The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1925, Page 2

se Blase Page Two oe CARPENTERS OUT TO PUT TACK ON JENSEN'S GHAIR Progressives Declare Election Policy Union carpenters in Chicago are agog over the coming elections for district council officers. Harry Jen- sen and his reactionary gang are mak- ing the rounds, slapping backs and shaking hands, hoping, to win the | votes of the sentimental by this pol- icy. It might work well with morons but carpenters have hard heads. The fact that they drive nails for a living may have some effect on the quality of their cranial encasement. The progressive carpenters are out for Harry Jensen’s scalp, not because he is or is not Harry Jensen, but be- cause of his reactionary policy which has proven inimical to the interests of the members of the carpenters’ uaion here in Chicago. This is what the rank and file of the carpenters say. The progressives are their forces for the election campaign. Unlike the reactionaries, they have a program as can be seen from the following election dodger: Carpenters, Attention! Brother Carpenters: Election time is coming around again for district council officers and it Is very important to every real union man that those whom we elect to office declare themselves, so we} know what they stand for. In our opinion no man running without a program should be consider- ed by the voters in this election and we submit the following program as a basis for the nominations and for the unification of all progressive forc- 8 against the present administration: 1, No renewal of the present agree- ment, nor a similar one. 2. No agreements to be entered in- to that compels carpenters to work with non-union men in other trades. 3. All agreements to be ratified by the rank and file. 4. A uniform wage and working agreement with all other building trades. All to expire at the same time. 5. To work for the organization of all mills. Only union material to be used on union jobs. 6. A five-day, forty-four week. 7. We pledge ourselves to string- ent economy of administration ex- penses, elimination of unnecessary at- torney’s fees. & Right of minority opinion to freedom of expression within the union. 9. We will vigorously oppose ille- gal suspensions and expulsions or the use of police against union men. In addition to the above program, we endorse: 1. The amalgamation of the buifld- ing trades upon a departmental basis, along the lines laid down by the 1913 convention of the building trades de- partment. This will abolish the ruin- ous jurisdictional disputes, as well as centralize the activity and unify the forces of all building trades workers. 2. A labor party of, for and by the workers. The Progressive Caucus. Meets every Sunday morning at 10 o’clock.—progressive carpenters invit- ed.—Room 6, third floor, Douglas Park auditorium, corner Kedzie and Ogden Aves. German Rail Workers Must Be Dropped to Make Dawes Plan Pay BERLIN, May 14.—The German railroads are obliged under the Dawes Plan to bear a large part of the bur- den of the Versailles treaty, declared Karl Stetler, director general of rail- ways, during an interview with yon Hindenburg, newly installed presi- dent of the reich. Before the railways can pay their share of the Dawes reparations, Steiler said, 30,000 more employes must be discharged. This does not sound pleasant to the ears of the social-democratic workers, who have been led to believe that they could gain control jof industry gradually without having to establish a dictator- ship as in Russia. They are now being disillusioned, The national federation of German officers in convention here attacked the Dawes plan as injurious to Ger- man interests. (Continued from p.ge 1) it is even surprising that more such catastrophes do not occur considering that more than 20,000 Bulgarian peo- ple have paid with their lives for the bloody Zankov dictatorship that has ruled since June, 1923. Speaking of the wailings of the press since the catastrophe, one of the emigres said, “These bearers of culture of the bourgeoisie did not ‘weep but triumphed when, in June, 1923, over a thousand peasants were slaughtered and when in September, the same year, over 10,000 workers, ‘Peasants and intellectuals were done to death in the most brutal manner, It was in the game cathedral that there was then celebrated the victory of ‘law and order.’” ‘ ‘The two hundred dead, as the ro } organizing | on Court Martial of Bulgarian Terror a Farce UNEMPLOYMENT (Continued from page 1). | | and 15 per cent below the April, 1923, level, | “Declining industry is shown to be a general condition by other reports. A preliminary statement to the press jon May 9 by the New York depart- ment of labor was that between 20,- |000 and. 25,000 were thrown out of | work in April in that state. | “The distribution of the lay-offs jamong the industries did not differ widely from that of the’ preceding | month, but there was a continuation of the trend begun earlier. Small de- |clines were quite frequent .in the metal industries, thus the change for |.the month in the payrolls of the twelve industries making up the metal | group was less than 1 per cent from the March figure. Included in this class were'the steel mills. Some of the larger ones continue to cut off a |few workers each week, a practice that has been followed .for two months. “Machinery firms also laid off small percentages of their forces, but in electrical apparatus, there was a sizable reduction in working forces that, taken with earlier cuts leaves 2 loyment at a rather low point. | Agricultural implement firms, in some instances, were laying off help, de- preciating the volume of employ- ment in that industry by 2.9 per cent. “The meat packing firms follow- ed reductions in employment in| March, with a cut that gave -unem-| | ployment to 5.7 per cent of the per- sons who were at work in March. At some of the most important plants in | this industry, there are now fewer workers than at any time since the war, “Operations are also very light in the fiour mills. Some of them have closed down entirely, and as reported by 21 mills, there were 7.4 per cent fewer workers employed in April than in March. Candy factories laid off nearly WHEAT GAMBLERS STOLE MILLIONS, SAY SENATORS Coolidge ‘Probe’ Cannot Repair the Damage WASHINGTON, May 14.— Outlaw- ing of all trading in grain futures was the demand today of the congressional farm bloc as the department of agri- culture continued its investigation of the recent sensational “raid” of the Chicago wheat market. Farm bloc members heartily en- dorsed this move, but insisted that the administration “formulate legis- lation” prohibiting all grain gambling. They urged that this action be taken in the next session of congress. Western senators declared the last “clean up” had created an “unendur able situation.” Profits on future trading in grains, they charged, amounted to a robbery of the con- suming public. “To gamble in the price of food is 10 per cent of their workers, and to- bacco concerns reported that they had reduced their working forces by a like percentage. “Job printers have given out about the steadiest employment of any em- ployers in the state, but they were obliged to reduce employment sub- stantially during April. They dis- charged 15.7 per cent of their women workers, and 5 per cent of their male workers during April. Rarely have there been changes so precipitate in this industry. “Tanneries, which have been ex- panding for about six months, show in their reports lessening activity in April. For the ten reporting em- Dloyers the decline in employment during the month was calculated to be 3 per cent. Shoe factories gener- ally had a few more employes in April than in March, however, The chemical industries show a mixed trend. While the oil refineries were adding to their forces, the paint factories and dye concerns were laying off workers, In- dustrial chemical firms had about 2.3 per cent more workers in April than in March. Clothing Industry Slumps. “An analysis of the reports for the apparel industries shows a decided downward trend. The declines were, of course, partly seasonal. Men’s clothing factories laid off 11.1 per cent of their employes, and millinery con- cerns a like amount. Changes else- where were of less extent. In the knit goods factories, where women are chiefly employed, employment was sustained in April at the March level. “The most favorable factor in the present industrial situation is the state of the building industry. “Thus industry, at the present time, is far below a boom period. Operations of the factories in Illinois are 15 per cent or more below full operations in the utilization of man power and the labor market is glutted with an over-supply of men and women eager to find jobs.” Forest Fire Rages Thru Big Part of Northern Ontario (Special to The Daily Worker.) FORT WILLIAM, Ont., Can., May 14.—-The entire Thunder Bay district of northern Ontario today was at the mercy of flames sweeping from four different fronts thru the virgin for- ests, tinderdiry from weeks of drought. One aged farmer, trapped by the onrushing flames, is known to have perished. Scores of settlers have been driven from their -homes, and numerous towns, in the path of the conflagra- tions are threatened. ‘The fire has been raging for more than 24 hours. An estimate of the damage at this time, forest rangers said, was im- possible, City Attorney Quits When Charged with Robbing Drug Store ALTON, Ill, May 14.—Indicted for the alleged theft of $600 in cash and worse than robbery,” said Senator Norris. “Thousands of people starve, be- cause of the high price of food, while a handful of men acquire their ill- gottea gains. Congress has tried to prevent this gambling, government officials have condemned it and the people protest against it. It is time for the administration to act. “This gambling is done by million- aire middlemen. Every dollar they make comes either from the consum- er cr the farmer and usually from both. I am ready to act with the de- partment of agriculture at any time in enacting a law to prohibit all ggmbl- & quantity of whisky from an Alton drug store, City Attorney Charles Hal- sey resigned today. Halsey was ar- rested with three companions includ- ing Joseph Clark, 24, clerk at the store, who police say, confessed ar- ranging the robbery. Halsey and Clark with Walter Mal- com and Harl Miller waived prelimin- ery hearing and were released on bond of $1,000 each. Halsey is a graduate of Washing- ton and Lee university, Lexington, Kentucky, and, according to Clark, who left the door and safe unlocked, the money and whiskey was needed for a “party”'to be held at Paris, Illinois, ing in foodstuffs.” Norris said he thought the govern- ment might be able to punish grain gamblers under the present law, but added, “The damage is already done.” Ford Subcontractors Speedup So Fiercely Men Can’t Stand Pace RACINE, Wis.—(FP)—Henry Ford is contracting out large quantities of tool and die work at prices that sweat skilled tool and die makers, The Webster Electric Co. have been un- able to keep a Racine man for over a year. sult of the cathedral explosion, do not even number one per cent of the workers and peasants who have been | murdered during the 22 months exist- ence of the Zankov government. The white terror in Bulgaria con- tinues unabated. It is meeting with the most emphatic disapproval of the whole population. The situation is being complicated by fresh waves of higher prices that periodically set in. The cost of living is enormous, the highest it has ever been, All workers’ newspapers in Bul- garia have been suppressed, Meetings of any kind, whether political or trade union, are prohibited. Police massa- Russian-Ukrainian Dramatic Club Gives Concert and Ball MILWAUKEE, Wis:, May 14.— A concert and ball beginning on Sun- day, May 17, at 2:30 p. m. and last- ing until midnight will be given by the Russian-Ukrainian Dramatic club at the Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut streets, Milwaukee. The concert will contain numbers by the Russian-Ukrainian chorus con- sisting of 30 people and by the Frei- heit Singing Society. There will also be a one-act play entitled “The Living Dead.” After the concert there will be dancing until midnight. Music for dancing will be supplied by the Man- hattan Oriels Snappy Five. Admission 1s 50 cents. St. Louis Teamsters Face Strike on Wage Cut and Longer Day ST, LOUIS.—-(FP)—St, Louis will witness a strike of 1900 union trans- fer teamsters June 17 if the employ- ers persist in their attempt to cut wages. The union asks for $40 a week and the 8-hour day. The men now work 9% hours and receive $34- 40 a week. The employers counter with a 10%-hour day and $30 a week. cres continue and have been legalized by the extension of the law for the protection of the state and also as to the police 2 This craft is nearly 100 per cent unionized, Its last strike was in 1920 and was marked by much strike breaker-violonce and police brutality. 1 NEXT SLAUGHTER Hungarian Bulgar Envoys Make Trouble (Special to The Dally Worker) GHNEVA, May 14—The comedy facetiously called the “arms parley” ig still drawing full houses here, with the probability thaf it will run for several weeks more The government representatives present discussed ‘whether armored trains should be permitted in the next war. Nations not ‘possessing facili- ties for manufacturing such instru- ments of death, protested violently against their use on the ground that it was not sportsmaniike for soldiers to hide behind traveling fortresses and belch a deadly firé on their com- paratively unprotected foes. Hitting Under Belt. The iron, coal and ,steel nations laughed this argument, to scorn, say- ing that the Marquis of Queensbury Tules did not prevail in war. Nations that were not able to put in a decent 4 supply of fighting togs should stay home and fight with, their wives. The conference decided that armor- ed trains should not.come within the scope of the proposed supervision of the traffic in lethal weapons. This puts the armored train in the same category with warship, fire crackers, submarines, red fire (the kind used by politicians around election time) airplanes, toy balloons, airships and kites. It’s going to be a nice little war! Would Slit Throat. Hungary objected to the use of flame throwers in the next war but the delegates got sore over this con- tinued petty interruption from small nations that should know how to keep their mouths shut, “What kind of a war do you want?” asked one of the British representatives, of Horthy's envoy. The Hungarian replied that he had no objection to, the use of flame throwers on principle. He would slit a windpipe with as little reluctance as many in the assembly but he did not want Hungary to be put in an ad- vantageous position, He reminded the delegates that the. Trianon treaty forbade Hungary to use flame throw- ers, It was a reflection on the dig- nity of his country he declared ang- rily. An Assassin Appears. A representative of, Zankov re- gime of Bulgaria was h to mutter: “What do they . ie throwers for when daggers an& poison can be secured and used he quiet with- out making any di bing noise?” When the B fascist was recognized the other delegates speed- ily left the hall and ed with their armor ” Outside of those little incidents everything is running smoothly and the casualties are extremely low The conference will be @bout as fruitful as the opium talk fest. Just about. FRANCE TANGLES WITH SPAIN IN ROBBING MOORS Imperialists’ T reat y Divided Moors’ Land (Special to The Daily Worker) MADRID, Spain, May 13.— Adb-el- Krim’s attack on the border tribes in the French Moorish protectorate is en- gaging the attention of students of the Moroccan question because of the ef- fect it may have wpon the interna- tional outlook in nofthern Africa. The day of reckoning 1s approach- ing for the withdrawal of the Spanish troops last fall, Spain contends that there is nothing in her treaty engage- ments that obliges her to occupy her protectorate (northérn) zone in Mo- rocco within any givén time. Treaty Clauses Vague. The French republic, which is oblig- ed to support the sultan of Morocco, is now, to all intents and purposes, at war with El Krim and French lives and treasure are being expended in defense of a frontié® that has never been delimited and“which is marked differently on the French and Span- ish maps, te Therefore, one of the consequences of the fighting now going on may well be a frontier disputé as to the inter- pretation of the somewhat vague ar- ticles of the Franco-Spanish treaty of 1912, which attempted to describe a land nobody had visited, The com- mittee of delimitation has not yet vis- ited the long line between the Muluya and Luccus rivers, Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, May 14,—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%, France, franc, demand 5.21%; cable 6.21%. Belgium franc, demand 5.05%; cable 5.06, Itally, lira, demand 4.10%; cable 4,10%, Sweden, krone, demand 26,72; cable 26.75. Noi krone, demand 16.87; cable Denmark, krone, demand 18.85; cable 18.87, Germany; mark, unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand 74.62%; cable 16.19%. Chicago in Burlesque Attempt to Give Fake Dignity to its Courts ‘By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TORAY Chicago gets ready to present to the world another sensational murder trial. But there is a little curtain raiser already on in which Chicago, one of the most repul- sive social cancers under American capitalism, seeks to up- hold before all the “dignity” of its courts. It is seeking to do this thru the sleight of hand performance that is to abolish the use of telegraphs, telephones, radio instruments and even typewriters from the court room where William D. Shepherd is to go on trial for the alleged poisoning of his millionaire ward, William Nelson McClintock. ' This is the result of a little wave of righteousness that has swept the Chicago Bar Association. It is in veeenany with the same fraudulent “dignity drive” that put blac gowns on the backs of the judges, altho it failed to put black hoods over their heads, more effectively in their true men of the working class. * ° In other countries the judges also wear wigs. that custom will also be introduced here. so that the might really parade role of oppressors and hang- Perhaps A little more awe and dignity might be obtained by star chamber sessions of the court, with the prisoner shackled and manacled, after the fashion of the trial of the two workers, Sacco and Van- zetti, in Massachusetts. But the presence of typewriters, telegraphs, telephones, cameras and radio instruments in a court room, or their ousting by black-gowned judicial lackeys, does not alter in the least the class nature of the courts. They remain, in either case, an instrument of oppression in the hands of the capitalist class, All the means of publicity were allowed in the court- room during the vo neabmy yen trial, and the arch-oppressor of labor, State’s Attorney opportunity to appear fittingly in the public eye. obert E. Crowe, was given every In the Shepherd case Crowe's sun is somewhat eclipsed by the activities of Municipal Judge Olson, who parades as one of the prosecutors, it may be that Crowe, not seeing the light of publicity turned his way, has decided to partially obliterate it, so that it will not shine too brightly upon his rival. And this is what the kept press calls a polishing up of the tar- nished dignity of the capitalist courts. ° ° All capitalist courts look alike to the workers. The super-dignity of the wartime inquisition of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, wha, sent many workers to prison, is not different from the oppressive legal atmosphere of the court- room of a Judge Wilkerson, who issued the injunctions against the striking shopmen in the postwar period. Judge Landis wore no gown as he dealt out capitalist justice to the Industrial Workers of the World and other risoners, but he was just as bitter a foe of labor as Judge Jeffreys who sought to crush the first budding efforts toward the organization of labor in Great Britain. ~ * * Behind the courts stands the capitalist class upholding its social order. The anti-labor judicial system can no more be bent on the side of labor than the social system that spawned it. The change comes when labor tears up this social order, that is its enemy, by the roots, and clears the way for the Communist society that provides no place for class courts, because under’Communism all classes will dis- appear in the first fraternal brotherhood of all mankind. (Continued from page 1.) showed British imports were £110,- 350,000 against British exports of £60,870,000. This is a markedly un- favorable balance of trade, and as a large part of the imports are Ameri- can cotton and wheat, American claims upon England are shown to be steadily mounting. Last year the same month showed £86,165,000 im- ports and £62,866,000 exports. Thus the unfavorable trade balance has grown 100 per cent in the last year, and there is no sign of it being checked. U. S.Flivvers Winning. English manufacturers are just now alarmed at the trade war of Ameri- can automobile companies who have simply grabbed the domestic British market from under their very noses. American-made autos are arriving in Great Britain at the rate of one thou- sand a day. While some of this com- mercial invasion may be stopped by the restoration of the McKenna tariff of 83 per cent on such imports, thera are so many American autos coming in now as to cause it to be a subject of discussion in the imperial cabinet. There is a glut of American autos at Southampton, Liverpool, London and Plymouth. Cars are being stored in all available sheds and there are acres spread over suburban fields awaiting storage. At least a supply is in sight to last two or three years. The Usual Piffle. The usual declarations of amity and concord which are made when imperi- alist rivalry developes, is being om- mitted by various spokesman. H. Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times, speaking at a luncheon yesterday, declared the need of a “better understanding” bétween Eng- land and America, However Steed upbraided British di- plomacy for not seeking alliance with France against “America’s defection” from the league of nations and he closed by saying: “Unless the people of the United States were convinced Britain was guided in her foreign policy by ideals of peace, a new world war would come, more terrible than the last, from the horrors of which no part of Europe would be exempt. *o @ British Expert's Gloomy View. LONDON, May 14—A gloomy view of Britain’s trade outlook was ex- pressed by Sir Robert Horne at a British Admiral Hints Future War Banks Association. He said he had just come back from a@ journey abroad, which had taken some months, and he was of the opin- ion “that we are in a worse position today than we were six months ago, and that was bad enuf. If we look at the staple trades of the country we cannot help having a feeling of anxiety and apprehension as to the future.” Sir Robert referred to the state of the shipbuilding, coal, heavy steel, woolen and cotton trades, and said it was his deliberate belief that every section of society had to combine to find some solution of the problem, otherwise there was no hope for the country. Force and Violence Against Government Approved by Plutocrats (Continued from page 1.) Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, at the Willard Hotel yes- terday. “The meeting, presided over by Chauncey Hackett, attorney and club- man, was the most colorful ever held here, officers uf the organization said. Mrs, George Barnett, wife of Maj. Gen. Barnett, marine corps, re- tired, deplored the ineffectiveness of the Volstead act and increasing crime amoug boys and girls.” “Nation Savers” Against Workers. The Barnetts are conspicuous in the social columns of the press, and are likewise conspicuous at meetings of “patriotic” and anti-radical groups such as demand the deportation of alien Workers who are dissatisfied with “American institutions.” They are red-hot supporters of the constitution when anyone proposes to amend it with reference to the fed- eral judiciary or child slavery, The Girls Must Be Pretty Bad. Just before this social wet rally Sir Maurice Low, Washington corres- pondent of the redctionary London Morning Post, reported that society women here assured him that girls were drinking bootleg whisky and were becoming less moral than their also claimed that drug addicts were rapidly increasing. The public health service denies this, showing that drug addicts in the United States have decreased more than 50 per cent since 1900, aand are steadily decreas- Ge BARGAINS MEAN UNEMPLOYMENT FOR WORKERS European Slave Labor Used by Merchants By LELAND OLDS There are bargains aplenty at the 5 and 10 cent stores. At Kresge’s I bought a serviceable jackknife for a quarter. A chain was thrown in for good measure. All for 25c, The knife compares favorably with those sold at 75c. to $1, On the blade is inscribed A. W. Wadsworth & Son, Germany. The concetn sounds like English or American capital but the labor was low-paid German. The knife was a bargain. It undersold the product of American workers. Per- haps this explains why cutlery and tool plants in the United States em- ploy’ 10 to 15 per cent fewer workers than a year ago. There are other bargains at Kres- ge’s, You will find a counter covered with tungsten electric bulbs, round or long, frosted or clear, all colors, rang- ing from 10 to 300 watts. All for 25c. Examine one. It bears a faint stamp Made in Hungary where with the per- mission of the league of nations the reactionary admiral Horthy holds tha workers down. Manufacturers of elec- trical supplies and apparatus in this country employ 11 per cent fewer workers than a year ago. These are goods picked up by chance. They show that American workers are buying unemployment with their bargains. The sales of these bargain stores go up by leaps and bounds. Yet business men are, baffled by the increase in unemploy- ment. Operations in Illinois factories, says the state labor department, are 15 per cent or more below full utilization of man-power and the labor market is glutted with an oversupply of men and women eager to find jobs. The report for April shows business on the downgrade. [Illinois employers continue to lay off help. Employment fell 1 per cent in April, is 10 per cent below April 1924 and 15 per cent be- low April, 1928. New York state reports between 20,000 and 25,000 dropped from fact- ory payrolls between March and April, a loss of almost 2 per cent. This means 5 per cent fewer workers than a year ago and 11 per cent fewer than in April 1923. Chronic unemployment will grow more severe, Capitalism has filled the world with machinery without allow- ing the workers enough purchasing power to buy the product. The bar- gains of today are signs that capitalist industrialism cannot last. Naive Farmers Want - Coolidge to Finance “Export Corporation” DES MOINES, Ia, May 14.—The 500 delegates who attended the west- ern agrarian conference here were on their way to their respective homes today after selecting a permanent committee of 25 to carry out the program adopted by the conference late yesterday. Creation of a billion dollar export corporation, financed by the federal government, controlled by farmers selected by the various farm organ- izations that took part in the confer- ence here, was the feature of the program. * Two Workers Killed A : and Many Injured in Erie Railroad Smash ERIE, Pa., May 14.—Two men were killed and a score injured shortly af- ter noon today when a speeding sec- tion train on the Erie railroad jumped the tracks between Concord and Union City. The dead: of Union City. H. Terry, of Union City. Of the injured it is believed that four will die, t ously injured have been taken to the Corey hospital. There were about nen én tes 40h, Sak VRE badly shaken up. . German Monarchist President Greeted by Pope and Envoys ‘ BERLIN, May 14.—President Hin- denburg today received the congratu- Arthur Birton, aged 17, lations of the diplomatic corps. Aaren Delano Robbins, American charge d'affaires, was seated in the semi- circle with other envoys at the re- ception at the president's palace when Papal Nuncio Pacelli in a brief speech. congratulated the new president, Pacelli voiced the greetings of the diplomatic corps to the new military president. Mie Po gl Win Strike. 4 i , Pa, May 14.—The Plasterers strike in the upper Monan- gahela valley has come to an end, The contractors agreed to give $1.00 @ day increase in pay. Thi demands was for a $2.00 per day in- crease, This will give the $18 a day for the next 12 months, They have been on strike since the first of May, ; Nine of the most seri- Lad