The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 17, 1924, Page 2

Page Two CAL BIDS FOR FARM VOTE BY BUTTER TARIFF Raise Cows Instead of Wheat Is Cal’s Advice After carrying on the Harding pol- fey of fighting the congressional farm bloc, lending no support to several “bills designed to aid the farmers which he was content to see defeated, President Coolidge made a belated bid for the farm vote yesterday. Northwestern farmers, who have been burning corn cobs in the winter to keep themselves warm, and who spent more money this year to raise their crops and ship them to market than they will receive for them, will at least get a laugh out of Coolidge’s farm relief plan. The president caused the announcement to be made that “for the most part, additional aid will be rendered the farmers thru ma- nipulation of the flexible tariff scale.” Poke Butter Rates. The first indication of this farm aid, we learn, is that “the tariff commis- sion this week opened up an investi- gation into the tariff on butter.” The plan is that Coolidge is to force the western farmers to enter into dairy farming, and he is fixing the tariff on butter so that it will be ready for tie dairy operations. Senator Lenroot is the new butter tariff advocate, after being converted to the virtues of dairy farming in a conference with Cool- idge. Farmers are wondering how Cool- idge gets that way in saying “addi- tional aid to the farmers.” They de- clare he has done absolutely nothing for the farmers since he accidentally slipped into the White House via the poisoned crab route. The only accom- Plishment Coolidge can boast of is spending thousands of dollars thru the war finance corporation in making a survey of farm conditions. His aid to the farmers in this case got no fur- ther than making the survey. Politicians interpret the recent con- ferences of senators from farming states with Coolidge as an attempt on the part of the leading republicans to kick Cal out of his usual silence. Senator Bursum of New Mexico is urging Coolidge to take a definite stand on reclamation, water power and flood control, so that Bursum will have something to talk about in the Tepublican’ campaign in the south- west. Butler also discussed the New Bngland situation with Coolidge. Senators Provoke Cal. Meanwhile Silent Cal stands fiat- footedly and ‘pig-headedly on his but- ter tariff program. Farmers are ask- ing where they're going to get money to buy cows. Last winter in North Dakota many of them killed off the last of their live stock to keep from starving. The Morgan controlled rail- roads have milked the farmers dry by increasing freight rates. The Morgan and Rockefeller controlled Interna- tional Harvester comapny makes it impossible for the farmers to buy farm equipment because the monopoly has raised prices so exorbitantly. Morgan controlled banks, which prac. tically own most of the farms of the west because the farmers cannot pay on their heavily mortgaged lands, re- fuse to grant more credit. But Cal is equal to the situation. “I have increased the tariff on but- ter,” he says. “Turn your flat wheat lands into hilly dairy farms, well stocked with cows. I have the butter market ready for you.” Walden Co-operative Bookshop Wins The Chicago Co-operative Book Stores Company, has just completed a thorly successful year. This happens to be the first financially successful year of its short four year's existence. Organ- ized in April, 1920, the Chicago Co- operative Book Stores Company open- ed two bookshops, the “Radical Book Shop” and the “Walden Book Shop.” In 1922, the first of these was sold to another concern and all attention given to the making the Walden Book Shop a genuine co-operative success, Seceders Holding Out. WASHINGTON, July 16.—Contin- ued success along the entire front by the Brazilian federal troops was re- ported in two communiques received from the Brazilian government by the Brazilian embassy here today. H. O. McCLURG, A. JAKIRA PERLSTEIN PR THE DAILY WORKER OFFICIAL; WON’T GIVE GARMENT WORKERS FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Statement issued by the Needle Trai se Section of the Trade Union Educational League. Events of the past week in the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union show that the campaign of disruption is to continue. Perlstein disfranchizes one member of the union for two years because he objected to an ex-scab being business agent, and prefers charges against another member because he asked that an accounting be made of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that have passed thru Perlstein’s and his associates’ hands for the past ten months. Thus the reign of terrorism started against the T. U. EH, L’ is being intensified. Harry Seff, while a delegate at the Boston convention, ob- jected to the unseating of Met- rick, as a member of the T. U. E. L., on the grounds that the man who preferred the charges gainst Metrick was an ex-scab. The chair- man of the credential committee pointed out that the charges had been preferred by a member of the Chicago Joint Board. Seff, in answer, stated that not only was Packer an ex-scab, but that he: knew of officials that had been guilty of scabbing. Out of this statement charges were preferred against Seff when he returned to Chi- cago. Before the trial committee Seff accused Max Novack, a _ business agent, of having been a scab, Business Agent Scab Boss. Novack, when not a business agent, went into business for himself. Dur- ing one of his business exploits, in the midst of a strike, he threw his lot in with the bosses under cover, as he thought, and took work from a shop that was on strike, thereby acting as a strike breaker. This was proven to the trial committee by a number of witnesses. The trial committee, how- ever, was not there to gather evidence against one of Perlstein’s business agents. They were there to-give a phony legal status to the disfranchise- ment of Seff, a sentence that had al- ready been decided upon by the ad- ministration. It was a delicate situation. Every- body knew that Novack had been in business during the strike. It was not known generally .that he had taken work from a struck shop, but the evi- dence was conclusive. There was no getting away from the fact that No- vack had taken work from a shop that was on strike—even the committee had to admit it. However, there is no such thing as a delicate situation to Perlstein’s roughneck politicians. They simply had to cover up Novack’s stupid blun- der of being caught at scabbing. So they made the remarkable discovery that Novack was not in business at all, that he was merely the messen- ger boy for the man who was the ac. tual scab, and could not be held re- sponsible for it. Guilty of Telling Truth. Even Novak seemed to be thunder- struck at this discovery. Of course the mere fact that Novak admitted that he was in business, or that Schlesinger, then international presi- dent, sometime after the strike had denied Novak the right to run for chairman of the Joint Board on these very grounds, mattered little to the committee. Orders were orders. Seff had to be punished. Novak had to be white-washed. And with this lame- duck excuse, they found Seff guilty of “slandering an official” and distranch- ised him for two years. Seff appealed the case to the Joint Board,'and again we see the absolutely complete control that Perlstein has over the majority of the delegates. Perlstein did not waste any time in denying the charges against Novak. He told his controlled delegates that they must uphold the committee’s re- port. That if they did not do so, they would be convicting themselves for allowing Novak to become a business agent, and that they would be guilty of accusing the trial comimittee of bringing in a false report. After this confession of guilt, the Joint Board voted to uphold the ex-scab Novak and to disfranchise Seff for two years. The Joint Board was no means a unit on the question. A substantial minority voted against the committee's report. Can't Ask About Money. Sam Stein, a member of Local 18, is the next one slated to feel Perl. stein’s mailed fist. Sam, who is not a progressive nor in sympathy with those Who were expelled, is under PHILADELPHIA READERS, ATTENTION! Mass Meeting FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924, at 8 P. M. . MACHINIST TEMPLE Corner 13th and Spring Garden Streets BENJAMIN GITLOW of New York Candidate for Vice-President on the Workers Party Ticket Secretary, Philadelphia Farmer-Labor Party Delegate, Reading Farmer-Labor Party will give report of St. Paul Convention and the recent de- velopments in the political life of the country, Admission Free. Auspices, Philadelphia Farmer-Labor Party. charges. He has committed the ter- rible crime of. wanting to know what was done with the hundreds of thou- sands of dollars that has been spent since Perlstein came to Chicago, Sam is not accusing anybody of spending the money wrongly, but like many other members of the union, he wants to know how the union’s money was spent. This, of course, cannot be tolerated by Perlstein. He is running the union. He knows the money was spent. And such men as Sam must be taught to keep their place. All the members have got to do in the I. L. G. W. U. is to pay their dues and assessments and obey orders. The members have the privilege of paying, Perlstein the priv- ilege of spending. When Perlstein came to Chiéago, the Joint Board had in its treasury well over $100,000. The International union sent money in fo? organizing and strike purposes, out- side unions donated tens of thousands of dollars, dues and assessments have been collected, but no accounting has been made. No one knows except Perlstein and his intimate associates the real income and expenditure. Give Perlstein the Boot! It is now a crime in the I. L. G. W. U. to ask for a financial statement. In fact it is néw a crime in the I. L. G. W. U. if you advocate unionism, ex- cept it is the Perlstein brand of sur- render. The left-wing leaders have been expelled or disfranchised, but the T. U. E. L. has by no means given up the fight. The rank and file are go- ing to be treated to another reign of terror. The election. for business agents is drawing near, and Perlstein has proven by his past actions that nothing is too low, mean, or rotten for him to do in order to keep himself in power, The T. U. B. L. urges the members of the I. L. G. W. U. not only to de- mand an accounting of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that have passed thru Perlstein and his associ- ates’ hands, but they must not allow Perlstein to get away with the fake strike that he called merely to cover up his own inefficiency and delin- quency. Perlstein must go. The longer he is at the head of the union, the weaker it becomes. He prefers to havé ex-scabs as his subordinates rather than those who have fought to build the union. He can only remain an of- ficial as long as the membership al- lows him to. The membership must revolt against scab officialdom, turn them out of office, and put in their place revolutionary leaders. America Got Three Quarters of Mex Oil Flow in April (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 16.—Mexico’s oil production is not dying, asserts the Mexican News Bureau here, It pre- sents official statistics showing that 67 new wells were brought into pro- duction in May and June, and that the total exports of oil from Mexico th April, 1924, were 12,346,289 barrels, as compared with 12,074,416 barrels for the same month last year. The March, 1924, production was 13,067,- 695 barrels. Production tax collected in April, this year, however, was $387,000 less than for April of 1923. || Of the 451 cargoes of ofl leaving Mex- ican ports in April, 302 were American and 102 British. Brooklyn Bakers Strike. NEW YORK, July 16.— The court has already been asked to grant an injunction against the striking union bakers to restrain them especially from picketing a big scab bakery. (Continued from page one) the international investments in her loans, also in the reorganized Reichs- bank and in her railroads—all provid- ed for under the Dawes plan—may be made profitable. The French see dan- ger to themselves in this. They see Germany turned into a powerful com- petitor that will wipe out some French industries thru her superior efficiency in cheap: production, Lauding the Dawes plan, MacDon- ald, who is sitting as chairman, said to the assembled representatives of ten natio “The Dawes plan is businesslike and not political. I appeal to you to follow a similar course.” At the outset, Premier MacDonald made it clear the conference would not take up the question of inter-allied debts, but would confine itself to the Dawes report. Capitalist Reconstruction, report is not the final settlement of the reparations issue, \ i ' MacDONALD PLEADS FOR BANKERS YOUNG WORKERS LAUNCH FIGHT ON BISCUIT CO. Will Expose Conditions in National Company By BARNEY MASS Members of the Young Workers’ League were: on the job last night dis- tributing leaflets announcing the coming exposure in the Young Worker, of the National Biscuit Company, to the youthful wage-earners employed there. More than 1500 dodgers were given out and every worker received one, This campaign against the National Biscuit Company which is being started by the Chicago organization, will develope into a national campaign with the next number of the Young Worker. A few cops were at hand who endeavored to drive away the league members engaged in this work. They found however, it was of no avail, as the young militants refused to be in- timidated. The local: organization is preparing to make this the biggest job yet undertaken, and promises great results. Biscuits Make Educators Some of the directors of the National Biscuit Company are not only confined to financial enterprises in industry, but we see them sitting as trustees of the Co- lumbia University and the Union Theo- logical Seminary. The head of the Columbia University is none other than that blackest of black reaction- aries, Nicholas Murray Butler. Jack- son E. Reynolds, director of the Na- tional Biscuits and one of the trustees of the Butler institution contributes his share in turning out Goose-step- pers. Mr. Reynolds és able to become interested in the educational facilities of this Gountry, thru the profits wrung out of the labors of the sweated, stunt- ed, frail bodies in his employ. Then we find Francis L. Hine, direct- ing the religious destinies of the Amer- ican people thru his trusteeship of the Union Theoiogical Seminary. His re- ligion smacks of human suffering mingled with the wretehedness of the} girls and boys making biscuits. This mercenary believes religion should be confined to the rich, because in all the plants of the National Biscuits Com- pany, God is damned and production increased. Such hypocritical gestures; worshipping and killing. In the name of religion, the capitalist class is des- troying the youth. On To The Fight The Young Workers’ League with its demands on industry for the youth is preaching the only religion worth any- thing and in which way young people On to For Armour By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Brazil ToRAY the State Department at Washington is consider- ing sending warships to Brazil. Just as soon as the “pretext” is forthcoming the guns of U. S. battleships will begin to blaze. This time they will boom, under the camouflage of pro- tecting “life and property,” but in reality for J. Ogden Armour, the Chicago Hog Butcher, whose interests extend over the world, especially over the cattle raising countries of South America. Armour & Co. has one of its. huge cattle and hog butchering institutions at Santos, Brazil, near the seat of the present trouble. Armour & Co. is in Brazil to make money for “J. 0.” and his friends in LaSalle St., Chicago, and Wall St., New York. “The Flag” has followed Armour & Co., into Brazil, just as it followed the Sugar Trust into Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines; the Fruit Trust into Central America; the Oil Trust into Mexico; the Asphalt Trust into Venezuela, and the Wall Street financiers everywhere. If America’s workers do not wish soon to fight “For the Hogs of Armour!” they had better become alive to this new imperialist adventure in South America. The workers of Brazil must be given an opportunity to deal with their own capitalists. farmers raise their slogan in “HANDS OFF BRAZIL!” Let America’s workers and the face of this new crisis, Down with the bloody rule of American imperialism everywhere. (Continued from page 1.) came on the premises. Sherman Anti-Trust! The company alleged that it could not do the work on the big Straus building on Michigan Blvd. because of the union’s action, and on many other buildings, whose value totaled to millions of dollars. It claimed that the refusal of union men to work with its finks was a violation of the Sher- man anti-trust act and a conspiracy in restraint of trade. As incidental matters, they claimed that $10 worth of damage had been done to their equipment over a two-year period, and that unknown persons had intimidated the W. U. employes. Involuntary Servitude. Hope Thompson, attorney for the are becoming interested. The member-| nine unions involved, argued that the ship is growing, the message is being | injunction would destroy the constitu- gotten over to all the factories employ-|+igna) right of men to work when and ing children and victory is inevitable. |». wom they choose, and would re- Down with overtime; Down with plece|aico them to involuntary servitude, work and the speedup system, to hell with the capitalist class and the suf- fering which it brings onward in the struggle with YWL in its effort to raise the standard of a new society where the youth will get it all. WHEELER LIKELY AS LA FOLLETTE’S MATE; LABOR MEN SHUNNED (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, July 16.—Robert M. LaFollette, liberal republican, and Burton K. Wheeler, liberal demo- crat. This will be the independent ticket this fall, in the belief of lead- ers of the Conference for Progres. sive Political Action. ‘The Montana senator today repu- diated the democratic national tick- et, with Davis at its head, and pledged his support to LaFollette. | He did not, however, repudiate the democratic party. A LaFollette-Wheeler ticket is re- garded as an assurance to the vot- Ing public that a new party will not be formed and that labor will be kept in the background during the coming campaign. Labor issues are subordinated in the platform and labor candidates are kept off the ticket. but it is essential to clearing the way to a final settlement,” he said, “It provides the means for the reconstruc- tion of Germany as well as meeting the desires of the allied nations for payments of reparations by Germany, The English premier also referred to the presence of Ambassador Frank Kellogg, American representative to the conference, declaring the partici- pation of America “shows the cordial co-operation and good will of the American people.” Those Morgan Loans. America made it clear, in respond- ing to MacDonald, ‘that the United States was not in the conference in the same capacity ag the other na- prohibited under the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. He argued that if this injunction were allowed it would destroy every labor union in the United States, and take away the right of the workers, either collectively or individually, to quit a job‘if their quitting in any way hindered the progress of operations. Show Western Union as Liar. The union attorney filed an affidavit from Straus & Co.'s real estate man- ager, showing that the Western Union was not hindered from putting in its wires, except by its own obstinacy, His affidavit says that before con- struction work started on the Straus building it was decided that all work on the building should be done by union labor and that the Western Union was apprised of that fact. Ar- rangements were made whereby the Western Union would run its trunk lines up to the curb, and would allow their estimate of the cost of installeg tion on a contract for the completion of the job by union men. After fur. ther consultations the Western Union withdrew from that agreement, and denied making it. Must Work With Finks, Other buildings under construction ‘by union labor are also affected, and if the decision is upheld, it will pre- vent any man from accepting a job on a building without agreeing to work with finks. It is ridiculous, says the defense at- torney, to claim that stoppage of work on a building in Chicago interferes with interstate commerce. Under such a ruling all guarantees of the right to quit work will be jeopardized and the fourteenth amendment com- pletely voided, Judge Wilkinson's ruling classes the »|Yefusal of the union men to work with the finks as a violation of the Sher- man anti-trust law, and a consipracy in restraint of trade. He 8 the Western Union's business is to trans- Port messages, and any worker who refuses to lay bricks on a building be- cause the Western Union's non-union employes are working there is pre- venting the dispatch of messages from one state to another, “Crime” to Quit, Says Judge. The decision says that it is a crime tions, thus lending color to reports|to ayit a job if quitting hinders the that the American attitude would be|Operations of an interstate public one of a li ner only except when is-| Service corporation, and a orime even sues were raised that directly affected |to accept work on a job, if your quit- America, such as the guarantees for|titg will hinder such operations. the proposed $200,000,000 loan to Ger: many, of which America is ex “As to clause 1, of the prayer for pected }@ temporary injunction,” says the de- to furnish half, and the question of |cision, “it is said that it prevents em- American represntation on the repara-|ployes from ceasing to work, there] tions commission. : nb theron anion fore, imposing involuntary servitude WORST INJUNCTION IS ISSUED upon them. Judge Flouts Constitution, “The right to cease work is no more an absolute right than is any other right protected by the constitution. Broadly speaking, of course, one has the right to work for whom he will; to cease work when he wishes, and to be answerable to no one unless he has been guilty of a breach of con- tract. But the cessation of work may be an affirmative step in an unlaw- ful plan, One may not accept em- ployment intending thereby to quit work when ‘that act would enable him to perform one step in a criminal conspiracy. The real wrong is the acceptance of the employment with intent to make use of it for a crim- inal purpose.” Can't Call Strikes. The unions are énjoined from call- ing a strike or threatening to call a strike “for the purpose of inducing any person, firm or corporation to stop or prevent complainant (the Western Union working on his, their or.its premises). Individual members of the unions are forbidden the privi- lege of quitting when a fink is put to work next them, on Western Un- ion work. Send in that Subscription Today. PRO A ha ES, Bowel To Ete tile sate ANE eT Abe Rs Be ES TAO RS SCOT AER BNET A BAER OO NCES PES Rn RIS CE oO ES SENT dT eR EE oe ee ee Anti-War Special Thursday, July 17, 1924” GENERAL LAYING OFF OF WORKERS IN EMPIRE STATE Unemployment Rapidly Gaining in New York By The Federated Press. NEW YORK, July 16.—The increas- ing industrial slump in New York is shown to be state-wide by the latest report of the State Employment Ser- vice, Deparement of Labor, which states that “part-time employment in manufacturing plants is quite gener- al.” Ih New York City “there has been a gradual laying off of workers in the metal-working trades, foun- dries and machine shops, wood-work- ing plants, furniture and piano fac- Htories, and to a lesser degree in the ship-building and repairs, paper and printing, machinery and shoe indus- tries.” In Buffalo “operations in the steel industry are at low ebb, and employ- ment has reached the lowest mark of the year. Other industries adverse- ly affected are branches of tle metal trades, foundries, machine shops and fabricating planta.” In Rochester, “a labor surplus is evident in practical- ly all lines. ... Plants manufac- turing optical goods and shoe and clothing industries are running part time with reduced forces.” In Syra- cuse, “there is a surplus of labor and several manufacturing plants, are operating on a five-day per week basis. Forty-eight of the largest con- cerns usually employing 26,300 work- ers, are employing around 19,000.” In Schenectady, “reductions in employ- ment occurred during June in the lo- comotive plants now operating on part time with approximately two- thirds of théir normal working force engaged.” Send in that Subscription Today. Irish “‘Politicals”’ Get Amnesty Soon; Cosgrave Signs Bill (Special to the Dally Worker.) DUBLIN, July 16—The freedom of Eamonn DeValera, Austin Stack and other’Irish political prisoners was as- sured today when President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State signed a war- rant for the release of all such polit- ical prisoners. * The date of the effect of the general amnesty probably will be this week end or early next week, h Republican supporters of DeValera, however, have already complicated the situation by demanding that their leader be.freed in time to open the Tailtean games—an honor which they demand should go to him instead of to Cosgrave. DeValera has been in prison since last August. Stack was imprisoned in April, 1923. ¢ Send in that Subscription Today. TODAY we announce some of the contents of the ANTI- WAR SPECIAL EDITION July 26th, be dated Saturday, of the DAILY WORKER, to the eve of the Special Anti- War Week of Communists the world over, July 27—August 4. This list of contents will be added to before this Anti- War issue goes to press. 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