The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 16, 1924, Page 5

| Tuesday, December 16, 1924 Se FIND COMMUNIS LITERATURE AND ARREST 211. W.W. Leaflet Was Issued by Workers Party (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.— Receiving complaints that “school children were being urged to join the Communist International,” thru the spread- Ing of literature in the public schools, the police swooped down on the I. W. W. hall here and arrested 21 I. W. W. members. They were charged with “vagrancy” and their bail was fixed at $1,000. Leaflet Denounces Profit System. Newspepers have been carrying eight-column front page headlines de- claring that “Reds Invade San Fran- cisco schools.” “The extent of the Soviet plot against which authorities are fighting is indicated by the fact that an organization called the ‘Young Workers’ League’ has been formed among school children” says the San Francisco Chronicle. This news has shoved President Coolidge off the front page. The police here were angered that the Communists would dare to distri- bute literature denouncing the profit system and praising a government run by workers and farmers. They smash- ed in the doors of the Marine Trans- port Workers hall in spite of the fact that the I. W. W. had nothing to do with the distribution of the Commu- nist “anti-Coolidge education week” program, and arrested 21 men who did not know what it was all about. “The I. W. W. is trying to make the Public schools a training school for their organization,” said one of the school officials here. The police ob- jected particularly to the fact that telegraph poles around the schools, ac- cording to their version, were plaster- ed with posters advertising that “Mother Bloor” was going to speak on “How boys and girls of Russia live.” The police were also incensed that Miss E. Bassi, was. going to speak. Miss Bassi, it is admitted by the Mission High school dean, Miss Ada Goldsmith, is the star debater of the high school debating team. The police, in a statement widely quoted thruout the Pacific coast, de- clare, “A plot for the spreading of Communism among the thousands of high school students in this city has HIGHER FOOD COSTS SHOW WHERE MONEY IN PAY ENVELOPE GOES WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Whole- sale prices of commodities averaged one-half of one pef cent higher in November than in October, the de- partment of labor announced today. They were higher than in November last year. Food articles in November were 1% per cent higher, due to Increases in butter, coffee, eggs, our and vege- table oils. Clothing materials, mi ale and chemicals and drugs also averaged more than 1 per cent higher than In October, while in the group of miscellaneous commod- ities, including such important arti- cles as cattle feed, leather, wood pulp and -wrapping paper, prices were 2 per cent higher. handbills, posters and mass meetings, Searebead Red. literature has been found among school pupils. Charge Is “Vagrancy.” The 21 I. W. W. members, charged with “vagrancy,” will be lined up be- fore a committee of teachers from Mission, Galilee and other high schools “In an effort to identify the Reds who have been peddling anti-American handbills to school children.” What this matter has todo with vagrancy the police did not say. The leafiet which angered the police was issued by the Workers Party of America. Among the paragraphs ob- jected to were the following, “Workers of the United States, do not permit Coolidge’s American Education Week to fool you into believing that the constitution and American government exist to give you life, liberty, security and opportunity. They exist to make secure the right of the capitalists to exploit you and amass enormous for- tunes out of your labor.” “The form of the workers govern- ment is not the form 6f the Ameri- can constitution. The workers can rule only thru creating their own or- gan of government. The Soviet or workers’ councils.” ’ The constitution stands for the rule of the capitalists, the Soviets stand for the rule of the workers—forward to the Soviets.” Miss Goldsmith kept her pupil Miss Bassi away from the meeting she was to address, it was learned later. The police raids were made at the instance of Superintendent of Schools, Joseph M. Gwinn, the McAndrew of San Francisco. The raiders damaged the headquar- ters of the Marine Transport Workers” Union, located at 84 E:~barcadero. British Pay $91,000,000, LONDON, Dec. .15.—Great Britain prepared today to make a payment of $91,000,000 to the United States as an been under investigation for weeks, installment on the four billion war There is an insidious campaign of !debt. OUR DAILY PATTERNS POPULAR WITH NEW FEATURES|A “SMART” COAT FOR ) 4961. satin, fai"y for figur/d crepe or serge. collar is ‘corvertible. This pattern is cut in six sizes.: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38-inch size requires 8% yards of 440-inch material. For collar and cuffs of contrasting material 4 yard is required. The width at the foot is 1% yards. Pattern matled to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps, IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE YOU WANT IT IN. 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IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE YOU WANT IT IN, Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924 hadrons: sn, sie Calon 1113 NoricE PATTIORN by Say saves: B a Lg You fem of ge lors are Poevanted Bg fy iy Y'Wonkisie every {By fag: rs re ath mailed by the ma Exes Sy peg a IL keep a aes T ‘COME OUT OF THE KITCHEN’ RUSSIA CALLS TO WOMEN Chain Restaurants Take Cities Like Wildfire By ANISE. (Special to The Daily Worker) KIEV, Nov. 20—(By Mail)—I had dinner yesterday at a narpiet, it cost me 17% cents and it was a good din- ner. Borscht, a nourishing cabbage soup with meat, then round beef balls, with kasha, carrots and cabbage, All the bread I could eat thrown in. And what is a narpiet? It is a gov- ernment owned chain restaurant, which ts attempting boldly to compete with home cooking and so to ransom women from drudgery in the very in- convenient kitchens of Russia. The literal translation of its name meant people’s eating. There are hundreds of them already, sweeping like wild- fire thru the Soviet Republic. I saw the sign over an entrance to a court on the main street of Kiev. Back thru the court, up half a flight of stairs, I came to it—a large, light room well filled with people. Working people, most of them, from the obv: fous looks of them. Tables covered with white cloths, and again with white paper. Lenin Quotations on Wall. As I was eating I looked up at the signs on the wall. “Every new gen- eral dining room is another argument for the social revolution,” a quotation from Trotsky. And beside it these words from Lenin: “Housework is the most unproductive and primitive work which woman can do.” It was evident that this narpiet was founded on some general principle, so I went back to the director to ask about it. “Yes” he said, “we plan to compete with the home, so that the man and wife and his whole family will find it easier to eat with us. At present many women who are working must come home and work for hours in the evening. In many other fami- lies, they eat only cold food all the time because of this.” “Well Fed Workers” Is Aim. “Our first aim,” said the manager of narpiet, “is to feed workers so that they shall be well fed and contented. Our next aim is to make it cheap. We get low taxes and low rents from the government, and cut our price so that it just covers cost of materials and wages, with a little over for upkeep and improvements. In this restaurant we feed 500 people a day; but we have only been running for three months. In England there are restau- rants that feed thousands a day, but Russian workers are not used to eat- ing in public eating places. “There are now ten narpiets in Kiev and two tea houses, in many parts of the city.” “But,” I protested, “yours is marked Dining-Room No, 1 on the sign, and you have only been running three months.” “Yes,” he replied, “the others started only two months or even one month ago. We shall open several more this coming month.” He ex- plained that they did not take profits from one restaurant to open another, as this would make prices too high and unpopular. They got new capital for each restaurant. Meals 15¢ at Factory Narpiets. “The workers all over town are ask- ing for them,” he said, and when I asked for a list of the various nar. piets, I found it was indeed a survey of the working life of Kiev. There was one at the Red Arsenal, and onc at the electric station, and one near the Telegraphers’ Club, and one at the Bolshevik steel factory, and one at the Lenin iron works, and one at the Red Army barracks, and one near a big shoe factory, ard one at the Com- munist Party club. There was also one near the famous big bridge which was destroyed by the Polish invasion and is now being rebuilt; this narpiet serves the bridge workers. The two tea-houses in the center of town cater to office workers, serving tea, coffee, cocoa, pastry, cold meats and variour lighter dishes, “A new narpiet starts in this way: The workers of some factory send us a delegation saying that it is hard te go home for dinner and that they want a narpiet. If there is a room available in the factory itself, this is given to us free of rent. Very little capital is needed; this is subscribed by different government trusts and de partments and unions. The meals in the factories cost only 15 cents, be cause we have no rent to pay.” “We intend to expand” he con- cluded, “to serve all the working class districts. In Russia they have had narpiets for a year now, but they have only begun in the Ukraine. They are going like wildfire.” PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK - DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Yt re. 46 SMITHFIELD ST, Near Tth Ave WHT CENTBR AVE. Cor. Arthur Bt RE BALL Y me BE Ee Your Union Meeting| THIRD TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1924, Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Monrop St. pen Diversey _and Sheffield, 1023 E. 75th St. Moose Hall, Chicago aBprinatigha ar nd 1 aah and Enginemen,, 5438 Ss. Federal” Employes, Great Northern Hotel. |o' Glove Workers’ Joint Council, 1710 N. Winchester Ave., 5:30 p. & Hod Carriers, 228 E. 15th St, Chi- cago Heights, Il. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. ek “tage Fire and Oilers, 357 N. a ters, 20 W. Randolph St. 147 180 N. E. cor. California and on. 184 6414 S. Halsted St, 191 N. W. cor, State and 275 ) 220 W. Oak St. 521 » Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 502 Monroe and Perio Sts, 4 ee. na ind Die Stampers, 19 W. jams 724 nae Carmen, 75th and Drexel 9 S. Clinton St. , 508 W. Washing- Tes ameters, 189 N. State St. Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. Upholsterers Union, 180, W. Wash. ington Si Amalgam: . one Workers, ted eEiething Workers, 183 St. (Note: Unies: otherwise stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) ‘ZINOVIEV’ NOTE FORGERY, SAYS UNION CHIEFS Express Satisfaction with Soviet Progress (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, December 15.—The Trade Union Congress delegation to Russia in a telegram to the Daily Herald brands the “Zinoviev letter” a forgery. The message declares that the delega- tion was allowed to look over the con- fidential files of the Communist In- ternational, It reads as follows: “The British delegation has had striking evidence of the bad impres- sion produced by the arrogant tone of the British notes on official and pub- lic opinion in Russia. “It is looked on-here as an attempt to prevent any further impartial in- quiry into the evidence of the authen- ticity. ofcthe Zinoview letter, such as is-justifiably desired by Russia. “The delegation has gone into the matter with Zinoviev. He maintained strongly that the letter was a forgery, and actually placed at its disposal the confidential records of the Communist International. “The ‘delegation is bringing home the full results of its detailed investi- gations, A Palpable Forgery. “As a result, the delegation is ab- solutely satisfied that the document is a forgery, that no evidence of the con- trary can be produced, and that the |refusal of the Russian offer of arbi- tration can only be, explained on that ground. “The delegation is convinced from conversations with prominent mem- |bers of the Russian government, that unless an impartial inquiry is accept- ed the conservative government will stand condemned in the eyes -of all Russia as having used a forged docu- ment for party purposes. Wants Good Relations. “These conversations haye also} satisfied the delegation that the earnest desire of the Russian govern- ment for good relations with Great | Britain would of itself preclude the Possibility of any such aggressive ac- tion in the cirumstances by. the Com- | munist International. “Signed: John Bromley, Locomotive Engineers and Firemen; Allan Find- lay, Patternmakers; Ben Tillett, Transport and General Workers; John Turner, Shop Assistants; Her- bert Smith, Miners’ Federation of | Great Britain; A. A. Purcell, chair- man of the delegation, and ex- chairman of the T, U. C.; Fred Bramley, secretary, Secretary to the General Council to the T. U. C.” Great improvement. The British delegates in letters to | friends in this country express great | == enthusiasm over the improving condi- |= tions of the workers in Russia. While the Soviet government is making |3 strenuous efforts to improve the work- ers’ and peasants’ standard of living, the tory government in Bngland is threatening to make an assault on the trade unions by reviving the old law which held the unions responsible for the acts of individuals. News that an Anglo-Russian com- mittee for world trade union unity has been set up, is received with rejoicing in labor circles thruout England. The British delegates made it quite clear that they were out for real unity and would oppose placing any obstacles in the way of @ united front of world labor to fight capitalism, | Subscribe. for. * the DAILY WORKER. ‘our Daily,” How We Live and Work Editor’s Note:—This paper is printed for the workers, poor farmers. and those who. work and sweat under the present system of society, of the Workers, by the workers and for the workers. corner. of this country where labor is being exploited for private gains, profit. DAILY WORKER. TO WRITE TO US. point. * * How They Put “Cal” Over. + To the DAILY WORKER: We, workers of ‘the steel mills, are already beginning to feel the effect of the election of “Silent Cal Coolidge,” but not as the press of big business says. We.are not getting more work or more money, but we are getting laid off in hundreds or being put on slack time more than before the election. About two weeks before the balloting took place, there. came a great rush of work in the mills.here, and they start- ed hiring to beat the band. In one section alone they hired from two to three hundred men between the three shifts which they work. in that sec- tion. Told Must Vote for “Cal.” A few: days after these men had started, a meeting was called. It was supposed to be a safety first meeting, but in reality it was a political one. One speaker got up and gave the usual line of bull about “Silent Call” and attacked the “reds”. Of course Foster came in for a good bit of it, but the climax came when when the general manager got up and stated quite plainly that if the men wanted to work in that mill they had better vote for “Cal,” He stated that the mill would shut down if any of. the other candidates got in but that there would be work for all and some to spare if Coolidge got in. Well, Coolidge got in,. but did we have the promised work? No. A great change came over that place. Every- thing went slow, furnaces were shut down and the second day after the election the foreman called all the men together and told them that he not produced good work and that the company had lost a bunch of orders thrue bad work, None of these new men were ‘on jobs where they could have done bad work. That part of the work left to the older men, some with twenty-five and thirty years ex- perience. The new men were loading cars and doing all kinds of laboring work, so that shows how foolish their excuse was. to YOU! In a neat little envelope RUSH! tains: A_CALENDAR— IMPORTANT DATES— history; INFORMATION— with prices, of course; AMERICA— in all languages, with prices; MEMO BLANKS— We want. the workers and farmers all over the country to read the to_reftect the life of*the wide laboring masses, This new department will appear as often as there will be sufficient letters from our readers about the life and working’ conditions ‘under which make- the. letters interesting bringing out facts which may not be known to workers in other sections of the country. Try to make them short and to the would-have to lay off all the new men, | the reason given was that they had| |get somebody who could do it, and jthey keep the men scared with this High-Speed Tools Enclosed For a Big Construction Job We are mailing it to every branch of the Workers Party and to every subscriber of the DAILY WORKER and it con- You'll need it to set your meeting; in American and world working class on.the Workers. Party, Young Workers League, and all. their publications; MEMBERSHIP AND SUB BLANKS— A_LIST OF COMMUNIST PAPERS IN It is a paper ‘We want to reach every for “HOW WE LIVE AND WORK our masses struggle. Try to * * Cut in Wages Certain Jan. 1. There is a lot of talk here that the | company is going to cut down the wages at the beginning of the new year which to me seems very probable, owing to a statement made by the | superintendent at another safety meet- | ing that they had orders, waiting developments which were to| take place at the begining of the new year. He also told the new men to come around at that time as he may need them. These two statements make it look very probable that there will be a reduction in wages. The| fact that he will have a bunch of men ontside the gates ready in case some of the slaves will kick over the traces will help them to do as they please. After making the above statements @ great appeal was made to us to be willing and obedient workers. While we are in the mills we should put out every ounce of energy for the sake of the company. That they were our great benefactors. Some benefactors— workers have been taking home $12.00 a week for last three months, previous to the gigantic bluff which they pulled off just before. Slave for Bare Existence | There are about twenty young men working here who fought in the “War to End War” and now they have to fight for food and clothes for their wives for children as I don’t believe they can live on what they get here. These men are doing the work of three. In one section (The Mine Lie Section) there used to be 15 men working. Now there are only six and these men are forced to do the same amount of work as the full crew used to do. Of course if you don’t do it they tell you to get out, as they could but were | threat of throwing them out of work. Worker Maimed and Thrown Out Another thing that goes to prove that their idea of safety is all bunk. One of the workers had cut his fingers very badly. He had to attend the company hospital for treatment. He was allowed to go from his place of shall lose any time with an injury um less he is almost dead. Well the work- er had just came back from getting his fingers treated, when the foreman ordered him to go into a box car and load splice bars, each load weighs about twenty pounds. The worker re- fused to do this as the load was too heavy for his fingers. He could lift nothing with his sore hand, The foreman reported him to the superin- tendent, who fired him straight away, Doctors Work for Company. The worker went to get the doc ters’ word to prove that he was not fit for that work, but he was not quick enough, the phone had been at work before he got there. He was told by the docters that his hand was fit and that he had been declared off the hos- pital books that morning, despite the |fact that they had told him that morn- jing to be sure to report every morn- jing for the next week. That man has been thrown out on the streets with a runined hand which will take three ;months in the least to set, that is, if nothing else set in. Besides a doctor bill of about $200.00. I do not know whether he is married or not, but then if he is, God (?) will take care of his wife and children. It is a common thing to see men get fired here and not know what for. Wounded Must Work The sight of the parade of injured that go into the works every morning is the most cruel sight that one could wish to see. Men who should be at home resting their injuries have to strug- gle into work to lay around for eight hours doing nothing with no rest for their bodies, just so there won’t be any lost time cases in the mill. 1 have seen an ambulance car go for men who live a good distance away to fetch them to work, that is the reason why the accident lists of the steel works are so low. They try to make use of that for anti-union pro- paganda. We get figures given to us every week, of how many deaths and accidents took place when it was un- ionized and how many there is now. You no doubt will guess that their record will. win, tho that the union have yet to find out. I believe that if we could only get the correct figures for now and twenty years ago there would not be much difference in the toll of workers lives going to male the profits for the parasite class. Here is hoping we will soon get a real workers’ government. PARIS, Dec. 15—Henry Blackmer, of Denver, Colo., said today that he had not as yet received official notifi- cation from Washington that he was wanted to testify in the Teapot Dome work. The rule is that no worker marked: Contains, oil lease case MN We are mailing it all he necessary had to do with their accident list: I, for addresses, notes and telephone num- bers—handy at convention time; TWO SHEETS TO SCORE— when a speaker makes a fine point; A POCKET— to carry your union and party cards. Implements ard the by-laws ~—- of the trade -—- These and other tools to assist in the building of your paper, your party, your union the labor movement; all the tools for a worker in the DAILY WORKER ARMY OF BUILDERS. If you don’t get it in a week, be sure to write for it. And when you get it--- Get On The Job! WE ote GOING TO INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925 and to BUILD ON IT! Fa @a2wwewweeem 89 Oe | |