The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1925, Page 2

Page Two HARRY JENSEN'S JOB AS DISTRICT CHIEF IS SHAKY His Former Friends Are Deserting Him The officials of Local 181 of the Car- penters’ Union are going one better than the magicians who take full grown elephants from their empty sleeves. They have perfected the art of adjourning meetings before they &re opened. Due to the illegal expulsion of five members of the union by ukase of a few self-appointed dictators, acting un- der the orders of Harry Jensen and William Hutcheson, Local 181 has not been able to transact any business for several weeks. This does not deter the paid officials from drawing their salaries, an entirely illegal proceed- ing without a vote of the membership. But such little things never bother labor fakers. The Five Were There. Last Monday evening Local 181 met 8 usual and as usual the five members over whom the storm has raged, were there also. So was Harry Jensen, President of thé district council. Har- ry is the man who pulls the wires that makes “Jim” Jensen and the other of- fielais of Local 181 jump. As usual the chairman refused to open the meeting until the five left and because they did not leave he adjourned the meeting before it opened. Smart work! Desert Sinking Ship. Harry Jensen is losing whatever support he had when the fight started. His friends, those who supported him in the last election, are now deserting him. Many of them realize that he is politically dead and that the next elec- tion will bury him. Nominations will be made in April for all local offices. The, progressives are now looking around for suitable candidates, Jensen and his few friends looked rather unhappy when the chairman called on the “expelled” members to leave. “Throw them out,” Jensen bel- ligrently shouted to the officials. “Come on and try,” retorted several husky carpenters from all over the hall. One would imagine by the response to his threat that physical contact with Harry’s person was by no means unpopular with the mem- bers. If he accepted the challenge it is not likely that they would give him an alcohol rub. He kept quiet and \ooked sheepish, Feel Jobs Shaky. The five “expelled” members stayed. Jensen's friends now feel. their. jobs shaky. They thought the power. of “Czar” Hutcheson was so great that there was no danger of such a rank and file revolt. “Hutch will take care of these reds,” was the comment of the fakers in Local 181 after the ex- Dulsion. But “Hutch” is down in Florida and has no time to waste on his lackeys. He has no time to give a decision on the local’s appeal from the illegal decision of the chairman of Local 181 which expelled the members without trial. While he is sunning himself in the south and spending the money of the membership, the mighty Carpenters’ Union is in danger of be- ing wrecked. And William Hutcheson, general president, is the chief wrecker, The members of Local 181 demand that Hutcheson show his hand and decide one way or the other, Education Board Further Restricts Teachers’ Actions The rules committee of the board of education yesterday approved the recommendation of Superintendent of Schools McAndrew, made some months ago, that teachers be prohibit- ed from criculating notices, even dur- ing the lunch hour, unless the notices are first approved by the superintend- ent. The action of the rules committee, which was unanimous with the single exception of James Mullenbach, thus does away with the many years’ prac- tice of the Teachers’ Federation, and other teachers’ organizations of send- ing notices of their meetings to teach- ers. These notices were always sent around during recess or lunch hour, but the recommendation of McAn- drew stops even this practice, President Moderwell attacked Miss Margaret Haley, who spoke against the recommendation of McAndrew, and made a motion “That we stand by McAndrew rather than Miss Haley,” Mullenbach spoke in favor of allow- ing the teachers to distribute notices of union meetings as they have done up to this time. Coolidge Nominee, a Lumber Trust Lackey, Approved by Senate WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.—The nomi- ‘nation of William E. Humphrey, of Seattle, as a member of the federal trade commission was approved today by the senate interstate commerce committee. The appointment has been tied up for six weeks while the committee conducted an invesigation into Humph- rey'’s connections with lumber in- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) mains to be seen whether the Weekly People will deposit its head in the sewer from whence it takes its sus- tenance and forget to withdraw it, se OME years ago the S. L, P. candi- date for president challenged an opponent to debate on the relative merits of their parties. Like a cautious and methodical person the S. L. P. standard bearer prepared his debate before hand. For some reason or other the debate did not come off, but it appeared in all its glory in the Week- ly People, applause, questions, hisses, interruptions and of course the “smashing” and “annihilating” retorts of the S. L. P. candidate. Everything was there, even what the opponent said, everything except the amount of the collection. A sheet with such a reputation finds a “Bill” Haywood yarn @ palatable morsel. see ‘HE committee for progressive pol- itical action is about to hold a convention. If you do not realize this fact read “Labor” the official organ of the sixteen standard railroad organ- izations, that founded the C. P. P. A. If stience means consent that paper, is strong for the coming convention. As a matter of fact, outside of J. A. H. Hopkins, the Nation, and a few social- ists, the entire labor movement is ignoring the meeting which was once expected to call a labor party of some kind into existence. The official organ of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is against a third party. The Nation is grateful to the socialists for going out of existence, so grate- fully in order to leave the way clear for the new party. o..e& © ‘T was a rather self-sacrificing thing to do we admit. But then beggars can’t be choosers, When the social- ‘sts party departed from its original moorings, repudiated the class strug- gle, joined with the capitalists in mak- ing war on Soviet Russia, and found itselft having a united front with the department of justice and the bureau- eracy of the American Federation of Labor it also found itself without a membership and therefore without any visible means of support. It may now be given the job of acting as un- dertaker for the C, P. P. A. ee 'HERE is a suspicion, how well founded it may be is hard to say just now, that Warren 8S. Stone, pol- itical leader of the railroad brother- hods is preparing the ground for at- filiating his organization with the American Federation or Labor. A re- cent eulogistic article of William Green, in the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal, may mean something and it may not. It is worth a thought or two. The C. P. P. A, is nothing more or less than a non-partisan political com- mittee, a duplication of the A, F. L.’s political apparatus. Stone considers William H. Johnston, head of the C. P. P. A. a “fathead.” » A few days prior to the St. Louis convention of the C. P. P. A. he blamed Johnston for the failure of that organization and de- cided that the engineers would not be represented at St. Louis. But a squirt from Doheny’s oil can made him change his plans. ee 8 TONE has called a meeting of the railroad brotherhoods for next Friday to consider the relations c7the brotherhoods with the C. P, P. A. and to discuss the politicat policy of the rail unions. Stone is not coming to the conference to make up his mind. It is already made up. He is against a third party, not to mention a labor party. No other labor union of any importance is for it except the Amak gamated Clothing Workers. The Amal- gamated is for a labor party because it knows there will be no labor party organized next Saturday in Chicago. Foxy Sidney Hillman, can throw out his chest and give lip service to class political action, while Victor Berger plays the role of Abraham, with the socialist party Isaac. i te TBLICAL studnets may remember reading the tale of old Abraham who heard a voice from heaven which he assumed was that of the ferocious Jehovah, ordering “Abe” to take his son Isaac to the top of a mountain and roast him on a pile of faggots as @ sacrifice to the lord. The lord must have sat on a tack or had a quarrel with his wife, at any rate he was in a bad humor and took it out on poor Abraham, who was as disciplined as a Jesuit. Abraham whistled to his son, told him to chop some wood and pile it on his back. This was done and they both hied toward the sacri- ficial aliar. In a most tender and fatherly manner, Abraham, after look- ing towards heaven and expectorating on his palm, proceeded to apply the sharp edge of a butcher knife across Isaac's windpipe. But Jehovah took another fit and hollered down: “Hold on, your intentions are good we can fry him some other time” or words to that eflect, It is quite possible that the socialist party may be saved from complete demise next Saturday, but only to meet that fate some other time. Abraham is willing and poor Isaac is helpless, Works on Inaugural Address, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-—President Coolidge expects to complete his in- augural address sometime next week. |SEATTLE LABOR FAKERS PULLING IN THEIR HORNS Radicals Believe They Are Bideing Time SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—No attempt has yet been made to carry out the de-|, cision of the Central Labor Council, to oust the Communists by filing charges against the Communist dele- gates. Paul K. Mohr, Communist dele- gate from the Bakers’ Union and a veteran trade unionists, announced that he'intended to appear at the coun- cil meetings as usual. Several unions went on record against the ouster proceedings brand- ing the fakers responsible for them as disrupters and splitters. The, op- position of the militants was so strong that the reactionaries decided to pull in their horns for the time being at least, Radicals are not fooled by this lull in the battle. They are of the opinion that the fakers are only abid- ing their time until a more favorable opportunity presents itself. The Seattle Union Record was ob- liged to correct a news item in a recent issue which gave the impres- sion that the Seattle Central Labor Council had denounced the Michigan defense and the Labor Defense Coun- cil, of which Mohr is an officer, instead of another organization. SENATE PUSHES POSTAL BILL IN JOINT MEETING WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The postal rate war was renewed in congress to- day when house and senate conferees met for final action on the conflicting bills passed by the two branches. The senate bill, with low rates for newspapers and the parcel post, would raise approximately $30,000,000. The house measure, with higher rates on these two services would bring in about $61,000,000 in additional revenue. Both bills would provide a $68,000,000 wage increase for postal employes. The conferees sought to iron out differences in the rates carried in the two measures. One source of conflict was the corrupt practices act, added by the senate as “rider” to the bill, after the house declined to take simi- lar action, Administration leaders hoped for an agreement in conference in time to re-enact the bill before adjournment. Filibuster Threatens Cal’s Program in Ending of Congress WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The 68th congress entered the home stretch of its legislative career today with the administration’s program for adjourn- ment March 4 endangered by the threat of filibusters. The threatened disruption came from the senate where smal! but mili- tant minorities voiced bitter opposi- tion to the republican program. With only 14 working days remain- ing, republican leaders ordered day and night sessions in the senate, The republican leadership, however, faced many obstacles and the proba- bility that the closing days of con- gress will be harassed by a series of filibusters. If this should occur, such a legislative Jam may follow as to force the calling of an extra session after March 4, Warden Admits He Took Money from Bootleg Convicts ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 17.—Albert © Sartain, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly warden at the United States peniten- tiary, here, today admitted on the wit- ness stand at his trial, that he had borrowed $5,000 from Willie H. Haar, convicted Savannah bootlegger, while Haar was @ convict at the peniten- tiary, Sartain is charged in indictments, along with L. d. Fletcher, formeriy his deputy warden, with having soli- cited and accepted bribes from pris- oners at the institution in return for “soft berths.” Kellogg Given Send Off by Plutes As He Leaves for Home LONDON, Feb. 17.—The departure of United States Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg from London today took on the proportion of a royal occasion. Kellogg is secre tary of state-designate and will suc- ceed Charles B. Hughes, March 4, Present to bid them adieu were, among many others, Austen Chamber- lain, British secretary of foreign af- fairs; the Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese and Polish ambassadors; Sir John Harbury-Williams, representing King George; Lady Brice and numer- ous personal friends of the Kelloggs. The senate yesterday approved Kel- loge’s appointment, Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? WORKERS STORM PRIVY COUNCIL IN JAPAN DEMANDING SUFFRAGE TOKIO, Feb, 17,—A band of work- ers stormed the privy council, It was reported In press | dispatches, after the council had amended the universal manhood suffrage bill changing the voting age from 25 to 30 years. Kilabur Ichiki, vice-president of the privy council, was forced to flee for his life. FORD GETS HUGE PROFITS BY USE OF SPEED GAME Makes 90 Per Cent by Driving Men WASHINGTON, D.'C,, Feb. 17,— Henry Ford made profits of 90 per cent on his Detroit, Toledo, and Iron- ton railroad, during the years of 1923 and 1924, it is announced here, Ford has just applied to the interstate commerce commission for permission to issue and sell $1,181,000 of first mortgage bonds to pay ‘the cost of construction of the road’s main line from Flat Rock to Durban, Mich., a distance of 20 miles. ‘The bonds will be sold at par to the Ford Motor company. Ford paid $5,000,000 for the railroad in 1920, and in the past two years, Ford’s profits were $4,201,883. In 1924 the profit was $2,414,859, or al- most half what the entire railroad cost Ford. Ford instituted the “profit sharing” scheme on his railroad in order to get the most work out of his employes. He paid wages slightly higher than the union scale, but cut down the number of employes and insisted that the employes work much harder. The railroad ships coal from Ford’s Ohio mines to his Detroit factories. Chicago Radio Music Now Unionized, Says Musicians’ Union ‘With the signing up of KYW and Oak Park, the Chicago Federation of Musicians controls the music broad- casted from all Chicago radio sta- tions. “This makes it 100 per cent,” says Pres. Petrillo, who urges union musi- cians in other to tect them- riko larad selves likewise 8 on their employment! made by the radio. Stations ha) An agreement with the union pay é compensa tion for all music brogdcasted, The Chicago lccal is’ sending three delegates to the 29th annual conven- tion, American Federation of Musi- cians, which opens at Buffalo in May. Silk Weavers in Brooklyn Fight the Three-Loom System BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb, 17.—Thirty silk weavers employed by the Mace Mfg. Co. Lawton street;and Broadway, Brooklyn, have gone out on strike. They demand an inerease in piece price and are putting up a fight against the three-loom system. A committee was sent to the em- ployer to present the demands of the workers, but was met with refusal to get a hearing, driven out and called dogs. Nothing, however, can dampen the ardor of the strikers and in spite of this treatment there is unity and de- termination to fight the matter out to he finish. Senate Makes An Empty Gesture For Farm Relief WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.— A final drive to draft a bill carrying out the farm relief recommendations of the bresident’s agricultural commission was ordered today by the senate agri- cultural committee. —, The committee will hold night ses- sions this week in an effort to report the bill to the senate jn time for ac- tion before adjournment. The speed- up program was inaugurated, it was said, to meet the demand of farm or- ganizations that some, relief be pro- vided by this congress Flu Epidemic ih Texas. DALLAS, Tex., Feb.'16—The deaths in Dallas’ influenza ‘epidemic had amounted to 74 today after five vic- tims had died Sunday night and to- day. Twenty-five new cases had been reported at noon today. ENGLAND ASKS FOR TAADE PROPOSITION FRO SOVIET RUSSIA LONDON, Feb, 17.—A closer un- derstanding between’ Great Britain and Soviet Russia wae forecast in diplomatle circles today when the British foreign office lesued a state- ment saying England would discuss “any reasonable proposition” with Ruesla. The recognition of Soviet Russia by Japan forced England to act. Let America’s Teachers Also Join the Workers’ World Struggle to be Free By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 'ODAY, the most vicious attack of the American anti- Soviet press is directed against the schools of the Work- ers’ Republics, It is significant, however, that while such counter- revolutionary propagandists as Emma Goldman are given unlimited space or their malicious warfare against the Soviet educational system, hardly a word has been published about the recent Teachers’ Congress, in Moscow, with 1,500 delegates present from all sections of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, The great fact about this congress, that the anti-Soviet press sought to hide, was that it showed the teachers ‘every- where had been won for the Soviet cause, It has been a long and uphill struggle. Zinoviev, in addressing the teach- ers, painted three pictures in the life of the Russian teach- ers as follows: VACATIONS OF 1913-1914 Seven thousand people in attendance. A te deum in the Kazan Cathedral. In the People’s House. DECEMBER 13, 1917.—The proletariat is victorious. geoisie offers. resistance. ‘Teachers’ Conference. Chairman: Senator Mamontov. The anthem “God save the czar” Petrograd. The bour- Teachers’ delegates arrive in Petrograd to declare a general strike of teachers. The teachers’ delegates declare: “We demand a constituent assembly, we are not with the violent usurp- ers of power, we do not wish to be the educators of slaves.” At the hour of the proletarian victory the teachers went on strike. AUGUST 14, 1918—Red Kazan captured by the whites, Czecho-Slovaks and the social-revolutionaries The chief topic Teachers’ meeting at Kazan. te the white army. * & The 1 into Red Kazan. jas the question of aid But all this is of the past. The teachers are now en- thusiastic for Soviet Rule. It is only when Lunacharsky, the People’s Commissar for Education, ambitious for rapi pro- gress, deplores the comparatively low state of education, the hardships borne by the teachers, and the imperative need to increase the funds at the disposal of the Commissariat for Education, that the agg | upon his big desires for the press in foreign lands, seizes immediate future, and twists them into their own subtle lies, claiming that illiteracy is in- creasing in the Soviet Republics, that public education in Soviet Russia is now in a worse state than even under the czardom. Such fantastic fables surely defeat their own purposes, Zinoviev tears aside the curtain of the near future when © he declares, “The time is near when there will be material prosperity. There will be a time when there will be a news- paper in every village; when the viliage school will-not get the worst, but the best building in the village.” Lunacharsky is also satisfied with the outlook. This was shown when he told the assembled teachers that, “The total sum at the disposal of the Central Authorities of the: Commissariat fer Education for the whole of the U.S. S. Re in 1923-24, was 85 million roubles, whereas this amounts to 140 million roubles. ar it IF WE PROCEED AT THIS RATE WE SHALL SOON BE OUT, OF THE WOODS.” This will be bad news for Emma Goldman, Rafael Ab- ramovich and the whole host of anti-Soviet propagandists pampered by the exploiters’ press, It is something for the school teachers of the United States to ponder over. American teachers are forced to do the bidding of their capitalist masters who either themselves sit or have their agents on the local boards of education in every city, town and hamlet in the nation. They are not only the slaves of capitalism, but must use what talents they have to enslave the children, the growing generation, to the wishes of the capitalist social * order. * * Like the Russian teachers under czarism, America’s teachers are addressed in all their great gatherings by the doliar inspired politicians of the capitalist state. They are permitted to sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” that carri the chains of Wall Street to every nation in the world out- side Soviet Russia. Let the teachers of the United States profit by the growing class consciousness of the Russian teachers under Soviet Rule. Let American teachers also join the struggle to be free. LASS meets Wednesday evening, 8 P. M. 2613 Hirsch Blyd. Max Lerner, instructor. Assignment this week Chapter 9, People’s Marx. By vote of class new students will be admitted this session and next ses- sion providing they are willing to do necessary work to catch up with class. Apply at class meeting this week or next week or at district headquarters, Room 303, 166 W. Washington St. Questions on Chapter 9, People’s Marx 1, Is co-operation of similar char- acterin all societes? 2. Explain what economies co-oper- ation as we speak of it is this chapter, affects, 3. What new forces does co-opera- tion as per above bring into existence? To whose benefit do these new forces if any accrue? 4, What new functions are brought into existence through the co-opera- tion of wage workers? What functions arise by virtue of the social character of this labor and what by <sirtue of ELEMENTARY MARXIAN ECONOMICS capitalist nature of the whole process? 5. Define manufacture and the per- iod in which it takes place. 6. Explain the division of labor manufacture effects in the workshop and in what way it develops. Also what effect on tools of production. 7. Explain the effect of the division of labor in manufacture on the worker. 8. What two ‘fundamental forms does the organization of manufacture take? 9. Explain the limitations of man- ufacture upon capitalist production, 10. What is a machine? Of what parts docs a machine consist and what is its distinguishing feature? 11, What revolutionary effect has machiney upon production? 12, Does machinery add any new value other than that which is incor- porated in it in the process of pro- duction? 18, Does the capitalist introduce a machine when it costs as much or more than the cost of the labor power which the machine would displace? ANTI-LABOR CONGRESSMAN HERALDS GAINS FOR NON-UNION COAL FIELDS (By Tho F ‘ated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Congressman McLeod of Michigan, anti-labor, has issued a press statement calling attention to the gain of 1.6 per cent in production of bituminous coal in the non-union states of West Virginia and Kentucky, announced by the National Coal Association, as contrasted with the loss of production amounting to 18 per cent for the principal union states, \linois, Indiana and Ohio, for the year 1924, 4 McLeod points out that eleven billion dollars valuation and some 700,000 workers are involved in the bituminous coal industry, and that this transfer of the business from unionized to unorganized territory carries with it a dustries, such as steel. ift of population, both to the nonunion fields and from mining to other in- aie te CHILD LABOR LAW DEFEATED IN BAY STATE Young Workers to Issue Weekly Organ BOSTON, Mass.— The Massachu- setts senate has rejected the child labor amendment to the federal con- stitution by a vote of 33 to 1. This overwhelming defeat of the amend- ment in the Massachusetts senate af- ter it had already been defeated by “popular” vote, is significant in view ‘of the present situation in the ‘textile industry in this state. Especially at the present time when the textile magnates are cutting wag: es and trying to smash the unions, they cannot afford to take any chanc- es of having child labor abolished. Thousands of children running down to the youngest imaginable age are employed in the textile mills and it is this large supply of cheap labor on which the textile bosses depend to keep the wages of the older workers down; for breaking strikes and as a lever for the forcing of wage cuts on the textile workers. Spending Thousands. With the supply of cheap labor from Europe greatly diminished as a re sult of the immigration restrictions; the textile bosses and manufacturing associations of Massachusetts are willing to spend hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to be sure that no limitations will be put on the supply of child labor in this state. Leading the Fight. The Young Workers’ League which is fighting against the wage cuts in Massachusetts along with the Work- ers (Communist) Party; is leading the fight against child labor in this state. It is not only trying to organ- ize the youth and child laborers that they will not scab on the older workers, but thru its official organ, The Young Worker, the league is fighting the propaganda of the capi- talist press. which has been even worse here than in other states. The textile bosses and other manu- facturers of Massachusetts mobilized the whole press for a “scare cam- paign” only second to the “Coolidge or Chaos” scare campaign of the re- cent elections. Weekly Worker. The last issue of The Young Work- er is a special child labor edition, which will be widely distributed and sold in this state. In the past, The Young Worker has been greatly handicapped since it appeared only twice a month, but stating with the next issue it will begin publication as a weekly paper when it will be able to intensify its campaign against child labor in Massachusetts and thru- out the country. McAndrew Institutes Star Chamber Tactics Against the Teachers Superintendent of Schools McAn- drew not only believes in secrecy in marking of teachers’ examination pa- pers, he also believes in secret con- ferences with teachers. The board of education has order. ed him to call a conference with rep- resentatives of teachers’ organizations to clear up the controversy on secret markings. Monday night it was learn- ed that McAndrew had invited each teachers’ organization to send a rep. resentative to a conference. When the representative arrived, however, they were kept waiting in the corri- dor outside his office while one at a time entered McAndrew’s private room and in the presence of William H, Campbell, of the board of examin- ers, he questioned them. Margaret Haley, of the Teachers’ Federation, said the Teachers’ Union absolutely refuses to send a repre- sentative to discuss this question or any other under closed doors. The organizations that sent repre sentatives were the Physical Educa tional Club of Chicago, (men) the As- sistants to Principles and the Wo- men Teachers’ Physical Education. They sat-in the chairs in the corri- dor rigid and sphinx-like and as non- committal as the superintendent him- self. Plute Who Won War a With Tar Pot Uses q Pistol Correctly MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Feb, 17.— Judge John F. McGee is dead. By his own hand, the workers of Minnesota were relieved of one of their bitter est enemies, On Sunday morning he was found dead as a result of a gun shot, self inflicted, During the war ne won the eternal plaudits of capitalist plutes by his act ivities against the workers as chair man of the infamous Burnquist “pub lic safety commission.” Non-partisan league and labor organizers were tar red and feathered, meetings were broken up and militants were jailed under the guise of “liberty and mocracy.”” At the time of his death he holding down the job of United district judge, which was given on March ist, 1923, by the Harding, as a reward for to the master class, For prior to that he had been for northwest railroads - thi : i — gE H