The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. THE DAILY WORKER ‘ rt re er MEETING JNE-FIFTH OF WORKING CLASS SIX THOUS AND The Fascist Mecsce ta France I, U. a8 er eee Peblishod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Dl. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 montis , i ee months By mail (in Chicago only): is $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months $6.60 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE € ed as second-class mat] Sept, 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Il, under the act of March 8, 1878. Chicago, Hlinele Editors mo Business Manager MORITZ J. LOEB. Advertising rates op app’cation Labor’s Day It is one of the ironies of history that the Am Federation of Labor, now the most bitter Pan opponent of May Day nad all that it stands for, should be the first labor movement in the world to designate that day as the one on which a great united effort should be started to force the eight- hour day from the American employers. Today the bureaucracy of the American Federa- tion of Labor, their hands greased and their pock- ets lined with the bosses’ gold, look on May Day with hate and dread. It signifies to them the har- binger of revolution, and of a social system which will have no room for a parasite capitalist class or for the lesser leeches—the‘labor fakers, But tho the reactionary leaders of the American Vederation of Labor have turned their backs on May Day, the workers in every country in the world have not. ‘May Day was celebrated as the international holiday of labor for the first time in 1890. The slogans on that: first day were for the eight-hour day and against war. Since 1890 much water has passed under the labor bridge. The demands of the workers have grown. Their yoice now speaks in bolder tones. And why not? Tho they have not conquered the earth, the workers’ flag today flies ‘over one-sixth of the globe and the first workers’ republic in history stands firm and secure. The workers and peasants of Soviet Russia alone will hold their meetings to- morrow in a country that is theirs. The demon- strations will not be broken up by hostile police nor their leaders jailed as will happen in every other c3untry. The workers of Russia will meet to celebrate their glorious victory and the workers in the other countries where the chains of capital- ism still bind them will meet to demonstrate for their victory that is yet to come, and to hasten the day when they too, shall stand in their own open places and celebrate the arrival of the new day. Today revolutionary labor under the leadership of the Communist International stands on the threshold of power. The rotten capitalist system is crumbling. As we meet on this May Day, the seventh year of the Soviet Republic, let us: deter- mine to exert all our efforts towards the one great purpose in life, the freedom of the workers and the human race from slavery and exploitation, thru the establishment of the rule of labor in all lands. The Socialist Vote Take his vote away from a socialist and he is as hopeless as a Scandinavian without his snuff. The scoialist labor party watches the fluctuations of the party’s fortunes at the polls as a stock gambler will watch the ticker. The socialist spent its existence—when it did really exist 1er voting or preparing to vote. It almost completely ignored the working class. Those who thot the trade unions counted were expelled from the y pi the socialist party vote was fairly respec- te in size the leaders were jubilant. When it bubbled around one million, they almost went batty. But when it began to recede like the Red under the lash of the Mosaie rod, they looked round for something to lean against. They used JaVollette as a leaning and scratching post. But the pillar gave way and’ now the socialists are scratching their heads. The voting for mayor of St. Louis tells the sad tale. In 1921 the socialist vote for mayor was 4,330. In the last election the socialist candidate for that office only polled 951. This is tragic in view of the promisss the socialist standard bearer made to the voters. He promised them everything but his shirt. But it was no use, the capitalists could promise more. And the capitalist candidates got the votes. After the presidential elections the socialist party boasted that it polled approximately 5,000,- 00 votes. It laughed at the Workers Party and its ridiculously small vote, 25,000 the socialists gave us. Asa matter of fact the official count was something like 100. We polled at least 100,000. But we did not care so much about that. Our party made a good campaign. We put the Com- _mnuist position before the workers and we are cashing in on it now in organizational growth and influence. What did the socialists gain for allowing LaFollette to swallow them up? St. Louis tells the story. Today the socialists have neither votes nor prin- ciples. They shed every shred of their socialist raiment for the fleeting pleasure of associating with the bourgeois Lafollette in an election cam- paign. The workers can no longer seo any differ- ence between them and LaFollette and the capital- isis are not yet in the extremity of needing them to hold back the tide of revolution, It is sad but The French government was officially represent- ed at the funeral of the fascist‘ youths who were killed in an encounter with young Communists in Paris last week. The fascists started the trouble but the Communists finished it, Among the speakers at the pro-fascist demon- stration, beside the French premier, Paul Pain- ENDORSES NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS leve, were the late President Millerand, and Gen-| Progress Shown in Left eral de Castelnau, military chief of the fascists, and Deputy Pierre Pattlinger, president of the Wing Activity black shirt organization which started the fatal]’ The meeting of the Chicago Gener- riot. al Group of the Trade Union Educa- The speakers criticized the government for not | ional League held last Wednesday in taking stern measures to crush the Communist | N°tth West Hall was a well-attended Party of France, but there was not dne word of Ce and business-like affair. Reports from the local executive and the various ticism of the fascist organizations which are | industrial groups were given and dis- armed and officered ready to establish a dictator-|cussed, On the whole, progress is be- ship in France by force of arms as Mussolini and | ing made in building the left wing in his bloodhounds established theirs in Italy. The bourgeois parliamentary system has had the trade union movement of Chi- cago. E. L. Doty, organizer of Negro plum- hard sledding in Europe since the world war broke | bers in Chicago, gave a report on the out. As the workers’ power grows and as their}coming American Negro Labor Con- demands become more ambitious, bourgeois democ- | 8"ess to be held in Chicago during the racy will throw off its mask until it stands re- vealed in all its horrible nakedness as a bloody dictatorship of the many by the few. It is a]union bureaucrats. summer. In a convincing manner he showed the discrimination being prac- ticed against Negro workers by the He urged that the struggle between two dictatorships, that of the] adherents of the T. U. E. L, take the bourgeoisie or of the workers. Tho the present I'rench government is in political opposition to the backers of fascism, it does not stand neutral in the fight between the Communists and their foes. It throws its power on. the. side of the enemies of Communism and the working class. The liberal government of France is no more neutral in the class struggle than the government of Soviet Russia is. The latter is a government of the workers and makes no pretense of being neu-| tral. The French government hypocritically pre- tends to be a government of “all” classes, just as all capitalist governments do. The big fight in France as in all capitalist countries is between the workers on one side led by the Communists and the capitalists on the other. Whatever form that fight may take it will go on until the working class are victorious. Now that Hindenburg has defeated Marx, we may read special articles dealing with the decline of Marxism in Europe. The “Blue” Fleet Wins It was just as we expected. The “blue” fleet representing the Japanese navy defeated the “black” fleet of the United States in the naval maneuvers around the islands of Hawaii. This means larger appropriations for the air and sea navies. Everybody will be happy, no doubt, except the Hawaiians whose islands the “black” fleet was trying to protect form the “enemy.” The casualites were heavy. The enemy seized everything, which is further proof that congress is erazy in the head when it whittles down the appropriations demanded by Wall Street’s militar- ists. A mine layer was sunk by seven “black” planes and a submarine. More planes; more sub- marines. Chortling from Henry Ford and Charles Schwah. More profits. The only resemblance to real war was in the fact that at the close of the first day’s “fighting,” both sides claimed victory. That is also. part of the game. j While the guns of the army thundered and the engines of the airplanes purred, two private sol- diers listened from inside two prison cells. They are privates Crouch and Trumbull, who were sen- tenced to 40 and 26 years, respectively, for attempt- ing to expose the purpose of the American military and naval forces in and around Hawaii. The peo- ple of Hawaii must not be told who their real enemy is. Their enemy is American capitalism. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY-WORKER. Attention James J. Davis Nobody will doubt the loyalty of the seeretary of labor to the capitalist system, He is every- thing that a faithful tool of the American ruling class should be and then some. But he could not qualify for a position at the disposal of the Na- tional Employment Exchange as the following advertisement shows. Applicants must be: 1. American born. 2. Speak English with no accent. 8. Minimum two years high school or equiy- alent. - 4. Modesty in dress. 5. Refinement of manner, James J. Davis, secretary of labor is not Ameri- can born. He does not speak English without an accent. Nobody does but one who is dumb, if you will pardon the ox. Perhaps Mr. Davis went to high school for two years, tho we doubt it after hearing him speak at the Indianapolis convention of the United Mine Workers of America. He is not modest in dress. His neckties are atrocious. His manner is that of a successful bartender. The Nation, commenting on these qualifications says that “some employers are just snabs.” Per- haps they are just jackasses, but we are not so sure of that when we learn that among those whose names are emblazoned on the letter head of the National Employment Exchange are J. P, Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Rdbert W. de Forest. 1 Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER} and a member for the Workers Party. The ears of the American ruling class are getting sensitive. They cannot even listen to the tame stuff of two bourgeois republicans like Count * - matter of the Negro Labor Congress before the unions for endorsation. The organization of the Negro workers is of great importance to the trade un- ions, since being unorganized they are used by the bosses against their fellow workers. The following resolution was car- ried unanimously: WHEREAS, the unity and solidarity of all workers is essential to carry on an effective struggle against the attempts. of the bosses to lower and dstroy the living standards and work- ing conditions, wages, etc. of the workers; and WHEREAS, during and since the war some 500,000 Negro workers have come from the South into the North- ern industrial centers, and WHEREAS, the Negro workers and the ‘unorganized are often used against their will, as strikebreakers; and WHEREAS, the Negro workers can and want to be organized into the labor unions in order to fight togeth- er with his brother white workers against the common enemy, the em- ploying class and capitalist ruled gov- ernment; and WHEREAS, racial prejudices be- tween white and colored workers have been fostered by the employing capitalist class as a means of prevent- ing united action and solidarity of all the workers, and such racial pre- judices therefore spring from the present capitalist order of society; and WHEREAS, we. believe that all workers, regardless of race, color, creed or sex should be organized into the labor unions, and are entitled to equal wages for equal work, etc., and should and must be united against the bosses in order to effectively struggle to break the shackles of capi- talist wage slavery; and WHEREAS, the American Negro Labor Congress called by representa- tive Negro workers and farmers, is to be held in Chicago this summer, and this American Negro Labor Con- gress will consider‘and fight for equal rights for all workers; for the organ- ization of the ‘unorganized Negro workers into the labor unions; and will work to promote unity and har- mony between the workers of ALL races, of all workers; therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the Chicago Gen- eral Group of the Trade Union Edu- cational League endorses heartily the aims and purposes of the American Negro Labor Congress and pledges itself to do everything in its power for the success of the American Negro Labor Congress, which will mark a great forward step in the struggle of the working class, white and colored, against exploitation by the capitalists and for the freedom of all workers from oppression. Mexico City Court Rules Against the Standard Oil Co. MEXICO City, April 30.—The fed- eral court here has decided that the Standard Oil company of Indiana, which recently acquired control of the Huasteca Petroleum company and other Doheny interests in Mexico, is not entitled to take petroleum from the Juan Felipe field adjoining the famous Cerro Azul pools in the state of Vera Cruz. The Standard Oil company will ap- peal, Subseribe for the DAILY WORKER! RUSSIA DEMANDS THAT PEKIN RETURN SOVIET PROPERTY T0 EMBASSY PEKIN, China, April 30.—The Russo-Chinese conference, set for May 1, has been postponed while preliminary demands are settled. Soviet Russia ands that the Russian orthodox church property In Pekin be turned over to the So- viet embassy, that the Russian troops In Gen. Chang Teo-lin’e army be disbanded, and that China give assurances preciuding the rumored Japanese railway concession In Manohurla, te A ARLE ROE CANGY CHILDREN OF CHICAGO STARVING, REVEALED BY GHASTLY REPORT By LILLIAN R. BORGESON, Article Four, Malnutrition, poverty and child labor are always found together, It Is not surprising, therefore, to find that in the capitalist industrial center, Chi- cago, under-nourished children are as The most recent report of the superintendent of Ohi that the school physicians found that prevailent as child labor, BO schools states 7.8 per cent of Chicago’s school chil- dren were suffering from serious cases of malnutrition and that one-fifth of the children in the working class dis- tricts were definitely undernourished. He proceeds to list the causes of malnutrition which have been scien- tifically determined. They are divid- ed jnto “social” and “individual” causes, and their significance to the workers should be clear. 1, Social Causes. “1! Employment of the child outside of school hours. “2, Living in rooms without win- dows or sunlight. “3, Lack of ventilation. “4, Lack of bathing facilities. “5, Unsanitary school conditions.” 2. Individual Causes. “1, Food—insufficiency or unsuitabil- ity. “2, Injurious sleeping arrangements, “3, Insufficient sleep. “4, Want of cleanliness. “5. Lack of childhood care.” We have right there what capital- ism and its forcing of the workers to live in squalid poverty means to the child of the worker. “Employment of the child outside of school hours,” in order to be able to scrape together even the minimum amount of food and shelter for the family. “Living in rooms without windows or sunlight, lack of ventilation,” means only the profiteering of the landlords which-thrusts the poor workers and their children into dark ill-smelling holes. “Injurious sleeping arrangements.” How well every Chicago worker knows how that comes about! They want rooms with windows. So three fami- lies decide to “go it” together, pool their rent, and be able to live. And a whole family is crowded into one room, with three or four children sleeping in the same bed. The Social Workers’ Inference. “Lack of bathing facilities and want of cleanliness.” Because the poor worker cannot afford to pay the high rent asked for “modern conveniences.” It is not, as the social workers infer, a class love of dirt. “Lack of childhood care.” With the mother in the factory or shop, with the children of necessity follow- ing the capitalists’ advice of not wast- ing his time in idleness and play, what childhood care can the worker’s child have? “Unsanitary school conditions.” The DAILY WORKER has often published stories of the rotten sanitary condi- tions in the schools in the working class districts. Every point is an in- dictment of the system which enslaves children aud robs their parents. One-Fifth of Chicago Children Starving! And that one which should bring a bier ache and a feeling of resent- ment to the breast of every worker— to the heart of every working class father and mother who is striving to feed their little ones: “Food insuffi- ciency.” One-fifth of the children of Chicago! In 1925! EE ca Bat A REAR la SOE TS ah SE Ae Re RR cE Rac el sae ei neal ee But don’t think the superintendent SCHOOL BOARD'S MOVE TO COLLECT TAXES IS BLUFF Wealthy Tax Dodgers as Secure as Ever The board of assessors issued a statement showing up the board ot education’s latest pretense at getting after property that is not being as- sessed at full value, Gene G. Oltver in speaking for the assessors says the letter demanding that private estates under consideration at present in the probate court be taxed at their full value has nothing to it. “The school board’s letter cites 155 estates totalling $20,761,553 and de- mands that the assessors ‘fix full value on every estate. “If we granted the school board’s demand, and taxed these estates on a full cash value the widows and children would be forced to pay a four per cent county tax. Most of the tax- able assets cited by the school board are stocks, bonds and other securities which yield from three to five per cent, The board of assessors is not going to force payment of taxes in excess of income.” Thus did the board of assessors dispose of the school board’s bluff at getting after the tax dodgers. “This ridiculous pretense on the part of:the school board to show that it is fighting tax dodgers will not give its friends, the big loop property own- ers and the stock yards property hold- ers any sleepless nights,” was the way one of the officers of the Chica- g0’s Teachers’ Federation viewed the board’s latest move, “And neither will {t fool any one else, tho they are trying hard to put on a faco of doing Somothing before they can dare to before the people with a request for am inoreasod tax rat," és ney FOSTER SPEAKS AT PITTSBURGH T. U. : L. MEETING SATURDAY PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 30.— The Pittsburgh general group of the Trade Union Educational League will meet on Saturday night, May 2, at Labor Lyceum, 805 James St., North Side. The speaker of the evening will be William 2. Foster, recently re- turned from Soviet Russia. who wrote the report is running away with sentiment. If you think that the LAID OFF IN 6, & N. W. CARSHOPS Eighty-Six Per Cent. of Force Is Fired The Chicago and Northwestern Ratl- way company has laid off six thousand workers employed in the car shops” at Kedzie Ave. and 42nd St. A reduc- tion of eighty-six per cent in the work- ing forces was announced, to take ef- fect Monday. , The workers, given practically no notice, received with a shock the news that only 14 per cent of the normal working forces would be retained next week, " Many of the workers are in favor of countering the lay off with a strike of the entire working forces. The company announced that they had contemplated either drastically reducing wages or laying off the men, and had decided on the latter course, The lay-off is practfcally a complete shut down of the car shops, as the only work to be done is repair work, “causes” were written in a spirit of understanding, perish the thought! The supérintendent goes on to take up the subject of feeding the children at school, and he says: A Philosopher of Hunger. “There‘is a distinct danger that if we feed these children at the expense of the city, that we will undermine the spirit of independence and self- helpfulness in the home. We must remember that parasitism always weakens and destroys the independ- ence of the parasite—both in the veg- etable and the animal kingdoms.” How neatly and brazenly the real parasites of society can turn about and call the workers whom they have forced into the lowest depths of de- spair “parasites.” Dull Minds from Slow Starvation. There is an admitted connection, too, between the backward and so- called feeble-minded children and the malnutrition from which so many of the workers’ children are suffering. In Chicago's special rooms for back- ward children, the school physicans have reported that “all our special rooms for backward children give evi- dence of malnutrition. We know that the very best way of reaching most cases of backwardness is to give plenty of good food.” These are the workers’ children. Starving! ‘Without proper care! Physically unable to take advantage of even the smattering of perverted knowledge the capitalist schools hand out. Thrust into industry at a tender age. Toiling before and after school. Living in squalid poverty. Taught that this is the best government in the world, that Bolsheviks threaten our “freedom.” Beset on al sides by vice, disease and all the other horrible part- ners of poverty. Down with the Moloch of Capitalism! Only the Communists and the work- ers organized behind their leadership can free the children of the workers of Chicago. and of the. world. from these conditions and set their féet upon the roado a new world, a world of color and light, of freedom and beauty for the workers and their chil- dren of the entire earth. CLEVELAND AUDIENCE PROTESTS ARREST OF HAWAIIAN RED SOLDIERS CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30.— The unanimous “aye” of the enthw siastic audience of workers, in favor of a resolution condemning the imprisonment of the two soldier- communists, Crouch and Trumbull, ringing thru: the public square, suc- cessfully terminated the great meeting of protest called by the Young Workers League of Cleve- land, Saturday, April 25. Two hundred persons, most of them young workers, listened to the speakers, Phillip Shatz and Carl Weissberg expose the forces of American imperialism behind the ruthless treatment of the two young Communists in the American army stationed in Hawaill, Forty copies of the Young Worker were sold and two subscriptions were taken, After the meeting many of the young workers who had listened attentively thruout the speeches of both comrades, ap. proached them and id for the date of the next English branch meeting. ; Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. SEVEN HU. for the most part in the round house. The company endeavored to sup- press the news of the shut down, but when this was found impossible, Ifed to the newspapers, declaring thet “A fifty per cent reduction in the number of hourly mechanics in the Chicago shops has been ordered.” ‘ The men were officially told, how- ever, that 86 per cent would be off, only a few of the oldest employes being retained to do repairs. This announcement was also placed on the bulletin boards at the shops. “Insurgents” Easily Pleased. WASHINGTON, April 30.—Repre- sentatives Frear and Browne, insur- sent congressmen from Wisconsin called on President Coolidge today and praised Governor Horace “M. Towner’s administration of Porto Rico. 4 Browne and Frear have just return- ed from a visit to the island. While there both conducted a personal it vestigation of island affairs. They told the president Towner’s adminis: tration was eminently satisfactory in all respects. HAVANA WORKERS DOWN TOOLS AND PARADE 10 CELEBRATE MAY DAY HAVANA, Cuba, April 30.—May Day will be celebrated in Havana by a great parade of the workers, authorization for which hae been granted by the secretary of the in- terior. " A general strike will mark the passage of May Day here. Street. car traffic will be suspended. Ali dock workers will cease work and loading and -unloading of vessels will be abandoned. Afternoon ne papers will not be published. Shipping Trust to Get More Plums. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.— The United States shipping board, in line with the policy of the Coolidge government of turning the ships built by the government during the war over to the private shipping interests at a price far below cost, has afi- nounced its intention of selling 600 cargo ships. The move will have to be ratified by the next congress, Deport Lisbon Students. LISBON, April 30.—The Portuguese government today deported a number of students sending them from Lisbon aboard the cruiser Carval Hoaraujo. The reason given for. the deporta- tion was that the students were “dan- gerous agitators and members of the Red Legion.” ts “Union* Stores” Dissolves SPRINGFIELD, Il, April 30.—The Union Store’s company of La Salle and the home purchasing and bnild- ing corporation of Mattoon, IIL, noti- fied the secretary of state of their dissolution and surrendered their charters. BERLIN, Germany, April 90.— Albert Groesinski, socialist deputy in the Prussian diet, has ap pointed chief of police for Berlin, Herr Groesinski is a great admirer of the president-elect, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Tae The new chief was a metal work. er by trade before entering politics. He was secretary of the metal work- ers’ local union at Offenbach and. i © president of the Federation of bor at Cassel. DRED MORE ILLINOIS COAL MINERS THROWN OUT OF WORK WHEN HERRIN MINE CLOSES DOWN HERRIN, Ill, April 30.—Seven hundred more southern Mlinois were thrown out of work today when Mine No. 7, of St. Louls, posted suspension notices. the reason'for the shut down, Hundrdes of miners were already jobless southern Iilinole field, out of works torment: the taf ne x t AMEN ARH CSET, Ue SIRRD ESS” 5 Consolidated Coal company “Slack business” was assigned as In Horrin and theueande. are ?