The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1925, Page 5

BUILDING NOW EXEEDING THE REGORD OF 1924 Predict Six Billion Dollar Program (Speolal to The Dally Worker.) NEW YORK CITY, May 28.—The First National Bank’s New England letter states as follows concerning the condition of the building industry: “Thee volume of building opera- tions ‘broke all records in the first quarter. Contracts awarded during April for the country as a whole were 15 per cent, and for New England 18 per cent above a year ago. \Contem- Pidted projects are also large, prob ably 85 per cent above last year: This seasonal increase is much larger than was anticipated. “While nearly half of the construc: tion was in residential buildings, the greater gains were registered in pub- Mo works and utilities, Construction in the rural communities is om the ‘in- crease, and there’ has also been*a re- vival in construction in New York city, following the March ‘slump. Building costs have shown a slight easing tendency, but aré only 5 per cent below a year ago.” 8, W. Straus, head of the S. W. Straus investment bankers ‘of Chica- i in his industrial review states’ that 6 predicts a 1925 building program of ever $6,000,000,000, basing his re marks a8 follows; Sy ing activies this year are al- ly proportionately ahead of last year’s record of $5,750,000,000. All trades and industries are materially benefited by this increase in building.” CALLES? TROOPS FAIL TO PREVENT STRIKE IN TAMPICO OIL FIELDS MEXICO CITY, May 28—A gen- eral strike In the vast Tampleo oll zone Ie unavoldable and may be called goon, despite President ‘Cal- les’ determination to prevent It and hie action In sending troops’ to ‘the oll flelds, officials stated today.' Soviet Protest Austrian’s Speech VIENNA, Austria, May 28M: Wolfsohn, the Soviet Union's ‘trade attache in Vienna, has protested to M. Matajas, Austrian foreign minister, against a speech made by the minister ‘against the Soviet Union. The Soviet “Union is placing large orders tn’ ‘Au- \stria and therefore the foretgn mini- ster took an apologetic attitude. , PITTSBURGH, PA. {To work hard for thelr a a ew wave 60 per cent on all their dental work, ar DR. RASNICK DENTIST , 645 Smithfield Street. FAIRY TALES FOR WORKERS CHILDDE BY HERMINIA ZUR MUHLEN FRANSLATED BY IDA DAILES 75 CENTS (with Duroflex Cover) $1.25 Cloth Bound THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ic SE SORE ADA THE DAILY WORKER Page Fiva Reporter Tells Story of Irish Famine ~(Continiied trom page 1) John Knockton ‘had seven children, gan of the trade“ tinfon miovement of | °0¢ eight months old and still breast- that country. ‘The story:reads as fol-| ¢4, while the mother had only potato lows: i Tia ee ain Village ‘of: Despair. “Seventy-five pounds would save this village from starvation,” declared an aged fisherman to, me in. Port-a- Cloy, one of the femine-ridden dis- tricts in the in the West of Ireland, where I have just visited. “It would,” he went on, “buy us sal- mon nets, and start our men fishing again for the fish oyt there now in the bay. We could send out six crews with money. “But we can’t get it. We are cut off from the rest of the country here and nobody comeg ‘near us: We are as fastened up “here as‘though we were in prison! And we afd nearly all starving!” sf I found plenty’ of ‘evidence to sup- port his statements. The rud@ stone hovels that dotted the hillsides, ‘and in which the people lived were, I dis- covered, also the homes of déspair, where the wasted frames of men, W6- mien and babies—and even of cats and dogs—were sitting. All around was an atmosphere of hopelessness engender- ed by the feeling that these beings did not know where the next meal‘was to come from. Cut Off By Bog . It may seem incredible that eo small a sum would do so much for them, but, that may easily be true, as. their ham- let, on the distant coast of county Mayo, is at the other side of an anorm- ous expanse of peat-bot, which seems to occupy the greater part of the coun- try, and to see them, people have to come westward 20 miles, even, from the, nearest little town of Ballycastle. Their plight is like that of men on a neglected island in the sea. Rains unprecedented have rotted their potatoes in the furrows, and trawlers poach at nights, I am told, on their fishing beds, destroying the living at sea the men had relied on to balance potato failures. Tramping over obg and rill, boulder and hillock, from cottage to cottage, I heard the first-hand stories of these courteous Irish folk, and I will give a fow cases, with: names, to illustrate the general plight: of Port-a-Cloy-~ and, J, am told, of many other. sea- board places in Donegal, Sligo, and Galway. 3 a7 Poignant: Tales James Hogan, nearly :70 now, had been in America for 20-years, but‘ re- turned 27: years’ ago, and had since4 mended boots for a living till poverty. killed his trade. His-only dwelling is an. earth cave, a little bigger than: a telephone box; which he'has carefully 4 lined with stones. His days, in fact his hours, are numbered, for he is dy; ing .of consumption.; He. had had no breakfast; and there was no fire. His: emaciated frame was clad in rags. He said he had had. influenza since. Christmas and that he was paralyzed on one side. . . “If I had something to eat I would be all right!” he said pathetically, as he propped himself up at the door for me to photograph him. % Rockefeller, jr, has purchased block on Morningside Drive, 117th to 118th St. to build a new Park Ave. Baptist church for Dr. H. EB. Fosdick. ist,” but Rockefeller knows that he can be relied upon to philosophize about the bible and keep the mind: of the workers from their troubles with the bosses, and the “silk stock- ing” crowd entertained. West Lebanon, stroyed the store building of Ira Cold- walldar, the bakery of W. C. Bennett and was prevented from spreading offal and bread to feed on. Around his humble dwelling was laboriously tilled land, but the potatoes were all rotting. All that was left to eat was seed potato, with the seed-eyes cut put for planting. Old Mr. McGrath said he had only food to last four or five days more, and that was only potato offal. He had not known what it was to possess any money for the last two yers at least. In @ hut where two families, Burke and Hogan, lived, I saw a baby of 18 months; who had been breast-fed till four months ago because there was no food to give it. It could not yet walk, and its poor little stomach was puffed out im @ manner reminiscent of the Russian or German famine babies. The dread scourge of tubercule had already shown its mark on its small victim. No Doctor There was no doctor in the place. the guardians’ doctor has to come from Belmullet, 21 miles away west. Another Port-a-Cloy é¢hild, on whom I had a medical report, but did not see, was in the family of Michael Doherty. Only 18 months old, it was suffering from marasmus, a wasting disease due to malnutrition. It was living on flour and water, when, ac- cording to the doctor, it ought to be having virol. Every rib in its body was clearly defined, and it was evi- dent that the hand of death was on the child. A grim joke they played on them- selves in this place was to make a meal off “blind herring” and potato offal. The “herring” was a handful of brown salt in water. The pot is put on the peat fire at noon, and a lean cat would climb on to the hearth- stones and look into it hungrily for food. The people are also picking “bornods,” or limpets, from the rocks in the sea and eating them. Poachers’ Ravages A poor hunclibacked woman I saw lived with her daughter, aged six, in @ hovel, with no food. She came beg- ging piteously for assistance. She has to depend entirely on her neighbours’ bounty, she said—and they have not enough for themselves. She had been told by the guardians of the district to go to the workhouse when she asked for relief. The grievance about the poaching of the trawlers, said to be English and French was very acute among the men, who told me also that macherel nets were offered them by the Free State fishery department in return for a@ payment of 30s., which is untold wealth in this poverty-stricken com- munity. The nets were not put into use, but. remain locked up in a shed, i understand. { Conditions worse than those of Port- a-Cloy were to be found, I was told, t other places further on, but the tstan between these scattered ‘places are considerable, and in my imited time was impossible to cover, but I can vouch for a few facts fas having been gathered in Port-a- Benefit for Party «in District Five at 3 Monessen, Pa. ' MONBSSEN, Pa., May 28.—An in- ‘teresting program will be given at ‘the Finnish Workers’ Hall, Saturday, May 30, for the benefit of District No. 5. The main"speakers will be W. Fin- berg of Warren, Ohio. Rockefeller Builds Church for Fosdick. NEW YORK, May 28. — John D. the from Fosdick is a “modern- Danville Fire Losses. DANVILLE, Ill, May 28.—Fire at Indiana, today de- only by the arrival of flre apparatus from neighboring towns. i Patronize our advertisers, SATURDAY, MAY BY THE WOR GROVE OPEN .| desire to get business from a larger RUSSIAN PICNIC of the season will be given at National Grove, Riverside, Ill. SPEAKERS—GAMES—RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN me Admission with special tickets 350—at the gateg without the special tickets 50c. ‘The special tickets may be obtained free of oharge House, 1902 W. Division St., and from The following organizations are members of the Russian Workers’ Co-operative Society, White Russian ‘8 Soolety, Russian Branch, W.'P., and Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. ‘ 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILL ° HOW TO REACH THE GROVE—Take any oar to pana 8t., then 22nd St. car to end of the line. LaGrange car to grove, PREMIER TAXI DRIVERS: WIN IN BOSTON STRIKE} Out 3 Weeks Against Non-Union. Conditions (Special to The Dally Worker.) BOSTON, Mass., May 28.—A strike against the open shop and commission system was won by drivers of the Premier Cab Manufacturing company of Massachusetts. The strike was won after a hard and bitter fight put up by the Taxicab Drivers’ Union Lo- cal No, 126. The strike lasted three weeks and the company acceded to the demands of fhe drivers for a closed shop and @ guaranteed wage of $4 a day, Offers by the company executives to the drivers for a straight commis- sion was flatly rejected by all the drivers. Taxicab drivers of New York and other cities should take this example of their comrades in Boston, and or- ganize a powerful and militant union. They should fight to the bitter end the bosses’ friend, the commission and sweating systems. | There is only one way that these systems can be completely destroyed, and that is for all drivers join hands together. The motto of all taxi driv- ers should be: “Every taxi driver a union driver, and every garage where taxicabs are stored, a union garage.” Buy Your Tickets for Y.W.L. Picnic Now at the Nearest Station In order to distribute as widely as possible the tickets for the Young Workers League picnic which will be held on the 14th of June at the Bey- er’s Grove, California Ave. and Irving Park Blvd., the following stations where tickets can be purchased in ad- vance have been established: Ukrainian Hall, 1532 W. Chicago Ave.; Cafe Ind¥ot,; 3206 N Wilton St.; Benson’s Candy Store, 1151 Belmont Ave.; South Slav Book Store, 1806 S. Racine Ave.; Wilnis, 3116 8. Halsted St.; Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St.; Workers’yLyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd.; Imperial»Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St.; Radical Beok Shop, 826 N. Clark St.; Rovnost Ludu, 1510 W. 18th St.; Union Press, 2003 N. California Ave.; Delnick, 1523 W. 19th 8t.; Y. W. L.— Local Office—19 $s Lincoln St. Readers of this paper are urged to purchase their tickets dm advance at the redueed price. «2 tos Doctors Knock Ex-Soldiers. ATLANTIC CITY, May 28. — The delegates to the séventy-sixth annual ion of the American® Medical as- sociation passed a resdlution advocat- ing restriction of the ‘treatment of war veterans. The doctors favored the amendment-of the war veterans’ act to limit free hospital care to vet- erans actually hurt in combat. They number of, sick persons, at the ex- pense of the ex-soldiers. TAKE NOTICE! The Workers” House has arranged picnics for the following dates: May 30, at National Grove, June 28 and August 9, at William Rimek Grove, Lyons, Ill. All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs on those dates. Poland After Soviet Trade WARSAW, Poland, May 28.—A trade treaty between Poland and the Soviet Union is now being negotiated. However, Poland continues to arrest a BUI WORK CHALLENGES ARE COMING FAST Superior, Wis., Attention! Another challenge is being hurled by a busy Builder. Comrade Cora Myers of Milwaukee (where the challenge Idea originated) has secured another new sub and takes advantage of this to challenge Comrade Helmi Heinonen of Superior to do the same—“to stir up the Superior divi- sion of the DAILY WORKER Bullders,” adds our Milwaukee comrade. Comrade Helmi Heinonen, when will we get notice that you have accepted to begin the “stirring”? N.Y. Williamsburg Bracks ust Look at This! A letter from the Downtown Eni glish branch arriving Just a wee bit late says that the challenge to the Wililamsburg English branch to get 15 subs in one week is RAISED to 17 sube—and they send the two extra subs to show why they have RAISED. But what are two subs more—17 subs In one week—for a Communist branch? Comrades. from the Williamsburg branch—take this additional challenge .also—and then call another branch to get the same amount or more. Let us see some REAL building of the Communist movement! In the Second hited ‘Sub Campaign New, subs were received from the following Bullders on Wednesday, May 27: CHICAGO, ILL.—Shop Nucleus 5; M. Auerbach; John Hendrickson; Cicero English Branch; I. Siroky; A. ~ CLEVELAND, 0.—P. Lucachie Leah Levine. ST. PAUL, MINN.—Fred Linck . Valentine, (2); Sam Holzman; G. Maljevec; (2); W. H. Wangerin. OAKLAND, CALIF.—P. B. Cowdery (5). EAST LIVERPOOL, O. .—B. F. Hardman (4). BOSTON, MAS8.—J. Sagermaster (2); Fritz Lundvall. MINNEAPOLI8, MINN.—Dan W, Stevens (6). CINCINNATI, O.—M. Esterkin (3). WEST CHESTER, PA.—Charlotte F. Jones (2). DILLES BOTTOM, O.—M. Stanovich (2), OMAHA, NEB.—David Coutts (2). DETROIT, MICH.—N. Stoyanoff HOXIE, ARK.—Clay McCurley, CONNEAUT, 0.—S. H. Babcock. (2), HARTFORD, CONN.—J, B, Clark, MONESSEN, PA.—Mrs, Helen Maki. TOLEDO, O.—N. Cook. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—J., Peterson. UNIV CHILOQEN- COLUM een ote RRA AEC BS URLS ME IE OMAR STEN 8 TANNER RENE S John Reed Juniors Have Good Time at.: Workers Home Affair The affair given by the John Reed Junior: group of Chicago last Satur- day night at the Workers’ Home was a success, Up till about 7:30 p.m. there were all kinds of games for’the children, The real program started at 8 with the singing of the Interna- tional. Then there was a short talk by the former organizer of the group who graduated into the Y. W. L. The musical program consisted of piano, violin and harp solos and sing- ing by the group, and a solo dance by a small girl, Lydia Esaevich. Then there was a beautiful tableaux repre- senting Communism, It was composed by a member of the group and was enacted by nine children each hold- ing one letter and reciting the mean- ing of it. It brought forth a storm of applause. There was also presented Communists. Poland {s ing the size of her army. Farmer Falls Dead DANVILLE, Ill, May 28.— Polk ’andyne, 83, of Ridgefarm ‘fell dead n his garden today while’ replanting vegetables that had been destroyed by the frost. Man Hit At Dangerous Crossing DANVILLE, Ill.j:May 28.—Charles A. Smith, farmer, jot Broadland was seriously injured atsthe Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad crossing at Fairlands, early today when a train hit his car. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! FIRST 30 (Decoration Day) KERS' HOUSE. FROM 10 A, M. atthe Workers’ " House: a short play of the Russian revolution in which the members of the group participated under the direction of the Russian acttess, Mrs. Pokatilov. Cheer Soviet 8 . And then came the big surprise: pictures of the Russian revolution. The children wildly cheered Lenin, Trotsky, and the Communist Interna- tional which was shown in session. They greeted with applause the Ruse- ian Pioneers who were shown march- ing in a parade, They almost raised the roof when Bill Foster was shown as leader of the stéel strikers in 1919, and they went wild when they them- selves, the John Reed Junior group, were shown on the screen. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, who recently returned trom Soviet Russia brought greetings from the Russian Pioneers. After the program was over there was some dancing. The soft drinks bar was sold out and some money raised which will be used by the group ! Fascist Troops to Form Strikebreaking Post Office Agency ROME, Italy, May 28.—The fascist troops are extending their control of Italian institutions by forming a new branch of the fascist militia to super- vise and control the Italian post office. It will be similiar to the organization now controlling the railways and ports, it is planned. The militia will #0 organize to act as a strikebreaking to help their paper, The Young Com- rade, and for other similar purposes. All who attended the affair enjoyed themselves. More About Los Angeles May Day Fight May first as you all know is an International Workers’ Holiday. The Juniors of Los Angeles celebrated the’ workers’ holiday with an outing. On Monday, the children brought notes to school, reading as follows: “Was ab- sent May Ist. on account of Interna- tional Workers Holiday,” tho a tew who are not so Communistic brought notes that they were ill. This happen- ed in a Junior High School of Los Angeles. When the attendance teacher saw our notes, I saw by the looks on his face that he became angry. He told us to report after school every day, until further notice. The children got together the same evening with the Junior director, and decided to call a meeting of the parents. When the parents met the following day, they drew up a peti- tion to which each one signed his name and three parents were elected to go with the petition to the princi- pal and demand that the punishment be taken off. The principal told them that they had to go to the board of education. On the following day, when they were prepared to go to the board of education, the teacher let all the children off, saying the reason was because they kept good attendance. But of course, that was just capital- istic bunk. So comrades, you see our activities are getting on the minds of the cap- italists. They are becoming afraid of our power. This incident will give us new hope and we will keep up our struggles with the thought that we are going to win. Ely Clayman, Publicity Correspondent of the Cc. C. C. of Junior Section of Los Angeles, Calif. N. Y. Subways Would Dodge Expense. WANT ORGANIZED LABOR SUPPORT BIRTH CONTROL Move to Amend Law to Aid Working Women NEW YORK, May 28.—"The Amert- can Birth Control League wants to get its message to organized labor,” says a special leafiet, Organized Labor and Birth Control, issued at the league’s headquarters at 104 Fifth Ave. A Monopoly of the Rich. Explaining that wealthy persons have long had contraceptive informa- tion’ but the workers denied it, the leaflet continues “Employers of cheap Iabor and the militarists do not want the {asses to know how to regulate the size of their families.” Laws have been passed, therefore, laws which the wealthy evade. Want Organized Labor Support. The league declares that it has, within the law, been able to treat 4,000 working class women but it says that it has had to reject applications of many others needing help because of the statutes. Organized labor is urged to allow league speakers to’ appear before its meetings and put the birth control issue before the workers with the aim of getting mass sentiment: so that laws may be amended to allow physi- clans to legally give out contraceptive information and to permit the estab- lishment of clinics for workers who cannot afford private doctors. Japanese Capitalism in Depression with Many Firms Bankrupt TOKYO, Japan, May 28. — At no time in the last two decades has the undercurrent of the commercial and financial situation in Japan been more frankly pessimistic. The 50,000,000 yen failure of Takata & Co., contractors and engineers, with unfortunate concomitant features, has culminated in the removal of Takata's main agencies, Takata’s Yeiraku bank proposes to pay a percentage to thou- sands of depositors whose money was loaned to the firm even when the hopelessness of its condition was a matter of open discussion in banking circles. Creditors are able only ap- proximately to estimate Takata’s sit- uation. Current reports indicate that other big firms are facing “readjustment,” which is the mildest term applicable for bankruptcy. Meanwhile newspa- pers aré endeavoring to induce the public to wear rose-colored glasses. Wobbly Speakers Will Carry on Without Any Permit in New York NEW YORK — (FP) — May 28.— Propaganda meetings of the Industri- al Workers of the World are being held on the streets despite attempts of police to stop them. Local patrol- men and sergeants order meetings to stop, alfho the union has previously informed the local police station that meetings would be held. So far no arrests have been made and the meet- ings are going on. So long as the police station is in- formed that a street meeting will take place it is not necessary, accord- ing to law, to get a formal permit, as local policemen have insisted. UNEMPLOYMENT By EARL R. BROWDER. A study of the causes of this capitalist disease and the way In which the workers must fight against it. A pamphlet for your library— and one of splendid propa- ganda value to hand to your shop-mate. 5 CENTS, Order from Daily Worker Publishing Co. Philadelphia, Attention! For best Union Made OVERALLS and Work NEW YORK, May 28—The Inter-|Clothes see boro Rapid Transit company again demanded an increase in the fare charged New York subway riders, on the ground that the company was “too poor to pay for improvements.” The company is endeavoring to force the city to pay for the construction of new subways, and filed a brief with the city transit committee asking for the fare increase, Cotton Shows Further Decline. Declines of 7 to 9 points marked the opening of the looal cotton ex- agency in case of strikes of the post ABE GREENBERG, 804 Vine St. Philadelphia Workers Party Outing Saturday, May 30, 1925 at BURHOLME PARK. Admission Free. SPORTS GAMES REFRESHMENTS change today. July opened at 2365, | Directions—Take Car 60, stop at Cott- office workers. off 7; Oct. 2225, off 8; Dec. 2236, off }man St., walk west 3 blocks, you will Get a “sub” for the DAILY WoRKaR,| 8; Jan. 2235, off 9. meet the crowd. . wei ‘ —