The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 30, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER © RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 164. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY. VIDENTLY John W. Davis is mak- | ing strong bids for the so-called Irish vote this year. John is a friend of John Bull, but for election purpos- es, twisting the lion’s tail has not yet been discarded by the political comed- jans of capitalism. Davis absolves LaFollette of being a Bolshevik or of taking his “stuff” from Moscow as charged by Hell an’ Maria Dawes. But Davis makes a charge aginst LFollette which is almost as bad; the Wisconsin senator 4s taking his inspiration from London. * . 7 O vigorously did the former ambas- sador to the Court of St. James and the present head of the American section of the English Speaking Un- ion, thrash the British lion, that his threat went back on him and he had *to be treated by specialists. Perhaps George Brennan is urging Morgan's Jawyer on in his tirade against Mor- gan’s best client, so that he can pose amohg the Irish nationalists as the greatest lion-tanfer of them all. hot, eGR} OHN W. Davis defends LaFollette against the charge of being a radi- cal. Wheeler says a good word for Dayis. Charles W. Bryan declares that the action of the G. O. P. in fore- irg LaFollette to run on the socialist ticket in California is nothing Jess than an outrage. It looks as if the democrats and the LaFolletteites were fraternizing. The rumors that consi- derable horse trading is going on may be well-founded. Neither the leaders cf the LaFollette party or the leaders cf the democratic party have any oth- er aim than to serve themselves first and the capitalist system which helps them to help themselves. They will make whatever deals the exigencies of the situation demand. Party labels mean nothing to them. is engaged in a ruthless campaign of extermination of the organizations of the working class. The Communist Party is outlawed and that party is the life of the labor movement in Bra- ail, The United States government is supporting the ruling body, which means that it is taking care of the in- terests of the coffee planters. Ameri- can workers will not sympathize with those who are carrying out the orders ef Wall Street. ® ‘VEN the republican campaign man- agers are expressing doubt open- ly as to the success of their entry in the great presidential marathon. “Si- ‘Jent Cal” is keeping his silence alright but -oufside of a few muddleheaded people, silence is not golden around election time. Coolidge is not running for a scholarship to a school for the dumb. He is aspiring to succeed him- self to the very important office of chairman of the executive committee of the American capitalist government —that is what the presidency means. The sign language has not yet been sufficiently developed to replace speech. * * * . ‘EAR of another Irish ¢ivil war has faded, according to newspaper re- ports, It seems that the masses on both sides of the border have no ambi- tion to indulge in the pastime of spill- ing each other’s blood over the bound- ary question. But the owners of the Belfast slave pens, the linen mills, the whiskey distilleries and the shipyards, fear that a united Ireland would elimi- nate the rancor caused by religious differences that have existed for cen- turies between the workers of the north and south and this wonld enable their slaves to see the value of unit- ing together in unions for their own protection against the bosses. This is ‘the real key to the quarrel over the yundary. * y . . SUBSIDIARY cause is the fact that Ulster is the only outpost of the British Tory party in Ireland. (Continued on page 4) Hid Foe worker from Youngstown, i about the series of articles about ational imperialists propose to p in full in our series of /rticles by day, Oct. 1. important series! SUBSCRIPTION RATES: JAPS WRECK AMERICA AND DAWES PLAN! — most pertinent question before “the masses,” writes a steel What is the meaning of the Dawés Plan? How do the Interna- Dawes Plan bring the German workers? What does the latest war plan have in store for the American workers and farmers? What will be the effect of the scheme to enslave Germany on the interna- tional working class and its strugg All of these pertinent questions and many others will be answered We have a treat in store for you. Do not fall to follow this most ‘INTERNATIONAL’ RANK AND FILE IN REBELLION Demand Fight to Better | Their Conditions BY OUR N. Y; CORRESPONDENT. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Open rebellion of the rank and file workers of the Ladies’ Tailors’ Union, Local No. 38 of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, is looked for by left- wing members of the union when the executive committee of the union reports to the er on Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Bryant Hall, the re- sults of the International’s ne- gotiations. with the employers and the date upon which a strike will be declared. The Union, under the super- vision of vice-president Samuel Lefkovits, who has charge of miscellaneous trades unions for “The International,” will pre- sent demands for the 40-hour week, 44 weeks yearly work guaranteed, and a wage in- crease of $5, or 10 percent. Claim Deal Already Made. Trade Union Educational League members point out that the officials of “The International” have already sold out the rank and file and have actually settled with the bosses. The strike will be called but will amount only to a stoppage and the Special Mediation Commission which Governor Al Smith appointed with the tigate” the cloak trade and offer rec- ommendations will be called in and the union members sent back to work tion of gaining the wage increase. To compensate them for increasing wages, the bosses will deduct two weeks’ work from the yearly schedule, Too Busy Backing LaFoilette. Most of the organized workers are Italian and Jewish and there is every indication, T. U. E. L. members of the union assert, ‘of a fight on the part of the rank and file against the yellow officialdom who are so interested in boosting the LaFollette-Wheeler cam- paign in hopes of gathering plums in the political harvest that they will not let the workers fight for better conditions from the bosses. The so- cialist officials do not want to be dis- tracted from their political pursuits to help the workers. The great difficulty in the Ladies’ Tailors’ trade is thé tremendous per- centage of unorganized girls, private dressmakers who fill orders in the same shops the highly skilled union tailors work, Whenever the boss can, he slips some of the less important work over to his cheap girl help and the union does not get the support of the International in fighting the abuse. In a shop of 26 tailors there will be as many as 200 unorganized girls. The organizing of these private dress- makers should be in the hands of the Ladies’ Tailors’ local because they are all in the same shops, but the jurisdictiow is actually given to pri- vate dressmakers’ local 90, of the International which does pracfically nothing to organize this mass of ex- ploted girl workers. These girls ate organized only about five per cent. Best Work; Small Pay. The Ladies’ Tailors do all the finest tailoring work for the custom trade. They make the most expensive gar: ments, retailing at from $150 to $1,000 per garment, and yet the workers ay- erage yearly wage is about $1,100. The work is crowded into 22 weeks, (Continued on page 2) in response to our announcement “America and the Dawes Plan.” ut it into effect? What will the uf Jay Lovestone, beginning Wednes- in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chisago, by mail. $6.00 per year. under old conditions with the execp-} TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 192 THE DAILY WORKER. | Entared as Second-class matter September 31, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illimois under the Act of March 8, 1879. 4 PUBLISHIN! Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER . Chicago, UL CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents Two LEWIS FOLLOWS “RULE OR RUIN” UNION POLICY Those Who Fight Boss Are Not V Wanted By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH, “Believing that those whose ob lot it is to toil within the earth's HMI their shops. recesses, surrounded by peculiar | go, the Workers Party, to be held at Placed itself on record as supportin thereby repudiated the action of the LaFollette. the situation existent in the union. LaFollette acted in violation of the vi Shop collections were ordered, and t! ALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS’ OCAL UNION No. 54 CONTRIBUTES $100 TO THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN FUND (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Loéal 54, of the Amalgamated Clothing Work-| ers, by an overwhelming majority, at a well-attended membership meeting, This decisive act by the rank and file shows that they are fully aware of d for independent workingclass political action only. ‘The Foster-Gitlow campaign was voted $100 from the union treasury. ig the candidacy of Foster-Gitlow, and | General Executive Board in endorsing | The General Executive, in endorsing | decision of the Convention, which pro-| he 30 shop chairmen controlled by the! were given subscription lists with instructions to make these collec-| It was also decided to call a campaign mass meeting Arion Hali in Brooklyn. | dangers and deprived of sun- light and pure air, producing a commodity which makes pos- sible the world’s progress, are entitled to protection and the full social aalie of their product, we have formed the United Mine Workers of America...” Such was the language used by those who fought and sacri-| ficed to establish the U. M. W./to take a job because industry By LELA (Federated Press preamble to the constitution, in The solution, it is apparen fact, it is still there. But! as a women’s bureau, department of famous comic strip artist says,] which will place the support of “Tt doesn’t mean anything,” to| workers’ families ahead of those who have, at the present |profits as the object of indus- time, got the old U. M. W. of A. |trial activity. under their control. Those old pioneers who saw the ee en, Fsisher Wages. need for the organization of a strong union of miners, were of the kind that are much in need at the present time. They were of a class conscious ved, . | led i sat : they strengthened the union, until, when their sons and other men who followed them into the, mines, there had developed a powerful fighting or- ganization for the miners’ rights. However, it is more than thirty-four (Continued on page 3) SWEENEY AGAIN AT HEAD OF THE TAILORS’ UNIO: Beats Sillinsky by the “Machine Process” thing to do,” says Mary N, Winslow ily according to ee teins a new deal in the share. The bureau’s study of working wom- en in Chicago shows that in 64 per cent of the families, where the mother worked in addition to the regular em- earnings were clearly below the standard budget of the Chicago Coun- cil of Social Agencies for a dependent family—less than the lowest pauper standard. It shows that over 75 per cent of the fathers in such families earned less than enuf to provide the minimum budget for a family not de- pendent on charity. The study shows the extent to which employed mothers are taken from the normal cafe of family and home. Of the group of employed mothers for which information as to hours of work was obtained, approximately seven- eights worked eight hours or more a Thomas Sweeney, General |aay, 47.6 per cent working between Secretary- Treasurer of the |eignt and nine pours, 32.4 per ecnt be- dourneymen Tailors’ Union of|tween nine and ten hours and 7.2 per America, with the aid of ima-|cent ten hours or over. ginary locals and efficient bal-| Inadequate care of the children is lot-counters succeeded in re-|the natural result in a large propor- taining his position, despite the |tion of the cases. The devastating vote cast M the members of |#ttain on the mother who tries to sup- existing locals for M. J. Sillin- plement the inadequate family income, sky, progressive candidate and at the same time to maintain the against the reactionary and home is developed by the study of several hundred cases. Over one- autocratic Sweeney. third of the wage earning mothers It is true that labor faker who were found trying to do all the house- cannot manipulate votes in| work unassisted, outside of working order to perpetuate himself in|hours, More than half of them did office, simply “don’t belong,” in} all the family washing, the majority the words of the Hairy Ape. working far into the night. Thomas Sweeney, proved in the Children Miss Essentials. final ballot for the secretaryship of The bureau found that a large pro- the tailors’ union that he is “one of portion of these employed mothers, the boys” and need not take a backlin gpite of the sacrifice of their seat in the company of such outstand-| ength and the normal care of their ing vote-counting magicians as Major! ramilies to the insatiable appetite of George L. Berry of the pressmens’| +14 employing class, were unable to union or with Frank Farrington of the bring the total family income up to Illinois miners, whose battle cry is, the level of a decent living, In many : eget gach gti saty Hey 7 will) cases the children were forced to go Vote, Fil'see that I am elected, without many things which social ag- Liars Can Figure. encies of Chicago regard as essential Nobody in the tailors’ union has any|to health and decency, Frequently, doubt that Sillinsky got enough votes|the alternative was charity. to lick Sweeney. But when Sweeney| The problem of wage-earning moth- was good enough to make the tabula-|ers is identical with the problem of tion public the vote stood, 3334 for|child labor, Pay the father a wage Sweeney and 2342 for Sillinsky. which will provide adequately for his “What is the constitution between] family and the cotton mill bosses will friends?” declared Teddy Roosevelt on|look a long way before they find a one occasion when he strode over the} father to appear before congress to basic law of the United States in or-| oppose the child labor law. Pay fath- der to favor a big corporation, Mr.| ers enuf to provide not only a decent Sweeney of the tailors’ union, tho ajliving today but insurance against ac- socialist, has as little regard for the|cidents of the future and you elimi- constitution of the union as Teddy|nate both problems, that of wage- had for that of the United States, earning mothers and of child labor One of the provisions of the tailors’| without legislation. Today the choice union constitution makes it obligatory|in tens of thousands of families is be- ‘on the officials to publish the stand-| tween such supplementary income and (Continued on Page 2.) undernourishment More than 1,000,000 mothers ,with children under 5, forced of A. and it was embodied in the} wage, present a problem as important as child labor. “There is one sure and definite of the bureau, “and that is to make it) e for the normal married may vision of the product of the worker's site labor in which h 1 hare| ant the absentee owners cet a smaier Platoon System Makes ployment of the husband, the father’s | Million Mothers Slave ND OLDS. Industrial Editor) does not pay the father a living nt from figures compiled by the labor, must come from a change (BARY SCHOOLS "FACTORIES FOR | Steel Mill Robots | By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Sept. 29.—The | Gary or platoon school system, |which is the pride of the head jof the United States Steel Cor- |poration, Elbert H. Gary, ad- | mittedly neglects the minds of the children while it aims to produce steel mill slaves, who will not bother to inquire into fundamental principles involved in the industrial system. The platoon school system has been tried out in Gary, un- der the patronage of the United | States Steel Corporation, which | founded the town and controls} its policies—and has been found | a failure. Gary System Is Ineffective. Even an investigation conducted ‘by the board of education of Gary itself, has admittedly found the Gary sys-| tem inaffective. The platoon system| which has recently been the subject of the condemnation of the Illinois) and Chicago Federations of Labor,) teaches the children to become mere machines, able to perform such me- chanical work as is required in the steel mills, but learning nothing about basic principles involved in their work and study. For a long while in the report on the Gary schools, conducted by the general educational board, at the re- quest of the board of education and the city school superintendent of Gary, the subject that is being con- stantly borne in mind by those who know their Gary, is dodged. But the heat and smoke of the steel mills can- not be escaped in a report dealing with Gary's peculiar educational in- stitutions. After many chapters of dodging, the thing that hasbeen sup- pressed finally bobs to the surface in an unguarded moment—the end of the chapter on “Industrial Work.” “It is only fair to add,” says the re- port written by ‘Abraham Flexner and Frank P. Bachman, “that the training recelved by some of the pupils in some of the shops proves of direct vo- (Continued on page 6) Quits While Quitting Is Good. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.— Colonel Thos. W. Miller, alien property cus- todian, today tendered this resignation to President Coolidge at the White House, to be effective at Coolidge's convenience, —+ or Boys Must Die OUT OF WORK, STARVING, NOW FACE GALLOWS Charged with Robbery of Army Major By JACK METTE. (Special to The Daily Worker) CHESTERFIELD, S. C., Sept. | 29,.—In one of the most drama- tic trials here in years, two young cotton mill workers, Mortimer N. King and Frank Harrell were sentenced to death for the murder of Major Samuel H. McLeary, who was killed on July 2 after giving them a lift in his automobile. They are to die Nov. 21. The boys told of weeks of wandering in search of work and stated that when the crime was committed they had not eaten for 36 hours. Could ,Get No Job. The two mill workers had been out of employment for two or three months, the mills being shut down be- cause of overproduction. One of them had a wife and baby, the baby born just six days before. Forced into the factories from the | time they were first able to do the slightest kind of work, deprived of an education and living like dogs, work- 1 dawn until dark, these young fellows will die, Nov. 21, for a crime of starved desperation. Forced to Accept Counsel. They held up McLeary at the point of a pistol and began to search the Major. It is claimed that McLeary made a swing and was then shot in the forehead. Both young men were forced to take the counsel offered by the court. They had no money to fight for their lives. Irish Boundary Bill. LONDON, Sept. 29.—The Irish boundary bill, giving Ulster indirect representation despite the Ulsterites’ opposition to participation, is expected to pass in the session of parliament tomorrow. NEW YORK ATTENTION! DON’T FORGET THE WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN FUND CARRY A SUBSCRIPTION LIST Collections should be made in shops, at all socials and meetings, among friends, and wherever else workers congregate. Send contributions to Workers Party Campaign Committee, 210 East 12th St., New York City. Tel. Stuyvesant 6647. Make checks payable to Charles Krumbein, Treasurer, IN WITH THE DOLLARS! FACE DEADLOCK "IN MEETING OF - MORGANLEAGUE 'Can’t Mend Conflict in | Anglo-Jap Viewpoint | (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Sept. 29.—Japan’s |refusal to accept the League of |Nations arbitration protocol—a dispute that may lead to a jgrave international situation— remained a deadlock tonight. The sub-commission which }met at 8 o’clock in an effort to smooth out the differences in the Anglo-Japanese viewpoints failed to reach a decision. Try to Persuade Japs. A long and importance conference wai held here today while efforts were made to prevent Japan from taking any step that would wreck the pro- posed international disarmament con- ference, Leaders of the foremost powers at- tempted to persuade the Japanese not to vote against the arbitration pro- tocol because one adverse vote would prevent its adoption and automatically prevent’ the conference from being summoned. Japan Dodges Responsibility. Those taking part in the conference were Viscount Ishii, of Japan, M. Hy- mans of Belgium; M. Briand of France; Signor Salandra of Italy; M. Politis of Greece, and Lord Parmoor jof England. } Japan’s original proposal was limit- ed to a protocal amendment requiring an attempt at reconciliation after the world court at The Hague had given a decision on an inte! issue. Now the Japanese are demanding def- inition of the term “agressor” in such a manner as to exclude Japan from responsibilty if war arises over the |immigration issue. CHANG REPORTED ANXIOUS TO SEE WU SANS HEAD (Special to The Datly Worker) SHANGHAI, $200,000 today was placed ‘om. the heads of Marshal Wu Pei Fu and President Tsao Kun, military and | civil heads of the Peking government, in a circular distributed among his troops by Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian {war lord, according to advices from Mukden today. Important conferences were under way at the Lung Wha headquarters of Lu Yung Haiang with Sun Fe, son of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head of the Southern China Republic, Reports indicated that despite the severest fighting, the Kiangsu forces, which opened an attack at Huangtu and Liuho, had been unable to gain while substantial advances were made by the Chekiang attack in the Kading sector. Casualties were heavy. “STAND BEHIND GOVERNMENT OF THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS,” IS SAVINKOV’S PARTING MESSAGE By ANNA LOUISE (Special to The STRONG (ANISE). Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Russia, Sept. 29.—I hope that some one will translate into English and publ ish in full the story of the trial of Savinkov, for it is one of the big human dramas of history. It is the stuff of which Macbeth and Hamlet and Richelieu are sarge a9, made, but it is a thousand times more gripping for it displays the forces that are making our modern era. It is the history of a democrat and a patriot who claims that he never had a thought ex- cept for the good of his country, yet who admits before the bar of that country that he has betrayed her, and led bandit raids against her, and spied upon her at the bidding of her enemies, and been for years the tool of her bitterest foes. ae BORIS SAVINKOV Plaything of imperialists. In the garden of the sanitarium where I am staying in the Caucasus, a group of energetic young workers and Communists were hotly debating last night whether Savikov was an honest man in his final confession. But the most dramatic thing about the whole story is that it doesn’t matter at all’ whether Savinkov was honest, In the days when the great tragedies were written, it was thot that human motives mattered immensely; the whole drama was built about the change in a single human soul, Bu’ now it is quite plain that whether or (Continued on page 8) Sept. 29.—A price of _