The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1925, Page 2

ee . Se ees Page Two NP.LEAGUERS KILL CHILD | LABOR LAW N. D. House Committee! Buries Hail Tax Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 2.— The child labor amendment lost out in the North Dakota state | senate,the vote being 17 against | 32. Whether it will come up for | consideration in the house of} representatives has not yet been determined, the general opinion among legislators being that it is useless to go any further with it since it is doomed to de- | feat in the senate anyhow. Some Leaguers Go Over to Capitalists. | Nine non-partisan league senators voted against this amendment, repu-| diating their own program pledge to; support it. It seems that they were) afraid that if the amendment was) ratified tt would take away the boys) and girls from the farms who were valuable as workers. The state hail insurance Dill, in- troduced by A. C. Miller, the Com- munist, was indefinitely postponed by the house committee on insurance and simply means that it died in the com- mittee. Representative Miller, speak- | ing for the measure, said that “if this compulsory hail insurance bill does} not pass, state hail insurance will soon be a thing of the past. With- drawals are getting heavier each year, in 1924 but 29 per cent of the cropped land was insured and 71 per cent was withdrawn from the hail department.” “A lot of people,” Miller said, “are against compulsory hail insurance, but they are mainly people who own a lot} of land and are afraid they'll have | to pay tax for someone else.” | Rich Farmers Control N. P. League. | Farmers generally are in favor of | compulsory state hail insurance, but that does not make any difference to| the leaguers who have been sent here} to fight the farmers’ battles. Instead | of supporting the Miller bill, which is | in line with what the farmers really | want, the majority of the league legis- | lators are getting back of Governor} Sorlie’s zoning proposition which will simply result in the progressive | liquidation of state hail insurance in| North Dakota. This and many other actions on the) part of the league representatives in| the present legislature ought to con- | vince the farmers that they must build up a fighting organization that is not afraid to fight in their interests. | The only organization in the country that they can rely on to make an un- compromising fight in their behalf is | v the revolutionary Workers (Commun-/ ist) Party. Every struggling farmer who wants | to see something done for himself should join this party and read its official ergan, The DAILY WORKER. | Too long we've been fooled by old,| worthless movements and organiza-| tions that will get us nowhere. | Klan War Breaks Out Again in Niles, Ohio; Nobody Hurt NILES, Ohio, Feb. 2—The klan war in Niles, recent scene of an all-day battle between kluxers and anti- kluxers, which resulted in the mobil- ization of several rogiments of na-| tional guardsmen and placing the city| under martial law, was resumed here} when thirty shots were fired into the “K. of P.” hall used as headquarters by the kluxers. City police arrived on the scene following the shooting and no injuries | are reported. Kluxers were driven back into the hall by the shooting which broke several windows in the entrance. The klan in Niles displayed an elec- trie flery cross on top of their kon- klayern and this is given as cause of the shooting. Mahoney Loses Out “In Attempt to Bar The Communists (Continued from page 1) sent of the federation in convention The real reason for this unity con- ference undoubtedly is that certain elements are disgatisfied with the fed eration because of the rank and file control exercised by the trade unions, farmers’ organizations, co-operative societies afd local units in the forr of farmer-labor clubs. An organiza: tion that can be manipulated more easily from the top by self-appointed leaders is very much desired by said leaders, If Plan Goes Thru. If the plans of those back of this united conference go thru it will doubtless be the fulfillment of the pre dictions of the Minnesota comrades— that six months after the fall cam paign there will be no farmer-labor federation. An important decision of the Buck- ler-Mahoney conference of Jan. 17 was adoption of @ resolution to bar all Communists from participation in the March 20 conference and in whateve: grows out of it, Ae | fictals.” jand file. AS WE. SEE IT By T. J. OPFLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) A. F. of L, bureaucrats who are lead- ing in the expulsions. The extreme right wing however, does not trust the Wiggins-Cramer gang. The fact is that there is not room enough for both, The Paul Smith supporters (Smith is the A. F. of L, dis-organ- izer who has spent two years in Min- neapolis trying to wreck the labo: movement), want to be in a position to sell out the workers to the bosses, to eliminate all strikes and to show the capitalists that they can make more profits by unionizing their business than by running open shop. They want a monopoly on this business. se 8 HEN Cramer and McKillop, et al, saw that there was real danger of the A. F. of L, lifting the assembly's charter, they stole a march on Smith and preferred charges against Dan Stevens for “slandering A. F. of L. of: The fakers were sore heeause the fake progressives got the jump on them. But what could they do? They had to be satisfied with Dan Stevens’ head for the time being. But judging from a weekly sheet gotten out by Paul Smith's chief crony, Louis Hart- hill, former socialist and chief of pol ice in Van Lear’s cabinet, Cramer and company are also on the expulsion list. This stoolpigeon Harthill fills his rotten rag with the most perni cious propaganda against everybody who has the decency to speak a word in favor of a square deal for the radi- cals, “ee DELEGATE from the Teachers’ Union make a speech in support of the veteran trade unionist, Dan Stevens. Stoolpigeon Harthill ran a big headline in his paper: “West high school fnetrnetor rallies to ban- ner of Communism,” and in smaller type: “Professor Dudley Parsons en- tering assembly as substitute delegate from Teachers’ Unton delivers maiden speech in eulogizing Dan Stevens and his ‘magnificent work’ for labor's cause.” The fink editor then urges the parents of the children who attend the school where Parsons is employed t¢ take steps towards removing him from his job, Can anything be more con temptible? Yet this is the usual policy. ot the labor fakers who cannot mee the radicals in a fair fight. They have to line up with the enrployers and rob their opponents of their bread and butter. A fine example of one hundred per cent Americanism! eee NE of the high spots at the Chica- go Federation of Labor meeting last Sunday was a speech, or rather an outburst, delivered by Joseph Wise, formerly on the payroll of the DAILY WORKER Publiching company as a linotype operator, but now a scribbler tor the A. F. of L. press service, pre- ided over by the ex-socialist, Chester t Like his boss, Wright, ems that Wise is wise enough to scribble for anybody that will come across with the mazuma. Indeed, it is whispered that if the ku klux klan made him a better proposition than Wright, he would squirt. out his ig- norance for the hooded order. Wise accepted the dollars of the Communist Party thankfully before he secured a sinecure from Sam Gompers. 2 2 OMPERS is now dead, but those whom he placed on the payrol) still shed tears regularly over his bier While the resolution condemning crim inal syndicalism was being discussed Wise got up and raved against the Communists, particularly against the DAILY WORKER. He is sore on the daily because it showed the world what a buffoon he is and there is noth. ing an ignoramus hates more than tc be exposed. He and Chester Wright make a good team, but the DAILY WORKER will miss no opportunity 0! exposing these buzzards who batten on the labor movement, to the rank These per capita sharks would like to pose as militant trade unionists and get away with it. They are sore because the Communists turn |the spotlight on them. Death List is Now Nine in Firetrap Blaze on the § South Side (Continued from page 1) claimed at a morgue and all efforts to find relatives had proved futile, Shows Overcrowding Battalion Chiet Horace McLane of the fire department who inspected the ruins of the fire, said, “There is in- adequate inspection, both by the build- ing city department and by the fire department's fire prevention, bureau. The fire department knows that there are hundreds of overcrowded rooming houses, mere firetraps, but can do nothing about them, as there are no laws under which to act, “This building was built for an eight apartment building, to hold four to a family, but it was holding one hundred persons instead of thirty-two. The building had been converted into 4 36 kitchenette apartment building.” HAVE A HEARTI Put Your Interest For Our COMMUNIST CHILDREN INTO ACTION Come to The JUNIORS’ DANCE FEB. 14, 1925 Workers’ Lyceum ACT NOW AT ONCE BLUE LAW CRAZE HITS NEW YORK WITH VENGEANCE Fanatics Give Order for Sabbath Joy Killer (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb, 2— The blue law threats that have hitherto been considered mere- ly as a joke took on definite form when a bill formulated by a Lord’s Day Alliance was in- troduced into the New York legislature which would change the present penal code and close up everything on Sunday except churches, Cuts Off Amusements. Cutting off every avenue of amuse- ment, recreation and education for the workers who have no other day free from labor the new law would tie the slave to his job with merciless chains and grant him no privilege on Sunday except to go to church and hear his master’s preacher tell him to obey the employer and be content with his lot while he hopes for re- ward in heaven. That the bill is fathered by the em- ploying class and handed to fanatics to be pushed is clearly indicated in the restrictions which would effect labor more than the idle rich who may play all week and to whom a day of quiet is desirable, when no work- ingclass meetings or amusements may. disturb them. Padlocks and Bibles. Fines, jail sentences, injunctions and the padlocks on the doorway would be metted out to Sabbath breakers. From midnight Saturday to mid- night Sunday the proposed new law would close all motion picture hous- 8, all concerts, garages, barber shops, hairdressers’ shops, all golf links, ten- nis courts or ball parks where a fee is charged or attendants are employ- ed, public debates and all places of dancing where a fee is paid either di- rectly or indirectly. The proposed law would prohibit all public traffic on Sunday, all reduced fare excursions, ice cream, sodas and “all noise unreasonably disturbing to the peace.” Funerals Would Be Silent. It would permit only funerals, and without music unless it be the funer- al of a soldier or veteran or member of a fraternal society, and then the proposed law would prohibit the play- ing of the music within a block of any church, and stipulates that “there shall be no fireworks.” Then the proposed law proceeds to bring under the penal code by name the activities which have managed previously to argue themselves to Sunday freedom thru the courts. Moreover the proposed law doubles the penalties and makes the first Sab- bath offender subject to a fine of $10 and $50, second offender not less than’ $20, third offender not less than $25 ‘or ten days in jail or both, and after that the offender would be enjoined by the court as a public nuisance and @ padlock placed on the establishment where the nuisance was committed. The law provides liberty for those who observe another day than Sun- day as their Sabbath as follows: “Any person, who from conscience ‘or conviction, observes another day of the week as a Sabbath and who habitually does not labor any part of such day, may not be prosecuted for any individual work or labor on the first day of the week, but may not conduct any business which is in vio- lation of any provision of this ar- ticle.” é There is no provision in the pro- posed Sabbath law for any citizens who, from conscience or conviction, have no particular regard for the Sab- bath, WORKER PINNED UNDER BOULDER GROWS WEAKER Imprisoned in Sand Cave Since Friday CAVE CITY, Ky. Feb. 2.—Floyd Collins, who was pinned under a huge boulder in Sand Cave Friday night, 800 feet below the mouth of the cave, was still imprisoned today. Rescuers were tapping at the rock with a port- able automatic drill brought from Louisville. Collins after his long imprisonment, became weaker today, and for a time lost consciousness, He was able to make only faint gestures today. Rescuers wriggled thru the narrow opening soaked with icy water seep- ing in from melting snows, and brought Collins food. Collins was pin. joned under the rock for 24 hours be- fore he was found. 330 Ships Used for Smuggling WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—More than 330 foreign ‘versels engaged in the “business of smuggling liquor into the United States during the past year.” Attorney General Stone declared to- THE DAILY * &@ Big Call for Moyi Tickets Is Reported By Council elegates At the meeting of the pes Labor Defense Council last Sat ay every delegate reported that there was an unprecedented demand for tickets for the comjng show at Ashland Audito- rium, this Thursday, Feb, 5th, from 7 to 11 p. m. The program will con- sist of “The Beauty and the Bolshe- vik” and “Russia in Overalls,” both of which have delighted big audiences in many eastern cities and will un- doubtedly do likewise for Chicago's workers, The Youtg Workers League orche- stra will play, and the Fretheit Man- dolin orchestra is expected to give several numbers. The South Slavic and Lettish orchestras ard also ex- pected to contribute, Dime Admission for ‘Children Under a city ordinaneé every child must have a ticket, but the committee in charge wants no one to stay away on account the high cost of upkeep for children under capitalism, Admis- sion for all under 12 will be only ten cents. A large committee will be needed to handle the detail arrangements and everyone who can and will help is urged to be at the hall at six o'clock At least forty committee members are needed. ABRAMOVICH IS PLANNING TALK TO STEEL LABOR (Special to The Dally Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 2.—Ac- cording to word given out by leading socialists of the New York Forward’s type, the notorious agent of the Sec- ond International, Rafael Abramovich will be secured for a meoting in the Youngstown steel district to offset the increasing sentiment for the first workers’ republic, The steel workers know how to handle men of the Abramovich type and thru the DAILY WORKER and the party language press, the steel workers wish to assure Abe Cahan & Co., that there will be several meet- ings in Youngstown when, Abramo- vich arrives to do his dirty work. Anarchists, yellow socialists and so- called progressives who have formed a united front to misrepresent and cowardly Me about the first workers’ republic by importing _ Abramovich can feel assured of a warm reception. Plan to Get Big Hall. The large Communist zation amongst the steel Vis officered by workers who have the courage of their convictions. The white guards have been advised to secure the largest hall*in Youngs- town to hold the steel workers who will greet Abramovich and his slug- gers. Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Hear Communist Talk on Feb. 20 (Continued from page 1) any real union—they built up condi- tions and had good job control. The strike had been on but a few weeks when an “open shop” drive was started. Nearly every business man in the town signed the declaration and posted the cards in his shop or office. Building workers and contractors were brought in from other cities and the fight was on in earnest, Wages Reduced About Half. Prior to the open shop drive, the gypsum miners received $6.50 for eight hours, and all overtime wages was forfeited to the union. The mill- men received 65 cents per hour for day work. Loaders of rock received 33icents per ton and averaged $8.00 a day with their overtime. The miners now have, to break the rock and build their own, tracks, while’ many of them now work in water up to their knees. They get the same rate for double the work. The millmen have been reduced from 65 cents to 35 centd per hour for day work, while loaders get 18 instead of the former 83 cents per ton. Load- ers were limited to 12 ears, about 27 tons, by the union; now they load 50 tons, the company gets the difference 23 tons londed for ning cents. Good Rock; Big tn ent. The reason for the miners and mill- men getting fmprovel its was their union, and because of the quality and quantity of the gy; | rock, Also because of the large Mivestment in- volved. One company paid one thou- sand dollars an acre jand owned a whole section with the exception of 160 acres, The rock is got only clean, and has good top and bottom, but it ranges {n thickness from 12 to 35 feet. This makes {ft possible to blast as much as 75 tons at once. Gypsum to be good for plaster must be absolutely free trom clay or grit. Only Port Dodge has that kind in any great quantity. Little Business Now Squirms. With the reduction in the wages of the thousand gypsum mine and mill workers, followed by yment and bank failures, business in Fort Dodge is being hard. They have long since repentéd of their de- hauch with the “opon #! drive and a number Insist upon inion and Fort Dolge labor on all their Jobs. Not only the labor movement, but the busy little towa has been Solution For Farmers’ Woes Under Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ODAY, Frank Bohn marches to the front, thru an article in “The Forum,” and gives his version, of the cause and cure of “The Great Farm Rebellion.” He childishly speaks his little piece tuned for bourgeois applause. It is interesting to note that Bohn confesses he changed the first few paragraphs of his article after reading a con- tribution in last October's “Forum” entitled “The Politics of Wheat.” That is supposed to have brought his offering into harmony with the policy of this organ of intellectual New England. A perusal of the opening paragraphs indicates that Bohn takes violent objection to the wives of wheat farmers in the Saskatchewan country in western Canada taht California cherries. Evidently Bohn, nestling among the codfish aristo- crats of the efete East, has decided that western farmers are not entitled to eat cherries. He becomes an outspoken apostle of Coolidge “economy.” * * * &@ Bohn was a “socialist” in the days before the war. He was active on the editorial side of the International Socialist Review, with strong leanings toward the Industrial Workers of the World. But the war ended all of Bohn’s radical and revolutionary connections, He was sent to Europe by the ultra-respectable capitalist sheet, the New York Evening Post, while the Times later used him in Mexico. But he was born on a farm and that makes him an expert on agri- cultural problems. s ¢ 8 © Bohn doesn’t talk about revolution the way he once did. He went the way of John Spargo, William English Walling, Chester M. Wright, A. M. Simons and the rest. Bohn now advances the alternative that the nation’s crops must be grown either by individual free farmers, “who own the land they work, or by powerful organizations of capital which employ a seasonal class of wastrels.” He can see nothing outside the individualism of the small landholder or capitalist exploitation applied directly to the land. And he shows his tremendous ignorance when he speaks of Soviet Russia, charging that, “with markets shut off, the farmers (of Russia) surrendered the pure ES of their great co-operative for the dross of the Bolshevist gov- ernment monopoly.” In this he exposes himself in conflict with the views of nonpartisan observers, who have actually visited Soviet Russia and studied the conditions there, especially of the co-operatives, like Senator Brookhart, of lowa, who reports that there is the greatest harmony of action between the Soviet government and the co-operative movement, Bohn urges various co-operative schemes as a panacea under capitalism, getting as enthusiastic about them as labor leaders who urge banking as a means of taking over the whole capitalist system. He urges as the greatest virtue of the capitalist state, that it be “inoffensive and weak, that it may not play the tyrant,” concluding that, “Our political parties, our state and federal br set aa are mostly chat- toring. gossiping, harebrained affairs.” a2 ut it is this capitalist state that is the instrument of ban grag wielded against the city workers and poor farm- ers alike. Bohn’s efforts to turn the farmers from their attack on this capitalist state will prove abortive. In the first place the poor farmers do not read “The Forum.” The food speculators, who are today reaping enormous winnings on the boards of trade, might circulate a few free copies among the discontented, if they chose to spend some of their profits. Which they won't. And if they did, it is doubtful if any poor farmers could be duped into absorbing any of Bohn’s nost- Nor They have been presented with such piffle too often efore. , st ses. * & pi, Mak OF The poor farmers, in daily increasing numbers, are learning that the solution of their problems can only be achieved thru the overthrow of the capitalist state. Thé co- operative tilling of the soil and the distribution of its pro- ducts can only be achieved, for the benefit of all, under a Communist society. MAYOR TiED 10 BANKS-BRENNAN WAY WHEAT CONTINUES TO HOVER AROUND THE TWO DOLLAR MARK Bohn, Rentgade, Offers : TRACTION DEAL The political boss of Chicago, George Brennan, has announced his approval of Mayor Dever's traction ordinance, Brennan said he is op- posed to government ownership, but does not see anything about municipal ownership in Dever’s plan, which merely puts the traction lines more securely in the hands of the bankers and gives them a long and favorable franchise. The city, according to the mayor's traction ordinance, does noth- ing but take the risks of financing off the shoulders of the bankers, The officers of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, John Fitzpatrick, Victor Olander and Ed. Nockels, a few days ago were loudly declaring their an- ger at the speed with which the or- dinance was being railroaded thru the transportation committee and the city council, Now, however, after the threat of Brennan and Dever that sup- port of the democratic party would be withdrawn from Oscar Nelson, up for re-election in the aldermanic rac- es, the federation officers are showing more signs of co-operation with Dever, Confer With Mayor. Olander, Fitzpatrick and Nockels had a two-hour conference with Mayor Dever Saturday, during which they urged that Nelson be forgiven for op- posing the traction or rallsoaiite of the traction ordinance, and that he be taken back into the democrati¢’ fold The three labor fakers safd’ they would ask the transportation eommit- tee for more time in which! to pre- pare and present their 08 ( May wheat continued to hover around the $2.00 per bushel mark on the Chicago board of trade yester- day. Bulletins from Liverpool showed May wheat had dropped off 2% to 23g pence and from Winnipeg reports were that wheat had drop- ped 4 to 6 cents. This brot the price of May wheat to $1.99 but the commission men threw selling or- ders on the market and wheat again rallied. , 55,848,000 bushels of wheat is re- ported in ships on the way to Eu- rope. : Devers Traction ihe nage Bc The Dever traction ordinance, which puts the traction lines in’ the hands of the bankers until every dol- lar of the securities are bought by the city, will be presented to the city council on Feb. 13, it is announced, An amendment has been proposed which changes the fare one cent each six months, according to the earnings of the traction lines after all charg- es are paid. It is not stated whether the city or the bankers will handle the finances, th NOTICE, SOUTH SIDERS! © — | The South Side English’ Branch 4, this week, because of the showing of The Beauty and the Bolshevik on Thurs- day, at the Ashland Auditorium, The meeting will take place at the regular time and place. ig aA N.Y. LENIN MEET Garden Overflows with New York’s Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 2.— Fifteen thousand workers packed Madison Square Garden and cheered the Communist speakers at the Lenin Memorial meeting. C. EB. Ruthenberg; executive secretary of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, released from prison at Jackson, Mich., last week, received a tremendous ovation as he told the workers what Leninism means to Amer- ica’s toiling masses. Rebuke to Abramovich. Thousands of other workers were turned away from the doors, unable to gain entrance to the packed hall. The meeting was considered a stern rebuke to the mission of Raphael Abramovich, tool of the Second Inter- national, who is trying to create counter-revolutionary sentiment against Soviet Russia. “Prisons only steel the workers in their fight for the overthrow of the exploiters and the establishment of the dictatorship of the workers,” Com. rade Ruthenberg declared amid storms of applause. “Lenin showed the militant workers of the world that they must organize on the basis of the everyday struggle of the working class, allying themselves with the toil- ers in the factories and on the farms,” Tells of Leninism. Ruthenberg told the workers that they must replace the rule of the bosses with the rule of the workers, and that the working class must take over the industries and the state power and run them for their own use, and not for the profit of a few employers and bankers. Two hundred and fifty policemen and detectives and 20 mounted police were distributed in and around the Garden, but did not interfere with the crowds, The speakers included Ben Gitlow. well known leader of the garment workers, K, Radzi, the noted Russian speaker who spoke last year at the Garden; Jack Stachel, district organ- izer of the Young Workers’ League; M. J. Olgin, the famous Jewish writer and speaker; Y. Nishimura, a leading comrade among the Oriental Com- munists, and Charles Krumbein, dis- trict organizer of the Workers Party. The musical program was one of the finest ever gotten together in the historical Garden. It included num- bers by the well known Freiheit Sing- ing Society and the combined Freiheit and Hungarian Workers’ Symphony Orchestra. The chorus included hun- dreds of well-trained voices and the orchestra, a fine organization of 100 of the finest musicians in New Yor? City. These were aided by Nina Gussieva the famous dramatic soprano. The musical program inclyded the follow- ing numbers: The International, the Russian Funeral March, La Forza del Destino by Verdi, Aria Liza from op- era “Pique Dame” by Tchaikowski, Ase’s Tod by Grieg, Serp and Hame) by Kochotoff, Arbeiter Brider by Shaeffer, Tosca by Puccini, Giaconda by Ponciello. The chorus was conducted by Lazar Weiner and the orchestra was under the direction of Arnold Powell, both of whom are well-known in the field of musical art. SMALL DELAYS CHILD LABOR *RATIFIGATION (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Il, Feb. 2.—Legis- lators who professed to speak for Gov- ernor Small, said here today that Small will not introduce the ratitica- tion of the child labor amendment into the present session of the Illinois le- gislature. \ Small, who during the campaign, posed as a “friend of labor” and who was backed for re-election by the lead- ing labor fakers of the state, has been Postponing presentation of the reso- lution from week to week. One Chi- cago representative said that “Since enough states have refused to retify it to insure its defeat, there is no par- ticular need for immediate considera- tion in Illinois,” Small has not helped the child la- bor amendment during the campaign, altho the officials of the labor unions, who helped elect him to office, are working for the amendment, ) | eases Zogu to Rule Albania. ROME, Feb. 2.—The Albanian con- stituent assembly, according to ad- vices from Tirana, has unanimously elected’ Ahmed Zogu president of the republic for seven years. Ahmed Zogu headed ‘the recent revolt, uty and the Bolshevik” te Ashland Auditorium Feb, 6. (we “The coming