The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 1

é ‘ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 103. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924 by mail, $6.00 per year, Publishe GiB “4 GREEK. dd Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER , PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IlL Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents BANKERS WHIP FRENCH IN LINE Nation’s Jobléss Army Is Growing Rapidly UNEMLOYMENT ‘WAVE SWEEPING OVERU. 5. LABOR Industrial Crisis Means Misery to Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. ... The latest survey of the un- employment situation made by the United States ‘department of labor, indicates a widespread increase’ in the number of men and women out of work. The incréase in the number of unemployed is not limited to any particular section of the country. The tendency towards discharging workers and cur- tailing production is evident in nearly every industrial center. ~ Going over the situation state by state, one may sum it up as follows: In New England States MAINE: Practically all the cotton and shoe plants are working on part time schedules, The discharged work- ers-are unable to find employment in other lines. NEW HAMPSHIRE: The textile mills and the shoe factories_are work- ing on part time schedules. The dis- missed labor forces are unable to find work in other industries. VERMONT: Most of the plants are operating on part time schedules. There is a growing surplus of work- ers in the textile, wood working and granite industries. Machine tool in- dustries are also working on a part iime basis, af Pas ene MASSACHUSETTS: Many. textile “mills and shoe factories are closed. A large number of this group of plants is running on a part time basis. The surplus of workers at hand is increas- ing ‘and is unable to secure employ- ment elsewhere. In the Boston industrial district, nearly all plants’ are running on part time schedules and with reduced forces. RHODE ISLAND: Many of the Plants are operating on part time| Price of Presidents schedules. There is a large surplus of workers in the jewelry, machinery, and textile trades. CONNECTICUT: The last. month saw a decrease in employment in this state. Textile mills and machfme plants are working on part time schedules. The velvet and thread industries are (Continued on page 3.) MOSCOW, July 17:—The Russian Orthodox Church conference has’ de- cided to use the Russian instead of the Slavonic (ancient Russian) lan- guage in Church prayers. ALL COMMUNIST MEMBERS OF THE GERMAN ‘REICHSTAG HAVE SERVED TERMS AS POLITICAL PRISONERS By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, Germany, July 17.—If the Communist delegation of 60 in the new German reichstag the metal workers head the list with 12 members. The office employes have 7, the miners 5, carpenters 5, masons 3, railway workers 2, transport workers 2, and makers, house painters, masseurs, and cooks 1 each. All of the delegation are ex-political prisoners. Only two members had the luxury of a higher education. Fischer, graduate of the university of¢ Vienna, the other a lawyer The rest of the delegation consists of party editors and officials. - Bight percent of the Communist de- legation belong to. the General Federa- tion of Trade Unions. Ten per cent are former members of this body who were expelled for boring from within. Several belong to the syndicalist Union of Hand and Brain Workers which draws its main support in the Rhine- land and Ruhr. All members have at some time or other been in jail for political offenses. the printers, tobacco workers, shoe One is Ruth One is reminded of Art Young’s car- toon during the war, in which he shows a stranger seeking admission to a working class meeting, but who is detained by the doorkeeper with the request: Show me your indictment, It seems to be an unwritten law with the German Communists that none but jail- birds need apply for-parliamentary honors. * The leader of the Communist frac- tion, Thalmann, has been in the or- ganized labor movement for 17 years. GAL.PARDONS STRIKER -AFTER HIS ‘CONFESSION’ “AGAINST HIS FELLOWS (By Federated Pr ) WASHINGTON, July 17.— Mau- rice J. Sullivan and Robert W. Sis-. son, who had been sentenced to terms of three to five years in At- lanta penitentiary on charges of having beaten up two strikeoreak- ers here during the railroad shop- men’s strike, have been pardoned by President Coolidge. They have been out on appeal. The strikebreakers recovered. E. C. Davison, general secretary of the Machinists, who has sought the release of all seven of the strik- ers, declares that he does not be- lieve any of them guilty. He thinks the so-called confession was a de- vice to avert a heavier sentence which Sullivan was told” would be ‘given him unless he “came thru.” Must be Getting High; No Sinclair Dividend The Sinclair Consolidated Oil cor- poration.is omitting its regular quar- terly dividend of 50 cents on, common stock, directors announced yesterday. Profits of $9,000,000 were ngfted dur- ing the first half of 1924 and small stockholders are sceptical of the com- pany’s excuse that it 1s necessary to conserve cash during the present un- certainty in the industry. UNEMPLOYMENT WORKING HAVOC IN PRINTING TRADES, PRESIDENT OF BOOKBINDERS The industrial crisis has created a s¢ TELLS CONVENTION a serious unemployment situation in the bookbinding and printing trades, Walter N. Reddick told the Eighteenth Bi-ennial Convention of the International Bookbinders’ Union, which is meeting at the Hotel Morrison. The unemployment problem has been eating into the morale of ‘the ynion, and nothing has been done about it except a futile protest to Secre- tary of Labor Davis. Davis, altho he has taken no action on the requests of the union, was ievertheless extended a cordial invitation to address the convention, In greeting the convention at its opening, Mayor Dever -went to some pains to show that at some tin in the dim, distant past, before trades untons knew what a union card was, he was a working man. Dever spent the rest of his speech excusing his mistakes’ in cogducting the schools of Chicago. “If*things that are occurring just at the moment are disturbing,” said the mayor, “it’s not my fault.” Olander Praises Mayor Victor Olander, who followed Mayor Dever, praised the mayor. He, said the mayor had never failed to do what he could when asked, in relation to the chools, Evidently remembering what the mayor was asked 0 stop whole: arrests and police rutality in the garment strike, Olan- ler was even more guarded in his raise when he touched on the subject ft injunctions. “We tried a number of remedies,’ said Olander, “but they all failed. We thought we had made some progress (Con ae on Page 2.) ) TWO GARMENT WORKERS STABBED BY GUNMEN OF UNION OFFICIALS (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, July 17.—Two tail. ors of the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union were stabbed by gunmen of the union officials when the men criticized the agree- ment which the officials\are trying to force the workers to accept. The agreement is the result of the ference committee. appointed by Governor Al Smith. Meyer London, Socialist ex-con- gressman, spoke to the garment workers’ meeting in an effort to in- duce the workers to submit to their officials’ boot-licking policy. The yellow renegade wag “booed” from the hall by the workers, ’ HEATERS’ STRIKE TIES UP SHOP OF STEEL GAR WORKS Police Fire at Hegewisch Workers . (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HEGEWISCH, Il, July Te The Western Steel Car and Foundry Com-} pany. began using force against the striking workers yesterday, The| workers. in front of the gate at in the morning to hear whether the bosses had met their de- mands for higher wages. A bunch of | “plug-uglies” arrived suddenly and be-| gan shooting at the peaceful workers. Many shots were fired until the workers were all scattered, but for- tunatély no one was wounded, so far as could be determined. Several/ heater men had bullet holes thru their pants or coats, however. Heaters Stop All Work The riveters, buckers and fitters of the car-building plant were afraid to join the strike of the heaters, altho) they too are poorly paid and speeded | up. The other workers, however, can- | not do their work while the heaters | are out, so that all the workers are | out now. The bosses have been using | all possible means to compel the-heat- ers to return to their jobs, but so far have been unsuccessful. Spontaneous strikes among the car | foundry workers are sporadic and rather frequent because of the repeat- ed wage reductions. Most of the men work on a contract basis, which re- quires a new signature each time an- other small job is started. The work has been terrifically speeded up, just as it has at the Pullman car works. All Shop Workers, Unite! The workers are unorganized, as the least hint of unionism is squashed by the company officials. The American Federation of Labor organization, the International Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, has made almost no effort to unite the workers into fighting union organizations. The workers inthe shops them- selves will have to take the lead and join hands together against the bosses. While the riveters, buckers and fitters stay on the job, even tho not working, the heaters cannot strike | ‘effectively. The whole bunch of work- ers must go out at once and then the boss will take notice and they will all profit. Part of U. S. Steel.’ The strike is affecting production thruout the plant. Two thousand men are still at work in the other: depart- ments but the 500 riveters, heaters, reamers and buckers are in a strate- gic department on which the plant as a whole depends. The Men Are Unorganized. The Western Steel Foundry Com- pany has its headquartgrs at McKees Rocks, Pa. It js a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. You're In The Army Now SAN ANTONIO, Tex» July 17:— Private William cbt en army pugilist of Ft. Sam Hous! ‘was sentenced to 10 years’ hard! jabor' y @ general court martial here for striking his first lieu- tenant in the face. Lieut, Clark H. Mitchell was the complainant, |have not been sufficiently explained. {there should be less talk of unmask- |America is not only the center of |world capital, but it is now becoming | the center of world reaction. ; American RED CONGRESS ARGUES UNITED. FRONT ISSUES England and America Under Discussion In this dispatch from our Mos- | cow correspondent, delegates to the Communist International Con- gress are discussing the United | Front. There is general agree- ment for the United Front in in- dustry but sharp discussion re- garding the United Front polit- ically. es (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, June 24 (By Mail) —Delegates from the entire length of the far flung Com- munist line that runs from the East Indies to the western con tinent took part in the June 23rd and 24th discussions on the United Front. Frank exchange of views or international policy took place in the sifting out of strategy for the world-wide struggle. This was illustrated when Brown, the British representative, re- plied to Ruth Fischer’s demand that the British Communists oppose the Labor Party. Semau (Jaya) says that the Com- munist Party of Holland did not suf- ficiently sup the revolutionary movement in | In Java, the dele- gate said, the nt is growing stronger as the result of the Russian revolution, but not with the co-opera- tion of the Dutch Party. Kreibich (Czechoslovakia) says the chief facts about the German retreat Varga’s economic theses are filled with the ideas of now one side and now the other, and are vaguely pessimistic. |On the question of United Front policy iff%. Workers’ government is possible within the framework of bourgeois democracy on account of the disinte- gration of this democracy, At the |Fourth Congress Zinoviey spoke of the possibility of a coalition of work- ers’ parties; at present 2Ztnoviev .op- poses such a coalition. Here is 2 con- tradiction that must be explained, Wolfe (Mexico) goes on to say that In South countries uprisings are going on, financed by the big capitalists of the United States. The labor move- ment is finding itself in the hands of petty bourgeois leaders.and of Gom- pers. In the labor unions in South AmerNa there is a tremendoug senti- ment in favor of the Communists. The Amsterdam International is without any\ influence at all. Against Political Coalition Bordiga (Italy) proceeded to say that the capitalist offense continues during the era of democratic pacifism. {Continued on page~2.) METHODISTS TWIST TAIL OF TAMMANY TIGER AND DEFEND KU KLUX KLAN WASHINGTON, July 17.—Bitter- ness toward Al Smith and his Tam- many gang in the gallery of the democratic convention in New York is voiced by the weekly press clip- Sheet of the Methodist Episcopal church board of temperance, pro- hibition and public morals, issued here, it thanks God for the hero- ism of McAdoo and declares that the Ku Klux Klan at least did not demand that the Catholic Church or the Knights of Columbus be de- nounced in the platform, Then this mouthpiece of the Methodist temperance board pre- dicts that “Millions ypon millions of them (the democrats who stood by McAdoo) are aring to an-« swer the iughnecks of Tam- Mask in (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 17.— American capital is rapidly dropping its mask of unofficial observation at the Lon- don‘ Reparations Conference and in | European affairs. Owen D. Young, who wrote the League of Nations section of the Versailles Treaty, and who was a member of the International Com- ittee of Experts that prepared the so-called Dawes scheme for the salvation of European capitalism is ready to become “agent general for reparations payments.” Mr. Young is a banker of. inter- national renown and is one of the leading figures in the General Elec- tric Company which is controlled by the Morgan interests and which has heavy investments in the prin- cipal European countries, The office which’ Mr. Young is ready to accept will make*him the spokesman of American finance and industry in the capacity of a fiscal agent, a money agent for the exe- cution of the Dawes report. Mr. Young will be functioning as the receiver of Germany in behalf of international capitalism which is to- day bossed by the American group of financiers and manufacturers. In addition to being chairman of the transfer committee, that is the committee thru whose hands all the money will go in the dealings between Germany and the Allied imperialists, Mr. Owen D. Young is also slated to be appointed the arbiter.on..all. questions. of aud before the general reparations com- mission. This position will give American capitalists some of the guarantees they have been seeking before sinking their hundreds of millions of dollars into a German loan op which the life of the whole reparations scheme depends. Premier McDonald has laid down in his keynote speech the guarantee of safety for the investors in the huge German loan as the primary objective of the London, Conference. Ambassador Kellogg acting as an unofficial observer for the United States at this Conference, is parti- cipating more openly in the delib- erations than any unofficial Ameri- can observer has at the Hague and Genoa conferences. The-current be- lief is that Mr. Kellogg who is high in the councils of the Washington administration and. who is a recent U. S. Dollar Drops London appointee to the Court of St. James, reflects the official opinion of the Coolidge regime. Mr. Kellogg’s be- ing all for the appointment of Young to the above-mentioned of- fice is taken as the opinion of the United States government on the question. Making Mr. Young's appointnient legal, giving it an official status in the United States would be of tre- mendous help in lending per- manency to the plans of the Allied bankers who are the powers behind the scene in all the deliberations of McDonald and Herriot. Towards this end it is not likely that time will be lost in waiting for official senate sanction of this appointment. There are plans afoot here to se- cure official American authorization for Mr. Young by an executive pro- tocol declaring him the representa- tive of the American, English, Swiss and other interests loaning money to Germany under the Dawes plan which h@s already been indorsed by Coolidge in a sfeech he recently de- livered at New York. Were it not for the fact that the United States is facing a national election and that consequently such action might have a harmful effect on the results of the reactionary re- publican cantpaign this quick and decisive method of making America an official:member on the repara- tions commission would be imme- diately resorted te. @ ~ Whether such a step wil be taken immediately or not the fact remains that American capitalists will very soon be represented, at least unoffi- cially, on this receivership commit- tee for Germany. J. P,\Morgan & Co., the banking group is counted upon to float the huge loan of $200,- 000,000 in the United States is in- sisting upon such representation. There is no doubt about his having his way. Thomas W. Lamont who, next to Morgan, is the outstanding figure of the American firm of finan- ciers is bringing pressure to bear on the French financial group to accept the Dawes plan without reservation. Mr. Lamont has been closeted in for hours with Monsieur Clementel, the French Minister of Finance, at the Hyde Park Hotel in order to im- press him with the full meaning of America’s readiness to assume offi- cial responsibilities in the repara- tions controversy. BRAZILIAN SHELLIN G OF U.S. EMBASSY MAY HASTEN WARSHIP (Special to the DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.—The United States is wait- ing for further cable advices to send warships into Brazilian waters if the situation at Santos and Sao Paulo does not assure immediately the “protection of American interests,” notably the Armour packing plant, there. The American consul’s appeal for a warship may be acte + fom within a few hours. Artillery shells have fallen within a half block of the Amer- ican consulate at Sao Paulo in the fighting between federal and rebel forces. Although the shells exploded within 4 stone's throw of the building itywas not struck, The bombardment caused great alarm among consulate attaches, Federals Gaining The city of Sao Paulo, meanwhile, was completely surrounded by an army of 15,000 troops. They were| concentrated on the city's outskirts from all parts of the republic in an effort to drive the rebel forces from their @mrenched’ positions. The Hotel D'Oeste, a short distance from the consulate, was struck by shells and six persons killed. The industrial suburb, Braz, was also bom- many. And now, with white-lipped determination they intend to to It that Tammany shali never again have the slightest influence at the nation’s ital." barded. Scores of buildings were demolished. Many persons were wounded. Re! Oppose U. S., British Racial contentions and economic Montinued on page a) TO PAULISTAS’ COFFEE PORT EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES TURKESTAN GAPITOL; KILLS THREE PEOPLE (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, July 17. — Violent earthquake shocks demolished many houses and killed three persons in Tashkent, the capitol of Russian Turkestan, according to dispatches today from Mos- cow. The shocks also visited Pergana district but the damage there was slight. De Valera Released; Other “Politicals” Coming Out Tonight (Special to The Dally Worker) DUBLIN, July 17:+-Eamon De Va- jlera, Irish Republican leader who was jreleased from prison yesterday by the |Free State Government, after he had spent a year in jail, conferred with republican leaders here today. De Va- lera looked cheerful and well, despite his confinement. He plans to make his first public appearance+in two weeks addressing a meeting at Claire. Liam Deasy, former republican quartermaster general,, who remains confined in jail, probably will be re- leased at once. He at one time was inca sentence of death. The govern- ment probably will release all other prisoners tonight, FRANCE. BACKS MORGAN LOAN TO GERMANY Lamont’s ~~ Conference Gets Quick Results . i LY WORK “TON! D ON, J uly 1 7.—The Tors conference which Thomas W. Lamont of the House of Morgan held yesterday with M. Clemen- tel, French minister of finance, in behalf of the Dawes plan, bore some fruit today, The French members of the committee of the inter-allied conference dealing with the authority of the reparations commission issued a statement supporting the $200,000,000 loan to Germany which is pro- posed under the Dawes plan. This is the strongest indication French members have yet given that they may line up with the interna- tional bankers’ scheme. Much remains to be done; thero is still strong pos- sibility that the Dawes plan will split on the rock of the reparations com- mission. The French have always tak- en the position that financial ar- rangements with Germany shall be handled thru this reparations commis- © sion which they control. The Eng- lish government and the internation- al bankers are urging a special com- mission in which America shall be represented thru such*men as Owen D, Young. Ultimatum From Morgan. Lamont is believed to have laid down the ultimatum from the House of Morgan that financial favors to the French government depend on its ac- quiescence in the Dawes plan. Recently the House of Morgan saved the French franc with a sub- stantial loan. Similar support will be needed again. The New York banker who conduct- ed the parley with Clementel has had rich experience as a financial-politi- cal envoy. During the long negotia- tions at Versailles in 1919 President Wilson leaned on Lamont and is un- derstood to have followed his advice closely. Lamont’s international moves are always made in accord with the needs of the great banking house with which he is associated and goverm ments dealing with him know that they are dealing with the responsible spokesman for the most powerful in- ternational money group in the world. Bankers and British Agree, Bankers and the British govern ment are anxious to see the repara- tions and loan problems handled thru @ group in which America is repre- sented. They feel this to be so im- portant that the loan to Germany and the whole Dawes plan may fall thru unless their wishes are followed. The present reparations commission, con- trolled as it is by France, is unsat- jisfactory and leads to a condition of financial uncertainty in Germany that endangers foreign investors. The ruling groups of no other coun- try have lined up behind the Dawes plan more thoroly than in Gteat Brit- tain. Not only is Premier MacDonald, nominally a Laborite, behind the bankers program wholeheartedly, but Stanley Baldwin, for the conserva- tives and Herbert Asquith, for the Liberals, have endorsed it. France offers the only serious obstacle and the feeling now is that~her opposition is waning before the Morgan press- ure, News Agencies Ousted. BUENOS AIRES, July 17.— The United Press Associations and the Associated Press have been expelled from Brazil. The government charged the two concerns with “distributing fajse news concerning the revolution- ary movements” and ordered them to close all their Brazilian offices. No End of Fighting. LONDON, July 17.— Fighting has broken out again between Albanian brigands and Jugo Slav soldiers, ac- cording to dispatches today from Bel- grade. The dispatches said 120 bri- gands and 14 soldiers had been killed and scores wounded, Wr Be