The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1925, Page 5

nen ee THE DAILY WORKER CLEVELAND ARMY |4!¢H OF JOBLESS IS 30,000 IN MONTH Community Spirit Can’t Fill Stomachs, They Say CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan, 21—At the same time that newspapers here are dévoting many columns of space to advértisement of the “community chest,” thousands of unemployed workers are marching on the stréets looking for work. A few days ago 2,000 unemployed workers stormed the city employment’ bureau in the city hall and demanded jobs. The community chest advertise ments say, “Mingling in and _ out among the vast thrang of humanity we see the spirit of community fund. The spirit needs lots of help. We'l! give until the chest is overflowing.” But the hungry workers declare that community spirit does not help them when their stomachs are crying out for food and no work is to b: found. They demand ‘the right tc work or else full maintenance by the government and the industry employ ing them. The jobless here point to the fact that in Kokomo, Indiana there are two thousand people out of work that 33,000 people made application for work in Cleveland in the month of November ‘alone. Over 80,000 moners are out of work in Ohio, Indiana, and IMinois, 150,000 are out of work in New’ York, and 2,500,000 at the very least are out of work in the entire country. Big Business Controls Indiana State Legislature INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan, 21. — Steam and interurban railroad inter- ests. were backing the bus regulatory bill introduced into the Indiana state senate by Senator Moorhead of In- diatapolis. The bill provides for con- sideration of existence of other forms of transportation in granting licenses to‘motor bus operators. The bus men aré endeavoring to pass a bill provid- ing for consideration of automobile transportation separately. The co-operative marketing bill is expected to pass both houses, as it is so harmless the milling and bank- ing interests are not opposing it. The bankers declare it will not detract from their profits. and will stabtlige the supply of grain. =" LULU TEMPLE - M. J. OLGIN OF NEW YORK, Meeting starts promptly at 8:15 A PRETTY APRON. 4992. Dotted percale with bands of sateen in a color to match the dots, REER pa: departm: . in a very good suggestion for the de- alned, by @ othrewr York velopment of this style. Cretonne or | Pan acivens. ceived, chintz, unbleached muslin and dotted Swiss could also be used, ‘Pho, pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, medium, Jarge and extra large, | ;erne ordinarily Fieab atl A modium sizo requires 3% yards of] not hacorme ‘G4nch material. ey mailed to any address on of 12c in silver or stamps. 12¢ nt cite or vente SPRING & SUM- itm 1926 BOOK OF FASHIONS. ~ ‘ PHILADELPHIA, ATTENTION! Lenin Memorial Meeting SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1925, 8 P.M. Broad and Spring Garden Streets SPEAKERS: Soviet Press and Delegate to the Fifth Congress, C. I. R. BAKER, Secretary, Philadelphia Workers Party. OLIVER CARLSON OF CHICAGO, Educational Director, Dist. 3. Freiheit Singing Society — International Orchestra Motion Pictures of Lenin’s Life, Funeral and Communist May Day Demonstration at Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow. T ON ELECTRIC TRUST SHOWS MORGAN BANKS REAP ENORMOUS PROFITS YEARLY By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) The vast control over the nation's electric power exercised. by one Morgan power trust has been placed in the spotlight by the financial trick with which the General Blectric Co. is trying to indictment. slide out from under gy ep Norris’ Thru a fake surrender of the ownership of the Hlectric Bond & Share Co. these Morgan interests have simply awakened the public to’ the’ fact that one corporation has brot within its¢————+—____________. sphere of influence over 1,000 com- munities with a population of more than 7,200,000. From a nominal investment of $25,000,000 the General Hlectric built up its system of more than 100 elec- tric power, street railway and gas combines with a total capital of about $650,000,000. Thru constant reinvest- ment of profits, over and above 8 per cend dividends it raised the value of each $100 share of common stock to about $720. This increase has been at the expense of the communities served and represents the difference between what they actually paid and what they would have paid if their public utilities had been publicly owned enterprises. The extent of control and the full magnitude of the profits of Electric Bond and Share are considered some- what of a mystery even in the finan- cial world. Last year’s known profits were at a rate of $32.76 a share. At that rate the par value of the common stock would be replaced out of profits about once every 8 years. The major public utility combines known to be subject to this Morgan company are: American & Foreign Power Co. which controls companies providing electric light, power, telephone serv- ice, ete. to 39 communities in Cuba, Panama and Guatemala serving over 600,000 people. + American Gas & Electric which con- trols public service corporations in 6 states supplying electric light and power to 137 communities with a pop- ulation well,over 1,770,000. Among the communities are Canton and New- ark, O., Scranton and Pittston, Pa., Wheeling, W. Va., Rockford, Ill, and Atlantic City, N. J. American Power & Light Co. which includes Kansas Gas & Electric, Pa- cific Power & Light, Portland Gas & Coke, Nebraska Power, Minnesota Power & Light, Florida Power & Light, Southwestern Power & Light companies. It collects its profits from 396 communities with a population ot over 2,000,000. “Dallas Power ‘and Light ~ Co; and American Correspondent for the Admission 25 Cents TWO DAINTY APRONS. Pattern 3438 supplies these styles. It is cut in one size: medium. No, 1 will reqquire % yard of 36-inch ma- terial, and No, 2 will require 1% yard.|/ SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT Lawn, dotted Swiss, dimity, crepe and embroidered materials are at- tractive for these styles, Pattern mafled to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for TO-DATE SPRING & SUM- base 25 BOOK OF FASHIONS, Address: The ea Snloagey ne 1113 ATTORN B viola thru DAIL’ it rig A hoe acted and, they aro mailed by man. *, the customer. The off od pattern is reser — en! firm of ers are forwi Dallas Railway Co. which, control the entire supply of electric light power and street railway service in this city with a 200,000 population. Carolina Power & Light Co. which supplies light and.power to more than a@ score of manufacturing and mill towns in the deyloping centers of in- dustrial exploitation, in tho south. Lehigh Power, Securities Corp., a holding company controlling compan: ies supplying electric. power and light in the anthracite counties of Penn- sylvania. It, reaches out to™ collect profits from 203 communities with ¢ population of at least 500,000. National Power & Light Co. which dominates the power and light situa. tion in Knoxville and Memphis, Tenn., in Little Rock, Ark., in Houston, Tex., and in the entire steel district radiat- ing from Birmingham, Ala. Utah Securities Corp., a holding com- pany controlling Utah Power & Light which reaches 168. communities’ in Utah, Idaho. and Colorado. New Or- leans Public Service monopolizing the public service of, that city. And Pow: er Securities Corp., about which facts are not available. The ownership of all. these proper- ties is being handed over by General Electric to its stockholders thru a special corporation ¢reated for the purpose. They will get as a New Year’s gift a share of this corporation for each share of General Electric which they*own, When you bu: , get an “Ad” for the DAILY NORKER. Your Union Meeting Fourth Thursday, Jan. 22, 1925. Name of: ‘Local and Place No. of Meetini ne. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Fata eeore. Chicago, 409 8. 180° W. habs picses, star St, 8:45 p. m. 576 Barbers, 3010 E. 92nd St, 342 i of BP Workers, 180 W. Wash- ington 44. Sre aiden eee Fe, of W. Wash- 2 Sale ake: Maakare ia ana rewery phy 1700, 5. 21 ick and Clay, "L rick and Cla: Brick and Cla Bridge and 8. ton St. . hington St. 1» Rey Ss. Wi “Ti. ‘Tist and Cottage ent. wort 794 Electrical, Groves 115 Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. 656 Engi Morrison Hotel. 538 Firem: ind i 9118 Commercial Avenue. 60 Firemen and Ei 5058 Wentworth Ave., 7:30 m. 715 Firemen and Enginemen, Ogden one. Taylor. Pp. Hod. Carrier: Pager Garment Workers, 328 W. » Ashland | w. ; Tae w. Hall, Chicago W. North Ave. Rai oe Clerks, 67 &. Van Buren Carmen, 5445 S. Ashland Clerks, 19 W. Ada 5'W un ‘Ave » No * 127 N. Ri road, ane et Meta, len aoa rastee's itchmen, ‘gl Sts. Switeymen, 9 ‘Shicage Ave, in.aters, Ashland and Van Buren 742 msters, 9206 Houston Ave. 112 Upholsterers, Ogden and Taylor. 15793 Watchmen (Mun.), 113 S. Ashland 16 Wai use mi 166 a bite Washington “ae’ “epee ba (Note—Unless oth stated all meetings are at & Pp. mM, Fran- SOCIETIES MEETING TONIGHT. German-Hungarian—634 Willow St, John Freifogel Sec’y, nary Ave. 3741 Semi- LOS ANGELES A Responsible Drug Service Brooklyn Drug Co. E. A. Sandler, Prop, Brooklyn Ave., cor. St. Louis Phone: Angeles 6305 LOS ANGELES v PERHAPS THE “BED LIAR” 1S A PRESS AGENT “Red Revel” Publicity Makes Its Debut Peculiar how typographical errors sometimes have more truth than poetry in them!- What should have read “red star,” read “red liar” in an issue of the DAILY WORKHR last week. It caused a good deal of com- ment. It said, “watch out for the red Har” and the “red liar is coming.” When the Red Revel publicity be- gins to break in real earnest, some of our readers who never attended this annual event in the past will begin to doubt the veracity of the Red Revel press agent. His stuff will sound too good. Perhaps they will say: “Ah! This is the red liar the DAILY WORK- ER warned us to be on the look-out for.” Now, sometimes a good fiction writer is ten times more interesting than a saint. In fact, it is very doubt- ful if we advertised the presence of a@ small army of angels at the Red Revel, that we could get enough at- tendance to fill a taxicab. Brains Are Busy. The brains of an arrangements com- mittee, that has as much experience getting up entertainments as a lawyer has in evading the law, is busy hatch- ing plans to make the coming Red Revel the biggest and the best ever held in Chicago. Every language fed- eration of the Workers Party will do its darnest to carry off the honors. There will be friendly competition and rivalry. It will be a (masked ball. This promises a delightful series of. sur- prises to the adventurous. You can never tell what kind of a face may be behind an innocent mask. The Red Revel will be held on February 28, at the West End Women’s Club, 37 South Ashland Ave., corner of Monroe St. The proceeds willbe de- voted to supplying local Chicago with the necessary funds to enable it to carry on a vigorous organizing and educational campaign during the com- ing year, Tea Drinking Women Say War is Only National Problem WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21.— at ‘the -, [cause and cure of wars” praised the y;|league of nations, which makes its chief task the oppression of small nations, and held up Theodore Roose- velt, exponent of militarism, as a god, at their session here. Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt pleaded for a “calm, sane and sensible investigation of the whole thing,” and quoted Roosevelt. Speakers at the conference have ad- vocated every thing from the largest army and navy in the world to no army and navy at all. The speak- ers have included rabbis, generals, priests, politicians, and plain oped liberals. The conference has done ‘nothing constructive since its opening. Mrs. Catt reminded the audience that the question is “national, not fanatical.” The speakers evidently considered it too radical to discuss war as an inter- national problem. The economic causes of war were not taken up by the conference. % “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5. TN Return performance of the South Side Players in “Salesmen and Suckers” By ANDREW SHELLEY with a cast of colored and white players. THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 8. P. M. at 3621 SOUTH FEDERAL STREET. Tickets 35, 50¢ and $1 at the door. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 4 Van Buren 169 N. Clark S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 8. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Specialties: A Brsvin, Bre Bakeo Fine Soups 4 Bakery il 42 W. Harrison 118 Commiceary fa 1612 Fulton Ct. Every day under this head you will learn not only what BUILDERS thruout the country are doing to bulld a greater newspaper, but also practical suggestions to accomplish more for OUR paper. Tell us what YOU are doing—and we will ‘tell the world.” He Simply Won’t Quit! OMRADE HARVITT of Toledo is a peculiar fellow—no question about it. He got a new job and yet unofficially he justs insists on working on his old one. For a year he has proved one of the outstanding live wires in every one of the DAILY WORKER campaigns and everyday between them as well. And now the local comrades have taken him off his job. But read what he writes: “I will probably feel lonesome without my Job for a while, as I have always at all times had the DAILY WORKER on my mind. However I will have another party job, as I was elected financial secretary to take office in January. “I will still do what I can to ‘Build the DAILY WORKER.’ I expect to have my ‘Tool Box’ always handy, so that I can help to build our Paper, which we must keep going at all costs and sacrifices. Without the DAILY WORKER I and thousands of other comrades and workers would be very unhappy because we would not have the means of knowing how the class struggle was going from day to day and that Soviet Russia is still safe from the attacks of the greedy imperialim that still holds the workers in bondage in all the rest of the world.” This is the way a comrade speaks when he has fully realized the importance of the DAILY WORKER to the working class when he has become a BUILDER. SOCIAL EQUALITY FOR THE NEGRO By JOHN H. OWENS. Whenever the Negro asks for cer- tain rights and privileges that are being denied him, the white bour- geoisie attempt to throw a smoke screen around the issue by screaming “social equality” Deprecatingly. the Negro “leaders” insist that Negroes theniselves do not desire social equal- ity. “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers,” said the late Booker T. Wash- ington, “yet one as the hana in all things essential to mutual progress.” But can we? The development and contradictions of capitalistic society precluded the Possibility of any submerged and ex- ploited group or class enjoying social | equality or, for that matter, any equal- ity within the social order. Unequality of opportunity is the keystone of any capitalistic state. ‘The blacks are the most intensely exploited group in America; hence it is not difficult to understand that they must remain content with a minimum of social rights and privileges just so long as the present system is dominant Optimistic Negroes have held forth the opinion that social privileges would axiomatically follow the acqui- sition of education and property. The Negro has acquired both; but this has only intensified the struggle—social equality has been pushed further into the-future In the south, in things social—and in everything—the blacks and whites are as separate as the fingers. Even a bourgeoisie inter- racial commission could hardly de- Just to Remind You of t! Rates: Outside of Chicago—$6 a months. UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS In Chicago—$8.00 a year, $4.50 six months, $2.60 three months {clare conditions in Dixie ideal—for the Negro at least. However, in Dixie, white men and colored women do enjoy a peculiar kind of social equality Many thou- sands of mulattoes have come out of the south within the past decade. It is patent that they must have resulted from closer social contact than the mere passage of a white man and a colored woman on the same side of the street. In its final analysis, social equality is merely -equality of opportunity within the social order. This, under capitalism, the Negro can never re- alize. It is also denied the white wage worker. perhaps in a less obvious degree. Black and white, you have a com- mon problem! Link up hands against @ common enemy, the capitalistic system of production, that dooms you forever to a life of social ostracism. Help the rising giant of interna- tional Communism bury forever in a sea of oblivion, race prejudice. caste prejudice, social and religious preju- dice. Ex-Greek Minister Coming. LONDON, England, Jan. 21. —G. Roussos, former Greek foreign minis- ter, is coming to the United States on Ja mission to obtain the balance of $33,000,000 due on the $35,000,000 credit extended to Greece by the United States. When you bu , get an “Ad” i for the DAILY ORKER. SSS SSS SSE SESS Sree es | FORGOT! During January and February of last year hund- reds of workers greeted the birth of the first Eng- lish Communist daily newspaper in the world with a subscription. Later, shorter term subs came that expire at the same time, DAILY WORKER. Don’t tion expires, yours.... he year, $3.50 six months, $2.00 three Yours may be among these. Hundreds will expire in two months and if they, are not renewed it will be a blow to “our daily.” Don’t wait for a card with the picture adjoining to describe your feelings when you fail to get the “I forgot” is the usual excuse—but don’t make it RENEW! Send in your renewal today to The Daily Worker 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Page Five EEE TENANTS WORK 66 PER CENT OF U.S, FARM LAND | Lack Any Legal Aid or Proper Schools NEW YORK.—Tho 66.8 per cent of the improved agricultural acreage of the country is being farmed by ten- {ants and this percentage is constantly |increasing, no laws are being passed |in the interest of the tenant farmer, |the federal council of churches finds jafter a survey of rural problems by jits rural committee. The survey shows that America ne- glects her tenant farmers far more jthan England where the renter is be- ginning to get payment for soil and Property improvements after his lease expires. In this country the tenant forfeits his improvements when his tenure ends. Most American farm leases run for 12 month periods, so the tenant has no incentive to im. Prove the land and thus soil robbing goes on at an alarming rate. Lack of educational facilities is an outstanding ill of rural life, About 16,500,000 children are in the rural Schools, with 250,000 teachers. Less Der capita is spent on the rural chil- dren and country teachers are paid less than city teachers. McCormicks Squabble Over Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Money The Equitable trust company, which holds the Rockefeller foundation, the Standard Oil company of Indiana, and each of the trust committee members have been made defendants in a suit filed by Harold McCormick to recover 123,824 shares of Standard Oil stock, from Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCor- mick, his former wife. Three injunctions filed by MecCor- mick’s lawyers would prohibit Mrs. McCormick from ever participating again in the administration of the trust fund which John D. Rockfeller established for his grandchildren in 1917. McCormick wishes the trust fund to benefit Matilde Oser, grand daughter of Rockefeller and wife of a Swiss riding master. When the fund was established it consisted of 12.000 shares, but.these have been increased to 123,824 thru the stock dividends paid*by the com- pany, Fix Pound Sterling Rate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—As the British pound is now close to approx- imating its pre-war value, the postof- fice department today established the rate of $4.87 to the pound sterling, which has formed the basis for money order transactions between the United States and Great Britain for fifty years. Fears Foreign Languages. MADISON, Wis., Jan. 21—A prohi- bition against the teaching of foreign languages in the publie schools of the state, below the university classes, will be proposed in a bill to be of- fered by an assemblyman Matt Koenigs, Fond du Lac. wait until your subscrip- Chicago, Ill. A LAUGH FOR” THE CHILDREN -