The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1924, Page 5

| / | i | | WORKERS WANT PEACE BUT MUST FIGHT FOR IT Capitalist Imperialism is Tough Bird By W. FRANCIS AHERN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent MELBOURNE, Australia.—No ar- ticles or songs extolling wars, battles, or heroes of- past wars are to be printed in the school books or papers of Victoria, The education (labor) minister says he is determined to put an end to militarist propaganda in the schools and has issued the order for that purpose. The minister for education of the labor government of Queensland has also issued instructions to exclude from school books and papers in that state all articles or songs on war sub- jocts. The minister, in ordering the change said: “I am going to exclude from the school books anything likely to in- flame the minds of youths with am- bition for war. I intend to explain to the children the causes of war and the capitalist influences. that bring it about. That, to my mind, will tend towards wiping out war. Too much hypocrisy and jingoism is displayed at. present, and not enough sincerity by those called upon to give advice with regard to Australia’s welfare.” The workers of New Zealand held anti-war meetings thruout that coun- try on anti-war Sunday. The following motion, copies of which are to be sent to the prime ministers of .New Zealand and Britain, were carried at all meetings: “We, the workers of New Zealand, send fraternal greetings to similar gatherings being held thruout the world to express abhorrence of war and-militarism; join with them in de- claring it to be the duty of all work- ers and governments to strive for uiversal disarmament.” The New Zealand labor party de- mands repeal of the military service act and the defense act of New Zea- land, and repeal of all provisions in the war regulations act and its amend- ments.that interfere with civil and in- dustrial liberties. Cal Picks His Farmers WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.— William M. Jardine, president of the Kansas Agricultural College, today was named a8 a member of President’ Coolidge’s agricultural commission. The com- mission will hold its first meeting here next week. 4 OUR DAILY THE DAILY tout features It may be omitted. Figured crepe abd satin are here combined. Faille and sil alpaca would also be attractive. ‘The dress may be fin-| 1924-1925 BOOK © ished without the panel and collar and may have the sleeve in shapel out- line or close fitting as in the small we, ‘This Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 36, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bus! A 88 inch size requ! : E A “LITTLE GIRLS’” FROCK. 4918. Taffeta or crepe de chine with lace or ribbon trimming and lace edging on sleeves and neck would be very pleasing for this style. It is also good for wash materials or for wool ferepe and voile. - , The pattern fs cut in 4 sizes: 2, 4, 2 yards of 82-inch material, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in sélver or stamps for our, UP-TO-DATE FALL AND. FASHIONS. we wathington Bical. “onceger &R, 1113 pte eee ai i “ 2? WORKERS IN “BLACK AND WHITE ‘s NEW YORK CITY, Noy. 16—When the Communists say “it must be Terrace Garden the literary whip against the present day family conven- the members of the bourgeoisie, that were present to see that drama, to dictions that this drama, particularly by them to failure, if played by ama- Workers Party Bazaars Use Films. the Greek language and brot the mes- | motion picture as a sure means of extra stress on the importance that |Germany—A Tale of Two Republics,” support our Greek weekly “Empros,”|now Finnish headquarters: on 125th Prolonged applause covered the last | Noy. 22 to 28. ed by Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz, |the International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. English and made the’ vast‘ hall of Paterson Strike in the Movies. The Greek Dramatic Club is arrang-|at a motion picture benefit show re- local Greek branch is organizing. especially excited over . seeing pic- Plea for Sacoo-Vanzetti. —on the screen. The pictures were leading article in the November Loco- The strike scenes were presented lead Nicola. Sacco. and: Bartolomeo! per in the world to get out a motion author is Art Shields, New York bt-| Teel can be rented for showing any- tti- de- sr aa, Seal le omcaalag . A last minute political meeting at any large American labor magazine |+omnational Workers’ Aid picture, by Judge Thayer and presents'a power-| withstanding this competition, the An editorial condemning Gov. Hart| students for whom the. attraction of in the aftermath’ of the Centralia — Minn., which backs the art gallery, film,” Polikushka, which they rented PATTERNS the Twin Cities the picture went to Providence, R. L, where it will show ° Goes to Highest Court A In England This Month out Canada, has been set down for hearing by the privy, council in Eng- officially known as the industrial dis- putes investigation act. This law ways and in all public utilities. Wher introduced 17 years ago, the law was particularly among the railway or- ganizations. electric commission nad some of its employes. Minister of labor Murdock, it on the ground that the act does not apply. to provincial or municipal court reversed that decision. The hydro-electric commission has taken —— cial to The Daily Worker) done,” they mean it. That was proven by the great skill that the Dramatic Club of the Gréek Branch of the Workers Party has shown in presenting at tionalities, “The White and the Black,” when it not only aroused the enthusi- asm of the audience, mostly comprised of workers, but also made many of admit that the presentation was a ¢#——————_______________ success, notwithstanding their pre- difficult in presentation even by the LABOR MOVIE NOTES best professional actors, was doomed ‘ tenn, artists. Two big bazaars run by the Work- Comrade George Arvanitis spoke in| ers party organizations are using the sage of Communism to the Greek drawing crowds night after night. workers that were present. He put] In Milwaukee, Wis., “Russia and the press is playing in general and |i, being shown on Noy. 27. In New made a hot appeal to the audience to| York.» bazaar for the benefit cf. the the only Greek paper that is speaking | ¢¢,, will show “Russia and-Cermany” in the interests of the working class. | and “Polikushka” on alternate nights, words of Comrade Arvanitis. Other organizations desiring similar An enthusiastic address was deliver- | arrangements can get in touch with educational director of District No. 2 | Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. of the Workers Party.’ She spoke in Terrace Garden shake from the ap-| Trémendous enthusiasm was shown plause of the Greek workers. by the silk strikers of Paterson, N. J., ing to present the drama at Newark, | cently held in their city by the In- N. J., at an entertainment which the |ternational Workers’ Aid. They were tures of their own strike—of their picket lines, their leaders, themselves CLEVELAND, Noy. 16.—“The Evi-| Shown in connection with “The Beauty dence Doesn't Count” is the title of a] and the“Bolshevik.” motive Engineers Journal reviewing |#5 8 special “Film Extra” of The ithe last acts of the tragedy which will | DAILY WORKER, the first labor pa- Vanzetti to’ the electric chair for a| Picture edition on an important labor crime they never. committed. The|2¢Wws event. The Paterson silk strike reau manager for the Federated Press| Where in the country. ii it era ene MEMO | diecix, sicating subi: Rellet Fill, fense. which Dudley Field Malone was the The article is the first to appear in speaker, hurt the success of the In- since the two Italian-American work-|«pucsia and Germany” at the Berke- men were finally refused. anew trial! jy ‘cai, high school recently, “Not ful plea for the innocence. of: thesé| chow turned in a profit of $50.00. Over martyra.to enti-alienhyateria, §...o-:a:third of the crowd were university of Washington for continuing to im-| this labor film was greater than that }prison the eight lumberjacks convicted | of the reformist spteler. Armistice day tragedy of 1919, also| St. Paul Liberals Praise “Polikushka.” appears in the current Journal. The “liberal” group at St. Paul, museus, extension course, etc., ex: Subscribe for “Your Daily,” press high praise for the “wonderful the DAILY WORKER, from the International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ml. From E at the Gaiety Theater, on Nov. 19, . Canadian Labor Act OTTAWA, Can—A case which slosely affects the labor situation thru- land in November, The point-is the constitutionality of the Lemieux act, provides for compulsory investigation of all labor disputes in mines ,on rail- opposed by the unions, but has lat- terly met with favor among them, The present issue arose out of a dispute between the Toronto hydro- granted a board under the act, and the commission refused to recognize utilities. The trial judge said the act was unconstitutional, but a higher the case to the privy council, the last court of appeal in the British Empire. Fight Speed-Up System. NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 16. Seventy weavers and loom fixers ha’ walked out of the New Bedford Spin- ning company mill in a strige author- ized by the textile council of the Am- erican Federation of Textile Operat- ives against a new @peed up system. Weavers object to a new order requir- ing them to tend 12 looms each of a new 52-inch style and loom fixers pro- test against tending 32 looms each. The company is affiliated with the m the date of the order. larger American Cotton Fabric corpo- Bot become impatient your pattern t9) tion, Voters Kill Compensation Act, ST, LOUIS, Noy. 16.—The Missouri workmen's compensation act, an initt- ative proposal, was beaten in the No- vember referendum by more than PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK Rendering & Dental Servioe | 200,000 votes. Missouri remains the : ry voere, only industrial state in the union with- ESAS BT Now ie. law. ye ma “out ® MILL WORKERS ARE PRESENTED WITH WAGE CUTS Bosses Show Confidence in Cal’s Election (By The Federated Press) MANCHESTER, N. H., Nov. 16.— Amoskeag Manufacturing company has ‘posted the 10 per cent wage cut which had. been forced upon its cotton and worsted milis’ employees before elec- tion thru the company union but not previously put into effect. The action of the company is taken here as in- dicative of its satisfaction in the re- taining of the Cooldige regime and continuance of reaction in politics and industry. B. B. and R. Knight company, part of the American Woolen company’s trust, and the Manville-Jenckes com- pany, both operating numerous mills in Rhode Island, led the wage-slashing against textile operatives by cuts put into effect before election. The tex- tile magnates’ candidate for senate, Jesse Metcalfe, also roue in on the Coolidge landslide. Gigantic Concern. Amoskeag claims to be the largest cotton and worsted producing con- cern in the United States, at least the largest in one spot. It has both sides of the Merrimac river lined for two miles with its redbrick mills. The Knight brothers’ and Manville-Jenckes mills are also large producers and the action of these three concerns . with their numerous subsidiaries is as- sumed to mean general wage cuts by other textile mills of New England. About 5,000 workers in the mechan- cal,» worsted and cotton sections of Amoskeag are immediately affected by the wage cuts. Over 9,000 other workers of the mills have been un- employed and are expecting the lower wages to enable more of them to get poor jobs in the mills again. The 5,000 workers have been on a three and four day week basis most of the time for the last year. Organization Needed. Workers who formerly were mem- bers of textile unions or still carry cards are not hopeful of the present situation altho there is some indica- tion that the mills will run more steadily. They see conditions bad thru increasing machines per worker and the exceedingly. low wages scheduled. No one of the six national unions which have made efforts to organize the textile workers is rated as sufficiently strong by the workers to effectively, organize. the industry and carry on the fight more energetic- ally, but all agree that organization of the workers is the crying need. Sir Esme Howard Is Trying to Peddle One Of His British Jokes | ” (By Ths Federated Press? NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—“A self-deny- ing agreement among nations by which they will pledge themselves not to support in any: way the efforts of their own nationals to obtain con- cessions in undeveléped or semi-de- veloped countries,” {s proposed hy Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador to the United States, to prevent fur- ther wars. Speaking to the New York board of trade and transportation; Sir Esme blamed the “frantic competition for concessions of all kinds going on in China, in Persia, in Turkey, in the Ratkans, in Morocco,” as “one of the principle causes, for there were many, ot the late war.” He continued that no nation could throw a stone in the matter of imperialism. He asserted that too much confidence had been placed in the theory “that internation- ai trade is the greatest factor for peace.” “The necessity of recognizing the velue.of evonomics in. international politics” Is “one thing which we have learned during the past few strenuous and terrible years,” Sir Esme. deciar- ed, He then statetd that the Dawes' reparation scheme “brought the whole (reparations) . question out of the murky etmosphere of sentiment and yulitics down onto the bedrock of hard economic tact and proved to those interested that it is, when you come to dealing in sums required for reparations, almost a8 dificult to re #ive them without upsetting the econ- omic applecart as to pay them.” WORKER Facts For Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. THE COURTS T is practically impossible to present an accurate picture of the total number of injunctions con- stantly being issued by the courts against the workers in their dis- putes with the bosses. The extent to which the capitalists used the courts against the workingmen in the strike of the railway shopmen offered an adequate index of the role of employing class justice in the class struggle. We herewith present the outstanding facts about the activities of the courts in the last national railway strike. 1. As soon as the strike was de- clared the railroads filed bills of complaint In the Equity Branch of nearly every federal district court, located in every state, and restrain- ing every kind of activity on the part of the striking railwaymen. 2. The leading railroads instituted litigation in many courts. It has been conservatively estimated that at least three hundred suits seek- ing injunctions against the striking shopmen were filed by the carriers | in the district courts alone. 8. Each of these injunctions was the source of numerous other court actions against the workingmen. Thousands of shop craft strikers were thus cited for contempt. In the cities of Cleveland and Toledo alone there were no less than 152 such cases growing out of injunc- tions issued by courts, 4. The 1922 railway strike affec- ted four thousand localities. On the average there were approxim- ately twenty court cases brought against strikers in each of these localities. This would mean that the workers were thrown into no less than eighty thousand court cases while striking for the right to organize. These cases included injunctions, contempt proceedings, and petty prosecutions before state courts and magistrates. 5. The exact cost to the labor or- ganizations of these blows struck at them by the capitalist courts cannot be estimated. All we can do is to cite certain experiences of the workingmen which give a general but accurate idea of the hardships thus inflicted on the working mass- es by the bosses’ government. We cite: a) As a result of the Daugherty injunction alone the Railway Em- ployees Department of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor was pre- sented with a bill of $13,356.70 by the department of justice. b) In the paryer for an fAjunction filed by the St. Louis, San Francisco Railway company in the Federal District court at Kansas a default judgment of $9,030,891.42 was sec- ured by the railroad against the International Association of Machin- ist, the Brotherhood of Boilermak- ers ahd Helpers, and other trade union bodies, c) A certain Mr. Henry &, Jeffery filed claims running into millions against the labor organizations in- volved in the railroad strike. He sought damage to the amount of $2,500,000 for mental suffering and torture, for instance, growing out of strike activities, + d) Another Mr. Charles Christian entered a suit against the striking shop crafts claiming $100,000 dam- ages because of his loss of job as a foreman on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. All of these cases merely indicate the cost and character of the epurt actions taken by the bosses against the workers. Undoubtedly the rail- way corporations were behind all these suits. Your Union Meeting THIRD MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1924. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 123 N. Clark St., irtende: P.M. 1 Bridge and Structural tron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. 94 Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Av 598 Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velit Rd. 638 Butchers, Bohemian, 1870 Blue Is- land Ave. 17742 Cleaners & Dyers, 113 S. Ashland 4 Glove Workers, 1710 N. Winches’r Carpenters, 1850 Sherman Ave. Evanston. 2505 Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St Cap Makers, 4003 Roosevelt Ru. 70 Carpenters, 2705 W. 38th St. 80 Carpente: 4039 W. Madison St. 181 Ci ters, 2040 W. North Ave. 199 & » S. C. 9139 Commercial vi 416 $. C., 505 S. State St. 419 S. C., 1457 Clybourn 448 Carpenters, 222 N. West St., Wau- Kegan. Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. br avd Makers Executive Board, 166 W. Wa: ington St., 7:20 m. i 19 S. Throop St. (Locomotive) 7832 Ss. 7:30 p. m. 4643 S. Halsted Sti 311 S$. Ashland Ave. 180 W. Washington St. ind Enginemen, 2431 Roosevelt Rd., 9:30 a. m. Last meeting 7:30 & m. nginemen, 64th and Firemen and Ashland Ave. Firemen and Enginemen, Madison and Sacramento. 18 Glove Operators, 1710 N. Winches- ter A 76 Ho jers, 814 W. Harrison St. 89 ee + rig 328 W. Van 74 , 725 S. Western Ave. $74 Congenoremen, Tug, $85 N. Clark 265 Machinists, 78th St. and Dobson Bivd. Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. | ee iad of Way, 1543 W. 103d ree ha 20 syne of Way, 202 W. 47th r ge Stree 27 Paint 175 W. Yekiee St. 823 535 N. Cicero Av 401 16 W. Paint Madison and Sth Ave, Painters, 205 E. 115th St. Painters 2432 S. Kedzie Ave, Railway Clerks, 159 N. State St. 51 Sheet Metal Workers, 1638 N. Halsted St. + Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark Street lors, 180 W. Washington St., m 11526 Michigan Av 220 S. Ashiand 6 m, Teamsters, 220 8. Ashland Bivd, Ti 721 5 7 3 Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS @ | Unéle Wiggily “Buy, me some First. Strikers Stick Solid in Waltham Watch Co. Walkout WALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 16. — The striking watch workers of Waltham Watch and Clock company rejected the company’s offer to take back at once 200 finishers and matchers and 400 other workers within ten days. The strikers’ association, which will affiliate soon with the International Jewelry Workers’ Union, has held the strikers’ ranks intact thruout the three months’ fight and insists ‘that all the strikers be taken back on the job at once with the union recogniz- ed and the wage scale of August 11 in effect. Altho the strike is the first these workers have had, most of them, they are determined to hold out and win against the speed-up, cheap wage sys- tem which the bondholders, Kidder Peabody and Company, have attempt- ed to put into effect in the factory. Textile Output Grows in Moscow. MOSCOW, Nov. 16.—Annual reports from the city owned trusts in Moscow indicate that practically all have in- creased the productivity of labor and the number of employes. Four textile trusts in the Moscow district increased output 80 per cent, and one trust 120 per cent. The inerease in working force, tho general, is hardly more than half the increase in output, indicating that organization of work is improv- ing. * Building Bolsheviks—the D. Secretary Wanted Women stenographer, 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 ©. o. Charles H. Kerr & Co. 349 E. OHIO ST. CHICAGO, ILL, Page Five MEXICAN LABORER FEELS BETTER AT HOME THANIN U.S. Treated Like | Dog Here, Says Jose Torres By SCOTT NEARING, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent VERA CRUZ, Nov. 16.—Jose Torres of Vera Cruz, Mexico, is a first-class mechanic and is employed by one of the leading oil companies as a truck driver. “Would you like to go to the United States?” I asked Torres, after we had spent a few minutes in discussion of the international situation. “For one reason only,” he answered. “IT am anxious to take a course in electricity, and there in nothing here in Mexico of the kind I want. I would not care to go there and work,” Pressed for his reasons, Torres ex- plained that-in the United States— and particularly in the border states —Mexicans were little better than dogs, and were frankly treated as in- feriors by those with whom they came in contact. “But in Mexico,” he added, “since the passage of the new consti- tution even the Americans here do not treat us with open disrespect.” He then cited a number of instances in which Mexicans, working for American firms, had secured protec- tion against unfair conditions by an appeal to the Mexican courts. “Mex- ico has much to learn from the United States in mechanical improvements, was his conclusion, “but I prefer to work here where a Mexican is a man.” Asked as to the possibility of an- other revolution in Mexico in the im- mediate future, Torres referred to the widespread and persistent rumors that certain Mexican political leaders were meeting in San Antonio, Tex., to lay plans for an outbreak. “It looks to me,” said he, “as tho the United States were actually en- couraging factional strife in Mexico. If not, why do they permit these plottings to go on across the border? And why should they not encourage division among us? It will make eas- ier the coming absorption of Mexico by the United States.” Then I turned the conversation to the economic situation confronting Mexico. “Yes,” said Torres, “we are an agricultural people. Still, modern industry has made serious inroads on the old handérafts. Large scale or- ganization is taking the place of the small producer. “Another thing,” he went on. “Just consider the way men are treated by the big industries. The corporation handles men just the way I handle my tools. Here is a big heavy wrench. When I am thru with it for a moment I throw it right on the ground. That is the way the peons are treated. Here is another wrench that I use in the adjustment of magnetos. You see, I keep it wrapped in paper, and when- ever I use it, I wipe it carefully and return it to its box. That is the way the corporation treats skilled labor. “Do you see this drill? I have broken it. Perhaps I can’ make a punch 6f it. If not, I will throw it on the scrap heap. That is the worker who has lost an arm or a leg. If they can, they make him a watchman at a low wage. If he is too badly battered up they throw him on the human scrap pile.” Torres then told me how he made a protest against reduced pay and lengthened hours of labor in one of the big oil companies. He was black- listed but the struggle over his case had restored the 8-hour day. Neglect Physics and Chemistry. COPENHAGEN—The Swedish Acad- emy of Science announced today that it had decided not to award the 1924 prizes for progress in physics and chemistry as scientists had done noth- ing to merit the awards. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL’ FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Ere, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, 624 So. Dearborn St Phone Wabash 6680 CHICAGO *