Daily Worker
April 29, 1925

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st C- ae Aa aa LONDON, April 20,—Propesitions for ix tomediots conference between the Amsterdam International and the Russian unions and for co-operation between the British and Russian labor movements are contained in a joint statement of the Anglo-Russian trade union conference. Ratification of the agreement is now up to the trade unions of the two countries. - National and international unity, says the statement, is the first essential to, enable the trade.union movement to defend the position of the workers and to achieve the social and political aims of labor. The political situa- tion in nearly every country is dominated by reaction. In the industrial. and economic field the eapitalists of all countries aré forming an interna- Soe ey os , a ee ee Pe PO ee Saal WP ete tmeare ee Daily Worker Annual Sub- scription Drive Now on in Full Blast! GET IN ON IT! oe Published dafly except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, a @0Cs Price 3 Cents — , oH. Mer mise is today peapm ine more (Continued on page 2) By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. AY Day is almost here and the usual crop of police station revo- lutions clutter the pages of the cap- italist press. The most recent effect of the rule of the bloody Zankov gov- ernment gave the labor-hating gov- ernments of Europe an excélient ex- cuse to make another drive against the working class. Reports reach us that the police of Europe have reached an agreement to niake raids on Com- munist} on May Day. It is reported that By tain intends to pass new laws in order to be in a better position legally to make war on the Commun- ists. * = * E British ruling class are more worried over the entente between Russian and British labor than most people think. As a matter of fact it is a greater menace to the “boys of the bull-dog breed”. who have © planted their iron’ heels on the faces of hun- dreds of millions who made Europe tremble with the blows of their feet in- fhe summer of 1914. The. British rujing class could .make peace. with a;victorious capitalist Germany. They will never make peace with the Brit- ish working class or with Soviet Rus- j nso one of his cute little neon] ells of the shepherd who was always shouting “Wolf! Wolf!” This shépherd enjoyed a hearty laugh when the, villagers turfied out to help him liquidate the sheep killer. The villagers were sore after the practical joke was pulled three or four times. Finally a real wolf showed up and when. the shepherd called for help, the villagers thumbed their nasal ap- pendages and the shepherd cried in- stedd of laughing. Those who laugh last laugh best. The police will have their little joke and predict revolu- tions on every May Day with mono- tonous regularity. But the revolution will come and the workers, not the police, will pick the day. All the stoolpigeons and police in the world cannot hold it back. m e + INDENBURG wins!” shrieks the capitalist press. The kaiser tickles his proud mustache in Doorn and shines up the spike on his helmet, ready for a stroll down Unter den eh WE $e aay" AS WE SEE IT 'HINDENBURG TO _ STICK BY DAWES: MORGAN PLAN Stinnes Group Likes the Capitalist Republic (Special to The Daily Worker.) BERLIN, Germany, April 28-—The victory of the monarchist, Field Mar- shal von Hindenburg, in the German presidential elections, marks the end, at least temporarily, of the use of the socialists by the German capitalists and international bankers, as a tool to. surpress the movement of the workers for power. Hindenburg, it is declared here, will not dare to openly advocate the return | Mk os A een ie te te ed ce eee ——— a ~ aan ———- -_—— i i of the former kaiser to the throne. Stinnes Group Powerful. The Stinnes group, the most power- ful industrial group in Germany, are opposed to such a move, The Deut- sche Allegemeine Zeitung, owned by Stinnes, declares, “No one thinks of taking a step against the republic or for @ return 4 a monarchy.” i be | } ers into the hands of internation- al bankers, is a swing toward thé dic- tatorship. Alongside of the white guard Horthy government of Hungary, the fascist government of Mussolini in Italy, the military directorate of de Rivera in Spain, the ruthless dictator- ships in Poland, Bulgaria, Roumania, Phatniaty long ho a demand for the had long hours shortened. (Continued By NATIONAL COMMITTES, Repusetions? , -hour day. 200,000 won the danstih ead Gow | there This strike could not be drowned in blood, altho it culminated in the hanging of Parsons, Spies, Engel, Fischer, the “suicide” imprisonment of Fielding and Schwab, and has made of of 1 the Workers’ of Linng, and the on page 4.) —— | THOUSANDS TO PARADE — IN JAPAN ON MAY DAY, POLICE CALLED OUT TOKYO, Japan, April 28.—Twenty thousand pérsons are expected’ to parade in Tokyo on May Day, with similiar parades of many thousands of other workers scheduled in indus- trial centers thruout Japan. The tenant farmers and agricult- ural laborers are organizing May Day demonstrations in the rural districts. . Three thousand police and gen- darmes and two thousand plain Czecho-Slovakia and other European states, the Hindenburg victory ,takes its place as evidence that the exploit- ers of labor will for qa time desert the socialists and use as tools the right fascist parties in order to keep power. The election of Hindenburg, is a 4 symptom: of the temporary reaction from the pacifist-democratic bourgeois coalitions. of the socialists, as was the fall of the MacDonald government in England and of Herriot in France. German Stocks Sag Stocks have sagged here since Hindenbureg’s election, but it remains to be seen whether the slump will be permanent. The foreign governments, mouthing the wishes of the bankers, are uneasy for fear they will be un- able to collect money from Germany Linden, or wherever he used to‘stroll,as readily as they did wnder the so- in the good old days before 1918. The | cialist coalition. The French bankers cycle is almost complete. Hindenburg, | predict an extended occupation of the kaiser’s loyal servant, will keep| Cologne by French troops, and a pos- the presidential chair of the royal Ger- | sible future re-entrance into the Ruhr. man republic warm until the kaiser’s Hindenburg will listen to the voice posterior is politically prepared to re-| of the Stinnes group and other power- sume his. old seat. Milljons of work-|ful German exploiters of labor, but he ers voted. for. Hindenburg. Millions of | will also: be forced to accept the (Continued on’ page 2) (Continued on pzge 3) “BLACK JACK” PERSHING BEGINS TO TALK. POLITICS FOR 1928 AS OPENING FOR PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT By LAURENCE TOOD WASHINGTON, April 28.—-General Pershing, who may or may not be a catididate for the republican presidential nomination in 1928, has begun to talk politics. Standpat politics. Wall Street politics. He wants the American public to know that he is as good a dollar-imperialist as anybody. If that be treason to the third-term aspirations of Calvin Coolidge, who has just ap- clothes men have been ordered into the streets of Tokyo for May Day. Alfege Plot to Kill Kato, TOKIO, April 28—Ryohei- Uchida, leader of the “Black Dragon Society,” was arrested here today charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Premier Kato. Police said they had warrants for two other alleged partici- pators. Tokio newspapers declared this morning several members of the Japanese diet had ben implicated in the plot. Los Angeles Takes Its Time LAKEHURST, N. J., April 28.—The U. S. dirigible Los Angeles, which was to have soared.to Porto Rico’ today will not leave until tomorrow, it was indicated this morning. Weather con- ditions were unsatisfactory. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two, will make a better Communis? pointed Pershing as director of the jug-handled plebiscite in Tacna-Arica—| let Coolidge make the most of it. a »f you. monthe ago 2s special envoy, to help | SHOP NUCLEUS FINDS HEARTY celebrate the centenary of the battle Which won liberation of the west coast of South America from Spain. No sooner had he returned than the president announced his decision of WELCOME AND FERTILE. FIELD WITH WESTINGHOUSE WORKERS the dispute between Peru and Chile as to ownership of the rich nitrate territory of Tacna-Arica. Chile has filled the region with Chileans, and will carry the plebiscite. Peruvian public opinion is outraged. Now Per- shing is sent down there to receive the brickbats or bullets or bombs that Peruvian patriots may want to direct at Coolidge. more dangerous to the general's per- day, April 22. (Continued on page 3) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April. 28.—In ot their grievances and aspirations. —_ ~~. + By ARNE SWABECK.,. a forceful and effective manner the Workers Party shop nucleus, recently organized in the Pittsburgh district Westinghouse plants, made its appearance to the workers of this modern institution of exploitation thru the publication of the first of its factory paper. It was very favorably received by the workers because it gave expression One thousand copies of this first issue were distributed to the workers This job is going to be gathering in front of the East Pittsburgh plant during lunch hour, Wednes- (Continued on page 5.) NEWSBOYS WORK HARD THAT BIG PAPERS. PROFIT (Article Two) By LILLIAN Ri BORGESON The labor of the newsboys of Chi- cago, as in most industrial centers, is not considered child labor. The tech- nicality of Illinois’ flexible child labor law which forbids. employment of chil- dren ig got around very neatly, by the interested ‘dailies. ° .. Disguised Slavery Newsboys are “D ess men in their own right,” an so are outside of the jurisdiction*of amy child labor law which only prohibits ‘“employ- ment.” The capt t Newspapers claim; that they’ »de mot -hire the newsboys. The ne vs come to them as merchants, bay their stock of papers, and them sell them to their own customers. So what regulation can there be? | The newsboy’s work may be of many kinds, He may be a “hustler” a “flipper’ or a “router,” Each division has its own peculiar dangers and its own cruel method of exploitation. The Hustler The “hustler,” is the boy who works at a stand. He is notemployed by the man who owns the sfand. He is given a commission in order that he may keep his identity as a “merchant” and fot a child laborer. He usually starts at the stand at five in the morning, works until just before nine and is back at the stand again at four in the afternoon for an- other session of at least three hours. The Flipper The “flippers” are What the. name implies. They flip the street cars, jumping on and off while the car is in motion, worming their way thru the crowds in search of customers and working their way bagk on the street to their accustomed “¢orner.” These are the little shavers whom | the membership, more efficient than than im any other city (Continued on page 6.) FOOD TRUST IS PRIMED FOR BiG . & ? iy _.| of the fascist militia. FARRINGTON BURNED IN EFFIGY BY OUTRAGED MINERS WHO SAY HE IS LOOTING THE TREASURY By ALEX. REID ” ° ‘J (Special to The Daily Worker) CHRISTOPHER, Ill., April 28—A mass meeting of the miners of Illinois was held here Sunday. At 10:00 a. m., long before the time to com- mence the meeting, automobiles, covered with dust, began to arrive from all parts of the state loaded down with anxious miners determined that action be taken to alleviate the suffering of the unemployed and the ground prepared for the political burial of the traitors who are destroying the United Mine Workers of America, Farrington, Fishwick, Nesbit and the executive board. Farrington Invited But Not Present A splendid representative delegation was in attendance, but needless to say the Farrington machine was conspicuous by its absence. (Continued on page 2) Qhe yellow BULAGRIAN ARMY REBELS AGAINST FASCIST TROOPS Report Mutin y in Sofia Barracks (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria, April 28—A clash between the regular army troops, and the fascist troops which have been hastily recruited to murder the Com- munists, le reported. A section of the regular troops mutinied, the report de- clared, and refused to obey the orders The regular troops were imprisoned in their bar- facks, and some have been reported shot. Many of the Bulgarian fascisti are said to be members. of Wrangel’s anti-Soviet -army, the remnants of which have been quartered in the Bal- kans, supporting the fascist govern- ments. Laie Court Decree Is Big Aid to Meat Packers (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 28.— Suspension of the operation of the consent decree by which the Big Five meat packing concerns agreed, in 1920, to get out of all lines of business ex- cept the preparation and sale of meat products, kas been ordered by Justice Bailey of the féderal district court of the District of Columbia. Farmers’ co-operative marketing or- ganizations in all parts of the United States are placed in peril by this vic- tory of the beet trust. Unless the higher courts shall reverse Bailey's decision, on appeal, the’ Armour-Mor- ris-Swift-Wilson-Cudahy combination will rapidly regain its monopoly con- trol of the food industry of the coun- try, and the co-operatives will be faced by almost overwhelming compe- tition. During the presidential campaign of 1924, the Coolidge administration took the attitude of being an eager friend of farm e¢o-operative associations. Nothing was too good for them. The trusts should never be permitted to invade their rights. Now the forces of big business that directed the Cool- idge campaign are behind the pack- ers—reduced by mergers to a Big Two. The White House smiles upon the growth of the power of the big packers, and its formal defense of the court order which limited their field has not been effective. Now the Big Two will be free to monopolize the wholesale grocery busi- ness and scores of other lines of man- ufacture and distribution, just as they did when their far-flung tentacles were The secretary to nes" oa boas ot th 7 attack by the mayor, reports state. The government of Jugo-Slavia, while taking the opportunity of the Bulgarian fascist hysteria to attack the JugoSlav Communists, eyes with suspicion the increase in the Bul- garian army, sanctioned by the world powers thru the league of nations. This extra recruited force of brigands and fascists are shooting down peas- ants and workers by the hundred. Probing Ditching By Bus ANDERSON, Ind., April 28.—An in- quest of death of George Skinner, Jr., 13, who died from injuries when the Skinner automobile was crowded from the road’ by a bus, was opened today by Coroner Earl Sells. } mayor of ant i + aagor’e part wounded wheh a worker repulsed an ee OPEN SHOPPERS SPREAD LIES ON WESTERN COAST Flood Papers with Anti- Union Bunk (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 28.—~ “Keep ’em in the dark; Scare ‘em good; Feed ‘em lots of bull;” con- tinues to be the system of the anti- labor forces in Southern California, where the small dailies and weeklies are flooded with insidious, ready-made propaganda. The larger dailies roll their own. Here are two specimens of the “scare ‘em” propaganda sent out as “news” to small Pacific coast papers last week by the Manufacturer and In- dustrial News Bureau, Salem, Ore. The propaganda is, of course, wholly untrue. One piece of lying propaganda sent out of the “open shop” associati — on the union workers | ’ Gernrany » and the United States. Another specimen sent to the papers consists cf a string of lies about’ Soviet Russia which rival the “nationalization of women” lies sprung by the Chicago Tribune, and later, of course, wholly discredited. The American Banker’s Association, one propaganda distributor, ran afoul in 1923 when it attacked the Edison- Ford commodity currency scheme thru “boiler plate” propaganda dis- tributed free of charge to the country papers thru the Western Newspaper Union. Ford retaliated with an “ex- pose” of the propaganda tactics. But the game is an old one and will probably continue as long as many country editors have backbones of the jeHy-fish variety and are controlled by the business men who advertise in their lieing columns. COMMUNISTS URGE 24-HOUR STRIKE AGAINST HINDENBURG—POINT OUT MENACE TO WORKERS OF FASCISM BERLIN, Germany, April 28—A twenty-four hour strike on the day of Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s inauguration to the presidency is urged by the Communist Party of Germany in an open letter to the trade uniens and the socialists, published in Rote Fahne, it is reported. The danger of a military dictatorship directed against the workers is pointed out. ’ ; | Hindenburg Keeps Old Cabinet. | HANOVER, Germany, April 28.—It DAILY WORKERS was learned here that president-elect Paul von Hindenburg in an hour's DISTRIBUTED AT conference with Chancellor Luther to- day told Luther that he would ask the cabinet to remain in office Death Penalty for Gun Robbery. IRISH MEETING. SPRINGFIELD, UL, April 28.—By a vote of 26 to 16, the senate today aw passed the Deck bill making burglary| ©2e thousand copies of the DAILY or robbery with a gun punishable by | WORKER were distributed at a mass disclosed by the probe conducted by | death. The bill now goes to the | meeting held Monday night in Orches- the federal trade commission. house. . tra Hall, at which Miss Mary Mac- |Swiney, Irish republican leader, was HOW CHICAGO OFFICIALS OF are n ow coer tani THE A.C.W.KEEP THE CONTROL OVER THE UNION MEMBERSHIP offered copies gladly and many accepted them insisted on paying One ies asked if it was a union paper and on being assured that it ARTICLE ONE ’ was that, and more, he acted as a In Chicago the officialdom of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers has | Volunteer in getting copies into the hand is of his friends. The few Com- succeeded in organizing the most efficient machine to suppress the will of fore be interesting to get acquainted with some of the methods used by | #2¢ this machine. Take Stock of Boot Lickers Before each election, ‘that is, a meeting is held of business agents with manager Levin presiding. This meeting is to “take stock” the elections which name paid officials, and find out if there is any (Continued on page 32) a munists who could be distribut mobilized to » the paper had a good time enjoyed the work. One stocky proletarian declared he stopped read- , ing the daily since it came out against LaFollette. “I suppose LaFollette is too radical for you people” he said. He was advised to think it over and read a little more carefully and he would learn that LaFollette was really (Continued from page 1). 4 = ad d i" It will there- “weakling” that