The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1924, Page 2

“i Page Two ’ 200,000 SLAVES DUMPED ONN. LABOR MARKET Conditions are Growing Steadily Worse (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, August 13.—In| the last year the number of un- employed in New York State has increased by at least two| hundred thousand. This is the} conservative estimate just made by State Industrial Commis- sioner Bernard L. Shientag. “The slowing up of business for the year has, it is estimated, caused the release of over two hundred thousand’ workers, who were on the factory pay-| rolls of this state in July a year | ago,” says the report issued to-| day by the State Department of | Labor. aera | Big April Decline. | In July the factory employ- thent showed further decline. This is the fourth consecutive month in which the number of uneniployed has been rising. Clothing and textiles and me- tals are the hardest hit indus- tries# Commissioner Shientag further declared that: “The falling off in employing during June and July was between 3 and 4) per cent. This makes a net reduction of over 14 per cent during the course} of the industrial recession that set in im April. Last year, from June to July, factory employment went down less than 1 per cent. The seasonal factor, the usual slowing up of ifdus- trial operations for the summer months, is negligible in comparison with the decline due to market condi- tions. Cotton Mill Employes. “One-third of the workers who were employed in the cotton mills in June were let go before July 15. This re-| duction followed a series of reductions| which have been going on for a year.| The number of workers in the cotton! mills of this state is now less than| half as great as it was in the spring | of 1923. The knitting, silk, woolen) and carpet industries and practically | all branches of the clothing trades re- duced employment in July. “Of the 55 separate divisions into vhich the factories of the state are elassified, only eight had as many workers as in July, 1923. They were all making either building materials or food products. Some plants scat- tered thruout the other industries are keeping up or even raising their level of employment. These are special cases that always occur during periods of dull business. like it in the present situation, how~ ever, to indicate a return to condition like those of three years ago.” Fascist Agents Pay Court Expenses for Men They Had Jailed YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. 13.—The two Fascisti agitators who were so| badly beaten at the anti-fascisti, meet-| ing which they tried to interrupt were glad enough to pay the court expenses | when the cases of comrades Marco- vecchi and Pascoli, the two anti fas- cist speakers, came up. } Only one of the beaten blackshirts could appear in court. The other one is still in the hospital. The judge warned the fascisti not to try the | same disturbing tactics again, but the! beating the men reecived had suffi-| ciently warned them already. | Marcovecchi and Pascoli were dis- missed from court. Yellow Scabs in Seattle. SEATTLE, Aug. 13.—Non-union yel- low taxis in Seattle refuse to grant their men a $4 minimum wage for a 10-hour day or 40c an hour, jeurb child labor put |gressions of today would be obviated |tion of art said Mr. Kahn, He blames |the world war on lack, of art. The|held that woman did not have a soul, | calamity was due to “an/accursed aber-|They held a council on the subject, jration of the spirit.” Well, when the | bift much of the time was taken up }bought a ticket to “Tristan and Is- There is, tc aaa will not have a monopoly on CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OPPOSE THE DAILY WORKER CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT; FEAR IT WILL HURT THEIR FORTUNES (By The Federated Press) CLEVELAND, August 18.—Ohio and Pennsylvania business men, organized in state chambers of commerce, oppose ratifica- tion of the child labor amendm ent to the federal constitution. The directors of the Pennsylvania chamber defend their atti- tude with the declaration that “ have the right, within reasonab’ form such labors as will contri-* bute to their practical educa- tion,” and that the power to| in the hands of congress “might prove | detrimental to the agricultural | and industrial prosperity of this| state.” . AS WE the youth of this nation should le limit and restriction, to per- phallic ksoata. acs ns Ral The Ohio chamber of commerce of- fictal organ asserts: “The amendment sows the seeds of selfishness and dis- respect in that it teaches the boys and girls of 15, 16 and 18 years of age that they are not expected to assist the parent who is overburdened with expense or handicapped by illness.” SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1.) well, the “peepul.” “We must -exer- cise the muscles of our inner selves” says the artistic banker, “just as we exercise those of our bodies.” THe Coolidge or Davis. They are both for universal peace. No doubt both would prefer peace to war if they could help but they cannot. That is the truth that well intentioned pacif- rich exercise the muscles of their bod-|ists and even some self-styled Marx- their minds at the best opera and con lies playing golf and the muscles of | ists like Louis Boudin cannot grasp. Yo set of men no matter how good cocting plans to better exploit the |¢am maintain peace under the capital- workers while the workers get too much bodily exercise, right kind at that, trying to earn a liv- ing. As for the inner self, about the only time the worker's innards gets delightfully tickled is when he-has 25 cents to spend on a Charlie ‘Chaplin movie. se 8 Most of the unrest and the trans- if the people could have the inspira- ist system. Aside from the class and not the |Struggle which is always in a state of more or less activity, wars between jrival capitalist nations or groups of nations are inevitable so long as there are markets to grab or new territories to exploit, Aah ee “The-upright lawyer” said John W. Davis, “sells his services but never his soul.” The soul has been the sub- ject for heated discussion for centur- dogs of war begin howling again, it might be a good idea to get all our opera stars busy at the broadcasting stations and out-Mowl the dogs. But then the cure would be even worse than the disease. swe Kahn’s spee¢h is worth another par- agraph. The, most valuable invest- ment he ever made was when he olde.” Peraps, while the stars were sparkling, @nd the chorus was doing its stuff, Kahn was inspired with the ideas that made him a_mililonaire, unless he was a millionaire by inher- itance. “Talking about dividends, he said: “Moreover, the dividends which we re¢eive from the appreciation of beauty and the cultivation of art are wholly ‘tax-exempt.’ No surtaxes can dimiish them, no Bolshevik can take them away from us.” We will make one bet with the banker and it is that when the Bolsheviks secure péwer in the United States as they did in Russia, the workers of this éountry will be given the opportunity to hear and see opera and Mr. Kahn’s it. he ndtli cittte LaFollette is not supporting the can- didacy of T. J. Walsh in Montana, tho his side kick, Wheeler, is. Of course this is nothirfg out of the ordinary. Wheeler hails Walsh as a progressive in Montana, while Walsh hails Davis as a progressive in West Va. The political works were so gummed ‘up in Montana that LaFollette’s son was or- dered to repair the machinery and he did it by supporting the Farmer-Labor Party and letting Wheeler's friends paddle their own canoe. Weeks-Pershing cy is virtuous, the LaFollett | bssageigg dy ies the LeVollette camP | plans for Sept. 12, if statements pub- |lished in the New York World by the is no place for a minister's son. #8 George W. Hinman, the Katzenjam- mer economist of the Hearst chain | of newspapers, has become convinced that a third party is desired by the people of this country. Our bour- geois writers all use the term “peo- ple” to mean the great masses, not jes. At one time the Catholic Church | with another weighty question which |was formulated by a bishop with hair- splitting tendencies: “How many angels could dance on the point of a jneedle.” If a bishop offered such a question today for debate even good Catholics would believe that he was jafter having a shot in the arm. How- jever to get back to Davis and his |soul. Did Davis sell his soul to Mor- |gan when he sold his services? ze A soul without a body is a spook and a body without a soul is a corpse. Mr. Davis is neither spook nor corpse but a substantial individual. This proves that the soul and the body are insep- erable, one cannot get along without the other. We are in fact under the impression that services and sout mean one and the same thing and that | Morgan has the benefit of Davis’ soul. | William Jnenings Bryan found the ac- |ceptance speech of Davis eminently |Progressive. William J. Bryan has |certainly lost his honor along with His |soul, CHURCHES MILDLY PROTEST DEFENSE DAY MANEUVERS They’ll Enter War Only When It’s Here New York, Aug. 13.—The churches of the country are lined up almost sol- If consist. |{U¥ in opposition to the Coolidge- Mobilization Day leading editors of various denomina- tional papers are to be taken as a criterion. The following are samples \of the statements given: © Talk Is Cheap. John A. Earl, editor, the Baptist— As an organized attempt to commit the few at the top. It serves the pur: |the United States to a policy of mili- pose of making the workers feel that after all there are no aliases in Am-| erica, all are included under the gen- eral heading of “people.” A very old lady, informed Mr. Hinman, that she did not know whether to vote for Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue MAKE Monday, Sept. 1, a real “Labor Day” for the American Communist movement, by distributing a bundle of the First 1924 Campaign Issue of the DAILY WORKER. FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, For the enclosed $. send me we Copies of the First Special Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the special rate of 3/2 cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred. | want to help ra he standards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party ticket—Foster and Gitlow. NAME .... ADDRESS .... CITY... tarism, Mobilization Day will fail. Herbert Welsh, Methodist bishop for Japan and Corea—It is impossible to make Asia see Sept. 12 as anything but a threatening gesture. Thomas Nicholson, Methodist bish- op—We have no patience whatever with the parade of the militarists, Chicago Federation of Churches resolution—We believe that our peo- ple as a whole desire to hold them- selves free from any action which, even tho it be justified as an internal matter, might be regarded externally as unfriendly. Edwin L, Mills, editor, Pacific Chris- tian Advocate—Literally millions of our best immigrants, past and pres- ent, came here to be free from this sort of thing. Christian Work—Nothing tried for ages is better calculated to arouse the war spirit than this thing, and our war department knows it, Remeber the Last War. These are all lovely phrases. But no sooner is war upon us than all these sky pilots will quickly become fervent patriots and urge united sup- port of imeprialist slaughter. Their practically unanimous approval of the last war is not yet forgotten by the workers of this country, anRSRIENIS Bricklayers Register 90 Per Cent. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Aug. 13,— Bricklayers in Huntington are 90 per cent union organized. Send in’that Subscription Today, ee allel CONRAD, LABOR SPY, SHOWN UP IN PITTSBURGH Framed ‘Red | Raids’ for ‘D. of J.’ in 1920 By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, August 13.— Uncovering of labor spies* and SS agents who have een serving the steel barons and coal kings of Pennsylvania, and disclosures of the connec- tion between “radical” activi- ties of these spies with orders issued by prominent backers of Coolidge and Davis, is one of the features which organized labor promises to contribute to the presidential campaign. The first spy thus far dis- closed has been the standpat Beattie, ultra-conservative labor official. and promoter of the labor bank in Pittsburgh. Worked for D. of J. The second is L. M. Walsh, alias Ed Williams, alias L. M. Wendall, alias C. H. Wentzell, alias J. F. Conrad, who has operated as an under-cover man for the Otis Blevator Co. in Cleveland, for the Mintz Detective Agency in that city, under Arthur Burgoyne in the Pittsburgh office of the Bureau of Investigation, U. S. Department of Justice, and then for the Employers’ Association of Pitts- burgh. Representatives of the Internation- al Association of Machinists who have studied the record of Walsh-Con- rad as published by Dave Williams in the Pennsylvania Labor Herald be- lieve that he is the “Herbert Little” who was described to the Wheeler investigating committee, in the testi- mony of H. J. Burton on May 13, as having met Burton in Pittsburgh one night and taken him to the office of the Department of Justice there. “Little” furnished Burton with a lot of alleged information of Russian red plots, which he gic the Department had turned over “one of the big steel corporations.” This -informa- tion which Little claimed he had brought home from a secret trip to Russia was published by the steel cor- poration in order to combat the form- ing of unions among its employes, Was “Red Raid” Framer. The Feterated Press ‘is formed that a series of sensational dis- closures of provocative agents, who, like Conrad, were engaged in fram- ing up the “red raids” of January, 1920, and in blocking the organiza- tion of the steel workers and coal miners in Pennsylvania and neighbor- ing states, will be given to the coun- try by the labor forces. Names, dates, terms of employment and the mo- tives behind some of the betrayals of labor by officials and trusted or- ganizers will be bared. Did His Stuff in Strike, Conrad, a resident of Bellevue, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where his tele- phone is listed under the name of Ed. Williams, has been getting his pay as J. F. Conrad and has deposit- ed it in the bank to the credit of Williams. He was assigned in Pitts- burgh to report on the activities of radical organizations, during and af- ter the steel strike of 1919. He be- came notably radical in his utter- ances, and got himself arrested and jailed for a brief time. When employed by the bureau of investigation he stayed away from Burgoyne’s office, occupying Instead a room in the suite of the Employ- ers’ Association in the Oliver Build- His frequent reports to Bur- goyne on his radical activities includ- ed a claim that he had even enter- tained W. Z.. Foster, who was in charge of the steel. strike. Canned by Pork Barrel Burns. So pleased was Conrad to be asso- ciating with the Employers’ Associa- tion crowd that they obtained and published in their bulletins the sub- stance of his reports. When W. J. Burns took charge of the bureau, \Youth of Russia Do Not Go To School to Squander Pin Money Baseball Game and By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, all indications are that the Franks murder trial is rapidly drawing to a close. Some relief! But those who keep on reading the yellow press. will have other, equally nauseating sensations, thrust before them. Hearst knows, “It makes circulation!” Hearst glories in the social crimes of his own decadent class. * * . * For the working class it is sufficient today to get ac- quainted with just two facts brought out ~~ one whole day’s proceedings. These are: First, Nathan F. eopold, Jr., got $125.00 pin money each month; Second, Richard Loeb’s allowance was $250.00 per month. Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald, for if private secretary to Albert H. Loeb, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. wrote the checks for “Dickie.” She said that if “Dicki wanted more than the $250.00 she would merely ask the father if it was “all right.” No doubt it usually was. * * * * This matter was carefully gone into in an effort to show that the two boys didn’t need the ransom money they demanded of the kidnapped and murdered boy's father. “Jake” Loeb, the uncle, went on the witness stand and said that “Dickie” had several Liberty bonds, that he did not cash, showing he didn’t need money. This is the “Jake” Loeb, who as president of the Chicago Board of Education, fought wage raises for Chicago’s school teachers, practically all of whom toil, in crowded, unsanitary school rooms, thru dreary lives, at much less than the $250.00 per month that the 19-year-old “Dickie” received, : But well-paid teachers, with leisure to study, would make intelligent teachers, capable of imparting real knowl- edge to the children of the working class. And thinking workers are a danger to the capitalist social system, for which “Jake” Loeb stands, and which keeps a million or two “Dickies” in pin money. The thousands of girls and boys that start in at $10 and $12 per week, in the Sears, Roebuck & Co. plant, many of them getting no further, because they are just “dumb animals,” will miss the fact that they made it possible for “Dickie” to have his $250.00 per month, and now to enjoy the thrill of a million dollar murder trial. * * * * The DAILY WORKER has already shown that exactly the same conditions prevail out at Morris, Ill. Practically the entire youth of this country city toil in the Leopold- owned Morris Paper Mills at less than $20 weekly; even the hardest work being performed by young workers at $15 and $18 weekly, which only reaches about half of Nathan's allowance. In the words of Foreman Leopold, the brother of Nathan, we are told that, “Nathan got $125.00 per month allowance, that Nathan's laundry and board and everything else was taken care of and that all Nathan had to do was study, AND SPEND HIS ‘PIN MONEY’.” : Thus the court records of this case show that one of the duties of the parasite youth of the capitalist idlers is to spend money made possible by the low wages of an enslaved working class, held in bondage just as securely as any slave class that preceded it, The American subsidized press has often ridiculed the luxury-lacking educational institutions under the Soviet Regime in Russia. The universities and colleges of Moscow and Petrograd, in their eyes, do not afford the opportunities for spending “pin money” that are presented at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Rockefeller's University of Chicago and other so-called institutions of learning in these United States. To be sure, in Soviet Russia, “How to Use a Check Book” is not one of the university courses offered. But the students must attend to their lessons, or they are sent back home, to make way for others, who are willing to apply themselves to the task of helping to build the most intel- ligent nation of people on earth. * * * . Russian youth is studying the way to solve the problems of the world—the problems of the workers of the world. American youth—the rich young idlers of the present ruling class—are applying themselves to the task of spend- ing their father’s money, coined out of the slavery of the great masses. It is not difficult to see that the Russian youth will help lead the young workers of all nations to victory against their oppressors. The social order that onl Leopolds TO SPEND PIN MONE aeons, and gradual obliteration. (This is today's lesson of the Franks murder trial. op abs young Loebs and is doomed to destruction, Surprises Prepared At Picnic of Hersh Lekert Y. W. L. Branch Tug of War Feature New Chicago Picnic Conrad was among the men dropped to make room for Burns’ men on the public payroll, and the Employers’ Association took him on. An unlucky slip in printing an item which might give away Conrad’s real conections led to his being removed to an office in the Penn building on Penn avenue, “where he is supposed to be a real estate agent, accused of sometimes being a bootlegger”—according to Dave Williams’ account. In this same building are the offices of the busi- ness agents of the Machinists, the Molders and the Pattern Makers’ Un- fons. All of these labor. spies and provo- cative agents are known to the De- partment of Justice. If the adminis- tration desired to do so, it could dis- close the whole list of Burns’ frame- up operators, the amount of their bonds, and thedr life histories, To Finish Old Speech, DUBLIN, Aug. 13,—Eamonn DeVal- era, leader of the Irish republicans, is planning to go to Ennis on Augnst 15 to complete the speech he was mak- All Chicago is keen for the picnic being arranged jointly by the Young Workers’ League and the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia to be held Sunday, August 24, at the Na- tional Grove. The league's share of the proceeds is going to the support of its. press, The Young Worker and The Young Comrade. Among the features definitely ar- ranged are a ball game of the Karl Liebknecht branch of tlie league and a tug of war between the other Chi- cago branches. Among those already lined up are the West Side vs. North Side; John Reed vs. Rosa Luxem- burg; Maplewood vs. Karl Lieb- knecht; Rykov vs. Marshfield and Irving Park vs. Bridgeport. The juniors are keeping secret a surprise program which they intend to spring. Tickets are $5 cents in advance and 50 cents at the gate, and can be obtained from any league, party or Technical Aid Society member. 1,106 Dead in Revolution. SANTOS, Brazil, Aug. 13.—'The ing when he was arrested August 15,| killed in the Sao Paulo revolution to- 1923, it was learned today, De Val-|taled 1,106, according to official tabu- era's adherents are planning a demon. |lation of casualties here today. stration i loyalty on the anniversary of their arreat, Bond im_that_Subeor #1 on: Tedgy,_|2OW over 81,600 desseting The Hersh Lekert branch of the Young Workers’ League is giving a basket picnic on Sunday, August 17, at Milwaukee Woods, which can be fFeached by taking any car to Mil- waukee Avenue and then hopping on a Milwauke-Gale car to the end of the line where you will be awaited by a committee. Do not take any food with you since refreshments will be provided on the grounds. Many sur- prises have been prepared. City “Broke.” DANVILLE, Ill, Aug. 12.—Danville court officials were in a quandary to day over the situation which came up here when Mrs. Sarah Emery, arrest- ed on violation of the criminal code was discharged from custody when she demanded a jury trial, The city is broke and no one would advance the money to pay a jury, More Russian Cotton. MOSCOW.—(By Mail.)—The latest reports from the Soviet Republic of Azerbeidjan, Caucasus, show a rapid growth of cotton culti in. this region, the original pi having been exceeded by 75 per cent, 1, ¢., nearly doubled. The sown area is ‘ Thursday, August 14, 1924 WARN WORKERS AGAINST FAKERS’ HOUSING ‘CO-0PS’ Hold Co-operation Will Solve Vexing Problem By CEDRIC LONG, (For the Federated Press.) The American worker no longer owns his home. He is a renter and the landlord controls his living conditions more com- pletely than the corporation controls his job. Industrial workers can fight the encroachments of their em- ployers with their unions; as tenants they are utterly unor- ganized and helpless before the onslaughts of the organized landlords. Co-operative home ownership is the only possible cure. Not 1 per cent of the lower paid workers in large cities of the United States can afford to buy individual homes today, but they can unite to form co-opera- tive housing associations and build or buy houses collectively. Thru such organization they not only effectively combat the landlords, but they take the business away from them as well. Watch Real Estate Sharks, There are three types of housing known as co-operative. The first is an outright fraud—a snare for greedy fools. It is promoted entirely by real estate sharks who exploit that word “co-operative.” They either sell the apartments outright to individuals or form a cor- poration in which the individuals buy stock entitling them to an apartment in the house. The real estate company usually reserves for itself the privilege of managing the property; sonietimes it holds the title to all adjoining land, with an eye to reaping large profits when ‘the value has been inflated. This type of “co-operative” house is sold almost exclusively to well-to- do people who can afford to pay fancy prices. Semi-Co-operatives Have Failed. The second type of “co-operative” house is the semi-co-operative. Pro- moters of these are well intentioned, but fail to follow the rules of Roch- dale co-operation. They sell apartments outright to the prospective tenant, thus permit- ting the new owner to sell or sub-let at a speculator’s profit; or permit one person to buy several apartments in the same house and become a petty landlord; or sell stock in the housing association but fail to put restrictions upon resale or sub-letting. They leave loopholes open, so that the “co-operative” owners can profit at the expense of some other poor sucker the first time real estate, booms. Democratic Co-operation. The third and genuine type has four distinguishing features: No member owns his apartment outright, but belongs to an association which holds title to all the apartments and which gives to each member a 99 years’ or a lifetime lease. No mem- ber has more than one vote in mem- bership meetings, interest on capital stock is limited to 6 per cent oF less, and any surplus at the end of the year is rebated to tenant-members in proportion to rental charges paid. Every tenant should be a member of the association and every member should be a tenant. Selling of mem- ber’s shares or sub-letting of his apartment should be done only by the association, and never at a profit to either the member or tne association. N. Y. and Milwaukee Head List. Genuine co-operative housing for workers has made a good start in two cities—Milwaukee and New York. The Garden Homes, Milwaukee, is a group of 89 houses occupied by 105 families, organized by Mayor Hoan and the Commonwealth Mutual Sayv- ings Bank, In Brooklyn, N. Y., about 25 apartment houses are co-operative- ly owned by Finnish and Swedish workers. Other groups of workers have emu- lated their example. In New York City three groups of young Jewish workers have conducted co-operative apartment houses for several years, and four or five other associations have followed suit. Alexander Bing is erecting small co-operative apart- ment houses in Long Island City. Probably the most significant effort in this country so far is the organ- ization of a central association in New York, the. Consumers’ Co-opera- tive Housing Association, to buy or build houses in any part of Greater New York. It owns seven houses and expects to acquire more, Italian-Russian Shipping. MOSCOW, Aug. 13.—An exchange of cargoes with Italy by sea has been arranged thru an agreement with the Italian steamship company Lloyd ino, whose steamers ply be bein Nlbecpe Sioa 3 Brindizt, agreement covers, besides | hoe 8 Min