The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1925, Page 3

‘ tion, and what they have sacrificed rine Thursday, January 15,'1925 SHOWS UP FAILURE OF ‘B. & 0.’ GANG [, A. M, CANDIDATE |? (Federated Press EXTILE CAPITAL, BY GRABBING GERMAN MILLS, WILL BE ABLE TO CUT WAGES IN UNITED STATES By LELAND OLDS Industrial Editor) HE DAILY WORKER Page Three COMMUNISM ONLY OPE OF NEGRO, AYS BOB MINOR ILLINOIS LABOR DEPARTMENT REPORTS SLIGHT BETTERMENT OF BIG UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS R. D. Cahn, chief statistician of the Illinois department of labor, has issued a survey of the industrial situation in Illinois during Dec: BRITISH MAKE HUGE CHANGES IN WARSHIPS 2mber, which 2, Wanted—a law to restrict the emigration of capital to cheap labor areas indicates a very slight betterment in the unemployment figures, tho it leaves J Points Out Loss of 250,- abroad. Without such restriction the attempt to protect American standards Tells Open Forum of | tremendous unemployment still with us and offers no solution to remove it, | Bigger Guns, Many 000 Members by means of tariffs and immigration laws will become a farce. Stagnant South The review, stripped of all its optimistic prophecies, states the following Planes, Less Speed By H. S. McILVAIGH. Where the competition of cheap foreign labor is sharp American cap- as the more important observed facts given by labor department statistics: italists are already buying an interest in these foreign competitors, planning The average Negro worker in the “The regular monthly survey shows that there has been an expansion (Special to The Daily Worker) Candidate for Vice President of the|+, make their profit at the expense of southern states wilt never cast a vote |of 2 per cent in the aggregate amount of employment in the manufacturing| LONDON, Jan. 14.—England has 1. A. of M. the jobs of workers at home. until the time comes when he chooses |industries during November. 11824¢— marked the end of the dreadnaught Tho quadrennial convention of the International Association of Machin- ists, held in Detroit during the month of September, among other things -amended the constitution so as to pro- This means that American capital is participating to an increasing extent in the competition which will event- ually force American labor to choose ‘GERMANY FACED WITH RUIN FROM his delegates to take part in the Soviet republic of America, Comrade Robert Minor, writer and cartoonist for the DAILY WORKER, told the employers in a wide range of industry had 276,195 workers in December, a gain of 5,500 over the number the identical employers had a month be- era in battleship building and has started the construction of a com- pletely new navy along lines as revo- lutionary as to alter all conventional UNITED STATES either a lower standard of living or audience at the Workers Party open | fore. GETS SHARE OF Jnotions of fighting craft, it was vide for a reduction of eight officers |ynemployment. According to a spe- y forum, in the lodge room of the Ash-| “Ryidence of improvement is in- learned today. in the staff of the grand lodge. This | ¢jai article on the outlook for Ameri- PLUTES MISRULE land Auditorium, Sunday night. dicated in the reports for the month H. M. S. the Rodney and the Nel amendment was ratified by the mem-|can industries in 1925 in the Annal- Comrade Minor, speaking * the jof the Illinois free employment offices | son, the two new ships laid down bership in the November referendum, | jst; re : subject of “The Stagnant South and|im 13 of the principal cities of the under Washington treaty, will be at and becaiise of this action a special] “There are plenty of industries} Trade Treat y With election will be held in.1925 to elect which due to the plethora of cheap la- the Revolutioh,” told how the north- ern capitalists, in state. There was a slight increase in the ratio of applicants to jobs open at the same time fortresses and air Wall Serect Cashing in penetrating the |dromes, with radii of action of thou an entire staff of grand lodge officers.|bor abroad must be prepared to see France Deadlocked solid south, had made a compromise |the state free employment offices. In on D: Pl sands of miles, the London Express In- accordance with the constitution,|ever growing foreign competition in with the, semi-feudalistic December the index stood at 149 per m Mawes an nominations for office must be made which American capital cannot help (Special to The Daily Worker) form of so- city which hung over from slavery 100 which was not appreciably above ounced, making public the salient 7 a ures of the new battleships. in the month of January, and the two|being a participant. When it is made} BERLIN, Germany, Jan. 14.—Fi-| 4... ana which denies the Negroes |that of one year ago. Placements by (Special to The Daily Worker) \ Sina dbinnh ‘suka ee ene highest nominees for each office will|impossible for the world’s surplus la-}nance Minister Hans Luther's at-|eyen the farcical “rights” -of equal the offices in 13 of the principal cities} PARIS, Jan. 14, — It was learned | , cae ‘ Whe sels ine aa appear on the final ballot in April at|bor to go to the world’s surplus capt- | tempts to form a new cabinet have so| franchise, of the state totaled 10,105 in Decem-[from British sources today reer lecis will bo tietbia ah vie Ate i i - 39 e Inited States wi be awarded ‘two | suns o vik 4 - ve ae oe lene ba ee red bee bolted glia eit ae far met with failure, the socialists and} Minor declared that in the south Se eietk a: aed ccd! and one-quarter per cant of the Dawes’ |of the ships, which will be used as Le any ‘aspirants for office have en-| Of course, there is plenty of labor {democrats refusing to acquiesce in the| the problem of the class struggle has : receipts from Germany in payment of | landing space for airplanes. tered the field, placing their names before the membership and requesting nominations for the various offices to be filled. Oceans of literature are surging thru the organization telling a depleted membership of the great qualifications possessed by most of the candidates, or group of candidates, who aspire to guide the future destin- ies of the I. A. of M. Many, of thé candidates lay great stress.on the number of years they have held membership in the organiza- for the benefit of the rank and file. This: fulsome praise constitutes about all that most of them have to say re garding the coming election in our or- ganization, Nothing is said about the deplorable conditions existing in our trade and the crying need for a constructive program to prevent our organization from going out of business entirely as a labor union. Nothing is said about a plan of action that will recoup our seattered forces and bring the I. A. of M. back to the position of a militant aggressive trade union which it once occupied. In contrast with the above there are a few candidates in the field who are supporting a practical program. A program that has a plan of action tc meet the awful conditions existing in our trade, and one that will rebuild the. organization on a militant, fight- basis. Left Wing Candidates. These candidates lay stress on the need of a constructive program and pay little attention to the personality of the men who are seeking nomina tionn in support of this program. They point out the need of industrial organ- izations thru amalgamation, and call attention to the results of the open- shop drive on our organization to prove that closer unity thru amalga mation is the only solution that will save us from complete destruction as a labor union. They are opposed to a policy that commits us to so-called “co-operative” schemes between the masters and the workers, and to prove the fallacy of such a policy they point to the ruth- less methods pursued by the masters in their efforts to annihilate any effee- tive organization on the part of the workers. This group of candidates is known as the left wing, and is made up of class conscious machinists who under- stand the class struggle and the meth- ods we must pursue to overcome the present conditions prevailing in our trade. Militant Program. At the forefront of these methods the left wing raises the following is- sues, which no other candidates have endorsed, but which no other candi- dates can or will dispute the impor tance of: ‘(1) Amalgamation of all crafts in the metal industry into one indus- trial union covering the entire in- ‘ ber of their workers by 6 per cent, n Mrs. Tallman has been taken to the} strata of labor and ‘peasantry’ is in 7 5S pee pea dustry. (2) Development of shop poor house. these portions composed of Negroes.| “Ch Was not exceeded substantially committees. (3) The organization by any other group and was consider- of the unorganized. (4) Independent working class political action for a workers’ and farmers’ government, (5) Against racial discrimination. (6) Freedom of expression within the union, and reinstatement of sus- pended and expelled members who have been discriminated against merely for idical activities. (7) Against the “B. & 0.” plan and all in America, but it isn’t cheap enough yet. se & The purchase by the Botany Mills of an interest in two large German textile concerns is a concrete in- stance. The New York Journal of Commerce commenting on this move says: “An American company +which can provide the funds necessary to utilize the well equipped plants of Germany hac a great advantage over its compe- titor who tries to invade the market from without. It profits by the acquisi- tion of all the advantage of lower costs of operation, particularly lower wages; it profits by the lower trans- portation charges. Moreover the busi- ness of an American concern owning its own Huropean plant will not suf- fer from the tariff duties or the forms of discrimination encountered by for- eign importers.” Cor ite | “Purchase by American concerns of ¢ interests in foreign firms along the lines indicated by the reported deal,” says the Journal, “is only a minor variant of the many attempts that are now being made to divide up interna- tional markets by private agreements in defiance of trade barriers and poli- tical rivalries. “Such arrangements, which are in large part financial, illustrate very clearly the truism that capital is in- ternational and therefore prepared to jump the. obstructions set by fearful politicians. It may prove to be the case that tariff questions will assume subordinate importance. If capitalists find it more profitable to develop the business of foreign concerns than it is to compete with them, they will not hesitate to do so.” * 4° 9 In plain language this would read: “If capitalists find it more profitable to employ cheap foreign labor than American labor they will not hesitate to do so, immigration laws and tar- iff laws to the contrary notwithstand- ing.” Which means that capitalist at- tempts to interest labor in sifch laws as major issues are in reality efforts to divert labor from the real issue which is international. Capital is going to profit by its ac- knowledged internationalism while labor suffers from the narrow nation- alistic attitude encouraged by the pro- paganda of the capitalist press. Froze to Death on Mountain. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 14—Another rescue party was forming at Estes Park today and will make a third ef- fort to bring down from the storm swept summit of Long’s peak, the frozen body of Miss Agnes Vaille, Colorado mountain climber, who was overcome by Artic temperatures and fierce winds and froze to death after she had scaled the great heights late last Sunday. PASSAIC, N. J., Jan, 12—Opem di HERE’S CHANCE FOR GARY, COOLIDGE AND ROCKEFELLER TO ENFORCE LAWS formation of a right wing cabinet, and the centrists refusing to enter a cabi- net unless their party receives the dominating control. The deadlock may be broken by the establishment of a dictatorship, if Luther fails to form a right wing cabi- net. The possibility of President Ebert taking over the government without backing from parliament is being broached vigorously. Ebert would have the authority of article 48, of the constitution, providing for “emergencies,” it is claimed by those favoring dictatorship. While Germany is vainly striving to solve her internal problems, France is raising tariffs on German products and the negotiations for a trade treaty be- tween the two countries are at a standstill. Germany, at the time when her internal affairs are confused by the failure of any one party to secure enough strength in the last elections to form a government, is faced with the stupendious task of battering down the excess tariff walls created by the allied nations. Germany is faced with economic ruin because of impossibility to make satisfactory for- eign trade agreements, and internal disruption growing out of the con- fused economic and political situation. THREE MOVIES SHOWN TONIGHT FOR ONE PRICE The workers of Chicago will have the opportunity to see three live work- ing class pictures in one evening for the price of one. All the pictures were made in Russia during the revolution. The first is “Polikushka,” the fa- mous story of serfdom by L. N. Tol- stoy. Made into a movie by the world famous Moscow Art Theatre. The second, “Soldier lvan’s Miracle,” a comedy, tells a serious story about religion, but in a funny, peculiar Rus- sian way. The third, “In Memoriam—Lenin,” is showing Nicolai Lenin in action. the last picture is shown in connec- tion with the first anniversary of Lenin’s death. The pictures will be shown in Chi- cago only one evening, TONIGHT, Thursday, Jan. 15, from 6:30 to 11 Pp. m. at Gartner’s Independent Theater, 3725 Roosevelt Road, near Indepedence Bivd. Taken to Poorhouse. REVERE, Mass., Jan. 14—Friends found Mrs. Ida Tallman of 90 Shaw- mut St. suffering from cold and hun ger. There was no fire in the house and no food in the pantry. Mrs. Tall- man is 72 years old. The neighbors reported her case to the police, and Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. eflance of the new state law prohibit- been made the race problem by the capitalists and that the only party which boldly announces its attitude on the race problem and mobilizes the Negroes as workers fighting for their rights beside the white workers is the Workers (Communist) Party. “With conditions as they are in the south today, the capitalist class is not likely to grant the so-called demo- cratic-political rights to the Negroes —the south’s exploited masses,” Com- rade Minor said. “In the south there iss not the modern capitalist form of sovernment, nor is there the modern capitalist political system. For ex-| ample, in Mississippi only one person in every twenty-two casts his ballot. Only the wealthy classes are allowed to vote. “The key to the stagnant south as a problem of the proletarian revolu- tion is the Negro question. Every- where in the south any question of organizing the working class or the | exploited farming class, runs afoul of | the race question. In the labor unions | of the south the Negro is either en-| tirely barred, or in cases where the | Negroes must be taken into the union, | they are separated from the white | workers in the union meeting halls, and are forced to conduct separate meetings, with separate chairmen and separate voting. “The southern ruling class has in- herited_ the. ition .of slave labor, and has kept that tradition alive as a guiding spirit,” Comrade Minor de- clared. “Race hatred is played upon as the standard means of preventing the detelopment of the organization of the workers. The Negro worker's have been used to break strikes of white workers, and the white work- ers have been used to break strikes of the Negro workers.” Minor told how in many southern states the petty officers of the law arrest unemployed workers and sell them to employers for so much a head, often selling these workers into slay- ery for as long as a year. These “vagrants” are sentenced to terms at “hard labor.” They are then placed under whipping bosses. Wherever this crude system \is not in effect, other petty depredations, are made in the so-called free wage laborers. Comrade Minor told how he had seen raids on railroad construction camps where petty officers of the law, working in conjunction with the employers, ar- rested half a hundred workers on a fictitious charge of playing cards on Sunday and fined them a total of all the wages due them. “Some parts of the South where mod- ern capital has penetrated and opened up a modern form of production, such as in West Virginia, Tennessee aa Georgia, we find the beginnings of a Primitive militancy of the working class,” said Comrade Minor. “In the unpenetrated portions the class con- flict comes oftenest in the guise of race conflicts. The most exploited They, especially since the world war, have gone thru a disillusionment, and pacifist theories have no very strong hold on them. The average Negro of the south already has a faint glim- mering of his proletarian standing. Hardly a day passes that his mind is not Gveiling on the fact that h» car rely on nothing but his own direct acts for his self-defense.” “The larger industrial cities lead in the extent of expansion of the month. In Chicago, there was a gain of 4.8 per cent and average weekly earnings increased to $33.06 per week for males and $18.95 for females, higher than for some time. “As the leading railroad center of the country, Chicago receives. more migratory unemployed in the winter when tlie out-of-door industries are closed down. Nevertheless, there were only 144 registrants in Chicago jfor each 100 jobs open at the state free employment office in that city, the lowest point since April and 60 points better than in June and July. “At East St. Louis, Rockford, and Aurora the gain in the number of fac- |tory workers was of substantial pro- |portions. At Moline, Peoria and Rock Island, the gain was smaller while at Bloomington, Danville, Decatur, Joliet and Quincy employment de- clined. “The metals, machinery and con- | veyance group, represented in the re- ports to the department by 385 em- ployers, had 1.2 per cent more work- jers than a month previous and 9 of the 12 industries made progress dur- ing the month. “The agricultural implement indus- try added 10.6 per cent more people. In the past four months this industry has added 38 per cent more workers. “Blast furnaces had new labor re- quiréments during the month and em- ployment in this industry increased 3.5 per cent for the 114 employers, fol- lowing gains of slighter amount in Oc- tober and November, “The machinery industry which is a highly sensitive barometer to indus- trial changes reported an increase in employment to the extent of 3.8 per cent. There was also a minor gain in November. In previous months, how- ever, the changes were decidedly downward. “A recovery of some of the lost ground is shown in the reports of the car builders. The employment in- crease amounted to 2.5 per cent. “The apparel industries have be- come seasonally activé. 26.5 per cent was the addition made to the forces in the men’s clothing factories, 17.5 per cent in millinery, and 10.9 per cent in women’s furnishings. “The outstanding change in the food industries was in meat packing. Dur- ing December hog receipts at the Chicago stockyards reached the highest point of any time in the past 10 years and cattle and sheep receipts were high for the time of year, This resulted in an expansion in work forces. 19 reporting packers in De- cember had 5.4 per cent more people than they had a month ago. ‘ “An analysis of the reports by size of firms shows smaller firms are at least keeping pace with their larger | competitors. Thus, in the metals, machinery and conveyance group of industry employers of fewer than 101 Persons reported increasing the num- ably more than the increase by em- Ployers of over 1,000 workers. “There has been improvement in the mining industry during the month. 11 mines, some of which have been closed for two years, reopened in De- cember, At other mines orders have Justified an increase of the forces or an increase of operations to full time. “There has been a reduction in the America’s war claims of $35! America’s two and one-quarter per cent will continue as long as the Dawes’ plan is operative, it was said In no case, however, would America be paid more than 45,000,000 gold marks toward its war claims in any one year. The army of occupation costs would be payable at the rate of 52,000,000 | gold marks annually, beginning in September, 1926, but with the time reckoned from September, 1923. The American reparations would be reck- oned from September, 1924. ,000,000.| x ship is expected to carry sev- eral airplanes. The magazines also will be forward permitting the reduction of the length of armor plates alongside the ship. The speed of the new craft will be around twenty knots, much slower than the first line fighting ships which preceded them. This is a result of the beam of 106 feet, the widest of any battleships yet constructed. Glenn Young Too Dirty for Even the Ku Klux Klan (Special to the Daily Worker) | they paid out in the week of Novem- | ber 15. The expansion was even| larger in manufacturing concerns, the | reports for 1,181 of them showing dis-| MARION, IL, Jan. -14.—Announce- bursements for the week of December |ment that the Illinois ku klux klan is 15 as 5.4 per cent larger than in the |clearing its skirts of S. Glenn Young, like week of the preceding month. gunman, was made here by publica- “Building authorizations for the |tion of a letter of Charles Palmer, month of December display the usual|STand dragon of the Illinois Iklan seasonal characteristics. December |Pélmer announced denitely and em permits declined from the November |Phatically that he did not want Young total in practically all of the cities|in Chicago to take part in the hearld- but the bulk of them were at least | ed “cleaning up” of that city by the as large as a year ago. 24 cities is-| Klan. sued 2,163 permits calling for $26,-| The Willfamson county ku klux klan 259,625 worth of work. The value in |Organization has practically deserted November was $35,671,087 and Decem-| Young to his troubles for some time, ber 1923 was $28,691,691. allowing him to face numerous cceclaemecteeeteinnannisnee charges of crime against him in Her- rin as best he can. “You may be defi- nitely assured that Young would not be employed by nie in any event,” Palmer wrote to Marion klansmen. Lature Pe Sait, Vorker pr 1s A Memorial Pageant Commemorating the Death of the Great Working Class Leader LENIN MEMORIAL DAY Wednesday, January 21, 1925, 8 P. M. Ashland Auditorium ASHLAND AVE. AND VAN BUREN ST. Speakers: WM. F. DUNNE EARL R. BROWDER J.LOUISENGDAHL ARNE SWABECK | GORDON OWENS Music by Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago z ADMISSION 25 CENTS, of ing work of women between 10 p. m. and 6 a, m. in New Jersey is announced to State Commissioner Andrew F. McBride in a letter from manufacturers. The employers say that they will continue to work women at night and that they believe that the courts will find the law prohibitiag such work unconstitutional. ‘Their claim is that the: taw, to Sinlecdtery and theretone | r-xp. as Hughes Heads for Washington, But invalid, McBride is notifying employ- Is as Silent as Clam ers that if they do not comply with the law by Jan, 17 he will proceed against them, ATLANTA, Ga. tis Jan, 14.—Suddenly abandoning plans to go on a hunting trip in Georgia, Secretary of State ! Big Jersey woolen and cotton mill ture of our present union is obsolete |laundries in Jersey City and other Charles Evans Hughes hurriedly de- parted for Washington at noon today. when its membership drops from more | places, and glass factories work wom- ‘ than 330,000 to less than 80,000 in 4/on in night shifts and are defying the . regulation. Botany Worsted Mills, Hughes’ sudden decision to return to the capitol broke up a two-day meeting of the executive committee of Forstmann & Hoffman Co., Garfield the workors their position in the American bar association of Worsted Mills, New Jersey Worsted ty, and show them the way out of | Spinning Co., Gara Mills, R. H. Steéle dilemma, which he is president. He did not est in the welfare of thelr employes | ¢xPlain his sudden, departure, “because our hen ey interests are Laundry Co, Owens Bottle Co. and is before, the left wing grour|Lamond & Robertson Co. signed the this but By, they Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, Comrade Minor told of the mas- sacres and lynchings which are the punishment meted out by the bour- geoisie for the attempts of the Negroes to organize and to fight for their righta. The key to the solution of the prob- lem of the stagnant south is the direct tackling of the race problem by the only element that can finally solve the problem-—the revolutionary Com- munist Party. The Workers Party has offered the solution to the race problem, Comrade Minor concluded. He presented the program of the Workers .Communist) Party on the other forms of class collaboration. (8) For a convention every two years. (9) No exclusion of young workers from union or its affairs, (10) The recognition of Soviet Rus- sia, the first workers’ republic. (11) Closer international solidarity of all metal workers. ‘Tho left wing candidates are aware of tho loss of membership, in our or- ganization and know that the struc number of workers working only, part time and during December there’ was an increase in the number working overtime, As reported by 1,043 em- Ployers who responded to the ques- tion of the extent of operations, it ap- pears that 77 per cent of the work- ers are on a full time schedule, 24 plants are still closed down. “1,603 employers in all industries reported that they had put into circula- tion as wages during the week of De- cember 15, $10,707,108, which was 4 per cent increase over the amount BAZAAR For the professional schools in Russia and U krq be held at Douglas Park Auditor Corner Ogden and Kedzie Aves. FOUR DAYS——JANUARY 22-2; General Admission 50c, for all four daj Help Insure THE many intelligent Negroes as possible be Brot into the party and that the Negroes be mobilized for the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism. DAILY WORKER for 1925! letter to McBride. They claim inter- First Class Program—including Children’s Ball, also movie from Jewish life in Russia wil Auspices, Jewish Workers’ Relief Commit! “In Memoriam—Lenin” to be shown TONIGHT at Gartner's Theater,