The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 5

Friday, July 18, 1924 f WORKS’ COUNCILS|4 UNDER DEBATE BY BELGIAN UNIONS Don’t Go Far Enough, Says Large Faction (Special to The DAILY WORKER) BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 17.—The convention of Belgian metal workers, in-which 100 delegates representing 113,000 organized metal workers took part, showed considerable confusion as to what constitutes effective workers’ control of industry under capitalism. One faction of the convention held that works’ councils are a form of workers’ control. Another faction was of the opinion that all that the workers’ councils can do is to give the workers’ delegates a voice to determine certain questions directly affecting the wel- fare of the workers on the job, such as hiring and firing, safety devices, etc. But as far as having even a measure of control of the industry, this faction held, the works’ councils mean nothing. Another question was whether de- mand for a voice in management shall come by law or by trade union pres- sure. The convention, not being able to agree, adopted a resolution praising both methods. Send in that Subscription Today, Dicks Attend Meet of Ukrainians Who Protest Polish Rule YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 17.— A mass meeting held under the aus- pices of the Ukrainian branch of the Workers Party was visited by city detectives and after confiscating a few pieces of literature and question- ing the speaker as to his citizenshi the police departed without makin; any arrests. ‘ The meeting was a protest meet- ing against Polish imperialism in oc- cupied Ukrainian territory and a crowd of Polish and Ukrainian imperi- alist supporters gathered around the hall attempting to break up the meet- fng by creating disturbances outside ithe hall. Unable to disrupt the meet- ing by acting as hoodlums the imperi- lists called upon the police, Local supporters of the imperialists in Poland and the ‘various other Eu- ‘opean buffer nations set up by the “League of Nations to stem the tide f the oncoming march of the victori- us proletariat are very busy acting S police informers being inspired by ‘epresentatives of the “corde sani- aire” in the United States. | F | Send in that Subscription Today. MERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT WILL FOLLOW SCIENTIFIC EXPLOITATION OF GERMANY THRU DAWES PLAN By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Operation of Germany by international capitalists as a giant, workshop geared for scientific mags exploitation of labor is the objective of the Dawes plan. The discussion of the plan in Lon- don now occupies the center of the world stage. The competition of this great workshop operated on lowered standards of living cree eincenrnneepnerinpeneenineiionrimmestpaitinsimeeninadse, among the German workers is seen by nearly all experts as bound to react upon the work- ers in the United States and every other industrial country. doption-of the Dawes plan will sur- render the economic sovereignty of Germany for an indefinite period into the hands of a mixed board of direc- tors including 7 Germans and 7 for- eigners. ‘ American Capital Dominates U. 8. capital is in a dominant posi- tion, This board will have power to distribute to American and other in- vestors 16,000,000,000 gold marks (1 mark, 24c) of mortgage bonds gn rail- road and industrial properties in Ger- many. It will have a potential veto over the policies of the new German state bank, including issuance of currency and credit. Eventual participation of American capital on a large scale in the ownership of German induétry is seen as one of the ultimate results. This is considered a bridge to the fu- ture exploitation of Russian resources. How U. S. Labor Gets Walloped. The blow to labor invotved in this plan lies in the fact that payment of reparations and of interest on the bil- lions in ra{lroad and industrial bonds must involve an ultimate disposal of large stocks of German produced goods in outside markets. The amount that will in the Jong run be either col- Nected or transferred to the allies, says H, E. Moulton of the Iifstitute of Economics in The Magazine of Wall Street, will depend upon the amount of the export surplus that can be developed. Development of this export surplus will not be difficult, according to B. M. Anderson, Chase National Bank eco- nomist, because the low buying power of the German people consequent upon the reparations tribute will meag “that the prices of goods in Germany will go below the world level of prices, inviting foreign buying of German goods.” Herbert Feis, of the League of Na- tions international labor office says, “no strengthening of our. tariff will suffice to offset this tendency com- pletely.” American capitalists who dominate the government economic policy are going to have“ direct in- terest in encouraging imports from Germany despite their depressing ef- fect.on American labor standards. For it is in terms of such transactions that they will receive interest and divi- OUR DAILY PATTERNS AN UP-TO-DATE MODEL i 805. Here is a splendid style for mge, ratine, alpaca or crepe. The pe may be of contrasting ma- together with the revers, Plaid ca for the dress, and linen for the’ se would be attractive, Ihe Pattern is cut in 3 Sizes: 16, d 20 years. 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The United States will take German securities partly in cancella- tion of the French debt and partly for cash to restore French solvency. This opportunity for investment of capital abroad, says the Guaranty Trust Co., will be welcomed by American in- yestors because the productive equip- ment in thid country is already over- developed in many lines. Enslaves Big Nation. In plain English the Dawes plan should provide our financiers with an entire industrial nation just as the formation 6f the steel trust provided an industry to be used in furtherance of their exploitation of workers the world over. Should American voters elect Coolidge and Dawes in Novem- ber, Dawes would preside over the senate, the «treaty-making political arm of the American financial power, Immigration Heads Shown by Detroit Paper as Czarists By SHERMAN BOWMAN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) DETROIT, July 17.—The entire editorial page of the Detroit News of Sunday, July 13, was devoted to an exposure of the czaristic methods of the federal immigration bureau, the department of labor and the depart- ment of justice. The Detroit News is one of the most influential and wealthy newspapers of the middle west. Its Sunday circula- tion is near 300,000. The editorial ap- pears to have been written after re- ceipt by the News of a letter from P. L. Prentis, head of the important De- troit immigration district. After Pren- tis, detectives and secret agents of the local bureau of the department of justice, immigration inspectors and officials at Washington had succeeded in deporting Nicolai. Mansevich, a Russian alien, in the face of wide spread protest. Prentis wanted to crow a bit. Prentis wanted the News to retract previous editorial criticism of the de- -|portation. The new editorial proves |: that it was at least equally a depart- ment of justice frame-up. The editorial, which occupies four closely printed columns, reviews the cruel and fraudulent methods by which Prentis misrepresented the case both to the innocent deportation vic- tim and to the public. The Detroit News is not radical. But it fears that inhuman misgovernment like the conduct of the Mansevich case will breed large numbers of radicals and endanger the conservative hold on the land. / Monkey-Chasers in California Fight Against Evolution (By The Federated Press) SACRAMENTO, Cal., July 17.—The drive against teaching evolution in |the public schools has reached Califor- nia. It was started by a letter to the department of education from Rev. George L. Thorpe of Corona, and other fundamentalists have taken advantage of the occasion to precipitate a strug- gle to eliminate from the schools over 60 textbooks dealing with biology. On the other hand modernists are petitioning the department aginst any change in science teaching. Thorpe's letter is a gem, written “in the interest of my two boys, whom I desire to raise to be splendid Christian m Center- ing his attack on Hughes’ Book of Science, the clergymen accuse it of calling “man himself a product of evo- lution, thereby destroying faith in the word of God and turning our children into atheists and infidel: PITTSBU | DR. RASNICK n EN hendetilg DENTIST THE DAILY WORKER UNION MINERS SEE WORK ONLY IN SCAB MINES Organized Mines Shut; Scab Wages Down (Special to the DAILY WORKER) SQUTH BROWNSVILLE, Pa., July 17.—Pike mine of Hillman Coal Co. closed its doors. Over 800 men are out of work. Some non-union mines of the same corporation are extend- ing their operations, that is, opening up new workings or sections and em- ploying men. If a man is known as a union miner, they will not employ him. The non-union mines are operated on a 1917 scale, which is 25 to 33 pér cent lower than in union mines. Some other miners of Hillman Coal Co, in union territory are working yet. Lewis Phone Aid The miners in Pike mine are mem- bers of Local 2086 of U.'M. W. and at one of their meetings passed a resolu- tion asking district 5 and officials of International union of the U. M. W. to do something regarding the situation in Coke region where the coal corpora-| tions started to cut wages down to| 1917 scale. Now I do wonder if that} resolution had any thing to do with| closing of Pike mine. Seems funny, Hillman closing an old mine where it} will cost him more to re-open it on account of more cave-ins than in newer, mines. Wages Backs In Rent The H. ©. Frick Coal and Coke Co. opened one of its mines in this vicinity, at union scale tho they raised house coal from $1.50 a wagon to $3, and house rent about 50 per cent. They cut down all extra work, such as paying extra to diggers for set- ting timbers, removing slate, work- ing in water, etc. Wages cut down to 1917 scale have been announced by Pittsburgh Steel Co, at Alicia no. 1—2 mine; over 1,000 miners affect- ed. Pennsylvania Railroad closed—so- called round house in West Browns- ville because it shrunk in business. All work that was done in this shop will be done in Shyrocks. Over 200 men were laid. of. Some‘ mines in the Coke region cut wages to 1917 scale, telling miners they would get more work after men accepted cut. The mines closed down. The outlook is very bad. Crisis Severe Some of the old miners claim this is the worse crisis than 1907-1908, Trade unionists predict that the last vestige of unionism will be wiped off of the map in Coke region. Its no wonder, as the working class is divid- ed by race, color and religion. Each fighting the other instead of using PROFIT SYSTEM SAPS WORKING MOTHERS’ GLANDULAR ENERGY — (Special to The to a large extent,” said Public heritage.” Neurologists trists, doctors who make special studies of nervous and mental disturbances, have found that the newly arrived immigrant mother and the mother who has to slave in industry to help out the fam- ily income’ both are subject to duct- less gland, endocrine, deficiencies which cause their children to be men- tally deficient, Gland Lack Makes “Mongol.” The immigrant mother, suddenly confronted with the jangle and bustle and trouble of Ife in a great indus- trial city frequently gives birth to a “mongol” idiot for her first child in the new country. Later she may: be- come accustomed to the new life and bear more normal children. The mother who has to strain her body daily in wearying work, even while she is carrying a child, 'in order to make enough for herself, her un- derpaid husband and other children to live, uses up too much of her in- ternal glandular substance and conse- quently cannot give her baby the proper physical equipment. Overworked Mothers Bear Most. Doctors have not yet fully found out just what glands affect the amount of “gray matter” and what specific ef- fect each gland’s activity has on the brain, but they, have found that ovar- worked mothers or those suffering from some shock with resulting glandular deficiencies are responsigle for the majority of the feeble-minded babies born. Mentally defective children are born to mothers of leisure who have every comfort needed, but doctors believe that eventually every case will be traced to either physical disease, poison, acident, or glandular defi- ciency in the mother at the time of pregnancy. Of course working class mothers stand the greatest risk of having their own bodies so wrecked by work that their children are af- fected. Must Spread Birth Control, And, of couse, working class women cannot readily find out about safe birth control methods, which would save them the trouble of bringing many children into a world that will not use them kindly and, if they are defective, will not have adequate ac- commodation for them in institutions, All over the country the homes for the feeble-minded are notably over- crowded and poorly managed, with their combined strength to overpower. their common enemy, the capitalist. Bisbee Deportation Leader Was Donkey Delegate in New York WASHINGTON, July 17.—Edward McGrady, legislative agent of the A. F. of L., returned from the demo- cratic convention, reports that Gen- eral Greenway, an Arizona delégate, who tried for the vice presidential nomination, proved to be the leader of the copper company mob that. kid- napped and deported thousands of union men and sympathizers during the Bisbee strike. Mrs, McKay, a del- egate whose husband is a union man, jenounced Greenway as an enemy’ of the labor movement, Gompers, Broken in Health, to Function in Advisory Capacity WASHINGTON, July 17.— Repors to American Federation of Labor headquarters here from the staff who are with President Gompers in New York tend to discount the rumor that his strength is broken to a degree that will make his further service to the federation chiefly advisory. He is de- clared to be constantly in touch with the regular work of his office, few exceptions. The capitalist govern- ment does not begin to take care of the poor unfortunates for whose birth and reproduction it, is responsible, to say nothing of its beginning to strike at the root of the evil and inform working mothers of birth control, provide the welfare measures of mothers’ pensions, which relieve a mother from the necessity of working during certain periods, and give the best scientific care for the defectives who are born. No Hope Under Capitalism. Capitalism does not concern itgelf with those who fall by the wayside unless their passing can be turned to political use, such as the recent. un- fortunate death of Calvin Coolidge, junior. Even social democracy does not fulfill its welfare promises or eventually lets the industfial lords throw the “social measures” passed as happened in Germany. Handicapped Russia Leads, Only in Soviet Russia do the moth+ ers get a square deal. Life is still hard in Russia and the mothers haven't all that they will get some day, but for a country that has passed thru so many hardships as Russia and had practically the whole world against it, Russia is doing wonders. In spite of the odds against her, she actually leads the world in social wel- fare measures; but it took the over- throw of capitalism and imperialism and the beginning of a real Soviet sys- tem to put over the welfare work. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS "T's big enough for a piano.” FEEBLE-MINDED BABIES RESULT Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 17.—‘‘Economic conditions are to blame Welfare Commissioner Bird S. Coler, in speaking of the increase of mentally defective children under the modern profits system which forces many mothers to “leave children in the care of nurseries and go off to work while they are bringing other children into being, thus sapping their energies and giving the oncoming generation a very poor end. yon Bosses Finding It Pays to Keep Their Workers in Trim (Federated Press Industrial Editor) NEW YORK, July 17.—Bosses are finding out that it pays to keep the wage-slave in working trim, according to the latest bulletin of the Merchants Assogiation of New York. It gives as an example’a large middle-West manu- facturing corporation that has reduced the average yearly loss of working time from nine days to 13 hours for each worker. This miracle has been achieved by the cheap expedient of installing a company doctor and other basic reforms, such as supplying rub- bers and umbrellas on rainy days. In @ large eastern public service plant tuberculosis among employees has been reduced two-thirds during the last ten years by a company medical director. Your Union Meeting | Third Friday, July 18, 1924, Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- vel 8 Bookbinders, 175 W. Washington St., 6 p. m. i 810 W. Harrison = 4339 S. Halsted St. 2901, W. Monroe St. 4141° W. Lake St. R. R., 5324 S. Halsted Workers, Emily and Marsh- Gold Beaters, 3056 N. Leavitt St. ey Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Workers, Joint Garment d, 328 W. Van Buren’ St. ts, 113°S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 113 8. Ashland Blvd. Metal Polishers, 33 E. 111th St. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. School and Shefield Ave. 3140 Indiana Ave. Makers, 119 S. Throop St. rs, 9251 §, Chicago Ave. Railway, Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- silway Carmen, 6445 8. Ashland ve. Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 19 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 9 8. Clinton St. Railroad Trainmen, 1536 E. 64th St. Railroad ,Trainmen, 3349 North Ave. Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cial Ave, Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and Van Buren, South Chicago Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave. 2 Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bldg. Stove Mounters, 3609 Wolfram Ave. Teachers (Women), Women’s City Club Rooms, 4:30 p.m. Teiegraphers (Com.) 312°S. Clark e! St. 19. W. Adams S&t., we Women's Union Label League 220 S. Ashland Blvd. (Note--Unless — otherwise meetings are at 8 p. m.) stated all “Ten Years in a Co-operative Colony” Illustrated lecture by ‘MR. WALTER CONLIN of the Llano Co.operative Colony Friday, July 18th, 8:30 P. M. Radical Book Shop, 826 N. Clark St. Admission Free—No Collection. SS UTTTTT LLU LLMI LTD in your neighborhood. STEEL WORKERS BOOST FOSTER FOR PRESIDENT |Picnic Coming Aug. 17; Wants Him to Speak By WALLACE METCALFE. (Special to The DAILY WORKER) YOUNGTOWN, Ohio, July 17— Steel workers in Mahoning valley who have been hearing much of LaFol- lettism during the past several weeks from reactionary trade union leaders have expressed a great desire to hear William Z. Foster, the presidential ycandidate of the Workers Party. The unorganized steel workers are the back-bone of the labor movement in the valley and they accept with a grain of salt protestations of alleged Progressiveness coming from reac- tionary labor leaders who so far have made no efforts to bring about their organization. Picnic In Youngstown. The sub-district committee of the Workers Party made up of delegates from 16 locals in the valléy with a backing of thousands of unorganized steel workers will hold a gigantic mass meeting and picnic nearby Youngstown, on Sunday, August 17, and will endeavor to bring the work- ers’ candidate for president, William Z. Foster, here to address them. It will be the greatest mass meet- ing of steel workers in the valley since the steel strike. The farmers and pottery workers from Columbiana county and steel workers from Trum- bull county will have representatives on the arrangements committee. Watch for Details, Bill Foster for President, meets with the hearty approval of the steel workers and efforts of the LaFollette organization to prevent the steel workers from backing up the only real workers’ and farmers’ program by leading them up the dark alley of reformism and politically sandbag- ging them into voting for LaFollette only causes further determination to back the party of their class. The place and further details on the monster Foster meeting will be published in the DAILY WORKER at an early date. DETROIT, MICH, Mikel Sherman, N. D. Naturopath & Chiropractor When other methods fail try Nature's road to health. Hours: 11 to 4 and 6 to 8 P. M 4863 VAN DYKE AVENUE, betw. Forest and Gratiot one Spaulding ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. 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