The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1924, Page 3

Monday, August 4, 1924 “BLACKJACK” PERSHING COMES FROM EUROPE’S BATTLEFIELDS TO MOBILIZE FOR NEXT WAR “Blackjack” Pershing is back in Washington after dining around Europe with the Belgian king and other notables in France and England. General John J. Pershing, who commanded United States forces in the last great war, has just returned from “inspecting” the cemeteries where the thousands of young men whom he sent to slaughter fdr the imperial capitalists are rotting. And this same Pershing has the audacity to come “home” in time to assume charge of th “killing” of the best young men of the nation, thousands more of the young workers who were under age or escaped death in the last world war. “Blackjack” Pershing is taking per- sonal charge of the plans for National Mobilization day, Sept. 12 and he has come fresh from the burial mounds of the battlefields of Europe where American lads. lie sacrificed to the greed of imperial capital. Governors Line Up. One by one the states’ governors are getting behind President Coolidge in this great militaristic mobilization. If the governors are democrats they grumble a little and pretend that Coolidge is “going too far,” but they would go the limit themselves if war were forced upon them by the interna- tional financiers and capitalists. John W. Davis, democratic presi- dential nominee, has seconded his run- ning mate’s, Charlie Bryan’s weak protest from Nebraska, mildly criti- cizing the little puppet in the white house for including civilians in the mobilization and “inculcating the militarist spirit” in the people. But Morgan with a crook of his finger would make both Johnny and Charlie run to do his bidding and order the boys out from all the factories, mines, mills, and workshops (except munt- tions works) in the country to make real war on workers, of other lands. Utah Ready. Governor Charles R. Mabey of Utah has announced that he is “squarely behind President Coolidge in his call for the observance of National De- fense Day.” He even uses Cal’s re- vised name for the military holiday of the war lords. Governor Fields of Kentucy has sanctioned “the day” and is taking an active part in arranging the details for his state’s participation. Bob’s Man Approves. Governor “Jake” Preus of Minne- gota has vowed he will do all hecan to make Mobilization Day a success in his country altho the farmers are not interested in fighting for a govern- ment which has given them no con- sideration whatsoever. Governor Blaine, LaFollette’s reac- tionary “tail” in Wisconsin, has is- sued a proclamation demanding the observance of the Mobilization Day, Sept. 12. The Socialists will probbaly go along here, too, with Bob and his tough old governor. Governor A. V. Donahey of Ohio will assist in the mobilization of all possible military forces in his state in spite of a storm of protest from church organizations whose appeals to Secretary of War Weeks may be found in his waste basket. Texas Waiting. Governor Pat Neff of Texas is “con- sidering” what his position on Mobil- ization Day will be. He has received the official propaganda of the Cool- idge Republican imperial-capitalist- militarist gang on the subject and will undoubtedly fall in behind the patriotic band. And this is just the beginning of the Hning up of forces. Illinois may- ors meet next week to decide their part in the military show. All over the country from now until Sept. 12 the state and local politicians as well as the national ones will be scheming how to get the most votes out of their participation in the Mobilization Day. To Scare World. By “the day” the forty-eight stat will be in lin®, whether they all like it or not, and the workers will be forced to lay off a day and strut around in goose-step to: intimidate Japan and France and all other na- tions that may entertain any idea of hindering American imperialism’s tri- ,RIVERVIEW RAIN OR SHINE August 10th --- Sunday Press Picnic Day e preparations for the next big uu _____ umphant march across the world. The workers will have to submit in an effort to frighten such of them as may be intelligent enough to resent and resist the predatory wars of cap- italfem. It will be the task of Corh- munists everywhere in that day to carry the message of this Anti-capi- talist War Week commemorating the beginning of the World War thruout the land, into the ranks of the mobi- lized workers in every state so that they will not be deluded again when the real war comes. N.Y, PAYROLLS DROP $1,500,000 IN SINGLE WEEK Hard Facts Refuting Prosperity Boosters (Special to the Daily Worker.) ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 3.—Another million and a half dollars was clipped from the weekly payrolls of factories in New York state between May and Juhe, according to commissioner of labor, B. L. Shientag. The reduction since March in the monthly income of the factory population amounts to $20,000,000. ‘Wage rate decreases, says the re- port, ‘ere significant for the first time in 2 years. Wage cuts during the month outnumbered the increases. In June 1923 factory payrolls in the state reached the highest point of the boom then under way. Weekly payrolls were estimated at not less than $38,000,000. This June they were down to about $32,500,000, a de- crease of $5,000,000. The heaviest drop in payrolls for any group of industries is in textiles. Average weekly earnings of individ- ual textile workers were cut almost $2. The reduction went over $2 in cotton, carpet, and knitting mills. All wearing apparel industries the same way. Conspicuous decreases are also noted in the metal industries where payrolls have been cut in half in the iron and steel mills and cut one- third in the automobile factories. Paper mills and shoe factories have been severely affected. Average earn- ings in Rochester shoe factories were down to $19.49 compared with $22.72 in June, 1923. Russian Chemical Association Plans Widespread Action ‘ (Rosta Néws) MOSCOW, Aug. 3.—At the last ses- sion of the “Dobrochin” (Volunteer Chemical Association), held under Mr. Trotsky’s, the People’s War Commis- sary’s chairmanship, a number of im- portant questions were discussed, con- ‘nected with the statutes, the organiza- tion of branch associations thruout the Union of Soviet Republics and the raising of funds. Mr. Trotsky has been finally elected Chairman and Mr. Frunze (Acting People’s War Commis- sary), Mr. Piatakoff (Chairman of the Chief Concessions Committee) and Mr. Ipatieff—Vice-Chairman of the “Dobrochin.” A number of sections and under- sections of the Bureau have been or- ganized, covering all the various even- tual activities of the new national or- ganization. The main objects of the “Dobrochim” are to propagate and practically find ways and means for ‘the application of chemical resources in all the flelds of the life and activi- ties of the Union of Soviet Republics, including national defence and the economic restoration of the country, alanine Send in that Subscription Today. GET THE NEXT ISSUE "y “DAILY WORKER” MAGAZINE SECTION * - SATURDAY AUGUST 9TH Barren Wisdom—A reply to L. Boudin... Alexander Bittelman Negro Migration and It CAUSES iiss By Louls Zoobook “Danko"—A Story. 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At the close of the meeting fully 90 per cent of those present held up their right hand and pledged themselves to unal- terable opposition to all imperialist adventures of the ruling financial oli- garchy of this country. The meeting was opened by Com- rade Harry J. Canter who told of the International Demonstration being ar- ranged simultaneously in every coun- try of the world by the affiliated sec- tions of the Communist International in these countries. Comrade, Roberts spoke of the feeling in Britain at the opening of the last war, of his and his comrades’ experiences with the Defense of the Realm Act (their equivalent to our Espionage Act) when they pointed out the hollowness of Britain’s claims to the title of Pro- tector of Small Nations in the face of their treatment of the peoples of Ire- land and Egypt. U. &. Sailors Interested. The chairman introduced Comrade Ballam by holding up a copy of the Transcript of last September which contains a reproduction of Ballam’s Photograph and Bertillion measure- ments taken from the records of the Plymouth County Jail (where Com- Ballam served a year under the charge of obstructing recruiting). The signi- ficance of this and of the fact of Bal- lam’s unchanged opposition to all cap- italist wars was not lost to the audi- ence which stormily applauded his ap- pearance and applauded again and again every point he made against the war makers and their assistants the social-patriots. U. 8S. Navy were in the audience and they followed with interest his re- marks on the gross profiteering that went on under the Wilson adminis- tration. Forward with Foster. Placards and posters bearing let- tered slogans were loudly applauded as they were hung on the railing of the stand. Among others were these slogans: “Back to '76 with LaFollette or Forward to Soviet America with Foster.” “Univers#l Peace thru the Communist International or Imperial- ist War thru the League of Nations.” “Millions for War but not One Cent for Unemployment.” “War is Hell— Let the Boss Go to War.” “A vote for the Workers Party is a Vote Against War.” “Capitalism is the Cause of War—to Abolish War Abolish Capi- talism.” During the rest of the week at all street meetings thru the city demon- strations on a small scale will be held. Bill Lloyd Himself. Turns Up With Red Bandanna Bundle MILWAUKEE, Aug. 3. — A suspi- trousers created a good deal of com- motion among the guests at a tea given by the pacifist women of Mil- waukee. The uninvited guest was badly in need of a shave and took very kindly to the cake and ice cream which he grabbed without ceremony. He failed to remove his evil looking felt hat which apparently had nego- tiated the Biblical flood and every storm since then. His unshined heavy shoes did not improve the rugs. His red bandanna bundle, slung over his shoulder, came dangerously near the painting on the walls. It looked like one of the lamentable situations where pacifism breaks down and force and violence comes to the rescue until he made himself comfortable in a Chippendale chair and recited: 1 think the youth on landsand sea, Who meet the next emergency Will wish before t! id is gained That oldstyle war had been re- awfully Say, “War by any name is hell.” That was some relief for the paci-|| With one accord they |i fist women. applauded and gave rousing cheers for Bill Lloyd, author of the Dinner Pail Epics, the Federated Press jin- gles. Award Switchman $15,000, ST. LOUIS, Aug. 8—The Missouri supreme court has sustained a ver- dict for $15,000 in favor of Lucien De- clue, switchman, against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. The award ts for injuries sustained in 1920, while he|' was switching cars for the defendant | company, Many sailors of the| x J, BULL CABINET to Ulster Tories (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, Aug. 3.—Another Irish crisis confronts the British govern- ment. The British Labor Party of- ficials are dealing with the situation in much the same fashion as previous governments handled it. That is, by truckling to the Ulster reactionaries. The present crisis is over the boundary commission. The Ulsterites refused to accept a third man ap- pointed by the British government on the commission. The law creating the Free State called for this but the Belfast plutes care very little for any law that does not suit them- selves, In 1914 the Orangemen took up arms against the threatened en- forcement of the Home Rule Bill. The leader of the rebels, Sir Edward Car- son, was rewarded by a cabinet posi- tion. The same government that placed the woolsack on Carson, soon afterwards murdered James Connolly, opposing conscription with arms. The MacDonald government is fal- lowing the policy of Asquith, Lloyd George and Baldwin in dealing with the boundary crisis. To show his ab- sence of party spirit he invited lead- ers of all the other big parties into conference and the signatories to the Free State treaty. The privy council has ruled that the government cannot create a new com- mission to settle the boundary question unless new legislation is enacted. With the opposition of the Tories this will be ‘difficult. To complicate mat- ters, Ulster members of parliament are on their way to London to oppose such legislation. Shown the “Gold Fish.” After 4 running gun battle, today with two boys whom they discovered, they say, robbing a South Side store, police captured Albert Green and Robert Karkovitch, each 15 years old, who confessed to 215 robberies in the past few weeks. The boys, who said their activities last night included eight burglaries, took police to a cache where thousands of dollars in loot was discovered. SSSUVH000400000000000000KEUTVONEUHOVOOEOONQOQNOOOOGOONQOOQGUGUNF009TEN000FFOUOUTOGOQOQNTONOOUOUOUOTEGOQGQQOGOGQOQNHONNNE8909¢8 VOTE Printed on a fine grade of paper. 12 Inches wide by 18 Inches high. Suitable for framing or posting in ‘ your window. Page Three AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) wanted to write some sweet nothings about Mr. Davis’ family. Nothing do- ing says the female scion of the House of Davis—not David, The re- porter persisted. He got the “look.” It is in the family. Of course every capitalist candi- date must be lousy with virtue once Wall Street decides to put him on the tracks for the great political mara- thon, Nothing more can be said about Coolidge and he keeps perfect- ly silent. He does not make news, Davis is a good subject for the re- porters to work on, Those who read the capitalist press should not take capitalist reporters too seriously. They write what they must write. A New York World reporter, at the In- dianapolis convention of the United Mine Workers of America, got a sick stomach listening to James J. Davis, the Secretary of Labor making a speech. “That nut makes me sick,” he said. “He is crazy anyhow. he jumped off a train one night while on his way to a convention,” etc. And so on. But that reporter wrote a glowing account of Mr. Davis’ speech, telling how eloquently he flayed the radicals. ** Bennett is doing the same thing for Davis. This “look” which the Davis family inherited is a cross between a look of dignified command and one of withering reproach. How does Mr. Davis look when he comes into the presence of J, P. Morgan, his lord and master? The donkey jockey will need much more than the ancestral look to prove to the American workers that he means anything to them ex- cept a willing taskmaster. It is sig- nificant that the capitalist press are as fulsome in their praise of Davis as they are of Calvin Coolidge. It means that whatever difference hitherto ex- isted between the two parties are now practically eliminated. eee Peggy Joyce has dropped the Count. Not so very long ago she took the Count, It happened very hastily as is usual with Peggy when doing such things. “Marry in haste and repent at leisure,” is an admonition having no terrors for the conjugally versa- tile actress. Four times, if her mem- ory serves her right, Peggy had been over the road, when Count Costa Why, | Morner came into her lonely life. He was the picture of a viking, had a title, and had recently launched into @ campaign to make money via the tooth paste route. Swedish Count and tooth paste king! Peggy was in triguéd so she hopped onto him. The Count took the count in short order, threw up the sponge and threw up his} job as a manufacturer of tooth paste. Instead of cleaning teeth he was going to clean up on Peggy. * # © But ah! Peggy found out that he was cruel and the Count left nothing to the imagination after he asked the Countess to pay his laundry bill for the 99th time. “A man who cannot maintain himself in clean linen is no viking,” said Peggy, or words, to that] effect, whereupon, the Count invoking Thor, lit on Peggy. She did not have a. Chinaman’s chance, will be staged in the divorce court There is no moral to this tale. It is sufficiently adorned , without one Neither the Count nor Peggy are Bol- sheviks, so the capitalist press and William Jennings Bryan will draw no nasty conclusions from the incident, or blame it on evolution. Pie Mexico has recognized the Soviet Republic. The president-elect of that country will visit Europe and may take a trip to Moscow. This news will not add to the equanimity of our bewhiskered Mr. Hughes. The latter is now in Europe trying to clear the road for the Dawes’ plan. Rakovsky, the “Soviet delegation leader in Lom don, is reported to have suggested to Moscow that unless the British gov- ernment get down to business it is no use wasting any more time in Lon- don. France is snuggling closer to Moscow. Germany has just salaamed to the Soviet Republic. Stresemann did not exactly rub his forehead :in the mud but his head went below his knees. Ramsay MacDonald's so-called | labor government refuses to recog- nize Mexico because the latter was not exactly nice to Lord Cowdray’s oil company. Lots of news in one paragraph. One other item. British airplanes were wrecked while bomb- ing Indian villages. This happened a few days. Not for the first time. Will Debs and Oswald Garrison Vil- lard protest to MacDonald? They will not. FOR Get a photographic reproduction of this new picture of Foster free. 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(Federated Press Staff Corespondent) BERLIN.—(By Mail.) The of the German trade unions, not only leaders of the General Federation, but also of the Christian unions and of the Hirsch-Dunker independent trade junions, have appeared before the gov- jernment to express their fear that when the Dawes reparations report is put in effect, the obligations will-in the main have to be borne by the workers. The unions insist that there must be an adequate distribution of the burden. Little encouragement did they get from the government. Minister of Finance Luther blandly declared that the workers must abandon the dream of a further seizire of property. In other words, income taxes, inherit ance taxes, taxes on profits, etc., are not to be increased. The minister of finance holds that the possessing class is carrying all that the traffic will bear. Luther holds that the only way to meet the additional obligations is by indirect taxation on consumption, This means that the workers will he the hardest hit. More than ‘ever the Dawes report will be executed on the backs of the workers. eee 14 Cent Hourly Wage. The average wage per hour of @ male skilled worker in a German fac- |tory today is 55 pennigs ((i4c), for jan unskilled worker, 45 pfennigs |(11c), and for a female worker, 35 |pfennigs (9c). | The skilled worker, if employed full 50 weeks per annum, gets on an aver- lage, $325, an unskilled male worker, }$265, and a female worker $200 for |the year. RIVERVIEW August 10th -- Sunday Press Picnic Day ¢ — ; #4 a J