Daily Worker
March 22, 1925
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They are s 1g for most ele- an early withd , L he. 3 tish delegation to the recent sixth 1 72 4 auen ee instance, 333 of e IC ate. | Cah military forces that have occu. is . Will E } congress of the labor unions of So- The left wing militante ef the Amaign Clothing Wo andi 4 va pay eed poor strikets are arrayed in oy solidarity the Chinese middle pied Haiti since 1916. The execu- Ewe af viet Russia, and whose failure. to oing to lay down before th Its of th —— ee e tnt 0 Japanese employers, and Bri imperialism; they are united tive replied that this was an in- * . sign the delegation’s report which going y ore the assau e m 33 against the despairing working people. The strike is looked upon as a crime; | teresting question,” the United 7 ish r rr 12 the representagives of the strikers are being arrested and tortured. States had merely sent in its ma- 45 — told of the advantages enjoyed by |*Piritvet the union by’driving ell militant workers out ef the trade: “Thurs 25 “The Red International, in close solidarity with the strikers calls upon] fines to safeguard lives and proper- The I wer m deal which is as] the Russian unions, was distorted 4% night and Féfday. morning saw a beginning of the mass revolt against ; the workers of all countries to assist the Shanghai workers in their heroic ty and to preserve order, and had | juicy a ever presented| and magnified by the counter-revolu- the outrageous action of Levin in taking members of the union from . € x a x struggle. recently proposed to withdraw jon a golden to the gaping} tionary and capitalist press in Eng- Jobs and depriving them of making a living. . “The Red International calls’ upon the Amsterdam International, its them, but the government of Haiti | maw of Lod capitalist is the d and America, has issued the The Left Wing Gives Battle. * pecttons; ub Wall un un organized rener nab ap sand requested that the piece de Te over which the} following statement concerning the With the shops in an uproar of protest, a committee of fifty from one 7 210, the cry. at the, Shanghal workers | fe merican forces be kept senor faker ‘his city are flap-| statement that the delegation was | shop visited Levin’s office Thursday evening, demanding in no uncertain . with financial istance, and with 1 J ue their i caw-cawing like] denied access to the political prison- | tones that he replace these union members on the job, from which he had | | tests against the Chinese, Japanese 9, unless the vens over it rabbit whose ears ers held in Soviet Russia. taken them by purely arbitrary order, and Friday morning, to the consterna ¥. | ; ‘| request were a very confidential one | protrude f & burrow, with his “So ' AS WE SEE IT and British capitalists, the latter play- by the d Sot | me newspapers are distorting tion of the Levin machine, every ; y ummy president, Borno, enemy the in close pursuit. | réport on the ' | ing a leading role in Shanghai. eho . my repo position of the clothing shop in Chicago was cover- , P j| the Shanghai strikers thirty thousand] gelle annual report as hich eset of the Building | report was so interpreted as if the | distributing thousands of leaflets call. : rubles, of which "fifteen thousand] missioner of n > an understand-| Soviet authorities did not allow me ing for a mask meeting ot all Amal- P22 members of the Typographical | rubles were sent by the general coun. * r of the country, just made jing with t Pet, so they are for] to see Solovetsk.. Such a interpre- | gamated members Monday evening at Union formerly employed on the eil of the Soviet trade uni Rublic at. the state department, | poutcing my” Tight away and tation is quite false, as l has given 8 o'clock in Temple Hal Post- Intelligencer, the Hearst publi-| „The Red Internat 1 gives no hint either of an American | putting: their belts. The] every possible opportunity for visit- “a 7 nd Ma hfield oo gg | cation of Seattle have been on strike all workers to give moral and 8 e car Nelson, ing the prisons and to carry on con- 3 . g 7 tor several months, The pressmen, cial asssist to their Chinese eee in making them-] versations with the prisoners, as for . ; it igi ne a ae ance e nis countrymen by asking the ma- | selves p nderstood, ‘favor a] instance in the Butirka 2 leaflets the Levin machine mobilized If they quit, George L. Berry, will hire Signed: Exeoutive Committee of the 9 cal Mixed on Geography — 1 a 3 3 ee is. cr ey 3 * 8 . om psc Id send out a sweet ö , sl e Svan 2 Bem Red International of Labor Unlone, The explanation lies in the fact fer rabbit fret Dever. Hence | . 3 and unless the machine is equipped 7 and denounced the P. I. and Hearst „ The Shanghai strike e that the 100 marines in Nicaragua the curses ts and the charg-| sojoyetsk, but I do — ty revent ee ts plan ee Frage r deel ory week attr dedk (sh Be Ault, a Social. the following reply to the R. I. L. U.: were ordered to withdraw, some ſes of treac ig from the hos-| false interpretation of lag whelming numbers, there is no as- Known Dead Are Now ist, is editor of the Record. It was he Strike committee of forty thou time ago, and were left there an ad- ® labor fakers. since the British delegation ie (ae pee ee . ee 2." by thie tahoe unions of and textile workers acknowledge re- ditional six months at the request ioe Men. given every opportunity to inspect as ere edo: eee Listed at 823 2 Seattle but is now owned by Aut and ceipt of your brotherly help and sends of the Nicaraguan government. Mr. The le the building trades, } everything i watited: to see.” terday morning will not be repeated others to the truly free workers of the world] Coolidge cannot remember Latin- don't 5 anything for E ö WEST F , ae their fervent greetings, and pledge He 4 1 1 look on the ordi- Gangsters Attack in Vain. The . et wae igh ie, Pepe castor themsel truggl affairs some ray r week the Record rd 0 2 ves to continue their . gle ee eee nance as proposition and A list of shops is being compiled day’s storm has reached 823, with this half-page advertisement calling poy e 4 nee fairs of H 0 2 fe should worry what showing the gangster resistance to | total expected to be swelled when China are fully emancipated. oncuras. get for their prevent the workers in the shops the attention of the public to the ag ps rural sections and smaller towns not wares of the Post-Intelligencerman, Appeal of the Workers of Shanghal. | 3 rs. 5 means the from getting hands on the left wing yet heard from have reported. At least the scdb Hearst sheet, The Tacoma The strike committee of the textile " expe , millions of dol- leaflet whiph merely called them to fifteen thousand have been made Labor Advocate calls the attention of workers of Shanghai has sent out the | dehy and four or Monday's meeting. Some of these | homeless, 9,000 in Murphysboro alone, its readers to the action of the Re- following appeal: Loree ‘ge : 1 yer it may shops are as follows: and several thousand here. cord remarking: “However the adver- “The Chinese textile workers, work- ; * 10 ba fie e Dever At factory B” of Hart, Schaffner The miners’ houses at Orient, sur- tisement may have brought some wel- ing in the factories of Japanese cap- , as „r Md * and Marx, the Levin gangsters beat rounding the large mines at the edge come shekles to the till of the Record italists in Shanghai, are subject to un- wits a hed up one left wing worker on the side- ot this town, have all been completely and as a privately owned paper, it interrupted ‘persecution and suppres-| m a f walk who was trying to hand work- destroyed. The miners who were | sion. This has aroused the desperate ‘Sinking their noses - — ers leaflets as they entered the build- working in the Orient mine, one of the can espouse the cause of profit for N the whistles The 8 , . itself and enlightenment for its read- hate of the workers. A strike has 32 Also In | U 8 C f ing. The ‘same thing happened at largest in the world, felt the shock of . ers to better advantage.” This is scab- broken out. involving 40,000 workers ) ‘a 70 bers gr * cre as SEU. d. UOl-| shop “4, R and Q” of Hart, Schaffner the storm, many feet in the bowels of bery with a vengeance, but it is in| In 22 factories. | | enjoying ee 0 — ton Orders and Marx. While at factory W“ oft the earth. They rushed to the surface harmony with socialist practice. “The police of Shanghai, who are ament provided that firm, Louie Elet, a brother of an with an improvised hoist, the tipple a 5 under English leadership, have, 0 ag Sen K ayama Li k ts, why should rn 1 Amalgamted business agent threaten- and hoisting machinery having been HE’ condition of Field Marshal Japanese instigation, arrested 5 | yam tres mi" for tour Sang NEW YORK, March 20.—Russia has (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) French, Earl of ‘Ypres is. 2 2 ot the strikers, ted them * a a * — y Worker K moe 2 just contracted, thru the All-Russian * 5 — eee great 3 f te spleen. ahi: Sabie 1 meas | Textile Fanta fer a ‘page 2 % * ing tho fn ost violent munandn Anda „ . . ap A . yest n * 4 1 1 TREASURED . es - . @ aad — . 1 — oe 1 * * r COLLECT ee tat SA es Ps aoa rant a —— — | E ct * ‘ * N 1 n @ . engaged with a little army of excite- ment-loving ladies, there was consid- erable anxiety in British government circles. * * * HILE in New York asylum for the criminally insane, serving sen- tence for murder, a man made his in- restment of $20,000 grow to nearly 250,000. That is pretty good. It is more proof that neither brains nor virtue is required to accumulate wealth. Here in Chicago one of the most sensation- al trials in history is about to open. A young lad inherited a million dol- lars. It may be two millions by now, tho the lad never touched it except to spend some of it. The lad died of typhoid fever. His guardian is sug pected of causing his death. If he is exonerated, he will enjoy the ever- growing fortune, willed to him by his ward. If he is found guilty others will share it, but none of them ever helped to earn a nickel of it, That was done by wage slaves whose names will never appear in the press. > + * AUL HARVEY of New York au- thority on international affairs” spoke recently in Canton, Ohio, on “Russia and the Future.” In order to give you a line on an honest- to-god moron, a few gems from his output will prove illuminating. Here goes: “Bolshevism of Russia is the social- ism of Karl Marx, composed entirely of materialism. Democracy _rests on the spiritual conception of life.” Mar- vey said: “Bolshevism is opposed to all forms of government” adding that is the distribution of goods ble government is based on > „ *& LESS the reporter for the local Canton paper is a bigger moron Harvey, the latter takes the pine- apple. He is further reported as hav- ing got the following of his chest: “The people cannot destroy the Rus- sian government, else they would be struck down and executed. The gov- (Continued on page 3) We appeal to you for active sup- port! Help your Chinese fellow work- ers with all your means and all your strength! The Secretary of the Strike Committee: Tchan, MASS ARRESTS OF COMMUNISTS THRUOUT GREECE Executive ‘Committee Is Ordered Jailed . ATHENS, Grece, March 20.—In all towns of the country mass arrests have taken place. In Athens all edi tors of the newspaper Rlsospastis were arrested. Against the members of the central committee of the C. P. orders of arrest have been issued. The central committee will be accused of high treason on account of its de- mand for the autonomy of Macedonia. The government is preparing 200 further arrests and deportations and intends to introduce an exceptional law against the Communist Party. In Tricola the police provoked con flicts in which six workers were killed and many wounded. The General Federation of Labor sent in connection with the arrests, a delegation to the prime minister and demanded the release of all arrested workers and peasants. The prime minister rejected the demand and de- clared that the government was deter- mined to maintain law and order by all means. One Killed in Mexican Trouble. MEXICO CITY, March 20.—One was killed and two were wounded in a clash between a group of workers and a group of catholics, the disorders growing out of a schism among the catholics here, it was reported. FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES LIKE ABRAMOVICH MEETING WHEN PREMIER HERRIOT ROILS CATHOLICS (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, March 20.—Only prompt interference of ushers and adjournment of the chamber of deputies prevented furious fist fights this afternoon when Premier Herriot’s response to an interpellation on the religious question raised a hubbub of dissenting opinion. rades of United States! Thank you for the DAILY WORKER! IH have been enjoyifig it very much. You have been making wonderful progress and It is now nearly four years since | left Amerſea and since then many things have happened and passed on into oblivion. But the. movement grows every- where, as the Russian revolution has been growing every day, every month, and every year—strengthened and solidified, I can say from my personal ex- perience in the past three years that everything is improving and getting better. I travelled over 20,000 miles of railways, twice to the Caucasus, and five times over the Siberian rail- road to the North a West. Railways Repaired Every time I go thru conditions are improved and growing better. You can eat Crimean apples and grapes on the shores of Lake Baikal and even in Viadivostock, over 10,000 .miles away, and yet they do not cost much. You can get a pound of apples in Vla- distock for only 50 kopeks, even in January or February. It is the same way with the prole- tarian owned railways of Red Russia. The Russian railways have improved, and no longer need the help of the state. All the bridges destroyed by the white generals have been repaired. with one exception—the bridge near Habarosk, and that will be completed this summer. cow. I send the workers of America my Communist greetings. Peru in Protest Calls Coolidge a Double Crosser (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, March 20—Hughes’ decision, signed by Président Cool idge, as arbitrator in the Taona-Arica boundary dispute between Chile and Peru, has been met by a general strike of protest in Peru, followed by parades and minor riots. Hughes and Coolidge decided that the plebiscite in the disputed terri- tory, which should have taken place by the terms of the treaty of 40 years ago, in the year 1895 when the reg- ion was inhabited by Peruvians, must be taken now, when a majority of the Peruvians have been forcibly ex pelled by the Chilean gcvernment. A large part of the Peruvian popula- are effectively fighting the exploiters. In six weeks I am returning to Mos- taxpayers, And the taxpayers are the big fellows» who own Chicago and the souls of thé leaders of the Chi- ‘cago Federation of Labor. Four Lean Years. The real reason why the Oscar Nel son-Fitzpatrick Wockels combination is opposing tha Dever ordinance is the brighter prespect for them in the (Continued on Page 3) MUSSOLINI IS REPORTED TO BE INSANITY VICTIM Murderer * Matteotti Playing Macbeth LONDON, March 20.— Premier Mus- solini of Italy is not expected to re- cover. The fascisti supreme council ig considering the appointment of a triumvirate to take over the govern- ment. The latest report of Mussolini's illness is that he is suffering from a liver malady. A duodenal ulcer is said to have added to his troubles. Others say that he is violently in- ane and is strapped to his bed. It is rumored that Mussolini is ‘alling for lions and tigers while in iis delirium. Mivery once in a while ‘ve sees Matteetti approaching his bedside and hiseshrieks are ear-split. ting. Home Minister Federzoni, repre- senting the moderate wing of the fas- cisti is now acting head of the black shirt dictatorship. Mussolini's death it is believed, will be the signal for a nation-wide revolution. The settlement of the metal work- ers’ strike means only a lull on the industrial battlefield. Other battles are in the offing. HONGKONG “WORKERS MOURN SUN YAT SEN AS POLIGE ARREST 3 HONGKONG, March 20.—Mourn- ing here for Sun Yat Sen was or- dered by the Labor Federation, which declared a holiday and so ex- tensively picketed the town that there was almast complete suspens- ion of industrial activity. Crowds assembled outside the headquarters wf the federations, where ceremonial rites were per- specting for transport to Russia, 60, 000 pounds of assorted American dyes to be used in Russian textiles, This is the first big contract the American dying firms have made with any European country, Cotton Shipment Increase Exports of American cotton to Rus- sia from American ports exclusive of purchases made abroad between Aug- ust 1, 1924 and March 1925 total- eled 98,563 bales. In the same period of the preceding cotton season they totaled only 9,958 bales. Contest Oregon School Law. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.— The suppression of religious and private schools by the state of Oregon has been taken to the U. S. supreme court, which now has the law under advisement. The Oregon law, the constitutionality of which is challeng- ed, was passed by a referendum of the voters in 1922. mington plant of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours company, arranging and in- (Special to The ‘Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 20.—Bomb squad Captain Gegan is likely to lose his choice exhibit of antique firearms with which he would like to prove without a search warrant. and their case comes up March 30. that the three young men arrested in his raid on the Ukrainian Hall of the Workers Party were going to make the new American revolution. Attorney Joseph Brodsky expects to procure an order for the return’ of the guns to the theatrical costumer to whom they belong, because Gegan made this raid Bail for the men is reduced from $30,000 to — Six Die in Traction Wreck CARLINVILLE, III, March 2.—Mo- torman W. N. Pelle, and five passeng- ers were killed and a score injured when an Illinois Traction company, Staunton local interurban crashed head on with a work car this afternoon five miles south of here. The dead had not being removed from the scene of the wreck at this time, the injured persons were rushed to Springfield on a special car. Railroad officials here were unable to supply the names of the dead. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! BRITISH UNIONS MOVE TOWARD UNITY WITH SOVIET UNIONS OVER AMSTERDAM OPPOSITION the initiative should be withdrawn British unions. report to the trade union congress the result of that conference. Up to the present the first two proposals have been carried. “The decision upon to the other proposals was postponed. The gen- eral council elected a delegation, con- sisting of ten members, who should negotiate with the general council of the Soviet Unions. The leaders of the delegation are Purcell and Bram- ley (secretary of the general council of the trade union congress.) “The British trade unions have contrary to the Amsterdam resolution which they interpret in the same thus begun actively to work for unity, (By INPRECORR.) MOSCOW, March 20.—The Pravda writes under the heading “A Step Towards a Real Unity of the Trade Union Movement”: “The conference and the ‘resolutions of the general council of the British trade unions are on the whole a step forward in the direction of trade union unity as against the Amsterdam maneuvering. Bramley proposed in the name of the British delegation: first, a joint conference of the delegations of the British and Russian trade unions for the purpose of examining the situation created by the Amsterdam resolution; secondly, that in the question of unity rom Amsterdam and entrusted to the “Bramley proposed hesides that the British general council should call together, in three months, a joint conference of Amsterdam and Moscow Fascist Kidnapping of Communist Aired in House of Commons LONDON, March 20.—The society of British fascisti is calling attention to itself by the kidnapping last Satur- day of Harry Pollitt, member of the British Communist Party and secret- ary of the revolutionary movement in the British trade unions. Pollitt was travelling from London by train to speak at a meeting in Liverpool. At a way station where the train stopped, a group of from four to eight men whom Pollitt des- scribes as “of a type of ex-army of- ficer,” hauled him out of the train, put him in a automobile and drove him to a lonely hotel. He was given food; but was held until too late to deliver his speech. The conservative majority in the house of commons see no signific ance in this form of violence appear- ing in the British Isles, so reputed as the land of free speech and peaceful methods. These conservatives were quite elated over it, but so much an- ger among the workers of Britain has arisen over it that questions were asked of the home secretary in the house, who has promised to pursue an inquiry. And the house of com- mons was placed under the necessity of tabling several interpellations from labor members. and that the general council should = UNITED STATES SOLDIERS REFUTE IDIOTIC ANTI-SOVIET YARNS AND ARE JUGGED FOR THEIR PAINS (Special to The Daily Worker) HONOLULU.—For correcting absurd misstatements about Russia in the daily Honolulu Advertiser, three soldiers in the regular army are lying under military arrest at Schofield barracks, awaiting court martial. They are Walter M. Trumbult, Paul Crouch and Roderick Nadeau. Among the nonsensical statements corrected by the soldiers in their letters to the Advertiser wag a dispatch published in that paper stating that Trotsky had banished Kremlin, the minister of war.” The defenders of Russia also took exception to an editorial based on the Goldman charges. *— x) Herriot announced that it was France's intention to establish non- tion was deported by Che just after formed and hes deliveréd. manner as we do. Only a short time “Al three letters were irreproachabie as far as army life is concerned,” 2 eetarian schools ‘In Alsace as well as In the rest of France. The order re- the formation of the league of na- Street became blocked and aso our British friends thought that writes Trumbull! from the guardhouse of the 11th field artillery. “All df our 25 ina ede ‘strike tan _ where 82 Ruch , a ‘to which Peru appealed her] the British be arrested five and | our interpretation of the Amsterdam papers, books, etc., have been seized and we have no opportunity to prepare ainet the — og ae a a used their on the workers, (Continued on page 3 for defense when the charges have been presented.” 2 8 —— N 1 ae eS ak ate —— — — 1 8 7 7 ‘ ud ¥ „ Je * tial. . * en 1 f Sit to — PD aii 2 * e rd in “is bet- et ON | WN . wife 2 sii : * i ad Daily Worker) r Am can branch. ot the ‘All-Russian J fi. , * mans were 122 — ge . p KIN, » mc than its cost to the ny 7 tront in 1914 and the marshal was * ee * nn, . 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Workers Here Are Also Greatest Producers By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 20.—Lives of coal miners In the United States are less safe than are the lives of coal miners in any of the other large coal- producing countries, engineers in the U. 8. bureau of mines admitted when questioned by The Federated Press in eonnection with the Fairmont dis aster. But, argued a government engineer, who admired the coal companies“ et- ficiency, there’s less blood on a ton of American coal than on a ton of Bri- tish or German, because American machinery permits the mining of three times as many tons per man as does the British system, or the German. Therefore, even tho more men, per Hundred employed, are killed by ac @idents in American mines than in those of other nations, our business men must be congratulated! : No U. 8. Inspection. There is no federal inspection of goal mines. State law in West Vir ginia provides for inspection, but un- less a mine is known to be gaseous it is not inspected often, and safety lamps are not required. Most of the gas explosions take place in these “safe” mines where safety precautions as to lamps are not taken. Generation of gas in dangerous quantities is usual- ly discovered only at the coat of min- ers’. lives. These federal safety engineers in the bureau of mines give the impres- sion that a majority of mine deaths are the fault of the individual miners, since they come from cave-ins rather than from gas explosions. To the testimony of miners that company “instructions” forbidding the miner to work where danger of a fall of rock from the roof exists, are fraudulent, and that a miner who obeyed those instructions would soon lose his chance to earn a living, the bureau people shake their heads. They in- sist that the companies are careful of their men, and never want them to risk life or limb in digging coal! Frameaup Effort Fails. t claims made by the officers of the Bethlehem Mines corporation at Fairmont that the explosion in their sper mine was due to a dropped down the shaft, were soon dismissed by the state mine in- spector. The mine was a non-union operation, but no strike activities were im progress in its neighborhood. The disaster which has taken 34 lives was attributed to gas, which met an open flame in the shaft. * „ » Dead Leave Families. BARRACKSVILLE, W. Va., March 20.—The Bethlehem Mine company is known here as a gaseous mine. In 1907, when the mine was known as Jamison No, 7, an explosion killed ten men. Practically every man killed left be- hind a wife and at least one small child. Some of the men had seven children, and many of thefi’had four or five children under fourteen years of age. Five Bodies Found. Five bodies have been found and two of them were brought to the top of the mine shaft. Rescue workers found the dead men far back in the left heading, near a point where fire was discovered some hours ago. The fire has been extinguished, mine of- ficials said. Twelve men were working in the left heading when the explosion took Place, and twenty-two were in the right heading. The work of rescue has not yet proceeded into the right head- ing. The bodies were identified as Walter Johnson, Willie Robinson, Willie Alliston, all Negroes, and Pete Tem- pest, an Italian. Tempest is survived by a wife and two children under six- teen years of age, and Johnson is sur- vived by a wife and one small child. Alliston also had a wife and two small children living in Barracksville. Italy, Poland Place Big Orders for Coal with Soviet Mines MOSCOW—(By Mail)—A series of contracts have been lately concluded by the Coal Export Co., a government trust, for exporting Donetz tuel into foreign countries. Poland has pur chased a big order of Soviet anthra cite coal, which is superior in qual. ity to coal produced in Poland. Im portant negotiations for supplyin; from 15 to 20 million poods of coa to Italian manufacturers are nearing conclusion. Besides, a large order ir expected fiom Italian railways, which meanwhile have plaved a sample or der for some 10,000 tons. All these developments have in- duced the Export Co. to substanti. ally increase its 40-million poods ex- porting plan. A DAILY WORKER subscription or two—will make a better Commun- ist of you. _* “yn — 2 ‘ ’ x * — N - , 4 aa - ey 4 1 7 1 * — Fern * * 1 7 * we ad 2 8 8 ~ 7 2 2 r * ed a leaflet distributor, saying, “You'll get more trouble for this, and you know what I mean!” At Meyer Brothers on the north side, sluggers tried to beat up the left wingers distributing leaflets for the Monday meeting, but met with such resistance that they desisted. At the Meyer company on Adams and Green streets, left wingers were assaulted and scratched up in a sciffle over leaflets which the gangsters tried to seize. Threats and Assaults Fall. Gangsters posted around the Royal Tailors shop at Wells and Polk Sts. tried to terrorize the left wingers. “We'll break your heads if you don’t stop!” said these sluggers, but the left wingers stood their ground and carried out the distribution as they had a right to do, and, what is more, superior force. The terror of the sluggers was also tried at the Hirsch and Wickwire shops and before the Kuppenheimer shops on Market street, but here too the left wing stood its ground and completed the most successful shop ‘distribution of leaflets in the his- tory of the needle trades of Chicago. Shop Workers Make Demands on Levin. Meanwhile, on Thursday night, a committee of about fifty workers from the. shop of Alfred Decker and Cohen, marched to the office of the Chicago manager of the A. C. W., de- manding that the workers who were taken off the jobs by Levin for dis- tributing leaflets published by Local 5, of the A. C. W., be promptly re- instated. But they soon realized, and one of the committee told Levin, that demanding justice from Levin is the same as demanding justice from the former czar of Russia, whose tac- tics led to the same conclusion as will be written after the name of Levin. Levin Threatens Shop Workers. Levin tried in vain to convince: the members that it was very much to their benefit that he is depriving members of their means of livelihood by taking them down from their jobs. But when the workers told him that they don’t appreciate the “favor” and that he had better send the vic- timized members back to work, Le- vin told them they were raising “too much commotion” in the shops, and they would be responsible for fur, ther happenings.” ) In other words, Levin threaten- ed that if anyone wants to keep hi job, he should not dare to express his opinion of the present outrages or any in the future, or show sympathy ' with the victims of the Hillman-Le- vin-manufacturer conspiracy. Always Somebody Else to Blame As usual, Levin tried to use the bogey man of “outsiders dictating policy to the union,” that the mili- tants are trying to “break up” the union, but the workers from the shop threw this back in his face, accusing him of being the disrupter by depriv- ing the most loyal and militant mem bers of the union of work and trying to drive them out of the trade. The workers in the Alfred Decker and Cohen shop are enraged at Levin autocratic manner. He said, haughti- ly: “I took them off the job. I am going to keep them off the job, unless the organization (meaning himself) orders me otherwise.” The nfembers of the A. C. W. in this shop told Levin that just as he, today, don’t like Savonovski and takes his livelihood away for that reason, so, tomorrow, he might not like some- body else; and that they were going to keep up the fight for the victims of his autocracy, because as long as this sort of officials ruled no honest and sincere worker is sure of his job. Another Coolidge Official Supports Teapot Oil Steal CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 20.—De- positions on drainage conditions in Teapot Dome continued today as the defense closed its case in the govern- ment’s suit to break the Sinclai#lease on the Wyoming petroleum reserve. Dr. Foster Bain, director of the U. 8. bureau of mines, went on record as favoring the Mammoth Oil (Sinclair) lease because of “advantages it secured to the government over other pro- posals informally discussed by other oil companies.” , Bain made further remarks about some mysterious war and declared that “the Teapot nego- tiations were part of general war plans.“ “It was stated,” Bain charged, “at a conference in Washington in Jan- uary, 1922, when the negotiations were under way, that there was a national emergency.” Bain said he did not know what this “national emergency” was. Earthquake Destroys City of 80,000 in the Heart of Asia SHANGHAI, March 20.—The city of Talifu, Yannan, populated by 80,000 persons, has been destrpyed by an earthquake and fire, according to word ‘received here today. The city, near Burma, was reported demolished in word received here. Thousands are injured and homeless and aid is urgently needed. The num- ber of dead is unknown, * — s City In Flames LONDON, March 20.—Private mes- sage received here today by cable from Shanghai said that the ruins of the city of Talifu, in Western Yun- Hen, were in flames, following the earthquake, State of Kentucky Electrocutes Two Negroes, One Saved EDDYVILLE, Ky., March 20. — Leonard Griffith and Sid Davis, Ne- groes, were executed at the western state penitentiary here today. Griffith was alleged to have killed J. V. Gross, chief of police of Gross, Ky., in October, 1923, and Davis was charged with killing John P. Johnson, at Lexington, October 28, 1923. Joe Baughman, 16, another Negro who was to have been electrocuted, received an eleventh hour stay of ex- ecution by the governor. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, March 20—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling demand 4.77%, cable 4.78; France, franc, demand 5.18, cable 5.18%; Belgium, franc, demand 5.06, cable 6.0644; Italy, lira, demand 4.06%, cable 4.064%; Sweden, kdone, demand 26.92, cable 26.95; Norway, krone, demand 15.41, cable 14.53; Denmark, krone, demand 18.10, cable 18.12; Germany, mark, unquot- ed; Shanghai, tael, demand 64.00, cable 64.50. CONCORD, N. H., March 20.—The New Hamshire senate, without a dis- senting vote, concurred with the house of representatives in rejecting the proposed child labor amendment. The vote in the house was 327 to 37. emergency,” IMPERIALISM OF AMERICA AFTER LATIN COMMERCE England Keen Rival in South America BUENOS AIRES, March 20.—The American capitalists, who have been competing with the British capitalists for South American trade have im- ported more goods, during the first eleven months/of 1924, than has Eng- land. | The struggle between the ee countries for foreign trade is bitter England has two Dillion dollars of c pital invested, and has a network 0 banks and shipping agencies thruou' the South American countries. The capitalists of America, with $200,000,000 invested, mostly in min- ing, are closer to the ports and have driven a.lasting wedge in English im- perialism’s leadership in foreign trade. ee ee Bigger Wheat Crop for Morocco Than Last Year Is Report WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20.— Increased acreage and favorable crop conditions in Morocco are reported to the United States department of agri- culture from the international institute of agriculture at Rome. The wheat acreage is placed at 2,656,00 acres against 2,332,000 acres, the final estimate for last year. The area sown to barley is given as 3,707,- 000 acres compared with 2,981,000 acres for the 1924 crop. 1 Uruguay Workers Get Vacation WASHINGTON; D. C., March 20.— A resolution was passed on February 5, 1925, by the national administrat- ive council whereby every adminis- trative employe of the council is oblig- ed to e an annual holiday of twen- ty da¥s, without loss of salary, ac- cording to the United States depart- ment of labor. Housing Worse in England LONDON, Eng., March 20.—The medical officer of health estimates that the number of houses required to satisfy the needs of the Wolverhamp- gon district, at the present time, is 7,000 as compared with 5,659 in 1919, which was the figure arrived at by the housing survey of that year. IMPRESSIVE SERVICES IN CANTON FOR DEAD LEADER, SUN YAT SEN CANTON, China, March 20.—A memorial service for Dr. Sun Yat Sen, head of the provisional govern- ment of South China, who died in Pekin, was held here at the Kwang- tung University. The program in- cluded one minute of silence, speeches, music and a ceremonial salute of 21 guns. Officials of the government, with military and naval contingents, are preparing to leave for Nanking to attend the Anal rites. Dr. Sun Yat Sen was the leader of the Chinese workers In their fight * NN 5 te 2 N F „5 N — Hee against foreign imperialism, 1 28 4 1 n . « 2 19 5 Bike N ö 2 Wor it N rann . bis . bhi - TRG oo LADLE | 1 = - A : . : ] ö : N g — Negroes Segregated in 2 2 * ey ow. ae — ö 19 1 Del, March 20.— This city is but a few miles south of Philadelphia. It is largely owned and controlled by Du Pont, the pow- der „ who also controls the city and state governmental machine as well as both the democratic and re- publican local newspapers. While the Du Ponts, large and small are rolling in wealth the workers are compelled to work long hours and at a starvation wage. Upon arrival in Wilmington the writér stopped the first man he met and indulged in a conversation with him; This is the story revealed. The man works for the street cleaning and sewer depart- nent, is an American citizen, has sev- ral children. He works 9 hours a day in good weather and receives the starvation wage of §3.60 a day or 40 ents an hour. 83 There are cases when men are be- ng paid but 616.00 a week by the powder magnates. This applies es- pecially to those men who come from the farms to earn a few extra dol- lars during the out of season months. Socialist Party Extinct. The few labor unions still existing here are conservative and weak. The socialist party has ceased to exist long ago and during the last election even LaFollette polled but a few votes. The ku klux Klan is growing in power and influence while the color- ed worker is being discriminated against in every way possible. Col- ored children for instance, are com- pelled to attend separate schools. In certain theaters the colored workers are allowed admission, but to the galleries. | , Workers Intimidated. So intimidated aré the workers of this city that they do not dare to voice their protest against the exist- ing miserable conditions. The fear of losing the job, bad as that may be, compells many a worker to keep his mouth shut, for to find another job here is rather @ difficult task. The Communists are the only live force who dare to go against the stream and carry on the pioneer work of arousing the workers to the realiza- tion of the need of carrying on the fight against the system in which a few roll in wealth while the toiling massés are compelled to starve. ' 0. i ( t : 1 BRITISH COMMAND Canadian Postal Chiefs Protect King (Special to The Dally Worker.) OTTAWA, March 20--The Cana dian government has barred The In- ternational of Youth; official organ of the Young Communist Internationa) from Canada. This blow at the Communist youth comes in the form an “Order-in-. Council,” which means that a few of the higher executives made the rulling banning the magazine without bothering to have the question brot up in a legislati¥e body. The International of Youth is the magazine of the revolutionary youth that which serves the same function for the Young Communist League thruout the world as the Communist International does for the Communist parties, Hits British Government. “The Balance of the Government of H. M., the King of Great Britain,” by Sigi Bamatter, member of the execu- tive committee of the F. C. I. is one of the articles in the jast issue of the International of Youth that probably “displeased” the high officials of the Canadian government, Other articles on the civil war in China and one on “The Bolshevik Anti-Militarist Work of the Party and the Youth,” probably pleased them no more. ' Can Get it Here. The Young Workers League of America still receives the Interna- tional of Youth, since it has not as yet been barred from the U. S. mails. Anyone interested in obtaining a copy of this magazine, so distasteful to the high officials of the Canadian goverm ment, can do so by writing to th Young Workers League, 1113 We Washington Boulevard, Chicago. „ Get a sub for the DATLY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. HELP! HELP!! We need volunteer help in mall ing out 10,000 invitations for the March celebratlon and antl-Abra- movich demonstration. if you can spare an hour or a day come and help LABOR DEFEN COUNCIL " * ** : / Sees -_ e vie, i en re L I$) W ern 3 58 . : WhoIs Re a oie Bas pe he 7 ie 5 ANS y 1 * yy 1 * fg Al : “ ’ 4 7 1 8 7 1 * ag) = 2 * + ion Be i . +f, i 2 * * 0 4 * aa on et Cas ae e r ed, Be i ans a 77 Mn 22 r * o e re 1 + > » am 3 4 N e 2 e 2 i : a e 4 1 ‘ yt a. Se: 2 r Ar EN FM N ; Its White Terro - N * R 4? I * = es = ee ae 7 9 rt A Wall Street to Maintain a ie ee * (Special to The Daily Worker.) By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ~ bi ODAY, another European loan is being floated in this , 13 $10,000,000 for the fascist government of Fin- and. At the same time that publicity heralding this loan was being put into the kept press, fascist Finland’s asset, the white guard athlete, Paavo Nurmi, suffered humiliation in Madison Square Garden, in New York City. The runner’s stomach went back on him towards the close of a 5,000 meter race, and he was forced to quit, leaving the victory to Willie Ritola. 3 | But Ritola is another white guard Finn. Both Nurmi and Ritola, however, may now retire. Their work has been accomplished. The crn 3 ages of the yellow press have been full of their exploits. — so-called “American public” not only knows of them, but is supposed to have developed a soft spot, in its pocket book for the Finland across the Atlantic. The finance minister of Finland, Mr | these shores, said that Nurmi was worth $10,000,000 to Finland. The Finnish ruling class, thru its Wall Street connections, is now trying to cash in on this asset. The big advertisement announcing the Finnish loan pro- claims that the people of Finland “are n thri and industrious, and the standard of education is high.“ This is not disputed. The Finnish workers were so intelligent that they established their own Workers’ Government in the days of the world war. But this Workers’ Rule was crushed under the bloody fist of a terror that is almost with- out a rival in all Europe’s history. Thousands of workers were murdered outright, while tens of thousands were im- prisoned. Many of these are still in prison. Not only Com- munists, but Communist sympathizers and militanta in the trade union movement are outlawed. Capitalism now rules over this graveyard of worker dead. It was to aid the cause of these capitalist terrorists that Nurmi, a worker, deserted his own class, and came to this country to exploit his prowess as a runner. The red work- ers in Finland reject him as a renegade. The brand of traitor is on his brow. 9 % „„ ® But Wall Street’s loan will not save white guard Fin- land. No more than all the other loans that Wall Street is planning for other nation’s of western Europe will save their capitalist cliques from the wrath of the workers and poor farmers. © . New west European bond issues floated in the United States at exhorbitant rates of interest only testify to grow- ing capitalist bankruptcy in this part of the world. The balance of trade pours new wealth upon the American rul- ing class. The only outlet for the surplus is investment in questionable European bonds. The Dawes plan was but the beginning of the e ishment of a still greater collecting agency over all these nations. The Dawes plan for Germany will be followed by! Dawes plan for France, and then for some other country, until the Break comes. a te ; . * 2 . r it is said that Murmi broke in his 5,000 meter run be- cause he had overeaten from veal shortly before the race. The break under the Dawes plan in western Europe will not come because the workers have overeaten. It will come when the workers have eaten too little; when they under- stand that the Dawes plan means not only slavery, but also hunger for them, as it will. They will then refuse to toil that the interest payments on Morgan's bonds may be paid. It will then be up to America’s workers to decide whether they have had their fill of the Morgan ruling class, or whether they will march again in Morgah’s armies against Europe’s rising working class. It is a good time for Amer- ica’s workers to decide now that capitalism here shall also fall in the hour that western Europe’s slaves unite for the final victory. No more wars to protect the bonds of the House of Morgan! Only for the war against Morgan. North Side Branch 1 | : Study Class M FORTE-WHITEMAN AND e Monday Night! | DUNNE SPEAK TONIGHT AT SOUTH SIDE DANCE The study class of the North Side English branch of the party on the “A. B. C. of Communism” which has The arrangements committee of already held four successful sessions,| the South Side Branch of the Work- meets again on Monday, March.23, 8 ers Party and Branch No. 3 of the D. m. at the usual place at 2406 N. Young Workers’ League, has pro- Clark St. All branch members and] cured Lovett Fort-Whiteman and Bill Dunne as speakers for its so- clal and dance, Saturday night at others are invited. the South Side Community House, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. Whiteman has recently returned from an extended sojourn in Soviet Russia, and his speech should prove of great interest to those who want to hear the latest from the great Bolshevik country. Dunne, Communist editor, fighter and speaker, par excellence, re- quires no recommendations. His talk will probably bring out many new points on the role of the Negro workers in the class struggle. Fine dance music and excellent entertainment have also been pro- vided for the night. Admission is only 25 cents. . oe. ae Freight Haulings Increase NEW YORK, March 20.—American railroads have handled: the greatest volume of freight ever carried by them during the first ten weeks of 1925 compared to other years, the American Railway association announ- ced here today. The 9,000,328 cars actually loaded from January 1 to March 7 exceeded by three tenths of one per cent the estimate made as to the expected re- cord total. The bulk of the increase thus far in 1925 has come principally from manufactured industry. Marx Rejects Premiership BERLIN.—Former Chancellor Marx declines Prussian premiership because F of failure of his efforts to form a cabinet commanding an entire major- ity. A “business cabinet” is now planned. Just Like Rafael’s Efforts. PARIS, March 20.—President Pain- leve of the chamber of deputies was forced to suspend that body for a second time this afternoon when gen- eral disorder resulted from an attempt to reconvene. Marquis de la Ferrenrays mounted the tribune and demanded that Premier Herriot apologize for remarks which he said were an insult to all christians. NEW YORK.—Countee P. Cullen, young Negro poet, is elected to the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of New York University. . French Get Low Wages PARIS, France, March 20,—An in- vestigation conducted by agents of the _« BERLIN, Germany, March 20.—Soe wide and deep is the anger of the Ger man workers over the murder of tan workers at the Communist demonstra- tion at Halle, that the German govern- ment has been forced to remove the Halle chief of police from office. The police tried to stop a Commun- ist election meeting on the excuse the “schupo” police to fire, shooting. ‘women, This has caused a furor all ‘lover Germany. Now the government declares that the chief of police at Halle acted without authority, as the law forbidding foreign speakers is not in force since the revolution of 1918. Communists are planning a great demonstration at the funeral of the victims and the workers of Halle will suspend all work. Storm Leaves 5,000 Workers Homeless in Big Mine Area . (Continued from page 1.) destroyed by the storm. Utter desola tion met their eyes. Women and Children Suffer. Women and children were the worst sufferers, many being killed when their tiny homes crushed in over their heads. Arthur McLeod, a veteran mmer who has lived thru several mine dis- asters, stood on a West Frankfort street and surveyed his ruined home. A single object—a player plano— is all that McLeod has left to show for his years of work in the mines. Jam an old man now,” NccLeod said. “All I had is gone, except that piano. All wiped out after me working in the mines all my life—ever since I came here from Scotland. No in- surance—nothing. I bought that piano for the old woman. She’s down in the hospital now. They t tell me how back she is—perhaps she’s dead al ready.” f cose Dead, in Benton. Benton, a large mining town mid- way between Murphysboro and West Frankfort, but to the north, escaped the full force of the storm. However, twelve known dead have already been listed in Benton. Three hundred were reported still missing in West Frank- fort, with 114 Known dead. One hun- dred and twenty-five bodies have been recovered in Murphysboro, with many more missing. Othello Hester, who worked in the Orient’ mine, found his wife and daughter in a hospital. He had been searching for them for hours. Hes- ter was many feet underground in one of the deepest, tunnels of the mine when the tornado swept down on the mining town. Another miner, who worked in the Orient No. 2 mine, came to the sur- ace and found his wife dead. Dig Graves Now. One hundred members of the Unit- ed Mine Workers, local West Frank- fort, are digging graves. An official report from Carbondale said that the total dead from the storm in Illinois alone is over is over 800, with 4,000 requiring medical treatment. A new terror, the dread specter of pestilence, raised its head and the Sanitation engineers sent into the stricken area from Chicago, wired for more aid, declaring themselves un- able to cope with the situation. The dead are piled high, and hasti- ly attended to, and add to the dan- geil of the spread of contagious dis- eases. In West Frankfort and Mur- physboro all sanitation devices have been destroyed, and lights are not working in many towns. Cicero Workers to Dance Tonight for Daily Worker Fund There will be an international dance and frolic tonight at Liberty Hall, 49th Court and 14th St., Cicero, under the auspices of the Cicero Workers (Communist) Party. All proceeds af ter paying expenses will be used by the Cicero branches to buy insurance policies. for the DAILY WORKER. Workers from the Western Electric company, the Grant Steel works, and other large Cicero factories, as well as friends and members of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, are especial- ly invited. ministry of labor, which covered 608,- 800 workers in the metal industries, of whom about one-third were employ- ed in the Paris region, revealed an average hourly wage, for adults, of 3.29 france for qualified workers; 2.64 francs for special workers; and 2.19 francs for ordinary workers. There's So Campaign a success. If you Come on over to the office and volunteer your services to help us mail all the material necessary to make our Sub minute to spare—c’mon over! Much Work! Ge have a day, an hour, or even a oe” * — * 1 down ten workers, two of them being Pe - — “ Je -_ - 1 —— n —
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8 1 277. 2 — ite ! * 245 1 IT iel GEA F RISE RSEER r : „ t eT ete * e ae — 25. -f . 1 5 1 : f eth ee : 4 8 i 2 3 1 * 4 2 } r i ; * G- j * 2 Pes a AR . K * ae 5 ay 1 a At “a NEW YORK, March 20.— The three . young Communists, Sol Zalon, Henry _ Winogradoff and Aaron Dimen, have been released from the tombs, where they were confined since last Friday night, when they were caught by Captain Gegan and his bomb squad, “conspiring to overthrow the United States government.” The young revolutionists were re- leased on $2,000 bond each, the judge being forced to recognize that the charge of having “firearms in their _ Possession” was absurd, when the Weapons were produced in court. These old rifles could not even be used to discharge blank cartridges, let alone “destroy the government.” Celebrate Commune In Cells The three young comrades went „thru the usual procedure, at times being intimidated by the detectives. In the cell, they celebrated the Paris Commune themselves, writing all over the wall “Long Live the Commune.” When Joseph Brodsky, the attorney for the Labor Defense* Council, ap- peared in court to have the bail re- duced, the judge declared that such people ought to be sent out of the country. “If they don’t like this coun- try, etc., etc.” Face Deportation It is clear that the government will try to deport the three young Com- munists, Quite contrary to what the warden thought that they are not done with the Communist movement, the young comrades declared that they are going to become even better bolsheviks. This is the spirit that pervades the Young Workers League of New York, of which all three com- rades are members. The Labor Defense Council intends to fight the case thru all courts, The : new deportation bill or its implica- tions may be invoked in order to get rid of these young revolutionists, whose “crime” consisted in participat- ing in a theatrical performance. Even the capitalist press was forced to ad- mit the absurdity of the charges, charging Gegan with endeavoring to burniah up his reputation and get into the limelight once more by a comic opera trick. Appeal For Funde The Labor Defense Council, New York division, appeals to all comrades and sympathizers, to raise funds for the defense of these young revolution- ists, whose case cames up on March $0. This will cost thousands of dol- lars. Get your organizations to con- tribute. Collect among the workers in the shops. to the Labor Defense Council, New York division, 108 East 14th Street, New York City. Send all contributions Telephone Monroe 2284 Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street N. E. Cor. Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Specialty Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice Furnishings LADIES’ MEN’S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most Martin’s 651 West North Avenue | East of Halsted St. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 2732. N CALIFORNI 60 MY NEW LOCATION — 2 X-Ray 3 Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination Is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work ts Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Day j 5 aie ce review. In West Virginia a miner, riding on an interstate car. appealed to the higher courts of the state. No satisfaction was gotten there. In the meantime John Buksa in jail and is due to go to prison in a nicalities which make it impossible to appeal the case further. The West Vi red flag law, which is the criminal syndicalist law of West Virginia, is indeed an inter- esting statute. While it does not prov- ide as severe a sentence as other laws of similar nature, it is all inclusive. Under it not the least vestige of workers’ rights remains if the powers that that be in West Virginia desire to utilize the law. That the law will be used again and again unless it is fought against and killed, is quite a possibility in view of the record of West Virginia in industrial disputes. Another state which has a long re- cord of persecutions under the cri- minal syindicalist law, as well as other laws which can be utilized against the labor movement, is the state of Pennsylvania. This coal and steel state has to its credit no less than sixteen cases, thirteen of which are yet to be tried, two of which re- sulted in convictions and are pending on appeal, and in one of which the sentence has already been served (Blankenstein.) This state not only has the record of these sixteen cases, but of numer- ous deportations in the Palmer raids, numerous arrests of individual after individual on one pretense or another and a continuous terrorism applied to every section of the labor movement. The dark past of Pennsylvania in industrial disputes is a matter of his- tory. The first conviction under the Pennsylvania criminal syndicalist law was that of Blankenstein who served a sentence. The second group of cases grew out of a raid staged shortly before May ist, 1923, all over Pittsburgh and on the headquarters of the Workers Party, on various pretenses, Number- ous workers were arrested and held on exorbitant bail. Finally, about nine were indicted. They are yet to go on trial. “Crime” to Belong to Workers Party The third group of convictions un- of a number of Farrell workers in the these were tried and convicted by the same judge who sat in the Blanken- stein case. Four are yet to be put on trial, two of these are not mem- bers of the Workers Party, which is the “crime” with which these men are accused. In all these cases in ee the department of justice of the U. 8. has been more than active. One ot their “experts” is used as a witness against the men. It is difficult to tell what will finally be the outcome this law in Pennsylvania is made drastically evident by them. In the next article on the survey we will deal with the last group of cases, those taking place under the Michigan law. Fascisti Anxious to Build Empire (Special to The Daily Worker.) ROME, Italy, Mussolini has endeavored to secure England’s help in an attempt to fur- ther the fascisti’s imperialistic ambi- tions in Northern Africa and the Me- diterranean countries. Mussolini, it is learned, hag asked Foreign Minis- ter Austen Chamberlain for an alli- ance with England, France being ex- cluded. Chamberlain replied for Eng- lish imperialism that no agreement would be made with Italy to the ex- clusion of France. The fascisti argued that Italy’s pop- ulation is growing, and many Italians are living in Northern Africa, and pleaded to be allowed to build up “a sphere of national influence.” Fascisti Accused. Vincenzi Enea has signed a state- ment at Bari, Italy, accusing the pres- ent fascisti leaders with sinking the battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Ta- ranto harbor on August 2, 1916. Two hundred and fifty sailors were killed. sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. NAME — SPATE — . A year 6 2.50~6 montis ae 9 montis t CRICAGO -$ Bao ayear F450 6 months f 2 THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER 3S moaths 5 ‘ ats — — 3 ns one ey . 2 ao ot ge gt 3 rt Ve Ae re ek. has been sentenced to three months short time because there are tech. der the Pennsylvania laws was that steel town of Farrell, Pa. Two of] of all these cases, but the nature of in North Africa ‘| size of Coolidge and will fit the attor- March 20.—Premier Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be W. VIRGINIA AND PENNSYLVANIA — k --=êů—ů— Continning the general survey made dy the Labor of the Communist criminal syndicalist cases which have country, the cases in Pennsylvania and West Virginia are interesting in ense neha, en place in this living in Ohio, by the name of John Buksa, was arrested for distributing the program of the Workers Party while When the case came np, the jury gave very little consideration to the matter and brought in a verdict of guilty in very short order. ] * AS WE SEE IT . By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1) ernment must destroy itself. Students of the present situation think the present form of Russian government is not final and that it will not turn into a democracy. The educational situation in Russia is pathetic. Schools and libraries have been des- troyed and in some localities the il- literacy is one hundred per cent. Some educated people have been executed in order to do away with learning.” Our case against Mr. Harvey rests j with the above u. r e ee 11 Wen of New York recently gave $500,000 to the fund for Near Hast colleges. This sum amounts to one fifth of the operating expenses of the five American colle ges in the near east during the next five years. There is oil in the Near Hast. Wherever there is wealth to be exploited you will find the heart of an American millionaire. , * ¢ „ _ Jesus of Nazareth whipped the money lenders out of the Temple his religion was not very po- pular with the ruling classes. Not so today. His followers, particularly his leading followers are the strongest | bulwards of the modern money lend- ers. They do not spurn wealth. It is seldom you hear a cardinal or a high prelate of any church preach a ser- mon from the camel and the needle’s eye text. A few weeks ago a catho- lic priest was found dead in a Coney Island, New York, hotel. He had $216,000 im deposits in four banks. It’s a long, long, way from Bethle- hem. * * a ORD CURZON of Keddleston ain’t gonna cuss Soviet Russia no more! That highly respectable pusson has gone to his reward. Let us hope it is 4 hot one. Coolidge Attorney General Is Servant of Textile Trust WASHINGTON, March 20—Humili- within a week, on the nomination of his friend, Charles Beecher Warren of the sugar trust to be attorney gen- eral, President Coolidge acknowledged the constitutional right of the senate to take half of the responsibility in creating cabinet officers. And in its turn the senate took pity on Coolidge and agreed that his second choice, a lifelong friend and political adherent, John G. Sargent of Vermont, be con- firmed. Sargent is an old man, a grand- father, whose opposition to the soldier bonus bill was so sharp that he pro- posed to impeach or otherwise re- moye Sen. Dale, who voted for it. Once he was attorney general of Ver- mont, but most of his life has been spent in serving the textile, quarry and other industrial corporations of Vermont, and in looking after rich men’s estates. He is just the mental ney generalship just as badly as Cool- idge fits the presidency. Coolidge is sadly shrunken. He looks smaller than ever, more petty and out of place than ever. on the bonus, driven to surrender on postal wages, twice beaten on his se- lection of an attorney general, he has had nothing but rebuffs from his first congress and his second senate. N. V. Assembly Kills Hour Bill. ALBANY, N. Y., March 20.—The as. sembly committee on labor and in dustries has strangled the Mastick Shock 48-hour bill for women and chil- dren that the New York Federation of Labor and numerous reform organiza tions were supporting. The bill was not reported and the republican as. semblymen on the committee say it will not be reported. On the other hand the Joiner bill giving the industrial board power tc regulate hours for women and chil dren in the various industries as it sees fit is being all the more ardent): pushed by representatives of the as sociated industries of New York and is especially sought by the canning in- dustry where very long hours prevail! during rush seasons. Czarists Seek Church. NEW YORK, March, 20.—The white guard Russians, followers of the czar, the counter-revolutionary generals and the socialists, who have a small colony on Fifth avenue, near 125th street, have had hard luck in finding a church to attend: They moved from their old building at 4 East 129th street, near 6th Ave., and have been using a “borrowed” church. Mortgages of $16,000 have accum- ulated on the old church property and om be foreclosed unless the rich Pee ee — N Ne flicted upon — and poor ated and crushed by his defeat, twice Beaten: 1 1 tif f ‘ » | 2 * KERS OF NEW IR 1 NOUNGE I TERROR Meet Wee ay,March 25, at ra House (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 20—The capi- talist governments of the world are engaging in a new offensive against the revolutionary workers. Workers in Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Hun. gary, Spain, Poland, Jugo-Slavia and Czecho-Slovakiajare being persecuted with increasing brutality. During the recent railway strike in Greece, all revolutionary workers’ or- ganizations were attacked by the po- lice. In Many, during a demon- stration, six C unists were killed and 40 wounded; When the worker: of protested against these bru- talities, more Were killed and wound- ed. In Polaud, the workers are being hunted down, and the national minori- ties—especially the Ukrainians—arc being su In Bulgaria, the hangman Zankow is taking advantage of the serious eco nomic 2 demand mor: troops of the © of nations, in or der to carry on a campaign of exterm ination against the revolutionary workers and peasants. In Spain, the fascist dictatorship of De Rivera ha: crushod all the Workers’ organizations clubs, papers and co-operatives. In Italy, Mussolini is using a savage hand against the rising revolt of tu revolutionary workers. Shoot 1,000 Esthonian Reds. In Esthonia, after imposing death and long-term sentences upon 142 Com munists, the white guard government made an assault on the rebelliou: workers and shot down or imprisoned more than 1,000 of them. These im- prisoned comrades were shamefully mistreated, being subjected to the third degree. Some of them were even scalped.. This is a reminiscence of the wild west days in the United States—and of the ku klux klan. In Japan the most vicious anti-work. ing class 2 4 history has been passed. In Lithuante and Latvia, Commun: ists have been arrested and all their organizations suppressed. In the 1 Philippines, poor peasants are being shot down at he behest of the Ameri can capitalista, In Porto Rico and Cuba, the same things are taking place. In India, Java, China, Korea, in Egypt, Turkey and Palastine, the workers and poor peasants are being driven into open rebellion. New York-Workers Protest. The ork rtüres in must peasants of thé/world. They must not let the challe of the capitalist gov ernments pass by unheeded. The Work Party, Young Work. ers’ League the Internationa! Workers’ Aid have arranged a joint meeting, which will take place atthe Central Opera’ “House, 205 Bast 67th St., on Wednesday, March 25, at 8 p. m. The workers of New York will ap- pear in their thousands and will dem. onstrate their solidarity with the fighters in the capitalist prisons. You must be there. Tell the work ers in the shops. Bring them to the meeting. Labor Fakers in Chicago Bite Greedily at Mayor Dever’s Plum (Continped from page 1) possibility of William Hale Thomp- son and his Hearst backers getting back into the La Salle Street El Do- rado. Michael Boyle, also known as Um- brella Mike” seems to have deserted his old love, Len Small. But Michael is nothing if not practical. His bus! ness is to furnish juice to the mem- bers of his union. As long as he can do that, his little deviations from the line of Jesus of Nazareth will be glossed over by his christian sup- porters. Christian Madsen of Local 894, is a member of the federation’s transpor- tation committee that handed the lily to the Dever plan last Sunday. His local has 2,000 members and it went against the ordinance. But Arthur Wallace, business manager of the Painters’ District Council did not seem to be thing like that. “Labor ordinance” he said, work.” Doubts His Foes’ Honesty. Edward Ryan, president of the dis- trict council of the iron workers has serious doubts as to the sanity or in- tegrity of those opposing the Dever plan. He did not say whetner they should be sent to jail or to a psycho- pathic ward. The Workers Party tells the work- ers of Chicago that the fight between Dever and Thompson is a quarrel be- tween two gangs of capitalist thieves who are jockeying for position. The Deverites want their graft now, out of the transpértation muddle. The Thompson backers not being able to get in on the ground floor now, must be comfént to get theirs four years from now. 12 The Workers Party urges the con- fiscation of the present street and elevated car limes and their opera- tion by the qty thru the organiza- is for the “it means more tiens of the workers, particularly the nee Men Union. Vig a 7 ¥ y wenn’ i | WORKERS PARTY DEMANDS THAT worried about a little 4 RAIL WORKERS SHIPMENTS FROM STRUCK MILL REFUSE THREAD on strike. izations to instruct their members not (Special to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Cont., March 20.—The district executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party for the state of Connecticut has sent a letter to several brotherhoods of railwaymen, protesting against the members of those organizations hauling cars containing consignments of thread shipped by the American Thread Co., at Willimantic, ane where the workers are Three carloads of thread have been shineed out each day since the be- ginning of the strike. Several scabs in the shipping room, loaded the freight cars, and endangered victory for the strike. The letter calls upon the organ- to do this any longer. Strike Lessons. The girls going to various cities for collections report good response from the mill workers. Thru an error, many girls entered stores, and re- ceived unwelcome greetings, and prac- tically no support. When near this city, a wrecking crew from the Reading Railway shops of the N. Y., N. H. and H. R. R. Co. was approached, they replied they had no money They were working over- time, the dirty scabs, who took bread out of the mouths of the railway shop- men, and would not. aid the textile workers. An instance of working class soll- darity occurred before the strike was declared. One worker was informed that he had no right to strike (he fixed machinery) “because you are a part of the workers.” To which he re- plied, “When I worked three or four days a week like the rest, I was paid like the rest. III stick with the rest, now.” Picketing Goes On. At present, picketing starts at 6 a. m. There are pickets posted at each gate in two hour shifts. Will- iam Simons, district organizer of the Workerg (Communist) Party volun- teered at this morning’s meeting to do regular picket duty, but Miss Kel- leher, the organizer in charge, de- clared that only American Thread Co. strikers were desired. The morning demonstrations before 7 a. m. continue in fine shape. This morning, there was & march to the Ger Theater, where a short meet- ing was held. President McMahon, of the United Textile Workers of Amer- ica wag expected at this morning’s meeting, but did not appear. He is expected tomorrow. The Company Stands Pat. The company is standing pat. It has sent out a considerable amount of the finished thread on hand. It has foremen and overseers in the plant, ready to help in the shipping. It has clerks (80 of them) who can be rung in. It is impossible to determine just how the company is preparing. A report from Holyoke is to the effect that the truck drivers refused to come to Willimantic to carry ma- terial from here“to their city. A truck driver in this mill is still at work, on the filmsy excuse of being “on salary.” One sees this truck ride to and from the mill. The senile fa- ther of the assistant agent of the company snoops around to note the strength of the strikers. Rank and File Class Consciousness. The class spirit of the mill worker was revealed by a woman striker. When she saw for the first time the Textile Worker for February, 1928, the official organ of the U. T. W. of A., she spied an ad for The Star Needle- work Journal, a quarterly publication devoted exclusively to needlecraft, at 260 West Broadway, New York City. This address happens to be the address of the New York office of the American Thread Co., where the strike is on. She spied the address, and immediately asked: “What is that ad doing in a union paper?” In- cluded also, are ads of various mills and companies. The DAILY WORKER Well Received. The Saturday, March 14 issue of the DAILY WORKER was warmly welcomed tdday. 500 copies were dis- tributed after this morning’s meet- ing. Nothing but commendation has been heard about the fighting spirit shown in the articles and the editor- ial comment. The strikers liked to read about the splendid fight put up by the Nova Soctia miners. The pa- per will be on sale from now on, at Dehenny Brothers on Rallroad St. Extend the Front. With the manufacturing depart- ment tied up, the American Thread Co. will undoubtedly try to do its work in other plants. While it is true that the Willimantic plant is the largest, still there are several others. In addition, the English Sewing Co., which controls the American Thread Co., controls 17 other cotton compan- es. The need is a united front. The District Executive Committee of the Workers Party for the state of Connecticut has recommended to the Central Executi¥e Committee to call upon the workers of these English mills (thru the Workers (Communist) Party) to strike in sympathy with the Willimantic strikers. A strike on the part of other plants of the American Thread Co. and all companies con- trolled by the English Sewing Cotton Co. would be the most effective means of winning the strike. To Put Screws on France. WASHINGTON; March 20.—Putting the thumb screws on France, to in- duce her ta give up her military pre- donfinance in Europe and to cut her expenditures on armament so that she may begin to pay her $4,000,000,000 debt to the American treasury and her huge debt to Britain, is the meaning of the Anglo-American project for a a conference to diaguss reduction of auxiliary naval craft, * | Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT | Red Army Chief Tells Soldier Students of Russia’s World Aims MOSCOW, (Rosta)—(By Mail.)—In his first public speech since his appoint- ment as people’s commissary of war and navy, Michael Frunze dwelt on the international position of the Union of Soviet Republics. The speech was delivered to an audience of over five | thousand students from variops mil- itary schools gathered in the Moscow Big Theater. The very fact of the existance of a Soviet state, he said, naturally gives rise to various contradictions in its relations with the surrounding world. The Soviet government policy was simple however. It was a desire to prevent the aggravation of such po- tential conflicts. “What is most valuable to us,” he stated “is that our citizens should be able to labor in peace.” He then quoted various “foreign correspond- ents” who have been spreading ru- mors of vast war preparations being carried on the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics. Europe knows per- fectly well that Russia is absorbed in the task of economic construction and must realize these stories are being sent out to mislead the European public. He referred to the Russo-Jap treaty as an event of paramount importance in world politics. He expressed the hope that mutual relations would soon be established with France whose in- terests do not conflict with those of Russia in any part of the world. In concluding he said, “The Red Army will continue to improve in quality, not for purposes of imperial- ism but for purposes of self defense. It will keep in mind that a powerful Red Army is a guarantee of peace- British Unions in ful recovery for the Soviet republics.” Two Investigations Ordered. WASHINGTON—Sen. Shipstead's resolution asking the federal trade commission to investigate and report on American farmers’ co-operative: and the methods employed by their opponents to injure them, and Sen. Mc Kellar’s resolution asking a similar in quiry into the illegal practices of so- called open-price associations of manu- | facturers, were adopted by the senate | | courage, grace and under- | standing.” before it adjourned. Madison Pharmacy INC. BETTER DRUGS Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, — Four Phones Chicago } George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from imperial Hall CHICAGO Move Toward Unity * * 7 with Soviet Unions (Continued from Page 1) resolution was erroneous. After the speeches of Oudegeest and Stenhuis, after the attack of the Vorwarts, af- ter the declaration of the leaderg of the German Trade Union Federation, the British clearly perceived that they could not follow the way of the Amsterdam resolution. “The general council decided to cal! together a conference of the repre sentatives of the British and the Sov: fet trade unions. We heartily wel come the decision of the British gen- eral council. It represents a real step forward to unity. “Sassenbach, a short time ago, spoke sharply against the Soviet trade unions, against the Red T. U. International, against the British trade unions, against Purcell and Cook. The leaders of the German Federation of Trade Unions and the social Barmats stand in the front rank of the adversaries of unity. “They are for the unity with the capitalist governments, with the league of nations, with big business and trusts, for the unity with the Bar- mat, with Barmat’s money bag. They are against unity with the protetartat.. with the Soviet trade untons, with Purcell and Cook, with the left wing of. the trade unions. They are against labor and for capital, against Tomsky and for Barmat. “The decisions of the British gen eral council are not to the taste of the social Barmats. They will con- tinue their attacks, but will not step the march of events. The working class will gather force and achieve unity, despite the hostile work of the Amsterdam International.” RED REVEL of the FOSTER JUNIOR GROUP of Brooklyn, N. Y.—March 28, 8 . M at COLUMBIA HALL Stone & Blake Aves, Brooklyn, M. V. * n * 5 (* 5 5 T. J. O’Flaherty’s brother, Liam O’Flaherty, has writ- ten a wonderful story that critics are describing as perhaps the finest novel of the year. it's in the family. 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J = wwe > oa * 22 7 - 8 per year — — F — = See ** — seh . — 2 - —— — 7 1 2 * — B 1: 38.50. 1 — months fied montha By mail * Chieage on $8.00 per year oj 1 . months 32.501 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL | * WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ =a MORITZ J. LER... BUSINESS Manager Chicago, Mines The Post. 3. 1879. Advertising rates on application entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, i933, at | at Office at Chicago, III., under the act of March 290 *,? ; * * * The British Unionists’ Russian Report The 600 page report of the official British trade union delegation to Russia, compiled after ex- haustive investigations into all phases of economic, social and political life, has caused a panic in reac- tionary trade union and socialist circles as well as in the upper levels of capitalist officialdom. Only extracts of the report have been published in the United States to date, but enough to deter- mine that it is a history-making document. The report marks the real beginning of the sweep of the influence of the great Russian trade union movement into the English speaking capitalist na- tions. Upon the immediate issue of world trade union unity the report will have, has already had, a tremendously favorable effect. What the British trade union delegation actually discovered was that the Russian workers and peasants are just the same as the working class in the Anglo-Saxon nations with the difference that they have defeated | capitalism. Having settled this to their own satis- faction, by the cautious British method, the ques- tion of method becomes secondary—that is the British trade unions, seeing the victory and the fruits thereof, place in its proper perspective the charge of tyranny and terror hurled at the Soviet government and the Communists by the capitalists and their propagandists. The British trade unionists are practical per- sons. They are after results and when they see results obtained by the workers and peasants in Russia they are more than inclined to believe that the end justifies the means. This same conclusion will be reached by every worker when he has had an opportunity of knowing and weighing the achievements of the Russian working class led by the Communist Party. Here is the nub of the whole question. It ac counts for the loud wails produced by the British trade union report in the capitalist and socialist eee of the whole world. It accounts also for the fact that the American Federation of Labos did not dare to publish the report in its official organ, but instead gave space to the maunderings of J. Turner —the Ben Reitman of Great Britain. The main question asked world capitalism and its labor faker and yellow socialist allies by the British trade union report, not in so many words but in every paragraph of the document, is: “Why are conditions for the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia improving every day while the con- ditions of the masses in all capitalist nations grow progressively worse?” The answer is that in Soviet Russia the land, factories, mines, forests and the government belong to the workers and peasantry. This is the answer that will be given by every worker who reads the document, but for capitalism the question is un- answerable. It dare not tell the truth. To do 80 means to surrender. It is going to be mighty interesting to watch | the capitalist class try to suppress the British trade union report and to follow the sinister process by |. which the agents of capitalism in working class organizations will try to distort its revolutionary | import. Where Is Mussolini? Five weeks have gone by since Mussolini came down with the “flu” and he is not yet back on the job. A strike of 100,000 metal workers has ended in a victory for the strikers and the political pot, as a consequence, boils more furiously than ever. Meeting after meeting at which Mussolini was billed to speak have been held or called off with- out his putting in an appearance. The last official bulletin announced that the re- covery of the black-shirt leader was complete, but that was a long time ago and nothing has been said about his health sinee. * A number of huge strikes of workers in other in- dustries are in process of organization, the cost of living is going up steadily, but Mussolini still has the Hu.“ When the chief hangman of the Italian workers took to bed immediately after disclosures of his homocidal degeneracy, was more political than physical and branded it as a bad case of cold feet. evident that we made no mistake. Even tho Mussolini returns, his halo of honor and mantle of mystery have been disarr: anged | badly. There is talk of other leaders for the fascist bands and internal dissension the murder clique is growing daily. Mussolini posed as a “hard guy.” of “flu” long retirement, after his récovery was announced, among inside But his attack is beginning to be taken as evidence that he is not the personification of Roman valor. The working class of Italy, led by the Party, wil, write he last chapter of this episode in Italian, history we stated that his illness As time passes it is has shown that he is no superman and his Communist | ego hd we A 2 9 sh ae . 1 tr > Jn db yt 5 ot 2 n = It attempting to turn vl the railways of Mexico to Wall Street, President Calles let workers | know who the real masters of their country are. Lest there be no mistake about it, the railwaymen are required now to take an oath of allegiance to with the profitable operation of the roads by their capitalist owners. The railwaymen’s union is to be disbanded and they become simply employes of the Wall Street- owned Calles government. The forces are to be reduced by the discharge of 40,000 workers—for whom the Wall Street masters make no provision— and the greatest economy is to be practiced so that the American imperialists will haye no cause for complaint. Says Calles to the railway workers: Rumors of a proposed railway strike do not in- timidate the government. We will place the railways under orders and nothing will stop us. Railwaymen must accept the new order... . They will not remain members of the union, but will be considered as federal employes. .... The government proposes to readjust the railways, running them a short time economically, giving them economic stability, then returning them to the company. The same appeals are being made to the German railway workers who groan under the Dawes plan —the European expression of American imperial- ism endorsed by the social-democrats. The Calles gov ernment is the idol of the socialist hangers-on in this country; with the labor imperialists of the American Federation of Labor they join in praising it to the skies. When the American Federation of Labor officials crossed the Rio Grande after the last convention the result was only less disastrous to the Mexican workers than an invading army. We knew and said at t hetime that all the talk of international friend- ship was fo rthe purpose of weakening the Mexican labor unions—making them easy prey for the Wall Street bankers. At that time we did not think that the results of the betrayal would materialize so quickly. But here they are President Calles himself, the “labor president” of Mexico, is breaking up the most powerful union, that of the railway workers. The labor traitors lose no time in getting results for their masters. The class-conscious workers of Mexico and the United States must unite under Communist leader- ship against imperialism and its agents in the labor movement. Slavery for one means slavery for the other. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. . Premature Rejoicing The imperialist press of the world rejoices now that Sun Yat Sen has been buried. Until his body had been laid to rest the rulers of France, Japan, England and the United States could not bring themselves to believe that such good fortune as the death of the great leader of the Chinese in- dependence movement had come.to.them. Now they are jubilant and the Far Eastern cor- respondents of the organs of world capitalism are predicting the disruption of the Koumingtang Par- ty which Sun Yat Sen led. They see also the 8 eakening of the influence of Soviet Russia in China and some of them are bold enough to say that the Chinese Eastern railway will return to im- perialist control. Rivalries for the exploitation of the Chinese masses and natural resources have been forgotten for the moment while a pen of thanksgiving is sung. The wish is father of the thought. Sun Lat Sen builded well and his party of the Chinese people will not end with his death. Like all Chinese, Sun Yat Sen thought much of death and prepared for it. He knew that organization can replace in- ‘dividual leadership and he worked to that end. | Then there is the Communist Party of China with its active workers trained in the Communist school—the Far Eastern University—busy with the task of organizing the best elements of the Chinese masses. The Communist Party of China works in closest contact with Koumingtang—its organizational experience is at the disposal of the Chinese independence movement. The loss of Sun Yat Sem will make the task of combatting imperialism in China more difficult; but it will not déstroy or even check it. | Sun Yat Sen’s Funeral | Describing Sun Yat Sen’s funeral, the capitalist press service from Pekin says: Ambassador Karakhan and other Soviet representa- tives were the only diplomats in the parade. ... M. Karakhan presented a huge red wreath. All the Soviet men wore red and black bands. The coffin was borne by members of the Kuomingtang. | Two things are noticeable in the above dispatch: | First, that the imperialist diplomats did not care to honor the leader of the powerful party of the Chinese people who had fought them up to the very hour of their death and kept China from falling entirely into their clutches. Second, the name of the party of revolutionary Chinese nationalism is spelled in small letters by the capitalist press. They would like to have the western world believe that it is a sect and not a strong and determined party. But the representative of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia were at the funeral. They brought the sympathy and understanding of the Russian masses to their Chinese comrades.” | Imperialism has no weapon as powerful as this. * Geda member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. 4 Mexican 2 Traitors Wel 1 en the government so that no strikes may interfere | Definite arrangement? ites alread been made with the comrades who teach the various courses in the Chi- cago Lenin Training. School for the compilation and the outlines of their r future in the DAILY WORKER. It will take a little le to compile these outlines, as already thirty lec- tures have been red in the school (including but we hope to have them all order. Organization pet * Abern Closes 4 * The course by Comrade Martin Abern, f organizer of the Workers Party, a ‘ today. This course has — 3! satisfactory and has been with a great deal of close attentfof and enthusi- asm by the comrades of the school. Starting. from an outline of the role of the party, t went into detail on the necessity of liscipline in the organization, the iparison of our present form of ation to the shop nuclei basis is now the task of the party | |. Function. | outimed the duty of the various cgmmittees of the party as well as the various func- tionaries of the branch and higher units. he organizational work” in connection ‘with the united front tac- tics of the party and every other phase of organizational activity as re- lates to any organizations participat- ed in by the party was taken up. All in all, the course tho given in but six lectures covered a most com- prehensive field and brought many a detail to the fore that will be es- sential to keep in mind for the com- rades in the course, all of whom are in active party work and expect to carry on even greater activities after the course. The outline of the dove course will be completed shortly and will be either ready mimeographed for the students or printed in the DAILY WORKER. ' Today’s schedule 10 as follows: 9 A. M—History? and Tactics of Trade Union Movement, Dunne. 10 A. M.—Party Organization and Structure, Abern (last lecture.) 11 A. M.—History of American Communist Movement, Bittelman. 12 M.—Lunch. 1 P. M—tLeninism, Gomez. 2 P. M-~-Elementaty Marxian Eco- nomics, Lerner, Public Speaking Course Starts Mon- day, 10 A. M. The ten o’clock hour, up to now taken up with Comrade Abern's course on Party Structure and Organ- ization, will be taken up beginning Monday by the cdfifse in Public Speaking conducted by . Comrade Thurber Lewis. This course will last for the six remain Mays. Com- rade Lewis is well f by years of training on the platform and in party work to conduct t course. The course will be prac consisting only of one or 80 ures the rest of the time to be d byoted . to speak- ing on the part of une students. uor Is Good for the S — CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 20.— Looking back over a fruitful life, as a faithful servant of capital, Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university, was visited by relatives and close friends today, his ninety-first birthday. This is his health formula: continued capacity fof active experi- ence to a sound constitution never im- paired by serious disease or accident. a calm temperament, the habit of tak- ing daily exercise, and a slight but never regular use of stimulants, like tea, coffee, alcohol tobacco.” Bankers Have Anpether Daily. NEW YORK, March -20.—Another daily organ of big Business goes on the news stands as the American Banker, changes from the weekly tc the daily basis. New York, the finangial capital of America, if not the world, now has fived tull sized daily papers devoted exclusively to the news of the financial world. Write us a letter tell us how you work, what are your wages and shop conditigas—and then order a bundle foradistribution in your shop. O’FLAHERTY SPEAKS TONIGHT AT COMMUNE MEET IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis., . 20.— Thomas J. O'Flaherty, of the DAILY WORKER, will be the main speaker here saturday night, Mar. 21, at the celebration of the 54th anniversary of the Faris Commune, at Miller Hall, 802 street. The meeting will, be held. under the auspices of the Workers. (Com- Party, neee Cog | munist) Admission Will be oN INITIATION OF Dall ment in the Amalgamated Clothing 9 attribute my health and my long is going W. — Ome — ve * it ee - SUBSCRIPTION AT CHICAGO PARTY (.€.C. MEETING 5 The two successful nn by the party against . - * 4 # ae 3 4 eS oka ay ie neee. * „„ * +e rm Kar * See * revolutionary spy and tool of the Amsterdam International; the launching of a series of meetings and distribution of leaflets by the militants of the Trade |. Union Educational League as an immediate man machine removal from the job distributing an appeal and protest leaflet of Operator's Local York; the increase in the sale of literature and the DAILY of many Amalgamated comrades for 5, New at the 1 — ae 5 ö 8 counter - jence of the Levin-Hill-| « * , whines Ree Oe 5 7 ~ 4 os a * 4 % 7 3 29 Camps CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 20.— union and other meetings, thru. the efforts of the city propaganda committee An extensive tour has been arranged in charge of Comrade Thurber Lewis, and the initiation of the DAILY WORKER subscription drive; the very auspicuous and successful opening of the Intensive Party Training School started by the ‘district executive com- mittee; and the coming International — 2 * Unity Demonstration, March 29, at |} Ashland Auditorium, were among the maln features of discussion at the city central committee meeting, Workers (Communist) Party, local Chicago, on March 18. Demonstrations Against Abramovich’ Enthuses the Party. The party membership and organ- ization responded and conducted two strong, emphatic and successful de- | monstrations against the counter re- | volutionary Abramovich, the secre- tary reported. (See capitalist press and labor press for details.) Poli- tically, these were of great value for the party. It engaged the party in a most important phase of political ac- tion, experiences of great value for the future. The spy, Abramovich, was not allowed to spill his poison before the workers and only the thugs, socialists, and other illiterates heard him—a consolation he or they may have gratis. Our party members got concrete evidence and experience, thru clubs, fists, gun and rifle threatening, etc., of the close alliance of the socialist fakers with the capitalists and capi- talist police, gunmen, etc, Political experience was gained, enthusiasm of the party members increased, and party prestige enhanced. Party and Needle Trades Members Getting Into Action. Our members in the needle ‘trades who want effective action, are getting ready for mass meetings and leaflet distribution in the campaign against -expulsions, for the reinstatement of the expelled in the Amalgamated and International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers. Many members of the party and others were removed from the job in Chicago by Sam Levin, Amalgamated reactionary official, for distributing thousands of the leaflet issued by Lo- cal No. 5, New York, Amalgamated Clothing Workers. (Read DAILY WORKER for details). A protest meeting has been called at which the rank and file, removed from the job, will speak. This meeting, which all of the party must back up, will be held Monday, March 23, at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren Sts. Pluggers.announcing this demonstra- tion were distributed Friday morn- ing at the factories by party mem- bers and party students attending the training school. These volunteered at the C. C. C. meeting, - Then, too, preparation is being made for the immediate: distribution of the leaflet on the coming agree- Workers. National protest meetings are also being arranged. There is every indication that the Hillman ad- ministration will have its hands full as the T. U. E. L. and party militants increase their campaign to expose the Hillman and Sigman machines be- fore the membership. United effort and action will build the left wing, the Trade Union Educational League, in the needle trades. Discussion was lively at the C. C. C.; after that, even livelier action is expected and the party will take every measure to push the work irrespective of any obstacles. 95 Propaganda Committee Literature Sales. The propaganda committee on the DAILY WORKER and literature is getting results, increasing its sales of the Workers’ Monthly, DAILY WORKER and other literature at un- ions, meetings, etc. At the Abramo- vich meetings, large numbers of the daily sold, and the Bedacht pamphlet, White Terrorists Ask for Mercy, to the extent of 700, distributed. All branches have been given union as- signments to cover. In the DAILY WORKER subscription drive, the English branches have challenged one another on a daily sub contest. Let's hear from the language branches. Build the DAILY WORKER! March 29 Ashland Auditorium— Everybody There—Unity Demon- stration. The party membership is expected to get full force to make a huge suc- cess of the International Unity De- monstration, commemorating the Paris Commune, demanding the re- lease of the class war prisoners of the working class, extending aid to the starving workers and peasants of Ireland and holding a counter-demon- stration against Abramovich. This gathering, to be held Sunday, March 29, 2 p. m., is a big party un- dertaking. The city central commit- tee members are going into the branches to get the party and the sympathizers out. The Irish poster parade by our comrades thru the loop will help. Party Branches Asked to Donate Means for Party School Students The intensive_party training over big and everybody — students teachers. v. . * Increasing RED TO 7 | SATURDAY, MARCH 21 Black! White! an and Red! great combination. it’s a No we are not writing about the | 2 dunkdom. We are merely indicat- colors of the glorious flag of Squee- ing the political and racial features of the forthcoming Dance and En-“ tertainment given by the South Side. Branch of the Workers Party and Branch No. 8 of the Young Workers League. The revellers will be com- posed of black and white workers— with RED political ideas. The members. of the South Side branch have established quite a re- putation as actors and entertainers and they have promised to perform their “prettiest” Saturday night, March 21, at the Community House 3201 S. Wabash Ave, Just what the nature of their act will be they refuse to divulge, but they assure us it will be worth the two bits ad- mission, and then some to see It. We pass on the information to you out of considerations of altru- ism and discretion. in case you miss out on the affair do not burden us with lameptations or reproaches. * 2 66 are elated. The out-of-town students, for. whom lodgings have been pro: vided, however, did not come here as millionaires plentifully supplied with money. They are miners, mill workers, etc., who have been unem- ployed but who recognized the need of the party school and came. The city central committee adopted a re- solution that the larger party branch- es shall contribute the price of the meals each day, which amounts to about $15.00 per day. Send in your ‘share for the meals to the local party office, 19 S. Lincoln St. New members for the Workers (Communist) Party were accepted from the following branches by the city executive committee: Greek, 2; N. W. English, 1; Irving Park Eng- lish, 1; S. S. English, 6; N. S. Eng- lish, 2; Englewood English, 1; Hun- garian, 1; So. Slav No. 1, 2; Finnish, 2; Nucleus No. 6, 1; Letts, 1; total 20. These must first attend the class ‘on the program of the Workers (Com- munist) Party before finally being ad- mitted into the party. Time did not permit a full review of the T. U. E. L. work in the car- penters, printers, machinists, but de- tails will be printed on the T. U. E. L. page concerning the work of the comrades therein. The anti-injunction statement and resolution sent by the party to all labor unions and organ- izations in Illinois, must be taken up by the party members at every op- portunity, as well as the other reso- lutions in connection with the united front campaigns of the party. May Day at Temple Hall. May day celebration this year at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Bu- ren Sts. May day committee meets next Tuesday at 180 West Washing- ton St., 8 p. m. Branches send full delegations. Next meeting of the city central committee on Wednesday, April 1, at 722 Bl land Ave.—Fraternally, t Loral Chicago, Martin Abern, Secretary. Japanese Concert and Dance. NEW YORK, March 20—The Young orkers’ League, Branch 5, and th. running a joint concert and dane: on Saturday, March 28, 8 p. m. at Workers’ House, 108 E. 14th street for the benefit of the DAILY WORK- ER and the Young Worker. A won- derful program has been arranged, of Japanese songs, sword dances and in- terpretative dancing. Music by a good union jazz band. Admission 35 cents. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Saturday, March 21. Social and Dance, Community Hall, 3201 S. Wabash Ave., under auspices of T. W. L. Area Br. No. 3, and South Side Br. of W P. Admission 25c. Frolic and dance, Liberty Hall, 49th court and 14th street, Cicero, under auspices. of Cicero brothers of W. P. and Y. W. L. Admission 35 cents. Give your shopmate this copy of the DATES wo ut be — 4 Japanese branch of the Workers Party | * jee March 29. . 1 ö | | trial centers. * „ tor Max Salzman thru the mining districts of Ohio, West Virginia. In speak in a num His dates are as . Akron, Ohio, M ~ Yorkville, Ohio, Tiltonville, 2 26. Dillonvale, ringer” cog 27. Bradley, Ohio, Mi Dillonvale, Ohio, V. . mk theeting Martin's Ferry, Ohlo, March 30. Bellaire, Ohio, March 31. Neffs, Ohio, April 1. - Dilles Bottom, Ohio, April 2. Powhattan, Ohio, April 3. _ Triadelphia, W. Va., April 4. * Bellaire Young. Miners’ Conference, ‘April 5. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 67. McDonald, Pa., April 8. Bentleyville, pa,, April 9. Marianna, Pa., April 10. Pittsburgh, Pa., April 11. Pittsburgh Young Miners’ Confer ence, April 12. E. Liverpool, Ohio, April 13. Youngstown, Ohio, April 14-16. Warren, Ohio, April 16-17. Cleveland, Ohio, April 18-19. Ashtabula, Ohio, April 20-21. Conneaut, Ohio, April 22-23. Buffalo, N. V., April 24-25-26. Erie, Pa., April 27. PITTSBURGH PARIS COMMUNE MEET FOR MARCH 29 PITTSBURGH, March 20—The les sons of the Paris Commune will be ex plained to the workers of Pittsburgh, Pa., by Wm. F. Dunne, editor of the \ DAILY. WORKER, March 29, 7:30 p. m. at the International Socialist Ly- ceum, 805 James street. Arrange ments are being made for a Paris Com mune celebration, which despite the late date, is ex to draw a large audience, It is the first time in sev- eral years that such a celebration has been held. Several successful meetings have been held in this steel Good support was rallied here for the Sacco-Vanzetti defense on Sunday Robert Minor and Epstein spoke to a packed house exposing the lies of the agent of the Second International Abramovich. In addition to the lecture a good program of entertainment is being prepared, including recitations, a mu- sical program by a string orchestra, and singing by the German and Hun garian workers’ choruses. . Admission is free. ARE YOU YOUNG? If so, ‘you are not immune from contagion. You cannot be vaccinated against spring fever. Spring fever Is contagious. Beware—and grow old. Or succumb and come to the spring fever costume dance, on Saturday, April 4, 1925, at 1347 Boston Road, Bronx. It is arranged by Branch 1, of the Young Workers’ League. Music, Youth, Dance. And you be there! Internationalists, Attention! You must come to the next Anti- Nationalists’ Concert and Ball, on Saturday, April 11, 1925, at 1347 Bos- ton Road, Bronx. Given under the auspices of the Workers Party Eng- lish Branch No. 1, Bronx. Admission 50 cents, Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! NEW YORK WORKERS * SCHOOL HAS TRAINED SPEAKING TEACHER NEW YORK, March 20.—A gen- eral course in public speaking will be given every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m., at the Workers’ School, 108 Bast 14th street. The instruc- tor is Carl Brodsky, one of the best | Party speakers in New York, and well equipped to train others. The primary purpose of this course is to develop propagandists who can effectively present the Communist position in their activi- ties in the party and the trade un-. ions. Last year’s election campaign showed the great need for trained speakers. Comrades are urged to register so that we may have a bigger and better corps of speakers for the coming campaigns this sum- mer and fail. For registration and information, inquire any day or evening 2 the office of the school, telephon f vesant 8100. The course is als n n “tye city lately
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