Daily Worker
February 20, 1925

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive

Page 1

IT an “Ad” R, - vee tps a Oy arise bg DAILY. To the Last S om aOR Ys. ‘ 4. bo allen Pe : . . 7 i -* Gey) x Ze } 2 ¥ Py 4 : a eh * - / - + : oe od : * -* rs — Le Tak ier vor per vo. | a sdierathaantucme nee Sain ie Ua es NEW YORK EDITION 20, 1925 How the wage papetios the period when low w share. Appleton mills rose from. $620 to $645 a Berkshire $141 to $148, Dr to $50, Farr Pinges, $175 to $1 $100 to ee ert ‘oak in the stockholder's. gain is shown by the advance in the price of textile mill stock during: 3 were being slashed still further. |°"0uld be modelay ©) = wh According to The Wall Street Jornal, in, the the advance in leading textile stocks AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O')FLAHERTY NLY a few weeks ago, the na- tional secretary of the young people’s socialist league, an auxil- iary of the socialist party, turned in his membership card in that bankrupt organization and joined the Workers (Communist) . Party. Last week an- other ‘young rebel who hoped against hope that the socialist party could be transformed into a weapon of the class struggle joined the Commun- ists. ._The youth organization of the socialists is, but the ghost of an or- ganization. It is afflicted’ with the same disease that has brot its parent to the brink of the grave. * * s UT what about our - young cam | munist organization, the veal | Workers’ League? What indeed? Here’s what. - The- first issue of its weekly propaganda paper will appear on the first of March.’ In 1922 the Young: Workers’ League had a month- ly that “ appeared every once in a while. It tried hard to be a monthly. lt was like the “Toonerville Trolley that caught all trains.” - Nothing the matter with the paper except that the league -was poor, small in number and inflinitesmally small in influence. The officers of the league had that lean and’ hungry look that is assoct- by | yneasy stages as all revolutionary ob ganizations do. The irregular month- ly bécame’ regular. Then it disap- peared and re-appeared in the form of a bi-weekly. In addition a Junior League was organized with a little monthiy organ of their own, called the Young Comrade. This. paper has made more noise than a pondful of frogs and caused the capitalists to spill gallons of ink in’ their lying sheets, deploring the spread of evil among the young. But the young reb- els revel in their wickedness. * + * ITH a bi-weekly and a monthly, W one would” imagine that the Young Workers’ League was all fixed for propaganda machinery. But being a’ growing organism, it does not relish the thot of standing still. It began to hustle for a weekly. The weekly is about here. The first issue appropri- ately enuf will be a special one to fight child labor. The best writers in the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League will contribute. Be on the look out for it. And do not for- get to support it. oa . . HE youth organization is of the very greatest importance to the working class movement. In every country 1 Europe the young militants have been in the front line trenches. They are the future leaders of the Communist movement. “American rad- icals who have children should induce them to join the Junior League and the Young Workers’ League before they become contaminated with the 100 per cent American bunk that is in=| jected into their brains in the robot }iabor ticket and a working class plat-| ted toward strengthening the union between workers and peasants, by . Jform. lowering production costs to the The reactionaries led by R. D./ greatest possible extent. unemployments-entirely. The past factories misnamed schools. ; > « . UR foreign language com should see to it that the pul tions of the Young Workers’ Leaggé get imto their homes where they ‘ be read.by their children, Who Tia) thus be saved from developing a taste for “Hot Dog” the “Fig Leaf,” aA Pepper” or other salacious literature 4 of hundreds of ‘thousands of father labor groups on the basis of a esi@ramer and ex-socialist mayor Tom ie this arch republican reactionary, Nations Sq . Over . anaes Meet GENEVA, f ‘tion developed today over Great of limitation of arm Britain suggested yesterday when America would be syorenpetet France, Spain, deioatevdnls jsecret meeting today eer there Delegate Jouhaux of France crit: course of 3.weeks |, i264. the United States, ranged from $5 to $30.a me aN to to Ser, arnt re is nothing new,” he said. “We ca wait for: America. Adjourning .un America co-operates is adjourning definitely.” dollars in the wealth of the owners. The price indicate that the much talked of ‘“depres- sion’’ did not undermine con- fidence in the ability of the in- dustry to profit by squeezing the workers. TOILERS CONTEST GITY ELEGT! IN MINNEAPOLIS Cramer Lined Up with the Faker Van Lear By CARL SKOGLUND. MINNEAUOLJS, Minn., Feb. 18.—At the regular meeting of the city cen- tral committee of the farmer-labor federation of Minneapolis, held Mon- day evening, plans were laid for the lling of a labor candidate for. mayor the marked thcrease in enenghageient IN CLEVELAND During Last: 2 Months By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELANND, Ohio, Feb. 18. — Authentic figures solicited from one following facts: Applied for work during the months of December and January: 37,000. . Those given jobs during the same period amounted to approximately 9,699. The mumbers. applying for jobs November of 1924 were 33,000, and those receiving employment during the same period amounted to approx- imately 12,000. Jobs Are Part Time The figures, if compared will show ar 7 , ; Feb. 18 " 18.—Sharp a oe jain’s proposal to postpone a erese : conference be delayed until ay r AZ “The attitude of the United States the | P 37 000 Looking forWork employment office in this city give the} ’ during the months of October: and}; og on "1S leche tones Mic seas, . 2 ¥ - * eg were only temporary, in a good many instances for two and three days duration only. This unemployment has been hitting the unskilled very hard in this city, this is shown by the fact that the opening gun in what is expected to | Common Laborers’ Union membership be the warmest city election ever|!® @bout half employed. Labor held in Minneapolis. headquarters in this city are besieged The Expected Attack. by members without jobs daily. The members of the. committee Workers Appeal to Charity were unanimous in their desire for A report from one of the charitable a clear cut labor ticket. Speakers | organizations in this city tells us that pointed out that the Labor Review in the month of January 515 able and the Daily Star would support the | podied men, heads of families, were reactionary Pepublican, Leach, for re-|giyen help while hundreds of others, election and would probably attack | sych as single men were turned away, the labor ticket as “Communist” be-|anqd still others had to be refused cause of the fact of members of the |pecause of the limited funds which Workers Party being delegates to/|tne institution is compelled’ to work the federation from local unions. Al- with. derman John Peterson stated that la-| ne workers of this city are be- the capitalist press and alleged “pro- | ,omething in the slogan of “Keep with gressive” sheets’ such as the Star Kool with Koolidge,” as they roam and urged a full labor ticket. the street daily in search of the em- Delegates were seated from several organizations, among them were Emil S. Youngdahl from the 10th ward The committee. was Sab instFucted to arrange for a large | ratification mass meeting to beheld immédiately following the meeting, .of the: central committee, this meeting to be the find. TeaTGEGY o€ the iotk eaten ployment which they are unable | Published daily exce PUBLISHING a 1 y by THE DAILY =a” Ss 13 Dy Whsbington Blvd; Chicago, IIL WORKER _ Price 3 Cents tof North and the S MINOR “Dally Worker) ; R. lL, Feb. 18—The is drive against the hours and con- Co. $47 to $56, Hill $100 to $110, Italy, Japan and Sweden supported | ditions of eve In New Eng jLyman $117 to $123, Naum- |the British proposal for an | adjoura- land, cam. od only if it is keag $185 to $195, Peppercell| ment! R Serepective. $120 to $140. Saoc-Lowell $47 ah ay atest Ot the to $52, Sanford $183 to $210,| . Pte atts > te Salmon Falls $17 to $47, West iz By 4 towns are sooheente Point from $131 to $138., , to view 4 ‘mill crisis in too This gain in the. value of tex- AMONG WOBLESS ba ® being a problem of tile stocks meant an increase thi | of this or that mill 0 bactually let their con- a by the state bound- B. various little New } Rhode Island, Con- “@ach little more than stern county jand al! r being one industrial | ¢ St that it could usefully be conside 4 B.sigle huge city. Pour ué Into “The South” But even t@ view the matter as per- ¢ iy5to a single, huge, all- *e is not sufficient. ‘statist! tables shows ; ‘cotton textile oligar- Pie chy | nM @ past five or six years been, pou fens and scores of mil- lions Of | itplus capital into North Saag Tennessee, Alabama. Today, it is . more cotton spindles ) southern states than in ® Book” of the textile the southern mills + milion bales of cotton COMMUNISTS LAUNCH:BIG FIGHT IN CITY ALDERMANIG CAMPAIGN; MACHINISTS’ LODGE BACKS PARTY The Workers (Communist) Party has issued its platform for the four wards in which Communists are on the ballot. A big campaign will be waged frdm now until election day, Feb. 24. The program issued by the Workers (Communist) Party in the 34th ward, where Harry Broooker is the Communist candidate, challenges David McVey, Brooker’s “progressive” opponent, to take a definite stand on issues vitally affecting Chicago’s workers. The candidacy of Nicholas Dozenberg, representing the Workers (Com- munist) Party in the 28th ward, was unanimously indorsed by Lodge 478, of the International Association of Machinists, at its last meeting. The other two candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party are L. Cejka, candidate in the 22nd ward, and Hyman Epstein in the 24th ward. ' “David McVey, my opponent representing the “progressive party of Illinois, says he stands for ‘real schools, not fire traps.’” Brooker, who is a member of the Typographical Union, told the DAILY WORKER, “But McVey offers no real solution for getting real Haare oa schools. I propose new school build. | | ings, cost to be carried by a levy on STRIKE OF ? OH . ’ wealthy tax dodgers; education to be under control of teachers’, parents’ Police Are on Guard As City Asks for Confab and students’ councils. I demand that maintenance of working class children during school period be guaranteed by the city government.” “McVey declares that the Chicago traction problem has been a political football long enough, and wants speed, seats and lower fares. But McVey says not a word as to how to get them,” declares Brooker. In speaking to the one hundred machinists present at the meeting which indorsed his candidacy, Com- rade Dozenberg declared, “I am proud) the strike of the two thousand to say that I am very much partisan] street cleaners and garbage collec- to and in favor of the working class, tors employed by the city of Chicago and no other class..1 am proud of my! wiij remain in effect at least thfu Friday. Deputy Street Superintendent WIiIl- iam J. Galligan says he has asked Michael Carrozzo, president of the Street Cleaners’ Union, for a confer- ence to take place Friday afternoon at three o’clock in the department of public workers, city hall. Refuse to Stay Uncollected. Galligan added that no attempt would be made to clean the streets or collect garbage until after this con- ference. membership in the organized labor movement and my association with the working class movement and the Workers (Communist) Party.” Many copies ef the DAILY WORKER were sold at the meeting. The municipal. voters league made “no recommendation” in Comrade Do- zenberg’s ward. He was classified as (Continued on page 2) TEACHERS ARE as aga } and a quarter million “The street cleaners are striking bales ~ fe. the north, while not only for a raise in pay, but as a ),00 pomploved in. the protest becausé they did not receive y a st 300,006 in the North. their month’s pay on January 5,” says ‘a strange and dramatic Carrozzo. “There are 7§Q@ vet ah ' Diistory’s task. It was bi t Rapes aif 3. eitetaeg —- bebe’ und the Northern | f istates; and this little New Inglant&kigroup formed the steel- iron-and-goldtiheart of the northern capitalist society which crushed the feudal so oligarchy and under- took to “ ruct” it on the lines of modern ‘gupitalism. Now the south hums with machin. ery—machinery that consumes more than half the: cotton that is spun and woven in America. But it is not “southern capital” that installed the machinery. The ways of finance- capital are tortuous. and-hard to trace, but from the many scattered and vague references to the buying of mills andthe building of new mills in the south by “New England capital’’ it is safe to say that the southern cotton manufacturing is done under the same fimancial control, in the main, as that of the New England states. Indications are that it was the sur- plus profits of the war times—the fevered “khaki profiteering,” of 1915- 18 and the after-war splurge up to (Continued on Page 5.) ON NEW SCHOOLS Results Show They Are Miserable Failures Altho the administration committee of the board of education spent fully one and a half hours discussing the naming of sixteen new school build- ings that are to be erected in Chicago within the next few months, not one word of mention was made of the type of buildings to be erected or the personnel of the committee who de- cides this important question. sweepers, 250 foremen, 708 and $0 truckmen strike: We are ie 7) Mice ot Riky cents a day for the street cleaners, and section forémen, and $1.50 a day per crew fér the teamsters.” The teamsters are now paid $10.50 a day for themselves and team. The street cleaners are paid $5.00 a day. Police Called Out. Police were on guard at all ward offices of the street cleaning depart- ment. The strike was 100 per cent effective, with all the street clean- ers and garbage collectors being out. (Continued on page 2.) eamsters,. COMMUNISTS IN PRUSSIAN DIET FLAY ROBBERS Introduce Motion to Probe Ruhr Blast (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Feb. 18—The Prussian diet was in turmoil today when the new Prussian premier, former Chancel- lor Marx, outlined the government's program. Communists shouted: “Ruhr swindler!” They were alluding to the govern- ment paying industrialists of the Ruhr district indemnities for loss sustained thru occupation by the allied troops. The Communists introduced a mo- tion to determine the cause of the mine disaster at Dortmund last week, The motion was defeated. o - * BERLIN, Feb. 18.—The reprisalg which Roumania has threatened to take against Germany depended upon what answer Germany makes to the Roumanian note demanding a settle ment of its reparation claims, Foreign Minister Stresemann told the foreign relations committee. Stresemann said Roumania had not replied to Germany’s counter pro- posals. The dispute between Roumania and Germany is the outcome of Ger- man occupation of Roumanian terri- tory during the war. DES MOINES, IA, I$ PARADISE OF LITTLE BUSINESS By DAVID COUTTS. (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 18. —First Papen of this hustling little town are that everybody seems busy and happy. Crowds moved to and fro in the business section, which covers many blocks and has a nutiber of large stores that makes the visitor wonder where the trade comes from. Upon inquiry we learn that there are no large manufacturing plants, but many small ones. Ford assembling plant is the largest and employs about 600. LaFollette’s Dream Town. Des Moines would appear to be the goal and paradise of little business. Here LaFollette would find his dream come true. Monopoly has apparently (Continued on Page 4.) Further inquiry of the business manager, John Byrnes, and of presi- dent of the board of education, Charles Moderwell, brought the ad- mission that neither the Teachers’ HELP WANTED AT ONCE! Federation nor any other teachers’ or- | ganization has been consulted on the'| type of new school. buildings. When Moderwell was informed that in other cities, New York, for ex- ample, new school buildings were put up which are proving utter failures insofar as the teachers’ and children’s comfort is concerned he asked “Do you mean that we should consult with the teachers?” aspire to become stage stars. he directed “The Dawn,” farmer-labor club, C. A. Hathaway, from Machinists’. Local No. 91, Joseph Poirer, from the 12th ward, farmer- labor club-and A. B. Barker from the Progressive Professional Men’s Club. Cramer to Back Leach. The decision of the central commit- WAGES OVER PRE-WAR SCALE iN MOSCOW PROVINCE; PRODUCTION UP 30 PER CENT; PARTY GROWS tee to put up a complete labor ticket will probably assure a united front of all labor forces in the Minneapo- lig city campaign, the city central committee of the Workers Party hay- ing previously issued a statement to the effect that they would unite with secretary of the Moscow committee crease in industry in the past year, Industrial development during the roubles for 1924, as against 397,000,000 for 1928. employed in Moscow industry has increased from 213,000 to 288,000. a MOSCOW, U. S. 8S. R.—TIn the report given by Comrade Ouglianov, of the Commeasnist Party before the Moscow Party Conference, he stated that there hasebeen a 30 per cent in- the total cemimg to over 518,000,000 The number of workers past year has.been especially direc- Moscow Wages Pass Pre-War Level. On December 1, 1924, Comrade Ou- glianov reported, the real wages of the workers of Moscow province at- tained to 103 per cent of the pre-war level. In addition, he stated, that the Steady development of industry would soon make it possible to do away with h Lear are preparing the way for support for Leach. The: Daily r (Van Lear’s paper) has already he given their endorsement mer is expected to follow suit in next few days. which is now deluging the and turning the minds of the into a moral cesspool, Or still wrk from the dope published in the Am- erican Magazine or other organs of ‘success” and “ambition.” > « - HE treaggnable and seditious of- fenses . which the Free State governme:st tntroduced and will surely pul thru sts paces im the Dail is a vicious }Toposal. It contains forty vrovisions punishable by death, by ;nprisonment for two years, by penal servitude for from five to twenty vears and by fines up to $2,500. This we the kind of work the Free State hangmen are engaged in while hun- dreds of thousands of workers and (Continued on Page 6) “35 HANCOCK, MICHIGAN, PLEDGES AID ‘stuff. There is no doubt but they will r IN IRISH FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE Hardly had the first appeal for trish famine appeared in the columns of The DAILY WORKER than promises of assistance began to come in. One of the first to respond were the workers of Hancock, Michigan, away up in the copger peninsula. John Kliskila, member of the Workers Party and popular among the workers of the copper country wrote as follows: “The trish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee:—Dear Comrade: We intend to get some funds for Irish relief. Now, kindly let us know what steps we ought to take. on thi¢ matter.” There is a large group of Irish workers in Hancock and they are good md generously to the appeal to come to the assistance of their famine an comrades in Ireland. The Irish famine relief committee is getting the machinery in motion for the launching ef a big drive for funds, The plans will be announced shortly. : ai ¢ year has beemrcharacterized by ex- tremely intdmaive work on housing construction. The situation of the peasants is also considerably improved in this district. The area sown ‘in 1924 was greater than that sowmw before the war, 566,000 dessiatins having been sown in the past year as against 450,000 dessia- tins in 1914. The number of members in the Mos- cow organization of the Russian Com- munist Party has increased from 74.,- 000 members at the time of the 12th Congress to 90,000: members on Janu- ary 1, 1925. An immense amount of work has been done in the fleld of the political education of. party members, 66,000 members and sandidates having pass- ed thru schools for political instruc- tion. In closing, Comrade Ouglianov pointed out that the Moscow organiza- tion has not anly developed numeri- cally, but als in spect to the strengthening wf ite ideological foun- dations. It is advancing steadily on the paths of Boishevism. “Yes, by all means,” the DAILY)| spectacle across. WORKER reporter assured him. “The teachers have to spend the| audience will participate. greater part of their lives in those school rooms. And they are the ones who know the needs of the children.” (Continued on page 2) 108 East 14th street at once. IVE hundred comrades wanted as actors and actresses for the Commune Pageant, to be held March 15, at the Madison Square Garden, This Is the opportunity of a life-time for the Workers Party membere wh@ We are now giving you this opportunity. able guidance of Alexander Arkatow, recently arrived from Rusela, where a production having 60,000 workers as actors. He is now producing “Peter, the Great,” at the Jewish Art Theater. | is of greater importance, is that you are essential to put this dramatiel Parts You will not enly have the But This ig a novel performance wherein the entire Madison Square Garderwt You are to perform the leading roles. The work, is casy and with some training you can easily perform your act. Send in your name or get in touch with |. Fraikin, care Workers Party This is very Important, the time Is very short, No speaking is necessary, and every comrade is urged to report at once. Get Jap Out of Bed to Sign Pact — ' with Soviets eres i Minister YoshizaWa accepted the pact with Soviet Russia In behalf of Japan from his sick-bed. He is seen signing his signature in the presence of the Sovict envoy, M. Leon Karakhan (seated in foreground). | | ' ¥ . ee |