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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Secretary Refuses
To Use Y. w. C. A. as
Garment ScGb Agency

An attempt to use the South Side
branch of the Y w. G. A. as a strike
breaking agency, to secure unknow-
ing colored girls to act as scabs in
the garment workers strike was
frustrated when Mrs. Lula E. Law
son, general secretary of the Indiana
branch, CURLY refused to send her
girls out to do strike-breaking duty.
The action of Mrs. Lula Lawson in
sending the strike-breaking agencies
about their business, has caused much
discussion in the Negro district. 1t
was learned by THE DAILY WORK
Err from another source that an in
fluental member Of the Urban League
has reprimanded Mrs. Lawson for
not acceding to this last desperate at
tempt Of the garment bosses to break
up the garment workers unions.
Mrs. Lawson refused to listen to
criticism in advising her girls not
to side with the bosses against their
own interests. 81 told those who APP
preached me to send my girls out
that l did not want to do anything
which would cause race feeling
among the laboring women of this
city," said Mrs. Lawson. "And / told
the girls not to go out on a job, even
at higher pay, which would make
them forfeit their self-respect or be
disloyal to the garment union, which
contains many Negro members
One girl rooming at the Y. w. c..
A. who is now earning sixteen dollars
a week refused an offer of twenty
five dollars a week, and police pro
lection going to and from work, said
she refused because she would not
scab on either white or Negro work.
ers, even at higher salary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

OUR ruling class is on tear.
~ There's scandal, scandal every
where. In shipping board and Sim
Glars tanks, in hospitals for wounded
Yanks, in satchels carried full Of gold,
in federal pardons dearly sold, in
telegrams to Ed Mclean, in booze
permifs transferred for gain, in
stocks bought on official tips, in
TASKS upon the bullying hips. 1t sure
ly is a shiny mess, cen icy Calvin
must confess.
This Ed Mclean must be sum guy,
he done so much and yet got by. Not
only wuz he A. Falls pal, but he has
chummed around with Cal. For with
the Teapot on the fire, he gets from
Cal coriul wire.
But, say, ] think the meanest deal
wuz how Forbes put thru his steal,
and took from wounded service boys
the things TO give 'em case and joys.
From of their bed he took the sheet.
he took the sock from of their feet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Scrap of
Paper Served on
PrO-Strike Editor

A copy of Denis Sullivan's iniunc-
ton which has proved itself scrap
of paper so far as the striking pic
kets were concerned was served on
Editor w. N. Koniuszewski, of the
Polish newspaper, Dziennik Ludowy,
at its publishing plant at $50 Mil
waukee Ave.
Koniuszewski's paper has been run
ming lot of news on the strike and
reciting some of the brutalities of the
police and private thugs as well as
reporting the bosses who are surrend-
ering in job lots to the union.
In the opinion of Judge Sullivan
and his employer patrons this is very
bad stuff and should be enjoined,
particularly so as the stool-pigeons
allege the union purchased it. SO a
deputy sheriff slipped into the news
paper Office very quietly and handed
the terrible slip Of Sullivan to the
editor.
Koniuszewski says he will publish
the injunction in the paper today.
The mysterious document needs air
ing. So ends the story of another
scrap of paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

He robbed 'em of their last tooth
brush and stole the sugar from their
mush.
THE best is yours, for you're all
right" the boys were told when sent
to fight. Now wounded vets must be
neglected because the man who wuz
selected to keep 'em fed and free
from cold has COPIED our Uncle
Samueps gold.
| think that Harding musta bin
poor judge of men. Il is a sin. Old
Daugherty he picked TO guard our
alleys, porches and back yard. To
guard our oil, he picked Fall. and
those who answered country's call"
he gave to Forbes who wuz a crook
and never gave the vets a look.
And who picked Harding, that's nv
quiz. Why, that wus the conventions
biz. But politicians, all alone, picked
him In the swell Blackstone. Admin
istration needs licking, and working
folks should de- the picking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Molly MGguires
To Be Discussed
At Workers Class

Who were the "Molly Maguires?"
Why did some labor men speak of the
Greenback Movement of the '70s as
ian American substitute for social
ism?" How did the American Fed
Grafton of Labor become the domi-
nant factor in the labor movement?
If you are interested in the an
swers to these questions, and other
similar ones, it will be worth your
while to join the 81 students already
enrolled in the Workers Party class
in American Labor and Socialist His
tory, which meets every Sunday
morning in the Soviet Technical
School, 1902 w. Division Street, at
1890 o'clock sharp.
Next Sunday is the last date to
register. The topic to be taken up
then will be decline of the Knights
of Labor, and Rise of the American
Federation Of Labor" The class
will meet regularly every Sunday
morning, until the final session, on the
last Sunday in April. The class is
open to Workers Party members,
sympathizers and the public in gen
eral. Enrolment fee is $1.00 for
the full course.
Send in your name and address
right away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

but changed his tune when he was
treated to sight of the cloth.
Dever Can't Dodge.
When Father Seidenberg said that
Mayor Dever had told the Citizens
Committee that he was personally
against the injunction and that he
had given orders to his own men to
make no arrests of pickets unless
there was actual disorder but that
he had no control of the states at
torney's men, William A. Guinea,
former socialist candidate for mayor
of Chicago, rose and reminded the
folks present that the states attor-
ney's men were all under the ulti-
mate authority of the mayor, who
could withdraw them when he wish
ed. This was reafirmed after the
meeting by Alderman Oscar Nelson
in talk with a DAILY WORKER
reporter.
AS to the assertion that arrests
are only made when there is dis
order, DR.. Ralph Gerard, of the Cen
eral Medical College and member of
the Citizens Committee, told of seeing
numerous arrested pickets discharged
IN court "by a wave of the hand"
for lack of evidence as to disorder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
IA PICKETS ARRESTED
AS CONFEREES TALK;
THREE BOSSES SETTLE

Fourteen more arrests by May
or Dever's and States Attorney
Groves police late yesterday af-
ternOon while the strike settle
ment" conference of his commits
sioner of Public Welfare was in
session evidenced again the fact
that a Democratic and Republican
politician act with the bosses no
matter how they talk.
The girls names are:
Minnie Click, Minnie Yerdieo,
Carrie Siever, Fayelkoff, Dora
Ssmuelson, Ida Kalish, Freda Nitz-
berg, Sherley COrngold, Corn Ru-
bin, Anna Rothenberg, Ben Silver,
Rose Yanlowitz, Rose Finesilver,
Sarah Zelinsky. Sarah was arrested
at the request of a newspaper pho
tographer so that he could get a
good flash of a girl hustled into
the patrol wagon.
While these piekets were being
hustled to the S. Clark street sta
ton, three bosses surrendered as
the result of picket work. They
are: The Apple Dress & Skirt Co.,
3O6 West Van Bursn, Novaek &
Slatkinm, 1347 Milwaukee ave-
nue., F. Becker, 1860 Milwaukee
avenue.
Twelve more Pickets were ar
rested in Evanston as the DAILY
WORKER went to press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
SOVIET SHIPPING
GAINS in BALTIC
AND NEAR EAST
Line to North Africa
Being Established
lspeciaI to The paIIy workerl

MOSCOW, March 13-The White
Sea, Baltic, and Black and Azov Seas
shipping lines connected with tho
State Merchant Fleet, are working
satisfactorily.
The Baltic Fleet has been work.
ing all along to its full capacity, its
freightage exceeding the tonnage at
its disposal.
1t has established lines from Lenin-
grad to London and Hamburg. The
steamers are equipped with, refrigera-
tors, and fitted to export butter, eggs.
and other agricultural produce, as
well as. such goods as grain and tim
Der.
sos, SAG Passengers.
The Black and Azov Seas Shipping
Company has completed the work of
restoring it's fleet. It now possesses
a dead weight tonnage of 10000 tons.
During it's last working year it car
ricd over 100000 tons of cargo and
663, 646 passengers, equal tor forty
six per cent of the cargo and seventy
three per cent of the passengers car
ricd in 1913 by the Russian Shipping
and Trading Company, the greatest
enterprise in South Russia. Consid-
ering the age and disrepair of the
ships remaining on the Black and
Azov Seas after the evacuation CT
the Whites in 1920, the percentage
arc highly creditable.
The Black and Azov Shipping Com
pany maintains twelve cargo and pas
senger lines. The ships, however.
engaged in the passenger traffic arc
in great need of repairs and renewal.
Alexandrian Line Next.
The company has established COM
munications with the ports of the
Near East. The Odessa-Constanti-
nop1e line runs three times a month.
When the "Lenin7 former "Sim-
brisk") arrives in Odessa from
Vladivostok it is proposed to establish
an Alexandria line, calling at the
ports of Constaninople, Smtrna, Jaf-
ia, Alexandria. and the Pirasus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Farmers NOn-PGrtisdn
League Joins With the
FGTn1-LGbOrFe federation
Continued from page u

NCOhtinued from page
today. Furthermore he read you a
telegram in making argument
against Federation before Nom
partisan League convention and
stated that your telegram was di-
rected against Federation plan.
Absolutely no truth in statement
that Communists dominated con-
ference or confederation conven-
ton. We know you and Frazier
are misrepresented and miscOn-
strued. Irreparable damage will be
done if you do not Immediately
wire denial. Reply to Doctor
Schaper."
This telegram read to the conven-
ton of the Farmer-Labor Federation
caused great burst of applause. 1t
was read following the report of
Chairman Garden, of the negotia-
lions committee, appointed yesterday
by the Federation
Every influential leader in the
Twin City labor movement has long
distance calls in for Johnson and
Shipsted and dozen wires of pro-
test have already been sent. There
is a determination freely expressed
to end once and for all descriptive in
fiuences and make elected officials
understand that 20 interference is
wanted in the work of organizing the
farmer and labor forces in Mime
sofa.
Carbon placed the blame for the
Iar1r Of r1y,ffwv rr4,o,.o11- IL
shoulders of the non-partisan league
leadership and announced their tao
ties as Contemplate" but said
plainly that they did not reflect the
sentiment of the Nom Partisan
League membership and convention.
The Farmer-Labor Federation now
takes the position that its commit
tee will meet no more with the Off
cialdom of the league but will nego-
tate directly with the convention of
the league.
There is no doubt but that the ma
jority of the delegates to the Non
partisan League convention will join
with the Farmer-Labor Federation
and that the reactionarv position
taken bv the officials of the league
means the end of their domination Of
what little organization the league
has left in Minnesota.
Pending further negotiations with
the delegates of the Non-partisan
League direct, the Farmer-Labor
Federation has divided itself into
congressional districts for the pur-
pose Of nominating state committee
men and candidates. They have also
elected a new conference committee
based on districts in which the pro-
gressive element is we'll represented
as they are also on the state COM
mittee and in the list of candidates.
I. G. Scott. labor alderman, men,
Der of the Plasterers' Union, has
been nominated for congress by the
delegates from the Tenth District.
The Farmer-Labor Federation has
adopted practically unanimously the
declaration of principles and program
endorsed bv the Farmer-Labor con-
ference in st. Paul Tuesday and will
finish its work late tonight. after
which large numbers of the delegates
will go on to st. Cloud for the final
meeting of the series just held which
have brought unity in the Farmer
Labor movement Of Minnesota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Russian Communist
Party United; Many
S e e. Membership
Especial to The Daily worker,

MOSCOW, March 13.-Reports are
reaching Moscow from all over the
country Of thousands of applications
which continue to pour into the Com
munist Party. From the Baku dis
trict comes a report of 1889 appli-
cations, from Grozny 1900, Vologda
1000, Vjatka 500, Kazan 1856, etc.
The all-Union Party Conference,
which closed here evidenced the close
unity and cohesion prevailing with
in the ranks of the Russian Com
munist Party. The resolution, sub
mitted by the Central Committee.
dealing with the questions of Party
construction, which had been thor
oily threshed out at the public dis
cussion at Party meetings, and in the
press preliminary to the Conference,
was passed without a dissenting
vote.
This resolution declares for liberty
of an open consideration ard discus
sion by all the members of the Party
of all the principal questions of Party
life, as well as for the principle that
all the leaders and officials of the
Party are to be elected, not appoint
ed, to the posts they hold. However,
there can be no factions or separate
groups within the Party, as it would
not be in keeping with the organiza-
tional principles of the Communist
Party.
The closing speech, delivered by
Kameneff, declared:
Communists Saved Russia.
"The countries of the world will
soon see that the Communist Party
not only has saved Russia from the
destruction wrought by the interven-
ton, but was also able to call Upon
the workers and peasants to create
state more powerful and united
than any other capitalistic state. The
Party is strong enough today to tell
our i'll wishers abroad that their
hopes of split in our ranks are
false, and that the Russian Commun-
it Party, united now as before, is
ready for the completion of its his
torical tasks"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Hungary to SUeat
More Taxes Under
international Rule
BY FRITZ KREJCsI.

(Stan Correspondent Of the Federated Pressl
PRAGUE, March 13.-Budapest's
attention and energy is concentrated
upon preparations for the new re-
gime of international control, which
Hungary-that is, the militarist
caste now ruling the country-has
accepted as the Shylock price Of a
foreign loan.
The Hungarian government will
introduce a program OF internal re-
form, as a guarantee to the league
Of nations and its financial hackers.
AS a preliminary measure, tax pay
ments will be exacted in gold, in
stead of unstable paper money. This
will mean that the Magyar tax payer
will be obliged to pay higher rates
than before the war-despite the
fact that workers wages lag far be-
hind pre-war standards.
This reform is Of ominous import
ance to Hungarian labor. The Hum
garian workers standard Of living is
already being dragged down by the
nations shattering economic crisis;
to this will now be added a heavier
burden of taxation, to be met by the
worker and peasant in order to
fasten.. more tightly the hold of the
Horthy government and its interna-
tional hackers upon the grip Of
power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Defense Committee
Asks Grand Jury to
Probe Farrell Cops

FARRELL, PA, March 13.-In an
open letter to the press of Sharon
the Farrell Defense Committee de-
mands that the Mercer County grand
jury investigate the police force of
Farrell who recently raided and ar
rested six alleged members of the
Workers Party and held them over
for the grand jury.
The defense pointed out the large
expense to be born by the tax payers
of Mercer county for the trials of the
defendants and asked the voters ana
taxpayers Of Mercer County if they
were willing to bear the burdens of
financing the Steel Trust and its
lackeys in railroading six workers to
prison.
Police Fear Probe.
The police force of Farrell will not
welcome grand jury investigation
Of, their corruption and scores of
leading citizens are approving of the
efforts on part Of the defense council
to bring the anti-labor activities of
the Farrell police before the grand
jury.
The defense offers to submit the
stenographic report Of the hearing
and even have the defendants appear
before a jury Of clergymen or any
other group Of citizens to decide
whether advocating better working
and living conditions is sedition.
The defense committee has again
been threatened with arrest and Chief
Leyshock promises to detain them in
his cockroach infested Jail IL they in
wade his town. The committee cares
little about these threats and will con-
tinue to avail themselves Of every
opportunity to bring about the grand
jury investigation Of the Farrell
police chief and his force Of labor.
wreckers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Russ Textile Trust
Last Year Melted
I,S72,OOO RubLes

MOSCOW, March 13.-According
to the reports of the Moscow state
industrial trusts for the year 1922
1923 ending Oct. 1, 1923, the textile
trusts made 1,872,0O0 rubles profit,
the rural-industrial trust made $685.
900 rubles, the leather trust made
$4,000 rubles, the printing trust
made $4,000 rubles.
The following trusts ended the
year with deficits: The glass trust
had $4,000 rubles deficit, the ma
chinery trust had 10000 rubles def
cit.
OF the separate units the Ustinsk
factory shows $4,000 rubles profit
and the Compressed gas" shows 49,
900 rubles profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

declared that all their people were
working and happy and that the
strike was far-off thing as far as
their shops were concerned.
There was a ripple of merriment
at this and Miss Julia Reicher, a
striker, got up and said that she had
been working for Weiss before the
strike and that there were 80 girls
from his shop on the strike. Two
other girls corroborated this later.
Happy" Family Bunk
Father Seidenberg went on to re-
port Weiss's story of the happy
family conditions in his shop and the
freedom he gave his employes-even
to circulate abusive" union circu-
lars.
Amusement again and Miss Reich
err got up and told how she had been
discharged, as had many other Weiss
girls for their union principles and
activities. She challenged Weiss to
allow an investigating committee to
see the inside of his shop.
Charity For Boss
Father Seidenberg then gave what
he called little constructive" criti-
cism and said he had seen that cir
cular-(Weiss must have given it to
him) and that he didn't like it. It
was personal, he charged and actu-
ally abusive, in his opinion. He said
they should use persuasion" on
Weiss, not such unkind methods.
This Christian federation aroused no
enthusiasm from the workers who
were battling for the living wage
from the most notorious employer of
the lot-the one who has inspired
literally, scores of arrests by the
States Attorneys men.
Miss Mcdowell made long and
earnest plea for peace, settle
ment," and federation" But all this
while the real work of the confer
ence was going on in her Office on
the eighth floor with the strikers ex-
cluded.
The Commissioner of Public We'll
fare, however, was anxious to get all
the facts that persons present could
give her about arrests for peaceful
picketing, showing of strikers about
by police and the use Of "sluggers"
by employers.
She got plenty of them: Miss
Helen Tippy, Miss Ella Gates Starr
and Miss Elsie Richards Of Hull
House, who had been arrested that
morning on the picket line and dis
charged because they were from Hull
House and not from strikers homes
gave a list of the outrages they had
witnessed and which have already
been reported in the DAILY WORK
Err. Strikers arose and told their
story, too.
Father Seidenberg arose and told
how he went on the picket line in
speeding, with his clerical collar con-
cealed and a heavyweight individual
talked arrest to him.
The priest demanded to see his star
and the thug replied that he hadn't
had a star but could arrest anyone
he felt like arresting as long as he
was physically strong enough to do
the job.
When the thug saw the clerical
garb he apolegized Likewise a po-
liceman who told him to move on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
MINERS SPURN
LEWIS CONTRACT
IN NOVA SCOTIA
Would Forbid Strikes to
Redress Grievances
Especial to The Daily Worker,

0A-ACE DA 1, IN. D, March H.
The contract signed at Montreal be-
tween the Lewis appointees in this
district and Besco has been decisively
voted down by the miners in the
referendum taken last Thursday. The
returns from the various parts of the
district gives the following results:
Cape Breton Island. .2,357 4,1O5
Pictou County ..... 215 1908
Sprlnghill ... 573 Ala
loIals ............3,l IDA 5,617
Majority Against ... 2,463
Had the miners been given time
to read the contract carefully be-
fore voting the contract would have
been defeated by a larger majority.
The Lewis appointees only sent a
few copies to each local union, and
IN many cases these did not arrive
until the day before the voting. The
Lewis appointees, both provincial Off
GERS and international representa-
tives, urged the miners to ratify the
contract, the corporation, meanwhile,
coercing, by Withholding the miser-
able increase.
FOrbids Strikes.
The contract contains clauses
which will bind the miners hand and
foot to the corporation. A whole
network of machinery for arbitra-
ton of disputes and an arrangement
for an umpire to be appointed if the
disputes cannot be settled otherwise
are written into the contract. The
miners are forbidden to strike and
the pit committees are given the Job
of supplying miners to work in the
place of those walk out because of
grievances. The slavish clauses of
the contract, and the miserable in
crease IN wages-nullified by rise
In company rents and prices-so far
as the miners were concerned.
The vote against the contract
shows the stand of the miners re-
garding the Lewis appointees who
are ruling the district with threats
and bluff. The referendum, besides
defeating the slave pact, is also
vote Of lack of confidence in the
Lewis appointees. These takers state
that such thing never happened
before in the history of the United
Mine Workers, and that it is "a
direct slap in the face" to Lewis and
the rest of the gang. The oficialdom
has been used to having the rank
and file meekly accept whatever con-
tract they signed with the operators
and miners of Nova Scotia are es-
tablishing a fine precedent for the
rest of the miners to follow.
Responsibility on Lewis.
The result of the vote places the
whole responsibility for the contract
upon the shoulders of Lewis and his
appointees. When the miners were
ordered back to work last month
they protested and demanded that
the international union support them
in fight for the 1921 rates. This
Lewis refused to do. The referen-
dun was taken with the hope tina.
the miners would ratify the contract
and thus become responsible for it.
This did not happen, and the miners
have made it plain that they are OPP
posed to being tied to the corpora
ton by Lewis and his gang under
conditions of which they do not
approve.
The corporation states that the
contract was signed and will be car
ried out so far as they are concern
ed. The Lewis appointees do not
know what to do, and have wired
Lewis to get advice from him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Great Party Achievement.

To The DAILY WORKER:-Your
paper is admirable and a great
achievement for tho Party.-Tom
Hall. Clacs Bay, N. s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14

How many Of your shop-mstss
read the DAILY WORKER7 Get
one Of them 10 subseribs tsday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
300 Per Cent Party Cain

KRASNODAR, March 13th.-The
state committee of the Communist
party reports that the membership
of the organization has grown 900
per cent.