The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 8, 1925, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER “RED MENACE’ HAUNTS WOMEN “AT WASHINGTON Super-Patriots Shiver at “Plot” Charges By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, May 6.—Moscow has tainted the program of the Inter- national Council of Women, with the purpose of undermining American in- stitutions; or, Moscow has plotted to undermine the International Council ot Women, and thereby the conserva- tive institutions for which it stands. Take your choice. The “red me- nace” is discovered by super-patriots in Washington, operating from both sides of the issue. “Warn” the White House. It was just a few days ago that a protest meeting was held by “patri- otic” women’s organizations in the capital, to warn the white house and state department and citizens at large that Lady Aberdeen and her fellow- delegates from bourgeois women’s or- ganizations in 42 countries were dan- gerous. They were agitating for in- ternationalism, which was much the same as Bolshevism. They were advo- cating the league of nations and the world court, which would mix us up in Buropean affairs and teach our pub- He men to tolerate discussion with Padicals who hold office in those for- eign countries. But on the opening day of the quin- quennial sessions of the International Council of Women, when ‘the dele- gates claiming to represent 39,000,000 women had gathered, the Washington Star, in first column, first page, an- nounced “Red Plot To Wreck Wom- en's Council Meeting Charged,” and followed up the headline with an ac- count of the fact that one Milton Fairchild, president of the Character Education Institute, had visited the convention headquarters with charges that the Communist International was trying to break it up. It appeared that he felt sure that “the world Com- munist organizations had agents in the capital who were using various patri- otic organizations as their tools to discredit the purposes of the conven- tion.” Shades of Sam. Gompers. Inasmuch as the patriotic organiza- tions referred to as tools of the Com- munist International were the ones with which the late Samuel Gompers associated himself, along with army Officers of the rank of Gen. Fries of the chemical warfare service, in view- ing with alarm Jane Addams and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, this was a severe blow to the women patriots. Lady Aberdeen explained that the governments of 38 of the countries affiliated in the council are members of the league of nations, and that that issue would not be raised as to Amer- ica. There was nothing radical about the organization. This statement was borne out by the program and the character of the speakers. When not discovering red plots, Fairchild is identified in the local pub- lic mind with so-called character edu- cation, and with a sleeping-box in which he induces slumber by the aid of colored lights. Cop Thought Idea a Crime That Classes (Continued from page 1) endeavoring to persuade the Building Trades Council officials to call off the strike, the company’s “watchmen” and private guards were spreading the story that “there is no strike.” Negroes Refuse To Scab On the corner of 15th St. and Ra- cine Ave., a private detective of the company was trying to persuade a group of unemployed Negro’s to go to work. They had been sent up from the downtown employment office at 218 S. Clark St. “But I don’t see any men working on that building,” one worker said. “You tell me the men were called off the job by the union. If that isn’t a strike then I never saw one.” They refused to go to work. “Go down to city hall,” said one boss when questioned. “They have a report on the situation up here, and they can tell you about it.” The carpenters employed on the new buildings are hired at non-union wages. The cement mixers, and work- Builders Strike for Union Wages | ers on the cement mixing machin are all hired as “common laborers’ and receive the same non-union, “Lan- dis award” scale, 82% cents an hour, Strike Spreading There are two main plants under construction. On the one nearer com- pletion, work was at a standstill, the structural iron workers, electricians, plumbers, tile setters and bricklayers having quit work in a body. On‘ the other building, most of the work is “common labor” and cement mixing. Workers were still to be seen on this building, but all those inter viewed by the DAILY WORKER de- clared they had decided to walk out chis morning. Those who were on the job were working very little, most of the men taiking about the walkout. Whether or not the Building Trades Council officials will be induced by the contractor to order the men back to work remains to be seen. The council has announced no definite steps to organize the laborers who are willing to join the walkout. NEW YORK LABOR PROPOSES AN EXTENSIVE EDUCATIONAL PLAN OF CHANGE IN SCHOOL SYSTEM (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 6.—Beginning with free text books for all school children, the New York Federation of Labor outlines an extensive plan for education reforms in the state school system. Dental, medical, optical and surgical treatment and care for all school children is the second point, Strict enforcement of the compulsory educa- tion law and its extension on full-time or part-time basis to the 18th year is the third proposal. Favors “Vocational Tralning” School For Creating Scabs. Limitation of pre-vocational train- ing to children under 16 and of vo- cational training to those over 16; more free scholarships for grammar school graduates are urged. Establishment of state and city su- Pervised and supported vacation camps for school children to provide educational and physical training; first aid courses in schools; establish- ment of nominal priced school lunch- es to counteract undernourishment and teach food values; separate edu- cational budgets in all cities and school districts; reorganization of rur- al school system to enable all, chil- dren to enter high school are pro- posed. For Closed Shop In Schools. Organization of all teachers in ‘the American Federation of Teachers, ‘aff- liated with the state federation and American Federation of Labor, and aid of all central bodies to the teach- ers’ union is sought. : Blective self-governing school and district councils of teachers; guaran- tee of job tenure to teachers during efficiency are suggested. Opposes Subsidized Schools. Elimination of rating system and substitution of professional stand- ards worked out by teachers and prin- cipals are asked. The New York Teachers’ Union has been fighting the rating system which allows too much politics to enter the educational system. Repeal of state law chartering Car- negie and Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board; state investigation of all private trade schools having benefit incomes from trust funds established for trade or industrial education purposes of less than college grade are sought. For “Free Speech.” Finally, the State Federation of La- bor asks that students in schools be Have Differences | given facts; that controversial ques- NEW YORK, May 6.—aArrest of persons distributing Communist liter- ature does more to spread radicalism than anything radicals can do, Magis- trate Joseph E, Corrigan rules and discharged two Italian workers whom police had arrested for handling out May Day literature. iGuseppe Mozzola and Vincenzo Perrone are the men and the Italian newspaper they were giving out near a public school contained an article, Policeman Thomas Kutzer charged, which translated: “The working class and the capitalists have nothing in common, etc.” Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, May 6.—~ Great Britain pound sterling, demand 4.85 6-16; ca- ble 4.85 9-16. France, franc, demand 5.21%; cable 5.22. Belgium, franc, de- mand 6.03; sable 5.05%. Italy, lira, demand 4.10%; cable 4.11, Sweden, krone, demand 26.74; cable 26.77. Nor- way, krone, demand 16.84; cable 16.86. Denmark, krone, demand 18.83; cable 18.85. Shanghai, tael, demand 76.00; cable 75.50. tions have both sides presented; that propaganda for or against anything has no place in fhe schools. The at- tempts to revise history to eliminate facts which would enable students to draw proper and unblased conclusions are regretted. Painters’ Strike Goes On, WASHINGTON, May 7.—No com- Promise is in sight for the 300 mem- bers of the local union of painters ang Paperhangers who are in the fifth week of their strike for the $10 wage scale. Five hundred members of the local are claimed to have secured jobs at the new rate, either in Washington or outside. A conference for discus- sion of a compromise settloment broke down before it was organized, because neither side would recede from its original stand. Financial backers of the bosses re- fusing to pay the new scale are prom- ising to raise a big fund to make.good the losses the contractors are now suffering. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! 40,000 WORKERS AVERAGE 20 CENTS PER DAY WAGES UNDER STARS AND STRIPES IN PORTO RICO NEW YORK, May 6—In Porto Rico 40,000 workers average 20 cents a day for their work and few get $3 or $4 a week, says F. Paz Granela, vice- President of the Porto Rican Free Federation of Labor. These 40,000 are the ‘women and children in the dress, blouse, embroidery and lace industry of the little island dependency of the United States. Their employers are New York firms whose business, according to their own statement to the senate labor commissioner is worth $12,000,000, The employes demand that home work by th Porto Rican men avera 7,049 children out of lack of clothes and food / 40,000 women and children continue. American Federation of Labor organizer for the island senate to compel employers to establish proper work shops. Senator Pablo iglesias, ind, has a bill before the The only 40 to 60 cents a day for long hours of labor and ,778 in agricultural districts did not attend school for + THIRD PARTY SUPPORT FOUGHT BY SHEPPARD AT CONDUCTORS’ MEET (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 6.— L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, who recommended in the political com- mittee of the union that support of the third party by the union be withdrawn, caused a row In the executive committee meeting yester- day over the question, and the meet- ing broke up in confusion before a vote was taken. The Order of Rallway Conductors is in convention here and Sheppard yesterday presented a resolution to the delegates demanding that they “decide” whether or not the unton shall continue support, previously voted, of a third party. FEDERAL COURT AND MARSHALS FIGHT STRIKE Blanket Injunction in W. Virginia (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEBLING, W. Va., May 6.—Appli- cation for a blanket injunction res- training officers and members of the United Mine Workers of America from interfering in any way with the mines of 15 coal companies in the pan-handle district, was madé in federal district court here today. The application. .#ill come up for hearing at Parketsbarg June 6 and if granted, operators said, would end the coal strike in thip, section which has, they admitted, seriously crippled pro- duction, met United States deputy marshals imme- diately began serving some two hun- dred persons named in the applica- tion. 6 iC 10 Year Old Children to Work 12 Hours if ‘Reform’: Law Passes Sdadinend SHANGHAI, China, May 6—Another attempt to pass & child labor law will be made on Juné 2 at a special meet- ing of the foreign tax payers in Shang- hat’s internationd} settlement. The calling of this meeting follows the loud outcry against the failure of the meeting held a fortnight ago to pass this much-desired measure. If passed the measure would free 22,000 children from labor in mills and factories. It would at once prohibit the employment of children under the age of 10 years, and after four years would prohibit the employment of chil- dren under the age of 12. It provides for a twelve-hour day, including an hour of rest, and @ full holiday every two weeks, i Reactionary Raids Reduce St. Paul Trades Assembly ST. PAUL, May 6—Out of 43 mis- cellaneous organized trades in St. Paul, 37 are affiliated with the Trades and Labor Assembly. Of 18 buildings trades unions, 18 are affiliated, but only 6 out of 81 railroad unions and only one of four federal unions. Many of the rail withdrew after the disastrous 1922 national shop strike. RAILROADS SWELL PROFITS* STEALING PUBLIC ee D GRANTS By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) How millions of acres of public lands granted to’the railroads as an investment by the people in a public enterprise have been converted into the swollen fortunes of railroad magnates is suggested by the testimony of D. F. McGowan, attorney for the U. S. forest service, before a congressional com- mittee investigating Northern Pacific land grants. The carrier is claiming additional acreage in spite of its failure to carry out the full terms of its SE contract with the government. The railroad, according to McGow- an, has already received $134,000,000 from the sale of lands granted by the government to cover the cost of con- structing the road. He places the actual cost of building the railroad at $70,000,000. The carriers are now de- manding rates which will produce a net income of at least 5% per cent on their entire value. Profits to Private Investor. The Canadian Pacific railroad shows how public land grants swell the re- turns of private investors. Canadian Pacific got over 31,000,000 acres in land grants from the government of Canada. It sold about 25,000,000 acres for $190,000,000 and has put $108,- 000,000 of this into building up the road, thus avoiding borrowing a like amount. This saving in interest is estimated by the Wall Street Journal at $4,000,- 000 a year. Will this make possible lower transportation rates? No, in- deed. The Wall Street Journal “The dividend rate of 10 per cent which has been maintained since 1911 could hardly have been paid continu- ously without the lower fixed charges made possible by financing capital ex- penditures from the sale of lands which were a gift to the company.” Stockholders have also received $7,308,600 in cash from the sale of these lands, The company still holds land valued at $97,684,208 exclusive of the value placed on its rights and holdings in mineral, natural gas and petroleum lands. Common stockhold- ers to date have received 260 per cent on their original investment. Land Grant Grafts, These two roads are representative of the many land-grant raflroads which which have poured wealth into the laps of the Hills, Goulds, Harrimans and other railroad families. The rec- ords of the general land office at Washington show that congress has ‘appropriated approximately 190,000,000 acres, or 296,975 square miles, for rail- road building. This represents an area as large as all New England with the addition of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Obio, Indiana and [linois, In 1914 the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe were reported by the bureau of cor- porations as still holding over 33,600,- 000 acres in spite of enormous sales ] het SMALL FINALLY GIVES CHILD LABOR BILL T0 ILLINOIS ASSEMBLY SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 6—The Proposed child labor amendment to the federal constitution was sent to both houses of the Illinois legis- lature today by Governor Len Small. The senate Immediately re- ferred It to the executive committee and the house to the committee on Industrial affairs. companies and to smaller purchasers. |This exceeds the total improved acre- age held by ers in states trav- ersed by these lines, These three roads have paid divi- dends to common stockholders as fol- lows: Norther Pacific since 1899, 165 per cont; Southern Pacific since 1906, 118 per éent; Santa Fe since 1901, 136 per cet, But the real mil- lions have beer tucked away in the strong boxes of the financiers thru the financial jfiggling which marks their early histéry, The public has ben deprived ofthe lower rates which its stupendous investment should have produced. GET A SUB’ANO GIV= ONE! — Y. W. L. Dance Saturday. Come to the Wance, Saturday, May 9. Admission if only 86 cents in ad- vance and 50 cents at the door. Tick ets can be prodired at the league of fice, 19 So. Lincoln St. and from. ali the league members. Does your friend subscribe 1. the DAILY WORKER? Ask bim: last year. 4 » Big Coal Mine Fatality Record WASHINGTON, May 6.—Accidents in coal mines in the United States during March, i926, cost the lives of 181 employes. Of these 33 were killed in the explosion in the Bethichem Steel Co.’s mine at Barrackville, W. Va. In March, 1924, there were two major explosions, in which 172 men and 24 men, respectively, were killed. The report of the bureau of mines does not find it necessary to mention the names and locations of thse horrors of It devotes two hundred words, however, to calculation that the number of deaths per million tons of coal produced was less this year than to favored lumber companies, copper, last. ; Big Basses on Job Only Two Hours Daily, Admits Kept F inancial Editor By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, some of the truth leaks out about those “excessive- ly long hours” that great industrial capitalists and finan- ciers, according to all the rules of “success” propaganda, are supposed to toil at their desks. The monotonous tune played is to this effect: the cap- italist toils long hours, therefore the wage worker, in mill, mine and factory should be content to remain at his ma- chine the day thru. * ° e ee@ One financial writer, however, in order to relieve the monotony of his daily department, took up the discussion of the seven-day week, and it has led him into interminable pit- falls. He has been compelled to criticize the long work- week for the wage worker; at the same time revealing some of the short workdays of capitalist executives who hold high official positions, and have not yet decided to retire as 100 per cent parasites. Here are some of the facts: Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corpora- tion, does not work long hours. Charles M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel Co., “during more recent years has not worked long hours.” Except during his early years, John D. Rockefeller never was a slave to long hours, Neither was Andrew Carnegie. Glarence Dillon, the investment banker, who sprung into promi- nence thru purchase of the gigantic Dodge automobile enterprises, WORKS ABNORMALLY FEW HOURS, FEWER THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER IMPORTANT MAN OF AFFAIRS. Many days he Is at his desk only two or three hours. Other days he does not go downtown at all. Then, he always takes several vacations every year, including, always, a stay in Europe. The leading Kuhn, Loeb & Co. partners (Wall Street bankers) work only short hours. Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears, Roebuck & Co., is a short-hour rather than a long-hour man, eee se It is good for the steel workers to know that when Gary and Schwab were urging the 12-hour day for steel workers, they contented themselves with dropping around to their offices an hour or two each day, when they were not enjoy- ing themselves in Europe. It leaks out now that “John D.” did not overwork himself in building the oil trust, altho large armies of oil workers toil the 12-hour day and the seven-day week in order that the profits of “John D.” may not diminish. It is especially good for the great armies of office work- ers, who toil excessively long hours in the “largest mail order house in the world,” to know’ that their multi-millionaire boss, Rosenwald, takes things easy. b It should be an incentive to the workers in these cate- ‘ories to unite their unorganized numbers and battle for a little leisure for themselves. ee @ Workers can use the argument for short hours for the capitalist, to apply equally well in demanding the short work- day for themselves. The great employer says he “can do ‘more and better work in two hours than his predecessor of 50 years ago could do in twelve—not because he is a better or a bigger man, but because he has more and better tools with which to do his work.” Thus the boss is not adverse to using all the modern appliances invented by mechanical genius to shorten his own workday. His “business” can be so organized that prac- tically all work can be sloughed off onto “white collar slaves,” who are nothing more than wage workers who refuse to admit it. The employer who now gloats over his own two-hour day, with plenty of time for the golf links, is the same em- ployer who makes patriotic speeches at the banquets of the Chamber of Commerce and argues that the eight-hour day is too short for his wage slaves. They should work ten and twelve hours per day. The fact that the increased use of machinery has added enormously to the productive power of the wage worker, coupling growing unemployment with the long workday, does not trouble the boss. Unemployment is the employer's best ally in the war on labor. © 6 hs 6 The myth of the hard-working boss is thus exploded. Back of the two-hour employer must be revealed, clearer than ever, the great army of parasites, who do no work at all, yet live richly off the fruits of industry. This is also a growing army under capitalism. Riches and poverty; both are bred under capitalism. — the workers can chan; this condition by ending the rule of capitalism. Only the Communists lead in the struggle for this change. MENSHEVIKS OF GEORGIA BRANDED AS PLUTE TOOLS Purcell Tears the Hide Off Yellow Socialist In @ recent issue of the London Daily Herald, Noe Jordania, former menshevik prime minister of Georgia, scolded A. A. Purcell, chairman of the British trade union delegation to Rus- sia for the favorable report made by them on present conditions in Georgia. Purcell comes back with a scorching reply which is written up as follows in the Herald: se 8 Mr. Jordania’s abusive remarks about the delegation are to be ex- pected, writes Mr. Purcell, because their report has killed for ever, as far as the British trade union move- ment is concerned, the lying and fan- tastic reports about Soviet rule in Georgia, which he and his friends have been issuing ever since the Georgian people gave them “the or der of the boot.” Jordania’s government had “de- cided to establish a stable currency” and it had “concluded” an agreement with a British firm to advance it “the necessary means.” Wonderful! Soviet Russia has es- tablished a stable currency without aid from any foreign firm. Currency Question. Georgian currency was “100 times better than the Russian” at the time of Jordania’s somewhat hurried de- parture from Georgia. Marvelous! The Soviet government had been attacked and Soviet Russia blockaded for over three years; and Jordania’s government had been re- “jeeiving almost continual assistance first from Germany and afterwards from the allies, Jodania’s budget “was appoximately £ 4,000,000.” , Amazing! How did Jordania’s friends get that four million? Very simply; by selling to the peasants the land. The wicked Bolsheviks have an incurable weakness for restoring the land to the peasants free of charge. Socialized Industry. The industries of Russia, including Georgia, are now under central man- agement. Monstrous! The socialist parties of the world advocate precisely the same principle. Does Jodania suggest that each pro- vince should have its own posts and telegraph institutions? The population of Georgia has been “enslaved” by Moscow. Is that because the land and the in- dustries of the. country have been, re- stored to the people without any com- pensation to the former owners; or is it because every effort is being encour- aged to develop the Georgian lan- guage and culture? Hoover Now Co-op, “Authority.” WASHINGTON, May 6—Herbert Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, hard-boiled big business ad- vocates, are among the “authorities” on farm co-operatives who are listed to address the American Institute of Co-operation in Philadelphia, July 20 to Aug. 15. From headquarters in Washington the announcement is made that both cabinet members will discuss the educational aspects of the co-operative movement. Rock [sland Wants to Spread WASHINGTON, May 6.—The Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad applied to the interstate commerce commission today for authority to ac- quire complete control of the St. Louis Southwestern railroad by purchase of its capital stock. At present the Rock Island system exercises partial con- trol over the southwestern by owner- ship of $14,926,800 of capital stock, consisting of $13,348,000 of preferred and $1,578,800 of common. POLISH COURTS AND POLICE CLUBS HIT AT TRADE UNIONS (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, May 6—(I. R. A.)—The union of the tobacco workers in Warsaw has been dis- banded for the third time by the courts in Warsaw. The union has been already twice disbanded last y Proceedings were started inst the executive body of the union represented by Bitner, Ull- mann and others who are very popu- lar among the workers of Warsaw. As we are informed, searches and arrests have taken place among the members of the Jewish unions and the Leather Workers’ Union. On the whole 130 persons were arrest- ed of whom 36 persons are held in jail. ; { Committee. Mass Meeting FOR IRISH FAMINE RELIEF FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 8 P. M. AT NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL, 827 North Clark St., Chicago SPEAKERS: ’ JOHN P. McCARTHY, who has just returned from a visit to the famine region, WILLIAM F. DUNNE, Editor of THE DAILY WORKER. T. J. OFLAHERTY, Secretary, Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief . ROBERT TOTTEN, Secretary, Irish Workers’ Republican Club. PICTURES OF IRISH SCENES. ADMISSION FREE.