The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 20, 1925, Page 5

Tuesday, January 20, 1925 GREAT INTEREST SHOWN IN TALK BY WACENKNECHT “Labor Movement in the East” Draws Crowd A larger attendance than was had for several Sundays past came to hear Alfred Wagenknecht, recently return: ed from the ‘Orient, speak upon “The Rising Labor Movement of the Hast,” at the Workers Party open forum, Ashland Auditorium, Sunday evening. The speaker gave an unusually in- teresting account of the living condi- tions of the peasants and workers in India, China, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, their labor unions ’ and peasants’ organizations and the na- tional-liberation movements in these countries. The tasks of the revolutionary workers of the occidential countries of Europe and America in relation to the budding workers’ and peasants’ or- ganizations of the Orient were held to be: (1) A close contact with the workers in the colonies and _ semi- colonies and actual participation in their struggles. (2), Bringing the or- ganizations of workers and peasants into the national-Iiberation move- ments fn the east as such, so that these organizations may influence the nationalist movements and gain lead- ership in them. (3) Foster Com- munist nuclei in the nationalist moye- ments and give material support tc the small Communist groups in the Oriental countries. Many interesting questions were asked and requests made that the data and information contained in the lecture be published. The speaker at the open forum next ‘Bunday evening will be Arne Swa- beck. Subject: “The Two-and-a-Half International.” All comrades are re- quested to advertise the forum meet ing among their fellow workers. Father Out of Work Children Sell Cakes to Support Family JAMAICA BAY, L. L, Jan. 19— A family: of six live in a one-room shack here. They support themselves on the $10 a week earned thru the father’s baking of cakes and the four children peddling them to the neigh- bors. The shack is furnished with a stove, a table, three chairs and two cots. Two of the children sleep in @ bed improvised of two chairs. There is no lathe or plaster on the walls and against the cold weather. The father explained that he had been out of work a long time and finally resorted to baking buns and cookies which, sold by the children, bring in about $10 a week. LL TEES GOV. “AL” SMITH JOLTS LABOR | (Continued from page 1) latures, and not the voters, that must ratify an amendment to the federa] constitution, the referendums have no binding power, theoretically, but are merely “advisory” (?) The “labor lobbyists” at Albany as- sert that’ they have enough promises of support to carry the ratification of the proposed amendment. The state legislature of New York, like all other similar bodies, is composed of the most petty and timid political shy: sters—glorified ward heelers—and they fear the wrath of the vote labor is supposed to control no less than they fear the opposition of the manu- facturers. Hence the proposition to submit the child labor amendment to a referendum appeals to them, as a means of evading the issue, by being able to hide behind the decision of the voters of the state, after these voters have been bludgeoned into idiocy by a campaign of terrorism, Democracy in Action, In the state of Massachusetts, where the amendment’was defeated by a terrific majority, the beauties of bourgeois democracy were revealed in | all their majesty. For hypocritical lying and sustained mendacity that campaign was without an equal. The state was flooded with a propaganda of viciousness thru every agency that Money can debauch. Never at any time was the question debated on its merits. Massachusetts is the center of the textile industry, It was in that state that the industry had its inception in this country. From here it has ex- tended to various other states and during the past three decades has penetrated the south, where the ex: ploitation of children proceeds unham- pered by any restraints except the limit of human agony, Many New England textile concerns have branch mills in Alabama, Georgia, South Caro- lina, North Carolina and Tennessee. Georgia, Louisiana and North Caro- lina have already refused to ratify and yesterday South Carolina by a unanimous vote of the legislature and without debate rejected the proposed amendment. In the southern states where the legislatures are openly owned by the textile octopus, the votes of the legis- latures are rushed thru, while in the northern states the manufacturers seek to delay the vote of the legisla- ture until “the people” have been con: sulted. With Massachusetts as the bright and shining light in the firma- ment of demotracy those who distill the blood of children into profits are carrying this beacon into other states where the great campaign of “educa the two tiny windows are boarded up! tion” along the lines practiced in Massachusetts will be conducted. The motive force of the drive in Massachusetts was an organization known as the “national committee for rejection of the 20th amendment,” with headquarters in Washington, D C., and offices in’ the Union Trust Cardinal O'Connell, addressed a letter to al the priests of his diocese com- manding them to request their parish: joners to vote against the amendment on election day. As the catholics comprise forty per cent of the vote in the state, this move was effective. Bishop William A. Lawrence, of the episcopal church of Massachusetts, became the crusader against children and spoke for the protestants, while a public harangue by the Hon. Bishop Warren A. Candler of the methodist church south, was spread thruout the state, Then the farm papers that depend entirely for their subsistence upon the industrial advertisements they receive and whose sole purpose is polluting the minds of the agricultural popula- tion ran miles of columns of misrep- resentation. This poison propaganda was aided by wide distribution of ex- cerpts from Henry Ford's paper, the Dearborn Independent, containing as- sertions that the adoption of the amendment would prevent girls help- ing their mothers wash dishes and prevent the sons_of farmers milking cows, Not once was the truth about the amendment placed before the populace, As a matter of fact the amendment is only for the purpose of enabling congress to regulate the la- bor of children under 18 years of age, and is not a law. Against this avalanche from the kept organs of the manufacturers, the organized labor movement did prac- tically nothing, Instead of utilising this opportunity to expose the fraudu- lent arguments and the vicious mo- tives of the manufacturers, the labor movement, according to its own state- ments, spent less than $2,000. Much of this was spent before the manufac: turers got their batteries into action. When labor appealed to the radio broadcasting stations for an opportun- ity to get their side of the story be- fore the raido fans, they were told the cost would be $50 for é¢ach ten min- utes. The labor speakers that ap- Peared before audiences gave insipid explanations of the amendment and were at all times on the defensive, Manufacturers Endorse Smith, Fresh from the “victory” in Massa- chusetts, the manufacturers have started drives in every state legisla- ture that may consider the amend- ment this term. In the southern tex- tile states, they simply give orders to their minions and they are ful- filled. In non-textile states the sacred referendum is . Every exploiter of labor in New York is back of “labor's friend,” Al. Smith, in his approval of a referen- dum, Yesterday the merchants’ associa- tion, composed of vultures who exploit children in stores and wholesale houses, endorsed the so-called “labor governor” of New York and urged the referendum, Meanwhile Mr, Holland and other labor politicians are frantically appeal- JHE DAILY WORKER AUTO WORKERS BEGIN MICHIGAN LABOR’S PROTEST Pledge Support to Labor Defense Council (Special to the Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 19.— The workers of Michigan are not parties to the conspiracy of the capitalist gov- ernment of that state with the capl- talists of the nation in railroading to the Michigan prison the group of Communists of whom C. E, Ruthen- berg was the first victim now in the Jackson penitentiary. Auto Workers of Michigan Speak. At least the Auto Workers of De- troit are speaking up and in a resolu: tion condemning the persecution of best fighting element of the labor movement, calls upon all labor bodier to support the Labor Defense Coun- cil and pledges its own help. The resolution, which is expected to be followed by many similar resolu- tions and protests from all over the state of Michigan, is in full as fol- lows: An Anti-Labor Law-—States Resolution Whereas, since the world war many states hay: sed so-called “criminal syndicaliam” and “criminal anarchy” laws, which are in violation of the spirit of the bill of rights of the United States constitution, and are instruments of the employing class tyranny over the. workers and their organizations, and Whereas, the state supreme court of Michigan has upheld the conviction of ©, B, Ruthenberg for “assembling with” the Communists in an opinion which calls for the punishment of ideas and is a denial of free speech and assemblage, and which evades the issue by ignoring the fact that, as the defense showed, there was not even a violation of the state law since nothing was done in Michigan by the defendant in the way of an overt act or advocacy, and Whereas, Assistant Prosecuting At- torney Bookwalter of Berrien county and others of Kis class insist upon maximum punishment for this “crime” of holding opinions counter to their own, and ‘Whereas, the sustaining of the Ruthenberg conviction will mean the attempt at railroading Willlam Z. Foster, William F. Dunne, Robert Minor, and the other 28 well-known fighters in the ranks of the labor movement, and will also encourage high-handed “they work suppression-of ers and their organizations which dare to oppose the open shop rule of the capitalist controlled government, and Whereas, the solidarity of the en- tire working class is essential to its welfare and requires that those in the forefront of the struggle must especi- BUILDERS AT WORK Every day under this head you will learn not only what BUILDERS bi ptatd the country are doing to build a greater newspaper, but also practical suggestions to aacomplish mere tor OUR paper. ing-~and we will ‘‘tell the world.’’ Tell us what YOU are Builders of Their Own Newspaper. AST week saw the appearance of THE BUILDER, official organ of the Builders of the Labor Movement--a monthly miniature newspaper published for those who are giving their efforts to build the DAILY WORKER. This little newspaper, devoted to comrades doing the important or- ganizational work of getting the best expression of Communism in our to the workers inside of our party to Bolshevize it—and to workers outside of the party to add additional strength to our ranks—will be sent to all city and branch agents and to all BUILDERS of the movement who had secured new subs during the Bricklayers’ campaign in October. THE BUILDER is a practical organization paper to mold into a more efficient machine all active members of our party and other workers out- side of It who are giving their efforts to the DAILY WORKER. It will carry plans of work and organization, suggestions and ex- periences of other BUILDERS—all means to make the DAILY WORKER Builders a machine that will bring our party and the DAILY WORKER to greater strength and achievements, WE WILL GLADLY MAIL ANY WORKER A COPY ON REQUEST. A. F. OF L. TRIES TO SETTLE WAR BETWEEN MINERS AND ENGINEERS (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19—The mediating inflwences of the American Federation of Labor were exercized today to settle the controversy between the United Mine Workers of America and the engineers at the Coal River Collieries in West Virginia, which are owned by the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers. A committee consisting of Frank Morrigon, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, Vice-President Martin F, Ryan and Vice-President James P, Noonan were named by President¢———————________—____ William Green. The committee will meet Grand Chief Warren S. Stone, of the railroad men’s organization. President Green’s action is in ac cordance with a resolution adopted at the last national convention of the American Federation of Labor direc- ting the executive council to aid in adjusting the differences. The report adopted at the convention confirmed the statement made by mine union leaders that the mines owned by the engineers’ union had discharged mem- bers of the United Mine Workers “for exerdising their constitutional right of affiliating with the union. of. their craft,” The Labor Movement today is When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. Courteous Service Dinner 10,30 to 2.15 “THE PLACE TO EAT” WEST INN CAFETERIA 734 W. Madison St., Chicago. 2nd Floor—3 Doors East of Halsted 8t., C! “Right Over the Big Clock” Strictly Home Cooking and _ ‘The Most Home-Like Eating Place in This Nelghborheed Page Five ————EE St. Louis Labor Condemns Framing of Railway Clerk ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19,—The Central Trades and Labor Union of St. Louis, demands reinstatement of Theo, B. Kaiser, a railway mail clerk who was discharged on vague charges of “‘dis- loyalty and antagonism to the post- office department.” . Kaiser was chair- man of the St. Louis postal employes committee in behalf of the recently killed postal wage raise, The labor body declares that Kaiser’s discharge came as a penalty for his efforts and that it was intended as a warning to other postofiice employes who might be inclined to espouse better pay. See “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” at Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. | Your Union Meeting Third Tuesday, January 20, 1925. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 58 Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. 1023 E. 75th St, Moose’ Hall, Chicago Spsinatolé and 26th. Washington &t. 4282 Enginemen, s48 » Great Northern Employ Pp. ae, = "eth St., "Chi. Mt, 814 W. Harrison st. 8’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Buren St. e rire and Oilers, 357 N. + Clark . Randolph St. + cor, California and are S. Halsted St. N. W. cor, State and 6 Mid eile 81 bag 220 W. Oak St Trumbull and ty den A » Monroe and Perio id Die Stampers, 19 Carmen, 75th and Drexel ay Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St, Railway Clerks, 509 W. 2219 Washing- 708 St. 4 ih St. 1 W. Wash- 39 id Clothing Workers, 182 Al “ Clothing Workers, (Note: Unless S vcrcien stated, all meetings are at 8 p. m.) Reasonable Prices cago, Ill. Phone Monree 0120 Supper 4.15 to 7.15 To Mark Another Building, where is also located (quite |S t® “Our Al.” but to no avail. In-|ally have the support of the workers, A_ PRACTICAL UNDER GARMENT. 4714. ‘This style may be finished with ‘shaped shoulders ora camisole top, and straight or knicker leg por- tions. Muslin, cambric, crepe, sateen, flannelette or crepe de chine may be used'for this model. The pattern is cut in seven 8! 4/6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 years. A 12 year size requires 244 yards of 36-inch material. “Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE \}YOU WANT IT IN, }\ ‘Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924 Pattern mailed to any address on ipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN © SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE ‘OU WANT IT IN. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our CP-TO DATE FALL & WINTER 1924 25 BOOK OF FASHIONS. : The DAILY WORKER, 1118 , Washington Bivd., Chica MM NOTICE, ‘O PATTERN Bi terns being pols) “tare t oan New york fi fir ino of pat pare Orders by turer “direct to, the customer: ‘The LY WORKER does not keep @ stock patterns aly. eae atom dh by accident) the offices of the nationa’ manufacturers’ association. This com. mittee is composed of the most notor- ious labor-hating manufacturers in the country-and is as follows: Millard D. Brown, chairman, Conti- nental Mills, Philadelphia. C. S. Anderson, The Norton com- Dany, Worcester, Mass. P. E. Glenn, Exposition Cotton Mills, Atlanta, Ga. Jone W. A. B. Dalzell, Fostoria’ Glass company, Moundsville, W. Va. R. E. Wood, Montgomery Ward & company, Chicago, W. H. Leonard, The Denver Rock Drill Manufacturing eqmpany, ver, Colo. W. Frank Carter, of Carter, Nortoni & Jones, St. Louis, Mo, The director of this committee is one Frederick W. Keough, one of the editors of the odious scab publication “Industrial Progress,” which opposed every labor measure and demand the past five years and is now waging a campaign against the 8-hour day. Then there was the Massachusetts branch of the national manufacturers’ association, known as the “associated industries of Massachusetts,” dominat- ed, of course, by the textile barons. This organization, in turn lined up the anti-feminist “Woman Patriot” gregation, composed of the codfish textile aristocracy of. the Back Bay district of Boston, that carried on propaganda of hysteria to the effect that the government of the United States, influenced by the “notorious Russian Communist” Zinoviev, was about to invade the sanctity of the home and tear the children away from the parents. (This is not an exagger- ation, but an actual quotation that appeared in more than eighty different pieces of literature distributed thru- out the state by the millions.) These organizations launched the most stupendous and vicious cam, on|paign that history records. No lie was too base or fantastic to be her- alded to every hamlet and farm in the state, In addition to tons of lit erature in the form of leaflets and pamphlets—one hundred and forty: nine specimens of which I have before me—tfull of filthy slime, the radio was used three times a week to broadcast harrangues by teachers, editors, plat- ¥ |form wranglers, clergymen and all the n | hangers-in in the camp of the enemies of the workers, against the amend- ment, The role of the clergy, always vile, was absolutely loathsome in this campaign, On October 1, the Catho- archbishop of. Boston, nae stead of grovelling before this Tam- manyite, they had better seriously consider the task of labor to expose the sinister propaganda of the manu- facturers, And the militants in the labor movement, under the leader- ship of the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League, have, in these referndums, a wonder- ful opportunity not merely to expose the capitalist state and the fiction of bourgeois democracy, but to also ex- pose the labor fakers for their half- measures and in many cases open be- trayal of the interests of the working class thru.their alliances with the {old parties of capitalism. Our Prégram Vindicated. The program of the Workers Party contains a scathing arraignment of American democracy and shows its fraudulent nature by analyzing the procedure required to amend the con- stitution, proving that it is a tremen: dous task to amend this so-called basic law of the land. It is not by a clear majority that the constitution is changed, but by an almost unanimous agreement among all the legislatures of the country, To change the constution requires a two- thirds vote of the members of the leg- islature of three-fourths of the states ag. The program emphasizes the fact that: “One-quarter of/the states, in which may live only one-fortieth of the population can prevent any change of the fundamental law of the land.” In New York we have a wonderful opportunity thru proposing child la- bor united fronts to place our program before the working class and to show in action that we wage a determined struggle for the elementary needs of the working cl: nd at the same time expose the fakers in the labor movement who because of their alli- ances with the old parties dare not offend the political scullion and mountebank in the New York state house. LOS ANGELES A Responsible Drug Service Brooklyn Drug Co. E. A. Sandler, Prop. Brooklyn Ave., cor. St. Louis condemn the action of the Michigan E. Ruthenberg in the event that the Ruthenberg. therefore be it Resolved, that we, Local Union 127 of the Auto Workers, protest and supreme court, and record ourselves as in support of the Labor Defense Council in this case, and call on all labor bodies and working class organ- izations to take the same stand. We petition the governor of Michigan tc issue an unconditonal pardon to C. United States supreme court sustains the conviction, it being our opinion that such action on the part of the United States supreme court would b« a nullification of the constitution in the interests of the employing class We protest against any further prose cution of those indicted along with Be it further Resolved, that copies of this reso- lution be sent to the governor, of Michigan, to the prosecuting attorney of Berrien county, Mich., and to th« labor press. A. S. We: Chairman, R. S. Swann, Secretary. Adopted by Local 127 United Auto. a product of the class struggle. Its ultimate goal is to assume control. But, the Labor Move- ment—to assume power—must of necessity have developed to a high stage of organization, theoretical knowledge and will to power, To all these requirements, the DAILY WORKER is a great contributing factor—and when you build it—by the simple task of securing at least one new sub—you are building the Re- volutionary Labor Movement into a monument marking another, greater step in history. This brick will make a valuable addition to such a monument. Send it to mobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America, regular meeting, Friday Jan. 9, 1925. “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb, 5. HHH Where Food Is Good And the service is fine. Meet your friends at the Zlotins & Plotkins Restaurant 100 Per Cent Union 29 South Halsted St, The best of food at a moderate price ‘Ureeavetvevonvnaanevuegeneveieaongennsncannieaniatii JULIN’S SHOE STORE AND REPAIR SHOP 3224 W. h Avenue Phone Belmo: 13 Chicago PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK , DENTIST | nenderne Est, Sane rin CHICAGO — NAME STREET. CITY. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, Illinois. PPATES PEOO a year §3.50-6 montis $200 9 months $8.00 ayear F450 6 montis f§ 250 THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER STATE Step in History! 3 months