The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1925, Page 2

Page Two CITY REFUSES TO END STRIKE OF WHITE WINGS Chicago Is Threatened with Epidemic The 2,500 striking street cleaners the city of Chicago began the cond week of their strike yesterday. While Garbage and hes continued to pile up on the walks and the stre were littered with rubbish, cc sioner of public works, A. Av Spr: broke off relations with the Street Cleaners’ Union. The city of Is held a conference with repres: tives of the city council, accor to a report in the commissione: office, and were to definitely deci whether strike breakers would be hired. The garbage littered streets are menacing~the working class sec. tions with disease. A widespread epi. demic may break out at any moment The street cleaners and garbage col lectors, represented by the president of the Street Cleaners’ Union, Michael Carrozzo, cut their demands for an Mmerease in pay 50 per cent. Sprague who~had previously offered the strik- ers ten cents a day more pay, with- drew the offer and refused to confer further with the union representa- tives. The union officials offered to settle thé strike if the laborers were given $5.25 per day, section foremen $6.50 per day, repair foremen $8.00 per day and dump foremen $180.00 per month. Sprague refused to consider this of- ter. The dump, repair and section fore- men will hold a meeting at 4 o'clock | this afternoon at 180 West Washing-| ton street, {t was announced at their offices, to discuss the strike situation. Four Workers Burned in Searing Blast of Flaming ‘Oil in Pa. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25.—Four men ‘were burned probably fatally several others injured and damage estimated | at more than $85,000 caused when a searing blast of fldming oil scattered the burning liquid over a “test crew” working in a room of the Duquesne Light company plant, at Colfax, near here today. The workmen were making final tests on new power equipment when @ crossed circuit from the wires carry- ing 66,000 volts of electricity fired the oil, The entire plant was shaken by the blast which ruined huge generat- ing units and giant turbines, Anti-Alien Land Bill Defeated by Idaho Legislature BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 25.—By the nar- row margin of one vote the Idaho house of representatives today failed to pass the anti-alien land bill, de- signed, according to\its framers} to prohibit the leasing of land to Japa- nese farmers to Dec. 31, 1928. The vote was 29 for passage and 30 against. There was much debate on the measure, particularly as to what pos- @ible effect passage would have on @apanese-American relations. Socialists and State Progressives Adjourn Altho the socialist national and state fonventions declared that the socialist party had severed all connections with the LaFollette “progressive” ment, several socialists attended the state convention of the “provisional progressive party of Illinois” and were told that their seats as delegates were ‘open to them. Both conventions have adjourned. The progressives are marking time, hoping that the scattered LaFollette forces may yet be collected into some sort of a petty bourgeois party. The socialists are in such state of disor- ganization that they are frantically j trying to keep the skeleton of their party together, Relieve Coughs, Colds, Headache, Rheumatism and All Aches and Pains 19-350 and 650 jars and tubes, (Children’s Musterole (milder form) 350, Better than a Mustard Plaster and garbage collectors employed by | ,| sets ten words of ‘abuse. _| ers will understand. move- AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) the United States, government. kenzie’s latest assignment is to write a series of pen portraits of the fore- most Communist leaders in Russia, He began with Trotsky and gave him a clean bill of health. His next vic- tim was Zinovievy who is not so unfor- tunate as Trotsky. For every word of praise showered on the ex-minister of war by this capitalist hack, Zinoviev The work- It is not likely | that Trotsky will appreciate the unso. ed praise of this journalistic men- Mac- ** HAT a collection of servile lick- spittles those capitalist journal- ts are? Not even the stage produces so Many men and women willing to do anything in return for the approval of those in power. One of this tribe is James O'Donnell Bennett. He has licked the boots of almost every wealthy man in the United States dur- ing his career and his tongue is still in working condition. He is now vorking on Calvin Coolidge. “Cal” as talking to a bunch of female hypo. crites on the question of preparedness. | They represented organizations whose } members “either bred men for war or are the descendants of women who did” writes Bennett. The world would be something better off if these brain. less chunks of protoplasm were never born or bred. tie | "HIS is the kind of putty that the | hedge schoolmaster Coolidge ped- died his platitudes to. “Rational re- duction of armaments” was one of his themes. After Coolidge got thru with them, Secretary of War Weeks, came on, then Major General John L. Hines, chief of staff. “As a result of our wo- men’s work in thé world war, the war department has now established a womans’ relations section of the gen- eral staff, with a woman in charge.” Convincing proof that the last war would not be the last! eee NOTHER militarist gave a lecture on “Undermining the youth of the nation.” This general’found nuclei in colleges and universities and in the public schools. The female battalion of death promised aid of course. And as if in reply to the challenge of this war monger, the Young Workers’ | League, which is the only revolution- ary youth organization in the United States, comes out with a weekly news- paper instead of the bi-weekly which succeeded: the monthly. The young revolutionists are yet small in num: MEMBERSHIP OF DRESSMAKERS IS _DISFRANCHISED Local Executive Had Defied Fakers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Feb, 25.—The executive board of Dressmakers’ Lo- cal 22, has again committed a “crime” against the saintly fakers at the head of the international. As penalty, the joint board decided to take away the right of the membership of the local to elect its own business agent. The fakers now insist on appointing the business agent, also they preferred charges against the executive board of the local. The “crime” is as follows: The ex- ecutive board refused to sign a state- ment, written by Manager Feinberg. Feinberg wanted the executive to sign and circulate a statement that it con- demns those who, prior to the elect- ion of business agents, issued leaflets attacking certain candidates. The executive was willing to send out a statement that it was not res- ponsible for the call, but Feinberg insisted on his order. The bureaucrats could not let this “crime” of refusal pass, so brought charges before the joint board which decided as above. Notice, Delegates to Local Labor Defense Council Conference All delegates from unions, co-oper- atives, workers benefit societies and branches of the Workers Party to the Chicago Labor Defense Council Con- ference, are requested to attend the general conference tonight at 8 o'clock, in Room 301, 188 West Wash- ington street. Postal Salary Bill Again Passes House WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — The postal salary increase bill passed the house today by a vote of 370 to 8. The bill makes a re-arrangement of postal rates on various classes of mat- ter carried by the postal service to in- creasé revenues in order to meet the additional charges for increased sal- aries to employes. It is estimated that the boost in pay ber and their funds are low. But evo. lution is on their side, and some day. @ red general will be talking to a group of women workers in Washing- ton, not on how to protect capitalism from the workers but on how to de- fend the workers’ republic against the capitalists if any exist by that time. IRISH RELIEF AND DEFENSE T0 BE MEET TOPIC Dunne and Totten Will Be Speakers The first general meeting of the Chicago Labor Defense conference will take place this Thursday night, Feb. 26, at 180 W. Washington St., 8 o'clock sharp. Delegates will be in attendance from many unions, includ- ing Machinists, Painters, Wood Turn- ers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Food Workers and others. In addi- tion to Workers Party and Young Workers’ League units, many other working class organizations will be represented, including the Slovak So. cialist Federation, Workmen’s Cir cles, Lithuanian, Bohemian, Slovak and Russian fraternal. organizations. Two short speeches are on the pro- gram, one by Richard Totten, secre- tary ofthe Irish Workers’ Republican Club and member of the Plumbers’ Union on the famine crisis that threat. ens the very life of large sections of workers and farmers in Ireland, The other will deal with the Michigan cases, and will be by one of the most prominent of the defendants, prob- ably William F, Dunne, Ways and means of bringing de- fense and relief work to the atten- tion of Chicago’s working masses will be the principal order of business and money raising projects will come in for their full share of discussion. William F. Kruse, local secretary of the conference, has sent out a call to will aggregate $68,000,000 a year. The additional revenues from increased charges on matter handled by the postal service is estimated at $61,- 000,000, Holiday For Unemployed—Yes LONDON, Eng., Feb. 25.—“I have never seen so many exponents of elegant leisure as in America,” said John Buchan, English author who has just returned from a visit to the United States. “America is a place of @ superb holiday,” Buchan said. He was entertained by the wealthy society people in America, and had no contact with the masses of poorly paid and unemployed workers. Get your tickets for Red Revel Ball, February 28. THE DA! Police Seek , of Gene BIARRITZ, Feb, 25,—The secretary of the Biarritz ofsino said today that the casino authorities had not yet de- cided whether press extradition proceedings seeking the return of Lieut. Osborne G Wood to France. “We have done nothing further about the warrant for Wood,” he said. “Tt is still in the hands of the police. T am going to Paris tomorrow and hope to see some of Wood's friends there.” The proprietor of the Champs Elys- ses travel agency’today filed a claim of 3,005 francs against Lieut. Osborne C. Wood. “ay “My bill. is for automobile hire,” he said. “I’ve taken preliminary steps to attach Wood's trunks in self pro- tection.” ‘Amalgamated’ Locals Withdraw from Their Joint Board in N. Y. (Continued from page 1) drawing from participation in the board, and would not be responsible for the tactics used by the officials of the board. Four locals are now out, including Local 6, which was expell- ed. Those withdrawing are Italian Local 63, the New York Local 24, and Pantsmakers’ Loéal 80. At the joint board meeting, Wolf, the leader of the official machine, de- clared that the reason he called for the police and had stationed them at the door, was that he was afraid the tailors would attack him and beat him. He, therefore, expects to have the police take part in the future joint board meeting, instead of the delegates. He has earned the title of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. More Collaboration With Police. The Amalgamated bureaucracy, in addition to calling in the police against the membership and the dele- gates, has also asked the capitalist government, and succeeded in the re- quest, to raise the bail of Comrade Jenkaitis, who was beaten up by the sluggers of the officials at a meeting of the Lithuanian local. He is now held in $1,000 bail—for being beaten up. Jenkaitis is one of the most active and responsible leaders of the Lithuanian member. ship of the Amalgamated. Klan Supports Bill Aimed at Galligan SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 25.—The! bill introduced int assembly heres to allow the cotint? board of super- visors to remove ‘sheriffs or other county officers from Office, is receiv- ing the support of the ku klux klan, it is rumored here. The bill is aimedvat Sheriff George Galligan, an anti-klansman, who re- fused to resign his post as sheriff despite the insistence of the klan. Galligan is now outside the county, having agreed to take an indefinite leave of absence from office in order to promote peace in Williamson coun- ty, if possible. Demands Reduced Rents. SPRINGFIELD, IL, Feb. 25.—Un- less room rent in,private homes to students at the university of Illinois is materially reduced at once, Repre- sentative Harry M.’McCaskin will de- mand that two dormitories be sup- plied by the state, he said today. CLEVELAND Y. W. L. IS FIGHTING USE OF SCHOOLS TO REGISTER AND PERSECUTE ALL MILITANTS (Special to The Daily Worker) By ¢. WEISSBERG, CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 25.—-Students in the publi¢ schools here are being catatogued according to their race and social standing, by order of the board of education. Every pupil is obliged to fill out a detailed informa- fion card which he is not permitted to take home. parents are to be regarded as the most significant,” of instructions issued to the teachers. “The items relating to according to the page It appears that, havihg failed to securt a national bill for the registration of workers, the bosses are trying ——————_ to worm the desired information out of the children thru the capitalist schools. Register Workers. This registration is of great signi- ficance to the worker, Children who are Jewish or colored must designate that fact on the information card. The children are asked in what countries their parents were born, what lan- guage is spoken in their home, and whether or not their parents had any education. Each, pupil is asked wheth- er he intends to finish school or not. Those who intend to quit are asked to state their reasons for ont continuing their education, Each child is asked if he earns money outside of school, how much he earns, and where he all delegates to come on time so that] Works a good precedent can be set for fu- ture meetings. EXCELLENT k DANCE MUSIC -—O— —, SURPRISES ENTERTAINMENT - THIRD ANNUA Bosses Behind Move “Does your mother help support . RED REVEL the family” is another question asked the Cleveland school children. Other questions are: “What is your father’s occupation? Where does he work, and for whom? Ig he part owner of the place where he works?" The instructions to the teachers state, “In answering questions rela- ting to occupation of father it is par- ticularly important that answers be as definite as possible in order that the father may at fot be accurately placed in one of the larger occupa- tional groups, such as unskilled la- bor, semi-skilled labor, clerical occu- pation, perzonal sérvice, professional, managerial, and employing occupa- tions.” What Does Parent Read? On the backs of these cards the children must mark the names of ma- gazines, journals and newspapers Soraey February. WEST END WOMEN’S CLUB H mn . Auspi 37 S0,:ASHLAND Workers “Soviet Rule” vs. “The Empire” Discussion Is Rousing British Labor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL TODay. a storm of controversy sweeps the British Labor Party, bringing to the front, in clear various tendencies within this very much weapon of the British workers. J. Ramsay MacDonald, the late “labor” premier, one of the best premiers that British capitalism has ever had, re- turns from his vacation trip in the West Indies just in time to help J. H. Thomas, and other labor lackeys of British royalty, defend the huge expenditure of funds planned for the trip of the Prince of Wales to South Africa, Argentina and other spots on the globe, where he is expected to repair some of the broken down political fences of British imperial- ism. David Kirkwood, the Scotch labor member of parlia- ment, declares he was picked by the executives of the Parlia- mentary Labor Party to launch the attack on the prince. MacDonald comes back with, “It's a lie!” And the fight is on. * * The position of the MacDonalds and the Thomases is considerably undermined by the debate aroused over the forthcoming report of the British Trade Union Delegation that recenily spent six weeks investigating conditions in Soviet Russia. Considerable has already been published re- garding the views of these delegates, but the official report as not yet been made. It is expected to be finished very soon and thus place the organized British labor movement pretty much on record in its sympathetic attitude towards the First Workers’ Republic. The capitalist sheet, the London Daily Telegraph, claims to have had a peep at the prelimina teats of the report and, from its viewpoint, charges it to be “an amazing docu- ment.” rspective, the lunted political ns ® While MacDonald and Thomas lean more and more, if this is possible, toward “their king” and “the empire,” the Purcells, Tilletts and Bromleys, who went to Soviet Russia, are more than ever outspoken in their praise of the achieve- ments of Soviet Rule, startling the British capitalists espe- cially when they declared they were much impressed by the maneuvers of the Red Army, “the first disciplined, armed and trained force created and utilized for the defense of working class institutions.” *. * 2 & There will be little comfort for the renegades who have joined the ranks of counter-revolution, and weep over the so-called “political prisoners” in the Workers’ Republic. The British delegation tells these renegade campfollowers <* cap- italist anti-Soviet propaganda and intervention that, “we can only express the hope prisoners in our own country in- terned for similar offenses are permitted to enjoy the same standard of comfort and treated with the same kind of humanity and have something like the same opportunities.” Outside of a few Abramoviches, Goldmans, and of course the grand dukes and all ‘their retinue, Soviet Russia recog- nizes that the few who still feel that the Workers’ Republic isn’t just what they want, will in time realize their mistake. In the meantime Soviet Rule must be prevent against them. On'this Russian policy the British trade unionists place their “O. K." much to MacDonald’s chagrin; the Mac- Donald who still has hopes of overthrowing workers’ rule in Soviet Georgia, if not in Russia itself. * * Abramovich, sitting in the office of the “socialist,” Mor- ris Hillquit, in New York City, gives the Times an interview reiterating his attack on the so-called “terror” in Russia. To this the British trade unionists record their conviction that this charge cannot honestly be believed by any unprejudiced person travelling within the Union of Soviet Republics and talking to its citizens. * ¢ & & All of which indicates that MacDonald and Thomas and their kind are going to have some hard sledding in the Brit- ish Labor Party and in the British trade union movement. Red baiters in the British trade unions will face difficult going; an echo of which, it is hoped, will be heard in the American labor movement. This present discussion in Great Britain within the Labor Party must accelerate the drift of new working mas- ses to Communism. The workers will ask, “If Soviet Rule is so good for the Russians, why shouldn't it be good for the workers of Great Britain?” To which American workers might add, “And how about the United States?” which are read in their homes. The school authorities are having a iard time in convincing the pupils that this information is “strictly con- fidential and will not be used in any personal connection whatsoever.” The principal of the Glenville high school declared that the information is need- ed by a certain “class in city admin- istration, which is studying the socio- logical background of the pupils at- tending the Cleveland high schools.” Teachers in other high schools give contradictory excuses for the registra- tion of the workers thru their chil dren. The teachers of the Central high school, for example, have stated that the information “is needed for the Jewish council alltance,” a local charity settlement institution. Some teachers in the same school gave still other explanations. The Young Workers’ League is fighting the registration on class grounds. Its members are explaining to the other students that the schools are gathering this information help the capitalist state discover and persecute the more militant members of the working class. In many schools WORKERS MASQUERADE BALL 28, 1924 AVENUE (GORNER MONROE ST.) recat Chicage, bie the students have torn up the cards, cefusing to return them, and protest- ng against the registration of the workers as if they were so many animals owned by the capitalist class. “The registration will continue,” declared Charles H. Lake, assistant superintendent of public schools. But the members of the Young Workers’ League reply, “The registration must not succeed. The children of the workers must be taught not to be- tray the interests of the working class,” big business. A propaganda read after you have enjoyed it, PARTY 100% novel you can hand to your shop-mate to THE DAILY WORKER, Literature De 4113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. i i RR Ho COMMUNISTS IN CITY ELECTION INCREASE VOTE (Continued from page 1) over the issues. The issues made | by the capitalist candidates were of the usual election type:, “City Beau- tiful,” “clean-up,” street car franchise, etc. It was the old stuff. The popn- Tate, least of all, the working class, Saw little room for interest. The ward machines worked as they al- ways do. Most of the present job holders were re-elected. Despite the fact that most of the Communist nominees were denied a place on the ballot by the usual poli- tical petition tricks, those who re- mained carried on a stiff fight on a Communist program. Their appeal was made to the workers of Chicago on a program that, so far, stands as the best application of Commuan- ism to municipal questions that has been put forward. Communist Program Covered lesues, On every phase of municipal life the Communist candidates had a pro- gram that put the issues fairly and squarely on a working class basis. Concerning the fake municipal own- ership talk that was made a feature of the campaign the Communist ean- didates said, “Take the ownership of public utilities from the hands of pri- vate capitalists and confiscate all franchises.” They demanded work or compensation for all unemployed at full wages; no evictions for non-pay- ment of rent; abolition of the use of Police to break strikes; union wages, eight-hour day and a fiveday week for all workers. Hvery one of the demands of the Communist candi dates were such that they could re- ceive the whole-hearted support of every class conscious worker, 75,000 Leaflets Distributed, Seventy-five thousand leaflets ons rying the program of the candidates and issued by the Workers (Com munist) Party were distributed over the city in connection with thousands of leaflets protesting against wagé cuts and asking the workers to re sist them with strikes, Meetings were held in many wards. On the whole, the campaign showed that the Workers (Communist) Party can go out in elections and get a hearing and real working class support on the basis of Communist demands, Martin Abern, secretary of the Workers (Communist) Party, loeal Chicago, made the state- ment on the aldermanic elections held yesterday: “The aldermanie elections brought victory again to the forces of reao- tion and capitalist stupidity. Men representing the interests of one group or another of the exploiters of the workers of Chicago with the aid of the capitalist press, thugs and gunmen, spouting church men and plenty of money from the capitalist war chests, were elected as alder- men. “Not a single candidate apart from the candidates endorsed by and mem- bers of the Workers (Communist) Party had a single word to say on fundamental working class issues such as the race question, the thon- sands of unemployed in Chicago, the use of thugs and police to break strikes, the traction system as a poll- for a few exploiters and many other tical foot ball and profit institution problems of concern to the workers. Only our candidates ented these issues in the distribution of thousands of pieces of literature giving the pro- gram of the Workers (Communist) Party thru meetings, etc. “Our candidates presented the only final solution to all ills and difficulties of the workers, that is, abolition of the capitalist system and political power and control of tndustries by the workers themselves. “Our candidates, Comrades Cejka, Brooker, Dozenberg and Epstein in polling an average 2 per cent of the vote cast in their wards, made a good showing indicative of future gains for Communism in coming parliamentary skirmishes as one of the means to- wards rousing the workers against capitalism. As for the fashion in which working class candidates are thrown off the ballot, this is probably as good a way as any to show the futility of pure parliamentarism as a really effective weapon of the work- THE STORY OF A PATRIOT By Upton Sinclair, A most interesting story by a master-propagandist, built a- round a red-blooded “he-man,” a hundred-per cent American who turns out to be a spy of Paper, 25 Cents rtment .