Daily Worker
March 31, 1925

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r ACE ve ‘ UT unfortunately—for the British empire—the people don't believe Balfour. They were not so numerous and not so skeptical in the days” of “T vinag * [sass >> * ox. bs rer IS FAVORABLE, SAYS DEFENSE COUNCIL The last group of cases cétping under the survey of the Labor Defense Council has made of the Communist criminal syndicalist cases since the war, are the Michigan cases. - of these Cases a great deal has been heard recent- ly, due to the recent Aonviction of C. E. Ruthéenberg, secretary of.the Work- ers Party, by the supreme*eourt of the state of Michigan. To appreciate the backgrotind of this conviction; Hewéver, it is well to recall some of the inci- dents that led to the arrest of some 17 Communists in the small town in Bridgeman, the later apprehension of five more and the self-surrender of ten (Command on Page 3) WORKERS PARTY COMMUNISTS WIN A IN MINNESOTA! mser cm WARS ON FAKERS Mosco Ww, March "0--Comasbe: Inaugurates Gigantic Publicity Campaign ists gained a heavy victory in the Soviet election, returns today show- ed. They captured 373 seats, while independents took 127. “The Com- (Special to The Daily Worker.) MINNEAPOLIS, March 29.—Follow- ing the fake unity convention held in St. Paul on March 20, by the politic- munists thus had a clear majority al lackeys of the capitalist parties of 246 over the combined opposition. and the ambitlous schemers who want THIRTY MILLION VOTES CASTIN suplolted workers, and pear farfpers GERMAN CONTEST A ‘xeon (Editor’s Note:—This issue of the old on the _Farmer-Labor Federation ’| DAILY WORKER went t the Workers (Communist) Party, in Sas errs vee wo this district organized the biggest |°*"*Y ‘© Sive the rst resu ts of the literature distribution campaign in the | lection. They will appear in tomor- history of this part of the country, to | row's issue.) expose this piece of treachery. 2S In an open letter to all local unions,| BERLIN, March 29;—Thirty million farmers’ organizations, co-operatives,| workers are expected to cast their — ~~ farmers, ~ fee cee votes in Germany’s first presidential (Communist) Party declares that it elections today. None of the seven stands now as in the past for the farmer-labor party. of Minnesota, that | “@"didates are expected to poll a ma- jority of the votes cast, which will it stands for the unity of all workers ahd poor farmers in a party based on necessitate a run-off election wherein the class interests of the toilers, but |°"/Y .® Dlurality of the votes cast is that it is opposed now as in the past required to elect, according.to the to the capitalist political traders, to — law. didat the sleek lawyers and the careerists, | m paves P ae ee are « to the business and professional ele-| 2°. ™a"", Communist Party; Eric ments, to the job holders arid job seek- | \U@endorff, fascisti; Karl Jarres, mon- ers and to the labor fakers who only | *7°2/8t. backed by the coalition of the nationalists and the Stresemann see in the movement to organize the industrial party; Dr. Held, monarchist workers and farmers the vision of a backed by the B ‘ le’ (Continued on page 4) . SER ee Deane O Oa ty, and the. catholic party of the south; former Prussian premier, Otto Braun, socialist; Dr. Marx, republican, candidate of the catholic party; Will- iam Hellpach, democrat. Ernst Members Downtown English Branch. NEW YORK, March 29—Very im- portant branch meeting this Wednes- day evening, April 1. All comrades} The Coniititinist Party, whose can- must come. The meeting will begin | didatée is Ernst Thaelmann, is expect- (Continued on Page 6) not later than 8:30 regardless of the| ed to poll between two and three mil- number of comrades present. ae votes, | _— eo — . an Urged Kuomingtang|> Soviet Republics has made public the| of Sun Yat Sen, leader of the omy eign imperialism, which urges a closer | _— people of China, ; Soviet wis or area his ere. \y ; Fr ? . fa ae i? of ie 3 : ' t , b 8 wT ; 7 bh ¢ , an : Z >. Re. eae 77 2 y 4 Sun Yat Sen’s message to the So. st viet Republics gives the lie to thelor ld, which | cade under £61 These citizen’s committees were, injdeclared that Sun repent: _ the mi per nent stitui shows that at his death Sun’s most xy a tal hope was that the Soviet and the] wides; es ‘Sun’s message to the central exe-|¢.6 government ¢ sin ‘ j ‘representative of British imperialism, % h, Chicago, Minols under the Act of March 1879. NEW YORK EDITION , 1925 TER 1 H. Carter, , like other but fairly ant. prior- nized and | were enjoyed. hed and every nd for decent at of dismissal And éince Wash- lustry is the go- a governmental @ the city. In- the employment ie sreduently the mistrations of i g office, Carter y of applying the , combined with iors. employees of rooms were aphical yon strong tof the estab- dition irked the | set on toot "to Tplaee ‘the ‘eomtrol of the printing. office in the hands of reliable labor hating The political culmination of this conspir- acy occurred with the placing of Reed Smoot, the Mormon’ Senator of Utah and Senator Moses, the flunkey of the New Hampshire textile aristocracy of child labor exploiters, in prominent places on the committee on public printing. The inauguration of Warren G. Harding, March 4,°1921, was the signal for a woncerted drive against organized labor in the government printing office. George H. warter, formérly a mem- ber of the WNewswriters Union of Milwaukee, Wis., but who had been clerk ofthe committee on printing for (Continued on page 6.) ARABS’ STRIKE DRIVES BALFOUR TO JUDEA HILLS Police Walk Streets As Moslems Protest (Special to The Daily Worker) JERUSALEM, March 29. — Gen- darmes patrolled the streets during the second day of Lord Balfour’s visit and men@ced the Arab strikers who! are protesting against domination of Palestine by British imperialism. Lord Balfour recovered from his “sea sick- ness,” which, together with the strike of the Arabs, had “indisposed” the sufficiently to allow Balfour to motor outside the hostile city, and into the hills of Judea. The Arab shopkeepers closed their stores in protest against Balfour's vis- it. The heads of the zionist movement which is being used by the British as a weapon to keep the Arab races in subjection, were the only ones to wel- come Balfour. Many Jewish stores also closed here. . - _ Mosiems Protest Visit. not found ‘ “hear daily except Suhday by THE DAILY WO.iKER = CO., A113 W, W ee Bivd, Chicago, mL 20s rice 3 Cents =* WASHINGTON.—Lives of coal min- ers in the United States are less safe than the lives of coal miners in any | of the other large coal-producing coun- tries, engineers in the U. S. bureau of mines admitted, when questioned in connection-with the Fairmont disaster. But, argued a government engineer, | who admired the ‘coal companies’ effi- ciency, there’s less blood on a ton of American coal than on a ton of Brit- ish or German, because American ma- chinery permits the mining of three times as many tons per man as does the British system, or the German. Therefore, even though more men, per hundred employed, are killed by acci- dents in American mines than in those of other nations, our business men | must be congratulated! . of in Hawaii (Special to The Daily Worker.) HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 29.- Paul Crouch, and seven other soldier members of the Hawaiian Communist League, an organization § including United States soldiers stationed at Schofield Barracks, have been arrest- ed and face courtmartial on charges involving the death penalty and life imprisonment. The sole .evidence against the United States soldiers is that they are Communists. Those who have “been arrested by the United States government for their political views are;—Private Fred Creque, 27th infantry, a young working class writer, who studied at the University of Idaho, Washington and Oregon; Private Walter M. Trum- bull, 21st infantry band, formerly a prominent sculptor of Boston, Mass.; Soraienl Roy F. Ebert, 35th infantry, ite of lowa dental college; deca: “(Continued on page 5.) bo + Spies Frame U p 8 Reds capitalist dictatorship! | “LANZUTSKY MUST NOT DIE 2 . “Stanislav Lanzutsky must not die!” ‘ “Release the victimized workers of Poland’s white guards!” “Down with Poland’s murderous government of Grabski! Hail to the coming Soviet Republic of Poland!” “Long live the international solldgrity of the workers! Long live Soviet Down with the . * * These were the challenges hurled into the face of the emissaries, con- suls and agents of:the white guard Polish government yesterday in demon- strations taking place in all the largest cities of the United States. They were staged by American workers before the doors of all Polish consulates and in front of the Polish legation in Washington, D. C. The demonstrations were to protest in the name of the American work- ers against the sentence of death by Poland’s capitalist dictatorship upon Stanislav Lanzutsky, a railroad work- er now a member of the Polish parlia- ment, whose lifeblood is sought by the white guards of Poland because he delivered a speech before the striking Railway Workers’ Union in the city of Przempl on Novy. 11, 1923. > *. ¢ | Police Attack Washington Demons- tration WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29.— With banners and placards bearing -denunciations of the Polish govern- ment’s attempt to murder Stanislav Lanzutsky, Communist member of the Polish parliament, sentenced to death for a speech; the members of the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica picketed the legation of Poland here yesterday afternoon and were driven away only by the assaults of the police of the capital of American democracy. The police were summoned by Dr. Ladislas Wroblewski, ‘the Polish minister, who denied to the newspa- pers that he knew anything concern- ing the railroad worker whose life is sought by the Polish bourgeoisie be- cause he made a speech during the general strike of railway workers in 1923. The Communists promised further picketing of the legatton if the Polish government proceeds with its an- nounced design of crushing out the working class movement of Poland, A mass meeting is being arranged at4 ved be sent to aed wry byree st to “op Page 2) JAP WORKERS WAGED BIC STRUGGLE AGAINST PASSAGE OF - LEGISLATION TO AID EMPLOYER'S WHITE TERROR (Communist) Party recently issue with the Japanese workers ‘in their anese labor. lature, now in session at Tokio. (Continued That the workers of Japan waged an energetic struggle against the passage of suppressive legislation intended to crush all attempts of the working class at organizing their forces, is seen in the accompanying declaration of the Proletpolitical Organization of Japan. The Workers a manifesto declaring its solidarity struggle. The ruling class of Japan pushed the legislation thru the diet and itviggnew on the statute books of Japan ready to be used whenever necegs The declaration of Japanese labof follows: . /ta.combat militant Jap- To the Workers of the World, We Appeal! W* ‘the proletariat of Japan, are threatened with a regime of white terror. The, peace maintenance bill, which seeks to supervise all social move- ment, fs to be introduced into the 50th session of the imperial national legis- - The bill, under the excuse of maintaining the peace of the land, seeks to suppress every legal as well as illegal movement of the workers, and of on page 3) Judge Told Fellow Grafter to Take $1,000 Per Month EAST ST. LOUIS, UL, March #49— The scene of the congresional probe into the official conduct of federal to East St. Louis where the sub-com- mittee examined data bearing on the services of C. B. Thomas, former ref- eree in bankruptcy. Thomas, close friefid of Judge English, resigned when his conduct was subjected to severe criticism. Court records showed cases where Thomas served as receiver and where he also acted as attorney for the re- ceiver. The first case considered revealed that Judge English had ordered Thom- as to pay himself $1,000 a month as receiver in the failure of the Chicago Fuel cempany, filed by Jacob Hand- elsman, Elmer Webber, co-receiver, re- ceived a similar salary. Testimony has already been intro- GENEVA, March 29.—The league of nations has received two telegrams from Palestine. protesting against Lord Balfour’s visit, and the British practice of favoring ome race to the detriment of another. were sent by the Palestine Moslem league and the Moslem christian so- ciety. England is angered at these pro- tests, declaring that ‘under the pro- visions of the only mandatory powers may protest the league. Get.a su The telegrams duced indicating that Judge English |promised certain East St. Louis bank- ‘ers the privilege of handling bank- 'ruptcy funds in return for positions in ‘their banks tendered his own sons. Saved $30,000; Count Insane. TAYLORVILLE, Ill, March 29-—A tragedy of lonliness thru long years of toil, was revealed here today in an at- tempt to declare William Bailey, 62, Hermit plasterer, of Pana, insane. He is said to have $30,000 saved..from wages on depositin a Pana bank. De- clared insane, he is to testify for a another Com- | munist | ; “5 : | - ~ ww , + '— » > -» eee, — new hearing Judge George W. English was shifted | LEADER ILL, THE ~-FASCISTI FAGE ~——- WORST GRISIS 80 Per Cent of Workers Oppose Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) eighty per cent of the industrial work- ers of Italy lined up against fascism and the opposition aggravated by the unsayory publicity shed upon Premier Mussolini's part in the Matteotti mur- der, Mussolini himself afflicted with }cancer of the stomach, faces the de \feat of his dictatorship by the work- ers of Italy. Mussolini is in a weaker position at this time than at any previous period of his rule. Mussolini was placed in power by big business. His troops are being fed by money sup- plied by the manufacturers’ associa- tion. But with the strike of even the fascist metal workers union recently, the manufacturers decided they were not getting their money's worth and demanded one-third of all the seats in the chamber of deputies. The opposition to Mussolini is ex- pected to reach its height with the Matteotti trial, which Mussolini has time and again been postponing. Red Deputies Returned. More complete details of the Com- munist demonstration in the cham- ber of deputies on the occasion of the (Continued on page 2.) i. ROME, Italy, March 29.—With over’ RED STUDENTS GIVE SCHOOL HIGH PRAISE Pledge to . Work Hard for Commanism Enthusiasm prevailed at the closing session of the Workers School when a résolution was introduced by one of the students, expressing gratitude to the central executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, Dis- trict No. 8, and the Chicago central committee for the opportunity to study Communism and the methods by which the party brings its message to the masses. The resolution also expressed the appreciation of the students for the instructors who so willingly gave their time to make the school a success. The resolution which was passe@ una- nimously reads: The Lenin School in Chicago will a handmark in the history of o. Bete Bistrot Nob ald the CeO abonut;..We consider it a great step forward in the bolshevization of our party, and express the wish that it will be possible to make it a perman- ent institution, therefore be it RESOLVED: That, we, the direct beneficiaries of this school, go on fecord as heartily endorsing the idea of the school, and extending our thanks and appreciation to those res- ponsible for it. We wish especially to express our appreciation and regard for the instructors, who, already over- burdened with party work have so willingly given their: time that the school, might be a success. And we pledge ourselves to our party that we will go back to our tasks in our respective units to multi- ply our activities and efforts a hun- dred fold. We promise to show by our work, that the school and the sacri- fices which it entailed, will be justt- fied by the results, Women Now Compose Nearly One Half of England’s Workers LONDON, March 29.—The design of capitalists to replace male work- ers with un-organized, and hence low- er paid, women workers, regardless of “breaking up the home”—is shown in the issuance by the government of the 1921 census returns. It shows that there is not a single division of industry in England and Wales in which women are not em- ployed while only 30,000 fewer’ wo- men than men are connected with one or other of the professions. Altogether, 17,188,050 persons were employed in industry at the time of the census, 12,112,718 men and 5,065.,- 332 women. This is an increase of 234,580 women compared with the census of 1921. Women completely out-numbered men in many industries, including the textile trades of Lancashire, the china and porcelain trades, and the making of pins and needles. — ———— State Sc School Burns. LINCOLN, IIL, March 29—-One hun- dred and twelve patients were led to safety here when fire broke out be neath the floor of the state school and colony for feeble minded. Red Killed in SOFIA, March 29.— A Communist and a policeman were killed in a street battle betweem workers and po- lice who attempted to break up their meeting. Several were injured. MADRID, Spain, March 29—Premier Primo de Rivera has refused the re- en tl I quest of the liberal party to assemble in convention eee et ged 3 | our party. We, the students of the ie od in bringing this great event ‘an ee a