The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-16
INK - 8ERRY'S tool FAILS TO BREAK STRIKE
AS WE SEE 1T

JAMES A PATTEN, former wheat
= king, and well known parsonage
in the home town OF Charles G. Dawes,
vice-president of the United States,
has offered his assistance to contract
ors who are refusirg to pay the union
scale to their emf Dyes. Patten has
placed the services of the lands
Committee at the disposal Of the con-
tractors. He cannot do thing to the
piasterers he admits, but this is what
he says about the fathers: "The lath-
ers' trade is one Of the fifteen open
shop trades and the committee has
had no dificulty in keeping an avail
able supply Of fathers for the Lands
Award building contractors. What
have the fathers to say to this?
ETHE wives OF leading Illinois manu-
facturers left their sheiks twid-
ding their thumbs in the fashionable
private tea dansants for few hours
on an afternoon last week, to open
war on the wordngclass women of
the state who favor the As hour week
for their sex, the child labor amend
ment and other measures which they
believe might tighten the burden of
toll This kind Of activity the pam
peTed parasites Of the rich considered
pernicious.
WHILE women OF the workingclass
were contributing something Of
value TO society, those useless MASTERS
passed a resolution demanding that
this business Of seeking shorter hours
and more pay must come to stop
This kind Of social legislation would
ruin the industries, they admitted.
The only Law they were in favor OF
was the one demanding a state police
I'VE know from our personal know
ledge" ran the resolution that EN-
ployers Of today are more sincerely
interested in the welfare Of their en-
ployes than are the paid reformers
and agitators." No doubt the capital
lists are generous to their wives, and
friends" But their generosity only
makes itself felt to the workers when
the latter have the power to make
them cough mp.
rFHE American capitalists who
- grabbed over 100000, 900 worth
property from the Germans during the
war, are now between two minds
whether they should give it up or not.
Preferably not. But there are politi-
cal considerations. The German am
basalior has officially demanded the
return of this loot. Cal, figures out
that 1t is better to return the stuff
! rather than stand the danger of losing
the German vote. Nothing very ideal
about the way capitalist governments
act.
I sETTERS coming into the Office
~ show that the report Of the British
delegation, now running in The
DAILY WORKER is being followed
with keen interest by the American
workers. One of our solicitors tells
of man who had only given him
months subscription but the next time
he saw him, the subscriber was so
delighted with the British reports and
the news about the Swedish and Ger
man delegations, that he subscribed
FOR a year.
PROPAGANDA is now being carried
on in Europe seeking to dis
courage delegations of workers from
visiting the Soviet Union. The work
srs who go there, regardless of their
political affiliations, feel greatly en-
Unused over the progress made by the
capitalists and their paid liars. So
they proceed to dish out fantastic
yarns about model factories" and
model villages" after the fashion of
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk-
man, the anarchist renegades. But
TITS kind of campaign is not work
Ing. The next move will be to de- |
nland that the governments refuse
permission to workers to visit Russia |
Alright But this also will cause
trouble.
THE following news item is so in !
triguing that to comment on II
would be as superfous as painting the
Iily or teaching a capitalist how to
rob the workers; Athens Unless
they inform authorities Of their inten.
ions, Greeks, attempting suicide will
pc severely punished according to a
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