The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 2

‘3 * the office of the American Federation ABOFL. HEADS [[ ARE NEGOTIATING WITH LAFOLLETTE Too Busy for Anything But Politics By LAWRENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) | WASHINGTON, July 17:—Go into | of Labor or any of its affiliated bodies | in the national’cavital, these days, and | ask for labor news, and there is but one reply: “Politics is about all that | we have time for, just now. Every-| thing hangs on what labor gets from this election. Wages, hours, conditions, | injunctions, the right to strike — the whole thing depends on whether we get another four years of hostile admi- | nistration that will respond to the open-shoppers.”” Not in ten years has midsummer in Washington been so devoid of actual news of trade union activities, Never has the eagerness to take part in a presidential campaign been so pro- nounced, nor the coupling-up of union- ism with political action been so much a matter of course, ‘When the Central Labor Unfon met, the night of July 14, a large crowd was on hand because the local papers had stated that the La Follette for Pres- ident Club would, have a delegation present to ask immediate endorsement of the senator as a presidential candi- date. The club did not attempt to bring the matter up, because it knew the rules of the central body forbid the discussion of partisan politics in its meetings. But Edward McGrady, legislative agent for the A. F. of L., re- porting on the Republican and Demo- cratic conventions and platforms, de- clared that labor had been treated by these organizations with contempt, and that negotiations were now going on — presumably between the A. F. of 1. leaders and the La Follette mana- gers — which would soon lead to a ‘ public statement of the position of the Federation in the presidential contest. “When Mississippi first cast her 20 , votes for John W. Davis,” said Me- Grady, “I went to Pat Harrison and ‘told him that if they nominated Davis they would lose at least a million labor votes. I told Bryan the same thing, and he told me my statement was a great help in his fight against Davis. Now the Democrats have named this Davis, and I hope the working men and women of this country will do some thinking.” Lettish Bureau of Workers Party Will Function in Boston * The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has just appointed 3. Sweineeks, J. Kreitz, E. Puhpol, J. Eserneek, R. Zelms, John Sauleskaln and John Blumberg as the new Bureau of the Lettish Section of the Workers Party. Owing to the fact that the member- ship of the Lettish Section does not warrant holding a Convention of that Section, the Central Executive Com- mitee issued a call thru the Bureau of the Lettnsh Sction for nominations from all branches of the Lettish Sec- tion for members of the Bureau, with the undrestanding that the Central Ex- ecutive Committee would appoint the seven members of the Bureau from among those nominated by the branches. The seven names above have been selected by the Central Executive Com- mittee in accordance with thig plan. The headquarters of the Lettish Bu- reau will continue in Boston and the Lettish paper “Strahdneeks” will be published there by the new Bureau of the Lettish Section. Want Marx Out. (Continued from preceding page.) considerations are mingled in respon- sibility for the revolution. The Brit- ish bankers’ financial mission, which recommended to the Brazilian govern- ment that it turn over its railroads, ‘espetially the Central Dul Brazil, and merchant marine over to private inter. ests has been bitterly opposed by the Paulistas, who would be most severely hit by such a deal on the part of the government, The Sao Paulo nationalists are re- sentful of foreign influence and have | previously rebelled against the friend- liness of the Rio de Janeiro govern- ment for Britain and the United States. The Sao: Paulo coffee pro- ducers and merchants pay most of the government taxes and have long complained that the proper proportion of government expenditures was not made in their territory. With foreign- ers in control of railroads and ships, the Paulista capitalists see themselves further discriminated against. Want Separate State Brazil freed its negro slaves in 1887. ALLIED ENVOYS NEW CRISIS IN BRAZIL © In the northern part of the country Brazilians intermarried with the freed slaves. But the south did not. Asa result the south has retained its iden- tity as a white covfitry, while north Brasil is a mixed population, The southern Population is largely white with many Portuguese and Ital- ians. This class desires to form a sep- arate state. It has no desire to over- throw the Brazilian federal govern- ment. There is almost no personal animosity towards President Bernades of the Brazilian Republic. U. S. “To the Rescue” Tf the rebel capitalist forces succeed further in their plans, imperial United States will stalk into the scene with a big warship or two and begin to take things into the hands of American capitalists, with the aid of the soldiers and sailors and marines, The same thing that has happened in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo and the rest of the Latin-American countries, barring only a few, will happen in Brazil: American imperialism “bossing thd job.” . THE DAILY WORKER BOOKBINDERS CHEER HINTED AMALGAMATION Biennial Convention is Bored by Orators Amalgamation of the International Brothtrhood of Bookbinders with the printing trades was enthusiastically applauded at their eighteenth biennial convention at the Hotel Morrison, lift- ing the convention momentarily out of a state of boredom induced by an overdose of oratory. Resolutions were offered the conven- tion of the bookbinders lifting the censorship of the International officers in the pages of the union’s publica- tion—“The Bookbinder’s Journal”; re- ducing the salaries of the President and secretary-treasurer; providing for the sending of am organizer into the Cincinnati Ohio territory; recommend- ing that the financial statement be printed in the Journal; and for the FOSTER TELLS IN PEKING FEAR | WHAT HE SAW IN SOVIET POLICY; SOVIET RUSSIA United Front Against Russian Ambassador (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, July 17.—In a note dated July 12, the text of which has reached the state department, the Portuguese minister at Peking, as dean of the foreign diplomatic corps, has warned China and Russia that the Russian embassy, located in the for- eign quarter in that city, will not be surrendered to Russia except at the terms of this combination of foreign powers. It is just one more instance of the petty warfare which is being waged in the Far Hast against the ‘return of Russia to recognition’ among the pow- ers. Russia owns the embassy build- ing, but the diplomats of the United States, France, Japan, Holland and apparently Italy and Britain are insist- ing that the foreign legation quarter is under their own rule, ‘according to the terms of the surrender made by China in 1901 as a result of the Boxer uprising. The eight diplomats who sent this note to the Chipese goverhment seem to be claiming the right to hold the Russian ambassador, whén he arrives, to maintain the 1901 protocol under which foreign military forces are kept in Peking as a guard to the diplomats, Russian policy, under the soviets, has been one of recognizing the full suze- rainty and responsibility of all foreign governments. Russia does not want to continue the garrison of British, French, Italian, Dutch and other sol- diers in Peking. Hence the brass- band advertising of this note of pro- test by the other diplomats. Send In that Subscription Today. Ship Workers Killed BALBOA HEIGHTS, Panama, July 17.—Four laborers were dead today and several in a critical condition as a result of an explosion in the hold of the salvaged Pacific mail liner Colum- bia, where the men were working. Gas emanating from decomposed cof- fee in the hold was responsible for the explosion. One of the injured was Sheppard Shreves, diver-hero who rescued the American sailors imprisoned in the submafine O-5, which sunk off Cris- BERLIN, July 17.—A drive to oust Chancellor Marx has been started by the German nationalist newspapers. tobal last fall, His condition is serious. Sénd in that Subscription Today. Anti-War Special dada Special Anti-War Edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, July 26th, will contain, among the numerous other excellent contributions, the» opinions of International Communist authorities on Impefialism, War and Social Pay-triotism. What are you planning to do to help bring these power- ful views to the attention of the workers of the nation? Bundles of this issue should be distributed in every city and hamlet ofthe land. Bundles should be on hand for sale and distribution at all mass workers’ organizations. Send companying blank: DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. For the enclosed ..... staridards of Communism against RORRESS’ ersscsnnnnes Fight Wars. of Capitalism send mi special “Fight the Wars of Capitalism” edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, July 26, at the speotal rate of 3Y, cents per copy, or $3.50’ per hundred. | want to help raise the seesawecsuesenvessnsssuscssanecavesonesennsencngmensnnnobwananenseensee meetings and gatherings of in your order now on the ac- we Coples of the the wars of capitaliom. « Describes ths Misco of Workers Rule Over one thousand people heard William Z,. Foster, Workers Party cén- didate for president, deliver his lec- ture on “Russia in 1924,” at the Doug- las Park Auditorium Wednesday night. “The Russian Revolution is a success,” Foster told the audience which crowded the hall, “The val- iant Russian Communists have fought the thing thru to unmistakable vic- tory.” Foster's speech is being printed in full in the DAILY WORKER. » “One>of the demands of the Work- ers Party in the coming presidential election campaign wil be the forma- tion of a strong class Farmer-Labor Party in America,” Jack W. John- stone, chairman of the meeting and the only other speaker other than Fos- ter, declared. The Communists were hopeful that the workers and farm- ers would stand for such a party in the coming campaign. But with the Cleveland Conference for Progressive Political Action, many of the North- western farmers were swept awa) by the LaFollette illusion. “William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, the vice-presidential nominee, will be the standard bearers in the coming campaign which will prove to the workers and farmers that LaFol lette represents the independent manufacturers and small business men rather than them. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg, exe- cutive secretary of the Workers Party have left for their tour of the east, where they will speak before «the Workers Party membership on the new program of the Workers Party. They were to speak in Detroit Thurs- day night. The collection at the Fos- ter meeting ‘was $90.00. Flyer Still Missing. LONDON, July 17.—No trace has been found of A. Stuart MacLaren, British round the world flyer and his two companions who are missing somewhere along the dreary 450 mile stretch of .the Pacific ocean between Yetorofu Island and Paramashiru Is- land. British officials, however, do not be- lieve the royal air force expedition has met with disaster. Instead they believe MacLaren came down because of foggy weather and expect to get news from him soon from Broughton, Bay in Shimushiru Island where, an emergency supply bases had been es- tablished for just such a misfortune as has apparently overtaken the Brit- ish flyers, ° HINDUS DIE IN RIOT. LONDON, July 17.—Six natives are dead and more than 100 injured in various riots in.Dethi, India. The rioting continued for hours during which the famous Delhi Temple was almost wrecked, and scores of dwell- ings were torn down, Win One-half Percent; More Debts. WASHINGTON, July 17.—The Fed- eral Farm Loan Board today announc- ed it had reduced the rate on, its loans to co-operative marketing. asso- ciations from 5% to 5 per cent ef- fective immediately. These loans are made thru the inter- mediate credit banks which in the last year have loaned $58,000,000, to ap- proximately 200,000 farmers. MINNEAPOLIS, July 17—The Mo- dern Bookstore, inc, now doing business on the co-operative plan with authorized capital of $15,000. .Jt han- dies books, magazines, newspapers, in- cluding The Federated Press Bulletin, and maintains a circulating library. WASHINGTON, July 17.—Twenty- three thousand veterans of the world war are undergoing treatment in gov- ernment hospitals, Director Frank T. Hines of the veterans’ bureau an- nounced in making public the names of leading physicians selected to serve on the federal council of medical and establishment of an old age pension. Gompers’ Agent a Bore. George Perkins, President of the In- ternational Cigar Makers’ Union, who spoke for Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, so bored the delegates that half of them went out into the reception room while he was speaking. Most of the rest of them read newspapers. Perkins told the delegates he as well as Gompers had absolute confidence in the executive officers of the bookbind- ers. He pleaded with them to do what- ever their officers told them to and stave off disruption. “The necessity of organization is going to keep the trade unionists to- gether in spite of themselves,” he said. “The American Federation of Labor is the greatest labor organization in the world.” 4 Nonsense, Georgie. “Today we are in a crisis,” Perkins continued, while the delegates chatted and read. “The Employers are using race hatred and religious questions in an attempt to divide us. This method is employed in all progressive move- ments. It happened in the Democratic ‘convention in New York. In the same way the employers are attempting to divide the workers and industrial farmers.” Perkins then launched into a mixed- up dissertation on economics. “Pray and vote where you like,” he advised, ‘but-remember that the economic con- litions of the workers are most im- vortant. The American Federation of sabor has developed a political auto- iomy of its own.” “The cause of unémployment is un- jer consumption not over-produc- tion. There never a law of supply and demand. The cold storage plants aave nullified it. With our improved machinery we make more than we can consume on \the wageS we receive. Perkins said he spoke for Gompers when he declared that the American Federation of Labor will some day make the economic laws of this coun- try. Labor is Chief. “Remember,” Perkins finished, com- pleting the confusion of his speeth, “that the things necessary to indus- try are labor, management, engineer- ing skill, and capital, The trades unions must see that labor gets its fair share.” John J.»Manning, altho declaring that.the members should always be guided by the instructions of their of- ficers, and spouted to some length of tolerance and cooperation, struck ‘a popular note when he referred to amalgamation. “The international Bookbinders Brotherhood of Book- binders should not only work shoulder to shoulder with the other printing trades, but should affiliate with them. Why should there be a differentiation in trade disputes when the workers are fa in the same industry,” said Mann- ing. Kate Richards O'Hare made a plea for the Bookbinders to refuse to buy prison made goods. i Socialist, Touchy About LaFollette, Asks Cop for Help ‘One of the leading local speakers of the Socialist Party called a cop and had a member pf the crowd he was addressing at a street meeting on the corner of Division Street and Washtenaw Avenue léd away when he mildly tried to ask a question. Dr. R. H, Green was out campaign- ing for LafFollette. When the time came to answer questions Dr. Green declared he would answer the queries only if he thought them proper ques- tions. A man in the crowd asked if this was according to the Soctalist principles. Dr. Green immediately called a policeman from across the street, and asked the minion of the law to lead the questioner away. The DAILY WORKER reporter, when interviewing this man shortly afterward, found that his shirt had been torn to shreds by the rough handling of the policeman, He was also struck in the chest by a LaFol- lette sympathizer standing nearby. « Negroes Die In Fire KANSAS CITY, July 17:—The death toll in the fire ip a Negro apartment house was brought to seven early to- day when five bodies were removed by firemen and police searching in the ruins, Two firemen were among the feed, ead the tion to operating the Newspaper.” The Tribune readers will Brain May Rebel By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. readers if they wish this trial put on the radio. orst “open shop” sheet in Chicago, the Tribune also boa&ts Radio Station W-G-N, the’ initials” taken from its self-adopted encomium of "World’s Greatest Drugg ed TE ORAS the Chicago Tribune prepares a new mental drug for the workers. It is preparing to broadcast the degrad- ing proceedings of the Loeb-Leopold murder trial that starts August 4th in the Cook County (Chicago) Criminal Courts. The Tribune goes thru the fake procedure of asking its For in addi- surely vote to have the testi- mony in the killing of 14-year-old Robert Franks broad- casted. We do not doubt it. Every day these readers absorb the Tribune's poison into their minds. subjects for this new sensation of capitalism’s perverted journalism. .They will want more of the drug. * * * * It makes them fit __ ‘Thus the Tribune prostitutes one of the greatest scien- tific achievements of our times. The Tribune would stand aghast at any effort to broad- cast speeches urging the class organization of the workers and farmers, either politically The Tribune would oppose the broade: or industrially. sting of any real information as to the present industrial crisis that is coming upon the nation, growing blacker day by day. The Tribune, as has already happened, would object to the broadcasting of any plea for the class war prisoners, It would oppose any demand for their release. No word went over its radio about the historic gather- ing of the Fifth World Congress of the Communist Inter- national. It says nothing about the increasing cost of living as the nation’s jobless army grows in numbers and meager wages fall. No word is spoken about the real causes of the war that reddened the world ten years wars that threaten. ago; about the new capitalist None of these things, and a thousand more, that directly concern the welfare of the workers and affect civilization’s progress, are given the least attention. They are attacked instead as Bolshevist propaganda. * * * * But the Loeb-Leopold murder trial is to be broadcasted. The story of the lives of three degenerate millionaires’ sons, and the murder of one to be told in detail. of them by the other two, is Radio fans are expected to gorge themselves tothe limit over the salacious feast, tickling a satiated brain with every new. sensation, feeding a drugged mind always hungering for more. But perhaps The Tribune has gone a little too far. Per- haps there will be millions who will listen, and wonder why it is that these crimes of degeneracy take place as they do, almost exclusively amon the idle rich. Many will discover, for the first time, how these crimes, in large ‘system of wealth and want. art, grow naturally out of the present capitalist And their anger and hate will be turned against the social system and those who. uphold it. , When a kept organ of the parasite few flaunts the crimes of its class before the eyes of the plundered many, the resulting revulsion, among the workers, may well lead in the direction of revolution, UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG BOOKBINDERS (Continued from page 1.) on the Clayton Act but found when the courts finished construing the lan- guage, that they had probably some- what extended the jurisdiction of the courts rather than limited the jurisdic- tion. President Reddick boasted in his report that “All of the problems which have confronted all of the International Unions during the un- usual industrial period just passed have been handled with common sense and good judgement.” Then he adds: “A general effort was made to avoid creating friction between the various employers and the varidus unions and in many instances the pleasant rela- tions which had existed prior to the recent struggle have been resumed.” Reddick reveals himself as another ex- ponent of the American Federation of Labor plan of class collaboration. Altho speaking of the industrial crisis in the past tense, Reddick ad- mitted to the delegates that he could not ignore the unemployment problem. Unemployment Problem “The employment section of our work has been least busy of any of our departments,” said the president, “‘be- cause the general depression in our trade has made it impossible to place all the men and women who have been ont of employment as a result of the economic condition of the country.” “The question of unemployment is closely related to the conditions which exist which make it possible for Amer- fean religious organizations and pub- lishers of religious books to have their printing and binding done in England, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia and in any other Huropean country where the rate of exchange has sunk so low as to make it a paying proposition, In the meantime our American workmen are not benefiting in t! htest de- gree by this action on the part of those who are hurrying their orders to European countries. “As an illustration we desire to call the attention of the delegates to th occurrences that have,happened in the past in the lthograph industry in New formerly were steadily employed are for labor alone. ’ International Competition “The same ‘holds true of the book. York City. Today, many of those who unable to seeure work due to the fact that the product of their labor is be- ing imported inte New York City for about one-fifth of what it would cost binders and bindery women of our show that the average income of the workmen of Budapest, where a Hun- garian coneern is filling large orders from the States, is 35 cents a day, so we can readily understand the handi- cap our members have had to bear by the importation of the products of the cheaply paid European and Asiatic workers, Ten years ago there was con- siderable legs importations of bound books and bindings than there is at the present time,’ This, we believe, is due to the avarice of some so-calléd Amer- icans and also to the abnormally low value of” European monies. “Efforts have been made from time to time by your international officers to have some action taken by Secre- tary of Labor Davis so that this de- plorable condition might be rectified and we will continue our endeavors to have American printing and binding done in America by American work- men so that much of the unemploy- ent prevalent in the country today in all lines of endeavors will be erad- icated and eliminated.” Effort for Amalgamation Reddick was forced to admit a series of dismal failures stretching over a period of a decade up until the present time, when he reported on the efforts at securing amalgamation with the other printing trades. “‘Altho the need for an offensive and defensive al- liance was recognized, practically ni headway was made in evolving a plan for joint action that would be qccept- able to all parties concerned. Person- ally the writer has been and is now, greatly interested in this all-important question, but realizes full well what it is possible and what it is impossible to_do.” ij Poor Excuses While the printing trades and the bookbinders are admittedly facing a serious industrial and unemployment crisis, and while the organization of the unorganized into the unions is necessary, bookbinders and the other printing tfades unions dicker with each other and find excuses for re- maining apart.- "The stumbling block thus far has been the failure to agree upon the matters of financing the fed- eration,” says the bookbinders’ presi- dent. ! Bomb Planes Work. MADRID, July 17.—Spanish» air forces Riff tribesmen in Morrocco destroyed a rebel supply baseat Beni- chalda, exploding tons of ammunition Friday, July 18, 1924 WORKERS MAKE COOKIES; BOSS TAKES PROFITS \ Young Workers Expose ° * : National Biscuit Co. i The Young Workers League cam- paign against the National Biscuit Company has aroused a good deal of interest among the young people working in the well-known “Nabis- co” and “Uneeda” factory, The boys and girls are eagerly awaiting the appearance of the Young Worker, the paper which will expose the financial control of their company and the hy- pocritical position of the “Christ- ian” bosses as well as showing up how the wealthy capitalists make their money by exploiting their slaves for low wages and long hours with serious hazards to health. The following article is taken from the Young Worker and gives. some interesting and too-little known facts: se 8 By BARNEY MASS, The National Biscuit Co. robs and exploits on a national scale. It is able to monopolize the. market of biscuits, thru its forty-one plants and two hun- dred selling agencies. Incorporated in 1898, in New Jersey, the company ac- quired by purchase the New York Bis- cuit Co,, Hamilton Co., United States Baking Co., American ~ Biscuit and Manufacturing Co., National Cracker ‘Co., the Decatur Cracker Co. and sey- eral small companies controlled by these constituent companies. Many new plants are being erected and the business expanding considerably. With this huge machinery it contin- ues to pile up more and more profits and simultaneously crushing the lives of thousands of young girls and boys, who toil by hot ovens making bis- cuits to earn a living. It is not a liv- ing, but a scant existence, Millions In Profits. On and on this monster of modern production goes, increasing its earn- ings and killing in its wake. We find the total earnings in the year of 1917 to be $4,672,348 with net earnings on peeereyn stock amounting to 18% per cent, Within five years this gigantic com- pany multiplied to an unheard of ex- tent. In 1922 its total earnings ‘g- ured $11,024,980 and 45 per cent earn- ings on its preferred stock. In five years’ time it practically tripled its earnings. Interlocking Directorates. The interlocking directorates of this company is typical of all youth crush- ing machines, Sitting on this board of executioneers, are men like Francis L. Hine, also president of the First National Bank of New York, not to mention some sixteen other powerful financial organizations. After exam- ining the directors and executives of the National Biscuit Co., we find that it comes under the indirect control of the banking interests and tracing the tentacles of the octupus, none other than Rockefeller and other conspicu- ous financiers are to be discovered as the body and brains of it. ' Head of Other Slave Plants. Francis L. Hine, EB. 8, Moore and Paul Moore, directors of the National Biscuit Co:, are also directors of Rockefeller’s American Can Co. Only too well do the workers remember the national strike called in 1921 by the International Association of Machin- ists against the notorious American Can Co, known for its bitterness against its workers and ruthlessly crushed that strike. Even in labor shortages, there is always a demand for help by the American Can Co, and its subsidiaries. The plants thru-out the country are simaar and the me- thods of production the same. It em- ployes predominately young people and like the National Biscuit Com- pany, accumulates ws wealth thru youth * labor, Cutting, shellacing, shaping and performing many other operations on the can, is not a job to be scoffed at, especially do the em- Ployes of the Can Co. feel this way about it. Why Child Labor Continues, It can readily be understood, why Taft ruled the child labor law uncon- stitutional, after seeing such preda- tory interests hiring the youth ‘for its selfish gains. As long as industry un- der capitalism, will reap profits from the labor of children, so long will we witness the sorrowful spectacle of see- ing the child of the worker in a help- less state, whose future holds in store only matured slavery and in most cas- es finds them become enemies to so- ciety because the children of Mr. Rockefeller, Morgan and other pluto~ crats had to enter Yale, Harvard and | other exclusive ‘colleges to be worthy of the name they carry. It is the working youth that toil, making pos: sible for the dainty children (lounge lizards) of the rich to have a life ful) of luxury and a heaven on earth, ané the slaves get the other extreme. The crac! ey make, are in many cas es the only breakfast the girls an¢ boys who work in the National Bis cuit Company, eat. . The luxuries of life bre. rved for their bosses and their children, Discovers New Drug BERLIN, July 17.—A new discover: in the field of medicine has been mad by Professor Willstaetter, until re cently of the University of Munich and now professor of chemistry a Heidelberg. He has discovered a nev drug, which will be known under th name Psikane, It is a narcotic lik cocaine, but is superior in quality an is free from the latter's injuriou effects. : Professor Willstaetter resigned fron University of Munich as a protes against the anti-Semitism prevailing there, Send in that Subscription cl isi a