Daily Worker
May 2, 1925
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“4 > Pe ee ‘agi | a -s ™ “SATURDAY, M oer er a 4 + ae i + Lea Be dy anette, nee : Aad ee : - 3, 1879. NEW YORK - & EDITION Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ‘ PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Til. Price 3 Cents In Michigan ed Y AY BD e ° ’ ' Ti e 4S WE SEE IT EWE OF ee vena ‘HUTCHESON SUSPENDS wet oy 7. 4 OFLAMERTY. TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO OFFICIALS CHARGED , 8 n | ite i! . Ea ai SUNDAY, MAY24 WITH GRAFT AND THEFT CARPENTERS LOCAL UNIONS IN ‘\: choae ow fast a lie on travel before it adit can be overtaken. by the truth, is ‘ Something new and different is DETROIT—The lid has been fully proved by the history of the yarn being arranged by the Russian taken off Detroit's municipal Tea- ; concocted by a lying Chicago Tribune branch of the Workers Party for pot Dome with the recommendation af on correspondent in Turkey, who sent out Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ that warrants be issued chargnig 19 the repért that William D. Haywood Home, 1902 W. Division St. It will city officlais and individuals doing was beating a lonely path thru the mountains: of: Armenia on his way to crave admittance to the hospitable pen in Leavenworth, Kansas. The Weekly .People swallowed the yarn as a gudgeon would swallow a bait,| 0” thie May Day, International May | soaeches tia Comtades Cididaidtelry By EDGAR OWENS. °Uygrand jury made the recommenda- | 2140, because they refused to repudiate their delegates to the and drew a moral therefrom. The|4y, militant workers meet thruout Trotsky and others. eles Waee es Worker) tions to Mayor John W. Smith. district council, who rejected Hutcheson’s one-way vote method ‘atest ass te use it is the braying|*he world to strengthen their forces DETROMT, W April 30-—When The men named include four pav- | of autocracy. biped Thomas L. Blanton who misrep- for the overthrow of world imperial- ‘ rhe irae Vic map Charmov, na- | the Workers Pa yin Michigan made ing contractors, two superintendents | Local Unions 19 and 1191, which met last night, signified regents ‘Texas in the house of repre-|'*™. Sie Me Bae tedae e ee ee on the ballot in| of divisions of the department of /their intention to do businéss as usual in spite of Hutcheson’s sentatives: May 1, 1925, is more than a day on| tion, W. P., who is tour'ng tne Unit- | the preside ections of last No-| public: works, a division superin- k f ; The order t diat laid a dee which those who produce the wealth,| ¢¢ States, will bring the records to | vember, a ed judge and two| tendent of the department of motor geet Rg deporte vaiiidsis casaeeiadinans cae ow LANTON gets excited over “Com- munism in the army” and scores those who bélieve- that privates Crouch and Trumbull were given too harsh sentence. Like a typical igno- ramus, he blows his head off about “red propaganda from Russia” in blissful ignorance of the fact that revolutionary propaganda was spread here long before hicks like Blanton were aware that Texas was part of the world. He raves on further: “I heartily favor the passage by congress of a law deporting all Communists and let them take the Bill Haywood and Anna (?) Goldman treatment that they too may decide they would pre- fer a penitentiary in America to serf- Millions Celebrate May Day Thruont World of the world discard their aprons and their overalis, throw down their tools and march out into the sunlight. Today members of the militant working class of all countries, under the banner of the Communist Interna- tional, deliberate over the advances they have won against international capitalism during the past year, and gain new inspiration for the struggle that lies just ahead. Struggle for Labor Solidarity. On this May Day, the American workers, at the demonstration meet- ings and parades. conducted by the Workers (Communist) Party, will pledge themselves to resist the at- tempts of Wall Street’s agents to be a Lenin Evening, with Comrade Nicolai Lenin as the chief speaker. This is no joke, as the talk by Com- rade Lenin will be heard from a phonograph record, as well as Chicago. He will also sirak on Lenin as a leader of the masses. A good musical program is also being prepared. Tell your friends about it. Let them listen to the voice of Lenin! Remember the date, Sunday, May 24, at 1902 W. Division St. 150,000 leat e eallir 1g ane ts in Off - violence to the state and the dential electors attorne election laws Foster-Gitlow | were ruled The party 4 election at time issued an to the tune of | gz on the workers interes on page 5.) business for the city with crimes including embezziement, larceny, malfeasance and conspiracy. Judge Frank Murphy in the re- s court sitting as a one-man transportation, a superintendent of line constuction of the department of street railways, a vice president of a large trust company, a chief ac- countant of the board of county au- ditors, a chief clerk of the depart- ment of public works and several district foremen. TO SUSTAIN THE. "BODY OF CAPITALISM (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., April 30—The latest developments In Hutcheson’s disruptive rule or ruin policy in Detroit is ee pension of four local unions, namely numbers 19, 1191, 420 and Local 19 last week pending further negotiations, with the consent ef Potts, Hutcheson’s personal tool in Detroit. r ; This week they got a letter from Potts stating they are suspended be- cause of refusal to comply with it. The word of one of these fakers isn’t worth the breath with which it is ut- tered. to the district council merely because they displeased him. . . . To ask the Grand Dragon at In- F actory Like Jail with dianapolis if all the fire he belches Brutal Guards merely asked what section of the constitution empowered the czar to exclude certain members as delegates Local 1,191 at its meeting last week at the rank and file is real consti- ye dom in Russia.” A typical specimen| break down their solidarity. The tutional fire or only Hutchesonian of Americana morana. poisonous propaganda of Coolidge for ‘ smoke is clearly lese majesty. Fof By OWEN STIRLING. e % % “restrictive immigration,” aimed to this, Local 1191 stands suspended. (Federated Presse Staff Correspondent.) pit the native-born workers against Local 2140’s crime is that it has suc- OU see, there is no charity in 8 ot tangy remain aie pt, the foreign-bdrn toilers; the ku klux/ cessfally fought the unconstitutional wages. There -is something ened anYeede. deat the Unit ed lynchings of the Negro workers of the , expulsion of its president by Hutche-| sacred about wages. They repre- in wide is a rather yar. rig ee the attempt to increase: the son and the general executive board t homes and families and do- ve in of-the army and navy and com- and voted to continue to protect his| mestic destinies. People ought to edn, . ; are ye 3 and their righis wonder the consti-/| tr very carefully when approach- — in iit an & the naalats cage. The thru military camps; the teaching of | } tution. : 1 sg rath While on the coat sheet — caihley is: look: inth AG MRDe- off eens fone St the Dubie’ Wehoots: The local unions intend to take}-Wases are mere figures, out in the | a revolver. Mounted on the cage are WiS'HEREA prepagende of thm movitg steps to protect their rights of mem-| World wages are bread boxes and three nozzled ‘containers full of tear one Cen ee een pees ae oe bership and working conditions, If| Coal bins, baby carriages, children’s , , lies against Soviet Russia—all: these Hutcheson intends to fight the car-| education, family comfort and con- gas. This is esha PEA. do not blind the workers to the chains penters of Detroit, he'd better get| tentment. Keep the home happy E will pass the French ambassa- — ae 6s Capianen ee aks some better plug-uglies than the| >y keeping the shop busy. Profite— dor and his family’ and intro- " eee false alarms who now sputter his| What are they if they are not used duce you to three persons and a dog. See: DEERE O% COsCnae who pet threats against the rank and file.| t0 make doubly secure the home, Fhe dak la?t hinndiemnd on the reli) ore, Tee Mall, eae Mere unscrupulousness and bluff has| dependent on the shop, and to cre | + tn th ; and Marshfield Sts., to hear.C. E. wom many a victory for these en-| ate more jobs for other men?”— c of a murderer. In the next square 16 Ruthenberg, executive secretary of trenched parasites, They don’t go in| Henry Ford in a recent interview the picture of a police captain -look- ing wise, or trying to, examining a pair of eyeglasses. Evidence. Under- neath is another picture, a man and a ehild, held on suspicion of having murdered his wife. He is-an ex-sol- dier and is reported to have said prior to the murder that he would use his experience as a butcher in France to carve his wife in such a manner as to defy detection. Isn’t war ennobling? * - ” ICTURE of dead wife next. Then 600 cases of Old Granddad whisky the Workers Party, and Max Shacht- man, editor of the Young ‘Worker, will gain new strength from contem- plation of the Star of Hope of Soviet Russia. Fight for Liberation. The militant workers of America on this May Day are imbued with the de- termination that during the coming year the class war prisoners rotting in the prisons of this country must have full equality with the white workers; that child labor must be ee it Bi toff \\ \ SS RNY va to John F. Sinaolair for the North American Newspaper Alliance, . 7 > ¢ (By The Federated Prees) DETROIT, April 30.—John F. Sin- clair is the LaFollette-Progressive banker. The North American News- paper Alllance is a new loosely knit organization of giant newspapers for syndicating exclusive articles of gen- eral interest. Sinclair was recentiy hired by the alliance to get interviews Does your friend subscribe to] with thirteen of the “biggest busiress Detroit. Briand, Painieve To See Baidwin PARIS, April 30.—The foreign of- fice admitted today the possibility of Premier Painleve and Foreign Secret- ary Briand going to London soon for debt and security pact conferences, but denied that May 7 had been fixed as the date for the visit. y ee which is being pourned into a sewer|bolished, that lower hours and . the DAILY WORKER? Ask him! (Continued on page 5.) by prohibition agents. Near by two higher pay eo pe a , (9 vieinaalh : , .|}crimination against women workers Ye. ae Rr uae Geaedied we aiciees ac Gal eit ane SM ‘oi BULGARIAN FASCISTS UNABLE TO ‘ Susseh, Ghiedl. Gene eathan’ Senech Stickers Party, wil valee thole Gate we ? GET RECRUITS TO MURDER REDS; ‘ng rather plump, talking to a judge. 4 ecientist showing fossils to a well dressed young lady who reveals a considerable expanse of limb to the ion that the open shop and wage cut drives of the Coolidge-Wall Street government shall be fought with strikes during the coming year, and that Walter Trumbull s > = - - SOON TO FORCIBLY DRAFT ARMY SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 30.—The fascist government of Buigaria has beer camera and a rather foolish grin. The \ and Paul — unable to recruit 10,000 volunteers recently authorized by the council of am- on fossil came from Argentina so it torsese> American soldiers, sentenced — bassadors at Paris. The Bulgarian fascists are using the volunteers to mur« (Continued og page 2) (Continued on page 2) Nt der and imprison agrarian workers and Communists. McKEES 8 KS STRI RS R ai The failure of the fascists to secure volunteer troops was revealed wher WOMEN TOIL IN BIG SAWMILLS KF , NF ; it became known that one of the army classes may be forcibly drafted soon. POW IN PORTLAND, THE “ROSE CITY”; LED BY WORKERS > By FRANCES M. DICKEY. By Irwin, Worker Correspondent. together and fight together as work- | the piece work rates have been sys- Fascists Murderers, British Report. (Special to The Daily Worker) McKEES ROCKS, Pa., April 30— | ers—as members: of one class. tematically cut until today the aver- LONDON, Engiand, April 30.—The British members of parliament whe tials PORTLAND, Oregon, April 30.—“Come to the golden west: come to] Since the.walkout started Monday Last week the notices arinouncing age day wage within the reach of | were in Bulgaria’ immediately after the bombing of the cathedral in Sofia, In Oregon, land of sunshine and flowers, where there is work for workers, land} #* the Pressed Steel Car company’s that, beginning Monday April 27, the speedy piece workers amounts to | thelr report on conditions there charge that “the existing Bulgarian noerbe for farmers and lots of conventions for merchants.” _So bally-hoos the Port-| P!4"t at MeKees Rocks, Pa., more | nine and a half hour workday would from $6.00 to $6.50; a straight cut | ment has caused the deaths of many thousands of innocent persons and d., and Chamber of Commerce, and so echoes all the daily swindle sheets of men have joined at every shift un- | be in effect with mo more!Saturday | of $3.00 per day from the highest | witi surely ultimately arouse a volcanic upheaval. 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yrs - . has gladly received oh , rie a a Z oJ ¢ PH oe PS a - "aa ‘ ye os “+ > oe. 7 4 % ° oy wit ‘ % ~ + a tes Rt WANT MORE PAY ‘Al’ Smith Vet Vetoes Boost, But Not of Supervisors NEW YORK, April 30.—With the vetoing by Governor Al Smith of the Ricca bill granting New York City teachers increases averaging 20 per cent, attention is now turning to the revised salary schedules prepared by the board of superintendents. The board of education has promised to take these recommendations up, but the rank and file of the teachers are not satsified with them. In place of the $13,000,000 increases the teachers sought thru the Ricca bill the super- intendents advise increases totalling only $5,000,000. The worst feature of the superin- tendents’ recommendations, from the standpoint of the average teacher, is that littlie.is offered the teachers in the lower grades who comprise the majority of the city’s educators and most of, the money would be dished out to the supervising corps. It is expected that the joint salaries | committee of 15, representing the Teachers’ Union and 54 other teach- ers’ organizations, will make counter- recommendations to the board of edu- cation—in spite of the fact that they were turned down on former oc- casions. Spanish Branch to Lend Support to League Dance, May 9 The Spanish branch of the Workers Party Local Chicago is throwing its support to the Young Workers League dance on May the 9th, 8 p. m. to be held at the Workers Lyceum, 27383 Hirsch Blvd. The Spanish comrades were con- templating arranging an affair of their own, in fact, they already began the organization of it, but upon finding out that the Young Workers League were running an affair on that date, they have decided to combine with us in making the May 9th dance of the league a huge affair. The league this news and urges all other party and sympathetic organizations to throw in their sup- port to the league affair on Saturday, May the 9th. Chamber of Commerce Scabs WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.— Denial that the new union scale of $10 a day would be paid to painters employed by a contractor or his sub- contractor on its new headquarters building in_the capital, has been made by officials of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States. They in- sist that the open-shop policy of the chamber will be enforced; that no work can be done for them at the union rate, so long as strikebreakers can be found to work below the union scale. AN ARTICLE FROM RUSSIA GUDOK By Wm. Z. FOSTER The author has written this fascinating story in Russia from where he has just returned. An interesting and colorful ac- count of proletarian journalism and outstanding journals in the world’s first workers’ govern- ment. You can get this most inter- esting account together with other splendid articles in the special MAY ISSUE WORKERS MONTHLY You can get such features every month when you sub- scribe at the extremely low rate of $2.00 A Year——$1.25 Six Mos. Single Copy 25 Cents THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill. EO — a i? d ie 9) JA BaP Yi &; GOZ Nf A_ be ces gl LEG & — | Nation-Wide May Day Demeietration 4 i Friday, May First. | ILLINOIS Chicago—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield, at 8 p. m. James P. Can- non, C. E. Ruthenberg, Alexander Bit- telnyan, Martin Abern, E. L. Doty and Max Shachman. Pullman—Stancik’s Hall, 205 East 115th St., 8 p. m. Barney Mass and Norval! Allen. Madison—Croatian speakers. Christopher—Corbishley and others. Zeigler—Liberty Hall, at 7 p.m. H. Corbishley. Oancing to follow. Livingston, Iil—John Braun of St. Louls. INDIANA E. Chileaue—Ostontila. Hall, Cook and Verner Aves., at 8 p. m. V. Phillips, John Edwards. Gary—Croatian Halli, 23rd and Washington Sts., at 7:30 p. m., Har- rison George also speakers in the So. Slavic, Russian and Greek languages. South Bend—Workers’ Home, 1216 S. W. Colfax Ave., at 7:30 p. m., Jos- eph Geneinder, English; Gus Mayer, Hungarian. MICHIGAN Detroit—House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, at 8 p.m. J. W. Johnstone. MINNESOTA Hibbing—Robert Minor. MISSOURI Kansas City—Musician’s Hall, Washington St. M. Gomez. St. Louise—Druids Hall, 9th and Market Sts., Saturday, May 2, at 8 p. m. M. Gomez. OHIO Cleveland—Slovenian National Home, 6409 St. Clair Ave., 7 p.m, Jd. Louis Engdahi. Neffs—2 p. m., at Mrs. Dernac’s hall, Max Salzman, Con Okraska, Frank Sepech. Dillonville—Joe Knight. Yorkville—Liberty Hall, 7 p. m., Joe Knight and Max Salzman. Youngstown—Ukrainian Hall, 62514 and Bulgarian Mc- H. 1017 West Rayen Ave., at 8 p. m. Wiliam J. White. Bentieyville—Afternoon. Fred H. Merrick. WISCONSIN Milwaukee—Frele Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Sts., at 7:30 p. m. Max Bedach, Tom Bell and others, Racine—Workers’ Home, 1216 N. Colfax Ave., 8 p. m. Comrade Jeminer,. Kenosha—€ p. m., Schiitz Hall, cor. Main St. and Milwaukee Ave. Speaker, M. Chilofsky. MASSACHUSETTS Springfield—Liberty Hall, corner Ferry and North 8t., 8 p. m. Oliver Carlson. 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 St. Paul—German-American House, 444 Rice 8St., 8 p. m., Robert Minor and J. F. Emme. Minneapolie—Robert Minor. NEW JERSEY Trenton—Paderacz Hall, Cor. Whit- aker and Beaty Sts., 8 p. m. Sadi Amter and Pat Toohey. OHIO Akron—Zigler’s Hall, Cor. Voris and Miami. 2 p. m. J. Louls Engdahi. Canton—7:30 p. m. Typographical Union Hall, 211 North Market street, Third floor. J. Louis Engdahl. Toledo—Labor Temple, Jefferson and Michigan Sts., at 3 p. m. Max Saizman and others. Warren—Hippodrome Hall, High St. at 7 p. m. Waino Finberg, Finnish, E. Piijuga, So. Slavic, A. V. Severino. E. Liverpool—J. A. Hamilton. PENNSYLVANIA Pitteburgh—2:30 p. m., Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller St. A. Wagenknecht. Erie—Hall to be announced later, 2pm., Earl R. Browder. Glassport—Finnish Hall, 2 p. mM. J. 8. Otis. Dalsytown—Afteroon. Fred H. Mer- rick, Witkes Barre—718 N. Washington St., 8 p. m. A, Jakira and language speaker. Nanticoke—At 2 p.m. August Val- entine, T. Radviansky, Polish; J. Sur- dokac, Lithuanian. Plains—7 p. m. Roma Hall, St. Mary and Hancock Sts., Radviansky, Polish; Jakira; Valentine. NEW YORK Binghamton—Lithuanian Hall, Clinton St., 7 p. m. T. R. Sullivan. Yonkers—Labor tyceum, > @ May Day demonstrations of the Czecho-Slovak section of the Workers (Communist) Party: Glassmere, Pa., S. R. S., May 2, 7 p. m., in Slovak Hall “Lipa.” Julius Bucko. Chicago, Ill., Czecho-Slovak branches W. P. jointly with Slov. S. Fed., S. R. 8S. & F. D. T. J., April 30, 7:30 p. m., at Pilsen Park, 26th St. and Albany Ave. Speakers: K. Korenic in Slovak, M. Kalousek in Czech and T. O’Faherty in BWnglish. Milwaukee, Wis., 8S. R. 8., Sunday, May 3, Slovak Hall, 1630 Walnut 8t., 3 p. m. Speaker, K. Korenic. Canton, O., 8. R. 8. F. and S. R. S., May 2, Slovak Hall, 1814 Henry Ave, Ss. W. Indiana Harbor, Ind., S. R. S., May 2, 7p. m., at Turner’s Hall, Main St. Speaker, John Zuskar. Gary, Ind., 8S. R. 8. No. 39, May 2, 7 p. m., Croatian Hall, 23rd Ave and Washington. Muskegon Heights, Mich, 8. R. S. No. 68, April 30, 7:30 p. m., Ukrai- nian Hall. Speaker, John Dendur. Cleveland, O., Czecho-Slovak Work- ers Party branch and Slovak organi- zation, May 2, 5 p. m., at Bohemian Hall Soko], 4314 Clark Ave. Detroit, Mich., Czech and Slovak organizations, Sunday, April 26. Newark, N. J., Slovak branch No. 19 and S. R. S., May 2, 8 p. m., Work- ers Hall. Racine, Wis., Slovak 8. R. 8., May 2, 7 p. m., Slovak Sokol Hall. Speaker, K. Korenic. | Torrington, Conn., 8S. R. S., May 2, 7:30 p. m., Czecho-Slovak Hall. Wilsonville, Ill, May 1, 8. R. 8S. (Slovak and Polish workers’ organi- zations), James Picco’s Hall, 8 p. m. Speaker, E. Rumburgh. Staunton, Ill, May 1, 3 p m, Labor Lyceum, Slovak, Czech and Polish or- | ganizations Speaker, St. Prikopa. | Endicott, N. Y., May 2, Kacik’s Hall, 101 Hill Ave. S. R. S. ond Czecho- | Slovak Workers Party branch, 7 p. m. peer Rud. Katz, May Day Greetings to the DAILY WORKER from the Liebknecht (German) Branch of Workers Party of Detroit | Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday | at the House of the Masses, | 2646 St. Aubin, near Gratiot CHIGAGO’TO STAGE HIKE SUNDAY, MAY 3 All the commie m the Young Workers League are Invited to the first hike that Is given by the local Jewish propaganda committee on Sunday, May 3, at 9 a. m. sharp. A nice program is prepared. The comrades diving on the west side will meet at the Freiheit Hall, 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. The comrades fiving on the north- west side will meet at 2613 Hirsch Bivd. Directions for the hike are: Take any car to Archer Ave., then trans- fer from Archer, to Cicero to the end of the line. ° hen take the coun- try car to the Wiilow Springs. Be on time, 9 a. m, = “© Polish Cadiaeonce Takes Up Shop Nuclei Question ‘in Chicago Realization that the factories where | the workers are exploited day after day must be the basic centers of Communist activity, featured the Chi- cago district conference of the Polish- speaking federation of the Workers (Communist) Party last Sunday. The conference resolved to consider ways of establishing contacts with the workers directly in the shops. It went on record unanimously in favor of the reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei. It also de- clared its full confidence in the pres- ent district executive committee of the Workers Party. All the Polish branches in the dis- trict had members presefit at the con- ference. Manuel Gomez, representing the district executive committee of the party, declared that the first or- ganizational task of the Polish federa- tion is to break down the walls of isolation which still separate it from the mass of the Polish workers em- ployed in the stockyards, steel mills and other important industries of the Chicago section. It was pointed out by the delegates that the results obtained in the cam- paign on behalf of Lanzutzky offer an excellent starting point for build- ing the Polish-speaking branches to twice and three times their actual size. In the campaign of propaganda and organization outlined by the con- ference the whole emphasis is laid on work in the shops, and at the fac- tory gates. Marek, who presented the _Organikation, ' also pointed out. that contacts must be established and maintained with the Polish workers in trade unions and fraternal organizations. Comrade Gebert, national secretary of the Polish federation, reported on the Polish language, press, dwelling on all the important aspects of the problem—political, tional and financial. The outlook for the feder- ation’s paper is exceptionally good. Following is the resolution adopted by the conference .. support of the D. B. C. of the “This conference, after hearing the report of the representative of the D. E. C., declares fts support of all committee of the party during the past year, and especially endorses the organization of shop nuclei and shop nuclei branch in Chicago carried out under the immediate direction of the local city central committee. It more- over instructs the Polish district com- mittee to co-operate with the district executive committee of the party in every way and to lend it its full sup- port.” “Regular” Council of Building Trades Balks at Merger WASHINGTON, April 30-— An- nouncement that President Hedrick and Secretary Traey of the building trades department.,of the American Federation of Labor would conduct the special election. of officers for the new building trades council in Cleve- land on May 2, has been followed by word that the “regular” council has refused to take part, with the Jarger “outlaw” council, in this election. Ballots for the election were prepar- ed in Washington... While only four or five of the build- ing crafts are represented in the old council in Cleveland, the carpenters have gathered about them in the so- called outlaw or illegal council, some nine or ten of the crafts. Their to- tal membership and their delegates are far greater than those of the regu- lar group. Hence the “outlaws” have accepted the decision of the joint meeting of building trades interna- tional union executives that the two councils get together and elect new officers, and the regulars have refused to agree. Governor Vetoes Bible Bill. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 30.—De claring that religious teaching in the homes, Sunday schools and churches, by the good mothérs, fathers and min- isters of Ohio, is much preferable to compulsory teachitg of religion by the state, Governor Donahey today vetoed the Buchanan bilf? providing for com- pulsory bible in the public oo schools, + en le ili, a \ eet a a work done by the @istrict executive | WARSAW, of the soles of the feet with iron switches are today nothing unusual in Poland. In very many prisons, particularly in the former Prussian prisons, the rights of the political prisoners do not differ at all from those of the com- mon criminals. There are other pris- ons, as that of the Holy Cross (a convent of the Middle Ages) where the prisoners are buried alive, where they get blind after three months’ im- prisonment, and in many cases never leave the prison at all. In the course of seven months of the year 1924, 35 hunger strikes took place many of which lasted 10 to 12 days. The Polish government ans- wers to hunger strikes with new re pressions, new tortures. There was no hunger strike which was not ac- companied with new maltreatment of the prisoners. Police Kill Workers. The most horrible forms of the white terror can be witnessed in the so-called frontier districts, in White Russia and in the western Ukraine. Every policeman in these districts is the master of the life and death of the peasants and workers. Every peasant who escapes the claws of these policemen with wounds, with smashed fingers and broken limbs,! considers it as luck that he has saved his life. Thousands of policemen, spies, Ry. ents provocateurs persecute the fight- ers for the workers’ cause. Only in the course of the last month over 300 persons, i.e., 10 persons per day, were arrested. Workers Mobilize. Active solidarity is an imperative duty. In mass meetings, in the shops and factories, in trade unions and all other labor organizations, in munici- pal councils and parliaments the revo- lutionary working class of all coun- tries must raise its voice in protest. It will be the task of the Red Aid or. ganizations to mobilize the masses, to mobilize public opinion against the bloody crimes of Polish reaction. No meeting should without flaming protest against attempted murder of Comrade Lanzutsky and against the bestial terror in Poland. The Polish bourgeoisie must know that the international working class — MACK-EASTLAWN AUTO SERVICE 13923 MACK AVENUE BATTERIES, TIRES, ACCESSORIES OILS AND GREASES 8-Hour Battery Service Our Speciality. PHONE HICKORY 2056 Tel. 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Everybody who will not submit to the tyranny in Poland like a slave, runs the risk of being thrown into prison and passing thru the tortures of hard labor. - Even in the darkest times of czarist reaction such horrible maltreatment did not take place as is in use now in the Polish prisons: the “examination” with the assistance of electric current, with the smashing of fingers, beating Buy Direct from Factory PHILLIP FIDLER Manufacturer of CAPS AND HATS We Carry Union Made Straw Hats 843 BELMONT AVE. Phone Buckingham 4389 May Day Greetings from EMERIK. VINCE of the Hungarian Br. W. P. DETROIT, MICH. Peart, Wee slot Pe 4 Be | JOHN REED JUNIOR GROUP PLANS BIG NIGHT ON MAY 23 Tell it to the kids! No, it ain’t about a circus, but the surprise af- fair that is being arranged by the John Reed Junior Group. They pro- mise an interesting evening on Sat.,May 23, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. They won't tell what they are going to pull a real surprise, dance, and a good time in general. So don’t forget, tell it to the kids! stands behind the tortured and perse cuted Polish workers and peasants and behind Comrade Lanzutsky. The Polish bourgeoisie must know that this international working class will not forget any of its crimes, but brand it before the whole world. We address our call to the workers and peasants of the whole world and especially to the Red Aid organiza. tions: 2 Prove your active solidarity! Against the murder of Comrade Lanzutsky! Against the attack on the sejm frac. tion of Communist Party of Poland! Against the bestial murder in Pol- ish prisons! Long live the solidarity with the revolutionary workers and peasants of Poland! The Executive Committee of the |. R. A., Central European Bureau. i i i i ee ee ee a a a affiliated Section of the Red MEETINGS: > > > *@ & * FSS BSS FB SSF SSS SsVssSssesesesvwswsewvesessvse off, but they assure that it will be | GREETINGS TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS from the | YOUNG WORKERS SPORT ALLIANCE OF DEROIT:\ . Young Workers Sport Alliance of America Every first Tuesday at the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin, near Gratiot Dances every third Saturday at the same address alti tide Ni Ri i i i Ri Re ie et te te tp te i i ie i i te i i a ee eee hphihiiip ii hii ii i i pi i i i i nr in ni ni in ini in niin bh MIMIC WAR 10 SHOUT ‘PREPARE’ F attlide: Obireasion in Pacific : Expected “HONOLULU, “Hawall, April 30.— The “critique” to be issued by the ad- mirals here now judging the Hawaiian war maneuvers of the United States naval fleet, is expected to contain propaganda for an even greater mili- tarisation of the Pacific colonies of American imperialism. If the admirals decide that the “blue” fleet captured Hawaii, propa- ganda for further militarization of the Hawalian Islands will be constained in the report. The military forces here have been used to keep the sugar plantation workers. slaving at beggar’s wages for 12 hourg a day, The strike of the sugar workers is being beaten down with bloodshed by the American imperialistic forces. — The “critique” may decide, on the other hand, that the military forces stationed here successfully repulsed the fleet. In that case | tr navy” will be called for. ‘Thru the state- ments of the admirals is being en- twined propaganda for a larger air- plane force. The war maneuvers were declared by many to be a warning to Japan that Wall Street intends to continue domination of the Pacific. GREETINGS to the DAILY WORKER Tolstoy Vegetarian ' Restaurant 2718 W. Division St. Chicago — ~e+ eee eee 44444444444 with the Sport International. ~*~ * * ** @** &* HST FSS SSSA BVATAT > Sunday, May at Jacob Schafer Concert celebrating his tenth year as conductor of The Freiheit Singing Society : Studebaker Theater, 418 S. Michigan Blvd. Chicago bb be i i i i i i i i 24, 2:30 P. M. the sir hii hi haa Aa AA AA AAA AAAAA AAA A AA A 4 DAD Tickets for sale by Freiheit Singing Society, 3837 Roosevelt Road: Daily Worker Office, Local Chicago W. P. Office, 19 S. Lincoln St. 1113 W. Washington Bivd.: __ eee eee ei i i i i et i te ti he tn th hh DADA 1—Friday, May 8 2—Friday, May 15 3—Friday, May 22 at Harlem Educational Centre, 62 East 106th Street, New York City 8:30 P. M. SHARP i li i i i Mi hi i i i hi hi i hi hi hi hi i hi hi hi hi i i i hi hi hi hi hi i hi hi hi he hi hi i hi i hh th hi i NEW YORK, NOTICE! 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sion in ed pril 30.— by the ad- Hawaiian ted States ) contain sater mili- olonies of that the ali, propa- tion of the constained | iry forces ) the sugar it beggar’s The strike ing beaten American le, on the ary forces rf repulsed zger navy” the state- being en- larger air- @ declared to Japan 0 continue relt | = . * eee ee ee Ei i i ie i i te he ie i te te ee te DD DDD 4 “ Eo CU rmLUL eC -—_— - -_ - - -— OO cate a Is Devoted to the } abliviiy at: Vaterects of the Trade Union Educational League (T. 0. B.D.) -.. North American Section of the RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (R. LL. U.) ers’ Government. . THE T.U.E.L. Represents the Left Wing of the Lahor Movement. ite Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, 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- wa a : MINE INSPECTOR ELECTION GIVES MACHINE. DEFEAT Coins) Susiéeviones Turn Down F akers By ALEX REID. CHRISTOPHER, Ill, April 30.— The Farrington machine goes down to inglorious defeat in the latest elec tion fiasco, “The election of county mine inspector,” in Franklin county. The appointment of the mine in- spector takes place, after the miners show their preferance by ballot, and same is recorded with county super visors, who in turn, eleet the choice of the miners. Voted Full -Membership. Said election recently took place in Franklin county, and the ballots were withheld from the Freeman local un- ion with approximately 700 members. The Middlefork local union with a membership of 600, when the mine is in operation and which has been idle for over two years, cast a vote ap proximately a full membership. Jack James, one of the candidates, and a democrat, refused to worship at the republican shrine, or the Far- rington bench and thereby incurred the wrath of the unholy machine, who went out to annihilate him, and place their own stool pigeon in his place, by name, Chas. Robinson, a pliant tool of the bureaucracy, from re aa ltrerreenit ot Anand uit Maohine Tried to Get False Count Jack James from Christopher would have received practically a 100 per cent vote: from Freeman local, 700 membership, as Mr. James is well- known and respected in Freeman, and the Farrington and sub-district ma- chine is hated as only those machines deserve’ and would have received a secant vote there indeed. Knowing this, the Lowe Fox, presi- dent sub-district 9, Fox by name as well as nature, has the ballots held up from Freeman on the ground that it is not in sub-district 9, and attempts to lead the'supervisors to believe the mine was in Williamson county, when the facts of the .case are that the mine is in Franklin county and the inspector must examine that mine with the rest of the mines in Frank- lin county. They, “the machine,” did not attempt to explain the full ballot from the mine that was shut down for two years. Lewis’ Ruling Didn’t Count. John L. Lewis has ruled the actions of that local union since, and prior to the December 9 elections, illegal; yet in spite of this ruling by the in- ternational president, and with the aid and connivance of the Farrington machine and the sub-district tools, they attempted to beat Mr. James and put over Mr. Robinson in line with their policy of rule or ruin. Their contempt for the Lewis rul- ing is seen in their defiance to issue transfer cards, which are about to be declared illegal, and which is caus- ing bitter comments against the ma- chine from the decent miners who have been duped by the fakers and who now are*swearing retaliation. Try to Get County Supervisors’ Aid. On Saturday, April 25, the whole Farrington outfit with their candidate Robinson appeared at the county court house in Benton to clinch the deal. Headed by the Fox, assisted by Board Member Harry Madden, aiso Assistant Board Member James Hicks, and others around Benton and, in- cidentally, the miners’ attorney, A. C. Lewis was in deep conversation with them, and was very prominent in the room of the supervisors during the session, their foul efforts went for naught. County Supervisors Reject Fakers’ Plot. The supervisors were informed of the facts of the Freeman local, like- wise the conditions of the Middlefork local, and as one of the supervisors was overheard to say afterwards, “It was a clear case of saving the min- ers’ franchise from destruction by their officers.” It was the clear in- tent of the miners to have Mr. James appointed. If Mr, Robinson will examine the personnel of his supporters, together with letters from Mr. Cobb, and ue statements soliciting support for Mr. Robinson on the back of his official stationery of the U. M. W. of A, coupled with the Freeman local inci- dent and the Middlefork local situa- tion, with the miners’ total disgust, of the Farrington, Fox, Cobb, Lowden machine he will readily understand the cause of his defeat by the overwhelm- ing vote of the supervisors which was 14 votes for Mr, James and 4 votes for Mr. Robinson. On the strength of that vote one would be safe in say- ing that his friends, the machine, beat him, Four Defeats. This is the fourth defeat of the ma- chine in the last few weeks. First, the local election held in Ziegler with the international officers; in this prior election justice could not be had, as the Farrington-Fox machine, with Madden and Wright ably assisting them, destroyed the miners’ franchise, but was later repudiated in this last election, by relegating them to the scrap heap. Second, the Ziegler city election which was won by the opponents of the Farrington machine that had been used to defeat the miners tn their elections. Third, the West Frankfort city elec- tion which resulted in the complete defeat of the Farrington machine, and fourth, the victory of Mr. John James for mine inspector of Franklin county. Various local unions are preparing resolutions to be sent to, the board of supervisors commendingi them for their absolute fairness and justice in helping by their decisions to safe- guard the miners’ franchise against the corruption of .their union official- dom. ' odeQwis’ Letter on Transfer. A copy of a letter of J. L. Lewis,y president of the U. M. W. of A., to the Local Union No. 1969 .is given below. This is the letter and decision made in compliance with the miners’ constitution that Farrington and his gang in Sub-District 9 hold in contempt and which has caused the miners to again get the locals togeth- er to have a delegation go to Indiana- polis to see Lewis and plead for a special commission to come here and clean out the rottenness, as mo. effort can result in any relief from within the district. “Indianapolis, April 21, 1925, To Mr. G. R. Price, 802 Fairland St., Benton, Illinois. “Dear Sir and Brother:—Replying to your inquiry of recent date, permit me to advise that if the officers of Local Union 1959 have taken their cards from that local union and de- posited them in some other local un- ion they would not be eligible to serve as officers of Local Union 1959. They were without authority to issue trans- fer cards. When the officers of Local Union 1959, to whom you refer drew their transfer cards from Local Union 1959 and went elsewhere to work, the local union shoukd have elected officers to serve in their place. Trust- ing this will give you the desired information. “Yours truly, J. L. Lewls.” This letter supplemented telegrams from Lewis prior te Dec. 9, which held those officers could not legally hold the elections, but which was, and is, held in contempt and scorn by Far- rington and his henchmen, and which now seems to be a means of declaring about 300 transfer cards invalid. The miners of the whole sub-district are up in arms against the Farring- ton, Fox, Madden, Cobb, Lowden ma- chine and are preparing to remove them from office. Prison Labor issue Raised WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.— American Federation of Labor offi- cials are watching closely the fight in Oklahoma, launched by the State Federation of Labor, to defeat by re- ferendum vote the bill driven thru the legislature by Gov. Trapp, which would remove the label “prison made” from garments and brooms made by convicts in contract shop in the Okla- homa penitentiary. The Oklahoma Farmers’ Union is cooperating with organized labor in this attack on the prison contract labor trust. Urges Air Armaments for Britain. ROME, April 30. — Great Britain should oppose any move toward air disarmament, accordj[ng to Air Min- ister Hoare, in an interview today. He said Bngland would soon in- augurate a Cairo-Bagdad air service, asp well as regular flights between AT CONFERENCE: T. ULE. L. Plans Call for United Front By JOSEPH MANLEY. LAWRENCE, Mass., April. 30. — Lawrence, Mass., known thruout the labor movement as the scene of historic struggles in the textile in- dustry was the location of a textile conference held last Sunday, April 26. The Lawrence conference is signifi- cant and important to the extent that the miserable conditions of the textile workers generally are becoming worse. The entire textile industry is faced with serious developments for the, workers, brought about by the con- centration of capital, thé wholesale in- troduction of automatic machinery, the application of efficiency methods of production, and the use of super power which, together with the semi- automatic machinery, enables the use of black and white unskilled labor close to the source of the raw mater- ial in the south. The textile trust in its ruthless grasp for profits is grind- ing its vast army of workers down to the very lowest degree of wage slaves. Out of Date Uhions and Leaders The many unions, in the modern textile industry are antiquated in policy and structure. Officered as they are by men and women (the later of the type of Sarah Conboy) whose principles are bounded by class colla- boration and whose ideology is essent- jally capitalistic, offer no resistance whatever to the growing power and profits of the textile trust. The many unions as they stand now, whether of the craft or semi-indus- trial type, cannot and will not organ- ize the textile workers. Not more than 100,000 workers out of a total of over & million and a half are now divided between these various unions. Not a single one, of these unions attempts to meet constructively, or even intelligently such obstacles as the race problem or the tendency to- ward craft ‘division in the three basic woolen,cotton and silk, divisions of the industry. The jinability to organ- ize the textile workers by a bank- rupt bureaucracy at the head of anti- quated unions has for a long time been pointed out by the Trade Union Educational League. Previous Work Laid Basis The organization of the left wing elements in the textile industry has been advocated, and to some extent *béen carried on for the last couple of years by the Trade Union Educa, tional League. Two years ago con: ferences of militants in tke textile industry were organized. An amalganiation committee was formed, a textile union amalgamation program was adopted, and other measures proposed to crystalize the militant movement in the industry. This propaganda and agitation, by the T. U. BE. L., national committee thru- out the entire industry has firmly con- vinced the textile workers that amal- gamation is a practical necessity look- ing to the organization of the un- organized. The Wage Cut Drive For months past, the textile trust has been making war upon its work- ers. .The seat of this war has been in New England. The signal for the battle was given by the trust in the form of wage cuts and large scale un- employment. Immediately that the textile barons anounced their inten- tions, the T. U. E. L. national com- mittee sounded the alarm to the work- ers. In addition, it proposed a line of policy and program to effectively re- sist wage reductions and unemploy- ment. The T. U. E. L. issued a mani- festo addressed particularly to New England textile workers calling upon them to follow its lead in the initia- tion of a wide campaign for a broad united front movement of the textile unions, and the unorganized textile workers against the united front of the textile millionaires. The T. U. E. L. Fighting Plan Militant resistance to wage cuts, and increased in hours was declared for. The organization of shop com- mittees, in every mill, was proposed. Immediate measures to resist the widespread unemployment was con- tained in the manifesto. To deal with the New England crisis, it was pro- posed to call a series of conferences at which basic programs should be adopted, such conferences and pro- frams to lead to the inauguration of a broad mass movement of textile workers that will effectively meet the onslaught of the textile capitalists. The Lawrence conference is the first of a series. It was called by Dis- trict Organizer J. J. Ballam for the T. U. E. L. There were present at this conference some forty odd delegates, members of five unions from thirteen New England textile cities. The Present Conference Four language bodies: Russian, Fin- nish, Armenian and PFranco-Belgian were represented along with three lo- cal united front committees. The chairman of, the conference was an old time textile worker—J. P. Reid of Providence, Ry I. The secretary was a textile worker—Fred E. Beal of Lawrenee, Mass. An interesting discussion took place on amalgamation, the organization of front textile a united workers commi> }the- iat, ey Fe ake aes 7 CGNs Dies, tae , ith as ou WG. i. E. L. CALLS CLOAK OES AND ALL I. L.G.W.1 . sé ie Bag y : ME 9 ms aw 2. iat ~ me iG ACTION To the Ctoalthickers of New York and Fellow We :—Once more we struggle for a the All Members of the L L. G. W. U.: are confronted with the necessity of ent standard of living for ourselves and our families. Again of the international are threatening to disrupt the morale and unity of the union with the object in view of terrorizing the members into acceptance of their surrender to the bosses thru the governor's com- mission for which they are preparing. This can be the only interpreta- tion of the behavior of Vice-President +— Peristein and others at severeal meet- ings of the locals of the international. Fellow Workers: Previous to the expiration of last year’s cloak and dressmakers’ agree- ment, as well as others thruout the industry, the officials of the Interna tional ‘to crush all opposition to their tactics thru expulsions of our best and most active members and reorganization of opposition locals. on the pretense that these members be- long to the T. “U. BE. L. It is now clear to everyone that’ the real reason for that terrorism was to smother the opposition in order to be able thru the tactic.of a governor’s com- mission to abandon the struggle for the vital @emands so necessary to make a decent living in our industry. Do you still remember how {or weeks and weeks they conducted se- cret diplomacy behind closed doors, the end of which was that a deal was made that no strike be called for any of the demands and all demands were referred to the governor's commis- sion? Against Clase Collaboration. Now, what is this governor’s com- mission? «As everyone knows, and surely our leaders ought to know, the U. 8. government as well as the gov- ernment of the state of New York, is controlled by Wall Street. Al Smith is their governor, elected by Tam- many Hall, and this governor, a mere tool of Wall Street capital, appointed other toola—capitalists themselves— as a commission, and our leaders have put our fate—the well-being of our families, our bread and butter—into the hands of, this commission;. in other words, into the hands of Wall Street. Who are the rulers of Wall Street? They ae the biggest labor-baiting capitalists of, the country, and the commission is their commission. What can we t from such a commis- sion? Nothing, or even worse. What is our for, if Wall Street com- missions are the arbiters of our con- ditions? Class collaboration is the policy that our officials follow in deal- ing with the bosses. Their motto is to have peace. with the bosses. Conditions, in the Industry Are Growing Worse. w that the workers of industry, accord- ing to the Idtest reports of the U. S. census buréau, are producing 35 per cent more garments than. before, while the “humber of employed is 10 per cent less? You may not know that, but you*do know that your sea- sons are getting shorter every year and that your income as figured per year is getting smalier year by year. That the contractor system that pre- vails thruout New York has made your job insecure, subjected you to speed up and bad sanitary conditions. If the bosses could produce 35 per cent more garments than before with 10 per cent less workers employed, it was of course at your expense; in other words, the jobbers and manu- facturers are getting richer and stronger while we are getting poorer and weaker. Where will that lead us to? Will we at last make the union our instrument or will we remain mere pawne in the hands of the officials? Do The rank and file has suffered enough abuse. Democracy in our union has become a farce. Our best and active members are subject to expulsion and persecution. We are taxed and dues are increased without consulting the membership, the union has become a gold mine for the offi- clals instead of being an instrument for the workérs to fight for better conditions. We suffered and stood for all that for the sake of keeping our union intact for the big thing— the struggle for better conditions. Once more our leaders are prepar- ing to abandon definitely all our vital demands to the mercy of the gover- nor’s commission, and in preparation for this purpose threaten again to dis- rupt those locals that favor and are ready to strike for these demands and against the governor's commission. As long as the corruption and the dictatorship of the officials did not directly concern the conditions of the shops, there may have been indiffer- ence by some members, but now that it goes for our most vital economic interests there must be but one single unified front of all the rank and file against this traitorous policy of class collaboration of our international offi- cials. If they will not fight for these demands, the membership must find ways to rally for the struggle, and stand pat on this issue. We urge the members therefore to force our offi- cials to insist upon the following de- mands: What Are These Demands? 1. The basic agreement should be between the union and these jobbers and manufacturers and should hold them fully responsible for all condi- tions in the contracting shops. The contractor not to be recognized as the employer, but merely as intermediary agent (straw boss). 2. In order to enforce the agree- ment all contracting shops working for one and the same capitalist should be considered a unit and the workers of these shops should hold joint shop meetings and elect a joint shop com- mittee and in case of stoppage or strike all should act together the same as in inside shops. 3. That those jobbers and manufac- turers who have an agreement with the union should not be allowed to supply new contracting shops with work and that the number of existing contracting shops should be reduced as rapidly as possible so as to allow the remaining shops to grow in size, the industry. 4. An increase on the scale of wages of 20 per cent. 5. Forty full weeks of employment for the year guaranteed. 6. Forty-hour week. 7. Unemployment insurance fund, paid by the bosses only and adminis- tered by the*4nion. These are in essence the demands of the officials themselves as _ ex- pressed on various occasions in the official organ of the union, the Jus- tice. We urge the members to insist that the officials stand pat and fight for these demands, and for this pur- pose we propose as follows: 1. That the union does not submit to the decision of the governor’s com- mission and prepares for a strike, 2. In order to have the full confi- dence and raise the morale of the membership a strike committee be directly elected by the members of the locals on a proportional basis and that the negotiations and conduct of the strike be under the leadership of this rank and file strike committee. 3. That shop committees be imme- diately elected in every shop in order to draw the mass of the membership into the various activities in prepara- tion for the strike. 4. The reinstatement and suspended members. Fellow workers: In order. to fight for these demands we need UNITY and a strong fighting union. At this time, when good morale and fighting spirit are most necessary, the mem- bership of the union mugt stand on guard against any attempt to break or demoralize our ranks. Do not wait or rely upon the deci- sion of the governor’s commission. This decision, which the bosses and reactionary union officials will attempt to force upon you, will mean only more misery and oppression for the rank and file. Down with the governor’s commis- sion! Down with class collaboration! Prepare for the strike! With working class greetings, The National Committee of the Needle Trades Section, T. U. E. L. of expelled EE tees, and the shop committee system in its application to the textile indus- try. Along with this, other special problems, as Well as the general con- ditions in the industry were discussed Organizational Tasks A central bureau of united front committees of New England to carry on the future work was organized. A program was adopted, which calls for the immediate organization thruout New England of united front textile workers’ committees; the organization fo shop committees in the various mills; using both the united front com mittee and the shop committee as the basis for an amalgamation movement from below; organization of relief and defense for the textile workers in their present struggle ; concrete proposals on the manner of handling present un- employment; a umited front on the political field—labor party. This program as well as the financ- ing of the movement, its organization and the future, publication of a bulle tin was ref to the elected New ma od bureau of the united on tael demand 74.25; The writer and William Z. Foster | were present. Foster spoke on the present situation in the textile indus: try. He contributed many suggestions toward the practical organization of the work in the district. The Lawrence conference will be followed by others, which will lead to the organizing of a general mass gath- ering which, it is hoped, will launch a broad mas movement in the textile industry. Such a movement can only come about by the persistent efforts of the various elements, who accept the leadership and follow the program of the Trade Union Educational League. Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, April 30.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 484%; cable 484%. France, franc, demand 5.21%; cable 5.28, Belgium, franc, de- mand 5.07; cable 5.07%. Italy, lira, demand 4.10; cable 4.10%. Sweden, krone, demand 26.75; cable 16.41. Den- mark, krone, demand 18.60: cable 18.- 62. Germany, ‘Mark, not quoted. cable | 3476. * i = until the big shop again prevails in DISTRICT ONE MINERS REJECT CAPPELLINI TOOL Mass sectctratise Against Faker By PAT TOOHEY. WILKES BARRE, Pa.—Miners of the Woodward colliery, Edwardsville, Pa., for the second time: in April staged a mass parade in protest against the actions of Rinaldo Cap- pellini, president of District 1, U. M. W. of A. The parade occurred on the day the district board was conducting the “special election” at the Woodward colliery. The faction headed by Stan- ley Edmunds, of over 1,200 men, re- fused to participate in the election but chose to parade in protest. Trouble Long Brewing. The trouble at the Woodward col- liery has been brewing for many months, in fact long before Cappellini revoked the local charter, a la Lewis. The group led by Adam Dunn, school director and peanut politician, has been recognized by the district execu- tive board as the local union officials for some time. The membership of the local abso- lutely refuse to recognize Dunn and his cohorts as their officers, claiming that the Dunn group, consisting of about 500 of the 1,700 members, met secretly and elected themselves. As @ consequence there has been two local unions functioning at the mine for the past few months. Martial Law in Union Fight. The sequel came when the Edmunds group refused to pay dues to the Dunn officials. The “officers” then re- taliated by refusing to permit the Edmunds followers to enter the mine. The Edmundsites then paraded thru Kingston, Edwardsville and Wilkes Barre. A miner or two was knifed or shot on that occasion—otherwise the pa- rade was peaceful. The situation be- came so tense that the state cossacks | practically placed the whole section under martial law by ordering the closing of poolrooms, hotels, etc. Cappellini then stepped in and after a three-hour meeting the district ex- ecutive board by a vote of four to three decided that the Woodward col- liery should hold a special election with the district board as tellers. They decided that Dunn and Edmunds should each submit a list of candi- dates. 1,200 Miners In Protest Parade. Dunn accepted this, but Edmunds refused on the basis that his officers were the regularly elected officials and that it was contrary to the dis- trict and international law to remove officers in his manner. Three of the executive board thought likewise. However, the “election” took place with Dunn’s men voting and Edmunds’ 1.200 men parading the streets of Wilkes Barre and adjacent towns. More trouble is expected at the Woodward colliery, and the miners of the district are waiting patiently for future developments. The Edmunds group is expected to parade again soon as it will soon be time for Dunn’s “button committee” to examine the dues books of the miners. It is gen- erally thought that the Edmunds fac- tion, heretofore staunch Lewis sup- porters, will be the bulk of opposition at the tri-district convention against the Lewis-Cappellini aggregation. Waking Up. The miners of the Woodward col- liery and of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. have had their eyes opened has to the real type of gentlemen Lewis and Cappellini are. Since they have ex- perienced official opposition and char- ter revocation, they are beginning to realize that the ducks heading their organization have as their motto “Rule or Ruin.” They are beginning to realize that the militant struggle waged by the Kansas and Noya Sco Lewis told them, and that the 66,000 miners who voted anti-Lewis last elec- tion certainly knew what they doing. Scores of local unions are selecting committees to personally investigate the Woodward situation, and as many conflicting reports are heard. were munds and retain Dunn in defiance of the will of the Woodward member- ship. Lewis Won't Answer Letter. Lewis was asked by Edmunds for a ruling on the charge that the special election was illegal and contrary to |too busy selling out the ihe failed in his promises, the union laws, but evidently Lewis is Nova Scotia miners to Besco to answer, as Ed. munds is still waiting for a reply to ‘hie wire. Cappellini is being denounced and condemned by the miners thruout the entire district. They speak plainly and say he sold them out time and time again. His mouthings of “soli- darity” are laughed at when the char- ter revocations of the 12,000 Pennsy miners and 1,700 Woodward miners are recalled. Cappellini is going from local to local trying to get the men to believe the fairy tale he has, that the reason the reason he has had 610 strikes in 18 months. the reason their hundreds of griev- ances are unsettied, is because of his ee ee LA. " | ELECTION RETURNS SHOW Check Up to April 21 Gives Anderson Lead The election in the International Association of Machinists as reported by the Anderson group, looks like Johnston is going to have to do some tall election cheating to count him- self in. Premonition may account for the Johnston gang“ prophesying that Johnston is going to get from 15,000 to 19,000 votes while Anderson is due to get from 12,000 to 14,000. And then again it may not be premonition — but premeditation in figuring that they will give an take about that much in the counting. The Anderson group has issued the following statement of the returns that have come in up to April 21: Some of these locals have closed their polls; others will continue vot- ing till the end of the month. (NOTE) An asterisk following the lodge number indicates that lodge nominated Johnston. (nn) following lodge number indicates that lodge made no nominations. Ander- Johns- City Lodge No son ton New York City 304 25 z New York City 402 47 4 New York City 48 35 0 New York City 900 RO 0 New York City 406 42 1 New York City 447 167 $ New York City 401 32 1 New York City 417 27 0 New York City 132 65 § New York City 323 14 2 New York City 434 370 4 New York City 835 9 0 Chicago, Ill. 83 200 4 Chicago, Il. 84 40 2 Chicago, Ill. 113* 44 52° Chicago, Ill. 126 364 1 Chicago, Ill. 128* 11 2 Chicago, Ill. 134* 104 8&8 Chicago, Ill 185 25 § Chicago, Ill. 199 172 9 Chieago, III. 337 62 6 iC hicago, Il. 366 72 28 | Chicago, Il. 390 71 4 Chicago, Ill. 1528* 1 157 Chicago, Ill. 492 7 0 Chicago, Il. 830 39 15 Elizabeth, N. J.* 315* 16 0 Perth Amboy, N. J.367* 11 5 St. Louis, Mo. 41 80 ll St. Louis, Mo. 394* 9 7 St. Louis, Mo. 688 32 0 St. Louis, Mo. 777 29 0 Belleville, Tl. 353 18 3 East St. Louis, Ill. 121 22 0 Granite City, Ill. 572 65 1 Washington, D.C. 174* 295 7” 302 Gary, Ind. 1135 60 1 San Francisco, Cal. 68 181 39 San Francisco, ” 1305* 41 19 Sacramento, Cal. 33* 30 9 Oakland, Cal. 284nn 52 28 Oakland, Cal. 1546* 6 14 San Jose, Cal. 504nn 13 0 Los Angeles, Cal. 311 42 18 Seattle, Wash. 79 100 8 LaFayette, Ind. 181* 61 34 TOTAL 2086 521 tia miners was not for the reasons | Cappel- | lini is determined to get rid of Ed- | The following lodges have voted a majority for Anderson, but have not furnished figures: Ottumwa, Ia. No. W. V., No. 104: 125: Ashland, Ky. O. No. 249*. Only a few locals have sent fm items on the complete ballots. On those received, the Anderson slate is leading. More bulletins will be is- sued ag returns come in. J. F. ANDERSON. Fakers’ howe Tried to Check Meeting; Buf Only Got Miners Sore By WILLIAM SCHROEDER. WEST FRANKFORT, lIll—A very interesting mass meeting took place here with Freeman Thompson and John Watt as speakers. It was the intention to hold the meeting at the band stand in the open air. But the local branch of the Farrington ma- chine succeeded in having the elect- ric light of the bandstand cut off. |If the speakers had used it, they could have had an audience of several thou- sand. So Farrington’s agents got that stopped. The meeting, therefore, had to be held at the South Mine Local hall. The hall was packed to full capacity and hundreds of men had to be turn- 269*; Huntington, Covington, Ky. No. No. 334*: Ironton, ed away. The meeting lasted until 19:30 p. m., but not a mran left the hall be- fore the meeting was over. Many times Thompson, and Watt also, had to stop speaking on account of ap- plause Freeman Thompson promised to re- turn in about two weeks. When he the militant workers here will see to it that he and Watt have a chance to speak to a larger audience than they had tonight. The ball is rolling—-may it break Farrington’s neck! does Have to Get Him. GRANVILLE, Vermont, April 30.— Armed with carbines and mounted on cavalry horses, military cadets from Norwich university—800 strong—took the field today in seach for Barl Woed- ward, ex-convict. . WORKEEBI | : Subscribe for the DAILY -#¥
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— ee ee bd = ry re ; pM ; - ~ Mi + os 3 - e > ney pea oe HE EARL OF BALFOUR was re- warded for his troubles in Arabia by being given the presidency of the council in succession to Lord Curzon who died recently. This is a pretty quiet place for the veteran diplomat of British ingperialism to spend his last days. = > — ” RESIDENT LYNCH of the Inter- national Typographical Union does not believe long hours and short pay is the principal evil afflicting the Am- erican working class. That does not bother fat Jim in the least. In a statement issued by this faker, the habit of falling into debt, is the great- est menace affecting the future wel- fare of the American workers. Run- ning into debt is the privilege of the aristocracy. Fascists Attack Mussolini's Bil! ROME, April 30.—Premier Musso- lini favored the bill providing for woman suffrage in-the municipal elec- tions, introduced today, but fascists generally attacked it. > = 34 oh OF LOS ANBELES ‘TO GLASS DUTY Struggle ast Rule of Big Baslnces . (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, April 30. — Two years ago the teachers of Los Angeles took a very active part in the municipal election, They endorsed candidates for the board of education and took an active p in the cam- paign. Their efforts were met with a very vicious attack on the part of the committee of 1,000 representing the chamber of and other labor-hating organizs . One. of their candidates was mercilessly at- tacked as a red, Bolshe' propagandist, etc. > During the lagt Bast go consistent pressure was brought against the teachers in their efforts to use their teachers’ organizations ‘and journals for the expression of their political views. One teacher was tried for hav- ing made a statement regarding the world war, which was interpreted as beieng unpatriotic. Persecution by Big Biz. The teachers’ organization made a fight in his behalf and prevented him being expelled from the school. Here- sy hunting was the order of the day. The chamber of commerce controls the schools. A special week was set aside as chamber of commerce week. Even such liberal magazines as the Nation was barred fromthe libraries of the public school. In the present municipal election the Workers Party of Los Angeles is calling on the teachers and the work- ers to unite on the political and economic field. The Workers Party realizes the difficulties that confront the teachers whenever they attempt to make even the most elementary de- mands. Suspension from _ schools means deprivation of the means of livelihood. The teachers cannot pos- sibly make any kind of an organized effort to better their conditions with- out the active and full support of the working class, of which they must always consider themselves an _in- tegral part. 3 Urge Labor Union Support. For these reasons the political com- mittee of the Workers Party is ap- pearing before the labor unions of Los Angeles in particular to get be- hind the candidate, Erianuel Levin, and the platform which he is present- ing to the voters in this’ election. The labor unions ar@ beginning to realize that the schoolsa#te not only ' built by scab labor, but that workers’ children are being ,t¥aified to be enemies of the worker, are being trained thru their military courses, to bears arms against the) workers in their struggle for better conditions. The Machinists’ Local No. 311, the Capmakers’ Local Union, No, 26, and the Millinery Workers’ Union, all af- filiated with the American Federation of Labor, and the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers’ Union, have already en- dorsed Levin, the candidate of the Workers Party and its platform. Against the Open Shop. The teachers united with the work- ers in the shops and industries must wrest the control of the schools from the hands of the bitterest enemies of the working class, the 100 per cent open shoppers of Los Angeles. The program and platform in this cam- paign leads the way for this unity. The campaign marks only the be- ginning of an active campaign to create the necessary political and in- dustrial power of the workers to con- trol and manage the schools so that the children of the workers will be the staunch supporters of the work- ing class, whereas at this time they are trained to be the enemies of the working class. No Illusions. The Workers Party in its platform realizes that the wresting of the public schools from the control of the cap- italist class cannot be. accomplished while the capital system exists and are not giving the teachers or workers any illusions of what would happen if their candidate should be elected or even if the entire board of education should be elected on its platform. The Workers Party and its candi- date realize that all the workers, whether they be in the industries or in the social and educational institu- tions of the present system, are be- ing used to help perpetuate the cap- italist system, and that it is their duty to enter into the evefyday struggle of the workers to better their condi- tion and to train ‘themselves to ultimately take over the means of production and distribution. The platform and necessary polit- ical activities in this campaign will lay the ground work for the awaken- ing of the consciousness of the work- ers and teachers to their responsibil- ities to themselves and the working class as a whole. Snow Falis at Moline. MOLINE, IIL, April 29.—Nearly an inch of snow fell in Moline last night and the temperature was below freez- ing. It is thought crops were not damaged. Saturday, May 2. Meeting of all socid] managers of the branches at 19 "South Lincoln street at 3 p.m. Evety branch must be represented so that all arrange- ments can be made fér the May 9th dance at Workers Russian | ‘ z Cs ce $3 - baa rm “ie > leg: o ee oat : " , eG + OF rs ag ee oe ah teed F E ~ att se Se eS ae Fuel Ce oe e Ae a te ae GE 4 Bs, fee oa La tly Goa wie at si a P pice 3 +e | i: = a eo oe a 2 - a ie - | F ord Shows There More Nuts Than Those Found on His Flivvers ba pe nl + ~ - ee Are By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.. | and when to eat.” food, clothing and shelter. lem,” pail is full.” eep the workers contented. — and what to get.” isolated. as “Bolshevism.” millions can't afford it. provide the drivin the children that grab for the o . capitalism into ruins. the next war. and his kind. * 2*® @¢ ® ;, There are three necessities that every worker requires: Ford has not yet tell the workers how to solve the question of clothing and shelter. The housing problem is one of the most pressing in every American city. But he confesses he has tackled the food problem to his own satisfaction. For instance, he tells the women to “leave politics alone and study the food prob- B berths Henry Ford, upon whom some bestow the crown of “richest man in the world,” again offers himself as the saviour of mankind. Ford ha’ a successor for his “Peace Ship” stunt, for world peace is surely to follow on the heels of this idea, he argues. He now claims that the trouble with the world is that it “doesn’t know how to eat, what to eat to Ford, of course, dodges the main issue; where to sufficient income to provide the “ideal breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Ford is going to tell the workers what he eats. He will not tell the workers how to buy the things that he eats, out of their wages, or without any wages if they are un- employed. He proceeds on the supposition that “the dinner * @ .« Ford’s bunk will therefore be classed with the nonsense of the comic sheets, so far as the intelligent and militant workers of the land are concerned. They will accept it as just some more propaganda in the effort of the bosses to It is Ford’s May Day stuff. Here is what the auto manufacturer deolares: “| believe we can bring about a change in the universal chronic unrest by feeding the world good food and teaching people what to eat Capitalism, which is Ford's social system, will never feed the workers “good food.” ing down wages; which results in cutting off the workers’ food supply, just as surely as if the working class were completely surrounded by an enemy army, anv its food’stores Its main interest is in keep- Capitalism, Ford's system, sends millions of children hungry to school every morning. A these children, how to eat, but what to eat. There is noth- ing for them at home. Free lunches at school is denounced It is not a question with The same is true of the fathers and mothers at work. Real milk is good food. But working class families by the The cheapest of substitutes must be provided, even for helpless babies in their cradles. Ford and his kind repeat for the workers, “An apple a day, will keep the doctor away.” But the Ford system says, “Let the apples rot in the orchards. That will: keep the suppl and the prices up, resulting in good:profits,” the profits that motive behind the*Ford capitalist sys- tem. The few apples that do drift into the congested work- ing class districts of the great cities are just as anemic as down m. Correct eating is good. But it is a mockery to preach it to workers continually sodgrteh on the poverty line, un- able to buy even the cheapest foods in numbers during every industrial crisis, when unemploy- ment stalks across the land, or when c to ravage the nations, plunging new millions to death, dis- ease and starvation, that will shake-the whole structure of . It is this mass, swelled italist wars come Unemployment:—Ford has no cure for it. War:—In spite of his peace ship, Ford was one of the most energetic supporters of the last world war. Ford is today being depended on to help furnish great air fleets for Food, clothing and shelter:—Ford does not tell. the workers how to provide these necessities for themselves and their families. All he does is to babble shallow epigrams about “dieting,” just as he aimlessly offers nostrums and cure-alls for other social diseases, providing some new fleet- ing sensation for the yellow press. ings of Communism, that strike at the roots of the great problems confronting labor, will the working class ‘make progress. They will do this over the prostrate form of Ford Only thru the teach- MINERS OF NOVA SCOTIA REJECT WAGE CUT PLAN ‘Impartial’ Ar bitrator Aids Besco (Special to The Daily Worker) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, April, 30. —After the long “investigations” pur- sued by the Premier Armstrong to see what. was the matter in the dispute between the coal miners of District 26 and the British Empire Steel cor- poration, the usual result of capitalist government mediation has occurred. Premier Armstrong proposes that the miners accept a 10 per cent wage cut. Commenting upon the premier’s pro- posal as a basis for further negotia- tions, the district president of the miners’ union, J. W. MacLeod, stated that the position of the miners was ohe of “no compromise” and that the district executive absolutely refuses to consider any peace overtures based on a wage cut from the 1924 scale, in whole or in part. “We are not considering the pre- mier’s proposition at all, and have no intention of taking it before the mem- bership. The individyal members of the executive are going to address the various local unions of the district but our object has no connettion with this latest proposition.” The district is appealing. for sup- port of the 12,000 miners and their starving families, to labot everywhere, in order to fight the wage’cut. - : Rich New Yorkers Swallow Fake Plot Bull, Guard Churches (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 30.—“Anarchist, left wing socialist and Red Commun- ists” are bogies against whom Chief Police Inspector William J. Lahey mobilized his bomb squad in advance of May Day. : A special police order was dispatch- ed to commanding officers to have churehes, public buildings and resi- dents of the very rich private citizens closely guarded. Lahey is said to have been reading and believing the statements sent out by Premier Zankov of Bulgaria. it’s Too Wet Out. LAKEHURST, N. J., April 30.—The U. S. dirigible Ls Angeles will not get away for Porto Rico until Saturday, it was indicated today. Rain was fall- ing this morning and the dirigible was given a thoro soaking. It will have to be dried out before the hopoff is made. Pienty of Rain in Italy. ROME April 30. — Incessant rains were threatening northern Italy with serious floods today. The town of Latisana, near Udine, ‘was in immi- nent danger of being swept by swollen streams. The inhabitants of Tagliamento packed their belongings and were ready to move if the waters rose higher. New Tax Law Relieves Rich, Bardens Poor _ (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, April 30.—Fol lowing the warm praise given the Dawes plan by Chancellor Luther in his speech to German businessmen, Finance Minister von Schlieben has introduced the most drastic tax bill in Germany’s history into the reichs- tag. Luther’s Speech and the tax bill are both supported by the newly elected monarchist president, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. The tax bill, aimed to pay the heavy burden imposed by the Morgan bank- ers, thru the Dawes plan, lifts the taxation from the manufacturers and bankers, and places a heavy tax upon the workers. In his speech outlining the bill von Schlieben declared, “The burden must be taken from the pro- ducers, and a just distribution made,” meaning that the wealthy exploiters are to escape the yoke of the Dawes plan, which their mouthpiece, Luther, so warmly praised, and that the masses of the German workers must pay tribute to the Wall Street bank- ers. Marx Supports Fascistl. Wilhelm Marx, defeated candidate, who was supported by the socialist- catholic coalition, revealed that he will not support the: Communist Par- ty’s demand for an immediate fight for reduced taxes and against the mon- archist domination, when he publicly announced that he will support Hin- denburg. The allies have served notice that Cologne will not be evacuated by the French troops, altho the territory has been occupied in violation of the Ver- sailles treaty for several months, ses War Veterans Denounce Monarchists. ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 30. — The World War Veterans, with the announcement that von Hindenburg was elected, issed the following state- ment: “Von Hindenburg, president of Germany, trying to talk peace under such circumstances is like fighting fire with gunpowder. The only people for peace in Germany now is that part of the population who join in a revolu* tion against autocracy. Shouting ‘Hail !von Hindenburg’ and singing ‘Deutsch- ‘land Ueber Alles’ certainly doesn’t 30und like peace to us. “We ask all ex-service men to join with us in requesting President Cool idge not to recognize the Hindenburg government. We ask of all American people to join with us to defeat every candidate for public office in the United States who stands for recogni- tion of the von Hindenburg govern- ment,” The statement was signed by Emil Holmes, president of the war veterans. TODAY WORKERS GREET SOVIET STAR OF HOPE Millions Celebrate May Day Thruout World (Continued from page 1) to 26 years and 40 years in prison for being Communists, shall be freed. Workers of the World! Unite! The militant American workers will ne be alone in demonstrating against the Dawes plan, by means of which international imperialism, led by Wall Street, plans to throttle the smaller nations and the colonies. The workers of all countries, de- spite police violence, and fascist mur- der, today will stage the greatest in- ternational protest in history against oppression of the working class at home and the subject people of the colonies. i New York Police Mobilize, NEW YORK, Apwil 30—Extra po- lice have been called out to intimi- date the workers in their May Day meetings here. Additional detectives have been added to the “bomb squad,” whose specialty is arresting and beating up innocent workers. - * & Socialists Call Paris Troops. PARIS, France, April 30.—All the troops in the Paris district will be quartered in the city barracks today, prepared to beat down demonstra- tions of the workers on May Day. The troops were called out by the Painleve government, which has the active support and participation of the socialists. . 7” f General Strike of Taxi Drivers. The Taxicab Drivers’ Union has voted to observe May Day with a gen- eral strike thruout France.
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VICTORY MEAD Long Struggle Marked by Many Arrests By OWEN STIRLING. (Special to The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., April 30—Admir- ation is growing among workers thru- out the Detroit industrial district for the courage and solidarity of the strik- ing metal polishers, The metal polishers are striking at the C. B. Shepard Co. plant here, one of the largest metal polishing shops in the district. — Against their ranks injunctions have been brought, wholesale prosecu- tions on groundless charges of assault and battery, brass knuckles, clubs, knives and in at least one instance, pistol fire. The company has suc- ceeded in taking nine metal pol- ishers off the picket line into the recorder’s court for trial for | what the company’s hired thugs said was assault and battery. But the ranks were immediately closed with other strikers. And in each of the nine cases the company’s strikebreak- ers and guards failed to show the judge an assault had been committed. Thugs Found Guilty. Against that record is’a record of three convictions against guards for assault and battery. They were the only three company men against whom the strikers made charges in court. Every charge stuck. Charles Oman, company employ- ment officer, and William Burke, a strike breaker, are now awaiting trial on charges of felonious assault. They led a gang of thugs in an attack upon an automobile carrying union men. Oman used a pistol. Strikers said one bullet shattered the wind shield of the union men’s car. Strikebreakers Assaulted Pickets. Trial for felonious assault also fac- es Edward Moss, another strikbreak- er, one of a gang of 25 thugs who at- tacked Luther Buckmaster and Presi- dent Debates as they were peacefully walking the picket line. Buckmaster fled to a near-by railroad watchman’s shed. Altho the watchman forbade them to enter, the gangsters pushed him aside and cut Buckmaster in the face and he had to be taken to a hos- pital. The three charged with felonious assault were released for trial later on. $500 bail. The metal polishers are striking against a second 10 per cent wage cut. They had taken one cut and were determined not to take another. The strike is now in its third month. Company Loses Heavily. Strikebreakers have been marshall- ed at the plant in a desperate effort to continue. operation, but the com- pany has lost heayily both in orders and in spoiled goods. The strikers have recently been cheered with au- thentic information that the company in a short time will have to capitulate to the workers or go bankrupt. Victory is Ahead. The outlook for the strikers has not always been so encouraging. But in the face of violence, wholesale trials and dwindling purses they have gone back each day to the picket line. A circuit court judge in the early days of the strike issued individual injunctions against six of the strikers. But the company has failed in its ef- forts to obtain a blanket injuction. Organized labor thruout the district is following the strike daily with high interest. “The-men are demonstrating solid- arity. Fighting as they are for a de- cent standard of living for themselves and their families they are fighting also not only for organized labor in the district, but for the entire work- ing class,” Edgar Owens, district or- ganizer of the Workers Party, said. Detroit Packing Workers Organize. DETROIT, Mich.—A mass meeting will be held here early in May as the beginning of an organization cam- paign among the packing house work- ers. | men” of the nation. -" : “fhe Trath About the’ Ford Plant j Zygor from page 1.) The quotation above is from Sinclair’s interview with Ford. it was read iperhoon believed) by millions.” Ford, as the advance guard of the working class knows, has become a myth. The following account shows typically what is going on at the Ford Motor Company shops today with reference to the wages that have “something sacred” about them. Like Going to Jail There is a large daily labor turnover at the Ford Motor Company. The line at the employment office is long. Ap- plying for a job means not only a physical examination. Applicants have their finger prints taken too. It is like voluntarfly g6ing to jail. There is neVvertieless a great de- mand for Ford jobs. ‘This is largely on account of conditions several years ago at the Ford plants. They existed long enough fer. propaganda to_ be broadcast. Them the-shops were mili- tarized. Social workers or investiga- tors were rep d by spies and thugs. Henry Ford. still looks whimsically out of the office. window and tells John F. Sinclair there is “something sacred about wages. ae But it doesn’t mean anything. A Side Line Graft Out of the wage system and the demand for Ford jobs there has risen a sideline business in which Ford em- ploye ftdentification cards.are bought and sold for large profits.’ Call them | brokers, agents, business men, ticket scalpers, or whatnot, these speculators in Ford identification cards are doing a thriving business. An able-bodied man goes down the employment line at Ford’s and applies for a job. He takes the examination, answers all the questions and has his finger prints taken. He is given an identification card and told when to report for work, or to wait until he is notified. The able-bodied man sells his identication card to a speculator for $10. he speculator resells it to an immigrant for from $50 to $100, altering the name on the card. Some- times the able-bodied man goes down the employment line three. times in one day, each time under a different name. That makes $30 a day for him, as long as he can get away With it. It makes from $120 to $260 a day for the speculator. Wednesday, April 22, a Ford Motor company detective named Thomas Maloney arrested Ahmed Abbass,) 101 Victor avenue, Highland Park. Abbass was kept in jail all night ‘and: taken before Fred L. Keller, Highland Park justice of the peace, the: following day. The charge against .him. was fraud. He was charged with attempt- ing to-enter the Ford gates to go to work with a fake identification, card. The fact that wages, or money, “teks involved. reards. mtly, made the alleged attempt. a. al offense— in the eyes of Henry Férd and the justice of the peace, who sits all day in a court ‘ih the shadow of the great Ford stacks. The Ford Motor com- pany pays about three-fourths of the taxes in Highland Park. Dick Covers Up His Own Crime Private Detective Maloney told Jus- tice of the Peace Keller the Ford de- tectives were trying to break up the speculation in fake identification He intimated that severe pun- ishment in a case such as the Abbass case would aid them materially. Be- hind Maloney in the court room sat two Ford employment office white- collar boys looking severe. Abbass is not a large and brawny Syrian with an evil scar across one cheek and wicked gleam in his eye. He is a boy and an orphan. He said he was 17 years old. He came to the United States in 1920 and has been going earnestly to night school, The identification card which he present- ed at the Ford gates when he went knocking submissively and hopefully there gave his age as 21. But he looked like 17. If he actually bought the card he was probably made to believe it was his only means of get- ting a Ford job—$6 a day, $36 a week, until the next layoff. “| Had to Eat” “T had to eat,” he said. have a job.” The finger prints on his identifica- tion card did not correspond to his own, it appeared. Abbass insisted he had not bought the card but had ob- tained it himself. He thought there must have been some mistake at the Ford Motor company employment of: fice. And Abbass had exactly $1.24 in his pocket. “I had to eat,” he repeated. He can not be blamed for appear- ing somewhat forlorn. But he was not cringing. He was a bright lad. It should be borne in mind that the speculators themselves have nevér been arrested. Their names are not known. Abass, perhaps their victim, perhaps the victim of a Ford detec- tive bureau frameup, was taken away to jail. A few days previously an- other man was arrested under simi- lar circumstances and fined $50. Justice Keller sentenced Abbass to pay a $100 fine and $5 costs or serve 30 days in jail. “I have only $1.24. I guess I'll have to serve the time,” Abbass said. Couldn’t Tell This Story The court officers took him away. John F. Sinclair could have obtained and written a story like this if he had wanted to. If he had waited a few days he could have obtained and written this story about Abbass. But he could not have sold it to the North American Newspaper Alliance. “T had to Soviet Union Speeds: } i Introduction of Use of the Metric System (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, (By Rosta).—In connec- tion with the introduction, into, the Union of Soviet Soc. Republics of the metric system, a demand has natural- ly arisen for very large quantities of metric rules, scales, and weights. The practical materialization of a complete change to the metric system cannot be effected until 1927. Never- theless, not a few of the measures under such a system have already been put into operation. Thus, for instance, all railway loads are now calculated in the metric sys- tem, and in those places where the requisite scales do not as yet exist, measurements are effected with the old measures, but are subsequently re- duced to the metric denomination. From April 1, all Moscow trade and manufacturing establishments are en- tirely to adopt the metric system. The control over the accuracy of weights and measures rests with the princi- pal weights and measures department at Leningrad, founded in 1896 under the direction of the eminent chemist D. A. Mendeleyey, who has always been a warm supporter of the metric system, and is the author of many important articles regarding the nec- essity of its introduction. | GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! 7 wee-vTyTyTyeyeee eee YY | Sunday, May 3 | Monday, May 4 Tuesday, May 5 Admission 365c. First Great Feature Film from Russia! THE BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIK at CO-OPERATIVE CENTER 2706 Brooklyn Ave. (take B car) | LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Starts at 7:30 P. M. Friday May 8th Children Free seni iiriiiii ip hhh hb bp bp bp bp bp be bp be dp bebe bebe be bn tn ttt dn tid t MMi Mill Mp Wednesday, May 6 Thursday, May 7 Friday, May 8 Children 20c. i... eee ee i i i i i i i i te th i i te th hb bb DDD 7vwwwrfer-tlC«C—T8—".—'"T""™r'™r,crp,gr revrwrereyrTyrTyryreyreTrerelTrerlTerelc el rel rll rrrrrrrrrrrrrerer rrr eee The Safety AutoStrop Sharpens Its COMPLETE that Jwn Blades OUTFITS, 91.00 & 96.00 DP os Itself —_ Fer Sale at All Stores Selling Razors and Blades mf Farmers’ Council Demands Probe of Tariff Schedules WASHINGTON, D. C., Apri) 30.— Members of the Farmers’ National Council have asked President Cool- idge to instruct the federal tariff com- mission to investigate and report on the metal and cotton tariff schedules, and especially to look into the duty on table, householi, kitchen and hos- pital utensils, made chiefly of alu- minum. Their appeal direct to the tariff commission has been rejected. They suggest that Gary and Schwab be summoned as witnesses, on mital scheduies, and that Sen. Butler be called to testify on cotton goods, of which he is a big manufacturer. Secretary Mellon, head of the alu- minum trust, whose extortions from consumers were denounced by .the federal trade commission before Cool- idge scrapped that body, is for some unknown reason not suggested as a witness on aluminum tariff rates. Soviet Allows Chinese Trade Free. MOSCOW, (By Rosta).— With a view to promoting trade with western China, the Soviet government has al- lowed the import from the Sinkiang province free of the usual trade li- censes of agricultural produce such pas rice, cattle, lard, hides, furs, cot- ton, wool, silk cocoons, carpets, etc., as well as the export free of licenses from the U. 8S. 8S. R. into western China of all goods of Soviet Union ori- gin that are not included in special “contingents.” . Worker Killed In Pullman. Frank Lans of Rockford was killed while at work at the plant of the Griffin Wheel company, East 116th St., and Cottage Grove Ave., when a smokestack which he and other work- ers were engaged in dismantling, col- lapsed and crushed him. : Minneapolis Daily Worker Agency DAN W. STEVENS, Agt. « 617 4th Ave. South Will take care of all your orders for subscriptions, bundle orders ~~ news stand sales , for THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS MONTHLY and All Communist Publications Latest issues of all publications always at hand. Fes 1,037 f f VOTES FOR COMMUNISM Startling Resale in Off- Year Election (Continued from page 1). and poor farmers of the state to go to thé polls and write in the names of Foster and Gitlow. Ran Under Hammer and Sickle. How many took this advice it was quite im learn, yet there must havé been Beveral thousand who the returns, only e general election | April 6, when 7,087 allots for the ‘Work- erg Party Spring elections to class appeal. The has finally recognized — The socialist labor Ms best known to it- self, failed 3 e the grade. The proletarian 's educational activi- ties do not inelude participation in the election campaigns. Distribute 100,000 Leafiets. More than 190;000 leafiets were dis- tributed stating’ the party’s position on the issues @enfronting the elector- ate. Lack of*funds with which to conduct a strénmuous campaign, and lack of effective organization, raised serious difficultfes. Yet in spite of these difficulties a most remarkable response was forthcoming. In Wayne county (Detroit) Comrade Herman Richtér, running for county auditor, received 1,539 votes, while our candidates for state offices ranged from 1,120 to 1,196. Out of a total Wayne county ‘registration of more socialist that it is party, for | than 350,000 mmily 54,970 votes were cast. Genes county (Flint) was second with 678 out of a total vote of 25,208. re oan county in the upper peni came third with 347 out of a vote of 7,841. The counties in p upper peninsula all gave very rnb votes for the Communist candidates. It is signifi- cant that only three counties of the 83 in Michigan failed to register any | votes for our, ticket. Saginaw, head- quarters of the,ku kluxers in Michi- gan, voted 2 for the Communists; Jackson, of the prison in ,Ruthenberg was in- his release pending , United States su- vered, 98.votes, while preme court, with 132. .Onée eeunty gave 1,500 plus, one nearly 600;-ome 347;'six voted from 217 to 283, sixd®om 127 to 194, while the others ramged-down from 95 to 2 (Oscoda county), Distinct Achievement for Party. In view of the fact that the April 6th elections oceurred in an off year, that no sharpr. issues were up to rouse a mass, Aniprest and the further fact that the Workers Party lacked both funds and effective organization with which to wage a strenuous cam- paign, the polling of 7,037 votes is a distinct achieyement. The returns indicate that Michigan is seething with discontent against things as they are, a discontent that effects rural communities as well as industrial centers. They indicate fur- ther that present.conditions are forc- ing the workers and poor farmers to crash thru the wall of prejudice that capitalist institutions have sought to erect around anything that savors of Communism, Confronted with mort- gage foreclosures, falling prices for farm products, and increasing prices for farm equipment; with wage cuts, open shop drives, and the menace of unemployment, the poor farmers and industrial workers are learning that the spectre of Gommunism is merely & nursery tale which the apologists of the present order use to frighten them into continued subjection to their system of ruthless exploitation. Indicates Big Vote in 1926. April, 1926, Presented the first op- Berrien county wherein the-Commun. ist trials ‘Aaietine, came aACross |. ae e eS a 3 * pi 4 ia rs & wo RKER_ “as =a BUIL ERS AT eat NEW YORK CALLS ON CHICAGO And He Never Dreamed It Was So Easy! Still they come—challenges from Communists in one city to Communists in another. Here’s the latest one: Builders Column, The Daily Worker, Chicago, Ill. Dear Comrades:- In.a half an hour | visited six workers and ob- tained-three subs for the DAILY WORKER. One other: “promised to subscribe in two weeks from now! 4’did not think it was so on to get them. es | challenge Comrade obtain AT LEAST three Ida Dailes of Chicago to subscriptions. Fraternally yours, Sylvan A. Pollack. That puts it up to Comrade Ida Dailes who already promises action and warns that when she gets three subs AT LEAST—three other Communists are going to be called on. Well and good. NOW—WHO’S NEXT? * The Latest List of Communist BUILDERS h aving sent in new subs on April 29, with Dan Stevens of Minneapolis in the lead for the day: MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens (8); CLEVELAND, O.—J. A. Hamilton (3); CHICAGO, - J. Balod. A. Weissberg. . / ILL.—A. Carmon, Anna Block, W. Allbrigh}. TORONTO, CANADA,—The Worker (4). . OMAHA, NEB.—J. E. Snyder (2). ST. LOUIS, MO.—Hugo Oecehler. NEW HAVEN, CONN.—Otto Bruening. PONTIAC, MICH.—B. Mircheff. WILMINGTON, DEL.—Norman DILLES BOTTOM, O.—Mike 7 Bursler. Stanovich. JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—W. Little. WASHINGTON, D. C.—S. R. Peariman. portunity in Michigan for the Work ers (Communist) Party to participate in an election under its own name. Seven thousand.votes in an off-year election! What will it he, in the congressional elections in mia: Soviets Sub idize Work. Explorer Kozloff in Siberia MOSCOW 1 —(By Rosta.)—The fam- ous explorer Kozloff, chief of the Tibet expedition, left for Mongolia today, to direct further works of his expedition in Mongolia, in particular the excava- tions in the tombs discovered near Urea. Kozloff is accompanied by Przjeval- sky, the grandson of the well-known ; Russian traveler, who explored Tur- kestan. The Soviet wovernment has supplied the expedition with funds for two years more. sy Detroit “Movies” Sign with Union. DETROIT—Five: motion picture theaters formerly,operated on a non- union basis have gigned with the Mo- tion Picture Opegators’ Union. They Pointe, Ar- -_---- are the belts, a : | thur, Virginian Davison theaters. : MAY DAY FAREWELL 10 FIFTH GROUP OF REQ RAY COMMUNE, SATURDAY A May Day celebration and fare- well party will be held this Satur- day, May 2, at 7:30 p. m., at the Workers’ Homey 1902 W. Division St., in honor of the fifth group of the agricultural commune Red Ray that! is leaving for Soviet Russia in.a few days. The group is taking along atractor, a lathe and tools for the sum. of about $3,000. The comrades that left for the commune some time before are writ- ing enthusiastic letters. In the last letter they tell that out of the 19 cows of the commune 12 had little ones. About 50 pigs were born on the grounds of the commune lately, and there are 500 eggs in the in- cubator. Unemployment in Detroit Increases Over Last Year (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich.—An increase of 4,449 over the preceding week in the number employed in the member shops is shown in the last weekly re- port or “labor barometer” of the em- ployers’ association. of Detroit. The total is now 232,068, which is 3,390 less than a year ago. The association membership com- prises two-thirds of the employers in the Detroit district. Soviets Fight Drought. MOSCOW, (By Mail).— The Gos- plan (state planning commission) has decided to call a conference in Mos- cow at the end of April or early in May of departments thruout the Sov- iet Union engaged in geophysical and meteorological work. The object of the conference will be to work out scientific practical measures for fore- casting the. occurrence of drought. THE ROMANCE OF — NEW RUSSIA | Your Union Meeting | First Friday, May 1, 1925. Bakers and Conf., 3420 W. Roose- velit. 8 Rg ty 175 W. Washington * m. Broom Makers, 810 W. Harrison St. Buildin Trades Council, 180 W Washington. Carpenters, 175 W. Washington. Carpenters, 2705 W. 35th St. Carpenters’ Dist. 180 W. Washington St. Carpenters, 4339 s. Halsted St. Electricians, 2901 W. Monroe St. Electricians, 4141 W. Lake St. Electricians, R. R., 5324 S. Halsted Firemen and Enginemen, Ss. + Saag St. ’ Sennen, Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh- Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria Sts Ladies’ Sormont Workers, Joint Board, 328 W. Van Buren St. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland Bivd. Painters, 2345 So. Kedzie Ave. Painters, School and Shefield Ave. Painters. 3140 tndiana Ave. Painters, 3140 Indiana Ave. Pattern Makers, 119 S. coreep St. Piumbers, 9251 S. Chicago Av 346 Raiiwa L Garon, Village Hall. Kol- zie, neipuay. Carmen, Village Hal, Kol- zie, Railway. Carmen, 5445 S$. Ashiand Ave. Railway Clerks, 20 W. Randolph St. Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton St. 1356 Railway Clerks, Ft. aoastere Hotel. 4 Railroad Trainmen, 1536 E. 64th St. 119 Railread Trainmen, 3349 North Ave. 198 gg Trainmen, 9120 Commer- cial 367 Sheet Metal Workers, Ashiand and Van Buren. South agg Trades and Labor Assembiy, 39 Commercial Ave. 2 Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bidg. Stove Mounters, olfram Ave. 3 Teachers babar ge) F Club Roorns, 4:30 Telegraphers ‘Geom. ‘312° S. Clark St. 19 W. Adams Street, a City Waitresses, 3 P.M. ployes of the Packard Motor Car Co. have been given gold watches in reéc- for low wages. | Aaikacacte! life of Russia. cials—people of all classes. A book aglow with the color, light and A picture of the many people the writer has met—working men and women, ofh- ———- v. m.)> Work Ten Years—Get Watch. DETROIT. Mich.—Sixty-eight em- | ognition of ten years’ faithful service | ae J the You arrive in Russia Though wu know that what has been writ- ten about it is pure invention, that truth has deliberately been falsified. besemirched, and bespat- sort of shock of surprise. ship between mat and things, the by — tee has received 52 applications for | the job of, chief.of police from men lin Toronto, Kitchener, London, -Wind- | sor, Walkerville and other cities. The per iae is $2,000 a year. Perhaps it’s the badge. —- PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thels money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street. Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DENTIST 2232.N. CALIFORNIA AVE. Phone A MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray Prices _— to Gas | Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. | My Examination Is.Free | My Prices Are Reasonable | My Work Is Guarantees i Extracting. Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY by . Magdélaine’ Marx Auther of. “Women” — In the Preface the author says: red with gore, still you get a new reélation- with of peeple benefiting order. Everywhere signs of resurrection, resurrection itself. Yet the of the world still believes the wsurd legends of oppression and You find a totally majority the new tt only the Price $2.00
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: . Soviet Russia alone will hold their meetings to- a a el ae woe . : r. 3 op - te 2 hat toe : > pal A We see eal ad ae mee & (4 iD a € a, 5 Teo ill Le. -% : Ps ‘tei «i . age"? . Reb we, Ps 5 a “i, & a - ’ ; — | 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML . (Phone: Monroe 4712) * #998 W. Washington Bivd. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $6.60 per year $3.50....6 months $2.00... months By mail (in Chicago only): #8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2. 50.8 3 montha Address all mai] and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER Chicago, titinele J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } WILLIAM F. DUNNE} MORITZ J. LOEB...... Editors _Business Manager — \ ——— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. 290 W | Labor’s Day of the ironies of history Advertising rates on age” ention that the Am- now the most bitte” lt is one erican Federation of Labor, opponent of May Day nad all that it stands for, should be the first labor movement in the world to designate that day as the one on which a great united effort should be started to force the eight- hour day from the American employers. Today the bureaucracy of the American Federa- tion of Labor, their hands greased and their pock- ets lined with the bosses’ gold, look on May Day with hate and dread. It signifies to them the har- binger of revolution, and of a social system which will have no room for a parasite capitalist class or for the lesser leeches—the labor fakers. But tho the reactionary leaders of the American Federation of Labor have turned their backs on May Day, the workers in every country in the world have not. May Day was celebrated, as the international holiday of labor for the first jme. in | in90. The slogans on that first day were for the | eight-hour day and against war. | Since 1890 much water has passed under’ the labor bridge. The demands of the workers have grown. Their voice now speaks in bolder tones. And why not? Tho they have not conquered the earth, the workers’ flag today flies over one-sixth of the globe and the first workers’ republic in history stands firm and secure. ' The workers and peasants of ' morrow in a countty that is theirs. The demon- strations will not be broken up by hostile police nor their leaders jailed as will happen in every other country. The workers of Russia will meet to celebrate their glorious victory and the workers in the other countries: where the chains of capital- ism still bind them will meet to demonstrate for their victory that is yet to come, and to hasten the day when they too, shall stand in their own open places and celebrate the arrival of the new day. Today revolutionary labor under the leadership of the Communist International stands on the threshold of power. ‘The rotten capitalist system is crumbling. As we meet on this May Day, the seventh year of the Soviet Republic, let us deter- mine to exert all our efforts towards the one great purpose in life, the freedom of the workers and the human race from slavery and exploitation, thru the establishment of the rule of labor in all lands. F The Socialist Vote Take his vote away from a socialist and he is as hopeless as a Scandinavian without his snuff. The scoialist labor party watches the fluctuations of the party’s fortunes at the polls as a stock the The party spent its existence—when it did really exist gambler will watch ticker. socialist either voting or preparing to vote. It almost completely ignored the working class. Those who thot the trade unions counted were expelled from the party. While the socialist party vote was fairly respec- table in size the leaders were jubilant. When it bubbled around one million, they almost went batty. But when it began to recede like the Red Sea under the lash of the Mosaic rod, they looked around for something to lean against. They used Lakollette as a leaning and scratching post. But the pillar gave way and the socialists are scratching heads. The mayor of St. Louis tells the sad tale. In 1921 the socialist vote for mayor was 4,330. In the last election the socialist candidate for that} office only polled 951. This is tragic in view of | the promis; the socialist standard bearer made| to the He promised them everything but| his shirt. the capitalists could | capitalist candidates got now their voting for voters. Sut it was no use. And the promise more. the votes. | ‘all capitalist governments do. Jsides claimed victory. ‘can born. The Fascist Menace in France The French government was,officially represent-f ed at the funeral of the fascis} youths who were killed in an encounter with young Communists in Paris last week. The fascists started the trouble but the Communists finished it. Among the speakers at the o-fascist demon- stration, beside the French ss Paul Pain- leve, were the late President Millerand, and Gen- eral de Castelnau, military. chief of the fascist#, and Deputy Pierre Pattlinger, president of the black shirt organization which started the fatal riot. The speakers criticized the government for not taking stern measures to crush the Communist Party of Franee, but there was not one word of criticism of the fascist organizations which are armed and officered ready to establish a dictator- ship in France by force of arms as Mussolini and his bloodhounds established theirs in Italy. The bourgeois parliamentary system has had hard sledding in Europe since the world war broke out. As the workers’ power grows and as their demands become more ambitious, bourgeois democ- racy will throw off its mask until it stands re- vealed in all its horrible nakedness as a bloody dictatorship of the many by the few. It is a struggle between: two dictatorships, that of the bourgeoisie or of the workers. Tho the vresent l‘'rench government is in political opposition to the backers of fascism, it does not stand neutral in the fight between the Communists and their foes. It throws its power on the side of the enemies of Communism and the working class. The liberal government of France is no more neutral in the class struggle than the government of Soviet Russia is. The latter is a government of the workers and makes no pretense of being neu- tral. The French government hypocritically pre- tends to be a government of “all” classes, just as The big fight in ‘France as in all capitalist countries is between the workers on one side led by the Communists and the capitalists on the other. Whatever form that fight may take it will go on until the working class are victorious. Now that Hindenburg has defeated Marx, we Inay read special articles dealing with the decline ‘of Marxism in Europe. The “Blue” Fleet Wins It was just as we expected. The “blue” fleet representing the Japanese navy defeated the “black” fleet of the United States in the naval maneuvers around.the islands of Hawaii. This means larger appropriations for the air and sea navies. Everybody will be happy, no doubt, except the Hawaiians whose islands the “black” fleet was trying to protect form the “enemy.” The casualites were heavy. The enemy seized everything, which.is, further proof that congress is crazy in the head when it whittles down the appropriations demanded by Wall Street’s militar- ists. A mine layer was sunk by seven “black” planes and a submarine. More planes; more sub- marings. Chortling from Henry Ford and Charles Schwab. More profits. | The only resemblance to real war was in the fact that at the close of the first day’s “fighting,” both That is also part of the game. While the guns of the army thundered and the engines of the airplanes purred, two private sol- diers listened from inside two prison cells. They are privates Crouch and Trumbull, who were sen- tenced to 40 and 26 years, respectively, for attempt- ing to expose the purpose of the American military and naval forces in and around Hawaii. The peo- ple of Hawaii must not be told who their real enemy is. Their enemy is American capitalism. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for the DAILY WORKER. Attention James J. Davis Nobody will doubt the, loyalty of the secretary of labor to the capitalist system He is every- thing that a faithful tool of the American ruling class. should be and then some. But he could not qualify for a position at the disposal of the Na- tional Employment Exchange as -the following advertisement shows. Applicants must be: 1. American born. 2. Speak English with no accent. 3. Minimum two years high school or equiv- alent. 4. Modesty in dress. ». Refinement of manner. James J. Davis, secretary of labor is not Ameri- He does not speak English without an \fter the presidential elections the socialist| accent. Nobody does but one who is dumb, if you party boasted that it polled approximately — will pardon the ox. Perhaps Mr. Davis went to 000 votes. It laughed at the Workers Party and} high school for two years, tho we doubt it after its ridiculously small vote, 25,000 the socialists] hearing him speak at the Indianapolis convention gave us. Asa matter of fact the official count was| of the United Mine Workers of America. He is not something like 33,000. We polled at least 100,000.| modest in dress. His neckties are atrocious. His But we did not care so much about that. Our| manner is that of a successful bartender. party made a good campaign. We put the Com The Nation, commenting on these qualifications munist position before the workers and we are| says that “some employers are just snobs.” Per- cashing in on it now in organizational growth| haps they are just jackasses, but we are not so and influence. What did the socialists gain for| sure of that when we learn that among those whose allowing LaFollette to swallow them up? S8St.|} names are emblazoned on the letter head of the Louis tells the story. | National Employment Exchange are J. P. Morgan, Today the socialists have neither votes nor prin ' John D. Rockefeller and Robert W. de Forest. ciples. They shed every shred of their socialist | ——-- -———-----____— ° raiment for the fleeting pleasure of associating | with the bourgeois LaFollette in an election cam- paign. The workers can no longer see any differ- ence between them and Lal ollette and the capital- ists are not yet in the extremity of needing them sub” the Every day get a “ and a member for for the DAILY WORKER Workers Party. The ears of the American ruling class are getting sensitive. They cannot even listen to the tame ¢ is 4G 7 ‘END Int LABOR INGRESS Progress Shown j in Left Wing Activity The meeting of the Chicago Gener- al Group of the Trade Union Educa- tional League held last Wednesday in North West Hall was a well-attended and business-like affair. Reports from the local execu and the various industrial groups é given and dis- cussed. On the whole, progress is be- ing made in building the left wing in the trade union movement of Chi- cago. E. L. Doty, organizer of Negro plum- bers im Chicago, gave a report on the coming American Negro Labor Con- gress to be held in Chicago during the summer. In a convincing manner he showed the discrimination being prac- ticed against Negro. workers by the union bureaucrats. He urged that the adherents of the T, U.,.E. L. take the matter of the Negro. Labor Congress before the unions for endorsation. The organization of the Negro workers is of great importance to the trade un- ions, since being wnorganized they are used by the bosses against their fellow workers. : The following resolution was Car- ried unanimously: WHEREAS, the unity and solidarity of all workers is essential to carry on an effective struggle against the attempts of the bosses to lower and dstroy the living standards and work- ing conditions, wages, etc. of the workers; and WHEREAS, during and since the war some 500,000 Negro workers have come from the South into the North- ern industrial centers, and WHEREAS, the Negro workers and the unorganized are often used against their will, as strikebreakers; and WHERBAS, the mene workers can and want to be organized into the labor unions in order to fight togeth- er with his brother white workers against the common enemy, the em- ploying class and capitalist ruled gov- ernment; and WHEREAS, racial ‘ prejudices be- tween white and colored workers have been fostered by’the employing capitalist class as a m@atis of prevent- ing united attion and ‘solidarity of all the workers, and such racial pre- judices therefore spring from the present capitalist order of society; and #1 WHEREAS, we éelitve~ that all workers, regardless’ \6®tace, color, creed or sex should bé Organized into the labor unions, and are entitled to equal wages for equal Work, etc, and should and must be wmited against the bosses in order % effectively struggle to break the shatkles of capi- talist wage slavery; and WHERBAS, the American Negro Labor Congress called by representa- tive Negro workers and farmers, is to be held in Chicago this summer, and this American Negto ‘Labor Con- gress will consider and fight for equal rights for all workers; for the organ- ization of the unorganized Negro workers into the labor° unions; and will work to promote“unity and har- mony between the workers of ALL races, of all workers; therefore, be it RESOLVED, that the Chicago Gen- eral Group of the Trade»Union Edu- cational League endorses heartily the aims and purposes of the American Negro Labor Congress and pledges itself to do everything in its power for the success of the American Negro Labor Congress, which will mark a great forward step in the struggle of the working class, white and colored, against exploitation by the I worker and for the freedom of all worker from oppression. Mexico City Court Rules Against the Standard Oil Co. MEXICO City, April 30.—The fed- eral court here has decided that the Standard Oil company of Indiana, which recently acquired control of the 7 4 - “a Huasteca Petroleum. company and other Doheny interests in Mexico, is, not entitled to take.petroleum from the Juan Felipe field adjoinirig the famous Cerro Azul news in the state of Vera Cruz. The Standard Oil po will ap- peal. " Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER! RUSSIA DEMANDS THAT PEKIN RETURN SOVIET PROPERTY 10 EMBASSY PEKIN, China, April Russo-Chinese conference, set for May 1, has been postponed while preliminary demaftids are settled. Soviet Russia demands that the Russian orthodox urch property in Pekin be tur er to the So- viet embassy, theé the Russian troops In Gen. Chang Tso-lin’s army be disbanded, and#that China give assurances preciu the rumored Japanese railway concession in 30.—The Menohurla. | \ : ‘tA At: SR SEA a A ONEFIFTH OF WO RI CHILDREN: OF CHICAGO STARVING, - REVEALED BY GHASTLY REPORT | Be Cah NTT A nttg BOX BES 4 s ‘by LILLIAN R. BORGESON. £0 Article Four. pees The most rerent re the children in the working class dis- Malnutrition, poverty ‘and child labor are always found together. not surprising, therefore, to find that in the capitalist ere Chi- cago, under-nourished children are as prevailent as child , of the superintendent of Ch that the school physicians found that 7.8.per cent of Chicago’s school chil- dren were suffering from serious cases of malnutrition and that one-fifth of It is , ae states tricts were definitely under-nourished., He proceeds to list the causes of malnutrition which have been scien- tifically determined. They are divid- ed into “social” and “individual” causes, and their significance to the workers should be clear. 1. Social Causes. “1. Employment of the child outside of school hours. “2. Living in rooms without win- dows or sunlight. . Lack of ventilation. . Lack of bathing facilities. . Unsanitary school conditions.” 2. Individual Causes. . Food—insufficiency or unsuitabil- . Injurious sleeping arrangements. . Insufficient sleep. . Want of cleanliness. “5. Lack of childhood care.” We have right there what capital- ism and its forcing of the workers to live in squalid poverty means to the child of the worker. “Employment of the child outside of school hours,” in order to be able to scrape together even the minimum amount of food and shelter for the family. “Living in rooms without windows or sunlight, lack of ventilation,” means only the profiteering of the landlords which thrusts the poor workers and their children into dark ill-smelling holes. “Injurious sleeping arrangements.* How well every Chicago worker knows how that comes about! They want rooms with windows. So three fami- their rent, and be able to live. And a whole family is crowded into one room, with three or four children sleeping in the same bed. The Social Workers’ Inference. “Lack of bathing facilities and want of cleanliness.” Because the poor worker cannot afford to pay the high rent asked for “modern conveniences.” It is not, as the social workers infer, a class love of dirt. “Lack of childhood care.”. With the mother in the factory or shop, with the children of necessity follow- ing the capitalists’ advice of not wast- ing his time in idleness and play, what childhood care can the worker’s child have? Ng “Unsanitary school conditions.” The DAILY WORKER has often published stories of the rotten sanitary condi- tions in the schools in the working class districts. Every point is an in- dictment of the system which enslaves children and robs their parents. One-Fifth of Chicago Children Starving! And that one which should bring a biger ache and a feeling of resent- ment to the breast of every worker— to the heart of every working class father and mother who is striving to feed their little ones: “Food insuffi- ciency.” One-fifth of the children of Chicago! In 1925! But don’t think the superintendent lies decide to “go it’ together, poolf “ FOSTER SPEAKS AT PITTSBURGH T. U. E.L. MEETING SATURDAY , Pa, April 30.— The Pittsburgh general group of the Trade Union Educational League : will meet on Saturday night, May 2, at Labor Lycetim, 805 James St., North Side. The speaker of the evening will be William Z. ‘Foster, recently re- turned from Soviet Russia. who wrote the report is running away with sentiment. If you think that the “causes” were written in a spirit of understanding, ‘perish the thought! The superintendent goes on to take up the subject of feeding the children at school, and he says: A Philosopher of Hunger. “There is a distinct danger that if we feed these children at the expense of the city, that we will undermine the spirit of independence and self- helpfulness in the home. We must remember that parasitism always weakens and destroys the independ- ence of the parasite—both in the veg- etable and the animal kingdoms.” How neatly and brazenly the real parasites of society can turn about and call the workers whom they have forced into the lowest depths of de- spair “parasites.” Dull Minds from Slow Starvation. There is an admitted connection, too, between the backward and so- called feeble-minded children and the malnutrition from which so many of the workers’ children are suffering. In Chicago’s special rooms for back- ward children, the school physicans have ‘reported that “all our special rooms for backward children give evi- dence of malnutrition. We know that the very best way of reaching most casés of backwardness is to give plenty:.of good food.” These are the workers’ children. Starving! Without proper care! Physically unable to take advantage of even the smattering of perverted knowledge the capitalist schools hand out. Thrust into industry at a tender age. Toiling before and after school, Living in squalid poverty. Taught that this .is: the: best government in the world, that Bolsheviks threaten -our “fre@édom.” Beset on all sides by vice, disease and all the other horrible part- ners of: poverty. Down with the Moloch of Capitalism! Only the Communists and the work- ers organized behind their leadership can free the children of the workers of Chicago and of the world from these conditions and set their feet upon the road"to a new world, a world of color and light, of freedom and beauty for the workers and their chil- dren of the entire earth. SCHOOL BOARD'S MOVE T0 COLLECT -TAXES IS BLUFF /Wealthy Tax Dodgers as Secure as Ever The board of assessors issued a statement showing up the board of education’s latest pretense at getting after property that is not being as- sessed at full value. Gene G. Oltver in speaking for the assessors says the letter demanding that private estates under consideration at present in the probate court be taxed at their full value has nothing to it. “The school board’s letter cites 155 estates totalling $20,761,553 and de- mands that the assessors fix full value on every estate. “If we grarted the school board's demand, and taxed these estates on a full cash value the widows and children would be forced to pay a four per cent county tax. Most of the tax- able assets cited by the school board are stocks, bonds and other securities which yield from three to five per cent. The board of assessors is not going to force payment of taxes in excess of income.” Thus did the board of assessors dispose of the school board’s bluff at getting after the tax dodgers. “This ridiculous pretense on the fart of the school board to show that it is fighting tax dodgers will not give its friends, the big loop p:operty own- ers and the stock yards property hold- ers any sleepless nights,” was the way one of the officers of the Chica- go's Teachers’ Federation viewed the board’s latest move. »*And neither will it fool any one else, tho they are trying hard to put ome faee,of doing something before théy ean dare to come before the peoples with a request for an increasod tax Fat ," to hold back the tide of revolution. It is gad = stull of two bourgeois republicans like Count true. Karolyi and Mary MacSwiney. — : : f ~ «a - — ee oe “% _ <t | CLEVELAND AUDIENCE PROTESTS ARREST OF HAWAIIAN RED SOLDIERS CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30.— The unanimous “aye” of the enthu- siastic audience of workers, in favor of a resolution condemning the imprisonment of the two soldier- communists, Crouch and Trumbull, ringing thru the public square, suc- cessfully terminated the great meeting of” protest called by the Young Workers League of Cleve- land, Saturday, April 25. Two hundred persons, most of them young workers, listened to the speakers, Phillip Shatz and Carl Weissberg expose the forces of American imperialism behind the ruthless treatment of the two young Communists ‘in the American army stationed in Hawaii. Forty copies of the Young Worker were sold and two subscriptions were taken. After the meeting many of the young workers who had listened attentively thruout the speeches of both comrades, ap- proached them and asked for the date of the next Engin branch meeting. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—but be sure to see him the next day to get his subscription. - + Towner’s Sie: ] PGE YO YE a CAND OFF 1N t, & Eighty-Six Pe Per Cont of Force Is Fired The Chicago and Northwestern Rail- way company has laid off six thousand workers employed in the car shops at Kedzie Ave. and 42nd St. A reduc- tion of eighty-six per cent in the work- ing forces was announced, to take ef- se Re ‘fect Monday. The workers, given practically no notice, received With a shock the news that only 14 per cent of the normal working forces would be retained next week. Many of the workers. are in favor of countering the lay off with a strike of the entire working forces. The company announced that they had contemplated either drastically reducing wages orMaying off the men, and had decided on the. ter course. The lay-off is practically a complete shut down of the car shops, as the only work to be done igttepair work, for the most part in the round house. The company endeavored to sup press-the news of the shut down, but when this was found impossible, lied to the newspapers, declaring that “A fifty per cent reduction in the number of hourly mechanics in the Chicago shops has been ordered.” The men were officially told, how- ever, that 86 percent would be laid, off, only a few of the oldest employes being retained to do repairs. This announcement was also placed on the bulletin boards at the shops. . ~ “Insurgents” Easily Pleased. WASHINGTON, April 30.—Repre- sentatives Frear and Browne, insur- gent ‘congressmen from Wisconsin called on President Coolidge today and praised Governor Horace M. administration of Porto Rico. Browne and Frear have just return- ed from a visit to the island.’ While there both conducted a personal in- vé@stigation of island affairs. They told the president Towner’s adminis- tration was eminently satisfactory in all respects. HAVANA WORKERS DOWN TOOLS AND PARADE TO CELEBRATE MAY DAY HAVANA, Cuba, . April 30.—May Day will be celebrated in Havana by a great parade of the workers, authorization for which. hasbeen. granted by the secretary of the in- ‘terior. | } A general strike will mark the passage of May Day here. car traffic will be suspended, All dock workers will céasé work and loading and unloading of vessels will be abandoned. Afternoon news- papers will not be published. Shipping Trust to Get More Plums. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 30.— The United States shipping board, in line with the policy of the Coolidge government of turning the ships built by the government during the war over to the private shipping interests at a price far below cost, has an- nounced its intention of selling 600 cargo ships. The move will have to be ratified by the next congress. Deport Lisbon Students. LISBON, April 30.—The Portuguese government today deported a number of students sending them from Lisbon aboard the cruiser Carval Hoaraujo. The reason given for the deporta- tion was that the students were “dan- gerous agitators and members of the Red Legion.” “Union Stores” Dissolves SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 30.—The Union Store’s company of La Salle and the home purchasing and build- ing corporation of Mattoon, Ill, noti- fied the secretary of ‘state of their dissolution and surrendered their charters. SOCIALIST APPOINTED CHIEF OF BERLIN COPS FOR VON HINDENBURG BERLIN, Germany, April 30.— Albert Groesinski, socialist deputy in the Prussian diet, has been ap pointed chief of police for Berlin. Herr Groesinski is a great admirer of the president-elect, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. The new chief was a metal work- er by trade before entering politics. He was secretary of the metal work- ers’ local union at Offenbach and later president of the Federation of Labor at Cassel. WHEN HERRIN SEVEN HUNDRED MORE ILLINOIS COAL MINERS THROWN OUT OF WORK MINE CLOSES DOWN HERRIN, Iil., the reason for the shut down. ct April 30.—Seven hundred more southern Illinois miners were thrown out of work today"when Mine No. 7, Consolidated Coal company of St. Louis, posted suspension notices. “Slack business” was assigned as Hundrdes of miners were already jobless in Herrin and thousands are out of work thrueut the southern Hingis fleid. ee Street — a ee neal
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