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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
MISERY. CROWS
/. AMONG JOBEESS
IN CLEVELAND
81, OOOLooking forWork
During Last 2 Months
BY GEORGE PAPcUN.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. IS. =
Authentic figures solicited from one
employment Office in this city give the
following facts;
Applied for work during the
months of December and January:
$4,000.
Those given Jobs during the same
period amounted to approximately
/ 1899.
The numbers applying for jobs
during the months of October and
November of 1924 were $4,000, and
those receiving employment during
the same period amounted to approx
imately 10000
Jobs Are Part Time
The figures, if compared will show
the marked increase in unemployment
for the last two months and also the
decrease in jobs supplied for the same
period. 1t was also pointed out by
those in charge of these employment
offices that many of the jobs supplied
we're only temporary, in a good many
instances for two and three days
duration only.
This unemployment has been hitting
the unskilled very hard in this city,
this is shown by the fact that the
Common Laborers' Union membership
is about half employed. Labor
headquarters in this city are besieged
by members without jobs daily.
Workers Appeal to Charity
A report from one of the charitable
organizations in this city tells us that
in the month of January SIS able
bodied men, heads of families, were
given help while hundreds Of others,
such as single men were turned away,
and still others had to be refused
because Of the limited funds which
the institution is compelled to work
with.
The workers of this city are be-
ginning to believe that there was
something in the slogan OF Keep with
Kool with Koolidge," as they roam
the street daily in search of the en-
ployment which they are unable to
find.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
TOILERS CONTEST
CITY ELECTIONS
IN MIME APOLIS
Cramer Lined Up with
the Faker Van Lear
BY CARL sKoeLUNp.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 1S.-Ai
the regular meeting of the city cen
trail committee of the farmer-labor
federation of Minneapolis, held Mon
day evening, plans were laid for the
! fling of labor candidate for mayor
and complete labor ticket for all
city Office = snecial committee was
appointed to Inv estigate all available
candidates and report back to the
next meeting of the federation on
Monday, March g.. at which time can.
didates will be chosen.
The committee was also instructed
to arrange for a large ratification
mass meeting to be held Immediately
following the meeting OF the central
committee, this meeting to be the
opening gun in what is expected to
be the warmest city election ever
held in Minneapolis.
The Expected Attack.
The members of the, committee
were unanimous in their desire for
a clear cut labor ticket. Speakers
pointed out that the Labor Review
and the Daily Star would support the
reactionary republican, Leach, for re.
election and would probably attack
the labor ticket as Communist" be-
cause of the fact of members of the
Workers Party being delegates to
the federation from local unions. AL
derman John Peterson stated that la
Dor must expect to be attacked by
the capitalist press and alleged pro
gressive" sheets such as the Star
and urged a full labor ticket.
Delegates were seated from several
organizations, among them were Emil
S. Youngdahl from the 10th ward
farmer-labor club, c. A. Hathaway,
from Machinists' Local No. 81, Joseph
Poirer from the 18th ward, farmer
labor club and A. b. Barker from the
Progressive Professional Mems Club.
Cramer to Back Leach.
The decision of the central commit
tee to put up complete labor ticket
will probably assure a united front
of all labor forces in the Minneapo-
lis city campaign, the city central
committee of the Workers Party hay
ing previously issued a statement to
the effect that they would unite with
other labor groups on the basis of a
labor ticket and a working class plat
form.
The reactionaries led by r. d.
Cramer and ex-socialist mayor Tom
Van Lear are preparing the way for
flreir support for Leach. The Daily
Star ivan Lear's paper) has already
editorially given their endorsement
to- this arch republican reactionary,
Cramer is expected to follow suit in
the next few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20

unemployment entirely. The past
year has been characterized by ex.
trenely intensive work on housing
construction.
The situation OF the peasants Is also
considerably improved in this district.
The area sown in 1924 was greater
than that sowm before the war, 566 900
dessiatins having been sown In the
past year as against 100000 dessia-
tins in 1914.
The number OF members in the Mos
COW organization of the Russian Com.
munist Party has increased from "a
900 members at the time OF the 18th
Congress to 10000 members on Janu-
airy /, 1925.
An immense amount OF work has
been done in the field OF the political
education OF party members, $4,000
members and candidates having pass
ed thru schools for political instruc-
ton.
In closing, comrade Ouglianov
pointed out TINT the Moscow organiza.
ton has not unly developed numeri.
cally, but also In respect 10 tho
strengthening of It's theological foun.
dations. II ia advancing steadily on
the paths OF Boishevism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
TEXTILE BARONS
IN UNITED FRONT
AGAINST LABOR
PrOfteers of North and
South the Same
BY ROBERT MINOR
Especial 70 The Daily Wor<er)


PROVIDENCE, r. l., Feb. 1s.-The
present enormous drive against the
wage-seaIeas working hours and con.
ditIons OF textile labor In New Eng
land, can Be Understood only II II is
thrown into broad perspective.
That is the trouble with most of the
Tabor" Views of this situation. Even
the most sincere and militant workers
in the small mill towns are inclined
to view the cotton mill crisis in too
narrow a way, as being a problem of
this or that mill, Of this or that mill
town--and some actually let their con
ception be bound by the state bound
aries % of the various little New
England states, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut, etc, each little more than
the size Of q Western county and all
Of them together being one industrial
unit so compact that it could usefully
be considered as a style huge city.
Pour Surplus Into 1.-THE South"
But even to view the matter as per.
tanning only to single, huge, all
New England "city' is not sufficient.
A glance at statistical tables shows
that the unihed cotton textile oligar-
chy has for the past five or six years
been pouring tens and scores of mil.
lions of its surplus capital into North
Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. Today, it is
said there are more cotton spindles
running in the southern states than in
New England
The 1928 Year Book" OF the textile
industry said that the southern mills
consumed four million bales of cotton
as against two and quarter million
bales consumed in the north, while
100000 hands were employed in the
south as against 100000 in the North
Here we spe strange and dramatic
fulhlment o. historys task. 1t was
cotton that formed the basis Of the
war Of 81 i.between the southern cot
ton-growings states and the Northern
manufacturing states, and this little
New England group formed the steel.
iron-and-gold heart of the northern
capitalist society which crushed the
feudal southern oligarchy and under
took to reconstruct" it on the lines
Of modern capitalism.
Now the south huns with machin-
ery-machinery that consumes more
than half the cotton that is spun and
woven in America. But it is not
southern capital" that installed the
machinery. The ways of finance
capital are tortuous and hard to trace,
but from the many scattered and
vague references to the buying of
mills and the building of new mills
in the south by New England capital"
it is safe to say that the southern
cotton manufacturing is done under
the same financial control, in the
main, as that of the New England
states.
Indications are that it was the sur
plus profits of the war times-the
fevered khaki profteering, of 1915
Is and the after-war splurge up to
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
STRIKE OF 1000
WHITE " IN GS
may LAST DAYS
Police Are on Guard As
City Asks for COnfab

The strike Of the two thousand
street cleaners and garbage coIlee-
tors employed by the city Of Chicago
will remain in effect at least thru
Friday.
Deputy Street Superintendent VIII.
lam ]. Galligan says he has asked
Michael Carrozzo, president Of the
Street Cleaners Union, for confer
ence to take place Friday afternoon
at three o'clock in the department of
public workers, city hall.
Refuse to Stay UneoIlected.
Galligan added that no attempt
would be made to clean the streets or
collect garbage until after this con-
ference.
"The street cleaners are striking
not only for raise in pay, but as a
protest because they did not receive
their months pay on January s." says
Carrozzo. There are ESQ street
sweepers, $50 foremen, 7OS teamsters,
and so truckmen on strike. We are
asking for raise of fifty cents day
for the street cleaners. and section
foremen, and $1.5O a day per crew for
the teamsters."
The teamsters are now paid $1,000
day for themselves and team. The
street cleaners are paid $500 a day.
Police Called Out.
Police were on guard at all ward
offices of the street cleaning depart
ment. The strike was 100 per cent
effective, with all the street clean
ers and garbage collectors being out.
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY

NNLY a few weeks ago, the ma
~ tional secretary of the young
peoples socialist league, an auxil-
larry of the socialist party, turned in
his membership card in that bankrupt
organization and joined the Workers
(Communist) Party. Last week an
other young rebel who hoped against
hope that the socialist party could be
transformed into a weapon of the
class struggle joined the Commun-
lists. The youth organization of the
socialists is but the ghost of an or
ganization. 1t is afflicted with the
same disease that has brot its parent
to the brink of the grave.
DUT what about our young Com
ID munist organization, the Young
Workers League? What indeed?
Here's what The first issue of it's
weekly propaganda paper will appear
on the first of March. In 1922 the
Young Workers League had month
ly that appeared every once in a
while. 1t tried hard to be monthly.
1t was like the bonneville Trolley
that caught all trains" Nothing the
matter with the paper except that the
league was poor, small in number
and inflinitesmally small in influence.
The officers of the league had that
lean and hungry look that is associ-
ated with bad men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
help WANTED At ONCE!

LIVE hundred
Commune Garden
This Is opportunity Party members wins
aspire to become stars.
We giving this
able guidance Of Alexander ArkatO
he directed "The Dawn He
producing what
Of greater Importance that put
spectacle
performance wherein
audience will participate You perform leading
IS and with training
Send in
1903 East 18th Important very
No speaking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
TEACHERS ARE
NOT CONSULTED
|. ON new SCHOOLS
Results Show They Are
Miserable Failures

Altho the administration committee
Of the board of education spent fully
one and half hours discussing the
naming Of sixteen new school build
ings that are to be erected in Chicago
within the next few months, not one
word of mention was made of the
type of buildings to be erected or the
personnel Of the committee who de-
cides this important question.
Further inquiry of the business
manager, John Byrnes, and of presi-
dent of the board of education.
Charles Moderwell, brought the ad-
mission that neither the Teachers
Federation nor any other teachers or
ganization has been consulted on the
type Of new school buildings.
When Moderwell was informed that
in other cities. New York, for ex-
ample, new school buildings were put
up which are proving utter failures
insofar as the teachers and children's
comfort is concerned he asked do
you mean that we should consult with
the teachers?"
yes, by all MEANS" the DAILY
WORKER reporter assured him.
THE teachers have to spend the
greater part of their lives in those
school rooms. And they are the ones
who know the needs of the children"
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
COMMUNISTS LAUNCH BIG FIGHT
IN CITY ALDERMANIC CAMPAIGN;
MACHINISTS LODGE BACKS PARTY

The Workers (communisD Party has issued its platform the
wards in which Communists the ballot big will
waged from until election
The program issued by the Workers (Commun
ward where Harry Broooer
Mcvey
vitality affecting Chcagos
candidacy
mun Party the 2Sth
the International Association Machinis
candidates
Cejka candidate in the 2nd ward
David Mcyey
Illinois, is
the Mcvey
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
Nations Squabble
Over Calling of
Disarmament Meet

GENEVA, Feb. 1S.-Sbarp opposi-
ton developed today over Great Brit
aims proposal to postpone discussion
Of limitation of armament. Great
Britain suggested yesterday that the
conference be delayed until May 4
when America would be represented.
France, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia in
secret meeting today decided there
should be no delay. 3 81
Delegate Jouhaux of France crit
icized the United States.
"The attitude of the United States
is nothing new" he said. I'VE cannot
wait for America. Adjourning until
America co-operates is adjourning In
definitely"
Italy, Japan and Sweden supported
the British proposal for an adjourn
ment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20

70. pa 10 poo, Hill 500 to Sl10,
Lyman $117 to $123, Naum-
keag $185 to $195, Peppercell
$120 to $40. Saoo-Lowell SAT
to $52, Sanford $183 to $21O,
Salmon Falls SIT to SAT, West
Point from $131 to $1SS..
This gain in the value of tex
tile stocks meant an increase
of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in the wealth of the
owners. The price indicate that
the much talked of "depres-
sion" did not undermine con-
fidence in the ability of the in
dustry to profit by squeezing
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
COMMUNISTS IN
PRUSSIAN Diet
FLAY ROBBERS
Introduce Motion to
Probe Ruhr Blast
(speoIaI 70 The paIIy Workerl


BERLIN, Feb. 1s.-The PrussIan
diet was in turmoil today when the
new PrussIan premier, former chaneel-
lor Marx, outlined the governments
program.
Communists shouted;
'Ruhr swindler!"
They were abiding to the govern
ment paying industrialists Of the Ruhr
district indemnities for loss sustained
thru occupation by the allied troops.
The Communists introduced a mo-
ton to determine the cause Of the
mine disaster at Dortmund last week.
The motion was defeated.
BERLIN, Feb. 1s.-The reprisals
which Roumania has threatened to
take against Germany depended upon
what answer Germany makes to the
Roumanian note demanding a settle
ment of its reparation claims, Foreign
Minister Stresemann told the foreign
relations committee.
Stresemann said Roumania had not
replied to Germany's counter pro-
posals. The dispute between Roumania
and Germany is the outcome of Ger
man occupation Of Roumanian terri
tory during the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
HANCOCK, MICHIGAN, PLEDGES AID
IN IRISH FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE

Hardly appeared columns
The DAILY WORKER than promises
One OF
In the peninsula.
kiskia and
workers OF the country al Iows:
THE Irish Workers. and Peasants
Contradict We intend
US know what steps we ought to take on the matter"
the assistance comrades In Ireland
Irish the motion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
DIES MONIES, a.,
is PARADISE OF
!. LITTLE BUSINESS
BY DAVID coUTTs.
Special to The Daily Workerl


DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. IS. First
impressions of this hustling little town
are that everybody seems busy and
happy. Crowds moved to and fro in
the business section, which covers
many blocks and has a number Of
large stores that makes the visitor
wonder where the trade comes from.
Upon inquiry we learn that there
are no large manufacturing plants, but
many small ones. Ford assembling
plant is the largest and employs about
900.
LaFoIIette's Dream Town.
Des Moines would appear to be the
goal and paradise of little business.
Here LaFollette would find his dream
come true. Monopoly has apparently
Continued on Page A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20

offers no real solution for getting real
schools. l propose new school build
ings, cost to be carried by a levy on
wealthy tax dodgers; education to be
under control of teachers, parents
and students councils. l demand that
maintenance Of working class children
during school period be guaranteed
by the city government"
"McVey declares that the Chicago
traction problem has been a political
football long enough, and wants
speed, seats and lower fares. But
McVey says not word as to how to
get Them" declares Brooker.
In speaking to the one hundred
machinists present at the meeting
which Endorsed his candidacy, Com
rade Dozenberg declared, 81 am proud
to say that am very much partisan
to and in favor Of the working class
and no other class. l am proud of my
membership in the organized labor
movement and my association with
the working class movement and the
Workers (Communist) Party" Many
copies of the DAILY WORKER were
sold at the meeting
The municipal voters league made
mo recommendation" in Comrade Do
zenberg's ward. He was classified as
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
TEXTILE BARONS' S!TOcK GOES
UP FROM S. TO s: ]; s.s. 3; :.
WHILE They CUi Co. /,

How the wage earners loss in the stockholders gain is
SHOWN by the advance in the price of textile mill during
.ne period when low being still further
Aocordng to The Wall Street Jorna the weeks
share ~ - y wv "
Appleton mills from $500 to $645 share Arlington
$oo to $1o7 Berkshire $141 $14e Draper $50 to S6
Dwight $45 to $50 Farr Alpaca SIS s1s5 Hamton Mo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
WAGES OVER PRE-WAR SCALE in
MOSCOW PROVINCE; PRODUCTION
UP 80 PER CENT; PARTY GROWS

MOSCOW, u s. S. given ouglan
secretary of the Moscow committee
MOSCOW Party Conference
industry in the
roubles 1924
employed Moscow industry has
Industrial development during
strengthening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20

lowering production costs 20 the
greatest possible extent.
Moscow Wages Pass Pre-War Level.
5 On December 1, 1924, Comrade Ou-
glianov reported, the real wages OF
the workers Of Moscow province at
tanned to 103 per cent of the pre-war
level. In addition, he stated, that the
steady development of industry would
soon make 1t possible to do away with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20

DUT they survived and so did the
- league. They made progress by
uneasy stages as all revolutionary or
CARNATIONS do. The irregular month
ly became regular. Then it disap-
peared and re-appeared in the form of
bi-weekly. In addition a Junior
League was organized with a little
monthly organ of their own, called the
Young Comrade. This paper has
made more noise than a pondful of
frogs and caused the capitalists to
spill gallons of ink in their lying
sheets, deploring the spread of evil
among the young. But the young reb-
els revel in their wickedness.
XAIITH a bi-weekly and monthly,
wv one would imagine that the
Young Workers League was all fixed
for propaganda machinery. But being
growing organism, it does not relish
the thot of standing STILL 1t began to
hustle for a weekly The weekly is
about here. The first issue appropri-
ately enuf will be a special one to
fight child labor. The best writer's in
the Workers Party and the Young
Workers League will contribute. Be
on the look out for it. And do not for
get to support it.
THE youth organization is of the
very greatest Importance to the
working class movement. In every
country in Europe the young militants
have been in the front line trenches.
They are the future leaders of the
Communist movement. American rad
icals who have children should induce
them to join the Junior League and
the Young Workers League before
they become contaminated with the
100 per cent American bunk that is in
jected into their brains in the robot
factories misnamed schools.
NUR foreign language comrades
~ should see to II that the publicas
lions Of the Young Workers League
get into their homes where they can
be read by their children, who may
thus be saved from developing a taste
for Hot Dog" the Fig Leaf" RED
Pepper" or other salacious literature
which is now deluging the country
and turning the minds of the youth
into a moral cesspool. Or still worse
from the dope published in the Am
erican Magazine or other organs of
success" and ambition"
THE treasSnable and seditious Of
! lenses 81 which the Free State
government introduced and will surely
pui thra its PAGES In the Dali is
VICIOUS roposal. II contains forty
provisions punishable by death. by
imprisonment for two years. by penal
servitude for from Ave to twenty
wears and by fines up to $4,000. This
" the kind OF work the Free State
hangmen are engaged in while hun
dreds OF thousands OF workers and
Continued on Page 81 r
~ Ht.Nas.s.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-12-12

Pass the Ball Grounds
Bmployer-On your way to the
printers yeu Will pass q baseball
ground.
Boy-Yes, sir?
Enployer-Well, pass it.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-12-12
His Limits

Nthel-And what seems to be his
idea Of q good time?
Aabel-Oh, q back seat in the bal
eony, and q lunch ut q buckwhsat-
front restaurant.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-12-12
A RADIO OF THE FIELD

Timely tale from the Ladies' Home
Journal: "A little stalk Of goldenrod
was just about dry enough to blow
away"
AS broadcaster." he chuckled. II
claim to rank with the most powerful
stations in the country. Wonder how
many are tuned IMP
A scattering volley Of sneezes told
that q number Of people were already
getting him.-Beston Transcript.