The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 9, 1924, Page 5

( | “when the Soviets collapse,” Wednesday, July 9, 1924 ANTI-SOVIETS ARE A WEARIN' OF THE GREEN American Office Is in New York Basement (By the Federated Press.) NEW YORK, July 8.—And now it is the “green” counter-revolt which promises to overturn the. Soviet re- gime. Its American plenipotentiary, ‘who has just established himself in the basement at 324 Hast 14th St., ad- vised the Federated Press that the big play is scheduled for next spring. It was originally slated for this autumn, but.a postponement was made neces- tary by doubts of complete success, Alexei Moskwinow, who brings this message direct from Akatsatev, the “green” leader, styles himself “dele- gate and representative of the All- Russian Peasants’ association.” The association, he demonstrates, ean trace its genealogy back to 1905, when an organization of the same name was formed. It was revivéd by anti-Soviet elements more recently, and now has 15 branches outside of Russia. The American branch will no doubt assume some importance, as it already has the co-operation of Boris Bahkme- tiev, whom Hughes continues to look upon ag the representative of the Rus- sian people. With Bahkmetiev’s help Moskwinow hopes to form a syndicate of American ‘business men, who will be given a monopoly of Russian trade return for present financial support of the | “green” propaganda. Several local papers have taken Moskwinow seriously, quoting from his “statistics” of alleged Bolshevik | atrocities and his “appeal to the cul- tured people of the world.” One piece \of propaganda ends in a prophetic } Strain, thus: | “The peasants will finally win. Our \€reen banner, with the image of Christ on it, combined with the tri- color, will soon be hoisted on the an- cient Moscow Kremlin!” Mexico Nationalizes Brewery When Boss ~ Shuts Down Plant MEXICO CITY, July 8.—The Mexi- ean government has taken over the large brewery of Orizaba. The com- pany shut down and fired all its em- ployes without paying them the $7,500 it owed in wages. The government is trying to reopen the brewery. Mexican Landowners Howl. MEXICO CITY, July 8.—The Jand- ywners of Zacatecas complain that 35 arge ranches have been cut to pieces n the land distribution program of the ast two months. HOLD-UP METHODS AGENCY EXPOSED OF EMPLOYMENT BY TWO JOBLESS GIRLS WHO BUCKED GRAFT SYSTEM THE DAILY WORKER RUSSIA GRANTS RETIRED PACKING HOUSE WORKERS AMERICAN AMUR PLEAD FOR PENSION FUND RAPED BY ARMOUR AND. MORRIS MERGER By LENA CHERNENKO and ROSE BECKELMAN. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, July 8.—‘1000 Waitresses! Wanted Im- mediately!” This greeted our eyes, when, having long been job- less, we decided to look for work as waitresses, to tide us over the summer, We naturally went right up to the United Employ- ment Agency, at 72nd Street and Third Avenue, New York City, which promised offhandedly the master we had been seeking. We were met by an energetic woman, wo directed us further down the hall. The United Employment Agency occupies the entire first floor of the corner building, and also spills into the next building—evidently a growing business. The space is split GOLD PRIVILEGE Soviets May Purchase Whole Output (Rosta News.) MOSCOW, July 8.—The union coun- cil of people’s commissaries has rati- fied a concession agreement with an American syndicate headed by Mr. Jameson Wint for the working of the gold bearing areas along the River By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor (First of Two Articles) A conspiracy by Armour and Morris to misappropriate mil- lions of dollars in funds really held in trust for employes under the Morris & Co. pension plan is charged against the two big| meat packers by C. W. Armstrong, counsel for 500 Morris pen- sioners. These aged or incapacitated employes as well as widows and children stand to be defrauded of their promised means of support as a result of the sum-*— mary discontinuance of the pen- sion system following the mer- ger of the Morris and Armour Your Union Meeting up by partitions and curtains— for a purpose, as we later dis- load started off to some hotel, and the covered. girl next to us laughed. We talked The place seemed quite full; men and women, boys and girls, sat and stood around. There was an air of apathy, which we did not then observe, but noted later. We were directed to a small, shrewd-looking man, in a tan silk suit, who bestowed his attention, after one or two efforts on our part. “Yes. I think I can place you, Mountains or seashores?” And with the feeling of a Mrs. Smythe-Bur- ford, we considered a moment, and said “Seashore.” Three Dollars, Please. We paid our deposit of three dollars each, and were told to come the fol- lowing Tuesday, with our luggage. We understood, vaguely, that there would surely be a position in some hotel or resort for us. On Tuesday morning, the United Employment Agency seemed more than before a place of activity, of bustle, of action. We gave the peo: le, many the same we had seen hursday, a fleeting thot, but did not consider them again. There were about twenty of us chosen ones, and the keynote was a feeling of elation. We had jobs! We were going to spend the summer at the seashore and put away a “little pile” as pre- paration for the winter months. “All those for Edgemere,” called the fat, pompous looking man, who was to take us out, and herded the luggage- laden into the hall. We joked and laughed and got acquainted. Then a new call came up the line. “Have your fare ready. 44 cents.... 44 cents.” Strike Against Graft. Edgemere reached, the fat one hur- ried us off again, and with him an undersized, pimply youth, who im- pressed one with the idea that with- out him the United Employment Agency would long since have disin- tegrated. A few steps from the carline thé United Employment Agency sign again greeted us. It was rather a large frame-house, with a porch, and there were many outside and who we had seen in the other office. After the usual hostile silence, we got to chatting with the girls. One OUR DAILY PATTERNS A VERY ATTRACTIVE STYLE “9791 741. 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Then we began tosee the need for the partitions back in the office, the need for such a large house here, and the importance of bringing our luggage. We decided to investigate further and if our sus- picions proved correct, make some kind of demonstration and leave for the city that very afternoon. The demonstration did take place, and we left, taking with us five others. To Many Submissive. We were determined to get our de- posits back at any cost, and arrived at the United Employment Agency at 72nd Street the next morning, at 12 o'clock. We found it exceedingly hard to pin down one of the gentlemen that had been so easy to locate be- fore. However our revolutionary ardor sustained us, and we searched for them thoroly. We uncovered the secret of many a partition that morn- ing. In one, people who had been waiting two months, in another place, one month, etc, Many people were waiting with the hope of having their money returned, being respectful and submissive the while. Waiting for the head boss to re- turn, we discussed between ourselves some fitting epithets for these middle- mén, who make their nasty little piles, not brazenly as a capitalist employer, but thru the very heart-blood of the worker, and do not give him even the customary tithe to sustain life. “The dirty, lousy shysters—” when we were interrupted by “O-0-0-0- Oh! Such language! I don’t have to listen to that! Return them their money!” The “very refined” bookkeeper had risen, and was glaring at us. She dashed down the hall shouting “Mr. Kovess!” We dashed after her. Money Back if You Fight. “0-0-0-0-0 Oh!” she repeated. “You ought to hear the language that one uses. Return their money. Throw them out of here. The common things!” In her outraged respectabil- ity she poured forth a torrent of abuse at us—words that to us were a liberal education, ending by a contemptuous glare, and,. low and hissing, “Street walkers!” ‘Three or four men took us to the desk, and there appeared also the woman who guarded the door, so that if one had not paid anything one returned and did so, The headman instructed the clerk to make out the checks for us. While this was being done, the rest felt it their duty to reason (!!!!) with us. “There's a good reason for pogroms being conducted against the Jews. Al- ways kick!” “Go back to Russia.” | “Bolsheviks,” and always and ever the undernote “Street walkers!” “Street bums!” We took the checks and had them cashed, feeling quite elated the while. We had beaten one of the parasitic games which le at the outer edge of the huge capitalistic system, and we hoped many more back in that agency could see the whole business in the light we were seeing it. “We do walk the streets, don’t we, Lena?” “Yes, wearing out our shoes, look- ing for a job.” Hemirtak in the Amur district. This| corporations. is similar to the Smith concession, rat-| Armstrong puts it up to Judge I. C. ified last November for gold produc-|Ryner of the Chicago circuit court to tion along the River Charga. |decide whether these veteran em- The concessionaire undertakes to |ployes and their families are to be de- erect on the area assigned to him prived of wages actually earned sufficient dredges to work steadily for simply because financiers pulled off a a period of 20 ygars. The gold bear-|giant merger. He argues that the em- ing areas are to be properly equipped |ployes have fulfilled their part of the by him got later than by July 15, |contract by at least 20 years of con- 1925. He undertakes to work at least tinuous service at wages below what 2,572,000 cubic feet per season. In ad-|they would have received without the dition to paying rent for the area|pension system and that fulfillment assigned to him, the concessionaire jof its side is now binding upon the will also pay a certain percentage of |corporation, The employes have!acted the gross output of gold. The govern-|in good faith and it is up to the court ment is to have the prior right of buy-|to prevent their being deprived of ing the whole of the gold output. compensation. The hire of labor, and all matters Pensions Mean Lower Wages. relating thereto, are to be strictly in} Industrial pensions, Armstrong accordance with the established Soviet |proves by an array of economic au- labor ‘laws and regulations. They are thority, are merely deferred pay. Em- to be governed by collective agree-|ployes accept lower wages and refuse | |ments between the concessionaire and | more lucrative employment in view of |the trade unions. the company’s contract to maintain | As a guarantee of the proper exe-|them and their families at the end of | cution of the agreement, the conces- | 20 years or more of faithful service. sionaire deposits. property to the)They pay for their own pensions which value of 35,000 gold roubles. All con-\are therefore in a sense a gift or flicts betwen the parties are to be sub-|gratuity which the employer can give mitted to the law courts of the So-|or withhold at pleasure. viet Union. The concession is granted| “It is generally agreed by econom- for 26 years. ists,” he quotes from Carnegie Foun- TRIE UaNGesh SES es dation Bulletin No. 9, “that a free pen- . Yatkutsk Discusses sion provided by an employer is in ef- iy ff \fect a part of wages. In order to get Cooperative Aid a full understanding of old age and + 7 service pensions they should be con- In Siberian State sre as a part of the real wages of ja workman. A pension system con- sidered as a part of the real wages of an employe is really paid by the em- |ploye, not perhaps in money, but in the foregoing of an increase in wages (Rosta News.) MOSCOW, July 8—A conference has been held at the Russo-Oriental chamber of commerce, with represent- atives of the Yakutsk co-operative | which he might obtain except for the movement, to discuss the question Of ..tanlishment of the pension system.” the extension of long-term credits | In its 1922 report the Carnegie foun- the Yakutsk union of vo-operative 80- | gation says: “Since pensions consti- cieties. The object is to supply Pro-|tyte deferred pay they are technically visions and goods to the entire. cattle- paid out of the employe’s savings or breeding and agricultural population ot of technical deductions from the of the Yakutsk republic (Siberia), for|ry)) market value of the employe’s inasmuch 4s the state fur purchasing |seryices.” It is these: savings result- organizations provide by way of ex-|ing from deductions from the full change of goods but one part of the|vaiue of the employe’s services that people, namely, the hunters, there is/the packer financiers dre trying to much room left for supplying g0048|make away with. to the remaining part. High Authorities Agree. Under the present conditions there} Other citations to the same effect }is much smuggling of Japanese goods|in Armstrong's brief include the Illi- jinto the Yakutsk republic, and it is}nois pension laws commission, the |incumbent upon the co-operative! Massachusetts commission on pen- movement of this region to see to it/sions, the Wisconsin pension laws that the home market be supplied with | commission, Luther Conant’s Critical the proper goods. Analysis of Industrial Pension Sys- The conference has outlined the}tems and the Courtney commission of Possibility of assisting the Yakutsk/Great Britain. The Illinois commis- co-operation on the part of the Indus-}sion says: “Whether the contribution trial bank and the All-Union Co-oper-|¢, g pension fund be taken wholly ative bank. The credits will run up to/from the employe’s wages or be paid a sum ob about 1,000,000 gold roubles wholly by the employer or derived | in various goods, chiefly manufactured |in part from each, these contributions articles (cloths, etc.). are in all three cases to be regarded as In reality a deduction from wages.” Child Newsie From the Pay Envelope. The Ohio Consumers’ League recent- jj Morris and company have for years ly studied more than 800 children] been-making such deductions from the found selling on the streets of Cleve-| wages of their employes under agree- land, 715 of whom were newsboys.|/ment to pay them back in pensions Over one-third of these boys were un-|when they were old or incapacitated, der 12 years of age. The majority of|or in case of death to pension their them were earning less than $3 a/widows. But when the financiers af- week and only 14 mothers out of 50/fected the merger they disregarded reported that the earnings of the chil-|the legitimate interest thus created dren were needed at home. The chil-/for the employes in the enormous dren who did street trading were}funds of the corporation. The sesult- found to be far behind other children|ing legal case, according to Arm- in school and more than half of them strong, is of interest to millions of had physical defects which, it was bé-| wage earners because it will establish lieved, might be rendered serious by| whether employes have any real rights continued exposure and fatigue. in these pension systems which the , eon ameen pa 25 2! courts will protect or whether they Second Wednesday, July 9, 1924. Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, §. Throop St. 1 Boiler Makers, Monroe and Racine Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. Carpenters, Western and Lexing- ton. Carpenters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. CARPENTERS, 1638 N. HALSTED ST., H. FEHLING, Rec. Sec’y., 2288 Grace Sit. Irving 7597 Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ! stoi ' Coop: 8901 Escanaba Ave. Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adams St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. Machi ts, 113 N. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63d St. Evanston, Ill. Painters, Sherman and Main Sts., Evanston, fil. & Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe S*. Railway Carmen Dist. Council, 5445 S. Ashland Ave. Ralaay Carmen, 5444 Wentworth vi lay Carmen, 5445 Ashland Ave. ilway Trainmen, 426 \W. 63d St., Pp. m, “7 Wy Adams St. 1, 714 W. Harrison S#. 5324 §. Halsted St. 75 W. Washington St. Teamsters',(Meat),, 220 S. Ashland Vv Teamsters (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and ‘Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. (Note—Unless otherwise meetings are at 8 p. m.) 119 174 “222 07 181 104 stated all Tyrannical Fascist Rule Causes Rush of Italian Emigration) (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ROME, July 8.—That Dictator Mus- solini has not yet created a paradise in Italy despite persistent propaganda, seems demonstrated by the fact that 349,079 Italians emigrated during 1923, according to official statistics. It is an increase of more than 100,000 over 1922. Emigration to Mexico is espe- cially strong. ITALY THUNDERS THREAT AGAINST MUSSOLINI RULE New Cabinet Receives Chill Greeting (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ROME, Italy, July 8.—The police authorities have at last begun to ques- Fascist minister of the |tion Aldo Finzi, | interior of Italy, who has been charged |with much grafting in connection with |the failure and reorganization: of the |Banco Italiano Disconto and with the |oil concessions which were to be given to Harry F. Sinclair and with the | special oil sales privileges which were granted Standard Oil. | General De Bono, former head of the lfascist police, has also been ques- \tioned in connection with his protect- ing the fascist officials responsible for |the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, so- cialist deputy who was going to expose their misdeeds. Plenty of Charges. Amerigo Dumini, who confessed to |jthe Matteotti murder, has been charged with more crimes of violence by anti-fascisti forces. The trials of the twelve or more former fascist officials who are being held in connection with the Matteotti murder have not been set yet, Mus- solini’s efforts to have the cases come up outside of Rome have failed so far. The premier’s new cabinet is slowly |being made of non-fascist but sym- |pathetic conservatives or reaction-/ aries. The opposition group in paf- \liament are expressing much discon- |tent with the three new members al- lready announced. 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