The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1925, Page 5

» INMILLING JUDGE DISMISSES CASE AGAINST “REDS” Didn’t Break Law But Made Him Very Sore (Special to The Dally Worker) DETROIT, Mich, June 29.—The case against Alfred Goetz and John Edwards, who had been addressing a meeting under the auspices of the { Young Workers League on the streets of Hamtramck Wednesday, June 17th, was dismissed with great reluctance by Police Judge Majewski. The warrant read “for obstructing traffic,” but it was quite evident from the remarks of the court that this was merely a technical objection. “You can’t get away with any red stuff here,” remarked his honor. Had Communist Literature. When arrested Goetz and Edwards had some Workers’ Party literature with them. DAILY WORKERS were very much in evidence. They were held in the Hamtramck jail over night and granted a continuance and re- leased unde. %100 cash bail. The ordinance under which the war- rant was drawn prohibits crowds from congregating on street corners or side- walks. But the testimony of the offi- cer who made the arrest'showed that the speakers were some thirty feet from the corner. They were neither on the sidewalk nor the street, but had the box located on a strip be- tween the sidewalk and the curb. The ordinance is explicit and the charge of blocking traffic on the street corner or sidewalks did not fit. His Honor Was Peeved. Manrice Sugar, defense attorney, mover to dismiss the case. It was then that the court let down the flood- gates of his wrath. “I've got to dis- miss this case,” he said, “but we won't stand for any red stuff around here. If we can't stop it under this ordinance we will find other ways and means.” His honor did not define these other ways and means, but anyone familiar with the manner in which police pow- er, legal and extra legal, is wielded in Hamtramck may surmise what was meant. Needless to say the meetings will continue. AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS p> GALLS FOR FUND Te American Negro. Labor. .Con- gress is conducting a $10,000 fund drive. The national committee has begun its organizational work in the southern states having sent out ex- pert organizers. penetrating every cor- ner,of the Negro southern population. The national committee feels assured that $10,000 will be able to put over its program. The provisional committee for call- ing the American Negro Labor Con- gress realizing that the Negro has nothing to sell but his labor power is carrying on a two-fold fight, first to show the Negro workers the advan- tages of joining and second, to force the unions to admit Negro applicants. Write the story about your shop Order a bundle to distribute there. OUR DAILY PATTERNS SOVIET UNION PAYS RED ARMY COMMANDERS LESS, SOLDIERS MORE, THAN IN CAPITALIST COUNTRIES MOSCOW—(By Mail)—Peoples Commisary Frunze, head of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, has issued The Red Army is 529,000 strong. the following statistics: The pay of a Red soldier is one rouble and 20 kopeks a month, under the czars it was 60 kopeks and in France it is 60 kopeks, course the pay of mercenaries. Pay of Commanders Lower. But the opposite is the case with the pay of commanders. The commander of a squad receives in the Soviet Union 42 rubles a month, in France 57 rubles, in Germany 62 rubles, in Poland 76 rubles and in Great Britain 212 rubles. The commander of a company 'Te- ceives in the Soviet Union 53 rubles, in Germany 84 rubles, in France 110 rubles, in Poland 116 rubles and hes Great’ Britain 343 rubles. , The commander of a battalion‘ re- seives in-the Soviet Union 61 rubles, in Germany 114 rubles, in Poland 150 rubles, in France 152 rubles, and in Great Britain 488 rubles. The commander of a regiment in the Soviet Union 85 rubles, in Germany 163 rubles, in Poland 204 rubles, in France’ 211 rubles, and in Great Brit: ain’ 614 ‘rubles. The ¢ommander of a division Te- ceives in the ‘Soviet Union 110 rubles, in Germany 280 rubles, in France 321 rubles, in Poland 323 rubles, and in Great Britain, 1,020 rubles. The sal- ary of the commander of the Red Army are about 30 per cent of the sal- ary of the officers of the former czar- ist army. The following example shows the condition of the catering for the army. Thé daily food of the Red Army soldiers contains 3,012 calories, in the Roumanian army 2,714 and in the Polish army 2,797 calories, 84.7 per cent of the Red Army are peasants, 11 per cent workers, and 5.3 per cent various categories, Among the commanders 56 per cent are peasants, 12.3 per cent workers, 23.7 per cent various. Among the new commanders who graduated fromthe military school last year 33 per cent were workers, 62 per cent peasants; and 15 per cent var- fous. Of those recently admitted to the military schools 44 per cent were workers, 49 per cent peasants, and 7 per cent various, In 1922 only 56.6 per cent of all commanders had received a special military education. This year the per- }sentage is 90.5 per cent. 15 Fishermen Die When Ocean Liner Cuts Boat in Two GLOUCESTER, Mass. June 29.— Nine survivors of the fishing schooner Rex, which carried fifteen persons to death when literally sliced in two by the big cunard liner Tuscania,, were aboard the liner today enroute to New York. The dead, all of Gloucester, were: Captain Thomes Downey, Austin Firth’s ten year old. son, Charles; George Johnson, Joseph Dalton, An. gus McDonald, Angus Smith, Clyde Larkin, Samuel .Tibbets, Charles Goodick, William. Turner, William Reach, Archie Hill and two unidenti- fied men. A heavy fog lay over the Banque- rau, or Quero Banks, when the big liner struck the fishing veesel. Several of the crew were killed in- stantly, including, Captain Downey, whose body was picked up by the Tuscania. He was one of Gloucester’s best known fishing captains. 4 STYLISH YOUTHFUL FROCK model for slen- ible for eyed A POPULAR STYLE FOR A BOYS’ SUIT quires 8% yards of 37 inch material. Pattern wafled to any address on receipt of 1Ze in silver or stamps. Nosice TO PA’ order. hot become impatient ti a i your pattern is Another new Sub—Makes’ Communist, , other Thus the pay is fairy high in the Soviet Union, excepting of Tagilsk Miners Sign Agreement with U. S. Asbestos Company MOSCOW.—The district committee of the Miners’ Union in Tagilsk has signed a new tariff agreement with an American company which has a concession for the local asbestos de posits. The tariff agreement provides for increased wages, and the concess- fonnaires undertake to pay for three Places in health resorts for the work- ers, to organize a children’s home and to contribute one per cent of the total amount of wages for the educa- tional purposes of the workers. SMALL MOVIE MAN TO GO IS EDICT OF MOVIE TRUST There is no secret about the inten- tions of the movie trust. In news- papers as well as trade journals its publicity experts are telling the little fellow just what is coming to him, that he is due to be squeezed out and that all his yawping will not help him. In a current issue of Commerce and Finance, Glendon Allvine, of the Famous Players publicity department, loosens up on the following: “Just now the principal units in the picture business seem to be engaged in a struggle for theatres. + There are indications that the independent theater owner is going the way of the individual grocer. he seems to be losing out in the economic strug- gle, and chains of theaters to retail amusement are developing just as chain stores already become firmly stablished in the retailing of grocer- jes.” He then admits quite candidly that altho only a small proportion of the outstanding pictures or most popular stars may be actually connected with “Paramount,” so heavily had the trust advertising made inroads upon the mass mind that of those canvassed in ‘a town selected at random said they liked “Paramount pictures” best, yet 90 per cent of them could not mention a single Paramount picture by name. The organization of buying chains is the theater owners answer to the trust inroads on the retail field, he states, citing the Balaban and Katz control of 125 theaters, the Jensen and Von Herberg chain in the north- west, and the Stanley control of Phil- adelphia. “More and more groups of pictures “| are bought for groups of theaters and the earlier custom of buying for one theater is almost extinct. And as the mass buying movement of combining exhibitors gains impetus there is a counterbalancing strengthening of the theater holdings of producers con- Cerned about keeping prices up suffi- ciently to protect their investments in production.” As in other industries competition gives way before combination, then a sharp brief struggle between combina- tions of producers on the one hand and retailers on the other, with the Probable result of an _ all-inclusive trust ruling this branch of big busi- ness as completely as the steel or oil trust rules its division. The better the movies are organized the more useful they are for the capitalists, now the easier they will be for an American Soviet government to har. ness and turn against the foes of the workers. Claim Ivan Moskvin Will Act for Stinnes Films t is claimed that Ivan Moskvin, r of the Moscow Art Theater, hose work in the film “Polikushka” well known in their country, has nm signed on a long-term contract the Westi Film Co., owned by Stin- hes interests, He first picture is to made in France, under the title, “The Czar's Courier,” based upon a Verne novel. \\ The Stinnes Co. threatens to do for juropean film production what the famous is doing in America, to build up an all powerful production and dis- tribution trust. Already production compani re functioning in the four Principal contnental producng coun- tries, Germany, Sweden, France and Ttaly. Mexican Movie Propaganda The Mexican government has ap- Propriated a lai sum for the pur- chase, in the United States, of a com- plete studio outfit. It is planned to ne make pictures which tell about the Mexican people, their life and cust- oms, and thus counteract the false ideas created by American and Buro- an producers. The work will be in e of an American expert who {i said to know all about the tecnique organization of the film business the United States, lexican conditions. Some of the films I be sold and others given away tree, Wry DAILY=WORKER GALVIN COOLIDGE IS NOT AT ALL LIKE'ROBIN HOOD Se Tightfisted. Towards The Poor—Generous To Rich By LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Tight-fisted toward the poor but ex- ceedingly generous toward the rich is the policy of President Coolidge, as shown in two statements issued a week apart bearing on the financial policy of the’government. When adviseil by the tariff commis- sion to lightén’ the cost of living for every househdld in the land by cut- ting the sugar tariff one-half cent a pound Coolidge answered that the gov- ernment could ‘not spare the $40,000,- 000 revenue. ‘He said: “Money must ‘be found to meet the appropriations ‘ty the representatives of the people: ‘It is estimated that the sugar import duty yielded the na- tional treasury last year $135,099,106 out of a total’ revenue from all im- ports of merchandise of $541,231,859. To make the proposed reduction would cost the treasury about $40,000,000 a year.” But when asked by his multimillion- aire secretary of the treasury to light- en the rich man’s tax burden by re- ducing the surtax (extra ‘tax) on un- earned incomes Coolidge suddenly dis- covered a treasury surplus of over $200,000,000 ready to hand. Before leaving Washington for the summer he expressed his determination to use this surplus to reduce income taxes in accordance with the demands of business. eee This $200,000,000 treasury surplus exceeds the entire revenue derived from sugar by $65,000,000. It amounts to five times the proposed reduction in the sugar duties. The $135,000,000 collected by the government from its duty on sugar means at least $216,000,000 taken from consumers. The additional $80,000,000 goes to the sugar interests as extra profits thru the! arbitrary prices the tariff enables them to charge for sugar produced in the United States and its possessions. " This fact makes the sugar duty an extremely antisocial source of govern- ment revenue. For it burdens the people out. ofall proportion to the return the government gets. eee The joy with which the sugar in- terests hailed the president's favorit- ism brings new evidente‘df the profits which the domiitfant béet’ sugar con- cern expects as a result of continued government proteétion. According to the Wall Street”Journal the stock of the Great Western Sugar Co. is being bought 6n' the Welief’ that the directors will either increase the present 32 per cent dividend rate or declar a 25 per cent stock dividend. In twenty years the company has paid $19,273,000 cash dividends on its $15,000,000 prefered stock and $52,- 939,000 on common stock which repre- sents no real investment at all. Shares of common wefe given away as a bonus to thé purchasers of preferred. In other words, this company which Coolidge is so anxiously protecting has paid cash dividends totaling $72,212, 800 on an inVestinent of $15,000,000, or about 480 per cent. In addition it has accumulated $38,000,000 undivided profits which amount to more than two and one-half times the original investment. Taken as a whole, Coolidge's series of reasons why he didn’t carry out the recommendation of the tariff com- mission look very much like the hur- ried fishing for excuses characteristic of a boy caught in the act of swiping cookies for his gang. Oil Production at Baku Booms Under Soviet Government MOSCOW.—Fiye years have already elapsed since the ofl wells of Baku were nationalized after the vietory of the proletarian dictatorship in Azer- baidjan, During ‘these five years the process of oil getting has very much developed. The* technical equipment has been partly rénewed by American machines, and electric power has been introduced. The development of the production itself is shown by the following fig- ures: In 1920-2f the yield of oil was 152.2 million poodé; in 1921-22, 168 mil- lion poods, in 1922-23 200 million poods, in 1923-24, 238.2 million poods, in 1924-25, 266.3’ ‘million poods. In April, 1925, the yield was 24 million poods, and in May already over 26 million poods. The percentage in- crease of oil production, if we take 100 for the year 1920-21, 8 follows: 1920-21 1921-22 1922.23 1923-24 1924-25 100 110 182 156 175 jutton for Patriot Boob. “A bunk button (picture of a man standing on his head)” is suggested by the oMcial Journal of Electrical Work- ers and Operators for “‘the ‘patriotic fellow who thinks that your rights are protected by the U8, constitution and the courts. un Rail Telegraphers Add Members. 8ST. LOUIS.—The-Order of Rail Telegraphers added 439 new mem! in May, — BUILDERS AT WORK TODAY IT IS ALL OVER Second Annual Daily Worller Sub Campaign Closes. Today is the day. Three months of active Communist building, of securing subs to the DAILY WORKER to lay a basis for future Com- munist growth, is now ready for a check-up. The count will be taken, the e new and old methods in use reviewed and those builders, and building xtent of the building job estimated, locals who have made outstanding contributions will be pointed out. Get a Bundle of See what your local and local the July 4 Issue! Buliders have done—and distribute this Special Anti-Imperialist Issue, with many features to fight imperial- ism on its mobilization day of July 4. In the Second Annual Sub Campaign On Saturday, June 27, these new subs were received and will be included in the totals: MILWAUKEE, WIS.—John Haydin, M. Vetingel, Mary Perschonak. DETROIT, MICH.—N, Stoyanoff, J. Bartz, A. Goetz (5), ASTORIA, ORE.—Pacific Development Society. HAMMOND, IND.—S. Puskowlc, AMBRIDGE, PA.—Geo., Malch (2). PORTLAND, ORE.—A. Ozeransky. NEW YORK-—-H, R. Brown, Frank John, J. Schiam, L. Ginzbourg, Louis Blitzblau. McKEESPORT, PA,—S. Deorio. CLEVELAND, OHIO—J. A. Hamilton. junions and federations NEW ZEALAND WORKERS HOLD UNITY MEETING Conference Unanimous For One National Body, By W. FRANCIS AHERN. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WELLINGTON, New Zealand, (By Mail)—The open conference convened by the New Zealand Alliance of Labor to bring about unity and amalgama- tion among the several working class groups in New Zealand took place at Wellington on April 11, and was at- tended by delegates representing all thruout the country. The conference was unani- mous in the opinion that the indus- trial workers of New Zealand should establish one national industrial or- ganization which would determine the policy of the organized wage-workers of New Zealand. It was pointed out that the men on the job were demand- ing unity and were determined that it should be established. After a lengthy discussion, the con- : Page Five ‘ference arrived at the following de cisions: (1) That a group of miscel- laneous departments shall be embodi- ed in the constitution of the AlNance of Labor, such group to embrace the Trades and Labor councils of New Zealand. (2) That the group department of the Trades and Labor councils be al- WATERBURY, CONN.—Chas, Casnitskl, LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—M, Glassen (7). PITTSBURGH, PA.—Fred Merrick, P. Hanas. Look Out for the Milwaukee Steamroller! A. Overgaard, sub-district organizer for Milwaukee, reports Red Week results aplenty. Read this letter of warning to the Milwaukee Leader: “Look out for the Milwaukee steam roller. We are out to fill our quota before July 1. bunches, the party has distributed copies We expect to send our subs from now on In All branches are active this week visiting workers, whom to during Red Week. We expect even bigger results later and the Milwaukee “Misleader” is going to get a good race. “The workers of Milwaukee need a real working class dally and we are going to give it to them.” Our Readers’ Views What it Means to be a Miner. To the DAILY WORKER: The workers in the mining industry in which a great number ‘are engaged can only look on at scientific progress made daily, All these improvements are exploited by the bosses to bring more profits for them. But none is used to make the mines more safe. Consequently one catastrophe after another occurs in the coal. mines. Life Always in Danger, Years ago there was the Cherry mine disaster. Today we still wit- ness victims of the neglect. of the operators in Kentucky, North Caro- lina, Ulinois, Indiana and in all coal producing localities. Such disasters are inevitable under capitalist. rule. They happened yesterday, they. hap pen today and they can be depended upon to happen any day in the fu- ture as long as the system of ex- ploitation of workers continues. Here in our locality, not to mention the cut in wages that we face daily, the so-called mechanical loader has thrown off approximately 250 men— two men have replaced them. Then the “yellow dog” that the operators have introduced is another means to further strangle the miner. No Protection from Operators’ Greed. Today when a miner applies for a job at the mines he must first fill out a blank which contains a long list of question to giye the company a clue to his former activities. After the bosses pry into his past thru their investigation bureau, and they satisfy themselves that he is not enlightened enough to be class-conscious he is given a chance to slave for a miser- able wage and live in fear of being layed off. But the miner does not only suf- fer from industrial dangers and eco- Other Titles Issued: No, 1 TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA By Wm. Z. Foster, Jas, P. Cannon, Earl R. Browder. By Earl R. Browder, No, 4 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS By William F. Dunne, 10 CENTS EACH 10 COPIES FOR A DOLLAR |) SSkeeeeerecseeersssssssoss: No, 2 / CLASS STRUGGLE * y” vs. baka COLLABORATION nomic pressure, he also suffers from the teachings of false leaders. The great organization of the min- ers is decaying rapidly from discon- tent among the members who see nothing done by their officials to gain better working conditions for them. Our only solution is to be found in the progressive committee conducted by the Young Workers League and the workers Party of America. I remain yours in the struggle, Germinal Allard, Rush that Sub—Campaign ends July 1! : lowed representation locally on the jindustrial district councils and na- tionally on the national industrial council of the N. E. Alliance of Labor according to its affiliated membership. (8) The Trades and Labor councils shall be responsible for all affiliation |fees to the Alliance of Labor, similar to other departments. (4) The Trades and Labor councils to render the N. Z. Alliance of Labor every assistance to organize the unions and associations affiliated to these councils on the ‘lines of class and industry in order that such work- ers may be grouped into their respec- tive industrial departments as laid down in the method of organization of the N. Z. Allinace of Labor. (5) The Alliance of Labor to accept in affiliation natfonal federations of unions as units of industrial depart- ments. Meet on Goose Step Schools, School superintendents and princi- pals have left Chicago to attend the convention of the National Education Association, which is dominated by big business. A few teachers are also delegates. Big Treasury Surplus. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 29.— The federal government will have a | surplus at the end of the fiscal year next Tuesday*6f $245,000,000. Just Received From 33 Striking Of the great leader and te grave—with photographs ta and after his death. is here published for the first It is nd olution ‘y movement but is ment. This valuable booklet is THE LITTLE woe. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. A LENIN MEMORIAL ALBUM With text in English, German and French containing with old revolutionists of years ago; as an illegal worker in October, 1917; and photos taken after the — Be sure to place this in your library — 25 CENTS EACH The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD, CHICAGO, ILL. [m3] Principles of Communism The Original Draft of the Communist Manifesto by Frederick Engels, With translation and historical notes by Max Bedacht. THis historical document—the first draft of the Com- munist principles formulated by Marx and Engels— only of great value to the student of the rev- to the principles that have since led a great world move- No. 3 Germany! Photographs acher from childhood to the ken in his youth; as an exile; evolution time in the English language. also a guide, for the worker, in the pocket series of RED LIBRARY Moe mM, See