The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 4, 1924, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER =. aday, August 4, 1924 ANOTHER LABOR PARTY VICTORY IN AUSTRALIA Workers Now Lead in Victoria Parliament BY W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 3.— The state elections in Victoria mark another stride in the reconquest of Australia by the labor party and also indicate a union of city and land pro- ducers. Five ‘of the six states in the com- monwealth of Australia now have given Labor the largest representa- tion in their legislatures. Victoria, the most conservative state in Aus- tralia, failed to give the Labor party the clean majority it has in Queens- Jand, Western Australia, South Aus- tralia and Tasmania but it gives a Labor Iéad of 12 ‘representatives over the Conservatives, the setond party. Prior to the June elections’ the state of parties in Victoria was: Conserva- tives 29, Country Conservatives (so- called Farmers’ party) 13, Labor 22, Independent 1. Now it is Labor 29, Conservatives 17, Country Conserva- tives 13, Liberals 5, Independent 1. Electoral System Unfair. The electoral system had been fixed to keep Labor out of office. In the city districts, mostly held by Labor, the boundaries were so drawn that up to 60,000 voters were included in a single electorate. But in the country, where the Conservatives predominate, the districts held as low as 5,000 vot- ers. As the city districts numbered 15 and the country 50, it will be seen that under ordinary circumstances there would always be a preponder- ance of Conservatives over Labor members. A big swing of dirt farm- ers to Labor helped Labor capture many small country seats. Not in Government Yet. Labor is not yet able to form a government in Victoria on its own account, tho it might be able to with the 5 liberals. But on top of the re- cent Labor vietories in the other Aus- tralian states it is an indication that there is a big swing to Labor thruout the continent. There is one other Australian state, New South Wales, in which a state election i8 to be held, and it seems certain that this state will also return a Labor government. It is also confi- dently expected that Labor will sweep the federal elections in Australia in 1925. UNIT Cul Fae De FARMERS’ FAILURE T0 BITE BANKERS’ BAIT DELAYS GRAIN MERGER The Chicago Grain Marketing Company, which was scheduled to take over five old line grain and itor concerns and begin doing business at once failed to material- ize. It was stated at the offices of the company that there had been an unexpected but merely tempor- ary delay in complete crystalization of the $26,000,000 merger. NEGRO WIDOWS VICTIMIZED BY U, §. WAGE CUT Capital Scrubwomen Brutally Treated (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Widows with dependent children, and women so far on in years that they cannot get more bearable jobs, make up the army of char-women who are now holding protest conferences against the reduction in pay which has been| announced by the civil service classi- fication board. At least two-thirds of them are colored—a fact which makes them the less able to defend them- selves, Col. Sherrill, of the army engineer. corps, superintendent of public build- ings and grounds, is the master of those char-women who are employed in the buildings occupied by the state, war, navy, interior and certain other executive departments. He got con- trol a few years ago by grace of Sen. Smoot, who discovered that the mili- tary autocrat could cut down the cost of scrubbing the doorways. In ancient Rome an official known as a hortator was employed to lash the rowers in the galleys when they fell exhausted at their oars. Sherrill is earning the title. He does not: per- mit these women, for instance, to go up and down in the office elevators with their pails and mops—no matter how early or late the hour. They must climb the stone stairs. Colored men, backed by the colored press, are demanding that this brutal treatment of scrubwomen cease. They are denouncing Smoot and Sherrill, and turning on Coolidge, who keeps Sherrill on the job. Sherrill’s glitter- ing uniform is conspicuous at all im- portant white house social affairs. ME AND JIM. By SUNNY JR, We are watching Jakie Jones’ party. Me and Jim were not in- vited. You see Jakie’s Pa is boss of a big newspaper. He has lots and lots of money and Jim is only one of his many little newsboys. You see, of course then, that Jim wasn’t fit to be invited to Jakie’s party. I wasn’t either cause I only delivered the Jones’ groceries. Jim got a box for us to stand on and we put it up against the side of the house and when we got up we could Took in at all the rich kids having a party. Gee, it was swell! All those kids was dressed up in silks and vel- vets and everything in the room was beautiful. All kinds of heavy silk stuff hung on the walls and thick carpets and everything. And you should have seen the eats! Yum! I hadn’t had money enough to buy a supper and Jim hadn’t even had dinner and when we saw all those swell things we got an awful empty feeling in our middle. Just then Jim swore an awful swear word and then he began to talk kind of excited. “Look at that kid enjoying him- self. Look at the rest of those rich kids enjoying themselves. Everyone of their fathers has plenty of time for golf and every- day but enjoy himself. The only worry they ever have is to see|think where they could spend all the/had to hel; money they have. And where do they get the money? My pa your pa and a lot of other b signa pans hard Find sev and 80) mes into tl night, Even our moms and still we haven’t eno even buy rye bread and they work|something so that they will get ring to eat and we kids have to work, “They never work, and look what. they have, and we are al- ways working, and look what we have. The place where you live and I live is cold and dirty and the walls have been cracked for the last fifty years. All we ever have to wear is ragged clothes that we get from charity, and if we get a cotton suit once in a couple of years we only wear it like when we go to the circus with the rest of the settlement chil- dren, and we think we're swell ‘cause most of the kids have to wear dirty rags. ? “And what have we got to eat? Look at the ice cream and cake and fruit that maid is passing und to those kids. Say, do you know my little sister is sick and the visiting nurse says she must have fruit, and all we have to give her is dry rye bread and salt her- ring. I got her a dried up orange yesterday. I had to hook it from the peddler and the cop chased me and I nearly got caught, but sis was so happy to get it that I am gladIdidit. | “It makes me mad to see those rich kids in there stuffing them- selves with fruit and cake and ice cream. I hope they eat so much it makes them sick. But what’s the good of hoping that. If they get sick they have good doctors, not just visiting nurses who don’t thing else and does nothing all}know very much. “I tell you, that everything was as it , but since I have been go- to those Junior Group meet- think the workers are crazy if don’t get together and do LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL ELECTS E, 6, WENTWORTH Robert Buck, Resigning, Lauds Council’s Record Unanimous approbation is expressed at the election of H. C. Wentworth, of Chicago, as the new chairman of the Labor Defense Council, succeeding Robert M. Buck, who resigned, having to leave town. For many years, Mr. Wentworth has been known as gn ardent champion of free speech and civil rights. While not affiliated to any working class organization, he has given his support to the workers in numerous struggles. He is the au- thor of several books, the latest of which is the recently published novel, “The Education of Ernest Wilmerd- ing.” Mr. Buck’s letter of resignation is as follows: “As national chairman of the council it has been my aim to exercise direct scrutiny of all opera- tions in order to be in a position at any moment to vouch for the:conduct of the cause the council represents. Since I expect in the near future to move from Chicago, it will be impos- sible for me to continue to function in this manner. For that reason I hand you my resignation. Praises Council’s Record. “In leaving the chairmanship, | wish to express my satisfaction with the conduct of the defense in the Michigan cases and the manner in which funds have been solic- ited, collected and expended. | trust the excellent support the defense has had, will continue in this very important battle in the cause of freedom of speech and political opinion. In this cause | shall main- tain an unflagging interest and ac- tivity and if there is service | am able to render the council, | trust you will not fail to notify me promptly.” As soon as it became known that Mr. Buck could no longer serve, members of the National Committee of the La- bor Defense Council expressed their unqualified endorsement of Mr. Went- worth for the place. John A. Lapp of the National Catholic Welfare Con- ference, wrote in to say: “I am very happy that you secured Mr. Went- worth to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Mr. Buck from the city. I approve his appointment very heartily.” Roger Baldwin of the Anierican Civil Liberties Union writes: “I am mighty glad that you have landed Mr. Wentworth, who is a fine man for the job.” Ruthenberg’s Appeal. The Labor Defense Council was or- ganized to defend William Z. Foster, C. E, Ruthenberg, and the 29 other Communists indicted in Michigan, following the raid on the Communist Party Convention in the summer of 1922, The Council is now actively engaged in preparing for the appeal in the case of Ruthenberg. Contact with the actions of Burns- Daugherty, stool-pigeons in the\Michi- gan cases, brought the attention of the Labor Defense Council to the whole question. of Professional Spies in the ranks of labor, and it has now under- taken to prepare a comprehensive pamphlet—an encyclopedia of labor spies—which will tell something of the individuals who are engaged in this vile trade. It is expected that the pamphlet will be published some- I have learned different and|~ ‘time in the Fall. ‘ think Jim is right? I think every- thing he said is the truth, and I am going to join his Junior Group. You just bet I am, and pretty soon when all the workers get wise we will put all the rich guys to work and have a Workers’ government all over the world. For information about the Junior Groups, write to Y. W. L., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chi- cago. Words And What They Mean. Toil—work very hard. Textile—cloth woven, Roar—noise. Ragged—torn. Chill—cold. Hasten—go fast. Master—one who ofns property and makes others work for him. A ruler, An owner, Property—factory or house. Any- thing that is property, Weary—tired. le may be someone's Mike, I used to| Gloom—dark. be and that it couldn’t be} RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY PITTSBURGH, PA, R. R, “DENTIST Rendering Dental Servies Pi on ere French Rail Strikers Regain Places They Lost in 1919 Fight PARIS, Aug. 3.—Several thousand French railway workers who partici- pated in the gigantic railway strike of 1919 in defiance of the government and were dismissed are to be rein- stated. The reinstatement follows au- tomatically upon the general amnesty law adopted by the new French parlia- ment. It is an open question whether am- nesty was extended to the railway- mén as an act of justice or to releive the great shortage of railway work- ers. The railway administration has for months been clamoring for addi- tional personnel. The men who were given amnesty will be absorbed im- mediately. GERMAN BANK GLERKS WALK THE STREETS Halve Forces as Mark is Stabilized BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 3. Half of | the German bank clerks and employes | who *held jobs during the deflation period are now walking the streets o else holding on to temporary make shift jobs in the hope of later return, ing to the banking business in which they have been trained. While Germany was flooded with paper ‘billions and trillions, whole armies of bank clerks were needed just to count the money. The handl- ing. of foreign exchange and of the many securities that were bought on speculation required a staff almost three times as large as pre-war days. Young men and women deciding upon @ career naturally thought that ¢lerk- ing in a bank offered good chances for advancement. With the stabilization of the mark, the banking business has gone down to a low ebb, The “deflation” of hu- man material in a number of the largest financial institutions of Ger- many has been: Bank Employes during Employes Inflation » Now Deutsch Bank 10,000 23,000 Darmstaedter Ban! 6,000 16,000 Gommerz und Privatbank 26,000 16,000 Illinois Postal Clerks Continue Fight for Raise (Special to the Daily Worker.) JOLIET, Ill.—Protests against Presi- d-nt Coolidge’s veto of their wage in- crease preceded a resolution by the Illinois Postoffice Clerks to continue the agitation to bring the compensa- tion of postal workers somewhere up to a living wage. It was the fourth anaual convention of the Illinois State Federation of Postoffice Clerks, held t Jolist in July. Speeding up of clerks in the Chicago sestoflice was complained of and Post- «eter Lueder, recently defeated for the mayoralty of Chicago, was charged “3th listening only to the higherups ‘and net to the rank and file of work- ers. The Chicago clerks have organized the Chicago Postoffice Clerks Uniér Loan Assn. in the federal bulding to provide credit to their members and promote thrift. It is on the co-oper- ative basis. Funds for lending are taken from the sale of shares and de- posits in the loan association. Not So ‘Yellow in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3—The machin- ists’ union is negotiating with the Yellow Cab Co. to unionize its St. Louis garage mechanics, That would make thig concern strictly union in St. Louis. The drivers recently won a strike lasting nearly two. years for the union shop and better wages. The same concern operates notor- jously anti-union in other large cities. The company spent $500,000 fighting the local strike. Send in that Subscription Today. SCAB PENNSY CHIEF SWINGS AT CHURCHES Atterbury Defends His Company Union Pill (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Strike-break- ing Atterbury, Vice President of the Pennsylvania railroad, is on the wat- path again, this time against the Fed- eral Council of Churches which re- cently published a mildly adverse re- port of Atterbury’s company union farce among the shopmen on his road. Atterbury writes a long propaganda statement to the Council demanding that it be sent out to correct what he calls unfair conclusions arrived at by the investigators’ report. The report had pointed out that em- ployees under the company union sys- tem say their grievances are not sat- isfactorily met. Atterbury blandly re- plies: “To predicate any conclusions on grievances as a factor does not ap- pear to be sound.” “2nd: The report seems to stress what it regards as a lack of enthusi: asm for the plan or indifference to- ward it,” Atterbury continues. “This also we feel is an unsound criterion.” “3rd: It is stated that the em- ployees do not regard the plan as af- fording them any real economic power for the purpose of dealing col- lectively with the company,” Atter- bury admits, and then fires his biggest gun: “This undoubtedly refers to the strike weapon and this consideration also goes to the fundamental concep- tion underlying our plan as opposed to the popular and mistaken notion that strike rather than peace is a natural and inevitable state of indus- trial relations.” Jugo-Slav Miners Find Kuzbas Work _ Progressing Well By W. A. WARREN (Special to The Daily Worker) KEMEROVO (By Mail).—The Jugo- Slay miners’ group has arrived and ate now at Work. Comrade Babich has also arrived and is in charge of the fairly well equipped tailor shop. Electric motors have been installed at the mines where they are running two eoalcutting machines by _ electric power. Motors have been installed in the kitchen, the shoe shop and the laundry and others are to be installed at the dairy and the carpenter’s shop. N.Y, RENTERS WON'T , BUDGE FOR LANDLORD WHO DOUBLED RENTS NEW YORK; Aug. 3.—Tenants protesting increased rentals at a west Sixty.sixth street apartment house today barricaded themselves in and refused to admit the owner | or his agents. The property has been rented on a semi-philanthropic basis, but was sold recently and the new owners raised rents, in nearly every case double and in some more. All tenants have refused to pay the increases and most of the men are staying home to guard their firesides. ing up 400 families, occupy the prop- erty. WINS RETURN TO HER FAMILY HERE Immigration Men Would Have Kept Her Out (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—Marie Libe ratori, whose home is in Milwaukee, was speeding westward today to her four children, having been held at Ellis Island for a month. Mrs. Liberatori, wo is fifty years old, came back to America in June after g two year visit to Italy, her na- tive land, only to be told that she was “excess quota” and “likely to become a public charge.” She left the United States in 1922 under the provision of the old immigration law, which granted aliens the privilege of return- ing to their native lands for a period of six months. But that she was likely to become a public charge seemed a little w fair to Mrs, Liberatori. She had first come to America in 1908, with her husband and a young son, Francesco. After his father deserted his mother and sisters, Francesco supported the family. Came the war of 1917, and Fran- cesco, then 18 years old, felt the call of duty. He enlisted in the United States army, was put through hasty military training and was in France within a few months. Three days in France and he was in the front line trenches. Three hours in the front line trenches and he was dead. The terse dispatch from the war Coal is being shipped by water thansport to Tomsk and Novo Niko- laevsk. The river barges over, They are strong enough for a sea voyage. One tug boat takes two barges, each with about 500 tons of coal. The Colony dairy has now 130 cows and a start has been made in estab- lishing a modern dairy, Last month the Colony sold 150,000 gold roubles worth of coke and got the returns for it. From’ 15 to 18 cars of coke are being shipped every day to the Urals. A large garden has been planted but summer is slow coming this year. Asnen'an Co-operatives Prosper. Tbe new Armenian Central Co-oper- iwe Society, the “Aicap,” reports to t. Afb American Co-operative Com- mission the rapid growth of 50 co-op- erative societies with a combined membership of 16,000. These co-oper- atives exist in 20 towns or villages as vali as throughout the country dis- tricts. Besides the co-operative distri- bution of food and clothing at cost, the American farmers have organized seven central dairy co-operatives and three market garden societies to sup- ly food to cities. New California Labor Dailyy OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 3. — The Union Labor Record, founded as a weekly labor paper in Oakland in 1918, plans to come out as The Daily Record in August. It will be issued six days a week with a pro-labor po- licy by the Union Labor Publishing Co,, 286 12th street, Oakland, Cal. Stanton W. Lore will continue as editor and manager. Send in that Subscription Today. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS Will Nurse Jane's bbe t. panty} department drove Mrs. Liberatori to distraction, brought on a nervous have a,breakdown and she was soon in the draught of between 5 and 6 feet of] Wisconsin state asylum, an water, are strongly built and decked, woman, insane Six months’ treatment re- stored her sanity, and upon her re- lease she went back to Italy, for a rest. The department of labor refused to readmit her until bond was furnished. Labor Day in Calgary. CALGARY, Can., Aug. 3.—Labor day will be celebrated on the usual large scale by the Calgary Trades and Labor Council which has taken St. George’s island for an athletic Program and dance. Send in that Subscription Today. About 1,000 persons, mak- | BOYCOTT FINNISH LOAN, GLASS WAR " PRISONERS URGE 1,000 _ Politicals Still Jailed in Finland | to the DAILY WORKER) INGFORS, Finland, Aug. 3.— huge Finnish loan is being floated in the United States, the re- actionary government of Finland is hounding its political prisoners at home. Following the butchery and extermi- nation of 30,000. radical Finnish work- ers in concentration camps and pris- ons by the counter-revolutionary gov- ernment that was installed after the |1917 revolution by Germany and then |the allies, the remaining Communists and other radicals have been steadily persecutied. Over 1,000 of them are in prison despite false propaganda jabout amnesty intended for foreign | consumption. At the Tammisaari institution of penal rvitude drunken and per- jverted jailers inflict punishment at their own whim. Attempts at suicide by the politicians, crazed attempts at murder and other unusual phenomena reveal the desperation of the men who are imprisoned for no overt act but for their opinfons or for belonging to the Communist party which has-been outlawed by the government. These politicals appeal to the civ- ilized world, particularly America, to institute an economic boycott of Fin- land. If the Finnish loan, floated in the United States by Lee, Higginson & Co., should fail to find purchasers and if trading with the reactionary Finnish government should be cur- tailed, better treatment is expected to result for the political prisoners, (The American Labor Yearbook, published by the Rand School, de- clares “Finland is still in the grip of a strong reactionary government.”) WM. Z. FOSTER What do you know about him? When speaking to your neighbors, friends and shopmates and urging them to support and vote for Wil- liam Z. Foster, the working class candidate for president, at the coming election, you will haye to tell them what Foster has done for the labor movement. For this we recommend Foster's book: “THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE AND ITS LESSONS” The story of the steel workers fight for organization and recog- nition, led by William Z. Foster, AN AUTHOGRAPHED COPY of this wonderful story sent to any address for $1.00 Regular price of this book is $1.75. Order at once, while the supply lasts! Remember: AN AUTHO- GRAPHED COPY. Literature Department, Workers Party of, America 1113. W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. TTT ILLUMI CTTT will be Riverview Park THE WORKERS PARTY Press Picnic held at August 10th, SUNDAY, Admission 35 cents The ticket also entitles holder to reduced rates on all the amusements. Support the Communist Press Auspices: Workers Party, Local Chicago. All profits for the DAILY WORKER and other party papers. 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