irreligion; according to the census of 1899 to 1909 the percentage A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN of those who are not members of any church has increased 1,500 per cent in 30 years..,. The Gurve of crime has fallen without any doubt.” Sixty-two Clergy Pinched. If there is any person who is re- warded by his virtue it is a clergyman. These reverend dope-peddlers are ac- tually paid to keep others in a sanc- timonious’ frame of mind, and yet dur- ing the years 1921 and 1922 sixty-two clergymen were arrested by the Chi- cago police department. Crimes are often committed in the name of religion. This is not the place to discuss the numerous Protestant and Catholic massacres which jazz up history. It should be enough to men- tion two fairly recent and familiar crimes—that of a Catholic priest of New York, named Miller, who cut’a” girl in half to save her soul, and of an equally considerate Chi Italian named Piano, who shot his son with a view of obtaining his eternal salvation. All of which goes to show that it Nathan's present pose proves any- thing, it is merely that an exception is not the best possible authority for formulating a rule. To Prevent Evictions. RIGA, Latvia, June 16—The Riga City Council is considering the is- suance of a regulation which will prevent the expulsion from their dwellings, for failure to pay rent, of persons who have been’ registered as unemployed, . Jf \ f