The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1924, Page 2

f Page Two THE DAILY WORKER HEGEWISCH CAR COMPANY CANT BREAK STRIKE Carmen Tarn Back 25| Imported Workers Twenty-five car builders from Hammond, Ind., were yes- terday turned back from the gates of the Western Steel Car and Foundry Co. plant at Hege- wisch, Ill., by the striking car- men who were picketing in front of the factory. It was later discovered by the strikers from the Hammond men, who were very sympa- thetic, that the company had advertised for men in the Lake County News, a newspaper published in Hammond. The men were offered 42c a car which is 7c more than the men were getting before the strike and 2c more than they are de- manding now. Try to Break Strike. The obvious purpose of the adver- tisement was to get men to start breaking the strike, which is getting too effective for the bosses, and later to cut their wages also. The campaign to organize the car builders of the Calumet region took another step forward Thursday night at the meeting called in Hegewisch, under the auspices of the Brother- hood of Railway Carmen. The meet- ing was attended by those striking car builders who have decided to organ- ize a local of the union in Hegewisch. 5B. K. Hogan, organizer of the Broth- erhood of Railway Carmen, was chair- man of the meeting. The meeting was addressed by Tom Bell, and M. Goreta of the South Slavic Federation of the Workers Party. Organization Growing. This is the second meeting in the campaign to organize locals of the Carmen’s Union. Both in Hammond and Hegewisch a good basis has been laid for strong locals. In the near future a meeting will be held in Pull- man. E. K. Hogan stated to the DAI- LY WORKER that he is of the opin- ion that the campaign will be success- ful, and result in the organization of the car builders of the entire district. The latest development in théstrike at the Western Steel Car plant is the shutting down of the entire plant. It is said that the plant will open again on Monday and that an attempt will be made to hire men either from the ranks of the strikers or by importing them from other places. For the last few mornings the employment agent of the plant has been busy among groups of strikers urging them to re- WORKERS PARTY IN CAPITAL CITY HAS EXCURSION PLANS At a recent committee meeting of representatives from the Washington (D. C.) Branch of the Workers Party and Young Workers League it was de- cided to run an excursion to Marshall Hall, Md., Aug. 24, and while there to sell tickets for the Gitlow lecture, scheduled for Pythian Temple, Au- gust 26. FIRST BLOOD IN BIG PARTY FUND DRIVE Two Branches Send in Their Contributions The first response to the Par- ty appeal for $100,000 Cam- paign Fund to carry on the fight for Communist principles in the election campaign reached the National Office in the form of a contribution from the Rural Ridge, Pa. branch of the Party, and the Inwood, L. 1, N. Y. branch. The secretary of the Rural Ridge, Pa., branch, B. M. Schultz, writes as follows: “You will find enclosed a money order for $75 which we raised at a picnic held for the purpose of boosting the Workers Party Campaign Fund. We are send- ing $25 to the District Office.” The Inwood, Long Island, Fin- nish branch writes as follows: “Enclosed please find money order for $55 for the Workers Party election campaign fund from the Inwood Finnish branch. Kindly acknowledge re- ceipt of the above.” Set Good Example. These branches have set the ball a-rolling in work to build up the $100,- 000 campaign fund. If all other branches of the party go to work with the same vim and vigor, we will be able to carry on the greatest campaign for Communist principles that has ever been made in the United States. The campaign fund raised by the party will be divided between the lo- cal organization, district organization and national organization in the pro- portion of 25 per cent for the local, 26 per cent for the district-organiza- tion and 50 per cent for the national organization, so that every unit of the party will benefit and have funds for its work in support of the Communist turn to work. His idea is that if he could get a few men to desert, that this would cause a stampede. Strikers Won’t Yield. But the strikers are hardly likely to give in now when it appears that they have gotten the better of the company. Material for over 700 steel cars has been lying in the pliant since the strike started, and it is calculated that this means that the company has $400,000 tied up in this way. Besides this, the overhead. is piling up, and they are faced with the prospects of cancellation of their orders unless they get them out in the near future. The strikers are confident that if they can stay out for another week that the company will be willing to grant their demands. Mailers Gain 100 Per Cent. MILWAUKED, Aug. 15.—With the signing of Hearst's Milwaukee Sen- tinel, the Mailers’ union, a division of the Typographical union, is able to report a 100 per cent increase in membership in the Milwaukee local in three and one half years. They have 51 members, comprising all the English language newspaper mail- rooms in the city and most of the foreign language ones. candidates and Communist principles. HINDOO PRINCE UNDER MACDONALD RULE SAYS HE HAS NO OPINIONS Maharajah Rajendra Bahadur, a Hindu Prince from Jin@, India, on a tour thru America to study educa- tional institutions and hospitals, stopped at the aristocratic Black- stone Hotel while visiting Chicago. The DAILY WORKER reporter tried to get an interview with this prince to get his views on the present Mac- Donald government in England and the Soviet Government of Russia. The prince was unavailable. Mr. John Nevins, the Cook Tours representative and a member of the prince’s party, told the DAILY WORKER reporter that the prince never expresses an opinion on any subject. “But he may have an opinion on how his people should be governed,” the DAILY WORKER reporter pro- tested. The prince never expresses an opinion on anything at all, was all Mr. Nevins would reply. Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue A bo 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 $. First Special .«. Coples of the Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the special rate of 3! cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred. | want to help raise the standards of Communism in this ticket—Foster and Gitlow. NAME .. ADDRESS .. CITY sacoserssssessvevnvvonerseceservesesossesssvserssssorsssersesesssonnessees STAT Bvesses campaign for the Workers Party DEVER JOINS WAR MONGERS’ DEFENSE DAY Y. W. L. in Counter- Demonstration Taking a verbal position on Defense Day which will satisfy no one, Mayor Dever suc- cumbed very easily to the de- mand of the state committee for Defense Test day and ap- pointed a committee of forty- one for the purpose of planning a city demonstration on Sep- tember 12. ~ “In so far as the demand for a Defense Test day is being used to influence larger ap- propriations .from the public treasury for the benefit of munitions makers, thus in- creasing the taxpayer’s bur- dens, or to quicken the glory or fear of war in the hearts of our people, I am opposed to it,” said the brilliant mayor. Kidding Himself. And while he added that “just now when the world is war weary and broken after the most deadly war in history, the appropriateness of choos- ing this particular time for a Defense Test day may be well, questioned,” he did absolutely nothing that might be construed as'a defiance to the plans of the militarists and munition mak- ers of the country to mobilize the strength of the country in peace time for war preparations. The 65th reserve cavalry division, which has about a thousand reserve officers in Chicago, thru its Lieut. Col. Lee Alexander Stone, announced last night that a “voluntary mobiliza- tion” of 10,000 civilians would be held in Grant Park the afternoon of Sep- tember 12. Will Counteract Militarists. With the intention of counteract- ing the capitalist war preparations, the Young Workers League of Chica- go, along with units in all other parts of the country, will hold its Interna- tional Youth Day celebration. ‘The place and time of the meting will shortly be announced. WORKERS LAWS TO BE FOUGHT BY EMPLOYERS Legislation which curbs the rights of the powers of the employers in time of strike will be presented at the, Illinois General Assembly begin- ning January, 1925. Some of the pro- labor legislation which will come be- fore the Assembly, includes an anti- injunction bill which gives the em- ployes his fundamental right to strike for a living wage; increased work- men’s compensation; eight-hour day and minimum wage legislation; old- age pension and state insurance acts; one-day rest in seven bill; bills pro- viding for adequate train crews on all freight trains; and a bill denying the power of the court to obstruct activities of labor unions. The Illinois Chamber of Commerce has issued a circular declaring they will fight both the humane arid eco- nomic labor reforms advocated in the bills. The manufacturers declare they fear “the legislation will turn business upside down.” LaFollette Notified by A. F. of L. That= He is Their Friend WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Senator Robert M. LaFollette was formally no- tified yesterday of the indorement of his presidential candidacy by the Americar Federation of Labor. é LaFollette received the labor com- mittee, consisting of Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation; James O'Connell, president of the metal tmdes department, and Martin F. Ryan, president of the Railway Car- men/of America, in his office at the capitol. Morrison acted as the spokesman for the executive council of the labor federation in the absence of Samuel Gompers, who is at Atlantic City. N. Y. Baker Locks Out Amalgamated Food Workers Men NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—The Bekery Shop going under the name of Harry Markovitz, 108 First Ave., between 6th and 7th Streets, New York, has declared a lockout. The workers are picketing the snep and five arrests of pickots have al- ready taken place—all released with- out fine. The Bakers of this shop are mem- bers of the Bakers Local No, 1, Amal- sumated Food Workers. This shop was under control of Local No. 1 for the past 18 years, FIFTH ARTICLE IN THE LOVESTONE SERIES IN OUR MONDAY’S ISSUE The “Big Three” candidates of capitalism, Coolidge, Davis, and La- Follette, are now vieing with each other In.a sort of a purity contest. That Coolidge and Davis will con- vince the country that the repub- lican and democratic parties are stéeped in hopeless political cor- ruption, there can be no doubt, But what about LaFollette? Is his record as lily white as he would have us believe? Do graft and good government mix in LaFollette’s barony? Is LaFollette’s machine free from corruption? How clean were LaFollette’s skirts when he was governor of his model common- wealth? And who owns and controls the state legislature and senate under the “Wisconsin plan” which LaFol- lette is asking the workers to apply on a national scale? ' These are a few of the pertinent questions the fifth article in our LaFollette series will answer. Get this story in full in Monday, August 18th, issue of the DAILY WORKER. It will be timely and convincing. MUSICIANS OF CHICAGO STRIKE ON LABOR DAY According to the capitalist news- papers, the managers of the Chicago theatres, headed by Harry J. Riding, representative of George M. Cohan, and John J. Aggity, western repre- sentative of the Shuberts’ theatre, de- clared a lockout on the musicians in the Chicago theatres because the Chi- cago Musicians’ Federation Locdl No. 10 put in a demand for a 10-per cent increase in wages. At the offices of the Musicians’ Un- ion at 175 W. Washington street, James C. Petrillo, president of Local 10, told the DAILY WORKER report- er quite a different story. “We are going out on strike on La- bor Day because the theatre manag- ers after conferring with us for ten weeks, refused to grant us a 10 per cent raise in our wages, which we consider absolutely necessary. Mr. Riding says we are sthe best paid musicians in the world, in a state- ment he made to the Chicago press. Well, if we are, then it is about time musicians did something to get bet- ter wages. “The public doesn’t know what the musicians are up against. Our rate of wages is $60 per week. Out of the 52 weeks in a year we never aver- age over 35 weeks of work, very often much less. Come around here any Monday morning and you will see the line of musicians waiting for a chance to work. A musician does not know what it means to have a steady job. Today he works, tomorrow he may be looking for work. “When a new show comes to town sometimes the musicians wait from 12 to 14 weeks until the music is writ- ten and all the time the show is go- ing on. The picture houses such as Balaban & Katz and all the two-aday picture houses have granted the musicians’ demands. Grand Opera house gave us a 26 per cent increase, Only the musieal comedy shows and drama theatres are holding out on us. “There will be about 700 men in- volved in this strike and we will stick until we win because we have a just demand—a decent living wage—to which every worker is entitled.” Every time the workers make an at- tempt to better their conditions they are given an opportunity to learn how the capitalist press lies to help the bosses. This time it is the mu- sicians. .. This morning’s papers were carry- ing stories about the very unjust de mands of the musicians, who were going out on strike for bigger wages when they alreddy were commanding the very best wages paid musicians in this country. They particularly stressed the statement of the man- agers that they would be forced out of business if they give the musicians a 10 per cent raise. - ‘ Italy Is No Plker. ROME, Aug. 15.— Being no piker compared to the bigger powers, Italy is also to have its “defense day.” For the first time in 14 years Italy’s navy is starting consolidated maneuvers in the Ionian Sea today. SHALL DAILY WORKER PRINT MARKET REPORTS FOR FARMER READERS? The DAILY WORKER has re- ceived a communication from a Northwestern farmer asking that market reports be printed In the DAILY WORKER. What do the other rural readers of the DAILY WORKER think? Would the space which the daily market would occupy in the DAILY WORK- ER be wasted? The DAILY WORKER would like to hear from ite farmer telling us whether or not they want dally market reports printed In thelr paper. SE RATNER SSE RATA STS LOEB, LEOPOLD ent Given Away Must Return Increased in Size By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, the Rockefeller Foundation is planning to send a check for $5,000,000 to Japan, the money presumably to be spent on a “health institution.” ‘ That is good business.for John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil trust. * * * “John D.” spends some of his surplus millions “health” in Japan, China and other oriental countries. Carnegie spent his on libraries. Rosenwald offers donations for Y. M. C. A. buildings. Morgan specializes in art institutes. Kahn and McCormick go in for the opera. Ward and Weeghman offered baseball teams. All their offerings were and are merely the missionaries of their separate business ambitions. * * * * If John D. Rockefeller, senior or junior, were at all con- cerned about the health conditions among the masses, they could best start work among those who toil around the Standard Oil wells or refineries at home. Out in Elk Basin, Wyoming, men labor incessantly un- der the worst possible conditions, 12 hours per day, seven days per week. John D., Jr., sheds tears about revolting horrors in Fvpnes sadie’® coal mines, or the Southern cot- ton mills, and weeps over benighted Orientals, but for his own slaves he hasn’t a single tear. No effort has ever been made to better the life of the serfs in the Standard Oil refineries, at Bayonne, N. J., for in- stance. When the workers have sought to do this them- selves, thru wage demands reinforced by strikes, their efforts have been crushed with the full brutalizing force of capital- ist “law and order.” on * * * The Rockefeller Foundation, with its hundreds of mil- lions in resources, has an entirely different and sinister pur- pose from that always advertised by the kept press. Standard Oil believes in expansion. It goes into every land. China and Japan, with other oriental lands, offer rich fields of exploitation. But orientals are prejudiced against the occident. That prejudice must be beaten down. Hence the riches wrung from the oil slaves of Bayonne, N. J., and Elk Basin, Wyoming, and everywhere else that Standard Oil has secured its position, are used in part as gifts to other peoples, not yet under “John D.’s” grip, in order to over- come their fears, * * * * Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., reaches the same goal thru donations to prospective build- ings of the Young Men's Christian Association, especially in small localities. It is good advertising. He surrounds the Sears-Roebuck name withthe popular glory that accom- panies philanthrophy, and small town and rural prejudice against this monster mail order machine vanishes. Rosen- wald specializes in Negro Y. M. C. A. buildings. The 10,- pectin Negroes of the nation make good prospective cus- omers. Andrew Carnegie, with all his millions~spent on li- braries, was never able to wipe out the blood that smeared his name as‘a result of the Homestead massacre of work- ers, and ‘other barbaric attempts to keep steel labor in a 100 percent state of serfdom. * * a* * What John D. attempts on an international scale, Ward, the “Bread Trust” king, seeks to accomplish nationally. New cities invaded by the bread trust resent the com- ing of the outsider. Local business must be protected. ° Business, however, recognizes no obstacles. Numer- ous have been the methods used by the bread trust to over- come this local prejudice. Ward finally hit upon the idea of using the baseball approach to the public. The Federal League was organized in competition with the National and American Leagues. Ward had his own Brooklyn team. Charles Weeghman, who had plans, and still has, of covering the nation with a chain of one-arm lunch rooms, took the Chicago team. An effort was made to build the name of “Ward” as big as that of “Babe” Ruth, in baseball. But at the same time the Ward “open shop” policy was pressed ever more vicious- ly in all cities where Ward bread factories already existed. m * The big bankers do not resort very much to this sort of subterfuge. Morgan donates an art gallery to the city of New York, to divert popular attention from his latest war ‘making maneuvers. Otto Kahn, Wall Street banker, keeps in the public eye as a supporter of Metropolitan Grand Opera, at the same time issuing literature attacking labor at every opportunity. * * * * The Orientals, especially the Japs and the Chinese, will do well to ponder these facts when “John D.” comes bear- ing his gifts. When the oil business is firmly established in the Orient, “John D.” will take every cent back again, not only in extortionate prices, but in imposing the worst pos- sible conditions upon the workers in the Far Eastern coun- tries, even as he does in the United States. “John D.,” or any other big capitalist for that matter, never gave a cent away without expecting it to come back home very much increased in size, ologist, Dr. Rollin Woodyatt,“ who went into long explanations as to why he was of the opinion that while it was barely pdéssible that their thymus was defective, he was certain that their endocrines were functioning as well as they might, hot weather con- sidered—altho, he asseverated, he had never had the good fortune to examine any of the slayers’ glands. TRIAL TORN BY GLAND WARFARE iin iii acai eae ate The war of the glands continued in full force yesterday at the amusing: trial of the two youthful perverts, Loeb and Leopold, murderers of the Franks scion. The defense stood tour square for the proposition that the ductless glands of the slayers were not up to batting average and that their pineal glands were suffering of late with a severe attack of neuritis, Endocrimologist on Stand. This statement was scornfully re- jected by the prosecution which sum- moned none other than an endoorim-| ‘© ¢xpress trains. Dickie Loeb yesterday welcomed Kid- McCoy into the circle of De- spatchers of the Living with a con- gratulatory telegram. The capitalist‘newspapers last night spread the important news that Clar- ence Darrow had bobbed his hair. \ Nine Killed in Train Crash, LISBON, Aug 15.— Nine persons were killed and many injured today by a collision of the Madrid and Opor- Saturday, August 16, 1924 U.P. SPEAKERS AGAIN PINCHED BY CICERO COP Communist Candidate Is Held on $52 Bail “Tell it to the captain,” was the reply of the Cicero cop to Frank Pellegrino, Workers Par- ty candidate for Congress, when the latter read the first amendment of the constitution as proof that he needed no per- mit to speak on the corner of 14th Street and 51st Avenue, Pinched by Army of Cops. Both comrade Pellegrino, and D. BE. Earley, who had preceded him on the soap box were picked up by a squad of 7 po- licemen, .3 detectives and 2 motorcycle cops. They were then escorted to the now familiar police station in Cicero, ac- companied by a hooting crowd of al- most 2,000 men, women ané children, who shouted acrimonious phrases at the uniformed gentry. ‘The Evidence. In the hoosegow, the detective pre- sented the police captain with a copy each of the DAILY WORKER, I! La- voratore, Italian Communist daily, and the paper upon which the first amend- ment to the constitution had been written, as evidence of the insidious criminal intentions of the Communist speakers. Both comrades were then released on a $52 bail each, a decrease of 50 per cent since the last arrest on that corner a week ago. The Workers Party, far from being deterred by these petty tactics of the Ciceronian defenders of law and or- der, will continue to hold meetings on that same corner every Thursday night until the cops have finally learned that they can’t pull the same stuff for too long. BALDWIN PLANS BIG FIGHT FOR MINERS’ RIGHTS Findings of Commission Exposes Owners Control Efforts to get action on the findings of the recent United States Commis- sion to stop “the denial of civil liber- ties in the soft coal fields” were started today by the American Civil Liberties Union in a circular letter sent to hundreds of attorneys, min- isters and local officials in the non- union soft coat districts. e letter says in part: Civil Liberties to Insist on Action. “The findings of the U. S. Coal Com- mission, for which the government spent over half million dollars, will go their way into the archives like other government reports, unless somebody gets busy to put them into effect. We are opening a campaign in the non-union soft coal districts which we trust will result in restoring those fcommunities to the right of exercise of ordinary civil rights of American citizens.” The conditions which the Commis- sion points out are: “Complete ownership of the coal towns by the companies; ejection of miners and their families’ from com- pany-owned houses at a moment's notice; the payment and arming by the coal operators of deputy sheriffs who beat up and evict union organ- izers and sympathizers; ‘yellow dog’ contracts which forbid workers to join the union or discuss unionism; in- junctions which forbid strikes, pick- eting, and meetings; and the use of state constabulatory or the national guard to crush strikes.” The districts chiefly affected are western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and Utah and include a pop- ulation of almost a million. : The Civil Liberties union plans tc organize committees in these districts to work for the Coal Commission's program. Tom Bell Speaks to Chicagoans Monday for North Siders ‘tom Belt, tormer etitde of the Mart-{ time Labor Herald and organizer for the Communist Party, will speak Imperial Hall, corner of Halsted and Fullerton, Monday, August 26, at 8 p. m., on “The Development of Com: munist Trade Union Activities in Canada,” Participant in the latest struggle of labor and aiding in the application of its policies, the speaker has a most interesting story for the trade union- ists of Chicago. ' The usual discussion, for which the North Side branch has been recety- ing much merited attention, will fol- low the main speaker. Visitors are invited and the meet-| ing begins promptly at 8:15.