The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1924, Page 5

Tuesday, November 4, 1924 JOBS GREW LESS BY 11 PER CENT UNDER THE 6.0.P. U. S. Labor Department Alleged Capitalist By GORDON W. OWENS. An old adage says, “Beware of the Greeks bearing gifts.” Victor Lawson, owner, publisher, and editor of the Chicago Daily News, &@ capitalist newspaper, poses a a friend of Negroes. Mr. Lawson is a leading light in the time serving, boot- licking, National Urban League, an organization which advises Negroes to THE DAILY WORKER Friends of Negroes pink things, inviting me to go and enjoy myself with them. One even gave me advance notice that the price was five dollars, The Daily News, published by the Negroes’ alleged friend, Victor Law- son, in its issue of Friday, October 24, 1924, contains a so-called expose of Red propaganda among Negro¢s by Spolansky, the fink, stool-pigeon, NK LAN KLEAGLES SPREAD POISON AMONG MINERS Union Official Makes Vicious Proposal By J. SNYDER. THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS A Comrade to be Proud of! To the DAILY WORKER:—I have always spent a little moriey on revolu- tionary literature. When Daniel De Leon was alive, I stayed with the S. L. P., but after his demise the ac- tion of those in leadership seemed to gang here desires the address of Tom Doyle, a big bug in the I. W. W. Please send the necessary information.— Oyyil A. Harding. Editor's Note:—Mail addressed to National Headquarters, I. W. W., 1001 W. Washington St., will reach Tom Doyle, (CHINESE TONGS PARK GATS FOR FOURTEEN DAYS After That There May Be a Peace Pact NEW YORK, . 3.—Copies of a favor reform rather than revolution. o' Tells the Stor be .loyal, patriotic, thrifty, and to|agent provocateur and sewer rat. This} DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 3.—The]1 sincerely. hate the reformer, trying sete agreement declaring a 14-day, armis- y constantly attend church. It also|article contains lies, filth and absur-| United Mine Workers of Iowa were|to delegate to our children the task Ever Met This Poor Dub? tice between ‘the Hip Sing and On By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press industrial Editor) The average employment in manufacturing since the repub- lican gang took hold of the fed- eral government on March 4, 1921, has been more than 11 per cent below the 10 year average. This lack of opportunity to earn a meager living is revealed in the September employment statistics of the U. S. depart- ment of labor and stands out in sharp contrast with the huge in- comes of the profiteers uncov- ered by the treasury depart- ment. > Employment in September, acord- ing to the department of labor index, was 18 per cent below a year ago while total wage payments declined more than 14 per cent. Taking the average number employed in man- ufacturing establishments during 1923 as 100 per cent, employment in Sep- tember would be represented by 86.7 per cent, compared with an average of 101.6 per cent for the 10 years end- ed June 30, 1924. This slump in industrial activity has extended its blight to the workers in every major industry. The table compares employment and _ total wages in September of this year with those of September 1923: Peroent decrease in gathers Negroes scabs for the em- Ployers during a strike, and is sup- ported principally by capitalist phi- lanthropy. The Chicago Daily News stirs up prejudice and animosities against Negroes, the same as dny other cap- italist newspaper. In this respect Vic- tor Lawson is loyal to his class, the capitalists and employers. Page 1, column 1, of the Daily News, Wed- nesday, July 30, 1924, contains a news item captioned. “Police Drive Closes Negro Gambling Dens.” In its issue of Saturday, August 9, 1924, on its front page, in streaming headline, it tells of the police drive on vice in the south side, “Black Belt.” Issue of Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1924, has a headline, “Woman Saves_Gems From Negro Bandit.” During the Sum- mer months it printed articles telling of white girls held in slavery by vic- ious Negro men who forced them to solict Negroes. The fact is that pros- titutes, regatdless of their race or color, are in the game for money and all money looks alike to them. The writer, a Negro, living in the vicinity of 43rd and Grand Blvd., is often approached on the boulevard at night by the cute little bob-haired Pe Fens Woke iano OMe atin ena 2 per cent mean that hundreds thousands of dinner pails with an empty clank. The department’s report shows that even if we leave out the two years of depression, which the republican of resound dities of such a revolting nature, that even a lunatic would disbelieve th contents of this article. . Victor Lawson, like’ the other cap- italist editors, is solely interested in {defending and trying to keep capital- }ism in existence. One way to do that {is to create prejudice in the minds of | white workers against Negro workers |by constantly disseminating anti-Neg- |ro propaganda, to keep the Negro and white workers separate and divided, and to prevent them from presenting a/united front to the exploiters, em- ployers and capitalists. This Victor Lawson’s paper does to perfection. Negro workers must learn that all capitalist editors and newspapers are their enemies, and are the chief in- stigators of prejudice, discriminations and riots against them. Working-Class Sport Vs. Bourgeois Sport, advanced’ sixteen years ago toward the industrial idea of organization. They were backing up many different kinds of movements and many of the camps were carried by the sociailst party at election time. Militantcy in the union had to-be tolerated by the leaders. Gradually there has come race div- ision, religious intolerance and “red- baiting,” fostered by narrow-minded preachers, teachers, labor leaders and Ku Klux Klan knight gown brigades. Now comes the anti-Klan organizer, and in order to be a “‘good American,” he boasts that he helped put such men as Alexander Howat out of the miners’ union. Anxious for Message. The camps used to be visited regu- larly by traveling speakers of the radi- cal movement but now such speakers seldom appear. The Workers Party should have more field men out among the miners. They are ready and anx- Issue Before Labor ious to hear the real interpretation of Working men and women, fellow athletes and sport lovers, while you have been a member of one of those sport organizations that are supposed to be neutral as far as class interests or politics are concerned, did you ever stop to think—wny it is that the fac- tory in which you work has a base- ball or some other sort of athletic team organized by the management? Why is it that the Y. M. C. A., the Y. the class struggle as it exists today. With unemployment in pratically every camp in Iowa, the miners are coming to see that something must be done of a more radical nature tha® merely joining the merchants in the slogan “Buy Iowa Coal.” A United Mine Worker vice-presi- dent suggested the other day in one of the camps that the men pay fifty cents each and insert an ad in in the daily press to urge the public to buy the operators’ coal. This the miners we ought to face ourselves. I have been deluged with reform literature. Socialist party, LaFollette paper, Col- umbia Sentinel, Ku Klux Klan—insan- igy morphine. Some have even tried the Samsonian weapon on me, but I still/remain a Marxian Communist, nothing else will do this world any. good that I can perceive. 70—Walks 22 Miles Everyday. I shall indeed distribute the litera- ture, altho I am 70 years of age. I can walk 22 miles from 7 o'clock till three, It is quite a scattered neighborhood. My nearest neighbor is two miles away. Hikers, Take Notice! If any comrade comes into this neighborhood I hope he comes wheth- er male or female, holy or unholy. I don’t bother myself about anybody’s morals—are they Communist? is all I wish to know. If they can stay over night and eat what my poor fare may be, I shall be glad to keep them a couple of nights at least. If a speaker could be gotten into the Baptiste Val- ley a few might be stirred to action. I may write some rhymes for the DAILY WORKER under the name of “Thor” altho my beard is not red. Yours fraternally, Thor. Aguanga, Riverside Co., Calif. Some Opinions by Teachers. To the DAILY WORKER: I dis- tributed “The LaFollette Illusion” to @ group of progressive teachers. They To the DAILY WORKER: Another farmer had his cattle sold in auction in the state of LaFollette because he was unable to pay his mortgage on time. But bad as this is, the farmer needed the lesson, only thru many bitter experiences shall we workers learn the simple les- son that there are two classes in this country: the exploiters and the ex- ploited. This farmer, John Taltinen, living in the vicinity of Poplar, Wis., is the father of eight children. During the war, to save waste and win the war, he helped by filling the bread he and his children ate with bran out of the same sack he fed to his cattle. Strange as it may seem he is still strong for capitalism. He argues that probably “LaFollette didn’t know of the foreclosure.” It is a blessing he says that no bolsheviks are allowe in this country because they contis eaté the land from poor farmers!— A Farmer, Duluth, Minn Views on Music To The DAILY WORKER:—I agree with Comrade Alfred V. Frankenstein when he says, ‘The rendition of jazz- music is one of the fine arts,” “The symphonic handling of it combined with a sweeping, wild and excessive- ly difficult piano part, knocks the highbrows off their feet.” Jazz (along with Sanburgian free-verse, and slang) is part of the budding infantile pro- | For it seems that | Leong tongs were on their way today to every city in the United States; where Chinese of the warring factions have been shot, murdered, stabbed or beaten iv recent weeks. The truce terms wére written in joriental characters and put up on a | bulletin board in Chinatown here, where no Chinese has ventured of late to’ be seen on the streets unless absolutely necessary. The Agreement. Frank Moy, business representative and interpreter of the On Leongs, said his tong agreed: 1. To withdraw all guns and gun. men. 2. The Chinese benevolent acsocia- tion, which arranged the armistice, will be responsible_and pay indemnity if the Hip Sing tong fails to keep its sgreement. 3. The Hip Sings must move, bag nd baggage, out of Washington, D. C., and Pittsburgh, and conduct no business im these cities. 4. All On Leongs, who were ex pelled from that tong and taken in by the Hip Sings, must be expelled from the Hip Sing tong. Frank said the Hip Sings had lifted a $10,000 price placed on his head when the agreement was signed. He said the On Leongs had $5,000,000 in their treasury, which they would spend to the last cent, to get what they are after. What they are after Frank did not say. Hip Sings Tightwads. i id the tong war had cost the Haipte Total f .jintend voting for LaFollette. Their He sa Ind oe administration inherited from a prev- uadeeertry. ne pels hoseuaiinc SRN hinlpscrneal st «3 agdiergeteatenes point of view may*be interesting. Leeebstgiend Nerrcgesiemad ty geamal Ponting C5 Leongs $90,000 thus far. The Hip industry ment Wages ti inflati th ry 1 H. A. get $50.000 presents from some!erators were well able to do their Th tt h LaFollette’ been given its greatest impetus by Sings, Frank explained, conducted Food Industry 5.3 2.3 en P " nick wf ition =“ ate °Y"| Rockefeller or Gary? Why is it that!own advertising if they really want-| They realized that LaFollette’s Lie young, proletarian Negroes, should be| their end of the war at bargain price~ Textiles & Clothing 15.0 168 eee vsponeible Ie nena ante Tect,| the American Amateur Athletic Union ed to open up the mines. “ppt Beane Pte ere jos, [encouraged by Communists. spending only $15,000 of the $40,000 in Iron, steel products 20.0 23.0 AA eaten + ing haprecgiagd hore has at its head a rich industrial or a Plot Against Union. to take a a at the two hp nts ve As a breaker of religous idols, set| their treasury. Lumber and products 5.8 5.5 . Sees Lad rie ia iy Festi a banking magnate to supervise the) ‘They are onto the fact that con-| One of them declared that LaFollette |. )) music-masters of the old world,| It was largely thru the offices of rep Beather and Products 9.0 7.6 {Were they able va y 1 oe: ef " activities of the organizations to which spiracy exists to shut out the miners’| VS @ step forward. rc ae gta the syncopated harmonical technique] resentatives of the benevolent pauaahe: per and Printing *1.7 A) ee LAsaale coaches yell bgpscadle ea Rens “st | thousands of young workers belong?! unions and to turn all advantages to-| WUld permit the lett wing in his own’ (¢ pay Whiteman’s orchestra is with. tion from Chicago, Boston and Phila- Qhemicals and oils 121 : 9.7 |months, which represent all the pro-|1t is became the bosses are interested | warg the non-union mines. Word has|PAtty greater freedom of action. He|O.t parallel delphia that hostilities were.called.off _ Stamped, enameled == ~s aye ego cep peek droge only in the development of their work-|,eached them that freight rates in|CoRceded that the Se eae te However,’ European music should] —for fourteen days. ware 15.3 WS: Tab the | seate tein, poveg emg! bb ea ele deo pusrerstehoad They | West Virginia are reduced something eh ney, oo case in the Ma/not be discarded, for, as a great Tobacco and Products *0.6 ' 5.6 y ately Dreceding /for their workers’ health? NO! They jin. 54 per cont pen ton on non-union| Pollette pamphlet. ‘ Russian political economist recently City Almost Destroyed. Autos, wagons, cars 16.5 18.9 frais when Harding and Coolidge po it beg gr nena class Ey ee coal, and has been raised about the} Another was anxious to see what/stateq, when referring to religion as} _CAMPOLGNO, Italy—For the sec- Other, incl, agricultur- 00k office. talist class) interests are serv i y same degree in the central west, LaFollette would do, despite the fact well as the yarious branches of the| ond time in its history, «landslide has al implements, elec- Like the figures showing. business| the athletic and sport movement that where-union miners are strongest. that he had long ago lost all respect | 51+, 8,,“The proletariat should use it's| almost demolished this little town on trical arati %: failure, however, this employment in-|is supposed to be neutral but in for the socialists and really favored tena ‘har pin ian hie 95 8.5 |dex extending from 1914 to date|Teality is a tool of the master class. hgh, used) diab nding EPCS candidate for president. Parone: pou aptpnasigs hr 9a draea ER ee *Gain, not decrease Only printing and tobacco, starred in the table, show a gain. These gains may be due to campaign literature and republican cigars. Such figures showing low levels of employment in spite of an autumn up- turn amounting to something over shows that both old political parties are responsible for the conditions which make unemployment a chronic feature of the worker's life. Be- cause their lease on office depends largely on how they govern in the interest of the big exploiters they: can- not treat the developing social crisis but tend rather to make it more acute. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SIMPLE “DAY” DRESS been popular with “lit TWO “NURSERY TOYS” 4787. The “Teddy Bear” has ever ” children, How can this be explained? you may ask. The capitalist class finds that by sports they are able to draw the young workers into the sphere of pat- riotic propaganda that teaches that it is unpatriotic to go on strike, etc. And by making the more advanced athletes or“the stars the ideals or heroes of every young man or woman they are able thru their news- papers to raise the athletic enthusiasm to guch a high pitch that the sport lovers become like maniacs that care for nothing else than their favorite sport, and if they are athletes them- selves all their thoughts are busy with the problem, “how would I be able to become as famous as my hero,” that gets pages of propaganda from the capitalist press. Thus the capitalist class has profited by diver- ing the thoughts of their workers away from the exploitation that they are subject to and makes them blind to the economic conditions that con- front them.; Thus the term neutral sports really means neutralizing workers in the class struggle. Workers, join and build up the workers’ sport movement by joining the Workers’ Sport Alliance, whose object it is to make the working class of this country healthy physically and also mentally by making them class- conscious. Thus making them able both physically and mentally to op- pose the attacks of their foes, tho the coal operators were paid by the government for opening up new mines during the war, and that now these new mines are being used to play quits when any bunch of miners show any spirit to fight for better cond+ tions. By having twice as many mines as are needed, this is easily done. So scarce has work become that when an inspector thinks of shutting down a dangerous mine, even some of the min- ers beg him not to do it as then they will have no work at all. Now they are averaging only about fifty days a year. Strong Discontent. A spirit of discontent, near to rebel- lion is arising in some quarters, There is no dissent to the Workers Party claims against the capitalist system, nor to the claim that the government from town marshall up to the United States president is under the thumb of capitalist organiaztions such as the mine owners’ association, the mer- and the Giraffe will please equally well. These toys may be made of felt, or flannel, or Terry cloth, and filled with cork, kopak, or excelsior. The “Teddy” may also be made of plush, “Teddybear cloth,, or elderdown. The Pattern is cut in One Size, It will require % yard of 86 inch mater- capitalist class and jts lackeys and stool-pigeous. In the Workers’ Sport Alliance you get a chance to partici- pate in your favorite sport, as well as & chance to become familiar with the vconomic system of society that you live under, chants’ and manufacturers’ associa- tions, the chamber of commerce, Mr. Ford’s enterprises and other great combinations of wealth, The miners are ready to listen. They are ready to read and they need must think and with the proper propaganda they will act in unison for a complete change in the industrial, social and political affairs of this nation and the entire world. It seems to me that we must devise some way to get more Communist propaganda among the miners. * Teachers Lose Union; Lose Raise. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3. — Grade and high school teachers in St. Louis have lost a one-year fight for better pay. A third agreed that the ultimate aim of Communism was correct, “but first there came Kerensky and then came the Bolsheviks.” A fourth considered LaFollette a politician, making deals for places in the cabinet with the Bryan democrats, etc. This was practical politics. La- Follette in power would probably be as bad as the old partyites. He saw in LaFollette a representative of the middle class rather than of the work- ers. There is little implicit faith in the LaFollette myth among the, progres- sive rank and file of the white col- lariat. The drift, the prejudice of one step at a time and the desire to be led out of the great American desert of reaction account for their support of a man whose policies they have little faith in. Fraternally yours, W. C. Fascist Propanganda In Schools. To the DAILY WORKER:—At Des Moines in 1921, the National Educa- tion Association surrendered its poli- tical conscience to the keeping of the American Legion. In the November issue of the “Nor- mal Instructor and Primary Plans” on page 81, the question is asked: “What are you doing in your school to fur- ther this splendid movement?” This use of the schools must be brot before the working class again and again. The need of working class education for working class children must be driven home. “He who holds the children, holds the future.” We must overcome the insidious influence of the capitalist school over the mind Edward James Irvine. Come tants have fled. Over! At any time during the day or evening if you have an hour to spare—come over and volunteer your help to enable us to get out a heap of mailing, inserting and other odd jobs on the campaign to increase the circu- lation of the DAILY WORKER and the WORKERS MONTHLY. We are very busy and have loads of work —help us out—come over! Order for Your By A. General Secretary of the Red Translation and 10 to 25 copies 12c per copy. Just Off the Press! LENIN THE GREAT STRATEGIST OF THE CLASS WAR. introduction by 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, Send remittance to The Trade Union Educational League Nov. 7 Meetings Losovsky, International of Labor Unions.. Alexander Bittelmen. An 25 or more 10c per copy. BELONG TO A SPORT ORGANIZ-| Local teachers have fared badly since ATION CONTROLLED BY TH) the hardboiled board of education suc- WORKERS! eded in disrupting the teachers’ un- EXECUTIVE (COMMITTEE CF THE > in 1920, . ite WORKERS’ SPORT ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. — RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Ere, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL 00, ree” jal for the “Teddy” and % yard for the Giraffe. 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. eee agin 1113 ‘are forwarded by of the rising children, As a teacher, I see the bunk at work and am doing my little bit to offset it. A wobbly comrade on the threshing UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS Wm. Z. Foster, Secy. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN J | It looks just like you , Uncle Wiggily | Chicago, Illinois 4929. Tho straightline dress is as ever popular. It appears in this _ model, with new features. One could have this in figured crepe or in silk and when > the picture came out A Fascist Denial, ROME, Nov. 3.—Official denial was made today that .the senate, will be appointed Italian ambassador to Wi . Tt had been reported he