The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1925, Page 2

Page Two ALL LABOR RALLY 10 FIGHT OF REDS All WorkersThreatened C. E. Rathenberg Says The charges against the Com- munists in Michigan constitute a threat against the entire labor movement, C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secretary of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, told the DAILY WORKER yesterday. Ruthenberg called on all labor organizations to rally with the Communists in a united front against the establishment of the “crime” of “assembling with” other persons. The prosecution of the Communists arrested in Michigan is ende attack labor by trying to esta principle that groups of workers have no right to assemble or strike against the employing class, Ruthenberg de- clared. Workers Must Fight. “The fight which the Communists are making against the prosecution in the state of Michigan is one which is of importance to the entire labor movement of the United States,” says Ruthenberg. “If the principle which the prose- eution is endeavoring to establish In the Michigan case and which it has been successful in establishing in the state of Michigan is upheld by the su- preme court of the United States, it will lay the basis for future attacks upon any labor organization or any other workers’ organization which car- ries on a militant struggle against the employing class industrially thru strikes or upon the political field,” he continued. “The only charge made against the Communists is that the individuals indicted ‘assemlbed with’ an organiza- tion which the state of Michigan claims violates the state criminal syn- dicalist act. Charges Against Communists. “The Communists are not charged with saying anything; writing any- thing, or doing anything in the state of Michigan except ‘assembling’ there. The criminal syndicalist acts of the state of Michigan as well as of some seventeen other states are so drawn that a labor union carrying on a strike and making demands upon the employing class can very easily be declared an organization violating the criminal syndicalist acts. “If the supreme court of the United States upholds the Michigan decision and establishes the new ‘crime’ that ‘assembling with’ is punishable by ten years in prison and $10,000 fine, we may be sure that in the future these laws will be used to prevent the mere assembling of groups of work- ers who are carrying on strikes against the employing class. “Today the Communists are singled out for the application of this law. But if the principle can be establish- ed, the next step will be to apply the law to other workers’ organiza- tions as a means of destroying all ef- forts of the workers to achieve a high- er standard of life for themselves. “It is because the establishment of the ‘crime’ charged against the Com- munists in Michigan is a threat against the whole labor movement of the United States that the Commun- ‘ists are calling upon labor unions and other labor organizations to unite with them by forming branches of the Labor Defense Council for the pur- pose of continuing the fight against the establishment of this new ‘crime’ thru widespread agitation and protest by labor. “It is only if the workers rally to these united front Labor Defense Councils and carry ona militant struggle against the Michigan prose- eution that the labor movement of the United States can be protected against the attack which capitalism ts making under the guise of prosecution of the Communists.” ie ST Ties 2 “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb, RED BAITERS RAISE NUMBER OF RADICALS, LEGISLATOR WARNS NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Alarmed at the rapid spread of Communism In America the red baiters are fumbling around for the cause of it and have decided that there must be a change of tactics in order to save the country from going Bol- “ shevik. Radical and religious intolerance are the underlying causes of the rapid spread of radicalism, declared Joseph Levenson, republican leader of the first assembly district, speak- ing yesterday at a meeting of the Kansas women’s club at the home of Mre. Zimmerly Bryan, 218 West 59th street. “The animosity against foreigners dates back to the revolu- tion,” said Mr. Levenson, “when Irish Roman catholles were bitterly attacked. We are now experienc- ing the results of this attitude. The foreign born resewt the attitude toward them, and are ready to em- brace any party which promises bet- ter treatment.” LOVEJOY MAKES WEAK ANTI-CHILD LABOR SPEECH And Compliments Ill. Manufacturers Owen R. Lovejoy, one time socialist ist and now secretary of the national child labor committee, made an apol- ogy for the proposed child labor am endment which is soon to be taken up for ratification by the Illinois leg- islature, at a luncheon given yester day by the city club of Chicago. Lovejoy did not make a direct at- tack on the manufacturers of Illinois, who admit that they are employing thousands of children. He assumed in his speech that the Illinois child labor laws are adequate. Lovejoy pleaded for ratification of the amend- ment not on the ground that child la- bor should be abolished, but that the proposed child labor amendment is so mild it will not harm the manufactur- ers. ‘ Many business men and manufac- turers in the audience have been ac- tively fighting against abolition 0’ child labor in Tlinois, and yet Love- joy assured them that he did not wisp to go against their interests. Love- joy assumed that the manufacturers are against child labor, and claimed that “no profit can be made by the manufacturers from child labor.” The states which have rejected rati- fication of the federal child labor am- endment are also opposed to state child labor laws, Lovejoy said, and “states rights” does not enter into the problem. He said that in Massachu- setts the referendum defeated the child labor amendment because all sorts of lies were spread about what the amendment would mean. Rumors were spread, he declared, that even bed-making would be prohibited chil dren under 18 years of age if the am endment were to pass. But Lovejoy failed to point out that it was the textile mill owners who spread the propaganda which defeated the amendment in Massachusetts, and it was because they were afraid of losing their cheap labor supply that they opposed child labor. Lovejoy did not bring out the fact that child labor is a natural and inevitable ac- companiment of the profit system, and that as long as the industries are run for profit, adult and child labor will be exploited by the employers. Lovejoy apologized for Victor Berg er’s vote in congress for the child la- bor amendment, and told the manu- facturers and business men present that congress is “safe” enough to be trusted, and “will not go too far.” Lovejoy said that “all the child la bor committee wishes to do is to pro- hibit factory work for children under 14 years of age, and the limiting of the work of those 16 to 18 years of 5.|age to eight hours per day.” Juniors Will Lead. On Saturday those of us who stood out on the lake front here in Chicago shivering in the morn- ing frost were treated to a dis- appointment. The sky was dark and covered with clouds and we could see not even a shadow of an eclipse, The interesting feature about the little group that stood there in hopes that the clouds would lift was the number of children who went there early Saturday morning and were there watching in spite of the early hour, in spite of the biting frost. Children predominated. Chil- dren lead. And so with the idea in our Comrade Sol Fishman’s cartoon for the children’s column. Juniors will be in the lead when Communism eclipses (completely casts into refuse) capitalism and efaces it from the earth. Dear Juniors: I am writing you this letter that I just love to read the Communist Children’s Column. I have read so many good stories about Lenin and many other com- vades. Maybe I will write some- thing, too, if IT put my brain to work. On January 18, 1925, was the DAILY WORKER'S birthday, One year old. Long live the DAILY WORKER! Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of America! Helen Manos, Clairton, Pa. EXPERTS ADVISE SCHOOL BOARD ON CUTTING WAGES Finance Committee Acts on Recommendation ‘asic The finance committee of the board of education heard a recommendation by the Griffenhagen Accountants com- pany for the adjustment of wages of board of education. employes for the 1925 budget. The recommendation showed how nearly $100,000 could be saved by eliminating jobs and that $28,000 could be saved in reducing the staff of senior clerks. One senior clerk could direct a large number of junior clerks (unskilled labor). They estimated |that the board could in this way drop 898 civil service employes from the school board. Wherever the Griffenhagen Ac- countants walk in it consistently fol- lows that hundreds of employes get a blue slip in their envelopes. They are called efficiency engineers. Their job is to teach bosses how to reduce the cost of management. Their game is showing how to get more work out of unskilled labor by reducing the process of production into small move- ments mechanically performed under the supervision of a driving and direct- ing force, They name this little game “reclassifying of employes.” They claim to safeguard the firm against the creation of positions for the pur- pose of raising salaries of favorites. What they do is eliminate higher paid employes, introduce team work and reduce wages. The recommendation submitted to the finance committee was that two committees be appointed, one for the teaching positions and one for the non-teaching positions. The finance committee took action upon the recommendation by appoint- ment of a classification officer to work with the committee for the instalment of the system beginning with the 1926 budget. Mrs. Lillian Hefferan, trustees of the board and a member. of the finance committee, this recommendation would not affect the teachers as the superintendent had full control of their positions, but a committee for the teaching staff will be appointed to sit in on this com- mittee with a view to suggestions. Will Not Drop the Child Labor Fight A. F. of L. Announces WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Sponsors of the constitutional amendment pro. hibiting child labor asserted today that the apparent failure of the amendment, thru its rejection by one- fourth of the states, would not result in their abandonment of the fight for its adoption. The fight can and will, they said, be carried on by campaigns in the reject ing states, much after the manner that the eighteenth and nineteenth amend ments were put thru state legisla- j tures, The legislatures that have rejected the amendment can reconsider their action at any time in the future. Con- stitutional amendments remain pend- ing for years, and time and circum: stances may change the complexion of a legislature. Federation Will Fight On. The American Federation of Labor stated at labor headquarters that there could be no change in the fed- eration’s plans, in furtherance of the amendment. Many Amendments to Moses Postal Pay (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 28—The Moses bill increasing the pay of post office employes, and increasing postal rates on parcel post and other classes of mail, was further amended when the senate by a vote of 51 to 23 voted to retain thé present postal rate on religious publications. Further amendments were to be in- troduced today cutting the rates pro- posed by the Moses bill to be charged to newspapers and magazines. Sens- tor George introduced such an amend- ment, in spite of the fact that Cool- idge has declared he will veto the bill increasing the wages of postal em ployes, unless that part of the Moser bill increasing postal rates is also passed by the senate. Tt seoms certain that Coolidge wil! again prevent the postal workers from securing a rise in their exceedingly small wages, Mexican Volcano Smokes, MBXICO CITY, Jan, 28.-—-Geologists acting under government instructions were investigating today the recent activity of the Volcano Popocatepeti to determine whether the village of Ixtlahuat] was in danger. The volcano is smoking heavily, Storm Sweeps West Va. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 28.— The worst storm in years played havoc with telephone and transportation lines here today. Three trains were reported stranded at Hurricane, 26 miles west of here. Virtually all tele- graph and long distance telephone lines were down. one of the} said that) THE DAILY WORKER CHILD LABORERS FIGHT ENSLAVEMENT UNDER Y. W. L. BANNER The next issue of The Young Worker wilt be a special child labor edition and will contain a complete story of the progress of the child labor amendment in the various states thruout the country. It will algo contain the complete program for the young workers in their fight against child labor and will showup the limitations of the child labor amendment, The Young Workers League is leading the fight against child labor, and its Junior Section Is organizing the child laborers themselves for the fight against child labor and advano- ing the demand of full maintenance of the children by the government. Every worker will want a copy of this special edition of The Young Worker. Single copies and bundle orders can be obtained by writing to the Young Workers League, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago. ' TRISH LEADER, IS BANKRUPT Like Movie I He’s Back Home An’ Broke DUBLIN, (By Mail)—James Larkin, formerly general-secretary of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union, was re- cently examined in the bankruptcy court. He was adjudged bankrupt on November 21, last, in respect of a debtor’s summons for approximately $5,000. The petitioning creditors: arc {members of the Transport Workers’ | Union. Larkin admitted during his exami- nation that he had no income. The dual union which he set up as a rival to the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union has not prospered. ; He could not give any account of how ;much money passed thru his hands |since April 1923, He was not able to say how much money he received for his “sustaining fund” or thru the sale of bonds. His “documents” were missing. He admitted having brot $10,000 from Am- erica. This money was raised in the United States for the relief of Belfast workers. He did not say how the money was expended. Latkth’s cash account was only about ten dollars he said. Small Throws Sop To Union Labor in State Legislature (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Jan. 28.—A sop was thrown to organized labor in the Illinois legislature now meeting here when William Sneed of Herrin, sub- district president of the Illinois Miners’ Union, was made chairman of the committee on corporations in the state senate. The house also gave slight recognitjon to the organized la- bor movement when R. G. Sonder- strom, a trade union assemblyman, was made chairman of the committee on public utilities, Governor Len Small, however, con- trols both branches of the legislatures, and if the pending child labor amend- ment to the federal constitution em- Powering congress to prohibit child labor is defeated, the defeat can be ond to Governor Small’s political ma- chine, Se Kansas Bribe Scandal Spreads. Bill Up in Senate! | mo#ina, Kans, Jan. 28—Kansas’ pardon and parole bribery scandal, started with the arrest of former gov: ernor, Jonathan M. Davis, and his son, Russell, a few hours before he relin- quished office on Jan. 12, embraced an. other official of his adminitrastion when warrants were issued today against Davis and Carl J. Peterson resigned state banking commisisoner. The informations were filed and the warrants issued at the instance of Governor Ben §. Paulen in instruc. tions to Attorney General Charles B Griffith. iy Fight Diphtheria In Alaska, SEATTLE, Warh., Jan, 28,—A race with death will start here Saturday when one million antitoxin units will be dispatched by steamer to Seward, Alaska, there to be rushed by train and dog teams tnland to Nome, in a fight against a diphtheria epidemic in that city, public helth service officials here announced today. Pays $24,000,000 in Civil Pensions. MELBOURNE, Australia. — The Australian federal government pays old-age and invalid pensions to 113, 054 old persons and 42,617 invalids, a total of 165,671. The average fort- nightly payment to old-age pensioners is $8.04 and $8.22 to invalids, The ag- sregate annual payment to both is ap- proximately $34,126,1 Rall Workers Killed, A switchman was killed and two other men were injured today when a Pennsylvania freight train crashed in- to a atring of empty freight cars in the railroad yards of that railroad, er ee The Barnes: Might Tell | SHOEWORKERS OF Abramovich How to Win|| NEW YORK TALK Favors on the Gold Coast| AMALGAMATION By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, it might be well for the local supporters of Soviet hating Rafael Abramovich, midst, to glance thru the the Herald-Examiner, who still lingers in our pages of the Chicago Hearst sheet, and learn just what kind of audiences czarist agents coming to these shores should cater to. The “socialist” allies of Abramovich made the mistake of thinking that America’s workers wanted to listen to a counter-revolutionary agent of czarism. One of Abram- ovich’s ‘co-workers, the Baroness Olga Wrangel, who took her name from the General Wrangel who brought devasta- tion and death into southern Soviet Russia, in an attempt to overthrow the rule of the workers and peasants, doesn’t make that mistake. She only seeks an audience from among the “best pedple”; mostly the wives of big theives, like bankers, industrialists and landlords. Abramovich should do the same. The gatherings would be very much smaller but exceedingly more peaceful. *» @ The society editor.would then write up Abramovich’s speeches instead of the police reporters. “The Dowager,” the non de plume assumed by for the Hearst organ, declares that “Soci the measurer of social values ’s interest in Rus- sia, stimulated by the charming personalities of those who have come from there to live here since the change in the country’s politics, never seems to lessen”. So the Baroness Wrangel is to be given a royal welcome, as royal as can be given by the American snobo- Cracy, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Feb. 5. on the Gold Coast. The Palmers are select Chicago aristo- crats. The present Palmer is “capitalist” by birthright; while Mrs Palmer is daughter of the millionaire, Herman H. Kohlsaat, also newspaper publisher. The baroness could desire nothing better. Palmer evidently got his viewpoint toward Soviet Russia from the brother of the baroness, Col. Ivanenko, who has He evide Russia from his czarist boots while the shaking was good. Palmer and the colonel both belong to what is known as the exclusive Chicago Golf, Saddle and Cycle Club. * been here for some time. The baroness will be asked to speak to an audience that will include the Cranes, machiner: McCormicks, farm implement manufacturers; the Chauncey McCormicks, of the same breed; the Stanley Fields, of a line of merchant princes; the Ryersons, financiers, and a lot of others too numerous to mention. It is probably to the credit of the baroness that she is able to drum up an audience. usually spend this time of the year sunning themselves along shook the dust of the manufacturers; Most of the local parasites the warm beaches in Florida. -Some of them have no doubt already been ‘there while other are planning to go. vich had therefore better drop audience on the Gold Coast hold Abramo- . in while the possibilities of an good. The worst he would be subjected to would be some inane ogling thru bejewelled lorgnettes. But Hillquit, Cahan and other ists” could no doubt on such occasions. lew York “social- ive him a schooling on how to behave hey have had experience along the Riverside Drive of the metropolis and should know. * But Abramovich will not go on Fifth Avenue or River- side Drive, in New York, or the Gold Coast,in Chicago, He is valueless there to his masters. His only value to the ruling class consists in his ability to poison the minds of militant workers against Soviet Russia. That is why his agents sought out Hay Pointy boo districts, ai. these only, like the labor centers in New ork City at the New Star Casino, in Harlem; the Labor Lyceum, in Bolshevik Brownsville, and Hunt's Point Place, in the Bronx, all proletarian sections of the nation’s metropolis. But Harlem, Brownsville and the Bronx have ail rejected this counter-revolutionary agent. It was one, two, three, a clean score for the class i ity of the militant elements of New York's workers. Abramovich ought to consider it not only “down,” but “out.” Otherwise the workers will no doubt be ready to renew their invitation to him to “Get out!”. A WORKERS’ ART EXHIBITION N unusual experiment is repre sented.in the art exhibition just opened by Painters’ Local Union No. 194 of Chicago. It promises to be suc. cessful indeed. The exhibitors are all plain workers, members of the local —union men—whose skill has become art. This exhibition compares favor. ably with any other to which the name art is being attached, even those which enjoy the backing of the well-to-do benefactors who exploit such events to prove their own philanthropy and incidentally satisfy their highly culti- vated desires for luxury. Such affair: are generally limited to the exclusive set—the “better class” in society and what is lacking in art is made up thru generous and high priced commend. able advertisement in the press, That the workers produce every: thing worth while in present day #0- citey is being vividly demonstrated by this exhibition by Local 194. A fact that received. as little recognition as the exhibitors themselves have re- ceived heretofore. The pictures col lected cover a wide range of land- scape portraying the bounties of na ture in brilliant colors presented either thru the rugged but imposing orwegian mountain scenery or the little smiling plots from Chicago parks or forest preserves, There are studies of interior settings and portraits, The motives are too numerous to men- tion, the executions are in many in- stances of a high artistic calibre, Little or nothing is being done by present day society to promote the skill of workingmen, except insofar as profits can thereby be increased, Mod- ern industrial requirements gradually eliminates skill and makes of the workers essential parts of one titanic machine constantly grinding out profi- its. Moreover, in their efforts to de. stroy every vestige of labor organiza tion, the only means of protection the workers have, the owners of industry are at all times willing to accept a lower quality of workmanship to hire to destroy the unions. To prove the superior workmanship of union la- bor 1s one of the underlying motives for this exhibition arranged by Local 194. And altho it has succeeded in this object, the exhibition itself power- fully suggests the need of the work- ers preparing themselves for the Educational Meeting Packs Big Hall (Special to The Dally Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jan. 28.— That the workers must organ. ize themselves as a class even as the bosses are organized as a class of exploiters was the subject of an address delivered to a packed hall of members of the Protective Shoe Workers’ Union at their headquarters, 345 Washington street, by J. 0. Bentall, -at the educational meeting held Monday night. Why Amalgamation? P. P. Cosgrove, organizer, intro- duced the speaker by showing that the Protective Shoe Workers’ Union had for its object the comp'ge am- algamation of the entire industry into one solid phalanx of workers to fight for their rights and to gatn power over the present exploiting class. He pointed out that the shoe workers are among the most exploited in the en- tire country. That only yesterday one of the brothers had dropped dead at his last while working, the verdict of the doctor afterward being that he had been suffering trom malnutrition, too weak to perform his task, buy: hanging on in. order to get bread for his wife and babies. How Bosses Are Organized. In the course of the address, Ben- tall showed how the master class has many organizations, such as the rotary club, kiwanis club, citizens’ alliance, civic federation, local and commercial clubs, and all the smaller organtzn- tios both among the business men and among the well to do farmers, but that all these clubs are tied into the great central body of the capitalist class, the allembracing chamber of com- merce which is the great capitalist international. “Not a strike can be pulled, not a Wage adjusted or a grievance settled, not a town clerk in an obscure town- ship elected, not a sheriff get into of- fice, not a legislature chosen, not 2 governor or congressman, not a judge or @ president placed in government, without the dictation and approval of the chamber of commerce,” said the speaker. “Banking, business in every jetail, politics in every phase, Policies of international intercourse, tariffs, foreign loans, imperialistic expansion, education, religion, the press, peace and war, life and death—all is under the dictatorship of the chamber of commerce capitalist international.” Workers Are the Stronger, The speaker complimented the capi- talists on their shrewdness and wis- dom in protecting themselves as a class, and showed that while this tre mendous organization which has all the power thru army and navy and the whole system of armed force, that they would be weak and helpless in the face of an organized working class who joined hands for the purpose of dictatorship and their own industrial and governmental system. The Protective Shoe Workers’ Un- fon is based on the industrial princi- ple and all workers in the industry are eligible to membership. It is in the shoe industry what the United Mine Workers are in the mining in- dustry. Every other week the meet- ing is devoted to a short session of business and the remainder to edu- cation. The membership is aggressive and wide awake under the leadershty of their giant organizer, Brother Cos- grove, Gannes to Talk About “Toiling Youth” at Meeting Friday Night Harry Gannes, of the Young Work- ers League will speak on Friday, Jan. 30, at Room 608, 166 West Washington St. The subject of his topic will be “The Toiling Youth.” Gannes has made an extensive strug gle to take over all the instruments | Study of the conditions of the young of production before skill and work-| Workers in America, the extent of manship, artistic and otherwise, can|€xploitation of youth in America, really become a means of making life|¢xtent to which child more beautiful. THE MORTGAGE ON GERMANY a ete zEE Ee d telie g E Tk National City company fe today offering $10,000,000 worth of bonde of the Allgemeine Elektrische Geselischaft at per cent interest and refunded at $105.00, i ry Dillon, Reed & Co, are offering $10,000,000 credit to * At the same $93.75 and bearing 7.70 the Siemens group, another German company manufacturing electrical supplies, seoured by an output amounting annually to 166 per cent of thie loan, In thie way the American electrical trust, the General Electric com- pany, will have secured a stranglehold on the German electrical thus colonizing and i. * ae yet ene gee a