The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 29, 1924, Page 2

é ¥ { Page Two LAST NEW YORK ANALGAMATED Only 4,000 Still Out of 40,000 (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, July 28.—With all but 4,000 of the striking 40,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers. back on the job, the union enters the fifth week of| its New York strike with energies concentrated against a few of the large hard-boiled firms. Strikebreakers and gun- men are fighting the pickets | with violence but the union re- ports that it is making progress in these shops. The union war chest is in good shape with the 30,000 who phave gone back to work pay- } ing 5% strike assessments and | cutters 10%. The outstanding } success of the strike has been the establishment of an em- ployers’ organization with which the union can deal and its acceptance of a contract providing union conditions, minimum wage scales and un- employment insurance. Centralizing Union. As the result of the strike, which is being conducted by one central union body, a reorganization of the union in the direction of centralization with’ one joint board is foreshadowed. General President Sidney Hillman has | | issued such an appeal to the member- ship. The Amalgamated Bank of New York announces that, contrary to ex- | pectation, the strike has not resulted jin increased withdrawal of deposits | by union members. This it explains by the fact that strikers have instead taken advantage of its small loan service. Voting on Higher Dues. A national referendum is being con ducted by the Amalgamated on at increase in membership dues to not less than 50 cents a week. The ques- tion was referred to the executive board by the recent biennial conven- tion. If the referendum carries, offi- cials say that satisfactory arrange ~-ments will be made in the few locali- ties where immediate application of the increased rates would not be feasible. Won't Take Eighth Pardon. SANTA FE, N. M., July 28.—Afer three hours of argument late yester- day the supreme court took the ha- ; Deas corpus case of Carl Magee, Al- buquerque, N. M., editor convicted ‘of direct contempt of cour under advise- ment and admitted Magee to twenty- } five hundred dollars bond. Magee’s “Contempt” Was Criticism of the Politicians’ Government, Former attorney general Askern, who opposed the validity of the par- don issued Mage given a jail sentence, alleges that Governor Hinkle had pardoned Magee not less than eight times. Send in that Subscription Today. Independent southe Brazil. Is of the church of Mosterio Bento, a hospital for wounded s1 dlers at present. The view to ti right Is the Automovel Club. Sao Paulo is seeking the ald three states in her state in Catherina, a ri coal district; Santa and Itles: farming region of pine timber. There is a possibility that U. & crulser might be sent sout trouble and to “settle” Brazil's “protect American interests,” t! coffee barons and Armour’s great packing house. Ls after he had been | ‘The upper ploture is a general view of Sao Paulo, the Brazilian elty that is trying to establish an The small center picture rebellion against the Rio de Janeiro author- Rio Grande do Sul, center for livestock and wheat, and Paran, the only | NEW for vice-president, and in certain cases n and the socialist party, which acia Cc. P.. P, The national C, P, P. A. SOCIALIST PARTY SHEDS RADICAL | FIGLEAF; ENDORSES REPUBLICAN AND | DEMOCRAT TO HEAD NATIONAL TICKET | YORK.—Co-operation between Progressive Political Action and the socialist party was made more complete by the national executive committee of the socialists in endorsing Wheeler ts from the C. P. P. A. conference, has occurred. |New York legislative agent of a railroad brotherhood, sent out a call for a A. conference in Albany, Aug. 16, without inviting the socialist | party, the American labor party and other groups in the LaFollette coalition, in Washington then appointed Morris Hillquit, Gilbert E. Roe and Ryan as a committee to call a full convention, inviting the LaFollette-Conference for capitalist congressional candidates, A revival of antagonism between the New York State C, P. P. A. organi- last year led to the exclusion of the Thomas B. Ryan, jall the groups. Tho the full conference is to be held, Ryan's ‘attempt to |hold an exclusive meeting has caused the first rift between the right and the merchant marine and on drafted by William B. Brown, gineers’ Beneficial Association. legal requirement of sufficient all machine-propelled to enable the three-watch sys- tem to be practically applied, and to insure the safety of pas- sengers and cargo. Sailors Didn't Get It. Under the terms of the LaFollette seamen’s act of 1915, the firemen and oilers got the three-watch system; the sailors did not. Where they have at | times enjoyed that gain, it has been jthe result of trade union negotiation with the shipowners. The masters, mates and pilots under Sec. 4463 re- |vised statutes, known as the Hardy act, have the three-watch system on }Ocean and coastwise seagoing Vessels of 1,000 tons or over. The new measure proposed by Brown would require as many licensed jengineers— chief and assistant— on jeach ship as there are now required licensed deck officers. It would re- duce the tonnage minimum at which federal regulation of the number of jlicensed officers shall apply, and it would extend the Tregulation for all officers to the great lakes, the rivers and harbors of the whole country. Affects Hundreds of Thousands. “This means that better conditions will be secured—if our bill is enacted |—for hundreds of thousands of men on large and small craft on all the navigable waters of the United States, |to which the federal navigation laws }can be applied,” said Brown to The Federated Press, ‘We shall consider the draft of the bill in our national executive board meeting. and we shail confer again with the representatives of the other organizations of maritime workers, “We have joined in the effort to get the BarkJey-Howell railroad labor bill through congress. When that legisla- tion is out of the way, ours is to be taken up. Since it is an 8-hour meas- ure, essentially, we expect to have the hearty co-operation of the railroad la- bor organizations.” Union Coming Back? The Marine Engineers went strike in 1921 against the wage cuts announced by Admiral Benson, chair- | i} SS SAO PAULO REBELS AGAINST BRAZIL’S GOVERNMENT rn 8. ol- he of ich he a ? rs vessels ;* on, |left wings of the LaFollette organization in New York. | LAFOLLETTE SEAMEN’S ACT UNSATISFACTORY TO MARINE ENGINEERS; REVISION SOUGHT (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 28.—Revision of the federal navigation law applying to marine engineers and other licensed officers in vessels upon all the navigable waters of the United States is proposed in a bill now being president National Marine En- Its first objective is the 8-hour day, or three-watch system, for licensed officers below decks. Its next proposed gain is a number of licensed officers on U. S, IMPERIALISTS 00 JUGGLE CONSTITUTIONS TO HOLD LATIN LANDS By ELLA G. WOLFE.. (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 28.—The U. S. Minister in Nicaragua sent a note to the government of that country telling them that should they see fit to re-elect their presi- dent that the United States would refuse to rdcognize Nicaragua. The reason given was that the Ameri- cans wished the Nicaraguans to up- hold their constitution. But when American imperial interests found that the constitution of Peru (which also provided for no re-election) conflicted with their interests, they changed the constitution and re- elected the tyrant Leguia, who has given them unheard-of concessions and who will continue to give them more nbw that he has been re- elected. But Martinez of Nicaragua was not so kind; U. S. prefers a puppet whom they can do with as they please. And so they have be- come virtuous and are upholding constitutions. Oh, Consistency, thy name is American imperialism! man of the shipping board. They were soon beaten, There were 55,000 li- censed marine engineers—most of them produced during the war—in the United States, and only 18,000 possible positions for them, Now the union is | slowly regaining its feet. After the Lawless. | JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July 28— | Incensed over the continued mob flog- gings in this city, Mayor John Alsop issued a.call for a meeting of the en- tire police department at which he will outline a campaign against the marauding bands and kidnapers who have been terrorizing the community. DAILY WORKER JAPANESE SEES VALUE OF PACT WITH SOVIETS Minister to China Urges Agreement oe (Rosta News.) TOKYO, June 30,—(By Mail)—“I heard that some people’—states Mr. Yoshizawa, Japanese minister at Pek- ing in the “Asalu”—“are dissatisfied with me, saying I ignore Japanese na- tional interests. But, however, I be- lieve I understand Japanese interests better than anybody else. I want to call attention that you cannot impose irrational things upon Russia even though they may be considered ra- tional for Japan. Japan Loser if No Pact. “If an agreement is reached be- tween Mr. Karakhan and myself, the best advantages will accrue 'to Japan. If however, the negotiations unfor- tunately, fail, this will be a great loss to Japan, as it will take a long time for their starting again, and I can- not undertake to guarantee what may happen in regard to the fishing season in the coming year, Soviets Sincere. “Some people pretend that Mr. Larakhan is insincere in his negotia- tion, but”—emphasises the Minister -—none of our diplomatic authorities has any doubts as to the Soviet Pleni- potentiary’s sincerity towards Japan. Indeed, Mr. Karakhan has all thru been insisting on the necessity of co- operation with Japan, in order to es- tablish and ensure peace in the Far East. “I do not want to criticize the in- structions received from the former Government,” remarked Mr. Yoshiza- wa, “but I must say that ft is impos- sible to promote negotiations by in- structions whose meaning you do not understand. However? concluded the Japanese Minister, “I feel confident that if the present cabinet of Vis- count Kato shares with my opinion, good results are, sure to follow soon in the Russo-. ese question,” CHICAGO UNION MUSICIANS WIN $84.90. A WEEK Windy City Has Highest ae Union musicians in Chicago down- town movie theatres have the high- est scale in the country under the agreement newly signed by the Chi- cago Federation of Musicians. It provided for $84,50 a week, an in- crease of 10 per cent. Musicians in other movie hcuses in the city get $79 a week, also a 10 per cent in- crease, “Our craft is 100 per cent organ- ized in the movie theatres,” says President James Petrillo, Local No. 10, “The agreement is for one year, expiring Labor Day, 1926.” The last convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Musicians, held at Denver, gave each local autonomy in the matter of music broadcasting. The ‘Chicago local had previously fixed a scale of $8 per musician for each three hour period or less when the music is to be put on the air on the ground that union musicians were losing work because of the in- creased use of radio music for danc- ing and entertainment. Petrillo, re- ports that three quarters of the}lo- cals in the country have followed Chicago’s example in fixing special broadcasting scales, Workers Wait Six Months for Court; Threaten to Strike (By The Federated Press) SYDNEY, N. S. W., July 28.—Iron trades unions—engineers, blacksmiths, boilermakers, moulders, and iron workers’ assistants—are threatening to strike unless the federal arbitra- tion court immediately deals with their claims for higher wag and better working conditions. The claims have been before the court for six months, and as the old awards have expired, the men are working below what they contend should be a proper wage, Apprenticeship regulations have been fixed for youths working in the moulding industry in New South Wales. Five-year apprenticeships are fixed for those entering the trade he- tween ‘the ages of 14 and 17, and shorter terms for those entering after the latter age. Wages are fixed at: first year, $4.20; second, $ $7.80; fourth, 9.60; fifth, $1 afterwards full adult wages. Ice-Bound Scientists. HAWKES HARBOR, New Found- land, July 28.—The MacMillan expe- dition, locked in the ice floes of Greenland for more than a year, is coming back to civilization, accord- jing to a radio message picked up tou- day by the U. 8. cruiser Milwaukee from the Bowdoin, the exploration ship. expedition was to gather informatio: to aid in determining whether an ice age is impending. The principal purpose of the |! Labor must Conquer Both Czar Morgan and the LaFollettes By J. LQUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: the words of the Chicago banker, Richard W. Wolfe, spoken at Sunday’s ee of the Illinois forces of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, keep ring- ing in my ears. Banker Wolfe said: ¢ “Had the czar of Russia listened to the counsels of wise and patriotic men, he and his family would not have suffered the horrors of the murderous firing squad.” * * * * That means, if it means anything, that Banker Wolfe would choose to have a czar still rule over all the Russias. It-means, if it means anything, that Banker Wolfe would choose to have a kaiser rule over Germany, and he is content with the rule of Czar Morgan in the United States. All Banker Wolfe would have Czar Morgan do would be to accept the “counsels of wise and patriotic men,” and Banker Wolfe’s idol, right now, is Robert Marion LaFollette, whom he calls “a cautious, prudent and constructive states- man.” ‘ * * * * Banker Wolfe also says that, “‘Whoever owns or con- trols the money’ and business of a country is in control of the government of the country.” But Wolfe does not want the masses, the workers and farmers, to control the money and business, so they can control the government. No, in his own words, he is content with the rule of a Czar Nicholas, a Kaiser Wilhelm, an Emperor Morgan, if they will only accept the kind counsels of a LaFollette. And Wolfe's’ ideal LaFollette is one who would only have “the greed of business restrained.” * = * * . The tragic joke of it all is that men like Sidney Hill- man, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, sits thru this kind of a gathering, that not only tolerates but applauds such ideas. For Sidney Hillman knows that if LaFollette were elected to the White House, and given a majority of the sen- ate and the house of representatives to boot, Morgan and Rockefeller, and Gary, and Schwab would spit in his face and jeer at him. If that was not sufficient to cow him, they would organize their forces, and run him and his crowd out of office at the point of bayonets, and put in their own crowd. The idea of a dictatorship of reaction did not origi- nate when Mussolini took power in Italy. It is as old as the world. In the final struggle of the dictatorship of greed with the liberating dictatorship of the oppressed, the LaFol- ‘lettes are always on the side of the czars, the kaisers, the emperors. *” % * * This LaFollette of Banker Wolfe gives voice to another related hypocrisy, ‘““That we are unalterably opposed to any class government, whether it be the existing dictatorship of plutocracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat.” But how does this work out in practice? England's LaFollette, Lloyd George, waged the war on Great Britain’s side for British capitalism. England's present premier, MacDonald, is just as much opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat, as is Banker Wolfe and Mr. LaFollette, but he upholds the dictatorship of capitalism thruout the British Empire at a tremendous cost in human lives and suffering. Witness the murders of many men in India, Ireland and many other British possessions. * * * * MacDonald, in England; Herriot, in France; Ebert and Scheidemann, in Germany, would rather destroy the work- ers’ and farmers’ hopes of a successful revolution, thru Soviet Rule, than destroy the capitalist system under which they are permitted to rule. ' In this way they become the best allies of “corrupt business.” They lead labor into new shambles. Communists say, tear the Dawes ig to shreds. The Eberts, Herriots and MacDonalds tell the workers to accept it, in the name of “peace of democracy,” when, in fact, it means the slavery of labor to the House of Morgan forever. The LaFollettes, once they get power, cease promising to give “wise counsel” to the imperialist rulers and capitalist masters. Instead, they begin soft soaping and betraying the workers. That was the dirty job of Kerensky, in Russia, of the social-democracy in Germany, now of Herriot, in France, and of MacDonald, in Great Britain, and on the mor- row of a LaFollette in the United States. ee apes, AES The Russian czar had plenty of “wise and patriotic men” to give him counsel. The workers and peasants had to shake them all from their backs in order to win freedom. Big business does not lack LaFollettes, in Germany, in France, and in England. Labor will have to dump them both, in all these countries, before it can follow in the foot- steps of the Russian victory. It will be no different in the United States. In the final struggle LaFollette and his big business backers, Rawleigh and Spreckles, and his little business men supporters, like the Chicago banker, Wolfe, will all be on the ‘side of the black hundreds of corrupt business, * * * * And labor officials of the type of Sidney Hillman, presi- dent of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, is pepina aive prestige to the present inauguration of this betrayal. “How do you feel in this crowd?” | asked Max Schwerin, a youthful enthusiast in the socialist party who fought the Johnston-Stone machine, singlehanded, at the Cleveland vie of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, in his successful effort to put over an anti- militarist resolution. “It's hell,” he said, “but we got to go along,” voicing the blind sentimént of his fellow socialists, I'll say, “It's hell.” It is hell for the workers and farmers to be compelled to continue suffering under the deliberate betrayal of such traitors, But the workers and farmers will not go along. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands, this year, and in the years ahead, millions upon millions, will desert the wise counsellors, the LaFollettes, the handy men of big business, and join up with the Communist movement. They will make their start this year by waging the fight for the Communist candidates: William Z. Foster, for presi- dent; Benjamin Gitlow, for vice-president, the standard bearers of the American struggle to rid this continent of all ezars and kaisers, in common with their little business lackeys, for all time. : Tuesday, July 29, 1924 COOLIDGE MAKES GESTURE AGAINST ANOTHER TRUST Binder Twine Combine Gets Wrist Siar (By The id Press) NEW YORK, July 28.—Suit has been brought by the Federal Govern- ment in New York to dissolve the binder twine trust, charging conspir- acy and monopoly in violation of the anti-trust laws since 1920. The bill in equity charges the defendant with maintaining a monopoly in sisal, a fibre principally grown in Mexico and Central America, and asks for an in- junction restraining the defendants from further conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Sisal Sales Corporation, organ- ized in 1920 and 1921; the Equitable Trust Company of New York, the ‘|Royal Bank of Canada, the Interna- tional Trust & Banking Company, and other corporations and individuals in this country and Mexico are named as defendants. They are charged with engaging “in a combination and conspiracy in re- straint of interstate and foreign trade and commerce in sisal, and having entered into contracts in restraint of such trade and commerce, in violation of the anti-trust laws of the United States; that as a result of such com- bination the defendants had acquired a complete monopoly in the sale of sisal in the United States, and have absolute control over the price of such commodity.” Since the binder twine. trust and its continued freedom of action has long been a soré spot with the farmers of the country, the Present action by Attorney General Stone is interpreted by cynics as a bid by the Coolidge administration for the disaffected farm vote, Every time the trust raises the price of twine 1 cent a pound it costs the farmers of the country an additional $3,000,000 for the season, it is said. “Radical Expert” Dick Rewarded by Business Friends By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. PITTSBURGH, July 28.—Announce- ment that he had resigned to accept a Job as office manager of a Pittsburgh business concern, was the way the capitalist sheets of Pittsburgh told their readers that Henry J. Lennon had been rewarded for his service to capitalist society, as an agent of the department of justice. This noble guardian of American democracy has certainly done his best to railroad every advocate of a work- ers’ government to the various jails. and he has been.no less severe in his efforts to do likewise with those who merely sympathize with such a move- ment. He has just returned from the K. K. K. town of Farrell, Pa., where his testimony was accepted to con- vict two comrades because of ‘their membership in the Workers Party. Lennon accepts the title of “Goy- ernment expert on racialism” and not long ago his son was charged with being a spy in the machinists’ union. It is safe to assume that his new job is in the form of a reward for service in his capacity as special agent, also that he will continue to function as a@ spy at all radical gatherings. Texas Women Fight Ice Trust Thru the Housewives’ League J (By Federated Press.) DALLAS, Texas, July 28—At the urgent request of the Housewives League the Dallas county grand jury will investigate the alleged combina- tion of local ice dealers to increase prices. A boost in prices of 10c a hundred pounds has taken place within three weeks. Prices range now from 70c a hundred delivered on a cash basis to 40c if you call and pay for it at the store room. These small stations have been established all over the city and thousands of autos, expensive and otherwise, stop and get their supply. Poor folks without autos or Fords have to pay almost double. The Housewives League declares that ice can be made and delivered at a fair profit at 55c. 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