The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1924, Page 5

Friday, August 15, 1924 me DAILY WORKER SOVIET PAPERS TELL EUROPE’S _ WAR WRECKAGE Workers Greatest of War Sufferers BY ANISE, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) MOSCOW, Aug. 14.—Russian papers fare full of statistics and articles on (the anniversary of the world war, showing the havoc which it wrought in Europe. Industry thruout Hurope | has fallen off markedly, instead of ‘the normal increasé which in the past has followed decade after dec- ade. Only basic agricultural production remains the same, for men must eat. But Europe no longer eats as she yonce did, for she can no longer import from abroad, Eat Less. The consumption of bread in the main countries of Europe, England, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, both yictorious and con- quered lands, fefl from 1,035 pounds per person per year to 810. pounds. In other words the men and women and children of Burope are éating only 77 per cent as much bread as they used to. The amount of butter they get has fallen to 75 per cent; and the amount of sugar to 72 per cent. They wear less clothes than before. The consumption of cotton cloth went down 40 per cent fn Germany and 35 per cent in England. The Planting of the raw materials’ fell off in hemp by 57 per cent, in flax by 58 per cent, in cotton by 90 per cent. The production of coal in Europe went down to three-fourths of what it was before the war, and of oil to two- thirds of pre-war production, 3,000,000 Jobless. Thus the basic life of Burope shows the wreck caused by war. And when we add that at the beginning of 1923 there were 3,000,000 unemployed in Europe we see also a little of the hus } man side of this ruin. Cure By Air Mail, ROCKFORD, Ill, Aug. 14.—U. 8. Air Mail may have saved the life of Ray || Pearce, head of the parts department of a local auto agency, who lies | stricken with spinal meningitis. When Pearce’s sickness was diag- nosed, local physicians in charge of his case at Rockford Hospital learned they could not obtain meningitis anti- toxin serum this side of Philadelphia. A request was flashed to that city to have the medicine put aboard an '|VISIONS OF HUGE PROFITS GET ‘GUN-MAKING STEEL MILL OWNERS TO SUPPORT MOBILIZATION DAY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press | people of the world permanently offers the fact that he and Schwab are assisting govern- ment representatives as evi- dence of the determination of the steel industry to carry “out its pledge. Gary made a special point of impor- tance of guns, which he and his fel#) low steel makers are ready to produce in huge quantities, for a considera- tion, Some Melons! A glance at the history of U. 8.} Steel profits during the last period of preparedness and war will explain Gary’s strong feeling in the matter. This is shown in the table which con- tains the gross income, manufacturing profit and net profit available for steel security holders during the three pre- war years 1910 to 1913 and the three years 1916 and 1918 inclusive: Gross income—1i910-1913, $2,157,- 548,654; 1916-1918, $4,659,748,494; in- crease, 116 per cent. Manufacturing profit—1910-1913, $454,626,661; 1916- 1918, $1,665,490,003; increase, 266 per cent. Net for, owners—1i910-1913, $349,661,461; 1916-1918, $816,002,037; increase, 133 per cent. War and Peace. It appears that the war, with its enormous demand for munitions, gave these great steel makers manufactur- ing profits more than three and a half times those of the period of peace. All sorts of accounting reductions were made to conceal the magnitude of the profits, but in spite of this they appear to be more than twice as large as those of the pre-war period. After the payment of all dividends and in- terest undivided profits increased from $135,204,472 in 1914 to $523,454,- 891 in 1920, and cash and securities in the treasury from $79,780,380 to $925,213,733. The exorbitant war profits of the steel corporation were graphically pic- tured in a sharp memorandum from former Controller of the Treasury John Skelton Williams to the director general of the railroads. \Analyzing the 1918 report of the company, he said: Could Afford Better Wages. “The foregoing figures show that the net earnings made for the year air mail plane bound for Chicago and a high powered auto stationed in the || latter city to speed the serum to || Rockford. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SIMPLE SUMMER FROCK. 4889. Nothing so cool and comfort- able for warm days as the style here 1918, after deducting regular taxes and about $100,000,000 for mainte- mance, amounted to $549,180,000. These earnings were so large that the A PRETTY FROCK FOR MOTHER’S GIRL. 4844. Embroidered voile, figured silk, linen or crepe would be attractive for this model. The panel on the bac’ may be omitted. The sleeve may be in wrist, or in elbow length. This pattern is cut in 4 sikes: 8, 10, 12 and 14. years. A 12-year size requires 3% yards of 40-ineh material if made with long sleeves. If made with short sleeves % yard less ma- terial will be required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamp: Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. wiWarhington Sleds chicago nit’ ROmICR, Sa PATTERN PULSE Dy a New. York: firm of pattern ig roma pes.) Visions of a return of the huge war profits which left the nates are dancing in the heads of members of the Iron and Steel institute, This is revealed by a statement of Judge Gary urging the public to give full support to Mobilization day. He states that the directors of the institute pledged their active efforts and | oc eunSUnIEEEEIEEEEEEE EE ndustrial Editor) in debt to the great steel mag- MAC DONALD'S REGIME DENIES ENTRANCE TO GERMAN COMMUNIST (Special to the DAILY WORKER) BERLIN, Aug. 2—(By Mail).— The Labor government of England refused admission to the country to» Comrade. Stoecker, Communist deputy in the German reichstag. Comrade Stoecker had been dele- gated by the Communist fraction in the reichstag to visit London for the purpose of studying the political and economic conditions in England and to participate in the anti-war campaign of the English Communist Party. The Communist fraction: in the reichstag has sent a telegraphic protest to MacDonald and to the Central Executive Committee of the English Communist Party. company could during 1918 have doubled the salaries and wages paia to every one of its 268,710 employes and officers, amounting to $452,663,- 000, and would have had a surplus left over of $96,517,000.” Gary’s Mouth Waters. Steel orders today have shrunk to the lowest point in years and continue to shrink, tho operations have been re- duced to 50 per cent capacity. It is not surprising that Gary’s mouth should water for war profits. RULE EVICTIONS ARE LAWFUL IN WEST VIRGINIA glass, etc. 689,000 40,000 Tron and steel .... 1,039,000 15,300 Engineering, shipbuilding 5,250,000 59,500 Other metal 936,000 32,600 Textile ... 1,830,000 2,500* Clothing 1,003,000 5,200* Food, drink, tobacco 472,000 15,300 Building and | allied trades ... 1,982,000 213,000 Transport ... 2,655,000 203,000 353,000 28,100. Woodworking BRITISH WAGES RECOVER PART OF 1929 LOSSES Miners’ Rates Show Most Gains of British The downward trend wages has been halted. According to U. 8S. Trade ‘Commissioner H. D. Butler of London, “changes in weekly rates of wages reported by employers and work people show that the long period of post war step by step re- duction in wages came to a close by| the end of 1923 and increases have | been the rule since.” In 1922, atcording to Butler's fig- ures, wage changes meant a net loss of about $18,150,000 a week in the| pay of British wage earners. This} was followed by an additional loss amounting to about $1,237,000 a week in 1923. But by the last 6 months of 1923 wage increases and decreas came pretty close to striking an ev balance. During the first 5 months of 1924 increases totaled about $2,185,000 a Week while decreases fell to about $187,500, leaving a favorbale balance of nearly $2,000,000 for the workers. The table shows for important in- dustries the net foss in weekly wages in 1922 and 1923 and the net gains of the first 5 months of 1924. Figures are dollars estimated on the basis of the current exchange rates. Changes in weekly wages— Decrease Increases Mining 1922-1923 Jan.-May, '24 and quarrying $2,181,000 $1,283,000 Brick, pottery, & *—Decrease These figures are based on full-time wages and do not deal with short-time working. “They show that ‘wage earn- ers in the majority of industries have made little progress in recouping the losses of deflation. The miners are re- Violence is Frowned on, But It Means Nothing (By The Fei ted Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va., August 14. —Delicate distinctions as to where violence begins and peaceful evictions end are evidently to be left to the company gunmen that are throwing striking miners out of company houses. Protests at the forcible evic- tions of miners and their families in Putney, Plymouth and other West Vir- ginia mining towns are reaching Gov. Morgan from the miners’ district un- ion, from Intl. Pres. Lewis of the min- ers, from the American Federation of Labor and from other bodies of citi- zens outside the state. May Evict Without Warrant The state supreme court has ruled) that evictions without a court order are legal provided the evictions are not accompanied by violence. Atty. Gen. England added his weight to the supreme court decision. Workers’ Testimony No Good. The joker in the rulings is that West Virginia courts usually decide in favor of the coal companies on issues of fact. The company will have its gunmen testify that they used no vio- lence in evicting miners’ families. Testimony by miners that the evic- tions were forcible will be ignored. Northwest States May Get Oil War With Philippines DA NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—A trade war between the Philippines and the Paci- fic dairy states of this country is an immediate probability unless certain of the dairy states lift their boycott on coconut oil from the islands, Leon M. Gonzales, Philippine government com- mercial agent in New York, an- nounces, * The island government is consider. ing a retaliatory boycott against pro- ducts of Oregon and Washington, he says. The butter manufacturers of these states, he adds, “have succeeded in passing laws prohibiting the sale of margarines containing vegetable fats, and are sending speakors thruout those .states and waging elaborate propaganda forgetting voters to sup- port these anti-margarine laws at a referendum in November.” The proposed Philippine boycott would be aimod at imports from Ore- gon and Washington, which amounted to over six and a half million dollars last year. Gonzales calls coconut ol! the most important item in the Phiffp. pine export trade, y 4 Send in that Subscription Today. sponsible for the bulk of the net in- crease in 1924, with the building trades and transport workers also| showing appreciable gains. The ad- vances in the case of transport work- ers resulted mainly from arrange- ments following the locomotive en- gineers’ strike early in 1924. COMMUNISTS GET LONG SENTENCES IN GERMAN COURT KONIGSBERG, Germany, Aug. 14. —Unusually heavy sentences were im- posed here upon local Communists for) alleged sedition. Altho the court held) that none of the men involved acted out of impure motives, they were sent to prison for 2 to 7 years. The charge was that they planned by September 1923 to overthrow the government forcibly, and to erect a workers’ and peasants’ government on the Russian niodel in its place. — No uprising occurred in Eastern Prussia. Yet the court meted out pun- ishment which, in comparison to that given to Hitler and his associates in Bavaria for actually ‘starting an up- rising, is a travesty upon German justice. The verdict contrasts strangely with the verdict of not guilty pronounced by the Bavarian judges on Ludendorff, who was the backbone of the whole nationalist uprising of Nov. 9, 1923, Russo-Persian Sugar Agreement. MOSCOW, Aug. 14.—In connection with the establishment of the “Russ- persakhar” (Russo-Persian Sugar Trade Co. Ltd.) the question has been raised of granting the new com- pany the right to export sugar to the jact. b of Oklahoma City. tenced to serve ten years and to pay a fine of $5,000, Inas much as Berg is in the thirties, this amounts practically to a life sentence, considering that for want of funds it would re- quire 13 years for the defen- dant to work out his fine at the rate of $1 a day; and men die} early in prisons. Peculiar c umstances surrounded 's conviction. There was evidence that he had ever ¢ any act of criminal synd tage, nor any offense and order. Arrested Without, Warrant. Berg was arrested in Haileyville, 20 miles southeast of here, by a Rock Island Railway employe. He was put into jail without a warrant. Later he was taken before a justice of the peace and was fined and sentenced to| the county jail for alleged vagrancy. He had been in Haileyville less than against law had intended, he declared, to leave town on the next train, due to go in 15 minutes. He was obviously not a vagrant, since he was employed by the Oil Workers Industrial Union at a regular wage as a traveling dele- gate, and had money in his pocket sufficient to meet all personal needs. After Berg had served 30 days un- der the vagrancy conviction he was taken from the jail here, haled be- fore District Judge Brewster, and accused of sabotage and criminal syndicalism. He pleaded not guilty. The specific offense charged against him was that he had distributed I. W. W. literature—which is certainly not a violation of law, the defense contends, inasmuch as none of that literature advocated any unlawful Prosecutor Got Delirious. But the prosecutor made a great &do before the jury about all the lit- erature, reading passages from it in awe-inspiring tones. Even then there was no evidence that Berg had handed any of the I. W. W. papers or pamphlets to anybody, and the prosecutor had to strain a point to produce “evidence” that the defendant had been letting outsiders know about the I. W. W. He did it in this way: Following Berg’s arrest he was taken to a restaurant for a meal. The restaurant keeper asked to see the papers which the prisoner had been carrying, and the literature was handed to him by the officer who had Berg in charge. The restaurant owner and his brother examined the literature, and this inspection of I. W. W. documents by outsiders was the technical basis for the charge on which Berg received his stupendous sentence. Berg maintains that he has com- mitted no crime, and that he had full right to circulate all I. W. W. litera- ture in his possession. He declares that this literature dealt only with facts, that it did not advocate any criminal action, and that the I. W. W. newspapers enjoy second-class mailing privileges from the postoffice depart- ment. He contends that Judge Brew- ster manifested prejudice against the Treav. W. in a speech made immedi- ately following the verdict. This appeal was filed several months ago. Berg w | At the na an hour before being arrested, and |~ EXPECT DECISION ON APPEAL OF ARTHUR BERG’S SENTENCE; CONVICTED ON FLIMSY GROUND (By Defense News Service.) McALESTER, Okla., Aug. 14.—Friends of Arthur Berg, who is serving a prison term under the state criminal syndicalism law solely because of being an I. W. W. member, are expecting any day to hear that the District Court of Appeals has handed down a decision on an appeal filed by Berg’s attorney, John J. Carney § sen- AMSTERDAM LEADERS MOVE TO SPLIT UP UNION IN BELGIUM (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Aug. 2-—-(By Mail).— ional convention of the | Retail Clerks’ Union of Belgium, | the vice chairman of the Amster- | dam International submitted a mo- | tion to remove the Communists from responsible positions in the union. The motion was by an insignificant major! result of this decision Comrades Von de Plus and Jacquesmotte, sec- retary of the national organization and secretary of the Brussels branch of the organization, respec- tively, will have to resign from their positions. named Ball admitted that he believed the I. W. W. was unlawful, expl ing that he had gained that impres sion from hearsay. But he asserted | that he was “not prejudiced,” and the | court overruled the objection of the defense and permitted Ball to serve as a juror. Wear was arrested at Quapaw, ten miles from Miami, in the northeastern corner of the state. His trunk, which contained I. W. W. literature, was seized without any search warrant, and:a department of justice agent was allowed to have free access to it in advance of Wear’s trial. At the trial the authorities introduced a crudely typewritten screed counseling de- struction of property. Wear denied that he had ever seen that piece of paper before, and declared that somebody must have planted it in his trunk. There was no evidence to show that he had written it, nor that he had ever advocated any unlawful action. Your Union Meeting | Third Friday, Aug. 15, 1924, Name of Local and Place of } peting: Puree and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- velt. 8 ar eee ae 175 W. Washington te, P. 810 W. Harrison St. 29 Broom Mai Building 3 Council, 180 W Washington. Carpenters’ Dis. Council, 605 S. State St. 2208 Carpenters, 4339 S. Halsted St. ¥ Electricians, 2001 W. Monroe St. 214 Electricians, 4141 W. Lake St. 779 Electricians, R. R 5824 S. Halsted | it. | 84 Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- | field. Gold Beaters, 3056 N. Leavitt St. Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria MICHIGAN MILL SLAVES WORKED A 17-HOUR DAY Strikers Appeal to the Workers Party, By EDW. A. KOSTEN. (Special to The Daily Worker) FILER CITY, Mich., Aug, 14—Once again the workers of Michigan feel the sting of a capitalist government, This time the workers of Filer, City are learning something of court jus- tice in time of labor trouble, During the later part of June-and the early part of July the workers employed by the local paper mill or- ganized Local Union No. 135 of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. The company at .once began to discrimi- nate against union men and eleven were discharged, two of whom were women workers. The employes of . this mill work as many as 16 and 17 hours per day. Attack Strikers. On July 16th the mill was struck and immediately the wheels of justice began to grind. Several of the strikers were assaulted by an office employe, Biggie by name. One was shoved off the office porch and when going down was kicked down the stairs. This as- sault was committed when the men asked for their pay checks, A warrant for the arrest of Biggie was requested but none was issued. One of the strike breakers imported by the company was grabbed by the coat collar and given a good shaking and as usual the striker was im- mediately arrested and fined including court costs. The strikers are standing firm and request other workers to help them keep strike breakers from going to work, Scientific Motherhood. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14—Mrs. Anne Kennedy, secretary American Birth Control league, is in San Fran- cisco in the interests of the interna- tional birth control conference to be held in New York next Mareh. “Motherhood,” says Mrs. Kennedy, “Instead of being a blind and hap, hazard consequence of uncontrolled instinct, should be made the respon- sible and self-directed means of hu- man expression and regeneration, WM. Z FOSTER What do you know about him? When speaking to your neighbors, friends and shopmates and, urging them to support and vote ®r Wil- liam Z. Foster, the working class candidate for president, at the coming election, you will have to tell them what Foster has done for the labor movement. For this we recommend Foster’s book: | | Sts. Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint 28 W. Van Buren’ St. 113 S. Ashland Blvd. 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Metal Polishers, 33 E. 111th St. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St. Plumbers, 9261 8. Chicago Ave. Railway Garmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie, fll. 998 Railway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashland ve. Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. | Railway Clerks, 19 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Railroad Trainmen, 1536 E. 64th St. Railroad Trainmen, $349 North ve. The Homer Wear Case. Attorney Carney is also pressing an appeal in behalf of Homer Wear, dele- gate for the Metal Mine Workers’ Union of the I. W. W., who was con- victed at Miami last autumn under similar circumstances, Originally sentenced to serve 30 days for “vag- rancy,” he was tried under the state criminal syndicalism law, and was sent to prison to serve from one to ten years. For a month after his ar- rest on the vagrancy charge, Wear was held incommunicado, Even regis- tered mail from the general defense committee of Chicago was denied him and was returned. For more than 30 days he was not pebmitted to consult his attorney. east and also of prohibiting the transit thru the U. S. S. R. of foreign sugar, "Change here for the Express alts UNCLE WIGGILY'’S TRICKS Prejudiced Juror Seated, At Wear’s trial, one talesman 1"l" Where's the Express?” \ ; ? ' Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cial Ave. Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and) Van Buren. 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