The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Sok aa nie ea eS Ae YB oe NAS te a Publishad by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Mil. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By malt (in Chicago only): $4.50....8 months $2.50....8 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Mlinole $$ ED §. LOUIS ENGDAHL sau Bditors WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB. ern business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879, | <Q 290 Advertising rates on application | The Bosses’ Courts Wisconsin has long been held up before the eyes of the American workers as the model state. There the capitalist ogre had to sing low! The terror of evil doers, Robert Marion LaFollette, had taken the wicked capitalists over his knee and punished them. One of the accomplishments of Wisconsin “pro- gressivism” was the miniumum wage law. Under its provisions employers could not exploit women at a rate less than 25 cents an hour. The employers, | nothing daunted, flouted the law and went to the courts. After considerable humming and hawing the federal district court in Superior, Wis., handed down a decision declaring the law invalid as it applies to women. The court considers it a crime to prevent the employment of women in industry at less than 25 cents an hour. The plaintiff held that the measure, forcing the employers to pay twenty-five. cents an hour to women when the condition of the labor market permitted employment at a lower rate was a viola- tion of the fourteenth amendment to the constitu- tion, which prohibits the taking of property with- out due process of law and by interfering with the right of contract. The courts are strong bulwarks of the capitalist system in every country. The workers who think they exist in order to dispense justice are laboring under a misapprehension. They exist to defend the capitalist legislatures that may for some reason or other pass a law which strikes at some basic principle of the robber system. The capitalist rule by a dictatorship, either veiled or open. Where the system is strong the mailed fist is hidden by the silken glove. The aver- age worker in the United States believes all are equal before the law. The Wisconsin decision on the minimum wage law proves otherwise. All the } Ad THE DAILY WORKER The Last Days of Congress The sixty-eighth congress is now winding up its last days. No one expects any work to be done by the lame duck legislators. Of course, when we speak of work being done by congress, we do not have in mind the enactment of constructive measures in behalf of the working masses. When we speak of work by congress we have in mind the considera- tion and adoption of legislative proposals in be- half of a section or the entire employing class of the country. In the eyes of the Coolidge administration the last days of the sixty-eighth congress are only a matter of formality, a matter of calender exist- ence. The sundry proposals that the administration |has in mind will be given over to the incoming sixty-ninth congress which will be far more secure |for the reactionary clique. The adherents of Cool- idge do not believe in wasting talk with recal- citrant, discontented, so-called progressive legis- lators. The Coolidge crew can very well afford to wait a few months for the more fayorable moment. There is every advantage for the ruling class in cultivating the impression of peace and harmony in Washington now that a “safe and sane” admin- istration is in power. It is in the interests of the capitalists to promote MINERS PRODUCE MORE COAL BUT ~ GET LESS PAY They Dig Each Other Out of Jobs By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) If the average coal miner in the bituminous mines of the country had produced no more coal per day than the average miner in 1905 there would have been 33 per cent more work available. In other words, thé tens of thousands of coal diggers who have been out of a job a good part of the year would have had employment and a considerable proportion of the part- time work could have been eliminated. Latest official figures issued by the U. S. geological survey show that the production of coal per mine worker per day in 1922 was 4.28 tons. In 1905 the corresponding figure was 3.24 tons. Machine Development. This increase in per capita produc- tivity appears from the figures to be due in large measure to the develop- the belief amongst the masses that the source of their troubles is the “interference” with industry by legislators who do not exactly measure up to| the line as marked out for them by exploiters. The strategy of the best brains of the employing class will be, therefore, to avoid even the slightest wrangle in congress and to come forth with their numerous plans as soon as the new congress opens. In the latter legislature they will be able, with greater likelihood, to put over all their schemes without much difficulty and therefore without any serious chances of disturbing this precious illusion that they are now fostering. The sixty-eighth congress was not a progressive congress in the sense of taking steps to enhance the welfare of the masses. The sixty-eighth congress did not enact a single vital measure in behalf of the working class. At most the sixty-eighth con- gress did not operate smoothly for the biggest em- ploying class interests. It reflected the class con- flicts within the ranks of the exploiters—inner class divisions growing out of a serious industrial and agricultural derangement in the capitalist system of economy. We do not in the least mourn the sixty-eighth congress. We simply say that the advent of the sixty-ninth congress should prove a warning and danger signal to the working masses. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER fine phrases of the capitalists about the “mothers ‘the slave pens of the nation. Trying to reform capitalism is as useless as an attempt to change the tiger’s nature by clipping his| jt has launched. Dispatches tell of enormous mass| First Anniversary claws. The only way to remove the evils of capi- talism is to abolish capitalism. The Jugo-Slavian gov and a member for the Workers Party. et rhmen xe t is not having smooth sailing with the campaign of suppression meetings of protest, fighting in the streets and a conference of leaders of a coalition against the im- perialist controlled Jugo-Slavian regime. The peasants are in revolt and the Communists ment of machine mining both in underground operations and in the strip pits. It is shown in the follow- ing figures of the per capita daily production of miners engaged in the various methods of production: Method of mining Per man per day Mined by hand... 3.6 tons Shot from the solid Not classified The census of mines for the year 1919 shows that 80 per cent of the bituminous coal produced in that year was turned out by enterprises using mining machines. Approximately 57 per cent of the production came from enterprises with an annual output of more than 200,000 tons. Such concerns generally have sufficient capital to install. modern management methods and machinery. As a matter of fact 92% per cent of their production was from mines using mining machines. Carpenters’ Local - of Martin’s Ferry Small But Choice (Special to The Daily Worker) Kin MARTIN’S FERRY, Ohio, Dec. 30.— The carpenters of Martin’s Fe not many but they are of j In the union election tit Hutcheson the g Watch for the Spe Edition of the DAILY WORKER January 13, By JOHN WILLIAMSON, ‘HAT day stands out in history as a blood mark which the social- democrats of the world can never erase. On that day our leaders, Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxemberg were murdered. The week preceding it has been one of uprising and re- volt of the workers. The German workers were in battle against the government and attempting to emu- late their Russian comrades and in- augurate the Soviet Republic of Ger- many. In battles of this kind one would expect that working class lead- ers would run the danger of being shot and murdered by the capitalists. Not so in Germany, Karl Leibknecht and Rosa lLuxemberg’s blood soils not the hands of the capitalists, but. of their henchmen, parading under the name of social-democrats. The socialist party of Germany, as in all other countries shot down these work, ing class leaders who were fighting against the capitalist class. Today in Germany, five years lat- er, the white terror is still being con- ducted by the social-democrats. In 1919 it was the socialist Noske who murdered our comrades, today it is the socialist Severing, who imprisons them by the thousands. The spirit of revolt was not killed by murdering our leaders in 1919. Since that time the Communist Party of Germany has built itself into a mass organization embracing hundreds of thousands of members. Today, the German work- ing class have been disillusioned and, no longer do they have confidence in the social-democrats. The Commun- ists have become the leaders of the workers in their everyday struggles as well as in their attempts at over- throwing the German junkerdom with its socialist defenders. Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxem- berg were murdered on January 15, because they dared to challenge the capitalist dictatorship of Germany. These working class leaders were well-known for their constant and consistent struggle against capitalism during their lives. They had suffered at the hands of German capitalism, but it was left to the socialists of Germany to murder them. It was this type of fighter who founded the Com- munist Party of Germany. Today their comrades are still undergoing the same treatment. At this moment more than eight thousand of our lead- the arrest of the 21 Communists ‘D e, but the statute of limi! ‘tims. notice of motion for JUDGE GIVES FINK O’DAY HEAVY COAT OF WHITEWASH IN FAKE ARREST WASHINGTON, Dec. 30,—After Judge Bailey in the supreme court of the igrict of Columbia had instructed the jury that there was no legal excuse ing German comrades are lying f Jail. : Regardless of the persecution of th: capitalist class with their hireling: the working class will mobilize ~ forces and avenge the death of the thousands of our martyrs—the Yic- tims of capitalist dictatorship. —__ The Young Communist Internat} al pays tribute to our working ¢l leaders and especially to Letbkmech! and Luxemberg on this day, young Communists of the wo upon the youth of the world t lize their forces and rally a the slogans of the Communist movement of the world. i Thruout the world special demor- strations and meetings will be heli on January 15, to comemmorate ‘the death of our two leaders—Leibkneth! and Luxemberg. In America the Young Workers League is ‘holding meetings on Sur day, January 11 in-every city a town. Rally around. the slogans the Y. W. L. Against capitalist wars'and mi tarism. Abolition of child labor. Maintainence by the state of + social school children of workers v der sixteen years of age. Against, the enslavement of G« man workers thru the Dawes’ plan. For a Workers’ Republic! Los Angeles Meets to Distuss Jewish Colony in Russia LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30.—The relief committee to aid Jewish colonization in Soviet Russia is arranging a mass meeting. and concert at Blanchard Hall on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4. Mr. Hilkovitch, who has recently re- turned from a journey all over Russia, will relate. about the efforts that Soviet Russia is making in helping to colonize the Jewish people on the farm. eee rf Jan. 6 at Brooklyn Hall a mass meeting is called by the left wing committee of action of the Workmen’s Circle to organize a mandolin orches- tra of workers, which will be to the benefit of the labor movement in general. Comrade Kenzer, who is a member of the Mandolin Orchestra of New York, will be the instructor. and sympathizers who were seized by olice at Robert Minor’s meeting in Typographical Temple, on April 9. 1923, jury refused to find Lawrence O'Day, lieutenant of detectives, responsible es for the arrest of Clarence Rosenberger. had been sued for $25,000 for false arrest. The jury let him off, hnicality that he denied having arrested the plaintiff. Rosenberger nly witness to his own arrest, which took place during the confusion raid. O’Day admitted having arrested many of the other persons tation for bringing suit had run against @ new trial was filed by Selig M inneapolis P ainters Go Left have acquired much influence among them. The The whole left wing slate in the Minneapolis} slogan of a federation of workers’ and farmers’ Painters’ Union has been elected against the op-|governments of the Balkans, raised by the Com- position of the Minnesota Daily Star and in spite|munists, has attracted great masses in all the of the fact that Cramer and McKillips of the Min-| Balkan nations and with the continued failure of neapolis Labor Review, renegade progressives, can-|the existing governments to improve the condi- vassed every member of the union on the night of |tions of the masses or to even halt the economic election. decay, is proving a powerful force in the struggle The Star ran articles for three successive days| between the puppet governments and the millions calling upon the members of the union to defeat |of oppressed workers and peasants. the Communist menace and published the reaction-| The united front of reaction against Communism ary slate in a prominent position. in the Balkans seems to have been impossible of A significant feature of this victory is that the|accomplishment and the masses look more and strongest reactionary candidate was unable to de-| more to Soviet Russia as their friend instead to the feat the least known of the left wing candidates. | imperialist nations of western Europe. Among the new administration elected are a The French Debt The sp number of members of the Workers (Communist) Party. The comrades in Minneapolis are to be congra-| The French government balances its recent r op magnates in the film i: tulated on the good fight they have put up against | budget by leaving out the $4,000,000,000 owed to’ bead whose profits in a ans, year the combined efforts of the A. F. of L. machine| American capitalists and discovers immediately| were boosted from sixteen to forty 1925 The Motion F Of course Davi: came in for theirs laying corner ston babies, but the new would not touch pict Party candidate when we for nothing. “No politic#” movies.” a The more subtle and more ous kind of anti-working ¢ paganda is, of course, the labelled as such. Picture after pours its poison into workin audiences, somehow or othi workers are always wrong, always right. Take a recent U sal film, “The Tornado,” as re in the “Motion Picture News’ berger. re in Politi lette also|and praise in due proportion to the es; | advertising contracts, especially when, as reported in a trade journal, “We doubted our space in the four daily papers, and in addition took space in an Italian paper, as well as an im- pressive display ad in a Klan paper,” _ And when, as in the case of W. R. “| Hearst, the newspaper owner is direct- Hy interested in certain pictures, “If b|they packed the house at every show they could not pay out for the cost the ads,” ; “Pay-triotic Holidays” No politics in the movies? Again quoting “The Film Daily:” Recent holidays were used to good tage around . the it NOTE:—This is the second of a series of articles on the “Movies” by Comrade Kruse, The third will deal with “Movies in Church and School”. sone 8 “Motion pictures are entertainment, not propaganda... any medium cap- able of reaching the millions who at- tend the motion picture theatres of this country, imposes upon those who regulate it a trust that is much too significant to be given over to political propaganda.” is Marcus Lowe, one y and the capitalist press. The Painters’ Union is|that the American finance-capitalists are not go-| million dollars, and whose company to be congratulated on the fighting workers it has|ing to lose this sum without a struggle. elected to administer the affairs of the union for That the omission of the American debt from projects the second largest item on the Pacific Coast production program. “When propaganda creeps into en- features a strong silent man... .’ stands forth compellingly and. ¢ fully. He is known as ‘The because of his vigorous oni and the fact that he is a stern t ult. When Macon (Ga.) observ Anniversary of the Battle of the the next year. the budget was intended to be the first step in en-| tertainment,” says Millionaire Lowe, tire repudiation of the obligation is obvious. French | “a divided audience will react accor- . . dingly, status of the enter They Want Their Price by the word chactie aed only: thastene ot the wreck: | Sakae ection: tie The string of small nations, led by Roumania|ing of French exchange by the American financiers| MY and not the least of all, at the and Jugo-Slavia, that are under the political direc- |p ts the French government giving itself a| notion pictures suffer oe pate tion of the big capitalist powers, demand their |receipt in full for the loans made during the war. | cause.” share of the reparations under the Dawes plan.| The attitude of the capitalist government of| This shows where the shoe pinches-— These little bankrupts are quite useful to the big| France is interesting inasmuch as one of the in-| at the box office; the only argument powers in serving as bases for attacks against |dictments hurled by it against the workers’ and cau Ea ae kat ne oe Soviet Russia. So they can name their price and |farmers’ government of Russia is that it will not] paganda which Sax heen titorgasae act cocky. pay the debts contracted by the ezar. to films of late has become so raw The bandits interested in a division of the loot . that theatré owners and producers from the Dawes plan will meet in Paris on Jan-| ‘The mine operators of West Virginia are rushing | themselves begin to fear its effect uary 6, to reallot the German annuities. The little| hordes of evangelists into the heart of the coal we er burglars, conscious of their usefulness to their | fields in order to instill a trust in the coal oper- ieee Pietiree superiors, have seized the occasion to put in a good | ators’ god into the hearts of the miners instead of word for themselves. They need the cash. ° During the in the strength-of their unions. Every dollar that will be divided among the plunderers, big and small, comes out of the sweat and blood of the German workers. The German capitalists will not suffer for the necessities of life or for want of their accustomed luxuries. Only the workers pay in the real sense. master in his job of boss-foreman the lumber camp... Indeed humanizes the role. He punishes group of labor agitators...” politics in pictures? Cue for th horse-laugh! Will “The Tornado” b shown in the Loewe theatres! You bet it will. “Propaganda Trimmings” Not only the pitures themselves but their whole setting reeks with pro-cap- italist propaganda. The music, lights, and all the other features of up-to-date exhibition are calculated to shut out completely the world of reality and make the audience actually live in 3. /even the exploitation, advertising and publicity given in advance of the showing, serve bgp class ‘ends, very often Peace lies in the will of the people, declared | ignorance, Secretary of State Hughes, but of course the “peo-| their utmost to ple” must be properly reinforced by adequate he gl oy edn psonmey armaments whenever one set of capitalists f : he pitched hay (in’ the to agree over a division of the spoils with another movies)—that was tor ers. group. He wen’ ownts gre The Spanish forces are retreating from Morocco. All the efforts of Dictator Primo de Rivera to bolster up the waning power of Spain have proved abortive, Fascisti dictators. are a drug on the market nowadays. * \ President Coolidge was recently presen+ a pair of skis. The American workers vy" ~ present him and the class he serves, of skids ; yt der. Techn ner’s velt I togeth comed The 6:30-) in Ro: 27; D Pittsb Jan. monic By Civic for t) Claes Chali Neme let. Th Mado Lamo Nem ballet of T: Mack Schw Sat ance dalgc will Sa bill, will be si and ducti ores Fost The drec offic tere age’ cou clas ive the the tro! sor sid