The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 6, 1926, Page 2

} ‘ | & Page Two NEWT, THE GREAT DEMOCRAT, HELPS MORGAN'S STEAL Argues fos : Infamous Nickel Plate Merger WASHINGTON D. Ba , counsel for the Van Swear- ingen Cleveland rail and real estate magnates, made the chief argument in the final presentation of their plea before the interstate com- Jan, 3.— Newton brothers, merce commission for legalization of el Plate merger. I the long hearings conduct- ed by the commission at the demand of minority stockholders of the Chesa- peake & Ohio against the gobbling of the latter road by the Nickel Plate, testimony showed that the Van Swea: ens were backed by Morgan & Co. thru the New York Central and its bankers. One of the feats of financial. jug- glery credited to the Van Swearing- ens in this case was the drawing of the C. & 0.'s cash from all banks along its lines and the depositing of the money in a Morgan bank, whence it was loaned to the Van Swearingens for the purchase of further rail stocks. They turned the trick by getting control of the C. & O. directors, after using in the stock market an equip- ment loan granted them by the inter- state commerce commission. Baker improved the occasion of this business trip to the capital by de- livering a speech lauding his late chief, Woodrow Wilson. Supreme Court Holds States Must Not Impose Taxes on National Banks WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The Iowa state tax on national banks was held invalid today by the supreme court of the United States. The law was attacked by the First National Bank of Guthrie Center, Iowa, on the ground it was illegal, discriminatory and unconstitutional MEXICAN TROOPS USED AGAINST REBELLION AT CITY NEAR THE BORDER (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 4.—Federal troops were today given orders to use drastic measures to suppress an incipient rebellion, following at- tacks made upon the barracks at Aguas Calienties yesterday. A num- ber of arrests are understood to have been ordered. 200,000 Workers Under Lash (Continued from page 1.) work harder—and often eliminate a worker or two on each operation tell- ing the one who is left and must do the work of two or three that he will “get a bigger bonus.” Use Bonus to Enslave Labor. The company not only uses the bonus as a means to speed up the workers but it also has the workers | by shares in the concern. Armour and company are now carrying on an in- tensive drive to sell preferred stock of their Delaware subsidiary to the workers. The company sells its shares to these workers making them believe that they are part of the com- pany. These workers then work harder than ever for fear that they might lose the 7 per cent dividend that is promised to them by the com- pany. In order to make sure that the plans of the company are put over and that any attempt of the workers, dis- satisfied with conditions, to organize an industrial union be nipped in its formative period, the packers main- tain a spy system with a number of stools in each department. The pack- ers also have a uniformed police to “guard” and “protect” the property of the food trust. These uniformed po- lice often search workers and rifle the lockers of those upon whom “suspic- ion” is cast. The workers in the yards must be at all times ready to open their lock- ers to the police, and be subjected to a search, regardless of whether they are guilty of the crimes charged against them by the stockyards po- lice. The entire yards resembles a penitentiary work-house more than a plant where “free” labor is employed, The DAILY WORKER which fights for the workers of the meat packing industry at all times, will in a series of articles show up some of the schemes that the packers have put across to better exploit the packing house workers and thereby increase their profits. It will show up the sani- tary conditions of the plants and call to the attention of all workers the damnable conditions that the “yards” workers must labor under. The conference board is a bosses’ tool. It is used by the packers to make more profits at the expense of the workers. The workers are sup- posed to have “representatives” on this board. What the conference board is and the difficulty a real represen- tative of the workers would have in geting onto this board will be taken up in tomorrow's issue of The DAIYY WORKER. KANSAS CITY WORKERS SPEEDED UP IN ARMOUR’S MEAT PACKING HOUSE KANSAS CITY, Kansas, Jan. 4.—In Kansas City there are five big meat packing plants along the bnaks of the Kaw river, where they dump their refuse, and also several small ones such as the Joseph Baum place that is catering to the Jewish trade mostly. I have’been a worker in most of these plants, coming out on strike in two of the plants and thereby being blacklisted ni the two plants and told by the employment head of one thate——————___________. there was no use for me to ever come there for a job no matter how much they needed help. So you can see what it means to dare assert your (sup posed) rights. Armours Largest. The Armour plant is the largest here employing 3,900 workers. It also controls the Fowler plant, which be- fore the change employed 2,5000, but now only employs 500. The same amount of shepe and cattle are killed in Armours alone as were killed in the two plants altho there was no in- crease in the number of workers em- ployed by Armour and company. Cudahy employs 1,800 in their plant at Kansas Ave. and Berger street. They have a recreation room where prize fights are arranged once or twice a \month to keep the minds of the workers off the real issues. Right across the street is Swift and company, employing 3,500. The time the workers must start work here is Osage and Adams streets is the Wil- son Packing company which has about 2,500 workers and is said to be the best plant to work in because of little things such as paying for your supper when you work overtime while the other plants do not even allow you time to buy your own supper. FREE SPEECH AN ISSUE IN TRIAL OF RICHARD FORD Killed no One; Merely Led a Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 4—Funds for the January murder trial of Richard Ford, determined by the fact that they I. W. W. active in the hop pickers’ make two railroad switches before noon and the workers have to he on the floor ready for work at 6 o'clock. Just south of Swift and company at PL BIRTHDAY ISSUE Short story by MICHAEL GOLD. _ Two Special Issues 9 January 16 LENIN MEMORIAL Will Contain 12 PAGES Beginning a powerful novel on January 9 by the celebrated French novelist HENRI BARBUSSE. Articles by LENIN. meee EET ——-CARTOONS— by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, Lydia Gibson = Es and other leading working class artists. F a ‘ . Subscribe! RATES i o's Outside In Chicago Chicago: $8.00 per Ye! $6.09 per year $4.50 6 months |§3.50 6 months $2.50 3 months |$2.00 3 months Enclosed § for . mos. subscription to The Daily Worker. Name: Street: ..... +) |S neers State: . TTT Get a Bundle! 3Y, Cents a copy for each issue. THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL. Enclosed Fosse fOr copies Birthday issue (Jan. 9) copies Lenin issue (Jan. 16) Name: . Street: Chty s » saan State: strike in California in 1913, are sought by an appeal the American Civil Liberties Union is giving na- tionwide circulation. The appeal says in part: Case 12 Years Old. “If is a trial for murder based upon the killing of two officers of the law in a strike of the hop pickers twelve years ago. “Ford was released from prison only last October after serving 11 years for alleged complicity in the murder of one of those officers. Now he has been indicted again for the murder of the other. His prosecutor is the son of the man who was killed. Killed No One. “In fact it is no trial for murder at all. Ford killed no one, He did not incite anyone else to murder, He was @ leader of the strikers singled out for punishment solely because he was @ leader. The case raises square- ly the issue of whether strike leaders are to be held responsible for what- ever violence may occur in a strike. “It is essentially a free-speech case, because Ford was in fact prosecuted for his radical views as an I, W. W. and the exercise of his rights as a leader. Ford is to be tried before a judge whose prejudice against the I. W. W. is notorious. Unless he has the best possible defense, there is danger that he will go back again to years of prison life.” Attend Daily Worker Concert in New York on Sunday Afternoon (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Jan. 4,—Every worker is invited to attend The DAILY WORKER anniversary concert that will be held in the Yorkville Casino, 86th St. and Third Ave., Sunday after- noon, January 10, at 2 o'clock. The Fretheit Singing Society and the Hun- garian Symphony Orchestra will en- tertain, Tickets may be bought at the door for 50 cents and at The DAILY WORKER New York agency, 108 B, 14th St., in advance, two for 50 cents, Humorists in Lawsuit, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan, 4.—H. C. Witwer, New York humorist, today filed a suit for $25,000 damages against Harold Lioyd, claiming that the screen star's current success, “The Fresh- man,” a@ story of college life, was stolen from a story published by Wit- wer in 1923, Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features every week. This is a good issue to give to your fellow worker f sah THE DAILY WORKER Current Events (Continued from page 1) answer to some appropriately inane questions. ee NYHOW, approximately 15,000,000 people—most of them of, the working class—read a staunch organ of capitalism each week, while not nearly as many read The DAILY WORKER, Circulation is usually con, sidered a secret matter unless it is large. Having no secrets to keep from the working class we admit that for every three who reads The DAILY WORKER 150 read the Tribune, This is as it is but not as it should be. 8 EING realistic, we do not moan over this distressing fact. We ex- plain the phenomenon by attributing it to the immaturity, of proletarian class consciousnesg in the United States, which in turn is due to the vigor of American capitalism and its dominant world position. But we do not stop there and gay: “let evolution take its course!” We intend to put out shoulder to the wheel of evolu- tion and give it an extra turn until capitalism’s axle cracks under the strain, a oe fh fal that work our ¢ollective shoulder is The DAILY WORKER. Its cir- culation is small, not by any means as large as it could*be even at this stage of development in,which the Amer- ican working class, finds itself. It is true we have no “Moon Mullins” or “Orphan Annie” to attract those whose intellectual fodder consists of a daily laugh. We have no sporting page to entertain those who are two healthy to feed on the cross word puzzles in the Ladies’ Home Journal. We have no “Advice to the Lovelorn” for amorous youths and disappointed ancients. This is a serious handicap in a race for circulation, but we are not after that kind of jelly fish. se © T is always wise to quote Lenin. His words have the power of wis- dom, What he thot of the role of the press is admirably synthesized in the following paragraph: “The role of the newspaper is however not confined to the mere propaganda of ideas, to the political schooling ‘and winning over of political allies. ‘The newspaper is not merely a collective propagandist and collective agitater, but a collect- ive organizer.” . * . H did not go to the trouble of digging $30,000’ hard earned dol- lars out of the pockets of the working class recently in ‘oraer to compete with capitalist papers in purveying news indiscrimate! We are frank in stating that we ¢hly publish news that will enlighter: help the work- ing class and encourage them to fight the capitalists., ‘ be N the other nak we grope like ferrets in a burrow for every item that will in any way weaken the bourgeoisie, Those who are looking for “fair” and “impartial” publications had better quit reading. All the im- partial people are »mingled with the dust, All capitalist; papers are partial to the class that owns them. Unfor- tunately all “labor” papers are not partial to labor. They pretend to be “fair” and succeed in being fair only to the capitalists, OW we are getting near the kernel of the nut or rather the dollar in your pocket. I am now going to ask every non-subscriber who agrees with Lenin’s exposition of the role of The DAILY WORKER to fish out the price of a subscription. The plans are completed for a three- week whirlwind drive to add several thousand steady readers to The DAILY WORKKER list. The cam- paign opens on our daily’s second an- niversary, Jan. 13. It will conclude one week after the anniversary of Lenin’s death, Jan, 22. We do not expect to surpass the Tribune's circu- lation for a while yet, In fact such a large circulation would break us just now, We went to grow and we will grow steadily until BAILY WORKERS blossom forth in every large Amer- ican, city and capitalist “Tribunes” will become “Orphan: Bread Trust Denies It Has Monopoly on Main Staff of Life WASHINGTON, Jan, 4.— A denial that it is a trust filed with the federal trade coi ion by the Con- tinental Baking corporation, which owns and operates Bakeries in a score of states from New England to the Pacific coast, . The denial was made to a commis- sion citation, issued some time ago, which charged that the corporation by acquiring many of the largest bak- ing concerns in the country had “les- sened competition, restrained com- merce, and created a monopoly,” with- in the scope of the Clayton law, Discontent of Farmers Threatens an “Upheaval in West” Says Senator By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the New York Times laments that, “Congress may adjourn for the holidays, but politics will not.” It has special reference to the farmers, whose discontent cannot be chloroformed. The confession of the Times is an admission that Wall Street does not have great need for its parliament. The sen- ators and representatives can be sent home, and no one misses them. But the wolf of poverty keeps knocking at the doors of bankrupt farmers, especially in the corn belt, and the fear of the ruling class crystallizes in the declaration of Senator Capper, of Kansas, that: “Unless the administration (Coolidge) and the republican’ lead- ers take hold of the threatening farm situation there will be an up- heaval In the west that will.shake the political edifice to it founda- tions.” In fact, the Times, which seldom manifests alarmist tendencies, now joins with Capper as follows: “The whole agitation, which for a time passed almost unnoticed by the politicians, has become the biggest sensation of the day in the world of politics. It promises to Inject itself into congrss from the very moment of its resuming its sessions.” It will be noticed that both the senator from Kansas and Wall Street's pet mouthpiece look upon the agrarian crisis with great fear. Capper, tremblin; for his own political future, tries to coerce his fellow legislators into some sort of action that will quiet his constituents. The Times, which is democratic in national politics, talks of this “biggest sensa- tion,” not because it has any solution to offer, but because it sees big democratic possibilities on the eve of this year’s congressional elections. Neither politician nor newspaper comes out for the bankrupt farmers, charging the state with the duty of pro- tecting this section of the population. It is an open admis- sion, even on their part, that the capitalist dictatorship at Washington has other interests to conserve—the interests of the capitalist class—that are directly contrary to the in- terests of the poor farmers, robber profiteering class. a e who are the victims of this It is the rising discontent of the agrarian population that the ruling class fears, expressing that fear thru its poli- ticians and its press. No effort.is made to provide a cure for that discontent, to solve the problems that create it. The capitalist state, on the other hand, is organized for the purpose of combatting that discontent thru forcing worse conditions upon the farming masses. . * ° ° Conditions in the corn belt are duplicated to some ex- tent in the cotton fields of the South. Alabama sends the news north that 19,537 farms within its borders have been deserted during the last five years, totalling 2,834,284 acres. At the same time the value of lands and buildings used for agriculture has decreased $28,353,156. In this state cotton is the principal crop with corn. second. This does not mean that 19,537 farmers, with their families, have escaped the struggle for existence under cap- italism by running away from their farms. It only means that they have run off to the cities where, thru increasing the number of available workers, they made the struggle of industrial labor that much harder. * * These developing conditions must prove to the city and farm workers that they are o the capitalist class. It must s' popes by a common enemy, ow them that they must de- velop a common solidarity and unity of action. The profit- takers fear the discontented farmers of today. But they dread even more the united action of industrial and land workers that must come on the morrow, born of the discon- tent of today. STRIKE PARLEY 10 BE RESUMED TUESDAY; NO NEW PLAN T0 DISCUSS NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 4—John L. Lewis, president of the miners’ federation, had no statement to make to day. “There is nothing to id while the conference is in “Negotiations will be resumed again tomorrow.” Major William W. Inglis, who heads the negotiating committee, will arrive in New York tonight and will confer with other members of the owners’ scale committee. Neither side are prepared to sub- mit any new plan for discussion, according to reports. Fight Dope Traffic. MEXICO CITY, Jan, 4—The biggest anti-drug campaign is under way in Mexico. All seaports and border en- trances to Mexico are watched, and all Mexican criminals known to be “dope fiends” are under constant supervis- jon. Any foreigner found handling such drugs will be sent out of the country and Mexicans will be sen- tenced to long terms in prison, That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- night. Hand him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. IN NEW YORK! * Workers’ Dramatic League Presents “MONEY” A Play by MICHAEL GOLD at Tammany Hall Dancing os sh Help Build Friday, Jan. 8 After the Performance. ickets 50 Cents. the Proletarian Theatre! Northwest Side Labor Defense Branch Will Meet at Lyceum Tonight The Northwest Side International Labor Defense branch will hold its regular meeting tonight at the Work- ers’ Lyceum 2733 Hirsch Blvd., at 8 o'clock, Every member of the branch must attend this meeting as many im- portant matters will come up for dis- cussion, NT TTL TLL TELL RUMOR FEDERAL INTERVENTION IN COAL STRIKE NEW YORK CITY, Jan, 4. — No sign of a break in either side of the anthracite strike negotiations has ap- peared thus far. The operators may make their pet proposal of arbitration a little less plain by sugar-coating it over with provisos of one kind or another. But if Lewis sticks by his promise, no arbitration agreement will be reached. A breakup of the conference would leave, according to reports, the open- ing wanted for federal intervention. Hints of this step have been current for several days, but nothing definite has come from Washington, The Pennsylvania legislature is to meet soon in special session, and re- ports are that it may do Governor Pinchot’s bidding by declaring the anthracite industry a public necessity and place it under the state’s public service commission. The operators, however, would fight it for years in the courts. The Scranton chamber of commerce has wired to the conference that it approves of the Markle plan for set- tlement, which includes arbitration, Cal Coolidge Asks Funds to Finance Disarm Delegates (Continued from page 1.) set criticism, Coolidge eaid in his message: “Whether the conditions and cir- cumstances will prove such as to make it desirable for the United States to attend any conference or conferences which may eventually take place as @ result of the labor of the preparatory commission or other- wise is a question that need not now be considered. “It is my judgment thet so fur as this preliminary inquiry goes, we ought to give our eid and coopera- tion to the fullest extent consistent with the policies we have adopted.” Congress: is expected to speedily comply with the president's request for authorization. Whatever opposi- tion there is to sitting in at the con- ference will not manifest itself un- til a program is prepared. The text of the president’s message follows: “In the message, which I had occa- sion recently to submit to you, I call- ed attention to the agreements re- cently entered into by a number of European governments under which guaranties of peace were provided. I took occasion to point out thet the national corollary to these treaties should be further international agree- ments for the limitation of armam- ents “The government of the United States has now been invited by the council of the league of nations to send representatives to sit upon a ‘preparatory commission for the dis- armament conference.’ The purpose of this commission, it is stated, is to make preparations for ea conference for disarmament. “The matters to’ be examined by the preparatory commission will, it is stated, touch upon all aspects of the question of disarmament and affect the Interests of all of the nations of the world. The council believes that the time has come for studying the practical possibilities of the reduc- tion and Hmitation of armaments, and expresses the hope that at this time when all of the nations of the world United States in a work closely concerns the world.” IN CHICAGO! by Live Pages A LABOR PANTOMIME with A Cast of 30 People. Costumes and Scenery by Lydia Gibson. Directed by Emma Blechschmidt A gay novel entertainment. Something So New— Something So Different Birthday Party Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 8 P. M. | IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street, Admission 50 Cents. Dance and Enjoy Yourself. ° omen t PRET EMG SATE REIS