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

! PULLMAN OWNERS TO RECEIVE FAT DIVIDEND CHECKS But Pullnan Porters Get! Measly Wages Profits totalling $16,771,976 report- ed by the antiunion Pullman com: ) pany for the year ended July 31, 1926, mean a return of $11.68 a share on the common stock. This exceeds ) the best returns of the profitable war ) years. | common stockholders since 1914 to It brings the total return to $97.19 @ share or over 97 ‘per cent ‘on the par value of the stock. ‘The Pullman company, which makes the bulk of its profits: off the servic- 8 of colored porters working as high as 400 hours a month for beggarly wages, shows an unbroken dividend record since: 1877. In that period the common stockholders have received regular dividends totaling 475 per cent on their stock and in addition extra dividends bringing the total to more than 500 per cent. They have gotten back in cash over five times the amount which they are supposed to have invested. $30,000,000 to Divide. The company has on hand today ap- proximately $30,000,000 in undivided Profits, enough to pay dividends for about three years if the company were forced to operate without profit. ft has over $25,000,000 in cash and gov- ernment bonds in its treasury. This profitable corporation is com- pletely owned and dominated by J. P. Morgan interests. Morgan himeelf bs a place on the board of directors. With him sit George F. Baker, and his son representing the First Nation- al Bank of New York, a leading Mor- an instrument for consolidating con- trol of railroads and industrial cor- porations. Other directors are J. J. Mitohell,-- president of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, and director of New York banks and corporations, Chauncey Keep, director of the Illi nois Trust & Savings, U. 8. Trust Co. of New York, etc., John A. Spoor, and H..S. Vanderbilt all of the inner financial ring which governs the coun- try’s economic life Fewer Stee! Trust Stockholders NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Stockhold- ers of the United’ States Steel corpo- ration common stock numbered 92,191 at the closing of books for the Sept. dividend. This compares with 93,446 in June. Preferred shareholfers at the clos- ing of the books for August dividend numbered 76,574, against 77,162 in May. THE DAILY WORKE NEW YORK FILTHY PRISON FOR THE: MASSES, ONLY RICH HAVE COMFORT, VISITOR: FROM SOVIET UNION FINDS MOSCOW, U. 8. S..R,,. Bent, 29.—A ott 29.—A oiltage ‘of the Soviet Union, just re- firmed from a visit to the United States, writes on his impressions in the Pravda, revealing the unfavorable showing of New York alongside of Moscow. The writer's first disappointment is the Statue of Liberty—-“how small it seems in the distance and in comparison with the watery expanse it domi- nates.” It is also lacking in artistic beauty, he decides—in fact, it is typi- cally expressive of the “hollowness of the freedom of the American capitalist state.” The skyscrapers please him no more. They are big, he admits, but ugly anid stiff and materialistic—just money making machines, cold and inhuman. He landed at a wooden customs build- + ing, which he compares unfavorably to the solid stone edifice of the Ger- man port of Bremen. Then: he pass- es forth into the streets and is ap- palled by their dirtiness-——‘‘good Lord, what a mess; rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts; ends of lumber’ and gen- eral messiness. One glange-and you know no master hand difects. A street is just as unkempt as a Russ- jan step. He crosses the “Hudson and’finds Central New/York no. better —‘anywhere in Moscow it ig cleaner.” Moscow, he says, is safe. Before the New York post office he saw a guard armed with a revolver and he saw money transported im an armored truck with machine guns mounted fore and aft. “What a dreadful idea that one.can get a bullet in. the throat, hot in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transportation of money,” he said. Dismayed by the dirt and danger, the visitor was also well nigh choked ‘by the fumes of gasoline from innu- merable autos. No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath, he says, when the people must live in suck a filthy atmosphere. The millionaires it’ is true, get fresh air and houses with gardens, but the working masses stifle—‘seven million two-legged ani- mals are penned in evil-smelling cages.” The subways he found jam- med unbearably and the elevated a dark and’ noisy roof over gloomy streets. Your Union Meeting Fifth Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1925, Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Blacksmiths’ Diatrict Council, 119 $, Throop Weller Makers, Monroe and Racine, Carpenters, 12 Garfield Blvd. Pacgeaters, Western and Lexing- carp 5443S. Ashland Ave. Garpenters, 605 S. State St. 84 Carpenters, 1638 N. H. H. Fehling, Rec. Se Grace St. Carpent Carpent ston, Ill. Goopers, 4901 Escanaba Ave. Wod Carriers, 1382 W. Division St. Hod Carrier W. Harrison St. 4 4 19 W. Adams St, Workers, 328 W, Buren Straet, eoke, 357..N. Clark St. 3S, Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd St. Sherman & Main Ste., "910 WM St . Monroe St. “n Dist. Council, 5448 6. Rallway Carm "6 340 Railway Carm be Ve Frainmén, 426 W. 63rd ters, 175 W. Washington St. Teametere (Meat), 220 S. Ashland ron ers (Bone), 6959 §. Halsted 13046 Tuokpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. 924 Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. ti al Note—Uniess otherwise stated Mussolini Awaits French ROME,.Sept. 29.—The Italian debt mission to the United States has post- poned its departure until Oct. 20, it was announced today. The mission, headed by Count Volpi, Italian finance minister had planned to sail the end of next week. The reason for the delay has not been announced bit it is probable that Premier Mussolini wishes to study the results of the Franco-American debt negotiations, before Count Volpi leaves Italy. Put a copy» of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. Help Us Out! A great amount of work has to be done in the office. More work than our office can speedily handle. If you can spare a little time—c’mon over. There is folding, inserting, sealing, stamping—just loads of all kind of work. To help the DAILY WORKER when it especially needs help—c’mon over! - OUR DAILY 6074. Printed and plain silk are combined in this model.. 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Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12¢ in silver or stamps. BOB, JR., SURE -OF VICTORY IN “WIS, ELECTION Lenroot Worried About . His Future (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 29.— There is no doubt about the election of Robert LaFollette Jr, to replace his father as senator from Wisconsin in the elections taking place today. He is the only republican candidate on the official ballot and all his republic- an ents are running independ- ent; JjaFollette’s nearest opponent is fi ; Lieutenant Governor Dithmar #00, who is conceded not to hay Show and who has the support of a.remnant of. the old-guard. ine iad expressed in old guard re- pul quarters for Senator Len- ‘root’s reelection in the regular elec- tions next year. Senator Lenroot mis- judged the political winds and lined up with the Oshkosh convention that nominated LaFollette’s opponent in the primaries, Wilcox, Lenroot appear- ed to have instructions from the old guard in Washington to do so. Then the primaries ‘came and Wilcox was snowed under by avhundred thousand votes. Lenroot and the Washington committee abandoned Wilcox and won the enmity of his supporters at Osh- kosh. Now Lenroot is worrying about his job. The DAILY WORKER will carry the election returns tomorrow. ot” Hylan Quits for Good NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Mayor John F. Hylan definitely announced today that he will not run for mayor in any kind of a movement. There had been pressure. by the mayor’s friends to in- duce ‘him to become a candidate on an independent ticket. Kemal Disagrees With Amery LONDON, Sept. 29.—Turkey will not go to war to back up her claims to Mosul, according to the belief of col- onial secretary Leopold S. Amery, who has just returned from Geneva, where he has been negotiating the Mosul WAN CHINESE: TEXTILE : STRIKERS WIN IN’ LONG STRUGGLE . {British Mill Owners Surrender (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, Sept. 29.—Chinese tex- tile workers in the British-owned mills here have won their four months’ strike. ~The settlement is an almost complete victory for the strikers in- cluding recognition of the union, re- instatement of! all strikers without discrimination, back pay for the time they have been on strike, reduction of working hours, substantial improve- ment in other, working conditions and no discharge ‘of workers without causes which have been passed upon by a joint committee of the union and ihe employers. The reedghition of the union will -|be in liné*with the new regulations noW under consideration by the Pekin government++d° series of measures which applies not only to Shanghai, but to the.whole nation secured by the Chinese masses as a result of their recent efforts to build a national labor movement with anti-Imperialist aims, The Britiph;owned mills have suf- fered severely, as a result of the long period of idigness during a part of which their Japanese competitors have been operating following an earlier settlement withthe strikers, It is the. general opinion here in financial circles that the British tex- tile owners will not be able to dver- come their handicap and must sell to either Chinese or Japanese interests. ’ British Lose Shipping. Since the shipping strike a number of British vessels have been pur- chased by Chinese and it is stated here that the Chinese are preparing to force Great, Britain out of the coastal carrying trade.. The boycott instituted against ally British industry by the workers jand; students has placed British capital in a difficult position and made cit possible-for it to be squeezed outeof major industries such as textiles and marine transport, jo * @ 8 Chinese Telegraph Workers Strike. SHANGHAI, Sept. 29.—Chinese gov- ernment . telegraph workers have struck heré for an increase in wages, Reports from other centers tell of the spread of the strike and indicate that it is general on all government tele- graph lines, FAKIR-EDITOR IN PLEA TO BABBITS’ IDEA OF JUSTICE “Pity the “Poor, Down- trodden Miners” (Special to The Daily Worker) TOLED?@, _Ohio, September 29-- Ellis, Searles, editor of the United Mine’ Workers’ Journal and chief Communist-baiter of the Lewis ma- chaine in the U. M. W. of A. spoke here before'the Exchange club’s noon- day lunch for babbits. His solution ‘of the scab and thug problem in the West Virginia mine fields consists in appealing to busingss men not to buy W. Virginia coal. “Those unfortu- nate men would not stay in the mines of W. Virginia and work for $1.75 a day if they could get away, but they are helpless.” Miners in those places are forced to take what they can for their labor, said Searles, because of thespresence of a large army of*thugs and gun-men who force them to «stay in W. Vir- ginia, “By purchasing .coal from other States you force your fellow citizens of Objo, the men who labor in the mines, "to stand idle.” Searles said nothing about organiz- ing the scab fields of West Vitginia and Kentucky, West Virginia coal is. muth cheaper than in the organized fields because, of the difference in wages, but he appealed fo the busi- ness men’s sense of “economic jus- tice” to buy Ohio coal at higher rate. TED! A Few ‘ouside of TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD by John Reed. WORKERS PARTY CITY LITERATURE DEPARTMENT 19 So. Lincoln Street palQuton To PAT Ma ge cab Sag ty | F Wwe RRER attern ‘opartine at are fe fur. on it Ae joe ove : ried by r x WO! ery day as aed they by the man. facturer ‘Airect 0 the customer. DAILY WORKER. keep a stock of patterns on. livery of te t least, nn iJ ordinarily will tak RC ee Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY. WORKER, not the lunch) to your Chicago, Illinois | July in the last four years, BROOKLYN, N. Y. ATTENTION! CO-EEATIVE BAKERY Restaurant erles made to your home. VE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ny _|Fame Has No Lure for Dining Car Waiter If Not Accompanying Cash WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.— (FP)— It's’ not the fact that passengers call him “George” that worries the dining car employe, but the fact that the ratl- road charges too much for its food and makes.the passenger sore, says Rienzi B. Lemus, president of the grand council of the Brotherhood of Dining Car Employes, in a reply to the Pennsylvania ra{lroad’s announce- ment that the actual names of its waiters will be printed on the menu cards, “ Lemus shows that the turnover of personnel on Pennsy dining cars is so repid that the names printed would be out of date most of the time, Ex- perienced waiters have been deprived ; of the dignified status they once en- joyed; management has matie them responsible for all mistakes and cap- able of resenting no wrongs, They are regarded as having no rights while on duty. Every extortionate charge on the bill of fare reacts against the tips that the waiter depends upon for his. wage. - Every line of propaganda on the menu card injures the temper and generosity of the passenger and re- duces the income of the waiter. Hence the Pénnsy’s “reform” ia a mockery 80 long as it goes along with the print- ing of higher prices’'and unwelcome political. and industrial arguments, AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) given by France for maintaining a colossal military establisment was that the danger of a German war of revenge made a large armed force necessary. “The security pact is the answer” gaid Wall Street. “This will enable you to save money to begin paying your debts to us and we will give you enuf money at a nice rate of interest to tide you over the coffee and doughnut days.” ce) INGLAND wants the security pact, chiefly as a war move against So- viet Russia; Germany wants it be- cause she can sell her willingness to join in such a move at a good price. England is willing to pay this price, provided France ‘honors. her check. France has given lip loyalty to the pact, but there is’ suspicion that if the Caillaux debt’ mission becomes a cropper. France will consign the pact to the deep blue sea. Caillaux knows that Wall Street favors the se- curity pact, and is willing to make concessions for the French signature. England would like nothing better than to see France's. cognomen.on the treaty. But if. Mellon gives France etter debt terms than he gives Eng- land there will be a big howl in Threadneedle Street, 2 eee AILLAUX has ofe eye on Mellon and another eye on the political situation in France. If he signs an agreement that means much heavier taxes for the French taxpayers some- body else may be the next finance min- ister, The bankers can do a lot of things but they cannot always buy elections—not always. They can usually buy the elected, tho. If he does not sign an agreement, and the security, pact goes awry, he will have other troubles. His franc is Hable to start on another nose dive. Englant will begin to prod the Syrian rebels and) perhaps give the Riffidts a few more shiploads of arms. 7 ¢ * HE United States and Britain want the security pact more than any other country. In fact France and Germany are only pawns in their game. And yet, England and the United States are the two greatest |, rivals in the capitalist world! Com- | Plicated isn’t it? Quite so, But this |) is a good sized world, despite the ad-} vance of engineering science which |) has knit the continents by invisible wires and ships that fly in the air. The international bankers are trying to bring order out, of the chaos they have helped to create. But they on!y create more chaos. Just the same, when reading the press reports about the Mellon-Caillayx debt confab, our readers should ‘not forget the security pact and’ the, plots that never ‘die against Soviet Russia, | Wisconsin ‘Economy Shows Upward Trend Over Previous Years MADISON, Sept; 29,—Employment, gains due almost.entirely to seasonal operations in the’ canning factories brought Wisconsin employment in July to the highest level attained this year, according to the monthly report of the state industrial commission. The number on factory payrolls is also 11 per cent above July 1924 and represents the highest level of any Weekly ges averaged $24.44 which. is alsy a peak for July wages since the 1921 slump representing a gain of 18 per. cent: over July, 1922. The gain in employment and in aver. age wages combine to bring total wages paid to a level 83 per cent ahead of July, 1922. - Excluding the canning factories there has been no change in employ- ment since May and a decided drop in ‘ages, the average having fallen from $26.20 a week ime ueny to $24.88 in July. BRITISH BOSSES AND GOVERNMENT. PROVOKE STRIKE Vialate Mine Pact in Pro- posing Wage Cut LONDON, Sept. 29.—The conflict is deepening between the Miners’ Feder- ation and the Baldwin governnient, with the purpose of the tory premier clearly apparent to provoke the miners by backing up the operators in a new attempt to cut wage rates in violation’ of the peace terms agreed upon in the last days of July. The government and the operators evidently feel assured from some un- known quarter that ‘they can attack safely 6r can crush the’ miners in case of a crisis by aid’ of fhe new un- official army of fascists. They are. in addition, pressing the fight to come over complicated interpretations of the truce agreement and are using legal technicalities to ‘confuse the issue. Making, New Attack on Wages. In spite of ‘the truce, agreement providing that the . government's August subsidy grant of $50,000,000 was to be uséd for “a temporary sub- vention to‘enable the coal mining in- dustry to continue payments of wages at rates not less than those obtaining in July, 1926,” the operators are pro posing to reduce wages right now. The government, clearly in secret understanding with the operators, contend that this is all negated hy the fact that in the memoranda “ac- companying” the estimate in which the above is set forth, repeated allu- sions are made to the effect that the 1924 agreement. is the basis of the subsidy, Therefore,” according to Prime Minister Baldwin and the operators, the operators are permitted to teduce basic wage. rates because “variations” were proyided for in the 1924 agreement. Moreover, Baldwin threatens that if the miners do not accept the wage cuts’ proposed by the . bosses, the miners will not. be allowed to draw &@ penny of unemployment dole. Cook Speaks For Miners. A. J.-Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, announcing that the union was: calling a.conference for October 9, meanwhile boycotting the coal com- mission set up following the truce, says eminent lawyers support the union contention. » But he adds: “We are consulting the ‘Trades Union Congress general council. and shall act with them. I am arranging ST nr Theater Wouldn't Ran Away— Movies Woaldn’t— Friends Wouldn’t— but Mayakovsky goes back to U. S. S THEREFORE LET'S 60 Sunday, Oct, 4 2 P.M. to Yorkville Casino, 210 E. 86th St. tothe last lecture and recitation of the great poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in New York Get your tickets at Novy Mir, 30 Union Square. | . a Famous Russian Poet Mayakovsky reason for barring him. 16 PAGES PRICE—Sihgle copies, 25 copies, ( —— ‘PAPE ER COVER 10c each 8c each 100 copies or more, 5c’each ‘SPREAD IT WIDE! The Daily Worker Publishing Co, 1113 W. 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