The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1925, Page 5

CAL WANTS ARMY! ¢ AND -NAVY. ONLY! AS POLICE FORCE} Talks About sut “Disorder” to Women Jingoes WASHINGTON,’ D. C., Feb. 24.— Tt is the duty of America to set an example for the world in reducing armament, and to invite other nations to follow that example, president Coolidge declared Here in;addressing @ large delegation of women attend- ing the women’s conference on nation- al defense as peace insurance. Abolition of the army and navy, he @ismissed as unworthy of serious thought. \ “Even the most law-abiding of com- Munities do not dismiss their police forces,” he said. “No more can a great Ration take the risk of leaving itself to be menaced by disorder.” Women Strong for Defense ., The president paid tribute, to the Women who composed his audience. They were advocates of a strong and militant national defensé, as opposed to the other convention of women here a few weeks ago who favored less armament and ‘supported the league of nations and the world court. Most of today’s audience were dele- gates from woman’s patriotic organi- zations. Repeats “Defense” Hoax The womanhood of Sparta has be- come legendary, the president said, but “our own history is proof that the women of Sparta were made of no stouter or more loyal stuff.” “We are compelled to recognize that national safety requires such a measure of preparedness as shall be the guaranty against aggression, with- out committing the nation to militar- ism. Whatever preparations we make shall be limited to the reasonable re- quirements of security.” Calles, Breaking His Promises, Faces Armed Peasants’ Uprising (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.—Four hun- dred armed peasants, determined that the promises of distribution of the land, made by Calles and Obregon to get their support, and even written into the Mexican laws, shall not be violated by Calles now that he has become president and sold out to Wall Street, have seized extensive cultivated and irrigated lands from the haciendas in the state of Durango, on which the owners had just invested 200,000 pesos ($100,000) under assurance of protection from the state government! President Calles today ordered the agrarians dislodged, but the latter as- sert they will fight for possession of the lands. 116 CORPORA TION LE OVER HALF A BILEION LAST YEAR By LELAND OLDS ¥ (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Hundreds of, thousands ofjobless workers would’ have had work at average wages last- year if sto¢kholders in industrial companies had lMmited their greed for profits to a 6 per cent return on the par value of their hold- ings. This appears from a Wall Street Journal review which shows. that 116 industrial corporations presented their’ common stockholders with ‘an aggregate profit of $524,904,087, auth OO aE “Ka alent to a return’of 14.5 per cént. What Might Have—But Didn’t— Happen. jAn average return of 6 per cent on the ‘par the i “the stock of these concerns would have meant a profit of about $206,000,000! leaving a margin of $319,000/000 avaifable efther for a rée- diction ‘of prices or an increase in wages. Either would have had the effect of increasing, the demand for food products, clothing, shoes, auto- mobiles, etc., stimulating industry to that extent; and making more jobs. At the average hourly rate of pay in America in 1924 this excess profit would have’ paid for’ 12,760,000 ‘weeks of work or. would have.furnished a year’s work to cover 250,000 unem- ployed wage earners. And these cor- porations are but*asthall- sempiing’ of the total which make up the country’s industry, An Interesting List. The net profits and the rate of re- turn on capital’in thé Various indus- trial groups was: Companies Industry Profit Rate Pet. 4 Motors... 36.5 4 Accessories 144 4 Clothing 3 4.3 2 Leather and shoes 6,9: 8.0 4 7,5 8.1 3 18.5 5 4 36.8 8 Oils and pipe lines , 10.0 4 Chain stores.. 83.4 7 Telephone UT 20 Other utilitie: 13.5 9 Steel industry. 9.4 42 Miscellaneous 18.4 : Understated at That. These figures undersfate the rate of return on the’ Cash ‘actially’ ifvesteil in the industry by ‘the ‘stockholders because in such industries as the auto- mobile, oil, tobacco and chain stores generous stock dividends have vastly increased the apparent capitalization. In spite of a depression which meant unemployment to tens of thousands the 1924 profits of those industrial companies compare. very favorably with those of the previous year. In 1923 they produced a total. profit for stockholders of '$555,068,000 “ repre- senting a return of 16. 2 on the capital- ization of that year. Hy Quake Rocks Belglum LIEGE, Feb. 24.—All Belgium rock. ed to the tremor of an earthquate which lasted, 30 seconds early, today. Only ne fatality resulted, according to early reports, that at Eygen Bilsen, where a woman died of fear. The shock was particularly strong at La- naken. Get your tickets for Red Revel’ Ball, February 28. OUR DAILY PATTERNS | A NIGHT GOWN. ' 6016. Crepe de chine and filet lace} 5013, Taffeta or faille would be fre here combined. Ohe could use cotton crepe, finished..with fancy stitching or banding”in a contrasting receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. ne FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Bend lic ae nad a ite oe for Fy Comprehensive artic. me points fi A. sen gore aie A FROCK FOR MATURE FIGURE. this design. As of white satin very attractive f here portrayed ft 50, 52 and corresponding waist | measure, no 35, 37, 89, 41, 43, 45 and aT Teka, bad e the dress as il- lustrated tor” a 44-inch. bist wilt re quire wide, with % yard of contrast- ing material for the collar and cuffs, and % yard of chantilly or other lace allover 20 inches wide. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. DAILY WORKER, 1118 anlagton: wivd.s Chicagor te? PATTERN ooh ay Fe Young Workers Show “Extraordinary Spirit in Garment Strike The Young Workers League of Dis- trict No. 2 is actively engaged’ dt ‘the present time in helping the workers of the white goods industry who are on strike win their demands for the complete organization of all the shops and an increase in wages. In this strike involving more than 20,000 workers the majortiy are young girls receiving wages as low as $12.00 per week, The Y. W. L. members who are in- volved in this strike are showing splendid courage and extraordinary militancy. In fact, one of the Workers Party members has expressed herself that the hardest job that-she has is to check the league members. The league is carrying on splendid Propaganda among the thousands of young workers on strike. In this work of propaganda are involved not only the Y. W. L. strikers but crews of Y. W. L. members of other trades at present unemployed who distribute literature and help the union taking down the shops that have not yet been taken down on strike. Two of our members, Comrades Eda Eisman and Bessie Eisman, members of the Brownsville branch, were ar- rested while on the picket line on the + technical chatge of insulting the pol- iceman. They are now out on bail. A meeting of all Y. W. L. members involved in the strike was held Sun- day afternoon, and the demands of the Y. W. L. worked out to be presented to the union settlement committee. The demands include among’ other things, shorter hours for the young workers, low admission fees and reg- eaeey Sane e ek es izes; bust | ular vacations. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. | Charles G, Dawes, DAWES AGENT IN. |2FF0 PLEA-FOR FRENCH- U, §, HARMONY’ | - Fears “Harmful Talk” ut Debts BALTIMORE, Feb. 24.—— Owen D. Young, ad interim agent general for reparations payments, and, with Gen, co-author of the “Dawes” plan for Germany, begged Politicians and statesmen of both France and the United States to cease their “harmful talk” about France’s war debt in a speech here today, It was... oung’s second address since his Tetufh from abroad and was made at tl ommMemoration day ex- ercises in Hopkins university. Battle is Over Debts. “We find irritation and misunder- standing,” Young said, “between two great nations and two great peoples who have every reason to work to- gether. These: two nations are now looking at each other with suspicion and doubty@ad: irritation. “And why? Because no impartial authority, from the handicaps of domestic “politics in either country, has been able to study the question of the fair Amount or the practical method of payment of the French debt. “I beg the politicians and states- men of both countries to stop their harmful talk until the facts are found.” Seeks Funds for School. ’ Young’s remarks anont the debt were made to support his contention that some agency mustbe created to get at facts as a help toward inter- national peace. Such an agency, he said, would be the Walter Hines Page school of international relations to be established at John Hopkins by the endowment fund of whose board of ee PURE: is president. Hot In Australia BRIS: Australia, Feb. 24.— Three rte a been killed by the heat sweeping this section in the last few days.;Mgny have been prostrat- ed. Settle for the Beauty and Bolshe- vik tickets. Bring the money and un- sold tickets either to 19 S. Lincoln St., or Room 307, 166 W. Washing- ton St. ANNOUNCE FIRST ANNUAL DAILY WORKER BALL IN DEPROIT, MICH. DETROIT, Mich.; Feb? 24—As the date AT S18h.5 9A - for’ he’ first annual » DAILY WORKER ball comes closer, all our charter membeng gif the, DAILY WORKER Bricklayers’ Union are hustling to get their quota of tickets sold. Everybody is anxious to mgke this affair a success and if the enthusiasm keeps up this ball will mark a milestone in the annals of Detroit festivals. The best thing about it is:that on March 1 the-Young Workers League is going to make their official organ a weekly and the first issue of this same THE WHITE TERRORISTS CRY FOR MERCY By MAX BEDACHT Is a new pamphlet just off the press. Contrasting the treat- ment of political prisoners in Russia with that given , to »political prisoners in other countries— It is also an exposure of the counter - revolutionary activities of “socialists.” Filled with facts this little, book will give you material for a subject so much in present discus- sions. 5 CENTS EACH THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department 1113 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, III, Enclos®d Foc. L0F see COples of “White Terrorists.” Send to: Name: Street: aforementioned weekly is going to be sold to all the comrades at this dance. O; urse you realize what this gies, it means nothing but, that the YOWLS are going to see to it that the bunch will be there and say this meays somethin’ doing. Yes all this is to be at the House of the Masses on Sunday, March 1, 8 P. Mi, anid) Wa pity all the poor peo- ple who live in Chicago and other places and can’t come to this—The First Annual DAILY WORKER Ball. .Party. Activities Of ~ Local Chicago Workers Party Activitiee—Chicago WEDNESDAY Feb, 25, T. U, E. L. meeting at North West hall. Red Revel commit- tee meeting. All branches send dele- gates, Douglas “Park Jeéwis, Roosevelt Rg. .. * wl Englewood, 6414 S, Halsted street. Polish,’ S#i@i Chicago, Solczynski, 8715 Commercial Ave. THURSDAY Feb, 26th, Labor Defense Council conference, Room 301, 180 W. Wash- 3118 West TO BANISH COMMUNISTS FROM ORGANIZED LABOR TO FAIL, . SAYS LABOR COUNCIL IN AUSTRALIA (By The Federated Press) SYDNEY, Australia.—The action of the Australian labor party in throw-| ing the Communists out of the labor movement in Australia is condemned by the labor council of New South Wales in its annual report for the year 1924, just issued. The labor council says that the Communists were expelled in order that the middle-class labor politicians, now dominating the party, could still further the policy of. liberalizing. the party and make it ‘easier’ to appeal to the shopkeepers and local manufacturers by throwing out‘of the party the only real revolutionary forces in Australia, “Despite their efforts, however,” says the report, :“every day, the Com- munist issue in politics becomes more and more the main issue. The shadow of Communism is over the labor move- ment. All efforts to banish Commun- ism and Communists are bound to fail, The good old times of playing at politics are gone, Revolution has stepped. upon the stage.” Your Union Meeting Fourth Wednesday, Feb. 25, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ 8. Th sleii Council, 119 H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 2507 hartmsay nd 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, Ill. Coopers, 8901 Esganaba Ave. 3 Hod Carriers, 1352 W. i 2 Hod Carrier Ww. jewel 01 rs, Ladies’ Garment’ Workers, 328 W. Van Buren Street. Marine Cooks, 387 N. Clark St. acniaes 113 ee L hige iPr Bivd. je ahemegge oe: Way, 426 W. 63r Sherman & Main Sts. a 910 W. Moni ci lye Dist. Gouncily 8448 Carmen, | 5445 Ashiand Ave, Trainmen, 175 W. Washington St. Teamsters (Meat), 220 S, Ashland renee ‘ers (Bone), 6959 S. Halsted 13046 Tuckpointers, 8 Rah a Sod St. 924 Tunnel! and Sub’ lorkers, 914 W. Harrison St. " s a Note—Un stated meetings a Keep up Aircraft Probe WASHINGTON, Febj{24.+-The con- gressional aircraft investigation, halt- ed abruptly on Saturday, will be re- sumed on Thursday, the house invest- igating committee decided today. Branches—Settle for campaign fund stamp books March 1; last date for settlement. ington street. Scandinavian Karl Marx br., 2733 Hirsch Blvd. 11th, Wa ian, 2439 S. Oakley boule me te, Mid-City English, 722 Blue Island avenue. ainavnlie West Side, Zeich's hall, cor. Cicer6 and Superior St. Scandinavian Lake View, Cafe In- drott, 5206 N. Wilton St. "office and calling upon him to show , | ordered the resolution censuring him | be expunged from the league records. LABOR DAILY IN AUSTRALIA PUTS DOWN OWN STRIKE Communist Censure Stirs Piecard Wrath (The Federated Press.) SYDNEY, Australia—Arising out of} the dispute at the office of the Labor Daily—the official organ of the New South Wales branch of the Australian labor party, where some of the staff went on strike in sympathy with five} dismissed writers, members of the| Hurstville Labor league carried a mo-| tion censuring E. C. Magrath, one of the directors of the Labor Daily, for breaking the strike at the Labor Daily cause why he should not be expelled from the labor movement. A few days later the New South Wales executive of the Australian labor party held a meeting, carried a motion of confidence in Magrath, and The executive also expelled three meinbers of the Hurstville league who were prominent in the attack on Ma- grath on the grounds that they were Communist and therefore not eligible for membership in the Australian la- bor party. Unionists claim that the expulsion of the three men was due not to the fact they were Communist, but be- cause they opposed “the anti-work- ing class attitude” of Magrath. The paper is still declared “black” by the labor council of New South Wales for victimising the five journalists be- cause they took a prominent part in the formation of a shop committee. An attempt to rescind the “black” mo- tion was defeated by 81 votes to 20. Fire Sweeps Egyptian Village CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 24—Thirty persons were burned to death and forty injured- ina fire in the village of }- Rahmania according to information reaching here today. Five hundred houses were destroyed in the confla- gration. 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 Page Five SENATORS’ USE OF ‘INFLUENCE’ AGAINST LAW Government Is Making Fake Investigation WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—With one United States senator, Burton K. Wheeler, democrat of Montana, al- ready under indictment in Montana, and proceedings being pushed against him before a federal grand jury for reindictment. here in Washington, it became known today that the activi. ties of a number of other senators are under scrutiny—among them Sen- ator Spencer, republican, of Missour! and Senator Bursum, republican, of New Mexico. Selling Influence. The indictments in each instance have the same background that they used their influence before govern- ment departments to obtain conces- sions and government action in return for which they received lawyers’ fees. In pursuit of its present policy, the department of justice apparently in. tent on setting up a standard for com- mittee members, or in other words, to establish a line where a senator’s duty to a constituent ends, and where his pecuniary interest in a client be gins. It is an extremely delicate question, and one that the department is ap- proaching with a maximum of caution much caution indeed. Spencer Firm got $80,000, In Wheeler’s case, he stands ac cused of seeking from the interior department public lands concessions on behalf of a constituent client from whom he received a fee for his serv- ices. In the case of Spencer, it is charged that he has been instrumental in se curing for the Fouke Fur company of St. Louis, an exclusive monopoly in handling government sealskins, while his law firm in St. Louis acts as at- torneys for the company. In a speech on the senate floor, defending’ the seal contract at a time when it was under attack, Spencer admitted his law firm had received fees amounting to $80,000. As a member of the frm he shared in this. Bursum’s case is similar. Charges have been made that Bursum repre- sented the agricultural and livestock corporation of New Mexico in a cat- tle deal under which he was to have received $2 a head, at the same time he was dickering with the war finance corporation in Washington to accept the security under which the sale was to have been made, If botp indictment and conviction were evér obtained in the cases now pending, it. was declared scores of other members of congress might be laid open to the same proceedings. 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