The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 5

Wednesday, August-13, 1924 STEEL WORKERS | LOOK EAGERLY TOWARD FOSTER Buying Out Tickets for Mahoning Valley Talks (Special to The DAILY WORKER) YOUNGSTOWN, August 12,—The gigantic international mass meeting to be held at Avon Park, Girard, O., Sunday, August 17, with William Z. Foster, Workers Party presidential candidate, as the principal speaker, is attracting great attention among the steel workers and farmers who are extremely anxious to hear tnis inter- nationai authority on labor, The sub-district committee of the Workers Party, directing the meeting, have arranged for an evening meet-|+, ing at the Ukrainian Hall, 52514 West Rayen avenue, Youngstown, O., on the same date so that those whe were un- able to attend the afternoon meeting can hear Foster. One thousand admission tickets have been distributed and are selling like hot cakes. The proceeds are to be used in behalf of the state and na- tional campaign of the Workers Party, A big banner over the park entrance tells the passing workers that Foster is to speak there. \ This will be Foster's opening speech among the steel workers and a capa: city crowd will turn out. Avon Park is right on the main highway and car line. Out of town people can take a street car or P. and O. bus in Warren or Youngstown and get off at the park. Plenty of park- ing space for autos. Good swimming place. Benches and tables for eats. Javanese Workers, Peasants Eagerly Join Communists ROTTERDAM, Aug. 12—The most popular movement in Java is the Com- munist Party of the East Indies. The masses are rallying to it eagerly, re- ports the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Cou- rant. The Sarakat Islam, a national- ist movement, has been almost com- pletely ahandoned by its members for the Communist Party. Thousands of railroad and shop workers, led by fellow workingmen, have joined the Communists. The number of peasants in the movement is increasing daily and the Communist message is making itself a force thru all the villagés. Send in that Subscription Today. I chew the pencil of a bard to tell you of the Nashnull Guard, that thing the boys is axt to join to make ’em strong in limb and loin, so they can go to camp each summer and march behind a band and drummer, and look right smart upon the street with put- tees from the knees to feet, and learn to stand, stiff and acute, in giving offi- cer’s salute. It ain’t no secret in these days that hardwrung public mpney pays to keep up all the Nashnull Guards just to protect the rich men’s yards. That is 0 say to guard the locks of their well- filled deposit box. In other words, to break some strike, when workers do what they don’t like. They keep mili- tias on the hop, ashooting for the open shop. Who is it calls militias out, when boss and workers have a bout? It’s bosses every time that ey that they need bayonets standing by. ‘When strikes break out, first thing ail Epics they do is wire round to get a crew. A lotta times the plutes conceal that strikebreaking is what they deal, and get the scab behind the fence by put- ting up a false pretense. They throw, barbed wire all around; their private gunmen guard the ground. A few by- standers get a soak; some union man is made to croak. In swift revenge because he died, they say the law is on their side. To papers they give out the news that they has found a bomb and fuse. It ain’t no trouble much to find it, as their own planting is behind it. The governor then gets a wire that all the county is on fire, that profits will go up in smoke unless some fel- ler get a poke, and that His Excel- lency must call out the Guard or things will bust., It’s simple now as A, B, C’s why pa- pers print so much Guard wheeze, why they make heroes of latrine bunms who man the open shop’s ma- chine guns. Davis Still Fears Radical Immigrants Entering Great U. S. (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, August 12.— From 50,000 to 100,000 foreign workers are illegally bootlegged into the United States annually, according to James J. Davis, United States Secretary of Labor, writing in the New York World. “During the fiscal year of 1923, 522,919 ‘immigrans were legally ad- mitted from all sources. Of these, however, only 335,480 were from so- called quota countries. Mexico sup- plied 63,788 legally admitted immi- grants; Canada sent us 117,011. In others words, immigration from coun- tries not restricted last year amounted to more than two-thirds of that from the countries. of Europe. A million Mexicans could be admitted next year.” Davis then launches into an attack upon Mexicans as “not as- similtable.” Davis has been the arch exponent of the idea of registra- tion and finger printing of immigrants, which is a part of the general scheme of ‘big business to get a line on all radical workers in the country and deport them without a court trial. OUR DAILY A COMFORTABLE POPULAR STYLE FOR A “WORK” DRESS. 4840. Striped seersucker was chos- en in this instance with trimming of white linene. This is a good model for linen, gingham or percale. It is also good for jersey cloth or crepe. The .width of the skirt at the foot is \1% yard. The short sleeve is com- tortable. The wrist length sleeve may be finished with buttons and button- holes or snap fasteners at the outer short seam opening. The pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 36, 98, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust. measure. A 38-inch size requires 4% yards of 86-inch material. For facings of contrasting material as illustrated, %-yard is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps, — Send 12c in silver or stamps for our DATE FALL AND! WINTER Yoseasas BOOK OF FASHIONS. ——_ ‘ PATTERNS A STYLISH GOWN. 4837. Figured foulard is lustrated. The model is also good for printed crepe and voile, for crepe sa- | tin, kasha, satin or taffeta. The flounces on the skirt may be omitted. The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust mea- sure. A 40-inch size requires 4% yards of 40-inch material. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: Rall sly Worker, 1113 hing Chil ' WARSHIP SENT TO SCARE NOVA SCOTIA STRIKERS British Government Is Scab Protector By BARBARA FENINGSTON. (For the. Federated Press.) SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Aug. 12.—A warship and a force of constabulary have been ordered to proceed to the Humber river district on the west coast of Newfoundland, where 4,000 men employed on a big paper and pulp mill construction job are on strike. The Armstrong-Whitworth company, an English firm, is building a big pa- per mill, power house, pulp mill and flume. No reports of violence have come from the strike district, where the men have for some time .effectively stopped operations. The sending of the warship and military forces is probably the prelude to an attempt by the employers to break the strike by violence. The immediate pretext of the Newfoundland government for sending the warship was an alleged telegram sent to Premier Monroe by the leader of the strikers threatening the destruction of the plant and burning of the forests unless the pre- mier proceeded to Corner Brook at once to settle the strike. The strikers demand a 10 per cent increase in wages and improvement in housing and hospital conditions. The employer propaganda appear- ing in the Newfoundland and Cana- dian press indicates that the stage is being set to give the Newfoundland strikers a drastic taste of the class struggle. : The newspapers emphasize stories that the troubJe has been stirred up by agitators from the United States. But the facts are that the native Newfoundlanders employed on the de- velopment project started the strike because of their willingness to work them in wages. They claim that Brit- ish and Canadian workers employed have been receiving a higher wage than native sons. Newfoundlanders have long been regarded as backward because of their wilingness to work for a lower wage than that prevailing on the mainland, The fear of a militant labor mova- ment in the island has no doubt caused the government of Newfound- land to determine that the strike movement must be speedily crushed so the warship and constabulary we: rushed to the scene, ‘ Warn Travellers to Russia Against Fake Steamship Agencies NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Stating that there have been many cases of mal- treatment by unscrupulous steamship agents of persons seeking to enter Russia, the Central Bureau of the So- ciety for Technical Aid to the Union of; Socialist Soviet Republics, 799 Broadway, Néw York, announces that it will act as a solicitor for obtaining permission from proper authorities to enter Russia, ‘Two Miners Die, ~ PICKNEYVILLB, Ill, Aug. 12—Coal exacted two more lives as {ts toll when Arthur Presswood and Ray- mond Stout were killed by black ‘amp in a coml mine near Plokney- ville, Presswood leaves a wife and four GaliareR, —_——$—$—$———— ——— —————— THE DAILY WORKER BUILDING TRADES LABOR RESISTS WAGE SLUMPS Survey of Many Cities Shows Facts The general trend of building wages is still upward, according to a national building labor survey made by E. W. Straus & Co., leading financiers in the real estate world. The survey shows that the only general reflection of the slow waning of the building boom is the disappearance of the bonus. Re- ductions in the wages gt skilled crafts- men are noted only in a few smaller cities. “The upward tendency of wages,” says the survey, “is indicated by the fact that during the last 3 months wage increases ranging from 2% to 12% cents per hour have been granted to the principal building trades in Kan- sas City, Cincinnnati, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Baltimore, Buffalo, Louisville and Des Moines. Other cities in which wage increases have been granted, mostly to plasterers, bricklayers, painters, electricians and carpenters, are Chicago, Dayton, Columbus, Mil- waukee,~ Atlanta, Shreveport, St. Petersburgh, Fla., Youngstown, New Haven, Johnstown, Pa., Erie, Cleve- land, Houston, Birmingham and Sha- ron, Pa.” Wages In 12 Cities. The hourly rates for carpenters, electricians and building laborers prevailing at the end of 1923 in 12 of the cities mentioned as shown in the monthly review of the department of labor weré as follows: End of 1923 ‘ Carpen- Electri- Labor. ters cians ers Baltimore ....$0.90 $1.00 .35—40 Birmingham = .75 1.00 Buffalo . 1.00 Chicago 1.25 Cincinnati 1.10 Cleveland 4 1.25 Houston 1.00 1.25 Kansas City.. 1.12% 1.12% Louisville 1.00 ‘ Milwaukee ’ 1.00 60 Pittsburgh .. 1.20 1.25 .60—1.00 St. Louis ... 1.25 1.25 67% Summarizing the country as a whole the Strams survey shows the range of rates paid the principal occupations in leading cities: brickldyers from $1 to $1.75; masons, 85c to $1.50; paint- ers, 65c to $1,374; plumbers, 70c “to $1.50; electricians 70c to $1.50; hoist- ing engineers 62%c to $1.67%4; and common laborers, 25c to $1.10. The average common labor rate for pick and shovel men was 56c in July as eompared with 54c a year ago. According to the survey 35,000 new workers are required each year to fill the gaps caused by death and with- drawals to other lines of industry. Artists of Revolution Fired When Protesting Destruction of Work By ELLA G. WOLFE. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.—When the Union. of Communist Painters and Sculptors of Mexico publicly protested against the destruction of their works by a group of students of the National Preparatory School, they were all fired. They were fired becatse in their protest they accused in plain, fearless language those who were really responsible for the destruction. Who said this was a workers’ and peasants’ government? If Robert Haberman ever makes such a state- ment again, tell him he does not know what he is talking about. Wrong Dope, Butchers! “Housewives won't buy cheap meat,” is the wailing excuse of the United Master Butchers’ Association, now in convention here, for the high cost of meat. The butchers say that only fancy cuts are ordered and con- sequently much good meat is wasted. Jim Workingman’s wife doesn’t agree with these butcher bosses at all. She says she can’t afford to buy even the poorer cuts of meat more than twice a week and she knows some of her friends who- never can afford more than a soup-bone’ with meat prices so high and jobs so scarce for their husbands. RUSSIA BEARING DROUGHT BURDENS (Continued from page 1) the cattle of the peasants, and repay- able after his next harvest. How Russia Helps Herself [ So today, instead of appeals going thru the United States for gifts, there is, for instance, a representative of the German Colonist Bank, selling stock. This bank was organized in 1922 in the German Commune,’ with all the ‘large co-operatives and the State Grain Trust as stockholders, and thousands of peasants also hold- ing shares of stock. For two years it has been doing good work in rebuild- ing the agriculture of this region, and in working out the problem of the best. type of agricultural bank for So- vieteRussia. Its capital is guaranteed by the German Volga Republic, a most energetic little state with a thrifty population. And all the money it gets will go into food for the hun- gry, secured on cattle and payable af- ter the next harvest. ‘Of course there will be millions who are too poor to give the ncessary security, and who must be fed by government relief, but the methods used thru this bank illustrates the general way in which Russia is hand- ling this year’s great drought. Not foreign appeals, and not even state charity, except where unavoidable, but as far as posible, self-support and credit. When the drought was: first per- ceived, bread prices began to sky-rock- et thruout the stricken region and horses and cattle were thrown on the market for a song. But a swift opening of the co-operative and state- owned ‘warehouses calmed the popu- lations; bread prices tumbled again to normal, and prices of cattle and horses began again to climb. The fact that government aid is promised, and that cattle are an asset on which one may borrow, has added to the stability. But good horses may still be bought for $35, whereas a year ago they were around $150 end even $200. It is not entirely drought which causes famine on the Volga; it is partly the very primitive methods of agriculture. In nearly all the chil- drens’ colonies I visited, or heard: of, the harvest, while poor, was still no- ticeably better than among the peas- ants. Youth Is More Efficient. The Johfii Reed Colony at Cherum- shan established only last September, has already raised enough food for its own support, even during this year of drought and with painfully primitive methods. I talked with the children about it. They had begun with only fifteen boys, who repaired houses and made beds for the others; month by month they added to their number, until there were fifty boys and girls at the time of the spring planting. And now there were seventy-five boys and girls, with enough harvest for all of them. Yet the peasants with only four or five in their families, have not enough to eat they told me. “How do you do so much better,” I asked. “By better methods of agri- culture?” “No,” they answered. “Next year or sometime we will have better me- thods. But this year we had to make our own ploughs in our own carpen- ter and blacksmith shop; our methods could be no better than the peasants.” Plough Instead of Church, Then how. . “We worked harder,” they answered. “During the Easter holidays and the many holi- days after Easter, when the peasants were going to church and getting drunk, we wére ploughing. We plant- ed first of anyone in the district. And the day after our seed was in the ground, there came the best rain of the spring. Now the peasants are all saying: ‘God loves work.’” This is the propaganda that the children colonies are carrying now to the peasant. Some day soon we hope it will be a better propaganda, not merely ‘more work, but of easier me- thods. For these children’s colonies are one of the most hopeful things in Russia, They are full of the real communal spirit, at least in many of them that I know. If given enough technical aid, if they are not suffo- cated under the vast numbers of homeless children, (Saratov Govern- ment reports 19,000 still uncared for) UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS you'll oa - eggs, mal pp hy As “Too bad to have to beat good eggs! * tis ania they will be centers of light in the future Russia. | Russia Feels Her Strength No general appeal is going to be made this year, I think, for foreign aid, in spite of all the needs in Rus- sia. For Russia feels her strength I was talking to Melnichanski, head of the Moscow labor unions. He told me how the budget of the Moscow Schools ran short this year, and it was decided that the thousands of children in the childrens’ homes of the city, would have to give up their | -p summer in the country.’ Every city | j, children’s home has also its summer villa, but this year they could not af-| ford to go. “But our trade unions knew 4 it,” he went on. “So without’ even any appeal to our members, the| WAGES AND WORK ARE NOW HITTING IT ON ONE LUNG Central States Showing Steady Decline By JAY LOVESTONE. The downward trend in industrial and commercial activities thruout the country continues in evidence in the Chicago Federal Reserve district, embracing the states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana. his is the opinion of the Seventh ederal Bank District, with its head- quarters in Chicayo. The official August report states | that last month saw a continuation of jdullness in the demand for coal in Illinois and Indiana. About 60 per cent of the Indiana mines are reported board just put its hand down in the|jqjo surplus funds of the union and sent} those extra thousand children to the country. And when we found ordinary children’s homes were giving out less mohey for food than our special trade union homes spent, | we made good that difference also, so that all the children’s homes of Mos- cow might get plenty of food thea) the summer.” Unions Support the Kids. Imagine trade unions strong enough to supplement the state school budget without even issuing special appeals to their members. But the unions are the richest bodies in Russia for every sort of welfare work. Even as 1 was talking, a secretary came in to Mel- nichanski with the check for him to sign. He signed it and then turned ‘o me. “Forty-two thousand roubles,” he said. “About $23,000. Every month for four months of the summer, that is what we hand out to the children’s homes’ of Moscow. When I was a trade unionist in New York we didn’t have funds like that!” He ‘told me he was entirely against any money-raising abroad for Russia. “Fhe Pope wanted to send twenty thousand dollars to our students. | Well, our students need money, that’s certain, but I made a counter-propo- sition. The trade unions of Moscow will do it, and then we will not need the money of the Popo.” I asked if he would oppose all help from abroad. You have “Friends of Children,” organized in every city in Russia. Do you object to foreign friends? - “Not to FRIENDS,” he said quickly. “Friendly gifts are another matter. What we object to is charity from people who do not love us.” So that is why, in spite of the great drought this year, there will be no foreign appeals. The Russian work- ers, the Russian state budget will dig deep;. that’s all. But’ the fail- ure of the harvest thru six govern- ments and parts of four more is a hard blow to the hopes of swift prog- ress, for all of that. It makes it hard- er to hold the rouble steady; it makes’ it harder to bring in machinery and equipment; it makes everything a little harder for a year. But it makes no lasting difference in the steady climb of Russia. Sign on the This will insure you a giving a keen, reliable world’s first workers’ government. You will enjoy it even mor $2.00 a year SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. Name Street & No.. City .... that | Prompt monthly delivery of the only journal analysis of the latest developments in the e with the large number of interestin; Photographs that appear only in the pages of . SUBSCRIPTION Employment and Wages Sink. There was a further decline during the month ending June 15 in the in- dustrial employment in this tier of states. The total employment of 370,- 000 workers investigated on that date showed a decline of 3.7 per cent in men, and 5.6 per cent in earnings. There was also revealed a further curtailment in the automobile produe- tion and distribution. Passenger cars produced were the fewest since December 1922. The output of trucks reached the lowest level since Feb- ruary 1923. Steel Production Falling. At Chicago, steel buying was ex- tremely light. Iggot production in the district dropped steadily. Prospective biulding continues to’ show signs of a gradual recession. The permits granted in forty-nine cities of the district indicate a de- cline of nearly twenty per cent in number and almost ten per cent in value, from the preceding month. In Chicago the production and dis- tribution of men’s clothing during the past six months of the year were be- low the figures of the corresponding period in 1923. Fall orders show the same unfavorable tendency. Manu- facturers are making little fore stock. Retailers’ ‘orders reveal no sign of an early increase. Sales of clothing and suits during the first six months of the year were behind the same period last year. Jobless in LaFollette Paradise. In Wisconsin, according to the latest reports of the State Industrial Commission, employment conditions are increasingly unfavorable. The in- dustries classified as manufacturing indicate a loss of four per cent in the number of employes and a fall of nearly five per cent in the average weekly earnings for the period May 15 to June 15. During this time the volume of em- ployment in wholesale trade decreased almost six per cent. The sales forces in retail trade show a loss of more than one per cent. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for re SMITHFIELD ST., Ni CENTER AVE., ‘Core Arthur Se Dotted Line! $1.00 six months “Every time! beat an egg the shel] broke!"