The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 5

Sec ee Le eee eee THE DAILY WORKER 4 LAWSON’S WILL LEAVES DAILY NEWS IN DIRECT CONTROL OF EMPLOYERS , AND BANKERS WHO FIGHT WORKERS \») By LELAND OLDS \ (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Full power to control one of the country’s leading orgdns of public opinion goes openly and directly to the country’s capitalist overlords by the will of Victor F. Lawson deceased, owner of the Chicago Daily News. Henceforth under the unconcealed supervision of big business the editors are not likely to take the side of labor or even liberal opinion on causes which the open shop interests choose to tar with the smear of Bolshevism. The Daily News circulates in the middle west to about 400,000 copies a day. It is a “home” newspaper probably directly affecting the views of over a million, Absolute control of this paper is given to the Illinois: Mer chants Trust Co. a giant ~banking mérger with resources totaling nearly $500;000,000. LAWSON, VOICE OF BIG BUSINESS, LEFT UNION PRESSMAN POKES FUN AT ~MAJAH'S® GOD Faker Rubs Gobbo on Back Every Morning The following letter was sent to the DAILY WORKER by a member of Chicago Printing Pressmen No. 3. The paragraph in quotation marks is from The American Pressman of March, 1924, of which Berry is editor, “Upon my desk there sits the im- age of Gobbo, the smiling god of good fortune, the. divinity of optimism, ESTATES OF MASTERS MENACED IN CALIFORNIA FOREST FIRE, JOBLESS CALLED IN TO DO THE DIRTY WORK sud ‘By L. P. RINDAL, sed (Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, Cal.,'Séptémber 2.—California is burning up—on the surface, this time for a change. Estates are going up in smoke and beautiful red flames, which can be seen from my room—miles off to the northwest. The so-called owners of all this destroyed wealth have again proven themselves to be nothing but useless parasites in a rotten, unjust society. They have neither sufficient courage nor physical strength to protect their robberies—stolen from the workers. So the forces of “law and order” are drafting 300 down and outs from the Midnight Mission to go into the hills and stamp owt'the Tujunga canyon + “ fire. “Brothér% Tom Liddicot, the sky pilot ofthis soup joint, did not head ‘his ragged-army, Oh, no! Work means disgrace-to him. His specialty Your Union Meeting | | Still Insist That Sheffield Will Go Back to Mexico City WASHINGTON, —(FP)— Secretary of State Kellogg again asserts that Ambassador Sheffield will return to his post in Mexico City within a few days. He denies that Sheffield will quit. ‘i Sheffteld, at a conference with Cool- idge, Kellogg and Borah in the White House in the middle of June, made bitter complaint against radicalism in Mexico. and induced Kellogg to issue to the press a statement hinting that the WashingtoA government would welcome a revolt in Mexico. President Calles replied with a sizzling rebuke for this affront to the Mexican nation, and Kellogg had nothing more to say. Page Five SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue, @ecretary. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will gave 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS*S 645 Smithfield Street. PITTSBURGH, PA. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS - 4 wa « “ ” cognition of the Calles govern- ‘ontrolled by Big Business whose motto is ‘be cheerful and you! is the handing lout of soup, “flaps' i 3, 1925. Recogn Six Places SSRN Dok ' will be rich. in everything’ given me|and salvation” Cleat Theres Seek, %. Oe ment by the British government, after} 644) Gieny tt: tick baka eo Pleo nt es mopaed b ’ A by one whom I loved and with whom} ‘The “meg}will be back in a day |x, sen ning seis Moca a diplomatic break of tén years, ig felt Bb! ~. Wasubaired 160M. State one e financial boards |a' t sy . “ * k i one 0} a LadSeak ot bin waatioes I was honored to be associated as la-| or two,” Tom says, and issued an ap- Altied Printing Trades Councit, 99|2™Mong Washington experts on Vatin-) |» W. Harrison 234 8. Haleted which represe is ‘ Victor Fremont Lawson, publish- | bor adviser in Paris.” peal for clothing and shoes because E. Van. Buren St., 6:90 p.m, | American affairs to have a basis in ONES, HARRISON 8616-1 sasemble,. Railroad, steel, packing | ep of the Chicago Daily ‘News, left | 1, “Majah” Berry, rub “Gobbo” on|of the “prospett that the fire-fighters | 271 Amal. Clothing Workers, 409 s,|some secret understanding as to Mex-|,.. ,2HONES: GARRIOG Jon’ waked house, lumber, commercial and invest-| an estate valued at $20,300,000, his |the back every morning and say to| would return ‘With burned apparel.” Haleted St. ican treatment of British investors in 8 and Brown @r ment banker interests will now un-| will, filed for probate*here shows. Boiler Makers, 2040 W. North Ave. Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee blushingly guide the policy of what Proof of heirship. was filed with myself, I am the greatest labor faker and strikebreaker of the day and I This seems to’indicate that the men are expected te be paid but very lit- 93 Boot and Shoe, 1939 Milwaukee Mexico. Suspicion is held that Pres, Calles has forced the hand of Kellogg Commiseary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton Ct. Phone West 2649 Pres..J. J. Mitchell of the trust com-| the will by Iver Norman Lawson, of pes ee Avenue. aint tiventir ‘ith, Landen on ’, “« rf ow I am not and never have been|tle—if anything at all—for their work, | 499». Wkrs., 10: Michi. | DY dealing directly do! pany terms “that great living agency] San Diego, the only witness. a soldier but Gobbo, every morning|Tuined clothes, and physical as well eri Shoe rs., 10258 Michi coceiarats bnileee -paaeitis: aveanatal of public intelligence.” Here are some I rub your back I say to myself “how as mental injutles. Charles Hazen of 14 Brick and Clay, Shermanviile, til. some concessions in ofl or metal If you want to thoroughly un- of the big capitalists on the trust com- | Trust, Chase National bank, all repre- Los Angel forced into the fi Glenview, 11 ining for British companies, when| derstand Communism—study it. , * much misery can I create today for| Los Angeles, Was forced into the fire| 186 Brick and Clay, Glenview, Il. mining for British companies, a" pany board, who by the will get con-| senting Morgan Rockefeller interests | others?” for me, “to be cheerful and | zone like hundfeds of others, Now he|. {3 Carpenters, 19'S, Ashland Blvd. | smorican companies expected to ga-|Send for a catalogue of all Com- trol of this agency of public intelli-| combined; the American Surety Co. is laying in the Pasadena hospital, | 34 ; 140 Emma St. ther these plums. munist literature. gence: H, A: Blair, president Chicago Sur- face Lines. E. B. Butler, chairman Butler Bros., (giant wholesalers). Benjamin Carpenter, president G. B. Carpenter & Co. (giant hardware in- 429 ing for eighteen years. ich will te ‘Campbell S 148. m terests). graph, Willys Overland, Libby McNeil The idle rich will not be put to a 1g Tas p.m. -H. P. Crowell, chairman Quaker| & Libby, and 18 leading railroads in- Pang me ees reves I screnecens work. That element could not do any| 7 Hed Garriere, South Shisage, stot Oats company. cluding the ‘Pennsylvania (leader of|™@ ‘he exact standing of all local) kind of useful labor. So, in order to) 2 Janitors, 68. Van Buren St. Marshall Field, head of Marshall Field financial interests. 5. A. Hamill, chairman Illinois Mer- chants Trust Co. Hale Holden, president Burlington Toad. ,_ Marvin Hughitt, director Chicago & Northwestern. .C, H. Markham, president Illinois Central. _Cyrus McCormick, chairman Inter‘ national Harvester Co. J. J. Mitchell, president Illinois Mer- chants Trust Co. J. 8. Russells, chairman Pullman Co. BE. L. Ryerson, chairman Ryerson & Son, Inc. (steel). C. H. Schweppe of Lee, Higginson & Co., investment bankers. “J. G Shedd, chairman Marshall Field & Co. r J. P. Soper, president Soper Lumber company. B. F. Swift, vice-president Swift & \eompany. Lawson himself was one of the prin- cipal stockholders of the trust com- pany, which is probably the largest bank in Chicago. But this list falls far short of show- ing the full extent to which the edit- ors of the News will be responsible to big business. A careful check of the members of the Illinois Merchants Trusts directorate shows that they hold at least 66 directorship. on the boards of 47 major corporations. In addition they include one governor of the Chicago board of trade, one mem- ber of the Rockefeller foundation, one trustee of the Carnegie institute and 12 members of the reactionary Union League club. The 47 major corporations repre- sented include eight of the great New York financial institutions in which the money power of the country centers, These are the National City Bank (Standard Oil-Rockefeller); the Guar- and the Mutual Life Insurance Co. Other important ¢orporations repre- sented in addition to those shown above are Illinois Steel’ (U. 8. Steel subsidiary),° Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, Illinois Bell Telephone, Western Union Tele- the open shop), the St. Paul, the Rock Island, the bitter anti-union Indiana Harbor Belt, the B. & O. and the Un- ion Pacic. Enemies of Labor. These corporations are more or less constantly in conflict with organized labor and are equally constantly op- posing legislation looking toward real public control of banking, railroads, public utilities and monopoly. The at- titude of the directors toward the edi- torial policy of a newspaper which they control can hardly be in doubt. The feedbag muzzle’ “the press. How it muzzles the ‘pulpit will be shown in a succeeding article on Law- son’s will and the churehy:' No Seats for 75,000 School Children When With the opening of: thélfal’ public school térm on Sept. 875,000 Chi- cago “Séhiool” hildrén.will have to stand because of the seating{shortage and the lack of school, eG, is the estimate made public hy. aflicials of the Chicago school board... <, The speeding up of’ the building program that we have been hearing so much about has’ biét ‘forth only one new school building which will be ready for occupancy when school opens. That one is the Stockton Junior High School at Beagon street and Montrose Ave. the others are still in the stage of construction. N. Y. Cities Get Home Rule ALBANY, N. Y., Sept:.2:--The con- stitutional amendment giving cities of New York state home rule.was held valid by the court of appeals in a decision handed down today. Approximately 172 local laws passed anty Trust (J. P. Morgan); the Bank-| by cities under the home rule amend- ers Trust, U. S. Trust, New York ment were saved by the decision. OUR DAILY PATTERNS | . A COMFORTABLE MORNING a FROCK. FOR THE TINY TOT. 5065. Greén and white printed voile be rich is everything.” In fraternal orders of which I am a member, I have a very remote chance of causing discord and dissension, so I must devote my “cool, calm and de- liberate” energy to my union, the or- ganization I have been misrepresent- unions of pressmen and assistants of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North Amer- ica so it behooves me not to make the weak unions stronger. No my dear Gobbo, it is character- istic of me to make the strong un- ions weaker. This will bring about my desired result, “to be cheerful and rich in everything.” One more rub on your back Gobbo. Ah! I hear that the Chicago Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 3 are entirely too prosperous, much too peaceful and happy. I shall create dissension among these members regardless of the cost, worry or amount of motiey is lost or families it injures, just to have my vindictiveness and ambition served. To proceed on a plan of action to descend, decisevly for my protection, I will call on my board of directors, Marks, McHugh, Brophy and Orr, to execute my wishes, first select one or two of the largest printing shops in Chicago, I have my paid agent “Stuss” Singer, the underworld...monger...of New York and the knave, Fox, of Min- neapolis and my friend, Hugh Cram- bert, of the Franklin Union No. 4 to assist in this venemous undertaking. Now, for the picture. What do I see? The Cuneo Press and the Cuneo Printing corporation, the two largest Pressrooms, lock out their pres: What else? The helpers, oilers, as- sistants and feeders have left their positions refusing to work with scabs, finks and strikebreakers, This surely is unexpected and sur- prising. It is the first time an occur- rence of this kind took place, feeders supporting the pressmen like real un- ion men. I may find a few more pay roll pa- triots. Here they are: Booby Pols- ton, Clark and Porter, two saps, and the champion double-crosser, “Bone- head” Barry. The wrecking crews must do the dirtiest contemptible work to receive their few paltry dollars. UNION PRESSMAN. _Member of Pressmen’s Union, Earth Tremors Shake Indiana MOUNT VERNON, Ind., Sept. 2.— Distinct earth tremors shock Mt. Ver- non and other posey county towns to- That resembles solidarity. | Pasadena, with the reasoning power burned out‘of his brain, and therefore, |unable to locate;his tamily. | Fire sightseers are facing drafting, it is stated, because the parking of their cars have become such a men- ace to the fire cars. False alarm! “carry out” the bluff, two Mexicans, Jesus Castro, 19, and Manual Paldes, 23, were arrested and lodged in the Pasadena jail. They must have re- fused to go to work. These two boys did not block the road, however, they were standing on Mount Wilson en- joying a smoke and taking in the sight of the ‘flames below and the sparkling stars “above.” ~ How high wp in the ‘air must a worker in the Jand of the free go, to be allowed,,to breathe the air in peace? atar Army ‘Lieutenant to Hang MANILA, P, L. Sept. 2.—Lieut. John S. Thompson} army signal corps officer at Fort MéKinléey, was today senten- ced by court’ martial to hang for the murder of Miss Audrey Burleigh, 16, a stepdaughter of captain Hamilton P Calmes ofthe army medical corps, Manila, April 4, Lieut. Thompson, whose home is in Brooklyn. fired five revolver shots at his victim because they latter did a hula daneg at, the army and navy club. 751 aa0 By KEWKU BANKOLE, of the American Negro Labor Congress and.member of the local commit- tee of Pittsburgh. MING events are casting their { shadows before. It seems proper that a this moment when the turning | point of the darker peoples is express- | ing itself inthe world, that we should remind oursélves of some of the un- Pleasant events which have been com- mitted to the!sons and daughters of Africa’ by foreign imperialism. Africa, a continent «second to the largest in the world, has been parcel- led out by various European govern- ments, they are today looking to this continent for their future existence. France, who now poses as friend to the black people, massacred the na- tives of Equatorial Africa and Dah- omey. Italy followed France by mas- sacring the natives of Tripoli. Eng- land butchered and robbed the women and children of their lands in East, “UMPERIALISM AND AFRICA ; South Chicago 11037 Ave. , Ogden and Kedzie. , 788 W. North Ave. 431 S. Dearborn St., Garment Workers, 328 W. juren St. 5&4 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 1214 N. Ashiand Ave. rment Workers, 328 W, Van Buren St. her Workers, 810 W. Harrison "8, 119 S. Throop St. District Council, 1446 W. it. Dutt’s Hail, Chicago Hts. fod Sraen Workers, 180 W. fon. Monroe and Peoria Sts. (Railway), Monroe and Railway Carmeu, 1259 Cornell St. Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel Avenue. Railway Carmen, 1900 W. 17th St. Rallway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton. Railway Clerks, 8138 Commercial Ave nue. “-; Hangers, 810 W. Harrison men, 6236 Princeton Ave. Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwau- beg Employes, Masonic Temple, 730 a. m. Stone Cutters, 180 W. Washington Street. rs, 9206 Houston Ave. rs (Dairy), 220 8. Ashiand. rs, 30 E. 8th St. 7 vers, 180 W. Washington Street. 17616 Warehouse Emp., 166 W. Washing. stated all € U1 otherwise meetings are at 8 p. m.) age to his highness and in the West Coast of Africa, they apparently re- vived him, not because of loyalty but of curiosity. In all parts of Africa the natives are mercilessly exploited for the benefit of Europeans and he, the native, is gradually awakening to this fact, and he is expressing him- self in form of organization to combat these foreign pests from his shores, Young Africa is determined to paint Africa black rather than have it painted white under the yoke of for- cign imperialism. dhe American Negro Labor Con- gress will be a history in the mak- ing in‘the economic and social life of the black peoples in both the Western and Eastern hemispheres. The oppressed peoples of the world are uniting. Let imperialism beware for the coming events are casting their victorious shadows on the side of the oppressed. Nothing will keep them assunder. can truthfully leader Zz a 1 The Books of a Master rig N° worker—AND SURELY NO COMMUNIST— of Communist principles and practice—unless he has studied and learned them as put down in these classics written by our great teacher and State and Revolution... Imperialism—Final Stage of Capitalism say he has has a thoro grasp V..[, Ulianov (Lenin) The Proletarian Revolution, or Kautsky, the Infantile Sickness, or “Leftism” in Commun- ism ...... bad cabssilolvdabesticee Should Communists Participate in Reaction- The Daily Worker Publishing Co. “The Source of All Communist Literature” 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill. a ET South, North \. “re feresere : : day. Starting at 5:50 the shocks con-| voce of tbann tease Uoihenta ae | FT Raa TT STS TTF e ee eee a ENOL eee erevereLeerey : tinued for nearly a half minute. Altho | s9 pronounced as what was commit- % oldest residents declared it was the ted by the christian Belgians under nf severest in years ,the quake did only King Leopold to the hundreds and F slight damage. THE DECLINE OF CAPITALISM By E. VARGA. thousands of unprotected black souls in the Belgian Congo. In “free” United States lynching is in its full swing. These atrocities are still fresh in the minds of young Africans. What their retaliation will be is unknown. HE present war in Morocco headed by the gallant Adl-El-Krim is only a beginning to, the great one that is yet to come, should the foreign imperial- ists gain the upper hand, it will not mean a compléte defeat but encour- agement to the young people of the RUSSIA TODAY The Official Report Of The British Trade Union Delegation To Soviet Russia. An authoritative work by one of the leading econ- omists in the world Com- munist Movement. 35 CENTS THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. All freedom was granted to the investigating body and their experts to travel to all sections of Soviet Russia and this book contains the facts found and conclusions drawn. {SPECIAL ADDITION The American issue is made of greater value by the addition of the official statements of the Trade Union Congress General Council on the famous Zinoviev “Red Letter” and the report on the Red International of Labor Unions. The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. 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