The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 2

LIBERALS MAKE TIMID GESTURE AT CHILD LABOR Ask That Parsons Pray to Make Slavers Kind Page One) hile ‘ogram of the M. ( ts the tone, sq ose who e ildren’s boys’ and girls’ fed well thru the week on cau in the play- f steel and iron, and tex- Seamen Endure Hard Winter D. AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANU = u ELECT GFFICE PREPARE STRIKE Hold Huge Dress Rally Next Wednesday (Continued from Page Imperialist Regalia LEATHER PLANT TIED UP WHEN ‘WORKERS STRIKE 600 May Be Involved ir Ohio Factory GIRARD, Ohio. Jan. 25.—Th tacking department of the Olio . Leather Works is tied up by’a ss 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- Chicago Labor in Mass Protest Meetings One) he dress- (Continued from Page One) All-America Anti-Imperialist | sague, for a picket line in front of | the British consulate. | and moral inakers’ fight. The Volunteer Organization Com- mittee of 1,000, composed of work- ers in all crafts in the needle trades industry, is already well under for- mation. Equal allotments of rank and file registrants in t commit- tee sre being assigned the captains ance Chicago police made their usual | efforts to break up the demonstra- | tion, rough-housing the marchers raining from making arrests. only did their efforts fail to ies and coal mines, they el plete the quota assigned by the up the march, but the re-| which were appointed at the last be ready to listen to non- —_ J |boss, men had to work eleyen and was the holding of an out- meeting ef active members in Web- r children in white recite, Members of the crew of the S. S. Paris standing on the ice- twelve hours for a nine hour wage. dcor meeting that helped advertise} 4 picture of the former imperial- ster Hall. ‘otect me, for the Master said:| covered deck of the steamer as it docked here yesterday, heavily in- The company spreads rumors that the hall meeting previously ar-| ist paiser of Germany who now lives The date of the shop chairmen’s little children come to Me, And) crusted with ice. Seamen say it was one of the hardest trips they | it will install machinery and throw ranged for at the Bakers Union Hall, |in Doorn, Holland, where he enjoys and delegates’ conferenc not yet whate’er ye do to them, Ye do! ever made, The sea was rough and it was cold. Three ships have everybody out of work. The strik-) (gucci Sous 220 W. Oak St. The speaker at this | many privileges Genial him by ha announced, but the meeting in all also unto Me.’”—E. from| just been wrecked, one with all hands, because owners persist in jers ask workers in other cities to! Fi, Tafari of « wears outdoor meeting was William F.| putch governmext. The imperialism | probability will be held some time unk) the legend about him is that Institute since 1923, an admizer of |tinuation school” is provided for. its on child labor, eapitalism owns 0%, 03000000 It is am old heirloom ice aes chon a da al pepe eh cain pe ag rire i ae ae iE ania tunrenew cad Shae teat > Roosevelt and a capitalist | The National Association of Manu- | the courts, the inspectors, ete. There-|wrytry winch Nene dah nt Factory Agitation. Nia Teanul ore Galiiay Genewou gen: take ubsinmed ica arike. weohlen any law against exploiting c candidate for governor of /facturers recommends four hours afore the only laws which are obeyed! peenuaeured this eopensice armen, The demonstration had the full-|his family UNS Garman “eoenint| Those detest Ga Gels. cna penters, either, Pennsylvania. week of continuation school for! are the laws which capitalists mé ment by the foreign imperialists °S¢ Support of the Workers (Com- |#0"s EEN AR Gas ORT opm atiguataseca eae Ie aheee eee 7 mee: ild Labor Pays Them. working children between the ages/for the children, in their factories.| iho arc inueding the covatrn, » munist) Party, In its own name |Jovernment. as delegates to the Joint Board are The Twist. : : ? aye 8 f id end 16, (Bulletin of N. AO Be who are invading the country the Party distributed 10,000 leaflets, | as follow If the child slaver doesn't fall/4,_ ie"? Sve Some more officials of of 14 and 16. (Bulletin of N. A. M./ The ten hour day is not unusual. atone tee! pak r.|Rothstein for the Council of Work-| General Manager—J. Boracho- e 4 a” the N, C. L. C. Space is short; a | Committee on Junior Education and FOUR Lo] ee z ee Aiea Bea f mainly at factory gates, and par-| Rothstein for the Council of Work-| _ < . asleep, he ‘will hear two pages of | ciance shows they are mostly preach. | Em-" :yment.) Children work, and they die. during the first fifty years of thé ticularly at the Stockyards, where, |ing Class Women. Frank Borich for |Vich- ; prosy verde sung to him. One of tw directors of social work cndcol.| Why? “The Federal Children’s Bureau factory system, this is doing as much ton years ago, Johnstone organized |the International Labor Defense,| Sectetary-Treasurer—Julius Port- ie songs goes to the tune of “Theljege professors. How will these| Well, not to educate the children, it three industrial states, Wis-|for the children of U. S. A, and all|tha Gprysede tone Council and | a % ee n of God Goes Forth to War,”|<top child labor? They are living|Even ‘in the model continuation cOnsin, Massachusetts, and’ New capitalist countries, led a strik jes a len toe, fhe, yout tbe Beith Hew. Why not wat ‘era in the tate m child labor, are trusted | to attend four hours once a week, pensuble cancldants do einees eerteatoteanised, militant and class con-|'0° C?@ne Company, where a new | Unanimously: : a9 ‘The. witcheraft trials in (te. 2 ction in its behalf. I think | don’t learn anything. It is a peda- s as Dales . NS sip shop nucleus has just been formed, Resolution. they will be faithful to this trust Servants, obey them that are your mi ers.” how that a boy of 14 the army, if he is en- strong in enough to carry a nine-pound rifle. Get the Padre’s Number. In between the marching songs of It’s Profitable. Their own figures show that the biggest profits are in the states this cru: the preacher will utter | where children are most me a prayer. Now the National Child! exploited. The ten states v Labor Committee knows its preach-| greatest percentage of child labor, € Who can tell what a man, who/ Mississippi, South Carolina, Ala- draws his wages from ‘those who hama, Georgia, Arkansas, North ¢ afford donations to religion,|Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, might not say in a prayer like that? Louisiana, Tennessee, are exactly He probably takes his ideology from | th states where employers are advised by chambers of commerce to come because labor is “docile, in- dystrious and unions are unknown.” They are, in general, the new tex- tile region, and textiles, next to ag- iculture, is the best field for child labor Child Labor and Ignorance. These ten states are also the ten with the greatest percentage of il- 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 > hand that signs his pay check. He might repeat that text from the Bible which runs, “Servants be obedi- mto them that are your mas- (no age limit—the saint hadn’t ‘d of a facto ent Preserved Prayers. Nope, this is a crusade, even if the cross bearers feel somewhat out of place. We have to put up a bluff ighting child slavery, or the Reds —well, you know. So they write out in full, periods d commas and capital letters, the ct 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 gogical impossibility. In New York and other ordinary continuation schools, instruction is a joke. There are unwieldly crowds in the few schools provided and nothing is|More serious handicaps. learned. As a matter of fact, most| ft |ended June 30, 1925, the number of looking offi Their employers advise the children |#¢cidents to persons under 18 years! them to canned prayers, will make io “play hookey.” If they don’t stay|f age totaled 1,748, or 2.3 per cent useless the piti away from school, they get fired for| 1 1% f jeases resulted in death or perma-!bor Committee. of the children don’t usually attend. something else. But the continuation school has another purpose. Children may be} forced to avoid the schools, but the schools provide the employer with a perfect excuse for cutting wages, on the grounds that attendance breaks up the office routine. Real Exploitation. So children don’t learn, but they |do work. And how they work. Not| being organized, and theoretically living at home, anyway, they get wages about one quarter those of adults, doing the same wo: That means unemployment for the adults. Children may legally work 51 to 60 hours a week between the ages of 14 and 16 in ten states. In Connec- ticut they can legally be worked 58 hours a week in stores. In Montana a benign law allows them to work j18, of which 7 were fatal, and 31 [resulted in permanent disabilities.| industrial, might wring from capi- |The injuries included loss of arms,|talism, the mere fact child la- {fingers, thumbs and toes, as well as|bor is immensely profitable will keep most of the slavers deaf to any “In New York, during the year;appeal from fearful and forward- dom, will immuni 9} scious labor move political and and at the International Harvester Flant, in connection with the dis tribution of the Chicago special edi- tion of 80,000 Daily Workers. Kruse spoke for the Party at the outdoor “We, Chicago working men and women, members of a group of la- | bor organizations, including the All- jAmerica Anti-Imperialist League, |International Labor Defense, Coun- meeting and Morris Childs, district | ci] of Working Class Women, Trade agitprop director, at the indoor | Union Educational League, Workers |" pei : F meeting. ; |(Communist) Party and Young hey Siroalen oh on as ek Fight Yankee Imperialism, Too. | Workers ES raaIeE) Dea os, 8S Herbst; Local 5, Furriers, J, Far- hose elected as Joint Board dele- {gates fron: the various locals are: j al 1, Furriers, S. Reger, M. Pin- |chefshy, H. Brownstein, L. Sissel- | man; Local 2, Cloakmakers, A. Ko- 11 and well-meant of all industrial accidents. Thirteen | gestures of the National Child La-| Big bu knows The slogans carried by the march- | |, ss ; > |ber, P. Gla nan, H. Shiller, B. jnent total disability, and 318 re-|that machinery is displacing labor, crs included not only “Down With | ss fraternal bodies, voiee our pro- | WO: i" Glanesmay Local 6, jsulted in permanent partial dis-|it can afford to kill a few million British Imperialism,” but also [tes against the imprisonment of | (eustein: OV. Wellner; Toca’ ts lability, of which three were to chil-| children. “Down With Yarkee Imperialism”; |oU" brother worker, Jack Johnstone, |" at" Bernstein, Charles ‘Seigle dren under 14 years.” “Child Labor Sunday”? Every not only “Unconditional Indeyfen-|>Y the British oppressors of India ‘ d eibel; Local 9, Cloak Finish- Greenberg, J. Ochtenberg, ania Perlman, Ben Koenigsberg, . Hartman; Local 10, Furriers, B. |Garf, P. Lucas, M. Miller, S. Res- ick; Local 15, Furriers, Lena Greenberg, B. Evins, M. Meltzer, |Celia Rabinowitz, R. Schreiber; Lo- jcal 22, Dressmakers, M. Kravitz, A. Tupin. Sonia Cheiken, Celia Samoro- din, S. Rosenthal, Pearl Haiperin, the dence for India,” but also “Get Out because of his activity there against ke at of the Philippines, and all American | imperialism. We pledge all our ef- jnumber of adults, A whirling bob-|the root of this evil, which is capi-|Colonies and Semi-Colonies.” Chi. |£0tts to the fight in which he has bin or a mass of sliding coal is a talism its sh cago’s tcugh Trish cops were willing been made peony by Rati iced dangerous plaything for youthful all work for children in dangerous to tolerate the first half, but when |" enemy—the fight against im- hands. occupations, for children under 16,|they saw the second they gave or- | Retialist war and the defense of the | And the injury that can be legally and he v hools of |ders to “Git off de earth.” Several | Soviet Union—the fight against im- measured and tabulated is not the|the Soviet Union sort after that. of the largest banners demanded the |Perialism, American as well as Brit- real danger. Occupational diseases, And he means to get it, not by release of Johnstone, and calied up- !Sh—until imperialist rule has been faulty posture, and that mentaj|prayers and the singing of “Ameri- on Chicago labor to fight for the }°Verthrown throughout the entire bleakness that settles on childreg ca,” but by sterner weapons far. liberation of their representative. | Word. |W ‘Hinmelfarh, “Pauline Garbhottt . ¢, " . A i “ i ag beac! bn ‘ 2, jWho spend their youth in pl Organization of young workers aid Special slogans, expressing the at- | “Release Jack Johnstone—imme- | Local 35, Cloak Dress jgrounds of steel and coal and tex-/old workers, politically and in- titude of women and youth were car- | diately and unconditionally! S. Bissof; J. Levanson, J. tiles, instead of outdoors; this is|dustrially, on a class basis, with a ried. | “Freedom for all class war pris-| Goretsky, P. Goodman, M. Tuch- what takes the starch out of them, Leninist theory, are more to his way, At the mass meeting Nels Kjar |oners! | man; Italian Branch Cloak and this is what reduced the stature of jof thinking, and are the hope of the!spoke in the name of the Trade} “Down with world imperialism! | Dressmakers, Angelina Bambatchi, English men by measurable inches! millions of child sla Union Educational League, Ida Ia Moria, P. Masada, A. Lavilla, These injuries increase. They are day is Child Labor Day f He ts t jfar above the rate for the same|Communist. wants to st “Defend the Soviet Union!” 24 hours a day, outside of mines and factories, as soon as they are 16.) That’s all the hours there are. It only sixth grade training. In most} is useless to go on thru the list, for| states the special form of torture the law has very little to do with and inconvenience known as the “con-| the matter. Capitalism makes prof- seare the slaver nodding down be- ‘Yery-and it says, “Let not their lit- tle bodies be utterly sapped, and their minds given over to stupidity and the vices of an empty soul.”— (From the Program.) That ought to go well—a forward thinking slaver might some day need some adults, growing up out of this swarm legally less than sixth grade school- ing. In nine more states, they are nin NR = : : ie ! oittien arirserse | Wall Street Brokers|| |fE! : drunk all the time, or too damn E i { dumb, or too thoroly sapped, they e,e 1 = | I won't be useful. ave 0) ompetition ° 5 SI A Paper Crusade. | EI =\x So that’s the crusade. The nice Thera is one great difference be- | vield—regardless of what it cost | ‘| S| nay 4 rely offi J tween Wall Street and the cloth-| us to manufacture, We also 28'S S| lady in the lovely offices of the Na- ing business: Wall Street brokers | authority to sell for other manu- ==) =I tional Child Labor Committee, up never need fear competition! | facturers fine suits, overcoats and SF ie PR. Ane; didnt know-how Brokerage rates are standard. tuxedos. Se crea | EIS many churches would actually con- ness! A’ seller’ can fake ag stock: “Alicwool suits and overs fi Ee; H duct a National Child Labor Sunday. 1 profit he wants. And | coats, beautifully and _salores | =| =| | Bee ALAA pe as a e is jus at has been hap-|#nd cut on advanced A =|9 i= She didn’t even know whether any pet 4 ant what has been hap- Sagilar vetnll aticoe wre canine Tah VE Pi thens qroilacssShe thousht Dr. pening. " Clothing manufacturers | F skin, | ERE! | ef them would. She thought Dr.) § ing merchants with big stocke on | $40 to $50 for garments that Fink- [| = Holy would. It’s a sinful world, dh been throwing those | elstein_ 1, Inc., $10 Broad = | : eal, conical ‘would 1 tocks: on the market. trying te | Ways N ing direct, will She * Ptical, cynical world, and a t rid of them at any price and Suits and coats § | =) world fe r rinte aper. r= 1 o take oss, S are quot! | S Bm fein bot wall ¢ Oe crusade Rr Me Sa | BM ! s just as sad ock, you can go to s it mea =a le be confined entirely to paper. Then : 1 tual cost. But EI A eee paying as much for his service as the question. We're «the slaver can be handed the pro- u would any other broker. But ‘and we want to une vam, printed prayer and all, as he hen you buy a suit or an over- re willi to take th | Ad mn ssl Tie ane if you take the first offering.| take the SAVI ‘ the ““‘ng clerk file it aw: Wook seroundl : Don't be ed) into.” snd just u Word. About Beare ail S i the Taylor system index for Johnny, J PAY!" more than you have t9. "| aq’ Buti The Typo Workers Credit Corporation Pays aged 16, laboring out in the works. In clothing (iinking of investing| Down in the Street the bufls Mf | 7 Bet ng get quotations from | are th Ages) : That's a good safe, healthy, and) J Finkeistein, £ aiiseh, ‘ne., 'si0 | gre We bors Who.think the mar- 7 per cent Interest on Debenture Bonds truly liberal sort of a crusade. Lib- hai . ne Sealine: | the “anes who are hoping it will q crals are naturally tired people, and our steck is too hig. We're | So G0"suy eet now, the bulls are i { 3 , our is, too big. on the top. Stock prices ar - q | Be ee creas, ret rep ade (oat Vote | she foe, Seek ter ar Sot OUR RESOURCES OVER 1 MILLION DOLLARS What do you expect? oats whieh, due to present |,2Ut in CLOTHING we have a ! S 4% : Ket conditions, remain unecia | bear market. Prices have been q Knows About Gold. ig tee asl ae inte going down, and the end isn't in s as af 5 ‘ 2 Ve're determined to unloa: 8 | sight. you doubt it, look at e eg een Macnee, stock at whatever price it will| these figures: ; 4 = chairman of the N. C. L. C. He is S| # Columbia University professor— en es 1 i " Bi Morgan's university. He is a cap- Bes 2 = g f = italist economist. He has been a (| Radio Corp. of America................6. 85 410 fi) t EB special agent of several senate com- General Motors. ... 3 ray i 226 BE ni i neyclo- | 5 | o = » ittees. He writes see the encyclo: Montgomery Ward. ae i Pate 134 439 | 'a'= pedias. His first work of import- aS ance was on the price movements of AND LOOK AT THESE: i the precious metals, written in Ger- | } man for Jena University, under the FINKEI S IN M i Kaiser, Yes, he is one of the “Cap- TE & AISEL : =| italist Efficiency Socialists.” < ey 1 Hl F The Charity Doler. <3 m a 9 = Here is, also, one of four vice- fj Suits, Overcoats, Tuxedos. .., + $35.00 $21.75 2 airmen, Homer Folks. He is now | f Suits Overcoats, Tuxedos... + 42.50 29.75 r in the social worker game, secretary x * ne (] lene fi rcoats overs. pee 34. of the State Charities Aid Acsocia. ) O¥ercoats from imported cloth 55.60 34.75 : tion of New York, one time a New Seriously speaking—here is a|can beat these values in any regu- SS | York alderman, one time commis- chance fou you to make some sen-|lar retail store. We have Suits, " sationa savings in the line of |Overcoats, clothing. Our garments are guar- anteed to be of the finest mate rials and the most careful work. manship in suits anywhere. We invite your inspection. We aren't afraid to guarantee to refund sioner of public charities, with power to hire and fire a lot of people who need political jobs. He was a val- ued assistant of the military govern- ment of Cuba, And in every war he | Tuxedos and Topcoats of the finest imported and do- mestic worsteds and woolens ob- tainable, Al colors, all _ styles. Sizes range from 33 to 50. We can accommodate Shorts, Stouts, Slims and Regulars. And we make any TYPO WORKERS CREDIT CORPORATION | sae Toa your money within three days if necessary alterations ABSOLUTH- : I fae sorcery ieee ie ee atl ates Se tata 175 EAST BROADWAY NEW YORK, N.Y. | ‘Cross, army behind the armies of stein & Maisel, Inc. values any-| OUR ONLY establishment occu- ’ Ps < {| imperialism. Did he put that in where ‘in New York. pies the ground floor at 810 1 We urge every man and eyery|Broadway, N. Y. C. young man in the city to come to our store—conveniently locatea€— about “The Son of God Goes Forth | to War?” Store hours are from 8:30 to CHARTERED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK pire Rowre, are trom 8:89 to pelecraiisaniet to Sots de Madatnadeosadcellet by Beton TELEPHONE, ORCHARD 366) 810 Broadway, N. Y. C. Look h in th i t 1 hit tae in aig | [[ these “garments” ana’ ace it “youltime or after busuess hours” | 4 Here is another vice-chairman, | ie ai cect ot The “Typo” is a Credit Institution, OUR 10 PAYMENT PLAN dean of the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, Mel- | Jon’s university, in Mellon’s coal ang | iron state, where they work ’em _ young and work ‘em long in coal - breakers, where they keep the coun- _ try dwellers in such ignorance that | ‘they kill each other to clip off the ‘iteh Locks.”. Well, he oguht . to. anow about child labor. 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