The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1924, Page 2

Page Two SRR re ene scons omen cee mare ae ornament eR SER CS I A OPEN SHOPPERS RUN SCHOOL FOR SGAB PRINTERS Get Ready to Break Strikes in Future The Open Shop Employing Printers’ Association of Chicago, which is war- ting on the printing trades unions, ts tunning @ school which supplies open shop printing co: & with “appren- tices of all kin who have been trained to work under. the “open shop.” Supply Strikebreakers, One of the objects of the “school” is admitted to be the supplying of Strikebreakers in case of labor trouble. The association declares as one of its aims. “Securing the mutual assistance of its members in uphold- Ing their right to operate their plants upon the pr of the open shor thrn CO-OPERATING TO GET OUT WORK IN CASE. OF LABOR DIFFI ASSIST GENERAL LABOR WAR | IN SWEDEN—100,000 | WORKERS LOCKED OUT STOCKHOLM, Dec. 22.-— Sixty- | five per cent of Sweden's organized labor, numbering many more than 100,000 men, will be locked out New Year's day by the employers. These workers are demanding wage In- creases of from 20 to SO per cent, and the lock-out has been announe ed by the employers’ associations | in retaliation. Engineers, textile workers and many other trades will be affected: ed. The government Is urging the | men to stay at work at their old wage. TEACHERS MUST ORGANIZE TO GET WAGE INCREASES Charge Engineers Are it bureau,” whic! is used to displace union men wh have been found out a: printing firms 1 called “The Chicago School of Printing,” is usec as a means of sp: g propaganda st the printing t les unions. Prints Open Shop News. The association prints a monthly Magazine called “Open Shop News,’ which contains propaganda against the unions. The December issue o this magazine calls on the employer: to eStablish Christmas savings funds for next year, because, “the employe who has a Christmas savings fun’ a nt thru the firm is not going to leave his job on a minute’s notice.’ ™ other words, payment of the func to the employe can be delayed, keep ing him on the job until he can be replaced. Foreign-Owned Mills Use Company Stores to Enslave Cuban Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 22.—A condi- tion that Gompers and his delegation failed to comment upon when in Mexi- co, is the direct violation of the law by the Cuban Cant Corporation, which pays its workers with chips instead of money. This corporation, which has many mills thruout Cuba, gives the workers scraps of paper and after- wards the workers can use the paper only at the company stores, which charge ridiculously high prices for all goods sold. This is a system worse than fuedalism, for the workers can obtain thé necessities of life at only one place, the company store, and must pay much higher prices than prevail elsewhere in Cuba. The “Artega” law prohibits the use of chips and 1. O. U.’s in payment for service rendered. The corporation is ® foreign concern, which. is thot to be controlled by American capital. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, HANNIBAL HURST? Was it his wife? Where Are where all the live o one of the Auspices, TRADE UNION New Year’s Eve? To that T. U.E.L. BALL at WEST END WOMEN’S CLUB, 37 So. Ashland Blod. regular New Year's Eve style. 50c A PERSON ADMITS YOU to the last dance of the season and the first LOCAL CHICAGO More Intelligent (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 22—If ecognition is to come to the teacher: t America they themselves must or anize, F. G. Stecker, secretary-treas irer of the American Federation oi Teachers declared here. Stecker Says the engineers and firemen re ceive higher wages “because these nen are more intelligent and there ore more useful and better remun erated. They are more intelligent be cause they perceive the conditions of the economic period in which we are living and seek as best they can to adapt themselves to these condi tions. “We live in a period of organiza- tion,” Stecker continued. “It is use: less to deceive ourselves that only laborers and a few elements with which we are more or less out o sympathy are organized. Every con. trolling foree in our American life, financial, political, economic, © social, professional and even cultural, owes its success to organization. Teacher: are the most notorious exception. Ii is for this reason that unconsciously the American public is so little in terested in the teacher.” The American Federation of Teach ars is affiliated with Federation of Labor. J, H, HOOVER GETS GETS JOB ONGE HELD BY BURN WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Despit the protestations of Attorney Gen eral Stone, that the vacancy cause¢ by thé dismissal of William J. Burne from his position as chief investiga tor of the department of justice would not be filled, the &xpected ha: happened. After public excitement over thc Teapot Dome graft scandal and the corruption exposed in the departmen of justice died down, the promise: made by the government prior to th election were conveniently forgotten Now that the excitement is over, we find J. H. Hoover slipping his feet in Burns’ shoes. Spying on Unions, The new attorney general promised after his appointment, that the burear of investigation would not be used for spying on unions and radical organi zations. But is a well known fact among newspaper men in Washing ton that agents of the department o justice have ben active recently, try. ing to engage men and. women fo espionage work, in trade unions anc political parties of the workers, Build the DAILY WORKER! Bs |So. the American |; COAL MINERS OF CLAIRSVILLE, 0. AGAINST FAKERS Vote Overwhelmingly for Progressives ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, Dec. 22.— Local 1302 of the United Mine Work- ers of America gave John L. Lewis only 26 votes against 123 tor George Voyzey, his progressive opponent. Philip Murfay received 33 votes against 125 for Arley Staples, William Green got only 42 votes while Joseph Nearing of Nova Scotia polled 107. For sub-district president, J. J. Hoge, of Bellaire, Oh{fo, progressive candidate, got 82 votes against 69 for his two opponents combined. * ee RIVERTON, Ill, Deo. 22.—The re- turns from local union 754, give George Voyzey 256, and John L. Lewis 220 votes; Arley Staples 259; Philip Murray 175; Joseph Nearing, 192; William Green, 226. For district officers the vote was as Farrington, 37; Hindmarsh ; Fishwick, 230; Hewlett, 139; Nesbit, 174; Contourtox, 69. oe * SUPERIOR, Wyoming, Dec. 22.— The following is the result of the miners’ elections held here on Dec. 9, 1924: Lewis, 79; Voyzey, 278; Mur- y, 103; Staples, 244; Green, 103; Nearing, 242. LABOR BOARD IS ASKED TO FIGHT WAGE INCREASE Pacific Threatens Rate Increase The United States railroad labor board has been . called upon by 45 western railroad companies to either rescind the recent five per cent wage increase granted the locomotive en- {sincers and firemen or allow the rail- jroads to increase their rates. The labor board has done all in its to prevent the employes from receiving the wage increase which has \lrcady been gained on eastern rail- ‘oads. The board on Nov. 29, granted the wage increase, but changed the working rules, depriving the employes of much of thei: overtime pay. The nions refused to accept this settle- ent and forced the companies to ant the wage increase without iunging the working rules. The labor board is now appealed to vy the Southern Pacific lines to nulli- ‘y this settlement on the ground that t was “obtained under duress and the oreat to strike.” “The companies aust either be enabled to reduce op- erating expenses or to: advance the ‘ate charged the public,” says the pe- ition to the railroad labor poard. Judging from the past decisions of the lacor board, the men Will be cheat- ed out of their wage increase if the labor board can possibly accomplish it by making its usual decision in fa- vor of the railroad companies. WALL STREET MAY SEND GENERAL T0 RULE PORTO RICO WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Wal’ Street may send a regular general to tule Porto Rico after the resignation of the present governor, has goné'thru the mill. Horace M. Towner, present incumbent, desires to be relieved of his post according to information re- leased by the state department. It fe more likely, however, that Wall Street You Going nes will celebrate in new year. EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. ‘s dissatisfied with his management f its affairs and wants to show the ron fist without any silken glove. The more likely candidate for the job is Major General H. H. Band: holdz, of the United States army who has discharged several diplomatic missions for his masters in the past GO TO YOUR CLASS MOVIES! CHINESE REPRESENTATIVE WN MOSCOW HALS. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (By Rosta News Agency.) MOSCOW, Nov. 7.—(By Mall)— Mr. LI Chiao, the representative of the Chinese republic at Moscow, has sent the following telegram to Comrade Karakhan: “Mr, Karakhan, ambassador of the Union of Soviet Soolalist Republics at Peking: “Please accept my congratulations with the seventh anniversary of the October revolution and my sincere wishes for further successes In your activity. “Long live the Soviet power and Its ambassador im China! “Long live friendship between China and the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics-” C. E, RUTHENBERG FACES SENTENCE MONDAY, DEC. 28 Judge White Puts Off Appearance in Court (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. JOSEPH, Dec. 22.—Judge Charles EB. White today postponed the sentencing of C. BH. Ruthenberg until Monday, Dec. 29. Attorney I. E, Ferguson had re- quested Judge White last week to postpone his order for the appear: ance of Ruthenberg for sentence unti) early in January, in order to give the defense time to appeal to the higher court, but Judge White set the day before Christmas as the date for sen- tence. The postponement today war made on Judge White’s own initia tive. Meanwhile the Michigan supreme court will act upon a motion of the defense Tuesday for a return of the mandate authorizing Judge White te sentence, in order to permit attorneys for the defense to come into cour: with a motion for the rehearing of the case. If the motion for the return 0’ the mandate is denied Ruthenbert will have to appear next Monday for sentence and after sentence the onl) recourse to keep Ruthenberg out o prison will be an. appeal to the United States supreme court and bai’ granted by that court while the case is pending, American Engineer Says Progress of Kuzbas Is Wonderful (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Walter N Polakov, distinguished American en gineer, has dispatched the following letter to the workers and technician of the Autonomous Industrial Colony “Kuzbas,” at Kemerovo, Tomsk gub. Siberia: “Tom Barker has ben good enough to keep me posted on the progress your are making at the jKuzbas Col ony.’ Considering all the handicaps you have to meet, the results yov have attained appear wonderful. As some of you may rememeber I war contemplating joining your colony bu‘ on account of my health was unabl« to do so. Nevertheless my interes! in you makes me feel happy that you are doing so well and that your Am orican pioneer spirit is overcoming the obstacles in the new frontier. “It at any time I can be of any as sistance from here, do not hestitate to call on my experience in the par ticular line of my specialty. Ate You Going to the Open Forum Sundey Night? FOR CHICAGO ONLY! On all matters pertaining to the | DAILY WORKER, and all party literature address all communica tions or see THURBER LEWIS, Daily Worker City Agent, Room 307, 166 W. Washington Blvd. HE following are definite dates; Boston, Mass, Symphony Hall, on which workers’ motion pictures are being shown in the cities indi- cated. If your city is listed in this column, make a note NOW of the time and place of the show. If {t ts not listed, have the secretary of any work- ers’ organization to which you belong get in touch at once with the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, 19 South Lin- coln street, Chicago, Ill. Program “A”: “Beauty and the Bol- shevik,” Russian feature comedy- drame, rollicking romance of Red Army love. “Russia in Overalls,” threereel educational, showing actual industrial life in Soviet Russia. Nokomis, I1.. Opera House. Dec. 29. Livingston, Nl, Jan. 4, ogre Pa, Opera House, Jan. 9. Datsytown, Pa, Home Theatre, Jan, 10. Wheeling, W. Va., Union Theatre, jan, 10, Omaha, Neb, Alhambra Theatre, Jan, 12. ft Jan. 16. Cleveland, Ohio, Engineers’ Audi- torium, Jan. 17 and 18. Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. Cincinnati, Ohio, Labor Temple, Jan. 22, . Chicago. Ill, Ashland Auditorium, Feb, 1 and 5. San Francisco, Calif., March 21. Program “B”: “Polikushka,.” a real Ruselan classic made by the Moscow Art Theatre, has been shown under the direct auspices of “National Com- mittee for Better Films,” which listed it as one of the “hest forty films of the year.” together with @ tworeel Russian slapstick, “Soldier Ivan's Miracle,” and a one-ree} educational, “With Russian Miners.” Rock, Mich., Workers’ Hall, Deo, 27. Chicago, Ill, Gertner’s Independent Theater, 8725 Roosevelt Road, Jan, 15 Los Angeles, Calif, Philharmonic Temple, Jan, 19. Get an “Ad” for the Dally Worker. Is Proving TopAY: after two years of convalescence under the direc- tion of the League of Nations, even the biggest financiers confess that one of its prize as sick as ever. In fact, It may be said, that Austria is worse off than ever. Every scheme known to the diplomats and the bankers of the Versailles peace has been used to put Austria on its feet again. But without avail. Austria is as shaky a pillar in the capitalist structure of western Europe as she was two years ago. * * The tremors running thru the whole Austrian capitalist edifice are aggravated by the fact that the workers and peasants have lost many of their illusions as to what the League of Nations, with its loans, is able to do for them. They have gone thru the period of the Morgan-Dawes hostrum. This was clearly seen in the recent great up- heavals; the strikes of the metal workers and the railway men. It is pointed out that all the reconstruction promised thruout Austria, that was to place this political unit of cap- italism on its feet again, has merely taken place on paper. New injections of foreign gold are needed to prevent the patient from completely collapsing. If these are withdrawn, and they cannot be kept up indefinitely, the outiook be- comes rather dark for the allied imperialists. * * Liberal long-term loans from abroad, for private enter- prises in Austria, is the hope ism. Of course, the only nation making loans these days, on any considerable scale, is the “Austrian business is very shaky! exists,” laments Arthur Brisbane, leading brass checker of the Hearst press. ‘‘You can't help noticing these troubles and threatening troubles in Europe,” he continues. “Think them over before you buy European bonds. It takes only a small revolution to upset big bond issues.” 3 Brisbane urge capitalism is a big risk. Two years of transfusion, however, have not. helped. Commissioner Zimmerman, the Dutch receiver over Austria, appointed by the League of alarm. He fears that the international standing of the Aus- trian crown will suffer. That’ means greater difficulty in getting foreign financial aid. A case of aggravated aenemia. * * * * The purchasing power of the Austrian crown is gra- dually decreasing at home. That means higher prices for the workers to pay out of their meager wages. That means hunger, growing struggles; ultimately the struggle of the workers for all power. That is the only way out for Austrian workers. They must profit by the example set them by the Russian workers and peasants. ELECTION CALL OF MUSSOLINI FASCISTI FAKE (Special to The Daily Worker) ROMB, Dec. 22. — The opposition parties have passed a resolution branding Mussolini’s claim to want a new election “with all political parties given freedom of expression” as a fake, and declaring that his electoral bill “clouds the political issue.” The resolution of the opposition charges that Mugsol!ni’s bill “will make im: possible the holding of elections by the fascist government under the con- ditions announced.” Mussolini's motives in introducing a bill into the chamber of deputies whereby the chamber adjourned un- il Jan. 3, are his anger at the failure ot his closest collaborators, who have been forced to resign one after an- other, deputies say. Mussolini is risk- {ng another general election because he was constantly losing prestige dur- bo the present session of the cham- The opposition controls almost all of the Important papers of Italy, and 's almost certain to make heavy gains ‘n the election provided the votes are properly counted, But the fascisti still control the state power, and hence have an advantage in the elec- tions. Mussolini is weak in the large cities and in the south of Italy. His strongest support comes from the Tho Boul, lrerkan of! th St? neve yo Chicago Young Workers League Members Attention! The City Central Committee of the Young Workers League, Local Chicago, will meet tonight (Tuesday, Dec, 23) at 8 p,m. sharp at Work ers’ Hall, 2613 Hirsch Blvd. Important business, Including factory eampalgns, trade union eoo- nomic work, and other league activities (Liebknecht Day preparations) will be on the agenda, NO DELEGATE SHOULD MISS THIS MEETING! Transunion of Gold Into Capitalist Austria By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. that investors put their money into bonds in the United States. But patients have been known to die of too much blood as well as too little. The United States has a surfeit of gold. Austria has practically none at all. Austrian business interests are unable to pay their debts. Austrian capitalism has become aenemic. It asks for a trans- fusion of American gold, for which the usurers of Wall Street demand their exhorbitant rates, because Austrian Monday, December 22, 1924 YELLOW PRESS AIDS EMPLOYERS? COSSACK PLANS Unite in Campaign for State Police The close cooperation of the Illinois manufacturers with the newspapers of the state, in trying to pass the “state police” measure which would supply the manufacturers with armed and mounted strikebreakers, is revealed in a letter which has come intd posses. sion of the DAILY WORKER. The letter written to the “State Po. lice Auxiliary Committee,” by Paul Goddard, past president and member of the executive committee of the Ili nois Press association, as as follows: “I desire to congratulate you on the splendid work you are doing in the in terests of that great constructive pub- lic measure, ‘State Police’,” writes Goddard to the state police commit. tee. “The newspapermen’ of Illinois should appreciate the high compliment you pay them when you make your appeal for support for the state police law direct to the people thru the col umns of their newspapers.” Goddard compliments the: “state po lice auxiliary committee” on the propaganda they are spreading in fa- vor of the cossack police bill. God- dard shows that the Illinois. newspa bers are supporting the anti-labor strikebreaking “police bill.” “That kind of publicity is. honest and above board,” says Goddard to the Publicity committee working for the Police bill. “WE HAVE HAD TOC MUCH UNDERHANDED WORK qm THE SECURING OF OUR LAWS MONEY HAS BEEN LAVISHLY SPENT IN BRIBING MEN IN HIGH PLACES AND WITH A PULL! “No matter what the personal feel- ings of the editors of the state po- lice bill, they should applaud your plan of appealing to the people by hon. est to goodness advertising in the newspapers of Illinois. I am writing this letter entirely unsolicited.” Chinese Students Strike; Can’t Stomach American Faculty Py ‘ PEKING, China, Dec. 22.—A strike of students against the arbitrary at- tempt of the American faculty to im. pose western religious rigmarole on the Chinese students has closed the Yale College in Changsha, Hunan province. The college is American endowed. ; One of the chief causes of the valkout was the insistence of the American faculty that the students read the Bible. The high school de- partment is also closed as a result of the strike. EEE Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Big Failure invalids, capitalist Austria, Is * * * * held out for Austrian capital- United States, A tacit moratorium Nations, sounds the note of U, $, MINISTER LANDS IN CHINA WITH MORE CASH PEKING, Dec. Use them for your regular cor- tespondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin, directing th No. 2—Lenin, when "8 poy ie No. 8—The Red Flag of the Union of Soclalist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Russian state, teat and 22.—Jacob Goulé Schurnian, American minister tc} N B-Treteny , lO. rots! co! ‘ China, arrived in the Chinese capita) Soviet | Red ype wih ie today, after an absence of five months praserenin: He was welcomed by the American le. gation guard and members of the for ONE CARD 5 CENTS eign diplomatic corps. fo lots of 1¢ or Has Lots of Dough. 1% in lots of 100" poor gad baie The American ambassador is re| Send money order, check or Dost- ported to be in. a position to spend 2 | age to large sum of money in disorganizing Literature Department China' and preventing the unity of WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA the nation, which is the aim of the pres ent government. The United Stater 1113 W. Washington Bly Chicago, Ill, i government {s trying to bring Japan and France into the already existing Anglo-American bloc for the re-divis: JULIN'S SHOE STORE AND” REPAIR SHOP fon and Dawegation of China. $224 W. North Avenue Japan so far is holding aloof an¢ Phone Belmont 2713 | Chicago | is more inclined to look benevoloentl; on the diplomacy of Soviet Ru: which stands for the independence o! the Oriental peoples against the rob ber powers of the Occident. For th: Japan ruling class it is the lesser o two evils. se Protest Maneuvers, TOKIO, Dec, 22.—Resolutions pro testing against the forthcoming 192¢ United States naval maneuvers ip Hawaiian waters were adopted here today held at meetings under the auspices of the Kokumin Tabeika Political society to discuss Japanese American relations, The resolutions declare the maneuvers will be a men face to the peace of the Pacific and the far east. A Kokumin committec will visit American Ambassador Bd. gar A. 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