The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 8, 1925, Page 6

tor the Workers Varty. Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 | a SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (im Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): - $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months = Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols —$ —$ Ne J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNN MORITZ J. LOEB... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, IiL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Editors {ern jusiness Manager | => Advertising rates on application. The Real Rulers The national administration has failed in its effort to make any- thing out of the Volstead prohibition law except a farce. If anybody is worrying about prohibition it is not the bootlegger. If anybody who wants a drink of hootch goes without it, it is because he has not the-price. Prohibition is now one of the most prosperous industries and the liquor dealers who once served spiritual cheer over the counter now doing better and doing it just as cheerfully on the pro! lon enforcement staffs. Short changing a drunk was a short réad to a limousine and a respectable cottage in the’ suburbs. But the ‘tal wine dispensations mean castles in Switzerland and trips around the world. The administration has failed to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor. Whether this is the case because the administration does not take Volstead seriously or not, big business does not care particularly. Big business took advantage of the war hysteria to shove prohibition thru. It figured on more efficiency on the part of its wage slaves in a dry nation. The rich could bathe their poodle dogs in champagne or in the milk of she asses as usual. They could also lubricate their livers with the best vintage of France. Prohibi-| tion would not bother the rich. | But big business reckoned without the bootlegger. And the ex- pected efficiency resulting from non-consumption of liquor has not materialized, because the “non” before consumption does not belong} there. Now, Gary and Rockefeller, representing the two biggest combi- nations of capital in the United States have taken steps to run the prohibition racket as efficiently as they run their own business. Those two leading plutes have organized a committee of 1,000 which is to provide the treasury department with a fund of $800,000 with which to secure the services of super-executives each with a salary of $50,000 yearly. Those men will be above politics and above graft. So we are told. Congress would not provide money to pay those large salaries, because there are still some former liquor dealers who have not fitted into the new scheme of things, and a job at five or six} thousand a year would suit them nicely, as an excuse for making three or four times that sum on the side. It is not the salary the LOS ANGELES BUNK NOW DRUG ON THE MARKET |Brisbane’s Boom C ity Becoming a Morgue By FRAPIESA. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, August 6. — Ree- ords of bankrittotcy during the past week surpassed all previous ones. Businesses involved were hotels, res- taurants, bakeries, miscellaneous small stores, etc. Indications are that a continued sharp decline in trade will follow. The bottom has dropped out of the boom and there must ensue a general eva euation of the vehicle, resulting in what somebody described as a vacuum Prospects are that the city of Los Angeles will be more. pronouncedly yacant from an industrial standpoint in the future than in the past. Chamber of Commerce Bluff. Placards bearing the legend “Busi ness is good” are being given by the Chamber of Commerce to commercial houses for display. This is part of the policy of the boomsters to whistle to keep up their courage. The tommer- cial people know only too well that business is so far from good that it might properly be branded as ‘putre- fying. Salesmen of real estate agents are instructed to never use the word “slum” and it is very probable that the Realty Board originated the idea, which is suggestive of Coueism. But the slump refuses to, be ignored, ! nevertheless. Bunk Discounted, Building operations continue té be active. Why? Because lots are bejng sold at reduced prices. But this makes an artificial boom in construc- tion’ of office structures, hotels, apart- ment houses, etc. As vacancies are in- creasing in such buildings, the butld- ers will slow up suddenly at an early date. i No factories are being built. For a long time the Chamber of Commerce and allied boomsters have been un- ible to induce Eastern manufacturers © establish plants here. The reason? average prohibition director is after; it’s the commission. This is how the game works in a capitalist country. Perhaps the significance of the Gary-Rockefeller move will be lost on millions of workers. Here are two men who have no more officia} connection with the government than the Sultan of Swat and the Poo Bah of Basutoland, yet when they speak, the administration. from little “Cal” to the White House doorkeeper get out their ea: phones. If a couple of trade union leaders (this is a wild imaginary flight) not satisfied with the way some law that throws a little protection around labor was being enforced, raised a fund and offered a few of their best organizers to enforce the law, every capitalist paper in the country would holler about the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” But it is tacitly understood that G right to butt in and run things whenever they see fit. Where did those plutes get the money to pay prohibition diree- tors $50,000 salaries? their exploited slaves. thoughtful masters! Playing Shuttlecock Thousands of German and Polish workers and their familie are now experiencing a fate similar to tliat. pictured by the poe’ Longfellow when the peaceful inhabitants of a Canadian French settlement were evicted by the British, and s United States. by Longfellow is magnified a thousand fold. When the “war for democracy” ended, the Allied powers, in to Poland. Since then Poland and Germany have been at logger. heads. sort of arbitration board for the big capitalist robbers has failed *to solve the differences between the two countries. ‘ived in Poland for several years and had brot up families there. “The German government is hunting all over Germany for Poles and evieting them in retaliation. Thus misfortune is brot to the homes ‘suffer under. capttalism. forced to start anew in another country, This is only a small part ‘Of the harvest reaped from the seed planted in the freedom. ynothing to say in the matter. Phe Polish and German bourgeoisie will not suffer the consequences of the failure of the governments of Poland and Germany to come to terms. The only class that will suffer is the working class. These boundary “Ss Of Germany and Poland have no-country. which they live belong to the ruling classes. The only country in the world which is owned by its producing classes is the Soviet| not cause banks to break, because of |. those institutions flourish on bankrupt- “Ynion. When the workers in Germany and Poland get rid capitalist rule, they will scratch ont the frontiers and unite under the red banner of Communism which aims at the world republic of labor where workers of all races and colors will live in peace and plenty. ‘fi The vatican has deserted Mussolini’s standard for the same reason that rats desert sinking ships. t* The American aviators who have volunteered for service against the Riffians are about as gallant as the human vermin who volunteer _to break strikes. : j eg and Rockefeller, | made. Morgan and Ford own this government, and that they have a perfect| "2 is bringing that questionable They got it out of the blood and sweat of] and investors are also benefited. This The workers should be happy in having such | P@Per is in the unique position of tur- attered all over the] cides” to describe the peculiar condi- Only in this case the brutal incident immortalized | 0. If the “Examiner” and “Times” order to weaken Germany turned over a Jarge part of that country | plain. The toothless league of nations, which was intended as a|%¥@ destitution, nothing more or Now Poland has expelled 50,000 Germans, many of whom have| starvation in this city year in and ‘of thousands 6f workers in addition to the ever present misery they | ate all on this line: Men, who haye Families are torn from their homes andj “¢Pendents, come here in search of iniquitous treaty | see their loved ones starving. In this of Versailles, which the notorious mountebank Woodrow Wilson} time of slump the suicides increase helped to write, while mouthing fine phrases about humanity ana| TPidly. «+. The workers who are being shuffled over the frontiers haye| Angeles. Self-determination is not for them.} here are 75 per cent empty. Several years ago the boosters led Easterners to erect great factories but the lack of water restricts operation. it will be five or ten years before the vater "Supply will be increased and until then no more factories will bi ‘Stablished. Boom is a Leak. ! The gas is escaping from the Los Angeles boom. Those Easterners who lave been victimized by the exagger- ited advertisements are now advertis- ‘ng “‘the cheapest labor market in the United States” to its disadvantage. fhe usual adjustments are being Depreciation of Los Angeles commodity down to its face value. Thru the DAILY WORKER East- ern workers are being disillusioned nishing the public with the facts as to California. It gives the news that deflates the advertising baloons that are blown up by the gassy mounte- banks of this boom burg. Incidents of Sium. During the past week suicides ranged from three to five per day. The po- lice use the term “epidemic of sui- should comment on this they would cautiously remark “Strange, passing strange” without attempting to ex- Nine out of ten of the suicides are less. That should not be hard to un- derstand when the fact is considered that one child dies every week of year out. For the overlords of the Place that fact is comforting because it shows just how cheap humanity is. Uniformly the stories of suicides employment, fail to get it and kill themselves in desperation when they Alarming Symptoms, Easterners are not coming to Los Passenger trains ‘arriving }than a year the supply has been de- BANK CLERK STRIKE IN FRANGE SPREADS;:15,000 ARE NOW OUT IN PARIS PARIS, France, Augi strike of bank clerks formidable proportions. ‘Strikers In Paris now number about 15,000 and the vement Is spreading to many towns. The bank clerks are now on a general strike in Nates, Bordeaux and other cities as well as Paris, BANKERS BEHIND TWIN CITY: CO- OP MILK PLANT Deal Exposes Siilling Out of Farmers By JOHN GABRIEL “SOLTIS. Worker Correspondent. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 6.— The Twin City Milk Producers’ asso- station, a million dollar cooperative fair with a membership of 6,300 scattred within a radfus of 40 miles of Minneapolis, has just completed a deal here whereby it shall build a wholesale milk plant, 6h @ site worth $76,000, f Only a few years ago, (this associa- tion was started on a shoe string, by a few enterprising farm ‘promoters. When, recently, the site was handed over to the’officers of the association, E. W. Decker of the Northwestern National Bank, and other big capitail- ists, participated in the dedication ceremony. As a matter of fact, thru the connections that Decker has es- tablished with the officers of the Twin City Milk Producers’ association, the site is a virtual gift on the part of the Minneapolis capitalists, to the as- sociation. Moreover, these capitalists constitute a sort of advisory board to the association, in their capacity as “leading citizens”. Lie There is certainly something very rotten in Denmark, and the farmers ought to get busy and getrat the bot- tom of this deal. eh ox Degker Has a Record. Every farmer knows; that E. W. Decker was one of thevprincipal fin- anciers of all the antifarmer cru- sades in the Northwest. He financed wars against the late/s Loftus, who was the father of the cooperative grain elevators. He fought Loftus bitterly, in his position as a finamcer-capitalist. He also waged.a very sharp and long fight against the farmers’ non-parti- san league, When thatsorganization meant something tothe armers. His bank,’ ‘nioredver,” has wrecked -housands of Northwestern farmers. st still continues fo-dojiso, and his cooperation ‘with the Pwin. City Pro- ducers’ association, cannot. mean that the association is cooperative in the best sence of the wordsvi! Birds of Ii! Omen, From nothing the association has grown to a large institution. . It be- hooves the rank and fileymembers to keep a sharp lookout, lest jthis associa- tion of theirs goes the way: of the dis- picable “Dally Star”, an#yother fake cooperative schemes. »'The class col- laborationist policy, as«indicated by the cooperation of E. W. Decker of the Northwestern Nationab Bank, and other finance-capitalists,<fs only too manifest. For they aresbirds of ill omen to the farmers and workers of the Northwest. : Pronounced Dearth of Water in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, August 6.— Water famine threatens this city, For more creasing. Thruout the month of July the scarcity was such as to constitute a danger, No relief is in sight and a crisis will be reached in the near fu- ture. All the Water available In the Owens river valley is being supplied to this city but even at that tte is hardly enuf to meet requirements, Such is the drain on the resdi that what is used for domestic Durposes is hard- ly fit for human consumption. This water tastes of sewage,, It is probable that it is not filtered ‘because; if it were, there would be pothing left to it. si As it will take five or ten years to obtain water from thé Colorado river, it is easily to be foreseen that Los An- Along the ten blocks on Broadway, trom Ist to 11th street, which is about all the metropolitan city there is to this town, the effect of the slump is isputes will continue so long as capitalist rule| marked, It is a significant fact that exists and the workers are divided along national lines. The work-| Most merchants’ rents due in that sec- The countries.in| #9" for the month past remain in arrear. Continuance of this condition will cy of others, but it will cause panic among those who have mortgaged real estate, small stores, etc. Hence, workers must understand that “the cheapest labor market in the United States” is becoming cheaper and the,| best thing they can do is to give this town a wide berth or, if already here, join the Workers Party, Population of Leningrad. MOSCOW.—According to the latest official returns, the pop) lation of Len- ingrad reached a figure of 1,320,600 by the Ist of June, ~ Another o> an Ai Every day get’“sub” for the DAIL WORKER and a member Ha other Communist secccsccs. ‘registered int] \ geles will not have any industrial in- ducements to offer jterners who plan to come here. 2 ‘kers’ will do operate when there i: well to keep away. ries can not uch a dearth of water as exists h Soviet Expediti oh Yakutin. MOSCOW.—A big expedition with a scheme of work ‘oned for five years will leave for Yakutin in the nearest future. The expedition is to investigate lite and customs of the Yakuts, their anthropologic type, the | cal of spread of trachoma, leprosy and of a peculiar mental disease among the Yakuts, as well as the causes of the high death rate among the Yakut women, ““* — * Brookhart Grows WASHINGTON, 6.—With the recount in 33 counties compl Sen. W. Brookhart of Iowa has a lead of 4,314 Votes over jemocratic op- Ponent, Daniel F. ‘k, in ¢he con- tested Iowa senatoMial election, the senate elections cbt hf | ced today, ch heaviest pane! i PAINTERS’ UNION INDORSES A. C. W. GARMENT STRIKE Chicago Local Scores A. F. of L. Scabbery A resolution supporting the strike of the members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers employed by the International Tailoring company, de- nouncing the scabbery of the United Garment Workers, the A. F. of L. unton which Is supplying the concern with strikebreakers, and demanding that the American Federation of La- bor executive council admit the Amal- gamated, was unanimously passed by Painters Union Local 275. The local union, comprising 1100 members, unanimously passed the re- solution, and ordered it sent to the Brotherhood of Painters, Paperhang- ers and Decorators of America con- vention for action, Rickert Supplies Scabs The resolution supporting the Ama! gamated, ‘which was introduced by} John Heinrichson, member of the Trade Union Educational League, follows: “WHEREAS, a strike is. taking place between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Internation- al Tailoring company and the John Taylor company; and “WHEREAS, these companies have had union agreements with the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers for many years and constitute the only two companies in the men’s clothing in- dustry in the city of Chicago that re- fuse to renew their agreement; and “WHEREAS, Tom Rickert, Interna- tional president of the United Garm- ent Workers, and the local official, George C. Slater, have agreed with these two concerns to furnish strike breakers; and “WHEREAS, Tom Rickert has for many years violated all the principles upon which trade unionism is based and is even now selling union labels to the manufacturers employing only non-union men and women; and “WHEREAS, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers have repeatedly made application for affiliation to the American Federation of Labor; there- fore, be it Endorse Strike “RESOLVED, that Painters Union Local 275 condemns categorically the strikebreaking tactics of Rickert, Sla- ter & Co., and fully endorses the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; and, be it further “RESOLVED, that we demand from the executive council of the American Federation of Labor that the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers be admitted; and be it further “RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent to Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hang- ers of America in Convention to be held in Montreal, September 7th, for their adoption, and a copy to be sent to our Journal and the labor press for publication.” Drive on Science in California as : Scopes Case Echo SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—After a vigorous fight on the part’ of the Science League of Amer:ca, the state board of education finally listed all science text-books whose elimination was sought by the fundamentalists. The board has, however, held to its ruling that evolution must be taught “as a theory, not as a fact,” and local school boards are enforcing this rule “even in private conversation between pupil and teacher.” Both an initia- tive measure and a bill in the legisla- ture are planned by the fundamental- ist, forces. Soviets Explore Arctic, MOSCOW.—An expedition for hy- drographic work headed by Matussee| vich, the well-known arctic explorer, will shortly leave for Arkhangelsk, sent to the Arctic Ocean by the Chief Hydrographic Burea of U. S. S./R. The expedition will take up exact descriptive work suspended in 1914 at the Murmansk coast and will ex- plore the Northern part of Novaia- Zemla with a view to choosing a suit- able place for the new wireless sta- tion to be erected there. Pay Law Hits Clerks, SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)—A newly passed bill puts teeth into the twice monthly salary law of California, but state employes have no benefits under it, Private employers must pay their helpers twice a month, but the office and other workers for the state itself get their pay checks only once a month at considerable inconvenience, Inthe * AUGUST ISSUE re JAPANESE BUSINESS TURNS 10 SOVIET UNION FOR TRADE | MOSCOW (By Mail).—The sign-! ing of concession contracts with the “Lena Goldfields, Corp.” and “Ayan Corporation Co.” has evoked in Japanese industrial circles the great: © est Interest to concessions in the U.S. S. R. Representatives of the Japanese gold mining industry daily arrive at Habarovsk with the purpose of ne- gotiating concessions. Among of- fers of great interest, one made by Talata lotaro with regard to gold mining tn’ the Ohotsk region deser ves attention: , Some of ‘the Japanese offers refer to concessions concerning buying off the furs all/along the coast of the Maritime Province. POLICE HOLD UP TAXL DRIVERS IN NEW YORK Yellow: Cab Company ws I? Bee Enjoys Rich Graft (From >a Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 5.—Taxicab drivers last night were stopped by uniformed policemen and ordered to show their hack and Chauffeurs licen- ses. Traffic on all of the bridges were tied up while the police, forced these taxicab drivers to go thru this humilia- ting treatment at their hands. This is only one of the tricks of the police department to give the people the im- pression that all the taxicab drivers are criminals. The crusade last night was togind out if there are any drivers operating without a license. There are taxi drivers in this city who have criminal records and why does not the police department weed them out? No person,.can get hacking license unless he goes thru a rigid examina- tion, such as being photographed and fingerprinted, and the police depart- ment is the.agency that does all of the investigation and if criminals are operating taxicabs in this city, then how did they get the license? It was not. very long since Dennis Kenny, of Brooklyn, was shot and killed by, a; taxi driver. This driver was operating a taxi despite the fact that he had a.long criminal record. } Give Yellows Monopoly The shooting of Kenny, was’ follow-! ed by the, mayor, sponsoring the famous “police taxi bill.” This law gives the police department the power to license and supervise taxicabs and taxicah,driyers. The appelate division, recently decided that the law was un- constitutiohal, but the police depart- ment still insists on supervising and licensing. taxicabs and drivers, The law according to taxi owners and drivers who are in on the KNOW, was passed. so. the open shop Yellow Taxi corporation, could get full control of the license,,department, public hack stands.and..the streets in general. Carrol Sinnot, brother of secretary to the mayor,,is one of the traffic man- agers of the Yellows. Suspending. and revoking drivers’ licenses seems to be one of the favor- ite pastimes.of the officials in control of the licensing of taxi drivers. Many shameful and sad stories are told by drivers, with, families dependent on them for support, who have had their licenses revoked or suspended, Had License Revoked Abraham Turetsky, a taxi driver, | had his license suspended last week. | He had heard that Mayor Hylan had requested that all citizens who did not | think they were getting proper -treat- | ment at the hands of: public officials | should complain direct to him. Turet- | sky then wrote a letter to his honor and explained that his wife was sick in a hospital and that his license was suspended. The reply from the mayor suggested that Turetsky seek work at the city employment office and that his letter was referred to the deputy | police Commissioners’ office. Turetsky went back the commissioners office | and was told that his license had been revoked. ) Fr what reason? He did not have} right to protest to the (people: yor, That is the treat- ment to citizens who try to raise voices in protest against the "a notts ih British Co-Ops. Study Soviets. MOSCOW.—The British co-opera- tive movemént has lately been taking a keen fhterest in the Soviet ‘vo-oper- ative movement. In a special article appearing “in the Co-operative News, the organ of the “Wholesale Co-opera- tive Society” (England), the director of this society views the activities of inistration, “The Sin- i p nature of it—its ing class politi this keen and most timely the “Centrosoyuz” (All-Russian Cen- tral Union of Co-operative Societies), dwelling approvingly on the methods as well as the volume of transactions. LaFOLLETTISM Without La Follette By MANUEL GOMEZ. The LaFollette movement without its leader—the iture—and the battle for work- action are the facts ax WORLD POWERS “UNITE IN PLOT AGAINST SOVIET Moscow Daily Charges Secret Understanding (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By ‘Mall.)—The Izves- tla and other Moscow papers are not- ing the growth in the international sit- uation of interventionist: tendenoles against the Union of Soviet Soolalist Republics. Dwelling, in particular, upon Cham- ‘| berlain’s stasement that- when Lord Birkenhead spoke of severing displo- matic relations with the Union he did so in full consciousness of his obliga- tions and responsibility to the cabinet, the Izvestia stresses the fact that the entire British cabinet has thus as- sumed the responsibility for this state- ment of Birkenhead. Secret Agreement, Further, Briand’s equivocal reply in the French chamber regarding the question of international measures to fight. Communist propaganda also tends to confirm the existence of se- cret international negotiations on this matter. Then, a fact like the recommenda- tion made by the Berliner Tageblatt in reference to the verdict passed by the Moscow Supreme Court on the German terrorists, who plotted against several Soviet leaders, to break off diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R., indicates the growth of hostile feelings among certain circles in Ger- many, while the fact that circles rep- r¢gented by the said Berlin paper are lowing in the trail of Brtish con- servatives once more proves that they lack political independence. Dosser Framed Up, Referring to the fact of the case of Dosser, representative of the Soviet Oil Syndicate, having been brought up before the so-called mixed court by the British" authorities and the pro- ducing of a document allegedly ing to Dosser but which in fact is an absurd counterfeit—the Izvestiqa re- marks that this is in itself sufficient evidence of the endeavors of British authorities by any means, however in- congruous, to provoke ne’ « Soviet Re- steps against the Union While ostensibly denying its 7 publics, tion to create a united ani front, the British diplomacy is l- where working against the U. Ae oa However, declares the Moscow off- cial organ—a repetition, of Curzon’s ultimatum would find the Soviet Re- publics in a different position now than two years ago. Do Not Fear Blockade. With every year, the Union is ac- quiring more and more Dossibilties of self-sufficient existence during a cer- tain period in case of emergency: “To- day, we can quietly envisage interven- tionist designs which failed even in times incomparably harder for us. After outliving a sever blockade, dur- ing which we were deprived of petro- leum, coal, bread and actually possess- 28 the innumerable resources ofa Yast country, we can remain perfect. ly calm before any threat of teats and financial blockade; we are not ip the least afraid of them,” Communists’ Battle with Fascists Gives London a Dizzy Time LONDON, July 3 .—\Delayed) —A fierce battle between fascists and Communists the second in two days, occurred tonight. Nearly 2,000 persons eventually became involved in the fight, which turned the whole Marble Arch and neighborhood into a wild turmoil of omnibuses stopped, private cars wrecked and scores. of people more or less seriously injurée, The trouble began at the close of a fascist demonstration in Hyde Park when demonstrators joined issue with 4 Communist gathering a few yards away.» In a few moments several thi and people, shouting madly sureoudd: ed the belligerents. The melée only ceased when the Police commandeered motor busses and, standing on the footboards, escorted the fascists: back to head. quarters after the most serious’ row of its kind which has taken ‘place in London, LWARLTOE EC “ Twelve Hurt In Klan Riot WESTWOOD, Mass., Aug. 5.—In- jury to more than a dozen persons, the wrecking of a farmhouse, and the arrest of three klansmen for carry- ing concealed weapons, were the after- maths of a ku klux klan attempt to hold a meeting, The state police had refused to guard klan meetings, and this was the first gathering since the guards were withdrawn, * of the WORKERS MONTHLY $1.25 Six Months AAG aa nta lyzed in Yiscwteat™ a Ly : + —— inne GCE cao