The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1924, Page 3

SEARS ROEBUCK YOUNG WORKERS ARE RESPONSIVE Ask When the ‘Young Worker’ Will be on Sale “When will the paper be here?” was the question asked by many of the young workers this morning at Sears, Roebuck & Co. as the members of the Young Workers League passed out a leaflet advertising the Young Worker for sale at the gates today. Tonight 40 young workers will be on the line selling the special issue as the workers come out of the plant. Use Roller Skates for Speed Up. There are 93 mail order houses in the city of Chicago, of which Sears Roebuck & Co. and Motgomery Ward are the largest. In Sears, Roebuck & Co. alone there are about 15,000 peo- ple employed, most of them being young workers, and the majority of them girls. These young workers are paid the lowest wages of any of the youth in the city. In some mailing order houses the wages for girls are as low as $10.00 a week, and the best ‘wage is around $18.00 to $20.00, most of ‘them receiving .around $14.00 a week. The boys fare a little better. getting on an average $2.00 a week more than the girls. In the smaller mail order houses the conditions are even worse than in the large ones. In Philipsborn’s, a house that employs about 14,000 workers, the wages are about $12.00 for girls, and $14.00 for boys. Some of the workers have to use roller skates in their work. Volunteers Take Notioe. “A Young Workers’ League unit in each of the mail order houses” is the slogan of the Young Workers League. This week they are concentrating on Sears Roebuck & Co and Philips- born’s. The members of branches No. 1, 4, 5 and 6 are working on Sears Roebuck and branches No. 2 and 3 on Philipsborn’s. The Young Workers will be sold in front of the factory every morning and evening. The volunteers at Sears are to be at the corner of Arthington and Kedzie at 4:30 p. m. and 7:30 a. m. to sell: the Young Worker. . The volunteers at Philipsborn’s are “to be at Harrison and Paulina at the same time Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Street meetings will be held at noon. All unemployed are asked to assist in these meetings. For in- formation call State -7985, local office Young Workers’ League. The pep with which the Young Workers have started this campaign promises a brilliant success. Brooklyn to Launch Classes on Teachings of Marx and Lenin . BROOKLYN, N. Y., 11—All the members of Williamsburg are ready, in » addition to other activities, to betake themselves seriously to the task of securing a fundamental Communist education. The Educational Commit- tee, responding to the need and desires of the members and sympathizers of Williamsburg, has decided to conduct three classes: Fundamentals of Marx- ism and Leninism, Social Forces in American History, and Elementary and Advanced English. In order to launch this educational program, and to lay the basis for future gatherings for the exchange of Communist knowledge, a special edu- cational meeting has been arranged for Friday, November 14, 8 p. m., at 61 Graham Ave., Brooklyn. Extremely important matters, of interest ‘to all members and sympathizers, will be considered at this meeting. Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz and other pro- -minent speakers active in the educa- tional work of the party will address the gathering. This campaign is the result of the realization that a knowledge of the teachings of Marx and Leain must be the guide to the activities of the mem bers in the everyday struggles of the .” workers; and that the effectiveness of our agitation depends upon a clear ‘ gonception, on the part of the members, of the basic principles of Marxism and « Leninism. ‘, All Williamsburg members and sym- pathizers should set aside all appoint- ménts and come to this extraordinary {mportant educational meeting. \ River Seine Rises. PARIS—The river Seine, in flood with the recent heavy rains, rose fif- ten inches,over night. It has not yet reached its expected maximum, ‘Women jographer, competent to prepare manuscript for publica- tion. Must have extensive knowl- edge of labor movement. Position open in December. Age between 35 and 50. Single. J. R. SWARTS ¢. 0, Charles H. Kerr & Co, 349 E. OHIO ST. CHICAGO, ILL, Wednesday, November 12, 1924 YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, Local Chicago MEMBERSHIP MEETING Friday November 14 722 Blue Island Avenue OLIVER CARLSON, speaker. A review of our mail order house , campaign will be made and our program of immediate action will be discussed. : TWO WORKERS ARE EXECUTED IN BARCELONA Ibanez Continues to Give Out Interviews PARIS, Nov, 11.—The Spanish mili- tary dictatorship executed two rebels as a sequel to the uprising of the Barcelona workers against the regime of Rivera and King Alfonso. Several anarchists are held pending sentence. The Spanish intellegenzia led by Senor Ibanez deplored the Barcelona affair, presumably because it had a working class flavor. The Spanish ambassador in Paris absolved Ibanez from all blame for the Barcelona up- rising tho deploring the writer’s at- tacks on King Alfonzo. Ibanez purposes to introduce his Pamphlets into Spain by the under- ground system and also has the inten- tion of distributing anti-monarchial propaganda by airplane. Primo de Rivera is said to have 150,000 troops in Spain and approxi- mately 100,000 in Morocco. CROWE-O’BANNION PACT (Continued from Page 1.) gunmen, strikes are broken and pickets are sent to the hospitals, while the uniformed gunmen of the employers also send pickets to the hospitals and to the jails. Only when a gangster kills a policeman, is the fury of the authorities aroused and even then the excitement dies down quickly. Gunmen Aid Crowe. Another reason. During election campaigns, the democratic and repub- lican politicians use gunmen to inti- midate voters. During the recent elect- fons in Chicago, Dean O’Bannion, hitherto a democrat, deserted to the republicans, got his gunmen together and helped to elect State’s Attorney Robert BE. Crowe. It is reported that he even went so far as to kidnap some democratic opponents of, Crowe and ‘held them captive for several hours. With the aid of O’Bannion’s gunmen State’s Attorney Crowe carried several precincts usually democratic. These facts may help to explain the immunity enjoyed by the professional killers Chicago’s underworld. No such immunity is enjoyed by the ra- dical workers whose only crime is trying to organize and educate the working class for the overthrow of the system of society on which vermin like O’Bannion and Crowe flourish. Drop Indictments. That it is not at all impossible that O’Bannion and the other ‘gangsters were under the protecting mantle of Robert E. Crowe in return for servi rendered, may be learned from the fact, that the indictments drawn by the grand jury against Percy Coffin and Michael Faherty, high lights of the Lundin-Thompson machine during the Thompson afministration, were nolle prossed by order of the states attorney, for “lack of prosecution.” This action was taken as a result of a pre-election agreement between Crowe and the Coffin machine. The deal was made when Coffin visited Crowe at the latter’s residence prior to the elections. In return for the sup- port of the Small-Lundin-Coffin mach- ine, the so-called fearless foe of crime agreed to drop the indictments against e two men who were charged with getting away with millions in graft. Had Strong Case. The special prosecutor assigned to the case by Crowe, assured the states attorney that he had a strong case and could seeure a verdict. Crowe simply said: “I am going to nolle pros- se the case.” Further evidence of the connecting link between the state and city govern- ment and the underworld is the dis- covery of a gigantic counterfeiting plot led by Ben Newmark, former chief investigator for the state's attorney's office, Newmark and Mike Boyle rend- ered yoeman service in saving Small's neck in the long litigation by which the state's attorney for Illinois tried to make the governor give an accounting of the funds in his care during his term of office as state treasurer. The labor leader and Newmark were chased over several states by the police but were captured and sent to Joliet to serve sentences for contempt ot court, They were later pardoned by Governor Small. A long story could be written of col- lusion between the gangsters of the underworld and the state and city governments of Iilinots, Tt is reported that at a recent ban- quest given in honor of Dean O’Ban- nion at a Chicago hotel, several offi- clals of the police department were present, and aided O’Bannion and the gangsters to consume the liberal, quan- tities of booze, that brot cheer to the diners and joined in praising the wor- ‘CENSURE? BUT PUT BLANE ON THE WORKERS Verdict of the Coroner’s Jary Hits T rainmen The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad was “severely censured,” by the verdict of the coroner's jury which has been inquiring into the causes of the death of ten people in a trolley- train wreck ten days ago. Altho a switchman, Mathew Gaskett, and two subordinate officials of the company, Wil- liam Ingraham and William Barber were bound over to the grand jury for manslaughter, the railroad corporation itself was let off with a “severe cen- sure.” Hit at Train Crew. The coroner's jury laid the blame for the wreck directly to “the care- less and improper management of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road by the trainmen.” The jury declared the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul raflroad train crew “violated the city ordinances regulating the size of freight trains and the use of conspicuous lights with the full approval and authority of the superior officers of the railroad, some of whom admitted they did not know of these ordinances.. No men- tion is made of these ordinances in the printed book of rules distributed to the train crews.” But altho the general manager of the railroad, John J. Gillick, admit- ted he did not know of these ordin- ances, Gillick was not held. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad was .not embarassed by the “whitewashing committee,” as the coroner’s jury is called by reporters, any more than was necessary. Denounce Incapacitated Worker. The jury which called the aged, one-armed towerman, Brahe, at var- ious times, .a “drunkard” and a “moron,” called Brahe both yester- day, stating he had “imbibed intoxi- cating liquor and is mentally subnor- mal and physically disabled.” The officials of the railroad who hired Brahe are censured by the jury, and legislation requiring mental and physical tests of towermen is recom- mended. There is no recommenda- tion that the wages of towermen, from $50 to $60 a month, be raised to secure better efficiency. The employes of the railroad are blamed and the directors and stock- holders of the company are allowed to go free. “Such a. collision could not have happened without negli- gence on the part of employes, either of the street car or the railroad,” said the jury. They evaded the ad- mitted fact that the management of the railroad has approved the viola- tion of city ordinances in the running of their trains, and has paid tow- ermen the lowest possible wages. Against Track Elevation. City Engineer John Ericson told the jury just before the verdict that it was not possible to elevate the rail- lroad tracks over street crossings. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad is thus spared by the city, the necessity of living up to another city ordinance. Keep It in the Family. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11—The ap- pointment of Theodore Douglas Rob- inson, nephew of the late President Roosevelt, as assistant secretary of the navy, was announced this after- noon by the White House. Riffs Object to French. TANGIERS—Abdul Krim, chief of the rebellions Riff tribesmen, has de- clared the French occupation of the upper Worgha valley an unfriendly act, and an invastion of Riff rights. A New Featare! EGINNING with ‘Thursday's Issue of the DAILY WORKER, we will add a new regular feature to-our columns. We will publish a column called “FACTS FOR WORKERS.” We will Present in plain, terse, simple form certain invaluable facts about po- lities, government, industry, the in- ternational labor movement, work: ing conditions, the Communist In- ternational, and working and living conditions, _ These facts and figures will be Gathered from authoritative sources and presented in such a fashion as to be ready for immediate use by Workers Party speakers, organizers, active trade unionists, and working- men generally interested in the re- volutionary movement. All you have to. do is to clip this series appear- ing In the DAILY WORKER and save them for your use. Jay Lovestone, director of the Research Department of the Work- ers Party, will prepare this series, The first one appearing in to- row's issue deals with the recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, : ‘ HE DAILY WORKER (Continued from Page 1.) imperialism. Some fuss of hero-wor- shippers Was, made at the national cathedral where the guy is buried who was elected because he “kept us out of war” until after the 1916 elec: tion, But it was a rotten day all around—and the government slaves had to work. 2 © Paris Gives Minute. PARIS; Nov, 11.—Imperialist France spent one whole minute today think- ing about the occasion-of the armistice six years ago. President Doumergue was driven down to the “arch of triumph” under which rest the bones ot France's “unknown soldier.” There he took off his silk hat and held it reverently over his bulging stomach, registering sorrow at the only place he has any feelings. The unknown soldier made no ob- jection, tho it is a persistent rumor that it was a German soldier and not a “poilu” who was buried and homaged by France. The soldiers who were not yet dead were lined up along the Champs Blysees, infantry, cavalry, artillery, marines and guards. The supply of prospective “unknown soldiers” is reasonably plentiful. How- ever, as French workers are growing increasingly radical, the government is pressing its program for forming an army of 600,000 black and yellow colonials to hold down the native French workers and the subject peo- ples in Africa and Asia. ere Drain Gives Up Sigh. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—Altho James A. Drain, commander of the American Legion issued a stament here yester- day on Armistice day, nobody has been able to understand it. Drain quite truthfully said “a sigh of relief went around the world” when the armistice was signed six years ago, he even said that killing was the “most abominable of all le galized business.” But when he be- gan to say what should be done about it he became incoherent. Drain said that the day should be “dedicated to peace.” It is suspected that he is becoming infected with pa- cifism in spite of the “Americaniza- tion program” spread over the coun- try by the organization of which he is the national commander. Pacifists are very insidious. As.to the means of attaining world peace, Drain advocated “international justice.” How this is to be attained except by proletarian revolution he did not say. In fact upon this peint he became as vague as an anarcho- syndicalist discussing revolution. He said “Justice myst. be automatic.” A most amazing solution. Altho he added that a world court must be erected, no one can see how that would be automatic, except in making war 4s it so far has done. FS «8. Puffs of Capitalist Press Bungle Effort To Inflate Chicago Chicago didn’t get very inflated with patriotism over Armistice day, in spite of the puffs given it by the capitalist press. The board of trade took a day off and many of the brokers and bank- ers went duck hunting, practicing up their markmanship for shooting strik- ers whenever Dawes getS his “Min- ute Men of the Open Shop” to work- ing smoothly. The brave soldier boys who were going to make a splurge at Ogden Park decided they would join the Chinese army which don’t fight when it rains. Especially the high school boys of the R. O. T. C. were told by their mothers that they didn't raise their boys to get pneumonia. Peddie Bunk in Factories, Factory workers, who couldn’t make the excuse of going out for lunch ai noon, had to listen to a select line of militarist bunk over the radio. It was claimed that 800,000 workers were forced to listen to a speech by Major General George H. Harries Many protests were made that no time off with pay was given and that all the patriotism was injected during noon hour when it didn’t disturb the business. ws At Marshall Field’s all workers were required to stop for one minute, owever, while a buglér blew “taps” and a large flag was unfurled. This is the first minute’s rest many of the firm’s clerks have been allowed to get this year. Altho the flag was un- furled the enthusiasm of the Marshall Field company did not reach the point of unfurling a raise in pay for the ex-soldiers working for the. firm. Active Picketing in Fifth Week of Strike at Flow-Meters Shop The fifth week of the strike of the machinists at the Flow-Meters ma- chine shops saw active picketing ef- fectively keeping the poteritial scabs at a distance, The machinists have endeavoring to get the toolmak- join the other machinists, the toolmakers, dissatis- ve remained at work, ‘Superintendent of the Flow-Meters plant, evidently perceiv- there was no immedate prospect of starting work without giving in to ; departed on a vaca- FORGET ARMISTICE DAY FORUM OF YOUTH LIFE IN RUSSIA Youth is Taught to Sing While Learning The Open Forum of the Work- ers Party, held every Sunday night at the lodge room in the Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren and Ashland, is meeting with marked success. On Sunday night a good crowd became enthusiastic at the speech of Victor Carlson upon the lives of the working class youth in Russia. Carlson told how the Soviet schools do not dragoon children into accept- ing without question anything at all, Jeast of all the forms of their own government. In America the children must accept the idea that all govern- ment forms are fixed, final and per- fect. In Russia, children are taught to look critically upon their govern- ment, to understand that it is a part of all social processes and subject to change. A Red Army Kid Orderly. “Even the kiddies in Russia,” said Carlson, “take more interest in poli- tics than adults in America. I was interviewing/a little chap in a@ uni- form and with a gun strapped on him hali as big as he was. He told me he had been with the Red Army as an orde~ly for four years, after get- ting away from the white guard who had killed his daddy. He asked me about the Workers Party and finally told the he thot we didn’t have a good party as it hadn't overthrown the capitalists yet. “He told me that as the fronts were liquidated, what Russia needs is good Communist managers for industry now, instead of so many soldiers, so he was going to school. He had his arms full of books on political sci- ence. And he was about 12 years old, a typical preduct of revolutionary children in Russia.” The Work Schools’ Function. The Young Communist League of Russia has 840,000 members, Carlson said, and is trying for a 1,500,000 next year. It is much larger than the Communist Party. Educational pro- grams of the Soviet government are always submitted to the Young Com- smunist League before final passage The Jeague has much administrative power over everything concerning the young people. In Russia, says Carlson, a new form of school, the “work school,” is de- veloped. It combines theory with practice and it is even more effective in wiping out the division line be- tween manual and mental labor. There is coming to be no barrier be- tween them in Russia. - Production is understood as a social effort. Indi- vidualism flourishes best in the com- prehensiveness of communal think- ing. No Child Labor in Russia. Under sixteen, labor is not allowed. Kven between sixteen and eighteen only rarely. Then only six hours a day, part of which must be educa- tional study. But all time is paid. Communal farms are springing up everywhere, largely conducted by young Communists, teaching modern agriculture to the backward peasant masses. Communist youth do the educational work in the armed forces, 70,000 are in the Red, Army, teaching the peasant soldiers to be capable workers as well as gifting them po- litical training. Y. W. L. Take Notice. The Comnrunist youth helps to maintain the high ‘spirit of the workers generally when they are weary from the strain demanded of them by the struggle in its hardest days. They help to hearten the tired anc cheer the discouraged. They are not afraid to sing. Indeed they are aiways singing. The league, like the party in Rus- sia, is based upon the job. It is a po- litical organization functioning in the factories. All difference between worker and intellectual is being dis- solved by making the two combined in each and every worker capable of absorbing and developing knowledge, said Carlson, His speech aroused great interest and many questions and speches from the floor. He Knew How to Win BALTIMORE, Nov. 11, — Colonel John Phipp Hill, who was re-elected to congress by the greatest majority in the November 4, elections in Mary- land, was brought to trial on charges of violating the Volstead act. Adolph Fischer By an error of omission the name of Adolph Fischer, one of the Hay- market martyrs of 1887, was left out of the front page story yester- day telling of that tragedy and what it meant to labor, Fischer ac- companied Parsons, Spies and En- gels to the scaffold and was mur- dered by the hangman of Cook county as were they. |COMMUNISTS CELEBRATE VICTORY Page Three So OF SOVIETS IN SPITE OF FASCISTI (Special to The and demonstrations, enthusiastic mee of Soviet Russia. % th hal ER lc AAD RU ca, Dally Worker) ROMB, Noy, 11.—In spite of the decree prohibiting all political meetings tings and parades in honor of Soviet Russia were held in almost every city of Italy on the Seventh Anniversary, In Palermo and in Catania, thousands of workers marched thru thd streets, carrying the red flag and singing “The International.” With the end of Mussolini's rule a matter of a few months at most, the | 1, W. W, CONVENTION OVER (Continued from Page 1.) written by Fritz Kater of the Berlin International. Facts Disprove Welinder. While Welinder's report was being read, saying that “the industrial fleld is the only ground where both classes meet,” news arrived from Seattle that Sheriff Tipp Conn of Skagit county and a large force of armed deputies had deported 105 I. W. W. striking construction workers from Concrete, Washington, and that three’ com- panies of militia under Major Thom were held in readiness to answer any call from Lieut. Headlee on the strike scene at Concrete. “Revolutionary” Like Gary. Welinder’s endeavor to put a revo- lutionary front on a reformist organ- ization was clear when he said that the I. W. W. is revolutionry insofar as it “takes cognizance” of the revo- lutionary changes that have taken place on the industrial field and “con- ducts its activity in conformity to such changes.” The steel trust or the boss who is on the lookout for new machinery better to exploit the work- ers, or even the Y. W. C. A. might be “revolutionary” according to this definition. In this respect Welinder opened the door wide for class collaboration, in fact he accented it by implying that the working class.and the employing class have something in common by negatively stating that “There is no common ground upon which the em- ploying class and the working class can meet and do meet except in the industries.” Some delegates intimated that this was a queer way to inter- pret the first clause of the preamble. Why a Convention? The anarchist veneer became rather thin when he stated that “by the term direct action we emphasize our op- position to any and all forms of dele- gated power, whether it be to poli- ticians or to labor leaders who like- wise proclaim themselves representa- tives of labor” and so on. If this is Welinder’s real opinion it is strange why he grabbed all the delegated power he could get, to come with his trunk to Chicago and sat in a con- vention of “delegated power.” Perfectly Good Natured War. Welinder asserted that “the class war ig a grim reality.” However, he said, "When we advocate the carry- ing on of a class war directly at the point of production and by the work- ers themselves, we by no means infer that this is to take the form of a violent encounter.” When the wobblies deported from Concrete threaten to go back they merely want to return and tell Sheriff Thom and Lieut. Headlee that they mean no harm and have come baek only to discuss the price of snuff and agree that the Com- munists are obstinate and violent people. "Don't Want to Rule Society.” “The I, W. W.,” said Welinder, “has no intention whatever to become a ruling power in society.” This is exactly the philosophy of a craft union labor faker and could well have been uttered by Gompers. It is an accept- ance of capitalism. ‘That this view is a confused outlook is, however, shown by his later statement that “the ul- timate aim of the I, W. W. is to abol- ish class society.” How a subject class which accepts capitalism and does not struggle for power as a rul- ing class can accomplish the aboli- tion of classes or anything else is a syndicalist mystery. Millenium Here Now—? “The I. W. W.,” asserted Welinder, “hates nobody, capitalist or employe. But we do hate and abhor the present system.” If the wobblies at Con- crete and Natron Cutoff only sing, “Oh, I love the boss, he’s a good friend of mine” enough, the scabs, sheriffs, troops and bosses will all join and go out to capture the elusive “system.” As a part of the conversion of We- linder to christianity, he said that “The time of violent revolutions is something of the past.” Just what facts he had in mind is hard to guess. Certainly the Communists would like to have Welinder point out the partic- ular spot on this earth where a revo- lution has been accomplished by brotherly love at the point of produc: tion or elsewhere. Perhaps on some other planet of this or other solar systems Welinder’s plan may work. However, as the whole convention was confused, after Mann had sharply criticized Welinder’s report the whole matter was referred to the next G. E. B.—which is to bury it. Upon nominations for general sec- retary-treasurer, the highest vote was given to Ed. Delaney, J. I. Turner and Arthur Coleman, in the order named, ecient Calles Is Back tome. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 11.—President- elect Calles returned to the capital to- day after a trip to the United Staes and Burope, + Fascist officials are deserting the pre- mier as rats desert a sinking ship, Both Luigi Federzani, minister of the interior in the cabinet, and General Di Giorgio, minister of war, handed in their resignations yesterday. Hun- dreds of minor officials have done likewise. Unita, daily organ of the Commu- nist Party of Italy, which was brought to trial by Aldo ¥inzi for its exposure of the graft and cerruption in govern- ment circles, has béen acquitted. Not only were the facts printed in the pa- per undeniable truth, but officials feared the fury of the workers if the paper were suppressed. G. Invernizzi, editor of Avanti, or- |gan of the Maximalists, was given a |jail sentence of one year on charges brought by Finzi. Northside English: Branch to Discuss Shop Nuclei Monday, Shop nuelei organization, or the Workers Party organized in the shops, factories and mi will be discussed at the open meeting of the North Side English branch next Monday night, 8 o'clock, November 17, at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Comrade Martin Abern, secretary of the Work- ers Party, Local Chicago, will be the speaker. Shop nuclei are the burning necessity for the Workers Party for the carrying on of the daily struggle and for the goal of Communism. Our party has commenced to reorganize on the shop nuclei basis. It is necessary. To find out why, be sure to attend the meeting Monday night, and bring your friends. Fighting in Brazil. (Special to the Daily Worker) PORTO ALLEGRE, Brazil — The state forces were victorious in a bat- tle with rayolutionaries in western Rio Grande Do Sul, according to an- nouncement of the government today. The International Workers’ Aid helps wives and children of imprisoned workers. There Are 383,200 Workers Imprisoned In Europe In Germany 7,000 Italy 8,000 Spain 23,000 Belgium 2,300 Lithuania 200 Latvia 500 Finland 1,200 Poland 12,000 - Hungary 70,000 India 253,000 Roumania 3,000 Jugo-Slavia 3,000 Will You Help Them? We send legal and material assist. ance and we print the tru White Terror. OUR AIM To give aid to all needy workers and class war victims of the labor- ing masses without conditions, without political discrimination, whenever and wherever the exist- ence of a working class is menaced by natural or economic catastrophe or by political oppression, International Workers’ Aid, 19 So. Lincoin Street, Chicago, Ill. Enclosed is my contribution to aid the needy workers of their wives and children, and help print more true facts about White Terror victims. Name... Address...