The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 5

| { Wednesday, October 22, 1924 CAL'S LAST BOW IN HEAD OFFICE OF OPEN SHOP 7 | Will Dedicate Home of (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. as the ideal setting for his final speech of the campaign the new “open shop” national head- uarters of the Chamber of jommerce Of the United States, which will be dedicated ten days before the election. Julius Barnes as president of the chamber will be master of ceremonies, and Hoover will assist: Officers of the chamber are jubilant, inasmuch as they have identified the administra- tion with their anti-labor policy. At the time of the passage of the Esch-Cummins transportation act, the Daily News on Oct. 8, rich and did not know it. JUGGLING JOBLESS DATA “qr would appear reasonably safe now to assume that busier days for the nation’s workers lie ahead”—so writes a financial expert in the Chicago He is whistling in the graveyard, brought forward to support his optimism, the first that the unemployment situation did not get any worse during August, and the second that the index of joblessness had almost reached the worst point in ten years. graphic chart which illustrated his own article holds out no hope for recovery. During this pre-election period in 1920 there also was a level stretch, a spurt upward even, yet within six months the index dropped from 119 to 77 (taking average employment in 1928 at. 100). In a similar period this year Chamber of Commerce | tte aéov was trom 95 to 85, but the end is not Dawes has tried his hand at telling the bankrupt farmers that they were Now the statisticians are busy trying to tell the 21,——| army of the jobless that they are really working all the time. The argu- President Coolidge has chosen mont would be much more convincing if it were put into a pay envelope. Two facts are Yet the in sight. GERMAN COMMUNIST DAILY URGES AGAINST DAWES BOND PURCHASE NEW YORK.—An appeal to Amer- icans not to buy the Dawes prepara- tions bonds from the bankers who subscribed for the German loan is made by the German Communist daily, the Volkszeitung, in its edit+ orlal columns. After pointing out that the secur. ity is flimsy, and that the bankers chamber was foremost of the lobbies, and the Dawes commission take a in support ‘of the ratlroad corpora- tions’ plan to break the power of the unions. It conducted a series of na- tion-wide referenda among business men, framing its questions in such a way as to bring in ah overwhelming majority vote in favor of agti-strike legislation, the anti-union shop, cut- ting of wages and general hostility to the workers. The huge palate which Coolidge now is dictating for the business lob- byists occupies thé site of the Daniel Webster and Henry Adams houses, across LaFayette Square from the White House. It was ordered to be built’ exélusively on the non-union plan, but the contractor made a deal with the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor whereby the unions would furnish men to do the work and would say nothing about it. One of the chief activities within the structure is intrigue between the various officers as to melon-cutting in the shape of higher salaries and ex- pehse accounts. Flames Threaten Village. MANCHESTER, N. H., Oct. 21—A forest fire is threatening Amoskeag Village near heré today and already has destroyed a large quantity of valu- ablo timber. The blaze broke out shortly before noon and fanned by a north wind soon reached great propor- tions. Aid was summoned from this city to battle the flames which threaten the little town. huge slice of the plunder, the Volke- zeitung declares: “Purchasers of these bonds will show by their investment that they hope the German workers who must pay the interest and principal will patiently bear the load piled upon them. Purchasers further demon- strate that they want to keep the German workers in subjection. Should they rebel against the whole system and overthrow it the bonds won’t be worth the paper they are printed on. “No friend of the German workers, hoping for their triumph over Ger man and international capital, will buy a Dawes bond.” No Money for Night Schools. NEW YORK, Oct. 21, — Over 300 teachers in the evening schools of New York are fighting to be restored to their positions and are being as- sisted by the Teachers! Union. An Evening Excess Teachers’ - Associa- tion has been formed of the teachers who were told that there was no money for their services. City Throws Out Scab Bread SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Nonunion Ward bread is on the scrap heap since Oct. 6 in the municipal institutions of Syracuse. The city purchasing agent called the union officials to his office to inform them that only union bread will be used by the city thereafter Pressure by organized workers thru Bakers’ Local 30 is responsible, OUR DAILY PATTERNS — FROCK FOR SLENDER FIGURES PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. DENTIST A DRESS FOR SCHOOL 4667. Figured woolen and serge are here combined. Velvet and crepe, or taffeta and velvet are also a good com- bination for this model. Gingham and linen would combine well, as would also pongee and crepe. t The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 10 and 12 years. An 8-year size re- quires 2% yards of one material 40 inches wide, To make as illustrated requires: %-yard of plain material and 1% yards of figured material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS, Dy Teachers’ Union Must Check Up on Actions : Of Board Officials (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, Oct. 21—‘“The purpose of the Teachers’ Union, as | see it,” said Ruth Gillette Hardy, first vice- president of the New York Teachers’ Union, addressing the first general meeting of the organization, “is not primarily to better wages and condi- tions, but to formulate a new theory of _ administration: | Education for democracy and more democracy in! education.” The speaker had just re- turned from a round-the-world tour of British dominions where she studied their methods of educational adminis- tration, The theme of her address was Promotion Without Politics. “There are too many lawyers here,” Miss Hardy asserted, “and lawyers recognize only the two categories of legal and illegal acts.” In Britain, she pointed out, a large body of .“things | fot done,” but not forbidden checks | the actions of public officials. She) was not hopeful that such a force of public opinion could be developed in| this country to enforce promotion by} merit instead of by political favorit-| ism, but she suggested that the plan) of British colonies of having an appeal board to which any rejected candi-| date for promotion might refer hie case be urged for American usage. A resolution charging that the board of education acted “under press- ure of the American legion’ in refusing to reitistate Benjamin Glassberg, his- tory teacher dropped during 1919, for alleged disloyalty to the U. 8. govern- ment, was passed by the teachers. The resolution calls for a joint mass meeting of protest to be arranged with the American Civil Liberties Union. Electrical Workers At Pittsburgh Hear Communist Message (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 21. — De- spite the interference of a competing meeting addressed by a LaFollette agent, the Workers Party today held a rousing meeting outside the big West- inghouse plant in East Pittsburgh. During the noon hour while hun- dreds of workingmen were filing out of the huge electrical factory, Jay Lovestone addressed a crowd of four hundred on the Communist campaign and why the working and farming masses of this country should estab- ‘lish a Soviet Republic in the United States. Comrade Lovestone pointed out to them that the United States is today the wealthiest country in the world and that the working class made it such. “It is you workers and your brothers toiling on the farms who have produced the three hundred billions of dollars of wealth found in, the United States today. This has been taken from you and your broth- ers thru paying you, for example, the wages you are getting in the Westing- house, an average of 43 cents an hour. The time is at hand when you must organize in self defense to restore the great resources and wealth of this country, which are yours, to yoursel! The jtinghouse workers listened eagerly to the Communist messag Comrade Miller of the Young Work- ers’ League presided. Many DAILY WORKERS and campaign pamphlets were sold amongst the electrical work- ers. . Arizona Labor Marks Time TUCSON, Ariz.—The 18th annua! convention, Arizona State Federation of Labor, in session at Tucson in- dorsed the national child labor amend- ment and pledged itself to secure ratification at the coming session of the legislature. Resolutions were passed advocating the weekly payday bill and the pro- posed anticompany store law which |; combined . assault of THE DAILY WORKER COAL MINERS AT WESTVILLE HEAR OF JOB CRISIS Told of Struggle in Car Shops, Steel Mills (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) AND CHILDREN, The women of the United Council the Paterson strikers. WESTVILLE, Ill, Oct. 21. — The | weapon of the workers in the present mines here owned by the United |system, The women and children of States Steel Corporation will com-|the strikers are looking to you pletely shut down this winter throw- | Workingclass women to help ther. ing 2,000 men out of work, Karl Reeve | They need money and food. Are you of the DAILY WORKER. predicted in | going to let them starve? Are you a Workers Party campaign meeting |going to let the bosses break the in Kornelius Hall. junions and force them to aecept the This ‘prediction was based upon the |four-loom system which breaks down slackening of the steel industry thru-|their strength and resistance in a out the entire country. . | short period? Those women who want Hits the Dawes’ Plan. to help can enlist in the army of the Reeve showed how the capitalist | United Council and they will have class is organized internationally thru ; territories assigned to them where the Dawes’ plaft and the league of na- | food or money will be collected, Your tions, and declared the Communist In- | heip is needed. ternational to be the only internation-| Following is a report of money col- al organization devoted solely to the | lected ‘and turned into the strikers up interests of the working class. td Oct. 14: x He denounced Davis and Coolidge} focal Council No. 7 as Wall Street tools and showed that LaFollette is an upholder of the capi- . open air meeting Sept. 27. sssseee $10.00 Local Council No, 1, open air talist class. ; meetings Oct. 1, 2, 3, and 6.. 89.35 Reeve told of his experiences as a | Goiection of list 17.50 reporter for the DAILY WORKER in| Council No. 3 21.18 the Gary steel mills, the Pullman ‘car | jungarian sOountit No. 8 oh = shops and the Western Electric com- | j;.1. : 22.25 pany. He showed how the capitalists 5 have brot on another unemployment Total $110.28 | erisis and dominate the lives of the workers thru their control of industry. Reeve stated that the Communists fa- vor working class contro! of industry and government along the lines of e r : ty the Soviet government of Russia. en, 46 Greenwich Ave., New, York City. Police Chief Attends. | Following is a’letter from the strike He related the struggles*of the Rus- | committee: sian people to successfully keep the| “Associatéd Silk Workers, 201 Mar- working class in power against the | ket St. Paterson, N. J., Oct. 18, 1924. the capitalist| “Mrs. Kate Gitlow, secretary, Unit- countries of the world, including the | ed Council Working Class Women, 127 All communications and funds for the strikers should be addressed to Kate Gitlow, secretary and treasurer, United Council Working Class Wom: United States. He denounced the war | University Place, N. Y. City, propaganda now being conducted by | the United States and declared that the schools, press, church and govern- rient are using their power to try to divide the workers and keep the em- ployers of labor with their profit sys- tem in power. William Moyer, chief of police, was an interested spectator, and donated $1 to the collection. Joe Uraski, who acted as chairman, and several others present agreed to join the Workers Party as a result of the meeting. Beauty Workers Strike. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.— All beauty parlor workers south of 14th street, New York, have been called out on strike by the Independent Beauty Par- lor Workers’ union, recently organized. The union workers are getting their unorganized fellow workers to join in the fight for better pay and short- er hours. A wage scale of $30 for all around operators; $35 for men hair cutters; $30 for marcellers has been formulated by ufion organizers and the girls and the demand for a 9-hour day instead of the usual 12-nour day of the beauty parlor workers is part of the strikers’ program. Alien Actors Must Join. NEW YORK, Oct. 21—Foreign act- ors who come to act in the United States must join the Actors’ Equity Association whether hired abroad or here, the Equity Council has decided. Foreign actors need not pay initiation, but must pay dues and report to Equity here as American players do in Great Britain, the council declares. Omaha Food Workers Organize. NEW YORK, Oct. 21-The Amal- gamated Food Workers’ Union has granted a charter to the bakery work- ers in Omaha, Nebraska. Local No. 13, Omaha, is planning a fight against the long hours in bakeshops and in- creased wages, as some shops pay only $20 a week to bakers. Eight Hurt in Wreck. LEWISTOWN, Pa., Oct, 21.—Hight persons were injured, some believed seriously, when train number 26, St. Louis to New York, express, left the track at Longfellow, 18 miles east of here, shortly after noon, Two cars were overturned. day Night, the Open Forum. UNCLE WI was defeated in the last legislature, | and favoring legislation against prison made merchandise. A resolution con- demning the Ku Kiux Klan was also adopted. —_———_— BUFFALO, N. Y., Oct. 21. — The |money; foodstuffs or supplies which “Dear Comrades: You are hereby authorized by the relief committee of} the Paterson silk strikers to collect can be used in the relief stores. “Trusting that you will receive the support and co-operation which you are seeking, wo remain, “Fraternally yours, “Associated Silk Workers, “(Signed) Fred Helscher, Secretary- Treasurer.” This letter bears the seal of the As- sociated ‘Silk Workers of Paterson, New Jersey, organized Aug. 5, 1918. Peckers Put Old ' Plan for Squeezing Farmers Into Effect (By The Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.— Because traders on the Chicago li®estock mar- ket have made serious. and forceful complaint of violations of the packers’ and stockyards’ law by the big packers in Chicago, a federal complaint has been issued by Secretary of Agricul- ture Wallace against Swift and Co., and Armour and Co., including the North American Provision Co., charg- ing them with refusing to buy hogs from the traders at the stockyards. The specific charge is that in Septem: ber the Swift and Armour concerns, refused to take hogs from anyone ex- cept the commission men receiving them direct from the farmers. This discrimination was typical of the packers’ methods of squeezing the farmers before the Federal Trade Commission investigated them in 1918. Special Election in Connecticut. HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 21.—Con- necticut will hold a special election December 16, to fill the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of Senator Frank Brandegee «MITCHALL'S INTERNATIONAL ORCHES (RA ‘Union Music Furnished For All Occassions Write for appointments to M. MITGHALL, Next Sunday Night and Every oun (Teacher of Saxophone) HELP PATERSON STRIKERS’ WIVES URGE COUNCILS OF WORKING CLASS WOMEN IN N. Y. of Working Class Women are busily engaged in collecting funds and are organizing committees to collect food for The United Council appeals to all working class women to help the women ond the children of, the strikers. - The brave Paterson strikers have withstood the onslaughts of bosses for ten weeks and the bosses are helped by the whole capitalist |to break the union which is the only ¢— nee eir ree | Your Union Meeting FOURTH WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22, 1924. | Namé of Local and Place { No. of Meeting. | Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 8. Throop St. 1 Boller Makers, Monroe and Racine. Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. 21 Garpenters, Western and Lexing- ton. Carpenters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. 242 1693 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Seo’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. 1922 ‘607 Carpenters, 6414 Si Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, II! Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adams St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren Strast. / Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. Machinists, 113 &. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd Street, Sherman & Main Sts., Painters, Evanston, Iii. Plasterers, '910 W. Manroe St. Railway Carmen Dist. Council, 5445 shiand Ave. y Carmen, 5444 Wentworth y Carmen, 6445 Ashiand Ave. jailway Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., m. 777 W. Adams St. Sheet Metal, 714 W. Harrison St. 485 Sheet Metal, 5324 S. Halsted St. Teamsters, 175 W. Washington St, Teamsters (Meat), 220 S. Ashland Bivd. Teamsters (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted Street. Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. cH Slays 13-Day-Old Bride. CARLINVILLE, Ill, Oct. 21, — Ar- rested by his own father, Lester Kahl, 24-year-old son of deputy sheriff E. Kahl of Shipman, 16 miles south of here, today was being held in the Macoupin county jail with a net of gruesome evidence tightly drawn| about him as the slayer of his pretty. 18-day-old bride, Margaret, 21. Bring Locals Together. NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Three locals of cloak operators in New York City will be united into one local, No. 1, by | the decision of the general executive board of the International Ladies’ Gar- | ment Workers’ Union. Local No. 11 6f | Brownsville and Reeferthakers’ coouaed No. 17 will surrender their charters | and amalgamate with Local No. 1. About 13,000 workers will be in the joint local. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. j chickens,” FACTORY PUTS STAMP OF FEAR ON CHILD'S FACE Ignorance Also Product of Early Toil (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21—“I was raised on a farm where my father compelled me +o labor from sunup to sundown raking |hay, shocking wheat, cultivat- ing corn, picking cotton, milk- ing cows and feeding pigs and says Mrs. H.. E. | Brodie, of Richmond, in a letter of protest to one of the business journals which is assailing the child labor amendment. “My health was completely broken down. Fortunately, at the age of 17, with my mother’s backing, I refused to labor as I formerly had done, but was sent to a rural school. Get Little Schooling | Numbers of our neighbors’ chil- ren were sent only two months each year, January and February, when it was too cold for outside work. “For the last three years I have watched a girl who was placed in a | factory by her mother at the age of | 14. She has not attended school with- |in that time. There is stamped upon | that girl's features a look of timidity, ignorance and longing never to be erased—and there are thousands just |like her. I have a neighbor 70 years |of age who cannoi read or write. |She weeps when she speaks of her | girlhood for she never attended school. Her father kept her in the fields cul- tivating crops and in the woods cut- A, |ting timber.” Big Biz Sheets Busy. Business publications thruout the south are hotly denouncing the child labor movement, but almost wholly upon the ground that it would rob the parent of authority over the child. Night and Morning to keep Miiget tean, Clear and Healey Write for Free “Eye Care” or “Eye Book Murine Co., Dept. H.S.,9 B. Ohio St., Chieage Stir the The very best place to carry on facing the working class. It is in t fighter for the middle class. possible to place tories. Sell them everywhere. LaFollette} by Jay Lovestone. By Alexander Bittelman. first reading this pamphlet... Unemployment— ers today. In lote of & or m 1640 W. Congress St. Chicago, III. ILY’S TRICKS 1113 Washington Blvd. shops and factories where the workers gather to earn their living. It is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates that stand for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter most clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union organizer and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and (Editorial Daily Worker.) THE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” be added to that. It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically THESE PAMPHLETS fn the hands of the workers you work together with in shops and fac- Now is the time. The LaFollette Mlusion— As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of amma : * : Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— Questions and answers, how the dif- ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class. It's a gem. 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