Daily Worker
April 23, 1925

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S : ‘ , i ie ‘* 2) €” ay “tS ~ ne Mae y _ ~ ol, ae , — = | * “ 5 ‘ . oe i Sa 5 "FG: G : | | Daily Worker. Annual Sub- in Full Blast! - | _ GET IN ON IT! NEW YORK EDITION re Ly —_ fice at Chicago, Ulinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, » 1925 a>” Published dally except Sunday by THE DAILY WONKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, lL ALL SIX DELEGATES EXPELLED FROM SEA r RE-ELECTED BY LOCAL UNIONS r , Vol. I. No. 87. ‘SUR AS WE SEE as By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. LL that glitters is not gold. La- bor leaders are more often than not labor misleaders. Things must never be judged by their names, no more than the worth of an individual can be judged by the button - — ae —- al Se rae tee a seayreree (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘5 Wear on Ds cat. An eaten | DritishPressOpens W ar SEATTLE, Wash., April 16—(By Mail.)—The six Communist delegates Bureau is now holding a convention to the Seattle Central Labor Council, Paul K. Mohr, Marius Hansen, W. H. in Philadelphia. Another case of mis- already been charred by the national executive comm anf 5 “reformists” who brought the Com- SALT LAKE CITY, April 21.—Com- charter was appliefor, The remain-+— mee, Ode ‘other choose their delegate. He character- norges Ps eee Of ecomomic : sta: 3 munist movement out of its illegal- —_— pelled to give up their organization range a teeed oan tinabth | ized the action of Jepsen as “foolish” uty an fiscal justice. a issioners, who | ‘2&8 two ha E ' These wishes were inspired by ized existence, where it was driven| (> bl Face Second by tyrannical city commiss , in refusing to seat their delegate Paul pired by the , ampiers , to | and will soon be «a working basis Herriot government. 4 by the Palmer raids in 1920. But the ° permit the city Fire Chief Bywater “ fee Tega igor Reese Mohr. And he stated that, from the|__ y t. These will be Workers (Communist) Party ‘is today Shutdown in Month blackguard and abuse them in every} When hs P expression of the membership, al°™" guide. the only American section of the way, the fire fighters of Salt Lake | Plied ae ae ittes fight was on the way * corerunner of the new French Communist International, while Batt ROME, Italy, April 21—The stock | City are resigning wholesale as @ pro- as k. stric eel ped pecan sos INDIANA KLAN All Expelled Delegat@s Re-elected attitude regarding its debts to Amer is a highly appreciated member of the| .xchanges thruout Italy will be closed | test against their helpless condition, | 48°60 ng an a sponsible Delegate Neil “7 ica and England was given when he is a highly e comrade to eachf the nuclei to gate Nelison of the machinists | said: “In comi republican party, and one of the most | today. The government issued a de-| which will remain helpless unless . ced Bt peony stated that the sitet Dieadend tnt cas b ming to international ne slavish bootlickers for the labor fak-| cree authorizing the exchanges to re-| they organize together with all other help t — ra 34 4 s on ~ 7 ) the machinists regarding the unseat- devel ge Oa government intends to ers on this continent. main closed yesterday, and as today | city employes and launch a real fight aa me aaa U ds gi mm : ing of delendtée Was that it is detri A e REA. a of the Dawes 2. is a holiday, to celebrate the found-| on the autocracy of the city officials. | Bucieus to acq 4 ep wall SMDCrs ental to the organizational work of brs the same time settlement H* editorial in a recent issue of his | ing of Rome, the exchanges were kept Some Class Solidarity. ae the — Pas pa aa P = hate inca’. (Continued on page 2) me ° ‘ ; : paper, which ee , ae —— der closing the stock exchan:| That there is a sentiment of solidar-| 1.4 to attend timeeting. Those Finds On American aa last night’s meeting of the coun- the Workers’ Education ureau is The order closing the stock exc . o. vevailing among other city serv- . ; I Fi 2 aa cil three more credentials were pres. »» to attenwill be severely nsti headed, “A New Era in the Unions.” |ges was issued —s tea. ee = wd pears ai teaches tee: Cae ; Sent pct a erely tution Irksome ented. M. Hansen and W. H. Jones PHILLIPS, ORGANIZER The gist of the editorial is that edu-|at any price poured in from all sides. that when thirty or forty city truck Members of thYoung Workers who were elected by unanimous vote OF NEGRO YOUTH 10 cation has been neglected in the past | There being no buyers, @ heavy sump drivers were called to the office of ho work shops of over |, .DIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 21.—)0f their local and given a vote of con- by the labor movement of this coun-/|in prices followed and the exchanges Street Commissioner Burton, and ask- League ue oO weeny Bes ma se nine Once considered one of the state’s| idence which in- part says, “in all SPEAK IN CLEVELAND try. , Our labor leaders were obliged | were closed. 4 to scab on the firemen, ten refused 100 wor or “ A ape ne Y/most formidable political generals,| theif mémbership in the brotherhood. fe re- to gain their knowledge from personal| Tfie exchanges have passed resola- 7. fee and “wete fred members ° 3 whe cir SOP | David C. Stephenson, also a former} they have always’ done their utmost : t the experience. Other educational move- | tions condemning Premier Mussolini's go Pope ane thins jobs 1a the streut must also — wh ae | = sag ku klux klan power, was accustoming | *° uphold and serve the principles of | (Special to The Daily Worker) that 4 ments of a working class character |order that a large proportion of the P PRESB ALG, sag heD will go to fill The meet 57 77 ates pa on himself today to the drab routine at| ‘rade unionism,” and the credentia] | CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 21.— n un r were too narrow in scope, but the| business must be done in cash. In a Ain be tile Sheol” Ou Bur- | Readauarters o - W. 4, 105 2. ithe Marion county jaid where five | °f J. C. Carlson who likewise received! H. V. Phillips, Negro organizer for W. E. B. has the A. F. of L. behind it. | spite of the protests, however, Musso- | ¢ P ici bens cans atime 3 14th St. mh steel doors bar him from the outside | *®€ unanimous vote of his local. The| the Young Workers League, wil! be nsteg, It may have shortcomings “real orjlini has let it be known he will not | ton’s ea ware dialawali®t: Tha : world. credentials after being read were not| the principal speaker at a meeting .dmit- imaginary.” Obviously imaginary, ac-| rescind the law. he vont * ng > these aike thie Nucleus Formed prmnany Shop Charged in the first degree with | 4cted upon. to be held Thursday in Hanna Hall with- cording to Mr. Batt, and no doubt The stock exchanges were closed | usual bun 3 sae owalty.” NEW YORK, ‘il 19.—Another murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer, The credentials of Joe Havel from| 5311 Woodland Ave. The subject of in at- (Continued on page 5.) by a similiar slump a few weeks ago. | that scabbing 1s yany- nucleus beter formp this city, last |} who swallowed poison out of shame|*2¢ bookkeepers who was also not; the meeting will be the American who- Ninety-two Firemen Quit. week. This timea millinery and | and pain after criminal attack charged | °Bly re-elected by his local to suc-! Negro Labor Congress, to be heid ? M ONMENT The resignation of 92 fire fighters | flower shop emplc¢ over 100 work-|to Stephenson, the former klan organ-| ceed himself, but given a vote of! in Chicago this summer. This con- MARCUS GARVEY S | PR were filed after repeated efforts to/| ers, mostly youngs. izer is in “federal row” awaiting the | C°Mfidence, has not as yet been re-| gress will have delegates from the . OT SAYS remedy abuses heaped upon the men This nucleus thew has five mem-/ next effort of his counsel to have him | ceived by the council. trade unions, and many organiza- IS PART OF CAPITALIST PL , had failed. Instead of correcting or | bers was formed tthe initiative of | admitted to bail. The meeting of the council last | tions of Negro workers : tediluvian fossil! once comrade wheceeded in win- Eph Inman, chief defense },| Right was attended by barely ; TIF ' . ) W K S CO U § ) discharging the an | n, se counsel, y barely a quo-| Phillips is an active organizer of y OR ER MM NI T PARTY at the head of the fire department,| ning over four o girls from the intimated this next step might come|'U™- Apparently the unseating of| the Negro working ibeaa cca oS irge ~— the city officials upheld him and re-j very beginning. ‘Is further proof | this afternoon but he declined to state | delegates and the manner in which Chicago. NEGRO WORKERS OF AMERICA! | of the president of the organization | fused to do anything. that single comr working in a'what form it would take. Inman lost| *®ey were declared unseated by Jep- J. D. Whitlow, a member of the ~That WHITE WORKERS OF AMERICA! | who was held in prison without bail Fire Chief Bywater, 67 years old,| shop can organizeP nuclei. the first skirmish to free Stephenson | %®" has caused a feeling of deep re-| Clevetand Building Trades Council * gen OMRADES! The Workers, (Com- during the period of the proposed| and a relic of feudalism mentally, is Since this shmcleus consists when Judge James A. Collins in crim-| 5¢mtment. will also speak. ; gency munist) Party of America ‘calls | convention. in the habit of calling the men curs, | only of girls we weg an opportun-/|!nal court, overruled pleas in abate- alias overn- : , in i * other names not mentioned | ity of seeing our Comrades in ac-| Ment late yesterday. your attention to the persecutions Again in August 1924 the govern-| dogs and y war L guey 3 rman which the United States government|ment tried to disrupt and disperse|in print. He persecuted those men he There are in tion two party Judge Collins Said today Stephen- CHICAGO WORKERS TO DEMONSTRATE ‘th of is inflicting upon a large Mass Orga@D-|the “Congress of the Negro Peoples| could not bully and charges of graft| members in this® who will co- prea, and his _two co-defendants Ear! AGAT COrpo- . ization of Negroes, the Universal Ne-|of the World” in New York City by|on purchases are made in detail. operate with the jus in its work. Comey ht sateaghterpoca charged as NST WAGE CUTS AND THE OPEN larged ' gro Improvement Association. means of arresting the president of| The men filed a petition for a public | tion. accomplices Dut held equally respons- aa . For four years the United States (Continued on page 6.) (Continued on page 2) a oe would not be SHOP AT BIG MAY FIRST PROTEST 7 . . aigne J » Beth- government has been ey — Fire Destrowis Stage they ned gg oy oe rane PERE , . ediat- ri , | n, of p trying to destroy this Negro organiza JAPANESE POLICE BREAK UP BIG PARIS, April 2he Stage of the ely. a | May Day is a day not only of celebration but of demonstration and pro- pioced “ cution began in 1921 with Alhambra Theatefic Hall famous} Meantime a dozen women’s clubs | ese That is the point of view of the Workers (Communist) Party and it is , rse - ' ' lew oat i ini : rn. a poole of arrests and prosecutions DEMONSTRATION BY COMMUNISTS |: a ee have adopted resolutions condemn | putea Le yap of view that the May Day demonstrations are being cele- ; m1 English vaudeviis, S Gestroy-|ing Miss Oberholtzer’s assailants d Ames uit for of the organizers of the association. ; . an nee d by fire today. d On Friday, May 1, th ‘orkers gat : Q ‘ s still ie 1923 the police agents of the gov- TOKIO, April 21.—More. than. 1,000 Communists held a demonstration in ed by he page ee be meted | ie baabanatae yd me wi os r ca hered in the Temple Hall, Van Buren or the ernment suppressed the annual i hes f at city, today and were finally dispersed LORKE sum: Also, & campaign |". S-, will be addressed by a number of nationally known uiit on convention of the Universal Negro Zoul, according to dispatches from that city, to eriengell ape a on te onl caca or} was well under way for raising funds | speakers; James P. Cannon, C. E. Ruthenberg, Max Shachtman for the Young | ere injured and man rsons ma r , Improvement Association by methods | after a hot battle with the polies..feores w y pe a — muniss to the wok rhe worms the offenders | rkers League. and Martin Abern. These speakers will review the events ° de a : oft terrorization, including the arrest, rrested. j ; a (Continued on page 2) | =e . ann . ie : . ~ ; F oF 2 aE) = ; . : _ i \ a taken identity. The intellectual hash that will come out of this goosestep institution will not be workers’ educa- tion, but the kind of dope that lulls” the minds of the workers into a satis- fied sleep. . + 7 COTT NEARING tried to inject a breath of the class struggle into the foul atmosphere engendered at this conference by the capitalist agents, Matthew Woll, Frey, Perkins and Maurer. He created as much consternation as if he had appeared on the platform, with a smoking bomb in each pocket and squirted liquid fire into the eyes of the respect- able Jabor fakers whose mission it is to disembowel the Workers’ Educa- tion Bureau, extract everything that smeélis of the class struggle from its system and leave nothing but the bu- rea. This could be conveniently | dropped after a while, as William Green dropped Chester Wright and other liabilities inherited from Gom- pers. on ” * ORKERS’ education, in the opin- ion of the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor méans nothing more or less than a course in industrial etiquette, which would teach the workers how to behave in the presence of their masters, beat their foreheads on the ground without however impairing their ability to pro- duce surplus values, and grasp the theory of class-collaboration which tells us that the interests of the capi- talists and the workers are identical, leaving the management of those in- terests to the bosses as well as the determination of how much of the product of industry should go to the worker. a a i ent, nevertheless their delegate H. G. | maintenance of diplomatic represent- : S is the kind of stuff that will be ate " i 5 tails Price, was elected by unanimous vote | 4tion there. : T injected into the * to succeed himself in the council. |} “surother problems vanish before censorship that has enshrouded Bul- the frontiers, excepting for an occa- (Special to The Daily Worker.) VIENNA, April 21.—The._ veil. of garia for several days has not. yet been lifted and the world is in the dark as to what is happening behind sional story sneaked out by somé refugee who has escaped the faselsti cordon, The. authorities are continuing fo murder Communist and peasant lead- ers but evidently all the bullets are not flying one way as the government is making frantic appeals for per- mission to conscript ten thousand more troops as it is not in a position to pay a volunteer army. + “ ~ Britons Worrying LONDON, April 21-—The British capitalists are using the latest crisis in Bulgaria as an excuse to open an attack on the Russian trade union delegates who have recently held a conference with a committee repres- enting the British unions, with a view to bringing about unity on an inter- national scale in the labor movement. One of the papers, The Daily Tele- graph, warns the government that many dangerous Communists entered the country recently. The British ruling class fear revolution in the colonial countries and the spread of Communist propaganda among thd colonial slaves of Britain is causing much uneasiness in Downing Street. > ss * Arrested In Berlin BERLIN, April 21-~-The German political police today arrested two Bulgarian students charged with com- plicity in. the Sofia explosion. The students immediately went on a hun- p_aaiversity. of ference that Dennis Batt, only recent- ly a member of the national executive committee of the proletarian party, halled-in his fake sheet, the Detroit Labor News, as marking a “new epoch in the American labor movement.” >. * * ATT was once so revolutionary that the Workers. (Communist) Party looked pale pink in his eyes. At the first convention of our party Batt and the two other leading mem- bers of the proletarian book stores company, stood on their toes and hurled revolutionary brimstone at the journalists who specialize.in. forged documents and lies were seen visiting the British consulate,, which is the headquarters of the counter revolu- tionary elements in thig cquntry. EXCHANGES OF ITALY CLOSED BY SHARP BREAK on Russians | os , - » - - he Wort > woe Boye’ f ry ae “s s CRE agg unanimous vote of their respective un Two of the credentials, thoge of P and H. G. Price of Machinists’ Hope previous meeting of the council and Secretary Doyle stated that he had anticipated the matter would come up and how the chair would rule, so he wired to Green for advice. Green’s lilegal Ruling Then he proceded to read the fol- ion that the decision of President Jepsen and the Seattle central body in unseating delegates to the Central Labor Council becomes effective im- mediately and that suspended dele- gates are ineligible to the seats in the central body pending decision on their appeal to the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, William Green.” Jepsen then turned over the chair to the vice president and in half min- ute apologetic speech of his decision said that he was supported by Green matter was out ofAhe council’s hands and he will not obligate the two dele- but all looked on curiously and did not care for what was said in Green’s wire nor what Jepsen said. Delegates Report Revolt Against Expulsions Under reports of delegates to the council, Brown from machinists prevalent in his local, yet toleration of the highest degree is predominat- ing. That the largest attendance was He regreted to OF SALT LAKE IN WALK OUT 92 Resign in Protest Against Fossil Chief (Special to the DAILY WORKER) general program oOrwork for all nuclei. There are at wsent about 10 shop nuclei in the district. SHOP SUCLEI IN NEW YORK CITY ee Se ae elegates from , No. TOBE HELD SA TURDA Y, APRIL 25 stated that their _odboageentegad NEW YORK, Aril 19.—A conference of all the shop nuclei now function- ing in the district 111 be held on Saturday, April 25, at 3 Dp. m. sharp to dis- cuss the work ofche different nuclei at present organized and outline a One of the problems that will be taken up will be th working out of plans in order to increase the member- ship of each nuclet The next big problem will be the functions of every shop nucleus and bw to carry on the general league activity in the shop. Seven have his union will' continue to fight until Price would be seated. Mohr was one of the oldest members and had a high standing in the local labor movement. That considerable discussion was had’ at the meeting in his local union regarding the un- seating, and by unanimous vote his local decided to re-elect Mohr to suc- ceed himself as they were of the opin- ion that it was their locdl’s right to choose whom they should send to the council and .not for the council to lowing wire received: “It is my opin- as the wire proved, and that the gates. No one from either side spoke, stated that a variation of opinions is had at the last meeting of his union with two. international officers pres- see that Jepsen has next, he, hOwever, was satisfied that Jones, Joe Havel, H. G. Price and J. C. Carison who were deciared unseated by corrupt procedure of the council’s president, Jepsen, were re-elected by ions and sent back to the council. Not only did their locals re elect them, but each were given a vote of confidence. aul K. Mohr of the Bakers’ Local No. 9, Lodge No. 79, were presented at the after having been read by the clerk, FRENCH PREMIER READS MESSAGE TO NOISY CROWD French Chamber Hoots Painleve’s Nostrums (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 21.—‘“Blackguards,.” “bums” and other riotous declarations and shouts of derision punctuated the ministerial message of the new cabin- et when Premier Paul Painleve read The message advocate maintaining a French embassy at the vatican; the security of France first and the work- ing out of financial problems as of secondary importance. So great was the confusion that Painleve was forty minutes reading six pages of the message. The only applause was from the right when he demanded maintenance of representa- tion at the vatican. Despite opposition of the radical socialists to his proposal that the French ambasasdor at the vatican be continued, the premier proposed the two heavy responsibilities: Its Tough, Saye Premier “It as a bitter disillusionment for France, seven years after a victorious war, to undergo such worries as she now suffers. But we wish to face the facts,” declared the premier. Painleve criticized the preceding government’s obstinate hope of ob- taining unrealizable reparations and rejecting possible solutions. “The country-is tired of illusory hope,” he said. “Tt’s universal suf- frage has made known its sovereign desire for peace in Security and in respect and the maintenance of it in the chamber of deputies today. . ers. by. this ; oone-gtal me sae. ‘oi There ryerish| 3 A the 3% fa tere re ggt.on the credential ac-| “Firstly, to preserve France's secur- P of view was.as repugnant to Woll atid | nere indicating that another Me yer aera ornate — FE Seta RT a a that’ wiile f@-eold not at the time| cial stability -" Peeler Bee are : te oY ; Ni a ‘ t v. is ees “ ’ nleve’s : Surrey Wane. Yok 1H to. he. Gated Gee vity.” Boverel. Wall Regn, wits FIRE FICHTERS | IMPORTANT CONFERENCE OF ALI sty what MU his local would take }atatément read: » ep + © ap acy peyabeey.