Daily Worker
April 12, 1925
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a ra | oe | > oe F On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. . * Paes . - é — as 4 ‘ * a 4s a, - 2 2 2 ? es 4 * Published Peas ae |Morgan War Debts Crush French Reform Rule As Herriot Cabinet Tumbles c . o> { (Special te The Dally Worker) PARIS, April 10—Government of the republic of France by the radical socialist (reform: ist) party ended tonight when Premier Edouard Herriot, the social-pacifist, and his cabinet re- except busdas by THE DAILY WOuKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Il, Price 5 Conts desires to empha- en é , bkidice Premier Herriot. it was expected that sts and the capitalist press are do-|size the im of including hKus- Herriot would resign immediately. writing a letter to a local paper cor-| This protest against the Russian ing nothing—quite obviously for the |sia in the fami of nations as 4 Herriot went miitnedintisls to Snot recting. the. anti-Soviet diatribe of aj concession of oil in Saghalien to the Irish workers and peasants. The |means.of more fi mmly establishing the d’ Orsay and it was announced a mentally defective editor, whose ig-| Japanese calls attention to the fact workers are the only ones who may | possibility of- in Eastern coun- Sow tainted: later Gist tie enki norance of Russia was so great that | that since the United States does not |). i564 to to help their Irish com- tries, and declarés that thru Russia, was drafting ites letter of resigna- he confused the Kremfin with one of | recognize the Soviet Union, it has no}. 4... me part of the @onfederation of na- “aq Pig eee. Dennen: ceeenewenl pa - ee . a age a RO The International Workers’ Aid, the |tions, a powsefulsinfluence in this di- The failure of the senate to give For -daring to exercise his right as an in yee b paste i: J * international working class organiza-|rection will soured.” Herriot and his government a vote American citizen, Private Crouch is| W ae i, Sesaas heed poe tion, is rushing aid to the assistance| A vote ofmemmpethy was passed with of confidence followed the appearance sentenced to hell for forty years, or i ppc ' ° th te ei rr of the Irish famine-stricken. The|the Russian goverment and the Rus- of Herriot and Poincare, former pre- until death charitably puts an end to|t r4 te - ai no a a the fact Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine/|sian trade ‘movement in the mier, before the senate to explain his misery. hae pene ee p seat daa in Hudsian Relief Committee has been organized |deaths of ninent leaders of the causes leading up to the financial 5 Bick ae Bast, |in this country to carry on the work |Russian ; aimanoff Miasni- chaos in which France has found HIS is appaling. And yet how Saghalien and the Russian Far t. of relief. On Wednesday, April 15, at 8 p. m., at Central Opera House, Jack Mce- Carthy who is returning from the md Alarbekoff, the met their deaths jent. hoff, Mo ai last three « in an airph As to the charge that a monopoly privilege has been secured, they point out that the concession .covers only the alternate squares in a checker- itself. Faithful to His Friends. Closing his remarks, Herriot said: many of those who exuded waves of sympathy over the sufferings of Collings who was caught in a sand cave, will ignore the savage sentence “I have been faithful to my poli : board survey of the known oil fields.|!rish famine district, will tell the immigration Mivota Runs Low. © tical friends, but at the same time 1 sgn Pago py n ion ew There may be as much oibf ds ery of the Ie of.. the Irish miler, ‘ON, Ap: 10.—Only six retain gay own: political tadebendenee. | . as 1,000 of 924.25 Mbediirra: } m- ‘nied. These a¥e Germans with 12, 772, Britain with © 7,590, Irish Free State with 7,586, Italy with 2,037, Po- land with 1,731 and France with 1,- 212. Sweden has 901 and Norway 883 places left. | SPRINGFIELD MINERS HOLD DEMONSTRATION IN FIGHT ON REACTION (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 10— Final preparations were being made here today for the mass demonstra- tion Sunday afternoon, at Reservoir Park, of coal miners’ protesting iia eet? Private. iteaot at thee i 1-2 _ Ben Gitlow, P. Solatire will else speak. Workers of New York, come to this meeting and do your part. Tell the workers in the shops and unions. So- licit contributions inthe fraternal or- ganizations. Send your funds to the New York Section, 108 HB. 14th St. ing no |] ered, as in the ones. win sic tha modes open fi c the senate at least to rooogn ag that His supporters gave him an ovation when he finished. | “It is-anjust,” Poincare said, “for any Frenchman to attribute to an- other Frenchman responsibility for a financial condition which is exclusive- ly Germany’s fault. Says Victors Pay War Costs. “France’s enormous public debt is due to the Versailles treaty leaving the victors to pay all the war costs. Germany’s defaults obliged us to call on the victors to pay the war costs. Germany’s defaults obliged us to call on the French people to sacrifice their savings.” Poincare asserted that “only per-~ sistent efforts of my government made it possible to balance the 1925 7 “ de, - tay” . ue 3 Tic ; ; harm to - American that Japan has not pact with them, and that Sinclair is simply in hard luck. Piutes Sore at Japati. ~ Chairman Borah of the senate for- eign relations committee; -howéver, smiles grimly at this alibi», He says it is clear that Japan has prokén her promise to Hughes, and that the rea- son she has broken it, and the rea- son why Japan thereby has grabbed a rich oil field in Russian Saghalien, is that the Harding-Coolidge admin- istration has refused to recognize the Soviet Union. Former Secretary of State Lansing, who seems to represent all the royal- ist and reactionary Russian elements, erican militarism. Private Walter Trumbull got twenty-six y and geveral others are due for similar sentencés. This is the land of the| free “indeed! LOOKING ON THE WINE WHEN IT IS RED. aw * a HE bourgéois wolves who have howled to heaven over the defens- ive measures’ adopted by the Russian workers and peasants to protect their revolution against the angry capital- ist. coyotes that surrounded them on all sides, will justify the sentence im- posed on the private soldiers in Hon. olulu..< Yes, Communism is danger- ous anywhere but supremely so in the army. The army is the first line of defense of the predatory ruling - class that own and control this coun- Sydney, Australia. \OUSTED COMMUNIST DELEGATE IS RE-ELECTED BY HIS.LOCAL UNION SEATTLE, April 10.—Paul K. Mohr, delegate from the Bakers’ Union to the Central Labor Council, was re-elected to that body by his organization after being unseated by the reactionaries. The fakers in control of the council are expected to refuse his credentials. ROOFING WORKERS|SMALL'S COSSACK —Will Donald, in “Australian- Worker,” Davis for Employers. PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10—Secre- tary of Labor James J. Davis, in a speech here before the convention of the Amalgamated Steel, Iron and Tin Workers’ Union, urged the workers not to go on strike. He compared the relations between the employers and the workers to the relations be- tween the members of the board of directors of a business firm, and urged anese. He agrees with Hughes that the Soviets should not be recognized. UNITED FRONT COMMITTE CALLS budget.” try. The personnel of that army/as well as other foes of the ‘Soviets, no fighting. “Ease up on your strict against the effort of the Lewis-Far- Herriot Puts the Vote. : must be segregated from revolution | joins in the outcry against the Jap-| 1444.” ne told the unions rington machine to depose Freeman Herriot himself put the vote of con- ary associations, and when one is dis- | Thompson, re-elected as president ’ (Continued on page 2) " of sub-district four. All the high officials of the Illi- nois Miners’ District Union, includ- ing Pres. Frank Farrington, Vice- fidence to the senate, determined, as he had told his supporters, that Re should know as soon as possible whether it would be feasible to put RISK LIVES FOR|BILL MAY PASS Holland and VU. S. Arbitrate. THE HAGUE, Holland, April 10.— The United States and Holland have TEXTILE WORKERS OF LAWRENCE TO UNITE AGAINST WAGE CUTS _ (Special to: The Dally Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., April 10. “The following letters were sent out by the United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence. The first letter was sent to all labor organizations of Lawrence and is to be backed by per- sonal visits of the members of the committee. The second letter asking for delegates to join the United Front Committee was sent to all the textile unions in Lawrence. To All Labor In Lawrence “The United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence has be- gungan intensive tampaign among the textile workers to stiffen their resist- + — Jardine to Decide Soon on Legality " of Packing Trust right of newspapers under the 1924 agreed to arbitrate their claims to the Islands of Palms, in the Philip- pines it was announced today. Earthquake Shock in Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE.— A panicky population left their homes for safe- ty in the oben spaces today when a oowerful earthquake shock was felf it Konia in Turkestan. Argue Tax Publicity Next Week. WASHINGTON, April 10. — The revenue tax law to publish individual income tax returns will be argued be- ‘ore the United States supreme court next week. president Harry Fishwick and Sec- retary-treasurer Walter Nesbit have been invited to attend the mass meeting and present their case to an open meeting of the miners. It is not likely that they will take ad- vantage of the invitation. The Lewis-Farrington machine is trying to put John A. Walker in Thompson's place. Walker, who previously had been parading as a “progressive” and denouncing the Farrington machine, came out two years ago as a supporter of the reactionaries in the miners’ union, and was put up aé stalkf\g horse to defeat Joe Tumulty, a militant, and elect John J. Young, a Farring- MEAGER WAGES Work in Hot Tar for 40 Cents an Hour —_______. The workers in Chicago's roofing factories, working in cement dust, in constant danger of. slipping on the slimy floors, and falling to certain death in the hot tar, receive only 60: cents an hour for their work. Conditions are bad in the Barrett, Bird, Beaver and Richards roofing factories, but at the Lehon company, t4th and Oakley Ave, the slave driv- ng system is ‘seen its worst. No Organization SENATE TUESDAY Strike Police | (Special to The Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 10.—The ‘senate of the Illinois legislature is inow debating on which state police bill shall be passed, the Dunlap bill, which would establish a state police | force similar to that which prevails in other states of the Barr bill, backed by Len Small. The Barr bill and the Dunlap bill, it was admitted in the sénate debate, are practically identi- cal. thru the chamber of deputies and the } senate the proposal submitted by the Would Create Anti- new minister of finance, de Monzie. The proposal contemplated a volun- tary levy of ten per cent on all wealth in France, but the de Monzie bill provided if the contribution was not made voluntarily then it would be enforced. While the vote was being taken, Herriot’s parliamentarian said: May Dissolve the Chamber. “The senate’s repudiation of Herriot means the probable dissolution of the chamber of deputies. “Normally, President Doumergue should request either Francois-Marsal or Poincare to form a cabinet, in the event Herriot resigns, but it is like- ton man, as district board member. ow . ly there would be sufficient opposition aifce against the dastardly wage cuts Why don't the unions do some or (Special to The Daily Worker.) lf you can’t convince your shop- Both measures provide an ample Since then Walker has been a loyal | ..»:,.; eae ‘ seletad in the chamber of deputies to block | ' ; 3 ae ganizing in the factory where I /force to be used by the Illinois man- mer ; | oad ae ot ark: tabs th Saisie boenen WASHINGTON, Apel .10.~"The Ar ee ee eee sub | en a a, work”? writes one Lehon company | yfacturers to do ipviaheeahton duty —_ : ' . , . . . " c - J. “ped case sad ‘oleae eek mour-Morris packing combine case, and let the DAILY WORKER do it! miners’ union. employe to the DAILY WORKER.|he Barr bill would create an un. Blast Kills Three. BUFFALO, N. Y., April 10.-—Ex- plosion of dynamite im a quarry killed which has been bitterly contested for more than two years will be in the hands of Secretary of Agriculture the fake shop and mill committees of the mill owners, “In order to carry out this camp- “We work ten hours a day, six days TWO DIE UNDER GUN FIRE OF © | a week, with no higher rates for over- | time, Sunday or holiday work. If we limited force of state police, with full ‘power of arrest undepythe direct or- ~ aign the textile workers must organ- amyl amalgamate all of their forces We must not allow the three hundred and fifty thousand tex- tile workers in this district to be with- ize for th@ fight. (Continued on page 4.) Jardine Saturday. Due to an unexpected press of business, Jardine cancelled part of a scheduled all-day hearing and allotted additional time tomorrow and Satur- day for argument. BANKRUPTCIES SHOW HIGHEST FIGURES SINCE 1922 AND 1915 NEW YORK, April 10.—Commercial failures in the United States in the first quarter of 1925 aggregated 5,969, an increage of 8.4 per cent over the same period last year, R. G. Dun and company reported today. With the exception of 1922 and 1915, when 7,517 and 7,216 defaults respectively, were shown, the year’s first quarterly total is the largest in the history of the country. Total of the first quarter's liabilities is $128,481,780, an increase of 14.2 per cent over the last quarter of 1924. Returns for the month of Maroh show 1,869 defaults for $34,004,731. : GENDARMES WHO -WOUND 20 TO MAKE SAFE EXIT FOR LORD. BALFOUR (Special to The Daily Worker) DAMASCUS, Syria, April 10.—Quiet returned to Damascus today follow- ing the departure of Lord Balfour, British exponent of Jewish colonization in Palestine, for Beirut, after demonstrations which gave fear for his safety. Two persons were killed and 20 were wounded when a crowd of 10,000 gathered before his hotel in the third demonstration. Gendarmes, consisting of Syrian police and Algerian troops, were called on and fired on the demon- stration before it was dispersed. After prayers in connection with the Ramadian festival, a crowd of 6,000 marched toward the Victoria Hotel, wh Syrian police atempted to check ere Lord Balfour was staying. the demonstratore but were stoned. Fierce fighting ensued, and Algerian troops were summoned to the aid of he police. There were disturbances also in the Jewish quarter. This | Balfour to the Holy Land. was the most serious disorder marking the wisit of the Eari of ‘refuse to work overtime we are im- ' mediately fired.’ “We work in cement dust, with hot tar, and many men get hurt. The boss | has pushed the speed so high that one man does as much now as three men used to.’ Forty Cents an Hour hard work and the boss has four autos and a anew one every two months.” “Woy jon union roofers stop using scab YO6ling?. Then we would get a little help in organizing.” America Ghters League Confab. WASHINGTON D. C., April 10.— President Coolidge appointed five del- egates to attend the league of nations conference at GenéVa to discuss regu- ations of trafic in arms. ders of Governor Small. The discussion on the two cossack bills will be resumed next Tuesday It is likely that Small’s bill will pass as he has so far been able to contro!) |\a majority of the members of the leg three men at Hagersville, Ontario, ac- cording to word received here today. Two..men were blown to atoms, the third died of injuries. The men were Frank Critelli and Giovanni Donati, of Hagersville and Charles Ackerter, of Fenelon Falls, Ontario. — “We get 40 cents an hour for airty, | FEDERAL LAND BANKS PLASTER | MORTGAGES ON 60,000,000 ACRES; FARMERS SHOW THEY’RE BROKE ment on the farm situation. $22,875,000, a million dollar increase over February 16. WASHINGTON, April 10.—Agricultural loans by federal land banks have totaled more than $1,000,000,000, secured by mortgages on about 60,000,000 acres of real estate, the federal reserve board announced today, in a state- Cotton loans were Outstanding loans for tobacco culture headed the list on March 15 with $6,884,000 March 16 and wheat $1,518,000.
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WAGE CUT WHIP ALBERTA MINERS Officials Do Nothing to Stop Tragedy HILLCREST, Alta. Canada, April 6 (By Mail)—The situation here has got- ten worse. Blairmore and Bellevue have decided to accept the new wage scale, giving till today, a chance for Hificrest and Coleman to come with them. As the latter two camps have no other choice now but to go, they have, at least my own caimp, elected com- mittees to meet the operators to nego- tiate. Dissolution. We will meet them as U. M. W. A. men, when it is over chances are we'll be nothing. It will be put to a vote, and even if the vote of Hillcrest and _ Coleman defeata it, the other two camps will take it anyway. The strike call that the sub-district asked for, for the whole district, was turned down by our @istrict officials. ..They liave been useleas to us in the present crisis. Fightiag Leaders Needed. What we hack is good leaders. If we had them /’m sure the present sit- uation wouldn't: have come to us. The drive appears to be to smash thc union, and I’m afraid it will succeed around here. The rank and file have convinced themselves of the coming cut and there was no one to say anything to the contrary. If the untom does zo, the chances are the active members will be blacklisted; if so, the condi- tions of these camps will be worse than before. Werkers’ Monthly Strikes Bull’seye. I have just received today the Workers’ Monthly, and the double page cartoon, “The Company Union Holds a Meeting,” sure shows what is Hable to happen here in a few days. I have posted this up in the miners’ club. Will let you know the outcome of the negotiations with the operators. The rate will be about 20c or 30c high- er than what Hillcrest Colleries of- tered. Tonight, Saturday, April 11, le the Bunco Party and danoe given by the Y. W. L., Area Branch No. 5, at 1902 W. Division St. Admission is only 25 cents. Are you coming? Don’t forget, at 8 p. m. MASS MEETINGS PROTEST POLISH WHITE TERROR; DETROIT AND CLEVELAND TO HEAR RADWANSKI : Detroit and Cleve English, Polish and Ukrainian. Wed- Prompt response attends the action of the American section of the Inter- national Red Aid and the Conference to Ald Political Prisoners in Poland in arranging the tour of Comrade T. Radwanski to rally the American workers in protest against government terrorism in Poland. land—Take Note! The Detroit committee has organized the first meeting for Sunday after- noon, at 1 o’clock at 83014 Yemans St., Hamtramck. The Clevelaiid committee has organized meetings for Monday evening at Pulaski Hall, 6628 Chambers Ave., and Tuesday evening at Korneys Hall, 2885 W. llth St. Speakers in nesday evening, April 15, 7:80 p. m. Comrade Radwanski will speak in Erie, Pa. at Nagorski’s Hall, .corner 10th and Parade Sts., and Thursday. April 16, 7:30 p. m. in Niagara Falls at the Polish National Hall, B. Falls and 27 St. Meetings are being ar- ranged in twenty to twenty-five cities and industrial centers. The executive committee of the International Red Aid has called upon all workers’ organizations and meet- ings to send resolutions and letters of protests to the Polish embassy, also to send greetings to Deputy Lanzut- sky, Prjemisk (prison) Poland. Copies of such resolutions, ete., should be sent to George Maurer, 19 8. Lincoln St., or B. K. Gebert, 1118 W. Wash- ington St., Chicago, Til—In sending funds for Red Ald for Poland to the cbove secretaries, indicate that it is ‘or the aid of political prisoners and neir families in Poland. Slogans of the Campaign Some of the slogans issued by the xecutive committee, of the I, R. A., ire: Down with the terror of the beur- geolsie and social traitors! Release Comrade Lanzutsky! Long Live the revolutionary strug- gle of the Polish workers and peas ants! Stop the oppression of the national minorities In Poland! Long Live the International Red Aidl Mussolini Nabs War Ministry, Defying Senate on Army Law ROME, April 10—Premfer Mussolini today took over the ministry of war, made vacant by the resignation of Minister Di Giorgio when the senate disapproved his army reform bill, In 2 message to the, he said: “IT intend to dedicate my constant nergy to making the army a@ more ecisive instrument of Italian power.” The premier also holds the port- folio of foreign minister. evvERTETRPOTTROPUTATOERLELES SURRY NEOPA ANDEAN AREOAREPUEAREOAGAUAREU ERLE REPRE Amalgamated GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. THIS IS OUR EMB PESACH POET FEE = pis An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry HOOUAUDUALNLTNLACUANELADUALEOALUNUEHEHE PATA AAADAAUELAEAA AOU ENENUELLAPE AAD ASMA ENN EEAT METRE UE LEAL AE Food Workers TU LEM COPRRAAEEELARALECETEETETU TELE rs Don’t let the Tobacco Trust bunco you. . Get your tobacco direct from the farm and SAVE MONEY You workers and we farmers can join hands and beat the capitalistic tobacco trust at their own game. Do you know WHY you have had to pay s0 much for your tobacco? We used to hdve to sell to the trust or they'd let our tobacco rot on * *s INDENBURG is running for presi- dent on the nationalist ticket in Germany. His most serious opponent will be Marx, on the catholic ticket. Hindenburg will have the support of all the monarchist elements. Marx will be backed by the socialists and the so-called democrats. The only working class candidate in the field is Thaelmann, the Communist. Fine situation in Germany, six years after the revolution. Monarchists so pow- erful that they can run one of the kaiser’s closest friends for the high- est office in the “republic.” What a splendid commentary on the treach ery of the socialists! No chance of such a phenomenon taking place across the frontier in Soviet. Russia. At least the czar is not in a position to be anybody’s political adviser. + o . HE traction scheme supported by Mayor Dever, the Chicago Trib- une, The Daily News, the bankers and divers labor fakers was buried here on April 7. It was defeated by the Thompson and Hearst political ma- chine for purely political reasons Not that it shouldn’t be beaten. It should. The point is however, that its opponents have no plan to offer that means any more to the working class than the one drowned in the flood of popular disapproval last Tuesday. The trouble is that two gangs of grafters are fighting for the spoils of the traction requirements of this city. « o a NOTHER interesting traction fight took place in Milwaukee. There is a socialist mayor in Milwaukee. Ip fact that city was once, and is per- haps until today, the pride of the so clalist party of America. The mayor, Daniel Hoan, conceived of a plan that found favor in the eyes of thé traction barons of Milwaukee. It guaranteed them over 7 per cent profit, if the skies rained thistles. Naturally they would accept. But the voters, de- spite the frenzied exhortations of the Milwaukee Leader, defeated the proposition. Now, Hoan and Berger profess to believe the “people” are a lot of dumbells. Socialists in Mil. waukee; democrats in Chicago. Both serve the capitalist class. om . - “—IDUT perhaps the Communists would not do any better if they got into office” some inquisitive reader may ask. And we say: Communists capitalist government can bé utilized to serve the 7 ee If the Communists get 6 office, the best they can promise is to use their posi- mm | tions to build up the fighting power of the working class and to sound the toscin of class war to the end thai the workers will seize the machinery of government and begin to recon- struct society on a_ socialist basis. This is what they are doing in Soviet Russia. They did away with the ma chinery of capitalist government and replaced it with their own institu. tions. ~ 7” > HAT the socialists in Milwaukee are doing is helping the capi- talists to run the city for the benefit of the capitalists, primarily. This is what the British, German and Swed- ish socialistg did. In Russia, the cap ‘italist has a dog’s life, according to ‘all reports while the worker is the king pin. No slave should lose any sleep over this change of positions. But the aim of the revolutionary }movement is not to wreak vengeance on the robbers who have ground the workers under their heels, but to free the producers from the yoke of wage slavery, and incidentally to free the ' -- }entire human race from the bondage in which it is held by capitalism. | BOARD HEAD IS PLEASED ;WITH OPEN SHOP RULE Calls — Superintendent Asset to Schools Charles M. Moderwell, president of the board of education and owner of scab coal mines in West Virginia, in his seport to Mayor Dever upon re- tiring from calla the appoint- ment of Wi McAndrew as super intendent one of the most important accomplishments of the board. The os report is a of the board's achievements § Moderwell’s ap- pointment two | ago. McAndrew’s Counelis. The new council which was sanc tioned by the Beard at its last meet- ing will be made up of one repres- entative of every voluntary teachers’ organization in: the city. They will meet with the superintendent and other bosses on the educational! staff. Meetings will be: called by the super- intendent at such times as he sees fit. : It is of course entirely different in character from the. old councils which were in fact school shop meetings where the teachers in individual schools met to discuss problems aris- ing in their particular school. What McAndrew’s council will do it attend a meeting called by McAndrew to take MeAndtew’s orders pack to the teachers. : Miss Margaret Haley of the Teach- ers’ Federation who sat thru the meet- ing said that her organization will not be represented on those councils. A Bad Place to Look for Friends Trustee J. Lewis Coath one of the trustees who voted against the new councils and who has been playing the “friend” of the Teachers’ Federation was the one pickéd by the machine to get rid of the federation’s letter to the board which requests the board to ex- plain where the money for the raise will come from. Ooath under the head of new business arose to make his motion but like a school boy about to say his plece was seemingly very much embarrassed. He finally walk- d up to the front of the platform where Moderwell sat and they shush- ed for a while. Then he returned to his place and said “I move that we refer the letter received from the Teachers’ Federation to the finance committee,” Cost of Food Takes . a * Big Upw: Course’ of 12 Years WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10— The latest report from the VU. S. de- partment of labor completed for 20 cities out of the 61 included in the bureau’s report shows a marked in- crease in the cost. of food for the year period March 15, 1924 to March 16, 1926. Out of the 20 cities, 19 show the fol- lowing increases: Peoria, 9 per cent; Detroit, 7 per cent; Buffalo, Cleveland and Norfolk, 6 per, cent; New York, Richmond, Scranton, and Washing ton, D. C. 5 per cent; Indianapolis, 4 per cent; Charleston, 8. C,, Columbus, Milwaukee and Portland, Me., 3 per cent; Boston, Bridgeport, Neward and New Haven, 2 per cent; and Provi. dence 1 per cent. In Fall River there was a decrease of less than five tenths of 1 per cent. As compared with the average cost in the year 1913, the retail cost of feod on March 15, 1926 was 59 per cent higher in Richmond, 68 per cent in Detroit, 67 per’ cent in Washing ton, D. C., 56 per cent in Buffalo, 55 per cent in New York and Scranton. 54 per cent in Charleston, 8S. C., 53 per cent in Milwaukee, 61 per cent in Cleveland, 49 per cent in Boston, 4! per cent in Providence, 47 per cent in New Haven, 45 per cent in Newark and 44 per cent in*Fall River and In- dianapolis. Prices were not obtained from Bridgeport, Columbus, Norfolk, do not claim that the machinery of | Peoria, and Portland, Me., in 1913 hence no comparison for the 12-year period can be given for those cities. Soviet Rule Hits Graft. MOSCOW.-—Nearly half of the gov- ernment officials of Nakhitchevan, a republic of 20,000 in the Trans-Cau- casus, were undef arrest today on charges of graft gnd abuse of the power of arrest following the visit of A. Rykoff, prestdent of the council ot Soviet commissars., The officials were part. former nobles, for the most Million for Tornado Sufferers. Chicago's drive. for funds tor re- lief work in the tornado stricken area of southern Illinois officially ended today when a $50,000 donation sent the total over the $1,000,000 mark. The first appeal in this drive was broadcast by local radio stations the day after the disaster and the cam- paign has been virtually kept alive by this method. Court Denies Shepherd’s Plea. SPRINGFIELD, DL, April 10.—The state supreme court today denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Attorne for William D. Shepherd, ChicagaJheld on an indict- ' ‘areire him with the “typhoid murder” of his ward, William Nelson McClintock, - : a ee Thinking by Soldiers Is Great Threat to the - Stability of Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, the workers of the United States are beginning to learn, if they didn’t know it before, that the army is an instrument of American imperialism, and that the “most important military post in American control,” in the words of the Chicago Tribune, is the Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii. Holding tightly to these facts, the capitalist press is beating the tom toms in favor of the outrageous sentences of 40 and 20 years’ imprisonment imposed on the two sol- diers Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, and the court- martialling of eight more. * ¢©* @ ® Soldiers in imperialist armies are not supposed to have ideas of their own. They must not question why they mur- der. All they are expected to do is blindly obey the order, “Forward to the slaughter!” They must not ask why they kill; only kill! It appears that Crouch and Trumbull never questioned the orders of the imperialist army in which they served. But it was discovered that they had Ideas of their own. They were not soldier-automatons, They had developed into thinking robot-soldiers. | They protested against misstatements regarding Soviet Russla appearing in a local newspaper, the Honolulu Adver- tiser. They sought to correct these misstatements. That is their crime. This is not the first time that American soldiers have been punished for looking favorably toward Soviet Rule in Russia. U. S, imperialism found it impossible to maintain an army on the Viadivostok front in the war against the Soviets in 1920. The soldiers deserted. They refused to fight. They committed offenses in order to be sent to the guard house. Many were sent back to the United States to serve long terms of imprisonment in the military prison on “Hell’s Rock” in San Francisco Bay, and élsewhere on the Pacific coast. They were subjected to the most brutal treatment for their Soviet sympathies, > ss @# ® One letter by a soldier to a capitalist newspaper now pinpricks the whole American capitalist state into hysterical action because Hawaii is its most important military out- post. It is not only a Heligoland looking toward the Philip- pines, and ——e astride the road to the East Indies; it. is not only on the highway to China and a lookout towards Japan, but it also eyes Viadivostok, where flies the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Pacific. Western European capitalism may, build its cordon sanitaire thru the Baltic and the Balkan states against the Soviet realm in the west. But the sentences metéd out to Crouch and Trumbultin the army isa confession that U, S./imperial- ism fears for its anti-Bolshevik blockade in the Pacific. It wasn't enough to withdraw the American army from Vladi- vostok. The Bolshevik germ already penetrates half way across the earth’s broadest ocean. * j * * @ The mil ~ itary arm of American impérialism is no more impervious to Bolshevik infection than the armies of any other capitalist nation. A French court martial has just re- leased Captain Jacques Sadoul charged with desertion from the army of imperialist France to the, Soviet lines. It isn't so easy to drum up an army nowadays to murder without thinking, not even in “democratic” America. British imperialism had to use Syrian gendarmes and mercenaries from Algiers to do its killing to protect its spokesman, Lord Balfour, in Damascus. But the robot soldiers from Syria and Algeria, like the soldiers of other nations, will learn their ae of interest with the soldiers and workers of all other ands. * e*« *#* @ They will learn in time of the Red Army of Soviet Rus- sla, composed of soldiers who do their own thinking, and who know why they fight. The incident at the Schofield Barracks, in Hawaii, indi- cates that an idea, the Communist idea, even penetrates the armor of ignorance in which the American dollar govern- ment seeks to dréss its fighting forces. There is nothing to prevent this armor from being pierced so effectively in the world struggle between capital and labor that it will be rendered absolutely useless, INTENSIVE TWO WEEK COURSE OFFERED NEGRO WORKERS ON SOUTH SIDE; BEGINS APRIL 13 By Lovett Fort-Whiteman. On Monday evening, 8 o’clock, April 13 will begin the first classes of the Workers Party school te take place at Community Center, 3201 8. Wabash Ave. The course has been outlined to embrace the following subjects: 1. Theses of the 2nd and 8rd Congress of the Communist International, nine lectures by William F. Dunne, 2. Negro History, nine lectures by Lovett | One-half block from Imperial Fort-Whitenfan. 8. Party Organization, by Martin Ahern. 4, Public Speak- ing, by Thurber Lewis. _ » de a 9 ‘s } 8p ( : a ‘ ; tat a Ne aa a 5: ond , oo : Mie i) foe PO ee Te ; - Py Reo gt ee tot alll) aad. eee F Be hn “2 , By om eh s 3 . wi : x § . 4 wie oa on } ae > a es 3 q 7 : it. + COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue CHICAGO Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE «Opposite New. York Party Headquarters) Wanted. — 20 COPIES OF THE DAILY WORKER OF NOV. 13, 1924. VOL. Il. No. 202. Hammersmark, care of DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blivd., Chica- go, Ill. 6 ee ee ——— Furnishings LADIES’ MEN'S INFANTS’ Trade Where Your Money Buys the Most ee Martin’s 651 West North Avenue | East of Halsted St. | Madison Pharmacy ) INC. BETTER ) DRUGS } Light Luncheon Served 1154 Madison Street, | Corner. Ann . OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 60 per cent’ onal! thelr dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST 8. W. Corner 7th and Miffiin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA, Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEnrisT A " M i | AG t { 2252. N. CALIFORNIA AVE. - Phone MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices —_ to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Broadcast “Parslifal.” BERLIN, April 10. — The Berlin opera company under the direction of Max von Schillings today broad- cast Wagner's “Parsifal,” hoping to have the wide world as an audience. The classes will be held from eight until 10 each night during a period of two successive weeks. Direct ap- peal to South Side party members, ap- plicants and friends to take advan- tage of this series of courses is made. It is the first time that the South Side Negro workers have had advantage of classes of this nature being brought to their immediate vicinity. The important place the Negro work- er holds today in the industrial life of America warrants a new knowledge of his relationship ‘to the economic de- velopment of America. The prime aim of these classes is to bring a scien- tific understanding of the underlying causes of present day racial conflicts in American life. It is the hope to develop competent Negro leadership for the Negro working class move- ment, which day by day clearly prom- ises to assume great importance in the near future. The classes are open to the general public free of charge. No Examination. your arguments every day. Send in a Let the DAILY WORKER make : |sub for your shop mates. PROTECT YOURSELF! PROTECT YOUR LOVED ONES! CHICAGO’S LABOR BANK A $5,000 Accident Policy Just Open a Savings Account. Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank 111 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD CORNER CLARK ST. No Red Tape.
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a R a! . _ . ; . - ’ ee j a , pe ‘ “ af! P ae = ob Sy ately, Lucca dine gn aR Rk Se. ee ‘ K : | ) IF F p FROM U.S, GAG, ATTACKS PLOT Vanderbilt and Horthy Aided by Coolidge | (Special te The Daily Werker.) MONTREAL, April 10.—The muzszsl- ing censorship of the American state a which forbade Oount ichael Karolyi, once president of the short-lived Hungarian republic, to say a word while visiting in the United Btates about the murderous Horthy dictatorship in Hungary, was droppéd et the Canadian border and Karolyi opend up an attack on Horthy. as hav- ing influenced his gagging by the Am- erican government, Hungary One of Hoover's Conquests. It must be remembered that Secre- tary Herbert Hoover and the Ameri- ean army officers and bankers were instrumental in plotting the bloody wverthrowal of the Hungarian Soviet Republic by the white guardist dictat- orship of Horthy in the period follow- ing the Karolyi regime. Hungary is practically a colony of Wall Street to- day and the American government openly supports the Horthy white guards in their butchery of thousands of workers. \ Karolyi, tho far from being a revo- lutionist, and best described as a lib- eral, openly claims that Horthy brot fnfluences to bear on the American government of Coolidge thru Count Bzechenyi, Hungarian minister to the United States, and husband of the former Gladys Vanderbilt. A Practical Object. That the gag rule enforced on him by Collidge’s great “democracy” had a ctical thing in view was shown by lyi’s statement that the Horthy- Coolidge combine did not want him to make speeches which would prevent white guard Hungary from getting loans from the American investors. Karolyi urged American investors not to buy Hungarian bonds. More loans from the United States would mean finance for a new war, he said. The Late “Enemy.” “When the Horthy regime in Hun- gary says it wants to reestablish a kingdom in Hungary without mention- ing what kind of a kingdom, it is ca- mouflaging its aim to restore the Haps- burgs. And Hungary is but the step- ping stone on which they want to re- build not only the Austro-Hungarian monarchy but the alliance with imper- lalistic Germany.” WASHINGTON, April 10.—Countess Michael Karolyi, wife of the former resident of Hungary, had a talk with . R. Castle, Jr., chief of the state Gepartment division of # western European affairs, when Secretary Kellogg refised to see her with refer- ence to the removal of the gag placed apon her husband when he entered the United States. She denied to the eo. that she had asked anything om the department. Talk it up—your shopmate wil] subscribe ! Double Supply of U.S. S. R. This Year WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.— Official reports received from Moscow | by the Russian Information Bureau here announce the completion during the present year of the first step in the program of doubling the supply of electric power in the Soviet Union. By October 1, the Soviet government will have spent the equivalent. of $70,- 000,000 in the establishment of seven regional power stations and the rehab- ilitation of existing stations. The an- nouncemient was received in a special issue of the Gazette of Trade and In- dustry, the organ of the supreme coun- cil of national economy, dated March 7. The regional stations will materially lower the price of electric current for the districts they serve. The Volkhov plant, near Leningrad, where water power is used, can produce power at a cost of two kopecks (one cent) per kilowatt hour, and the Shterov plant in the Don, running with small anthra- cite, can produce for 2.6 copecks per kilowatt hour, including provision for sinking fund. TEXTILE MILLS IN SOUTH FIRE MANY WORKERS Unions Struggle for Foothold PHILADBLPHIA, Pa., April 10.— James Starr, vice-president United Textile Workers, has come to Phila- delphia for the 1925 union organiza- tion drive after a survey of southern textile conditions. “‘The south was hit as hard as the north,” he says, dispel- ling the old myth of northern mill owners that southern mills take all the trade. “Mills have been working at 25 per cent and 50 per cent in North Carolina. Manville-Jenckes (big Rhode Island mill owners) have not made good by their move south.” The south will not be organized, Starr believes, until mill villages go. Ministers and teachers are paid at least partly by mill owners and dare not side with downtrodden workers. Fathers making $14 and $16'a week have wives working with them in the mills taking time off »to “urse the youngest baby brought along’ while the rest of the family remains at home under care of the eldest child not working. Workers are afraid to come to union meetings and those who come have only work overalls and gingham dresses to wear. Spies and gunmen are not uncommon, Starr says, and the —se of the workers is heart-rend- ng. vibes Unemployment At Capital WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘April 10.— There is a surplus of clerical help and labor, both skilled and: unskilled, in this city, R. Pilkington, federal |Christopher, III., director of employment has announ- ced. What have you done for your local |campaign quota? | SS ee TTT TTT TIP i| | Number One-- Lo You must state, prove, convince—you must place before the uninformed worker every argument as to why he should sub- scribe to The DAILY WORKER—and to the Communist principles it advocates. But it is the task of every Communist. This is the field in which are found not only the future members of the Workers (Communist) developed the Organizers. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub Is a task of no small importance! Try it on your shop-mate—it will make a better Com- munist of you! This is the field and work in which are “highest type of Communist If You Succeed—Use This Blank Is a task of no small importance. Getting a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shop-mate or member of your union is a task for the very best kind of a Communist organizer. Party, but also— * <&@ THE NEW THE DAILY NAME pA ctr S200 9 months FEee Sea yar Lite ome (as SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD S months — WORKER STREET BATT AIRPLANE WAR IS RE-OPENED Islands , Lost to Secure New Appropriations WASHINGTON, April 10.—The air service controversy, which has been smouldering since the demotion of Brigadier General William Mitchell, flared up anew today. The immediate case is the joint army navy war games to be held in Hawaiian waters. Aircraft will play a minor role in the maneuvers, air service officers asserted. There are not enough army Planes stationed in Hawaii, they said, to make even a sham battle interest- ing for the strong battle fleet and the navy airplanes that the “enemy” will send against them. Officers of the Mitchell faction, who would not permit their names to be used for fear of discipline, vigorously criticised the statement of Major Gen. John L. Hines, chief of staff, that me of the prime purposes of the maneuvers was to determine whether the defending planes could cripple’ the attacking fleet. “With the present air forces in Hawaii,” they said, “there is no chance we will be able to do any- thing to the enemy fleet. Consequent- iy, we will be licked—and then there will be another barrage of bunk about the battleship still being mightier than the airplanes.” The United States theoretically has lost the islands before the games be- gin, the flying officers assert, as the mastery of the air is concededly with the enemy and the maneuvers will not, therefore, show what may or may not be done under war conditions, despite war department announce- ments to the contrary. Kleist, ex-Socialist and Klansman, Meets Defeat in Wisconsin Election (Special to The Dally Worker.) MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 10.— John C. Kleist, a klansman, recently expelled from the socialist party, who was a candidate for justice of the supreme court was overwhelmingly lefeated in the recent judicial elec- ions. Reared in the opportunist ten- dencies of the socialist party, he quick y left the organization and allied him- ,elf with the klan as soon as he sensed that the socialist party did not guar- antee him an immediate political fu- ture. Basically there is not much dif- ference between the klansmen on the inside and on the outside of the so- cialist party. The socialist party of this city is fast drifting toward fas- cism and its organization Is producing the true Mussolinis of the American type. Miners and Friends _ to Hold Big Dance CHRISTOPHER, Iil., April 10.—All workers in and around Christopher are invited to come to the dance which will be given for the benefit of the T. U. B. L. at Moose Hall in Christopher, on the night of Wednes- day, April 15th. A social affair for the enjoyment of the militant miners and their families and friends is particularly in order, so that a grand get-acquainted feeling of fraternity may unite the fighters even more closely than ever. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? ‘Ask him! PITTSBURGH WORKERS TO HEAR RECORDS OF LENIN SPEECHES PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10.—A revolutionary party in honor of the Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir, will be given in Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday, April 15, at 1522 Fifth Ave. There will be a musical program, dancing and free refresh- ments. Among the speakers will be Comrade Arne Swabeck, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party in English, and Comrade Alexander Chramoff, organizer of the Russian section, W. P., In Russian. Talks will also be made by Comrades Len- in, Lunacharsky and others (from phonograph records). Come and listen to the voice of Lenin! Admission 50 cents. Beginning at 8 p. m. rESHIP AND That tne Le Dotee Council Is alding ly In assisting the gathering of contributions for Sacce and Vanzettl, the framed-up victims of the Massachusetts capitalist gov- ernment, le shown by the following letter from the Sacco-Vanzetti De- fense Comm acknowledging do- natione sent thru the Labor Defense Council. 1 le merely one incident | the same kind. The let- Council, 19 South celpt of your letter of April 6, en- closing covering contribu- tions as follows: “Greek branch, Workers Party, Pittsburgh, $12.25; Andrew Bolf, Ironton, Minn, $5.00; L. M. P. &., Buffalo, N. Ys $6.00. “Kindly accept our hearty thanks. Enclosed you will find receipt for above donations amounting to $22.25. As per your request, we are acknowledging receipt te the above contributors. “Fraternally yours, Sacco-Vanzet- ti Defense Committee, “Ay Fabbri, Secretary.” See Yourself in Daily Worker Movie on Next Wednesday The masses who demonstrated in front of the Polish consulate in Chi- cago in protest against the threatened execution of Stanislav Lanzutsky will have a chance to see themselves in the movies that were taken at that time. Thege pictures will be shown for the first time in the DAILY WORKER Film Edition No. 6, at the Wicker Park Theater, 1539 Milwaukee Ave., on April 15. The pictures are very clear and hundreds of wéll- known comrades can be recognized in the crowd. The feature of the program will be a return engagement of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls.” So many could not get into the great Ashland Auditorium when it was shown the first time, that this second showing was made necessary. There is no guarantee that there will be further repeat performances, so all who expect to see this Russian feature film should come early to the Wicker Park Theater. Luckless Investors Are Told WASHINGTON, April 10.—German marks representing a face value of millions of dollars are pouring into the department of commerce today from all parts of the United States. Secretary Hoover’s department has been asked to cash a pile of millions of marks. | “The American people have lost vast sums speculating in German marks,” a department financia] ex- pert says. “The department has been flooded with requests to exchange amounts varying from one thousand to millions of marks. None seem to comprehend that a mark can be worth as little as one forty millionth of a cent. But this is the case. It would not pay any one to present paper marks to the reichsbank for redemption unless he possesses at least four trillion.” Four trillion marks are worth about bundle of that dimension would have brought many billions of dollars. The department has information that the number of paper marks sold in this country was simply stupendous. A figure representing the number would contain so many ciphers as to be incomprehensible, according to ex- perts. The reichsbank will not accept marks for redemption in less than ten billion mark packages. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. a dollar exchange value—in 1913 a NI ‘Di ¥ * ee ‘ ' ‘ f a, se. , - a / -_ (- ( ‘ cA ' — ? 2 C4 ¥ YOUNG WORKERS ACTIVE IN 1. W. A. WORK IN GOTHAM Initiate New Campaign for Politicals NEW YORK, April 10.—Anybody the Junior Groups of New York, might have been fully enlightened on the matter by the attendance of the Y. W. L. and junior delegates at the con- ference of the International Workers’ Aid held on Monday, April 6. Half of the delegates present were of the Y. W. L, and the Junior Groups. The conference dealt with the new campaigns that the I. W. A. is under- taking. There is to be a new cam- paign for political prisoners, a new contribution list having been issued. The campaign is to be carried into all ia unions, fraternal and other working class organizations. The branches and séctions of the party and league were requested to hold an af- fair before the end of the season for the benefit of the L W. A. and the | Irish relief. Conference To Be Held The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee will be sup- ported in every way by the I. W. A. Leaflets, contribution lists have been prepared and will go out to the or- ganizations. A conference will be held in the near future—May 3,—at which it is intended to broaden the work of the Irish relief. At the conference, it was reported that-the I. W. A, and the Labor De- fense Council are jointly planning an outing in the latter part of August, combined with athletic exhibitions and contests and an outdoor panto- mine. The Workers’ Sport Alliance and the Workers’ Drama League are being asked to co-operate. In October there will be a ball and a hall has been procured for a joint bazaar next year in February. The Workers Party members must get as active as the Y. W. L. and the Junior Groups. They must elect their dleegates to the I, W. A. conference and see to it that they attend. Let them take an example from the young- er comrades who are beginning to do most active work in the I. W. A. Thus it was noted that at the Lanzut- sky demonstration in the Central Opera House, fully half of the audt- ence was made up of Y. W. L. mem- bers. At the demonstration in front of the Polish consulate, the same ratio prevailed. Youth is in the vanguard— but the older comrades must not stand back, Bunco Party Tonight; . Only Costs 2 Bits Area Branch 56 of the Young Work- ers’ League has inflated the anticipa- tion of the Communists of Chicago and vicinity worse than the French currency, in boosting the grand bunco party and dance which will be held tonight at 1902 W. Division street. The writer of this item was promised two dances by one of the sprightliest yowlettes in the citly, as an induce- ment to pound out an attractive no- ice. Here it is! Under such condi- tions a full house is inevitable. Bronx Readers Attention. NEW YORK, April 10.—The class in the Principles and Tactics of the Third International, given by Com- rade I. Stamler at No. 1347 Boston road, on Tuesday evenings, which was temporarily interrupted due to the Easter holidays, will be resumed on Tuesday, April 14. All students are requested to attend. North Side Study Class Meets Monday Night. The class of the North Side branch on the “A. B. C. of Communism” wil) meet on Monday evening, April 13, at 2406 N. Clark St., as usual. All branch students are requested to attend this important session. — - Pro’ Il Lavoratore in New York } the Italian Communists of New York District No. 2 at the Cavaliotti Hall, Saturday, April 11, at 8 p. m. Comrades, let it be a big affair. ee A red revel to welcome the |! Lavoratore In New York is being held by and under the auspices of the Itallan 600 Demott St., West Hoboken, N. J., Let Ii} Lavoratore be daily again. All comrades of all federations should not miss this entertainment which could prove thelr solidarity with the Italian Communist press. Chicago, Illinois. And While You Build the Labor Movement— For every $6.00 worth of subs ($8.00 worth in Chicago) we wiil gladly send you a leather binder with patent clasp making all sheets detachable; with pocket for receipts and note paper for your use— containing a full descriptive catalogue of all Communist books and publications from “The Source of All Communist Literature in This Country”—-the DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington Blvd., oe who has any doubt as to the activi-;™ore comrad } ties of the Young Workers League and , ‘ y —- Party Activities in District Six By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. munist tasks. give every division of the party work sure growth. It is this steady and steel regions. All thru the district the party members are realizing that it is the steady instead of the sporadic method that must be applied in all Com- Concentration upon each campeign, each undertaking, appli- cation to details and loyal adherance to Communist method and policy, will tion to our tasks that has given our movement a boost forward in the coal And altho there is still much to do to arrive at that point applica. where all party members consecrate+ their time in and out of the shop and/row days ago. mine to Conitnunism, still more and e being added to the active list in the district. Cleveland Cops a Fortune. As in all locals, money is a crying need. For many months the money- raising ventures never showed enough of a net surplus in cash to satisfy. However, the recent bazaar and cos- tume ball threw a small fortune into the lap of the local. More than a thousand workers with their families attended and the net today is $600. In Cleveland the T. U. E. L. work is showing new life. The pamphiet telling what's wrong in the carpen- ters’ union is being sold by the pro- gressive building trades workers. The needle trades section is distributing the Local 5 expulsion leaflet despite the opposition of a member of the G. E. B. of the Amalgamated, now in this city. Two large meetings are to be held protesting against the white terror in Poland, one the on east and one on the south side. Negotiations have been entered into with local Kuomintang officials to hold a meet- ing in commemoration of the death of Sun Yat Sen. A dance to secure funds for the relief of the Irish famine sufferers resulted successfully and the Building Laborers’ Union hag just donated its hall for a meeting on April 19, to be addressed by McCarthy on Irish relief. To Invade Akron at Once. Akron is the rubber tire center of the world. The workers are unorgan- ized. The speed-up system operates here as no place else. Workers in the pits that used to run seven heats in a shift are now running 23 heats a shift with half the number of em- ployes. In Akron a provisional na- tional rubber workers’ committee must be organized at once. Also, here we have an opportunity to establish two or three strong shop nuclei. Im- mediate steps to prosecute this work have already been taken. Stee! Workers Responding. The Youngstown, Girard, Niles, Warren steel region in this district has felt the impact of Communist activity in these last weeks. The definite organization of the party frac- tion in the left wing of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers is proceeding, thé first meeting to bring about this or- ganization having been held shortly with Wm. Dunne, Arne Swabeck and the district organizer of District 6 on the ground. The national convention of the steel and tin plate workers is now in session. Then also one steel mill nuclei has been organized and two or three more will follow shortly. Miners Hear Communist Call. gressive program as against tacks upon Communists and Communists and had the effect throwing ship of party members the being mobilized into a more effective manner. fAverpool local has informed thousands of pottery we as Communists selves. B. lL. not a distant possibility. tured, Columbus, the party im the district can These activities must be plied by the national office. to a large district treasury, lution. United Mine Workers adjourned a UV NITVATPNEENTRETOROEA ARDEA DEGHONUACICHITNOLENOENOEOUOCUENOUEDENTEDUALpUTRATE SHINN Is just as important—but it’s easier. The second task that is asked of every Communist—in or out of the Workers (Communist) Party—in the Second An- nual Sub Campaign is very much easier. You have no doubt tried to convince; you have surely stated the Communist princi- ples and program to many workers you have met. You did this as the task of a Communist. But where you may have not as yet succeeded—let the DAILY WORKER do it; you can do it better with!“Our Daily.” Pay for a subscription out of your own pocket (if you can) to the worker whom you want to convince. , With the aid of the best expression of _{Communist principles and practice in the ~_DAILY WORKER reaching him every day —you will surely “Make Another Com- munist.” In Order to Succeed—Use This Blank ——EEEwoo * - Our comrades wer<« there militantly upholding the pro- sives by the reactionary leadership. The threat to expel from the unions progressives only mediately into the “offensive, organ- izing a dozen meetings in the coal mining region, telling the miners who the progressives are and what they believe in, exposing the reactionaries. Comrade Max Salzman carried on this work for the party. Under the leader- sives in the miners’ union are now compect form so that the struggle can be car. ried on in a more contralized aad The Potteries of East Liverpool Though Mary G. Waters of the Hast our industrial activities among the workers, all fairly well organized, will confront us with many peculiar and new angles in relation to the party’# work in the trade unions, yet pottery workers are workers and where workers are there must busy The East Liverpool local re- ports renewed activity in the T. U. work and a provisional na- tiomal committee of pottery workers is An Eye Upon the Law Shop. The place where laws are manufac- has not been left out of eye. The ku klux kian and its compulsory bible reading bill for all school children has brought its reply from the party in the shape of a leaflet that is being given state-wide distribution. In this the Young Work- ers League is assisting commendably. The effort to foist a state military po- lice upon the workers in this estate, which everyone knows to be but an- other name for an army of strike breaking cossacks, was met by the party with another leaflet, which has been distributed widely at factory and mine and in labor union meeting halls. A Bit of Money Would Help e Lot. The tasks before us are numerous. Good beginuings have been made and Number Two-- the at progres- us im- progres- us that our- De Built in proportion to our actual activities. financed. Branches in the district must remit regularly their district tax. More than this, brancheg and members and pathizers will be asked shortly secure contributions for the Commun- ist work upon lists which will be sym- to Forward mot to keep but to spend to speed the revo- Every comrade a steady The Sub-District 5 convention of the oe in the shop, away from the shop, at every meeting, for the party. 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= ee /\ “ypiriting men to plan better in all lines of busi- (Phone: " Monroe 4713) “SUBSCRIPTION RATES | ma $6.00 per year ~ 43.906 ‘monthe ” 00.3 months all (i cage only $8.00 per BM ""U. os & onths $2.60....3 months AGdress all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL } _ WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ _ manere MORITSZ J. LOEBAK.....- “es ——_ be She fe - rs PARIS, | ‘April 10jnePeomice Herrlot faced with the-certainty of having to quit office in the near. future, made savage attacks on the leaders of the opposition, yesterday, charging pre- ceding governments with shady book- keeping and with having deceived the country a@ to the financial condition of the treasury. The premier went before the senate this afternoon and denied that his government. ‘vhad ever exceeded the’ inflation limit of the Bank of France. ‘Blowing Bubbles. Hh The Bahk. o t France, however, re- conied an e of 2,100,896,000 in circulation, Which brings the total cir- culation ap to 43,000,000,000. francs, while the legal limit is 41,006,000,000. The chamber voted confidence in the government by 291 to 242. Dur. ing the discussion Marcel Cachin, Communist deputy created’ a sensa tion when he asked if it was not trud that several billions of frances were exported out of the country to Italy recently to avoid the consequences of the financial crisis. Herriot admitted this was true. ar Francois-Marsal was sharp and cri: tical for the Herriot ministry. Term. inating his interpellation of Herriot. he said: “Neither the capital tax nor a force ed loan is. capable of restoring confi dence in the present government.” Herriot rose from the minister's bench immediately and mounted the tribune to reply. Herriot again laid responsibility for the nation’s financial chaos on the nationalist government of Premier Poincare. He said: -“Unsuccessful loans Made under the nationalist government showed there was:no more confidence ‘then under the nationalists than now un- der us. But the nationalists increas- ed the internal debt heavily and it now is 278 bition francs’. --- The opposition senators intedeessle ed with loud shouts: “Make Ger- many pay it.” CALL TO THE TEXTILE WORKERS (Continued from page 1.) out any organization at all or to have paganda meetings of the branch wg d a few small ynions eke out a miser- able existence fighting among them- selves. All of the small unions must come together. The United Textile Workers, the American Federation of Textile Operatives, the Amalgamated Textile..Council and the other textile ea must form a united front agai t.the bosses. There must be one unfon in the textile industry embracing skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers in one powerful or- ganization. Form Real. Mill Committees “For the. purpose of amalgamating all existing: ufigns in the textile indus- try and ofganizing the unorganized, the United Front Committees of Tex- tile Workers ‘have-been formed in Law- rence and elsewhere. Everywhere in Lawrence we are ‘trying to form true rank and file mill committees that will become part and parcel of our United Front Committee. We have dis- tributed thousands of leaflets, we have held mill gate rallies and indoor mass meetings. “Already the. police have begun their notorious work for the textile bosses. Commissioner of public safe- ty, Marshall, although chosen by the workers of Lawrence, has kicked them repeatedly in the face. He has re- fused to grant permits to hold open- air ralliés and Albert Weisbord of Boston, speaking for the United Front Committee, was arrested because Mr. Marshall would not give him a permit, and was fined by the district court. This case has been appealed and the decision must be fought out in the upper court, Shall Mr. Marshall be the dictator of Lawrence? Shall the textile barons use the machinery of the government in Lawrence to pre- vent’ the exploited textile workers from organizing to establish and main- tain American standards of living? Must Unite to Aid Strikes “Sparodic strikes have broken out in Fgll River, New Bedford in the Blackstone and Pawtuxet vallies and in Connecticut. Organized labor must come to the assistance of these strug- gling textile workers. “The United Front Committee of Textile Workersinvites your organiza- tion to send one or more delegates to a conference to be held, April 15 at Ideal Hall, 180 Essex street for the purpose of forming a textile workers defense and relief committee. Such committee will give aid and defense to the textile workers without discri- mination, “MONEY IS NEEDED FOR DE- FENSE AND RELIEF. Your organiza- tion is rquested to sénd a substantial sum to the defense and relief fund. Make all checks payable to Fred E. Beal of 85 Jacksén St., Lawrence. United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence. Fraternally yours, F. E. BEAL, Sec’y. To All Textile Unions “The United Front Committee otf Textile Workers. of. Lawrence has be- gun an intensive campaign among the textile workers to stiffen their resist- ance against the dastardly wage cuts and inhuman speeding up and doub- ling up of work that the textile bosses have forced. The workers must fight the fake shop and mill committees of the mill owners and organize militant rank and file mill committees of their own. “In order to carry out. this camp aign the textile workers ‘must organ- ize and amalgamate all of their forces for the fight. We must not allow the three hundred and fifty thousand tex- tile workers in. this district to be with- out any organization at all or to have a few smal! unions eke out a miser- able existence: fighting among them- selves. “Al of the small unions must come together. The United Textile Work- ers’ of America, the American Feder- ation of Textile Operatives, the Amal- gamated Textile Councils and tha other textile organizations must form a united front against the bosses. There must be one union in the tex- tile industry’that will embrace skill- ed, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in one powerful organization! “For the. purpose of amalgamating all existing, unions and organizing the unorganized, United Front Committees of Textile Workers have been forced in Lawren¢e and elsewhere. We have already done some good work such as organizing some rank and file mill committees, distributing thousands of leaflets and holding indoor mass meet- ings and mill gate rallies. But to really succeed we must haye the co- operation. of every textile workers’ organization. “We invite-your organization, there- fore, to send one or more delegates to sit with us.on the United Front Committee. The struggle of the tex- tile workers must not be abandoned and it can be carried on successfully, only hy .way of a united front of ali textile workers organizations. “Our committee sincerely hopes that your organization will join our united front. Address all. mail to the secret- ary pro: ‘tem, Pred E. Beal, 85 Jack- son streét, “Lawrence, Mass. ‘““Fraternally yours, United Front Committee of Textile Workers of Lawrence per FRED E. BEAL, ecretary, pro. tem. The above letter was sent to “the following textile organizations: Dyers and Finishers,’ United Tex- tile Workers; Wool Sorters, United Textile- Workers; Mule Spinners, In- ternational Textile Workers; Loom Fixers, Ameri@an Federation of Tex- tile Operatives;« and the One Big Union organization. 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