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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
Burns Wants More Money

William J. Burns, in the absence of his former
boss; Harry M. Daugherty, is carrying on lone
but seemingly successful fight for an increased
for ''red-baiting" activities during
the coming year.
The appropriation bill has already passed the
house and is now before the senate.
It has been shown during the oil hearings and
the investigation of the department of justice,
under Daugherty, that the Burns government
sleuths have been used to very great extent in
shadowing congressman, stealing their papers,
tapping their telephones and trying to "get the
goods on them. With these facts known what
a cowardly bunch of old party politicians must
be in the house of representatives to consent to
increase funds for this purpose, as well as to
carry on general attack against all forms of
No doubt Mr.. Burns will have equal success
with the craven spirits, making up the majority
of the membership of the United States senate.
Capitalist provocateurs of the type of Mr. Burns
will never meet with real opposition until the
fearless spokesman of a class Farmer-Labor
Party begin to invade congress in large
numbers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
NEW YOR K
BY SIMON FELSHIN

The contractors who put up the sky
scrapers
Chose immigrants for the work.
Immigrants who had the Drawn
And who would work for a cheap
wage.
Human blood
Went into the building Of these sky
scrapers.
Hearts poised on perilous heights.
Hearts among steel girders.
Blood in the steel and mortar.
The immigrants who built these sky
scrapers
Came across the ocean,
And together with their bundles,
They carried golden dreams;
But they found only mortar and steel.
on periIous heights they sweated,
The beating Of their hearts
Was louder than the sound Of the riv-
citing.
The summers heat soorehed them,
And the winters cold froze them.
Skeletons Of buildings rising to peri
lous heights;
Skeletons Of men form the founda-
tions.
Shattered dreams, blood and sweat,
And mans Drawn
In the mortar and steel.
This city Is mill,
Grinding human beings between the
miIlstones.
Whittier do the crowds hurry?
What do they seek?
Some find millions,
And some find few pennies.
And tho the ones are no better than
the others,
Yet those with the millions are the
masters,
And the others are the slaves.
There are those who roll In lrou-
sines,
And those who stand on bread-lines.
The immigrants were made into citI.
zens
And as a privilege Of citizenship
They were sent to the Great War
To be killed In the service Of the mil.
iionaIrc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

hate the noise of the big city.
It is a noise of traffic.
It hammers on my head,
And gives me no rest.
II is hammerng
Which skaters hopes and golden
dreams,
And breaks human hearts.
This city with its high towers
And its suspended bridges
is magnificent;
But also see its tragedy;
And ! refuse to see the marvel
In big electric signboards.
The skyscrapers are prisons;
Their offices are prison cells
In which there are pretty stenograph-
ers
Who fawn on their prison keepers
And do not know they are in prison
cells.
They beat on the typewriter keys
The IiveIong day,
Writing monotonous business letters.
They beat on their own brains,
They hammer on their own souls,
They stun their own intellects
Whey they beat on the typewriter
keys.
In the evening they are permitted to
90 home.
They crowd into the subway trains.
Tired bodies are pressed against each
other.
Breaths and burning desires minple.
The stenosraphers are young and
pretty,
And they have burning desires.
They 90 TO dance In the evening,
They stay out late,
And in the morning they drag tired
bodies
And haggard eyes
Back to the typewriter keys
To take up again
The beating on their own minds,
The stunning OF their own intelIects.
Better to be shop worker
Who knows she Is a slave
And revoIts against her slavery,
Than to be a pretty stenographer
Who takes an interest In her work,
And does not know she is In a prison
cell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
WOW! COAL OPERATOR
Melted IA PER CENT
PROFIT IN ONE YEAR

NEW YORK, April 2o.--The
American Coal Co. reports 1923 pro-
fits Of sts.46 on each s25 share Of
stock. This Is an annual rate Of
~ per cent. Last year the stock
holders only made So per cent. Al
together these stockholders have re-
ceived In profits In the course Of
years, one and a quarter times their
entire Investment. This years. pro-
fits amounted to $1,112, SOL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

Iu0 CucdpCbJ ldUOI pUW0I pUbSAUl0s 70
hire the workers accepting the lowest
wage offered and to smuggle the
cheapest labor power-Japanese Chi
nese, Scandinavian or what not
whether there be a law prohibiting
such traficking or not.
Consequently, the labor issue must
be dismissed from consideration of
the controversy at this juncture. Law
or no law, the capitalist economic
driving force, the quest for appropri-
ating the greatest amount Of surplus
value possible, will very easily scale
such apparent barriers as the walls
of national differences and laws they
themselves have thrown up and which
at times, get out of joint with the
needs and demands of their own class.
The American capitalists cannot
rightly be accused of being afflicted
with solicitousness for the welfare
and high wages of their workers
whom they are won't to exploit ruth
lessly. No one will, therefore, take
seriously the plea of our legislators
who are serving their corporate
Pharoas fanatically that their anti
Japanese policy is based on their love
for the American workingmen Of
California or elsewhere.
At this very moment the American
military governor General Leonard
Wood is tacitly and overly sanction
ing a policy of SNUG Aging in Chinese
coolies to the Philippine Islands in
order to enable the American capital
lists to secure cheaper labor power
than even that afforded them by the
native Filipino working masses. 1t
has been said and not refuted, that
the young son of General Wood, Lieu
tenant Osborn Wood has himself got
ten goodly portion of the 100000
he cleaned up in a few months, by
aiding and abetting this policy of
smuggling cheaper Chinese labor pow
er into the islands. In the light of
such practices by our governing class
all talk of the interests of American
labor being responsible for the pres
ent anti-Japanese legislation is en-
tirely out of place and will not hold
water.
The issue of race differences and
conflicts has been artifcially culti-
waited and stimulated for long time
by the ruling class of this and all
other capitalist countries. Such poi
sonous doctrines have been peddled
by the capitalist agents among the
working masses of every country in
order to prevent the international
solidarity of the working class, in or
der to break up the unity of the pro-
letarian masses, in order to divide the
working class along the lines having
no sound organic basis in the welfare
and progress of the laboring masses.
This vicious practice has been pur-
sued by our capitalists deliberately
in order to enable them to lead the
country into a probable war more
easily and to crush the workers with
more despatch.
Japan Up Against It.
The extent to which this policy is
practiced by our employing class de-
ponds upon the extent to which their
class interests dictate it. The only
barrier or hindrance to the dissemin-
alton of race or national hatred
amongst the working masses by our
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
The JAPANESE CONTROVERSY
BY JAY LovEsToNE

regarding the fundamental issues at
stake in the class conflict. For years
our capitalists have generated and
played on the hatred of the Japanese
by the American masses. There is no
better way for the employers to
drown out the effect of the shocking
revelations of capitalist corruption
and ownership of government than by
stirring up this Japanese bug-a-boo
and tanning the flames of national
hatred from the fires they themselves
have been building so long.
Such policy is of more than inn
mediate advantage to the ruling class.
1t has tremendous possibilities for
the future. The present situation af-
fords our capitalists splendid
chance to intensity the national and
race hatred of Japan to such an ex.
tent and degree as to enable them,
at some future date, when the Nip
ponese may challenge their oriental
encroachments, to explode the pow
der magazine of American national
ism and throw the country into a war
to the bitter end for supremacy in
the Pacific. All the Senate and House
talk about our Sovereignty" being en-
dangered and challenged by the JAP
anese threat is just that much CAPT
talist political piffle and is handed
out merely to capitalize the prejudic-
es and unfounded notions OF bourge- :
OILS nationalists amongst our own
masses.
The Workers Side.
The chemistries Of the working
masses and the big capitalists are
distinctly antagonistic in politics and
industry. All the fuss and whobub
are only smoke screen OF poison
gas to lead the workers astray. The
working and farming masses of our
country have no interest in limiting
the freedom of movement Of the
workers of Japan, England, Russia,
France or any other country. We
have especially, no interest in giving
our employing class the additional
power of its government controlling
the movement Of the workers Of our
country or Of other countries. In so
far as the immediate economic needs
Of the workers, because of the pres.
ent capitalist ownership Of our in.
dustries, may demand certain regu-
lations of the movements of the work.
ers and farmers from one state to
another, from one country to anoth-
er, this task of regulation should fall
solely within the province of the
workers and farmers organizations
themselves.
For the working and farming class.
es of America to permit their capitals
list government to control such move.
ments of the workers of any race.
color or creed, is to play into the
hands Of our exploiting class, to helm
divide our ranks exactly in the way
in which our bosses want to see us
divided, and to leave our front wide
open for the employers to break thru.
Consequently, every worker, every ex.
plotted farmer, in the interest of his
own class, must oppose vigorously
this anti-Japanese propaganda of the
monopolistic bossing class, this ca.
moufaged, dangerous move aimed.
primarily against the welfare of the
American workers and farmers and
generally against the working mass.
es of the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

It is declared that Bavaria is planning to an
nounce an amnesty for Communists as blind
for the freeing of Count Arco Valley the as
sassin of Kurt Eisner, head of the Bavaran
Soviet Republic. We shall scan the lists of those
released, however, before we admit that there
has been the least change of heart of the bloody
fascist dictatorship over this section of Ger
many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

Another family is wiped out by grade cross
ing accident 1t is charged it was wild Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad engine" that did the
killing. But if there had been no grade crossing
the accident would not have happened. But it
costs money to abolish grade crossings, and the
stockholders of the "B. and o." would rather
have their dividends, even tho they drip with the
blood of the railroads victims. That's business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

"Firemen again show selfish heroism," chants
daily paper over the corpses of nine firemen,
done to death in another firetrap holocaust. But
that ought to spur the workers on to rid the
cities, that have sprouted up under capitalism,
of all the dangerous firetrap buildings that are
a menace to the health and the life of all
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

exploiting class is the fear OF econom-
ic or political loss beng incurred at
certain historical moment by the
spreading of such propaganda. Just
now there are no such dangers in
sight. The economic conditions per-
NIT 1t. The political conditions cry
out for it.
The American capitalists do not en-
terrain any substantial fear of losing
Japanese trade In 1912, or even in
1916, the threat Of grave conse-
quences" hurled at Washington by
Toxic. the threat made today by the
Japanese government, would have
been taken very seriously. Such
threats were taken with alarm in
those days. Today, however, Ameri-
can financial, Industrial and CONNER
cial hegemony in the Far East ap-
pears unchallenged and unchallenge-
able. Japanese capitalists cannot
take effective retaliatory economic
measures to heal this severe, deep
wound dealt to their national honor,
which they themselves have so re-
peatedly glorified amongst their own
workers and poor farmers in the in.
terest of their class supremacy at
home.
Neither can the Japanese ruling
class take any telling military, naval
or political steps against the United
States to give flesh and blood to their
present empty threats of grave con-
sequences" Their leaders, their i'm
perial elders, can straighten their
spines and make sounds in their
throats but they can go no further.
They must stop here.
The Japanese alliance with Great
Britain is today dead insofar as i'm
mediate effective military economic or
naval help against the United States
is concerned. Great Britain's labor
government would not dare to join
Japan in any conflict over an issue
which finds New Zealand, Australia,
Canada and a considerable section of
the working masses at home on the
side of the skilled layer of our own
working class. Besides, Great Brit
ain needs the financial and political
support of the American capitalist
class too much in Europe to dare take
a chance on losing such valuable good
will. Thus, Japan must today kneel
on the carpet at Washington and list
en- to the reading of the book of rules
set down by the American govern
ment.
The Home Front.
An additional extremely important
phase of the attitude just adopted to-
wards Japan by the United States is
to be found in the prevailing political
conditions of the country. There is
nothing that would serve our ruling
class more effectively in diverting the
attention and hatred of the working
and farming masses towards the gov
eminent because of the Teapot Dome
and Daugherty disclosures than such
an issue as the Japanese threat of
grave consequences"
1t is the practice of all ruling class
es to throw out slogans in times Of
crisis or stress, which will unite not
only the ranks of their own class,
but will also win over to their side
supporters from the subject, exploit
ed class and confuse the latter groups
in such fashion as to mislead them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

There is no choice for rank and file worker
as between June 18th and July 4th There may
be choice for some of the so-called leaders Of
labor. But workers had better watch out for
the leaders who are trying to pin their hopes on
July 4th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

The Chicago Tribune sent its correspondent
to Colombia to report that there was no graft in
the $4,000, 900 Colombia pact The Tribune
never was able to discover any faults in the
social system that it SO ably supports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

headline declares that Chicago Faces
Shortage in Common Brick" But since there
are plenty of gold bricks being handed out on
every side, the town still manages to get along
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

The violation of ga gentleman's
agreement" between two thieves is
by itself not an event of startling i'm
portance. But when this violation is
so decisive, as shown by the vote
Of 1923 to II in the House and rs to 2
in the Senate for barring the Japa-
nese from America, then there must
be special reasons for the pursuit of
such a policy. The provisions of the
Johnson bill aiming at the Japanese
are by themselves not new measures.
Similar proposals were put forward in
sundry Congresses of the past.
1t is of no small import to note
that not a single one of the fire-eating
"progressives" in the Senate or House
was immune from this anti-Japanese
fever In the House the terrible Wis
consin radical Cooper,
Frear and Nelson-were as meek as
sheep. In the Senate not finger was
lifted nor a voice was raised by any
of the stalwart insurgents to stem
the tidal anti-Japanese waves.
American Capital Supreme.
Before the World War, before the
United States became the leading
banking, manufacturing and trading
nation of the world, the House and
Senate would not have dared to act
so harshly against the honor and
pride of so aggressive a competing
capitalist group as the one dominat-
ing Japan today. Before the terrible
disaster that overwhelmed Japan in
the earthquake of 1923, our President
would have interviewed to prevent
such rash legislation. Before this
great calamity put the Japanese CAPT
talists temporarily, at least, at the
mercy Of the only financial and indus
trialist group, the American bankers
and manufacturers, for the necessary
capital to insure. swift and effective
reconstruction of the devasted regions
and industries of the island empire,
the executive department OF the
American government would have put
the brakes on the "hasty' legislative
body.
This is what used to happen before
American capitalists secured their
dominant position in the world of In
ternational finance and industry. It
is apparent that the conduct of the
House and Senate is the best index
of the political arrogance that eco
nomic supremacy develops in the
ranks of national capitalist imperi-
alist group.
Pooling Laboring Masses.
The editors of the leading capital
list papers and the leaders of the Re-
publican and Democratic parties have
for years attempted to give the i'm
preston to the workers and farmers
that the interests of the laboring
classes of America demand a policy
of hostility towards the Japanese peo-
pie. This propaganda serves, as a
cloak behind which there is hidden
the conflict of Japanese and American
capitalist imperialist interests in the
Far East. In reality there is no la
Dor problem of this sort involved in
the Japanese controversy. To the
extent that Japanese labor could pos
sibly ever be source of competition
with American labor in California or
in any of our possessions, we can
count on our capitalists to employ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

Where do you stand on June 17th?" is a
question that demands an answer from every
worker in the nation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

Skyscrapers
Writing business letters
Against the sky.
The rows of windows are mouths
Breathing a mechanical breath.
From the ferryBat
The skyline of the big city
is magnificent sight.
The skyscrapers are honeycombs.
They are toy houses.
! can take the Woolworth Tower
And swing II about my head.
can put my arms about the Singer
Building
And lift II from the ground.
can lean against the Whitehall Build
ing
And throw Il down.
From the ferryboat
The skyline is a magnificent sight.
seek the soul Of the big city.
seek its heart and its mind,
And not simply its local color.
! seek the depths Of the city,
ana NOT It's surfaces,
And do not seek its stimulant pleas
ures.
hate its bought love.
hate the poverty and the misery
Which II lnfIiets.
seek In II the lovers Of beauty,
And the creators Of beauty.
J hate its so-eaIled popular plays.
hate its commerelalIzed arts.
seek those who have not been con.
quered
BY the traffic Of the big city.
seek In Il for the worker
Who does not fawn on his masters,
Who knows he lie slave,
And revolts against HE slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

(This poem is from book of poetry
by Simon FeIshin, which is being pub
lished by Thomas Settler, New York,
and will soon appear under the title
Poems for the New Age" Readers
of the DAILY WORKER are already
somewhat acquainted with the work
Of Simon Felshin thru the poems
by him which we have printed from
time to time. They will have the OPP
portunity soon to know his work bet
ter with the appearance of his book of
.poems.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21
Japan Up Against It.


The extent to which this policy is
practiced by our employing class de-
ponds upon the extent to which their
class interests dictate it. The only
barrier or hindrance to the dissemin-
alton of race or national hatred
amongst the working masses by our
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-12-02
Magnifica Receta Para NerviOs
Debiles V FaIta de SueflO

81 I'd. sufre de estas perturbaciones, le
scra rctriLpda con creces cualquier investl-
gaci6n due haga acerca del nuevo remedlo
cue miles de personals estSn tomando con un
q,,lto luaravilloso. Su nombfe es Nuga-Tone.
En- casos de debilidad nerviosa, sueno IN
tranquilo, etc., la sangre necesita Hierro
los nervios Fosforo. Precisamente este es
10 que ell Nuga-Tone hace, nutrir de hierro
a la sangre de fosforo los nervos
Es agreeable para tomarlo es una yer
dsdera preparation cientifica para rcconstl-
tlir los ncrvios la sangre. Es notable Ia
r5pidez con que Ell Euga-Tone devuelve Ia
fuerza ell amino ell vigor a los musculos
nervios gastados. Ademas produce sangre
sbundante roja nervios fuertes flrmes,
aumentando cons derablemente la fusrza de
resistencia. Produce un suefo profrndo
-eparador, b'len apetito mejor digestion
Estimula ell higado hace que los rinones
c intestinos funcionen regulartdad. Yer
daderamente 10 hace usted sentir que ia
da 81 vale la pena dc vivirse.
asco de Nuga- Tone. usted NADIA perdera
rues no le costa-a nj un centavo 81 no lie
r~oduce buenos resultados. Cada frasco es-
Is garantizado Tomelo por uncs pocos dias
= 81 no sc siente mejor y satisfecho de los
rcsuitados devuelva donde 10 compro 10
;.ue lie quede del frasco su dinero lie sera
dsvuesto. Esta es Ia manera. como S empire Sc
vende ell Nuga-Tone. pues los fabricantes
len saben los efectos que produce
Garant.zado, recomendado Y de vents. por
sodos los droguiBtas boticarios.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-12-02
Continuation de la Sra. pag.

ia reclamar la parte de honor Y glo--
ria que elloS tOcaba por las gloriosas
accioneS de suS antepaSados. cuando
pusieron a raya ell pOderfo de Ingla-
terra. frente a los castiIlOs de San Girls
t6baI dc San Geronimo Y Julian
BIanco. quien Siempre exal0 olor de
mambi, proclama, nluy alto, que el he
roicO don Vicente AndinO, Quien por Sr
valor Y lealtad a Espai1a fu9 ennoble
cidO adeiantado en- Su carrera, v
muri0 dc Coronel. Julian Blanco pro-
clama que este Andino fHG m noble
paisano suyo, cuyo nombre desea glo-
rificar; ell misno Julian Blanco, pu
blica toda la hoja de seryicios del
SARGENTO Marcos SOSA, pariente
suyo. que tanto Sc, distingm6 en- aque-
la function dc guerra.
Este iibro cs el C6digo de nuestra
lealtad para con Espaiia.
El otro lihro, Sc titula THE Military
Registration and Selective Draft in
Porto Rico.
Este libro, con tapas color verde,
es el nuevo C6digo de nuestra Lealtad
para con Ia. Naci0n Americana.
En- 6l consta, oficialmente, que des-
dc mayo de 1917 hasta JUNO Gle 1910
EN- los tres namamientos militares, iu-
lio ). 1917: julio 5, 1918; octubre 26,
191S, un total de 236,S53 portorrique-
fiOs fueron "registrados" como reclu-
tas condicionales que 23,G46 fueron
rechazados, deSpues del examen ffsico,
Y, IeI resto, 12.51S hombres cargaron
las armas, aprendieron completamente
Ia Instruction militar, del reeluta, la
de campafia, incluso construction de
trincheras, uso de eranadas de mano.
cuanto un ej6rcito moderio, necesi-
"a para pelear Y para striunfar. Esto
Sc hizo un costo total, sufragado por
el Tesoro Federal de Dos millones,
cincuenta mil, doscientos setcnta do
lares con cuarenta seis centavos..
Ain lamento amigo Huylle. Y debe-
mos lamentarlo todos los portorriQue-
nos, que por la destination de los ale
names al pedir aceptar 'el armisti-
clio que puso fin la Gran Guerra,
estos soldados nuestros no sellasen su
!ealtad. que es Ia de nuestra terra.
con la punta dc sus trece mil bayone-