The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 27, 1925, Page 3

REFERENDUM AID’ TO BOSSES’ FIGHT FOR CHILD LABOR Their ‘Hold on Press Controls “Opinion” By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) Confident of absolute power to mold public opinion thru the control of the press, organized capital is resorting topopularre- ferendum to ‘defeat the child labor amendment in certain states. where the legislatures would : probably vote ratifica- tion. Proposals for such a referen- dum are being discussed in “New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Michigan. The only popular referendum so far held—that in Massachusetts—proved entirely satisfactory to the exploiters resulting in rejection by a 696,119 to 247,221 vote, This is not binding on the state legislature, but may be ex- pected to have a powerful influence, The situation in other states may be briefed as follows: Arkansas and Cali- fornia have acted for ratification. South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia have rejected it. Louisiana has postponed action indefinitely which is the same thing as rejection, And the amendment has failed to pass one house in Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Action is expected within the next two or three months in Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Neb- raska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Ver- mont and Wisconsin. It requires 36 states to put the amendment in force, State Regulation Status. All except 7 states have statutes technically prohibiting the employ- ment in factories and stores only of children under 14 years of age. Of the exceptions, Utah and Wyoming have no laws, California, Maine, Michigan and Texas have established a minimum age of 15 and Montana and Ohio pro- hibit employment under 16. All except 12 states have statutes technically prohibiting the employ- ment of child labor in excess of 48 ROBERTSON SAYS THAT R. R. UNIGNS ARE STILL CONSIDERING 6. P. P. A. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Referring to a query as to whether the Broth- erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen would attend the C. P. P. A. conference at Chicago to be held in February and the possible forma- tion of a “third” party, D. B. Rob- ertson writes as follows: “In reply will say this brother hood, in conjunction with other rail- road labor organizations, is now giv- Ing consideration to this subject with a view to determining upon a policy to be followed, but up to this time no definite program has been agreed upon.” BORAH WOULD COLLECT FRENCH DEBT FOR CAL France Got Plenty of Plunder, He Says WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25.— Borah’s speech in the senate, de- manding that France pay her debt of $4,000,000,000, which the United States loaned Paris during the war, was a statement of the views of the Coolidge administration, it was learned at the White House. Borah’s speech stamps the Idaho senator as the mouthpiece of the Morgan bankers controlling the Coolidge government, and gives strength to the rumor that Coolidge will soon recognize Russia as a good business proposition. Borah claimed in his senate speech that France is trying to repudiate her debts. His speech was made at the time when a new French ambassador is on the way to Washington, Borah recalled that the French finance minister pointedly ignored the Ameri- can debt in his official report on assets and liabilities, which was made to the French chamber a month ago. Borah demands that the money, which was loaned on demand notes, be returned. Borah criticized the recent speech of Marin in the French cham- ber which characterized American as a Shylock, and declared France sa- crificed so much in life in the world war she should not have to pay. France gained 400,000 square miles hours a week. The exceptions are] of territory, her Jost provinces, the Florida, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, New | richest iron basin of Europe and Hampshire, Rhode Island and South| enormous cash payments from Germa- Dakota with a maximum of 54 hours, Pennsylvania with 51 hours, South Carolina, with 55 hours and Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina with 60 Borger erent swe ae ny All extept 19 states require school attendance of some sort up to the 16th year. The exceptions are Idaho, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah which set the age at 18 years; Delaware, Maine, Maryland, North Dakota, and South Dakota which set it at 17, Arkansas with 15 and Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carosina, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia in which school is required only up to 14 years. Exemptions Make Law Look Foolish. The exemptions allowed in 20 states render the apparent regulation a de- ception and make possible the em- ny in the world war, and America wanted her slice of plunder as well as France, Borah said. A Plantaganet or a Montague? A Grave Problem for Charlie NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — Charles Evans Hughes, retiring secretary of state, may have a damage suit on his hands if the Lucy Stone League committee reports favorably. At the league’s dinner to Helena Normanton, English woman lawyer who won a passport in her own name, the use-your-own-name women decid- ed that they might take action against Hughes for the stern refusal to grant aeiae ployment of over 1,000,000 children be-|4™erican women passports in their tween the ages of 10 and 15 years of | Maiden names. whom 40 per cent are under 14, In| Ruth Hale (wife of Haywood Broun, many of these states children are al-|C°lumnist), president of the league, lowed to work under the legal age or|4id not succeed in getting her pass- beyond the maximum number of hours | P°Tt for a recent trip to Europe un- during vacations or when employed by |4¢? her own name. parents. In Arkansas, California, Delaware, Idaho, Mississippi, Utah and They Fight Child Labor Law Virginia the hour limitation does not} OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Jan. 25 apply to work in the canneties which |~N0 stone was left unturned by the 8 recognized by the U. S. children’s |©*Ploiters of labor here to defeat the ureau as one of the worst forms of | Child Labor Amendment to the United States constitution. Lavishly oiling issippi also exempt canneries from |their machine with the money stolen pplication of the minimum age limit, |*"0M workers’ toil. they succeeded There are other grounds for exemp-|'" Setting the Oklahoma legislature to ion from one or another of the pro-|Vte 81 to 24 against the amendment, ective provisions of these state laws. mong them the most significant is verty. Poverty is recognized for xemption from the requirement of hool attendance in Arkansas, Colo- i It is recognized in orgia for reduction of the minimum ge from 14 years to 12 years. In uth Dakota, Texas and Washington joverty deletes the age requirement Itogether, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is which possessed enterprises in South the company’s capital by the fact that circumstances will permit—which may happen very soon,” The chairman of an fmportant man- ufacturers’ union in Belgium has re- cently stated that they are eager to set to work in Russia again provided can enjoy the “fruit of their la in the limits of reasonable ex- pmmittee of Local It is symptomatic in this reference that a large joint-stock THE DAILY WORKER GLENN YOUNG, KLAN RAIDER, MEETS DEATH Led Gang in Assault on’ Deputy Sheriff (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill, Jan. 25.—S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan murderer, has been killed here, | after leading a gang of gunmen in an assault on Ora Thomas, deputy sheriff. Thomas was attacked by 14 klan gunmen, who led by Young, opened fire on Thomas as he was walking down the principal street of the town un- accompanied. Renectly Returned to Herrin. Thomas ran into the European Ho- tel and barricading himself behind the clerk’s desk, returned the fire of the Klan killers. Thomas, before falling to the floor mortally wounded, shot and killed Glenn Young, and wounded Homer Warren and George Forbes, all klansmen. Thomas had just returned to Her- rin, after an absence dating from the latest shooting in which an automobile load of klansmen, which include¢ Homer Warren, attacked Thomas and Galligan anti-klan sheriff of William son county, in front of the Smith gar- age. |Six men were killed in thie shooting, three of the attacking klans men being shot, and retreating before the fire of the deputy sheriffs. Young had paraded the streets armed to the teeth and looking for trouble. He had been staying at the Lyman Hotel where he declared he was writing his autoboiography. Troons have again been called fror Carbondale by Governor Small. Many of the militiamen are also members o the ku klux klan. Had No Official Authority. Glenn Young gained prominence as aman killer. For 15 years he worked for the department of justice, spend- ing most of that time in hunting draft evaders and army deserters. Young is said to have received over $60,000 from the United States government in return for the men he killed oF cap- tured. Young had boasted that he killed 30 men during his career. In 1920 Young came to Illinois working for the ku klux klan. His first act was to enter the home of a farmer at Madison, Illinois, and firc nine shots into the farmer’s. hody, kil. ing him in cold blood. Young had. nc official authority for his murderous raids, being backed only by the. ku klux klan. : Forbes Trial Nears End. CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Closing argu- ments in the long-drawn-out trial of Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the war veterans’ bureau, and John W. Thompson, St. Louis and Chicago contractor, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government were be- gun in the federal court today. Opening arguments for the govern- ment, Assistant Attorney General Ralph Potter asserted that the posi- tion Forbes had held was “second only in importance to that of the president.” Court was adjourned at noon until Monday, when counsel for the defense will take up their pleas, with John W. H. Crimm, government attorney, mak- ing the final argument. Amalgamated Bank Statement NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Sidney Hill- man announced today that the Amal- GLASS COLLABORATION AS IT WORKS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLBANS, Jan. 25.—A little over a year ago in the harbor strike New Orleans resembled an armed} camp, with burly police officers carry- ing riot guns, and machine guns plac. led at the head of Canal street ready |to mow down men, women and chil- dren who might attempt to walk or public property against capitalis’ wishes. Andrew McShane was mayor at that time, Dave Marcusy was president o the central trades and labor body, and an avowed candidate for the office of commissioner of Labor of the state of Louisiana. police, under the control of the mayor. the strike would have been won. Today Andrew McShane is again 2 candidate for mayor, and Dave Mar- cusy, still president of the central trades and labor assembly is support: ing him for mayor, 24TH WARD PLANS HOT CAMPAIGN FOR ELECTIONS Fifty Workers Out for Signatures The opening gun ofthe 1925 Alder- manic campaign in the city of Chi- cago will be fired in the 24th Ward at a campaign meeting next Tuesday, Jan, 27th, at Workers Party Center, 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Hyman Ep- stein, candidate for alderman, will speak and well known figures in the American and Jewish labor movement will also voice their support to his candidacy, endorsed by the Workers (Communist) Party. Fifty workers will make a final house to house canvas this Sunday, Jan, 25th, to get the remaining sig- natures needed to put their candidates on the ballot, and at the same time they will distribute the Workers Party Program and notice of this meeting. All volunteers will report to the Ward Campaign Headquarters, 3118 W. Roosevelt Road, Sunday from 10 to 1. Several other meetings will be held in various parts of the ward, and a social affair will be run some time in the middle of February to help raise campaign; funds. |All volunteers for mpaign work should report to Wil- liam F, Kruse, 703 S. Ashland Blvd., or to the Douglas Park English, Douglas Park Jewish, or Y. W. L. No. 1 secretaries, City Council Bows To the Wishes of Traction Magnates The protest of the workers of Chi- cago against the failure of Mayor De- yer and the city conneil-to put up a fight against the continued control of the city traction lines by the bankers, is growing. President Henry A. Blair of the Chicago Surface lines, has now proposed a system of.subway and traction lines for Chicago, which ig- nores Dever’s proposal of a municipal- ly owned traction system. The city council committee on transportation does nothing without consulting the bankers, and then takes the orders .f the bankers. Blair's plan ignores the sale of the traction lines to the city and provides for the gamated Bank counted its earnings on Stock last year at approximately ten per cent. Resources increased in the year to about $5,000,000 from $450,000 which the bank had when it opened, Together with the Chicago bank the in- stitution has sent abroad for workers $10,000,000 in 300,000 remittances thru coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5.the foreign exchange department. SOVIET RECOGNITION IS STIRRING BELGIUM AND CZECHO-SLOVAKIA —_—__ MOSCOW, Jan. 25.—The Belgian Communist organ, reports that there is a strong movement the Drapeau Rouge among Belgian indus- company, Socialist Republics. According to the Czecho papers, the |Ment assistance. Natiofial-Socialists, the Social-Demo- |Maiden speech in parliament ann crats and the Agrarian Party are all |@4 that unemployment supporting Premier Benesh’s position in favor of prompt recognition. They have against them the right wing of the National-Democratic Party, headed by Mr. Cramarzj, while the left wing National-Democrats favor recognition for reasons of an economic character, granting of a new franchise to the bankers by the city. So far the coun- cil has made no attempt to confiscate ihe city traction lines, or to put the bankers in their placu by delivering an ultimatum to them. The bankers will officially tell the city council what attitude they will take on the demand that the city con- trol the traction companies as soon Without the aid of the) 1,900 TEACHERS TELL MPANDREW THEY WILL FIGHT Applause at Big Party Puts Crimp in His Day In rooms so close to each other that the cheers, roars of laughter, singing voices and thunderous applause of the 1,500 teachers, in their Silver Jubilee at the Morrison Hotel, drowned out the voice of the {Superintendent of Schools, Wil- liam McAndrew, who was ad- dressing a meeting of the prin- cipals in the same building, the fight of the Chicago school teachers took on a new phase Saturday. The silver jubilee of the Teachers’ Federation was in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the federation’s first campaign against Chicago’s tax dodgers. But it was not only to thir battle that this gathering of teachers Bave expression. In fact, it was a tribute to every battle the teachers have been waging to maintain the in- tegrity of their organization, to main- tain existing standards of education within the public schools of Chicago and for the further improvement of the education of the children and the betterment of their own conditions right up to their present fight with McAndrew. McAndrew chose even the same day, the same place and the same hour to meet the principals to hatch his plots for breaking the federation. Hears ‘Their War Cry. The hundreds of voices that went up in cheers at the teachers’ gathering no doubt destroyed the confidence of McAndrew’s outfit in the success of their schemes. Nor could McAndrew or any of the others in his meeting help but have it brought home to them that the teachers’ federation is a fighting or- ganization and a powerful force to deal with. Miss Margaret Haley spoke, giving a brief outline of the teachers’ tax fight which began in 1899, its purpose being to round up wealthy property owners who were getting away with- out paying one single cent on valuable taxable property, while the teachers were receiving a mere pittance for a wage and the school system suffered from lack of money, a condition which they have been fighting ever since. Fight For Better Education. She urged \the teachers not to stop in their efforts to get across to the people of Chicago that ali their fights are for the welfare of the children and for a higher standard of educa- tion in the pulflic schools of Chicago. Night Shirts at Funeral. DANVILLE, Ill., Jan. 25.—The ku klux klansmen from many points in Illinois and western Indiana were in attendance today atthe funeral of Dr. Samuel L. Paul, mayor of Milford, held at the methodist church. He had been the assistant state veterinarian of eastern Illinois for the past ten years. Jap Volcano Busy. TOKIO, Jan..25—The Shirane vol. Cano near Kasatsu is again pouring out ashes and smoke and the populace fled from the vicinity in great alarm today. SIGNIFICANCE OF 0 By ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG. NEW YORK, Jan. 25, — Madison Square Garden is the largest arena in New York. When it is packed it is the nearest to an open air demonstra- tion. A successful Madison Square Garden meeting has no peer in this as a majority of the debt to the bank-| oountry, A meeting in the Garden is ers has been paid. The city council | yo¢ only a New York meeting. It is admits that, if the bankers do not ac- cept, the mayor's plan is dead, as they do not intend to take action that would displease the bankers. Labor M. P. Gets Poor Relief. of Soviet Socialist Re-| LONDON.—While Albert Law, a Bolton cotton-spinner and labor mem- ber of parliament until the October Russia, explains the recent increase of |°!¢¢tiou, 18 applying for unemploy- ———————————_————__. ment relief, John Brotherton, elected to the house for labor at the same time, is just emerging from govern- forced him to take the government d @ national meeting. In speaking to the 15,000 assembled at the Garden, we speak to the mil- lions outside, without broadcasting the speeches. The capitalist press cannot ignore revolutionary assem- blies which pack the Garden, and the following day the whole country reads about our demonstration. But to achieve the significance of a real dem- onstration the Garden must be filled to the top. Brotherton in his| A meeting with an attendance of ounc-| five or six thousand is generally a great meeting, but it would be a fail- ‘until hi; |¥re as a Garden meeting. It will not lection. loyment is responsi.|b@ noticed, or it will be ridiculed. en for Sane ve with a| The great arena looks empty with six million other British —— A Steinmetz Memorial. thousand people present. The Garden is at its best when it is packed to the roof. Those who have had something NEW YORK, Jan. p rectors |? 4° with running Garden meetings NEW YORK, Jan. 2! know the enthusiasm which a success. The same differences seem to be|decidéd to establish a memorial to|!"! Garden rally produces among the splitting the Clerical Party, whose at«| Dr. Charles Steinmetz, the late electri-|™embers and sympathizers and the titude as a whole in the matter is yet | cal wizard, in the form of uncertain, It is worth noting that an effort re- cently put up by the Czecho-Slova- kian fascists to arrange a meeting stirring anti-Soviet agitation failed to rally more than a very few hundred | Wlectric company and sympathizers, employed a fund for|@eneral propaganda which results the tuition and laboratory fees of four |fom such a meeting. students in Union co! tady, where Steinmetz Schenec-| Last year’s Lenin Memorial meeting jucted a|Was the topic of conversation for course for ten years. fund will be| weeks. We shall repeat the same feat a permanent one and for sons of employes in the available | this year if the masses General | meeting. men now/|Sands; they will fill the hall to over flowing because they want to pay about the They will come in thou- Page Three RED HONOR ROLLS FOR N.Y. JOINT BAZAAR ARE NEEDED AT ONCE NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The last conference of the joint bazaar com- mittee was held Sunday. As the opening of the bazaar approaches, more and more energy muct be de- voted to the affair. Great progress was reported on all hands. A Japanese booth is as- sured. The Russian booth with hand-woven linens and embroideries will be one of the attractions of the bazaar. The Italian spaghetti booth will supply that Italian dish in all its fine flavor. One of the finest at- tractions will be the Indian magi- cian’s booth. A real Hindu will per- form most unusual tricks of magic, such as are seldom seen. There will be a booth of kitchen utensils, one of books, of flowers, Armenian pastry, etc. The finest entertain- ment has been procured, among the organizations participating being joint orchestra of 90 pieces, a chil- dren’s dancing school with 60 chil- dren, a children’s orchestra of 25 pieces, the Finnish societies, and various stars. The Red Honor Rolls must be re- turned by Jan. 26, so as to make it possible to print the names in the souvenir program. All funds collect- ed should be sent in before the ba- zaar. TEXTILE BARONS NOW WANT GIRLS TO WORK NIGHTS First Low Wage, Then Everything Else TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 25.— Writs attacking the constitutionality of New Jersey’s new law prohibiting night work for women have been granted certain manufacturing concerns of the state. Botany Mills, Jersey Cilty laundries. Garfield Worsted Mills, Owens Bottle Co. and several others have refused to comply with the new law prevent- ing from women from working be- tween 10 p. m. and 6 a, m. Commissioner of labor Andrew F. McBride is restrained by the writs from attempting to enforce the law temporarily. Attorney General Robert H. McCar- unions of New Jersey who backed the law charge that political manipula- tion to destroy the value of the law is practiced by the manufacuturers concerned. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. the Freiheit Singing Society, the | 400 DELEGATES OPEN ASSEMBLY FOR NEW CHINA Adopt Manifesto That Hits at Treaties (By Rosta News Agency) SHANGHAI, Jan. 25.—The Ming Kuo Ji Pao gives an ac- count of the inauguration con- ference of the Shanghai Com- mittee for Promoting the Na- tional Assembly. There were present over 400 delegates, re- presenting 143 organizations. Abolish Rights of Foreigners. A manifesto was passed, demanding abolition of unequal treaties, re-in- |stallation of custom revenues to China jherself, abolition of extra territorial) rights of foreigners in China. The conference declares that it fs not only against a convention of mil itarists, as planned by Peking, but will be against participation in the ‘people’s conference of representa \tives from military cliques. The con- ference further appeals to the Chinese |people to organize themselves and prepare a real people’s conference. In another passage of the manifes- to, the following demands are set forth: Guarantee of liberty of speech Tuchun system; disbandment of troops; popular election of civil gov- ernors in provinces; abolition of likin and other extra taxation; enactment of laws for the protection of the inter- ests of workers and peasants; to stop the import and production of opium and other poisoning narcotics in China; protection of overseas Chinese residents by demanding annulment of laws prohibiting the education of Chin- ese in their native language; abolition jof the system of missionary schools |uncontrolled by the Chinese national |government; abolition of military and defense commissioners in Shanghai; confiscation of the property of militar- ists responsible for civil war, alloca- tion of these means for war sufferers relief and exemption of the peasants in the war region from land taxes for three years. The manifesto concludes by a call to the Shanghai citizens to elect their mayor of the city and organize their own people’s militia. , Urge People’s Conference. In a special telegram to the provis- ter acted in behalf of the manufactur-|ional chief executive, the conferenc« ers, arguing that the act was an im-| demands the immediate summoning of proper exercise of the police power.|the preliminary people’s conference Women’s organization and the labor and, within ‘three months, of the peo- ple’s assembly; that a mandate be is- sued, abolishing all special police reg- ulations that are oppressing the rights of the people, and another mandate for the re-establishment of the work ers,’ students’ and peasants’ unions, suppressed by Wu Pei Fu, Tsaokun and other militarists. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—There is fu CHINA NOT VANQUISHED NATION AND FIGHTS AGAINST DAWES PLAN rther information available to the effect that the so-called “Dawes Plan for China” is apparently inspired by and has the strong backing of the Committee of American creditors, which was forced some six months ago by ten American companies having claims against China for supply of railway and other materials. This committee has been very active recently, bearing ever stronger pressure to be borne on the State Department that the latter adopt measures with a view to obtaining pay- ments from China. UR MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MASS MEETING homage to Lenin, who gave his life to the cause of the disinherited. They will come because they want to show their solidarity with the Russian work- ers, in whom they see a promise ful filled, a dream realized. Our slogan should be: “On to Madison Square Garden on February 1. By train, ferry, street car, subway, on foot—the thousands will come from all corners of greater New York, with strong delegations from nearby Con- necticut and New Jersey towns to join them at the Garden. Every friend of Soviet Russia, every militant worker, every rebel living in a radius of at least fifty miles form the Garden will want to be there Sunday, Feb. 1. They will come long before two o'clock, the hour set for the meeting. ‘When the doors open, thousands will be in line for admission to the Garden As last year, they will be happy in the thought that the Lenin Memoria) meeting was a great demonstration. Get Tickets at Once. Our advice to all who want to be on the inside of the Garden and witness the demonstration to Lenin's memory, to Soviet Russia and Communism, ir to obtain the admission tickets imme- diately and be near the Garden before noon on Sunday, Feb. 1. That day will be memorable in the life of the militant workers of New York. All America will know about it, and the victorious Russian workers will be glad to hear that they have so many friends in New York, Madison Square Garden {is soon tc be demolished. Let the Lenin Mem- orial on Feb, 1 be the greatest in its history. Acai — Ne The “Annalist”, a well-known financial organ, while welcoming the idea of a Dawes plan for China, is bound to point out that there is the essential difference between Germany, for which the original Dawes plan has been adopted, and China in that the latter is not a vanguished foe, but an ally in need. This, the journal re- marks, would naturally make it more difficult to apply a Dawes plan in China. Returns published by the Depart- ment of Trade witness to the fact that the United States is ever more inter- ested in China. Of American external commerce for the first nine months of the current year, two per cent went to the East and 29 per cent to Europe, as against 22 and 30 per cent, respec- tively, during the same period in 1923. While the imports from China have somewhat decreased, the exports to China have somewhat decreased, the exports to China from America are larger this year by about $14,000,000. Jobs Scarce in Detroit. DETROT—Employment in the capt- tal of the auto industry reflects very little of the industrial revival sup- posed to follow the election of Presi- dent Coolidge. According to the weekly report of the Detroit employ- ers’ assocation the number of work. ers on the payrolls reached 197,334, about 4,000 above the low point, when 194,249 were employed. This com- |pares with more than 242,000 in Feb- ruary, 1924. More than 18 per cent of those employed last February are out ot a job. 32nd WARD CAMPAIGN COMMIT- TEE MEETS TONIGHT. An important meeting of the 32nd Ward campaign committee will be held Monday, Jan. 26, at 8 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. Committees of Russian, Polish and Ukrainian branches and Y. W. k. No, |5 must be present, A “ay ) } | 1 |