The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 24, 1925, Page 2

“tract for a number of films, often- Page Two ADOLPH ZUKOR OWNS AMERICAN CINEMA TRUST Famous Players-Lasky Controls Theaters (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The ex- tent to which the famous Players- Lasky corporation producers of the Paramount Films, owned by Adolph Zukor controls the moving picture in- dustry was brought out in an “investi- gation” before the federal trade com- | mission here. The various stars that have bolted the Adolph Zukor-owned | movie trust and have formed their own independent companies testified that fhe reason that they bolted the movie trust was that the pictures that they played in were sold in blocks with pictures in which mediocre ac- tress and actresses went thru their antics. “Block System” Control. It was brought out in the investi- gations that the trust would sell its pictures on the “block system.” A moving picture theater owner in order to get certain feature films with well- known actresses could not rent the single picture but had to sign a con-| times for a period of one year. In this manner, the independents claim that the theaters that ran the Para-| mount films could not use any other films, as refusal to accept a single | picture from the Zukor-owned trust or the use of a movie of another cor- poration on the samte program with | the Paramount meant the cancellation of the theater's contract. It was brought out during the course | of the “investigation” that six of the largest New York City moving pic- ture palaces are controlled by the Zu- kor corporation thru the “block sys- tem” method of renting films. It was also pointed out that thruout the coun- try the Famous Players-Lasky cor-| poration has heavy financial interests im many papers. Not only has Adolph Zukor control of the company that produces the Paramount pictures but he also has heavy financial investments in the Select Pictures corporation. The First National Exhibitors cir- cuit, into which the independent pro- ducers have banded, demands of the federal trade commission that the board order Adolph Zukor to cancel his “block system” method of renting out films and that he be forced to sell the chain of moving ficture palaces that he owns and to/relinquish con- trol on many theaters in the country. se 8 Zukor After German Company BERLIN, Nov. 22.—It has been dis- closed that the American moving pic- ture representative, Samuel Rach- mann, who attempted to gain control of the German independent film pro- ducing company, the Universe Film Association, was acting in behalf of the Zukor-owned Famous Players- Lasky corporation. Under the. present agreement with the German companies only one Am- erican film can be shown to two Ger- man films in the theaters here and the American movie trust wants to be able to send in as many pictures as it possibly can. Negotiations are still under way with the Universe Film Association and it is expected that the company which has found itself in dire financial straits will accept the terms that the Paramount producers are demanding. Subscribe to The Young Comrade. The Young Comrade is a month- ly paper issued for the working class children by the Young Pion- eers of America. It contains articles by children of the lives of the work- ers and their children; stories and cartoons; pictures and many other features that appeal to children and teach them the truth of the present system. Every Junior should Young Comrade. Subscribe now! Fifty cents a year. Mail your sub- scription to 1113 W. Washington Bivd; Chicago, Ill. Order a bundle to sell to your school mates. Tread The | tries. |Capitalians Cannot Be Eliminated by Legal Means, Says Its Agent WASHINGTO. (FP)—Under the caption, Wickedness of Destring Change, the leading editorial in the London Daily Herald for October 27, couples the anti-radical attack of the American Security league on Arthur ; Henderson, former British cabinet minister, with a statement made by counsel for the British home secre- tary in the prosecution of the Com- munists arrested recently in London. “Counsel for the crown,” it says, “made this extraordinary statement: It is in these days perfectly well- known, he said, that capitalism could not be eliminted by lawful means. ~ “There we have the intention of the home secretary.and of the American Security league which attacked Mr. Henderson stated with frank uncon- cern. Only a lawyer would have blurted it out like that. It is a great advantage to have it admitted that this is what the anti-socialists in both hemispheres are trying to make the world believe.” SWEATING BLOOD FOR REPARATIONS Real Wases | One-Third American Standard BERLIN— (FP) —Who are paying the reparations in Dawes-ruled Ger- many? With worker standards at an appalling level and still falling, with the 8-hour day a thing of the past, and the cost of living and unemployment increasing with the coming of win- ter, tax figures show that in the past half-year (April to October) the bur- den has been placed on the workers to the tune of hundreds of millions marks more than was anticipated. Revenue shows a surplus of 412 mil- lion marks over the previous esti- mate, which will probably mean an increase in the next reparations pay- ment, every cent of which has been ground out of the misery and sweated wages of the German workers, The figures’ speak for themselves: |Apr,-Oct, 1925 Revenue-Marks-Estimate Income tax 1,193,630,000 850,000,000 (Of which wages gave 749,660,000) Corporation tax 93,759,000 150,000,000 Property tax 83,724,000 250,000,000 Inheritance tax 14,841,000 18,000,000 Sales and re- tail tax 799,300,000 750,000,000 In general; while the taxes on wag: es and consumption show an enorm- ous increase, taxation which particu- LJarly affects the capitalists shows as marked a decrease. The heaviest di- rect burden on the German workers is the income tax, which might be called a wages tax, as only wages of less than $5 a week are exempt. Wag- es above this are subject to a 10 per cent tax so that the average German wage of about $10 a week is reduced by 50 cents for income tax, not to mention other compulsory deductions |for insurance, ete. The miserable subsistence level of the German workers finds statistical corroboration in figures published by show that German real wages are one- third of American wages (the compar- ative figures are: U. S. A. 183, Eng- land 100, Germany 64.) The 8-hour day is only a memory in most indus- Food prices have gone up 10 per cent in October without corre- sponding rise in wages. Unemploy- ment is showing a huge increase. Be- ing ruled by American finance-capi- tal doesn’t exactly mean a merry Christmas for German labor. Official unemployment figures are 298,000, an increase of 100,000 in the last two months. This represents only the registered unemployed in receipt of full relief. The official journal of the miners’ union estimates that the full number of unemployed is 750,000. German white-collar workers are hit with their manual fellow-workers. Wages are on about the same level and unemployment is severe. eee oe Dance and Enjoy Yourself at Any or All of These DAILY WORKER RESCUE PARTIES Wednesday, Rescue Party 50c, DAILY Sunday, Jan. 146— Quer, tickets or information regardii | In New York . Royal Palace Hail, 16 Manhattan Ave, | Nov. 25— (near Broadway), Brooklyn, Auspices Williamsburg Branches, (ALL 8 P, M. UNLESS NOTED) to L. E. Katterfeld, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. Stuyvesant 8100.) | | Admission WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN. Manhattan Lyceum, ing any of the above affairs apply GERMAN WORKERS the International Labor office? These | LETTER TO FRAME TOM RAY AS SPY QUICKLY EXPOSED Bootlegger Is Finder of Fake Document (Continued from page 1) after getting them out of the print- er’s shop. Of course you will have to distribute same to keep yourself cov- ered, but you must not let many get out or our clients will charge us with working with their employes instead of for them, Keep playing up to G. P. | just now. Does he still appear to be as flush as when he first arrived in the region? “You must be careful about spend- ing as to always have money to pay your way looks bad. Borrow as often as you can as that gives the impres- sion you have nothing’ but your pay from the C. P.” J.J. 0'C. | Die. | P. S.—M. 100. M. your number, date and return immediately.” with a rubber stamp. G. P. is sup- posed to refer to Comrade George Papcun. Ray Active in Strike. At first the letter came as a shock to those who have known Comrade Ray and have seen him in action dur- ing the strike. Ray was sent to the striking area by the district office of the’ Workers Party and during the several days that he spent there he was out on the picket line, was dis- tributing leaflets together with other miners, was addressing meetings and was otherwise helping the strike un- der the supervision of the district of- fice of the party. He returned to Pittsburgh Tuesday morning by re- quest of the party to take up other party work. Suspicious Individuals, During the strike several individu- als of a rather dubious character among them a well known bootlegger were mingling with the strikers. These individuals were suspected gs being agents either of the company or of the union officials who have been ;:constantly attacking Tom Ray for his active participation in the Progressive Miners’ Committee. It is remarkable that it was just these in- dividuals who helped to “find” the letter, and who were trying their best to stir up the miners against Tom Ray and the Workers Pzrty. It was a cousin of the above bootlegger who did \the “finding.” Investigation Exposes Plot. Fortunately the miners did not lose their ‘heads and decided that a com- mittee of three shall at once proceed to Pittsburgh to take the matter up with the district office of the Workers Party as the miners have learnec | during the strike to have full confi dence in the party. This was done and the committee of three (among them was also the individual who claimed that he found the letter) ar- rived at Pittsburgh shortly after mid night. A glance at the “document” was sufficient to convince anyone that it was an attempt at a frame-up in jorder to discredit Tom Ray and tc | disrupt the strike. However, in order to clear up the matter and to leave no doubts in the minds of the men out on strike it was decided to lose no time, but to proceed at once to Mc- Donald where Ray resides to investi- | sate the matter. The committee of jthree, together with the writer of these lines and a comrade from West Brownsville, reached McDonald by machine about 2 a, m. got Comrade Ray out of bed and with his full con- sent proceeded to search the house. Naturally, nothing of any suspicious character was found. Further investigation revealed that Ray was in Uniontown on Nov. 13 be- fore the letter reached that city and while in Uniontown he did not visit the post-office. This fact was esta- | blished by a comrade of Uniontown who was with Comrade Ray during the entiré period of his stay there, It was further established that since then he never visited Uniontown again. Comrade Ray left Republic Tuesday early in the morning. The letter was “found” about 2 p, m, Be- fore this time quite a number of men were in the room where the letter was supposed to be found, but curious enough, no one noticed the letter un- til the bootlegger’s cousing happened to come into the room together with the bootlegger himself. Tom Is Exonerated, The nature of the letter, the facts quoted above, the actions of Comrade Ray during the strike, the circums- tances under which the letter was “found” and numerous ofter facts left no doubts in the minds of the com- | mittee that the alleged letter was nothing but a fake and unanimously decided to exonerate Tom Ray and to recommend that further efforts be made to identify the forces behind this attempt at a frame-up. The Dis- trict Executive Committee of the party of Dist. 5 is now making an effort to locate those responsible for the letter and will continue the in- vestigation until these individuals are identified. There is a firm belief among the miners that some of the union officials who were bitterly op- posed to Tom Ray and the Workers affair, ! jas he is the strongest man in sight | The last instruction was stamped THE DAILY; WORKER Egyptian pe one Defies British Rule nase (Continued from page one) | bank of which is controlled by Egypt). England) also must keep strong forces in Beyot in order to control the Sudan to the south, where disorders frequently break out and where the population despises |the British tyrant. The attempt of British agents to disperse parliament, the armed sol-| diers in the streets and the threat of arrests of the members of parliament prove to the masses of Egyptians the utter hypocricy of capitalist demo- cracy. The Egyptians, torn by series of bitter struggles since the war, will continue to fight,until they liber- ate themselves from the domina- |tion of British imperialism. AUTO FAGTORY OWNERS COIN GREAT PROFITS More Thani ‘Double the| Profits of 1924 A year of peak profits has increased the wealth of the owners of 11 auto- mobile companies by over $1,000,000,- 000 according to a,survey of the in- dustry by The Wall, Street Journal. This huge gain in,wealth marks the success of the high speed exploitation of workers that characterizes the | dustry. ‘i | The combined profits of the 11 com- panies for the first 9 months of the | year amounted to $179,488,209, a gain of more than $100,000,000 over the same period in 1924, And Henry Ford is not in the list, Such profits have increased the market value of ‘the stock from just under $900,000,000 a year ago to nearly $2,000,000,000 to- day . The 9months profits of the 11 com- panies in 1924 and 1925 were: Profits of automakers. 1924 1925 General Motors $37,416,413 $74,243,966 Chrysler 2,009,083 14,240,875 Hudson 6,317,469 16,722,269 Dodge 9,858,673 19,302,874 Packard ages 10,318,328 Studebaker 9,705,679 15,157,226 Nash 4,325,241 11,183,411 Overland 248$1,134 13,638,881 Hupp Hype 2,736,746 Moon 6,072 1,123,725 Pierce Arrow 734,154 970,908 The return on inyestment in these 1925 profits runs tomore than 200% in the case of Nash Motors. The re- turn to holders of Dodge common stock cannot be measured because the stock was distrib a8, bonus at migation by Dillon, ‘the 9 months yusiness Dillon, get $6.33 a share on 1,150,0%°Shares of common for which they did nothing. Other rates of return ih"the 9 months are General Motors 26.5%, Chrysler 38.1%, Tudson 126.2%, Patkard 43%, Stude- vaker 18.5%, Overfafid 83%, Hupp ‘8.8%, Pierce Arrow! 7.8%. The Hudson coifipany shows the ‘auge profits originaf investors in the notor industry are making. Hudson Motor started in £909 with $18,000 paid-in capital. Frémi this beginning | ‘ts assets have been’éxpanded to over | 530,000,000 largely “out of profits. It has also paid $15)000,000 in cash lividends, As only®$20,700,000 of the sssets are directlyPemployed in pro- lucing automobiles the 9-month profit ot $16,722,269 is more than 80% of the | investment. Hudson may make: for| the entire year over $100 for every $100 invested in the business, General Motors, the Morgan Trust, has just declared an extra dividend of $5 a share which brings the year's | cash dividends to $24 on each $100 of | stock, Machine-Shop Bosses Fights Wage Increases By JACK (Worker Correspondent) At the Thursday’ evening meeting of the Illinois Matlufacturing associa- tion, which is composed of machine- shop bosses, it wai decided that $2.00 an hour be charged for tool-making and that the boss#s agree not to cut prices in the slack'season, but to lay off workers, * The conference decided not to give workers an incréase in wages and those that attempt to get more are to be laid off. Thebosses are out to maintain the pres®nt wage scales, The highest skilled mechanics em- ployed in the plants that are owned by the manufacturers who are mem- bers of this assadfhtion earn from 85 cents per hour tq,$1.10, The workers in/these shops need to organize in order, to combat the at- tempts of the bosses to resist wages increases, Today the employers may be satisfied with retaining the pres- ent scales, but the time will come when they will attempt to cut the low wages that we are now receiving, In order to resist the attempts of the bosses, we must organize into unions and fight them in the manner they fight us—thru organization, EIGHTY-EIGHT PER CENT OF STUDENTS ADMITTED TO LENINGRAD UNIVERSITY ARE EITHER WORKERS OR PEASANTS LENINGRAD, Nov, 22,—-Of the 4,590 students admitted this year to the Party had something to do with this | Leningrad University, 88% sre workers and peasants, 689% members of! the : | Communist Party of Russia and the Youn Sommunies Langan Polish Sector of Profit’s Frontier Against Soviet Republics Is Crumblin By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, another shift in the Polish government, that reigns thru murder and imprisonment of workers, finds a coali- tion cabinet in power headed by Premier Skrzynski. * * * ° The first fact that should Interest revolutionary workers in America is that the “socialist,” Ziemierski, is given the “labor post” in this newest version of the Polish anti-working class terror. é In contrast, the Communist, Stanislaus Lanzutski, at one time Sentenced to death, still lies rotting in a Polish dungeon, because he urged unity of labor in the great rail- road strike that shook the whole fabric of capitalist’ rule in Poland, one of the most important sector's on profit's frontier against the Union of Soviet Republics. The “socialists” take a place in the government, to help keep the workers in chains, while Communists are sent to prison for fighting labor’s battles. - * - «@ The “socialist,” Ziemierski, must join with other execu- tioners of workers in Skrzynski's government, to plead with foreign bankers for loans to help meet huge deficits, brought on to a great extent by the fact that impoverished Poland, with a hungry population of 13,000,000, while unemployment sweeps the big industrial centers, has. been forced to support a standing army of 400,000 soldiers. Only two countries are making loans just now—Great Britain and the United States, England can’t be expected to invest in such a poor risk, while the international bankers of Wall Street always have another Dawes plan in reserve for every beggar nation. A Dawes plan for Poland means the cutting down of expenditures in overnment, resulting in the discharge of numerous useless Paresiorats such as infested Russian tyranny under czar- ism, and forcing huge reductions in the army. Yet imperial- ist France, itself bankrupt, demands that this Polish lackey of capitalist militarism must not reduce the strength of its murder machine. * * ° ° In a cable from Warsaw, John Clayton, one of the recog- nized anti-Soviet propagandists of the Chicago Tribune, declares that: “Poland, with its 13,000,000 inhabitants, MANY OF THEM POOR IN A SENSE HARLY TO BE UNDERSTOOD IN AMERIGA, cannot sup- port an army of 400,000 in addition to the complicated system of state officials, who are a heavy drain on the finances.” Not even the diseased imagination of this pen prostitute could drive him on this occasion to resort to his usual brand of prevarication—something to the effect that while condi- tions may be bad in Poland, they are worse in Soviet Russia. Economic reconstruction has proceeded so far and so suc- cessfully in Soviet Russia, -that it has been able to bury the falsehoods of the anti-Soviet liars so deep, that the best of them, like Clayton, are not.able to resurrect them, ee ° e Significant also, is the fact that capes John Ciep- lak, high in the Roman church, who has arrived in the United States from Poland, is silent on Soviet Russia. While an archbishop in Moscow, C k tried to hide the rich stores of jewels, to prevent them being used to buy food for the famine stricken in 1921. The results were almost fatal to himself. Cieplak, however, has no criticism now to offer of the treat- ment that he received. 4 * ball * * Instead Cieplak is spending his time telling the Polish workers in this country that, altho conditions are bad the god of the Roman church will take care of Poland. In the meantime he is no doubt pulling every wire pos- sible, that connects the catholic church in this country, with Wall Street, in order to get a loan. But all reports indicate that even the combination of the catholic god with Wall Street's gold cannot save Poland from falling into the hands of its workers and peasants, who alone under Soviet Rule can free the masses from their present agony. Chicago Will Hear About Anthracite Strike on Tuesday Every worker in Chicago who wants to hear the real facts of the miners in the anthracite coal strike is in- vited to attend the mass meeting ar- ranged by the Progressive Miners’ Committee at which Pat H. Toohey, member of the national committee of the Young Workers League and youthful strike leader of the anthra- cite coal diggers; William F. Dunne, of The DAILY WORKER editorial staff who has just returned from the strike district and Alex - Reid, na-{ tional secretary of the Progre: Miners’ Committee, will speak on “The Anthracite Coal Strike, the United Mine Workers’ Union and the Gov- ernment” on Tuesday evening, Nov. 24, at 8 o'clock at the Northwest Hall, corner North and Western Aves, Ad- mission free, Capitalist Scabbing will be appealed. Japanese Films in U. S. S, R. MOSCOW, Nov. 22—The present day cinema industry in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is paying great attention to the question of using the cinema as a method of mu- tual education of the various peoples, At the present time the film “Japan” is being shown in Moscow, This film was brought to the people's commis- sary for foreign affairs, M, Chicherin, by the Japanese Ambassador Tanaka, Is Hlegal in Miss. JONESTOWN, Miss.—(FP)—Louis| out trouble that he wae not Beckley, Rivers, a planter of Jonestown has| but David I. Drummond. Instead of been found guilty of enticing labor| being released, Drummond is being and fined $100 and costs. Rivers en-| held by the immigration authorities, gaged laborers employed by @ rival| simply because papers on kam showed planter, at a higher rate. The case|he was a member of the I. W. W. Tf you want to thoroughly un- devstand Communism--study it.| HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! er nacemeeareninttnieaeeenpteaenepanastnennettispd}-tasienaonnasnsmnonnesonsoesniaseinnenebepsinnias . NUMBER FOUR Sd The Little Red Library Worker Correspondents What? Where? When? By WILLIAM F. DUNNE, world Communist move- ment, new factors contrib- uting to its growth were developed. The question of worker correspondents re- ceives its first attention in America in this booklet. Here is the analysis of its importance and a text book to guide every worker to success in this field. PARASITES ON LABOR SHOWN UP BY INCOME Known and Unknown, Live Without Work Who's who in the new feudal nobil- ity?’ Their ownership of great finan- cial estates in the industrial order gives them the right to live off the work of others. But although you may be working under their managers you don’t know who the overlords are. Who is Lela A. Anson? She must be pretty important. Her 1984 tax was $105,488 giving her an income of ahout $300,000, That income gives her the power to command the ser- vice of 2,000 workers. She can live in vuxury and splendor beyond the treame of the average citizen, without loing a stroke of work herself. Yet er name does not appear in Who's Who in America or in the Directory xf Directors. Who is Kate W. Winthrop with an neome tax of $317,634 establishing yer 1924 income at about $760,000? ‘his income enables her to use the ervices of 5,000 workers. Yet netther Who's Who nor the Directory of Di- vectors mentions her. Who is Jerome K. Hanouer with a 1924 income of $600,000; or R. V. Twombly with an income of $500,000; or A. C. Strong with an income of $400,000; or Paul Berwald with $400,- 000? These are men who live off the labor of thousands and are responsible for large blocks of ownership in the country’s productive enterprises, On- ly through the income tax returns are they forced into the open and even then society cannot trace just where their power takes concrete shape in controlling wages and conditions in the industries that produce this in- come. These names are picked from a single page of tax returns for New York City, published in The Wall Street Journal. The page shows 37 incomes of more than $300,000, But less than helf were names whose thrones in our economic order could be even partially located. Among those better known are Pres. Farrel of U. 8. Steel, $800,000; Charles Steele, J. Morgan partner and director of the Santa Fe, Great Western, International Mercantile Marine and Cerro De Pasco Copper, $1,000,000; Pres. Ford of U. 8. Rubber, $600,000; Pres. 8. Z. Mitchell of the 35 or more public utilities controlled by General Electric interests, §700,- 000; Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan & Co., Bankers Trust, N. Y. Trust and @ number of copper companies, $700,- 000; C. H. Dodge, copper magnate and director of National City Bank, $300,000, j These men, only slightly less then Rockefeller, Morgan, Gary, Baker, Ford and their like, stand out as ac- tive leaders in the class of absentee owners by whose consent they rule. But A. Rockefeller Prentice, control- ling a $900,000 income, is apparently only an heir. The Henry Phipps fa-- mily with a combined income of more than $800,000 got thetr fortune from association with Carnegie and Mellon in the days when the steel barons broke the Homestead strike. Now they live lavishly on their huge in- comes without the public knowing much about them. Another I. W. W. Marine Worker Held in Calif. MARTINEZ, cal—UFP)—A sailor jo] named Beckley deserted from a ship at Martinez. A suspect proved with- An attempt is being made to deport him as “a suspected agitator,” Why? = How? 'H the growth of the