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

iesday, August 5, 1924 STORE WAGES MILITANTS OF A.C. W. DEMAND poses Camouflaged Cut in Wages embers of the Trade Union Hdu- onal League in the Amalgamated thing Workers met Tuesday night ponsider the situation in the indus- The issue of the “readjustment” ch has just been carried out was ermost in the minds of the mem- After a thoro discussion, in ch most of the 75 members pres- took part, the following state- nt was unanimously adopted: READJUSTMENT IN THE EN’S CLOTHING INDUSTRY IN CHICAGO. ptatement by the Needle Trades Section, T. U. E. L. Yorkers in the men’s clothing in- try have awakened to the fact that eneral reduction in earnings have \fn place in the Chicago market, hout previous warning and without struggle being made to prevent How was this possible? It was pmplished under the pretext of hting readjustments to particular ufacturers, whose-costs, so it was fred, were above the general level he market; and under cover of pretext the employers generally P been able, in many cases with assistance of the officials of the bn, to reduce the general level of hings in the entire market. hen the real adjustments were en- 1 upon, it was stated to meetings he shop chairman: “We have able to convince the manufac- rs that they should withdraw their ands for a general reduction. But ie are individual cases of outstand- manufacturers who can success- r prove just claims for readjust- its, where they can show that their ufacturing costs are above the pral level of the market. In such s we consider that it is better grant these readjustments and the manufacturers’ standing in arket, rather than have our peo- whrown out of employment.” t what have been the actual de- ments under this “readjust- ” plan? t of 35,000 workers in the mar- not less than 5,000 have had wages cut thru readjustment of bs, or thru laying off of week ers and reorganization of shops assistance of union officials. ruout the market, in those shops e direct readjustment of prices not taken efféct, the actual earn- ipower of the workers has been sed by raising the requirements iality in production. innumerable shops the earnings reduced by production of new ‘Is, with new and lower prices, i: enables the employers to make profits, but under which the ers make less wages. p can estimate that at least half vorkers in Chicago have been di- , affected, and most have felt the 8 indirectly, in the smaller pay e end of the week. nat has been the extent of the stions? As complete and system- compilations of figures for the e market cannot be made except e union, we will have to wait for exact figures. But inquiries in he principal shops gives us an of how far this reduction has carried. brkers from various sections of sentative shops all over the city t that: 'TUAL EARNINGS FOR A 44 WEEK ARE NOW FROM 15 CENT to PER CENT LESS FOR THE PAST TWO SEA- o rkers in the clothing industry! b are the conditions in Chicago We have been fooled into ac- 1g a reduetion that we would have agreed to if we had known ruth. We have found ourselves LEOPOLD MANAGEMENT FIRES STRIKE LEADERS; “WANT NO UNION MEN” By KARL REEVE. (Special to the Daily Worker.) MORRIS, IIl., August 4—Nathan Leopold, Sr., is reaping enormous profits running his Morris paper mills twenty-four hours a day, fleecing the younger citizens of Mor- ris coming and going. When asked if unions were al- lowed in the plant, the bookkeeper of the plant replied: “No! Last week the two leaders of the caddie department gtrike were fired for talking unionism after returning to work. We don’t want any union men here; we've had too much trouble with them. The company is the only one in Morris working steadily. What would Morris do without the paper mill?” The Leopold plant on the night shift works from five-thirty until seven in the morning with the same wages of $3.50 to $4.00 a day as are paid for the ten-hour day shift. This is the paper making foundry. Most of the girls, | find, are started in at twelve dollars a week in the box factory on the same jobs where the men make fifteen dol- lars.. No wonder Leopold will al- low no unions. led into a general reduction of earn- ings, under the guise of “readjust- ments.” The workers in shops have pro- tested against these reductions. They have been ready to fight against them. But they have found this impossible, because they were isolated, each shop by itself, and the general membership in ignorancelof what was going on thruout the market. In order to fight against this reduc- tion, it is necessary that all the workers shall know what is going on. We must all know that our wages are being generally cut, and that we must make a general fight. Demand a complete investigation of the extent and nature of the reduc- LAFOLLETTE IS REPUDIATED BY READING FL, The German Workin: Backs Candidates Workers Party By ABRAM JAKIRA. (Special to the Daily Worker) READING, Pa, Aug. 4.—The Farmer-Labor Party of Berks Coun- ty adopted a resolution condemning the petty bourgeois LaFollette move- ment and endorsing the candidates of the Workers Party as the only working class candidates now in the field. The statement issued by the Reading Farmer-Labor Party among other things states: “To make the issue clear, we do not favor LaFollette and Wheeler because they are supporters of the capitalist system. We cannot con- ceive that with the interests back of them, they will do very much to eradicate the evils that exist. “As for the labor leaders who have swallowed this concoction it is evi- dent to us that there is very little difference between them and the average politician. They were care- ful to retain their standing in their own localities with the political par- ties they assume they are fighting against, and they endorse LaFollette as an independent candidate, which left them free in their states to sup- port the friends of labor in the old parties. “It is beyond our understanding how they can reconcile themselves to this condition. Excepting that they see a fighting chance to find a place tg hang their hats on. * Still a Republican. “LaFollette declared himself still a Republican, and only rebelling ‘against the present machine. Wheeler likewise announced him- self still a democrat for the same reasons. They are only opposed to the worst forms of the existing sys- of tions of wages and raising of quality standards thruout the Chicago mar- ket! Demand that the local unions, and the oMcers of the organization, shall make an explanation of this camou- faged surrender to the bosses! Demand that the general level of wages shall be restored to what they were in the past seasons! Dewand that the union shall pre- pare to fight if necessary to restore our former earning power!.. Signed: .. Needle Trades Section, T. U. EB. L., Erwin Gersh, Secretary. Canada Finds Sales Tax Like Mellon’s Is Burden on Business OTTAWA, Can., Aug. 4.—When the big business men of Canada were de- manding a sales tax on food and cloth- ing a few years ago, the Canadian Co- operative Union stood almost alone among organized bodies in denouncing this tax as economically unsound, and morally unjust. It declared that the t@x would place a heavy handicap on business, would reduce the purchasing power of the consumer, increase un- employment, and prove so expensive of collection as to defeat its own end. Now comes the Canadian Manufac- turers Association with the discovery that the sales tax is injuring business, and that instead of making bigger profits for the manufacturers, it has raised the cost of living to such an extent that people are not buying. The cost of the tax, it seems, has been ; pyramided to such an extent by job- bers, wholesalers, brokers, commission ,agents, retailers, and other middle mon that the consumer often has to pay several times the original tax. This is the same sort of sales tax that Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon and Senator Smoot have been en- deavoring to foist upon the American people’ so as to reduce taxes on big incomes. Russian Grain Will Go Into Balkans and Holland, Not Germany MOSCOW, Ane aris cessation of commercial deals with Germany cannot affect the carrying out of the tem of things, “As members of working class political parties and labor unions for many years, we can not see any real value in supporting such ele- ments. “In the struggle for a better and freer life we knqw the impossibility of trying to keep one foot in capi- talist parties and the other in a working class party and make prog- ress at the same time. “Neither can we see how, after years of agitation among the work- ing cla: these men who pointed out the absolute necessity of a working class party that should be owned and controlled by the work- ers at all times, can now say: ‘I something just as good,’ or ‘a ep in the right direction,’ and suddenly shift and say ‘Vote for LaFollette and Wheeler.’ Confuses the Workers. “We, the members of the Farmer- Labor Party, consider the LaFol- lette-Wh: i” movement as one that tends to confuse the workers and those dissatisfied with existing wrongs. The idea of a labor party growing out of it looks deceptive, because to circulate petitions in every state for LaFollette and Wheeler entails just as much work and effort as it would for a real labor party. To organize campaign committees and clubs for the col- lection of money and other political work, such ag meetings, etc., means the same effort for LaFollette and Wheeler as it would for a real labor party. “We know that the Workers Party was the first to try to form areal labor party that stands for a farmers’ and workers’ govern- ment. It has not changed its atti- tude to meet the desires of a few men. Foster and Gitlow have al- ways been outspoken against the reactionary elements, /both in the labor movement and out of it, and have been active in such important movements like the amalgamation unions into industrial BiG Chester Headquarters. CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 4.—The City Central Committee, which was re- cently organized in this city, has now secured fegular headquarters at 73) THE DAILY WORKER FIGHT MILITARISM OF CAPITAL BY JOINING INTERNATIONAL RED RELIEF, GERMAN PARTY PLEADS Workers of Great Br g Class Fights for the Liberation of Its Political Prisoners, itain! Join the Front! According to the decision of the National Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Party Committee of the German ‘Red of Germany and of the Central Relief,” an intensified campaign takes place from July 27 to August 4 for the political prisoners and for the International Red Relief. siders it necessary to organize. A Day for the Proletarian The German party con- Victims of the Civil War, in connection with the protest actions which will take place in the anniversary days of the outbreak of the world war. At present more than 7,000 revolutionary workers are in the prisons of the German bourgeoisie. They are mostly workers organized in the trade unions, who, in the months of infla- tion, fought against the low wages, the profiteers, the dollar specula- tions, and starvation. These brave and honest revolutionists whose cour- ageous actions in the inflation months of last year found the approval of the great majority of the German popu- lation, have been thrown into prison by hundreds and thousands. Bour- geois judges have tried them for breaches of peace, riot, high treason, and whatever the names of the “crimes” may be. Thousands of fathers, old and young proletarians and working women were thrown for more than a decade into the damp and dark graves of prisons. Heart- rending scenes took place before the courts when the harsh sentences were passed, when the father was torn from the family and the mother from her helpless children for many, many years. ‘What misery, what painful sorrow reign today in thousands of prole- tarian families! The father in prison, the mother unemployed because she is the wife of a “rebel,” the children ill, starving, tuberculous, scrofulous. Who still possesses human feelings must be moved at this. There is no help from anywhere. The State does nothing for the families of political criminals! The International Proletariat Must Help! Working men and working women we appeal to you! Help the German Workers in thejr struggle for the political prisoners! Show your solidarity during the wilitant week of the German workers. Arrange meetings everywhere, dur- ing this week. Uncover the horror in the German prisons. Show the proletariat of your country the hypoc- risy of the German bourgeoisie which howls its indignation at the 1,500 German prisoners in the prisons of the French bourgeoisie, but permits 8,300 German workers to rot miser- ably in the GERMAN PRISONS. The protest against the imprison- ment of German workers must find a resounding echo in all cauntries! Workers! Help your German fel- low-workers in their struggle! You, too, collect money for, the support of the victims of German reaction! In Russia two million workers have already joined the organization of the “International Red Relief.” Comrades! Assist the organization of the “Red Relief” in your country. Join the International Red Relief! Collect for the German Prisoners! Ra your protest, demonstrate for an amnesty for the revolutionary workers in the German jails! Show that you are class fighters! Demonstrate your solidarity! Help! THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE “INTERNATIONAL RED RELIEF.” Central European Bureau. MASS TRIALS IN GERMANY. According to a statement of the le- gal department of the Central Bu- reau of the “Red Relief,” in the time from January ist, 1924 to April 1st, 1924, 8,448 accused have received le- gal aid. In all parts of Germany mass trials are taking place against revo- lutionary workers who participated in the disturbances of the inflation period of last year, In January there were 2,500, in February 2,600, in March 2,800 and in April over 3,000 political trials, In contradistinetion to the proceedings against counter- revolutionary officers and students, the condemned revolutionary work- ers nve never put upon probation. In the majority of cases they are son- tenced tq hard labor. Membership ers of America! Help the proletarian prisoners of the German bourgeoisie! Send “Red Relief!” A Revolutionary Poet Is Dying bg in Prison! In the Bavarian prison of Nieder- schoenfeld, in the country of Mon- archist reaction lies the revolutionary poet Erich Muhsam under a sentence of fifteen years. He has suffered already for five long years and he must still suffer another ten. He is fifty-five years old and in the last weeks he has become seriously ill. The Bavarian reaction, however, does not allow him to enter a hospital, but holds him to perish miserably in the damp prison cell. And this is the fate of 8,350 work- ers and revolutionary intellectuals in Germany today. Workers and intellectuals of Great Britain! of America! Protest against this shame in the German prisons! Send “Red Relief” to the prisoners! “We Lack Tobacco!” The “International Red Relief” has received the following letter from the Saxon prison of Waldheim: “Comrades! If you want to relieve our sufferings and the monotony of jour prison life, please send us to- bacco and cigarettes. Every single cigarette is a light spot in our miser- able lives.” Workers of Great Britain, of Am- erica! Send tobacco for the “Inter- national Red Relief!” Murder and Outrage of the Dead by The German Police! What shameful cultural conditions rule in the present Germany of Marx and Stresemann! In Mecklemburg, the country of the German junkers, recently Comrade Harry was shot by a policeman “whilst attempting to escape.” The seriously wounded comrade was not, however, carried to the hospital, where his life might have been saved, but to the police station, where dying, he was tor- tured to induce him to give his name. He remained there for one hdur with- out his wounds being bandaged. In the hospital where he was later taken, the torture was continued despite the energetic protest of the doctor. The eyes of the dying prisoner were cov- ered with camphor to prevent him from falling asleep forever. But the illegal comrade Harry took the secret of his identity with him to his death. However, the German police did not shrink from a profanation of his dead body. They dressed the corpse with a suit and collar and tie, photo- graphed him and took his finger prints. All this outdoes the conditions which prevailed in Germany during the 30 years war. ple were at least only killed, but to- day they are killed and their bodies outraged. Workers of Great Britain, of Amer- ica! Protest against these shameful conditions in Germany! Protest against the maltreatment of your class comrades by the German police! Long life the international solidar- ity! Agitate for the “International Red Relief!” ' They Transport Us Like Wild Beasts! The following incident, which caused a great sensation when it was revealed at the trial, shows the state of justice in the free republic of Seeckt and Ebert. An accused Bartel was taken from the prison in Prenz- lau by two policemen with a cord around his neck, like an animal. He was transported with this cord, which ended at his hand with a knot, in an overcrowded train from Prenzlau to Berlin among the general public and in this revolting manner he was taken by tramway in Berlin from one sta- tion to the other and from there in “BETTER BABY” SHOW FOR BUDDING SLAVES IN LEOPOLD COUNTY MORRIS, Aug. 4.—A Better Baby show will be neld at the Brundy county fair on August 6-9 in Mazon, to make better babies, more healthy, energetic babies, whose energy, at an all too early age will be fed to the father of Nathan Leopold, Jr, slayer and pervert. One out of every ten in Morris work in the plant. The officers of the Morris Paper Mills Company, which is controlled | in addition to Nathan Leopold, Pres- ident and majority stockholder, are: J. ©. Godhelp, vice-president; W. H. Beckwith, mills manager; Foreman Leopold, treasurer; and A. G. Bal- | lenberg, secretary. after great pain. The arrested work-) ers were loaded like slaughtered ani- mals into the lorries, one on top of the other and on top of them all trampled heavily armed policemen. Through this transportation, several workers had arms broken and face bones smashed. To the screams of the prisoners, the lorries drove thru the village to Hamburg. In varfous villages, thru which the prisoner} transports passed, the workers went’) on strike as a protest against the so-| cial democratic police president, who was responsible for these inhuman | prisoner transports, and the social democratic workers hung up their Party books on the roadside trees. Before the police presidium, the prisoners had to pass through a cor- don of police by whom they were beaten with truncheons. If all the tortures of the prisoners were re- corded, the resultant volume would be thick and heavy. Workers of Great Britain, of Amer- ica! Protest against the’ maltreat- ment of your class comrades by the German police! Agitate for the “International Red Relief!” The Wives of the Prisoners Are Persecuted by the Police! The Communist fractions of the Reichstag and the Diets frequently receive complaints from women, whose husbands have disappeared since the last fights, that the police continuously visit their homes in or- der to discover the wnereabouts of their husbands. The women are threatened with imprisonment to in- duce them to make confessions. They At that time peo-| are summoned to the police station and there they are insulted and threatened. One woman in Fursten- walde who refused to reveal the whereabouts of her husband fo the police was deprived of the unemploy- ment relief on account of her refusal. Workers of Great Britain, of Amer- ica! Protest against the maltreat- ment of your class comrades by the German police! Agitate for the “International Red Relief!” “Red Relief’ Is Necessary! The “Red Relief” continuously re- ceives appeals from the families of Political prisoners, saying that they cannot live on the support they re- ceive from the “Red Relief.” “I have | no potatoes and not the least bit of| bread. My children would be glad if they could have a piece of dry bread.” | Workers of Great Britain, of Amer- ica! Join the “International Red Re- lief! Form a section of the “Interna- tional Red Relief” in, your country! Collect unceasingly for the “Red Relief!” (Editor’s Note: In the United States the International Workers Aid, national headquarters at 19 So. Lin- coln St., Chicago, Ill., represents the Red Relief.) Studebaker Reports Plenty of Profits; But Lays Off Workers (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, August 4.—‘Despite the generally unsatisfactory condi- tions of business this year,” stated President Erskine of the Studébaker corporation, in his report, “we near- ly made our full years’ dividend in the first six months, the net being $3.88 a share for the common stock.” The corporation reported net pro- fits of $4,030,010 for the last quarter. This is about half of the reported earnings for the two preceding quar- terg, and one-third as much as the MOSCOW OPENS ENGLISH CLUB FOR VISITORS Russian Comrades Give to English-speakers The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party is in receipt of the following letter in regard to the open- ing of a club for English speaking im- migrants and Party members in Moscow: “To the Central Committee Workers Party of America. |Dear Comrades: The above Bureau of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist: Party has opened a Club at the above address for the use of English-speaking immigrants who are either Party mem- bers or factory workers. The Club building the old head- quarters of the Moscow Committee which has bombed by Anarchists in 1918, on which occasion a number of comrades, members of the M. C. were killed. The building has been rebuilt, and the R. C. P, commemorates the death of these comrades by giving the building as a Club for political immi- grants who seek refuge in Workers’ Russia. In the club we have established a Library and Reading Room, in order to keep foreign comrades in touch with the movement in the English speaking countries. The Bureau is asking the Com- munist Parties of the English-speaking countries to accept patronage of the Club, This will entail the supply of Party newspapers and publications. Also, if the Party has spare books and other literature we shall be glad of same for the Library. Comrades visiting Russia will be welcomed both to the Party fraction meetings and to the Club. With Communi (Signed) H. M. E RY, Secretary of the Bureau.” The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party has been very glad to give its support to this club and is sending all of its Party publications to the Club. British Warship Proceeds to Butt Into Brazil Fight RIO DE JANEIRO, August 4—The federal troops have taken Sao Paulo, according to official dispatches. The rebels are being pursued in their re- treat. The British warship Curlew was or- dered by the English House of Lords to proceed from Trinidad Island to Brazil. The United States did not send the navy cruiser in response to the plea of the American consul at Santos. Faithful Comrade Praised. PORTLAND, Ore., August 4.—Com. rade Shovec has resigned as city agent for the DAILY WORKER, ac- cording to the report of F. Levitt, sec- retary of the C. C. C. The committee found Shovec’s reasons sufficient and desires to express its deep gratitude for the work he has done, Comrade Shovec was an earnest and efficient worker. Joe Ganapole, 80 Third St. has taken over the work as DAILY WORKER agent and all communica- tions should be addressed to him. Roumanian-U. S. Treaty BUCHAREST, Aug. 4.—The United States and Roumanfa have signed an extradition treaty thru the American Minister Jay and Foreign Minister Duca of Roumania. This will enable Roumania to accept deportees from the United States and to send back any “wanted” persons to the U. S. Send in that Subscription Today. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL. FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE.Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. 73 W. VanBurenSt, Phone Wabash 6680 in the Communist Party during the ime of illegality is pushed with a fine of 3,000 gold marks (150 pound sterling.) In all the trials maltreat- ment of the prisoners by the police at the time of arrest has been re- vealed. The fathilies of the prisoners are in great suffering and deed. At present there are 8,350 working a third class carriage to Liepzig. This manner of transporting a politi- cal prisoner caused even the conster- nation of the fascist president of the State Court in Leipzig. Workers of Great Britain, of Amer- ica! Protest against the maltreat- ment of your fellow workers by the German police! Agitate for the “International Red Relief! Packed on a Lorry One on Top of the Other! On the occasion of the disturbances in Bergedort near Hamburg, arrested Caldwell street. From now on the meet- ings of the City Central will be he! at the headquarters every first and third Mondays. The English branch meets at the same place every Thurs- day evening. Non-party members are invited to attend and get acquainted with the work of the Workers Party. Many comrades from Chester have at- tended the Ruthenberg-Foster meet- ing in Philadelphia and arrangemenis are now being made to carry out the new polloy.. @he Chester English branch made its first ten dollar con- tribution to the Foster-Gitlow cam- record breaking earnings of $13,371, 174 in the first three months of 1923, The workers at South Bend, Ind., however, have not shared in the pro- fits and many have been laid off. Ukrainian grain export programfhe, according to Mr. Volynsky, director of the all-Ukrainian office of the “Ex- portkhleb” (Grain Exporting Syndi- cate), Indeed, previous to the recent Russo- German incident, the center of gravity of Soviet grain exports had shifted from Germany to the Baltic States and Holland, Under such conditions and owing to an {ncreaseddemand on their part, the grain originally dostined for Germany can be disposed of in those countries, RIVER’ CHICAGO Bi MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ———-ATTENDED Ti 8 Improve Your P Damaged Bulidings Restored LOANS TO IMPROVE New Floors, Fronts, Shelving MID-CITY CARPENTER SHOP 608 &. Irving Ave. Seeley 1883 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK SPRINGLAKE, N. J., Aug. 4.—John Hansen of Manasquan was struck over the head by a policeman last year and the resulting skull fracture deprived him of the power to speak. Today Hansen can again talk normal: ly because of an unusal operation in which part of his shin-bone and part Th TOM CH the families of the political prisoners suffer terribly. The Ger- Relist” {8 at prosent car- VIEW—RAIN OR SHINE | paign fund : workers were brutally maltreated. |of the fatty tissue of his abdomen! pendering uxrerr ental Serview UST 10th—SUNDAY ; e 2 | One worker received a kick from a|were substituted for the fractured aa namneinge J ; | Sold Everywhere PRE6S PIONIC DAY filiceman, which caused His “dont section of skull bone. WC 7 ; PA ol shat oni tenn : pahepeay yan th) Reeate = 4 lee ey eee ae wey r ‘ wine ‘ = we tee Y eal ogee cm! nae fi 4 5 '