The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1925, Page 3

i Derialist powers scourge their work) i NEW YORK TAX DRIVERS START UNIONIZATION Chauffeurs O rganize Yellow Cabmen (By Worker Soeeapondenes NEW YORK, July 16.—The drive to organize the exploited taxicab drivers of this city has started. The cam- paign is gaining heatway and todate over 1500 drivers have lined up, to fight for a living wage and the right to organize. The fight is being conducted by The International Brotherhooa of Team- sters and chauffeurs, and the question on the lips of all the drivers in this city is, is the union going to organ- ize the independent taxi drivers or the Yellow taxi drivers or both? The men in the employ of the “open shop” Yellow Taxi corporation, have for the past two years, been waiting for the officials of the teamsters un- ion to come.to the garage where they work and organize them and as yet nothing definite has been done to en- courage organization amongst these drivers, who are known to be the most exploited and the lowest paid men in the taxicab industry in New York state The Yellow Taxi corporation em- ploys three thousand drivers and if the officials of the teamsters are sin- cere, they should start at once to or- ganize in the garages of the Yellows. Organized In Bronx The current Taxi Weekly states: “Advice has reached this office that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, stablemen and helpers is organizing extensively in the Bronx. Jack Treuhaft of 860 Daw- son St., Bronx is in charge of all @n- rollment for that district. “There is quite a need” he said, “for such an organization among taxi- cab drivers as the International Bro- therhood. We have as many as 1,500 members already, and expect to great- ly increase this number within the next two or three months. “The Taxi Limousine Chauffeurs Union Local 643, desires good men. My own opinion is, when all the hack- men understand the advantage of this union that we will get practically 100 per cent membership.” Farmers Continue to Flock to City Survey Reveals WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16.— ' ‘The farm population of the United States decreased approximately 182,- 000 during 1924, according to esti- mates based on a survey of 25,000 re- presentative farms made recently by the United States department of agri- culture. This is a drop of .6 per cent during that year, the estimated farm jopulation on January 1, 1925, being ,134,000 compared with 31,316,000 on January 1, 1924. This estimate in-| eludes not only the agricultural work- ers, but all men, women and children living on the farms on that date. The movement from farms to cities, towns and villages in 1924 is estimat- ed at 2,075,000; the movement to farms was 1,396,000 making a net movement from the farm population of 679,000 persons, or 2.2 per cent. Births among the farm population dur- ing 1924 are estimated at 763,000 and deaths at 266,000 leaving a natural increase of 497,000 which reduced the loss due to the cityward movement to 182,000 or .6 per cent. Fire Fighters Hurt DENVER, Colo., July 16—One man was injured, several fire fighters sus- tained slight burns and 1,000 acres ‘of timberland were destroyed today in a forest fire that swept Coal Creek, 25 miles northwest of Denver. Scores of volunteer fighters battled the flames thruout the night and it was believed the fire was under control. IHE London International Co-opera- tive Alliance was held July 4th; the Third International Co-operative Propaganda Day. This should be on ‘occasion for the millions of organized consumers to examine very carefully - this organization and its attitude to_ the severe struggles of the working, ¢lass. The co-operative world capital upon the working class has again made great progress, The day ‘takes | Place at a time in which the attack of |Operative society in Sofia. |<GIFTS” OF OWNING CLASS ONLY. AN INVESTMENT IN CONTINUING DICTATORSHIP OF CAPITALISTS (Federated Press They have too much, of New York. This gift was mated to have a market value of about $1,000,000. It gave John D, Jr., front page in all the big dailies— something Mrs. Jones would never get if she gave $10 out of her insufficient wages to charity. But this $1,000,000 gift represents less than 1 per cent of Rockefeller’s holdings in Standard Oil of California and less than a quar- ter of 1 per cent of his holdings in all the various companies composing the Standard Oil group. In 1922, according to Dow, Jones & Co., Rockefeller, jr. held 1,902,016 shares of Standard Oil of California with a market value of $104,120,960. He held altogether in the several Standard Oil companies 7,638,390 shares representing about one-sixth of all the shares of these companies. The market value of his Standard Oil stock was figured at $410,000,000 with annual dividends totaling about $12,000,000. * 8 8 HE magnicent gifts don’t even rep- resent a diminution in the control these multimillionaires exercise over industry. They give to institutions whose financial policy they govern. Take the General Education Board en- dowed by the Rockefellers with at least $126,000,000. The income from this huge sum represents tremendous influence upon the country’s educa- tional system. But the stocks held also represent an important block in the control of the oil industry, a bleck which cannot be split up thru inheritance. The General Education Board holds 386,518 shares of Anglo-American Oil valued at $7,500,000; 163,460 shares of Ohio Oil Co, at $9,454,000; , 42,099 shares of Prairie Oil & Gas at $5,696,- 512; 52,569 shares of South Penn. Oil at $9,540,510; and 737,680 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey valued at $22,500,000, to mention only) the ‘larg- est of its blocks of oil stocks. "\Alto- gether the ledger value of Standard Oil stocks held by the board: -totals $68,569,000 which is probably, under the true market value. : This huge block of oil stocks is permanently under the control’ ‘of men who will represent the dominant financial interests. ‘ eae oe OLLEGE funds also mean a similar large block of ownership in imdus- try which can be manipulated, by the financiers from whom all blessings flow. A survey by the bureau of rail- way economics found that’ 65. of the foremost educational institutions, had productive investments to a total of approximately $532,000,000. "Of this amount $148,271,000 was in ‘railway securities, Colleges with big blocks of railway | securities include Leland Stanford |in California with $13,907,000; Har- vard with $13,681,000; Yale with $12,536,000; John Hopkins with $10,156,904; Columbia with $8,967,000 and Mass. Institute of Technology with $5,759,000. Needless to say the dependence of universities on these securities for their incomes influences their view of the economic problem. Pennsylvania which fired Scott Nearing owns over $5,000,000 of railway securities. Spain Studies Wine Pact MADRID, July 16.—The Spanish directory today studied Spain's agree- ment with the United States bearing on transit of wine cargoes on Spanish Ships thru American ports enroute to other countries. The directory wished to make sure the agreement works no harm to the richly remunerative Span- ish wine industry. Rush that Sub—Campaign ends July 1! T By LELAND OLDS Industrial Editor) IVE Till It Hurts means nothing to the money princes who govern indus- try. endow education and generally distribute royal gifts to the glory of God and the admiration of the populace. They simply can’t give till it hurts. And if they could it would mean stepping down from the throne of exploitation to become a common man, This is shown in an analysis of the gift of 16,000 shares of Standard Oil of California stock by John D. Rockefeller jr. to the Metropolitan Art Museum esti- ¢-—_—_—— —— DICKS ATTACK THREE Y, W. Le YOUTHS IN A NEW YORK RESTAURANT NEW YORK, N. Y., July 16.— Three members of the Young Work- ers’ League were viciously attacked by three dicks in a Borden Milk CHINESE IN Co, restaurant on East Broadway. The three youths were quietly eat- ing their meal and discussing vari- ous phases of the political situation in the United States. From the op- posite direction of the room a thick jawed dick leaped at one of the comrades and shouting, “Get out of this country,” and “Go back to Rus- sia.” Then landing his fist on one of the comrades, he swiftly ran out of the store. Later, this same comrade, just as he was about to enter his home, he was again attacked, this time by three dicks. He fought them back, but being three against one they got the ketter of him and left him in a bleeding condition on the sidewalk in front of his house. This is one example of the “peaceful” methods of our democ- racy. BLACKLIST UNION MEN ABROAD, NEW OPEN SHOP PLAN Cavecniansidt to Admit Only the Ignorant WASHINGTON, July 16.—(FP)— Immigration inspectors have been de- tailed by the secretary of labor to American consulates at London, Li- verpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Bel- fast, Dublin and.Kobh (Queenstown) to act in the capacity of technical ad- visers to the consuls on immigration matters. This action was taken at the request of the secretary of state. The secretary of the treasury has already assigned surgeons of the Pub- lic Health Service to act as medical examiners at these consulates. Both the immigration and medical advisers will co-operate with the consuls in is- suing papers to prospective immi- grants to the United States. “The arrangement is in the nature of an experiment,” says the official announcement, “to determine whether it is practicable to make such an exa- mination before the embarkation of the immigrant as may be safely sub- stituted for the major part of the examination now made at American ports of entry. “If the experiment proves success- ful this method will be applied to other countries that express a willing- ness to have the examinations made in their territory.” BIG SEAMEN’S STRIKE BEGINS IN AUSTRALIA; ALL SHIPPING BLOCKED MELBOURE, Australia, July 16.— The shipping strike ordered by the Seamen's Union began here Tuesday as scheduled and stopped all move- ments of vessels. The Herald re- ports the cabinet has agreed on a | tentative plan for maintenance of essential services, HE DAILY 12 bs aad DA HOLD “ROEST MEET Denounce British for Bloody. Oppression VICTORIA, British Columbia, July 4.—(By Mail)—While July 1 in Cana- da is celebrated as “Dominion Day” with all due ceremony, flags and so on; with the Chinese it was “Humilia- tion Day” recording the anniversary of their nation's humiliation. Over 600 Ghinese packed the assem- bly room of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on Fisgard St. and listened to, many speeches, some fiery, urging, the severance of diplo- matic relations with Britain, and others more temperate. The more flery speakers (expressed the belief that there was ‘a stage beyond which no self-respecting people could go without losing their independence. Boycott Advocated sis One modenate speaker counselled a complete and ¢ontinuous boycott of averything British, with the boycott o be maintained against any country vhich enforced discriminatory laws ‘gainst Chinese nationals. Another speaker advocated the for- mation of a comprehensive union mong the Chinese working in Can- ida, divided into sections covering domestic servants, industrial workers, etc., for the purpose of bettering their conditions and educating themselves in the modern methods of production. The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, was recounted clause by clause, the humiliating clauses being emphasized and the Chinese people everywhere were asked by one speaker to remem- ber the indignity to which their coun- trymen in Canada had been subjected. Protest Measure Finally a resolution was passed with every solemnity, that telegrams and letters be sent to the Chinese government, demanding that in any settlement that may be sought of the present trotibles in China, the demand must be made for the cancellation of all the humiliating clause from the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, Another resolution was passed pledging thé, full support, financial and otherwise, of the Chinese in Can- ada to the demands made by the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen for the denunciation of all uneqmwal ‘treaties, at whatever cost, even at the cost of war. As a silent but striking further protest the local Chinese took down on Dominion Day eyery flag in China- town, of whatever sort, their own flags included. ’ “Crushed Fruit” Has Juice Abstracted, Government Finds py aeerit dy WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16.— Fruit from which the juice has been abstracted in part should not be label- ed “Crushed Fruit” or with other similar designations unless the name is immediately followed by an equally conspicuous declaration that juice has been abstracted, according to a recent ruling by the officials of the bureau of chemistry, United States department of agriculture, who are charged with the enforcement of the federal food and drugs aét./ ‘The ruling states also that sugar and artificial color, when added, should be plainly declared on the label. Information has come to the bureau of chemistry to the effect that the pro- duct designated “Crushed Fruit” which is shipped to soda fountains is deprived of a considerable proportion of its juice. The juice is used in mak- ing fountain syrup, jellies and the like. Ohio Federation to Convene August 10 STEUBENVILLE, 0O., July 16.— The 42nd annual convention, Ohio State Federation of Labor, opens in Steubenville August 10. ~ THINDENBURG’S “AMNESTY” FREES ONLY MONARCHISTS, FASCISTS AND SHOP NUCLEUS SPIES, WORKERS KEPT IN PRISON FORCES BOSS TO BERLIN, (By Mail) IRA.—The amnesty which was promised when the new president in Germany was elected, has not yet been proclaimed. Under the pressure of mass protests, however, Hindenburg has finally stated his an amnesty! actually be? The government press publishes the following on it: Mockery of Amnesty “The amnesty includes all the cases of high trason, formation of secret societies, offences against the para- graphs 7 and 8 of the law for the protection of the republic as well as the crimes against the paragraph 6 of the decree of July 26th, 1922. “The amnesty comprises all fines as well as jail, fortress and prison sen- tences up to one yeur. Hard labor sentences are excluded from the am- nesty. The amnesty reters only to those sentences passed by national courts. (Reichs court and supreme state court.) “Proceedings for offenses which are still going on, are stopped if the dedd } has been committed before the 1st lof October 1923. “This would include mainly the not yet tried participants in the Kapp Putsch. Apart from this national am- nesty the states will proclaim amne- sties. As the states will act uniform- ly, negotiations of a state amnesty are going on.” Hard Labor Prisoners Remain This, then, is the decree which is presented to the German workers under the glorious name of an am- nesty. It is actually a mockery of the noble intentions with regard to an amnesty. political prisoners and of the German working class it is an amnesty which is no amnesty, for all prisoners who have been sentenced before October Ist, 1923 and are still in prison, are hard labor prisoners. They will re- main in the class of the notorious German prisons, And for those who have been per- secuted after October, in the greatest time of unlimited class justice, the prison doors will not be opened at all. The many political trials which are still in preparation, are not stop- ped. For months andqyears prisoners have been awaiting their trials. The members of parliament Pfeiffer and Fritz Heckert, the leader of the C. P. G. Maslow and many others, all well-known Communist officials, will also be placed before the court. Under such circumstances what does the amnesty bill of the govern- ment mean? For this one must know the judicial situation at present in Germany. Craf Arco, the murderer of Eisner, is free but 23 participants in the Ba- varian Soviet Republic of 1919 are still in the hard labor prison in Strau- bing. They have to do sentences from seven to 15 years, Today, six years after the bloody overthrow of the Munich Soviet Republic, the Ba- varian court passes sentences against Participants in this revolution. Jagon, the only participant of the Kapp Putsch sentenced, is now free, but in German hard labor prisons there are still many proletarians who by their struggle against the Kappists saved the republic. Today still, five ted by class justice and thrown into prison because they have led the struggle against Kapp in accordance with the appeal of the national govern- ment, the political parties and the General Trade Union Federation. The students of Marburg, the mur- derers of many workers in Mechters- tedt, are free—but in the hard labor prisons there are still hundreds of workers who participated in the re- volt of March 1921, Hamburg Workers Not Amnesteed The very few Hitler bandits who were sentenced for the Munich Putch of. 1923 are free—but thousands and thousands of honest workers who pre- pared themselves for the defence against the attack of the fascists in October 1923, are in the hard labor prisons. Many of them have not yet been before the court and have been in prison already for 20 months, The Hamburg : courts The International Co-o years later, proletarians are persecu- | | But do not ask what kind of Mockery, a disgusting cynism, are the answer to the demand of the Ger> man working class for a general amnesty. What kind of an amnesty will it ee have passed death sentences against revolutionary workers. Today still, as before the supreme state court, there take place endless trials against workers for participation in the Ham- burg upheaval in October 1525. The members of the secret murder- ers organizations, the murderers of Erzberger, Rathenau and those who committed attempt against Gareis and Scheidemann were sentenced by the supreme state court to the “unheard of” punishment of four months jail each, They, did not serve their sentences and are at liberty—while the partici- pants in the so-called “Cheka,” the victims of agents provocateurs and police spies, were sentenced to death and to long terms of hard labor with the breach of all legal rules. Who will actually be included in this Hindenburg amnesty and what proceedings will be stopped? Fascists Freed All fascists and nationalist crimin- als who have been members of secret organizations, etc., everyone has got for his crime’on the average a sent- ence of four months—need not serve their terms. The leaders of the Putsch in Kuestrin, of that monar- chist coup d'etat of the Black Reich- swehr, will be liberated, in short, only those will be amnesteed who were and are the pioniers and supporters of the German Hindenburg Republic. The spies and the class justice has not yet been able to eatch the organ- izers of counter-revolutionary at- tempts, who, as it is proves, live in Germany. They will be legalized by the amnesty. The proceedings against them will be stopped. This “amnesty” of the monarchist government of the German republic will arouse a storm of indignation among the German workers. GRANT VACATION Factory Paper Scares Employer to Action By BERT MILLER + NEW YORK, July 16.—Shop Nu- cleus No. 11 has been successful in securing vacations for a number of workers in the shop. This result wae obtained in this Interesting way. A short time ago, the nucleus pub- lished its first number of a shop pa- per. The paper contained a complete expose of the conditions in this par- ticular shop. It showed up the unsani- tary toilet conditions. It made plain the tricks used by the boss to fool the workers, It showed up clearly who were the stool-pigeons in the shop. It listed a number of demands which the workers should make and called upon them to organize. In fact the keynote of the entire paper was—or- ganization. Put In Tool Boxes After the paper was gotten up, ft was distributed in the tool boxes be- fore the workers came to work. The workers in the shop read the articles and comments with the greatest in- terest. They were surprised and de- lighted to find an organ which dealth with their own conditions in the shop. “Every word” said one worker, “is worth its weight in gold.” Paper Brings Results But of course a copy of the shop paper fell into the hands of the boss. At first he blundered blindly about not knowing what to do. Then, fearing the knowledge which the paper was spreading, fearing the discontent which might result, the boss began to institute a system of paid vacations for a number of workers who had been on the job for a certain length of time. But the workers of the shop know full well why this was done and are looking gratefully to the Bolsheviks who started the shop paper which im- mediately brought stich good results. CROUCH AND TRUMBULL FEEL THE MAILED FIST OF U. S. GOVERNMENT By WALTER TRUMBULL (Special to The Drily Worker) Ge FORT SHAFTER GUARD HOUSE, HONOLULU, Hawaii, (By Matl)— The autocratic mailed fist of the military system in Hawaii is being felt by Comrade Crouch and me. To watch the authorities in action causes one to entertain grave doubts as to their sanity. For instance, no “literature” is allowed in the guard-house. Even poetry is not permitted. Books on science, languages, military tactics and religion are permitted. We can have newspapers, but the Century Magazine for instance, {s prohibited by our czars. struments of all kinds are named in the “prohibited articles” list. I requested that I be permitted to- bring a book, dealing with the rudi- ments of music in the guard-house. The answer was: “No. Music is an art and art is prohibited.” As a matter of fact, the composftton of music is an exact science and becomes art only when interpreted in audible sound. The narrow-minded officers can not be expected to know that though. On the morning of June 26, 1925, we went to work as usual. We were given an order at about eleven o'clock to report to the post adjutant. We re- ported to him and he called the “Of ficer of the day.” Returned to Guard-House The conversation was as follows: “You are the officer of the day?” “Yes Sir.” “These two men, Crouch and Trumbull are to be returned to the guard-house and are not to leave on this boat. They are not to leave the guard-house by hook or crook without an order from the dept. com- mander. Do you understand?” “Yes Sir.” “You will be held personally responsible for these men. See that Musical in-+ house and a sentry was posted inside the cell room to prevent us from speaking to each other. After one day the sentry was removed. Yestet+ day we went to work again. Soldiers Eager For Coromunisnt _ Most of the men at Fort Shafter aré favorable to our cause. The field for propaganda is much greater here than at Schofield. We are-doing all in our power to spread the truth and are listened to by eager soldiers on all sides, I believe that I can safely says that four fifth of the enlisted personnel of the post are ready and willing to learn all about Communism. They are extremely friendly to us. Mexican Government Buys Modern. Machine Guns from Germany, MEXICO CITY, July 16.—Ten ma chine guns especially designed for anti-air craft use were in the hands of the war department today. They they get to the guard-house and keep | were delivered by a German ship and them there.” We weré returned to the guard- perative Day - APPEAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL. 'N all countries of the white terror the co-operative societies are de- \stroyed or economically ruined, In Bulgaria innumerable co-operators have been killed or cast into prison, ‘the property of the greatest revolu- tionary co-operative society, “Osvobo- shdenye,” has been confiscated and a |torture chamber for prisoners has been set up in the premises of the co- The social all these In Italy thousands of democrats have supported shameful acts. “stabilizing” of the capitalist regime | Co-Operative societies have been burnt means an enormous increase of the| exploitation of the workers in town and country: high prices, unemploy- ment, wage-cuts and lengthening of working hours are burdening the shoulders of the working class. By means of hunger and misery, the im- ‘slaves in order to render them defen- 2 seless against the preparations which are being made in feverish haste for ‘new world war, jdown by the fascists, numerous co- operatives have been voluntarily hand- ed over to the fascists by the social reformists. In Hungary the social de- mocrats have sold the great workers’ consumers’ co-operative society to Horthy. In Roumania the government of boyars has dissolved the Bessar- abian co-operative society on account of its sympathies for Soviet Russia. In Poland the terror is raging against the class-conscious workers’ oo-opera- tive societies, In Germany the co-operative socie- ties are financially ruined. After their own capital has been squandered dur- ing the war in war loans, the co-opera- tive societies have been delivered over to finance capital. In Austria the policy of the social democrats has handed over the Ham- merbrotwerke (Bakery) and the tionalized” undertakings to finance capital, In Switzerlend the co-opera- tives, under the glorious leadership of the bourgeois and of the social re- formists, supported the policy of the big bourgeoisie, the custom tariffs and the forcing up of prices, In France the co-operatives, in spite of “harmon- fous collaboration” and in spite of their “valuable services” rendered during the war, are suffering from ex- ceedingly heavy taxation, And in England, the motherland of the move- ment, the co-operatives are using their considerable strenght not in promot- ing the class interests of the proletar~ an membership, but they are acting as a the supports and tools of the capitalist regime. In all countries the co-operatives are becoming the fields of exploitation for big capital, sources of petty bourgeois illusions and strongholds of social traitors’ policy, In this time of severe struggles for existence on the part of the working .|¢lass, of the need and misery of the members of the co-operatives and their families, of the advance of reaction and the threatening danger of war, the co-operative alliance, in its manifesto for the 4th of July, is again doping | the ma: with pacifist phrases. 'T is a mere mockery of the untold sufferings of the working class. It describes itself as the “germ cell of. the United States of the world,” and talks of “building up a happier social order.” Behind'the hypocritical mask of “political nétttrality,” the reformist and petty bourgeois leaders of the co- operatives are betraying both the poli- tical and the economic interests of the workers The workers and employees in the co-operatives are exploited just the same as the workers in capitalist un- dertakings. This is shown by the ever-increasing number of strikes and lock-outs in the consumers’ co-opera- tives. The trade union demands are rejected. The prohibition of night work in the bakeries finds strenous resistance before all on the part of the \co-operative bureaucrats, A gigantic campaign of incitement is being conducted against the com- |munists, who are summoning the mas- ‘ses to the fight against this anti-labor ‘polcy of the co-operative leaders, The leaders do not even shrink from ex- puls: and attempts to split the movement, Empty phrases, injurious spreading of illusions and open treachery, that is the theory and practice of the co- operative reformists, The co-operatives can only become a@ sharp weapon in the hands of the proletarian cosumers when they aban- jdon the policy of coalition and recon- ciliation with capital and the bourge- oisie, and carry on, in common with the revolutionary workers’ organiza- tions, the fight for the defense of the interests of the workers. Only when the co-operatives active- ly participate in the fight of the work- ing class against high prices and pro- fiteers, against the danger of war and fascism, will they become real fight- ing organizations of the proletariat on its way to overthrow capitalist ex- ploitation, Look at Soviet Russia! HERE the workers and peasants together have overthrown the cap- italist rule and established their Soviet Republic. There alone of all coun- tries today is the co-operative founda tion of the proletarian economic con- struction, There alone in whole world has the way been cleared for the eco- nomic and cultural advance of the working class. Convert Co-operative Day into a day , were said to be of the most efficient type. for drawing the masses of co-operators into the revolutionary class front. On- ly by means of your mass pressure can the co-operatives be converted in- to organizations for defending the working class. Demonstrate on Cu-operative. Day under the slogans: Against the capitalist and fascist of fensive! Against the new prepara- tions for imperialist war! Against the lowering of the standard of living of the masses! Against the unceasing treachery of the trade union and co- operative leaders! For the light of the co-operatives in the defense of the vital interests of the proletariat! For the proletarian united front and the international fighting alliance of the co-operatives with the trade unions! For the closest relations with the So- viet Co-operatives! Long live the revolutionary class and fighting co-operatives! The Executive Committee of the Communist International, “. 4