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oN Page Four LOYAL DETROIT FIGHTER-FRIEND OF WORKERS DIES Frances Ellaire After Accident By CYRIL LAMBKIN. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) DETROIT, Mich., July 9.—The De- troit movement mourns the loss of Comrade Frances Hilaire, who died last week from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. A descendant of the original French settlers of Detroit, she inherited both their rugged constitution and their Dead MASSACHUSETTS MOTHERS LEAGUE SHOWS WAY FOR ORGANIZATION OF WORKING CLASS WOMEN FOR FIGHT By DR. ANTOINETTE F. KONIKOW. (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., July 9.—To organize women working in shops does not present the difficulties we meet in trying to reach the woman at home, the housekeeper and mother. "The working woman in shop and factory is surrounded by almost the same conditions as her men-comrades. She feels the exploitation of her boss directly, can be urged to join her trade- union organization, and is more in touch with the educational work done by the average worker. It is true, nevertheless, that the organization of working women is more difficult than that ———— of working men. Women of the proletariat still have the outlook pioneering spirit. From the day,|upon their work as one of tem- about a half century ago, when she | porary duration, and it takes scandalized the staid citizens of old/sqome time before they realize Detroit by riding into town on horse-)the benefits in unionism. back to listen to the first woman suf- Organize Housekeepers. frage speech by Susan B, Anthony, to) we meet these same women later, the day of her death, she participated | arter marriage, in the homes, and it is in every forward movement. limportant to organize them as house- Always For Oppressed. keepers and mothers, altho this occu- The movements for the liberation | pation has not generally been recog- of the oppressed particularly found @|1i76q as a trade. Such an organiza- friend and supporter in Comrade|tion of housewives and mothers is in- Frances Ellaire. The Russian peas-|eeq directed not against the so-called ants and workers until they liberated |«),5.5” of the home, the husband, but themselves from the double yoke Of|,-ainst the exploiting system. For ezarism and landlordism, the Hindoos |. 1.6n realize that husband and wife suffering from the greed of British are both exploited by the capitalist Imperialism, the Negroes in the pai ea United States, all received energetic | “i, housewife and mother must or- moral as well as financial aid. But ganize in order to learn how to fight above all she was a close sympathizer |). ciass battle shoulder to shoulder and supporter of the revolutionary | it) her husband. The organization working class movement organizing |.» . men collectively, as a class unit, for the complete overthrow of the} Backward jis of utmost importance. capitalist system of oppression and women are always the element sup- exploitation. porting all reactionary movements, Di eae ag: Se ocegy Aare |capitalistic, monarchistic, even fantas- “nga eappah hmgeige |tic, and their influence should not be gered cate ngisitig at | underestimated. The question there- jfore arises how to approach the — athe ee uae: in the | mother and housekeeper. Clearly, Fs. 'R., in the defense, in the general | by finding out what particular prob- educational work carried on thru the|!¢ms interest them and confront workers’ Educational Association. In|them. the campaign for raising bafl for the Bridgeman defendants she gave her- self $20,000.00 property bonds. But she was not satisfied with this alone. Only a few weeks before her death she expressed her intention to be- come a full fledged member of the Party. The growing revolutionary move- Mothers’ League. The Mothers’ league of Massachu- setts, which has been in existence for many years, has had quite a little ex- perience in this line, and, as a result, has a fine membership of class con- scious women. It has organized wom- en housekeepers to fight against the exploitation of landlords by means of ver cherish | tenement leagues; against high priees Det, const Sivasko Bpi-|of foodstuffs by organizing meat Jaire, who always was a tireless and|Strikes and parades of protest. devoted co-worker, never halted by| The prices of food, bread and meat obstacles nor discouraged by defeats.|and high rents were life problems which actually confronted them, and YES! women were deeply interested in Subscription price to them, and rallied around their mora . “The Commanist energetic sisters. As a result of meat strikes and bread strikes, co-operative 4 9? International movements were started. Women gave their full support to co-operative bakeries, like the one at Brockton; to co-operative meat markets, like the one existing for a time in Malden. The Mothers’ league of Massachusetts also enlisted the support of women for strikers in distress. The Malden me at branch arranged for a daily lunch for $2 50 strikers of a shoe factory near Mal- ig den, and kept it up during the many @ year or weeks of this strike. The Brockton 12 issues. branch did its utmost to help the , striking shoe workers in their long wat and desperate struggle. Single Communist Program. copy The Mothers’ league of Massachu- setts has branches in Roxbury, West 25 cents. End, Dorchester, Chelsea, Malden, It represents officially the views and reflections of the Communist International as the official organ of the Executive Committee, edited by the world renowned revolution- ary leaders: Gregory Zinoviev and Karl Radek. It surely is read by all who fear an educated revolutionary working- class: by kings, emperors, capital- ists and labor fakers, and there is no reason in the world why you, as a reader of the DAILY WORKER, should not read it. The subscrip- tion price is within your reach. Do it for your own benefit. Send your subscription to the Literature Department, Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. . Lynn, Brockton and in Springfield. Its platform is straight Communist, and the members often find them- selves in conflict with other women’s \organizations whose conception of the \class struggle, if not nil, is somewhat hazy. ‘Women are only too easily carried away by offices of charity, and the |Mothers’ league has done especially good work in exposing the basic in- \efficiency of charity as a means of |solving workers’ problems. _ The |movement which began among rich \ladies to Americanize the foreigners |has met at its hands with the con- |tempt it justly deserves. It does one’s heart good to listen to Mrs. Eva Hoff- man, the organizer of the league, ex- |posing these grand ladies come to {teach the poor foreigners how to RUBBER STAMPS |make a relishing meal out of a 2-cent bone, or a cake without eggs—ladies AND SEALS who condescend actually to play the IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL! piano for these poor, ignorant women FOREIGN LANGUAGES ‘and to dance with them. Surely these INK, PADS, DATERS. RUBBER TYPE,Erc, working women can have~no reason NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. to complain of ‘hardships, if they re- ceive so much attention at the hands 73 W. VanBurenSt, Phone Wabash 6680 of their rich sisters, who give them free tea, cakes and fine music. How happy must these charitable CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY "ATTENDED TO-—— ladies feel when they return in their limousines to their rich homes, where the bones they advise for use in the GRAND PICNIC Given by White Russian Peoples Society, South Side Children School slums are fed to the dogs perhaps. They think they have solved the so- cial problem and are free to devote themselves to less arduous pursuits. It is small wonder that Mrs. Hoffman finds strong response among the wom- en housekeepers who have joined the league. Birth Control Interests Mothers. Another subject which arouses a great deal of attention among women workers is the question of sex hygiene and birth control. At this some of our comrades will perhaps lift their eye- brows. Why should we Communists have anything to do with that fad? Birth control may be a fad to a rich woman, it may be exploited by anti- quated Malthusians, but the fact that wrong kinds of people are interested in the problem does not make it less vital to the working woman, who has no far fetched theoriés connected with it—only the every day common sense interest in relieving herself from the overburdening load of a large family. Married women can ob- tain more leisure, health and some economic relief thru birth control. It does not mean that birth control is the cure for all ills, as some followers of it claim. It is one of the most im- portant, practical, every day problems in the life of every woman, particular- ly of a working woman. This we Communists, who want to understand actual life worries of women, have to consider. It is not mere chance that a lecture on birth control always draws a large crowd of women, working women even more than women of the upper classes. Tell Union Women, Too. I have proved that to a manager of the lectures for a large union consist- ing of women, I advised him to or- |ganize lectures on sex hygiene, and, behold! They were better attended than any other lectures given before. In my own experience I have found that among women in unions, women of the working class, of different na- tionalities, interest in sex hygiene lec- tures is great, and the lectures—to which women go looking for informa- tion on birth control—are always crowded. Our comrades have grounds for prejudice against this topic, be- cause it is and has been exploited by people who try to concentrate all en- ergy upon that subject, and think birth control a panacea for poverty and war. Many prominent leaders of birth control, however, have given up such an attitude. Mrs. Mary Dennet of the Voluntary Parenthood league raps the fallacies of Malthus, and the same has been done by Dr. Marie Stopes of England, founder of the first birth control clinic there. As long as Wirth control is an im- portant part of the woman worker’s life, it is our duty to give her the correct viewpoint, seeing how falsely the idea had been exploited. Other- wise one might as well ignore trade unionism because Gompers & Co. think to achieve the worker’s eman- cipation by it alone. The experience of the Mothers’ league of Massachusetts clearly points out the way to reach women—wives and housekeepers—and organize them into a class conscious group Ayar sponding to their economic interests and aiding them in their solution, be and Russian Branch, Workers Party of America SUNDAY, JULY 13TH, 1924 — . National Grove LA GRANGE, !LL. Tickets in advance 40c, at the Gates 50c Grove Open at 10 o’clock DIRECTIONS: Take any car to 22nd St., 22nd St. West to the end. Take La Grange car to National Grove. that problem of rent, food or birth control. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. them to subscribe today. Get one of Do You Know? why Bishop W. M. Brown's little booklet “COMMUNISM and CHRISTIANISM” was tried before a court of 8 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Cleve- land, Ohio, recently? Does it not seem curious why a little booklet should excite such an aasy-going and well protected bunch of bishops and the institutions they represent, to bring it before a so- THE DAILY WORKER CHINESE CREWS BOUND TO BRITISH SHIPS LIKE SERFS While American Seamen Walk the Streets By JACK CARNEY. Along the San Francisco waterfront day after day, American sailors tramp looking for jobs that never turn up. At night they accost the passer-by with the hope of a dime for coffee and doughnuts. The sailor's outlook Forever feeling the call of the sea within his blood he hopes for the job that might restore to him his manhood. But the job will never come, for out in the bay is a slave ship. Patriotic American shipowners, who finance July 4th parades, have registered their ships under the Brit- ish flag. So they are able, with the assistance of the British consulates, to employ Chinese. One ship here has had Chinese on board for over eighteen months. They are not al- lowed ashore. If they are held much longer they will go insane. is a black one. called church court and find it guil- ty? Guilty of what? Is it not funny that the 8 bisho: sitting as trial judges should refi to answer some 400 or more ques- tions put to them by the author of the book? Don’t you think all that is worth 20 cents, the price of the book? Send us $1.00 b; forward to you 1 famous them mail and we will col of thi booklet by f. Post. Sell lo your friends and others for 25 cents apiece. Literature Department, Workers Party .of America, 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL, 36 Cents A Day. Their pay is 35 cents per day, a few handfuls of rice and dunagaress thrown in. What chance has an American sailor against the Chinese? Even if he worked for nothing, his food would cost more than 35 cents, so the kind, patriotic shipowners take the Chinese. This condition daily becomes more aggravated, as each day finds more slave ships coming in. The law calls for crews that can speak English. Union officials try to board ships to see the law is carried out. The gov- ernment officials know the law is evaded, but they also know that be- hind the government stands the ship- owner, so union officials do not count. How About It, Paul? Paul Scharrenberg, Seamen’s Un- ion, knows of these conditions, be- cause he was one of the officials who tried to board the ships that come and go. Yet he spends his time at Cleveland trying to convince the workingclass that members of the re- publican party are working to cre- ate a govefiment that will make Rob- ert Dollar obey the law and so reduce his profits. Dollar is as patriotic as his party—the republican party. Dol- lar thinks as much of the American workers as his party—the republican party. Dollar’s regard is summed up in the slave ship he owhs where Chi- nese work for 35 cents a day and can- not leave the ship until they have sailed for two years. Baku Oil Workers Protest Foreigners’ Grabbing in Persia (Rosta News) MOSCOW, July 9.—Commenting upon the oil policy of the Soviet gov- ernment in Persia, the Baku Worker writes that the Union of Soviet So- cialist Republics, which is connected by brotherly bonds with the toflers of Persia, cannot let the enemies of the Eastern toilers exploit the latter. In- deed, the paper points out, Persia has become an arena of competition be- tween foreign capitalists and im- Perialists with all the ruinous con- sequences following therefrom. Where- as it discloses the crimes of those who betray and sell the interests of the Persian people, the Soviet Union will show Persia who are her friends and who the enemies. DON'T MISS IT! = a So of the y Robert Minor PACKING HOUSE COMPANIES USE PENSIONS TO BREAK STRIKES, MORRIS SUIT EVIDENCE SHOWS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) (Second and Concluding Article) Industrial pension systems are revealed as a slave driving, strike breaking, class reconciling agency of employers in the Morris & Co. pension case before Judge I. C. Ryner of the Chicago circuit court. Employers are shown by C. W. Armstrong, attorney for the pensioners, to regard such pensions as a scheme for get- ting a body. of ‘docile workers by Oe promising a gift which may be repudiated at pleasure even tho and increase in thrift of individual employes.” While the Pennsylvania the employe has fulfilled his side of the bargain. At Company’s Mercy. “Morris & Co.” says the bill of complaint “planned and did in fact put the members, pensioners and bene- ficiaries of the fund at its mercy and under its control as to their freedom of action for fear of loss of pensions.” Employes were forced to join within 6 months after being hired and to sign the rules of the plan on the dotted line contributing thereafter 3 per cent oftheir pay. The promise was that they would be pensioned at 55 years provided they had rendered at least 20 years of continuous service. But as pen- sioners they were still subject to the control of the company being unable to take a job unless approved by the company’s representative. Further- more they were subject to call in case the company needed men either on account of labor shortage or to break strikes. “ Pension Promise Worthless. Events have shown that the com- pany’s promise of a pension for life in return for this abject servitude was worthless just as soon as pack- er capitalists decided to merge Morris with Armour. The extent to which corporations thruout the country are adopting pen- sion systems in order to control a docile working force is shown by Armstrong who cites figures to show that by 1920 pension systems had been put into effect by 20 railroads, 12 transit companies, 6 gas and elec- tric companies, 45 manufacturing and commercial concerns, 24 banks, 5 in- surance companies and 22 miscellan- eous concerns, a total of 142. Since 1920, he says, the number has been materially extended. Pensions and Strikes. “A careful study of industrial pen- sion systems” he says “will carry the conviction that pensions are not established from any pure sense of altruism toward aged and infirm em- ployes. Pension systems admittedly bring the employer most valuable and recognized considerations. In the case of Morris & Co. these advan- tages won by the boss included ((1) 20 years or more of continuous serv- ice, (2) more efficient service because loss of job meant loss of pension, (8) full working force when labor was scarce, (4) freedom from threat of strikes, (5) 3 per cent of wages, (6) control over employe’s work even after retirement and (7) first call at all times on services of retired em- ployes to help break strikes. A Business Proposition. Courts, big business men, mer- chants’ associations and state com- missions are quoted in the brief in support of the assertion that corpora- tions establish such pensions not as gifts, but as good business proposi- tions. The N. Y. Merchants associa- tion describes the more prominent effects. which employers hope to ob- tain as “increased loyalty of employes, increased efficiency, reduction of labor turnover, attraction of a super- jor type of employe, decrease or even elimination of labor troubles, Republican Convention, with cartoons, The Little Brown Brother becomes the Little Red Devil (The nding War with J an), by Max Bedacht What Michael Said to the Census Taker, by James Rorty Coupon Six Months $1.00 pension commission reports the claim by many employers “that the system is doing much to reconcile the two classes” by. reducing “the extent of, industrial discontent.” Dealing with the legal aspects of the attempt to discontinue promised pensions after the employes have per- formed their part, Armstrong recites court opinion to the effect that “to allow the employer in’ such a case to repudiate liability would come peril- ously near conniving at the perpetra- tion of a fraud.” BRAZIL REVOLT CONTINUES THRU COFFEE DISTRICT Cause and Extent Not Passed by Censor (Special to the Dally Worker.) RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8.—The sit- uation in Brazil is becoming more critical. Disturbances are spreading in the disaffected areas and a naval squadron sailed for Santos Monday morning to attempt to re-establish or- der. Protest Against President. The Journal di Commercio says that a section of the regular army, quar- tered in and_about Sao Paulo, con- spired with state troops to capture the government palace there. The gov- ernor learned of the movement in time, and took the necessary meas- ures, according to the newspaper, which says that the revolutionary ac- tivities are a result of lack of unity of command in the army, and adds that the movement is continuing. An official communique says the situation is “favorable” and that the battleship Misasgeraes has radioed from Santos that everything is calm there. ‘ Censorship Strict. Rigid censorship prevails on mes- sages from Sao Paulo, the storm cen- ter, which increases suspicion of the seriousness of the situation. The Anoticia publishes an official note deprecating the movement, and advises the populace that it is quite unnecessary to become alarmed. The chamber unanimously approved the president's request that a state of siege be declared for sixty days at Sao Paulo, and the governors of all states telegraphed President Ber- nardes, placing their state troops at his disposal to put down the rebellign. A possible connection of the revolt with the British financial mission's suggestion that Brazil sell her public railroads to private, presumably Brit- ish, interests has been hinted. Wanted. Single room for man (without board), Northside, near Lake. Quiet. Ad- dress Box C-7, The Daily Worker. Prosperity Blows Up (The Coming Unemployment Crisis), by Jay Lovestone Background of Bolshevism, by Russian Cathedral (Sonnet), by Claude McKay Will the I. W. W. Fight, by Harrison George LIBERATOR BETTER SUBSCRIBE AND BE SURE Complete Analysis of the St. Paul Convention in the July LIBERATOR CONTENTS: i = of the St. Paul Convention, by C. E. Ruthen- re Thursday, July 10, 1924 ET ———————_—= WORKERS WILL STUDY WORLD'S LABORMOVEMENT \ New York School Opens Tomorrow Night (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK CITY, July 9. — Tha Workers’ School has announced the subjects of its summer school which will continue from July 9 to Septem- ber 15, on every Monday and Wed- nesday evening. The school will be opened in the Workers Party head- quarters, 208 Hast 12th street. A lawn arty will be held there on Sunday evening, July 20, with music ang dancing. The outline of classes in the Work- ers’ School is as follows: 1. The First and Second tionals—J. Gottfried. 2, The Third International—Ludwig Lore. 3. The World Economic Situation —The Crisis of Capitalism—Juliet S, Poyntz. 4, The Russian Communist Party —H. Burgin. 5. The Active Revolutionary Period, First and Second Congresses—Lud- wig Lore. 6. The Third Congress, The United Front—J. W. Weinstone. 7. The Fourth Congress—J. Weinstone. 8. The British Labor Government, Problems of British Communism—J. 8. Poyntz. 9. The German Communist Move- ment, Struggle with the Social De mocracy—Ludwig Lore. 10. The Communist Movement in France and Italy—A. Moreau. American Social Economic Conditions 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Per- iod, Beginnings of the Class Struggle —H. Simpson. 2. Building of the American State, Constitution and Early History—H. Simpson. 3. Slavery Struggle, Evolution of Political Parties—C. Brower. _ 4 Class Struggle before 1860, So- cial and Economic Background—C. Brower. 5. Rise of Capitalism and Labor Movement Since Civil War—A. Trach- tenberg. 6. The Agrarian Problem and Ag- rarian Movements in America—J. Gottfried. 7. Industrial Labor Movement since 1900; the A. F. of L. and the I. W. W. —J. S. Poyntz. | 8. Evolution of Political Parties | since 1900—W. Weinstone. * 9. The Political Labor Movement since 1880; Labor Party, Socialist and Communist Movements—L. Lore. { 10. American Imperialism, America } and the World War. Interna- Ww. Chicago Russians ~ va Will Picnic Sunday At National Grove/ Another big picnic will be held in Chicago radicals, the Workers Party, ¢- next Sunday, July 13, at National Grove, Ill. The picnic is given byir the White Russian Peoples’ Society,je the South Side Children’s School and the Russian Branch of the Workerspt Party. “fg This picnic will be a jolly affair.jir Don't miss it. Reach the grounds byrk taking any car to 22nd street, 22ndis street west to the end. Then La-ty Grange to National Grove. The grovene opens at 10 o'clock. } | tot me Send in that Subscription Today! SSSRESSSZSEPESESS. ST a P. SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Max Eastman Literature and the Machine Age, by Floyd Dell ag THE LIBERATOR, Mae ASR, ck aa As 1118 W. 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