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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
WaLtham Watch Workers Revolt

The strike of 5000 employees of the Waltham
Watch Company in the Massachusetts city named
after and owned by this concern is an encouraging
incident in the American struggle These work
erE have been out for eight weeks against a reduc
ton in wages, they have organized in the Jewelry
Workers international Union and are maintain
ing picket line in which men, women and girls
have equal rights in preventing scabs going to
work.
This is the first experience of these workers with
a labor organization and it is more evidence
that even where company welfare systems are
in operation, these do not do away away with wage
CUTS the need for unions and the possibility of
ganization when the unions are on the job. It is
noticeable in the stories of the strike, however,
that the organization which has been formed is
the result of the activity of local militants. 1t is
very probable that the offcialdom of the union
to which the workers now belong considered organ
ization work impossible. Many Of these strikers
have been employed in the Waltham factory since
it was established. They are typical American
workers yet they have organized and challenged
the right Of their bosses to control their destnes
The organization of the Workers Communist
Party in Boston, near which Waldham is located
should be active in this strike If they are not
they are remiss in their Communist duty.
The DAILY WORKER stands ready to give
what support it to the Waltham strikers and it
wishes them every success in their splendid fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
BY JAY LovEsToNE.
(EIahth ArtIcIe.)

CTRIPPED of all its technical VERDI
- age and over-advertised "altru.
ISM" the Dawes plan means that Ger
many is to be "the sick man of Eu-
rope" for an indefinite number of
years.
The Bismarcks of German finance, in
league with and under the guidance
of the overlords of American and En-
tente Imperialism, will bind the Ger.
man working masses hand and foot
Unless the working class rises in re-
volt or presently unforeseen circum.
stances intervene, the dawn of the
Dawes day in Germany will mark
the loss OF the country's economic
freedom for least half century.
Dawes Plan Enslaves Germany
The Dawes plan is hailed by the
American capitalist class as pro-
gram Of liberation. In fact, it is the
most gigantic program of enslavement
that has yet been framed. Sixty mil
Lion people have been sentenced to the
fate of a vassal nation, colony Of in
ternational high finance.
When we say a colony we do not
mean merely that the American or any
other group Of capitalists will have
undisputed control Of the German
market or trade. When we speak of
Germany becoming a colony of inter
national capitalism under the leader
ship of American Imperialism, we
mean that the German industries, the
German resources, the German GUS
toms, the German taxes, the German
currency, the whole German economic
life in it's widest ramifications will be
dominated by a foreign imperialist
junta. When we speak Of the aim of
the Dawes plan to turn Germany into
colony Of international capitalism
whose handspring today is the Ameri-
can employing class, we speak of a
program aiming to reduce Germany
to the politico-economic status OF
Haiti, Santo Domingo, or any other
crushed colonial peoples subject to the
dictates of an American receivership.
Thus the railroads, the banks, the
currency, the customs revenues, the
taxes, will be controlled by and the
basic industries mortgaged to a group
of international financial pirates
whose cumbersome ventures will be
piloted by the Wall Street band
Thirty per cent Of Germany's national
income is to be surrendered annually
to bulge the Golfers of the American
and Allied capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
Of Interest to Steel Workers

One of the most important campaigns conducted
by the militants in the trade union movement is
now under way in the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. This union is
small, its oficialdom is hopeessly reactionary but
it occupies strategic position in the steel indus
try.
Its membership, in strikes like those which took
place in Newport and Yorkville has demonstrated
its will and its ability to fight. 1t is this union
that should be made the center of organization in
the steel industry and if the mitants get power it
will be made rallying ground for the steel work
ers.
For these reasons the campaign of the militants
in the A. A. l. s. T. w. is of primary importance.
Their program is document of genuine interest
to every steel worker, organized or unorganized,
because it breahes in every line the spirit Of
revolt against reformism and reaction and in adj
dition proposes concrete, workable plan of action
for the steel industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
Our Program for the Teachers

Superintendent McAndrew came here from New
York behind barrage of newspaper publicity in
which the Strong silent man" note was plainly
discernible.
His attitude since his arrival has been one neither
of strength nor silence. A vociferous and peev-
ish autocrat who takes his orders from the silk
stocking element 1--WE pause here. Do teachers wear
silk stockngs?) he has from his first day in office
tried his feeble best to break up the teachers union
reduce the teachers to the status of kitchen girl
in an aristocratic English family and conduct the
public school system as private business institu-
ton owned by the Chicago Tribune and the packing
trust
The teachers are in fighting mood and in line
with the best procedure of allaying open discon-
tent in use by all together business concerns the
school board gets behind McAndrew by considering
la plan to reduce the teaching staff by 1900. 1t is
expected that this will cause some hesitancy on the
part of militant advocates of teachers coun-
ellis and other evidences of the vestgal remains of
freedom to which McAndrew is opposed.
The teachers have displayed some considerable
willingness to fight and it is likely that on an issue
of this kind they get the support of organized
labors We suggest that they perfect their organiza
ton and make McAndrew and the lay-off major
issues in ultimatum to the school board or what
ever body is responsible for McAndrew
They should demand the ousting of McAndrew
and no reduction of forces The alternative should
be strike of the II 900 Chicago teachers.
This is our program for the teachers. 1t is
simple but like most simple measures it requires
something more than speeches of protest to become
effective 1t requires organization and intelligent
action-the only two things that will win for the
teachers any other section of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
Curing Communism

Foodstuffs, cereals, meat and dairy products
have advanced in price about 12h per cent since
April l according to the latest reports. On the
theory that this advance has gone into the pockets
of the farmers the capitalist press posits return
to rural prosperity and the routing of the reds to
whom the farmer listened when he was in the
throes Of defation
Without in any way deprecatng the influence
upon farmers of higher prices wish to point
out that rise in the price of foodstufs is about
the poorest way we know Of to counterfeit Com
munism The high price of bread has been a major
factor in all the revolutionary uprisings in Europe
beginning with the French revolution and down to
the Russian revolution and it is the industrial
affected chiefly by the rise of foodstuf
prices, that makes revolutions
We will not be at all displeased If American cap
italsm continues to have faith in raising the price
of foodstuffs as a cure for Communist propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
Germany Is "The Sick Man of Europe"

in Germany, plainly told the Berlin
Associated Press correspondent on
August 81, 1924; in speaking Of the
Dawes plan: Applied to the life Of
this nation, this means that the
standard of living for every German
must be lowered to degree fixed by
the assessment exacted from us I'm.
der the treaty Of peace" Let no one
have any misgivings as to the demo.
cratic notions of SHINES when he
talks Of the question of every Ger
mans standard of living. Herr
SHINES means every German work.
ingman's standard.
Standard Of Living Lowered.
Turning once more to the frank
view Of the whole Dawes matter by
the Morgan National City
Bank, Americas biggest bank, we are
treated to more specific dose Of the
truth about the case. We are told:
I'm order to hold down consumption
it will be necessary that wages shall
be low as compared with the cost OF
living, which may be accomplished
either by means of low money-wages
or by taxation which raises the prices
Of everything the people have to buy.
Taxation is the method by which the
government takes over the share OF
production which must go for repara.
tons"
BENJAMIN M. Anderson, economist
Of the Chase National Bank, also ad.
mits that "the standard of living in
Germany during the earlier years, at
least while reparations payments are
being made, must necessarily be
lower than it was before the war. :"
THAT this lowered standard Of nv.
ing will tend to drive the German
workingman out OF the country is
the opinion Of Rufus S. Tucker of the
United States department of com
merce. Says Mr.. Tucker: "The low
wages and high costs of living that
must result from the imposition of
taxes high enuf not only to run the
government but also to pay repara,
lions will make Germans all the more
anxious to migrate, or at least to OBJ
tain temporary employment outside
OF Germany"
Worse Than Versailles.
Truly, then, who can question the
estimate of the Dawes plan made by
Comrade Karl Radek when he de-
clared: ''The experts report is a more
definite and a more correct. instru-
ment for crushing the German people
than the Versailles treaty, because it
subjugates the whole economic life of
Germany to allied capital"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

only If it is certain that the domestic
policy is absolutely clear"
Certainly the Dawes plan suits the
German employing class interests.
IntoIerabIy Long Hours Planned.
Because of the close alliance be-
tween the saffron social democratic
party and the SHINES class in Ger
many, the eight-hour day which was
won by the workers thru the blood Of
the first postwar revolutionary strug-
gle is fast disappearing. According
to survey made by the German Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions more than
one-third of the undertakings in
Germany are already working on a
longer basis than the forty-eight hour
week. More than eighty per cent Of
the textile workers, So per cent of
the metal workers, and A per cent
of the chemical workers are, as a re-
suit Of this treachery, operating today
more than forty-eight hours a week.
Let us call upon the National City
Bank Bulletin of September, 1924 to
tell us how the American capitalist
receivers view the future of the Ger
man working day under the Dawes
regime. We read:
Considering first the ability of Ger.
many to pay, it is evident that this
will depend upon high production by
the German industries coupled with
low consumption by the German PEG.
pie, thus enabling great industrial
product to be exported. Following
the analysis farther, it probably means
long hours in the industries, or at
least the working day which will
yield the largest product The late
Hugo SHINES insisted that Germany
must go back to the ten-hour day in
order to pay reparations. The ten
hour day was the rule in Germany be-
fore the war, and the country had no
excess Of merchandise exports over
imports then. It's problem now is to
create very large excess, hence it
must produce more and consume
less. In order to produce more and
begin at once, longer hours would
seem to be the only sure resort"
Wages Slashed to Bone.
The well-known European CORE
spondent, Robert Dell, has recently
described the condition of the Ger
man working class in this fashion in
one Of his dispatches to the Baltimore
Sun: Meanwhile the conditions of
the German workmen, when they
have work, are little better, as rule,
than those of Chinese coolies"
But the Dawes plan will tend to
lower even this despicable condition.
Hugo SHINES, Jr., the weathiest man
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

This is the most notorious pawn
broking affair in the history of the
world. Sixty million people have been
condemned to be pawns. The very
export surplus on which the whole
vicious scheme rests translates itself,
in practice, only into long hours, low
wages and degrading standards of
life and employment for the working
masses of Germany. The only stabil-
ity the American and other capitalist
interests are seeking in Germany is
the stability of narrowing poverty
the stability of fodder wages to per.
petuate the rule of the employing
class.
Workers to Pay for War.
The steel rod Of the opposition by
the German capitalists to the allied
imperialists being paid for the costs
of the last war has been the desire
Of the Stinneses, the Thyssens, and
the Schachts to make the German
working masses pay all of the money
as well as all of the blood cost of the
Internal carnage. Consequently, it is
clear that the success of the Dawes
program rests on the decisive defeat
and subjugation of the German work
ing class. In this light it is not diff.
ficult to understand why the German
capitalist class has, on the whole,
found the Dawes plan SO acceptable
We cite the fact that at the last
joint session of the industrialists' and
employers declarations OF Germany,
held in Berlin on March 81. 1894, two
weeks before the details of the Dawes
scheme were made public, the follow
ing opinion of its chairman, DR.. Kurt
Serge of the Krupp corporation, pre-.
vailed:
IA principle the fulflment policy
Of Wirth was correct. But Wirth's
home policy was wrong. We, too,
must stand for the fulfilment policy
but only under certain conditions
These conditions are the following:
The political influence of the work
ers' trade unions must disappear en-.
tirely. The federal government must
under no condition deal henceforth
with the unions. The eight-hour day
must be struck off the statute books.
Collective bargaining on the part of
different unions must be prevented
and the governments right to arbi-
trate in labor disputes diminished.
"All undertakings of the state, es-
pecially the federal railways, must
be turned over to private capital.
German industry is ready to make
sacrifices only then, if these condi-
tions are absolutely accepted. 1t can
turn its attention to foreign questions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

for the three-month period was
S255, $1,000 and the expenditure $345.-
074.19 or loss for the three months
of $50 ,375.1O. At this rate the treasury
will be empty soon and, no doubt,
assessments will be put on to keep up
the official family if the present rate
continues. OF the alleged amount of
1859, 1885 on hand more than half of
this is not available and much of it
will never be collected. Among the
items listed as assets we find $685.
10000 for the building in which the
headuarters are located, $56,31012 as
invested in the defunct Central States
Cooperative Society, in which they
have sunk a million or more dollars
and of which John H. Walker was
president.
$5O,OOOOO was loaned to District 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
Speeding Up Textile Workers

The Lawrence textile capitalists are installing
a new system which forces each weaver to attend
to 70 looms instead of IS. He is given three I'M
skilled helpers and the companies get a neat in
crease in profits. Three-quarters of the weavers
become unskilled laborers join the ranks of the
unemployed.
Here is perfectly plain and easily understood
example of Standardization and specialization in
industry that is typical of whole process by
which individual skill becomes a drug on the
market.
The textile industry be made to pay its
workers good wage and abandon its man-killing
speed-up system by an industrial union taking in
every man and woman in its employ. The weavers
may cling to their craft union but what good will
it do them when threefourths of them cannot get
jobs as weavers? The situation today is that, far
from having an industrial union the workers are
split up in any number Of small and ineffective
unions with less than ten per cent of the workers
in the industry organized.
The employers have taken advantage of this to
organize company unions which they promptly
present with wage cuts reckoning rightly that not
much resistance is to be expected from workers
who have not enough spirit to own their own union.
The textile industry presents perhaps the finest
specimen of the fate of workers who continue to
believe that the capitalists invest their money in
industry Tor charitable reasons. lts immense
profits are in direct proportion to the helplessness
of the workers and its open terrorism in the
strikes into which the workers are forced has so
far gone UNPUBLISHED.
The Spirit displayed by the more militant work
in these strikes shows that they want organiza
ton and will fight for it if given the proper lead.
There should be started in the textile industry a
system of shop committees linking up the workers
in the various centers that will give basis for in
dustrial unionism and that will end for all time the
suicidal policy of dual unionism with its warning
officials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

Estate of Washington and it is well
known this will never be collected
but was loaned at time when it was
supposed to help beat Lewis in the
fight with Harrington. Walker ct all:
$46,000.00 is a loan to The Oklahoma
Leader in addition to $20,S9S1O paid
the same publication for printing the
illinois Miner" for three months, and
sS,53755 paid to the same paper for
job printing.
"Family" Expense.
To pay the official family for three
months and keep them in expense
money, padded hotel bills, trips made
on paper, family expenses, lawyers,
stool pigeons, fiunkeys, dollar tips,
and graft it took $104,114.O5. Far
rington takes trips to the Pacific
coast occasionally and these trips cost
money. His honeymoon trip alone is
said to have taken $932.65 out of the
treasury to say nothing of the mum
erous other trips to California and
elsewhere to recuperate from his
strenuous >labors.
"My God, How Money Rolls In"
Then new cars are required every
once in while. Scab painters must
be employed to paint the homes Of Of
ficials. Members of the family are en-
ployed and listed under "stenographic
work" usually running from $4,000 to
$4,000 per quarter depending ON the
amount of pin money needed for
household expense. The miners treas
ury must also take care of the son of
the secretary-treasurer and while a
rubber stamp has supplanted the sec
retary-treasurer it comes in handy to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11
FAMILY RAIDS
TREASURY WHILE JOBLESS
MINERS FACE STARVATION
espeeIaI to The DaIIy w0rkerl

Springfield, Illinois, October 10, 1924
While bank burglars busy making rich hauls in the
various banks turnout the state certain of the official family
the miners union of Illinois seeing that nothing of this
is going happen the miners treasury They busy
beating the burglars by getting there first The
quarterly just issued covering the period for April May
and June shows the treasury be in the condition has
ever been for many years.
Some Swinde Sheet
1t apparently the purpose of those charge loot the
that the of their failure reelected
nothing wrecked organization memory
The Glenwood post., 1924-10-09
THREE PRISONERS
SAY GOODBYE
Through Prompt Action Of Sheriff Two
are Promptly Landed Behind the
Prison---Third Still Free

During the absence Of Sheriff George
Winters in Carbondale, and Under
sheriff Rater who had gone to his
supper, three prisoners in the county
Jail about six 'clock last Sunday eve-
ming made their getaway by splicing
mop handles together with piece of
broom wire and fishing the big brass
key from the sheriff's desk in the
opposite corner of the office.
By. dragging, this key across the
floor, it was easy for them to reach
through the bars and unlock the outer
door of the corridor and let themselves
out into the office, and from there to
the street.
Luther Rater had given the men
their supper about five O'Clock, and
when he came out he put the lock in
the door Of the cage, but did not lock
it. AS soon as he had gone the men
removed the unfastened lock and let
themselves in to the corridor, hastily
spliced together the mopsticks that
stood'in the corner, and soon were on
the street. tH
The men who escaped were W. j,
Cash, an Eagle county prisoner await
ing trial on a charge Of stealing sad
dies, Robert Dorman, blacksmith Of
Grand Valley, charged with statu
tory offense, and Albert Galipin Of
Rifle, charged with larceny Of auto
mobile accessories. The latter 10 be-
lieved to have been the moving spirit
| in the break.
Three other mon were In the jail =,
time, bbut one Of them was asleep
and the other two claim to have beer
in the rear portion Of the jail, and
say they knew nothing Of The escape
or the intention Of tho three men Il
! attempt It. NA
The Glenwood post., 1924-10-09
EIGHT STATE
TICKETS FILED.

Denver, Oct. eight parties win
have candidates for state offices on the
ballot at the general election Novem-
ber A. In addition to the Republican
and Democratic parties, six more filed
nominating petitions with the secretary
Of state. The other parties having
candidates are these. Socialist Work
ers' party, Andy Gump and the Farm,
er-Labor, Progressive and La Toilette.
The last three parties have the same
candidates.
Saturday was the last day for filing
petitions for nomination. Two petit
tions were presented, placing presiden-
tial electors in nomination, but both
were refused by Secretary Milliken be-
cause of similarity of names to parties
that had previously filed.
If the two parties who were refused
wish to contest this action, they must
bring action in the district court.
The Glenwood post., 1924-10-09
COUNCIL PAYS OFF
TUNNEL WORkMEN

The city council, at its regular ses-
sion last Monday evening again took
up the question Of paying the work
men on the municipal water tunnel,
and, in order to protect the city's
rights as best they could against any
question which might arise with the
contractors, White & johnson, the city
purchased Of the workmen their claims
for the last month, the work now be-
ing completed, SO far as the contract
is concerned. 1t is planned to turn
water through the new tunnel next
Saturday.
Aside from the passage Of the food
ordinance, appearing in this issue Of
The Post, bond ordinance and the
allowance Of the regular monthly bir1a,
there was but little business before the
board.
The Glenwood post., 1924-10-09

Sheriff Winters returned to the
court house soon after six clock and
at once took in the situation, and Gar
field county has had a mighty busy
sheriff from that time to the present
moment. Telephone and telegraphic
notice was sent to officers, far and
near, with the result that in less than
4s hours after the break occurred,
Dorman. was locked in a cell in soh-
tary confinement, and later Tuesday
evening Cash was suffering the same
experience. Dorman was caught by
section men while walking down the
railroad Tuesday about noon, and was
brought back by Winters who soon
afterwards learned that Cash had been
picked up at State Bridge by Under
sheriff Stein of Eagle county. The
third escape is stirl at large, but Win
ters is hot on his trail and believes
he will have him behind the bars be.
fore the end Of the week.