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. we can work together in the labor ' January.” - gm unsavory labor record, admittedly . Tepresenting the “independent manu- _ questions or discuss politics with Page Four bE an ‘ satan THE DAILY WORKER SICK SOCIALIST LEADERHAS LOST PACE IN POLITICS Party Activities Of Debs Out of Touch; Local Chicago Tries Hold Party Next City Central Committee .Meet- ipg, Tuesday, July 14th, 8 P. M. WORK- By KARL REEVE, ERS’ LYCEUM, 2733 HIRSCH BLVD. Eugene V. Debs, sick and in seclu- Important matters in our, Political sion in a sanitarium at Blmhurst, Ii, | Activity [will be discussed. at thie meet prohibited from talking politics by the| TEND. © Visitors are invited. doctor’s orders, has again been po- CHICAGO BRANCH MEETINGS litically resurrected to keep down rank and file sentiment in the) rem- Tuesday, July 15 nants of his party. Debs is unable to| ,Pvman Russian, 11458 South Park keep in touch with the political situa- tion as he should, if he wishes to per- serve in his role as mentor to the socialist party. In a letter to the DAILY WORKER reoprter, Debs says: “Sorry I did not? / get to see you. Iam ill and under} treatment, so the doctors will not al- low me to see the many visitors I would be glad to see if my condition permitted. J cannot be interviewed at present.” Tries to Smile Two Ways. Debs’ telegram to the national con- PB Se ea 2409 vention of the socialist party was a]. Halste concialitory one. Incapable of taking Plea Bide English, $201 8. Wabesh an active part in politics; uninformed FO arora Karl Marx, 2738 Hirsch as to the impossibility of indorsing|” Russian No. 1, 1992 W. Division St. LaFollette and remaining a Marxist,} 11th Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oakley Blvd. Debs takes a blind stab to please both| °!8t Ward Italian, 511 N. Sangamon St. sides. “Make no nominations,” de- Friday, July 18 clares Debs, “but at the same time Sorel ek Soe eeetoon keep the socialist party in as the North Side, 1902 W. Division St. party of hte working class.” Milda Hall, 3142 S. Halsted St. Debs is trying to play an impossible NEWSPAPER OF GREEK COMMUNISTS ARRIVES “Empros” has made its bow in Chicago, hot from the Workers Par- ty press*«which runs off the DAILY WORKER and) “I! Lavoratore.” “Empros” is the Greek Commun- Ist paper of the United States and appears every Saturday. It has just moved to 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, with the rest of us. It was formerly printed in New York. Chicago is a particularly good lo- HAIL TO ‘EMPROS!’ Wednesday, July 16 WM. Z. FOSTER on “RUSSIA IN 1924,” at Ogden Auditorium. Englewood English, 6414 S. Halsted St. Mid-City English, Ogden and Taylor. Czecho-Slovak No. 3, 2548 S. Homan Av echo-Slovak No. 1, 1825 S. Loomis reet. Cicero Czecho-Slovak, 57th Ave. and 22nd Place. Italian Terra Cotta, 2707 N. Marshfield Ave. Douglas Park Jewish, Liberty Club House, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. Roumanian Branch, 2254 Clybourn Ave, Thursday, July 17 Finnish Branch, Imperial Hall, are many thousands of Greek work- ers here. The paper will be a big factor in increasing the class con- sciousness of the Greeks here as well as thruout the country. I[t will take an active part in such organiza- tion campaigns involving Greek workers as the last attack of the Amalgamated Food Workers against the Greek restaurant keepers of the city. Hall to “Empros”! Long Life! BUFFALO PARTY ACTIVITIES Thursday, July 17—Open air meeting at Lafayette Square. Speakers, Simin- Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island. Ave. off and Brill. role. He is refusing to discuss with PS ace ua Priday, July. 16-0he. pecarel: tember- leaders in the radical movement the CHICAGO STREET MEETINGS ship meeting will be held at the Engin- This Week. eers Hell, 36 W. Huron St. The com- burning questions which confront the workers. He is refusing to grant any interviews on the grounds that he is physically unable. But he is feebly trying to keep a dying party alive lending his name to the most conser- vative and compromising wing of that party—in the name of unity. Debs has no right to longer attempt the role of prophet of his party. He is a sick man, uninformed and admitted- ly unable to take part in politics. His name no longer lends weight to the petty bourgeois element of the so- cialist party which hail him as stand- .ard bearer. Forbidden to Interviewers. At the Lindlahr health resort at Elm- hurst, Debs’ docter declared: “Mr. Debs is absolutely forbidden to see anyone except his immediate family. When he came here a month ago we laid down the strict rule that Mr. Debs was not to talk politics to anyone. He is slowly recovering from a complete nervous and physical breakdown.” The doctor refused to give Debs a long letter, declaring that “long com- munications, visits from friends, and political discussions sap Debs’ strength.” In order to keep in touch with the political situation Debs gees up town to Elmhurst, a a mile from the “sanitarium, receives his mail at the post office, and communicates with his political associates against his doc- tor’s orders. The Elmhurst Press de- clares that Mr. Debs will talk to peo- ple he meets oh the streets, but re- fuses to talk politics. He is taking a vacation from politics, as one Eimhurst resident put it, until he becomes stronger. Listen to LaFollette. But if we are to believe the Social- ist Milwaukee Leader, Debs is tak- ing no vacation from politics when it comes to supporting @ middle class candidate. “Mr. Debs was all smiles when he received the committee named by the Socialist Party nation- al convention to convey greetings of the convention to him at Lindlahr’s sanitarium,” says the Socialist paper. “H ssed the conviction that the Socialist Party would have thrown away op) nity of a generation by wit its support from the LaFollette candidacy.” Debs made a plea, according to the Leader, to co-operate with the fol- lowers of LaFollette” and show that Send in that Subscription Today. the wealthy owners of these incomes, Not one of the years show a greater number of incomes exceeding $1,000,- 000 than 1922. ' The total receipts of the government from surtaxes increased from $411,- 327,684 in 1921 to $474,581,111 in 1922, surtaxes on incomes of more than $300,000 from 84,797,344 in 1921 to $111,446,638 in 1922, total taxes on in- comes of more than $50,000 increase from $317,929,125 in 1921 to $445,805,- 419 in 1922. In other words without resorting to Mellon’s proposed plan the government collected $127,876,294 more taxes from the incomes of mil- lonaires in 1922 than it did in 1921. The increase amounted to 40 per cent. Obviously general business conditions and not high surtaxes are the influen- tial factors. How Mellon Bluffed. nos | Mellon contended that high surtaxes produced less rather than more gov- ernment income because they induced his multimillionaire associates to show smaller taxable incomes. He supported this contention by showing the steady decrease in the number of very large incomes, in the total amount of such income and in the taxes collected dur- ing the period 1916 to 1921. “That the statistics of 1922 when available will show a reversal of this tendency un- der the same conditions which have caused it heretofore,” he said, “is im- probable. Andy Is the Bunk. But his statistics of 1922 summar- ized above do show just such a reversal and thereby demonstrate the unsoundness of Mellon's economic judgment. Contrary to his prediction, 1922 showed the number of net in- comes over $300,000 more than dou- bled, the total net income reported in this upper class more than doubled and the total tax paid the government out of these incomes increased by 50 per cent. Yet the country was asked to take Mellon's judgment as the sole basis of tax legislation further reliev- ing the very rich of their share of the burdens left by the war. And it is ‘upon such unsound judgment that t Coolidge administration constructs its fiscal policy and asks indorsement of the non-millionaire voters. party which should be organized next ' Debs thus sides with the Gompers, Farrington plan of class collaboration. He supports LaFollette, the man with facturers,” but refuses to answer Damaged Buildings Restored and Monticello, Irving Park Y. W. Euthenberg: will report on the “Imme- . PB. at Main and Genesee St. Speakers, Sim- THURSDAY—62nd and Halsted, Engle- . Picnic at Woodlawn Beach, Seventh St. W. Jewish, W. P. North and Rockwell, in Buffalo and vicinity are requested SATURDAY—80th and State, 112th and Michigan, Cc. An enlarged meeting of the D. E. C. are urgently requested to attend this « By LELAND OLDS tax program by the publication of 1922 federal income tax figures. $50,000, and total income received by these wealthy individuals ment don’t leave this so-called economist a cork leg to stand on of taxable income but rather multi-millionaires at the expense 1922 report compared with the four $1,000,000 each compared with 21 in (2) 537 Incomes of more than 627 in 1918. in 1921, 15,739 in 1920, 18,846 in received by Individuals reporting net In 1920, $152,650,246 In 1919 and 534 recelved by Individuals report- 1,537,391,096 in 1920, $2,066,050,257 Thus with the exception of 1919 any other than the right wing, mid-| stands ahead of any other of the five ship of the Party on the Immediate task of the Party In the following Ave, at 8 p.m. BOSTON—Saturday, July 19, Dudley 8t. Opera House, 113 Dudley NEW YORK CITY—Wednesday, July 23, Stuyvesant Casino, 142 at 8 p.m. 608 Pine LOANS To IMPR OVE TUESDAY—Roosevelt Road and St. | rad are urged to be present at this Louis, West Side Y. W. L. Irving Park| me: where Comrades Foster and A ting diate Tasks Before the Party. WEDNESDAY—Fullerton and Halsted,| Saturday, July 19—Open air meeting North Side Eng., W. P. inoff and Raymond. wood English W. P. Sunday, July 20—The workers party FRIDAY—Division and Washtenaw, N. Finnish Grounds. A good program is ar- Maplewood Y. W. L. Roosevelt and Cen-|ranged for this picnic and all comrades tral Park, Rykov, Y. W. L. South|to co-operate with the committee and Side English W. P. make this picnic a success. Pullman Sub-C. C. C. SUNDAY—Marshfield and Roosevelt] will be held on the picnic grounds. The Road, Marshfield, ¥. W. L. out of town members of the D. EB. C meeting as we have urgent business to transact. CROOKED AS A CORK SCREW; HIS OWN FIGURES SHOW IT (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The last prop is kicked out from under Secretary Mellon’s These show 67 incomes of more than $1,000,000 each, 537 in- comes of more than $300,000, 16,301 incomes of more than amounting to $1,697,971,534. These statistics emanating from his own treasury depart- for they show that high sur- taxes do not reduce the amount give the government a share of exhorbitant gains made by of the people. Here are outstanding facts of the previous years: (1) 67 ‘Incomes of more than 1921, 33 in 1920, 65 In 1919 and 67 in 1918. $300,000 each compared with 246 in 1921, 392 in 1920, 679 in 1919 and (3) 16,031 incomes of more than $50,000 each compared with 11,069 1919 and 14,495 in 1918. j (4) Total income of $141,386,99: income over $1,000,000 compared with $49,411,329 in 1921, $77,078,139 $137,486,892 in 1918. (5) Total income of $1,697,971, ing net income over $50,000 com- red with $1,045,233,569 in 1921, In 1919 and $1,669,960,162 in 1918. 1922 Is Banner Year. when there were large postwar di tributions of war profits the year 1922 dle class leadership of the dying So-| years in the number 6f large incomes clalist party. and in the total amount reported by William Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg will address the member- elties: DETROIT—Thursday, July 17, House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot BUFFALO—Friday, July 18, Engineers Hall, 36 W. Huron St, at 8 p.m. St., Roxbury, at 7:80 p. m. NEW HAVEN—July 22, 8 P. M., Labor Lyceum, 38 Howe &t. Seoond Ave., at 8 p. m. PITTSBURG—Friday, July 26, Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street, PHILADELPHIA—Thursday, July 24, BReth Sholom Hall, ter, recently returned from a trip to on Monday, July 21st, 8 P. M., at Web- cation for “Empros” because there |}ic a Tuesday, July 15, 1924 77 ILLINGIS ARMY OF JOBLESS HITS NEW HIGH MARK Part Time Work Also is on the Increase Party Activities NEW YORK, July 14—Wm. Z. Fos- ee YORK CITY “Employment in the factories of Illi- nois is dropping rapid says the Illinois department of labor report on employment for June. “During the past three months the manufacturers Russia, will speak on RUSSIA IN 1924 at a mass meeting to be held ster Hall, 11th Street between 3rd and 4th Aves., under the auspices of the Trge JJnion Educational League. Comifde/ Foster, who also investi- gated cOslitions in Russia in the dark days of 1921, has had exceptional op-} portunitiés to observe conditions in Russia at the present time. He has brought back from the Soviet Repub- message of revolutionary acheivement which all workers should hear. Remember the date and place— Monday, July 21, at Webster Hall. * * . per cent of their workers, and these declines, combined with the earlier cuts, have reduced employment to a point 11.5 per cent below the level of June of last year. This indicates that the manufacturing industries of the state are getting along with about 80,000 fewer employes than they did last year.” It will be recalled that the report of the Illinois department of labor re- port on employment for May called unemployment a “serious problem.” The report for June shows a definit increase in the “seriousness” of the problem. The report also indicates that part time employment is on the increase. It will be remembered that the sur- vey of the department gives definite figures. only for factories and manu- facturing industries. The report in part follows: “The number of unemployed people in this state at this time is large. Other factors raise the number out of work far beyond the 80,000 who have been laid off by the factories, Clos- ing mines have released large num- bers, the building industry is not quite | up to last year’s level, and farmers are not hiring as many people as one year Bronx—General memership meet- ing, Thursday, July 17, 8:30 p. m., 1347 Boston road, to discuss St. Paul con- vention, educational program for fall season for Bronx, shop nuclei and in- dustrial activity, headquarters. Good speakers will addres, the meeting. Come edrly—B. Robins, Secretary. Roumania Releases Two Communists on Long Hunger Strike (Special to the Dally Worker.) BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 14— Two of the many Communists who have been imprisoned here whenever labor unrest or radical demonstrations gave the government pretext for wholesale arrests have been provision- ally released by General Holban be- cause of their weak conditon from hunger striking. Alexander Dobroge- ano Begerea and Andrei Patrascano are the men who went for 12 days without food. Quite a number of Communist stu- dents have been thrown into prison at various times by the government and kept for months without ever being formally charged or appearing in court. Sometimes they are summar- ily dismissed without any more pro- cess of law than that which brought them in, Brazil’s “Movie” Revolution Seems Nearly at Last Reel RIO DE JANIERO, July 14.—News was eagerly awaited here early today of the final defeat of the military reb- els who have held a part of the city of Sao Paulo since last Saturday. “Legal troops sent against the reb- els in Sao Paulo now are in full oper- ation, with the supreme command per- fectly organized,” says the latest om-| “Part time operations are reported cial communique. “Normal communj-|0m an increasing scale. Whereas 24 cation between the city of Sao Paulo| Per cent of the workers reported upon and Santos has been restored and| Were working part time in May, dur- there is nothing to interfere with free|!ng June, approximately 34 per cent movement of the people in the dis-| were working part time. Twenty-two trict. plants were reported as completely “The lines of the Central do Brazil|colsed down. Industries in which the railway (connecting Rio with Sao|major part of the workers were em- Paulo), which were interrupted be-|Ployed only part time included the fol- tween Mogy and Sao Paulo, have been|lowing classes: Iron and steel, cook- re-established, and the entire system |ing, heating and ventilating apparatus, is in operation again practically on ajmachinery, agricultural implements, normal basis. musical instruments, miscelaneous “The Luz military barracks is the|leather goods, cotton goods, knit only point in Sao Paulo left in the|s0ods and men’s work clothing. hands of the enemy.” o “The drop in June, which amounted to 3.4 per cent, brought unemployment to a new peak. With much uneven- ness among the various industries, em- ployment in the factories of Illinois in total was in June at about the same point as two years ago in midsummer. “During the month of June there were reductions in employment in each of the principal cities of Illi- nois. In Moline, where the change for the month was sharpest, nearly 25 per cent of the factory workers lost their jobs, in addition to the 13 per cent who were laid off in May. In Joliet about 14 per cent of the manufactur- ers’ employes were laid off. The de- cline for the month in Chicago was only 2.3 per cent, much of the loss be- ing offset by the seasonal rally in the men’s clothing factories. “The general character of the de- cline is shown also in the industrial analysis. Out of 55 industries includ- ed in the survey of the month, de- clines in the number of workers oc- curred in 42, and in one there was no change. In only 12 industries were more workers employed in June than in May, and in each of them a strong seasonal factor exists. “Topsy” Swears That Cicero Bulls Tried es ** to Kill Her, Yes, Sir EVANSTON, Ti, July 14— War- rants naming Police Chief Svoboda and three policemen of Cicero were is- sued here today by a justice of the peace on complaints sworn to by Miss Rosetta (Topsy) Duncan, ac- tress, and her brother Harold. ‘Three of the warrants charging as- sault and battery, assault to kill and assault with a deadly weapon are di. rected against Benjamin Delaney and Charles Witlock. Chief Svoboda and policeman Charles Steinecke are ac- cused of assault and battery. BRITISH BUTLER BOOSTS BRITAIN'S AND MORGAN VALET, JOHN W. DAVIS LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y., July 14, If the saying that no man is a hero to his valet may be extended to in- butler, then John W. Da. vis Is an exception indeed. For the haughty, mutton-chopped English mentor of the Davis household un- ‘bent today to declare the democratlo nominee “the grytest man in the world.” Said the Butle “Mr, Dyvis, the finest man that ever lived, upon my word.. I'd work my fingers to the bone for ‘im; | mean to aye, e's that kind as happreefates heverything you do for him. Of course, | mean to sye, | al- ways does my best, but none of my marsters ever was so happreciative. ‘e’re all what you Hamericans call Yous about ‘Im,’ Bourgeois Mexican Students Try to Mar Revolutionary Murals MEXICO CITY, July 14.— Middle class ‘Mexican students, reactionary rowdies, have organized a movement to destroy the revolutionary paintings that cover thd walls of the public biuldings of the capital. In the National Preparatory school, where Orrosco, one of the leading painters, has produced great work, the destructive movement started. With the sharp stones and mud the vandals all but destroyed a work which hds taken years of preparation. Then they made for the large amphi- theater in which Diego Rivera painted his “Creation.” Fortunately they were stopped in time. No harm was done to the beautiful mural. The Mexican student, like the class he is a product of, is afraid of new ideas. He detests the vividness with which they describe his uselessness as a social entity, and he thinks that with stones and mud he can destroy them, —_—_——- Want Nightshirt Government. YOUNGSTOWN, July 14.—The Ku Klux Klan of Mahoning county, who have a complete political ticket in the fleld for the fall elections, opened up headquarters under charge of Col. B. A. Watkins, editor of the Citizen, offl- cial Kluxer sheet for the Mahoning county klan. The Kluxers aim to cap- ture ayery Panton office in Mahoning county‘and control them as they do the city offices of mayor and council, ¥ of Illinois have laid off more than 7| PENNSYLVANIA LEFT WINGERS PUBLISH NEW BUILDING TRADES ORGAN IN THE EASTERN FIELD “By J..W, JOHNSTONE, Assistant Secretary, T. U. E. L. ITH the appéarance of the Month- ly Bulletin, issued by the East- jern Pennsylvania District Conference jot the Brotherhood of Painters, Deco- |rators and Paperhangers of America, | we see that at least one small section of the building trades beginning to realize the danger that confrents them jin the approaching industrial crisis. | This sign of activity, altho of a de- | fensive character, is largely due to the |agitation that has been carried on, |for the past year, by the building | trades section of the T. L. in the] tituae. unions and in the Progressive Build-| jy every local, jing Trades Worker, official organ of] tne puilding trad | the International Committee for Amal- point out the ne y for united ac- gamation of the Building Trades. tion. The jealousy and bitterness The Bulletin, in an editorial, shows | that exists between the various unions the need of an organizational drive,}is artificial. It is cultivated by offi- and urges the painters to accept the|cialdom, either thru lack of under- challenge of the employers, under the| standing of the needs of the situa- slogans of organize the unorganized,/tion, or for personal advancement. no. wage reductions, no lengthening of|The workers on the job have no such hours, no reduction in the workers’|feeling toward their fellow-workers. standard of living. This is a step in|The job should be the basis of agita- the right direction, but it is along the|tion; it is the place where the work- usual narrow craft lines. They must}ers meet every day, where the actual broaden the base of their activities by | struggle takes place and where united forming a united front with the other] action is most needed. unions in the building industry, at the} The problems that confront the same time carrying on an agitation for} building trades workers should be amalgamation and working class polit-| discussed, a common program of ac- ical action. tion agreed upon, then all workers si- The slogan of organize the unorgan-|multaneously present it to their local ized should be taken up by every mili-] unions. -A demand should be made tant in the building trades. Every-|that their officials make a fighting is- where chaos reigns in the industry.|sue of it. To wait for the interna- Chicago is a classic example. The| tional officials to formulate a fighting common laborers are poorly organ-| Program of action can only mean a ized ,and there are tens of thousands| terrific defeat for the building trades of tradesmen who do not belong to| workers in the now rapidly approach- any union and who are workers for as| ing industrial crisis. low a wage as 75 cents per hour. Nothing can be expected from the building trades official family unless tremendous pressure is brought to bear upon them, and the most con- vincing kind of pressure is the kind started by the Pennsylvania painters. The building trades officials constitute the extreme right wing of the labor movement. They are even more con- servative than Gompers. They accept the two old parties without question, and the majority of the rank and file acquiesce in this policy. However, the rank and file have demonstrated in their many strikes that they are mili- tant in actiony and respond readily to radical slogans when under pressure from the employers. The coming industrial crisis, which will throw millions of workers into the ranks of the unemployed, differs radically from the usual periodical de- pressions that have occurred from time to time during the growth of cap- italism. The coming industrial crisis will differ in many ways from those that have gone before. It will signify the beginning of the decay of capital- ism in America. This will be brought out more clearly to the workers dur- ing the struggle. The crisis undoubt- edly will be of longer duration, involy- ing a greater number of workers, and will affect.the entire working class to a greater degree than any other crisis in the history of America. The objective of the employers will be to make a slashing cut in wages, lengthen the work day, reduce per- manently the present standard of the working class, to weaken, and wher- ever possible completely destroy, the labor movement. This is a picture WORKERS! Wn. Z. Foster Chairman, Workers Party, that confronts the building trades workers as well as the general labor movement. While the leading capitalist groups are preparing and marshalling their forces for the coming fight, the lead- ers of organized labor are doing noth- ing to meet the inevitable “open shop” drive. The only force that is pointing a way out is the T. U. E. L. and the Workers Party. To meet the situation in the building trades, the left wing will have to lead a revolt of the rank and file against the class collaboration scheme of their officials, against their demoralizing pacifist at- of every union, in eft wing must Send in that Subscription Today. 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