The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1924, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER \ ‘Thursday, October 9, 1924 RUSS EMIGRES In With the Dollars! By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, STRIKE TALK IN WASHINGTON HEAR AN ECHO Story Is Retold: About Port Arthur Deal (By The Federated Press) Washington, are reminded of the “good old days” by the pub- lication of a detailed account of the agreement of the Japanese imperial government to pay to the late General Stoessel, who surrendered. Port Arthur to Japan and thereby made Japan a world power, the sum of 10,- 000,000 pounds sterling ($50,- 000,000.) A copyrighted story from the Paris bureau ‘of the Chigago Daily News, printed in the Washington Star, gives them the savory morsels of this affair as set forth by a millionaire as- sociate of J. Pierpont Morgan, who was asked by an English- man to buy a share in the claim of General Stoegsel’s widow against the Japanese govern- ment. For Tokyo did not pay for the “act to be performed by Gen. Stoessel,” embassy officials in London agreed that the document. was genuine, but inasmuch as Stoessel had died, and no promise to pay ‘his heirs was found in the bargain, and no proof as to the character of “act” was found, the whole incident was closed. Diplomatic Washington sees a nice point in this deal. If only the Soviet Union can be overturned, and Grand Duke Cyril be restored to the throne of the czars, then Mme. Stoessel's claim can be put up to Japan as an | issue on which the diplomats and sol- | diers can get new credit. And it gives | mew cause for their anxiety lest Mos- cow and Tokyo make a treaty which will wipe out all past claims, includ- ing those based on treachery such as HE trinity of ADVANTAGES ENJOYED by Stand- dard Oil Company employes Has been completed. The Republic of Labor, invented by John D.,. Jr, is advantage number one. Under its beneficent rule, labor and capital are to be married, never to part. Labor disputes are to be settled by a joint committee upon which, say, a thousand workers elected” six representatives and a couple of representatives of Standard Oil elected the other six. The superin- tendent of the works has the veto power. This was called a Republic of/Labor. strike against the Standard Oil if they were in the company upon an equal footing with John D.—all shareholders together! And now the Standard Oi! Company of Indiana has established a DEATH BENEFIT plan for its 25,000 | employes. The insurance costs the employes nothing. The Standard Oil Company understands the import- ance of a RIGHT labor policy. Did not Walter C. Teagle, chief of the New Jersey wing of Standard, rob a developing strike of his workers both of its first and second wind by adroitly using the Republic ol Labor to throw oil on the troubled waters? Teagle said to his workers at the time that he sincerely wished they would not strike because he needed their co-operation to tide the company over a “very critical situation.” “ This “critical situation” afterwards was discovered to be the filching from the workers of the largest first Standard Oll proclaims that it does not work upon the lemon-squeezer principle. It Is not one of those industries which are irons ed despotism squeezing blood. profits out of the poor, down-trodden worker. Having read O’Sullivan’s advertisements, it no doubt uses rubber heels. But heels are used neverthele: and very effec- tively. Each of the trinity of advantages, wherever they obtain, is a heel pressed squarely upon. the Adam’s apple of every worker. Republic of Labor, Join the Company, Death Benefit -—all three of them are melodies sung to put the work- Ww. ch” 8 The opportunity to purchase stock at $60 a share a (Fed dP istude overt ar have | .Was advantage number two. The dividends of shares ers to sleep. They all proclaim the “behave now ee ene cect rs eertperenenna found | fashi 8 bl f + | purchased by the workers are to accumulate and are and you'll get your reward injheaven” policy of capi-,| _ LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 8,.— oun asnionable retuge IN| to be used to buy-more shares. Workers would never taliom. Weavers employed by the Pa- BE NICE TODAY AND AFTER DEATH You’LL HEAR THE ANGELS SING! Either this or you will join the awakened advance guard of the working class in its forward surge for ownership of the world. The mobilization of all’ Workers Party members and sympathizers for a three million distribution of literature during the week of October 26 to Novem: ber 2 is on. Every party branch: will meet October 12 to receive contributions from its members for this literature. Every member is to contribute fifty cents. IT IS IN CAMPAIGNS LIKE THIS THAT OPPOR- TUNITY IS AFFORDED FOR PROPAGANDA AND EDUCATION WHICH WILL AROUSE THE MISLED SLAVES OF STANDARD OIL AND ALL OTHER VULTURES. YOU, TOO, MUST JOIN THIS ATTEMPT TO REACH THREE®MILLION WORKERS WITH OUR this story seems to prove. quarterly dividend since 1913. IN RHODE ISLAND FACTORY DISTRICT| MESSAGE DURING RED WEEK. COOLIDGE PICTURE ADORNS WALLS OF COTTON MILLS AND SPEAKEASIES PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct. 8.—Hight to sixteen families drink- ing water out of the same well; wells taking water that drains by earthen cesspools; the smell of out-houses and garbage in the air. These are some features of town of Natick in the Pawtuxet the B. B, & R. Knight company Valley. Another is the Coolidge photo, hung from the walls of mills and speakeasies to encourage cotton mill workers to keep things as they are. j The Natick mills have not operated since April. They are. part of the Knight string that has more than a half-million spin- dies in Rhode Island and Massac Consolidated Textile Corpora- tion, which runs mills in North and South Carolina, ~Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky and Texas. William M. Wood, chairman of the board of directors of both concerns, is also president of the American} Woolen company and one of the links binding them to larger textile aggre- husetts and is controlled by the el tame SRE ta Cateee tens Boa this mill town goes on as it has for years, with a high record of epidemic diseases. Young Italians Restless. Natick is occupied by Italian work- ers almost exclusively. The younger generation, particularly, is becoming restless. During the 1922 strike Nat- RICH PALMER ESTATE: STEALS $514,000 FROM CITY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS the size of the o es, cut the teaching staff to the minimum.” The teachers say: “Stop tax-fix- ing and tax-dodging.” 4 + Both the teachers and the busi- ness men and manufacturers on the board of education admit that there is an alarming shortage of funds with which to run the , public schools, The business men want to make up the deficit by cutting sal- ary rates, firing 1,500 of the teach- ers, platooning the schools to avoid having to get more class rooms. The teachers know that the trouble lies with graft among the ranks of the school officialdom, with the failure of rich corporations to pay their taxes, with the willing- ness of Chicago’s city administra- tion to let the tax-fixing go on. “HEARD AGAIN IN LAWRENCE Multiple-Loom System| Recruits Jobless Army By ESTHER LOWELL cific Mills, largest cotton mills in the city,are debating whether | or not to strike against the in- | troduction of the multiple-loom He which is hanging over their heads ready to shove three out of every four of them into the ranks of unskilled workers. All summer long the weavers in Dover,'N. H., fought against the destruction of the weavers’ craft and their lack of success makes the Lawrence weavers hesitate. | Already the Pacific mills have had a picked weaver trying out the new plan by which the weaver acts as pet-| ty boss tending 72 looms instead of his accustomed 18. Three unskilled workers are allotted to each weaver under the multiple-loom system. Will Scrap Veterans. is An old German weayer who has worked in the mills more than 30 years predicts that the new system will throw him and his fellow skilled “The younger men will be the| petty boss weavers and we will be left to compete with unskilled work- ers and accept their wages in order to work at all.” { Strike sentiment is weakened by the long slack Period of the past year during which the mills, excepting the American Woolen company’s — great factories, have been running only six to sixteen days a month. Workers who had jobs at all found that there was work on only three or four days every two weeks. The cotton mill workers have been hardest hit, altho work is increasing slightly now. Wool- en workers in the Selden, Internation al, United States wool and worsted and other Lawrence woolen mills Have had work four days a week every week most of time. THE OTHER SIDE AAA AA Te Chicago Tribune is a fighting, aggressive newspaper. It is frankly, mentioned in the agreement which a . : 2 turned up in London after the world .By ART SHIELDS The Board of Education says: craftsmen who have grown old in for the interests of the Capitalist class. war. It is explained that the Japanese (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) “Gut the teachers’ salaries, increase | Service nto the class of boys. He| But in a burst of fairness (?) it devotes very often a part of its editorial page to “The Other Side.” e @ 8 78 em it presents the viewpoint of in- terests opposed to theirs. Since the opposite interest is that of the working- man the Chicago Tribune consistently chooses the articles and editorials of the DAILY WORKER to present “The Other Side.” . gations. ick mills were among the first to be The Chicago Teachers’ Federation Accept Low Wages. * * * * World Co-operative Productivity Is Doubled, closed by the movement, which locally | hag issued : circular showing a | Normally there are 35,000 textile . . * Guild Is Organized areistasicte Ua. dbiadaasieh Mabie ied was under the control of the Amal-| typical example..ofiitaxdodging by |WOTKers in Lawrence, Less than a THE Chicago Tribune recognizes the with London Offices | san in the eighteenth century. Re-|&@Mated Textile Workers. There'is | \nder-assessment. The valuation of |*itd of that number are now employ.1 lena Sey thi fd of Leb rm markable development of manufact- spirit of resistance in the air and it is land comprising the Palmer House ed, workers estimate. Few of the Job-| eading paper in the wor. fe) or LONDON, Oct. 8—Women with the power of the market basket are now organized into the International Co-op- erative Women's guild with head- quarters in London. This new inter- national of ,housewives and mothers consists of the national women’s co- operative guilds of Austria, Belgium, uring technique has taken place since then. Even in the last twenty years | productivity per operative has nearly doubled. But eighteenth century con- ditions continue so far as housing and village sanitation are concerned. Es- pecially in Natick, Company tene- ments here—all but a 'few—lack those doubtful if the company will follow the example of the Manville-Jenckes | company in the Blackstone Valley and attempt a wage cut when the mills open again. / Machine Guns on Roofs. Workers pointed out to the writer the places on the mill roofs where site, as fixed by the real estate ap- praiserg.fér the purpose of a loan, was $20,000,000, The valuation of the same land, as fixed by the board of assessors for the purpose of taxa- tion, Is only $7,425,000. “In other words, at the present rate of taxation, $514,000 is in this less have succeeded in getting any| other kind of work. After 14 months, of part-time work all the workers whom I asked agreed that there was | no possibility of a general strike in Lawrence, not until all the mills are} working full time. Even the low wages—the weaver who tends 72) presenting the views of the worker and defending his interest. * * * * af you work for a living your interests England, France, Holland, Ireland, | fundamentals of modern sanitation, in-| machine guns were placed during the| one instance being withheld from |!0oms gets a paltry $30 a week for 48) re Osh as Si $8 . Norway, Scotland, Sweden and Switz-|door plumbing and sewage. nine-month struggle. The town was} the public schools thru illegal un- |20UrS work—are accepted for the | are on e er ide. You ll find erland. Pawtuxet Valley is beautiful at this | patrolled by national guardsmen and| der-assessment. present. | At its first conference held in Ghent the end of August the guild came out tor a co-operative form of society, de- manded world organization for peace and urged the learning by co-operators of a common international. language, preferably, Esperantu. A. Honora Enfield is secretary with headquarters at 29 Winchester Rd., London NW3. Fight City Worker: TOLEDO, 0O., Oct. 8.—This city’s Wage Cut. season, The hills that slope to the winding river that furnishes the pow: er to the mills are glorious in the rosy hues of autumn. But the company tenements have no picturesqueness. They are oblong, shabby, two-story frame buildings, of tarnished white, housing each from two to six families. Sometimes there is space for a vege- table garden and grape arbor but fre- quently there is room for nothing more than the uniform outhouses and community pumps that are set amidst deputy sheriffs. These deputies were appointed by the county sheriff, who in turn was chosen by the legislature. To realize how far removed these peace officers are from popular con- trol it must be understood that the upper house of the legislature is elect- ed under a rotten borough system that grossly discriminates against the in- dustrial districts. J Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U. Railways in Canada Fire Large Numbers of Workers in Shops MONTRE/ 5 —The Canadian unem- ployment p: T1em is being seriously increased by the large number of men now béing laid off by the rail- ways. Four hundred shopmen have been laid off here by the Canadian Na- tional, while thruout central Canada Lawrence has had three big strikes in 12 years and each time been well organized during the fight. Today there is only a trace of any organiza-| tion functioning among the textile workers. The same fate of neglect} befell the One Big Union which con-| trolled the city during the 1922 strike} as befell the I. W. W. and the Amal- gamated Textile Workers after 1912 and 1919 respectively. Pacific mills workers are in the American Federa- tion of Textile Operatives if they are them well defended in the pages of The Daily Worker “The National Labor Daily”’ . Health — the number laid off by that railway |! any union. The O. B. U. has closed practical bankruptcy has called the|each set of four tenements. ‘ ffi do little to correct @e noi- . is stated to be nearly 1,000. Several’ | its office and the United Textile Work- brine ge paneer lige Ad iiiacdoaditiage that prevail. iw anots Postpone Deportation thousand are also to be laid off by |¢fS has practically no organization in 1113 W. Washington Blod. pay sliced 30 per cent by the city|Island there is a $134 property qualifi. of : Ben Legere from the Canadian Pacific, the employes batt Sect ei, ba age ? council because of an. acute shortage| cation for voters in local, elections and ‘ana 4 Coa having voted for reduction in staff igamated s' claims a few . of funds, city water works employes|company towns have few eligible. It c dian 1 Country rather than in working time. members, but there is acttally no ac- Chicago, I il. appealed to organized labor for relief. Attorneys for the Central Labor un- jon were immediately detailed. Suit will be instituted if the city refuses to restore the normal wage. facing the working class. fighter for the middle class. 4 Stir ihe Shops! ‘The very best place to carry on @ working class carhpaign is in the shops and "Tactoriew where the workers gather to earn their living. It is there that minds Ry spenito PN ie osovlans cng: coh a Sern sod solutions of the : treme tie wavidog: ol It is in the shops that the workers will see most clearly, for Cray nc the difference between Foster, the union hter for the workers, organizer and. fig! (hditorial must also be said that health officers’ efforts are limited so long as sewage facilities are lacking and workers, on low wages, or unemployed, as at Natick, lack funds for good food. So and LaFollette, the dawyer and Daily Worker.) By BARBARA FENINGSTON. (For The Federated Press.) SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Oct. 8.—De- portation proceedings against Ben Le- gere, One Big -Union ' organizer, of Lawrence, Mass., who has been ac- tive in the Nova Scotia coal fields, are postponed by the Canadian authori- ties. Legere’s activity was in Pictou county and on Cape Breton island among the miners and steel workers, where he has been unsuccessfully at- tempting to get the miners to join his dual union — the One Big Union. Legere was taken into custody by the Canadian immi- gration officer at Sydney, A complaint poned, The miners in Nova Scotia and the workers thruout Canada are determined to continue the protest un- til the case is dropped. Subscribe for “ the DAILY WORKE! ans Daily,” u d A new phase of the problem has arisen by the appeal to the minister of railways by the secretary of the Canadian National federation of rail- way employes asking him to take up the question of employment. The federation has suggested that the re- conditioning of engines and cars for future use would provide more work. Clerks Strike for Ralse. PERTH, Western Australia, Oct, 8. —Clerks and stenographers employed in business shops and offices in the city of Fremantle and suburbs, on strike for increased wages, won a big victory. The minimum wage for adult clerks was raised by $2.50 per wek, tively functioning union of textile workers left in Lawrence, judging from the statements of the many workers who talked to me and told of their former activities. Seeks Cheap Labor. William M. ‘Wood, of the American Woolen company, “scoured Europe for cheap labor, As one supply was ex hausted he tried another; Turks Greeks, Syrians, Arabs, etc., until it is a babel here and in time of a wage cut anyone can come in and organize the workers, The United Textile} Workers is a conservative craft or} ganization, originally built of the Trish, British and French workers who were first in the mills. The U. T. W. tion advertises the Willlam Z, Foster election campaign meeting Sunday afternoon, October 12, at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren. Branches of the party and Young Workers League shall appoint special squads to distributé at factories and shall assign territory to every member of the branch, 30,000 copies he Special Chicago Edition have thus far been ordered. Branches can phone In at State 7986 additional orders at the rate of $8.00 per thousand. How many will your braneh buy? \ $ ’ “ Your remittance with this blank will bring it to you EVERYDAY eee E f | j ‘ ith proportionate increases for jun-|resented the influx of other aliens and i" "on the head. Nothing could had been made to Ottawa that he had | ¥! 4 ms THE spoye bral dig A et ae to Ab everything yuystonll entered the country in violation of |!0T8: The new minimum rate for|did not attempt to organize them. £ possible to place e immigration law. The charge was |*4ult male clerks is $22.50 and $15 for|Whenever anyone comes in during a RATES (Outside of Chicago) jae ESE P 'AMPHLETS he had served time in the Unit- | @dult females. Where females are em-|crisis and appeals to these unorgan- ‘ $ TH ainsi tak tad ed States, He admitted having serv- here pb Sg same capacity as males |ized workers, by blackening all offi- ’ $6.00 a Year in the hands of the workers you work together with ps ed a year for participation in a tex-|they will be paid the same wage. A|cials who have gone before, he gets tories, Sell them everywhere, Now is the time. tile strike in Little Falls, N. Y., in eg week was conceded, with over-|the response of these workers who $3.50 Six Months $2.00 Three Months . ” The LaFollette Ilusion— 1913, but held that this section of the | time at time and a half. do not understand organizations well. { As peal in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator sree bay bib only to of- : : ? LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. Single COPY+..immnurmnnnnnnnnnnnt60 |p| fonses involving moral turpiture, The For the enclosed§.........,........8end the Daily Worker id ° * fe A officer, ignorant of the meaning of $ Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— |} fi. term and instructed to got Le- yi By Alexander Bittelman. Questions and answers, how the dit- gere decided to hold him on that Mf to the address below for............ months.. year, ‘ “Y ferent view the conditions affecting the working class. charge notwithstanding. An appeal | K, t’s a gem, No worker should go to the polls this-year without was entered, bond of $1,000 presented Hi ret reading this pam ipreeciomerrimennrnnngecninmamnan ime ef wait heaping: web. Comrades will please call for the Special Chicago DAILY WORKER na Hi Unemployment— Miners and steel workers in Nova} Edition on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at the local office, ie HEE RR a RMR aR Rb te a Abe denon 0 HH} > Why It Occurs and How to Fight It, by Harl R. Browdor. This Scotia and other parts of Canada held| 166 W. Washington Street, Room 303. The Chicago edition will be dis- iH . pamphlet deals with the important issue before the work+ protest meetings. The case was post-| tributed free at factories, house-to-house, street meeting Street & NOseccccccccssss