The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 3

IMPERIALISM. HAS NEW ENEMY IN HONDURAN LABOR Federation BecomesPart Of Pan-American Body By LAURENCE: TODD, THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927 SENATE GRANTS NEW FAVORS TO WAR PROFITEERS Battleship Contracts Go To Private Yards °* WASINGTON,, 6.-- (FP)—Feb, Page Three Darrow Suggests Work For College Students To Stop Self Murders FAIRHOPE, A Feb. age of adolescense alw gerous age,” Clarence Darrow mous attorney, declared today in menting on the “epidemic” of suicides among college students, “Man is not real animal and. children being p precocious, “Assuming it is true there cide epidemic among col NEW RADIO BILL GIVES COOLIDGE VAST AUTHORITY Civil Liberties Warns Against Censorship Coolidge could shut up dent Federated Press. Dill of Wasington, democrat, lost) jots” ho said, “1 would | ce stations and “sew up pub- WASHINGTON--(FP)—Feb. 6.—| his fight in the senate td compel the lents ah ye aeecai pohiesee Things le opinion” if the administration’s Raising the slogan of “no further anak cs MNES conference committee radio bill before n department to build in its own). ‘ } , happen in this world. and most) Omferen ; 4 r exploitation of our brothers, either yards the new eruisers which the|}” gs ec se aeil he ie congress becomes law, American Civil by employers from abroad or at |“war party” have voted. Diserimin-| “i owevex, anything may happen to L! Union attorney Morris Ernst home”, the many scattered labor ation by Secretary Wilbur and his , Map nF giles ® e bill gives the president ' unions in Honduras have met in con- vention at LaCeiba and have esta lished the Honduran Federation of Labor. Solidarity of the workers in one federation within the republic, admirals, against the yards and in favor of private yards that charge huge profits, will con-} tinue. On a point of order, raised government ‘ by Chairman Hale of the committee) °, nding oftentimes lead despondency and despair.” Asked what remedy he had to sug Darrow said: to ent boy, and gducation and , suspend all rules and radio station in time of war, of war, or “a state of public ge could follow his first 1g censorship powers by waa f ; aie sak xercise, work and ; shit and affiliation with the Pan-Ameri- on naval affairs, Dill’s amendment] ;, ser ag rh hatte s and public to support can Federation of Labor on the out- was ruled out by Vice-President) | iui people ye th a tuten and Nicaraguan policies side, were the decisions announced 7 oUne. I ntrol under the bill. when the 150 delegates adjourned. Honduras is a northerly neighbor ot Nicaragua, whose labor movement was inspired by the success of the Mexican Regional Federation: of La- bor. As in Nicaragua the labor fe eration became the Backbone of resis- tance*to Wall Street imperialism, so in Honduras it is anticipated that the) same general conditions as to foreign financial domination will bring about the same activity by the unions. Bad News For Kellogg. In the formal report of this Hondu- ran labor congress, received at Wash- i nm headquarters of the Pan- Ameriéan Federation of Labor,, the president of the congress stated tHat forathree days the delegates discussed cvery problem of their industrial and political and social condition. He added that their determination to form a single center authority, and Street scenes in Shanghai, China. Photos made exclusively for the Central Press Association. The lower left pic-| ture was taken at the very outskirts of the “foreign, city.” to affiliate with the P. A. F. of L,| was due to their desire to preserve! international peace and their refusal io ‘accept unlimited exploitation. When it is recalled that Honduras challenged the route and a naval base on Fonseca, Bay—on which bay Honduras faces the Nicaraguan coast—the birth of this labor federation at LaCeiba can- not be considered as good news for! Secretary of State Kelloggg. It! means one more step toward the) creation of a Latin American league) ot labor, hostile to American imperi-| alism and friendly to the ideals and program of the Mexican revolution.) It strengthens the voice of the Pan | quent protests. to the State Depart- ment, the White House,’ and to Con MU a7Po S THK 2, EB XCLUS/VELY Fou CENTR Me PRESS “foreign” side of the thoroughfare. The Chinese on the extreme left are on the . At the center, in uniform, are two Chinese policemén, as a “frontier | Dav Since the world war, the govern-| | ment has constructed in private yards} 10 cruisers; in government yards| none. In the same period, the private! yards have had the building of 68) destroyers; government yards built) only 9. Of other types of war ves-| sel, 19 were built at private profit, while 8 were built at cost by the gov- ernment yards. Navy Yards Idle. Hale made the usual. excuse that. the Secretary of the Navy would use) his best judgment, and would not dis- criminate against the yards under his} own control. Dill replied that the fact that the demand for the new cruisers “is largely a demand which) originates from the private ship-| building interests”, and that Secy.| Wilbur is allowing the navy yard to) rot in idleness while private yards! are kept busy. | Sen. King of Utah, democrat, sup-| guard.” The lower right photo depicts two officers of the Chinese republican army, stopping, by chance, on| ported Dill, testifying especially to} the edge of the “foreign city,” with a big European building in the rear. Shanghai, China, with approximately 500,000 inhabitants,—a prize at which the Nationalist forces have been treaty by which) aiming—is valuable to the British because of its concessions in the “foreign city” within the city. This “foreign Chamoro as president of Nicaragua) city” is governed and policed by the “Europeans,” which, in the nomenclature of the Orient, includes Americans. granted to the United States a canal) Posted at the entrance of a park in this section there has been a sign, “Chinese Keep Out.” ‘CORPORATION WELFARE WORK PAYS, SAYS GARY, AND INVESTIGATION SHOWS IT PROFITABLE AS fi | | | A SUBSTITUTE FOR WAGES; TIES WORKER DOWN (By ROBERT W. DUN Why do American employérs blow in millions of dollars- annually on American labor movement in its fre-| V@tious types of industrial welfare work? There seem to be a mixture o! motives. i} , Federated Press) | | | Experts on welfare have summarized some of them. Leading the| list is the “welfare work pays” announcement of Judge Elbert Gary of the gress, against the use of armed foveial U. S. Steel Corporation, the most be-welfared corporation in the United of ,the United States to force new debts and new taxation and worse in | dustrial conditions upon the peoples’ of Latin America. | Coolidge Recommends Sending Man to Make Geneva Obey Morgan | WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The par-| ticipation of the United States in the! Geneva Economic Conference, called! by the League of Nations, was recom-| mended by President Coolidge to the) senate and house today. | Pointing out that delegates to the} conference cannot in any way “bind| their governments and will not be qualified to act as spokesmen of an official policy”, the president re | quested an appropriation of $15,000 for the expenses of he delegates to |ealeulable Loost in public good-will. States. { Welfare work pays because it in- @reases productive efficiency, reduces labor turnover, “attracts a desirable | grade of labor,” advertises the busi- | ness and gives the corporation an in- Other conclusions of Boettiger in his employe welfare work, are that the practice reduces strikes and labor difficulties, “lulls workers into & feel- | ing of contentment with conditions which would otherwise be vigorously | protested,” avoids state regulation by | furnishing an argument that it is not needed, “provides palliatives for a low wage,” benefits humanity, re- taxes on profits by artificially inflat- ing costs. Finally it “disrupts the discipline of unionized labor.” All For Results. These aré a few of the motives, the reasons, the rationalizations and the results underlying welfare. And) all these may reduced to one—the | Senate Would Hear All Nen-embarrassing News About Mexican Quarrel WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—The Senate this afternon called on the state department to produce the | “inside story” of the controversy with Mexico over the New Mexican oil land laws. Adopting the Norris resolution by an unanimous vote the Senate asked | for the names of all American in- dividuals and cotporations holding oil concessions in Mexico, the names of those accepting the Mexican land laws, and the names of those re- fusing. The resolution also asked what “advice or instructions” the department had given those com- ELECTRIC TRUST SEEKS TO BALK U.S. POWER PLAN ‘Central Agency’ Burns \Up Wires With Protests | Wilbur’s neglect of the $50,000,000 navy yard at Vallejo, Calif., in Wil-| bur’s own state. He then recited the! financial history of the converted curisers Lexington and Saratoga, | built at private profit, whose cost j was first set at $16,500,000 each and has lately been estimated at $40,000,-| | 000 each when they are made into air-| plane carriers. King recalled the Tavenner expose of the world wide “war trust” of steel companies just prior to the war, and how it was shown that armor plate was sold by American steel companies to the Ru: sian imperial government at se hundred dollars a ton less th: same armor was sold to the United | States for its navy. \feeling that “the Navy department has been too much concerned in be- half of privately owned shipyards and WASHINGTON, (FP). Feb. 6. -- Electric power corporations-through- out the southwest and the south, all of them identified with the power trust which centers around the Gen- eral Electric are attacking the Bould- er Canyon dam project and the gov- ernment operation of the Muscle Shoals power plant, in congress, Rep. Swing of California, replying to the lobby’s assaults upon the bill for construction of the $125,000,000 pow- er dam at Boulder Canyon, declared that the “central agency’ of the pow- er combination was directing the flood of telegrams that has come to members of the house and senate op- posing the measure. This power tri memorandum, without any identify- ing marks as to its source, which con- taitféd the statement: “The only treat- ment of the power development at t lobb; nt out a! é b Mecaeh de |83 per cent in three years, Leningrad, | |with the revival of industry, has been in too close contatt with the steel trust, or big steel interests, |of the United States”. | City Population in Soviet Union Shows | Big Leap Forward WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6.— Bulletins on the new census being completed in the U. S. S. R., received {by the Soviet Union Information Bu- reau, show remarkable increases of| the population of the cities since the ‘urban census of three years ago.| |Moscow has passed the two million | mark, having increased its population | | has shown a gain of 50 per cent. A list) of 1523 cities and towns ‘shows a gain! He declared his! ™ that com swift Ss with too ex an education.” SCHWAB POPS UP IN ENGLAND BUT DENIES ANY DEAL “Just Came Over to See. Lloyd George,” Says He LONDON, Feb. 6.—“I did not come here for business”, said Chas. Schwab, of Bethlehem Steel, on his arri today, “I came to England to pl: few games of golf and see my frien Lloyd George and Winston Churchil Schwab said his stay in France would be only, “to enjoy the sun- shine of the Riviera”, the same ex- cuse made by the half dozen or so of American bankers who flocked to France just before the giant inter- national steel cartel was organized last year. Fond of Mellon. Bethlehem steel was doing said Schwab. He ase well, Im his favor because known him since we were n but I am sure all thought- secretary of ury. 1 would be happy to see England share some of our prosperity. It would create a better feeling between |the two nations which is greatly to be desired.” Not Afraid of Cartel. Returning to the subject of the steel trade Mr. Schwab said: “The establishment of a great steel }combination in Europe means keener |competition for us but I aga sure we |need not fear the outcome. “The growth of the steel business in the United States is unparalleled by any other industry.” Telephone Boss Fails | To Answer Charge He | Evesdrops on Workers! BOSTON, (FP). — “Listening in” charges made against the New Eng- | land Telephone company, are not be-| bed a part of | the reason to the Coolidge adminis- tration. “Secretary Mellon is certainly the ablest financier of our time, be prejudiced in I have Free Speech. ction against free speech mination and monopoly s either been cut ont of the new o bill or framed into jokers, Ernst *s in a telegram to Senator o made the original radio con- The Civil Liberties Unigqn » the new bill, Ernst wires, reasons: asure places no restric- tions on trading in licenses for profit. 2 —It offers no safeguard against monopoly through stock ownership. 8—It has no provisions against party discrimination in broadcasting, as rantees of equal opportunity for candidates do not cover partisans of candidates. 4—There is no provision for complete public records of broad- casting permits and rejections. 5— Power of appeal from decisions is re- rieted to parties in interest thus zling out the public. 6—The presi- dent’s power to suspend rules and close stations in times of public emer- ency may deprive the public of radio service at the hour of greatest need.” a eee Bill Meets Obstacle. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Failure of the Dill-V bill to assert ab- solute go ownership of the radio legislation to a ser- impasse in the senate today face ‘ace with a threatened filibuster, Senator Howell (R) of Nebraska, led a stiff fight against the measure, claiming that unless it divested broad- rs of every vestige of ownership air, the powers of the commis- sion prov be totally led in the measure would destroyed. Left with undis- ‘puted ownership rights, he declared, broadcaster's could bring suit to force the commission to renew their licenses on the grounds of priority rights. Homesteadiang-the Ether? Howell advocated retention of the language in the existing “make-shift” law, which declares the ether to be- long wholly to the United States. He opposed repeal of this law, which was enacted only as a temporary measure at the last session, and declared the conferees on the present bill had no right to provide for repeal of this law “when it hadn’t even been passed when the house and senate acted on the bill they had in conference.” A decision by the chair, however, over- ruled this objection, which was in the form of a point of order. Friends of the bill, on the other hand, declared that it was impossible for the conferees to agree to retain- ing the absolute ownership language. British Government | e i -year |! swered bef the cit; eil’s | the conference, which will begin May | desire to promote the highest possible Boulder Canyon in which the elec-|°f 21 per cent during ‘the three FO et cut Lene Agrees to Encourage | | | gymnasiums, ones ‘practiced in his own plant. “And he may be able to figure out his rela- tive wage level in universal ‘ratio to the number and extent of the items served up by the corporation that em- ploys him. Social clubs, mutual benefit sdcie- ties, prizes, pins, buttons and gold watches for service records, dinners, cafeterias, company theatres, church- es, boys and girl scouts, sunshine clubs, Y. M. C. A.’s, athletic teams, clam bakes, minstrel shows and dramatics, employe maga- zines, field days, thrift clubs, bands, orchestras, insurance, pensios, sug- gestion prizes, picnic committees, pony-polo games, Christmas baskets, dances, outings, “village beautifuls, knitting circles, veterans’ clubs, volley ball leagues, booster clubs, housing associations, employe stock ownership schemes, building and loan associa- tions, company gardens and flower beds, outings, baths, domestic science matrons, golf clubs, profit-sharing, coffee bars, club houses,*mottoes on the wall, pay envelope, inserts, bul- letins bearing the poetry of Eddie Ath. 3 ‘ ‘efficiency of the industrial machine Big business in America has aj under the profit system. Incidentally mortgage now on many railroad lines, the margin of profit out of welfare etlephone companies, and former gov | is not the same for all employers. erament monopolies in Germany| The big fellows usually get more France, and Poland. out of a unit of welfare than the DEUCES Ue |small industries. And the vere Hh employers are usually compelled to Over Eleven Million ee the heaviest Niclachbents on} |a falling labor market wken there is Women Are Employed less need for welfare. In American Industry More Welfare, Less Pay. . % The range of welfare activities now Teresa Wolfson, author of “Women| current ‘in American industry is sug- Workers in Trade Unions” speaking gested by the following miscellaneous under the auspices of the Workers/list. The worker ean check off the School at 108 Hast 14th street de- elared that the entry of women into the, trade unions has completely changed the economic life of society She stated that eight and a half millions of women were gainfully employed in 1920 and since then an- other three millions’ have been added| to the number. She denied that women only work) a short time, They are mostly single and only two and a half mil-| lions are married, | It should be definitely understood, Miss Wolfson declared that women are in industry to stay. Chicago Labor Radio Engineer Wants Union . Chief on Radio Board CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6.1. J. Lesh, radio engineer for the Chicago Fed eration of Labor, has issued a stati. ment in favor of at least one labor official on the proposed five-man radio commission. Lesh boost Wm. J, Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, for the place. He points out clearly *the dangers cf a non-labor control of radio broad- » but does not prove that Green on the board could reform it, Roll in the Subs Por The DAILY Guest, camera clubs, service talks, flying squadrons and open air talks. These aresbut a few samples out of several hundred. All these institutions serve the in- terests of the corporations. en- joie there is a strike, or the it i ie panies refusing to obey the law, and for copies of all correspondence be- tween the department and oil con- cerns over the law. At the instance of Senator Curtis (R) of Kansas, the Senate gave the department an opportunity to re- fuse the infermation if it was “ines compatible with the public inter- est’ ., In other words the corporation openly admits that its free-will gifts were made in the hope and expectation of getting due “credit” for them in an emergency. Even Commerce and Vinance, Wall street organ, admits that many of the welfare attempts were made for other than pure and holy purposes. It says “they were spurious in that they were substitutes for an adequate wage and were de- vised principally to tie the worker to his job, and were to a great extent empty forms devoid of spirit.” Labor’s opposition to the swindle is often expressed. But the Ametican corporations, ad- mired by all traveling “labor dele- gates” 6f European nations, is “sell- ing” more and more of this sort of feudalism to the American workers, and all the outery of the trade un- ions has not yet been able to stem the tide. Some of the unions have decided to try the workers all, or at least the best of, the benefits they could get from the company. © are Holds Secret Talk With Coolidge WASHINGTON, D. Cy Feb. 6. — Representative Vare, himself a nice senatorial election in who bought ‘i i ij ‘ period. The male population increas- ae Bs ghar ey maa ale by 22.4 per cent and the female by say, private construction of the pow-|/%7 per cent. er plant, for exclusively private con-| The largest cities showed the fol- trol of electric rates and profits in lowing gains: Moscow 2,018,286 as the southwest. compared with 1,511,045 three years Fight Norris Biil. |ago, Leningrad 1,611,103 as compared “In protection of the interests of| with 1,067,328, Kiev 491,333 as com- 2,000,000 stockholders”, it went on to|pared with 432,734, Baku 433,333 as say, “the electrical industry cannot) compared with 244,852, Odessa 411,111} | unemployment committee. Phone com-| | pany vice-president Charles 8. Pierce —general counsel for the firm—has notified the committee that the board | }of directors will not appear to an-! |swer charges as “no useful purpose | Export of Children WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 6. — The U. S. Department of Labor is- sues a statement on the use of im- agree to the entry of the Federal gov- ernment into the business of con- struction and operation of electric- generating equipment.” x Having thus laid down its ultima- tum to congress, the trust lobby wait- ed while its connections in hundreds of cities sent in telegrams which quoted whole sentences from its! anonymous statement. Similar tac- ties are being employed to prevent the passage of the Norris bill which would establish the government in) the business of selling cheap power! from the Muscle Shoals plant to ail! applicants. Philippine Paper in Plea for Comedian as Next Coolidge Agent A request has come from the Manila Daily Times suggesting, that the next time Coolidge sends some one to the Philippines, he should select Will Rogers to make an investigation. The paper makes the promise that Rogers would at least enlighten the American people as to where the Philippines are located. The state- ment continues: “The American peo- ple seem to think that we are some- ‘Judge Lindsey Alleges as compared with 316,762, Kharkov 407,578 as compared with 810,264, Roston-on-Don 302,416 as compared with 236,421, Tashkent 294,349 as compared with 263,871 and Tiflis 275,915 as compared with 283,958. The unusual gain in the case of| Baku is partly due to the inclusion of | new industrial suburbs within the city | limits. ‘i | Allowed No Defense DENVER, Colo., Feb. 6. — Judge Ben B. Lindsey, recently ousted- by the Suprem eCourt of the state, has appealed for a rehearing on the grounds that he was allowed no de- fense. / : The opponent of Judge Lindsey in a recent election, to whom the Su- preme Court now awards the decision, was Royal R. Graham, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. He has committed suicide, but his widow continued the case, Canadian City Largest In Fire Fighters Union WASOINGTON, Feb. 6. (FP).— where off the coast of Cuba or near Moncton, New Brunswick, is the lat- j will be served.” | ported contract child labor on the Councilman Joseph McGrath told|farms of Canada and Australia, The the committee that the phone com- | statement says: pany “listened in” on union hello girls} “By agreement between the British and fired active ones, that it tapped|and Ontario governments, commenc- wires of lawyers having cases against | ing in the spring of 1927 boys from the firm and of politicians known to | Great Britain, 15 to 17 years of age, may have free passage to the prov- ince, bé given agricultural training, jand then be placed with reliable set- be unfriendly. General March Finds His Uniform Disliked In Mortgaged Europe DENVER, Feb. 6.—European ha- tred for the United States was des- eribed by General Peyton C. March, who has completed a five year tour of the seventeen major countries of Europe. What they want is a strong man like Mussolini to lead them in knocking Uncle Sam’s block off, Gen- | -eral March said. | “Every nation wants its giant to thrash the hide off the United States,” | he said. “All Europe shates us with the possible exception of Spain. | Buropean countries have stopped hat- | 18 yes tlers at wages of about £2 per month, remain in these positions for thret “Last year New South Wales pas- sed an act giving the minister of la- bor and industry the care and control of juvenile immigrants from 14 to 5 of age, and empowering him to designate farms for their reception and training, to place them on such farms, and ultimately to find them employment. The transfer or dismis- sal of such juvenile immigrants is not permitted except after seven days’ no- tice in writing to the minister of Ja- bor. This law supplants the unsuc- - | cessful indentured apprenticeship sys- tem established in 1923 under which ing each other to unite in a grand | the children were not adequately pro- hatefest on the United States.” |tected. By July 20, 1926, a total of a | 1,444 boys had entered unler the boy- Propose Lash in Bill In Minnesota Senate ST. PAUL, Minn., — Semi-public} whippings of 20 to 40 lashes in addi- immigrant scheme.” The leasing out of child slaves to the Canadian wheat farmers has re- sulted in a vast amount of abuse dur- ing the past few years, and several eases in which boys were either mur- tion to customary sentences for q| dered’ through overwork, ‘Ok, She the Canal Zone, or part of Hawaii. | st city to organize a local of the In- Pennsylvania last fall, conferred with President Coolidge. Although Sena- tor-elect Vare said that he visited with the president “on routine mat- ters”, tbe have been his senate Spares, Belen er si pAthe A good many government officials | ternational Association of Fire Fight- Sap Gover the b vied pt n ret ers. The international union is stead- Governor General once ily making inroads on unorganized ter- a letter from the White House, mailed | rjtory in eastern Canada, despite op- to, ‘Manila, Porto Rico’.” position from the national catholic unions. y Subscribe for The DAILY WORKER. leng list of crimes ranging from murder to drunken automobile driv- ing is prescribed for in a bill intro-| duces ih the state senate here today.) The crimes for which the lash! would be applied include murder, manslaughter, robbery, grand latce- ny, assault, kidna) a patton i drunken auto ky. venge by setting their employers’ property ablaze, caused a decrease in permits to import children. The DAILY WORKER is now on all news stands around New