The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1926, Page 3

( FRANG CRASH ASCRIBED TO EVIL SPIRIT Briand M ay Reorganize Cabinet to the Right (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, June 7. — Consternation relgns In high French government Ircles- over the new crash In the rice of the franc, which dropped rom. 3.20 to 3.04 during the last week. Coming from a cabinet council meeting Raoul Peret, the present finance. minister, appeared at the point of collapse and had only the most empty of statements to explain the continued fall of the French franc, Evil Spirlts to Blame. “The sudden fall of the franc is inexplicable,” he said, “I cannot un- derstand it. It must be the result of ing justifies the new depreciation and heavy foreign speculation surely is at the bottom of the trouble,” The Briand cabinet continues to Protect the wealthy class by refusal to levy taxes against them, while put- ting all possible burden upon the poor ‘by consumption taxes on necessities of fife. The crisis is, however, due to cause the fall or reorganization of the Briand cabinet. To Reorganize Cabinet to the Right. » Reports are that Briand ig to reor- ganize the cabinet by turning over more of power to the right national- ist-royalist group and shutting out the so-called left Radical and Radical So- efalists from participation, thus also creating a new majority in the cham- ber of deputies by an alliance be- tween the right and center moder- ates. It was the left bloc, however, which gave him the last two votes of confidence and such @ maneuver means inviting war with his former supporters. Meanwhile, business is in confu- sion, the law against conducting trade or any sort of business in any other money but the franc is evaded at MAY NUMBER OF “NEW MASSES” BARRED FROM MAILS BY WASHINGTON NEW YORK, June 7.—The May issue of the New Masses, the new revolutionary magazine of art and literature,” has been barred from the mails, editors of the magazine learned yesterday. A week ago, the “New Masses” was informed by the New York postmaster that he had received Instructions to bar the magazine from the mails. The os- tensible reason for the refusal to grant the “New Masse: a second class mailing permit is “obscenity,” it was learned by a member of the staff who went to Washington to ig vestigate the situation. “Soft Little Women," © by Hal Saunders White, was declared porno- graphic by the post office officials, although there is no legal definition of obscenity. Editors of the maga- zine belleve that if the poem had ap- peared in a magazine with conven- tional political views the authorities would not have objected to White's poem, McDONALD WILL HEAD WHITEWASH Charge of Quiz whitewash his office, state’s attorney. ELECTION PROBE Bank Head Will Be in Charles A. McDonald, vice-president in charge of the trust department of the Foreman Trust and Savings Bank, has now been appointed by Chief Jus- tice Lynch as the special state’s at- torney to handle the probe into elec- tion frauds and connections between gangland and law enforcement offi- cials requested by State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe in an attempt to MecDonald’s appointment followed immediately.on the refusal of Joseph P, Mahoney, a Brennan democrat, who worked for the election of Crowe in the last election, to serve as special Municipal Judge Trude, it is stated, is to be one of the first to be called. U.S, WITHHOLDS VISAS FOR FIFTY RUSS STUDENTS Invited Here by Fordson Tractor Co. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. 8. R., June 7.—A month and a half ago a party of fifty young Russian studente left here at the invitation of the Fordson Tractor Co. to go to Detroit for a study of tractors at the Fordson plant. They have been held up since that time in Riga and Berlin awaiting American visas to complete thelr journey to the United States. The students were sent by the Ag- ricultural Co-operative Union. One of the officials of that body had the fol- lowing to say about the passport de- lay: “We were promised American visas. The delay is already excessive and we can’t afford to hold our people indefinitely at Riga and Berlin. Give 48 Hours. “The present economy campaign in Russia means that all expenditures must be carefully scrutinized, and it is difficult to justify this expense longer. Unless visas are granted within forty. eight hours we shall wire them to re- turn, “The curious part of the affair is that not only were we assured that there were no objections to granting visas, but we already sent ten of our people to work and study during April in the tractor plant of the Advance- Rumely Thresher Co, at La Porte, In- diana. They got their American visas‘ without any trouble and there has been no complaint against them in the United States. Sold 10,000 Tractors. “The men sent out in reply to the Fordson offer were selected thruout Russia and their experience would un- doubtedly be valuable to us while broadening the Fordson market here.” The Fordson Company has sold more than 10,000 tractors in Russia to date. Elsinore, Scene of Drama of Hamlet, to Hold an Anniversary COPENHAGEN, June 7.—The an- cient Danish city of Elsinore, which was immortalized by Shakespeare in THE DAILY WORKER gh, Worker C STORIES OF LABOR! WIN THESE BOOKS! addition to your library, of great Interest to all workers, 1 SINGER WORKER SHOP BULLETIN GETS WELCOME Produces D. d for Organizing Plant By a Worker Correspondent, BLIZABHTH, N. J., June 7.—At the Elizabeth plant of the Singer Manu- facturing company the other day there appeared the first issue of the “Singer Workers’ Bulletin,” published by a group of workers in Singer’s plant. Several thousand were distributed and the workers in practically all de partments greeted the first issue of the plant paper very enthusiastically, with such comments as “Right idea!”, “That's good stuff!” and so on. Many workers wanted to organize a union right away. The bosses were, mad with rage, looking everywhere for the source of supply, but without avail. There were no arrests. This was the happiest day of my life to see such enthusiasm on the part of the workers right in the Singer plant. Workers of the Singer plant, rally to the organized labor movement! To the writer of the best (very short) story on wages, condi- tions or life of workers sent in this week, the following prizes will be given and announced in the issue of June 11: —MANASSAS, by Upton Sinclair. A novel of the Civil War. —A MOSCOW piARy, by Anna Porter. A record of vivid impressions of an extensive trip thru Russia. A fine pAb AWAKENING OF CHINA, by Jas. H. Dolsen. A new book Living Newspaper Given Owing to Bad Weather By a Worker Correspondent, In spite of the rainy weather, a fair- ly big crowd attended the picnic of the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian Workers’ Clubs last Sunday at Marvel Inn Grove, On account of the rain the program was somewhat curtailed. Only about a half of the Rudsian Living Newspa- Der was read when the rain came down heavy and the issue was cut short, The Living Newspaper in Eng- ish was not issued at all for the same reason, The following Russian worker cor- respondents read their articles: Moro- sov, Kotov, Yakovlev, Krivoy, Epel- baum, Volodarsky Zhestkov Deviatkin and Miroy. The last reader was unable to finish on account of the rain. Two hundred copies of the Novy Mir, many copies of Trybuna Robot- nicza, and literature in Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and English was sold. The Living Newspaper in English will be issued at some other outing. The DAILY WORKER builders and worker correspondents were out in full force. We need more news from the shops and factories. Send It In! | Only Part of the Russian PENNA-OHIO ELECTRIC CO, LINE STRUCK Linemen Joined by Fel- low Workers By a Worker Correspondent, NEW CASTLE, Pa.—(By Mail)— The linemen of the Penna.-Ohio Elec- tric company went on strike June ist for a 10-cent and ‘hour increase in wages. They were getting 90 cents, From all indications it looks like a de- cisive victory for them. Mr. ler, the chief engineer, has a gang of about 15 scabs here, who just started to work, They look just like typical “breakers,” as they are thoroughly ignorant of electric line work, Most of them are acting as bulls and are heavily ermed, A Professional. This same Mr. Iler enjoys a rather unique reputation as unioh smasher, as he broke up the linemen’s organiza- tion at Atlanta, Georgia, several years ago. The men have been leary of him ever since the P, & O. hired him about two years ago. The New Castle district employs about 18 linemen. Although the sroundmen and the truck drivers are not organized they voted unanimously to refuse to work or drive trucks for the scabs. Offered $1,000 To Die, Here is the case of their brother street car motormen. Mr. Graham, their general superintendent, gave them a nice long speech on “co-opera- tion” and painted a nice picture of “continued good will” on the part of the company in a plan which I believe wins the hand-painted ash can. It gives the motorman a $1,000 in- surance policy and a new suit of clothes every year. The highest wages paid them is 62 cents an hour, although some of them have been with the company for years. A short while ago they had a banquet for all the employes who had worked 20 years LENIN ON ORGANIZATION Volume |, Lenin Library In this new book just off the press every worker will find answer to alt questions of the fundamental problems of organization answered by our great leader. Get these collected speeches and writings of LENIN for your library. CLOTH BOUND o.ccceccenese By LENIN: State and Revelution Imperialism .. Infantile Sicknes On Co-operatives A new book and the first ever written for American workers on this question. With many maps, Gemotens and original documents $1.00 THE MENACE OF OPPORTUNISM. By Max Bedacht. The revolutionary movement has its dangers from within. This booklet is a timely warning against them, and a guide to correct principle........15 Cents READ ALSO: “Principles of Communism,” the orig- of the Communtve Mani- a ol or over. After the feed they were pre- sented with gold badges as an appreci- ation for their wonderful work, It 1s no wonder they offered them a new suit @ year as some of them can not afford it on the wages they re- ceive, and therefore look pretty shabby. “Hamlet,” is to be the scene of a six weeks’ celebration beginning on July 4 of the five hundreth anniversary of the city’s founding by King Erick of Pommern, sixty-six ya#rs before Co- lumbus discovered America. Elsinore has existed as a fishing vil- lage for seven ‘hundred years and for more than five hundred the cannon on hamlet’s. stronghold, Cronborg castle, enforced toll for the king from passing ships. Thousands of ships each summer This move is looked on as an attempt to get the evidence that Trude seeks to present before Judge McKinley in his demand for a recount. Other wit- nesses that have declared that State’s Attorney Crowe and gangland terror- ized the voters in the April 13 primary elections will also be called before the Crowe-requested quiz. When they later appear before McKinley their testimony will have already been given and the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson fac- every hand, the dollar and the pound being the most usual money used to substitute for the franc whose value is nearing nothing and which is sub- ject to wild variations. NATION IN GRIP OF ELECTRIC POWER MONOPOLY WITH CONTROL MAINTAINED BY GREAT BANKERS By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press Correspondent. WASHINGTON, June 7, — (FP) — Proof that the electric power mono- _.Milwaukee Lathers and Plasterers on Strike for Increase Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of directors of the General Elec- tric Co., was a director of the Electric Bond & Share Co. until 1925, when Denver Carpenters Win 24-Hour Strike | MILWAUKEE, June 7.—Union lath- ; erg and union plasterers are on strike ( in Milwaukee for wage increases of 12% cents an hour to bring the scale to $1.37% an hour. About 100 in each eraft walked out, some returning to work when individual contractors signed at the new rate. The rate de- manded in Milwaukee is 12% cents under the current Chicago, rate for lathers and 25 cents under for plas- terers, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to-your union meeting. POEMS Edited by Manuel Gomez. A collection of choice working class poetry in a handy pocket volume, Should be included in every worker’s library— and indispensible for re- citation and all working class affairs. No. 5 in THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY 10 CENTS Twelve Copies for One Dollar Dally Workers Publishing Co. 1118 W. Washington Bivd, Just opened a new bargain wholesale prices. secret and occult forces inj egainst France and the franc. Noth- ATTENTION, WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear. Still further special nhclpomage for work- ers presenting this advertisement. REMEMBER: 236 E. 23RD ST. “THE POPULAR” Cook county gunmen. Switchmen’s Union Has Organization office al 166 W. Washington street. should have remained poorly organ like Chicago. We have 85 union vol erature to non-members.” in all directions from the city, The organization’s stronghold in point of organization is Buffalo, where the international headquarters are. The switchmen are affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and its railway employes department, store by the name “Popular” Will sell below tion will be able to answer it in their own way and whitewash the Crowe machine and their actions in the pri- mary elections just as the MeSwiggin probe was a whitewash of the conduct of the state’s attorney's office against Drive in Chicago Hundreds of applications for mem- bership in the Switchmen’s Union of North America have been signed since the campaign in the Chicago switch- ing area began a month ago, declares International Vice-President Perry, in charge of the newly-opened Chicago doctor down to the yard and wait for them at the gate. This was a late night shift and we were down at 6 o’clock in the morning to meet them “It is a disgrace that switchmen ized so long in a strong union town unteers working on the job to assis! our staff and we are getting 75 per cent favorable returns from our lit There are between 7,000 and 8,000 switehmen in the Chicago switching area, which extends 50 miles or more venturers from all parts of the known peare, who obtained while there the legend of Hamlet, which he used in his great drama of melancholy. No able seaman of those days was considered able unti] he had drunk deeply of ‘high-proof Danish liquor at Elsinore and fought his man in some brawl on the quay. Senate Will Probe WASHINGTON, June 7.—Without an opposing vote the senate adopted the Trammell resolution ordering the federal trade commission to investi- havegouged the public of no less than $500,000,000 during the past 12 months in excess of a fair price for motor fuel, Price increases in Virginia in four months have amounted to 33 per cent. Senator Harris of Georgia, former chairman of the federal trade commis- ion, supported the resolution. He de- lared Standard Oil is more effective n its monopolistic control of the mar- et than before its pretended dissolu- ion, Operating now as a number of ndependent companies, it is able to cut prices in one region, to undersell and ruin a competitor, while raising prices in all other regions, Senator Harreld of Oklahoma de- fended the ofl companies, claiming that gasoline prices have increased less since 1915 than have the prices of 400 other commoditie: way of Arkansas asked why the oil companies were afraid of the proposed inquiry, Harreld denied that he had spoken in their behalf, Many Chicago Iron Workers Still Strike Altho members of Local 63, the architectural branch of the fronwork- ers in Chicago, returned to work after one day on strike, Local 1, consisting of the structural workers, is still out, Both locals are asking a 12%-cent raise to $1.50 an hour, Railroad Wages. WASHINGTON, June 6, — (FP) — Reports by Class 1 railroads to the used to stop at Elsinore, bearing ad- world. Among these visitors toward the last of the XVI Century was Shakes- Standard Oil Prices poly in the United States is now com- plete and consolidated, is furnished in the June issue of the Journal of the Electrical Workers and Operators, by a study of power company consolida- tions and interlocking, prepared by the research bureau of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Blectrical Work- ers. A dozen years ago a federal study of the electric power industry in this country showed that the General Elec- tric group dominated the greater part of the field. Then came the world war, with its rapid expansion of big business enter- prises. Since the war the General Electric has taken the aggressive, In the cities and towns it has had no serious interference from any public power except thru the vote of various cities to produce and sell their own that time General Electric, Bond & Share. This claim is substantially untrue. statement that the Electric Bond & Share Securities corporation, created from $60 to $90. This transaction poly. Not merely does it show the control which the General Electric ex- ercises thru its holding corporation, the Electric Bond & Share Co., but it links up with them the émsull group in the Middle West and the Byllesby Interests in the Northwest, which in the past have been declared to be in- dependent of General Electric. The Web of Monopoly. Thus, the Hlectric Bond & Share Co. owns the American Superpower Co,, an investment and operating corpora- tion, which co-operates financially with the Insull group. American Super- power owns large bl of stock in Insull companies, incluliing the Mid- dle West Utilities Co., which is a big holding and operating company. In- asmuch as the Insull group, centred in Chicago, has recently reached out even to the New England territory, the financial interlocking with its big- ger rival is suspected, Byllesby interests are drawn into the General Electric web by means of the Electric Investors, Inc., owned by the Electric Bond & Share. Co. and owner of a large part of the stock of the Northern States Power Co. a Byllesby enterprise. This Northern States concern {s said to dominate the electric power situation in the North- west. Beside its grip upon the Insull and Byllesby companies, the Electric Bond & Share Co., dominates these major corporate groups: American Gas & Blectric Co.; American Power & Light Co.; Lehigh Power Securities corpora-\ tion; Electric Power & Light Co.; Montana Power Co, was a fake. By LELAND OLDS, Federated Pre: Thank God the general strike didn’t last long enough to wreck the London social season! ‘That sums up the view of the British owning class as expressed in the leading journals, It reveals the lack of social vision which always characterizes a parasitic mi- nority in an outworn economic order. Ascot Week. The removal of the strike shadow, according to a leading organ of lord Beaverbrook, means that “the season which looked like being wrecked will Beaverbrook is one of England’s newspaper magnates. London Season. “The London season,” the most brilliant and dazzling and crowded in yea bledon, with scores of private dances, surprise parties and treasure hunts, will last well into August.” Workers Livelihood. Says labor’s London "Daily Herald nding their children out tenements, . a were public protest at the growth of the Power monopoly became heated. At which owned all the stock of Dlectric Bond & Share, simply handed over to its individual stockholders their respec- tive shares of the stock of Electric It then announced that the companies were wholly separ- ated and had no common directors. The I. B. E. W. inquiry supports the by General Electric to take over and distribute the stock of Blectric Bond & Share to stockholders of General Electric, issued shares which sold at means simply that General Electric owns the Electric Bond & Share Sec- now only be concentrated. The pleas- ant routine which reaches fts culmi- nating point-around about Ascot week should be more attractive than ever.” two says the Rothermere press, the other important newspaper syndicate, ‘is going to be Dressmakers are busy. Grand opera, Ascot, Test Match cricket at Lords, polo, horse shows, lawn tennis championships at Wim- By a Worker Correspondent. DENVER, Col., June 7.—After being out for only 24 hours, 1,000 carpenters of Denver were granted the demands they made on their bosses. Some time ago the carpenters asked for $11 a day, an increase of $2 a day, but the Industrial commission granted them only $10 a day. When the time care for signing up new contracts for the year the bosses refused to even sign up at $10 a day, so the men struck, After being on strike for 24 hours, tieing up several large buildings, the bosses decided to give the men $10 a day. Work has again been resumed on six large build- ings under construction, which was heid up by the strike. Every Worker Correspondent must @ SEND IN@ SUB! BRITISH ARISTOCRATS REVEL AS WORKERS SEEK LIVELIHOOD in rags and broken boots. The dress- makers are not busy for them.” “Through their press,” it continues, “we can see into the minds of the possessing class, Let the knowledge stimulate us to effort. We can change it if we stand together as we stood during the 9 days.” Those unforgettable 9 days of the general strike, says ¢he Herald, “changed the whole perspective of the system in which that owning class was the principal object. Now it is the workers who loom huge and im- pressive. The owning class has shriv- elled up. We can make whatever changes we desire, if we go the right way to work.” Enmeshed in Pluto Politics. But here suddenly we come face to face with a sentence which reveals another lesson, taught by the collapse of the strike at the zenith of its power, a lesson far less hopeful. For the Herald adds: “The right way is the voting way.” British labor demon- strated its power to alter society through the general strike, but its leaders were enmeshed in the politics of capitalist democracy. Small won- der the privileged upper class turned back to its social season with a sigh of relief. written up. Do it! 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