The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 3

Monday, December 1, 1924 POLICE LAUNCH MANY RAIDS ON NEGROES HERE Find It Is Profitable Source of Graft Police officers are conducting wholesale raids without reason on the homes of south side Negroes, victims of police raids charge. The police on the south side are in league with the numerous bondsmen who infest the police stations and courts, bailing out those arrested and giving com- missions to the police, Perry C. Thompson, Negro writer, charges. Prey On the Negroes Arrests must be kept up to @ cer- tain level in order to make the graft Profitable, and as usual, the Negro residents are counted as legitimate prey. An example of wholesale persecu- tion of Negroes by the police is seen in the arrest by Officers McMorrow and McKenna, of the Wabash avenuc station, of Irene Mathews, 4925 Calu- met. avenue, Miss Mathews was ap- proached by a white man who, she charges, made some fresh remarks to her, and when she refused to go with him, called to the two officers who were standing in readiness near- by. ; The Negroes charge that scores of Negro women are being framed up in similiar manner by the police, the white men accosting the women being “stool pigeons” in league with the. police. Complainant Fails to Appear Miss Mathews was discharged by the. judge trying her case after she had given. evidence of her good mora) | character. This is the first time in the many similiar cases in which the complaining witness has failed to appear to make his charges. It cannot be charged that there is more crime rampant in the blackbelt as the gangs centering around Dean O’Banion, Tommy O’Connor, Big Tim Murphy, Gene Gary, the Torrios, and O'Donnell made their habitats in other sections of the city, Many of the Negroes unjustly arrested are forced to “pay off” the police officers “is Charged. ‘i Negro Made the Goat — The:south side Negroes are now paying rent which in many cases is 80 per cent higher than whites pay for similiar structures, These homes are broken into without search war- rants by officers on the trail of graft for themselves, As usual, the Negro, who is unorganized, and on the bot- tom of the wage scale as well as the social ladder, is made the goat. WORKER GRACKS JOKE WITH ANOTHER; BOTH TAKEN INTO CUSTODY EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL—*“Cool- idge ought to be killed,” jocularly remarked Mike Naujoks to Arthur Billedo, both ch akers in the Armour plant. The two were ar- rested by U. 8, marshals and con- fronted with charges of having threatened the life of the president 1 in violation of a federal act prohib- | Iting such threats. Their bonds | were fixed at $5,000 which Naujoks } furnish 3S ot a ESOS a COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN ITALY (Special to The Dally Worker) MILAN, Italy, Nov, 30.—Today is “all saints day” so the saviors of the Italian bourgeosie, the Fascisti, used the holiday as the occasion for more display of their potential strength. As usual it was a parade—this time of the boys and girls ranging in age between six and twelve. readers of the DAILY WORKER guess why they are organized and by whom and also what they are taught. rather than spend the night in jail, it} Charged by T. A. Brown, United BY States district attorney, with “drunk- enness, confiscation and consumption of intoxicating liquor, imprisonment of a citizen without cause or justifi- cation, high crimes and misdemean- Latune Tee ast, Worker for 25 AAR CHIEF ASK NEWS OF THE NEW CAMPAIGN. HE big mailing of $50,000 worth of Insurance policies in the campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925 has been completed. Every branch in the party now has in its hands letters, directions, policy books—everything essential to put over the campaign, te ee eae Policy books were printed and letters were written in eight different languages. This In itself is a task which our printing plant can be proud of. * * ° * J. A. Hamilton, organizer of Local Cleveland, writes that it is his personal opinion that the policy is too elaborate and expensive, altho the general idea impresses him as very good, Well, it shows what YOUR printing establishment can do in the line of high-class printing, Then also, we decided that we would put out a piece of campaign printing that would make the membership sit up, look and buy, the minute they saw it. And we guess this we did do. * * * . Mat Jenkins, of Pittsburgh, encourages us greatly. “Altho we just raised $1,000 for the Freiheit,” he writes, “still we are going to ral a big sum for the DAILY WORKER. Send the equipment, special delivery, to put us to work.” His branch has elected a special committee to carry on the work. * * ° * The house committee in the National Headquarters Building has set the pace. The cal! ts INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1928 is for the sum of 250,000, Of ti!s sum more than one-fiftieth has already been raised by this committee. Figure it out for yourself. One-two hundred and fiftieth part of our Workers Party ‘membership has raised one- fiftieth of the sum needed. If all members will show an equal interest, we will raise $250,000 for the DAILY WORKER, instead of only $60,000. If we do, you'll not hear any complaint from this center of our party activity, * * * * To induce comrades each to buy $35 worth of policies is just a matter of knowing how. Steve Rubicki of the house campaign committee at National Headquarters knows how. He tells the comrades in groups of the birth, history, present and future need of our daily in such a way that comrades feel compelled to respond liberally to make our paper safe for the year to come. ° * * * A speech in similarly positive language was made by Nick Dozenberg to Lettish comrades gathered at the Chicago bazaar. i * * * * The Irving Park English branch, Chicago, has pledged every member for a $5.00 insurance policy. The Chicago German branch followed suit, We add, that not a single member of the party ought to buy less than a $5.00 policy. Phe. SRA Oe And if they do, then we WILL cover their yellow with a coat of RED, FEDERAL JUDGE {MILK PROFITEERS UP ON CHARGE | STAGE RIOTS IN OF CONSUMPTION) HIGH PRICE WAR But Not the Kind Cured|Meanwhile Oakland Old and Babies Suffer (Special to the Daily Worker) by Sun Baths PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Nov. 30. OAKLAND, Cal.,, Nov. 30.—As the result of a milk war betwen produc: ers and jobbers, Alameda county is practically without milk, 22 persons are under arest, drivers have been CONGRESS FOR GREATER ARMY Far-reaching Plans for Jingo Propaganda (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 30.—Secretary of War Weeks pleads for greater war qppro- priations and for an increase in size of the army in his annual report made public t/day. Weeks praises the “citizen army’ provided in the national defense act. Prepared for War. “Our program for national defense conforms to military requirements in view of the state of the world and the traditional traits of our people” says the secretary of war. “It ‘was made so that should we again be confronted suddenly with an international crisis the nationals of America would defend themselves in an effective organization, the citizens of the nation forming part of a citizer army. “The training activities of the army of the United States and its personne! procurement branches are on the in- crease”. While stating that the size of the army is increasing, Weeks admits that conditions under which the sol- diers are forced to work are many times very poor. “The condition under which officere and enlisted men live in temporary camps and cantonments, due to lack of funds for new construction, tende seriously to reduce the efficiency and morale of both officers and men. Worrles About Appearances, “Lack of funds for the manufacture of clothing for enlisted men and the forced issue of war stocks of these articles has resulted either in very unmilitary appearing commands o1 has compelled the soldier to expend « large proportion of his own funds in order to present before the public the military appearance necessary”. Plan War Propaganda The secretary of war shows that progress is being made toward the perfecting of a system for the spread of war propaganda, “Byentually we shall have repres- national defense system in all com- munities and their influence will be, felt. among their. neighbors until all our people come to apprecia- te the wisdom of supporting a na tional defense plan so essential tc security and peace, so beneficial tc our youth, and yet so economical to WEST VA. COAL STRIKERS MEET THE DAILY WORKER Page Three DEATH IN PRISON PERSECUTIONS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Nov. 30.—It took the death of two convicts and the probable fatal injury of another at the state penitentiary coal mine here to fasten the attention of the public on the conditions existing in the LIGHTS GO OUT; entatives of one or another of this} ors and unfitness and incompetency to fill the judicial position,” held by him, Federal Judge William E, Baker, of the northern district of West Vir- ginia went on trial before a sub-com- mittee of the house committee on ju- diciary here today. The sub-commit- tee is to determine whether Judge Baker, who was named to his posi- tion by the late President Harding in 1921, should be presented to the sen- ate for impeachment. the charges include L. C. Dyer, Mis- souri, chairman; I. M. Foster, Ohio; A. J. Hickey, Indiana; Pennsylvania; F. H. Dominick, South Carolina, and J. W. Wise, Virginia. clusive British Empire club in York St., Piccadily, claimed one life today Eight members of the club, who were trapped in their quarters by the flames, were injured. The building suffered heavy damage. FASCISTI MENACE CANNOT STOP held up and shot at, and state troops. have been requested. The trouble arose when the Hast Bay Milk Producers’ Assn., the job- bers between farmers and distribu- tors, refused to supply any more milk until the price was raised from 17c to 29c a gallon. Milk retails in Oak- land for 8c a pint, as against 13c in San Francisco. Dairymen within 20¢€ miles normally send milk to Oakland. The small independent milk produc ers, continued to serve Alameda county, and the big association, it is claimed, hired gunmen to prevent their doing so. There have been several clashes be- twen gunmen and strikers, and the only way to get milk in Oakland today is to stand in line for hours, Then only old women and children with babies in arms are served. San Fran- cisco producers are sending some sur. plus milk to the east bay district, but almost none is coming from the back country. It is unlikely that the gov- ernor will send trop at the milk dis- tributors’ request, as owing to the trouble in southern California, where the farmers in Owens river valley have diverted part of the Los Angeles water supply to provide themselves the taxpayer”. The war department again pleads for more money and a larger army declaring, “If satisfactory normal progress is to continue there must be provision for expansion beyond the narrow bounds imposed by the tem porary considerations of the post wai reaction”, Church Leadership » in Strike Brings Members of the committee sifting J. B. Kritz, HULL, Canada, Nov. 30.—The two months strike of girl match workers, in which some of the Roman Catholic clergy sympathized, is at an end. The church leadership in the strike is undoubtedly responsible for the weak settlement, The BH. B. Eddy Co. agrees to take back all of the 300 em- ployes “only needed” and only 3 out of 15 machines are to be oper- ated at present. The company will not sign an agreement with the un- ion, but the objectionable form of con- tract, prohibiting union action in working hours, is dropped. The com- pany persist in its refusal to appoint imperialists Get Singed. LONDON, Nov. 30.—Fire in the ex- Weak Settlement |: state prison. For months convicts in the state prison have been carrying on an inter- mittent strike tions, Terrific Driving Goes On. All prisoners are forced to work in one of the several workshops of the prison. It was while driving a shaft for a coal mine to be operated by convicts that the two prisoners were killed and the other one injured. The state manager of the prison permitted the work on the shaft to be carried on in such manner as to lead to the tragedy. In all the work shops a certain amount of work is demanded of each prisoner. If he fails to do it he is punished. Several times recently the work quotas have been raised, Final- ly in desperation the prisoners struck against conditions demanding that the standards be fixed so that the aged and infirm and sick prisoners should not be required to do as much as the young and stronger prisoners. Prisoners Persecuted, The strikers were all put in solitary confinement and the prison authorities refused to give them either food or water till they agreed to work. After three days the strikers were forced to agree to work. Several days later an- other strike occurred and again the strikers were put in solitary without either food or water. Many of the prisoners are coal min- ers who took part in the battle of Cliftonville in 1922. They are all serving five-year terms. Since they were union men who were all fearless and were not timid in demanding that conditions be improved, they were blamed for the strike by the prison authorities, They are receiving the worse treatment than any of the oth- er strikers. Some “forward looking liberals” hope that the death of the two pris- oners killed in the mine blast will serve to arouse the public to demand- ing that prison conditions be set right but the workers and the convicts who know something of the political rot- tenness of this entire state and its government machinery -are cynical about the outlook. In the meantime the intermittent strike of the convicts goes’ on. The cycle runs, work and misery, strike and starve, work and misery, strike and starve, Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. troops may be needed there. I will let the and that it is simply trying to raise prices for its own benefit. Meanwhile with water for irrigation, all available The producers’ association states that the farmers they get their milk from are desperate, and will not pro- vide any more milk until the price is raised. The independent producers say the big association is sabotaging forewomen, but agrees to appoint wo- men inspectors, who will not have the power to hire and fire, Expect to Save Miners. miners had not been reached by res- cue parties working today in the Pen- land Colliery where 18 were caught in the rush of waters into the mine but SWANSBA, England, Nov. 30.—Four | 3 HE has no interest in Labor. scious ranks of his class, Of course— against these condi-+ He knows nothing about it. He has never joined the con- SUN YAT SEN CONFERS WITH JAP. LEADERS “Christian” General to} Tour United States (Special to The Dally Worker) TOKYO, Nov. 30,—Japanese politi- cal leaders went to Kobe today to| confer with Sun Yat Sen, southern Chinese leader, who is enroute to Tien Tsin for reunification conferences with other Chinese leaders. In an in- terview at Kobe, Sun declared that extra territoriality is the chief cause of China’s troubles. He declared that he needed Japanese aid to abolish un fair foreign treaties. 2 Feng to Tour U. S. PEKING, Nov. 30.—Resigning his army command, Marshal Feng Yv Hsiang, famous chirstian general and one of the most picturesque figures in recent Chinese history today an- nounced his intention of going to the United States. Feng in a telegram to Marshal Wu Pei Fu, who was ousted as military over lord of China by Feng’s success- ful coup, invited Wu also to go abroad and give the country an oppor tunity to work out a peaceful reuni- fication without military interference Americans Perished In Expedition to Wrangel Island MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—Fifteen Ameri- cans, Britishers and Canadians perish- ed on Wrangle Island, according to an interview today with M. Moscow from has just returned to Moscow from the the Soviet Wrangel expedition. The victims of the exposure and scanty food supply included Barker Brady, King, Dr. Mackey, Murray Buchet, Morris, Brawford, Galla and Naita Church. ~ This Worker Leads a helluva life! For him the world is the blah. BOOKS STOLEN IN UNION MEET Bosses’ Thugs Stage Raid on Candy Union (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—That the workers who produce the | sweets are having a very bitter time of it was the consensus of opinion at a mass meeting of |candy workers here at Astoria Hall, 62 East 4th Street. They called this meeting to organize into a union to secure better working conditions in candy factories. Over 150 attended. The lights went out suddenly. There was a skirmish. Then five men rushed up to the plat- form, snatched up the books and file card index containing names of the members of the union and made their getaway. The officers and members said they, could easily explain the hold up. The manufacturers of candy are worried, in fact, they are desperate. They have always been able to exploit the candy workers without any redress. Profits were big—salaries the lowest of any workers in the country and hours the longest. Now the candy workers are organizing. And the holi- day season is here. The workers’ de- mands become serious. It is a bad time for bosses to have a strike on their hands. But it is a right good time for the workers. The candy workers have sent ont the following appeal to workers in their trade: “Candy Workers, Attention! “How long are our conditions going to remain worse than those of other workers? How long will our wages be so low and hours so long? How much longer will our bosses and fore- men be able to insult us with abso- lute impunity? Do you realize that our lives are endangered by the rot- ten conditions under which we la- bor? Do you know, candy worker, that you can improve your condition by coming to this meeting? It is your duty to come. You cannot afford to miss it. In union there is strength, and We Must Organize!” There will be another meeting of the candy workers very soon at which they will go into the final plans for the organization of their union. Sl — This Worker Gets a “kick” out of living! For him the world is worthwhile. HE has news every day of the work- ers’ world. He is well informed. He is in the ranks of the Labor movement. You can see he does not read “The National Labor Daily” 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Of course— He has heaved this brick back to THE DAILY WORKER Chicago, Ill. They carried banners denouncing Bolshevism and promising that when they grew up into big black-shirts like their daddies, they would defend with it was believed that all would be brot out alive, The rescue workers first feared that nine were imprisoned beyond hope of salvation, IT HAPPENS IN MILWAUKEE By IDA DAILES, charges, “The mother won't stay home Wisconsin is LaFollette’s model and take care of her children, your y|state. Milwaukee is Victor Berger's honor!” model city. Could one wish fora hap- The father is called to the stand. pier combination? And yet. . . . Ho explains: strange things happen in Milwaukee, | “I make $15 a week when work is Wisconsin. Things that really scarce and $21 a week when I work shouldn't happen in a city and a state full time, My wife must work or we that are run by those who represent cannot eat.” themselves as the friends of the| The case was dismissed. But that “common people.” will nelther put food into the mouthe | A man, a wife, six children. Twoot|of the hungry ones nor will it the children had been committed to |straighten out psychological kinks county institutions for delinquency. | which grow into the minds Another child, six years old, is to be are brot up in placed in an institution for theft, ' disorder continues and Oakland chil- dren are crying for milk. 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