The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 10, 1924, Page 5

Friday, October 10, 1924 BATTLE 10 GET RIGHT TO MEET | IN SILK TOWN Hold Protest Meetings and Fight in Courts (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Further meetings in Paterson, N. J., “to force recognition of the right of free speech and peaceful as- semblage” are announced by the American Civil Liberties Union following the arrest of eleven persons at the free- speech test meeting on City all steps. The day after the test Roger N. Baldwin, director of the Civil Liberties Union, was arrested and charged with “unlawful as- semblage.” Baldwin was held by Recorder Munson Force for the grand jury and released on $500 bail. His case and that of John C. But- terworth, socialist-labor party candi- date for congress and chairman of the meeting, alone go to the grand jury. The others will be tried on four sep- arate charges before the recorder. United Front Meeting. The meeting at which the arrests took place was arranged by the Am- erican Civil Liberties Union, the Workers Party and the socialist-la- bor party following the refusal of the Paterson police to allow strikers’ meetings in the Turn Hall which they have been occupying for two months. The reason given by chief of police ‘Tracy for forbidding further meetings ‘was the character of speeches made by H. M. Wicks, of the Workers Party brought into Paterson by the strike committee as assist in the con- duct of the strike of 10,000 silk work- ers, now in its ninth week. Regarding the Paterson arrests, the Civil Liberties states: “We welcome a test in the courts and on the field of public opinion of the right of peaceful assemblage in Paterson. The police have exceeded all authority in arbit- rarily closing up a public hall and in forcibly breaking up a peaceful meet- ing called to protest against their ac- tion. “Fifty policemen went wild at that meeting when John C. Butterworth started to read the bill of rights of the constitution from the city hall steps to a crowd of 700 strikers. Two men are in the hospital with their heads cracked; others suffered slight injuries. Police Only Rioters. “There was no riot except among the police. If anyone should be held for “inciting to riot” it should be chief of police Tracy, who arrogates to him- self the power to censor speakers and moetings according to his whims.” The American Civil Liberties is rep- resented in the Iigitation by Addison’ All U.S. Power Is at Morgan’s Command (Continued from page 1) in restoring Europe, with the sympa- thetic support of our government.” Thus the Magazine of Wall Street admitted in its issue of Sept. 18, 1924: “So far as we know this is the firat direct attempt of this governinent, even unofficially, to encourage pur- chase of a foreign issue in recent times.” Today the leading bankers are talking of having a special loan bureau in the department of com- merce, It is with the unquestioned and un- questionable aid of the United States government that the American finan- ciers and industrialists have estab- lished their receivership of Germany —a receivership which is only an en- tering wedge to the complete eco- nomic and political domination of many continental countries other than Germany. American Capitalists in Charge. Clarence M. Wooley, head of the American Radiator company, is to be one of the arbitrators of the transfer of reparation payments. Gates W. Mc- Garrah, chairman of the Mechanics and Metals Bank of New York has been chosen to serve as the American director of the new German Bank of Issue. S. Parker Gilbert, Jr., of the law firm of Cravath, Henderson, and De Gersdor, New York City, will be the first agent-general for reparations. It is clear that American bankers and manufacturers will do most of the administering of the Dawes plan. What powers such administrative control will give the American capi- talists can be seen from an enumera- tion of the duties and rights of the agent-general Gilbert who is only a tool of the Morgan-Mellon interests. Mr. Gilbert will be the virtual direc- tor of the German railways and other industrial monoplies. He will super- vise the German budget in so far as it affects tax collections, expenditures P. Rosenkrans of Paterson and will carry the cases to the highest courts if necessary, the statement adds. see Postpone Injuction Cases. PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 9—The at- tempt of Patérson silk manufacturers to make their injunctions against the striking silk weavers permanent has been delayed again by vice-chancellor Vivian M. Lewis’ postponement of the hearing on the 13 orders. The five contempt cases of picketing silk work- ers are also postponed. Lewis declared the strikers had the legal right to picket when he an- nounced continuances of the cases. He stated that the pickets could in a calm, orderly way attempt to persu- ade others to join them in their strike. Sergeant Kelliher, who climbed the statue of vice-president Garet A. Ho bart to read the riot act to the free speech test meeting is not being spoken of by striking silk workers as the hero he thought he was. The crowd jeered him at the meeting and strikers continue to show their con- tempt for the officer who so overstep- ped his authority. OUR DAILY PATTERNS SLENDER FIGURES 4891, Charmeen, flannel or kasha ould be suitable for this style, It ould also be made of satin or silk plin, with contrasting material for collar and cuffs. The pattern is cut in 8 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16-year size requires 5% yards of one material 40 inches wide. To face collar and cuffs with contrasting material requires ¥%-yard, ‘The width of the skirt with plaits ex- tended is 3 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c¢ in silver or stamps for 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER | re A JAUNTY “PLAY SUIT” 4905, Chambrey, pongee and repp would supply very satisfactory ma- terials for this garment. The front forms extensions under which ample pockets are arranged. The “drop” back fastens over a waist portion. This is a very practical model. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 6 years. A 4-year size requires 2% yards of 27-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c im silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS, x % Fo"PaTribny Bios ame ‘u the DAIL lepartment are fur- ye fone firm of pattern one ave aera are py the for domestic purposes and reparation payments. Mr. Gilbert will also have the power to direct the issuance of notes and the majntenance of reserves, demand all documents and statistics, conduct any investigation he deems necessary, to have full authority over currency, supervision over the two hundred mil- lion dollar loan, the collection of taxes on customs, beer, alcohol, tobacco and sugar. Truly, Mr. Gilbert will wield as much power in Germany as any \Hohenzollern ever did. That is why Owen D. Young, whose place Mr. Gil- bert is filling, was called by many in Germany “Owen the First.” That is why the German minister of finance, Luther, confessed on Sept. 1, 1924, that “the whole German national wealth is controlled by an American.” Bigger Loot Ahead. This domination of German resour- ces and industry is only a prelude to a far more extensive receivership. The allied imperialists have been forced to hand over so much power to the American capitalists because they realize that the Wall Street finan- cial wizzards will be the ones who will take the greatest proportion of the numerous other loans that are to follow the moderate two hundred million dollar flotation. In its issue of April 24, 1924 the Wall Street Jour- nal discussed the liklihood of interna- tional financing to the extent of eight billion dollars as a result of the Dawes plan, And Mr. R. F. Zinkann writing in the Annalist of May 19, 1924 summed up the enormous possibilities for Am- erican capitalists in this fashion: “Thus the United States may acquire a close economic interest in the other workshop of the world. This develop- ment is aided by the technical and economic combinations in “vertical trusts,’ etc., which occurred in Ger- many under pressure of need for economy. Thus would be made pos- sible a better exchange of inventions and of rational methods of produc- tion and a world economic division of labor on a grand scale. For the pres- ervation of European peace too, the interest of the United States in the heart of Erope would afford a good guarantee. And in this way also the economic contact of the United States with Russia could be far more effec- tually accomplished.” Within two weeks after the Dawes plan was put in force, the American capitalists were bold enough to pro- pose a sort of a Dawes scheme for France. We have in mind the Hurley plan for France settling its debt to the United States. In this scheme France would have to pay annuities of $100,000,000 for sixty-three years and one-half the sum would be left in France in the form of American capi- tal invested in French industries. Small wonder, then, that the second most important magnate in Germany declared to a New York Times corre- spondent at Dusseldorf on February 5, 1924: “If conditions continue un- changed, Europe runs the risk to be- come a country of slaves.” No Prosperity In Dawes’ Plan Our employing class has been ener- getically trying to sell the Dawes plan to the American laboring and farming masses on the basis of its bringing prosperity to the country. There is not a grain of truth in this contention. | It is a sine qua non of the Dawes plan that its success depends on a huge German export surplus. In re- viewing the prospects for the success- ful operation of the Dawes scheme Professor E. ©. Agger, in the Annalist for March 24, 1924, made it plain that unless the United States accepted) large excesses of imports from Ger- many the reparations program would fail. Prof. Agger said in part: “We are practically driven to the conclus- ion, therefore, that the main hope for German trade expansion lies in the United States. ’ It is rea- sonably certain that herculean efforts! will be made to get the American market to absorb quantities of German exports.” This much for the great boom that is supppsed to overcome American industry as a result of the| flood of German orders thru the Dawes plan. But the American industries will face another serious problem, the dan- gers of which will be menacing the workers, if the Dawes program suc-| ceeds. Mr. Albert Strauss of J. & W. Seligman Co., New York bankers, and formerly vice-governor of the federal reserve board, told the Williamstown Institute of Politics on August 19, 1249: “To pay reparations the payer must live frugally, work hard and ex- port the product of his labor. The payer of reparations will thus be- come a decreasing customer and an increasing competitor.” In degrading the German workers, the international capitalists will be striking at the Am- erican workers. Intense Commercial Rivalry. The Annalist “Business Outlook” for August 25, 1924 views the situation in this light: “As European industry gets under way ,the industries of the United States are certain to meet a steadily increasing competition not only in the export field but in the do- mestic market.” James A. Farrel, president of the United States Steel corporation is also very dubious about the Dawes prosperity when he says in the Maga- zine of Wall Street for August 30, 1924: “There is no information on which we can base an assurance that the European market can be restored within a reasonable time, nor that Europe’s economic interests may not eventually be in directions antagonis- tic to ours.” Mr. Rufus S. Tucker, acting chief fi- nance and investment division of the department of commerce pierces all the Dawes prosperity bubbles when he sums up the likely events in this manner: “American manufacturers are going to meet with severe compe- tition in the sale of goods of which the value is derived mainly from la- bor, not only in foreign markets but even at home. In the case of goods made of materials not found in Ger- many, competition will not be so se- vere, as the exchange rates will op- erate against Germany when import- ing the raw materials. In the case of many agricultural and mineral pro- ducts there will be noincreased com- petition.” In short, not a word about the prosperity wave to overwhelm the American workers. Lower Wages Coming. Let no one make a mistake. The American employing classes will not for an instance willingly pay the price of lowered profits because of intensi- fied German and European competi- tion. Our bosses will do their best to transfer the losses to the working class. For example, the New York Journal of Commerce frankly tells us: “The present reparation project, there- fore, is essentially a plan which, if YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ORCHESTRA ROUNDS INTO CLASSICAL FORM FTER a summer of hard practice, the Young Workers League Orchestra of Chicago has mastered an impressive repertoire and is all set for a season of real service. Composed of members of the Young Workers League, the orchestra boasts an array of musical talent which augurs well for its future reputation. This talent includes, among many other, such niusicians as Alfred Frankenstein, Evelyn Mack, Lydia Beidell, Louise Fallick, Anna Lawrence, Karl Skalar, Chris Pavlov and Jack Edwards. Altho concerned mainly with the musical proficiency of their orchestra the comrades have not neglected the political aspect. a preamble and set of rules which leave no doubt as to the revolution- ary character of their organization. In part this preamble reads as follows: “Not only does the capitalist class control the economic and political in- stitutions of present-day society, but it commercializes and degrades art. Music does not escape this degrada- tion, and is today the exclusive monopoly of the ruling class. In view of this it is incumbent on the working class to develop its own art and cul- ture. It is in line with this necessity that the Young Workers League orchestra has been organized. As part of the Young Workers League this orchestra declares that its primary duty is to render service to the revo- lutionary working class movement to the end of realizing the emancipation of the working class and the establish- ment of the Communist society.” The next scheduled appearance of the orchestra is at the Foster-Gitlow meeting on October 12. In preparation for this day, the orchestra has been putting in extra rehearsals in per- fecting its program. A big feature of the program will be a reolutionary medley—a piece of original orchestra- tion done especially for the occasion by Comrade Evelyn Mack. Window Cleaners in New York Put Fate in Hands of Kept Judge NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Judge Ed- ward F, Boyle of the children’s court will decide whether the members of the Window Cleaners’ Protective As- sociation are to get an increase in wages as they request. The union signed an agreement with the con- tractors’ association leaving the wage question to the judge’s arbitration. Joseph Teichholtz of the Guaranty Window Cleaning Co. has abandoned his anti-union tactics and is signed up with the workers again, according to Peter Darck, secretary of the un: fon. Workers who were told not to wear the union button by Teichholtz are now asked to wear it and the em. ployer has discharged the gangsters he had employed to attempt intimida. tion of the union workers, They have drawn up Flow-Meters Company Machinists Strike Against Wage Cut Machinists employed in the Flow- Meters company, 2040 Diversey ave- nue, were out on strike yesterday, fol- lowing a cut in wages of ten per cent which the management insisted on forcing upon the men. Every one of the machinists on strike has applied for admittance to the International Association of Ma- chinists, J. J. Uhimann, business agent of the district council, deciar- ed. The machinists were receiving from 75 to 90 cents per hour with an additional bonus. About a month ago the boss refused to pay the bonus any longer, and later reduced the wages ten per cent. The men, who up until this time, were unorganized, circularized a pe- tition which all of them signed, de- manding that the boss give them their former pay. This the management of the company refused to do, and the strike followed. Machinists and specialists are ad- vised to stay away from the Flow- Meters company when looking for work. Building Bolsheviks—the D. W. B. U. Plan Mass Meet of Young Workers at Hamtramck, Mich. (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) HAMTRAMCK, Mich. Oct. 9.— Plans have been perfected for a huge mass meeting here on Sunday after- noon, Oct. 19, at which working boys and girls will have an opportunity to learn of the aims and methods of the Young Workers’ League. The meeting will be neid at the Workers’ International Home, 3014 Yemans street, and will begin at 1:30 Pp. m. Comrade Barney Mass of Kan- sas City, an active member of the league, will address the audience in English. For the benefit of those young workers who do not under- stand English, arrangements have been made for addresses in Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. Opera Fights Union. NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Ninety per cent of the striking laides’ tailors have gone back to their work with the signing up of their shops by the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Local 38. The Metropolitan Opera Company is holding out against the union and workers anticipate that this may be just the first step of the opera association to put all its em- ployes on the openshop basis. The workers in the costume shop were in the smallest union of those with which the opera company deals. Trying to Save Another Nut. GENEVA, IIL, Oct. 9.—An intricate psychological pattern, with such terms as dementia praecox paranoia and per- manent delusion as its warp ond woof, was being woven here today by a corps of alienists about Warren J. Lincoln, lawyer-horticulturist, in an effort to cheat the gallows of its prey. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN What's the matter, He wont play with us, Uncle Wiggi ly! «| successful, would result in shifting our capital power over to Germany for German use, with the result that we must endure the competition that grows out of such development. There is no use in trying to obscure or ig- nore the fact that, exactly in propor- tion as these efforts succeed, the United States, like Great Britain, must look for keener competition and in the last analysis must meet such | competition by reducing costs of pro- duction. This can come only thru a larger product on the part of labor or a lower wage cost.” This means longer hours and lower wages. The Magazine of Wall Street for Sept. 27, 1924 also assures the work- ers that wage cuts are bound to fol- low the Dawes plan. It says The facts are that Germany cannot be re- this, she must find markets and these markets are only where British, It is to be assumed that in order to find markets Germany will undersell her competitors. This she can do be- cause of her lower production costs. To meet such competition we shall be forced to cut our production costs. This means either an increased out- put which it will be hard to sell on account of prospective intense com- petition, or a lower scale of wages for the toward the latter, probably, that we are drifting.” War Dangers Multiply. And last, but not least, is the fact that the Dawes plan multiplies and brings closer to the American work- ing and farming masses the dangers of a new world war. It is a fact that the Ruhr region, closest to French im- perialist bayonets, holds the bulk of the German loan security. Here is source of conflict. To the American bankers, security for their money is the greatest concern. Our financiers will insist on priority for their loans or else the huge industrial credits so necessary to the success of the Dawes plan will not be forthcoming. The $200,000,000 loan is only a drop in the bucket of the loans to be floated. The germs of a new imperialist war are found in the very guarantees that the American bankers are today get- ting. The United States government can be counted on to protect the sacred investments of its moneyed lords with powerful armies and huge armadas. Thus, Charles E> Mitchell of the Rockefeller National City Bank says: “We have taken the precautions that were necessary.” On October 3, 1924 J. P. Morgan and Lamont de- clared the loans are safe investments The Balkanization of Erope proceeds apace as the grond is being prepared for sending the next gigantic Ameri- can expeditionary force “over there.” susciated financially without at the same time offering her the opportun- ity to sell more than she buys. For} French and American markets exist. | American workingman. It is| YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, Friday, Oct. 10. General membership meeting, 722 Blue Island Ave. Subject: Reorganization of the league on working area branch basis. Every member must be present Sunday, Oct. 12, 10 A. M. Literature distribution mobilization day. Meet with party branch nearest your branch headquarters. Notice, Rosa Luxemburg Branch of Young Workers League, Chicago. The meeting on Sunday, Oct. 12, 10 a. m., at Ogden and Taylor, has been called off. Y. W. L. LITERATURE AGENTS! Meeting of literature agents Satur- day, October 11, at 5 p. m., Room 303, 166 W. Washington St. OCTOBER 15 ISSUE OF YOUNG WORKER OUT. Fear for Neutrality. | TANGIER, Oct. 9.—Anciety was ex |pressed here that the border classes between Spaniards and Riffs might en- jdanger the neutrality of the Tangier |zone. | Your Union Meeting SECOND FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1924, Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. 237 Bakers and Confectioners, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. 122 Blacksmiths, 64th and S. Ashland Ave Boiler Makers, 105th and Ave. M. Boiler Makers, 55th and Halsted. Boiler Makers, 62d and Halsted, Building Trades Council, 180 W. Washington St. Carpenters’ District Council, 505 8. ate St Carpenters, 4239 S. Halsted St. Commercial Portrait Artists, 19 St. ‘ ‘W. Monroe St. W. Adams St. ), Madison and Adam: , 180 W. Washington St. 674 Firemen and Enginemen, 6428 ‘Wentworth Ave. 45 Fur Workers, 17117 Gardeners and Florists, Village Hall, Morton Grove. 21 Garment Workers, 175 W. Wash- ington St., 6 p.m. 84 Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- field. Hod Carriers, Evanston. 7 Janitors, 166 W. Washington St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren St 4 Lithographers, 639 S. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 113 8. Ashland Blvd. 1850 Sherman St., 199 Machinists, 113 8S. Ashland Blvd. 492 Machinists, 55th and Halsted Sts. 746 Machni. 8S. E. cor. Lexington and Western. Machinists, 53d Pl. and Halsted. 6 Metal Polishers, 119 8. Throop St. 7 Painters, School and Sheffield Ave. 3 Pattern Makers, 119 8. Throop St. 5 Photo Bngravers, 814 W. Harrison St., 6:30 p.m. Plasterers, 180 W. Washington St. Plumbegs, 5212 S$. Halsted St. Plumbers, 9251 8. Chicago Ave. Railway Carmen, 59th and Halsted en, Blue Island, Il. 52d and Robey. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. Rope Splicers, 5508 Milwaukee Ave. Teachers (Men), 315 Plymouth Ct., 7:30 p. m. Telegraphers, O. R. T. Cort Club, State St. Atlantic Hotel, Upholsterers, 159 N. Watchmen (Stock Yards), 3749 S. Halsted St.. 9 a. m. Local 269, A. C. W.—M 2nd Friday, 1564 No. Robey. 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