The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 3

JAPANESE LABOR FOR UNITY WITH SOVIET RUSSIA Russian Metal Trades Applaud | Proposal MOSCOW, U. S, S, R., (By Mail)— ‘A storm of applause greeted the Ja- Chicago City Council Gets Plans for New _“Thru Traffic” Streets Plans were submitted to the’ city council by the Chicago plan commis- sion calling for the creation of forty- four “thru traffic’ routs of which twenty-five would permit a freer and faster traffic service east and west and fifteen running north and south and five diagonally. At the present time there are forty- |two “thru” streets of which thirty-six are incorporated into the new plan. The six streets that are not incorpo- rated are-to be abolished. panese delegate, Kavasi, who in an im- Pasioned plea before the conference | of metal trades workers of the Union of Soclalist Soviet Republics called for the formation of a Russo-Japanese committee of action, which would bring the labor movements of those two countries closer together. Kavasi, who is a member of the Japanese delegation that is now in the Soviet Union declared, in the name of | the Japanese metal workers, that the | persecutions of the police against the | Japanese working class because of | their demonstrations of solidarity up- on the arrival of the Russian trade union delegation, had not intimidated the Japanese workers. “The Japanese workers are deter- mined to establish a firm connection with the European proletariat despite all difficulties,” “They are further determined to ac- quaint themselves with the situation in the Soviet Union.” Kayasi then pointed out that the| lack of a united trade union federa- tion was one of the weaknesses of the Japanese proletariat and reduced its possibilities of resistance against capitalism. “Revolutionary ideas are penetrat- ing ever more deeply into the Jap- anese working class which is losing its belief in the labor protection of capitalist law,” stated the Japanese delegate. “The Japanese workers are | in favor of the national revolutionary movement for freedom in China, They will do everything possible in order to | prevent a new imperialist invasion of | China.” Kavasi then closed his speech amid stormy applause with the pro- posal to form a Russo-Japanese com- mittee of action. Swedish Delegate Present. The Swedish metal workers’ dele- gate, Eckmann, who is also attending the conference expressed great pleas- ure in seeing representativs of the Asiatic working class at, the metal | trades workers’ conference and de- clared that heretofore the European labor movement has always excluded the Asiatic workers, Pastor Uses Dynamite Instead of Chewing-Gum STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 11.—Rev. | Clarence M. Goodman, clergyman and contractor, told a judge that he chewed dynamite because it was good medicine. He was fined $25 for pos- sessing eight sticks of the explosive declared Kavasi. | | Chicago has had considerable traf- |fic difficulty and the streets that were laid down mean to break the con- gestion of traffic. The plans call for their immediate construction andj maintenance as boulevards with the | | customary safety devices, Texas Prison System ‘Makes $1,000,000 on Its Cotton Crop This Year | AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 11—The press | is talking a great deal about the soft- heartedness of “Ma” Ferguson for her, pardoning of a number of bootleggers, but the prisoners that are forced to labor on the cotton fields that the tell. During the past year, the convicts |have ben forced to work harder than ever and today as a result of the slave-driving methods, the prison sys- }tem boasts that the cotton crop will bring over $1,000,000 this year. It is stated that the debt of the prison will be met and that a neat cash bal- jance will result, when this cotton which was raised by involuntary la- |bor will be marketed, |Chicago Mayor Urges | Staging of Another World’s Fair in 1934 The question of a centennial cele- |bration which would be another | World’s Fair, in 1934 to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Chi- | cago as a village or) one in. 1937 to| | celebrate the incorporation of Chicago |as a city was raised in Mayor William E. Dever’s message to the city coun- | cil. Along with Mayor Dever’s message |were letters of various ,civic heads urging the centennial celebration and pointing out-that Grant Park and the which includes the Art’ Institute, the Field Museum and Municipal Pier and Soldiers’ Feld can be made the pivotal point for units of display, The suggestion was turned over to the committee on city’ isning for further action, Bandits Get $1,658.13. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 11—Three bandits held up the offices of the Monarch Gasoline and “Oil company here and escaped with $1,658.13 in without a permit. cash. state runs have a different story to | ten-mile strip along the lake front | THE DAILY WORKER RAILROADS NOT SATISFIED WITH 15 PGT. BOOST To Daciand 20 Pct. From Commerce Body A fight to determine whether the | interstate commerce commission or | the Illinois commerce commission has the last word on rates within the state was in prospect as railroads serving the Chicago suburban districts prepared to refuse a raise of 15 per cent granted by the state body. Their plea for a 20 per cent raise would be carried to the federal com- mission, it was said. That body re- cently granted the Chicago and North- western a 20 per cent increase, ignor- ing the state commission. Railroad officials testified before the state body that they required a 32: per cent in- crease to break even on suburban pas- senger traffic but would be satisfied with a 20 per cent increase. The com- |mission’s order for a temporary 15 per cent increase was not satisfactory. Pershing Postpones Plebiscite, But Cal Gets a Chance at It ARICA, Chile, Dec. 11, — Chile has taken its appeal against General Per- shing’s ruling postponing the plebis- |cite to a place of cold comfort for Latin-Americans. She is appealing to | Coolidge against the postponement |from February 1, the date proposed | by Chile, to April 15, the date proposed by Pershing. Chile claims she has obeyed all the orders of the plebiscitary commission and thinks that the voting should pro- ceed. Peru and Pershing together have overruled Chile. Pershing’s idea being apparently based on the policy of keeping American armed forces as long as possible in South American cities, since it will be good for U. S imperialism to have Latin-Americans get used to seeing Yankee soldiers | around. | ‘Fourth Annual T.U.E.L. New Year’s Ball Will | Draw Chicago Crowds Every militant worker, man or wo- man, who misses the Fourth Annual | New Year's Ball of tne frade Union | Educational League will be lonely that evening, because all the rest of the revolutionary and progressive workers of Chicago are going to be there, This big annual affair, a feature of the Chicago T. U. E. L., will be held on New Year's Eve at the Italian Hall, 643 North Clark\street. The admis- {sion will be 75 cents, with the ward- Trobe free. Music by Letchinger’s or- chestra and dancing until 2 o’clock in the morning. Put the date down now and buy your tickets early. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! Ridicule Hell ’n Maria Dawes as Modern Don Quixote in U. S. Senate WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The at- | tack of Vice-President Dawes upon senatorial rules drew fitting reply sig, the senate when he was hazed by sen- ator Pat Harrison. | Harrison described Dawes as “Don Quixote’s only counterpart in history,” derided him as a “bold bad man” and jeered his “gymnastic rhetorical out- | bursts.” Republicans and democrats alike | laughed at Harrison’s quips while the | vice-president sat in his chair. Nine Coast Guards Convicted ‘of Aiding Cuban Rum Smugglers | WASHINGTON Dec. 11—Nine mem- bers of the Uj S..coast guard have | been court-mantialed and convicted of assisting a Cuban rum runner to smuggle liquors: into Key West, Fla., it was announced: a To Demand Right to Preach Birth | Control in Boston BOSTON, Dec. 11—In an effort to break the restriction put on the public | discussion of birth control by Mayor | Curley of Boston, a meeting is being | arranged to be addressed by Mar- |garet Sanger hefore the mayor's term | expires in January. Millionaire Wurderer | Is Released on Parole | | nee | Discovery that Ira D. Perry, Jr., son | of a millionaire manufacturer, has been released on parole October 31,| from Joliet prison where he was serv- | ing a life term on a plea of guilty to murder during a holdup, has led to re- | instatement of five charges of robbery with a gun against Perry. Perry, when he was sentenced in| 1922, said laughingly that his life term was “An April’ fool sentence” and} Ladd’s Successor Is Contested in Senate) on WASHINGTON, Dec, 11—The senate | this afternoon adjourned until Mon- day to give the senate elections com- mittee time to. file a report upon the | seating of Sengtor-Designate Gerald | P. Nye, (rep), of North Dakota. An-| nouncement was made by Senator Curtis of Kangas., republican floor leader that he expected a decision in the case Monday. Li Clothing. Robert K, Caldwell, of Wheaton, II. reported to the police the loss of clothing and suitcases valued at ap- proximately $5,000, The clothing was taken from his automobile as it was parked in front-of the home of a friend last night here, . BSte a Build the DAILY WORKER. Shop Nucleus 1, St. Paul, (collected from a friend) 7.00 1,00 8% unl & 14,00 Cal. (Joe C; Dante Strave! Oliva, Ciro 16.50 ‘eri Pa | 6.22 | W. Boston, Ma 5.00 | W. P., Allston, Ma 5.00 re Party, ivingston, ‘It 11.00 Workers Party’ Bel 25,00 Finnish Be i 41.38 Finnish Bi 00 wm. . Kiseoys East Uiversest, 00 | epee Harbor, L. NEW YORK DONATION The following payments on Rescue Party tickets (partial) for. Nov. Manhattan Lyceum, $58.00; ngarian Home, $5.00; Royal Finnish’ South $3.50; Finnish Harlem, "Hall "317.00; Sokol Hal, $4.00; Bronx’ Workers’ Hall, $19: ota Ce acaey The DAILY WORKER even during their 8 hours: Sonia Chusid, n, ¥ 3 Feldm: 2 ‘a Katz, af ", aa ja Levine, By Sign my name to the AMArOBSE ssssssessssseeee City: ... tributed to save The DAILY WORKER. Forward to Finish Raising $40,000 Daily Worker Fund Passes $30,000 Mark! {neat 1h, $15 | Turetsks | Goldberg, isa Geist, rgman, ny $1; ; m, 60c; Helen, $1; |. total .. 37.50 Shop Nu 4.75 | Shop Nucl loft 6.50 | anaarian Yorkville, Czukrocz.. 75 | Jennie Cooper $90 | Ghiststae Lith 10.00 English Harle | poff, $1 $1.50; Silv ma 1; total. be Yow, bk. ) Hungaria 62.30 R. Schramt 1.00 German Ridgewood 12.00 Jewish 1, Bronx, col list of those who have con- | graph, | publicity BOSSES EMPLOY PENSION SYSTEM AGAINST UNIONS: \ieasediaeth ‘Bound Saveal Value to Bosses NEW YORK, Dec., 10,—The national | | Industrial conference board, reasearch body for United States Rubber com | Dany, American Telephone and Tele E, I. DuPont de Nemours com Standard Oil of New Jersey, pany, Bethlehem Steel and similar big em- | | ployers, is issuing a study of the com- pany pension problem with comment that industry can take care of the |situation, and that over $30,000,000 | Was spent by American industries on employes’ pensions last year. The board's study cove’ 248 formal pen- sion plans of 245 companies, affecting 2,815,512 employes. The 35, em- | ployes receiving pensions got an aver- jage of $506 each for the year. The jboard warns that “sound fina ancing on | a scientific basis” is necessary bu adds that industry can work up from | present experimental schemes. The American Bankers’ Association director, Gorden Edwards, discusses company pensions in the Annalist, financial magazine published by the New York Times. Edwards frankly admits that “only a relatively jsmall percentage of workers remain with one company long enough to com- plete years of service and attain 65 years of age. Therefore, the num- |ber of employes who reach pension status is a comparatively small per- centage of those who enter the employ of the corporation.” Government fig- ures show less than 1 per cent of the | workers. employed under, company | pensions over get the pnsions. wards advocates companies settin, sufficient to cover possible pensions. Edwards notes that most company gation for the company granting pen- sions to continue them indefinitely, or since in most cases they contain or withdraw them at will.” He at- |tacks present schemes for mounting }costs with | workers in industry. He points out lthood of much slower increase of pos- sible decrease in the number of indus- trial workers in future. Union complaints against company | pensions are not considered by the writers for big business but the use- fulness to employers of pensions as a weapon against aggressive labor and union, organization is implied in the articles, Pensioned engineers of West- ern Maryland railroad, where union engineers and firemen are now strik- ing, feel the pinch of company pen- sions with railroad President Byers trying to force them back as scabs or lose their pensions. Railway carmen pensioned by the Pullman company lost pensions when they refused, as car builders in Pullman, Il. Workers remember the bitter ex- over by Armour and company. Beth- The Movement for World Trade Union UNITY By TOM BELL. The most vital problem of labor is the subject of “this timely pamphlet. The facts are here: Reasons for unity; steps already taken; the basis for unity—every essen- tial point for the infor- from Stein, iste ana Urba: n Auerbach (Sectio Section 3, A and Section 4a, colle Section 3c, colle Section 4b, Ve Total today .... Previously recorded Grand total SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 7:30 P.M. mation of a worker in or out of the trade union movement. Read it—take it to your local union—give one to your fellow-worker. 15 Cents DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO Tie Souee ofl Communist laecatiré 13 WWASHINCTON BiYO. CHICAGO, ILL J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices 3546 ARMITAGE AVENUE Phone Albany 9400 NS NOTICE! Mr. Samuel Ball will deliver his MASTER LECTURE: “THE ASCENT OF MAN” Ed. aside $1 yearly per $100 of payroll as | Pensions schemes carry no legal obli- | |to apply them under all conditions, | that he would. be out shortly. \« | Clauses reserving the right to change increasing numbers of | |that workers in industrial employment | jhave increased nearly 125 per cent in| |the last 30 years but ignores the like- the engineers are, to scab on striking . perience of Morris and company pack-| ing house workers who lost their pen-| sions when the company was taken| Page Three | LEONARD WOOD 1S WALL STREET'S AGENT IN THE PHILIPPINES Maj. Gen, Leonard Wood is Wall Street’s chief agent in the Philip- pine islands. Incidentally, he is | govegnor general of the islands, | having been appointed by “our” pre- | sident as a man who could be de- | pended upon to oppose every.aspira- | tion of the Filipino people for na- tional liberation, His brutal policy of suppression has united the Fill- pinos solidly against American im- perialist rule. “Complete and im- | mediate independence for the Phi- lippines!” is the demand voiced by all sections of the population. Whereupon Wall Street's favorite general answers that the Filipinos would not know what to do with liberty if they had it. And the bloat- ed American magnates of rubber, sugar, tobacco, hemp and shipping shout their approval, The Chicago Daily News recently published a whole series of slanderous state- | ments against the Filipino people, given out by Gov. General Wood in an interview with Edward Price | Bell, A recent article, written in reply by one of the best-known figures among the local Filipino colony, gave the readers of The DAILY WORKER an opportunity to | see what American imperialist rule | looks like to the Filipinos, at aN lehem Steel scrapped the Steelton | | Steel Works company pensions when it took over the company. Shopcrafts workers of Pennsylvania railroad | complain that company pensions, in | which Pennsy line leads are no bene- | fit when workers have no control over | them. Ward Baking company, big | anti-union machine bread and cake | | makers, take away all pension privil- eges from workers who leave volun- arily or “under stress of influence in- mical to the company or when their | Services are required by the company” as in time of strike or attempts at |union organization, Private Firms Want | the Unemployment Insurance Business NEW YORK—(FP)—Needle trades | unions have led the field in organized | | | | Special Arrangements for Parties on unemployment insurance but big in- surance companies are eager to | | corral'the market. Haley Fiske, pres- | ident Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., | | told the annual convention of the | Assn, of Life Insurance Presidents | | that he expected insurance legislation | to be «modified so that the companies | might write unemployment insurance. | That. the old line life insurance | companies make profits ‘out of all | proportion to the service they render is shéwn in a recent study soar that policy holders pay twice as much | into’ the company treasuries as their | beneficiaries take out in benefits, | | Watch the Saturday Magazine} Section for new features every) week. ‘This is a good issue to give | to your fellow worker. SUPPER 1 White Cony Jacquette .. 1 45-inch Used Hudson Seal, 1 36-inch Used Hudson Seal, by NIKOLAI BUKHARIN. All 8 vo, 320 pp. at Hobo College, Washington St. Desplaines and Admission free. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. SPECIAL! 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