The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, August 12, 1924 CHICAGO BARBERS|4£¢! WILL URGE. UNION TO ADMIT WOMEN Biggest Local to Ask at Convention (By The Federated Press) The largest delegation from the largest local in the Journeymen Bar- bers Intl. union will work for admis- sion of women barbers into the union when the convention opens in Indian- apolis, Sept. 9. Local 548, Chicago, is sending 17 delegates to represent its 3,000 mem- bers. Pres. William Leidig declares local sentiment solid for admission of the women hairdressers and barbers, “The west strongly favors abolition of the sex discrimination,” Leidig says. “Chicago has 800 women bar- ber shops with 1,500 to 2,000 women barbers. Seattle has a very active well organized body of lady barbers. But the eastern locals are against ad- mitting the women. . They haven't the same competition from them that we have in the west.” A. F. of L. Dodges. The sex bar was discussed at the 1923 convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor, at Portland, and was referred to the barbers’ international as a question within the autonomy of the craft. Affiliation of the lady bar- bers to the Seattle Central Labor council was one of the charges in the indictment brot against the control body by the executive counci.,, A. F. of L., last year, Seattle dropped the women’s organization as one of the conditions for retaining its charter, The Chicago local will have over 4,500 members if it is permitted by the international convention to take in the women barbers and if it suc- ceeds in organizing them to the same high degree as the men. Over 93 per- cent of all men barbers in Chicago are in the union. Orientals Barred. There is no color bar against Ne- gro barbers, of whom there are 200 in Chicago in the Chicago local. Orien- tals, however, are excluded. The International union paid per capita on 43,200 members to the A. F. of L. in 1923. This compares with 88,400 five yeare earlier, in 1918, and with 47,000 in the peak year of 1921. James Shanessy is international presi- dent and Jocob Fischer secretary. Russia and Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 11.—Re- lations are strained between the new Turkish government and Russia. The Russian military attache and the Rus- sian consul at Angora are reported to have been arrested for espionage. ON TALKS CHEAP MEMORIAL FOR SLAIN CENTRALIA RAIDERS SINCE $250,000 SCHEME FAILED (By Defense News Service) Far-and-wide dissemination of the fact that $16,500 col- lected for an American Legion memorial in Centralia, Washing- ton, had been dissipated for salaries and expenses of collection has evidently put the promoters of the memorial project on the defensive. For it is now announced that a hero monument will be erected anyhow, but on a cheaper scale. In May the Defense News® Service issued a news story under a Centralia date line tell- ing of the collapse of the en- deavor to raise $250,000 to com- memorate the deaths of the Legion- aires killed in an attack upon the I. W. W. hall in Centralia on Armis- tice Day, 1919. This collapse had become public knowledge thru a lawsuit filed to re- cover money alleged to be due to Frank Jackson of Seattle, who had contracted to direct a subscription campaigh at a salary of $500 a week and expenses. One-half of this salary was to have been paid weekly and the balance when the entire fund of $250,- 000 was raised. Wobblies Exposed Them. Defending the suit, the memorial association pleaded that it was with- out funds, and that all of the cash col- lected had been used for expenses. Leaflets giving details of the affair, as revealed in the lawsuit, were then widely circulated by the General De- fense Committee of Chicago, being sent to Legion posts and members and to kindred organizations in many parts of the country. It was recount- ed that the commemoration project, sponsored by Col. C. B. Blethen, pub- lisher of the Seattle Daily Times, had hit the rocks. Plead For Patience. Now, however, the Grays Harbor Post, a weekly published in Aberdeen, 50 miles northwest of the tragedy- scene, declares that a hero memorial positively will be unveiled in Cen- tralia on Armistice Day, 1924. But instead of costing $250,000 as origin- ally planned, the cost will be only $15,000. “A memorial to the men who fell at Centralia before the bullets of mis- guided radicals was planned three years ago,” says the Grays Harbor Post.” “Funds were collected for the purpose but the amount never reached the desired proportion for the memorial planned. Every dollar that was raised, however, was kept sacred in a fund and has been expended up- on a monument designed and sculp- tured by Victor Alonzo Lewis, at (a cost of $15,000. “This monument will be in the form of a gigantic doughboy, on an eight- foot pedestal of granite. On the sides of this pedestal will be the portraits, in bronze, of the men who died in AN UP-TO-DATE SPORTS SUIT. ad 9850 OUR DAILY PATTERNS A POPULAR MODEL FOR SCHOOL WEAR. Centralia on Armistice Day five years ago. “The I, W. W. Defense Committee, working to secure the release of the men convicted, have covered the Northwest with leaflets stating that the money raised for the Centralia monument has been dissipated. The answer to this mis-statement will be the unveiling of the\statue November 11. The men given the sacred charge of raising the fund for the memorial have kept the faith.” Had the Goods. Immediately upon learning of the Grays Harbor Weekly's announce- ment,.James Morris, secretary of the General Defense’ Committee of Chi- cago, wrote the editor saying: “If you will investigate carefully, you will find that this committee has never stated anything but the truth concerning the Centralia memorial project. Our information, as pub- lished in news service and leaflets, was based on data which is a matter of court record in the lawsuit by A. D. Tasker, to whom Jackson's claim was assigned. Substantially the same de- tails which we disseminated were published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle on May 4, 1924, Copies of the defense committee’s letter were also sent to the editors of the Daily World and the Pythian Record in Aberdeen; the Centralia Chronicle, and the Bee-Nugget and Lewis County Advocate in Chehalis. Not a Popular Cause. This proposed $15,000 monument is the third to be projected by those who contend that the Legionaires killed in Centralia were heroes. As early as September, 1921, it was an- nounced in Centralia that a bronze memorial had been sculptured for the American Legion by E. M. Viquesney of Americus, Georgia. The Viquesney design, it was stated, was a figure of a helmeted infantryman charging with a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other. But that statue never turned up in Centralia. Reference was made by the defense committee in the leaflet mentioned to a statement published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on February 2, 1924, in which Dr. Robert Farley, district commander of the American Legion, indicated that he would recommend an immediate investigation of the committee’s charges relative to the Centralia case. One gharge was that Judge John M. Wilson, who presided at the trial, suppressed a great mass of evidence vital to the defense. Two months and a half have passed since that leaflet was isued, but no word has come from the Spokane dis- trict of the American Legion ,that it has taken any action whatever to get at the facts. And no reply has come to a letter dispatched to Dr. Farley in May. THE DAILY WORKER JOBS SCARCE, WAGES LOW IN “BOB'S” BARONY Wisconsin Not Utopia For Workers MADISON, Wis., Aug. 11~Employ- ment in Wisconsin factories fell off 4 per cent between May and June and the total paid in wages dropped 8.6 per cent, according to the monthly re- port of the state industrial commis- sion, This means a decrease of 4,8 per cent in average weekly pay which declined to $23.93. The number on payrolls is more than 10 per cent be- low last year while the amount dis- bursed in wages has fallen 18 per cent, Industries sharply affected by the depression together with the per cent reduction in their working forces since a@ year ago are brick, tile and cement blocks, 11.5 per cent; pig iron and roll- ing mill products, 44.9; foundries and machine shops, 22.6; stoves, 11.8; ma- chinery, 15.5; automobiles, 25.6; box factories, 29.7; furniture, 13; boots and shoes, 35; clothing, 14.1; canning and preserving, 47.7; flour mills, 24.9 per cent. _ In the course of the month construc- tion work picked up. Building work is empolying/7.3 per cent more men than @ year ago, railroad construction 17 per cent more and murine dredging, sewer digging, etc., 30.7 per cent more. But the number in highway construc- tion has fallen 27 per cent, The number of applicants placed by public empolyment offices’ shows a falling off of 13.6 per cent compared with May and 31.4 per cent compared with June, 1923. Your Union Meeting SECOND TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1924, 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- Scab Hotel Queered Diet Expert With Seattle Workers SEATTLE, August 11—Because he up at a nonunion hotel the Seattle Central Labor council refused to listen to a diet adviser who wanted the floor at a regular meeting. An- other offense of the adviser was his recommendation that workers feed oleomargarine to their children, John H. Jepson, business agent Milk Wagon Drivers, local 66, took office as president of the central body Aug. 6. Send in that Subscription Today. Go to eat where all the rest 100% union men and women ers, 1569 N. Robey St. 188 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Av: 21 . Monroe St. Paving Inspectors, 166 W. 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Rani ih St, otherwise stated t 8p. md 7 meet RICH NEGROES LIKE RICH WHITES (Continued from page 1) will sell his own people into Hell the|tions aprpopriated by white business lating property find their accumula- same as anybody else.” men. « One delegate who has lived all After several others had spoken, his life in the South told of having thot he could have a career as a busi- Mr. Garvey again took the floor, say-}nesg man; but after accumulating ing he desired to make a statement.|$10,000 worth of property everything “In my remarks a while ago," he he had was brazenly taken away from, said, “I made certain remarks about|!™ by, white business men on the the Negro preachers. Someone has asked me to qualify what I said and to specify that I mean some Negro preachers and not all Negro preach- ers, Now my views on that subject jare very plain and well known; there are some Negro preachers who are liberal. Nevertheless, those who are liberal are very few. I will not con- ceal my thots and I say plainly that the Negro preachers need a new con- version. I really mean what I said. I repeat that the Negro preachers need to get educated. They are 90 or 99 per cent wrong, and they know it, too. “We have to speak as we feel, and Guire, too.” ing of the Negro Improvement Asso: Garvey said to him, “This organiza- tion is not against the preachers; please don’t misinterpret the spirit of this convention,” The president-general’s denuncia- tion of the capitalist system and the Negro bourgeoisie were brot about by the speeches of several delegates who thot that the solution of the problem of adjusting race differences was to I really mean that. Even Bishop Mc-}20t realize their hopes in the same However, later Garvey as chairman|elong in the same hive; and two called a delegate to order for speak-|<ings cannot sit on the same throne.” ciation as being against the preachers.) Want in America, let us go to Africa.” flimsiest form of swindle, He rushed to the law for protection, but was coolly told that the courts couldn’t do anything for him. The Reverend Barber of Abyssinia advocated the Negroes’ remaining- in the South for a while, “instead of coming North where the real estate sharks are waiting for you,” and in- vesting their savings in Mr. Garvey's plan foy a steamship line, until they could go to Africa. “Africa is the greatest cotton-growing country in the world,” said Dr. Barber, who advo- cated the establishment there of “a black United States, or a black king- dom of Africa.” He was sure that the black and the white races could country, “because two king bees don’t He said, “since we cannot get what we He expected to raise cotton in Africa, which he thot could soon find a mar- ket in America, because “the boll- weevil, the same thing that killed old Pharaoh’s crops,” and the army-worm, are in his opinion going to ruin the |South as a cotton-growing country. Two speakers attempted to dispar- age the property-less Negro who feels jindisposed to take the employment of- address communications and apepals|fered him and thereby arouses the an- to upper-class Negroes: | tagonism of the white community. Mrs, Lilly Jones of Mississippi|/This aroused an angry protest from earlier in the day spoke of trying to|the large assembly. reach the Negro preachers and teach-| Immediately there followed Mr. ers of the South, “who are the lead-|Garvey’s attack upon capitalism and ers of their people,” complaining of| the capitalistic Negro. the conduct of the preachers and the| Delegate Johnston of Indianapolis refusal of different religious sects to| followed Garvey’s speech by declaring co-operate with one another. rather mildly that he thot the matter Delegate Hampden spoke of similar pof adjusting the radical differences in conditions affecting Negro lodges in|the South “to the satisfaction of all the South, His remark to the effect|concerned” should be handled “diplo- that “the only way we can solve the|matically and strategically, in the problem of the South is to get in with} same careful way as the Ku Klux Klan the well-to-do class of Negroes,” i8/matter was handled.” Johnston asked, thot to have been one reason for Gar-|“Does the white man of the South vey’s warning against the treachery Of| persecute the Negro who has pro- the Negro capitalist. duced something? No, the Negro is Complains Rich Negro Sells Out .to/ persecuted to the extent that he is a White. non-producer.” A delegate 76 years of age, born in} “I believe,” continued the speakur, Mississippi, told of having been threat-|“that the southern white man is not ened with murder on his travels injhard to handle. I believe that in as Arkansas, and complained of Negroes} much as he has blessed the Negro by in favored positions who “sold out to|/compelling Negroes to get together, the white people.” that is in segregating them, that he A peculiar conception of history] will do something more for the Negro which seems to be fundamental to this|now. I think it will be possible to ap- organization’s plan for a grand migra-| peal to him and to get assistance from tion to Africa as the only possible so-| him to get out of this country and get lution of the Negro’s problem, was/a country of our own. shown by a delegate from Ohio, who said: slavery.” ization. Steeped lore thru generations of life in the “I know of no case in history where | children, a slave class was liberated within the| they are. surroundings in which it was held in|ing servant to you. This sentence epitomizes the domi-|yon not let him go now, and lend him nant current of thought in the organ-/assistance to get a country of his in the preacher’s|own?’” “We can say to him, ‘The Negro has served you long. He has nursed your He has made him what The Negro has been a’ will- Has not the time come when you will help him? Will The latter remarks were coldly re- *| Palestine” is constantly recurring in/cerned” when both the Negro and the Carmen; i030 Michigan serving that in American capitalist so-|this delegate, “he will not be satisfied iy Clerks, 549 W. Washington | concludes that “this country is not h ‘ks, Moose Hall, Chi-|OWn,” and that the Negro must take|he is going to feel the oppression of o |the Utopian solution of migration to|the white man.” 220 §-| America to the Ku Klux Klan. “1!/1ynchings of Negroes for crimes that|bers of our race in the fields,” backward South, the average Negro is|ceived by the audience, and were fol- better versed in the biblical version}lowed by Garvey’s reaffirming his of the Exodus from Egypt than he is|caustic remarks as earlier reported. in the history of the Russian revolu-] Another speaker pointed out the tion. The biblical story of the Jews'|impossibility of settling the race prob- escape from slavery in Egypt “back tojlem “to the satisfaction of all con- he. speeches, evidently furninshing|southern white exploiter were among he’ model for the escape “back to Af-|those concerned. “As long as the Ne; rica,” gro has a heart, as long as he has Thus the Ohio delegate, truly ob-|feeling, as long as he is a man,” said ciety “the Negro has no rights which|with the solution which will satisfy the white than is bound to respect,”|the white exploiter. As long as the Negro is the tool of the white man, He continued: Africa. Thus also he reaches the] “And if you take all of the Negro strange conclusion that he can afford| workers out of the United States the to surrender all of his rights in|white man is not going to be satisfied. You need not believe that manual la Delegate after delegate spoke elo-|bor is going to be displaced by machin- quently this afternoon of treatmentjery. Machines cannot do all the cot- they had suffered in the South, of|ton picking and the work of the mem- appeared to have been committed by} ‘The speaker was of the opinion that COMPERS WAKENS TO LEARN ABOUT WEST VA. MINERS Sends Pretty | Protest to Servile Governor (Special to The DAILY WORKER) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 11— More than three years after the min- ers of West Virginia rose en masse and marched on Logan County in an attempt to cleanse that obnoxious spot of the gunmen and armed thugs who were preventing unionization of the field, Samuel Gompers and his execu- tive council, meeting here, have passed a resolution calling upon Gov- ernor Morgan of West Virginia to take immediate steps to prevent “eviction of miners and their families from their humble homes by private gunmen em- ployed ‘by coal corporations,” Green’s Got Gall. The resolution, curiously enough, was sponsored by none other than William Green, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, and an integral part of the Lewis ma chine, which has consistently sabot- aged every effort of the West Virginia miners to establish the union securely thruout the industry in that state. It is a notorious fact that Lewis blocked every attempt of the locked-out min- ers of West Virginia, who have now been living in shacks and hovels for years because of their brave fight for the union, to circulate the other locals of the International organization in an effort to collect some financial relief for their starvation conditions, The latest stunt pulled by Lewis is his taking over of the entire distriet and putting it under the personal su- pervision of one of his henchmen, Percy Tetlow. ‘ Gompers Will Slay Dragon. Gompers’ executive council adds in- sult to injury by offering the president of the United Mine Workers of Am- erica, John L. 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