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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17

tions for freedom comparable only
to his love for unrestrained capital
list tyranny under the guise of
pure" democracy, has come for
ward with the probable program of
the French Fascist. Herve, who has
fought with assault and battery,
with lies and calumny, the Workers
and Farmers Republic of Russia be-
cause it denies the exploiters Of la
Dor the right to decide the fate of
the poor workingmen and farmers,
is now, la Mussolini, coming for
ward with a program of Fascist
reconstruction" aiming to chain the
masses like gallery slaves to be
ores of their imperialist masters, the
capitalists Of France.
Mr.. Herve's plan for a capitalist
dictatorship in France demands that
there be levied a tax on bread and
sugar; there be issued bread cards;
that the government monopoly on
matches, tobacco, railways, tele-
graphs and telephones be relin-
pushed and that these industries be
turned over to private capitalist ex-
ploiters. Mr.. Herve advocates the
immediate abolition Of the eight
hour working day in order to help
the French capitalists tow over the
critical period in which they now
find themselves financially. Mr.
Herve demands the organization Of
cabinet consisting solely Of capi-
talist experts, business specialists,
who will be able to rule the country
with an iron hand.
In short, Mr.. Herve who was so
much in love with democracy when
the interests Of the capitalists were
endangered by the rising power of
the workers is now the first one to
throw overheard the most elemen-
tary principles Of his much-beloved
democracy when these interests can
best be served by a capitalist regime
Of construction offered by Herve Is
the most dangerous program Of en-.
slavement Of the workers that any
imperialist has dared propose in
France to date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17

wages"
Say Union and You're Fired.
Mrs. Book stated that at all the
big shops, Arthur Weiss, Francine
Frocks, Mitchell Bros, or Lipson
Bros, if a girl even says the word
union" she is discharged. Mrs. Book
worked six weeks at Arthur Weiss
and discovered that the girls in the
shop all favored organizing but for
fear Of losing their jobs took no
action.
"a year or so ago Miss Grossman,
the manager, took a vote of the girls
for or against unionizing," explained
Mrs. Book. ''The girls were all in
favor, but Miss Grossman, contrary
to her promise to accept their deci-
sion, took two weeks to think it over
and has never done anything more.
yellow Dog Contract.
81 was discharged after two and
a half days at Mitchell's because of
my union affiliation," said Mrs. Book.
"On the third day two other girls
and were asked to sign the yellow
dog individual contract by Mr.. Nc
Lain, the manager. When we asked
leave to consider it over our half
hour noon, Mr.. McLain became an
CRY. 1t looked to the other girls in
the shop as tho we had refused to
sign. When / came back from lunch
he told me to go, because they had
found out who / was"
The vicious individual contract
calls for two weeks notice to the
boss if the girl decJles to join the
union and states that the employer
will give the same notice if he. in
tends to sign up with the union. 1t
demands that none of the girls even
speak to a union representative. 1t
offers protection in case of trouble"
Zone of my friends was discharged
from Mitchell's because she was seen
giving her address to union girl"
exclaimed Miss Williams. "And the
boss even discourages any sort of in
timacv between the girls. He gets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
By JAY LovEsToNE.

HAT the class struggle today is
international in its fundamental
features is clearly evidenced by the
historical events that are taking
place in the conflict between the en-
ployers and the workers in the vari-
Gus countries of the world
In Russia, in Italy, in Spain, in
Germany, the social-patriots, the
renegade socialists, had at one time
or other been fighting the commun-
lists because, we were asked to be-
lieve, that the proponents Of the
Soviet system were opposed to
pure" democracy without which the
working AMI farming masses could
never get along. Yet it was inyari-
ably found that these renegade So
cialists always lined up solidly for
an iron capitalist dictatorship over
the workers when the latter made
any attempt to assert their politicel
power to check the aggression of
their exploiters.
In France we arc about to be
treated TO a Fascist escapade in Or
der to save pure" democracy Of
capitalism. A dictatorship unlimited
in ruthlessness is proposed. The
Comite des FORCES, representing the
powerful iron and steel ring that has
been thTottling France. is the dyna-
mic force behind this move. M. Lau.
rent, a former ambassador to Berlin,
one Of its members, declares that the
safety of France lies only in "sus-
pending constitutional rights and es-
tablishing a dictatorship in the Ital-
ian manner" Reforms" are being
demanded which in effect mean a die
tatorship Of the banks over the
workers and lower middle class.
The usual preliminary steps to ar
open attempt at the establishment Of
this dictatorship are now being
taken. Gustave Herve, the ex-social-
list, who, during and since the war
has become afflicted with a hatred Of
the working class and its aspira'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17

piles and piles of people and God had
blessed him in his labors and the
story of his reign is still source OF
inspiration to every Sunday school
bow in Christendom. But one Sab
bath morning our preacher shocked
me greatly by reading the beautiful
song of the lovely women in the
Bible who, sure enuf, liked Saul, but
had also begun to make goo-goo eyes
at an even greater hero, who was
said by himself to be man after
Gods own heart, and finished up
their alteration by singing, "Saul has
slain his thousands, but David has
slain his tens of thousands"
These heroes should help the kids
considerably to keep the finger off
the trigger.
But that is little off, perhaps. Let
us come closer in time and space.
Here is our own exalted national
hero whose monuments will adorn
parks and courthouse squares and
whose yellow stripes will decorate
telegraph poles along the highways
from coast to coast from now on till
the Bolshevik revolution, that great
man with the big stick, Roosevelt,
gone but not forgotten. How proud
we were of him when he donned the
Rough Rider rags and led his brave
on the run away from the perils in
San Juan, and how gloriously he shot
fleeing Spaniard in the back. How
thrilled we were when Teddy came
back from Africa and told us the
glad story of how he had shot fe-
male monkey in her breast and de-
scribed how the little animal had put
her hand over the hole from which
flowed steady stream of blood, and
brought grand applause as he re-
marked, chow cute it looked"
This hero was such a fine example
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
Tales of the Scab Shops : az ESTHER LOWELL
By ESTHER Lowell

to the girls. giving them three enter
tainments a year." said Miss Will
liams, ''but ne makes the girls them
selves pay. Mitchell offers a picnic,
a dance and a Christmas party and
each time he sells tickets for so
cents and the girls have to bring
their own food. He takes them to
the public forest preserve for the
picnic, giving them only a half holi-
day. He uses a rent-free park pa
vilion for the dance but charges the
girls admission. What money is left
after paying musicians is supposed
to go for the Christmas party, but
then again the girls supply the
lunch. He does give them each
two-pound box of candy and that's all
his touted generosity amounts to-"
Won't Hire Jews.
"They ask the girls at all the big
shops if they are jewish" asserted
Mrs. Book. ''The bosses won't en-
ploy their own people, knowing that
they are most likely to be interested
in the union.
.'Mr. Mitchell asked me how /
could associate with that 'riff-raff'
in the union," contributed Miss Will
liams, "and when / retorted that he
was associated with Jewish employ
ers, he replied that that was differ
ent.
Il have never worked at a place
where more effort was made to ere
ate race hatred than at Mitchells',"
Miss Williams concluded.
Both she and Mrs. Book have long
been active in the union, Miss Will
liams at Cleveland, Ohio, chiefly.
Mrs. Book was in the movement
twenty years ago for ten years and
has been back only the last year and
half after ten years outside. She
finds the bosses just as hard to deal
with as before, altho shop conditions
have been considerably improved
Mitchell has written to married
girls who scabbed during the 1917
strike to help him out again now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17


IF THE subcommittee of the Citi-
4 zens' Committee is really interested
in investigating the striking garment
workers denials of the bosses:
Nothing wrong in my shop. Con-
ditions fine. Everyone working" let
them call on Mrs. A. r. Book, 1890
N. Ridgeway street, to testify. She
and her friend, Miss q. Williams,
formerly at Mitchell Bros. Shop, at
tended Commissioner Mary Mellow
ellis conference of employers and
strikers, hoping that they might pre-
sent their case for the girls. But in
the "tea-party" which the conference
turned out to be for all but couple
of bosses and the union officials, who
met in private with a few Citizens"
these eager workers were practically
ignored.
Contrary to the bosses statement
that the girls work As to so weeks
in the year, Miss Williams found that
in six months employment at Nit.
chell Bros. she worked barely ten
full weeks.
Exploiting Married Girls.
I'VE have to go and sit in the shop
every day, even if we get only one
garment to work on" (piece work
plan) Miss Williams, told me-, and
when we propose a shorter week so
that the work will By more evenly
distributed, the boss says the girls
would rather sit around his shop than
home alone. When two thirds of the
girls are married, you can guess how
glad they are to let their household
duties slide while they sit unem-
ployed in the shop"
Give girls got married during the
time l worked at Mitchell's, con-
tinued Miss Williams, "and within
three weeks each was back at work.
Before they were married they say
they don't have to join the union be-
cause they're going to be married
and then they'll work for too little
afterwards because they are only sup
plementing their husbands meager
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
a new way has been discovered t
"A rid the country of crime.

a new way has been discovered to
1 A rid the country of crime.
Give the boys hero!
This divine plan was given the
world by Supreme Court Justice
James C. Cropsey, about two minutes
after he had sentenced four young
men to be killed in the electric chair
during the week, beginning April 7.
Morris Diamond, Joe Diamond,
John Farina and Anthony Pantano
are the four boys who were convicted
in Cropsey's court of the murder of
two bank messengers in Brooklyn
last November. The four bandits
were evidently trying to initiate 9TH
err more prominent members of the
robbing fraternity and were less
lucky in covering up their exploits.
So they were caught, tried, found
guilty, sentenced to die.
1t is not so often thaG a bunch of
four comes before a judge at the
same time to get the death penalty.
Even a hardened judge feels bit
creepy about an episode like that.
The occasion, however, furnishes him
with a text and his sermon is likely
to be printed. The judge took adj
vantage of it and told the anxious
race that crime must be stopped at
once and that the way to stop it is to
give every boy hero.
Which so softened my little heart
that / limbered up Immediately and
gave in to the holy impulse to assist
the good judge in placing the desired
galaxy of most famous heroes face
to face with the tender saplings of
our growing generation and help
them see the good ways Of heroes.
One of the incest heroes ] have
ever met was Saul, an early king of
Israel. thot he was about as good
as they make them, for he had killed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17

The workers Of the world have a
miserable object lesson in the devel-
opment of Herve and those who
stand with him. Mr.. Herve has
rendered considerable injury to the
working class of France and at least
as much service to the French i'm
perialist plunderers. But If the
workingmen of France and the
other countries shall have learned
from this case of high treason
against the proletariat that in the
final instance, in the decisive mo-
ment of struggle between the ex-
plotted and the exploiters there is
no middle of the road, there can be
no golden mean and that only the
organization of proletarian dicta-
torship can save them from the In
calculable suffering and misery at
tendant to the only other alterna-
tive, the capitalist dictatorship Of
Fascism, then they shall have
learned most valuable lesson from
this costly experience of theirs with
the Nerves, the Mussolinis, the
Eberts, and the lesser lights Of
capitalist darkness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
Funny But True

There is silver lining to the black clouds
OF capitalist corruption and filth that have
been lowering over the national government
in Washington. Occasionally a ray of humor
pierces the sitting atmosphere saturated with
the revelations of sinister and henous crimes
against the masses.
The other day, Senator Moses, known to be
the clown of the august upper house of the
government, remarked at the Wheeler COM
mlttee investigating Daugherty that it would
be better to ask CASTOR B. Means, the former
Burns agent, what senators he has not inves-
hgated instead of asking him for those he has
gone after. This was highly practical sug-
gestlon. We are pleasantly surprised that a
man OF Mr.. Moses mental and financial caliber
could offer such valuable advice. Much to our
regret the committee did not adopt the Moses
plan for leading the hearings out of the wilder
ness of shocking testimony
Then, Mr.. Longworth, the multi-millionaire
floor leader of the reactionary republicans in
the house of representatives made another
commendable suggestion, humorously of
course, but nevertheless very much in order,
that the rules of the House should provide
that when the roll is called that, instead of
members responding yea and nay they
should answer guilty or mot guilty.
Both of these suggestions were made in a
hight vein. They may be funny but they are
very much in place and necessary lust now.
These proposals have much more in them than
the levity accompanying their release. In eff
feet they would surely tend to afford a true
and accurate index Of the condition of the
government today Funny as these remarks
of Moses and Longworth may be, their very
birth reflects fundamental change of a state
Of mind, of attitude towards the whole govern
mental system of the country that is rapidly
being assumed by increasing numbers of the
great mass of the population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
Ignorance of the LalD

In the courts controlled by the capitalists,
ignorance of the law is officially and formally
banned as an excuse or a reason for immunity
from, punishment in case of legal violations
But this rule is applied in true employing
class fashion only when it hits the workers
and poor farmers. Whenever the bosses are
concerned this method of legal procedure is
dropped either outright or lost in one of the
many winding dark alleys of the intricacies of
legal technique.
The utter hypocrisy of the pleas of the en-
ployers and their apologists regarding their
courts and law being based on principles of
absolute justice above all economic classes is
obvious. The wealthy who make the laws
and who have professional legal experts at
their disposal are the ones who have all the
chance on earth to know what the law is.
For them ignorance of the law is inexcusable
The poor, the workingmen and appropriated
farmers, who have to slave away their lives
piling up profits for their employers and the
bankers and manufacturers, have neither the
time nor the money to acquaint themselves
with the ponderous statute books For the
workers and farmers ignorance of the law
really should be a reason for freedom from
punishment under the law.
Yet what do we find under our capitalist
class dictatorship, under our present legal
system based on the supremacy and perpetual
ton of private property interests? Here is the
Honorable Secretary of State Hughes, whose
latest claim to distinction is his nightmare in
which he saw red flag being hoisted over the
White House, pleading ignorance of the law in
order to be excused for taking in the Carpen-
tier-Dempsey prize-fght picture show which
was run in violation of the law.
Mr.. Hughes surely has gall. Does he really
think that the masses will fall for this bun
combe?
How comes it that one of the leading jurists
of the country and former member of the
United States Supreme Court is ignorant of so
elementary law as that involved in the vio-
lation of federal statute thru the bringing in
of these fight films?
/ Yes, ignorance of the law is no excuse for the
the violation of the law-when a workingman
or farmer is to be punished. It is, however,
good and sufficient reason when capitalist
an employing class spokesman, an ex-member
of the United States Supreme Court and one
of the leading lights of the American Bar
Association, is involved.
What better evidence could we want for the
capitalist class character of our government
and laws? What more eloquent proof do the
workingmen and dispossessed farming masses
want before they get on the job to get rid of
the present government fnanciers, industrial
magnates and plunderers of the resources of
the country and establish a Workers and
Farmers Republic in the United States?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
MILL DOORS By CARL sANDsuRc

You never come back.
l say goodbye when see you going in the doors,
The hopeless open doors that call and wait
And take you then for--how many cents day7
How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fngers?
say goodbye because know they tap your wrists
In the dark, in the silence, day by day,
And all the blood of you drop by drop,
And you are old before you young.
You never come back
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
Fighting For Morgan

The democrats will make a desperate effort TO dis
place the agent Of the Boston bankers Coolidge with
agent Of j. p. Morgan and Company at the White
House
Should the democrats succeed in this attempt il will
not be the first time in the history Of their party or
the country, that attorney Of j. p. Morgan & CO.
shall have been president Of the United States
In the four-year interval between his first and
second tenn Grover Cleveland was working for the
Morgan law firm Of Stetson, Jennings q Russell, and
especially picked to be the elder Morgans personal
attorney. John w. Davis, Of the prominent demo.
cratic presidential asprants is connected with this
same firm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
A Forbidden Path

The capitalist press, particularly the financial and
industrial newspapers, have been commenting extern
siveiy the rapid growth Of the German merchant
marine and shipbuiding industry in recent months
They have been pointing out repeatedly that was the
cheapness Of German labor that has enabled the capt.
tasts Of Germany TO forge ahead and that the employ
of this country ought to take their from the
German capitalists
We glad to announce that the German workers
oppressed by their capitalists social patriots and
allied mperalists have declared general strike in the
shipyards Of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubbock, and Stettn.
We feel capitalist masters will longer ask
us to follow the path Of the German workers. II is
plain that only that which brings profits to bosses
is meritorious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17

TRACTION" NOT FACTION"
In the article "Shop Nuclei--only
Road to Mass Communist Party, by
John Edwards, appearing in Sstur-
days issue, March is, 1924, the word
faction" should read fraction"
Evening star., 1924-02-04
C00L|DGES CALL
At WILSON HOME
Personally Present Cards
After Hearing in Church of
Ex-President's Death.

President and Mrs Coolidge first
heard of the death of Woodrow Will
son while attending church services
yesterday morning at the First Con-
sregational Church.
Toward the close of a sermon on
"The Power of Christ" the Presi-
dents pastor. the Rev. DR.. Jason
Noble Pierce, heard the newsboys
calling extras, and paused to note it,
saying he imagined one Of America's 8
great citizens had passed away.
Pastors Tribute.
The life Of Mr.. Wilson. or the life
of any other great leader. the pastor
said. was of value, as it followed the
cardinal points being emphasized in
the sermon of the morning, which
were qualities by which Christ led
sanity, perception of truth, strength
in cooperation and an understand
ing Of love as the greatest force, and
life as the greatest value. The SER
mon was based on the eighth chapter
Of Luke, verses % to 40.
During the singing of a hymn, an
usher handed to DR.. Pierce notice of
the death of Mr.. Wilson, which was
announced by the minister from the
pulpit at the conclusion Of the hymn.
Audience Arises for Prayer.
Led by DIR. Pierce, the congrega-
tiop. including President and Mrs.
Coolidge, arose, and stood in silent
prayer for few moments, following
which DR.. Pierce pronounced the bene-
diction. in which he touched upon
Mr. Wilson'S death. the bereaved
family and the nation.
Following the church service. the
President and Mrs. Coolidge motored
direct to the Wilson home, where
they presented their cards in person
at the door.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
GIRLS DETECTIVE COURSE
FAILS TO GET JOB HERE
Takes Correspondence School In
struction, Lands Position as
Maid in Home.

Ellen Num-, who came to Washing
ton Saturday for a job as a detec-
tive after graduating from d detec-
tive correspondence school, is today
working at the Salvation Army In
dustrial Home Social Center to obtain
sufficient funds to take her back to
her home in Danville, Va.
Miss Num- visited the police de-
partment and the post office depart
ment displaying the diploma she had
received qualifying her for work as
a detective, in the opinion Of the cor
respondence school, but was unable
to land job.
She had just a bit more than 81
In her possession and nowhere to
go. AS a result she applied for
work at the Salvation Army Home at
112 B street northwest, and obtain
ed employment in housework. She
will continue at 1t. she said today,
until she has sufficient funds to get
back home in Danville.
Evening star., 1924-02-04
Births Reported.

The following births have been reported t,
the health department in the last twenty
four hours:
William II. and Frances Il. Lipscomb. girl
Hugh NJ. and Ethel McCAffrey. boy.
Wilbur and Nettis Simmons. hoy.
Howard Il. and Margaret X. Griffith. girl
Jesse e. and Mary u. Plowman. boy.
Clarence H. and Edna ii. Eudy. girl.
George G. and Mary NJ. Mcdaniel. boy.
Charles J and Alice w. MacCartee, girl.
Raymond T. and Lillian Frazier boy.
James w. and Sadie f. Ryan, girl.
George e. and Ollie Rucker. boy.
Strauther G. and Mary 4. Moler, girl.
Arthur c. and Maud s. McKnew. girl.
Leslie n. and Mary II. Shade, boy.
Francis W. and Agnes Sheridan. girl.
James Z. and Katherine NJ Donnelly, boy.
George w. and Gladys G. Garrett. girl.
James +. and Edith G.. Huddleston, boy.
Ralph w. and Ethel A. Quinn. boy.
Isaac c. and Eliza Burnett. girl.
William II. and Pauline Neild girl.
Charles N. and Flossie Weldon girl
Henry and Margaret Thomas. Girl.
James and Bessie Hawkins, boy.
Charles Z. and Winnie Gray, boy.
William and Aretta Hanson. girl.
Arthur and Ella Rucker. girl.
Joseph +. and Emma Gillis. boy.
Charles and Martha Parker, girl.
Percy and Betty Thornton. girl.
Leslie and Irene Moore. boy.
William and Jelener Jones. boy.