Daily Worker
April 24, 1925

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HTS ALISM ernment to 8 prompted and Ameri- . the Mexi- rs, suffered constituted, son as the, imperialists jections to eague of made by entment of lent by the grown, the \ ' on~t a Te ae > ea ‘umeiterha Gates, : J“, =" ‘4 9S “Swed poe ; -‘nuneiation of the “passi eS the a + ee PRD, EPR Ee peeroses , rent. ‘ee BP ot Hs a 5 > > ; tg Ys Bt 7 i * +5 Soe deg i en : ao 7 tak CT we} ¥; Hin ae Ano qe Ooi | bibs oe ie NEW YORK EDITION Hise ote September 21 10, ae 8 7 5 i ) .- al eat Chicago, ia under th Ato March 2, este: — 7 = Published daily aneete Poy by THE ae WORKER PUBLISHING vd., Chicago, TL ‘CO, 1 W. Washington Bl Price 3 Cents AS WE SEE IT By T. J. ‘O’FLAHERTY. ULGARIA is very much in the Dews today. It is. today, the chief biargsote slaughterhouse, where the. workers are being annihileted. merely. for being workers. There is no pro- test against this reign of terror in the capitalist press. The governments, baat used. to keep the wises bot:in. de, defensive measures ot the Soviet government, approve of the actions of the murderous white |. aneieps of Bulgaria. S -—. = Bulgarian isetiiulonaead. known / among the workers and peasants of: Eu as the “Government of As- ” is the creature of-Britain and vorite political puppet of Austen berlain. It seized’ power with ne connivance of ‘the British govern- mént an@ has held office since then by thé support of the same government. ZankoV, the present premier, had Stambulisky murdered; 15,000 peas- ants. lost their’ lives in the insurrec- tion he erertes September, 1923. * ss *® is csicindtis gang suppressed the Workers’ Union, with a member- ship of 40,000, and the Workers’ and Peasants’ Oo-operative Society with 2 membership of 70,000 was declared i! legal and all its property confiscated When this’ fiend Zankov thought he had the country pacified in 1924, he ordered an electiop, but the the social- ists had bargained with him as to the number of deputies both should have, the Communists and peasants polled over 200,000 votes and elected 25 dep- utes. Zankov then made up his mind to eliminate his enemies by méans of assassination. « * ° INCE then Zankoy has assassinat- ed, at a conservative estimate, at least 500 Communists and peasants, not to-speak of the thousands he has executed in mass. Bulgarian rev: olytionary leaders who managed to es from the country have been tracked down arid assassinated in for: éign cities. The following letter, writ- ten by Zankov’s right hand man, Stancheff, to the Bulgarian minister in Rome, openly boasting of one mur- der 7 apeing athens is Miamiagt | + ! eff. | am. "sure that Dmitroff (leader of the | outlawed unions) will suffer the same fate. e is now in Rome and I shall not sleep.in peace until he shall have nerislied. We shall get rid of Dr. for its lying campaign in blaming the : Big Revolt Re Reported I Is} - Against F Fascisti (Special to The es tatty ‘aia’: MOSCOW, April 22—The Itzvestia today denounced the capitalist press Sofia bomb explosion on the Com-} munist International. The paper de- clared that the reported order from the Communist International ordering a revolution in Bulgaria on ‘Aprit 15 wae clumsy forgery, . * . The King a Prisoner, . VIENNA, ,April 22.—The king of Bulgaria is reported a prisoner in his own palace, as firing squads are kept busy executing Communist and peas- ant leaders thruout the part of the country where the Zankov government rules. All the news coming over the wires out of Sofia is censored, but enough 3s learned to indicate that the fascist egime is tottering. The wholesale xecutions carried out by the Zankoyv ‘egime have inflamed the peasan igainst the government and a general: lace, Blamed the Communists. The fascist government issued official statement today blaming ‘athedral explosion on the. Commun- sts. The Roumanian royal family Wave made arrangements to recelve Xing Boris in the event of his posi- ‘ion becoming untenable in Bulgaria. It would not surprise anybody here ‘o learn that the Zankov ministry has ‘allen. It is believed if it goes down thet the m@mibers of the present gov- ornment will never come up again. INDIANA KLUXER FILES P ETITION iprising is _reported to have. taken): ; Mk = ~y vA ~|WORKERS PARTY ASKS FOR | OF LABOR ON REAL PROLE EDUCATION FOR CLASS. _— RIAN FRUGGLE| ¢ from the educational department of ‘workers’ education. The cninajieht surrender of the Workers’ E took place at its fourth national convention | pw theories and. practice of class collaboration, and t : vention by the reactionary bureaucracy of the A. F.¢ statement upon workers’ education and the role ‘ew 7 . : A Statement of the Edugationel 22 of the Workers: P The Workers Party on the occasion of the f the Workers’ Education: Bureau, meeting in Phil | to point out the vital task of labor education in the he issues affecting groups and representatives of sorte 7 the Workers yj the following schools: ‘3 if or 1 cae ’ - ~. convention of iis it important tates and the ted to promote] s What is Workers’ Education? The activities of the W. E. B. rail ing the period of its existence raises the entire question of workers’ edu- cation. What is workers’ education? It is. self-evident that . workers are led to‘ organize for their own ed n because the educational forces of the present system are be- ing perverted and prostituted to mis- represent the facts of our social life; com of the permanency and superiority of the present capitelist system; to pre No proof is necessary for the asser- tion that our schools, universities and other educational agencies are the (Continued | on page ” to instil in workers a consciousness Deongge vent the workers as a class from unit- } ing in opposition to their position as RJ wage laborers. | m Workers (a ‘April 22.— roe revealed foreign-born if there before the Revolution me “policy of restric- Epressed the wish a sé . ae A ‘ of aliens per- manent. i Two Die In | Hane, Wreck. | i 22.—Julio Sanz Fer ioe ® were seriously burned in: the . ietion of. a: mill- ‘tary- airplane by 1 ip bere today. SAD ee oeds ca Senator Did Dirty Work . GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 22.— Deniale that Senator Burton K. Whevier, of Montana ever practiced as 4 os Si ce a MoD Accused. ie Murderous Attack on Girl INDIANAPOLIS.” A} April 22. —Marion of members of congress in interesting county fail’’will’be the temporary Maximoff, as well as Kosturkof (leader of the bourgeois opposition to Zankov's regime). Yesterday at La- zaroff’s (commandant of Sofia garri- son) I heard about Viahoff. We are going to send our men down there to settle their accpunt, as well as Kolar- off's: ,Lambieff has left a fortnight ago for London to put away Rakov- eky (Soviet envoy in London). Don’t worry about money. All will Be paid. {.am.sending you to carry on your wetk 8,000 lire. Thousand greetings. Stancheff.”’ ; * * » N the month of January alone 150 political assassinations were com- mited by Zankov fiends. One of the most prominent of those was a young school teacher. He was taken to a police station by detectives and was found later strangled with wire on ‘he streets of the capital. _ * 7 HIS information does not come from a Communist source. It is ihe summary of a letter sent to Brit- ish working class organizations and was published in .George Lansbury’s Weekly. Note that the socialists had a.united front with the fascisti. Some of cur réaders might not believe this, attributing the charge to Communist malice. But George Lansbury is not «a Communist. He is a member of the independent labor party, and a mem- ber of the British parliament. - > + HIS government of murderers is now trying to use the latest act of retaliation as an excuse for a fresh \orgy ef executions. And it is not sur- ‘Continued ou page 3) nome of David C: Stephenson, deposed ku klux klan organizer, at least until next Monday, when he will be brought into criminal court for a hearing on his petition to be allowed bail. This became certain today with the announcement of Eph Inmnan, chief counsel for “Stephenson, who is charged witht first degree murder in connection with the death of e Oberholtzer, 28. Attorney Inman said no further:attempts to obtain freedom for Stephenson would be made until after the héaring. At the hearing Monday the prosec- utor must unravel in court the mass of evidence he claims to have W ranting Stephenson’s retention wi out bail pemding trial. The hearing on the bail petition’ was exepected to develop into a virtual trial itself with a score of witnesses to be heard. Among those who will be called to testify against Stephenson will be Mrs. George E. Oberholtzer, mother of the girl Stephenson is alleged to have attacked in a sleeping car, causing her to “swallow poison tablets out of shame and pain.” Mrs.- Oberholtzer was seriously ill at her home today and it was said she might be unable to testify Mon- day. “In this event, at the request of the defense, the hearing wie: be post- poned. be — Fire Sweeps Mexican City. BISBEE, Ariz., April 22.—Two dead, forty injured, and a property loss of $250,000 was the toll in the fire whick swept Cananae, Sonora, Mexico, 65 miles from here, according to word received today. SOUTH AFRICANS MOVE TO BOYCOTT WALES AS PRINCE DANCES GAILY CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr’! South African natives, as a result of Wales, is seen in a move here to boy perialism. Tre Officered hy British soldiers. | ae Bleasure at the Ho ctayed-in-ed most of the day to (Special to The Daily Worker) 22.—-The increasing restiessness of * ¢ the approaching visit of the prince of cott the prince’s visit when he arrives. The outbreak at Bloemfontein, where Britis# police killed four and wounded several other Africans during a demons! ation, is but one sign of the resentment of the South Africans at the opp: issive rule of British im- “shows” which have been put on by the African natives, to enter- tain the prince, have been.staged wholly by native troops, commanded and PRINCE GAY AND UNCONCERNED. LAGOS, Nigeria, April 22.—Reports that the natives are showing -dis- “royal visit” have not perturbed the prince of Wales. danced every number of a ball here, staying up until well into the morning. tf an emergency call ~_ every avail. recuperate. te 8 ee P Vor feet aile ed minube of office, 18. fed-| of "| Washihgton, however, Haste. testified He * a ona orney nesore ie pee a fe 7 ; eral court here today. The first was Richard A. Haste, Washington, secretary to Wheeler, who testified to the habitual practice themselves before federal depart- ments in behalf of constituents. Secretary Before Interior Department “Wheeler had an unusually large number of-departmental cases, but I handled’ practically all of them for him,” said Haste, who added that he took Gordon Campbell, Montana pro- secutor, whom Wheeler is accused of fepresenting, to the interior depart- Ment for thd first time. “Canipbell was having some land troubles, and I took him to the in- terior department and introduced him to officials there,” declare Haste. “Wheeler was in Europe at that time.” . | Previous to Campbell's arrival in he accompanied Wheeler to the in- terior. “Were Campbell’s of permits dis- cussed?” asked John L. Slattery, United States district attorney. “Not at all,” replied Haste. “So far as I know Wheeler never discussed or wrote about oil permits for anybody.” Banker Aids Wheeler It was learned today that Frank A. Vanderlip, financier and Samuel Untermyer, New York attorney are gathering defense witnesses in New York who will be sent here to testi- fy regarding George B. Hayes’ char- acter. Vanderlip organized the citi- zens’ research “committee to assist Wheeler in prosecuting the senator's investigation of the -department of justice. Wheeler scored an ‘important vic- tory when his lawyers forced the gov- ernment to give up letters favorable to Wheeler which had been seized in the offices of Edwin S. Booth, former solicitor of the land office at Wash- ington. The letters were a contradic- Wheeler protected Campbell’s oil in- terests before the land office. Friends of Wheeler are busy raising (Continued from page 2) Poison Food Makes Five Hundred Ill in Indian School RIVERSIDE, Calif., April 22.—Five hundred students of Sherman Insti- tute, ¢° Indian school, were recover- ing Nere today from the effects of eating poisoned food Sunday. | "Fear that a wholesale dose of stry- chnime had been ‘ministered to the students caused th \uthorities to put tion of the statement of Hayes that rere Gees Uni hg Record of R Delegates LONDON, Sm at -(By Mall)—To- day's Dally . Idscarried an inter} we Soviet trade un] esting. service ion t into confererice | |GARY MAYOR TO whe chamber of. deputies when «he ™ HEADS || CHAMBER ONLY AFTER BIG ROW Cc ommunist st Lealer Be- Drive PARIS, Aprit 22.—Former Premier Eduard Werriot today was elected president of the chamber of deputies. His election followed dissension on the part of those opposed to the ministry of Premier Painieve. The op- position for a time held up the elec- tion. Joseph . Caillaux was the centre of royalist and right wing opposition in ——aea-” - a : > oe em, > - = —_" > - a a strode into his old seat on the mfnis- terial. section which he otcupied in 1913. While Painleve Was talking the chamber was howling. Marcel Cachin Communist leader, however succeeded in calming the deputies while he bit- terly arraigned the Painleve declara- tion, in:an unusually long speech. Abandons Two Points “The government says it follows the lines of the preceding cabinet” said Cachin “but it abandons twe of its important points, that of the vatican and Alsace and Lorraine, and among the members of the cabinet is Chau- met, who contributed to Hgrriot’s de- feat. Francis Marsal who launched the attack on Herriot in the senate, |, is a bariker utilizing his influence as a senator for the service of the bank- ing interests. Herriot told you that the government lost its independence to the bankers. ’ “With Caillaux as minister we must have complete amnesty for all or there will be an intolerable scandal. What does the government think o women’s suffrage after parliament h voted on it twenty times?” ; - , o* ‘ 4 pwr a - rp ; an = ball 7 .. bringing ys oe ga international unity of the wogking: clase im the trade union movement, The. following vwith the heading “Workers All” is ther-Herald’s story: The conference between the repre- scntatives of the British Trades Union Congress and the: Raftsian Trades Un- ion Congress opéngicthis morning at Eccleston square. The meeting issthé/sequel to the ef- forts made by thefBritish delegation at Amster@@m in»February in the cause of unity. _ On instruétion «from the general counci] of the Z. U. C., the British delegates ‘tymed thatean unconditional preliminary Gonferemec should be held between representatives of the Inter- national Federation of Trade Unions and .representativeszef the Russian unions, in order to discuss frankly the situation and the difficulties in the way of unity. : This proposal the other members of the I. F. T. U. council were not pre- pared to accept. They insisted that (Continued on page 5) Unemployment in Steel Mills Shown YOUNGSTOWN) Ohio, April 22— The banks here bavé announced a wage distribution in Youngstown of $6,476,668 for Marche’ This is about $400,009 less than -thte "February pay- roll. This was dealired to be an in- dication of -irreguiarity in steel mill employment. The payroll for the first three months of this year:avas $20,074,822, but in 1924 for the-same period it was $21,257,665. Griffin To Be Rebuilt. EVANSVILLE, Ind. April 22.—Prac- tically all of Griffiin,cthe village that was demolished by tite recent tornado, will be rebuilt. Plams to rebuild 1065 of the 159 buildingax destroyed are complete. ANTI-KLAN CANDIDATE IS ELECTED MAYOR OF HERRIN BY 199 VOTES a HERRIN, Iil., April 22.—Marshall G. McCormack, anti-klan candidate known by his own words as “the re- formed kiansman,” will be Herrin's new mayor, official tabulations showed today. McCormack, forseer coal miner who has deserted’klan ranks be- cause of their terregistic acts, was elected over the lan candidate, Tom Welty, by 199 Wétes. No vio- lence of any kind bwas reported so unbneeds? FEY by Total Wages Paid | the news of the extent of these ac- ~~“ FEDERAL PRISON Elected by the United States Steel Co. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 22. Roswell O. Johnson, former Gary (Ind.) mayor, and the forty co-defen- dants in the Gary liquor conspiracy case, probably will be taken to Leavenworth, Kans., federal prison next Saturday to begin serving sen- tences passed by Judge A. B. Ander- son in March, 1923, it was announced at the United States marshal’s office today. Prison warrants will be turned over to the marshal tomorrow, the clerk said, and notices sent to all the de fendants who are out on bond, to ap pear at the marshal’s office here. Several defendants in the Gary case have completed or are serving their sentences. Mayor: Johnson, was elected to of- fice with the backing of the United States Steel corporation officials. He protected their interests while in of- fice. When fatal accidents occurred in the mills, Johnson helped suppress cidents, The names and number of those hee were were: ——— withheld. SOUTHERN MOB MURDERS NEGRO ‘ON GIRL'S WORD Another Negro Is Being Chased by Whites CARTHAGE, -N;~6., April 22.—Fol- lowing on the heels of the lynching of Williamt Buckley, an 18 year old Negro, near McComb, Mississippi, DEPT. OF WAR cM FOR MAYOR ~ DAN STEVENS Communist Candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis, Minn. WITHHELD NEWS OF RED ARRESTS Hawaiian Papers Under Strict Censorship (Special to The Dally Worker.) HONOLULU, Hawall, April 22.— Proof that the war department sup- pressed for many days the news of the arrest of seven Communist sol- diers at Schofield Barracks, near here, has just been furnished. Altho the seven Communists were arrested on February 19, the news of the arrests was not printed in the Honolulu papers until April 3, Even then, the news was incomplete. The Honolulu Star Bulletin, in Al- leged Plot,” declared: “Notwithstand- ing the fact that c public trials, the hews$a@pers were giv- en no notification of 8, jal until it closed. The first news published was sent out from the inteHigence office at Schofield late Friday afternoon, al- tho Private Crouch was. sentenced to forty years in prison... “This news failed to state that others had been implicated. and that the trial of a second man was to be- gin’ Monday. Strong. objection was raised today to the publication by the Star Bulletin of the latter.” When this dispatch was. published, the secret trial of Walter.. Trumbull had already been going on two days, and all news of the trial was sup- pressed. The report goes on to state, “The charges-against Private Crouch were filed March 10. His trial started Monday or Tuesday of this week and ended Thursday, officials of the army intelligence office declaring that they ‘did not pay much attention to it af- ter completing their part of the work.”” The above paragraph was in bold faced type. The newspapers did not then. know that Crouch, Trumbull, Nadeau, Creque, Ebert, Schwartz and Domagalski were arrested on Febru- ary 19; and held incommunicado since that date. The'Star Bulletin further complains, “The arrest of the enlisted men al- leged to be implicated in the plot, the filing of the charges against them, and their trial was surrounded by se- crecy by officials of the army intel- ligence corps at Schofield, who have assured the newspapers at various timés that it was their purpose to as- sist them in gathering the news of the army here, for the people of Honolulu and Hawaii.” MINES CLOSING DOWN AND MONESSEN STEEL MILLS ON PART TIME comes the word that a mob is chasing Dock Roberts, another Negro, in the | woods near here. Two Negro women found a girl who around her throat. Roberts is accused of attacking her, altho there is no evidence against him. The 18 year old Negro boy was murdered in Mississippi, on the state- ment of a six year old girl that she was attacked by him. Buckley, how- ever, had been released from jail by | the sheriff on a small bail bond. as | it was thot the girl might be using her imagination. After Buckley had returned home, ee - |he was taken out by a mob and had been returning from school. in | a wood,-with a strap drawn tightly | (Special to The Dally Worker) MONESSEN, Pa., April 22.—More men wer thrown into the ranks of the unemployed, when the mine of | the Pittsburgh Coal Co. at Price- dale, near here, was closed. Several other mines near here are going to close down, according to rumors. Many mines in this district are be- ing dismantied and rails are being removed from the entries. ) This is a delight to the steel barons when there are 80 many un- employed, it ig their chance to slice down the wages of the steel | workers. The milis here are not running | — ~~ or - of, and many work at part time. This js Coolidge’s “good times.” F very good, many men are being laid April | 3,:in a story under the head-} rts martial. aret a UP FOR MAYOR Bae the Campaign May Day (Special to The Daily Worker.) ‘MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. April 22— Dan W. Stevens, president of Paint- ers’ Local Union, No. 186, and local Communist leader, today filed as a candidate for mayor. Several weeks ago the lecal Com- munist organization sent out letters to all labor unions and other waaking class organizations calling for a unity conference to agree upon a siate of local candidates to run in opposition to the present capitalist candidates. It is generally understood that this conference failed to materialize be- cause of the opposition of the conserv- ative labor leaders who desired to sup- port the present republican mayor for re-election. Fought For Unity. In filing Dan W. Stevens, the Workers (Communist) Party issued a statement in which it said, “Our party first fought in the trade union move- ment to unite all of the forces of la- bor behind one working class ¢andt- date. Our efforts in this -espect were defeated by reactionary h.bor leaders who were more concerned in serving capitalism and its politica’ henchmen than they were in fighting, for the in- terests of the working class. It there fore, became our duty as a Commun- ist organization serving only the ta- terests of the workers to file a candl- date who will utilize the campaign as a means of rallying the workers im the immediate struggle agaiast the citizens’ alliatice and the “op3n shop” bosses of Minneapolis and i{ elected will utilize the mayor’s office to serve only the interests of the workers. In filing Dan W. Stevens, we haye a can- didate, who, by his record im the la- bor movement of this city, hae proven hting qualities as @ Ileber er.” Well-Known to Workr'rs. | Stevens is well-known.in the local labor movement. After returs!ng from the Spanish American war in which he served in the Piilippineg and re ceived his first taste of the af gressive ness of American imperialisn», he join- ed the Painters’ Union and ‘has been an active member ever’ sine e, having held every office in the local organ- ization and now serving as president of Local No. 186. For 17 years he served as a cielegate to the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly, fifteen of which he was an officer and from 1921 to 1924 tse serv- ed as an organizer of the apsembly. He was recently unseated as .a dele gate by the reactionaries becatse of his membership in the Workers {Com- munist) Party and because of . his criticism of the failure of these re actionaries to adopt a militant pre gram of action against the attack o} the bosses in their effort te cut wages and reduce the workers’ standard of living. During his activities in the labor movement he, like most miflitants, came to understand that the present capitalist government was an instru- ment in the hands of the capitalists to be used against the workers. In 1920 he was imprisoned for contempt of court after he had refused. to re- spect an injunction issued by Judge Bardwell, forbidding the moving pic- ture operators the,right to picket a local theater. Stevens, after the in- (Continued on page 6.) N.Y. WOMEN FIGHT LAWS ATTACKING FOREIGN-BORN Hennington Hall NEW YORK. “April 22.—There will be a mass meeting to protest against the new deportation bills now pending before congress, the purpose of which is to further shackle the foreign-born workers in this country, Wednesday, April 29, 8 p. m., at the Hennington Hall, 214-216 Second street, New York City. The speakers will be: Margaret Undjus, a member of the Lithuanian Women's (Progréssive Alliance of America; Rose Barron, representing the Labor Defense Council; Fanny Warshefsky, a member of the Fur- riers’ Union, The United. Council of Wortangr® Class Women, which is arranging this. mass meeting, invites all other work~. bs class womeh's organizations to Meeting Wednesday at A. Rey i ae age a rr eee