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Insure the DAILY WORKER To the Last Spike! Before March 5 Vol. 11. No. 34. TEXTILE BARONS’ STOCK GOES . IIP FROM $5 TO „.T WHILE THEY uiViiis-.' ES T..T' How the wage earner's loss in the stockholder’s gain is shown by the advance in the price of textile mill stock during' the period when low wages were being slashed still further. According to The Wall Street Jornal, in the course of 3 weeks sha advance ,n '•««"« text '* e stocks ranged from $5 to S3O a , 1nn A P pl0 e!°" m i lls , r ° s , e fr °™ 5620 t 0 * 645 a share, Arlington SIOO to $lO7, Berkshire sl4l to $l4B, Draper $l6O to $167, Dwight $45 to SSO, Farr Alpaca $175 to $lB5, Hamilton Mfg. < y ■“‘v AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY - ONLY 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 iCommunist) Party. Last week an other young rebel who hoped against hope that the socialist party could be I 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. * * • BUT what about our young Com munist organization, the Young 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. It 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 associ ated with bad man. • * • BUT they survived and so did the league. They made progress by uneasy stages as all revolutionary or ganizations do. The irregular month ly became 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 monthly 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. * * • WITH a bi-weekly and a monthly, 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. • * * THE youth organization is of the very greatest importance to the working class movement. In every country In 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 factories misnamed schools. « • * OUR foreign language comrades should see to it that the public*- Hons of the Young Workers’ Ledifie get into their homes where they ’oan be read by their children. Who may thus be saved from developing a tastt for "Hot Dog” the “Fig Leaf,” “Red Pepper” or other salacious literature which is now deluging the country aud turning the minds of the youth into a moral cesspool. Or still worse from the dope published in the Am erican Magazine or other organs of "success” and “ambition." * • * THE treasonable and seditious of fenses !P.I which the Free State government Introduced and will surely put thru ~ts paces in the Dail Is a vir ous i roposal. It contains forty pK-vlslons punishable by death, by imprisonment for two years, by penal tervitude for from five to twenty vears and by fines up to $2,500. This ir. the kind of work the Free State hungmon are engaged in while hun dreds of thousands of workers and (Continued on Pag*) 6) i 1 » THE HAlftJf W&BIKER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ♦Co. $47 to $56, Hill SIOO to sllo,' Lyman sll7 to $123, Naum keag $lB5 to $195, Peppercell $l2O to $l4O. Saoo-Lowell $47 to $52, Sanford $lB3 to $2lO, Salmon Falls sl7 to $47, West Point from sl3l to $l3B. This gain in the value of tex tile stocks meant an increase ,of hundreds of thousands of 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 CITY ELECTIONS IN MINNEAPOLIS Cramer Lined Up with the Faker Van Lear By CARL SKOGLUND. MINNEAUOUS, 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 md a complete labor ticket for all city ofliev * special committee was appointed ta inrestlgate all available candidates and report back to the next meeting of the federation on Monday, March 2, at which-time can didates will be chosen. The committee was also instructed to arrange for a large ratification mass meeting to be held immediately following the meeting of the central committee, this meeting to be the opening gun in what is expected to be the warmest city election ever held in Minneapolis. The Expected Attack. The members of the committee were unanimous in their desire for a clear cut labor ticket. Speakers pointed out that the Labor Review and the Daily Star would support the reactionary republican, Leach, for re election and would probably attack the labor ticket as “Communist” be cause of the fact of members of the Workers Party being delegates to the federation from local unions. Al derman John Peterson stated that la bor must expect to be attacked by the capitalist press and alleged “pro gressive” sheets such as the Star and urged a full labor ticket. Delegates were seated from several organizations, among them were Emil S. Youngdahl from the 10th ward 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 tee to put up a complete labor ticket will probably assure a united front of all labor forces in the Minneapo lis city campaign, the city central committee of the Workers Party hav ing previously issued a statement to the effect that they would unite with other labor groups on the basis of a labor ticket and a working class plat form. ..The reactionaries led by R. D. Cramer and ex-socialist mayor Tom Lear are preparing the way for •fheir support for Leach. The Daily Star (Van Lear’s paper) has already editorially given their endorsement to this arch republican reactionary, Cramer is expected to follow suit in the next few day*. HANCOCK, MICHIGAN, PLEDGES AID IN IRISH FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE Hardly had the first appeal for Irlah famine appeared In the eolumna of The DAILY WORKER than promises of assistance began to come In. One of the first to respond were the worker* of Hancock, Michigan, away up In the copper peninsula. • John Kllsklla, member of the Workers Party and popular among the worker* of the copper country wrote as follow*: “The Irleh Worker*’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee:—Dear Comrade: We Intend to get eome funds for Irish relief. Now, kindly let us know wh*t steps we ought to take on the matter.” There la a large group of Irish workers In Hancock and they are good stuff. There I* no doubt but they will respond generously to the appeal to come to the assistance of their famine striokan comrades In Ireland. The Irleh famine rel'ef committee Is getting the machinery In motion for the launching *f a big drive for fvnde,, The plana will be announced shortly. Entered as second-class matter September 21, 1925, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago by mail, SB.OO per year. Outside Chicago, by mall, $6.00 per year. Nations Squabble Over Calling of Disarmament Meet GENEVA, Feb. 18. —Sltfirp opposi tion developed today over Great Brit ain’s proposal to postpone a discussion of limitation of armament. Great Britain suggested yesterday that the conference be delayed until May 4 when America would be represented. France, Spain, Czecho-Slovakla in .secret meeting today decided there should be no delay. Delegate Jouhaux of France crit icized the United States. “The attitude of the United States is nothing new,” he said. “We cannot wait for America. Adjourning until America co-operates is adjourning In definitely.” Italy, Japan and Sweden supported the British proposal for an adjourn ment. * MISERY GROWS AMONG JOBLESS IN CLEVELAND 37,000 Looking for Work During Last 2 Months By GEORGE PAPCUN. (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELANND, Ohio, Feb. 18. Authentic figures solicited from one employment office in this city give the following facts: Applied for work during tho months of December and January: 37,000. Those given Jobs during the same period amounted to approximately 9,699. The numbers applying for Jobs during the months of October and 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 the marked increase in unemployment for the last two months and also the decrease in jobs supplied for the same period. It was also pointed out by those in charge of these employment offices that many of the jobs supplied 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 Common Laborers’ Union membership is about half employed. Labor headquarters in this city are besieged by members without jobs daily. Workers Appeal to Charity A report from one of the charitable organizations in this city tells us that in the month of January 515 able bodied men, heads of families, were given help while hundreds of others, such as single men were turned away, and still others had to be refused because of the limited funds which the institution is compelled to work with. The workers of this city are be ginning to believe that there was something in the slogan of “Keep with Kool with Koolidge,” as they roam the street daily in search of the em ployment which they are unable to find. WAGES OVER PRE-WAR SCALE IN MOSCOW PROVINCE; PRODUCTION UP 30 PER CENT; PARTY GROWS MOSCOW. U. S. S. R.—ln the report given by Comrade Ouglianov, secretary of the Moscow committee of the Commamist Party before the Moscow Party Conference, he stated that there has* been a 30 per cent In crease In industry in the past year, the total coming to over 518,000,000 roubles for 1924, as against 397,000,000 for 1923. The number of workers employed In Moscow Industry has Increased from 213,000 to 288,000. Industrial development during the past year has been especially direc ted toward strengthening the union between workers and peasants, by lowering production costs to the ♦ greatest possible extent. Moscow Wages Past Pre-War Laval. 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 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1925 TEXTILE BAROHS M UNIIED FRONT AGAINST LABOR Profiteers of North and South the Same By ROBERT MINOR (Special te The Dally Worker) PROVIDBNCE, R. |„ Fsb. 18.—The present enormous drive against the wage-scale* working hours and con ditions of textile labor in New Eng land, can be Understood only If it is thrown into broad perspective. That Is the (Rouble with most of the “laljor” views-of this situation. Even the most sincere and militant workers in the small. mill towns are Inclined to view the cotton mill crisis in too narrow away, as being a problem of this or that faill, of this or that mill town —and some actually let their con ception be bound by the state bound aries (!) of the various little New England states, Rhode Island, Con necticut, etc., each little more than the size of a 'Western county and al! of them together being one industrial unit so compact that It could usefully be considered as a slgle huge city. Pour Surplus Into “The South’’ But even to view the matter as per taining only to a single, huge, all- New England “city’ Is not sufficient. A glance at statistical tables shows that the unified cotton textile oligar chy has for the past five or six years been pouring tens and scores of mil lions of It* surplus capital into North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Today, it is said there »re more cotton spindles running In the southern states than in New England. The 1923 "Year Book” of the textile industry said that the southern mills consumed tour million bales of cotton as against two and a quarter million bales consumed In the north, while 400,000 hands were employed in the south as against 300,000 in the North. Here we see a strange and dramatic fulfilment of history's task. It was cotton that formed the basis of the war of ’6l -between the southern cot ton-growing- states and the Northern manufacturing states; and this little New England group formed the steel iron-and-gold heart of the northern capitalist society which crushed the feudal southern oligarchy and under took to “reconstruct” it on the lines of modern capitalism. 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 and the 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 financial 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 1916- 18 and the after-war splurge up to (Continued on Page 5.) unemployment) entirely. The paat year ha* bee* t characterized by ex tremely Intensive 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 sown before the war, 566,000 desslatins having been sown In the past year as against 450,000 dessia tlns 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 field of the political education of party members, 66,000 members and candidates having pass ed thru schools for political Instruc tion. In closing, Comrade Ouglianov pointed out that the Moscow organiza tion has not only developed numeri cally, hut also In respect to the strengthening »f Us Ideological foun dations. It la advancing steadily on the paths of Bolshevism. COMMUNISTS LAUNCH BIG FIGHT IN CITY ALDERMANIC 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 fr6m 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 standß 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 schools. I propose new school build ings, cost to be carried by a levy on wealthy tax dodgers; education to be under control of teachers’, parents’ 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, ”1 am proud to say that I am very much partisan to and in favor of the working class, and no other class. I am proud of my membership in the Organized labor movement and my association with the working class movement and the Workers (Communist) Party.” Many copies es 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 IRE NOT CONSULTED ON NEWSCHOOLS 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. 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’ 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?” - “Yes, by all means,” the DAILY WORKER reporter assured him. "The teachers have to spend the 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) .... _ Get Jap Out of Bed to Sign Pact with Soviets Minister YoshlzaWa accepted the pact with Soviet Russia In behalf of Japan from hia alck-bed. He It seen •Igning his signature In the presence of the Soviet envoy, M. Leon Karakhan Heated In foreground). Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. STRIKE OF 2,080 WHITE WINGS MAY LAST DAYS Police Are on Guard As City Asks for Confab The strike of the two thousand street cleaners and garbage collec tors employed by the city of Chicago will remain In effect at least thru Friday. Deputy Street Superintendent Will 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. “The street cleaners are striking not only for a raise in pay, but as a protest because they did not receive their month’s pay on January 5,” says Carrozzo. “There are 760 street sweepers, 250 foremen, 708 team*f.ers, and 80 truckmen on strike. We are asking for a raise of fifty cents a day ! for the street oleaners, and section foremen, and $1.50 a day per crew for 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.) HaP WANTED AT ONCE! rHVE hundred comrades wanted as actors and actresses for the Parts * Commune Paoeant, to be held March 15, at the Madison Square Garden. This Is the opportunity of a life-time for the Workers Party members whs aspire to become stage stars. We are now giving you this opportunity. You will not only have tbs able guidance of Alexander Arkatow, recently arrived from Russia, where he directed "The Dawn," a production having 60,000 workers as actors. He> is now producing "Peter, the Great," at the Jewish Art Theater. But whs* is of greater importance, is that you are essential to put this dramath* spectacle across. This is a novel performance wherein the entire Madison Square Garden audience will participate. You are to perform the leading roles. The work; is easy and with some training you can easily perform your act. Send in your name or get in touch with I. Fralkin, care Workers Partj% 108 East 14th street at once. This is very Important, the time Is very short,' No speaking is necessary, and every comrade is urged to report at once. NEW YORK EDITION Price 3 Cents 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. • * * BERLIN, Feb. 18.—The reprisal* 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„ IS PARADISE OF LITTLE BUSINESS By DAVID COUTTS. (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, la., Feb. 18. —First impressions 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 number of large stores that makes the visitor wonder whero 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.)