The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, September 11, 1924 JOHN W. DAVIS’ GROUND WORK ~ DONE BY SCABS Open Shoppers Ignore Union Workers By ART SHIELDS (Pederated Press Staff Correspondent.) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Sept. 10.—When John W. Davis came home to Clarksburg to be for- mally notified of the democratic nomination he found the old family estate on the hill .over- Yooking the court house shining with a new and splendid front the gift of the city. Narrow little Lee Street, that had comfortable room for only ‘one car, had been broadened d the bank above, on the avis grounds, had been tucked ip by a glistening balustrated etaining wall more than a hun- ed feet long, with a terraced Bidewalk reached by steps from ‘the street. Done by Scabs. This furbishing-up of the -Davis home for the eyes of wondering visi- tors cost the taxpayers $7,000 and ‘every cent of it went to an openshop contractor who hired nonunion work- ers. Clarksburg is a union town, with Anemployed union men needing jobs ‘badly, but city manager Harrison G. Otis and the other members of the grrangements committee showed their Yoyalty to the “American Plan” in Bpite*of the protest of L.. E. Brewer, business agent for the carpenters’ union, and other representatives of or- ganized labor. oe By its $7,000 openshop gift to its fa- mous absentee citizen Clarksburg city ended a long dispute with the Davis estate. The dispute over who should pay for the widening of Lee street began about 15 years ago when the city ‘told John J. Davis, father of the nominee that a strip of the bank ‘would be torn away and the street improved, with the costs charged to the property owner, according to regular Clarksburg procedure. Other property owners fell in line but old John J. Davis, leading corporation at- torney of Clarksburg, was too staunch &@ conservative to see such changes made,—at his own expense. He got the injunction courts to restrain the city and he did sentry duty on the bank himself, neighbors say. The city was eager to open up the street but the old man said nothing doing unless the city paid the bill and put up a re- taining wall. )In that case he would cede a few feet of property. Davis Is Discovered. The deadlock lasted after the father passed away and after John W. Davis and his two sisters came into control. It lasted until suddenly one day this summer Clarksburg found its famous citizen was still more famous as the result of something that happened in Madison Square garden. So the fel- Jows who run the city dug deep in the treasury and paid for all the things Father Davis had demanded. City manager Otis has since told Clarksburg trade unionists that the choice of an openshop contractor was an accident—an unhappy accident for the democrats, as it turned out shortly afterwards, for the Central Labor union passed up the favorite son. The contractor selected for the job was the Concrete Steel Bridge Co., a notorious West Virginia openshop concern which invaded Clarksburg a year ago and began taking nonunion contracts, a new thing in Clarksburg. This firm made a rush job of it. Non- union carpenters were procured for the concrete form work, Local No. 236 being ignored. There is no local con- crete workers’ union but the foreman discriminated against unemployed un- fon miners who tried to get jobs as Jaborers, union officials informed The Federated Press. The jobless union eoaldigger—and most union coaldig- . gers are unemployed in Clarksburg @istrict—was asked where he came from. The work went to men. from non-union mines. Suddenly Remember. Unionists, When the street and wall job was finished the committee hurried up with the building of the reviewing stand on another location. The car- penter work was to cost $800. The committee asked Local No. 236 if it, didn’t want to donate the labor of} its members, without compensation— in the name of ciyie pride, the union- ints were told. This was a little too raw. The carpenters ironically sug- gested the committee get its scabs on the job. Otis apologized and said the openshop move had been a mistake, Winion' men were hired and paid for the reviewing stand’ work. Came the day of notification. /Thousands of autos rolled past Lee street, admiring the resplendent wall, ‘which most of them supposed that John W. Davis had paid for. Union men know differently. That big chunk of white artificial stone is a rock around .the neck of John W. Davis’ chance with the union folks back home. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. “RAT PRINTER 1S DEAD BUT UNION LIVES ON, EVEN MORE POWERFUL: (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10.—Ed- win Brando, head of the rat printing shop that bears his name, is dead. For years he devoted his time and other people’s money in fighting or- ganized labor, but the typographical union still lives while the earth worms today are building their winter homes in all that remains of “the arch enemy of labor. Which puts the writer in remem- brance of the colored minister de- llvering a funeral oration over the remains of one of his flock, who dramatically said: “‘“Ah hopes he is where | ’spects he ain’t.” NEGRO TEACHER GIVEN GATE BY HEADS OF YWCA, Qualified in Every Way; Rejected for Color PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 10— Miss Geraldine _Gardine, a young woman of exceptional ability in the teaching of Hygiene and Physical Training, has been rejected by the Young, Women’s Christian Association because she is of the Negro race. Given the Gate. Miss Gardine failed to state in her application that she is colored. So on the merits of her abilities, she was informed that she had more than satisfactorily met the requirements of the position she qualified for. But when she arrived at the office of the Young Women’s Christian As- sociation, instead of being given the position she was given the gate. Director Explains Reason. The director of the school had only this to say in explanation: “If you had-only mentioned the fact that you are by nationality an American Ne- gro on your eligibility estimate blank, the matter would not have been car- ried this far.” Declines Ford Service. DALLAS, Texas, Sept. 10.—Farm- ers in some parts of Texas who have to haul their cotton pickers back and forth from town each day, are finding some of them very discriminating in their choice of vehicles. A big colored woman was approach- ed with reference to a job in the cot- ton patch. yo’ drive, Mistuh ” was the query. “A Ford,” was the answer. “Mistuh, I never rides in dem things,” said the lady as she walked off. ’ To Examine “War Babies.” NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—‘“War Chil- dren,” youngsters who were born during the stress of the last war, will be specially examined physically and mentally in Hoboken, N. J., schools this year, to determine the possible effect of parential influence, says Dan- iel Keeley, superintendent. Keeley’s agitation to force out married teach- ers has failed; only two left the school system. Depression in the South. CHARLESTON, 8S. C., Sept. 10.— Autumn comes in with little indus- trial change noticeable in the south. Business is dull and there is a great lack of work. There is over-produc- tion of vegetables and other produce in South Carolina. Farmers have lost heavily. There has been a slight re- sumption in rail transportation. Need 10,000 Signatures. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 10.— To secure a place on the California ballot for Foster and Gitlow, Work- ers Party candidates, 10,000 signa- tures must be secured before Sept. 25. All signatures must be of regis- tered voters who ‘did not vote at the May primaries and who have not signed a LaFollette petition. In Ma Ferguson’s State. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 10.— With 300,000 illiterates among our people it is time Texas realizes the great economic loss which this in- volves, says Prof. G. O. Clough, presi- wing Texas State Teachers’ Associa- in. “Whut kind uv a car does | COMMUNISTS TO FRY CODFISH ARISTOCRACY Party C andidates Will be on the | Ballot By JOSEPH MANLEY, Campaign Manager, Workers Party. The announcement by Dis- trict Organizer John J. Ballam that Foster and, Gitlow elec- tors and a full state Workers Party ticket will go on the ballot in Massachusetts is gettin close to home. The home o Codfish, Coolidge and his “com- mon sense” government. Boston and New England has determined the major portion of the policies enunciated as the “common sense” government of Calvin Coolidge in his Labor Day address. Coolidge’s ‘“com- mon sense” is just so much non- sense when he says: “One of the outstanding features of the present day is that American wage earners are living better than at_any other time in our history. They have not only retained but actually in- creased the gain that they made dur- ing the war. “. . . We have here in the United States not only the best paid workers in the world but the best paid workers that ever lived in the world.” f Birds of a Feather. In this same Labor Day address, Coolidge boasted that one of his hearers, T, V. O'Connor, formerly president of the Longshoremens’ Un- ion is now the head of. the United States Shipping Board. Boston and New England longshoremen will re- member the traitorous role played by the same T. V. O'Connor in the fa- mous longshoremen’s strike in 1920, when the rank and file of the long- shoremen of the New England ports had tied up the entire shipping of that section and when the strike was spreading like wildfire all along the Atlantic coast and over to the Pacific, Mr. O'Connor is the gentleman who helped to smash this strike. This was one of his principal recommendations for the present office he now holds, to the late President Harding who ap- pointed him, Now two. strikebreaker presidents go well together. Cal Talks Thru His Derby. Coolidge’s nonsense about the in- crease in the, earning capacity “of the workers in shoe and textile industries during and since the war will cause nothing but cynical laughter from these workers of New England when they hear of that Coolidge Labor Day message. Coolidge’s “common sense” government is the government of the Boston -bankers, the New England Textile, Shoe and Leather Trusts. It is the government of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, which Calvin Coolidge, when but a precinct lawyer, threw into the arms of James Pierpont Morgan. The “common sense” Government of Cool: idge is the Government of Wall Street. Will Learn Truth. The announcement that the Work- ers Party will go on the ballot inthe State of Massachusetts means that the workers of the big industries of New England will now learn from the Communists in the coming po- litical struggle the above facts and the true chdracter of the Boston hero, Coolidge, puppet of the House of Morgan, The opening gun in this campaign will be fired next Sunday afternoon at a monster meeting in Boston at Scenic Auditorium when vice-presi- dential candidate Benjamin Gitlow will rip the lid off Coolidge and his Boston ‘backer. Uppie Flops For Bob. PASADENA, Cal., Sept. 10.—Upton Sinclair has announced his support to LaFollette. Tho Uppie’s feet are still in good health, due to his new scheme for physical training, it is said that the sun is extremely strong in Pi dena and affects even writers. BOB’S MODEL COMMONWEALTH FAILS TO HALT FALL OF JOBS OR WAGES j (By The Federated Press) MADISON, Sept. 10.—Employment in Wisconsin factoriés in July had fallen to a level 10 per cent below July, 1923. Total wages had fallen 11.8 per cent and per capita earnings 2 per cent. Industries in which the de- creases in employment in the 12-month period had been particularly sharp included iron and steel mills 28,9 per cent, foundries and machine shops 26 per cent, stove foundries 19.7 per cent, automobile plants 23.5 per cent, box factories 29.1 per cent, boots and shoes 29 per cent, chemical 33.4 per cent. ‘ Outside of manufactures employ- ment showed a drop of 11.7 per cent in agriculture, 19.1 per cent in min- ing and 25.2.per cent in highway con- struction, On the other hand there were 17.4 per cent more workers in buliding and 17.9 per cent more in railway construction than in July, 1923, Sharp Drop in Wages. Sharp drops in average weekly earnings include foundries and ma- chine shops 24,8 per cent, aluminum and enamel ware 24.9 per cent, auto- mobile plants 20.1 per cent, boots and shoes 22.4 per cent, hosiery and knit &oods 12.9 per cent and tobacco manu- facturing 15 per cent. Average weekly earnings during July amounted to $22.45 in factories, in mining $28.68, in building construc: tion $26.59, in steam railway trans- portation $38.80, and street railways | $26.38. i i FOUR NEW INDIGTMENTS HANDED DOWN IN CASE OF VET, BUREAU CHIEF Federal officials yesterday re- leased four hitherto suppressed in- dictments against “Col.” Charles R. Forbes, former head of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, who is scheduled to go on trial before Judge Carpenter next Monday. The new indictments are substan- tially the same as those previously released with the exception that they go into detail regarding charges that Forbes was to get a portion of the payment of $66,666.66 to the late Charles Cramer, chief counsel of the veterans’ bureau. The payment is alleged to have been a bribe from John W, Thomp- son, who is to be tried with Col. Forbes. Forbes will be remembered as one of the great “paytriotic” swindlers who was supposed to take care of the interests of the disabled veterans who went across to “fight for democracy.” Why the new indictments were hitherto suppressed is not related. Curious observers, however, are making significant remarks on the generous kindness of the courts. NEW BETRAYAL OF LABOR PARTY IDEA IN PENNSY Nine Parties on Ballot in Quaker State By ABRAM JAKIRA, (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 10. There will be an interesting election campaign in Pennsylvania this year. In addition to the Workers Party, eight other parties will be found on the ballots in this state—republican, democratic, socialist, prohibition, American, Jabor, industrialist and commonwealth-land. The Workers Party beginning with the letter “W” will occupy on the ballot the last place. LaFollette Runs as Socialist. The most interesting feature in this list of political parties lies in the fact that LaFollette is running on both the socialist and Labor party tickets. Both of these parties carry the same set of candidates of presidential elec- tors. Together with the list of presiden- fil electors the Iabor party carries on its ticket a number of candidates for congress most’ of whom are the candidates of the old capitalist par- ties—republican, democratic, prohibi- tion—who_ received the indorsement of the LaFollette forces. Guilty of Double Prostitution. The LaFollette followers are ap- parently not satisfied with the'de- struction of the existing farmer-labor parties, but are prostituting the very idea of such a party by using the name “Labor” in order to help the politi- cians of the old parties. It is the meanest attempt ever heard to befog the minds of the work- ers who have learned to look upon a Labor party as upon something apart and independent from the old capital- ist parties. And the socialist party is being dragged deeper and deeper into the eamp of the old democratic, republi- ean and prohibition party. It is but another step into backward evolution- ary process. Fundamental Errors of Fundamentalism to be Counteracted (By Federated Press) SAN’ FRANCISCO, Sept. 10,—The Science League of America (Cali- fornia Division) hag been formed to fight fundamentalism, first in Cali- fornia and then thruout the country. At the first meeting, called by Mayn- ard Shipley, thirty charter members pledged themselves to the protection of scientific teaching in the schools and the opposition to the reactionary teachings of the fundamentalists. Plans are being made for an initial mass meeting in San Francisco, and a sustaining fund is being raised by friends of freedom in and out of California. Anyone interested in the new organization is asked to write to Maynard Shipley, Box 573, San Francisco. Prisoners in Protest Strike. SAN QUENTIN, Cal,, Sept. 10.— Another protest strike among crimi- nal syndicaligm prisoners was started here by the usual cause, over-work of political prisoners in the jute mill. Jobn Terrell, sentenced from Eureka, being ‘the victim in this case, After one day it was decided to abandon the strike at this time and to await a more favorable opportunity for a de- monstration, Women Protest to Coolidge. NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The Wo- men's Peace society has written Pres- ident Coolidge protesting against Mobilization Day and has arranged a series of meetings at street inter- sections for the week of Sept. 12, to spread the society’s program of im- mediate complete disarmament on a universal scale ow WAR MONGERS PUSH AHEAD DEFENSE DAY Communists to Hold Counter-Meetings | By MAX SHACHTMAN. | Pacifist clergymen who at- tempted to carry a resolution deploring the preparations for Defense Day at a mesting of the | Chicago Presbytery here, were | promptly squelched by their fel- | |low sky pilots for such an un- |fortunate lack of patriotism. | Inopportune Time. “This is-a very inopportune time to introduce such a resolu- | jtion,” said Dr. Carrier, as he| jmoved to lay the motion criti- |cizing the day on the table, | The venerable doctor didn’t say at| |what time such a resolution would} {be opportune, and his colleagues |didn't ask the question either. | The rounding up of the clergymen |of the nation is proceeding quickly so |that there shan't be any stragglers on jthe 12th of September, Mobilization |Day. In Chicago preparations are be- |ing made on a grand scale. Most of the big corporations and firms in the jloop district have made it obligatory |upon their employees to take part in | the demonstratio: an example of ;the method of. ca: ng out this plan |having been exposed in a previous is- | Sue ot the DAILY WORKER, in con- | nection with the Boston Store. | Plan Intimidation, In other parts of the country the ;very same plans are being carried |thru. In Bergen Field, N. J., intimi- | dation of the citizenry is being under- jtaken by an order of the Mayor, Charles P. Warren, who has had a | notice posted ordering all able bodied |men between the ages of 18 and 45 }to line up at the Borough Hall and comply with his Mobilization Day or- der. His order has caused. consider- able discussion because of the rumor that if, on Defense Day, any able bodied man is seen on the streets of the town without a registration card, | he will be taken to the police station and kept until two and a half hours after the demonstration? are over. Such intimidation is comparable only to the bitterest days of the war and is proof of the militarist purpose behind the whole maneuver. In Missouri, the small towns have been lined up solidly, it seems, ac- cording to an announcement by Wil-| liam A. Raupp, chairman of the state defense committee and an adjutant-/ general to boot. More than 80 towns | have joined the movement during the | week ending today, making almost! five hundred towns and cities in Mis-| souri that have arranged programs for Defense Day. Kept Press Piles It On. | Newspaper propaganda for the) plan is increasing in space and much | emphasis is being laid upon the fact/ that the “Day” is only a peaceful demonstration. This is given the lie direct by the statement of Lieut.-Col. John A. Scott, of the Reserve Officers’ | Army Corps, in a speech before an| American Legion post in Washing- ton, D. C., where he stated that an- other war is as certain as death and that Mobilization Day is a preparation for it. Even General Henry T. Allen, who occasionally poses as a pacifist, has been persuaded to make a_ public statement in favor of the plan. “I will tell you what kind of a pa- cifist [ am,” said the man who com- manded the American troops in Co- blenz on the Rhine, “I am that kind of a pacifist that does the utmost to keep peace as long as possible. I know there will be many wars. As a pacifist I need to do the utmost to prevent war, but, knowing that wars will come, I believe in holding na- MY MBIMC. ciocsiiscccrcicccessecsenssseeiee Address City . State Perhaps you are also prejudiced in this manner? shop-mate—your friends—everyone—of your ideas? GET THEIR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE DAILY WORKER! : The DAILY Can Do It Better! RATES in Chicago: 3 months, $2.50; 6 months, $4.50; 12 months, $8.00. * outside of Chicago: 3 months, $2.00; 6 months, $3.50; 12 months, $6.00. I’m Partial! Page Thrés Our Candidates FOSTER'S DATES Philadelphia, Pa—Musical Fund Hall, 8th and Locust Streets, Friday, September 12, 8 p. m. Paterson, N. J.—Halvitve Van Houton Street, Saturday, tember 13, 8 p. m. GITLOW’S DATES Comrade Gitlow, candidate for yice- Hall, 56 Sep- president, will address meetings at the following places: Stamford, Conn. — Casino Half, Thursday, September 11, at 8 p. m. Bridgeport, Conn—Carpenters Hall, 170 Elm St, Friday, Sept. 12, at 8p.m. Springfield, Mass.—Central Labor Union, 19 Sanford St., Saturday, Sept. 13, 8 p, m. tional defense days so America will) be ready at all times.” Preparing for New Wars. The notorious fact that America is} preparing to assert its control over the markets of the world for capitalists who control the govern- ment, it is significant to see that Allen, as well as Scott and numerous oth- ers, are frank enough to say that Mo- bilization Day is the forerunner of new wars. Communists in Counter-Demon- strations. The counter-demonstrations that will be held under the joint auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League will be the only real attempt to gather the protests of Am- erica’s working class against the preparations for new imperialist wars and in favor of the “War to End All Wars,” the war of the work- ers against their bosses until the workers’ republic has been estab- lished. MAC DONALD'S ADMIRAL WHOOPS IT UP FOR NAVY Tells Canucks He Talks for Labor Govt. (Special to The Daily Worker) OTTAWA, Can., Sept. 10.—Despite the fact that the Ramsay MacDonald’s “Labor” government is supposed to be pacifist and opposed to any increases in armaments, Vice-Admiral Field, in command of the British cruise around the world, has been repeating in east- ern Canada what he said on the Pacific Coast as to the need of a big- ger navy for the Dominion. He has been a little more cautious but the song has been the saine. He admitted that the need of naval defense in Canada was less than in Australia, but he asked if Canada would stand by and do nothing to drive off an attack upon another part of the empire. Canada, he said, might feel she could rely on the British navy and on the American, but he believed that would not meet the desires of the Canadian people. Field has found support particularly from some imperialist papers. Speaks For Ramsay. On being criticised for preaching a | big navy, when the Labor government is alléged to be doing its best to re- duce armament—by building more ships!—Field replied that so far as he knew he was not departing from the policy of the British government. Toledo Readers, Notice! The DAILY WORKER agent for Toledo, A. W. Harvitt, advises the business office that persons unknown are trying to make collections on DAILY WORKER subscriptions. This is done mostly in the daytime when men folks are away. Do not pay unless the collector is known-to you or can show proper credentials. If you are approached, communicate at once with A. W. Har- vitt, 181 Michigan St., who is the DAILY WORKER agent in your city. months. the} NEW SPLITLET “NOW THREATENS BOBBIE'S CAMP Farmer-Labor Party is Sore at Slur ta } "| Another SLITS SSS eS eee ee ek ee ARE YOU? WE'RE PARTIAL! 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. And perhaps you try to convince your Convince My Shop-Mate! Send him the DAILY WORKER for «........00 His NAME sssccossrsvesssaroasoorarsbsncsssoseroncevenennecsoeasen AAGTEBS .......csscvegscesrcnrnerss jas a “dastardly attack” (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., Sept. 10,.— split threatens the pretty collection of political high binders, discredited labor fakers and bankrupt peanut stand owners that is supporting the LaFollette-Wheeler ticket for the presidential offices. This time it is coming from the paper organization recently canned by John Fitzpatrick and the Chicago Federation of Labor, the “Farmer-Labor party,” which moved ‘its offices from Chicago to Denver where rents are said.to be much cheaper. j Demand Slur Retraction, at | It comes in the form of a demand} by the chairman of the national cam- paign committee, Dr. C. B ‘Warner, of Biloxi, Miss., that the regional) manager of the LaFollette-Wheeler| campaign, Frank Harrison, make a publi repudiation of his charges that) Bert Martin, national secretary of the Farmer-Labor Party, was soliciting funds without authorization of the; Wisconsin faker’s committee, This demand was voiced tn #6 un-; certain terms in a letter from tho; honorable Warner to the still more) honorable John M. Nelson, of the na-! tional LaFollette committee. The’ letter denounces Harrison’s statement! on Martin, made without any attempt to find out! the actual situation. Unreliable People! Harrison’s statement was made last! Saturday at Lincoln, Nebraska, after! the receipt of a telegram from LaFol- lette, Jr., in which it was asserted that’ Martin’s action was unauthorized and that “These people are absolutely unreliable.” This rather got under the sensitive hides of the defunct’ farmer-laborites, and they are now raising the dence, Martin declares that he undertook the collection of funds to pay off some of the expenses incurred at the Cleve- land conference and that this was done at the request of the national committee of the LaFollette crowd, but that when they told him tteiiy~ off, he did so. John Spurns His Former Love. His appeals were sent out with the name of John Fitzpatrick on the let- terhead as a national committeeman, but John, who is now living with” Sam Gompers, denies his former love completely. Now, Dr. Warner threatens that unless the apology is forthcoming in tiptop shape, the national committee representing the entire membership of 28, will drop its support of LaFol- lette. ; But Bob is going his own serene way digging up millionaire supporters and he is probably snickering up his shirtsleeves at the way he roped in the poor innocents of the FP. L. P. which can now say its final prayer and kick the bucket for good. mens Telegraphers Appeal to Board. } OTTAWA, Can., Sept. 10.—A de mand for higher wages and better working conditions, affecting commer- cial telegraphers employed by the C. P. R. and the Canadian National rail- ways, is now before a board of in- vestigation under the Lemieux act. Among the demands made by the men are: (1) equal pay for Morse and automatic operators, (2) standardiza- tion of percentage ratings, (3) stand- ardization of clerical wage scales, (4) recognition of the union and estab- lishment of the union shop principle. The.C. P. R. telegraphers are asking for an increase of 45 per cent in pay, while that company is proposing @ cut of 5 per eent. seeeeeenneneneneenennenaeeuenennnen: