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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Bughouse Fables
FABLE NO. 1.

ONE thousand striking dress
~ makers led by Oscar Nelson
marched thru Market street yester-
day, carrying banners down with
the Injunction; Long Live the
DAILY WORKER" and 1--WE make
the garments but the bosses harlots
wear them," "Dennie Sullivan is a
capitalist hack; let us have labor
judges and mayor Dever may be
friend of labor but he says it
with Clubs
The parade started from the
headquarters of the Chicago FEEDER
alton Of Labor with the Musicians
Union band playing, 'Hail, Hail, the
gangs all here" John Fitzpatrick
stood in the window Of his office
waving his hat at the column as il
swung into Wells street. Anton
Johannsen was busy preparing bail
for Meyer Perlstein, who was
caught in the act of cleaning up
twelve clothing bosses single-hand-
ed. He was charged with attempt
ing to overthrow Chicago.
AS the demonstration approached
the strike zone, a call was sent in
for police reinforcements, but the
latter when they saw who was lead
ing the parade dropped dead from
laughing and the girls won the
strike, the bosses having no more
sluggers to protect the scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Bankers Alliance
Kills Russo : Chino
Treaty Negotiations
tBy The Federated Prsss)

NEW YORK, Mar. Platforms
ed quarters here point to the recent
redoubled activities Of the Ameri-
can, as well as the French ambassa-
dor to China, in connection with the
rupture Of Russo-Chinese negotia-
tions. The illtrigues which led the
Chinese government to terminate
conversations with the Russian en-
voy, Karakhan, are traced to the
French-controlled Russo A STA ii c
bank, with its subsidiary Pekin-
Chita railway. 1t is suggested that
French interests in China have Of
fered important concessions to
American investors in their sphere
of influence, in exchange for Amer
lean support against Chinese recog-
milton of Russia. Moscow journals
which are usually informed from
Russian government sources claim to
be in possession of proof Of Franco
Acknowledgements intrigues against
China's amicable policy toward
Russia.
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more wages. No mention is made of
strengthening the Negroes In trade
unions. No demand against Negro
segregation is made.
In fact, here in Chicago, the Urban
League seems to be run by men like
A. Hill, who favored the Negro girls
acting as strike-breakers in the gar
ment strike, or A. C. Thayer, who
boasts of being a property owner, or
the white employers who draw on the
League for cheap labor, or wealthy
Negro real estate concerns who pro-
fit from the present Negro housing
crisis.
Employers Like Urban League.
The money required to run the
Urban League for the next year is
now being raised. The Urban League
seems to exist thru donations. But
where do these donations come from ?
The citizens campaign committee Of
the Chicago Urban League, at a din
ner last Friday night, at the Apo
mattox Club, made its first call for
contributions. We are told by the
League, "Three firms contributed
$500 to the fund. Six well-known
business men tossed in their check
for 500 each.' The Liberty Life
Insurance Company, the Pyramid
Mutual Company, and Your Cab Com
pany, were the firms which con-
tributed $500. Included in the
"well-known business men who con-
tributeds were A. c. Thayer, an officer
of the League and member of the
Lowden commission on Race relation
ship. 7. A. Hill, contributed $50.
He heads the Chicago Urban League.
Workers Organize Selves.
Can it be expected that this we'll
known welfare organization, control
led by large white and Negro business
men, gill take a real interest in the
conditions of the workers, when that
interest might raise the price of Ne
gro labor, and lower the rents, both
OF which would cut the profits Of those
who control the Urban League.
Remember what the Workers Party
says about the Negro Worker. "The
American Negro population will be an
important factor in the class struggle,
factor which might be used as a
weapon of reaction for the defeat and
further enslavement of both them
selves las the Urban League is trying
to dol, and their white brother work
ers, or which, if enlightened to its
own interests, can be decisive factor
for the liberation of the exploited
classes of both colors. The winning
of the Negro masses who toll in indus
try and in agriculture, is a primary
task. Simultaneously the workers Of
the white race must be enlightened to
the giving of complete and equal par
tisanship in all forms Of the political
and industrial organization Of the
working class. The elimination of all
race discrimination within the work
ing class movement is preliminary to
its elimination in society as a whole.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Bulls Who Beat
Youth to Death
Get WhitelUGSh

ST. LOUIS, March 24.-The ex-
pected coat Of whitewash has been APP
piled to the city detectives, charged
with having fatally beaten Claude
Mitchell after he had figured in a
minor auto collision which caused no
damage or personal injury. Detec-
tives say he failed to heed their com
mand to halt. They captured the lad
in front Of his home, where he fell
wounded. His mother, supported by
eye witnesses, says the detectives
beat her son with their pistol butts as
he lay in the street. He died at the
city hospital. A coroner's jury holds
that the detectives did their work in
performance of their duty. The mat
ter will be laid before the grand jury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
OLdS and BrOWder
Speak Tomorrow
For the 4. u. e. l..

Leland Olds and Earl Browder
will be the speakers at the monthly
meeting Of the Chicago local Of the
Trade Union Educational League
tomorrow at S:15 p. M, at North
West Hall, North and Western av-
enues.
Olds, we'll known economic writer
and statistician connected with the
Federated Press, will speak on
American Imperialism and Unem-
ployment."
Browder, associate editor Of the
Labor Herald, will speak on ''The
Situation in the German Trade
Unions"
Discussion follows. No militant
can afford to miss this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Czdrist Refugees
Will Get Proceeds
Of N. Y. Leg ShOIU
tBy The Federated Prsss)

NEW YORK, March 24.-Theater
goers in this city who attend the
opening night of the Shubert per-
formance, "Vogues," will contribute
their money to Czarist conspirators
and their victims in Vaccinations
against Soviet Russia. Proceeds
from this performance will be de-
voted to maintaining the Russian
White Hopes.
Several thousand voluntary ex-
lies, mainly former officers Of the
Czarist armies, have chosen to re-
main abroad. 1t is for the benefit
of these forlorn conspirators that
proceeds of the Shubert leGTshow
will be handed to Prince Youssoup-
off, the former aristocrat who is
now in this country on his own in
yitation.
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are sold too dearly in Russia and the
products of the soil too cheaplv for
the peasant to be able to buy manu-
factured goods in any but the small
est quantities, if at all"
Rykoff's Analysis.
Russian cities, M. Rykoff pointed
out, have only 10000, 900 people al
the present time, yet this urban
population consumes seyen-tenths ~
the manufactured products Of Rus
STA, while the peasant population az
over 10O,00O,000 Consumes onIv
thr.ee-tenths of such products.
When the peasant refuses to buy
your calico and your kerosene and
your nails" said Rykoff, because Ne
cannot afford to pay for them. be-
cause the price is too high, what do
you have then? You have a chain
that is broken, and one end of the
chain hits the workmen. If the
peasants won't buy, the production
Of such articles will have to he err
talied and the city workman will be
thrown out of his Job.
Our crisis" said Rykoff, sis not
a crisis of poverty and want. It Is.
on the contrary, crisis of over
production and surplus surplus Of
grain for which there is no market
IN our cities, and which, Therefore
keeps down the price Of bread and
reduces greatly the buying power Of
the peasant"
Lack Of Balance.
The premier was quite well aware.
he said, that "the lack of balance
between industry and agriculture 4
a historic fact in Russia. It existed
before the war, when Russia was ex-
porting 500,000,000 to 700 1000, 600
pools Of grain. "a pood is SO
pounds.) Even then Russian industry
was kept going to large extent with
foreign money, money which came
either IN government loans or else
from investments by foreign CAM
tallsts in Russian industries. nart;-
cularly in the mining and metal in
dustries." -.
The premier touched upon the sinh
Ject OF Russia's foreign policy. In
general, his attitude is that of "watch-
ful waiting" He made no denial
that the Soviet government was
anxious to attract foreign capital and
utilize it in the upbuilding of Russia,s
economic life. Some foreign capital
was, IN fact, already at work in
Russia.
Necessity of Extreme Caution.
But" he said, ''the greatest oh.
stacle in this direction is the absence
OF recognition of the Soviet regime
by such countries as France and
America. We have even no trade
agreements of any sort with these
countries. There is no official con-
nectlon between US and them that
could give a legal guaranty to anv
business transactions between us and
cltlzens from those countries. To
talk Of concessions, therefore. is WELL
nigh useless. Even in a preliminary
discussion about concessions with
business representatives from those
countries we must act with extreme
caution" ''- S'''e
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

Of the quota certain nationalities
are Disseminated against. The re-
quirements in regard to securing an
immigration certificate make care
full sitting of immigrants in she in
terests of the employing class pos
sible. The bill provides the machir-
cry for excluding those whose politi-
cal views are not satisfactory to the
ruling class.
Keep Councils Intact.
8. It is, therefore, necessary to
keep up the fight against legislation
against the foreign born and to
keep the Councils for Protection of
the Foreign Born Workers intact.
4. Our policy in these councils
should be to show the workers
organizations represented that slave
laws directed against foreign born
workers are a constant threat, in
fact, many discriminatory laws are
now in the statute books, as shown
in the pamphlet, ''The American
Foreign Born Workers" The only
protection Of the foreign homework
ers against such legislation is to
join with the native born in their
industrial and political struggles.
This means Of conducting the fight
is thru the organization of mass
Farmer-Labor Party which will
fight the political battles of native
and foreign born workers alike.
Need Farmer-Labor Party.
5. We should endeavor to pro
mote support Of the organization Of
Farmer-Labor Party in each
council and to secure a resolution
of endorsement of the formation of
local unit Of the Farmer-Labor
Party where none exists, or en-
dorsement Of the existing organiza-
ton where formed. We should also
endeavor to have the June 18th
Farmer-Labor National Convention
endorsed by the councils and a
delegate elected from each council.
6. In such cases where the coun-
Gil is favorable to the idea of the
formation of local branch of the
Farmer-Labor Party the council
should act as the organizing com
mittee to create such a party.
z. Our tactics in each council
should be adjusted to the conditions
existing, the direction being in every
instance to secure support for the
formation Of mass Farmer-Labor
Party and the June 18th Convention.
Fraternally yours,
G. E. RUTHENBERG,
Executive Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Urban League Sells Cheap Negro
Labor to White Bosses: Always
SidestePs ReaLIssues of Race

The constant and increasing drift of the Negro
ants from the South into the industrial life of the North
life.
Inc Negro migration, however has been much larger
scae proorona and the Negro has been forced
more humble positions than the white migrants
In recent years there has been large increase in the
number OF Negroes working in factories the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
AnaGLgdnldtiOn of
Shoe Workers Is
Issue at COnfGb

BOSTON, March 24.-Delegates
from New York and from IL Mas
sachusetts towns, representing locals
of four Independent shoe worker
unions, met in Boston to plan a
united labor front in the industry.
Amalgamation at this time was held
up by questions of union property,
existing contracts with manufactur-
ers and constitutional points.
The problem is becoming pressing
because manufacturers are moving
into the middle west, leaving the
employees without money enough to
follow their Jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Negro Women Are Forced Into
Factories by Leaders of Race

THE NEGRO has less home life than any other group
of people Over half Of the total Negro females in
Guiding many children forced to enter factories
meet the high rents In addition, nine of every ten
Negro families take in at least odger destroying all
Negro family life and irritating the of the Race
The combination of low wages paid Negroes and higher
rents for Negro dwellings has forced and children
to work and raise families, too.
The Urban League lodges real issues like Race seere
cation and the housing problem. To the Urban League,
race cooperation means supplying cheap labor to white
employers who support the League, and extracting high
rents from the Negroes which go into the pockets of the
wealthy Negro real estate frmswho support and direct
the League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Fears Ameriean LEGION.
EBERBACH. Germanv Me-

EBERBACH, Germany, March "a.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wants
an official Of the United States gov
eminent to guard and accompany
him If he is to return home and face
charges Of draft evasion.
Bergdoll said he would be willing
now to stand trial for evasion of the
draft at almost any time, since the
maximum sentence is one years i'm
prisonment, but that he intends to
stay in Germany for a while yet. He
is still without official offers concern
ing his proposed return.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Den.
mark is the only country still enti-
tied to send 1000 emigrants to the
United States before July /. Nor.
ways quota is down to 05S, Frances
20 89S, Esthonia's to TAI, and Swe-
lens to 425. Russia and Armenia
an still send SO, Iceland SO, Jugc
Slavia SO, and Austria 90.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
NEGRO UNIONIST
|. PROTESTS BLACK
CAPITALIST PLOT
Denounces Conspiracy
Of Negro Press Assn

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March "a
Declaring that the stand agains
labor unionisn taken by the Negro
Press association means that s.
newspapers will seek to keep tn,
Race in ecomrnic bondage, a Negro
union miner makes clear and ring.
ing argumen for workers organi
cation in the current issue Of the
Pittsburgh american, Negro pa
per. The mner's letter from Fin.
leyville, Pa. follows in part:
It is Indeed discouraging to
note the acton Of the Negro Press
Association in its recent session
in Nashville, Tenn.
1t calls lpDn the Negro race to
stand squaleE behind capital. and
announces its intention to use its
powers to dlscredit all forms Of
unionism and economic radicalism.
What does this mean to the Ne
gro? We are a race Of working
people-hwbrs Of wood and draw
ers of wter. We are compelled
to sell orr services for our daily
bread. The exceptions are negli-
gent. about two per cent?
Union Dropping Color Line.
The higration of the Negro has
created new problem in the la
Dor wdrll The unions have seen
that they must admit Negroes on
equal teIhs or eventually "bust."
Therefore, there is a movement on
foot to oganize Negroes. This is
decidedlyin our favor. Member
ship in slabor union means high
err wags, better working condi-
tions an opportunities to obtain
positions hitch hitherto have been
closed tcour people. To remain
out of sunion when we have a
chance tdoin is to sacrifice these
benefits.
Non-unnism Means Slavery.
The caltalists desire Negro la
borers t remain unorganized in
order tit they may maintain
long hors, low wages, company
stores whh sell the poorest grade
Of goodsat the highest prices;
always I've a supply Of strike
breakerssnd keep us in a state
of poveY and ignorance. They
desire tn; we be herded like cat
tie in dustrial camps and be
driven lie slaves by the state
constabury, the iron and coal
police ar Other similar "cossacks"
for win the industrial states
are fanlIs.
They tpe to continue the peon-
age Sym Of the south by which
our pole work from the early
mornin hours until the last beam
fadeth IND are cheated out of
their asnings, always remaining
in debt All of US know what
happens in Arkansas in October,
1919, zen Negro farmers at
tempted o form a temporary or
ganizatkg to secure a fair price
for theizcotton.
We b told much about Ne
groes o'ling industries sufficient
to emplt our people. Capital
knows lascolor line. A black cap
italist isno more human than a
white %. They all follow the
dollar mix.
Radals Make Progress.
The aion of the Negro Press
Associate means that fifty-two
papers i'll use their influence to
keep u in economic bondage.
Whatevs we think Of the radicals
we musacknowledge that all re-
forms and always have been
advocate by radicals. We should
not fdre that they are the only
people So advocate square deal
for ever man whose blood is red.
Why iould not leaders Of this
type b classed with Judas who
sold hisIord for thirty pieces of
filthy lue
WARWICK WHITE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Report ShOUs so Pct.
Of German Children
Are UndernOurished

LElPSlC, Germany, March "a
Investigations recently made in one
OF the working class suburbs Of
Leipsic, Liebertwolkwitz, show that
so per cent Of the school children
are undernourished. OF these, % per
cent are so badly undernourished
that international Workers Relief
had TO assume responsibility for
them Immediately, without waiting
to see where the money was to come
from. It was further demonstrated
that many Of the children wore no
shirts on their bodies, tho this Is 4
severe winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Russian Cartoons
Make Merry OUer
u. S. Oily Grafters

MOSCOW, March 24-Cartoons in
the Russian papers are EVENLY dis
tributed between the American oil
scandal and the British Labor govern
ment's gradual Transformation into
an imperialist government. The car
ICONS point to the fact that Premier
Ramsay Macdonald is finding that
pacifism and imperialism can not &C
hand in hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Safet First for
Worers, Costs Too
Mud, Railroads Say

WASHGToN, d. c., March 3D.
Alfred I'm, representing the rail.
road comnies of the United States,
has proteed to the Interstate Com
merce (nmittee of the Senate
against 4 proposed legislation re-
quirinE Z use Of steel baggage cars
as a inca of protecting the lives of
mail cler and baggage-handlers in
railroad recks. Thorn told the
comm ttethat the cost Of this pro-
tection toe lives Of workers on the
railroads build be too great, and that
a greaf d Of time would have to be
allowed 4 the change in case it were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Rykoff Tells Of
City-Land Crisis
In Red Russia

Alexis Rykoff, the new premier
Of Soviet Russia, in a recent inter-
view, declared that the Soviet Re-
public which weathered many crisis
since the Communists first seized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

power in 1917, is
today faced with a
crisis equal to any
that the Russian
leaders ever Crap
pied with.
There is no
working basis be-
tween the indus
trial classes and pea
SAINTS" Rykof said.
"They are not
running parallel in
the matter of wages
and compensation
for their products.
Il - rI.-s.A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25
Snow Halls Rail Traffic

SPRINGFIELD, H., March 3D.
Rail traffic in some sections of CEN
tral Illinois was seriously hampered
by one of the newest SHOWS in years.
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Bsxes For Their comrade..

NEW DIRK, March 24.-At q
meetinx re, German-speaking sea-
men pass a resolution in favor Of
boycot t'nships belonging to those
German amship lines whose en-
ployes na been sentenced to prison
becaus - 'their participation in the
recent sue in English harbors. An
appeal htbeen addressed to Ameri-
can SENS and transport workers
organl<ats to support their Ger
man connles in the boycott of the
specii1eu erman ships in United
States po
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-25

Eve<yl DAILY WORKER reader
means " recruit in the ranks Of
militanE or.
Evening star., 1924-09-14
Parent-Teacher Activities

ers' room. curtains for a room where
the glare was too strong for the eyes
awnings for the principals room
paper towels for the whole building
q donation to the shoe and rubber
fund, a donation to the Monticello
fund, and victrola records for use in
teaching the children music appreci-
alton. 1t is planned to purchase
another victrola 80 that each biuld-
ing may have it's own instrume ent.
Plans are under way to have the two
old portables removed and the play
grounds properly drained and resur-
raced There is a movement on foot
to place a memorial in the shape of a
fountain or bird bath, on the grounds,
to Miss Jessie Z. Brown, a teacher,
who died recently.
The Weightman Parent-Teacher
Association reports the following &C.
uvities: Mrs. Weinberg, chairman of
the Weightman committee for the
Ratnbow Fete, secured co-operation:
a health clinic was established at the
school in December; luncheon was
held in March which netted $72.6s,
which was expended for playground
equipment; dental clinic was estab-
lished in April. A portion of Twenty
third street has been roped of during
from monthly dues is used for school
needs.
Referring to the implication that
the work-study-pla system of edu-
cation as operated for the past four
years In Park View is not entirely
satisfactory to school officials" a
letter was sent to the Board Of Edu-
cation by Mrs. w. r. Bannerman,
chairman OF the committee on educa-
tion of the Park View Parent-Teach-
er Association, stating that this
opinion is not concurred In by the
pupils. parents or teachers Of Park
View
Continuing. the letter said:
After this school had been in oper-
alton two years on the platoon organ
iZation, twelve mothers - several Of
whom had been acknowledgements
ing the committee on education Of
the Park View Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciation, made a careful study of the
school. spending an aggregate of so
entire days in the classrooms.
The unanimous opinion of these
parents was that under no circum-
stances would they return to the ira
ditional organization. even though
there were plenty OF rooms to accom-
modate every child full time"
Ten reasons were given In the
letter.