The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 3

Friday, November 7, 1924 LABOR OF SEVEN NATIONS INWAR ON DAWES PLAN Attack U.S, as Head of Attack on Workers By A. L. CONRAD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent COLOGNE, Germany. — (By Mall.) —An international con- ference of workers, in which Communists gore a role, de- nounced the Dawes reparations In their sessions in the People’s House in len Representa- tives from France, England, Czecho-Slovakia, Switzerland, Italy and Holland appeared. After resolutions of sympathy for the political and revolution- ary prisoners of various coun- tries and an appeal for interna- tional support for the striking Be! miners, who have now h out for more than 17 weeks, a French delegate briefly outlined the international situa- tion. Morgan Plots War on Labor. He stated that America was organ- ising and financing the struggle against the working class of the whole world; that the lack of unity among the capitalists was leading to further issensions and jealousies between the imperialist powers; that England fears the America’s growing might in European and world finance and the economic unity between Ruhr coal and Frénch industry, and that the antagonism between England and France increases daily. - The acceptance of the Dawes plan insures not only the further oppres- sion of the Germzn workers but _, Means unemploym#t and misery for the workers of ali’ Burope, he said, since the balance of the industrial market will be further disturbed by the increased production of German industries, as arranged in jhe Dawes Tell of Long Workday. A remarkable feature of the confer- ence was the great number of Rhine- Rubr miners, metal workers, railwa: Workers, textile, chemical and glass workers who presented to the con- ference the greetings of the groups they represented. “hey spoke~energetically for these Broups, demanding the combined re- sistance of the working class of Hu- Tope against the Dawes plan, against Capitalist justice in Europe, and for the freeing of political prisoners. The Federated Press correspondent has recently had the “privilege” of reading a number of applications for loans from American capitalists to large German industries. In almost Svery case the German industrialists use as an additional reason why they are worthy of receiving a loan, that “owing to the political situation we re now working our employes nine and ten hours daily, and even more.” U. S. Plans to Make 5 . Another Bid for Oil Rights in Roumania —— (Dy The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 6.—Peter Jay, American minister to Roumania, who was called home for consultation some months ago when the Bratiano dictatorship in Roumania enacted a mining law which proposed to force . the sale of @ controlling share of oil companies operating in that country to Roumanian nationals, has gonv back to Bucharest. j - He has not found a definite solu. tion of the quarrel between the Row manian business magnates and the foreign oil companies, reflected in tho Passage of this confiscatory law. However, Jay is convinced that a way will be found to harmonize the {aterests of Standard Oil, Royal Duteh- Shell and the companies in which the Bratiano brothers have a profitable Interest. His return to Roumania means that further negotiations for the modifica Urn of the new law are to be carried on there, after the British and Aimer- elections shall have given an in- on of the degree of activity oh the London and Washington governments will display in support of thelr respective oil corporations, Subseribe for “Your: Daily,” the DAILY WORKER: CANTON, OHIO—NOTICE! SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION to be celebrated by i WORKERS PARTY OF CANTON, OHIO SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 8 P.M. at POLISH HALL, 1711 11th Street, N. E. . © PLENTY TO BAT—PLENTY TO DRINK. Speakers in Italian, Slavish, Greek and English, All proceeds to #0 to the DAILY WORKER. Boost for Spolanski Was Boomerang Smarr rete se amy bmn eae meme nem ane meme tsa earn rename For days the Chicago Daily News advertised the articles of Jake Spo- lanski, alias Shpoliansky, alies Spalinski, Then the stool pigeon who has worked hand In glove with Gary's | trust started his articles. The circulation of the Dally News went steadily down, Spolanski was disclosed to be unable to get his citizenship papers, and his trash was too poor for even the Daily News to swallow, The News cut the articles short, and advertising such as the above proved a boomerang, SPOLANSKY'’S RED|CHICAGO CIVIC SGARE SCARED) OPERA OPENS ‘NEWS’ READERS} SEASON HERE Illiterate Dick Drops Of-| Blood and T hunder is fal on Lawson Scheduled for Start The market for imported bunk is} By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. poor, even in Chicago, we ‘And the homemade brand of He has| . Veanerday hogtied bec — it all over the foreign kind, as far as |°°™P@ny opened its season at the Aud: roping in the reader goes. torium theatre with “La Giaconda,” The Daily News fell for the foreign | by Ponchielli. Reorganized three yoars bull, and the foreign bull has gored |ago, with increased finances and a bet- Seng sacee fn the cashbook of the/io> star of artists and technicians, 14 the local opera probably opened ite When Victor Lawson again meets! .og¢ britiiant season here Wednes- day. New voices are added to tho list, both principals and chorus sing: his circulation manager the latter may attempt to point out that such escapades as the printing of the re- ers, and, altho attempts wera made cent “red” scare stories is too costly |+, attract nome.of the best artists tc European musical centers, the great majority of the finest stayed with to be tried very often. Hit the Pavement. the Chicago company. In Grip of Villian, Jakey Spolansky, former depart: ment of justice fink, who found him- self wiping the dust from the seat of his pants-in Washington’s back yard| “La Giaconda,” which opened the when the government had its little |season with Rosa Raisa in the name clean-up week last spring, and who/|part, and “Tosca,” the opera of the is the “author” of the “red exposures” |folowing night, in which Claudia Mu: that the Daily News has been smear-|zio starred, are both good blood and ing allover its front page, has proud-,thunder operas, dealing with the ad- ly announced to the DAILY WORKER | ventures of a dramatic soprano in the that his stories have sent the circula.|clute! tion of the News shooting skywards. | est Gioconda and Tosca both depart this life in aproved fashion Of the two the first work is probably the more spectacular. It has in one But when Jakey says that, he lies, of the most famous of all operatic as usual, The very day after Jakey told how—clevery disguised as a head of cabbage—he listened in at a “red” convention in the Illinois woods, the circulation of the Daily News drop- ned 3,431 copies. And when the next day he brought in a “story” of a vaudeville act which the Communists were supposed to have staged to bring harmony between two opposing fac- tions, the circulation dropped again— 4,916. The music of both is of that gripping, emotional sort that has made Italian opera so popular, On Friday “The Prophet,” by Meyer- beer, will be presented, Charles Mar- shall singing the part of the Prophet. The rest of the schedule up to Noy. 11 is as follows: Saturday matinee—“The Pearl Fi- shers,” by Bizet, the composer of “Carmen.” This will be the first per- formance of the opera by the Chicago company, Graziella Pareto, Charles Hackett, and Giacoma Rimini will star, Saturday night—“Aida,” by Verdi, with Rosa Raisa, Forrest Lamont and Cesar Formichi. Monday—“Lucia” by Donizetti, with Toti dal Monte, (debut performance) Antonio Cortis and Virgilio Lazzari. ‘Tuesday—Tannhauser,” by Wagner, Cyrena Van Gordon, Forrest Lamont, Joseph Schwartz, and Alexander Kip- nis starring. Greatest French Opera Further the schedule is not an- nounced. But Director Polacco says there will be a greater variety of opera produced this season than last, when French and Italian works out numbered those of other nationalities two to one, At least one Russian work, “Boris Goudunoff,” by Musorg- ski, will be sung this season, An Amer- ican opera, “Bianca,” by Henry K. Hadley, is to be put on, And we are promised what to the writer is the greatest of all Fronch operas, Debus- sy’s “Pellens apd Melisande.” One of tho new singers in the com- pany \is well known to working-class audiences, Ivan Dneproff, the tenor has, among othor appearances, sung hero for the concorts of the Amalgam: ated Clothing Workers, and given free concerts for the strikers of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union who were out last spring, The return of the ballet corps of Andreas Paviey and Serge Oukrain- sky is announced, At lest two changes in the orches- tra are worth recording. There is a new concertmaster, Gregor Skolnik by name, and Joseph Siniscalchi, the du mon technician of the clarinet, returns to his old chair. Progressing Favorably. At first the readers that the Daily News had roped in by an extensive ad- yertisink campaign were a bit disap- pointed. A dayr two later they were ‘lisgusted. Within another 24 hours, they were no longer readers of the Daily News. And the circulation of the Daily News went down—and down. Everyone knows that June i® one of the poorest months of the year for newspaper circulation. Everyone knows that October is one of the best. But for the Daily News, the circula- tion figures of June, 1924, were far above the figures for the correspond: ing days of October. For in October the “red” series were the chief feature of the News—and people just didn’t want to read them. Red Scare Scared Readers. The very first day of the Chicago newspaper revolution, Oct. 14, brought 6,204 readers less than the Daily News had on the 14th of June. Oct, 16, the high-water mark of circulation for the News during the time of the “exposurt brought the News 12,702 readers less than it had on the corre sponding day in June. And the total circulation for the “red” period of October was less than the circulation for the same days of June by almost 15,000, One trouble was that the bunk was more than three years old. And the readers just’ didn’t ke the canned goods, Meanwhile, the Comniunists of Cht- eago have been carrying on their work, and more things than tho Oc tober leaves have been turning red. to make arrangements for the campal, this meeting. It will be held Sunday, instructions as to what time and p' Make the campaign a success. Be at Members of branches Nos, 2 and Nov. 9 6 p.m, By ME ey he of @ baritone of the deep-| M ballets, “The Dance of the Hours.” Young Workers League Members Take Noti Mailing order house campaign meeting will be held at 3822 Douglas Blvd. bers of area branches Nos. 1, 4, 5 and 6 are instructed to be present at to make arrangements for the work Nene THE DAILY WORKE ELECTION OVER! WORKERS FACE BIG WAGE CUT Textile Toilers to Urge A. F, of L. Action ‘ By ART SHIELDS (Federated Prose Staff Correspondent.) | NEW YORK CITY, Nov, 6,— | Aid to the United Textile Work- \ers in the wage cut crisis strik- ing New England with the pass- ing of the election is one of the most serious issues facing the El Paso convention .of the American Federation of Labor. The union will put its case be- fore the general body of labor and call for united backing in what may prove to be a life and death fight for organization in this huge industry. Will Lower Wage Standard, Cotton and woolen manufacturers have let it be known that the wage standard would be lowered after elec- tion, The United Textile Workers’ Union has announced that it will take up the challenge. It must have abundance of outside aid. The manufacturers are better or- ganized than they were in the 1922 struggle: three big mergers have been accomplished in the New Eng- land cotton industry alone. And more southern mills are owned by northern capital than before, so the New Eng: land boss is frequently able to shut down his northern mills and fill or- ders from the south until the north- ern workers will listen to wage cut arguments. Need Outside Aid. In the great 1922 strike consider- ble outside aid was furnished and the United Textile Workers held the fort for nine months in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Blackstone Val- ley in Rhode Island, In these same fields the bosses have flung down their challenge again. A company union at Manchester has voted for a ten per cent wage cut for the 14,000 workers there, The local textile coun- oil of the A, F. of L, is opposing the cut but it must have money and or- ganizers from the outside to prepare for the fight. A ten per cent cut has already gone into effect in the Black- stone Valley mills of the $39,000,000 Ne-Jen corporation. ited tak ‘orkers is con- ducting an organization campaign and has issued word that the wages must be restored, but here again the need is outside assistance. The difficulties facing any textile union can be guessed when it ig un- derstood that the workers are on less than half time employment and that the average wage, even at full time is not more than $20 a week Presi- dent Thomas F. McMahon, of the United Textile Workers, put the aver- age as low as $18 in talking to the Federated Press, Pauper wages in “good” times, near-starvation in pe- riods of industrial depression, is the rule in the textile industry. Its workers are about as badly off as those in the bituminous coal fields. Plan Organization Drive. A national organization drive, sus- tained thruout the winter, is the hope of the textile union. The drive must be national, because the southern workers, getting an average of eight to ten cents an hour less than their northern workers are being used by the employers to defeat the others. Latest reports from the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and other southern states show many mills. working full time. That is the case in few north- ern mills. The United Textile Work- ers’ Union has scattering locals in the South, but is not yet in the posi- tion to lead a big struggle there. Yet organization of the South is im- perative for the preservation of the union in the North, Since the United Textile Workers’ Union is the only textile labor move- ment affiliated with the American Fderation of Labor it is the only ono which will get A. F. of L. backing. There are several other unions func- tioning in the industry, two of which were strong enough to be considerable factors in the 1922 strike. This mul- tiplicity of unions complicates the situation, — To the Women of the Bronx. NEW YORK, Nov, n interest ing lecture will be Noy. 12, at 8:30 at 1347 Boston . After the lecture discussion Will follow. Also how to help the Paterson strikers will be taken up. All are welcome. Auspices women's committee and the U. C. W. W. councils, No, 8 and 5, _— Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, jan at Sears, Roebuck & Co, All mem Nov. 9, at 6 p.m, Y% jee you are to help meeting on time, 3 will meet at 722 ‘ Sun- will get your the campaign. ie hi ities to learn how the Russian people, and particularly the young people, the youth of Russia live in their environ ment of revolutionary, turmoil, will speak on the subject and give a comparison of the lives of the youth of Russia and the youth of America. |W. B. U. a THE POWER COLUMN Twice every week—this column uncovers to your view the motive power behind the DAILY WORKER. Here far the Interest and inspiration of every reader—and especially the DAILY WORKER agents and committees—are tried and proven sugges: tlons and accomplishments to drive the DAILY WORKER to further conquests. Here is POWER—the power of brain and effort of women of the working class who not only belleve-—but ACT . SOME FACTS AND FIGURES About Building the Labor Movement. ODAY the DAILY WORKER has a circulation of 6,000 MORE A DAY than it had on October 4—one month ago. Fifty per cent of this splendid growth is the increase in news stand sales, bundle orders from branches, individuals and dealers. Thruout the country the election campaign has brought home the necessity for the DAILY WORKER at/every important meeting where workingmen gather. Due to this lesson the DAILY WORKER will not lose any of this cireylation now that the election campaign is over. The winter days will see an increase in the attendance at Workers Party and union meetings, and a corresponding increase in the necessity of more bundle orders of the DAILY WORKER. And in many cities plans are being made for widespread news stand sales. We will grow some more. The other fifty per cent of the growth of the DAILY WORKER since October 4 has been due to the Bricklayers, It has come in sulascriptions— the most substantial, most dependable growth for’a working class paper. ae * * It Has Been Due to the Bricklayers In the campaign Loca| New York, under the leadership ef Comrade L. E. Katterfeid, has been the outstanding factor in the success of build- ing the DAILY WORKER. During this period the DAILY WORKER has been placed on the news stand of New York and over 1,000 subs have been secured. Most were short term subs. But already the comrades are being mobilized to retain and even increage their gains by a close follow- up on every expiring subscription. The organization of DAILY WORKER agents in this city as in others is being closely knit together to form the advance guard-of the local. To the comrades of New York goes great credit for splendid, constructive accomplishments for the DAILY WORKER in the past month. Local Detroit This local has contributed a good share to the building, A DAILY WORKER committee is responsible for bundle sales BY EVERY BRANCH, EVERY SINGLE DAY. This is a feature that is not as yet in use in any other local in the country. Subscriptions have shown a net gain of 123 over last month and the local as yet is only beginning to gather up steam. Local Detroit has BUILDERS! Local Cleveland DAILY WORKER agent Comrade J. Hamilton is an established “live wire.” Under his leadership and due greatly to his efforts this city has shown a net gain of 38 subscriptions since October 4. Bundle sales have increased and the increase in the Cleveland circulation of the DAILY WORKER speaks well for renewed activities of the party there. s ee, Ce TE) Local Philadelphia under the guidance of John Lyman has shown an increase in subscriptions, Minneapolis, Worcester, Superior, Mil- waukee, Springfield, III., Baltimore—many other locals have done nobly, Today we are building the DAILY WORKER—we ¢@ building the Labor movement and here are the builders who have sent in new subs on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this wee! The Daily Worker Bricklayers’ Union NEW YORK—L. E, Katterfeld (12); Eteenpain Co-op. Society; Frank Miller; Rosenfeld (Jewish Bronx No. 1). CHICAGO—Carl Haessler; Geo. Erol. DETROIT—Edgar Owens; John Poll (Greek Branch). LOS ANGELES—M. Molnar, BALTIMORE—K. E. Tissari. FINDLAY, MASS.—Elsie Pultur. WORCESTER—Paul Skers; Eteenpain Co-op. Society. MINNEAPOLIS—C. A. Hathaway (3); H. Seklund, KANSAS CITY—J. S. Lampost. CLEVELAND—J. J. Scholtes. TOLEDO—A, W. Harvitt. PHILADELPHIA—C, Milgram. HANNA, WY0O.—Fred. Wiili JACKSONVILLE, FLA—Louis Berinhart (2). FRANKFORT, ILL.—H, Hendrichson, INDIANAPOLIS—wW. F. Jackman. TERRE HAUTE—Max F. Moore. BOSTON—Harry Katz. REVERE, MASS.—Chas. Schwartz ROSLINDALE—J. Lasman. BAY CITY, MICH.—Hugo Bugnan, DULUTH, MINN.—Chas, McCarthy, ANACONDA, MONT.—Joe M, Quann, TRENTON, N. J.—Harry Gold; John Mareyn, BUFFALO, N. Y.—A. Shuwalaw. MASPETH, N. Y.—O. Staneline. SCHENECTADY, N, Y.—R. J. Verhagen, FARGO, N. D.—Alfred Knutson. DUN GLEN, O.—Angelo Cigagna. NORWALK, O.—A, Kratofil, CANONSBURG, PA.—John Stose, JOHNSTOWN, PA.—Francis Suto. MIDLAND, PAL. Gjaich (2). SEATTLE, WASH.—Wm. W. Jones. A New Star j (3). C58 . in Hanna, Wyo. Among the many splendid examples of accomplishment since Oct. 4 the work of Bricklayer Fred. Williams of Hanna, Wyo. unequaled. This comrade newly elected to serve as branch agent has in his small town stuck in the hills of Wyoming, secured to date 29 new subscrip- tions among which NOT ONE was for less than six months. He has sent in other subs for the Workers Monthly, the Young Worker and Young Comrade. To this Bricklayer goes special recognition for a real con- tribution in building the DAILY WORKER. Meee wake Sete} There have been other comrades—willing Builders—who despite adverse circumstances have contributed their share, Comrades A. W. Harvitt of Toledo, Stoltz of St. Louis, Anna Cornblath of Los Angeles, Jean Stevenson of San Pedro, Jas. Lawrie of Seattle, M. J. Bjorbacka of West Concord, Helen Heinonen of Superior, Elsie Pultur of Findlay, V. Vidor of Springfield, Ill—many others who have helped so loyally, to “Build the DAILY WORKER,” - We Are Still Building “Heave that brick back” to build the Labor movement! CARLSON TO-TELL OPEN FORUM ABOUT LIVES OF YOUTH IN RUSSIA Youth, and its problems, are as always a vital subject, and Sunday night it will be handled in an entirely new way from an absolutely different view- point, There will be a lecture at the Open Forum of the Workers Party at the “Lodge Room,” Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren street, at 8 p. m. by Oliver Carlson. Oliver Carlson is just returned from Soviet ‘Russia where he spent two years as a member of the executive committee of the Young Communist pp renicida dchladliialahipinapliieninaasindiemerminee International. He has had ample facil iavaebedths Watactad Kua tasee wil! be questions and discussion, Don’t for get the date, next Sunday night, and enter from Van Buren street, He Building Bolshevike—the D. Page Three COMMUNISTS ARE. FEARED BY FASCIST Socialists Are Harm. less, Says Mussolini (Special to the Daily Worker) ROME, Noy. 6.—*The Com- munist Party is the only group in Italy that the Fascist govern- ment has need to fear.” With these words, spoken in this city in the course of an ad- dress on the occasion of the an~ niverscry of the Fascist march on Rome two years ago, Pre- mier Mussglini paid unwilling tribute to the decisiveness and the clear-headedness of the Communists, and unconsciously scored the passivism and futility, of the socialists and democratic groups of Italy. For the so-called coustitutional op- position Mussolini had nothing but jeers. “We have learned by experience how little the socialist threats amount to. The sum total of socialist and de- moeratic action will be the casting of votes by the reprosentatives of these parties in the next parliament, Strike Hard Blow. “The Communists, on the other hand, have seized every opportunity to strike a blow at fascist rule. It is against the Communists that we must array ourselves.” Because of the menacing attitude of laber bodies all over Italy, and be- cause of the flat-footed refusal of the militia to take part'in the four days’ celebyation of the march on Rome, the fascist festival has been cut short. Within two days the government real- ized that forther attempts to prolong the “jubilee” might lead to armed uP risings of the workers. « Meanwhile, fascist atrocities contin- ue unabated. Mavciano Gino, a work- ingman of this city who is a member of the Communist Party, was knifed to death by a gang of six blackshirts who attacked him in a restaurant in Rome. The Roman police have made no attempt to arrest the murdererg, Long Sentences. The sentencing to a term of 29 years of imprisonment 29 of the workers who took part in the riots against the fascisti strikebreakers at Florence a year ago has been in part responsible for the hasty closing of the anniver- sary ceremonies. The trial, which has been going on at Empoli for almost three months, has held the attention of every working man in the country, Of the 132 workers arrested, only 36 were acquitted. The rest have received sentences of from three to 29 yeats each. The atmosphere in which the trial has been conducted has been wholly fascist. Lawyers for the workers have been threatened with death for daring to conduct an energetic defense, And the long sentences imposed have failed to satisfy the fascist sym- Dathizers, who have thruout the trial elamored for the death penalty for every one of the prisoners. Cheers For Communism. “Long live Communism!” were the only words uttered by the condemned workers at the close of the trial, Prosecution of the daily*organ of |} the Communist Party, Unita, and of Avanti, organ of the Maximalists, is now going on in Rome with a view to the suppression .of both of these pa- pers. Suit was brought at the time of the Matteoti murder by Aldo Finzi, former secretary of aviation in the cabinet of Mussolini and implicated in the killing of the socialist deputy, Both of the newspapers on trial told of the grafting operations conducted by prominent members of the Muggo- lini government, and tald of facts that were patent to everyone. Monopoly in Sports News, Among the charges made against Finzi were that he was implicated in the proposed sale of the Italian off reserves to Harry F. Sinclair, Ameri- van oil magnate and that he sold gambling permits at fancy prices. At che beginning of the Mussolini rule, Finzi was instrumental in having a law passed which forbids publication of sports news in the Itdlian news- papers. He then began publication of a paper of his own, in which all of the sports news was contained. Fin- zi’s paper was of course, never prose- cuted for violation of the law. Lawyé.s who are conducting the prosecution against Unita and Avanti are basing their arguments, not on * any denial of the charges made, but on laws passed by the last parliament making any newspaper which publish- es statements disparaging to the gov- ernment or the “national honor” of Italy Mable to suppression. ‘4 Girl Match Workers Win Ald, OTTAWA, Can.-~- A successful tag day in Ottawa showed that public sym- pathy is behind the girl workers in the Eddy match factory across the river in Hull, Quebec. The Eddy com. 4 pany took advantage of a slack period to endeavor to break the union. It. — asked the workers when the factory reopened to sign an agreement not to join the union, The girls stood out and won this point, but there is sth strife because the company is refugs ing to appoint forewomen as is under the union agreement,