The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1924, Page 5

A Tuesday, November 25, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER FIGURES REVEAL GROWTH IN PRODUCTION, IN PROFITS; AND IN MISERY FOR THE WORKERS Before you fall for Secretary Hoover’s siren song about the economic progress of the country, stop and figure what it means to you. Do you realize that as long as the country’s productive plant is operated for the benefit of private profit takers this —_—_— progress will mean insecurity and more unemployment for the real workers? Hoover's figures prove it, Profits Grow; Payrolls Shrink. The country, according to Hoover's review of the year ended June 30, 1924, is producing and selling more Your Union Meeting FOURTH TUESDAY, NOV. 25, 1924. Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. INTERNATIONAL AID DELEGATES’ MEETING SUNDAY, NOV. 30 NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—All dele- gates elected by their branches to conduct the work of the Interna- tional Workers Aid in behalf of po- litical prisoners in Europe and In- dia, will meet Sunday afternoon 2 Pp. m, Nov. 30 at the Workers’ House, 208 East 12th St. All branches that have not yet elected their delegates must do so immedi- ately. Workers’ Party District 2, Chas. Krumbein, Organizer. GREEK AND TURK BIG BAKE TRUST GIANT THREAT TO THE UNIONS Expect. Drive Against | Organized Labor (By The Federated Press) Higher prices for bread eaters and more miserable conditions for bread bakers are predicted |by the Bakery and Confection- ery Workers’ International Un- ion, as the outcome of the re- cently formed Continental Bak- Limerick to an Open Shopper There was an old duffer named Dawes Who boosted the open shop cause, But he felt rather rummy When a tump on his tummy Was opened with scissors and saws. When Coolidge was told of the lump On the visceral wall of the chump, His great reputation For no conversation Was upheld by the single word—“Umph!” —Harrison George. THE HUMBUG OF HIGH WAGES By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) For every $100 the working class in New York state could spend in 1920 it can spend only $82 today. That's by about that amount or to $106 payrolls should have been increased for each $100 in 1920 to enable the workers as a whole to hold their own. Taking full account of a 16 per} CALL POLICE IN WAR ON WINDOW CLEANERS’ UNION Bratal M. ethods Used in Effort to Break Strike (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 24,— In spite of extreme police In- timidation methods directed by |Louis Frankel and his National |Window Cleaning company of- \ficials, the strike of the Window 50 |Cleaners’ Protective Union con- jtinues, says secretary Peter |Darck, with union men fighting for organization in this ex- tremely hazardous work. These human flies cling tc the window ledges of New York cent drop in the cost of living in- dustry should be disbursing $89.50 for every $100 paid in wages in 1920 to enable the working class as a whole to maintain its 1920 living standards. The table shows only $82 actually | paid for each $100 paid in 1920. The WORKERS DYING OF STARVATION Graft and Corruption 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 No. Robey St. Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee Ave. Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. Brick and’ Clay Workers, Paving Inspectors, 168 W. Washington St. Calumet Join Council, 514 W. 17th eries Corp., the half billion dol- | what the September payroll data gath- lar bread trust. Bread factories | ere¢ from manufacturing establish- ments by the state industrial commis- ine ee ae indi included. sioner show. It means that all the r Prices. | employers’ propaganda about the high- “The consequences for the bread est real wages in history is bunk so consuming public will be drastic up-/far as the general run of workers’ goods with materially reduced work- ing forces. He doesn’t say so, but his statistics show it. This means more profits on smaller payrolls, It explains why industry can appear to pay slight- ly higher percapita wages while main- taining an army of unemployed. This 133 21 378 5 58 Diversey and Sheffield. a ward manipulations in the price dec- | families is concerned. purchasing power of the average mem} | Sir A apay 6 he eee en eee | Nae ren ok Continues as Before | tatea vy this monopoly,” declares : ber of the wage-earning class is thua|SKYScrapers to keep the win- capturing its real share of this econo-| 272 Moose Hall, Chicago Ms Pett . Average weekly pay, the commiss- considerably lower than it was in 1920 |dOWs shining clean and half of mic progress in shorter hours and a] 4g, lecy. Charles F..Hohman of the Bak-|ioner's report shows, amounted to higher living standard. “The outstanding features of the fis- cal year,” says Hoover, “were first, the advance in agricultural prices; second, the beginnings of sound poli- cles in German reparations leading to a hopeful measure of economic recov- ery in Europe; and third, the complete recovery of our own industry and com- merce, great stability of prices, high production, full employment, expdnd- ing foreign trade and prosperity thru- out the business world.” Breadline Grows Too. He gives the following major eco- nomic indexes to show the domestic situation. With the exception of em- ployment these numbers represent the percent of activity in a given year with the year 1919 as 100 per cent. The employment figures, however, for some unexplained reason, show the percent of employment in a given year with the calendar year (not fiscal year) 1923 as 100 per cent. Hoover's Figure: Years ended June 30: 1922 1923 Volume of Manufacturing production. Mineral production Forest production Freight, railroad ton miles. eecrc power production. juilding contracts let, sq. ft. 99 Unfilled orders (Uy S-Steel) 4 Factory employment 87 Value of sale: Department store Five and ten cent stor Mail order house: Wholesale trade Such figures capital a sense of confidence. But how will labor interpret them? They show manufacturing production sta- bilized during 1923 and 1924 at a level between 15 per cent and 16 per cent above 1919. They show mineral pro- duction mounting to even greater heights. They show the volume of freight shipments 10 per cent above 1919 and the volume of wholesale trade 12 per cent above that level if allowances for price changes are made. In other words they show the owners of industry. producing and dis- tributing more goods on which they ig a Hall, High- ‘springfield and 26th. cery, 69 W. Van Buren Street. ‘ 15 Conductors (Sleeping Car), Capitol Bldg., 10 a. m. 1 Electricians, 505 S, State St. 741 §. Western Ave. 302 (Lee.), 5058 Wentworth 402 Engineers, 18 W. Washington St. 645 Engineers’ (Loc.), 2488 W. Roose- 826 ‘Loc.), 2647 W. 35th St. 8705 418 N. Clark St. 27 Employes, 64 W. Randolph treet. 18441 Federal Union, 3046 W: 26th St. 715 Firemen and’ Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. 20 Hatters (Trimmers), 166 W. Wash- ington & 8 Hod Carri cago Heig! 6 Hod Carriers, & 27 Hod. Carriers, 621 Avenue. 718 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 81 Lad Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren. 12 7 84 915 and Oilers, 357 » 175 W. Washington St., Hall, Oak Park. Randolph St. N. E. cor, California and Madison. ters, 6414 S. Halsted St. N. W. cor. State and 65th. S, 220 W. OAK ST. Trumbull and Ogden Avi » Monroe and Peoria Sts. 1507 Ogden Ave. 180 W. Washington St. 4111 W. Madison St. Railway Carmen, Odd. Fellows’ Hall, Blue Island, II1., 7:30 p. m ‘men, e. 3 Carmen, 5824 S. Halsted ’ Clerks, 549 W. Washington Railway Clerks, Chi- cago Height: Railway Clerks, 5438 S. Halsted St. Caley. Clerks, 509 W. Washing- ton St. Moose Hall, Railroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- n. ers’ District Council, 220 S. ind Bivd. s (Auto), 220 S. Ashland irs, 180 W. Washington St. Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. (Note—Unle: stated all (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, Nov. 24.—Turkish work- ers and peasants returning to Turkey and Greek workers and peasants re- turning to Greece are dying by the thousands. They are sctarving and freezin to death because almost every penny of the money set aside by the Angora government and by the Greek government has gone into the hands of national politicians. The exchange of refugees is taking Place on the basis of the agreement reached at Lausanne between Turkey and Greece for the return of their respective nationals living in Thrace ;|and Anatolia. Graft Continues as Before. Before the advent of the present liberal-republican government, headed “| by Michalapoulis, the practices of the officials in the refugees’ bureau here were the subject of bitter attacks against Premier §ofoulis, a republi- n.| Can. The refugees have been unable to notice any difference in their per- sonal incomes within the last few months. The pretenses of the Greek govern- ment to put a stop to the wide-spread graft and corruption are a standing joke in government circles: Two army officers, convicted of stealing several thousands of drachmas from. army funds, were released from prison on the day after they had received. sen- tences of 18 years each. 4 e% Besides all of their other burdens, the Greek workers are now bearing the load of a foreign debt of over 200 million drachmas, imposed on Greece when that country took pos: session of Turkish lands in Smyrna. Great Britain, France and Italy forced Greece to agree to pay the debts of whatever territory she got. The ter- ritory in question has since been lost to Greece, but the debt is still claimed by the European powers. N. Y. Workers’ School ery Workers’ International. , “For the workers themselves this octopus has become their worst and most dangerous enemy. The experi. ence of the men employed in the large New York bread factories which for many years have been operated under exclusive trust control refiect the utterly brutal and unbridled ex: ploitation perpetrated upon the slaves employed there.” Hohman indorses the finding of New York investigators who reported that “With the exception of a few foremen who are being paid compara- tively well, the workers in the em- Ploy of this trust of millions receive veritable starvation wages, far below the union scale. And in addition the workers in these trust bakeries are completely at the mercy of the em ployer.” i Workers Unorganized. Vigorous defensives by the union are in part impaired, Hohman indi- cates, because “the masses of the workers directly affected are suffer- ing from a really deplorable indiffer- ence and a still more regrettable di- vision of their forces.” Quebec Labo? Party © Condemns Dawes Plan As Enslaving Workers 's (By The Federated Press) MONTREAL.—A’ resolution con- demning the Dawes reparations plan was passed at the annual convention in Montreal of the Quebec section, Canadian labor party. The resolution described the Dawes plan as a new method of enriching the bankers and enslaving the workers, of lengthening the hours of labor of the German working class and degrading them to a coolie standard of living. The reso- lution carried by 40 to 20. Another resolution adopted by the convention protested against U. S. $28.05 in September. This is 10c a week under the 1920 average when the cost of living was about 19 per cent higher than today. From this employers argue that wages now buy nearly 18 per cent more than in 1920. But the actual spending power of the workers is measured by total wage payments, not by average weekly earn- ings. And a glance at the figures will show that while average earnings have remained high, factory payrolls have been heavily reduced. The figures show how much wage earners employ- ed in the manufacturing establish- ments of New York state had to spend for each $100 available to them in production methods are affording tl wages without earnings. will simply find himself unemploy: to a greater extent than former! tion of all productive machinery make profits rather than lighten t! ayerage burden, the boss's little jo) continue to breed confusion. Cut Wages of Wood families over the extended period of so-called republican prosperity is re- flected in the figures. In 1921 and 1922. they were receiving less than three-quarters.as much in wages as in 1920, During the summer months of 1924 payrolls again fell to a point very nearly as low. But there are now more mouths to feed in the working class than in 1920. Population has increased about 6% per cent since that year. If there had been no drop in the cost of living | year old ‘workers for 45 cents. sprayers. Use Movie Actress to Pose as Ideal Negroes Barred from New York Hospitals Because of Color discovery that in spite of increased percapita wages. © i Labor saving machinery and mass | hooks in which to fasten safety employing class a means of cutting touching percapita The average wage earner Until labor blames the present func- about the highest wages in history will work for 60 cents, but the manager of the plant said he is going to lay oft his 80-cent gilders and hire sixteen Those who are expected to have wages reduced unless they use their organized protest, are leaf gilders, polychromers, shellacers, sanders and Slave for Bosses SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 24.—The elen Gainer, in whose name the action to overthrow the wo- them are not even provided with belts. Detectives invade the union office, Darck declares, with a so-called com- plaining witness who picks out union men and charges them with assault. The police detectives even went inte the rooms of Housewreckers’ Union, local 95, which adjoin the Window Cleaners’ Union offices, and beat up union workers who were in no way connected with the strike at National Window Cleaning company. One housewrecker was falsely ar- rested and is now held under $1000 bond for general sessions. An old ‘he ed ly. to he ke 1920. And Metal Finishing | visiting in the office was beaten Percapita Total unconscious and is still in the hos- New York Hedin wages Vorkers at Lamp P lant pital recovering from the assault by 1920 $100 $10( detectives and company representa- 1921 91 11 Wood and metal finishing workers | tives. 1922 89 74] Te having their wages reduced now Sixteen policemen and six police 1923 96 89] hat Coolidge has been elected, the |detectives are kept on duty for Na- 1924 Jan. 99 gg | 2AILY WORKER is informed. Gold | tional Window Cleaning company to Feb. 98 gg | ‘eat gilders who were working for | enforce its injunction against the un- Mar. 100 91 | ghty cents an-hour are now being | ion, Darck says, Apr. 98 96 | 28ked to work. for 45 cents. eS May 98 82| At the Wellington and Stone Lamp Dovgaleveky Goes to Sweden. June 96 79 factory, 1222 Wabash avenue, employ- MOSCOW (By Mail.) — Comrade July 96 76|ing 150 men, the new employes are Dovgalevsky, assistant people’s com- Aug. 97 77 | being taken on at 45 cents an hour. missar of posts and telegraphs, has Sept. 100 824 One worker,.who has been getting 80 deen appointed” plenipotentiary repre- The hardship suffered by workers’ |cents an hour for gilding, offered to | sentative and, concurrently, trade rep- resentative of the Union of Soviet So- cialist Republics to Sweden. Dovgalevsky headed the Soviet dele- gation to the world postal conference recently held at Stockholm, and upon which Soviet Russia was represented for the first time since the last war. ‘i betrayed Their first conversation otherwise ‘ realize their profit. meetings are at 8 p.m.) : immigration regulations, which do not Shatin men’s minimum wage law of Califor- betrayed the fact that § Lotsa Raise Ber. + asngteg Announces Course in |give to naturalized Canadians the (By The Federated Press) nia was instituted, is a motion picture| she was not fastidious employment. Referring Hoover's em- same rights of admission to the United States as enjoyed by native Canadians. actress, employed for this purpose by a group of wealthy manufacturers, has aroused labor as few recent moves NEW YORK, Nov. 24—That New York, which many persons believed New York Capitalists Want Canadian Road Trade Union Training ployment figures to 1919 instead of A a distance she had appeared 1924, we find a drop of more than 12 . —— unusually neat, immaculate. (Special to The Daily Worker) gave equal rights to Negroes, is dis- But their first face-to-face pect We eee ae etch That Begins to Pa: NEW YORK, Noy. 24—The Work-| A third resolution carried recom-|criminating against the Negro race is sy ge a peerings td have done. pone gw dacovered that her teeth he about if per cent more goods vy kers’ School of New York has sent|™mended work for the unemployed at | shown by the National Association for pt a t pereinn oe ice oe on were not clean. And he soon lost with 12 per cent fewer workers than| VANCOUVER, B. C.—The Pacific|out a call to all local groups of the| "ion wages, and that in default of|the Advancement of Colored People . attempt to keep women interest, 5 Be in 1919. The number of unemployed miners will bear witness to the same Great Eastern railway, built to afford politicians and contractors wholesale Trade Union Educational League urging them to designate active mem- work the unemployed should receive full maintenance from the govern- which is conducting a campaign against the practice New York hos-| department of labor. Miss Gainer in industry without legal protection,” says Mary Anderson, of the federal So many people overlook this one matter of fastidiousness. And do so in in spite of the fact that in conversa~ situation in mineral production. Ex- ment. pansion of plant capacity, moderniz- ed labor saving machinery, efficiency management are producing a situation where a large margin of jobless work. ers will be chronic. pitals have of segregating and even| barring Negro patients. The associa-| French to Send Troops to Morocco, | ‘ion has secured the co-operation of PARIS, Nov: 24.—The French gov- the National Medical Assuciation, a ernment is considering sending troops | Neéro organization in an investigation to take control of the Spanish zone of discrimination against patients with of Morocco as soon as the Spaniards! @4rk skins. The North Harlem Med- evacuate, it is learned here. The|!c@! Association, a Negro organiza- French are anxious to acquire new| ion of doctors in New York's great territory in Morocco and to put down Negro district, has been invited by insurrections of the Rifflan tribes|‘h¢ association to join the campaign whieh have been contiriuously break-| 424 test cases in the courts are ex- ing out, pected if the discrimination con- bers to take the trade union training course to be given by the school. This course is intended for a selected group of trade union militants chosen trom the various league sections and trade unions. It aims to train these vorkers for more effective service in -he T. U. EB. L, and the labor move- ment in the United States, and the principles and tactics of the Red In- ternational of Labor Unions in the in- ternational field and in the various countries, graft, has long been a white elephant to the people of British Columbia. Millions of dollars have been sunk in this enterprise. Both liberal and con- servative parties participated in the graft. t In recent years, however, in opening up the north country and the Cariboo district the Pacific Great Eastern rail- way promises some returns, and straightway the government makes overtures to sell the railway. A group of New York capitalists is seeking to tion the teeth are the one most noticeable thing about you. Notice today how you, yourself, watch another person's teeth wl he or she is talking. If the teeth are not well kept they at once become a liability. Listorine Tooth Paste cleans teeth a new At last eur chemists have discovered @ her suit. posed as a factory employe who “desired the liberty” of working for less than the minimum wage. The case ig still before the state supreme court. ° Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS Revolution Reported in Athens. LONDON, Nov. 24.— Despatches reaching here state an attempt was made in Athens to start a revolution i The movement was said to be headed by General Lougas, who has been ar- You will notice the improvement even in the first few days. And you know it is cleaning safely. rested. tinues, IN ENGI bed he mig he Pesci bom : purchase it song 4 areas| Classes will be given in the History . LISH AND IN ALL! safe antiseptic, have found you \ es of agrloetturad thed pA tnd them |°f the American Labor Movement] Gould Crooked Deal Shown Up. At the same tine the association | |[) FOREIGN LANGUAGES also the really safe dentifrice. INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc. NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO. NEW YORK, Nov. 24, — William |!8 taking up the case of Miss Lydia Wallace, attorney for George Gould, |[ardine, a Negro girl of 20, who was and the World Trade Union Move- by the government. Two big English ment. The practical problems facing What are your teeth saying about T PHAR: syndicates are also considering buy- iv today?—LAMBER ACAL CO., Saint Louis, U.S. A. SaaS ST '. Post Cards in Colors ing the railway. the militants in their trade union|dmitted in court that Gould secretly | barred from a physical training class ; (Sq Something New and Different. Snerihien, WE. We, donk wien. tn so feapenel of 98088, neers Union Peshig ce ha oelne aiee ee 524 89, Dearborn LISTERINE ; ae courses on the blems of various |shares, and kep' 000 of trans- 00) ye. reet | them for your regular cor- PITTSBURGH, PA. thAnstelen, and rag organization, The|action as “commission.” Wallace ad-|iene and Physical Culture. The Y. Phone Wabash 6680 TOOTH PASTE poibendénce: “Havel a ests ter DR first of these will be conducted as a|mitted that he could not defend this|W. C. A. on the defensive, admits CHICAGO Large Tube—25 cents f ; your album. symposium by active militants famil-| hold up of the Gould estate which is|the discrimination and says it is tak- MAK OnoEns PROMPTLY ing the case under advise sasha ani ar jar with the struggle in their partic- No. 1 in, directing the revolution| Rendering Expe Dental Service Neo. 2—Le: in, when 16 years old for veares No, 3—The Red cn of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Be state seal and | | 7 ' ; em . No. 6—Trotsky, commander of the } Love hea keene Our Canadian Neighbors! ONE CARD 5 CENTS of 10 or more, 2c per card, lots of 100 or more. A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN SORES z ge i ge | J wonder what he © wall make ff me do Hi