The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 3

Tuesday, December 2, 1924 BOSTON UNEMPLOYED STORM CITY COUNCIL 1,000 STRONG LED BY COMMUNIST WORKER BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 27.—(By Mail.) —Under the leadership of the Workers Party, an unemployed council was formed here yesterday when Winfield A. Dwyer, a member of the Freight Handlers’ Union and a candidate for state secretary in the recent election on the Workers Party, led 1,000 jobless men in a demon- + CC Stration against the city and state government demanding “Work or Wages!” Jobless Getting Desperate, The unemployed in Boston are des- perate. Walter Z. Kowalski, living in the North End, leaped from the third floor of the house in which he lived in an attempt at suicide, driven mad by worry over unemployment. At the game hospital to which Kowalski was taken, John Juliano, another unem- ployed worker with a young wife and three children starving in Charles- town, was given some smelling salts after he had collapsed from hunger in his home. Dwyer led a crowd of jobless men from the city employment office, to the council chamber where, packed in the galleries, they sent Dwyer onto the floor of the council to demand relief. Councilman Has Guilty Conscience. Collarless and in his working clothes, Dwyer stepped up to the wit- ness stand. A heavy piece of wood protruded from behind his coat lapel and a councilman, probably with a guilty conscience, nervously demand- ed, “What’s that under your coat; a blackjack?” Dwyer pulled out a bale hook. “I'm a freight handler, a real worker, work- ing with my hands rustling freight,” he said, explaining his appearance with some pride. How the Unemployed Knew Him “My appearance here is not only spontaneous, but my speech is ex- temporaneous. I was a candidate of the Workers Party during the cam- paign. I am a Communist.. When I spoke on the streets for the Workers Party during thé election these men came to know me. I received 5,000 ‘votes here in Boston. ~ “Today I was passing into the wash- room here when those men, collected downstairs outside the employment office, saw me. They called on me to lead them. So we marched up to the gas house—I mean the state house. Talk is cheap. We were handed the bunk. But we're going to the head- quarters of the Workers Party and we're going to organize.” When a councilman said that he did not represent the unemployed, Dwyer appealed to the men: “Is that so, men? Do I speak for you?” There were shouts of “Yes! yes!” Dwyer continued and told at some length what could be done for the workless. Asked to Build a Jail. The council, however, decided that there was nothing it could do. Mayor Curley, non-plussed, said that the men might wait three weeks, until the con- struction of a new police station was begun. It is presumed he meant that they could build it first and inhabit it afterward. Dwyer has announced his intention of organizing all the unemployed in Boston and parading thru the city streets. Whenever the councilmen tried to be witty, Dwyer gave them sharp rejoinders and, pointing to the ragged men on the benches, declared that their presence was a warning of worse things if their condition was ig- nored or laughed at. Jobs Don’t Materialize MANCHESTER, N. H.—The 10 per cent wage cut which company union propagandists hoped would start the idle spindles and looms of the Amos- keag Manufacturing Co. is not deliver- ing the promised goods. One small preparatory room increased its work- ing force but several score workers were laid off in other departments. About 5,000 are employed out of 14,000 workers. READ THE DAILY WORKER. HAITIAN SENATOR EXPOSES UNITED STATES TYRANNY American Imperialism Bleeds People (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, December 1.—Pierre Hudicourt, a Haitian senator and member of the American institute of international law, denounces Unitec States tyranny in a statement issued thru the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hudicourt charges that under the U. S. marines’ occupation the gourde, once equivalent to an American dol- lar, has depreciated to 20 cents and Haitian laborers and their families must support themselves on $5.20 a month, on an average. People Have No Voice. Heavy taxes are crushing the Hai- tians, he says. National funds are go- ing into pockets of U. S. officehold- ers. Haitian people have no voice in their government or in their taxation, but are ruled by an American dicta tor. Louis Borno, present president, is a puppet in the hands of the Am- erican occupation. “Upon the much advertised roads built by the American occupation of Haiti,” says Hudicourt, “there have been spent $8,000,000. The heavy rains of last season virtually oblit- erated these carelessly constructec affairs, and there are at present some 40 to 50 automobiles abandoned on them.” Education Atrocity Exposed. The farce of pseudo-scientific meth- ods by the American occupation is illustrated by the agricultural school at Port au Prince where an American director gets $15,000 a year and im- ported American professors who can- not speak French, the language of Haiti, get $500 to $600 a month for talking to their students thru inter- preters, The American occupation has been attacked as unethical because of its tyranny and murderous methods. Hudicourt exposes it as inefficient. Chandler Auto Plant In Cleveland Makes Big Payroll Slash CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 1, — The Chandler automobile factory of this city, enjoying even better business than most auto manufacturing firms is working only two and three days a week while some departments have been cut to the bone and others closed completely, according to re- ports just received. This situation is a reflection of that prevailing thruout the auto industry and follows the news of sharp cuts in the forces of the Ford and Dodge plants in Detroit. John Bull Wants His Dough, LONDON, Dec. 1.—The foreign of- fice expects the question of inter- allied debts to come up at the forth- coming meeting of finance ministers in Paris and Premier Baldwin's cab- inet is anxious to discuss the ques- tion with France, without making any concessions, Cancellation will not be considered, it was announced. No Banana Oi! In Communism To The DAILY WORKER:—I run a candy store right near a Junior High School. Communism is very little known here and among these chil- dren was never heard of. The other day several of them were in the store and I showed them the DAILY WORKER article on “Education Week.” At first one little girl yelled out: Banana Oil, but when I began reading the article to them they lis- tened. When I finished reading they said that sounds good and one little girl said, “There is no Banana Oil in that.” Another little girl said Coolidge was a Tea Pot Domer and no good. Others joined the discus- sion and now they ask for The DAI- LY WORKER when they come into the. store. L, H., San Antonio, Texas, Dear Comrades: I want to tell you how they treat the children in the <3 (-COLUAN capitalist schools, On armistice day the teacher told us to come to school for sure because we were to have a parade. I, as a member of the Junior Section of the Young Workers League decided not to go to school that day. The next day when I came to school the teacher asked me why I hadn't come the day before. She made me stay after school. The boys who stayed away she hit in the face, Later I heard from a friend of mine that the children had to march a long distance, while the teachers fol- lowed them in autos. A Member of the Junior Section of the Young Workers League, Hamtramck, Mich. Juniors! Wake up! Send in your news to the Childr.n’s Column of the DAILY WORK- OR, 1118 Af Washington Blvd., Chicago, RUSSIA UTILIZES CAPITALIST EVILS FOR WORKERS’ GOOD By ANISE. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) MOSCOW, Dec. 1,— Poison gas, that terrible product of modern war, is being used im Russia to rid the fields of the plague of soosliks, small rabbit-like animals which live in underground burrows and eat grain. They form a plague of long standing, consuming vast quantities of wheat and rye. The first year’s test of gas against these creatures has proven success- ful, according to Prof. Inkanof, direc- tor of the micro-biological institute of Saratov which conducted the ex- periments in the southeastern plans. The gas used is not strictly poison- ous but suffocating. It is introduc. ed directly into the sooslik burrows by means of a tube. While deadly underground, its only effect when mixed with plenty of air above ground is to slightly dilute the fresh- ness of the air. Some 15,000 acres have been treat- ed with this gas, and 723,000 burrow holes filled with it. The result has been a complete freeing of the re- gion from soosliks. SUN YAT SEN IS GREETED BY BIG CROWDS IN TOKIO Largest Hall Packed to Hear Him TOKIO, Dec. 1—Thousands were turned away from a meeting that pack- ed the biggest hall in Osaka to hear Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the leader of the movement for the unification of China, and staunch friend of Soviet Russia. Flayed Capitalist Powers. Sun denounced the capitalist powers and declared there was only one gov- ernment in the world that followed the Policy of giving the Asiatics assistance in freeing themselves from foreign rule. He declared it was the duty of the Asiatics to help the oppressed col- ored races in Africa and America. ‘The agents of the capitalist powers, Particularly those of the United States and Britain are working hard trying to line up the new Pekin government on their side. One of their demands is the return to power of Wu Pei Fu, the British-Wall Street agent. Wheth- er they shall be successful or mot can- not be predicted just now. What the Admiral Says. Admiral Takarabe, minister of the Japanese navy, declared that Japan is willing to consider a proposal for fur- ther reduction of armaments on a basis compatible with her needs for national defense. The admiral indulg- ed in the usual diplomatic twaddle about the traditional friendship be- tween the United States and Japan, but both governments are building ships against each other. Protests against the projected naval maneuvers of the United States Paci- fic fleet at Hawaii continue to come from Japanese organizations. 96 Boy Emperor Not Happy. PEKING, Dec, 1—It can be said without fear of contradiction that the “boy emperor” of China, Hsuan Tung, is no longer the happiest man in this city. It is said that the youthful des- cendant of the once powerful Man- chus puts his hand on his throat every morning when he wakes up to see if his head is still on his shoulders. Hsuan Is Suspicious. No threats have been made against Hsuan’s life, but he is just suspicious and lots of people don’t blame him, This is a bad era for kings, Road Relies On Rail Board NEW YORK.—Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman Southern Pacific railroad, rests his hopes on the rail labor board in the wage dispute involving about 6,500 engineers. The railroad mag- nate in a statement attacks the work- ers for talking strike, attacks the heads of the unions for refusing to attend hearings of the board and hits at the Barkley Dil, which would end the board’s opportunities to serve the railroad owners. The statement is issued from his New York office, Fight Industrial Diseases NEW YORK.—-Not the slightest protection against occupational dis- eases is afforded the worker in Rhode Island and New Hampshire, says the Workers Health bureau, announcing a campaign for a blanket occupational disease law to guarantee compensa- tion to the numerous victims of indus- trial chemicals and other perils that inflict a total of disease and death equal to the obvious accidents pro- vided for to some extent under pres- ent laws. Wants Strikers To Shut Up BOSTON.—Asking a woman strike- breaker of the Morris B. Anderson clothing company why she did not work in a union shop is the offense supreme court judge Crosby lays to the door of Samuel Fraulchman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union, Violation of an injunction is charged and Crosby says he will im- pose in a few days. THE DAILY WORKER GOVERNMENT OF |A.B. Swales for Unity With FRANCE FACING |Russ Unions Despite Sam MUCH TROUBLE African Colonies in a Rebellious Mood PARIS, France, Dec. 1—The French government is facing serious problems in the north African colonies, espe- cially Tunis, and at a meeting at the Quay d@’Orsay Premier Herriot decid- ed to send a commission to look into the complaints of the various sections ot the population. Cholce of Two Evils, Altho administration officials. say the inhabitants of Tunis have much less ground to complaint against the French administration than have the Egyptians against the British, the French admit that a serious anti- French movement has been develop- ing since last summer. The inhabi- tants are being urged by the Commu- nists to overthrow the French pro- tectorate. Premier Herriot’s determination to use diplomacy before using the mailed fist, was explained by the Communists as merely an artifice of imperialism, and was one of the most useful weap- ons of the robber empires. Indications are that the Bolshevist propaganda is the most dangerous in Tunis where there is a large industrial population. French authorities tell the usual yarns of Moscow spending millions of rubles in trying to provoke an upris- ing in Tunis where the French are less strong than in Morocco, whose people are more advanced intellectual- ly. Communistie troubles have already taken place in several Tunisian towns and in several instances the troops have fired on the crowds. Reds Take Over Fleet. The arrival at Bizerta of the Bolshe- vist naval mission to take over the Wrangel fleet is said to have alarmed Admiral Exelmans, the French com- : mander of the naval forces in Tunis, to such an extent that he asked the secre. tary of the navy to relieve him of his duties, fearing that the presence of many agitators-in the Bolshevist mis- sion would cause serious trouble. Agents of the Turkish nationalists, the French authorities say, are work- ing in connection with the Commu- nists because the Bolshevist propa- ganda’ in: the east, is conducted with the view of “freeing subject races from the yoke of capitalist countries” and with a view to undermining the strength of the capitalist powers pos- sessing colonies. ~ Fear Communists, The French government says it sees the danger in the situation but is not prepared to use strong measures. Premier Herriot has appointed a com- mission of some twenty prominent men to go to Tunis to study the sit- uation and report to the government. It is expected that as soon as the re- port reaches the authorities Paris will draft.a new constitution for Tunis giving the natives a larger share in the administration of the country. Schwab, Steel Baron Finds Everything Nice After the Election PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 1, —Charles M. Schwab, the gentleman who worked for one dollar a year dur- ing the patriotic days of the war vis- ited Pittsburgh today to honor Andrew Carnegie, at the annual Carnegie day exercises at Carniegie Institute of Technology. Schwab found everything all right. The elections suited him perfectly. “Isms” were crowned in a flood of votes, he declared, and the Dawes plan was working wonders for Ger- many. Schwab was satisfied. He has good reasons to be, but the slaves of his steel mills have no reason to be happy. betes is good for Schwab is bad for em. Uncle Sam Squeezes Boilermakers WASHINGTON.—Boilermakers em- Ployed in private shops in the Dis- trict of Columbia get a minimum wage of 85¢ an hour under union agree- ment and men of the same trade in the region including Washington, Bal- timore, Wilmington and Philadelphia average about 84c an hour. Yet the wage board for the navy department, seeking to fix the wage for boiler- makers in the Washington navy yard, demands that its existing rate of 80c an hour be continued, FARMING THE FARMERS BETTER BUSINESS THAN WORKING ON THE LAND WASHINGTON, Doc, 1.—Farm- ing the farmers thru the banks still pays better than working the land. Statistics issued by the department of agriculture show that capital in- vested in agriculture in the form of mortgages and other indebtedness was paying an average rate of over 6.7 per cent in 1921-22, the return on actual farming was only 1.4 per cent. “Even this meagre showing,’ says the report, “was made oniy by valuing the labor of farm operators and their families at than “the current Ppa pre woolen MEXICO CITY, Dec, 1,—That A, B. Swales, chairman of the Trade Union Congress of Great Britain, is still holding out, in spite of his companionship with Sam Gompers, for labor union unity with the Russian unions by the British unions and trade and peace with Soviet Russia, appears from an inter- view given by Swales, who is here to attend the inauguration of President Callies, Even ©. T. Cramp, his colleague who is more bitter against Bolshevism than most of the British unionists, agreed with Swales that “a whole nation cannot be permanently isolated from the rest of the world,” Says Russian Trade Helps Machinists “I am an officer of the machinists’ union,” said Swales, “and I know that full resumption of trade relations with Russia would open up a huge market for our industry and give employment to thousands of our members who have been involuntarily idle for months and in some instances, years. There would be a revival of trade for other industries also, for Russia is in need of other material besides railroad tracks and engines,” Swales asserted that Russia was in very good financial condition, having, stabilized the ruble and keeping ex- penses within the budget, and said no one who has traded with Russia had lost by it. British Business Lost No Money. “More than a year ago,” Swales stat- ed, “Sir Allan Smith, chairman of the British engineering industry and one of the shrewdest business men in the country declared that members of his industry were trading with Russia without any guarantee, and they had not lost a penny. Since then Vickers and other large firms have taken or- ders on the same terms. “British workers,” he said, “are in- deed sorry that the $100,000,000 loan to Russia did not go thru. At least two-thirds of that sum would have been expended in England. Think of the work that would have provided. I should not be surprised if the conserv- ative government carried thru the }loan, for there is a demand for it on the part of the business men.” Unemployment Bankrupting Unions, The 158 unions affiliated to the + Trade Union Congress paid out $120,- 000,000 in unemployment benefits dur- ing the last three years, and succes- sive wage cuts have taken $5,000,000,- 000 out of the pay of British workers between 1921 and 1923, while the un- ions have declined from their highest figure of 6,505,482 in 1920, to 4,328,235 members at present. But this is near- ly twice the union membership before the war. The British delegates would make no comment on the action of the A. F. of L. metal trades department, which, unlike the British workers, oppo: trade with Soviet Russia, and to stim- ulate the industry advocated that more and bigger warships be built up by United States government. Capmakers’ Union Gets Job Guarantee in St. Paul Contract ST. PAUL.—Cash guarantees against unemployment are part of the new agreements signed by Local 10, United Cloth Hat & Cap Makers, with two St. Paul employers. If the firm of McKibbin, Driscoll and Dorsey gives employment to the union members 48 weeks in the year the firm’s guarantee fund amounting to 5 per cent of the total payroll will be returned by the union. If only 47 weeks employment has been given the union retains one-fifth of the guarantee, to be distributed to those unemployed the full period. The union retains two-fifths if employ- ment reaches only 46 weeks; three- fifths if 45 weeks, four-fifths if 44 weeks and nothing is returned if only 43 weeks employment or less is fur- nished. The agreement expires Nov. 11, 1926. The agreement with Gordon & Fer- guson entails a cash payment of $3,000 a year (3 per cent of the pay- roll) to the union by the firm as an employment insurance fund to be ad- ministered by the union and not to be returned to the firm. The agreement expires Oct. 22, 1926. Both agreements provide for a 44- hour week, with time and a half for overtime, St. Paul capmakers are 100 per cent organized, Sports Bring Big Gains to Bosses, (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C,, Dec. 1, — Last year was a prosperous one for the sporting goods manufacturers, but their employes had a starvation wage. Few of these workers are organized; the best are miserably paid. The census of manufacturers shower that 170 establishments paid only $10,440,207 in the year 1923, as wages to an average of 9,683 persons—less than $1,080 a year average. Salaries amounted to $2,860,414 for 1,427 sal-|' aried officers and employes. The Gross profits amounted to $10,000,000. The excess profits for the year were enough to pay a total wage of $1,700 to each wage worker, instead of the $1,080 which was paid. Argentinian Walts for April, TOKYO, Dec, 1.—Maj. Zanni, Ar gentine round-the-world flyer, who was forced by bad weather to halt his flight here, expects to take up the duties of military attache to the DETROIT OFFERS RUSSIAN FILMS FOR FIVE DATES DETROIT, Mich., Dec, 1.—The most intensive campaign of motion picture entertainmext and education ever un- dertaken in any one city at any one time will take place in Detroit during the month of December. No less than ten motion picture dates for five different pictures pro- duced by the International Workers’ Aid, will be run in various parts of the “flivver king’s” city, The pro ceeds will benefit the workers’ relief funds. Include Comedy and Drama. The first program, extending from Dec. 8 to 12, inclusive, includes two pictures, “The Beauty and the Bol- shevik” and “Russia in Overalls,” The first is a comedy drama of love in the Red Army, and throws interesting light on the many fundamental so- cial changes that are taking place in the Soviet Republic. The National Board of Review recommends it as “valuable as a record of present day conditions in Russia. ... the picture ought to be interesting to the general public.” “Russia in Overalls” shows actual industrial condit.ons in the workers republic, especially the help rendered by American labor thru Kuz- baz, R. A. I. C,, and the International Workers Aid. A worker who has just returned from Kuzbas will appear in connection with this film. This program will be shown on the following schedule: Medbury Theatre, and 9 Caniff Theater, Hamtramck, Dec. 10 and 11, Royale Theater, Detroit, Dec, 12. Another house is also to be engaged in the Jewish section and after these four dates are made successfully it is expected to book in a chain of fifteen other neighborhood houses, ' Doheny Stili at Large. LOS ANGELES, Cal., December 1.— With the final arguments of counsel for both the defense and the govern- ment scheduled to end today, the Ed- ward L. Doheny naval oil reserve lease cancellations case was to be in federal Judge Paul J. McCormick’s hands tonight for decision. x Detroit, Dec. 8 Page Three DR. WARD SEES HUMAN MACHINE WORK IN RUSSIA Big Contrast with West European Conditions (Special to The Daily Worker) CALCUTTA, India, Dec. 1— “In Russia, for good or ill, they know where they Mekgcens to go and in the main how they are going to try to get there. There is at work a_ tremendously owerful human machine, the ike of which has seldom been assembled in human history. “Roughly speaking, it is the sense of concentrated power which is my chief impression now. The other capitals ot Europe are trying to have roses without having provided bread, and so most of the people have neither.” Lectures in India. The contrasts in the capitals of the social-democratic and fascist capitals of Wesetern Europe, between extreme poverty and riches, and the rottenness of the system prevailing in these coun. tries as compared with the situation in Russia, form the basis of a series of lectures which Dr. Harry Ward, who has just finished a tour of Russia, is delivering in the outstanding stu: dent centers of India. “The thing that hits you hard wher you come out of Russia, as we did, in to Warsaw and Vienna, where luxury and ‘smartness’ are so evident on the streets and in the stores, is the con- trast between a situation where the energies of life are concentrated on the pursuit of essentials and one in which energy is largely devoted to inanities. Like Different World. “You do indeed have a sense of be- ing in a different world. You have been where life is stripped for the struggle with realities and then you are where much of it is frittered away in the getting of gewgaws. “Watch China and the contest be- tween Russian diplomacy and ours over that country. There lies the material for the devastating world conflict.” Lots of Sympathy But No Jobs. TORONTO.—‘What the unemploy- ed. want is not doles, not tag days, they want work or full maintenance,” declared Albert Arnold of the Toronto Trades and Labor council unemploy- ment committee in a speech in the Labor Temple. He said that after a three week canvass of factories and business men, nothing had been ob- tained but sympathy. Not a dozen jobs were found. CANADIAN TELEGRAPH OPERATORS SHOW AUTOMATIC MACHINES ARE USED TO REDUCE WAGES By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Dec, 1—Shall automatic labor saving machinery be al- lowed to reduce the standard of living of the workers? This issue, facing #0 many industries with the advance of machine technology, is presented before a Canadian board of conciliation in a brief prepared by the Commer- cial Telegrahpers’ Union of America, Canadian Pacific system, Division 1 and Canadian National Division 43, with the technical assistance of the Labor FT Bureau, inc, of New York. Eliminating Hand System, The Canadian issue arises out of the union’s demand that pay for opera- tors of automatic telegraphic ma- chines equal that of Morse manual telegraphers, in the service of the Canadian Pacific Telegraph and the Canadian National Telegraph systems. The automatic machine operators get @ basic rate of 50c an hour, notwith- standing their productivity is far greater than the Morse operators who get 70c an hour. At present, approxli- mately half the total business of the companies is done by machines, but the tendency is toward the elimina- tion of the hand system. The automatic machines—Multiplex, Morkrum and Teletype—have type- writer-like keyboards and require the skill of an expert touch typist and the ability to edit and censor messag- es correctly and rapidly. Wear and tear on the operator's nervous system is much worse than from the Morse instruments. Yet pay is 20c an hour less, due to the poorer bargaining power of this class of workers at the time of installation, . ‘i Automatic is Speedier, Accurate measurement of the in- average cost of each message would be about 42.5 per cent less, even at the equal wage scale asked by the union. ‘This cost reduction comes (1) by the increased speed of the operator; (2) | by the more intensive use of each wire permitted under the machine system. ‘ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BANKS MAKE LOANS TO STATE BANK OF RUSSIA MOSCOW, Dec. 1. — At the mo- ment when English-Russian rela- tlons on the political field are strain- ed the London banks, including some London branches of large American banks, have come to agreement with the state bank of Russia for loans totalling tens of millions of rubles, These are short term credits to finance Russian imports. The amounts are sufficient to play a sig- nificant. role in the state budget for the year. These credits are not ‘the long term loans which have been — under discussion in the Angio-Ru: sian treaty for rebuilding Russidn industry and agriculture. They/are } purely short term credits for ing trade, a " ——. French Soundness Is. doubted AREER SE