The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 4

Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 7413 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712 fo cexcts st cleat as Mbaedileates es an ‘ SUBSCRIPTION RATES ¢ By mall (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chieago): ie $8.00 per year ' $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months 4 $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ¥ Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinels J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J, LOEB..... ditors Business Manager cago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. Organization—the Need of the American Negroes lining its future policy. Telling of the struggle against segregation in New Orleans, Dr.|- + - Lucas pointed out forcibly the difficulty experienced in getting any substantial aid from the more prosperous Negro groups—profes. sional and business men. or unwilling to enter directly into the struggle. i Neither did any considerable support come from “the better }... class of white people.” i The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People : is composed largely of intellectuals—professional men, lawyers, It attempts to arouse and organize protest against the most flagrant evils which are inflicted on the American Negroes—lynching, segregation, Jim Crowism, discrimination in } doctors, writers, etc. schools’and colleges. In this work it has had some moderate successes—in the legal sense as in the Sweet trial. But because its appeal is largely to the middle class Negro, the N. A. A. C. P. has not given any concrete organizational form to its activities. The overwhelming majority of the American Negroes are work- ers—industrial and agricultural.’ Any movement which does not base itself directly on the most virile and numerous section. of the American Negro race is bound to be weak and ineffective in com- parison with the magnitude of the problems it is trying to solve. The American Negroes must be organized if they are ever to wipe out the shameful wrongs they have suffered in America for 300 years. They are conscious of their wrongs and what is needed now is a combining of the mass strength of the race—economically and politically—with the white workers and farmers. The Negroes should wait no longer for the whites to organize them nor should they content themselves merely with demanding ad- mission to the trade unions. They can present a plan for the organ- ization of the Negro workers to the American Federation of Labor, leaders of the N. A. A. C. P. can offer their services to the A. F. of IL. in the capacity of orgafiizers and the A. F. of L., if it then re- Spt a should be made to deal with Negro trade unions or- A in spite of it. le tion to the organization work which must be done. \ Tf the N. A. A. C. P. conference will issue a ¢ the movement for genuine emancipation. | Coolidge Economy economy campaign. built over a period of five years. Aigplanes are peculiarly effective against colonial peoples and Many a young aviator will be trained for the list struggles of the future, for which preparations > striking” workers. gigantic imper are now being made, by bombing miners, steel workers and railway men, Mexicans, Chileans, Panamans and natives of other Latin ‘American countries, whose country America covets. This bill is only one of a series which appropriate huge sums for all branches of the army and navy and with which the Coolidge economy program has not interfered. The greatest industrial nation in the world, the United States, _* unless the workers and farmers achieve some considerable measure see of political power in their own right and thru their own party in the ig next few years, will become the greatest military nation. is individuals and corporations, fair words about peace but huge ap: pride. A Disciple of MacDonald oratory. y they all talked at once or not. a4 \was premier, from whence they were wafted into eternity. Ba \ Young Baldwin is only one more barnacle that has managed to i ‘en itself upon the working class of England. Seeing his associates ging in the most debasing religious vulgarization of socialism, them one better and, like the Maid of Orleans, hears voices f the workers move toward Communism. HE DAILY WY ORKER KAISER BEATIN Lf ) ntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at-the post-office at Chi- Advertising rates on application. ————— The gpeech of Dr. G..W. Lucas to the conference of the National ion for the Advancement of Colored People yesterday fur- nighes some facts which the conference should be able to use in out- These middle class elements were unable fiational center, composed of representatives of all Negro \ izations, should be set up to organize and lead the fight against persecution of Negroes in all its forms and to give force and direc- to all Negro organizations along the above lines it will give grgat impetus to Coolidge has signed the $85,000,000 naval air fleet bill after waiting until the press had featured the savings affected by his The bill provides for 1,000 airplanes as naval auxiliaries to be No relief for farmers, but decrease of taxation for the richest propriations for war. machinery, sweet phrases about justice and high christian morality, but the utter debauchery of the franchise— ‘this is the Coolidge administration, American capitalism’s pet and Oliver Baldwin, son of England’s premier, Stanley Baldwin, and a convert to the “socialism” of J. Ramsay MacDonald and Arthur Henderson, as a worthy addition to that motley outfit. Not only are his politics an offspring of pacifism, liberalism and fabianism, but his religion surpasses that of the editor of the labor organ, The Labor Herald, George Lansbury, who claims the singing of religious hymns before his speeches inspires him to otherwise unheard of flights of ; Tn a recent interview the premier’s son declared that he had talked with dead relatives and had “heard spirit voices from all parts of the room in no fewer than five languages.” He did not say whether Perhaps some of the Hindoo and Egyptian victims of British perialism were trying to convey to Baldwin their thanks to his ‘eat leader, MacDonald, for forcing them to rot in foul jails while rtunately the workers of Britain are not so frightfully ted with spook worship as are some of the leaders of the labor d as the sharpening of the class struggle shatters the polit- ‘ion of MacDonaldism, so the insipid melange of religious will also vanish before the-rise of materialism as the ~ c< AT MILITARISM BY N.Y, SCHOOL Teachers’ Union Makes Protest to Board NEW YORK, June 25,—Plans to es- tablish military training In the New Utrecht high school in Brooklyn are condemned in a letter sent to the board of education by the ‘Teachers’ Union here, Demanding that the board recall its decision, President Henry Lin- ville of the union declares that “es- |tablishing a military training course in a public high school and giving it the full credit of a prepared subject + « » ‘will, with other circumstances compulsory, and thus contrary to the ideal non-militaristic character of sec- ondary education in this country Not even militaristic Germany ever had military trainiag in its sec ondary schools.” The regulation coutse of the re- serve officers’ training corps is sched- uled to be installed in the New Ut- recht school, In the union’s letter !t cites charges made by teachers that Sidney Brummer, head of. the history department there, has sent a notice to teachers under him, the substance of which follows: ® “‘Pncouraging the R. O. T. ©. in every possible way. If you hear any student. speak disrespectfully of the R, O. T. C.bring him down ‘to the office at once. If you have any doubt about. passing a boy at the end of the term, ask-him if he belongs to the '1R, O. T. C. ‘If he does, it is my wish that you pass him.’” CAILLAUX GETS CABINET PLAGE "AS ADICTATOR PARIS, June 25.—The foreshadow of a dictatorship in France is seen in the extraordinary powers being given to Joseph Caillaux, supposed to cabinet of Premier Aristide Briand. his acceptance of the finance ministry, practically has the essentials of power in his hands by the granting of those terms. These terms provide that he and his supporters shall have the four vital posts in the cabinet. Caillaux takes the finance ministry himself, with a free hand promised on all questions directly or indirectly dealing with the country’s economic and financial affairs in both foreign and domestic fields. His supporter, Genéral Adolphe Guillaumat, is to be minister of war. His lieutenants, Jean Durand and Pierre Laval, are given the ministries of the interior and of justice, insuring control of the police power. Caillaux managed to shut out Poin- care entirely from thé cabinet, and ex- cluded as well all supporters of Clemenceau, and makes himself the most powerful man in France. 10 Queries for Class in “Capital,’”’ Monday in The class in Marx’s “Capital,” of the Chicago Workers’ School will meet Monday evening at 8:00 p. m., at 19 S. Lincoln street. The questions with the text of Vol. I of “Capital” from pages 689-to 728: 1. Review briefly the main points of the previous lesson, 2, Show how labor produces the means of making itself relatively superfluous. 3. What causes industrial cycles? Trade development of industrial éycles? 4. How does the presence of a reserve industrial army effect the working class? 5. What regulates the general movements of wages? 6. Does an increase in capital necessarily mean an increase in the demand for labor? 7. What are tie forms of the rela- tive surplus population? Describe each, 8. Explain the general law of cap- italist accumulation, 9. What is the antagonistic char- acter of capitalist accumulation, 10. Describe the effects of capital- ist accumulation in England during the years 1846 to 1866, ADDITIONAL BUSES If enough applications ‘are receiv: at 7 p.m. Filday, July 2, and at All expecting to enjoy the WORKER encampment on the North of buses may be made available THE DAILY WwW have the effect of making the course | hold but the ministry of finance in the | Caillaux, by laying down terms for|_ for the class are listed below and deal | F’ are requested to advise The DAILY WORKER New York of at what hour It is most convenient for them to go so that the right number) jai) ai of them surrounded me. 5 fo] ON TO Moscow! Subs of June 17, 18 and 19 MASS. BOSTON, Viad. Pochebit, Newton Upper | | | | Jos R. Brodsky Sam Bronstein | Jack Campbell A. Chorover Rose Cooperst W. Fried L. Goodman L. Hirshman D. lonescu Joseph pce oh 610 45 175 Samuel Nesin .. Anna Olkoff .. Ray Saperstein John Nagy, For A. Hoffman, Allentown, Pa, PHILADELPHIA, PA, William Mika Pa. W. H. McKeesport, Geo. Jai John Gartleman, Cinci CLEVELAND, OHIO— Theodore Evanoff Peter Kalinin ... Mike Morpot L. William: Sarah Vervin, August Vince | DETROIT, MICH Cyril Lambkin L. Luoma Phil Raymond . BD. F. K. ‘pool, , Yorkville, Oh ids, Dr. A. H. Tamarin, South Ha- ven, Mich. CHICAGO, H. G. Bi vnrssannanasnsesesees 100, John Chukan Fred Podella Alex Troyan, Milwauke Max Cohen, Peoria, I B. N. Freeman, Collinsvill E. Thelen, Morten Grove, Harry 0, Paris, John Jorgensen, Alma, DULUTH, MINN. August Hellsten pfobert Newstrom a an W. Stevens, Minneapolis, Minn. bac AY Lydia *Hiltu H. Tangen, Fr “Di Or. S. Vinje,. Hillsboro, N. Dak. 100 Ernest Steffens, Westby, Mont. 45 T. F. Shipler, Salem, Oregon....100 Shiyi Matsui, Berkeley, Calif. gsyesese Swedish Crown Prince Puts in “ ” Day . with Chicago’s “400” Crown Prince Gustavus “ Adolphus and Princess Louise of Sweden, now in Chicago squandering some of the $60,000 pilfered from the-fund for job-| Fifty-five less Swedish workers are running from one dinner to another. After a breakfast in the mansion of Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, he went to Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick's palatial estate for a a e% Kellogg to Greet Prince, WASHINGTON, | 25. — Secre- tary of State Kellogg is leaving here ficial host to the Sweden, for St. Paul, where hep will act as of-| card he directs me to Warden Weidel- i prince of es You do the job twice as well—| took me over to the inner hall where when you distribute a bundle of The DAILY WORKER with your | screen. story in it. TO TAKE CROWDS TO THE DAILY WORKER ENCAMPMEN The regular buses for The DAILY WORKER encampment will leave the| hrisoners did not seem to harmonize headquarters at 108 East 14th St., New York City, at 5 p. m, Friday, July 2,| with the-stern rules of prison, at 2 p. m. Saturday, July 3, and at 5 p. m. Saturday, July 3, ed, buses will also leave headquarters m. and 7 p. m, Saturday, duly 3. ‘Three Glorious Days” gat The DAILY | human privileges and ordered the ma- Shore of Long wet ae 3, 4 and 5, immediately RKER ~ 1,380 30 4,165 40 45 PY &3 100 | 45) 100 100 | 20 6,170 400 about. One’s soul is oppressed. 475 be pickets who so bravely fought against PROGRESSIVE R.-R.. ISSUES PROGRAM L. Gilbert 45 310 y M. Rinnteld 2 1%|/Amalgamation Commit- fie ante ‘0 “to/tee Urges Wage Increase Elsie Pultur eg Fite Uno te on oo "188| CHICAGO, —(FP)—Taking advant- Louie Austin, TArtiobore ie 190 190 | 280 of the railway employes depart- ment convention which opens in Chi- cago June 28, the International Rail- road Amalgamation committee is dis- 400| tributing a leaflet with a program for Jos. Ruich, hy Ne 20 -720| railroad workers. John Mazurana, Hoboken, N. J. 20 20 Anna Weissberg, W: aven, Wage Increase. sae one Str es rat | «phe convention must institute a Ls 20|movement for a general increase in wages for all railroad workers,” says the leaflet, “and it must outline an active campaign for the organization of thie more than 1,000,000 unorganized workers in the industry. To merely patch up the old unions and let mat- ters rest at that will never do. There must be a new life, new methods, a new hope and inspiration instilled into the railroad trade union movement. Bert Katterf 70 Lena Klein 65; “The solution of the wage and or- pee 4,35 | ganization questions confronting the Albert cman” 65 | railroad workers at this time lies in joint mational campaigns participated yin and supported by all 16 trades. Liza Podolsky 178 Henry Pollac! N. Rapoport 40 Recover Lost Ground. Sam yank 20| “This is the paramount issue which Clara Saffern 400 confronts all sincere railroad union- Paul Scherer — ists who would be constructive and re- M. She id athe Seth 4,980 pple the ground lost during the last J. Smith .. 100 | 4 years. G. Szepesi 45 45) The leaflet is signed by R. H. W. Vacine 20 183 | Woods, chairman, P. J. Jensen, vice- - 90 90|chairman and O. H. Wangerin sec’y- 45. 48 treas., and carries the address Room 8, 702 EH, 63rd St. Chicago. WORKERS’ GROUP) cule Singer » ‘»| Coolidge Names Fifth ati dhe 4,WpAlean: Waghingian, 6:2 99/ Mlan on the Mediation V. Runnenovishy BalkgteRinhme. 100. 40 Board for Rail Labor J. Kaspar, E. Pittsburgh, Pa. 200 2,330 WASHINGTON, June 25. —(FP)— President Coolidge has appointed Carl Williams of Oklahoma, editor of a farm and livestock journal, to be the fifth member of the railroad media- tion board at $12,000 a year. The other four members of the board, still await- ing confirmation by the senate, are known to be hostile to labor, Another farm organization man ' selected for a big job by the adminis- tration is Sherman Lowell of Fre- donia, N. Y., former master of the national Grange, to be a member of the tariff commission. The second nomination to the tariff commission is the reappointment of Brossard of Utah, a Smoot protege, whose selection last year to fill the unexpired term of Commissioner Cul- JOU sonst 30 Florent Deschatips \ 100/ bertson led to charges that Brossard John Heindrickson 4 was picked as a favorite of the sugar 20 | interests. F. Stasukelus 495 Simon Stein 20 Ss. | Movie Actress Beaten. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., June 25.— 1,450 Two indictments were returned today against Philip Elliott and Richard Thorne of New York, well known in theatrical and literary circles, charged with having brutally beaten pretty Violet Anderson, 20-year-old motion picture actress, on a lonely road near here, By MORRIS BACKALL. HE heavens are heavily bedecked with clouds. A loneliness hovers I am about to see the heroic strike Judge Sullivan’s injunction during the dressmakers’ strike of 1924. Some of them are now behind the bars at the Cook county jail. Seven-Story Bullding. Haunted by various thoughts, I reach the county jail on Dearborn and Austin streets. A seven-story building of concrete and steel, blackened by the thick smoke belching from chim- neys in the neighborhood, years is the age of the old- est wing; thirty that of the newest. What hell people have endured there in the last six decades only the bricks can relate. A small corridor leads to a heavy steel door, which has a very small window. Here I come to the piercing eyes of the guard. “What do you want?” he fairly bel- lows out, Upon producing my correspondent’s ing. The latter was found in a newly- painted spacious room. He received me quite friendly and with a smile the women pickets were conversing with visiting friends thru a heavy Pots of flowers stood on the table. The most beautiful bouquet was the 01 ent by Bob Minor—a token prom: ised these heroic workers when they first resisted the injunction in 1924, Fruits and candies colored the too gloomy atmosphere pervading the jail, The holiday feeling of the new Deny Privileges. The warden did not think that pris- oners should be permitted to enjoy tron not to allow any more flowers, ete. eet oth ‘Twenty-six women pickets were in Shadowy Youth Conditions in the Sunshine Biscuit Co. Youth Conference Work Must Be Carried Out NEW YORK OITY. — When you ride in the subway or street car, or when you walk on the side- walk, or in Any Other place you will see in advertisements and big expensive electric signs, “The thousand window factory of the Sunshine Biscuit company.” Those street and subway. adver- tisements as well.as the big elec- tric signs are-used in order to fool the public that the workers of the Sunshine Biscuit Co, are working in big light factories where there is plenty of sunshine as well as other good conditions. But what is the real truth about the conditions in the Sunshine Biscuit Co.? Are they really so good as the company is ad- vertising? The Sunshine Biscuit Co. is employ- ing thousands of young workers (boys and girls), who are not organized and do not belong to any union. Being un- organized they are exploited if the most ruthless way. Hundreds of fore- men are employed in order to drive the workers. Besides the foremen the bosses are using special inspectors and preachers to help to exploit the workers. The Dark Sunshine, But ..what about the “sunshine” which the company is advertising on those big electric signs, for which they spend millions of dollars! The truth is that the big machinery in- stalled in the plant does not allow a ray of sunshine into the factory, so that the workers are working all day in the great héat coming from the steam and electric ovens. Nearly_every day some of the workers faint at work, When a worker exhausts him- self to the point of complete break- down, they are sent for treatment to the nurse and then return back to work. Often after the treatment the work- er is in a condition that he can no longer proceed with his work. In such a case the worker is losing his day’s wages. Until a certain time ago the workers worked fifty hours a week for a miserable wage, such as $15-and $18 per week. As it seems this was not enough for the magnates of the Sunshine Biscuit Co. in order to make more profits, the bosses forced the workers to slave fifty-four hours for the same starvation wages, Spy System in Vogue, Another horrible condition in the shop is the “spy system.” When some. one in the shop is trying to speak to another fellow about organization or demanding better conditions he is immediately fired. Would Fight Injunction Again. They said: “We don’t wish to be thought of as martyrs—but as rebels who know what they are doing and are conscious of their purpose. If we were freed today and the occasion called again to resist injunctions, we wouldn’t hesitate a moment, and ce fight persistently as we did in 1924, “Each day here in prisonsgtimulates a strong desire to fight for freedom— for a new order of society.” These ejaculations did not seem to find the approval of the warden, He declared that only..one may speak to me. Ne Comrade Freda Reicher, eell No. 761, stewardess chosen by the pickets, who came from a tubercular sanita- rium in Colorado, is the one who is allowed to speak to me. Comrade Reicher is a slim girl with smart, expressive eyes. On the whole, she leaves the expression of a capable and energetic woman. Union ‘Aids Prisoner, “During the five hours of. ‘recrea~ tion,” she began, “we mingle with the other female inmates. We have suc- ceeded in. organizing our diet so that we may remain healthy. We order our food from the outside. The joint board of the union ¢overs the expens: ‘These arrangements were made thru the co-operation of Comrades Dayid- son and Goldstein, © terday was seen E We showed the adm m that we are not only good pickets but also good housewives. “We suffer a great, deal from the the outside. The books of the prison library, of which there are 3,000, do not interest us. We must feel content with what few newspapers the joint board can supply us, The articles are very often discussed with the other inmates. i a | Newspapers, = * ty dence with our comrades neipe go ei the drab of the jail, are told that the union headquarters made a ‘wall newspaper’ of our | > i a il fact that no books are allowed us from Thousands of young boys and girls are employ$d by the Sunshine Biscuit company in the United States and Canada, These young workers are ex- ploited in the most ruthless way, for such a small wage that it makes it almost impossible to buy the firet necessities of life, while the bossee are making millions of dollars of profit. These conditions prevail be- czause the workers are not organized. Therefore great stress must be laid to the youth conference, which was held June 18, We must, energetically begin the work to realize the con ference decisions in the Sunshine Bis- cuit company. Y. W. C. A. Secretary Not Upheld in Race Discrimination Case NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Pressure brought to bear against the trustees of the Young Women’s Christian As- sociation here made them rescind the ruling of their secretary that no Ne- gro girls be allowed to bathe in the pool. The case received wide publi- city when Negro girl scouts were re- fused permission to use the pool, The “benevolent” trustees recog- nized that a marked mistake had been made in indulging “in too” much rac- ial discrimination to an organization serving the interests of the bosses, Printers Will Have Baseball Tourney INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, — Baseball clubs representing twelve cities of the United States and Canada will com- League at St. Louis, August 21 to 27, it was announced at headquarters of the International Typographical Union recently. A silver trophy, given By Garry Herrman, owner of the Cincinnati Red Sox and a former union printer, is the prize for which the printer ball players strive. The trophy passes into the hands of the tournament victors each year and will become’ the permanent pos- session of the club winning the most games in a loop of twelve tourna- ments, Employers Violate ‘ Child Labor Law PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 25. — More than 6,000 cases of illegal em- ployment of childrer during the year ending June 30, 1925, are charged to Philadelphia employers by the annu- al report of the board of public edu- cation. : The lure of extra profits gained by the exploitation of children exercises a pull with Philadelphia employers violate the child labor law, relying on friendly authorities to let them oft easy when convicted. A Visit to the Pickets at the Cook County Jail Very interesting was our conversa- tion regarding the other inmates. Our pickets seemed to be more interested in the fate of the other prisoners than of their owm Dark Cells, . During our conversation we were shadowed by rows of steel cages de- void of light and air. Nineteen hours a day are spent in these cells, where the air is poison laden, It togk some time before I was al- lowed to see the three men pickets. This time I was accompanied by an assistant warden, Here I spoke to my old friend and comrade, Oscar Simons. We were permitted to talk thru the bars with the guard on con- stant watch. V Comrade Simons drew a picture of life in this jail. Nine hundred men are incarcerated in the jail. The stench is Such that it makes one feel faint. During recreation hours the men are crowded together, There is not enough room for all. Each one is in someone else’s way, The nerves of the prisoners are always on edge, Treatment Unequal, The treatment of the prisoners in the jail is not equal. Those who have politicians on the gutside or who at one'time were politicians have special | privileges. Here, too, I found that the pickets have greater interest in the other in- mates that in themselves, The pickets, thru me, send their greetings to all of their fellow-work- ers who were on strike, and to all of the militant fighters in their union, Foster to Tour Minn. _ Tron Range in July _ MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 25, — Wm. Z, Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational League will make speaking tour thru the Mesaba Iron Range district in Northern Minnesota, So far, the following dates have been Chisholm, Finnish Opera Raat July 2nd; Superior, Wis, July at 0 p. m.; Duluth, Minn,, 8:30 p. 4 pete in the annual tournament of the » Union Printers International Baseball strong enough to persuade them to, a