The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1925, Page 5

» JIM CROWISM IN WASHINGTON, CLOSES BEACHE Negro Labor Congr To Discuss Equality The American Negro Labor C gress, 19 S, Lincoln St., Chicago, hi received a letter from Washington the bathing beach situation. It see: that some people in Washington wou rather go without baths than to bathe where the other people bathe. The Chicago Defender says: “Cite izens in the nation’s capital must go without bathing facilities for at least another year, it has been decided by congress. Representative Madden the first congressional district of I nois, chairman of the house comm! tee of appropriations, has declar himself against establishing separ: beaches for the two races in Wash? ington. “So representatives and their frien in the city have opposed the o1 mixed beach and that was closed, Segregation and Jim Crowism will one of the main subjects for disc sion at the American Negro Label Congress which will be held in om cago, October 25.” Allies Get Millions from Germany; BERLIN, Germany, July 12—Get many has already paid the allies $185,726,300 under the first tel months’ operation of the Dawes plan, FORBES PRESENTS BOOK | TO SHOW SENTENCE FOR VET GRAFT “MISTAKE” Ten thousand printed pages— 200,000 words—were required by at- torneys for Charles R, Forbes and John W. Thompson, sentenced to two years imprisonment for con- spiracy to defraud the Unitde States government in connection with Veterans’ Bureau contracts, to cite all the “errors” alleged in their ap- peal, filed today before Federal Judge Carpenter, the trial judge. Ninety-five instances of “grave, substantial and prejudicial errors committed by the court” were charged. Dr.S. ZIMMERMAN DEnwris T° MY NEW LOCATION — Special X-Ray rices _ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY A NEW MODEL FOR A REST OR LOUNGING GARMENT. 5154. Plaid and plain taffeta are combined. One may use cambric, el, crepe or crepe de chine. The es may be omitted, e pattern is cut in 4 8i Small, 34-86; medium, 38-40; Larg 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 5% yards of 36-inch meatrial if made with sleeves. Without sleeves 4% yards are required, ers being “sold. thru. the. DA ree pasiern, sry pent are turers and bref are mailed by to the Sustomer. m me Haas fh terns: Lig ry of ‘ordinarily wi il take a a lea 10 NATIONAL DEFENSE CONFERENCE ' Defense, held in Ashland Auditorium, Chicago, June 28, a tory for the capitalist exploiters and | tinued OUR DAILY PATTERNS lace bands and embroidery’ is here HELD IN CHICAGO ON JUNE 28th UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS The resolutions printed herewith were unanimously passed by the more than one hundred delegates present at the National Conference for Labor These represented ‘workers’ organizations from all parts of the country and were called together by the Labor Defense Council to unite all forces in the labor movement against persecution of workers and for defense of all class war prisoners -| regardless of political opinion or industrial affiliation. The Conference founded the International Labor Defense, an individual and collective membership, organization that is to undertake the role of champion for all workers attacked by organized capital irrespective of their faith or affiliation. A National Committee of 37 was elected upon which are many prominent figures in the labor, radical, and liberal movements of this country among whom are-Eugene V. Debs, Upton Sinclair, Bishop William Montgomery Brown, Fred Mann, Ralph Chaplin, Seott Nearing, Wm. Z. Foster, Benjamin Gitlow and Ben Fletcher. Andrew T. McNamara of Pitts- burgh was elected chairman of the organization, E. C. Wentworth, vice- ‘Chairman, and James P.Catition of Chicago the secretary. At the confegence 25. logal trade unions beside central labor bodies, work- ers’ defense organizations ani labor fraternal and benefit societies totalling ti a membership well over 200,000 were represented by delegates. In addition scores of endorsements’ camé from workers’ organizations and prominent in- | dividuals thruout the country who could not be represented there. The resolutions that follow were passed by the conference in the nature of instructions for work to’the officers of the International Labor Defense and taken as a whole, comprise a complete program. 1. The Fight for Release of Class IHR fight for the. Telease-ot the CHIGAGO WORKERS TO FORM NEW COMMUNE TO SETTLE IN RUSSIA imprisoned fighters for the cause of labor is one of the most “import- ant problems on the agenda of the American Labor movement. Every A meeting was held at 4501 S. Hermitage Ave,, for the organiza- tion of an agricultural commune to go to Soviet Russia.- Comrade An- worker in prison for the “crime” of loyalty to his class represents a vic- drejchick told of the organization of the Red Ray Commune of which he is secretary. The Commune is prospering in the Ukraine and only a handful of members are still left in Chicago. They have three tractors, other agricultural machinery and cattle, and are getting ready to build a flour mill. an injury to the workers. The con- confinement of so large @ number of the most conscious ele- ments of the working class without any real protest against it, is of it- self a sign of weakness in the labor movement. The indifference and ne- glect which characterizes too large a Section of the labor movement in re- gard to this burning question is a great danger to the movement as a whole. It encourages the. exploiters of labor and their subverted “legal” and “illegal” agencies of persecution to go.ever farther with their methods of terror, while, at the same time, it weakens the morale of the workers, It must be recorded, to. the shame of, the labor movement that. Mooney and Billings, victims of the, most at- rocious frame-up in all labor history, still languish in prison. Sacco and Vanzetti, courageous fighters for the working class, still stand in the shad- ow of the gallows. Rangel and Cline and their comrades who went into Texas prisons in the best years of their youth have | dy». spent more than twelve years there. Ford and Suhr, intrepid 1 of the in Polish and Russian, The founda- tion of a new agricultural commune was laid at this meeting “iacieai them court martial and sentence to military prison. ers and groups of workers are expiat- ing behind bars the crime of activity in the te of labor that won for addition” t6 itidse workers, al: ‘convicted, prosecutions are now pending against many others. The action of the supreme court in sus- taining the conviction of Benj. Git- low, confronts Foster, Ruthenberg and thirty others in the Michigan cases with the danger of prison terms. Fred Merrick and nine other Commun- ists are facing trial in Pennsylvania on the charge of “sedition” for ‘cir- culating working class literature.* The labor movement must be awak- ened from its slumber and must Be rushed to the menacing significance men who defended their union hall in Centralia, Washington, deserve the gratitude of the whole labor move- ment, but their reward are long terms of imprisonment. Scores of workers in California have been thrown into San Quentin and Folsom prisons for the crime of belonging to the I. W. W. ROUCH and Trumbull, “soldiers in the United States army; expressed their sympathy with the cause of the colonial workers in Hawaii and de- clared their solidarity with the revo- lutionary workers’ movement. It cost by imprisoning its best fighters. The workers mustsnot be allowed to for- get those who lie in prison for them, but must be stirred into action in their defense. Shades eee widespread ~ pub- licity must be conducted in regard to the situation in general and each specific case must be made known to the masses of workers. Agitation must be commenced in all labor organiza- tions in behalf of cl: ‘war prisoners and preparations made for great mass protests against their continued im- prisonment. General and special cam- paigns must be organized and carried on with ever-increasing energy and momentum. The International Labor Defense will take the initiative to organize a wide-spread campaign for the uncon- ditional release of imprisoned fighters of the class struggle and will endea- vor to unite all the forces of conscious and militant labor for this fight. Tomorrow:—The resolution against injunctions and anti-labor legislation. A PRETTY SIMPLE FROCK FOR MOTHER'S GIRL Steel Orders Decline, NEW YORK, July 12.—Unfilled or- ders of the United States Steel cor- Poration declined 339,342 tons in June, according to the monthly report Y the corporation, issued at noon to- jay. The unfilled tonnage on June 30 aggregated 3,710,458 tons, against 4,049,800 tons on May 31, and 3,262,- 565 tons on June 30, 1924, 5175. White crepe with trimming of shwon, The dress may be finished with the sleeves short or’ in wrist length, The patetrn is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, A 10-year size re- quires 2% yards 40-inch material if made with long sleeves. With short ves 2% yards will be required. Pattern mailed to any Special Anti-Imperialist Issue Will Feature Articles, Car- address on toons, Poems iar iu yore sabe ener INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FASHION BOOK NOTICE! nilver or, stamps Bf ou 25 Cents A Copy $2.00 a Year $1.25 Six Mo, oon. nsive article on hae: mee same cane 8 for the rae of the attempt of the capitalists to | break the morale of the working class | THE WORKERS’ MONTHLY BIG IS FLOUNDERING “Better Prnerica’” Order Declines Apace LOS ANGELES, July 12—The year ended June 30, 1925, showed a marked falling off_of subscriptions to the Bet- ter America Federation, which has its h@adquarters in Ios Angeles and ad- vertises that “it operates in 38 states.” cae indicate a decline of 41 per it. as oes with the preceding i 8 ake of the unfavorable show- , the Ofganization is frantically seeking funds. Jt.is carrying on fren- 2ied adve gy urging on prospec- e Bubscribers;the need of contribut- ing to teract. Bolshevism. Its weekly “news letters” almost concede bt eedy Overthrow of the govern- pe 4 Reds. i "Thé $5,000 in-prizes recently given to} boy orators ‘by the federation for land! the constitution brought in many times the-amount in free arver- liSing through, the Los A..geles dailies but did not bring in subscriptions tc correspond. Heads of the organiza- tin act as tho they feel that they have yet to get their money's worth t of the $5,000 given away. Causes of the Falling Off. If the coming year goes like the past, the federation will have cause to lament the building slump of 1924, the expansion of the ku klux klan in southern California and the election of Coolidge. These three events caus- ed the t The building depres- sion closed purses of many sub- scribers. ..H, BE. Haldeman, son of Harry M. Haldeman, head of the fed- eration, | ‘charge of the K. K. K. county and increased ip at the cost of the hen Coolidge, support- . F., was elected by a many subscrib- at all danger of radi- calism was Over and that there was iting any more to the —. yw was the expansion K, Ke This took thousands “ § a month subscribers established the identity and K. K. K. as Sia- mese I og With Father Halde- man as fof the former and Son Haldeman @ latter, the two or- p one family affair. pred that the or- worked’ for mouey |: ‘the“family most 2A 2 bored perations Must, be Curtailed.* ¥ich. men’s ku, klux klan, the’ B. A..F. spent from $150,000 to $190, 000 a. year, principally on persecution. It listed I. W. W's, ete., trailed them, | drove them..to. starvation, prison and suicide. Dgctors, dentists, nurses, landladies, .cooks, kitchen wenches, ete., were insits pay. Its spy sys- tem included detectives at $10 a day, hotel clerks at $5 a month and cham- ids at, $1 a month. The meth- ods charged, to the Jesuits in France were improved upon by the order. Many are the.tales of horror told of doings of hirelings. Retrenchment must come. The lux- | uries will first) be dispensed with. | There will be less employing of de-| tectives, surgeons, etc., and more of) hotel clerké and chambermaids. Eavesdropping, violation of corres- pondence, pumping, etc., must be re- sorted to. Several Los Angeles firms have been contributing $10,000 and $15,000 a year. They drove competitors away. But they have no present need of the federation. If they require help they can get it from the K. K. K. at bet- ter terms. That means more retrench- ment for the plutecrats’, organization. Beginnitig of the Wind-up. The head of the B. A. F. resembles a medium-sized hog, with black bris- tles. He stands on two feet as tho he isn’t used'to it. He looks as tho 'he is disposed’ to bountiful repasts and Bright's disease. His uscfulness is of the past. Jo S. Joplin, manager of the B, A. F. is an importation from } Kentucky and a typical A. P. A. If properly tonsured, he would easily be mistaken as f Dominican monk of the Spanish inquisition. He has the blood- less face of a bigot with a craving for money. Three of the boy orators who won the B. A. T, prizes were Roman Catholics, students of Jesuit colleges. They were banquted under the beam- ing smiles of jdeman and Joplin, ku klux klant i 3 at heart. BUILD WITH ALL BUILD DERS AT WORK OF YOUR TOOLS! How About Language Papers? The American Communist movement is a balanced one. It is equipped to the needs of the American workers—among which are foreign speak- ing elements of many languages. Communist equipment, Communist tools for building are at hand. The DAILY WORKER, official organ of the Workers (Communist) Party is not the only one. and monthlies in many languages. battl reaching the foreign born workers. Many others exist, good Communist dailies, weeklies All these are fighting the workers » all are good Communist tools for Communist Builders to use for The DAILY WORKER has repeatedly brought this fact to the atten- tion of Communist Builders: thru Box” (of which over thirty thousand catalogue of good books for workers ist Literature”, thru repeated refere: by word of mouth thru every orga’ special sub blanks, thru the “Tool were distrbiuted) thru the present. “From The Source of All Commun- nceg in the DAILY WORKER, and nizer ever sent out by the DAILY WORKER—not to mention thru the machinery of DAILY WORKER agents thruout the country. And yet this is not enough. Never can too much be said for the lan- guage press of the Communist movement whenever the DAILY WORKER is spoken about. Send for | for the List! If you haven't a catalogue—or a “fist 0 of the Communist foreign lan- guage papers (and sub prices!) send in to the DAILY WORKER for it at once, A special list and the catal: will be sent to you without charge. ogue Im which this list also appears To become a most efficient Communist Builder carry a full kit of the best of your tools! AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SENDS ITS TROOPS ABROAD BILLION DOLLARS FOREIGN LOANS TO GUARD NINE WASHINGTON, July 12.—Since imperialism and dollar diplomacy are synonymous in the bright lexicon of American foreign policy, a report of an investigation recently completed by the national industrial conference board concerning the growth of private investments ‘abroad has significance. This organization which is one of that. the total investments of United the adjuncts of “Big Business” says States “private capital abroad in 1924 amounted to $9,090,000,000, 44.4 per cent of which is placed in latin Amer- ican countries. The change from the period 1780- 1820, when Europe was lending the struggling young republic a bare mil- lion dollars a year, to the year 1920, acafitury later, when the United States loaned . stb. world hearly a bil-} ; lion and a half dollars, says the con- ference board, represents one of the greatest transformation in the history of the world. Of the total amount of these “pri- vate investments” 58 per cent repres- ents capital put into industrial, busi- ness, financial and other enterprises while the remaining 42 per cent re- Presents money loaned to govern- ments. About one fifth of the Amer- ican money. has gone to Europe in ad- dition to the $11,000,000,000 loaned there .by the American government. But Canada has absorbed over two- fifths more and the loans to govern- ments and investments in Latin Amer- ica amount to about #1.000,090,000,: peer The governments of the latin Amer- ican countries have not received much of this fund, comparatively speaking, for the total amount of those loans is only $840,000,000. "So"more than three. ‘pittion Fopres: ents private American capital.put into South and Central American conces- sions, for the guarditg of which Amer- iean diplomacy, American marines and sometimes the army and navy are called into action. The conference board finds that from the beginning of the United States until 1914 capital moved almost entirely from Europe to America. That Movement stopped when the world war began and ever since it has swang the other way, until now the amount of American capital invested abroad is fifteen times greater annual- ly than it was in the 18 years pre- agnaine the war. | Yowlecs in Superior Hold Street Meetings With Great Success SUPERIOR, Wisc—The entire) Young Workers League’ student branch, 55 in number, held two anti- imperialist street meetings in Supert- or, Wisc., July 4th. The crowd was interested and sympathetic. Margaret Helander, the first speak-| er, spoke on the Anti-Imperialist cam- | paign, and the situation in China. Toivo Tenhunen, spoke of the war | capitalism is forcing on the workers. | Clem Forsen explained the program | of the Workers Party, and the de- mands of the workers. Neuman Dunker spoke of the condi- | tions in America, of the Anti-Syndical- | ist laws, and of the Labor defense. The | meeting closed with the audience sing- | ing the International. The DAILY WORKER and Young Worker were sold. The crowd vigorously applauded the speakers, and exclaimed: “Fine, fine, thege young kids are pretty good. the Seeks New City Franchise. Henry Blair, president of the Chi- cago traction lines, is endeavoring to secure @ franchise from the city coun- cil. His present franchise runs out soon. ; PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIS* 645 Srgithfield Street. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Fra uen-K, AB peetucnnnts ee Verein fe ovety iat & Bra Thuraday, ua Wieke rk Hall, 2040 W. A Hays Gets New Fat Job. Will Hays has been given the fat job of “chairmanship of the public Telation scommittee” of the National Air Transport Company, a ten million dollar corporation. The committee is composed of leading newspaper pub- lishers and news service editors, who are aiding to build up an air fleet to | be used as war planes in case of anew imprialist conflict. Hays was post- master general nad is now publicity man for the motion picture industries. Fort Weikindn Endangered. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 12.— When his guard, Richard Jervis, fell five feet into an elevator shaft in the jrepair shops at Fort Jervis, it was |disclosed that there is a “general con- dition of dilapidation” in the fort, and workmen are endangered. Cal said he would “investigate.” Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there. On the Press! A new pamphl MANIFESTO, with pictures of Every worker should know ORDER NOW! International 23 So. Lincoln St. Single copies 10c In lots of 10 or more 5c LOS ANGELES LAND VALUES EMPTY FRAUD | Method of Inflation Crude and Risky LOS ANGELES, July 12—Boosters assert that Southern California orange land now commands $4,000 an acre as | compared with $400 a generation ago. But they say nothing about the fact that the growers are in a more precar- ious state financially than they were formerly. Certainly the .$3,500 ap- preciation does..not go to them, To whom does it go? The answer is simple and yet it will be sensational | news. to 99 out of every 100 readers. Process of Inftation, The leading Woosters are J. F, Sar- tori, most entéfprising banker, and George I. Cochran, foremost insur ance promoter and leader of million- dollar. advertising campaign. That is the key to the answer. A generation ago the banks lent growers $200 on the $400-acres secur- ity, Interest at 6 per cent amounted to $12 per year. With oranges sell- fing at $1.20 per box, it took 10 baxes jto pay fhe interest. Producing 250 boxes to the acre, growers advanced their prices to $1.25 per box. The burden was simply passed on to the | consumers. | Life insurance became | Growers were convinced that they should carfy enough insurance to | cover mortgages so that in event of | their deaths their families could save j the groves. They paid $8 per year to | cover the $200 insurance, Again they raised the price of oranges and passed | the burden on to the consumers, With |the price #f the product raised $25 | per acre, for the benefit of banksyand | insurance companies, it naturally; fol- |lowed that the growers valued the }iana to correspond, increasing the price $250 per acre. This suited banks as it gave them a larger margin. of safety on loans. On the $650 valuation operations were ‘repeated. Banks lent $325 on the acre at $20°a year interest. In- surers issued policies at $14 per year. Growers raised prices 15 cents a box to meet interest and insurance charges, With values of products in- creased $34 per acre per annum the land value was inflated $340, to $990 per acre, interested. necessary to bring the land values to: $3,500 an acre, $500 short “a ai are now said to be. Peay growers 8, 10 and 12.per cent inter- est, clinching their control of the or- ange industry, . Their interest rate at present is 7 per cent. If they lend $2,000 on a $4,000-acre valuation grow- ers must pay $140 per year interest to them, With oranges at $3.50 per box this is the equivalent of 40 boxes, On the present basis of $30 per $1,000 for life insurance annual prem- ium, growers pay the insurers $60 per | year on the acre, or the equivalent of 17 boxes. Banks and insurers’ shere of the 250 boxes per year is 57 boxes, | worth $200. But the growers charge that up to the consumers. So, on practically every box of California or- anges the consumers pay a tribute of |55 cents to the banks and 26 cents to | the insurers. | The Bubble Must Break. Growers sell the fruit to wholesal- ers at $3.50 per box, wholesalers to jobbers at $7.00 to $8.00, jobbers to retailers at $12.00 to $15.00 and Te- tailers to consumers 10 cents apiece. But the inflation is all due to the banks. Pro@uctivity of orange land is the same as it was 30 years ago. . The $3,600 increased value per acre is fic- titious, a creation of and for the banks, If consumers stop eating oranges, the banks will foreclose on the grow- ers; if they do not stop, the price of orange land will mount. But every bubble must eventually break and California orange land value is a bub- ble. When Easterners cease coming to California ot buy land at fabulous prices the bubble will break. That is why bankers and insurers ‘boost Southern California with million-dol- lar advertising funds.—Frapiesa, et containing..the RESOLUTIONS . AND CONSTITUTION of the First National Conference of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE the delegates and numreous drawings and cartoons. the facts about this history- making conference. ORDER NOW! Labor Defense, Chicago, Illinois Only three more - operations were A few years. ago banks prea 7