Daily Worker
March 26, 1925

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§ FRR ote: tie’ ; fe * Pee eee pea , : ROTATE Le SEDONA oe niente aX TE er ee ee — ——— + Siege “seription; Drive » ea ee ahs: 3 ‘in Full Blast! | ae. : ts i | ‘ EDITION Bi en ae oO ; 2 om | . ¥ . - oe ; ‘. : 4 ss | | ites od : See. «3 Wid 1 as second-class matter Sep t Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 38 1879. fe \on- | .r"s > a .- 0 nada wtp? e so: ? ' , ; ‘ by m 00 . ie 290 9c Sunday b : ms Vol. Hl. No. 63. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘Guiside Gnicasc, by mait, $2.00'per year, © VA MARCI 1 26, 11925 oad “eps CO, iis W. Weehington Karr Bit ols ane Price 3 Cents in | RESET | ae ee Se Te a . 3 wait 4 ae a y ‘ > | ~} ied “pg ie ae ; Ye ee ; ais Pee ae ae f ) se ae | | : ern- tay lre- | : ican : ight ‘oxi- this ; x 7 The | = vest | —— — iter- ° 0 | AS WE SEE IT PENNSY COAL MINERS ee sale | | % WELCOME FRATERNAL ? #* : —_— in Bi| WASHINGTON, March’ 24—Prtes SPIRIT OF MILITANTS iv the Milwakee Leader essays the} ° ims OBA pee 42 {dent Coolidge will offer a rece - ap 2. is a task of explaining the late Sun | @ : | Tala: {ecetcent to Thomas F. Woddiogs PITTSBURGH, Pa. March 24— iS Yat Sen to its readers. The hor | . : ew York financial writer, as a mem The miners are welcoming the fra- i} “% tor of the atrocity on the dead rebel, | Ug | ( ber of the interstate commerce Com- ternal spirit shown by the radical ae liam tells us that Sun had little use ton 4 : ‘ mission, ft was announced at the workers of Pittsburgh and vicinity, ‘é alr | Bolshevism and “hoped that some- i White House today. . ": - the Pittsburgh Labor Defense Coun- ; will how the big financiers would realize D n | 44 H nd The senate twice xefused to con: ‘ S Get Facts cil and the Free Speech Council (Special to The Daily Worker) wha / 1 as he did, that China would become ema ours a er ee | | , of Western Pennsylvania having UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 24.—A strike against wage cuts that started t is. an easy prey to Russian Bolshevist ; ; gone on record to do anything In | fast week in the coke region is spreading. One more mine of J. W. Reane e de- , pete 2 ‘a Cotren unless the 5) P er Cent Raise Doors their power to help the miners who | @ Co. has been closed down by the side ; 10Wl- statesmen.of Europe and America ee See we. ere Oe Ws: We Oe Altho there is no organization as yet, the miners are preparing them- crafi backed Chinese democracy.” This is| Eighteen hundred members of the under the lead-| officials and attacked by the opera | .ive6 to conduct the strike Most of these men went thru the national strike foul sl f the greatest rebel | Cleaners’, Dyers’ and Pressers’ Union, Le j tors. that a foul slander o ereates and his two of 1922, They were well steeled in the struggle y of lead@r in the history of China. No. 17742, walked out on strike yester : Sam Risemman and At the recent meeting of these or- : to be ci“ 6 day morning, demanding the 44hour a tege ganizations, the following resolution Negroes Now Fighting Alongside Other Miners. sship FTER in ies eae Otiahicaten ih week and a general increase of five 6 5 the manager of the; wag adopted: At that time the operators were able to bring Negroes from the south China wilf “i oe a sociatiat | °** cent in wages. from opening the Resolution. to replace some of the men on strike. But today there is a different story to The strike action followed a seainn meeting at the Union Park Temple, 1507 Ogden Ave., at which the 1,200 Leaflets anit Soeakt | for Monday “Whereas, five thousand miners | tell. It did not take the colored workers very long to see the purpose they meeting of mem-| who. were working upon the premis- } were being “used for, As a result they+ ted Clothing; es of the Hillman and Reiney coal | are fighting side by side with the white government for several generations, the fossil responsible for the. idiotic editorial. takes another whang at Sun jx _|members of the union present voted b rs of the organi-| companies in Fayette county, have | miners against any reduction in pay. - pc oe i ble bones a aian firest unenipousty tor (he saree Cover Whole State pulled off their jobs| struck work in protest of a wage | ~It is bad enough to have to dig coal | ith Caan a pm ‘help. from Mos- The agreement of the Cleaners’ ributing leaflets tell.| cut and eviction notices being serv- | with a pick at a rate of $1.50 for a (Special to The Daily Worker.) « CLEVELAND, O., March 24.—The biggest, best organized and most ef Union with the employers has expired, of Local 5, New ed upon them by these companies | three or four-ton car, but the operators and the employers refused to.stand- cow, is the natural jump of a utopian board in that ci-| to leave their homes within 10 days, | want to reduce this price to $1.05 \for mind from ome extreme to another.” LOCAL 181 WIN wer ardize the working hours or give an 4 ‘and th l. The di k r Jat yet “his approach to. Moscow was increase in wages. “ths men he. been fective campaign against the State | ad _— i i “Whereas, during the strike in 1922 noe ren i aber da he a ata the most. realistic bit of statesman- working sometimes 44 hours ané.comne- constabulary law and compulsory re-}* ——— 4 P six thousand miners’ families were | will do so, but not starve piling up walk, ship that Sun’ ever avenge , Rath- times 48 umaer the cbdmaréeinean: ligions training in the public schools| *8© = mayen evicted by the coal companies from | profits to the operators BIG VICTORY or realistic for a utopian dreamep: yet launched in this state is being |*O = a ; The wages of the cleaners, dyers their homes in a brutal and illegal i og ts” i cm HAT : i i ee ene pinsuala under the expired bares waged by the. Workers (Communist) ; Racemie so a mariner, therefore, be it . vere suena” ear elite oan 9h we site watt - ment varied from $3.00 ‘to $60.00, ac-| P@rty: they found the| , "eselved, that the Labor De- / So far about 12 mines attempted to gests the Leader, is to co-operate cording to the eight different kinds of The party has mobilized every city ee ek eke hued fense and Free Speech Council of j|cut wages. The Frick Coal and, Coke! ¢¢ y) ‘alin with capitalism in building up Chin-| ... under the jurisdiction of the |°®=tral committee for this work. Two gu Western Pennsylvania go on record |company and the other independent xpe é M é mbers oyna ese industries so that the foundation union. All members of thg union ask leaflets have been published. One/® The Manag | 6° do everything in our power to | mines are awaiting the outcome of the . would be laid for socialism. “Chin- |, 5 per cent increase in wages. deals withthe state police bill andj % opened the Tem-| prevent any arbitrary acts by the |strike, whether they will also cut or Are Restored to Rights ig aM ese nationalism, led by henchmen of; Weiss, secretary of the union, the “yellow dog” contract labor sys-|*© » the hall would be officiais of Fayette county and to | pay the same wages. If an attempt foreign and native capitalism, must | 115 was one of the principal speakers |te™m, the other with the compulsory a sluggers, 80 he) 42. ‘that the right of assemblage |is made by tiem to cut wage the feel- le the be th ker of Chinese democ- : intee that those who rot F athe long fight of Local 181 of the * pace Maker Oo at the strike mass meeting, said|réligious training. nt and free speech prevails.” ing against any reduction in wages | Carpenters’ Union for the five m ine racy. Any Chinese republic that is | picket lines will immediately be sent| Both leaflets combine exposures of | 46) hall should pay for} ~~ . is such that it will result in a strike|bers who were declared expelled by ‘ the now possible must. be a capitalistic | (4+ t) cover the struck shops. | (Continued on page 2) was refused. ” A a republic. In it Sun Yat Sen's move- ing. 4) ment has a mission, the same mission go | that the socialist party has. in all SAM LIPTZIN OF LOCAL FIVE other nations. But before a real so- wail cialist party develops in China, there A M A LG AM A of the entire Fayette county field: a former president o fthe local ended iggers. went thru ‘fe _ | profits soon teaches the workers tO|the five were restored to full mem- to frighten the as. close up their ranks. Once a group | bership righ at a well-attended kers, who waited of workers is uged against the other, | meeting in Wicker Park Hall. TED, NEW YO , FLAYS - hav . they be he need of c miust. be a strongly developed *capi- . Pee f to have an oppor ae Mlb op i the need of class| The militants in Local.181 scored talist industry and a strong modern TER A 5 a double victory when, they elected jernan labor unign- movement, Several gen- : | Phil Flecker as_president of the local parade . : erations must pass, before such th Neti ok RE ove eee as, WS oa: +, ‘ioe Peake ee. = | AU Te Lint Tih Hneere | ainat Jacob .Olson,. Harry Jensen’s Amer- cah become realities,” This is am iptzim, an | of Legal 5, New ' York, wh ch was. expelt id. fron t 6 Chicago Tribune; s‘\. @ | ' rr \ r While the voting... wae rg ce t their ee ae Ahlers timid t carried on in New York by|. cdeadaigaa ge oF a ity tly Seis: tandi sf “Dy sispering Set i arade: it is doubtful if the most effective Hillman. of. Levins and his gangsters at the we Ri A maerip ta 4 member to svete ar sigalg moe quune Commiunist “writer, could more Temple Auditorium, he wrote the following open lefter to Levin: oh wers F low. Blood as | odd j 4. 2 is at aa pale —_ clearly explain the philosophy of the An Opén Letter to Sam Levin: y Da F E Ps 8 around city or the re- ll ain present day-socialists or pen. @ more Mr. Sam Levin: You claim to have the Chicago tailors’ union ‘in your " Re omiciale of “~ rench Look on | This pg oe of the consti f - f - c 8 ‘\ t. the damning indictment of their surren pocket and you openly demonstrated last Monday night, the “strength” of the a tution, but what is the constitution t . der to the big capitalists, than the : | : Amalgamated: have not yet officially); siHANGHAI, China, March 24.—At 4 na he : Amalgamated in this city. You proved that not only have you the union in : , mare -_ a labor faker? However, the whis- Milwaukee Leader editorial writer repudiated y- Levin told thé/the present time pre ti , cerned your pocket but that you also have the underworld in your arms. But not ' : si) whey tage she pering campaign was unsuccessful has done. In plain language, it means |: Tribune Mhat the clothing | being made for the recommencement of the that the workers must co-operate with | the tailors. | workers who the hall, were | of hostilities which began last nar ° and the candidate supported by the sovern- the capitalists in exploiting the indus- If you thought for one moment that the tailors were with you and that| preparing to er the clothing and which for a while stared the fat Whipped Laborer and militants was elected. } ig the trially undeveloped sections of the |the tailors appreciate your work, you would not be afraid to come on the| factories in on May Day, and : Committee Reported. ° y : foreign community in Shanghai amidst B d Bod n an world. The Chinese must become the | invitation of those workers you have thrown out of work to answer to the had called the ‘maeeting to send out] their cock-tails and whiskey-sodas at urne y The committee appointed at a pre- egtene willing agents of foreign capitalists /taijlors for your shameful act against the glad news, the fashionable clubs trere. a vious meeting of the local, to investi- song who are bent on coining profits out |the constiution of the Amalgamated.| , a ‘The rejoicing of the Levin sluggers} The skirmishing which took place| CRQS6S CITY, Florida, March 24.— | gate the expulsion and all the cir- ose of the bodies of the Chinese workers. |[t seems that you cannot face the COMMUNIST LEADING was short lived. On Tuesday morn-|in some cases inside the, boundaries | The firstof the murder trials growing | cumstances surrounding it, reported mo © . "i ks masses and that you found yourself| | | ing two leaflet# Were distributed a‘ | of the French concession and the fore- out of the killing and burning of Lewis | that there was nothing illegal in the : oo ECAUSE China is industrially un-/forced to use the gangsters of the AMALGAMATED STRIKE the shops. Durihg the distribution| ign settlement (British) was almost | 22"*er, @ Negro logging laborer, got| resolutions signed by the expelled ape developed, the thing to do is to'uynderworld to “cover” your shameless- several workers were arrested by the| disastrous to several of the respect- under way here today when the case| members but that the language might y yards zive Wall Street a free hand in ex-/|ness. And furthermore, at the ma- li On leaflet foll of'G. W. McCrane, one of six men|be improved. The committee there- tah police. ° Tead as follows: | able citizens of Shanghai who had ’ s > PO ploiting the coal, oil‘and other min-/chine-controlled meeting which you ; ' “Grendine and Right!” been led) by idle curiosity to invest- under indictment, was called in the| fore recommended that the defend- rs out eral deposits. The mission of the so- | called in a neighboring hall, you made ~—— - “To tic’ mentee” 7 a Amalga- | igate the matter by goin fe th mae circult court with Judge Mallory F./| ants apologize for the offending tone ' aeubasaci cialists is to hurry industrial evolu-|insinuations against me and stated By THOMAS OWERKING. ed Clothing Workers: . . of battle salsiniatee Na 4 ey Horn presiding. of the language used in the resolu- a real tion along. That is the excuse for |fhat I came here on money supplied (Special to The Daily Worker.) f ng , ; . Four other white men and one Ne-/|tions which were the basis for the heart ; 0 . | ‘The gunman and slugger rule of | whole matter a huge farce. y supporting the Dawes’ plan in Ger-| by “agents” to break to union. BALTIMORE, Md., March 24. — the Hill tauie whachi vein Percianata Gonced gro are to face separate trials on this| proceedings against them and that many. During the. war, proGerman| yo, know that this is as false 48| The Amal ike tied h - eas" ae oe . sheath murder charge at this term of court.| they would promise to have nothing e Amalgamated strike tied up the | Temple audi least night to the They were disillusioned when sev- eg BA socialists held that if Germany Won | you, conception of the labor move-| pais; : | : 1 bull Two of them, Thomas W. Higgin-|to do with any organization opposed of the the war, the kaiser would force s0-|i.0,+ 1 am here because I was sént| ee Clomhing industry today. thousands of rank and file‘members oe sep a a wens mm to be |botham, whipping boss in the Martin| to the principles of the United Broth- | along wialism on the world at the point of |here py my local union to explain to| *”thony Jenkins of the Workers who came to hear how the legal | heard. And when yereen of the bul-|ranert peonage case in 1923, and E.}erhood. This was an easy condition several the sword. This argument Was 8S | the tailors of the country the causes| Party is leading the strike which (Continued on page 2.) lets hit at their feet and at times the |G priest, pleaded not guilty along|to comply with as none of the “ex- ler the peared in a Duluth, radical pr Pond dirty policy with which he led and morning. Pants and vest makers are Egypt’s Parliament es ee. ee The other men under indictment for such organization. e being tion, in 1918, which predicted the suc- | misied the Amalgamated. out in sympathy with the cloak- A Teapot Mock Trial Lags. first degree murder are: D. A. Parker,;} When the five members entered a cess of the German social revolution Mr. Levin, how long ago is it ‘since| Makers, demanding an increase in Disbanded When Pro- CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 24.—An |!ossing superintendent, who is still the hall, they were given a great ova- Bagh because Hindenburg threw in his lot you conferred with this “agent”? Is| Wages. The strike is under the direc- British Are Beaten exhaustive analysis of the legal phas- |#* large and John H. Winburn, a tion; the members cheering them ne cHY with the rebels. it lone ago since ‘you invited us to| tion of the joint board and Schloss- z es involved in the Teapot Dome naval |“°PUtY sheriff. Winburn was expected | wildly. Each of the five were re- ’ ee oe h ae “ : 4 1 berg here. This is one of the places ery trol 1 ted today |*° be brought here today from a jail| quested to comply with recommenda- f etroleum lease was presented today , easants HE yellows of the socialist party ma |? repeat ry ecaeyadbert et An where wage reductions were taken (Special to The Daily Worker.) a ites deteuns attedban th tile Bie ‘in an adjoining county to testify for|tion of the committee as a condition securing and of the socialist labo party mer now being general organizer of | “under Hillman’s direction two years | CAIRO, Egypt, March 24.— The/ pearing before Federal Judge T. | the State in McCrane’s trial. Charlie|/for reinstatement. They admitted re situa- gnash their teeth in rage because the the Amalgamated? Then you sought ago, which Hillman claimed was a Egyptian parliament was dissolved a 'Brake Kennedy. wherein the govern- Hart, a Negro, who is alleged to have ) that they were not college students, 00d job Russian revolution succeeded despite ' . . _|few hours after’fit had convened, by Si he . :, eis: |confessed and implicated the white/and that it was quite possible the our friendship in your and Hillman’s| 9f¢at victory. The workers are now ment seeks annulment of the Sinclair | | me or their choicest’ Marxian predictions. struggle in Chicago against Frank trying to regain what they Jost thru the pro-British premier, Ziwar Pasha, contract for the Wyoming reserve. ‘men under indictment, also will face | language could be improved on, but shing in Even the fink Abramovich holds that Rosenberg. And you were even ready| such leadership. when it was found that former premier : | trial. |they had nothing to take back so far for Ire- he is a better Marxist than Lenin. He at that ‘sone to call yourself a “left,” This morning at a mass meeting Zagloul Pasha, who is opposed to Brit- Probe Judge’s Graft Barker mysteriously disappeared|as the principle and content of the is the, kind of a Marxist that is wel- |) nt only inorder to make-we balbiien Jenkins spoke in Lithuanian as |'8h domination of the people of In- ST. LOUIS. March 24.—The federal | ‘from the lumber camps here October | resolution was concerned. come in the front rooms of the big | ,,.; Rosenberg was a reactionary,| ™any of the strikers are of this na- dia, controlled tha’ parliament. investigation of the bankruptcy frauds 19 last what was believed to be his} Kjar Stood for Every Line. on masters of industry. According to and that we should get the support a tionality, while Schlossberg ad- Zagioul was elected president of alleged to have been practiced by fe. | funeral pyre—a bed of charred bones | Nels Kjar was the last of the “ex- 3-—-The j; / tig’ gang of coyotes, the class strug- the New York members for you in| dtessed them in English. the parliament, amd two members of | 4...) Judge George English in the | beside an old stump in the swamps | pelled" members to be called om, “TI bar®.ers Pe . gle must be chloroformed and the | your fight against Rosenherg pr the his party were elétted vice president, Eastern Illinois district will begin to-| 2°? Shamrock—-was unearthed by in-}stand for every word in the resolu- to Pass / \. workers must enter info a united |... vention. You did not even think at following the opeming of parliament) prow vestigating officers later. tion,” he declared. This statement otest. of/ front with the capitalists. And of|i. 0) sine “of dna. Sid eamaonatith he endanger the organization to make! 9+ ten o'clock. None of the minis- ' State’s Attorney J. R. Kelly is bas-| was received with cheers by the mem- to comé course, socialism is several gemera- |, Levin safe for the machine and the) ters of Premier’Ziwar’s cabinet was ' Jing his case on the theory that Barker|bers present. Kjar also admitted : e organization. Luckily we knew) machine safe for Levin Storm Death Toll Mounts ; ) . irs ¢cOm- tions away! If the workers insist on only too well the politics of the Chi- . present. : . ; was severely flogged and then shot/that.he is not a professor of English lic hear- fighting the bosses the socialist cago Amalgamated. /We ‘listened to Naturally as was to be expected, Hill-| giwar then entered, and ordered the| “ EST FRANKFORT, Ill, March /and his body burned to cover up the|and that it is quite possible a stylist a force ‘Marxists” will find it necessary to our appeals for pa support and we | was successful in making the parliament brokemi up and new elec- 24.— With the death of Jefferson Da- ‘crime, (Continue on Page 2) trikes, / ‘ine up with the bosses in defense of a hed i f and did not job” and now you say that you have} tions held May 283. The new parlia-| Vis today Franklin country’s death toll | ane Marxism. This is their philosophical | “" 2 oe ee oa ee not) the Chicago union in your pocket. | ment will be opened June 1. mounted to 176, with 133 dead im W. v4 eng gt | bet there ie one ting wo” woul Pranktor. CHICHERIN EXPOSES CONNECTION ‘ch 23.—~ * * * S S OR ike to know, Mr. Levin. o you of th {8 James Duncan, former scretapy| | RUSSIAN AMBASSAD nave the Amalgamated in your ooket| State Rushes Thru SINCLAR OIL LOSES | OF GEORGIAN MENSHEVIKS WITH ; . n osse ave yo | Volstead, of the Seattle Central Labor| | MAKES MAIN SPEECH AT Aone oon es eT co ot om | Official Whitewash | FRENCH IMPERIALIST GOVERNMENT | of Mis- . Council, said at a recent meeting of pocket, the e history our or- : it to his ' that body during a discussion on the SUN MEET IN R 7 m | | 4 ganization is not written yet. The of W. Va. Mine Blast 6 FI Ips FOR ’ ’ . day is coming,, Mr. Levin, when the —— ° dge’s ap- right of Communists.to seats in the ance” menses thoek: wike aun eee BREAKING CONTRACTS (Special to The Daily Worker) i to War- hound to supplant the moribund so-| BERLIN, Germany, March 24.—At a|suffered and are still suffering today,}94_-with the recovery of all 33 , ie See rer oe eget : 5 und to supp Sclebration orknniede ta’ Ou i.lwill wrest the control out of your . third meeting of the central executive committee of the Union of Socialist " to seek. The Workers (Communist) | ents of Berlin, members of the Kuom- hands and the union will function to} of the Bethlehem: mines corporation | court annulled today the oil conces- nt i , d the Wiveseaie hers feet ™ ens ee: Party is the leading foe of the capi- | ™stang, of which the late Sun Yat Senj;defend the interests of the working! here in an explesion a week ago to-| sion on the island of Saghalin, off | ®°’°™™™e” be rie. an e Frenc gov ernment nts es and said: tribe to talists. The socialists have made | WS the leader, the Soviet ambassador|™asses in the shops, night, the state: investigation of the! the east coast of Asia, granted to wor several years the Frencn Soveramest assumed the role of a pro - sk him! * peace with the. bosses. to Berlin, Kreshtinsky, and two other} That day is nearly here. blast swung intooswift action today.| the Sinélair Oil interests of the | tector of the past Jordaniya government. Since 1920. when the British left ; . a eigen made the principal Sam Liptzin. The investigatéag Commitee will ex-| United States. Batum, British policy has changéd considerably with regard to Georgia. ONEIL wa -a, | Speeches. plore the mine’ss workings with the The court ordered that the money | British policy aimed at the possession of the straits as permanent navy Talk it up—your shopmate will The speakers denounced interven; Get a sub—make apaiene Com- expectation of completing the investi-| paid as a depesit should be returned | bases, which should allow British sea power to control the litto | aig ral of the SE araage subscribe! jtion of foreign capitalists in (hal munist! e sation by Thursday. to Sinclair interests. (Continued on page 6) ~ ’ a - : . , < - —_- : : : ; ; : *. “ ‘ . i% - 4 a 4 * 4S 3: a BS 3 e' ” - | A. 4