The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 5

Wednesday, November 19,1924 CO-OP MOVEMENT SHOWS: STRENGTH IN HOUSING, SAYS LEAGUE PRESIDENT By ART SHIELDS, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 18—The most encouraging outlook for the co-operative movement in the com- Ing’ year is in the field of co-opera- tive housing,” James P. Warbasse, president, Co-operative League, tells the Federated Press. “The co-operative movement is holding ite own in the retail trade and showing remarkable vigor in dairying, banking and other fields that. vitally affect the people. But this newest development of the movement, into housing, is. meeting with the most rapid success,” War- ba says, ROCKEFELLER I$ TYING. THE CAN WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS CONFINED IN MOUNDSVILLE PRISON WHERE “CITIZEN” FEARS MUTINY (Special to The. Dally. Worker). WHEELING, W. Va., Nov, 18.—-That the prisoners. confined in the Moundsville penitentiary will break into open mutiny untess something is done to remedy the terrible conditions from which they are suffering is the substance of an urgent appeal received here by Governor’ Morgan from EH. E. Dudding, director ‘of the Prisoners’ Relief Society. Behind this telegram there would startle most. “good. citi- zens,” but which is nevertheless typical of the tragedies exper- fenced every day by .working|' men and women, Victims of Cliftonville Battle. For behind the walls of the Mounds- vill prison Me the miners who were victims of the Cliftonville battles dur- ing the strike of 1922. To unravel the story of the impris- onment of these mine workers is to reveal an instance of brutal suppres- sion of strikers in a fight in which every tool of the capitalist system— troops, thugs, press, religion—came to the aid of the bosses. While the fight of the miners was at its bitterest, a skirmish took place in which H. Duval, a sheriff, was shot. Altho more than fifty men were.ar- rested. the real culprit could not be found. Nevertheless, thirty men were sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three years, five for ten years, one for eight years, five for five years, one for seven, and another for four. ‘Thus 43 men went to, jail as murder suspects, altho more than that they took an enthusiastic part in the strike could not be proved. Use Trickery to Get Conviction. A comrade who has visited the fami- lies of most of these men has written to the DAILY WORKER ‘the story of the trickery used by the bosses to get “confessions” from ‘these miners, which at the same time presents a clear picture of the role of the church as an ally of capitalism. “There is one man, Eugene Pecsi,” writes our correspondent, “who is the pastor of a protestant church and is claiming for himself a-share of the credit’ for sending’ these: miners to prison, He visited some of the ac- cused men, and, using frequent quo- tations from the Bible, promised. to RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN Al FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. 524 So, Dearborn * Street: - Phone Wabash 6680 is a story whose tragic” horror PACIFIST IN CHURCH CONFERENCE STARTS LITTLE WAR OF IS OWN BUFFALO, N.Y, Nov. .18,—The cry of a.young. Mexican, Herbert M. Sein, for the youth of the world to revolt against war and hié denuncla- tlon of the position of the churches In the last’ war’ ralsed°a smal! war of its own In the péace Congress of the American council, World Alli- ance for Intérnational Friendship thru the churches, © William E.' Otto; a Buffalo dele- gate, jumped to- his’ feet shouting against the uproar, but he and the speaker and those shrieking “Bol- shevik, un-American, unpatriotic” were drowned in the: general pande- monium.: Sein said his ch was internationalist, He had dectared that the churches “sinned when, they. prayed for vic- tory,” and pictured the young fight- ers and workers suddenly refusing to fight Ju: “the nations are ready to open another war. Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick warned of War’ possibilities If “some wild-eyed militarist across the Pa- cific or some hair-brained cabinet member or some hysterical session of the senate here, may drop a spark into that powder -barret.” _ use his influence for the arrested min- ers, demanding at the same time two to three hundred dollars | fo for | this sérvide.”"* “After obtaining various sums of money from the miners’ families, the reverend swindler went to the, miners, told them that, thing would. go hard with them in court if they attempted to deny their ‘part’ in the shooting. and obtained from them ‘confessions’ of crimes that had never been com- }|mitted...As ‘soon as’ the miners had ‘confessed’ and been throWh into jail no further word was received from the Reverend Pecsi.” These are the men who have been driven to’threatén mutiny against the conditions ‘which their masters‘in jail have imposed on them. Flouting Oil King (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. capital to enter Roumania. of business activities. fin bt ot » Wi crease they are unable to live.” Building Bolsheviks—the D. OUR DAILY PATTERNS | A POPULAR HOUSE DRESS FOR BLENDER OR MATURE FIGURES. ATTENDED TO—— mania alone. A NEW DOLL OUTFIT: figures to be taking hold. Your Union Meeting | [ if 3 pent 12 Garfield Bivd. 21 Carpenters, Western and Lexing- i nters, 6443 S. Ashland Ave. Blacke: Fehlina, e Grace St. Rec. Si Irving basi H. incisco A\ Michigan » lengt Cine te a nh 15 en bie N ca St a Hee ae fat hit Main Sts, aa O-DATH FALL AND WINTER BS UP-T' 1924-1925 BOOK OF FASHIONS. ih deere dr ‘ Ween 1113 Bh po a fae? BE Ha: as srs TO ROUMANIA Dictators “Ponished for 18. — Ever since the Roumanian dictators enacted a law which promises to confiscate part of the value of Standard Oil hold- ings in that country, the Washington | government has at intervals issued’ commercial reports showing that Rou- mania is in a bad way, economically. No encouragement is given po ape Thus the department of commerce issues a cable dispatch from Van Nor- man, its representative at Bucharest declaring that “The financial situation in Roumania has reached an acute stage, with a consequent paralyzing “This situation is thought to be large- ly due to the constantly rising exchange yalue of the lei, the heavy increase in the export taxes and increased transportation charges. A commission has been constituted for the funding of the internal float post-war debts owing to private in dustrialists, and debts to miners as ¢ result of the decision of the arbitra- tion commission which awarded’ an} increase in wages to the miners in the state gold and coal mines of Trans- sylvania, The increase due from Jan- uary, 1923, has not been paid and min: ers complain that without this in- According to this same report, man- ufacturing industries in Roumania are working at only 50 per cent capacity, with consequent unemployment. Only 80 carloads of exports and imports passed thru the ports, as a daily aver- age, in September, as against an ayer- age of 1,000 carloads daily in Septem- ber, 1913, for the old kingdom of Rou The financial blockade of Roumania, threatened when the oil legislation ‘was pending, would appear from these THIRD WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19, 1924 38 aie’ i cerns Workers, Derrick, 180 "Ti Raeratisn, 62nd and i Clay, Village Hall, Lan- Hall, Lake a Halsted St, Ve 2268 aliroad Tealnmen, 64th ana Uni: "(setta)y '280"'S, Komtaing UWE DAILY WORKER ‘ KLAN RIOT AT NILES, 0,, SHOWS FASCIST GROWTH WarwithFlaming Circle Divides Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) MINERAL RIDGE, Ohio, Nov. 18,—It is a trite saying that out of evil some good must come. This saying is very applicable to the recent riots in Niles, Ohio, within a mile and a half of here. These riots were and have been caused by members of the Ku Klux Klan and members of the Flaming Circle. ‘The Ku Klux Klan had been grant- ed a permit to hold a parade in Niles, but the Flaming Circle as on the oc- easion ‘of other attempts of the Ku | Klux Kien, refused to permit them to go thru with the parade. In the recent elections the klan had e¥ected mayors, and other officials in Niles and other towns in the Mahoning Valley, and as a result of this the Klan has been carrying on a campaign of abuse and hatred against the Ne- groes, catholics; Jews and foreign born, threatening to run them out of the country, and campaigning against thehiring of catholic teachers and clerks-in the stores and other places of employment. So arrogant has this organization become that the press despatches have carried) the story where the grand dragon of the K. K.’s interview- ed the governor of the state on his ap- pointments and how many were cath. olics,.and whether he sent his children to a parochial sehool or not. This grand dragon of the K. K.’s, e lawyer of Youngstown, O., before the recent election sent out a secret let- ter to all Klansmen to support Cool- idge, and a iréd slate for the State of Otte as “ft is a current ru- mor that he aims to supplant the na- tional head of Klan, Imperial tant Suppért.~~ > "As 8 result of the trouble in Niles, the governor, who:by the way, was one of the officials who received the indorsement of Dragon-Osborne, had a special ci ittee investigate the Klan and its activities. This commit- tee in its report asks that the gov- ernor take notice “that a condition dangerous to the community exists” and they further-report that it is brot about thru the criminal actions of some of the high officials of the Klan. Prosecutor Burgess of Trumbull Co, brings the charge that an organizer of the Klan by the name of Watkins, has organized a police force of his own, giving out police badges, guns and clubs, and representing to these men that they had the right of arrest and all, the powers of state appointed po- lice official: These “fish” as the prosecutor dub- bed them, paid to this Colonel Wat- kins, as he styles himself, the sum of $17.50, and this money the colonel must haye pocketed, for no trace of it can be found. This B. A. Watkins has been posing in the organization as a minister of the gospel, and an Amer- ican citizen, while the investigation has disclosed the fact that he is not a minister, nor an American, but a super-grafter and an agent provoca- tuer of the most slimy kind. It seems that this man has been a super-spy of the British governmen‘ in "Egypt, during the late war, and that he is now carrying on his trade in this country in the interest of the same government, and the American ‘apitalists, : He has the title in the Klan of kli- graap, which is the super-spy depart: ment of the Klan, and as kligraap hé is at the head of the “Black Hun- dretis” inthe valley, and his depart ment is only one of the many depart- ments maintained by this organiza- tion, which boasts of having the best organized and largest secret service in the world. Members of this secret service of the klan have boasted, when off their guard, that they would, if not able to run the igners, catholics, Jews and Negroes out of the country, join in with the capitalists and make it UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS Facts For Workers By JAY LOVESTONE. THE HEAVY CASUALTIES OF CAPITALIST INDUSTRY. 1. The National Safety Council estimates that industrial accidents cause the death of at loast 25,000 workers every year. The total number of accl- dents in industry is estimated at 3,000,000 annually. Of this number 2,000,000 are temporary disabilities of more than three days’ duration. 2, According to the American Association for Labor Legislation last year saw a huge rise in the number of Industrial accidents. This organization seys: “The increase in Industrial aceldents ranged from 6 to 53 per cent, with an average for all those reporting of 29 per cent; that more than half of these states showed an Increase of over 25 per cent, and nearly a quarter of them more than 40 per cent,” 3. Dr, E. H. Downey, In his latest book on Workmen’s Compensation (1924) said: “The total casualties of the American expeditionary force in the world war did not equal the casualties to American workmen in peaceful employments between April, 1917, and the signing of the armistice, The toll of life exacted by American industries during the second decade of the twentieth century exceeds the nation’s loss in battle from the declaration of independence to the present day.” F 4. In the last fiscal year one out of every twelve of the wage carners in New York si was physically injured. The thal casualties for the year in the Empire State reached the figure of 346,845—an average of nearly a thousand injured daily. 5, In the last decade there were 425,686 workers disabled, crippled anc killed. Last year 2,462 miners were killed In digging coal. The American miners are the heaviest sufferers amongst the miners of the world from Indus. trial accidents. The quarry industry reported 15,133 accidents last year. 6. Half the mining accidents are said to be preventable. The total cost than one billion dollars. The structural iron workers are said to lose one- of all these accidents Is estimated by the National Safety Council at more fifth of their time and the bituminous eoal miners one-tenth of their time thru accidents, CLAIM TO HAVE FOUND LARGEST VEIN OF COAL IN WORLD IN INDIANA SULLIVAN, Ind., Nov. 18.—A vein of coal, believed to be one of the largest in the world, was found in the “Mildred” field near here today according to officials of the J. Wool- ley Coal Co., owners of the mines, The new vein, 245 feet down, is 110 feet lower than the other veins in, the field and is seven feet six inches thick. High Living Cost is Alarming Brazilian Government Officials SAU PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 18.—The rapid increase in the cost of living has become alarnfing to Brazil offi- cialdom. The cost of domestic food has soared, causing an increase in the reyolutionary sentiments of the work- ers. Officials, uneasy at the clouds of rebellion gathering, are trying to at- tribute the startling living conditions to the taxation on business and com- merce. The masses are not satisfied with this explanation; however, and there is a growing discontent. so unpleasant for them that they would be glad to leave of their own Arm Klansmen in Secret. This investigation has shown the Klan ready to arm their members in secret. It has also disclosed the fact that they maintain a wide-spread se- eret police force and spy system and that these spies are under the kli- graaps, a special-department of the klan, and that this British agent has been very active in its organization, his activity in the secret service of the British government giving his ad- vice great weight in the secret coun- cils:of the Klan. The investigation has also shown that they have a force of agitators who go about the country arousing reli- gious hatred and bigotry and appeal- ing to the whites against the blacks and if this is not enough they are ready, if they have not already, to join hands with the capitalists if nec- essary‘to further their ends. It has also shown how easy it is to get the gullible workers to put up their hard-earned cash to go out and arrest other workers if some sharper will come along and arouse their hat- red and bigotry and national animosi- ties and sell them guns. It has also shown a Fascisti of the most virulen type in formation in this country, and the capitalists not only of this coun- try, but other countries as well, back of its formation and organization. It has also shown that a wide-spread se- cret service organization is at the beck and call of the big interests of the country, and that it is function- ing at this moment in every state in the union and is fast becoming a men- ace to the organized workers of the country, and that these secret agents are under the kligraaps of the Ku Klux Klan. “CaleKeeps Job; Others Need Work. 8ST. LOUIS Nov. 18.—Coolidge pros- perity already has jolted St. Louis brewery workers. Approximately 300 employes of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., submitted to wage cuts ranging from $1.50 to $5.50 a week. The workers are employed in the corn products de- partment. Anheuser-Busch operates the only. unionized corn products plant in-the United States, according to union officials. See Timber Famine. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Wasteful cutting ‘of timber in the United States, in a race for profits regardless of efficiency, has brought the country to the verge of a timber famine, which has compelled the’ timber interests to call & national conference on preven- tion of this waste of wood. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, YOUR PAPER. Res. 1632 S, Trumbull Ave, Phone Rockwell 5050 i MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S, La Sallo Street CHICAGO Deurborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 Se ToT TTI TTU MLL TTD You Probably Never Thought of It! And yet another way of building THE DAILY WORKER is by getting an “ad” When you go to your dentist—your doctor—your banker—the people you buy from—do you ask them to advertise in your paper? If You Don’t—By All Means Do! There are advantages in it for them and it will help to build RATES $1.00 an inch—Single Column. Special rates to Unions and Workers Party units When your union or branch has a meeting or dance—other workers in your towh will know about it—if they see it in the DAILY WORKER, nrc svt vgnvnecuetneansaesnctgccn encanta see A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN Page Five NEW WAGE cu THREATEN LYNN SHOE WORKERS Workers Pauperized by Recent Wage Cuts (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 18.—In the midst of a job seekers’ fight in the Amalgamated Shoe Workers’ Union, the A. M. Creighton Shoe company, one of the largest shoe concerns in the east, sent a communication to the joint council of the Amalgamated Union calling for a reduction in wages. It will be remembered that on Dec. 10, 1923, this company got a 16 per cent flat reduction in wages, Then later the company submitted to the state board of arbitration for a read- justment. After the state board got thru adjusting the cuts were so severe that the locals filed applications to reopen their cases, Three locals then withdrew from the Amalgamated Union and went independent, in order to avoid the dictatorship of the state board, which was created as a capi- talist court of “Justice” for labor, and is, of course, an office to aid the boss skin the worker a little more, Their breaking away from the Amal- gamated however did not help them any because under the Massachusetts state law provisions are made for an employer who wants to nullify an agreement signed with a union, to in- corporate under a different name, But a union, altho it changes its affiliations, is bound by the original agreement. The state law provides that any de ¢isiom rendered by the board of arbi- tration -is.a ‘subject for reopening within sixty days if either party dis- agrees, It is already seven months since applications were sent to the board by the union and only two crafts were heard, and those were heard because they threatened in a motion “if the board does not reopen their cases within two weeks, they will not take any more cases to the board.” “When the state board was notified to that effect they immedi- ately summoned these two crafts to appear for a hearing. The state board knows if ‘the shoe workers get wise to-the board’s game, the board of arbitration will be done away with in Massachusetts, because the bulk of the work the board gets is from the shoe unions who are split’ in fragments, and whenever the manu- facturers want to they pick a fight, and the unions not being able to hold their own ground, are forced by the bosses to agree to go before the state board. The results are already too well known to the shoe workers. Pasha Forced to Quit. CAIRO, Nov. 18. — Cabinet dissen. sions have led to the resignation ot Saghlul Pasha, according to reports here. PITTSBURGH, PA, DR. KASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service # ¢0 for 20 Years, $45 SMITHFIELD ST.. Near yO 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. ee,