The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 4

Page Four Se THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml, (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES $8.50... $2.00...8 montha By mall (in Chicago only): . $4.50....6 months $2.50...8 months 66.60 per year $8.00 per year AQdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 8918 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE oe EEA LOS MORITZ J. LOEB.......crrmene-Business Manager Chicago, Iilinele Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <p 200 Advertising rates on app“catien Biting the Friendly Paw Among the sins placed by tradition on the ver- boten list of bourgeois ethics is ingratitude. True, it does not bring a prison sentence; neither does the catechism say that one shall go to hell provided he dies unrepentant after repaying good with in- difference. A mild criticism of William Green, president of the American Federation of labor, in the Milwau- kee Leader, prompts those thoughts. Green has been slamming the Communists mercilessly for ‘the past few years, just as his predecessor slammed the socialists before the Communists became a factor in the American revolutionary moyement. While Green was attacking the Communists, the Milwaukee Leader, like all the other socialist pa- pers, sat back, after the fashion of the southern planters during the war, whose slaves were away battling against the federals and said: “Ain’t we giving them hell!” The socialists gave all the aid and comfort they could muster to the labor fakers in fighting the Communists. Wherever the reactionary per capita | sharks were trying to oust the Communists from the unions, there in the front lines were the yel- low socialist renegades. more use for the socialists after they have outlived their usefulness, than the employers haye for a| played-out stoolpigeon. In the current issue of the American Federa- tionist, Wililam Green devotes a good deal of his {time to whacking the socilaists. Not content with hiding them in his own paper, he wrote a special article for the Magazine of Wall Street, in which he reprimands the plutes for their lack of apprecia- tion of the non-existence of socialism in the trade uinon movement of this country. In view of this blessing, suggests Green, why don’t you capitalists get together with us and talk things over so that together we can keep socialism on the outside, where it is now? . This is a dirty trick on the poor socialists, after their valuable services in helping Green in his at- tempt to oust the Communists from the unions. Where are the positions of influence and lucre that the socialists expected as the price of their be- trayal? Gone, as the LaFollette “socialist”. vote of yesteryear. The Leader sobs: “It is a pity that American labor should have so many shortsighted leaders. Mr. Green is undoubtedly sincere. He just hasn’t mentally traveled far enough, that’s all.” No doubt Green is sincere, and so is Gary and so is William J. Burns and so is Victor Berger. Outheroding Herod The savage sentences originally imposed upon Privates Crouch and Trumbull stationed in the Hawaiian Islands for their feeble efforts at spread- ing Communist propaganda, evoked gasps: of astonishment from even hardened capitalist edi- tors. ‘Many of those editors suggested that such punishment would serve no useful purpose, but on the contrary would create the impression that the American military forces were honeycombed with Communists and that the sentences meted out to Crouch and Trumbull were indications of the dread that hung over the army authorities. The editor of the fake labor sheet, The Vermil- lion County Star, published in Danville, Ill, was neither bothered with sympathy for the rebel sol- diers, nor was his empty head able to conjure up a vision of the demoralizing effect of heavy pun- fishment would have on recruiting for the military and naval forces of his beloved capitalists. This slimy bonehead, F. A. Leven by name, who was originally, and not very long ago a booster for a farmer-labor party, went to great pains in his il- literate way to prove that the sentences of 40 and 26 years, respectively, imposed on Crouch and Trumbull were not excessive. The history of any conquered nation will show that no satrap of the conquering power displays more ingenious cruelty in persecuting the defeated people than those traitors who deserted to the con- queror in return for material considerations. It is so with the prostituted and purchased labor faker. And so it does not take much to buy a cheapskate like Leven. Only a few weeks ago he sold a page of his rag to the local businessmen in the form of an advertisement carrying the pic- ture of Sam Gompers and some of the trite ab- surdities that notorious capitalist flunkey was in the habit of turning out with an air of profound solemnity: Leven is having a hard time trying to sell himself. Perhaps if he went to some normal school and studied the rudiments of grammer ‘he might be able to peddle himself to better advantage. The way to stop crime, declared State’s Attorney Crowe, is to hang everybody, or almost. We know a good place to start. Don’t all speak at once. But the fakers have no | Color-Blind “Justice” Yesterday morning the state of Illinois snuffed out the life of one Lawrence Washington, colored, for the killing of a confectioner in Evanston, last September. Washington was not able to hire brilliant law- yers to impress the jury with tears and the snap- ping of suspenders or high priced alienists to prove that his pineal gland was not in good working condition. In this extremity he threw himself on the mercy of the court. But the court had no mercy for a poor colored man and Washington’s neck was | broken yesterday morning on the gallows in Cook county jail. Governor Small did not grant the doomed man ja reprieve, tho the governor is quite handy with the pen when condemned murderers have powerful friends on the outside of the death cells. There is one kind of justice for a poor black man and another for a white man, particularly if the white man is blessed with a goodly share of this world’s wealth, whether he inherited that wealth from his parents or secured it by robbery with or without a gun. Money talks and the life of a black man is held cheaper under our christian capitalist government, | than the life a white man; even tho our hypocritical | preachers tell us that their god is the father of all men and women, black, white and yellow. The War in Morocco The French are conducting a vigorous campaign ko subjugate the natives of Morocco who succeeded in driving the Spanish army of occupation into the sea. The French are more efficient at the business of mass slaughter than the Spaniards, tho the lat- ter are none the less willing. The slaughtering of Moroccans has more than one advantage to the French imperialists.. Not only does it provide an excuse to rob the natives of more territory, ‘but it also enables the French | to test out their new war tricks. This is what the capitalist press tells us. Scores of British military observers are watch- ing the French operations against the Riffians. If Britain finds anything worth copying in the methods of the French, she, will be glad to use | them against the latter at a future date. | While France is making war on the Moroccans, |the other robber powers look on, hoping that she does not acquire too much territory, tho whether one Riff or ten thousand are killed does not disturb the bloody handed christians who are so much con- | cerned over Communist propaganda putting chris-| tianity and religion in general thru an intellectual delousing process. The only political organization that has raised ‘a voice against the slaughter and robbery of the IRiffans is the Communist International. While the French socialists have openly collaborated with {the government in crushing those people, the Com- ‘nunists have protested and urged the French sol- ‘diers to refuse being tools of their masters in mur- dering other people and robbing them of their ter- yritory. | Britain Is Scared | There was a time when anybody with an idea on | his chest could shoot it off in Hyde Park, London, | with the assurance that a bobby would be handy | to save him from the uninvited and unwelcome at- | tentions of practical jokers and people who are not constitutionally capable of listening to new ideas. Soap box orators might even speak disparagingly about royalty and still be immune from the prison ‘| cell or the insane asylum. Britain secured a repu- tation of easy going tolerance that showed up well |in contrast with the repressive policy of other capitalist countries. But those days are no more. There is a reason. In the period of British imperial expansion, when the workers were reasonably contented and shot full of imperialist hop, the ruling class saw no cause for alarm in the oratorical outbursts of more or less confused radicals. As long as the workers had confidence in the ability of the empire to provide them with three square meals a day and a did not come from inside but from the outside. But approximately 2,000,000 British workers are unemployed today. They have been in that condi- tion ever since the end of the war. It is a per- manent evil that cannot be remedied this side of the social revolution. British industry has suffered. Her steel output and her coal production have two powerful competitors in the American and European combinations. The British working class are fast losing faith in the ability of the pirate empire to guarantee them a satisfied stomach. They are becoming more and more rebellious. This is the condition that forces the British government to make raids in true Palmer fashion on the radical organizations, confiscating liter- ature, arresting revolutionary propagandists and seeking to suppress. the Communist Party which offers a plan whereby the: workers of Britain can free themselves from the bonds of slavery. The Communists not only show up the capitalist sye- |tem but they also show the workers the way out. The ruling class, which once boasted of its toler- ance, now frantically tries to ward off the fatal blow at its existence by doing just what every ruling class all thru the course of human history has done in similar crises, i. e. by resorting to violence. This is a lesson for those pseudo-revolu- tionists who claim that the new order of society will be ushered in in Britain as peacefully as the dawn of a summer day. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER, THE DAILY WORKER Company Union Works for Hotel Owners By PASQUALE RUSSO. Many. are the sad stories written and pubilshed in the capitalist news- papers concerning the barbaric condi- tions existing in the steel mills. They are stories such as will bring tears to the eyes of the reader. From them we learn that thousands of men toll in the midst of a suffocating heat from morn to night, day after day, week after week, To workers such as these we should extend the hand of coniradeship, and support them in the struggle against the steel magnates.§ This we should do, but the men in the steel industry are not the only Workers suffering from the diabolic system of capital- ism. Other workers suffer atrocious torments, toiling in real hells. Chief among these are to be included those working in hotel anid restaurant kit- chens. In Chicago, for instance, they work from morning to night in what we many call mines: They are so dark or far below the street that sun- shine never enters them. Most of the kitchens are in base- ments; the smell is terrible; the air foul; the heat unbearable. In these unsanitary and noisome places thou- sands of workers are employed. They are overworked in order that millions of dollars may be produced to satisfy the food barons of Chicago. Nor are these conditions new or recent, in Chicago they have been in existence for years. The Struggles. During past years many battles have been fought by the hotel em- ployes to better their conditions, but | in very nearly every instance the masters have succeeded in crushing all their valiant efforts. A decade ago the union of hotel employes was very strong and formidable. The hotel proprietors regarding the union as a menace, solicited the co-operation gressive Culinary Association for the purpose of thwarting the employes in their efforts to better their conditions. From the very beginning the offi- cials of the Progressive Culinary As- sociation have ranged themselves on the side of the hotel owners, Among the numerous officers, past and pres- ent of this association we find the following names: Carles F. Lein- hardt, president, P. ©. A.; A. C. Negri, manager Parkway and Webster Hotels; Theo. Rooms, chef Blackstone Hotel; Louis Domergue, chef, Edge- water Beach Hotel; A. Stalle, super- intendent stewart, Hotel Sherman; Ferdinand Karcher, chef, Hotel La | Salle; H. Mauer, employment man- ager, Progressive Culinary Associa- tion; Rob. Muller, former chef, North American Restauranty * Must Oust Bossés’ Lackeys. Officials such as thé above have en- deavored in every Way possible to keep the workers in-subjection. Now it seems that their efforts have been in vain. Just now there is a wide- spread agitation going on among the membership. They are insisting on “better working conditions and general clean up. The members of the Pro- gressive Culinary Association should take advantage of this opportunity for some decisive action against their masters. They should also demand a clean up. In the past, Mr. Maurer, the employment manager has insisted on “Waking up and going to work,” and now an opportunity presents itself where Mr. Maurer -ean be told to “Wakerup and go to work with the rest of the officials.” However, there should be no build- bed at night, the British capitalists slept on an} ing of castles in the air. It must be easy pillow. Whatever dangers confronted them]remembered that it useless to oust one set of officials and then permit an- other group of agertts of the Hotel Keepers’ Association to dominate the organization. If a thoro cleaning is to be had the present constitution, written by the hotel owners, should be torn up and thrown in the waste- basket. Also, affiliation must be sought With other unions in the food industry. It is the ‘hosses advantage to have several unions. If all the little factions are organized into one industrial union of workers you will then be dangeroug and the hotel owners will begin.to make conces- sions. vor Must Solidify Ranks. In the past you {have quarreled among yourselves about your work or differences in the @olor of skin, or owing to the fact tht you were born in various countries; in short you have been divided and owing to this stupidity have fought one another in place of the enemy. The time has now come when all this should be laid aside and unite into one organ- ization, When you go to work tomor- row, Join hands one with another, col- ored and white em) 8, Italian and Greek, French and-P®lish, and present a united front toy food barons, Stand shoulder to alder and in do- ing this you will attRin solidarity and the bosses will be, Bompelled to sur- render, FIGHT FOR NATL, CHILD LABOR LAW. GAS INQUIRY of the chefs and organized the Pro- | WALERY BAGINSKI. | LERY BAGINSKI and Antoni W* murdered by their police guard. the priest Usask, and the P Communist Victims of Polish Terror ANTONI WIECZORKIEWICZ, Wieczorkiewilez, Polish Communists, who were sentenced to death by the Polish white terror because of their activity In the Polish army on behalf of Soviet Russia, were brutally The two Polish workingelass leaders were to have been exchanged for spy Laszkewitch, held prisoners by Soviet Russia for counter-revolutionary activity, but were shot down by police sergeant Muraszko, a half hour before the Soviet Russian frontier. they were to have been delivered at It was freely reported that the murder was carried out on orders from the fascist government. The two Polish Communists were sentenced last year on framedup The brutal murders caused intense and Russia, ernment. WOMEN RENEW Three National Bodies) Pledge Their Support | WASHINGTON, May 15—Continued effort for ratification of the child labor amendment was pledged by the Na-| tional Congress of Parents and Teach-) ers at their convention held April 27) to May 2 at Dallas, Texas. Similar action was taken by the) National League of Women Voters at) its convention in Richmond, Virginia, April 16-22. Similar action was taken by the American Association of University Women at its convention held in In- dianapolis, Ind., April 6-14. The action taken by these organiza- tions followed discussion and conven- tion resolutions stressing..the im- portance of correcting the misrepres- entations that have been widely circulated concerning the amendment, its purpose, and its meaning.” ‘With these three national organiza- tions of women, whose combined mem- bership runs into the millions, pledg- ing renewed support to the child labor amendment, it is predictde that con- siderable change in public sentiment concerning the amendment will take place before the legislatures meet again. The women leaders insist that it is only necessray to make clear to the public the actual facts as to the conditions of child labor in the states to secure the necessary co-operation for remedying the evils. No Legal Bar to Ultimate Ratification. Statements to the effect that ad- verse action of state legislatures con- stituted no legal bar to ultimate rati- fication of the amendment have been confirmed during the past week by an/| official investigation conducted at the request of Senator William J. Harris of Georgia, by the legislative refer- ence service of congress. In a detailed report on the subject the congression- al legislative experts say: 1, That a constitutional amendment once submitted by congress to the states for ratification is not subject to withdrawal or repeal, but remains be- fore the states until ratified. 2. States which have ratified can- not reverse that action. 3. States which have rejected the proposal can at any time vote to rati- fy it. Foreign Exchange, “ NEW YORK, May 15.—Great Brit- ani, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.85%. France, franc, demand 5.22%; cable 5.23. Belgium, franc, de- mand 5.05%; cable 5,06. Italy, lira, demand 4.08%; cable 4.09. Sweden, krone, demand 26,72; ‘cable 26.75. Norway, krone, demand 16.78; cable 16.80. Denmark, krone, demand 18,77; cable 18,79. Germany, mark, un- quoted, Shanghai, tael, demand 74.62%; cable 75.12%. Prepare for Shepherd Trial. Summonses for 100 veniremen to serve in the trial of William D, Shep- herd for the alleged murder of Wil- liam Nelson McClintock, hig million- aire ward, which opens Monday, were being served today as both state and defense busied themselves with last minute preparations for thé presenta- tion of their cases. GET A SUB AND GIVE ‘ON ‘ | charges, being accused of taking part in the destruction of the Warsaw fort in October 1923. The charges were so obviously a frameup that the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment, and later to fifteen years. feeling among the workers of Poland Soviet Russia sent a sharp note of protest to the Polish gov- LABOR TO TAKE PART IN LOONEY Investigation Conference in Washington May 30 NEW YORK, May 15.— Organized Jabor has been invited to send dele- gates to the special conference to in- vestigate tetra ethyl lead gasoline which will be held in Washington May 20, under the auspices of the United States Public Health Service. Rep- resentatives will be sent by the Amer-| ican Federation of Labor and by the Workers’ Health Bureau. The econferencé was called by Sur- geon General Hugh S. Cummings fol- lowing protests against the bureau of mines report which declared that tetra-cthyl lead in the exhaust gases of automobiles is harmless. The’ bu- reau of mines’ investigation has been criticised by scientists thruout the country on the grounds that it was not thoro and‘ that its conclusions are unsound. Efforts to stop the sale of tetra- ethyl lead gasoline and to protect workers engaged in its mafufacture were made by labor last October fol- lowing the death of five men employed at the Standard Oil plant in Bayway, N. J. from the effects of “loony” gas. At that time the Workers’ Health Bu- reau issued a call to organized labor to demand an’ investigation of the new gasoline by a competent body on which labor should be represented. The conference on May 20 will be attended by scientists, medical ex- perts, labor delegates, aand producers of tetra-ethyl lead gasoline. A criti- cism of the\bureau of mines report by Dr. Alice Hamilton of Harvard, Dr. Paul Reznikoff and Grace M. Burn- ham, director of the Workers’ Health Bureau will be made public before the conference. Bryan Calls Scientists “Dishonest Scoundrels” PHIADELPHIA, Pa. May 15.— William Jennings Bryan in an address at Westchester at the third annual interdenominational conference. on fundamentals said the. scientists of America are “dishonest scoundrels,” He then announced that he was on a crusade to rid the schools of scient- ists, His starting point is Dayton, Tennessee, _ Bryan has been chosen to repres- ent the christian fundamental asso- ciation in a fight against the teach- ing of evolution in the public schools of Tennessee, In Tennessee there ig a law pro- hibiting the teaching of evolution. J. T. Schopes, a school teacher in Day- ton, Tenn., is charged with violating this law. Bryan will take the role of championing the holy bible against the scientists, There’s a line of squalid houses STRUGGLETOWN /M BABIES DIE AT BABY FARM IN 16 MONTHS Autopsies Ordered on Bodies of 2 Infants NEW YORK, May 15.— Forty-four infant boys and girls have died in 16 months at a baby farm conducted by Mrs. Helen Auguste Giesen-Volk at 235 Hast 86th street. Mrs. Giesen- Volk is under arrest on charges of baby substitution and violation\of the health code. She is held on $365.000 bail on the specific charge that when a father called for his son she attempt- ed to give him a strange baby. Autopsies on the bodies of two in- fants were expected to give a clue to the truth or falsity of the more seri- ous allegations against Mres. Geisen- Volk. The first was held on the body of Agnes Tooney, 18 months old, the charges being that she was held by the heels and dashed against a wall. The attack occurred a day before the child died acc*rding td the uncorro- borated siatement of a nurse. No signs of physica) injury were found on the body. : Another autopsy was performed on the body of William Winter, 6 month old, who also died at the baby home. Dr. Otto M. Schultze, medical ex pert after completing his autopsy on the William Winters’ baby, 6 months old who died in the baby home, re- ported that the infant’s skull was “cracked in half.” The fracture, he said, extended from the back of the head to the front and “its suggested cause was violent contact with a flat, hard surface.” In discussing the number of deaths at the infantorium, Commissioner Monaghan said that the children kept there had been undernourished, pre- maturely born or neuresthenic when received. He said that other institu- tions having children of the same type had higher death percentages than the Geisen-Volk place. Italian Parliament Legalizes Violence of Fascist Regime ROME, Italy, May 15.—The Italian parliament reopened, with the fascisti controlling the body by a vote of nine to one, to discuss two bills backed by Mussolini. The first, a bill against secret societies, is a further move of the fascisti to crush out all opposition by means of legalized violence. The second bill mérely increases the fascist votes, for it granté- suf- trage to a limitet* class of women, those who are wealthy, or belong to fascist organizations being the only ones given the vote. The present parliament was hand- picked by the fascisti, whose troops controlled the election at the point of the bayonet. Alexander Chramov Will Speak on Savinkov Next Tuesday Night A news cable in the press states that Boris Savinkov, formerly of the socialist-revolutionary party and late- ly of the counter-revolutionary white guard armies of the world imperial- ists had committed suicide in his pri- son at Moscow. Who was Savinkov? Why was he tried by the workers’ and peasants’ government? Comrade Chramov, national organ- izer of the Russian section of the Workers Party will speak in Chicago on this interesting subject Tuesday, May 19, at 1902 W. Division St. Ad- mission is free. All who understand the Russian language are welcome, 34 Per Cent Country’s Children Fear Victims The national kindergarten and ele- mentary college of Chicago in a pub- lic report stated that the peace of 34 per cent of all the children in the country is menaced by frightening them in fun or in order to obtain obedience, Apparitions of the bogey men, cannibals, the phantom gypsy and the great hobgoblins that eat up — bad little boys and girls instill fear that lasts thruout life limiting men- tal, moral, physical and social develop meat, \ : Must Follow Soviet Lead, WASHINGTON, May 15.—(FP)— That the United States, Britain and France will soon be obliged, in selt- protéction, to follow the lead of the Soviet Union and Japan in raising their legations at Pekin to the rank of embas was forecast by Minis- ter Schurman, just retired from the China post. He said he had agreed that the Soviet envoy be dean of the diplomatic body in Pekin, with an outlook drab and grey. There’s a dirty narrow roadway where the carts go up and down, There's a narrow filthy alley, where the gutter children play. And there ought to be a notice dust, to say il 8 Struggletown, There’s a lot of dirty kiddies strolling up and ‘down the street, | And the foodshop windows mock them as they wander up and down, There's a hunted look of trouble on the faces that we Going to and from their labor thru the streets of meet — wr &