The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, July 30, 1924 FEAR OF GERMAN LABOR REVOLT SPURS HUGHES Communists Rousing Teuton. Workers (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 29.—Fear of a German revolution which may overwhelm western capital- ism is spurring diplomats on to more ardent efforts in behalf of the Dawes plan. The Anglo- American bankers are pressing the Bolshevik argument on the French and Belgian opponents at the inter-allied conference. Secretary of State Hughes, Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon, Thomas W. Lamont and Ramsay MacDonald are insist- ing that the French waive all the obstacles they have been interposing to the plan to sum- mon the German representa- tives, it was learned. They are sald to be emphasizing the necessity of getting bourgeois Ger- man co-operation in the program with- out delay and are warning the French of the propaganda which German Com- munists are: making out of the inter- national squabble for the control of German industry. Fighting Workers’ Revolution. The Dawes plan proponents argue that once the program is in effect that German workers can be regulated far more effectively than at present and that the menace of revolution can be met bya united allied front. Hughes today stated publicly that the Dawes plan, however, rests on adequate guarantees for the interna- tional loan to Germany. His statement follows a declaration by U. S. Am- bassador Kellogg in defense of the banking interests and is ‘interpreted as assurance that there will be no receding from the broad principle that the bankers’ interests must be held paramount over those of French na- tionalism in the execution of the com- ing program. ** @ , See U. S. Dictatorship. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, July 29.—American im- perialism holds the balance of power between the rival capitalisms of Eng- land and France, says a statement on the international situation issued by the Communist International. UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS DESPERATE (Continped from page 1) month. The total wages paid on class one railroads was nearly two percent less. | Sharp Decline in Year The Department of Labor further says that its reports, based on the con- ditions in the identical plants for the last two years, show a decrease of 12.9 percent in employment; 16.8 percent in payroll totals; and 4.6 percent in per capita earnings from June 1923 thru June 1924, The New England group of states leads in the reduction of employment and wagés with 16.1 and 24.4 percent respectively for the year. In the East North Central Division the decline in employment was 13.7 percent and in payroll totals 18 percent, since last June. The' Middle Atlantic states in- dicate a decrease of 13 percent in em- ployment and 16% percent in payroll totals since June 1923. The remaining divisions also show large decreases in both items for the year. Forty-seven of the fifty-two indus- tries surveyed show a decline in em- ployment. Forty-three industries show a decline in payroll total during this period. The brick, confectionary, baking, pottety, and book and job printing show increases in employment of from 2.5 to 5 percent for the year. In the last twelve months, thirty (ndustries reduced their working forces by more than 10 percent. The workers engaged in the manufacture of agri- cultural implements were the hardest hit with a reduction of 31.6 percent. Machinists Severely Hit The foundry and machine shop work- ers lost nearly 24 percent. The work- ingmen engaged in steam-railroad car building and repairing lost 22 percent of the total employed. Seventeen per- cent of the leather workers and 19 percent of the cotton goods and shirt workers were dismissed within the last year. The automobile industry shows a loss of 16144 percent; woollen and worsted goods, 14.8 percent; and iron and steel 12.4 percent in the number employed during the year. The decrease in payrolls in the above industries was even greater in the last twelve months. In cotton goods there was a decrease of thirty-five per- cent in payroll totals; foundries and machine shops, more than 28 percent. Agricultural implements and carpets, more than 27 percent; automobiles, more than 23 percent, woollen goods, nearly 24 percent; steam-railroad car building and repairing, about 23 per- by the big metropolitan newspapers and the leading rural organs, the following indicators of the actual eco- nomic trend are especially significant. At Martinsburg, West Virginia, six plants of the Interwoven: Mills cut wages 10 percent. At Youngstown, Ohio, the wages of the sheet and tin workers have just been reduced ten cents a hundred pounds, Twenty six operators in the Kanawha, West Vir- ginia Coal field, posted last week a scale of wages cutting the tonnage rates to the same level as those of 1917. The McKeesport Tin Plate Com- pany has reduced its wages by 20 per- cent, The Brockton Shoe Manufactur- ers Association is seeking to cut wages 10 percent. In Cal’s State The advanced report of the Depart- ment of Labor and Industries of the State of Massachussetts for July shows a further decrease of nearly 3 percent in the number of employes; a fall of more than 4 percent in the total pay- roll and a decline of 1.3 percent in the cent; and'the iron and steel industry, close to 22 percent, in the total pay- rolls. In the last year, there was also a decrease in the per capita earnings of The Comintern sees a coming dic- 20 percent in the cotton goods indus- tatorship of American capitalism over try; more than 19 percent in the carpet all of Burope that is not under the industry; 10% percent in the iron sway of the proletarian revolutionary | anq steel industry; more than 10 per- movement. The pseudo Labor govern-| cent in woollen goods manufacturing, ment of Dngland and the Left Bloc} anq more than 9 percent in the men’s average weekly earnings per pérson. Twenty of the thirty-six industries surveyed show a decline in weekly earnings in June, as compared with May. Twenty-seven of these industries in Massachussetts show a decline in he number of employed for this veriod. Nearly 72 percent of the esta- lishments are reported to be operat- ng below the normal pace. Abandon Many Illinois Mines The latest report of the Illinois Coal Operators Association shows that 138 mines or 85 percent of the total ship- ping mines of the state, representing 21 percent of the total state output, and employing 25 percent of the miners “have been closed indefinitely or abandoned.” Nearly 200 mines are now being operatéd less than two days a week, The approximate value of the mines abandoned or closed indefinitely is said to be about forty million dollars, Finally, the report just issued by the Department of Commerce on the do- mestic business conditions reveals the following situation: The total opera- tion of spindle hours reported by cotton mills for the month of June shows a decrease of nearly six hundred thousand from ‘the preceding month and a fall of more than three million spindle hours from the corresponding month of 1923. Copper And Auto Slump Then, the merchant big iron furnaces and the gray iron foundries, and the fine production of-copper, report fur- ther decreases in production for June. In the same period the production of passenger automobiles decreased more than sixty thousand from the preced- ing month and nearly one hundred thousand from June 1923. June car loadings were more than a half a million less than they were a year ago, Experts Blame Social THE DAILY WORKER Page Thread ener ee re A ae GOVERNOR SMALL TAKES STAND IN BIG GRAFT TRIAL Len Was Millionaire Before Governor (Special to the DAILY WORKER) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 29.—Gov- Jernor Len Small, candidate for goy- ernor of this state to succeed him- self anf@ possible ally of LaFollette in the presidential scramble, took the witness stand here today in the suit seeking to compel him to return to the state: $2,000,000 interest on state funds which Small is charged with loaning to business concerns and put- ting the interest in his own pocket while he was state treasurer. The governor, of course, denied the charges, He had dodged the witness stand for three years and significance was attached to his appearance now on the eve of the election campaign, before Master in Chancery Charles G. Briggle, who is, incidentally, chair- man of the Sangamon county repub- lican committee. The case has unusual political im- portance, owing to the fact that a per- son Owing the state money is ineleg- ible to the office of governor, and Mas- ter Briggle must be able by August 8 to state whether or not Small owes the state of Illinois interest money. Magnate’s friend. Small, in giving a history of his career admitted his connection with the great railroad magnate, Theodore Shonts and later with the Illinois Central, which developed into a great real estate, enterprise and electric road promotion which accounts in part for the governor’s wealth. In 1900, Shonts, then president of The Three Eye Railroad owned a large tract of land west of Kankakee along its. track. He employed pro- moters to build a factory town on the site. Somebody had to act as a blind for the railroad, to be responsible for the purchase of the land and the pay- ments. Mr. Small was one of three selected. After a while Shonts quit The Three Eye Railroad.and turned over his in- terests to the Illinois Central. The latter was not anxious to build a fac- NEGRO HITS U. (Continued from page 1) we will give America credit for hav- ing a conscience which can be reached and appealed to in time of need, and so we are going to try to reach that conscience in the month of August, We are going to find out whether they are going to stabilize the country and put her in a position where she is going to be dignfied and respected. First Haiti, Then Brazil. “I believe, however, that they are playing the same game there as they are playing in Brazil. You have heard of the ‘revolution’ in Brazil, Brazil is now in a state of turmoil and war. Brazil was getting on so well. The Brazilians have been a progressive colored people. But for the last ten or twenty years white folks have started to emigrate to Brazil from England, France, Germany, and Con- tinental Europe. Now, we are hearing ofg ‘revolutions’ down there. Amer- icans have been going there in num- bers for the past 20 years. Some may not think much of it. but let me tell you, the ‘revolution,’ which is going on there 8 similar to the one in Haiti, which caused America to get an excuse to go in there. Foreign Capitalists Stir Trouble. “The Haitians never troubled any foreigners. It was the German and other capitalists and traders who went there and stirred up the people to fight each other so that they could get away with their spoils, and find an argument for America to go there and take away the poeple’s country. America has found an excuse, namely, to stabilize and pacify the country. They did that in Haiti and now they are going to do it in Brazil. “That is the game they are going to play elsewhere, until they get the whole world. Battleships to Brazil. “We see in an article in the news- tory town so the upshot of the whole business was that Mr. Small fell heir to the entire tract, having bought out the interests of the other two. Didn’t Need the Money. The object of Small’s yarn was ¢o show where he got his money. He is charged with taking it out of the state while he was treasurer. He is attempting to show that he did not need the money, that he was a million- aire before he assumed that office. Master Briggle allowed Mr. Small S. IMPERIALISM papers that America will send her battleships there to protect American interests. Soon England@® will do the same, and so you may see the British and American flags hoisted in Brazil. It is a capitalistic action. The capital- ists send their agents. The first agent is the missionary. guard. Missionaries Political Bootleggers. “The preacher, the so-called ister of the gospel, who is the modern material organization, who is advance guard of commercial- ism, graft and plunde murder. He was the advance guard in Africa, and that is why there is nothing in Africa but robbery and plunder, east and west, north and south. The same they are doing in South America, robbing, exploiting and civilizing the heathen. This is the modern trend of Christianity as handed out by the white man.” Turn From Vision to Fight. The Universal Negro Improvement Association, which is reputed to be the largest Negro organization in the world, has been severely criticized for diverting the American Negroes’ attention from the wrongs in Amer! their by launching col- solution of onization schemes for Africa very similar to the Je h, Zionist move- ment. It has been claimed that even|' the Ku Klux Klan, the worst enemy of the Negro, became enthu c about the African colonization scheme because of its encouragement of the Negro to give up his fight for his rights in America in favor of the vision of “equality in Africa.” This year’s convention is expected to mark a new era in which the organization may undertake a definite struggle for the rights of the Negro in his native America. Send In that Subscription Today! to ramble along with his stories. The governor ‘is quite a prosperous man. His interests are many. He told about his banking en- terprises. He became director of the First National Bank of Kankakee after he had purchased ten shares of stock from Edward C. Curtis, a railroad company dummy. Then the First National Bank was consolidated with the Legris Brothers’ private bank and Len Small was elected pres- ident. HUNENOGQONNE0UGGQGU0NGEEUUOGENOGOONENUGNONEUUOOGEREUEEUAGOOOEOEEEE}OOOOOEOEEOOGOOOGUENUGUOOOSENT}NCOOGOOOOGOGOOGG00000008009088000000000000000000EROEREE He is the advance min- f} manslaughter [LANDLORDS HELD FOR DEATHS OF | BURNED NEGROES Arson, Manslaughter of Kansas City Men (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo. y ~Two men have been arre d with nd the of a tenement last week. Fifteen in the bla lapsing Two we and others trapped son neg men died |death trap. the thirteen negro occupants. The men are Louis Goldstein, owner firer were of the building, and Joe scuola, & renter from Goldstein. The men were Jarrested after the coroner's inquest, | when it was discovered that Lascuola had rented the storeroom in Gold- stein’s buildings that had been found to contain twenty-five 10-gallon cans of gasoline. bedtime Goldstein has figured in several in recent years. nement that was new, but carelessly built. The joists were unanchored no fire esc The suge 2 on of the building code to prevent the erec> ion of similar v » buildings and mo rigid insy as well a@ stricter building requirement Owing ot horrible black belt conges- tion, rooms are at a premium, eve when, as here, they have no outsid@ windows. The negro population has nearly doubléd in the past decade and no extension of the district has been allowed. Negroes who attempt td move beyond are bombed out. RIL 3 ag Queer Accident. OSHKOSH, Wis., July 29.—Work+ men are repairing damage dene when \the engineer of a heavy freight train} loaded with lumber jammed his brakes, so tightly in order to miss alied at a street crossing that thé, entire train telescoped. 4 Mongolian Bank Reopened. % URGA,—After an interval of fiv@ years, the Bank of Trade and Induse try has again been opened at Urga, The chief share-holders are the Mons golian Government and the Far-East. ern Bank of the Ussr. The bank will open branch offices in the remaining more important centers of Mongolia, VOTE and WORK | FOR of Franc@fre designated as the masks clothing industry. behind which Morgan's American autocracy is hiding its dictatorship. Both of these Great Mass Unemployed Forty percent of the nearly 6,000 pacifist-democratic| plants investigated by the Department grOups are supporting the Dawes plan|of Labor were operating on part time for bankers’ control of middle Europe. | schedule. Germans Face 12-Hour Day. “The result of the present London| forces. Sixty-two percent of these plants were operating with reduced At the same time wage de- conference,” continues the Comin- | creases were reported by 102 establish- tern’s statement, “will bring to the)ments in 25 industries. German workers a 12-hour day, dis- missal of 50 per cent of the railway workers, curtailment of the state em- ployes, imposition of heavy taxes, in- creased customs and railroad tariffs and high prices. German workers will be converted into slaves of dem- \@cracy and coolies of pacifism.” America itself, however, cannot escape the consequences of capital- Mstic breakdown, the Comintern’s mes- sage says in another place. Two mil- , lion farmers have left the soil, Amer- ica’s internal market is being reduced, her expansion in Latin America can- not go on indefinitely and Europe can- not absorb American goods as for- merly. No government survey has yet been made to indicate the total number of unemployed in the country. Mr. Ethel- bert Stewart, United States Commis- sioner of Labor Statistics; who recent- ly made an address before the Inter- national Association of Public Employ- ment Services, holding its convention in Chicago, shed some light on the normal unemployment situation. From his statement which we herewith sup- ply one can judge approximately the extent of unemployment prevailing in the country at this moment when the situation is quite aggravated. Said Mr, Stewart: “A study of the payroll data in the manufacturing in- dustries, which employ eleven million of our population, indicates that the Order of Capitalism For Franks Murder (Continued from pagé 1) of ill-repute upon his millions, sits in the inner circle drinking in eagerly the state’s reports and “warming” his heart with the thought of the ven- geance he will take. He draws little sympathy from the crowd and none from the workers who have been fleeced by either himself or his father in their old (now vanished) “loop” shop. ‘ Untried Criminals. “Jake” Loeb, former superintendent of schools and opponent of the teach- ers’ councils and the teachers’ union, sits back untried for all his crimes) against workers. = Leopold’s older brother looks suave, | capable of crimes of monetary profit) & rather than of thrills such as Nathan | experimented in. The Leopold father | is the one worried person in the court’ room. His world has been turned! & upside down. Whatever crimes he == may have committed against the| working class probably do not disturb | == Printed on a fine grade of paper. 12 inches wide by 18 inches high. Suitable for framing or posting in your window. FOSTER for PRESIDENT “Sel Get a photographic reproduction of this new picture of Foster free. Every Reader of THE DAILY WORKER will be a worker for FOSTER FOR PRESIDENT THE DAILY WORKE “ ‘will be the best, the most incessant worker for Communists Arouse Germans. | fiuctuation in volume of employment BERLIN, July 29—The Communist | alone spells an average total of twelve movement of Germany, which regis-| months unemployment for from one tered a following of 4,000,000 adults |mijion five hundred thousand to one at the last national election, is arous-|one million seven hundred and fifty ing the workers of the nation to the|thousand of that total number. Of menace of the Dawes plan. Revolu-| course, I do not mean that this num- tionary spirit is on the ascendancy. | ber of individuals are out of work for Bulgarian Revolt Impends, twelve months, but the average ag- SOFIA, July 29.—Likelihood of a|gragate of idleness for the low per- revolutionary overturn of the reac-|centage of full employment in various tionary Tsankoff government is en-| industries amounts to about one mil- hanced by crop difficulties. The goy-|lion seven hundred and fifty thousand ernment is threatening more repres- | being idle all the time.” sive measures but disaffection in the army is causing it to hesitate. A similar condition in Roumania makes prospects of military support from that country very doubtful. | No Prosperity Sign’ In view of the great emphasis now being laid on a revival of prosperity SOCIALIST DELEGATE WANTS TO ORGANIZE WORKERS PARTY BRANCH E. D, Ladd, of Elmira, New York, who states that he was a delegate to the socialist party convention in Cleveland recently, has written to the National Office of the Workers Party inquiring as to what is necessary to organize a branch of the Workers Party. Comrade Ladd asks for a copy of the platform and constitution of the Workers Party and all necessary details to how to go about the work of organizing a branch in his city. This letter is unquestionably another Indication of the effect of the Cleveland betrayal of its principles by the socialist party and represents something which fs happening in many parts of the country. Those social- Ists who earnestly believe in thé underlying principles of their movement are turning to the Workers Party as the organization which today is uphold- ‘ing, the fundamental Marxian prinol in the United States. * ‘The new branch to be organized at Elmira, N. Y., undoubtedly will be the first of a number of branches made up of socialist party members ‘which wif be organized by the Workers Party. him, but the fact that the family is brought into such a trying situation. Capitalism Goes Free. The trial of young Loeb and Leo- pold attracts attention around the world because of the prominence of the participants, prominence due to wealth. But such thousands of crimes due to capitalism; the crimes of wars, in which the horrors are multiplied tremendously; of war profiteers; of political grafters; of political vio- lence; these are never brought before the bar of the world. And when class conscious workers attempt to bring these crimes to the attention of their fellow workers, they are ruthlessly |& shut up, ettled” with another crime. . dared an’ officer to cross a FILIPINO SCOUTS WHO STRUCK FOR MORE PAY FACE MILITARY COURT (Special to The DAILY WORKER) MANILA, July 29.—The trial of 209 Filipino scouts, charged with mutiny, started today at the Fort McKinley Y. M. C. A. Auditorium before a court composed of Gener- al” Douglas’ MacArthur, Colonels Laithscho!l and Wallace and Majors Gilmore, Shearer, Hunt and Under. hill. The first witness testified that the mutineers refused to leave their barracks the day of the strike and ere N a oa enna "THE DAILY WORKER Chicago, Ill. I sub. FOSTER FOR PRESIDENT YOU!! For Foster for President by securing new subscribers to THE DAILY WORKER ~ e 4 MONTH SPECIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS (For new subscribers only) Get a New Reader for the DAIL USE THE 11113 W. 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