The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 23, 1927, Page 2

C = | ‘THESDAILY WUKKER FARMERS LOSE 20 BILLIONS IN PRICE SLUMPS Untold Suffering Lot of Farm Victims OHAMPAIGN, Il, Jan. 21: -—- Un told suffering and a capital loss of $20,000,000,000 have beet borne by farmers and their families thru the slump in the purchasing power of farm products and a sharp decline in the net ineome per capita of farm population, Dr: Henry 0: Taylor, form: er chief of the federal bureau of agri cultural econemics, declared here to- day, Dr. Taylor, now connected with the institute for research in land economies and publie utilities at Northwestern University, Evanston, concluded the program of the 80th annual farmers’ week at the University of Mlinois with an address on “Agricultural Sur pluses and the Tariff,” Relleve Pressure. “The only possible way to relieve the pressure now cramping the coun: try’s agricultural industry is through & readjustment of price ratios,” Dr, aylor declared, “This readjustment, fasturn, can be brought about largely either by reducing the tariff on tity products or by making them more ef- fective om farm products of which a @urplus is produced in the United States.” Price Fixing. Dr, Taylor charged that tariff rates have become a method of arbitrary price fixing which for the time being enrich the non-agricultural population at the expense of agriculture. This price fixing for the city industries {s the basic reason for the present in- equitable distribution of wealth in the United States, he declared. Nationalist Government Declares Repudiation of Imperialist Loans HANKOW.— After a consideration by the political department of the Kuomintang as to the nature of the various loans made in the last fifteen years of the existence of the Chinese republic, the announcement was made that, except for the reorganization loan of 1913 and a small number of bthers, all the loans made in the last , fifteen years will be repudiated by the Canton government as money spent for the prolongation of the in- ternal wats in China. ST LULL ELL eee CO Room for Rent ~~ steam hedt, all conveniences, 1336 N. Kedzie Ave., Phone Belmont 9252. Rabinovich. Comrade Julius Lersein is sought and is urgently called by Dorothy Isaacson, 1124 Richmond Street, Chicago Ill. Tel. Armitage 6157. Ignorance of Rights and Victimization by Lawyers and Doctors Robs Workers of Just Compensation in Industrial Injuries (Fhe DAHL¥ WORKER, thru the Federated Press has arranged with Attorney William H. Seed, a spe- elalist in his field, to write a series of articles on workman compensation. Seed, whe has handled the compensa- tion work of two of the largest in- surance ¢ompanies for a number of years, advecates no new legislation, but shows how much more the aver age injured werker could obtain as compensation under existing law than he new reeetves.) ee By WILLIAM H: SEED, Federated Press. ‘T ts bad enough to suffer industrial injury; but worse to lose the full legal eompensation for it: Yet this generally happens: The full éompen- sation permitted under the law rarely goes to the injured worker, Ignorance of his rights, fear of vic- timization and lack of money to en- force his rights are the ohief causes. Under the workman compensation laws hundreds of thousands of doli¢ 5 are continually lest to injured work- ers and their dependents from these causes and also from the large and often illegitimate charges made by at- orneys and “adjusters for the in- jured.” ‘These often pocket a third te w half of the compensation award in cases where, ff he only knew it, the injured man could get without cost all that any lawyer can get for him. He need merely ask for it. Charge What Traffio Will Bear. The theory of all the compensation laws {s that the rights of the injured shall be so clearly stated, and the machinery for administering the law so simple, that lawyers are unneces- sary, It is true that in all disputed cases legal assistance is necessary, and in many other cases a word of legal advice may save a great deal of money and worry. In many states the industrial board d&cides the amount of attorney fees, but in Mlinots and many other juris- dictions nothing is said about it by the board unless the applicant for compensation complains. In practice the attorney charges just what he likes, Many attorneys have their clients sign agreements allowing them attorney fees of 33 per cent, and even serve notice of lien on the employer or insurance company for that amount. All this is the merest biuff. In Llli- nois and most other states no lien will lie against a compensation award. But few injured employes know this, and even if they are dissatisfied they believe they must pay according to agreement. Medics Take Theirs, Too. Lawyers practically always take compensation cases on a contingent fee basis; that is to say, their fees are in proportion to what the case produces, and if the claimant gets; nothing the lawyer gets nothing. Also there are no court costs. It would therefore appear at first sight that lack of money should not hinder a man from getting his legal rights. Medical charges, however, prove an insurmountable obstacle in too many cases. The worker may be faced by WHITHER RUSSIA? WHAT ARE THE FACTS ABOUT THE SOVIET ECONOMY? How does production in industry compare with in- dustrial production? he unlimited ability of a wealthy cor- poration to pay for high-priced medi- al experts to whose examination he s compelled to submit, If he cannot produce a fairly convincing array of ompetent medical opinion on his side 1e cannot establish his case; In one ease five doctors, hired by one of the biggest manufacturing con- erns in the world, are prepared to wear that the worker's nerve injury either {maginary, or that he did not et It as the result of an accident aris- ng out of and in the course of his smployment. A good nerve specialist las examined the worker and reports eoverable injury, but he wants $10 oy his examination and another $15 ‘or X-rays, and yet another $10 for ppearing before the board to testify: his is an actual ease, The man is penniless, has a family lependent on him and is totally dis- abled: Medical men do not proceed in these matters en a contingent fee basis: It is perfectly possible that this man will get nething because he cannot pay the doctor, Where Unions Can Help. Labor organizations do a great deal to remedy these evils, but many of- ficlals of the smaller unions are not themselves sufficiently informed to do all that could be done. The purpose of this series is to afford tnformation, specially on points which, in the writer’s expertence, will be of most valu@ to injured workers and their dependents, and to those whose duty s to advise them. Philadelphia Mayor Called Before Senate in Vare Investigation PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 21.—Subpoe- nas have been issued “for Mayor Ken- |’ Irick and five members of the Phila- lelphia registration commission to estify before the Reed election in- vestigation committee on the corrup- ion that featured the election of Will- am §. Vare to the senate last No- vember, At the same time, David S. Barry, sergeant-at-arms .of the senate, has mpounded all the ballots in this dis- rict and placed the boxes under seal in locked rooms of the city hall, where hey will wait until shipped to Wash- ington. “Trregularities” in ballot boxes were discovered when officers im- pounded the ballots in Pittsburgh, .ccording to reports here, In one dis- trict of the fourth ward a box is missing, and in another district’ the vallot box was found concealed in a padlocked room in a school house, the containers empty. Soviet Union Tells of Navy Units Stationed in Black Sea Region GENEVA, .Jan. 21-—The - Soviet Union has informed the league of nations commission for settlement of the questions involving the Darde- nelles on its naval strength in’ the Black Sea, in compliance with the Lausanne treaty, of which the Soviet government is a signatory. Units maintained by the Black Sea include: One cruiser, five submar- ines, four torpedo boats, three gun- boats, nine mine sweepers, six motor .{ scouts, and two dispatch boats, What is the tempo of development of the Soviet Economy? What is the role of private capital in the Soviet Economy? What is the direction of development of the Soviet Economy? ’ These questions are answered with tables, figures and charts In: The Soviet Economy on the Ninth Anniversary One of the articles in the JANUARY LENIN ISSUE of TowORKERS MONTHLY ‘This Is Only ONE of the Valuable and Timely Articles in This Issue of the Workers Monthly 250 A COPY HNCUNEUOSUTONGFOATUAS TOA UAE * READ Imperialism—The Last Stage of Capitalism By N. Lenin Prioe, 600 In paper, $1.00 Cloth-bound. An indispensable book for the under- standing of the most rerent events in Latin-America, China, and the colonial countries now in the throes of revolt against international imperialism,» This excellent work treats the following topics: Concentration of Production and Monop- oly; The Banks and Their New Role; Binance Capital and Financial Oligarchy; The Export of Capital; The Division of the World Foren, Wie hyn Groupe; The Division of the World Among the Great Powers; Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism; Parasitism and the Decay of jtalism} The Critique of Imperial- fam; The Place of am gyn og in History, 153 pages published by the Communist Party of Great Britain, Dally Worker Publishing Co. On and after January 24, 1927, our Litere lee rtment will be located at 33 Bast Firat Street, New York, N, Y, PAAARAmaanensennsesseeesas For Your Lenin Library: LENIN AS A MARXIST ' By N. Bukharin Tho Present Chairman of the Communist International. ‘This splendid analysis of Lenin and his ace in the field of Marxism is written y N. Bukharin, who is considered one of the leading iiving Marxists of the present day, The book is not @ mere per- fonal tribute to Lenin. It is rather an attempt to analyse Lenin's contribution to the ogg -s pol ae te fa treats the following sub= a The Marxism of Lenin; Lenin's eory and Practice; Problem of Im- perialism; Lenin on the State; Lenin and the coment The Theoretical Prob- lems ing Us. On sale now at 40 cents a copy, ate tractively bound in paper. Daily Worker Publishing Co, On er January 24, 1927,” our Literar; Department will be located 0 Bb ant Fig pirgnty New Yorky Me Ye CITY WILLISPEND. THIRTY MILLION MORE THIS YEAR Council Appropriates $213,000,000 for °27 Chicago's city government bill for 1927 will amount te nearly $30,000,000 more than tn 1926, sccerding to the ap- propriation bill passed by the ¢ity council, The total expenditures out Hned for 1927 by the council iy $212, 305,348, In 1926 the appropriation was $183,487,818; Pollce Get Ralse, The bill includes a raise in wages for efty police and firemen, which pro- vision caused the most debate in the council. An inerease of §800 for po- licemen of all ranks is provided: Thus patrolmen who now receive $2,200 a year will receive $2,500, Firemen are given the same imeresse. The appropriations are/ Corporation fund, $55,206,645} water works, $17, 697,911} public schools, $75,500,000; bond projects, $32,666,132; street ro- pairs, $4,656,478; for eubwaya, §2,000,- 000; sinking fund interest, $12,155,175; public library, $2,608,000; police pen- sion, $3,456,000; fire pension, $864,- 000; special deposits, $424,000; un- claimed rebates, $66,503, “Special” Funds. Some of the “special” appropria- tions inchide $2,500 for a publicity agent for Health Oommissioner Bun- desen; $217,000 for the local transpor- tation committee; the railway termin- als committee, $59,750. puoi lao Boosters of the Big Workers’ Bazaar Here Have Dance Jan. 28 A dance for the boosters of the Workers Carnival Bazaar, which is to be held in the Ashland Auditorium, February 25, 26 and 27, will be given at the Russian Technical School, 1902 W. Division St., 8 p. m. The dance will be held for all workers who are actively participating in the work for the htige $10,000 bazaar for the bene- fit of The DAILY WORKER, the Freiheit, and the International Labor Defense, which is to receive part of the proceeds for its activity. Admission to the boosters’ dance will be by complimentary tickets which are being sent ous to the ac- tive participants in the work, Those who are connected in any way with the work for the bazaar can obtain the complimentary tickets from the committee in chargé at 19 S. Lincoln street. The ticket admits not only the one who receives it, but also friends who are interested in boost. ing the bazaar. The dance will be the opportunity for a jolly good time and a get-together of all the boosters who are working away to put over the biggest affair Chicago has seen in the last few years. Cleveland Workers Form Drama League; Give Pantomime First CLEVELAND, Jan. 21.—A workers’ drama league has been organized here, under the leadership of Comrade Sadie Amter, who has had long ex- perience in coaching and directing for the stage. A workers’ drama league has been the wish of workers here for some time, but until now one could not be organized. The first work of the new league will be the staging of a pantomime, the original product of several league members, It will be given at the Len- in memorial meeting here on Jan, 23, at Moose Hall, 1001 Chester street. The pantomime will symbolize the struggles of the oppressed peoples for iberation from the yoke of imperialist countries, The oppressors are repre- ented by Uncle Sam, John Bull, Mus- solint, and Japan, Influenza Epidemic Sweeping Philippines; Many Deaths Reported UG as of the most effective proots of the vitality of the American Communist movement is the grow: ing influence of its press, It was no accident that the first Huglishlanguage Communist daily in the world—The DAILY WORK- DR—first made its appearance in this country, It came os a direct response to the mounting demand of revolutionary labor in this coun- try for an organ thru which to ak its demands, to voice its pro- m, to help lead its fight. It {9 also no accident that vigor ous support to maintain The DAILY WORKER comes from foreign-born workers, These constitute the great majority in the basic industries, Thoy are the most militant in the American class struggle. They real- ize the need of an English-language thplece thru which to unify the gele of all toilers who constl- tute the ~ American working class, ve as well ag foreign-born. They realize this weapon {8 necessary to reach the Wnglish-speaking workers. “ee It is during this period, however, of restricted immigration, when capitalist publications in foreign languages are melting away, owing to the partial stoppage of the once great influx of new readers from foreign lands, that the foreign-born revolutionary workers show their strength and influence among the masses by building their own for- eign-language press, instead of be- ing forced to curtail their efforts. The employers value their foreign- language capitalist press, and exert tremendous efforts to broaden ite influence among workers speaking some alien tongue. Labor must also have its press in foreign languages to combat this influence. The Com- munist movement meets this ne- cessity with daily publications in Hungarian, Jewish, Ukrainian, Lith- unian, South Slavic, Czecho-Slovak, and Finnish, with weeklies and monthlies in many other languages, including Russian, Polish, Greek, Lettish and Italian, see Because they are Communist pub- lications, striving to give voice to the daily striggles of labor in this country, these foreign-language dailies and weeklies gradually de- velop ® mass support, If they did not, they would not be performing Soviet state, now in its ninth year. Prepare for 5,000, Both previous memorials in Chica- go have been worthy tributes to the memory of the revered leader. The Workers (Communist) Party that has ponsored the memorials fe planning for quite as notable a gathering this year, Ashland Auditorium seats five thousand people, The program is large and varied, Last year. the attendance at the Ohicago Lenin meeting filled the Coliseum. This year, expecting an qually large attendance, while the Joliseum could not be had, additional ralls are being provided, Revolutionary Program. A revolutionary musical program will be rendered, including the Frei- heit Singing Society and a new venture, a mass recitation of Michael jold’s splendid play, “Strike.” About _|forty-flve persons are participating in — this mass recital and to Chicago work- NILA, ~The Philippine ‘ene Se ee by on ey ers it will represent something never demic of influenza, Health officers declared that several thousand cases haye been reported, but owing to those who do not consult physicians the exact number of cases ts not de- finitely known, Authoroties sald that deaths so far were less than 4 hundred, Thousands died in the Philippines during tha epldemio .of 1918, disease being especially among the mountain tribes, Discuss “B. & O.” Plan |” * at Chicago Forum, Sun. The meeting of the Chicago Forum next Sunday, Jan, 23rd, will be de voted to a discussion of “The B, & O Plan,” The speakers will be Otto S, Beyer of Washington, the industrial eng!- neer who has developed the plan; Bert M, Jewell, president of the Rall: way Employes department of the American Federat! of Labor, and either a railroad exétutive or an econ omist, The ts in the Hr. langer Theater dolph street, This meeting is a part of the Industrial Week Conference ‘of the Chicago Federmion of Churches, heard of before with a true mass +haracter fitting the occasion of a Lenin memorlal—a true portrayal of the, mass struggles of the workers. Max Bedacht, Max Snachtman and & young Pioneer will bé the speakers, Tickets are sold at 19 S, Lincoln St.; The Dafly Worker, 1118 W. Washing- ton Blvd.; Vilnis, 3116 S. Halsted St.; theSouth Slavic Book Store, 1806 8. virulent | aclne Ave.; Fretheit office, 3209 W. Roosevelt Rd.; at the Workers’ Home, 02 W, Division St, and many other West Side: FINNISH LABOR TEMPLE 6969 14th (near McGraw) seating 1600 First class musical program, <n y MICHIGAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES { have interfered with DETROIT LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING by cancelling Detroit Armory, MEETING TO BE HELD IN TWO HALLS . Speakers at both meetings: WM. Z, FOSTER, REBECCA GRECHT AND WALTER TRUMBULL, thefy functions ag Communist or- gans, eee lt is because the Empros, the Greek weekly, has been extraordl- harily successful in developing a growing {influence among Greek workers in this country that it is possthle to give enthusiastic greet- ting and support to the campaign now being carried on to establish The Daily Empros, Brom the Greek revolutionary workers in the steel, coal, food, tex- tle and needle industries there has come the demand for “The Daily.” The present campaign to raise funds to make “The Greek Daily” possible {g the response to this demand. eee The Greek workers have long es- tablished themselves as a militant section of American labor. In the last great strike of the coal miners in the Rockefeller kaiserism of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, the Greek miners were among the best fighters. The same was also true in the steel strike. In the Fur- riers’ strike in New York City, the Greek workers proved a pillar of strength. This also holds for the food industry. Entering thus into the daily strug- gles of the whole working class, it can be easily understood that the Greek workers refuse to be satis- fied with a weekly, They want and need a “Daily.” 2 2-2 It is estimated that the Greek population of the United States to- tals only 600,000. But this does not stand in the way where mass support is won. There are three Finnish-language Communist dailies in the United States, yet the Fin- nish population is estimated at the same number, It is proposed to establish ‘the Daily Emprog in New York City, altho the weekly is now being is- sued from Chicago. The DAILY WORKER moves from Chicago to New York City fully confident that its co-worker in the Greek language will soon be with it in the nation’s metropolis waging the common strugglé for the winning of the whole American working class against the dominant capitalism. Hail The Daily Empros! Hail an- other champion of labor’s struggle for All Power! Hail this latest in- dication of growth in the ranks of the Social Revolution! a Chicago Workers to Gather for Third Time to Pay Tribute to Nicolai Lenin When the workers of Chicago gather at Ashland Auditorium on Sunday, January 23, it will be the third time they have met to commemorate the memory of Nicola! Lenin, the great leader and teacher of the revolutionary workers the world over. It was on January 23, 1924, that Lenin passed away |end deprived the workers and peasants of Russia of the guiding hand that hed directed the revolution to success and to its consolidation into the Teachers’ Federation Hits McAndrews’ Plan for “Raising” Wages The Chicago Women Teachers’ Fed- eration has attacked Supt. William McAndrews’ recent proposal for wage increases for public school instruct- rs, which {gs contingent on getting more money for school funds, declar- ing his plan discriminates against teachers. Principals would get an increase of $1,200 a year, while the teachers would receive only $120,*the federation points out, The attack came when the princi- pal’s club petitioned for an increase— the same club that recently declared the city’s funds were so depleted no increases could be granted, The fed- eration, which started investigation to show there was a surplus instead of a deficit, brands the principals’ action as “superlative gall,” in view of their former stand, LIEBKNECHT MEETINGS, BUFFALO—January 22, 8 p. m., at Workers Forum Hall, 36 West Huron street. Speaker, Sam Hssman. BOSTON—Paine Memorial Hall, 9 Appleton St. Jan, 23rd, 2:30 p. m., 8. Bloomfield, speaker. NEWARK--Sunday, Jan, 28rd, 7:30, p. m., Newark Labor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th street, near Springfield Ave. PITTSBURGH—Sunday, Jan, 28rd at 8 p. m., at Labor Lyceum. | . Bast’ gide: NEW WORKERS’ HOME 1343 E. Ferry (near Russell) seating 1500 Admission 25 cents. 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