The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1924, Page 6

Secs SREY Ae Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. : The Coming of a Memorable Sablished by the DAILY WORKHR PUBLISHING co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ih. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months Ae By mail (in Chicago only): . $4.50....6 momtas $2.60....3 months $6.00 per year 0 per year ‘ “dress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Editors ..Business Manager J. LOEB. ed as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post at Chicago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application Coolidge As a Pacifist Caivin Coolidge, the strikebreaker president of the United States, is given credit by liberals of the Oswald Garrison school of pacifism for block- ing the bigger navy advocates in his refusal to accede to the request of the navy department to slevate the guns of the United States battleships, und thus “modernize” them. That Silent Cal’s re- fusal does not mean that he is afflicted with the virus of pacifism, is amply demonstrated by his wholehearted approval of “Mobilization Day,” an important step in turning this country into a gigantic barrack. American jingoes may shriek that the country is in danger because the British nayy’s guns stick their noses into the sky at a sharper angle than those on the American battleships. But the people who own this government know what they are do- ing. They will look after their battleships and they will elevate the guns when they think the time is ripe to do so. The American navy is the potential enemy of the British navy. In fact every navy is a potential enemy of every other navy. That is the law of capi talism. But Uncle Sam’s—beg pardon, we mean Morgan’s navy—is next in strength to England’s if not equal, and as the American capitalists intend to wring the title of “Mistress of the Seas” from England, having already made their domination over the land quite evident, the British government gets a creepy feeling whenever the Washington capitalist government begins to figure on its naval budget. The American capitalists are not foolish. During recent’years they have held a few conferences. They | we are again called upon to pay our “friends” for will hold a few more before they are ready to place] their supposed acts of non-hostility. the blunderbuss at John Bull’s ear and say: “Mr. Bull, you have carried the trident for a great many] startling fact in his laudation of the Wisconsin centuries. You must be tired. We are going to} senator. At last Mr. Gompers seems to believe that relieve you of that burden. If you object we willl the old parties, whose “good men” he has been sell- ‘low you into smithereens.” $2.00....3 months| which is known in short as the First International. | 1864, in St. Martin’s Hall, Long Acre, London, | England. It w Chicago, Minois of E | Anniversary The event -which the class-conscious workers of the world will be celebrating on the 27th and 28th of September of this year, is the founding of the first International . Workingmen’s Association It took place sixty years ago, on September 28, s ushered into existence by a re- vival in the class struggle of the working masses ngland, France, Germany and Italy, and was given the lead by the fathers of modern Commitn- ism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was there that the basis was laid for that ‘proletarian world struggle for power which has seen its most prom- ising beginning in the Paris Commune in 1871, which has later found its nearly complete realiza- tion in the Bolshevist Revolution in Russia in 1917 and which is now being led to its final victory the |world over by the Leninist Commmunist Interna- tional. We shall celebrate the event in proper fashion in about ten days. We shall then join the militant workers of the entire world in demonstrating the truth that ours—the Communist International— is the direct line descendant of that immortal body of working men and working women who have, under the leadership of Marx, in 1864, given such glorious expression to the battlecry of the inter- national working class, “Proletarians of All Lands, Unite!” We shall proudly proclaim to the whole world that it was we, the followers of Lenin, that have aised from the dust the banner of Social Revolt, which was lowered, humbled and disgraced by Scheidemann, Vandervelde and MacDonald, and that it was we that have given back to the werking class the hope, the faith and the international unity proclaimed and embodied by the First Interna- tional. Be ready for the great anniversary! Gompers’ Blessings Samuel Gompérs, president of’ the American | tion of Labor, has just bestowed another} blessing on the political head of Senator LaFol-| lette. { In essence the pans of praise now sung by| Gompers in behalf of LaFollette, are to the tune of those sung by the head of the American Federa-} tion of Labor in behalf of Woodrow Wilson, Cox and other democratic lights. We are again asked to vote for a man who has been “good to labor.” The “Grand Old Man” seems to wake up to a jand at the junction of important rail- ing to the workers for many years, are warped and Mr, Coolidge will favor the elevation of the guns] hopelessly corrupt. Such recognition is, of course, when the policy of the American government de-!,s belated as ineffective. At best recent events mands that this should be done. In the meantime, } haye only served to make more clear the real char- Silent Cal does not look with disapproval on the] acter of ‘the democratic and republican parties. howling of the jingoes for more battleships. That|/They have not created the malignant situation. ix healthy capitalist propaganda. Public opinion | phe present condition of the capitalist parties is ‘ust be moulded in favor of bigger naval budgets.| not an over-night growth but is the natural out- The arrival of the world flyers is used to advertise | come of years of development. the need for more airships. The patriotism of the masses is constantly fed and when the rulers of It is this tendency. to serve outright the em- ploying class interests and to reek with corruption, America feel that they can get more out of England graft, and the basest of sordid political filth that by frightening her with a few more battleships Gompers has blinked for too many years. In in- than they can by raising the white flag, they will|dorsing LaFollette, Mr. Gompers does nothing to accede to the manufactured demand for the eleva- tion of the guns and more ships. According to a newspaper report, the president eradicate this cancer on the American body politic. Mr. Gompers is now simply asking the workers to vote for one who, in his opinion, is “the most By ELSA BLOCH. ITH the appointment of Edgar Allen Bancroft to the post of) ambassador to Japan, the national un-| official strikebreaking agency, of which Calvin Coolidge is honorary. president, establishes another interna- tional connection. To understand why Edgar Allen Bancroft becomes an “Ambassador,” read his analysis of the Chicago strike of 1894 written —twenty-nine years ago. Step by step, thru a maze of le- galisms, technicalities, capitalist | sophistries, Bancroft builds up the! case for the General Managers’ as-| sociation and for the United States government. “Socialistic sophistries,” says Mr. Bancroft, “must be cor- rected. Labor unions should be com- pelled to incorporate,”"—making their funds liable to attachment and their affairs subject to control by the courts. “The importance of obedience to law, no matter how defective, must be stressed.” And how is that to be accomplished? By the simple expedient of class col- laboration—the safest road to indus- trial peace based on individualism. “Neither the employers nor the em- ployees have yet learned the deeper relations in which their interests are the same. The unions should ‘be de-| close communication and of friendly conference,” What have the twenty-nine years of “friendly conference,” ‘that have passed since these papers were writ- ten, brot to the armed powers of Eu- rope? And what has the close relationship between the officials of the American labor movement and the leaders of in- dustry in the United States brot to tho American workers? But why this parlor diplomacy in industrial battles? Because—Mr. Bancroft tells you— “labor reforms are essentially moral; and no man is fit to lead a labor union who distrusts the power of moral forces.” Have you been deluded into think. ing that militant action by the work- ers is the only solution of the indus- trial problem? Listen to Mr. Ban- croft: Labor militancy “results from a con- fusion of moral distinctions, the con- founding of legal rights with ‘moral duties. Strikes have been incident to the defects of organization, the in- experience and ignorance of members, and the limitations—intellectual_ or moral—of their leaders.” “The Chicago strike of 1894 was an immoral method of settling a purely |moral controversy.” When in the spring of 1894 the veloped for the uplifting of the mem-| moral appetite of the riveters, team- hers, not as a class, but as men. them follow the example of the armed powers of Europe and enter into and Let | preserve relations of constant and sters and laundresses in the shops of the Pullman company became vorac- ious, these workers grew intellectually confused, and struck. The American railway union, newly created organiza- tion’ of railway men, voted to support the Pullman employees in their strike by boycotting the hauling of Pullman cars on their lines. In this, according to Mr. Bancroft, the railway employees were embroil- ing themselves in “a conflict in which they had no interest and properly they have no part,” since “the Pull- man company’s industries have no) connection with the railroads of the United States.” That the Pullman employees had early in March of the same year voted to join the American railway union, thus showing their similarity of in- terest with the railway workers, and that the Managers’ association, with which the railway men had to deal, had control of twenty-four roads cen- terring or terminating in Chicago, and bound to the Pullman company by long-term contracts, are facts which Edgar Allen Bancroft either does not know, or does not care to deal with when he is proving the lack of a com- mon cause between the Pullman strikers and the striking railway workers, That the railway men made no demands for themselves in this strike is to Mr. Bancroft the unpar- donable crime. It will be easy for Mr. Bancroft, as ambassador to Japan, to withstand the shocks of American diplomacy which brot the “health” of his prede- cessor to a state of collapse. For the Japanese exclusion act, Mr. Bancroft, was an essentially moral act, framed by Congress for the intel- _.. day, September 18, 1924 Meet Mr. Bancroft, “Our” New Ambassador to Japan lectual protection of the Americr working class, Ambassador Ha," hara’s note of protest, Mr. Bancrof was based on a fallacy of reasoning, resulting from a confusion of moral distinctions, the confounding of legal rights with moral duties. The subse- quent self-destruction of a hundred despairing Japanese workers was an immoral method of settling a purely moral controversy, And the grouping of five American battleships on the eastern coast. of Asia, today, carries behind it much the same motive as did the massing of United Statese troops in Chicago in 1894, and anyone who denounces such action can be classed with those strik- ers who declared that the “officers of the government were helping capital to enslave labor,” and whose criticism was the result, as Mr. Bancroft says, of “misguided feeling.” When, in the not distant future, American warships are ready to meet Japanese warships and fight out questions of trade and the control of world resources, and a plausible jex- cuse for the exploding of the first gun is needed, Edgar Allen Bancroft will not be slow to see the unpardonable injury to American sovereignty im- plied in such an act as the tearing down of an American flag by a Japa- nese coolie. To Mr. Bancroft, the most heinous crime of the Chicago strikers—a crime in itself justifying the injunctton and the troops, occur- red when a group of hungry strikers stopped a Pullman train in which rested the body of a corpse. Two Soviet Ports--Leningrad, Vladivostok ENINGRAD port, owing to its situ- ation at the mouth of the Neva, way lines and water and canal routes, may be regarded as one of the best of the world’s ports. During the last two years the re- equipment of the port has proceeded continuously, and the ruin caused by the world and civil wars and the blockade has been made good, and it is now in no way inferior to its pre- war condition. The summer naviga- tion period starts about the end of April, continuing to about the end of November, after which the winter sea- son commences. During the latter the largest ice breakers in the world are employed, such as the “Lenin,” “Sviatogor,” “Frank,” and many oth- ers. There are two channels for the entry of’ships into the harbor—(1) an artificial sea canal 19.8 miles long and 350 feet wide, with a depth of 28-29 feet for vessels of considerable draught: (2) for vessels of small draught with a depth of 11 feet. The port has the following quays for the loading and unloading of vessels: the customs quay for import goods— 8,800 feet long, the depth of water at quayside being 20 feet; a wooden stockade 6,000 feet long and depth of water nearly 24 feet; the Gutuev basin quay about 5.000 feet long and depth of water at quayside 22 feet. The grain and timber harbor has ten quays for the loading of timber and grain, allowing for the simultaneous berthing of 40 steamers with a draught from ten to 28 feet. There is also a coal harbor with an area of 4,900,000 square feet, and depth of 10% to 28 feet, for the unloading of import coal. Equipment includes eight pow- erful electric cranes. For oil cargoes and large timber logs there is a sea quay with a total length of 2,200 feet, and a depth at the quayside of 15 feet. The total length of the Leningrad quays is 21,000 feet. The port possesses two elevators, one with a receiving capacity of 150 trucks, and a discharging capacity of 200 trucks per 24 hours. The other, with a capacity of a little over 6,000 tons, is being reconstructed. The to- tal capacity of this elevator is 26,000 tons. The port is equipped with ware- houses accommodating about 100,000 cargo. This port also has steam and electric floating and shore cranes with lifting capacity from 3 to 150 tons. It has 30-40 tugs for piloting ships and for other port duties. The fire brigade service of the port is in good working order. see Viadivostok. 'HIS is the largest U. S. S. R. port in the Pacific and is a very con- venient outlet for Eastern _ Siberia, Northern Manchuria, and North-East Mongolia, In view of its well-organ- ized ice-breaking service, it may be considered as open for navigation the whole year round. In 1919 the total cargo turnover of the port amounted to over 2,600,000 tons. For berthing and unloading vessels there is a stone mole about 5,200 feet long, for 13 ships with a depth of water alongside of 23 to 30 feet. pontoon stages are about 6,300 feet long, and can accommodate 17 ships. There are warehouses with an area of 140,716 square metres, and open storage with an area of 158,379 square metres: a total of nearly 340 tons of tons, and open storage with an area/goods can be stored. sufficient for about 110,000 tons of The port hi three docks—two dry —one measuring 550 feet in length, 90 feet in width, and 30 feet in depth; the other 700 feet in length, 92 feet in width, and 30 feet in depth, The third is a floating dock 368 feet © long, 74 feet wide, 26 feet deep. The lifting capacity is 8,000 tons. To facilitate the export of bay- berry oil, the port has an oil store- house capable of storing a total of 1,900 tons of oil. The construction of four conyeyors.for the loading of piece cargo each with a capacity of 50 tons an hour is being completed. During the winter season three ice breakers are employed, “Dobrynya Nikitich,” “Kazak Poyarkov,” and “Slavyansk.” There is a sufficient number of tugs. There are in the port about 22 kilometers of branch railway line. . 5 For the purpose of ship repairing and loading, the port is equipped with nine floating cranés of lifting capacity from 30 to 150 tons, and one bridge crane. The port has engineering and repair. ing yards for ships; there are also © the repairing yards of the Dobroflot. The port has one slipway and a yard for the construction and repair of wooden vessels. Nation-Wide Survey Shows No Rent Drop (Continued from page 1) ers is due to “over production” of that type of apartment. A recent survey showed that 50 per cent of tenants in Detroit pay be- called in his secretary of the navy for a conference. | honest of all the honest men” the workers, largely |tween $50 and $75 per month. There It is hinted that Wilbur was talking indiscreetly about the need for protection against Japan, con- trary to the White House policy of silent treat- ment. Wilbur is also for a bigger navy. But these “alleged disagreements do not mean anything. Wil bur is but a department head in the Coolidge gov- ernment, and is paid to look after Wall Street’s best bill collector, the navy. Coolidge in the White House will do just as Wall Street—a synonym for the ruling group of American capitalists—wants him to do. He will come out for the elevation of the guns, a larger navy, more airships, more mobilization days, ac cording as the interests of American capitalism demand. The “peace” gestures of capitalism are merely methods of conducting war. There can be no peace until capitalism is destroyed. under his bidding, have been indorsing for many, many years. upon the labor movement. In holding up LaFol- lette as the savior of the workers, Mr. Gompers is adapting his tactics to the changed. conditions. Mr. Gompers is using the momentarily most effective weapon for thwarting the efforts of the workers and poor farmers to organize themselves into an fight against the exploiters along class lines. Forty years of LaFolletteism and about as many years of Gompersism have brought the workers the injunction deluge, the mounting unemployment, the rising cost of living and an enemy more power- ful and ruthless than ever before. To the working- men and dispossessed farmers the blessings show- ered upon the head of LaFollette by Mr. Gompers Now that the “around-the-world flyers” are back,|are a scourge in disguise. should resume its propaganda for recognizing the appropriation for building the greatest fleet of airships in the world. The “heroes” who flew}many. This was accomplished with the aid of the|'"8* The eight-hour day is gone*by the board in Ger- around the world will be used in this work. Capital-|social-democrats. One of the conditions of the ism knows how to advertise. Dawes plan was the scrapping of the eight-hour day. The Communists fought against it, but the Is it a coincidence that the League of Nations |social-democrats with the aid of the capitalists sholud resume its propaganda for recognizing the|starved the workers into temporary submission. independence of Georgia about the same time that|The eight-hour day has not gone by the board in a counter-revolution against the Soviet government | Soviet Russia tho. was attempted in that country? According to all signs the so-called labor goternment of Great “‘witoip had a hand in stirring up the trouble. —_—— B. C. Forbes finds consolation in the conditions prevailing in Germany. The eight-hour day has gone by the board and the workers are beginning B. ©. Forbes, Hearst financial expert and one of |to realize that they must work hard to carry their the most reactionary scribblers in the country, ob-|burdens, But Mr. Forbes did not say whose bur- serves in the Chicago Herald Examiner of Sept.|dens the workers were carrying. 'They are carry- 16, that American workers are giving a good ac-|ing their own and the burdens of the capitalists count of themselves and satisfactory service to the|Wwhile the latter are having as good a time as if capitalists, smropean workers. There the workers grumble and look on work as a necessary evil. It is not a com- But the same cannot be said of|there were no reparations to pay. The straw ballots may not show that the Com- pliment to the American workers that their mas-|munist candidates are on top. But they show that ‘ers are satisfied with them. The American work-|the workers are headed towards Communism, ers are more willing slaves than their bratbers in Rurope. Get a member for the Workers Party. mn J independent political party pledged to waging the| gion. is a marked shortage in dwellings of this type here, in apartments, two- family flats and single homes and As usual, Mr. Gompers’ blessings are a curse|therefore no decline in rent or hope of early relief. Coe ae No Change In Denver. DENVER, Sept. 17.—Little change in rental prices for homes and busi- ness locations was apparent today in Denver, and the Rocky Mountain re- Despite continued home build- ing operations on a large scale, apart- ment and house rents remained at the level of a year ago with no in‘ dication of an early decrease. es hee » PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17, Rents in Philadelphia continue on the up- grade because of the serious housing shortage which has prevailed since the war. The situation has become so acute a municipal building program has been proposed. It has been es- timated the city needs 20,000 dwell- ee No Hope For Decrease. PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 17. in this industrial center are steady at present following the general increase of last May when most tenants changed residences here, Realtors here saw no hope for rent decreases in the near future, soe HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 17.—Al- tho the early fall season is usually a period of increasing rents in Harris- burg, no such increase has taken place this year, according to the real es- state exchange. Their summary of the situation here is that. rents are remaining stationary. ee ‘ Same Here. CLEVELAND, Sept. 17.—Slight re- ductions in rents were reported by a number of agencies handling apart: ment house property in Cleveland, but | in most cases the price of rental prop- erty ruled practically stationary, rent al agencies reported. The reductions, im most cases, were caused by com: Rents | petition of newer apartments, with ad- ditional conveniences. The demand, despite business depression, ruled steady, it was said. se 8 WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Real es- tate condidtions in Washington are “still very bad,” despite the fact that rents have dropped considerably since the war, members of the District of Columbia rent commission declared today. A year ago, rooms in small apart- ments rented for $40 a month, while they can now be obtained for about $33, but the supply of cheaper apart- ments still falls short of the demand. Rents are fixed in Washington by the federal commission created by congress during the war emergency. The United States Supreme Court has inferred, for no good reason, that this emergency is now past, with the re- sult that legal steps are being taken to dissolve the commission. wwe As High As Ever. y DES MOINES, Sept.17.—Des Moines renters of first class apartments and good houses will pay as much for liv- ing quarters during the year 1924-25, as they did in 1923-24. Those who can be satisfied with inferior living quarters can rent for approximately ten per cent less than they paid last year. That was the declaration today of the best posted realtors in Des Moines. 1. Marx's Inaugural Address. 3, Make It a Party of Leéninism. 4, Marx—Engels—Lenin.. ness 5. The Proletarian Will to Power. 6. How to Build Shop Nuel: First International Anniversary Number ANOTHER DAILY WORKER SPECIAL! ) Saturday, September 27 2. The Founding of the’ First Internationa 7 From the First International to the Third. 8 Carrying the Banner of Social Revolt......... PICTURES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 17.—Build- ing activities, home buying and auto- mobiles are combining to force lower rents in the smaller cities of the cen- tral west, in the opinion of leading real estate men here. They summed up the situation as follows: “Construction of new residence property has reached a point where there are comfortable living quarters for practically every family and land- lords are competing keenly for de- sirable tennants.” ‘Widespread buying of homes on terms like rent has reduced the de- mand for rental propertly. oe # Centrist Rents. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 17.— Since the high peak reached in 1919, rents in Birmingham generally have remained practically stationary, fluc. tuating slightly up or down. ‘. ee KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 17.—Oc- tober leases for apartment houses and residences will show a decrease of from five to ten percent in rent, real agencies were agreed here to- day. Numerous vacancies in apart- ment houses is causing some land- lords to offer one month’s free rent as an inducement to prospective ten- nants, fe @ Frisco On Upgrade. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—Rents in San Francisco were today declared By Harrison George jaherty Max Shachtman By Martin Abern ly J. Louis Engdahl By Alexander Bittelman by C. H, Garvey, representing the Apartment House Owners’ Association, to be on the upgrade because of the influx of eastern people into the city. Modern first district two-room fur- nished apartments were said by Gar- vey to range from $55 a month to $75 a figure in excess of the rents demand- ed last summer. At te LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17.—While there have been slight recessions in residential rentals in Los Angeles within the last ‘eight months, these have been almost entirely confined to apartments and flats, a survey here to- day showed. There is no seasonal leasing date here and consequently no fluctuation is expected next month, but any change will be upward. it was Predicted. In single family houses the shortage of years has not been overcome, con- sequently rental charges in this cate- gory have been negligible. ee South No Better, VICKSBURG, Miss., Sept. 17.—De spite new building here the tendency is against a decrease in rents. Rental agencies declare that lately there has been an increased demand for houses and practically all desirable proper- ties are now rented. “ee @ LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 17.—The rent problem in Little Rock is very en- couraging to residential renters, House rent has decreased from 10 to 15 per cent in the past year, The de- crease was caused by building activi- ties. ff Here's A New Excuse. NEW ORLBANS, La., Sept. 17.— Real estate operators here say there is a greater number of houses offered for rent than ever before and that there have been rent increases, but: | these have been merely a rise from a sub-normal level. Many tennants whose leases will expire Sept. 30, have not made new leases with their pres- ent landlords, VERSE PICTURES ILLUSTRATIONS issue; ee ORDER NOW! ‘ Bctrayns Ala. Sept. 17,—The rent A situation in this city will be about THE DAILY WORKER ___ | [mal on moving day, November 1 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chioage, Hii.’ [Irate rece te few