The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1924, Page 3

j | } | Monday, August 11, 1924 DAVIS RUNS T0 PLEASE MORGAN, HIS FRIEND SAYS Pal Gives Low Down on Johnny By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— John W. Davis was picked by the Morgan financial group in New York to become the suc- cessor to Elihu Root as their chief counsel in business and politics, and his candidacy for the presidency of the United States on the democratic ticket is merely a job undertaken for his employers, according to an intimate acquaintance and old associate of the West Virginian. Davis will be more surprised than anyone else if he is elected; he was put into the game to make it safe for Cool- idge and Dawes. This early friend of the candidate points to the pro-labor tendency in Davis’ record in congress, which was cut short by a big fee from the West Virginia coal operators; they thot it better to have him on their side. Then he became solicitor general, and then went to Switzerland on a commission for exchange of German war prisoners. In Geneva the diplo- mats gave him their approval, be- cause he was well-groomed in thot, speech, dress and deportment. Errand for Standard Oil. He became ambassador to Eng- ‘and. In London he found himself Tunnings errands for Standard Oil, Bell Telephone, the Chicago beef packers and United States Steel. The Wall Street people talked him over and agreed that here was the boy to fill the shoes of Elihu Root. They brought him home and gave him $600,000 the first year. His Locust Walley place on Long Island was sold him by Bedford of Standard Oil on notes which bore no collection date. Davis was taken into the ac- tual government of the United States, the Wall Street family. As Democratic presidential candi- date, this heir of Elihu Root consi- ders it his role to talk like the Wood- row Wilson of 1912. He finds the na- tion in the grip of wicked monopoly. He discovers that the courts are us- ing injunctions too freely against la- bor. He believes that the naval oil leases were wrong. He endorses the Ten Commandments. Socialistic Camouflage. He is going to confess these radical views in a solemn speech of acceptance and the editorial writers on the Cool- idge press controlled by Davis’ employ- ers are ready to denouncehimas “un- safe” and his principles as “astound- ingly socialistic,” in order that the voters may imagine that Davis is in earnest. The “independent” branch of the Morgan press will reply that Davis is not radical, but is merely developing the safe America liberalism of Wood- row Wilson. Then they are both to suspend hostilities until the formal Gecision of the chief investment in- terests is handed down in favor of Coolidge or Davis as their choice for the job. If the decision should by any unforeseen chance of events be r Davis, he will put his campaign to the hands of his corporation lends. Nothing further will be heard of his liberalism. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities OPEN AIR MEETINGS. Tuesday, August 12. Section 1—10th St. and 2nd Ave.— (oven f Joe Brah 38th St. and 8th Speaker: Prime and Greek speak- “"Beotion 2—106th St. and Madison Ave. fewish tert! éird St. ant Ls aga Carl Brodsky, Section big re and "Saree ects. Speaker: Levy. Wadea Inesday, August 13. Section 1—Suffolk and Grand Sts.— ®peakers: Sam Nessin and jothers. eatin roy ity robe fone Ave.— Speal rs: Joe Bral an es 38—Wilkins and intervale Aves. fon “Pobind’ st, and Sth Ave. — a for! Rebecoa Grecht. ae Friday sAteus 15, open fen meeti led tof L te deellg's mae eal SOves. an waist Peseta Se eee Ore: HE gee) lack, Hill, New . augnt 1 Bpeakers: 8, Fete or’. ted August 16—George Primoff, i aeEEEREEEEEEE off on meeting. Storm Kills Farmers. MILWAUKEB, Wis., Aug. 10,.—Five were reported dead, a score more injured and property damage into thousands of dollars ‘were recorded, as a result of two tornados which levelled twenty square of growing grains, many farm SOUTHERN RAILWAY BONUS PLAN IS REFINED SWEATING SYSTEM LIKE THE NOTORIOUS “B. & 0.” (By The Federated Press) Operating employes of the Southern railway are making TH the stockholders a present of boom profits in a dépression year under the stimulus of a bonus scheme written into wage agree- ments signed last spring. The stockholders will get scarcely less than the recordbreaking 10% profits of 1928. But the employes, whose intensive co-operation with management makes this pos- sible, appear unlikely to make * even the meager 114% addition to their 1924 earnings which represents the maximum bonus for-the year. First Cousin to “B. & 0..” This bonus plan of the Southern is one of the several schemes of the railroads to identify the employes with management. It belongs in the same class with the'Baltimore & Ohio shop co-operation experiment which is producing reduced costs and in- creased profits for the stockholilers but little for ‘the employes except claims of steadier jobs. The Southern plan was incorporat- ed into three year agreements signed with the 4 operating brotherhoods and the American Train Dispatchers association’ as a rider to five percent wage increases for the brotherhoods and 6 and 10 percent for the dispatch- ers. If succesful it would tend to make the employes pay their own in- creases by harder, more careful work. How the Bonus Works. It specifies that if in spite of the wage increases the ratio of certain ex- penses to gross revenue is no higher than in 1923 the management will pay each employe a bonus of 1% percent of his total pay for 1924 and 3 percent for 1925, The expenses to be includ- ed in the ratio include the wages of the men affected and in addition the fuel used by ‘locomotives, other sup- lies. for locomotives, yard supplies ahd expenses, train, supplies and ex- penses, cost of clearing wreck, dam- age to livestock on_ right of way, loss or damage of freight and baggage, and injuries to persons. The ratio of these to gross revenue in 1923 was 21.42 percent. Fractions of a percent by which this ratio is increased dur- ing 1924 and 1925 will be deducted from the bonus until the bonus is eliminated. But the employes secure no corresponding gain if they reduce the ratio. Results for the first 4 months of 1924 show that in spite of their ef- forts the employes have fallen about 1-3 of 1 percent short of keeping ex- penses down to the test ratio, in other words that they must do better to secure the full 1% percent bonus for the year. The slump in revenue due to business depression is against them. The Southern railway used 1923, a year of unprecedented prosper- ity when gross revenue was 17 per- cent above the previous year, as the test period. Fine for Management. Results from the management's point of view are exceedingly grati- fying. The extent to which the ef- forts of the employes are cutting costs and keeping up profits are shown by interstate commerce com- mission figures’ for the first 5 months of the year. Net ton miles of revenue freight fell from 4,188,419,000 in 1923 to 8,752,234,000 in 1924, a reduction of 10 percent; operating revenues fell from $61,863,002 in 1923 to $58,609,- 275, or $3,253,727; but the road’s profits fell less than half a million from $11,178,034 in 1928 to $10,698,387 in 1924. Other figures show that this re- markable result was due to the in- creased efficiency of the operating men. When traffic declines the oner- ating ratio generally goes up. In- stead it fell from 75.3 percent to 74.9 percent. The ratio of transportation expenses to operating revenues de- clined from 38.2 percent in 1923 to 87.6 percent in 1924, And the pounds of coal consumed per 1,000 gross ton miles fell from 212.4 in the first five months of 1923 to 190.2 in the same period of 1924, a remarkable reduc- tion. The bonus plan is working to the satisfaction of the stockholders. The maximum 1% percent additions to the wages of the employes is still prob- ematical. Defiance to Labor Legislation Offered by Bosses’ Union NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Refusal to abide by enforcement of the union shop thru possible congressional or other legislgtive enactment is seen in the following declaration of the open uum, | shop committee of the National As- sociation of Manufacturers; “The open shop question is much more than one of political scope and it cannot in the final analysis be set- tled in the political arena.” Openshdp manufacturers subscrib- ing to this declaration are 8. W. Ut- ley, chairman, Detroit Steel Castings Co; F. R. Bason, Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co., Milwaukee; Joseph J. Fish- bagel Electrical Co., Newark, UNION HEADS SWITCH FROM BERRY T0 BOB Probably Support Old Parties in Pennsy By ABRAHAM JAKIRA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 10.—A call was issued by several local labor “leaders” for a La Follette Conference to be held in this city early next week. Among these labor men are Clinton Golden, state organizer of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Union, and Lewis G. Hines, of the Metal Polishers Union. Both of them are known as “progressives.” It was Mr. Hines who several weeks ago introduced a resolution in the Philadelphia Central Labor Union ask- ing for the endorsement of the fascist major Berry as Vive-President on the Democratic ticket. With major Berry rejected by the Democrats Mr. Hines became a staunch supporter of La Fol- lette. He apparently sees no difference between La Folletteism and. the Demo- cratic party. Clinton Golden, another progressive ‘and supporter of La Follette, did not even dare to consult his own organiza- tion whether he should attend the La Follette conference or not. He visited the Harrisburg Conference as an indi- ‘vidual, although the conference in its official announcements made it appear that Mr. Golden represented the Phi- ladelphia organization of the Amalga- mated. As a matter of fact, at a recent ‘meeting of the Philadelphia Joiht Board of the Amalgamated the ques- tion was raised by what authority Mr. Golden attended the La Follette Con- ference in Harrisburg. Mr. Rudolf, the business manager, officially declared that the organization had nothing to do with La Follette. That was before the union endorsed the “independent” ticket. It was due to pressure of busi- ness in connection with the strike that the question was not pressed by the Joint Board. In order to mislead the workers ru- mors are being spread that a Farmer Labor Party would be organized by the = La Follette forces as soon as the elec- tions are over. This is far from being the truth. At the La Follette confer- ence held recently in Baltimore the secretary who opened the conference took special pains to announce that “the conference is not a Third Party movement, neither was it called for the purpose of promoting the idea of a Third Party.” Messrs Golden and Hines know the truth, that the La Follette movement is nothing but a capitalist affair. Why don’t they tell it to the workers who /§ still look upon them as progressives? TWO MORE RICH YOUNG IDLERS RUN T00 WILD = Two more pleasure-seeking parasite sons of millionaires have been hailed into court. Bernard McMahon and Robert F. Carey, both 19, are the vic- tims of their midnight follies in a 22nd street cabaret and the exciting race in a powerful motor car with half a dozen police pursuing. Carey is charged by the police with using a weapon with intent to will—because the police claim he shot at one of them—and with driving while intox- icated as well as speeding; McMahon is up for disorderly jconduct on Sept. 1. But Papa Carey, wealthy brick man- ufacturer and south side democratic Politician, and Papa McMahon have threatened to spank their misbehaving offspring and the cases against the young men will probably never brot up in court longer that for dismissal. Tom Carey has plenty of “dough” and plenty of “pull.” It won't take alien- ists to get these lads out, and they'll probably grow up into office later, Picnic Successful. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 10,—The West Side English Branch of the Young Workers’ League, held a very successful picnic, Sunday, Aug. 3, at- tended by over 200 young and old workers. , The following were winners in the various sport events: Sack race, Bd- ward Folatko; women's race, Koski; 100-yard dash for men, Hannes Holtman; 50-yard dash for fat women, Nery Auvinen, first; Sauelma Delin, 100-yard dash for fat men, Paul Holtman, first; Bert Rankin, sec- number phe copies of the Olga |} E DAILY WORKER COMMUNIST WITH WOBBLY HARVEST WORKERS WRITES “Scissorbills” Get Jobs from Legion ABERDEEN, 8. D., Aug.10.—To the of leaflets yesterday and am now busy handing them out to the slaves. They seem to appreciate them very much. The law is after us steadily, driving us out of town when we get too plenti- ful, searching us and tearing up our cards, I was fleeced twice. But they didn’t find mine. Those who are a little obstinate are hit over the head with a gun-butt. At Mellette, South Dakota, the other day, the harvest workers were driven out of town with guns and pick- handles, and the American Legion Was very proud of having saved the country for the bankers, Some of the wobblies admit that the state is some kind of a bug, all right, and they feel like fighting it, too; not by simple in- dustrial action alone, either, but horse to horse. Some others are going to| have the capitalists rolled off our backs without a fight, like worms off a tree, when they get the industries all organized—when! So it is up to’us to make our viewpoint clear whenever we come in contact with them. The harvest is very slow and those hired so far are a few automobile tramps and some good slaves hired through the American Legion co- operating with the Department of Labor. This bunch along with the cockroach business men in the Cham- bers of Commerce set the “going wage,” for which the I. W. W. very mach blame John Farmer, the same @ for all the other evils that befall them. Fraternally—C. W. All-Russian Code. MOSCOW, Aug. 10.—An all-Russian telegraph code — the first that has ever been published in Russia—has just been issued. It has been drawn} up by an inter-departmental commis- | sion, under Mr. Boky's chairmanship, and includes over 80,000 words, phras- es,‘various terms and specifications, ete. The use of this code in all busi- ness and official correspondence is expected to give a general economy of from 50 to 80 per cent on an aver- age. AS WE Page Three SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page I) transfusion of blood was necessary to save. the patient, it has mended its ways and set about securing the life- giving fluid from none other than its erstwhile foe Gompers. But it hap- pens that Sam is as dried up as the 8. P. Not only does he lack the milk of human kindness but Lazarus never turned a deafer ear to poor Dives call- ing for refreshment from his sulph- urous pit in Hades, than Gompers to the dying plea of the 8. P. Such in- gratitude. “#8 VERY socialist functionary who could write, not intelligently but legibly has seconded the Gompers campaign to clean out Communists out of the unions. In fact to show their change of heart the socialists outdid the old line Gomperites in ex- pelling Communists. Gompers ac- cepted these marks of submission as burnt offerings on the altar of trea- son. But the old man is mot easily satisfied. To him the only good In- dian is a dead one. And the socialist Indian while puny and weak was still alive and might revive. The nourish- ment that the socialists expected to receive from Gompers did not mater- ialize. On the contrary Gompers has sucked the S. P. dry and now casts it empty. on the political scrap pile. Gompers knows that the socialists were quite willing to desert their principles in return for jobs. But jobs—his jobs—they will not have ex- cept over his dead body. Hence the venom with which he belays them for their temerity in announcing their intention to dominate the LaFollette movement and become the Indepen- dent Labor Party of America. “* * E learn from the News-Bulletin, official paper of the League for Industrial Democracy, a _ socialist party agency financed by the Ameri- can Fund for Public Service, that the conference of the League which was \held at Belmar, New Jersey on June 25-29 sang better than last year. The conference did not meet in order to listen to amateur musicians thump the pan. The delegates could hear better in an up-to-date movie house at less cost. But reading on a little further we learn that Benjamin Stohl- berg opened the discussion on “The Possibilities and Limitations of Po- litical Action.’ This may be responsi- ble for what appears to us like a “sour note.” What these conferences accomplish besides helping to spend Mr, Garland’s fortune is not clear. + *),8 ENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON of California is expected to fall in| line behind Senator LaFollette. John- son would not be a square peg in a ound hole, on the LaFollette band- wagon, Johnson calls himself a pro- gressive, He denounces the big fel- lows who are trying beloved country into th tortuous paths of European diplomacy.” Sena-| tor Johnson is a stalwart friend of big business in California, but he is against big business in New York or| Alaska. LaFollette has not incurred the enmity of big business in Wiscon- sin, but he is principles every other place but does not hurt it very seriously. LaFollette is today in American politics what Lloyd George was in England during the Boer War. Mr. George was the deadly foe of the militant imperial- ists, but when he came into office what did he not do for the big fel- lows? Johnson of California, the man who is mainly responsible for keep- ing Tom Mooney in jail, should feel right at home with LaFollette. ee ILLIAM NOBLE LEWIS, a col- ored man, was forced by a mob of white ruffians to flee from his home and twenty acre farm in Clarion, Va., leaving his bride of three weeks and his mother. The mob accused him of being “sassy” with the postmistress in demanding a key to the postoffice| box he had just rented. Colored peo- ple claim that certain people were} jealous of Noble because he worked his farm scientifically. Furthermore they wanted to get his farm. This in- cident is only one of many that hap- pens daily thruout the country. But for the man’s speed in getting away he would undoubtedly have been lynched. Yet Mr. LaFollette, tho ex- pressing opposition to religious preju- dice, has never raised his voice against | these cowardly and murderous at- tacks on the colored workers. Now that he has declared himself against the Ku Klux Klan and appointed a Negro organizer to rope in the col- ored vote, he may see the value of becoming a rival of Marcus Garvey. “to inveigle our| against it on general} ST | ‘BLACK FRIDAY’, PEACE FRIENDS CALL SEPT, 12 Ask Mobilization Day, | Be Mourning Day. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, Aug. 10.— Black-banded circulars urging every- one to proclaim Sept. 12 as “Black Friday, Day of Mourning,” have been | broadcasted by a society calling itself Friends of Peace, with headquarters at 1212 Market Street. The circular reads in part: “War profiteers and militarists have set Mobilization Day, Like the ‘Prepared- side Friday, September 12, 1924, as ness Day’ demonstrations it is design- ed to popularize war, and to facilitate the quick operation of the Draft, and , the control of industry when war is declared. Sentiment Appealed To. “THE SUREST WAY TO BRING WAR IS TO PREPARE FOR IT. “We believe that the surest way to prevent war is to concentrate public opinion upon the wholesale killings of the last war. “Let everyone wear a mourning band on the arm on that day; let every flag be half-masted and draped with crepe; post mourning notices in all news- papers, in all windows and on every | windshield and fence. Bring the matter before every labor union, church, fra- ternal society, civic body or other or- | ganization of which you may be a member.” What About Imperialism? “Black Friday” is proposed as the / | “day of mourning” for those who were slain in the world war and all “cele-; brating” are to promise “that it shall } not occur again.” ; Nothing is said about the causes of { wars nor about really effective means { \of eradicating wars, that is by over- | throwing the rule of imperial capital- ism. baprpRzaRraTRRS ER. orat a Here Comes “Blackjack.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— General | John J. Pershing left Washington for | his farewell tour of the army. He will inspect the citizens military train-| ing camps from New York to Denver and will then return to the capital to complete final plans for the Dex} fense Day mobilization test on Sep tember 12. i ab Printed on a fine grade of 12 Inches wide by 18 inche Suitable for framing or posting in your window. “Sel paper. is high. 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