The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1929, Page 2

Page Two ——————— LIBERALS MAKE TIMID GESTURE AT CHILD LABOR Ask That Parsons Pray to Make Slavers Kind (Continued from Page One) Child Labor Day Program of the M. C. L. C.) That sets the tone, and soft the hearts of se who | have been indulging in “children’s blood and young boys’ and girls’ sweat.” Having fed well thru the week on their prey, caught in the play- grounds of steel and iron, and tex- tile factories and coal mines, they will then be ready to listen to non- worker children in white rec “Protect me, for the Master said: ‘Let little children come to Me, And yet, whate’er ye do to them, Ye do it also unto Me.’"—Extract from the Program.) Well, if Jesus ever really lived, (which is probably bunk) the legend about him is that he was a carpenter, and there isn’t any law against exploiting car- penters, either. The Militarist Twist. If the child slaver doesn’t fall asleep, he will hear two pages of prosy verse sung to him. One of the songs goes to the tune of “The | Son of God Goes Forth to War,” and that ought to suggest a com- promise to the child slaver, dozing | in his pew. Why not put ’em in the| marines? The witchcraft trials in York show that a boy of 14 can en- list in the army, if he is strong enough to carry a nine-pound rifle. | Get the Padre’s Number. In between the marching songs of this crusade, the preacher will utter a prayer. Now the National Child Labor Committee knows its preach- ers, Who can tell what a man, who draws his wages from those who can afford donations to religion, might not say in a prayer like that? He probably takes his ideology from the hand that signs his pay check. He might repeat that text from the Bible which runs, “Servants be obedi-| ent unto them that are your mas- ters” (no age limit—the saint hadn’t heard of a factory). Preserved Prayers. Nope, this is a crusade, even if the cross bearers feel somewhat out of place. We have to put up a bluff of fighting child slavery, or the Reds —well, you know. So they write out in full, periods and commas and capital letters, the| exact prayer the preacher shall pray, | bent on his padded knees on the swept. spot on the floor beside the pulpit. It starts out “O, Thou great! Father of the weak,” so as not to scare the slaver nodding down be- | low, and it says, “Let not their lit-{ tle bodies be utterly sapped, and DAILY WORKER, NEW es SATUI RDAY, JANU: ARY 26, 192% Members of the crew of the § covered decl: of the steamer as it doc crusted with ice. Seamen say it was one of the hardest trips they ever made. The sea was rough and it was cold. Three sh have just ‘been wrecked, one with all hands, because owners persist in saving money by h g only part of a er : Paris standing on the ice- ed here yesterday, heavily in- school” Institute since 16 an admi ation is provided for. Theodore Roosevelt and a capitalist |The National Association of Manu-| party candida for governor of | facturers recommends four hours a Fenn: a. week of continuation school for Id Labor Pays Them. working children between the ages There are some more ofiicials of | of 14 and 16. (Bulletin of N. A. M. LEATHER PLANT TIED UP WHEN WORKERS STRIKE 600 May Be hi Involved i in Ohio Factory GIRARD, Ohio., 25.—The tacking department of the Ohio Leather Wor tied up by a strike, which threatens to spread to the whole factory. In this case, 500 employes would be involved. The strike was started against the inhuman production requirements made by the company. The regular work day is nine hours, but to com- plete the quota assigned by the boss, men had to work eleven and twelve hours for a nine hour wage. The company spreads rumors that it will install machinery and throw everybody out of work. The strik- ers ask workers in other cities to sta’ Jan. a its on child labor, capitalism owns the courts, the inspectors, ete. There- fore the only laws which are obeyed are the laws which capitalists make for the children, in their factories. The ten hour day is not unusual. the N.C, L. C. Space is short; a | Committee on Junior Education and a ig glance shows they are mostly preach- | Emy'.yment.) Children work, and they die. ers, directors of social work andcol-| Why? “The Federal Children’s Bureau Hlege professors. How will these! Well, not to educate the children.|in three industrial . states, s |stop child labor? They are living|Even in the model continuation |¢onsin, Massachusetts, and New | Well on salaries from the class that | schools of California, children forced | Jersey, reports there were in one jfattens on child labor, are trusted |to attend four hours once a week,/year in these states 2,534 com- jto function in its behalf. I think they will be faithful to this trust. “Serv nts, obey them that are your | masters. | It’s Profitable. Their own figures show that the jbiggest profits are in the states | where children are most mercilessly exploited. The ten states with the greatest percentage of child labor, don’t learn any gogical impossibi and other ordi ing. y schools provided and nothing Mississippi, South Carolina, Ala- bama, Georgia, Arkansas, North | something else. | Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas,| But the continuation school has,nent total Louisiana, Tennessee, are exactly another purpose. those states where employers are advised by chambers of conunerce to come because labor is “docile, in- dustrious and unions are unknown.” They are, in general, the new tex- tile region, and textiles, hext to ag- riculture, is the best field for child labor. Child Labor and Ignorance. forced to avoid the schools, schools provide the employer with up the office routine, Real Exploitation. do work. And how they work. being organized, These ten states are also the ten living at home, anyway, they get/ with the greatest percentage of il-| wages about one quarter those of| literacy and the lowest percentage of school attendance. Cause and effect. Child labor is the cause. Employers in general, heeding the traditional prejudice for book learn- ing, have solved the “illiteracy” problem to their satisfaction. In 17 states educational requirements for children forced into the factories are | legally less than sixth grade school- ing. In nine more states, they are only sixth grade training. adults, doing the same w 14 and 16 in ten states. hours a week in stores. That’s all the hours there ere. It is a peda-| pensable accidents to minors under In New York continuation schools, instruction is a joke. There |The injuries included loss of arms, are unwieldly crowds in the few | fingers, thumbs and toes, as well as 18, of which 7 were fatal, and 319 resulted in permanent disabilities. js|more serious handicaps. but the a perfect excuse for cutting wages, on} the grounds that attendance breaks So children don’t learn, but they Not | and theoretically That means unemployment for the adults. Children may legally work 51 to 60 hours a week between the ages of In Connec- | tieut they can legally be worked 58 In Montana a benign law allows them to work 24 hours a day, outside of mines and factories, as soon as they are oy it In nigstjis useless to goon thru the_list, for} their minds given over to stupidity | states the special form of tertidre+the law has very little to do with and the vices of an empty soul.”—/ and inconvenience known as the “con-| the matter. Capitalism makes prof- (From the Program.) That ought to go well—a forward thinking slaver might some day need some adults, growing up out of this swarm of profit builders, and if they are | drunk all the time, or too damn| dumb, or too thoroly sapped, they won't be useful. A Paper Crusade. So that’s the crusade. The nice lady in the lovely offices of the Na-| tional Child Labor Committee, up! on Fourth Ave. didn’t know how) many churches would actually con-| duct a National Child Labor Sunday. | She didn’t even know whether any | of them would. She thought Dr. Holmes would. It’s a sinful world, | a skeptical, cynical world, and a world fed on printed paper. Per- haps it is just as well if the crusade be confined entirely to paper. Then the slaver can be handed the pro- gram, printed prayer and all, as he sits in his pew, and he can have | the fing clerk file it away next to} the Taylor system index for Johnny, | aged 16, laboring out in the works. That’s a good safe, Healthy, and truly liberal sort of a crusade. Lib- | erals are naturally tired people, and this is the easiest way out. What do you expect? Knows About Gold. Here is Samuel McCune Lindsay, chairman of the N. C. L. C. He is a Columbia University professor— Morgan's university. italist economist. He has been a Bpecial agent of several senate com- Mittees. He writes for the encyclo- fedias. His first work of import- ance was on the price movements of the precious metals, written in Ger- man for Jena University, under the kaiser, Yes, he is one of the “Cap- italist Efficiency Socialists.” The Charity Doler. Here is, also, one of four vice- chairmen, Homer Folks. He is now in the social worker game, secretary of the State Charities Aid Associa- tion of New York, one time a New _ York alderman, one time commis- _ sioner of public charities, with power to hire and fire a lot of people who _ need poli ical jobs. He was a val- ee istant of the military govern- fof Cuba. And in every war he | to have been part of the Red yarmy behind the armies of lism. Did he put that in “The Son of God Goes Forth rar?” The Mellon Man. is another vice-chairman, Draper Lewis. He was) W the law department of the ity of Pennsylvania, Mel- | iversity, in Mellon’s coal ang ite, where they work ‘em | and work ‘em long in coal | where they keep the coun- | sill each other to clip off the | locks.” Well, he oguht to it child Jabor. But he has of the American Law He is a cap- | Wall Street Brokers Have No Competition! yield—regardless of what it cost us to manufacture, We also have authority to sell for other manu- facturers fine suits, overcoats and There is one great difference be- tween Wall Street and the cloth- ing business. Wall Street brokers never need fear competition! Brokerage rates are standard. | tuxedos. But it isn't so in the clothing, And here's the story of the business! A seller can take as| Stock: All-wool suits and over- Tow a profit as he wants. Andj} y 1 tailored patterns. that fs just what has been hap-| pening. Clothing manufacturers karment ic heb d and merchants with big stocks on garments that Fink- hand have been throwing those 1, 810 Broad- stocks on the t, trying to direct, will give which other re and $70 we get rid of thi willing to t ny price and Tf you bu In some cases it any broker 5 below actual cost. But paying as much for his servic not the question. We're you would any other broker. rstocked and we want to un- when you buy coat or a topcoat you're foolish if you take the first offering. Look around! Don't be led al paying more than you have to. If you're thinking of investing | suit or an over- ad! We're willing to take the onsequences. Are you willing to |take the SAVINGS? —And Just a Word About Bears |and Bulls! Down in the Street the bulls in clothing get quotations from |are the boys who think the@ma?- Finkelstein & sel, Inc., 810 | ket is going up. The, hanes Age Broadway, N. Y. C. We're dealing |the ones who are hoping it. will in gilt-edged sioc The trouble | go down, Just now the bulls are is, pur stock is too big. We're |on the top. Stock prices are jump- loaded to the limit with thou-|ing upward by leaps and bounds. sands of men's fine suits and | But in CLOTHING we have a overcoats which, due to . 6 market conditions, remain unsold. | Pat market. Prices have been going down, and the end isn't in We're determined to unload this | sight f you doubt it, look at stock at whatever price it will! these figures | Low i it 1928 1 Radio Corp. of America.... ks Cie OD 410 | General Motors.... ‘ +135 226 | @ Montgomery Ward. f H : . 755% 439 AND LOOK AT THESE: FINKELSTEIN & MAISEL + HIGH Low \ 1928 1929 Suits, Overcoats, Tuxedos....... - $35.00 $21.75, Suits Overcoats, Tuxedos...... sees 42,50 29.75 Overcoats from imported cloth......... 55.60 34,75 Seriously speaking—here is ajcan beat these values in any regu- chance for you to make some sen- lar retail store. We have Suits, sational savings in the line of |Overcoats, Tuxedos and Topcoats clothing. Our garments are guar-|of the finest. imported and do- | anteed to be of the finest mate-|mestic worsteds and woolens ob- ff tials and the most careful work-j|tainable. All colors, all styles ship in suits anywhere. We|Sizes range from 33 to 50. We can te your inspection, We aren't | accommodate Shorts, Stouts, Slims | ff} afraid to guarantee to refund!/and Regulars, And we make any your money within three days if necessary alterations ABSOLUTE- you can duplicate these Finkel-|LY FREE OF CHARGE, stein & Maisel, Inc., values any-| OUR ONLY establishment occu- where in New York: pies the ground floor at 810 We urge every man and every /Broadway, N. Y. C. young man in the city to come to| Store hours are from 8:30 to our store—conveniently located—|7:30. Saturdays, 8:30 to 8:30, Come 810 Broadway, N. Y. C. Look over|here in the morning, at lunch these garments and see time or after business hours, Finkelstein & Maisel — INC. — 810 Broadway, Opp. 11th St. Algonquin 7371-7372 | | if you | learned. As a matter of fact, most| of the children don’t usually attend.|ended June 30, 1925, the number of Their employers advise the children| accidents to persons under 18 years to “play hookey.” If they don’t stay! of age totaled 1,748, or 2.3 per cent away from school, they get fired for | of all industrial accidents. Thirteen |real danger. |faulty posture, “In New York, during the year cases resulted in death or perma- disability, and 318 re- Children may be|Sulted in permanent partial dis- ability, of which three were to chil- dren under 14 years.” These injuries increase. They are far above the rate for the same number of adults. A whirling bob- bin or a mass of sliding coal is a dangerous plaything for youthful hands. And the injury that can be legally measured and tabulated is not the Occupational diseases, and that mental bleakness that settles on children who svend their youth in play- grounds of steel and coal and te: tiles, instead. of outdoors; this what takes the starch out of them, this is what reduced the stature of English men by measurable inches is Oana AUaN THAT AME ATTA NATT nefn THEE EEE EEE CPE EOE b4 | : : | | ‘And old The Typo Workers Credit Corporation Pays 7 per cent Interest on Debenture Bonds OUR RESOURCES OVER 1 MILLION DOLLARS Imperialist t Regalia DEMAND BRITISH FREE JOHNSTONE FROM INDIA JAIL Chicago Labor i in Mass | Protest Meetings | (Continued from Page One) the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, for a picket line in front of | the British consulate. Chicago police made their usual | efforts to break up the demonstra- tion, rough-housing the marchers but refraining from making a ts. Not only did their efforts fail to break up the march, but the re- sponse was the holding of an out- dcor meeting that helped advertise the hall meeting previously ar-| ranged for at the Bakers Union Hall, 220 W. Oak St. The speaker at this | outdoor meeting was William F. Kruse, rict organizer of the Workers (Communist) Party. King Tafari Abyssinia this ancient crown which is at $500,000. It is an old heirloom which has been fought over by rival wears valued Factory Agitation. native monarchs. Now Tafari has T} * e mative monarchs. Now Pafari has) The demonstration had the full- oe he fovetge imneriutints est Support of the Workers (Com- ment Oy the foreign iamperiansts vunist) Party, In its own name who are invading the country. the Party distributed 10,000 leaflets, | mainly at factory gates, and par- | ticularly at, the Stockyards, where, ten years ago, Johnstone organized the Stockyards Labor Council and led a Leaflets were also distributed at the Crane Company, where a new shop nucleus has just been formed, and at the International Harvester Flant, in connection with the dis- tribution of the Chicago special e tion of 36,000 Daily Workers. Kruse | spoke for the Party at the outdoor meeting and Morris Childs, district | agitprop director, at the indoor meeting. years of the factory is doing as much for the nm of U.S. A. and all capitalist countries, While capitalism the bits of relief t an active and organized, militant and class con- scious labor movement, political and industrial, might wring from capi- talism, the mere fact that child 1 bor is immensely profitable will keep most of the slavers deaf to any appeal from fearful and forward- looking officialdom, will immunize them to canned prayers, will make useless the pitiful and well-meant gestures of the National Child La- bor Committee. Big business knows that machinery is displacing labor, it can afford to kill a few million during the s, except for Fight Yankee Imperialism, Too. | The slogans carried by the march- | included not only “Down With Imperialism,” but * also cr British children. “Down With Yankee Imperialism”; “Child Labor Sunda Every not only “Unconditional Indepen- | day is Child Labor Day for the|dence for India,” but also “Get Out Communist. He wants to strike at the root of this evil, which is capi- talism itself. He wants to abolish all work for children in dangerous occupations, for children under 16, and he wants the work-schools of the Soviet Union sort after that. he means to get it, not by yers and the singing of “An but by sterner weapo Organization of young work workers, politically and dustrially, on of the Philippines, and all American Colonies and Semi-Colonies.” —Chi- cago’s tcugh irish cops were willing to tolerate the first half, but when they saw the second they gave or- ders to “Git off de earth.” Several | of the largest banners demanded thé | release of Johnstone, and called up- on Chicago labor to fight for the . liberation of their representative. ‘Special slogans, expressing the at- titude of women and youth were car- ried. At the mass meeting Nels Kjar ke in the name of the Trade| Union Educational League, Ida pri ca, in- a class basis, with a Leninist theory, are more to his way of thinking, and are the hope of the! millions of child slaves. T TYPO WORKERS CREDIT CORPORATION | 175 EAST BROADWAY TTT ED 0 ED OED 0 EBRD OS ED 0: AUNUNUUUU GA UADUAAIEAMUUDULLAI LL ULULL URAL LUAU LE LORETTA Mm 00 42> 0-2Erw 0 FINE CHAKTERED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW XORK The “Typo” is a Credit Institution, created by Jewish Compositors of the Jewish newspapers and in existance several years. | government. | imperialism. TELEPHONE, ORCHARD $861 “Parasite rea NEEDLE WORKERS ELECT OFFICERS; PREPARE STRIKE Hold Huge Dress Rally | Next Wednesday m Page One) dr | (Continued fr and moral a: makers’ fight. The Volunteer Organization Com- mittee of 1,000, composed of work- in all crafts in the needle trades industry, is already well under for- mation. Equal allotments of xank and file registrants in this commit- tee are being assigned the captains Which were appointed at the last meeting of active members in Web- ster Hall. The date of the shop chairmen's and delegates’ conference is not yet announced, but the meeting in all probability will be held some time this week. Here the delegates’ council will elect one-third of the Joint Board delegation as well as take up immediate strike problems. stance in the 8: A picture of the former imperial- jist kaiser of Germany who now lives in Doorn, Holland, where he enjoys many privileges granted him by the Dutch government. The imperialism he represented has given way to another imperialism backed by the social-democrats. The ex-Kaiser and his family are getting generous pen- sions from the German “socialist” Those elected to officership and as delegates to the Joint Board are follo Rothstein for the Council of Work-| General Manager—J. Boracho- ing Class Women, Frank Borich for wy caky TAM Ee the International Labor Defense, Sas we ica icc i |and Ed. Kilter for the youth. The! Business Agents—Cha Zim- following resolution was adopted | merman, A. Gross, ebowitz, J. unanimously: Weissberg, A. Kudrenetsky, O8- esdlutlon: Ido Eusevpi. M. Levine, M. Taft, Weiss, B. Baraz, M. Rogers, P. “We, Chicago working men and M. Kochinele women, members of a group of la-| fanlit Bch days |bor organizations, including the All-| Those elected as Joint Board dele- America Anti-Imperialist {gates from the various locals are: League, | t ? A ”| Local 1, Furriers, S. Reger, M. Pin- International Labor Defense, Coun Ichefeky” HH. ‘Brownsteln, 1. Stasel: cil of Working Class Women, ‘Trade Union Educational League, Workers |™#"s, Local 2, Cloakmakers, A. Ko- |(Communist) Party and Young pi 'B PR oath 1 5. Seg ee ee Workers (Communist) Leagve, as |i". B. Rosenthal. S. Solomon, 8. Herbst; Local 5, Fur ber, P. Glantsman, ers, J. Far- well as trade unions and working H. Shiller, B. class fraternal bodies, voice our pro- ? . : v tein, W. Woliner; Local 6, test against the imprisonment of | -)°™ 4 ‘, tg ‘eld. our brother worker, Jack Johnstone, |Cloak and Dress Cutters, M. Feld- man, M. Bernstein, Charles by the British oppressors of India because of his activity there against | We pledge all our ef- forts to the fight in which he has heen made prisoner by our com- Zweibel; Local 9, Cloak Finish- W. Greenberg, fp Ochtenberg, Mania Perlman, Ben Koenigsberg, A. Hartman; Local 10, Furriers, B. ers, ‘ ; ; Garf, P. Lucas, M. Miller, S. Res- mon enemy—the fight against im-|Carf, spi ibbea perialist war and the defense of the Nick; Local 15, _ Furriers, Bond Soviet Union—the fight against im-| Greenberg, B. Evins, M. Meltzer, a Rabinowitz, R. Schreiber; Lo- jcal 22, Dressmakers, M. Kravitz, A. Iupin. Sonia Cheiken, Celia Samoro- |perialism, American as well as Brit- ‘ish—until imperialist rule has been ,overthrown throughout the entire ai, 'S.. 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