The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1925, Page 6

and harms nobody, The object of this little sermon is to teach life’s fronies; but amidst the lotteries here recorded we hope to include instances of just such charit- able deeds as those of the’ McLanes tiowards Winston (“Jerry”) Bartlett. Ip helps us give back our faith in hu- man nature, when we run across a lot of hard boiled adventures and ad- venturers, Capitalism still has its heroes, be they ever so humble. “When I was driving Sunny Jim back from the San Fernando winery { kept my eye out for his blackjack, for he was in an ugly mood, and didn’t know when he would hit me,” said Jerry. It is to be presumed both had been drinking over there while making their purchase of five gallons vinum for $1, and quarrelling on the way back. Such things are done and for- gotten; but not the fact that your companion holds his blackjack in his hand and wields it viciously on occasion too. That is one unforget- table incident that makes vivid the remembrance of the whole journey, there and back, In one way it seems good, said Jerry, to think of Jimmy being cared for in his last moments in the hospital where everything was clean and sweet, tho he died hard, rav- ing, his vitals on fire, and was buried in a pauper’s grave. But we should know we can’t do such things as By SIMON FELSHIN. The last important event of the art season in New York is the Spring Salon of the Salons, of America at the on iio rnnsnncaiy uae aa { me RG $ ait of & ip ~— Swan on { . ee iia Ne 4 \f y \ x 7 d ; Page Six THE’ OD LY WORKER . ms x THE DAILY WORKER. Prison Contract Labor J “B fe Fainked G Ge DALY WoRkEN FORLREING OD |i ; erry: artie no er um : Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING OO. Prison contract labor is one of the host damning mg i 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ml. indictments against the capitalist system. Under City, where he didn’t take a drink for hie (Phone: Monroe 4712) this infernal system unfortunate victims of a rob: Fb DRRY isn’t quite* aes prominent @|two years. That’s not saying he at | ber society < speeded to death by the greedy ban- figure in Los Angeles life as his| didn’t get drunk. For to tell the Y SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sait . fs tener ive Bt friend, Sunny Jim wad and yet he is| truth, he did; but he wasn't to blame 4 dits who secure contracts from the prison officials y y ‘ By mall: : Saha A ge A ikon known like he says" Jim was “from! for it. It was done in the course of 4 . y’ ei $6.00 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00...8 months Thousands of convicts are now employed under this | the West side to Bast Los Angeles!” | his vocation. He had to climb down | & Hees By my Aad pees ahi 60.3 months | 8YStem. The prison contract labor trust is immune] jerry too is an unfortunate. Four-| a ladder into the large wine vats and i | “a ee zene SYS) 8) Monten eevee (from the pressure that is sometimes brought to | teen years ago he Wak struck by _ | seas Hes gue ues pega ee hie it >; 2} y ontencer | automobile and his ribs were stove in| fumes there made him y; partic- at Se ee veer bedr on Puiployenos pane oe oa a ind his hip broken, so he has to limp/ ularly the fumes from the brandy 14 ei bap lar bate ama hi aia ne of slavery, but outside the walls of a pent: | round with the aid of a cane, but/ vats. Lots of times he could hardly j ; lee! ached saat See. tentiary. he didn’t get nothing out of the acci-| stagger up the Jadder and crawl out 1 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL Editors | Not alone is prison contract labor an indictment | dent. of the small hole at the top, he was WILLIAM F. DUNNE BERENS lof capitalism, but it also points the accusative fin Also Jerry has lost all the fingers | so intoxicated. But out in the fresh MORITZ J. LOEB.......ssmeome- Business Manager | aaa : ‘ ‘ off his left hand. However, he has/ air he soon recovered. He sobered |ger at the official leadership of the trade union 1 clear complexion, a fairly clean| up almost immediately. It was dif- Qntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post | movement. While those reactionaries and the em-| jeara and a very dirty shirt. He has| erent from a drinking bout in that Mice at Chicago, Il, under the: act of March 8, 187% | ploying class put their heads together worrying | lived around here for 20 years; long | way. He got soused Lida a = | cree Caras are ey ? vrecks he | enough to know enough “not to mess | foul air, and got sober breathing the ate npdtediarad chs state pone bles r ee ops ei ay ae he aaray Ap é up with a fellow like Sunny Jim,”| fresh air. Such is the power of the papier syste n who-have found sires way ari whom he accuses of having had pol-| atmosphere good and bad over the 9 . . | the penitentia S are competing with so-callec ice protection during his stormy and | lives of pure and keen men. Brothers, Labor s Friends Again | “free” labor outside. And the product of those | unfortunate career. It seems quite en| when passing thru life’s stormy waves 1 ’s eight- ill i red i ,| prison hell holes are sol I arket in compe-|regale for those leading. members of| Jearn to look at the barometer, and The women’s eight hour bill introduced in the | PI igon ng holes mie on the mar i P' local: society. wiiyihafituate the. low-| hy all meang when the ékies are afoul Illinois state legislature by Representative Lottie ution with union labor! ; er side of the town to have spent | and reeking, cease to breathe and.you Holman O'Neill, failed of passage by a margin of| What should be done about this? A good union} :noi, pi, in hock; after which they | will avoid temptation. That is the four votes. This bill was one of the chief “labor”! man will immediately suggest trade union action. | jearn to operate without interference. | first lesson. i <ankak f Len} Why not have the transportation workers refuse | Jerry doesn’t operate, unless you| leven years now poor old Jerry Peeve si oun TeOUs Mankabe pletion of, Let to haul prison manufactered goods to the mar.| Would call dH¥iGE A trash wagon op-| has been living With the MoLaties, Small, published at the time he announced his in ‘ @ pris 2 ¢ Goods pig CTE and they Vike hin’ so°well’ they treat tention of being a candidate to succeed himself as| kets? Or why not compel the prison trust to pay|~ pye history of the trash wagon is| him like one of the family, tho he is governor for a second term. The injunction issue|nion wages to its slaves? Why not attempt to|inuminating. Some years ago Jerry| no relation. The broken old man is : rs ITS NASER pitnicnien <4 Cantey eae rae 7? | wa ; he picks up a few was another. Both have now fallen by the wayside| organize the workers in the distributive industry? | was in hard luck. “He was put out of| free from care i a he “peas T ratehful e > ok . .|his shack on St. Andrews and 34thj dimes hauling ashes and _ rubbish; and the workers of this state have been given an-| Thus a w atchful eye could be kept peeled for pro: place, and a neighbor, a Mr. McLane, | turns them into the family larder/to other lesson in the futility of depending on cap-| ducts of the prison hells of the country. None of | took pity on him and gave him a nice| pay his own keep and his horse's, italist politicians or capitalist legislatures for any| these ideas occurred to the executive council of the | oom in a comfortable bungalow. Me- relief from the exactions of capitalism. American Federation of Labor. No, that would| Lane also gave him a horse and itici york rged | mez ork and a fight with the state and perhaps | Wagon, having an old nag to spare, The politicians to whom the workers are urged 4 ey - ; se ie t Pp Pp since the traliaataihons: Was. pass by their renegade leaders to look for succor are wi federal authorities. } ing from the horse to the horseless in the pay of the capitalists. The employers own| ‘ When the question of prison labor came up be-| age. go Jerry is happy and independ- them body and soul. Here and there a few excep-|fore the executive counvil of the federation, the| ent; no cloud on his horizon to dis- tions may be found, but those exceptions don’t| legal department was called in and a nice scheme | turb his peery no ined ried last long. As soon as they have gained popularity|to solve the problem came forth. A model state neha att thane zy onl ‘ by posing as friends: of the workers their itching|law was drafted, prescribing that convict labor Jerry while he did get drunk occa- palms become receptive to the golden grease that| shall be employed in manufacturing such articles | sionally with his old friend, Sunny always flows generously from the employers’|as are to be supplied to the various departments | Jim, never went into the high life coffers. Then the workers become disheartened| of the state government, or its institutions, or to prpcticden's ¢ abe ve con ego only to turn to another bourgeois Moses and| political divisions of the state. No goods produced | , tion trom the Sorraul Bros. winery tread the same weary path to another disillusion-| by convict labor shall be sold in the open market. | on Jefferson street that gave him that ment. This is the gist of the proposed state law as re-| “fire in his innards,” it.was the food The workers, women or men, will never win the|ported by the Washington correspondent of the| saaiainy ine ae egie tay a8 . : . vorke?: lass ws agency. a a * "i eight-hour day in a capitalist legislature. The bosses he orking Spa news agency, the Federated Press. have women around the old Burbank know this. So do the politicians and so do the| The F. P. man commenting on the law naively | Theater the same dsi.they have now, labor leaders. But the politicians and the labor | remarks: “Wherever this measure is enacted, the| and where there women and leaders keep teasing the workers along, with prom-| prison contract labor evil is automatically killed, ace bere i int the Ket ise of a victory without sacrifice. The old story! except in so far as politicians in the states violate on pit: Phe fs sod ae e, of the proverbial carrot dangling in front of the|its spirit by letting contracts for the making of Jerry learned early in his career yo donkey’s nose. This serves the purpose of the labor |,goods, in prisons, for state use.” “Except” in this | beware the famous’ trilogy and walk leaders admirably. The workers keep quiet. The} instance is the rule. That’s the infernal trouble | the straight pes 4 ‘narrow path that fakers draw their official salaries and by threaten-| with all those laws passed in capitalist legislatures, Saautia igre aeagene segs ing to make it unpleasant for the employers, un-|even when by a miracle they do favor the workers. thing terrible whenhe was drunk. He less they come across, make the latter contribute] The powers of administration are in the hands of | would sing his German songs and to the family larder. This is how the game is|the capitalists arid they see to it that business | keep’ the neighbors*awake for blocks around. \ It was all the police could worked. goes on as usual. ° . i beat The prison convict labor trust can ‘settle down | 20 *? auiet him! But you see. Jim Is it not peculiar how those labor bills get beaten) — Pp i regs practiced what he [preached: wine- by such a narrow margin? No doubt the labor | joyfully to the business of grinding dollars out of | women AND song! while Jerry only OFFICIAL WASHINGTON SI! fakers will blame the chamber of commerce and| the sweat and blood of the prisoners, knowing that | occasionally indulged in the first of * perhaps — the solons who voted against the women’s eight-| the comfortable officials of the executive council bap Rims oc- peid ah vag SF hour bill. But the blame belongs on the shoulders | of the Anterican Federation of Labor have no more ed ow of the treacherous labor skates, who have no con- \intention of fighting to abolish prison convict la- 2 al OD see Plan” cern for the interests of the unfortunate workers| bor than they have of fighting to abolish wage CAL Wou fi CUT Seco § € ‘ who are paying them large salaries. The injunc-|bor. And if the unexpected happened the prison Also Going to Fail 4 tion bill sponsored “by labor was defeated. The| trust has the supreme court to fall back on. J : chamber of commerce got its state cossack bill| The longer this unholy process continues, the Bae pak ha had eel iM thru, with the help of the labor fakers. Now let | better it is for the sobsisterhood of fake prison >, Be au (6 chaknen sta the Sule. Qemaiite E us listen to Small’s labor lieutenants boast about|reform., This kind of toothless propaganda will ‘ by Vice-President Dawes has shown ae” their accomplishments in behalf of the workers! sit lightly on the fat bellies of the labor leaders ; that not more than a dozen out of ® thru the labor bills! The women working in the industries of this na- tion will never secure any concession worth a foun- tain pen-full of ink, thru the efforts of their hack lbobyists in the capitalist legislatures. They can} secure the eight-hour day, higher wages and better working gonditions when they organize indusiyial- ty into unions. The labor fakers realize this, but they are lazy, incompetent and corrupt, and prefer to have their feet under the boss’ table, smoke the boss’ cigars and drink the boss’ booze than fight for the interests of the exploited workers. Wanted: A Site for a Chunk of Bronze One of the accomplishments of the May session tion 6f Labor was to listen to the recommendation erection of a monument to the late president of the federation. As usual the fakers lacked origin- ality. The best they could do in the line of pres- eriting a plan was to recommend a bronze heroic “igure of Sam, to be located in the national capital. » The sum of $50,000 has been suggested by the committee as necessary to get enough bronze to- gether in order to fittingly commemorate the de- ceased capitalist tool. But why pick on bronze? Why not brass? The only fiy in the ointment is where to place the memorial. The lawn of the A. F. of L. building is too small for the purpose. is \ Massachusetts avenue would suit it ni is a methodist church, and the fakers think it enough to have Sam buried between Carnegie and * (Rockefeller without having his statue looking the } Carnegie monument straight in the face. ; If Gompers could have his say in the matter, it is quite likely that he would be perfectly satis- a fied with the location. Or perhaps he might prefer ‘to have the chunk of bronze placed on the stepsof the department of justice. That's where it belongs. . The Cleveland Railways company has estab- lished the open shop. This means “closed to union ” / and tell of the governor’s heroic efforts to push| f : of the executive council of the American Federa-} of the Gompers memorial committee relative to the} A city park across) but the} Andrew Carnegie library is in the vicinity and so) and the sob sisters, male and female, will not be wanting coffee-and doughnuts. G’wan! We've Gotta Cracked Lip By way of diversion we occasionally (speaking | by way of apology) read the Chicago Tribune. | Usually we pass over the “revolutionary section” where are set forth the allegedly humorous antics of “Moon Mullins” and “Uncle Walt.” These are far too serious and thoughtful. There may be cause for tears and even profanity in the supposed “fun- y” paper, but the funniest thing in the Tribune is the news. The correspondents sent abroad with a college ignorance concealed behind a vocabulary and the sartorial equipment of an American petty bour- geois, can perpetrate the most howling comics when most trusting that they speak in deadly seriousness. An instance is the strange interpre- tation as to “Moscow’s interference in British affairs,” as made by John Steele, the Tribune's correspondent. He writes: “J. T. W. Newbold, formerly a Communist mem- ber of parliament, has resigned from the Communist Party, saying he is proud to be an Englishman and he resents Moscow's interference in British affairs. The instance which finally disgusted him with Rus- sia, he said, was the murder of the Polish priest, Budkiewicz, in Petrograd. He telegraphed an appeal for the priest to Moscow and was censured aan this by the Communist Party.” While it is true that the Polish spy was executed, regardless of the attempt by all the capitalist world to conceal his counter-revolutionary acts be- hind his cassock, and while it is also true that his | counter-revolutionary activities were a matter in which Great Britain was certainly interested and involved, yet it is not obvions to the average worker that such secret interests are the ground for international insult if the spy happens to be checked in his career by Bolsheviks who are vil- lainous enough to uncover him. What is obvious, is the asinine Newbold’s inter- ference in Russian affairs. Some of the dispatch “might have been a Russian, a Frenchman or a Prussian; but in spite of all temptations to belong to other nations, he remains an Englishman.” The fonniest part of the gapitalist newspaper iis not the “funny paper.” ' : sebeaes ; | sentative >| 000 and upward, é! is reminiscent of the comic opera character who | To Slash Tax on the Wealthy, Not Workers WASHINGTON, May 13.—President Coolidge conferred today with Repre- Bacharach, republican of New Jersey, a member of the house ways and means committee, on con- templated tax reduction legislation. Bacharach recommended that any new tax readjustment should include the elimination of all surtaxes as a measure both of reduction and simpli- fication. “I believe we can figure on reduc- ing federal taxes to the extent of $400,000,000,” 8 Bacharach. “I would favor ¢limination of taxes on autos and accessories, motor boats, jewelry and club dues. This would mean a reduction of $130,000,000. “We could modify amusement taxes so as to apply on. “admission above $1.50. This would result in an addi- {tional cut of $30,000,000. “The inheritance and estate taxes could be reduced a maximum of 20 per cent, the minimum rate to be gin at $100,000 wl would mean a reduction of $50,000,000. A cut on the gift tax on the fame basis would make a further r luction of $5,000,- 000. “I favor a veducl in the surtax schedules to a jum of 20 per cent to apply only to incomes of $16,- inating the sur- tax on incomes ay mn $10,000 and $15,000, I would the taxes on incomes between $2,000 and $10,000, either by reducing the rate or giving increased allowance for dependants.” we — Peisters triking for Raise Face Strikebreak: r BOSTON, Maat May Over 2,200 Boston palnters are still on strike for $1.26 hour. Interna- tional vice-p: ent}! Charles A, Cul- len is in Boston inv@stigating the five weeks’ strike. Th® master painters’ associaticn 18 considering vn attempt to man all jobs with strike- breakers can be ‘ing old vate lof pay pay ae Sle pow pain 13--(FP)— the 96 members of that body are in- terested in trying to put a gag on de- bate. These supporters of Dawes are third-rate men or new men, who have no power as leaders or speakers, and at the first attempt on their part to raise the issue the opposing fire will be so devastating that they will prob- ably drop it for the remainder of the session. Keeping Patriotism Alive. NEW ORLEANS, La., May 13.— While the fair grounds is fully two miles from water of any description, except fire water, and that from the lowly hydrant, the American legion will stage a bathing revue at that lo- cation July four, in which shapely girls will parade the grounds clad in one piece suits to the edification of elderly men, long past the age of usefulness, and members of the legion of this citiy who will mingle with the girls and gloat over the magni- ficent, specimens of American woman- hood in the making. During the world war when the American government in Washington closed all places of evil resort for the protection of the “boys in khaki.” To all intents and purposes they are still closed, but the legion at this day brings innocent girlhood clad in flimsy bathing suits to parade before them on a section of ground as bar- ren of water as they themselves are of common decency, Violator of Garment Agreement Is Fined NEW YORK, May 18—(FP)—Dam- ages of $4,858 to be paid to the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union by R. Sadowsky, Inc, is the Crs | order of Chairman Raymond B. Ing- ersoll, special arbitrator between the cloak concern and the union, The firm is fined for uneqal divis- fon of work between outside and in- side employes and for sending work to nonunion shops for manutfasture. been ‘checking up on troops ware stationed in this city the | Anderson Galleries, 59th- Street and Park Avenue, running to May 16. The exhibition is on two floors. They have segregated the artists ac- cording to tendency. The two large | rooms on the two floors are in sharp contrast to each other. different worlds. Here one can see vividly the struggle going on in the art world as well as elsewhere, be- tween the old and the new. In the room of the modernists you feel a vitality, a dynamic quality» It compels your attention. You go one floor higher and you are taken aback by the contrast. There is a distinct come-down. The canvasses are lifeless. It is another world, an old world, weary, with a pallor of death upon it, bloodless, faded. The conservatives have absolutely nothing more to say. They are bankrupt. Their methods are obsolete. They are repeating old formulas which were alive at one time but are now dead. They imitate the past masters, but fail woefully, The exhibition has been invaded by Japanese artists who have contributed some of the best pictures of the ex- hibition, There is “The Clinch” by Eitaro Ishigaki who is a Communist, “Window View—New York” by No- boru Foujioka, “Machine Shop” by Bumpei Usui, “The Life Guard” by Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The interesting thing is that these Japanese are the most American of all in their choice of subjects. ~ Paintings By American Communists. Louis Lozowick, known to readers of the Communist press for his pictures reproduced in the Daily Worker and the Liberator has a picture “Butte, Montana.” It is one of the finest,, striking for its colors, workmanship, composition, , Evidently the artist did not take out his easel to Butte and BMITS TO. he eee They are two, By Robin E. Dunbar . Jimmy did, they don’t pay. M They have torn down the old auk in the rear of the corner of St, An- drews and Jefferson where Jimmy used to crawl in after his down town debauches and sing at the top of, hip voice, thru the pity-and tolerance of ‘the owner. The old landmarks are fast disappearing. A new era is rising. The days of wineries, wholesale liquor houses, breweries, distilleries, saloons, wine room, etc., etc., have gone for- ever. And with them. much of: the gruesome and disgusting misery of olden days. You can walk around all over Los Angeles and never meet with such a hideous picture as the old Burbank scene painter afforded in his last days. Jerry comes the nearest to it, so far as I can judge at the present moment; but Jerry is miles cleaner and sweeter and better than old Sunny Jim. Bootlegging may manufacture a replica of him in time, so for while it has filled the grave- yards, it hasn’t filled Los Angeles St. and the San Fernando road with men like them. The mold was- broken when these were turned out.on) the stréets of Los Angeles, ever ‘blessed and fair. Jack London knew ‘them and no doubt bummed around with them at times when in search of hard liquor mixed with local color—bums and revolution don’t mix * = to- gether, . give a photographic reproduction of actuality. This picture is the essence of Butte and its copper mines. The colors are the artist's free. choice; they are not gray as would be usually found in a realistic treatment of an industrial scene. Though the tone is | subdued, the colors are warm in ef- fect, with red predominating. The picture is masterfully constructed— hills and mining structures struggling with each other for mastery, piling upwards, mass upon mass. There are no people in the picture, for they would mar it. People don’t belong in this monumental construction, in this massivenes, in this flow and magnif- icent sweep of line. People are not monumental, not in appearance any- way, and they are therefore elimi- nated, leaving monumentality, solidity, set down on the canvas with a sure hand. It is truly an epic of industrial America, as only Lozowick can render it, an artist whose work is of the best that America has to show. There is a painting by Lydia Gtb- son, a competent portrait of Floyd Dell, a rather summery picture; done in bright colors. Wm. S.° Fanning, another Communist, has our draw- ings. All of the Communists can be classed with the modernists and°near modernists. One must naturally: ask the question: “Is there a conneetion between politics and art?” “To answer it would require another arti¢le; ¢ R. R. Trust Favored. WASHINGTON, May 1B on the motion of minority stockhold- ers of the Chesdpeake and Ohio rail- road to dismiss the application’ ofthe Van Sweringen brothers for ‘authoHty to unify five railroad systems, will not be made by the interstate commerce commission until after the Van Swer- ingens have completed their case, Commissioner re announced to- day at the resump! of hearings on the consolidation plan, HENRY FORD HELPS BUY Y.M.C. A. ups we BUILDING FOR HIS FLIVVER SLAVES DETROIT, Mich., May 18.—Henry Ford, who invests ahhne sin antiques or to increase production in the Ford Motor Co. shops, has given $780,000 in that the Ford on the East sud the $5,000,000 building campaign of the Detroit Y. M. C. A. It was’ announced used for the construction of a Y, M, C. A. ¢ huge Ford plant on the Rouge River In wells. The Y. M. G. A. plans to build seven branches with the total’ He lived there on sufferance * | t i