The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1925, Page 3

< mes THE DAILY WORKER Page Three INTERNATIONAL RED AID DEMANDS THAT AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT STOP PERSECUTING POLITICAL EXILES BAD CONDITIONS OF HOUSING IN N. Y, REVEALED New Howes: Ave Being Built Only for Rich (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 12. — Th survey of housing in this city just made by the tenement house commis- sioner reveals appalling conditions. It shows that there is at present less than half the normal vacancies in ten- ement houses. : Among these tenements packed with humanity there are more than 550,000 obsolete apartments built over twenty years ago and now condemned by law as unfit for occupation still housing over 2,000,000 workers. ‘The report dignifies with the name of “apartment” these hovels without air, sunshine, rudimentary sanitation or even a glimpse of the blue sky. Beware of Greek Gifts. This report fully convinces the workers that any relief offered them by capitalism is a Greek gift that they must beware of. A bill is now pending before the ci- ty legislature to extend further the emergency act exempting from taxa- tion all newly built dwellings in order to encourage building them. This act ‘was adopted in 1921 when housing be- came acute. Build High Class Apartments. An investigation of the workings of this act now reveals that while it has already cost the city $800,000,000 in exempted taxes it has resulted so far only in one or two building projects of rooms for workers renting at $9 to $12 per month, the vast building operations going on in the city since then being in high class apartment houses renting at $25 to $30 per month per room, that real estate speculators took advantage of. (Special to The Red Aid. emigrants. case, the answer was, that our com- rade was not ‘accused of a political offence but of a common crime. Com- rade Zorusch is persecuted by the court of Dresden charged with in- fringement of the law on explosives Asylum Abolished Thus the right of asylum in Aus- tria is abolished. For any capitalist court may affirm that a _ political fugitive has committed a “common crime.” Every arrest can be justified in this way. In this manner, on the basis of artificially constructed ac- cusations, all political fugitives will be delivered to their hangmen. To- day the German bourgeoisie demands its victim, to-morrow the Roumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian or Italian ter- ror states will utilize the Austrian police as their mercenaries in order to capture the escaped proletarian class fighters. Comrade Zorusch has been placed before the court, in the meantime which will decide on his delivery to the Ebert justice. This is the first case of a formal delivery of a political emigrant, since 1920. Horthy Demands His Blood Two days after this case occured. the Austrian justice looked for its second victim. On January 14th the Hungarian Comrade Vidra was ar- rested in order to be delivered to the Horthy justice, Vidra was the lead- er of a red guard troop in Soviet Hun- gary. He was arrested in 1919 but soon released for lack of evidence against him. Since that time he lived in Vienna with his wife and child and devoted himself to his work. His child has died now and he received a permission to stay for another year. But he was arrested because his delivery to the Horthy gang was de- manded on account of “suspicion of murder.” The Austrian government which knows the case very well. is shameless enough to comply with the “wishes” of the hangmen’s govern- ment. Lature Be asl Hark pr hes PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. ° Others To Follow The right of asylum, has thus been abolished for political emigrants in Austria. The Austrian working class will have to take energetic action because this act of violence is only one link in a chain. Accusations against editors of the labor press, im- prisoning and class sentences against starving unemployed, preventing of the supporting of political prisoners by prohibition of the Red Aid,—this. is the road which is taken by the Austrian government because the international capitalists demand it. All workers without exception must resist this systematic campaign of persecutions. Furthermore the pér- sectutions must be prevented by an in- tensification of the Red: Aid activity. New York Readers, Attention! "WANTED: Comrade teacher to teach Eng- lish to German Comrade’s: wife at home day or evening. Address: N. Jager, 320 East 14th St. New York City. Dz S. ZIMMERMAN IDEN+1ST | 2232. N. CALIFORNIA AVE. Phone ARMITAGE 7466 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray The German workers, too, must Prices ais fight German class justice which calls to Gas political emigrants “common crim- Workers Given inals” in order to get them into prison. The whole international prole- tarian must fight for the right of ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. asylum in all countries. My Examination Js Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY SEE Patronize our advertisers, Detroit, Attention! SECOND Annual Dance Given by the Detroit Greek Branch, W. P. for the benefit of the only Greek workingmen’s newspaper “Empros” Saturday, Feb.14, 8 p.m. at the HOUSE OF THE MASSES, 2101 Gratiot. Admission: Men 75¢; Ladies free. Partners assured for all. 7 te take 6O4ur LOCE’S TASTELESS CASTOR OIL Kell bottled and labelled at On Laersoene At all wt Daily Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 12.—The Austrian government is now carrying into practice what it had intended in its decree on the prohibition of the ‘It has completely abolished the right of asylum for political On January 12th, the German political emigrant Karl Zorusch, who had came some months ago to Austria as a fugitive, was arrested by the Austrian police on account of an alleged telegram of the German author- ities. demanding his delivery to Germany. rack which the Red Aid has provided for political emigrants. Legal Council of the Red Aid asked the police for information about the The comrade lived in the bar- ‘When the SHOALS GIVEN AWAY BY CAL UNDER NEW BILL Charge Weeks Working for Hooker-White WASHINGTON, D, C., Feb, 12.— The Underwood bill, providing for the turning over of the Muscle Shoals power project to private individuals, has been amended by senate and house conferes so that the private interests receiving the property may make a much larger profit, at smaller outlay. The conference changed the allow- able profit on fertilizer from one to eight per cent. Weeks’ Finger In Pie The Hooker-White group of New York, thru Secretary of War Weeks, who has been favorable to them, are said. to benefit by the conference amendement which allows the lessees to build up an electro-chemical de- velopment similiar to that at Niagara Falls. The Underwood bil originaly re- quired power not needed for the manufacture of fertilizer “to be sold for distribution in the south.” The new conference bil¥ exempts from dis- tribution all power, “needed for ferti- lizers and other useful products which will reduce the costs of fertilizers.’ Responsibility On Government The lessee, under the conference bill, is freed from responsibility for the safety of the dams, and is not required to set aside a fund to make necessary repairs or take care of de- preciation. The Underwood bill ordered dam number three kept by the government, but the conference bill provides that dam number three shall be completed by the private interests and kept by them on the same terms as the, Wil- son dam. The rental to be paid by the private interests to the govern- ment has been reduced to almost nothing. Instead of being required to pay as rental four per cent of the cost of the Wilson dam, as the Underwood bill required, the private interests will ‘be required to pay no interest what- ever on the cost of the locks at dam number two and three, “nor upon any additional. amount to be determined by the president, and representing the value of this development to navi- gation improvement.” Pay Almost Nothing The private interests would thus have to pay interests only on the act- ual power houses, receiving the entire project for practically nothing. Under the amended bill, the lessee can be exempt from any additional payment. Coolidge Calls Peace Meet; Approves Big War Appropriation WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—President Coolidge gave official aprpoval again today to the calling of another world limitation of armament conference whenever conditions abroad make such a project feasible. A request that the president call such a conference was contained in the 1925-26 naval appropriation bill which became law this afternoon with executive approval. The - bill carries a total of $287,000,000 for the operation of the navy during the fiscal year beginning July 1. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE!— In the comparison of the persecution of Revolutionists by the White Terror—and the treatment of counter-revolutionists in Soviet Russia. You will find it in “White Terrorists Ask For Mercy” —by MAX BEDACHT Just off the press, this indictment of the “socialist” traitors of the revolutionary move- oo will prove a valuable addition to a worker's Isaac Goldstein, Dealer in Second-hand Cloth- ing, Moved to Tears by Emma Goldman's » Recltals of Bolshevik Barbarities i none 5 CENTS A COPY 314 cents in bundle’ orders. SACCO-VANZETTI MUST BE FREED WORKERS DEMAND United Front Mass Meet- ing On March 1 A mass meeting protesting against the continued imprisonment of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and demanding the immediate release of these two class War prisoners will be held Sunday, March 1, at 2:30 p. m., in Emmet Mémorial Hall, Ogden and Taylor Aves.,' South. Speakers wilt be Jack W. Johnstone, secretary of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, Antonio Presi, editor of the Italian Communist newspaper, Il Lavoratore, aa P. J. Welinder, sec- retary of the Industrial Workers of the World. The meeting *will be held under the auspices of the Chicago local of the Workers (Communist) Party. Arrested ‘In “Red Raids.” Judge Thayer denied Sacco and Vanzetti a néw trial last October. The two labor leaders were framed up and How ‘We Live and Work Editor’s Note:—This paper is printed for the workers, poor farmers and those who work and sweat under the present system of society, of the workers, by the workers and for the workers. corner of this country where labor. is profit. DAILY WORKER. TO WRITE TO US, It is @ paper ‘We want to reach every being exploited for private gains, for We want the workers and farmers all over the country to read the In order to make it more Aenean, and be able to reflect. the life of the wide laboring masses, WE. This new department “HO better WANT OUR READE WwW WE LIVE AND WOE will appear as often as there will be sufficient letters from our readers about the life and working conditions under which our masses struggle. Try to make the letters interesting bringing out facts which may not be known to workers in other sections of the country, point. * ® Life in the Coal Mines. To the DAILY WORKER. — My friend, Alonzo Walters, gave me your address and asked me to write some- thing once in a while for the DAILY WORKER, Yesterday a coal miner’s wife, Mrs. T., called on me. Her husband is a secret service man she told me. He works in the coal mines for $3.65 per day. His seven children are going hungry wearing clothes that won't keep out the cold. Day after day the father sees their little pinched, hun- gry faces and little bodies shivering in the cold, And he calls himself a loving father. A Company Sucker. “Mrs: T., your husband is what our sentenced to die on a murder charge. Attorneys for’Sacco and Vanzetti have appealed to’ the Massachusetts su- preme court for a new trial. Sacco was recently transferred to an insane asylum following a nervous breakdown caused by his years of confinement in Massachusetts prisons. The two labor Organizers were arrest- ed during the’‘|'Red Raids” in May, 1920, and questioned about their “rad- ical activity.” “They were then charg- ed with having committed a payroll holdup and murder in South Brain- tree on April 15, 1920. They were convicted on framed up testimony. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? Plight of Aristocrat Stirs Congress to “Humane” Action WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12.— Suddenly discovering both poverty and pity, in the instance of the 1,600 children in the national capital who are each year placed under the charge of the board of children’s guardians, the house has voted for a makeshift scheme of pensioning the mothers of these boys and girls, in order that they.may be kept at home. Rep. Blanton of Texas, ordinarily harsh and. Hostile.to every humane measure, neorpred this amendement to a bill establishing a board of pub- lic welfare for the district. His amend- ment read: “Provided, That unde the provisions of this act no child shall be taken from the custody of its parent or parents except upon the ground of immorality of such parent cr parents, and where the father and mother are financially unable to care for the child or children, the mother shall be paid the same compensation for their care as would be paid to out- siders under the practice heretofore prevailing.” Hitherto, the government has paid $20 a month to the family or person to whom the board ‘of children’s guardians entrusted a child. Blan- ton’s amendment was adopted, against the protest of committee members, be- cause a southern woman of “good family,” discouraged with having to support herself and two children by clain sewing, had killed herself and both children in their apartment in Washington two nights before. Trage- dy in a gentle family woke up the legislators, whom appeals in the name of common humanity in the alley ten- ements had left indifferent. Coolidge Postal Pay Bill Again Goes To Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The ad- ministration’s postal pay and rate in- crease bill was laid before the senate this afternoon by the post office com- mittee as reported. It was the same bill passed by the senate several days ago, but action is ‘again required thru the refusal of the house to accept the senate bill and the passage of one of its own. The Daily Worker 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chleago, III. For the enclosed $ send... copies of “White Terrorists,” etc., to: NAME srsssssseorevnsnransnenesen State .... boys call a company sucker,” I told her. “And when the miners here are more strongly organized they won't stand for a dead beat like Mr. T.” The men here are so exploited by the coal barons they can’t call their souls their own. Yesterday was pay day in the camps. What a mockery it all is. Not more than a dozen min- ers drew any money. One Ifalian came in Saturday night. He said he received no money in his pay envel- ope for six months. “My babies need shoes, and everything else,” he said, “but I can’t buy them a thing.” Bosses Well Fed. I saw both superintendents and their families Sunday. They wear good, warm clothes and had plenty of good food. When I go among my people and see the suffering, the poverty and mis- ery, I feel as tho my heart would break. I know what it is to do with- out the necessities of life. When I see our men and boys going into those holes to make money for Mr. Coal Op- WEST VIRGINIA MINERS BURY Great Deiidastritin For John Kello By A Miner. (Special to The Daily Worker) GRANT TOWN, W. Va.—The West Virginia miners have again shown their solid fighting front and their spirit of comradeship with those who fall in the fight for the union. | The last Sunday in January saw a tre- mendous out-pouring of miners and their families from all over this re- gion to do demonstrative honors to John Kello, union miner, who fell in a fight with scab miners on a road near here ten days ago. Great Demonstration. Fully 5,000 miners, with families, making an aggregate of 8,000, gather- ed in the gulches and marched with bands playing the famous funeral dirges of great masters, first to the boarding house, which was Kello’s only home, then to the little village church and thence to the grave. By thousands they filed by the coffin of their dead and gave way to their emo- tions with tears for the dead and curses for the coal operators and their scabs and mine guards. Altho John Kello was raised a catholic, the service was protestant he was not buried in “consecrat- ed” ground, but in a plot of ground bought by the union miners. This ground, miners declare, is to be made into a shrine in memory of one of their number who proved a martyr to the cause of labor. Large delegations came from every local in the district, and all day long the throng passed in and out of the boarding house where laid the body of, John Kello. The marching column was one of the longest ever seen in the county. A Scab Also Dead. The clash with the scabs and mine guards in which Kello was fatally wounded, also resulted in the death of one of the scabs, Ray Tobin. Tobin, with five other scabs and mine guards, had left a pool room, so it is reported, about 10 o’clock at night, and when going down the road met John Kello, whom they began to scoff at. Words passed. Kello called out in a loud voice and shots were fired by unknown persons towards the mine guards, one of whom was firing also. Tobin fell dead, the other scabs ran for their lives, and Kello died a few days later from a shot thru the back. Kenosha, Wis., Attention. The famous movies “Polikushka”, “In Memoriam-Lenin” and “Soldier Ivan's Miracle” willbe shown in Ke nosha Saturday, Feb,.28, from 4 to 11 P. M., at the German American Home, 665 Grand Aye. All labor or- ganizations are requested not to ar- range any other affairs on that date. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and. Ashland Bivd., F 28, THEIR DEAD, ... Try to make them short and to the * * 2 erator and then see Mr. Operator rid- ing around in his big automobile, I want to put him in overalls, give him a pick and shovel, and tell him to see how his poorly paid “yellow dog” slaves make his riches for him. Day after day we can see our boys growing up and going to work in the black holes for the coal kings. I saw my daddy, a big, husky man, give up the best part of his life to the coal kings. Then my brother followed dad’s footsteps. Dad was working for the Dixie Splint coal company at South Clinch- field, Virginia, He would strip off his clothes and go into those mines, with water reaching to his waist and pull out old timbers to get the mines in working condition. Dad would say: “Boys, you wait here until I see if everything is safe inside.” All the miners loved my dad, As time went on the Dixie Splint became richer. Loses Job. The operator’s wife bought a table cloth costing $350 and paid $500 for a dinner gown. As the years went by they became so rich they forgot the ones who made their money. Dad was taken with a severe illness. His savings were swallowed up. One day the operator's wife came in to see dad. Dad needed medical aid, food and clothing. Did they give dad these? No. She said, “Dad, send Roy over and I'll give you a magazine to read.” Finally dad was well enough to go to work. When he got to the mines, Scott, the owner, told dad, “I gave your job to Mack Jones. I'll see what I can do for you.” But dad never got another job there. He was old and broken down for Mr. Coal King. Sincerely, Mrs. Eula Bailey ELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST DAILY HERE FEB, 22 anniversary of the Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir, will be celebrated in Chicago on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 6 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902, W. Division St. A play by Ostrovsky in four acts will be given under the direction of the well-known Russian actor, Luganov. Russian speakers will address the gathering arranged jointly for Tech- nical Aid to Soviet Russia and the Russian ‘branch, Workers Party. All who understand Russian are | urged to attend. FLORIDA KLAN SPREADS TERROR AMONG NEGROES ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 12.— The ku klux klan staged a demonstra- tion of terror in the Negro quarters here, wearing their foll regalia and intimidating the Negroes. They de- clared when questioned they were “looking for loafers.” The klan has been allowed by the city administration to act on the pol- ice force. John Trotter, chief of de- tectives, has made policemen out of a number of klansmen and they are walking beats in the place of regularly appointed policemen. They work in squads of ten. Trotter claimed lack of funds prevented him from hiring regular policemen. Even if you This new revolutionary Words Only . 1113 W. Washington Blvd. . <5 SSS ESSER EERESEEEEEE EEE SERRE EEE EEE SEES EERE EE EEEEEEEEE ESS SSS sss a Single note in your throat! You will join in the crowd when they sing the splendid tunes from “THE MARCH OF THE WORKERS” Edited by Rudolph von Liebich old favorites, songs from Russia and tantalizing tunes from that gay little Bolshevik operetta “The Last Revo- lution” by J..Ramirez (M. Gomez) and M. Gold, with music by Rudolph von Liebich, Words and music ben Pet FE NRE 8 $1.00 Lyrics (without music) oe “The Last Revolution”... THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department PREMIER SANTOS QUITS AS TROOPS PARADE STREETS Portugal “Gov't Out; Admit Disturbance LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 12. — The government of Portugal toppled here today when the chamber of deputies voted lack of confidence and Premier Santos resigned. The vote as 65 to 45. The government was defeated after debate on the disturbances last week, in front of the ministerial offices, when the troops fired into the crowds. A bomb was exploded during the dis- turbance, and four persons were seri- ously injured. Santos then presented a statement to the chamber of depu- ties, and on the strength of the state- ment, the chamber voted lack of con- fidence, Troops paraded the streets around parliament today, fearing further out- breaks. City Meets Bankers’ Traction Terms on Approval of Dever The committee on transportation of the city council will submit Mayor Dever’s ordinance to the city council tomorrow, having approved the price of $162,843,584 to be paid to the bank- ers for the traction lines, on the ad- vice of Mayor Dever. Dever told* the transportation com mittee he considered the price “a trifle high,” but recommended that it be paid, and the committee voted to accept the bankers’ terms by a vote of 8 to 1. Alderman Wiley Mills voted against Dever’s recommendation. “There is not the slightest merit to that question,” Dever replied upon be- ing asked, “What conceivable control is given the people over service under the ordinance?” When Dever was asked what he considered the surface lines worth, he replied that the ques- tion was “foolish.” When an alderman asked, “Do you contend that buying the surface lines will give rapid rapid transit to all the people,” Chairman Schwartz said to him: “You are an offensive little fool.” : The Dever ordinance binds the city to refinance the surface lines, and leaves the bankers in control of the traction system for at least 20 years. Shaft Near Collins’ Tomb at Depth of Forty-Four Feet CAVE CITY, Ky., Feb. 12—The shaft being dug toward the tomb of Floyd Collins, buried alive in a crevice in Sand Cave, reached a depth of 44 feet yesterday: morning. The diggers were heartened by evidence that they are nearing the end of their desperate en- deavor to reach Collins’ prison. The crevices increased in number, and the cave crickets also became more numerous. “The cave crickets never burrow more than two or three feet from a cavern, and I believe we are near a tunnel,” Chief Engineer Carmichael, in charge of the digging of the shaft said. All preparations have been made to care for Collins in case he is brought out alive. Hospital supplies and physi- cians are in readiness to fight for Collins’ recovery if a spark of life is left when the search ends. Movies for Workers “Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls” will be shown at the following places: St. Paul, Minn.—444 Rice St., Feb. 20. Milwaukee, March 7. San Francisco, March 21. Wis.—Pabst Theater, haven't got song book contains all the SSS SSS eer} Chicago, Mlinois