Daily Worker
April 26, 1925

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™ Ae Dag cn 6 AGP I , * hs RE ie ee A , ene) » Val. I. ho ¢@ a 30. oe ‘Workérs’ ~reftsed thé privilege of attending its a FF ae > aki bye of those fatalities are preventable, but the capitalist press lets the worst of the mine disasters go with a head- line or two. The god of grost must not’ be irritated. * ¢« *s Feit sep-ry socialist publication has come a cropper. This time it is the Polish daily, Dziennik Ludowy. Of course it has long ago lost any claim to consideration as an organ of so- cialism. It is interesting to note that while socialist papers are running into hard luck, Communist publications are growing in power and influence. Com- ‘Munism is on the up grade, while so- cialist parties are going the other way. The only parties that fight for social- ism today are ig b gees ae cae parties. RKERS’ ainaitidl is a very im- portant question and one that should receive the greatest consider- ation from the working class move- ment. There is more-than one kind of education. There is learning for the sake of learning, a luxury which only the parasite classes can afford. Then the kind of education that tries and succeeds in bead the workers useful tools of capitalisr ning trained to hum” in | indus Te eee ee se Ha. wa a putting’ at his trated experience ot the human. race, fepresented by knowledge er ie in books. HPRE is ‘more to it than . that. Workers education not alone ~ teaches: thé: workers these things but ft givés Him the necessary urge to use the Knowledge acquired to trans- lat# aims4intd achievement. We com- ménted im ‘a recent issue on the Education Bureau, which convention to Communist educators. Wheti Seott Nearing mentioned the ‘class strugefe at the same convention, the labor fakers who control it threw “oat fits. Yet Dennis Batt, recently prominent member of the proletarian party eulogized this pernicious dope institution. Official organs of American trade unions are so uniformly react- ionary on this question, that it is a pleasure to read an article on work- ‘ng Class education, like the one that (Continued on page 3) GOVERNMENT SHIPPING "BOARD OPEN SHOPPERS BREAK MARINE STRIKE PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 24.— The strike which the Marine Trans- port Workers’ Union called on docks controlled by the Jarka Stevedoring corporation for the right to -wear their union buttons on ‘the job has been called off and an organization campaign is being substituted. Representatives of the unton said that the strike showed that Aheir recently revived. organization is again at the fighting stage but that to sustain a long walkout they would have to gain more members. The. crisis in the strike -came when shipping board docks joined the Jarka policy by forbidding but- tcn men the privitege- of passing. The union was weakest on these shipping board piers. icon penransremp teerpen B a a hg * me a ‘e. fa + cae re ' i on fe = ra is Mee a a &, ‘4 ‘ at aa + i ‘> ? pen 7 = * w At CYyongs, Inotn under the Act of Merch 3, 187% =~ ee oo» ie pte {ie 2 O64 He ys i . a. ed : vty ss ee y Page ae y ‘¢ t. , Ede etme er ee “> ee ee Dn e Ps Page _ane vo ak a 1 Be oi Li iedee = Czarist Agents Wrote Terror Letter (Special to The Dally Worker.) «© PLONDON, April 24++The London Daily Herald, official dally organ of Britian, has exposed the forgeries of documents alleged to be instructions from the Communist Internationat to officials of the Zankov. government. The alleged letter from Zinoviev set the date of the uprising for April 15. That -this letter, actually came from Berlin and was the work of czarist plotters acting in concert with the Zankov government is the belief here. The fake document was found on an. alleged Soviet agent last April. Another Forgery. The document was ed: “BH. C. Foreign Relations.” The Herlad points out that the Comintern has no such’ department and says: “As long ago as March 24, long before the document was published, before it had been ‘captured,’ the Berlin Rote Fahne issued a warn- ing thet a fake was being prepared, tho for what sinister purpose it could not surmise. “It had discovered that a white ex-officer, now working as a secret agent, a man known sometimes as Gutschinski, sometimes as Brisch- evski, living at. 96 Ansbacherstr., Berling had printed at a printing works in Lutherstrasse, Berlin; thou- sands .of copies of forged Third smyrna, He note paper. This Gutschinski f bore the same damningly impossible heading, ‘E. Cc. ©. L, Central Section, Depart- ment for Foreign Relations.’ ” have joined the chorus that ais iby bomb explosion in, the cat he lat they rare lying es | served by tying. Hie reoeat mai Thoas ae ewe nano ” el , y oeeren paign is a case in point. ontinued on page 2) Silk Workers of Paterson Demand _. Wage Increasés (By The Federated Press) PATERSON, N. J., April 24:—Get- ting higher wages is catching in Pat- terson among silk workers since the successful strike of the broadstlk weavers and the more recently won ncrease of the hatband weavers. Loom fixers, twisters and day workers in the Associated Silk Workers’ Union’ are asking increases up to 12% per cent in wages. Loom fixers ask a minimum wage of $45 per week instead of $40, Twist- ers ask $45 instead of $40 average for piece work. Piece workers’ rates are increased proportionately and pre- paratory workers are seeking $40 weekly instead of 82 cents an hour. Sun Yat Sen Meeting Held in Nova Scotia (Special to The Daily Worker.) wi ALIFAX, Nova Scotia, April 24.— The Chinese National League of Hali- fax held a memorial meeting to their late president, Sun Yat Sen, in their rooms here, to which they invited the members of the Communist Party. Very impressive addresses were made by the president and others of the Chinese comrades, and Joe Wal- lace of the Canadian Communist Party expressed the regrets of the party and conveyed the message of the Com- munist International on the demise of the great Chinese leader. A splendid feeling of interracial solidarity was evidenced, Kopp Arrives in Tokio TOKIO, April 24.—Victor Kopp, re- cently named ambassador to Japan by Soviet Russia, arrived here late yesterday. WORKERS PARTY DEMANDS TEACHERS AND STUDENTS BE GIVEN CONTROL OF LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ‘ANGELES, April 24.—Demanding that the school system be changed so that “the children are taught to be citizens in a society based upon production for use and not profit,” Samuel Levin, Workers (Com- muansit) Party candidate for member of the board of @ducation, has attracted the attention of thousands of Los Angeles workers to the Communist pro- gram. sean” T>* The program "“adduaia that textbooks be revised to conform with “estab- lished facst, that teaching personal gain as goal be abolished, that labor _ (Continued on page 4.) the trade union movement of Great} Bulgarian Communists to assassinate | C. I., Central Section, Department For é The capitalist press of England and| § 99h the continent with a few exceptional | 2 uaoadl pee ° A es” oe TE ONLY Y TWO S ob ¥ ey oom ; ' $ ' ' i |Reich Gags T Thaelmann, ; F Aids Capitalists (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, April 24.—The monarchist candidate for president in Sunday’s election contest. Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, and the republii- can-socialist-catholic coalition, repre sented by candidate Wilhelm Marx, fhavé united to preserve the power of the German industrialists and the ‘foreign imperial@ts. * A-united attack was made by both candidates at the last minute of the campaign, against the candidate of the Communist Party, Ernst Thaelmann. This attack was based frankly on the desire to preserve power for the bour- geoisie, and prevent a workers’ and peasants’ revolution. In defending the exploiting system which at present prevails, Marx, in his last campaign speech declared, “The German republic has often been described as the product of revolu- tion whereas it is really a protec- tion against threatening revolution.” The government-controlled broad- casting station tonight was to be used by the two candidates representing ithe capitalist class for fifteen minute radio speeches which were to be heard by five million people. Hindenburg was to speak first, followed by Marx. Government Gags Communists. Ernst Thaelmann, a stevedore, and the only representative of the work- ing class in the presidential election, demanded ‘the right to speak as well as the other two candidates. In an- swer to his request, minister of posts, Schiele, who permitted Hindenburg and Marx to speak, replied, “Parties or groups behind candidates allowed to broadcast have no intention radical- ly to change the German constitution- al form of government. But according to an article appearing in the Com- munist organ, Rote Fahne, no guaran- tee for retention of the present form of government is contained in the party platform.” Strike of 10,000 Bakers Leaves the Mexicans Breadless MEXICO CITY, Mex., April 24. About 10,000 bakers and employes of bakeries went on strike here today. The bakers’ union includes Mexico City and the federal district, embrac- ing nearly 100 towns and villages, which will go without bread tomor- row. Marx Against Workers’ Revolution. , THIS FIGHT ‘participate in the eaguacettnlias conference for the control ofstraffic in arms has vexed the league officials. The draft of the convention; prepared by the league’s disarmament commission, provides that it will not be opera- tive until ratified: by twelve powers, © among them Belgium, the United | States, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia. Any treaty approved by the United »States delegates would also have:'to be ratified by the senate. ‘Soviet Russia refused to partici- pate on the grounds that the league of nations ie a: capitalistic body controlled by a few large world im- perialist powers which attempts to keep the emalier nations under their yoke thru the league. 17 MINERS DIE; at 2 Hours Apiece .*' (Special to The Daily Worker, GREAT FALS, Mont., April 24,— The trial of Senator Burton ~ K. Wheeler of Montana, for alieged: mis- use of office; speeded rapidly to a close in federal court here today. Wheeler is accused of illegally re- ceiving after election to the senate a $4,000 fee from. Gordon Campbell, Montana prospector, to handle govern- ment oil permits before the interior department. Both prosecution and defense hav- ing rested, final arguments began to- day and the case was expected to reach the jury before night. Limit Arguments Judge Frank 8S. Dietrich did not set any limit on the length of arguments, but each side agreed not to consume more than two hours apiece. IN IDAHO PIT : Three Bodies Removed : Cause of BlazeUnknown SPOKANE, Wash., April 24.—All hope of saving 17 miners who are trapped in the fire, swept 2,000 foot level of the Hecla’ mine at Burke, idaho, was abandoned today, accord- ing to word received here. Fire broke out im the mine at 11:10 Dp. m., last nightsand quickly swept thru the mine. At 4:25 this morning rescue crews from the Hercules and Morning mines had taken out tiiree bodias which were found on thé 1,600 level. The upper levels of the mine are reported filled with poisonous gasses making rescue work precarious. Origin of the fine had not been de- term'red at an early hour today. Rescue Crews At Work Rescue crews had penetrated to the 1,600 foot level and were working feverishly to reach the men, who are 3,000. feet back from the shaft. Thirty-three men were in the mine when the fire broke out. Nineteen escaped before smoke and fire closed the shaft. * Mexican Newepaper Quits. MEXICO CITY+The newspaper El! Globo has suspended publication, its publisher, Felix Balavitini, announc- ing that opposition of a cabinet mem- ber had estranged mdvertisers. — | John L. Slattery, United States district attorney, handled the final argument for the government, includ- ing both the opening and closing statements. Final addresses of the defense were delegated to Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, Wheeler’s colleague, and William F. O’Leary, Great Falls at- torney. Completion of the arguments and the ‘ourts’ instruction to the jury will bring to a close one of the most icrimoniously contested criminal cases in Montana history. Few be- fore have attracted such attention and held so continuously the interest of the entire state. The trial has been in progress eight days. Opposing coun- sel repeatedly clashed bitterly, con- stantly interposing objections and motions to bar testimony and evi- dence. Judgé Dietrich frequentl¥ was (Continued on page 2) | POLITICAL PRISONERS IN MOUNDSVLLE PEN REFUSED DAILY WORKER The political prisoners at the Moundsvillie, W. Va., penitentiary, have prohibited prisoners from re- ceiving any Communist newspaper in the mails, according to a letter received by the DAILY WORKER. “We haven't seen any DAILY WORKERS since last October,” says this letter from a _ political prisoner. “Radnik was coming for a time, but now that too has stop- | ped.” % lareiie and fe and overbearing mia tude of Wal Final Arguments Fited ‘credentials with full power to act, pty ag (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., April 24.—It is revealed in a decision of Local No. 413 of Sangamon Mine No. 2 that “Jackey” Walker, appointed by Frank Farrington, president of Illinois District 12, U, M. W. of A. to take the place of Freeman Th Vy removed from the presidency of Sub-District 4, is not even a member of the United Mine Workers of America. — It appears from the decision of Local 413’ that “Jackey” Walker paid no dues since September of last year and became a delinquent on December 31, and has not legally re-established membership since then. Not a Member, Says Decision. The decision, formally rendered by TH ENB R the committees empowered to act by the local union, is, in full, as follows: $4 Raise aFairy Tale to Cover Betrayal “We, the committee elected to in- vestigate the case of John A. Walk- er wherein it was alleged that he By JOSEPH GIGANTI. (Member of Local 548, J. B. I. U. of A.) Tomorrow afternoon the bose-in- allowed himself to become a delin- quent member of the United Mine Workers of America, after a thoro spired arbitration award will be read to the journeymen barbers of Chicago assembied in mass meeting at Car- investigation into every available angle beg leave to submit the fol- lowjng decision. men’s Hall. No one, according to the officials of the union, will have a right to object to the award. There- e find that John A, Walker's membership in Local Union No. 413 fore all that a journeyman barber slave, after working twelve hours a United ‘Mine Workers of America, expired on the 3lst day of Decem- ber, 1924, because of the non-pay- ment of dues on or before that date, for the months of October, Novem- day at his chair, all week long, may do, is to come to the meeting, hear the infamous award read te him and then quietly go home. A Perpetual Gag on tacniberite: ber and December, 1924, and that he can only be reinstated into mem- bership in the United Mine Work- ers Union by complying with Article 14, Section 2, International Consti- tution. “We therefore notify all local unions, United Mine Workers of America, that John A. Walker is not a member of the United Mine Work- ers of America, and is therefore not empowered to handle any matters The authority for this gag rule. ie. a clause in the contract which pro- vides that if master barbers and journeymen fail to come to an agree- , third person is called in and decision of the arbitrator is to be final and binding. And, ag an official of the journeymen bDiandly pute it, “In this way we will have a perpetual * "To the progressives this a perpetual dependence on the whims of the bosses. ay pertaining to the United Mine Work- The hullaballo raised over the $4 ers of America. And we so decide.” ’ Nesbit Refuses Records, That the Farrington machine is put in a tight, hole by the ridiculous, not to say illegal, action of Farrington appointing as sub-district president @ character so lacking in union loyalty raise is a crude attempt to gloss over the betrayal of the barber workmen. It is a well known fact that the ma- jority of barbers working in Chicago have received a minimum wage of $30 a week for more than a year. It is true that the preceding comtract Pope lS: page PR called for a $26 minimum wage, but this wage was scrapped long ago when the bosses were forced to pay $30 because of labor shortage, The hours of work, according tethe award, remain the same, This, de- spite the strong rank and file miove- ment for seven o'clock closing. |The officials of the barbers’ union are ig- noring the rank and file demands when they propose to jam down the throats of the workers this shameful contract. Members Must Protest. The ie of Local 548 mmet ter Nesbit, secretary-trénsurer.of Dis- trict 12, wheneasked by the local union committee for further facts on the. standing of Walker during 1924. Nesbit flew into’a rage and refused to show the committee his books, al- tho under the U. M. W. of A. rules they had a legal right to examine all records. How Many Days Did Jackey Ever Work? The local committee, armed with visited Nesbit’s office and informed him of their mission, asking informa- tion from the record as to how many days John A, (Jackey) Walker worked in May and June while acting as board member. Nesbit tried to ignore the question (Continued on page 3) NEGRO’S ANTI-KLAN BILL REPORTED ON FAVORABLY IN HOUSE SPRINGFIELD, lil, April 24.— The bill aiming directly at the ku klux klan, introduced into the house by Representative William E. King, a Chicago Negro, was reported fa- vorably by the judiciary commit- tee and is now before the house for action. The bill requires that copies of its bylaws, regulations and al! its documents and membership lists shall be given to the secretary of state. “This bill drives specifically at the ku kiux klan,” Representative King declared, “which, as far as | can learn, disguises all its actions, even to the admission by individual members that they belong to it, and which further carries to extremes questions of race and religion.” voice their protest in such manner as will prove to their officials that they will have the final say in. such mat- ters that will affect their everyday life and liveltheood. Jurisdiction Again Divides Building Trades of Chicago Construction of the new $17,000,000 produce market at Fifteenth street and Racine avenue appeared yesterday to be halted indefinitely by the strike of thirty-five ornamental iron workers. Arbitration so far has been unsuc- cessful. The.dispute is one of juris- diction,.the sheet metal wrokers and the ornamental iron workers being un- able to agree. | Substribe for the WORKER! 65,000 JOBLESS WORKERS WALKING STREETS OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF.: ORGANIZE UNEMPLOYMENT LEAGUE (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 24.—-Sixty-five thousand unemployed in this city, who are in dire need, have organized themselves into the Los Angeles County Unemployment League and elected a committee of fifteen to interview the city administration with the object in view of securing relief, were juggled with by the mayor, board of supervisors, city council by referring it frém one to the other with the statement that the above could do nothing for the unemployed, until finally the finance committee of the city council has at last given the committee of the unemployed a héaring before a crowded council chamber with unemployed and other spectators with Murphy and Bush as spokesmen. The city of Los Angeles, according to Brother Murphy's statement at DAILY | this hearing, has $50,000,000 on deposit in the banks of Los Angeles fer oo... a (Continued on page 4.) ’ > nl

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» ne leg i Zs ISSUES. FIRST FACTORY PAPER Westinghouse Workers Anxious for More PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 24-—The first shop nucleus bulletin of the Workers (Communist) Party in Amer- ica has appeared at the Westinghouse works of Pittsburgh. This marks a step’ in the Bolshevization of the Workers Party and its entry into the lives of American workers at their most vital spot, the point of produc- Yen, Many Brief Pointed Articles. The bulletin, a four-page printed leaflet carries nine brief and pointed articles dealing with the most burn- ing interests of the Westinghouse workers. Tt leads off with an article against wage cuts, and says that the corpor- ation is preparing to slash the work- wages. Then there are articles piece work, the relationship of capital and labor, an article favoring a real shop committee instead of the fake one now established, and an ar shown by the International Workers’ Aid and the DAILY WORK- ER. Workers Ask For More. The Westingohouse Shop Nucleus promises to lead the way in activity for the numerous other shop nuclei of the Workers Party. This first bulletin was distributed at the plant to 1,000 workers who read it eagerly and who displayed great interest in what was te come next. Canadian Workers Hop from Nova Scotia Fry + Pan to U. S. Furnace MONTREAL, Que., April 25—Resi- dents of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, continue to leave for the United States at the rate of twenty-five per day. The American consul at Syd- ney states the majority are from Glace Bay and the surrounding col- liery districts. They include rail- way employes and men of the me- chanical trades. The greater pro- portion will settle in Boston and vi- cinity. | Since the last of June, 1924, over 2,000 Cape Breton people have moved to the United States. A great num- ber who had been looking forward to a settlement of the coal mine tieup and had their hopes blasted by the failure of the Halifax conference last week are now arranging for depar- ture. Anti-Semite Speech Creates Excitement at Plute Conference WASHINGTON, April %4— The meeting of the American society of in- terbational law was thrown into a tur- moil today when Professor Philip Marshall Brown of Princeton untfver- sity, delivered a speech contaning harsh criticism of Jews. Brown's criticiam of the Jews was directed at what he called their “in- ternationalism.” They do not, he gaid, give whole hearted allegiance to any one land. Arthur K. Kuhn promptty took ex- ception to Prof. Brown's remarks. Prof. A. B. Hart of Harvard defend- ed the argument of his Princeton colleague and finally the proceed- ings were becoming so heated that the chair admonished the convention that it would hear no more remarks on the subject. This offended Prof. Hart and he threatened to resign from the society. Machinists’ Union of Los Angeles Endorses Communist Candidates LOS ANGELES, April 24.—At its regular meeting, held April 20, 1925, the Machinists’ Union Lodge No. 311, of Los Angeles, endorsed the candl- dacy and program of Emmanuel Levin candidate for the board of education. The body also endorsed the candidacy of Edward Harris, member of the same union, who runs for office as alderman in District 15, San Pedro Harbor. The meeting was well attended and those present listened very attentive- ly to Comrade Levin who presented the program and important issues of the present campaign. After his talk the endorsement took place. — Turne Down Educational! ALBANY, N. Y., April 24.—Gov- ernor Smith vetoed the Nicoll-Hof- stadter bill which called for the es- tablishment of additional colleges in Greater New York. The bill was favored by the educators of the city of New York. It was opposed by Brook- lyn business men including Borough President Joseph A. Guider. Smith said he needed another year to de cide whether the “people of the city were for the bill.” r a | Jury Geto the Wheeler Case | (Oontinued. from page 1). forced to demand order and settle dis- putes, Telephone Records De Decision to go ahead with argu- ments was reached only when Judge Dietrich interposed to break an in passe between rival attorneys that threatened a recess until Monday to await the appearance of new witnes- ses from the east. The fight was precipitated over the defense’s eflorts to smash the testimony of George B. Hayes, New York attorney, star wit ness of the prosecution. Hayes provided the big sensation of the trial when he testified that Wheeler, in a New York hotel lobby, in March, 1923, urged him to replace the senator in handling Campbell’s oil permits and litigations before the interior department. Edwin 8S. Booth, formerly solicitor of the department, arranged the meeting over long dis- tance telephone, Hayes said. Both Wheeler and Booth denied any know- ledge of the meeting.or of the alleged offer. : Telephone officials first reported to the defense there was no record of a call from Booth to Hayes. The pros- ecution told the court that the depart- ment of justice had conducted an in- dependent investigation and found no call because telephone records had been destroyed. Neither side would admit the oflier’s telephonic infor mation into evidence. The court re- cessed four hours. Wheeler Faces Second Charge Finally telephone officials sent an- other message to the defense, very- fying the government's information that the records had been destroyed. Immediately Walsh rested for the de- fense. Withont offering rebattal, also closed. Subpoenas isued for the addition- al witnesses were revoked. After this trial Wheeler faces a sec- ond indictement in Washington, char- ging him jointly with Booth and Campbell with conspiracy to obtain Montana oil and gas lands from the government. s *¢ ¢ Prosecutor’s Plea GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 24.— The trial of Senator Wheeler entered its final stage with closing arguments by opposing counsel. The jury was expected to get the case before nightfall. Picturing Wheeler as a tetrayer of his public trust, John L. Siattery, United States district attorney closed the case for the goverrment with an appeal for a verdict of guilty. Esperanto Used for Radio. NEW YORK, April 24.—BDsperanto has been adopted as the official lan- guage for radio broadcasting by the amateur radio congress in Paris, France, according to a cablegram re- ceived by the Esperanto Club Here. 9,000 WILLIMANTIC TEXTILE. STRIKERS: STILL FIGHT CUTS (Special to The Dally Worker) HARTFORD, Conn., April 24— (FP)—Strikers at the Willimantic plant of the American Thread Co. are In their seventh week out pro- testing against the last wage out proposed by the employers. Flood of Protests Against Fleet War Reach Washington (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 24.— Protests against the maneuvers of the United States Pacific fleet have flooded the offices fo the secretary of the navy here. So many protests have come in that the department is sending out a form letter, signed by Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, which attempts to an- swer them. Most of the letters protesting the action of the Coolidge government in sending the fleet into Pacific waters for maneuvers declare the action an unfriendly act toward Japan. Japanese Consul Probes Death of 38 in Sinking of Maru NEW YORK, April 24-—The Jap- anese government, thru its consul general, is investigating the circum- stances Of the sinking of the Raifuku Mary, when 88 Japanese sailors were drowned while the English liner Homeric stood by, but made no ef- fort to lower life boats. Many of the passengers charged that Captain John Roberts could have saved the crew had he lowered boats. H. Saito, consul general, said that his office is working on the case, in conjunction with officials of the Kok- usai Kisen Kaisha, owners of Raif- uku Maru. Cram Constitution Down Throats. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., April 23.—The senate today passed a bill making compulsory the teaching of the consti- tution of the United States in all pub- lic schools. The anti-klan bill intro- duced by Representative King was re ported favorably into the house by the judiciary committee. The Dill, however, was amended to include all fraternal organizations and‘ not the klan alone. Biue Laws In Action. GUILFORD, Conn.—(FP)— Ancient blue laws are being revived by mod- ern New England puritans in Guil- ford to close two fruit and candy stores of the town on Sundays. Drug stores are to be closed, filling stations and fish and oyster markets in the sluice basin. Fishermen and farmers are likely to be prohibited from work- ing on Sunday. Vandervelde Promises Cabinet Friday BRUSSELS—Belgian political cir- cles today predicted that premier-des- ignate, Vandervelde, will announce the formation of his exclusively “so- clalist” cabinet today. Catholics and liberals refused to co-operate with him. Briand Goes to See Chambertain. PARIS — Aristide Briand, new French foreign minister, was expect- ed today to leave for London soon for conferences with Foreign Secretary Chamberlain, on the proposed secur ity pact. Actors Organize in Germany. BERLIN, Germany, April 24.—Thé leading actors of Germany are solidly organized in opposition to the agree- ment of theater managers not t@ pay any singer or actor more than 300 gold marks (about $76.00) a night.

rv |More Laws for Labor All Right; But None to Limit Profits (Special to The Dally Worker.) AUGUSTA, Ga., April 24.—Emphatic protest against the tendency of the American people to demand the en- actment of laws “for all sorts of problems better handled without go- vernment interference,” was voiced before the executive council of the American Bankers’ Assn., in annual session here. The speaker wes Merle Thorpe, editor of the official magazine of the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce. He ax gued that business was becoming so complex that these new laws create misunderstandings. Sound business, for instance, could not see the logic of asking for lower freight rates and at the same time endorsing higher railroad wages. Government should leave business to run things its own way. Airplane Carts Off Plano. ing two pianos and six men, the Si- korsky bi-plane left Roosevelt field at 8:55 a. m., to day for Bolling Field, Washington, on its pioneer trip. Igor Sikorsky, designer and pilot; was in command, The purpose of the trip was to demonstrate the bi-plane’s freight carrying capacity. Pass Buck on Redistricting SPRINGFIDLD, Ill, April 24.— a

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Hi bee ens § Ht ithe i | BA 2 legit 82 “es ~ , 9 tee FEAR MEMBERS — MAY REJECT | BARBERVAWARD Officials Suppress All pe At the last meeting of Local 548 of the Barbers’ Union in Chicago, the | members were dumbfounded at the ' high-handed methods of their officials. The officials showed they would stop - sat nothing to put thru: their policies. Robert’s Rules of Order, the interna- tional constitution and fair play were shamelessly disregarded and the union czars enforced ‘their rule with an iron hand. * f ; 3 The vice-chairman of the meeting, after raising a point of order against an amendment, upon meeting an ap- peal'from the decision of the chair, absolutely refused to put the qués- -. thon of sustaining the chair to a vote ~ @f the members. And he was the one who had made the point of order! He would allow no one else the floor. And why was he so frightened at the - amendment? | Fear Membership May Rule. The amendment simply proposed that the agreement on wages and hours be left up to the rank and file, ! which was to be called in to a meet- ing for the ratification or rejection of the award handed down by the arbitrator. The officials evidently thought that was a terrible thing, so they suppressed ruthlessly the strong , . Support given the amendment by. the rank and file members present. Thruout the dispute for better con- ditions the left wing members of the Progressive Barbers’ Group in the union have repeatedly pointed out that arbitration always works for the bosses and against the workers. The bosses now say they are satisfied with . . the award. The militant rank and filers demand that the membership shall have the final say-so as to accepting or. rejecting conditions under which they, and not the officials, shall work. The members shall continue to de- - mand this right until they get it. Invited to Meetings. The aim of the Progressive Barbers’ Group {is to educate the workers in the craft and show them how to win thelr struggles. The group is giving ‘@ series of lectures at a time and place to be announced later in the DAILY WORKER. Every interested barber should write to I. Bitingon, 1323 N. Artesian avenue, for informa- tion as to coming meetings and lec- : * wa %s . . Russian Movies Shown in Pittsburgh Tonight At the North Side Carnegie Music Hall at Pittsburgh will be the scene of’ another working class movie triumph when the famous Moscow Art ***Pheater film, “Polikushka,” is shown there Saturday, April 26. With it goes ‘a Russian slapstick comedy, “The Miracle of Soldier Ivan,” in which a Russian Charley Chaplin makes use of religious superstition to get out of the army and back into his sweet- heart’s ample arms. _...“Lenin Memorial,” showing high lights in the life and death of our reat working class leader, will fill out the program, since the censors unexpectedly passed it. Othe showings of the same program include: MacDonald, Pa.—Orpheum Theater, April 28. Bentleyville, Pa.—May 1. Daisytown, Pa—May 2. New Kensington—May 6, Columbus Theater. Arrangements are being made in Cleighton, Pa., for the showing of “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” in the near future. . ‘T. U. E. L. General Meet Wed.; April 29, 8 P. M. The regular meting of the Chicago Trade Union Bducational League gen- . ral group will be held Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p. m., at North West 5: Hall, corner North and Western Aves. An interesting series of reports on the progress of the militants in the Chicago trade union movement will be given. All militant and progres- sive trade unionists are invited to at- tend this important meeting. Eat and Dance In Cleveland. CLEVELAND, April 24.— A dance and a supper will be given by the Young Workers League; May 2, at 6 o'clock at 5607 St. Clairé’ Ave. The admission will be ten cénts. GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 W. Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 J. KAPLAN MERCHANT TAILOR Suits Made to Order at Reasonable, Prices 3546 ARMITAGE AVENUE | Phone Albany 9400 j 7 jstudy would supply them with the + posed in favor of the Communists. . oo 6 ‘o ™ = oe _ ee es — (Continued from page 1), and started to argue about a motion in the local union; trying to that the local was “defying if I want: if I don’t want to, I don’t have to.” Nesbit Threatens to “Get” Committee Nesbit then told Mike Volkitis, one of the committee, “You fellows be careful or we will get you.” Another committeeman, Joseph An- gelo, then told Nesbit: “When we go to make our report to the membership and I tell them that you refused to give us the facts in this case after coming here to see you, that will not look very good, will it?” Threatens to Revoke Charter, Nesbit grew angrier than ever and said: “Go back and tell your member- ship that if they do not pay their tax before the 25th of the month they will be put on the delinquent list and the charter revoked.” Angelo replied: “Isn’t it a fact that our local union is in good standing?” And to Nesbit’s reply that it was, An- gelo added: “Why don’t you let us see the records so we can get at the facts?” A Stall. Nesbit refused, altho the commit- tee presented their credentials, and stalled them off by saying that if they would get the local to write him a letter he would answer it. The information the committee sought was additional to that upon which they based their decision on Walker, that decision being founded upon independent evidence clearly shown in the records of the Snancial secretary of the local union. From the local secretary it was found that Walker did not pay dues for either October, November or De- cember, and thus became delinquent on December 31. According to the international constitution he is re quired to carry out its provisions given .| in Article 14, Section 2, as follows: What Jackéy Must Do. “Any member becoming three months in arrears for dues and as- sessments, unless exonerated from the payment of game, shall forfeit his membership and can be reinstated only by paying an initiation fee and such other penalties as may be im- posed by the district in which appli- cation for membership is made.” Walker, it appears from local union records, tried to sneak back when a Farrington job appointment was being conspired, by paying his back dues during January and attempting by this illegal method to re-establish his mem- bership. Cites Farington’s Words as Precedent. The local committee, in taking the stand that no back door reinstate- ment could be had by Walker, cites Farrington’s own words in relation to Duncan McDonald, when Farrington said “True, after McDonald’s delin- quency was exposed, or when he was caught with the goods on him, he paid up the long overdue assessment, but he was too late then.” Miners, in mock extenuation of “Jackey’s” failure to pay dues, re- mark: “Well, how can you expect Jackey to"pay dues from the coal he never dug? And then the wife had to invest in a new washtub last win- ter, and this drained the family ex- chequer.” AS WE SEE IT | By T. J. O'°FLAHERTY. tied . - (Continued from page 1) appeared in a recent issue of the Chi- cago Fur Worker, which is publish by Chicago Fur Workers’ Union Lo No. 46. arte ss s¢ 6 EB Chicago Fur Worker says that the workers: “should becomié thoroly acquainted with their own class problems as, such and the new world for the true welfare of man, kind.” The writer goes on to say that the study of Marx is essential, as thig, for a under ng of the r appt sallow 30 and labor. , ees writer takes = slam at the American lebor leaders who have no sympathy with working class edu- cation that stresses the class strug: gle. “Working class education ‘s begin first, last and always with Marz,’ {if it shall ever get somewhere.” Quite true, but it should not finish with Marx. The study of Marx should be followed by the study of Lenin and Leninism, the Marxism of the final stage of capitalism. The Chicago Fur. the back for its words on workers’ education. It may consider it slap- ORE news from Bulgaria and more correctly about Bulgaria. Thd DAILY WORKER correspondent in London thinks it quite possible that Zankov may draw a sharp blade across the royal thyroids of King Boris, or hit him in the region of his pituitiary gland with a sledge. We are not losing any sleep over the king’s fate, but every worker should be concerned over the fate of the Bul- garian workers and peasants. The capitalists are standing solidly be- hind the murder regime and have allowed Zankov to raise 7,000 more troops. Thousands of workers and peasants are being butchered, yet there is not a squeak of protest from the capitalist press. 7 . - OSIAH WEDGWOOD, labor member of the British parliament declared that Communists are outside the law in Bulgaria. The secret service had a list of Communists and the military authorities toek over this list and ar- rested all who could be found. Over six thousand were taken into custody in Sofia alone inside of a few days and of this number \250 have been executed, said Wedgwood. The pris- oners were taken out in lorry loads and murdered outside the city. Before they were executed the prisoners were tortured, bastonati (beating of the feet with sticks) being resorted to. This is what Wewdwood reports. He was in Sofia when the explosion took place. He is a moderate laborite and cannot be accused of being predis- HE eyes of the workers and peas- ants of the whole wé6rld are to- day turned on Bulgaria. The reaction- ary labor leaders who dominate the unions in Central Europe could halt the hands of the Zankov murderers within twenty-four hours if they only had the will. As it is, they are in hearty sympathy with the policy of execution and assassination which has made the present Bulgarian regime a thing of horror. Only the section of the labor movement under the in- fluence and leadership of the Com- munist Internationa] is taking steps | the deaker men kil ways that have been opened in the} Worker deserves an approving slap on.} DU PONT MONEY BEHIND DOPE IN ~ PUBLIG SCHOOLS ‘Delaware Teachers Fired Unless They Read Bible (Special to The Dally Worker) \ WILMINGTON, Del., April 24.—At ‘@ methodist episcopal church confer- ‘ence attended by 240 ministers of the State, Pierre 8S. DuPont, of the pow- r trust, was the principal speaker. : praised DuPont and of dollars. *. DuPont showed that he and the DuPont Powder company’s money are behind the new law which recent- ly passed the state legislature mak- ing virtual slaves out of the teachers and forcing the school children of Delaware to undergo religious instruc- tion. Law Compels Doping. The law compels the reading of at least five verses of the bible each day in the public schools. For the first failure to comply with this law the teacher is fined $25. For the second “offense” the teacher’s certificate is revoked, and she is dismissed. Many of the teachers have objected to this forcible doping of the students. “The legislature has passed a law compelling teachers to read the bible in the schools,” DuPont told the teachers. “It would be better that she would become so imbued that she would want to read it.” The conference of the ministers and the speech of DuPont is but one of a series of maneuvers of the DuPonts to crush all attempts of the workers to act for themselves. Provide New Armory. The senate a few days ago passed a bill which had already been passed by the house; appropriating $260,000 from the state treasury for the build- ing of an armory in Wilmington. The state college at Newark, near here, has been turned into a virtual war training camp, the students being forced to engage in sham battles and extensive war drills and maneuvers for the benefit of officers visiting from the war department at Washington. Express Slips into Local Passengers on two loop bound elevated trains received severe jolt- ings today when a Jackson Park ex- press crashed into the rear of a local train at the Fullerton Ave station. The motorman of the express said the tracks had been made slippery by rain and he was unable to stop his train. The accident tied up express tracks for half an hour. High Court Turns Down Murderer SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 24.-—Un- less Governor Small reprives further Russell Scott, under sentence to hang for the murder of Joseph Maurer; he must pay the supreme penalty follow- ing the expiration of his present re- prieve on July 17. The supreme court today denied his petition for a writ of error and supersedeas. Industrial Accidents Claim Many ALBANY, N. Y¥Y-~One hundred and forty-three workers died from indus- trial accidents in New York state in March, a report of the state depart- ment of labor shows. Twenty-nine of these are accounted for by construc- the Zenkev man killers. - tion work. Six died from industrial } poisoning 4 : ° THE DAILW (—Farington Todl Not Union Member | fed nm ae alluded to his millions” Riki | at” a ty INDIANA'S BACKS: ACTION AGAINST KLUXER Acoused at.) of Murderous Attack on Girl INDIANAPOLIS, April 24.—The city the prosecution of David S. Stephen- son, former @fan@ dragon of the In- diana ku klux ‘Klan, on charges of first degree murder in connection with the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, who swallowed poison after an alleged criminal attack.’ 2 Members of the:city council, headed by Council President Ben H. Thomp- son, announdééd their intention of drafting a ordinance appropriating | $600 from th® municipal treasury to aid fm the proBecition of Stephenson and his coefetdants, Earl Gentry and Baril Kienck: To" s “Ordinance. Thompson’ ¢ ea on the city at- torney for an® n as to the legal-’ ity of such Ordimiance, but expressed the belief that the proposed ordinance '*The statute permit- ting the couriefl f appropriate money for rewards fm ‘capturing criminals can be to justify the Stephenson Secution fund in his opinion, Thompson said. If the olty attorney pronounces the proposed ordinance legal, it will be drawn up by John L. Hogue, city comptroller, and submitted to the council at its meeting Monday night. ‘Attorneys for both sides were silent on what effect the verdict of the coroner, that “Madge Oberholtzer died from mercury poisoning,” might have on the state’s case against Stephenson, also formerly recognised as one of Indiana's dominant polli- ticlans. ; Fight Over Ball. However, the murder indictments admit the diréct cause of Miss Ober- holtzer’s de@ was bichloride of mercury, but they charge Stephenson and his cohorts with the responsibility for her suicidal. attempt, which re- sulted in the girl’s death a month A spirited court proceeding was an- ticipated in therhearing Monday on the former Klan organizer's petition to be admitted ‘to bail. The defense will be forced to bring out much of its evidence!: im averring that the charges are Sufficient to justify re- fusal of bail. vo Stephenson; Klenck and Gentry have been imdail since their arrest a aS ay Dawes Plan and Union Bureaucrats Kill 8- Hour Law in Europe WASHINGTON, April 24.—(FP)— In the first issue of the International Metal Workeré’ Federation Bulletin to be published since the war—a copy reaching the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor from I. M. F. Bbeadquarters in Berne —the denial ofthe eight-hour day by German, Polish and other national groups of metal manufacturers in Bu- rope is described. Actual working time in the German metal industry has been increased to from 61 to 67 hours per week. Nom- inal working time is 51 hours. In January, 1925, full time employment was reported for 94.388 per cent of the 2,074,000 workers if the industry. Reports to the federation from Po- land showed that Polish employers use the excuse that German competi- tion forces them to disregard the eight-hour rule. Trade union leaders, fearing the ef- fect of a struggle at this time, have agreed, for the second time, to a “yoluntary” suspension of the eight- hour limit for six months. This sur- render was hastened by the closing of many plants and the reduction of hours in most of the remainder. Worker Killed by Open Shop Firm’s Criminal Neglect (Special to The Dally Worker) . MISHAWAKA, Ind., April 24—3Ea- ward Joyal, a pipe layer on a sewer laying job, was crushed to death here when nine feet of clay gave way and buried him. The case was the result of such carelessness on the part of the contractor, Who would not afford the safeguarding of a few boards to hold the ditch ‘sides, that even the coroner is denouncing the contractor for “inexcusable negligence.” Joyal leaves nine children and a widow. Whitcomb & Keller, the contractors, are an open shop firm, and the work- ers have no hope that they will pay either civilly or criminally for their negligence. Metal Trades Group Meets Saturday Eve. The regular monthly meeting of the Metal Trades Group of the T. U. BD. L. will be held Saturday, April 25th, at 722 Blue Island avenue. Meeting is called for 7:30 p. m., The result of the elections in the machinists’ localx will be reported and also other reports, will be made. This meeting promises to be very interest- ing and all left wing metal trades ORKER 08 Re nents Rene ~ — oe te ee ee - . — ' — =o 2 , WN ‘4 ANY / ; P , , sr | / { c <s ( ‘<¢ - —_ : . z ‘ ee \ — - & ° . sf (4 A { < LA q 4 oe & ‘ Sd - 7 J WIL EbELTD \\ a cago. DISTRIBUTE GREAT QUANTITIES OF LITERATURE TO CALL WORKERS OF CHICAGO TO BIG MAY DAY MEETING Temple Hall, W. Van Buren St. and Marshfield Ave., has been chosen for the monster May Day gathering of workers to be held in Chicago Friday evening, May 1, at 8 p. m. This meeting which will include an entertain- \ment and concert, will be held under the auspices of the Chicago May Day of Indianapolis @ support today to , =a 4 z committee and will be participated in by many labor organizations in Chi- The committee reports the distribution of from 35,00 to 40,000 May Day leaflets. EXvery comrade in every branch in the city of Chicago has been | IMPORTANT MEETING OF BOSTON MAY DAY COMMITTEE, APRIL 27 BOSTON, Mass., April 24.—On Monday April 27th at 8 p. m. sharp there will be a meeting of the May Day conference committee at Dud- ley street Opera House, Room 5, 113 Dudley St., Roxbury, Mass. This is a very important meeting as all final arrangements for the May Day celebration will be made at this meeting. Branch secretaries and executive committees must see to it that their delegates attend this meeting. WHOOPEE! THE FIRST PICNIC AS IN SIGHT T. U. E. L. Joyfest at Altenheim, May 30 The regular annual picnic of the Trade Union Educational League of Chicago is to be held on Decoration Day, May 30th, at Altenheim . grove, and all T. U. B. L. groups and Work- ers Party organizations are requested to observe the date and to act at once in throwing all possible assistance to this picnic in order that it be @ big success. This is the first big picnic of the 1925 season, and everyone is expected to turn out with bells on to enjoy themselves with the militant union- ists and left wingers. All workers are invited, regardless ‘of race, color or previous condition of servitude. ~ Altenheim grove is one of the nicest groves in the Chicago suburbs, reached without transfer on the For- est Park “L” or by Madison street car with one change to the suburbam line. Hot Dogs and Good Union Orchestra at Tomorrow’s Dance There’s a tough bunch of hard hit- ting Communists billed for the enter- tainment and springtime dance to be staged at Workers’ Lyceum tomorrow, Sunday evening. But they’re going to put over their wallops to music, and union music at that, says Master of Ceremonies Paul Simonson. There will be excellent waltzes, fox trots, one steps and all on an excellent floor. Refreshments provided include hot dog, cold pop and chicken on the hoof. Get there early and stay late. Take the California avenue surface car to Hirsch boulevard, or the north bound Oakley boulevard bus right to the door at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. ‘Important Meeting of This Afternoon at 4 Every Jewish speaking member of the Y. W. L. local Chicago (no matter whether he is a member of the auxzil- lary branches or not) must without fail attend a very important meeting on Saturday, April 25, 4 p. m. at the Fretheit Hall, 3118 W. Roosevelt Rd., 2nd floor. If you understand Jewish, be there. Jewish local “Propcom” Y. W. L.—J. Weiss, Sec’y. Wicks Main Speaker at Educational Meet in Wilmington, Del. WILMINGTON, Del., April 24.—An educational meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party, local Wilming- ton, was held here, with H. M. Wicks as the principal speaker. Comrade Wicks traced the rise of the Commu- nist movement from the time when ifesto, to the Russian revolution, and the establishment fo the Communist International. ‘He also showed how the socialists have betrayed the workers. Diplomats Extend Condolences MOSCOW, March 21.—(By Mail)— atives at Moscow have officially ex- off, president of the central executive committee of the Soviet Republic of Trans-Caucasia. Does your friend subscribe to workers sLomid be presern, | [she DAILK WORKER? gis biz |. Jewish Y.W.L. Members Karl Marx wrote the Communist man- [ All the foreign diplomatic represent- pressed condolences to the Soviet government at the death of Nariman- ———® mobilized in the house to house lit- erature distribution campaign prior to the meeting and posters advertising the meeting are on display in all the working class districts. To assure every worker knowing about the meet- ing, Martin Abern, district organizer, informs us that noonday meetings will be held on May 1, in front of the larg- est plants and factories in Chicago at which leaflets will be distributed and the workers will be invited to parti- cipate in the revolutionary workers’ holiday. Big List of Speakers. The meeting promises to be the biggest and most inspiring May Day gathering ever held in Chicago. Such nationally known and prominent speakers as Comrades C. EF. Ruthen- berg and James P. Cannon are on the list of speakers. There will also be a speaker for the Negro workers, Com- rade E. L. Doty, who will tell us about the Negro Labor Congress. Martin Abern, district organizer of Chicago will tell about the work in Chicago, and Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker will review the big achievements in the youth move- ment during the year. Our very ac- tive, very lively and very aggressive little comrades known as the Juniors inform us that “They are Ready” to show all the older comrades a good time in addition to reporting on their activities for the year. Singing Societies In Program. The Scandinavian Singing Society, the Freiheit Mandolin and Singing Society and the Young Workers Leagtie orchestra will liven up the entertainment and concert with revo- lutionary songs in which the audience will join. And of course there will be the Juniors. May Day Carnival Harlem Casino on May 2, of T. U. E. L. The Eastern District, and the Needle Trades Section, T. U. E. L. have arranged a joint May Carnival and dance for Saturday evening, May 2nd, at Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue. This will be a regular get together of all trade union militants. The ar- rangement committee is doing all in its power to make this final affair of the season a unique event for all rebels. An excellent orchestra has been hired to help liven matters up, and they will too. However, all militants should real- ized that this affair is arranged also for the purpose of raising some money to help conduct the T. U. B. L. There is still much to be done, and the question of money is a troublesome problem. You can, therefore, kill two birds with a half-bone (50c.) help the T.U.E. L. in its work and have a good time yourself, | For tickets get in touch with the T. U. BE. L. office, 108 E. 14th S., New York City. St. Louis to Have United Front May Day Celebration ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 21. — Our united front May Day celebration which will be held on Saturday eve- ning, May 2, at 8 p. m. at Drude Hall. §th and Market streets, promises to be the biggest event of the season. Com- rade Manuel Gomez of Chicago will be the principal speaker. Workers Party of Cicero, Il]., to Hear Reeve Speak Monday At the next open meeting of the Cicero English branch of the Workers (Communists) Party, to be held Mon- day, April 27, at 8 p. m. at Liberty Hall, 14th St. and 49th Ct., Cicero. Karl Reeve, member of the DAILY WORKER editorial staff. will speak. the Labor Movement.” The subject will be “Communists in TMM | It’s All Fixed! Two live branches have arranged many novel features THE SPRING DANCE SUNDAY, APRIL 26, AT 8 P. M. at Folkets Hus (Workers’ Lyceum) 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. ONLY FIFTY CENTS TO GET IN— And for these festivities you’ll be sure to thank the Mid- City Branch, W. P. and Area Branch No. 2, Y. W. lL COME ON OVER——IT’S ALL FIXED! o——_— NEW YORK WILL CELEBRATE MAY FIRST HOLIDAY Communists Plan Many, Demonstrations - NEW YORK: N: Y:., April %. — In additioh to many outdoor ral- lies the Workers~ Party and the Young Workers League have arranged two lafge indoor mass meetings to be held in the evening of May Day. The first at Céhtral Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave. and the other at Grand Millers Hall, at Grand and Ha- venmeyer streets, Brooklyn. Comrade William Z. Foster, chair man of the Workers Party, will speak at both meetings. The other speakers will be M. J. Olgin, W. W. Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, with C. Krum- bein, chairman for the New York meeting, while in the Brooklyn meet- ing the speakers will be in addition to Foster, S. Epstein, I. Amter, J. 8. Poynts, L. Pruseika, Herbert Zam for the ¥. W. L. with S. Nessin as chair- . man. In a four-paged leafict that will be distributed to about 200,000 workers of this city the Workers Party and the Young Workers League call upon the workers of this city as well as the workers of the entire country to lay down their tools on May 1 and join with the rest of the militant workers to celebrate the first of May thru mass demonstrations thruout the city. The strengthening of reaction, the wage cuts, open shop drives and the persecution of the workers of this country generally must be met with a united resistance on the part of the workers against the system of capi- talist oppression. The Workers Party and the Young Workers League calls upon the work- ers of this city to strike on May the First. To come to the tens of outdoor rallies that will be arranged for that day and demonstrate against wage cuts, against open shop drives, against imperialism and war, against the Dawes plan, against all the repressive measures and persecution of the work- ers, whether they be native, Negro or foreign-born. For recognition of so- viet Russia, for the unity of the world trade union movement, for a labor party, for a workers’ and farmers’ government. It calls upon the most militant sections of the class to support and join the Workers Party and the Young Workers League. Fellow workers, down with your tools on the First of May. Out into the streets to demonstrate. Attend the meetings in the Central Opera House and Grand Millers Hall. Ail meetings held by the Workers Party and the Young Workers League are affiliated with the United Front May Day Conference representing teng of thousands of worker in this city. —— Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEnwT13S'1 274? NJ Al il} XN fi AV I MY NEW LOCATION 7 Special X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS % © My Examination tse Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Its Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY -— - -— Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLACE (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) Dr. A. Moskalik DENTIST 4 S. W. Corner 7th and Miffiin Sts. | PHILADELPHIA, PA,’ - ad

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Education for service—Not tor sought by our future citizens rather LOS ANG Si age 24.—"The f workers. LOS ANGE April 24-——The profit! than, personal gain and the chase for|°Pen shop This seedila thensends:-ot: w lecti state of the Workers| Let the teachers run the schools! profits. the opening s coro ‘ _| election e ofits. - The Straggle i in Balgaria The Comnruains ane alveaty won 8 large So: (Communist) | y of Los Angeles; Program of Emanuel Levin, work-} §(¢) Kéep religious training and in-|°* Comrade Ed. H the Workers lowing in’ Minneapolis and St. Paul by their work to the. mem of srganized labor |ing class candidate for member of'| quence out of the schools. (Communist) P ‘candidate for The capitalist press dispatches from Bulgaria|; the trade unions where they and they alone | totiows: my board of education in the May munici-| (4) No working-class publication |Councilman in. the municipal cam- have lost their éxultant tone. The sturdy resisi-|},,ye kept the reactionaries from disrupting it and| Once again members of the |pal elections, 1925, endorsed by the: should be batred from our school lib-|Palen in progress af San Pedro. ance of the workers and peasants to the murder turning the fragments over to the employers’ as- | trade union . are called. up- Workers (Communist) Party. raries. The Harbor district. of Los hioiien gangs of-the Zankoy government has aroused the! .niation on by the ta rs of this elty| Since the existing school system is.| (e) Strict enforcement of compuls- —San Pedro-—is beginning once again admiration even of their enemies. The nets in the Minneapolis election are clear- to support candidates for political |one of the institutions used to per-|ory school attendance laws. to come to life. When the The Zankov government has been allowed by the allied commission to add 7,000 troops to its army to aid in crushing the revolution and as this was over:the protests of Roumania, Jugo-Slavia and Greece it appears that the Bulgarian:revolt is of a mass character, contrary to the inspired dispatches that at first laid all the blame on a little band of terrorists. Three labor membérs of the British house of’ commons, who were in Sofia at the time of the bomb explosion, “have made a’ vigorous protest against the support of the Zankov government and denounce it as a bloody clique to which the work- ers and peasants owe no allegiance. They. have called upon British labor to take action’to stop the wholesale murders of workers, peasants, Com- munists and members of the left parties. most active union men in the Twin Cities, at one time or another having held every responsible post within thé gift of the labor movement and now president of Painters’ Union 186, is a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis. ‘He is running on the Commusist platform after the efforts of the local party organization to form a united front with the reformists on immediate demands had been sabotaged by the reactionary groups in the American labor movement. Minneapolis is an important industrial center and the Communist candidate will have the op- cut. It is a question of the workers’ candidate against the capitalists and their tools in and out of the labor movement. The campaign will be car- streets and will result in great gains for the Com- munist Party in Minneapolis—the largest city be- tween Chicago and the Pacific coast. The Barbers’ Agreement The officialdom of the local barbers’ union is trying to force an arbitration agreement on the membership. If the committee of the union and the master barbers cannot agree a third party is to be called in. The rank and file barbers should remember the deal handed out by State’s Attorney Crowe to the ‘Dan Stevens, Communist; for years one of the ried on in the factories, the unions and on they to Trade | office. It is well known that the political policy of “rewarding your so-called friends and your enemies” is a@ policy of attaching the labor movement to the kite of capitalist politicians who are primarily the rep- resentatives of the employing class. Horn and Cryer In Deal. The Central Labor Council dom- inated by the Horn-Buzzell machine, Horn being secretary and Buzzell president of the Central Labor Coun- cil, have endorsed Mayor Cryer for re-election. It must be remembered that Cryer appointed Horn to the) Civil Service Commission. Horn owes Cryer a political debt, not only -for being appointed on the Civil Service Commission, but also because Mayor . » eid ie J r + s 5 - te 4 No segregtion or discrimination be- ics who are municipal ;employees, | is made or new school buildings erected, case of color, race or creed. lower than the union rate, yet this » while the wealthy residential sections|“ The candidate running on the above is -tolerated we suppose -under the are. given first consideration. platform knows that the ruling class|®Tsument of not putting too heavy — Buildings are constructed and im-| will not permit the realization of his|® burden on the taxpayers! The oil provements are made under open shop+demands under the present system of |COmpanies and the shipyards are in conditions. society and therefore pledges himself; the same category, less wages and The purchase of school equipment | when elected to Work for the estab-| 20n-recognition of the unions. ‘ ana building construction are con-/lishment of a Communist society. Doheny the Scab trolled by those who are financially; (Signed) EMANUEL LEVIN, It is significant that Mr. Doheny of coal teamsters and helpers when he was the third man in an agreemént of this kind last winter. The teamsters demanded a raise of $1.25 and the aboli- tion of the provision that forced them to unload rupting and on movement, Political Trading Revealed. The issue is clear.. Horn and his agents united with Mayor Cryer’s po- lice force to eliminate their political opponents in the trade union move- have some work ahead, and we feel city council has already done a little , towards the unemployed situation, ob pb raspy for getting in some other hand, re-loan this tremendous-+and--that- the money appropriated; re we are many moons older, Europe. Whatever is worth having is worth fighting for|™ent. John Horn is repaying Cryer|sum to private individuals at 7 per | ($5,000) was used in employing those mort go." slogan “The open shop | : and the progressivés should put their program be-|>¥ >etraying organized labor. ‘| cent interest in this maner deriving @ Fout of work. These were paid union : fore Sunday ti t all Th The object of sup g capitalist tremendous profit on city funds -for ages. | eee ee Se eee Cary S06 6 ae ee — SY MAY | politicians by these: led. labor of-| their private gains. .(: ‘This statement: was repudiated by. Negro Workers'A Are . subscription for the DAILY WORKER. be defeated, but they will have shown the mem-|ficials is to receive .pglitical,jobs and| Brother Murphy suggested that this peother Murphy who showed that the D in bership the difference between a militant program, patronage for thempélvés and their | immense sum be withdrawn from the Fwerkers were supposed to receive rawn to Campaign friends. zB ' 2 .; and one of surrender to the bosses. banks and used for public imprové; ments, thus relieving the unemploy- ment. situation. To this suggestion The Dawes Plan at Home | The dilemma of the capitalists of the allied coun- runion wages but when pay day came they found that after paying for trans- ‘pertation and other incidentals the The rank and file gain by supporting. of the Communists 7 (Special to The Daily Worker.) ye nothing to yor Cryer or tries which “won the war,” in collecting repara- The Russian Delegation’s Record any other representatives of the. em- Mr. Mushet, chairman of the finance workers, the few of them who were : | LOS ANGELES, April 24. The | , oa \, eo . ae ploying class. a8 | tommittee of the city council, replied loyed, had 25 cents left for four ‘ | tions in goods from Germany by extracting the When the British capitalist press insinuated |) soton indorses ‘Injunction ‘Judge | that this money cannot, be used, as ica Werk. Workers Party in Los . Angeles is | last drop of blood from German workers under that the Russian trade union delegation: was not| Not all of the offie are-support- that fund was secured thru city bonds, Goes Under Advisement ahh ¥ into-action in the miunici- the Dawes plan, without at the same time ruining working class in makeup the London Daily Herald|ing Cryer. Some fals and -par-{that ‘the city council has no funds pal election campaign for May 15: Ev- their own markets and putting their own pro- ductive machinery into cold storage, is beginning to have a definite effect upon the lives of American workers. The president of the Bethlehem Steel company, Eugene G. Grace, in the company’s bulletin ad- dresses a message to the steel workers, telling them how the inflow of goods produced by cheap labor in foreign lands makes it necessary for American business, and—of course—American labor, to “use made a reply that will become historic. Never has the. British trade union movement entered into negotiations with a delegation whose record of working class origin, struggle,*suffering and sacri- fice, compares with that of the Russian delegation. Not one of the Russian union delegates but spent many years of their lives in the prisons of the czar for revolutionary activity, not one of them but has been in the labor and revolutionary movement all their lives. began work at an early age, not one of them but} ticularly E. E. Lampton, secretary of the District Council .of Carpenters’ have endorsed Judgé Bledsoe who ig a confirmed reactionary. Open-shop- injunction Judge Bledsoe is well known to the workers as an avowed enemy of labor. Any official that will support Bledsoe has more gall than good judgment. The present labor leaders are con- sistent in one thing and that is their treachery to the rank and file. They betray the workers’on the economic at its disposal for the relief of the unemployed. Sidney Bush, another member of the committee, representing the Workers Party told the gentlemen, the representatives of capitalism of Los Angeles, that the problem of un- employment must not be considered | a temporary condition. Unemploy- ment is the result of capitalist ex- ploitation of the working class, the wages system. As long as we will have this system, we will -have un- Comrade Queen Silver, warried the capitalist representatives that the un- employed will grow so desperate that |’ they will take things into their own hands when they will find out that the city council refuses to do any- thing for them. When that time comes, there is no telling what will happen. The final reply that the committee of the unemployed received was that the council will take the unemploy- ment problem under serious advise- ery available means is being used to get the message of the Communist program over to the workers and to the organized labor movement in this city. Street meetings are held every Tuesday ‘and Saturday nights at Brooklyn and Soto to get behind the candidacy and program of the Work- ers Party for the city board of edu- cation, in the person of Emmanuel Levin, city organizer of the party.. Last Saturday night an enthusiastic parade énded up in a big meeting on every method to keep down the cost of production.” Grace’s message says, in part: “There is no doubt but that economy thru the elimination of waste is becoming increasingly im- portant. We must obtain the same refinement in the use of time and materials as we have in the use of machines. To meet the inflow of lower-priced goods from overseas and the keen competition which is developing at home, American business will be ob- liged to use every method at its disposal to keep employment. This fact the commit- tee representing the city council must realize. The unemployed are those very workers who have helped to pro- duce and create all wealth. And be- cause they produced much and re- ceived little for their labor is the reason why these workers are now in distress. Therefore, the unemployed demand that the city provide them with work, at union scale of wages ment. Mr Mushet ending the hearing by stating that “Poverty always was, and I suppose always will be with us.” Sixty-five thousand unemployed in the city of Los Angeles. Yet the cap- italist thru the chamber of commerce is spending hundreds of thousands of doHars in advertisements all over the: country for more workers to come. to “sunny California,” where the “open this corner, where Comrade Levin told the assembled crowd of the fight that the Communist8 are waging to organ- }ize the exploited workers against the capitalist rule. - The Young Workers’ League’ is ac- tively supporting the campaign with speakers of their own and with Com- munist literature:on the political is- sues confronting the working class. | field during strikes. by expulsions of progressive members:from the trade unions and by fig g the amalga- mation of craft unions into industrial unions. On the political field they do likewise by su ing the fifty- seven varieties of “capitalist politic- lans. None of them has ever accepted a $150,000 bribe from a biscuit manufacturer, none of them have ever connived at the bombing of Hindu peasants and workers, none of them has ever attended a royal function or been dined by the nobility, but all-of them bear the scars of the battles of their class in which they have taken a leading part. It was because they were workers and not fakers - di Voted For Labor Party. It is a well knowm® fact that-:in the that the British capitalist press attacked them“Jast municipal electidp, held two years pa Tuesdey;; night; April 21, another ; ion.” and under union conditions. The work- shoppers” rule supreme, where jobs down os Coes of prapapen. 3ritish labor has answered and more than one/®8° the rank and file of organized |ers want no charity, they are able|.are scarce, wages low and the hours street meeting “was held at First and Mr. Grace in his message goes on to say how tritiah labor faker with middleclass leanines hae labor voted to establish a labor party,| bodied men and women and wantjlong. California is a paradise for Cummings, addressed by Comrades peculiarly fortunate it is, that in this struggle be Ey 4 to blush 8 which was formed fat a convention | work. the “open shoppers” but a hell for|Gorman“and Bush, and this meeting tween great combines of capital, each trying. to ee ee ee held in the Labor Temple. In spite| Mr. Mushet,’the iim for the | workers. was markéd by. the presence of a dele- re / Gries of the fact that thesttade union offi- | —— 3 . gated .body from 4 Negro workers’ cut costs lower than the Daw es slave plan can, the Th A ] EI ° cialis, at & foint exeauiiied board tect mite - RE : organization \in the city. Plans are ’ Bethlehem Steel corperation can count upon the e-Los nge es ections ing which called the convention, doreed by the Workers (Communist) KLAN ORGANIZER WHO being made te hold-other street meet- “economy and co-operation obtained as a result} The Communists in Los Angeles, a city of a mil-{agreed to abide by the decision of oman o ef eitenat mmannel ings. in She section-pf the city where of the company’s plan which gives the employes,|lion population, the largest on the Pacific coast “i convention, they knifed the la Meat ee Fee ae DESERTED FAMILY OF 4 grid eae oe ae . i OC a ae Tae : a : a ‘oli ov , or party right after it was formed : : - thru their committee, répresentation in the oper and the stronghold of California reaction, like “es Rosie, Moga that time candidates | For city council, 15th district, Bd- JAILED FOR ABDUCTION our program -and to the struggle ation of plants.’ their comrades in Minneapolis, have entered the] .4, were supported by the Los An-|Ward Harris, (San Pedro Harbor), against raée discrimination especially. The Communists have always pointed out that municipal campaign in earnest, The news from there is of ble’ meetings, organ- ization of, and demands by the unemployed on the city government, an intensive campaign in the unions, agitation against the open shop. Our party also has a candidate in the school elections and has issued a splendid statement on education. These activities indicate a steady and healthy geles Times. member of Machinist Lodge No. Only Party of Labor. 311. It is the duty of the rank and file Education for of organized labor to support the | profit. only party of labor, the Workers; The open shop must go. (Communist) Party and the candi- Fraternally yours, dates running in the present muniti-}. City Central Committee, Local Los pal election who are endorsed by the | Angeles, Workers (Communist) Party Workers (Communist) Party. of America, Room 200, 224 S. Spring The following candidates are en- | St. The party 4s holding open air meet- JOHNSTOWN, N. Y., April 24. | ings at Fourth and Beacon streets, at —Hugh Knowles, ku kiux klan or- | 8 p. m., April 5, 7, 30 and May 2 and ganizer of Northville, will be brot | 4, These meetings are held in San here to stand trial for abduction. | Pedro, where the Workers Party can- Knowles was arrested in Buffalo, | didate for District 15 is running. This after a search lasting ten days, dur- |is a real proletarian district, and to tng which he had been missing. combat the influence of the ku kluxers With him in the Buffalo rooming | there, the party is making every effort house, when arrested, was Cora |to reach the workers of San Pedro Reynolds, 15 year old daughter of | Harbor. such companf unions are for the benefit * company, and are conflicting to the interests of ‘ the workers. Some of the trade union officials pre tend to oppose the company unions, but their devo tion to class collaboration will either force them to surrender to the company union or to turn the existing unions ‘into organizations for laboration * undistinguishable from of the service, not for class col company unions. party growth and grasp of the issues on which the —_ ¥ | a neighbor, who fied with the klan Saturday night, the Young Workers’ Pressure from, both.classes is increasing swiftiy| masses can he reached. 400 Clothing Workers Strike in Boston } organizer. Knowles has a wife and / League held a _ Street meeting at with the cogtradietions involved in international! The Los: Angeles Times, prize labor-hating sheet, will now have something more to worry about. four children, whom he left without support in order to take the girl to Buffalo. Fourth and Beacon, San Pedro Har- bor, with theif ewn ‘speakers cover- ing the political. issues: of the cam- > 25 : |paign. By this ceaseless activity we . Talk it up—your shopmate wil] ae getting real contact with the subscribel : —— - capitalism, and the labor bureaucracy is therefore seen to be busilyrémgaged in making compan) , unions out ofswhat the rank and file looks to as : organs of struggle BOSTON, Masg,® April 24.—Four hundred clothing workers have been called on strike by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union from the Trimount ort shops because the company, say union representatives, " Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER and a member for the Workers Party. vielated the ” — Fa