The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 5

PEASANTS HELP STARVING IRISH Famine HorrorGrowing, Says London Herald (Continued from page 1) “The people,” said Mrs. Crawford, “seem to be cut off from the rest of the world, and live like starving rats in a hole. The countryside is bleak and without timber. The crops ‘have failed, and the peat, on which the Peasants depend for fuel, has been submerged. “Extensive operations of trawling syndicates have destroyed the local fisheries, the main source of the péo: ple’s living, and the result of it, all is that these poor. souls are literally and absolutely starving. “In one place we visited, a woman lay dying of dropsy. There was no fuel in the house and no food. It was ghastly.” Mrs. Crawford went on to describe the efforts of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief to alleviate the awful distress. “I want to emphasise the fact,” she said, “that with this organization it 1s @ case of the workers helping the workers in their sufferings. We give relief first and investigate afterwards. “Our aim is to help the starving toilers, regardless of religious or poli- tical views. Food Depots Opened. “Over in Ireland,” Mrs. Crawford proceeded, “we have. succeeded in opening food depots in the various villages we have visited. “We have taken meal, flour, tinned milk, tea and coal to a number of sufferers. The goods have been co- operative products. “This, however, has been but a be- ginning. The need will be great for months to come. “We have established an Irish com- mittee of the W. I. R., which sits at Unity Hall, Dublin. We are making wide appeals for help. The sugges- tion has been made that the miners of Great Britain should give coal. The Union of Russian Land Workers is making an effort to help.” Mrs. Crawford is addressing a let- ter to all labor M. P.’s, asking for their immediate help in the work of organizing meetings with a view to securing gifts of clothing, food and money. The national committees of the W. I. R. in Holland, the U. S. A, Ger- many, and Russia have already made substantial grants. Send in Contributions. The workers and farmers of the inited States are urged to send in contributions and collect funds for the Irish famine stricken. All con- tributions should be sent and all checks made payable to the- Irish Workers’ and ard Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln 8t., Chicago, tl. Kan: City, Mo., Notloe! KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 26.—Ev- erything is set for the Kansas City Workers Party dance on Saturday evening, Feb. 28, at 1516 Grand Ave., for the benefit of the Labor Defense. Talk it up in your union—the members will subscribe. FOR SALE: 40 Acre Fruit Farm § cows; chickens; new 6-room house; cheap. Close to Muskegon, Mich. Call Diversey 3929 or write — 304 Start St. Chicago, III. ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE Given by ‘The North-West English Branch, ‘W. P., and Area Branoh No, 6 of the Y. W. L, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 8 P.:M. WORKRRS’ LYCEUM, ° 2733 Hirach Blvd. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. Checking and Savings Accounts Safe Deposit Boxes Real Estate Loans Foreign Exchange A Clearing In Its New" and” : CHICAGO'S. LABOR BANK 1 Can ‘Serve You! Patronize Chicago's Growing Labor Bank! Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank (Corner Clark and Jackson—111 W. Jackson Blvd.) RHSOURCHS MORE THAN $3,000,000 House and State Bank, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) munist International because of his refusal to abide by its decisions. To those who criticized the C. I, because of its alleged “heresy hunting” pro- clivities we submit thé following evi- dence of the justification of its action from the pen of Hoeglund; a eulogy! of the traitor Branting: “Lucidity of style, logic of thought aand weight of opinion were his qualities as a writ- er, while his folitical judgment, theo- retical knowledge and devotion to his cause gave him his position as lead- er.” Branting was about as much of a radical as “Hell an’ Maria” Dawes. In fact, Dawes is the idol and perhaps the paymaster of the Second Interna- tional. | oe E Chicago Tribune's British liar, | John Steele, packed out some | choice paragraphs from the written | report of the labor leaders who re- cently visited Russia and chuckles gleefully over them. But they are-not 80 diabolical after all. We are happy to know that this literary ghoul has done his worst. The fact is that the report is favorable and even the para- graphs that would not sound good to the ears of Anthony ‘Comstock or Henry Ford do not get us very ex- cited. eee CCORDING to the excerpts cabled by Steele, the report says that the dictatorship of the workers’ and peasants is exercised thru the Com- munist Party. This is old stuff. “A woman can procure an abortion by an authorized physician in a state hos- pital provided she can give the medt- cal board satisfactory reasons why she should not have a ohild. Neces- sary reasons are inability to bring up & child or ill health.” It is whispered that abortions can be procuerd in “these United States” provided enuf money 1s available to overcome the doctor's fear of landing in the can. see Whe a report says that the Soviet sys- tem is no more Jewish than it is Sengalese, but that the Jews thru their intelligence and competence have secured high positions in the government. Considerable propagan- da is also carried on against the relig- ious dope joints. For all these things we give thanks, as they betoken that the Soviet government is. trodding |. blithely along the high road to prosperity and a better. life for the workers and peasants of Russia and thereby giving aid and comfort to the movement for freedom in all lands, Revere Comrades — Plan Red March Membership Drive REVERE, Mass., Feb. 26.—The Re vere branch of the ‘Workers ‘Party will celebrate the month of ‘March in the following way: We will open the month with a po- tato-pancake party on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8 p. m. at Eagle’s Hall, . There will be food, song and dance, A hu- morous wall paper will be read off and woe unto the poor workers in the branch. This affair will be followed by a lecture by Schachno Epstein, editor of the Freiheit on Sunday, March 8, at 8 p. m. During the entire month an inten- sified house to house drive will be carried on for new subscribers and members. All members will be mob- ilized to spend every Sunday between 10 and 12 for the drive. The Paris Commune celebration on Friday, March 27, at 8 p. m. at Bagles Hall will wind up our March activi- ties. There will be a high class con- cert and entertainment and speaker. The Mothers’ League of Revere and the Young Workers’ League will par. ticipate. The Mothers’ League is ar- ranging a sociable time for Sunday, March 15, at 8 p. m. and the Y. W. L. @ lecture on Friday, March 18, at 8 D, m. Comrade Weisbord will be the principal speaker. All _ affairs will take place at Hagle’s Hall. Our slo- gan is 50 members by April 1. We now have 30, Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! ‘Larger Quarters 6% First Mortgages Steamship Tickets Insurance in All Branches Consultation on Financial Matters BL IT GOES DOWN $3,320! With one huge wallop of $1,400 and a steady dollar tapping of $179.21, the last spike in the DAILY WORKER’S drive for 1925 was firmly fixed in place Frida: total to $20,7: insurance This brings the The $1,400.00 is an anonymous contribution from a working- men’s organization, a long-time supporter of the American Com- munist movement, “Unless the DAILY WORKER is insured, all Communist or- ganizations in the United S: are in iminent da cial demads of be met immediately. party progress is thinkable while our propaganda organ is in- secure.” | This message came with the $1,400.00 and should serve asa to all Workers Party bi hes in their efforts to fill jeir insurance quota, emittances must reach the Y WORKER office before h 3 if they are to be in- jed in the final rechoning to in, the special March tor edition, eae | T am with you for insuring the DAILY THE DAILY WORKER 1 Send this Greetingyto th: Comintern : 18 “The Daily Worke Safe for 1925” Here is my dollar to HAMMER IT HOME! Scttet PMD acco cexct cess WORKER TO THE LAST SPIKE! City STER HAVE YOU HIT THIS SPIKE? Minera and “Do-nothing” Policy. To the DAILY WORKER: The head- line in the DAILY WORKER of Feb. 6, “Nothing to Do, Say A. F. of L. Heads” but still drawing their salar- but out of work with many on the brink of starvation. One hears the cry of complaint and bitterness everywhere. dustry grows worse from day to day. Daily more mines close down. Many are on low production. The situation is desperate. There was some little hope.of im- provement when a new power com- pany about 7 miles from here was about to open up. Some 70 men ap- plied for work and were told the rate of pay was to be 35 cents an hour jend a 10 hour day. Many refused to need had no other recourse but start. Wee on such wages. And board for single men is $12.50 a week at the camp houses. The company, I am informed, is the West Pen Power which will eventual- ly be linked up with the growing col- ossus, the Super Power, when all the holdings are squeezed out of the small holders and. merge the coal, water and ges units. And if the miners should. go out on strike the water power will be of great assistance in beating the miners. At this time with so many men out of work and in desperate circum- stances, with the bosses taking every advantage of the men and forcing down their wages, “Nothing to Do Say the A. F. of L. Heads.” There is much grumbling at leaders of labor who find nothing to do when such ser- fous problems confront the workers. Yours truly, Henry Dondery, Morgantown, W. Va. A Conversation. To the DAILY WORKER: On Ash- land Ave., a Negro worker asked me for a match and having this opening I started a conversation with him. He proved’ to be an ex-salt water sailor, shunted aside after acquiring a stiff limb, and this gave us a good start as I was in somewhat the same boat. We walked along and soon the din- gy stret turned into a rebel turnpike for here was one driven to mental re- volt (and ready for action) by life as he found it, In contact with his fellows on the sea and in deep water ports he had acquired an ideology something like this: This cursed system must go and in this country the chief thing is to get white and black workers united with that end in view. A standard of liv- ing here that almost equals that of séme of the “best people” in China, Egypt (and other places he had been to) was all to the mustard because the workers here would fight before los- ing out on that very far and that was just what the present capitalist sys- tem could not provide for very long. “Just from work,” I was delaying his home going so we shook hands for the last time and he sang out, “Follow Russia, that is what we will do when our time comes and woe to those who oppose us,” but there was a world of sincerity back of it that one would need to hear to apreciate. Can’t say he had read such a lot, but after being told about the Work- ers Party and receiving the promise of some literature his enthusiasm in- crea: Can we not more and more (as Len- in, our leader aid all those years) feel this change coming down upon us and miss as few chances as possible (even in a small way) to prepare for it. Fraternally, Les Fillmore. Capitalism in Joliet. To the DAILY WORKER:—On Jan. 24, 1925, an election was held in Joliet to increase the school tax rate from $2.75 to $4.00 per hundred valuation. Due to the activities of organized la- bor the proposal was defeated by or- Are Sacco and Vanzetti to Die? ANSWER NO! PROTEST MASS MEETING SAA WORKERS! SUNDAY, MARCH SPEAKERS: JACK W. JOHNSTONE, Secretary Trade Union Educaa. tional League, RALPH CHAPLIN, and an Italian speaker | Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago, ADMISSION FREE! few is quite a contrast to the poor| | devils in thie town walking the streets | Our line of in-| | start while others driven by absolute} Such work recently has paid $5 and; |$@ per day. Men with families can’t} SE ee TTT TTLILMLUMMLLL LLL LLL UILT at EMMET MEMORIAL HALL, Ogden and Taylor Av Page Five Letters From Our Readers ganized labor by a vote of three to one, On Jan, 26, 1925, the school board held their regular meeting and there voted to punish the workers’ chil- dren by abolishing three kindergar- ten classes and also to stop the feed- jing of daily of 30 undernourished boys and girls. | In steps our kind hearted capital- ist, Mr. Theodore Gerlach, owner of | one of the country’s largest calendar | Making plants where most of his em- Ployes are girls and women working ttor very low wages, most of them as | iow as $10.00 per week. He publicly announced he would give $1,105.00 te continue feeding the poorly nourished children each day. One of these poorly fed boys has a sister working in Mr. Gerlach’s great plant. She is 16 years old, and is vainly trying to help feed her mu- | merous brothers and sisters. She ie | assigned to printing little cards and until one week ago, was receiving one cent per card, or $1.00 per hun- | dred. F Generous Mr. Gerlach set a- new rate of 80 cents per hundred or a flat 20 per cent reduction. He gave as his reason that one very skilled and able worker earned $35.00 for two weeks’ work. This sounds Ike fic- tion, but it 1s the brutal truth. Such is capitalism in Joliet. (Signed) Martin P. Morrisey, Joliet, HL A Letter to the Los Angeles Times To the DAILY WORKER: The fol lowing is a letter to the Los Angeles | Times, which that paper, of course. didn’t print: Did I hear you say that southern California has been viciously lied about? How could that be possible unless it would be to say something good about it? Of course, I speak of southern Cal ifornia business men and politicians and the conditions in general more particularly of your attitude toward the tourists—and a word about labor. As to your attitude toward the tour- ists, well, I had a room out on Wil- shire during November at $7 a week. But on the first of December I was notified that the rent had gone up to $10.50 a week—put up or get out. ‘It was explained that the tourists would soon be piling in and that they would get $2 a night or $10.50 a week until spring—but the tourists are not com- ing, are they? Now, as to your politics, to say that it is rotten and the editors absolutely indifferent, is to put it mildly. Work 12 Hours Underground. As to the working man and the con- ditions under which he is forced to work in “southern California,” do you know that men are working under- ground in the 5th street tunnel 12 hours a day? Is it possible that Cal- ifornia has no eight hour day tor un- derground work-—if not, why not, since it is sheets like yours that con- tiol the politics of the state? You have a law in this state (and I wonder how you ever consented to its enactment except that you knew: it would never be enforced) to the ef- fect that unless a man works seven days, I believe it is, on a job the fee paid to a private employment agency must be refunded. But in most cases these fees are not returned as they should be—the authorities turn deaf ears to the pleadings of the men for a return of this fee, according to law. Rob Tourists. Where there is smoke there must be a fire smoldering somewhere. All the way from New York to Calffornia I met tourists—the roads were crowd- ed with them—in automobiles, raving, cursing, and gnashing their teeth— they had been to California and claim- ed that they had been cheated, rob- bed and in some cases abused the same as the animals with the mouth disease. Yes, California is all right. Tt has some good soil and some nice olim- ates. The tourists and workers were not condemning the soil. They were condemning the grafters. Jesse T. Kennedy, New York City. 1, 1925, 2:30 P. M. ., South ADMISSION FREE!” i