The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER Page Three SMALLPOX RAGES AMONG CROWDED OLD TENEMENTS CHEATING ALIENS OF CITIZENSHIP IS NEW WRINKLE IN WAR OF THE GOVERNMENT AGAINST: FOREIGN-BORN PITTSBURGH, April 23.—The workers in the Eclipse plant of the United o further reduce the total of immigration and to make the newcomers feel the authority of the federal governmental machine, is being steadily developed JUDGE SAYS LAW REQUIRES ALIENS SHOW INNOCENCE [OWA SMALL BIZ BEING SMASHED BY BIG CAPITAL How We Live and Work Editor’s Note:—This paper is minted for the workers, poor farmers and those who work and sweat under the present system of society. It is a paper of the workers, by the workers and for the workers. We want to reach every corner of this country where labor is being exploited for private gains, for rofit. We want the workers and farmers all over the country to read the AILY WORKER. In order to make it more interesting and be able better fo, reflect the life of the wide laboring masses, WE WANT OUR READERS TO WRITE TO US. This new department “HOW WE LIVE AND WORK” Orders Deportation of E. Vajtauer (Special te The Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, “April 23.—Hmanuel Wajtauer, editor of the Obrana, who ‘was arrested about two months ago and sent to Bilis Island, is to be de- ported, according. to a decision of Judge Hand; rendered Monday, Judge Hand declared: that Vajtauer must speak and tell him, the court, every- thing that the court demands or suffer the penalty. The government did not have to prove him guilty, he had to prove his innocence. Emanuel Vajtauer is a revolutionist of long standing. He is a writer and family is mot residing in this country.” Crist claims that this ruling is based, on, @ declaration of Assistant Secretary of Labor Henning, dated Jan, 31, 1925, in which Henning says: “An alien whose family is in Europe has never lived in the United States, no matter how many years he may have been here. He cannot be natur- alized because he has not complied with the requirement of the statute that he must, have resided here five years. It is the common law of the United States, and the common law of the world, and sound doctrine and Wajtauer, mot regard the home of his birth as the only field of his activity. On the contrary, wherever Vajtauer has come he has carried on propaganda among the workers to enlighten them on the state of their exploitation. This is a crime in the United States—as it isa crime in France, Great Britain and every other capitalist country. Deport Only Radical Workers. Especially the foreign-born worker is supposed to keep his mouth shut— particularly the revolutionist. Italian fascisti, Russian counter-revolution- fste—grend dukes and social-demo- crats like Abramovich—patriotic Croa- When the Federated Press corres- pondent asked permission to be ad- mitted into the presence of Henning, to learn where he discovered this law, Henning sent out word that he would not be seen on that subject. Finally Mr. Cook, private secretary to Secre- tary Davis, was seen. Cook declared that “a majority of the courts of this country” have held that an immigrant does not establish his residence here until he has his family here—no mat- ter if he has spent many years clear ing a farm, building a house and sending part of his earnings back to Europe to maintain his family and buy their tickets for the trip to Amer- But the moment a worker who works ‘fn ‘the interest of the working class raises kis voice he faces the capitalist court. This has been the fate of Com- rede Vajtauer as of hundreds of other Fevolutionaries in this country. Aid Asked at Once. The Labor Defense Council, which is conducting the defense of Vajtauer, is appealing the matter to the supreme court of the United States. Comrade Vajtauer is in very bad health owing to the long “sojourn” on Hllis Island, where the yile conditions have broken down his health. He must be removed from .that..pesthole. The Labor De- who has alien citizenship, unless she comes in under the quota. If she can get. in under the quota, that’s a different matter, but we are not go- ing to fail to ask the courts to refuse naturalization to men whose wives might by that fact be added to the quota.” This game is understood to be con- nected with Davis’ scheme for estab- lishing a system of industrial espion- age, called “alien registration,” which he has presented to congress each year since 1921. To fight the case in the highest eourt of the country demands funds, and the class-conscious and revolu- tionary workers are urgently request- ed to contribute as generously as pos- sible. Send all contributions to the Labor, Defense Council, New York Section, 108 H. 14th St., New York City. Metal Trades Group of the T. U. E. L. will be held Saturday, April 25th, at 722 Blue Island avenue. Meeting is called for 7:30 p. m. The result of the elections in the Machinists’ locals will be reported and also other reports will be made. This meeting promises to be very interest- (ng and all left wing metal trades workers should be present. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! SESS SSS SESS S ES ES SS The Theory and “ale é Be ? i) ; ¢ oe é ‘ a ; ’ é ; a ’ r) ‘ By I. STALIN. ¢ lived and led—the period of Capitalist Im- ‘perialism. ; "| This book, issued for the first time in this country, is written by a close co-worker of Lenin, at present secretary of the Russian Communist Party and a figure in the In- ment. Add this important work, destined surely to become one of the classics of Communist literature, to your library. Attractively bound, this book will be a treat to the intelligent worker and the stu- dent of the revolutionary, movement. With frontispiece (photograph) of the author. 35 CENTS. GET IT FROM YOUR BRANCH OR CITY AGENT—OR | oe THE DAILY’ WORKER The regular monthly meeting of the |” into a system under the present regime in the department of labor. A circular (No, 106, issued Feb, 14, 1925) by Raymond F, Crist, commis- sioner of naturalization. instructs all naturalization agents thruout the coun- try to oppose the granting of all petitions for naturalization ‘where the 'B. & 0.’ JOHNSTON FEARING DEFEAT EXPOSES MACHINE “Use Your Own Method ' But Get the Vote” early election returns of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists, and is ordering its tools to get the vote by fair means’ or foul, is shown by the following letter sent to his crea- tures all over the country by Charles Taylor, Johnston’s campaign manager, a copy of which has come into the hands of the Trade Union Educational League: “Use Your Own Method, But Get the Vote.” It is noticed that in this letter Johnston contradicts the boasts about having a “walkaway” which he is making publicly, and orders his tools The letter, dated from 428 Irving street, N. W., Washington, D. C., on April 11th is, in full as follows: “Important. “Dear Sir and Brother: A careful and searching analysis of the known results of the voting in the local lodges thus far reveals the following: “a—That the Anderson group are working early and late to turn the tide in their favor especially in our strong points. “b—The results to date indicate that the Johnson men are not work- ing as hard as the Anderson men; cause it is necessary to overcome the ‘rally’ the Anderson men are making now. . “d—The ‘voting’ so far is not en- couraging, speaking generally, al- tho some of our points are making good reports. “Tt is necessary that, you get after your key men in person or by personal letter. See that they are well sup- plied with our slates. The Anderson group have flooded the country with theirs. “We can win if you get the ‘vote’ out of the lodge and into \dquarters, Use your own method, but get the vote out. Nothing else will count. “We, here, appreciate the hard work you have done, but we also must stress the fact that the other fellow is apparently working harder than we are, and they are absolutely unscru- pulous in their methods. ‘Intimida- tion’ is their main weapon. “In some sections we have cause to be optimistic; in others, the reverse is true. We expect the ‘good’ sections to outvote the ‘poor’ sections; so, don’t any of you men in the ‘good’ sections stop until every member has voted for ‘Bill’ Johnston and the real pro- gressive ticket. “We said ‘Let's go’ on January Ist. ‘We went. Now keep going till April Warden Says That We Are “Getting More The following letter from the war- den of San Quentin prison in Cali- fornia is offered for the readers of the DAILY WORKER, and speaks for itself: “CALIFORNIA STATE PRISON AT SAN QUENTIN, April 13, 1925, “Walt Carmon, Circulation Manager, The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Wash- ington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. “Dear Si Responsive to yours of the 10th instant, please be advised that standard magazines and daily newspapers, printed outside the state of California, also good books, are allowed in this prison as long as they are sent direct from the publisher or some reputable dealer. No radical papers or magazines are permitted in prison, “The DAILY WORKER has been coming into the prison for several of our However, at this time I am info by the offiver who is in charge of the distribution of mail that the DAILY WORKER is becoming more and more radical, and in all probability we will be obliged to in- form the inmates that because if its nature the DAILY WORKER will not be permitted to be received by them, “Yours very truly, “F, J. Smith, Ward “Buy Iowa Coal” Drive Doesn’t Help Miners By TOM MATTHEWS, (Special to The Daily Worker.) DUBUQUE, ‘Iowa, April 23.—Little business is feeling hard blows. Lit- tle business is complaining, On one side of the street you may see the chain shoe store, on the other the local proprietor who exhibits sell- ing-out signs. Even the barber shops are “going scab” and offering 15-cent shaves as an inducement. for busi- ness. The independent coal operator is perhaps hit the hardest of all, with the small town banker a close sec- ond, their brothers in other states, are suf- fering as a consequence of the impe- rialistic development of American capitalism. While practically every newspaper in these parts is appealing for in- vestment and development in local en- terprise, no less than $1,268,000,000 of American capital was invested in foreign securities during the year just past. Thus small business in every field is being forced to the wall while America’s finance-capitalists are plunging into foreign industry. The gold piled into the coffers of the capitalists of this country as the result of the war is not creating an that the surplus capital of big busi- ness must not lie idle,-and so the gold exports from the country are tak- ing on ever larger proportions as the purchases of foreign securities mount high above the trade balance. Exporting of Capital. Thus in 1924, the excess of foreign securities purchased above the trade balance totaled, in round figures, $290,000,000 in comparison with an ex- cess of approximately $165,000,000 in 1923 and $120,000,000 in 1922. ‘The gold Which was going to bring prosperity ‘to American small busi- ness is now being shipped out to trying to in what it’s all about, and Iowa newspapers tell their read- ers that everything is all right, but that they must be loyal to home en- terprise. “Buy lowa Coal.” The United Mine Workers is try- ing to buck the capitalist buzz-saw in Iowa by appealing to the people to “buy Iowa coal.” In the camps thru- out the state the miners have their flivvers adorned with “buy Iowa coal” signs. But the scab coal from Ken- tucky and West Virginia is being ship- ped into the state and sold, never- theless, with the railroad brother- hoods helping in the process. The railroad unions are experiment- ing with an “escape” from these con- ditions in the shape of the “B. & O. co-operation plan.” On the Chicago and Northwestern the men voted this upon the com- pany, even against the advice of the bosses in some instances, and the plan is now being “tried out” in cer- tain shops. The only tangible result seems to be the making of stool pig- eons out of some of the men, in that they spy upon each other and report inefficiency to the boss. Refuse-piles and inconvenient locations of ma- chines are solemnly reported for ac- tion by the “proper committee.” Thus do the small business men, nature of the capitalistic system of society which compels the finance- capitalist to export his surplus to for- co-operation but in working class solidarity, While a few groups here and there are allowed a foot- hold the inevitable pressure upon the great majority is beginning to have its effect. Thus on the Baltimore and Ohio, it is true, the particular group of workers employed is offered steady work “even to the building of the company’s equipment in its own shops.” But as surely as these workers are “protected” in this way, some other group must suffer, The Northwestern for instance, may buy the loyalty of its workers by building its own cars, instead of having hundreds of them built at the Bettendorf steel works, ‘ust out of Davenport, Iowa. So the capitalists are taking advan- tage of the “craft consciousne: of their slaves and using this narrow, in- dividualistic it for their own ends, The workers must either wake up to the situation, or some fine morn- ing learn, too late, that their organiza- have completely disrupted by this poison of class-collaboration, will appear as often as there will be sufficient letters from our readers about the life and working conditions undér which our masses struggle. make the letters interestin workers in other sections o: point. LAUNDRY WORKERS Try to bringing out facts which may not be known to the country. Try to make them short and to the INJURED BY SPEED UP SYSTEM AND USE OF OLD AND DANGEROUS MACHINES By A LAUNDRY WORKER CORRESPONDENT. WASHINGTON, April 23—Cheating immigrants of citizenship, in order Laundry Co. of Pittsburgh are beginning to realize that they have to look} for relief from their Conditions other a gift from the owners, degree. by the old, wornout machinery that: When a washing machine wears out in one of the plants the owners very seldom buy a new one but bring one from another plant which has been out of commission for at least two or three years. Recently one of the doors on an old machine got loose and when the operator told the mill- wright about it he replied, “Go ahead and use it I ain’t got time to fix it now, I have too much work to do.” He continued to use it and while in motion it flew open and tore up the machine, It took a week to fix it so it could be used again. Some one asked the operator why he didn’t report to the superintendent der; if anything happens they blame me while the machinery is not worth a damn. All of the extractors are loose on the foundation, belts always slipping off; the electric switches are lable to shock the operator every time he starts the motors up again.” Heavy Casualty List. It is quite a usual thing to see the workers in this plant going around with their hands, fingers or head ban- daged from getting hurt by the ma- chines on account of neglect on the part of the owners, They have be- gun, howeyey to stop using old ma- chines when’ the why won’t the bosses have brakes put on the extractors and a new set of belts put all around, now that they are needed. He said, “the bosses don’t care how many of the workers get hurt but it costs money to keep things in a safe position to operate, and when anything happens to us they say it is our own carelesssness.” Be Careful—But Not of Yourselves, He pointed to a sign on the wall which read as follows: “Every piece of laundry you handle represents dol- lars and cents. You wouldn't be care- less with money so please don’t be careless with the customer's clothes. Carelessness is the cause of all trou- ble in the laundry business. Try and help us give better service.” In this way they try to cover the crimes on life and limb of the work- ers caused by their old worn out ma- chinery, BLIND VICTIMS ARE EXPLOITED IN WISCONSIN producing goods to compete with the industrial workers. The socialist share by securing advertisements of the concerns handling prison made goods. Silent on Unemployment. Mayor Hoan, while pleading for money to help build the workshop for the unfortunate blind is discreetly sil- ent on the question of unemployment, It would seem much more reasonable to give the workers an opportunity to earn their living at union wages rather than put to work the blind and use their products in competition with the organized labor movement. The unfortunate blind should re- ceive the support of the state instead of being put to work to which they are not adapted and which should be done by healthy people. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! in THE DAILY WORKER. we will let you know what he thinks of your patronage. than whatever is handed to them as They are beginning to offer resistance to some They know of the danger constantly facing them of being injured SCHEME OF HOOVER T0 RAISE BOSSES PROFITS NEW YORK, April 22.— William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has indorsed Herbert Hoover’s pet scheme, the American Child Health Association. Herbert Hoover made public Green’s statement supporting his drive in the public schools. At the same. time Hoover made public a statement by Dwight Davis, acting secretary of war, which de- clared, “The economic loss resulting I W. W. GENERAL OFFICE TO MOVE TO THE SUBURBS 3333 West Belmont to Replace Old ‘‘1001” Madison street had become almost a stereotype address in radical and la- bor circles, the Industrial Workers of the World are moving before May 1 to a new home. The expiration of the 1001 lease and a huge jump in rental demanded by the owner impelled the general executive board to move as an economy measure. The new location is 3333 W. Bel- mont avenue, a one-story building witlf over 12,000 square feet of floor space. It is being purchased by the I. W. W. with the financial aid furnish- ed by the Garland fund, and will house the organization’s printing plant and equipment, the general executive board offices, Industrial ‘Solidarity, the official weekly and The Industrial Pioneer, the official monthly, as well as 6 foreign-language publications, Subordinate unions with headquar- ters there include No. 110 (agricul- tural workers); 120 (lumber workers,) $10 (general construction workers), and the small industrial unions. Itinerant wobblies find a good feat- ure of the new home, which is on Chi- cago’s northwest side, to be a railroad right of way adjoining. This, they Epidemic Used to Stir Racial Hatred (Special to The Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., A smallpox epidemic of considerable extent holds this city in its grip, spreading thru the working class | sections and doing its greatest dam- age in those neighborhoods where low wages, malnutrition and unsanitary housing conditions prevail. Hospitals Under Quaranitne. Every day sees new “quarantines” by the local board of health and the epidemic has reached such propor stions that several big hosiptals have been roped off by the police. decent philosophy, that a man resides ¥ The outlying suburban districts, oes iano foul apsoeaaeh ponttioe. where he has ‘his family and main-| ‘That the machine of “B. & 0.” John- & ostodepelly i Maegi nse dike subaean dpe san where the rich exploiters and prof. Uke all Communists, does| ‘ins his family.” tans, fe: Peallng: audit grokey cat Whe lc ee tee ermere ike Saving Money—Wasting Life. GREEN INDORSES PET teers live in extravagant luxury, are, so far, free of the pestilence. In those parts of the city where the Plauge’s toll is heaviest, hundreds of oldfashioned open “nigh soil” wells abound, poluting the air with a vile and deadly stench and constituting the only sanitary convenience hun- dreds of working class families have contracted the disease. Rich Are Free from Peril. On the other hand the gorgeous mansions of Philadelphia's profit- drunk plutocrats are known to be equipped with as many as four to ten modern bath rooms, toilets, shower baths, ete., scattered thru the prem- ises from cellar to attic. tian writers and their ilk may tour the| ; to “use your own method, but get the |inflation of business, which would | when the millwright refused to fix the : aes i ca. 1, a i ity, ab- Since mid-war years Philadelphia country, may write whatever they oa vote.” Nor is there any buncombe|mean temporary prosperity for the | machine and got the answer, “It won't Sporm-aacroated earning Lara y o> has t the “ a of a by pas e is in the interest} “We want to keep the families uni- A sence from work, doctor’s bills, in- | bas been mecca” of a heavy Ne please as long as it is in the interes! fied,” said Cook. “We don't want az, | this letter about “saving old glory” |small business man and his petit-|do no good, they all want us to work surance, and from other ills, is stag- |To migration from the southern of the capitalist class and their cap- ‘alee ts Gonna ee ak and ik ot from the “reds.” It is a plain case of | bourgeois brother, the skilled crafts-|like hell to get the work out, but gering.” . states. italist. government. zenship and then send for his wite| “S2¥e the Johnston machine its jobs.” ;man. It is the law of imperialism | won't take time to keep things in or- These workers, in blissful ignor- ance of the real conditions in this city of brotherly love (?), hope to find here a human and secure life denied them by the sunny south. Instead, they find want, and squalor, filthy con- gestion and human misery awful to behold. True to type the capitalist class are taking full advantage of the situation, inciting Race Riots. Their various stool-pigeons and “ander cover” propagandists are cau- ttously spreading the poisonous ru- mor that the smallpox epidemic, to- gether with the other economic and social evils which make this place a rds, the Anderson men ey get to.a point of] After so many years in their old fense Council hopes to.get him out on| Metal Trades Grou Pp ri my trea i 1, |uy up foreign industry, while the |ioccsening the output of work. ‘ ..,|Charnel house of poverty, disease, " ave the ‘jump’ on us in general. | curgeois economists are kept busy Chicago headquarters that 1001 West | nanaitry, bootlegging, _ prostitution, » dally Meets Saturday Eve. “e—There is danger in this be- f I asked one operator the other day 2 2 . child labor and vile unsanitation,are all due to the increased Negro popu- j lation. This pernicious propaganda serves a double purpose for the capitalists. First—it tends to develop bitter “race” animosities between the white and black wage slaves here, and thus retards the growth of industrial and political solidarity on the basis. of the class struggle, among all workers, ir- respective of color, creed, language or birthplace, Second—it helps obscure the fun- damental cause of the prevailing smallpox situation—vis., had housing conditions from which the exploiters and profiteers benefit enormously. The Facts of Workers’ Miseries. The following excerpts from a Te cent statement by B. J. Newman, di- rector of the Philadelphia Housing As- sociation (capitalistic) throws a vivid light on the matter. We quote: “It was found also in this survey that 32 per cent of these tenement families occupy one-room apartments in which all the practices of family life are carried on. “But of the 263 tenements in opera- tion today only 43 were found to be opine, compensates for the great dis- tances from “the stem,” the Madison street job agencies and flophouses. NEW YORK, April 23—(FP)—The struggle to organize the United States etc., continues with the formation of a junior ku klux klan, a United States Flag Association (with Samuel Gomp- ers, in memoriam, one of the 13 found- ers supposed to be typical of the 13 original states), and now an Anti- Fanatic League. The anti-fanatics are against prohi- bitions of most kinds, including the Volstead attempt, the K. K. K., and other invasions of the individual's “right to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.” Police Called in New York Strike, NEW YORK, April 23.—One hun- dred and eighty vehicular tunnel workers constructing a tunnel to Jer- sey City, are on strike here, demand- ing an increase in pay from $7.50 to $8.00 per day. Police reserves are guarding the few strikebreakers working. Buying Any Clothes This Spring? When you buy that suit tell your dealer you want him to advertise If you can’t get his ad, let us know and © operating legally . “Bad sanitation was found in more than one-half, 54 per cent to be exact. rooms and there were six cases of living in cellars. + party of the city is doing nothing to Horrible Overcrowding. An important work on Communist theory, And More Radical!” ene ones and cn beta Aver me curb this evil and it is rumored that}POPulation into more and more! “Qvercrowding was noted in many and practice during the period that Lenin ing farmer that-his hope lies the Milwaukee Leader is getting its|/eagues, associations, councils, etc.,| cases. In one house of nine rooms for which $88 rent was paid 33 occu- pants were found. Five girls slept in a single bedroom in this house and five boys in another; in still another, a man, his wife and four children, making six persons to this room, while each of two other bedrooms was occupied by a man, his wife arid three children, making a total of 21 persons sleeping in four rooms, “The number of families occupying April 23— | as a one-room apartments has increased — 5 per cent (since 1912) * * * Tene ment houses in Philadelphia ocen- pied by industrial workers are not only costly in rent charges, but represent @ grave risk to the com- munity in their assault upon the health and morals of tenants.” . Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communist of you. 30, as we need the votes. Let me hear “Their faults were, defective plumb- ~ from you. Regards, ve bcc digs: <n Wheeler” (Special to The Daily Worker) Gompers F: ‘ounder of ing, leaky roofs, flooded cellars, In- _ “Chas. Taylor, F.” | in, italist eat MILWAUK&us, Wis., April 23.—In- Flag Waving League, adequate sanitary equipment were je saplaletaeeee: dustrial organizations of the blind of S: R found to exist in 59 per cent. In , ‘The Workegg Party points out the over 2,000 and penal institutions are ays eport these buildings were windowless |