Daily Worker
April 28, 1925
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
The text was read from the page scans by machine (OCR), so it has mistakes and its columns may run together. See the pages · About this title · At the Internet Archive
Page 1
- - : Saree a + a © ees a. . — med ine ‘im freland.. Yet it is “py Hunger? “mént fears that it will be discredited if the real truth concerning the fam- starve but the Free State must main- to starve to death without making any (Se - os a AHERTY. NE whole page of Jast Saturday's issue of the Chicago Tribune was devoted to anti-Communist propagan- da, thru the medium of lying dispatch- es from abroad. The stories came | from’ Paris, Sofia and Rome. The Paris liar gave a report of a one : in the French chamber over the ing between Communist and * during which three of the latfer were killed. Of course, the’ Tribune cor- respondent gave the fascist speakers lots of space and only a bare’ few lines to the Communist spokesman. ; ss ¢ & gc Sofia correspondent of the Tri- bune is the. notorious prevaricator Ramond . . who wanders around the Balkans seeking what he can twist to suit his paymasters. He represented ‘the Zankov government as defenders of public order and de- clares that the country is “apparently normal.” Perhaps, it’s quite normal from his point of view to slaughter Communists at the rate of fifty a day, This has been the record of the Zan- kov government according te a report ¢ labor members of the British par- ament. = oa * >. UR old friend George Seldes, who was kicked out of Russia for his chronic lying propensities, is in Rome boosting Mussolini. This is as it showld be. The Tribune is a capita}- istic. paper, it supports the system on which it thrives at the expense of the masses. I overstated the case in writ- ing that a whole page of the Tribune was devoted to anti-Communist prop- aganda thru the medium of foreign dispatches. I should have said, that all the news on one page was of that type. The rest-of the page was filled with ads from the Chicago department stores. The fascist propaganda set off the advertisements nicely and working class women who may want to see how high spring dresses are coming, may look at the anti-Commun- ist. leadlines and murmur: “Ain't those reds awful.” : > * *& HE Irish Free State government has a hard time trying to convince the outside world that thére is no fam- " . So) * > \ ad of ~*~ - Le he at’ Chicago, Ilinois under the Act of March 8, x é . ‘ af —-_— -— ie NEW YORK EDITION Published -_” PUBLiS ~~ ally except Sunday by THE DAILY G CO., 1118 W. Washington Bivd., WORKER Chicago, Price 3 Cents o 4 ae <i f i x ers Francisco Varona, President Labor Congress, Care El Debate, Dela Lama Bidg,., wanna, hh and India, will bring victory. bat a PARTY OF AMERICA. NIST) PARTY _/TO FILIPINO WORKERS Warm fraternal greetings to the Philippine Labor Congress from the 7 Workers (Communist) Party of America. Unity of all labor in the Philippines is the first step to freedom from im perialist domination. Unity of Philippine independence movement with the révolutionary proletariat of the entire world under the leadership of the Communist International, in alliance we the Tienes millions of China S. FRATERNAL era 28, at 8 p. m.- ‘Jack Stachel, Dies Workers: Lei ; | (Special to Th y Dally Worker) NEW YO ii 26—The Work- ers Party, Youn ig WwW rs’ League Workers’ Aid have _ demonstration ’ terror in Bul- ang will take place oe im, 66 E. 4th St., Tuesday, April w bers of the b. @fe directed to Krumbein, ers Party; rict organizer arranged a against © the | garia. This 'n at Manhattan New York Cit; party and Y. be present. — rar‘ district organ ai Now, Altogether--- Yo Heavs fae’ of i bhuser and disease brought on The Free State govern, ine leaks out. Editors of Irish. pa- pers havé been warned by govern: ment officials to “lay off on the fam- ine stuff.” The poor peasants may tain its prestige with the interna- tional money lenders. * ~ co [XTHILE the bourgeois Free State leaders are allowing the people genuine effort in the line of relief, the workers of the world are not standing idly by. Under the direction of the Workers’ International Relief, a section of that organization has been established in Ireland and is now in touch with the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’: Famine Relief Commit- tee, with headquarters at 19 South Lintoin street, PU MASO. P * HE response to the appeal for aid to the Irish workers and peasants is heartening. Our readers will be glad to learn that the Irish workers, so many of whom have been led astray by the propaganda of the capitalist parties and the dope of the church, are coming to recognize the (Continued on page 6.) TRAGIC DEATH FOLLOWS IN WAKE OF JOBLESS CRISIS IN COAL MINES (Special to The Dally Worker) MONESSEN, Pa., April 26—Mrs. Peter Fils of this city is dead, and five small childern are left without a mother’s care. The children range from one to five years of age. The mother has been sick for some time and her ‘husband has been out of work, and could not give her proper treatment, and she died enroute to a sanitorium at Mt. Alto. This family tived in a basement room with hardly any furniture or food, This is only one case that has come to light here. And if the mines around here keep on closing as they have been lately there will be many more cases like this one. O Zi “3 2 TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE SENDS GREETINGS TO PHILIPPINE CONGRESS OF LABOR Franvtisco Varona, aft President Labor Congress, Care E! Debate, Dela Lama Bidg., Manila, Philippine Islands. Greetings to Labor Congress of Philippines from Trade Union Educa- tional League, Section of the Red International of Labor Unions representing revolutionary trade unionists of America. The burning need of the workers and oppressed peoples of all lands is unity against the common enemy, imperialism. Unity of world trade unions proposed by Russian and British unions, amaigamation of Philippine unions into one strong body, a united stand with the workers of America and the world who fight for complete independence of all colonial peoples, will mark a great forward step. \ The workers of Russia established their own government which also stands for freedom ‘of all peoples. everywhere. it has won the affections of workers Join the movement of millions of workers and oppressed peoples who are fighting against capitalist imperialism, for a workers’ and farmers’ gov- ernment over the entire world. TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE. Head of Milwaukee Railroad Blamed for Line’s Receivership WASHINGTON, April 26.—The re- ceivership of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, which jarred financial circles some weeks ago, was made the subject of an official state- ment today by the interstate com- merce commission, in which it was in- dicated that the failure of H. F. By- ram, president of the road to charge certain collateral now on deposit in the treasury, may have been in part responsible for the receivership pro- ceedings. MUSSOLINI CALLS FASCIST GRAND COUNCIL TO DISCUSS BARRING ALL BUT BLACK SHIRTS FROM GOVERNMENT (Special to The ‘ROME, Apri! 26.—Premier Mussolini summoned the fascist grand coun- cil teday to discuss the. proposal of Minister of Justice Rocci that govern Daily Worker) mental offices shal| be reapreyend to fascists. Bridgeport Workers to Protest White Terror of Poland (Special to The Daily Worker) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., April 26.— The protest meeting against the white terror of Poland, which has murdered sO many workers and yet threatens the freedom of Lanzutsy, Communist workers’ deputy in parliament, will be held on April 28, at 8 p. m., in the Bohemian Hall, 500 Hall street. All welcome. Polish, Russian and Eng- lish speakers will address the meet- ing. — Adjourn Merger Hearing. WASHINGTON, April 26—The Van Sweringen billion dollar Nickel Plate merger hearing was adjourned today until May 6, by the_ interstate com- merce commission, to permit counsel for minority stockholders to examine testimony of two witnesses, T. C. Powell, vice president of the Erie railroad, and J. J. Bennett, president of the Nickel Plate. YOUTH KILLED IN RIOT OVER TEUT ELECTION Monarchist and Repub- lic Supporters Clash .|- Naturally, I did not deduce all this ‘|from the, fact ry he asked me to SOVIET FLAG TO FLY IN MEXICO THIS MAY DAY Gomez Interviews Red Minister, Pestkovsky By MANUEL GOMEZ. On May Day the red flag will fly from the staff of the imposing white stone building at Calle del Rhin 37, in the “Colonial Juarez” of Mexico City, just off the elegant driveway of the Reforma. May Day is a national holiday in the Union of Socialist Sov- jet Republics and the Soviet minister to Mexico, Comrade Stanisiaus Pest- kovsky, is most scrupulous in his ad- herence to the strict diplomatic tra- dition providing for the exhibition of the colors on national fete days. The red flag will fly again on No- vember 7, and on the anniversary of Lenin’s death. Soviet Coat-of-Arms on Door. | I did not see the banner when I ont at the legation to interview Comrade Pestkovsky for the DAILY WORKER. But the Soviet coat-of- arms was there, right over the front porch. It was with a decided thrill that I recognized the familiar ham- mer and sickle. I felt as if I were getting into home territory. A minute later and the front door was opened for me by Comrade Pest- kovsky himself. He clasped my hand warmly in both of his. “You will stay to asked. A typically Russian beginning. In- terviews go best with dinner. Every Russian knows that. And the first Soviet minister to be received any- where in America is very much a Russian, even tho he was born a Pole. Anyway, he is like the Russians I know—but that may just be because he is a Communist—an old Bolshevik, with a party card in his pocket dating from 1902. Meets Staff of Legation. But lam getting ahead of the story. dinner?” he tay to dinner wa good deal of paver Pest ore Tree during thy stay (Continued on page 3) VLADIMIR LENIN. LAND WILL BE EXPLORED BY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT ar = A7,000 members. | (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, April 26.—One youth was | shot and killed and many persons were severely beaten in rioting over issues of the presidential election to- day. The fatal riot occurred in the west- ern part of Berlin. it was a pitched battle beteween republicans and na- tionalists, and was one of a series of street fights which have brought the campaign to a tense finish. Germany will come to the cross roads of its political journey when its 38,000,000 voters go to the polls Sunday to choose the man for presi- dent of the republic. It has been one of the most bitterly waged political campaigns in the his- tory of modern Europe. End of Campaign. | ' MOSCOW, April 26.—An expedi- tion will soon be sent to explore the islands in the Artic ocean, which were discovered by the Rus- sian explorer Velketzky, in 1913. These valuable lands were origin- | ally named, Nicholas I! land, but their name in honor of Lenin. Officers Brought Hot Stuff from Hot Climate: to Be Courtmartialed The campaign practically ended last last night when both Marx and Hin- denburg utilized the radio in the final appeal to voters. Hindenburg’s pledge was: “I declare before the whole world that it shall be my holi- est endeavor to keep away new ter- rors of war and to help the war vic- tims of the past.” Marx said: “In the great decision of the world war, Germany lost. The German people are determined to take account of this fact and accept its consequences up to the limit drawn by the absolute necessities of exist- ence itself.” Vesuvius Wakes Up. ROME—The volcano Vesuvius, across the bay from Naples, was showing renewed sams of eruption to- day. Several smi explosions oc- curred. | WASHINGTON, April 26— Orders were issued here today convening a general court martial to try Lieut- Commander D. W. Fuller and the other officers of the naval transport Beaufort, accused of laxity and mis- demeanors in connection with the dis- covery of large caches of liquor aboard their vessel upon returning from southern waters. The court was ordered convened at the Hampton Roads naval base next Monday euraine. Train Kills Two in Auto. BLUFFTON, Ind.., April 26—Lewis Hishem, 53, of Ossian, Ind... and his son Jesse 13, were instantly killed here today when the automobile driven by Hishem was struck at. a The crossing by a Nickel Plate train. widow and three sons survive. Leva | the Soviet government has changed | Worker) ' , Canada, April 26.—Everything is quiet here now at the Hillcrest Collieries, and all the miners are fully determined to carry on the fight against the wage cut. Picketing saved the day for us, as we all realize that if it had not been done, we would now have all been working at the company’s terms with reduced wages—except those on the blacklist for trying to make the miners hold out. All the company’s extras, such as driver bosses, lamp boss, and so on, have been laid off. The company thought they had us in a hole, but they have another think coming. Annie Buller of the Canadian Communist Party addressed the miners here on the labor situation in general. She represents the Can- adian proletarian films, and is going to show them here. The miners’ hall was packed and her talk was highly appreciated. TRADE UNIONS IN JAPAN AND CHINA GROWING Report Thousands of New Members (Special to The Daily Worker.) SHANGHAI, April 26.— The rapid spread of trade unionism in China is reported here. The greatest progress has been made in the province of Kwang-Tung in southern China. In Hong-Kong there are already about 200 trade unions and at Oanton about 300. and some of them are very pow- erful. In Shanghai it is estimated that out of a total of 120,000 Chinese workers engaged in industry about 80,000 are members of trade unions. The moyement is | tendi to over: step the bounds of districté and” to think in terms of the whole of’China. . . 7 New Unions in Japan. TOKIO, Japan, April 26.—During the first five months of the year 1924 there was an increase in Japan of 15 labor unions and 33 union branches, with a total of 40 903 members. Workers in four big naval arsenals S FOES ARE SLAININ BULGAR PENS Reds Die Fighting Rather Than Surrender VIENNA, April 26—Several prom- inent leaders of the agrarian party, including former cabinet ministers In the Stamboulisky government have been murdered by Zankov in the past few days. Hundreds of prisoners have been assassinated in prisons. The exact count of the murdered is not yet known but it is reported that it runs into thousands. The government is making arrests indiscriminately. Italians, French and German workers are seized and thrown into prison on the merest sus- picion ‘of being Communists. All the news coming out of Sofia is censured and is pure Zankov propaganda. Tho some of the correspondents might like to send out, the truth a pistol at the teinple is liable to cause a modifica- tion of the best of intentions. Fighting To The End Several Communist leaders have defended themselves in their homes and died bravely rather than sur- render to torture and inevitable death. The bravery of the Communists has excited the admiration of even their enemies and the current of public feeling is running strongly against ihe murder regime. But for the action of the allied governments in allow. ing Zankov to increase his army by 7,000, his government would have gone down by now. That there is considerable disatis- fection in the army is proven by the number of military executions that have taken place during the past few days. Officers have been charged with attempting to blow up buildings and get away with airplanes, with the in- tention of bombing the city. The. king of Bulgaria is reported to be ready to flee into Roumania at the firs* opportunity’ but is a prison- er in his ‘own palace. Made Big Impression Be statement issued by the British 8 peony «: of parliament has t impression on the con-_ ee ate brought down a heavy attack on the heads of the British labor mavement by the capitalist and socialist press: The socialists are very angry. They claim that ever since the British trade union dele gation visited the Soviet Union, the lating movement of Britain is the tool of Soviet Russia. That the British |workers are playing a strong hand recently organized several unions and ‘on the continent on the side of the including | The Gen- eral Federation of Japanese Labor has | increg: @ its membership and the number. of its branches thruout the countery,\aid Aas entered into friendly relations with other big unions. fromed a big federation Coolidge Intends to Push Case Against Daugherty’s Prosecutor WASHINGTON, April 26.—The ac- quittal of Senator Burton K. Wheeler by a Montana jury “in no way lessens”’ the government's intention of proceed- |\ing with the senator’s trial in Wash- ington on a second indictment charg- ing him with being a co-conspirator in a scheme to defraud the govern- |ment out of valuable mineral lands, it |was announced at the department of |justice today. Attorney-General Sargent and other officials of the department were repre- sented as “not being greatly surpris- ed” by the outcome of the Montana case as there were admittedly serious defects in the government's case against the Montana senator. Getting Closer to “The League.” WASHINGTON, April 26—Another (link in the official and unofficial chain ‘connecting the United States with the league of nations was forged today when the American Society of Interna- tional Law agreed to join in the league’s codification of international law, PLYMOUTH- Fifty bundles of let- ters, stamped in St. Louis March 39. found on hands on Cornwall coast ZEIGLER, Iil., -The today. The April 26 klan vs. elections ever held in Zeigler Hall. stantial majority. Fred Hall, the Y |best interests of the revolutionary |movement is undoubtedly true. // Reports reached here that insur- rections have broken out in several parts of Bulgaria an@ that the gov- ernment is not able to control the ‘workers and peasants who have been driven to desperation by the reign of terror. Kellogg for Morgan’s World Court. WASHINGTON, April 26—Secretary Kellogg declared himself tonight “heartily in favor” of America’s par- ticipation in an international tribunal for settlement of international desz- putes, BUILDING LABORERS TIE UP WORK ON THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL ROAD HARRISBURG, Ill., April 26.—A morale building demonstration to encourage 345 striking railroad workers to continue their fight for recognition of the union, will be held near Ozark, Johnson county, Sunday, labor officials announced today. The strike has tied up construc tion of the Illinois Central tunnel being built there. The mass meet- ing which will feature several bands and prominent labor officials, was scheduled for today but postponed in order that labor forces from ‘sur- : rounding counties might join the demonstration. Saline, Gallatin, White, Hamilton. Franklin, William- son and Jackson counties are ex- pected to send several thousand Sega: KLAN- FARRINGTON COMBINE AT ZEIGLER, ILLINOIS, BEATEN IN CITY ELECTION BY ANTI-KLAN ku klux Klan forces in Zeigler are blue anti-klan which had-been the politics here for the past year was fought out-in-one of the hotest mayoralty burning issue in local The result was a crushing defeat for the ku’ klax klan candidate Fred Murphy Smith who is a staunch opponent of the klan won by a sub klan drug store and it is a well known fact im Zéigiéf that the said drug store is (Continued on page 3) “Klandidate,” owns and operates a ~~. 4 . ras ee - - _divhk eeee
Page 2
Broadcast Appeal for Aid in Straggle (Special to the Daily Worker.) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, April 26—The officials of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, which has been on strike against a starvation lockout of the British Empire Steel corporation, the firm that has used the most brutal tac- tics to foce a wage cut on the Cape Breton miners, have issued in the name of the district, the following appeal for relief: GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, April 26 Tomorrow commences the eighth week of the complete cessation of work in the coal mines of Nova Scotia. The men engaged in the coal in- dustry, together with their families are underfed and merely a step in ad- vance of starvation. We appeal to labor organizations thruout the world and to the public of the Dominion of Canada promptly to send aid to our hungry people. Fully one-third of our members were in abject poverty for months before work ceased. In view of this fact it is not humane to suggest lowering the rates of wages paid last year. To do so would merely place a greater pro- portion of our men with their families continuously on the borderline of star- vation and impose misery and suffer- fmg upon them. We have the moral support of (a) the dominion parlia- ment (b) the provincial legislature (c) public opinion at large thruout Canada and the United States. Yet the British Bmpire Steel corpo- ration appears able to defy the two governments and the general public. The district executive has followed those policies which have appeared best to give free rein to public dis- cussion of the vital issues involved, and at the same time most substanti- ally to further the interest of the help- less people whose welfare is commit- ted to the district in trust. Yet we earnestly call to your atten- tion and emphasize the fact that the ineffectiveness of public and govern- mental opinion to produce a_ settle ment of this dispute lends great weight to the conviction that a course of lawfulmess and reason toward an outlaw corporation is futile. We must state that the need amongst helpless people is greater to- day than it was two months ago and we call upon all who have contributed in the past to renew their efforts to avoid calamity coming upon a peace- ful and suffering people. Make all do- nations payable to A. A. McKay, sécre- tary-treasurer District 26, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. District No. 26, United Mine Workers of America, J. W. Mc- Leod, president, A. A. McKay, secre- tary-treasurer. D. A: R. Aids Reds to Create and Develop Class Consciousness (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.— The Daughters of the American Re- volution, that is to say the revolution of 1776, which is far enough back and bourgeois enough to have become sanctified in the minds of the great grand-daughters of the original smug- glers who staged the Boston tea party, have decided that any more revolutions should be taboo, perhaps, lest the daughters of another revolu- tion might impair the social standing if ancestor worship. At their meeting here yesterday they declared by resolution that they would begin an intensive campaign in every against “red internation- alists,” foreign-born workers, and “de- structive revolution,” plans for which the silken dames insist is, “not myth in the United States, but a prov- en fact.” state ~- ow The perfumed and bejewelled as- sembiy declared that Communists are intent on “indiscriminate attacks” on government officials and wish to “cre- ate and develop class consciousness and hatred.” The action of the D. A. R. will aid the Communists consi- lerably to accomplish this purpose. What Will They Do to Spend That Two and a Half Cents Increase? (Special to The Daily Worker.) ROCKFORD, April 26—The Carpen- ters’ Union has signed a contract for the year hourly wage of $1.05. The old rate was $1.02% an hour. a a ee t— — —— ! WIEDTFELD TAKES TOP JOB IN KRUPP WORKS FOR | GERMAN CAPITALISM (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, April 26—Dr. Otto Wiedtfeld, formerly German am- bassador to the United States, to- day became what is virtually chief directing genius of the vast Krupp works in Germany. In a reorganization of the board of directors ait board of exec- utives, the di ors were reduced to three, Oesterien, Duschfeld and Kliotsbach, and the executives to seven, with Wiedfeld as one of the seven as well as financial adviser to the directors. CALLES PROMISES TO PROTECT WALL ST, IMPERIALISM U. S. Ambassador Gets Pledge on Jalapa (Special to the Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, April 26—That the regime of President Calles is fully satisfactohry to the Yankee imperial- ists is shown by the statement of United States Ambassador Sheffield yesterday that “President Calles is the right man for the right place.” The statement of the imperialist agent was made following a long con- —————————— —— ~ ; es Per: a ayes : : 5 el es ee ? n z ee , ~*~ i : > - ry ties ae. s hen a's wat a ‘ ys - ie Ta S 7 ~ ig ; t. + Fuoihd ft ees at he > ve mg SPR ee ue hy etre eee ee ER 1 od AP ¢ ‘ a ” i sai at in, aes ee DE es eR Eee WO le UE i eee UR: Mig mle see. Meee Ske. SRF : SS ee : ud Tt Se ha “4% io i - Pal. St ey A a % vs 3 ‘ he BE » a rt : ey % 7 Pv ‘ ‘ : Sov A ¥ " fur Ae 3 y y ; a : “§ At ety . yy ~ ae - “ 4 Seed 4 s Je 7 : Re ite * Se I aaa Mem vs $ Be Wed gi SB iw d : : . , r - oe aes ee ee eye pe ee a : ; 73} ot rs * Me f yt ee tc ore Gh ENTS gh Sai eg Aderat Pare $y ‘ * ? 7 ‘ 2 > t - a . ¥ i a : . ; 4 ok eee ek >. oo aa bone Nba ‘ : ‘ 5 ‘ { fits & i . . THE DAILY. K 4 7 aa 4 . ! WORKERS DIE IN “SHAM BATTLE AS IN REAL FIGHTS But Are Forbidden to Have Any Ideas (Special to the Daily Worker.) SPRINGFIELD, I1l., April 26~— The general assembly will take a final vote on Tuesday upon two im- portant labor ‘measures proposed at this session—the so-called “anti- injunction” bill and the bill to limit the hours of women workers to elght hours a day. The “anti-Injunction” bill merely requires that In tabor injunctions the right of trial by jury shall be given to those who are haled before a judge for contempt of court, in other words to deprive the judge who issues an injunction from being the one to say whether or not a strike picket has contempt for him as a representative and upholder of capitalism. (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) HONOLULU, April 26.—The sham battle which is supposed to give a reason for the navy department to blackjack the country into furnish- ing more warships to aid American imperialism, is supposed to be tak- ing place today in the channel be-. tween the islands of Molokai and Lanai. Reds in Jail, Blues and Blacks Fight The grand fleet is supposed to be making an effort to land forces on the two islands, while the defensive forces are trying to locate the Lang- ley, an airplane carrier, and disable it before the fleet can launch ite air attack on Pearl Harbor. The landing force was driven off with most men OWNERS OPENED killed by airplane gun fire. ‘ie The “theoretical” foe, which every- body knows is supposed to be repre-$ , | senting a Japanese force, is called the “blues” and the defensive forces are termed the “blacks.” Not Supposed to Have Ideas. Meanwhile the “reds” are accounted for in the person of some private sol- diers who are held incommunicado at the military disciplinary barracks un- der sentence of forty years’ imprison- ment for daring to have ideas on capi- talist imperialism and to express them Chamber of Commerce Is Leading Attack (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND— (FP)— “Never hit us.” Cleveland’s union building tradesmen, 25,000 strong, branded by the head of the Chamber of Commerce fidential interview between Sheffield and Calles, in which it is known that the general policy of the Mexican government toward foreign capital, especially Yankee capital, was dis- cussed and in which Calles gave as- surances that Wall Street need have no fears but that its imperialist in- vestment would be protected, if need be by Calles’ army against any revolt of the Mexican people to foreign ex- ploitation. The particular occurrence which gave point to the interview was the dispute.over the seizure of the. Jalapa Light and Power company by the state of Vera Cruz, carried out as a legal procedure for its failure to conform to Mexican labor laws in its relations with its employes. “Not Many Left,” Says Quaker Oats Worker, Cedar Rapids By TOM MATTHEWS CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, —‘“What time do the workers quit.” I asked a Quaker Oats, employe with a’ view toward distributing advertising matter among the men as they were leaving the plant. “What's left of them quit at 4 o’clock, and that’s not very many,” he replied. Further inquiry about the plant re- vealed the fact that installation of machinery and employment of women labor had practically eliminated the male workers at this large “Quaker” branch. “Quaker Oats” is one of those pe- culiar monopolies which have pract- ically made the retailers their sales- agents by virtue of advertising camp- aigns. The grocer has to carry this company’s products because his cust- omers have been “educated” to de- mand them. Asis the case with hun- dreds of other commodities, the aver- age person will pay a higher price for a fancy package of “Quaker” than he will for an equally serviceable pro- duct selling for much les. Thus capitalist monopoly gathers more power. LITHCHFIELD, Minn.—J. H. Jera- ibek, president First State Bank of Cosmos: bound over on embezzlement charge. WAR PROFIT IN STEEL WAS 20 PER GENT, SAYS GOVERNMENT REPORT (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 26.-—A com- plete report with much interesting data on wartime profits and costs of the steel! industry was made today to the senate and house by the fed- ederal trade commission. An analysis of the data shows that the average earnings of the steel companies for the four war years, 1915 to 1918, before payment of bond interest or federal taxes on income or excess profits were 7.5 per cent of the investment in 1915, 21.7 per cent in 1916, 28.9 per cent in 1917 and 20.1 per cent in 1918, making a four-year average of 20.2 per cent. it is stated that since 1920 there have been important reductions in wages in the industry. GOMEZ HAS FINE REVOLUTIONARY RECORD IN PORTUGAL: BUT REVOLTS HAVE BEEN AGAINST, NOT FOR HIM the resignation of (Special to The Daily Worker) LISBON, April 26.—The Portuguese congress today refused to accept President Manuel Teixeira Gomez. president 18 months, during which time there have been four revoilta, labor relations committee as murder- ers and saboteurs in an address be- fore the chamber, offered no other ro- tort than the above. “Why doesn’t he give the gruesome details to the police if he knows so much about alleged violence?” asks the secretary of the Bilding Trades Council. The chamber speech was reproduc- ed in full under an 8-column headline by forming a Communist group in the Hawaiian garrison. , The common soldiers. and sailors | who come from the working class | only, are invited to participate in | their country’s welfare in serving as \theoretical corpses in this sham bat- | tle just as in real warfare they are ‘expected to kill and be killed without avn anything to say about the war acta ag cg agg os y area , pr an in the evening paper and is considered tone ; cratic elec- the opening gun in the “big push” shortly to be executed against the Cleveland building trades by the open shop crew. No names, dates or places were mentioned in the indictment of union labor. Foreseeing the possibility of war by the open shop forces officials of the A. F. of L. are trying to amalgamate the two building trades councils. By this measure many jurisdictional dis- putes may be smoothed out and labor could face a. general lockout with united forces. FRENCH FASCIST GANGSTERS WILL HOLD FUNERAL (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 26—The fascisti or- ganizations are planning an impres- sive funeral for the black shirts who were killed in the fighting with the Communists on the 22nd. About forty were wounded. It is now definitely known that the fascisti started the shooting believing that the Communists would nat retali- officers of the magazine shall be | ate. In this belief they were mistak- prosecuted for violating postal jen. The trouble was initiated by an laws. Copies of the issue were | organization of fascists known as the seized by Boston police as non Jeunesses Patriots. mailable matter. Premier Painleve visited the hospi- Under rules of the department, | tal where the youths were incarcerat- Connelly declined to reveal the na- ed, called at the hospital where the ture of his verdict. It was learned | wounded combatants were being 4ture of his verdict. It was learned, treated. however, that it dealt with a pic- which depicted a lady attired in slippers, a ribbon neckband and a bracelet. Soviet Buys Million Dollars of Modern Mining Machinery (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK — (FP) — The state Ural Platinum trust of Russia is to re- ceive $1,200,000 of electrically driven mining dredges purchased in Ameri- ca. Russia produces about 90 per em of the world’s platinum. POST OFFICE PROBES COLLEGE RIDICULE OF — GODDESS OF LIBERTY (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 25—The post office Gepartment has officially “passed” on alleged indecent pic- tures in the current issue of the Harvard Lampoon and its decision forwarded to the postmaster at Cambridge, Mass., it was announce ed today. The decision, given by acting so- licitor, H. J. Donnelly, will deter- mine whether the student executive United States public lands yielded 1,495,026 tons of coal'in 1924, Wyom- ing leading. PARTY IN NEW YORK TO DISTRIBUTE 100,000 OF THE MAY DAY LEAFLETS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 26.—Local New York of the Workers (Communist) Party is planning to distribute one hundred thousand. may Day leaflets. Comrades are needed for factory distribution. They should report to the local headquarters for leaflets immediately or come Wednesday and Thurs- day 11:30 a. m. and 4:30 p.m. All branches must participate general section distribution. - : | WARSAW—Senate ratifies con- ,cordant regarding relations with Karakhan Speaks on | Vatican. Imperialism as Foe of Chinese Masses JAPANESE HANG ON WORDS OF NEW SOVIET RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR (Special to The Dally Worker) TOKIO, Japan, Apr. 26.—M. Kopp, the Soviet LONDON, Apri} 26.—At the invita- tion of the Chimese president, M. Karakhan, Soviet ambassador to China, spoke at the Tsing Dua Col- lege, near Peking. Karakhan ad- dressed the students on the rela- tion of foreign imperialism and west ern Capitalism to the masses of China. The college is maintained from “remitted American indemnity funds,” the report states. — | Russian ambassador to Japan, deciared in interviews here that he anticipates enormous bene- fits for both Russia and Japan from the Russo-Japanese treaty. Kopp has already “become one of the most prominent persons in Japan, the newspapers devoting large portions of their front pages to his arrival When the new ambassador ar- rived the station was closely guard- ed. He was driven directly to the oid Russian embassy, formerly one NORTH WEST BRANCH MEMBERS NOTICE Owing to the fact that it! is im- possible to get our regular hall for meeting this week there will be no meting of the branch. The next meet- ing will be held.on the first Tuesday in May at Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. at which Wm. F. Dunne Gomez has been! of the most imposing buildings in | will speak on World Trade Union the capital, but now in disrepair, | Unity.—J. Bjornaon. ’ a ———. to. a | \ fs Capitalism in Germany Promises to Redeem Paper Marks on June 5_ , By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TOPAY, Germany elects as president, either the capitalist- militarist, von Hindenburg, or the bourgeois-republican- capitalist, Marx. No matter which one is elected there will be little comfort for the German capitalist regime. There will be even less for the holders, everywhere, of the old paper - marks, altho this paper is to be redeemed within five weeks, on dune 5. Ary Over the world, there were many who doubted whether the former kaiser would ever come back. In the present election controversy there has been much discussion whether monarchism will return. But in the days immediately fol- * lowing the armistice, believers in the capitalist order, espe- cially sympathizers with Germany, were of the firm convic- tion that “the reich” could make good on its paper money. That at least was sacred. Tens and hundreds of thousands, including many work- ers, “invested” in German paper marks, at two, three and five cents each. The mark would soon return to normal, they argued, and then they would be “well fixed” for the rest of their lives. Their only regret was that they didn’t have a few more pennies to “invest.” eo @€.@ . Now that dream is a wrecked hope of the past. The world now knows how the price of the paper mark dropped out of sight. But on June 15, these paper marks are to be “redeemed” not at par, which was around 24 cents, but at the rate of one American dollar for every four trillion marks. The headquarters of the American chamber of com- merce at Berlin is trying to put this thing convincingly before American “investors” in paper marks, for instance, that any- one cashing in four million paper money notes of a million marks value each, he will get $1 in return. Again, a German trade paper points out, that the Ameri- can holder of a 5,000 mark note—once worth about $1,250— will be entitled to something less than one-millionth of a cent. Yet there are anxious persons, holding small amounts, of these paper marks, who have been writing the chamber of commerce, wondering whether and when their marks are to be redeemed. The notice to the mark holders de- clares: “The possibilities of the German paper mark (once worth 24 cents) ever being redeemed, is as remote as the Russian ruble, the Polish mark or the Austrian crown. There is not gold enough in the world to redeem even a fraction of anyone of these currencies.” e @ 6's The Russian ruble went down with czarism. Soviet rule established a new currency, that now enjoys the highest value of any currency in the world. The workers and peas- ants didn’t worry when the paper ruble went down and out. They had Russia—one-sixth of the world’s land surface, with its wonderful and varied natural resources. A better life is before them. But in the remaining five-sixths.of the world, the capi- talist world, fighting the rising waves of working class dis- content, sees its financial structure swaying to destruction. The Herriot cabinet in France has just fallen due to its in- ability to solve the financial problem. Increased inflation has been legalized. The issue of paper money in France has been raised to $9,000,000,000 face value. This is about equal to all the gold available thruout all the world for money uses. The pledge of capitalist France to “redeem” its paper francs becomes humorous when it is realized that the ten greatest capitalist nations, including Morgan's own America, if they joined in scraping empty all their gold treasure chests, couldn’t make good on France’s paper money. This shows how far the French franc has gone on the road traversed by the German paper mark. No French capitalist has yet come to the front to point a way out. e * * hal The only salvation proposed for capitalism is that ad- vanced under the Morgan-Dawes’ plan for Germany; an in- creasing exploitation of the working masses under more brutal conditions. If the French workers and peasants will submit to increased exploitation; if they will continue to pay the mounting costs of French militarism; if they will keep up all the other costs of the French imperialist machine, even to paying for new attacks on the workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Republics; if they will meekly go into the next war to shed their blood and give their lives for capitalist France, then French capitalism may breathe a little easier. But there are innumerable signs that the French work- ers and peasants intend doing none of these things. When the French workers realize more fully, that they are in the same boat with the German workers, in spite of “the vic- tory,”’ then there will be something doing on both sides of the Rhine; not of German and French workers slaughtering each other; but of a united working class against the capitalists of both countries. This solidarity will receive a great impetus when France goes under its Morgan-Dawes plan. 7 ” ¥* a For the workers there is nothing worth while redeem- ing under capitalism, either in Germany, France, or any other country. Capitalism, like the German paper mark, one of its offspring, must go into the discard as something absolutely useless and worthless. All that is worth while in the world is the realization of the Communist era, heralded by the Soviet Star of the proletarian dictatorship. By that sign the oppressed of the world are conquering and advancing to- ward the new day. United Front May Day Demonstration FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925, at 7:30 P. M. LULU TEMPLE, Broad and Spring Garden Streets ARNE SWABECK, of Pittsburgh BENJAMIN GITLOW, Member C. E. C., Workers Party and Speakers in other Languages. Freiheit Singing Society—Lithuanian Chorus—Junior Y. W. L. horus—Music—Selos Auspices, United Front May Day Conference. International May Day Festival and Dance SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925, at 8 P. M. EAGLES TEMPLE, Broad and Spring Garden Streets Dancing—Refreshments—Pageant—Folk Dancing Admission 50 Cents. Auspices, Workers (Communist) Party. (Special to The Daily Worker.) INDIANAPOLIS, April 26.—The im fluence of scores of civic and womens’ clubs today was thrown behind movement to raise money with which to prosecute David C. Stephenson, politician and former K. K. K. power, on charges of fifst degree “We earnestly ask all who are in terested in seeing the case properly prosecuted to contribute to the fund” said Thomas C.. Howe, former presi- dent of Butler University who is act- ing as treasurer. Howe declined to make public the amount already raised. With another murder trial holding sway in criminal court it appeared likely that the Stephenson case might be postponed when it comes up next Monday on a plea of defendants to be admitted to bail. TRUSTIFIGATION OF ELECTRICITY SHOWN IN IOWA By TOM MATTHEWS. . CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa.—The rapid growth of large-scale operations, ‘tend- ing toward monopoly of the electric power supply of the country is» strik- ingly shown in the development of the United Light and Railways company in this state. This company sets forth in ite pub- licity matter that it now operates 11 ‘|gas plants, 10 electric power stations and six street and interurban rail- way properties. In Iowa this company operates at Bettendorf, Cedar Rapids, Olinton, Davenport, Fort Dodge, Iowa City, Marion, Mason City, Muscatine and Ottumwa. This “young trust” also op- erates in Moline and Rock Island, IIl- inois; LaPorte, Indiana; Chattanoo- ga, Tennessee; Cadillac, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids and Muskegon, Michi- gan. Ninety per cent of the company’s employes, it is claimed, are stockhold- ers. Gross earnings for 1921 are quot- ed over eleven millions; net earnings at over three millions. . Wicked Gotham to Have Another Crack at Daylight Saving NEW YORK, April 26—Daylight saving time will go into effect in New York city and in many other eastern cities at 2 o’clock tomorrow morning. At that hour all local clocks will be set ahead one hour. Railroads, however, will continue to operate, as in the past, on eastern standard time. Local commuters’ schedules will be adjusted to conform with daylight saving time. Banks, business houses and the stock exchange, have made arrange ments to meet the situation that will result from the pushing forward of the hands of the clock. Daylight saving time will continue until the last Sunday in September. Russ Princess Ends Life to Keep from Working for Wages (Special to The Daily Worker) NICE, Italy, April 26.—Rather than go to work in the industries of the Soviet Republic, Princess Marie Ostrogridsky, widow of the finance minister of the former czar, fled from tussia with her jewels along with the other monarchist emigres, and after exhausting herself and her fortune in the high life along the Italian Riviera, she committed suicide here yesterday, by taking poison on the promenade in the presence of rich tourists. Dry Forces Not So Dry. NEW YORK, April 26.—Fifteen pro hibition agents in New York and northern New Jersey were out of jobs today discharged after an investiga- tion by their superiors in Washington and New York City. All fifteen were members of the staff of prohibition chief R. Q. Merrick of this district, It was one of the most sensational shake-ups in recent months. Thirteen were let out on orders from’ Washington; Merrick discharged the other two. PROVIDENCE, R. I. — Rhode Island general assembly adjourns with vote child labor amendment to federa! a ee — constitution pigeonholed. — =_—— -«-- el
Page 3
NEhe i} ck bylight n New astern rning. vill be nue to astern luters’ mform i the range- ut will ra of | otinue ber. SOVIET FLAC TE ) ed") a Ps = —E ~ Gomez Interviews Red _ he married in London during the per- _. , gave him a pipeful of real Prince Al- ary movement of the working class. ' Mexico as Bill Foster is from Col. first nation of the west to recognize Soviet Russia. Russia and Mexico Mexico is an object of imperialistic ‘with fixed bayonets before an accom- > (»fkped bayonets. The pseudo-laborite ._- government of Mexico is linked by a 1}: \sag of imperialism which are striving : Russia. There can be no doubt that ‘that Russia is their friend. So it came *"4gnd extend the hand ‘of diplomatic “=” Jocal. Bo UT Ste nyeSs ereecosg spr coamenny eoaptyerenaee 4 - ” 4 : Minister, Pesthousky (Continued from page 1.) tm Mexico and we had many comrade |. ly talks together. And I met his wife, Mary—a former cigaret maker whom fod of his exile. And Volinsky and Haykiss of the legation staff—and gaunt, bushy-haired, impatient Vidas, whose eyes lighted with joy when I bert tobacco from my pouch. All good comrades, who had entered the |: diplomatic service via the revolution- They were as different from every ether official diplomatic family in George Harvey. Yet Comrade Pestkovsky takes his @iplomatic duties seriously. He is proud to be the first minister of the nion of Socialist Soviet Republics in the western hemisphere. It has always seemed strange to me that Mexico should have been the . . » how far apart they seem, despite the fact that both are peasant countries and both have suffered thru long years of oppression. American imperialism is the frreconcilable ene- my of both. But Soviet Russia is a @hallenge to American imperialism. conquest. The workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia stands guard plished social revolution; it barters and haggles with the bourgeois gov- ernment of the world, but always with hundred subtle ties with the very forc- to plunder its people. Still there is a ‘fundamental underlying community of interest between Mexico and Soviet the Mexican people know this. In eommon with all other oppressed and exploited peoples who are menaced by imperialism, they feel instinctively wbout that, with his feet none too ‘seciite amid the shifting sands of Mexican politics,“ Obregon—ally of | °, “Afherican impefialism—fotind it advis- _able to yield to the unmistakable 4 re of the toiling peon masses a oe ee ee ee SS _—-- ee — A — _ eS ae a> + si : SOK Rei Coes eX. Soe RR SRE R 2 = * ON = . . 4 ~ sv — eee . Ss She i BOD 3 “ “ 7 < le . ne tn oe 2 ae wa ~~ . me £3 eB ey Ss x Ss ~ _— ~ Soviet Spokesman in Mexico | COMRADE STANISLAUS PESTKOVSKY, SOVIET MINISTER TO MEXICO, Drawn especially for the DAILY WORKER, by Xavier Guerrero, Mexico, 1925. my of all imperialisms, Soviet Rus- sia. The Bad Boy of. Wall St. Mexico remains the bad, boy of Wall Street’s own little family of nations of the western world. Right at the back door of the United States, in the very “mittel europa” of American im- perial policy, is set up the first Sov- iet legation to be established on this continent. Naturally, the, Soviet minister did not express these thoughts. I doubt that he would want to\see: his name connected with them. Ag. ap accredit- ed diplomat; he is interested above all else in strengthening the ties be- tween Mexico and Soviet ‘Russia. It is only a question of time, tie declares, before the United States too) will re- cognize the Soviet government. Business Bosses Uncle, Sam. “The Pnited. States government is a ‘business administration,’” he re- minded me. “And business is busi- ness. Sooner or later the necessities of business will lead to the establish- welcome to the most dangerous ene- ment of relations with us,” a Klan-F arrington Combine Beaten (Continued from page 1) the headquarters and arsenal of the klan. _ Klan-Farrington Combine Loses. The defeat of the K. K. K. in the »ey;meyorality election is also a defeat for Frank Farrington, district presi- dent of the U. M. W. of A., as it means that the klan group in Local No. 992 (one of the largest locals in the district) will no longer have the support of the local authorities in the dirty work they are continually up to. The K. K. K. group in Local No, 992 always have fought for Frank Farrington and his disruptive policies. This group (altho an _ insignificant minority in the local union) has re- sorted to every method from cheap ‘trickery to gunmanism to control the affairs of Local No. 992. In this they owere always ably supported by the klan, which have been more or less ‘in control of local politics here. They ecame to union meetings wearing guns but were never molested by the local authorities, Kian Aids Farrington In Union. Last year when the regular annual election for officers of Local No. 992 had taken place in the regular author- ized manner, it was found that the progressive candiates had carried the When the announcement was made, the K. K. K. group started a ** pough house and the meeting was ad- “journed by the chairman to prevent a fight. After the meeting was adjourned and most of the membership had gone home, the klan group took things into their own hands and called a special meeting where they proceeded to hold an illegal election and elected their own candidate for chairman and secretary. A protest was made but Farring- ton’s henchmen, sent to adjust the trouble (as usual) ruled in favor of the K. K. K. “klandidates.” That this was part of a well-thought- out plan was realized later on when the national, district and sub-district “laction took place. In this election ~ocal No, 992 carried heavy for the progressives, but the reactionary sec- retary purposely failed.to. sign the re- turn sheet which caused the entire vote of the local to be thrown out. Had the vote of this local been counted, it would have given Frank Johnson, progressive candidate for sub-district secretary enough votes to defeat his reactionary opponent, in spite of the fake ballots and other fraudulent methods used elsewhere in the sub-district. Murphy Smith the new mayor of Zeigler is not a radical, but he has guaranteed full protection against gunman methods of the klan in union meetings and elsewhere. He also’ promises full protection and freedom of speech to all speakers who wish to speak in Zeigler, regardless of creed, color or nationality. Trick Didn’t Work. Just before the election, a clever move, designed to split the anti-klan vote was made when one Polovnia, a Serbian, backed by ex-Mayor Hogan, was put in the field as a third can- didate. Hogan was supposed to be against the klan, but in one of the meetings held for his candidate, Polovina, Ho- gan unwittingly remarked that he had nothing against the klan and that he got out and worked for the klan candidate for township constable and was not ashamed or it. Bob Sullivan Avenged. This is the same Hogan who sev- eral years ago; while mayor of Zeig- ler, caused the Workers Party organ- izer, Comrade Sullivan to be beaten up and run out of town. This time his little scheme failed to work. The foreign element did not fall for the bait, and his candidate, Polovina, re- ceived but 15 votes. The Workers Party did not kid it- self about elections of this kind, but no progressive in Zeigler was sorry to see the klan meet defeat. That the klan both in union and city politics has the support of the coal mine op- erators there is little doubt. Past events all tend to show the connec- tion and in their dirty work they have always been ably assisted by the Far- ‘rington m.chine. One day, when we were sitting to- gether under the bold bronse plaque of Lenin in the reception room of the legation, I asked Comrade Pestkovsky to tell me something of his career and how he happened to become a diplo- matist. He heaved a sigh of relief. At last he could give me something for the DAILY WORKER which de- finitely established his contact with the revolutionary proletariat. “It is quite all right for us Soviet diplomatists to talk about our pasts,” he said smiling. “What is past is past. Everybody knows about it any- way. We do not pretend that we have lived lives of bourgeois respecta- bility.” A Record to be Proud of. Bourgeois respectability! Well, hardly. Five terms in prison and ac- tive participation in the revolutionary movement in three countries is Com- rade Pestkovsky’s impeccable record. The Soviet minister describes his former occupation as that of “revolu- tionary agitator, propagandist and or- ganizer.” He has carried the message of revolu¢ion to city workers and peasants. He has conducted system- atic work among the miners. For two years he was chief of the War- saw fighting corps of the social demo- cratic party, an armed auxiliary or- ganization semi-military in character. Born in 1882, in the Kalish “guber- nia” of Poland, of aristocratic parents, Stanislaus Pestkovsky received a careful ‘bringing up, which did not, however, keep him from landing in jail for revolutionary activities before he was twenty-one. This was during the last year of hfs college days at Lodz. He was a Polish nationalist at that time. Later he became a social- ist and an active member of the revo- lutionary Polish social democracy. It was in 1906 that he formally joined the Bolsheviks, altho his membership card is issued as of 1902. Active in 1905 Revolution. Amnestied from prison in 1904, Comrade Pestkovsky took part in the Russian revolution of 1905, going THE DAI owl CY"WORKER™ + ae isa? ee 7 - ——— — =< a me ee oasene TS er ee et ET Pagé Three 5° mes (Special to The Dally Worker) BURKE, tdaho, April 26— The fourteen miners rescued late from the 2,000 foot level of the Hecla Mining company mine escaped death only by afew seconds, Investigation by mine inspectors revealed today. Just after the last of the entombed men were brot to the surface there was a cavein, and a break in the air line meaning certain death in the mine. isin All of the miners were rescued un- injured after 24 hours of furious fighting against fire and gas. He was the first. director of the Sov- iet State Bank. “No, I have never been a_ real banker,” he hastened to reassure me, anticipating my question. “But bank- ers were scafce in our ranks. I was a Communist and that was the main thing at the time. It was necessary to hold the institution and to cope with systematic sabotage. That was all the banking I ever did. I held the post only for three days.” In 1919 Head of Kirgiz Soviet. When the Kirgiz Soviet republic was formed, Comrade Pestkovsky was made chairman of the provisional gov- ernment. This was in 1919, after the territory had been recaptured from the counter-revolutionary forces. The Kirgiz republic is steppe country, with an area as large as Mexico. Com- rade Pestkovsky remained there for a year, after which he became chief of the political department of the Sov- iet armies on the western front. His first experience as a diploma- | tist was as chairman of the Russian | frontier commission in the negotia- | tions for the fixing of the Russo-Pol- | ish border. Such is Comrade Pestkovsky’s | career. It is not the career of a pro-| fessional diplomatist, but it amply fits | him to be the. first minister of the. Union of Socialist Soviet Republics | in the western world. | His reception in Mexico was differ- | ent from that of any other diplomatic | representative in the history of the republic. A delegation of Mexican workers was waiting for him at the dock when his ship landed at Vera Cruz. They gave him a rousing wel- come. They ran after his train as it | pulled out for Mexico City. In the | capital a big demonstration was wait- ing. Workers crowded the hall at by the Communist Party of Mexico. Comrade tes. seas spoke from the platform. * was indeed .an inno- ed the hall. Red Flag Waves in Mexico. Comrade Pestkovsky presented his credentials to Obregon on November 7, the anniversary of the Rus- sian revolution. “You can bet the red flag was fly- ing from the legation staff on that ing up from her glass of tea. —a propos of nothing—and said: | We filled our glasses from the bottle of good old Mexican “habanero.” “Here’s to the establishment of the proposed Pestkovsky. about. American Capitalist Government Appointing Business Ambassadors (Special to The Daily Worker.) afterwards to Poland, where he was tial. This time he served four years was then sent to Siberia, where he was to be exiled for life. After sev- eral attempts to escape, followed by made good his escape. He made his way first to Austria, then to Belgium, then to England. From 1914 to 1917 he was in Eng- land, working part of the time as a switchboard operator in the office of the London County Council Electrical Tramways, (where he passed the most tranquil period of his life, sleep- ing peacefully on the night shift.) While in England, Comrade Pestkov- sky was active in the British trade union movement. He also belonged to the British socialist party, besides be- ing in contact with the Russian revo- lutionary groups in England. After the overthrow of czarism, he made his way back to Russia and was active in the historic Bolshevik operations from April to November. During the revolution itself, he was assigned the task of capturing the telegraph station, remaining as chief telegraph commissar thruout the fam- ous ten days that shook the world. Comrade Pestkovsky has held many important posts in the Soviet regime. ’ get him. i BUSINESS IS BUSINESS The average man in business doesn't give a tinkers damn what political party you be- long to or the color of your ideas—he wants to see the you can make him feel the need of advertising in THE DAILY WORKER he will do so. It's up'to you.* Talk to your dealer first and then the Advertising Department will color of your money, and if a again arrested and tried by court mar- | at hard labor in central Russia and | repeated terms in prison, he finally’ WASHINGTON, April 26. — The Coolidge administration is contem- plating the appointment of commer- cial “ambassadors” thruout the world to aid American busines in develop- ing its foreign trade, it was learned today. Under ment would establish its official com- mercial representatives on the same dustrial world. The ylan was pro- posed with a view to helping Ameri- can business retain and improve the commercial advantages in the post- War construction period. Secretary of Commerce Hoover is now seeking the services of a busi- ness man of recognized ability, it was learned, to send him to London as the first of these commercial “ambassa- dors.” If the plan works out sucecess- fully there, business men of similar prominence will be sent to Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Pekin and other im- portant trade centers of Europe, the far east and South Africa. T. U. E. L. General Meet Wed., April 29, 8 P. M. The regular meting of the Chicago Trade Union Educational League gen- eral group will be held Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p. m., at North West 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. meer | % : the big meeting of welcome arranged | ed later. vation. The cheers of workers rock- | day,” put in Mary Pestkovskaya, look- | m. And | son. Haykiss nodded his head, and Vidas. | And Volinsky lifted his brandy glass | Way. basis as the diplomatic corps and in | such numbers as to blanket the in-| Monroe street, at 8 p.m. A. Markoff.’ OHIO Subscribe for the DAILY| be & Nation-Wide May Day Demonstrations NQUIRIES and information coming into the national office of the Work- ers Party regarding this year’s May Day celebration indicate a nation- wide demonstration that will surpass any previous May Day in the party’s history. Every town In which there is a party branch should arrange such a meeting and notify the national office. The emailer towns should obtain May Day speakers thru their dis- As soon as a meeting is arranged, each party organization information regarding name of speaker, trict offices. is requested to send in full address of hall and time of meeting. licity thru the DAILY WORKER. Don’t fall to notify the national office. Meetings arranged up to the present time with time, place and speakers are: We will give these meetings pub- —e—~ | | Thursday, April 30 ILLINOIS Springfield—Manuel oGmez. | Friday, May First. ia CALIFORNIA Los Angeles—Co-operative Center, Brooklyn and Mott, Tom Lewis. San Francisco — California Hall, Turk and Polk Sts., 8 o’clock. F. G. Biedenkap. CONNECTICUT New Haven—Hermanson’s Hall, 158 Crown St., 8 p. m. Alexander Trach- tenberg, English; Alonzov, Jewish; Oerlov, Russian; .Emma Schlossberg, Y. W..t. Waterbury—8 p. m., Joseph Brah- day. Stamford—Workmen’s Circle Hall, 49 Pacific St., 8 p. m. . DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington—Workers’ Circle Hall, 1337 Seventh St. N. W. 8 p. m. M. Sclaroff. ILLINOIS Chicago—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern and Max Shachtman. Decatur—M. Chilofsky. Pullman—Stancik’s Hall, 205 East 115th St., 8 p. m. Barney Mass. Madison—Croatian and Bulgarian speakers. Christopher—Corbishley and others. Zeigler—Liberty Hall, at7 p.m. H. Corbishley. Dancing to follow, INDIANA | E. Chicago—Columbia Halli, Me- Cook and Verner Aves., at 8 p.m. H. V. Phillips, John Edwards. Gary—Croatian FMall, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- rison George also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. NEW HAMPSHIRE Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, C. Krumbein, chairman. Buffalo—Ear! R. Browder. Brooklyn— Grand Millers Hall, Grand and Havenmeyer Sts., at 8 p. m. Wm, Z. Foster, S. Epstein, |. Am- ter, J. S. Poyntz, H. Zam (Y. W. L.), L. Pruseika (Lithuanian), S. Nessin, chairman. New York—Ukrainian celebration. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., at 8 p.m. G. Siskind, and others. New York—Czecho-Slovakian cele- bration, 527 E. 72nd St., at 6 p. mM. J. Manley, and others. New York—Finnish Finnish Workers’ Hall, 5 W. St. R. Grecht, and others. So. Brooklyn—Finnish celebration, Finnish Workers’ Hall, 764 40th St., Brooklyn. Speakers, P. P. Cosgrove anj others. New York—German celebration, La- bor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., at 11 a. m. LL. Lore and others, OHIO Cleveland—Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p.m. J. Louis Engdahl. Neffs—2 p. m. Max Salzman. Dillonville—Joe Knight. Yorkville—Liberty Hall, 7 p. m., Joe Knight and Max Salzman. Youngstown—Ukrainian Hall, 525! celebration, 126th West Rayen Ave., at 8 p.m. Wiliam J. White. Bentieyvilie—Afternoon. Fred HH. Merrick. OREGON Portland—3 day celebration. Work- ers Party Hall, 227 Yamhill St. PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, 8 p. m. Ben Gitlow, Arne Swabeck and Pat Toohey. Reading, Pa.—R. V. V. F. Hall, 612 Franklin St., at8 p.m. H. M. Wicks. RHODE ISLAND Providence—ACA Hall, 1735 West- minster St. Sidney Bloomfield. West Concord—Halli to be announc- Lewis Marks. | MARYLAND | Baltimore—Brith Sholom Hall, 1012 _E. Baltimore St. H. M. Wicks. MICHIGAN Detroit—House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, at8 p.m. J. W. Johnstone, MINNESOTA Hibbing—Robert Minor. MASSACHUSETTS Boston—Convention Hall, Garrison St. (Near Mechanic’s Bidg.) 7:30 p. Wm. F. Dunne and Oliver Carl- Chelsea—Labor Lyceum, 453 Broad- J. P. Reid. Lawrence—Central Hall, 23 Mon- “Let’s drink a toast to something!”| mouth St. John J. Ballam. Haverhill—Liberty Hall, Winter St. Harry J. Canter. Norwood—Finnish Hall, 37 Chapel first Soviet embassy in Washington,” Court. A. F. Konikov. Worcester—Hali to be announced And that is something for the read-| '@ter. Albert Weisbord, ers of the DAILY WORKER to think| _Pe#hody—Nall_ to be announced later. William Murdock. Maynard—35 Waltham St. Arthur Staveley. Gardner—Finnish Hall. J. Seger- meister. Brockton—Halil to be announced later. Al Binch, | Lowell—Hall to be announced later. | Max Lerner. | MISSOURI Kansas City—M. Gomez. | St. Louis—Druids Hall, 9th and | Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. m. M. Gomez. | NEW JERSEY this program, the govern-| West Hoboken—New Hail, 227 Berg- _enline Ave., at 8 p. m. Carl Brodsky |and others. | Paterson—3 Governor St., at 8 p. im. 8B. Lifshitz and others. Newark— Labor Lyceum, 704 5. 14th St. at 8 p. m. J. Codkind and others. Elizabeth—At 8 p. m., hall to be an- nounced later. J. Marshall and oth- ers. Perth Amboy—Washington Hall, at 8 p. m. S&S. Darcy and others, Jersey City—Ukrainian Hall, 387 Grand St., at 8 p. m. §&. Feishin and others. NEW YORK New York—Centra!l liam Z. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W. WISCONSIN More Wage Workers Milwaukee—Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others. Saturday, May Second. | NEW JERSEY Linden—<At 8 p. m., Sadi Amter and others. Hall to be announced later. Saturday. NEW YORK Rochester—Ear! R. Browder. OHIO Warren—J. Louis Engdahl. PENNSYLVANIA ° Bethlehem—Ukraninian Hall, 1641 E. Third St., at 8 p. m. H. M. Wicks inlan. Easton — Lithuanian Bakery Hall, N. Seventh St. Lithuanian speakers. Sunday, May Third. CALIFORNIA Richmond—Picnic, East Shore Park, - Finnish celebration. E. R. Bloor. CONNECTICUT Bridgeport—Workmen’s Circle Hall, 310 State St., 8 p. m. ILLINOIS Waukegan —Workers Helmholz avenue, 2 p. m. Lewis. NEBRASKA Omaha—Labor Lyceum, 22nd and Clark Sts., at 2:30 p. m. J. E. Sny- der. Hall, 517 Thurber Passaic—Kanters Auditorium, 259) Wilkes Barre—-718 N. Washington speaker. Nanticoke—At 2 p.m. August Val- entine, T. Radviansky, Polish; J. Sur- dokac, Lithuanian. E. Liverpool—Trades and Labor Hall, at2 p.m. J, A. Hamilton, A. 8S. Cullem, Roy Mahoney. MASSACHUSETTS Springfield—Liberty Hall, corner Opera House, 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p.m. Wil- Ferry and North St., 8 p. m. Carison. MICHIGAN Grand Rapids—2:30 p.m. Sons and Daughters Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave., N. W. T. J, O'Flaherty. Muskegon—8 p. m. Speaker, T. J. O'Flaherty. MINNESOTA : Minneapolis—Robert Minor. Ollver NEW JERSEY Trenton—8 p. m. Sadi Amter and |}aries. The number working for wages and speakers in Hungarian and Ukra- | NEW KLAN HAS OLD KLAW’S HABIT OF GRABBING THE DOUGH NEW ORLEANS, Aor. 26, Despite the fact that practically one million dollars was raised in thie city the early part of the year to care for the poor and unfortunates—and a distinct pledge given by the spons ors of the movement that no more appeals for charity were to be made during the coming twelve months, the American Legion is preparing for a mammoth drive to build the endowment fund of the rehabilita- tion and child welfare work. The reorganized klian here is behind the movement. Pat Toohey. OHIO Akron—2 p.m. J. Louis Engdahil, Canton—7:30 p. m. Typographical Union Hall, 211 North Market street, Third floor. J. Louis Engdahli. Toledo—Labor Temple, Jefferson and Michigan Sts., at 3 p. m Max Salzman and others. Warren—Hippodrome Hall, High St. at 7 p. m. Waino Finberg, Finnish, E. Piljuga, So. Slavic, A. V. Severino. E. Liverpool—J. A. Hamilton, PENNSYLVANIA Pittsburgh—2:30 p. m., Labor Ly ceum, 35 Miller St. A. Wagenkneéht. Erie—Ear!l R. Browder. Glassport—Finnish Hall, J. S. Otis. Daisytown—Afteroon. Fred H. Mer. rick, NEW YORK yonkers—Labor tyceum, 23 Patt sade Ave., at 8 p. m. R. Grecht and others. WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling—Arne Swabeck. 2p. ™ Monday, May Fourth. PENNSYLVANIA ° Shenandoah—New High School, 8 p. m. Lithuanian and English speak- ers. and Fewer Business Men, Say Statistics (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 26.—Amer- ican business was controlled by fever individuals in the sense that fewer American citizens and residents were in business on their own acount—in the year 1924 than in any year back to 1908, according to statistics pres- ented by the National Bureau of Econ- omic Research, Inc. There were only 9,657,000 persons in business on their own account in the United States last year, by the preliminary estimate of the bureau, as compared with 33,566,000 persons working for wages or salaries. In 1909 there were. 9,833,00 inde- pendently in business of all kinds, and | 24,422,000 working for wages or sal- or salaries has steadily increased, but the number in business on their own account has fluctuated—rising above 10,000,000 only in the years 1916, 1920, 1921 and 1922. It was 9,685,000 in | 1923. Of the total population of 113,454,000 estimated July 1, 1924, there were 35,122,000 children under 15 years and 35,109,000 adults not gainfully oceu- pied. This latter class includes all St.. 8 p. m. A, Jakira and language | who are neither in business nor em- ployed. | Talking Movies Menace Musician's Jobs. | NEW YORK, April 26.— Another |group of craftsmen whose jobs are menaced by the march of science are 'the small town musicians. The talk- ‘ing moving picture machine, on the one hand, and the radio on the other. |Sound waves are now recorded 4t- rectly on the films thru an invention by Dr. Lee DeForest, called the father of long distance telephony and radio broadcasting. ' | } af eee SS S44 4444444444444 8 ? 4May Day Celebration? Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. TEMPLE HALL Marshfield and Van Buren Speakers Cc. E. Ruthenberg James P. Cannon E. L. Doty Martin Abern Max Shachtman Alex. Bittelman Y. W. L. ORCHESTRA Scandinavian Singing Society Freiheit Singing Soclety Admission 25c. Se SSS SPTTVTTTTVTeseVeseaaa TEAM WORK It is a lack of respect for your buying power that makes adver- tising so scarce in THE DAILY WORKER. If the average business man felt that he could get any business by advertising in our paper you couldn’t keep him out. It is up to you to make him feel that way. a If you can’t land him for an ad, let us know and we wiil fol- low up the good work you have started. — ee SSS FSS SST TTT
Page 4
oe a PAC ni! ig a TU TRUS f Rackley Morgan & “Da Pont Sell Poison NEW YORK, “April 26.—A scourge worse than tuberculosis will be loosed on the peoples of the cities and au- tomobile highways of the United States by the Ethy! Gas corporation if its plans are not blocked, Yandel! Henderson, professor of applied psy- chology at Yale university, told the American Society of Safety Engineers and International Safety Council at the American Engineers Societies Bullding. ‘Not only will the general use of tetfaethyl lead treated gasoline or “looney gas” in automobile motors im- peril the health of the general public, but it will tighten the monopolized control of the gasoline and atitomo- bile industries by a single group of interests, he declared. ‘iLis poison- ous “gas actually does reduce knock- ing ‘in motors and increases the gen- efal efficiency of the automobile to such an extent that the motors de- signed to its peculiar use are those that will sell and the financiers be- hind the gas and the automobiles de- signed for its use are those that will gain power. e Morgan and Rockefeller Money Combined. The Ethyl Gas corporation comes from a marriage of Standard. Oil of New Jersey, the Rockefeller’ trust, and General Motors corporation, the Morgan auto trust, and it is closely linked with the DuPont powder trust interests. As Professor Henderson’s report was his expose of the bureau of mines ¢federal) for its report giv- ing a clean bill of health to the use of “looney gas.” The investigation that led to this report, was financed by the Ethyl Gas corporation, said Professor Henderson. Will Inhale Poison. Pollution of the atmosphere from general us of this lead treated gas will lead to the gradual absorbing of lead poison by those living and work- ing along automoble highways. The poisoning will come from the inhala- tion of the lead dust. If he had to chéose between tuberculosis and lead poisoning, said the physiological ex- pert, he would take tuberculosis as the lesser evil. |. ’ - “This » is probably the _ greatest single question in the field of public health that has ever faced the Ameri- can public,” said Dr. Henderson. “It is the question whether scientific ex- perts are to be consulted, and the action of the government guilded on their advice; or whether, on the con- tery. commercial interests are to be owed to subordinate every other consideration to that of profit. The Size of the financial interests involv- ed is stupenduous. It is not a mat- ‘ter of millions, or even hundreds of ‘miltions, but literally of billions. Will Control Auto Industry. “Except in New York and its im- mediate neighborhood, this gasoline is being introduced every- | where thruout the country as fast as it can be supplied. little or no profit. The profit is in the | future and will consist in control of the gasoline business and control of the automobile industry. The power | of combination of powers that holds the patents on tetraethyl lead will be the cars that we all want to buy: the improved cars for which we will dis- the only one that will be able to make | leaded | born workers, the It is sold now at pee ‘Slav population, | gration | ; ATT Ts BER PES NEW YORK GOES ON RECORD At its meeting on April 22nd the Executive Committee of Dis trist Two with all of its thirteen members present and voting, un- animously adopted the following resolution: HE District Executive Committee of the New York Dis- trict redognizes the necessity of building a larger cir- culation for the official organ of the Workers Party, the Daily Worker, and the duty of EVERY member to help in this. work, and calls upon every member to do his best in the present annual subsoription drive of the Daily Worker. The District Executive Committee resolves that: 1. Every member of the Workers Party who can read English should subscribe for the Daily Worker within a month. 2. Every member should try to get at least one non- member to subscribe. 3. Every member that sold subscriptions for the Press Pageant should try to get the same people to renew their subscriptions at once. 4. All party officials and language bureaus are in- structed to further this work as they have opportunity. Language papers are invited to co-operate with publicity. 5. Competent speakers shall be sent by the District office and the bureaus to the next meeting of every branch to help mobilize their working force in this campaign. 6. Every member of the District Executive Commit- tee shall give at least one evening to this work before May 15th. 7. Until the completion of the subscription drive June 15th the Daily Worker shall be first order of business at all branch and party meetings. Branches and com- mittees are instructed to allow Daily Worker agents reasonable time to report. 8. Branches and shop nuclei that have not yet elec- ted active Daily Worker Agents are instructed to elect same at once, and to have the agent report to L. E. Katter- feld. 9. One of the principal speakers at each May Day meeting, and at every mass meeting arranged during this drive, shall make the Daily Worker a prominent part of his address. 10. Special ee of free sample copies amounting to at least, copies per member shall be ar- ranged by every unit o “I party or the last week in May, to be followed by canvas subscriptions. AND VOTING, THE D. E. C. OF DEPORT ATION OF “AIWICH WILL BE A BLOW ° AINST ENTIRE AMERICAN’ LABOR MOVEMENT A Joint Statement by the Central Executivé Committee of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, the Bureau of the South Slavic Section, and responsible Workers in the:Seuth Slavic Labor Movement. Ammen tt it The arrest and threatened deportation of S. Zinich, editor of Radnik, is a blow against every foreign-born worker in America. The capitalist gov- ernment intends, by thus striking “at® the most militant, workers to make all foreign-born workers afraid to Organize and struggle against capitalist exploitation. Deportation and threats of deportation is thus used as a means to drive down the wages of the foreign-born workers and to destroy labor organizations, At the same time this case is another blow against the native-born Amer- ican workers. capitalists @tive + By repressing, and by inspiring fear in the hearts of foreign- down their wages; and then these low wages are used as a weapon to ak up the unions and drive down ‘the wages of ALL WORKERS. De- portation is a capitalist class meas- ‘ure, directed against the entire work- ing class. The case of Zinich is particularly dastardly attempt of the same kind that has beem repeated again and- again by the U. S. government. The reactionary elements of the South the servants of capi- evidently inspired the immi- authorities to arrest Zinich, hoping thereby to remove a man who was energetically class struggle. every worker in America. South Slav section. ever before, of greater energy talism, case of every foreign-born worker. is the case of the entire Workers Party, and of every member of the We declare that the arrest of Zinich shall be made the occasion of greater solidarity than forces more solidly than ever before, as members and sympathizers of the Workers Party, and as fighters in the The case of Zinich & the case of It is the It in Building our labor organizations and ‘our party, of greater confidence and | trust in our comrades, and great hat- participating in the |red and disgust against those enemies struggle to organize the South Slav |of the working class, those agents of workers and unite them with all the | capitalism, who get pleasure from the card those we now have. The power will also control the only fuel on which those new cars will run. The | financial stake is almost inconceiv- ably great.” Eleven Workers Killed. Dr. Henderson emphasized the ad- ditional peril garage workers. es- | pecially, will run, in addition to that of carbon monoxide poisoning. pointed out how just as the of legislation against lead poisoning in other fields was becoming an acute issue these gigantic plans for whole- sale lead poisoning were getting un- der way. In opposition to the bureau of mines report, financed by the great private corporation, Professor Hen- derson set up the opinions of David Edsel, dean of Harvard medical school and Professor C. K. Drinker of the Harvard school of public health. Tetraethyl lead treated gasoline becoming more general in use in the middle west, but it is prohibited by law in New York City as yet. FEleven workers in laboratories at Bayway, N. J., Wilmington, Delaware and Day- ton, Ohio, have already bee slain. but this is as nothing to the lead poison- He is Catholig to Displace Socialist PARIS, April 26.—King Albert of Belgium will ask a catholic to form a cabinet, following the refusal of Emile Vandervelde, socialist leader and former minister of justice, to ac- cept the premiership because of cath- Olic and liberal opposition, according to a dispatch today from Brussels to l’Information. Sargent Memorial Services LONDON, April 26.—Memorial serv- ices were held in Westminster Abbey today for John Sargent, Boston-born painter who achieved world distinc tion. “Hite died Bees: last week, — ~ a ing hazards of the general population. | 'workers of America and the world. subject | |onstrated not only the treacherous na- ‘imprisonment of our comrade. Such a denunciation made secretly | Workers of all races and nationali- and without Zinich having an oppor- ‘ties: Unite to fight against the de- tunity to confront his accusers, dem- | portation of Zinich! Unite to fight against the laws ture of the reactionary elements against foreign-born workers! among: the South Slavs, but showsin| Unite to struggle for better living ‘a bright light the role of the govern- | conditions! /ment as a dictatorship of the capital- | Dr. | ist class. ition! We call the attention of the South | Unite to build the power of the Slavie workers particularly, to the | working class that will overthrow the ‘vicious participation in this assault |capitalist system and all its agents, against the working class, on the part | and install the rule of the workers in of a certain paper which makes pre the factories, and on the land—the ‘tence of being a “workers” paper— | Workers’ and farmers’ government! |the Novy Swijet. Not content with re-; Signed: Workers (Communist) ‘joicing that Comrade Zinich has been |Party of America. Central Executive seized by the capitalist government, }] Committee, Earl R. Browder, acting ‘it makes clumsy efforts to whitewash | secretary. ‘itself for its participation in urging Signed: T. Cuckovich, M. Goretta, ithe government to its action, by in-|l. Fisher, S. Loyen, J Verjuka, M. sinuating that Comrade Zinich was de- | Raikovich, J. Jurich, K. Micalochky, nounced by his own comrades. This|C. Novak, S. Zinich, G. Boyanovich, brazen and damnable lie contained | Magdelena Raikovich and W. Milson. in its issue No. 38, April 23, is circu- — “ee lated for the double purpose of cover- Green Queried on Muscle Shoals. ing the reactionary and faseist nature| wASHINGTON —(FP)— President of Novy Swijet and at the same time: Green of the American Federation of creating suspicion in the minds of But the workers see the capitalist | ives, who have been asked by the ad- | governmental machinery in its | ministration’s hand-picked commis- true light as the agent of the capi-| sion on disposal of the Muscle Shoals italist class. workers about their own comrades. They are not fooled by the sham democracy which oppresses them. And they see clearly also the intentions of the slanderous lies of such masked agents of capitalism as the Novy Swijet and they are not fooled thereby. They unite their, power plant, has been asked to give advice. * Unite to abolish capitalist exploita- |Labor is among the list of persons, | including many corporation execut- to express their views. No advocate of public ownership was included in the commission, and no conspicuous advocate of that solution _ikT A 8UB AND GIVE ONE! Polish Communists (Special to The Daity Worker.) NEW YORK, April 26——A mass meeting to protest against the ac- tions taken by the white guard move- ment of Grabski that is now ruling Poland suppressing and terrorizing the workers and peasants, particularly the Communists, ,.was held at the White Eagle Hall, Brooklyn. It was arranged by Local.New York, of the Workers (Communist) Party. Comrade S. Betryni,,acting as chair- man, opened the meeting and after a few preliminary remarks introduced Sylvan A. Pollack ag the first speaker of the evening. “We are gathered here. tonight to raise our voices in.protest against the fascist regime of Gpabski that is car- rying out a reign of,terror against the Polish workers and peasants, espec- ially their vanguard, the members of the Comer ” Comrade Pol- lack said. “We proclaim our golidarity with Comrade Stanislav Lanzutsky, and.we protest against the.Polish government trying to railroad him to prison on another charge, now that he has been acquitted on the first one.” “The fight of the Polish proletariat is a part of an international one, and we in America, dedicate ourselves to do our part.” He was followed by Tadeusz Rad- wanski, editor of Tribuna Robotniczy, organ of the Polish section of the Workers (Communist) Party, who ad- dressed the meeting in Polish. Bronx Comrades’ Attention. Class in the principles and tactics of the Third International will be con- tinued Tuesday, April 28. The topic of discussion will be Bolshevization. The class will convene at 8:30 at Bronx headquarters, 1347 Boston Road. Jack Johnstone Will Speak at the Detroit May Day Celebration DETROIT, Mich., April 26—Comrade Jack Johnstone, acting,national sec- retary of the Trade Union Educational League, will be the principal speaker at the Detroit May Day icelebration to be held on Friday evening, May 1, at 8 o’clock, in the House ef Masses. Detroit.eomrades are busily engaged in spreading. publicity; of their May Day gathering to all/the workers in the city\thru. the yution..of leaf- ‘crats declares that the masses were NEW YORK LABORS | FIGHT AGAINST Mass Meeting Tuesday at Manhattan Lyceum ~NEW YORK, April 26—The Zan- kov government of Bulgaria has been terrorizing the mass of workers and peasants since 1923, when Stambu- lisky, the leader of the peasants’ party, was assassinated by the same bloody Zankov government. Three members of the British par- liament were in Bulgaria at the time of the cathedral explosion and the re- prisals against the revolutionary workers. They protested—as did even the American and British ministers. This did not stay the murderous hand of Zankov. A wave of the hand of a police official and hundreds and thous- ands of workers were sent to death. The social-democrats voted unani- mously with the government for ac- tion against the revolutionists. Never- theless a leader of the social-demo- provoked to the madness and had no other means of redress against the white terror of the Zankov govern- ment. The military league is in power in Bulgaria and the “Bulgarian people, tired of looking toward the West, now turn toward the big Slav brother in Moscow.” This “rabid anti-Communist” admits that a prole- tarian revolution is the only hope for the Bulgarian workers and peasants. The workers of the United States must show their solidarity with the workers and peasants who are bleed- ing for a third time. At Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., the workers of New York will protest against the brutal slaughter of the Bulgarian workers. On Tuesday, April 28, at 8 Dp. m., & mass protest demonstration called by the Workers Party, the Young Workers League and the Inter- national Workers Aid will take place. All class conscious and revolutionary workers of New York must attend and voice their protests. Bible and Beating For Children of Workers in Ohio (Special to The Daily Worker.) CLVELAND, Ohio, April 26-— A fine example of the “education” that is thrust down the throats of working class children and the manner.of en- lets and thru personal} talks with work- ers in the factories and ‘shops. A large and enthusia&tic crowd is as- sured for this meeting. Cleveland Notice. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 26.—In accordance with with the decision at the last meeting of. the East Side English branch regular. business meet- ings will be held every second Thurs- day and fourth Sunday in each month. Sunday meetings will start at 10:00 a. m. sharp. The above decision was made to enable those. who are em- ployed nights and those who work overtime to attend at Jeast one meet- ing a month. The English branch has also adopted the rule that any mem- ber who fails to attend three meeting in succession without good reason, be dropped from the membership list. Our next meeting will be held Sun- day April 26, 10 a. m. at party head- quarters, 927 Euclid.—Elmer P. Boich, Branch Organizer. New Orleans Jobless Look For Work While Unionists Are Barred NEW ORLEANS—(FP)— Unem- ployment in New Orleans is becoming acute. A conservative estimate places the number out of employment at over 50,000, while at ieast 10,000 are walk- ing the streets to “sell something” on a commission basis. Two months ago in order to relieve distress the levee board, controlled by the state of Louisiana, put a force to work repairing the tevee along the Mississippi river at the upper end of the city. it developed that a major- ity of these men were members of or- ganized labor or sympathizers. The opposition from a portion of the daily press was so great that the levee board withdrew the workmen, and the levee today is a menace to the lives of the citizens. | BOSTON NOTES City Central Committee Meets. BOSTON, Mass., April 26—Very im- portant matters will come Pefore the next city central committee meeting which takes place on Tuesday, April 28, at 7:30 p. m. sharp, at the Opera House, 113 Dudley street, Room. 5, Roxbury, Mass. . Picnic Committee. The picnic commi e for the three picnics to be given y Local Boston, May 30, July.4, and@habor Day, is be- ing organized. Branches must send two delegates eacli’ Yo serve on this committee. Names and addresses of delegates elected tg ‘act on the pic- | nic committee shouk&k be sent to the Cc. C. C. secretary at once. forcing it upon the. pupils is seen in the victory of the ku klux klan in put- ting over its bill in the state legisla- ture for compulsory bible reading in the public schools. It requires that ten verses of the bible be read daily and that all pupils in the fourth and all higher grades memorize the “golden rule and the ten commandments.” Combined with this compulsory opiate for workers’ children is the ruling of Superintendent Vernon M. Reigel of the state department of edu- cation in a circular letter to all Ohio superintendents of schools saying that physical punishment may be given to pupils by teachers “altho the punish- ment is unnecessarily excessive with- out being liable civilly or criminally.” The teachers of the state dre thus given carte blanche to go as far as they like in beating pupils who may resist the religious hokum being thrust upon them. The ruling says that teachers haye the same “right” to beat up the children as parents have, another revealing quality of cap- italist “civilization.” Rubles of Czar and Kerensky Valueless, Speculators Told PEKIN, April 26.—The Rosta cor- respondent learns in the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ‘that enquiries have been coming in lately about the so-called czarist rub- les, a certain amount of which has been kept by some Chinese merchants, and that, at the same time, it has come to the knowledge of the embassy that there are unscrupulous people who are misleading Chinese commerc- ial circles in this matter and are spec- ulating in those quite valueless scraps of paper. It was declared at the embassy of the Union of Soviet SScialist Republics that, as the embassy had stated on many previous occasions, the paper money issued under the czarist regime, as well as that issued by Kerensky’s government, has now lost all value and are no longer in circu- lation in the Union of Soviet Repub- lics. The question of those bills will not be discussed at the pending Soviet- Chinese conference, so that no specu- lation in that paper money could pos- sibly bring any profits to those en- gaged in same. Hatters’ Strike. NORWALK, Conn.—(FP)— Thirty- five workers in the hat-sizing depart- ment of the American Hat Co. plant are striking for improved working conditions. This strike, tho small, may prelude others in Connecticut. Since the Berg Co. moved to Danbury recently and went on an open shop ~~ me BULGAR TERROR| CHT DAWES PLAN. wachans : AND WHITE TERROR, FOR CHICAGO MAY DAY meer cae, 4 = ' we > s - ere ae : y ~: . ” IS. SLOGAN To the Workers of Chicago and Vicinity: ‘Pp Dear Comrades—White terror rages flercely against the Bulgarian ¢ Cole munists and workers and peasants. The bloody Zankoy, premier of reac tionary Bulgaria, uses bomb explosions, obviously an act of individual ter ror, as a pretext for attempting to destroy the revolutionary movement of Bulgairia, especially elcome Party of Bulgaria. ‘Thousands of our comrades are being shot\and imprisoned. Despite all, however, there are signs of revolt of the peasaiitry, workers and soldiers of Bulgaria against the Bulgarian monarchist and capitalist regime, A Soviet Bulgaria looms in the united struggle for socialist re- public of the balkans brings hope and strength to the exploited masses. Meanwhile, workers everywhere, the American masses, must protest against the Bulgarian white terror and bring pressure to bear to’end it. Capitalism is the United States gloats at the massacre of the Com- munists. We must thrust that laugh down their throats thru working class action. e Freedom for Grouch and Trumbull Hawaii is the outpost of American imperialism and militarism. Com- munist soldiers, Grouch and Trum- bull have been sentenced to 40 and 26 years imprisonment for daring to be loyal to the Soviet republic of Russia and the world working class. ‘They have been true soldiers of the revolution. We must demand their release from prison and their right to hold Communist views in the army. The workers of America, with the American Communists leading the campaign, have turned back the coun- ter-revolutionary tool and scoundrel, Raphael Abramovich. His filth and he is now on the way back to Europe, where no doubt the workers will greet him with curses and jeers. Fight White Terror American workers, together with workers all thru the world, protested the attempt of the Polish capitalist government to execute Lanzutsky, Communist member of parliament, Lanzutsky has thru workers demons- trations, been torn away from the shadows of the gallows. Political and’ other class war pris- oners fill the prisons of America. Stronger efforts must be made to secure their release. American capitalism, framer of the infamous Dawes plan to enslave the workers of Europe, continues its or- ganized campaign to impoverish the American “Masses. Wage cuts, in- crease of Working hours, poorer job conditions, “@miash-up of the unions, the offing; despite terror and reaction, + extensidn of the imperialist domains: ———— -- of Wall Street, continue unabated. Child labor increases manifold, as American manufacturers have their jaws with pleasure at the thought of the ground-out profits. Comrades and workers of Chicago! We must protect,.and demonstrate against white t r wherever its fangs appear. We must unite against capitalism A New Beginning May Day, 1925, must be the start-. ing point for redoubled effort and struggle against militarism and im- perialism. In Chicago, on Friday, May ist, 1925 8 p. m. at Temple Hall, Marshfield Ave. and Van Buren S&t., May Day international workers’ day will be celebrated. Among the speak- ers will be James P. Cannon, C. B. Ruthenberg, Martin Abern, Alexander Bittleman, Max Shachtman. There will be present also the Young Vork- ers’ League Orchestra, Scandinavian Singing society and Freiheit Singing and Mandolin orchestra. Every work- er must make an effort to be present at the May Day celebration. Hail May Day, international work- ers’ day! Celebrate May Day at Temple Hall! Down tools on May Day! Down with the Bulgarian terror! Hail the Communist Party of Bul- garia! Hail the United Socialist Republics of the Bankans! Strike against wage cuts! Free the red Hawaian soldiers and all class war prisoners! Up, with the workers’ and farmers’ government in the United States! +; Hail the Russian Soviet Republic: and Communist International! Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago Martin Abern, Secretary. Young Workers (Commumist) League, Local Chicago ... Valeria Meltz, Secretary. International Red Aid | George Maurer, Secretary. white ~ May Day Movies in Many Cities ~* ° PPROPRIATELY enough many cities and towns are celebrating May Day this year with a working class moyie show. In Pittsburgh, in addition to the films, phonograph records, of speeches by Lenin and other Russian Communists, will be played... Five cities and towns in Pennsyl- vania are running the Lenin reel as part of their May Day movie pro- gram. Denver, Colo. has three dates, April 28 and 29 in the Palm Theater at W. Colfax and Grove, and April 30, in the Barnes. School Auditorium. The pictures here include “Beauty and Bolshevik” and “Russia in Overalls.” The same program will be run on April 30, in Toledo, Ohio, and for two days, April 29 and 30, in Utica, N. Y., under the auspices of a group of Ital- ian radicals. “Prisoners for Progress,” the new- est two-reel feature which drew the wrath of the censors, police chief and mayor of Chicago, will be shown as California Rulers Will Hang Victim of Industrial System SACRAMENTO, Cal.—(FP)— State Senator Roy Fellom hag given up hope of getting his anti-hanging bill thru the California legislature this session. California’s next official murder will be that of “Tuffy” Reed, a bay of 20, who became a dope addict in the ef- fort to support his mother and sister. A man convicted with him and sen- tenced to life for the shooting of a Los Angeles dope peddler has sworn that he committed the crime and that Reed was innocent, the governor re- fuses a reprieve. the feature of the May ‘Day celebra Walnut streets, on May 1, at 8 p. m. Gleason and Bloomville, Wis., will compare, via’ the films, the working class conditions of Bolshevik Russia and social-democratic Germany, when they look at “Russia and Germany— A Tale of Two Republics.” Los Angeles is running a five-day program of “The Beauty and the Bol- shevik” from May 3 to 8, in neighbor- hood theaters. This is the answer to the auditorium manager who cancel- led one date. Sheboygan, Wis., will look at *Rus- sia and Germany” on May 20, while Milwaukee will stage a repeat per- formance of “Beauty and Bolshevik” on May 30, under the auspices of’the South Slav and Slovak comrades, per- haps for two days. Bath Beach Y. W. L. Has Celebration on Its First Anniversary BATH BEACH, N. Y., April 26~ Saturday, May 16, marks the first an- niversary of the Bath Beach branch of the Young Workers League, Dis- trict 2, New York. Our anniversary jubilee will be held at the Buena Vista hall, Crepsey and 20th Aves., Brooklyn, on Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. A splendid musical program will be rendered by Feld- man’s Union Band and in addition by the Junior Section, entitled, School Life, as well as a tableau. The dramatic section of the Young Workers League will entertain with as with a one-act play. fas with recitations and songs as welb Admission will be 50 cents. NEW YORK BUILDERS’ CORNER Conducted by KATTERFELD. - Help! Help! teers, the more the better. ability will be helpful: basis conditions have gotten worse in other Connecticut hat plants, **" i i — S. 0. S. VERY DAILY WORKER Builder in New York is asked to heed this call and to put on “full steam ahead” toward the DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 14th street, at once. nection with the present DAILY WORKER subscription campaign that it has the New York agent swamped. ' The matter of building up a decent circulation for the party’s official organ is this town of seven millions isn’t any one-man job. About all the agent can do is to show the Builders where and how they can build most effectively, get the best results for their energy. The notion of “Let the Agent do it; he gets paid for it,” would be fatal. Help! Help! There's so much to be done in con- So we call for volun- There’s such a variety of work to be done that most every kind of Subscription solicitors, news stand inspectors, speakers to visit branches, office workers to help typewriting, filing, circularizing, etc. The New York manager is in the office at 108 East 14th street from 12 to 2 and from 6 to 8 p. m. and can also be seen at other times by appointment. Telephone Stuyvesant 8100. _ _—" advertising solicitors, tion in Freie Gemeinte Hall, 8th and’, there will be a two-act play arranged .
Page 5
a EEF ge ee Paki oN Gs oy FS Fs 139 te BY . : tae ° hy pa ee nate ? aes af : PROFITS 60 P . WHILE A MILLION “WORKERS STARVE England Puts Scews on Labor LONDON—(FP—Fodder wages and unemployment go hand in hand in England while investors are drawing dividends comparable with those be- fore the war. While 1,279,000 workers composing with their families about 1-10 of the population are subsisting on scant unemployment doles, 87,704 supertax payers report incomes of more than $9,500. This marks a gain of 2,700 over the number of large in- comes the previous year. Walter Runciman boasts in pariia- ment that there are 15,000,000 small capitalists in England owning $3,700,- 000,000. But Henry Clay, Manchester University economist, punctures this pretense at economic democracy. “What Mr. Runciman calls the stu- pendous total of $3,700,000,000,” he says, “is not more than 5 per cent of ety ‘national capital. On the other hand it is probably safe to say that over 23 of the national capital is hold by less than 2 per cent of the people.” The 85,000 British supertax payers in 1923 received over $2,350,000,000 in income, more than half the entire capital owned by the 15,000,000 so-call-. ed capitalists. The supertax payers are about 156th of the direct tax payors, but got more than 1-5 of the income. * ss »® British employers argue for longer hours and lower wages to give good employment. But in spite of unem- ployment and part-time, returns from 1,411 industrial companies for 1924 show a net increase of $41,000,000 in profits or 6.6 per cent over 1923. This means total profits of more than $660,- 000,000. The ratio of profits to capital in 1924 was 10.3 per cent compared with 9.8 per cent in 1923 and 7 per cent in 1922. Common stockholders got average dividends of 9.8 per cent in 1924 compared with 10 per cent in 1914, 10.2 per cent in 1913 and 8.5 per cent in 1912. Total common and ‘preferred dividends paid by the 1,411 firms amountdd to $524,000,000 and in the course of the year the stockhold- ers were enriched by an increase of more than $400,000,000 in the value of their holdings, Unemployment does not bother the investing class. ' > *s * Instructions from the conservative Baldwin ministry increasing the re- jeoctions. of claims for. unemployment relief reveal the government trying to force.applicants to take any job how- eyer low the wages or unacceptable the .conditions. With the unions press- ing for wage increases the govern- ment is putting the screws on to in- crease the competition for jobs and weaken labor’s position. Meanwhile this same government holds out the olive branch of indus- trial peace and ufges a 5-year truce. Promise of a “Square Deal” Turns Out to Be an Election Trick CLEVELAND.—Confronted by the Republican convention last June, Cleveland city fathers halted a street railway strike on the promise of a square deal. An arbitration board later awarded the union men a i12c an hour increase. The Cleveland Railway Co. appealed, and has so far been sustained in refusing to apply the award. Now nearly a year after the city’s promise, the car men are formulating a new demand for the 12c raise. The company offers 5c. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DE» Nr (ST +6 MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices — to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY Ee PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50° per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. FOR SALE CHEAP Morris’ Book and Art Store Can Be Bought For Very Little Cash. Reason—Leaving for South Haven. Addrese—1402 So. hae Ave. Telephone—Crawt 3275. 7 7. CHINA AS ar dolences at the passing away ee CB Be Tage x ie . . 7: ¢ aha Pa oe, af. ue Po Rae, AES NRO Toor eS ey Te a ee - ’ : , ES. « ; ne keen a mn by fe Fee ~ TALL SOVIET RUSSIA H. IS TO LD BY PEN AND WORD (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 26.— The following “telegram was sent to Pekin by the volunteer air fleet society of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics on the occasion of Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s death: “In the name of the two million members of the society for the promo- tion of the air fleet, the presidium of the society expresses its sincere con- of aor * nd 7 te 7 4 EYES SON F SUN YAT SEN Sun Yat Sen, the founder of the Kuo-f mintang Party and the national revo- lutionary leader of China. “The society, whose task it is to strengthen the defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against eventual impérialistic attacks, feels confidently that Sun Yat Sen’s will shall ever be a guiding star for the toiling masses of China. “In allfance with the Union of So- viet Republics, and in alliance with the world proletariat, China will exe- cute the main will of Sun Yat Sen— the national liberation of China from the yoke of imperialism.” Large Meetings Held. The biggest of all the mass meet- ings arranged at Moscow in com- memoration of Dr. Sun. Yat Sen was held in the Trades‘Union Hall. The meeting .was afranged by the Mos- cow Council of Trade Ufiions and was attended by several thousand people who filled the huge hall to full ca- pacity. | A detailed report was made by Radek on Sun Yat Sen as the great- est leader of the East struggling for Yiational emancipation. In conclus- ion, the speaker emphasized his firm belief that, even with Dr. Sun’s death, the liberative movement in China, di- rected by the Kuomintang, will keep the positions it has won already. A number of foreign Communists delivered speeches on the. historical role of Sun Yat. Sen, among the ora- tors there being Mr. Cachin, for France; Mr. Roy, for India; Mr. Gal- lagher, for England; Mr. Smith, for America, and others. In the resolution, which, was adopt- ed without a dissenting,, vote, “the working men and women of .Moscow voice their unflinching will to. do all in their power to promote.the cause of national unification. and liberation of China” and they declare. that they will forever honor the Apomery of Sun Yat Sen. The central committee, ‘et, the. ‘Rus. sian Communist Party. has «ircular- ized all the local branches » of. the party, enjoining them. to,¢arry thru a broad campaign among the -workers and peasants, to explain the role of Sun Yat Sen in the activities of the Kuomintang Party and the present situation in China. ’ Zinovievy Writes on SUA.” In @ leading article in the Pravda, Zinoviev, president of tte aretre committee of the Coney tional, calls Sun Yat Sen thé’ bg est historical figure in thé national liberative movements of° the Babt in our century. The author points out that especially during the _jast years of his life, Sun had come under- stand ever more clearly that ‘énly in close alliance with the World prole- tariat can the oppressed peoples win their national freedom and secure the conditions of a new life!’ “ The Russian révolution, the writer continues, may well bé proud of the strong influence it has had’on the na- tional liberative movement” of the Rast. Indeed, all the Tife°and deeds of such men as Sun Yat Sen are a striking illustration of thé correctness of the views embodied in “Leninism” on the significance of the national rev- olutionary movement of the oppressed peoples. In conclusion. Zinoviev recalls Lenin's words written thirteen years ago: “To replace the bourgeoisie, which is being decomposed, there come the proletariat of the European countries and the young democracy, full of confidence in its own forces and faith in the masses, of the coun- tries of Asia.” Fight Open Shop in the National Capital (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26.— War upon open shoppers in the na- tional capital has been declared by the Central Labor Union, in retalia- tion for the war on building trades wage increases and the union shop which big business interests have been making for the past month. Seventy- four local unions affiliated with the central body will be called upon to join in a campaign to make Washing- ton a “good union town.” Stores Will be put under pressure to employ union clerks displaying union buttons, and to handle union label goods. Union men will be ques- tioned as to their purchases, both in household supplies and in amusements and even in houses, to insure that union wages are spent for union prod- ucts. A “silent boycott” of nonunion firms is proposed. Roosevelts Go to Paris. LONDON.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt and their compan- ions on the trip to Turkestan, left for Paris today. They will sail from Marseilles April 28. Greek Aviator Reaches Rome. ROME—Di Penedo, the aviator, ar- rived at Leros, the Greek archa- pelego, on his trip from Rome to Melbourne, Australia, by way of. To- kio. *| machine operates on an electrochemi- ‘ : | Your Union Meetng| Fourth Monday, April 27. Name of Local and Place oO. o eoting. 89 agi 123 No. ‘Clark St., 8.30 ere Part Council, n a Makers, 62d and Halsted Boot and Shoe, 1839 Milwaukee Vv Brid and Structural tron Woerk-. was 910 yy: Wen, ap St. 3420 W. Roose- evi Rd. velt cen ~. adel 1870 Blue nd Ave. Carpenters, z708 Ww. ‘Set Washington St. Carpenters, t. arpenters, Tlediecn St. arpenters Y ehaten Ave. arpenters, s. C., 9139 Commercial Ave. Carpenters, S. C., 50 5S. State St. ay ey ers, §&. é., 1467 Chybourt Carpenters, 222 N. West St., Wau- Carpenters, 1850 Sherman, se Nerth Ave. Cap Makers ° ooseveit ne. 14 Cigar Makers, > xeoutive Board, 1 w st. » Se m. Electricians, 19 s. Varo 394 Engineers (Loc.), ‘ag Ue ‘onton ve., 7:30 p. m. 400 Engin Sere, 4648 8. Halsted St. insincere, 311 S. Ashiand Ave. Engineers, 180 W. ae a St. 8, Firemen and FS rag 2431 Roose- t : a. Last meet- witned ane t Enginemen, 41238 W. Firemen and Enginemen, 5438 8. Halsted St. Firemen and Enginemen, Madison and Sacramento. Firemen and Enginemen, 64th and Ashiand Ave. 10615 Gardeners and Florists, North and v . es. 18 aeve Operators, 1710 N. Winches- r 76 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 59 Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Van Buren 74 Lathers, 725 S&S. Western Ave. Longshoremen, host 355 WN. mosninicte, 75th a Dobson Bivd. ch 1638 x. “anteten St. Malet of Way, 1543 W. 103d St. 47th St. of Way, 202 W. Meat Cutters, 1870 Blue island Ave. 15016 wereee TE Sacramento and 75° W. Vie " st. W. Nort yt Carpenters, 2040 194 Painters, Madison and ey awe tab lo ilith and ent - “Ave 273 ~Painte 2432 S$. K 41 a “Athondants, Halsted and Har- siso 8. Plumbe ers, 585 N. Cicero Ave. Printing Preesmen, 179 W. Wash. Railway Clerks, 6236 Princeton Ave. Railway Clerks, 159 N. State St. Railway Em 7 s of America (Sur- a Lines an Buren and Ash- and Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 365 N. Cl t ‘ . Clar ay 70 Signaimen, 901 E. 75th St. 51 She Metal Workers, 16868 WN. Hialeted, 4 Steel and Copper Engravere,. Mor- rison Hotel, 5 coats 180 W. Washington, 7:30 wancuatone Teamsaters, Teamsters, 3o.m. - 11626 eigen, & Axe. 2600 220 S$. Ashland ‘piva., Teamaeters, 220 &. Ashiand Bivd. 9 Typearepbiea| (German), 1457 Cly- urn Ave., 5 p. m. (Note—Unless otherwise meetings are at 8 p. m.) Turkestan Workers Send Greetings to Kuomintang Party TASHKENT, Russian Turkestan, April 26.—The Orenburg Soviet, the central executive committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, and the central executive committee of the Communist Party of Uzbeki- stan have sent messages of condol- ence to the Kuomintang party, on the death of their leader and founder of the South China Republic, Sun Yat Sen. “The Uzbek people, which was lib- erated from the czarist colonizing yoke by the October (November) revolution,” says the message of the Communist of Uzbekistan, “and which owes to this revolution the possibility it has to ward off any at- tempt on the part of world imperial- ism to enslave once more the free re- public of Uzbekistan, thoroly realizes how great are the difficulties facing your party in your gallant struggle for a China free from the colonial yoke. “In our struggle, we and you pur- sue the same ends, that is,-the eman- cipation of the oppressed nations from the yoke of imperialism. There- fore, we and you have one common foe—world imperialism.” stated all New Loom Invented for Textile Work (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 26.—The electri- cian is likely to become one of the most important workers in the tex- tile industry when American manu- facturers adopt the jacquard loom in- vented by Dr. Thomas A. B. Carver in England. The loom workers can be taught to operate the new loom, but the electrician assumes greater importance in the work because the cal principle. The design is made on a metal plate and part of the paint, like a stencil, is taken out so that the needles touch first insulated and then non-insulated portions which makes the pattern va- riation. The looms are successful in Manchester, England, at present in ask linen and cotton manufactur- NOW - LOT Socialists as Hopeful as ~~ Gallows Victims By TOM MATTHEWS (Special to The Daily Worker.) DAVENPORT, Ia., April 26.—Every sincere Worker Wlio still adheres to the decadent socialist party of Amer- ica, Eugene Debs included, should examine the réstits of reformist so- scialism in a typically American city —Davenport, Iowa.’ Here the soéiali#t party achieved in its dying days The conquest of a city administra “from mayor and chief of police to dogeatcher. The re- sults? wyteeeadl The results aré6 fhe break up of the local party organization and the en- velopment of thé former party mem- bers in a spirit’ of Dessimism and de- spair. Retoemtét Hopes. The socialists of Davenport had hopes of bringitig xbout reforms with- in “the capitalistic system thru par- ticipation in local politics. With the best of intentiofis’ they succeeded in electing their candidates of office up- on a popular = program. What did they ‘The first Se ctstesent was the open treason of the mayor himself to the organization which elected him. The great hopes of the Davenport so- clalists tumbled like a house of cards. No Workers Appointed. The lack of real working class vis- ion was further demonstrated by the appointment of lawyers and other middie class elements to the various minor officers of the city. Workers were “too unconuth”—"“too ignorant”— “not dignified.” Only the chiet of police showed any degree of working class vision. He used the police force to protect strik- ers, forcing the open shoppers to re- peatedly secure injunctions against his adminis But Davenport so- cielism was Sob raver. upon the mill- tant solidarit No Lohber “Socialist.” So Davenport no longer has a s0- cialist party govérnment. The former members of thé*party are extremely pessimistic. Théy are afflicted with the “blues.” Having had an over- dose of reformist socialism, they find themselvés si¢kened of their own medicine. © B¢ The only remwedy for these social- istic blues is tae: Commenistic virllity of the Workers’ Party. : Heed | Party. And so the’ of Davenport, at least a substantial ‘minority of them, are listening eagerly to the mes- sage of the Workers Party becatse it is a message based on the practical realities of life’ which leave no room for poisonous reform and silly pana- ceas. ; Communism adheres to the lines of Marxian socialism. Communism recog- nizes no struggle but the class strug- gle. Sooner or later every sincere social- ist in the United States must join the ranks of the Workers (Communist) Party. : The Davenports must be shaken by the message of Communism. Then we must select the best thinkers and most militant fighters for enrollment in the ranks of the Workers Party. The poison of reformist socialism is not to be cleared from the air in an hour or a day. But sooner or later, as the result of persistent effort, the Communist movement will be reared upon a solid foundation of clarity and militancy—-even in Davenport. Let us all unite for this constructing effort! Reporters’ Union of Wilkes Barre Fighting Publishers’ Blacklist PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 26.— C. B. Strome, of the news writers’ local union of Wiikesbarre, Pa., tells of the struggles of the hard coal town’s reporters in a racy idiomatic way that made it as dramatic as the story of a miners’ fight. The Wilkesbarfe reporters have not fared so well up to date, however. Since their 100 per cent membership organization was formed recently the publishers have ;countered by ‘“chop- ping off the heads,’ as Strome put it, of the officers. He was one, but again has a job. en the Sunday Tele- gram of Wilkesbarre. The weakness of the Wilkesbarre reporters’ union, said Strome, is the non-offiliation of the typographical men. Several years ago the typo men withdrew jurisdiction from the news- writers with the result that this newly formed local is that much less strong than it otherwise would be. The Scranton reporters have an agremeent with their publishers and are still affiliated with the typos, having been formed before the new rule went into effect. The minimum wage in Scranton for 5-year men is $52; in Wilkesbarre less than $30. | SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuvetzungs Vere! rortocnrite " ing and can be extended for use in | ‘making ginghams. / ™ Meets every ist Sra Thureday, Wicker Park Hall, | 2040 W. Newth Avenue, » Ne Secretary, —— itive UILDERS AT. WORK ALL EYES TO THE EAST! New York Swings Into Action. Beginning with the District Executive Committee and down thru the branches to every Communist builder the New York comrades are moving toward their goal of 1,500 new subs by June 15. For May Day orders for six thousand copies of the special tweive- page issue have already been piaced and more are daily rolling in to ewell the total. Advance Guard are: Among the orders of the advanced branches of the Engileh West Side........00+... 300 Y. W. L. No. 14 200 Jewish Downtown No. 3............ 125 English Willlamsburg ............. 800 English Bromx No. 2 .......ccccese 100 Harlem Section 2,000 Lettish Branch 250 Russian Williamsburg ................ 100 Jewish No. 1 Downtown .........300 Shop Nucleus No. 11......... 150 The four thousand short term subs gathered in at the Press Pageant are now beginning to expire and every renewal secured will be added to the quota as a new sub—and that’s where you, New York comrade, come in with a bang! Report to the city agent, Comrade L. E. Katter- feld, at 108 E. 14th St., to get some of those names that should not fall off the list of “Our Dally.” OTHER CITIES Continue their efforts with subs to the campaign and on Friday, April 24, these comrades from various locals sent in new subs, led by George Pearl of Eureka, Cal. EUREKA, CAL.—Geo. Pear! (6). BENTLEYVILLE, Pa— es e
Page 6
-. ~ ‘ a oat © ; - ar SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months $2.00....3 months only): e meat ; eta _ By mail (in Chi $8.00 per year $4.50....6 mon $2.50...3 months ‘Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER / $998 W. Washington Bivd. - §, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE} Bditors MORITZ J. LOEB...... scococcunnereres- Business Manager @ntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the ‘Post. . Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. <a Advertising rates on app”“catica Wall Street Knights Calles Wall Street has given the Calles government of Mexico its final approval. It has noted his courtly demeanor as he knelt before it, tapped him on the shoulder with its dripping blade and bade him rise—a full-fledged knight of American im- perialism. Capitalist dispatches tell of an interview handed out by Ambassador Sherman. This Wall Street tool gives Callies high praise: President Oallies is the right man for the right place. ‘ From the satisfactory interview 1! had with him this week | am convinced that he is attempting conscientiously, fearlessly and energetically to car- ry out the program which he outlined at the begin- ning of his administration in December. He is a most satisfactory official to treat with because he knows his mind, makes decisions quick- ly, acts above board and says exactly what he means. One knows where he stands in dealing wath General Calles. He never keeps one waiting when delay is not necessary. Part of the program referred to consists of hand- ing the Mexican railways over to Wall Street in- vestors, breaking up the railw aymen’ s union, turn- ing over the natural resources of Mexico, notably oil wells, mines and water power, to American plunderers, and preventing the breaking up of the big estates for the benefit of the peasants. On the same day that the interview with the American ambassador appears is another news item announcing that all interests developing new oil Wells in the vicinity of Mexico City will be re lieved of taxation. Calles has the full support of the official Mexi- can labor movement which means that the official- dom of the American Federation of Labor did a good job at El Paso and that, betrayed by their leaders, the Mexican masses have a long, hard struggle ahead of them—a struggle in which most of their energy will be absorbed by the needed effort to maintain living standards slightly above the level of a Digger Indian. ‘With the Panama Canal, a great American naval and military base, to the south of them, and the tremendous weight of the United States pressing on them from the north, the Mexican people are caught as in a vise. The.pressure will squeeze from them untold wealth—copper, lumber, oil and golden streams of interest on the usurious loans forced upon the Mexican government. The labor fakers of Mexico and America will share in the loot and weld the chains a little tighter on the Mexican workers whenever Wall Street so orders. Under these circumstances the work of the Pan- American Anti-Imperialist League becomes of major importance. Its fight is for the freedom not alone of the Mexican workers, but of the toiling millions of Central and South America and the American workers strangled and sold by the im- perialist tools in our labor movement. War on Little Tyrants One of the demands of the striking clothing workers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is of more than usual interest—that foremen using abusive language to workers be discharged. It may be an oversight on our part, but we do Chicago, Iitinele . . . The Big Boss Forgives Joseph Caillavx; finance minister inthe Pain- leve government, need not worry over the attacks of the royalists and extreme nationalists. His ap- pointment to one_of the most important posts—if not the most important—in thg government has been sealed with the approval ™ the House of Morgan. Caillaux was a “traitor” to France during the war. He was charged with illegal commerce with the “enemy,” found guilty and sentenced to banish- ment. That was five years ago. France won the war, or at least Germany lost. But it is beginning to look as if the only winning power was Wall Street, representing the American bourgeoisie. Today the American dollar is more imperious in Paris than the threatening notes of the kaiser when his great armies were goose-step- ping their way to the Marne. French finance is a jungle. The tigers who helped to arouse the French nation to frantic fury against Germany have retired from the field. The “traitor” Caillaux is called in as a pinch hitter for French capitalism. Clemenceau and Poincare grind their teeth with rage. But Morgan advises them to chew softly. His sensitive aural nerves are irritated by the rasping noise from the anti- Cail- laux molars. After all, Caillaux was only a traitor to one group of the French bourgeéisie, the pro-British group. In the eyes of the pro-German group he was a hero. And tho Morgan is the financial agent of the British government in A'merica, this finan- cial marriage does’ not prohibit other relationships. A sailor may have a home in every port, but prac- tically every European government is a concubine of the House of Morgan. So Joseph Caillaux may come to the United States to head the delegation that will seek to liquidate the debt quarrel between France and Wall Street. Morgan has given Caillaix' a clean bill of health. “Regarding his war record,” declared Thomas Lamont, “that is a thing of the past and forgotten.” Sure. But had Caillaux been a revo- lutionist, out to overthrow the capitalist system, instead of being a tool of certain big French in- terests, he would now be rotting in prison as so many French workers are.* The big boss forgives a useful tool of capitalism for his war-time in- discretions. “Mutt and Jeff” afe getting more publicity out of their hunting trip in Africa, than the decend- ants of Theodore Roosevelt, who are on their way to Asia for a similar purpose. This is only one in- dication of.how the offspring of the “Bull Moose” have fallen, Farrington’s Non-Union Candidate Farrington’s handpicked candidate for the office | ber of president of Sub-district 4, District 12, United Mine Workers of America, is not even a member of the union, altho one of Farrington’s executive board meniespi | The attempt to substitute Freeman Thompson, the militant, by this kind of an individual, who, altho acting as a salaried officer of the union, does not take interest enough in it to pay his dues. The exposure of the real status of Walker has meer Farrington the laughing stock of Sub-dis- triét 4. The miners gre remembering that Duncan McDonald was expelled by Farrington from the union on a technicality arising over dues payments made not being entered on the books and feel that Farrington has put himself completely out of court so far as having a reali candidate for the office of sub-district president is concerned. It is now clear to everybody interested in the dispute that Farrington made servility to his ma- chine the real qualification for office and not loy- alty to the union and the interests of the rank and file. The boss-loving officials of the unions scan the dues payments of the left wingers with great care, but they are very lenient with their lackeys. The red flag is raised over the embassy building not recall having seen such a clause in strike de-| of the Soviet Union, in Tokio, and the standard of mands for a long, long time. That it has been in-| the Communist International comes a ‘Tittle closer cluded in theirs by the Bridgeport workers shows|to the United States of America.’ that there is at last a recognition of the increasing tendency towards tyranny in American industry. F ; d h Cl S | [t is time the underlings of the big bosses were orgeries an f e ass trugg e handed a little of their own medicine. No imperialist plot seems to be complete these Modern industry strives deliberately to create| stirring days without a forged Zinoviév letter. a slave state of mind in the workers, and foremen| The markets for these forgeries have suffered in and superintendents are supposed to help this| western Europe as a result of the éxposure of the along by keeping the workers in their place. Re- election fraud in Great Britain, but in the back- sentment of abuse from foremen and straw-bosses| ward Balkans there is still some demand. The is punished by instant discharge. This serves to| terrorist Zankov government of Bulgaria appears cow the rest of the workers and the tyranny in-| to be the latest purchaser of a complete stock of) creases. Zinoviev letters, but the British labor movement’ Just as important as higher wages and shorter|has risen to the occasion once more and the Lon-) | hours is insistence by workers that they be treated|don Daily Herald, its official organ, publishes a| as human beings. Machine industry takes enough |complete expose of the manner in which these| toll from the bodies of workers without their|forged documents have been given international | misery being added to by -indignities carefully circulation. calculated to make them feel inferior to the boss A thriving business in forgeries is done by the aud his satellites. czarist emigres in Berlin and whenever a Com- Let the workers reverse the process, fire a few | munist plot is needed they furnish the documentary foremen and the rest of the slave-drivers will watch | evidence at so much per. their step for a while at least. | Such methods may be of some temporary value es iz to the imperialists, but the class striggle does not! It is a good thing + to adestnliittin that the capita]-| consist of documents—forged or genuine. It is| ist press is publishing just about as much truth|something far more purposeful and real’ as the| about the situation in the Balkans. as they have Zankov government is le ~arny thru the courageous | been giving space to With regard to the struggle! struggle of the workers and peasants against its | of the workers and peasants of the Union of Soviet! brutalities. Republics during the past eight years. Which is none at all. —_- ——— ~—- Get. a wember for the Workers Party und @ new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. : ‘ . o - 7 2 &. : Oe — se oa.* tt SD tet . BLL! i fo . ~ yy - Tens of thousands of DAILY WORKERS dis-; tributed at the factory gates on Friday, Interna- tional May Day, will mean a greater English-| language Communist daily in the United States. | Bie ( .s=emese _ (Continued from. last issue) ERTZ (Germahy)-reads the answer of the re va the Commun: ist Party of to the state- ment of Brandler’afid Thalheimer. In this answer, the''statement of Brand- ler, Radek and Thalheimer is charac- terized as an obvious maneuver aimed at erasing the impression which the verdict of the highest party court|. of the Communist Party of Russia will surely have upon the Communist workers. Brandier, Radek and Thalheimer are using the enlarged executive for the purpose of éfeadting a legal plat- form for their fattidnal activities, by means of a deciiirdtion of their pre- tended agreement with the decisions of the Cominter:, © This maneuvér ‘will neither sur- prise nor confuse any member of the Communist Party Germany. For more than a year, group in the Cothtiunist Party of Germany under’ the direction of Radek, and the on-emigrants in Moscow, have pu the same op- portuniét “united* front policy with respect to the ex@eutive of their own party, and the executive of the Com- intern—as they Have done in 1923 with respect to sy menshevist: class enemies. dhe policy of Riss and Brandler on the one hand, and the policy of Bolshevism on the other, are not yet exhausted historically ; on the con- trary, they are historically and prac- tically more alive than ever. Iteis necessary to continue and to intensify the ideological fight against Brandlerism and to exterminate its last remnants among the membership. The statement made by. Brandler, Radek and Thalheimer, to the effect that are fully in. accord with the theses of Zinoviev, clearly reveals their intention of driving a wedge be- tween the Communist Party of Ger- many and Communist Party of Rus- sia, and between the Communist Party of Germany and the Comintern. Radek, Brandler, and Thalheimer have abused the Communist principle of democracy and. the right of discus- sion, which they misysed as offensive slogans against the German central committee. The Communist Party of Germany will ruthlessly, suppress every attempt to,@arry on ‘factional activities, every br h of party dis- cipline, and eve interference with its policy. The munist Party of Germany realized that if it yields to the intentions and’ sentiments of Brandler, Radek and Thalheimer, it will be lost; that is’ why the party has conducted . an ideologoical fight against Gage ig! even after Octo- ate j very ‘day, with such bor sas inte ; down to the lowest units of the party. 3a In ord staye 6 Brandle danger, pape: ‘had to expel a small group of tactionalists. Today as ever, the Communist Party’ ‘of Germany “4 ready to liquidate the last remnants of factional struggles, but a sure way of doing this is the ‘comiplete extermi- nation of Brandleristh. (Applause. ) UTH FISHER, ... I only wish answer Clara Zetkin, ‘since the German question hag been so little discussed here. »Zhe Communist Party of Germany dg. .in a very diffi- cult situation, since the.tendency in Germany is not an,escending one as in France, or a peste one as in Czecho-Slovakia. 9» The sham stabilization ‘1s giving rise to illusions among workers, which renders the party’s, position more dif- ficult. The party myst judge the situ- ation as it really is,. and must pursue a correct political policy, altho the presidential election cannot auto- matically be compared with the reichstag elections, yet the relatively high numbers of social democratic votes and the low figure for the Com- munist was somewhat surprising. In the industrial.areas the results were comparatively good, but in the agricultural districts like Bavaria they .were bad. Besides, organization- al defects, our errors consisted in the circumstances that the party, scared off by Brandler’s t ctics, failed to com- bine our irrecoficilable attitude towards the socidMdemocratic party with an unmasking of that party. OREOVER, thé workers: feel ‘the constant mowarchist danger: The question of monarchy and repub- lic is very compl, ‘since the best revolutionaries were murdered in the name of this bowrgéois republic, yet we cannot take up’aé neutral attitude in the question of monarchy or repub- lic. As regards thétrade union cau- cuses, the figures ated by’ Zetkin are ' incorrect. Passing over to ie inner-party pol- icy of Zetkin, the’ speaker points out that most of the tomplaints were al! due to the parliamé@ntary mandate in- volved in this cagé?*- After the party congress the central’ committee made peace with all diéfticts, and carried out the trade unién policy, when the right factional activities set in. The work of Bolsheviz ti n would have made greater progress, had not the right factions disturbed us in our work. " The right is carrying on a struggle against the Comintern and our party policy: they disturb our party work. This may end witl*a complete swing into the enemy's camp. That is why the central commiftee has fought and is still fighting af¥Anst this factional activity. In the S@riggle against the | right, the central gemmittee will Bol. _shevize the party-— NDER a storm of applause Com-, rade Zinoviegy made his oom s right factional capitalism, but ant upon the Bolsheviz- ation session of the Comintern. “We must not aan any false and exaggerated conclusions from the par- tial stabilization of capitalism. Since 1917 we are living in the period of imperialism, and partial occurrences do not change the situation as a whole. We must not confuse the world with Europe, or Europe with Germany. No exaggerated conclusions should be drawn from the German stabilization. It is true that in Germany there is no acute revolutionary situation, yet the world situation remains objectively revolutionary. ‘ must learn to see the igitinince between the class struggle in the pre-war period and the class strug- gle after the war. The present class struggles are permeated with ele- ments of civil war—even in the stab- iligation period. Imperialism reigns but its domination is limited by its fear of the proletarian vanguard and the Comintern. “Even Lloyd George considers Eng- land’s position bad, and in case no improvement sets in—as catastrophic. In France there is a crisis; in the Balkan countries there is not a sign of stabilization; and in Germany there are signs of a revival in the labor movement, despite the Dawes plan. “In Russia, there was between 1907 and 1917 a stabilization of czarism. But the Bolsheviks continued the rev- olutionary struggle, because they rec- ognized the importance of the subjec- tive factor. “No one knows how long the stabil- ization period will last; that also de- pends upon the working class and the Communist Parties. During revolu- tionary periods, the pace of history is a quicker one. “After the revolutions of 1848, 1871, 1905, the working class was crushed. At present there is no crushed work- ing class, only the revolutionary forc- es are not yet mature. ; of our epoch are different from those “In the first place, the Russfan ‘a former revolutions. working class has already won a def- inite victory; im the second place, the eastern peoples are awakening; in thé third place, we are now living after the world war, and in a period of perparation for new world wars, with a more experienced working class; fourthly, the class struggle is perme- ated with elements of civil war; fifth- ly, the peasantry is awakening—a fac- tor that was absent in 1871 and in 1905; in the sixth place, the working class is not crushed, as in former rev- olutions, but its forces are merely not yet mature for victory; and in the seventh place, the Comintern exists. . “I am opposed to the view that the partial consolidation of capitalism necessarily means the weakening of our parties. ‘Between 1907 and 1917, the mensheviks ridiculed us, and pro- nounced the revoélution dead. -But the Bolsheviks held out for twelve years and in October they were able to say: it is the end of the social democratic gang, but not.of the.revolution. . .” NALYZING the ‘results of the Ger- man presidential elections, Com- rade Zinoviev-says: “We have lost many votes because the presidential elections interest the workers less, than they did in Finland and in Am- erica. The polling was lower. The Germany workers fear the danger of a monarchy. .The Communist Party fights for a proletarian republic, but it must treat the question of monarchy or republic in a Bolshevist manner. The view that the monarchy and the republic are the same to us is false, and revives the errors of Lassalle in connection with the ‘compact reaction- ary mass.’ The party must know the parties and factions of the bourgeois well. “We must. understand the psychol- ogy of the, working masses, and we must know, tho not share, their repub- lican pmlops, 5 We are going thru a period Of, Fea tion, but the German re- cess. will not last long, since Germany is ranasiine’ the working class is is politically and innerly bankrupt Kreibich and Rutchik represent the right dangers in Czecho-Slovakia, just as Brandler, Rosmer‘and Souvarine represent the right dangers on an anal ternational scale. Kreibich has broken his inner con- nections with the Comintern: The speaker fears that Kreibich’s present visit in Moscow is his last one: He warns Kreibich that the eleventh ae has arrived for him. | The matter of Vercik has been ioe cided by the International Commission of Control, whose verdict can. be- ap- pealed only at the world congress, :It does not suffice to accept: the thenes in words, as doeg the Czecho-8 fan right; the thesés must be oarried out in practice. What would ‘Lenin say now? He would say: (1) Learn; (2) Remain Bolshevik mass (3) Fight against the right without making any concession to the ex- treme left; (4) The period of partial stabilization of capitalism she ithe period of the stabilization of - ,Comintern and the period of Bolshe- vization; and (5) Do nor “nderestim- ate the subjective fac®r, i.¢., the -van- guard of the proletariat, the, Com- munist Party. There are two": ‘per- spectives: (1) Crises of discourage- ment, and (2) To differentiate the situation in each country, and to make of the Communist Party the only party of the working class—in spite of all reaction, The Bolshevik is recog- nized best in periods of depression. do not worship stabilization kneeling; we Bolshevize our parties and make of them the party of the workfig class. (A long stormy salvo of ap- plause; the International is sung.) Thereupon, the political reeghatign was adopted. (To be continued) SHIPPING PLUTES ASKED 10 TELL CAL WHAT TO DO Why Not? It’s Their Government (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, April 26—A na- tional conference of commercial agri- cultural and shipping interests will be organized by the United States Cham- ber of Commerce to meet President | Coolidge’s request for assistance in formulating a permanent government policy toward the American merchant marine, it was announced here today. The chamber of commerce will at- tempt to provide these suggestions by a thoro investigation of the shipping situation. Their primary purpose, it was said, will be to offer recommenda- tions toward maintaining the Ameri- can flag on the seas. Four broad questions will be con- sidered: . 1—Relation of shipping to Ameri- can foreign trade and the national de- fense; 2—Government regulation of the shipping industry; 3—Government aid to shipping, and 4—Disposal of government owned merchant ships. No Nearer Solution. The inquiry will be conducted by special committees on which all in- terests, commercial, industrial and ag- ricultural, will be represented. The findings will be submitted to the presi- dent and to congress. “This problem is one that involves the economic welfare of all branches of trade and industry and all sections of the country,” said Richard F. Grant, president of the national chamber. “Jn spite of all.the billions expended, it is no nearer a solution now that it was before the war.” Dual Ralldine Trades Councils Amalgamated (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND — (FP) — Tentative agreemerpnt has been reached on a plan to amalgamate Cleveland’s war- ring trades councils. Officials of the building trades department of the A. F. of L. have patched up a truce be- tween the unrecognized council, com- posed of painters, carpenters and a majority of building prorkers, and the council chartered by the A. F. of L., composed of sheet metal workers and four other locals. Locals affiliated with both councils were scheduled to make nominations for officers of the joint council April 25 and to vote May 2. The elections will be super vised by the A. F. of L. Affiliation of the carpenters, num- bering 9,500, was declared essential) in forming the new council and con- cessions were made to the unaythor- ized council to obtain its adher.ace to the amalgamation plan. Get a sub for the DALLY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. é&. 2G) | AS WE SEEIT -:- By T. J. OFlahery | . (Continued from page 1.) international solidarity of labor and that-the:riah workers have stomachs as wellzas souls or spirits as the fake politicians;,like to picture that part of the human being tHat is conscious of. ite existenece at least, if not of any thing) else. gnjoowr og @ Se ® EEDLESS to say, it is not all smooth sailing for the Irish Work- ers’ amitPeasants’ Famine Relief Com- mittae.sxPhe;.Free State supporters in the finited States try to discredit the: ;eommittee:on the ground that it is rum;bye Gommunists and that there is no; famine; The Irish World, léad- ing: Irish) catholic and nationalist pa- per inthe; United States, refused to accept an advertisement appealing for funds for fa e relief. This paper did nay 48 the courtesy to re- ply to oon communications offering the advertisement. But it publishes a scurriloy: s attack on the committee written by, a contemptible louse nam- ed Frank, Hreen, | who is about as green as pis. panne, pplitically. HIS fellow AES to be a Com- munist. and was kind enough to write to party headquarters of his in- tention to join the Workers (Commun- ist) Party after he had attacked the Communists in the columns of a bour- geois sheet, Wise Aleck! He would not consent to accept party discipline until he first did his dirty work thru a reactionary catholic nationalist- capitalist publication. He spewed his venom against the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Relief Committee, becausé including criticism of DeValer opposition to dual unionism. * * 8 HIS purveyor of “green-goods” stooped to the most pi le form of lying, known to ad the art of intellectual pervers one ‘He concocted phrases out of the whole cloth, put them in quotes and attribut- ed them to the secretary of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Fam e Re- small “c” and commits other hig lief Committee. A distressing featute of the case is, that this fellow. n is American correspondent for ‘he Irish Worker of Dublin, and no doubt, pollutes the pages of that publication with the offscourings of his d brain. The rat did not have the courage to mention the name o e Communist he slandered in the col- umns of the Irish World, but eyeg t he used a Gaelic translation of h green cognomen, he was smoked” Out of his burrow. eee Ww expect this kind of thing from the Spargos, Wallings, Varneyé and other renegades who went back to their vomit in return for the shekels of the bourgeoisie. We loathe those people and rightfully so. But com- pared to this whitened sepulchre of treachery, the stoolpigeons who have come out openly and plied their firade before our eyes are paragons of polli- tical virtue. The path which the workers must tread on the way to their emancipation is not only stréwn with thorns, but also with the slime of the weasel-brained weaklings who lurk in the darkened doorways of the the secretary spells catholic with a working class movement. \ 3 LABOR FILMS MUST ANSWER THE CANNED LIES OF TRUSTS’ MOVIES Uncle Sam’s Stpestin tnt of agriculture has a very extensive ‘motion picture department which knows its stuff, like all othef sections of the cap- : Now it is going to help the real estate interests of sunny Cali- italist state. fornia sell large gobs:of climate to harassed farmers and wage workers in other parts of the country. Under the auspices of the’ University of California the county agents and leading (land-owning) farmers from every county “will make a aveien tour of a selected section of the state to observe and study agricultureal conditions and developments therein. ’ The department of agriculture will make a film record of this con- ferencc and tour, which will round off the pictorial history of agriculture from the days of Spanish mission farming to the present time. A story or thread of romance will run thru the picture to give it human interest as well as educational value.” Canned Propaganda. The thread of romance is going to be beavy enough to hang many a poor nester who will believe all he sees in the canned propaganda ‘so obligingly furnished the real estate boomers by their department of agriculture. Why not? The department of the interior finds the oil for the trust, why should not the depar!:ment of agriculture ad- vertise their real estate? Labor Film is Answer. This only one tiny instance of the use of the motion picture in support mb the capitalists and their order. The use of the printing press is old stuff ‘ — f a to them, and the film camera is thew and immeasurably more effective. The labor movement must take a page from their enemy’s book. We recognize the need of fighting the bosses’ press with our own" pa- pers. We must come to the point of fighting his films with our own. A small but constantly growing list of workers’ films has been prepared by~- the International Workers’ Aid, 19 8. Lincoln St., Chicago. A list and full particulars on expense and other de- tails will be furnished on request. Phe labor film is the only effective an- swer to the celluloid propaganda of the employers. Heat Wave Hits Nation. WASHINGTON, April 36. ~The rec- ord- -breaking heat wave continued to blanket the eastern half of the. coun- try today with little relief promised by the United States weather bureau. Patronize,our-ad Fated vartisers. é. 2 The Bolshevik is able to hold out. We ! a Oe oe
Page 7
Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No, 91, Po 7” by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. IL 28, 1925 SS” Published dafiy except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ; ; PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd4., calead. m Price 3 Cents — TREASON OF GERMAN SOCIALISTS TO WORKERS OF GERMANY B FOR VICTORY WON BY (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, April 27.—"The victory of the monarch- ist, von Hindéfiburg, was due to the treachery the socialists com- mitted against the working class,” the Communist daily, Rote Fatine, declared in summing up the results of the German presi- dential elections. The socialists, the largest single political party in Germany, had not only taken part in actual corruption, such as the Barmat scandal, but also proved a weak and servile tool in the hands of the international bankers, headed by Wall Street. The socialists willingly accepted the Dawes plan which en- slaved the German workers, and > — | Miners’ Problem | > 5 ) eS ae a a8 +R i Ae y | | ai TO PROTECT MORGAN'S LOANS ~~ , SOFIA, . working class. Zankov is charg is revealed in (Special to The Daily Worker) a, April 27.—That the ocean of blood of the shed by the murderous regime of Premier ible directly to the United States government, in the fact that the American minister, Charles S. Wilson, deliberately persuaded the Bulgarian government to ignore the fact that Jugo-Slavia was behind the bomb explosion in the cathedral and to use the occasion as an excuse for the most barbarous massacre of the working class in the history of the Balkans. . United States Ordered Massacre. The U. S. minister, acting in the interest of the House of Morgan, which has heavy loans to both governments, and directed by the state department of Washington, persuaded the ~ AL 2h Of ,dlLU,lU,.lLU CD... UL. UL. dh OU Oe. 2. 2,4. ee ra oy es Pr - ne ee Zankov governnie nt not to go to war with Jugo-Slavia, altho all evidence pointed to the fact that Jugo-Slavian interests were directly behind the explosion. Instead, Minister Wilson urged —_ anti AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. ge: lying press agents of the Bul- garian government that has fast- ened the cathedral bomb explosion on the Communist International took good care not to publish the manifesto issued two weeks before the recent revival of mass white:terror by the Communist’ Party of Bulgaria, to the workers and peasants, warning them that there was a plot on foot ta pro‘ voke the masses into rebellion, so that the Zankov government could have an excuse to murder its political foes. While it is likely that the cath- edral bomb plot was the work of na- tionalistic terrorists aided by the Ju- go-Slav government, there is no doubt | but Zankov had everything ready for | a blood bath and he was not slow to take advantage of the situation. * ~ S S a matter of fact members of the Zankov cabinet at first blamed the disaster on Jugo-Slavia. But the blame was soon switched to Moscow. it has now leaked out that it American minister to Sofia ‘who. the foresight to advise 2 it Woukt-be mtich Better the blast to the Communist {nterna-} ional than to Belgrade: The hint was | taken... lt ig.yény likely ‘that the am- erican mjnister. made a significant ‘attle in the pocket where he keeps his small change while he talked to the fascist chief. And yet our rulers talk about Soviet interference in our domestic affairs. - * » ROFESSOR TIMOTHY SMIDDY, who represent the Free State gov- ernment in Washington felt peeved because some reporter wrote that Smiddy “as minister extraordinary in Washington has no power to negoti- ate with the American government in- dependently of the British ambassa- dar.” We agree with: the reporter that Smiddy is.a-very “extraordinary” ambassador. But he should have no kick coming, tho he narrowly escaped getting his head kicked off when he collided with the ground, a la the Prince of “Wails,” while horseback riding in Washington recently. The Free States flunkey had the honor of running into an*automoble which con- tained a couple of female parasites associated with the Dutch embassy. oe . . ' HERE are lots of people worse off than Smiddy even tho he can do nothing but twiddle his thumbs dip- lomatically. He has enough to eat and drink and can afford to hire a steed and gaHop around the public parks in the Teapot Dome capital. But while Smiddy. burns up money in Washington, thousands of Irish work- ers and peasants are starving in Ire- land and the Free State government instead of helping to relieve their distress does everything possible to prevent news of the calamity from getting to friendly people on the out- ‘side. . ° - * this issue of. the DAILY WORK- ER, Mary McSwiney, prominent republican party leader, states that there is terrible suffering in the west (Continued on page 5.) the Zankoy military dictator- ship to murder the workers and peasants in order to crush the) Communist movement under) the guise of reprisals against a mythical attack by “Moscow.” (Continued on page 2) + ar Abi, One Coal Digger | Is Blown to Bits... BULLETIN a (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 27-— Five men lost their lives in an ex- plosion in the mine of the West moreland Coal Co.,. at Mill Grove, Pa., according to D. J. Parker, chief engineer of the United States bur- eau of mines rescue station here, who returned to Pittsburgh after the bodies were recovered from the mine today. An investigation to de- termine the cause of the accident will probably be made by the bureau, Parker declared. . . . IRWIN, Pa., Apri! 27.—One man is known to be dead and little hope is held for four others entombed by an explosion in a mine of the Westmo- land Coal Co., at Mill Grove, 12 miles south of here, it was said at the com- pany’s offices here today. The five men were working in the mine last night when an explosion blew one of them to bits and entomb- ed the other four. . PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 37.—A rescue team of six men headed by D. J. Parker, chief engineer at the United States bureau of mines station here left on a special train early to- day for Mill Grove, Pa., where four men are entombed in a mine of the Westmoreland Coal Co. The rescue workers have not yet reported back to their office here, and it is not known whether or not any of the en- tombed men have been saved from death. PEASANTS’ INTERNATIONAL ISSUES SS CALL FOR IRISH FAMINE RELIEF The famine stiuation in Ireland which jeopardized the lives of 750,000 trish peasants and workers is drawing on the sympathizers of the working ctass in all countries. The following manifesto was issued by the Peasants’ International, urging affiliated bodies in all lands to rally to the aid of their starving brothers and sisters in Ireland: The Peasants’ International—To the Peasants of the Whole World. Rally to the Relief of the Irish Peasants! , Support the Workers’ International Aid! More than 750,000 Irish peasants and workers_are starving. Last years’ crops are almost completely ruined by a natural catastrophe. Our brothers only reaped bitter distress from their fields. Misery and distress invaded their cottages. In the western districts of Ireland’since many (Continued on page &) |Klan Leader Jailed by Pals at Herrin | in Interview Row HERRIN, IL, April 27—Harry L. F\Benton, deposed editor of the Herrin |Herald, official klan organ of William- son county, reclined in the Marion jail today, charged with grand larceny. Benton was jairea at me behest of the Herald’s board of directors. Wis arrest came as a climax to the defeat of the klan faction in the recent city elections. Benton, according to the directors, destroyed certain affidavits and docu- ments in connection with the publica- tion of a special “S. Glenn Young edi- tion,” the slain klan leader. Benton maintained he destroyed only his (Continued en page 2) MANY PROBLEMS FACE THE T.WEL GENERAL MEET Special Report on Negro Labor Congress The regular meeting of the Chicago Trade Union Educational League gen- eral group will be held Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p. m., at North West 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. The report of the Chicago execut- ive committee of the T. U. E. L. will deal with the further steps to be taken in organizing all the progress- ive and left wing forces in the local unions to put over the left wing pro- grams. In the unions of each indus- try there exist many burning issues upon which important groups are wil- ling to fight against the bureaucrats. To raise these issues and weld: the left wing rank and file together on the basis of these issues is the doutstand- ing task confronting the local T. U. E. L. at the present moment. Report on Negro Labor Congress A special feature of this meeting of the T. U. E. L. will be a report by E. L. Doty, organizer of the Negro plumbers in Chicago, on the coming Negro labor congress to be held in Chicago this summer. The question of the organization of the thousands of Negro workers in Chicago is of great importance to the entire trade union movement. The years of ex- perience working among the Negro workers of this and other industrial centers qualifies E. L. Doty to make a thorough report On this question. Investigator Shows Child Slavery Article One. By LILLIAN R. BORGESON. An Investigation has been carried on because of a noticed tendency on the part of many of the workers to believe that Chicago was a favored spot of capitalism in the respect that it harbored no child labor. The workers have been reading of the beet-fields of Michigan, of the cot- | mills of New England, of the truck farming in Maryland, of the textile mills of Georgia, of the mines of Pennsylvania, and have been feeling, “Oh, well, that may be in other parts Illinois.” Illinois Fifth in Line. And yet Illinois is rated by the department of labor as the fifth larg- est employer of child labor in the United States. This bureau, it must be remembered, tho it carries on many investigatjons, displays the cap- italist tendency of toning down the facts found and it specializes in what the social workers call “conservative estimates.” The states named in the order of largest number of children under fourteen who are employed “in gainful occupations” follow: necticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Illinois. “No Statistics” Says Bureau. One child out of every 12 between the ages of ten and fifteen years works. The children’s bureau has no record of children under ten, altho it states that in “home work, agricul- ture and many industries such chil- dren do work,” but “statistics are not available.” Eleven and seven-tenths per cent of Illinois children work in manufactur- ing industries, 5.8 per cent work on the farms and 19.4 per cent are en- gaged in other occupations, home work, stores and the like. > . * Other articles exposing child labor will follow this one, the first of a short series. Shepherd Trial: Starts May 18. Trial of Williams D. Shepherd on a charge of murdering his millionaire foster-son William Nelson McClintock, was set for May 3B, by Judge Thomas J. Lynch today. 1 ds. (Specialte. ‘he Bai Gunvan ain Otek ton fields of the south, of the wollen | ‘i the country, but it isn’t here in | childrens’ bureau of the United States | Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Con- | Cleveland Carmen Find Out Promises . Lead to Open Shop Worker) _ pril 27.—T) streetcar men who were baboons into calling off their strike last in order not to “inconvenience” thé republican convention, are tasting the fruits. When it developed that the com- pany was not going to keep their promise and would offer them only a five cent raise, they “went to law” in the capitalist courts and the case was taken to the Ohio supreme court. Now the company issues a warning that if they do not drop the litigation, the company will declare an open shop war and deal with the men only “as individuals.” The case looks bad for the workers either way, for, so declares the com- _ pany, if the sugreme court decides in \favor of the company it will at once institute a fight for the open shop on the basis of the decision. Soviets Rebuild | Bridge Destroyed by Japanese in 1920 (Special to The Dally Worker.) MOSCOW, April 27.—The railway bridge over the Amur at Khabarovsk, which had been destroyed by the Japanese in 1920, has been recon- structed and officially inaugurated. | The bridge is over two and one-half 'versts long, being the largest of its kind in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. the reaction, elected the mon- archist-fascist candidate, Hindenburg. Bankers Worried Over Boodle. The foreign governments are con- cerned in the election from the stand- point of their bankers. The univer- sal question among the foreign capi- talist nations is, “Will the monarch- ists be able to prevent us from get- ting our Dawes plan plunder?” The world powers are prepared to force the monarchists to keep the Ger- man workers under the yoke of for- eign imperialism just as the socialists did. ' you BERLIN, Germany, April 27-—The Communist Party of Germany gained several hundred thousand votes in the election which swept the monarcfist, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, into power over Wilhelm Marx, soclalist- catholic candidate, by a plurality of close to 900,000. The vote for Ernst Thaelmann was 1,931,593, with the probability that the (Continued on page 6.) BARBERS’ UNION — Rank. and, File A _ Against Reactionaries “The barbers of Chicago at their membership meeting here last Sunday in the Ashland Auditorium gave their 1 pro-boss officials and the International President Shaughnessy who had been summoned here by them to handle the aroused membership a hostile re- ception and the latter fled from the meeting leaving his dignity behind him. The meeting had been called in or- der to “Inform the journeymen of the result of the arbitration award.” This refers to the recent wage award hand- ed down by arbitrator Bendheim, a tool of the master barbers, who dis- regarded entirely the demands of the journeymen and decided that the bosses were correct. What the arbi- trator sald was final.and binding ac- cording to the fakers. Therefore no one had a right to demand rejection of the award. Soon as the award was read amidst the jeers and boos of the entire mem- bership, Joseph Giganti, one of the progressives who had been forewarned not to speak at this meeting under penalty of being slugged introduced a resolution disapproving the award. This was greeted with thunderous ap- plause. From then on the meeting ' (Continued on page 2) LEADER DECLARES MARY MACSWINEY, IRISH REPUBLICAN THERE IS FAMINE IN IRELAND; SCORES FREE STATE State government for its cynical and disease from malnutrition, as a resul If the Free State government used the resources of Ireland to bring re- lief to the suflering people on the west coast, there would be no need for out- tion to the negligence of the Free State government which permits Eng- lish trawlers to destroy the young fish around the coast and thus ruin the fishing industry the main source of livlihood of the hardy peasant fish- ermen on the west coast. Sinn Felnn Confirms Famine. Miss MacSwinney~gaye the DAILY (Continued it, side help, declared the republican leader. Speaking rapidly and force fully, Miss MacSwiney outlined the | partiy to natural causes and in addi-| Mary MacSwiney, T. D., and one of the outstanding leaders of the Irish republican party, in an interview to the DAILY WORKER, emphatcially de- clared that there was a famine in the west of Ireland and scored the Free brutal attitude towards the thousands of workers and peasants who are starving with hunger and are subject to t of the famine. + a made a virtual colony of the eet, «| STORM VICTING The masses of Germany, in | OFFICIALS FLEE jas Senet osns*te"ssr GET LITTLE AID FROM RED CROSS ‘Where Does the Money Go?’ Ask Miners (Special to The Dally Worker.) W. FFANKFORT, Ill, April 37— Workers’ relief has begun in storm district. The International Workers’ Aid is represented by Rose White, a miner of Sesser, Il., assist- ed by James McCollom, F. C. Mason and Mike Rukavina of West Frank- fort, who compose the committee. There is much dissatisfaction In the cyclone zone with the manner in which the Red Oross is conducting its relief work. There is talk hereabout of discrimination and there is much wondering where the $3,000,000 in contributions is finding a resting place since most of the relief is in the form of clothing and necessities that have also been donated and since ment authorities. Red Cross Makes Money. It is reported aleo that assessments | over to the Red Cross. j tary, George Maurer, 19 S. Lincoln headquarters where they are turned Needless to say, conditions in the storm area are very bad. Even the coal sections hereabout not affected by the storm are witnessing almost as much suffering on the part of workers and their families dué to the mines shutting down. - Grocery bills are months over-dttie, credit is ex- hausted. Miners in and out of the storm area, if not faced with actual starvation are certainly due for a prolonged period of the worst kind of poverty. The Workers’ International Aid is \\ now in a position to handle any am- ount of supplies and money for relief of working class families tn southern Illinois. Financial contributions should be sent to the national secre- St., Chicago, 01. Supplies of clothing and necessities can be sent direct to W. Frankfort, care of Storm Relief Committee, James McCollom, 786 S. Logan St., W. Frankfort, Il. Call Quake Harmieses. Harmless, yesterday's reports indi- cated was the earthquake shock felt over the Ohio valley and part of the Great Lakes region late last night. At no place was any damage reported. > = * | INDIANAPOLIS, April 27.— Slight earth tremors were felt thruout the state shortly after 10 o'clock last night, but no serious damage or cas- ualties were mentioned in reports to- day. * ¢e DANVILLE, Ill., April 27.—The s0o- called earthquake of Sunday night was regarded bere as an earth slide at some distant point there being none of the rocking movement that char- acterizes the quakes. Dismiss Appeal of Murderers. LONDON.—The court of criminal appeals today dismissed the appeal of Catherine Thorpe, twenty-year-old girl sentenced to death for the murder of her sweetheart. INTERNATIONAL RED AID ISSUES | APPEAL FOR VICTIMS OF BULGAR WHITE TERROR AGAINST WORKERS causes of the famine, attributing it | Bulgaria: The most unpopular government of Bulgaria under the leadership of Premier Zankov, “The Hangman of the is at the present time conducting ome of the merciless reigns of terror known to history. | Balkans,” | This terror is not new. It has | power by a military coup on June 39, The American section of the International Red Aid, issued the follow- ing statement today on the recent terrorism of the Zankovy government of in the world, the fascist dictatorship most vicious and been going on since Zankov assumed 1922, :
Page 8
) ld - Be. be eA. . a Sa pen ¥ Ye atts } "y - j PAY 7 , = ey , *) : ue _. Net only the beginning of German col 7 a ee ’ Peten, ys s ’ a. the eh ‘ 5 ite ea A 2“ Oe ath Tae “y a . & Fe ae : = 4 t ’ ATTENTION N SUGAR AND AMERICAN PERIALISM CALLS FOR THE eee ee _ OF WORKERS PARTY By RICAR most interesting dates in the process Burope has not yet recovered its balance from the grave ‘economic \ disturbance produced by the last continental war. > Of terror nor the treasons of the social democrats are capable of saving i wagl The working classes are commencing to comprehend, slowly, ‘Bhd after eight years of crisis, that the situation begun by the war has no outcome than the proletarian revolution. ’ But the entrance of the United States in the conflict marked one of the DO MARIN Neither the dictatorship of capitalist disintegration. It meant lapse, but also the starting point of the domination of the dollar over the economic life of almost all countries. The Communist International compre- hends it thus, and studies now with great care the processes most neces- sary to crush thé economic power of the United States. ,Weakness Makes Easy Victims. Wall Street seized in its sphere of in fluence, almost all the Latin-Amer- ican countries. The veniality of the professional politicians and the lack of revolutionary orientation, when not of labor organization, in the Latin American countries, favor extraordl- narily the work of the Yankees. To recount im detail the assaults and immoralities of the agents and representatives of Wall Street would be too extensive. Haiti, Santo Dom- ingo, Panama, Venezuela, (whose president, Juan Vicente Gomez, is a historic blackguard from which the United States will not easily clean itself), are living examples of the po- litical and economic voracity of the United States. An Example of “Nordic” Rapacity. The last little business of each one of these countries and the rapacity of the industrial enterprises of the “Nordics” have most firmly consoli- dated the control of North America over the economic resources of these unhappy countries. In Cuba, a land of which we wish to speak particularly, General Crowder imposes presidents, finances the treas- ury, reforms the cabinet, speculates with the income from the lottery and rejects or approves all the political decisions that might weaken or strengthen the power of the United States over the island. The Cuban Dourgeoisie accepts the burlesque pretense of liberty and democracy, at which the United States can laugh with impunity. Yankee Monopoly. " As is well known, the principal source of wealth in Cuba is that of sugar production. Whoever controls the customs house and the plantations of sugar cane, will be master of the island. Well, then, there are in Cuba’ some 150 sugar plants of which more than 100 are in the hands of North American capital. The General Sugar and the Cuba Cane Sugar corporation are able to say that they have under their con- trol eighty per cent of Cuban sugar production. The rest is in the hands of Spanish proprietors, timid specula- tors, with little capital, whose exist- ence is due to vanish in the jaws of the great North American corpora- tions. Tools of Big Capital. Located between the capitalists and the proletariat of the country, there is an intermediate class of small holders, mostly Cubans, whom the capitalist of the United States are controlling and using against the proletariat. But the logical process of capitalist development makes certain that in a not far distant time, these small hold- ers also will have disappeared, ab- sorbed by large industry. In order to attain this end, banking enterprises have been established for some time now, dedicated to bank- rupting the small holders by loaning them money at usurious interest. Only Workers Fight Imperialism. The fight against North American imperialism may be truly said to be developed only and exclusively by the working class. The Cuban bour- geoisie and the Spanish capitalists are bound hand and foot by American- imperialism. Cuba is not a country of great pro- letarian turmoil, however, some im- portant things have taken place there in recent years. The fight in the su- gar plants is a recent example. Only at the end of the last year have they acquired the experience necessary to organize themselves and then not ex- | actly against the government of Cuba. Last Year’s Struggles. In the month of November, 1924, the Railway Workers’ Union of north- ern Cuba, whose trains cross the most important sugar zone of the island, set themselves energetically to the task of organizing the sugar workers. In the month of November last year, the peasants’ organization, num- bering 35,000 members, sustained a strike against the Cuba Cane corpora- tion in which. they paralyzed 16 plants ind some 14,000 workers, among whom were a good number of sympa- thetic railway men. Later, it struck against the plants of the General Sugar. Recently, the DAILY WORKER brought us the news of a strike in the “Chaparra” and “Delicias” plants, enocal. We do not trugt in the resistance of the peasant or . Apart from the extraordinary fnterest the United States will have im destroying it, there is in the rural working class a ne- farious anarchist: dmfluence which the wage working class must force itself to erase. But thése are reasons which counsel us to ask the Workers Party a careful study of the problem of} Cuba and an energetic assistance to all the workers of that country. The fight against imperialism in the United States is a most urgent pro- letarian task of America. It will-re- quire all our attention, all our enthus- iasm, all our sacrifices. The workers’ organization of America must make itself inter-continental, because, above all, both continents are impaled on the claws of Wall Street.—(Translat- perhaps the most important two on the island and owned by the cousin of. ed from the Spanish by H. G.) FEDERATED PRESS WILL THE EMPLOYES OF BIG TRUST EVER OWN THOSE INDUSTRIES? ASK EXPERT: HE KNOWS By LELA (Federated Press be the title of a report prepared for R. S&S. Binkerd, vice-chairman of the pu railroads. 130,923 to 223,149; 10 miscellaneous m 25,002 to 44,339 stockholders. ND OLDS Industrial Editor) Binkerd’s Joke About Popular Ownership of American Industry should the Academy of Political Science b} blic relations committee of the eastern He sees great significance in the fact that the number of in- dividual owners of America’s largest industries has doubled since 1918. Figures in the report show that the number of stockholders in 97 cor- porations representing major industries increased from 2,537,105 in 1918 to 5,051 499 in 1925. The figures are: Railroads from 660,645 stockholders to 989,949; street rallways 275,000 to 550,000; gas, electric light, power 1,250,000 to 2,611,279; telephone and telegraph 107,088 to 371,604; meat packers 65,000 to 100,000; 10 ofl companies 23,502 to 161,179; 5 iron and steel companies anufacturing and distributing concerns These increases are due in considerable measure to the so-called em- ploye and customer ownership campaigns, as shown im the following table which distributes the new stockholders: Increase in Stockholders From Em- From Cus- From from 1918 to 1925 ployes tomers Public Railroads 70,262 47,999 211,043 Street railways 15,000 260,000 Gas, electric light and power 75,000 815,955 470,324 Telephone and telegraph.............-ssseeees 62,649 201,922 Packers 7,000 28,000 oil 21,153 800 115,724 Iron and steel 87,696 4,530 Misc. manufacturing and distributing oa 19,3387 a Bh he Cat ae THE DAILY WORKER the pln ap peace cncp. by the . we ‘ = se cas Mor open SMITH ¥ Peasants Wea by Anarchism. |. | j z N. Y. TEACHERS SALARY RAISE 000 Union Members (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, April 27.—Hopes of the 27,000 teachers in New York's public school for 20 per cent wage increases called in the Ricca bill that passed both hogses of the legis- lature have been dashed by Governor Al Smith’s veto, ‘In turning down the demand of the teachers, Smith passed the buck to the board of estimate and apportionment of New York City, claiming that it had the power to make such increases as it saw fit to do without putting the issue up to the state. It wag a home rule issue, he argued. Dr. Henry Linville, president of the New York Teachers’ Union, said his | organizatton was hdéliding a special meeting to form plana for the teach- ers’ next move. Data in the posses- sion of the union shows that the cost of living in the last twenty-five years has risen faster than salaries: the proposed in would merely have raised the eaipals standards to ap proximately what they were at the opening of the century. Lower Taxes, Bigger Budget in Russia as Industry Improves MOSCOW, April 27.—People’s com- missoray of finance, Sokolnikoff, stated at the session of the co-oper- ative conference, that in spite of a considerable reduction of the agricul- tural and other taxes, the budget of the Union of Soviet Bocialist Republics for the financial] year 1925 has been estimated at 2,700,000,000 rubles, as against the 2.5 milliard rubles budget of the current working year. The main reason why the increase is possible is that the rentability of the state industries has improved. The figures, says Brinkard, “show4 that we are fast creating an economic | society in which every responsible adult is tending to become directly —or at-one remove thru the savings banks or insurance company—inter- ested in corporate conduct and cor: porate profits.” Shows Real! Situation. This looks pretty good. Where's a Binkerd’s joke? lyou will ask, particu’ larly if you are a conservative univer- sity economist who sees a great peace-. ful revolution taking place in America. Distribution of the common stock of the U. S. Steel corporation shows the real situation pretty clearly. In the 10 years the number of U. 8. Steel stockholders has increased by about 50,000 coming practically alto- gether from the employes. The 49.152 employe stockholders today own 638,553 shares of common stock. But the corporation’s books on March 13 show 24 stockholders connected with the New York financial oligarchy holding approximately 700,000 shares, or nearly a third again as many as the 49,000 employe owners. In fact, 100 big stockholders control 1,123,994 shares of the steel trust’s common stock, about 50 per cent of all the shares represented at the annual meeting. These U. 8. Steel figures show the real significance of Binkerd's facts. The corporations are distributing as widely as possible the psychology of ownership without in any sense let- ting the control slip out of their fing- ers. It is the latest dodge to combat the labor movement. -~ Protest Release of Kiuxer INDIANAPOLIS, April 27.—Resolu- tions protesting the release of David C. Stephenson former K. K. K. leader on bail pending his trial on charges of murdering Madge Oberholtzer were filed with the county prosecutor and criminal court judge today by a com- mittee representing every church and club in Irvington, the suburb where Stephenson and Miss Oberholtzer | lived. | Asking swift justice, the resolu- | tions expressed the indignation of 500 | citizens at the alleged act of the former klan leader. Stephenson is charged with criminally attacking | Miss Oberholtzer and causing her _death by refusing medical aid after ” MARY MACSWINEY TELLS OF FAMINE | (Continued from page 1) WORKER reporter a copy of Sinn Fein, the official organ of the Irish re- publican party. Thé paper carried a Hengthy article from the pen of Mrs. ‘Despard, giving an account of the distress she witnegsed while on a visit to the famine region. Rumors were floated that the lead- ers of the Irish republican party had concurred in the official statement of the Free State government, on the famine situation. Mary MacSwiney denied this. What republican leaders stated, she said, was that it was in- accurate to compare the present situa- tion with the famine of 1847, as was done in some British papers. Aske@ ifthere was any truth in the report that the republican party was considering the question of changing its policy in regard to participating in the sessions of dail eireann, Miss MacSwiney said that this was out of the question. Bitter Against Labor Faker. She was bitter in her criticism of Thomas Johnson, official spokesman for the Irish labor party. He is an imperialist from the soles of his feet to the rootsofhis hair, she declared. In reply to a question whether she would favor an alliance between the people of Ireland, India, Egypt and other exploited colonies of Great Britain for a common fight against the robber MacSwiney said she was in accord with the idea and the repub- licans were perate with any elements fm about the downfall of ism, and the freedom of Ireland. Relief Conference Called. The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee will hold a mass meeting in North Side Turner Hall, on May 8, at which John P. Mc- Carthy, recently returned from the west of Ireland will speak on the famine situation. A conference to or- ganize on a wider scale for the pur- pose of raising funds for the famine sufferers will be held on May 11 at 180 West Washington street. Labor unions and all organizations interest- ed in this work are invited. Robert Totten, member of the Napper Tandy Council of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Re public and also of the Plumbers’ Un- ion, is secretary of the provisonal |committee of the local conference. DRUGS, COAL AND MILK GIVE HUGE PROFITS TO CAPITALISTS AS WORKERS GET WAGE CUTS By LELA (Federated Press Patent medicines, States and Great Britain. Drug Profits. United Drug made an operating profit of $7,686,020 on $70,112,113 worth of sales, showing that about lle out of every consumer’s dollar went into the profit bag. Liggetts International in the Eng- lish branch controlled thru ownership of the common stock. This year it added $1,200,000 to the earnings of United Drug by a special dividend. Complete merger of the two compan- ies is going forward. she swallowed poison tablets. Stephenson and two defendants were to have received a hearing on their bail petition today but another | murder trial caused an indefinite de- | lay. Patronize our advertisers. to appear at a DAILY WORKER junction with the city propaganda the Central Executive Committee behalf of the DAILY WORKER. will begin. These will be the two | Thursday, April 30. Don’t forget. TO OUR CHICAGO AGENTS All DAILY WORKER agents from Chicago branches are instructed Next week is DAILY WORKER WEEK and has been set aside by meeting. The meeting will be held at 19 So. Lincoln street at 8 Pp. m. agents meeting to be held in con- committee on Thursday, April 30. as the week of party activity on Next week, also, street meetings principal topics to come before the $17.91 Profit on $1 Shares. When coal profits are reckoned on actual money invested instead of on an excessive capitalization, they ap- pear large enuf to make workers and consumers sit up and take notice. For 1924 the $2,426,570 Island Creek Coal profits meant a return’ of $17.91 a share to common stockholders. But par value of the stock is $1. So the year’s return is 1,791 per cent. Of course that doesn’t measure up to the 2,039 per cent of 1923 or the 2,643 per cent of 1922. Still a year’s return of about 18 times what you put in ought to be fairly satisfactory. Anthracite profits also afford no ground for complaint. The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Co., part of the Mor- gan combine, reports $7,181,608 re- maining for stockholders after all in- a toilet preparations, devices for enticing dimes and quarters out of consumers’ pockets produced profits equal to $15.18 a share for United Drug Co, stockholders in 1924. This establishes a record for the international drug trust, which operates ND OLDS industrial Editor) cosmetics, and all the other 1,000 retail drug stores in the United + terest, depreciation and taxes have been taken care of. The company’s statement shows that it cost $21,444,- 549 to produce coal which sold for $33,240,922, Stockholders got a re- turn of more than 40 per cent. Milk Profits $30 on Every $100. The milk industry which provides a prime essential to the healthy growth of the nation’s children, is be- ing steadily organized into a tribut- gathering agency of the dominant fi- ranciers. Autocratic governments have always collected revenue by monopolizing certain essentials of life and forcing arbitrarily high prices. |There were centuries in which the |poor were unable to obtain sufficient | supplies of such a common necessity fas salt. | So today when we read that 1924 profits of Sheffield Farms, a leading | distributor of milk to New York, were j at the rate of $30.78 on each $100 in- 'vested in common stock we can pic- |ture hundreds of children, deprived |of sufficient milk because their par- | ents are unable to pay the excessive tribute tacked on to the real cost. The report shows that the actual cost of $44,666,750 in sales was only $24,- 785,036, that the inflated operating and selling expense introduced to afford an excuse for the,tribute added over [amounted and that the net profit amounted to $2,457,668. j A eed ees ee ye ¢ 7 Gov. Refuses Aid to 27,-/ From Offspring of Rich By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | TODAY, the yellow press, that toadies to the rich as its first duty, is quite startled in admitting that children of the Gary, Ind., steel district have come out first in a musical con- test participated in by children from the “gold coast” districts to the north of Chicago, that know only of the. steel mills thru the red glare that comes across Lake Michigan, and of the stockyards thru the odors carried on the wind from Pack- ingtown, to tantalize aristocratic nostrils. i The kept press is as snobbish as the class it aks for. It labels as the exception anything extraordinary achieved by workers. e* * ® It is aghast at the success of children whose horizon is marred by the ugly plants of U. S. Steel, Standard Oil and Portland Cement, to mention only a few, in competition against children who live continuously In an atmosphere ore- ated by well-kept lawns, far-spreading trees, singing birds and spacious gardens. Yet that is what has happened. The Gary team took first place with an average of 740 out 750 points, while the team from Wilmette, the north shore millionaire colony, had to be content with second place, with another exclusive center of the aristocracy, Lake Geneva, third. This was for the grade schools. The Gary high school team didn’t do so good; only managing to tie Lake Geneva for first place. The overwhelming majority of the children of labor are robbed of the opportunity of going to high school. ’ ° a . This achievement is only an indication of what the ohil- dren of the working class could accomplish if the heavy burden of capitalist industry were only lifted ‘from their youthful shoulders, if they could only: have an opportunity to develop. But the blight of the black capitalist plague falls upon them, even before they are born. It takes huge toll among them while they are young; children, especially when they are babies, die fast in the shadow of the steel milts. Young men, if they remain in Gary, are fed to the steel mills with the same indifference that pig iron, coal and coke are poured into the hungry’ maw of this industry. Every ounce of steel carries within its hard surface the aspi- rations and hopes as well as the blood and agony of the workers. The longing that leaps the privately owned steel industry's high barricade of obstacles to a higher life must be strong indeed. It usually dies stillborn. Poets tell of the great power of music. it must have power to live in the hearts of children in the steel district. e* e *®@ The names of these children from Gary, who won the music prizes show their nativity alien to 100 per cent Ameri- canism. There is Earl Mallinger, Alex Kahn, Charles Sea- man, Robert Buchsbaum, Lois Klingman, Charles Bruce, Arina Petro, Mary Petro, May Berg, Cecelia Brunswick— echoes of Italy, Germany, the British isles, and other distant lands. These are the children that the American ruling class is trying to keep out of the United States with its restrictin immigration quotas. } * > ee °*® “Capitalism has but one future for children; to develop them into “hands”,—“hands” for ‘its industrial machine. It does not care to develop them for anything higher than its immediate industrial, needs. This is shown in the capitalist conduct of the public schools. How glaring the contrast in the Union of Soviet Republics, where the develop- ment of all children for the big things of live is the first oon- sideration of the new social order striving for complete realization thru Communism. . + 7 No wonder, then, that in this as well as in every capital- ist land the ranks of the children grow in the struggle against the capitalist beast that is their worst foe. The armies of Red Youth, in every nation, the Red Youth of the working class, continue to grow in numbers, with the slogans upon their lips, “Capitalism must go!” “Hail Communism!” Greater youth masses are coming to realize that there is no escape for them under capitalism; just as the whole work- ing class, with greater unanimity, rallies for the final triumph over the last oppressing class. The brilliant success of the steel district’s children is a prophecy of what the whole working class, once released from capitalism's binding chains, binding upon mind and body, can achieve. The day of that release is coming with the triumph of Communism, the victory of the workers. Officials of the Klan Editor Patches Barbers’ Union Flee From Meeting (Continued on page 2) (Continued from page 1.) Up Differences With Bosses, Out of Jail was no longer in control of the offici- als. Attacked by Chairman. A. D. Albright, another progressive attempting to get the floor to speak was almost struck by the gavel inthe hands of the enraged chairman, W., 8. Leidig who tried to stem the grow- ing opposition from the rank and file in this manner. Albright to protect himself leaped on the platflorm and attempted to wrest the gavel from the hands of the chairman. Then Frank Panko, the secretary of the union aid- ed by an extra brave copper tried to beat him up but the aroused barbers rising as one man surged to the plat- form to protect their cvhampion. At this the brave official beat a diplo- matic if undignified retreat. The DAILY WORKER. was very much in evidence everywhere, and credit is due it for exposing to the barbers the truth about the award. The meeting adjourned in disorder with a newly enlightened member. ship, and with sadder and wiser of.- ficials. BOOKS—Male and Female or Science of Life, 25c postpaid. Modern Book Shop, 816 Federal Bivd, Denver, Colorade | ee _ | private property. He will be given a hearing today, MARION, lly April 27.-—-H. L. Ben- ton, former editor of the Herrin Herald, klan paper, who was arrested on charges of grand larceny yester- day preferred by directors of the newspaper, was today released from jail and the charges of larceny drop- ped. It was alleged that Benton stole cuts of the dead klan raider S. Glenn Young which the Herald expected to use in a special edition of the paper. Benton claimed that he had purchased the cuts in lieu of salary and had only loaned them to the newspaper. eee o> © ' 74. SS SSS SS SSS SS SSS SSSVVCVSVTVsPVTVPse Ves eseeeseeseeeaaaaa DILLES BOTTOM, OHIO—NOTICE! DANCE WITH ENTERTAINMENT Also “SCHOOL DAYS” Thursday, April 30—Beginning at 7:30 P. M. at BOHEMIAN HALL, Bellaire, Corner 41st and Harrison Streets. ~s SF FSSeBeeseQeneqeae eee @ & & Steel |HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE REPORTED IN SHAM BATTLE A Mere Incident to U.S. Imperialism (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HONOLULU, April 27.— “Loss of life has been heavy,” is the umpires’ report om the great naval and army maneuvers taking place as a test of strength between the theoretical “en- emy” and the defensive forces of the United States at Péarl Harbor naval base. This “logs of life” is, of course, ‘a mere incident in the minds of the um- pires. It is reckoned among the price of victory for the stronger of two im- : perialist powers contending for dom- inance over the resources and op- pressed peoples of the Far Bast. It is the symbol of what may be expected, however, in the real war that is com- ing with Japan, j The maneuvers are undoubtedly, in- tended to demonstrate that both the navy and the army, both in the sea and air, must be strengthened. The other purpose is to show the teeth of American imperialism to the Jap- anese, in order to make Japan more tractable in the division of China, the hunting ground of all great impe- rialisms, Light naval craft and airplanes were the feature fighters of today’s maneuvers, two destroyers and a mine layer of the “blue” forces were sunk by land batteries and the “blacks” lalso lost one boat. Tom Lewis to Speak at Los Angeles May Day Celebration (Speelal to The Dally Worker.) LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 27.— Tom Lewis, the new district organ- izer of the Workers Party, District 13, will speak at big May Day celebration that will be held on Friday evening, May 1 at the Co-operative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Ave. Comrade Lewis is a fine speaker. This will be his first public appearance in Lon An- geles. The entertainment is provided by the Young Workers’ League and the Junior Groups of Los Angeles. They announce a musical program and — — surprises. Leaflets and DAILY WORKERS are distributed prior to the meeting and every means of propaganda is employed by the comrades to get workers to attend this meeting and make this May Day celebration the biggest and best held in Los Angeles. Begin Freight Rate Hearing. WASHINGTON, April 27. — With domination of the profitable north- western coal] markets at stake, the in- terstate commerce commission today opened hearings on the Great Lakes coal cargo controversy. The issue, involving fifty-five rail- roads and a score of coal operators, was drawn over a report from one of ‘the commission's examiners, recom- mending sharp decreases in railroad rates on coal shipments from Penfi- sylvania and Ohio fields, with in- creased rates for coal shipments from West Virginia and Kentucky fields. Foreign Exohange NEW YORK, April 27.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 482%; cable 482%. France, franc, demand 517%; cable 5.18. Belgium, franc de- mand 6.04%; cable 6.05. Italy, Mra, demand 4.09%; cable 4.09%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.94; cable 26.97. Nor- way, krone, demand 16.31; cable 16.- $8. Denmark, krone, de ad 18.54; cable 18.56. Germany, mark unquoted. Shanghai, tael, demand. 74.12%; cable, - Official Word of Bulgar Chaos WASHINGTON, April 27.—State department and White House profess to be without word from Bulgaria, ex- cept thru press reports, as to the white terror let loose by Premier Zan- kov. Minister Wilson has not report- ed that he took part in a moral pro- test of foreign diplomats against the massacres and wholesale imprison- ment of Communists and agrarians by the Zankov terrorist forces. Nor has the administration any official news of the reported danger of a Serb or Roumanian invasion of Bulgaria. Rio Grande On Rampage DEL RIO, Texas, April 27.—High waters of the Rio Grande, swollen by heavy rainfall here and surrounding territory, Monday morning washed away 50 feet of the Mexican side of the International bridge. Balance of the 100 foot span is momentarily ex- pected to go out. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! es eee eee aeaeai_ as «& = >] > eet eee © & © «© wae,
Page 9
*% : - J d D d d 8 e d y d .,,the meeting, Peppercorn visited Sarah . 78 “ Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the dde Union Educational League (T.0.8.L) «©. ) North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. I. L. 0.) THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. its Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amaigamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unotganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Class Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government. * REACTION GAME, ~ SAWEAND GOT ITs NECK BROKE Cleveland ‘A. C. W. Has Skirted Slugger By A. WAGENKNECHT CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 27. — The Amalgamated Clothing Worker shops in Clévéland are alive with a story that has been verified time and again by each successive group of rank and file members interviewed by the DAILY WORKER reporter. The story was first secured from a group of nedsdle trades workers gathered méar a restaurant they patronize during lunch hour. And the Story, in short, is, that the policy of the reactionary officialdom of . the Amalgamated. Clothing Workers, to etarve all. those who do not agree with it by taking away their jobs, . fmade its debut in Cleveland several days. ago... | Ben Peppercorn is the local man- ager for the Amalgamated. He se- _. cured his office and job thru the sup- .port of the left wing element. He knows this, but denies it today. Pep- percorn suddenly discovered that the Is Tr ferences and biblical interpretations at union metings. Questions from the left wing group were put by the dozen but answers were refused. Then Sarah Holzman took the floor and amid much inter- ruption stated that whereas the of- ficial journals of the Amalgamated did not give Local 5 an opportunity ship, that therefore it was the thing to do to issue a leaflet in explanation of their action. For Free Speech by Members She talked against taking members off of jobs for voicing their opinion regarding occurences in the Amal- gamated and told the rank and file present that this method of persecu- tion and that this onslaught against free speech would not be long endur- ed by the members of the Amalga- mated. Jos. Shiffer, special organizer for the Amalgamated in Cleveland, also spoke against the motion and called the attention of the meeting that all this matter was out of order because the meeting had been called to dis- cuss the new agreement. . While talking Shiffer was attacked by a slugger, kept at hand for . purposes of subjugating members who want to voice their opinions. As this occurred there was a rush for the door and the meeting broke up. Reaction Starts Rough Stuff Sarah Holzman also rushed to the door to distribute the Local 6 leaflets, thinking the meeting had disbanded. While she was distributing the leatf- lets, Peppercorn took a vote upon the motion among his own folld’ ) and announced the motion carried ‘by a vote ef 18 to 68. The alarm was then given that the. leaflets wera) being distributed, and presto, the fe- male slugger appeared upon the scene, attacked Sarah Holzman, tore her blouse, grabbed the leaflets Miss Holzman had in her hands and tore them up. Having her hands*free to do some fighting on her own account, Miss Holzman began giving Mrs. Pepple a bit of her own medicine un- til seperated by other members. The next day Sarah Holzman came to work at the usual hour. Pepper corn however, was already there.’ He told Miss Holzman, in present of the shop boss, that she could not work there any more. Peppercorn Gets Stepped On Last night the local joint board held its meeting. It could be readily seen, that altho only one day had passed since the discharge of Miss Holzman, the Peppercorn group had already sensed the unfavorable reaction of the rank and file to his action. However, as a gesture to the established Amal- gamated policy to take away the bread and butter from all those who are not fully with the reactionaries, Peppercorn suggested a motion to sus- pend Sarah Holzman from the joint board. But not a single member of the joint board arose to make the motion. Mamie Santora, G. E. B. member, seeing which way the rank aud file wind was blowing the reactionary straws, arose and began to plead for the reinstatement of Sarah Holzman on the job. She also tried to muddle the question by bringing in jurisdic- tional disputes between the local jorneymen tailors and the Amalga- mated, charging the left wing with playing into the hands of the tailors. She informed the joint board mem- bers that the Local 5 leaflets had al- ready done much harm, because it had led many of the unorganized to discover that the Amalgamated was officered by Jews. Many more un- founded statements were made by her. Left Winger Crushes Foes Sarah Holzman answered that she was not looking for their pity nor for charity, that she intended to stand by | the principles she believed in, that ishe was much obliged for the recogn- ition given her as an active and loyal fighter for the Amalgamated in the Cleveland needle shops by those whe the other day attacked her and en- couraged sluggers. She denied dis- loyalty to the organization and pledg- ed herself to fight for the Amalga- mated just as loyally in the future as she had in the past. In this Cleveland case the Amalga- mated reactionaries will have to go slow. The rank and file in Cleveland know Sarah Holzman, are fully ac quainted with her years of service ID the Cleveland union field and the shops will. continue humming with protest which will fimally express it- self in .concrete action against this was,,being distributed in Cleveland, at a meeting of Local 112 called to discuss the new agreement. An hour previous to the calling of ‘Holzman at her shop and first plead- ed with her and then warned her not to distribute this leaflet at the local meeting. Sarah Holzman answered that she thought it entirely within her rights to distribute the leaflet and intended doing so. Enter) the Villjaneas Upon entering the Labor Temple, where the local meeting was to be held, she was met by Mrs. Pepple, a member of the union, who seemed to have-secured the authority from somewhere to stop Miss Holzman from, distributing the leaflet. The! conversation between Sarah Holzman and, Mrs, Pepple brought to light that she (Mrs. Pepple) had been engaged to forcibly restrain Miss Holzman from distributing the Local 5 leaflet. Enters here a new Amalgamated phe- nomenon—the female slugger! While a group of members were dis- cussing in the hall the threats made against Miss Holzman, a worker rushed to them from the hall to tell them that a motion had been made in the meeting that all those guilty of distributing the leaflet would be taken off the job. In this group in the hallway was the chairman of the meeting and the group was surprised to learn, as they hurriedly entered the hall, that Manager Peppercorn had himself called the meeting to order in a rush to put something over on the left wing members. “Biblical interpretation” of Local 5 After this group entered the hall, protests were made against these back alley methods and demands were made by members for an explanation of the reasons for the suspension of Local 5 of New York. Mamie Santora, general organizer and member of the G. E. B. of ‘the Amalgamated then arose and talked about most every- thing except the reasons for the sus- pension. She called the left wingers scabs, disrupters, and said that if we are to discuss the differences bet- ween Local 5 and the G. BE B. than we may as well discuss religious dif- May Day Celebration Friday, May 1, 8 P. M. TEMPLE HALL Marshfield and Van Buren Speakers: Cc. E. Ruthenberg Martin Abern James P. Cannon Max Shachtman E. L. Doty Alex. Bittelman Y. W. L. ORCHESTRA Scandinavian Singing Society Freiheit Singing Society ’ Admission 25c. to place its case before the member- | ‘dps tase See The human auction block of the. Federation of Labor conventions. PREPARE FOR NEXT CONV AND’ FIGHT FOR PROG * PROGRAM, IS CALL TO MINERS By ALEX REID - Si a ES SESSIVES’ ak } ‘ b et NVE Sein sunxy south, efi its tragedy, the | selling into slavery of colored workers to tend the plantations and homes of the degenerate “blue bloods” of the southern aristocracy, was—as an institu- tion—a preacher’s heaven, pure and decent, compared to the annual sale of human flesh and blood held by the officials and delegates to the American The English language cannot furnish words harsh enough to condemn and expose the delegates to the last convention in El Paso. And leading this |parade of class treitors, was our “own” delegates, Green, Lewis, Far- rington, et al. Feéling secure in their’ office, they brazenly and defiantly be- trayed the workers in every move made, and as a coal miner, I ask: “What are we going to do about the betrayal by our miners’ delegates? What are we to do to prevent similar betrayals in the future?” - Miners’ Delegates All Reactionary. Nowhere in the record is found a miners’ delegate supporting a progres- sive policy. Everywhere with voice and vote they consistently sold the wage slaves to their masters. They voted for the private owner- ship.of the country and all that goes with it. Bill Green, our traitorous representative even repudiated his former position of government owner- ‘ship or even regulation of railroads. He sold himself to capitalist monop- oly and today enjoys his reward as chief of the A. F. of L. They endorsed insurance schemes, “labor” banks, “B. & O.” class collab- oration, indulged again in a red bait- ing orgy, threatened all progressives in the land, endorsed Davis’ policy of deporting progressive workers across the seas for inquiring into business affairs, endorsed fake “workers’” ed- ucation by the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, endorsed militarism, snowed under all relief proposals for unemployment, all proposed amalgamation and finished up with booze and bull-fighting in Mexico. First Must Clean Out Traitors. Brother miners! How much longer are we going to permit our officials to betray us. We are paying them enormous salaries and expenses for representation we do not get. We will never be able to fight our en- emies, the coal magnates, while our officials are continually betraying us. Our first fight is against our treacher- ous officers. We must clean them out of office if we intend to get anywhere. What the hell do unemployed and starving miners care about labor banks? They have no money to buy oatmeal, far less to put in banks run by labor fakers. Why did Lewis, Far- rington and the “Guesser” Green re- fuse to bring up the terrible unem- ployment situation at El Paso? Be- cause it would be unpleasant, irritat- ing and even embarrassing. The very idea! Expecting consideration for workers at an A. F. of L. convention! A $3,000 Joke. Phil Murray was another one “our” delegates, as he also was the joke of the International Mining Congress in Europe, acting as self-appointed dele- gate to the continent as he was not elected by the miners, but just the Same traveling abroad at the cost of $3,000 to the miners while their famil- les were starving to death of unem- ployment with “no funds” in_ the | treasury to help them. The bi-annual convention of the U. M. W. of A. is drawing close again. That is the time for action. Now is of L. convention is supposed to deal with the labor movement as a whole. Already steps are being taken to line up the American labor movement with the Amsterdam International of class traitors, and it is necessary for us to to use all power to agitate for affilia- tion with the Red International of La- bor Unions in ling with our militant English brothers. Prepare for Struggle Our delegates are going to do noth- ing behalf of international unity with the R. I. L. U. unless we, in our U. M. W. of A. national convention, lay down the policy which must be fol- lowed by our delegates to the A. F. of L. convention. An amendment to the Miners’ Inter- national constitution is necessary, making it mandatory on all delegates to A. F. of L. conventions to work and fight for the policies laid down in our Miners’ International convention, with proper constitutional penalties for its violation. Control Your Delegates. In this manner we will be able to control the delegates and to that extent get representation which we do not get now. Remember that at our last convention Farrington made a bitter tirade against the instructed delegates and was ably seconded by “Weeping” Walker, who tried to get the delegates to betray their instruc- tions from the slaves of the picks. “Let your instructions go fo hell, and the time for propaganda. The A. F.| Locals Do Good Work ‘While Reaction Rules Seattle Central Body SEATTLE, Wash—wWhile the Jep- sen gang of reactionaries are enjoy- ing, if they can, their “victory” of unseating the Communist delegates from the Central Labor Council, loca? unions which are progressive are joining in the work of the Labor Defense Council to defend workers persecuted by capitalism. The following locals are now affi- liated to the local Labor Defense Council: Bollermakers’ No. 104; Building Laborers’ No. 242, Coopers’ Union No. 120; Machinists No. 79; Maintenance of Way No. 316. vote the way we tell you,” said Far- rington. The delegates stood true, however. Jf the delegates go to Indianapolis next January determined to have a constitutional guarantee enforcing obedience to your instruction by del- egates to the A. F. of L., other organ- izations will soon follow the miners. Fight for the Union. everywhere must get busy. The un- ion faces greater battles than ever be- fore. Our officials are fighting on the hopes to break our union. We miners must not permit it. We will fight with any and all means, even death; for our union. But they are trying to cut our wages, lengthen our hours, steal our conditions for which we have fought for so many years of bitter struggle. These conditions are written into our contract with the blood of our sacrificed brothers, yes, burned into it with the fire that has charred their bodies in the flaming pits. These con- ditions will be destroyed only if we are destroyed,, Pana, Ludlow and W. Virginia have. not been in vain and woe unto them who attempt to de- stroy our union! The Progressive Program. The progréssive miners’ program calls , wage cuts, no clas collaboration with operators, the six-hour day and five-day week, unem- ployment insurance from the industry, guaranteed minimum weekly wage, one year contracts, nationalization of the mines with workers’ control, im- mediate alliance with railway and transport. workers, a convention of all workers’ unions in America to form plans for defense and offense against the assaults of the capitalists and to consider affiliation to the labor unions of the world. Brother miners! Nothing is given without you fight for it. Our program must be fought for. Our officers who give up to the enemy without a strug- gle are our deadliest enemies and must be removed from our unions. Take up our program under “good and welfare” in all miners’ unions, with your buddies and neighbors in the mine, at the switch, when you meet for lunch, on the streets, in your lodge, everywhere and all the time. And organize! Organize your pro- gressive miners’ committees to fight for the progressive policies! Capitalists Have No “Democracy” to Spare for Jailed Wobblies SACRAMENTO, Cal.—The state su- preme court has denied a rehearing in the case of 27 I. W. W. members arrested in Los Angeles and con- victed of criminal syndicalism. The case will not be appealed to the U. S. supreme court, for the defense can- not afford the expense. J. C. Robin- son, convicted with the other 26, had decision reversed and has been re- leased from San Quentin, where the others must serve from one to 14 years each. The supreme court states that the San Pedro strike, the cause of the arrests, was “riotous and tu- multuous,” without mentioning that the riot and tumult all came from the ship owners and their allies—as wit- ness the destructiion of the Marine —— ing of I. W. W. children with boiling coffee. LULU TEMPLE, Broad a and Speakers in United Front May Day Demonstration FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1925, at 7:30 P. M. ARNE SWABECK, of Pittsburgh BENJAMIN GITLOW, Member C. E. C., Workers Party Freiheit Singing Society—Lithuanian Chorus—Junior Y. W. L. Chorus—-Music— Solos nd Spring Garden Streets other Languages. eweoere-S |] aa aa a ar SATURDAY, MAY EAGLES TEMPLE, Broad Auspi starvation policy of the Amalgamated bureaucrats, —_—— . WF enon 50 Cents. Duncing—Refreshments—Pageant—Folk* Dancing 2, 1925, at 8uP. M. and Spring Garden Streets ces, Workers (lémmunist) Party. Now for immediate work. Miners; side of the enemy, the enemy which | ~-BAWLED OUT BY MINERS Members Hurl Defy at Operators’ Lackey WILKES BARRE, Pa., April 27.—At a special meeting of Local Union 1483, U. M. W. A., Wilkes Barre, Rinaldo Cappellini, district president, was called on to give an account of him- self and his administration in permit- ting several grievances of the local union to rest with the boss-controlled conciliation board for now nearly two years without settlement. Accompanied by a battery of other officials, Cappellini, speaking alter- nately in the Italian and English languages, tried to convince the min- ers assembled that he was the best president they ever had, and that he was fighting every minute of his lifé for them against the operators. Lots of Excuses. Glossing over the fact that during the eighteen months of his adminis- tration there has been so far 610 strikes and thousands of grievances 'yet unsettled which ultimately will bring more strikes, he made the weak excuse that he has many enemies, mostly his fleld workers, using their office in order to build a machine to effectively fight and embarrass him. He didn’t state why he didn’t fire these field workers, since they are but his appointees. Accusing the de- posed local officials of the Pittston field for being the paid employees of the coal company and responsible for the recent strike of the 12,000 miners’ of the Pennsylvania Coal company, he didn’t take the trouble to state why the coal company refused to work the mines affected after the strike until the local officials were removed. In a recent press statement Cap- pellini accused Brennen, ex-president and candidate again, for getting the men to strike so as to embarrass Cappellini. Skins Cappellini Alive. The miners listened attentively until Cappellini was thru, and then the fireworks began. Cappellini expected applause, but applause at that meet- ing was about as scarce as frog hair or hen’s teeth. In fact, there wasn’t any. The first spokesman of the rank and file was Pat Toohey, who, in a lengthy review of the administration of the faker, literally tore the hide off of him. Exposing the union-split- ting tactios of the Lewis gang, of which Cappellini is a part, Toohey recounted the revocation of the char- ters of the twelve “Pennsy” locals, the present’ situation at the Wood-4 ward colliery arising from their char- | ter being revoked some time ago by Cappellini. The “conciliation board” also came in for a scorching when the speaker explained slowly and in detail to the miners the procedure of this board and who controls it, and the reason why the grievances are unadjusted and when they are “adjusted” why it is that the miners are the ones to be usually on the losing end. Toohey was greeted with prolonged applause when he told the faker to his teeth that he was not capable of conducting a banana stand, let alone Transport Workers’ halland the scald- a district organization. Rank and Filers Take the Floor. Miners and officials from many oth- er locals were present so that they, too, could pay their respects to the | faker. Cappellini has not been seen much of late, anda getting him to a local union was an opportunity that couldn’t be missed. Man after maa, in their broxen lan- guages, told Cappellini exactly what they thought of him. In Febuttal Toohey was the prime object of attack by the faker. He didn’t take the trou- ble to answer the charges and state- ments made by Toohey but launched into a long-winded personal attack. This local union, at their last regu- lar meeting nominated the progressive slate for district offices. Trade Union Militants in New York City to Dance on Saturday NEW YORK, April 27.—-The East- ern District and the Needle Trades Section, Trade Union Educational League, has arranged a grand May carnival and ball for Saturday evening, May 2, at Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave. This will be a regu- lar get-together of all active trade union militants. Many attractive features have been arranged for to make this affair one to be mremembered. An excellent orchestra has been engaged to supply the tausic for the occasion. Many features have been provided for, but about that there will be more later. Just watch the press. The purpose of the affair is not only to give the comrades a gcod time, however. There is money needed to conduct the work. With the summer months approaching there is very lit- tle money coming in, but the work must go on. Getting a DAILY WORKER eub or two, will make a better Communis? »f you. Masters at Making Mem- Minneapolic Painters Find International Lined Up with Fakers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The ap- peal of Painters Local No, 186 to the building trades department of the A. F. of L, against the refusal of the local Building Trades Council to seat its delegates because it was a “red” lo- cal, is receiving no consideration from the officialdom. On January 22, five delegates were elected by Qog~ Local No. 186 as délegates to the Minneapolis Building Trades Council. They appeared at the next meeting and presented their credentials only to have them turned down because the local had issued a statement to the labor press in reply to an attack launched against it by the Minneapolis Star, in which they stated, ‘that our membership as indi- viduals shall at all times enjoy the right to affiliate themselves with any church, klan, political faction, political party, or social sect that they so de- sire, without being persecuted by our organization.” This statement was issued in reply to the charge made that the. local was under Communist influence and con- trol, and met with disfavor among the right wing because they had endeav- ored to drive the painters into the same witch-burning campaign that was being carried on by the reaction- aries. After the refusal of the Building Trades Council to seat their delegates, the local union appealed the case to the building trades department. In due time a reply was received that the matter must be taken up by the local thru the Painters’ Interna- tional which was immediately done. A few days ago a reply was receiv- ‘A.C, W. OFFICERS § CALL POLICE IN. # rage int WAR ON MEMBERS Martial Law at Union Square Meeting NEW YORK, April 27.—Five thou’ sand workers gathered here in peace- ful protest to show that they want a halt called to terrorism now prevail- ing in the New York joint board where the Hillman-Wolf-Forward gang has formed a holy alliance to exterminate any protest on the part of the mem- bership against the class-collaboration policy being practiced by these union bureaucrats. Suspensions and expul- sions have become the order of the day, even to the taking of workers off their jobs for daring to oppose these usurpers. No sooner did they gather in front of the general offices of the Amalga- mated than they were met by hun- dreds of police on horseback and on foot in true military formation. Plain- clothes men could be recognized all thru the crowd. Union Square looked as tho martial law had been declared against the rank and file by the labor aristocracy and bank president, Sid ney Hillman. Martial Law by Hillman’s Order. At a signal the police and plaim clothes men showed that they were there for business only. Riding rough shod into the dense mass of workers, they soon proved that the Russian cos- sacks of old had nothing on them when when it comes to breaking up ed from Chas. J. Lammert, general secretary-treasurer stating that the | letter, “has been received end will be | submitted to the general executive | board for information.” Not a word to indicate that they | would fight to protect the interests | of the local union in the controversy. | nied seats on January 22, four months | ago, but yet not a hand has been | turned to compel the council locally to live up to the constitution of the department. BRICKLAYERS AND PLASTERERS HAVE PRIZE FAKERS bers Scab By UNION BRICKLAYER. NEW YORK CITY, April 27.—At a conference of the building industry held here pertaining to the supposed tieup of $22,000,000 worth of building construction, it was brought plainly and positively to the notice of the workers how the bricklayers and plas- terers’ “representatives” sell them to both the sub-contractors and general contractors. This occurs whenever it happens ‘workers’ protest meetings even the ‘they are only against union officials. Why not? Are they not selling the workers out at every opportunity? Many workers fell in their mad at tempt to escape the horses’ hoofs, but where anyone fell behind, the plain- clothes men and the police on' fgot gangsters and members of the under- world were the last line of attack. They were stationed in front of the offices proper, because on them would fall the burden of recognizing anyone who dared come up to the office to deliver a personal protest. They were very well fit for that job, because in their steady work for the organiza- tion they have become acquainted with all those who are active in the uno. Officials Called Police. One could observe the Amalgamated officialdom looking thru the windows with an air of satisfaction at the splen- did work being done by the police in running down and beating up workers on the Square below them. But fo. -the workers who gathered there both members of the union and outsifers this was a shining example of the low depths to which the Amalgamated has sunk when they have to call on the police and the underworld to break up a demonstration of workers. The signs carried some of the fol lowing slogans: We Demand One Joint Board, Chicago Terror Against the Work ers Must Stop. Officials Must Not Get More Wages Than the Workers. to meet with these representatives’ financial approval, as in the southern | affair, and not in the interest of the | workers. As William Bowen, presi- | dent of the Bricklayers and Plasterers Union, stated at the said conference, he was working for the sub-contract- ors’ interest and not for the union, as quoted in the New York World. Union Imports Scabs Against its Members. Union bricklayers recall the scabby affair of the same bunch of labor fakers, Bowen, Preece and company, when they used the union members of Local 37 of New York city as scabs against the local of Rochester, N. Y.., paying their fare to Rochester to scab on their fellow workers for the inter- est of their masters—who paid them well for the faithful performance of their “duty.” Again, union bricklayers and plas- terers recall Vice President Thorn- ton’s action in January, 1924, selling Local No. 1 members of Philadelphia to Mr. Adkins, a scab contractor. And again union men recall the Boston open shop drive in 1921, when the official gang allowed the big boss, whom they pretended to fight, to es- tablish the open shop on our eastern local unions. Even the Capitalist Paper Says They Break Strikes. It is laughable to think that these labor fakers can be bought so cheaply by the masters and still expect the to them as labor leaders when the very same master who buys them so cheaply tells the world thru their capitalist papers that they are strike breakers. The New York Journal of April 1’, 1925, stated that the Bricklayers’ and Plasterers’ International ' Union im- ported their so-called unino men into Syracuse, N. Y. to break a strike and prevent the workers there from get ting a living wage. The officials of this union are among the champion strike breakers of the U. S. A. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. $a Stop the Reduction In Wages and the Increased Production. Down With the Round Table Confer ences With the Bosses. All Settle 'ments Should Be Made In the Oper and Not Behind the Backes of the Workers. Against 50 Cents Dues. , ri ‘Workers in Big oad Buildings Slaves, ~ Says Professo1 NEW YORK, April 27. — “You @= you don’t like militarism t# Amerita,’ Dr. Cornelius Gurlitt, president efth: German Town Planning Institute an: professor in the Technical Universit; at Dresden, remarked, “but the work ers in your big buildings do mot di things of their own volifien, The: are obeying orders from many peo ple all day long. The men whe liv: and work here seem more like mum bers.” The professor is attending the In ternational City and Regional Plan | ning conference in New York and wa ;commenting on the famous skylin | of Manhattan. “The skyline is fap tastic but you see nothing but a serie ‘of jagged peaks. Not one of the tow 'ers seems to have any relation to ar ‘other. The skyscrapers have dignit, for everything great has dignity, bu it seems to me they take away 4 individuality from the thous clerks who work in them.” bricklayers and plasterers to look up | GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! —_———— Eat at the GLOBE CAFETERIA Best Foods at Moderate Prices. 14th STREET, COR. IRVING PLAC (Opposite New York Party Headquarters) ——_————— | Philadelphia, Notice! | Weber Printing Co. | 350 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. : - . Sef y . The delegates of the local were de-/| finished the job. The private army ot | ~_——== ere Y
Page 10
+ a iftas rey : = ' lawyer in Milwaukee and counsel for |ton brings back his scab/ contract it gga acre lls lial: ate Hat Trenton—8 p. m. Sadi Amter and/ang s. R. S., May 2, 8 p. m., Work- f on Tt orget the Moose order until he came to/|will be turned down. p ere Pat Toohey. ers Hall Yat >| Washington with Davis in 1913. Harry There is one smal] mine here that _ eee ee OHIO i Wis., S : Hull. f I , 8 p. m. S. Darcy and others. Racine, Wis., Slovak 8S. R. S., May 2, th N Y k | ull, former lowa congressman, is |tried the same game, but the eoal Jere City—Ukraini Hall. 387 Akron—2 p. m. J. Louis Engdahi. 7 p. m., Slovak Sokol Hall. Speaker e ew or urged by Sen. Commins for Henning’s | came down in one solid chunk and the Rcatbee & tA apes ' “ , 4 Canton—7:30 p. m. Typographical K Wesenih i. , . . . place in the labor department. men would have to kill themselves at others -s Seat ee ORE! Ualen Hall, 211 North Market street, Torrinaton. Conn., S. R. S. May 2 : that. So the mine had to shut down.| gayonne—8 p .m., Labor Lyceum, 72| "itd floor. J. Louis Engdahl. 7:30 p. m., Czecho-Slovak Hall. rhe motto of organi: P y ‘ Toledo—Labor Temple, Jefferson JOHN REED JUNIOR et RE nOd Saver SEOUIn |W. 25th Ot. Ges. Prime and where.) eee me oe ee on eee] WORT Ls ew 2 Oe i pact —_ h ane collaboration : NEW YORK PI ees neon = rid aia (Slovak and Polish workers’ organi- ' GROUP PLANS BIG the Red International at Lary txe| New York—Central Opera House,| Warren—Hippodrome Hall, High st. |2#tions), James Picco’s Hall, 8 p. m. an a vel ed international of Labor Un-| 67th St. and 3rd avenue, 8 p.m. Wil- at 2. m Melee Finberg, Finnish, | 5Pe@ker, E. Rumburgh. NIGHT ON MAY 23 ) ala se liam 2. Foster, Moissaye Olgin, W./& pijjuga, So. Slavic, A. V. Severino. | Staunton, Ill, May 1, 3 p m, Visit Dead, Meet Dead Weinstone, L. Lore, J. Stachel, C. E. Liverpool—J. A. Hamilton. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1925 Labor Lyceum, Slovak, Czech and Polish or- SPP UOT OTTO TTT T ATCT TATA \ : GSS izations §S ‘ Tell it to the kids! No, it airft PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 27.—Re-| Krumbein, chairman. PERNNOVLVANIA = Seaalontt, N ag ay maceeihidd oe a circus, but the surprise af- | turning home after viewing the body Buffalo—Earl R. Browder. ob ge YT “7 -- wo re 101 Hill Ave. S ‘R S. ond Czecho- 4 air that is being arranged by the (of a friend who djed Saturday, Mi- Brooklyn— Grand Millers Hali,| °°Um, ler St. or Ry OSE NOS NS. , i Rats te > HARLEM CASINO John Reed Junior Group. They pro- | chael McGing, 30, was instantly killed | Grand and Havenmeyer °Sts., at 8 p. Erie—Ear! R. Browder. mca Pig i ge ma branch, 7 p. m. ‘ 116th St. and Lenox Avenue mise and interesting evening on j|and Ratrick Munroe, 27, and Martin|m. Wm. Z. Foster, S. Epstein, |. Am- Btanapere—F lanee, Ps 8: O Me ; ihren Sat., May 23, at the, Workers’ Home, | Canavey were seriously injured when | ter, J. S. Poyntz, #4. Zam (Y. W. L.), J. S. Otis. ‘ ADMISSION 50 CENTS 1902 W. Division .$t, They won’t | they were run down, by a fast Balti-|L. Pruseika (Lithuamian), S. Nessin,| 04!sytown—Afteroon. Fred H. Mer. Does your friend subscribe to en on a ~~ yh 1 or Eleve rons a po Bley yee Y k Uknai aoe YOR | oe DAILY WORKER? Ack him! ; oa ie : eit ae ) u ey assure that it w e eventh street crogging at Braddock, ew York— ren celebration.| NE K . . y J : | e se . . : Auspices, Eastern ate _ meg: Trades Section, >} 2 real surprise, dance, and a good | Pa., near here this qmorning. Munroe | Manhattan Lyceume®6 E..4th St. at} Yonkers—Labor Lyceum, “3 Pali- a j | time in general, So don’t forget, | may die, it was r at the hos-|8 p.m. G. Siskind, and others. sade Ave., at 8 p. m. &. Grecht and Get a sub—make another Com- tell it to the kids! pital where be was ‘ , - ° ane
Page 11
i A a Y. W. L. GAMPAIG) ON TO ORGANIZE NEGRO WORKERS) Phillips to Visit All Chi- cago Branches ‘A committee elected by the last city central committee of the Young Workers League Local Chicago for the Negro work, has just met and out- lined a plan of preliminary activities for a campaign to organize young Negio workers, the most exploited of all the young workers. All the branches and nuclei are in- structed to get information from their membership thru inquiry of the fac- tories employing young Negro work- ers in their territory, as well as Negro residential districts, so that a city wide campaign may be started, par- ticipated in by every branch and nucleus. ’ Survey Under Way Comrades of the committee were charged with gathering information on the industries employing young Negro workers if thé city of Chicago, others were instructed to gather in- formation on organizationse wher many young Negro workers hold mem- bership, clubs, etc. so that we can approach them there, A systematic plan of work has been proposed for Branch No. 3, so that its program will be balanced and the Negroes gotten into the League and kept there on the basis of our de meand, our program and our activity and not Bi 0 on sentimental, social or racial lines. They must be drawn into League activity at once and the city executive must at once prepare a series of lectures on the varioug phases of league work to be presented at the branch by capable comrades. Shop talks should be encouraged and wherever possible, nuclei should be formed at once. A committee was appointed to draw up @ propaganda leaflet containing a combination membership and YOUNG WORKER sub blank. Street meetings and. noon-day .meetings should be ar- ranged. at. stockyards and other places where possibilities exist. Phillips To Visit All Branches The city is also touring Comrade Phillips thru all the branches to ac quaint the membership most thorough- ly with our program and our camp- aign among the young Negro work- ers and to get .the branches 100 per cent behind this. activity. Our goal is to get 100 young Negro workers into our ranks in the next two..or three months and.with the active support of all the branches in the campaigns planned, with the Negro committee elected by the C. Cc. C.- on the job and with the co- operation of the: Workers Party which is also planning a campaign, there is no reason why this modest goal should not be surpassed. BRUSSELS—Aloys Van de Vyvere, financier and statesman, declines kings’ request to form cabinet. 1| SURF -per cent in-1880....From 1880 on the R 8 eo! An increasing surplus. of low-paid “OF UNEMPLOYED MEN. "DISPLACE WOMEN IN COTTON ~ MILLS AT EVEN LOWER WAGES 7 THE SAS H By LELAND OLDS ia. @ re (Federated Press Industrial Editor) male labor available to industry ap- pears to be reversing the trend which brought tens of thousands of women into thé cotton milis; A study of the industry by Ethelbert Stewart, U, 8. women operatives since 1850. says. By 1870 the percentage was 62. ment of machinery in the industry commissioner of labor statistics, finds a steady decrease in the proportion of Women constituted 64 per cent of all cotton mill operatives in 1860, he After a decade of wonderful develop- female employes had dropped to 57 decrease became/mpre rapid, dropping to 44 per cent in 1909, 42 per cent in 1914 and rising slightly to 43 per cent in 1919 as a result.of the. war shortage of men. , From 1907 to 1924 the hureau of la- bor has full payroll-data for selected occupations from a large number of mills. The percentage of women to the total employed: in four of these occupations was: ~’ Percentage of Women in Cotton Mills. Frame Speeder Spin- Weav- tenders tenders ners ers Pet. Pet. : eAIA | a 1907 ....... ee a Bae 1908 ........ is Sn oe 1909 ........ ee a 1910 eesssrn ie oe oe 1911 ........ 400074 O90té«é 1912... i. ee it We 2 eo on Ww CR eee Oo Be 1916 ........ a @ uM Oe nm 7. 8 1920 or... a) 1922 ....... “Eee hee ee 1924 ........ 46 5B 69048 The decrease in the proportion of women operatives, altho, interrupted by the shortage of labor during the European war, is obvious. Men Work for Less Wages than Women: Comparative hourly earnings of male and female workers in the oc- cupatiohs shown in 1924 were: frame tenders, male 29.5 cts., female $1.1 cts.; speeder tenders, malé 39.4ctz., female 41.1 cts.; frame spinnérs; male 86.9 cts., female $1.9 cts.; Vers, male 44.9 cts. and female 42.9 cts. Cotton mill owners are finding ‘plenty of men willing to Work for ‘approxi- tives. This suggests a partial explanation of the rather unexpected trend; «When power spinning first created .cotton mills, women were forced to take jobs jat wages far below those to, which men were accustomed because the, machines had deprived men of . their craft. But the enormous produeti ty, of modern machines has created an increasing surplus of -male~ labor; swellen by the thousands whe. are leaving the unprofitable farma An this new surplus. of labor the «cotton mill barons are finding plenty ofi men at low wages. sean t U. S. S. R. Buys 357,000 Tons of Fiour MOSCOW, {By Rosta).—It- isore- liably learned that up to March 20th, the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics has purchased abroad 357,000 tons of British and American wheat flour. mately the wages paid women operd- | |New Soviet Decree to Stop Landlords’ Abuse o of Peasants (Special to The © Dally Worker) MOSCOW, (By Rosta).—The Presi- dium of the central executive commit- tee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has approved the bill de- priving the former landlords of noble stock and their families of the right to use and (live in the goods that had belonged them prior to the nation- alization of land in 1917. This law will affect 56,123 ex-landlords, who have still been living in their former goods covering a total area of some 65,000 dessiatins (2.71 acres) of land In the motives produced in expla- nation of the new decree, it is point- ed out that seven years’ experience has amply demonstrated that not only did those landlords who were left on their lands fail to carry on cultural economy, but, on the contrary, in most cases, they have been ruining the property which the state had left them in charge of, sabotaging gov- ernment efforts to raise the general level of agricultural industry in the Union of Soviet Republics, and—gen- erally— -trying to exploit the peas- ants in some way or another, thus often causing sharp dissatisfaction among the farming population. Took All But the Safe SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, April 27.— Thieves early today carried a 600 pound safe from the box office of the Savoy Theater here, “jimmed” the lock and escaped with $600, leaving o% a HE DAILY. WORKER PRICELES, ART OBJECTSIIN THE MOSCO "MUSEUM Nisianeteans Tdditions of Famous Paintings A special article in the cultural seo tion of the Russian Review for May 1, describes the remarkable progress accomplished since the revolution by the famous National Hermitage Muse- um of Leningrad. © The collections, which had for the most part been é¢vacuated to Moscow for safety, have not only been restor- ed, but numerous additions of price less paintings, sewiptures and other art objects have beén made. Famous Rembrandt Room. Despite the enormous difficulties and hasards of stich an undertaking the evacuated art collections were re- turned unharmed to the museum early im November of 1920. Scarcely a week after the arrival of ‘the material, the Rembrandt room, probably the most famous art group in the world, was opened to the public, and within six ‘it weeks all the twenty rooms of the picture galleries had been restored. Among the new.exhibits opened by the Hermitage Museum is an import- ant one covering the applied arts of the middle ages and the Renaissance, which consists of 15 rooms in a re- serve wing occupying one-half of the winter palace. The porcelains in this division are of such wealth and oom- pleteness as to arouse the envy of any Huropean museum. Eastern Collection. Many other precious acquisitions have been made and interesting new exhibits have been organized by the museum, including a collection of laces of the seventeenth and eight- eenth centuries, and sections of Egyptian, Mussulman, Scythian, and Chinese art. , In connection with the various ex- hibits a number of splendid illustrat- the safe near the rear door. bs catalogs ‘-havé been published by the museum. ASWESEEIT -: By T. J. O'Flaherty (Continued from page 1) of Ireland. A copy of Sinn Fein, of: ficial organ of the republican party of Ireland has an article by Mrs. Des- pard, member of the Workers’ Inter- national Relief Committee in Dublin, ir} which draws an awful picture of the conditions under which the Irish peasants are now living. But the government tha shot down Liam Mek lows, Rory O’Connor and many other rebels and spent millions of dollars in murdering and scattering the re- publican fighters for Irish freedom, allow the peasants—the backbone of Ireland—to die with hunger and dis- ease brought on by hunger. >’ * ® T is to prevent such a consumma- tion that the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Relief Committee was or- | ganized in the United States, on the Your Union Meeting | Appeal for Irish Famine Relief Fourth Tuesday, April 28, 1925. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 N. Robey St. 1383 Boot and Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- waukee 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Monroe St. 378 Brick and x Workers, Paving Inspectors, Washington. Calumet Joint yg 514 W. 117th ree 58 Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. pi Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th Carpenters, Moose Halil, Chicago Helghts. 461 Carpenters. Witten’s Hall, High- land Park, 1. Carpenters, 'Sprin field and 26th. Cierra. Grocery, W. Van Buren t. 15 Conductors (steeping Car), Capitol 1 381 Siecttisians. i 505. 3. State St. Electricians, 741 S. Western Ave. $02 Engineers ({Loc.) ), 5058 Wentworth Vv e. Engineers, 180 W. wgengten Ss. a gy lB, (Loc.), 2433 Roo Vv oa Engineers (Loe.) 35th St. Egg Inspecto “ie N Clark St. om ral Reaptaves. 64 W. Randolph 27 et. 18441 Federal Union, 3046 W. 26th 715 Firemen and Enginemen, , ee and Taylor 20 a, Trimmers), 166 W. Wash- 5 Hod Carriers, 225 E. 15th St., Chi- cago Heights, Iti. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 27 wed Rarriere, 62nd and La Vergne 715 Hod. Bakes: 814 W. Harrison *~ 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W Van Buren. 12 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adame St. 17 ather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. Machinists, 2548 S. H . Machinists, 4126 W. Lake St. Machinists, 546 meas Suttore, 175 W. Washington ree 571 Meat Cutters, 9206 Houston Ave. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 ark. Musicians, 175 W,. Washington St. Hall, Oak Park. Randolph St. cor. California and See p- m. Nurses, Funk's Painters, 20 W. eres N. E. 10 7 147 180 adi 184 Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 191 Painters, N. W. cor. State and 55th. 275 PAINTERS, 220 W. OAK S&T. $21 “80 402 inters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. lasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. lurmmbers, 1507 Ogden Ave lumbers, 180 W. ere Uv Washington St. tttiweet 41 111 Ww. Madis St. 415 Railway ‘Sarme en, ose Fellows" Hall, Biue isiand, ill. 7:30 > = Railway Carmen, 1103 Michigan 5324 S. Halsted 352 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington 739 Railway Clerks, Moose Halil, Chi- cago Heights. 906 Railway Clerks, 5438 S. Halsted St. ee Clerks, 509 W. Washing. 375 Railroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- Street. Teameters’ Dis. Council, 220 §&. Ashiand Bivd. 727 Tegmetere (Auto), 220 S. Ashland 67 Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. 7 Waiters, 234 W. Se Iph hy ve. Railway Carmen, Ciste— Unie, or thermtce "onaaths al meetings are x TF} \ o N.| that this revolutionary spirit is des- (Continued from page 1) months, a cruel, enemy governs, the hunger. Without difference, many people, old and young, are dying. And “Merry old England”—the coun- tries of “His majesty the King” and of the honorable lords, the bourgeois England of the exchange gentlemen, is celebrating a merry funeral on the tombs of the Irish peasants. The wealthy England—the England of the bankers, of the businessmen, who understand how to turn pure gold out of the bloody pain of the destitute slaves in the colonies, this DEngland does not make the least attempt to diminish the distress of the Irish peas- ants, husbands and wives, children and parents. The terrible famine of the hundreds of thousands of Irish peasants is a very desirable ally for the exchange jobbers, for the men of the city, for the hypocrites the priests “christ- ian brotherhood” for the givilized landlords. It is their policy of their Great Britain to spread slavery everywhere, on this basis to govern the countries and seas, And yet, the iron heel of English capitalism did not suéceed in suppressing the national revolution- ary movement: of.the Irish peasants. We must not admit, not by any means, troyed by this pitiless ally of the rul- ing classes—hunger, The corrupt, servile press of the bankers, tries to hide the terrible facts of the famine, which takes the lives of our Irish brothers. It must not succeed. We will not be silent, we cannot be silent. The Peasants’ International, which unites millions of peasants in the whole world, and which works hand in hand with the working class for the freedom of the’ peasants—the Interna- tional Peasants’ Council appeals to the peasants of*all- countries, to come to the assistance of their Irish broth- ers, who are’*desperately fighting against the famine. This assistance will be the best support, for their heroic fight for the freedom of Ire- land, for the common cause of the workers and peasants of all lands. | Workers and: Peasants of all Lands. The whole world has already re sponded to the cry of distress of your suffering brothers, The Workers’ In- ternational Relief, this thoro proleta- rian workers’ organization is coming to the assistance of the starving peo- ple of Ireland and by its committees all over the world is organizing a cam- paign for collection of money, food- stuffs, etc. Already distribution of food takes place in the famine dis- tricts. But the distress is great. The cam- paign of the W. I. R. must be sup- ported by the workers and peasants of the whole world. The working cl@es already fulfills its duty. The International Peasants’ Council] greets the W. I. R. and heart- ily thanks her for the international solidarity and help which it gives to the Irish peasants. Peasants! It is your turn now! Peasants and workers of all lands! Do not allow hundreds of thou- sands of your brothers, tested fight- ers for the proletarian cause, starve. Every peasant, every agricultural worker, must hurry, to contribute his share, however little it may be. Many people can feed one starving fellow- worker. The peasantry of all lands must support and develop the relief action started by the W. I. R. The workers have done their duty, now fulfill yours. Send your contributions to the W. IL. R., who aids your comrades. Stigmatize the shameful policy of the British landlords and of the exchange- gentlemen. Long live the brotherly solidarity of the peasants and workers of the whole world! Up the yictory of the’ peas- ants’ and workers’ cause in the whole world! Long live the W. I. R.! Long live the Peasants’ International! Peas- ants of the world, unite! For the presidency of the Interna- tional Peasants’ Council: Dombal (Poland), Renand Jean (Marius Ba- sell) (France), Otto Rydlo (Czecho- Slovakia), Gorow (Bulgaria), Richard Buergi(Germany), Orlow (U. S. S. R.), Gorow (Scandinavia): Alonzo (Spain), Odinez (Ukrainia), Chudaukulow (Us- bekia-Central Asia), Nguen-Ai-Kwak (Indo-China), Ursulio Galwan (Mex- ico), Green (America), Ken-Chaijaski (Japan), Teng (Bsthonia), Ruggiero authority of the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief which has a section in Ireland, in charge of Robert Stewart. On this committee in Ireland are such women as.Mrs. Sheehy Skeff- ington, Mrs. Despard and Maude Gon- ne McBride, Peadar O’Donnel of Don- egal, well knowm republican revolu- tionary leader is,also a member. The Irish workers fi the United States should lose no time.in coming to the aid of their kith and kin at home. The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Re- lief Committee, with headquarters at 19 8S. Lincoln street, will see that do- nations go to the needy. > 7 * ID you ever hear of the industrial Round Table? This is an institu- tion which invites prominent business men and labor leaders to luncheon occasionally in order to discuss the problems of industry from the cap- italist point of view. Secretary of Commerce Hoover and William Green, head of the A. F. of L., were the head- liners at a recent meeting of this out- fit in New York, The New York Times is happy in the thought that Green is less violent than his pre- decessor Gompers. This is funny. * > * NE labor leader sald he believed in “ democratic control of industry provided industry was properly con- trolled. What did the labor leader mean? Surely he does not think that industry should be controlled by the workers! That would be Bolshevistic. Old socialists were fond of rolling their tongues around such phrases as “government ownership, democratic- aliy controlled.” But the big question was, who should dp the controlling? .* *) * NLY a short time ago, the bosses wefe ‘making great strides in or- ganizing company unions. But since “B. & O.” Bill Johnston invented his famous plan of union class collabora- tion, and the employers’ discovered that it is ever so much more efficient than a union officially under their con- trol, they have devoted their energies to turning the labor unions into com- pany unions. The labor fakers, usu- ally antagonistic to any kind of a theory for fear the germs of Com- munism might be lurking inside of it, developed the idea that the real func- tion of a labor union should be not to fight the bosses for better working conditions and more wages, but to co-operate with the bosses in running industry, for the bosses of course. 7” 7 - HIS pernicious poison must be counteracted. The leadership of such men as William Green is a dead- ly danger to the American trade un- ion movement. It must be fought and driven into the camp of the enemy where it belongs. The unions must be made fighting instruments to force the bosses to cough up more and more of the profité wrung out of the workers and to fight for the emanci- pation of the workers from exploita- tion. This idea, givén organizational expression by the Trade Union Edv- cational League will conquer the un- ions for the revol and drive the Greens openly into*the arms of the capitalists while tte Fosters will lead Rossi (Italy), o"« .be aw Oo. oho ’ the working class to Victory over the dead body of BUILDERS ATS MONESSEN LEADS WITH FULL QUOTA 6 art A WORK Five Locals Half Way or Over in Campaign the campaign. here is With the Second Annual Sub Campaign not quite at the halfway mark, one elty has already filled ite quota and five others have reached or have gone over the halfway station. But these are not the mest hopeful signs. The past week has shown decided general gains among other locals. neapolis, Springeld, Detroit, Philadelphia and Milwaukée particularly have not only sent in large batches of subse but also show more organi- zational campaign strength that promote well for the second half of New York, St. Paul, Min- The DAILY WORKER Distribution Week of May 4 to 10 alone is sure to throw many locals to the tep of the race. As it stands today THE RACE In the Second Annual Sub Campaign. Wis.; Zalto, Bentleyville, Pa.; Tuolumne, Cal,; Dayton, 0.; Indianapolis, Ind. Subs Per Cent . vw Sentine Quota Filled Ménessen, Pa.” ......: nae: 1 10 100 Pittsburg, Kan. 7 10 70 Eureka, Cal. 6 10 60 West Allis, Wis. 6 10 60 Pocatello, Ida. 5 10 50 New Orleans, Le. 5 10 50 Milwaukee, Wis. 54 125 43 Jamestown, N. Y 4 10 40 Philadelphia, Pa. 87 260 36 Roundup, Mont. 3 10 30 Trenton, N. J, 3 10 30 Mass, Mich. 3 10 30 West Concord, N. H. 3 10 30 Omaha, Neb. 14 50 28 Springfield, Ill. 14 50 28 Worcester, Maes. 8 40 20 Blair Station, Pa. 2 10 20 Chisholm, Minn. 2 10 20 Cateret, N. J. 2 10 20 ‘Pottsville, Pa. « 2 10 20 Springwell, Mich. - ’ 2 10 20 Coscob, Conn. tapes 2 10 20 Canton, O. . 6 30 19.8 Revere, Mass. oe 5 30 17 Christopher, Ill. penesebt opeedesh sp 6 40 16 Buffalo, N. Y. ones 16 100 16 St. Paul, Minn. aopey sees 21 135 15 Minneapolis, Minn. ; és 30 200 15 Superior, Wis. : 04 ob edube 9 60 15 Los Angeles, Cal. 20 150 14 Detroit, Mich. 73 500 14 Hanna, Wyo. 7 50 14 San’ Francleco, Cal. - 22 170 13 Portiand, Ore. ye 8 60 13 Providence, R. I. ipopyebesbedin 4 30 13 Denver, Colo. ... oneal « 50 12 Pontiac, Mich. woes 3 24 12 South Bend, Ind. - 4 40 10 | St..Louts, Mo. ereeees 10 100 10 West New York, N. J. MEW 4 2 20 10 Kansas City, Kan. 2 20 10 These cities have secured one sub fn a quota of 10: Johnstown, Pa.; New Brunswick, N. J.; Coverdale, Pa., Madison, Iil,; Kincaid, I!.; Brule, ; Sunrise, Wyo.; weedlawn, Pa.; Miami, Fla.; Sisterville, W. Va.; Port Vule, Pa.; Salt Lake’ City, Utah; Cheewick, Pa.; Hibbing, Minn.; Alliance, 0.; Hancock, Mich.; Rochester, Minn.; Utica, N. Y.; San. Antonio, Texas; Passaic, N. J.; subs: CHICAGO, ILL.—Hans Johnson. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. ST. PAUL, MINN,.—Gustave Skandera. OAKLAND, CAL.—P. B. Cowdery (5). CLEVELAND, 0O.—P. Lukachie (3). PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Pat Toohey (2); Mary Rothman. POCATELLO, IDA.—Scandinavian branch, Workers Party. BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Puitur (2); R. Zelme. KANSAS CITY, MO.—S. Kassen; E. Gitterman. Hartford, Conn. ons . 30 10 Boston, Mase. 19 200 9.5 New York, N. Y. 121 1500 8.3 Kansas City, Mo, ove 8 100 8 Toledo, O. 16 200 8 Rockford, Ill. 4 5$ 8 Muskegen, Mich. 2 25 8 Pittsburgh, Pa. 19 250 7.7 Richmond, W. Va. “ 1 15 6.6 Rochester, N. Y. ‘ 3 50 6 Cincinnati, O. 3 50 6 Stamford, Conn. 1 15 6 Sioux City, ta. 1 15 6 Chicago, Ill. a. 83 1500 5.5 Neffs, O. 1 20 § Baltimore, Md. 3 75 3.9 New Haven; Conn. 1 30 3.3 Astoria, Ore. denis “ 1 30 3.3 Elizabeth, N. J. ian 1 30 3.3 West Frankfort, Ill. 1 35 2.8 McKeesport, Pa. 1 40 2.5 Zeigter, Ill. . 1 40 2.5 e* *« @ @ SATURDAY, APRIL 25. Subs came in from the following locals and comrades, with that wel! known Minneapolis BUILDER and fighter in the lead with eleven new Stevens (11). CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—F. Lundvall, Page Five PROGRESSIVE BARBERS FORM CHICAGO GROUP Plan to Give Series of Lectures for Members By |. EITINGON. The progressive barbers of Local 548 of the present cannot be compared with any former factions in our un- ion that called themselves progres- sives. Such former progressives were not so different from the present re- actionaries who contrel the union. They never represented anybody except themselves, and were plainly nothing else than job seekrs and hold- rs. Their interest laid in other flelds than the raising of the rank and file morale. They always considered the mass in the union as a buch of cattle, ignorant and satisfied. The principal interest of the presessive group is our union. The men who believe in the principles of the group are the most advanced and militant of the rank and fillers. Every one of them works all week long at the barber chair. They represent the best as far as mechanics are concerned. Many have large fam- ilies which they support. Want Real Fighting Union. The best interests of the union are those of the progressives. They want a union with a backbone, and a union that is able to enforce its will against the bosses, instead of a weak organi- zation which has to co-operate and fol- low the dictates of the master barbers. The group is therefore, a voluntary association of members of Local 648 who think in much the same way con- cerning the problems confronting our Porte Rice to Be Shown WASHINGTON, April 27.—Sailing orders for the Los Angeles to operate at the captain's discretion were issued today by the navy department on the eve of the airship’s flight to Porto Rico. The only destriction was that the Los Angeles cannot fly over fore- ign territory. This action was taken on 1eceipt of a request from Captain Steele, her commanding officer for permission to remain several days in Porto Rican waters and make flights over the Virgin Island and elsewhere. Wife, 26, Slays Husband, 52. MINEOLA, N. Y¥., April 27.-—Mres. | Lottie Bauer, 26 year old mother of Fred, iL. L, grants perish in showstorm, two small children today confessed she killed her 52-year old husband, in their hotie° at Hempstead, by wresting’ ffom him the gun with which he thteateried her, and fring a bullet into th head. SEOUL—Two litigited Korean emi- | LOVETT FORT-WHITEMAN IN TALK ON NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS IN MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 27.— Lovett Fort-Whiteman, national or- ganizer of the American Negro La- bor Congress will speak here on Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p. m., at the U. N. |. A. Hall, corner 3rd and Walnut streets. Whiteman is a wel! known Negro organizer and speaker in Chicago. He has some interesting things to relate about the congress. Every white worker as well as Negre should become acquainted with the aims and scope of this or- ganization. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Milwaukee com- mittee for the organization of the Negro Labor Congress to which the Workers Party gives its full sup- port. | union. | For Workers’ Not Capitalist Politics The group aims at the betterment 0. ‘our union, and a union united on an | international scale. One that believes in its workers having their own po- litical party and one. that will be in- dependent of capitalist political par- ties and bosses. We want a union for the rank and file and not an organiza- tion gathered for the purpose of pay- ing business agents’ salaries or of be- ing a branch of the bosses’ union to follow their will. The main aim of the group is to educate the workers in our craft. To this end we are going to give a series of lectures on problems vital to the workers. These lectures will be given by brothers active in the union and nationally known labor leaders will also be invited to speak ‘efore us, The Lectures. The series of the lectures to be giv- en by the Chicago Barbers’ Progres- sive Group will deal with such sub- jects as economics, arbitration in la- bor disputes, the struggie of classes, the dynamics of trade unionism, and other interesting subjects to workers. The time and place will be an- nounced later in the DAILY WORKER. So don’t miss an issue from now on. The first lecture will be given by Brother Joe Giganti on the subject of economic background of class antagonisms, Don’t fail to come. If you will write to I. Eitingon, 1323 N. Artesian Ave., he will inform you as to the date and place. Every barber in Chicago is welcome. PACKERS’ SLAVES FEAR FOR JOBS, WATCH MEETING Few Approach the Hall, Others Duck By TOM MATTHEWS CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa.—The Brit ish owners of the Sinclair Packing plant here have their employes well- itrained. They love their 37 cent wage like real wage slaves should. | “What's the matter with these | stiffs that they didn’t show up last night?” I asked a more loquacious slave at the gate. “You can’t get these birds out to anything that will jeopardize their jobs,” he responded. “This plant only works three or four days in the sum- mer, but if you make the least sug- gestion about organization in any shape or form, your job’s kaflooy.” This appeared to be true, as a num- ‘ber of slaves loitered about the hall ‘where our meeting was scheduled lwith the idea of reaching the pack- ling house, but only a handful dared ‘to enter The “Company Union” It appears that Sinclair, too, has its fake company-union organization. Oc- casionally a bright slave is honored with a wage increase of as much as one or two cents an hour About one hundred women workers are employed at wages ranging from 16 to 23 cents an hour for the great imajority, only a few with long ex- |perience receivipg up to 31 cents. i'Thus are the their loyalty. workers rewarded for —— — es (By The Federated Press) NORWALK, Conn., April 27.—Hat production at the American Hat Com- pany plant has been cut 200 dosen daily by the strike now in progress.
Page 12
en ee oo ee eS ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: 16.00 per year, : $3.50...6 months $2.00... monthe “By mail (in a only): 68.00 per year $4.50....6 $2.50... ‘months ‘Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER ta w. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLI AM F. DUNNE} wanes MORITZ J. LOEB. s-eeseemeseamsener- BUSIROSS Manager tered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- - Qatered an socond Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. -_- Advertising rates os appcatien Chicago, Hiinele American Policy in Bulgaria Some one should write a monograph on_ the counter-revolutionary role of American ambassa- dors who, with a satchel of Morgan gold in one hand .and a.sheaf:of foreclosures in the other, .ap- pear at the: headquarters of the bankrupt states at critical mdéments and deliver ultimatums as to the course to be pursued. When two’or more of the anemic products of Wilsonian se¢lf-determination subject to modifica- tions by Lioyd George and Clemenceau, Jugo- Slavia and Bulgaria for instance, are about to fly at one another’s throats, the American ambassador appears as peacemaker. (Loud applause from the social-patriots, liberals and pacifists.) But the peace is a peace of dictators and not of peoples. In both Jugo-Slavia and Bulgaria the most horrible atrocities are perpetrated on the workers and peasants. The American ambassador does not protest against these mass murders, but sends out messages that “the situation has im- proved (in Bulgaria). A number of executions have taken place and about 1,500 arrests have been made.” Charles 8. Wilson is the American ambassador to Bulgaria. The dispatches to the capitalist press under a Sofia date-line say: - ++» » United States minister played a leading role in averting a crisis in the relations between Bulgaria and Jugo-Slavia. He visited the Bulgarian office once or twice daily during the trouble and energetically insisted that it not throw the respon- sibility for the bomb explosion on the Jugo-Slavian government, even tho it was that the instructions inside the bomb were written in Serbian ..... that bombs and arms came from Jugo-Slavia ..... that the band which attacked King Boris came from Jugo-Siavia ...., the Bulgarian government im- mediately accepted Mr. Wilson’s viewpoint. It is thra:the good offices of the American am- bassador then, that instead of blaming the Jugo- Slavian government for the bomb explosion the Zankoy government decided to blame the Bul- garian Communists and begin a campaign of ex- termination of militant workers and peasants with an added, force: of 10,000. Wrangel bandits which the allied imperjaliste, . over the protests of the Greek and Jugo-Slavian governments, allowed it to recruit. The slaughter .of the Bulgarian workers and peasants ie the bloody fruit of the policy of Amer- ican imperialism.. Without a soldier on Bulgarian soil or even on the eontinent of Europe, by finan- cial pressure alone, the American government dic- tates policy in the Balkans and wages war on the working class. © ~ It is no exaggeration when we say that Amer- ican capitalism is the backbone, heart and sinew of world counter-revolution. The Daily Worker in Jail The DAILY WORKER has more trouble trying to break into prison than Communists have in getting out. i - The German fs Straggle harpens The capitalist press sees ‘in ‘the election of Hin- denburg proof of the innate Tove of the German people for monarchy, but'it is nothing of the sort. The social-democracy and its allies in the coali- tion offered the masses nothing but slavery to American and allied imperialism with the House of Morgan in the role of slave-driver. Their appeal to the German people was for more widespread and willing acceptance of the Dawes plan, uncom- plaining servility in return for larger loans to the industrial lords and more systematic robbery of the masses. In essence the plea of the social-democrats, the most vociferous section of the coalition, was for compliance with all demands of German capital- ism and an endorsement of its policy on questions of reparations and industrial revival. It was an invitation to the masses to: weld’ a double chain around their necks—the chain of the German in- dustrial lords and that of the House of Morgan. The surrender of the social-democracy -was an unconditional one and the abject manner in which they had capitulated to such crooks as Barmat. left no doubt in the minds of millions of Germans that their sell-out to the big industrialists and the allied bankers would be complete. The nationalists, fascists to the core, yet made some pretense of preserving the identity of the German nation. They will be harder for the House of Morgan to deal with than the social-democrats and the other parties of the coalition. Backed by the Prussian landlords and the reactionary agri- cultural middle class, whose need for foreign loans is not pressing, the nationalists; by threatening to claim and work for the lost German provinces— Lorraine and Upper Silesia—and vigorously promoting the annexation of Austria, will be. able to secure more fayorable terms for the German state from the allied finance-capitalists. The Dawes plan is not popular in Germany and it was only by strenuous efforts that the approval of the nationalists was secured for it. The_ tariff walls erected by the other European nations have checked the free outward flow of German com- modities, hampered the rapid revival of German industry and served to accentuate the slave feat- ures of the scheme. The artificial optimism created by the social-democrats has worn off and the Ger- man masses feel that even a monarchy can be no worse than the-constant betrayals of the social- democracy, perpetrated under the guise of serving the German people. Even Munich, the home city of Marx, the coali- tion candidate, and a catholic Center, was carried by Hindenburg, altho Marx is a follower of the vatican. His, endorsement by the social-democrats is in itself enough to show the capitalist and cor- rupt complexion of the degenerate offspring of the party of Bebel. and Liebknecht. The Commanists polled approximately 2,000,000 votes. Considering that the issue was ostensibly, so far as the voters,.were. concerned, monarchy or repub- licanism, this,is.a welcome testimonial to. the minimum strength of the revolutionary section of the German workers and peasants. These 2,000,000 votes are. something that cannot be disregarded. They are the expression of 2,000,000 workers and peasants who see clearly that the real question in Germany is. whether the capitalsits or the workers are to rule. .They represent with some degree of accuracy the number of workers who are ready to fight and die if necessary to establish the dictator- ship of the proletariat, the advance guard of the working class .who cannot be fooled, bribed or cowed by either German or allied capitalism. In the next few months it is more than probable that these 2,000,000 workers will play a mighty part in the German sector of the world revolution- ary battle front. . The election of Hindenburg will sharpen the na- tional conflicts in Europe. On the east the tension between Germany and Poland will tighten. On the The Communist daily was a welcome visitor at | west it will not be surprising if a sweeping change the- Moundsville, West Va., penitentiary, where several miners are incarcerated owing to their participation in a struggle with the employers. “We haven’t seen any DAILY WORKERS since last October,” writes one of those workers. The Jugo-Slav Communist paper Radnik was also read eagerly by those comrades, but that too has been prohibited. The prison warden allowed the prisoners to re ceive the Communist dailies until his masters put their foot down. ‘Phis is about as good a testi- monial as could be given to our paper. The bosses hate it and fear it. It is up to the workers who are not yet in jail to give the DAILY WORKER: a circulation .so large that it will break down the prison walls. If Marx received the almost 2,000,000 votes that were cast for the Communist candidate, Thael- mann, Hindenburg, “hero of the Mazurian Lakes,” would be awarded the over-ripe banana instead of the gilded beer mug. Of course, this is another dirty Communist plot, directed and financed from Moscow, under the leadership of the villianous Zinoviev, etc. The Chicago police may not always succeed in running down their man, but they are smart Alecks when it comes to theory. A few days ago a girl was found dead with three bullet holes in her body. The police positively hazarded the guess that she| was shot three times by &@ person or persons un known, and ten fo one the person or persong will remain unknown. The blacks and-blues.are fighting a mimic war for possession, of Hawaii, but. the reds who fight | toil, in the class struggle are in jail i comes over the French political situation and the pro-German complexion of the cabinet furnished by Caillaux is replaced by a color more in keeping with the Clemenceau policy. Another possibility, of course, is that the strength shown by the nationalists may persuade the French imperialists fo form some kind of a working alliance with the German state against Great Britain. But whatever the international repercussion of the monarchist victory, the class conflict in Ger- many will sharpen to a razor edge. The Hinden- burg triumph, solely the result of seven years of cowardice and treachery by the socialists, will bring needed coherence into the German working class movement, rally to the Communists the work- ing class and peasant elements that have so far been fooled by the phrases of the social-traitors and build a mass Communist party that, supported by the decisive sections of the working class will be ready and able to challenge, fight, and win over monarchy and capitalism and oppose to allied im- perialism the i torship. The class struggle in Germany, with the victory of Hindenburg, the monarcho-feudal-capitalist can- didate, enters its final phase. The aristocratic Russian lady who took poison | rather than go to work might be said to have pre- ferred death to a life of shame. in the moral code of the than performing useful labor. There is no crime The example set by the Russian lady who drank the fatal dranght rather than soil her fingers with is commended to other but more successful a. uc fe 2? OF Speycsting . — ©\« \enwuss* ~~ »|thrown off the remnants of iron front of the proletarian dicta- | nobility more henious!~*~.”. 4 positions for oneyear. oe pam (Continued from last issue) MOSCOW, Aprit 6—(By Mail.)— MAN UILSKYV'speaks on the Gzecho- Slovakian ‘quéstion: The ques- tion of the Cze@ho-Slovakian Commun- ist Party is ofiaternational import- ance because th® opportunist elements have tried in the present period of partial stabilization to create a new theory and new tactics. The right elements staked all their hopes on the "Czech Communist Party |question and considered it a large cannon against the Comintern. The Czech commission and the minority of the Czech Communist Party ac- cepted the resdlution presented by the Czech Communist Party, thus blasting the spdéulations of the right. The speaker reférs to the Tranmael crisis, and shows the similarity of the Czech crisis with it. In the Czech Communist Party ‘the fight wing is made up of two elements: 1, Elements which have not yet social democratic’ tradition and 2, of com- rades who but gorentiy belonged .to the left wing. The latter circumstance has complicated matters. At the Bruenn district Conference, the right elements received confidence on cred- it, but they did not pass their exam- ination. Altho the Bruenn organiza- tion is one of the best the right lead- ers of this district proved politically bankrupt. The right danger is’a source of the crisis. SECOND source of the crisis is the question of leadership. Woe to the Czech Communist Party if it should fail to understand the need of Bolshevization, and if it does admit the young generation of leaders to the leadership of the party. There is danger in fighting just this young generation of leaders. Between the right and left groups there developed a vascillating center. This is a world phenomenon and not merely a Czech dccurrence. Smeral, Muna and Zapo- totzky emphasize the need of retain- ing the mass character of the Czech Communist Party. The Czech Com- munist Party is one of the best sec- tions of the Comintern; it consists of 98 per cent workers. We want not only to maintain the class character of the party, but also to win over new masses to it. How shall this be achieved? The cases of Tranmael, Serrati, and Hoeglund show clearly that if the center goes with the right, the split-off groups become mere sects, like the parties of Tran- mael and Hoeglund. Ox the other hand, the French ex- ample shows us,that if the cen- ter goes with the deft, a healthy de- velopment and splendid results can be achieved. The speaker calls upon the Smeral group to allow. the Czech Com- munist Party to develop on French lines. There is in the Czech Commun- ist Party a right danger, as was dem- onstrated by the memorandum of the Bruenn organization. This memorandum constitutes a menshewst theory and practice. The Czech delegation disavowed this docu- ment, whose authors are the «two lawyers Etscher and Stern, who, tho they have compared themselves with Lenin and Marx, have no inkling of Marxism. The workers of Bruenn must free themsel¥Vés from such lead- ers. The Bruenn memorandum has been published in the Russian men- shevik organ, “Sotzfalistitchesky Vest- niek”; this fact in itself is a sufficient characterization. HE Czech crisis is much compli- cated by the nationality problem. It would be the most grievous error to adapt the policy of the party to the proletariat of the oppressed minority nationalities. On the other hand, it would be wrong to encourage impe- rialistic tendencies. It is symptomat- ic that the most recent attacks of the opposition were directed against the Hungarian Seidler and the Slovak Vercik. The executive will support those elements which follow the poli- cy of the Comintern; but the left must be able to stand on its own feet; it cannot be maintained solely by the support of the executive. The repre- sentative of the Comintern at the par- ty congress of thé Czech Communist Party aimed at brifiging about an un- derstanding between the groups of al- most equal strength, He did not apply any artificial me- thods, and he has acted correctly. The mistake made was the handing over of the control commission en- tirely to the minority, which used the control commission for factional purposes. The Czech workers will accept our advice, since we have be- hind us the experience of the Russian revolution and the authority of the Comintern. € E are in full accord with the poli- tical policy Of the present cen- | tral committee, and shall support it. As to the case of Horn, the Czech Communist Party has had even more bitter experiences with the leader of the Duma-fraction Malinovsky who |wWas a police spy. Such matters cannot be used ‘against the central committee. Seid- ler was fully rehabilitated, and Ver- cik was suspended from leading party Now the con- trol commission “Should be taken to task. Sejdler and@®Vercik declared to the commission’*that in the interests of the party themawere willing to re- nounce leading functions in the party. By this act they demonstrated their hones great responsibility on the Russi ‘delegation. The, German, French and Polish delegations thought the con- cession too big. However, the Russian delegation desires a sincere bloc with the minority against the right. Bub- nik is not dangerous, but what is dangerous is the Bubnik tendency. We must fight the Bubnik tendency and the attitude of the Bruenn lead-’ ers. The commission clearly approves of the political platform of the major- ity. The political policy of the Czech Communist Party is correct, The plat- form of the minority contains not a single word on the dictatorship of the proletariat; it bears a Wilsonian char- acter, and does not combine the par- tial demands with the final goal. The Russian delegation and the commis- nority “on credit.” This confidence binds the minority. The speaker ex- presses his hope that the minority may merit this confidence. OMRADE MUNA declares in the name of the minority and of Krei- bich, that they accept the resolution in the interests of unity and in confi- dence to the Comintern. Not only does the minority accept the resolu- tion, but it will carry it out, in order to combat the right dangers of which the minority is fully aware. The re- solution is passed unanimously. The unanimously adopted resolution on the Czech question, analyzes in de- tail the causes of the crisis in the Czech Communist Party, which crisis is not an isolated episode, but the struggle of the right elements of the Comintern against Leninist strategy and tactics. Due to a series of specific causes, arising out of the composition of the party and the reflection of nationality conflicts in the party, these right tend- encies are especially strong in Czecho- Slovakia. The plenum considers Bub- nik’s action as political treachery, and fully approves the decision of the control commission pf the Czech Com- munist Party to expel Bubnik from the party. The crisis began when some com- rades in the control commission fail- ed to proceed against Bubnik with sion give their confidence to the mi- a « os is re pa ne : ~ x establishes the fact that the control commission of the Czech Communist. Party have become ‘instruments of factional struggles. ©—° — Only in mass actions can the party test its leadership and select its best revolutionary - elements, The party cannot ighore the new proletarian elements which bring a current of fresh militancy into the party. HE resolution sharply criticises the political document of the leaders of the Bruenn organization; this docu- ment represents a political platform which is contrary to all decisions of the Fifth World CGongress and the third congress of the Czech Commun- jist Party. This document contains a purely menshevik, social democratic fatalistic conception of the role of the party in the revolution. The tactics proposed by the Bruenn organization | ‘or mass action, are both opportunis- cic and dangerous. The resolution condemns the atti- tude taken up by Kreibich in the commission and in the plenum, and answers his threat of a split with a warning. The resolution then proceeds as follows: “On the basis of the above facts, on the basis of the decisions of the Fifth congress in regard to poli- tical perspectives, tactics and nation- al policy, and affirming the political and tactical policy of the central com- mittee of the Czech Communist Party, the enlarged plenum of the executive committee hereby instructs the ex- ecutive of the Czech Communist Party to convene within four months a regu- lar party congress which is to liqui- date all the elements of crisis in the party.” ‘T\HE central committee of the Czech Communist Party must make the fight against the right tend- encies as expressed in the Bruenn memorandum, the central point of its preparatory campaign for the coming party congress. The party must also fight.all those who directly ‘or indi- rectly, politically or organizationally, support such tendencies. The execu- tive of the Comintern is. of the opin- ion that the main defect of the Czech conception of the, revolution, and a} : 5a el “Ses Sit 2. eo = ee : T2 eR OR PRR ITE RITES, nana ne ee sea, 2-345 1 rged Executive of has nectaag the required energy.’ The resolution Communist Party. is the fact. that the most important tactical problems of the Czecho-Slovakian and internation- labor movement are passed over in: menids to the central committeetof the Czech Communist to start in the party a thoro discussion of the most important problems in which the Czecho-Slovakian working class is in- terested. ‘The enlarged executive con- demns the Bruenn platform and the disorganizing action of the Bruenn district committee, and recommends that with the next three or four months a party conference be conven- ed in Bruenn; for the purpose of eli- minating fromthe party leadership those who support the Bruenn plat- form. fe At: the same tine the enlarged ex- ecutive of the Cémintern éalls up- on the party membership to preserve unity by all means, and to disavow all those who threaten to disrupt the par- ty. The central committee of the Czech Communist Party which shall’ guard over the unity of the party, is hereby instructed by the enlarged ex- ecutive of the Communist Interna- tional to carry out all its decisions, without shrinking before the severest disciplinary me&sures against those who should attempt to oppose these decisions and to kindle the crisis in the Czech Communist Party anew, In view of the abnormal position of the ~ party, however, the enlarged ‘execu- tive of the Comintern is of the opin- ion that in cases involving expulsion from the party, and in which the ma- jority and minority can reach no agreement, no final decision should. be made by the central committee between party congresags without the ecutive of the Comintern. N regards to creating a normal situ- ation in the Bruenn organization in the interval before the party congress is convened, the enlarged executive instructs the presidium to work out de@isions jointly with the central committee of the Czech Communist Party, which would normalize the sit- the party congress take: place. (To be. continued) tie until the district conference and . oo U. S. MinisterIncites Massacre of\ Workers (Continued from page 1) Jugo-Slavia was, prior to the inter- vention in the affair by the United States minister, preparing to go to war with Bulgaria. Moreover, the Bulgarian officials declare that the instructions inside the cathedral bomb were printed in Serbian language and that bombs and arms were smuggijed wholesale by Jugo-Slavia to the Ser- bian patriots inside Bulgaria. Jugo-Slavia—Not Communists— Responsible It is also revealed that the sexton of the church, named Zagorsky, direct- ly confessed that the bomb came from Jugo-Slavia, that the explosion was an act of Jugo-Slavians, and that in addition the band which ambushed King Boris a few days previous on the Bulgarian highway outside of Sofia, were Serbians from Jugo-slavia. The United States Minister, Wilson, upon instruction from Washington, entered the affair with the purpose of preventing war between Bulgaria and Jugo-Slavia, by concealing the latter’s part in the explosion, and get- ting the Zankov government, which has held its power so far by mass murder of workers and peasants, to continue and intensive its bloody campaign under the falsehood that the Communists were responsible for the explosion. The Bulgarian government, altho at first threatening Jugo-Slavia with war, and denouncing in parliament the’ war threats of the Jugo-Slav minister and obedient to the Morgan banking interests, began wholesale murder of Communists and even of suspected radical workers and peas- ants. On Friday, Wilson cabled to Wash- ington that everything had turned out satisfactorily, and that large numbers of workers had been executed without trial, while the list of those impris- oned’ ran into thousands. Communists were being shot on the streets when pointed - out by socialists, who have uniformly acted as the spies of the Zankov dictatorship and assistant to the Mass murderer, General Lazaroff. ~“""“" Massacre Continues ‘Meanwhile, the massacre continues unabated. Even the soldiers were shot down “by white guards, because they refused to fire on their brother work- ers, whom they knew were innocent of complicity in the cathedral explo- sion. The 7,000 additional “troops” so gladly granted by the league of na- tions, are composed of this white guard. element, and are being used to murder the private soldiers who are unwilling to carry out the massacre of workers at the behest of the Amer- ican banking and governmental inter- ests. Letters From Our Readers Letter From Russia To the DAILY WORKER:—My for- mer article to the DAILY WORKER from the Workers’ Republic, deals mostly with the workers’ conditions in the factories and the organizatien in the factories. This time I am going to write about the work in the village. The village folks had for a long time been ne- glected, and for that reason we find the most difficult of our work in the village. I think that I stated in my former article that I am functioning in the capacity as chairman of a vil- lage Soviet, (village council) also a party organizer, I am the only party member among thousands inhabitants, which are composed of Russians, Ukrainians and German mennonites. The latter are the most conservative and chauvinistic people in Russia, many of them are immigrating to Canada. Organization work among them is very difficult and yet we are making headway. When I arrived here, in the month of October 1924, therg was no organization of any kind, at present we got a reading room with 79 members, 47 Ukrainians and a German section of 32 members, our lectures for the present are mostly agricultural subjects, we have installed the six fields system, the past winter we had a school of 55 pupils, some of them 45 years old, teaching them to fead and write, they are Russians and Ukrainians only. We are organizing a peasants’ co-oper- ative and also we expect having trac- tors going for this fall plowing. Thru the peasant co-operative we will be ible to. get credit at the government bank at very ‘rr’? terms so that Sens | we can buy machinery. The “nepman” (in the U. S. called businessmen) is fast disappearing. All the small busi- ness is going into the hands of the workers’ and peasants’ co-operatives. When I arrived in Alexandrowsk in September, 1923, the workers*.co-oper. ative had one little grocery store, at present they are handling the bulk of the business of the city, lumber, coal, wood, clothing, dry-goods, leather- good and all merchandise. The mid- dleman profit is eliminated; every- where the workers’ and peasants’ co- operatives are bringing us nearer the goal of socialism. There is a newspaper published by the mehnonite organization called the Emmigranten Bate,.a rank reaction- ary publication, which I would like to get hold off, it is published either in the United States of Canada. I! would like to get a copy of the Chi- cago Tribune once in a while, you know we got to have those publica- tions in order to find out how bad things are going in Russia. I appeal to all readers of radical literature not to throw their magazines away after reading them, but to mail a few to me once in a while. With comradely greetings I remain yours for the world revolution, Henry H. Weber, Schoensberg, U. S. S. R., German Volga Commune. Zola’s Widow Dies. PARIS.—Madame Emile Zola, wi- dow of the famous French author, died today, aged 86. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! ~~ ©. 8 heer « COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY GAINS AT. V ote for Thaelmann Nears z. ik amet (Continued from’ page* 1.) | final returns wuold. bring, the tota. Communist vote over two million. Von Hindenburg with 14,639,399 votes, did not poll a majority of the total vote. The vot® for the pomppesn coalition was 13,752, 45 fF 4h. \ Driving Toward’ Fascism. The election of the.monarchist ana friend of the former kaiser marks a swing to the conservative-fascist ad- vocates of a dictatorship. Hindenburg will support the ‘Dawes plan,.is the prediction of foreign government of- ficials. . “The economic siuation makes ii imperative that Hindenburg continue support of the Dawes plan,” said Hin- denburg’s chief supporters and ad’ visers. “I will not take orders from ahy party, and no one need think Il will,” said the monarchist president shortly after his election. The league of nations officials de- clared that the election of Hindenburg is to be “regretted,” and will postpone Germany’s entrance to the league, : Germany is at the mercy of thé in- ternational bankers, it is pointed out here and the foreign bankers behind the Dawes plan are the real rulers of Germany. The _ socialist-catholic coalition may have been a weaker government easier to manipulate, but Hindenburg has admitted that * the economic condition of Gtrmany is dictated by Wall Street bankers. Hindenburg’s War Record. . There are eleven war criminal charges against Hindenburg, the for- eigh office at Paris stated. They were given as follows: First: Criminal deportation. Second: Abducion of women and children. Third: Armed looting. Fourth: Destruction by dynamite. Fifth: Incendiary. Sixth: Criminal measures against civijians. Seventh: Alleged medical inspec- tion of women and young girls. Eighth: Violation of graves in cemeteries. Ninth: Pollution of water supply.’ Tenth: Destruction of forests. Eleventh: Pillage of food supplies of the United States destined to in- terned civilian population. Talk it up—your shopmate will subscribe! Fire at Peoria. PEORIA, IIL, April 27.—Fire today partly destroyed the Smith Hotel and an adjoining structure occupied by.a furniture company with a loss esti- mated at $250,000, sanction of the presidium of the ex-" The executive therefore, recom- | = 5 Rh A AT alg Ty y ee EN oe af a — |