Daily Worker
January 16, 1925

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|) ee Help Ins 4 4 “4 * @ THE j DAILY WORKER | , Ulinols under the Act of March 3, 187%. for 1925! >i mt ‘ a" . . . bss the D F ails to Deliver \ JACKSON, Mich., Jan. 15—C. E. Ruthenberg’s number in the paid organizeds he prt sehr fn. thi is : the Michigan state penitentiary here is 17332. |refasing to. ai | ~) Gpecial to The Daily Worker) '- He has served ten days of his indeterminate three to ten h he control sc * il taki ' MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. ds years sentence under the Michigan criminal syndicalism law. The »xt ! . at 15.—Paul W. Smith and the| first two weeks of his sentence he is spending in quarantine. me P | Huteneson’s Spe it ve lexecutive council of the Amer- It requried maneuvering for the DAILY WORKER to see ter 3 oe otard se pe lt fuststy Ah ican Federation of Labor stand|Ruthenberg. The prison rule is that the quarantine is to be_ 30. | “ays t clgpenet sad oP tent diated B., | repudiated here by the action|broken only under very special circumstances. The DAILY ne fe nist has started # red’ baiting sot last night of the Minneapolis WORKER made the circumstances special enough to persuade | chamber of epones, an in a ete by plovsly. ayoket isel ott Pi mBINET Trades and Labor Assembly in| the warden to allow an interview. the| revolutionary speech before the | ee eee eee tiet | the case of Dan W. Stevens and|' . ‘The warden of Jackson prison, Harry L. Hulbert, told the chamber yesterday. A ve a me Bracken 2F 7 William M h h i found a questionable stipport in one} auseth, dele gates}|DAILY. WORKER he was very much surprised in Ruthenberg. -Deputy .Grieco’s speech, in| william Shipp, a former Hutcheson to from. Painters’ Union No. 186!He had expected, he said, to re- which he hurled the defiance of employe whose chief and oftspoken| ” . 7 and Machinists’ Union No: 91/céive a very recalcitrant and} ] “oa {the proletariat at the fascisti,|claim to fame ts that-he is not look-| . 48 * 42150 respectively, after a bitter’ de-/ungentlemanly “anarchist.” He MICHIGAN SUPREME ty) was marked.by many interrup- ing 46,000 years ahead “like the Com-}| 4 ; Worker) bate lasting over three hours. expressed admiration of Ru- ink. tions from Mussolini and the |™unists.” He isn’t! Forty-five sec revit t mbert A Close Vote ~ thenberg’s bearing and culture. COURT AGAIN REFUSES a president of the chamber Caser- nds would. strain his mental vision social: ¢ sd Fatt ay + The Assembly, by a vote of seventy May Get 30 More. RUTHENBERG’S RELEASE wa, tano. Seeing Red, pointed ‘Dr. [ sellor i aoe to. sixty-nine seated these two Com-| The warden inquired how many icu- Sadout thas the goods on the Freack| ‘The nineteen Communist. deputies} Botterill has read Phil Murray's inany, Y 2 ber ‘of the| ™Unists as the rightful represent- more Communist he was going to be and government, the government of Clem | entered the chamber from the ex-jspeech before the last Carptenters’| national 4 sékere atives of their local unions. alr do to take care of. When (Special to The Dally Worker) enceau. The labor movement is bac’ treme left. Rich ladies in the galler-;convention or the shade of Sam Gomp on te See ob the The reactionaries ran in forty new, ° ; i. at, :. ne soon din de agen e LANSING, Mich., Jan. 15— The of him. and. the French. workers aré jies looked at them as if they werejers haunts him for he sees the hand |,aiver alt C: ty as thé éx | ‘elegates at the meeting. These dele- satire ont masa saan og hon oe" it Michigan supreme court today de inclined to suit the,,action to -the jstrange animals. Comrade Griéco be |of Moscow behind each criticism o! |treme ‘fh tie nationalia: | 22°88 C2me from unions, many of we qo Pocarns's et oA 4 en va nied the petition asking for a re- word, It is: not likely that. the.death |ginning his speech declared, “The|“his highness” in Indinapolis and he party, t sr, Luther has eee sepreccery, thet were not: pre- o the permittee | eh “| versal of the decision of the court sentence’ will : be carried out in _the | other opposition groups oppose the|sputters dire threats of a speedy reck- i his "eabiint viously affiliated with the central |’ He asked about Ruthenbere’s voca- amirwnrNg Che SeNTenes OF SEs te case of Sadonl., This is evidence of |fascisti because they say the. fascisti. oning. jele, as minis neeys) ‘These Aslegates. were ap tion. The reporter told him it would CHORSOTES CHOCM NUS COSTES. Or tee the power of the Communist,move-|are common criminals. We Commun | Delegate Shipp “aetended” Hutche ter of. Q appointment parently on pein eae aaneeeee SRO ra difficult to find a more competent Workers. (Communtst) Pamy, Sew ment in France rather than dm indi-|ists oppose them and fight them be |son by pointing out that if he really \which | Sina” because t Stevens and Mauseth. | - ecutive. “Hm”, said the Warden,| ‘"Prieoned in Jackeon, Mich, pent- cation ‘of seft'heartedness on the part | cause they are the exponents of the|gets sore he will tell the big inter-|gohieie- 4g ‘Ader of the Make Communism the Issue “ld better watch out for my job. 1| ‘°#8¢ of Comrade Ruthenberg ae of -the: French’ bourgeoisie. bourgeoisie, The Communists wil! |national contractors to ng De his’ Mine the re.| Both delegates took an uncompro-|cee I have competition.” preeens oe” a At Se tie ye! crush the bourgeoisie with the prole |troit organization, This Re” : png} Mising position in this ‘fight by| “What do the rest of the defendants | '%24° Ferguson, attorney for Ru- REMIER HERRIOT is still suffer: |tarian revolution.” open treason to the beesitlaegat in |}Gount ¥ of the} @™*!y announcing and making an|do?” “You will find among them, thenberg. r vict government. | In, this respect he | pieces, President Casertano broke tn.|@ppointed by Hutcheson after less fo ciples either within or without the “What does Foster do?” “Foster is aa) by os ae patra o an is. folowing the. ple of Ramsay|“You must speak on the electoral law.|than two month's membership in 4i-} ti | redes and Labor Assembly. S° vellread own, “wes the reply. care W riba wide tad of $5,000 Mack on: The won. consid- Don’t talk of foreign gountries and |Tect defiance of ‘constitutional provis- erememenase Hulburt thot awhile. “I'll have a little ewe i Test b ‘enatnied of the ident erable 10 he threatened foreign pdlicies.” Comrade Grieco,|ions, It remained for the radicals to}),, oy 8 Fs 4 . trouble finding a job for him”, he said. cosa 7 not to basiiess however, retorted, “I am entifled to|Pproperly resent this threat and brand |, share tablish Direct oe i idl the a Bidbned aot ab The next legal battle for Comrade trom the ‘Soviet government,” But |say whatever I please,” and reviewed it for what it was. ab geet Route; Air and Mail Can Ruthenberg receive copies of Ruthenbete’s.releace: will be staged the tories made‘a monkey out of Mac-| the conditions of the workers thruout Hot Meeting. i" F M #, the DAILY WORKER here?” the! out Saturday, when. Prank. & Donald, while ’ bn hg ed are |the.world, explaining that . interna-| James Sharrock, president of the rom oscow to Paris — ‘ont —e F st Reg ~ Walsh, and isaac Ferguson, attor- maine fae fort Peper vonathn tional capitalism is going thru a. district suggested to the' delegates | ca} | ck al = yr sa 2 " neys for the executive secretary of a ee | i, macy un rid world Boris mins that they carry_on under the condi: }o} MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—The “Derulutt,” pc am a“ that's what Ruthen | tine, Workers (Communist) Party, re netther : Tes | tie mr ww «Ent on. umti? | man comepeny which has | 9€Fé ere for.” ' , edie cae IR . +e meh gotta 9 ec age SULCHESO: “nt ; The Warde go before the U. 8. supreme court ; { meds n. celled for a chubby, i } : nd with the- 2 lecenatully Keeping airship ger. | - eg ee To and este that Comrade futhenberg™ =~ : aati Sevegesene.” Ve nals hia a ve district! wr " = % oat Germany | little; short-sighted deputy. itted to ball on a writ of su- ! pat ned t low hie foot into fetir: ing by the. v Mx * Focal utiion | Party. a4 ae paeg SES. for ‘the last three years, has conclud- Fi depen i. oh to see Number eae ee vate i ee 2 feste, beauz + ees * 1 .""He gave the reporter a pass. hoof | “ ze : a | ee aan mravene rine: ‘seems Hie the Interaadonal outlining Hutch-| {p- , Luth ae given three Asay poe bh enctireen yey Ane “" shoikdn't let you in. "The Tiles ‘ end | _NOTHER gentleman who fs, des- pre tlie Werkére roy ah e--g ina The meeting lasted until 11:30 p. roitions, in Rk ene | pccomy munication between Moscow and ia a me ag ie a ao a pea F ail to Keep the ; labor, an circumstances you mentioned I’ ve ° sive. tined to follow in’ the footsteps |vigtence: Fascism has not the cour-|™. during which time many delegates |ties And j for hia 1 do dbeyneagy ak mmlrtprgen bend Pi inat Croation Party Off v ; 8. n return his generosity | xirpl Thy : you a few minutés with the prisoner in y of MacDonald and Herriot is Calle ot | ap yj 2irplanes leaye Moscow at 7 a. m. and me A Wieblids tna ant yer age to ‘continue its revojution.’ The |@xPregsed resentment and disgust at|to the monarchist nationalist party i {reach Konigsberg (Prussia) about | one of the deputies’ room.” Election Ballot yave e@xico. ne in @ 10 pa re presentation of the electoral law by the attitude of Hutcheson. and his has agreed to withdraw attack: 5:15 p.m. From Konigsberg the nos- “Too Lenient” Thinks Deputy. yet descrfbes the Mexican. hese Mussolini shows that fascism is tak. |flunkles. After adjournment, ah offic: against members of the former cabi engerte, take the rapid train which| ‘The short-sighted deputy led the BELGRADE Jat 15.—The Croatian 668 making an attack on the redetionar- ing recourse to the lowest methods | ial of the district who claims to know |net for theif support. of President} rings them to Berlin at 7:14 of | Way. Up a stairway; over a_ tier; cna i Sree ieee a “ed bers ies. ‘On reading the text however we Hutch very well expressed ‘the ; é oe 4.2% Gm. © ei: ag | peasants’ party will now undoubtedly of, bourgeois parliamentarism. Now) ‘utcheson very well expresse Ebert. ch t day: they 1 Ber! ..| thru another gate; down-stairs again; hall- learn that Calles is attacking the i “ | admi e next day; they leave Berlin by air- tir de enter the elections, following the de- that the proletarian revolution im.- | °P nion that “one must mit that he Ebert—A Willing Lack ‘bi t 8:30 d i A a gate; thru a hallway to another : sO radical agrarians who helped put down : , bi ”- When Hutch , g Lackey. Pp at 6:00 a. Mm. and arrive at Am- |* ‘ het? hy ae - |eision of the Agram court that there ; : . pends, the .fascisti and the opposition |'!5 & Dlg man. en, sautcheson’s re-) Ebert, the social democrat, is per | ‘terdam at 2 p. in.; leaving the latter | *4¢¢: the deputy finally led the re ‘as insufficient evidence to continue | Ft. the De La Hucrta counterrevolution./ wij) unite against the Communists in|@ction tp the Rosen vote in Detroit| mitted to stay as president as long a: | +t 3 p. m., they reach Paris at about | Porter to the end of a long white-| © : a ‘nat Raditch and other ers. Stung to anger because hig. treachery! jas¢ attempt to save the bourgeois | Was instanced he said, “Well, he is at/ne appoints monerechists, declare: | 5:30 p. m., thus covering the whole | W8hed corridor where lay the office i ‘ rer 2 tie ion 2 eg a yo fee's aa joes es le state. least @ big mian in @ small way.” He) martial law ‘against the workers, oui | ‘Oute between the two capitaols in|'2 Which the interview was to take the tepeuiaius sor vais tiisie is de- oves 5 e e revolu on ut Ww “a the ar ent. ® ‘dime ‘ ‘ Jace. pos was Candi tad dad . Ueeterth. . odes?” The use of force by Mussolini yan. gum laws the Communist party and jail: |‘¢ss than a day and a halt. ew t the journey. the short-sighted |manding that the government resign. t The fact of: th is. th 11 showed his weaknets, which is shared its leaders, but offers no criticism o/| Thru tickets can be had at Moscow en Eten? ee eet lhe Clana peasants’ party cannot vote e fact o e matter is that Calles by’ the oppositidn, for both need th Give Up Austrian Consulate. the widespread propaganda to bring | 2t the “Deruluft” offices and they cost one had mumbled more to himself | 1 has sold out to the Wall Street: bank-| proletariat, and they are following us| VIENNA, Jan. 16.—For reasons of| the kaiser back to the throné, He is|135 gold dollars, ali included (train, |*2an to the reporter,” This country |P@ Prevented from entering candidates . L. ers and is now being held to his agree-| toward the Communist revolution.” jecomomy” the Austrian consulate at|. despicable figure. | motor cars, eté.)e The airships are to | ' oy lenient with em guys. Over pation panes me oe oe ao Pastner niet ment by his American masters. He is} Comrade Grieco declared that Mus-| Chicago is to be discontinued it was carry passengers, mail and goods. in Europe they make ’em toe the chalk- |Court decide at Premier Pas ork- a. soeial democrat gnd is playing the need tod A honorar j "ea ae ee line. Were too lenient with ’em—too |could not abolish the list of oppost- solini’s electoral bill was an iniquit |#®nounced today. Orary congu V d heir same role in Mexico that the yellow ous, impudent. attempt to abolish uni-| Will be named. an erlip Settles lenient.” tion candidates nor prevent them from ‘ork- socialists of Europe are playing. versal suffrage by giving the bour- Harding-Marion Star YES, THE RUSSIAN TGs _repertde: GAle something shout 1/506: Me WHE *-* «© . :pecial prisons for politicals in Europe, geoisie plural voting power. “Weare , 43.409 J OBERT -P.. BRINDELL, former) giad to have the general elections,” MACHINIST LODGE 84, Case Out of Court SECTION iS BACKING T thasiehdos Bie culbses He smiled PIP a an ee wane Gov | of: czar of the New York Buildin; |he said, “because they offer us the UE ’ ee om “~ * "7 ’ , | , : . ‘ Blaine has b "on Prades Council is the kind of a thief| possibility for the propagation of our ENDORSES LEFT WING, MARION, Chia, Jam We The it DAILY WORKER DRIVE oon mer tae. Baodlagucnred popes Calles t Mates pagal me. W. e ‘ * “" ’ ’ . ” enone Bu ‘ € 4 . . . are ba parse ape understand’ the tech = among the masses. ’ NOMINATING FMME of the owners and publishers of the , office, but the days of quarantine; F. Lorenz had been released from 4 te iique of the fine art of grafting e crisis in the affairs of the fas Marion Star, against Frank A. Vander- By A. M. STRiZ, Secretary Russian | -ontinement left his customary sereni-| prison shortly after he was taken by the Other trade union, burglars who have) cisti has grown suddenly worse. Mus | Ep ae ay Sneed lip, growing out of a speech by Vaz, || Section, Workers Party. ty undisturbed. He was not yet in| Mexican officials. Dr Lorenz is now tend feathered their nests while posing as solini has asked King Victor Emanuel era. to he Daily Worker) derlip at Briarcliff a year ago, charg- The Russian members of the | prison uniform. He was togged injon his way back to Wisconsin. 1 ‘aie representatives of labor have. man. | ‘° abolish the Italian parliament, and : i - International Associa- ing that President Harding received Workers Party have responded gen- | quarantine clothes, a khaki shirt and sears aged to retain their popularity with the king has refused. Mussalini has| tion of hac inists, at their regular | ., exhorbitant sum for sélling the pa-| *Tously to the appeal TO INSURE jrust-colored, dungarees trousers. Hit the Religious Dope Pipe. he ‘their followers. Not so Brindell. -At disarmed the entire nation wherever| meeting 2¥esddy night endorsed the per, has been settled out of court.| THE DAILY WORKER FOR THE Hears of Fight for Liberty. PARIS, Ill., Jan. 15.—Paris is now Reon a recent meeting of the Ihoek ‘Leber: ho could find. arms on the workers.| entire left wing slate. The John-“| \irg. Vanderlip has issued a state | YEAR 1925. A flow ef money is Ruthenberg was pleased to hear that/in the second wéek of a religious re- sist- ors’ Union which he organized, Cia, Mussolini has provided his militia with| ston machiné is having-very little ment, declaring that Vanderlip is ij1| steaming in from the Russian ;his atiorneys were busy; that Isaac | view, the first of its kind in the relig- ional WWIsion ‘from the Carpenters’ Union the best of guns and ammunition,|. successe in spite of the fact that the | and cannot be told of the settlement,| branches of the W. P. A. Ferguson was in Lansing trying to ar-|ious history of the state. Six pro ative ‘(Continived on Page 2) and has equipped 75,000 irregi- secretary-treasurer is trying to con- but that “President Harding had been The Russian membership of the | range for bail; that Ferguson was to/testant congregations combined for ed of lar troops, in preparation for the im-| vinee the membership that wage | most scrupulous as to the properties} “W. P. A. understands well that |appear with Attorney Frank P. Walsh! the campaign and the pulpit is oecuw y by periding revolution. a slavery can be abolished thru bank- |in the negotiation and in the final| without the DAILY WORKER ‘the |this coming Saturday before Justice | pied by the local pastors in turn. ‘eld. DEMANDS MEXICO FREE. _ All except fascist newspapers have| '"g, and that the “B. & O. plan” is | transfer.” Communist movement cannot be- | McReynolds in Washington to plead a ever, heen suppressed while linotype ma-| another word for shop committee. “This has been most gratifying tc | come a power in the U. S. There- (Continued on page 2) Build the DAILY WORKER! ‘itory “BOURSEDIS, BUT LEAVES chines and presses have heen smashed The left wing candidates are ex- | Mr. Vanderlip,” said the banker’s| fore the Russian workers are sac- scat- and newspaper buildings burned. So-/ posing all of these class collabora- | wife. ; rificing their utmost to keep the a re sym- RUTHENBERG IN PRISON celal and intellectual clubs have been! tion schemes in the campaign for DAILY WORKER and to buiid the TURN IN ALDERM ANIC PETITIONS! publi- closed. nomination of officers in the union. Slemp Will Resign DAILY WORKER. : > aif. (Special to The Daily. Worker) The Italian proletariat is fighting The left wing slate is headed by 4 Russian comrades! Let us make ' ation WASHINGTON, . Jan. 15. — The the fascist machine desperately. ie ceaaitlied St. Hees wr Inter- bf Sanwa sor ne our support unanimous. Every mem- HE petitions filled out to place the;day, Jan. 23. There are nearly two s are state department today instrugted — national president an m Buck for 90 dge anager ber of our section should have a candidates endorsed by the Work-| weeks yet in which to secure signa: . the ammefican officials in Mexico: to When you buy, get an “Ad.” general secretary. & policy and this policy should be—~ |ers (Communist) Party on the ballot | tures. rave an immediate investigation (Special to The Dally Worker) ~ ~ Insurance Policy and buy |in the coming aldermanic elections Candidates of other organizations maha, of thé report that Dr. Wifliam - pal oe ¢ ; $ WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Sec- " now! must be in at the local office by Fri-,| are also in the field, therefore the n the worenz, of Madison, Wis., has beer AVERAGE WAGE OF 14 A WEEK retary Bascom Slemp issued a formal Workers Party and Young Workers’ time «srrested and imprisoned at Progres- Statement this afternoon confirming 7 League must be very much on the ktend- 34,~ Mexico. FOR FALL RIVER WORKERS AS his intention to retire as secretary to | RUSSIA PLANS TO SH OW WHY CZAR job to get signatures. tional The American embassy at Mexico Y President Coolidge, and announcing | | Also to make the campaign a live ty ac | City was Instructed to‘ urgently re- BOSSES CUT MAN : 22 PER CENT that he would enter the law firm of | NEEDED FRENCH LOANS IN 1905 one, we shall need money to carry on at im | quest that telegraphic orders’ be is Good, Childs; Bobb, and Westcott, of |meetings, distribute literature, etc. work _ — ayueo to the appropriate: authorities FALL RIVER, Mass., Jan. 15--An average weekly wage of $14 will be| Chicago, and Washington. The firm (By Rosta News Agency) 'Branches of the party and league n the at Progresso to release Dr. Lorenz | the result to Fall River textile workers in many milis if the announced 10/| ‘8 headed by ex-Congressman James MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—The Leningrad section of th tral, archi jg |SMould make every effort to raise immediately if he has been impris- t W. Good, of Iowa, Coolidge’s pre-con: . ervey hein + Sh ee gchepe Jestneeetnlies y ) mp per cent wage cut is accepted, according to John Campos. executive council a, LOONGECS Pre-CON- | preparing for publication a whole series of t documents ref money either thru donations of the d arbitrarily and unjustly. vention c sign man in th S of secret documents referring to the pore one y member United Textile Workers. ampalg ager in the! gest period of the Russ! branch, collections from friends and rtner’s The American consul at Progres- | A committee found that Fall River mill had b west. period o e Russian revolution, namely, the period beginning with the |. mpathizers ond send it la te oe r so was instructed to request urgent: PSR ean esis wo Regt owners na een quietly re- years 1904-05-06. Among these documents, those relating to the end of 1905 esti offian. aay ty Dr. Lorenz's immediate release one so © ore conce action was yd and that with 10 per Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge | 4°¢ of special interest, as they reveal the true reasons underlying the loans! Comrade Overgaard, captain of the if he Is satisfied that the. Wisconsin | °*"t More off many workers would be suffering 22/2 per cent cuts. Room, Ashland Auditorium. contracted at the time in France by the czarist government. 9nd ward. are Conrade’ tte jka ——, hee og a4 riage | 'S candidate, reports that the com- ron we inca enn Diol ov radeé are on the job getting signa- ebeien™ wnaraseed wa tia Se TO OUR ENEMIES HE WAS AS SEVERE AS | s.2 \ i bie? eid ig 34 2 rye, tg bd, \ a Set Se ’ a re b, : A | = ee see? Bhs eae. oa 4 sa naeeane Sean eT pee 5 Se = ne 7 ° th Re SONS FR ERSTE SE - —. ae —* a - asinine , = | ing from ‘a sick foot, but his ill. ness does not prevent him from mak ing am occasional attack On the So- When Comrade Grieco attacked the Dawes plan, and urged the German proletarian to tear the Dawes plan to the name of Hutcheson met with the smiling approval of Botterill and an- other general organizer, one Aiger, issue. their membership in the Work- ers (Communist) Party, and pledging themselves to support Commufhist prin poets, electricians, journalists, machi- nists, carpenters, editors, bricklayers and cartoonists,” he was told The petition of O. L. Smith, as sistant attorney general, asking that the sentence of Comrade Ruthen-

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An early renewal of negotiations ‘to this end can be expected, it was stated in official circles here, with the United States exerting pressure on France for some serious talk about how she is to discharge her debt of four billions. Think Dawes Settled Things Settlement of the reparations pro- blem, in the opinion of administration officials, removes the last remaining barrier to debt settlement negotiations will all Buropean debtors. Hereto- fore France and the smaller debtors have offered the argument that they could not talk settlement with Wash- ington until they could ascertain just hew much they were to get from Ger- many. The Dawes’ plan agreement settled that, so they think and now the excuse becomes no longer tenable. Commenting upon the Paris agree ment, administration officials pointed out that the subject of war debts is the last of the great international problems of a controversial nature left by the war. It is made plain that this government, at least, considers the time now ripe for tackling this problem in earnest. Show the Color of Your Money. The French government has al- ready been informed, thru diplomatic channels, that the “unofficial and per- sonal” memorandum on the subject of the debt, sent to Washington some days ago by Clementel is not satis factory, and that Washington would appreciate something more concrete and official The discussions at Paris between Clementel and Winston Churchill, British chancellor, over the status of France’s debt to Great Britain, are re garded here as a hopeful sign that France soon will submit to both her creditors a definite statement of her intention to pay and the measures by which she intends to do it. The French debt to Britain is approximate- ly $2,707,000,000, and to the United States, with interest, $4,137,000,000. | SCANDINAVIAN SECTION OF WORKERS PARTY SAYS, T'S A HEALTHY SIGN’ %e Ie Indeed inspiring to know that the party is looking ahead of time in order to Insure the continu- ance of its press, instead of the old happy go lucky system by first as- suming a load of debts and then after a while be drowned in it. This ie a healthy sign of foresight In our movement and gives promise of a steady and healthy progress. “| hope and trust that every sec- tion of our party will be able to grasp the importance of this and re- spend 100 per cent.”—Juel Christen- sen, secretary Scandinavian federa- tion. eT TT SAMUEL, ee ere ne eC; ee -— —-s-- — 2 = _— | BAD JOB YEAR IN ONTARIO — | were filed in 25 employment bureaus t the total who registered 176,512 were nearly 37,000 nothing was done. * «* TORONTO, Jan. 16.—During 1924 more than 213,000 applications for work hruout Ontario. The year is described by the employment service report as the worst in the history of Ontario. Of given work of some description. For PREMIER REFUSES AID“TO UNEMPLOYED. OTTAWA. Canada, Jan. 15.—Premier King refuses to grant money from the Canadian treasury to meet unemployment in Ottawa. answer to a deputation which represented the city council and the unem- ployed, and which was introduced by one of the local members of parliament. In reply to a request for the construction of public works the prime minister said that all such expenditures would have to be approved by parliament. J. J. Ryan, chairman of the unemployed men’s organization, told the premier that there were 2,000 unemployed In the city. He gave this - RUTHENBERG NOW “No. 17,332” | (Continued from page 1) writ of supersedas in an attempt to get him released pending the decision of the United States supreme court. He said the books that the workers in the national office of the Workers Party had given him just prior to his departure served as excellent com- panions in his days of confinement in quarantine. He had no complaints to make. It seemed to be a little better, in some ways, than Sing Sing (where he served a year and one-half under the criminal syndicalism law of New York) but it is a capitalist prison. He'll Interpret Capitalist News. Ruthenberg didn’t have to be told he would not be allowed to receive the DAILY WORKER. He asked that certain metropolitan dailies be sent him in case his bail were denied. “Those will give me the news. I can make my own interpretations.” He smiled gratefully and expressed satisfaction when he learned that the entire forces of the International Workers’ Aid and the Labor Defense Council was being turned in behalf of the Michigan defense. Time of Interview Over. The time was up. Ruthenberg was Jed back to his cell and his books. The reporter was conducted back thru the labyrinth of corridors, stairs and gates to the grey outside walls. In Michigan they don’t like to have Jackson penitentiary called a prison. They call it a “state industry” because fourteen million pounds of twine and rope are turned out there every year. But that’s where Ruthenberg is. And as long as Michigan continues to lock men up in it for having ideas, Jackson penitentiary will be known as a partic- ularly black and sordid prison. Brown’s Heresy ' Trial Rushed By Packed Jury (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 15—Bish- op Brown's heresy trial is being rush- ed thru by the eight bishops of the protestant episcopal church sitting in judgment on the ideas expressed in Brown's book, “Communism and Christianism,” in the Trinity Cathed- ral hall here. “Jury” te Packed. When Joseph Sharts, Brown’s at: torney, declared that the court was hastily constituted for the express purpose of hearing charges against Bishop Brown, he was immediately over-ruled, and Bishop W. A. Leonard of Ohio, presiding at the “trial” of the church's board of review, told the prosecutor, “I hope you will be brief, Mr. Dibble, there is hardly any reason for discussing it.” Sharts charged that the trial court had no jurisdiction over Brown, on the ground that he must be tried in his own diocese. He declared _ that twenty-three quotations from the book were stripped of their context and misrepresented the author’s views. He devoted several speech to reading extracts from the book, and expounding Bishop Brown's opinions, Refused Defense Depositions. Sharts charged that the trial court erred in refusing to permit the taking of defense depositions to prove that there was no agreement on doctrines among church leaders. Dibble, the prosecutor, said Bishop Brown was a “jungle worshipper.”’ Brown wanted to substitute matter, force and law, for the father the son and the holy ghost, Dibble said. op Brown’s appeal from his conviction last June. Find Gold Vase Weighing 390 Ounces SOFIA, Jan. 15.—Bulgarian peasants at ‘work near Plevna have unearthed a vase of 22 karat gold weighing 390 ounces. The mayor of Sofiia has sent it to the national museum. The Poisoned Water Hole ‘ hours of his | | DAILY WORKER PARTY IN CHICAGO NETTED $124.39 FOR PAPER The net proceeds from the Chi- cago celebration of the first birth- day of the DAILY WORKER, net ted $124.39 after all expenses had been paid. The profits were turned over to the fund to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925. The Chicago birthday party of the DAILY WORKER was arranged on only a few days’ notice, and the re- celpts are considered high consider- ing that fact. Bosses Groom Dever for Try Dilbert H. Gary and John D. Rocke- feller, jr., together with other mem- bers of the executive committee of the committee of one thousand for “law enforcement,” have injected them selves into local politics in order to groom Mayor Dever to run as the next democratic presidential candidate, lo- ‘cal politicians charge. the Chicago club, which was attended by Clifford Barnes, and other leader's of Gary’s committee of 1,000. The Chicago crime commission. was _ ig- nored at this meeting, speakers de claring the commission to be an ob Stacle rather than an aid because it heckled and irritated the Dever ad- mnistration.” greeted after his New York speech by Rockefeller and Gary with the predic tion that Dever would have their sup port for the nomination as the demo- The court of review is hearing Bish-|°T@tic candidate for president. Dever ‘told in New York how he had “driven the bootleggers and beer run- = out of Chicago.” He did not men- have stepped across the city line to ‘Cicero, which runs wide open as the wettest and toughest town in the mid, | dle west. Speeches delivered in the city coun cil against the “crime wave,” included \&@ statement by Alderman Wiley W | Mills that he has been in Chicago fo \thirty years, and that every winter |there is a crime wave. It was re vealed that there are 100,000 unem ployed workers in Chicago, many of ‘whom are entirely without resources |and this was given by some aldermen as the real cause of the “crime | wave.” May Call Mellon. THE DAILY WORKER At White House ; Dever spoke at a secret meeting at It is being recalled that Dever was tion that those who had left Chicago - « ye -. ‘ _— a. datas pre was a2 6 fhe ae ee eS a ie e ee. re eel LF aes ESS EME, tA we PRES op i FS TL wee LP : a Rages a a a a oy Bo ee ' oa K: Mga” ayes SANG - German-Polish Treaty Signed. 8 BERLIN, Germany, Jan. 15—Poland © and Germany have signed a trade’ agreement, maintaining commerce be-* tween the two countries until April 1." The two countries will conduct fur- ther negotiations for a definite com-® mercial treaty. The Red Liar— Don’t Miss it! . & Results of Membership Meetings af CORRECTION.—in this column Thursday, Jan. 15, the results of discussion at two branch meetings in District No. 8, both of which voted ¢ the minority position, were erroneously reported as RESULTS OF MEM BERSHIP MEETINGS. The branches were, the South Slavic branch Sheboygan, Wis., and the South Slavic branch, of Joliet, Hil. Conservative Parmers Meet. CHAMPAIGN, IL, Jan. 15.—Twelve hundred farmers, representatives of every county farm bureau in Illinois, filled the auditorium at the university of Illinois here today for the opening of the two-day tenth annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- tion. READ THE DAILY WORKER You Must Help! | Ruthenberg in prison! Thirty-one more trials ahead. Ten thousand dollars wanted by February 15, Volunteers wanted to help mail out tens of thousands of letters for the Michigan defense. Come during the day or phone State 5959 if you will é~ ; . t. sts Ao "Y CAPITRENST PRES? -_—— come at night. Bring others. the road to the ultimate emancipation The votes recorded in this column apply to joint city mcmbership ) Grn DIRS : Labor Defense ouncil, 166 West Washington Street, | of the working class of the world. ings onty, not to branch meetings. — — | Room 307. 1 Im addition to this chanjed situation, | SPRINGFIELD, lil. 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S@eetrpan Rene ae oe ep SF CES SSE8EEF ag truc- ee cepa —— " » « . “an er ae | DEPOSI M OIL GRAFT Big Sums “Deposited i in Canadian Banks (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15— Atlee Pomerene ‘and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel engag- ed by the government to prose- cute Fall, Sinclair and Doheny in the naval oil cases, are track- ing down the secret distribution of a fund of about $3,000,000, raised by the Sinclair and Standard Oil interests after Fall began to give away the naval oil reserves to Sinclair, Stand- ard and Doheny. ’ Deposited in Fall’s Name They have publicly made affidavit, in the courts of Canada, that $90,000 in HMberty bond coupons from this secret fund have been found deposited to Fall’s credit. It is reported in Washington that another $130,000 has been traced, and that they expect to locate the whole of the $2,400,000 col- lected by a Canadian lawyer named Osler from the dummy oil-purchasing gentract and $750,000 collected from another similar deal. Moreover, it is rumored in financial quarters in Washington that Harry F Sinclair will presently resign the presidency of the Sinclair Consolid- ated Oil Co., and that a vice-president of Standard Oil of Indiana will like- wise step down. A Canadian court has ruled that Olser, who forméd the dummy Continental Trading Co., Itd., in his office, must disclose the names of the persons to whom the secret fund was paid, and the identity of the client who instructed him to form the dummy company which bought oil at $1.50 a barrel and resold it at $1.75 under most suspicious condl- tions. Osler is Buyer The Pomerene-Roberts affidavit, filed in the Canadian court in the ef: fort to secure an order that Osler must talk, set forth that Sinclair and Standard set up Osler as buyer of the oll, and then had their own com- panies pay him for doing nothing and taking no risk of any sort. Osler drow. $2,000,000 in this way until on May 26, 1928, when the senate inves- was seen. tebe serious, the was surrendered for a cash sottlement of $400,000 in place of the $6,000,000 which was guaranteed on fature deliveries of oil. At the sanie ‘ame another contract brought Osler a® additional $750,000 on oil purchassd at $1.20 and resold at $1.45. Conceal Ownership. Qrestions the federal investigators will try te push in court are: Did @iasiair and Standard Oil of Indiana aggange for the creation of Osler’s dugysy company, Wich concealed its Ownership by a system of stock war- wents? Why were all records of that company destroyed by Olser? Did Fall @ll of the $8,150,000? If not, who get it? Osler ia identified by Pomerene am Roberts as a director of the Mid- Was Rediaing Co., a Standard Oil sub- ‘Weary. HOW CAN J. P, MORGAN’S LAWYER BE ‘UNETHICAL’? WE BET HE'S CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The senate judiciary committee yester- day held up approval of the appoint- ment of Attorney General Harlan F. Stone to the supreme court because of charges of “unprofessional con- duct” filed against him by Col. James A. Owesby, mining operator of Coloradg. Owenby charged Stone was gulity of unethical conduct while repres- enting J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., in litigation against him. Owenby filed a record of the case, showing Stone’s connection, and a complaint against elevation of the attorney- general to the supreme bench. “MELLON BRIBED WITH BURNS AND _ HARRY,” CHARGE NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Testimony at the trial of Gaston B. Means, “right hand man” of former Attorney Gapn- eral Daugherty and William J. Burns, formerly head of the investigation bureau of the department of justice, charged with conspiring to bribe the attorney general, was that a $65,000 bribe was to be split three ways by Secretary of the Treasury Androw J. Mellon, Burns and Daugherty. Samuel Goldblatt, of Chicago, testi- fied that Alderman Joseph A. Kostner of Chicago acted as lawyer for the Glass Casket company officers, who were caught selling fake stock. Kost- wer is a member of the law firm of 4ostner and Herr in the Ashland block. Kostner is now in the St. Anthony hospital in Chicago. Altho Attorney Hiram C. Todd, special at- torney prosecuting the case, calls Kostner a “co-conspirator” with Means and Col. Thomas B. Felder, on trial with Means, he admitted the Chicago alderman has not been indicted. Kost- ner, who is supposed to be ill, has re- ceived many visitors at .the hospital. Means was given the money in re- turn for promised immunity from in- dictments in the stock selling fraud. Rosenblatt said Felder admitted thru his counsel, Frank P. Walsh, that he was a personal and business associate of former Attorney General Daugher- ty. He denied accepting the bribe in his law office. “Isador Padorr of Chicago told me if I went with my associates to Wash- ington we would get the trouble wiped out,” Rosénblatt testified. "He said there was a deficit in the 1920 re- publican national campaign fund and they were trying to make it up. Jar- necke, Means’ man, at first objected to a lawyer when we met him in Wash- ington. He said the reason he did not want a lawyer was that they had a deal with Morse to get him out of Atlanta for a certain consideration and when he was out he told Means to go to hell.” Finally, however, Jar- necke said Means agreed that Kostner was im on the deal, Rosenblatt said. “We went to New York about Oct. 16. We wet Jarnecki. He said he had just left Means, who was with Daugherty and Burns at the Waldorf, and they were waltting for Secretary Méllon. He told us to go to Felder’s office. We wanted to know why there was another lawyer in the picture, and Jarnecke said that Felder and Daugherty worked together.” Means told the Glass Casket men, who operated out of Altoona, Pa., that his superiors were Daugherty, Burns and Mellon. They paid the money, but the in- dictments against them were finally is- sued, in spite of their, bribe. A Memorial Pageant Commemorating the Death of the Great Working Class Leader LENIN MEMORIAL DAY Wednesday, fem. 21, 1925, 8 P. M. Ashland Kuitinaclains ASHLAND AVE. AND VAN BUREN ST. Speakers: WM. F. DUNNE EARL R. BROWDER J. LOUISENGDAHL ARNE SWABECK GORDON OWENS Music by Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago ADMISSION 26 CENTS. |FARM CRISIS ACUTE, BORAH TELLS SENATE Coolidge Throws An- other Feed (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—Following Senator Borah’s speech in the senate demanding an extra session of congress to provide farm relief legislation promised the farmers by Cool- idge in his campaign, President Coolidge held another breakfast party this morning and enter- tained his special agricultural commission. The commission, which was ap- pointed to report to Coolidge on Amer- ican farming conditions, with recom- mendations for emergency relief, in its first report made no recommenda- tion which would aid the farmers. Coolidge is opposed to an extra ses- sion of congress to consider relief of the farmers, so that the recom- mendations of his commission, ap- pointed for election campaign purpos- es, cannot be acted upon. The commission advised that the agricultural credits act be amended, eliminating the provision which pro- hibits rediscounting by federal inter- mediate credit banks of loans nego- tiated by federally chartered agricul- tural credit agencies. Until this le- gislation is acted upon by congress, the report of Coolidge’s commission is sO much waste paper. Coolidge is, therefore, holding up even the work of his stupid “economists” by prevent- ing an extra session of congress. Borah, in his senate speech, declar- ed that Coolidge received a large far- mer vote on the strength of his prom- ise of immediate legislation for gov- ernment direction of the co-operative marketing movements. Borah said the Dawes’ plan would never be a success as long as Germany is dominated by foreign governments. He did not dl- rectly attack the Dawes’ plan for throttling Germany, however, but said it should be supplemented by deter- mination of the final amount Germany must pay the allies. “Those who believe that the farm question in this country has been set- tled either by the crop failures abroad or the Dawes’ plan alone have made temporary relief that which we would ultimately hope might become perma- nent relief,” Borah said. Borah inferred that Coolidge had decided upon his farm policy on ad- vice from the U. 8. chamber of com- merce. “I wish the chamber of com- merce would take to the president some of the country weeklies thruout the great agricultural regions of the west,” Borah said, “in which three or four pages are devoted to tax gales. In my opinion, the fundamental prob- ‘ilem is not changed at all and better conditions in some localities are due. to transient causes.” The government aids the manufac- turers by fixing a protective tariff, Borah said, and lends the railroad magnates money when they get into trouble, but the farmers seem to be on the outside of the power which con- trols the government, looking in. Borah gave figures to show that the farmer is practically bankrupt as a class, ,the profits on his crops being made by the railroads, the middle- men and the industrial capitalists. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, in an address to the N. S. chamber of commerce here advised business men as to how they can make more profits. Hoover spoke against any legislation for the better- ment of the farmers. “Betterment of the farmers’ position in the national economic structure can be accomplish- ed by voluntary co-operation in indus- try and commerce without govern- mental regulation,” Hoover said. Which means in plain English, that now that the campaign is over, the farmers can go to hell, as far as the Coolidge administration is concerned. When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. @ serious mistake in attributing to (1PPEAL SENT BY A COMRADE WHO SAW RUTHENBERG IN JAIL| | This morning’s ma mail brot us the following appeal from a comrade living in Benton Harbor, Michigan who has visited Comrade Ruthen- berg at St. Joseph before he was transferred to Jackson. We print his letter in full: Dear DAMLY WORKER: I! wish you would publish the enclosed no- tice. Dear Comrades: 1! want to ask you all to write to Comrade Ruth- enberg. It will take you only a few moments time but will do our comrade much good. It will also show the reactionaries of this state that our comrade is not alone in this fight. A few letters from each statein the union | am sure will make them take notice. Address: C. E. Ruthenberg, care State Prison, Jackson, Mich. 1 visited our comrade the day after he was put in prison. | took him over some good things to cat, also the DAILY» WORKER. He re- quested me to bring him the daily papers, but when | got over there the next morning he had already been taken to Jackson. Comrades, we must do everything we ean not only to Iiberate Com- rede Ruthenberg but all political prieoners. ! am not in a position to help much but | am sending $1.00 and | wil send more. Yours for the workers’ and farm- ore’ government. Gustave Glade. Support of Old Party Bosses Doesn’t Mean Much for Children (By The Federated Press) COLUMBUS, O.—Despite even the endorsements of Maurice Maschke and Burr Gongwer, political bosses of the republican and democratic parties, it is not certain that the Ohig legis- lature will ratify the child labor amendment. Both bosses take the at- titude that legislators should abide by the platforms of their: paties but powerful influences of the Manufac- turers’ Assn. and state employer bodies are being swung into the fight against the children. The State Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Federation of Labor and every progressive body in the state is bringing pressure on the legislators, especially those from the farm coun- ties, to act favorably on the amend- opposition of the the farm bureau federation, friends of the amendment fear the best to be ob- tained will be an order for an ad- visory referendum vote, similar to the Massachusetts referendum. Patronize our advertisers. | Movies for Workers | You, who read the working class press for the truth about the workers’ cause—go to working class motion pictures for further enlightenment anc entertainment, and at the same time help along one of our dearest causes —Relief for the captives of capitalism in every land where white terror reigns! “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” and “Russia in Overalls” will be shown at: Boston, Mass., Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Cleveland, Ohio, Engineers’ Audi- torium, St. Clair and Ontario streets, Saturday, Jan. 17, afternoon and éve- ning, Sunday, Jan. 18, evening only. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 19. Brockton, Mass., Jan. 19. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1318 Walnut St., Jan. 22. Galloway, W. Va., Miners’ Theater, Jan. 28. Zeigler, Ill., Jan. 28. Chicago, Ill, Ashland Auditorium, Feb. 5, continuéus 7 to-11 p.m. Ad. mission 50c. Pittsburgh, Pa., N. 8. Carnegie Hall, Feb. 7, afternoon and evening. South Bend, Ind., Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn., 444 Rice 8t., Feb. 20. Milwaukee, Wisc., Pabst Theater. Mar. 7. Union San Francisco, *Cal., March 21. | Hearty Response to Subs for Prisoners Harlem English Branch Leads Again. ville jail. now calling for funds. Moundsville. to receive both. — =~ Bee. — go HE appeal thru our pages a few days ago to pay for subs to class war prisoners has met with a prompt response. branch of New York, which played a leading role in all the New York sub drives for the DAILY WORKER, rushes in again at the head of the procession with money to pay for a sub which has been applied to Teddy Arinski, serving time in the Moundsvilie, W. Va., jail for his part in the famous “March of the Miners” in 1922. In the same mail a remitttance from Anton Kratofil of Norwalk. Ohio, pays for the sub to both the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly for Frank Bodo, another of the militant miners in the Mounds- In addition he sends five dollars for the Labor Defense League The Harlem English An anonymous friend of our comrades in jail contributes his share which pays for the sub of Chas. Ciallella, another militant miner in Clara Knappe, of Milwaukee, sends a remittance to gover subs for the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly for Ernest Erickson. imprisoned at San Quentin, having learned our comrade is most anxious These are expressions of class solidarity that will serve to brighten tho. Gap Rage. of ie seltant Soap, wea-poteenenn. . ican working class is not to be de- Labor Templé,‘’ DEPORTEES ARE || FIRST PARDONS GRANTED I. W. W. HAILED BY THE RED INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—"The effect of the president’s recent pardon of Herbert Mahler, William Moran, Pietro Nigra and Joseph Oates will naturally be favorable on the other deportation cases pending,” stated Attor- ney Isaac Shorr in charge of-the l. W. W. cases. Shorr went at once to Washington to get the department of labor’s action in cancelling deportation warrants warrants speeded up. Applied For Pardon. Attorney General Harlan F. Stone recommended that these former polit- ical prisoners who had served under wartime convictions be pardoned. The men were first ordered ready for de- portation on Sept. 18, 1923. Stay of 60 days was granted during which time application for pardon was made. With pardons granted the possibili- ty of ordering deportation as “unde- sirable residents” due to their former conviction was removed and for that reason Shorr hastened to get the de- partment of labor’s cancellation of de- portation warrants which would be- come effective January 17. . > . Red International Committee Pleased. CHICAGO.—"“Every adherent of the Red International of Labor Unions will be glad to learn that the Amer- prived of these revolutionary workers in whose behalf our committee has be@h rousing the workers of many na- tions,” said Harrison George, chair- man of the Red International commit- tee of the Il. W. W., when informed of the pardons granted in Washing- ton. “Some months ago,” he continued, “when deportation of Mahler, Nigra, Oates and Moran seemed impending, the Red International Affiliation Com- mittee requested of Fellow Worker Morris, then the secretary of the I. W. W. defense, the complete data upon the cases so we might carry on a world-wide propaganda thru our inter- national connections. “An Example of Yankee Justice.” “While we did not receive all the assistance desired and expected, we were given enough data upon which to begin a militant campaign to stimulate a protest of these deporta- tions by foreign workers on the basis of an exposure, as we termed it, of ‘an example of Yankee justice.’ “This exposure consisted of incon- vertible proof that the federal govern- ment itself was flagrantly violating not only the federal constitution’s plainest provisions, but also the treaty rights of foreign-born residents of this coun- try. The deportations, if the govern- ment had dared to persist, could have }-been carried out only at the expense of further disillusioning further great masses of workers in other countries as to the hypocritical claims that America is a land of ‘Wemocracy.’ R. 1. A. C. Articles Widely Published. “American imperialism which has its own game to play against the gov- ernments of Europe, very much likes to have the impression that America is a ‘free country’ remain in the minds of European populations. The articles sent out by the R. I. A. C. thru its international connections were pub- lished widely in hundreds of papers and in all countries by the Commun- Gompers’ Widow Asks Probate Court to Act Against Sammy’s Will WASHINGTON, N, Jan. 15. — The ex- pected protest against the admission of the will of Samuel Gompers, late president of the American Federation of Labor, to probate was filed in the probate court here by the widow, Mrs. Gertrude A. Gompers, who was left in the will only the minimum 4l- lowed her by law. She would not have been left less b old Sammy, unless he had divorced to as little as possible under the law, and willed several hundreds of dol- lars away to various lodges to buy American flags. By a previous will dated Sept. 21, 1921, Mr. Gompers left the bulk of his estate to the widow. He revoked thi: will by writing across its face and le then tore it almost in half. Samuel J. Gompers, son of the labor leader and executor in the later will is charged by his step-mother with having unduly influenced his father into revoking the first will and exe- cuting the second. Tither the son, or some one unknown to the widow, ex- orted the undue influence, the widow’s caveat asserts. Mr. Gompers was 71 when he mar- ried a second time and his bride was then 38. isle of Pines Up in Senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The sen- ate today began normal consideration of the Isle of Pines treaty under which the United States would cede own- ership of the island to the Republic of Cuba. The treaty would settle a title dispute that arose after the Span- ish-American war. “4 Drtun0e The Sasty Worhes for 128 her, so he cut down his widow’s part/ Page Three VICTORY’ FOR BANKERS MAY LEAD 10 WAR U. S. Practically in the League of Nations (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—< On the heels of the Kell Churchill agreement in Par whereby the United States is to get 214 per cent of the Dawes plan annuities in satisfaction of American war claims, there arose here today a marked divi- sion of opinion as to whether the achievement at Paris repre- sents a victory or a defeat for American imperialism. While it is trne that the American representatives at Paris forced the al- lied powers to agree to American claims and compelled them to grant equal participation in the German payments, the net result of such an agreement, it was pointed out in sen- atorial quarters, is that for the first time since the war the United States is thus made a direct party to the coalition of powers seeking to com- pel Germany to pay. The United States now has a direct stake in the reparations controversy, amounting to 2% per cent, or some $600,000,000, and in this respect, the American position now is no differ- ent from the position of Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy. In this connection the question was raised in senate circles: “Suppose Germany defaults im her payments now, and the allies agree to impose punitive measures such as further occupation of German $terri- tory—will the United States become an active participant in disciplining Germany Can we again conscript an army of 4,000,000 and make them believe it is a war for democracy?” The state department, however, is disposed to regard the Paris agree- ment as a decisive diplomatic “vie- tory.” When you buy, an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. — our paper. COME ON OVER! JUST FOR FUN And at the same time to relieve us of having to worry about it so much. Our small force is snowed under by a pile of work and if you have a little time to spare—come over to help us out on the work that will help to build JUST FOR FUN—— COME ON OVER! The publicity and protest evoked evi- dently had a great bearing on the gov- ernment’s decision to issue a pardon— the very first pardon granted any of the I. W. W. imprisoned by the scores during the war. “In addition to this international campaign, the Workers Party and the Trade. Union Educational League car- ried on a special campaign in this country, making the deportation of these four workers an issue in the A. F. of L. and iniependent unions, the T. U. E. L. getting out a special reso- lution on the cases, which was taken up in local unions.” When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? n Siminow | & Son “The Reliable Furniture Dealers” i= SELL Reliable Furniture AT Reasonable Prices Cash or Credit 0315-17 BROOKLYN AVE. LOS ANGELES, CAL. SAAT ATRIAL TNRMTRNOMNORIOMTN Open Evenings. ist and Red International publications. ! RAILROADED! ee OWN contribution. | ACTION FOR BEING COMMUNISTS! |} _RUTHENBERG IN JAIL MINOR CALLED FOR TRIAL! THIRTY OTHERS IN DANGER! TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS NEEDED FOR THE LEGAL DEFENSE BATTLE! Get a donation from or a collection taken‘in your Party or League branch, union, fraternal society or shop and have it rushed to the Labor Defense Council. Send YOUR Use the blank below: FOR WHAT? COUNTS! 166 W. Washington St., Chicago, Illinois. Enclosed find $............... Name of Sender SSS Street and Number ...... City and State To LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, Room 307, for the Michigan d Name Of Organization .........cce eeeeee SECTOR EEE EERE OOD ORE HEH Oe efense, collected by eee heat * POR ee ee ee eee eee he

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wi » yaad , = ; = * AA . - > OS f 42 r L A, sou oD >~—* q KVLG K NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—The Workers Party, Harlem Section, has started an Open forum which will meet every Sunday evening at 8:30 at the Har- lem headquarters, 64 EB. 104th street. The first discussion will be given next Sunday, Jan. 18, led off by Ben- jamin Gitlow, subject: The Capitalis Offensive Against the Communist In- ternational. Al! comrades residing in Harlem must not fail to attend th: opening lecture of our forum. Bring your friends! To date we have made arrange ments for the following Sundays: On Jan. 25, Juliet Stuart Poyntz will lead off on the subject of The World Conflict: Conimunism vs. Capitalism. On Feb. 1, on account of Lenin me- morial day there will be no forum. On Feb. 8, William Weinstone wifi lead off on the subject of World Court and World War. On Feb. 15, Alexander Trachten. berg on American Imperialism and or Feb. 22,-Joseph Manley, subject to be announced later. March 1 subject: Literature and Art, ‘and the Revolution. A symposium led off by Simon Felshin, Louis Lozowick and a third speaker to be announced dater. Philadelphians, Notice! PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.—Work- ers Party branches and sympathetic labor organizations are urgently re- quested not to arrange any meetings or affairs Sunday aftefnoon, March 1. A Di asceting will be held on that date to protest against the attempt tc murder Sacco and Vanzetti who were framed up by agents of the ruling class and sentenced to death. Watch the press for further an- nouncements. North Side Branch, Notice! The next regular meeting of the N. S$. Pnglish Branch will be held on Monday, January 19, 8 p. m., at Im- peria] Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Every member must bring his or her filled out petitions for J. W. John- stone, the candidate for alderman in our ward. Comrades, if you have not completed your petition list do so dur- ing Saturday and Sunday. Our branch must not fall down on this job. STATEMENT OF CENTRAL EX TIVE COMMITTEE ON PARTY DISCUSSION IN MAGAZINE SECTION, SATURDAY The statement of the Central Executive Committee of the Party on the recent discussion of the party’s immediate tasks will appear in the Magazine Section of Saturday’s issue of the DAILY WORKER. LENIN MEMORIAL MEETINGS | The spirit in which the first anni- versary of Lenin’s death is to be com- memorated is not one of mourning, but a living proof of the fact that while Lenin is dead, Leninism lives and grows toward the realization of our common goal, the Communist state. In the United States we must make these meetings a real demonstration of party strength, of Leninist follow- ing and devotion to our greatest lead- er and teacher. It is important that every city in which there is a party organization hold a Lenin Memorial meeting. Many such meetings have already been ar- ranged and speakers assigned. Every party unit which has not already done so should immediately arrange to hold a Lenin Memorial meeting and send into the national office the date of the meeting, name and location of the hall, time, name of the person in charge, and state whether local speakers are available or whether assignment should be thru the national office. Following is a list of which have been arranged: Wednesday, Jan. 21. Chicago, Ill., at 8 p. m., at Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren meetings Sts. Speakers: Browder, Dunne, Eng- dahl, and Swabeck. Kansas City, Mo., hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, J. E. Snyder. Friday, Jan. 23. Niagara Falis, N. Y., at 7:30 p. m., Hippodrome Hall, corner Pine and 19th Sts. Speaker to be announced. Rever, Mass., Eagle’s Hall, Shirley and Walnut Aves., at 8 p. m. Speaker, I. Amter. Saturday, Jan. 24. Philadelphia, Pa., at 8 p. m., at the Lulu Temple, corner Broad and Spring Garden Sts. Speaker to be announced. SHE HATED BABIES. NE fiercely cold morning in De- cember while on my way to meet an early train I stopped to talk tothe little newsgirl whose voice directly under my window every morning, rain, or snow or frost, would awaken me with musical tender tones calling “Maw-nn-ing Pe-a-a-per-r-?.” I had often wanted to talk to this little girl whom I could see from my window. But she was always gone when I started for the office. This morning I was very early—she was just starting home. I caught up to her. “Hello, going in this direction?” “Paper?” “Yes, going home?” “Yep. Must make’ breakfast forthe kids and go to school. I go to morn- ing school. That starts early.” “You sell papers and make break- fast too? My, you’re a smart girl. What is your name?” “Antoinette.” “I hear your voice very early every morning, Antoinette. Do you chase the moon every morning too?” “That's right. I get up at 4 o’clock every morning.” “Four o'clock! ly—” “Yes, Ido! My father and me. We go get papers and we sell them. This is my birthday. Guess how old! am.’ I looked at the little person walking beside me. She was so tiny. Sothin Her olive skin and black eyes looked tired and used up. How old was she‘ She might be five, she might be fif teen. “T'll guess, if you tell me how many candles in the cake.” O you don’t, real- “None. I’m ten. I never get birth- day parties. I never get Christmas nts. “We have a new baby. She leyes she chuckled: \of babies I like!” seven days old.” “Is that so. Eyes open. yet?” “Oh, babies’ eyes open when they're born. Only puppies’ eyes stay shut. I like puppies but I hate babies. We’re always getting babies at our house? We've got eleven. Two are twins. My father and I, we don’t like the babies. Always crying. And you'v« got to mind them. I wish we never get another baby.” Then I had to hurry away to make my train. That was how I made the acquaintance of the little songbird who woke me every morning with he: little song. She works every da} from four in the morning until she goes to bed. She helps her father with the papers and her mother with the babies. After selling papers she must feed the children and get them off to school. baby. No wonder the poor kid hates babies. And she never had a birth- day present. The next morning I brot a box down to Antoinette. “Here's a present for you, Antoin- ette.”’ “Oh, thank you!” She was aglow with excitement. She opened the box. There lay a big chocolate baby! With a_ twinkle in her sparkling “That’s the kind Our DAILY WORKER was not born yet. We had no Junior groups. And ‘now | am very far away from wher« Antoinette sells papers. But I think she’d make a good little Junior, don’t |you? First Anniversary Celebration West Side Junior Group. at the Freiheit Hall, 3837 W. Roose- velt Rd., Jan. 18, 1925, Sunday, 4:00 p. m. Admission: Seniors 15c, Juniors ia 5c. They just got a new}: South Bend, iInd., at 8 p. m., at Workers’ Home, 1216 W. Colfax Ave. Speaker, Manuel Gomez. Milwaukee, Wis., at 8 p. m., at the Auditorium. Speakers: Foster and Seattle, Wash. Hall to be announc- ed. Speaker, Norman H. Tallentire. Sunday, Jan. 25. St. Paul, Minn. Commonwealth Hall, 435 Rice St., at 8 p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Minneapolis, Minn. Humboldt (Fin- nish) Hall, 1317 Western Ave., No., at 2 p.m. Speaker: Earl Browder. Grand Rapids, Mich., at 2:30 p. m. Workmen’s Circle Temple, 347 Mt. Vernon Ave. Speaker to be an- nounced. Hartford, Conn. Hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manleg. Detroit, Mich., at 2 p. m., House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave. Speak- er, Robert Minor. Boston, Mass., at 3 p. m., Scenic Auditorium, 12 Berkeley St. Speaker, John J. Ballam. Cleveland, Ohio. Hall to be announc- ed later. Speaker, Benjamin Gitlow. Los Angeles, Cal., at 2 p. m., Blanch- ard Hall, 233 S. Broadway. Speaker James H. Dolsen. Easton, Pa., at 2 p. m., Lithuanian (Bakers) Hall, N. 7th St., near North- ampton St. Speaker to be announced. Dowell, Ill., at 2 p. m., Rex Theater, Union Ave. Speaker, John Mihelic. Bridgeport, Conn., at 8 p. m., Work- men’s Circle Hall, 310 State St. Speak- er to be announced. Akron, Ohio, at 2 p. m., Zeigler Hall, corner Voris and Miami Sts. Superior, Wis., Workers’ Hall, cor- ner Tower and 5th. Speaker to be announced. Tacoma, Wash., Hall to be announc- ed. Speaker, Norman H. Tallentire. Sunday, Feb. 1. New York, N. Y., at 2 p. m., Mad. son Square Garden. Speakers: Foster and Ruthenberg. New Haven, Conn. Hall to be an- nounced. Speaker, Joseph Manley. Buffalo, N. Y., at 8 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 376 William St. Speaker to be announced. Portland, Ore. Hall to be announc- ed. Speaker, Stanley Clark. PARTY ACTIVITIES NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-—A general membership meeting of the Workers Party, Section Bronx, will be held, Sunday, Jan. 18, at 4 p. m. sharp, at Worker’s Hall, 1347 Boston Road. At this meeting the reorganization of the section committee, its future swork, and the reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei will be discussed. It is the duty of every party mem- ber in the section of Bronx, to be pres- ent at this important section meéting and come early, be on time. ~ Coney Island Vecherinka. SEAGATE, L. IL, Jan. 14-—The Coney Island branch is having a vecherinka Saturday evening, Jan. 17, at 3109 Surf Ave. for which a rich program has been arranged. Among the program attractions are Edith Se gal in a Russian dance, Frances Lev- inson, violin solo and Comrade Sadie Amter will speak on _ International Workers’ Aid. Dancing will follow the concert. Coney Island comrades don’t miss this vecherinka! Brownsville Open Forum. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Jani* 15.—On Sunday next, Jan. 18, at 8:30 p. m.. Schachne, Epstein, editor of the Frei- heit, will deliver a lecture in Yiddish ep “Anatnie France and Henri Bar- busse,” at the BsownSville Workers’ Hall, 1844 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn N. Y. The forum is conducted under the auspices of the Brownsville joint sec tion committee of- the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ League. _ Patronize our advertisers. -_-- NAME — RATES PEOO @ year § 350-6 months 200 3 montts PH CHICAGO -§ B00 2year F450 6 montis § 250, 3 months THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER — oe - = STREET _—_- CITY 7 ®.. * ODN NEW YOR meeting of the tee in New York, will take place at 208 East 12th St, on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 2 p. m. Sharp. The prepara- tions for the bazaar are making ex- dan, 15.—The next * bazaar commit- cellent pr tt is important. nowever, that details be fully ar- 1enged, so that _ complete succes: of the bazaar may ‘be assured. No dele- gate, therefore, should fail to attend the re xt pina Brooklyn Branch Pola f the Majority BROOKLYN, = ¥. Y., Jan. 15.—The following is a tabulation of the votes cast in the English branch in Will iamsburg, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the dif- ferent theses submitted to the mem. | bers for discussion: Majority thesis 11; minority thesis, 5; Comrade Nesin’s, 4, 3 Rochester Italian Branches Indorse - Minority 75 to 0 merge ROCHESTER, N. Y., Jan. 15.—The two Italian branches of Rochester after thoro discussion of both the ma jority and minority thesis, unanimous. ly indorsed the thesis of the minor- ity. The vote was—for the minority, 75; for the majority, 0. The branches passed resolutions in support of the Lo¥estone-Ruthenberg thesis, and calling for the continued use of the class farmer labor party slogan as a means of building a mass Communist Party... *- * *# Syracuse Italians for Minority. SYRACUSE, N. Y¥., Jan. 15.—The Italian branch of Syracuse, unani- mously indorsed the minority thesis by a vote of eight to 0, after thoroly discussing both the minority and ma- jority theses. > Mystic, lows: South Slavic Branch, for Minagty Position MYSTIC, lowa, ai mn. 14—The South Slavic: branch of | ¢ unanimously indorsed the m thesis after a thoro discussion. pm vote was 18 for the minority and 0 for the majority.— (Signed) T. Philadelphia Open Forum to Discuss the “Church” on Sunday PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 15.— Samuel Sklaroff, noted Philadelphia lecturer, will speak at the Workers Party open forum on Sunday, Jan. 18. The subject will be the “Class Func- tion of the Church.” Comrade Sklar- off had shown that he is very cap- able in handling this subject and an uncommonly interesting lecture is ex- pected. This subject is not as some com- rades would think an “abstract sub- ject.” It has become quite an issue in the labor movement and the trade union movement in particular. It is quite a known fact that the churches are part of the machinery in the hands of the capitalist class for doping the minds of the workers and perpetuate itself in power. We have seen in Pennsylvania, during the steel and coal strike how the church machinery was employed as a scab herding ag- ency for the employers. The pope at i See calls upon all catholics to wage ght against Bolshevism as a world menace. Finally we take a copy of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, th« chief spokesman for the Philadelphie capitalists, and an editorial glares ur in the face, congratulating the New York Central Labor Union, for thei) decision to launch a drive for $15,00( in order to erect a cathedral to re main as a symbol res labor with christianity. With these facts in mind it is very important that every workingmar should have a clear understanding on the real role of the church. The forum meets every Sunday 8:15 p. m. at Grand Fraternity Hall 1628 Arch St. Admission free, all workers are invited. Junior Group Will Act Play They Wrote At Party on Saturday The Young Guards of the Junior group section of the Young Workers’ League will stage a play written, di- rected and acted by themselves, as the feature attraction of a party to be given tomorrow afternoon at Imper-. ial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Re freshments will be served, and there will be dancing by the Juniors. One of the Young Workers’ League Junior group leaders will speak on the purposes of the Junior groups Admission will be only ten cents for children and 25 cents for ailults. The party will begin at two o'clock, Sat- urday, Jan. 17. = What is The Red Liar? _ AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O,FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) ,| Was endorsed. Only seventeen out of fifteen hundred voting in his favor. EALTH COMMISSIONER BUN: DESEN of Chicago has issued an order which imposes a fine of $25.00 cn anybody caught eating raw oys- ters. The object is to save the life of the consumer and no doubt is well intentioned but why did not the’ health commisisoner issue an order making those who sell raw oysters liable to a fine? That would be interfering with the sacred right of trade so the con- sumer must pay for running the risk of poisoning himself. > © . UCH nonsense is coming from London about Soviet propaganda in India and thruout Britain’s eastern possessions. That Communist propa- ganda is making great headway there we will admit, but the stories that German and Austrian agents who were inciting the natives against Britain during the war are again on the job under the direction of Russia, is undiluted hokum. The best Com- munist propagandists in India are Hindoos and the most fertile cause of revolution is the rule of the British government. Incidentally, fear of a revolutfon in India is one of the strongest reasons for Britain’s back- down in its threat of war on Russia But neither kind words nor threats affect the policies of the Communist International. * ” . HE Central Trades and Labor Coun- of New York and the New York Building Trades Council have ap- pointed a committee to represent both organizations in’ the work of raising funds to complete St. John the Divine’s church, an episcopalian cathedral. There is nothing surpris- ing in labor fakers assisting in set- ting up opium joints to further dope the minds of the workers but what are catholics like Coughlin, Quinn and Sul livan doing in putting up a temple to the devil? Does not the catechism (fot catholics) tell us that only those baptized in the catholic church will go to heaven? It seems that a labor faker cannot even take his supersti- tion seriously. . * . HERE is something amusing in the predicament the “little pow: ers,” associated with the allies in the war on Germany find themselves in. After the big powers, United States France and England had their innings and agreed on a division of the spoils the small nations were given a few minutes to lodge a protest. They got ment wags similar to that given Sam Gompers by the republican and demo- cratic conventions before the las! elections. That’ is the usual fate of lickspittles. HE Jewish Daily Forward declares that the socialist party in New York City be st gained 23.000 new members lasé year. This was state: 2> brazenly in the headlines that one could read it upside down. But the worst was yet to come. Our amuze- ment steadily grew as it became evi- dent that the story was based on the hoard of «estimates report declaring hat there were 23,000 new enrolic:! socialist voters this year. Before con- fering the thistle on the Forward’s seribe it should be said in mitigation of punishment that the New Leader olaimed the socialist party received al- most 5,000,000 votes in the late elec tions. On what kind of hop doth our yellow socialists feed that they should speak thus? Omaha, Nebr., Gives You a Few Tips How To Put It Over Big OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 15.—‘‘The Beauty and the Bolshevik” went over big in Omaha, Monday, showing to more than 600 people at the Alham- bra, a neighborhood theater. About fifty dollars was cleared from the show: ing for the International Workers’ Aid. The crowd seemed to thoroly enjoy the wholesome comedy of the film kiddies as well as grown-ups. The hypocrisy of old “Kulak” is well por- trayed and of great educational value. The actors deserve to be named, par ticularly “Commander Kombrig” an« “Kulak.” Their work compares fav- orably with any of America’s high- salaried players. Russia in Overalls was also well re ceived. Featuring industry rather than personalities, this film is totally different from those previously shown. The beautifu] scenes along the Volga are alone worth the price of an ordin- ary admission. Local branches of the I. W. A. and other workers’ organizations should not fail to show these films. Our strong point in advertising was the distribution of cards (in envelopes) house-to-house in the neighborhood about the.show. Sending tickets to sympathizers thru the mail, with the name of the recipient on the ticket, also helped. These mehods gave us our overflow house. PRE TF2 a little time but no cash. Their treat-/ Lature Bee Lasts lakes fos fs ———s. District 2 Campaign to Insure “Daily” Is Gaining Head the returns to date are highly satisfactory. which not even a single dollar has yet been received. Oo ee foe —" _ Friday, January 16, as District 2 entered the campaign to winain ti tious the Daily. about month: later than the other districts, due to local circumstances. This considered, d * The comrades of this district volunteered to contribute $10,000 te the $50,000 fund to insure our party organ for the coming year. Ten thousand dollars is a big sum to raise, but for Communists no task should be too difficult to accomplish. p District 2 Branches That Have Remitted to the $50,000 Fund to Insare Our Deity: ASTORIA, N. Y., English. BROWNSVILLE, N. Y., English sey WILLIAMSBURG, N. Y. English 60.00 UNION HILL, N. J., English 10.00 — BROOKLYN, N. Y., English 16.00 3 HARLEM, N. Y., English 203.00 BRONX 3, N. Y., English 17.00. BRONX 2, N. Y., English 35,00 BRONX 1, N. Y,, English 118.00 . NEW: YORK, Downtown, English 116.00 NEW YORK, West Side, English 121.00 - ‘ YORKVILLE, N. Y., English 51.00 NEW YORK, Spanish 17.00 NEW YORK, Esthonian...7~ 36.00 ° JAMAICA, N. Y., Finnish ja 38.00 NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., Finnish 16.00 PORT CHESTER, N. Y., Finnish 11.00 SOUTH BROOKLYN, N. Y., Finnish 158.00 ‘s STATEN ISLAND, N. Y., Finnish a BROOKLYN, N. Y., German 8.00 mn CLIFTON, N. J., German 5.00 YORKVILLE, N. Y., German 16.00 NEWARK, N. J., Greek 3800 ~' NEW YORK, N. Y., Greek 65.00 NEWARK, N. J., Hungarian 5.00 CORONA, N. Y., Italian 3.00 NEW YORK, N., Y.,~Ukral 1.00 BROOKLYN, N! Y., Scandinavian 22,00 : PATERSON, N. J., Ukrainian ~ 3.00 BRONX, N. Y., Russ! 18.00 NEW YORK, Downtown R 22.00 NEW YORK, Y. W. L., R 6.00 WILLIAMSBURG, N. Y., Jewtsh 6.00 HARLEM, N. Y., Jewish ‘ 20.00 ° NEW YORK, Downtown, Jewish $3 20.00 BATH BEACH, N. Y., Jewish...: aes : NEW. YORK, Bronx 1, Jewish 35.00 NEW YORK, Bronx 2, Jewi 14.00 NEW YORK, Downtown, Jewish 1 11.00 NEW YORK, Downtown, Jewish 2 15.00 NEW YORK, N. Y., Hungarian Federation . 100.00 - NEW YORK, Downtown, Hungarian 2.00 YORKVILLE, N. Y., Hungarian 81.00 SOUTH BROOKLYN, N. Y., Lithuan! 16.00 NEW YORK, N. Y., Lettish 70.00 NEW YORK, N. Y., Potish 7.00 NEW YORK, N. Y., Czecho-Slovak — ' mS NEW YORK, South-Siav preesbeee, AOE.. ‘NEW YORK, English, Y. W. L: wikeading: (uta pe NEW YORK, Hungarian, Y. W. L. es 16.00 we NEW YORK, Hungarian, Y. W. L. 21 5.00 NEW YORK, Y. W. L., Jewish . 10.00 Total $1,801.00 It will be noticed, by a study of these contributions, that several branches have made a very neversay-die Communist effort to raise large amounts to insure our Daily, In District 2 the English branches ‘ are certainly doing their full duty. Another encouraging sign Is the activity of the District 2 Y. W. L. branches in the campaign. But what worries us much is the following list of branches from these branches, too. Branches in District 2 That Have Not Yet Responded in the “Daily” Campaign: ARMENIAN BRANCH—New York City. BULGARIAN BRANCH—Lakawana, N. Y. It should worry CZECHO-SLOVAK BRANCHES—Elizabeth, N. J. ENGLISH BRANCHES—Stelton, N. J.; Long Island City; West New .. York, N. J.; Sea Gate, L. I.; Yonkers, N. Y.; Linden, N. J.; Paterson, N. J. FINNISH BRANCHES—Mariners Harbor; Jersey City, N.J.; Newark, J.; New York City; Inwood Brooklyn. GERMAN BRANCHES—Bronx; Brooklyn; Ridgewood; Jamaica? W. S. New York; Night Workers; Elizabeth; Hoboken, Newark} Wee- hawken; Union Hill; West Hoboken. HUNGARIAN BRANCHES—New Brunswick, N. J.; Astoria, L. 1.3 Bronx, N. Y.; Yonkers. ITALIAN BRANCHES—Hoboken, N. J.; West Hoboken; ‘Tenafly, N. J.; Astoria, L. 1.; New York City; New York W. S.; New York Harlem. JEWISH BRANCHES—Boro Park, Brooklyn; Browneville; Bronx 3; Coney Island; Elizabeth; Newark; Passaic; Paterson. LETTISH BRANCHES—Newark (West Orange). LITHUANIAN BRANCHES—Brooklyn 36; Brooklyn 1; Great Neok, L. I.; New York 32; Bayonne, N. J.; Cliffside, N. J.; Elizabeth, N. J.3 Jersey City, N. J.; Newark, N. J.; Paterson, N. J. POLISH BRANCHES—Newark, N. J.; Paterson, N. J.; Bronx, N. Y.4. Elizabeth, N. J. RUSSIAN BRANCHES—Brooklyn, N. Y¥.; Hastings, N. Y.; Downtown exceptionally fit to speak at branch meetings for the sale of insurance N. Y. C.; Portchester, N. Y.; Bayonne, N. J.; Edgewater, N. J.; Elizabeth, N. J > Manville, N. J.; Newark, N. J.; Passaic, N. J.; &. Brooklyn, N. Y. SCANDINAVIAN BRANCHES—New York, N. Y. SOUTH SLAVIC BRANCHES—Brooklyn, N. Y. UKRAINIAN BRANCHES—Bayonne, N. J.; Elizabeth, N. J.; Jersey City, N. J.; Manville, N. J.; Newark, N. J.; Passaic, N. J.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hicksville, N. Y.; Hudson, N. Y.; Rosebank, N. Y.; Yonkers, N. Y. JAPANESE BRANCHES—New York, N. Y. A Lot of Hustling Necessary in District 2. There are 138 branches in District 2. Of this total 52 have already lent a hand.by remitting substantial sums. The branches that have remit- ted should now elect a committee to visit the members that do no at- tend branch meetings, so that they may also learn of their obligations and meet them. In District 2 there are 86 branches that will have to do some hustling if they desire to save their Communist reputations. We want to hear from all these branches quick, and from this date very often. They have not yet made a first remittance. ~ District 2 is the largest In the party, in point of membership. its average membership of 3,019 contains hundreds of comrades who are policies. We call upon these comrades to give their services to Chas. t Krumbein, the district organizer, and L. E. Katterfeld, the DAILY WORKER agent, so that not too many days will pass before every District 2 branch has contributed in this campaign. ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE 86 BRANCHES NAMED ABOVE WHICH HAVE NOT YET SENT IN A SINGLE DOLLAR, ao se = ee. eo ‘err 7 ao Le et nate == . } : | Te a aa = rer = -. _— —-— ws ne «to ec

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Wall Street | Gets Big Share of Plunder WASHINGTON, Jan Jan. 15. —The Unit- ed States has become a party to the Dawes’ plan without the consent of the senate thru the signing in Paris of an agreement which makes Wall St. a beneficiary of 2% per cent of the German reparation annuities under the plan. The agreement was signed | on the direct authority of the Coolidge ad- ministration despité the constitution- al provision which places foreign re- > ge under the control of the sen Waited For fasnaite. Considerable speculation was arous- ed in the capitol over the latest move. It was noted that the bankers’ com- mission which formulated the Dawes’ plan was sent over without congres- sional consent and at first.as an un- official body tho with the sanction of the administration, The political strategy behind it was, that in the event of the commission’s failure, the Coolidge cabinet could disavow it, whereas in the event of its labor’s being crowned with success the ad- ministration could claim credit for its work. — ~ Set No Limit. The agréement in its final form was a victory for Wall Street. At first there was a limit of $350,000,000 set on the amount of war damages to be peid the United States from the Dawes’ receipt. This means that Wall Street will receive its 2% per cent annually until all its war claims are satisfied. In order to satisfy the American demands, England and France had to compromise but it appears they “com- promised” at the expense of the little bankrupt nations who are now howl- ing for their share of the loot. Strike Wins Overtime Pay. DAYTON, 0.—Two hnndred men at the body-bullding plant of the Maxw Co. discovered the ben- efits of ‘united action when they walked out tather than work overtime at straight pay. When a few of their number were discharged for refusing to work overtime at 6lc an hour, the rest of the men struck in sympathy. They were taken back a few days later when the company agreed to pay time anda half. The Maxwell Co. advertises far and wide for mechanics for their Dayton plant in an effort to keep a large over supply of labor on hand, union me- chanics complain. SAY, “LONG CAN LOGGERS BE SHOT WITHOUT. REDRESS? OR, AS WELINDER WOULD LIVE DEMOCRACY!”. (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Jan:-15.—Whether Idaho courts consider that loggers can be deported, roughly handled and shot at without redress. merely because they are members of the I. W. W. is an issue to be met when seven damage suits against the Bonner’s Ferry Lumber company for the assault, deportation and arrest of I. W. W. strikers are+— — heard. Sults to Have Political Effect. The suits are intended to curb the use of the criminal syndicalism law and charge that employers themseves are guilty of criminal syndicalism by resorting to “crime, violence and un- lawful methbds of terrorism to ac- complish industrial ends.” Richard Moore, an I. W. W., plain- tiff in a suit for $125,000 damage _| Charges that during the lumber strike of May, 1923, 200 armed men, led by agents of the Bonners Ferry Lumber company, attacked the strikers’ picket camp, threw Moore into a truck and put him over the Montana state line, threatening him, if he ever came back. He was roughed up and shots were fired after him. Returned for “Liberation”’—Got “Dictatorship.” Later, returning for redress, he was arrested under the criminal syndical- ism act at the company’s instigation. Moore’s arrest, says the suit, was part of a conspiracy to “intimidate and de- ter the plaintiff from causing crim- inal prosecutions from being institut- ed against said defendants for the felonies committed by them against the person of this plaintiff.” Three of the suits will be heard by Federal Judge Bourquin. The Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union is handling the case. GREAT INTEREST I$ SHOWN ABROAD IN SOVIET RUSSIAN ART MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—There have been numerous indications lately of the Interest shown abroad for Russian art. Thus, the sale of paint- Ings of the Soviet section at the recent art exhibition in Venice was very successful. An order for a large party of Russian paintings has been received from the New Zea- . land Museum. Generally, in connec- tion .with the discontinuance of ex- port of art production from Russia since the beginning of the war in 1914, there is a big demand for such articles now on the part of foreign museums and collectors. Central Body Aids Union Negotiators. CLEVELAND.—tThe Cleveland build- ing trades council has a statistician preparing a survey of living costs to be used at the expiration of many union contrd@cts in March. Detailed reports will be made on the budgets of six families fer this year. com- pared with years + Dee 1920. = Patronize our advertisers. HEARST SCAB DAILY IN SEATTLE MAY SETTLE WITH PRESS UNIONS SEATTLE, Jan. 15.—Wm. Randolph Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which has been unfair to organized labor since May, 1924, when 136 printers, stereotypers and mailers walked out, is about to return to the fold, it is whispered around the Labor Temple. been conferring with Hearst’s emissaries from San Francisco for several weeks, and declare a settlement satisfactory to the unions is imminent. One reason, itis believed, why Hearst ig now will relationship with the unions is that Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire pub- Typographical representatives have to resume his former Open New Sea Line. LENINGRAD, Jan, 15.—A direct sea line has been established between Leningrad and Konigsberg, the first German steamer, carrying passengers mail and goods. Sell Russian Porcelain. MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—It is reported that stores are to be opened in Lon- don, Berlin, and other cities, for the z OUR DAILY PATTERNS sale of Soviet peneeian. FROCK FOR MANY OCCASIONS. 4997. Printed chiffon voile is here portrayed. The model is also pleasing in taffeta, crepe de chine or georgette. The dress may be developed without the flounces and with long sleeves. The pattern is cut in four sizes: 8, 10, 12 amd 14 years. To make the dress as in the large view, will re quire 3% yards of 82-inch material for a 12-year size. If made with long | sleeves 4% yards are required. If made without flounces and with long with long sleeves 1% yard is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE YOU WANT IT IN. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL & WINTER 1924 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Sxpert Dental Service for 20 Years. ‘ST., Near 7th Ave. | {ib tinten Ave. Cor. Arthur at : : ‘ONE PIECE ROMPERS.’ 4979. A very simple practical style is here portrayed. It may be made with or without sleeves. Figured percale, gingham or linen could be used for this model. The pattern is cuit in four sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. A 4-yeara size, if made with sleeves, requires 2 yards of 27-inch material. Without sleeves it requires 5% yard less. Pocket and cuffs of contrasting material require % yard. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. IN ORDERING YOUR PATTERN BE SURE TO MENTION THE SIZE YOU WANT IT IN. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our LP-TO DATE FALL & WINTER 1924. 1925, BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iii. NOTICE TO PATTERN N BUYERS—The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur- nished hy ~ New Men firm of pattern manufacture rs are forwarded by the DAILY. ‘WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of patterns on hand. Delivery of pat- terns ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. Do become impatient if your pattern is When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. lisher, owner of papers in San Fran- cisco and Los Angeles, is planning to enter the morning field here after launching his Miami, Fla., and De- troit newspapers. Vanderbilt’s shops are 100 per cent union, and he will see that his Seattle paper is too, he said on a recent visit here. Rumors have been current that Vanderbilt would convert one of the afternoon dailies into a morning publication. The strike has already cost the Post-Intelligencer thousands of dollars in circulation, advertising revenues, and local prestige. trades unions, with the help of al- most the entire organized labor move- ment of Washington state, blazed flerce publicity against the Hearst scab sheet. ' Soviet Exhibition In Berlin. LENINGRAD, Jan. 15.—The North- Western Chamber of Commerce has received a communication from Dr. Wihandt, director of the Konigsberg fair, asking the chamber to transfer for one month from Konigsberg to Berlin the U. 8. 8. R. exhibit, in or- der to arrange a Soviet industrial exhibition there. Printere Take Raise in Akron. AKRON, O.—Typographical Union at Akron has obtained an increase of $1.50 a week for 1925 and $1 a week more for 1926 for newspaper printers. The new scale will be $45.50 with $46.50 next year. For the Amendment. YOUNGSTOWN, O.—The Youngs- town United Labor congress is on rec- ord emphatically in favor of the child labor amendment. SSeS Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- respondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin directing the revoiution No. 2—Lenin, when 16 years old No. 8—-The Red Fiag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Russian state seal emblem No. 5—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army and ONE CARD 5 CENTS —_-__ In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or post- age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. The printing, VANZETTI FEELS. BETTER NOW IN STATE HOSPITAL Mental Troubles Only Temporary Condition BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 15.—Bartolo- meo Vanzetti is improving in cheer- fulness and’ general health at the Bridgewater state hospital for the criminal insane where he was sent early this month after alienists had pronounced him insane. Vanzetti’s commitment to the Bridgewater hos- pital came at the end of five years he has spent in prison on framed-up charges of highway robbery and mur- der. Dr. Abraham Myerson, a noted New England alienists who examined Van- zetti at the request of the Sacco-Van- zetti defense committée states that in his opinion Vansetti’s present mental troubles are only temporary and were brought on as @ result of his imprie- onment. Has Prison Psychosis. Myerson’s report follows in part: “I believe that Vanzetti is suffering from a prison psychosis of temporary nature brought on by the extreordi- nary situation in which he, a man of intense mental life, finds nrmself. The long legul battle, the bombardment of attention on the part of the press of the world, and of international organ- izations, the impending sentence of death, prison discipline, confinement with lack of outdoor exercise have brought on a transient paranoid state.” The two alienists for the state who examined Vanzetti and who testified at the h in court which result- ed in his commitment to the Bridge- water hospital, held it as a sign of Vanzetti’s insanity that he believed much of the testimony produced at his trial, was perjured. Two years ago Niccola Sacco, co- defendant with Vanzetti was sent to the Bridgewater hospital as insane and a few months later discharged as cured. At that time Dr. Myerson months away from the dull monotony of jail life. Friends of both Sacco and Vanzetti feel confident that Van- zetti will be cured within a short time. Dr. William T. Hansen, medical di- rector of the Bridgewater hospital, has stated that Vanzetti would remain under observation in the hospital un- til examination had demonstrated his recovery. Case at Standstil!. While Vanzetti is in the condition of being in the eyes of the law, in- sane, the case against him will re- main at a stand still. However, the case of Sacco will be pushed by de fense attorneys before the state su- preme court. They are asking for a review of the first trial and the or- dering of a new trial. The two cases are so closely interwoven that any- thing done on behalf of Sacco will be for the good of Vanzetti as well. The Sacco-Vanzetti defense commit- tee issued the following statement on the commitment of Vanzetti to the hospital for the criminal insane. “It is certainly a very great shock to us that Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose calm serenity inspired all of us dur- ing the many dark days past, Shou now be declared ingame. The co tions described by Dr. Myerson are bad enough to break a mind of steel and a heart of stone. It would not therefore, be surprising if Vanzetti after nearly five years of patient and quiet endurance of intolerable sus- pense has broken under the strain. “But it is no hallucination for Van- zetti to believe he did not get a fair trial: that witnesses comm:tting ‘per- jury; that prejudice operated against him as a foreigner and radical work- ingman. If these are ‘delusions’ they are shared by hundred of thousands of workingmen everywhere. It is no hallucination for Vanzetti to believe himself in the shadow of the electric chair. It is a grim reality! The shame is upon those who have tor- tured this gentle spirit. The shame is upon those who knowing of this in- justice have remained silent. The shame will be stamped indelibly upon American labor if it does not now raise its voice in mighty and heroic protest against any further delay in granting a new and speedy trial to Sacco and Vanzetti. Both of these in- nocent workingmen have cried out many times that they desired liberty or death to end their painful ordeal. Labor should answer ‘Liberty for Sacco and Vanzetti.’” Abolish Night Baking in Perth. PERTH, Western Australia.—Ex- clusive day-baking of bread is. now firmly established in Perth. Workers enjoy abolition of the double-shift weekly and adoption of the 8-hour day. All. work is done in six days. The number of appprentices is linsited, and under the award it is illegal for any person to work outside the prescribed hours. .- \COLLEGE STUDENTS COLLEAGUES TO APPEAL TO REFRAIN FROM PLAYING THE STRIKEBREAKER of 1924, an organization composed of CAMBRIDGB, Mass., Jan. 15.—The Rochester Industrial Service Group students from nine eastern colleges with headquarters in Cambridge, sent out the following open letter to college students. In this letter, signed by two members of the group, college students are prevailed upon to quit acting as strikebreakers during strikes. We print the letter in full: Shall College Students Act as Strike-Breakers? Fellow students: It has for years been the practice of the railroads and of other corporations, when their workers go out on strike, to send to the colleges, universities and tech- nical schools for strikebreakers. In numerous cases, students have ac- cepted employment under such condi- tions without realizing what they were doing. Spent Vacations in Factories. The members of the Rochester in- dustrial service group of 1924, com- posed of students from nine eastern colleges, spent their summer in the city of Rochester, New York, as labor- ers and factory workers and had the opportunity of associating very closely with workingmen and studying the conditions under which they work. They also had an opportunity of obtaining an intimate and impar. tial view of some of the problems re- lating to industry. As a result of their summer’s experience, they adopted the following resolutions for submission to ‘the college and techni- cal students of this country: Whereas, in the past, college men have been engaging in industry under strike conditions without adequate knowledge of the true causes of the strike, and Whereas, such actions by college men have caused many strikes to be lost for the workers, whose cause was absolutely justified, and * Whereas, such action by college men disturbs the feeling of fellowship between the college man and’ his in- dustrial brother, creating suspicion and mistrust and breaking the bond of common fellowship in the interest of which we are working to establish better industrial relations, Be it Resolved, that we, the mem- bers of the Rochester industrial serv- ice group of 1924 hereby openly sym- pathize with the worker in his strug: gle for the betterment of labor, affirm our belief in the inalienable right of the workers to strike, and denounce the acts of college men who have in the past been instrumental in break- ing strikes and condemn strikebreak- ing as an utter disregard of the workers’ necessary struggle for a de- cent livelihood. What it Leads To. Fellow students: Let us stop and consider what we have been doing in helping to defeat the workers in their struggle for better conditions. The labor movement has come to regard students as enemies and universitier as strikebreaking agencies. Is it right for us to interfere in these in- dustrial disputes? Is it fair for us to take the jobs of men who are strik- ing for a better living for themselves and their families? How would WE feel if we were on strike and students broke our strike? Let us begin to think for ourselves and study these questions thoroly Discuss the accompanying resolutions in your club, society or student con- ference and let us hear from you. Samuel Eskin, Mass. Inst. Tech. Harry Rolnick, Rutgers College. 7, Members of the group. oe Build New Red Steamers. Leningrad, Jan. 15.—The Board of the State commercial fleet has ar- ranged with representatives of the volunteer fleet and Leningrad ship building works the construction of six large steamers for the transport of timber from Archangel to London and for the passenger and goods service between the latter and Leningrad. The vessels are to be built and equip ped according to the last word of technique, their construction to be completed in 1926. | | Saiure The ast; Uhorker or Mas Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEn Tris T 22732 N. CALIFORNIA Avt pr ARMITAGE (46. MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given | ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. | My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed | Extracting Specialist | ~ DELAY MEANS DECAY Your Union Meeting | Third Friday, Jan. 16, 1924. oa and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- mt oe 178 W. Washington as m. Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison St. pe cece a. as a Car St. Sine “trades y Ane. | 180 Ww. Bul as Carpenter?’ "is. aa State St. Carpenters, 4839 S&S. Halsted St. Electricians, 2801 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 4141 W. Lake &t. Electricians, 5324 S. Halsted Firemen and Enginemen, 6438 S. Haisted St. St. Giass Werkers, Emily and Marsh- eld. wes Carriers, Monroe and Peoria ts. Ladies’ Joint Board, Machinists, 113 &. “ashiand Bivd. Machinists. 113 &. Ashland Bivd. Painters, 2346 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters, 3140 indiana Ave. Painters, 2140 nenoe Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 &. Throop St. Piumbers, 9251 § Chicago nanwe 1 Carmen, Village Hall, Ket- zie, Railway Carmen, Village Hall, Kol- zie x Railway Carmen, 5446 &. Ashiand ve. Railway Clerks, 20 W. aadeeh St. F iiway Clerks, 9 8. Clinton St. iway Clerks, Ft. Dearborn Hotel. Picteon, 1 t. Trainmen, 33498 North Railroad Trainmen, 9120 Commer- ve Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and n. Van Bure South Chica Trades and Labor Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave. Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bidg. Stove Mounters, 3609 Wolfram Ave. Teachers (Women), os City Club Rooms, 4: Telegraphers “Com.” ‘812° Ss. Clark Waitresses, 189 W..-Adamse 6&t., Mm. Women's Union Label League 220 S. Ashiand Bivd. Note--Unless wenerwise stated all ngs are at 8 p 237 8 29 1 70 Council, Se #32. Garment Baad tomy n Buren &t. ae 3 —s Palos n- 33 $2 Ege >: = a leaned ve iT. + | iy a 5% moe Labor in Winnipeg Politics. WINNIPEG.—The seven labor alder- men on the Winnipeg city council, walked out in a body as a protest against the other 11 aldermen uniting in a solid rock to prevent any chair- manships of committees going to la- bor. Labor polled 41 per cent of the votes in the November elections, and have a right to that proportion of chairmanships and appointments on outside committees. Labor was given but three places on committee out of about 36 to be filled. In the Manitoba legislature labor has four representatives, three to rep- resent the city of Winnipeg, and one member for Kildonan and St. And- rews. ee ee eee se eee SENATE SOLD OUT TO MORGAN POWER TRUST Muscle Shoals Fi inally Given Away WASHINGTON, D..C., Jan. 15. — After weeks of wrangling, the senate today passed finally the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill, turning the $150,- 000,000 power and nitrate plant over to private interests. The power trust, controlled by J. P. Morgan banking interests, will thus be the final re cipients of the huge project, for mil- lions of dollars below its original cost to the government. The Jones commission plan, which was passed by the senate earlier in the week, was again before the senate, but was defeated to make ready for the passing of the Underwood Dill, turning the plant over to the Morgan interests. Administration senators who had previously voted for the Jones bill, re- versed themselves on the ballot and supported the Underwood measure, which was pushed thru by Coolidge support. The passage of the Under- wood bill is one more proof that Cool- idge is owned by Morgan and his clique of Wall Street bankers. The general electric company and its affili- ated organizations, which make up the power trust; have demonstrated their ability to make the government of the United States do their bidding. The vote on the bill was 43 in favor of the bill and 38 against. Senator Heflin, in debate on the bill, pleaded against the “blight, of social- ism” and against government owner- ship of the Muscle Shoals project. Heflin was made to look cheap, how- ever, when Senator McKellar of Ten- nessee read a speech delivered to the house in 1912, pleading that the Ala- bama Power company be given the notorious Coosa River power site per- mit. This Coosa power bill was one of the scandals of the last year of the Taft administration. McKellar charged that Heflin worked for the passage of the Underwood bill because of his de- termination that the Alabama Power company shall have an even better gift from the government than that under the Taft administration. Corporations Want Ohio Constabulary CLEVELAND.—Financial backers of the proposed Ohio constabulary laws are not to be found among the farmers, but in the offices of the in- dustrial corporations, according to the Cleveland Federation of Labor. The bill has been represented as the de-” mand of farmers for rural police, but the federation challenges the lobby- ists to produce the list of contributors to the lobbying fund. ee -estt-stesno —_—— a ORDER A BUNDLE! for Lenin Memorial Day The January issue of THE WORKERS MONTHLY EDITED BY EARL R. BROWDER is an issue with splendid articles on the Great Leader In whose memory we meet. From cover to cover it is an issue filled with the principles that Lenin advocated. The splendid article “Lenin, Leader and Comrade” by Alexander Bittelman ts only one of the 36 features in this number. PHOTOGRAPHS, CARTOONS AND A GREAT PAINTING ON THE COVER—ALL ARE IN THE JANUARY ISSUE Order a Bundle at 18c a copy. Subscription—$2.00 a Year, or $1.25 for Six Months. CUT OUT AND SEND IN! ————— — —_ THE WORKERS MONTHLY, 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL. Enclosed find $ for bundle of for subscription for .......... x STREET: CITY: . ee eee PTeTT TTT TeeT TTT east tS ee ee eee ee PT eee EET OCT Ce ee Ee Ceee eT eer copies. eee eeeereee months.

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y by ay 2 mee oes age : > gr , > ig » “i ya . = ie = ee * ~ + —— = +) * =. (Phone: Munroe 4712) 7] Z “er Pee oe : ee . xs — a Em ee i TS — ‘Ge’, _— - y " lh sor > =. @ & 22s» a Y — — -_— —o . 2, » = - rs “ . +m 2 7 ——C«*™&S ublisKod by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. } W.* Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML ~* ee : ; . ee - 20 Advertising rates on application The Starvation Policy Five members of Local 181 of the Carpenters’ Union have been deprived of their means of making A living at their trade thru a ukase delivered: by General President William Hutcheson. Our readers are justified in assuming that those penalized workers committed some serious offense against trade union principles to merit such drastic punish- ment. But what are the facts? The penalized members are admittedly among the most active trade unionists in Local 181. Far from being punished for violating any trade union principle, either in letter or spirit, they are pun- ished for defending those principles against the bureaucracy which uses the cowardly weapon of starvation in order to take revenge. When the fakers signed an agreement with Chicago contractors which provided for punish- ment to the extent of suspension from the union of any member who refused to work with strike- breakers or to handle non-union-made material or to work under the protection of police and gunmen, the expelled members, with others, signed their names to a resolution protesting against this scab contract. The resolution was passed by the local and sent to the international convention. After the convention was over and Hutcheson felt that he could use highhanded methods with impunity, he instructed his local stoolpigeons to prefer charges against those who signed the resolution. The story of the farcial “trial” has already been told in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. There was no trial but instead a huge frameup. The chairman of the trial committee falsified the record and the president of the local declared the five members expelled against the almost un- animous protest of the local. Those five carpenters were expelled for being sterling trade unionists. For taking the lead in legally protesting against a scab agreement they are threatened with permanent divorce from oc- cupation at their trade. This, mark you, not by the employers directly, but by the officials of the Car- penters’ Union acting for the employers. That the expelled members have the confidence of their fellow workers has been demonstrated by the action of the members of Local 181, who have taken up their cause and are fighting splendidly for them. Even tho the fakers have pronounced the expelled militant non-members, the latter, have attended every meeting of their local since their illegal expulsion over the protests of the reaction- aries, who used uniformed gunmen to awe the rank and file without success. This is a fight which concerns not alone the members of Local 181, but every union carpenter in America. It is part of the struggle waged by the left wing in the labor movement against the tools of the bosses who now pose as labor leaders. The illegally expelled members of Local 181 are good fighters, and the local is to be congratulated for the splendid example of working class_solid- arity it has given in standing shoulder to shoulder with them. There must be no let-up in this fight until the reactionary bureaucrats are forced to sur- render and another victory chalked up for militant trade unionism. Drifting Towards Recognition Nothing succeeds like success! This old truism hits the nail on the head in reference to the un- doubted change in the political atmosphere at Washington on the question of recognition of Soviet Russia. Hughes is almost out and Sam Gompers, his chief labor lieutenant in the anti-Soviet camp, is dead and nearly forgotten. The Soviet govern- el a ed : hits ROTEL LLL, AEG ae o — ee able to break. And behind the workers and peas- ants of Russia stand the workers and peasants of the world who battle to the death to defend the proletariat. The United States is drifting towards recogni- tion of Soviet Russia, not with benevolent inten- tions but out of necessity. The world bourgeoisie would rather use the dagger, but they know it would be splintered on the steel shield of the Red Army. The Sun Never Sets on the American Dollar United States marines are busy in Shanghai. South America is dotted with them, but that -is Wall Street’s special sphere of influence. The aver- age American baseball and cross word puzzle ad- dict, thinks it just as'natural for Wall Street to send.American troops to collect its bills in Hon- duras, or Brazil as it is for an employer to use the police to beat up strikers. Wall Street is not alone the unofficial capital of the United States, but also of South America. But what about China? A country on the other side of the world! China is a long way off, it is true, but not too far away for the American dollar to establish a footing. And wherever the American dollar goes, there also goes the American marine and the American battleship and the American army. That is just what the United States’ armed forces are for—to protect the dollar. The people of China are fighting to release them- selves from the embrace of the American dollar and the British pound and the French franc. They want their country for themselves and they want the fruits of their labors for themselves. The capi- talist powers have different aims. They want to keep the Chinese disunited so that they can fleece them separately and gobble up their country. The struggle for the unification of China now being carried on under the leadership of Sun Yat Sen is fought by the imperialists under the leader- ship of America and England. Soviet Russia alone stands for the unity and prosperity of the Chinese masses. The American dollar is out for profit at the expense of the Chinese, therefore American marines are in Shanghai to defend the dollar. Immune from Jail Communists are anything but immune from jail, but it’s different with a Communist paper. The DAILY WORKER has as hard a time trying to break into prison as Communists have trying to keep out or break out after they get in. There are thirty-eight miners imprisoned at the Moundsville, West Va., penitentiary. They are there because of participation in a demonstration during a strike when the gunmen of the operators opened fire on the miners. In the melee a sheriff was killed. | The rank and file miners were instructed to plead guilty by their attorneys who were also the law- yers of the district officials of\the United Mine Workers of America. The miners hold their fake leaders responsible for the incarceration of their comrades, who are now serving prison terms as high as ten years in some cases. . Those prisoners were glad to read The DAILY WORKER. which the warden consented to admit some time ago. But the exposure of the treachery of the fakers in recent issues was instrumental in inducing the leading faker in district 7 to make a visit to the Moundsville penitentiary, not to assist the imprisoned miners but to deprive them of the consolation of reading a working class daily. The warden, on the appeal of Pat Fagan, barred The DAILY WORKER from the prison. It seems there is no limit to the treachery of the labor fakers. They have resorted to many despic- able methods in their efforts to remain on the backs of the rank and file and assist the bosses in keeping the workers in slavery, but when a labor leader’s vengeance reaches in behind the prison bar where his treachery has landed his victims, words fail to describe such perfidy. Coolidge established the custom of settling cer- tain political matters after a breakfast table dis- cussion. Most of the troubles of the workers under his administration spring from the fact that their problems consist largely of the difficulty of getting breakfast. Landis Scabbery Thomas E. Donnelley, president of the citizens’ committee to enforce the Landis award, was quick ment, for whose downfall the capitalists of the world have prayed and worked for several years, is growing in strength every day. Most of the great powers have made up their minds already that they must inake the best of a bad bargain and recegnize facts. Hughes, the champion optimist of the diplomatic world, held out after all others had given up hope. He expected that the czarists led by the yellow socialists would yet be able to bring the Soviet regime tottering to the ground. His exit from the state department speaks eloquent- ly for the faded hopes of the American bourgeoisie. One year after Lenin’s death the proudest gov- ernment of the bourgeoisie is about to acknowledge | the power of its hated and implacable foe. When Lenin died the enemies of the working class drew | glaziers. This is but another proof of the futility a breath of relief and renewed their hope for 4, weakening of the proletarian dictatorship and a consequent weakening of the Soviet power. tho Lenin died, Leninism remained and the mighty monuments to Lenin, the Russian Communist Par- ty and the Communist International welded the workers and peasants of Russia together into a chain which the imperialists of the world were un- But) their complete bankruptcy. to answer the challenge thrown down by the Glaziers’ Union when they tied up nine school jobs rather than work with scab Landis award sheet metal workers. Donnelley, chief of the scabs, speaks up and or- ganizes open shoppers for battle. Where is John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and the logical man to take issue with Donnelley? Fitzpatrick spoke vehemently against \the Communists at the last meeting of the federa- | tion. It seems that, he is not so ready to even speak |against the open shoppers of Chicago, | The Landis award, the board of education, the school committee, Mayor Dever and all other capi- talist lackeys and groups are united against the of the non-partisan political policy of the reac- tionary labor leaders. It is further evidence of Donnelley, the scab leader, has spoken for his class. What has Fitzpatrick, the trade union Soviet regime which is the government of the world} ‘mes until every cent of indebtednes: THE DAILY WORKER 2. eye tls 1 Bas oa ~ oy ° oe —* & ’ . He Is Now as D WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— The opinion that Secretar Politically Hughes decided to quit the Cool- idge cabinet because of a differ- ence with president over relations with Soviet Russia is becoming Sepeger every day. Senator Borah has not denied re ports that he delivered an ultimatum to the cabinet on this question which is one of the big planks in Borah's platform. Coolidge does not relish the idea of having the Idaho senator on his neck, and as the president has no past worth speaking of to live up to. except a reputation for silence, he does not feel that a reversal of policy en Russia would detract from. his ame. . The feeling is. becoming stronger in Washington that the Hughes’ policy toward Russia had a very detrimental “ffect on United States interests in thé- orient. The American. capitalists helieve—without justification, how- ever—that Soviet Russia’s benevolent policy toward China and her ap proachment with Japan was in retali- ation against the United States. The Soviet government’s policy in China is in harmony with its program for international peace and the lifting up of the oppressed and subject peoples and the emancipation of the workers of all lands from exploitation. Hughes In Dumbbell Role. According to reports credited here in political circles, Coolidge recently asked Hughes for information on the oe! now under negotiation between apan and Russia. Hughes replied that his spies were not able to get a copy of the draft, but did not const- der it of any consequente to the Unit- ed States, as Russia was a negligble —=- more in accord ©with the senate’s views than-those of the secretary of state. s then that Hughes po- litely informéd _ Coolidge, he would like to go on @ long hunting trip. An American ¢omimission to discuss terms with let I may te pointed by Coolidge y after Mar 4. It would follow the > ’ % ed the way for the resumption of di- plomatic relations with Mexico. ys Dever’s Traction Plan Gives Magnates All—City Nothing Mayor Dever’s traction ordinance sells out the people of the city of Chicago, to the traction magnates} who are the only ones receiving any bene fit from it, it was disclosed in the city council. The bill gives the priv. ate traction lines a franchise of 4( years, which is just twice the length of the: franchise now allowed by city law. It allows the traction lines to retain control of the city lines unti' all certificates issued are absorbed b) the city. The ordinance allows a rate of fare sufficient to pay all charges, without the necessity of obtaining ‘authority from the Illinois.commerce commis sion, relieves companies from order: of the commission, relieves them from having to pave their rights of way and from paying taxes, and allows them to retain control of the tractior is paid by the city. The subways may be used free b» the traction heel when built, accord ing to the ordinance. Coolidge and the Press. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—' Calvin Coolidge today’ assurred reporters ‘hat no immediate change in foreign» ,olicy need be expected as a resul: of the resignation of Secretary of State Hughes. While the president was careful tv calm the fears of the most anti-Rus- sian section of the American capital- ist class, that a complete reversal of policy on Russia was to be expecte:, in the near future, it wa significant to note that he said, “Russia har made some progress toward cond) ‘lions necessary to renewed relations.” This is considered the diplomatic way of saying that by the time the -nofficiul steps which it is expected Coolidge proposes to take, looking to- ward relatins with Russia, have de- veloped sufliciently, the president will decide that the Soviet government has nade enough progresé to warrant cfiicial recognition. To Develop Cotton in Sonora. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.—Gen. Obre gon, former president of Mexico, will start a stocking mill tm cotton plant in the state of Sonora, in order to de velop cotton acreage there it was an nounced today. leader, to say? 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