The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1924, Page 4

~—and_although she is under—striet Page Four : THE DAILY WORKER Monday, June 23, 1924 ee SUGAR BARONS SEEK SLAVES AND SOLDIERS FOR HAWAII FROM PORTO RICO; WAR DEPARTMENT AIDS RADICALS RISING AGAINST JAPAN'S MILITARY RULE Revolution May Come Any Moment (By Federated Press.) TOKIO, Japan, June 22.—Don't be surprised at a report from Japan in the near future that revolution has broken out. The militarists are ex- tremely panicky, the yen is shaky, and likely to cause a financial crash, and the wave of radicalism is sweep- ing over Japan at an alarming pace now. Scare Royal Puppets. | That the militarists of Japan are really afraid of the rising tide of democracy in that country is shown by the extraordinary protective meas- ures now being taken to safeguard the Mikado and other members of the royal family. This fear has been cre- ated largely because of hte recent at- tacks on Japanese royalty, followed by popular outbursts against the aris- tocracy, as the direct result of the in- competence and indifference to the sufferings of the people displayed by the ruling class. Already elaborate precautions have been taken to protect members of the royal family from ordinary attacks from the air, Recommendations made by the militarists were that the pal- ace should be strengthened to resist the impact of 300-kilogram bombs, also that the moats surrounding the pal- ace should be drained, as they form visible marks from the air at night. Subsequent investigations showed that it was impossibe to reconstruct the imperial palace so as to make it bomb-proof. It has therefore been de- cided to construct a large under ground room into which the royal family can retire when danger comes. Radicals Vs. Militarists. No mention is made of the possible enemy. But one. thing stands out clear; the militarists are beginning) to doubt the loyalty of the Japanese} people to the present government. It is known that the radical elements are daily growing stronger and offer a distinct menace to the militarists. Japanese conservative newspapers admit that the ranks of labor organ- izations have been strengthened as the result of the murders and out- rages committed on the Socialists dur- ing the period when martial law was prevalent in the earthquake zones. The labor headquarters have been shifted from Tokio to Osaka. Kikue Yamakawa, the wife of a well-known labor leader, is inspiring great confi- dence in the minds of the workers, lice supervison, the temper of the Japanese people is such that’the au- thorities have not dared to place her behind the bars. Keep an eye on Japan. Send in that Subscription Today. Fight For Free Speech. BUFFALO, N. Y., June 22.—Mayor F. X. Schwab is challenged to “pre- serve law and order” in a telegram received from the American Civil Lib- erties union, New York, which de- clares that “mob violence against} speakers ought to be dealt with vig-| opously by any mayor pledged to up-| hold the constitution.” The Civil Lib- erties’ telegram refers to the breaking up of a Proletarian Party street meet- ing by a mob led by a uniformed army | recruiting officer. The speaker, former state assem- blyman Scarborough of Mlinois, was} Knocked down by the army officer, | who objected to criticism of the war and Coolidge’s bonus veto. A free speech test meeting will be held at once by the Proletarian party in co- operation with the Civil Liberties union. id in that Subscription Tod Do You Know? Why the American Government will spend $330,000,000 for the Army and $110,000,000 for the Navy next year. You don’t, eh? Read this pamphlet. Ask tne fellow next to you to do the same. Literature agents, book stores, please take notice and send your orders— FURTHER LIGHT ON WRETCHED ' CHICAGO HOUSING CONDITIONS FOLLOWS DAILY WORKER EXPOS f The DAILY WORKER’S campaign exposing the miserable housing conditions under which Chicago workingmen live thru landlords’ greed has roused other investigators, The following random cases taken from the report of housing probers now at work show the*— necessity for the tenants organ- izing into tenants’ leagues to protect themselves. It will be noted that Negro workers are the greatest victims under the present system. Chiidren Play In Filthy Alley. There are four blocks of houses sit- uated on an alley which is between Kensington Avenue and 116th Street. The only approach to these. houses is from the alley. The houses are crowd- ed close together and also close to the houses which afte built in the front lots. Almost no sunshine or fresh air can possibly get into these houses. Many of the houses contain four fami- lies, two on each floor, although un- doubtedly they were built for one-fam- ily homes. The dirt and congestion is terrible and in almost every in- stance there are many children. They have no play space except the alley, which is always so muddy or full of garbage that it is impossible to use for a playground. In another locality there are three blocks of tenement houses with many families living in each house. Hach home is overcrowded and the toilet facilities are miserable. The stairways approaching the upper floors are so dark that one needs a flashlight even in the sunniest part of the day. All of these homes are crowded with chil- dren. Six Negroes to A Room. Six colored people were found living in a small basement room at 3225 Rhodes Avenue, containing only one window, approximately 3 x 4 feet set just below the ceiling of the room. Fully three-quarters of the room lies below the level of the street. This room was occupied as sleeping and living quarters by Mrs. L., her son, her granddaughter, and her three great grandchildren. A rental of $16 per month was paid for the room. Mr. and Mrs. H. have been looking for a fiat within their means since October, 1923. Since that date they and their four children have been sleeping in a room so small that it is impossible to have two beds in it, and all are occupying one bed. The room is so dark that it is impossible in. the daytime to distinguish objects with- out the use of the kerosene lamp. They have the use of a kitchen which is used in common with another fam- ily. Twelve in Three Rooms. The C. family (Negro) consists: of the mother, father and ten children. At present they are living in a rear basement flat, the floor of which is about on the level of the ground. There is one large long room which has two small windows, and there are two smaller rooms. The ceiling is about 6 feet high, and half of it is not Plastered but the rough 2 x 8’s are exposed. The toilet is just being in- stalled. There is no sink but only a water faucet in one of the rooms. The small yard between this house and the one in front of the lot, is all mud and water, and the streets are un- paved. The rent is $18.00 Mrs. V. and seven children are liv- E WORKERS PARTY PLANS LUNCH HOUR MEETINGS Workers party and Young Workers league speakers are on every busy street cornér these nights. Party and league have combined to arrange the most vigorous campaign of street meetings in the history of their or- ganization in Chicago. Fourteen street corners are. being covered in the evenings, the meetings beginning at 8 o’clock sharp, Morning street meetings will be started next week in the slave mar- ket on West Madison street. Beginning Wednesday of this week, the city central committee of Local Chicago started an organization drive in conjunction with the Young Work- ers league, important features of which are lunch hour meetings in front of the various large factories in Chicago. Meetings are being held every day now at the huge plant of the Western Electric company at 22nd and Cicero, where thousands of workers listen to the speakers and ing in a fourroom flat on the second4are brought into contact with Com- floor of an ald frame dwelling. The rooms are small and one bedroom where four boys sleep is very dark and has only one small window for ventilation, The toilet is in poor con- dition and this winter has practically been out of order when the pipes have frozen. ‘This flat, and in fact the whole building, is infested with roaches, bedbygs and rats. Mr. V. was discharged recently from the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, coming home to make living condi- tions even more crowded. The rent is $25.00, and the landlord plans to raise the rent to $30.00. Too Many Children. Mrs. M——has a notice to move, but can find no flat because she is told the Board of Health will not permit so many children in a small flat and she cannot afford to pay much, for Mr. M—— averages only about $25.00 per week, but she does not think any place can be worse than the one where she is living, for here are ten children of two families and six adults all using the same toilet. Mr. R. (Negro) is ill and unable to work. He came to Chicago in Janu- ary 1923, and saved $260.00 which he sent South for transportation for his wife and ten children. They are all living in four rooms, the floors of which are even with the ground. The plumbing has just been repaired. The flat is damp and overcrowded. YOUNG WORKER IN AGGRESSIVE SHOP CAMPAIGN League to Push Work of Organization By BARNEY MASS. The new district committee of the Young Workers League at their last meeting inaugurated a constructive plan of organization which is expected to meet. the satisfaction of all league members. Following the merging of the St. Louis district, which included the Il- linois coal fields, with the Chicago district, the provisional district com- mittee appointed by the National Executive Committee has outlined a program of action. Campaigns are to be conducted in the factories in territories where branches exist. The necessary prop- aganda will be put over to the young workers in these factories thru ex- posures in the DAILY WORKER, the YOUNG WORKER and circulars. Both party and league speakers will address the workers at noon meet- ings, in connection with the factory campaigns, Rejuvination of shop nuclei activity has also been mapped out. The dis- trict committee expects this program within three months’ time to bring an increase in the league membership, to enliven organizational and shop nuclei activity, and solidify the League along constructive lines. The district committee appeals to the membership for their utmost co- operation in putting this summer drive over with a bang, Cops Watch Scabs Beat Up Pickets in Duluth, Minn., Strike DULUTH, Minn., June 22.—A pre- meditated attack on a peaceful line of pickets of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of American strikers was made by about 150 strikebreakers and other workers led by Mr. Ahern and Mr. Schway, superintendent and fore- man of the F. A. Patrick Co, against whom the clothing workers are on strike, The attack took place under the eyes of three policemen and no effort was made by them to-quell the fiot. There were 40 strikers a majority of them women, on picket duty when the attack began, Much bodily harm was at once. 10 copies to any one address men tor $1.00. Single copies 15c. Literature Department Workers Party of America 1118 Washington Bivd. Chicago, III. { i { TS me done to the women as well as the en. The strike has been on for three months and has the indorsement of the American Federation of Labor central bodies in Duluth, Superior and Minneapolis. Workers in Australia Kick Against Lies to Get Immigrants By FRANCIS AHERN, Federated Press Staff Correspondent. MELBOURNE, Australia, June 22. —An official protest against the flood- ing of the country with immigrants from Great Britain has been issued by the Australian Labor Party; on the grounds that at the present time while there are so many unemployed in Aus- tralia an influx of workers from over- seas must reduce Australian working class standards and provide cheap la- bor for sweating employers. £ The Labor Party declares that Aus- tralia is capable, under good govern- ment, of supporting in happiness a much larger population, but in order to protect the immigrant workers from being deluded by false state- ments into leaving home and kindred merely to become tools of sweaters, the Labor Party insists that certain conditions shall be fulfilled before any policy of immigration is entered upon. These conditions are: That existing land monopoly should be broken up, and provision made for Australian land-seekers. Work shoul be made available for Australian un- employed, or unemployment allow- ances provided. Adequate housing accommodation. Land should be ready and employ- ment available under Australian con- ditions for overseas settlers or work- ers when invited to come to Australia. munist literature. The meetings go hand in hand with the DAILY WORK- ER’S Western Electric campaign. After two weeks, another large shop will be selected and street meet- ings will be held there every day or every other day during the period of the organization drive in that terri- BRITISH AGENT AIDED MEXICAN COUNTER-REVOLT Recalled “Archivist” a Big Banker (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, June 22~—"The iras- cible British “archivist,” H. A.C. Cum- mins, who has just been recalled by England upon the insistence of the Mexican government, is well known here as a large stockholder in the Anglo-South American Bank and for his activities in behalf of the British shell oil subsidiary, Aguilar Oil Com- pany, against which its workers rec- ently pulled a strike. Cummins is a thoroughly unreliable misrepresentative of England and has spent his whole energy while here to promote the interests of British big business and send back false reports of Mexican conditions so that Pregi- dent Obrégon’s government would not be recognized. The charge that British oil interests financed and otherwise stimulated the recent unsuccessful de la Huerta revolution has not been refuted and Cummins’ close connection with Brit- ish bankers and oil trust officials does not give him any better color in the eyes of the Mexican government. Probe Pinchot’s Penitentiary to Prove Graft Charges HARRISBURG, Pa., June 22.—In- vestigation of charges of graft and cruelty to prisoners at the eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania has been ordered by Governor Pinchot follow- ing disclosures made by the May grand jury in Philadelphia. The gov- ernor claims that the preseft buard of prison trustees is, composed of “high-minded men under whom it ‘is unthinkable that brutality of any sort would be countenanced for a single moment.” But before the present administra- tion Pinchot charges that fie prison “was a sink hole of iniquity in which dope, immorality and various forms of graft yielded large profits both to prisoners within the walls and to oth- er criminals at liberty outside. A perfect example of what politics in combination with the underworld can Effective medical examinations abroad; 40 to a penal institution,” is his de- for all intending immigrants to Aus-| scription of the penitentiary before he tralia. No Honor In Th Thieves. SAUSALITO, Cal., June 22—How became governor. The opposition add that such a perfect picture of the pri- son today. The warden is a former state con- the capitalists forget the adage that stabulary member named Groome. He there’s honor among thieves has been|enies the grand jury charges and illustrated by a recent happening in| 8¢eks to end the publicity by declar- this little suburb of San Francisco,|ing he knows his business better than The town decided to form a Chamber] ®y grand jury can. of Commerce, They persuaded a man named Anderson to leave his job and ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 22.— organize free of charge for six weeks,| Unemployment and lower wages over on the understanding that they would|@ long period’ of years is the pros- then elect him secretary at $300 a| pect in the United States, President month. Anderson obeyed and got the| W. G. Besler, Central Railroad of New double cross for his efforts, As soon| Jersey, told the American Railway As- as the free work was done the direc-| sociation convention in Atlantic City. tors gave the paid job to a prominent real estate agent, and Anderson may go look for another job from the grateful bosses, TRENTON, N. J., June 22,—Com- petition of prison-made goods with un- jon made products will be increased if plans of a conference in session in Trenton materialize. Governor Sitl- zer has called here representatives of 27 state institutions from 6 states ajoining New Jersey to arrange for in- terchange between states of prison- made goods. PORTLAND, Me., June 22.—After capturing the Republican party in In- diana the Ku Klux Kian has been de- feated in a similar attempt in the Maine primaries. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS i WASHINGTON, (Special to The Daily Worker) June 22.—The Hawaiian sugar trust plant- ers are maneuvering with their friends of the United States War Department and of the Porto Rican government for the trans- portation of workers from’ Porto Rico to Hawaii to supersede the Japanese whose exclusion begins July 1. The War Department frankly asserts, thru its experts, that the Porto Ricans make fine cannon fodder “under American train- ing” and that “from a defense standpoint” such loyal slaves are preferable to Japanese for Ha- waii’s population. Considered Military Post. The department admits tthat more attention should be given the popu- lation of the Hawaiian Islands be- cause they were acquired as a mili- tary outpost in the defense plans of the United States. The department claims that every male resident there ought to be a potential American sold- ier, The prime motive in the plan to force Porto Rican workers to migrate to Hawaii is the greed for profits of the sugar trust. The Hawaiian plant- ers have tried succéssiyely Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino workers on the plantations and none of these could stand the slavish conditions of serf- dom which the wealthy American su- gar gang “allow.” Filipino Workers Struck. The Fflipino plantation workers pulled a gigantic strike in April and May of this year under the leadership of Manlapit, an attorney of Honolulu, protesting against the terrible oppres- sion of the sugar planters. .The Fili- pino workers asked only $2 a day in- stead of the totally inadequate $1 they had been receiving and an 8 hour work day. Now the Hawefian sugar planters, members of the American sugar trust, are turning to Porto Rico for their slaves and are encouraging the War Department to use army transports to’ assist the emigrants, and are glad to have War Department. “experts” chime in with military jingo talk. Congressman Skeptical. Felix Crodova Davila, Rican delegate to Congress, was not too sure of the willingness of his countrymen to go to Hawaii as scab labor on the explanations. He thot Dr. Porto that it would be necessary to assure passage both ways, reasonable wages and good working conditions. The sugar barons are debating whether they shall offer free, or just reduced, one-way transportation. They hope that the Porto Rican workers will fall sufficiently hard for the allur- ing propaganda they are going to put out to pay their own way to Hawaii. The Porto Ricans are chiefly of mixed Spanish and native stock with liberal sprinkling of Negro blood from the old-time slaves. The government of the island is entirely controlled by American politicians appointed by the President of the United States. The civic status of the islanders has never been satisfactorily determined. If the American sugar trust bosses want to get Porto Ricans to Hawaii, practi- cally all they have to do is what they are doing: getting the War Depart- ment’s and the American Porto Rican officials’ co-operation. Americans Run Isle. The workers of Porto Rico have not been given much help in education by the superimposed American gov- ernment and have been kept serfs on the land as much as possible. When the Hawaiian planters approach them with their glittering offers of trans- portation to Hawaii and make idle promises of good pay and living and working conditions, the Porto Ricans Exploit Child Slaves in Land of Oranges and Jails; Dodge Laws SAN LEANDRO, Cal. June 22.— That owners of asparagus beds in various parts of the state are exploit- ing. chilfren is the charge made by W. O. Davies, supervisor pringipal of schools in this city. As early as March, he asserts, the exodus of children begins. The laws are evaded in some instances by moy- able part-time sthools, which the par- ents transport with them. ‘These are useless, according to Davies, becausé there is no supervision and no assur- ance that the children will attend. Davies’ charges are supplemented by a report of Dr. C. R. Blake, coun- ty health officer, who has investigated child labor in the asparagus beds of Sacramento valley. : Send in that Subscription Today. "Wiggy will soon fini sprinkling.” | i may easily fall into the trap and not realize how badly they have been caught until they arrive at the Ha- waiian sugar plantations and find con- ditions worse than on the plantations of their native isle and none of the unscrupulously greedy bosses’ prom- ises worth even the breath that ut- tered them. STEEL STATE POLICE CENSOR WORKERS’ FILM Charge Sedition in “Russia-Germany”” By CHAS. B. ROBERTS. (Special to The Daily Worker) MONESSEN, Pa., June 22,—After apparently all difficulties with the lo- cal authorities trying to stop the show- ing of “Russian and Germany” in Mo- nessen have been straightened out, everything seemed to indicate a suc- cessful showing. At the appointed time the operator threw the picture on the screen while I was attending to the lights in the house. In the back of the hall several po- lice with their guns and ammunition displayed, mixed with others who aft- erwards proved to be the whole police force of Monessen. They tried to overawe the people as they passed to their seats. - Chief Heads Bullies. Armed police led bythe chief, a burly bully, and other ruffians de- manded the persons in charge, I im- mediately informed them that I was in charge whereupon they placed me under arrest and began to pick out several comrades and the operator. He commanded me to stop the show in very rough language: “Put the light on! Clear them out of the place. Arrest him, that one, that woman, you are under arrest!” They confiscated the machine films and locked the place. After he had finished a profane tirade, the corpu- lent chief of police accompanied Comrade Morris Schindler, Oskar Okonen and myself to the patrol wagon, We were taken into the old delapidated building called the po- lice station. Abused in Jail. Then the questioning and search- ing began. Everything was taken from us. The police interested them- selves. in reading letters, telegrams, newspaper clippings, counting the money, etc. We asked what the charges were which they intended to prefer against us but got no other answer but that they were very serious. While asking our names again, they abused comradé Schindler for being Jewish. We were locked in separate cells under the most unsanitary conditions. On the floor in the hall were lying all sorts of drunkards and people taken in for various reasons. About mid- night the Dicks came in and started to stare at us. At 5:30 a. m. our jailers appeared and, not sparing any curs- ing, ordered everybody to get busy cleaning up the floors which had been used for every imaginable purpose. After 14 hours of this solitary con- finement the Chief of Police came in and let us out to walk in the hall. The Civil Liberties’ lawyer was got- ten in touch with by the National Of- fice of the International Workers Aid in Chicago and all we could do was to wait. We had nothing to eat until our friends brought food in later. Sedition Charge. In the meantime I succeeded in talking of our ideas to the inmates of the pail, several of whom realized that there was such a thing as a class struggle, At last some comrades came up to the windows of the jail which were very well barred. They informed us that the censor from’ Harris- burgh was expected, also the Chief of County Police from Greenburgh. At last the door opened and we were called out. ‘We were met by the law- yer and some comrades who furnished bonds for the bail. We had to sign the bonds and wait for the chief. The charges preferred against us were: 1) Encouraging sedition against the State of Pennsylvania and the U. 8S. government. 2) Exhibiting motion pictures without State censorship. 3) Exhibiting pictures without the State seal. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN HUGHES TELLS , JAPANESE U, S, DOOR IS SHUT Japan’s Workers Won’t Buy Calif. Goods (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 22.—No effort will be made by the executive branch of the United States government to supersede the Japanese exclusion pro- vision, which goes into effect July 1, according to the note of Secretary of State Hughes, replying to Japan's “protest” against the-law. Hughes blandly thanked the Japa- nese for their “voluntary co-operation” in carrying out the gentleman's agree- ment and said that immigration con- trol should not effect the “mutual good will and cordial friendship” of the two countries. Hughes’ parting shot was that the exclusion act was no violation of in- ternational comity as Japan has itself legislated to control immigration. Japanese “boycotts” on American goods have not been backed by the capitalists of the islands, but by the workers and not because of the ex-~ clusion, but in protest against the criminal syndicalism law of California which is used to keep hundreds of rad- ical union workers, most of them members of the I. W. W., in the fifthy dungeons of the state. More Workers Given Ejight-Hour Workday in Canada Industry OTTAWA, Can., June 22.—The eight hour day appears to be making prog- ress in Canda, according to the Dom- inion department of labor. The survey made last fall covered 690,317 employes in various branches of industry (and of this number 374,- 274 or 54.22 per cent were on the 8- hour day or the 48-hour week or less. A similar survey made in June, 1918, covering 612,398 employes, indicated that 43.4 per cent were on an 8-hour day or less, with 5.4 per cent on a day of 81-2 hours. There is a wide divergence in the percentage of employes on the 48-hour week in different industries. The fol- lowing percentages given: logging 19.23 per cent, mining 62.61, manufac- turing including publishing and pro- duction of electric current) 33.81, con- struction 21.04, transportation 91.50, communication 84.63, trade 62.45, ser- vices including municipal employes, (\ " hotels and restaurants, laundries;-hos+——~.» pitals, etc., 56.48 per cent. Oil Grip on Mexico Cause of Her Woes, Says Pres. Obregon BY ELLA G. WOLFE, Federated Press Staff Correspondént. MEXICO CITY, June 22.—Obregon’s speech at Nogales, Sonora, against the American oil companies has raised a storm in the American colony in Mexico, altho he uttered nothing but the truth. He said that the most for- midable obstacle in Mexico’s moral, social and political progress and the revindication of its revolution were the American oil interests. Because the Mexican revolutionary govern- ment refused to put itself completely at their service, they fled to Wall Street to seek’ protection for their in- terests. On Wall Street they have been conspiring and still are conspir- ing against the stability of Mexican institutions and government. Cal’s Veto of P. O. Clerks’ Bill Mekes ’Em Swear Like— The postofiice clerks of Chicago are up in arms against Cal Coolidge’s veto’ of the bill that would have increased their salaries, it was indicated after a meeting held in the Great Northern Hotel Friday night. A resolution ask- ing Congressmen and Senators to pass the bill authorizing the increase over Cal's veto was passed. They called upon the workers to write their con- gressmen and senators advocating the increase. Under the law they are de- prived of the right to strike on the theory that if any government em- ployes arg permitted to strike the army might take it into its head to follow their example. . Frank T. Rogers, former president of the P ffice Clerks’ union, spoke at the meeting and advised an in- tensive campaign between now and the time of the next session on Con- gress, December 3rd. ¥ , y