The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, September 10, 1924 HUNGER, COAL BARONS’ ALLY IN MINE WAR Desperate Conditions in West Virginia By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Sept. 9.—Can hunger win? This is the question the operators are asking as the strike begins at the two big Brady-Warner mines at Scotts Run near here. It is a fight watched keenly by some union operators who would like to go non-union. Same Brady is counting on starvation and evictions to win for him. Several months, ago he locked out his miners after declaring that he would hot ac- cept the Jacksonville pact. Now he is attempting to reopen on an open shop basis and under the 1917 scale. The miners were hyngry: no one who has not seen the suffering in coal camps where there has been no work for such a long time can realize how much they were suffering, but not a single miner entered the scab pits. Not a single miner heeded Brady’s threats to put them and their families out of the company houses, the only homes they had. Dedicate New Hall. The Scotts Run miners had recently attended the. monster mass meeting at Brady, 15 miles away, whefe the United Mine Workers of America ded- {cated the new union hall that rises on the ashes of the one Sam Brady's thugs burned down. They felt the spirit of mass solidarity there and they came back ready to fight regard- jess of empty stomachs. But unemployment has brot an in- tense crisis to the union. In Scotts Run eighty per cent of the 5,000 min- ers, when they work at all, are still working under union conditions. Only the Shriver Coal company, the Bunker Coal company and the New Shaft concern are getting out any black diamonds without union sanc- tion. But the situation is worse in other parts of West Virginia. Near Morgantown is also the M. & K. di- vision, with non-unionism more gener- al, Bethlehem Steel dominating. Radi- ating out from Fairmont and Clarks- burg union and nonunion companies alternate, Miners Migrating. Unemployment is turning the min- ers into wanderers. Families have been migrating wholesale to Pennsyl- vania and to other parts of West Vir- ginia. This industrial depression is the worst West Virgina haa ever felt, miners everywhere té*% me, and it is pulling the miners out of their old environments and throwing them on the world elsewhere. Even the men who have been lead- ing the fight have been forced to move’ on in the search for bread. Going several miles out of Clarksburg to see a certain local secretary I found I was just in. time, he is in on the point of moving on, with his family, and turning the relief work for 75 families over to a successor. Relief Is Meagre. Relief funds are being distributed thru the state, but a maximum of nine dollars for a family of 12, in the vi- cinity of Clarksburg, can barely main- tain existence under the scale of prices charged by the merchants in John W. Davis’ community. And calls for relief are increasing. Can hunger beat the miners? The operators are calculating on widening the open shop area while this hunger situation continues at its present des- perate pitch. If one consideretl only the purely material factors one would agree with the pessimists. But the miners’ army does not crawl soley on its stomach. It has an esprit de leorps, a fighting spirit of union loy- ‘alty, that sometimes rises highest when physical conditions are almost at their worst. I saw it in the mon- ster Brady meeting, and I found it \in the miners’ homes in the hearts of men and women who may be evicted in a few days. Will C. Thompson, secretary of Dis- trict 17, says that in the southern part of the district the morale has steadily improved in spite of the fact that relief rations have been cut. “It depends on the ‘winter trade,” says Thompson: “When that demand for coal comes, we'll organize all Ka- nawha county again,” The union's fight now is to hold the lines until the demand for coal comes. SPANISH DICTATOR, BOUND FOR MOROCCO, FACING MANY DEFEATS (Special to The DAILY WORKER) ALGECIRAS, Spain, Sept. 9. —An- other Spanish warship left for Mor- occo today, carrying General Primo Rivera, dictator of Spain and head of the Spanish military directorate, who will make a desperate effort to retrieve the fortunes of the Spanish troops in the colony. The peasants of Morocco, infuri- ated by long years of oppression and exploitation, have inflicted de- feat after defeat on the Spanish forces. In this they have the help of France, which hopes to wrest control of the colony from the hands of Spain. Morocco is one of the richest agricultural regions in the world. Primo Rivera has been selected for the job on the strength of a long record of suppressing revolts in Spain. By consistent use, of the militia in strikes, he has succeeded in nearly crushing the labor move- ment here. He has declared the General Confederation of Labor of the country illegal. Then, in spite of the fact that the unions were no longer supposed to exist, another law was passed requiring the pres- ence of a government official at ev- ery union meeting. “Liberals” in Spain are appealing to France for help against Morocco on the ground that defeat of the Spanish ggvernment in the colonies might bring a workers’ revolt at home, and endanger the security of the French republic. ALLIED POWERS PELT NOTES AT HELPLESS PEKING Chinese Tuchuns Can Lie Like Christians PEKING, Sept. 9.—Severe fighting still continues in the vicinity of Shanghai. The capitalist powers are engaged in a policy of badgering the central government. The govern- ments of the United States, France, England and Japan joined in a note to the Peking government demanding that a neutral zone be established for the protection of foreigners, How the Peking government can establish anything without the con- sent of thé fighting generals is not apparent. But it.seems that the pow- ers are making demands for the sake of the record. In certain eventuali- ties, they will be legally entitled to intervene with military forces and no doubt the League of Nations will say: “Yah Yah.” : A United States army transport left Manilla, Philippine Islands, for China, carrying marines and military sup- plies. Other reinforcements are being prepared. Can Lie Like Christians. The fighting Chinese generals may not be up to date in modern warfare, but they can contradict each other as vigorously as the Allied and Teuton generals during the world war. * One tuchun claims that his armies routed his foes with considerable slaughter on the debit side of his enemy’s ledger, while the latter waxes equally eloquent reciting the number of dead left by the opposition on the field as he fled in disorderly retreat. This reminds one of the early days of the war when the British were re- treating from the Germans and “i flicting ‘severe losses on the enemy.” Unfortunately the generals are not getting killed in China any more than did the European generals. The dead and wounded are the poor workers who prefer to take a chance on losing their lives by joining the armies of the bandit generals rather than starv- ing in the army of the unemployed. Explosion In Cemént Plant. GREEN CASTLE, Ind., Sept. 9— Earl Mathews, 32, was at the point of death here today as the result of burns received in an explosion Sun- day, at the Indiana Portland Cement Campany plant which cost the life of William Prince, 58, who died today of buruns. ° Both men were working in the kilns when spontaneous combus- tion occurred. ~ A Successful Operation. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. 9.—Ex- pert yeges opened the safe of Ohas. BH. Holloway and Sons, real estate firm, here today and escaped with from $1,000 to $1,500 in cash. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. BIG DROP IN FREIGHT MOVEMENT SHOWS EXTENT OF BUSINESS SLUMP SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. Sept. 9—The tremendous dropping off in freight movements thru the locks here presents a picture which is a cross- section of the business depression and unemployment all over the country. The movement of freight thru the locks during August aggregated only 10,060,605 short tons. In the same month last year, the figures were 14,343,- 044 short tons, Shipments of wheat, grain, flour, iron ore and coal are also falling off rapid 1,000 PATERSON SILK STRIKERS ON PICKET LINE Protest Against Injunc- tion Secured by Bosses (Special to the DAILY WORKER) PATERSON, N. J., Sept. 9.— Over 1,000 pickets are on the picket ine in the Paterson silk strike as a protest against an in- junction secured by the Rosen- stein Silk Company against picketing. A hearing has been set for next*‘Monday morning to decide whether the injunction will be permanent. Pickets March Thru Town. The strikers’ committee has in- structed the pickets to avoid clashes with the police and .to keep right on picketing the Rosenstein Silk Com- | pany. Every day the picket line marches | from the Turn Hall, where the strik- ers meet, and gather more recruits as they march thru the town. At no time is there any disturbance. The motorcycle officers who accompany the pickets find no occasion to make arrests. i Strikers Out on Bail. The 107 strikers who were arrested for picketing are out on bail and the hearing has been set for Friday at ten o'clock. Appeals for aid for the strikers have so far met with good: responses from the nearby co-operative stores which donate bread and meat. A gén- eral appeal is being sent out to all labor organizations to help the strik- ers with food and supplies ‘and funds to carry on the strike. In New York City a big mass meet- ing is to be held to launch the relief drive for the strikers. > Appeal for Funds. The strike committee calls upon all sympathizévs to help as much as they can with funds for continuing the strike. Anything that will be sent will helpeto keep up the fight until it is brot to a victory for the strikers. The bosses have made every effort to secure scabs. They have secured some scabs, but work is practi- cally at a standstill due to the inex- perience of the scabs and the ener- getic fight put tip by the strikers. Gilt Edge operates about 240 looms and is bitterly opposed to the right to organize. It has refused to grant the demands of the Associated Silk Work- ers’ union, which is conducting the strike, for the 2-loom and 8-hour day with wage increases. 15 Shops Settle with Union. Fifteen more shops have settled, af- fecting 250 workers. More than 1,600 workers are now back at work under the new union conditions. Adolph Les- sig, one.of the union officials, asserted that the employers’ talk of the mills moving to New York and Pennsyl- yania was propaganda to intimidate workers who have established homes here, Jobless Insurance Plan Conference Held in New York (Special ‘to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—The confer- ence to work out the details of the un- employment insprance plan in the men’s clothing industry here will be held next week, according to Presi- dent Sidney Hillman of the Amalgam- ated Clothing Workers’ Union. The meeting of the jolnt committee had to be postponed but will convene within the week, probably in the new office of the “impartial chairman,” Jacob Billikopf. The unempolyment insur- ance plan to be used here will differ somewhat from the Chicago system, because the settlement here was on the collective agreement basis, Rep- resentatives of the Amalgamated and of the New York Clothing Manufac- turers’ Exchange are to be selected as trustees of the fund to be collected for the unemployment insurance of the workers. | PUT ON A FRONT 'ORKERS who wish to impress their boss with the sort of per- sonality which is dear to the Amer- ican Magazine—especially if the boss belongs to an open shop organization should have, according. to men’s apparel manufacturers of the country, the following wardrobe: Three ordinary suits. One evening suit (other than night- shirt). One light topcoat. One dozen shirts. Two dozen scarfs, Two soft hats and one derby. Three pairs of shoes. A dozen pairs of hose, At least it is supposed that this applies to the worker, as it is the ideal wardrobe for “American gentle- men of limited meang.” If your means are unlimited, some underwear and o cane may properly by included, THE DAILY WORKER PREPARING FOR BIG FOSTER MEETING AT . _ NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (By The Federated Press) NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 9.—William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for president, will speak at the Labor Lyceum Sept. 11 at 8 p. m, The hall is at 704 South 14th Street, Newark. Special circulars and dodgers have been broadcasted by the committee in charge of this meeting in order to attract as many workers as possible to this cam- Paign speech of the car worker and member of the 1919 Steel Strike Committee. YOUTH OF TOIL CELEBRATES ITS WORLD HOLIDAY Young Workers Prepare for New Struggles International Youth Day was the oc- |casion of a rousing mass meeting in Chicago, Sunday evening. - Northwest Hall was crowded with Chicago young workers who had gathered together on the tenth anniversary of International Youth Day to hear the speakers of the oung Workers’ League and the Work- ers Party. The speakers last night were Earl Browder, editor, Labor Herald, J. Louis Engdahl, editor, DAILY WORK- ER, and John Williamson, member of the Young Workers’ League National Executive Committee. Speak of Youth Movement. The speakers dealt with the signi- ficance of the arising youth movement in America and how important it was to the Communist movement to or- ganize the working class industrial youth. It was pointed out that Youth Day small group of determined revolution- aries from the youth organizations, raised the slogan of “War Against War!” Yet today, ten years later, we are facing another imperial war and the capitalists in preparing this, have declared Sept. 12, Mobilization Day. Fight Mobilization Day. The Young Workers’ League have issued their slogans against Mobiliza- tion Day, branding it propaganda in favor of the next imperialist war. In- ternational Youth Day was held thru- out the entire world under the auspic- es of the Young Communist Interna- tional, of which the Young Workers’ [League is the American section. Enthusiasm ran high thruout the en- tire meeting and the young workers left with a determined will to treble their efforts of organizing the Ameri- can working class youth into the Young Communist League. The Young Workers’ League orches- tra was a welcome part of the pro- gram and played many revolutionary songs. eee YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, LOCAL CHICAGO, BRANCH MEETINGS. Wednesday, Sept. 10. Northside Branch, 2409 Halsted Englewood Branch, 6414 Halsted Marshfield Branch, Het Institute. Thursday, Sept. 11. Maplewood Branch, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Friday, Sept. 12, Rosa Luxemburg Branch, 1910 . West Roosevelt Road. English speaker. John Reed Branch, 1224 8. Albany Ave. West Side Branch, 3322 Dou Biva. “Class in Communist Manifesto’ Max Schachtman. Hersh Lekert Branch, 2613 Hirsch Blvd Karl Liebknecht Branch, 1500 N. Sedg- wick St. Our Candidates FOSTER’S DATES Newark, N. J.—Labor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th St., Thursday, September 11, 8 p.m Philadelphia, Pa—Musical Fund Hall, 8th and Locust Streets, Friday, September 12, & p. m. Paterson, N. J.—Walvitia Hall, Van Houton Street, Saturday, tember 13, 8 p. m. GITLOW’S DATES Comrade Gitlow, candidate for vice- president, will address meetings at the following places: Stamford, Conn. — Casino Hall, Thursday, September 11, at 8 p. m. Bridgeport, Conn.—Carpenters Hall, 170 Elm St., Friday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m, Springfield, Mass.—Central Labor Union, 19 Sanford St., Saturday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m. ‘JAY STETLER’S RESTAURANT Established 1901 1053 W. Madison St. Tel. Monroe 2241 56 Sep- Chicago OUR by aera c eine Pirra Write for Free “Bye Care” or Marine Co., Dept. 1. 8.,9 B. OhioSt., Chicago arose in the late world war, when a| | distributors and of other details nec- | -|essary to a quick mobilization of in- BIG ROBBERS PLAN CORNER ON NEXT WAR Prepare Boycott of All Small Manufacturers By ESTHER LOWELL. {Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—‘All set for the next war!” seems to |be the slogan of the Defense Test Advisory Board, headed by Judge Elbert H. Gary, chair- man of the United States Steel | Corporation. Already the big munitions ;manufacturers and aircraft | |profiteers have been summoned jto plan their division of the spoils of*the next war so that \the “fly-by-night manufacturers | who,” according to Brig.-Gen. |Guy Tripp, head of the Westing- jhouse Electric and Manufactur- jing Company, “upset markets and were the real profiteers dur- | |ing the late war,” will be out of | jthe game. Monopoly of Big Fellows. The next war is to be a monopoly | jof the big militarists, judging from | } their outlined plans for industrial mo- | | Dilization on Sept. 12. Incidentally, | | Gary's last war profits were three and | |a half times his peace gains. Gen. J. |@. Harbord, president of General Elec. | tric’s Radio Corporation of America; | | P. E. Crowley, head of the New York | |Central railroad; §, Parker Gilbert, \jr., the young lawyer who has been chosen to succeed Owen D., Young as |reparations chief under the Dawes | }plan for Europe; Samuel McRoberts, | | president of the Metropolitan Trust Co.; Charles M. Schwab, chairman of | |the Bethlehem Steel Corporation; and | William H. Woodin, president of the | | American Car and Foundry Co these} jare some of the public-spirited citi-| }zens associated with the American! Fascist Gary in the “all set for war” preparations of Mobilization Day. } They -were summoned by tele- graphic orders from Washington to jact with Col. James L. Walsh, chief of the New York ordnance district | and acting chief of the eastern air} service district. | | Gary Is Very Serious. | Gary has taken his task of indus-| | trial mobilization with all seriousness, | his associates report, and is making | Plans as tho war Would actually be declared Sept. 12. Gen. Tripp re- marked that: “The industrial defense! plans give to each manufacturer speci- fic information as to what he will be| expected to do in an emergency.” |Gary comments that “with plans com- plete in every detail for the rapid production of ordnance and airplanes, if and when needed, we can begin to} talk of disarmament and safety in the | same breath.” The steel lord’s knowledge of the | most convenient coal producers and dustrial forces for miltary production is not only from his enriching experi- ences of the last war but from his constant study of war Possibilities. | He stated that in the event of invas-| ion it “will require one out of every | four wage-earners in the metropolitan | area (of New York) to forsake his| regular emyployment and to turn his hand to new and wnfamiliar tasks in| the manufacture and inspection of non-commercial implements of ord- nance and aerial equipment.” Human Food for Cannon. This indicates to what extent the next war will wreck the ordinary course of life for workers without saying to what lengths the actual military forces will enter their lives by compelling them to go into battle | and be human food for the iron mon- sters that Gary and his gang will be making. Join the Workers Party! WE'RE PARTIAL! GET THEIR SUBSCRIPTIO My name ......... ‘Address . City . | She | MacDonald jout in the next elections, it Page Thre, SOME SOCIETY NOTES - CROWDED OUT OF THE SUBSIDIZED PRESS (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO.— For three weeks Edwin Armstrong, 19 years old, tramped the streets of San Francisco, “the city that knows how,” trying to find a job as book- keeper, At last, his money all gone, he swallowed poison, and will prob- ably die. * * * DALLAS, Tex.—Elizabeth Perry, 18 year old high school girl arrest- ed on a charge of stealing clothes, declared in court that at the time she robbed a house she was out of a job and with no money to make herself presentable during the two months she had been looking for work. She was bound over on a charge of burglary. SAN FRANCISCO.—Mrs. Antone Cadle had a little boy to care for at home, but poverty forced her to work outside and let little Remo look after himself. One day re- cently, after weeks of unemploy- ment, she kissed Remo goodbye and went to seek a job in the coun- try., She returned at night, tired out, without the job—to find Remo dead. He had fallen down stairs in her absence and fractured his skull. * tae ee NEW YORK.— Julie Reinhardt, once -an active young actress and | worker for women’s suffrage well known thruout the country, died alone and embittered by the long later years of neglect which the world had shown her. She was 80. spoke of the monument the women’s party is erecting for Inez Milholland and told how™she had worked for women’s votes even be- fore her famous co-worker. FOES MASS TO DITCH MAC IN EARLY ELECTION Conservatives Gag at Russian Treaty (Special to the Daily Worker.) LONDON, Sept. 9.—Prime Minister was greeted on his re- turn from Geneva with the informa-| ion that his foes were planning to ive him out. ef No. 10 Downing Street at the earliest possible mo- ment. The Tories and the liberals have joined in a hue and cry against the labor government because of its fail ure to molify France, its softness to Germany and the Russian treaty. Campaign Politics. Of course this is campaign opposi- tion, No matter which party win: is t likely that the British foreign pol! will change to any conside le ex tent as British foreign policy more or less fixed and is largely determined by the permanent officials in the for- eign office. The extreme reactionaries do not like the RuSsian treaty and the Lib- erals who were strongly in favor of Russian recognition and a treaty be- fore the last elections are also oppos- ing it. The Tories’ main point of attack will be on the Irish boundary ques- tion. When the parliament opens next month a lively time is expected. Raliroads To Amalgamate. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Total nual savings of approximately the Southern Pacific and El Paso & Southwestern ralroads, Julius Krutt schnitt, chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific, to: day told the Interstate Commerce Commission at a hearing on the joint application of the two systems to bring about the proposed merger. N TO THE DAILY WORKER! Send him the months. His name ...... Address ‘Vote Communist This Time! “MUM!” IS BIG WORD AT HAUNT OF LAFOLLETTE Haven’t an Idea About Soviet Recognition | | “Mum!” is the big word that |now rules supreme at the sump- |tuous Morrison Hotel headquar~« |ters of the LaFollette cam- | paigners. | The most strenuous efforts ;couldn’t get a single expression jof opinion on the question of \Secretary of State Hughes’ jmost recent broadside on. the vital issue of Russian Soviet | recognition. sa | Nelson Dumb as Ever. mis | Jokn M. Nelson, the Wisconsin com gressman, is the campaign manager, |but in the campaign, as in congress, his only reply on big problems is, |“Ask the ‘senator,’” By senator h@ {means the Hon. Robert Marion Lar | Follette. i Campaign Manager Nelson was n@ lence on the question of Soviet rece less emphatic in maintaining his sie ognition than he had been previously in refusing to commit himself on thé |Dawes plan, the Ku Klux Klan andj |the growing unemployment. } “The declaration of Secretary of State Hughes should offer you an exe cellent opportunity to state the posie tion of the LaFollette campaign on the question of Soviet recognition,’ a reporter for the DAILY WORKER, pointed out to Mr. Nelson. ii No Statements Whatsoever. , * “I do not intend to make any states iments whatever during this cam- |paign,” Mr. Nelson asured the DAILY | WORKER. “Not as long as I am jchairman of the LaFollette campaign | committee.” | So thats that. Wonder how thé voters up in Nelsou's district are go- ing to be able to vote for him intelli gently without knowing what he stands for. Or has’ LaFollette |spawned a new brand of “Me, tool” joftice holders? State Campaign Manager, Charleg \J. MacGowan, who discovered only |very recently that the.socialists and |yellow laborites of England, France jand Germany were backing up the Dawes plan, was pretty busy. { Only Candidates Talk. But the DAILY WORKER got this much out of him: t “I want it distinctly understood that only the candidates are making ~ statements to the press in this La- Follette campaign.” MacGowan then turned the LaFol- lette publicity manager, Robert S. Al- + lan, over to the DAILY WORKER re- porter. This publicity hound whined mewhat as follows: “The LaFollette campaign is too timately connected with Senator) LaFollette to issue any statements other than those made by the candi-j dates. We will at ‘ho time issue any) statements to the press.” il + Why Is a Press Bureau? ef Which should certainly raise thé question of, “Why Is a Press Bureau?! Perhaps the oracle, LaFollette, will speak at Washington. It is ans) nounced that the Montana senator, Burton K. Wheeler, candidate fov vice-president, will be in town Sept, | “Mum!” is the word! { a 4 i Booze In Washington! { WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Mrs. Ann@ | Wilson, 38, was believed to be dying ’|today as the result of a fall down | 050 will result from the unification of elevator shaft, and Benjamin Lust, a motion picture distributor, was held pending an investigation by the police, who charge that the woman's fall fol-| lowed a liquor party on the ninth floor of a downtown office bows Mrs. Wilson is said to be a divorcee, y " ARE YOU? We admit it! We see ONLY the interests of one particular class—-that class of people who work for a living. Every day we fight their battles—AND ONLY THEIRS. Perhaps you are also prejudiced in this manner? And perhaps you try to convince your shop-mate—your friends—everyone—of your ideas? i The DAILY Can Do It Better! RATES in ‘Chicago: 3 months, $2.50; 6 months, $4.50; 12 months, $8.00. by outside of Chicago: 3 months, $2.00; 6 months, $3.50; 12 months, $6.00. . i ja ! I’m Partial! Convince My Shop-Mate DAILY WORKER for