The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, December 31, 1924 ALL RADICALS TOBE DEPORTED, SAYS KLANSMAN Secret Meetings Plan Fight on Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGHLES, Cal., Dec, 80.—The Ku Klux Klan, in its secret meetings openly states its purpose of “deport- ing every radical in the United States.” At a secret meeting of the Klan in the Walker Auditorium, Isaac Kushner succeeded in gaining admis- sion with a Klan pass, and found that the entire meeting was devoted to denunciation of Jabor organizations and radicals. The main speaker, Mr. Kemel, a “realm lecturer,” and Baptist preach- er from Georgia, declared “the main and primary mission of the Klan is to war upon the radicals. It propos- es to check up all radicals and liber- als in the country, and deport every foreign born radical to his native land and every native radical to some far away island.” { The speaker stated that “there are thirty-three million dollars in gold deposited in New York banks by the Soviet government for propaganda purposes against the government of the United States. All radicals are opposed to our institutions, and the Klan intends to exterminate them all, The inferior races are the Poles, Russians, Roumanians, Italians, etc., and we must maintain the supremacy of the protestant Anglo-Saxon race.” The Klan speaker spoke against birth control. He declared against intermarriage between whites and RANK AND FILER TELLS OF BIG LEFT WING VICTORY IN NEW YORK GARMENT UNION ELECTION By a DRESSMAKER. NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 30.—The election for executive board members and secretary-treasurer in Local No. 22, International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, held here on Dec, 11, will long be remembered. It was a thoro sweep and sent the reactionary clique into oblivion never to be resurrected. The entire left-wing ticket got in by majorities of four to one. What adds great interest to this election, is that unusually heavy voting was done, about 2,200 ballote having been cast. On the morning of the election, the main polling place looked like veri- table scenes of combat, Groups of girls and men of all ages and nationalities, marched back and forth on the side-+ walk defying provocation of the reac- tionaries actively manning the inter- FORMER BRITISH | SPY EXPOSED IN. ANTI-RED TALK’ a | ests of the machine. The old execu- tive board members who marshalled Expelled from Russia as British Agent their armies of rough necks, were exasperated when they saw the horse for the machine was doing his bit marshalling his cohorts. He as- sailed everyone with his vile language “4 Walsh’s Hall to hear F: McCul- came along and passed the Freiheit to agile ety monarchists bought McCullough ute this paper here?” he shouted.|cheaply, and now he is peddling his “This is my union and I won't let you| story. sell that paper here,” he railed at the| McCullough ran into difficulties at girl, shaking his fist furiously. His |the meeting. Several Russians got ur | cohorts immediately closed in, ready |after the speech and for some dirty work, but a few husky THE DAILY WORKER crowds of workers maching to the polling places. ! Particularly was this the case at the lough, profesisonal international Red some of her fellow workers, he deter-|haiter, speak about Soviet Russia, mined to have it out with her. summed up the talk with the words, | Faker Gets Furious. contradictions and workers stepped forward and pre-| vented a fight. The girl worker gained courage and took the machine thugs | |“Novy Mir,” arose to nail some of When B. Borisoff, of the Russian | McCullough’s lies, the priests sprink- | led thru the audience started to shout, | 21st street office, where an old war- “It was cheap, and it was rotten. The “Who gave you leave to distrib- to task with some pertinent questions. “No Jews allowed here. CONDITIONS ON CANADIAN SHIPS WORSE THAN JAIL Crews Subjected to All Kinds of Graft By SYDNEY WARREN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec 30,—Con- ditions aboard the Canadian govern- ment’s vessels lead seamen of Van- couver to believe that the govern- ment has deliberately settled upon a policy to force white seamen from the vessels as an excuse to replace them with coolie labor, as is the case | on vessels belonging to the Canadian Pacific Steamship Co, Seamen on these vessels are sub- jected to conditions worse than those prevailing in most jails ashore, Food is so scarce that it is a common thing for vessels to arrive in port with the crew half famished and ill from work- ing for days on short rations of very inferior food. Fines Are Assessed. Apart from general living conditions aboard the government’s vessels, the; crews are subjected to almost every conceivable kind of petty graft and discipline. Fines are assessed for the slightest infractions of the ship's ar- ticles and in many cases at the whim of the commanding officer. In cases ridiculed his | where the men appeal. to the shipping| Wives has also taken place in Len- | mis-statements. | master of the home port to arbitrate, 28Tad, where 2000 are registered. that person usually is job conscious and gives his decisions accordingly. A specific example of the treatment meted out to the men is found in the (Continued from page 1) papers took place recently in Lenin- grad; a similar contest in Moscow many months ago. The living newspaper is another | popular form of entertainment used in club work and evening programs, The central club of the Moscow un- | fons maintains a group of workers which now give all their time to put- ting on such programs, in addition | to the amateur programs organized by | separate groups of workers them) | selves. A newspaper is acted out by | | living people in words and gestures. | | Cartoons and propaganda and import- | ant events are portrayed seriously or | humorously. | As another instance of | cultural life among the workers of} | Russia, I notice that the Moscow} |trade unions last year had 4708 lec-| | tures, 8520 excursions earried on in | 176 clubs and 200 red corners, the lat- ter being a smaller social group | which does not boast a building or | establishment of its own. Study Classes for Housewives. In Leningrad, 57,000 working men} {and women are studying in classes | jfor illiterates. An illiteracy census} was made this fall and other classes | are also planned. The largest num- | ber of illiterates are in textile work- lers, the next largest in the metal} workers’ union. The medical work-| jers are liquidating illiteracy among} the hospital servants. The first at- | tempt to organize classes for house- the vital | Restaurants and day nurseries and clubs are being opened now under co- | operative home-societies organized in| | the shop committees of Moscow. This | also is spreading, as are other forms Page Three CULTURAL LIFE AMONG WORKERS MORGAN RAISES BAN ON MADISON AVENUE BUILDING Has Plenty Sunlight at Glen Cove NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—John Pier pont Morgan’s power in the govern: ment of New York City has long been shown by his ability to prevent the intrusion of sky scrapers on Madi- son Ave. across from his old man- sion on 86th St, In 1916, thru a resi- dence zoning resolution put thru the board of estimate, he blocked the plans of the late Baron Astor to shut joff some of his sunlight by a high building across the way. J. P. Has Plenty Sun. But times have changed. Morgan no longer needs the sunlight on Madi- son Ave. The old Morgan mansion ig little more than a private museum. Madison Ave. is no longer an aristo- ed. The fuel question has disappear. ed, the peasants having donated the necessary work for this, under stimu- lation of outside interests. The text book question is not so difficult any more as the various city groups act- ing as guardians send out quantities of books. There are now 1,000 spe- cial schools for reading and writing in Leningrad district for the purpose of teaching adult peasants. These cultural guardianships by | city groups take various forms. The | all-Russian central executive commit- tee is guardian for several rural dis- tricts and is electrifying them. In|/ Shumsky district a special “Day of | the Red Peasant” was organized, in| which propaganda on new methods of | agriculture was the order of the day. Groups of workers’ correspondents as- sume guardianship of some village and send periodicals and books. Rural Districts Get Newspapers The newspaper is coming to the village at last. There are still rela- tively few villages which receive them regularly, on account of great) cratic neighborhood and the multi- distances and bad transport. But @/ millionaire banker {s firmly establish- postoffice near Leningrad is now mak- | eq in his feudal estate at Glen Cove, ing a special experiment opening 23|,ong Island. So the announcement small rural stations for the special | comes that the Morgan interests have purpose of delivering newspapers | come to an agreement with a syndi- which it guarantees to supply within | cate, headed by Robert M. Catts, a day of issue, to the farthest cor-! which now controls the former Astor ners of its district. property, for a 25-story, $11,000,000 Besides the movement which comes | building across the way. And legal from the city to the village, there are | authority for the project comes by plenty of movements among the pea-|the decision of corporation counsel sants themselves. Independent Pea-| Nicholson ratifying an amendment to sant congresses for the purpose of|the zoning regulations. discussing local improvements are or- ganized by local soviets. In one dis- trict with which I am familiar, 1500 The old Morgan mansion was the scene of some historic financial deals. Among the most celebrated of these peasant delegates attended for four| deals consummated in this house was days discussions; half of them were|the great anthracite pool of March, , Throw him |crew’s complaint of conditions pre- out. jvailing aboard the Borisoff told of the power of the |Ganadian Importer, commanded by| Russian trade unions in controlling | (apt. C, Wallace. Z This vessel left) the working conditions in Russia, and) vancouver August 18, 1924, bound tor | gave the lie to McCullough’s ‘state | australia and arrived at the first port | ment that the Russian trade unions jof call 31 t s }. do not bother about economic condi- ee “Who gave you this union? This union belongs to the workers and not | to you. After today, this union will be in the hands of an executive board which will take care of the workers’ interests. The workers,and not a few politicians, will own this union. What | women. The move to bring women into active work in public life is increasing, and this in itself will cause great changes in the daily hab- its and life of Russia, 1886, when representatives of the rail- | roads dominating the hard coal mines | met there in conference with the el- der J. P. and made a compact Imit- ing anthracite production to a de- finite tonnage and penalizing any railroad that should exceed its quota. Negroes. “There are already 1,600,000 mulattoes in this country and we don’t, want any more,” he said. Coolidge Leading jof co-operative house-building and Bovernment boat! i ouse management. Meantime the city-country connec- tions are still a matter of close at- tention. There are societies all over the Soviet Union for the purpose of Daugherty Trusts Friend. — singe’ the Drive Against Pay Raise for P. O. Clerks WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—President Coolidge’s latest scheme for beating the postal salaries bill is to have the reactionary majority in the senate adopt the Sterling postal revenue bill before the vote is taken, Jan. 6, on the setting aside of his veto of the salary increase measure. If the senate adopts the Sterling bill, it will then be likely to use that fact as an excuse for upholding the veto on the salary bill. And the Sterl ing bill will then be killed in the house. If the friends of a living wage for postoffice workers become so active in the house as to force the passage of the Sterling measure—as a last resort—during the present session, Coolidge and Postmaster General New will have one last trick to play. They will call upon the house machine lead- ers to change the date for the higher postal salaries from July 1, 1924, to July 1, 1925. That will cheat the workers of their $225 apiece for the year 1924-25, anyhow. The amount involved is $68,000,000. As the Sterling bill now stands, it provides for raising $68,000,000 a year from July 1, 1925, and for payment of this sum in higher salaries for the year beginning July 1, 1924, Knowing that the Sterling measure will probably die in the house because so little time remains for its passage before March 4, several republican senators who have been wavering on are now said to be prepared to stand the issue of upholding Coolidge’s vetto with Coolidge and against the postal workers. have you done since you are in power? Have you done something constructive to better the lot of the workers? You drew checks for some unknown expenses? You raised our dues against the expressed wishes of the members. You defied every deci- sion made by the members” Reactionary Nonplussed. The reactionary was so befuddled by the rapid succession of questions fired at him that he took refuge by saying, rather sheepishly, “You are a Bolshevik; you take orders from Moscow.” Such scenes were duplicattd at practically every important polling place. In the meantime, the workers kept up their voting, and when they emerged from their polling places. their faces were aglow with joy at the opportunity given them to do their share to oust the old guard. When the voting was over, it was evident that the gang received as thoro a thrashing as they well merit- ed. Notwithstanding the tricks they employed to defer the election for months, the day of their doom had to come. The tallymen sat thru the night anxiously counting the cheering votes. Practically every ballot was voted straight left; the right votes were very difficult to find. When the counting was over, the lefts were literally swept in by the greatest ma- jority in the greatest election ever held in local No. 22. The venomous secretary-treasurer of the local, who was only recently honored with a vice presidency of the tions but are used as a political tool “You are shouting for freedom of ex pression in Russia,” said Borisoff | “But what freedom have you in Am-| erica?” Borisoff then told of the op: | pressive measures used by the police |the voyage. The captain refused to|Nections with the town. jallow the men any money advances, and the employers during the steel and coal strikes, when workers were | killed by hired gunmen. He declared | that at the present time, workers are \clothing thru him, The “tailor” graft, | |hoary with years, not allowed to hold meetings in Gary. McKeesport and other towns, Another worker arose and demand ed to know why McCullough did not |} give the audience some real informa- | tion about what is going on in Rus- sia at the present time. “You have told us nothing that has not been in the Tribune,” said this man, “The| workers are now the rulers of Russia. The landowners, the bourgeoisie and nobility have fled the country. 1! would like to know what the people of Russia want. I would like to know the good points and the bad points of the Bolshevik regime. Instead you have told us what has already been printed in the capitalist newspapers.” McCullough, when pressed to tell who received the proceeds of the meeting, refused to answer. He re- fused to say who had arranged for him to speak, The DAILY WORKER learns, however, that Lee Keedick, of New York, a monarchist, arranged for McCullough’s speech. Many of those present were old religious Russians who are against the Jews and who want to perpetuate the superstitions of the Russian church. A Russian ezarist colonel, Col. Tchslavsky, was industrial | | Briefly it is this; Building Trades Department. WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—George Herdick, president Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators of America, succeeds John Donlin of the Plasterers as president of the building trades department of the American Federa- tion of Labor, headquarters in Wash- ington, on Jan. 1, William Tracy, of the Plumbers, residing in Philadel- phia, replaces William Spencer, of the Plumbers, as secretary of the depart- ment, Spencer has been secretary formation of the de- partment in 1907, and Donlin has been president since 1916. fr 20000 NONOBMHY W TPETb LWERbI PYCCKWE KHUTH 3A © \ nocnepnnx HspaHni q gatenbetea Cos. Poccuu ‘HEBDIBAJIAA POKMECTBEHCK AA W HOBOTOMHAA PACIPOAAXA BOFATbIM BbIBOP KHHT no Tloautuxe, 9kKonomuKe, Counasnpim Bonpocam, ®u- nocodun, Ucropun, JiMrepatype, Kputuxe, Mckyccrey. Takxke QeTcKHe KHHTH “ritre pacenKy M CNMCOK KHHT, NosexKalllHx pace -e, Creme c 3anpocaMu HM 3akasamH, HOO pac- Ont ‘MpomomKatbca O4eH’ KOPOTKOe BpeMA. NOVY MIR BOOK STORE present. South Slav Comrades in Ziegler Boost the Daily Christmas Day Ziegler, Tll., Dec. 27, 1924. THE DAILY WORKER. Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrades:—Enclosed you will find the sum of $53.75 as part of a collection that was taken by us two comrades on Christmas day among the South Slavic comrades and sym- pathizers for the DAILY WORKER. We did not sell any insurance poli- cies as we did not have them anyhow. We understand steps will be taken at our branch meetings about the insur- ance policies. This house-to-house +|collection was merely in small dona- tions, but it will help our DAILY a little, Yours for the revolution, MATT BUKOVAK, MATT PICEK, How to Be Healthy For many yearn people have been butter! from many "aicienesset Many have gone to doctors who av m med- clnes for a trial, several and international for his diabolic attacks on the left and for enthusiastic sup- port of every vicious crime committed, against the interests of the workers, ‘was so completely snowed under, that he was to be found neither on the ballot nor in office. The left administration of local No. 22 is now getting ready for serious work to meet the pressing issues awaiting solution. BALTIMORE, MD., Dec. 30.—The proposed new agreement of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ Union of Baltimore includes unem- ployment insurance and sanitary label provisions. The new agreement, if accepted, will go into effect at the beginning of the year. rocyAapcTBeHHOrO W3- : ——0S10c10 DR. TAF SIREET NEW YORK, N. Y A ete The Tailor Graft. During the voyage the crew had worn out most of their “gear” and asked for an advance of money to refit themselves for the remainder of but told the crew that he would get them a tailor and they could buy their is still notorious aboard Canadian government vessels. this captain ar- ranges with’ some cheap clothier in whatever port the vessel happens to be, to sell his crew slop clothing at taflored-to-measure prices, The clothier to placate the men usually advances them a few dollars and later collects this along with the exorbitant price of the goods he has sold from the crew's wages. The captain comes in for his rakeoff in the form of a com- mission, Men Were Fined. So bad were conditions aboard the Canadian Importer that two members of the crew deserted at Brisbane, Queensland, and when the captain at- tempted to put to sea shorthanded, five other members of the crew re- fused to go aboard the vessel until the full complement of men was ob- tained. They succeeded in forcing the captain to get the full crew, but after- wards were fined $11.25 each for hav- ing refused to sail shorthanded. Returning to Vancouver the food ran short and for 10 days the crew were forced to work and subsist on mush three times a day with no sugar or tea. On arrival in Vancouver sever- al members who complained were dis- charged and placed on the govern- ment’s blacklist. The water the men were compelled to drink was putrid and the color of mud. The secretary of the Federated Seafarers’ Union of British Colum fit W. Donaldson, attempted to have improving this connection. Leningrad has two hundred thousand members | of such societies of whom more than | ten thousand are active workers, go- ling as volunteers to the rural dis- | tricts to establish there cultural con- They have given special attention to the most | |backward parts of Leningrad prov- ince, which, being far north, has many extremely primitive districts. They have organized reading huts, co-operatiyes, peasants mutual aid, | and have helped the village schools. }under which they were required to }lated lines of business. Rural School Improyed. ‘As a result of their work the gen- | eral condition of rural schools in the | Leningrad district is much improv: | analyzed by the Vancouver city an-| = alyst, but that official refused to do this, giving as an excuse that there was not sufficient water to analyze, despite the fact that a large bottle full was submitted. Break Agreement. Similar conditions are reported aboard the Canadian Spinner and the WASHINGTON, ‘Dec. 30.—Former Attorney General Harry Daugherty’s report of March 8, 1924, containing the report of two trustees on the attempts made by the Chicago meat packers to obey the “consent ..ecree” of the federal court is used in a circu- lar issued by Armour & Co. in their press propaganda in the capital. The packers want to get rid of the decree, stick to meat packing and certain re- The trustees claim that the Armour and Swift groups tried to sell their holdings in these other enterprises, as directed by the court. The sale was not made. NAA IN 1925: You can assist in building the DAILY WORKER to heights never reached in the history of American working class news- papers. PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Service for 20 Years. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. 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