The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 1, 1924, Page 2

Page Two —_zx—X—X—=—£=£E£&{_£_&_*—*KX_——_—_>————EEEqEEwwwwssss FRENCH TURN EUROPE OVER TO BANKERS Herriot Plans Balance of Power for U.S. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) LONDON, July 31.—Western Europe seems safe for the in- ternational bankers, led by J. P. Morgan. Further details of Premier Herriot’s compromise proposal, made public today, give the balance of power to the American representative on the special tribunal proposed for the administration of the Dawes exactions from Ger- many. The French are still debating with the congress over the right of France to take separate action against Germany under certain circumstances and over the date for evacuation of the Ruhr but the interests of the American lenders are believed to be largely safeguarded by the strategic place of the U. S. representative. American Holds Decision. The French compromise says that declaration of a German default shall be held up until a committee of five economic, experts and representatives of the bond holders, one of whom shall be an American, has ratified the declaration. The matter then goes to the reparations commission Un- less the reparations commission is unanimous, the issue is then passed on to a special tribunal of arbitration, composed of three members, one an American. This American would hold the balance of power between the other two who would be English and French. Americans Control Revenues. Furthermore, an American will pre- side over the transfer committee dealing with German deliveries to the allies and another American is. ex- pected to be elected commissioner, to supervise Germany’s revenues. Americans consider the French of- fer too good to be called “compro- mise.” It gives the House of Morgan more power in European affairs than any but those in the inner circle of finance or far-seeing Communists dreamed was possible. It is expect- 4 thay this power will be amplified “sre | he plan is -hammered. into shape. Bankers Want More Yet. Objection is still raised at some of the French demands. The financiérs object to the demand for deliveries in*kind as likely to interfere with the Profitable workings of German indus- try. They demand also an earlier evacution of the Ruhr than the French have yet consented to. Op- timism is expressed, however, that these difficulties will be met. RIVERVIEW RAIN OR SHINE August 10th --- Sunday Press Picnic Day MUSSOLINI MUZZLES ALL MILAN PAPERS EXCEPT BROTHER'S (Special to the Daily Worker.) MILAN, July 31—The only daily paper allowed to continue publica- tion here is the Popol d'Italia, be- longing to Premier Mussolini's brother. All the other newspapers were confiscated when they reprint- ed and commented on a certain ar- ticle printed In the Rome paper Sereno. The paper reported that Signor Rossi, former fascist head of the press bureau of the department of the interior, has made revelations implicating many other persons in the murder of Deputy Matteotti, the socialist who was about to expose the crimes of the fascisti. GRAND JURY CONDEMNS CRIMINAL COURT BLOG, AS MENACE T0 SAFETY After resumption of the Franks’ murder case today, the grand Jury filed Into Judge Caverly’s court to present Indictments naming Walter Boryea and Ignatius Clombras on a charge of conspiracy to extort money from Jacob Franks; father of Bobby. The two Polish boys were arrested June 21, following receipt. by Mr. Franks of a letter demanding $8,000 and threatening kidnaping of Josephine Franks, Bobbie’s sister. The grand jury's report con- demned the Criminal Courts bulld- ing In which the trial is being held as a menace to safety. Negro Congress Meets to Deal With Big Issues (Continued from page 1) unitedly will be represented by the Negro Politieal Union, Let us all, therefore, work for the successful consummation of the program of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, so that we may be able to glory in a brighter day industri- ally, commercially, socially, religi- ously and politically.” Garvey Is Storm Center Interest is centered upon the lead- ership of Marcus Garvey, who has had a spectacular career in organizing the largest number of Negroes ever brought together in a single organiza- tion. Because of the methods em- ployed to assemble his following, Mr. Garvey has for several years been the storm-center of bitter controversies in the Negro liberation movement. Near- ly all other Negro leaders denounce his project for a “Black Star Line” of steamships which is the proposed means of colonizing American Ne- groes in Africa, building up a Negro government in Africa and thus sup- posedly helping to solve the Negroes’ problems. On the other hand Garvey denounces Negro leaders generally as misleaders and betrayers of their peo- ple. %s Klan Issue Many accusations have been made that Garvey/seeks to conciliate the Ku Kluz Klan by conceding the United States as a “white man’s country,” leading the Negroes to the visionary idea of solving their problems by a wholesale colonization in Africa, “the black Motherland.” Much interest is aroused by Garvey’s present proposal to the coming convention to discuss the Ku Klux Klan issue “without prej- udice.” The question is asked, whether this portends an effort to bring about the Negro’s surrender to the Klan, or whether Mr. Garvey ex- pects the convention to take a bold stand against the lynching and terror- ization of the Negroes by the Klan. The proposal that the Negro politi- eal union shall contend for the Ne- gro’s rights in the United States is considered an indication that Mr. Gar- vey does not intend to make any sur- render to the anti-Negro terrorists. Send In that Subscription Today. EXPOSES LEOPOLD (Continued from page 1) happened not to be receiving the busi- ness of the Leopold concern, could not understand why a trial should even be granted the two degenerates as he said: “too much time and money has been wasted now.” Where is the solidarity in the cap- italist class? Leopold’s Slaves At Work. We are not, however, concerned with this pigmy-minded, small town banker, but with the young girls and boys working by dangerous maehines ten long hours, standing on cement floors, who are furnishing the wealth out of their frajl and delicate bodies to pay the high-priced alienists and lawyers retained in behalf of this per- vert. Many of the Leopold factory opera- tions are done by boys and girls alike, but the latter are paid less. To pre- vent the crushing of fingers, one must be alert and concentrate full atten- tion on the work. All the work is based on piece work and the average KILLER’S FATHER BREAKS STRIKE (Continued from page 1) for shipment. The big millionaire scab manufacturing companies and stores of Chicago have been kind to their non-union friend Leopold. The Swift Meat Packing company is a steady customer of this sweat shop, GARY, IND., READERS. ATTENTION! MONSTER PICNIC SUNDAY, AUG. 3rd at the Grove on 47th and Madison Streets SPEAKER: Cc. —E RUTHENBERG Entertainment — Refreshments Sports Picnic arranged for benefit of THE DAILY WORKER. Everybody in- vited for a good time. The Marshall Field Stores also con- tribute to Leopold's profits, as do Mandel Brothers, who are now await- ing a huge ‘shipment of suit boxes, and many other large department stores in Chicago. For the Prison Trust. The black beauty satin shirts which are manufactured in the prisonsiof the country, are supplied with many of their boxes by the Leopold speed-up shop. These shirts are sold at a low price, being made by the illest paid labor in the world. The graft, cor- ruption, suffering and cruelty which cling to these shifts is as black as the satin of which they are made. It is fitting that they should be packed in boxes made at the Leopold factory, which is only one degree ahead of the convict labor. Leopold can sell to the prison trust because his factory pays netoriously low wages and works the men and girls at breakneck speed for ong hours. LEOPOLD SLAVE PEN ADMIRED BY MORRIS MAYOR Keeps Youth Out of Mischief, He Thinks By KARL REEVE. (Special _to the DAILY WORKER) MORRIS, Illinois, July 31.— Mayor William Fessler of Mor- ris, republican, when told that Chicago labor elements charged Nathan Leopold, sr., with grind- ing money out of Morris citi- zens at the Morris Paper Mill, owned by him, in order to sup- ply money to a spendthrift fam- ily, and save his slayer son from the gallows, answered: “We are tickled to death to have the paper. mill here.” The mayor, reflecting the business element which wants to keep the young people from migrating to the larger cities, no matter what starva- tion wages they get at some, said: Against Unions. ¢ “The Morris Paper Mill ‘is a boon to the town. Of’course, the wages are small and the hours kind of long and the work speedy, but after all, only young men and girls are em- ployed in the factory and it keeps them at home and increases busi- ness. There are no labor organiza- tions in Morris. I have never heard the Chamber of Commerce meetings mention organized labor either favor- ably or, otherwise. I do not think the labor union should be allowed in Morris.” Mayor Fessler spoke as a business man ‘and Chamber of Commerce member who represented the middle class scab element in control of the town. Meanwhile the unsuspecting young people of the town slave away here at now three-fourths union wag- es and under scab conditions. Business Growing. The Morris Paper Mill is the larg- est industrial plant in town. The pro- fits garnered by the Leopold factory have greatly \ increased lately. In- creased business made it necessary in the last year to build a fabricat- ing factory with forty-five thousand feet of floor space. The non-union down-state conditions are so profit- able that Leopold is branching into other lines of the paper trade and a large office building adjoining the fac- tory is now nearing completion. . _ Women Scorn “Bob.” WASHINGTON, July 31..The Na- |tional Women’s Party, whose sole test \for the apportioning of votes is sup- ‘port of their reactionary anti-welfare platform, will not endorse the “Pro- | gressive” campaign any more than the lola parties. The Women’s Party is really not representative of the major- ity of women, certainly not represent- ative of working-class women who most need social legislation until rev- jolution can bring them their really jfair treatment. ’S OPEN SHOP HELL salary is some $15 to $18 per week. Women who have more than one mouth to feed establish a pace that is killing. , Like other factories of this charac- ter, it-has to its record the crushing of many strikes. The men did not or- ganize and therefore they were de- feated. The girls are disgusted with the boys who just recently went on strike in the caddy department and returned in two days’ time. As one said, “How are they going to win if they act like a bunch of cowards?” Bosses Fear Visitors. ‘'! It is impossible to go thru the plant unless you are overloaded with creden- tials from the most influential busi- ness concerns. The only excuse for this given by Mr. Beckwith, the man- ager, was that they had a great many new inventions and were afraid they would be copied. Karl Reeve and my- self, however, in the morning went thrh a part of the plant, the box de- partment, without asking the permis- sion of anyone. Bosses were suspici- ous. We got much information from the girls. ‘ Mr. Leopold no longer makes any visits to his factory. All of his time is taken with defending the life of his son. Mr. Leopold never thought that he was killing many lives merely to save his boy. He seems unconscious of the hundreds of young girls whose womanhood he is destroying; of the young boys whose lives he is crush- ing; of the men and women, fathers and mothers, who no longer can ful- fill the duties to their children, be- cause the millionaire parent wants to make more money for lounge lizard criminals. - Crimes Against the Workers While some of the rich parasites weep for the boy, and the State's At- torney with the judge, police, etc., are interested in hanging Nathan Leopold Jr, and Richard Loeb, yet these same individuals make no efforts to arrest the wholesale murder and crippling of the young workers in the Morris Paper Mills, Sears, Roebuck and Co., and many other human-wrecking, modern slave shops of production un- der the Leopold-Loeb interests. THE DAILY WORKER MILLIONAIRE SLAYERS WIN The long-awaited results of the “Million-for-Defense” trial of Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb have begun to show in the court room. The wealthy young murders seem about to win at least a hearing of “mitigating evidence” which their counsel Clar- ence Darrow hopes: will save them from the extreme penalty for their crimes. Judge John R. Caverly wearily bat- tled state’s attorney Robert E. Crowe over the right of the court to hear the testimony of medical men on the degree of responsibility of the con- fessed slayers. Caverly is quite will- ing to hear, in fact, insists that he hear, the case of the defense, altho the boys have pleaded “guilty.” Judge Is Willing. His disposition to hear the results of Darrow’s and Benjamin Bachrach’s legal defense may be a mere gesture of toleration, a show of “impartiali- ty.” It may be friendliness to the de- fense, part of the results of the “Mil- lions for Defense.” It is scarcely con- ceivable in this day of such gross in- justice on every side that Judge Ca- verly should “be actually playing the part of the blinded maiden with the scales. But even that may be the truth. The judge is at least willing to listen to the defense with as much atten- tiveness as he has heard the state’s case presented. Workers Get Short Shift. In by far the majority of trials of workers, whether on actual or trumped-up criminal or radical charg- es, the court would be much ‘more willing to accept the state’s attor- ney’s prejudiced judgment and cut short the defense. In the equity court where the infamous Judge Dennis Sullivan sits the striking garment’ workers and their attorney Peter Siss- man received the least courteous at- tention consistent with the “dignity” of the court. The steel workers in the Farrell case, tried in Mercer, Pennsylvania, were given scant audience by the court. The state’s case was accepted beforehand. In California the courts have accepted the false testimony of two confessed degenerate stool-pig- eons hundreds of times to convict members of the Industrial Workers of the World who were never given a fair hearing by the judges. Darrow Serene. Clarence Darrow .is.mot the, wor- ‘ied man in the trial of young Loeb ind Leopold. Whether he is wearing i “poker” mask and whether he does or does not know what is coming, that remains to be seen. The melo- dramatic Mr. Crowe reiterates his in- tention of balking any pretense of an “insanity” defense. W. R. “Hoists” Puppet. Art Brisbane, Hearst's " left-hand- column preacher of vicious pseudo- liberalism, appeared in court yester- day at the moment when the salaci- ous details were being whispered into the ears of the court stenographer. Art climbed right up with Judge Ca- verly and chatted feriliarly for about ten minutes before taking a seat in the “inner circle” where he could write his blather about the boys and the “judge with a cold, stern face.” Brisbane, you notice, arrives at the end of the state’s case and the begin- ning of the defense. Now the case gets interesting! , But after all, the workers who have been slain for the greed of these fath- ers, Leopold, Loeb (and his brothers) and Franks, the workers whose slav- ery permitted the degeneracy of the young men, are not so much con- cerned with the outcome of the trial. Their wage slavery continues and will until they realize the power of their organizing and take society in hand so that no more such parasites shall be. Soviets Organize Aid for Victims Of Intervention (Rosta News.) MOSCOW, July 31.—In view of the large number of applications being re- ceived by the board and committees of the Society for Assisting the Vic- tims of Intervention, as well as by various Government departments, with claims on the part of Soviet citi- zens having suffered from alien inter- verition—the Council of People’s Com- missaries has decided to institute a special commission, attached to the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, to consi all such claims and pretences. Mr. Somashko, Peo- ple’s Commissary of Public Health, has been appointed chairman of this commission, The commission has been instructed to thoroughly consider all the claims of the Union citizens of compensa- tion for property and personal losses incurred through the hostile acts of foreign governments and trogps in Russian territory and also to fix the procedure for putting forth such claims to the respective foreign gov- ernments. RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY COURT'S EAR 4p $$ Coffee Up 10 Cents; Trust Blames It on Revolution in Brazil By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.° TODAY, the price of coffee has increased ten cents per pound. The house-wife, when she goes to the grocery store, if she is given any reason for this boost in price, will be told that it is, because there is a revolution going on in, Sao Paulo, a province of Brazil. Three-fourths of the world’s supply of coffee comes from Brazil, there is trouble down there, and there you are, says the trust. The house-wife will probably wend her way homeward, blaming some “Bolshevik” of her imagina- tion, and picturing in her mind the borders of Brazil touch- ing those of Soviet Russia. * * In Chicago the city cowncil committee on the high cost of living gets busy and calls for the usual silly “BOYCOTT” to keep prices down. The committee's secretary announces that Chicago uses 83,333. pounds of coffee per day, which means an added $265,000 dropped into the pockets of the coffee trust, from this city alone, * * * We turn to the pages of the July 30th issue of/the New York Commercial. This is a house organ of the big corpora- tions that profit in food. The house-wife doesn’t read it. She gets no further than the comics, perhaps to the woman’s page, and the account of the Loeb-Leopold murder trial. Here are a few headlines in the New York Commercial on the “coffee situation”: ‘Rebellion Has Not Influenced Coffee Prices;” “Coffee Declines on Brazilian News;’ “Market Closed 27 to 37 Points Lower.” * * But the coffee trust is deaf, dumb and blind to all this news. The coffee trust, like any other trust, is only awake to opportunities to increase the price of the commodity it deals in. The revolution in the Brazilian province of Sao Paulo had hardly gotten under way before the subsidized press began carrying propaganda predicting boosts in the price of coffee. The hand of the hungry profiteer could easi- ly be discerned in this. This propaganda was soon followed by the 10 cent price boost. * * * * There is nothing new about these repeated highway robberies of the big business bandits. It is all a part of the profiteering game. ‘ The only exception that we know of is that no an- nouncement has yet been made of a change in the price of toothpicks because of the forest fires in the West. But per- haps this has slipped us past. * * a * There was a time when no coffee came from Brazil. But the profiteers had other excuses for increasing prices then. Arabia formerly supplied the world, later the West Indi and then Java, way off in the Orient. But now these fi of coffee production have been hi agen by Brazil South America, many thousands oftmiles from Soviet Ru and no coffee trust agents have as yet charged that the Sao Paulo revoluti ew is Sropping millions of dollars into their laps, is ‘being ngineere from Moscow. ' ; In fact, the Sao Paulo revolution is an uprising against the centralized authority in Rio Janeiro. And Sao Paulo is only one of the four big coffee producing provinces of Brazil, no trouble being reported from the other three. There is no reason, therefore, for the boost in price of coffee, except the rapacity of the coffee profiteers. The coffee trust, like all the other trusts, international in its scope. A sandstorm on the Arabian deserts would just as quickly become the basis for an increase in the cost of “Mocha,” while a slight disturbance in the waters of the Indian Ocean might be used as an excuse for increasing the ‘cost of “Java.” i ee ef ‘ As a matter of fact, “The Chicago Journal of Com- merce,” July 31, in a New York dispatch, declares that, “The stock of 824,000 bags of coffee at Santos (Sao Paulo) is said © be largely low grade coffee and not suitable for the U. S. rade.” a ? Some day the workers and farmers will become as in- ternational as the big trusts. They will discover the “con” game that is being put over on them. The workers in the coffee fields, of Brazil, will feel an identity of interest with the workers and farmers of the United States, who consume about one-half of all the coffee exported by the producing countries of the world. The coup d'etat of the coffee trust in boosting the price of this household necessity ten cents per pound should be a little study in internationalism for the workers and farmers. Thus it will do some good. When the workers of the world decide to comple unite they will be in a position to get rid of the profiteers of the world... AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) les over his eyebrows and sometimes nothing else but wrinkles in his pock- ets. To be or not to be will be a problem for The DAILY WORKER, until the day after the proletarian revolution when it becomes the offi- clal organ of the Soviet Republic of the United States. ss @ @ Shooting the circulation skyward is the favorite indoor and outdoor sport among the staff of The DAILY WORKER. From the editors to the copy boy, everybody is anxious to for The DAILY WORKER should not be difficult of fulfillment. Surely every party member has an acquain- tance, a worker with whom he or she has talked about the class struggle. Let each member make it his duty to line up a new member and a new reader, - Some of the Hearst papers have reached a circulation of a million daily, The Chicago Tribune is close to three quarters of a million daily and the Sunday edition runs to about one million. The DAILY WORKER Fascist Italian ambassador at Wash- ington and also special “dicks” of the United States Steel Corporation kept Fi Friday, August 1, 1924 FASCIST AGENTS BADLY BEATEN | BREAKING MEET But Anti-Fascisti Get Arrested for Speech (Special to The DAILY WORKER) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 31— The two Fascist agents who attempt- ed to break up an anti-Fascisti protest meeting here are nursing their grudg- es and their wounds in the hospital. They were badly beaten when they refused to permit the meeting to con- tinue peaceably. The two anti-Fascist speakers who were addressing the crowd of steel and other workers about the crimes of Mussolini and his fellow criminals and were deploring the murder of the socialist deputy Matteotti were ar- rested for the disturbances the two Fascisti created. “Il Lavoratore” Man Jalled. Fernando Pascoli of the staff of “Nl Lavoratore,” Communist daily Italian paper, and Domenico Marcovecchi, the speakers, are still in jail await- ing the raising of their bond money. Two other Fascisti agents of the quiet when they say how badly their noisy friends were treated and in- stead, called the police to arrest the peaceful speakers for “disturbing the peace,” Fascist Prevocateurs. The meeting had been in progress , only 10 minutes when the Fascisti provocateurs attempted to insult the speakers and incite the crowd to vio- lence. The agents drew their guns and knives and brandished them un- til the angry audience, which had re- quested their silence until discussion was called for, attacked them and gave them a terrific beating. Even women who were in the hall and remembered how the Fascisti in Italy have abused their sex, added their kicks to the attack upon the dicks. These dicks are employed in the mills to keep up with Judge Gary’s “friendship” for Fascism and for its black dicator Mussolini. Their task is to stir up differences among the workers and keep them divided, They have been sent over by the Fas- cist government, some of the Italian workers insist, etchant Cleveland Young Workers. Cleveland, ©., July 31.—Young Workers League, West Side English Branch, picnic at Lorain Ave and 117th St. on Sunday, Aug. 3, from 11 am, on. There will be a Program of Sports, including fifty-yard dash for boys; fifty-yard dash for girls; hundred yard dash for men; hundred yard dash for women; fat men’s race, 100 yards; fat women’s race, 50 yards, Prizes will be given, such as candy, fountain pens, string of beads, etc, The Committee in charge insures, all Young Workers and Old Workers a good time. A special invitation is extended to all Party and League members and sympathizers. Admis- sion will be 25 cents. Seren aeons Send in that Subscription Today. WM. 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The big drive now on to double the mem- bership of our party and the circula- tion of our daily has aroused great enthusiasm among our members, ‘They realize what a power our propa- ganda will have when it reaches twice as many workers, perhaps four times as many as it reaches now. Every new subscriber for The DAILY WORKER means that four more workers read the paper, The plan to fave ber get a new mem and at the same time # new reader} doing your duty in this drive, eel, me will not be satisfied with a circulation of 50,000 or 100,000. It has a clear field and no competition. It is the only workingclass paper in the United States, published daily in the English language that fights the capitalists, and insists that the capitalist system must be overthrown, Let us make this circulation drive the business of — PICNIC - SUNDAY, AUG. 3rd Lorain Ave. and West 117th Street every brs nl member of the party. 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