The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1924, Page 3

the league. RRR RR ROR 8 Se nnn - . pr EP RENE eT EEE TE EET RE ET eae es TT eRe Tuesday, October 14, ivz4 GERMAN ENTRY TO LEAGUE STIRS DIPLOMATIC. POT Berlin Aid Wanted In Anti-Russ Pact, But- f By ISRAEL AMTER (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN (By Mail)—Capitalist Germany is aroused. The Dawes report has just been accepted— on terms that the German bour- eoisie does not exactly like, but they were dictated and the Dawes Commission was “the last hope of peace in Europe.” A loan was to be forthcom- ing—and the. dollar-sign be- came the star ofa new morn for Germany. Not that the Ger- Man workers regarded it in the same light: The social-demo- cratic “Vorwaerts” recently had a car- toon with a sun marked with a dollar- sign as the symbol of a new day. But the workers do not look at it that way. The capitalists are closing the fac- tories;. wages are going down. Till funds come in thru the loan, they de- clare they wil] not be able to oper- ate again.. The Dawes’ plan means reparations cut out of the hide of* the workers—but the German government has accepted it, so that is an end of the matter. Ebert can do no wrong— and he has the assistance of the best minds of the bourgeoisie in running the government. Serious Problem. Then arose .another momentous question. Should Germany enter the league of nations? Stresemann, sec- retary of foreign affairs, Was in Eng- land and had a conversation with lord Parmoor. (Yes, yes, children, the la- ber government,’ too, knows how to make use even of lords.) Then arose the grave question: Did he or did he not? Did he what? Did Stresemann speak to Parmoor about Germany en- tering the league of nations or not? _Stresemann said no, Parmoor said yes. This was a fine spectacle: Two foreign ministers—and neither knew what their conversation was about. Finally the mystery was solved by the explanation that the gentleman who did the translating forgot to translate this most vital point. Still Germany could not be restrained from consider- ing the matter, especially as Frithjof Nansen, the league of nations’ enthus!- ast, had called on Chancellor Marx— all on his own initiative—and convine- ed him that Germany’s place is in 2 Ebert and his govern- mental colleagues got together on September 23, and decided to approve the step. Not that Germany will now request admittance. These things have to he well considered, for many things are at stake. What is Ger- many to get out of the league? As a member of the league, are the ques- tions that are supposed to have been settled by the Dawes’ report still de- batable? Well, who would have. believed it? Here Germany was given an open door by which to get back into the “society of nations,” and now she is putting conditions. But that was not all. If Germany is to be given equal rights, is she also to get mandates over colonies, by which is meant the colonies that she once possessed in Africa? The impudence of the ques- tion—or the suggestion! Was the war fought so that Germany, the defeated “might come back and put herself on _@ plane with the other imperialists? “But Germany must have some way of restoring her economic situation. She needs colonies the same as England, France, America or Italy—otherwise she is no equal. French Ire Aroused. French politicians immediately de- clared that such rude questions re- quired equally brusque answers: The sessions of the league of nations are about to come to a close and Cier- many's entrance cannot any longer be considered. Even in England, the sug- gestion created consternation. Had not Nansen assured the French and British delegates to the league that Germany would be glad to onter—and now she is daring to put conilitions? Well, this is Germany to a “t.” Ger- many will get no seat in the council, WORLD’S BIGGEST COTTON MILL: BRUTAL EXPLOITER OF LABOR; WANTS HALF MILLION TAX CUT By ESTHER LOWELL. Staff Correspondent.) MANCHESTER, N. H., Oct. 13—Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, largest cotton mills in the world and dominant influence in Manchester, is continuing its fight for half a million dollars tax/ reduction, Justice Robert Doe, of the superior court, has granted the concern’s attorneys 30 days in which to prepare a bill of exceptions taken in the recent hearing before a board of referees. their suit. ed with Kidder Peabody Acceptance corporation of Boston and New York brokers and bankers, want $500,000 cut from the 1922-23 taxes on com- pany property. Big City Only Company Town. Manchester, largest city of New Hampshire, with a population near 80,000 in the last census, is practical- ly a company town—the property of the Afmoskeag Manufacturing. com- pany. A history of the development of the concern and the testimony of residents of the city and of Edgar D. Mank, vice-president of the Man- chester Textile Coufiil, agree on this: For two miles on both sides of the Merrimack river the red brick mills of Amoskeag are built, several rows deep. Cotton and worsted mills, ma- chine ‘shops, foundry, hydro-electric development plant, steam engine heat- ing plang, warehouses, offices, dye works line the banks of the river which first gave the mills the power by which they were run. Old water wheels are still in’use in one of the mills and turn a shaft nearly 200 feet long which sends the power. up to each of the five floors by ‘long belts. Bullt Up Thru Century. Amoskeag has heen built up over more than a hundred-year period. It acquired the water rights all along the Merrimack from Concord down _———_——_ —————_——————D, it is stated—and the Dawes’ report will be put into. effect. And as for ‘colonies—where do you get that stuff? Very little of the world is left, and what there is in Africa, Asia, and South America is being fought over by America, England, France and Japan. So, in the words of the wise philosopher, forget it, Michel. The Real Issue. Hanover, Germany must be brought into the league, but, of course, not on her own terms. Germany is, alto- gether too friendly to Soviet Russia. The little affair'in Berlin was arrang- ed only to please the imperialists and demonstrate that Germany was not being led by the nose by Soyiet Rus- sia. But there is the Rapallo treaty and the historical association of Ger- many and Russia, and the natural al- liance of Russian agriculture and Ger- man industry. This must be broken up—for business reasons. It must be broken up also for an altogether more important reason. A united front must be established against Soviet Russia against the proletarian revolution. Poland, Roumania, Czecho-Sjovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary are in the counter-revolutionary line. Germany is in the doubtful column—at least ostensibly. This must be ended. Ger- many must join the league—then the offensive against Soviet Russia’ may begin with full force. f If Germany is to join the league, she wants compensation for the chances she will lose for trade in Sov- fet Russia. This accounts for the dickering that-is going on. Will the league pay the price? It may or it may not—but Germany will be forced to join—unless, of course, revolution breaks out in Germany and the sani- tary cordon will have to be raised fur- ther west. So the league may discuss Germany’s joining, and the imperial- ists may begin enforcing the Dawes’ report. The workers have the final word. NEW ORLEANS CARMEN BITE ON STOCK SCHEME __ OF TRACTION PIRATES (Special to the Dally Worker.) NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13. — The New Orleans Public Service, Inc., have placed in the market 25,000 shares of its in per cent pre- ferred stock, using the three thou- sand conductors and motormen as salesmen. Gompany empio; to date have personally purch: 5 600 shares at $96 a share, mostly on the deferred payment plan. a a ROCKEFELLER OIL PROPAGANDA IS _ SENT OUT AS “EDUCATIONAL” STUFF — _ BY U. 8. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT (By The Federated Press) ‘ _ WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Secretary of the Interior Work, replying obli- quely to a recent disclosure of his having sent out thru the bureau of mines a moving picture film showitig the oil company promoter as a heroic pioneer —a picture prepared and financed by the Sinclair Oil Co.—announces that his department has distributed 1,600,000 feet of “educational” films. , “The first industrial picture put company in the United States co-operated in the production of tional films on these subjects.” 6 long list which he gives, of these “educational” films which. the bureau has been distributing. free to schools, colleges And meetings of “sofentific, civic, military, and religi out by the bureau of mines was in 1911,” his defense asserts, “Since that time practically every large oil and Its Oil, Saving Coal at Home, Sulphur Propaganda possibilities under this scheme of “co-operation” with the oil and coal companies and the water power trust are endless. ‘Works’ Amoskeag is not satisfied with the tax abatement of $132,948 won by The mill owners, connect-+- to Nashua at one time and still holds most of"them. Its directors are in the Manchester Electric company and other public utility concerns. Amoskeag owns most of the land of Manchester. It planned the town, the company historian claims. Its red brick tenements fill the western section of town. They are the work- ers’ homes. Officers live up on the eastern hills in finer places. The play grounds and parks of Manchester be- long to Amoskeag. The land upon which all churches, schools, and pub- lic buildings, the courthouse and city hall, is Amoskeag’s and is never sold. All the buildings west of Elm street, the main street, are on Amoskeag land and no one will buy them for that reason. Employ 17,000 Workers, More than 17,000 workers. are em-| ployed in the Amoskeag cotton and} worsted mills and subsidiaries when the concern is going “full blast.” For the last year the company has been operating at about 40 per cent capa city and thousands of workers have been unemployed. But the company continued to take rent from the work- ers and its profit in the stores which sold workers goods. Workers who had attempted to buy homes from the company—there were a few— lost them when they couldn’t make pay- ments. BORAH'S SPEECH CONFUSING AS BIBLICAL TEXT Did He Boost Cal or Did He Not? By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct...13.—Sen. Bo- rah has been the author or the victim of one of the strangest mysteries of this campaign. Telegrams from old friends and from labor spokesmen and newspapers in the east are bombard- ing his office at Boise, demanding that he solve it at once. Does he hold that Cal Coolidge “is the greatest man in the political history of the United States,” as the local correspondent of the Associated Press at Idaho Falls re- ported he said in his speech on Oct. 7, or did he denounce almost every official act of Coolidge while refrain- ing from mentioning the name of the G. O. P. nominee? Didn't Mention Cal. The New York Times printed a long account of the speech at Idaho Falls, from a “special correspondent” who presumably was a local man, and this account specified that Coolidge was not mentioned at all. The burden of the argument, as shown by his dis- patch, was all anti-Coolidge. Yet the Washington manager for the A. P. vouches for the fact that their Idaho Falls man quoted Borah as paying this fulsome tribute to Cool- idge, and specifying that Coolfdge had curbed public extravagances by veto- ing the postoffice workers’ salary bill. Moreover, the A. P. said that Borah would “at the request of chairman Butler” of the G. O. P., campaign in California, Oregon and Washington. Flaherty Quizzes Borah. Secretary Flaherty of the National Federation of Postoffice Clerks has wired Borah, asking why Borah, when praising Coolidge for his attack on the $200-a-year increase in pay for the underpaid postal workers, aid not deplore the fact that Coolidge signed the bill giving $7,500 a year to the de- partmental chiefs who had been get- ting $5,000. Most of Borah’s friends here, while admitting that he is the most incon- sistent and uncertain individual in the senate, cannot believe that he endors- ed Coolidge. It is common talk that before he left the capitol he met a spokesman of the. progressive party of Idaho, who told him the progres- sives would nominate him as their senatorial choice on one condition— that Borah stay out of the Coolidge- LaFollette contest. It is not claimed that Borah gave a formal pledge—he is a master of indecision in politics. But he did accept the progressive nomination and he did assail, in his Idaho Falls speech, the attempt of the administration to cover up the Fall and Daugherty scandals. That he said that Coolidge “is the greatest man in the political history of the United States” is so preposterous as to raise an immediate question regara- ing the Associated Press man’s work on the occasion of thi ech. Bank Robbers Escape. ALEDO, Ill, Oct. 18.—Armed posses were scouring Mercer county today for a trace of Joe Dawsie and John THE DAILY WORKER YOUNGSTOWN, 0. STEEL WORKERS GREET FOSTER Other Campaign Meet- ings to Follow in Ohio (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, O., Oct. 13. —It has been pointed out that presidential and state candi- dates are not on the ballot in Ohio. This has, however, not in the least dulled the spirit of the various sections of the party in the state to put up as vigorous a campaign as possible. The slogan now is, ‘Write the names in,” And every branch, every city will spread this slogan broadcast over the state to roll up as large a Communist vote as possible. That the -various sections of the AUTO WORKERS, IN 1923, PRODUCE $607,173,103 IN GROSS PROFITS By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Workers. in the motor vehicle industry in the United States produced $607,173,103 of gross profits for the 351 chief cam- panies, according to the census of manufacturers for the year 1923, as re- ported by the department of commerce, and for themselves they received Wages averaging $1,685, In 1921 they gave the bosses profits amounting to FOR THE 351 CHIEF CORPORATIONS Page Ties RUSSO-GREEK RELATIONS TO BE CEMENTED Greek Minister States party in this state are not lagging be- hind in their efforts to utilize this campagin to the utmost f6r Com- munist propaganda and education is proven by the successful meetings held thus far with Gitlow and Foster. Youngtown has disinguished itself in arranging the biggest mass meeting yet held in the state. Thousands of steel workers who remember Foster from the 1919 steel strike days and look forward to his leadership turned out to hear him. For days afterward the capitalist press of the territory could not forget that meeting. Foster has still to tour a number of Ohio cities and similar meetings are ex-|) Day- pected. Toledo, Cincinnati an, ton besides Cleveland, whtre he speaks on Oct. 16 at the Engineers’ auditorium, are preparing for the big- gest meetings yet. Bellaire Miners Hear Gitlow. The Gitlow tour has also met with considerable success in the state, credit for the best meeting held on this tour going so far as present in- formation goes to Bellaire where miners around came to listen to our vice-presidential candidate. These last few weeks of the cam- paign finds the various sections of the Workers Party in Ohio prepared to make the best of the time remaining. A series of mass meetings have been arranged in the various cities with national speakers as listed below. One of the state candidates will be toured thru the state the last ten days of the campaign. Max Lerner, organizer of the Ohio district, will tour the mining section the latter part of this month. In Cleveland the campaign will close November 3 with a mass meeting at which J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be the speaker. It is planned to combine with this meeting the annual celebration of the anniversary of the Russian Commun- ist revolution, In the southern part of the state the end of the campaign will be marked with mass meetings at which Foster will speak. Mass Meetings in Ohio Thus Far Scheduled. “Jay Lovestone—Oct. 20, Akron; Oct. 21, Youngtown. C. E. Ruthenberg—Oct. 24, 25 and 26, Cleveland. Max Bedacht—Oct. 24, Toledo. J, Louis Engdahl—Nov. 3, Cleveland. Max Lerner—Last week of October, mining section of eastern Ohio. William %. Foster—Nov. 1, Dayton, O, Dates of state candidates to be toured will be announced later. John McNamara Is Again in Toils of Construction Bosses (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13.—John Me- Namara, secretary and business man- ager of Local No. 22, Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, is being held in jail here on charges of bleckmail growing out of a grand jury rnvestiga- | ton of his alleged threats to con- struction contractors and the subse- quent wrecking of the Elks club house, a million-dollar building. ‘ An attempt on the part of McNa- mara’s friends to raise $20,000 bond for his release has so far been un- successful. The judge before whom McNamara is to be arraigned some time in No- vember, is James A. Collins, of the Marion county criminal court, ‘ne same man who as judge of the city court, sent McNamara to San Quen- tin penitentiary in 1910 to serve nine years of a fifteen-year sentence in connection with the dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works at Los Angeles. Rome Rules in Frisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13.—A slight intimation of the extent to which reli- gious influences hold San Francisco in thrall was given when the Holy Name Society massed to welcome Archbishop Hayes home after a European trip. The ferry building—muncipal proper- drag adorned with a large elec- ic sign welcoming “our archbishop”; and before the public library was erected a huge dais surmounted by a gilded cross, The entire civic center, including the city hall, was decorated e DAILY WORKERS OY \ $341,368,712, and took $1,545 apiece in wages. The census report does not, of course, present the figures in that way. It simply shows that in 1923 the average number of wage earners (not in- cluding salaried employes and pro- prietors and firm members) in these 351 establishments was 241,356, as against 143,658 in 1921. It then shows total wages paid were $406,730,278 in 1928, and $221,973,586 in 1921. More- over, there was paid for contract work in 1923 the sum of $1,961,141, and in 1921 the sum of $982,593. Next it gives the cost of materials, including fuel, and the total value of the products, and by taking the cost of material and fuel from the total value of the products it finds that the value added by manufacture in 1923 was $1,015,864,522, while in 1921 this added value was $564,324,891. The gross profits are found by taking the wages and contract-work expense from this added value: Gross profits then were 50 per cent more than all the wages paid. Of the 351 establishments report- ing for 1923, 54 were in Michigan, 46 in Ohio, 32 in Illinois, 30 each in In- diana and New York, 28 in California, 26 in Pennsylvania, 20 in Wisconsin, 14 in Massachusetts, 11 in Missouri, 9 in New Jersey, 6 each in Minnesota and Iowa, 5 each in Connecticut, Tex- as and Washington, and the remain- ing 24 in 13 states and the District of Columbia. No plant producing less than $5,000 of products was reportet. 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TURNS BOOLLEGGER TO GET HUSBAND'S GRAVE (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) CEDAR RAPIDS, ta. Oct. 13.— Mrs. Jennie Brown, 80-year-old boot- legger, who told police she made and sold alcohol to obtain money to pay for her husband’s grave so that his body would not be moved to potter's field, today began serving a five months’ sentence in the county jail in default of a $500 fine. Her daughter also Is in jail serving out a $100 fine. The children of the family are being cared for by police while many residents are endedvor- ing to obtain a pardon for the wom- an from the governor. ena See WHAT L When thousand: to the building of can hardly afford to Bricklayers’ Union. Build OTe NAME STREET. “THE DAILY WORKER / “The National Labor Daily” members of the Labor movement composing the DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. a LPAI TES PAO a year §3.50-6 montts £2.00 3 months WAG -§ G.00 a year F450 6 months § 250, F months THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER os os Oficial Opinion 4 (Spea'al to The DAILY WORKER.¥ MOSCOW, Oct. 13.—That ha is happy to be the first diplomat« ic representative of the Greek republic ty the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and that his mission was to restore the eco- nomic bonds between the two countries and which, in view of the common interests of both nations, were bound to be stilt more consolidate in future—was stated to journaiists by Mr. Mavroudis, the newly-arrived) Greek minister at Moscow. | Mr. Mavroudis is a prominent! high official of the Greek minis~ try of foreign affairs, his last scheme for the systematic exploita-| diplomatic post before coming tion of boys under es guise one oa to the Union of Soviet Socialist, rl ' sawmills anc i j Diler, woed-working | establishments | PopUpucS being “Belerase: Bias throughout the Pacific northwest. | capital of Jugo-Siavia. 6 The mecting deplored the lack of| Greece Needs Imports “4 efficiency shown: by the adult work-| Greece, continued the Ministery Oe ae ciehabee cr of crystal’) needs a considerable amount of ima profits. The system is one that will| Ported cereals, and in her the Soviets take the working class boy into a Republics will thus find a market for( sawmill or woodworking establish-|‘!sposing of part of their grain. On his leaving school and the other hand, Greece could export Peet upee into the Union of Soviet Republics place him on probation for three)” months. If the boy is found satisfact-|Vesetable oils, currants, fruit, tobacco | ory an indenture is to be made be- #24 other goods. Besides, there are |tween the boy’s parents to cover a/ Very many experienced merchants and) | period of four years at what is term-|>USinessmen in general in Greece, who’ ed “a graded scale of wages.” The, Will be glad to help promote the So~ hoy’s parents under the indenture | Viet export and import trade, ‘ system are compelled to deposit $50/ “It is my task”—concluded thé! which will be forfeited to the employ- Greek diplomat —“to get inte touch er should the apprentice not serve/With the Soviet authorities concern~ out his indentured time. jed, with a view to concluding a The Sawmill bosses were of the|treaty of commerce between Greece opinion that manual training in the|and the Union of Soviet Socialist Re« schools was useless because the boys; Publics, and I feet quite confident who eventually found their way into |that I shall meet in this matter with the sawmill seldom attended high | & most sympathetic attitude on tha school. L. B. Travers, vocational su-|Part of the Soviet government.” ; pervisor for the state of Washington | J set forth figures to show that only| 34 per cent of the boys attending school ever reach high school. = CANUCK SAWNMILL BOSSES PLAN USE OF APPRENTICES Idea is to Supplant Adult Workers By SYDNEY WARREN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 13.—The saw mill bosses at a recent meeting of their orgpnization, tite Pacific North west Millwork Assn., outlined a Dawes: First Aid to Swindlers, NEW YORK.—Dawes: First Aid to Swindlers, is the unblushing title of SOV GAY Ab gs ANS an article in The Nation for Oct. 15. Bakers in Madrid Strike. that rakes candidate Dawes fore and MADRID, Oct. 13, — Bakers of /aft both on the familiar and proved Madrid are on strike in protest|charges of shady banking and on lagainst baking methods which they|many other issues including labor, in- {charge are not modern. junctions and the constitution, OCAL ARE YOU IN? s are lending their shoulders to carrying bricks q | at YOU be missing from this enterprising group of live The Daily Worker SEND THIS BRICK TO Chicago, Ill. CR ens BUT, SINISTER es eee sne ene sme en et peeteners es