The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1924, Page 3

Friday, September 19, 1924 hi RHODE ISLAND +|Send in the Collections for the Campaign Fund MAY SEE BIG COTTON STRIKE TextileUnion Organizer Flays Boss’ Greed (By The Federated Press) WOONSOCKET, R. I., Sept. 18.—Organizers for the United Textile Workers have been speaking at the gates of cotton mills in Pawtucket and Man- ville near here. President Thomas F. McMahon of the in- ternational union, visiting the field, says the union is prepared to support the workers in a movement against the wage cutting that is beginning. A strike as fierce as that in 1922 may develop. The union will act when the workers reach a decision, he said. “T shall not hesitate,” Mr. McMahon continued, “to name the time and place when the workers decide. We did not starve in 1922 and we will not starve in 1924.” Assail Boss Greed. Declaring that organization work will be pressed vigorously, the U. T. W. president took occasion to assail the greed of the wage-cutting bosses. “I claim that the cut in wages by the Manville-Jenckes company is abso- lutely unnecessary. This company, as well as others,’ have already cut wages by speeding up machinery, re- ducing the price list to piece workers, and by adding more looms to the weaver, and more spindles to the spin- ner.” Amalgamation Voted Down at Machinists’ Convention in Detroit (Continued from Page 1.) to Johnston, brought in its own resolu- tion on’ the proposition. It called for a re-affirmation of the convention res- olution in 1912 for amalgamation, but stated that nothing could be done until the other unions in the industry were willing to come along. This spineless motion was passed under the pressure of the pay roll gang. The left wing resolution called for the election of a committee from the floor of the convention to work to- gether with the grand lodge for the purpose of negotiating unity in the metal trades industry and carrying on the fight for solidarity in all conven- tions of the American Federation of Labor, the Railway Employes’. Depart- ment and the Metal Trades’ Depart- ment. It pointed out the havoc wrought by the employers in their antilabor drives which had signally hurt the trades unions because of their craft basis of organization. But logic made no impression on the hard shells and the committee resolu- tion was adopted instead. B. & O. Plan Coming. The B. & O. plan is yet to come up before the convention, and it is uni- versally admitted that it will be the crux of the fight at the convention be- tween reaction and progress. No mat- ter what the result will be, it will be the biggest struggle and the element that wins will win only by a close majority. There is an even greater sentiment against this insidious men- ace among the membership gnd the delegates than there was for the amal- gamation proposition. The prevailing feeling is one of distrust for the “co- operation plan” on the grounds that it will completely eliminate the last ves- tige of militancy in the union, and turn it over as an efficient append- age for the incredse of the profits of the employers. The fakers, who are not willing to organize the unorganized on the basis of @ fight against the bosses, and feel their meal ticket dwindling, are anx- ious to see the Johnston plan go thru, hoping that it will mean a bigger dues-paying membership to comfort them in their sliding years. The fact that it will no longer be a trade union desn’t seem to interest them for a moment. Vote Communist This Time! ‘0 ALL PARTY BRANCHES: Funds for the carrying on of the Workers Party campaign are raised thru sale of campaign fund stamps by the Party Branches, These stamps were sent to the district offices early in August and have been in the hands of the Party branches since the middle of August. So far, however, very few of these branches have sent remittances to the local and district offices to which they pay the funds collected. The campaign work of the Party has been lagging because of lack of response by the branches to the appeal for the selling of the cam- paign fund stamps. The National Organization had printed hundreds of thousands of leaflets, has issued three pamphlets, routed speakers and getting out stickers. The printers, the Daily Worker Publishing Co. which does the printing for the Party is not in a position to extend long * time credit to the Party for the work which it does and if the Party is to continue and intensify the campaign work thru new literature, and more meetings, the funds must be made available by the Party branches. Every Party branch is urged to at once take up the question of the sale of the campaign fund stamps. The members of the branches must in- tensify their efforts to sell these stamps. Each branch should make it a matter of pride to sell all the stamps it has received by the first of October. The money is to help intensify and carry on a more aggres- sive campaign, and we must have the funds by that time. The second action necessary by the branches is that the money already collected be remitted to the district or local organization from which the stamps have been received. The local and district organiza- tions will in turn transmit the money—the local to the district and the district the share which goes to the national organization to the national headquarters. Comrades, we have the opportunity before us of increasing the strength of our Party and of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of work- ers behind our Party by expressing their approval of our Party candi- dates on Election Day. We must make the most of this opportunity. The campaign fund will furnish the necessary. within the next two weeks’ time. means to carry on the work that is We must get results in the collection of the campaign fund Mobilize your forces for this work and do your part to make the campaign a success. Fraternally yours, AS WE Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary Workers Party of America SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) toil for the next twelve months, a happy and contented lot. But a devil has gotten into them, says Forbes. We do not know if Moscow has sent over a flock of germs, or a swarm or however they come, but they are bit- ten by something, which is not good for the landowners. They actually in- sist on indulging in pleasures which once, and not so very long ago, were the exclusive monopoly of the rich. Odds Bodkins and Gadszooks! Pee Pe - EEKLY half holidays were un- known in pre-war days on the farm, and most farm laborers rarely went pleasure seeking, except on Sat- urday evenings. All that is now changed.” This is terrible. The way the working class are acting in Eng- land ought to send cold shivers run- ning up and down the royal spine. Of course, His Majesty can depend on Ramsay MacDonald for another while to prevent the British workers from taking a week off and cleaning out the parasites their class has been working for so many centuries. They will do that little thing one of those days. * * . HO would have thought in the year 1914, when the war broke out that the mighty czar of Russia would today be lying at the bottom of a deep well and that his children, legi- timate and otherwise, would be scour- ing the earth looking for a place where they could live without work- ing? That person would be consider- ed an optimist if not worse. In fact, people have been taken to psychopa- thic hospitals for less offensive pre- dictions. Who knows but that the British working class, long considered the most servile worshippers of ray- alty in the world, will in a short time, send their intellectual nonentity to ac- company the czar or perhaps his roy- al cousin, the kaiser? It is up to them to give him a fitting sentence. Far be it from me to suggest any- thing unseemly. I might be accused of prejudice. 7 * *. ‘ALKING of kings, Some time ago this column predicted that the financiers and capitalists who are en- tertaining the Prince of Wales on Long Island, New York, would give His Royal Highness a friendly mar- ket tip, which would enable that aris- tocratic person, to pay ‘his bootleg- ger’s bill while in this country. The writer assumed that the prince hav- ing a taking way with the society ladies, who weré tired of playing with their poodles and second-hand Swed- ish, Bulgarian and Greek princes, would insist that their meal tickets, alias husbands, should put the prince First International Anniversary Number ANOTHER DAILY WORKER SPECIAL! Saturday, September 27 Marx's Inaugural Address. © The Founding of the First International. Make It a Party of Leninism. Marx—Engels—Lenin... The Proletarian Will to Powel... How to Build Shop Nuclei... From the First International to the Thi Carrying the Banner of Social Revol! By Harrison George By Earl R. Browder By T. J. O'Flaherty ly Max Shachtman By Martin Abern By J. Louis Engdahl By Alexander Bittelman PICTURES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL VERSE PICTURES ILLUSTRATIONS ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. wise to a stock killing. pened. It has hap- e oye ESTERDAY’S papers carried the news that Mr. Julius Fleisch- mann, owner of the yeast business that made him rich and famous, fa- vored the prince with the informa- tion that his yeast stock was going to rise, The prince rose to the oc- casion, invested a large sum of mon- ey in Fleischmann stock and unload- ed it when the stock reached its peak. The prince and Fleischmann and the insiders were money in the pocket, but the prince has somebody else’s dough, There were suckers as well as winners. This proves that thrift pays and the only way to get rich is to work ten hours a day for your master and never look at the clock. The prince burns the mid- night oil. So he makes money. Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Prince! ei eee, | Contributed Paragraphs. ATROLMAN Lee O'Neill was sus- pended from the Chicago police force when he was unable to explain away the presence in his garage of a still, several gallons of mash, some moonshine, bogus revenue stamps and plenty of bottles. The copper should take lessons.from his superiors. If it had been Charley Hughes, he would have blamed it on the Bolsheviks. ere Le ACIFISTS may breathe easier, there will be no war with France just yet. The loan of a hundred mil- lion dollars which fell due Sept. 12, has been renewed by J. P. Morgan & Co. “upon conditions similar to the preceding credit.” Whieh means that the French wage workers, like their German brothers, will go right on slaving for our money tsar. And “Comrade” Herriot will collect the bill. * . . LOT of fool workers got excited when the Japanese Ambassador's protest against the Asiatic Exclusion Law contained a reference to “grave consequences.” In the hocus-pocus of diplomacy these words generally mean “fight.” Congress and the kept press soon took up the tune: “These Japs can’t scare us, we'll show ’em.” Right after the big earthquake it was not merely politic, it was safe, It develops, tho, according to a speech by Bishop Charles F. Reifsnider, be- fore the Tokio Rotary Club, that the strong tone of Hanihara’s note was directly due to the insistence of our own Secretary of State, Charles E. Hughes, who wanted a note “with teeth.” Who knows how many other war scares have been negotiated by “gentlemen's agreement?” * * * DASHING British army officer has been ordered deported be- cause of his persistent amatory atten- tions to a New York stock broker's daughter. No, it is not the Prince of Wales. * . * DVERTISEMENT in the Chicago: Daily News: “Men out of work— earn $500 daily, demonstrating new household specialty.” Good grief! What's that man sell- ing? Jobs? —William F. Kruse, Tibbets and Shapp Killed. WARSAW, Ind., Sept. 18.—Joseph Tibbets, 18, and Harold Shapp, 19, both of Bourbon, Indiana, were kill- HE DAILY WORKER GOOSE-STEP DAY PROVED BiG FIZZLE Silent Cal, Wise “Pol,” Muzzles | Wilbur By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) Defense Day mobilization has failed to accomplish for . the army and navy the revival of public interest in the war game which was hoped for it. While the war department chiefs an- nounced that 16,000,000 per- sons “took part” in the celebra- tion, President Coolidge has rs igi tangible evidence that this claim was a bluff. _ He has sent an urgent sum- mons to his secretary of the navy, Wilbur, to hurry back from the Pacific Coast by air- plane in order to quell the big navy shouters in the navy de- partment. Cal is afraid that the voters will hold him responsible, in November, for the fire alarm attitude of the swivel chair ad- mirals who are now telling the public that the navy budget must be increased by $50,000,- 000 at least. Wilbur, who was picked for the cabinet by Coolidge on the advice of Sen. Sam Shortridge,~sponsor of the anti-Japanese clause in the immigra- tion law, has been out in the golden west, lambasting the Japanese and suggesting that “There is nothing so cooling to a hot temper as a piece of cold steel.” Boost For Business. *This contribution to international peace was hailed by the big navy boys as a great boost for business. It looked as tho Defense Day would earn fine dividends in increased salaries and more promotions, which in turn would bring fatter retirement pen- sions and allowances. They looked around and discovered that the budget bureau had reduced by $50,000,000 the- amount of the in- flated estimates made by naval bu- reau chiefs for the service for next year. Among the items reduced was the one for naval aircraft. On this they rushed to the star-spangled Hearst press, and raised the cry that national defense was being betrayed. Coolidge waited a few days, ob- served that nobody got excited about it, and concluded that it was bet- ter politics—until after election—to stand by the budget bureau. So he called Wilbur in for instructions. Officers’ Connections. Meanwhile, the employes in the navy yards have become alarmed as to their immediate future. They see that the naval officers, who are social- ly if not financially connected with the owners of private yards and muni- tions plants, are blocking every chance the government have had on competitive contracts. This program on the part of the na- val officers is based, apparently, om their desire to use the industrial dis- placement of the navy yard employes as a threat which will induce con- gress to maintain a big navy regard- less of world conditions. Every effort to get contracts for articles needed by other departments of the government, and which can be produced cheaply in the machine shops owned by the navy meets with disaster. Some of the men suspect that the navy yards’ bids are shown secretly to favored private bidders, who then underbid the navy just enough to get the contracts. Private Companies. Millions of dollars’ worth of ship repairs, of metal work for the end- less activities of Uncle Sam, are turn- ed over month by month to private companies, whose officers are social chums of high officers in the public service, and who join the naval offi- cers in their demand for more costly armament, Thus far, the organized shopmen employed by the war and navy de- .| partments have failed to present to congress a detailed and comprehen- sive plan for turning these govern- ment shops to productive peace-time uses. But now the word is going around that something must be done, by common agreement, or the disarm- ament wave will leave 100,000 work- ers in the yards and arsenals high and dry. This Should Make Bobby Tune in and Listen Attentively INDIANAPOLIS, Sept, 18,—Officers were elected by the Indiana Tele- phone Association today and the fifth annual two-day session came to a close with a banquet at the Claypool Hotel. Addressing the 260 delegates, Henry A, Barnhart of Rochester, pres- ident of the association, declared small telephone companies must in- their rates in the immediate fu or go out of business. He pointed out that independent ed this morning when the truck they |companies operating in rural districts were driving to Culver, overturned |had not provided for a depreciation at a sharp corner near Plymouth. | Vote Communist This Time! t \ Cy ind with the result that repairs are heeded now and there is no money with which to make them, Sins Page Three! —_———— WELL, TIMES ARE GETTING WORSE BUT THE WORKERS’ WAGES REMAIN AT AVERAGE OF $1,000 PER YEAR By LELA (Federated Press The almost hopeless struggle of the average wage earner in| American industry to keep his family afloat even in a year of full employment is reflected in Bulletin 357, U. which summarizes the study of the war. children or from gifts and room- ers. Such a report makes Secre- ta f Labor Davis’ talk about BMRHINOTON:; Sapte1G---\c Vonsinc mace coemae tik a “saving wage” sound like twaddle. The original investigation of the de- partment covered 12,096 families rep- resenting proportionally the wage earners, low salary and medium sal- ary workers in 92 industrial centers scattered over 42 states, The results in the case of families with itfcomes ranging between $900 and $1,800 are shown in the table, the figures being as of 1918: INCOME GROUP Average $900 $1,200 $1,500 income to to to from $1,200 $1,500 $1,800 Husband $1,014 $1,252 $1,488 Wife 11 14 15 Children 12 26 62 Roomers 2 4 6 Garden, Poul- try, ete. 8 11 14 Gifts 21 24 29 Rents or in- vestments “ 2 6 9 Other 5 7 9 All sources $1,075 $1,344 $1,632 Average expenditures for Food 456 516 572 Clothing 156 207 275 Rent 150 180 207 Fuel and light 64 73 79 Furniture etc. 48 62 84 Miscellaneous 202 263 338 Total exp. $1,076 $1,301 $1,537 THE FALLACY OF GARVEYISM By GORDON W. OWENS ‘HE Illinois Kourier, a Ku Klux Klan paper, print a report of a speech delivered by Marcus Garvey to the convention of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York City. Mr. Garvey makes a plea for Negro nationalism and warns his hearers that Negroes have nothing to hope for in the countries dominated by the white race. I agree that Negroes should be proud of the achievements of their race, and should consider themselves as good as and the equals of all other races. But Negroes must remember that they are part of the great human race and that their destiny is inter- twined with it. Capitalists Exploit White and Negro The white race in general does not dominate any country. A comparati- vely small portion of the white race, namely the ruling and capitalist class deminates and exploits the great mass of white workers in the countries in- habited by whites. This same white capitalist class dominates and exploits Negro workers who reside in Africa, the West Indies and other countries inhabited mostly by Negroes. Of course exploited white workers become soldiers and aid their white capitalists and masters to dominate and exploit the Negro and other dark- er races. This is due to the mis- education, ignorance and stupidity of the white workers. The Negro ruling class of Haiti, the Negro republic, exploits and domina- tes the Negro workers of Haiti despite the fact that mostly Negroes live in Haiti. The Negro ruling class of Liberia, the African republic, likewise unmerci- fully exploits the great mass of native Negro workers of Liberia. Negroes No Better Off. Therefore, Negroes will not fare any better by living in a éountry ruled and dominated by Negro capitalists and exploiters, than by living where the color of their exploiters is white. Negro workers must learn that the capitalist system under which they live is the cause of their misery and woe. They must unfte with the class conscious-and revolutionary white workers to overthrow and do away with the present capitalist order, which keeps the Negro problem in ex- istence, and establish the rule of the workers and farmers or the commu- nist system. Communists the world over know but one race, the human race and but two classes, the working class and the non-working or capitalist class, Negroes in the United States and elsewhere in order to secure their emancipation from the ills under which they now suffer must destroy the cause of these evils which is the present iniquitous, soulless and oppres- sive system of wage slavery under which they, along with the white workers, exist. eee Those Yellow (S)Cabs. To the DAILY WORKER: In wait- ing for the employment office of a cer- tain cab company to open, I have heard several interesting stories about the Yellow Cab Company. Each one of the applicants who have previously worked for the Yellow @ their story to tell. One fellow The report shows thousands of families with annual} deficits while other thousands produce: scanty surpluses only as the result of other income derived from the’ labor of wives and} —————— ‘ld aiticsnantgtsnntnnnitltiritipenn THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS ND OLDS Industrial Editor) 3. department of labor, workers’ family budgets during Average About $1,000. These figures represent the average) CARPENTERS UP AGAINST DROP, IN BUILDING Puncturing of Boom Is Convention Problem { (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ‘| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Sept. between $900 and $1,200 a year op- erating at_a deficit, the average short- age amounting to $107. In fact the average income of the entire grow expense, and it would have fallen ma-) terially short if the families had been entirely dependent on the normal) breadwinners. In the higher income groups the smallness of the average surplus due to increased expenditure | for food, clothing and honsing is a witness to the want which prevails| on the lesser incomes. } said “I have worked for the Yellow over three years, but am quitting now, and trying to get a job here. beat me out of my attendance bonus.” “How much was it?” I asked. “Six dollars,” he answered, “and I worked four months for it and never missed a day.” “How did they beat you out of it?” I asked. “Well, I had a Sunday off, but worked just the same, as I needed the money, and took the next Sunday off instead, and because af this they kept the six dollars.” “And this isn’t all,” he continued, “they kept a dollar and forty cents out of my pay last week, because an old lady kept me waiting after she reached her destination, and then refused to pay mé.” Another Yellow Cab driver had a roommate who was looking for a job, and finally got one, but with a union concern. One .morning soon after- ward, the Yellow Cab driver was call- ed into the manager's office. “Do you know this man?” the man- ager asked, naming the roommate. “Why yes,” the driver answered, “he is my roommate.” a “Well, you'll have to move out of there, you can’t room with a union man.” The driver told him to “go to hell,” and quit right there. Another one was “laid off tempor- arily,” so they told him, altho they were constantly hiting new men. When he tried to get back on again, they always told him that there was no opening. After five weeks of this he found out that his uncle, his fath- er’s brother, who lived a few doors from his own home, had joined the machinists’ union just a few days be- fore he (the driver) had been laid off by the Yellow Cab Company. I wish you would publish this letter, so that the workers, at least some of| them, can learn a little about the Yellow (S)Cab Company.—ELMER S. WATSON, a reader of your paper, Chicago, Ill, re © To the DAILY WORKER—Many ‘wage workers belonging to the K. K. K. are misled. I believe it a good idea that the C. BE. C. of our Party issue leaflets for distribution to these falls just short of meeting the annual) palin No | They} wage earner’s family today, so far as|48.—The convention of the In- incomeis conc . Unskilled adult la-| : naesiens batwoen $900 abd 61. 640-SAsh ternational Brotherhood of Car- the average probably below $1,000 ajpenters and Joiners convenes year, Semi-skiled adult male labor/ here next Monday, Sept. 22, earns between $1,200 and $1,500 while} faced with the slackening of the the average skilled mechanic does not building boom and widespread. jearn as much as $1,800 a year. More! unemployment, together with than three-quarters of the families in-| an open shop drive of the em~ |vestigated by the department of labor ployers. { were included in these groups. The Brotherhood of Carpen= The cost of living today ts probably/torg and Joiners, with almost four per tent to five per cent higher! 409 999 members, claiming juris~ |than in 1918 and the distribution of}',.-?. 3 ei { family expenditure would be quite dif- Oe tion Bi there nearly a million’ ferent. \The great rise in rents since workers, is the largest union in/ |that year has forced curtailment in| the building industry and next; lexpenditure for clothing and food. The|to the United Mine Workers isi |retail prices of food and clothing are, the most powerful union numer: |today lower than in 1918. jically in the United States. } But the general balance would not; Resolutions have been introduced! be very different. It shows more than| re = pei eine besa Miss aie : Pua income a autocratic powers oi 18) one-third of the families with inc exit, reactideary offidials of the culate |ganize the unorganized workers, ree- ognize Soviet Russia, and amalgamated jthe Wilding trades into one union. Afresolution introduced by Local 27, Toronto, calls for a naw policy im the unions, whereby) the carpenters and joiners may sup-) port a farmers’ and workers’ political. party. This resolution declares: “Amend the constitution by striking! out the words ‘But party politics must! be excludal’ and substitute the fol- lowing, ‘Any local union or local un-| ions and district councils may co- operate with @ recognized labor pars ty and render stch financial support! to such party as the membership in} their respective locals or districts} may decide’.” a4 Foster Opens His ' ‘ Western Tour at~ Fargo, No. Dak, (Continued from Page 1.) and continuous self-sacrifice whiclt |only goes with ( sovements of a fund: mental nature. “Those whom the league has supported before, and it present candidates, all stand for th capitalist system that is responsibia for the economic rutn of thousands North Dakota farmers. Thousands of the farmers, and the workers of Nerth Dakota, it is nod longer sufficient to say that the can-/ didate is a “dirt” farmer and “slaps! his own hogs.” The fundamental na? ture of the national agrarian crisis is rapidly becoming apparent. Nort Dakota farmers, because their prods uct is on the world market, are bering ning to realize that the question i not alone national, but is also inte: national. The message of Communism carried) by Foster in his first speech in thi state will bring home these facts. I will explode the republican fallacy, that the Dawes’ plan will be a relief to American agriculture. Foster will) expose this imperialist plan. He will! show that back of it lies the struggle} for world markets, which will surely} precipitate another world conflict conflict fn which the North Dakota: farmers and their sons will be asked again to cross the ocean to help collect’ | European debts and conquer the mai kets of the world for Wall Street the American imperialists. In North Dakota from now on, C munism is a force to be reckone with. Profiteers Snicker at This, ‘~ WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—A cor plete reorganization of the war trans- action section of the Department of, Justice to speed up the more than! 700 war frauds cases now pending was announced today by Attorney General Stone. ; REMEMBER! THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21ST. HE first Communist children’s af- misled workers, explaining 100 per cent Americanism and the Ku Klux Klan. Comrades, do something in this matter because I see that many wage workers and even poor farmers are joining the K. K. K. We've got to split the workers away from the K. K. K. Tell the American workers that it is not in their interest to fight the foreign born workers but they must direct their common fight against the capifalist class, LOUIS JOICH,, Zeigler, Ml. {OTHE Russian revolution is one human history. What has masses of Russian workers and pea: the industries and the state, and nover seen such a profound social | FOSTER ON THE RUSSIA ters, overthrown them, and destroyed the whole political and indus- trial structure of the old regime. They have taken control of the land, interests, paying no tribute to exploiters of any sort. The world hag fair ever given in Chicago, will take place this Sunday, Sept. 21, at 3 p. m., at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. The kids are promis- ing a surprise to everybody. The Vanguard Group of the Junior Y. W. L., who are running the affair, have prepared something new 1n entertain- ment. They expect the loyal support of the W. P. members and the Y¥, W. i. Are you coming? Don't, disappoint them! Bring the children! N REVOLUTION of the very greatest events in all happened is that the oppressed sants have risen against their mas- — are operating them in their own upheaval.” om i / |