The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 5

Friday, October 17, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five CALL ON GREEK LABOR TO FIGHT DEMOCRAT RULE Fear Fascisti Will Be Next to Seize Power (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, Oct. 16.—A mani- festo to all of the workers of Greece to prepare to fight the new government which has been formed under the leader- ship of the democratic premier, Michalacopoulos has been sent out by the pan-Hellenic confer- ence, an organization in which all of the labor bodies of Greece are represented. The conference, which is be- ing held in Salonica this week, has exposed the treachery of the government in its policy to- wards the large groups of:work- ers recently on strike—the rail- road workers, the printers, the bakers and a section of the sailors. The former government, headed by Bofoulis, had agreed to accede to the demands which the General Confed- eration of Labor had made for the strikers. The Michalacopoulos gov- ernment, on coming into power, has definitely refused to carry out the Rgreements. Predict Fascist Rule. The general conviction prevails among the workers that the present government is the last parliamentary government that Greece willhave—that a rule of Fascism is at hand. With- in the Fascist ranks, the royalist Me- taxas anid General Kondyles, who now holds the position of minister of the interior, are struggling for absolute control of the Fascist movement, Their avowed purpose is to “save Greece from the Communists.” An important factor in the Commu- nist propaganda feared by the Fascisti of-Greece is the formation of Commu- nist. nuclei within the ranks of the university students, a great many of whom are members of the Communist Party or are sympathetic to it. The students are sent from one city to another to speak to the workers. That the government .is watching closely activities of these students is evidenc- ed by the fact that police all over the country have been instructed to watch for them. Communists Appeal to the Workers. The Communists are now. agitating among the workers to refuse support of the government in case of war be- tween Bulgaria and Greece. A DAINTY HOUSE OR DAY DRESS pleasant in a frock such as is here por- trayed. It will make a splendid busi- ness dress in wool crepe or silk pop-. éor a trim and pleasing morning ress in printed crepe or gingham ith contrasting material for the bovom, collar, cuffs and pockets. ~ The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. ‘To make the dress for a 38-inch size, aa illustrated, will require 4% yards of figured material and %-yard of plain material 32 inches wide. The width at the foot with plaits extend- ed ig 2% yards, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for bur UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER L924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Dawes Plan Is Bridge to New Conflicts (Continued from page 1) kee capitalists are the seeds and the haughty Ameri¢tan financiers are the sowers of the coming world war which will be waged to maintain and extend the supremacy of our ruling class and the safety of these same investments. The last imperialist ‘ world war grew out of the intense commercial rivalries, out of the fierce struggle for new markets, for greater spheres of investment and influence, for wider areas of the control of the natural re- sources of economically under devel- oped countries among the leading na- tional capitalist groups. The war was fought to decide issues arising out of these disputes. The war was won by the allied imperialists to crush the German capitalist class as an effec- tive. competitor in the international market and in the race for imperialist supremacy. Today, the Dawes plan, Proposed as the best scheme to guar- antee the fruits” of this ‘imperialist victory, has within itself the germs for the undoing of this victory, for the obliteration of the very purpose for which the war was fought by the Entente employing classes. France is looking askance at th return of Germany as an effective com- petitor in the international market. Yet, the sole chance: of’ success: in the Operation of the Dawes plan is the ability of the German economic sys- tem to produce a sufficient excess of exports. France will get a maximum of 25 French Capitalists Fear sacra billion francs under the Dawes pro- gram. At the same time France owes England and the United States more than thirty billion francs exclusive of another five billion commercial debts. The Dawes proposal will not assure France the payment of interest and amortization on this huge sum. Under these conditions French cap- italists dread a restored Germany. Their government is now busily at work organizing a National Ecdnomic Council to help the industrialists and financiers of the Quay d'Orsay meet the keener international commercial competition. Britain Dreads German Revival. “The dark cloud of revitalized Ger- man competition” is also irritating the British imperialists. Recently Great Britain re-imposed a duty of 26 per cent on German goods, because of the apprehension of the British capi- talists of the probable severity of the approaching German competition even in-the home market. The British Colonial Corporation Ltd., one of the biggest banks in Eng- land, declared in its weekly circular of September 13, 1924 that it will not subscribe to the Dawes loan because of its fear that the industrial recoy- ery of Germany “might inflict serious hardships on English trading inter- ests.” Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden has talked of the Dawes’ agreement as “a trade menace to Great Britain of a’most serious character.” Prime Minister MacDonald has even appointed a special committee con- OWNERS OF GREATEST COTTON MILL CHANGE MINDS ON WAGE REDUCTION By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) MANCHESTER, N. H., Oct. 16—The Amoskeag Manufacturing company officials have decided against giving their workers the 10 per cent wage cut which the company union representatives voted to accept recently after two and a half days’ arguing. Whether the change of mind in the directors of the world’s greatest cotton mills is due to pre-election strategy or to the Manchester Textile Council’s denunciation of the proposed ¢+—————>——________ OUR DAILY PATTERNS wage cut is uncertain, according to Edgar D. Mank, vice-president of the ‘Textile Council and president of cloth- finishers’ local 1137 of the United Tex- tile Workers’ Union. Dividend “Undisturbed.” Agent W. Parker Straw of Amos- keag claims that the wage cut will not help the concern to reduce prices enough to get more orders. The an- |nual report of the company, just out, shows a loss of $2,851,131 during the fiscal year ending May 31, 1924. But the assets of the company are oxcep- tionally good: Fourth Liberty Loan bonds to the extent of $82,640,000 which are listed at five million less; and other assets completing the $41,- MASQUERADE SUIT 4900. This model may be develop- ed in flannel, cambric or jersey cloth. The coat is separate, and is joined to the hood at the neck. This is a very popular costume for children’s theatricals, fancy dress parties and masquerad The patt is cut in 5 sizes: 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. A 10-year size requires 5 yards of 27-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12¢ in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. WORKER, 1118 wangtan Seta sa "bel PA’ ‘|various southern railways; American 782,045 ie With red $14,750,000 jcufrent Mabilities of -Amoskeag, the Boston News eae pete tee the apnual dividend of $3 “will be un- disturbed”; in other words the stock- holders will get theirs! “No business” way the constantly repeated phrase with which Agent Straw sought to impress me of the company’s poverty. He remarked that “the $14,000,000 we've made in the last few years was all made during the war. The government would pay anything.” There wasn’t much busi¥ ness in the spacious old-fashioned of- fices of Amoskeag where the young men were discussing radio and the old were gazing out of the window, but there was plenty of work for the bent and worn, workers’ tending. the great deafening machines in the mills which I went thru. Only Half Workers Employed. The mills are not all running and only about half of the workers are employed. From day to day the Amos- keag workers do not know when they will be asked--permitted—to grind ont ten or.eleyen hours daily toil over the many monstrous machines which e2ch must tend. The company did not recover from the 1922-strike, Mank says, but the company can af- ford tg mark time while the workers cannot. The Coolidge mill of Amoskeag is called “poorhouse” by the workers hocause in the 1922 strike it was the first opened for workers to straggle Into. It is named tor Thomas Jefter- son Coolidge, one of the oldest Amos keag directors, who is no longer so active in the company but retains a uce on the directory of Old Colony Trust and of Manchester Hlectric com- pany. * Many Financial Connections. Frederick C. Dumaine, treasurer of Amoskeag and president of Waltham Watch company, is also a director of Old Colony Trust, United Drug com- yany (Standard Of! subsidiary), Enstern Sicamship Lines, etc. Other directors of Amoskcag are connected with Kidder Peabody Acceptance cor- poration (Morgan of New England); Boston Consolidated Gas; Boston Elevated; Daniel Greene.Felt Shoe company; E. Howard Clock; Massa- cuusetts Gas companies; New Eng- laud Coal and Coke; Pere Marguette Railway; Union Mills; United States Steel corporation (of Mr. Elbert H. Gary); United Worsted conipany; Sugar Refining company (sugar trust); American Telephone and Tel- ograph Co.; Genera! Wectric; Cham- pion Copper; and too many other in- dustrial, finance, insurance, cultural and philanthropic concerns to men- tion. Charles cls Adams, one of Amoskoag’s directors, is treasurer and membor of the board of overseers of Alarvard University and Ge Wis: crt, Amioa psi also® one of fair Harvard's overseers. sisting of the spokesmen of the steel, coal, dyes, textile and pharmaceutical corporations to advise the foreign of- fice of the likely effects of the Lon- don agreement on foreign trade. Bitter Conflict Looming. A source of even greater danger of war than the British fear of German commercial rivalry is the British fear of a Franco-German commercial ac- cord in which, France will have a dominating economic position on the continent: ‘Since the world war. the| British capitalists have shuddered at the probability of a union of German ¢oal with French fron interests as the | preparatory step for the organization) of the world’s most powerful | steel | corporation. In many quarters it is declared that the formation of such a giant trust would result in the con- trol not only of the Ruhr and Lor- raine but many other important sec- tions in Central Europe and along the Danube. France must have Ruhr coke for her furnaces. Germany must have the Lorraine iron. The leading capi- talists of both countries are -now working toward an agreement to op- erate these resources jointly in order to dominate the industrial life of the continent, The British coal and iron interests have great) apprehension of such a union which would effectively undermine their hitherto strong posi- tion on the continent. Thus, com- menting on the concern which this liklihood of a Franco-German accord has already brot to the British ruling class, Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden frankly declared: “French industrialists, of whom Louis Loucheur is the guiding spirit, have designs on the economic control of certain German industries which they make no effort to conceal. There is a very real danger and political means willbe used to advance these aims. The proposed Franco-German commercial agreement is one method by which the project may be ad- vanced.” That accounts for the increasing opinion that the coming struggle will be more a struggle for favorable com- mercial arrangements with Germany than’ for the collection of reparations, That explains the great dispatch with Your Union Meeting THIRD FRIDAY, OCT. 17, 1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Bakers and’ Conf., W. Roose- Bookbinders 175 W. Washington Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison St. Carpenters, 175 W. Washington. Carpenters, 2705 W. 35th St. Building Trai Council, 180 Ww. Ww. ington. Cai ters’ Dis. Council, 505 |S. 4339 S. Halsted St. 2901 W. Monroe St. 4141 W. Lake St. R._R., 5324 S. Haiste: Enginemen, 5438 §S. No. 237 ent Workers, Joint 8 . Van Buren St. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 113 S. Ashiand Blvd. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters, 3140 Indiana A Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St. Plumbers, 9251 8. Chicago Ave. Garm 328 W. e Railway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie, barren 3 Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie, I. : Railway Carmen, 5445 §. Ashland Av x Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton Be Railway Clerks, Ft. Dearborn Hotel. Rail Trainmen, 1536 E. 64th St. Trainmen, 3349 North | Workers, Ashiand and Van Buren. South Siieage ‘Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 A tage Hands, 412 Capitol Bi itove Mounters, 3609 Wolfra ve. Teachei seebege Women's City Club Rooms, 4:30 p. m. Telegraphers (Com.) 312 S. Clark otherwise stated all (Note--Unless meetings are at 8 p. m.) Vote Communist This Time! THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! ‘Ten dollars from you means leaflets to 5,000 workers. which British capitalists recently con- cluded an Anglo-German electrical trade® agreement on a vast scale. The Dollar Must Be Safe! Another serious danger of war lies in the increasingly heavy American investments in European industries and resources. These investments are made on the basis of securing handsome profits. Such profits can be secured only thru lowering the wages, lengthening the hours of labor and in general lowering the standards of living among the German and other European masses. These work- ing masses may revolt against such degrading conditions of life and em- ployment. Such a revolt will endan- ger the security and safety of the American capitalist investments. Herein we have the cause for military and: naval invasion of ‘Europe on the heels of the dollar invasion. This is the full meaning of the dit- ficulty of the. American financial in- terests getting adequate guarantees for their investments. the following declaration was recently made by Mr. Charles E. Mitchell of the National City Bank apropos of American participation in the first Dawes loan: “We have taken the precautions that were necessary. It was necessary that the atmosphere should be favorable. Our responsi- bility is enormous and once we as- sume direction of the operations we must guarantee success.” The fact that the Ruhr, so close to France from a military and economic point of view, holds the bulk of the secur- ity of the first German loan is indica- tive of the especially grave war men- ace involved in the transaction. Of course, in view of the extent to which the American government has |gone in helping put over the Dawes | plan, there is every reason on earth to conclude that the Washington ad- ministration will consider the protec- tion of Yankee capitalist investments not only as a legitimate preoccupa- tion but as a matter of paramount duty. Standards of Living Endangered. In this light | guard their profits against inroads of intensified competition, the various national capitalist groups will resort | to wage cuts’ and lengthening of the/| hours oflabor. The payment of rep: | arations in coal or in any other form} of; kind is bound to have an unfavor- | able effect on the workers employed | in the industries concerned in the other countries. | This explains why the British Min-| ers’ Federation has declared that the | Dawes plan is against the welfare of the mine workers. That is why even so reactionary a labor leader as Frank | Hodges, civil lord of the admiralty has been compelled to speak of the Dawes plan’'in this fashion: “Now| that the German workers have suc- | cumbed, our’ own: capitalists whine and squeal that the hours of the British ‘worker, must be, lengthened, and his, wages lowered in order that | he might ,su¢cessfully compete with} the German markets of the world | “In a very short time from now we} shall witness the launching of a great | joffensive in countries outside Ger-| many against the established condi-| \tions of the working class. 5 Such is the implacable logic of repara- | tions.” Unite Against Soviet Russia. Should the ~workers of any one country or groups of countries resist effectively, to ‘the point of revolt, these encroachments on their living and employment conditions, such re- sistance would be a signal for a uni- fied imperialist- attack against the working class. The moment the on- slaught on the working masses by the capitalists: takes’ on such a form, there will be percipitated another) world war. Worse than that. Once) the ‘international capitalist imperial- jists even believe with some degree of sureness that they have succeeded in unifying their ranks, then there is every liklihood of a renewal of the BRITISH KILL TWO CHINESE UNION HEADS Official Protests Made No Impression (By Federated Press.) SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 16.— A sample of the kind of British justice that obtains in China at the present time was illustrated in connection with the death of Edwin C, Hawley, an American citizen, last June. On the evening. of June 19, 1924, Hawley was pulled aboard a British gunboat at Wan-Hsieh in a state of collapse, and died soon afterwards. No Investigation It was assumed, without any inves tigation into the matter, that he had been beaten by Chinese junkmen and thrown into the water. On this assumption the commandet Jot the British gunboat sent an ul timatum to the Chinese authorities that unless two of the junkmen’s un- ion officials were promptly executed on the waterfront, he would blow the town to pieces, In the face of this display of force, the Chinese authorities had to consent. After a futile protest on the part of the Chinese magistrate, two union leaders were taken to the beach and |publicly beheaded. The British com- |mander defended his action by con- tending that it was necessary to make an example of these men. For his ac- tion he was.thanked by the American organizations in China. | dastardly campaigns of yesterday 4 i |against Soviet Russia. On July 3, a circular telegram wae But the Union of Socialist Soviet |!ssued by 76 members of the Pekin Republics, where the working and| Parliament denouncing the atrocious poor farming masses under the lead-|8¢tion of the British gunboat com- Last but not least we should reckon jership of the Communist Party,have|™@nder. It was stated in the tel- with the effects of intensified inter-|established their own government,|\°S'am that inquiries proved that | \Hawley had fallen into the water national capitalist competition on the | will never allow itself to be turned standards of living of the workers of every country. In order to help safe- into a coolie colony of the interna- tional capitalists. (By The Fed for governor of Massachusetts. Curley had previously endorsed ment being that Florence Kelley, whom he charges with having trans- lated something from Karl Marx, had a hand in drawing up the amendment. He says he considers the child labor amendment would lead to Sovietism. Lines up with Catholics. The Boston mayor’s turnabout on the amendment came close on the heels of its denunciation by the Catho- lic heirarchy of this diocese. Cardi- nal ‘O’Conrell, who led the Catholic fight on the amendment used the term Sovietism. He says he believes in state laws regulating the labor of children but fears a proposal to give the national government authority to pass anti-child labor laws might lead to the invasion of homes to see whether the children were working, even doing chores. “For the parental control of chil- dren,” says thé alarmed cardinal, “it "| would substitute the will of congress and the dictates of a centralized bu- reaucracy, more in keeping with So- viet Russia than with the fundamental principles of American government.” Would Abolish Child Labor, Answering the allegation of Soviet- ism the Massachusetts child labor committee says the real issue is the solution of child labor in the United States within a reasonable time, THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN! Two hundred and fifty major campaign rallies if you'll help finance them.. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS CURLEY, GOMPERS’ MAYOR OF BOSTON, MASS., JOINS WAR ON CHILDREN erated Press) BOSTON, Oct. 16.—Officers of the Boston Central Union, following the | lead of the American Federation of Labor in its educational campaign for the | child labor amendment, are amazed at the storm of opposition. of Alvin T. Fuller, republican candidate for governor, came as a matter of | course, but labor was not prepared for the attack which James M. Curley, mayor of Boston and supposed labor sympathizer, launched in his candidacy the child labor amendment. Now he comes out against it, his main argu-<¢————————__________ ASCIST MINISTER REFUSES 10 OBEY CONVENTION DECISION | (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) LIVORNO, Italy, Oct. 16.—Giorda- no Sarocchi, minister of labor in the cabinet of Mussolini and a member of the liberal party, has lined up with the pro-fascist forces in the split which has been precipitated among the liberals in convention here. Following the vote of the over- whelming majority of the delegates to refuse further co-operation with the Mussolini .government, both Sarocchi and Casati, who were put in the cabinet as representatives of the liberal. party, have decided to ‘The fascist representatives at the convention have been able to carry with them only, a very small group. Would “Honor” MacDonald MILAN, Oct. 16.— The Popliat Italia in’a published letter of which some’ believe Mussolini the author, suggests that Ranisay MacDonald be made a honorary member of the Fas- cisti, as “he has always worked out- side constitutional lines,” Opposition | | while trying to board the China Steam Navigation Co.’s vessel Wan-Liu and Had not been beaten by junkmen. The telegram concluded: Merits Condemnation “Such high-handed policy as this merits the just condemnation of the Chinese people, and arouses the whole nation to anger. Great Britain and the United States have recently seen fit to browbeat China, they have now gone to the limit when the cap- tain of a British gunboat threatened to bombard a Chinese city and de- mand the instant execution of two in- nocent citizens. We denounce this lawless and barbarous conduct, and we should, one and all, rise in vigor- ous protest against this lawlessness.” The outstanding points are that two men, who had no connection with the affair were publicly executed; the de ceased was not a British subject, and the British commander went beyond his rights and all the precepts of inter- national law in creating himself judge and jury; no attempts was made by the officer to inquire into the rights or wrongs of the affair, and no at- tempt was made to bring the alleged |culprits to justice. It is not even al- leged that the men executed had any- thing to do with the affair, yet they paid with their lives. Anatole France Is Dead. TOURS, France, Oct. 16. — Hun dreds of messages of condolence were received today over the death of Ana- tole France, famous French essayist and novelist. He had been ill for a year and had been sinking for two weeks so his, death was not unex- pected. M. France was in his 81st year. His funeral probably will be Wednesday or Thursday. It is expected that pub- lic ceremonies will be conducted in Paris later. Worker Dies in Fire. \ MONTREAL, Oct. 16.—Damage es timated at $200,090 was done today by fire in the Montreal abbatoirs. One employe was injured leaping from ‘@ third story window. .