The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1925, Page 5

' a CEr’"RAL LABOR COUNCIL INVITED TO PURCELL MEET New York. Demonstre- tion Tuesday Night NEW YORK. Nov. 15.—The trade union committee whch s organizing the Purcell meetings that will be held Tuesday evening, Nov. 17, at the Cen- tral Opera House and New Star Cas- ino, has sent the following letter to the New York City Central Trades and Labor Council calling on the council to send representatives to these meet- ings on world trade union unity: “Central Trades and Labor Council} #287 Broadway, City. “Dear Sirs and Brothers: “When the news came to this city of the proposed visit of Albert A. Pur- cell, labor member of the British par- liament, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, and offi- cial representative of the British labor congress to the American Federation of,Labor convention, a number of trade unions of this city organized ‘themselves into the trade union com- mittee to organize the Purcell meet- ings. This comittee now includes unions. representing over 100,000 or ganized workers of the citly of New York. It is. arranging for a gigantic reception for Mr. Purcell at two big mass meetings at the Central Opera House and the New Star Casino to be held on Tuesday evening, November 17. Invite Council Representative. “Considering the fact that, this is the final visit of Mr, Purcell the repre- sentative of the trade union movement of England to this city, before his de- parture for England, it appears to our committee that it would be altogether fitting and proper for your central body to offer some evidence of work- ing class solidarity toward the British workers, in their struggle against Brit- ish imperialism. We therefore take this opportunity to invite you to send an official representative to one or the other of the mass meetings which have been arranged. Need for Unity. “The messagé of world trade union unity which Mr. Purcell brings to this country is one of Vital“importance to the American labor movement. The threat of another world war, the main- tenance of the eight-hour day, the fight against the wage cuts, the cam- paign against hte open: shop, all these are vitally involved in the question of world trade union unity.. Failure on the paft of the central body to send official representatives of the organ- ized labor movement of this city to participate in a project of such out- standing importance cannot be looked upon by the workers, of this city with- out concern. We hope that your rep- resentative will be present at one or the other of the meetings mentioned so that we may have the opportunity of meeting personally Mr. Purcell, the representative of the British trade unions.” FOR RENT: FURNISHED ROOM by com- rade. Telephone Keystone LOS "ANGELES TY POGRAPHICAL UNION DEMANDS RELEASE OF WHITNEY AND “OTHER SYNDICALISM LAW VICTIMS LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15—At it the repeal of criminal syndicalism Jaws: “Whereas, The United States su- preme court has decided that it has no jurisdiction in a case recently be- fore it, in which the so-called ‘syndi- calism’ law enacted by the legislature of the state of California was involy- ed, this decision, in effect, confirming the conviction of a number of per- sons, including Miss Anita Whitney of Alameda county, who, unless par- doned by the governor, must serve terms in prison; and, Menace to Workers, “Whereas, The so-called ‘syndical- ism’ law is a menace to each and every man and woman in California, regardless of his or her status in so- ciety, who attempts to exercise to the fullest extent the right of free speech; therefore, be it “Resolved, By Los Angeles ‘Typo- graphical Union No. 174, in regular meeting assembled, this 25th day of other organizations—civic, labor and religious—that have condemned this vicious measure, and hereby endorses the petition to be presented to the governor to pardon all persons con- victed of violating the so-called ‘syn- dicalism’ law, and further respectfully petitions that he recommend to the state legislature the repeal of this un- just statute.” | Allied Printing Trades Concur, The resolution unanimously adopt- ed by the Typos was also concurred in by the Los Angeles Allied Print- ing Trades Council. The following excerpts are from a resolution adopted by the Central La- bor Council condemning the decision of the United States supreme court which sends Anita Whitney to jail and calls upon Governor Friend W. Richardson to take steps to pardon Miss Whitney: pe Condemn Supreme Court Decision. “Resolved, By the Los Angeles Cen- tral Labor Council, that we emphat- ically condemn the decision of the United States supreme court in the Anita Whitney case, a veiled attack upon free speech, as well as the right of the individuals to exercise the right of affiliating with organizations, which if followed out by interests oppose to trade unions, and if allow- ed to pass without the exerting of every effort to counteract the effect of such decisions, will be used against the trade iion Bivohients and be it Demands Pardon. “Resolved, That the Los Angeles Central Labor Council join in the ef- fort of civic organizations, labor unions, newspapers and individuals that are making efforts to induce Gov- ernor Friend W. Richardson to issue a@ pardon to Miss Whitney before she begins to serve the sentence of from one to fourteen years for merely ex- pressing her opinion on matters be- fore the people at the time, and that this council instructs the proper offi- cers to lend all aid and assistance to those who are exerting their ef- forts to secure the pardon of Miss Whitney at the wpe’ possible mo- ment.” ‘ SSPE SEN ERA Ay a A SO ER ES A SS ae nan OUR DAILY PATTERNS re LADINS’ HOUSE DRNSS, “pi08. Cut in 7 sizes: 36, 38, 40,42, 44, 46 and 48 inches pust measure. A 38 inch size requires 3% yards of 36 inch material with % yard of con- trasting if made as illustrated. The width of the dress at the lower edge is 1% yard, Price 12c. LADIES’ DRESS, 5222. Cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. To make as illustrated for a 38 inch size requires 3% yards of 40 inch mater- jal with 4% yard of contrasting for vestee and collar. 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NOVICE TO PATYERN Scere nish mant forwarded by RIE er ey aoa an: te the ig nm The Baines aoe Delivery of nt lene 4 from, he ‘dato ee order, not become your pattern is you want to thoroughly un- ae irs Communism—study October, 1925, that it joins with all’ 8 last jeaiseting the conservative Los Angeles Typographical Union No. 174 passed the following resolution by ungnimous vote condemning the imprisonment of Anita Whitney, convicted under the California state syndicalism law, and demanding that she be im- mediately réleased as well as the other victims of that law and also demands THE DAILY WORKER Tour Union Imeeting | | THIRD MONDAY, NOV. 16, 1925, Name ot Local and Place of Meeting 23 N. Clark ‘st, 1 Bridge and Structural tron Work. 10 W. Monroe 8: e No. 89 94 1939 Milwaukee Av 598 Boreius, Sass: yw, 3420 W. Roose- 638 F Bohemian, 1870 Blue is- 17742 & Dyers; 113 S. Ashland a ‘orkers, 1710 N. Winches’r 1307 Carpenters, 1850 Sherman Ave. Evanston. 2505 180 W. Washington St , 4003 Roosevelt” Rd. 70 2705 W. 38th St. 80 4039 W. Matison St. 181 2040 W. North Ave. 199 ‘8, S. C. 9139 Commercial 416 ‘s, S. C., 505 S. State St. 419 C., 1457 Clybourn 448 1367 4 222 N. West St., Wau- 2040 W. North Ave. Executive Board, ngton St. 7:30 p.m 743 119 S. Throop St. 3 (Locomotive) 7882 8. 400 ‘4643s a Street 401 by , 311 569 Engin $20 W. Washington’ St. 196 Firemen and Enginemen, 2431 Roosevelt, Rd., 9:30 a. m. Last 331 n ina Enginemen, 64th and 698 and Enginemen, Madison jento. rators, 1710 N. Winches. 814 W. Merrie St. Sartient, 328 W. Vai 725 S. Western Ave. men, Tug, 355 N. Clark s, 76th St. and Dobson Bivd. ¢ Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. Maintenance of Way, 1543 W. 103d Maintenance of Way, 202 W. 47th Street 175 W. Washington St. 535 N. Cicero Ave. 3316 W. North Ave. 19 W. Adams St. Madison ae Sth Ave. J 115th St. te » Kedzie Ave. Ballway, Sierks, 159 N. State St. —— Workers, 1638 N. cd Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark Street ¢ 5 Tailors, 180 W. Washington Sta :30 p.m. SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. @ecre [Juicy Plums Handed .... Out to Ward-Heelers by Office-Holders SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Nov, 15.—Poli- tics and jobs with fat fees go hand in hand in the state of Illinois as one can easily see by the following figures taken from Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom’s report: Leslie P. Volz who served for years as private secretary at the Union Ho- tel headquarters of the republican ma- chine, was appointed an appariser in the estate of Josiah H. Fahrney and for signing his name on the dotted line he was paid a fee of $1,151.62. Hands Out Nice Plums. Otto Cederwell was third assistant superintendent of streets until the Dever administration took over the city hall. For “experting” under Mr. Carlstrom, he was paid a fee of $282.62 in March, and ge 279.42 in Au- gust. John Kjellander pan several terms as alderman of the old Twenty- third ward and later was head of the prohibition staff in Chicago. He was paid $914.84 in five months. W. Finucane is a brother of the late political leader of the southwest side. He was paid a fee of $511.26 in April, $21.82 in July, and $47.62 in August, Page Coolidge Cabinet! W. L, Miller and N. J. Harrington, two prominent politicians, were shown to be recipients of large fees. Millner was paid $522.30 in one case last January and $1,376.68 in another in the same month, Harrington's fees totaled $4,029.04 in six months. Mitchell Trial Ends in Row as Court Bars _ Some Vital Evidence WASHINGTON, Nov, 15.—The mili- tary trial of Col. William Mitchell broke up in a row this afternoon when defense counsel refused to pro- ceed with their case until the war department has complied with their requests for hundreds of official docu- ments. The Mitchell defense was brot to a stangstill when Colonel Sherman Moreland, judge advocate, objected to testimony of defense witnesses bas- ed upon carbon copies of official rec- ords. When the court sustained the objection, Representative Frank R. Reid, announced: “Until these records are produced by the war department the defense Ne have no further testimony to of Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the it.jlunch) to your shop:mate COMPANY TOWNS NOT WHAT THEY ARE SAID TO BE Feudal Dasadice Made of Sunny South By ART SHIELDS, NEW YORK—(FP)— Alluring de- scriptions of the company housing which southern textile mills furnish are broadcasted in literature that the Dixie industrialists are scattering through northern textile centers for attracting sitilled labor and investors, Page Five GERMAN, COMMUNIST PARTY MAKES GAINS IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN BERLIN WHILE SOCIALISTS LOSE By KARL REEVE (see BERLIN, Germany.—(By Mail.)—The official returns of the Berlin municipal elections show that the Communist Party of Germany remarkably increased its strength, while the other large parties, including the social- democratic party, lost ground. Communist Vote Increases. The vote for the Communist Party more than were cast for the Communist Party in th 1925, when Ernst Thaelmann¢-——-—— April, received 251,742 votes. The petty bourgeoisie bloc, compris- ng the socialists, the democratic party, and the central party, which But after sifting away the rosy phras- es of the prdss.agent the hard fact remains that.itis company housing and in company-owned villages. Any textile workers who follow the job to southern mills may expect to find their new bosses, landlords and often the civil government as well combined in the same corporation. A sample of this literature is put out by the Florida Textile Corporation which advertises a coming company city of 10,000 souls at Daytona Beach, Fla. All this population will be housed in the company city, presumably wit a company mayor, and its workin, population wilf make men’s clothing, overalls, jumpers, shirts, mattresses, children’s playsuits and automobile covers, Industrial Georgia, a new blue boarded voiume’ of the cotton manu- facturers of that fourth leading cotton manufacturing state, says that 90 per- cent of the Georgia mills own their own villages and that 49 percent own their own schools, with a smaller ra- tio supplying the general stores for their communities. The manufacturers’ literature would have us believe that this company system is benevolent but in their appeal to investors and to northern mill owners we read of low wages, lack of labor legislation and child labor. Highest wages for boys under 14% in the cotton mills in 1922 are given as $5 201$10 a week, with low- est wages at $3 a week. For girls the figures were $5 to $9 and $3 a week. Average weekly pay for cottonmills in Georgia is listed as follows: labor- ers, $9; finishers, $9.75; sewers $9.20; examiners, $9.50; knitters, $13.80; loopers, $15; Spinners, $12.18; board- ers, $12.80; dyers, $12,26; carders, $12.80; firemen, $10; engineers, $18; machinists, $24.60; electricians, $35; foremen, $28; superindents, $45 a week, An openshop, low-wage, company- housing, feudal paradise for em- ployers, Cotton Workers Force Bosses to Increase Wages After Strike JOHN OWENS. (Worker Correspondent) RIPLEY, Cal., Nov. 15.—I am pick- ing cotton on a large ranch or ha- cienda south of Ripley, California. Negroes, Mexicans and Chinese la- borers are employed here. It is the custom in California to play off Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese against poor Negroes and poor whites. Poor Wages. We were being paid $1.80 per hundred pounds for picking cotton. The cotton here} is much lighter in weight than cotton grown in the South. This ‘{fg@esert country; the air is warm and lacks moisture, and quickly dries out the cotton. At $1.80 per hundred pounds a good picker could possibly make Scant wages (from $2.50 to $3 per day is considered wages here for a day of nine to ten hours; ordinary pickers could hardly make board. There was much muttering and dissatisfaction, but no concerted action, I immediate- ly explained to the workers the ad- vantages of mass action. I enjoyed their confidences to a considerable degree because I was actually one of them, doing the/same work, and re- ceiving the same fare. Strike 100% Effective. I called a strike. They struck to a man and called their women out of the field. The strike was one hundred per cent perfect. Previous to this a few individuals has asked the planter tor more money and had been dis- charged. We forced the boss to ac- cede to our demands for a raise in price to $2.00 per hundred pounds. Class interest is the “tie that binds.” Mass action is the “open sesame” to liberty for the wage slave, May the day be not far distant when black, browmy yellow and white the exploited every land, join hands around t rising to the setting sun, and shake forever from thejr manacled wrists the shackles of slavery. Truck Kills and Wounds Students. CINCINNATI, 0., Nov. 15.—Two died out of the 37 Harrison, O. high School students injured when a truck ran over an embankment into a creek near Westwood, O, Tf you want to thoroughly un. | derstand Communism—study it. those who work hard for their 'y, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIAT 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, P*., jast April combined on the candidacy of Marx lost 432,279 votes. The three parties polled a total of 1,272,209 for Marx in the presidential elections, where as in the muncipal elections mm October 25, their combined vote was only 839,930, with the socialists solling 604,704, the democrats 171, )61, and the centrists 63,265 votes. Hindenberg, Bloc Loses Votes. The Hindenburg, monarchist’ bloc eceived 229,161 less votes in the iunicipal election than in the presi- ential election, In April, Hinden- urg, supported by the German na- tional, the peoples, the Voelkische, he Wirtschafts and the German so- cial parties, received 869,078 votes in Berlins The combined votes of these parties, together with the Ge- meinschaftsbund, which also support- ed Hindenburg, total only é39, 917 in the recent election. When the vote in the recent elec- tion is compared to the vote cast in Navy Yard Wages Not to Go Up; Capitalist Gov’t. Snubs Unions WASHINGTON—(FP) — Employes of the Washington navy yard aré deeply disappointed in the report of the local wage board to secretary Wilbur, They asked for an increase of 10¢ an hour. For machinists, who now get 82c the local board recom- mends no change. Raises of from 2 to 10c for small groups of employes are recommemded. The gardeners at the yard win the 10c raise. N, P. Alifas, president of District 44 of the Intl. Assn. of Machinists, spokesman for navy yard workers, said the local report makes more difficult the fight he will conduct be- fore the general wage board, begin- ning Nov. 20. For New York yard employes entitled to $1 an hour, the board there recommended only that * globe, from the |, their 87c be raised to 90c an hour. Rail Telegraphers Still Il Holding Out WASHINGTON — — (FP) — Twelve hundred railroad telegraphers and towermen on the Atlantic Coast Line gere standing firm in their strike, and shipments of freight are almost solid- ly tied up, according to reports from Points along the system. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch) to vour shop-mate. was 347,382, 100,000 votes presidential election in almost Berlin at the Reichstag elections December 7, 19 the gain of the Communists is also emphasized. Al- tho the total vote cast in the munici- pal election was 18 per cent less than in the 1924 Reichstag election, the vote for the Commlinist Party was only 7.3 per cent less than in the Reichstag election. Losses of Bourgeois Parties, The vote for the socialists on the other hand was 13.66 per cent less in the recent election than a year ago. The vote for the German: na- tional party wa: the democrat: central 30 per cent less, for 66 per cent less, the ) per cent less, and the Volks, party 24 per cent less. In other words, the Communist Party, altho receiving a smaller ac- tual number of votes than in the De- cember, 1924, Reichstag elections, when a greater total vote was poll- ed, was affected by the falling off in the total vote this year less than any oother large party of Germany and was the only party that increas- 2d its vote over that cast in the \pril presidential election. GOL. FORBES AND JOHN THOMPSON, MILLIONAIRE, APPEAL FOR REVERSAL Col, Charles’ R. Forbes, former veteran’s bureau head, and John W. Thompson, millionaire Chicago and St. Louis contractor, both con- victed of defrauding the veteran’s bureau of many thousands and were sentenced to two years in jail and given a $10,000 fine are now before Federal Judges Evan A. Evans, George T. Page and A. B. Anderson seeking a reversal of the sentence and fine on a writ of error. “Might Is Right,” Says Von Tirpitz in Blast Against Locarno Pacts BERLIN, Nov, 15, — Admiral von Tirpitz today made his first public utterance since the election of Mar- shall Von Hindenberg, in a sensation- al first page leader in Der Deutsche Tag, he vigorously atta¢ks the Locar- no pact and warns the German peo- ple against the danger of making treaties safeguarded only by mental reservations. The admiral adds that the ‘Locarno agreements dictate a decidedly anti- Russian policy. He dismisses the utility of the arbitration treaties say- ing “Might goes before right al- ways.” of} | have one 'SUPER-TRUSTS IN U.S, SHOW TERND OF DEVELOPMENT \67° Firché “Have Seven Billion Capital By LELAND OLDS. : The overshadowing importance of the supercorporations in American in- dustrial life is shown in the capital stock tax returns to the U. S, com- missionéf of internal revenue, The report covérs 326,100 corporations in 1921-with common.stock of $56 - 00 and. preférred stock of $ 00 par value, a total of $70,230,- 477,000, The fair: value of this enor mous capitalization, according to treasury experts, was $75,406,625,000. The 67 largest corporations, each réporting more than $90,000,000 cap ital stock, had a combined capitaliza- tion of $7,589,420,000 at par with a fair’ value according to treasury ex- Perts of $12,383,197,00. Thus 1/5000 Of all the corporations of the country sixth of the total .capital stock value. The average capital stock /of these: 67 giants was over $180,000,060- »There were 864 corporations each with a-capital stock of more than $10,000,000. These were the basis of $22,274,000,000:-of ‘the total stock at par and $30,827,000,000 of the total fair value. Although only 1/400 of all the corporations, this: group represented nearly one-third.of the capital stock at par and over two-fifths of the cap- ital stock rated at its fair value. The host of smaller corporations are survivals of a previous industrial: or- der in which competition of thousands of. independent business men was the tule. They will probably continue to appear in industrial statistics, allowed to survive to give the impression that the old order. still exists. But the supertrust is the real order of the day and belongs in an entirely differ- ent category. It represents the deve- lopment of state capitalism. Negro Children Ups Wealthy Snob Circle CLEVELAND—(FP)—In Shaker Heights, Cleveland's millionaire sub- urb, Negroes, Jews and other “un- desirables”’ are barred under restric- tions’ which will be maintained until after 2,000 A. D. 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