The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 3, 1924, Page 5

Friday, October 3, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS RUSHED; SERVICE POOR Volume of Mail Goes Up, Help Goes Down WASHINGTON.—Speeding up the railway mail clerk and at the same time reducing service to the public is the achievement of the republican administration in the last four years of that branch of the postoffice de- partment. This is made plain by secretary Henry W. Strickland, Railway Mail Clerks’ union. “Service to the public has been re- duced over 10,000 car miles annually and while the volume of mail has in- creased 20 per cent, the number of railway mail clerks has been reduced 4% per cent, The men have been overworked and underpaid,” Strick- land said, “and service is growing worse. ¥ “Every railway mail clerk has been compelled to do 25 per cent more work than the average man should handle, resulting in a lowered morale and decreased efficiency. At the same time, the official reports of the post office department shows that railway) mail service mileage has dropped from 144,760,658 in 1920 to 140,660,502 in 1921; 139,692,312 in 1922 and 135,579,633 in 1923. “Rapid growth of the parcel post to- gether with the decrease in the space of many mail cars from the 60-foot to the 15-foot cars, has jammed the rail- way postoffices so that at times the clerks cannot move about except with great difficulty, has restricted working space below the actual needs of the; service, and has increased ‘the diffi- culty in handling mails. Vote. Communist This Time! Our Daily Pattern A COMFORTABLE “SLEEPING” GARMENT This is a good model for cold days, and especially for -little ones who “slip” their bed coverings. Don- net or outing flannel, crepe, cambric or long cloth may be used for this design. The Pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 2. 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 6 year size requires 2% yards of 36 inch ma terfal. ” Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 4911. | Allies. STILL BUSY UNSNARLING THE WAR (Continued from page 1) treaty—a treaty of war and dismem- berment. Second: Germany must annually raise sums varying from a billion gold marks in the first year to two-and-a- halt billion gold marks in the fifth or normal year and for an indefinite num- ber of years thereafter. The execu- tion of this decision is contingent on Germany's ability to raise these funds from taxation and from other specified sources without disrupting the cur- rency and fiscal systems of the coun- try. All reparation payments are to be adjusted accordingly. Thirdly: All funds raised within Germany are to be transferred to the Allies. This transfer is contingent upon its not unsettling the exchanges, currencies and budgets of Germany or its creditors. The colection of these funds is to be suspended, if it is im- possible to transfer them without such injuries. Fourthly: The committee estimates the sums to be collected, but does not attempt to decide he sums that are |to be transferred from Germany to the It is further decreed that the payments to be. real must consist of real wealth—money being only a me- dium of transfer. Hence it is recog- nized that Germany can pay repara- tions to foreign capitalist creditors only by rendering services and export- ing a far greater volume of commodi- ties than it imports. This presently unforseen, if ever predictable, excess is held to be the decisive measure of Germany’s capacity to pay reparations. Machinery of Dawes’ Plan. Considering the two other chief questions: How is the German bud- get to be balanced and its currency stabilized, at the same time providing for adequate reparations to the Allied governments, that is to the Entente imperialists, the Dawes’ committee proposed the following: 1. A foreign loan of eight hundred million gold marks is to be floated to aid in the establishment of a new bank of issue, the stabilization of the cur- rency, and towards the payment of the first year’s reparations. 2. A bank of issue with a capital of four hundred million gold marks, rais- ed in Germany and abroad, is to be es- tablished. This bank is to have the exclusive right of “issuing and cireu- lating bank notes in Germany” for fifty years, the period of its charter. It will be the depository for repara- tion funds and will serve as the bank- er for the committee charged with the transfer of reparations. This bank is to be administered by a Gerthan board of management whose chairman will be the president of the institution. Side by side with, but above this man- aging board there is to be a general board of fourteen, seven of whom will be foreigners—Belgian, British, Dutch, French, Italian, Swiss and American. It is this general board which will appoint the bank’s president, who is to be its chairman and who is to choose the personnel of the managing board. The general board also appoints the commissioner who is to be one of its members and will be charged with the enforcement of “the law establishing the bank, and the regulations relative to its issue of notes and the mainte- nance of the bank reserves.” The careful provisions of the for- eign capitalists to control and deter- mine Germany's currency is obvious, despite the roundabout and somewhat complicated machinery set up. The bank is to be the fiscal agent and de- pository of the German government, but is to be privately owned and free from government control. 3. The new bank is to maintain a 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Stir the The very best place to carry on gold reserve of 33 1-3 per cent in order Shops! a working class campaign is in the shops and factories where the workers gather to earn their living. ‘It is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates THE ABOVE “HITS THE possible to p! The LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. i It’s a,gem. No first reading this Unemplo 1113 Washington Blvd, that stand for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter facing the working class. It is in the shops that the workers will see most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union organizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and fighter for the middle class. Te Daily Worker.) NAIL” on the head. Nothing could be added to that, It’s up to you reader, to do evérything physically "THESE PAMPHLETS in the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- Sell them everywhere. Now is the time, LaFollette Illusion— As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator SinBle COPY vssnsinesnsnnnsnnanennenn TBO Parties and Issues in the Election Cam ik, v4 pipe sa prcorg Naiene endl mee answers, how the dif- fe t rye oot shonid go to the pol DEI... ssssssessssorserevsssassnsonssnsssnsanssonessssgnensssssssseessee 10 the working class. this year without Why it Occurs and How to Fight It, by Earl R. Browder. This pamphlet deals with the most important issue before the work- MY. sssersseovessvsnenseverennrsssenenssnersensesnssssnensssensssnensnesenenecsersensees in lots or ot ban more at 36 per cent discount. Place your orders at onge. LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Workers Party of America Chicago, Ill. to help stabilize the currency. Sources of Revenue. 4, The following will be the sources of revenue: The foreign loan of eight hundred million gold marks as part of the first year’s payment; a mort- gage on German ralways, a mortgage on its industries; a transport tax, revenue from the general budget, guaranteed by the “controlled reve- nutes” specified below. (a.) The railways: There are to be issued eleven billion gold marks ($2,750,000,000) first mortgage 5 per cent bonds, with one per cent sing- ing fund, against the German rail- ways. Two billion marks of prefer- ence shares, of which only a half bil- lion marks are to be in the hands of the government, will also be issued. Common stock for thirteen billion gold marks will be turned over to the gov. ernment. Thus it is expected to get 660 million gold marks from this source, (b.) A transportation tax of 6 per cent on gross receipts from railway traffic will net 290 million gold marks annually, (c.) Industries: There are to be issued five billion gold marks of first mortgage five per cent bonds, with one per cent sinking fund, against Ger- man industries, excepting agricultyre. Interest payments will gradually rise up to this rate beginning with two and one-half per cent in the second year. Three hundred million gold marks are to be plucked annually in this fashion. (d.) “Controlled Revenues”: The Treaty of Versailles declared that the rate of taxation in Germany must not be lower than in the Allied countries. On this basis it is declared that the German budget will permit, until 1928- 1929 the payment towards reparations of a sum up to 1,250 million gold marks. These revenues are to be se- cured thru taxes on tobacco, alcohol, customs, beer and sugar. Whatever is raised above this’ sum reverts to the German government. A commissioner of controlled revenues, aided by five assistants, supervises these revenues. The taxes on alcohol, customs, beer and sugar are to be considered as col- lateral security for the payments chargeable to the general budget. In the first five years alone the repara- tions are expected to total 7,670 mil- lion ‘gold marks. Massee to Pay to the Limit. The Dawes’ committee further de- clared that in its opinion these repara- tions schedules could be met without hardships by Germany thru 1928-1929. After that year the increase in pay- ments is t@ be based on what it chose to call an “index of prosperity.” This measure is determined by the totality of German exports and imports, the budget of receipts, the railroad traffic receipts, budgetary yields, total popu- lation, vital statistics, emmigration records and consumption of coal and lignite. The League of nations is to arbitrate all disputes as to the use of this index. In order to make economically pos- sible the maximum payment by the German masses and in order to make secure the foreign investments that aré about to be made on a grand scale in Germany, the evacuation of the Ruhr by the Franco-Belgian forces is to be completed within a year. Consequently the German masses are to be called upon to pay as much as they possibly can. The more they and the heavier will be the burdens placed upon them Injured Workers Are Considered Suspicious Characters by Bosses ‘The latest in blacklist bobs up in the Chicago printing industry with a suggestion in the master printers’ of- ficial Bulletin that they keep their eyes open for workers who, it {s al- leged, constantly get themselves in- jured for the sake of the workmen's compensation benefit. The Bulletin is published by the Franklin Assn. “With mor8 intimate general knowl- edge of the compensation laws, and the activities of hungry shyster lawyers,” the Bulletin declares, “it be- hooves employers to be on guard against certain workmen who dishon- estly and unscrupulously take advan: tage of every technicality in order to obtain the largest possible reward in the face of a minimum or trifling ac- cident. ; “Compensation laws properly inter- preted and applied are a legitimate part of our busin structure, but like so many other good things, there are those who will prey and take ad- ‘}vantage by false and dishonorable | means of an otherwise just institution, and therefore they must be watched, recorded, and if necessary put on an undesirable list.” Unionists ironically suggest that employers might also treat any printer who has already sustained in- juries as a suspicious character, will- ing to get killed for the money there is in it. ( will seem to be able to stand, the more | “4 PHILADELPHIA COMRADES WORK AND PLAY HARD | Organize Hic Meetings, Concerts and Dances By R. BAKER. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Oct. 2.—The City Central Committee of Philadel- work just long enough to elect a com- ple, 13th and Spring Garden streets. nish the music after the concert. The will appear for the first time this sea- songs. troduced to our comrades for the first time, and Lucy Erbe, whose wonder- appear at this concert. Thos who love to dance will have @ thrilling time after the concert and the others will for the ftrst time this season have an opportunity of meet- ing all the Philadelphian comrades and friends. The committee promises @ variety of refreshments that will tempt the most fastidious appetites into action. In the meantime our campagn work goes on. Kensington Labor Lyceum at 2nd and Cambria streets has been chosen for a huge mass meeting with Rose Pastor Stokes as speaker, Fri- day, Oct. 10. The splendidly attended open air meetings in the Kensington industrial district assure us of an over- flow meeting for Comrade Stokes. Philadelphia has crossed the $100 mark in the campaign stamp drive with the South Slavic branch in the lead with $30 to their credit. Lithu- anian branch No.,12 has established a record on the campaign fund lists by sending $47 to the national office in| of words which, boiled down, assured one list, other branches are invited to] the bankers, “I will do your future better these records. . The central English branch carries} Mellon, millionaire banker and friend the laurefs for the largest number of| of rich tax-dodgers, and declared, “I open’ air meetings with the Jewish} am sure we all have a very affection- branchés ‘making up for lost time.| ate regard for him.” The campaign committee is conscript- ing all the available speakers for a series of 15 to 20 open air meetings for Saturday evening, Oct. 25. Ar. rangements are being completed for a huge mass meeting for Gitlow on | Fadden Bill, upon which Senator Pep- | Oct. 24, 50,000 copies of special Phila-| per declared he voted favorably as | delphia edition of DAILY WORKER will be distributed just before ,the Gitlow meeting. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Branch Meetings Friday, October 3. Ukrainian No. 2, 10701 Stephenson Ave. Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. Lithuanian No, #1, 4138 Archer Ave, Italian, Cicero, Circolé Giovanile Hall, lith between Sist Ave. and 50th Ct Liberty Club House, 2420 W. Bapsevell D. P. Jewish. Terra ¢ Cotta Italian, 2475 Clybourn Ave., Bed Mid-City English, Emmett Memorial dal, ba and Taylor St. Englewood, 6414 S. Halsted St. Cz.-Slovak No, 3, 2548 8. Homan Ave, Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave. Freiheit Mandolin Orohestra rehearsal, North Wood 8t., near Division, Sat, Oct. 4.—Russian performance at the Soviet School, 1902 West Divi- sion St. Society for’ Technical Ald to Soviet Russia. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE Friday, October iy West Side Branch, 3322 Pee las Blvd. John Reed Branch, 1224 8. All my Ave, Hersch Lekert Branch, 2613 Hirsch Biya. Rosa Luxemburg Branch, 1910 West a St. ussian Branch “‘Ilyitch,” 1902 West Division St. Karl Liebknecht Branch, 1500 Sedgwick Street. Bat turday, October 4, Shop, Nuclel No. 1, 1641 8. Ridgeway Ave., P. Aronberg; speaking. ussian Performance at Soviet School, 1908 W. Division St. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. phia has stopped from the campaign|them little fellows from the outlying mittee to arrange details for our con-|pone of the Ku Klux Klan, that or- cert and ball to be held Saturday, Oc-|ganize the rope parties when labor or- tober 18, at the beautiful Hagles’ Tem-|ganizers come to town, that are re- The International Concert Orchestra against Negro workers in the South, will surprise the audience with some| btu against all radical workers every- new charming selections and will fur-| where. Philadelphia Fretheit Singing Society|panquet room at’ ten o'clock, with a son and will render some of theirnew/night that the lights were dimmed The Philadelphia music lovers are|phyt against all radical workers every- assured of a real treat and many new/from LaSalle Street as well as the surprises amond them the splendid |ijttie fellows from “the sticks” leaned tenor, Frank Reiper, who is being in-} forward. ful songs still linger in our memories |capjtalist society, all of them mem- from the last season, has consented to pers, without doubt, of their Christian | NEAR-NAKED DANCER STIRS BANKERS (Continued from page 1) on a similar show, it would have been raided by the police. But instead the Policemen’s Octette, eight singers from mayor Dever’s po- lice department were there, with the compliments of the mayor and the chief of pelice, as part of the pro- gram. They Waited Patiently. The thousands of bankers, most of towns, the kind that make up the back-} sponsible for lynching bees, not only The eats went on tap in the huge} special orchestra, And it was at mid- and the graceful dancer slipped out They want more Light. “More light!” yelled these pillars of churches back home, as the dancer writhed and wriggled, always swaying back and forth, with the throbbing music of the jazz band. They howled and howled for more and more until the dancer was carried, | almost in collapse, from the stage. “This is the stuff,” commented the bankers, starting back to their wives in “the loop” hotels, riding in the same {from the wings, as the big bankers Pepper Likes Bootlegger Supreme. Characterizing Washington's most | famous bootlegger and expert in alu-} minum deals, secretary of the trea- sury, Andrew Mellon, of Pittsburgh, as “the leading citizen of Pennsyl- vania,” Senator George W. Pepper, also of Pennsylvania, promised to vote for the banking interests, in an address before the American Associa- | tion of Bankers in the Auditorium Theater yesterday. Pepper, gray and sly as a hungry | regulates and limits branch banking. | It simplifies procedure necessary for fox, manipulated a large vocabulary | bidding.” Pepper praiseu secretary Pepper Backs National Bankers. Pepper devoted most of his speech | © support of the “measure designed | to improve the position of National banking,” House Bill 8887. The Mc*} a member of the senate committee on | banking and currency, “aims to in- crease the power of the banks in outlying districts of cities of over 50,000 population with a small- er capital than $200,000 upon approv- al of the controller of currency and consolidations, and removes restric- tions on real estate loans,” Senator Pepper stated. The McFadden Bill enlarges the power of the national banks and cen- tralizes and strengthens the control of the large bankers over America’s finances. Senator Pepper, amid the applause of the assembled plutocrats, assured the bankers, “I now antici- pate that I will vote for the McFadden Bill in the senate.” Pepper regreted that in “In the rush of business in- cident to early adjournment, the bill was not acted upon and is still péend- ing.” After taking time in passing to ex- tol the boy scouts movement as a means of patriotically bringing up the boys of the gountry, Pepper proceeded to earn the patronage of the bankers by whooping it up for their pet scheme for more control of America’s finances. “After all, however,” said the sena- tor from the coggack state, “It is your consensus of opinion that will be au- thoritative because I assume that you take thot for all sorts and conditions of men and banks and ‘that you will not willingly afflict or grieve any of them.’ Under Bankers’ Influence. “My business is to educate myself 30 as to be able to distinguish be- the interests of all.” Senator Pepper freely admitted that the bankers were the ones that *in- fluenced his opinions on the bill. “You are the professional experts in this field. I am here to learn from you, to confer with you. I never saw such a large faculty and such a small class.” “bankers’ friend,” “with tered under the state laws,” “bankers’ friend,” with resources of $33,000,0 aggregate 3,000, There are about 8,085 national banks with aggre- | gate, resources of $22,000,000,000)“The Federal Reserve system has been es- “| tablished as a measure to substitute harmony for the confilet of these two forces. The difference of opinion is due largely to the number of state institutions that have not entered the Federal Reserve system “The national banks have entered by compulsion. Fifteen hundred and seventy-one state banks have entered voluntarily. Nineteen thousand, seven hundred and seventy-nine state banks remain outside. Judge Also Speaks. “The question is whether in states where branch banking is permitted, national banks should by Federal le- gislation be given some branch Dank- ing privilege. I believe an affirma- tive answer should be given.” Judge James C. Cropsey of the su- preme court of New York preceded Pepper and was wildly applauded when he declared, “There is no infiu- ence in the world commensurate with | the power and influence of religion.” Cropsey pleaded for entrance of all the bankers into religious and boy scout activity. This was necessary, he said, because the large radical vote in New York and elsewhere shows the youth of the country are going to the dogs and must be controlled, to “make them patriotic in peace times as well as war times.” Lee’s Agent Repaid For Aid to Coolidge From Trainmen’s Chief (By Federated Press.) WASINGTON, Oct. 2.—W.N. Doak, legislative representative here for W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, is to be made the republican nominee for the senate from Virginia, against Sen. Carter Glass, and will have the active support of the Coolidge machine. Doak comes from the same district in southwest Virginia as Bascom Slemp, secretary to Coolidge, and they are close friends. |Doak has been conspicuous in Wash- ington for his persistent opposition to |the policies of the other labor repre- sentatives, and for his frequent dress- suit appearances at banquets of the chamber of commerce element, where he has denounced public ownership jand lauded the tory politicians. national |, Politics Makes Cold Bedfellows. ST, LOUIS.—Is a wife’s political ac- tivity as a candidate for office suffi- cient grounds for divorce? August Baurer thinks so, He complains that his wife neglected him and treated him “cold” during her campaign for republican committeewoman of her ward. He says “She spends all of her time and much of my money in poli- ties.” ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN. DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures to petitions? Russian Note: Drifting into War with Japa The Man with the Air-Cooled Pi ed in the inter- 1113 W. Washington Blvd. ‘T ey a athe place, Nurse dane” READ THE NEXT ISSUE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, OCT. 4 American Imperialism and® European Soci: And Other Interesting Articles Can a Shop Nucleus Replace a 1 6. Protagonists of Slavery... VERSE PICTURES ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN beme asmruch as you like Ka a eS a Wt CARPENTERS ON WAY HOME, WILL FIGHT HUTCHESON To Support Rosen for General President Delegates to the convention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters who called in to the DAILY WORKER of- fice on their return home from In- dianapolis, were in an angry frame of mind over the action of General Presi- dent Hutcheson in illegally bringing the convention to an end before the business of the delegates was trans- acted. Indescribable scenes were witnessed when the czar of the carpenters’ un- ion expelled delegate Mulcahy of Prov- idence from the convention because he appealed from the ruling of the chair. Ninety-five per cent of the dele- gates stood up for Mulcahy, but Hutcheson ignored them. Faker Learns Lesson. Evidently taking a lesson from his rival in reaction, John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, who brought the last convention of that organization to an end while more than half of the delegates were on ‘their feet clamoring for a roll call, Hutcheson concluded -that surrender- ing to majority opinion is a danger- ous weakness on the part of a labor leader who-rules with the aid of strong-arm men. To Fight For Rosen. The carpenters are going back to their locals, the DAILY WORKER is informed, determined to expose the actions of Hutcheson and to push the candidacy of Morris Rosen, leader of the progressive forces at the con- vention and Hutcheson’s opponent for the office of General President. “Morris Rosen made a splendid fight at the convention,” our visitors de- clared. “Friends of delegate Brown of Peoria, who is also a candidate, were busy urging Rosen to withdraw and leave the field to Hutcheson and Brown. But the progressives know that Brown cannot be relied on. He took no stand at the convention, while | Rosen*fought the machine every min- ute. Brown is simply a trimmer and his candidacy has the object of.split- ting the progressive vote. If Rosen withdrew then Brown might be in- duced to bury his own candidacy.” The progressive carpenters know that there is more involved in the election campaign than merely replac- ing the autocrat Hutcheson. It serves an educational purpose and a solidify- ing of the radicals in the carpenters’ union, for the purpose of making of their organization a weapon to fight the bosses and not the private proper- ty of a labor gangster. ened - Blast Newspaper Plant. EL DORADO, IIL, Oct. 2—Saline county authorities today were conduct- ing a vigorous investigation of the dy- namiting of the plant of the Eldorado Daily News. Dunne’s Dates W. Frankfort, Ill.—October 16, Christopher, {.—October 17. Du Quoin, ll.—October 18. Madis on, mm. Jetober 19, afternoon. Mo.—October 19, evening. Il—October 20, , Til.—October Springfield, Iil.—October 22." ..By William F. Dunne 'y Alexander Bittelman pe Branch By Harry Gannes By L. Cooper . By M. Wilgus ILLUSTRATIONS Chicago, Illinois Janie!’