The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1926, Page 3

DAWES PLAN IS THREATENED BY PROPERTY DEAL Fraser ia “Simpler” Adjustment WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—The house Ways and means committee has been warned that there is danger of serious international financial complications arising out of proposed plans for ad- dusting’ the alien property and mixed claims now being considered by the committee, Leon Fraser, general counsel to S. Parker Gilbert, agent general of the claims boafd, pointed out that the wrecking of the Dawes plan may re- sult if congress is not careful in its method of adjustment. The alien property claims’ of U. S. capitalists, amounting to $328,465,000, have re- sulted from the seizure of property @uring the war by Germany and by the ‘United States. Would Overburden Germany. Fraser declared that the plan of ad- fustment advocated by David Hunt Miller,, which is being considered, Prould result in the scrapping of the Dawes plan because Germany would fhe forced to raise more money than 4s provided for by the Dawes budget, nd other countries would object on © score that Germany was favoring @ United States, Miller’a Plan. Under Miller's plan, the United Btates treasury would pay the claims of American citizens against Germany put of the German property seized by the Washington government. Fraser Weclared that umder this plan, Ger- ™any would be forced to reimburse citizens for the property taken by the United States with an immediate bond issue, eventually deducting the Pmount out of annuities Germany fmust pay to the U. 8. * Other Nations to Balk. This would be too much for Ger- many’s finances to stand, Fraser said, nd would clearly be preferential to the U. S., something other nations would not stand for. The other frations would then demand a substi- ute plan for the Dawes program. Fraser’s Way. Fraser said that the proper way to duct the adjustment would be for United States treasury to pay the can capitalists their claims out the treasury; return the property to ‘man citizens. Then the U. S. asury would be reimbursed, he said, the annuities that Germany pays the United States under the Dawes He said this was the “simplest” thod of satisfying everyone. He id not say that this would mean the . 8. treasury would “told the sack” all probabilities, Get a copy of tne American Worker ®orrespondent. it’s only & cents, All China Is,in Revolution To Understand the Great Events Taking Place Read —_— ete Nem ST Mussolini’s Seat When the = Itallan Workers Wake Up. ° WHAT THE BRITISH MINER IS FACING By A. B. 2 should not be surprised when we read in the newspapers that some of the British miners have drift- ed back into the mines already tho the strike is not settled yet. Hunger and the most terrible destitution are forcing them to submit to the will of the brutal ruling class of England. The tears of their hungry women and children are gradually breaking the resistance of some of these fighters in the gigantic class struggle which 4s today expressed in the coal miners’ strike of Great Britain. Conditions Unimaginable. It is hard for the American workers who are far away from England and especially for those whose minds are poisoned by the bourgeois press of this country to picture the conditions of our fellow workers of England who for so many months are heroically struggling with the whole of the rul- ing class of England backed by the bourgeoisie of the entire world. Here is a letter received by Comrade 8, V. from his bother in England, who is one of the strikers, which tells the story about the conditions of the min- ers: Are Barefooted. “T thank you very much for not for- getting us im our present destitution. It is already 26 weeks since we are striking, and we are left almost en- tirely barefooted and naked. With the money which you have sent us we bought shoes at least for our younger daughters, “We are still on strike, tho very much exhausted. Here and there scabs ‘Step Over We Need Help! The campaign for funds for The DAILY WORKER —shortage of help in the are appearing and digking up some coal, but the price of ooal is still very high and many factories are be- ing closed. Government Fights Union. “The mine owners and the govern- ment are doing everything to break up the union, Then we would be forced to work as long hours and for as little Pay as the owners would be willing to grant us. “A martial law has been declared here: it is prohibited to address or to make speeches to the miners, and we are not allowed to walk along the streets in groups. If you call a scab “scab,” you are immediately arrest- ed and thrown into a dungeon for six months. A few of the policemen are already wounded and one of them had been Killed. Many workers are behind prison bars and there is no end in sight yet. Before even the meotings of the miners were eee but now they are allowed. Weather Cold. “The weather is becoming cold. Wa have no fuel and we are forbidden to pick up the refuse by the mines or on the railroads. Every place is filled by the police and cossacks. They tell us that when we get no fuel and will freeze hard enough we will then go back to work. As far as the scarcity of food is concerned, I don’t have to talk because you can imagine your- selves. We are fortunate that the po- tatoe and cabbage crop is good this year 80 we go out at night among the farmers and help ourselves. As far as the foreign-born workers are con- cerned, they are still keeping on, but the Englishmen are actually starving, Starvation has forced some of them back to work; they have no food neither for themselves~nor for their children. If you could see, my dear brother, what great suffering and des- titution we have to undergo! It is impossible to describe it here. Many of the miners commit suicide. “Such is our life in Great Britain! THE DAILS“ WORKER ‘COTZOFANESTI’ EXPOSE TAKES L.A. BY STORM Daily Worker Is Sold “Like Hot Cakés” By L. P. RINDAL. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Nov, 23, — In the opinion of Tom Lewis, the Workers: (Communist) Party speaker, and other orators of the day, the Interna- tional open-air Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting at the Mexican Plaza last Sunday, Noy, 14, was a success, Un- doubtedly, the turn-out would have been greater’ still if The DAILY WORKER, in which the meeting was announced, “had arrived one earlier, Army and Navy Boys Read D. W. Anyhow, the workers of Los An- geles, even uniformed U. 8. sailor boys got’a great kick out of the Nov. 16 issue of The DAILY WORKER with its “Marie—What of ‘Cotzofa- nesti’?” story. As soon as the writer reached Main street with his bundle, a “youngster in blue” was the first to buy a copy, Copies were sold to other Persons in yniform, To say that this particular ‘‘ssue of The DAILY WORKER “went like hot cakes” is mild, A, Roumanian, all smiles, also handed me a nickle for a copy. I day | Page Three It provides food for 1,500 hungry strikers daily. found out that he had some know- ledge of “Cotzofanesti.” This subject of. bloody, royal Roumania did not lose any time in turning his steps to- ward the headquarters of the Workers (Commypist) Party. That a Roumanian is interested in Communism can easily be understood. But what about U. S. sailors and sol- diers reading the press of the Bol- sheviks? Well—they might have seen the killings, and other high-handed acts of American imperialism at work in foreign lands. Officials Asleep, Bolshevism Awake. What about the postmaster general, interested in the purity of the mail; and the secretaries of the army and navy, responsible for the teaching of “pure” patriotism among soldiers and sailors? The railroads of the country have spent barrels of almighty “In God We Trust” dollars on Marie. Why don’t they protect her from “Cotzofanesti?” The samé question can be asked of Henry Ford, reported to have spent a lot of money on the queen of a bloody country. All these forces, it seems, have been asleep the last few days, But°The DAILY WORKER is awake and does the work, Workers Move Into Co-operative House in New York Soon By M. ROSENBERG, (Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK, Noy. 23.—Within the next few weeks, over one-half of the 350 tenants of the new Co-operative house near Bronx Park, will move in- to their own home. The other half of the building will be ready for oc- cupancy about January 1. This huge building, containing about 10,000 rooms, has been con- structed for the United Workers’ Co- operative Association, an organization of 1,250 Jewish workers, mostly en- gaged in the needle industry. The to- tal cost is about $1,750,000. This building is one of a group of six, which will form the Co-operative Colony, to be constructed during the next few years. The apartments mostly consist of two’ and three rooms, and are large and airy—many of them facing Bronx Park, something quite unusual for workers’ dwellings. The rent is very reasonable (between $14 and 15 per room) considering the type of apart- Once more I thank you for your sup-| ment, the price for similar rooms in LOOK-IN ON PAPER BOX MAKERS |ight Week’s Battle AT HEADQUARTERS DURING STRIKE By FLORENCE GELLER. (Worker Correspondent) After the day’s picketing is finished, the workers gather in headquarters, or, in other words, the home of their union, seat themselves in the white unvarnished chairs or on the benches along the walls, make themselves at home and have a “good time,” so to speak. In one corner a group of middle-aged men sit and discuss poli- tics, the cloakmakers’ settlement, the cops guarding their shops, the de licious soup they ate at “Our Kitchen,” and other happenings of the day. In another corner of the room are gathered the younger element of our union. Young men and women, boys and girls, talking in loud voices. Every few minutes somebody strikes up a tune, such as “Oh! We Ain’t Going to Work No More, No More,” and others join in and they sing until the song is finished. More talk. Suddenly. Charlie, a militant fighter in this strike, calls out: “Let’s give three cheers for the Paper Box Makers’ Union. Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Long live’the union.” More songs. A Plucky Colored Girl. Yea! Inez! Every eye is turned toward the door as Inez, a colored girl, paper box worker, comes in. She related her experience on the picket line that day. Says Inez: “You know that big, fat cop with the red face. You know what he did? He gave me such a push that after I could look around I found myself at the next cop ner. But I got up and began walking up and down in front of the shop just as before. Fellow workers, these cops can’t take away our rights as citizens of this country. We have the right to walk around as much as we like, and we'll do it, even tho we have to be carried away on stretchers.” By then the group of middle-aged men, as well as the rest of the people who were scattered areund the room, draw closer to the excited youngsters. Lena, in her young, almost childish voice: “Three cheers for Inez!” The latest jazz song, “Bye, Bye Blackbird,” is sung with much pep. Jennie, a little black-eyed, black- haired slip of a girl, jumps in and does the Charleston. A few more join her. Suddenly, almost in| an instant, all £ Block, vice-pres. United Paper Box Association—A- 100% Simon LeGree. dancing is stopped. vers body runs to the door to greet Reba. The girls take Reba in their arms and kiss her. Reba from all directions. pened?” “What hap- “Are you hurt?” “What's the bail.” Reba replies: “No. I’m not hurt. I feel fine. Never felt bet- ter in my life. I only regret that I But the’‘cop’ arrested me for nothing. Just for that I’m going to be on the picket line earlier than ever before.” “Me, too!” “Me, too!” chorus. Everybody sings, “We'll picket the shops, we'll stay on the block, but we | ain't goin’ to work no more.” CORRESPONDENCE CLASS IS MAKING {| NEW YORK |1922, | vironment. | grown A typical paper box boss, Mr. Hymie | Questions are flung on | have to incur an expense to the union. | of Husky Stripling in Prize-Ring Togs e Paper Box Mak- ers Union, wh born in June, was brought up under a bad en- Those to whose hands the sted were mostly baby union was er jconcerned in bu their own Ca- lreers. The mh , those who gave their days and hose who sin- jcerely hoped union when up wo slavery and | i me happiness into j their homes, soon bi n to realize that their young union s in the hands of beasts, They saw that it was sur rounded by people of dark character; {and an internal fight began. | It was a bitter fight that kept up for months and the employers took age and stabbed the union, The latter was ac y on ‘te verge of t the ap- he union was s of its enemies, under a new en- workers them- {saved from the han }and it began to gro |vironment. The activ | selve ve been closely how jtheir child was taken care of. | A Four-Year Old Wonder, Now it is over four years old and it shows wonders. Not only does it jstand om its own feet, but the labor jmovement is adm g the battle put up by the Paper Box Makers’ Union. Eight weeks of strike against so many wolves! Why didn’t the association | win out against us? Police, gangsters, d courts .are at their all that support on association could not the |beat the Paper Box Workers into sul \their side, }mission, but every day, every’ week,” jthe fight becomes more militant and more aggressive. | On the seventh week of the strike, jafter spending a fortune for fines, bail and all other expenses that a Dit- ter strike involves, the Paper Box Makers’ Union was able to open a free restaurant for its workers! It is true that this was possible because of the support of many labor unions. It és true that we are being helped morally {and financially by the labor movement. But it is also true that if we had not put up such a splendid fight, we should never have gotten that support. A child of over four years old, that all kinds of troub- battlefield with {ts with fists closed |tight, and fights a big association; and |recently overcame jle, stands on the sleeves rolled up, i italistically-owned houses being A record of China’s past and OMe FoRkes Meet. Tor Tne eee eet yen iat) per om, |the whole Iabor movement 4a°théandl- present which has brought about || help. Step over and volun- f{|™* 1% “ore Me" oe PROGRESS, ALL URGED: TO JOIN NOW exe. wsievine sis sent very closely, the upheaval of over four hunndred teer your services if you After reading this heartbreaking let- Republican Member of Jas the child gives one blow after the million people and the birth of a can spare a few moments #f/ter one can easily understand why the H FI Coolidge The Chicago class in worker correspondefice is making much progress, /Oter: the audi ce gion rth great Labor movement. With during the day,“ British miners are 0 grateful to the| AAOUSE FARYS: OCMC | ers are registering each Friday night and intensive study in labor eae te ender. a eet! eames ‘Any time from nine to hirer big) crn tyre seriph prs Tax:Reduction Scheme} jocrnetism nas started. . All workers in Chicago, who still want to become | “eer tus AEMt § a teodiater, sansa si bcs: A. binding—$1.00 five-thirty you're welcome! grestent seed. "One, oan also be better (Special to The Dally Worker) members of the class, but have not yet registered or attended a session, should |the blows and does not move, The at do go this Friday night at 6:30 o’clock in the offices of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd, , {sociation is trying hard to hit back; pile to appreciate the treachery of] WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—The sd- but it is too clumsy. It carries too Step over to 1113 West /tne trade union bureaucracy of the] ministration tax seduction program Washington Blvd. Call | united States which did not move a 1 much burden on its back, The trade! = was assailed today by Representative} The class is progressing so rapidly | Pagan 5 m 2 Monroe 4712 if you want @|singer to stop the exportation of the L. J. Dickinson, republican of Iowa,|that those who are not yet members Lynn Workers Brave |The ee ane» whi be i: the to talk it over! United States coal to England and/|one of the house fatm bloc leaders, | will miss many valuable discussions if Storm to Hear Talkk | **sociation loses every day, by not are thus helping the ruling class of|on the ground that it might imperil England to prolong the suffering of| farm relief legislation in the coming they are not in attendance this Friday night and thereafter, Py |supplying the customers with boxes! * By Albert Weisbord To the audience, the labor move- “MY HERESY” The Autoblogra- to destroy 1l- about the sacredness and holiness rs the pil- fess uf the church. Tt reveals a man striking miners, Use your brains and your pen to ald | benefit only a limited class of pros- the workers In the class struggle. “PROLET ARIAN CABARET” WILL BE Labor defense circles in Chicago are buzzing with interest about the first “proletarian cabaret” to be oifer- ed Chicago workers Wednesday night at Mirror Hall, Western Ave. just lass-prisoners relief and Xmas fund, ) the uniqie and unusual nature and quality of affair, session of congress. A refund of taxes, he said, would perous corporations and individuals. are busy figuring out how to acco- modate those who come late and want to crowd in, Singers, dancers, and feature enter- tainers include Mme. Maller, J. Pol- koff, E, R. Lewis, a trio of Spanish The Mirror |, Western Ave., just south of Division, is to be the shelter tor the “party.” » Besides the regular class discus- sion last week, two very important in- terests of the groups were taken up— the editing of The American Worker Correspondent, organ of all worker correspondents, and the development bers on these subjects, explaining the value of the magazine, and of devel- oping correspondence with workers of other nations, It is the aim of the class to assume the editorship of The American Work- er Correspondent as soon as prelimin- devoted to lecture, the rest of the time being given to practical criticism of work submitted by the class mem- By a Worker Correspondent. LYNN, Mass., Noy. 23...— In spite of a wind-and-rain storm the night of Tuesday, November 17, Communists, | socialists and members and officials | of the Boot & Shoe Workers’ Union Passaic strike. Com, Phyllis Fenigston who presid- ed, called attention to the faet that there are in Lynn 48,000 workers em- ployed by the General Electric com- pany, who are living under the same conditions as the Passaic Textile workers, and who are in need of or- WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! ment: A little more support; a-little more backing to the wonder child, }and victory on the part of the Paper Box Makers’ Union {is assured, for the monster is already weak! And it will soon get the knock-out blow, phy of an Idea, of ea atte oe Th of Lynn gathered in Lasters’ Hall to PRESETS paiBishop Brown's HELD TONIGHT BY CHICAGO I. L. D. ae WORM valked’ te themom,|hear Albert Welsbord speak on the Victory-Wild Students ‘tate ite Try to Get Free Ride on ‘L’—-But Lose Out Bernard Nielson, a hard-boiled train dispatcher, won a 40-minute argument today with more than 1,000 North- western University students, out on \ South of Division. This is due, in ad-|costume dancers, the “Bohemian |gry journalism study is completed. | ganization; and that 20,000 shoe work: |a rampage in celebration of a tle for baeiery Ropes a Mtlon to the purpose of the wffair, | Dozen” in a colorful folk dance, and| The class meets for two hours every | ors here are in need of a progressive ble ten football championship hon- the edeuiration and which ts to haye a jolly get-together |the three comedians who will come | Friday night, from 6:30 to 8:30. Less|anq militant union. ors. respect. of his read~ t which money be raised for | with Dickerson’s dance orchestra, than one-half of the period will be BEB ed NO Granted a holiday, the students rushed an elevated station, refusing “The pen is mightier than the to pay their fares and crowded into the first train. ¥ $2.00 | Big Crowd Expected. Elizabeth ley Flynn, national | bers. ” Nielson refused to allow the train XY CLOTHBOUND That’ “the! house will be sold out” | chairman of | tional Labor De-} Hach student ehenld bring a written a profane Fre ad Avant ive to move and proved a better waiter nt mt; so the committees fense, will be come guest, story to form the basis for criticism. | worker correspondent’s clasven. than the students. . :