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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
QUAINT SIDE SHOW
CONVENTION HELD
BY EX-FORD men
To Fight Money Devil
Without Hens Dough
Especial to The Daily WeFkerl
By TOM MATTHEWS

OMAHA, Neb.-The citizens Of
Omaha and adjacent territories were
treated to an amusement festival last
week, when the national convention
of the combined Independent Pro-
gressive Party, American Economic
League, Peoples Progressive Party,
and Ford-for-President Clubs held
forth at Hotel Castle.
After solemnIy deciding that Henry
Ford could not be their candidate for
the Presidency (Henry having
slammed the door in their face) this
aggregation of side-show artists came
to the conclusion that they would
have to choose from their own ranks
Messiahs who would buckle on the
armor Of Righteousness, and GO
forth to do battle with the horrid
Money Power"
Roy Harrop to Rescue
Roy M. Harrop, Of the big words
and long promises held the center of
the stage as is his usual custom. Az
ter faying the Shylocks who strange
the life blood from the nation thru
their control of the currency the
valiant Roy proceeded to advise his
flock that "all the banks were GER
tain to fail, from the Big Banks in
Omaha, to the bank in Podunk Gem
ter He did not say that far-sighted
progressives should Withdraw their
money and entrust it to the tender
care of Genius Harrop, but who would
dare to question the motives of such
a sterling champion Of the "people?"
Every One Does Stunt
After the delegates" had ex-
hibited their particular stunts in turn,
the National Convention gravely pro-
ceeded to choose Presidential neml-
nees, They themselves being the
real progressives" they could not a.
Ford to wait for the st. Paul meet on
May 30th, that being only Red Plot
anyway.
Robert r. Pointer of Detroit, a
self-confessed friend of Henry Ford,
modestly offered himself as a sacri-
flee for the cause, and received the
Presidential nomination. Roy Har-
rop could not be left out in the cold,
cruel world, so he was rewarded for
his manly attempts to do good by
being made the party nominee for
president.
To Invade Wall Street
Meantime, Harrop announces that
the headquarters of the "party" will
be removed to New York City, where
the fight will be carried directly to
the door of the money Power Just
who will be the goat for the expenses
is not as yet quite clear. If the
faithful can be frightened into with
drawing their shekels from the banks
Of the money kings" mere matters Of
expense should present no OBSTACLES
at least not to the undaunted Halrop.
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ton industry. is the slogan Of the
Party.
2. The further extension Of the
strike to road transport workers.
This is to affect the thousands Of
workers in the motor road transport
service. Already arrangements have
been made by the state and the cap
italists to replace railroad transport
as much as possible by automobile
transport This puts the automo-
bile transport workers in an excel
lent strategic position to force a
betterment Of their own conditions,
as well as to show solidarity with
the railroad workers, by striking.
3. Trades and Labor Councils in
all localities are called upon by the
Communist Party and the r. I. L. u.
Immediately to set up councils Of
action 10 coordinate all strike ae-
Invites, and to bring together the
workers of the various railway
unions, as well as workers in other
industries, in order to extend and
support the strike. This will be
the machinery for expressing the
will Of the masses for solidaric ac-
ton, and for exerting rank-and-file
pressure upon various leaders, and
also to broaden the present strike
out into q great mass movement.
Not an Isolated Strike.
This railway strike is no isolated
event. Britain is approaching a
period Of tremendous working class
activity, It is the second wave.
after the apathy and Encouragement
which came after the tragic betrayal
of Black Friday in 1921.
Predicts Dockers Strike.
A dock workers nationwide strike
may be expected in the beginning
of February, The miners have voted
by huge majority for the termina-
ton of their agreement with the
bosses. A miners strike appears
inevitable in the near future.
Thus the great masses of the
British workers, in the kew indus
tries Of railroad and marine trans
portation, and of mining, are NOV
ing, are preparing for gigantic
struggles with the master class.
The Labor government will have
a difficult road to travel. It will
soon be seen just how loyal to
the workers interests are the labor
leaders who will form the new cab
met.
Shows the Fight Is On.
The second wave, of which Com
rade Zinovieff has written, is be-
ginning to touch Britain. The
forces Of the British proletariat are
preparing for Titanic struggles. Of
which the present strike is the first.
The Communist Party a7d the
Red International of Labor Unions
are facing tremendous tasks in Brit
ain, to win the workers to the
adoption Of a militant policy, to
tear down the barriers of craft
union isolation. and to mobilize the
workers for the impending battles
with one Of the strongest sections
of the eapitalist class in the world.
The fight is on; on with the fightl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05

Fight to Release
Communists In
Pa. State Prisons

Repeal Of the Flynn Anti-Sedition
Law, the release of four men serv-
ing long terms under the statute, and
the curbing Of local police power to
choke of meetings are aimed at in
a campaign to establish the right to
think and speak" in Pennsylvania,
Aoger N. Baldwin, director of the
american Civil Liberties Union, told
an audience at the Open Forum of
Harrisburg, state capitol.
The Civil Liberties Union, Baldwin
announced, will file petitions this
month for the pardon of the four
men, all Of whom are in Western
Penitentiary. Joseph Martinowich
and Israel Blankstein, communists,
and Charles Spinach and Steve Zon-
of, members Of the Union of Russian
Workers, are the men involved, serv-
ing terms up TO five years.
Ordinary civil rights, Baldwin
stated, are trodden under foot by the
industrial interests of Pennsylvania.
The situation has brought the union,
he said, into a series Of fights for the
rights of free speech and assemblage.
"The closed soft coal mining dis
tricts dominated by the coal COM
panies,v he declared, together with
the steel towns Of Western Pennsyl-
vania, are places where ordinary civil
rights are so difficult Of exercise that
the issue crops out time and again.
We have sent our lawyers and speak
ers into these districts on several oc-
casions TO aid the workers in testing
their rights against privately-con-
trolled authorities"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
FEWER JOBS And
| 0 " Err WAGES
IN WISCONSIN
122 Seek Every 100
Jobs Offered
By LELAND oLDs


Fewer jobs and lower earnings
characterize the December report Of
the Wisconsin Industrial commission.
The number Of employees on factory
payrolls fell 1.3 per cent between
November and December and reached
a point z per cent below the high
point Of July. At the same time the
number of applicants for each 100
jobs offered rose TO 1872. This
means idle men looking for work.
Large reductions. says the report,
are especially noted in building,
highway and railroad construction
work, while the whole list Of indus
trial classifcations is marked by de-
clining employment except in the
case of industries that are in sea
son at this time Of the year.
The total number Of workers re-
ported on factory payrolls in De-
cember was 79,757 as compared with
s5,479 in July and 1899 a year
ago.
The sharp drop in employment in
certain industries such as canning
and preserving is seasonal. But in
other important industries the num-
Der employed Is very considerably
below that in December, 1922. Thus
manufacturers Of brick, tile and ce-
ment blocks are employing 20 per
cent fewer men than a year ago.
Iron and steel plants report a drop
of % per cent in the number of
employees as compared with Deem
Der, 1922. Decreases of 7 per cent
were reported by foundries and ma
chine shops, automobile plants and
furniture makers. The tanning in
dustrH has ~ per cent and the boot
and shoe industry 81 per cent fewer
workers. While flour mills and rail-
road construction work are employ
ing respectively 80 per cent and Is
per cent fewer men than a year
ago.
During December, 1923. the av-
erage weekly pay envelope amount
ed to $24.30, a decrease Of &c per
cent from November and Of 8 per
cent from the high point of the
year. The amount is still approx
mately per cent higher than in
December, 1922. The sharpest fall
ing off in average earnings is found
among the metal trades with a de-
cline from S29.40 to S27.S0, or 53a
per cent. Workers in the automobile
industry suffered a drop Of over
~ per cent, their average pay fall
ing from $2S.75 to $20.86.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
Vigorous, ViriLe
Viking Music at
Popular C. cert
By ALFRED V. FRANKENsTEIN


Dazzling brilliance and honeyed
sentimentality characterized the pop
ular concert of the Chicago Sym
.phony orchestra at Orchestra Hal
Thursday evening. Mr.. Stocks con-
Quoting arm has been injured, and
so Mr.. DeLamarter directed most
of the program,
The major composition was Men
delssohn's Italian symphony. 1t il
a cheerful, refined work, but rather
spineless in melody and development,
and not in the least suggestive OF
Italian music or of things Italian,
AS an encore to this DeLamarter
played Godard's "Adagio Pathet-
ique," which turns the ninety men
of the orchestra into one great,
singing, lyrical voice, and building
up into a climax Of powerful tone,
Then came some vigorous, vlrile
Viking music in the Sigurd Jorsal-
far suite of Grieg, and the same
masters Solveig's song, in the Peer
Gynt music. Two movements of
the Sigurd we're played, the pre-
Jude, and the pompous march.
Mr.. Stock, himself, directed the
second half Of the program, with
his left hand, because his right was
in sling. The orchestra played
the suite Of Spanish dances from
Massenet's opera lie Cid" This
is a veritable musical hot tamaie,
with excited Spaniards in red cos
tune dancing furiously all the way
thru 1t.
As an encore we were treated
to one Of the worst things in the
repertory, the love scene from Gla-
zounov's "Ruses d Amour This
gives a cello and a violin the
chance to wall mt each other most
sickeningly.
The concert closed with the finale
Of "Das Rheingold," by Wagner.
The music depicts, as only Wagner
could make music depict, the grand
and solemn entry of the gods into
Valhalla. II contains Wagner's
most lamentable failure. As the
gods are passing in stately fashion
over the rainbow bridge into the
castle, they are supposed to hear
the Rhinemaidens weeping over their
lost gold. Now, these Rhinemaidens
have most operate habit Of weep
ing in three-part harmony. All
the dramatic value Of their part in
the story Of "Das Rheingold" Ii
thus lost thru the stupidity of the
music which they sing. In the con-
cert version, played by the or
chestrn, their cries Of harmonic an
guish are given TO three vio.ins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
House PrOgressiUes
in " e u Alliance
Nth Democrats
lBr The F.dsrst.d Pr.ssl

Observation-Disclosures In
the House have given formal notice
that they will join with the demo-
Gratis in defeating the Mellon plan
Of reduction Of taxes on the rich.
Longworth, Gillett and their assc-
ciates in the Old Guard in the House,
are facing the same stone wall they
faced in the rules fight--they cannot
muster enough votes TO carry any
measure on which the Progressives
can induce the democrats to take the
opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
Secret Diplomacy
Hides Facts in Big
Loans to MexicGNS
BY BERTRAM D. WOLFE
Especial q The Daily Workerl

MEXICO CITY.-Two hundred
million pesos ($l00,000,000l are to
be loaned to Mexico If the plans Of
American bankers and the federal
government here are carried thru,
For more than two weeks, Frank
lin Helm, banking agent, and for
more than week, ]. M. Buekner,
a 'shigher up" have been hanging
around the Hotel Regis here, tighter
than clans to interviewers.
But I have learned that they are
negotiating the above loan, that they
do not want to pay the first 5,O00,-
600 pesos in almighty dollars but
in the form Of 100000 rifles and
abundant ammunition for the same
incidentally, the rifles coming here
require American bullets).
Then they are planning to deliver
45,0O0,000 pesos in dollars to make
up the first quarter of the total
But what cannot find out is what
strings are to be tied to the spend
ing Of that 45,0O0,000, nor what
effective guarantees" are to be
made for the collecting of the loan
and what concessions of Mexican
sovereignty the bankers are fishing
for.
The state department of the Unit
ed States has full knowledge of the
projected loan, its prospective terms
and the state Of negotiations. A
full agreement has not. yet been
reached here.
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.Shipstead Shows Bank Failures and
Number of Bankrupt Farmers GroD

WASHINGTON.--Senator OF in
by the policy Of raising the
direction Mellon
offered with Treasury
borrowers the able than before interest
loans.
He pointed that high interest being paid BY
unounding
BE- concerted effort the Of the Treasury and the federal
banks maintain high
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
AshLeigh Writes About Strike
of British Railroad Workers
By CHARLES ASHLEIGH.
Especial to The Daily Workerl

LONDON.--I writing this in London, the first day
OF the strike of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
and Fremen strike national scale which called last
night at the stroke of twelve To-day the 2st of January
And it Is tonight that the vote of mo Confidence in the
Baldwin Government will be carried in the House Commons
and tomorrow Ramsay Macdonald leader Of the Labor Party
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Send in Your News

The Daily Worker urges all
members Of the party to send in
the news Of their various sec
tions. Every Party Branch should
appoint it's own correspondent and
make him responsible for the news
that ought 10 be sent in to The
Daily Worker. The Party Page
should be the Invest page in The
Daily Worker. Helm make Il 50.
Address all mail to the Editor. The
Daily Worker, 1910 N. HaIsted
ST., Chicago, III.
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Watch the Daily Worker" for the
frat installmenk Of "A Week." the
great epic Of the Russian revolution,
by the brilliant young Russian writor,
Jury LibedinsIxy. Il will start soon.
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WASHINGTON. - A model work
mems compensation bill with state
insurance fund features is proposed
for the District of Columbia by the
Legislative council of the labor forces
here. 1t is likely to pass the house
with progressive and Democratic sup
port, and to have at least chance
Of passage in the senate before the
national election.
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Exploit Mere Babies

What excuse has capitalism for
existing in this country, when two
year old children are forced to
work? That mere babies help exc
out a miserable existence was
brcNght out in testimony before the
New York Welfare Commission.
OF 1000 families investigated.
most Of them did not have more
than from $500 to $500 a year to
maintain life.
The degradation Of home work
in the tenements, not only in New
York, but thruout all the eastern
manufacturing states, has been
pointed out again and again by the
Young Workers League Of Amer
lea. The boss's political machinery
does not even make a pretence Of
looking into such things.
We thought that American cap
italism was az it's worst ~ ~,
plotting five and six year old kid
dies for ten and twelve hours 4
day, but when we hear that two
year old babies help make profits,
we are sure that American cap
itlism, tho II has outlived its use
fulness from an economic and po-
litical point Of view, can still az
ford abundant surprises In new
forms Of brutalities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05
Youth Views
By HARRY CANNES
Lack of School Space Encourages
Industrial Home Work

LAIN Vt CcHOos space encourages
Industrial Homework
With the increasing number Of
child workers, the educational de-
partments of state and federal gov
eminent combine in urging a better
school attendance Of the children.
The U. s. government issues spe-
eial leaflets telling the parents to
let their children stay in school de-
spite unemployment.
The futulity of such appeals. Of
course, is striking, when it is re-
membered that a child cannot go
to school barefooted in winter, and
that breakfastless youngster
makes a backward pupil, not to
say sick one.
can cover up the fact that there
are not enough seats for the chill
dren who are sent to school? In
New York all sorts of makeshifts
are adopted to crowd in few hours
OF worthless study, each day for
thousands Of children for whom no
proper schooling provisions We're
made.
In Chicago the good news is
handed out that now only h3000
out Of $4,000 public school children
are not cared for properly. This
means that more than one quarter of
the children do not receive full school
time, and many of them get only a
half-day's attendance.
The conditions prevailing in the
plblic schools in the large Industrial
crnters Of the United States en-
courage intensified exploitation Of
the children. In the poorer workers
homes, the parents utilize the time
the children are home by keeping
them busy at work at the many
forms Of industrial homework doled
out by nearly all of the smaller
manufacturing establishments.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-09-23
los JAPoNEsEs coNsTRUIRAH
UNA CIUDAD PARA LOS Gu
DADANos DEL MIKADO uNICA.
MENTE IN FL BRASIL

TOXIC. Sept. p Gable Franctsl
Una sociedad Dc cmigracidn japo.
mesa llamada 'Shinano" ha anuneia-
do ofcialmcnte que ha adquirido
10000 acres dc TERRA en- = Brasil
con 81 fin De construir una gran
ciudad japonesa. compucs'a unica-
nente de- sdbditos dL Mikado.
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ultima HORA
LA EMBAJADA DE- FRANCIA
ANTE Ell vATICANO sERA ST.
PRIMIDA.-LA SEPARATION DE
Ia IGLFSIA Y FL ESTADo ~
ALsACIA y LoRENA

PARIS. Sept. % Gable Francss)
En- la reunion dc aver DEF gabi-
rete. este Sc ocup6 principalmente
Dc Ia question religiosa cue se IN
levantado en- Alsacia 3 Lorena con
r,otivo de Ia Ley sohrc IA separation
de In Iglesia y el Estado. ~ eerrar-
So la reunion. fueron tomadas las
siguientes decisiones:
Ia. la Embajada De Francia an.
te el vaticano sera suprimida den
tro de- un breve plazo.
"A Ia aperture del Parlamen-
to. el Gobierno prescntara . las Ca
maras un proyecto De Ley aboliendo
Il regimen especial que fue aplicado
hasta el presente en Jas provineias
reconquistadns. las cuaies seran 80
metidas al mismo programa de- ms
trucci6n actualmente en- vigor N to
da Francia.
Sc cree que todas cstas promesas
fueron hechas por N. Herriot duran
te los dias algidos De 80 campaiia
politica pcro que So ticnc enteudid9
cue 81 Premier desisti6 de pouer -
vigor su programa dehido q n ruds
oposici6n de los conservadores y los
clerieales.
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LA COMISION FILIPINA PARTE
PARA MANILA.-EL BUREAU
PRO-INDEPENDENCIA FILL
PIMA CONTINUARA AC-
TIVAMENTE SUS IRA
BAJOS

WASHINGTON, Spet. %. Omitted
Press) Los delegados filipinos NJ.
Quez6n, presidente del Senado o.
mena, presidente de la Camara dc
Representatives., partiran hacia Ma
Mia el dia 20 de este mes.
FL Bureau establecido en- esta ca
pital por el Gobierno Filipino con
el fin de trabajar por Ia indepen-
dencia de aquel pals, continua acti.
vamente sus trabajos en- favor del
IDEAL filipino.
Esta noche Quez6n, trasmitira por
radio un discurso de despedida to-
to el pueblo americana en- el que por
medic de frmes argumentos probara
que el progreso libertad dc sr
pueblo sera un buen ejemplo para
las naciones Y que influira grande-
mente en- la paz que tanto Sc trata
de conseguir.
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Sc LLEVA A CABO Ell PROCE-
so CONTRA Ell GENERAL CON
ZALEZ POR HABERSE INTER
NADO EN- LA IONA
FRANCESA

MELILLA, setiempre 22. Omitted
Press) En- el cuartel de Santiago
Sc esta llevando a cabo por un Con-
sejo de Guerra el proceso contra
el general Gonzalez, por los successes
ocurridos en- el ano de 1921 cuando
el al frente de una columna que CO.
mandaba, Sc inferno en- la zona fran
cesa. Ign6rase hasta ahora la SEN
tencia que sc dictara contra este
General.
Varios grupos de rebeldes hostili-
aaron varias posiciones siendo re-
chazados por los espanoles quienes
hicieron varias bajas en- las filas
enemigas.
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AB-DELKRIM CONVOCA 4 con
SEJO DE JEFES con FL Pin
DE YER 81 CONVENDRIA ESTA.
BLECER NEGoCIACIONES De
PAZ CON los EsPASOLES

LONDRES. seticmtrc -. tCahle
Francesl. -Despachos rccibidos dc
Tanger en- esta ciudad. anuncian que
q Jcfe De Ia Cables rifcnas. Al
Delkrim. ha convocado a un conse-
jc todos los jcfcs cabilas con 81
fin de considerarsc Fl seria couve-
niente actualmentc eutablar nego-
ciaciones dc paz con Espaha.
La proposition que seria some'ida
a la consideration De los espaholes
explica que estos dltimos conserva-
ran las ciudades Dc Ia costa Que po-
seen actualmente pero que deheran
abandonar los moros 81 resto del
pals.
Sc propone igualmentc a Espaha.
someter a un plebiscito a IA ciudad
do Tetuan que debera decidir - fu-
turo gobierno. En los circuios poll
ticos y militares Sc anuncia cue les
espaholes exauiinaran estas PROPOSE
clones que en muchos puntns estan
de acuerdo con ei plan d. Primo Dc
Rivera.
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FILAs DE REFUGIADos LLEGAN
PRocEDENTEs DE LTUHo ia
SHANGAI

SHANGAI, setiembre %. Omitted
Press) Los ejercitos de Luyunch-
sing air. sostienen a pie firme toda
la Inca de Tsinght Luho contra los
furiosos staques de Chisiehyuan. Este
usa 81, resultado practice toda la arti-
lleria de grueso calibre contra las hor-
das d, T.nyungchiang.
La ciudad de Liuho ha sido reduci-
da totalmente ruinas por ambos ejer.
citos contendientes, llegando a esta
ciudad inmensas filas, de refugiados.
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tCOntinuAci6n de la sa. pAgi.AI

Sc lie colceda a China Ia permanelcia
perpet'a.
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Sc HA DADO Ell PRIMER PASO
HACIA Ell ARBITRAJE
OBLIGATORIO

GINEBRA. setiembre p. Gable
Frances) Ell primer paso que sc
ha dado hacia el arbitraje obliga
torio propuesto ante la Liga de Ma
clones ha sido hecho por los delega-
dos italianos V suizos, que firmaron
TN tratado entire ambas naciones
en- el que sc estipulaba que todas
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Sc PERMITE A CHANGTSoLIN
UsAR LA VIA FERREA CON
Ell. FIN DE TRANSPORTER
TROPAS

TOKIo. setiembre %. Omitted
Press) Ell viernes el Gobierno dc j.
pom 6lo permiso a changtsolin para
usar ell tren del Sur de Manchurria quo
pertereca al Gobierno japones para
transportar tropas.
Sc cree que este traera consigo In
ruptma de l.. neutralidad hasta ahora
observad1 por Japon en- los asuntos dc
China
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Ell AvIADOR ARGENTINE IAN
Nj LLEGA A HONGKONG

LONDRES, setiembre %. Omitted
Press) Despachos llegados a esta
ciudad del corresponsal de la United
Press en- Hongkong, anuncian que
el aviador argentine Zanni quien da
un vuelo de circunvalacion al globo,
ha llegado hoy esta ciudad.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-09-23

Recogiendo Ell Iatex
(caucho liquidOl en-
las plantaciones de la
United States Rubber
Company.
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A pesar de la actitud...

las diferencias que pud.r an surEir
entire Suiza Italia. ser.an some
tidas a Ia consideraeid' y zolucion
cue tuviera bien propo1er 81 Tri-
hunal de Arbitraie.