The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1926, Page 2

Page Two ’ FRANCE FACES SLAVERY UNDER NEW DAWES PLAN Reply from Paris Ex- pected Soon (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April £2. — Wall Street’s government is still re- lentlessly driving toward a Dawes plan for France. That government has been given a ‘take it or leave it” proposi- tion containing what are described as minimum terms of funding the war debt of $4,200,000,000, it was officially disclosed at the treasury today. The French cabinet is now presumably considering the figures. The strict terms are designed also for political purposes in the coming campaign, as already the administra- tion fears the defeat of those senators and congressman standing for re-elec- tion who have supported the Morgan Trepublican~iemocratic coalition in all the recent legislation. Reply Expected Tomorrow. The American terms were contained in a counter-proposal handed Ambas- sador Beringer on Tuesday and cabled to Paris, A reply is expected not later than tomorrow and may be forthcom- ing late today. While the treasury declined to make public the figures offered France, it is reliably understood they involve pay- ments of not less than $40,000,000 an- mually for the first five years of a 62- year agreement, with graduated pay ments running to approximately $1 000,000 annually in the later years. ‘The $40,000,000 figure is the same as that proposed by Caillaux here last October. The security clause has been elimi- nated entirely, it is understood. Now Up to France. While treasury officials asserted to- day that “it is now entirely up to France,” they declined to state whether the American proposition is fin the nature of an “ultimatum.” Questions as to whether the negotia- tions had passed “the trading stage” Were pointedly evaded. It was as- serted, however, that France will get mo better terms than proposed in the offer now before the cabinet Parents Win Fight With ,. School Board Over the Transfer of Children The parents of children going Lewell school, Hirsch and Spauldir streets, have won a fight with ti school board that has been wagin since February 1, when large number: of the children were ordered by schoo authorities to transfer to other schools ‘because of overcrowding. Organized into the Northwest Par ents’ League, they have kept up a constant battle with the McAndrew ‘board for the reversal of the order to send their children to schools outside of the neighborhood. Many of the parents have kept their children out of e@chool since February in protest. The board has finally agreed to re- turn the children to their original school of record and to take steps to build additions to Lowell school. The parents’ cause became a serious one when one of the children, in going the further distance to a new school and having to cross streetcar tracks, ‘was run down and injured by a truck. Machinists’ President Recovers from Illness WASHINGTON—William H. John- ston, president of the International-As- sociation of Machinists, has returned to hig desk at general headquarters in ‘Washington after a serious illness of seven months, during which Vice- President Conlon has acted as presi- dent, Much of his time absent has ‘been passed by Johnston in Florida, where 60me years ago he bought a small fruit farm. your eyes! Look arounar {There are the stories of the workers’ oth } around you begging to be jet «By Do it! Send it in! Write as you fight! ‘To.those who work hard for their 1 will save 50 per cent on all the's dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. GRIGER & NOVAK « @ENTS FURNISHING and ‘MERCHANT TAILORS : Union Merchandise 4934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 Wood was found/to be unsatisfac- ‘y for steering wheels so straw was MANY SPEAKERS FOR CHICAGO CONFERENCE OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS The first conference of the Chi- cago district worker correspondents will be held on May 1st at 1 o’clock in the afternoon at the Workers’ House, 1902 W. Division St. Chicago. Jay Lovestone, Alexander Bittel- man, H. W. Wicks, Walt Carmon, Nat Kaplan, J. E. Snyder, M. A. Stolar and Nancy Markoff will ad- dress the conference on the follow- ing subjects: Our press as the collective agita- tor, propagandist and organizer. What is news for a militant works ers’ newspaper. The role of the worker corres- pondents in the vanguard of the re- volutionary proletariat. Shop bulletins, Closer co-operation between our newspapers with the aid of the worker correspondents. The party press builders and the worker correspondents, Classes for worker correspond- ents. National organization. International relations. International Communist Day. The Pittsburgh district Is plan- ning a conference that will be ad- dressed by J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, who will be in Pittsburgh for the May Day meetings, FORD PROCESSES NEED FEWER MEN; MORE PRODUCTION Admits Labor Is a Com- modity in Calculations Press DETROIT, Mich., April °‘ —Henry Ford recognizes that labor power is a commodity. He asserts without quali- fication, that “We want to save ma- terials and we went to save labor.” “We carry our cost out to four deci- mals. In making a small part for the Ford car by adding two cents to the cost of material the labor became much faster and where it cost $.2852 by the old method, we. now make the art for $.1663. It required twelve’ ‘new machines, out the saving was twelve cents per part. On a produption of 10,000, a aving of $1,200 per day is made, Straw Wood. bstituted and undef high heat press- e a wheel is madé)as hard as flint. yn his farm at Dearborn, Ford raises nine-months’ ‘supply of straw to nake forty4ive different parts of the ar. Cutting Down Cost. One young man was given the task of cutting down the cost of heat treat- ng operations. He describes how it was done. “Where four gas furnaces with six men and a foreman did 1,000 connecting rods an hour for the draw- ing operation alone, now two electric furnaces will both harden and draw 1,300 rods an hour, with only two men, one to feed and the other to take off.” Another Process. Transport workers also get hit by the Ford “Saving.” “An interesting piece of equipment is the reclaiming steel rolling mill. In the mill, rem- nants of stock too short to be used are reduced in diameter and increased to usable length by successive trips be- tween progressively small rolls. This salvage is done on the spot to save transportation.” Worker Hit. One can see by Mr. Ford’s plan that this is a great saving, but it is all to Ford and Co, The worker is simply laid off when new processes come along to take his place. It is plain that capitalists are not concern- ed about him. Sooner or later the machine process will compei the work- er to be concerned in himself. Labor Sports’ Union Plans Hike for May 9 In order to bring the members of the various organizations affiliated to the Labor Sports Union together it has been decided to hold a mass hike on Sunday, May 9. The hike will start from the end of the Grand avenue car line. Anyone who thinks this hike is going to be the usual straggling affair had better not come along. Several German comrades, who participated in many of the famous hikes of the Ger- man League are coming along and they will initiate the marchers into the fine points of the real hiking stride and formation. It is planned to cover territory on this hike. Seden- tary office workers are warned not to come along unless they anticipate a strenuous day. A bust of Lenin with each five hundred points. Get the point! ‘UNTIL THE END .E DAILY WORKER BRAND CROWE Now the Hamilton Club OF 1926" ISNEW| AS UNFIT TO |Weeps Over the Woes HANDLE CASE of the Nation’s Farmers STRIKE SLOGAN Furriers Prepared for Long Battle (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 30.—“Until the end of 1926—If necessary,” was the slogan voiced at the meeting of shop chairmen held in Webster Hall this afternoon where plans for the con- tinuation of the fur strike were dis- cussed. The meeting was unanimous in its approval of Ben Gold’s announce- ment that if negotiations for a settle- ment on the union’s terms were not successful, the strike would go on with undiminished vigor. Gold an- nounced that the general strike com- mittee was completing financial ar- rangements that would keep the strike going until the strikers’ cause was victorious. Forecasts Victory. “And it will be victorious,” said Gold, “in spite of all the opposition of the bosses, and all the activities of officials of the international who help the employers’ cause by their traitor- ous actions.” Gold then referred in detail to three articles attacking the leadership of the strike which are published this week in the Fur Worker, official organ of the union, The shop chairmen also spoke vehemently on this same sub- ject and denounced these officials who are betraying the strikers. They finally adopted, unanimously, a state- ment saying: Denounce Officials, “The recent issue of the Fur Work- er has clearly and publicly proven to all fur strikers, as well as to the en- tire labor movement, that our inter- national officials directly serve the manufacturers and exert all their power to help the bosses and defeat the strikers. The same policies used by provocateurs and traitors have also been adopted by the treacehorus Forward. It is very clear that the whole clique of traitors is working hand in glove with the manufacturers, “It is the first time in the history of the labor movement that officers of an international union, together with a so-called ‘workers’ paper’ (The For- ward) has openly acted as provoca- teur and strikebreaker, Enemies of Workers. “We, the shop chairmen want to state to the striking furriers and the sntire labor movement that the whole clique are considered by us as the bitterest enenfies of the fur workers and all workers. In our battle against the bosses for better conditions, we have already proved ourselves able to defeat all traitors and we will in the future as well as in the past 11 weeks do our utmost and exert our entire power and energy to win our demands and strengthen our union,” Negro Aviatrix Killed. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. April 30— William D, Wills, 24-year old white man, Dallas, Texas, and Bessie Cole- man, 26, of Chicago, said to be the only Negro aviatrix in the world, were killed this morning in an exhi- bition airplane flight west of the city when their plane took a 3,500 foot nose dive to the ground. CACERES, Spain, April 30—Nine persons were killed and many in- jured today when a train was derailed State’s Attorney Is on Defensive State’s Attorney Crowe is decidedly on the defensive today because of the up- heaval resulting from the slaying Tuesday night of his star assistant prosecutor, William H. MeSwiggin in company with two notorious beer run- ners and gun-men, t Practically every civic ¢rganization and newspaper in Chicago has come to accept the interpretatio® first put forth by The DAILY WORKER to the effect that the triple murdér was the result of a feud bétwéen"'the O’Don- nell-Doherty gang and the Brown- Torrio beer-runners over the monopoly of booze selling in Cicero and envi- rones, Be It is plain to everyone that the state’s attorney dare hot conduct a thoro investigation and make it public because he, as the head of the notori- ous Crowe-Barrett wing \df the repub- lican party, is so steeped in corrup- tion that he would be’driven from of- fice covered with infamiy. Denunciations of Crowe pour in from ever source. Unfit to Handle Cases, Harry Eugene Kelly, president of the Union League Club, one of the numerous civic ‘bodies that have horned in on the recent murders, charges Crowe with being wholly un- fit to handle the McSwiggen-Doherty- Duffy case becausé of the intimate connection between politics and beer running. “I have nothing personal against Mr. Crowe,” Mr. Kelly said, “but ob- viously he is wholly unfit to go into the ‘beer racket,’ because it is mixed up all down the line with politics. “He is not only a capable politician but is the head and front of the pow- erful faction known ,as the Crowe wing. He is directing head of a fac- tion organized for politics and politics only. j “Therefore, the citizens cannot ex- pect Mr. Crowe to prosecute the kind of an investigation this,city requires. “Not only crime growing out of the ‘beer racket,’ but the repeated charges of wholesale frauds gn primary and election days have never been ade- quately inquired into, in my opinion. Hit Vote Frauds, ‘As bad as the down in law enforcement is, the protection of the ballot box is of special importance at this hour. “What I would like to see is a real grand jury investigation into the whole crime situation, with particular emphasis on the imdunity gunmen seem to enjoy, and algo into the bal- lot frauds.” Wolff Raps Crowe. Coroner Oscar Wolff also takes a rap at Crowe and his political ma- chine by revealing the fact that he was not even notified of the crime until more than seven hours after it occurred, “I should like to know what could have been their motive for keeping this crime a secret from the office of supreme jurisdiction in such matters. The whole affair is strange. English Leaves for Trial. E, St. Louis, Ill, April 30—Federal Judge George W. English of the east- ern district of Illinois, will leave at noon today for Washington, where he is scheduled to appear Monday before the United States senate in response to a summons in the impeachment proceedings pending'there against him. XM between Caceres and Astoria, if MAY DAY w fy, ENG . GREETINGS ~/_ & to The DAILY W 0 RKER We show our working class solidarity and greet our fighting Daily Worker and all workers on this day of our class. , I Chicago, Ill. GREETINGS to the DAILY WORKER Shop Nucleus No, 17. as Se Greetings from MODERN GROCERY 238 Columbus Ave., Pittsfield, M: Full line of Communist publicat! sold at cost price (no mail orders). Orders and Subs Taken——STEP IN NOTE: Your oe standing Com- munist card will mean to you 12 off on ane purchase in cash or cre at this store at any time, Store is open from 7 A.M. till 11 P.M. Every Day. MAY DAY GREETINGS from L. Luganov » F. Borich F. Mujica STREET NUCLEUS 13, Local Chicago, W. P. GREETINGS from IZZY METROVICH WORLD ECHOES Militant Workers Mass nist Committee of tl tens of millions of workers in every By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Naar warm days are here. Capitalism’s puny statesmen in Washington are getting tired of doing nothing. They want to go home. They are strenuously pushing for the hour of adjournment without attending to the pressing farm crisis, hailed by the Hamilton Club of Chicago as “our greatest national problem.” The Hamiltonians, with tears in their eyes, plead with congress to remain in session until steps have been taken “to redeem the promises made to the farmers of the nation.” Just what promises the Hamiltonians refer to, it is dif- ficult to say. If all the promises made had been fulfilled, the farmers would be affluent enough to join the Hamilton Club and loll about in its sumptuous quarters for the remainder of their natural lives, e ° ° ° The Hamiltonians are not pleading for the farmers. Every intelligent and wide-awake tiller of the soil knows that. The Hamiltonians are bankers, landlords, grain gam- blers, food speculators and big industrialists, who depend On the “prosperity” of the far-flung agricultural distticts to be found wherever the compass points. If the farmers haven't the funds to plant and raise their crops, toiling endlessly under the coming summer's sun, then the parasites of the Hamilton Club may have to sell some of their automobiles and forget next winter's sojourn in Florida. Over that pros- pect they weep. e . - * The Hamilton Club is named after that arch-reactionary, Alexander Hamilton, who stalked thru history’s pages at the dawn of the nation. Hamilton was a banker in New York City, founder of the Bank of the United States, a semi-gov- ernment institution. His position was entrenched thru the fact that he was secretary of the treasury under the first president, George Washington. This is the job that “Andy Mellon” now holds. Hamilton was an aristocrat. He believed in a highly centralized government, which means the tyranny of big business. Later he nearly became president. But congress decided for Thomas Jefferson, who has given his name to Jeffersonian clubs, just as Hamilton performs the same service for Hamiltonian clubs. The Jeffersonians often rant about democracy. The Hamiltonians never do. They feel themselves a part of the blue-blooded aristocracy of all time. For such an outfit to make a hypocritical plea for the poor farmers is enough to chill the devil himself be- fore his highest flaming furnaces. It is a grim joke. * * * ° Bankers, landlords, speculators on the board) of trade and the stock exchange, the meat packers and theif fellow profiteers are interested in the farm problem only as it helps their bank accounts. It is pointed out in Bassett’s history of the United States that when Alexander Hamilton’ presented a “financial plan” to congress it “pleased the property-own- ing class.” The only farm plan that will please the Ham- ilton Club will be the plan that “pleases the property-owning class,” because that includes themselves. nd It may safely be said that there is no farm legislation now before congress that will be of great benefit to. farmers. * * * * This is true because the land workers, the grain, corn, cotton and other farmers, are not organized on the’ basis of a fight for concessions to their class. They are divided into a multitude of competing economic organizations. — Politi- cally, they allow themselves to drift between the two old parties. Unity with the workers in industry thru a Labor Party will develop the political struggle on a class basis. Economic organizations waging a class fight against the bankers, landlords and speculators, will develop a struggle where the real interests of the exploited farmers will come to the front for the first time. The farmers have not yet be- gun to fight. That is why the Hamilton Club can shéd hypo- critical tears and not make themselves the laughing stock of Lea ed making any claim to the least intelligence. When the farmers begin to wage a war for their own interests the Hamiltonians will wipe away their tears, raise the pirate flag of their class, and reveal themselves as the buccaneering capitalists that they are. WILLIAMSON TO GIVE REPORT ON Y, 6. 1. ON FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 14 The report of the enlarged plenum sessions of the Young Communist International will be given by Com- rade John Williamson, at the next membership meeting of Local Chi- cago of the Young Workers (Com- munist) League. The meeting will be held Friday, May 14, Address of hall to be given later. Comrade Williamson has recently returned from the Soviet Union and has attended all the meetings of the Executive Committee during the two months that he was there. Every league member should come to the CHALLENGE OF MAY DAY, 1926 Behind Comintern Under the banner of the Commu- Internation: the Executive World Revolution, party of the world gather again to observe Labor’s International Holl- day—May Day. In Paris, where the recent election of two new Communist workers’ deputies to the chamber has caused French jingoism to shake in its boots; in London, where the whole working: class movement is mobilizing behind the miners for a historic battle with decadent English imperialism; in Berlin, scene of three working-class revolutions; in awakened China where the masses are rallying for the great struggle against the foreign, in- vading exploiters; in Moscow, the heart of the workers’ and peasants’ republic, approaching the ninth year of its revolutionary existence—in all the great working-class centers of the world, millions of workers are rally- meeting for this will be the one and only report that the comrade will give in Chicago. ing to sound a warning to the pres- ent order. East and West, North and South, the cry is heard today, “The end of capitalism approaches—Hajl the So- viet Republics of the World.” America Joins. In America, the militant workers collect in city and town and village to show their allegiance to the revo- lution and solidarity with their com- rades thruout the world. In an ad- joining column will be found a list of great mass meetings that will be reached by this edition of The DAILY WORKER, iden the Worker Correspondent Movement! HELP ORGANIZE DISTRICT CONFERENCES OF WORKER CORRESPONDENTS IN YOUR SECTION OF THE NATION! i 169 MINERS IS DEATH TOLL IN MONTH OF MARCH Average 2,000 Deaths a Year WASHINGTON, April 2% —Aecti- dents in coal mines in the United States during March cost the lives of 169 miners, according to reports from state mine inspectors of the bureau of mines. Of this total 132 men were killed in bituminous mines and 37 in the anthracite. Coal production for the month was 64,927,000 tons, of which 46,137,000 tons were bitumé- nous. This made'the fatality rate 3.8 per million tons, average, the rates for bituminous and anthracite repect- ively being 2.86 and 4.21. 658 in Three Months. An explosion at Eccles,. W. Va., March 8 killed 19 men. It was the seventh major disaster this year, these seven explosions having killed 190, of the miners. For the same period in 1925 there were three major disasters ‘ which cost 91 lives. All mine acci- dents for the first three months of 1926 have caused the deaths of 658 ‘men, a8 compared with 630 killed in the same period of 1925. Gas and dust explosions are credited with the large number of major disasters this year. 2,000 Year. Philip Murray, vice-president of the United Mine Workers of America, tes- tifying on coal legislation before the house committee on interstate and for- eign commerce recently, said that the average total of deaths per year among American coal miners on the job is 2,000, while 150,000 of them are injured. He declared that complete unionization of the industry would bring about a very great decrease in the number of killed and injured in mine accidents, because better en- forcement of safety rules would be secured, THIS MAN Is a-Sad Case He hasn’t yet got a single sub for The DAILY WORKER in this campaign. $s0— He can’t get a Book of Cartoons or A Bust of Lenin Or help his city get A Banner From Moscow or Berlin And he can’t be a can- didate for the trip TO MOSCOW This man is sure a sad, sad case, DON'T YOU BE LIKE THIS POOR FISH!