The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1924, Page 2

aa Page Two. SMALL HIRING — UNION MINERS | AT SCAB WAGES Jobless Diggers Forced Into Convict Labor By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Ill., Sept. 3. —Thousands of miners in this part of the state are forced to work like convicts, making ce- ment roads at the. scab wages of from 35 to 45 cents an hour, for Governor Small, who is busy trying to make good his name as the “Good Roads Governor.” At the same time Small, who has been endorsed by Frank Farrington, president of the Illi- nois Miners’ Union, is also mak- ing good his name as a labor hater by putting the miners to work at convict wages. He ex- ploits the road-making here be- cause he can draw a cheap labor supply from the idle miners. Miners Cursing Small. Everywhere I go I find the miners cursing Len Small for the paltry non- union wages he hands out, and curs- ing Frank Farrington for indorsing Len Small for governor in the com- ing November elections. Governor Small, in a recent visit to Paisa, Macoupin County, Mlinois, where he was electioneering for re- election, outlined his policies at a fish fry. The anti-union governor’s ad-| dress, like all his campaign speeches, was devoted largely to the subject of road improvement. “It will be my aim, if re-elected, to continue the building of hard roads until all towns in the state are connected by cement} roads,” said Small. We do not know what arrangement Small has with the cement manufac- turers, or with the hard-road contrac- tors, but we do know that Small’s road-building is no benefactor to the miners of Southern Illinois. Miner Finds Work Terrible. “I worked for a few days on state road construction at Albion,” Ralph} Lawdler, a miner, told me. “And I} almost died working in the hot sun in the cement. I received for my pay two dollars a day and board. This is convict wages for convict work. I had to quit in a few days. I am used to the hardest work in the mines, but if I can’t get a union wage, I guess Tl stay out of a job until the mines open up again.” Albion is in Edwards County, northeast of here, and Lawd- ler worked on the hard road being built from Albion to Grayville. He worked in a crew which worked from Carmi towards Grayvilfe. John Carrigan, of Carriers Mills, is another unemployed miner who took work on the hard road which has just been built running from Harris- burg to Marion. “This road,” Carri- gan said, “is being built under Len Small’s guidance. It is a state road. They build them as cheaply as pos- sible. A good cement road is supposed to last around 15 years, but if this one lasts five, it will be surprising. There is a high proportion of gravel mixed with the cement. Gravel, you| know, is cheaper than cement.” Miners Forced by Unemployment. “The work is killing. It is extreme- ly hot in the summer in this part of the state, so hot that gardens and corn crops dry up. But there we were, several hundred minérs who had not been able to get a job for months, forced to starve or work like convicts for forty cents an hour.” When I was in Divernon, Tom Parry told me “The only work available around here now is on the state road at the edge of the town. This is hard work for the miners, who are not used to the sun. Besides that, they are forced to do non-union work which they detest, and are forced to work hard for ten or more hours a day at the paltry wage of 40 cents an. hour. Some of the men work only a few days or'a week and quit. Others, whose plight is more desperate, stick it out rather than starve.” Endorsed by Farrington Anyway. “I cannot see how any miner can Possibly sanction Farrington’s en- dorsement of Len Small for re-election when Small has been classed as un- fair to organized labor by his home town, and when he is paying the min- ers such poor wages for the hard work of road building.” Farrington gives the excuse that some mysterious promises have been made by Small relative to some ob- scure and indefinite legislation in Springfield. Meanwhile, Small is mak- ing @ poor start for the labor vote by his non-union road building. And Frank Farrington is treading on dan- gerous ground when he indorses the employer of scab labor. Fare Thee Well, Luis, WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The labor department has ordered action look: ing to the deportation of Luis Firpo, Argentine fist flinger, Panamans Can Now Get Sick. PANAMA CITY, Sept. 3.—The San- to Tomas hospital, biggest in Central | pers can be taken as a basis. America, was inaugurated today by President Porras, LEOPOLD 10 SEARCH ANSWER 10 RIDDLES IN THE HEREAFTER It appears that the prospect of death isn’t phazing Nathan Leopold for one minute, if the interviews he is handing out to the capitalist pa- If he is to wear the rope necktie, he pro- poses that he will carry out his | search for knowledge in the here- after. Of course, the silght detail about there not being any hereafter doesn’t concern Leopold, but close observers maintain that it is the slight details that have always got Nate into devilish holes. For ex- ample, there was the detail of leav- ing his specs behind him. Unfortu- nate, but a detail nevertheless. Leopold intends to find out what the experiences of the human being are after death and whether or not the intellectual or the spiritual is the dominant note in the sweet by and by. Among the other amusing things he intends to do is to find out what happiness ts. Every one is wishing him the best of luck. CHIGAGO KOSHER BUTCHER: STRIKE REPORTS GAINS Third Day of Strike Brings Settlements On the third day of the strike of the kosher butchers of Chicago, the strikers report progress. Sixteen stores have settled with the union. One hundred stores are still out. The men are out on strike for an in- crease of $5 a week in their wages and for a reduction of one-half hour each day in their hours of work. At present the kosher butchers receive $35, and they work from 60 to 70 hours a week. Work Long Hours. The men work from seven in the morning until five in the evening, ex- cept on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. On Thursday they work un- til 11 p. m., and on Saturday, their day off, they do not have a full holi- day. They must report to work at six in the evening and work until 11 and 12 o'clock that night. On Sunday they work a half day. The gentile butchers have regular hours of work every day; on Satur- days they work until 9 p. m., and there’s no work on Sunday at all. The kosher butchers realize that they have to contend with a condition in their shops which makes it necessary for the,stores to keep open late on Thurs- day and Saturday nights, but they know they can meet this situation by coming in a half hour later in the morning without any loss in trade whatever. There are about 400 kosher meat shops in the city of Chicago. Out of that number from 125 to 150 employ help. Most of those stores only em- ploy one man, a very small percentage two at the very most. Organize Picket Line. Today will be their second day on the picket line. Yesterday some of the bosses made an attempt to get strike- | breakers, but without success. ‘When asked his opinion on the out- look of the strike, Martin Sabin of the Butchers’ Union, Local 596, told the DAILY WORKER reporter that he felt confident that the strike would soon be won. The Kosher Butchers’ Union of Chi- cago, Local 596, is affiliated with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butch- er Workmen of North America. So He Announces. MADRID, Sept. 3—The military situation in the stern part of the Mo- roccan battle front, where the Span- iards have been meeting with re- verses, is much improved, General Primo de Rivera announced today. Six Swim Safely Shoreward. HONOLULU, Sept. 3.—Governor Wallace Farrington said five com- panions swam to safety here after a narrow escape from drowning when the motorboat Sea Scout, in which they were fishing, hit an offshore shoal of rocks and went to pleecs, PRIEST WITH IRISH- YIDDISH COGHOMEN GETS PAPAL TITLE LAPORTE, Ind, Sept. 3.—The Rev. Michael Abraham, pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Michigan City, has received from Pope Pius X\, thru the Most Rev, Louis Barlas- sina, the Latin patriatch of Jerusa- lem, the decoration of commander of the Military Order of the Holy Sepulchre. This title, which has been con- ferred upon persons of high rank. including princes, ecclesiastics as well as secular, on ministers, am- bi dors, bishops and generals, and which was recently bestowed on Cardinal O'Connell, was con- ferred on Father Abraham in con- sideration of his work for American Catholiclem, MITTS OFF THE PRINCE'S PARTY Bootlegger’s Army Is Good Bodyguard By Ye Society Editore. LONG ISLAND, New York, Sept 3. —(In the Prince of Wales’ Entourage.) —The prince rose late today. Small wonder. If you were as drunk as the prince was last night you would not wake up this side of the day of judg- ment, * Whatever else may be said for the prince he can take his liquor. This ac- counts for much of his popularity in Scotland tho it does not account for his unpopularity in Ireland. When he visits Scotland the prince takes along a movable distillery. He never visits the Emerald Isle, but if he ever de- cides to kiss the Blarney stone we suggest an armored car or an airplane capable of staying above the clouds. Opens One Eye. But to get along with the story. It was ten minutes to twelve when the prince opened one of his lids. When the announcement was made to a waiting army of females that His Royal Highness was about to resume operations, there was a rush for per- fume bottles. You never saw such a variety of perfumes in your life. There is everything from Old Crow to Jamaica Ginger. i One advantage of traveling with the prince is that it guarantees immunity from raids by prohibition agents. So formidable is the army of bootleggers that hangs around the prince’s quar- ters that it would take the Ku Klux Klan to make them drop their bottles. When informed that Ramsay Mac- Donald was on his way to Geneva, the |prince said, “Mac is a good scout, but jhe doesn’t dance.” “But he is a confounded Bolshevik,” remarked a capitalist reporter. Has Jolly Time. The prince smiled. “If he is,'so is your Morgan,” was the reply. “We are having a jolly time in Old England. But we are afraid of the Communists. However, let us drink and dance and be happy while we may.” This made quite a hit with the crowd. The prince danced last night until 2 o'clock at the home of Henry R. Winthrop. It being rather early for the prince to retire, he went over to the Astor home and danced until the sun’s rays made the brilliant artificial light look almost as sick a8 the prince. It is felt by everybody that the worst is yet to come. A good time is being had by the prince. CALL ON UNIONS TO ENDORSE W. P, TICKET IN N.Y, (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — The Work- ers party, which is campaigning Will- jam Z, Foster and Benjamin Gitlow nationally, and James P. Cannon for the post of governor of New York is issuing a call to all local unions to at- tend a ratification and endorsement conference Sept. 14 at Stuyvesant Ca- sino. Many Will Endorse. Harry M. Winitzky, campaign man: ager for New York, declared that many local unions would endorse the Workers Party ticket. He said he did not regard the endorsement which central bodies have given other candi- dates as expressive of the rank and file in all the unions. Campaign committees are being formed within the industries, declar- ed Winitzky. These committees are most active among the cloakmakers, hatmakers and other branches of the needle trades and in the Workmen’s Circle. Need 50,000 Signatures. The task before the campaign work- ers inélude the getting of 50,000 sig- natures during the coming month and the organization of meetings. Plans are now being made for a big Gitlow meeting Sept. 9, at the Central Opera House; Gitlow speaks in West New York on the 10th; in Stamford, Conn., on the 11th; Bridgeport on the 12th; Springfield, Mass. on the 13th and Boston on the 14th, 15th and 16th. Foster comes to the New Star Ca- sino, Oct. 19th, but he is speaking in the vicinity of New York in Septem- ber; at Elizabeth, N. J., on the 10th, Newark on the 11th and Philadelphia, Pa., on the 12th, To Celebrate Pushkin Anniversary. The first session of the newly elect- ed Executive Committee of the Rus- sian children’s schools was held last Sunday. It was decided to arrange a literary evening in honor of the 126th anniversary of the birth of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, All schools participate in the affair, Caught at Last. DUBUQUE, Ia., Sept. 3.—With Mer. rill Hammond, 20, in jail today, police believe that they have the person who committed a series of robberies here in the last six weks. Hammond, it is said, confessed to breaking into two business houses, \ f THE DAILY WORKER RUM DIBKS KEEP | [Paxton waBen now | ? IN HERESY INQUIRY FOR SOVIET AMITY (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. ° 3.—Captain Paxton Hibben, noted liberal, and officer in the U. S, Reserve Corps, is now the subject of an Inquiry by the United States Army because of his alleged “bolshevik” views. Hibben is well known for his friendliness to the Russian Soviet Republic and for his activities on behalf of relief during the famine a short time ago. His frequent state- ments on behalf of the workers’ re- public, are the basis of the charges against him. Altho Brig. Gen. William Barclay Parsons, president of the Board of Inquiry, has invited Capt, Hibben to take the stand and talk over his beliefs and connections with the board members. Hibben has refused, demanding that the derogatory evi- dence be presented first. The only evidence yet given has been that of a reporter on a New Jersey paper who told of Hibben’s assailing America’s imperialist po- licies in Central America and its war preparations on Defense Day. GITLOW MEETING WITH SUCCESSES IN EASTERN TOUR Speaks in Cleveland on September 7th The Workers’ Party is now in the midst of a great political election struggle. Proofs of this can be seen in the enthusiastic and successful meetings now being addressed by its vice-presidential candidate, Benjamin Gitlow, in his first Eastern tour. Comrade Gitlow, starting from New York, has held meetings in Trenton, N. J., Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C., Reading, Pa., Scranton, Pa., Bing- hamton, N. Y., Buffalo, N. Y., and Rochester, N. Y. Rochester Meet Successful. At the Rochester meeting just held, a large and extremely interested audience was present, in spite of the fact that the meeting took place on a Saturday night. The large audience loudly applauded the bitter arraign- ment by Gitlow of the old party can- didates and LaFollette. When Gitlow denounced the candidates of the re- publican and democratic’ as anti-labor, he was applauded. When he included LaFollette as being anti- labor, the audience cheered. Many former socialists were pre sent, and by their applause indicated that they stand solidly behind the Communist candidates and program. They, especially, were loud applauders of the denouncement of LaFollette. Gitlow's exposure of the Dawes plan and his arraignment of the fake paci- fist democratic Bryan brought forth hearty and prolonged applause. It was generally conceded that the Git- low meeting was one of the most suc- cessful ever held in Rochester and will have an extremely beneficial ef- fect upon the Workers Party in the future. New members were taken in, finances were raised and the in- fluence of the party was extended. Miners Greet Gitlow. On the following day Gitlow spoke at Daisytown, Pa., to an open air pic- nic, held under the auspices of the ‘|| Finnish branch of the Workers Party. Hundreds of miners and their families from surrounding localities were there. They gave an enthusiastic reception to.our Communist candidate and the party program. Comrade Gitlow, on this tour, is experiencing all the trials and tribula- tions of a working class political cam- paigner. To make many of these meet- ings, he has to resort to various methods of conveyance, not having at his disposal a private Pullman as have the candidates of the old parties. Comrade Gitlow states that he is well compensated for all the drawbacks by the results of seeing our party participate in this gredt struggle. As a result of Gitlow's present Bastern tour, the entire party in that section will be drawn more and more into the struggle to a degree that would not otherwise be possible. At other points on his itinerary great Preparations are being made, espe- cially at Cleveland, Ohio, On Sunday evening, September 7, at Bricklayers Hall, Hast 21st Street and Prospect Ave., Cleveland, a large audience is éxpected and tremendous’ efforts are being put forth to make this the most successful meeting in a long time. Thousands of leaflets, throwaways and tickets have been printed and widely distributed, so as to make the Cleve- jand meeting a fitting answer to the MIKADO REPLIES TOTHREATINU, S, Morgan Hunts More U.S. Suckers to Buy the Bonds of Belgium, By J. LOUIS6 ENGDAHL. Topsy, the House of Morgan puts upon the market, for sale, $30,000,000 in gold bonds of the Kingdom of Belgium. Belgium, like all the other European contenders in the regent war, needs money. It needs it badly. So it calls on the favorite financial agent of bankrupt Western European capitalism, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, and all his financial con- nections, to come to its aid. * * * * The DAILY WORKER carries no financial department. It does not offer investment advice to investors. But in this instance we, would advise that workers, if there are any so blind as to plan buying any of the Belgian bonds, DON’T DO IT! Not a cent for the bonds of Morgan. Not a cent for preparation for the next Morgan war that will be fought, like the’last, to protect Morgan's bonds in Europe. * J * * The House of Morgan makes its Belgian offer a very attractive one to the small investor. Evidently Mr. Morgan doesn’t expect workers.to bite on his offer; the bonds are in denomination of $1,000 and 500, But the King of Belgium is in a bad way financially. He is only asking 94 cents on the dollar, and he is offering 7 per cent interest. It is promised that there will be no taxes against these bonds, now or in the future. Morgan is very loose with his promises of what is going to happen in the future. ea ce Mere It is not planned to use the returns from.this loan to build for anything that will better the life of the Belgian masses. This loan is being floated by Morgan:to aid Belgian capitalism pay off two other loans, about $27,000,000 in gold and treasury notes due on January 1, 1925. Since the new loan is being floated at 94 cents on the dollar, it will take the $30,000,000 to pay off the $27,000,000. In other words, Bel- gium, under the guidance of Mr. Morgan slips still further into debt. * * * * In big advertisements, Mr. Morgan tells American in- vestors that the workers in Belgium are faithfully on the job again, that “the output of the metallurgical, textile and glass industries, Belgium's chief industries, has attained or sur- passed the pre-war level.” Incidentally the publicity also points out that Belgium's external debt at the present time totals the enormous sum, for such a small country, of $451,000;000, whieh does not include the $171,780,000 “advanced” (Mr. Morgan does not say “loaned”) by the United States government before the armistice, and on which no interest has yet been paid. * Mr. Mocgen no doubt thinks that as long as he can revent his office boys at Washington, Coolidge, n and ughes, demanding payment on Belgium's we ‘the United States, and as long as the Belgian workers stick on the job working for Belgian capitalism, just so long will it be possible for him to keep on floating new loans for the “Kingdom of Belgium” in this country, to the usual army of suckers always to be found among small investors, But the Communist movement is growing in strength in Belgium; just as it is growing thruout all Western Europe. There will come a time when the Belgian workers will refuse longer to pay interest on debts owing to or floated by the House of Morgan. Those workers, won for Communism, will refuse to force the German workers, under the Dawes plan, to furnish reparations gold to the Belgian capitalist government, in order that it may pay its debts to Morgan. And there will be an echo of this growing Communist strength in Western Europe, in an tviteaninaly rapid drift to Communism in the United States also. The cry will go up, over the nations, “Repudiate all debts to Morgan!” And one of the backers of Morgan's new loan to Belgium is the Central Trust Company of Illinois, the head of which is none other than Charles Gates Dawes, the republican vice presidential candidate. Dawes, with Coolidge, expects to head another Morgan government at Washington after the next elections. : : The workers of the United States, in this cam n, therefore, can best show their solidarity with awakening labor in Belgium, Germany and the other Western European nations, by raising the additional slogan of “Down with nd sg Government!” “Down with the Fascisti Rule of Coolidge and Dawes.” * * * * Labor must work instead to advance the interests and build the strength of the Communist Campaign. It must rally with greater determination than ever in support of the Workers Party candidates: William Z. Foster, for president, and Benjamin Gitlow, for vice president. Morgan's bonds tighten the chains of wage slavery more st, upon the limbs of American labor. Break those chains by strengthening the American section of the world- wide Communist movement. 4 capitalist powers of the west may hatch another Dawes plan for China, as they hatched in the case of Ger- many, and that the dissection of the Chinese victim may then begin in real earnest, with Japan getting only the pigtail. Correction on Browder’s Speech. “DEFENSE” TEST (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO, Sept. 3.-—Japan will have its “Mobilization Day” during the first week in November, two months after the United States government has its ‘Mobilization Day. recent convention of the ©, P. P. A.| The Japanese, however, are only go- and the present attempts of the so- called labor “leaders” who would mis- lead the workers and trade unionists of Cleveland into the camp of LaFol- lette. f New Oil Investigation, WASHINGTON, Sept. 3,—A new oil investigation, the exact nature of which was not disclosed, was started today by the federal grand jury, under the direction of Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, the government's Special oil counsel ing to mobilize 80,000 picked troops, whereas the United States intends to mobilize the entire nation, “Defense” is the excuse in both cases, The Prince Regent of Japan will su- perintend military maneuvers in which 80,000 troops will participate, with all the latest type of armament and equipment. Airplanes and anti- airplanes as a means of defense will be emphasized. The present situation in China is causing considerable uneasiness in In reporting a meeting of the T. U. KE. L, in the DAILY WORKER, Earl Browder was quoted as speaking of “the social-democrat Marx” in the German government. Of course he said nothing of the kind, and assures us that he is aware that Marx is a representative of the center (Catho- lic) party. What he said was “the social-democracy of Bbert, Schiede-’ mann, Noske & Co,” They're Still Flying. ON BOARD U. 8, S. RICHMOND, Off Newfoundland Coast, Sept. 3,~ Weather conditions permitting, Lieut. Lowell Smith and Lieut. Brick Nelson will resume their world flight from Hawkes Bay today. They planned to hop during the morning from Hawkes Japan, It is feared that the great! Bay for Pictou, N. & Thursday, September 4, 1924 DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN ISSUE WENT OVER TOP Next One Coming with Three League Boots The special Communist campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER went over big. The success of our first campaign issue has enthused the par- ty’s active'workers as nothing else has done since the daily was established. Prominent party leaders were loud in their praise of it. Comrade Foster wired his congratulations from Kansas City. “The Special Campaign Issue is a splendid production,” said Foster. “It contains a mass of material that will be invaluable during the cam- paign and afterwards, The success of our first special campaign issue should inspire our members to make the next one a still greater success.” What the Workers Think. Joseph Manley, Workers Party cam- paign manager, who spoke in Ziegler, Ill, on Labor Day to a great open air meeting, declared: “Of course, I think the DAILY WORKER special cam- paign edition was great, but I was in- terested in getting the views of the Ziegler miners on it. They were posi- tively enthused over it. They asked me when would the next special come out, and promised to double their or- der.” Benjamin Gitlow wired that he is having rousing meetings and that the DAILY WORKER special contains enough political dynamite to blow Da- vis, Coolidge and LaFollette into “rel- ativity.” “After the tumult and the shouting” incidental to a campaign in which the capitalists are able to spend millions to create confusion dies away, the results of the propaganda now spread by the DAILY WORKER can be properly measured, said Gitlow. Best Yet to Come. Last Saturday’s special campaign issue of the DAILY WORKER is only the first of a series to be issued until the ballots are counted in November. A constant flood of Communist prop- aganda will counteract the flood of capitalist propaganda that pours from the gushers of the master class. Now is the time to get ready for the next special issue. This fs a campaign and every member of the party must be on his toes until the baftle is over. During this fight we should be able to add thousands of members to the ranks of the party and bring tn thou- of subseri is- os wil help Cove ie take While the socialists have allowed themselves to be swallowed in the LaFollette quagmire, the Workers (Communist) Party is going ahead laying the basis for a powerful mass revolutionary party. Get ready for the Second Commun- ist Campaign Edition of the DAILY ‘WORKER! BERGER LICKED BY LA FOLLETTE ING. 0, P, PRIMARY (Special to the DAILY WORKER) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 3.—Vic- tor Berger, leader of the Wisconsin socialists, received a severe drubbin, at the hands of his friend, Robert Marion LaFollette, which may prove a warning to Victor to keep his hands and his tongue off the republican pri- maries in the future. The situation is a complicated one, and Victor’s “revolving” head was revoluting worse than usual, when he decided to enter the republican pri- maries to take a wallop at Governor Blaine, who had the backing of “Fightin’ Bob.” Blaine Gets the Votes. The result of the unequal contest between the republican-socialist and the social-democratic socialist is that Blaine has romped home with the ba- con, while Berger is left with a taste of garlic in his mouth, Blaine won out in the primaries, and Lieutenant Governor Comings, the socialist favorite, made such a poor showing that he may join the socialist party for consolation. Bore, Berger, Bore! His political backers are now blam- ing Berger for going into the repub- lican primaries. But Berger retorts that the socialists have already joined the republican party in Wis- consin, and why should they not as- sume their political responsibilities? LaFollette is boring from within the G. O. P., so why should not Berger try to bore LaFollette? Still Looking for Yacht. A hydroplane today had been added to the variety of craft searching Lake Michigan for a trace of the Gem, 42- foot yacht, with its owner, H. D, Moreland, wealthy local contractor, and his two sons aboard, which has ‘boon missing since Monday. Livy Rediscovered. NAPLES, Sept. 3.—Father Bellucci, an authority on antiquarian affairs, today announced literary discoveries of Livy, Latin poet, in Castle Dellovo Santa Lucia, now a military barracks, but formerly a convent, —— =