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| | —————————>_>>_——————_—_—_—_—_—_——— RUSSIAN WORKER MUST BE BACKED SAYS A.A.PURCELL Nails Anti-Soviet Lies in London Speech LONDON, Eng., April 12— “The question is not ‘Can the Russian Sov- jet government last?’ The question is, ‘. ‘How soon shall we be able to shake hands with it on equal terms in all respects?’” declared Mr. A. A. Pur- cell, ex-president of the Trades Union Congress, and a member of the trade union deputation which recently vis- ited Russia, in a speech at Street, Somerset. Truth Will Burst Forth, The capitalist class and orthodox Politicians are making the greatest mistake of their lives, he said, if they think that by persistent perver- sion of the facts relating to the state of affairs in Europe and Asia, and par- -tienlarly with regard to Russia, they can win thru. Their success in this sphere, with all their tremendous expenditure on lying leaflets and fabricated broch- ures issued under the adopted names of radical sections of the working class movement, can only last their allotted span. Confounded Profiteers, Meanwhile, we must continue to keep the working class mind well di- rected towards the great work achiev- ed so far by Russia. The Russia worker has made a prime contribution to world peace by lifting that great country out of the imperialist world pawnshop. He has confused and confounded the jingoes and profiteers of the world by the fact that he resolutely refuses to be a party to any of the imperial- istic and spread-eagle schemes for domination promoted by the capital- istic political parties of Europe. In this he has rendered great serv- ice to the working class and a great @isservice to the capitalist. It is, therefore, our working class duty to popularize and justify the Russian working class to the end. Jurisdictional Row Continues But Men Go Back to the Job NEW YORK, April 12—The strikes of union bricklayers and plasterers on dobs totalling $22,000.000 worth of building construction are to end during the truce declared between the disagreeing unions pending final set- tlement of difficulties by respective executive boards in joint conference. Plasterers who struck on Thomp- son-Starrett jobs in New York, Chi- cago, Philadelphia and other points because one of the Thompson-Starrett contractors in Miami, Florida, employ- ed plasterers carrying bricklayers’ cards will return to work. Bricklayers on strike in Atlantic City and other towns will also go back to their jobs. Meanwhile B, J. McGivern, presid- ent of the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Finishers’ International Union and W. J. Bowen, president of the Bricklayers’, Masons’ and Plasterers’ International Union, will again at- tempt to agree on the division of the trowel trades. This Years Wheat Crop Below 1924, Government Reports WASHINGTON, April 12— Based on a condition of 68.7 per cent of nor- mal, on April 1, a wheat production of 474,255,000 bushels was forecast today by the crop reporting board of the department of agriculture, as compared with 590,037,000 bushels in 1924, There was a decrease in condition from December 1 to April 1, of 12.3 points, compared with an average decline in the last ten yeas of 4.4 points between these dates, The condition of rye on April 1 wag $4.0, Get A Sub And Give One! CLEVELAND UNIONS PICKET LINES DOT WASHINGTON AS BUILDING TRADES WORKERS FIGHT PLOT OF BANKERS AND EMPLOYERS +. By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 12.—Bluntly demanding of the heids of all banks in the city of Washington that they declare whether their respective banks are parties to the conspiracy to boycott building contracturs who employ union men under the new wage scale, the Central Labor Union has given the banking magnates in the capital something to worry about. In a_zasolu- tion adopted immediately upon the strike of the painters and stonecutters for the $10 wage rate, the central body instructed its secretary to ask each tank where it stands. Unless it re-+ plies in the negative within a day or two, it is to be listed as agreeing to the financial blacklist of union em- ployers, Weasel Words. First returns from this inquiry are reported to be couched in weasel words, hinting that the banks would look with “disfavor upon any group of men or organization which would act in any manner hostile to the interests of the national capital.” That is to say, the big bankers look upon this wage increase as an affront to their dictatorship of affairs in Washington, and they propose to punish the unions by bankrupting the contractors who do not stand out against the wage scale. Inasmuch as the joint commit- tee of bankers, speculative builders and real estate brokers has been re- cruiting strikebreakers in Virginia and in Baltimore, the contest becomes one of smashing or saving the building trades unions involved in the wage movement. Picket New Embassy. Bankers are trying to guess what effect on their business will be created by further development of the fight of organized labor implied in the Cen- tral Labor Union’s resolution. They wonder whether the 50,000 union men and women in the city would start removing deposits from bank to bank, in order that their dollars might not be used against the building trades men. ’ Officers of the painters’ local union report that picketing of struck jobs has been established thruout the ctiy. THINK MANY WORKERS BURNED TO DEATH IN GREAT FACTORY FIRE HANOVER, Mass., April 12.—A worker in the mixing room of the National Fireworks company’s Han- over plant was killed and other workers seriously injured or burn- ed In the explosion which took place at the factory. More of the Lithuan- Jan and Portuguese workers em- ployed in the plant may have been burned to cinders in the fire which destroyed 200 of the 300 buildings. ~ MIDNIGHT OIL SERVING MARS “Enemy” Must Now Go One Better BALTIMORE, April 12.— Invisible light is the latest contribution of science to the art of modern war- fare. ‘ Addressing the American Chemical society here last night, Dr. Robert W. Wood, professor of experimental phys- ics at John Hopkins University, ex- plained that the “infra-red” rays, or the short light waves which ordinari- ly produce no color sensation on the eye, may be used ‘effectively for send- ing military signals. These signals, if flashed from a signal lamp, said Professor Wood, are visible to observers using field glasses equipped with a screen similar. to one of the conspicuous centers of the demonstration. Present Wages Get Only Part Interest. of School Teacher NEW YORK, April 12.—Teachers in New York City today are parttime workers, District Superintendent: of Schools John L, ‘Tildsley stelis):Gov- ernor Al Smith in» his. 0; _ letter urging Smith ‘to sign the Rises (supported by the Teachers’ Union) which increases teachers’ pay. “While part-time for pupils, is being .elimin- ated, part-time teaching is, becoming more and more common among the teachers of these same pupils” ‘says the superintendent. AS the teacher must meet the mounting bills for liv- ing costs Tildsley asserts “he takes another job after school in the after- noon and possibly another one in the evening and the boy gets but a part of a teacher and that of a slowly dying teacher who has not time for self-improvement. When _ teachers cease to grow they begin to die.” Many fine new buildings are not enough for education if the teachers are not the best and giving their best to the students, Tildsley continues. And the high cost’ of living failing to be met by teachers’ pay prevents the ones from marrying or from having families if they do marry. Teachers of accounting recently turned down promotion and consequent increase of pay by $500 because the work would interfere with more renumerative and necessary outside accounting. Thrown in the Ditch By Pennsylvania R. R. After Forty Years SUNBURY, Pa. April 12. Even the Sunbury chamber of commerce is protésting against the lay off by the Pennsylvania railroad of 350 workers in its Sunbury shops. The chamber complains that the shops are central- ly located and should be used and besides that the workers have been with the company, some of them as long as forty years, AND IRISH SOCIETIES JOIN IN RAISING FUNDS FOR ‘FAMINE SUFFERERS By TOM GALLAGHER, (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, April 12,—The dance held by the Irish Famine Relief Com- mittee in Market Square Hall netted the sum of $100 for the victims of the famine which is now raging in the west of Ireland, ‘This is the committee's first effort in raising funds for the famine victims, . The committee desires to express thru the DAILY WORKER, its thanks to the following organizations which contributed to making the affair a —_— success, Lathers, Local No, 2; Bakers, Local No. 19; Painters, Local No. 765; Painters District Council; Street Railway Employes No. 265; and the Terence MacSwiney and Uncle Sam Councils of the American Association for the Recognition of the ‘Irish Re- public that donated the hall,’ Music was donated by Irish musicians. , Comrade John P. McCarthy will speak here on Sunday, April 19, 2:80 p. m, at Laborer’s Union Hall, the Irish famine. McCarthy has just ar- rived from the west of Ireland where Ford Enters Commercial Aviation. Today the first airplane of the Henry Ford airplane service, Henry Ford's new commercial airplane pro- Ject will arrive from Detroit with 2,000 pounds of pafd ‘express. The Ford, Wrigley and Marshal Field mil- lions are said to be back of the pro- ject to popularize commercial avia- tion with Chicago as its conter, The new Italian embassy building that in the lamp. It’s Now The Enemy’s Turn “To an enemy not equipped with bin lke apparatus;” said the professor “these rays are invisible. . Signals can be transmitted in full sunlight in this manner for a distance of from five to eight miles.” The same principles that are ap- plied to invisible light, Dr. Wood said, are now being used in detecting for- geries and clever alterations of docu- ments. The chemicals used in such frauds can be detected when they are illuminated by ultra-violet or infra- red rays, he said. Girl Left Millions Sweated Out of the Workers by W. Leeds MINEOLA, N. Y., April 12.— Al ready possessing a million in her own name, thirteen year old Joy Louise Leeds, the adopted daughter of the late Warner M. Leeds, became one of the richest girls in the world today. Under the will of her foster father, filed for probate here, the girl, adopt- ed by the Leeds when she was only one year old, becomes the chief bene- ficiary of an estate valued at more than $4,000,000. Rudolph G. Leeds of Richmond, Ind., a nephew is left a sapphire stick pin, Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. [Makin Rosin Te] Did you ever see a samovar? No, it ain’t AO ukelele, it isn’t for play ing, but for boiling water to make Russian . tea. Beauty, the Bolshevik is shown here making a fire in the samovar. He, is, his boot in the true Rus sian style.as a bellows to blow the fire.jn the samovar. Come and see how. gfone in The Beauty and Bolshevik, Wednesday, April 16, from Get a sub—make another Com-|6 p. m. at Wicker Park Theater, 1689 i Milwaukee Ave. near Robey St. munist! Y WORKE >CONGRESS OF WORKERS IN CHICAGO SOON Will Act on Problems of Negro Labor An American Negro Labor Congress will be held in Chicago this summer to discuss the Negro problem. The congress will base its deliberations and actions on the fact that it is the Negro workers that have the power to lift the Negro out of the social, po- litical and ‘egonomic inequality in which they are compelled to exist. To Consist of Workers. The congress, which is being called by an organization committee of prominent Negro labor leaders, will consist of delegates from the various Negro labor unions, mixed unions (black and white), delegates from groups of unorganized workers in the ' “ eee “a Ste A R Page Three LDWIX LOCOMOTIVE WORKS PAY LOWEST WAGES AND FIRES 4,000, AS BOSS GULPS LIQUID INSPIRATION By ART SHIELDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 12— The Baldwin Locomotive Works present one of the knottiest problems facing Philadelphia labor, in the course of the general organization program the American Federation of Labor has laid out for this city, Slack times and the contractor system make the unionizing of the huge locomotive plant a job that will take time and will test resources to the limit, + a BA Long Hours Baldwin’s has been a challenge to the labor movement from the begin- ning and never more so than today. The 10-hour shift for days and the 12- hour shift for nights prevail now as they did before the great 1911 strike and as they did during the war. The contractor system, turning every pet- ty foreman into a petty profiteer who takes a personal interest in speeding up his workers and firing agitators prevails now as it has ever since Samuel Vauclain introduced it as his first line of offense and defense against against labor, factories, shops, etc., delegates from organizations of Negro agricultura’ workers, and individuals of both races well known for their championship o/ the cause of the Negro working class. “The workers comprise an over. whelming majority of the race, and their struggles on the economic field form a basis for uniting with the largest class of whites,in this coun- try—the white workers.” Lovétt Fort- Whiteman, the well known Commun- ist writer and speaker said in issuing the call for the congress: “The con- gress will Concern itself with the problems of the Negro workers.” The exact date for the congress has not yet been set. However, local con. ferences are now being called thruout the country, to fopularize the work of the congress. Members of the pro- visional organization committee, of which Lovett Fort-Whiteman is the organizer, will visit these local con- ferences to set forth the aims of the congress and its d¥ganiZational char- acter. Prominent Negro Workers. Those on the provisional committee for organizing the Negro labor in- elude: WILLIAM BRYANT, Business Manager of Asphalt Workers’ Un- jon, Milwaukee, Wis." EDWARD L. DOTY, Organizer of Negro Plumbérs, Chicago. H. V. PHILLIPS, Organizer of Ne- gro Working Class Youth, Chicago. ELIZABETH GRIFFIN, President of Chicago ‘Negro Women’s House- EVERETT “GREENE, “Chicago Correspondent of “Afro-American,” Baltimore, Md,. WILLIAM SCARVILLE, of the Pittsburgh-American. CHARLES HENRY, Representa- tive of Unorganized Negro Steel Workers, Chicago. OTTO HALL, Waiters and Cooks Assoclation,..Chicago. LOUIS ‘HUNTER, Longshore- men’s Protective and Benevolent Union, New Orleans, La. ‘ OTTO HUISWOOD, African Blood Bortherhood, New York City. LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN, Or- ganizer of Congress. AARON DAVIS, Neighborhood Protective Association, Toomsuba, Miss. JOHN OWENS, Organizer of Ne- gro Agricultural Workers, Ripley, Cal. ROSINA DAVIS, Secretary of Chi- cago Negro Women’s Household League. E. A. LYNCH, Fratérnal Dejegate from West Africa Seamen’s Union, Liverpool. JACK EDWARDS, Representative Negro Pullman Car Workers, Chi- cago. SAHIR KARIMIJI, Fraternal Del- egate from Natal Agricultural Work- ers, South Africa. Send ail inquiriés to LOVETT /FORT-WHITEMAN, 19S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Ill. Tel. Seeley 3562. Calles Makes Move to Get British O. K. . MEXICO CITY, April 12.—It is stat- ed semi-officially today that while Bertram EB. Holloway, general manag: er of the Mexi¢an national railways, has been appointed by President Cal- lés as special Mexican delegate to the international congress of railroad men in London fi June and has no oth- ed mission, the authorities believe he may attempt to, bring a resumption of diplomatic relations betweén Mexi- co and Great Britain, Mr. Holloway has always been, booster for British recognition of Mexico. Washington Head of . Schools Is Against the Platoon System | « WASHINGTON, DBD. C., April 12.— Superintendent of Schools Ballou here issued a stdtement in which he says he strongly disapproves the platoon The soldier in The|system of modern primary schools now establi {in numerous cities and especially in Detroit. He made known hig° views when Miss Rose Phillips, itendent of pla toon schools fh’ Washington by thé League of Women Voters to give Wlecture and show moving pictures of how the platoon system works out, it was brot to| jf | Paid Bottom Wages There is no scale of wages: the petty contractors hjre at the lowest price of the moment. Each boss, it is true, has a skeleton gang, paid above the average for the shop, which he keeps all the time. A few of the favored machinists get as much as 95 cents an hour. These permanent em- ployes are the backbone of the con- (ractor’s force and are expected to stay loyal. The rest are hired and fired as work busies or slackens and are paid bottom wages. There actual- ly are men in Baldwin's doing work supposedly belonging to machinists, who get as little as 36 to 45 cents an hour and the majority of the mechan- ics get less than 60 cents an hour. Four Thousand Jobless Lately the Baldwin management has been turning a particularly hard-boil- ed face to its employes. There are many hungry men at the gates: only 6,000 are working out of 19,000 of busy times in the Philadelphia plant, what with reduced buying by the rail- roads and the gradual transfer of equipment to the company’s plant at Eddystone, 12 miles out. The company apparently thinks it can ignere not only every demand of the workers but every conception of public decency. Its attitude is illustrated by a story members of the machinists’ union tell of the reception given a represent- ative of the Philadelphia health coun- cil and tuberculosis commission when he asked permission to make examin- ations of the employs—the results of the examinations to be confidential and not to be given to the company officials, “Nothing doing!” was the tom- pany’s answer. “Those who can’t stand it here get out.” Vauclain Likes His Nip Samuel Vauclain, Baldwin presid- ent, got out, early this spring, for a gay vacation, but is back again. Vau- clain is a sport who admits that he likes his nip. Last month he felt the nips were nipping him too fast so he posted a $10,000 forfeit that he would not violate the Volstead law before the coming May, It was a long wait and Vauclain hied himself to Bermu- da where Volstead has no jurisdiction. Ones Left Alive Fight for Job of Building Monument to War Dead BOSTON, Mass., April 12.—Wheth- er Aferican labor. (union labor not specified) shall do the worx on the proposed. monument at St. Mihiel, France, to Massachusetts war dead or whether French workers shall be employed is the question before the legislative ways and means commit- tee. One® of the representatives ar- gued that the French bid was less and that French workers were eager to do the job. ists. Slavic Communist paper. ed. DEVER PUTS 0. K. ON CHILD LABOR IN BOYS’ JOB DAY ANNOUNCEMENT Mayor Dever yesterday publicly recognized and approved the capi- talistic institution of child labor when he proclaimed “boys’ job day” to ald the boys brotherhood republic find jobs for as many boys as pos- sible. The boys’ brotherhood republic is an organization promoted by busi- ness men to teach the youth of the country to be docile workers in in- dustry, and be satisfied with small pay with the hope of achieving “suc- cess” some day. Dever announced that the first job day for boys was held April 10, 1916, when 1,037 boys were supplied with jobs. STEEL ORDERS DROP HEAVILY DURING MARCH First Sharp Fall Off Is 421,207 Tons NEW YORK, April 12.— Unified tonnage of the United States Steel corporation on March 31, showed a decline of 421,207 tons as compared with that of February 28, according to the monthly report of the corpora- tion issued at noon today. Forward orders on the books of the corporation on March 31, amounted to 4,863,564 tons against 5,284,771 on February 28, of this year; 5,037,323 at the end of January and 4,782,807 in BOOTLEGGING IN CINCINNATI'S POLICE FORCE Dry Agents Also Fell for Long Green CINCINNATI, April 12.—Almost the entire police force of this city and 50 per cent of all the nation’s prohibition enforcement agents, not already in jail for bootlegging and graft, pleaded guilty here a few days ago to charges of receiving money from the bootleg- ging and vice rings that flourish in this city. ~ Twenty six police officers and 14 “dry” agents have already thrown themselves on the mercy of the court. This leaves 20 officers and 11 “dry” agents yet to be tried, Asked Clemency. Defense counsel asked clemency for the accused on the ground that boot- leggers threw money around rather promiscuously and the coppers being only human could stand up under the punishment. They took the coin, The prohibition agents had similar alibis They claimed cruel and unusual pun- ishment was not tolerated by the con- stitution, and this was what the boot- leggers were guilty of, they declared. The judge deferred sentence until the rest of the defendants were dis- posed of. Wall Street Asks Coolidge to Brace Foreign Bond Sales WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12.— The Wall Street banking interests, headed by J. P. Morgan and company, are bringing pressure to bear on Pres. ident Coolidge to suppress what they declare is “propaganda aimed at the floating in the United States of pri- vate loans to European governments,” it was learned here. The international financiers, with headquarters in New York, are anx- ious to have the Coolidge government inspire confidence in the bonds of the foreign countries on the New York market, which have been steadily de- clining. The French securities on the open market here slumped badly ree March, 1924. of the steel corporation amounted to only 3,187,072 tons.and in. March, 1923, forward business was 7,403,332 tons, forward business of the steel corpora- tions was slightly above expectations in Wail Street shrinkage of from 250,000 to 400,000 tons. your arguments every day. Send in a sub for your shop mates. SS TULL LLL ELUM LILA LU LOL ECL UT 4 Ce eT ILL The Deportation Menace! Fight if! ALIEN AND NATURALIZED Workers faced with New Attack. Under existing Laws, the Government is Increasing its Actions Against Militant Workers and Commun- Vajtauer, Severino, Halonen, Schedel, Lassen, etc.—new cases in the last months —now comes the arrest on deportation warrant of Comrade Zinich, editor of the South A new drive against the militant and revolutionary foreign-born workers ts on— Otherwise why are the bosses pushing the New Deportation Bill thru Congress? All Workers, Native and Alien, Are Menaced and Must Stand To- pe ac Funds for Defense in theZinich and Other Cases Are Need- LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, 19 So. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Il. Or to the local Labor Defense Council branch in your elty and say it is for THE FIGHT AGAINST SUPPORT THE RED AID!—FIGHT THE WHITE TERROR! ELP THE CLASS WAR PRISONERS AND THEIR FAMILIES—in Poland, Bul; Esthonia, Jugo-Slavia, Lithuania, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Italy, thruout the and Balkan states and the rest of ‘AID Calls Upon YOU to Help YOUR COMRADES, to | The RED fuw Your INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY, INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID, 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. or thru the local branches in your cities—and say it is for RED AID! ently. In July, 1924, the forward orders Bread Line Grows in Austéle. AUSTRIA, April 12,—The trend of} unemployment in Austria is strongly” upward. From November, 1924, to the first of March, 1925, the total num- ber of unemployed increased steadily from 113,484 to 210,000. Decline of 421,207 tons in the March which estimated a Sweden Against League Proposal. LONDON, Eng., April 12.—The ex- pert commission appointed by Swed- en to study the league of nations dis- armament and security proposal, dis- approves the proposal, it is reported. Let the DAILY WORKER make You Can Still Get-- The April issue of the Workers Monthly with its many splendid features that make it the leading working class magazine in this country. Let this issue of valuable articles, cartoons and photographs begin your subscription at the extremely low rates of $2.00 a Year—$1.25 Six Months SINGLE COPY The Workers Monthly ih 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. UUQOUUUUUOUUUAAASOOEGUCUUA LANA OUOUOUUEAUHAEEO LATTA HOMO UUARGENL Send Your Contribution to THE DEPORTATION MENACE. vie.’ altic urope and in the colonies. Send funds thru the fi nh