The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 3

WORKERS RALLY AGAINST WALL STREET EXPLOITATION IN w WEEK'S WAR ON IMPERIALISM Anti-imperialism week begins Saturday with the threatening shadows of American battleships extending from the peasants and workers of Mexico, to the striking textile workers of China. Anti-Imperialist week ‘finds the workers of America mobil- izing to defend their class war fighters such as Benjamin Gitlow, from the onslaughts of the big business controlled supreme court and protesting against the recen idge government against the workers of Mexico. In Chicago, Anti-Imperialist week witnesses the gathering of the national conference, called by the Labor Defense Council, to work out a united front against the renewed attempts of the ruling class to jail those workers who are fight- ing for more power for their class. Labor in Protest. Such important organizations as the Detroit Federation of Labor have indorsed the conference and the pro- test against the supreme court deci- sion which, if carried out, would send Gitlow back to Sing Sing, and for- mally over-rule the free speech clause of the federal ‘constitution. Obeying the orders of the Standard Oil company, Secretary of State Kel- logg, in his note to the Calles gov- ernment, indicates that Calles must intensify his drive against the mili- tant agrarians, the Communists, and the radical oil workers, or the sup- “port of the imperialistic government will be withdrawn. So crude and obvious was the move taken against the Mexican workers by American capital and so strong is the opposition in Mexico to Ame- rican imperialism, that in order to save his support, Calles was forced to reply defiantly, altho he has since quietly tried to make good to the Standard Oil supporters. U. S. Warships in China. In Chinese water, American war- ships are hovering, ready to take part with the British and Japanese impe- rialistic vultures, in picking the bones of the Chinese workers. And at home, fearing the rising tide of revolt among the world’s colonial possessions, and among the subject races and weaker nations, the Cool- idge government, always the servant of American imperialism, has called a “mobilization day for July 4, to train cannon fodder for future imperialistic wars. The American imperialists, and their tools, the Coolidge government, are preparing new chains whereby to exploit. the subject Filipino peas- ahts “aid the Haitian and-Santo Do- mingo darker races. Raids Against Communists. Just as the Painleve government of France and the Baldwin govern- ment of England have organized raids at home against the Communists while they continue their war against the colonials, so the Coolidge impe- rialist government is robbing the peo- ples of its colonies and dominated nations, while it pursues the open shop, wage cutting drives at home, and prosecutes workers under espion- age laws. Demand Rule of Workers. Against this oppression of workers of this country, and of the exploited colonial countries, rally on anti-im- perialist week to demand self deter- mination for the colonial peoples, freedom of the workers to strength- en their ranks in their militant or- ganizations, and the overthrow of American imperialism to be replaced by a workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment. Another new Sub—Makes an- other Communist. EAST SIDE (A Story of the Working Class) - (Translated*by Simon Felshin) ‘T is well known that a messenger boy does not earn any too much, He makes ten to twelve dollars a week provided that he works every day. Such being the case it is no easy matter for him to find the proper lodging. - ’ ‘With a good bit of perseverance he may find a room that he can afford, where he-can live in an emergency, or which is presumably a place where he ‘ean at least sleep. When my legs were already fagged out from walking I thought that I had at last discovered the very room in » question, It faced on the street. It was: a bright room, and the woman didn't ask for too much. Twelve dol- lars for the whole month. I would have preferred to pay rent by the week, but her principal condition was payment for the whole month, As I am a very thrifty person I thought that I could make ends meet somehow the first week. Maybe I'll have good luck with the telegrams, maybe there will be a wedding, or something of the sort, that will fetch more tips— you never can tell. One grasps for- tune by the hair in the form of a cheap room-if there is a chance to do so, * HE moving was not an elaborate ‘When I had moved in I noticed that my room had no “separate entrance.” ‘In the room next to the kitchen — it threat of the imperialistic Cool- growing power of the militant Se ST. LOUIS CLOTHING STRIKERS EAT UP AN ISSUE OF THE DAILY ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 23.—The 500 copies of the DAILY WORKER telling the etory of the Curlee strike were given away free to the strik- ers, and in not one case were the Papers thrown away after the first look at them. It was gratifying to see how near- ly all the strikers were glad to get the DAILY WORKER, and how they read {t, at first looking over the article on their strike. In every case the paper was put carefully into their pockets for future and more extensive reading, Jacob Reichert, 1922 A. C. W. Strike Victim, Is Pardoned in Ohio NEW YORK CITY, June 23.—Good news reported at Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ headquarters is the open- ing of Ohio prison doors to Jacob Reichert, former Cincinnati business agent, serving a 15-year sentence for his part in the 1922 strike, Reichert was committed to prison three months ago after losing an appeal to the Ohio supreme court from a conviction in a lower court on the charge of inciting an attack on a strikebreaker. His fellow unionists say he was framed up at the behest of clothing manufacturers. Governor Donahey pardoned Reichert. 144 Dead Workers in Month of May Is Toll of N. Y. Capitalism ALBANY,’N. Y., June 23.—(FP)— Falls caused 36 of the 144 deaths due to May industrial accidents in New York state, according to the claims filed in the workmen's compensation bureau. Vehicles killed 18; 16 died from handling objects and 11 from being struck by falling objects. Trans- potration industries employed 26 of thé dead workers; 24 were in con- stru tion work; 8 in chemical indus- «ries. New York City had 94 of the deaths; Buffalo, 21; Albany, 14; Syra- cuse, 14; Rochester, 1. Striking Felt Hat Makers Go Back to Work On a Promise NEW YORK, June 23.—(FP)— Striking men’s felt hat workers are re- turning to work with the stipulation that their grievance committee work with ~ employers’ representatives~ to- ward correcting abusive conditions in the trade. The workers want better materials furnished them for work- ing; less loss of time in getting mater- fals; removal of industrial hazards making them susceptible to hernia and tuberculosis, slept a boy of about ten. He had no bed, but six chairs standing in a row. On the chairs there was a blanket, on the blanket a pillow. A torn sheet served as 0 cover. In the next room there was a wide bed. The mother lay on it, and near her a grown up girl. Between the two slept a tiny child. At the foot of the bed, along the back slept a boy of about three, In an alcove leading into my room @ man and a little boy of five lay on a wide bed, A heavy, unpleasant human smell hovered in the room. The oil lamp burning in the middle of the room veiled all in a mysterious half dark- ness, My room had no door, and the win- dows could pot be opened. I went to bed, But thé exhalation hung before my nose and did not let me fall asleep, And suddenly I was overcome by an unpleasant sensation. Something crawled over my face. I felt a painful moistness, and right after that an w bearable smell that instanly fureaied the cause, I turned on the gaslight. And I be- gan my campaign, The bed-bugs— for that's what really they were— having swarmed: out for the attack, wanted to take the position by storm, They. charged forward in close ranks, Whole pyramids were already piled up before my bed, and so I thought that { must have succeeded at last in com- pletery rousing the enemy. I turned off the gas, but the very next moment COOLIDGE STAND ON TAXES DICTATED BY BANKERS AND BOSSES WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22.— The members of the United States chamber of commerce, comprising all of the big business interests of the country, have urged the govern- ment that federal taxes on estates and inheritances by abolished. It is noticeable that President Coolidge, as usual, has taken exact ly the same stand on taxation as that taken by the chamber of com- merce and by the American bankers association, , Another Fake Move to “Stop Child Slavery” Like Previous Talk HARRISBURG, June 23.—Padrones who recruit 3,000 Pennsylvania school children annually fot work in New Jersey truck farms and cranberry bogs are supposedly threatened with jailing by secretary of labor R, H. Lansburgh. Padrones get $1 a head from farm owners for each child worker supplied thru. Pennsylvania employment agencies operating without the required license. A ne of $500 is provided for such cases. Recent investigauons by Jer- sey and Pennsylvania authorities show that the child workers are for- ced to toil in the elds for 10 to 13 hours a day at very low pay and are poorly housed and fed. However such threats of jail have been made before and nothing ever happened. Lower Wage for the Workers, More Profit for Boss, Is B.& S. Aim BROCKTON, Mass. June 23.— Brockton shoe workers under the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union will work at a lower wage scale for Hall, Doyle and Daly Shoe Co., and Joseph F., Corcoran Shoe Co., to enable these manufacturers to compete in the chain store trade, John M. Long, sec- retary Joint Shoe Council announces. The lower scale is supposed to bring greater annual return because of ex- pected greater production in the ‘new market. The B. and S. is notorious as a company union. One Dead in Freight Wreck BUTLER, N. J., June 23.—One man was killed and several injured in a freight train wreck at Smith’s Mills, near here, today. Four members of the. train crew were taken to the Paterson, N. J., hospital. James Dies on Coast. COVINA, Calif., June 23.—-Edmund Janes James, honorary president of the University of Ilinois and well known professor of capitalist politi- cal economy died here today. suspend publication. Tuttle who holds court in Detroit, ev: began in 1922. prison. The trials and app when he told Cornish three years ag ain felt sharp bites. I dozed off for a few moments from fatigue, but I could not sleep. I had to fight. To the point of complete exhaustion. I could hardly wait for morning to come; I longed for some air. T hoped that the woman would re- turn my rent so that I could with joy look for a new room. But I was mis- taken. After a stormy scene the wo- man, instead of returning the twelve dollars promised to undertake a OA, GA, S a messenger boy I worked nights. I went to bed between two and three o'clock, And early in the morn- ing I was up again. That proved to be the best method to get some sleep. indeed, I was always tired. In the morning I busied myself with my books. I studied, wrote, read. The woman asked me whether the bed-bugs still tormented me even after the big cleaning. What could I ha’ said? I assured her that I could sleep now. Thereupon she suddenly broke into tears. I don’t like to see women cry- ing... “I was afraid already that you should go away. And I needed to have the money so much, I don't it my | usband will send me money, “{en’t that your husband, that man who sleeps with the little boy?”"— I asked in amazement, — THE DAILY WORKER SOVIET UNIONS AID CHINESE IN FREEDOM FIGHT Call for ‘World Trade Union Solidarity (By Imprecor Cable) MOSCOW, June 23.—The All-Rus- sian Central Trade Union council is- sued the following manifesto to the Chinese workers: “The workers of the U. S. S. R. are pursuing your heroic struggle of liberation with the keenesat attention and sympathy.’ Your fight once more proves to the world proletariat the nesessity of’ uniting all forces against the imperialist oppressors and the urgent need’ of'a United International Trade Union movement.” Watch Amalgamated Negotiations in N. Y. for Wage Cut Tricks NEW YORK, June 23. between thé Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and the New York Clothing Manufacturers’ Association for the purpése of working out a new agreement for the men’s garment in- dustry in New York are keenly watched in labor circles because of the issues involved. Employers’ demands, boiled down, call for lower wages and less union control in the shops. BostonMuilders Tell Council They Intend to Use Scab Laborers BOSTON, June 23.—Flat refusal to grant the wage increases sought by Boston building laborers is the answer of the Building Trades Employers Association to the United Building Trades Council attempt to end the laborers’ strike.; Employers claim that they have plenty of non-union work- ers and will maintain the old wage scale until April 1, 1926 when the agveement with the building laborers’ union expires. Negotiations Paterson’ Weavers of Fancy Silks Prepare Demands for Increase PATERSON, N. J., June 23.—Jac quard weavers, composing one-third of the broad stik weavers of Paterson are preparing demands for increased wages and more uniform enforcement of union conditions under guidance of The silk workers’ union won increases Jacquard weavers make fancy goods. The silk workers’ uinon won increases for workers in the Hatband industry recently. WILL BILL GREEN KINDLY STEP FORWARD AND GIVE USA TALK ON “OUR WONDERFUL DEMOCRACY” SAGINAW, Mich., June 23.—As a sacrifice to federal Judge Tuttle’s en- | borrowing corporation involved, we mity to organized labor, The Workers’ Voice of Saginaw is compelled to are told that while best known as an It had been published weekly for 12 years. | d ee The editor, Edwin R. Cornish, has been hounded and persecuted by ‘#t0F holding nine millions in New er since the railroad shopmen’s strike Tuttle charged Cornish with contempt during that strike, and acting as | Mr. prosecutor, witness, judge and jury found him guilty and sentenced him to | ten years.” The federal appellate court reversed this czar-like procedure, but Tuttle | ed on a new trial instead of dropping the case as is usual when a! higher court sits down hard on a lower one. is have taken Cornish’s last cent and he has had to give up the Workers’ Voice, which is probably what Tuttle had in mind “We'll get you yet.” Page Thr: ; a, [THE ENDLESS FLOW OF PROFITS! By LELAND OLDS HE tens of billions of dollars taken from the public in profits since 1914 are reflected in Dow, Jones & Co. figures showing total profits of 20 cor. porations from 1914 to 1924. After paying hundreds of millions as imerest on their bonds these 20 companies reported profits of $3,167,674,935 remaiiNng- Cash dividends of $676,494,184 went to the owners of preferred stocks leaving $2,491,080,751 for common stockholders. dends of $1,249,122,407. The following figures from the Dow, Jones table tell the story. ber of the companies appear for only part of the 10-year period Profits Company U. 8. Steel..... General Motors . General Electric Bethlehem Steel .. American Tobacco E. I, DuPont. Sears-Roebuck Corn Products International Harvester Armour American Can . Swift National Biscuit American Sugar .. Allied Chemical .... Am. Car & Foundry. Am. Locomotive .... American Woolen Endicott-Johnston Montgomery Ward .. public to buy the products. MEN; BRISBANE | nually.” | NEW YORK, June 23.—William Randolph Hearst’s bankers, Strauss & Co. 1914-24 + 1914-24 1916-24 The first three are great Morgan corporations. Steel amounts to more»than 136 per cent on the entire capital stock over half of which represents no original investntsnt. Such profits go far to explain the unstable condition in industry where employment ts far from satisfactory while excessive profits continue. Profits greatly in excess of the sums needed by the country for new capital result in a continuous overdevelopment of producing power. In the first place these companies reserved $1,241,122,407 out of the profits for reinvestment in improving and expanding their plants, proximately equal to the cash dividends paid on common stock, would alone have taken care of the country’s expansion, The job of the investment bankers is to manufacture new securities to absorb these funds which are literally crying for investment. they would glut the money market and bring down the return on capital. The new securities mean the erection of additional productive plant. result is that production tends always to run jaway from the ability of the This means chronic unemployment for labor. HEARST AMONG “THE WEALTHIEST These received cash divi A num Period $1,183 1914-24 1914-24 1914-24 1914-24 1915-24 1914-24 96,130,903 1917-24 91,261,457 1914-24 1918-24 1918-24 1916-24 1914-24 1921-24 1918-24 1918-24 1919-24 1914-24 742,084 25,155,473 The profits of U. Ss. This sum, ap- Otherwise The OWNS $9,000,000 IN REAL ESTATE,” SAY BANKERS meee , tell the world that he is one of the wealthiest men of the ountry and that his star editor Arthur Brisbane, holds nine million dollars’ vorth of New York real estate. This interesting information of the profits of yellow capitalist journalism re contained in display advertisements that seek to sell $7,000,000 first mort- sage bonds for Hearst-Brisbane real + estate in the metropolis. The proper- ties include one 18 and ‘two 20-story |apartment houses; the new Ziegfield ; Theater and two completed business | buildings. Assuring prospective buyers that the investment is perfectly safe the Strauss company reminds readers | that “Mr. Hearst is one of the wealth- jest men in the country. He is the publisher and sole owner of the most | valuable group of newspapers and | magazines in the world doing a busi- hess in excess of $120,000,000 an- And of Brisbane, president of the | editor he is also great as a real es- York property and that: “We have had many satisfactory dealings, ag- |sregating millions of dollars, with Brisbane, covering a period of | One thing the Hearst bankers did not tell, and that is that he is at present engaged in fighting union la- bor in the mechanical department of his Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where the printers are now in their second year of strike against a proposed re- duction in wages and shop control. 9,000 MORE MINERS WALK THE STREETS IN SEARCH FOR LOST JOBS NEW YORK, June 23.—More than 5,000 coal diggers of the Pennsyl- vania Coal Co. are unemployed thru the tctal closing of the companies mines in central Pennsylvania, A. K. Morris, vice-pri jent and gener- al manager, admitted. Unemploy- ment in central Pennsylvania, Dis- trict No, 2, United Mine Workers, has brought great suffering to the workers. A CORRECTION We got our Brims badly mixed last Monday in a story on the carpenters’ union. The Brims who was a former president o fthe district council was not a candidate for the vice-presid- ency on the progressive ticket. The Progressive candidate was John Brims. William Brims. was former president of the council. It was Wil- liam Brims who supported Duell, the missing link candidate against Jensen. John Brims supported Stahl, the pro- gressive standard bearer against Jensen. JAP TEXTILE CAPITAL HAS GRIP IN CHINA Works*Chinese Labor 13 Hours a Day NEW YORK, June 23.—At least 51 cotton textile mills in Shanghai where Chinese workers are on strike are owned by Japanese, textile trade papers of New York report, Since the strike of operatives against imeredibly bad conditions one of the oldest British cotton factories, Laou Kung Mow mill, has been pur- chased by panese. The Kanegafuchi Cotton Co., controlling more than 500,- 000 out of a total of 4,500,000 cotton spindles in Japan, thru its subsidiary the Dah Kong Co., now owns the old Britsih mill and is having the plant thoroly overhauled, Japanese control 1,366,530 cotton spindles in Shanghai alone, Their holdings have been increasing steadily in the last few years because of bet- ter opportunities to get cheap labor, the trade papers indicate, Conditions for workers in Japan- se mills in Japan are bad enough, | writers agree, but the tendency to- | ward mildly restrictive legislation has been driving mill owners to China for even less regulation of industry, Japanese work Chinese mill work- ers, mostly women and children, 18 or more hours a day for a few cents. Sympathetic demonstrations by Chi- nese students over unust treatment of Chinese mill strikers led to the inter- vention of foreign powers and the | Shooting of many students by British- run police, Hold Sacco-Vanzetti Picnic Benefit July Fourth at Boston BOSTON, June 28.—A pienic of friends of Sacco and Vanateti will be | held July 4 at the Reed Estate, Brook- line street, Needham, Mass. The Sac- co-Vanzetti defense committe urge all | interested workers to make this picnic | demonstration of internationalism and working class solidarity. Tickets aré obtainable from the committee at 256 Hanover street, Boston. To Destroy Invention Models, } WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23— Models of history-making inventions dating back to the time of Abraham Lincoln and even to the early days of the republic, along with thousands of others of every type and descrip tion, must be dsiposed of before the | middle of July, according to an an nouncement today from Commissioner of Patents Robertson of the com- merce department. Thoée considered of historical or other value will be selected and preserved. The others unless applied for by July 15 may be destroyed or sold, as authorized by a recent act of congress. From the first days of the patent office up to 1880 the law required that all applicants for patents must submit a model of the invention with the application. As a result the patent office acquired over 155,000 models, including such outstanding inventions as the Bell telephone, the Howe sew- ing machine, Abraham Lincoln's devise for lifting vessels over shoals in the Mississippi and many others, Foreign Exchange wr NEW YORK, June 23.—Great Bri- tam, pound sterling, 4.85%; cable 486%, France, franc, 4.68 4.68%.’ Belgium, franc, 4. cable 4.63%. Jtaly, lira 3.71%; cable 8.72, weden, Krone 26.73; cable 26.77. Norway, krone, 17.11; cable 17.13, Denmark, krone, 19.41; cable 19.48, Germany, mark) not quoted. Shanghai tael, 80.00, cable not quoted. “My husband? No, that is a cousin who helps me out... My husband? He has deserted me together with all the children,” She spoke in a sing-song voice, with the typical t-side Russian-Jewish tone. Her eyes blazed, every muscle of her face twitched violently. “Rachel brings home ten dollars. Morris shines shoes after school, but what is that? Five dollars a week? Such a big loafer! In a few days he will be ten years old, and makes five dollar a week! Please, mister"—and now she spoke in 4 confidential tone— “can't my boy get a job in the West- ern Union? lere is a lot of smail boys there, ybe they'll take him in, And he'll @ more Over there.” I gave her the address, whero the boy would have to apply for work, A terrific uproar. The mother had discovered that the five year old Lesly was sucking can- dy. A big investigation. Blows, cross-questioning. And it turned out that the candy came from Morris, Brandishing desperately the remains of the candy the woman came into my room. “Look here! ‘That's what kind of children I haye!. They take the bread from my mouth. For such thi repeating: “So for this you spend precious money? So for this you spend prec: ious money?” & ‘ee OWNSTAIRS I met Morris im the street. His face was blotched. His eyes were swollen. “Lesly gets no more candy from me"—he said. At his side he carried his “business”. And he called out: “Shoe shine... shoe shine..." He would cast such a look of reproach upon those shoes that didn't gleam that if I has worn those shoes I would surely let Morris shine them. aK ek ATURDAY morning I was awak- ened by the shouts of joy of the children, Little Lesly cried: “Papa is here, papa is here!” The children put on the least torn clothes, There was a festive look on their faces. They were being taken out for a walk, To celebrate the day Morris did not go out to shine shoes. Only Rachel's face remained gloomy. She went to work, After the children had gone out with the father, the mother came in- to my room, “How much does a man need, to be able to live?—she asked. I did not exactly understand the question. Finally. I gathred that the dollars—"because a man can get along with ten dollars too”. T said that at any rate a man could get along more easily with ten dol- lars than a woman and five children, When I made that statement the wo- man almost fell on my neck for joy. About noon the husband came home with the children. IGHT then the debate commenced. Desperate, passionate, horrible. The rapid, drumming rattle of words made it impossible to make ont any- thing. Yet I knew what it was about: About the three dollars. I heard a new voice. Rachel had come home, She sided with the mother, The women stamped with their feet. Suddenly a man’s laughter broke out. The woman came rushing into my room—she would like me to tell her husband what I had told her, And she ran right back again. M The man's laughter rang still loud- er. I went slowly toward the kitchen. Cries. Children’s sobbing. A con- fusion of voices. The man’s laughing suddenly broke off. The woman was standing in the kitchen, a-knife in her hand, The man held her arm tightly. He took her husband wanted to keep for bimself| knife away. Scuffling, — thirteen dollars out of his week's wages, and to give ten dollars for the Shrill cries. Then the knife fell to the ground, family, But the wife wanted thirteen] and the man took bis hat. He went, By JOHN LASSEN The woman sobbing: “He wants to give us only ten dollars!” At the Western Union they were of the opinion that the boy was too young, and too weak. The woman asked me to eat with them. Morris's face. i It was this way—there were noodles j4nd potatoes, with roast onions. The | boy didn't want any’ noodles and fish- ed for the potatoes. “Take noodles too,” “I don't like it.” “Then no potatoes for you.” But the boy keeps right on eating. “I said you should take noodles, and if not, you shouldn't eat potatoes!” Slaps, uproar; the boy wouldn’t eat at all. A good deal of the noodles were left over.—“That will be for supper” ~and she threw them into a pot, “Please tell me only how to make a living? The woman next door said she'll give me an address where they make roses. Then we could all of us work,” . fe Little Lesly clasps his hands: Ky “Me too? Me too?” f And the three year old child sitting on the ground, repeated after while clapping his hands: “Me too? Morris, deliberating: is Me too?” } “I guess I'am going to stick to shop-shine business ..,” eee At the table slaps rained down on. |