The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1926, Page 2

Le ce! Two FRENCH BREAK ARMISTICE ON DRUSE AMNESTY Syrians Sasi with Shots at Troops (Special to The Dally Worker) DAMASCUS, Syrta, Dec. 31.—The French, now that they feel confident that the troops, arriving every day, have become strong enuf to give the French high commissioner the milit- ary mastery, are unwilling not only to make more concessions to the natives who are fighting for liberation, but now also refuse to keep their armi- stice pledge. This attitude being taken by Henri Jouvenel, the French high commis- sioner, he began to break his amnesty agreement with the Druses and thus force them to make tho apparent first break in the armistice. The French delegation made harsh demands for punishment as individual and civil criminals of Druse soldiers for acts of war in attacking towns and Killing French and French sympathizers, The Druse delegation reported this as delaying the final peace arrange ments and as breaking the armistice pact. The Druses therefore, yesterday, began an attack by armed sortie against the Damascus garrison, killing Several French military police in the streets. The renewal of firing caused great disturbance. But the French think that they are now safe in break- ing their promise as more troops are arriving every day. School Teachers Will Lose Savings in Movie Company Bankruptcy Government officials, who went over the books of the defunct Consolidated Theaters and Realty corporation, which was headed by Frederick H. Gruneberg, Sr., and his son, declared that investors will not receive more than one cent on the dollar. Most of the investors are school teachers and professional men. They found $13,000 now in the hands of the receivers and $26,000 which was paid to the government as excess income taxes to mislead invest- ors as to the earnings of the corpora- tion, they said. Both Gruneberg, to- gether with eleven others will be ar- raigned January 6, charged with using the mails to defraud. Goes on Hunger Strike When Students Refuse to Hear His Peace Plan EVANSTON, IIL, pec. 31—Dr. F. Onderdonk, instructor in architecture at the University of Michigan, went on a hunger strike declaring no food will pass his lips ugtil the interdenom- inational student congress, in session at the first methodist church here, consents to listen to his plan to end war. That plan, he said, is “simple as a fiivver.” It consists of educating the 1,600,000,000 inhabitants of the world thru the movies. Revolution in China and in Europe. ay By Karl Marx. an An important article Rates: $1.25 six months in the January issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY | 2, which should be read} a by every worker. Subscribe! Copy St. Louis Contrel | Labor Union Helps | Anthracite Strike | ST, LOUIS—(FP)—Responding to | an appeal from the A. F. of L,, the | St. Louis Central Trades & Labor un- | ion voted $100 to a relief fund for the striking anthracite miners. St. Louis unions for sometime past have been collecting clothing, for West Virginia miners evicted from company-owned shacks, Begin to Discover Strike No Vacation WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—(FP)—Strik- ing anthracite miners booed at men employed to unload bituminous coal from railroad cars in this hard coal town. Police forced the miners away FORD CUTS WAGE AT RIVER ROUGE, FIRING 10,000 But Hires 16,000 at Lower Pay DETROIT—(FP)—While filling the papers with publicity on its 8% pay- ment to employe holders of Ford in- vestment certificates, the Ford Motor Co., with typical Ford strategy order- ed 10,000 men off the payroll a few days before Christmas and replaced them with 16,000 at lower pay, ac- cording to workers at the River Rouge plant. The ‘switch was made _ without warning to the 10,000. By this ma- neuver the Ford Motor Co. grows richer. Sixteen thousand men now give their labor for eight speeded hours a day for total wages no greater and perhaps actually less than the total paid 10,000 up to the time of the change. The dismissed men were simply given slips to sign saying they held nothing against the Ford Motor Co. A worxer knows he would never be rehired if he refused to sign, And the slips give the Ford Motor Co, a clean record in an in- vestigation or a suit for damages, The 16,000 new men were taken into the plant without knowledge that 10,000 were at the same time being driven out the back door, This replacement has not been reported in any capitalist newspaper. The only Ford Motor Co. report generally published at this time {in the capitalist papers has to do with an 8 per cent payment on employe investment cer tificates. Since the plan was devised about 30,000 employes have in this manner turned back part of their wages for use by the company, deriv- ing a small gain for themselves, But the company discontinued selling the certificates last April and has been gradually retiring them. Last April employes held certificates totaliing $25,000,000. The total outstanding to- day amounts to $21,800,000, Mellon Says France Must Pay Principal in Full to Treasury WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31. — Secretary of Treasury Mellon announ- ced today that the American debt funding commission would not con- sent to a reduction of the principal of the French war debt to the United States. This was in reply to Paris dispatches that the French would seek to have the total slashed. Ford Planes Wrecked. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec, 31—Three of the four Ford all-metal planes were wrecked, shortly after they took off from Blackwood field, 20 miles from the city, according to reports received here, None of the pilots was seriously injured, reports here said. tAtccvnstingsnvrtniaes ene nesccnttU = Two Big Issues COM BIRTHDAY Issue JANUARY 9 ING! LENIN Memorial Issue JANUARY 16 12 PAGES Order a Bundle of Each—3), Cents a Copy. Nutri cvtso cv avn snnseanceacsoesnesso ENE read ~ 2 : 2 4 WITH A MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT OF | Be sure to get a copy of this issue. The January Issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY HOOVER THREAT OF $8 WHEAT MEANS NOTHING Without He Means Something Else WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 31.— Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- merce, is a careful speaker and pre- ludes his remarks concerning, re- prisals against the Brrush by saying that of course no reprisals should be taken for Great Britain’s holding up the American automobile and other rubber users by a monopoly of rubber and a monopoly price. Gentle Hint—But Empty. But Hoover said that on the same basis as the U. S. pays England for rubber, the English should have to pay America $8 a bushel for wheat and 75 cents a pound for cotton. A word to the wise Britishers ought to be sufficient. Of course. the United States has no monopoly on wheat or cotton, that is the difficulty. Meanwhile, now that the U. S. is developing its own independent rubber supply sources, it should, ac- cording to Hoover, use as little rub- ber as possible, and it would be a popular inventor who could finally discover a real substitute. Price Going Up. In 1925 the imports of rubber by the United States will probably be only 135,000,000 pounds more than in but the cost will be twice that 924, From the figures for the eleven month period ended in November, it is estimated that imports for the year will amount to ~ 875,000,000 pounds, valued at about $415,000,000, against imports in 1924 of 734,845,218 pounds valued at $174,321,331. The United States is countering the British monopoly by a bill introduced in congress to investigate the control ot raw materials by monopolies thru- out the world. This is one large order, and has bound up in it all kinds of explosive materials, While Great Britain’s control of the rubber supply is the conspicuous point of attack, the department of com- merce is striving to formulate some kind of understanding whereby the American consumer will not be charged exorbitant, prices. The mo- tive, therefore, is one of ultimate ben- efit, but the comprehensive nature of the investigation may prove a frank- enstein. For the truth is no inquiry of such wide scope as is being discussed can be undertaken without looking close- ly into the operations of American companies and corporations with for- eign affiliations, Altho sugar is not being mentioned at present as one of the commodities involved, neverthe- less it is a good example of how Am- erican capital controlled in New York city actually manages the sugar sup- ply in Cuba, Americans are heavily interested nowadays in corporations all over the world. In fact, American funds may be found in many an enterprise which is being called a monopoly by the officials of the American government. Clearly, it makes a lot of difference to the American secretary of com- merce, whether the monopoly is steal- ing for the United States or from it. Auburn Woolen Mill Workers Demand No Strike Victimizing AUBURN, N. Y.—(FP)—Auburn Woolen Co. workers are. demanding the reinstatement of 20 active union members discharged after a long strike against a 10 percent wage cut. The company is controlled by the Metcalf interests of Providence. of Nationalization of Mines Only Remedy MONTREAL—(FP)—"“International trade unionism has not been respon sible for the unrest in the Nova Sco- tla coal fields. And the miners have few grievances against the lower com- pany officials. It is the policies of the corporation officials higher up who can’t be seen that has caused the troubles.” This was in effect the testimony of Alex Stewart of the miners union, before the Nova Scotia coal inquiry. British Empire Steel Corporation officials blame the ‘unrest upon the Tnited Mine Workers of America, which organization some years ago, superseded the Provincial Workmen's Association, Stewart, a war veteran, said he had been in seven countries since 1914, and it required 100 per cent more to live in the Cape Breton mine fields than in the countries he had been in. Nationalization of the mines, he said, would promote efficiency and lessen unrest. Opposes Memorial as American Legion Plan SAN FRANCISCO—(FP)— Daniel O'Connell, San Francisco attorney, disbarred because he served a sen- tence at McNeil’s Island for opposing the draft, is seeking an injunction to prevent the purchase of. a site for erection of a war memorial building. O'Connell claims that this memorial will be for the benefit of the American legion and not for the public, Ein SISO 2 i Bhd RS LE Dh AN lah a Do 0 Nt 2S iN GSS RD DS Ee act AR NACE ME OIE SSR =. Se Se CUA Eren eee THE DAILY Ww Refuses to Couple Fascism to Soviet Union of Workers ST, LOUIS—(FP)—Amending a mo- tion to concur in an A. F. of L, criti- cism of Russia, read at the St, Louis Central Trades & Labor union, Wm. Brandt of the cigarmakers asked, “Which is deserving of greater con- demnation, a dictatorship of the proletariat or a capitalist dictator- ship? The former represents the people of Russia, the latter holds full sway in Italy at the present time.” His amendment was unanimously adopted. Quarantine Village, BROADWELL, IIL, Dec. 81,—Broad- well is under strict. quarantine with 12 cases of smallp Pubdlic meetings of all kinds have: bei ed and all precautionary meas’ taken, U.S. WHEAT CROP NOT ENOUGH TO FEED COUNTRY Indicates the Decline as Agricultural Nation Bread and circuses was the demand of the dispossessed Roman proletariat and the dominant financiers of the empire had to meet. it or risk social upheaval. A similar, cry is likely to go up from the city proletariat of the Anglo-Saxon empires as the develop- ment of urban life at the expense of the farms brings food shortage and a rise in the prices of the necessaries of life, But, you say, that time is far ahead. Don’t miss the significance of the department of agriculture’s final crop report for 1925 which shows a total wheat crop of 670,000,000 bushels, not enough to meet the country’s domes- tic requirements, Says The Wall Street Journal: “There have been; crops a little smaller than this one, but our popula- tion then was not so large. In terms of consumption of wheat our popula- tion increases at the rate of about 7,000,000 bushels a ygar. On the basis of percapita consumption, 1925 shows one of the smallest erops produced in modern times. The; October report estimated durum wheat at 67,000,000 bushels. Deducting that from the total leaves a crop of bread wheat but a little over 600,000,000:ibushels. Our average consumption of wheat for food, feed and seed; is 630,000,000 bushels.” a So the United States like the older industrial countries must depend on the surplus grain pro, d by Canada, Argentina and Austr: To meet the demand these regions must show a surplus of 550,000,000 bushels, Their ability to do this today is open to question. ¢ But what of tomorrow, as the great financial empires go on developing in- dustrial exploitation on a world scale? In the opinion of O,,E. Baker, agri- cultural economist of the department of agriculture, “Future generations will see a world shortage of wheat unless rational land,and population policies are formulated by the white race.” d There are no indications that the financial rulers will formulate such policies, For a time they will meet the situation with something in the nature of food rations. Such a deve- lopment has already been suggested .n England. But when the provinces fail to produce enough surplus food the present empires will follow those of the past and farm Mfe will re- assert its primacy. Patriots Alarmed at Housewives Who Talk “Treason’”’ in Calif. SAN FRANCISCO—(FP) — The management of the, San Francisco municipal auditorium has a letter from the Housewives Union No, 1 Santa Clara county, requesting that The Star Spangled Banner be no longer played at municipal concerts, “as a war song carrying people back,to the miseries otf war Pecbaredhed 2 force war thoughts upon them ig a direct cruelty, True music is somefhing above na- tionalism.” The pbia ws was denied. “Rangel-Cling Free,” Is Demand‘of Texas Farm-Labor Union TEXARKANA, Tex.—(FP) — Par- dons for Charles Cline, Jose Rangel and 4 other fighters for Mexican free- dom against former Pres. Diaz are asked of Gov. Miriam Ferguson by the convention of the Texas Farm-Labor union, Rangel was givea a 20-day furlough at christmas by the governor to visit his grandchildren after 12 years in prison, The men are serving 99 year sentences for the death of a Texas deputy during a clash about munitions, Join Hands With Klan, INDIANAPOLIS, Dec, 31.—On the eve of his retirement from public of- fice, Mayor Lew Shank, who, thruout his administration, fought the ku klux klan, joined hands today with the hooded order in an effort to overthrow the republican organization in Marion county. ORKER Against the No Capitalist Complaint Colleges of Journalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Products of ‘ODAY, .the gathering of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, In New York City, gives testi- mony to the fact that the American capitalist class, with its gatherin with its of collegiate henchmen, is pretty much satisfied ept press, Big business has no fundamental fault to find with its subsidized newspapers. ’ e e * * College journalism is a development of the last 15 years. Previously editorial workers for great business were trained on the job in the newspaper offices. Since that time elabor- ate courses have been provided for them in carefully watch- ed departments of practically every university and college in the land. The mind is moulded while it is oung. From the campus to the editorial typewriters there flows a steady stream of human material that lends itself obediently to every enslaving demand of the dollar press. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia Uni- versity, where the teachers of journalism are meeting, has his complaint. But his criticism is not that the press of his class does not level down to his reactionary ideas. He merely pleads that the terms “rap, assall, attack and flay,” be elim- inated from the vocabularies of the press writers, especially they should refrain from the use of these words in news stor- ies and headlines. No. doubt even the use of these words is disquieting to the jerky nerves of Butler's friends in Wall Street. ° ° There was a time when the moneyed interests were not satisfied with their press. That was in the days before the schools of journalism, especially 20 to 25 years ago, during the era of trust busting that was featured by a tidal wave of exposures of the criminal deeds of the predatory interests. John D. Rockefeller, under the lash of Ida Tarbell; corruption in politics bared by Lincoln Steffens; raft and awson's crusade against Wall Street, with a host of other writers sharpening their pens for the moneyed men in the high places, constituted an irritating influence. ” * e s No rebellious voice was raised among the professors of journalism now meeting. The magazines and the daily pa- pers now conform, thus the center of the stage is given over to the arch-fundamentalist of capitalist journalism, lv publicity man in waiting to American capitalism. Lee, his is the infamous Lie-vy Lee, who has long directed the publicity work for Rockefeller’s Standrad Oil interests. He furnished the Rockefeller propaganda to the kept heey during the min- ers’ strike against John D.’s Colorado uel and Iron com- pany, that was crimsoned by workers’ blood at the Ludlow massacre. Lie-vy Lee spoke to the college professors advocating the cause of “unsolicited publicity.” He declared there was a legitimate place in Journalism for the publicity man, since newspapers found it impossible to gather all news of interest. The professors will go back to their classes and obediently parrot this viewpoint, with the result that prospective jour- nalists will go forth from the universities to the editorial desks of the nation, ready to jump and give preferred space to the “publicity” of the great corporations, . + * * To be sure, about the only time that these corporations need publicity is during strikes, or other attacks on the work- ers they employ. It is taught that it is sacrilege to even consider any favorable publicity from the workers. When labor, therefore, fully realizes the absolute grip that the exploiters have upon the capitalist press, it will rally as never before it support of its own working class press. Against the capitalist schools of journalism the products of an increasing American army of Worker Correspondents. Workers of New York to Hold Protest Meet to Aid “Blackie” Ford NEW YORK—(FP)—New York workers will protest for Richard Ford, California striker, the day before he goes to trial in Marysville, Cal., for the death of a police officer in the Wheatland hopfield strike of 12 years ago. Two officers and two workers were killed. Ford and Herman Suhr were sentenced to prison for life for the death of one officer, They were not charged with killing him them- selves but with responsibility as strike leaders. Ford was recently paroled and now goes to trial for the death of the other officer, Painter’s Average Work Only 175 Days. Out of Each Year NEW YORK—(FP)—New York painters ask that the 1926 wage agree- ments give them $12 a day instead of the present $10.50. The average painter’s annual income now is only $1,837.50 because a year’s work aver- ages 175 days, The Painters District Council No, 9 also demands guaran- tees against speeding. Painters are now driven to exhaustion and they are not allowed time to do careful work, Lockout May Bring Strike of Local 41 of the I. L. G. W, U. NEW YORK-—(FP)—A general strike is expected among New York tuckers, hemstitchers, pleaters and novelty workers of the women’s gar- ment industry as the answer to the lockout of union workers by the em- ployers association, There are 3,500 workers in the trade in the New York market. Union workers are in local 41, Intl. Ladies Garment Workers, which has had agreements with 11. out of 175 shops. ‘SOLID SOUTH’ APPLIES TO AFRIGA, ALSO Killing Blacks Gets Six Months Jail CAPE TOWN, South Africa—(FP) —In 13 cases of the murder, homi- cide or manslaughter of (South Af- rican) natives by whites the severest penalty was six months jail in one case; in three cases the white cul- prits got £25 ($220) fine, six weeks jail and detention till the rising of the court, respectively; while in the remaining nine cases the accused whites got off scot free.” This is taken from a letter to The Star, a newspaper of the South Afri- can whites. “Some of these crimes,” says the correspondent, “were most foul and cruel, and included death by stoning, death by mogging, throat cutting, death of a young girl through strangulation, death by shooting, and 80 on. In most cases tne victims were unoffending, and in some they were helpless, and in no case can one say that death was justifiable.” These cases occurred all over the country and are, according to the correspondent, merely a sample of the Justice meted out to whites when the victims happen to be natives. “The thing is general all over South Afri ca,” he says; “and the conviction and execution of a white for a black murder is, I fear, unheard of in the land.” Well, Here’s One Union That Hasn’t Stopped Organizing! ST, LOUIS—(FP)—The Order of firoad Telegraphers enrolled 622 »w members during November 1926. Nese Directed by Emma Blechschmidt with A Cast of 30 People. Costumes and Scenery by Lydia Gibson.. This Unusual Feature Will Be Part of the Daily Worker BIRTHDAY PARTY IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, IL. Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 8 P. M. 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