The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 7, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, August 7, 1924 PICKETS DEFY SLUGGING COPS IN BALTIMORE (By The Federated Press) BALTIMORE, Aug. 6.—Police are beating up pickets in the International Ladies Garment Strike in Baltimore. But despite violence on the part of Police and strikebreakers the strike, which began July 23, has grown until it has tied up the industry. Citizens who are disgusted with the authori- ties’ inyasion of the rights of strikers and who realize for the first time the Sweat shop conditions in the Balti- more clothing market, propose that Governor Ritchie appoint a mediation commission to settle the conflict along the lines laid down by Governor Smith’s commission in the similar struggle in New York City. The 2,000 strikers, about 80 per cent of the industry here, demand the full union shop, unemployment insurance, a sanitary label, and a minimum of 14 machines in shops, which would elim- inate the small irresponsible shops, The international union, which has just won the foregoing compromise agreement in the New York market, is exerting its energies to win the Baltimore struggle not only to eradi- cate the sweat shop conditions here but because low-grade conditions in Baltimore compete directly with the New York market. Teachers Advined to Follow Miners Plan and Organize SEATTLE, Aug. 6.—Coal miners can give school teachers valuable les- sons in protectiqg against arbitrary bosses, declares the University Jour- nal, organ of the University of Wash- ington department of journalism. Teachers are described by the jour- | nal as underpaid and overbossed. Miners are also underpaid—“but the miners know that better wages will not be forthcoming unless they fight and bring pressure to bear.” The editorial reminds teachers that “educators may hold meeting after meeting, talk, even rave about their inadequate salaries, but until they or- ganize and learn to wield the big stick, their verbal wailings will sound as tinkling cymbal ig K. K. K. Branding. ROCHESTER, N. H., Aug. 6.—Nel- son B. Burroughs, of Rochester, who disappeared from his home, was found at Lawrence, Mass., branded on the chest and forehead with the letters K. K. K. Butroughs, who is a Cath- olic convert active in the Knights of Columbus, claims he was tortured by a band of hooded men. Send in that Subscription Today. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A STYLISH COSTUME, 4836. Figured foulard with fi of satin was used for this is also a good model for linen, crepe or English broadcloth. joined to bodice or underbody por- tions. The blouse may be finished, with very short sleeve with the added long bell portion, The pattern is cut in 7 sises: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches = receipt of 12c in silver or Send 12c in silver or stamps SINGLE PLUTOCRATS GETTING AS MUCH AS 35,000 ORDINARY FAMILIES, TAX RECORDS SHOW By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The combined personal income received during 1922 by the country’s 4 super-multimillionaires would provide for over 35,000 families at the average 1922 wage, according to figures in the 1924 preliminary report of the U. S. internal revenue. the 15 individuals who received personal incomes of more than $2,000,000 could support over 78,000 families on the same basis. The four men who lead America’s caste of wealth,’ with incomes in ex- cess of $5,000,000, received in 1922 a total of $45,890,939 giving each an average income of $11,472,735. They received between them $29,948,839 in dividends alone and $13,562,709 in what is termed capital net gain (pro- fits from assets sold after two years). Less than 1 per cent of their receipts represented return for service to the community. In 1920 there were also Similarly the bureau amounted to $5,919,665,492. This was divided: $2,664,219,081 from dividends, $2,030,517,413 from interest and $1,224,928,998 from rents and roy- alties. These receipts from property are $574,416;316 above those in 1921 and $427,096,531 above 1920. In contrast the return for personal service in the form of wages and sal- aries appears to have been $119,176,- 374 less in 1922 than in 1921 and $1,- 576,380,563 less than in 1920. This probably accounts for the big increase in proportion of the total income go- ing to perspns receiving $50,000 or more. quires 3% yards of 27-inch material. receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. W. Washi Bivd., Chi » Hh fo ge eden bolt ome 4 our} RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE 4 men with incomes in excess of $5,- 000,000 but in that year they received only $41,455,173 or $10,363,793 per cap- ita. The combined personal income of the 19 individuals receiving more than $2,000,000 each was $95,507,638 of which $51,822,481 was derived from Your Union Meeting FIRST THURSDAY, AUG. 7, 1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting piped Fee Trad Council, 59 No. dividends and $33,105,923 from capital | 271 Amal. a icthing Werkerar’ 40 8. net gain. In 1920, the last year of Halsted St. ler Mak W. North Ave. Prosperity before the depression,| 794 Boot’ and “Shoe, 1909 Milwaukee there were only 11 individuals listed with incomes in excess of $2,000,000. In that year the total income of this gtoup was $68,712,373. 3 Absentee Ownership. The extent to which absentee own- ership of praperty is the chief source Avenue. Boot and Shoe Wkrs., 19258 Michi- an. ck and Clay, Sh ick and Clay, Gilet ww, tl, Carpenters, 113’. Ashland Bivd. Carpenters, 6416 8. ted St. Carpenters, 1440 Emma St. fers, South Chicago 11087 Ve. anville, Ht. Ogden and Ked: of these huge personal incomes is re- Job. W. North A’ vealed by the internal revenue statis- Ne ie are tics. They show a steady decrease in s, 1507 Ogden Ave. the proportion of income for person- 7475 Dante Ave. al service, from 69.9 per cent in the sora, Micterta: Hotel. Firemen an Campbell Hod Carriers, E. 92nd St. case of incomes between $1,000 and $2,000 down to 0.6 per cent in the case of the 4 largest incomes. id vane. 38th and Sts., 7:45 p. m. South Chicago, 3101 25 Janitors, 59 E. Van B st, @ The table shows for each income} 60 Janitresses, city Hall,” Hearing group the percentage of total income 8 Ce RGIS isi wae oe derived from wages and salaries, from Buren St. business and partnerships, and from| 5 Pal ge Workers, 1214 N. property: 100 paatment Workers, $28 W. i uren St. eee out eee pce] 12 Leather Workers, 810 W. Harrison INCOME CLASS 1922 Pct. Pct. Pet. Street. 1,000 to $2,000 79.5° 10.4 10.1.| 288 Moulders, 119 S. Throop St. 2,000 to $3,000 9) 3Ee. eee Painters District Council, 1446 W. 000 to $5,000 69.8 234 16.8 Adams £. 000 to $10, 440 85 27.5 | 87] Painters, Dutt’s Hall, Chictige Hts. 10,080 to $25,000 33.9 27.3 38.8 | 2 Piano and Organ Workers, 180 W. 15,000 to 000 25.38 25.9 48.8 ‘ashington. 50,000 to $100,000 188 229 58.3 Plum Monroe and Peoria Sts. yery 4 bn hy ie 63.9 | 281 ay (Railway), Monroe id 800,000 to $o0'000 62 188 Gs2 | 515 Railway Carmeu, 1259 Cornell St. ray $1,000,000 3.4 1.1 85.5 | 724 Me y Carmen, 75th and Drexel 000000 Snd aver” et S48 |tos2 Ratiway Carmen, 1900 W. 17th St. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- Unearned Income. Unearned income pretominates in incomes of $50,000 or over. And this unearned income, paid simply for the ownership of the country’s natural resources and machinery, looms larg- er in the internal revenue report than in any previous year. The receipts of property owners from rents, royalties, interest and dividends as reported to ton. Railway Clerks, 8138 Commerciai Avenue. Sign Hangers, 810 W. Harrison Signalmen, 6236 Princeton Ave. 12 Slate, Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwau- Sta Employes, Masonic Temple, 10:30 a. m. me * epeas 180 W. Washington reet. Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. Teamsters (Dairy), 220 $. Ashland. Teamsters, 30 &. Sth St. rers, 180 W. Washington use Emp., 166 W. Washing- In, (Note—Unless otherwise all meetings are at 8 p. m.) Flat Janitors’ Union Head Indicted Second ) Time for “Conspiracy” stated A PRETTY SUMMER FROCK. William E. Quesse, president of the Flat Janitors’ Union, has been indicted again with three union men and on charges of a “general conspiracy to boycott and intimidate.” Three years ago Quesse and ten others were in- dicted and after many delays con- victed of extortion. Governor Len Small saved Quesse from going to prison this spring when the Janitors’ Union men were active Small sup- porters in the primary election cam- paign, The present indictment was brought about chiefly by testimony of Dr. A. J. Alcorn, one of the owners of the Farwell Beach Hotel, who claimed that Claude Lagey, one of Quesse’s associates, ordered his janitor off the job and attempted to put in a union ( man. Dr. Alcorn alleged that the Janitors’ Union held up deliveries to the hotel when he refused to deal with them. Peter Lagey and Gus Van Heck are the other men named in the indict- ments, St. Louis Council Just as Scabby 4845. White voile with hemstitch- ing for a finish is here shown. This style is also attractive for the pretty cotton prints, for crepe*de chine, or- gandy and other soft materials. | The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size re- Pattern mailed to any address on Send 12c in silver or stamps for our EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Aug. 6.— city council indorses Mayor Stephen's strike-breaking tactics against the striking street paving workers. The Keeley Construction Co, replaced the strikers and the mayor complied with the contractor's request for police pro- Address: The Dally Worker, 1113 of patt the mayor's municipal strike-breaking cB as eet e pai your ‘pattern " AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY PRESS PICNIC DAY RIVERVIEW—RAIN OR SHINE Send in that Subseription Today. AUGUST 10th—SUNDAY. ( as Mayor Stephen} tection. The city council approves of} THE DAILY WORKE ANOTHER SPY AGAINST LABOR IS UNCOVERED Pittsburgh Bosses and D. of J. Paid Him (Special to the Daily Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6.—Another la- bor spying leech has been discovered working in this district. He is at pres- ent located in the Penn building on Penn ave. where the business agents of the Machnisits, Moulders, and Pat- ternmakers unions of the metal trades council have their offices. He is mas- querading as a “realtor” and does a little bootlegging on the side. The dick has used various names: L. M. Walsh, L. M. Wendall, ©. H. Wentzell, J. F. Conrad, Ed Williams and is familiarly hailed by his fellow spies and the members of the Em- ployers’ Association as “Comrade,” Spied on Radicals. This “Comrade” has had the task of posing as a radical and reporting the activities of radical workers among the metal workers especially. He arranged to be “arrested” during the 1919 Steel Strike and of course was soon released. It has been falsely stated that this “Comrade” dined William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for presi- dent, who was active in the Steel Strike. Foster declares that this is a lie and that he has never seen the man, so far as he knows. “Comrade” first worked as an “un- der-cover” man for the Otis Elevator Company of Cleveland, Ohio, his na- tive state. Later he worked for the Mintz Detective Agency in that city. D. of J. Man. He was assigned to the Pittsburgh office of the Department of Justice’s bureau of investigation and was greet- ed by another special agent named Arthur Burgoyne. This Burgoyne is in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company and has ambitions to become agent in charge of the Pittsburgh of- fice of the bureau of investigation. *“Comrade” took an office in the same suite occupied by the Employers’ Association in the Oliver Bldg. His reports remained in the files of the employers’ organization and the infor- mation he gathered was published in the bulletin of that gang of exploiters. His reports remained in their files long after the D. of J. gave him the gate, because “Comrade” just fell in- to the arms of the bosses’ associa- tion and took his pay direct from them when Burns cut him off. Bosses’ Aid. Only a few months ago, “Comrade” moved, fearing that the Employers’ bulletins would disclose his connec- tion with the bosses if he remained in the Oliver Bldg. There is nothing to prove that the dick is not still in the employ of the employers, how- ever. His checks from the bosses made out to J. F. Conrad and deposited to the credit of Ed. Will- jams. He is supposed to live in a Pittsburgh suburb and have a phone under the name of Williams. (Editor’s Note: Anyone who has further information on this labor spy or on any other dick spying on labor and radical activities is urgently: re- quested to assist the Labor Defense Council, 166 W. Washington Blvd., by supplying that data at once for their special “spy encyclopedia.”) Poland is Stricken by Unemployment; Many Bankruptcies WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 6.—Unem- ployment is stalking thru Poland since the attempted stabilization of the cur- rency. Just as in Germany, Austria, Czecho-slovakia and other countries, the minute stabilization takes place, many businesses that kidded them- selves they were making money when they took in worthless paper are go- ing bankrupt. The industries of Poland are work- ing only part-time, if at all. Of 800,000 workers in industry, 22 per cent are working 6 days a week, 32 per cent 5 days, 27 per cent 4 days, the rest only 3 days and less, ve were were ng in that Subscription Today. | sum nearer the first figure. UNCLE WIGGILY'’S TRICKS 4 R CAL’S AGRICULTURAL SECRETARY ADMITS “BILLION DOLLAR” WHEAT FARMERS’ “PROSPERITY” IS FAKE By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Whether Coolidge and re shall march back to power over a highway built of lie’ issue raised by discovery that the ‘billion-dollar prosperity of the western wheat farmer” is a myth. The first big campaign fake, circulated by the Associated Press and accepted by the tory press as gospel, is officially discredited by no less authority than the United States department of agriculture. Meanwhile, the primaries in Texas, Kentucky, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia atid Tennessee, affect- * nee FIGHTS MASTERS’ DISRUPTIVE ACTS congress, have been materially N. Y. Journeymen Resist deception. An Associated Press Lie. What are the facts as to this “pros- werity,” which the Associated Press announced was “making many farm- ers wealthy,” and was adding over a billion dollars to the assets of the wheat farmers and corn growers? “It is possible,” says Secretary Wal- lace’s statement, “that American wheat growers will get from $100,- 000,000 to $200,000,000 more for their wheat this year than last, assuming that they sell something over 500,000,- 000 bushels.” This is the situation disclosed in the department's monthly review of crop conditions. “This is considerably less than the $1,000,000,- 000 increase estimated in some quar- ters, but bespeaks an increased abil- ity to pay off debts and a general im- provement in financial conditions in the wheat country, Corn Growers Badly Off. “On the other hand, the corn situa- tion is by no means good. Stands are extremely spotted, many fields full of} weeds, and much of the crop is so far behind that it will need something approaching a frostless fall to ma- ture. Corn is a feed crop and high prices add mainly to the cost of live- stock production.” After showing that expensive corn this fall will presumably force stock men to cqntinue to sell their breed- ing animals, and that hogs and high- grade cattle will be higher in price next year, the review admits that “The South is considered to be going thru critical days now,” altho cotton may bring in more money than in 1923. It winds up with this statement: The index of purchasing power of farm products is slowly rising, mov- ing up to 79 in June (relative to the year 1913 taken as 100) or 10 per cent. higher than any other June in four years.” All It Amounts To. So the billion-dollar wheat prosper- ity and the two-billion-dollar farmer opulence which has been touted by Brisbane, the Curtis Publishing Co. and the A. P, comes down to a 10 per cent recovery from extreme deflation, and to warnings that the cost of feed for hogs and cattle is going up. Most of the voters in the states whose pri- mary elections take place before the middle of August will not know that |they have been victimized by a colos- sal lie. Gary Wonders if It’s Worth While Obeying the Law NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Judge Gary and the steel trust may defy the decis- ioncof the federal trade commission ordering the U. S. Steel Corporation to cease its so-called Pittsburgh plus by which it illegally increases its profits. The steel trust directorate meeting in New York, instead of ac- fcepting the decision adjourned for three weeks to await. advice of coun- sel. Japanesé Fishers Strike, SAN PEDRO, Cal, Aug. 6.—The striking fishermen, most of them Japanese, are attempting to prevent a cut of $70 a ton on white tuna fish, or albicore. The strike has lasted near- ly two weeks and has about 8,000 men out of Work and tied up 1200 fishing boats. "The packers offer only $150 a ton now as against the $220 offered at the beginning of the season. They have suggested a compromise of $175 but the fishermen are holding out for influenced by this wholesale Wage Reductions (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—Greater in- sistence upon class lines is being made by the Master Barbers’ Associa- tion in their attempt to reduce the union Journeymeén Barbers to a lower wage level. The Master Barbers are striking against the co-operative, non- tip shops operated by the Journeymen and are forcing shops in Kings and Queens countys to lock out union bar- bers and keep up the vicious, trouble- brewing tipping system. The Journeymen Barber shops of 31 Sumner avenue and 1084 Broadway have offered this proposition to the bosses: that four public-spirited citi- zens be selected to decide whether these non-tip co-operative shops are beneficial to all the barbers and to the public, or not. The Journeymen of- fered to close the shops if the decisio} was adverse. So far the Masters have refused to consider the proposition and instead have begun a campaign of wage reductions and lengthening of hours. Wars Start This Way. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 6—When the ous note of protest over the recent killing of American Vice Consul Rob- ert W. Imbrie and the injury of Melin Seymour by a mob at Teheran will be sent by the State Department Monday to the Persian Government. Send in that Subscription Today. FURNISHED ROOMS, APARTMENTS AND BUNGALOWS. REDS COMING TO WASHINGTON, D. C. Furnished Rooms, $10 to $25 a Month. Apartments, $25 to $60 a Month. Bungalows, $45 to $75 a Month. Mrs. Bateler, 32 G Street, S. W. 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