Daily Worker
April 9, 1925
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What Piroli did was to appear before the king’s gate tattered and torn, a: mutilated wreck of what was once a man. *. * *® ROLI asked to see the king, and unless we are being spoofed by a cub reporter, the gateman was un- usually obliging. He hied forth to Emmanuel and told him what he saw at the portals. The next reel brought the crippled relic of humanity to the king’s. presence. The hero told his king what had happened and then made the polite suggestion that com- pensation for his valor was in order. He hinted that an iron cross or a new pair of Boston garters would not fill the bill. he. . * HE best is yet to come. After Piroli returned ,from the war, at least all that was left of-him, a greedy | landlord came along and evicted him from his cottage. It appears that the landlord was selling hot dogs on the market place in Rome while the hero was ducking Austrian bullets. While the hero was away fighting for his king, the landlord was getting glori- ously drunk but remained sober long enough to purchase the cottage in which the hero was born. There is: a moral, right here if you care to paint or otherwise adorn it. Evidence that a man may accumulate wealth de- spite an occasional sniff at a whis- key glass, while many strict teetotal- lers Nie with dry whistles because they each lack the price of a sinse of orangeade. a cy « HEN the hero returned he was so sick that he could not marry a munition maker’s daughter or even a red cross nurse. In fact, this was his only gain from the war. The land- lord forgot about the cottage for a few weekg while he celebrated the vic- tory of Italian ye gtr ; sa |b when ‘his small a ‘ : cant: : ed = yh per ae his ént. Seek see gers * gee hero almost, gave ‘him vig Cups, bu he smothered his desire to Ril witen informed in trembling Vofee that 'Pi- roli had no money, . nothing but a breast full of patriotism. At that the landlord had a lot of patience. oe ca 2 HE landlord, exercising his consti- tutional right as an 8S. L. P. man would say,: refrained from reverting to barbarism and realized that he was on the civilized plane. He did not kill his tenant, but evicted him with- yut further discussion. Attempts of the tenant to point out that hé was a wounded patriot kept the landlord’s temper at the boiling point. Who- ever heard of a patriot getting his re- ward anywhere but in the neck and Piroli got it twice in many different places. e, » e me O much for the land] The cur- tain falls for a moment to indicate the passing of time and Piroli is shi- vering beside his sovereign after hav- ing told his ale. “What can I do for you?” said the sovereign between sobs, inwardly hoping that Piroli would be a decent fellow and ask for a drink and a Camel cigarette. _But when the monarch. was hit up for the (Continued from page 2) DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT WRECKS ERIE TRAIN, KILLING THE FIREMAN GREAT BEND, Pa., April 6.— J. K. Loohm, fireman, was killed and William McGill, engineer, was injured, and passengers in a west bound Erie passenger train were thrown from their seats here today when the locomotive plowed thru two cars that jumped the track \ from an east bound freight In front of the passenger trarn. “A broken brake beam caused the two freight cars to leap into the Baas of the passing train. |: Want of Food ‘Robert Stewart, a leading member of the British Communist Party, and now secretary of the Workers’ Inter- national Relief in Ireland has written the following story of conditions in the famine region in that country which shows the necessity for im- mediate action on the part of the American workers if thousands of pqor peasants and workers are to be saved from death thru starvation and disease caused by hunger. The DAILY WORKER urges its readers to get busy at once and send in contributions to the Irish: Workers’ ard Peasants’ Famine Relief Commit- tee with headquarters at 19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago. * am ; * By ROBERT STEWART Thanks to the Workers’ Internation al Relief and their effective relief on the west coast of Donegal, many families face the perilous future with a little more hope in their hearts, I have just returned from a survey which included the area from Teelin to Dungloe, a stretch of mountainous country covering roundabout a hun- dred miles or more and taking in the villages and towns of Teelin, Kilcar, Killybegs, Ardara, Lettermacaward, Glenties, Dungloe, etc. Personal ob- servation confirms the reports of our committees thruout the area. The people have been taugh to hide their misery and veil their poverty as a thing to be ashamed of or to furtively beseech their “betters” for a moiety of their charity. The advent of the W. I. R. has changed that attitude. The surprising fact that people like themselves in other lands have eard of their trouble and have sent) , tuel and} chine. to Dam, bes: {wakened not ha, , wo ty only RUMOR PERSHING SLATED AS NEXT WAR SECRETARY Weeks to Be Out by Mid-Summer WASHINGTON, . April 7.—Rumors that Gen. Pershing would be named as the next secretary of war, to sti- multe a fascist “loyal” spirit thruout the country, were afloat in Washing- ton within an hour after it became known that John. W. Weeks, present head of the war department, had suf- fered an attack of thrombosis (para- lysis), and would probably soon re- sign. Later news of Weeks’ condition in- dicated that he would be only tem- porarily crippled, and that he might be strong enough to serve out the present year, but it was admitted that he probably would be out of the cabin- et by midsummer. Pershing has been ordered to Peru to have ¢harge of the Tacna-Arica plebiscite, in case the Peruvian pro- test at the Hughes-Coolidge award in that land-grabbing case does not be- come a flat rejection of the plebiscite plan. His selection to head the war department would require the appoint- ment.of another man for the South American job. ‘Traditionally, the secretary of war has been. a civilian. This act may de- termine President Coolidge against the selection of Pershing. On the other hand, he may decide to set an- other precedent for enlarging the scope of choice to be employed by the White House. If he finds, however, that Pershing is a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1928, the general will go to South America. LEFT WINGER, TAKEN FROM JOB BY LEVIN, STUMPS AMALGAMATED OFFICIALS IN HOT CATECHISM (By a Member Taken Off the Job.) . The reactionary officials of the Amalgamated in Chicago are making a hollow pretense of democratic and legitimate procedure in dealing with the militants taken off the job for having distributed the leaflets issued by Local 5 of New York. They are calling in the militants one by one, cross- examining them and trying to scare them into promising to “behave”; is to quit fighting against the class-collaborationist policy of the Hillman. Levin machine. This week I received a communication from the union notifying me tc appear before the board of directors of my local union. On arriving at th« : (Continued ‘ that on page 8) ,* | Paes AND T fe . > ‘= « -* - => aa CONSPIRACY ICT ET WEEN 109 108. -* CLASS te | es =— = => Bie jo “Ts KEEP YOUR. — SS . an ee ON: THAT = i hee = ol a "¢ C a tae i J , \ | — a L | 4 2 ~~ ey wily TE a ba? & Mekeie ; i = “> = oe 7 a }. Cae, a ae Sx : K “% oY eT eee age "ME Bosse s™.. a ; | ey a ee } ry © | “eA - open, the notorious Los Times appeared on the streets with a headline: “Local Reds Plot Man’s Death” and giving as the basis for this provocative falsehood, a fake let- ter alleged to have been received by Abramovich during the day. The Fake Letter. The fake letter threatened to shoot the yellow stoolpigeon as soon as he opened his mouth against Soviet Rus- sia. Of course, the screed was written by one of the rats accompanying Abramovich on his tour or by the handy scribes of the department of justice who are adepts in forgery. Fhe meeting was called to order by Hassell, president of the Centra] La- bor Council who announced that the officials of the Central Council and the socialist party made an agree- ment with the police department, whiah would insure adequate protec- tion. Then the hypocritical C. J. Taft, of the Civil Liberties Bureau; spoke. He outlined the policy on the Abramovich question, which is the policy of the Jewish Daily Forward and of the yellow socialists. Abramovich outdid himself in slan- dering the Russian workers and peas- ants. He said that 60 per cent of the women in Russia were prostitutes. This statement inflamed the mindg of his atidience and shouts of “Liar! Liar! Defamer of women!” were hurl- ed at him from all over the hall. A young girl dressed in red stood up im the gallery and sang the Interna- tional. Used Clubs Freely. From the time Abramovich started until midnight, he was not able to make himself heard beyond the sec- ond row of seats. The police used their clubs freely and were kept busy ejecting men and women from the hall who were pointed out by the social- ists. One officer was heard to remark (Continued on page 2.) Carpenters’ Locals of Philadelphia Endorse Detroit PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—At the last meeting of Carpenters’ Locals Nos 1075 and 1050 both these unions en. dorsed the resolution sent out by the Detroit Local No. 2140 condemning the axpulsion policy of the Hutcheson ad yipistration, and demanding the rein statement of the expelled. (Special to The Daily Worker) —— -- : LOS ANGELES. —(By Mail.)—Rafael Abramovich hades strong under- standing with the police force of this city, but that did‘ast save iim from having his anti-Soviet lies stick in his throat when he tog#k the platform at a meeting in the Central Labor Temple to slander the workers and Syaee of the first workers’ and peasants’ government in history. . The collusion. betweengthe yellow socialists, the police and the cealaatact press was apparent when, two hours before the meeting? Was scheduled to Angeles +— | WOMAN SLUGGED AND DRUGGED IN TRACTION VOTE Gunmen Adie in Car Steal Election A woman election worker was slug- ged, bound, gagged and drugged, sev- eral alleged gunmen, said to have been creating a reign of terror in various districts wheré bitter ‘contests had been waged, were arrested, and some cases of ballot stealing and less- er fighting were reported today as Chicago, in general; went lethargically to the polls to casti-its vote on its much-heralded traction ordinance. The woman victinz' was ~Mrs. Bar- bara Gileson, 30. Shé was found un- conscious in the garage at the rear of her home. At achespital she told police she had been wtruck down as she was about to take out her car to carry. voters to the polls. In the suburbs--Evanston and Oak Park—it was predicted from a can- vass this afternoom ‘that the Sunday movie and entertainment ordinances would be defeated 2 Sr 3 to 1. The customary reperts of gunmen touring various warddé, kidnaping and slugging election workers, stealing ballots, and terrorizime voters, poured day. | BODY-OF SUN YAT SEN, LEADER OF THE CHINESE WORKERS, IS PRESERVED (Special to The Daily Worker.) PEKIN, April 7.—The body of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the president of South China, was permanently preserved in oll today. The body of the) Chinese leader was placed in a giats coffin filled with mineral oil. v®urchase of 15 gallons of oil to preserve the woey was made | USING RIPPLES into police headquarters during the | CAPITALIST PRESS TO BOOST SALES Park Cork Legs Until Day’s Work Is Done (Special to The Daily Worker.) TOLEDO, Ohio, April 7.—An_$in- stance has just come to my notice, where a one-legged cripple can be made to produce more profits than a man who has two legs. For over two years the two largest Toledo papers, The News-Bes and The Blade, have been giving premi- ums for new subs. Each paper employs a crew of solicitors, who were furnished with premiums to entice the reader. to drop one bunk sheet and take the other one. More Circulation. It seems the circulation manager of one paper has been hard pressed with the necessity of getting more circulation and at the same time cut- ting down expenses in his ~ depart- ment. He has discovered by experiment- ing that he can increase circulation faster by using cripples as solicitors. This came to the writers’ notice in the following manner: The writer answered the door the other day, when a cripple with only one leg asked me if | would not sub- scribe to The News-Bee, which he was soliciting for. I have no use for the capitalist sheets, but I warted to know how business was, so I asked the solicitor what premiums they were giving. He said he did not get any prem- iums to work with and never had any trouble in getting business. I thought perhaps The News-Bee had at last stopped giving premiums, jso I inquired of other solicitors and | was informed that they were all using ‘premiums, but the cripples who had |to work without them. | The other solicitors say that the | |crippled solicitors get twice as much | business as they do with premiums. This solicitor who is crippled has | a cork leg that he puts on after he is thru working. Sixty-One Per Cent of Telegraph Operation Is Done by Machines CHICAGO, April 7.—-About 61 per cent of the Western Union Telegraph | Co.’s telegraph business is now handl- ed automatically, the annfial report for 1924 states. is an increase over the previous year. ee ST (Special to The Daily Yorker) LONDON, April 7—The French cabinet crisis today was holding up negotiations toward a security pact, as well as negotiations toward set- tlement of the French debt. The foreign office stated it had received no information regarding the new French financial policy and could not ‘confirm reports § that France intends to settle her debts in order to restore her credit abroad. E HOWAT TO SPRINGFIELD MINERS’ PROTEST Kansas Fighter Ruled | Off Ballot by Machine (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 7.—Alex- ander Howat, veteran leader of the Kansas coal miners, has been invited to speak at the protest demonstra- tion, this Sunday, at Reservoir Park, to protest against the effort of the Farrington-Lewis regime in the Unit- ed Mine Workers’ Union to usurp the presidency of Illinois Sub-District Four, to which Freeman Thompson, spokesman of the militants, was reg- ularly re-elected at the last elections. Howat is himself'a victim of the same vicious tactics that are being employed, in the attempted ousting of President Thompson, to break the power of the opposition in the min- ers’ union to the betrayal contained in the long-time Jacksonville wage agreement. Howat Cal But Howat's n lowed to go for the pres trict; altho h nomination na the state. In order to ‘abtatain an appear- ance of legalis effort. was at first made by the it machine to force the Kans ation to keep Howat off the ballot. When this fail- od, then the lLewis-Farrington got busy and struck\Howat’s name off he Kansas ballot. Springfield Miners for Thompson. The Farrington-Lewis machine knows that the coal miners of the Springfield sub-district are of the same kind as their Kansas comrades. If there was any complaint against the election of Thompson, as presi- dent, it should have been lodged with the sub-district organization. This was never attempted. Instead the Farrington controlled district executive committee, in star chamber session, and in violation of the laws of the organization, took up the attack on the vote cast by two of the militant local unions, denied a hearing to President Thompson, or any other sub-district official, and rendered its decision declaring its tool, John A. Walker, president of the sub-district. Tell it to the Miners, District President Farrington de- clares in a letter to Sub-District Presi- dent Thompson that he must get out, let Walker take his place, and if he doesn't like the decision he can ask for an appeal. Howat and others who have fought the Lewis-Farrington machine in the past know what it means to take an appeal against the decision of this crowd. The refusal to let Howat pre- sent his case before the last inter- national convention of the United | Mine Workers’ Union was perhaps | the greatest crime ever perpetrated against a member of the miners’ un- ion. | New and startling facts as to many other crimes of the Lewis-Farring- | ton dictatorship in the miners’ union | | will be revealed by the speakers at | Sunday's demonstration, which it is | expected more than 5,000 miners will ‘attend. y is Rejected. eal not-even al- poet in the race Of the Kansas dis- | Wie was placed ifi ey Jocal union in Join the Workers Party! Herriot Favors Giving Up Roads and Post (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, France, April 7-—The cham ber of deputies today referred to the chamber’s committee on finance, the law proposed by the new minister of finance, de Monzie, which would en- force the Dawes’ plan of the Morgan bankers on France. Herriot Consents, The consent of Premier Herrioi was given to the law, which would give French finances entirely into the hands of the American bankers and the French industrialists, and the law was then submitted to the cham- ber this morning, after having been discussed and approved by the cabi- net. The cabinet discussed the law at two conferences before submitting it to the chamber. While the de Monzie proposal con- templates a voluntary contribution of ten per cent of all wealth, it likewise provides for a forced levy if the volun- tary contribution is not forthcoming. The de Monzie proposal would abol- ish government ownership of all in- dustries now operated by the govern- ment, and established a practical dic- tatorship of the bankers. Made Clemente! Resign. The de Monzie proposal adds fresh proof that Clementel was forced to re- sign as finance minister at the de- mand of the Wall Street bankers, showing the control over the French government held by Morgan and com- pany. AE-GERMANY PAYS WEARE RUINED SAYS FRENCHMAN Dawes Phen : Strangles French Industry (Special to. The Daily Worker.) PARIS, April 7.—-The impossibility of. making the Dawes’ plan work is beginning to dawn upon the manufac- turing interests of France. The lat- est complaint of M. Dardel, president of the syndicate of French manufac- turers of rolling stock sums up the whole situation in the phrase. “If Germany pays we are ruined.” The industrial chiefs of ‘ France foreseeing the ruin of Franch indus- tries by the inflood of German goods received on the reparations account. are making representations to the government to accept only merchan- dise not interfering with products manufactured here. An Unsolvable Dilemma. In the case referred to by M. Dar del thru a letter written to the min- ister of finance, reference is made to the Weisbaden agreement providing for the delivery by Germany to France of 4,500 passenger cars, rep- resenting a value of 80,000,000 francs } (about $4,000,000), which Dardel com- plains should have been spent with French industries. ; the letter stresses the fact that France today is in a better position than ever to manufacture rolling stock and railway supplies, as during the war most of the factories in the | north were destroyed and others were constructed in the south to take care \of the war needs. Since the armis- ,tice the northern factories have been reconstructed bigger than ever. Only Market has no Money. | The letter states that the French factories are able to build 5,000 loco- motives annually, while the French ,roads do not need more than 100. It adds that the overproduction is ac- | céiituated by the German deliveries of many times the needs | “We cannot sell to England. Ger- many and America,” the letter says. “Our only clients are the Balkans. who cannot pay.” COMRADE RADWANSKI WILL MAKE FIRST SPEECH ON TOUR TO AID POLISH PRISONERS NEXT SUNDAY The first meeting arranged by the International Red Aid and its Polish section, the Conference to Aid Political Prisoners,in Poland; at which Com- corporation's 'rade Radwanski will speak, will be held Sunday, April 12) 1 p. m., at Inter This | mational Workers’ Home, 3014 Yemans St., Hamtnamek, Mich. There will also be English, Ukrainian and Russian speakers, } y * - z ; >
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b a - — HAD DYING GIRL IN HIS GARAGE Took Her to Hammond on Forcible Joyride (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, April 7-—The at- tention of the prosecution in the Oberholtzer-Stephenson case today was directed toward a search for Karl Gentry and Earl Kienck, both of whom were charged with the former klan leader on a conspiracy count growing out of the alleged criminal attack upon Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Owns Factories. The indictment against Gentry and Klenck, lieutenants of David C. Stephenson, who, besides being known as a strong political factor in, Indiana, owns several large manufac- turing plants, alleged that they held Miss Oberholtzer a prisoner for a short time in Stephenson’s § gar- age. This, according to the indict- ment, took place after Stephenson and the girl had returned from Ham- mond, Ind., where Mrs. Oberholtzer attempted to take her life by swallow- ing a slow poison. Arraigned Yesterday. Stephenson was to be arraigned to- day, probably late this afternoon. Several other important cases in crim- inal court might delay his pleading until tomorrow, it was said. Eph Inman, counsel for Stephen- son, said the court would be asked to quash the five indictmonts against his client, but declined to tell on what grounds this request would be based. If the annulment motion is overruled a plea of not guilty will be offered. Girl is Worse. Miss Oberholtzer who swallowed poison after the alleged attack in a sleeping car, again has lapsed into unconsciousness and physicians said she could not survive. Abatement pleas probably will be argued in court next Saturday or ear- ly next week as the court indicated % eongested docket would prohibit mmediate consideration. if the court finds the abatement motions do not contain sufficient rea- son for quashing the indictments the defendant will plead not guilty and an early trial asked, Eph Inman, de femse counsel said. County Prosecutor William Remy said he did not believe the grounds tor the abatement proceedings were sufficiently strong to warrant quash- ing of the indictments. He expressed the belief that members of the grand jury were chosen legally and that the testimony of Dr. John Kingsburg, who treated Miss Oberholtzer, justi- ‘fled Stephenson’s indictment. The former klan leader and poli- lician accompanied his attorney to the court room. His usually rully cheeks were pale. 7 - > INDIANAPOLIS, April 7.—David C. Stephenson, 33, former Indiana grand dragon of the ku klux klan, met to- day with Eph Inman, his chief coun- sel, and other legal aides to chart the course thru which he hopes to con- vince Judge James A. Collins, in criminal court that the five indict- ments charging him with criminally mistreaiing Madge Oberholtzer, 28, should be quashed. No Foundation for Defense. " When his case. is called for hear- ing, probably next Saturday, Stephen- son will attempt to show the indict- ments were returned without the test- imony of competent witnesses, and that the selection of the county grand sury was not in accordance with the law. County Prosecutor William UH. mnemy said he was certain Stephen- f£on's allegations were without found- ation and that the defense’s abate- ment motion would be overruled. In this event the former klan leader has made known he will plead not guilty. Girl Unimproved. After a restless night Miss Oberholt- zer’s condition was reported unim- proved today. Her physicians said they were amazed at the vitality which has enabled her to withstand the efiects of a slow poison since | March 18 She swallowed the drug oa * * « ] + rm} ; aiter an alleged attack in a sleeping } ar Which she charged to Stephen- 50n. Ker] Klienck and Karl Gentry, Ste- rphenson’s bodvenard charged with nim on : count, surrender- | ed ‘o { r and were released cn #5 ach. >. ? INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 7.—At- Leigping to avoid prosecution on legal technicaiiti, Marl Kienck and Barl Gentry, Klansmen charged with David Cc. Stephe nson, Indiana politician and fogmer ku ki klan leader, with alleged conspiracy to kidnap Madge Oderholtzer, 28, filed pleas in abate- ment when arraigned today before Judge James A. Collins in criminai court. Stephenson is charged in four other indictments with criminally at- tacking Miss Oberholtzer Judge Collins set next Saturday as the date for hearing the motions of all three. Pleas of not guilty will be entered by the defendants, Eph Inman- defense counsel, said, if Judge Collins overrules the motions to quash the indictments Miss Oberholtzer was hovering be- tween life and death this afternoon, her physician announced. f ' ° : : ts “ ey Pint 2). ys : “+,” . > COL, 22° ae . 7 oe A eee ‘ . . oe a4 ‘ , i* — ¥ Br Ok. > y% . a > ay = 7 hae meet Workers’ Aid Asks C on- tributions | In response to the call of the Inter. |. national Workers’ Ald the local Chi- cago Council for Labor Defense and Relief is inaugurating a two weeks’ drive for relief to the working class victims of the terrible storm that re- cently devastated Southern Illinole and adjacent districts. All who stand for the solidarity of the working class in time of need as in time of strug- gle are asked to contribute one per cent of their weekly wage, one cent on the dollar, toward this fund. Thousands of pay envelopes are being circulated in shops and fac- tories and union meetings to make easier the collection of this fund. The envelope bears the following appeal: WORKERS’ RELIEF OR BOSSES’ “CHARITY” ? WORKERS’ AID IN WORKING CLASS NEED! So that the recent tornado, which cost a thousand workers’ lives in southern Illinois and —— shall not be used by, the bo ’ flef organizations to break the fighting spirit of the uni.n miners, | hereby give my bit, In this PAY ENVELOPE Address Clothing and foodstuffs accepted as well as cash. Send all contributions to the CHICAGO COUNCIL FOR LABOR DEFENSE AND RELIEF 19 S. Lincoin St. Chicago, Ill. Distribution in the storm area in charge of Ross White, President of Miners Union 3160, Sesser, I!linois. House to House Canvass The South Slavic branch of the Workers Party has already acted by arranging for a house to house can- vass in its district on Sunday April 12th. Other branches are expected to follow suit and there is considerable speculation as to which will bring in the largest amount. Every Workers Party member is expected to take at ‘Teast three of these envelopes and get ‘hem filled. Members. who do: not at- ‘end meetings will have them mailed to their homes. Only two weeks’ time is allotted t« this campaign, the envelopes are to be distributed at one branch meeting, the contributions of the members im- mediately collected and sent to the local office, 19 8. Lincoln street. At the following meeting all outstanding envelopes are to be turned in and im- mediately forwarded, unopened, to the same address. Worcester Buliders Strike. WORCESTER, Mass., April 7— Building is tted up in Worcester by a strike of union hod carriers and tend- ers. The strike is to bring pressure on the lone scab company of the city to employ only union men. A STRIKING MAY DAY BUTTON White background, red border, black figures, hammer and sickle in red, white lettering and red ribbon, a com- bined expression of unity of purpose— struggle against capitalism. } Wear one on May Day and have your fellow worker and brother union ists—men and women—do the same. Order a supply at once. See that your branch of the Workers Party, local union and benefit society orders a supply for sale and wear on May First—Labor’s international Holiday. Price 25 cents. in Jots of ten or more, 15 cents. Special discount to City Central Committees, District Or- ganizers and Labor Unions. Order from WORKERS PARTY, NATIONAL OFFICE 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. 4 eT 4 0 Aang te EE ee
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School which will sing proletarian songs. Delegates from unions and fraternal organizations were invited. It will be a big event in Los Angeles. Admission is 35 cents. . © - How Jews Live in U. S. S. R. Rabbi Jitnik of Kiev, Ukrainian re- public of U. 8S. 8S. R. is scheduled to speak before a meeting of the four left branches of the Workmen’s Circle on Friday evening April 13, at the Co- operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Rabbi Jitnik will speak on the ac- tual economic, political and religious life of the Jews in Soviet Russia. Ad- mission is 25 cents—the proceeds to go to the Jewish colonization fund of Soviet Russia. South Africa Gets Buenos Aires. CAPE TOWN, April 7.—L. 8. Street- er, president of the South African Radio Association, announced today that he had talked to Buenos Aires via radio. It was the first inter-con- tinental exchange from South Africa. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ‘Louise Strong addressed the student ber for your branch. the Mayor « as Usual (Special to The 0: Dally Worker) , PORTLAND, . are., April 2.—(By Mali.)—At eleven,’ o'clock Tuesday, March 31, at Reed College, Anna body and a auzgher of visitors, in the ecliege chapey. The students and visitors sat breathlessly listening as she told them of the vicissitudes thru which Russia had passed, during and immediately fol x ad the world war and the internal wars and blockades, aud related to them the method of.its rebuilding and ‘its new life. Second Meeting’in Labor Temple. On the sane day at 8 p. m., at the Labor Templé, thé addressed an over- flowing house, While at the same time the audience not so large as the morning mééting due to the fact that the A. F. ‘of’L. had obliged her with the smaltéest hall in the build- ing. However, the things she relat- ed found tertife ground. The chairman of the meeting, who is a teacher in the Lincoln High school In the city, apologized for the size of the hall and explained that he had underestimated the popularity of Soviet Russia in Portland. This was the fourth meeting that Miss Strong had held that day having spent a portion of the afternoon before the Consumers’ League where a collec- tion of two hundred dollars was rais- ed for the work she is sponsoring. Mayor Closes Auditorium. ‘Our astute “mayor, who always keeps his eagié eye on any progres- sive activities that might take place, as usual, refused the use of the city auditorium to tis celebrated speak- er. Howevér! “she closed another se ries of lectirés 6n April 1, in one of the large halls 6f the public library, which has a seating capacity of four hundred, « ©2!0 More thar®*two hundred people stood up to listen, while nundreds of others were tirhed away. The audi- ence sat as if 4arned to stone as they drank in the information to be obtain- ed from one Who knew so well, of a land where the workers have come in- to thelr own’ ») To say the least, no more fortunate thing has ocectigred than this tour of Comrade Strong’s since it is break- ing ewe pcaanaine and bias. M nt and important the audience. re recorded as a y The meet ils St. Louif}] _F bildiian Dying from Crash of Spéeding Trucks (Special to The Daily Worker.) ST. ta es Mo., April 7.—Three firemen aré de iéved to be dying and three others suffering from numerous injuries in tbe city hospital today, following a liision between two speeding fire tritks at an intersection here last night. Lieutenant Sdmes Myer, 41, hose- man Edward y, 29, all sustained fractured skulls. The backs of Myer and Havey were also broken. No hope is held for their recovery. The fire was in a ‘string of fruit ware- houses, the damage amounting to only $1,000. Government Shields Millionaires from Publicity of Income WASHINGTON, . April 7.—Federal income tax collectors have been in- structed not to make public income ‘ax returns, unfil given authority by the internal fé@venue commissioner, | Blair, the treastry announced today. Returns wilP not be available to the public until ‘after July 1, by which time it is expected the United States supreme court ‘will have decided the | constitutionality of: mewspaper public- ation of the tax*lists. Blair will ax | a uniform date for opening the tax | books. : | WORKERS! GO TO YOUR CLASS | MOVIES! “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in. Overalls” will be shown at: Sh Chicago, Ill, (Return engagement), Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwau- kee Ave., April 15. Newark, N. J., April 19. Tacoma, Wash., April 19 Denver, Col., April 23 and May 1. Toledo, Ohio, April 30. Reading, Pa., May 3. “Polikushka,” “Soldier Ivan’s Mir- acle” and “Lanny Memorial” will be shown: St. Louis, ay Hall, Grand and Page, Apri Bentleyville, Pa., May 1. Daisytown, Pa., May 2. “Russia and Germany” will be shown at She@dygan, Wis., Opera House, May 20a: : “Prisoners for Progress.” Milwaukee. Wis. May 1. An Example of Left Wing Spirit. Feeling proud and confident of the principles and actions which I was about to defend, I took my place at the front of the room and prepared myself for questioning. The vice- president of the local started in first: “Did you distribute the leaflets from Local 5?” he asked. “Yes, I did,” I replied. “Who gave you the leaflets?” “Why do you want to know? Do you want to take them off the job, too?” This fetched a smile out of the roomful of job holders. They knew my question was well-aimed. The vice-president swallowed hard and went ahead. “Did you know that the Amalga- mated has a law against distributing leaflets?” he asked. “T know all the laws of the Amal- gamated. What law gives you the right to take me off the job, can you tell me?” Here the vice-president temper slightly. “Listen, sister,” he snapped,- “you're here to answer questions, not to ask them. Understand?” I didn’t answer, so after a moment he went on. “Then you knew you were going against the union when you distrib- uted those leaflets?” “IT wasn’t going against the union. The leaflet was against the unfair and illegal expulsion of Local 6. It was against our officials selling us out to the bosses. I was defending thé interests of the rank and file of our unions and they are the ones—” “Never mind, never mind,” he in- terrupted. “Just answer my ques- tions and that’s all. You're not here to make speeches. Now, those leaf- lets you distributed came from New York. What right have you to mix in what’s going on there?” “Anything that goes on in the Amalgamated is my business, I, as a militant member of the Amalgamated, look at our union in a wider way than you. With me it is only a question of the Chigago members, but of all the members of the Amalgamat- ed, no/ matter where they are. The nk and file all over the cougtry must get together in a d struggle against the boss- and the reactionary official- Li) . was too much for the ques- tioner. \ “Say, sister,” he said, use talking to you. You don’t know what you're saying. That's all.” I smiled at him sweetly. “Thank you,” I said. He glared at me. Then he turned to the other board members. “Do any of you brothers wish to question her?” he asked. One of the “brothers” said he did. “Who paid for the leaflets and the hall?” was his first query. “The members who were taken off the job and other militants of the Amalgamated.” “Did you pay?” “I paid my share, of course.” “Oh, you did, huh? And why didn’t you open the doors of the hall?” “Ask Levin and his sluggers that — lost his “there’s no will herald this sham affair, and the others of a similar nature which they are conducting, as “thoro and impar- tial investigations.’ Thus far no de- finite decision has been announced as to the fate of the members taken off the job. Levin realizes that he has a real fight on his hands and that a large portion of the membership is incensed over his blacklisting tactics. In the shop where the militants were taken off, indignation is running high. In several instances committees were sent to Levin's office to protest. The struggle which is going on has served to acquaint the rank and file with the general state of affairs in the union, as well as the left wing program for remedying the same. The members are beginning to real- ize that the class collaborationist pol- ley of Hillman-Levin and Co. is de- stroying the power of their once mili- tant union, and that only a well-or- ganized rank and file revolt can save it. ‘SOCIALISTS’ ARE AGAIN FAVORING CAPITALIST WAR Polish ond Au strian Jingos Bluster (Special ta The Daily Worker.) WARSAW, April 7.—“‘When Lioyd George says that Germany will never be reconciled to lose Upper Silesia, and that Great Britain will never lift a finger to hinder Germany, it is an encouragement of war. Poland will be well armed,” said a senator in the Polish parliament. And, though this may sound like rank jingoism from the lips of a capitalist, it came from the lips of a} /socialist” member of Poland's senate, who spoke and voted for an inctegxe jin Poland’s army to 500,000 men This is an increase of 170,000 men. It also illustrates the outstanding na- tionalism of the “socialist” Second International, and closely follows the speech by the Austrian “socialist” Bauer, who militantly proclaimed the necessity for that capitalist nation to arm itself to the teeth against its neighbors. Austria is a vassal state, meanwhile, dependent ‘wpon the “charity” of the American banker bondholders. In Po- land, the budget shows a deficit for 1925 already of $26,000,000. To offset this, Poland is increasing the cost of living by consumption taxes. This to allow the army to maintain the “front- iers laid dowh by the Versailles treaty.” All London Views Dirigibie R-33. LONDON, - April 7.—The -dirigible R-33 returned to her mooring mast at Pullam at noon today, after a fifteen hour cruise. The metropolis was giv- en a sight of the dirigible as it wheel- ed over the city. Talk it up—your shopmate will question. They know.” The whole audience laughed at! subscribe! a senate aay, | Trade Unions in America By Wm. Z. Foster, James P. Cannon and Ear! R. Browder Is, with a brief statement of the American trade union movement, a history of the development of the left wing and an explanation of the structure and program of its guiding spirit—the Trade Un- ion Educational League. Peace After Jardine Ruling (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 7.—Final.as guments were begun here today be fore Secretary of Agriculture Jardin on the legality of the merger of th’ Armour-Morris meat packing cor cerns which took place in 1923. | An imposing. array of legal iumiy aries lined up to fight the goverr ment’s contention that the combine tion of the second and third larges corporations in the packing industr. was in restraint of trade. Packing Trust on Hand. Representatives of virtually ever. major packing concern were on hand because of the belief that out of thr contest will come the first definite in dication in a decade of the govern ment’s attitude toward giant packiny combinations. _ | Reports were in circulation that an other big packing merger is in pros pect if the government places thé stamp of its approval on the Morris Armour combine. The name of Swif figures in the rumored new merger. Cal Appointee to Decide. A decision by Jardine approving the merger would end the case, 1 was generally believed, while one ad verse to the packers would result hh an appeal to the courts. The secretary of agriculture is em powered under the packers’ and stock yards’ act, to act as a lower court ih cases where there are evidences of il legal combinations. . GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! —— Cal Is Honored Guest of Cotton Kings Who Meet to Raise Pri (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7— The opening shot in a new tariff wa) was fired here today when the Ameri can Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa tion met in annual convention to or ganize a drive for higher rates or textile products. President Coolidge will address the delegates tonight and he is expectec to touch upon the tariff. Directo General H. M. Lord, of the budget bureau, will speak with the presi dent, 4 —_ %. ; P — asf, Launch Airplane Carrier in Mad Armament Races CAMDEN, N. J.,. April 7.—Mies! Curtis D. Wilbur, wife of the secre of the navy, is to christen the Sara toga, largest and speediest of float. ing airplane carriers, here this after noon at its launching. The Saratoga is 888 feet long, with a 105-foot beam. It has an oval flat surface on which 75 airplanes may be carried. F “Bs Revolt on Turko-Persian Border. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7.—The +. Kurdish insurrection movement’ has spread over the Turko-Persian bor- der, it was admitted today. The Per- sian government has sent troops te The Little Red Library The first two numbers of this little pocket-size library, destined to become the most popular of any working olass publications ever issued in this country, are now being sold by all Daily Workers Agents thruout the country. a copy—or a ae No, 2 If you have not as yet seen a copy of this splendid little propaganda giant, and have not enjoyed the valuable reading in each, be sure to ask your local Daily Worker dozen copies. 10 CENTS EACH They can also be had by mail from THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. : most valuable number for the the frontier to combat it. Class Struggle Class Collaboration By Earl R. Browder Is a splendid study of the methods of labor bureaucracy to divert the workers from militant struggle thru the B. & QO. plan, insurance schemes and workers’ education. A thinking worker. (They are twelve for $1.00.) Agent for CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
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‘ ie - % ® = oe + +e + ere? = ‘Gentry ‘fled Stephenson’s indictment. _ KLAN EMPLOYER HAD DYING GIRL IN HS GARAGE Took Her ke Hameed on Forcible Joyride (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, April 7-—The at- tention of the prosecution in the Oberholtzer-Stephenson case today was directed toward a search for Karl and Earl Kienck, both of whom were charged with the former klan leader on a conspiracy count growing out of the alleged criminal attack upon Miss Madge Oberholtzer. Owns Factories. The indictment against Gentry and Klenck, lieutenants of David C. Stephenson, who, besides being known as a strong political factor in Indiana, owns several large manufac- turing plants, alleged that they held Miss Oberholtzer a prisoner for a short time in Stephenson’s § gar- age. This, according to the indict- ment, took place after Stephenson and the girl had returned from Ham- mond, Ind., where Mrs. Oberholtzer attempted to take her life by swallow- ing a slow poison. Arraigned Yesterday. Stephenson was to be arraigned to- day, probably late this afternoon. Several other important cases in crim- inal court might delay his pleading until tomorrow, it was said. Eph Inman, counsel for Stephen- son, said the court would be asked to quash the five indictments against his client, but declined to tell on what grounds this request would be based. If the annulment motion is overruled a plea of not guilty will be offered. Girl is Worse. Miss Oberholtzer who swallowed poison after the alleged attack in a sleeping car, again has lapsed into unconsciousness and physicians said she could not survive. Abatement pleas probably will be argued in court next Saturday or ear- ly next week as the court indicated % eongested docket would prohibit mmediate consideration. if the court finds the abatement motions do not contain sufficient rea- son for quashing the indictments the defendant will plead not guilty and an early trial asked, Eph Inman, de- femse counsel said. County Prosecutor William Remy said he did not believe the grounds tor the abatement proceedings were sufficiently strong to warrant quash- ing of the indictments. He expressed the belief that members of the grand jury were chosen legally and that the testimony of Dr. John Kingsburg, who treated Miss Oberholtzer, justi- The former klan leader and polli- lician accompanied his attorney to the court room. His usually rully cheeks were pale. * * . INDIANAPOLIS, April 7.—David C. Stephenson, 33, former Indiana grand dragon of the ku klux klan, met to- day with Eph Inman, his chief coun- sel, and other legal aides to chart the course thru which he hopes to con- vince Judge James A. Collins, in criminal court that the five indict- ments charging him with criminally mistreaiing Madge Oberholtzer, 28, should be quashed. No Foundation for Defense. " When his case is called for hear- ing, probably next Saturday, Stephen- son will attempt to show the indict- ments were returned without the test- imony of competent witnesses, and that the selection of the county grand sury was not in accordance with the ) law. County Prosecutor William H. nemy said he was certain Stephen- fon’s allegations were without fourd- ation and that the defense’s abate- ment motion would be overruled. In this event the former klan leader has made known he will plead not guilty, Girl Unimproved. After a restless night Miss Oberholt- | zer’s condition was reported unim-| mproved Her physicians said | they amazed at the vitality | which has enabled her to withstand the effects of a slow poison since! March 18. She swallowed the drug} after an alleged attack in a sleeping | car which she Charged to Stephen-| son. ker] Klenck and rhenson’s bod today. were Karl Gentry, Ste-/ nard, charged with | count, surrender-| ed ‘+9 th ier and were released cn #5,600 bords each. RS > + INDIANAPOLIS. Ind LOINping to ayvoil iro - iil on , April 7.—At- cution on legal technicaiiti Marl Klenck and Earl charged with David C. Stephenson, In leader, kidnap Madge . filed pleas in abate- today before Judge Jame: Collins in criminai court. Stephenson is charged in four other indictments with criminally at- tacking Miss Oberholtzer. Judge Collir et next Saturday as the date for hearing the motions of all three. Pleas of not guilty will be entered by the defendants, Eph Iuman- defense counsel, said, if Judge Collins overrules the motions to quash the indictments Miss Oberholtzer was horering be- tween life and death this afternoon. her physician announced. Klan alleged conspiracy to Oderholtzer, 28 ment yw) Or ra.ikzneud f ' - iana politician and | with | ww ee ee GOSSIP OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL | ——~ WASHINGTON, April .7—Secretary of State Kellogg comands the most important source of news in Washing- ton, outside the White House, when congress and the supreme court are in recess. Twice a day, for many years past, press correspondents have gone to the state department to ques- tion the secretary or his chief assis- tant, and generally they have seen one of the other of these officials. But Kellogg is now shutting down this gate against these interviews. He cancels one after another. Hughes in his least communicative moods would show himself twice a week, and his alternate could be seen once a day. Kellogg has dropped the use of Un- der-secretary Grew for these occas- ions, and is cutting down his own ap- pearances to only about two a week. And even when he does come out into the big reception room he has nothing to disclose. This failure talk to the press has become so marked as to start all kinds of rumors as to his actual grasp of the business of the department, and as to the degree of his hold upon the job itself. More often than not, when asked where the United States stands on a given matter, he puts responsi- bility on President Coolidge for his answer or lack of answer. He seems to consider himself simply a messen- ger of the momentary impulses of the man in the White House toward for- eign affairs. Charge Mental Bankruptcy. Senate leaders have charged that there is today no American foreign policy. They say there is merely Cal- vin Coolidge, who has never had any taste nor aptitude for world politics or economics. Strong men come down from New York to spend Sunday with him, and push him into a posi. tion toward some British or French or Japanese proposal. Other strong men run down from Pittsburgh, or come from Chicago or Palm Beach, with different ideas. He listens, and then Dwight Morrow, of Morgan & Co., who gave Coolidge his own. elec- tric hobby-horse to ride, gives his old classmate the final sugestion. In cabinet meeting on Tuesday or Fri- day the president broaches his plan, perhaps, and Hoover offers amend. ments based on his own knowledge gathered by his thousand agents thru- out the world. Coolidge seldom changes his. decision to suit Hoover. There is one cabinet member, how- ever, to whom Cooildge turns with confidence. Andrew Mellon is Cool- idges idea of a great American—he is immensely rich, is in control of great numbers of corporations and some big banks, and never deviates from his game of piling up more money for the interests in which his fortune is in- volved. Coolidge will not accept a suggestion from Britain or Japan or any other country until Mellon has pronounced it sound. Coolidge Economy Unpopular. These past few days have been un- happy ones for both Coolidge and Mellon, and grimly humorous for Hoover. Economy as preached by Coolidge and endorsed by Mellon has begun to hurt business. Patriotic standpat citizens have reduced their purchases. The court crier, speaking over the radio from Washington, has explained that the Coolidge gospel of economy did not contemplate that Bill Smith would fail to buy a spring hat as usual this year, or that Mrs Bill would forego that new calico dress marked down to 98 cents. After all, the factories can’t make profits unless they run, and they can’t run unless someone buys new hats and dresses. So, to the propaganda-dazed audience at the receiving end of the radio the administration gives its permission to go ahead and spend money again. In this difficult time the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, rolling up millions in dues and “as- sociate memberships” and subscrip- tions to its magazine, which is devoted to fighting public ownership and trade unionism and a higher standard of living for the workers, has taken a firm stand. It wants the government to repeal the féderal inheritance tax law. It has prepared a referendum proposal to its membership, which will come back with an overwhelming ma- jority, proposing that the federal gov- ernment should drop this tax, now and forever, and “co-ordinate” federal and state taxes so as to relieve the poor rich and their estates. Henry Ford, once hated by Wall Street as a dangerous radical, is preaching the same doctrine. NEW YORK COMRADES TO HONOR SUN YAT SEN AT BIG MEMORIAL DEMONSTRATION FRIDAY EVENING NEW YORK, April 7.—A meeting in honor of Sun Yat Sen, the leader of the national revolutionary Koumintang Party of China and president of the southern Chinese republic, will be held on Friday evening at 8 p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th street, New York City, under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party. Sun Yat Sen was one of Soviet Russia’s staunchest friends and a con- sistent and fearless fighter against the imperialism of England, America and He was a leader of the Chi-4+— Japan. nese working masses and devoted his life to the cause of the oppressed and enslaved proletariat of China. Every friend of Soviet Russia, every work- er exploited by world imperialism, should join with the Workers Party of New York in paying tribute to the memory of Sun Yat Sen. Come to the meeting on Friday night and bring along as many work ers as you can. Honor Sun Yat Sen. Demonstrate against Wall Street’s war-breeding policy. Oppose war with Japan to grab China for Mr. Morgan and Co, Demonstrate against American militarism which exploits and crushes American workers. Prominent speakers will address the meeting. There will be appropriate music and singing. Painters Fight for Raise. WASHINGTON, April 7—Final de- mand for a raise in pay from $9 to $10 a day, effective April 6, has been served on master painters in Wash- ington by the local union, represent- ing 1,000 men. The bosses have re- jected it. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Los Angeles Police- Socialist Conspiracy Din’t Help Rafael (Continued from page l.) that the socialists were the best in- ‘formers he ever ran across. The following arrests were made: Jennie Schwartz, A. Kemdver, Mrs. Esther White, Mrs. W. Smaller, Abe Walters, A. Rogat, Julius Rebalsky, Daniel Sigal, Lulu Levin, and Nelo- | moid Fink. The latter was charged with inciting to riot, while the others | | were booked on charges of disturbing |a public meeting. | Socialist Swore Out Complaint. | Over $1,300 in bail money was raised on the streets within one hour l after the arrests by comrades and sympathizers. A local socialist by the name of Weisenberg swore out a com- plaint. The trial was postponed from April 3 to April 29, and the accused will have individual trials. Heart's local rag, the Examiner, gave the most biased report of the | meeting, running bold type in telling ,; of the alleged use of a hatpin on a |detective by one of the girls placed | under arrest. Abramovitch finished ‘did mot speak three-quarters of ab |hour at an open meeting since he left |New York. At least he did not make ‘himself heard. wanete: POLICE FAIL T0 STOP STRIKE OF THE DOUKHOBORS NELSON, B. C., April 7.—Defiance of British school laws and hints at a nude parade such as occurred at Yorkton, Sask., and other parts of Canada a few years ago, were ex- pressed by 2,500 Doukhobors at Bri liant, near here teday, following a meeting called by .Inspector W. R. Dunwoodie of the provincial police and School Inspector P. H. Sheffield, in an effort to break the school strike which has been in progress in the Doukhobor colony for some time. one man, the congregation shouted “No” in their Russian tongue, when Inspector Dunwoodie put the question .direct, “Will you send your children to school?” “You have power to seize our property for payment of fines,” de- clared the Doukhobors’ spokesman, “but if you do then all we can do is take off our outer garments,” which was his method of suggesting a pro- test against British domination. Murmurs of approval came from all parts of the crowd. AS * Nations Racé for North Pole by Use of New Airships LONDON, April 7.—An air race for the North Pole was in the making to- day between Capt. Roald Amundsen and Grettier Algarsson. It will be run in May, if both explorers continue their present plans. Algarsson will sail from Liverpool on May 1, and hopes to reach the edge of the polar ice within two weeks. There he will inflate the special airship and with three com- panions set out for the Pole. Amundsen's expedition is enroute to Spitzbergen hoping to take off in . THe eat ie 4 Pie. ae * ® ware e e a. > = 2 Ae i Fa . _ ; We ate OR er > ate ees + € d x4 “he : : QUESTIONED BY TEACHERS TODAY Demand to Know Where Raise Will Come From This afternpon the trustees of the board of education will receive a let- to come from:’ This up after a me was passed at the special m g Of the federation at the Studebaker Theater. The meeting was called to discuss the petitions that have béén sent around in the schools by the superintendent asking the teachers to agree to the wage vty i Call Their Bluff The questions to come before the board are: _. In view of figures given in the auditors report which show that the board of is working on a deficit and in December 1926 will be completely bankrupt, where is the money coming from? Is it the intention of the board to propose an increase in the tax rate? We refuse to take a raise at the expense of the children and we refuse to allow some rs to be thrown out so that others may get a raise in wages. - Why did you fall down on your promise to go after the taxable stock- yard property that is at present dodg- ing the taxations? The teachers will not be partners.to a proposition to increasing the tax levy until taxable property that is excaping taxation is collected for. _ Are you going to take it out of the building fund? . We refuse to be part- ner to taking money that was speci- fically collected ;to,relieve the present school cong Miss Margaret Haley in speaking on the proposal for increasing salaries said “If today we had a board.of edu- cation that would. addyess itself to delinquent tax officials instead of ad- dressing themselves to the children— if the board of: education would take the big stick and-¢hase the tax asses- sors instead of:ehasing the children they’d have the co-operation of the Teachers’ Federation today.” The teacheravalgo voted to reopen their campaign for $50,000 to continue their fight agaimat the tax dodgers. Subseription blanks were circulated at the meeting, woo: | AS WEeSEE IT | By T. 4. OFLAHERTY. (Continued; from page 1.) price of a shanty, he almost swallowed his thyroid gland: “Should all the oth- er crippled mip = + jet up here and panhandle me for anything from the price of a can of soup to the price of a social democrat,.jt is clear that I’m going to reign not very long,” mused the king. But he took the bull by the tail. * . « “Paine me my, royal wallet,” he said to the general who stood by to protect him from the hero, should the latter be disappointed in his beg- ging expedition. When the wallet ar- rived, the king. turned it upside \down, and 20,000 lire, twice the ambunt asked for by the hero rolled into his lap. And as the veteran de- parted, the generous king took 500 lire from his pocket, saying to the veteran: “Buy food with this.” He must be a wonderful king, the kind of a king a fellow would like to almost die for. ~ + s HE facts here given are not vouch- ed for. Anyhow, you will admit that it is a good story. Some time ago Mussolini suddenly took a notion that he would Mke to walk into a lion’s cage. He did. A writer in The DAILY WORKDER hazarded the guess that Benito was either crazy or very near it, or that it was a fable. Well, whether the story was true or not, Mussolini is eraszsy, a homicidal maniac. The .capitalist system is crazy. It is cragier in Italy than in France, England or the United States, but not as crazy.as it is In Poland. In other words it,is weak in the head. ee IOVANNI PIROLI has a cottage, if the yarn is true. ff not, the king got a lot of free advertising. But the story is worth-a lot of money to the working class. It is as dangerous to the king asa T. N. T. bomb. There are tens of thousands of Pirolis in Italy. What would happen if they all appeared at the king’s gate at the same time and said: “We fought and bled for you; now, come across.” The king would take am airplane to the United States and spend the rest of his life entertaining our parasites. two airplanes before the end of May. Get A Sub And Give One! ' his coast-to-coast tour but he probably | BLAST IN FIRECRACKER PLANT KILLS ONE WORKER AND INJURES TWELVE (Sp¢qcial to The HANOVER, Mass., April 7.—One and six buildings were destroyed this in the main buliding of the: National Daily Worker) man was killed, twelve were injured afternoon as a sesult of an explosion Fire Works company. al - ? (> ‘s mae ae REMeat a ip bee 5 ew eee s oan ee ee =) € - letter was drawn |: Fisores Proud of Near the Poverty Line By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the big capitalists and their “labor lieutenants” hail the “era of democracy in industry” because the better paid workers, with a few nickles to spare, are buying a share or two of stock in some of the big corporations. Labor's re- actionary officialdom even hails this insignificant phenome- non as a lever by which workers may pry loose increased wages, a shorter workday and realize some of their other demands on the job. ‘ » * *¢« es ® But the National Financial News, in its current issue, gives some of the facts. The number of stockholders, it shows, has almost doubled during the post-war period from 1918 to 1925. In a selected list of industries, in 1918, there were 2,537,- 105 stockholders, while this year these same industries have 5,051,499 stockholders. : But let us see how they have been distributed. In spite of the most intense campaigns possible, trying to tie the workers to their jobs with these new chains, only 338,760 stockholders are to be found — the so-called “em- be ell This compares with nearly one million stock- olders—864,754—among “customers”; while the far greater number, more than a million—1,310,880—stockhold- ers, come from the “general public.” In this jamboree the interests of the workers are entirely submerged. Even among the “employes,” it has been shown that the stock- holders are mostly the better-paid white collar slaves, the most reactionary force in industry, the bosses’ pet strike- breakers. To be sure, this includes the labor aristocracy, like the members of the great railroad brotherhoods, who have been urged by their own officials to invest any of their spare cash in railroad stocks. But the two other categories, “the customers” and the “general public,” where they do not include the great capitalists, run up their totals among the “comfortable bourgeoisie,” the middle class, one of the big- gest mainstays of capitalism in its war on the working class. “ * » * Take the railroads for instance: 70,262 stockholders among “employes,” 45,003 among “customers,” and 203,216 among the “general public.” The sole aim of the railroad corporation is to make profits for the quarter million stock- holders among “customers” and the “general public,” in order that its stocks may register well on the money ex- change in Wall Street; not to better the condition of the workers, not even of the 70,000 ,except as those 70,000 can be used to keep the other hundreds of thousands in slavery. Blocks of “employe” stockholders are good breeding places for scabs during strikes. | Perhaps the — by gira campaign to sell stock to employes has been waged by the traction interests; yet the National Financia! News is forced to admit that altho the number of stockholders in street railways in this country has doubled since 1918, “ONLY A SMALL PART OF THIS i aa HAS COME FROM EMPLOYES. OR CUSTOM- The biggest reason why workers do not buy stock is, of course, that they haven’t got the money<tg buy. This fact is ‘neatly hidden away in the figures showing deposits in sav- ings accounts. The promoters of eat =m ar argue hysterically that, whereas, on January’ 1, 1918, there were 10,631,586 savings accounts depositors; there were on January 2, 1925, more than three times that, number or 38,- 867,99¢ accounts. But the big fact is that the average ac- count in 1918 was about $1,115 while seven’ years later, this year, it has fallen to half that amount, or \ While the federal postal savings bank and the vast ef- forts of the private banks have drawn the workers’ loose change out of the proverbial “stocking,” it shows that even the worker who has a few pennies, the “thrifty” workers that the capitalists brag about, are only a few weeks or months removed from the poverty line. These small sav- ings of $500 or $600, sometimes the savings of a lifetime, are quickly eaten up by periods of unemployment, sudden wage cuts, sickness or other disability for which American indus- try does not provide. o e* 2e @ The worker-investor is a myth. Some worker may take a plunge on a share of stock at $1 down and $1 per week, because as the National Finance News says, “The bulk of the stock sold to employes is bought on the instalment plan and the employe does not legally enter the list of stockhold- ers until the period of instalment “gh is completed. THIS PERIOD GENERALLY RANGES ANYWHERE FROM 21 MONTHS TO FIVE YEARS.” The worker doesn’t invest because he needs every cent of his wages to provide the absolute necessities of life for himself and his family. The well-oiled American capitalist system allows him no surplus. Millions of workers will in time realize this situation. They will find the answer to this difficult problem in the ryan of Communism. They will be won for the fight of the Workers (Communist) Party against capitalism. LABOR UNIONS FIGHT STATE SUPREME COURT RULING THAT -PICKETING MOVIE IS ILLEGAL (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 7.—Decision by the supreme court of the state of Washington that picketing of a moving picture theater was illegal, when fed- eral law permits such picketing, has been referred to the officers of the American Federation of Labor by the Tacoma Central Labor Council. They are consulting their lawyers as to steps to be taken to vindicate the Clayton act, which was supposed to safeguard the right to picket. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, April 7.—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.78%; cable 4.785%. France, franc, demand 5.1144; cable 6.12. Belgium, franc, demand 5.03%; cable 5.04. Italy, lira, demand 4.09%: cable 4.09%. Swed- en, krone, demand 26.93; cable 2@96. Norway, krone, demand 16.03; cable 16.05. Denmark, krone, demand 18,37: cable 18.39. Germany, mark, unquot ed Shanghai, tael, demand 74.12%. cable 74.624. . : | TORNADO DEATH LIST GOES UP AS INDIANA WOMAN DIES OF WOUNDS (Special to The Daily Worker) PRINCETON, Ind., April 7.—The list of Princeton tornado victims was augmented by one today with the death of Mrs. Polly Vanderburg, who died from injuries received when the walis of a house were blown in on her March 18. Strike in Firestone Plant. HUDSON, Mass., April 7—Fifty girls are striking in the Firestone-Ap. sley mills here. Chinese Troops War. PEKIN, April 7. — Honan troops nave attacked Shenku, a message | rom the China island mission said to- day. Workers’ Aid Asks Con- tributions —i, In response to the call of the Inter -|. national Workers’ \Ald the local Chi- cago Council for Labor Defense and Relief is inaugurating a two weeke’ drive for relief to the working class victims of the terrible storm that re- cently devastated Southern Iilinole and adjacent districts. All who stand for the solidarity of the working claes in time of need as in time of strug- gle are asked to contribute one per cent of their weekly wage, one cent on the dollar, toward this fund. Thousands of pay envelopes are being circulated in shops and fac- tories and union meetings to make easier the collection of this fund, The envelope bears the following appeal: WORKERS’ RELIEF OR BOSSES’ “CHARITY” ? WORKERS’ AID IN WORKING CLASS NEED! So that the recent tornado, which cost a thousand workers’ |! n southern Illinois and a shall not be used by, the ’ Slef organizations to break the fighting spirit of the uni.n miners, | hereby give my bit, In thir PAY ENVELOPE Address well ae and foodstuffs accepted as well as cash. Send all contributions to the CHICAGO COUNCIL FOR LABOR DEFENSE AND RELIEF 19 S. Lincoln St. Chicago, Ill. Distribution in the storm area in charge of Ross White, President of Miners Union 3160, Sesser, Iilinois. House to House Canvass The South Slavic branch of the Workers Party has already acted by arranging for a house to house can- vass in its district on Sunday April 12th. Other branches are expected to follow suit and there is considerable speculation as to which will bring in the largest amount. Hvery Workers Party member is expected to take at | chem filled. ‘Members. who do* not at- end meetings will have them mailed to their homes, Only two weeks’ time is allotted t« this campaign, the envelopes are to be distributed at one branch meeting, the contributions of the members im- mediately collected and sent to the local office, 19 8. Lincoln street. At the following meeting all outstanding envelopes are to be turned in and im- mediately forwarded, unopened, to the same address. | em three of these envelopes and get Worcester Buliders Strike. WORCESTER, Mass., April 7— Building is tied up in Worcester by a strike of union hod carriers and tend- ers. The strike is to bring pressure on the lone scab company of the city to emp'oy only union men. A STRIKING MAY DAY BUTTON White background, red border, black figures, hammer and sickle in red, white lettering and red ribbon, a com- bined expression of unity of purpose— struggle against capitalism. Wear one on May Day and have your fellow worker and brother union ists—nen and women—do the same. Order a supply at once. See that your branch of the Workers Party, local union and benefit society orders a supply for sale and wear on May First—Labor’s international Holiday. Price 25 cents. in Jots of ten or more, 15 cents. Special discount to City Central Committees, District Or- ganizers and Labor Unions. Order from WORKERS PARTY, NATIONAL OFFICE 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, iI. - we ee Te <p
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= 9 7 a a 5° 737 EE Pe@ sav eaatekar? . = Te @® @ ee wehne 2 ecient > Smee: XUAN OF FF cil CONFESS | bua | Notdice’ | Gruesome Plan al Association for the Advancement a | NEW YORK, April 7.—The Nation- : ! of Colored People, 69 Fifth avenue, has received reports from Houston Texas, indicating that it was at one! time the plan of the local kt’ klux Klan to lure a Negro newspaper pub- lisher into a doctor’s office, cut him In small pieces and carry the remains klansman taking a small off, each part of the body. Kian Idea of Nordic Superiority. ’ Testimony to this effect was given in a suit involving the klan, accord- ing to an account published in the Post Dispatch of March 20. George B. Kimbro, Jr.,; a former high official of the klan is re- *Houston, Texas, ported to have testified as follows: 7 a piece of him and destro roy it Call jumped at the idea.’ suggested the scheme. Murder By Aid of Legal Authority. Kimbro then testified concerning intentions of an alleged klan grand jury at Wharton to “get rid” of Rich- The grand jury was to issue a subpoena to Richardson on the pre- text of questioning him about some- thing published in his paper, Kimbro ardson. declared. Richardson was to be brought to Wharton in the hands of a sheriff. known as “crack shots,” were to be placed at secret points house, armed with The sheriff was to bring Rich- ardson across the court house lawn and at a given signal step aside and permit the riflemen to shoot down Two men, near the rifles. court Richardson. Mr. C. F. Richardson is publisher of the Houston Informer, a colored weekly. Fog Holds Up Ships in Channel. land, it delayed British trains. “TOKILL far “McCall was obsessed with an idea of getting rid of a Negro newspaper publisher by the name of Richardson and at times suggested to me plans to get rid of him. One fellow suggest- ed that we get the Negro up in a doctor’s office and cut him to pieces and then each klansmen sag down Mc- Kimbro said he would not be positive who LONDON, April 7— A dense fog hung over the English Channel] to- day, holding up shipping. Rolling in- Ee ~ [JUDGE AND LAWY WISHES AND A OW TEAPOT DOME GRAFTERS TO ESCAPE THE OBEY CAL’S +? tion fifteen months ago, has been freed > He finds that the presence of this By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, April 7.—Albert Fall, former secretary of the interior and center of the naval oil lease corruption exposed in the senate investiga- from the criminal indictment brought against him in the District of Columbia. “ Federal Judge McCoy has ruled that Fall, who received the $100,000 cash in a satchel from the younger Doheny at the order of the elder Doheny, was not legally indicted, because a special assistant to Attorney General Stone was in the grand jury room when testimony was being taken. government attorney was illegal be- cause the senate had taken the case out of the hands of the department of justice when it. required President Coolidge to appoint special counsel to prosecute the criminals. Releases Grafters _ Logically following out this act of grace for the man who became j wealthy thru giving away the public oil lands to the oil companies, Judge McCoy finds that the Dohenys were not legally indicted, and that Harry Sinclair was likewise improperly brought into peril of trial as a cor- rupter of Fall. They all go free to- gether. This decision by McCoy, who used to be a congressman when Fall was a standpat senator, will probably save the four from ever going to trial on charges of bribery. The statute of limitations has run against the crime since the indictment—now nullified— was returned. They may still bé tried and convicted on charges of conspi- racy to defraud the government, how- ever, and the Sinclair and Doheny lawyers will proceed to build their future defenses against this possibil- ity. Cal's Lawyers Sabotage No surprise is expressed in Wash- ington at this turn in the oil scandal’s developments. It is recognized that Fall's fate, and that of the Dohenys and Sinclair, is in the hands of Pres- ident Coolidge; who first sought to appoint as prosecutors two of the most conspicuous lawyers connected with the oil interests—Strawn and Gregory. When they ‘were rejected by the senate, he named Roberts and Pome- re, who had little familiarity with this branch of law.);'; At the first: test they were found to have left upon ja, loophole of escape for the givers and the taker of the $100,000 on hee “loan.” Official Washington hap t, all along, that any punishment * of Fall and his co- conspirators ‘wotld ‘disappoint Cool- idge and would jdtérrupt the smooth course of white¥ ash which was anti- cipated by the’ administration. ors, in conference here this week. Negro School Left Out. and members of the Convention Hall, forced to sit. ber. altho the Negro high school student have won wide recognition for thei musical excellence. school authorities participate. Praise Musicianship. The “Lincoln high school students the high school hall, and many of the visiting teachers who were opposed to dis- crimination against the Negroes, at- tended and heaped praise upon the arranged to perform at Negro musicians. Al’s Commission in No Hurry to Make Final Report * "NEGRO CHILDREN, BARRED BY. MUSIC CONVENTION, RECEIVE OV.ATION IN PERFORMANCE FROM 2iid, BALCONY KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 7.—The Negro students of the Lincoln high school were not permitted to show their musical prowess to the conven- tion of the National Music Supervis- The Negro publie school children, Lincoln high school, however, sang before the 3,000 music teachers and supervisors from their perch in’ the second balcony of where they . were The chorus of 400 voices rendered Dett’s “There’s a Meeting Here To- night,” and after this introduction, | were a point of attraction to all pres- they received an ovation. Their sec- | ant ond number, \Burleigh’s “Didn't It Much Smoke: Good Tea. Rain,” was received with such en- thusiasm that the Negro school chil- dren were forced to repeat the num- No arrangement was made by the convention to hear the Lincoln high school band, glee club or orchestra, The Lincoln high applied for en- trance into the contest to which all of the other high schools of the city were admitted, but the Lincoln high school musicians were not allowed to Barbers Tal ed, Ate and Puff Cigars at Snappy Entertainment The smoker and entertainment giv- en by the Chicago Barbers’ Progres- sive Group last'Sunday night at 1902 W. Division street, was a great suc- cess. The. program worked out as smoothly as.a close shave and all present were treated to excellent music by Master and Miss Sugman, Miss Weiner, Miss Goldstein, and others. The eats and refreshments Comrade Ben Polk taking the smoker part of the entertainment lit- erally almost suffocated the audience with the smoke from a real Russian samovar. The result however was the best Russian tea ever tasted by any- one. That’s the consensus at least. Joseph Giganti speaking for the In. ternational Barbers’ Progressive Com- mittee reported tremendous progress all over the country. A splendid col- lection was made for an International Progressive Barbers’ Bulletin to be issued soon. Everybody had a rollick- ing good time. More entertainments 8 r were promised for the future. INDIANA HIGHWAY HEAD STOLE WAR MATERIALS, IS CHARGE IN COURT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 7— State Highways Director John D. Willlams and five co-defendants In- dicted with him for alleged irregu- larities In the sale of war materials turned over to Indiana by the fed- eral government, pleaded not gulity today when arraigned before Judge James Collins in criminal court. The specific charge against the highways director was conspiracy to embezzie and. accessory before the fact. TEXTILE UNION HEADS ACCEPT A 9 PER GENT CUT “Arbitration” of 10 Pct. Slash Ends Strike UTICA, N. Y., April 7.—Settlement of the United Textile Workers’ strike of 2,000 workers here on the basis of a temporary five per cent cut—pend-. ing investigation of the Steam Cotton company’s profits by “arbitrators”— instead of the ten per cent cut the company demanded, does not leave everything quiet in the labor move- ment. Division No. 680 of the Amalgam: ated Association of Street and Elec- tric Railway Employes of America is pressing its demand for insurance funds, providing $1,000 payments in cases of death or total disability be- sides doctors’ fees and full wages for those disabled more than seven days. Wage increases are asked on local and interurban lines as follows: New York State Railwaymen, 600 in num- ber, a 62 cents instead of the 55 now paid; seven cents an hour raise is demanded by the Rochester & Syra- cuse, Northern and Auburn & Syra- cuse men and the Syracuse and EHast- ern workers ask 57 cents instead of 50 now paid. The terms of the textile strike set- tlement disappointed the workers. Retail Clerks’ Union Secretary on Picket Line Is Assaulted NEW YORK CITY, April 6.—Samuel Heller, secretary of the Retail and Dairy Clerks’ Union of greater New York, was assaulted and badly bruis- ed in front of the grocery of B. Mil- ler, 34 Delmonico street, Brooklyn by Miller’s partner, Max Gitlitz, who was arrested but had his trial post- poned to April 20. | The essault is a result of a long strike in this store, almost the oly store in Brooklyn holding out against the union. Heller has been conducting the strike vigorously, himself taking the picket line and holding open air meet- ings daily in spite of the police in- terference, the cops having up-to-date arrested 40 pickets. Their cages are coming up in court soon. ut the union is confident that continuous militant tactics if persevered in, will : LOS ANGELES NOTES soon win the strike. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 7.—The needle trades council has arranged a series of lectures for the members of the Los Angeles needle trade unions at 138% Spring street. James H. Fisher, well-known and liked for his ability as an educator, will conduct the classes. The topics for the lec- tures are Anti-Labor Yrorces, Friday, NEW YORK CITY, April 7.— The governor’s special mediation commission which was called into be- ing last summer when New York cloakmakers threatened a complete tie-up of the industry is reporting at last the results of its investigations. {In general it supports the union's and sub-manufacturers’ association’s contention that these sub-manufac- turers, or contractors, should be lim- ited so that shops will be larger and easier to maintain under union con- ditions. Hearings at which all in- terested parties will speak are to be heard before the commission makes final recommendations. Negotiations for the new agreement to begin in July will commence between the union and employers immediately after the final report of the commis- sion. : April 10; Pro-Labor Forces, April 17; Every Day Life, April 24. The lectures start promptly at 8 p.m. There is no charge for these lectures. - ' oe Freiheit Concert. The third anniversary of the revolu- tionary Jewish Daily Freiheit will be celebrated on Sunday evening, April 19, at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave., with a high class mu- sical concert. Mr, Gershgorn, head of the violin department of the Gersh- gorn School of Music will give a vio- lin solo. Mr. Arcadj Kaufman, direc- tor of the A. R. Freiheit Gezang Far- } ein will give a-piano solo. «The Frei- heit Gezangs Farein will participate as well as the chorus of the W C. School which will sing proletarian songs. Delegates from unions and fraternal organizations were invited. 7 It will be a big event in Los Angeles. Admission is 35 cents. - ~ © How Jews Live in VU. S. S. R. Rabbi Jitnik of Kiev, Ukrainian re- public of U. 8S. S. R. is scheduled to speak before a meeting of the four left branches ot the Workmen’s Circle on Friday evening April 13, at the Co- operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Rabbi Jitnik will speak on the ac- tual economic, political and religious life of the Jews in Soviet Russia. Ad- mission is 25 cents-—-the proceeds to go to the Jewish colonization fund of Soviet Russia. South Africa Gets Buenos Aires. CAPE TOWN, April 7.—L. 8. Street- er, president of the South African Radio Association, announced today that he had talked to Buenos Aires via radio. It was the first inter-con- tinental exchange from South Africa. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem- ber for your branch. ; ‘Louise Strong heir houses, the damage amounting to "lonly $1,000. Government Shields ace 9.2 er a8 naa ibe whinern ater oe E . a age PRR ST ree at he S| ¥ “THE = Ty WORKER THREE Ma UBDIENCES || HEAR ANISE IN Auditorium Closed by| the Mayor as Usual (Special to The 0 Dally Worker) PORTLAND, . Qre., April 2.—(By Mali.)—At eleven, . o'clock Tuesday, March 31, at Reed College, Anna addressed the student body and a nu:aber of visitors, in the ccliege chapey,..The students and visitors sat breathlessly listening as she told them of the vicissitudes thru which Russia s passed, during and immediately fol gyins the world war and the intern ars and blockades, aud related to them the method of.its rebuilding and ‘its new life. Second Meeting’tn Labor Temple. On the same day at 8 p. m., at the Labor Templé, she addressed an over- flowing house, Air lle at the same time the audience “was not so large as the morning méeting due to the fact that the A. F of*L. had obliged her with the smaltést hall in the build- ing. However, the things she relat- ed found fertife ground. The chairman of the meeting, who is a teacher in the Lincoln High school in the city, apologized for the size of the hall and explained that he had underestimated the popularity of Soviet Russia in Portland. This was the fourth meeting that Miss Strong had held that day having spent a portion of the afternoon before the Consumers’ League where a collec- tion of two hundred dollars was rais- ed for the work she is sponsoring. Mayor Closes Auditorium, ‘Our astute “mayor, who always keeps his eaglé eye on any progres- sive activities that might take place, as usual, refuséd the use of the city auditorium to tiis celebrated speak- er. Howevér! sé closed another se- ries of lecfirés 6n April 1, in one of the large halfs '6f the public library, which has a séeting capacity of four hundred. ~ ~2fo More thar®two hundred people stood up to listen, while hundreds of others were tirhed away. The audi- ence sat as if darned to stone as they drank in the information to he obtain- ed from one Who knew so well, of a land where the’ workers have come in- to their own/ *0) To say the least, no more fortunate thing has ocetigred than this tour of Comrade Strong’s since it is break- ing down. and bias. mt and important the audience. Mas recorded as a St. Louij? F basin Dying fi m Crash of Spéeding Trucks (Special to * The Daily Worker.) ST. LOUIS; Mo., April 7.—Three firemen are Lo féved to be dying and three others 8 suffering from numerous injuries in the city hospital today, following a llision between two speeding fire triCks at an intersection here last night.* Lieutenant Sdmes Myer, 41, hose- man Edward y, 29, all sustained fractured skulls. The backs of Myer and Havey were also broken. No hope is held for their recovery. The fire was in a ‘string of fruit ware- Millionaires from Publicity of Income WASHINGTON, . April 7.—Federal income tax collectors have been in- structed not to make public income ax returns, unfll given authority by the internal fevenue commissioner, Blair, the treasury announced today. Returns wilP mot be available to the public until after July 1, by which time it is expected the United States supreme court will have decided the ation of the tax*lists. Blair will fix a uniform date for opening the tax constitutionality of newspaper public- | ae er ent ee a > eee PT ae . P . - aad - hegesevers s+ eer erewiere me ee ee LEFT WINGER STUMPS OFFICIALS | (Continued from page 1) hall I found present nearly two score petty officials and their hangers on. | knew what they had assembled for; to have the pleasure and excitement of grilling a left winger, of “hanging something” on a person who threat- ened the security of their jobs. An Example of Left Wing Spirit. Feeling proud and confident of the principles and actions which I was about to defend, I took my place at the front of the room and prepared myself for questioning. The vice- president of the local started in first: “Did you distribute the leaflets from Local 5?” he asked. “Yes, I did,” I replied. “Who gave you the leaflets?” “Why do you want to know? Do you want to take them off the job, too?” This fetched a smile out of the roomful of job holders. They knew my question was well-aimed. The vice-president swallowed hard and went ahead. “Did you know that the Amalga- mated has a law against distributing leaflets?” he asked. “T know all the laws of the Amal- gamated. What law gives you the right to take me off the job, can you tell me?” Here the vice-president temper slightly. “Listen, sister,” he snapped, -“you’re here to answer questions, not to ask them. Understand?” I didn’t answer, so after a moment he went on. “Then you knew you were going against the union when you distrib- uted those leaflets?” “IT wasn’t going against the union. ‘The leaflet was against the unfair and illegal expulsion of Local 6. It was against our officials selling us out to the bosses. I was defending the interests of the rank and file of our unions and they are the ones—” “Never mind, never mind,” he in- terrupted. “Just answer my ques- tions and that’s all. You're not here to make speeches. Now, those leaf- lets you distributed came from New York. What right have you to mix in what’s going on there?” “Anything that goes on in the Amalgamated is my business. I, as a militant member of the Amalgamated, look at our union in a wider way than you. With me it is not only a question of the Chicago members, but of all the members of the Amalgamat- ed, no matter where they are. The rank and file all over the | country must get together in a united struggle against the boss- es and the reactionary official- aii This was too much for the ques- tioner. “Say, sister,” he said, “there’s no use talking to you. You don’t know what you're saying. That's all.” I smiled at him sweetly. “Thank you,” I said. He glared at me. Then he turned to the other board members. “Do any of you brothers wish to question her?” he asked. One of the “brothers” said he did. “Who paid for the leaflets and the hall?” was his first query. “The members who were taken off the job and other militants of the Amalgamated.” “Did you pay?” “I paid my share, of course.” “Oh, you did, huh? And why didn’t you open the doors of the hall?” “Ask Levin and his sluggers that question. They know.” The whole audience To lost his laughed at t——_ No. | Trade Unions in books. WORKERS! GO TO YOUR CLASS |. MOVIES! “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in. Overalls” will be shown at: a Chicago, Ill, (Return engagement), Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwau- kee Ave., April 15. Newark, N. J., April 19. Tacoma, Wash., April 19 Denver, Col., April 23 and May 1. Toledo, Ohio, April 30. Reading, Pa., May 3. “Polikushka,” “Soldier Ivan'’s Mir- acle” and Be: Memorial” will be shown: St. Louis, M and Page, Ap Bentleyville, Pa., May 1. Daisytown, Pa., May 2. ,Wnity Hall, Grand America By Wm. Z. Foster, James P. | Cannon and Ear! R. Browder Is, with a brief statement of the American trade union movement, a history of the development of the left wing and an explanation of the structure and program of its guiding spirit—the Trade Un- ion Educationa! League. I this reply, to the board members’ complete discomfiture. The “Fair Trial” is Ended. “That's enough out of you,” he shouted. “You're thru.” “Thank you. Good bye,” I said, and left the hall. In all probability the officialdom will herald this sham affair, and the others of a similar nature which they are conducting, as “‘thoro and impar- tial investigations.” Thus far no de- finite decision has been announced as to the fate of the members taken off the job. Levin realizes that he has a real fight on his hands and that a large portion of the membership is incensed over his blacklisting tactics. In the shop where the militants were taken off, indignation is running high. In several instances committees were sent to Levin's office to protest. The struggle which is going on has served to acquaint the rank and fle with the general state of affairs in the union, as well as the left wing program for remedying the same. The members are beginning to real- ize that the class collaborationist pol- icy of Hillman-Levin and Co. is de- stroying the power of their once mili- tant union, and that only a well-or- ganized rank and file revolt can save it. ‘SOGIALISTS’ ARE AGAIN FAVORING CAPITALIST WAR Polish and A Austrian Jingos Bluster (Special ta The Daily Worker.) WARSAW, April 7.—‘When Lioyd George says that Germany will never be reconciled to lose Upper Silesia, and that Great Britain will never lift a finger to hinder Germany, it is an encouragement of war. Poland will be well armed,” said a senator in the Polish parliament. And, though this may sound like rank jingoism from the lips of a capitalist, it came from the lips of @| /secialist” member of Poland’s senate, who spoke and voted for an inctegse in Poland’s army to 500,000 men This is ant inerease of 170,000 men. It also illustrates the outstanding na- tionalism of the “socialist” Second International, and closely follows the speech by the Austrian “socialist” necessity for that capitalist nation to arm itself to the teeth against its neighbors. Austria fs a vassal state, meanwhile, dependent ‘wpon the “charity” of the American banker bondholders. In Po- land, the budget shows a deficit for 1925 already of $26,000,000. To offset this, Poland is increasing the cost of living by consumption taxes. This to allow the army to maintain the “front- iers laid down by the Versailles treaty.” All London Views Dirigible R-33. LONDON, - April 7.—The dirigible R-33 returned to her mooring mast at Pullam at noon today, after a fifteen hour cruise. The metropolis was giv- en a sight of the dirigible as it wheel- ed over the city. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! Bauer, who militantly proclaimed the | - : - a ue? y Pie gue entio OP ae ines ee a ane’ ee en ee ee ee tee oe Giant Merger’ Plannec After Jardine Ruling (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 7.—Final guments were begun here today fore Secretary of Agriculture Jardin on the legality of the merger of th Armour-Morris meat packing cerns which took place in 1923. An imposing array of legal lumi aries lined up to fight the gove ment’s contention that the combine tion of the second and third larges corporations in the packing industr. was in restraint of trade. Packing Trust on Hand. Representatives of virtually ever, major packing coneern were on hand because of the belief that out of thr contest will come the first definite in dication in a decade of the go ment’s attitude toward giant packiny combinations. Reports were in circulation that an other big packing merger is in pror pect if the government places re stamp of its approval on the Morri Armour combine. The name of Swif} figures in the rumored new merger. Cal Appointee to Decide. A decision by Jardine approving the merger would end the case, i was generally believed, while one ad verse to the packers would result i an appeal to the courts. The secretary of agriculture is em powered under the packers’ and stock yards’ act, to act as a lower court iv cases where there are evidences of il legal combinations. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Cal Is Honored Guasl of Cotton Kings Who Meet to Raise Pri (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April T.— The opening shot in a new tariff war was fired here today when the Ameri can Cotton Manufacturers’ Associa tion met in annual convention to or ganize a drive for higher rates or textile products. President Coolidge will address the delegates tonight and he is expecterc to touch upon the tariff. Directo General H. M. Lord, of the budget bureau, will speak with the presi? dent, pam tb ‘ Launch Airplane Carrier in Mad ~ Armament Races CAMDEN, N. J., April 7—Mers! Curtis D. Wilbur, wife of the secretary of the navy, is to christen the Sara’ toga, largest and speediest of float’ ing airplane carriers, here this after noon at its launching. The Saratoga is 888 feet long, with a 105-foot beam. It has an oval flat surface on which 75 airplanes may be carried. Revolt on Turko-Persian Border. Kurdish insurrection movement has spread over the Turko-Persian bor- der, it was admitted today. The Per sian government has sent troops to | THE “Russia and’ Germany” will be shown at She@dygan, Wis., Opera House, May 20a: “Prisoners for Progress.” Milwaukee. Wis.. May 1. a copy—or a dozen copies. 10 CENTS EACH The Little Red Library The first two numbers of this little pocket-size library, destined to become the most popular of any working olaas publications ever issued in this country, are now being sold by all Daily Workers Agents thruout the country. awe No, 2 the frontier to combat it. Class Struggle Class Collaboration By Earl R. Browder Is a splendid study of the methods of labor bureaucracy to divert the workers from militant.%struggle thru the B. & O. plan, insurance schemes and workers’ education. A most valuable number for the thinking worker. If you have not as yet seen a copy of this splendid little propaganda giant, and have not enjoyed the valuable reading in each, be sure to ask your local Daily Worker Agent for (They are twelve for $1.00.) They can also be had by mail from DAILY WORKER / 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS fF” CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7.—The ..
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— a ‘New Haven Trades Council, ‘men’s Circle branches 56 (Lenin) and 689, Sons of Italy, ‘District Organizer 0 OR Rar E AS SUCCESSFUL Workers Barty Enlists Unions’ Co-operation - (Special to The Daily Worker.) NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 7.—A Well attended Sacco-Vanzetti confer- ence was held at Trades Council Hall, 2156 Meadow St., last night. Bighteen Organizations were represented. by. 32 Welegates. Among the organzations répresented were the Workers Party, Work- Painters’ Local 4. Typographical Union Local 41, To- bacco Strippers’ Local. Co-ordinated Work. Previously, the work for Sacco and Vanzetti had been carried on by the radical organizations alone. The Workers Party called a preliminary conference of the anarchists, syndi- calists and Communists, where plans were laid for the larger conference. Simons of the Workers Party was delegated to ap- pear before the New Haven Trades Council, which resulted favorably. A larger conference will be called for April 30. Executive Committee Elected. Speeches on the work of the confer- ence were made by William Simons in English and Angelo Crisafi in Italian. Comrade Ida Rothstein was the pres- iding officer. On the executive com- mittee are F. Alfano, V. Vitali, P. Malafronte, H. Maslow, Margaret Probeti, R. S. Kling, M. Puglia, A. Crisafi, and William Simons. 4 ; -_ he ae a 1 - FAS t ¥ a J 2 ~ Z x sm L6G a ep kas / | we 1 | on =, NATIONAL OFFICE OF LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL NOW AT 19 S. LINCOLN ST. The Labor Defense Council, nat- ional office has moved to 19 South Lincoln street, Chicago, Hlinois, and all communications should be sent there. This change was made April ist. The phone number is Seeley 3563. Bunco Steerers Keep Away from YWL Bunco Party Next Saturday There is no bunk about the Young Workers League but there is a lot of bunco in it, according to a red ticket bearing on its face an invitation to participate in the festivities next Sa- turday evening, April 11 at 1902 West. Division St. For the small sum of 25 cents, old and young will have the time of their lives. The youths organizing the affair call it a bunco party and dance, but they assure us that there will be plenty of dancing. Where the bunc comes in we have been unable to learn. The little Yowlette who dances with you, may explain the difference be- tween a shop nuclei, street nuclei, and area branch as you trip the light fan- tastic with the aid of snappy music. Branch area No. 5 plays the host. Philadelphia Social and Banquet Comes F. Alfano, secretary of Barbers’ | Local 215, and a delegate from the Trades Council, was elected chair- | man, gnd Angelo Crisafi, 639 Chapel | street, of the Workers Party, secre- tary-treasurer. Socialists Absent. Just as in the anti-fascist move- ment in New Haven, the socialists are conspicuous by their absence. At that time they were too busy campaign- ing for little business angel Bob. Now they are too busy arranging for a meeting for traitor Abramovich. The Jewish branch of the socialist party of New Haven (that’s all there is of them) and the right wing branches of the Workmen’s Circle were invited Off Saturday Night (Special to The Daily Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 7.—On | Saturday night, April 11th, the Central English branch of the Workers Party will give a banquet and dance at 521 York Ave. Excellent entertainment and a noted speaker is announced by the arrangement committee. All class conscious workers should seize this opportunity to become acquainted with the Philadelphia comtades. The small admission fee of 50-tents entitles you to a luxurious. banquet, with enter- taining and interesting speeches as well as good music and. dancing. but did not show up. GET A SUB AND.GIV= ONE! DENNIS BATT, EX-PR OLET ARIAN’CHIEF. FIGHTS ORGANIZATION OF THE DETROIT STREET CARMEN ON INDUSTRIAL:BASIS (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, April .7.—At the last Labor President Herbert Meeker of th meeting of the Detroit , Federation of e local Street Carmen’s Union brought in the report that his local was contemplating a general,organization cam- paign of all Detroit street railway employes regardless. of, occupation. He pointed out in his report that the init already been taken and that of cour trades already organized. The peesent city administration street carmen ial steps of organizing these men had se they would not interfere with the is a somewhat friendly. one and the who have had considerable trouble in the past with the municipally-owned lines naturally want to strengthen their position while conditions are favor- able. This report was commented upon favorably and otherwise by a number of delegates and fina’ly a motion was made by Jimmy Carroll, the reaction- ary business agent of the machinists’ union “to hold the matter in abeyance until a meeting of the business agents of the various Detroit unions could get together and discuss the matter.” Dennis E. Batt, editor of the Detroit Labor News, delegate from Machinists No. 82 and ex-arch revolutionary arose to speak for the motion and against the proposition of allowing the street carmen to organize all Detroit street railway employes. Speaks For Craft Unionism After his customary alibi, that “in- dividually” he was still an industrial unionist he proceeded to tell the dele- gates that the Detroit Federation of Labor and all those affiliated with it were operating under the constitution of the American Federation of Labor which was opposed to industrial union- fam and@stood for craft unions. He also pointed out that in some cities where all trades are organized in the Street Carmen's Union, the same plan as that under discussion, (Note Batt’s of Detroit, Delegate Mollenhauer from the mu- sicians’ union got up and stated that the miners’ union, the street carmens’ union in other cities as well as some other unions had been in the habit of organizing all the men in their particular industry regardless of craft and that they managed to get along quite well with the constitution of the A. F. of L. and that even though the machinists thus organized might get a few cents less than men organized in the machinists’ union, they would still be better off than being complete- ly unorganized as at present, Further- more, Mollenhauer continued, it seems as if no one in the local labor move- ment was interested in the unioniza- tion of these men, but lo and behold, the minute the street carmen wanted to organize them the whole of faker- dom wanted their hand in on the per capita tax. That “Dinny” is slipping in the central body is further evidenced in the federation election so recently as March 18, where he was tied for fifth place for executive board member and then on the seventh recount won on a fluke. It can be seen from the above that Batt is slipping fast, and unless he is consistency) the machinists were get- ting a lower scale than they would | slipping into a bottomless pit, he has get it organized in the machinists’ union. of which went to show how low this man has sunk who once accused the Workers’ Party of being a centrist party and posed as a pure and un- adulterated Marxist and revolutionist Yep, gentlemen, yep; the honorable “Dinny” is sure slipping fast down the tobbogan slide of fakerism. SECOND ANNIVERS of the Junior Section, Young PROGRAM: LOS ANGELES, NOTICE! SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 7:30 P. M. at the CO-OPERATIVE CENTER, 2706 Brooklyn Avenue. “Happy Prince,” play in 3 scenes; retta in 4 scenes; “Spirit of Communism,” Ballet. Auspices, Arrangements and Talent, entirely by the Junior Section, iq Y. W. L. of Los Angeles. /not much further to go. We wait for He said a‘ zood deal more all | that day. W. Australia Against Prohibition. PERTH, West Australia, April 7.— | Western Australian areas today had lexpressed themselves against prohibi- ition. The returns showed 64,377 votes against prohibition, 35,806 in favor. ——, ARY CELEBRATION Workers League of America “Labor Defence,” Ope- : — — eee vuwuewuvuuvuuve Se ee Ee i eS j ' ' i} STANLEY CLARK ON FREE SPEECH IN PORTLAND, ORE, PORTLAND, Oregon, April 7.—A lecture was delivered on Sunday, March 29, in the public library by Comrade Stanley J. Clark before a large membership of the Arts and Science Club. Comrade Clark spoke on the ques- tion of free speech and censorship. With keen and charming style thé speaker pointed out the purpose of Communism, and the position of Com- munists under capitalism. The address was received by eager listeners, loud applause marking ap- preciation as the speaker drove home point after point, showing the inevit- able collapse of capitalism. Workers Party—Local Chicago Activities Wednesday, April 8. Douglas Park Jewish, 3118 W. Roose- velt Road. Englewood English, Ave. Czecho-Slovak No. 3, 2237 S. Kolin Ave. Czecho-Slovak No. 1, 1523 W. St. 6922 Parnell 19th Thursday, April 9. Russian, 1902 W. Division St. Czecho-Slovak N. Berwyn, Sokole Oak Park, Roosevelt and Scoville Ave. Lithuanian No. 2, 1900 S. Union Ave. Mid-City English, 722 Blue Island Ave. Eleventh Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oak- ley Blvd. Scandinavian Lake View, Wilton St. Scandinavian Karl Marx, 2743 Hirsch Blvd. 3206 N. Friday, April 10. Lettish Branch, 4359 Thomas St. extend the area of the struggle be- yond local bounderies. YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE } ACTIVITIES, LOCAL CHICAGO, Wednesday, April 8. City Central Committee meeting, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., 8 p. m. Special or- der of business: “Shop Nuclei.” Or- ganization and functioning of the existing nuclei, issuing of factory bub letins, etc., will be taken up. Thursday, April 9. Area Branch No. 4, 3118 W. Roose- velt Road—Class in A. B. C. “ Com- munism. Friday, April 10. Area Branch No. 1, Room 6506, 166 W. Washington St.—Class in A. B. C. of Communism. Area Branch No. Wabash Ave. Area Branch No. 6. Area Branch No. Blvd. 3—3201 South 6—2613 Hirsch Saturday, April 11. Meeting of all comrades working in the needle trades, 2613 Hirsch Blvd., 2:30 p. m. Bunco party and dance, 1902 West Division St. Auspices of Area Branch No. 5. ie Notice Following Dates The following dates have been taken by the Young Workers League, Local Chicago. Workers Party branches and other organizations please do not arrange conflicting af- fairs. Bunco party and dance, Saturday, April 11, 1902 W. Division St. Auspices of Area Branch No. 5. Spring dance, Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Saturday, April 18. Auspices of J. P. C. First hike, end of Grand Ave. car- line, Sunday, April 19, 10:30 a. m. Membership meeting, Tuesday, April 21, at 722 Blue Island Ave. Dance on Sunday, April 26, 8 p. m., Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Auspices of Area Branch No. 2 and Mid-City Branch of the party. Y. W. L. city dance, Saturday, May 9, 1925, Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. Saturday, May 16, is reserved for an affair by Area Branch No. 1. RUSSIAN EXPORTS 10 DENMARK WERE DOUBLED SINCE TRADE TREATY WASHINGTON, April 7.—Danish trade with Soviet Russia in 1924 was between 66,000,000 and 67,000,- 000 crowns, or 100 per cent more than in 1923, when the trade treaty between the two countries was ne- _ gotiated, according to a report by the Danish tindustrial Ase’n., re- celved by the department of com- merce. Of the total, nearly 65,000,000 crowns represents Russian exports to Denmark. These consisted of sunflower cakes and other feed for Danish cattle. Denmark sent to Russia creamery and dairy machin- |} ery and barrel material. Danish shipping carried most of thie trade. , | Forum Meeting, Apr. 11 ‘the Workers (Communist) Party, on | Party Aekvi ities of District No. 12 That District 12 of the Workers (Communist) Party under the direc- tion of Organizer Norman Tallentire, is carrying on a vigorous campaign to ring the Communist message to the workers and for ers of that state is shown by the following schedule of meetings fro arch 29 to May 3, some of which have been held al- ready. The p speakers a those meetings ley Clark and Tallentire, two o! the best campaign- ers in our party. 7 April 10, Friday, } robably Sun Yat Sen memorial, le, Clark. April 10, Friday, Everett, public meeting, 8 Dp. M,,. allentire. April 11, Saturday, Seattle, public | = meeting, six defendants, 8 p. m., six defendants. April 12, Sunday, Seattle, debate Labor College, 8 P. m., Tallentire, Lane. gas April 12, Sunday, Tacoma, Sun Yat Sen memorial, 8 p. m., Clark. April 13, Monday. April 14, Tuesday. April 15, Wednesday. April 16, Thursday, Tacoma, So. Slav., Clark. April 17, Friday, Tacoma, English branch, Clark. ~-' “April 17, Friday, Seattle, public meeting, 8 p. m., Tallentire. April 18, Saturday, Hopewell, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. m., Clark. April 19, Sunday, Bellingham, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. m., Clark. April 20, Monday, Bayview, public meeting, 8 p. m., Clark. April 21, Tuesday, LaConner, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. m., Clark.. April 22, Wednesday, Concrete, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. mn, Clark. April 23, Thursday,» Ehrlich, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. my Olark. April 24, Friday, Arlington, public meeting, 8 p. m., Olark. April 25, Saturday, Mt. Vernon, pub- lic meeting, 8 p. mi, @lark. ° April 24, Fridayy s8eéattle, public meeting, 8 p. m., Pallentire. April 26, Sunday, Amacortes, public | = meeting, 8 p. m., @lark. Expelled Couiinunists to Speak at the Seattle — athe SEATTLE, Wash, ~April 7.—The delegates who were empelled from the Seattle Central Laker Council are holding a series of; Meetings every Saturday night in Painters’ Hall, Union Record Bu 1915 First Ave. Stanley J. Clark of Texas spoke at the first meeting held last Saturday on the subject of the,Red Internation- al of Labor Unions and the Industrial Workers of the Wor The next meeting to be held on April 11th will be addressed by all six defendants who will’ discuss the signi- ficance of these expu sions in view of the union busting open shop drive being engineered against the unions by big business in the United States at the present time. y All workers are @xtended a heafty welcome to attend the series of meet- ings. And the members of organized labor are particularly” urged to come out in full force to- hear these fight- ing members of the’ trade union de- fend their ideas and opinions. Comradeship Instead of Nationalism to Reign at Bronx Ball NEW YORK, April 7.—There may be nothing to the name “rose, which smells” as it does. But the name anti-nationalistic has a significant meaning for all internationalists: And you cannot substitute any other in order for it to have the same mean- ing. Antinationalistic to international- ists means the opposition to the local patriotism imposed upon all in their resident nation. We internation- alists are opposed to this imposition. We have therefore arranged a spe- cial anti-nationalistic concert and ball in order t0 express our feelings. At this affair which is under the auspices 6f the Bronx Eng- | lish Branch One of the Workers Party, to take place on Saturday April 11, at 1347 Boston Read, Bronx, N. Y., only a comradely ‘internationalistic spirit will reign. We invite you to come and help make this spirit a mass spirit. Letts Put on Play for Labor Defense “The Victim,” a play depicting life and love under capitalism, will be presented by the Lettish branch of Saturday, April 18, 8 p. m., at the Fin- nish Hall. Violin solos, recitations and songs in Russian and English will complete the program, after which a dance will take place. ‘S All who are familiar with the dram- atic art of the Lettish players are looking for a rare treat. The proceeds of the evening go to the Labor Defense, as this is so ur- gent a cause at this’ time. Come on comrades and friéfitis, let’s help to by WORKER make it a success. pate go.—F. M. D. a Ss le eR > — a — : "Pg Da? 2 GSAT rganizers Not Born - They Are Made. We Quote Wm. Z. Foster: “ ,..it is particularly appropriate to point out the field opened up to us by our English language daily paper for the development of organizers and for the organization of our party. “Obviously one of the best ways to build the membership of the party is by building the circula- tion of the DAILY WORKER. In fact it is so obvi- ous that in all too many instances this way of mak- ing the party grow has heer overlooked altogether. a) bide = “But, although it is quite generally understood = that by building the DAIL:¥ WORKER we are also = = building the Workers Party, it is not so generally = understood that in extending the circulation of the = DAILY WORKER there isan open road to the de- = = ° > GO. 3 = _ Se velopment of organizers, for our party. = a y + “Organizers are not born. They are made. They are products of active: participation in the daily == : struggle. They are machen the process of doing = real organization work. » = “In our party we will develop the necessary = = organizers by putting thé membership, so far as = = possible, systematically to. work upon organiza- = tional tasks. There is no better school for organ- = izers than in the building of the DAILY WORKER. = “This does not consist of filling the columns of = the DAILY WORKER with theories of organiza- = = tion, but in putting effective theories into practice = = by the organized selling of DAILY WORKER sub- = = scriptions. 4 NT If you wish to immediately put “effective theories into = practice” —send this brick to | THE DAILY WORKER | = I1IZ W. Washington Blvd. - - - Chicago, Illinois — K2LITES POOO 2 year § 3.50-E montis $200 3 montis TH CHICAGO ~§ Boo a year F45° 6 montis § 250, 3 months = THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER = B Name STREET. CITY pa ae Lah ao al — Ph, ee rene ieee a aes et Po , ~ > — =~ ee ee oe EE ——<« - —_— —_— - —_
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pitas SP RE i igs ofa RR Pach ke ate la a ee ee ee —— a9 200 acta mete busied buat saeeeeten. = ‘aes ” . a. ¥ ve . \ } fend lit = Note—Uniese 0’ otherwise stated aij} 22100 expects will considerably les- OAKLAND, CAL.—P. B. Cowdery. sight into the influence of religious on the streets unless accompanied by| Fiurt in Wreck That | “eetines are at 8 p. m sen the §=Rumiemsct cases of the PHILADELPHIA, PA—B. Cantor (2); J. Baldy (2); Lena Rosen- | Prejudices in educational research in a large squad of British soldiers. Killed 7. Bett ds,”"*their occupational disease.| | berg (3) America. He has been scheduled to ’ er COOLIDGE AND wy sic oy tal ee is pro- NEW ORLEANS, LA—J. C. Das lecture at the North Carolina Univers- * E v or wor pressure unds : re Te ¢ as “‘Golden Rule” Nash LITCHFIELD, Il., April 7.—Uncon- over normal; iniétead of begtaaing at CHICAGO, IkL--M. Auerbach. Mg My Bye sccnye He R uns Business on scious for 18 days, R. W. Larrimore, 21 pounds préssuré: The 4-hour day WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.—S. Chomko. | closely related to the subject of evo : Illinois traction’ system lineman, in- MORG AN AGENTS starts at 26.: pounds instead of 30, DETROIT, MICH.—N. Stoyanov. lution his engagement had to be can Open Shop Basis jured March 20, when seven persons which gives «mést of the workers a MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.—Carl Skoglund. celled. A similar series of lectures were killed near’Carlinville, in an in- 4-hour day; mosteé? the work is done DENVER, COLO.—W.Dietrich. t the University of Tennessee was 1 enti Recon age oe Ti vale Gaay Us oe time dans VISIT IT A LY a a6 to. 30 ayaa pressure. MASPETH, N. Y.—A. Stanelis. Sie Ganon: The law in both of , since ours decrease! ; Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Un-|Prvend dey Ome mee of ime since) sae ge aaepuanas eee necrret | __ WORCESTER, MASS—Eteenpaln Cooperative Sete. oe et ae nati shops of “Golden Rule’ Nash. ain 9 Rh wrtage? we Yank Meat lism U work only onévhiu# a day. - _ seman Dp y The Amalgamated claims that the onl , ’ a ee The Compressed Air Workers’ Un- ° S ot 8 4 The Amalgamated claims that the only) thoge words, thiarwarning tate had to Neve Trick. [2m fousht. comtaattors’ lobbyists | Touching Story of the Irish Famine tion is to permit the workers to or- a the CPS Ff pretty oe a yew an fore the legisiatare to win the re-| { - onscious- duction of w ours. T ion Arther Nash who owns the “polden|=** ae ROME, April 7—Frank W, Stearns, showed tint MANY casos ot the | rear acm nued fom page De | nae otk “tmepraist borrow bet rule” shops. He is an ex-minister « . who has been living at the White|“bends” were as rheumatism | ome s seaabiteain po sg wae how—by pledgirig Sethe tatearehite ie trom the south who bas the hacking of Polikushka In st. Louis. House as President Coolidge’s “ad-|or not listed at all, so that workers w sie ir PL to the noua ‘Jentér and facing one cartain bhnies and teen this osthen ete ST. LOUIS, Mdi; LAprit 7-—On Sin-{ V!80r,” had created a stir in Italy by | were deprived of mpensation. The RHIN® 'WoHEnere same bitter Conditidtis year after year. gag as an ad ih his business, the or-|¢Y evening, April 12, Poltaushke, riper at beg ye on the same ship} ill goes into effect under Smith's ee that the W. I. R. is known, |. 4 and sé = The extent of ganizers claim. The shops employ|™=7e*% wonder ‘fifi ed on the}®* Thomas W. Lamont, political bank | signature on Jaly #° The governor is | W!ing workers are coming ‘forward | | Lone in 4 to the amount of story of serfdom by Leo Tolstoy, will | °™ of the Morgan financial interests. {still considering?Whether to balk May- | ‘° help us, and the tales of misery, be shown at Unity'Hall’ Grand corner} Altho Stearns and Lamont both{or Hylan and Si the bill limiting | POveTty disease and death that they var mgt, © 4 Page. There will be two showings: {°/#im that they are coming to Italy ponch Staten Islané el to rapid tran- | “4rrate give the lie. to the smug and Up the ers International Re- hours from 7 to 9 amé@’9 to 11 p. m.|™erely as tourists, Italy believes that [sit or to"vetd Tt afd allow the original | °0mfortable who minimize or even liet!, “Ond \wor¥ing;docker ‘at Sligo, mostly widows. Labor representation is not permitted. Nash makes talks on-the golden rule before. college pe ue — a Hsing agents! 4 amission 50 cents. arrangements for an American loan | plan of freighf@nW Passenger tunnel | lare to deny the unwelcome fact that | When I told him what we were doing, ai we om the stud-| -phis picture: produced in| to bolster up the falling lira on the|to go thru. Thé inion threatened to | '!n this alleged “Free State,” the land 7: Russia by the world amous Moscow| World exchange surely must be in| do no work on thftunne! unless their | of saints and scholars, patriots and “Do you know what you're doing, Art Theatre ‘hasrrs high praise | the wind. conditions were by the ‘Tegisla-| Poets, childr@n are certified as dying | Mister Stewart? You're laying the Give your shopmate this COPY | from art critics as w ‘as enthusiastic| This is offset, however, by the ob- | ture. » bre , of tuberculosis when starvation, yes, | foundation for a real workers’ re- of the DAILY WORKER—but be | appreciation from workers everywhere | %¢Tvation, recently made by Reynolds, Fails To Wiaterialize. just plain, stark death for want of| public, and ye may do more than even PITTSBURGH, PA. sure to see him the next day to/it has been stiown. Don’t miss see-} he Chicago banker who visited here,| ppe 4g-nour bit. for women. which | -°2% #8 the real cause. all our suffering’ in prison and fight-|To those who work hard for thelr get his subscription. ing it. » Hf out who did not speak of his conclu- | jesisiators had, petted to m8 I have seen still more of the hell-/ing in the field. "Good luck to you. i oP Ak sions until he returned to the United | yor, voters at feces time failed | °" misery which these fellow-workers | To think that the workers have a “a money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, joker Joiner bill of our contrive to survive amongst, | relief of their own. What would Jim OUR D A ILY P AIT ERN Ss 3tates. Reynolds remarked that hé/i, materialize. thought the regime of Mussolini would | was intr P and have listened to the heart-break- | c ll " he gl d with oduc “offset th onnolly say,” and he glanced w * ae pass, and added significantly that | satisfactory it k Saas Pr eae ing, body-breaking cough of the sick | moist eye at the photograph of the DR. RASNICK the strikes of the fascist unions in organized labor thru and weak, who live in pain in low- | Irish letarian martyr in its honor- os “ out the state was | Fish proie y ; A SEASONABLE STYLE. FOR = “LaF MAID Northern Italy had shown American fighting. Wom peut still work 54| Cellinged, rotten, leaky, diseasé in-|ed place on the wall. 645 Smithfield Street. capital that fascism was not to be de- hours in this sta fested cabins unfit—there is no word pended on much longer. | The rauiegt ot the child 1 b really to describe it—for anyone to fa i in i i i i i in i i hn i i tnt aint Stearns and Lamont refused to talk |amendment like} Gp fled to “ma. | live or die in, BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! on anything more political than the | terialize, slit legislators had| No starvation! What of the child p Ne Fey . excellence of the food on the steamer | promised that ‘Also. A referend whose only food is to suck from an | S06! > which brought them. ‘lvote of the state, Gaicn is Rictorss old teat the tea which has been stew- > CO-OP ERA TI VE BAKERY 4 on the grounds of expense and de-|°d amd stewed and stewed again; or | W. 1. R. miami 5066. This will be charming in any | escape the question of the connection But Even this Cannot ne omepaayat gage ag wach: tee a ; ’ as ’ 5 men a of the new shades in linen or cham-| between war and imperialism. ‘ : It Ss Workers Own H oliday Stop Socialization At Killybegs I talked in a laborer’s ° =i , brey, pongee or voile, with trimming} On this subject, the report of the cottage with the mother of a. family ) s in a cOmstrasting color. It is also at-| congress gives some interesting ana- Evaporating “Values”’ of seven, only one old enough to work tractive In white crepe or crepe de/ lysis, though of course the churchmen peathmyerie <c. ‘io he Gee Ske tek “Join hands with your fellow workers, shop by shop, organized ard chine. ‘have no remedy for the evils they | unorganized, and march by thousands and tens of thousands thru the By CARL ‘HAESSLER | band a fisherman, but nets torn, creels ,The pattern is cut in 5 sizes: 1, 2, 3, depict. Part of the report reads as CHICAGO.—The,,modern banker's | Washed away by stormy weather. No streets of every city of Americal On the street, in the meeting halls, 4 and 5 years. A 8 year size requires follows: fortress, simstenctall with a view to|Teturn for cruel labor in a cruel sea everywhere, gather in masses to demonstrate on Labor's Holiday, that 1% yard of 36 inch material. The capitalist organization of mo- withstand popular asagult rather than off as cruel a coast as every fishers the working class, when united, is more powerful than the capitalist Pattern mailed to any address on ae pow "ie cones Pvt og to resist the negligible safe-cracker, | We™t sailing from. The grandfathers’ class which enslaves us! receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. spews Snes. any maintain that is given an added .sidelight in advert- old age pansion, the only assured in- “Demonstrate in masses that the working class, by whose hand is the principal cause of war and 5081. Plaid and plain flannel were| Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1118/1.) 11 war system will continue un- | 8°ments now being. wun in the papers | come of which he pays 6 shillings; | and brain and aching toll all things useful and beautiful are created, combined to create the pleasing ef. 4 W. Washington sage resatoge tit. ei) cowie ti oe dentveivel. by the National Bank-of the Republic weekly to the household, The boy of wit net forever tive in poverty and suffer oppression from the idle fect illustrated. The design is also “Capitalists have close relations The advertisement. does not des- twelve, together te his father (as parasite capitalists who live In luxury upon profits taken from our attractive in ilnen in one or two} NOTICE TO | PATTERN BUYERS The | with, if not virtual control of, the gov- | Tbe the deep-sunk vaults of massive we . peice gt Po rina “he labor.” shades or colors, or in taffeta. The | WoRKER pattern department are fur-|ornments. The resources of the var- | °°@¢Tete, approached thru intricate owe er eng ga sects +z: alames A complete May Day message within the pages of a leaflet: “Down dress may be finished with short os mat 4. AM, a New my York firm of aby ious governments, such as diplomacy, | "@7TOW Passages Sy ended or 1 OU SMS LNSL..50 BS RES..280.50 Tools on May Day.” Do your share in reaching the American working long sleeves. se DAILY 1X WORKER vn gg, A ré- |} armies and navies, are utilized by big oo “ene en pes. ag cavemen wen OT pay aber | Semen 5 the | class with this message. Order a supply at once. See to it that your . The pattern is cut in 3 sizes: 16, turer direct to nen Se Se The business to get opportunities especial- p eir 0 piunder, simply S 1 mi i ilies aes Mini od watenines branch of the Workers Party, your local union and sick and death | 18, and 20 years. An 18 year size Tesi pain RKER does not keep a stock | iy for their foreign investments calls attention to tie safe deposit O 8 : _ wee ires 1% yard of plain material oe atl weg on wm Bs Delivery of . p. giatete’ . a boxes for the comptph fry who pay a | unending and all of too damnably pa- benefit society orders a bundle for free distribution before May 1. Send nce ferns ordinarily will take at least 10 es Ele Seo ee tient endurance, but space and time orders to national office, Workers Party, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., inches wide and 1% yard of pl fro cent a day for the privilege. : Pp m the date of mailing the order. its very nature is a faulty method of |”, es Ww +i ns Chi ” checked or figured material, if made not become impatient if your patter | 4:.+riputing profits and is also regard- These safe deposit boxes,” the bank | 4re pressing. We are taking charge cago, tl. as illustrated. If the dress is made aeeetars ed my many as making was inevitable. | “@2°unces, “are located in the vaults |of some two hundred families in and Price, $3.00 per thousand. of one kind of material 40 inches “To maintain employment, markets of our affiliated organization. The | around Kilcar, of a hundred families : in Glencolumbkille; we have started errr rrr rrr rrr rrr rrr rrr wide 3% yards will be required. : : must be maintained thru diplomacy wall of the vaults are of steel and ays * Without long sleeve portions 3% First Spring Dance and be protected by naval and milit- concrete construction and are almost |at Ardara and Dungloe. On the Isle f Arranmore a committee if dis- Date . rds will be re uired. The width at r " Economic and militaristic three feet thick. At the entrance is a | © , a . , Saal edge of te dress with plaits and Bunco Party rat am it is contended, is an massive door weighing almost 30 tons, | pensing relief. We will start at Killy- Workers Party, N. O. 3 éxtended is 2% yards. will be given inevitable by-product of eur cuistintin while thru and around the vaults is a | begs and are now to branch out into 1113 Washington Bivd., Chicago, Pattern mailed to any address on Saturday, Apfil 11, 8 P. M. |scientific, industrial and financial sys- See aoe te eae — eS Sy ee Se Enclosed please find $ for which send .................... leaflets oe - 8 a ngenuity. g 8, : : aid sin me ; ; -_ ’ receipt of 12c - iver - stamps. at 1902 W. Division Street tem. Nor is this all forcqjust as an added | ate as in-Donegal. DOWN TOOLS ON MAY DAY” to name below: FASHION BOOK NOTICE! precaution—a nighj},and day patrol Want Fishing Nets in, Send 1%c in silver or stamps ter Our|A FINE TIME ASSURED TO “ALLE . M kalik system is provided,that watches over And its finish. Tell your readers Name Summer 1625 Dr. A. os . the vaults from witheut, 24 hours a | and all who may listen that we wan’ sag: I. bay sv te oe and his DENTIST day.” fishing hets and creels or material EE eS CALE AAO TT OS resdtnsistotlins iE NG vrs wes yncopators, As a mere outpost pt the main forti-|to make them. We want seed cor &. W. Corner 7th and Miffiin Sts. ||| fications, this is doing, pretty well, as | and seed potatoes. All the Free Stat: }. |) City PHILADELPHIA, PA. ruling class protectien against popul- | government relief costs money whict ; ar resentment of exploitation. these people do not have. They musi _—_ . =~ a \ ’ : j ~ _ — First Class Union Jazz Orchestra. Avepioes: BRANCH NO. 5, ¥. WwW Admission 25 Conte, weTerTTTTTTTTT TTT TTT TT TTT? Cae eee Te re
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—-~ ——_ A» & he he he Me he th Mn Mn hn Mn hh Mh, Me, te te te Me ve, 0 PE ee _ oe ~~ -_— -_ — -- —_—_—_—_———— Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IL (Phone: Monroe 4712) , SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 96.00 per year $3.60... %, months $2.00....3 months $8.00 per year By mali (in Chicago only): a $4.50...6 months $2.50...3 months ‘Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1918 W. Washington Bivd. Chicage, ttinete 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNB} Baitors MORITZ J. LOEB.. eee ee tered as second-class mall Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Sace at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 38, 1878. _ Advertising rates om application oan, Dawes Plan for France We have been saying that a Dawes plan for France was in preparation and the latest news con- firms this. Under-secretary .Winston of the gov- ernment debt funding commission has sailed for France, and de Monzie, the new finance minister, has already proposed that the railroads and the telegraph and telephone service, which in France is part of the postoffice department, become private concerns. Taxes also are to be increased on many staple commodities if the de Monzie plan is accepted.) These two measures are characteristic of the Dawes plan and it matters little by what name the scheme is called in France. The pressure by the House of Morgan is ap- plied relentlessly. The French ruling class may complain, but they are learning the old, old proverb to the effect that he who pays the piper calls the tune. The French capitalist class are now or soon will be, vassals of American finance-capital. They in turn have their own sphere of influence in Poland and Roumania, but the circle in which they can operate becomes narrower. French foreign policy will now become the foreign policy of the House of Morgan. The job of the French rulers now is to placate the masses, to prevent revolt against the new rulers—the American plunderbund. It is always harder to rule for an overlord than. to rule in one’s own right and for this reason the extension of American imperialist hegemony over France creates new and great possibilities for the French Communist Party. Help the Irish Famine Victims The article by Comrade Robert Stewart, secre; tary of the Irish section of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief which appears in another colump should convince the most skeptical that the need for help to the famine situation in Ireland is more than serious and that it is the duty of the class conscious workers of the United States to do some- thing, and that immediately, in order to save thousands of working class lives that are threat- ened by one of the greatest disasters that eyer visited a country referred to by August Bebel as the “classic land of oppression.” The DAILY WORKER has kept the famine situation in Ireland before its readers since news of the distress first reached us. We have given publicity to the work of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee. We have done this not.aloné because we want to see the suffer- ings of our brothers and sisters in Ireland alle- viated but more important still, because we want to see the workers of all lands get into the habit of helping each other instead of allowing the rob- ber capitalists to pose as saviors in the eyes of their victims with their cautious and degrading charity. No reader of this paper, and particularly no Communist, needs to be convinced there is no better | way of bringing the message of international solidarity home to the Irish workers than by com- ing to their assistance in their hour of trial, partic- ularly as the capitalist class and their agents in the press and in the pulpit are ignoring the agony of the famine-stricken. Let the workers of all lands help each other! they will also learn to fight on.behalf of each other, | — | Money, M unitions and War What manufacturer of steel products but is for bigger, better, when he approximate | cost of munitions in the next gigantic conflict? The list of bloodier and more expensive wars is shown figures giving the heads of heavy industry acting as an advisory ordnance board in co-operation with the war department includes such well-known patriots as Gary and Schwab, Tripp of the West- inghouse concern and Woodin of the American Car! and Foundry company. Coupled with the need for markets and military protection for the exploiters is the assurance that huge contracts for munitions at war prices will more than make up for any temporary interrup- tion of business. Then there are the loaus by the tinance-capitalists under whose terms the cash advanced is used largely for the purchase of goods from the imperialist nation. With an enormous | navy and surplus of goods at home, enormous quan- | “ties of liquid capital and complete control of the | national government, our robber class plots and dreams of conquest. That the Pacific cruise of the navy is more than | mere show is obvious when we connect it up with} the militarist propaganda of the capitalist press, | the howling of the admirals and generals, the trial | mobilizations and training camps and the meeting of the ordnance advisory board with its personnel chosen from heavy industry. The finance-capitalists have not yet succeeded | in stopping the flow of gold into the United States from every corner_of «the capitalist world. Qut of a total of approximately $9,000,000.00 in gold | 4 tei r, When they learn to do this, | ‘decide controversies arising and bullion one-half is in this country. It carries| 7% with it a constant danger of inflation and calls constantly for re-investment. Since the first of the year huge loans have been made, but these in | turn have created new spheres of exploitation from which increasing profits are derived. The increas- ing amount of foreign loans force the American government more and more to make foreign policy its major concern. The extension of the power of the United States increases the rivalry between it and Japan, it and Great Britain. World politics for American im- perialism takes on more and more the character of a war for the extermination of competitors. War is politics carried to its logical and inevitable con- clusion. | What is the task of the working class movement and especially of its most conscious section—the Communist Party? It is to utilize’ every oppor- tunity to arouse the masses of workers and farmers of America to the danger and to establish and maintain the closest connections with the working class of the nations threatened by American im- perialism for joint action against the enemy—the robbers and war mongers. Texas Is Typical The fight of the Negroes in Texas for the right to vote in the primaries preceding elections, the. story of which we carried yesterday, is not a very clear one, but is indicative of the feudal status of the race in the south.-A Texas primary election in which but one Negro votes is by that fact illegal. This puts it up to the authorities to use their best judgment, as the saying goes. It meaps that no Negro will be allowed within gunshot of the polling places. In Texas as elsewhere in the former slave states the right of Negroes to vote is purely theoretical. They are completely disfranchised and consequent- ly unable to take any advantage whatever of such privileges as the franchise gives. Southern poli- ticians therefore felt it necessary to do anything for the Negro masses. The mild reforms that the white workers have been able to force affect the Negro not at all. In spite of this the Negroes, by mass migration to the north, have been able lately to secure slight- ly more consideration from the southern landlords and capitalists. Not all of them can migrate, how- ever, and at best the cessation of some of the worst forms of persecution forced by this method is only temporary. Like the white workers were forced to do, the Negroes must organize in the north and south. They must establish in one form or another a cen- | tralized body to combat all kinds of racial persecu- tion and its first task must be to force fre@?the white working “class a recognition of the Negro as an equal and an ally in all struggles of the working class. A. struggle like that in Texas must be broadened omt and given a national character, the isolated efforts made by the Negroes must be connected up into. one mass movement in which the class in- terests of the great majority of’the Negroes, work- ers and farmers, are recognized as such and made the basis for the program of struggle. The leaders in such a movement, indications of which are already to be seen, will come from the class-conscious section of the Negro masses—they will be Negro workers who know that neither their race nor the white workers can never be really free while capitalism lasts. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new eubscription for the DAILY WORKER. The Thompson Case Constitutions and by-laws, precedents and de- cisions, mean nothing to the labor fakers of the l‘arrington type when it is a question of crushing the left wing to prevent its interference with the plans of the officialdom which in the United Mine Workers include a scheme worked in conjunttion with the coal owners to drive 200,000 miners out of the industry. The attempted ousting of Freeman Thompson, president of Sub-District 4 of District 12, by Far- rington, cannot be justified by any law of or precedent established in the union. Qn the con- \trary, decisions on similar’ cases uphold Thompson and not Farrington. Two decisions by Farrington and one by Wright, executive beard member, made on March 12, 1922, April 21, 1923, and April 20, 1923, are specific in stating that the district office is without power to out of sub-district elections. Yet Farrington rules that Thompson is not entitled to hold office. Accustomed to official corruption for years, the miners have become cynical, but this last instance is a little too raw. Even the local to which Walker, the Farrington choice for Thompson’s office, be- longs has unanimously repudiated this action. The Thompson case is one on which the member- ship will fight. It is so easily seen that behind Farrington are the coal operators who have not been able to bend Thompson to their will that the question is really one of the life of the union in Sub-district 4. We do not believe that the rank and file of the miners in this sub-district, the most militant in [llinois, are going to let Farrington or anyone else wreck their organization. The Thompson fight is a fight of the whole left wing. The Australian workers are Ahreatening to boy- cott the American fleet when it reaches there as a protest against the criminal syndicalism and sedition laws in the United States. World solidar ity of the working class is not such a utopian desire | after all. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. . ae Cac last issue.) | What Happened at sterdam Meeting of the f. F. T. U. General Council, Feb. 5 to 7. We have now taken up the story at the point where the official letter of the Trade Union Congress had been sent to the — F. T. U. urging an unconditional and immediate confer- ence. The general council had also before it, at this: meeting of February 5 to 7, 1925, a telegram from the All- Russian Count of Trade Unions making a similar’proposal. The mem- bers of the genefal coun¢il who had to reach a déclsfon on these propos- als were as to ows: reau: Great Britain, presi- f in the chair). L. Jouhaux, France, Th. Lelpart, Germany, C. Mertens, Belgium, vice- presidents. J. Oudegeest, Johann Sassenbach, John W. Brown, secretaries. Mansgemieas Committee: - Bramley, Great Britain. . Buisson, France. Steinhuis, Holland. D’Aragona, italy. i Cabell’, Spain. Durr, riand. ‘ Grassmann, Germany. Tayerle, Czecho-Slovakia. Madsen, Denmark. Jaszai, Hungary. aA “ky sees Extras see oy es Senet, ing world trade union unity. dam) and is composed large between the Red Interna We publish herewith the last instalment of. extracts from the Special Supplement to the Monthly Circular of the Labor Research Department of the British Trade Union reid devoted to further- The Special Supplement began with a niet by A. A. Purcell, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amster- of original documents; correspondence of Labor Unions and the Amsterdam right wing officialdom, reports of conferences, etc. The publication of this Special Supplement, the very frank and militant announcement of its purposes by the president of the Amster- — dam International, the complete exposure of the treacherous and dis-— ruptive tactics of the right wing which it contains, all are indicative : of the tremendous hold that the slogan of World Trade Union Unity has gained upon the British trade union movement, the most Sitahhitg er. section of the Amsterdam International.—Ed. Note. . 1. 6}e é oi ai ai. clearly been supplied with misleading accounts of what happened. Thus much publicity was given to the story that Purcell had repudiated the idea of a world congress. Mertens at the close of the discussion proposed that this alleged “repudiation” be recorded on the minutes, whereupon Bramley made it clear that-the British had not repudiated the idea of a world labor congress; but simply were against it being called immediately. | The Meaning of Amsterdam. What exactly is the effect of the Stenhuis-Smit resolution, carried N@ODVAMNT VEN . Zulawsky, Poland. International Trade Secretariats: A. J. Cook, International Miners’ Federation. . E. Fimmen, International port Workers’ Federation. G. J. A. Smit, International Fed- eration of Commercial, Clerical, and Technical Employes. The discussioi® On unity in the in- ternational trade union movement was opened by @ ‘speech from Oude- geest, who put*férward the following resolution on behalfof the bureau: The general Gouncil regrets that the Russian tradé unions are not prepared to acdépt the invitation of the Vienna Congréss to affiliate with the 1: F. T. Ure o The general codncil regrets that the Russian orgafizations keep up their hostile att#@@de towards the |. F. T. U. and its“affiliated bodies. The general édncil is of the op- inion that everything possible has been done on th part of the |. F. T ‘U. (to ‘Induce the Russians to come in; and°that theé“bureau should be instructed to WeEMy the Russian trade union ¢ "that we regard the whole qu as finished; and that we should refrain from any fur. ther correspondénde. This-tathér wild proposal, which Ywould have bolted and barred the door against any furthe® attempts at inter- national unity, was not, it appears probable from sub@equent events, put forward except asa stalking-horse resolution. ‘It etf®bled other resolu- tions or amendmeétts*of the right wing of the meeting to’ta&ke on the appear. ance of a midway course by contrast with it; and wh#i®4ts purpose was served it was wittdrawn without hav- ing been put to-tife vote. After Oudegeest™had spoken, Fred Bramley, in a “Tag and masterly spech, put forward the British pro- posal for an uncér@itional immediate conference. i After a long dis€assion a new reso- lution was put ferward by Steinhuis and Smit, which ran as follows: Steinhuis-Smit Resolution. The general council of the I. F. T. U. after having examined the cor- respondence between the |. F. T. U. and the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions instructs the execu- tive committee of the I. F. T. U. to inform the All-Russian Council L Trade Unions that the 1. F. T. VU. prepared to admit the All- ace Federation of Trade Unions, when they express their desire to this ef- fect. p The |. F. T. U, also declares itself prepared to convene a conference in Amsterdam with, the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions with a view to an exchange of opinions as soon as possible after the All-Rus- sian council intimates its desire to be admitted to the I. F. T. U. The British delegation strongly op- posed this resolution, and pressed for. ward their T. U. C, policy, which was supported in spéeches by Fimmen, Cook, and Bramléy in his reply.. The ‘British proposal Was then voted on and defeated by 13 votes to 6. The ‘six were: Purcell, Bramley, Cook, Brown, Fimmen and Madsen. A simi- lar resolution moved by Durr met with a similar fate. The Stenhuis-Smith res- olution was then carried by 14 votes to 5, Madsen voting with the majority. The British delegation, making the best of a bad job, then moved that negotiatory delegates be appointed under the terms of the resolution that had been passed. After some demur this was agreed to, and the bureau. together with »Bramley, Fimmen Grassmann and Chiawsky, were thus | dppointed. It shoujd be bled that the press correspondents’ #etters dealing with the meeting (ngfably the Manchester Guardian) were tendencious, and in Trans- ‘delegates? the blatant hostility of the Oudegest- jeune cases the correspondents had against the opposition of the British Its. tone has nothing of bureau resolution. What of its sub stance? It drops the previous stipula- tion as to formal acceptance of rules and statutes and substitutes therefore “the expression of a desire” as sufli- cient preliminary for admission of the Russians to the I. F. T. U. More, it says that once this desire is express- ed, they are prepared to meet the Rus- gians in conference. That is all. But, to speak paradoxically, its sub- stance is found rather in the things it omits. Thus it makes no mention of the world labor congress, it leaves out—a significant omission—any refer- ence to the declaration of | and: policy sent by Tomsky at the I. F. T. U.’s request, it is silent on the question of Anglo-Russian relations (a matter on which Mr. Stenhuis had been sufficiently vocal), and, most im- portant of all, it quietly ignores the existence of the R. I. L, U., Tomsky’s repeated references to the R. lL. L. U. and the known public attitude of the Russian Trade Union Congress‘in sup- port of the R. I. L. U. That is to say, by this sudden omission of the cen- tral issues of the controversy, and by its bland acceptance of a conference provided the Russians join the IL. F. T. U., the resolution appears to throw the onus and odium of rejecting such a conference upon the heads of the Russian trade unions, while in reality it represents a reversion to the die- hard position of early 1924; This then would seem to be the substance of the resolution. Neéver-. theless it is not quite a reversion to the situation of nine months ago. There are differences, differences only considers it to be a trap for Moscow, of wording perhape,” possibly differ- encés of emphasis and meaning. But the extent to which ‘tle position ‘is really altered in any way. froin that of June last depends on what weight is given to these subtle differences-by those concerned, by the trade union leaders of Europe. That is to say, the distance travelled since last. June is not a fixed measurement, it is a question of interpretation. How do they interpret it? .Fimmen a resolution which under a specious appearance is really a wrecking mo- tion, not a “compromise,” but a defeat of the British and the Russians. On the other hand a more favorable opin- ion has been expressed on this side, that it is really a half-way house reso. lution. | The Right Wing Interpretation. | In such a case it is best to turn to those who backed | the motion, who carried it and who sresumably were acutely aware of’ 'its implications. Here we find at once that the right wing of Amsterdam’ have treated the resolution as a very smart piece of work, a Satisfactory solution __ that gives them a victory, over the Russian trade unions. Vérwarts, for instance, contained afi artitle on Feb. 11, in which under the ch ckling headline, “Moscow's Turn to Speak,” they put forward the folie interpretation: The decision, of the general coun- cil of the LF. T,.W.. to invite the Russians to ot £. eonferénce, if they previ fe, ready to join the I..F. T Cae shrewd blow at the Bolshéy Wt-brothers. The entry of t yssian trade unions into the am_ International must be preceded by their exit from the b.: Ye—which means the end of me Qu, How do ¢ t epch look upon it? Here we fi - a, Jouhaux, chairman of one—an t, ,largest one—of the three alan Confederations ance of the up a similar In, the, course of a long article (in which he repeats the false report of the ; Bramley-Purcell at. titude towards a ‘world congress) he says: ’ “The Russian’ trade ‘unions have the opportunity to’ say in a concrete way whether or Not they wish to which divide a French workers, line to Vorwar ae delegation to Russia in 1924, in one Agents. OU can have this valuable material on world trade union unity, together with the summary of the report of the British trade union you can always have ready for reference this important publication of the Labor Research Department of England. HE DAILY WORKER has received a limited number only and re- quests are being filled in order received. ten cents and can also be had from all authorized DAILY WORKER ~~ @saooe pamphlet for your’ files. This way Each copy selis at white sf Rae Fe 4 i s is ees a if Stee ~® enter the |. F. T. U.; they know _that'they must go out of the door of the, R. 1. Lk, U, and the question of alee front, (which is behind the -of the proposed world ress on unity) cannot be rais- This attitude is put still more bluntly in the curt stipulation of Oudegeest (as reported in Vorwarts of Feb. 9): if they join the |. F, T. Uy they must naturally leave the R. I. L. U. Even more explicit is the interview given by Oudegeest to Het Volk on Feb. 9, where he sets forth his inter- _|pretation of the “compromise” reso- lution as follows (emphasis ours): |! am heartily in favor of the ‘Stenhuis proposal because the only alteration its acceptance would “make to the position would be TO ~STRENGTHEN THE RESOLU- TION OF THE VIENNA CON. GRESS. The Congress of Vienna ordered us to enter into negotiations -with the Russians on the basis of our statutes and principles. This, however, has been refused by the Russians whq in its stead proposed with the backing of the English dele gation—to have an _ unconditiona! conference. The answer given to that by the general council is, in short, the same as what hae been proclaimed by us for years in speech and in writing, and what has also already been communicated te the American trade unions, namely: if you declare yourselves ready to affiliate with the Il. F. T. U., then THERE iS A POSSIBILITY. OF «DISCUSSING WITH US THE REG. ULATING OF! POSSIBLE POINTS OF DETAIL. So the general council has _— not only approved of the attitude of the bureau.” It has taken a_ further move: either to reach unity THRU THE AFFILIATION OF THE RUS- SIAN TRADE UNIONS TO THE lt. F. T. U.. OR TO MAKE AN END OF THESE FRUITLESS NEGOTIA- TIONS—fruitless till now thru no fault of ours—as I rene in my opening speech. Thus, to sum up, it is abundantly clear that to the right wing of Am- sterdam the resolution of Feb. 7 is being interpreted—and presumably will be acted upon—as a return to the obdurate attitude of a year ago and as a snub to the unwholesome activities displayed by our Trade Union Con- gress in the cause of unity. Decision of the British T. U. C. General Council. The whole situation had to be dis. cussed by the general council of the Trades Union Congress at its meet- ing of Feb. 25 and 27. Various alter. native courses were open to them. Their own basic policy was clear. It had been laid down in Mr. Bramley’s letter (quoted above) on Novembe. 17. There was no need for recrimination. The question was simply that of choosing the immediate steps that would eventually lead to the fulfilment in the most fruitful way of that basic policy. After full discussion it was resolved to remit the whole question to the standing international committee of the general council, whose duty it would be to meet the representatives of the Russian Trades Union Con- gress, and discuss with them the diffi. culties arising out of the Stenhuis. Smit resolution, Up. to September, when the Trades Union Congress will be held, and the whole course of the unity negotiations since the Hull Congress will come under review, the progress of relations with Moscow and Amsterdam will now depend largely on the steps taken and the policy pursued by the ten repre- sentatives of the general council who, together with is officers, make up the international committee. Faust Last Opera Rendered by San Carlo Performers By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. The San Carlo Opera company wound up its week run at the Audi- torium last Sunday night with a much slashed up performance of Faust. in the Gounod version. Two scenes, those of the cathedral and of the bracken, were cut out completely, and other scenes, such as the one in which occurs the chorus of soldiers, were re- duced to only a fraction of their or- iginal length. And yet this had to be. For Faust was written to be given under Parisian conditions, where opera begins early and is over late, and not for production under) Chicago Auditorium conditions, where opera begins late and is over com- paratively early. At that last Sun- day’s performance was nearly three hours long. é The opera was excellently cast. There was a splendid sense of team- work among the five principals. All the pricipals were good. Pietro de Biasi as Mephisto perhaps stood out a little more than the others. He has has large physique and the compelling and powerful voice for the part. Bi- anco Saroya has the voice of Mar-}. guerite, which part she sang, but the; figure of a Brunnhilde. At that she is so graceful that when five-and-a. | half foot Marguerite fell into the arms RAT of four-and-three-quarter-foot Siebel it did not look funny. Mario Valle, a baritone with a voice that shakes buildings, made Valentine aman and not a demi-god. Great work! Demetrio Onofrei, who is a gifted tenor, somewhat over idealized the role of Faust. It seems as if Gounod could not conceive, of two principal tenors on the stage at the same time. ‘So he‘ made the part of Siebel, Faust’s rival for Marguerite, a contralto role. Now nobody is ever fooled into believing that Siebel is a boy. Mary Kent, who did the part last Sunday, looked like a nice, pretty, little girl, and her sing- ing of the fidwer song in the second act, next to Biasi’s rendition of the “Song of the Golden Calf” was the best individual performance of the whole show. There were some remarkable things in staging there. For instonce, in the first scene, old man Faust, the ascetic, the philosopher, wore a brown monk’s robe and under it white kid shoes and white silk stockings! And the victor- ious army with which Valentine is associated must have numbered twenty. Well, the San Carlo is gone. Their Jperformances are good. Their sing- ers are good. Let us hope that when they return next year they stay long- er and play to better houses. Gale Injures Ten. PLYMOUTH, England, April 7.-+ The Cunard liner Antonia, arriving here today from New York, reported ten passenges wee slightly injured during a fierce gale. ' Get a sub—make another Com- munist! WOMAN’S PLACE WITH COMMUNISTS By LEO KAMENEV. O be trulysfree, women must first of all be free from the trammels of household drudgery. It is only as a full-fledged producer and fellow fighter within the ranks of the workers’. army that women will win their complete emancipation. Therefore, women’s place is in the only reenact 2 Lame cutere Communist Party. 7 1 hes 2 — es oe s 45S ass : * = oe *: See a) i i el ie ee ot MR EE OO. Reel: ae ‘ ‘- a ony - ~ a