The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1925, Page 3

— t %s - CHILD LABOR TO "BRUSH UNIONS SHY BOSSES ‘[llinois Plutocrats Also Control Schools The Illinois manufacturers, who are now engaged in bitterly fighting the proposed amend- ment to the constitution of the United States, which would per- mit congress to regulate child labor, are the very ones who own or control the Illinois col- leges and universities, it was admitted by John M. Glenn, sec- retary of the Dlinois Manufact- urers’ association. | Glenn’s speech before the Illinois League of Women Voters showed that the manufacturers are fighting despa- rately to keep thousands of children of school age in Chicago and Illinois in the factories. At the same time the manufacturers control the schools and colleges. “We Own The Schools” “Who are the manufacturers of the United States?” asked Glenn with amazing frankness, “Are they not the ‘men who build and support the col- leges and schools, who support the churches, who are back of almost every philanthropic movement that is inaugurated? | “Where would the University of Chicago or the University of Illinois or Northwestern University,-or Harvard, Yale and Princeton or hundreds of others be without the help of the manufacturers?” Child Labor In Schools Glenn and the Illinois manufacturers association have been actively spread- ing propaganda for the industrializing of the schools, attempting to bring child labor into the grammar schools thru the so called platoon system. They have constantly advanced the propaganda that only the “intellectual superior” should go to high school and college. The grip of the Illinois: manufactu- rers association is upon toiling thous- ands of Illinois youth. A persistent ef- {fort is made by the manufacturers to ‘force the young boys and girls of Illinois into the factories, where because of their extreme youth they must work at lower wages than are paid men for the same work. ” ton keeps in close touch with Superin- tendent of Schools McAndrew, as does the Illinois chamber of commer. ce. McAndrew often speaks at ban- quets te.%ered him by these associa- tions, and has more than once promi- sed that the youth of Chicago will be ‘brought up to serve inerests of the ex- ploiters and factory owners. Fight Union Labor. Glenn admitted that one of the prin- vipal reasons the Illinois maufacturers’ association is fighting child labor is because it is “In the interests of un- ion labor.” The manufacturers of the state are banded together in a power- ful organization of Illinois employers, and they have sworn to do all in their power to keep the workers from organ izing. By trying to block the ratifica- tion of the amendment in Illinois, the Manufacturers hope to keep down the standard of living of the workers, Ten Children Killed. Meanwhile a report has been given out by the U. S. department of labor of ten children being killed and muti- Jated while illegally employed in fac- . ‘ories, grain elevators, and _ stores. two of the ten children were killed, and eight were severely injured. The Workers (Communist) Party, local Chicago, is running candidates ’ for alderman in the coming elections, ' These candidates demand that the WY ¥ (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 27.— Two seamen have filed suit in Newark against a vessel captured as a rum Tunner, asking $10,000 damages each on the ground that they were shang: haied. They want the government to sell the ship, the Dorothy M. Smart, of British registry, in order to compen- sate them. The sailors allege that they were held aboard against their will outside of the 15-mile limit, treated cruelly and kept on short rations of bread and water. Their names are Albert Burgo- master and Louis Coccini. From Church to Rum Fleet, They allege that they were shang- haied on Oct. 8, after they had signed to ship on the American ship Enter- prize, thru the Labor Bureau of the Seamen’s Church Institute at 25 South SAILORS SUE BRITISH RUM SHIP FOR $20,000 AFTER BEING SHANGHAIED IN N. Y. "| Street. With other seamen, they say, they were taken aboard a motor boat out somewhere beyond the Ambrose Light- ship and did not know the name of the vessel to which they were trans- ferred until several days afterward. Held Nearly a Month, ‘When they found they were on a rum runner, they charge, they demand- ed that they be set ashore immediate- ly. Then, so their complaint goes, they were threatened with death and put on bread and water. For twenty- four days they were compelled to work long hours and were roughly handled, they charge, while they were forced to shift cases of liquor from one boat to another. The Dorothy M. Smart was seized by the coast patrol and is now at Port Newark. industries to take care of the chil- dren of the workers. They demand that the domination of the schools by the Illinois chamber of commerce and the manufacturers’ association be stopped, and that the workers be giv- en control of the education of their children, They declare that the schools must be thrown open to all the children of the workingclass of the state, and that the children of school age must be maintained by the government while securing an education. Many Fights in Legislature. The battle between those who are trying to abolish child labor, and the manufacturers and their bought and paid for solons, is now raging over the entire country. The lower house of Oklahoma has defeated ratification of the child labor amendment by a vote of 81 to 24. The senate postponed consideration of the amendment. Ratification by the Arizona legisla- ture was practically assured when the senate, sitting as a committee of the whole, unanimously recommended that the ratification resolution be passed. The house has passed the resolution ratifying the amendment by a vote of 41 to 3. The constitutional amendment com- mittee of the Texas senate, by a ‘vote of five to one, voted to refuse to rati- fy the child labor amendment. The resolution ratifying the amend- ment has been introduced in the Iowa legislature, and a hard fight is ex- pected there. In New York state Governor Al Smith is aiding the manufacturers who oppose the amendment, by trying to put the amendment to a referen- dum, which would meat a delay of many months. Would Not Abolish Child Labor. The Workers (Gommunist) Party, points out that the child labor amend- ment does not mean that child labor would be abolished, but would only empower congress to regulate labor of children under 18 years of age. They declare that only the establish- ment of the control of industry and government by the working class will abolish child labor for all time As long as the profit system exists, child labor will continue. *-e* * Wants Indian Childhood for Whites. NEW YORK.—“Our present system which the (child labor) amendment is aimed to remedy, permits a more brut- al treatment of children than can be found anywhere in so-called savage- ry,” declares Wilson D. Wallis, Uni- versity of Minnesota, in a communi- cation to the National Child Labor Committee, New York. “There is no oppressive child labor among Ameri- can Indians, none among African Ne- gro tribes, none in the islands of the Pacific. I would welcome a return to conditions in this country which woul¢ give to every American child as happy a life as the American Indian child could claim.” NEW YORK Y, W, L, TRAINING SCHOOL GREAT SUCCESS Grounds the Youth in Marxism-Leninism NEW YORK, Jan. 27—The New York District of the Young Workers League is the first unit of either the Workers Party or the Young Workers League to establish a training course, to train leaders, and functionaries in the Communist and labor movement. The aim of the course is not only to give instructions in the principles and tactics of Communism—Marxism- Leninism, but also to equip the student with the necessary technical, and organizational knowledge for greater service to the movement. The students chosen are those who show fitness for such a course of training, given below. They must also retain and must attend all of the courses their activity in the Communist and labor movement as only thru active participation in the class struggle, sup- plemented by training in the school, ean they acquire the Leninist spirit, and the Leninist method. Students chosen from the branches are selected with a view to their taking the course without hampering the work of any of the units of the league. The training course includes the following subjects. ‘ LENINISM—by Jack ‘Stachel. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM—by ‘Will Herberg. PROBLEMS OF COMMUNIST OR- GANIZATION—Don. PROBLEMS OF THER YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE—Herbert Zam. Also parliamentary procedure, public speaking, writing and the history and structure of the Young Workers League. Comrade Stachel is the educational director, Comrade Zam assistant. Ruthenberg in prison! THE DAILY WORKER JAPAN WORKER STRUGGLE WITH THEIR MASTERS Agitation Grows For Labor Government (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 27—Fol- lowing the recognition of Soviet Russia by the imperialist gov- ernment of Japan, the workers of Japan have inaugurated a mass movement for a labor gov- ernment and for a workingclass party. The government, in a attempt to beat down the growing demand for working class participation in politics and industry, is sending military of- ficers thruout the country, and thru fascisti societies, is trying to break up the move of the workers against their exploiters. The Japanese workers, realizing that they are likely to receive the ballot in the near future, are attempt ing to form a workers party. The Japanese Sailors’ union, with 50,000 members, and the government employ- es are taking the lead in the move to form this party. The members of the political study association, a group of intellectual, petty bourgeois socialists, has also made a move for the formation of a labor party, under the leadership of Professor Ikuwo Oyama of Waseda university, Tokyo. Milltarising Schools The Japanese imperialist govern- ment is taking strenuous measures to stave og the growing. class con- sciousness of the Japanese workers. The government is now placing a mili- tary officer in sympathy with the im- perialist government in every public school in Japan. Hleven educational organizations have passed resolutions condemning the military training in the public schools. They have asked the minis- ter of education to resign.: Yukio Ozaki, former minister of education, professors of universities, and other leading public intellectuals are pro- testing against the proposal to mili- tarize the school children. Most of the magazines and newspapers are al- so condemming it. Fascisti Fight Workers The fascisti organizations, including THE N.Y. TIMES WARNS THE COAL MINERS IN AN EDITORIAL TO HEED THE “LAW” AND A MINER REPLIES The following letter was sent by a miner to the New York Times, in reply to an editorial carried in the Jan. 20 issue. the letter. We do. Read it. To The New York Times: An answer to the editorial of Jan. 20, on the “Threatened Coal Strike,” in which Cappellini is praised for. his threat to revoke the charters of all those locals that “refuse to respect the laws and contracts” that have been foisted on the miners by the likes of traitors such as himself and John L. Lewis. You speak of justice and warn the miners that they must “do justice if they expect justice.” Will you please tell me of a single instance where a working man in America ever got the semblance of justice, without fighting like hell for it. You warn them to observe the law, and to settle their disputes in a legal way. I fail to see the bosses break- ing their necks to observe the law by putting up the safety devices in the mines that the law calls for. And I don’t see the department of justice making any attempt, not even a bluff at it, to enforce that law. You also “consider problematical” the outcome of “any strike that has not the backing of public opinion.” A ot of sympathy any striker would ever get that depended on the kind of “public opinion” created by the of- fal that you fling out thru your col- umns, Then there’s your smug hypocrisy about “starving women and children” as a result of the strike. A hell of a lot you care about those same women and children. They’d be working 1( and 12 hours a day if the likes of you had your way. O, you liars—you hypocrites—you parasites—who live off the flesh of the workers—its in the same way you de plore the “demoralizing of the young” —who will be forced to spend their leisure time on “street corners plan- ning crimes and evil deeds” whenever an attempt is made to curb the ex- ploitation of child labor. There is one good thing to be ex- tracted from your garbage, however, that is this: whenever a capitalist newspaper writes well of @ union leader it is time for that union to look for another leader. And when you give your praise to Cappellini and Lewis, that means only one thing: Lewis and Capellini are traitors to the miners’ canse, they have been bought out by the bosses, and the sooner the miners get rid of such rats as these the, better it will be for the United the,national pillar society,,the saclety| ame Workers of America. for the prevention of radicalism, the patriotic students league, and veter- ans associations are spreading pro- Paganda for the measure. They held a two day demonstration in favor of militarizing the schools, and prayed to their national god to protect the emperor and his country. They held meetings in 15 different Japanese cities, Yukio Ozaki was attacked by the fascisti and barely escaped assassina- tion, YOU MUST HELP! Thirty-one more trials ahead. Ten thousand dollars wanted by February 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. phone State 5959 if you will Labor Defense Council, 166 West Washington Street, Room 307. Your writer made a dangerous break when he penned the following: “The American people are easy going to a fault, but they will not, forever, tolerate misgovernment.” This was intended as a parting shot at the unruly miners. Evidently e threat to the miners that they must be docile, willing animals, and per. mit themselves to be bled to death in @ quiet, unprotesting way, otherwise the “American people” will chastis: them. However, this same thing about “not forever tolerating misgovernment” lends itself to a variety of interpreta- tions, For some day the “American people”—I mean the American workers —they comprise the bulk of the “Am. erican people”—will wake up and re- fuse any longer to “tolerate the mis- government” of capitalist rule. When they do, it will be a sad day for the likes of you and the fat bourgeoisie whom you represent. For you can rest assured that the American workers will not be “easy going to a fault” when they place the word “Soviet” before the U. S. and make it the Soviet United States of America. This does not come from any “for- eign-born Red,” of whom you're so The Times did not print Did they show it to your fellow workers? TACOMA AND SEATTLE WORKERS CONTRIBUTE TO MICHIGAN DEFENSE (Special to the Daily Worker) SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 27.—The workers of Seattle and Tacoma in Lenin memorial meetings yesterday and today contributed one hundred and fifty dollars for the Labor De- fense Council’s defense of the Mich- igan Communists. Both audiences pledged them- selves to support this fight to the finish, Plans have already been completed and conferences called to carry on an intensive campaign for the defense of the Communist lead- ONLY ONE PARTY UNITES WORKERS AND FARMERS How Capitalists Try to Divide Them By ALFRED KNUTSON resin to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Jan. 27.—What ever misunderstanding there now is between poor working farmers and in- dustrial workers is due to propaganda by the capitalist press, the aim of which is to keep them divided, in or- der that the capitalists can the more readily exploit both. The capitalists know very well that if the two groups of workers unite against them, their rule will not last long, and their strategy, therefore, is to keep them apart‘by causing dis- sension among them. They Never Mention Profit. They are telling the farmers, for example, that he pays high prices for industrial products because wages are high, and the worker in the industries that farm products are dear because the farmer is trying to “hog it all.” Never a word about what the capital- ist himself is getting away with. This scheme of dividing the land and the city workers is becoming less effective as the class consciousness of the workers in both groups grows. Many workers in the United States are now beginning to understand that they must get together on a revolu- tionary basis, in order to make any headway against the capitalists and their government. The Only Party That Fights The only party and organization in the United States that can unite the farmers and the workers and lead them in a successful struggle against their capitalist exploiters, is the revo- lutionary Workers (Communist) Par- ty. This party is the only party in the country today that is fearlessly and uncompromisingly fighting on the side of the poor tenant, the bankrupt and mortgaged farmer. This is the party every struggling farmer {s invited to join because it alone has a real solution for this Problems. It is a new party and is only beginning to have influence among the farmers of America, but the fact that it is the one political party in the country that is making a real effort to solve the agricultural problems, in a fundamental sense, is bound to make it grow swiftly and give it prestige and power, —____. Page. Three BRITISH GOV'T. TO CONSCRIPT RAIL WORKERS Starts Official Scab Army R. R. Service (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Jan. 27.— British railworkers are up in arms against the attempt of the gov- ernment to enroll railworkers in a new branch of the army known as the army supplement- ary reserve, transportation branch, intended as an armed strike breaking agency, subject to military discipline. The four great railroad companies of Great Britain are collaborating with the war office in raising units for this service. Though inclined to be evas- ive regarding the use of these raflway- men’s units, the war office admits that they would be used in “the grav- est emergency” defining “emergency” thus: A “Grave Emergency” Defined “If we had anything like civil war or something that would hold up the essential services of the state, the reserve might be called up and these railwaymen might be called up.” Remembering how the government turned London into an armed camp in 1921, in expectation of a Triple Al- liance strike (incidently luring starv- ing unemployed workers into the army with recruiting posters on which “Plenty to Hat!” was displayed in large type), is is evident that railroad men who join these units will be used both as strikebreakers and as mur- derers of their fellow-workers. The railworkers realize the sinister motive back of this move of the bosses and the war office, for they know that the bosses know that the National Union of Railwaymen ts about to put forward a national demand for a wage increase, in an effort to win back something of what they have lost in the past years. Feeling is running high among the men, and when army officers accom- panied by a company representative tried to hold a recruiting meeting recently at the freight station of the London and North-Hastern Railway, the men jeered them angrily, and rushed them out to the street, Women Workers In Ontario. TORONTO.—There are nearly 130,- 000 females employed in various trades in Ontario, according to the provincial minimum wage board. The largest group is 40,000, in offices, while saleswomen in retail stores number 39,942. Married women work- ers in Toronto number 8,750. Needle trades account for 1,270. 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