The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 2

Thursday, November 13, 1924 ‘BOSSES OPEN BIG WAR FOR . CHILD LABOR Cardinal O’Connell is Page Two THE DAILY WORKER LABORERS IN. |Half-Billion Capital of CAL'S VINEYARD ||the Greater ‘Bread Trust’ PICKING PLUMS} Opens New Monoply Era Harvest Rich Bat the By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. RAILROAD TO BLAME FOR BIG WRECK TRAGEDY Big Fellows Escape; “IMMIGRANT” DAVIS, SECRETA OF LABOR, WANTS TO CLOSE GATES OF NATION TO ALL IMMIGRANTS NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—~‘Complete selective system” of immigration is the program Secretary of Labor James J. Davis stated that he favored in his radio address over station WEAF, New York. “I would see to it that only those aliens who can qualify for a place in eur national economic, social and political life and who are needed in our our national development should be admitted,” Secretary Davis continued. He said that restricting immigration ¢————--_____—___-__— ; ~ Small Fry Punished The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad company was found guilty by a coroner’s jury of causing the death of ten people by running trains in vio- lation of city ordinances and state laws. But a switchman and two petty officials of the company were held for man- slaughter, and ie real culprits, the directors of the railroad who determine the road’s pol- icy, escaped. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul railroad, which is still violating many city ordinances in operating trains, is connected with the railroad trust thru in- terlocking directorates with the other leading railroads, The Real Culprits. Here is a list of those responsible for the wreck which killed ten veople. They are directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Payl railroad, who in their mad scramble for profits, pay low wages and neglect to install safety devices: Who Is Who? J, Ogden Armour, the meat packer, who fights unionism in the packing houses and on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul railroad; Mortimer N. Buckner, also director ‘\of the Foreign Banking Assn., the In- terboro Rapid Transit Co. of New York, the New York Trust Co., and many other banking and industrial corporations; J. J. Fisher, also director of the New York Trust Co. and other cor- porations; Donald G. Geddes, also director of the Western Union Telegraph Co., Edison Co., Consolidated Gas Co., and 17 other corporations; W. E. 8. Griswold, also director of the Lima Locomotive Works, Reming- ton Arms Co,, Canon Reliance Coal Co,, Union Oil Co, American Splint Co., Mechanics and Metals National Bank, and six other corporations; Edward S. Harkness, also director of the Big Four; Michigan Central, New York Central, Southern Pacific and West Shore railroads, and of the Atlantic Insulated Wire ana Cable Co.; ‘ George G. Mason, also director of the Erie Railroad and the Southern Utilities corporation; Samuel McRoberts, also director of American Ice Co, American Sugar Refining Co., Consolidated Coal Co., Kansas City Southern Railway Co., Rail Joint Co. and numerous other corporations. Washington Miners Reelect. SEATTLE—Union coal miners of District 10, Washington state, re- elected their present officers for an- other term of two years in the No- vember balloting. Martin Fizik again heads the district as president. He is regarded as an adherent of Inter- national President John L. Lewis and supported Calvin Coolidge in the po- Utical campaign. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. PATERSON STRIKERS RELIEF CONFERENCE SUNDAY IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Nov. 12—The New York Relief Committee for the Pat- erson silk strikers have issued the following call for a conference on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 10 a. m., at As- toria Hall, 64 East 4th street to pre- pare for a tag day for the strikers on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 22 ‘and 23. “In the 14 weeks of strike and privation our brothers and com- rades in Paterson have shown their valor and worth to the labor move- ment. Every worker must get be hind this strike until it is won, “Send a delegate to the confer ence on Nov. 16. If your organiza- tlon. does not meet before that day, the secretary should write or come personally, or else designate a dele- gate himse'! “Don’t fall the Paterson strikers now!” from only certain countries was like closing the front door and leaving the back door open. “I would provide a system of edu- cation in Americanism which would give every alien an opportunity to learn the English language and some- thing of American history, traditions, ideals and institutions,” Davis ag- serted agter saying that “today we of: fer the alien in America little or no help along the road to making him areal American.” Davis declared that he “would enlist the cooperation of every civic and fraternal organization and would reach ‘the alien thru schools and churches” instead of leaving the alien “practically on his own re- sources from the time he leaves tho port of entry.” Mavis said that he would finance his plan by a fee charged against each alien, that “the foreign born in America are ready to pay their own way.” Davis mentioned that he himself was alien and that the third genera- tion of children’in the community where he spent his youth still speak the 80 languages of its grandfathers and retains old customs and ideas. He stated that he believed that con- gress should during the coming win- ter ‘take gteps to provide means for preventing the separation of families thru the operation of the (immigra- tion) law.” AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) while the papers discover a “crime wave.” It may be that news happens to be breaking badly, They jump on Mayor Hylan and his chief of police, Enright. The latter usually denies there is a crime wave and immediate- ly afterwards establishes a “dead line.” The latest dead line runs from Third to Seventh avenue and from Fourth to Sixtieth streets. In- side this area crooks had better watch out or they may get pinched. If they want to engage in their regular line of business the rest of the city should be wide enough for them. see 'HE writer was once given an in- sight into how things are done in New York City, with the consent of the police. It happens that on some occasion a leader in some walk of life may find the presence of some other person embarrassing. The quickest way out of the embarrassment is to apply effective pressure on the anatomy of his rival. This is usually accomplished with the aid of a black jack or in extreme cases with a gat. When the executioner decides where he intends doing the job, the next order of business is to inform the police officer who has charge of that section of the city, of his intentions. By agreement a “zero hour” is set during which the police on that beat are blind, figuratively speaking. his, Sn | S a rule the police stipulate that no unseemly noise is indulged in. They believe in quiet effective work. Unless a gat is absolutely necessary, other instruments more deadly but less boisterous are sug- gested. “The officers are quite reason- able,” declared my informant, “but unless they get co-operation you can’t blame them for being peevish.” The inability of police to arrest first class crooks is notorious, Take the case of Nicky Arenstein a few years ago. He got away with millions and was hunted by the poli¢e for months. see T was reported that he used to shoot crap on the front steps of the police headquarters in New York out of a spirit of pure devilment. Finally, he got tired eluding the police, so he selected the day on which the New York police show off with a parade to drive down Fifth avenue at the head of the procession. Even at that he had to walk into police headquar- ters and insist on being arrested. Af- ter the newspapers get a certain number of headlines out of the “crime wave” the police chief gets his share of publicity and the crooks are pro- perly shaken down and everything quitens down again. Such ig law in @ capitalist city, Building Bolsheviks—the D. »~ 5. Ue NOTORIOUS BRITISH STOOLPIGEON ARRIVES IN THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Captain Francie McCullagh, former British mili- tary spy in Russia, an anti-Soviet propagandist for the New York Herald and other p: re which used his Warsaw dispatches, has arrived in America to sell his wares from the lecture platform. The inepired sleuth announced to reporters, as he stepped off the plank of the Saxonia that they could take it from him that the “Zinoviev" letter which raised such a ruction in the British elections was genuine and not the fake that Is currently reported. McCullagh said he had inside information, which he would not reveal, Cullagh’s Warsaw dispatches of the trials of Russia the government were Me- relates who opposed junced as false by reputable correspondents who Mk ee i ld atl Ala ke CANADA IS A COLONY OF THE UNITED STATES Wall Street Is Investing Heavily ih Industry By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) Steady detachment of Canada from the British empire and its annexation to the empire of American finance is revealed in a review of U. 8. invest- ment in Canada issued by the depart- ment of commerce under the dire¢tion of Herbert Hoover. Canada’s vast wealth of natural resources is going. to pay a huge annual tribute to the financial lords of America, “Economically and socially,” says the department, “Canada may be con- sidered as a northern extension of the United States and our trade with Canada is in many respects more like domestic trade than our foreign trade with other countries. The movement of industrial raw materials from Cana- da to the United States and the return flow of a miscellaneous assortment of partly or wholly manufactured goods is not unlike a similar flow be- tween the west and south and the more industrialized northeastern part of the United States.” Increase Investments, U. 8. capital in Canada, the depart- ment shows, has {mtcreased from $420,- 000,000 in 1915, to at least $2,425,000,- 000 in 1922 or nearly six-fold. In the same period British capital in Canada has remained very nearly stationary amounting to $1,860,000,000 in 1915 and to $1,980,000,000 in 1922. The United States in recent years has largely replaced Great Britain as Canada’s banker. In the eight years just preceding the war 73.5 per cen of all Canada’s borrowings were fron Great Britain and 9 per cent from th« United States. In the eight years end- ing with 1922 only 2 per cent of Cana- da’s: borrowing came from Great Brit- ain and 33 per cent from the United States. The principal items of American and British investment in Canada at the beginning of 1924 are shown by the department: Canadian Investments Owned in U.S, In Britain Federal, prov. and we $701,000,000 $456,000,000 General industries 540,000,000 145,000,000 Railways 370,000,000 — 745,000,0 Forests, - - mills 325,000,000 60,000,000 Mining 235,000,000 — 100,000,000 Public utility, services we 138,000,000 116,000,000 Ee. ete. 50,000,000 100,000,000 anking surance 35,000,000 80,000,000 MOrtgages wnenmn 25,000,000 85,000,000 FISHErLES wenn 6,000,000 3,000,000 Various Industries, Canadian industries in which Ameri- can capital plays an important role together with the percentage of their securities held in the United States in 1920 are listed, meat packing 41 per cent, steel furnaces and rolling mills 41 per cent, copper 52 per cent, agri- cultural implements 39 per cent, foundries and machine shops 40 per cent, electrical apparatus 45 per cent, drugs and chemicals 52 per cent, pat- ent medicines 79 per cent, automobile 69 per cent, paint and‘ varnish 50 per | cent, artificial abrasives 99 per cent, refined petroleum 53 per cent, car con- struction 60 per cent and condensed, milk 40 per cent, Such figures show how capital from the United States has fastened its tentacles upon the basic industries of Canada, The control by American financiers is greater than the figures indicate for the bulk of the remain- ing securities are held in Canada, to a large extent under th influence of New York finance. American invest- ors have largely increased their hold- ings since 1920. The nickel and as- bestos production of Canada and many timber products are now con- trolled by Americans. This is just'one phase of the round- ing out of the American empire pro- ceeding quietly below the surface. Eventually it will come to the surface in wars which will involve miltons of workers, Hiccough Stops Trial. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Because the official court reporter suffered a severe attack of hiccoughs the court martial of Captain Harold A. Barnes, of Oneida, New York, charged with the misappropriation of $1,300 from the commissary department at Fort Meyer, Virginia, was forced to ad- journ yesterday. Bronx Dance Saturday Night New York Comrades who wish to spend an enjoyable evening should attend the entertainment and dance given by the newly organized Bronx English No. 2 Branch on November 16, 1924, at Workers Hall, 1847 Boston Road, Bronx, N. ¥. " a ed on 10 | RE Will quit in March, Pickers Are Many By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 12,— Nothing is too wild, nothing too arcteeae when judged by or- inary standards, to be the basis for serious speculation as to how President Coolidge will distrib- ute the spoils of his victory at the polls. Whether one goes to the White House offices, the state department corridors, the offices of senators and cabinet members or the lobby of any Washington theatre, he hears the new cabinet in process of formation and the new commit- tees of the house and senate being revised, While conservative newspa- pers are now begging Coolidge and his advisers to avoid an arrogant attitude of reaction, the hard-faced politicians from the state headquarters are Slock- ing to town to demand jobs, If they don’t get jobs there will be trouble. Wyoming, normally reactionary, came near falling out of the Cool- idge column this year. Yet Frank Mondell, defeated two years ago in the senate race in that desert state, is considered likely to get a cabinet place. He presided at the Cleveland convention. If he is not made secre- tary of agriculture he may become secretary of the interior—thereby giv- ing Coolidge a joke on the conserva- tionists who have asked that Secre- tary Work be thrown out. Work was a faithful pupil of Fall, but Mondell, if he gets the chance, won't hesitate to give away power sites in Yellow- stone Park. Harry Daugherty’s friends deny ‘hat he will come back into the cabi- ret, They say he is making $250,000 year right now, as a corporation law- er, The nature of the business and he amount of taxes avoided by his lients is not given. Young Roosevelt is to be cared for -probably by the navy or war sec- retaryship... Charles Beecher Warren of the beet sugar trust, who had charge of the platform-writing at the Coolidge convention last June, is men. tioned as a rival to Col. George Har- vey and Herbert Hoover for the secre- taryship of state, in case Hughes can be persuaded that his duty to his fam- ily requires that he resume the prac- tice of law. Hughe§ will say noth- ing just now, but the chances are that If Harvey be- comes his successor, Warren will be offered another cabinet post or the London embassy. Herbert Hoover ig a problem. Like Winston Churchill in Great Britain, he is a source of worry to the party to which he declares his allegiance. Coolidge would be glad to keep him as secretary of commerce, but would not welcome him to the state depart- ment. Neither would he want Hoover to return to private business. Why? Because Hoover still thinks himself a possible nominee for the presidency. Coolidge wants to keep that nomina- tion in his own control—the control of Andy Mellon and Frank Stearns. Hoover as head of the cabinet would be able to use all the publicity ma- chinery of his office to make himself an overtowering figure within the party. He would eclipse the Mellon- Stearns-Coolidge crowd in the public eye. And if he went back to private life, he would be free to organize his campaign in disregard of the wishes of the administration. It is true that the politicians in the Coolidge party were in despair six months ago. They thought the demo- crats would win, hands down. Remem- bering that, they do not feel that Hoover is an immediate peril. But they are cautious men, and want to avoid any bad chances. Chairman Butler will presumably be appointed to the senate as the tem- porary successor to Lodge, upon. the latter’s death. Gillett, coming into the senate at the request of Coolidge, will share the disposal of Massachu- setts patronage, But Butler will con- trol appointments that generally fall to the national chairman of the win- ning party. In return for favors, he will be given influential places on sen-- ate committees. A drive will be start- ed to put the Mellon tax reduction scheme thru congress this winter. It will fail, and President Coolidge will distribute federal jobs and salaries af- terward with the applicants’ attitude on this issue clearly in mind. Scoffing progressives watch the pro- cession of job hunters as it enters the White House grounds, and predicts a smash in 1926. They trust Dawes and Mello: the Coolidge crowd to pull down the pillars of their political house upon themselves within these next two years, Technical Aid Moves, NEW YORK, Noy. 12.-—The Soctety for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia has moved its headquarters to 799 Broadway, Room 402, Toray: we are assured that the re-election of Cal Coolidge means a greater centralization in industry. The great trusts, the powerful “open shop” interests, are planning to consolidate their power more than ever. In the words of the New York Times, “Not only has there been an enormous volume of speculative buying in Wall Street. Company mergers on a large scale are planned or nearly completed.” ° ° e ° It is with these preliminaries that the announcement is made of the $500,000,000 merger in bakeries. The widely heralded “Bread Trust,” the Ward Baking Company, be- comes only the nucleus of this new and greater monopoly. » * *. * One expects big trusts in steel, coal, oil and transporta- tion. But here is a daily necessity, that not many years ago was turned out almost exclusively in the home, the produc- tion of which Is now capitalized at half the huge sum that started off America's first billionaire corporation—the United States Stee! Corporation. nie ° ° No word has been heard from the LaFollette camp, with its “Back to '76" slogan, urging the return of the days when mothers baked their bread in the open fireplaces of log cabins, The LaFollette campaign, in its infancy last summer, started an “exposure stunt” against “The Bread Trust.” But now that the campaign days are over, even this expose can sleep. Attacks on trusts are supposed to be good vote- getters. But after the ballots are counted, they are usually put on the shelf for safekeeping, The new $500,000,000 bread merger is to be known as the Continental Baking Corporation. Its launching has been announced by George G, Barber, secretary-treasurer of the United Bakeries Corporation, which already operates 39 bakeries in 32 cities. Its profits on its “Certified Bread” this past year were $4,000,000 on sales amounting to $40,000,000.- ‘ The other interested concerns, outside of the Ward Baking Company, are the General Baking Company, the American Baking Company, Cushman Sons, the Fleischman Company and the Grennan Company. Each of these has developed out of the merging of many smaller concerns, . . J * This amalgamation of capitalist interests means a more difficult struggle for the Workers in the food industry. It is the boast of the Ward concern, for instance, that its bread ° is produced, “untouched by human hands.” This means that machinery has been so perfected, even in the produc- tion of bread, that the use of human labor has been reduced to a minimum. It is the Ward outfit that has been most active in seeking to establish the “open shop” in all of its plants. It has waged many bitter wars against the organ- ized bakery workers, establishing the worst sweating sys- tems in its plants. Greater consolidation in the bread industry, as in every other industry, means that wealth and power falls into fewer and fewer hands. This means greater riches for the oligarchy of great wealth, but a more bitter struggle for existence on the part of the working masses. The New York Times, anticipating this condition, sends out a warning to the great rich of the capitalist class it represents, It says: ~ “Perhaps most Important of all would be the social effects of a period of immense money making, with silly ostentation in the use and display of the newly created wealth. Never before was the social fabric so closely knit. What is done in one part of it is Instantly known in another, “KNOWLEDGE OF THE WAYS OF SIR GORGEOUS MIDAS IN HIS PALACE QUICKLY PENETRATES TO TENEMENTS AND SLUMS. Hence it is of higher importance than ever for the leaders in Great industrial and financial matters to pay a close regard to the — methods, in which they set about making money, and especially to the style in which they are seen of all men to be spending it.” °* ,° * * The advice of the Times to the rich is not to make less money, but to be careful how they use it. It tells them to endow “noble charities,” and other such palliatives, that the ruling class has always been subsidizing as an antidote to “the embittering of class feeling.” * + * . It was the New York Times, in its days of greatest pros- perity, that aped the new rich of “Fifth Avenue” by build- ng a towering palace of its own at 42nd St. and Seventh Ave., in the heart of the nation’s metropolis, and calling the surroundings, “Times Square,” nightly the mad bedlam of “the spenders.” — It was the New York Times that remained silent when Ward, Jr., the son of the “Bread Trust” czar, murdered a sailor, but was never brought to trial for the crime. The Times did not raise its voice —< the murder of a worker, lured into the navy, slain by dissolute son of one of the nation's bread magnates, . . ° . The Times’ scheme of great riches and a little charity won't work. The new consolidations of great capital forces the workers to amalgamate their organizations as a natural sequence. This will result in a more intelligent waging of the class fight of the workers against their employers, that will not be satisfied with libraries, art galleries, universities and other knick-knacks that the rich dole out, but that the poor never have an opportunity to enjoy, + ° ath. Sam Gompers and all his crowd, in the roaching convention of the American Federation of Labor, at El Paso, Texas, may rail at “Amalgamation” as a Communist slogan. They may fight it. They may vote it down. But the it masses of workers will be forced to and carry out the am ation policies of the Communists, not only in the bread industry, but in every other industry, as a weapon of self-defense. They will be compelled to adopt other Com- munist policies in the offensive struggle against capitalism; for the final victory of the whole working class. — Gang Leader WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—— | Flushed with triumph at its suc- cess in Massachusetts, where the child labor amendment was rejected by 696,119 against 247,221 votes in the referendum on Nov. 4, the national commit. tee for rejection of the 20th amendment has blossomed out in fine headquarters in the Union Trust building in Wash- ington. It is just three floors above the headquarters of the National Association of Manufacturers, which is one of its chief backers. Secretary Keogh, in charge, was formerly associate editor of the ; open shop propaganda maga- zine, American Industries, Keogh admits that ratification of the amendment is possible so long as any state legislature wants to reverse a previous rejection by that state. His organization will continue to gather funds and carry on a comfortably- salaried lobby against the measure so long as the business world cares to keep up its fight against ratification. While the anti-ratification game is good, the country will be plastered with leaflets, pamphlets and letters, urging that parents rise in their might and stamp out this “Bolshevik” at- tempt to make their children “chat- tels of the state.” Fat Bishop Lines Up. Among their circulars are the ones used in Massachusetts, signed by Car- dinal O'Connell, Herbert Parker, the legal adviser of Coolidge in the police strike affair, President Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- gy, Herbert Myrich, farm journal pub- ' lisher, and President Lowell of Har- vard university. Then there is a heavy pamphlet by James A. Emery, general counsel for the manufacturers, urging the defeat of this “politically revolutionary” amendment, and a front-page article from the Ohio State Grange Monthly. Keogh admits that the whole busi- ness organization of the country is not lining up against this amendment be- i cause of the profit derived from em- ployment of a few children, What they see in it, he says, is a most dangerous precedent for further en- croachments upon the property rights of individuals. If congress is to be empowered to regulate or prohibit, at some future date, the industrial employment of boys and girls up to 18 years of age, another amendment can be brought im that will permit congress to dispose of the affairs of adults of all ages. This is revolution- ary, because it strikes at the right to work and the right to employ. The next amendment would probably be more revolutionary. The time hag come to call a halt on easy changes in the constitution! Young Workers’ League. Emery, in his attack on the amend- ment, says that Mrs. Florence Kelley was the directing influence in “the form ahd management” of the mea- sure in congress, and that she is a “socialist leader of marked distine- tion.” Moreover, the Young Workers’ League of America, which has Com } munist affiliations, has declared for } “abolition of wage slavery for all young workers up to 18 years of age” | —proving that the measure is a Mos- | cow proposition. Finally, he quotes | Sen. King of Utah as declaring that | “every Bolshevik, every extreme Com- munist and socialist in the United States is back of this measure.” ; On that showing by Emery, the new | lobby expects to get a big collection | of campaign funds, and to carry on | an anti-red campaign for a long time j to come. } 4 | 5 Start Trial of Four, Incl Fahy, in Big Post Four of the nine men charged with [# complicity in the $3,000,000 Rondout mail robbery went on trial here today in federal court ‘after Brent Glassock,/” alleged leader, and Joe and J Newton had suddenly switched thi pleas to guilty, throwing on the mercy of the court. /* James J. Barbour, counsel for Her. bert Holiday, another defendant, fail-:. ing to obtain a severance for his client, indicated Holiday also would plead guilty if the government would quash some of counts of the in- dictment against to eliminate the possibility of his being sentenced to 162 years in jail. The others wh went on trial were: William J, F; former ace of the postofiice ins; 4 department; William Murra and ter McComb, —$—$—___ Hunt Counterfeiters, " PITTSBURGH, Nov, 11— tates government operatives searching today for more members of the “big ring” who are alleged to have counterfelted United States was : saving certificates and tri