The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1925, Page 2

. $7,000,000,000 Page Two UNCLE SAMUEL, |[__ WORLD SHYLOCK, WANTS MONEY Demands His Pound of Flesh, Blood and All (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15— With complete accord. reached at Paris, on the allocation of Germany's payments under the Dawes plan, and the _ inter- national atmosphere — conse- quently more clarified than it has been at any time since the armistice, administration offi- cials are now prepared to press for an early settlement of the worth of war debts that still remain unfunded on America’s books. An early renewal cf negotiations to this end can be expected, it was stated in official circles here, with the United States exerting pressure on France for some serious talk about how she is to discharge her debt of four billions. Think Dawes Settled Things Settlement of the reparations pro- blem, in the opinion of administration officials, removes the last remaining barrier to debt settlement negotiations will all European debtors. Hereto- fore France and the smaller debtors have offered the argument that they could not talk settlement with Wash- ington until they could ascertain just hew much they were to get from Ger- many. The Dawes’ plan agreement settled that, so they think and now the excuse becomes no longer tenable. Commenting upon the Paris agree- ment, administration officials pointed out that the subject of war debts is the last of the great international problems of a controversial nature left by the war. It is made plain that this government, at least, considers the time now ripe for tackling this problem in earnest. Show the Color of Your Money. The French government has al- ready been informed, thru diplomatic channels, that the “unofficial and per- sonal” memorandum on the subject of the debt, sent to Washington some days ago by Clemente! is not satis- factory, and that Washington would appreciate something more concrete and official. The discussions at Paris between Clementel and Winston Churchill, British chancellor, over the status of France’s debt to Great Britain, are re- garded here as a hopeful sign that France soon will submit to both her creditors a definite statement of her intention to pay and the measures by which she intends to do it. The French debt to Britain is approximate- ly $2,707,000,000, and to the United States, with interest, $4,137,000,000. SCANDINAVIAN SECTION OF WORKERS PARTY SAYS, ‘T'S A HEALTHY SIGN’ "It Is Indeed inspiring to know that the party is looking ahead of time in order to Insure the continu- ance of its press, instead of the old happy go lucky system by first as- suming a load of debts and then after a while be drowned In It. This Is a healthy sign of foresight In our movement and gives promise of a steady and healthy progress. “| hope and trust that every sec- tion of our party will be able to grasp the importance of this and re- spond 100 per cent.”—Juel Christen- son, secretary Scandinavian federa- tion. the total who registered 176,512 were nearly 37,000 nothing was done. es 8 PREMIER REFUSES AID TO UNEMPLOYED. OTTAWA. Canada, Jan, 15.—Premier King refuses to grant money from the Canadian treasury to meet unemployment in Ottawa. BAD JOB YEAR IN ONTARIO TORONTO, Jan. 15.—During 1924 more than 213,000 applications for work were filed in 25 employment bureaus thruout Ontario. by the employment service report as the worst in the history of Ontario. Of The year is described given work of some description. For * € He gave this answer to a deputation which represented the city council and the unem- ployed, and which was introduced by one of the local members of parliament. In reply to a request for the construction of public works the prime minister said that all such expenditures would have to be approved by parliament. J. J. Ryan, chairman of the unemployed men’s organization, told the premier that there were 2,000 unemployed In the city. (Continued from page 1) writ of supersedas in an attempt to get him released pending the decision of the United States supreme court. He said the books that the workers in the national office of the Workers Party had given him just prior to his departure served as excellent com- panions in his days of confinement in quarantine. He had no complaints to make. It seemed to be a little better, in some wways, than Sing Sing (where he served @ year and one-half under the criminal syndicalism law of New York) but it is a capitalist prison. He'll Interpret Ca list News, Ruthenberg didn’t have to be told he would not be allowed to receive the DAILY WORKER. He asked that certain metropolitan dailies be sent him in case his bail were denied. “Those will give me the news. I can RUTHENBERG NOW “No. 17,332” make my own interpretations.” He smiled gratefully and expressed satisfaction when he learned that the entire forces of the International Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council was being turned in behalf of the Michigan defense. Time of Interview Over. The time was up. Ruthenberg was Ved back to his cell and his books. The reporter was conducted back thru the labyrinth of corridors, stairs and gates to the grey outside walls. In Michigan they don’t like to have Jackson penitentiary called a prison. They call it a “state industry” because fourteen million pounds of twine and rope are turned out there every year. But that’s where Ruthenberg is, And as long as Michigan continues to lock |men up in it for having ideas, Jackson | penitentiary will be known as a partic- |ularly black and sordid prison. Brown’s Heresy ’ Trial Rushed By Packed Jury (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 15—Bish- op Brown's heresy trial is being rush- ed thru by the eight bishops of the protestant episcopal church sitting in judgment on the ideas expressed in Brown’s book, “Communism and Christianism,” in the Trinity Cathed- ral hall here. “Jury” fe Packed. When Joseph Sharts, Brown's at torney, declared that the court was hastily constituted for the express purpose of hearing charges against Bishop Brown, he was immediately overruled, and Bishop W. A. Leonard of Ohio, presiding at the “trial” of the church's board of review, told the prosecutor, “I hope you will be brief, Mr. Dibble, there is hardly any reason for discussing it.” Sharts charged that the trial court had no jurisdiction over Brown, on the ground that he must be tried in his own diocese. He declared that DAILY WORKER PARTY IN CHICAGO NETTED $124.39 FOR PAPER The net proceeds from the Chi- cago celebration of the first birth- day of the DAILY WORKER, net ted $124.39 after all expenses had been paid. The profits were turned over to the fund to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925. The Chicago birthday party of the DAILY WORKER was arranged on only a few days’ notice, and the re- celpts are considered high consider- ing that fact. Bosses Groom Dever for Try At White House Blbert H. Gary and John D. Rocke- feller, jr., together with other mem- bers of the executive committee of the committee of one thousand for “law enforcement,” have injected them selves into local politics in order to twenty-three quotations from the book |groom Mayor Dever to run as the next were stripped of their context and misrepresented the author’s views. He devoted several hours of his speech to reading extracts from the book, and expounding Bishop Brown’s opinions. Refused Defense Depositions. Sharts charged that the trial court erred in refusing to permit the taking of defense depositions to prove that there was no agreement on doctrines among church leaders. Dibble, the prosecutor, said Bishop Brown was a “jungle worshipper.” Brown wanted to substitute matter, force and law, for the father the son and the holy ghost, Dibble said. , The court of review is hearing Bish- op Brown’s appeal from his conviction last June. Find Gold Vase Weighing 390 Ounces SOFIA, Jan. 15.—Bulgarian peasants atywork near Plevna have unearthed a vase of 22 karat gold weighing 390 ounces. The mayor of Sofiia has sent it to the national museum. The Poisoned Water Hole —— THE Dose | PuT INIT Wie MAKE Him THis He’s IN HEAVEN! \democratic presidential candidate, lo- jeal politicians charge. - Dever spoke at a secret meeting at the Chicago club, which was attended by Clifford Barnes, and other leader's of Gary’s committee of 1,000. The Chicago crime commission. was ig- nored at this meeting, speakers de claring the commission to be an ob stacle rather than an aid because it heckled and irritated the Dever ad- muistration.” It is being recalled that Dever was greeted after his New York speech by Rockefeller and Gary with the predic tion that Dever would have their sup Port for the nomination as the demo- cratic candidate for president. Dever told in New York how he had “driven the bootleggers and beer run- ners out of Chicago.” He did not men- tion that those who had left Chicago have stepped across the city line to Cicero, which runs wide open as the wettest and toughest town in the mid, dle west. Speeches delivered in the city coun cil against the “crime wave,” included a statement by Alderman Wiley W Mills that he has been in Chicago for thirty years, and that every winter there is a crime wave. It was re vealed that there are 100,000 unem ployed workers in Chicago, many of whom are entirely without resources and this was given by some aldermen as the real cause of the “crime wave.” . May Call Mellon. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Former At- torney General Harry Daugherty and the present Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon are likely to be called a8 witnesses in the trial of Gaston B, Means and Col. Thomas Felder, charged with accepting money to bribe Daugherty. Mellon and Daugherty will pe asked their connection with the bribery plot executed by Means, Felder has admitted that he was for many years business and personal as- sociate of Daugherty, THE DAILY WORKER MANDREW ASKS OPEN SHOP RULE FOR TEACHERS Plan ComesUp at School Committee Meeting The matter of secret markings, which has been bandied about for several months now by the board of edueation thru Superintendent Mce- Andrew's refusal to meet the teach- ers and thrash out the matter with them, came up again at the last board of education meeting. Again action was put off. The com- mittee on secret markings offered a recommendation for a meeting of the teachers’ representatives with the board of superintendents, No one knows who/the board of superintend- ents are or whether there is such a body. Finally Attorney Mullenbach assured the meeting there was no such body. President Moderwell recommended the change that the “superintendent” meet with the com- mittee of teachers and it finally passed in that order, But no definite date was set for the meeting with the teachers on secret markings. Open Shops to Rule in Schools. Superintendent McAndrew, who is responsible for abolishing the teach- ers’ councils will give the teachers a new brand of teachers’ councils it was learned at this meeting. Anyone who still doubts that McAndrew is the open shop school superintendent of Chicago will now be convinced. The superintendent says he will now per- mit teachers’ councils. In fact he never was against teachers’ councils providing they are the right sort. And the right sort of teachers’ coun- cils are those in which the teachers will get together by order of the sup- erintendent to listen to what boss Mc- Andrews and his array of minor bosses want them to do. The new organization, according to recommendation to be submitted by the superintendent, will be known as the Chicago public school teachers’ council, and will consist of representa- tives from the following groups: Two representatives from the Chi- cago teachers’ federation. Two representatives from the teach- ers’ league. One representative from the wom- en’s federation of teachers. One representative from the men’s federation of teachers. One representative from the princi. pals’ club. One representative from a truant organization. One assistant superintendent. One member of the board of educa- tion. The superintendent of schools. McAndrew to Preside. This is to be known as the centra’ administrative committee over which Superintendent McAndrew will pre- side during its meetings. There will be no general counci! meetings of the teachers either during or outside school hours with the ex- ception of those held under the direc- tion of the individual principals. Akron, Ohio, Unions Waging Bitter Fight on Department Stores AKRON, 0.—Unioniets have a bitter weapon to brandish against depart- ment store employing nonunion help as they demonstrated in a movement to buy outside of Akron. Orders have been sent to the big mail order houses for 10.000 catalogs for distribution among Akron unfon men. Hiventually it is hoped to establish a cooperative store to fight the big department store owners. The Summit County Labor News has been placed on the we- don’t-advertise list of the big stores as the result of its protest against nonunion conditions. Alaska Railmen Want Pay Raise. SEATTLE.—A strike vote may be taken by all employes on the Copper River railroad, the Guggenheim Alaska Line, if that road does not follow the lead of the U. 8. government in granting generous salary increases, according to brotherhood vice-presi- dents who are in Seattle attempting to negotiate the wage claims for the northern ratiroad men, Retroactive to Dec. 1, Uncle Sam has given pay boosts averaging approximately $120 a year to the 300 employes on the U. 8. government's Alaska road from Seward to Fairbanks. All these workers are organized brotherhood men, Conservative Parmers Meet. CHAMPAIGN, IIL, Jan, 16-—Twelve hundred farmers, representatives of every county farm bureau in Illinois, ‘filled the auditorium at the university of Illinois here today for the opening of the two-day tenth annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- READ THE DAILY WORKER 'tion. Ruthenberg in prison! You Must Help! Thi Ten thousand dollars wanted by -one more trials ahead. ‘ebruary 15, : Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michigan defense, Come during the day or come at night. Bring others. Labor Room 307. centewel phone State 5959 if you will efense ouncil, 166 West Washington Street, sea U. S. Richest Nation on Earth Until Soviet Star Eclipses Capitalist Sun By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ‘ODAY, Americans are asked to wax 100 percent jubilant over the census bureau report that the wealth of the United States at the end of December, 1922, totalled $320,- 803,862,000.00. The inhabitants of these United States are asked to get especially excited over the fact that this was an increase of 72.2 over the estimate of $186,299,664,000.00 in 1912. In ten years the wealth of the nation was three-quarters on the way to doubling. No mention is made about who owns this wealth. That might put a crimp in the shouting. The multi-millionaires, directing the destinies of their class, want to hide from the masses of exploited the fact that two percent of the inha- bitants of the land own 65 percent of the nation’s rapidly, increasing wealth. The amount of wealth in the possession of the many millions becomes 80 insignificant as to be al- most unworthy of passing mention. * * * ®8 Altho the wealth of the United States has been rapidly increasing during the last 75 years the gain during this last ten year period, which included the years of the world war, have been most phenomenal. Here is the showing: Year Total 1922 .«.$320,803,862,000 1912 186,299,664,000 1904 107,104,190,000 1900 88,517,307,000 1890 65,037,093,000 1880 43,642,000,000 1870 24,054,818,000 1860 16,159,616,000 1850 7,135,779,000 Today it is possible to number on the fingers of one hand the billionaires who own more wealth than was claimed for the whole nation 75 years ago. The gain during the last ten years was greater than the total wealth in 1904, when “Teddy” Roosevelt, as president, was most active in his trust-busting adventures. é Even before the world war the United States was the richest country on earth. In the estimates published by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, in London, the wealth of the United States, in 1914, the year the world war began, totalled $204,393,000,000; the nearest approach to this being the wealth of Germany totalling $80,540,575,000; this being less than the wealth of the United States in 1900, when American capitalism entered upon its era of present great development. The same authority gives Russia, then in the hands of the czardom, wealth totalled at $58,398,000,000; this bein behind the United States, Great Britain and Germany, an equal with France. Raha But what is the outlook for the future? Wealth in the capitalist nations is — owned. The greater part of this wealth, under capitalism, is not only in the hands of the few, but tends to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands. This year, 1925, will be remembered not as a year for the organization of new trusts, but as the year of the trustifying of the trusts already in existence. It is to be the year of greater combinations of wealth in private hands for the increased exploitation of the many. On the other hand, wealth in Soviet Russia perry to the many. The Bolshevik revolution took wealth away from the few, the bankers, the landlords and the industrialists, and but it in the hands of the workers and peasents. In Soviet Russia the many are enjoying the increasing pro- duction of the land an | industry. | The greatest struggle in all human history results from this present clash between these two social systems—Com- munism and capitalism. This struggle is the big fact of life today. It overshadows everything else. It is the last struggle of an oppressed class. 3 There can be but one outcome. Capitalism, with its private ownership of wealth, cannot survive. The hundreds of millions of wealth producers will not remain long en- chained to its profit treadmill. Communism, with its common ownership of wealth, will triumph. The workers of the earth will learn to toil for themselves, to produce for themselves; when all labor be- comes a joy. ; Let American capitalism rejoice over its privately owned wealth. Its be | of joy will not be long in passing. Its sun will soon be eclipsed by the Soviet Star. NEW YORK ANNOUNCES TREMENDOUS LENIN MEMORIAL DEMONSTRATION FEB. 1 AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN |“ *°™ Sem; Prime ¢e Rivers NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—The Lenin Memorial meeting to be held in Madi- son Square Garden on Sunday, Feb. 1, at 2 p. m., to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the Bolshevik leader, promises to break all previous records for radical demonstrations. It will be remembered that last year 25,000 persons tried to jam their way into the Garden to do honor to the memory of Lenin, After the hall was filled to capacity, it was necessary te immediately hire another large hal! uptown to take care of the immense crowd which could not get into the garden. This tremendous mass demonstra- tion, this great outpouring of workers from all flelds of industry, was a phase of last year’s celebrations, not only in this country, but thruout the world. In every city and town, wherever men and women, toil with hand and brain, there was an overwhelming tide of sentiment in honor to the proletarian leader. With the new developments in the international situation, with the im- mediate threat of new and more terri- ble wars, of increased exploitation of the workers and of the onward march of the black forces of reaction, looming up in the near future, the memory of Lenin, the man, has taken on a new meaning. ‘Today, he stands as the chief exponent of the principles which laid the foundation of the Russian Soviet Republic, the first milestone in the road to the ultimate emancipation of the working class of the world, In addition to heey . situation, there is the added attraction of a new and most interesting program for the occasion, Full details will be given later. Tickets for the Lenin Memorial Meeting are on sale at: 208 Hast 12th St. Fretheit, 158 Bast Broadway, 1347 Boston Road, 46 Ten Eyck, St., Friday, January 16, 1928 TIWHERE TO G0 TO GARRY THE CITY PROGRAM Party Members Take Notice! An organization called the Chicage Public Affairs Association has arrang- ed for the diccussion of a number of municipal problems in Chicago to be held in public schools on the first aud third Mondays of each month. Where these open forums are being held, comrades are expected to attend these meetings whenever possible on the first.and third Mondays and espe- cially in those wards where we have candidates endorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party. In all places the yarty, members ar, to raise the issues and propagate the program of the party as given by the city organ- ization on municipal problems. ‘Ward, school and the location are given, also those wards where the Workers Party has a candidate. 1—Haven, 1472 Wabash Ave. 2—Douglas, 3211 8. Giles. 3—Doolittle, 525 E, 86th St. Work- ers Party has candidate. 4—Kenwood, 495+ Blackstone Ave. 5—Ray, 5631 Kimbark. 6—Fiske, 61st and Ingleside. 7—Parkside, 69th and Hast nd Ave. % &—Park Manor,,70th and Rhodes Ave. 9—West Pullman, 11941 S. Parnell Ave. 10—Gallistel, 1041p St. and Hwing Ave, 11—Healy, 3037 Wallace St. Work- ers Party has candidate. 12—Everett, 34th and Irving. 18—Fallon, 42nd and Wallace. 14—Colman, 46th and Dearborn. 15—Gage Park, 5516 5S. Maplewood, 16—Beale, 60th and Sangamon. 17—BSherwood, 245 W. 57th St. 18—Raster, 69th and Hermitage. 19—Harvard, 7525 S. Harvard Ave. 20—Foster, 720 O’Brien Bt. 21—Pickard, 21st and Oakley. 22—Farragut, 2286 S. Spaulding Ave. The Workers Party has a can- — didate. 28—Whitney, 2815 S. Komensky Ave. 24—Crerar, 1002 S. Campbell Ave. The Workers Party has a candidate. 25—Chalmers, 1220 8. Fairfield Ave. 26—Clarke, 1810 S. Ashland Ave, 27—Skinner, 1070 W. Jackson Blvd. 28—Hayes, 258 N. Leavitt St. The Workers Party has a candidate. 29—Summer, 715 8. Kildate Ave, 80—Orr, 1040 N. Keeler Ave, | $1—Carpenter, 666 N. Racine Ave. 82—Andersen, 1155 N, Lincoln St. ; ‘|The Workers Party has a candidate. 33—Kosciusko, 1424 N. Oleaver Ave. 34—Langland, 2230 Cortland St. The Workers Party has a candidate. 35—Lowell, 8312 Hirsch St. The Workers Party has a candidate. 86—Mozart, 2200 N, Hamlin Ave. 37—Lloyd, 2108 N. Lamon Ave. 38—Brentano, 2723 N. Fairfield Ave. 39—Reilly, 3650 W. School St. ' ie 40—Irving Park, 3815 N, Kedvale ve, 41—Beaubien, 5025 N. Laramie Ave. 42—Jenner, 1009 Milton Ave, 43—La Salle, 326 Bugente St. 44—Lincoln, 2824 Larrabee St. The Workers Party has a candidate, 45—Knickerbocker, 2301 N. Oliftes, Street. Vv 46—Morris, 919 Barry Ave, 417—Nash, 4887 W. Erie St. 48—Goudy, 5124 Winthrop Ave. 49—Pierce, 1423 Bryn Mawr Ave. 50—Trumbull, 1600 Foster Ave. Watch for The Red Liar. Spanish Continue Retreat. MBLILLA, Morocco, Jan. 15.—The end of January will see the beginning of an operation in which the Spanish troops occupying many advanced posi- tions in this portion of the Spanish zone will be withdawn in a manner similar to those which fell back from the Tetuan district. The plans of the general staff for the retirement are_ being completed under direct instruc | Charge Chicago Frame-Up. ¢ CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—City Man- ager Hopkins of Cleveland, in address- ing the meeting of the Great Lakes- Harbor association in session here to-+ — day, termed converting of 10,000 gal-i lons of water a second from the Great; Lakes by the city of Chicago was a “frame up” and “gigantic water steal.” af German-Polish Treaty Signed. & BERLIN, Germany, Jan, 15—Poland “ and Germany have signed a trade” — agreement, maintaining commerce be-” tween the two countries until April 1. Brooklyn. 350 Hast 81 Street, and at |The two countries will conduct fur- other Workers headquarters through- out the city. Jimmie Higgins’ Book Store, 127 University Pl, N. Y. C,, Fin- nish headquarters 764-40th St., Brook- lyn, N.Y, r ings only, not to branch meetings. Results of Membership Meetings CORRECTION—In this column Thursday, Jan. 15, the results of discussion at two branch meetings in District No. 8, both of which voted the minority position, were erroneously reported as RESULTS OF MEM BERSHIP MEETINGS, The branches were, the South Slavic branch Sheboygan, Wis., and the South Slavic branch, of Joliet, Il. The votes recorded in this column apply to joint city membership SPRINGFIELD, ly snowrmemnnemnnmnnnmas Majority, 195 ther negotiations for a definite com- mercial treaty. ‘The Red Liar— Don't Miss it! .