The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I. Phone Monroe 4713 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES HW By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.60 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, I/linole 2k LinePonedeab sbi aslo J. LOUIS BNGDAHL Mtitors WILLIAM F, DUNNE {” MORITZ J. LOEB... Manager —<— $$$ esc asiritie nese Mutered ay second-class mat! September 21, 1923, at the postoffice cago, il, under the act of March 3, 1879, Busine: Chi- Advertising rates on application. SS Wall Street’s Slump and Recovery The rapid downward plunge of stocks in Wall Street last Tues- day was merely the climax of a downward trend that had, been in evidence for two weeks. Upward of a billion dollars of industrialist Stocks were wiped out between the opening and closing of Tuesday’s market, Call money rose to 54g per cent. In pre-war days this collapse would have signalized a financial panic of vast ramifica- tions. But so powerful are the reserves of American finance cap- ital that sufficient credits were thrown upon the market to reverse the moyement, turn the tide upward and in one day bring call money back to 4% per cent. This dizzy downward plunge and the rapic recoyery furnish texts for those vulgar economists of the capitalis class to dssure the nation that all is well and that financial and industrial depression is unthinkable. Ei 390 Occupying the position as banker of the world by virtue of holding a greater part of the gold supply of the world, American finance capital must, in order to avoid stagnation, utilize this money for investment capital. Its agents roam the whole earth seeking places for foreign investment; its government cancels 75 per cent of Musolini’s debt in order to pave the way for Morgan to send enormous loans to Italy; its agents profess sympathy for the ' WORKING C Chimese nationalist movement, hoping to secure the exclusive Jabor power; South and Central America are victims of its rapacity ; ne land with wealth of any kind is exempt from Yankee imperial-4 women who dare to 2s.ume the role ism. Within the United States the finance capitalists pursue a pol-| of spokeswomen for all women! icy of industrial reorganization and colossal mergers in order to keep capital in motion. It was this latter activity that was directly responsible for the two-week’s decline that culminated in Tuesday’s crash. Every merger was accompanied by new stock issues thrown upon the market. These issues were based upon future expectations of profit; not upon the physical valuation of the property involved. It was evident in the middle‘of last month that these expected pro- fits did not materialize because of the general slowing down of ‘in- dustry and the excessive overcapitalization. The inevitable reaction of the stock market forced the decline and the collapse. A.so-called “bear” market prevailed, with stocks being thrown upon the market. In the day’s panic the petty gamblers lost heavily and many of them were wiped out. Then, on Wednesday, the big guns of the street quietly got to- gether and organized the “bull” brigade, to boost stocks again. The depreciated stocks were bought up by the great banking houses who held the money, whereas the little fellows, who could not pay the | 5% per cent for money were left out in the cold. Unquestion- ably it was the House of Morgan that played the dominant role in the “bull” market of Thursday and emerged stronger than.eyer after the flurry. m A slight contributing factor in the downward plunge was the deci- sion of the interstate commerce commission disapproving the proposed Nickel Plate merger plan. But assurances came from Washington that the Coolidge program of scrapping the commerce and federal trade commissions would be carried out, reversing, at a later date, the unfavorable decision. The present government is the avowed agent of big business only and so under the political protection of the government recovery was possible—and profitable to Morgan. Billions of dollars are used to juggle the market and other billions can be thrown on the market, but not’ one cent is available to aid the agricultural crisis, because the farmers of the corn and cotton belts cannot produce the enormous profits demanded today by the banking octopus. Also, the recover was imperative if the Morgan agents were to | return to power in the coming election. The Coolidge-Mellon sen- ators, with their world court records, dare not face their constituents ] in a period of industrial crisis added to. the agricultural crisis, ‘But the grim inexorable economic laws that forced last Tues- day’s slump are still opérating and will operate in spite of anything Morgan may do. The threatened panic is only postponed, to break out | at a later date with more devastating effects than would have been the case this time. . The Lord’s Day Alliance Driven to desperation by the widespread indifference regarding their hocus-pocus and the open antagonism they meet from all in® telligent elements of the population the preachers are striving to devise ways and means of making Sunday so depressing that even their incredibly dull harrangues, called sermons, will be welcome relief from the monotony. A few of these charlatans have formed themselves into an organization called the Lord’s Day Alliance. Their program is directed~toward imposing laws upon the nation making illegal all forms of recreation that compete with their loath- some business of poisoning, for pay, the minds of children with the superstition of religion. The alliance will not succeed, because even tho they did pass the laws they desire they would no more be ob- served than is the prohibition law observed. Furthermore, noimisery they can impose upon society éould induce people with a slight degree of intelligence to listen to the babblings of these imbecile preachers back of the Lord’s Day Alliance, the very existence of which amuses us at it is indicative of the waning influence of the ebureh which is nothing other than an instrument for keeping the workers ignorant so they will be better slaves, 4 ae Lady Catheart is to remain in the country as long as she desires to extend her visit. Probably she got acquainted with many of the very clegant ladies and their escorts at the “bath tub” party who would like to see their names in British scandal sheets. While this nabob was blasting her way in, other women who are not aristocrats, but work women, were turned away from these shores without uny publicity or opportunity for “legal defense. The dizzy descent of the stock exchange yesterday must have given the administration forces at Washington a jolt, considering the number of senators up for reelection this year. The industrial ¢risis, long threatening, is likely to break at a most inauspicious t for the political eraft of Coolidge. ei THE DAILY, WORKE R ex LASS WOMEN! ORGANIZE ALONG WITH THE WORKINGMEN IN STRUGGLE AGAINST EXPLOITERS! (Continued from Page 1) But this sham must be destroyed. The working class women have noth- ing in common with the women of the ruling class—the exploiters of labor. Working class women are bound up with the conditions, of the working men. Every decrease in wages, every worsening in conditions of the work- ingman affects the working class women, Women More Exploited. The eight million women workers of this country are exploited by the same giant corporation that exploit their fellow workers — the workingmen. But the exploitation of the women workers is more brutal than that of the male workers. The bosses pay lower wages to women’ and speed} hem up even more than the, men. The lack of organization among the working women aids the bosses in his. The working class housewives bear the brunt of “making ends meet” on he miserable wages of their hus- bands. They labor to make the tene- ments they live in fit for habitation. They suffer thru lack of conforts in childbirth, They see their children being miseducated in barracks called schools. Disease, unemployment and he struggle to feed, clothe and edu- cate their families haunt thém thru- out their lives, The women of the capitalists live privilege of exploiting that vast reservoir of natural resources and |!iVes of ease on the profits ground out of the labor of the workers, both male and female, And it ig these Organize! The working class women must or- ganize. Working women in the fac- tories and mills must get into the trade unions. Working class house- wives must band themselves together to combat the high cost of living, high rents. Working class parents must see to it that their children are not maleducated in the frauds called schools by the henchmen of the capi- talists. Wives of union men must join the women’s auxiliaries of their husband’s unions to aid in, the strug- gle against the capitalists. Without organization nothing can be done to remedy the existing conditions. With- out seeing that the real struggle is against the capitalist class the work- ing class women will continue under the misery and degradation that capi- talism forces upon them. In other countries the working class vomen are organized. In Soviet Rus- sia the working women have absolute equality with the men in industry and before the law. In other European countries the working class women are organizing to defend their class shoulder to shoulder with the work- ingmen, The Coming War. In this country imperialism is ram- pant. The American dollar reaches out into every corner of the world to squeeze profits out of the workers. The American financiers, oil mag- nates, steel kings, textile barons and coal operators are seizing new mar- kets and finding new Hapes to invest their dollars. This brings them into conflict with the capitalists of the other countries. The struggle - for markets will bring another world war more dreadful than the last. This means further misery for the whole working class and %spdcially the women, edi To compete in the world market the American capitalists are deter- mined to “cut production costs,” which means that they will’ cut wages, lengthen hours and speed up the work- ers in this country, All of these things affect the. workiig class women directly. Their fate isthe fate of our class under capitalism, The only way out is by organizing for the establishment ‘of a workers’ and farmers’ government in this coun- try. The Coolidge government is the weapon of Wall Street against the masses of the people of this country. It does the bidding of the great finan- ciers and corporations. It suppresses strikes and keeps the workers in sub- jection to the rule of the capitalists. Our struggle is against this govern- ment and for the establishment of a government of the workers and farm- ers of the country. A Workers’ and *Farmers’ Government. In this struggle the/working class women must stand to} er with the workingmen to carry*@: the battle until misery and slavery are abolished for the working class, Working class women’ get into the trade unions, organize i, your neigh- borhood against the high cost of liv- ing, high rents, agait tenements, against the rotten sc! system, join the women’s auxiliaries~of the trade unfons. 36 Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending the tiiéetings organ- ized for that purpose,’ (9! Join in the struggle for a workers’ and farmers’ governmeélit in this coun- try. one PULLMAN WILL HEAR TRUMBULL ON MARCH 10TH Workers of Pullman will be given the opportunity to hear Walter Trum- bull, recently freed from Alcatraz Military Disciplinary prison. He will speak in Pullman Wednesday evening, March 10 at the K. P, Hall, at 11037 Michigan Ave. So great has been the demand from workers to hear Trumbull speak that his dates have now been extended to cover every important industrial cen- ter in the United States, There, will be others on the program at Pullman, including Robert Minor, editor of the magazine section of The DAILY WORKER, Hold Railroad Head * for Autoist’s Death «Special to The Dally Worker) NORWOOD PARK, Ill, — A coro- ner’s jury composed of local citizens last night returned a verdict recom- mending that G. B, Vilas, general man- ager of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, be held to the grand jury for criminal negligence amounting to manslaughter because the company's failure to provide gates and warning signals at a railroad crossing here had resulted in the death of Max Weichelt. hs tansapa was instantly killed when he droye his auto three weeks ago across an unprotected crossing, Testimony at the inquest showed that the railroad had been repeatedly requested to place the proper guards but that R. N, Van Doren, its vice- president, refused to act on the ground that the Illinois commerce commission had jurisdiction over the subject. When the commission was appealed to its reply was that local municipal- ities had the authority to require the installation of gates and watchmen, The consequence was that nothing was done, as it would have cost the Northwestery a few dollars to make the change. LOS ANGELES HOLDS DAILY WORKER COSTUME DANCE ON APRIL 3 LOS ANGELE March 5—A DAILY WORKER costume dance will be held at the Cooperative Cen- ter, 2706 Brooklyn Ave, Saturday, April 3, ~ viet Russia, i CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY MEETING | TODAY, “MARCH 6 International Womah's Day will be celebrated in Chicagj@ by a mass meeting and entertainment on Satur. day night, March 6; “at Northwest Hall, North and Western Aves. Speakers will talk on “Women and the Trade Unions,” “Women and the Class War,” “The Working Class Housewife,” and “Women in Soviet Russia.” All working class men and women are asked to attend this celebration Denver Workers Greet. Trumbull on Release from Mi itary Prison DENVER, Colo, March 5 — A large number of workers attended the meet- ing here to welcome iter Trumbull and Stanley Clark. * Stanley Clark spoké“én the objects and aims of Internatiénal Labor De- ense, Walter Trumbull made a short but very effective speech, He told of how *ilipino workers are exploited in the jawailan Islands. He told of how Paul Crouch, his co: le, organized he Communist League among the sol- ‘iers in the Hawatian'Islands and of he court-martial trial being ar- ‘ested and the sentences meted out to both of them, He repeated the mes- sage which Crouch him to take to the workers thruout bis tour and it took the. crowd by sto! As a result of the members joined the [ bor Defense, ‘or A welcome party to Trumbull was also arranged by the members of the International Labor Defense, Cleveland Celebrates ing 15 or 20 tional La- CLEVELAND, March § — March 7 will be a big day in Cleveland, The Seventh Anniversary of the Commun- ist International will celebrate seven years of brilliant achievement of the revolutionary movement and of the consolidation of the power of So- The day will be so eventful since the Le! which has been sho’ other city, will be sh This film produced a pression in Chicago, with like success In ia in Overalls” will r) uch the more funeral film, in only one 1 in Cleveland. i Comintern Anniversary — THE BRICKLAYER A SHORT STORY By ANNA NEMSER . GROUP of young women were standing near an unfinished build- ing in the upper section of the Bronx. It was a very‘cold day. The wind blew over the empty lots, but this did not discomfort the ladies who were wrap- ped in the most expensive furs. With agitation, they were arguing with ‘the renting, agent because the apartments would:not be ready on the day that hé had promised. The argu- ment was very serious, indeed. The ladies were bored with the apartments in which they, were living. They wanted to move to the latest modern apartments. They even did not forget to mention to the agent that new fur- niture and new carpets had been or- dered, and that they were waiting im- patiently for the rooms to be comple- ted. The agent blamed the workers. He argued that some of them had fallen sick while working in bad weather. It was difficult to get others to take their place, for most bricklayers were en- gaged in constructing other buildings, But the young women could not be quieted by his arguments. They kept repeating that apartments could be had anywhere for the price they would pay here. But in their hearts they thought that this house would be very beautiful and would have the latest improvements. Then it was no small matter to live on the upper Grand Concourse. Ne far from this group of women, John, the bricklayer, was working energetically. Every word of their conversation was carried to his éars. They cut him like knives. John glanced at the ladies and be- came thoughtful. His thought carried him far back, thirty years ago, when he was sailing, with his young wife from Russia to America, looking for freedom and a better life. Then he was tired of living in a village in old Russia under the czar’s\regime, and thought that America was the land of freedom and liberty. As the boat drew nearer to the statue of liberty, he hopefully thought, that she symbolised a high spiritual and physical life. But he did not get what he had expected. The hunt for bread, ignorance of the language, and loneliness soon crushed his spirit. B again saw himself and his wife wandering over the streets in search for shelter for the night. She held’ a position of servant to more for- tunate people for very little pay. He sometimes found work for a day or two. So they led a miserable life un- til the first child was born, They rented one room and kitchen in the lower downtown section of New York. His wife took homework for which she was paid very miser- ably, Part of the time John worked, but most of the time he searched for work. Days followed days, The children were born in flerce poverty. John’s wife, once upon a time beautiful and healthy, lost her strength in worry and in hard labor, The little airless rooms became crowded with the increasing family” The children suffered with various diseases because of the lack of nourishing food, good air and care. John, drawn on by his increasing family, was compelled to do all kinds of hard labor. There were times when he himself took sick and could not work at all. What had become of his beautiful wife? A bundle of dryed bones pro- tected by her thin skin. And hd sighed ... " Gygseucphind one brick to another, John for the first time thought of his past life in America. Thirty years he had been building houses for others, theaters, museums, churches, schools, hotels for the rich—hospitals for the poor, Mansions for the fortunate class—jails for the unfortunate. Pri- vate schools for the children of the eapitalists—day nurseries for the chil- dren of the poor, when mothers leave their children driven to work. John suddenly felt that he would like to count all the buildings which he had constructed for thirty years. A long time he counted while placing one brick on top of another until he had lost count. And a question arose before him What has he for all the consumed energy, youth and health he had given in building buildings with his blood and sweat? Under the cementing bricks he had buried thirty best years of his life. He saw before his very eyes how fast America became richer every day, The city of New York for which he had worked for thirty years increased in wealth and in size. And who had profitted by it? A group, a small group of capitalists, Their wives bathed in perfume, dressed in the best of silks, were wrapped in the most expensive furs and ornamented, themselves with best Jewelry, UT John’s wife and the wives of his fellow workers bathed in poverty and in sickness, dressed poor- ly, lived in horrible rooms, and seldom saw the sunshine. There they were born, there they were ill, and there they died. So thought John as he looked at the well fed women and for the fest time he felt a certain hatred to the class which had exploited him for thirty years. A class which robbed him of his son buried in the trenches to richen America, A The By LILLIAN BORGESON, Women of the working class are told over and over again that the Communists and the Reds are bent on breaking up the ties of family life, which the bosses hold “so dear.” And yet, at the very time that the writers and speakers are telling these things, capitalist inndustry, the system which they are defending, is directly responsible for the actual deaths of hundreds of thousands of babies less than one year old, Let us examine the facts that the capitalist would want to have hidden from us. Over 55 per cent of, the women are in industry and in the mills, in the shops, and in the stores, begause their financial aid is ne@ded by the fami- lies at home. And these women are told that during pregnancy they: must have’ plenty of nourishing food, lots of fresh air, the care of a good doc- tor, and freedom from worry and over-work, But the very fact that they are at work from necessity pre- vents them from being able to take time off, to prepare for the safety of the little life tocome, _ \ “TYRDSH air” in the stuffy, con- gested, overcrowded tenement rooms that mean “home.” Or in the lint-filled air of the noisy mill-room! “Freedom from worry”—when there are other mouths to be fed, How im- possible! And so the working woman, with her heart heavy, continues at her job during the time that she should be at rest, What is the effect of her working? A recent study of infant fortality made by the Children’s Bureau of the U. S. department of labor confronts us with appalling facts. The death -rate of babies born to the women who have worked during pregnancy is al- most twice that of those whose moth- ers \were not employed. Infant Mortality Rate. The following table will illustrate: Employed away from home...176.1 Employed at home. 114.6 Not employed ... 98.0 The “employed at-home” included those women who did,the various in- dustrial home. work; . embroidery, sewing buttons, stringing tags, mak- warded her with @-disease. . . A class which had squeezed the blood out of his veins and had left /him in useless condition. . , He began to think what would become of him within a year or two when he would not be able to earn bread for his wife, himself, and his smaller children. Who would then help him? Who. would then reward him for his thirty years of hard labor? Who would defend his aged wife and himself when he would be unable to work? ‘ Here let his hands drop to his sides. A vague!daze overwhelmed him and large draps-‘of cold sweat appeared on his wfinkled forehead, He felt if everything disappeared from his sight and his feeble feet refused to uphold him any longer, He dropped, fainting near the place where he had worked, . The pale rays of the setting sun hardly. lighted the .place where the bricklayer had fallen, .., Some of the ladies stepped into their cars, others hired taxies and drove away. While-the foreman called an afnbulance and John was taken to the city hospital... : Women’s Day Celebration in Chicago SATURDAY EVE., MARCH 6 at NORTHWEST HALL Cor. North and Western Aves. (3rd floor.) All friendly organizations are requested not to arrange other affairs on that day, hicago Workers THE Bi ces by Trade Union at 8th Street and Freiheit pscth hese ‘ u Margarite ; INTERNATIONAL CONCER Bducditiaay Lidaus* ARION GROTTO (EIGHTH STREET THEATER) The program will include the well known janian Chorus . Russian Accordeonist Sam Lein . Scottish and Irish National Dancers Lewis, Pianist. _ : Fred Ellis, Robert Minor and Lydia Gibson, Cartoonists Working Mother and the Infant Death Rate ing mesh bags, winding paper flow: ers and the like. fe One-third of all the. mothers stud- fed, of 25,000 families, taken from different oities as being typical of all sections of the country, had been employed during pregnancy, 55 per . cent of these away from home, in factories and shops and 45 per cent in home work, » Children Suffer, UT the babies who manage to sun vive the first few months do not get a new and strong lease on life. As soon as the working mother can be up and about, the economic neces- sity (that had forced her into industry during the trying months preceding the baby’s birth, bears down upon her, Her baby is lett to the thercy of some relative or neighbor; ‘and ex- | posed to the dangers of casual care | and artificial feeding. And this con- \dition, too, has its deadly results. The ,unexaggerated report of the government study coldly tells us that |among the babies~of the mothers who were obliged to go back to work dur- ing the first year of the baby’s life, the infant mortality rate was two and one-half times the “preventable” ay- erage, Women Must Organize, OTHERS! Working women! Working class women! You have known of eases like these! You have experienced them and suffered them yourselves! But they are not isolated cases! They are universal! They are general! These are the conditions which the women of the working class as @ whole must face. Thousands of us! Hundreds of thousands! / Women, it is up to us! - Today is Women’s Day—the international holli- day of the working class women. Cel- ebrate it! By organizing! By strengthening ourselves for the strug- gle. By carrying our message of struggle to the millions of working class women in this country; Let us make this day become the beginning of our work of organization looking towards that day when we and the whole working class will come into our own and be free. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF POLISH COMMUNIST PAPER THIS SUNDAY Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. at Schoenhoffen’s Hall, Ashland and Milwaukee Aves., there will be a huge concert and meeting celebrat- Ing the second anniversary of the Polish Communist paper, Trybuna }Robotnicza. Among speakers will be Robert Minor, editor of the new Saturday magazine of The DAILY WORKER, known in the revolutionary move- ment as an outstanding leader and one of the best speakers; Paul Trum- bull, just released from federal prison where he spent a year for his Communist activity and propa- ganda In the U. S. army. There will also be Polish speakers. On the program are: Dances by Comrades Hilda Reed, Elsie New man and Emma Blechsmidt. Russ'an, Turkish and Spanish dances by Miss Jean Blasak, a pro- fessional dancer, Classital dance by little Sofla Marek. y Russian mandolinist orchestra. Recitals In Polish and Russian, Piano solo by A. S. Hambro, Everyone who comes will have a good time. Tickets 25 cents, ‘|éaub- a doy: will help to drive capital away. io oyhe : Reserve AT “CONG N / the Wabash Avenue. y and Mandolin Orchestra % Ln