The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 5

| / | h < \ THE DAILY WORK ER Page Five STRAW VOTE A FACTORY SHOWS WORKERS THINK Foster Runs Ahead of Coolidge and Davis G. S. SHKLAR. enh to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 28. A presidential straw vote taken by the DAILY WORKER at the International Harvester com- pany here gave the following result: LaFollette, 167; Foster, 24; Coolidge, 5; Davis, 1. The result of the straw vote is very significant. It indicates that the working masses are leaving in mass the leadership of the old capitalist parties, Also Hold Big Meeting. While it is of great historical sig- nificance that the workers are finally breaking away from the influence of the old parties, neverthless, the rev- olutionary movement should not over- look the danger of this dissatisfaction being utilized by the middle class pol- iticians. It is very fortunate indeed that the Workers Party is in the field pointing the danger to the misguided workers. In connection with the taking of the straw vote, a meeting of over 400 peo- Ple was addressed by the secretary of the party and his address was well received by the workers. Many workers were interested in the position of the party end while fully in sympathy with the movement, could not understand why the party opposed LaFollette. Discussion is Interesting. “How do you know that LaFollette will betray the workers? Why do you compare the LaFollette movement and explain it in the light of experiences of the social-democratic party of Ger. many and of the labor government of England?” we were asked by the workers and a very interesting discus sion followed. Workers Party in Milwaukee is sys- tematically conducting factory meet- ings and will continue to do so every day until the end of election. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. BOSTON CODFISH ARISTOCRACY -TREMBLES AT THE APPEARANCE OF “LENINGRAD” IN SYMPHONY PROGRAM (Spécial to the BOSTON, October 28.—“Gone—all Dally Worker) gone!” ‘That is the wail of Serge Koussevitzky, contiuctor of the Boston Sym- phony’ orchestra, in telling of the loss of a fortune of more than a million dollars at the hands of the Bolsheviki in Russia, and explaining away the terrible suspicion cast on him during the past week by members of the cod- HUNGER STRIKE BY WOBBLIES IN CALIFORNIA WINS Food Improves and They Get New Clothes By MAUD MC CREERY (Federated Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Cal.—A successful hunger strike of five days has been called off by I, W. W.’s waiting for trial.in the Lincoln Heights stockade for alleged violation of the Busick in- junction issued to strengthen the criminal syndicalism law. James Bar- ty, one of the prisoners “whose case was dismissed Tuesday, brought the news. As a result of the strike the food has improved. The prisoners are given hot gravy. with their meat and potatoes and they were given new un- derwear to replace their own which was taken from them when they were thrown into the jail. They were also given sufficient bed clothing for chilly nights. The I. W. W.’s are particular- ly gratified at the success of their hunger strike, Barry says, because the sergeant in charge of the stock- ade was responsible for brutalities against their brothers. when he was in tharge of the central station. Barry was arrested August 14, in a private house in San Pedro when the Police entered without warrant and picked him up after a search disclosed | his red card and some anti-California boycott stickers. .He was held in jail \60 days without trial. At the end of the time that he could be held legally without trial his case was dismissed by the judge because .of. insufficient evidence when Barry demanded a trial. Taking It Over. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—America’s new dirigible, the Los Angeles, will undergo her official inspection prepar- atory to being taken over by the United States next Friday at Lake- A STORY OF A MINER. By EVA STOLAR, Age 14 Paul Zelio was happy. Intensely so. ‘Why shouldn’t he be? Wasn't he go ing to the U. 8. A? How wonder- ful this Pennsylvania must be. His brother, John was there for a long time. What letters John wrote home! Why, in Pennsylvania, you could af- ford such luxuries as candy and shows. How good John was to lend them money to go there! Paul was a young man of thirty at t&e time he left his native Poland, His wife and son were going too. He ‘was a strong healthy man. His son had hopes of being as strong as his father was. Paul Zelio was the hero of his young son, Joe, At last the day arrived. Paul, his wife, and Joe went abroad the steamer that was to take them to the harbor of Philadelphia. On the steam- er Joe made friends with several children who were also in such great luck. When they got off the steamer at Philadelphia, passed the immigration inspector and went thru the doors to \\Mberty, each gave a sigh of rellef. ‘They had been frightened. What if they had been sent back. But thank the good Lord they, were thru with the hardships of the long journey. When John and Paul met each other again they were so happy that they couldn't express the words of greeting, John was glad to see his young brother so happy and well. He couldn't dmagine that this pretty young woman he was talking to was the little Anna of the old days, And foe! Why he didn’t dream of seeing ch a big boy of ten. rettings over, they all went to s home. What a wonderful place. ‘This ‘was almost as good as the home of the wealthy of Pojand. Electric lights, carpets, what more could one out Just push a button, and there in fain Americ. What marvels there were * . UNIT Cul A eapaciaalecibucalil hurst. Anna and Joe. He would pay John little by little for the passage. Down, down went the elevator into the ground. Where is he going? He is going into the mine. He looked around him in wonder when he got out of the elevator. It was damp and cold. Black rock was all around him. It was coal, He had to mine this coal to make a living and to pay John. It wouldn't be hard. Chopping this would be play, was his first thought. But later, he fidn’t find it play at all. He was sweating and all tired out before long, even tho it was damp and cold. He heard the men whisper: ing to each other. What about? He didn’t know. On inquiring from a Polish friend, he heard that the men knew it was becoming more danger- ous day by day. They expected an explosion. “Why didn’t the boss have it fixed to prevent one?” he wanted to know. “Said he hadn't enough money. But really, I think he has, but he doesn’t want to spend it. If he does, he might lose some pleasure |° and money,” was the answer. Five years later, one could not re- cognize Paul. His features were old, and he would have been taken for a man of forty or forty five. This is what the mine had done to him. His health was gone. Joe, his only child, now fifteen, was a worker in the mine too. They couln’t afford to send him to school! Anna was. tired out and mu changed from the pretty girl who had come to Pennsylvania five years ago. She was disappointed and discour- aged. For all she Knew Paul might be brought home dead any minute of the day, like Mr. Severos of the next cottage, and Joe too. Explosions hap- pened often nowadays. But what could they do? One must aat. As it was, they were in luck. Many accidents had happened but Paul was still safe, Paul, bitterly, said to himself: “So this is what I came for. To be work- ed to death in winter and not to have enough to eat in summer, Anna to |work all the re and Joe Litvsartn Vin fish aristocracy—that it is he who is responsible for the name of the Rus- sian metropolis “Leningrad” appear- ing correctly on the programs of the symphony. Use Czar’s Pet Name. With the statement of Koussevit- zky that he would be the last man in the world to honor Lenin and Trotzky —it.was they, he explains, who were directly responsible for the loss of the thousands of American dollars in his possession-gthe correct name of the former capital of Russia, Lenin- grad, will be stricken from the pro- grams and the incorrect name—St. Petérsburg—will be used hereafter. The matter has caused no little ex- citement even in this city of anachron- isms. Ever since the matter first be an to be talked about Boston has been a city of lifted eyebrows. Here is what Courtenay Guild, di- rector of the Harvard Musical associa- tion, has to say about the audacity of @ group of musicians who have dared to recognize the facts of history: “As the name of Lenine (Guild prob- ably pronounces it Lee-nyne) is ab- horrent to Americans who value the blessings. of civilization, and as our government has refused to recognize the usurping oligarchy that is called the Soviet government of Russia, it comes as a shock to conservative Bostonians to find the city that was known as St. Petersburg until ten years ago referred to as “Leningrad” on the program of the Boston Sym- phony concerts. Appeared Four Times. “Not once only but four times does the obnoxious Leningrad appear on |the first program of the season. “There can hardly be a doubt that the people of America would rather honor the memory of the man, who founded and built St. Petersburg than that of the man who nearly destroyed it and caused the death of millions of his fellow countrymen.” There’s no doubt at all about it. Peter the Great? Even the conserva- tive authors of the Encyclopedia Brit- annica admit that they hold no brief for even ordinary decency on the part of. Peter the Great. Here is what they have to say: “His (Peter's) rage was cyclonic: his hatred rarely stopped short of ex- termination. His banquets were or- gies, his pastimes convulsions. There are deeds of his which make human- ity shudder, and no man equally great has ever descended to such depths of cruelty and treachery.” Breathe More Freely. No, there's no doubt about it. For who are the “patrons” of music here? |- Courtenay Guild, the gentleman who expressed such violent opinions on the subject of Lenin, is the owner of @ newspaper called the Boston Com- mercial Bulletin. And only this week there comes from New York the news that Elbert H. Gary, president of the steel trust for which thousands of men still work twelve hours a day and seven days a week, has bought a box at the New York Opera—the price is said to be somewhere around $200,000. But then Gary is an admirer of Dawes—and Gary probably hopes to make the workers of the whole world dance to the tune of Dawes’ well-known “Sym- phony in A.” ‘Hence the interest of Gary, and men like Gary, in things musical. In any case, Bostonians are breath- ing more freely since the stand of its “patrons of music” has been made known. . 30,000 Coal Miners in Belgium Fight Reduction in Weens (Special to Th ANTWERP, Be! More than thirty thousand miners in the Borinage district are fighting a reduction of 5 to 10 per cent in wages, The strike began on August 15, and in spite of police violence and the treason of reformist “leaders.” not a single man goes to the mires today. Only the treachery of the social, demacrats has prevented the calling of a sympathetic strike among the miners in the Charleroi and Liege districts. The Belgian Communist Party has given constant aid in avers way to the strikers. - Also Stsr Wrestling Bout, ‘8, @x-champion middle: and Joe Parilla, also described as ex-champion, divided honors with John W. Davis, soon to be a third ex-champion, at a demo; cratic mass meeting at Polish Union Ne bi. tane’ A Hall, Chicago. In billing Davis and|’ the wrestlers the democratic man- agers bade everybody welcome and , God entertainment, Cat Asami atari MINERS FIGHT OWN OFFICIALS AND COAL CZARS Battle for Rights in the Anthracite Field By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. (Special to the Daily Worker) » WILKES BARRE, Pa., Oct. 28. —The coal diggers of this dis- trict are seething with discon- tent at the renegade Rinaldo Cappellini and Czar John L. Lewis, This arises over the way these worthies have ignored the min- ers’ complaints at the excessive delays of the company in set- tling grievances. Grievances of Long Standing. The agreement of the district calls for final adjustment of any grievance | in not more than sixty days. In spite of this plain provision, there are many grievances which have been standing for seven months without any effort of the Pennsylvania Coal company to adjust them. To add to this, when the miners of the Glen Alden Coal company, after standing for such tactics by the op- erators until they were sick of it, went on strike two weeks ago, John L. Lewis sent a telegram threatening them with dire penalties if they did not at once go back to the pits. He followed this up by instructions to the jexecutive board of District 1, that “drastic action” would be taken if any more strikes were called. Strike is Called. Despite the effort by the turn-coat Cappellini to hold down the miners method of protest. The general griev- ance committee held a meeting last Thursday and after thoro discussion decided to call a strike against the Pennsylvania Coal company, to with- draw all pending grievances and not- ify Cappéllinf to that effect.” However, the Cappellini - Lewis gang, discovering that the situation ‘wis “getting out of their hands, suc- ceeded “in jockeying about between the company and the grievance com- mittee, and getting the strike called off. Suspicious of Officials. But the miners of District 1 are be- coming very suspicious of their offi- cials and more trouble is expected un- less Lewis and Capellini go straight, and the coal diggers can think of no more impossible a contingency. Your Union Meeting FIFTH WEDNESDAY, OCT. 29, 1924 Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ District Council, 119 RS roop St. 1 r Makers, Monroe and Racine. 10 13 Garfield Bivd. 21 trae Western and Lexing- 242 Gerpenters s. per'ene Ave, 1638 Sos 3.8 1784 Carpenters, 1638 x ‘Halsted St, H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. 19; Sarpensics, ws s. ated St. a Carpenters, 1581 Mapl Evan- ston, Il. Coopers, 8901 Escanal a Avi Hod Carriers, ae ee arriers, 810 Vy. orkers, Garment W. 63rd Sherman & Main Sts., , eve BE i 910 W. Monroe St. Carmel Dist. Council, 5445 ‘Ashland Ave, Lot ey o- 5444 Wentworth arte p Mar Gl Aye. + 68rd St., y Cari Railway Frain Rooterdy Wy ibhaiiie at (Bone), 6959 $. Halsted si, 810 Ne; Wes i ri Tyne Harrison nae aly —E |, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. for Lewis and the operators, the min-| ers were compelled to seek their only| Standard. Un- Un- | Year Skilled skilled Skilled skilled 1913 35.02 24.31 100. 100, }1922 23.13 20.90 66.2 86. }1923 21.80 19.33 62.3 79.5 1924, Jan. 25.43. 21.22 72.7 87.4 Feb. 26.85 22.08 76.7 90.8 Mar. 27.57 21.85 78.7 89.8 g day Night, the Open Forum. (Federated Press This is the significance of the $11 Other hundreds of millions are read: trusts to provide the German indus- trial magnates with working capital. * While over 3,500,000 British and American workers “ unemployed, ac- ceptance of the Dawes plan has re- sulted in great increases in industrial activity in Germany where wages are below world levels. The unemployed in that country are being rapidly ab- sorbed. The severe competition this will mean for the American worker with a consequent beating down of wages is indicated by reports on Ger- man wages from foreign representa- tives of the U. S, department of com- merce. These show that the low wages which enabled Germany to un- jderbid competitors in prewar years jare even lower today. According to} |R. C. Miller, assistant chief of the de | partment’s western European bureau, | “Practically all foreign markets of any importance have felt the effect of the influx of cheap German goods dur- ing the postwar years.” The wages whch enable German producers to undersell competitors are revealed by Miller’s figures which | show wages in gold marks (1 mark, | 25c) and percentage figures for the average standard of living of the Ger- man worker compared with that of 1913: ’ Average Weekly Earnings of German Workers. Wages in gold marks per cent of 1913 The figures showing wages in gold marks look very much like average wagés in the United. State until it: is remembered that a gold mark is worth approximately one quarter of a dollar. In other words the weekly wages of German skilled workers last March were $6.89 and of unskilled $5.46. These averages cover mines, construc- tio, wood, metal, textile, factory, gov- ernment enterprises and printing. Close to Pauper Level. The table shows that the wages of skilled workers have been pulled down close to the pauper level of un- skilled workers and that both are much below the prewar level of pur- chasing power. Miller illustrates the resulting drop in the proportion of wages to total cost of production by an estimate which places labor’s share of the cost of manufacturing a Diessel engine at 9 per cent in 1923 as compared with 20 per cent in 1914. The significance of this in terms of the competition which American work- ers will face is revealed by Miller's description of the argument against wage incheases in Germany. Indus- try, he says, “argues that the wage element in costs must continue to be kept below world levels if German particpation in foreign markets is to be maintained.” Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- Secretary Wanted ‘Woman stenographer, competent to Prepare manuscript for publication. LOW WAGE “MADE IN GERMANY” WILL HIT U. S. WORKERS HARD AS DAWES PLAN GETS UNDER WAY By LELAND OLDS. Industrial Editor.) American capital will put hundreds of thousands of low-paid German wage earners to work underselling workers in America, 0,000,000.German loan which has just been put over with a whoop as a result of the Dawes reparations plan. y to follow thfu private investment SALARY GRAB FOR BRITISH OFFICIALS IN INDIA KILLED Repeal Law_ Hitting at Right of Association (By! The ed Press) SIMLA, India;—The salary grab for British officials in India went down |to temporary defeat when the national jassembly, the popular legislative | branch of the legislative body for Brit- ish India, voted 68 to 46 against it. The 46 in favor were jobholders and nominated, not elected, members. The salary increases were to take the form of additional expense money. Each British civil servant was to have four free roundtrip passages to |England for himself and his wife with an extra passage for each child. The top salary now for these alien rulers is $30,000 a year. The top salary for civil servants in England itself is $9,000 a year. The grab can still be put over. The upper house, all appointed or ex of- jficio, voted in favor and the secretary | of state for India, who is a mem- ber of the British cabinet in London, has the power to put it in effect re- gardless of the popular vote against it. : By a safe majority the lower house voted to repeal the criminal law amendment act under which the gov- ernment could declare any ‘associa: tion, political or otherwise, to be un- lawful and put its members in prison without, trial. Several members of the house had themselves been jailed un- der the act's provisions and said they would again defy it unless it was repealed and the right of meeting accusations restored, It is now before the upper house. * ee * ¢ There have been very serious dis- turbances in Kohat, Lucknow and elsewhere, but mostly these must be put down to economic causes. The Kohat outrage was at first principal- ly. aimed at a Hindu ladnowner who had come into conflict with Moham- medan landowners, against whom he had obtained several judgements. Sub- sequently a mob of Mohammndans at- tacked the Hindus, the first point of attack being the landowner’s house. The military, who were in posses- sion of the town before the Hindu quarters were burnt down by the Mohammedan mob, were mysterious- ly. removed. After the removal the shops were looted. Order for Your By A. General Secretary of the Red Must have extensive knowledge of labor movement. Position open in December, Age between 35 and 50. Single, ba R. SWARTS, 349 E. Ohio St. Chicago, Hl. PITTSBURGH, PA, . DR. RASNICK DENTIST Renderin, Bg Dental Service "tor 20 Years, 0 TN ST., Near fut Are. “ 2 27 CENTER AVE., Cor. st TRICKS "Step lively, " please! “The ser is too high Translation and 10 to 25 copies 12c per copy. Send rem 1113 Ww. rere Blvd. “Wait a i minute ! dust Off the Press! LENIN THE GREAT STRATEGIST OF THE CLASS WAR. introduction by Alexander Bittelmean, attractive booklet of 48 pages—heavy paper cover with a drawing of Lenin—the whole work a tribute to our great leader, and an instrument toward mastering Leninism. ORDER NOW! Single copy 15 cents. The Trade Union Educational League Wm. Z. Foster, Secy. “Hows that for DISRUPTION OF 0.B.U. DEFEATED IN NOVA SCOTIA Russell as Aid to Ben Legere Is Failure By JOHN A. McRURY. (Special to the Daily Worker) STELLARTON, Nova Scotia, Oct. 28.—The disrupting tactics of the One Big Union have failed completely in Nova Scotia. Ben Legere, of Lawrence. Mass., was the first disruptionist to be sent into the province. Af- ter many vain attempts to gain a foothold in the miner# ranks, he declared himself baffled and sent to Winnipeg for assistance. Has His Own Strategy. Reinforcements arrived in the form of Bob Russell. He, in his usual plat- form strategy, devoted all his time te harping on the discomfiture of the miners. Were it not for the indiffer ence displayed by the provisional of. ficers of the United Mine Workers oi America, Russell would not have re- mained in the province one hour. One of Russell’s favorite platform stunts is to procure at irregular in. tervals, from various recesses upor his person, pamphlets, cards, letters, etc., and in a flaunting manner wave them before thé assemblage. During these maneuvers he tells the audience that the papers are evidence of trait- orous acts of local labor leaders However, no one has been so fortun- ate as to ascertain the validity of the papers. Recently Russell succeeded in call ing @ vote of the miners in an outly* ing sectioti on the Mainland. These men are at: so great a distance jfrom the miners at Glace Bay that they are unable to keep up with events that transpire in other parts of the district. This was sufficient to sive Russell his.toe-hold. .The vote was held a month ago. ‘There are over 2,500 men in that particular section, and only 800 voted. .Qut of that 800, the O. B. U. received a majority ot only 267. Miners Realize Mistake. , The vote had hardly been counted ; when the miners realized that they had made a mistake. However, that short interval gave Russell ample time to connect with his lawyer anil an injunction was placed on the funds of the Stellarton local. The amount tied up is in the vicinity of $7,000. The case will be tried in Halifax in the course of a few weeks. Russell may not be successful in stealing the miners’ funds and placing them in far away vaults in Winnipeg. But if he does his mission here will be accomplished. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. Nov. 7 Meetings Losovsky, International of Labor Unions.. An 25 or more 10c per copy. ittance to Chicago, Illinois a trick?”