The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, October 30, 1924 - THE let WOR TER MURDER SHOWS SALVATION ARMY CHEAP LABOR AID Girl Held as Slave in Home of Rich (By The Federated Press) VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 29. —The aftermath of an unsolved murder case in which a young Scotch girl employed in the household of a. wealthy Van- couver family was: murdered under peculiar circumstances, brings to light the fact that the salvation army is* acting as a recruiting office ‘for cheap do- mestic labor for Canada. The murdered girl’ was brought to Canada under the auspices of the salvation army and placed as a virtual chattel in the kitchen of a wealthy home. Girl Robbed of Wages For doing all kinds of: domestic work with no fixed hours the girl re- ceived $5 a month; The remaining $10 of her $15 a month salary was taken to pay back to the salvation army her passage money. When asked if this were not a fact, the “army” officials evaded the ques- tion by asserting that it did not con- cern The Federated Press whether the murdered girl had to refund her pas- gage money to the salvation army. The salvation, atmy’s activities in Cawada for the past two years have been to assist destitute English, Scotch and Welsh domestic workers to Canada where they are immediate- ly placed in the homes of the well- to-do at wages less than those paid to Chinese servant help. The army makes no demand for a specified wage in conformity with that received by Canadian domestic workers, all it is concerned about, is bringing the girls to Canada, placing them in a ig and making certain that the passage mon- ey advanced will be refunded. ay “Call It Suicide When the girl was first found dead. @ verdict of suicide was returned and all possible haste made to have her buried. In the hurry to burry her many clues of value were of course destroyed and the frenzy to put her away roused the suspicion of the local Scottish societies, who de- manded, and finally secured, an ex- amination of the body and at a fur- ther inquest it was proved beyond all doubt that the girl was foully murdered, her clothing stripped from her and burned, and, to strengthen the stiicide contention, she was redressed in fresh clothing. One of the police was subsequently dismissed but as soon as the thing had blown over had enough influence to secure reinstatement. Suspicion fell on a Chinese house- servant who was employed in the same household as the girl but after several grillings this was dispelled. It now transpires that the Chinese in- terpreter, who acted between the police and the accused Chinese, spoke & different dialect of Chinese to that understood by the accused. This in- térpreter was murdered about 10 days ago in Vancouver’s Chinatown. ‘Rumors persist that the girl was miirdered in « drunken’ carousal of the family at which she was forced to serve guests with food and liquor and that the person committing the murder was powerful enough to block Police investigation. I see that John D.’s Bible class is newly organized in mass, along sum military lines, thru which the (H)oily gospel shines, It seems attendance ain't bit bin ‘such that John could say, “It beats Dutch.” Too many pagans still in who might celestial blessing it they could only hear John tell the sulphur fires of hell and that tale of needle’s eye is just aw it ancient Ney and that the rich nian is for fair enfolded in God's special care, and that the poor man really must crush out his evil money- lust. For if he’s good until he die, he'll get a mansion in the sky, where golden harps will not be dumb and he can burn Lead gs : So now the ool they organize, to bring it up to ‘Standard size, with majors, genorals ao a y EVERYTHING MOVING SMOOTHLY IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SO EVERYBODY IS TAKING A GOOD LONG VACATION es (Special to The Daily Worker) KISLOWODSK, Caucasus, Sept. 5. (By mail.)—If you should walk along the main road of the “park” in this charming little health resort in the mountains, and if you could know by sight all the people, you would wonder whether the seat of Russia’s government was Moscow or Kislowodsk, Russia runs so smoothly now that all the higher-ups are taking their months’ or six weeks’ vacation, in order to be ready for the coming year of sod ruc, and” san D work. they all, take to the health resorts. Trotsky Works While, Resting. Trotsky is here with a few dozen members of his. staff and. secretariat in a house.on the, edge of the town. Krupskaya, the widow. of Lenin is here, in a. large quiet room with a wonderful view of the distant moun- tains; she has been ordered by her doctor not to talk business to any- one for two months, Zinoviev and Bucharin .are,»still. here, unless they ‘have left.in the past day or two. Ryck- loffhas finished, his. Volga trip, and came here to rest. I met him the oth- er day on top.of one of the high moun- tains. It is rather amusing, the way I met Ryckoff.. We held. him up for a ham, seven bottles, of mineral water and one of madiera. We were.a party of twenty people, going by horse or on foot to Mount Jenal, one of the popu- lar excursions which offers a beauti- ful view. On the way we discovered that one of the hampers of food, con- taining all of what we had to drink, had been left behind. This was seri- ous, as the trip takes a whole day, and is on top of a dry, grassy slope, without water. No Trimmings Here. But just before we reached the top of the mountain, we met a couple of red army boys galloping down the path., Already we had seen a group of people on the summit, with three or four carriages. “Who is up there?” we asked the soldiers. “Ryckoff,” they shouted in reply, just as in- formally as that. So as we -met the descending caf- riages two members of our party, who as old Communists were acquainted with Ryckoff, got out in the middle of the road. “Hands up,” they cried, Taughingly, and when Ryckoff’s car- Fiage stopped, they asked him: “What have you left in the way of’ grub?” “A ham, seven bottles of Narzan, (a famous mineral water) and one bottle of medeira.” ... . He waved us to the wagon containing the food hamp- ers and we helped .ourselves. Such is the casual way in which in Russia one runs into the highest official of the land. Stores, even hundreds of lesser of- ficials, ‘are also taking their rest here. I met yesterday, the head of Rosta, the government news agency which now has representatives thruout the world. Hodorovsky, the chief assist- ant of Lunarcharsky, and head of all the higher schools of Russia,is also here. Members of state ‘planning board, and heads‘of industries of all kinds, are, among those present. Workeré in Sanitariums. Among the best of all the sanitari- ums are the ones reserved for the Sos- trak, or Workers’ Insurance. These are full of workers from mine and factory in every part of the Soviet federation. Sent for’ rheumatism or heart trouble or the various things that can be cured or helped by these mineral waters. And truly, the min- eral waters of the Caucasus are won- derful. My roommate tells me that after ten haths of Narzan water, her dilated heart has gone down two- thirds of an inch.) * Some ten’ or twelve different sorts of baths are on tap here, And cer- tainly the sanitariums scattered thru the various resorts number far above one hundred. In the old days they buck privates not too much. Hach mn who drags in four recruits will get a captaincy that suits. The army’s useful, John is sure, where oil concessions ain't secure. And army discipline should work when Bible Hounds their duties shirk. Our khaki we'll keep in crease while singing of the Prince of Peace, and try to keepour powedr dry until we call for wings, on high. Praise God from whom. oil blessings flow! The ise in gasoline ain’t slow. Now Onward Christian Soldiers all; the ellers have the gall. Lead Kindly Light of kerosene. The Ten Commndments we don’t mean, At least we throw them overboard when wars are fought by Christian horde. We'll all be saved if God will let us. It ge a soldier's grave will get us. hem's little shining star; ‘Bot you: orn by fax. When at work, most high Communists of my acquaintance work about eighteen hours a day, being unable to escape from the numberless demands on their time; so when a break comes, ————————_________. were the exclusive property of the aristocracy of Russia. No worker was even alowed to enter the train on the branch line railway that leads to them. A man who is here now in one of the best sanitariums, tells me how once, as a worker, he was put out of the train by the police, be- cause his clothes showed his social status; and altho he had a paper. showing that he was wanted farther up the valley to work on some build- ings, he was not allowed to go thru this exclusive domafm. . . . And no Jews, even from the merchant princes of Moscow, were allowed to patronize these exclusive places. New Rich Have Hard Time. Now the hotel in the center of the town, run for the new rich at very high prices, is full of Jewish profit- eers. But the finest sanitariums in the park and on the hills, are full of workers direct from the bench, travel- ing here on free tickets, and supplied free of charge not only with medical attendance and mineral baths, but with bath cloaks and new underwear and sandals, so that they take moun- tain walks or repose after their baths without wearing out their own clothes. We'll Bet This Bureau Will Step Easy on Toes of Anti-Labor Judges WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Following up the records of men nominated for the federal bench and other important federal jobs will be one of the most important tasks of the Citizens’ Fed- eral Research bureau, which is asking the public to give it $50,000 for a period of three years, Frank Vander- lip established this concern and paid its bills during the last: seSsion of congress, after his frank discussion of the sale of the late President Hard- ing’s newspaper. Vanderlip has set- tled the libel suit brought against him by the purchasers of that paper, and has withdrawn from active associa- tiom with the bureau. He is still a contributor to its funds. Just how seriously, and from what social viewpoint, the records of anti- labor attorneys will be searched and brought to public notice, when such men are named for federal judgeships and attorneyships, the prospectus for the bureau does not define. Presum- ably it will be a middle class affair, with the ideals of the usual municipal voters’ league, and will find nothing wrong in an “honest” bias in favor of big money against the workers, Amalgamated Fights - Bosses Who Are Half Scab and Half Union NEW YORK, Oct, 29. — Return of 4,000 more shirt workers to settled shops leaves only 1,600 members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers still on strike in this branch of the trade. A ten per cent wage increase has been gained by agreement be- tween the newly formed Shirt Con- tractors’ Association and the Shirt and Boys’ Waist Makers’ Union of the Amalgamated. Besides the wage increase another important victory feature is noted in the agreement which ends the strike. The contractors pledge themselves not to handle any work for manufac- turers who give out work to non-un- fon shops. In other words manufac. turers cannot remain half union and half seab. \ Knitgoods Workers Plan Big Organization Drive i ein New York NEW YORK—Tho Amalgamate Knitgoods Workers! Union, which is about to receive a charter from th International Ladies’ Garment Work. ers’ Union, by an arrangement with the United Textile Workers” Union, which formerly claimed sole jurisdic tion, will stage big mass meetings as part of an organization drive in Great- er New York. The rapid growth of knit goods has created a serious organization prob lem. Many news shops have been opened up. In some classes knitgoods sales are fifty per cent de hte last year's. ‘ Turk Minister Has Malaria. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 29, — Is: ‘} met Pasha, Turkish foreign minister ws reported seriously ill of malaric today, CHARGE G. 0. P. IS' RAISING MILLION DOLLARS INN. Y. Ind ustrial, . Financial Groups Are Organized By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.— Confession by Charles D. Hilles, vice-chairman of the republican national committee that every industrial and financial group in New York is now organized for the collection of.campaign funds to insure the election of Cool- idge, and that $1,000,000 will be raised in New York alone, marked the examination by the senate committee of this first spokesman of Wall Street. Between 600 and 600 men, Hilles said, are members of these special committees that are combing the financial and business district of New York for contributions. Hilles had’ personally secured $15,- 000 from Mortimer Schiff, $10,000 from Wm. Nelson Cromwell, $20,000 from four of the Guggenheims, $5,000 from Marshall Field & Co., and $10,000 from Harding, a batiker. But the fine work was all done by the trade committees. They send their contributions chiefly to Guy Em- erson, head of the contributors’ com- mittee, who forwards it to the G. 0. P. headquarters. Hilles admitted that $850,000 had thus far been sent to the republican national committee from New York. Untermyer asked, and Borah grant- ed the request, that the state com- LOS ANGELES JOB SURVEY REVEALS EVE OF WORST WINTER IN COAST CITY ‘ By MAUD MC CREERY (Federated Press Staff: Correspondent) LOS ANGELES.—The eve of the worst winter for crime which it will probably ever experience confronts Los Angeles, according to. the Los An- geles Times. This serious prophesy was made by the Times in an editorial knocking the police chief for dismissing everal officers from the service. Perhaps unemplyoment will have a bearing in bringing the prophesy to real- ization. While thousands of men and women are looking for work, large factories and shops are working on part time. public employment offices is so crowd- ed every day that traffic is blocked. There is not an industry or trade in the elty that is not. suffering from a serious unemployment, according to labor union officials. Clothing Industry Slack, In the clothing industry October is usually the busiest month in the year, but this year not more than 50 per cent of the workers are employed, ac- cording to Maurice Biell, local man- ager International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and Gabriel A. Vas- tano, local manager, Amalgamated Clothing. Workers. Those working are only getting in three or four days a week. Last year at this time both the ladies’ and men’s apparel factories were working overtime to handle the business, the union officials declare. How serious this is becoming was brought home to me when a worker became hysterical while attempting to explain what he believed lay back of it and I learned at union headquar- ters that he had been out of work for eight months. Perhaps The Times knows of this case. In the printing trades a year ago men were working overtime. Today all the shops are running with fewer men and there are eight or ten men waiting in the union offices all the time for a chance to go to work. One of the newspapers has cut the night side force of printers from 12 to 5 men and the day side proportionately. Carpenters Put Up Fight. Union carpenters are striving to maintain a $9 a day seale in face of mittee chiefs of the republican party be summoned from Tlinois, Ohio, New York and New Jersey, to show where they got their funds which are used in furthering the national ticket. He pointed out that while the big- gest financiers and industrial mag- nates-are-the ones most interested in the outcome of the struggle, their names do not appear in the list of contributors: Gary, Reford of Stand- ‘ardOil,J. P. Morgan and many others are not accounted for. Their cam- paign contributions might easily be sent in lump sums to individual states and not appear at all on the books of the national headquarters. N. Y. Association of Theater Bosses Quits Fight on Actors’ Union NEW YORK, Oct. 29. — Actors’ Equity Assn, conferred honorary mem- berships upon the actors and actress- es of the Odeon Theatre company, French National Theatre, headed by M. Firmin Gemier, for the duration of their tour of the United States, Frank Gillmore, Equity’s executive secretary announces, Notification was sent by radiogram to the steamship France upon which the Odeon company is traveling to this country. Producing Managers’ Assn., group ot “die-hards,’ who refused to sign with Actors’ Equity Assm, has dis- banded and is arranging the distribu- tion of its $250,000 fund raised to fight the actors’ union. .The fact of dis- banding is proof of the failure of the managers’ fight, Equity_members as- sert. The Managers’.Protective Assn. started by Lee Shubert and other man- agers who would not stay with the diehards led by A. L, Erlanger, is sign- ed and satisfied with Equity, Members of the dead Producing Managers’ Assn. will have to accept rating as “inde- pendents” with Equity and use 100 per cent Equity casts, with the exception of certain members of Fidelity actors for whom Equity made special provis- ion. Sales of Nonprofit Coal Mount. CLEVELAND.—Nonprofit coal sales are mounting so fast that the Cleve- land Co-operative Coal Co. is opening two new branches. Coal buyers save from $10 to $25 on their winter sup- ply thru the co-operative. It is one of the largest retailers in Cleveland. thousands of men flocking to jobs of- fering their services for $6, $7, and $8 and in some instances $4 and $5, any price to get work. It is reported that on a big stockyards job men were recruited from the auto camps at $2.50 a day. In the building trades all the unions are feeling the effects of simi- lar conditions, which are reflected in a serious drop in membership. In the shipyards work is practically at a standstill and work is unusually slack in the oil fields. In the metal trades the same. In the big machine shops hours have been cut from eight to six—with an accompanying cut in wages. ‘In some shops men are work- ing four days one week and six the next, according, to the machinists’ un¢ ien, There is only one union in town that is holding up its wage scale — the house owsers’ union. Despite the fact that in every bloc in the city there are several houses to let, the rent scale of from $50 and up prevails for everything but shacks unfit for habita- tion, Owners blame the hoof and mouth disease scare of a few months ago and “anti-southern California propaganda by labor unions” and the like for the surplus of houses to rent this year but are still holding up their prices hoping for the usual ‘annual crop of tourists. That the publicity given conditions here by the unions is bearing fruit might be gathered from the fact that one auto camp of 42 units that had a waiting list last year, today has but seven families in it. Thus on every side an investigator may find grounds for the editorial statement by The Times that “Los Angeles is on the eve of the worst winter for crime it will probably ever experience.” Machinists Sign for $1.15 an Hour. DETROIT, Oct. 29.—In signing the Scotten-Dillon Co., as @ union shop, the Detroit machinists’ organization || obtained a wage scale of $1.15 an hour and an eight-hour day. Other form- er open shops are expected to sign this week. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST E Dental Se Rendering gemtar Sans ntal vice FIELD 97. Nous ih {ter "GHNimR AVE. Cor Arnie Be UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS REAP The labor market surrounding the Your Union Meeting FOURTH THURSDAY, Oct, 30, 1924. Name of tml and Place No, Meoting. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Joint Board, Chicago, s. Halsted St 548 Wareere, by W. Washington St., p.m. 576 ateers. 3010 E. 2nd St. 342 Brewery Workers, 180 W. Wash. ington St 344 Srewery Mat un'ng Tia W. Wash- ington St., 2 Seen” 454 Bolter Makers, 75th and Drexel. 480 Boiler Makers, 18th and Ashland Brewery Workers, 1700 E. 21st St. Bric! ve cay, Leavitt and Barry. Chicago argent. Maretens, I! 180 W. Washing- 118 8. Ashland Bivd. 6416 Halsted St. 440 Em ¥ South Chicago, 11037 Avenue. rs, Ogden and’ Kedzie. rs, 180 W. Washington 8t. ion Merchant Helpers, 126 W. Randolph St. Cooks, 166 W. Pee} ton St. 793 Seeesl,. R. 8. Went- worth Ave. 794 me 0d M., 7ist and Cottage 9223. Houston Ave. Morrison Hote 9118 50 Firemen and En 2. 5058 Wentworth Ave., Pp. m. 715 Firemen and Acelsemes. Ogden and Teylor. Ave. ans “Hiouse Workers, 180 W. Wash- ington Ggement, Workers, $11 8. Ashland m, arriers, 814 W. Harrison St. sore ee Workers, 328 W. juren ince Fy ‘Way, 318 W. 63rd Machintite, Roseland,, 11405 Michi- Machinists, R, R., 113 &. Ashland be > Employes roe ee -— w. igton St., 6:30 Ri; 43 District! “Council, 1446 W. Soutt's Hall, Chieago 2045 W. North Ave. 20 W. Randolph St. 417° S. Halsted St. 8:30 A $ iti Pressmen aper ox Phere), 180 We Maskington Ma 4 "Clerks, 549 W. Washing- allway Clerks, 87 E. Van Buren Railway Carmen, 5445 $. Ashland Ave. allway Bieri. ¥ . bys enn Railway Cl & St. thos Ws North ‘Ave. Rail Trainmen, 127 N. Fran- Ogden one te ng en an: aylor Sts. sabe itehme: Switssmen, 7 $. Chicago Ave. 783 .sters, Ashland and Van Buren 742 isters, 9206 Houston Ave. Upholsterers, Ogden and Taylor. otherwise 8 p. ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE CHICAGO Telephone Diversey 5129 stated all meetings TAMPA CIGAR MAKERS WIN BIG VICTORY Triumph in All Their Demands on Bosses (Special to the Daily Worker) AMPA, Fla., Oct, 29.—The five-months’ strike of the 15,000 cigar makers here has come to an end at last, with every de- mand granted. The workers asked and re- ceived an increase: of 15% in wages, recognition of the union, an extra half-hour with pay at lunch time, the installment of an adequate and comfortable read- ing-room in conjunction with the shop. 100 Per Cent Victory. It has been a 100 per cent victory— and more. The cigar makers have had to contend not only with the power ist pressof their bossesa mfe p ymm of their bosses, with the force of the capitalist courts and the capitalist press, but with the many other factors as well. The officials of the International Cigar Makers’ Union, of. which Sam Gompers is a. member, have refused support of the strikers, and have con- sistently hindered these workers in their fight. Rank and File Stands Solid. In spite of the attitude of the offi cialdom, however, the rank and file o1 the union have: stood solidly behind the Tampa workers. The union mem- bers of Chicago, for example, defied the officials outright by voting that each member pay one dollar every week for a fund to support the strik. ers. Most of the cigar workers here arc Italian and Spaniards. It's All Fixed Up (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. M. 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