The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1924, Page 2

} Page Two aN eee Se NN Pee A MORGAN USING THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKING SYSTEM T0 BIND EUROPE IN CREDIT CHAINS r age By LAURENCE TODD. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 26.—Has a world reserve bank system been launched, by means of the Dawes’ scheme for German repa-| Is a money and credit monopoly, which will ration payments? be strong enough to mold the pol development of all parts of the world, been set in operation by | itical and industrial and social the Morgan and allied banking groups, under the leadership of Coolidge’s running mate? There is passing from hand to hand in Washington a docu- ment drafted by one of the financial and political experts whose tips are widely purchased by bankers, In this document the state- ment is made that “epochal decisions” have been made as to the rehabilitation of European industry and commerce thru the use of American credit facilities. American gold is to be the basis of vast credits which are to be extended to Europe, but this gold will stay at home. Federal Reserve Shows Way. The Federal Reserve Board has shown the way by authorizing a $5,- 000,000 credit, in the form of redis- counts, to a group of 21 American banks, headed by Paut Warburg’s In- ternational Acceptance Bank, Inc., to be used by the banking syndicate for the convenience of German importers and exporters. The bank in Germany which will handle this first credit is the Schacht Gold Bank, the shares of which are owned by the Bank of Eng: land. As.explained here, the Federal Re- serve Board has set a precedent for the granting of unlimited credits to the commercial interests of Germany and of all other countries which the Board may favor. All transactions will be in dollars, and the plan in- cludes the complete stabilization of exchange by making dofMar credits the international unit of value. Can Starve Europe Any Time. Significant of the grip which this system—built upon the Federal Re- serve Board and the bankers who con- trol it—will exert upon the life of the world is the statement that the flow of credit can be stopped at any time by the mere refusal of private American banks to handle the trade bills offered. What the bankers did to the American farmers in 1920 they can do to the industries of all other countries at will when once ffe new system of super-control is established. The process will be contingent upon acceptance by Europe of the Dawes plan. ‘Wall Street’s chance to turn this * ts dve in leat as — © exuausuvn sritish cred... .....-.vs curing the }.-st two years. Britain has bid too high for the banking control of the world, and ler balance is down. Cal Is Mouth-Piece. The argument which the Coolidge managers will make for the Dawes) scheme, it is said here, will be that this credit extension will promote a foreign market for American raw materials, including wheat and cop- per. It will be offered as a farm re- lief substitute. If American farmers do not like being deflated, then they ean vote for the deflation of foreign business—always for the benefit of American bankers. Clothing Bosses in New York Weaken; Strikers Stand Solid (Continued from page 1.) and children’s clothing shops are in the neighborhood of Madison Square. The entire clothing district was crowded with the tens of thousands of workers who slowly made their way to the various halls where meetings * were held. No arrests were reported the first day of the strike. Cite Chicago Agreement ‘The Amalgamated issued a state “ ment to the public before the strike ‘was called. It follows: “In both Chi- cago and Rochester clothing markets, the union has recently renewed its agreements with the manufacturers of these cities without either a strike or a threat to strike. The largest cloth- ing manufacturers in the United States are maintaining satisfactory relation- ships with the Amalgamated and through civilized industrial machinery, maintained by both the manufacturers “and the union, the industry in these markets enjoys peace and efficiency. “The Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers have struggled to bring about the same conditions in New York only to be met constantly by opposition on the part of some of the manufacturers who do not seem to understand that only through the maintenance of decent conditions can the clothing industry prosper as it should.” Send in that Subscription Today. German Speaking | The Present Condition recentl AMALGAMATION VITAL TO WIN UNION POWER Electric Workers Must Unite By KARL REEVE. The militant trade unionists belonging to the metal trades industries demand the amalga- | mation of all the craft unions connected with the electrical in- dustries, if the Electric Trust is to be prevented from annihilat- | ing the electrical workers’ un- ions. “The large electrical factories | are only the manufacturing de- | partments of the telephone, tele- graph, light and power com-| panies,” states the International Committee for Amalgamation in the Metal Trades Industries, in their “Amalgamation Bulletin.” “To organize these factories it is necessary that both branches of the electrical indus- plan and declared for craft organiza- tion. Union Heads Limit Members, to the international union, asking that the Western Electric employes be first taken into one big industrial union and then distributed to their various unions. This plan was also turned down by the_ International Electrical Workers’ union officials, who seem bent on keeping the work- ers out of their union, even tho the rank and file membership are anx- lous to admit them. Union men who have recently se- cured jobs at Western Electric com- pany told the DAILY WORKER re- porter that they have found it diffi- culty to get into local 713, Local 713, which is now supposed to he organiz- ing the Western Electric factory into their union, is doing absolutely noth- ing to push the Western Electric or- ganization drive, directed by the metal trades department at the Port- land convention. “They can’t refuse to let us join if we insist on it,” one union man recently employed by the Western Electric Company told the DAILY WORKER. “But for apprentices they are charging the same rate they did before the organization drive started. I paid $16.50 to join the union as ap- prentice. But I am not allowed to at- tend any of the union meetings for at least a year, All the Western Electric workers, who ask to be ad- mitted to the union, are admitted on this basis. I have not yet been or- dered to appear before the union board to be formally admitted to the union.” It is such practices of Mike Boyle and his machine, which controls the officials of the electrical workers’ union in Chicago, that the rank and file membership are violently protest- ing against. Militants Want Crafts Conference. The militant trade unionists, cen- suring President Noonan for keeping the Electrical Workers’ union small, as if he worked for Insull and the Electrical Trust instead of for the union members, have given out the following program. They insist that Noonan and Mike Boyle, if they are sincerely trying to build the union, follow this program. “First. Call together the national representatives of the interested or- ganizations which must include all the trades having workers in each industry,” states the program. “No successful campaign can be carried on without the active co-operation of the telephone operators, and the com- mercial telegraphers of America. Second. This representative con- ference should create a national com- mittee to be ynder the direction of the metal trades department and to be divided into the following three Mass Meeting Tonight AT8 P.M, SOCIAL TURNER HALL, Belmont Ave. and Paulina St. SUBJECT: Under the auspices of the Chicago Friends of Soviet Russia. HERMAN NUD:NG arrived from Germany, will be the speaker. This should be of supreme interest to every German worker! try be organized, namely, the vperduss aud Wmanuracuuring departments.” Rank and File vs. Leaders. This statement is the voicing by the militants of the electrical work- ers’ union of the protest of the entire rank and file membership against the structural weakness of the electrical |Workers brought about by the reac- |tionary disruptive tactics employed by the union officials. The metal trades department at the Portland convention passed a resolu- tion, under pressure of the militants, signed by James P. Noonan, interna- tional president of the Electrical Workers’ union, that the president of the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor “call a conference immediately upon adjourn- ment of the [Portland] convention of the officers of the various organiza- tions having members engaged in this industry, for-the purpose of formu- lating such plans as ‘would tend to bring about the much needed organ- ization of these workers.” The resolution, which was also signed by William Johnston, presi- dent of the machinists’ union, and W. W. Britton, president of the metal departments: Local 713 then sent another plan| THE DAILY WORKER N. Y, BULLS PACK CONVENTION HALL YELLING FOR AL Morgan Lets Puppets Play; Pulls Wires NEW YORK CITY, June 26.—‘Al Smith is a jolly good fellow, who can slap you on the back and tell a joke in a peerless manner. Therefore he should be the next president of the United States. He has no ideas that would cause anyone to quarrel with him, he gets along famously with his legislatures, and jollies the workers along quite admirably. You can’t get a better bull-shooter than Al.” This is, in substance if not in form, the nominating speech for Al Smith in the democratic convention today. It was delivered by Franklin D. Roose- velt, who was a member of the Wilson administration. Will Noise Win Votes? The Tammany forces had evidently spent a lof of coin to make a noise for their favorite, as the galleries were packed with loud-voiced individ- uals with all sorts of noise-making ma- chinery. The problems of putting over a candidate in this convention seems to have been conceived as one of drowning the gathering in a sea of commotion. But it is all rather dull, mechanical, and machine made, just like the issues and candidates. Behind the surface confusion of the hundreds of puppet delegates, boost- ing insanely for the -particular can- didate that suits the purpose of their bosses, the real convention is going on in private conferences in the ho- tels, on the long distance telephones, and over the cables. The rival can- didates, the klan, and anti-klan, and fake issues of various sorts, will oc- cupy the stage until Morgan has things lined up for the final decisions. “Oil! Oil! OL Al Smith’s supporters, apparently with the assistance of the New York police, rushed the hall this morning, broke down the gates, and occupied the galleries. When Gov. Sweet of Colorado, unexpectedly to the crowd, took the floor to second the nomina- tion of McAdoo, the Smith supporters drowned him out with cries of “Oil, oil, oil,”. “Take out your hoods, we know you,” and “Where is Doheny.” Emerald Isle Can “Speak for Itself” Here, Says England in, First division—Factories, manufac- turing electrical equipment. Second division—Telephone, graph and radio companies. Third division—Light and power companies. The campaign to be divided into two major divisions, one dealing with large shops and companies, the other with the small isolated units. Or- ganization of the small units to be handled by local committees, and workers to be taken into the unions at once. The larger companies and shops to be handled by the national committee and workers to be edu- cated by means of literature, before an attempt is made to take them into the unions. This work to be done on a national scale and the workers to be protected in the right to join the union to the extent of calling a na- tional strike if necessary. Make National Drive. Launching this drive upon a nation- al scale would help to unite our pres- ent badly weakened organized forces. It would electrify every worker in the industry. Each would become an or- ganizer, striving to bring into our tele- polishers’ union, declares that “there is a general movement of expansion and increased business in all branches of the electrical industry. Scattered efforts have been made to do organ- izing work in most of the large elec- trical manufacturing establishments, with no appreciable success.” Boyle Raises Initiation. In spite of the passage of this reso- lution by the Portland convention, the initiation fee of Local 134, which is supposed to be organizing the Western Electric shop, was raised from $210 to $310. Edward Evans, who was appointed to take charge of the organization drive, spoke at the Local 134 meeting in favor of Mike Boyle’s motion rais- ing the initiation fee. Local 713, the only local in Chicago taking in manufacturing plants, sent a plan to the International Electrical Workers’ union officials asking that the Western Electric company be or- ganized on an industrial basi: In spite of the fact that history has proven that craft organization will not bring results in a manufacturing plant embracing many trades, the in- ternational union turned down the Workers, Attention! of the GermanWorkers ranks the hundreds of thousands that are not yet part of our unions. A special organization fund should be created upon a per capita basis of all organizations participating in the drive. A corps of organizers should be placed in the field, maintained by and under the direct control of the nation- al committee thru its sub-divisions. These organizers should work for the organizing of the industry as a whole and not merely for their parti- cular credit. Only by strengthening the unions in the industry as a whole can every trade be strengthened numerically, organizationally and ideologically; and in fighting spirit as well as in fighting ability. During the drive a low and uniform initiation fee should be established and a universal transfer. card sys- tem be adopted. To actually organize the many un- organized, the existing prohibitive, in- itiation fee must be reduced and reg- ulated. Militants Fight on Boyle Coming. The ideal united front would be to amalgamate the present International unions into one organization covering each industry. The next article will tell of the work of the militants in the Electrical Workers’ union in combatting sabotaging practices of the bosses lackey—Mike Boyle. WASHINGTON, June 26.—Th sailors will continue to work at the same wage and under the same con- ditions for another year under the agreement just signed by the Mas- ters, Mates and Pilots’ association, the Neptune association and the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial association. for (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, June. .26, — The state department today anyounced re- ceipt of formal notification by the British government that henceforth the Irish Free State would be repre- sented at Washington by its own min- ister, empowered to deal direct with this government on matters exclusive- ly relating to Ireland. Secretary of State Hughes has in- formed Sir Esme Howard, British am- bassador here, who transmitted the notification that with this arrange- ment “this government is in cordial agreement.” Matters which concern other do- minions of the British empire in com- mon with the Irish Free State will continue to be handled as heretofore by the British embassy at Washing- ton, it was stated. U. S. Letter Carriers Aid Strikers. MONTREAL, Que, June 26.—The striking postal workers here an- nounced yesterday that they had re- ceived a contribution of $5,000 from the Letter Carriers’ Association of the United States to help their strike. DON'T MISS IT! erg y Robert Minor back to their home towns? not. part time? No. Did the company lay them off temporarily? that. sign a REQUEST for a furlough with- out pay. The answer was the tele. graph strike of 1919. Commercial Telegraphers’ America; most of us were disorgan- ized in the employes’ association. Union of America was a craft union, We had no trade union. However, we work. We helped those strikers who were out of funds. The Little Brown Brother become: (The impending War with Japan), by Max Bedacht What Michael Said to the Censu: Get Acquainted Subscription Coupon Six Months-- | $1.00 WORKER WRITES ELECTRIC TRUST EXPERIENCES IN 1919 STRIKE TO HELP OTHER WORKERS ORGANIZE In response to the DAILY WORKER'S request for letters from Western Electric workers or exploited employes of the other branches of the electric trust, the following letter about the 1919 telegraph strike came and we are glad to print it as a lesson from workers to workers: * * To the DAILY WORKER: Most of the readers of the DAILY WORKER already know that the Western Electric and the West- ern Union and the various Bell Telephone companies are, to say the least, on very friendly terms with each other, with the Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a sort of “Fraternal” head. I am going to tell a little story of my experience so that employes of this great “fraternity” might know what to expect. During the war the Western Elec- tric company, the Western Union and the various telephone companies all made a practice of sending employes from one town to another, from points where they were not so short to points where they were very short of help. Girls Brought from Far, Many girl operators (among others) |were sent from the New England |states, from all along the east and southeast to such central points as New York, Philadelphia and Wash- ington, D. C. I was working in the main office of the Western Union in Washington as a “Mux” maintenance man. We had girl operators from all over. Some of them had brought a younger sister or an old mother with them, expect- ing to be able to support them from their own wages. Then, all of a sudden, without warn- ing, during the early part of 1919, the first year after the war, after con- gress had adjourned, came a slump. Did the company send the workers They did Did the company let them work Worse than They had to add insult to the jury. They forced the workers to Some of us were organized in the Union of Craft Union Failed, The Commercial Telegraphers’ ught hard. We organized picket * * lost the strike. Many of the girls who remained in the union have since been fired. The girls are now left practically without a union. Several of us, with me among them, were blacklisted. Previous to the strike I had been working for years for the Western Union, for the telephone companies and for various light and power com- panies in the east, Since the strike I could no longer get work in these lines. I would advise my fellow-workers to take a lesson from the bosses and or- ganize as effectively against them as they are organized against us.—Noah Lerner, Brooklyn, N. Y. Baruch Writes Plank to Fool Tillers of Soil (Continued from page 1.) trolling the candidates’ campaign thru their purse-strings the democratic party is indeed safe for (Morgan) democracy. P ka Al Smith’s boosters furnished the big noise at today’s session of the convention, When Franklin D. Roose- velt placed him in nomination the Tammany Indians staged an hour and 35-minute demonstration that backed the McAdoo racket off the boards. The wet Roman Catholic had the ad- vantage over his kluxy rival of being in his home town and having Tam- many Hall’s police force at his com- mand. The bulls allowed the mobs outside to crash down the doors and fill the galleries to join in the siren blowing and shouting. Morgan's Attorney Named. John W. Davis, attorney for the House of Morgan, was placed in nom- ination by Louis Stevenson of Illi- nois, with scattered applause follow- ing. Davis is stalking around as a dark horse, but the Morgan interests believe their interests can be fully protected without running some one so obviously from the family. Senator Bayard named former Sen- ator Saulsbury of Delaware, and Chairman Hay of St. Louis seconded the nomination of McAdoo. Cries of “oil” proved flustering, but the Do- heny retainer getter seemed undis- couraged, Governor Ritchie of Maryland was Friday, June'27, 1924 ——————————— U.S, NOT WOBS CAUSED DISEASE . SPREAD IN WEST State Expert Gives Lie to U.S. Attorney STOCKTON, Calif., June 26. — In an authorized interview in the Stock- ton “Independent” G. H. Hecke, direc- tor of the California State Department of Agriculture said that the I, W. W. was not responsible for the carrying of the hoof and mouth disease from Merced County to the stockyards of Los Angeles as was charged by U. S. District Attorney Fink. He said that the jump was caused by the shipment of infected cattle, This puts the res- ponsibility squarely up to the federal authorities who should have prevented the shipment of the infected cattle, Know Wobs Are Not to Blame™” © » “We have no knowledge whatever of any instance in which a member of the I. W..W. carried or caused to be carried the hoof and mouth disease from one district to another,” Hecke said. “As for the possibility that the I. W. W. may have been responsible for the spread of the disease from the San )Joaquin valley to Los Angeles, we know definitely that the jump was caused by the shipment of infected cattle from Merced county to the stock- yards in Los Angeles.” I. W. W’s. here believe that the state ment of district attorney Fink that there would be a round up of I. W. W's, charged with spreading the hoof and mouth disease was an attempt on his part to cover up the carelessness of the persons responsible for permitting the shipment of infected cattle. Expect Frame-ups ‘ They do not deny the possibility of members of the I. W. W. being arrested and charged with carrying the disease however. If the big lumber and ship- ping interests are to be satisfied there must be some sort of a new drive . against the I. W. W. engineered. The state criminal syndicalism law has failed to check the growth of the or- ganization. ene Chief Laughs at Bomb Story LOS ANGELES, Calif. June 26. — Chief of Police Vollmer laughed at the idea that the I. W. W. intended to bomb the morgue where 46 sailors, victims of the explosion on the U. 8. S. Mississippi, were laid out awaiting burial. It was the rumor that the I, W. W. intended to bomb the morgue which was used as an excuse for the raid on the San Pedro hall of the I. W. W. Marine Transport Workers Hall But our craft unionism proved a \handicap. (Continued from page 1.) |machinists’ union. And, strange as it may seem, Mr, Johnston is head of the Conference for Progressive Polit- ical Action, that is supposed to back LaFollette at Cleveland, July 4. Still More Complications. And at the same time many of the “labor” men in New York city went on a sight-seeing trip to Coney Island with Mayor Hylan, part of the Tam- many Hall machine in New York city, that is trying to nominate “Al” Smith, its governor, to the presidency, It is said that LaFollette is sitting in Washington listening to the pro- ceedings in New York by radio. But the little knifing stunts pulled off back of the scenes in New York evi- dently are not transmitted over the radio. They All Want the JULY BETTER SUBSCRIBE AND BE SURE Complete Analysis of the St. Paul Convention in the July LIBERATOR CONTENTS: Analysis of the St, Paul Convention, by C. E. Ruthen- b one of the Republican Convention, with cartoons, the Little Red Devil ker, by James Rorty named by Senator Howard E. Bruce We Jot that state, KNIFE LAFOLLETTE FOR McADOO This story that appeared under the name of the World reporter, Leary, can no doubt be taken as authentic. Leary has always trailed with the most reactionary elements in the la- bor movement. He has always been a little poodle at the heels of Sam Gompers and other labor leaders, act- ing as semi-official publicity agent for all their attacks on the militants in the labor movement. No doubt the railroad chiefs, be- lieving that their little show planned for Cleveland on July 4 has no chance of developing anything worth while, are taking this method of letting La- Follette know that he has been knifed and that the “labor lieutenants of cap- italism” are out to see what they can get from the Democratic party, that has always been the party of Sam Gompers. Prosperity Blows Up (The Coming Unemployme: Crisis), by Jay Lovestone Background of Bolshevism, by Max Eastman Russian Cathedral (Sonnet), by Claude McKay } Will the |. W. W. 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