The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1925, Page 3

‘Speen rma osname eaten SUN YAT SEN INSISTS ONMASS CONFERENCE Capitalist Powers Try to Block Unity (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, Feb. 8—Despite the in- frigue of the capitalist powers, the trovement for the unification of China {is proceeding as well as could be ex- pected. The Kuomintang party is ad- hering strictly to its policy of a real people’s conference, that will repre- oe the masses. The policy has the king of Soviet Russia. The capitalist powers, on the other want another conference of tuchuns, and purchasable generals, Who will agree to turn over the re- furces of China to the foreign gov- @rnments for a consideration. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, who is still alive fespite alarmist reports, has issued a thanifesto in the name of the Kuo- tingtang party, the only mass organ- wation in China, declining to partici- Pate in any handpicked conference. He wants a “people’s conference.” The delegates from South China, the industrial section of the country, While not participating in the so- balled unification conference maintain & conciliatory spirit towards it. Church Congregations Will Be Forced to Pay Parsonage Tax Church congregations thruout IMt- pois, will be forced to pay taxes here- ifter on parsonages, as a result of a fuling of the Illinois supreme court. The ruling was made by the su- mé court in denying a re-hearing of fe methodist episeopal church of ukegan, which had waged a legal fight to prevent taxation of its par- nage. Washington Gets Reprieve. Lawrence Washington, colored, who Was to have been hanged next Fri- fay for the murder of Nunie Mascoli- fo, an Evanston shopkeeper, has re- teived a reprieve until May 15, from Governor Small, in order for him to peul to the supreme court. SESE) IN DULUTH the. . Daily Worker and Workers Monthly can be purchased at E Bus Station, 508 W. Su-« erior St. and at Incline tion 7th Ave. W. For alt subscriptions and Communist fterature see Local Agent Carl Lund, 20 N, 6th Ave. W., Duluth. PITTSBURGH, PA. those who work hard for their ey, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK : DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. ELECT MANCHESTER COMMUNIST DESPITE LABOR PARTY PLAN LONDON, England, Feb. 8.—The Manchester Trades Council has de- clined to accept the labor party ban on Communists. By a vote of 114 to 79 the council rescinded action previously taken, and re-elected M. J. Munro, member of the Commun- ist Party of Great Britain, as a dele- gate to the labor party. At a previous meeting the barring of the Communist was agreed to by a majority of two, and another dele- gate was elected in place of Com- rade Munro, Munro, who is president of the Manchester Tradés Council, is again a delegate to the labor party. CITY TO ACCEPT TRACTION PLAN Dever Ordinance Gives Banks Long Franchise The committee on transportation of the city council will adopt the pro- posal of the bankers committee re- presenting the present owners of the traction lines, which in effect gives the bankers a long term franchise on the traction lines, opponents of the Measure declare. It is commonly un- derstood that Mayor Dever is willing to accept the recommendations of the bankers, in order to get his traction ordinance passed in any form, so that he can make political capital out of it in the next campaign. Forty Year Franchise Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National bank, who reported for the bankers owning the traction lines, recommended that the certificates to be issued by the city run for forty years, and the transportation commit- tee let it be known that the bankers Plan will probably be adopted. Under the Dever ordinance, the Present owners will be in complete control of the traction lines for at least twenty years. The board of control will have four banker mem- bers to the city’s three until 51 per cent of the certificate have been retir- ed by the city. After that three mem- bers will represent the city and four members the bankers. Even after the 51 per cent of the certificates are retired by the city, the four city re- presentatives must vote unanimously against the bankers to gain municipal control of the traction lines, Liries Give Large Income Traylor said that the present in- come of the surface lines is sufficient to permit the expenditure of $50,000,- 000 on improvements in addition to the cost of the lines. “Taking the in- come of the surface lines as our start- ing point, $50,000,000 more can be expended on extensions and improve- ments and all the obligations of the municipal railway system can be met without increasing the present fare.” Blast Kills Fireman. FORT LEE, N. J., Feb. 8.—Sullivan Joy, volunteer fireman, was killed and nine other firemen were slightly inured when an explosion in the Evans laboratories caused the build- ing to collapse here. Origin of the fire was undetermined, Red Revel quera all, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monree and Ashland Bleck, February 28, JUST ONE HALF! OF THE JOB IS DONE when you send in your remittance for a subscription with one half of this ad. The other half we will do when we see to it that you receive each month the best working class magazine ever turned out in this country— WORKERS MONTHLY ACTORS’ EQUITY MEMBERS WILL BE AT RED REVEL Famous Annual Ball is Talk of the Town, “Suffer the little children to come unto me” declared Jesus (tho not to a DAILY WORKER reporter), “for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” This is not an article on the pro- posed child labor amendment. It’s a trick to call your attention to the Red Revel Masquerade Ball which will be held in Womens’ West End Club Hall, 87 South Ashland Blyd., on the eve- ning of Feb. 28 and until the wee small hours of the morning after. The+reason the children are men- tioned is because the Junior group of the Young Workers’ League are working their foxy little heads off thinking up little tricks with which to entertain, amuse and instruct the happy red revellers on Red Revel eve. Many of the Juniors are little girls and the female of the species is sup- posed to have it all over on the radio for broadcasting secrets but what the juniors are going to do, none of the news sleuths on the staff of the DAILY WORKER have yet been able to find out. Juniors on the Job. This much we can say, however, that if their past record means any- thing, the Juniors will add another chapter to the history of their ac- complishments on Feb. 28. Thousands of copies of a little baby paper, the smallest in the United States, excepting the official organ of the socialist party of the state of Washington, will be distributed early next week among members of the Workers Party, all radical organiza- tions and trade unions. The Red Revel Masquerade Ball will give Chicago radicals an oppor- tunity to meet each other. The more the capitalists attack the Communists the more interesting they become. Hundreds will come to see what a Bolshevik looks like. Many will come to scoff and remain—to dance. Meet the Girls. The Red Revel publicity agent is now able to inform the public that three young and handsome actresses, now playing in a well known Chicago theater will be there. The publicity agent will even go further. He agrees -}to introduce to said comely girls, any young men of ordinary pulchritude and good manners who can show proof that he has disposed of at least twenty tickets for the Red Revel Ball. Scores of tickets have been pur- chased by some of the leading literary lights of Chicago who make their home in what the natives of this vil- lage are pleased to call, Greenwich Village. They will come to see the Communists and many Communists will come to see the Greenwich Vil- lagers. The committee on arrangements for the Red Revel Masquerade Ball is leaving nothing undone to make things as interesting as possible for the guests. The only responsibility that is placed on the shoulders of our guests is to buy a ticket or tickets at the local office of the Workers Party, 166 W. Washington St., Room 307 or at the office of the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. THE $2.00 a year $1.25 six months THE DAILY WORKER Page Three MAIL GLERKS DEMAND COOLIDGE GIVE THEM INC EASE IN SALARY More thanthree hundred members of the Railway Mail Clerks’ Associa- tion at a meeting in the Hotel Sher- man discussed plans to secure the pas: of a bill increasing their salaries, at the first session of the next congress. “We still believe the people wish us to secure a fair deal in our fight to get a wage that will allow us to live. in happiness and educate our children,” said H. L. Hunter, secretary of the association. COMMUNISTS IN GCEDARRAPIDS, IA Meeting, ‘Sun., Feb. 15, to Organize / (Continued from page 1) the Cedar Rapids Labor Tribune, a sheet well patronized by advertisers and, in turn, he keeps the town free from radicals;@nd his hand on the throat of the unions. He gets a good lincome and has no worries. Canfield was president of the Iowa State Federation of Labor for a num- ber of years amd prepared for himself an easy berth. He is now government conciliator. for the department of la- bor in Iowa state. These two, Stew- art and Canfield, with a few more of their dupes and tools, dominate the labor movement in Cedar Rapids. Any rebellious worker or anyone who commits “lese majeste” against them or their system has been hounded un- til complelled to quit the city, for he could not stay on a job in town. Packingtown and Quaker Oats _ Workers. The result of this betrayal of the masses by the bell wethers of the skilled union crafts, is best seen in the packing plants and Quaker Oats factory, which has a large plant here. There are about one thousand workers employed in the packing Plant, a subsidiary of Wilson com- pany. The butchers, the highest paid workers, receive 48 cents per hour. More and more of the work is being done by girls who receive 16 cents an hour for a ten-hour day. This has been further aggravated by a speed- up system, five girls now doing the work of eight and in some instances two doing the work of four. One rebel, woman, who was working in this plant last year urged the girls to demand a raisé in wages. This is how it. worked,'as told to the re- porter: “You girls can’t live on such low wages,” said the rebel to them. “Why don’t you ask a raise? They must have girls to do the work.” But not one had) the courage to take the lead. f Girls First Strike. The rebel was working in another department so could not speak for them. A few weeks went past and more agitation and then the girls told the rebel to come at noon hour, fif- teen minutes before time, the girls would have a meeting. The rebel was there, she talked some more. Yes, they would ask for a raise. So at on oclock the whistle blew but no girls went to work. Meat was piled high on the tables, but ten, then fifteen minutes went past and no girls were at work. “What's the matter?” says the fore- man, “why don’t you go to work?” No answer from the girls huddled be- hind the rebel. Then to the rebel: “Whut do they want?” Up spoke the rebel: “They want a raise, two-fifty a day.” The superintendent was called in after an hour had gone without any work being done. He agreed to give a raise in two weeks, but still no girl could be made to speak up, so often have tuey Leou bétrayed. Result of No Union. They got a raiséto $2.10, fifty cents a day raise, but that has been taken away by firing them and then hiring again a few days later at a beginner's rate of 16 cents am hour. In the Quaker Oats plant the driv- ing system at low) wages is even worse. The highest pay for men is 37% cents per houf, and for girls it is 25 cents. ae This Is Capitalism. Lately they have, put on new ma chines and one girlnow wraps pack- ages where formerly five were em- ployed. This has forced many girls out of employmenfyand the competi- tion for jobs has given the employers an opportunity to cut wages still fur- ther. Such is the result of betrayals of the masses, with class collaboration or arbitration schemes and a little comfort for the craft union aristo- crats of labor, soft berths for their fat boys; while the great mass are ground to earth and their spirit crushed by misleaders and. traitors, Workers Party Enters Filed. Cedar Rapids cast a good vote for Foster and the Party, and in an effort to and ovganine the rebels in that territory, J. HB. Snyder, district organizer, assisted by Comrade David Coutts; will hold a mass meetin; the Trades and La- vor Assembly the Don Cook Mi building, First A’ and Second street, Hast; on afternoon, Feb. 15. Them We @iol see what shall seo. we POLICE CHIEF TOLD HOW LABOR VIEWS HIS REPRESSION Condemn Stopping of Lenin Meeting WATERBURY, Conn., Feb. 8—The superintendent of police here let him- self in for an education when he broke up the Workers (Communist) Party Lenin memortal meeting. It seems he has yet to learn that Communist pro- paganda nnot be downed, that it comes back every time hitting harder and more effectively. The party took of the opportunity to tell this satellite of the Waterbury bosses what they thought in a letter sent him immediately after this occurance, The letter follows: “Sup’t. of Police Beach, Waterbury, Conn.:—The district executive com- mittee of the Workers Party for the state of Connecticut was not greatly surprised to hear that your depart- ment broke up an orderly meeting of workers assembled to honor the me jmory of the leader of the revolution- ary working class of the world, Nik. olai Lenin. It is perfectly logical for the American Brass company and its representatives in public office to tr to keep the slaves of the brass empir from hearing the truth about condi- tions in Waterbury and the United States. We know that you kept work- ers’ speakers off the corners during the recent election campaign. You determined the law, because when you were compelled, you granted permis- sion to speakers for one week pre- vious to election day. It is not a question of law, but of your own sweet will, dictated by brass company. And you are frank about it—you want to keep out agitators, If that is the case, then throw out Goss and Chase, for their exploitation of the mill slaves is agitating the workers, and making them ripe for the Communist form of society. What the Communists do is to point out the lessons of this ex- ploitation, and show where it leads, The Communists propose that instead of parasites enjoying the good things of life, that the workers and poor farmers own the industries and run them in their own interest; and that the government should not be a tool of the financial interests, but a govern- ment of the workers and poor farmers. “You fear this. So do Goss and Chase. And you try to crush the ef- forts of the workers to come together and discuss their problems. But you cannot do so. Your arbitrary rule will merely drive home quicker the lessons we are bringing to the atten- tion of the working class. The Work- ers Party has a message for the work- ers of Waterbury, and will deliver that message. “What we particularly object to is that you pretend to uphold the laws of the United States and the consti- tution of the country. If you were frank about it, and admitted that you were going to allow free speech only for upholders of capitalism and that the constitution was a scrap of paper, that would be another matter. But you fear to do this. You would be revealing the class nature of the government, the existence of a cap- italist dictatorship over the working class. If you pretend to allow free speech, we demand that you cease breaking up orderly meetings of workers. “We say once more that the Work- ers Party is going to be heard in Waterbury. “District Executive Committee 15, Workers Party of America. “Wm. Simons, District Organizer.” Banks Dodge Taxes On Foreign Notes, is Lawyer’s Charge WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—For- eign bank notes sold in the United States have not been taxed by the treasury department as they should be according to law, it is alleged by Walter Holland, a lawyer of this city. “The treasury department holds that a little Maine bank paying out Canadian bank notes must pay 10 per cent as an excise tax to the govern- ment,” asserts Holland, adding that big banks are not required to pay a like tax. “Foreign monies of every descrip- tion bear a tax under section 3413, sec- tion 20, page 577, treasury internal revenue laws, of 1920,” Holland charges. “And every person, firm, association, corporation, state bank, or banking association, and also every national bank that has sold or is sell- ing foreign money is liable to a tax of 10 per cent on the face amount of foreign notes sold by them.” Holland alleges that banks thruout the United States are not requried to pay taxes on foreign bank notes of the Imperial Bank of Germany, Bank of France, Bank of England, of Italy and of Spain. Commissioner D. H. Blair denies But Who Pays For it? ROME.—Pope Pius has presented all the cardinals with silver medals commemorating centenary of St. New Haven Painters’ Union No. 4 Endorses Labor Defense Council demning the “criminal syndicalism” laws of Michigan and other states, condemning the conviction of Ruth- enberg, and calling upon the governor of Michigan to pardon Ruthenberg, should the conviction be sustained by the United States supreme court. The resolution in part reads: Be It Resolved, That we protest ‘ainst and condemn the action of the Michigan state supreme court, record | ourselves as in support of La- bor Defense Council in this ¢ and | call upon all labor bodies and work- ing class bodies to take the stand. That we petition the or of the state of Michigan to »: se, overn- don the defendant in the event that the United States supreme court sustains the conviction, it being our view that such action on the part of the fed eral supreme court would be a nulli- fication in the interest of capitalist } suppression of the workers, and be it| further Resolved, That copies of this resolu- tion be sent to the governor of tt state of Michigan and the Labor pre: Approved by the Painters’ Local 4, New Haven, Conn. Signed, Morris Rohinsky, Pfes. Max Abbott, Rec.- Sec. Date, January 28, 1 Olgin to Lecture at Workers’ School on Education in Russia NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Motssaye J. Olgin will lecture on “Proletarian Education in Russia” at the Work- ers’ School, 208 E, 12th St., on Tues- day, Feb. 10, at 8 p. m. The subject deals with an import- ant phase of the achievements of the Soviet republic which should prove of great interest to all workers. This is the fifth lecture in the course on the Russian revolution which Comrade Olgin is giving at the Workers’ School. Admission to single lectures is 25 cents. Put Off Action in U. S. Senate to Join World Court WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Action on the world court resolutions referred to the! senate foreign relations commjt- tee has been abandoned for the re- mainder of the life of the present congress. Opposition based on un- willingness to form any affiliations with European nations was in this cese strengthened by the insistence of Chairman Borah that sweeping changes in the plan of the court be made, and that international law be codified before the United States should formally adhere to the court, Push Postal Air Service. MADRID.—The directory today an- nounced the establishment of postal air Service between Seville and the Canaries. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. INDIAN FAKIRS - JEWISH SINGERS UKRAINIAN FAMOUS SOLOISTS .. GERMAN MASS CHILDREN’S ORCHESTRA CHILD A You'll Get All February 11 INTERNATIONAL John Latran. Amorioan cardinals will receive theirs with letters from Cardidal Gasparri, Send Contribution SSE ESE SESE EES WORKERS’ DRAMATIC LEAGUE JOINT BAZAAR Lyceum, 86th Street and 3rd Avenue LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL s to 208 E. 12th St, New York City Your Union Meeting Second Monday, Feb. 9, 1928, 5 < No. Name of Local and Meeting Place NEW HAVEN, Conn. Feb. 8.—|" ¢95 Boller Makers, 5824 8. Halsted St. Painters’ Union, Local 4, is the first] 14 Boot and Shoe Workers’ Joint come Council, 1939 Milwaukee Ave: union in Connecticut to come to the se oe el eee yaine ae ead. aid of the Michigan defendants. They 1700 W. ist St. voted to endorse a resolution con-| 301 Brewery Workers’ 1700 W. 2ist St. 1 Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velt Road. Cap Makers, 4003 Roosevelt Road, Carpenters, 05 W. 38th St. 80 , 4039 W, Madison St. 181 2040 W. North Ave. 199 S. C., 9139 Commercial Ave. 505 S. State St. 14 Clybourn Ave. N. W. St., Wauke- Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. Carpenters, 6654 S, Halsted St. Cigar Makers’ Ex. Bd., 166 hington 0 p.m Bd, 2525 8. 4 Engineers (Marine), 601 Capitol Bidg. 643 S. Halsted St. 11 S$. Ashland Ave. 80 W. Washington St. 180 W. Washington St. (R. R.), 2483 W. Roose- ad. eers (Loc.), 3900 W. North , 7p. m F nen and 5058 Wentworth Ave. 7 Firemen and Oilers, 175 W. Wash. Gardeners and Florists, Neldog’s Hall, Hinsdale, Il! Hotel and Re t Empl’s Joint EB. Ba Enginemen, Moulders Conf. Bd., 119 S. Throop 101 Painters, 3316 W. North Ave. 147 Painters, 19 W. Adams St. Madison and 5th Ava. 1lith and Michigan Ave, Painters, 2432 8. Kedzie Ave. Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Carmen, Cicero and Supe- yy Carmen, 6252 S. Ashland. y Carmen, 88th and Com- ial. Railway 924 and Balti. more. Railway Clerks’ Dis. Council, 165 W. Madison St. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton St. Railway Clerks, 165 W. Madison St, Railway Clerks, Madison and Sac- ramento. Railway Clerks, 75th_and Drexel. Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton Blvd. Railw: Trainmen, 2900 W. North Ave., 9:30 a. m. Retail Clerks, Ashland. Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark St. Scientific Laboratory Workers, City Hall, Room 718. Signalmen, 2100 W. 5ist St. Switchmen, 323 Collins St., Jolfet, I in. Teamsters, 220 S. Ashland Blvd. Trade Union Label League, 166 W. Washington St., 7:30 p. m. 330 Typographical, 180 W. Washington (Note—Uniess otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) Painters, Painters, Carmen, 276 342 549 695 781 877 195 Buren and 16986 143 3 106 Sess esessssssssssrsssssss De S. ZIMMERMAN IDEN T1ST, 2252.N. CALIFORNIA AVE. Phone ARMITAGE 7466 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices _ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. 4%" My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA FINNISH GYMNASTS SINGERS DECLAMATION YOUNG DANCERS CTORS This at the , 12, 13, 14 WORKERS’ AID ee