The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1924, Page 5

* trated for a 12 year SOVIET WORKERS CAIN DESPITE ANCIENT TOOLS Labor Unions Oversee Apprentice System (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 7.~—Russian work- ingmen are ingenius mechanics, says Samuel Shipman, for two years labor manager for the industrial plants in the autonomous industrial colony of Kusbas, Siberia, The Russian work- ere can get along with antique or brok- en down machinery that would drive, an American mechanic to despair. Ac- customed to work with poor materials during the years of czarism and the blockade that followed the revolution they have learned to improvise their own ways of getting things done. The difficulty comes in getting the Russian mechanic used to the modern machinery that is being installed in the Kusbas district and in the indus- trial centres of old Russia. For this new, modern machinery, Shipman says, young men and boys are more adaptable. To Train Apprentices, Shipman told of the apprentice training system at the colony. The in- dustrial laws of new Russia compel each plant to carry and train 4 num- ber of apprentices equal to six per cent of the total force. The labor un- ions oversee the apprenticeship sys- tem in order that the coming mechan- ies get the proper training and the proper health safeguards while learn- ing. Youngsters between fourteen and sixteen are permitted to work only four hours daily; between sixteen and eighteen only six hours. No worker can be discharged with- out the consent of the union but the unions feel the responsibility for pro- duction success as they do not in capi- talist communities so no worker who is not pulling for the benefit of the colony can expect the backing of his organization. Bronx Educational Work. NEW YORK, Dec. 7—A class for new party members in the Bronx has been organized. This class is con- ducted by Comrade Statiler and the subject is the A. B. C. of Communism. It meets every Tuesday evening at 8:30 at 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. We wish to particularly stress to our new party members the importance of at- tending these classes. The discussion at these classes made up of new party members who are equally eager for a clear understanding of the aims of our movement will be very helpful for fu- ture active participation in branch ac- tivities. Do not fail to take this clase seriously. Come next Tuesday night. Editor's Note.—Every day until publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER, will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre- tary. of the Red International of Labor Unions: The eighteenth chap- ter is entitled, “The Embodiment of the Proletarian Will to: Power.” 8 * NE of Lenin’s most notable char- acteristics was his will power. He knew nothing but the revolution, and had been pursuing this end with all his energy. -So-called public opin- ion had no influence over him. He nev- er paid any attention to “what the other paid any attention to “what the other fellow will say.” He always felt the pulsation of the working class, be- cause he was so closely connected with it. He also knew how to swim against the current, how to over- come obstacles, whenever this was de- manded by the revolution. Let us re- collect how he passed to Russia thru Germany at the beginning of the revo- Standard Oil Places Another Man on Senate Foreign Relations Body (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—Standard Oil has taken another place on the senate for- eign relations committee, by secur- ing the approval of the republican committee on committees to the can- didacy of Senator Edge of New Jer- sey. He will fill the place held by Lodge of Massachusetts. To the place left vacant by the death of Brande- gee of Connecticut on the same com- mittee, the party has chosen his col- league, McLean, who has been faith- ful to the bosses and is chairman of the banking and currency committee. With Borah as chairman and Hiram Johnson as ranking majority member. the committee dealing with foreign relations will comprise Moses, McCor- mick, Wadsworth, Lenroot, Willis, Pepper, Shipstead, Swanson, Pittman, Shields, Robinson, Underwood, Walsh of Montana and Owen, this winter. McCormick, Shields and Owen -will way to lead a majority of the republi- can members on any important issue it will be because he is in accord with the Mellon-Coolidge plans. Swanson, the ranking democratic member, is as hostile to recognition of Russ’ New York Workers’ School THE EMBODIMENT OF THE PROLETARIAN WILL TO POWER THE DAILY WORKER lution without paying the least atten- tion to the insinuations of the capital- ist and reformist press the world over. He possessed the ability to concen- trate his will power and to strike the enemy at the weakest spot. While he was very patient with his friends he never knew or showed any toler- ance to the betrayers of the working class. When a friend of yesterday would become the enemy of today Len- in would pursue the same tactics of uncompromising hostility. His tactics were always elastic, which enabled him to utilize even the slightest mis- take of his opponent in order to drive a wedge into the ranks of the ene- my. He never shunned responsibility, especially in decisive moments of struggle. He always knew what he wanted. The most characteristic fea- ture of the political and moral physi- ognomy of Lenin, this gigantic con- centration of the will of the prole- ‘tariat, were his extraordinary will power and his all-inclusive spirit. * ef «@ Tomorrow—“Formal Logic versus Revolutionary Tactics.” WORKERS? REVOLT drop out in March.” If Borah finds a IN PHILIPPINES TERMED TRIFLE Weeks Says “Finances” Are in Sound Condition Everything is lovely in the. Philip- pine Islands under the dictatorship of General Leonard Wood, according to the report of Secretary of War Weeks, except that there have been two ser- ious outbreaks of natives, and that the Philippine legislature has presented several petitions to the president. Secretary Weeks attempts to mini- mize these “trifles.” “The oustanding accomplishment of General Woods’ administration in the islands is the stabilization of exchange. As a result of rigid economy and careful super- vision, the finances of the government are in sound condition,” says the sec- retary of..war. The secretary of war fails to men- tion that the natives of the Philippine Islands have been clamoring for inde- pendence. He characterizes the dis- turbance in Surigao as an “outbreak which involved thousands of ignorant as is Wadsworth or Hdge- Christian religious ganatics who had fallen under the influence of unprinci- pled leaders, who used them for their Register Now—208 E. 12th St. | muencial advantage,” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. OUR DAILY PATTERNS FOR THE GROWING GIRL Here we have a fashions lat- ression, the tunic blouse, de- for the school girl in most popular The skirt is joined to long body’ portions which may be of lining. This model will be good in vel- yeteen and homespun combined, using the velveteen for the blouse; or, one could uso homespun or wool repp. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10 12 and 14 years. To make as illus ize, will require 3% yards of 40 inch material with os yard of Iining 40 Inches wide for id % yard of con- the underbody, trasting material for trimming. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12¢ in silver or stamps, IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN |Wo BH SURE TO MENTION THE ape tet YOU WANT IT IN. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO DATE FALL & WINTER 1924- A PRETTY DRESS 4965. This is a very pleasing model for the growing girl. The sleeve may be finished without the puff, and the tunic also may be omitted. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 12 year size re-| quires 3% yards of 32 inch material if made with sleeve puffs. Without these puffs % yard less is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BH SURE TO MENTION THD SIZE YOU WANT IT IN. Send.12¢ in silyer or stamps for our UP-TODATE FALL & WINTER 1924 Belittles Struggle for Independence. Unable to ignore the missions sent to the United States asking that the dictatorship of Wood cease and that the Philippine Islands be granted inde- pendence, Secretary Weeks attempts to belittle the agitation for independ- ence. “Two missions representative of the legislature visited the United States during the year,” he says. It is noticeable that the war department fails to mention the purpose of these missions, which was to seek Philip- pine independence from control by American capitalists. “The first of these, headed by the speaker of the lower house of the Philippine legisla- ture,” declares Weeks, “presented a petition to the president to which a formal reply was made.” “This reply was well received and appreciated” Weeks continued, un- ‘mindful of the growing agitation for independence among the Philippines “Notwithstanding the fact that it was in effect, a denial of the requests of the petition,” “The second mission, headed by prominent leaders of the three partier participating in the last general elec: tion in the islands, arrived at abou! the close of the congressional hear. ings, but was given an opportunity tc set forth its views. There was no re sulting legislation.” Next Sunday Night and Every Sun 1 day Night, the Open Forum, How to Be Healthy Por many yearn uit le have been erin, from iy Ewe agement a ave gone » doctors who tve them med |} ines for a trial, NOTICE TO PATTERN | BUYERS—The being 801 the DAILY you without the use of medicine or an operation, DR. TAFT 1555 West Roosevelt Road 12a, mm? to 5—6 to 8 Widaye and ellaaye'® to 18 come” ANOTHER STEP TO SAVE SACCO AND VANZETTI Witne $s Declares He Never Saw Sacco (By The Federated Press) BOSTON, Mass.—Another legal step was taken towards saving Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti from the electric chair when a fourth bill of exceptions was filed in Dedham courthouse to Judge Thayer’s ruling against a new trial. This fourth bill will inform the Massachusetts supreme court about the affidavit of Roy EH. Gould, a wit- ness of the South Braintree payroll robbery and murder, whom the prose- cution failed to call, because his testi- mony refuted the charges against the two workingmen. Gould’s affidayit tells how he stood within five to ten feet of the murder car, so close that one of the bandits fired point blank at him, thinking to puf a possible identifying witness out of the way. The shot passed thru his overcoat says Gould. He got a good view of the bandit doing the shooting, the one on the right hand seat of the car. Gould told his story to the South Braintree police chief at the time and the story was published in Boston pa pers. In the months before the trial came he went out of town. The prosecution had his address—the de- fense did not—but the prosecution re- fused to call him. Long after the trial he was found by a defense inves- tigator and taken before Sacco in Ded- ham jail. Had Never Seen Him. Gould positively declared that he had never seen Sacco before, that Sac- co was not the bandit he remembered so clearly. This refuted the prosecu- tion’s assertion that the bandit on the right hand seat was Sacco. Gould’s new evidence was hard for Judge Thayer to get around, when the judge wrote his lengthy decision de- nying a new trial to the men convict- ed in his court. The judge did not challenge Gould’s veracity. Instead he adopted the novel tack of saying that the case against Sacco and Van- zetti did not depend on eye witnesses —and after all, he said, Gould was only another eye witness. The case said Thayer, rested om circumstantial evidence. Convinced of Frame-Up. This amazing confession of the judge, that circumstantial evidence was all the state had to convict the two -workingmen, astonished New England folk who had been following the case. It convinced many more persons that the two defendants were being framed. With vital direct evi dence, such as Gould’s ignored, with affidavits from Lola Andrews and Pelzer, confessing to perjury in their identifications of Sacco; with the mi. cro-photographs showing Sacco’s gun barrel does not fit the mortal bullet, the array of proof is breaking down the. barriers of prejudice. The Gould evidence, filed again by the defense attorneys, will put the is- sue before the higher court. Three other bills of exceptions had already been filed. The Massachusetts su- preme court, is the last stage in the legal proceedings for these famous in ternational working class defendants. unless they can be carried to the su- preme court of the United States. Remember These Dates. HE entire New York organiza- tion is expected to co-operate in the following affairs. All affiliat- ed and sympathetic organizations are requested not to arrange con- flicting dates. fe, SOLIDARITY OF PRIVATE BANKERS REAL END ACHIEVED BY CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM In Union There Is Strength. was the slogan of the private bankers when they, put, over.on the country a new constitution which vastly extended their: title to exploit the wage earners and farmers. This new constitution which superseded that adopted in 1787 is known as the federal reserve act of 1913. It was amended in 1917, This further increased the power of the bankers to exact every ounce of increased productivity from ‘the actual producers who were thus left no better off as the result of the progress of industry. Solidarity of the private bankers was the real end achieved by the crea- tion of the federal reserve system. The full resourcos of the country’s monoy power thus became available to prevent collapse in any locality where suspicion developed that title to this power rests on fraud. The federal reserve act gave the bankers power to issue paper money guaranteed by the United States in order to allay any such suspicion. Want Power to Issue Money. Approximately 95 per cent of all the money used today is created by the private bankers and circulated in the form of checks, It is supposed to be secured by the paper profits de- rived from bank-made money of the past. It is really a mortgage on the surplus which labor will create in tho future. In 1907 the bankers found that the old banking Jaw limited their ability to create this loan money by requir- ing a reserve of at least 25 per cent of it in gold. This actually prevented Jan. 11, Sunday afternoon and evening, DAILY WORKER Jubilee, New Star Casino. Feb. 1, Sunday afternoon, Lenin Memorial, Madison Square Garden. Feb. 11-14, Defense Bazaar, The Lyceum, 65th street, March 15, Sunday afternoon and evening, Press Pageant and Paris Commune Celebration, Madison eauare Garden. them from expanding their money as fast as the productivity of industry. The result would have been a steady reduction in prices, a consequent in- crease in the purchasing power of the people and a collapse of the huge capitalization which had been reared on the expectation that prices would be maintained at a level which would take the entire surplus production as profits. A panic followed. The panic of 1907 was a result of the conflict between the principle of limiting the right of private bankers to issue money and the capitalist de- termination to control the issue of money to expand their profits and power. Morgan was able to prevent tho spread of this threat to the entire power'of capital and the bankers im+ mediately set about forestalling a more serious one in the future. They spent over $1,000,000 in a campaign to prove to the people that the wel- fare ofthe “country demanded bank reform. The reform which they secured was Woodrow Wilson’s federal reserve which permits them to consolidate the entire bank reserve of the country and to issue as much money as might be necessary to keep up prices as the productivity of the people expanded in the future. As a result private bankers can today create bank-made money not to 4 times their reserve but to 20 times their reserve. And he money they create is a mortgage on the future production of wage earn- ers and farmers. In brief the financial oligarchy has kept up prices and vastly extended Its power to prevent the workers from Your Union Meeting SECOND MONDAY, DEC. 8, 1924 Name of Local and Meeting Place Boller Makers, 5324 S. Halsted St. No. 625 14 Bi 201 1 oot and Council, Shoe Workers’ Joint 1939 Milwaukee Ave, Brewery Workers’ Joint Ex. Board, 1700 2ist St. Brewery Workers’ 1700 W. 2ist St. Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velt Road. Cap Makers, 4003 Roosevelt Road. Carpenters, ‘2705 W. 4039 W, Carpenters, Carpenters, Carpenters, Ave. Carpenters, Carpenters, Carpenters, gan. Carpenters, Carpenters, Coopers’ Joint tJ 8. C. 1457 222 'N. 2040 6654 ors’ Halsted St. —< (Marine), dg. 400 Rigiisecs, 16986 * 706 ores Pitteas Engineers, 311 Engineers, Engineers, 1 En neers velt Roa eahussee ‘(Loo.), A 7D. m, and Enginemen, Cigar Makers’ Ex. B ‘Washington St., 7:30 p. Ex. Ba., 38th St. Madison St. W. North Ave. .» 9189 Commercial 505 8. State St. cL bourn, Ave. 5 , Wauke- ‘W. North Ave. S. Halsted St. d., 166 W. m. 2525 8. 601 Capitol 4643 S. Halsted St. 8S. Ashiand Ave. 180 W. Washington St. 180 (RB, R. Wentworth Ave. 7 Firemen and Ollers, 175 W. Wash. Gardeners and Florists, W. Washington 8t. ), 2433 W. Roose- 3900 W. North 5058 Neidog’s Hall, Hinsdale, Ill. he and 4 Restaurant Emp!'s Joint Ladi Lathers, Longshoremen, 855 N. Clark 8t. Machinists Dis. Council, 113 8. Ash- land. Moulders Conf. Ba., 119 S. Throop Painters, 3316 W. North Ave. Painte: 19 W. Adams St. Painters, Madison and bth Ave. Paintei 11 Painters, 2432 8. Kedzie th a nd Michi, ve. Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Carmen, Cicero and Supe- rior. mercial. moi Rail ton St. Carmen, - i, aie De. Council, 165 . Madison Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- 3 Railway Carmen, 5252 S. Ashland. Railway Carmen, 88th and Com- 924 and Bailti- Railway Clerks, 165 W. Madison St. Railway Clerks, Madison and Sac- ramento. Railway Clerks, 75th and Drexel. naar, Clerks, 549 W. Washing- Railway Trainmen, 2900 W. North Retail “Glens, Van Buren and ey oe of Great Lakes, 355 a Workers, Signalmen, Room 2100 71 w. haemo 323 colitis. a *sollet, nessnaters, 220 8. Ashland Blvd. ‘Trade Union wae Se saae 166 W. rrashington 8 ‘aphical otherwise 1, ‘ido Wwe ° Washington stated all meetings are at 8 p.m.) Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge consuming their increased production.! Room, Ashland Auditorium. FACTS FOR WORKERS By JAY LOVESTONE PROFITS OF BIGGEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS, 1923: Approximate Net Name Income, 1923 Curtis Publishing Co. (Philadelphia Public Ledger, New York Evening Post, Journal, Country Gentleman . Hearst’s Publications Tribune (Chicago) New York Tim Chicago Daily News Funk & Wagnall’s (Literary Diges' Scripp’s Publishing Co. (Cincinnati) Press Publishing Co. (New York Morning and Evening World Post Publishing Co. (Cincinnati)........ Boston Publishing Co. (Herald and Traveler). McFadden Publications . N. E. A. Service (Cincinnati) Boston Transcript Co. Saturday Evening Post, Ladie The London Daily Mail, owned by Lord Rot! newspaper circulation in the world, selling 1,750,000 per day. Last y Home $11,863,432 6,474,133 3,285,709 2,886,030 1,494,612 1,415,890 1,027,257 619,645 685,067 492,492 243,978 147,441 126,413 approximate net income of Lord Rothermere’s Associated Newspaper, Ltd., totalled close to $4,000,000, The circulation of Hearst’s publications are as follows: papers, Rens) evening papers, 2,276, , the ol ake. ave Morning ; Sunday, 4,560,000; magazine, WATCHMAKERS OF WALTHAM IN STRIKE TO WIN Bosses Refuse Workers Right to Organize By ESTHER LOWELL (Federated Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dee. 7.—‘We won't go back until we all go back and Wal- tham Watch company recognizes the union!” emphatically declare Bertha Fulton, Alma Sicotte and Ruth Weath- erby, striking watchworkers from | Waltham, Mass., who are telling New York labor unions about their -fighi for organization. “We're fighting for those who'll come after us.” It is ¢ tough battle, the girls admit, especial: jly against the group of bankers and brokers controlling not only Waltham Watch company but Amoskeag Manu’ facturing company and other textile mills as well as numerous enterprises of various sorts all over the country. Will Not Deal with Union. Altho Frederick C. Dumaine and 1 EB. Boucher, president and superin tendent of Waltham Watch company, pretend that they are not against the principle of workers’ organization they will not deal with the union at all, the girls assert. “We call Du- maine ‘a great organizer,” says Mrs. Fulton, “because his action forced us out and together.” The strike of watchworkers began with a spontane- ous walkout in August after another wage cut had been posted. The strikers’ Watchmakers’ Protective As- Sociation grew out of this first dem- onstration of solidarity and is now affiliated with the International Jew- elry Workers’ Union. Strikers Holding Out, “Some of our workers have had to get odd jobs,” say the girls. “The Watch Manufacturers’ Association agreed not to take Waltham strikers in other factories. Waltham Watch company has a 99 year lease for water Dower on the Charles river and with "| the cotton mill will not allow outside enterprises to come in so that there isn't much work-in town. But the strikers are holding ont splendidly;” getting along on almost nothing somes! of them. We have to help them get rooms and give some money for food. One crippled man who can’t work any- where but at his job in the watch fac- tory refused to go back to work when given a special offer altho he has a |Waltham girls and providing escorts wife and two children dependent.” “Waltham workers were never known to be overpaid,” declares Mrs. Weatherby. “Boys in my department, 12 size, are given only $13.92 to start. and were cut nearly $1.05.” From 25. cents to 40 cents an hour is paid for ~ day work. Dumaine put most of the workers on piece work which amount- ed to a wage cut. Six months is needed to learn each job and there are many intricate, delicate tasks necessary to make the fine grade watches that Waltham produces. Work Nerve Wracking. All the job masters are striking, , the girls state, so that the company cannot train any new workers they might be able to get. Workers in other watch factories will not come to Waltham because the wage scale is even less than their own. Faulkner of the Watchmakers’ Pro- tective has job prices from Elgin which show that Dumaine’s conten- tion that he was paying as much as other watch factories is false. Work on a watch is nerve-wracking, say the girls, “and Dumaine won't let us get up from our benches and walk around a bit for trelief as we used to.” Bouch- er wanted the lower halves of the windows frosted so that workers could not look out occasionally to relieve eye strain. Many workers must wear glasses. The Machinists’ local in Waltham is keeping up the picketing with the strikers. The Women’s Trade Union League of New York is assisting the for them in their canvassing of local union meetings for funds. Your Ce A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN ers out ree are your bells ! President _