The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1924, Page 3

’ 6 | . Thursday, August 7, 1924 GERMAN RULER } ’ PLEDGE FEALTY TO DAWES PLAN Bow to Morgan Yoke at London Meet (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LONDON, August, 6.—-Chan- eellor Marx pledged the inter- allied conference today that the German government intended to carry out all provisions of the Dawes plan. A still stronger statement was made by Herr Specker, acting as spokesman for the German delegation of 40: “We have come to London,” pro- ¢laimed Herr Specker, “with a sincere desire to assist in finding a method for putting the Dawes plan into ac. tion WITHOUT ALTERATION,” Premier Ramsay MacDonald, in wel- coming the Germans said that the con- ference was strictly limited to appli- cation of the Dawes report. The allies, he added, were most anxious that the plan be put into effect as soon as pos- sible. Germans will throw their weight in- to the argument against French oc- cupation of the Ruhr. They will plead the difficuly of paying the required tribute unless alien armies are re- moved. The Germans will also em- phasize the growth of revolutionary Communism in their country and the need of international support in re- sisting this movement. The inter-allied conference may end this week. see Coolidge Pleased. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—President Coolidge is highly pleased by the agreement reached by the allied con- ference in London for putting the ‘Dawes reparation plan into operation, it-was declared officially at the White House this afternoon. Send in that Subscription Today. These Petty Graft Hounds Got Caught Cheating Indiana 4 to. the DAILY WORKER) IN] ANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 6.—Per- jury and the presenting of a false ,glaim to the county, were charged in ‘{ndictments returned against George Weaver and Windsor J. Weaver of the ‘firm of George Weaver & Son, Con- tractors, by the Marion County grand ‘aury today in connection with the yereetion of buildings at the Julietta hospital for the insane near here. The perjury indictment had as its basis the payment of premium on the contract bond guaranteeing faithful performance. False claim was made, ,the other indictment charged, when fifteen per cent of the contract price was collected at a time when the ‘Weavers’ knew their work did not comply with the contract. Send in that Subscription Today. |WILL UNITED STATES WAR NEXT WITH JAPAN OVER MARKETS OF CHINA? BOTH NATIONS PREPARING By PETER HERD. An Associated Press despatch from London reveals the fact that the International firm of munition manufacturers, Vickers, is engaged in the production of 140,000 machine guns for Japan. The same despatch points out the fact that the Scrutton com- pany is executing a large order for a special type of tractor lorry, oo used for heavy long-distance cannon, to be shipped at an early date. Dupring the last session of the United States Congress two “insignifi- cant” bills were passed. allotting mil- lions of dollars to the Army, Navy and Aircraft departments of the United States government. This money is to be used to modernize the equipment of the navy; to replace coal-burners with oil-burners in the battleships of the navy; to provide a larger number of powerful airships; to purchase rifles and cannon for the army; and to finance the Citizens’ Military Train- ing Camps, in order that these camps may efficiently train hundreds of thou- sands of young workers for the next war. i Money Bags’ Politics. The same session of Congress: pass- ed what is known as the Japanese Ex- clusion Bill. The result of this bill has been the creation of a powerful feeling on the part of Japan, for war against America, The bill, excluding Japanese immigrants from the United States, has served its apparent pur- pose. It has given the excuse for a protest, upon the part of Japanese Capitalists, against the United States, and an excuse, on the part of the Money Bags of America, for war against Japan. But why war with Japan? Is it because a little bill was passed by Congress? No! The real reason lies deeper than that. War For Markets. Foreign markets have become essen- tial to the continuance of the Capital- ist system. Without foreign markets the large surplus of goods produced by the various capitalist countries, cannot be disposed of. And both Jap- an and the United States today have these large surpluses of goods to dis- pose of. Japan today controls both her own country and China, so far as the pro- duction and sale of commodities is concerned. Japanese competition with American-made goods in China is successful, due to the fact that the low wages paid the Japanese workers enables Japanese capitalists to sell at @ lower price than American capital- ists can sell. To defeat Japan, there- fore, America must resort to war. Both Japan and America are pre- paring for war at the same time. And this, together with other international complications, are paving the way for a new and more terrible world war. Idaho Political is Free. BOISE, Ida., August 6.—H. E. Herd, who served his full term for criminal syndicalism in the Idaho state peni- tentiary, was released July 15, His offense was membership of the Indus- trial Workers of the World. He had been in prison since 1917. An I. W. W. picnic and celebration at Boise Riverside park signalized the politi- cal’s release. CHILDREN’S TOWN. Do you know that in Soviet Russia there is a Children’s Town? It is near Moscow. Five hundred boys and girls live in Children’s Town. Some of the children are no more than three years old. None of them are older than fifteen years. The children live in big homes. Thirty to fifty (can you count that many) children live in each home. Of course, there are a few grown-up people to help the children in their homes and in their town. The children are all Young Pioneers. If you were in Soviet Russia you would be in a Young Pioneer group instead of a Junior Section of the Young Workers League. The Juniors in America are like the Pioneers of Soviet Russia. The Pioneers rule themselves. The children decide themselves what. each myst do as his share or the work, If some one does not do what he should, the chil- dren tell him what his punish- ment will be. They often will not let the “bad” child play with them, or make him do a little more work until he is willing to do his own task as he should. The children have schools where they are free to and paint and build mod oe UNIT-CuI EA dogs and cows and birds. They learn music at one school with many other children if they show that they like music very much, The grown-up men and women who help the children are life friends and comrades to them. They do not tell the children what to do nalees the children ask them. There are 200,000 Youle Pioneers all over Russia. That is as many children as there are people in a real city, But the Young Pioneers are in many places in the Soviet Republics. The Young Pioneers dress in a khaki suit of two pieces and wear a bright red handkerchief around the neck. The handker- chief is knotted in front. The children say very seri- ously that they will uphold the Red Flag and help the workers until Communism is true all over the world. The watchword of the Young Pioneers is: ALWAYS RHADY. If you would like to live in a Children’s Town and have lots of time to play and have good food to eat all the time, join the Junior Group of the Young Workers League. If you belong already, try to get some other children to come with you and learn more about the You) Pioneers of Soviet Russia ww |their Children’s Town and the country where the children rule boats, farms, shops, or a oat themselves and bn workers rule bhey, Pleage. They, model clay, Brn wit pe had IOWA WORKERS PLAN TO BACK FOSTER’S RACE Convention Sunday Des Moines in COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., August 6.— The Workers Party membership of Iowa will meet in Des Moines on Sunday, August 10, afternoon and night, to place electors on the ballot for the fall election for Wm. Z. Foster for President and Ben Gitlow for Vive-President. The question of a state ticket will be taken up at the convention also. The place of meeting will be the Macabee Hall, formerly known as the Gibson Hall, 611 Locust street. Speak- ing will be part of the program at the evening session. Circulation Petitions. Petitions will be given the delegaies attending the convention to circulate and secure five hundred signatures, the number required to place the elec- tors at large on the ballot. Each dis- trict elector must have twenty-five signatures to have a place on the bal- lot. A number of the surrounding com- munities plan automobile trips to the cohvention. Sioux City, Centerville, Albia, Hiteman, Woodward, Avery and others are expected to come that way. J, B. Snyder, district orgaaizer, with headquarters at 206 Crounse Block, Omaha, Neb., has charge ef the ar- rangements and will be in Des Moines at the New Lloyd Hotel from Thurs- day, Augsut 7 to Aug. 11. Mathews’ Tour. Tom Mathews, who has just resign- ed from the “Mid-West News” of Omaha, will take the “soap.box” for a speaking and organizing tour of Iowa, He will attend the convention and then is engaged for a weex at Sioux City. .Comrades desiring him to work in their community can either take it up with Snyder and Mathews at the convention or else write to 206 Crounse Block, Omaha, Nebraska. The organizing campaign will be connected directly with the . Foster campaign in Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa and all comrades in these states are requested to get in touch with the Omaha headquarters at once, Help build the party, its press and make Foster votes, This week Snyder will be at Cen- terville, at Des Moines from August 7 to 11, at Iowa City on Augst 13. Plans are under way for meetings at Cedar Rapids, Davenport, ‘Muscatine, Woodward, Madrid and a number of the mining camps around Des Moines, Albia and Centerville. New York on Edge For Big Picnic of Sunday, August 10 THE DAILY WORKER TEAPOT TEDDY ROOSEVELT,S WAGES RAISED Cal Boosts ,Fleichman’s Pay, Cuts Workers (By Federated Press.) (Special to the DAILY WORKER) WASHINGTON, Augtst 6— While most of the 500,000 employes of the federal government, affected by the Coolidge reclassification of the civil service, get no increase in pay, and indeed many suffer a cut in wages that are already miserably, inade- quate, the higher-ups are being giv- en comfortable cushions from which to survey the common herd, In the navy department, young Theodore Roosevelt, who was fright- ened so badly by the Teapot Dome expose, is boosted from $5,000 to $7,- 500 a year. In the treasury, Assist- ant Secretary Wadsworth gets the game raise, and the chief clerk is promoted from $4,000 to $5,200. In the interior department, “Faithful” Finney, assistant secretary and one of the deferential aids to Albert Fall in the pil deal, gets $7,500 in place of $5,000;" while the second assistant, who has drawn $4,500, likewise gets $7,500, The increase from $5,000 to $7,500 goes also to First Assistant Postmas- ter General Bartlett, who has been hammering down the pay of the 300,- 000 postoffice workers; to the other two assistant postmasters general; to three assistant secretaries of state, and two assistant secretaries of la- bor. In all, 20 salaries were shoved up to $7,500, which is all a senator or congressman receives. And some 85 or 40 went up from $5,000 to $6,- 000. A lot of others were raised from $4,000 to $5,200. Opium Cenference, GENEVA, Aug. &—The opium com- mission of the league of nations met in its sixth session to outline a pro- gram for the international conference to be held here in November. Holland is representative chairman and stands with France for rigid control of opium UP PROFITS FOR MILLIONAIRE PARENTS OF SLAYER LEOPOLD (Special to The Daily Worker) MORRIS, IIL, Aug. 6.—Many strikes have occurred in the plant of Nathan Leopold, who has systematically crushed union- ism in his paper mill here, it was revealed to the DAILY WORK- ER by Joe Harrington, 606 East Jackson Street, who was dis- charged by the father of the Franks slayer for leading a strike in the caddie department two weeks ago. Leopold, taking over the factory when it paid good wages, installed the speed-up piece work system, and soon reduced the piece work rate, The plant has * been kept on long shifts, with low wages, and at every at- tempt to form a union the workers were ruthlessly brought to terms by Leopold. “We ought to have a union here,” said Harrington. ‘We have had many strikes, but they have never been won because we had no organization be hind us and Leopold starved us out, There was a strike in the Leopold factory about five years ago, when wages were reduced and the piece: work bonus taken away from us.” “Last spring,” Harrington contin- ued, “the night shift went on strike, The night shift had been working fourteen hours a day and had been re- ceiving the same $3.00 and $3.50 a day as the day men received for work- ing ten hours. The night shift in the box factory went on strike for the Same rate as the day men, How could they know that Leopold had de- cided to cut out the night shift in the box department and run it only in the Paper manufacturing department? Leopold fired everyone who went on strike, and stopped the night shift. He just froze the men out without the slightest consideration for them or their families.” Night Shift Grievances. “The night shift in the paper mill is at present one of the worst griev- ances the men have,” Harrington told the DAILY WORKER. “In the paper mill the men work from 5:30 at night until seven o'clock in the morning and their highest rate of pay is four dol- lars a day.” “I was fired in the last strike in the caddie department because I suggest- distribution, The United States and Great Britain, the latter the chief pro- ducer of opium, want production lim- ited. This would of course increase the price. Send in that Subscription Today. ed to the men that they form a union. I could no doubt go back to work if I promised to be a good little boy in the future, but I prefer to look for another job.” $15 for Pressmen. The DAILY WORKER talked toa “el an 90 pounds. a | lad weighing not more “I am sixteen yea old,” he run @ Gordon press for 15 dollars ling: There are a lot of fellows run-| oso the} plant who are much smaller than me.|} week, ning presses and machines in I know Donald Steele, who had his leg crushed last week. He is in his second year of high school but the boy had planned not to go back to school| this fall.” This lad described the proce 8 making the paper boxes. After the cardboard comes from the adjoinin paper mill in appropriate sizes, and young men tending the m Print the labels on the cardboard, cut} it to correct size, stitch the card- board, fold it, wrap it and tie it. The| Presses are the most modern, there| being automatic cylinder presses, plex” presses, and Gordon Du presse Some of the machines complete two| Processes at once. The work is turn-| ed out at a very rapid rate and the youngsters have to work at top speed| to keep up to the machines. It was this extreme speed required that was the cause of the erippling of Donald Stele, in the opinion of his fellow- workers. Leopold Speed System. Another worker described the sys tematic way in which Nathan Leo- pold has reduced the wages of his em- Dloyes and increased their output. When Nathan Leopold took over the factory less than a decade ago, he found piece work rates too high for his liking. the bonus system. The workers speeded up and received bonuses. Then Leopold wiped away the bonus, and reduced the piece work rate grad- ually, which meant that the employes had to work for ten hours at break neck speed to get an existing wage. VOTE Get a photographic reproduction of this new picture of Foster free. Every Reader of THE DAILY WORKER Send in that Subscription Today. and WORK. FOR FOSTER for PRESIDEN will be a worker for Page Three Re Le 14-HOUR NIGHT SHIFT ROLLED KU KLUX RAIDS ON JAPANESE IN HOP FIELDS Armed Men Assail Brown Workers By MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) HOPLAND, Cal., Aug. 6.—Attacks on Japanese laborers on ranches near Hopland have culminated in the post- lant read- e Japan: ing of a sign on a packing Fire Warning: O Ku Klux Klan. Three raids had been made previous- ly, two automobiles full of armed men having driven to rapches and demand- But Leopold established | ed that Japanese employes leave. Al- though promised protection, the Jap- anese disappeared in two of the places |soon after. One of thé ranches was, owned by a Japanese, but he was notj |threatened. At one time the raiding) |party fired several times in the airg |then vanished at the approach of @ * | deputy sheriff, | These raids are the reason for res | cent cables from Tokio, protesting’ {against attacks on Japanese in the |Santa Rosa district of Californiad |Hopland, which is in another county! from Santa Rosa and some| distance. jnorth, was the scene of the labof troubles in the hop fields in 1914, which culminated in the Wheatland, jriot ressulting in the life imprisons ment of Richard Ford and Herman Suhr. It is now given over to frnit ranches as well as hop fields, and oe labor is largely Japanese. Klan Violence. BRIDGEPORT, N. J., Aug. 6— A mob of robed Ku Klux Klan attempt- ed to take Ephraim Cuff, a Negro, from the jail at Bridgeport on June 27, but were prevented by Patrolman Betcher. Cuff had been sentenced,on a charge of driving a car while‘ in- toxicated. Wobbly Trial Nov. 3, SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 6.—The trial of the fourteen I. W. W. (H. EB, Hartline et al) arrested in a raid on the organization headquarters in Feb. 1924, resulted in a hung jury on June 30. November 3 has been set;for re- trial. Rais Printed on a fine grade of paper. 12 Inches wide by 18 inches high, Suitable for framing or posting in Present indications point to one of the most successful picnics that Send in chat Subscription Today. Local New York has ever arranged. Sunday, August 10, promises to be a great day for fhe thousands of Work- ers Party members and friends who will gather in Pleasant Bay Park, Bronx. The whole party membership of Lo- cal New York as well as the Young Workers’ League and Junior Section are mobilizing their forces for the athletic events—with just two weeks left to the picnic, close to 100 entries have already been received. Keen ri- valry is also being displayed by the Finnish, Checko-Slovak branches, etc. Entries are coming in dally. Among others there is a sack race for both Juniors and members of the Y. W. U., a, three-legged race open to all members besides various other rac- es, out for women comrades. Beautiful silver and bronze medals with the Hammer and Sickle engraved will be awarded the winners. A base ball game between the Y. W. L. and the party has been arranged. Ben Gitlow, vice-presidential candidate will play for the Workers Party, Harry Winit- xky, who umpired many games during his vacation in Sing Sing will act as umpire. The Y. W. L. is making great efforts to organize a team that will beat the party and incidentally gain the silk pennant which \will be award- ed the winner, Entries can be sent in until Sat- urday, August 2nd. No comrade can enter more than three events. No en- Chicago, Ill. MAMET sia wriarenlvebssvcctboncsianooosdis bodtuedhah habe carambion teas ca deg I have sold a Special 4-Month Election Campaign Stop Conviet_ Competition, Isub. Please send me FREE the picture of Foster. Street: . 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