The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 28, 1924, Page 5

GRIPS GERMANY: FACTORIES CLOSE Unemployment’ Rising to Record Levels By LOUIS P, LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) BERLIN, July 27.—Germany is in the ,throes of an economic crisis. From every industrial district, prac- tically, reports reach the capital that production has almost stopped, that the workers are thrown on the streets, that bankruptcies are on the increase. In Saxony the textile industry is | hard hit. Most factories find only | part-time employment for their work- ers. There is a lack of orders. Or- | ders from abroad are often cancelled because of rumors that econome con- ditions in Germany are such that it isn’t safe to place orders here. The machinery industry of Saxony also |is almost at a standstill. One of the \largest firms in Chemnitz, employing | 8,000 men, is planning on shutting down completely. Bankruptcies In Thuringla. In Thuringia, especiallyeain those sections where the woolen weaving industry is at home, In the Ruhr valley industry is shot to pieces as a result of the occupation, the passive resistance, the troubles between capital and labor that it is a mere shadow of its former self. The wonder to the outside observer is that the working: class: population has re- mained as quiet as it does. On the water front one reason why the employers held out so long jagainst the dock.and ship building jworkers was the fact that there wasn’t uch work ahyway, and that it was fs as cheap to lock out the men as it would have been to keep them em- ployed at the wages they demanded bn the few contracts for building in their hands. In other words, their rofits on existing contracts, had they hand the men at work, would not have’ been as large as their savings pn salaries and wages by simply lock- \ng the men out. l r ‘Two Solutions | It is obvious that conditions of this ‘ind make the position of the work- rs particularly difficult. There are o many people unemployed that the wners always think they can get cabs to take the places of the or- anized workers. 4 The socialist solution is: accept the awes report, and there will be work ind capital. The Communist solution : reject the Dawes report and sub- itute for it the socialization of in- OUR DAILY T ECONOMIC CRISIS |4MERICAN LEGION MISREPRESENTS “BACKERS” FOR ITS ANTI-RADICAL DRIVE CHARGES CIVIL LIBERTIES (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 27.—That the attacks on radicalism by the American Legion and other organizations are based on misrepresentation of their own backing’ and on ignorance of the facts,” was charged yesterday by the American Civil Liberties Union in a letter to the officers of the Legion at Washington and Indianapolis. The Union’s letter scores the statements given out.at Washington by Garland W, Powell, National Director of} the American Legion, in which he announced a nation-wide drive on reds as a result of the All-American Conference held here in May. The letter quotes a number of leading national organizations which repudiate the Legion’s statement that they endorsed its anti-red campaign. Ammons rr these organizations are the| ™ the conference nor was it rep- Young Men’s Christian Associa- ; tion, the National Catholic} , Women Voters Deny. Welfare Council, the Women’s|,,.7h° en ene eae i ANA saiy Christian Temperance Union, | ,enjica: A ete the Hebrew Sheltering and HE DAILY WORKER SOCIALISTS USE QUEER LOGIC TO MAKE CAMPAIGN “Huge Mass Meeting;” 500 Gather in N. Y. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, July 27.—The National | campaign on the part of the Socialists to help sweep LaFollette into the White House was started at a “mons- ter” mass meeting held in the Rand School, Tuesday evening, July 22nd. Between 400 and 500 people took the! trouble to listen to their message. | Considering that Victor Berger, Mor-| ris Hillquit and others were to speak, this was indeed a great Socialist demonstration. It would be well at this moment to} mention that ‘all the capitalist papers | were generous in their publicity to this meeting. It seems that LaFol- lette has become a fad to, the “Times,” ing co-operation, road to Communism.” what good it will do me. take place. gram. Columns in the papers every day; My union meeting, which comes this afternoon, has co-operation as its pro- gram. And every manager of a co-operative knows that if he ALL RUSSIA BOOSTS CO-OPERATION TO BEAT BUSINESS OF NEPMEN AS | LENIN URGED AFTER REVOLUTION By ANISE. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 27.—Everywhere in’ Russia they I walk along the streets and se posters in the windows with' a. man wrapped in a red banner pointing out the path. The little Pioneers in yesterday’s pro- cession carried streamers announcing that “Co-operation is the I go into the store where I have been trading for many weeks and they thrust a red paper into my hands, inviting me to. join their co-operative, and explaining re boost- flaming casion for going over the whole or- ganization, eliminating dead wood and strengthening connections. As had happened before with the trade un- ions, the whole membership was auto- matically fired, and required to join Page Five AMERICAN OIL DIPLOMACY IN PERSIA SHOWN Official’s ‘Confidential’ Letter Gives Intrigue (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, July 27.—Killing of Consul Imbrie by a Persian mob, ap- |parently assisted by Persian police, recalls the fact that Teheran, the Per- sian capital, has been one of the cen- A few months ago, when the Party Congress declared that ters of. oil diplomacy as practiced by special efforts must be put now towards strengthening the co-|the operative movement, I might have guessed that all this would | Hughes’ regime. state department under the Here is a “personal For this is the way that Russia mobilizes for action |and confidential’ letter from C. Van for any new detail of her pro-* H. Engert, American charge d'affaires, jat Teheran, to Moshir-ed-Dowleh, \president of the council of ministers, dated Fed. 28, 1922, on a bid which Harry Sinclair afterwards blocked: “Dear Highness: Referring to our {conversation of this morning, I am twenty-eight firms have recently gone into the hands of a receiver, with the likely prospect of more to follow. Immigrant Aid Society, the Na- ‘No representative of the League of Women Voters yoted for the tional League of Women| aims and the resolutions which Voters, and the National Ed-| were the result of the conference ucation Association of the + In response to a letter of United States. Did Not Approve. The legion’s announcement named 62 organizations which were alleged calism.” It is charged by the union that the above-named organizations either did not participate in. the Washington conference, or did not endorse its program, and that, “the whole affair gives an impressfon of strength which it does not possess.” The union challenges the American Legion to “make some statement in regard to the character and back- ing” of its campaign against radicals “which seems to have been so thor- oly. misrepresented.” The Letter Reads in Full: “The press on .May 17th carried accounts of the All-American confer. ence held at Washington under the auspices of the Americanization Com- mission of the American Legion, nam- ing sixty-two organizations which par- ticipated and which news dispatches made to appear endorsed your pro- gram against ‘revolutionary and de- structive radicalism.’ “We were ‘concerned at once to make inquiry as to how far- the sixty- two organizations named really- par- ticipated in the conference and en- dorsed the program, because we knew that many of them weré ‘not commit- ted to such notions of intolerance and suppression. We made inquiry of a few organizations and received the following replies: ‘ “Mr. John L. Bernstein, president of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immi- grant Aid Society of America, writes: aes de A S. did not participate PATTERNS A STYLISH DRESS FOR : MATURE FIGURES fn b 742. 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A 10 year size re- quires 2% yards of figured material and % yards of plain material cut crosswige if made as illustrated of 32 inch material. j Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. ~ Addres: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS the sol i ce the RAE pattern ‘tmont are a New firm of pat Ord ed by lors are fe ere are forwa eration was 64.6 per cent of capacity, on a single shift basis, figured. on an average activity of 8.74 hours per day. Heat man carrying a box, believed 0 hay 4} to pleces here today after he was ~4 struck by an automobil: that she would attend such sessions as she was able No. repre- sentative of the league was present on the first day when the delegates were listed. Miss Sherwin did sit in the audience for an hour the sec- ond day, without, however, register- ing her name or her organization as present. ‘The league is not committed in any way to the sentiments which have been quoted as the combined ones of all the organizations attend- ing . . ..We are in no way... committed to carrying out the pol- icy which the press reported from the Americanization Commission.’ “Father John A. Ryan of the Na- tional henne Miss Sherwin replied Catholic Welfare Council writes: ‘The National Catholic Welfare Council sent a delegate, Mr. McMa- don, to this Americanization meet- ing as tt has sent other delegates to other meetings on this subject. Father McGowan was not the ac- credited deiegate, but attended one or two sessions at the request of Mr. McMahon and for his own edi- fication. He protested that the an- tiradical resolutions were vague and misleading and refused to vote for them. He was assured by the chairman that the votes*of the dele- gates did not bind their respective organizations. “In the absence of John R. Mott from the city, Mr. B, R. Barber re- plied for the International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Association as follows: ee Y. M. C. A. and N. E. A. Deny. ‘At the conference which you mention there was present a man who used to be secretary of the Y. M. C. A. who retired last year and is no longer a secretary. He was in no sense an official repre- sentative of the International Com- mittee or of the Y. M. C. A,, and! so far as we know did not presume to be, because the question of rep- resentation dt this conference was . not presented to our Committee at all.’ “Mr. J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the National Education Association of the United States, replied: ‘The action of that conference was not the actian of the National Education Association of the Unit- ed- Stati Two representatives of ‘the Association were present but without authority to bind the asso- ciation by their votes.’ “With one exception these are all the organizations to whom we wrote. Their replies make it clear that they do not endorse the program, that the news dispatches as to their partici- pation to that effect were misleading and that the whole affair gives an im- pression of strength which it does not Possess. We are glad to note that this is so, because we regard such movements ‘as violative of the rights of freedom of opinion and discussion on which any democracy must rest. “We suggest that you owe it to the Public to ke some statement in regard to the character and backing of this movement, which seems to have been so thoroly misrepresented in the statements given out at Wash- ington.” \ Fewer indles Spinning. WASHINGTON, July 27.—Only 29, 216,486 cotton spinning spindles in the ‘United Sta were in operation in June, 1924, as compared with 34,855} 520 for June, 1923, says the Depart- ment of Commerce. A decrease in the number of active spindles in the cot- ton industry has beeh shown ¢ach month gince January, The June op- Man Blown Up LOS ANGELES, July 27.—An un- contained dynamite was blown A companion of the man was only slightly injured, “World,” and the Hearst papers here. more of these papers daily besides two or three columns of reading mat- ter. “The New Leader,” the Jewish “Forward,” ete, could not get the crowd. Trying the “Wrong Way." Algernon Lee, as Chairman, was phappy at the immense crowd that al- most packed the orchestra. He could not conceal his elation and said, “This is one of the largest crowds we have had for a long time and on such’ a hot night too.” The writer ar- rived at 8:45 and expected to be stop- ped) at the outside unable to crowd thru the large following that the So- eialist Party has. But to his amaze- ment there was room for more Com- munists. John Collins then told the audience that he had been in the movement for 30 years and this was the first time that the S. P. had a chance to join with the unions, farmers’ organiza- tions, etc., in a presidential cam- paign. Maurer touched on the opposi- tion tendencies ‘in the S. P. itself and became excited as he claimed that he was also a revolutionist but since Dietzgen ‘sald, “That the workers on trying a new thing always try it the wrong way,” he was willing to try this thiig fof the first time. At this point the deadly silence was broken with laughter when Maurer added he hopes that this wrong method will be right. What. Kind of Logic? This was a type of logic that the writer could not comprehend, but it must have been very clear to all the socialists present. It is significant that not a single speaker mentioned the fact that after election a Labor Party would be formed. ‘The furthest that Maurer got was to say that after election, if a large vote will be cast, for LaFollette then they will all continue to stick to- gether. ; If any comrades really desired in- spiration they should have attended this meeting. This would have been the greatest, tonic for’ all weak-knéed Communists. Russian Journalist Dies. MOSCOW, July‘ 25.—Brazul Brush- kowsky, Russian journalist died here today. Mr. Brushkowsky was well- known in 1912, during the period of the Beilis trial in Kiev. He was at that time employed as a reporter on the influential Russian paper, “Kiev- skaya Mysl,” and upon .the arrest of Beilis, whom he believed innocent; he initiated an investigation to find ‘the real murderer, which he succeeded in doing. . ; He uncgvered evidence, which proved conclusively that Ushchinsky, the murdered boy, had been killed in the house of Vera Cheberak, the own. er of a house of doubtful reputation. For his Zola-like actiqn, Brushkow- sky was for a long time the object of attacks and persecution from the Russian Black Hundreds, and even served a year in jail on a trumped. up charge. Brazilian Warfare Continues. MONTEVEDIO, July 27.—Fighting was reported at Sorocaba, a hundred kilometers west of Sao Paulo, The (Federals were reported to have occu- pied the city after a battle. Another fight was reported at Cunha, 200 milo- meters from Sao Paulo. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS Editorials, can be found in one or goes to the state banks for credit, they will meet him with a glad hand, and “What can I do for you today, comrade?” Lenin For Co-operatives. The reason for all this is that the private trader has been gaining on the state in. the field of retail trade, and after careful discussion, it has been decided that rather than state retail stores, are the best way to beat him. The co-operat- ives are already & socializing organ- ism, with their roots deep in the Rus- sian population. Not that co-opera- tion is regarded by the Communists as in any way a possible substitute for revolution, as some co-operators hands of the workers, once the State Power possesses all means of produc- thru a co-operative population.” This is one of the statements gojng boosting co-operation. Another,—“To organize co-operation widely enough and deeply enough among our people under the New Economic Policy, 1s all that we need.” And another —“Among us the growth of co-opera- tion is the growth of socialism.” All these were statements of Lenin, in the days after the New Economic Policy began, and his followers realize that they have not sufficiently heeded them. ‘ Old Movement. Even without their heed, co-opera- tion has grown tremendously. While the workmen's practice of working in artels, or co-operative producing co-operatives, | again if they wished, on a voluntary | very glad to summarize Herewith basis, paying in their share of the| briefly the contents of the telegram capital.. Withim a month and a half,|from the state department in Wash- to the 15th of February, 6,813,000 per- | ington . My government begins sons had rejoined. by stating that the Persian minister The working capital of the Centro-|in Washington would telegraph to the soyus is about twelve million dollars. |imperial government the literal French It has as members 19,000 societies. | text of the proposed concession which It exports about 40 per cent of all|appears to have been agreed upon by jfurs, 30 per cent of flax and hemp, 35 him, the Standard Oil Company, the per cent of all dairy produce, and a|Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and Mr. |considerable percentage of the grain | Shuter. . In addition to the pro- exported from Russia. It buys in re-|Posed concession, an agreement ap- turn agricultural machinery. It also |lends its credit to the textile trust to buy raw cotton, receiving in return cotton cloth for its members. , Credit In England, England has now returned to the outside Russia think it. But, as Lenin|Centrosoyus the London Branch of| said, “once the State Power is in the|its former, bank, with a paid up capi-| tal of a million dollars. In addition to this, the Centrosoyus receives large tion, we need to achieve our aim only |credits from English manufacturers| This history of the| growth of this credit shows how step} the rounds in the leaflets and posters |by step, Russia has shown her stabil-| In the years after | the Revolution, Centrosoysus had to) and customers. |ity, as a purchaser. pay cash for all its purchases; early in 1913 the London banks began to ish ports, then against goods fm neu- tral ports, then against goods in Rus- sian ports; now credits are received against goods as they are delivered in railway stations throughout Russia and Siberia, and even in the case of some contracts, advance payments are given in part with the order, when the butter and fiax is still not yet produced by the peasant. Co-op Bank Again. During the last few months the groups, dates back in- Russia to the/ Selskosoyus, or agricultural producers eighteenth century or earlier, regular middle of last century, on the British junion, has also consumers co-operation began in the|tiyes abroad, whe ent its representa- they sell the pro- jducts of their million anda half peas- model, and spread until the beginning} of the World War, when there were| them. ant members, and buy machinery for In the past year the All Rus- a million and a half members in| sian Co-oparative Bank has again 13,500 societies, and a turnover of! been established, with a capital of five cieties for marketing agricultural produce and co-operative credit banks were also growing. The consumers co-operatives were centralized in one Central Union, known as the Centro- soyus; the agricultural societies in a central union, known as Selskosoyus, and both were connected thru the Nar- odny Bank, the Moscow Peoples Bank. During the war, co-operation grew by leaps and bounds until in 1917 it had” seven million members. Under the. government of Kerensky private trade broke down completely and the co-op@ratives were almost the only medium of exchange between town nearly 160 million dollars a year. So-| and country. The soviet government legalized this situation, placing upon the co-operatives the full responsibil- ity for collecting and distributing raw stuffs and foods, and making member- ship in the co-operatives compulsory for all citizens, in order to obtain ra- tions. After the signing of the Brit- ish-Russian Trade Agreement in March, 1921, and the introduction of the New Economic Policy, which gave much liberty of private trading to peasants, the rationing system fell in- to disuse, the control of the govern- ment over the co-operatives relaxed, and thé movement began to return to’ its voluntary basis in fact, long before the decree of December, 1923, made co-operation a purely voluntary move- ment again. However, the decree gave an oc. million dollars and with 52 branches thruout the country, The balance of its resources last February reached thirty million dollars. But figures, while they show the success of co-operation externally, do not show how it is penetrating into every activity of the Russian worker. Favored by law, it is in an especially strong position. And all the propa- ganda of Communists and workers or- ganizations also favor it. As one goes through the streets of Moscow, almost without exception the larger, cleaner, more prosperous stores are either state-owned or co-operatives, aiming on the economic field, to win the vic- tory against capitalism, Send in that Subscription Today. France and Turkey Scrap. MOSCOW, July 27.—The | friction between Turkey and France is grow- ing worse. The Turkish Home Office has sent. an official inquiry to the Turkish authorities at Adan, asking them whether the French authorities have introduced the autonomy in An- tiocly and Alexandrette. On the other hand, the population of the bor- der zone has again formed a large de- tachment and the commander of the latter put forth the demand that the French evacuate Antiochy within a week, ‘ Send in that Subscription Today. A LAUGH advance money against goods in Brit-| |pears to have been signed between the | Standard Oil Company and the Anglo- Persian Oil Company providing for their joint participation in the new Perso-American Petroleum Company, but stating specifically that the Stand- |ard Oil Company is to have the voting control of the board of direqtors and ‘is to have the management of the company. . .. “In this-connection my government authorizes me to state informally .. . that while the department of state has not participated in the actual negotia- ions concerning this concession it hi been kept informed of their progress. The American government desires the maintenance of the ‘Open Door’ in Persia for American nationals, and to this end it approves co-operation in interests. ... This arrangement ren- ning of prospecting and development in the provinces of north Persia on a practicable basis... .” Remember. Class-War Victims’ Birthdays , Coming Thru August Birthdays in August of Pollftical Prisoners still confined in prisons in the United States, are announced by the Workers’ National Prison Comfort Club, 2923 Chestnut St., Milwaukee, Wis., as follows: At Represa, California, Folsom Prison: August 20, H. C. Duke, At San Quentin, California (San Quentin Prison) Aug. 19, J. C. Rob- Inson, reg. No. 38127. Aug. 21, Roy House, No. 38535. At Road Camp “A”—Requa, fornia: Aug. 5, Edw. R. Peters, | At Walla Walla, Washington, Box |520: Aug. 15, James Melnery, No. "9410. Aug. 25, John Lamb, 'No. 9412. | Cora Meyer, National Secretary, in- vites friends and sympathizers to send birthday cards and letters (money is advisable for gifts) to these political |prisoners. Books and publications to |We sent directly from the publishers. ‘A political prisoner writes: “Lit- |tle,-Ah, yes, doe$ the average person on the ‘outside looking in’ realize how much joy and cheer is brought to a person on the ‘inside looking out’ thru greetings and words of comfort. The shower for my birthday planned and engineered by the club was a tremen- dous succéss, bringing with it a couple of dollars coming in right handy.” Cali- * Broom Sale Riot. NORRISTOWN, Pa. July 27.—A bargain counter rush at a one cent broom sale developed into a near riot here today, resulting in the injury of nearly a score of women, 12 of whom. were taken to the hospital. The in- juries occurred when the crush be- came so great, the storm. window col- lapsed, showering glass over the pros- pective purchasers. FOR THE CHILDREN Persia between American and British , ders possible without delay the begin- ~