The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1924, Page 5

SESS Tuesday, October 7, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER SHORT TALKS OF BEATING HEARST WITH CHEAP GUFF Fakers Steer Clear of Sympathetic Strike SEATTLE, Oct. 6—More militancy in the fight against Hearst’s nonunion Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the morn- ing daily, is demanded of union men in a circular to organized labor of ‘Washington state signed by President William Short of the state federation, “Lengthy and expensive telegrams addressed to Mr. Hearst direct have gone unanswered and unrecognized by him,” says Short. “There seems to be a spirit developed on the part of the Hearst organization thet our movement here is incapable of mak- ing an effective fight against them, and it is vitally important that this at- titude on their part be changed thru @ militant campaign directed against the paper by every branch of our movement in every section of the state. “Committees should be named by every branch of our movement to con- duct a campaign among their own members for cancellation of subscrip- tions and also among business houses, especially restaurants, barber shops, cigar stores, news stands, and pool rooms. “The committee should make it Plain to all concerned that the only is- sue involved in the strike against the Post-Intelligencer is the paying of the same wages and providing the same working conditions of the Post-Intel- ligencer that are now in effect on all the other daily newspapers in Seattle, provided for under mutually accepable contracts between the newspaper pub- lishers and the printing trades union.” Well, Who C: ? VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 6.—Cap- tain Allen Lascelles, secretary to the prince of Wales, announced officially that arrangements had been made for the prince to visit Chicago, Detroit, and Massachsuetts points, as well as Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, before sailing for England. Heave the Brick Back! Dawes Plan Overestimates German Ability to Pay (Continued ‘from Page 1.) of its area, 26 per cent of its coal, 75 per cent of its iron ore, 70 per cent of its zinc ore, 15 per cent of its wheat and rye, and 16 per cent of its pota- toes. For 165 years the Saar Basin, rfth in coal deposits, is to be administered by the League of Nations. Then an- other bayonet plebiscite will be held to determine its status. Before the war, Germany was a coal-exporting country. Now it is becoming a coal- importing country. In 1918, Ger- many’s net coal export was 24,058,000 metric tons. In 1923, Germany was compelled to import 24,004,000 metric tons net. Likewise, the present area of Germany containing 75 per cent of the fron and steel producing plants provided only 25 per cent of the na- tional output of fron ore. It is this increasing difficulty to obtain the necessary raw materials to keep the German industrial machinery running that accounts heavily for the Reich's economic breakdown. Add to these blighting factors the disasterous results of the Ruhr occu- pation. In 1913, the Germans pro- duced in the territory within the Ver- sailles boundaries, 140,926,000 metric tons of anthracite coal. In 1928, this total fell to 62,225,000 metric tons or to only 44 per cent, for the same area. At the same time and for the same areas the 1913 production of pig iron and steel ingots was 10,900,000 and 11,600,000 metric tons respectively. For 1923, as an aftermath of the Ruhr occupation, these figures fell to four million metric tons of pig iron and five million metric tons of steel ingots and cashtings, Fictitious Enrichment of Germany. But the experts would have us be- lieve that the German railroads, in- dustries and government are today richer by the very amount in which they were freed from debt thru the depreciation of the mark currency. Perhaps this so-called enrichment of Germany is to make up for the econ- omic losses she suffered as a result of the robber peace treaty of Ver- sailles! It is on the basis of this source of “enrichment” that a five billion gold mark bond issue secured by a first mortgage on corporation properties is to serve as a source of income for reparations. At.the bottom such..reasoning is based in fallacious economic prin- OUR DAILY PATTERNS INFANT'S SHORT CLOTHES OUTFIT. 10 Practical Patterns of Baby Garments. Composed of a Yoke Dress to be finished with Long or Short 3125. Sleeves. A simple double breasted Coat with Round Collar and Bishop Sleeve, a Cap in Dutch Style, a Night Dress, a Petticoat with added Waist, a Feeding Apron, Drawers, Rompers and a Play Dress. Lawn, muslin, gingham or chambray, also flannelette may be used for the dresses and rompers. The coat is good for all cloaking materials. The Cap will de- velop nicely in fur, velvet, corduroy, cloth, silk or lawn, The Night Gown, Underwaist and Petticoat in flannel, flannelette, muslin or cambric. The Feeding Apron in jean, toweling or oilcloth. The Drawers in cambric or Jongcloth. . The Pattern is cut in one size. requires of 36 inch material. Yoke Dress ... werd yard It Feeding Apron Drawers .. Rompers Underwaist Play Dress PRICB 20c. adress: The we Washington ASM svawp AILY WORK Sat oheagee et NOTICE TO PATT. nt are’ of pati as re- eUrer the date » AID; 14 PATTERNS OF ESSENTIAL GARMENTS FOR BABY INFANT'S LAYETTE. 3112, These simple styles, all of which are provided in this pattern, are all practical and easy to make, The cloak may be of cashmere, Bed- ford cord, serge or silk. It may be finished without the cape collar. * The cap is suitable for the same material and for lawn, nainsook, cambric or corduroy. The Kimono and Sack will develop nicely in flannel, cashmere, silk, domet or outing flannel. The slip is nice for nainsook, lawn or cam- bric. The Pinning Blanket may be of domet, outing flannel or wool flan- nel. The Shirt of cambric or flannel. The Diaper Drawers of cambric, dia- per cloth, or rubberized material. The Barrie Coat of cambric or long cloth. The Bootee of silk, quilted satin, ei- derdown or suede. The Band of flan- nel. The Cold Feet Gown of fian- nelette, flanel or cambric, and the bib of silk, lawn or cambric. * It will require of 86 inch material. CLOAK, ssesesssnsegicietteretaetnoninnn 3% Yards Carriage ROC wpececcsennd% yard Cold Feet GOWN sceswrmnd% yard Kimono cesseeeed He yard coe week yard srvmaeanirrecteeronnee Hy yard aneessssononvescenseeee Hy yard Diaper Drawere ... Y% yard Sack ...... % yard Pinning Blanket muslin .. 4% yard Flannel .... % yard rvesecssrvcoene My yard BOOZ PAS TBC AwPS ciples. The wiping away of these debts in Germany, while in themselves a gain to the debtors, is a correspond- ing loss to the creditors, to the debt holders, The wiped-away debts of the corporations and the government were once the wealth of the holders. Con- sequently, the sponging out of all these debts turns out to be a source of fictitious enrichment for Germany as a whole, as an economic entity. In effect this process has materially helped bring about considerably dim- inished standard of living, a reduced economic consuming power amongst the great masses. Overlapping Sources of Revenue. Another basically unsound approach of the Dawes’ committee is found in its method of presenting various sources of revenue as separate and distinct. Here again we have a glar- ing example of its failure to view Germany as an economic entity. If the railroad freight rates are to be high enough to yield reparations revenue, they may lower the capacity of certain industries to produce pay- ments for the Allied imperialists. Burdensome taxation will have a tendency to raise costs, in turn reduce consumption, and then repress the railroads and the industries. It is clear, therefore, that the experts’ es- timates of the sources of revenue are to a large extent overlapping. Let us not forget the din constantly emanating from the camp of the cap- italists in protest against high taxa- tion. Yet, the paying out of such huge sums as the standard annual six hundred million dollar reparation trib- ute to other countries, to capitalists of other national groups tends to be far more oppressive than the most on- erous within the particular coun- try. The charges upon the profits of industry thru domestic govern- ment taxation are in part counteract- ed by the increased volumé of profits going to these same capitalists as a result of the expenditure, primarily within the country, of the huge sums collected by the government in taxes. When, however, these taxes are paid to the capitalist governments of other countries in the form of repara- tion levies, the last named source of profits is entirely closed to the Ger- man industrial overlords. The latter's competitive capacity in the world market, a capacity on which rests the greatest possibility of reparation pay- ments, the export surplus, tends to be| decisively reduced. Of course, the German capitalists will seek to fill this gap in their bank accounts, to pile this burden on the working masses by reducing wages, lowering the living and working stand- ards, and raising hours of labor, Such attempts will prove only the fruitful source of sweeping industrial unrest and its consequent serious derange- ments in the system of production and exchange. Waves of mass strikes and revolutionary clashes are just what the Dawes’ plan aims to make impos- sible. Instead, its operation only lays the basis for gigantic class conflicts— the most vital danger to the stability of international capitalism and the continuity of the reparation payments. Evidently, the Dawes’ plan is help- less and lost in the maze of these in- soluble contradictions of capitalism.In- stead of making barren the fertile soil for the revolutionary class struggles, it, in reality, only supplies new and broader bases for their being waged on a more intengive. and extensive scale. Paramount Problems Evaded. Comprehensive a scheme to stabil- ize international capitalism as the Dawes’ plan is, it avoids and leaves hanging in the air numerous sources of danger to the continuity of the present system of production and ex- change. At most, the French, imperi- alists will receive only $300,000,000 annually from the reparations tribute. This sum, staggering as it is, will scarcely meet the interest, at the present rate, on the bonds sold by the French government for reconstruction purposes. Then, the French govern- ment faces the further terrific prob- lem of meeting her indebtedness to Great Britain and the United States whose claims total a sum at least equal to, if not greater than, the re- construction indebtedness. The problem of reparations is in- variably bound up with the complica- Anthracite Miners Feel the Lash (Continued from page 1) for granted, the things that are pub- lished in times of strikes about the high earning capacity of the miner, but never do they consider the robber role of the rail and coal monopolies. Neither do they see the miner as he fights with the hazards that con- front him, from the time he enters the mine until he again breathes the fresh air and drags his weary frame to the shack he calls home. Often, yes too often, the miner fails to come home, sometimes he. awakes on a hos- pital cot and sometimes he is laid on an undertaker'’s slab. The over- hanging rock is ever ready to slip its moorings without warning, the inno- cent electric trolley wire is always liable to give a kick with a deadly charge. Then there is the treacherous gas that always lurks where there is coal, ready to deal a death blow at any time. These are common things to which a major portion of serious accidents are attributed, but there are innumer- able other forms of danger constantly at hand. The miner must face them all while he grinds out profits for the greedy operator and railroad magnate. Drilling holes in rock and coal, blast- ing, then groping around in the smoke and dust to load big cumbersome cars that hold three and four, mostly four, tons of coal is the daily task of the thiner and his laborer. For this dangerous work the miner is paid about from $2.31, to $3.00 a ear of coal, with a little additional for rock and yardage. Thus it can be seen that, altho the consumer pays from about ‘$11.00 for the inferior frades and up to $17.00 and more for the better grades, the miner does not get any too much for his share. There is nothing resembling uni formity in the wage schedules at the different mines, for each company has a separate agreement with the miners and for the same kind of work the pay is determined according to the company the miner works for. The retail price of anthracite coal is always high, the wages are always low. Rents in the hard coal towns are high, almost without exception, and one of the hardest tasks of a miner’s wife in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre region is to make the pay en- velope. cover the debts incurred dur- ing the period between pay days. A mediocre*standard of living is all that the average anthracite miner can adopt, and it is very doubtful if he could live at all if he suffered from intermittent employment as his broth- er, the bituminous miner, does. The miners in this district are feeling the effects of the last settlement, which carried the ten per cent advance in wages and an indeterminate advance in living costs. Some of the locals have not yet signed up, preferring to work under the old rate sheets (the name given to individual mine agree- ments), than to sign the new ones offered to them. They are also beginning to feel the lash of Lewisism thru charter revoca- tion, and with the visit recently of a YOUNG WORKERS IN NEW YORK CITY OUTLINE PLANS FOR ACTIVITIES _ At the last meeting of the District Executive Comfnittee of the Young Workers League, District No. 2, the committee was completely reorganized. Every member of the committee was asigned a definite task. The work was blocked out into departments and a member of the com- mittee was placed at the head of each department. He will be responsible for the work of his department directly to the district, and failure to carry out his’ work will result in his remov- al from the District Executive Com- mittee. The matter of shop nuclei was tak- én up first. In view of the fact that the work of. transforming our league from the present territorial basis to one built on the shops and factories is not a division of. our work, but is the organizational basis, the center of gravity about which all our work is built, the district organizer is to be directly in charge of that work. The following were then elected to head the various departments: Industrial—Forman. Educational—Elston. Junior—Thompson. Membership and ' Propaganda Stachel, Glass, and Herberg as assist» ant. Press, Publicity, and Research: Zam, Kitzes and Herberg as assi ants. Anti-Militarist—Fishbein, Glass as assistant. Child Labor—Fox. Unemployment—Rubin. Literature—Zam, Kitzes as assist ant. i f Bookkeeping—Kitzes. Sports—-Frankfeld. Foreign Languages—Don. An educational committee, consist: ing of Comrades Elston, Herberg, Don, Stachel and Milgrum was also elected. The committee ig to start work imme- diately on the course in Marxism and Leninism, and also on the Training School. i 4, secretariat, consisting of Com- i sal hy eit EE TRE A" SE TEE EEN rades Stachel, Zam, Herberg and Don was elected to direct the entire work. This secretariat will have all the powers of the District Executive Com- mittee between meetings, except when a change of policy is concerned. In the future, the District Executive Committee proper will have one busi- each month. The department heads were instruct- ed to secure a committee to help them carry out their plans and begin work immediately. This is just the beginning of the re- organization in accordance with N. B. C. instructions, which the District Ex ecutive Committee is planning to car ry thru to the branches, UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS __ ness and one educational meeting |= committee of International Board members, they were warned about local strikes. These local strikes, and all agree that this section of the country has had plenty of them for various reasons, were the “one reli- able assurance” that those engaging in them would have their wrongs righted. Since the visit of the committee and the denial of the right to strike, some of the operators have become much bolder, they will shut down a mine where the men become unruly, using the “starvation route” to beat them into submission. If things keep going as they are, the’men of the anthracite region wil} find themselves face to face with a situation that will be hard to correct. They will be forced to fight, to rem- edy the things that their present slow- moving aid unsatisfactory conciliatiqn board fails to do. CORRECTION It was announced yesterday that the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia will give a performance and dance on Sunday, Oct. 19. This was a@ mistake. It should have been Sat- jurday, Oct. 18. The affair will take place at the hall of the Society, at 1902 W. Division St. DAILY WORKER tion of international capitalist indebt edness. This difficulty the Dawes’ plan does not deal with at all, despi the fact that the success of its oper: | tion is unavoidably interwined with the debt solution. The countless com, Plications of the budgets, currencies and tariffs of the other capitalist coun- tries are another source of obstacles not met by the Dawes’ scheme. Finally, the much-heralded Dawes’ plan does not concern itself with the total debt of Germany. Avoiding this issue at best only postpones facing | serious snarls. The failure of the | Dawes’ plan to fix the total number of | years Germany is to pay tribute will sooner rather than later, prove a cause of acute troubles to the imperi alist powers which signed the London pact. A New Dangerous Menace. Obviously, the Dawes plan, or the decision of the Entente capitalist rul ers to accept less reparations than they had first demanded in the infam ous Versailles stipulations, provided they can secure hegemony over the economic life and resources of Ger many, is encountering a barbed-wire network of unsurmountable obstac The insistence of the Allied impe alists on crushing German capitalism as a dangerous competitor in the | world, has only hastened the develop-| ment of a far more dangerous capital: | ist competitor than Germany could ever be—American imperialism. Indian Population In U. S. Shows Slight Increase for Year WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—The Indian population of the United States in- creased 2,619 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, the interior department announced today. The total number of Indians in: the United. States on that date’ was 346,- 962, a gain of 16,283 in the last 11 years. The state of Oklahoma has the largest Indian population, with a to- tal of 119,989. McAdoo Has More Troubles. BALTIMORE, Oct. 6.—Routine ex- amination of William Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury and candidate for the democratic presi- dential nomination in the New York convention laset_ summer, was held at John Hopkins Hospital here to- | day, in preparation for an operation | to remove gravel from the bladder. | MACDONALD AND ZAGHLUL FAIL TO AGREE ON SUDAN Egyptian Premier Shows Anger Over Neglect (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 6.—-Negotiations be- tween Premier MacDonald and ‘Zaghlul Pasha, Egyptian premier, looking to- ard the liquidation of the contro- versy over the Sudan question appear to have fallen thru. Zaghlul has stated to the press that no agreement has been reached and in the course of the interview hinted rather broadly that Premier Mac Donald had ‘considered other questions of ch more importance and had not been any too cordi “If I have gained nothin; said aghlul, “at east I have lost nothing.” The Sudanese demand. that their territory be placed under the Egyptian vernment and that all English roops and officials be withdrawn. Mass demonstrations in which Egypt- “|ian students and native soldiers have taken part have occurred recently and the foreign office takes a serious view of the situation which is believed to bea reflection of the unrest in India as well as part of the resentment aroused by the British clash with the Turkish forces in Irak. The Sudanese are Mohammedans. Dedicate Temple of Graft. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Oct. 6.— Special trains, automobiles, wagons, and even airplanes brought thousands to Jefferson City today to participate in the dedication of Missouri’s $5,000,- 000 tlew state house. Relics Get Close Call, WASHINGTON, Oct. 6—Many old buildings of civil war construction in the business district of F. street here were imperilled by fire today when flames destroyed a millinery shop in the Lowe's theater building resulting in three alarms being turned in and damage estimated at $100,000. ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN- DLE OF THE DAILY WORKER and CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute when you are out getting signatures to petitions? You're Hired! Until Nov. 7. Remember to Register IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR FOSTER on Tuesday, Oct. 14—Last Registration Day Those who signed petitions to place the Workers Party candidates on the ballot must register if their signatures are to count. NE TT TTTTTIMLL ILL LL LLL LL LLL LLL LLL LUC Monster Election Gampaign Meeting William Z. Foster Candidate for President of the United States on the Workers Party ticket, leader of the great steel strike wm. F. Dunne Candidate for Governor of Illinois on the Workers Party ticket, editor of the Benjamin Gitlow andidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Workers Party ticket WILL SPEAK Sunday, October 12,1924 2:30 p.m, ASHLAND AUDITORIUM, Ashland and Van Buren Excellent Music by the Freiheit Singing Society and Mandolin Orchestra, and the . Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices, Workers Party, Local Chicago. Tsien eieenrneeanainininniiiannieiinaminiiinl ADMISSION 25 CENTS ‘ A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN “These mush we very fast! ga