The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1926, Page 6

t Page Six a THE DATLY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WCRKER PUBLISHING CO. 41113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, I rennet I, Phorie Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPT By maii (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months Address all mail and THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IIlinols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB. |. 1ON RATES By mail (outsids of Chicago): $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.00 three months. make out checks to Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. ie 290 —— Advertising rates on application. —— The 8th Anniversary of the Red Army By KARL REEVE. MOSCOW, U. S. R. (By Mail).— Four thousand workers, peasants and soldiers jammed the Bolshoi Theater to capacity to do honor to the red army on its eighth anniversary at an impressive and colorful celebration which lasted until 3 o’clock in the morning. People’s Commissar of War Vorishilov was greeted with storms of applause, the audience rising and keep- ing up the demonstration for many minutes. At the speaker’s table sat the chairman, Kalenin, and near him sat Stalin, Bucharin and other leaders of the Russian Communist Party. In workers’ clubs, factory, school and peasants’ meetings the eighth anni- versary of the formation of the revolu- tionary workeys’ and peasants’ “Kras- nia” (Red) Army, from the nucleus of the red guards, which were the fight- ing forces of the 1917 revolution, was celebrated. Chinese Leader Gets Ovation. The most inspiring moment of the Bolshoi Theater celebration came when Kalenin introduced Chu-Chin- Hin, member of the central committee of the Kuomintang party and com- mander of the revolutionary army of | Guarding the Revolution Voroshiloy, the main speaker, of the evening, told the history of the for- mation of the red army, of the strug- gles in the civil war, the blockade and famine, against the foreign capitalist powers, and of the eventual victory in the civil war. He said that today the SMOOT KNIFES U.S, EMPLOYES? PENSION PLEAS Utah Senator Does Dirty Work for Coolidge By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 7, —(FP)— President Coolidge has come out into the open with his fight against the bill permitting retirement of federal employes at 60 years of age with pensions to be contributed one-half by the employes and one-half by the gov- ernment. The rates would average about $700 a year with a maximum of $1,200 a year. Behind Coolidge is’ Senator Smoot of Utah, known throughout the~ civil service as czar of that vast organiza- tion. Smoot’s hold upon the civil service is maintained by his chairman- ship of the senate finance committee, his control of the bureau of efficiency red army is the defensive bylwark of the soviet union against these same powers. Then came speeches by Bucharin and Stalin, and greetings to the red army commander from the soldiers, as well as greetings to the red army from workers’ and peasants’ delegations. The delegates from the sections of the Communist Interna- tional, who. were in Moscow to attend the enlarged executive meeting, were present on the stage, and added an- other international aspect to the meet- ing. At 10 o'clock, after a short intermis- sion, a concert and entertainment be- gan. The best singers, chorus dancers, ballets, etc., in the soviet union enter- tained the audience until almost 3 o'clock in the morning. Tickets were distributed thru the factories and the red army units and the worker, sol- dier or peasant who secured a ticket was considered honored and fortunate. (From “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.) The Red Army of the Soviet Union keeps the enemies of the revolution at a safe distance. the Canton government. Chu-Chin- Min spoke in the strangest of all lan- guages to an Anglo-Saxon, but it could be’ felt that his sharp, high-pitched speech was‘a veritable war cry against foreign imperialism. His reception was a demonstration of the close feel- ing between the peoples of the east and the workers, soldiers and peas- ‘ants of the soviet union. The demon- stration was enthusiastic and pro- longed, and ended only when the sol- @iers’ orchestra broke out in the Strains of the International. The workers and soldiers, who occupled all the available seats and standing space from the stage to the topmost gallery of thé theater, in their warm greeting to the Chinese general re- flected the feeling of the masses of the Russian workers aud peasants toward the eastern peoples. Chu-Chin-Min, dressed in a quaint apron and blouse, small and quietly self-composed, but with a _ wiry strength and abundant energy, took his place in the speakers’ stand. A Chinese student who knew German translated to Bucharin as the speech went on, and Bucharin then translated the speech to the audience in Russian. Again there were storms of applause and again the International was played. Allies Against imperialism. Chu-Chin-Min, who had a few days previously addressed the meeting of the enlarged executive of the Commun- ist International, greeted the masses of workers and peasants of the soviet union in the name of the exploited masses and declared that the of the Chinese. and Russian masses were tho same. He greeted as an ally in the fight against imperialism in China, Oil and Blood D By JOSE MIGUEL BEJARANO. RIOR to 1916 the oil men went into Mexico as a burglar breaks into a home when the owners are asleep. They were let in by the treachery of the butler. They helped themselves, to the best of their ability, and even took possession of the house. The Mex- ican people upon awakening, perhaps | because they are weak, perhaps be- cause they realize that a compromise is desirable, do not attempt to throw the intruders out, but seek a working agreement which the outsiders are fighting to avoid. The majority of the people believe that American and British oil men went to Mexico to drill for ofl; they went also to drill for the honor of the country and the blood of the Mexicans, I was actively connected with the oil interests in Mexico for twelve years from 1902 to 1917. Vivid in my memory lives the nefarious time of the depreciation of the Mexican our- rency, when the Mexican dollar was worth five cents American money, The oil companies were selling their pro- ducts on a United States dollar basis and they were paying their Mexican employes on a paper money basis. Men with a salary of twenty pesos per week were receiving one dollar a week—they were being starved to death. r 4 The history of the acquisition of lands, of the exploitation of the fields, of the relations of the companies with the government in Mexico, is a history crime, ot infamy and subornation, which acts as a private investigating agency for him, and his indirect con- trol of various other committees in the senate that deal with appropria-- tions. Smoot is the stubborn enemy of humane measures affecting the 500,000 men and women who work for the United States government. He guides the Coolidge policy that has held house and senate committees back from making good their pledges of fair treatment of the federal em- ployes, ~ Draft Senate Bill. Now the house committee on civil service has secretly drafted a retire- ment bill, setting the retirement ages at 60 for railway mail clerks, 62 for carriers and mechanics, and 65 for general clerical employes. The pres- ent retirement age is 70 and the aver- age pension to civil servants is $450 a year. Senator Stanfield, in charge of the bill on the senate side, has begun to draft a scheme on the 60-62- 65-year plan, thereby indicating that the Coolidge-Smoot utlimatum has} been accepted in both branches of Congress, so far as the regular re- publicans and democrats are concern- ed. Denial of the right of the federal employes to the pension plan pro- moted by the National Federation of Federal Employes and by the post- office workers’ unions is definite. If the friends of the unions put up a con- test in the senate, the result may be defeat for any legislation this year. The administration will win, either way. President’s Tricky Work. Like the president's other achieve- ments in sly manipulation, this one was based on long delays, evasions of statement as to his position, and oc- casional hint that the federal em- ployes might rest assured that their interests would be duly conserved by him. When enough time had been consumed ‘to make sure that the situa- tion was firmly in his hands, the Presi- dent announced that he was,‘study- ing” the cost of the increased retire- ment pay. At the same time an an- onymous statement from administra- tion quarters appeared, claiming that the cost would be enormous. Green Forced to Aid. President Green of the American Federation of Labor replied by de- manding that mysterious personages in high position keep hands off, and that the 60-year and $1,200 limits be adopted. This challenge brought Coo- lidge from behind his cover of secrecy, He opposed the bill demanded by or- ganized labor. Finally, Smoot, boss of the civil service, went into action, and the house committee agreed to take his direction. Why Not Become a Worker Correspondent? Dutch Employers Form One Big Union Out of Three ‘Associations (Special to The Daily Worker) AMSTERDAM, April 7.—The fogma- tion of trusts and the fusion of em- ployers’ associations are by no means confined to the United States. Hol- land has witnessed such a combina- tion in the amalgamation of three em- ployers’ associations into a new or- ganization entitled the Union of Dutch Employers. The new body has a total of 417 individual members, 388 soci- eties of employers, totaling in all 1,476 heads of industrial undertakings who employ approximately 380,000 per- sons. The orthodoxs:protestant and the Roman catholi¢ employers are not included in the new combination but retain their own orgapizations, formed on lines of religious affiliation. Holland industrialized. The newly elected «president of the union in a survey of Holland’s growth pointed out that im 2889 out of a to- tal population of 4)509,000, there were 525,000 employed dm agriculture and 532,000 in industry;-<almost an equal division, ~ By 1920 :the population had gained 2,000,000. Those engaged in 1920 in agricultureq only increased } to 626,000 while those working at in- THE WAY FAKE "The Russian Woman on the Job ‘COMPENSATION’ eee LAWS OPERATE Bogus Michigan Law Not for Workers By a Young Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich. April 7 — In Michigan state, for “protection” of the workers, exists a so-called compensa- tion law which says that when a work- er is damaged in the process of his work the employer is responsible. But in practice it is otherwise. The em- ployers are protected against this law by insurance in some fake insurance company, This can be best illustrated by an instance, , A girl by the name of Dorothy Acker, working in the brush factory of A. Laitner & Son, standing 9 hours a day on a damp cement floor, got her feet chapped and one became infected. She immediately, according to the compensation law, reported to the boss. The boss sent her to his in- =3” surance company, the Globe Indemn- ity company, a New Jersey corpora- tion. The company sent her to their dustry had grown fo 11,029,000, or just about doubled. Commerce had shown a similar increase, jumping from the employment of 269,000 in'1889 to 581,- 000 in 1920, Labor Officials Ask 8-Hour Day in Virgin Islands Bill of Rights WASHINGTON, ‘April 7. —(FP)—| her at her home, Proposing a series of amendments to the Griest-Willias bill éstablishing civil government in the Virgin Islands, Edward McGrady, legislative a; hotest for the Axidciga rarteration ct Labor, Pestimas Det Work ot S26 Ta vey, ee and Santiago Iglesias, secretary of he sent a bill for $80.00 to her boss the Pan-American Federation of La- and the boss, being insured, sent this bor, were heard by.the senate com-| Dill to the Globe Indemnity Co., the mittee on insular possessions and ter-|10ctor received a letter. “We have no ritories. In the proposed bill. of rights, they of traumatic origin and we ‘would not asked that there be included the eight |@ tMterested in any bill’ for service hour day for all labor on public work, and compensatien for injuries re- ceived by workers in’ the~course of |@!d not receive any pay. their employment. “They asked that the interior department, which is civil- ian, be made federal ‘chstodian of the | VoTKers are perverted to the interests Island’s affairs, instead) 6f the insular |f bureau, which is mifithry. They de-|S#arks. manded that all qwélifications for voting in the first and subsequent Bishop Brown and elections, based on property or lit- eracy, be stricken ouf., The bill now provides that existing franchise reg- ulations shall goverm,<the first elec- tion, This means at. only a few hundred persons can yote at the first election, when the civil regime is in- augurated, >: Increase of Sleeping Sickness Is Alarming Physicians in England (Special to The Dally Worker) BIRMINGHAM, England, April 7—]| with the living conditions existing in British medical authorities are becom-fthe southern and western States and ing more and more,alarmed at the|is a powerful orator. menace of sleeping sickness, not only in the increasing death rate but from|welcomed to come and hear what the ravages of the disease upon the | these two nationally prominent speak- mentality ahd the morality of opil-| ers have to say. dren, An average of 5,000 fersons suffer annually from sleeping sickness of months’ duration im. England and Wales. Deaths in the first nine months of 1925 numbered 1,157, according to vital statistics published here today. Dr. George A. Auden, medical health officer to the Birmingham schools, moral caused by sleeping sickness that they have had to have them certified un- rillérs in Mexico Teapot Dome must be fresh in the mind of every American. If the oil interests did that in the United States, what would they not dare do in a so- called “backward” country in the grip of revolutionary turmoil? Certgin for- | eign capital goes to Mexico in the |hope that the law may be violated | there with more impunity, Investigate how the oil General Manuel Pelaez held out, controlling the oil region against President Car- ranza who—inoidentally—was killed by one of Pelaez’ lieutenants. Find out what-the horrid “white guards” (guardias blancas) are. Ascertain who backéd Victoriano Huerta, the assas- sin of President Madero, and where Adolfo de la Huerta got his main sup- port in the recent revolt. The hand of the oil trust is behind each, By means of able press agents the oil interests have been doping public opinion in this country, but the truth is leaking thru because the people of Mexico already point out with their finger who the guilty are, TO WORKER CORRESPONDENTS! When you send in news be brief. Tell what, who, whe where and why! 250 words but not more than Always use double-space, ink or typewriter, and write on one side of the paper only, Tell a complete” story in as few words as possible. You are NEW correspondents—don’t philosophize, der the lunacy acts, Oil King’s Son Offers Egypt $10,000,000 of Exploitation Profits NEW YORK, Apgil 7.—A revised form of John D, Rockefeller Jr.’s offer of $10,000,000 to the Egyptian govern- ment for archaeological research em- bodying changes suggested by Premier Ziwar Pasha of Rgypt was on its way to Cairo today, aceording to an an- nouncement made pont the Rockefel- ler offices. ae The announcement stated the offer would be withdrawn if that is neces- sary to end the contgoversy which has arisen in Egypt over its acceptance. Cleveland Women Meet to Oppose Militarism CLEVELAND, April 7.—A confer- ence will be held on Saturday, April 10, at the Goodrich House settlement, 1420 East 31st street, at 8 p. m., for the purpose of forming a Women Workers’ Progressive League. The aim of the conference is to take up the question of militarism In the pub- lic schools of Cleveland, which tho banished by the board of education, the militarists insist upon restoring. The danger of war arising out of the militarism that is preached and practiced in the schools and other institutions of the/®ountry is also to be discussed, Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop ’ hs makes the startling assertion that ae many Birmingham parents have been law, reduted to such deep despair by the|exnorts “bootleg alcohol” into the dry changes -inw their children | provinces of Canada, Emory R. Buck: doctor. The doctor charged her, not the boss, $3.00, Infection Spreads Meanwhile the infection progressed }. farther and farther. She called an- other doctor whom she paid .and it was found that to save her it was necessary to operate at once. And because she was poor and could not afford to go to a hospital which in Detroit, is extremely expensive, she begged a private doctor to operate on < (From “Komsomolskaya Pravda”.) Burrying the rubbish of religion, superstition and czarist “THE TORRENT’ United States Deports 55,110 Aliens in Last Period of Eight Months A Review Having named their picture’ “The Torrent,” the producers thereof ‘de (Special to The Daily, Worker) WASHINGTON, «April. %: <The cided to incorporate that phenomenon into their film, altho to any unbiased monthly, immigration: statisties.. for February show’ 30,673 aliens admitted observer an earthquake, snowstorm, or cyclone would seem to have’ been and 11,683 departed. ® equally fitting. Once the torrent was Of the 1,453 aliens. debarred: in February, from. entering the United in, however, it became obvious to the director that someone must switn it~ States 204 were rejected at the sea ports of entry..°: + B ky During the past two months there was a sharp falling off in the number of aliens deported from the country| “brave” the torrent, as it were. For for various causes under+the general| ‘lis task Mr. Ricardo Cortez was‘se- immigration laws, 532 hawing, been cai His pe in ee pda oe vas to save the opera singer, Dona deported in January: ahd /canlgy A48; in Brunna (Miss Greta Garbo) owns lived at the other end of the river. Envel- oped in a handsome negligee;~she caustically informed Mr. Cortez that February, . Nearly one-half of the 20,041 im- she wanted none of his saving. Barlier in the film we have seen Miss Garbo migrant aliens landed in February and her father driven from the village came from Burope.. Germany, still leading the list from that continent by Mr, Cortez’ flinty-hearted: mother, who, in order to rid her son of: Miss with 3,224, furnished more; than : the combined total from Great. Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Denmark; France, Garbo’s presence, precipitately fore- closed the mortgage which she’ eon- ¥ veniently held on the old homestead. and Switzerland. ve ar Mostly Adults, About three-fourths of the present-| This crafty female wished her son to day immigrant,aliens are in:the prime| marry a young Spanish heiress in- of life—16 to 44 years old, In: thej stead of the poverty-stricken Greta, past eight months only 17::out of] Mr. Cortez as Don Rafael had sworn every 100 were 16 years of age, and| eternal allegiance to Mlle. Garbo, but only 10 out.of every 100 over. 45! after her departure for the great city years. ‘The immigrant aliens:coming| (where, as you may imagine, she.is during this:period were about equally | readily metamorphosed into a grand divided by sex, but in the pregent out-| opera star) he promptly engaged him- ward movement of emigrant aliens] self to the heiress, Returning home the men exceed the’ women by three} la Magda, Miss Garbo dazzles the to one. natives with her splendor, the plethora ; Gets Bill, * The doctor did and treated her after- ds for 5 weeks till she was able to reason to believe that this “injity is rendered to her.” And besides this, for the 5 weeks she was’ if bed she Thus we see that the’ véty*laws sup- posed to be for the benefit of the the employers — and. insurance h Clark to Speek..in Pittsburgh Sunda: PITTSBURGH, April 7.—Pittsburgh will hear Bishop William Mbitgomery Brown, Sunday evening,;Aprik 11, at 7 o'clock at the N. 8. Carnegie Music Hall, corner Federal and-B, Ohio Sts. The meeting is held under-the auspices of the International Labor Defense. Along with Bishop Brown there: will also be another speaker, Stanley Clark, who is coming here from’ Seattle, Wash, Clark is very well acquainted Admission is free and everybody is U. S. Attorney Shows of her jewels, and th ea Monster Underworld Deportation Figures. graphic—of her. trhimphe, Aaaitety Business in Bootleg} of the 55,110 emigrant aliens de-|Tght at this point that Don Rafael feels it incumbent upon him to swim the torrent, and vainly offer himself to his whilom sweetheart. Spurned, he follows her to Madrid, where the two make plans to depart together for l’Amerique. But it appears that our hero fs . definitely knotted to his mother’s apron-strings, for just as he is about to bring his beloved a sprig of orange- blossoms emblematic of their ‘affec- tion, mama’s deputy in the form of the family lawyer appears upon the scene, and by skill in debate’ per- suades Rafael to abandon the Brunna and the light life of which she isan exemplar, and return to the simplo heiress, who is his mother’s choice, Rafae?, over-obedient, forgets to re- member—insofar as the orange-blos- soms and Dona Brunna are concerned, He returns. to his native village, be. Comes a petty political leader and a dutiful husband and father, whereas constr apy etc lage more lovers, monkeys, diamonds, automo! triumphs, writs! At the end there is a hit of muddle- headed moralizing in a sub-title wien informs us that if we cannot have the best we must do with the second-best, This picture is a prime example of movie-pretentiousness with no slight- est suggestion of cerebration con cealed anywhere therein. ‘The Dho- tography is pleasant enough, but the aptamer foolish narrative is de. ‘eloped without sense, Searase Judgment or Miss Garbo, who is new Pretty girl, but I fear she has distance to travel before she pa a } vince anyone that she knows about acting. She is, in fact, a pain- ful example of a player whose ev motion has been palpably directed by The m, bad Charles ateonte If you want to see th Com. * states. ! munist movement Krow—get a his ported: inthis period, 76 per cent were from 16 to 44 years of age, and 20 per cent were 45 years and over, while only 4 per cent were children under 16 years old. More.than 37,660 of the total emigrants reporting length of residence had been here not over five years, and 42,735 had resided here not over ten years. PPh wore (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 7 — A mon- underworld bootleg industry, Ing the American prohibition has grown so powerful it now ner, United States attorney for the southern district of New York, testi- fied today before the senate “wet and dry” committee. Buckner painted an amazing picture of the boofleg underworld thriving on diversions of industrial alcohol from legitimate busine: Its supply to a dry but ever-thirsty America, he said, has even cut down the smuggling of foreign liquors into the United States, “because it is easier to get.” The.il- 1 alcohol diversions last year alone, he declared, supplied the boot- leg trade with $3,600,000,000 worth of illicit drin! eeting arranged by the Buffalo local of the International ‘bor Defense. : Brown spoke on Evolution and Revo- lution. The lecture was received i After the lecture by J. Clark of Portland, Ore... spoke on behalf of the International Labor De- fense. He narrated cases of working class fighters being persecuted jailed on account of their militancy, and pointed out the crying need’ fc defense and relief. A large collection was taken, which will go to help de- fend workers on trial before capital- ist courts, and to help support the dependents of class war-prigoners, -| American Firm Gets Mexican Plow Orders LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 7.—Louis- ville is benefiting from the appropria- tion of $30,000,000 ‘by the Mexican congress for agricultural development Be a worker correspondent. It pays for the workers, It hurts the bosses. Civil War Veteran Mistakes Snipe for Hawk; Fine Remitted (Special to The Daily Worker) HAMMOND, Ind., April 7—William Comer of Tippicanoe, Ind., a grizzled veteran who marched with Sherman to the sea, confessed in federal court here lay with considerable heat that he had violated the federal migra- tory bird act. “IT wouldn't lie about it, judge,” he said. “I shot the damned old snipe thinking it was a hawk that had been stealing my chickens,” Judge James Slick fined Comer $10 and costs and remitted the costs, to us, isa - someone who did th “T haven't got #10," ") sald the old thinking for her, Mr. Corp ti soldier, _ Bov-| vacillating lover is acceptable, al “Remit the fing,” said the judge, haven't fare to Tippecanoe,” the veteran said. “Mr. Marshal,““tireeted the court, “see that Mr, Comer gets home safe- ly, Call the next case,” the part is quite impossible, minor characters range fro worse, These are wk sold to the peasants by the government at reduced prices and on to en- courage the agricultural development of some of the more backward