Daily Worker
May 14, 1925

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.the majority, »Chamberlain believes that an alliance amount of 10 million gold rubles. —. 45 million rubles have cription Drive Now. on in Full Blast! -. es GET IN ON mls ‘EN. Vol. Il. No. 104. . Bo, bY | icago, eda oun Sane. $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, } AY Chicago, Ilinots under the 4 yt ‘ ae oe eo 1 d* ‘ apne Y 2 ~ Act of March 8, 1879. NEW YORK EDITION “Wy 4, 1925 (Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 12.—The international executive|_ board of the United Mine Workers today met in special session to| | consider the strike situation and discuss ways and means. of keeping the Jacksonville agreement in effect. Representatives of the miners’ union from districts where ei) strikes are in effect, including Kentucky, West Virginia and . ada, were here today-to submit reports on the situation to he : board which will continue in session for several days. Aut of the meeting, it was stated, is expected to grow a oe AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. ECRET documents get mislaid even in the British foreign office once in a while, tho it must be admitted, those accidents do not happen as often as we would wish, A_ secret memorandum intended only for the éyes of the members of the tory cab- inet fell into other and less secretive bands. It is one of those things that a government would give its collective eye tooth to hold inviolate from pry- ing eyes. But even the strong boxes of the British government are not in- fallible. * ~ * HE memorandum was intended for a basis for the determination of Great Britain's attityde towards the European problem. It recommended an alliance with the countries border- ing on the North Sea and particularly with France and Belgium. The pro- posal did not meet with approval of however, as Austen with Germany against: France is bet- ter for the empire. Where are the allies of yesteday’? It is interesting to note that the document refers. to Russia as the “most menacing of our) uncertainties.” “+ © 7 TH all the talk of world).peace4- i, aindiidaie A. courts . that has. pol-. lated the @ther since Woodrow WTI- son, history’s champion political} mountebank, floated his fourteen points, one would imagihe from read- ing the secret British document that it was written by some literate axman of the middle ages. It looks at the situation frankly, refers to the league of nations as a papermache shield that could not resist the assault*of a bumble bee, not to speak of a strong imperialist power. Germany is return- ing to, power, it says, and will upset the Polish apple cart. France is re- turning to the idea of holding on to the Rhine. The sword is in the saddle. + . * ITH all these things liable to come to pass, what is the dove of peace doing flitting around his coat of mail? indeed, Mars never had such a bril- liant prospect as this minute. Even the pacifists have become pessimistic about peace. A collection of ladies of many vintages recently met in Wash- (Continued on page 4.) SOVIET INTERNAL LOAN - OF 45 MILLION RUBLES IS OVERSUBSCRIBED (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, May 12.— The four day's subscription ié closed to. the new internal 5.per cent loan, issued for one year’s term at 82, to an been Moscow and Lenin- counting the subscribed at grad alone, without provincial results. At the distribution of the bonds, preference will be shown to the underwriters of the smaller obliga- tions up to 500 rubles: The preés rejoices over the suc- esssful results of the loan, to which result the papers attach a great im- portance, as they tend to show that® there is an amount of free capital in the country sufficient to ensure the possibility of further government ‘ credit operations in the home mar- | ket. to bring about this rand in a few months the public may union will then find its supremacy is down. = “Surely a Benius that'p pérsuaded | the ~ §$trike Crucial. The critical nature of the West Vir- ginia strike to the U. M. W. ofA. is clearly pointed out in the current is- sue of Coal Age, in an article by Paul Wooten. The writer for the operators’ magazine which says it is “deyoted to the operating, technical and business problems of the coal mining industry,” ¢ declares that in the West Virginia and central Pennsylvania districts border- ing on much nonunion territory that “the real fate of the United Mine Workers’ present standard of wages and working conditions is hanging in the balance.” Editorially the magazine comments that “The time is approaching when the dislocation of a nation-wide strike,” as it is termed, will concern no one. There will be plenty of mines to sup- ply the coal and probably plenty of equipment to haul it. During the past' year big strides were made consummation, rest easy, strike or no strike. The a thing of the past.” The editors may be premature in predicting the practical demise of the miners’ union but there is no doubt of the seriousness of the situation due to the increasing number of nonunion mines opening as union mines close Union Leaders Partners to Union’s “ Destruction leaders of the union to become part- (Continued on page 2) TAILORS STRIKE IN LOS ANGELES AFTER LOCKOUT Discharge ‘of Unionman Brings Conflict By PAUL REISS.— (Special to The Dally Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 12.— A strike of the 90 employes of the Gold- en State Tailoring Service shop has just taken place. The Golden State Tailoring Service shop at Court and Spring streets serv- éd notice on the shop committee elect- ed by the workers, that they will not deal with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Local Union No. 278, any longer. When the cutters came to work. Monday morning they were informed that one of their co-workers was dis- charged last Saturday and when they inguired for the cause of discharge, they were told to go back to work and mind their own business. In reply to this, the cutters insist- ed upon getting an answer. The owners then told the cutters to leave the shop, in other words, they were, locked out. The workers of the other departments upon learning about this fact walked out in a sympathy strike. | As a result of the lock out, the work- ers responded to the strike call, one hundred per cent. —_ This house employs about ninety people and is one hundred per ceht organized. The management of the shop officially stated that now is the opportune time to wreck the union and are cetermined to do so. The chamber of commerce and the M. and M. have their white hands in this affair. The enthusiasm and solidarity among the workers is very strong. FARRINGTON TOOL OUSTED FROM | OFFICE; PARRY AS PRESIDENT RE-INSTATES SECRETARY WATT (Specia\ to The Daily Worker) May 12—The much tangled skein of removals of the elected officials of Sub-District 4, District 12, Umited Mine Workers is taking on some added kinks, and it appears that Frank Farrington, reac- tionary president of the district has been thwarted for the time being in his ‘attack upon the autonomy of the sub-district and the removal of the progressive officials, Freeman Thompson and John Watt. (Continued op page 3) . SPRINGFIELD, IIL, — Me ae at i *definite plan of campaign to be}. pursued in the strike regions. Operators’ Journal Says West Virginia } | ies Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER: PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Chicage, III. rice 3 Cents ai” he IN DUBLIN MAY DAY MEET. Sa Section of a crowd listened to — of the C eae i ‘ © a beh ad in? the Hindu: Co i nist Saklatvala and. others speak on the m nist International. FARMERS FROM 9 STATES MEET T0 DENOUNCE CAL 500 Delegates Demand Immediate Relief (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, la., May 12.—Drastic criticism of President Coolidge’s agri- cultural commission and of Secretary Hoover’s policies was meted out to- day when 500 farmers of the er west met here to make definite plans | for, reliet. for their industry, Ina speech loudly applauded’ by the’ E> } audience, in which sat representatives of Barmérs’ Union, farm bureaus, granges.and allied organizations, Geo. N. Peek, president of the American souncil of. agriculture, Moline, IIL, said hat the middle west had been betray- d by the agricultural commission und that the secretary of commerce was attempting to usurp the functions of the department of agriculture. The meeting was called to order by Milo Reno; president of the Iowa Far- mers’ Union and Charles S. Barrett, Unton City, Ga., president of the Na- tional Farmers’ Union, presided. Nine States Send Delegates. Illinois, Colorado*Montana, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma and the Dakotas sent delegates. Leaders stated that it was probable that a committee would be appointed to draft a program which would “get the farmers somewhere in his effort to get a decent return for his prod- ucts.” They said the present conference meant a fusion of cliques and factions which in some particulars have work- ed at cross-purposes. “Progressives” Present. United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart and congressman L. J. Dickinson, of the tenth lowa district, and. author of the substitute “agricul- tural relief” bill were present. Wifé’s Suit Haunts Klan Attacker in Indiana Murder Case INDIANAPOLIS, May 12.—The Fi- delity..Deposit company of Maryland entered a categorical denial in su- perior.court number 1, here today, to allegations it is hdlding property of D...C. Stephenson, former K. K. K. leader under indictment for murder in connection with the death last month of. Miss. Madge Oberholtzer, 28. The company posted a $25,000 bond to obtain Stephenson's release from jail when the first series of indict- ments was returned against him and Mrs. Nettie Stephenson Brehm of Poteau, Okla., alleged divorced wife of Stephenson who is suing him fpr $17,000' support money, thru the at- tachment proceedings against the company to tie up any collateral he might have given the company to go his bond. Blast For Dead With Dynamite. MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 12.—Dyna- mite may be used by government en- gineers today in an attempt to bring to the surface the bodies of the 21 victims, still imprisoned in the hull of the steamer Norman, which lies at the bottom of the Mississippi,"16 miles 1" ee T “OPEN Ls W MARKET 3 SECOND WEEK the bullding STRIKE At Alt cident 1 trades council | union MecLennai a pany officials He ment of the ; on com- D bring a settle- of the electric- bricklayers, tile and plasterers market pro- setters, t an Racine Ave. Ea standstill on the non-union workers be organized. DELEGATES 10 PA. LABOR PARTY HIT ‘BOB-CATS" Call: tow Maiiieiiuation Based on ‘Unions (Special te The !Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., May 12.—Sixty delegates to the Pennsylvania labor party assembled here from all sections of the state, representing various or- ganizations. James Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania state federation of la- bor, spoke, criticizing the practice of labor organizations lobbying to influ- ence old party candidates. Contrary to the action of the execu- tive session held in the afternoon the delegates representing the officfaldom of the LaFollette movement tried to choke the organization. Comrade Otis made a speech criti- cizing the chairmaals report, the C. P. P. A., and also the-LaFollette move- ment, calling upon the delegates to acknowledge thatthey had made a mistake in enterigg’ the LaFollette movement. Comrade Otis called upon the con- vention to build: a state labor party with the trade uniogwimembers as the basis. The rank @nd file delegates backed Comrade Otfs’ demand for a labor party. Two More Murders Makes Chieago Total Six for Three Days Two more murders, making a total of six for the last three days, were added to Chicago’s crime record to- day. One victim was Joseph Saitta, 40, whose bullet-riddled body was found this morning in the rear of a house on the near north side. A curt telephone message: “There's a dead man in the rear of 1711 N. Lockwood street” ad- vised police of the killing. They ascribed the slaying to a black hand war. The other target of the gunman was John Tubacek found murdered in his store. Sixty dollars in his clothing and $4.15 in an opem cash resister had not been touched. The day's police blotters also listed Stanley Brokowski, 652, Chicago's ninety-sixth victim of moonshine since / below here. ‘Jan. 1, and the non- . LES OF U.S. KEPT PRESS AGAINST RUSSIA Counter - Revoli ution in Anatolia Explained (Special to The Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, —(By Mail).—Refuting the absurd allegations of a part of the American press acousing the Bol- shevike of taking a hand in the re- bellion in Eastern Anatolia, the semi- official. ers organ The ¢ relations between governments that act “gre accordance with the spirit, feelings and wishes of their peoples respectively, Cannot possibly be affected by any changes of a passing political nature. “As it happens, the diplomatic rela- tions between the Turkish atid the Russian peoples fall under this head. As a-matter of fact, any counter-revo- lutionary move that happéns to arise in the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics or Turkey only tends still fur- ther to consolidate the friendly -rela- tions existing between the two: coun- tries and offers a fresh opportunity for the manifestation of mutual sym- pathies. New Russia Greets New Turkey “Moreover, it should be perfectly clear to everyone that between new Russia and new Turkey there now exist such relations as would have been impossible under the czarist re- gime and the Khalifate. “When the Chicago Tribune pre- tends to believe that the insurrection in Eastern Anatolia was engineered by the Bolsheviks with a view to erecting a barrier between Turkey and Soviet Caucasus and thus stem the spread of Turkish influence, it is hardly necessary to demonstrate the (Continued on page 2) Puppet Nations Balk at Arms Publicity; ._— —_-——_ GENEVA, May 12.—Poland afid Roumania today refused America’s oroject for widest possible publicity regarding statistics of governmental and private arms manufacture. They contended that the “Russian menace” makes impossible any ac- ceptance of such conditions which are not also binding on Russia, who is not a member of the league. These little nations are alleged to be taking orders for this action from France, who still hopes for intervention in Russia, Chervonetz on Italian Exchange. MOSCOW—The Italian ambassador at Moscow, Count Manzoni, has offici- ally informed the people’s commissar- iat of foreign affairs, that ‘the Italian government has sanctioned the quota- tion of .the chervonetz (10-rouble banknote) on the Italian stock ex- delivered at Rostov-on- More Suffering For Cotton Workers. FALL RIVER, Mass., May 12.—An- other curtailment of mill operations in Fall River puts cotton workers back where they were before the recent temporary revival. Unemployment is handicapping the organization cam- paign of the United Textile Workers’ | Union. ( France’s Hand Seen| . COMMUNIST DEPUTIES QUIT THE REICHSTAG IN PROTEST AGAINST THE MONARCHIST PRESIDENT from work today. greeted him in the street dem-*—~* onstrations as a monarchist and militarist. The monarchist black, white and red flags under which the Hohenzol- lern kaisers ruled far outnumbered the “official” red black and gold re- publican banners. Hindenburg recognized that he was elected as a monarchist and a militar- ist, issuing a separate inaugural de- claration to the German army and navy. A Militarist Demonstration. It was a militaristic demonstration for Hindenburg. After he was sworn in as president, Hindenburg rode be- tween squadrons of Prussian lancers to the presidential palace. Sixteen thousand police lined the streets, pre- pared to beat down protests against the monarchists. Altho music was forbidden, the crowds of monarchists societies sang “Deutschland Uber Allies.” Socialists Do Not Protest. The socialist deputies, who wore red carnations, did not join in the protest of the Communists. “When the Communist deputies walked out, the socialists remained in their seats, taking part in the inauguration cere- monies. (Special to The Dally Worker) BERLIN, Germany, May 12——The Communist deputies in the reichstag rose and left the chamber in protest when Paul von Hindenburg, monarchist and war lord, began his first speech as president of the German republic. The Communist Party has déclared a general twenty-four hour strike against the monarchists, and thousands stayed away Hindenburg Enacts Farce. Altho Hindenburg went thru the farce of taking the presi- dential oath of allegiance to the =e republic, his followers GOVERNMENT BUREAU IN ADMISSION THAT A LOW WAGE KILLS BABIES WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.— Poverty kills bables. This ancient fact has again been determined by a study of 23,000 babies born in eight American cities, by the ohil- dren’s bureau. “Irrespective of all other factors,” says the report, “it was discovered that the infant death rate varied inversely with the earn- ings of the father.” Also, babies had less chance to live if the number in the family was large—with an average income to feed them. Scientists Explore Saghalien. MOSCOW.—It is announced that a scientific expedition is being equipped at Leningrad, with the participation of the most prominent scientists, who are“to leave for Northern Saghalien, to explore the mineral and forestry re- sources and the possibilities of in- vestigation and exploitation of the oil sources explored by the Japanese. SOVIET RUSSIA PROTESTS USE OF WHITE GUARDS IN CHINESE ARMY (Special te The Dally Worker) nese army be dismissed. the Russian white guards were given Chinese citizenship papers in viola- tion of Chinese law, and of the Russo- Chinese agreement, and strongly hints that future negotiations with. China will be held up pending a satisfactory adjustment by the Chinese republican government at Pekin. The note fol- lows: i . - Karakhan’s Note. I have received your note, in which it is stated that General Lu Yun Hsiang’s army there is, .under the command of General Chang Tsung- chang, a detachment consisting of (Continued on Page 4) | LEN SMALL’S HOUSE KILLS WOMEN’S EIGHT HOUR WORK MEASURE (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘ SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 12.—The death knell as far as the house is concerned, was sounded in the 54th lilinois general assembly today for the women’s &hour bill. By a vote of 72 to 61, the lower branch which is controlled by Governor Small, definitely killed the measure Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill of Downers Grove has fought for many weeks to pass. it polled five less than a constitutional majority. A similar bill, introduced by W. S. Jewell of Lewistown, rests in the senate. Although efforts to pass it is expected, legislative prophets say the upper house stands ready to ad- minister another defeat. “PEKIN, Chita, May"i2—The Soviet Rustian ambassador to China; L. Karakhan, has sent a sharp note of protest to minister of foreign affairs, Shen Jui-Lin, demanding that the Russian counter-revolutionists in the Chi- Karakhan declares in the note that | COSSACKS RETURN SHIP STOLEN FROM WORKERS’ REPUBLIC VLADIVOSTOK — The steamship Mongugal, which had been taken away from the port of Viadivostok by the whites during the iInterven- tion and has now been returned to the Soviet authorities by the coe sacks, headed by ex-Ataman Anlesi- moff, who were on board the steam er, has arrived at Viadivostok, sall- ing from Shanghai, and was met in official ceremony here. Seventy cossacks, formerly whites, have returned with the ship and have now been amnestied. Teapot Dome Farce Continued, WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Fall- Sinclair-Doheny oil leases were again brought to the attention today of a federal grand jury here. Appearing “for the government,” Special Counsel Atlee Pomerene and District Atter- ney Peyton Gordon appeared before the jury to ask the indictment of ex- Secretary of the Interior Fall, Harry F. Sinclairand Edward L. Doheny, father and gon, for alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States. Previous indictments against the same defendants were dismissed by the district supreme court because of the presence of ynauthorized persons in the grand jury room. Japs Evacuate Saghalien. TOKIO, May 12.—Japanese evacua- ttion of the northern or Russian half of Saghalien Island was reported com- pleted today, administration of the territory having been turned over to the Russiaans. terror regime, Michailov, who was to transmit the $5,000 collected by the |. in particular against the BULGAR WHITE GUARDS MURDER RELIEF FUND CUSTODIAN AND STEAL $5,000 RELIEF FUNDS (INPRECORR CABLE) MOSCOW, May 12.—The executive of the addressed a written protest to the Bulgarian ministerial council International Red Aid has ,» against the persecution of those who participated in the rellef of the victims of the execution of Theodore R. A. Dimitrov sections of the various countries to the families of those arrested or shot. The International Red Aid demands the return of the confiscated money, which is to be handed over to the Bulgarian Teachers’ among the families of the victims of the terror. Union for distribution The various sections of the International Red Aid are determined to continue the relief work in aid i the victims of the predatory regime in Bulgaria. -— —a— . ~

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Three Paths Open. z f according to Wooten’s analysis of the West Virginia and central Pennsy!- vania situation: (1) the union “might fight for the scale, but if it does,” says Wooten, “it is foredoomed to de- feat, which means the loss of its hold on these highly important outly- ing flelds. To this end the Bittner policy is leading.” (2) The union “might permit these outlying districts to make separate ne- gotations looking to the reduction of the scale.” If this is done it can hold under nominal allegiance a consider- able block of tonnage in northern West Virginia and some in central Pennsylvania. The result of such au- tonomy would be an urgent demand from the central competitive fleld for a corresponding reduction.” What the Operators Want. The third course open to the union, Wooten sees, “would be to recognize that the jig is up and consent to the negotiation of a lower scale. The loss of Fairmont and central Penn- sylvania creates a dangerous salient in the Pittsburgh sector of the union line,” Wooten continues. “In fact, the Pittsburgh district itself becomes a salient, which in time probably will be pinched off by the pressure from each side.” Drift Toward Disaster. The probabilities pointed out by Wooten and supported by other care- ful observers of the situation indicate that the union will continue, thru its officials, a drifting policy leading to ultimate disaster. The union cannot afford to lose any more territory to nonunion operators and must make its fight in West Virginia a real test of its strength and endurance or it may cease to figure as a power in the coal industry. TIKHON URGED FOLLOWERS 10 BACK SOVIETS Admitted Their Hold on Russian People MOSCOW, (Rosta)— The papers publish a lengthy manifesto of the late Patriarch Tikhon, which bears his fascimile, and which the deceased, a day before his death, handed to his first assistant, Archbishop Krutitzky Peter, for publication. In this manifesto, Tikhon calls up- on all the believers that, while they should rigidly observe their religious belief, they should maintain a sin- cere attitude vis-a-vis the Soviet pow- er which, being a true people’s power, has strong and deep roots in the peo- ple and is unmistakable. In an important manifesto, appear- ing over the signatures of the Len- ingrad Archbishop Benjamin, presi- dent of the synod, (head organ of the reformed orthodox church), other archbichops and bishops and, also, learned theologists, the synod explains to all the clergy and believers, in ref- erence to ex-Patriarch Tikhon’s death, that the movement that arose against Tikhon and culminated in his deposi- tion, in 1923, was aimed not against his personality, but the tendency he represented and his church policy, which was detrimental to the church. Now, the death of the patriarch, whose name was the emblem of in- ternal strife within the church—-the authors of the manifesto declare—lays a moral obligation on all the orthodox believers to work for the re-unification of the orthodox church, which is ac- tually splu in two hostile camps. In conclusion, the synod calls upon all the clergy, without distinction of political tendencies, to work jointly to prepare the church convention, which is to be held in a near future and whose aim is to put an end to the internal strife of the orthodox church. The Election in Moscow. MOSCOW.— The latest resulta of the election to the Moscow Soviet show that 2,554 Communist and 1,308 non-partisan candidates have been re- turned. Out of the newly elected mem- bers, 933 are women. This time, as seen from the above figures, the percentage of non-parti- san members is 34, while in the last Boyiet it was 123, | % - Su a - ~s .% «ial el ~ — ee PO here ae AL OPERATORS Three courses are open to the union, | oa . ~s - er eee (Continued from page 1) | absurdity of such an asseveration, lest the reader may be inclined to attach more importance to it than it really deserves. “The American paper ought, how- ever, to understand that such stuff cannot in any measure affect the Turkish-Soviet relations. “Indeed, the Turkish people fully realizes that, in the given case, the Chicago Tribune is but vainly trying to sow discord between two great nations. People venturing in this way upon a discussion of relations be- tween Turkey andthe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics seems to forget that the wishes and sentiments of diplomats afte not the only factors that bring these two nations closer to each other and determine their polit- ical interrelations. Indeed, the poli- cies of the two great neighbor states are definitely outlined by the history of the recent revolutionary struggle. “In fact, the statesmen of both coun- tries could not possibly altar their present policy while the feeling and sentiments of the people remain what they are. “New Turkey pursues no aims other than to live and exist in the limits of her national frontiers and develop her national economic and cultural re- sources. “As for revolutionary Russia, she knows our national aims better than any other state, since for the last years she has herself been fighting for the independence and liberty of nations. Neither the Chicago Tribune nor, for that matter, any other such like organ, need worry about it; never shall we forget the sympathies shown and the support lent us by our great neighbor not only in these days, when the Turkish republic has grown stronger, but also previously—when we were fighting for our national in- dependence. See Triumph Over Reaction. “The Soviet statesmen firmly be- lieve that young Turkey will triumph over and crush all the forces of re- action, And,” concludes the mouth- piece of the Angora government, “we deeply appreciate such an attitude on the part of the Soviet.” SOVIETS ARREST OFFICIALS FOR MISUSING FUNDS Teapot Dome Methods Not Allowed in Russia (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, May 12.—The Transcau- casian federal government has or- dered the arrest of a number of high and other officials of the Nakhitche- vansk Autonomous Republic, among them being the people’s commissaries of interior, of agriculture and of finance. This measure has been undertaken as a result of a special revision ef- fected by a committee of auditors in- stituted by the Transcaucasian gov- ernment at the initiative of Rykoff, president of the council of people’s commissaries of the U. 8. S. R., who, during his recent tour of Transcau- casia pointed out the unsatisfactory economic conditions and the defective organization of power in the Nakhitch- evansk Republic. This committee of auditors discov- ered numerous misdeéds and abuse of power on the part of those new ar- ests, most of whom are wealthy Beks and former czarist officials, with a very bad reputation among the peas- ants. The people’s commissary of interior had embezzled fifteen thousand rubles of public funds, while several of the others had at the time lent ac- tive support to the Turck anti-Soviet faction. In their report, the auditors recom- mended to the federal government to increase the credits to the Nakhitche- vansk peasants, whose economy has greatly suffered from civil war and intervention. When East Meets West. HARBIN.—tThe first cargo of Ger- man goods has been received at Har- bin sent from Germany via the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The goods are sent to the address of the local branch of the “Dobroflot” (Vol- unteer Fleet). Part of them are for the local Harbin market, another part of them will be immediately sent on to Shanghai. The local papers remark, in this reference, that the direct overland goods service between the Far East and Burope seems now to have be- come an accomplished fact. Spoll Tokio-Paris Flight. TOKIO, May 12.—Moscow’s refusal to permit the plane to fly over Russ- lan territory beyond Moscow has temporarily disrupted the proposed Tokio-Paris flight sponsored by the Tokio newspaper Asahi Shimbun, it was learned here today. The Soviet government would permit a flight to Moscow, it was said, but would not al- low the plane to leave the Russian capital for Europe. The flight, how- ever, was expected to be continued over China and India, starting within a few. days. Japs Seek Concessions. CAL WORRIED BY FRANCE’S DEBT OF 280 BILLION Wall Street Wants Ger- man Payments (Special to The Dally Worker.) PARIS, May 12.—"I think that re- paration receipts from Germany by their nature should be applied to spe- cial purposes,” Finance Minister Cail- laux told the members of the finance commission of the chamber of depu- ties this afternoon. “They should serve in their entire- ly to complete the reconstruction of the liberated regions devastated by the war and to amortize allied debts under such arrangements as will be made. “The government will float a loan covered by expected payments from Germany. These loans will be used to restore the devastated regions and for improving the state railways.” The Coolidge government, thru Ambassador Herricks, is constantly dunning the French government for the war debt to America, and Caillaux is anxious to keep German payments in France. “France's amounts to 280,000,000,000 francs,” he said. “The nation must bear an in- ¢Crease burden amounting to $3,500,- 000,000. This sum is indispensible.” * 8s *s France’s Note To Germany PARIS, May 12—The Painleve cabinet meeting with President Dou- mergue, unanimously adopted the text of Foreign Minister Briand’s two notes on Germany at noon today. The first, dealing with alleged Ger- man infractions of disarmament pro- visions, will be handed to the council of ambassadors Friday. The second, the reply to the German security pact proposals, will be sent to the allies immediately. The second note de mands Germany’s entrance to the league of nations, which is used by the world powers to plunder the weaker nations. Railway Heads Go to Moscow. HARBIN.—It is reported in the local press that the Chinese members fo the board of directors of the Chinese Eastern railway have re- ceived an invitation to come to Mos- cow to get acqainted with the work- ing of the railways in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The idea seems to have been will- ingly accepted and the directors are saaid to be contemplating to start soon‘ for their visit, which, however, can be but of a short duration in view of their many duties on the line, Like Soviet Pavilion at Leipzig. MOSCOW.—The Tribune, a leading paper of Rome, writes about the Leip- zig fair that “an excellent order reigns in the Soviet pavilion, and the Soviet halls at the fair are wonder- fully well arranged. “The show made at the Leipzig fair by the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- MOSCOW.—Ever fresh offers are continually being received from Japan- | se firms asking for the grant of con- sessions for the exploitation of gold mines in Siberia. a= Japs Deny Loan Report. TOKIO, May 12. — The Japanese finance ministry here today denied New York reports that Japan was ne- gotiating a $25,000,000 loan for the reconstruction of Tokio. | MEETING OF WORKERS CORRESPONDENTS IN | kets.” ‘execution until Friday, Dec. 18, 1925, were granted by Governor Ed Jackson itoday to \ Joseph Parker, 22 who were to have | been electrocuted in the state prison NEW YORK SATURDAY NEW YORK CITY, May 12—A meeting to organize a Workers’ Cor- respondents Club wil! be held at 7:30 Saturday evening, May 16 at the party headquarters, 108 East 14th street. Any worker interested in a course In Communist journal- ’ a a a eee in el od : loam ie invited to come | jet, held today, Mr. L. B. Kameneff | (assistant president of the council of | people's | president of the Soviet without a dis- | senting vote. publics further evidences that the Tnion is an important factor of the economic life of Europe and that it is in fitting order to set out for the winning over of international mar- Youth’s Execution Postponed. INDIANAPOLIS, May 12—Stays of Edward Barber, 19, and at Michigan City on May 29. Kameneff Heads Moscow Soviet. MOSCOW, May 12.-—~At the first ses- sion of the newly-elected Moscow Sov- commissaries) was elected Every subser!ption for The Dally Worker means a brick in bullding the revolutionary press in this coun- THE DAILY Z|ANDY FURUSETH Refute Lies of U. S. Kept Press Against Rassi domestic debt} x 4 SAYS $ REJEC Subsidy Dis Bonus; -_——— once head of the subsidy grant fr they ask ind enforcement of they refuse “the sters’.” e | Andy Wr This protest a letter from Coolidge, who interested in 0% sidy. ors In his letter, th points out that. part of the G many years constitutional only by CHARGE A ’ Springfleld’s Judiciary p bitter warfare.” . Justice of the carried to fight against B. Barty. from office. ° his position,” Bierman bling house. Meanwhile, further volving high officials.” partment and judges. amoved (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 12.—American seamen will have none of the “wage bonus” scheme which T. V. O’Connor, now chairman of the shipping board, has proposed as a camouflaged ship- shipowners. They. ,have protested, thru Andrew ; ptipulated wages; jastice thru fair ». seamen’s act; wt ing disgrace of being known ani /Ppnsidered as ‘tip- to Cal. n embodied in sported as being | Or’s plan of sub- en’s executive is a revival of subsidy bill of ago... That bill, support- ed by @ republican administration, was beaten in congress. [t was strongly opposed by the organized seamen. It is the seamen’s contention that this O’Connor scheme would be made merchant s@aménm 46 naval reserves. That is the French system, and “would destroy our merchant marine as sure- ly as it destroyed that of France.” BRIBERY, BOOZE HURLED department and ‘ Magistrate Frank conferred with the mayor on méand’ of removing Barly or. A. Bullard =| “I accuse Early of unfitness for of- fice and of holding court while in- toxicated. His dOnduct in office has caused everyone’ who knows of it to lose respect and’regard for him and The developments followed a bitter arraignment of the magistrate in his office by Bierman who hurled vectives bristling with personalities and charges that Barly had been in- dicted in Sangamon county for mal- feasance in office, accepting a bribe, and criminal contempt of court, and had been sued by the city of Spring- field for being an inmate of a gam- arose when Austin Jones, a free agent responsible: only to Chief Morris, a klansman, said he would investigate rumored liquor scandals and bribery inside the police department said to be in control of the police de- attacking anti-klan ~ i Smet or AMEN ‘TIPS’ Sanne 2d ARUN RN RR AB EN | MacDonald, the Traitor, Announces That He Does a} i hai Not Like “The Red le ad ~ : my - SeNe Namihs | * - fy : i si an es J 1S ne ¥e al to The ” Daily Worker) « ¥, May ; raise $2,5 : H A sf8 Bae i i iP By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. horemen and s to the president of n’s Union of a “tip” sys- As “free” to President enlisting the r today into a C. C. Bierman sald. in- complications “in- The klan is The first direct route on the elevated line, and by car. the and Chicago contests between federation groups are put. on a “tug-of-war,” stage exhibitions. PICNIC MAY 30 TO DRAW CROWD | OF MILITANTS T. U. E. Li Group Gets Altenheim Grove workers’ picnic of the year, given by the Trade Union Edu- cational League of Chicago, will be held on May 30, Decoration Day, in Altenheim Grove, to be reached by the Madison streétcar to a suburban Branches of the Workers are taking part in this picnic of militant are being arranged. Two laffguage the labor athletes are volunteering to Every party branch is supposed to get in touch with local headquarters and to furnish some feature of en- tertainment, game or contest. Forest Park transfer from Party unionists, the branches slated for to and some of Angora Monday. The try. { Angora Fire »Under Control. LONDON, May 12.,—A Central News dispatch from Oonstantinople reported under control the fire which destroyed 600 shops in Yezgad near today damage was | ist Republics. ties, some of the neighboring states, Frunze observed, were apt, under in- figence from without, to be tempted y >y somewhat adventuresome combina- tlons. aware, the people’s war commissary declared, of the irritation prevailing tolerable facts as raids by posts or the murder of Baginsky and Weiczerkowicz, or, port openly extended by the Rouman- laan government to Petlura’s bandit organizations, the government’s main ODAY, James Ramsay MacDonald, “socialist” and fate labor premier of Great Britain, joins the capitalists in hostility to “The Red Flag,” the workers’ revolutionary s0 second in popularity only to “The International” itself. _ MacDonald fr he wants something “more tuneful and soul stirring,” and he has no doubt found it in the British royal anthem, “God Save the King,” as played by the British monarch’s picked mil band. For it was re while premier, and he rom the red flag. MacDonald has his ki acDonald’s is still at it, trying to save the king and Gustav Noske, the Ger- man “socialist,” has the makings of a new kaiser in Paul von Hindenburg, in whose honor Noske made a farewell speech at Hanover, on Monday, as the German militarist left for Berlin. It was Noske. who led the war inst the Ger- man. Communists, and whose hands wg with the blood of Liebknecht and Luxemburg. Noske will join MacDonald in hostility to the — strains of “The Red Flag, that heartens revolutionists in their struggles the world over, and cheers them on to new battles. | ; - » © cm It needs nothing more than a roped “The Red Flag” to discovér why MacDonald doesn’t like it. MacDonald proved thé best nt of British imperialism, to keep the workers in submissive obedience to “The Empire,” in all the colonies as well as at home. “The Red Fl sounds a note of solidarity for workers everywhere and is an inspiration to revolt against “The Empire,” whether British, American, French. or German. Here it is: The people’s flag is deepest red It shrouded oft our martyr’d dead. And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their heart’s blood dyed its every fold. CHORUS: Then raise the scarlet standard high! Within its shade we'll live and die! Tho cowards flinch and traitors sneer, We'll keep the Red Flag flying here. Look round: the Frenchman loves its blaze; The sturdy German chants its praise In Moscow’s vaults its hymns are sung; Chicago swells the surging throng. CHORU 8; it waved above our infant might, When all ahead seemed dark as night, it witnessed many a deed and vow, We must not change its color now. CHORU 8; it well recalis the triumphs past, It gives the hope of peace at last, The banner bright, the symbol plain Of human'right and human gain. CHORU 8&8: It suite today the weak and base, Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place, To cringe before the rich man's frown, And haul the sacred emblem down. CHORUS: With head uncovered swear we all To bear it onward till we fall; Come dungeon dark or gallows grim This song shall be our parting hymn. CHORUS: British workers will not stop singing “The Red Flag”; not even if MacDonald wishes it. Rather they will sing it all the louder, since they are recognizing more and more that MacDonald belongs to the capitalist class, not to the working class. MacDonald's attack on this revolutionary song of the workers will only serve to make it more popular with those who are enslaved by the social system that MacDonald so valiantly defends. . = ° s The loyalty of another “socialist,” the late Fritz Ebert, president of Germany, whom Hindenburg succeeds, to “the reich,” is also to be rewarded. The “Baroness” Katherina von Oheimb—they still have the titles of the German kaiser- dom in the republic—has opened a campaign to an an- nual pension of $7,500 for Ebert’s widow. The “baroness” heaps glowing eulogies upon the memory of the late “social- ist” president, who sent thousands of Communists to prison. It is from these prisons that the strains of “The Red Flag” — in unceasing refrain. So it is all over the capitalist world. Labor will treasure Its song, than ever since the traitor, MacBo has now openly turned against it. “The Red Flag,” more nald, like all of his kind, will SF x ) BE H % | 2 leges, supported by the big American capitalists? The role and history of the mission. Rockefellers’ missionaries are fulfil- ling their task very well. Cleveland H. Dodge, who is himself & well known banker made the follow- ing significant statement. “The col- leges have given fifty years of service in the Near Bast and are responsible for many of the changes that have taken place in that time.” Rap at Farrington in Warning Purchasers of Union’s Property SPRINGFIDLD, Ill., May 12—The membership of District 12, United Mine Workers, have their doubte as to the honesty of Frank Farrington, district president, and in resolutions being #epread thruout the district, are giving “due warning” to all business interests, bonding companies, mort- gage firms and corporations, that any acquisition of property, moneys, li- berty bonds and other securities be- longing to the union, unless such are acquited by consent of the member- ship, will be at the risk of prosecu- tion “This movement must be made at once to protect the property of the Illinois mine workers and also keep the books and bonds intact so that the membership will be able to investigate the same should they desire to do so to see what has become of the re- maining property and funds, and to see if transactions by Farrington have been legal or not,” reads an announce- ment of the miners. “To see what has become of the remaining property and funds,” ap- pears to indicate that the miners find something missing which Farrington, as president, was supposed to safe- guard. Strengthen “Co-ops” in U. S. S. R. MOSCOW.-—The people’s commis- gariat of finance has been instructed by the government to draw up, in an urgent manner, a bill providing for facilities in alterations of the taxa- tion of private capital. At the same time, the government is devising measures for consolidat- ing the basic capital of state commer- cial firms and the enlargement of the corporations of co-operative organiza- tions, ten million rubles having been apportioned for this latter item from the state budget funds. — Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, May 12—Great Britain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 13-16: cable 4.85 -716. France, franc, demand 5.21%; cable 5.22. Belgium, franc, demand 5.05; cable 6.05%. Italy, lira, demand 4.10%; cable 4.11. Sweden, krone,- demand 26.71; cable 26.74. RUSSIA’S RED ARMY CHIEF KEEPS WATCH ON BALTIC WAR MANEUVERS MOSCOW, May 12.—That the Soviet government had paid close atten- tion to the recent joint conference at Riga of representatives of the general staffs of the Baltic states and Roumania and Poland, was stated by Frunze, people's commissar of war, in the course of a speech delivered at Rostoy-on- / Don while on his way to Tiflis to attend the congress of soviets of the Trans- caucasian Federation of Soviet Social-#— Norway, krone, demand, 18.81: cable 18.88. Germany, mark, unquoted. Germany, mark, unquotedimfdk6d’hw Shanghai, tael, demand 75.00; cable, 75.50. THE VOICE OF LENIN TO BE HEARD IN CHICAGO SUNDAY, MAY 24 Having to go thru internal difficul- | HERRIN UNDER ANTI- KLAN MAYOR GALLS IN KLUXERS’ TIN STARS HERRIN, lil. May 12—With sev- eral hundred tin stars, made by the late Glenn Young out of tomato cans, called in, new badges issued and new oaths taken, Herrin was under new city rule today by an administration distinctly anti-klan. Mayor Marshall D. McCormack, whose store was bombed just prior ‘o his election by klan forces, ae Tho the Soviet government was well n the public opinion thruout the Union of Soviet Republics at such in- regular Polish army units on Soviet frontier again, the sup- object being, now as heretofore, tc | serted: work for peace on all the frontiers oi | “We shall have a better and clean- | the Union. f er Herrin under the new regime.” Something new and different is being arranged by the Russian branch of the Workers Party for Sunday, May 24, at the Workers’ Home, 1902 W. Division St. It will 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 frem a phonograph record, as well as speeches by Comrade Lunachar sky, Trotsky and others. Comrade Alexander Chramov, na- tional organizer of the Russian Sec- tion W. P., who is touring the Unit- ed States, will bring the records to Chicago. He will aiso speak 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 | Lenint ‘“ a a oo ——_ ——- —_ —- = — = —_~_ a a eed —

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RPPBRISe SMG? ‘POs 55 ad war OW a. oO * > o> Pee Ga at x. ie f a est 6 a OEE yar tiene a ae SIN PIT T SBURGH DISTRICT CHEATED BY BOSSES, DESERTED BY UNION HEADS, LOOK TO COMMUNISTS By A COAL MINER. (Special to The Dally Worker) May 12—I am now working at the Vesta No. 4 mine of the Vesta Coal company, which is a subsidiary of J. Laughlin Steel com- pany, Théy were working full time until a few days ago, and now are work- days a week. Vesta Mines No. 5 and 6, of the same company, have been working only two or three mg a week and they are producing very Parry as President Re- instates tes Watt (Continued trot from page 1) Farrington had appointed his own henchman “Jackey” Walker, to take the place of Freeman Thompson, sub- district president, and Walker at once appointed another poor fish, Anthony Shymansky, to take Watt's place as secrétarys - These worthies, feeling that altho their appointment was illegal, Farrington would baok them up with all his usurped power, Carried things off with a high hand. That was round one for Farrington’s machine. Round Two. Round two went to the sub-district when “Jackey” Walker, who has gained his chief mining experience in rustling washing for his wife and | loafing around poolPoomdé, was dis- covered to be delinquent in the min- ers’ union and legally ineligible for the job to which Farrington had ap- pointed him. In fact he was ho longer a& member of the union. When Joseph Angelo, secretary of Local 413, notified Faker Farrington that the local had formally declared Walker not a member, Farrington got all “het up” and wrote back that the local had “overstepped its power.” He said that, by the eternal, he was district president, and advised the lo- cal to “be careful” and that a little clique was trying to “dictate.” He ended by saying he would appoint a committee himself to do the dictating and “investigate” the matter in the same way as the Duncan McDonald case. A Hard Thing to Swaliow. The local secretary replied that the local had merely obeyed the plain con- stitutional requirement of demanding that a delinquent go to work and be regularly re-instated and that Walker could appeal if he thot he was still a mem ber. The next round seemed to go to the sub-district progressives, as Farring- ton backed up, and wrote the Tocal that he had notified Walker to respect the local’s decision until reversed by | a higher union tribunal Putting the Skide Under Jackey. This automatically put “Jackey” Walker out of office as subdistrict president and by the same token put in Tom Parry, a progressive regularly élected as ‘sub-district vic dent, into thé presidency from which Walker had ousted Freeman Thomp- son, As soon as Tom Parry took over the office from the dazed “Jackey” Walker, he wrote to Walker's appointed secre tary-treasurer, Shymansky that since Walker had been in office fllegally when he appointed Shymansky, there- fore Shymansky was also illegally ap- pointed and not being authorized, was ordered at once to turn over all books and funds to none other than the de- posed John Watt, who was simultane- ously re-instated by order of Tom Parry, acting as sub-district president. The matter seems to indicate that Farrington has the next move to make, and that the case of Freeman Thompson awaits threshing out in a sub-district convention. Tom Parry says, “Business is open and every- thing is harmonius in the sub-district administraiton.” Meanwhile “Jackey” Walker has gone home to watch the wife hang out the neighbor’s washing and Shymansky wanders about the streets with a dazed expression on his mug. The party grows large— All runs gaily, When subs are coming Oe Ta tte: = VINER. — s — _— * erga Pee Ss . rr te OO a na eae) Oa a art: P ° . 2 7 e Rae’ a4 -_ cs ye va as Pa. ing little coal. I the wages have been cut to the 1917 scale. Working Conditions Rotten. The working conditions in these mines are rotten. When a coal loader finishes a, place, he has to wait two weeks or longer until‘he gets another place: to work in. If he is the bosses’ pet lackey, however, he does not lose a day. . If a man lays off for any reason not be helped, as the miner did not have the rails to lay a long rail, so he uséd two or three short pieces. The heavy wagon forced the short pieces apart. Forced to Work in Water. Men ate forced to work in water, and no extra compensation, as pro- vided for by the contract, is paid. If the pump breaks down as it will oc- casionally, the men working in the ehtries that are wet have to stay home for a week or longer. I know of an instance where the men came in the mine and went out again for 20 days in succession without getting any kind of compensation whatever. The boss would not tell them that the pump was not fixed. The yardage paid for slate in nar- row work is at the option of the boss. Here is the way they work it: The section boss will come in and meas- ure the yardage, write the figures in his book, and let the men se ehim do- ing it. But when he goes around the corner he uses the erasing end.of his pencil, and of course the men are short on the next pay. When they kick, the bosges’ excuse is that he entered the actual yardage in his book, but the clearks in the office made the mistake. Then he gives the men shortage for last pay, but when he gets around the corner he earses it again and the loader is always short. Get Short Pay. Then the company changes section bosses and the new boss says he is not responsible for any shortage his predecessor made. There are 99 ways to skin a cat, and the bosses use every one of the 99. I know a man here who has worked at this mine for 20 years and contract- ed asthma and rheumatism, which be- came so bad he could not work. 5o he went to the coal company doctor and the doctor gave him a card ex- this man could not work in the mine. But to date, he has no job outside, and the family is pretty big. All must eat, so the poor man went back into the mine, knowing it will be his death in a short time. Some will say why doesn’t he go somewhere else, but who will take on a husk of a man after the coal com- pany has been squeezing the life out of him for 20 years at one mine? Weighing Soales Crooked. The weighing scales here are the worst I ever heard of, men are cheated out of tons of coal every pay day, the men always being given short weight. As there are over 1,000 coal leaders, it pays the company to have such scales. Drinking water is so bad at the Daisytown camp it smells like rotten eggs, and if a person is not used to it he cannot stay in the house when To “Our Dally” the water is brot in. I heard the doc- JOBLESS YOUNG WORKER, WIFE AN EXPECTANT MOTHER, STARVING AND FACING EVICTION, ONE INMANY (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 12—A young worker, just one of many thousands out of work in this city, applied to police for aid for his wife, who is about to become a mother. The police found verge of starvation, and his wife had ened eviction. that the man, a cripple, was on the nothing to eat. The landlord threat- The application was made on the steps of the Hast 104th street police station by the young man, not over 25, who limped slightly. He asked for food. The request was 80 care forward that the policeman, without] question, invited, the young man down the street to a restarant. The young man explained to him that the food was for his wife, younger than he and about to become a mother. The young couple occupied a fur- nished room in Lexington avenue, near 107th street. That they would much longer occupy even these quar- ters was extremely doubtful, the young man explained, as the rent-—-$7 —would be due tomorrow, and there was no money to meet this item. An investigation of the shelves in the cor- ner, on the lower of which stood a two-burner gas plate, showed there was no food. Two small kittens, their playfulness gone, lay asleep on the window sill. The young man had wife was subsisting on one meal a day. The young man explained that he was unable to do heavy work, due to an injury received in an automobile accident, but he said he would wel- come a position driving any sort of vehicle. But there again lack of money stood in the way. There was none with which to procure a license. He told of how he had walked more than 200 city blocks in answer to ad- vertisements, only to arrive after the places had been filled. There was no monesfor car fare. An out-patient card from Bellevue Hospital was on the bureau, calling for treatment for the injured leg three times weekly, but the young man explained that the leg was usually worse after the long not eaten for three days. eee LORIE 52 S00 REREES SE LOSE Se aa These are nonenion mines, where | ———— —_—_— | CONDUCTORS ABSORBED IN RELIEVING. BOSSES - FROM ALL COMPETITORS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 12. —Declaring that thousands of rall- road conductors have been forced out of their jobs and compelied to take less lucrative positions as a re- suit of alleged unfair bus company competition with the railroads, del- egates to the national convention of the Order of Rallway Conductors -today mapped out a nation-wide campaign for more stringent regu- lation of busees. Debate on the question of merg- ing the pension and frellef depart- ments of the order was all that pre- vented delegates from plunging at once Into the issue of bus regula- tlon after the meeting got under way. plaining to the superintendent why} tor giving advice to a friend of mine to move away if he wanted to have his children in a healthy condition. The local union of the United Mine Work- ers of America is very weak. It used to be a good local, but when there was any kind of a grievance it was taken out of the local’s hands and given to a higher official and that was the last ever heard of it. If a decision was handed down, accidentally, it favor- ed the coal company. Union Officials Desert Miners. These elastic interpretations of the contract gave the coal company offici- als a chance to chastise the unruly spirits. Victimizations against indi- viduals were daily occurences, and it got so that many militants were driven out to other fields and most of those that are left are too scared to say anything, fearing the same treat- ment. Communists Take Lead. There is a big responsibility for our comrades here, in this local, as condi- tions are getting worse, and the min- ers will be ripe for Communist lead- ership. I hope the comrades will re- spond to the call as Communists should, that is, be first to respond to every call to action by which the working: class will profit to any éx- tent. . Some of us will be victims of the coal company officials, some of us. may. lose our jobs, but that should not stop us. ¥ RIFFIANS KEEP FRENCH FORTS DESPITE ATTACK Moroccan Tri bes Join Anti-Imperialist Move TETUAN, Spanish Morocco, May 12, —Native North Africans living in French Morocco have joined the Riffian rebels who have entered the French colony from Spanish Morocco. The native Moroccan troops still have most of the French outposts sur- rounded, despite airplane reinforce- ments which have been brought up by the French. More French troops have arrived, and now 70,000 troops are in northern *| Morocco, with the total number soon to exceed 100,000, it is announced. Artillery reinforcements have also ar- rived, preparatory to an attack on the Riffians along a 60-mile front. - * . Britain Keeps Hands Off. LONDON, England, May 12.—Great Britain will not take part in the French imperialist action in Morocco, Austen Chamberlain told the house of commons today. The foreign minister said that while the English govern- ment “sympathized” with the French troubles, it was a “domestic matter.” France is exerting every effort to de- feat the Riffians, as her foothold on the continent of Africa has been seriously threatened. 2 * * ®* Use Planes Against Riffs. PARIS, May 12.—French airplanes may bomb Riff supply centers in Span- ish Morocco, it was indicated at the foreign office today. The foreign office said that semi- official negotiations between the French and Spanish were under way to permit the French airplanes to op erate against the tribesmen in Span- ish territory. Soviet Bank in Japan. MOSCOW.— It is announced that the local Japanese authorities have granted the request of the Far BHast- ern Bank of the Union of Soviet. So- cialist Republics to open branches of | the bank at Kobe and Tsuruga. ae “h “ ata “THe DA that of the co cism at all. Shan You th “Deported” to Minor African Post (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12.—Dis- crimination against Negroes by the state department of the United States government, with the approval of President Coolidge and the republican party, has just leaked out. Clifton R. Warton, Baltimore Ne- gro who was formerly a law clerk in the state department, has been sent to a minor di atic post in Monro- via, Africa, to him out of the way so that the white members of the state department witt not have to associate with him. Wharton Only Nogro. Wharton t a field of one Bi dred, who passed ex- aminations to enter the foreign serv- ice school, President Coolidge established in tine, 1924, to provide American ats with a one-year’s course of 4 The school’ opened on April 20, 1925. Wharton was the only Negro, and the embryo diplot ts and republican officials in the® tate department ob- jected to him. * “Lily Sitar Government. So Coolidge and Kellogg put their heads together, and found a way to get rid of Wharton. He was declared a graduate of the school before it start- ed, and on March 21, a month before the opening of the school, was ap- pointed secretary of the American le- gation, at Monrovia, declared a full fledged and graduated diplomat, and ordered to leave at once. The Negro is now in Africa, and the foreign service school is in session, all of the students white. The news of the ee t was kept out of the press. won WINNIE'S BUDGET READS JUST LIKE PHILIP SNOWDEN'S Right Wingers Threaten the Left V Wingers By R- “STEWART. Pele to The,Dailly Worker.) DUBLIN — (By, Mail)— Winston Churchill who takes Snowdon’s place as chancellor of the exchequer in the British parliamentyhas introduced his first budget, which is so much like labor government as 0 leave these pitiful revisionists with scarcely any, ground for criti- Social reform at the ex- pense of the workimg class with a sop to the boss and his lackeys of six: pense off income tax, and also a bit off the super tax to relieve Winnies’ ‘special millionaire friends, are the features of the budget. Sob stuff around old age pensions and widows’ allowances covers the gifts to the plutes;;-it is all so irritat- ingly patent and part of the game. The capitalist press shouts, see how good we are to the poor, to the aged, to the widows, while the Federation of British Industries issues a chal- lenge to the engineers to work fifty- one hours instead of forty-seven. The mine owners challenge the miners to work an eight instead of a seven-hour day. The railway are attacked all along the line. Ol yes the reac- tion has set in, the British Hinden- burgs are in the aaddle and for the same reason—thaé*the labor leaders of Great Britain Hke the German so- cial-democrats pre the way for them, Still the a kick left, and strikes or threats @f strikes are com- mon. A big fight lies straight ahead. McDonald, Tho »-& Co., have got nervy and are thfmatening to run a Sunday paper to counteract the new Sunday Worker ofthe left wing. Write for Boss Press. Internal quarrels in the labor party are intensifying. “There are fierce complaints against-McDonald, Clynes, Thomas, Snowder/ Hodges, and the other “twicers” whoadd to their parlia- mentary wages by writing to the cap- italist gutter press, which is prepared to pay big prices for their attacks on the Communists and the left wing. MacDonald declares war to the death on A. J. Cook for venturing to criticise him in his Own parliamentary constituency. The Morning Post has got the Red scare badly, and sees assassins under the postage stamps, Chamberlain's life is supposed to be in danger and the Daily Mail shouts for the deporta- tion of the Reds of which there are supposed to be millions in these is- lands. How we wish there were! ur friend subscribe to Y WORKER? Ask him! Does the D of nineteen out of: pe Ke — CLASS STUDIES PLAGUED WORKING CLASS HOUSEWIFE AS A SUBJECT FOR PITILESS EXPERIMENT Rhos Es o," (Special to The “established” a very interesting fact: numerically-the articles far surpass By ROSE LAND Daily Worker) BROOKLYN, N. Y., May 12—Permit me thru your paper to comment on an article which appeared in one of the N. Y. capitalist papers. In this article a professed connoisseur of women thru various studies, that women always lose things, and those lost by men. Our great “student of the habits of mankind” had a wonderful opportun- ity to expound on the reasons under- lying this sad fact; of mislaying things, losing parcels or dropping the silly, everdangling purse from the arm. However, either the superficial knowledge, or hypocrisy, which isthe lot of all the bourgeois experts, pre- vents him from going any further than merely theorizing on women. As a matter of fact it is mostly with the poorer women that it hap- pens thus. Rarely with the women of “high society.” It is the woman of the working class who is in a rush all her life; first to get wherever she needs to go quickly, and then rush home to her endless tasks. Her mind is a_ kaleidiscope, working constantly under a nervous tempo. If one could only look into her mind while she is away from home. Worries of a Housewife. It registers something like that: “©, I wonder whether the key I left in the corner of the hall was found by the children as they came to lunch from school, or probably some one watched me while I put it there, and got into the house? I hope the kids have eaten their lunch, without me. I hope Kate eats, she left with- out breakfast. Goodness! Is it rain- ing? and I hung out the clothes to dry! It is terfible! After all the morning I spent washing! Well, may- be I'll arrive in time to get it off damp, just for ironing. By the way ! did not yet iron the clothes I washed last week I must stop to buy some meat. The children I suppose are home by now and are hungry again, after all I left them a small lunch . O, if things were not so dear! What can I make for supper that costs little and is decent? “Lamb chops? 0O, no, they cost jor cents a pound, and I would need at least two pounds. Impossible. Gracious, it is five o’clock! John will be home from work soon, and I have to stop at the butcher shop! . Five o’clock!! O, there is my stop.” The poor creature runs out with the rushing crowd before the dodér slams on her, makes a few steps towards the exit, ahd utters a shriek . The box with the dress she bought as a big bargain she left in the train. The train is off. O, horrors—she spent al- most the last penny on it, and Kate needs the dress so badly. . she hardly has enuf money to meet the expenses to the end of the week, till John will bring the pay. She blames herself. Why did not she hold it in her hands? O, yes, she rembers the skin is off her hands in many places from washing the clothes and the string of the box hurt her so and cut it so painfully . Not a Woman of Leisure. Yes this is the life we women « the working class lead today! W: have no means of getting away fron our cursed drudgery. it wears oul our bodies and brains. Life is a tor- ture. Always work, wash, cook, shop, sew . ‘ We not only loose packages and purses, we loose our health, often lose our minds, and are taken into the insane asylums; we loose our lives prematurely.’ All as the result of the hurried wretched life we lead. No wonder the “students of the habits of mankind” do not know all that! How should they know? Their wives need not work at all. They roll in wealth. They have no petty household worries; how much a pound of chops costs; their heads do not whirl to insanity how to make ends meet; their hands are not sore from washing clothes. Their wives ride in their own cars and the chauf- feur attends to their things if they are left there. Is it not high time for us working class women to change this miserable existence and show the “sagacious theoreticians” that a woman can rise to a better, higer life and not lead the life of a beast of burden? Metric System on Soviet Railways. HARBIN.—The management of the; Chinese Eastern Railway has taken up the question of introducing the metric system on the line. Ivanoff considers this matter as an urgent one, since all the railways of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have already adopted the metric system of weights }and measures. ' In the report submitted to the board of directors, it is proposed to adopt the following equivalents: 1 Russian pound (weight) equals 0.4 kilograms; 1 pood equals 16 kilograms; 1 metric ton equals 1,000 kilograms., etc. New Plague at Nome. NOME, May 12.—Twenty-five were sick here today from drinking water which had been polluted by graveyard seepage, according to Dr. Curtis Welch, assistant United States health officer in Nome. Dr. Welch himself was sick from this cause. All water is being boiled and pumps are work- ing night aand day to disinfect the contaminated supply. | GET A SUB AND GIVE ONEL Scab Hat Man Takes Job of Pawnbroker to White Guardists WASHINGTON, May 12.—(FP). John B, Stetson, Jr., heir to the busi- ness and fortune of the late anti-union hat manufacturer of Philadelphia, has been appointed as American mitister to Finland, whose anti-labor govern- ment was established by joint Amer- ican, allied and German imperial aid in 1918. American aid in overthrow- ing the Finnish Soviet republic was exerted thru economic blockade. Minister Cagey, who now retires from the Helsingfors job, is reported to have bought paintings, family heir- looms and other valuables, at bargain prices from Russian aristocrats as they fled thru Finland to western Europe. He will now rest. URGES A, F, OF L. COUNCIL TO BAR RAGE PREJUDICE But Negro Plea Gets No Reply ' (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 12.—Whether the American Federation of Labor is to become in fact a national labor movement, or whether it is to remain a labor movement for the white race, was again put up to the executive council of the federation on May 7, by a Negro spokesman, T. Arnold Hill, director of the industrial relations de- partment of the Urban League. Hill testified that the colored work- ers are anxious to organize, and that the delegation of which he was chief had come to Washington to meet the trade union authorities and offer co- operation in a campaign of bringing all the unorganized into the fold of unionism. He read to the council a statement by the National Association for Ad- vancement of Colored People, in its 15th annual conference: “Intelligent Negroes know full well that a blow at organized la- bor is a blow at all labor; that black labor today profits by the bldod aand sweat of the tabor leaders in the past who have fought oppression and monopoly by organization.” He urged the council to bring about 1 more tolerant attitude on the part f national unlons and local unions nd central bodies, so that Negroes rould feel that they were welcome, ind not that they were unwelcome or rejected, in the labor movement. No definite a: was given. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem. ber for your branch. Lane j at. : 4% Pa ’ “Pe Page Three COAL OPERATORS ASK INJUNCTION AGAINST MINERS Courts Asked to tssuc New Anti-Picket Order (Spécial to The Dally Worker) “WHEELING, W. Va., May 12.—The operators today filed a bill of comrlaint asking for a new injunction against members of the United Mine Workers of America, to supplant the present injunction under which the miners are arraigned in federal court far contempt. The new injunction is more drastie coa! and is modeled after the injunction granted some years ago to the Hiteh- man Coal company against Join Mitchell, then miners’ union head, and other mine union officials. The West Virginia courts are at the beck and call of the mine operators. No judge can be elected in the coal field districts unless he has the back- ing of the coal operators, who control the politicians. The new injunction, which was ask- el for by the West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal company would forbid all activ- ities by the union or its members, and would supplement the injunction how in effect which the ce«rt last week ruled must be amended to per- mit of “peaceful persuasion.” Those named by the operators in the new bill of complaint today are International President John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, national vice-president, and Van A. Bittner, national organiz- er; President Lee Hall of Sub-District No. 6, of Ohio, his vice-president, Will- iam Roy and Secretary-Treasurer G. W. Savage: President Frank Ledvin- ka of Sub-District No. 5; Secretary- Treasurer W. T. Angelo, organizer. The United Mine Workers called a strike in the organized W. Va. field, but no real effort has been made to get the non-union miners into the union. Roberts and Joseph Painters’ Union Join Demand for Probe of Attacks on Insane (Special to The-Daily Worker) MARION, Ill. May 12.—investiga- tion into alleged cruelty to inmates of the Anna state insane asylum was de- manded, by the sheriff of Williamson county \oday following the death there of Walter Fozard, Marion deco- rator, whose body on examination bore indications of having been. beat- en and trampled to death. Fozard was committed to the asy- lum last week. He died Sunday and with the return of the body here it was found one rib had been broken, his scalp gashed, both eyes blackened and his body made a mass of bruises. Albert Troutman, brothér-inlaw of Fozard, told the sheriff that when he visited the asylum Sunday morning, every effort was made to keep him from seeing Fozard, but finally gain- ing admittance to the man’s room, he asserted Fozard cried: “Don’t beat me any more, boys, don’t beat me. All I want is a square deal.” That afternoon Fozard died. A committee representing the Paint- ers’ Union has joined the sheriff in demanding a state investigation. ——_ ——— Look Here, Comrades! You know that if there were a hundred new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER in the streets around the hall where your branch meets— That some of these subscribers would be only too elad to come to your branch meetings when they learned from the DAILY WORKER just what a Communist Party stands for. You know this. And you know also that if these work- ers came to your branch meetings—many would become branch members. J) Se streets around your WORKER! In order to make a branch don't you think it would be a good idea to get a branch who you haven't got a hundred workers in the read the DAILY membership campaign— hundred new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER in the streets around the hall where your branch meets? Bring this up at your next branch meeting! > em me me -

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: : f ite rrison oe Save Meat and Eggs Taboo ‘By PASQUALE RUSSO. ‘It was the policy of the hotel own- ers in the days when King John Bar- ycorn was on the throne to furnish their employes with a fairly good _ brand of whisky, wines and beer. They ’ aimed to keep the cooks and other employes under the influence of liquor in order that they might the more easily be exploited. The policy worked well. The slaves were willing to work seven days a week, twelve and sixteen hours a day, so long as there was something obtain- able to drink. Since the passing of the Barleycorn regime the policy has changed and the hotel owners now do not furnish the employes with liquors. In some few cases nearbeer is fur- nished, With the coming of the eighteenth constitutional amendment the hotel owners were compelled to discontinue the dole of liquors for the employes. In one sense this was a very beneficial thing. The slaves have now clear minds and it is possible to appeal to the reason of those employed in the culinary industry. Big Profits to Hote! Owners. The workers in the past have pro- duced an immense amount of wealth, most of which has passed into the hands of the barons of the food trust. It was the daily cry of the food barons that they were losing money and for that reason were compelled to pay poor wages. We now know this to be a flagrant misrepresentation. The Palmer House management is now building a new hotel that will cost forty million dol- lars when completed. The La Salle is planning a larger hotel that will cost fifty millions, and the Morrison is buflding an annex that will come to five millions in money. While these various hotel owners are spending millions of dollars build- ing new hotes their slaves are suf- fering a hellish life. The conditions surrounding them are unbearable; they work in unsanitary kitchens where the air is impure. Such con- ditions are not confined to the Hotel La Salle, but prevail in all the other leading hotels, including the Morri- son. Jt is quite generally supposed that the Morrison is a union house. This is far from the truth. In fact the place is a sweatshop. The motto of: the management is “Speed, speed and more speed.” Which is enforced in order to accumulate more millions for Harry C. Moir. In our investigations we find: The Kitchen. The main kitchen is located in the basement, and here the cooks work in a perfect living hell. The ventila- tion is poor and the heat intense, somewhat similar to that of the steel plant. There are some small, inade- quate electric fans, but are so few in number as to be of no value. Nor are ~My c. . ' , 5 ar eati iad Po lid yt, Ye or by - an - - $2 : » * tae a ie = My - =) — “ow ites i ¥, he te -*, aa P ’ . RS eee —-. ie oo cy Paes y nes ice ek r eye a ' : es. a be oe hs is? 5 . a bP > ae . , . 7" > Resolution. “WHEREAS, Two soldiets of the U. S. army, Private Crouch and Private Trumbull have been given savage sen- tences of forty and twenty-six years respectively by military court martial at Schoffield barracks in Honolulu, territory of Hawaii, sentences that are soldom imposed for the most violent of crimes, and “WHEREAS, These soldiers were convicted on the evidence of a spy sent by army officials to worm his way into their confidence and perfect & case against them, and “WHEREAS, The only ‘crimes’ of which the soldiers have been accused, is that of holding opinions, of possess- ing literature, of being members of the Hawaiian Communist League or- ganized by themselves with no at- tempt of secrecy, and with expressing sympathy with the Russian workers, and “WHEREAS, These actions are rights of all American citizens denied by no:law either civil or military, and WHEREAS, The whole proceeding is a plain case ‘pf suppression of free- (liom of speech, assemblage and opin- ion. on the part of military officers who usurp,.the privilege of military caste and court martial to obstruct growth of intelligence and gag free- lom of opinion in the rank and file of the army, therefore be it “RESOLVED, That we, the Machin- ists of District No. 6 voice our sever- est protest against the high-handed savage unjustifiable court martial that condemned Privates Crouch Trumbull to inhuman sentences that amount to a living death in a military prison—demand the immediate release of the aforesaid soldiers, and the pun- ishment of the officers responsible for their imprisonment, and be it further “RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the repre- sentative of this congressional district and the senators of this state and the labor press.” No Raise for Lower Paid Workers. NEW YORK, May 12.— The more poorly paid city employes are dis- criminated against in the action of the board of estimate and appoint- ment raising salaries of 2,390 city workers. Street cleaners are among the men who are out of luck. In- creases of those benefiting range from $10 a year to more than 10 per cent. Possible substantial advances may result from a second ruling of the board, allowing department heads at their discretion to raise the income of 3,000 more workers. In the latter group are some of the lower paid workers, but the total number who may gain is a small percentage of the more than 80,000 employes of New York. City. Kill Four as “Safety Week” Opens. PHORIA, IiL, May 12.— Four per- sohs were dead here today as the re- sult of accidents 4s the city opened there shower baths provided for re- for the workers. “safety week. 7 and | YOUNG Salenbs LEAGUE ACTIVITIES. LOCAL CHICAGO, R Wednesday, May 13. City Central Gommittee mzeting, 8 p. m., 2613 Hirseh Blvd. All dele- gates must be present. Thirsda: May 14, Activity meeting Working Area Branch No. 4, at 3) 8 W. Roosevelt Road. Activity meeti Working Area Branch No. 2, at. 10 W. Roosevelt Road. | ey 15. Activity mee yt Working Area Branch No. 1, Roow? $06, 166 W. Wash- ington St. ro Activity meeting @f Working Area Branch No. 5, 19 & Lincoln St. Activity meeting of Working Area Branch No. 6, 264% Hirsch Blvd. Lobby of Ili Labor Fakers Beaten by Small’s Assembly SPRINGFIELD, Tll.,, May 12.—With only six weeks left before the ad- journment of the. Wlinois legislature, the lobby of the labor union officials finds itself without a single victory on any measure aimed to help the work- ers. The Barr bill. to create a state po- lice force - of 750. men, was passed without the opposition of the labor lobbyists. The Barr bill, backed by Governor Small, had the active sup- port of the manufacturers’ association. The bill to limit the working day of Illinois women toyeight hours has been | practically killed, and has no chance of passage. The bill prohibiting the courts from issuimg injunctions in la- bor disputes wasdefeated. Small had promised to paag this bill, in return for the labor unmlom. officials’ support of him in. the election, but most of the republican semators controlled by Small voted against the bill. The Barr tra pn bill, written by Samuel Insull- “his associates at the head of the middle western trac- tion magnates’ association, will prob- ably be passed,-ag.$mall, who controls the legislature, jg,actively supporting the bill, a) ee . an a ’ Concert and Dance in Brooklyn-Lyceum NEW YORK, May 12.— The Boro Park English branch of the Workers Party is giving 4 concert and.dance on Saturday evefilng, May 23, at the Finnish Labor Lyteum, 764—40th St., Brooklyn. An interesting musical pro- gram and classical dancing will fea- ture the concert: The Finnish band will provide the thusic for the dancing All South Brooklyn comrades are urg- ed to come to thé s entertainment. ,didate for mayor in today’s municipaly ONS “fg 0 SACO, VANZETTI Demands Releases of thew Class War Prisoners — MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 11.— Agitation for the release of all class war prisoners was redoubled here to- day among the workers of Minne- apolis, as a result of the very success- ful mass protest meeting held under the direction last night of the Labor Defense Council, at the Court Hotise Auditorium, demanding the liberation of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, now under sentence of death in Massachuseetts. Workers present pledged them- selves to carry the 05 back to their organizations, to circulate defense literature and to gather contributions to carry on the struggle for the fe- lease of the prisoners. Among the speakers were J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORK- ER; Dan W. Stevens, Communist.can- elections; John Gabriel Soltis, Emil E. Holmes, of the World War Veterans, and recent candidate of the Minnesota farmer-labor party for lieutenant gov- ernor, with State Senator S. A. Stock- well acting as chairman. Resolutions were adopted as follows: “WHEREAS, Sacco and Vanzetti have been convicted of murder in the first degree by a biased jury under the instructions of a prejudiced judge on insufficient and conflicting evi- dence in the state of Massachusetts, and have already been imprisoned more than five years, and, “WHEREAS, All unprejudiced ob- servers and investigators of the trial and the enlightened public opinion and press of the United States are agreed that this case constitutes a gross miscarriage of justice and a travesty upon American judicial pro- cesses, and, “WREREAS, All efforts of the de- fense to secure a new trial and the opportunity to present uncontrovert- ible new evidence of their innocence have been denied by their first trial judge; Thayer, op ““THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, citizens in mass meeting as- sembled in the city hall of Minnea- polis, May 10, 1925, join in the world wide protest against this terrible in- justice and demand a speedy new trial for these- victims of race prejudice and class hatred, and, | “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the governor, the supreme court and congressmen of Massachu- setts and to the press.” One of the local capitalist) sheets, the Minneapolis Journal, opened a campaign to prevent the meeting from being held in the Court House Audi- torium. But nothing came of it. Bronx Students, Attenti nt NEW YORK, May 11.—The class in the principles and _ tactics of the Third International, which was inter- rupted for several weeks, will be re- sumed Tuesday, May 12, at 1347 Boston road. If you are interested in keeping up this class, please attend these lectures. (Continued from page 1) some three or four hundred Russian white guards having adopted Chinese citizenship; that there has been no en- listment of white guards into the Chinese army at Shanghai; that meas- ures are being undertaken for liqui- dating military action, and that the white guards will be disbanded as soon as the general situation has been settled; and that—lastly—since the above-mentioned white guardist de- tachment bears no party or’ political character its existence does not con- stitute any violation of the Russo- Chinese agreement. Pekin Official Lied. I feel bound, to my regret, to bring to your notice an actually inexact statement to be found in the note, as well as the incorrect conclusions ar- rived at in it that the presence of a white detachment in the Chinese army is mot in contradiction with the Russo-Chinese agreement. 1. On the strength of absolutely exact information, I must once more confirm that the white guardist de- tachment in question numbers over one thousand, and that, having orig- inally been recruited in Manchuria, it was filled up with white guards at Shanghai. Not Chinese Citizens. 2. Your reference that the white guards in the Chinese army are Chi- nese citizens seems to be based on a misunderstanding or an inadequate information. Indeed, as is probably known to you the adoption of Chi- mese citizenship is ruled by the law of 1912, supplemented by special an- notations in 1914. The law provides for special con- ditions for passing into Chinese citi- zenship. To be a naturalized Chi- nese citizen, it is necessary to have lived in Chinese territory during a period of five years; to possess property or some kind of knowledge giving the possibility of earning in- dependent livelihood. However, what is of particular im- ites th ‘ — — beagp vets and a point to which I beg to invite your main atteftion, is that, according to article IV of the law of 1912, “foreigners or those who have no citizenship acquire the right of Chinese citizenship with the permission of the ministry of the interior.” Now, the local authorities must re- fer the applications for Chinese citi- zenship to the ministry of interior, while according to article 6 of the same law of 1912, “the granting of citizenship becomes valid @n and from the date of publication in the official gazette.” Names Not in Official Gazette. Granting that, by their nature and character, the white guards in ques- tion satisfy the condiitons provided ization—which, of course, would bea matter for the government of the Republic of China alone to decide— [ may yet be permitted to draw your attention to the fact that, neverthe- less, the said white guards cannot be regarded as Chinese citizens for purely formal reasons, cause they have nog been confirmed as such latter by the ministry of in- terior, nor have their names been published absolute necessary condition of of those thousand odd white guards whom you have among the Chinese citizens. Generals Usurp Power. Thus, the white guards who are in the Chinese army, cannot, on exact and formal basis of the Chin- ese law, be considered as Chinese citizens. Moreover, in the present case, there is a very grave abuse of / for by the Chinese laws on natural namely—be- in the official gazette—an formal procedure to become Chinese citizens. As documentary evidence of the non-existence of such an altogether unnecessary formal moment, there can serve the . official gazette, wherein, in the lists of persons hav- ing passed into Chinese citizenship, there are not to be found the names erroneously counted the power on the part of those Chinese generals under whose control. is the said white detachment. In fact, many, if not most,.of the white guards in question have been sup- plied by these generals with certi- ficates of Chinese citizenship, whereas the procedure prescribed by the law was not followed in regard to them. Broke Russo-Chinese Pact. I trust that the competent author- ities will take the necessary steps to investigate and, further, to start le- gal prosecution against those gen- erals who while they illegally sup- plied Russian white guards with cer- tificates of Chinese citizenship, pur- sued the injudicious course of non- fulfilment of obligations taken upon itself by the Chinese government by virtue of the agreement concluded between the Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lics on May 31, 1924. 3.. However, even if the white guards who are now to be found in the Chinese army did adopt the Chin- ese citizenship in full accordance with the laws of the Republic of China, the Chinese government could not thereby be freed from its obligation to discontinue the serv- ices of the whites in the Chinese army. By virtue of the exchange of notes of May 31, 1924, the government of the Republic of China, undertook to discontinue the services of the sub- jects of the former Russian - empire in the Chinese army. Citizens of Russia. It was precisely with a view to avoiding any possibility of abuse of power and patronizing on the part of reactionary Chinese generals in revolutionary elements having fied from the territories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to China, that the government of the Union has insisted on the broad formula of “all the subjects of the former Russian empire”—s0 as net fo give am oppor | Soviet Russia Protests White Guards in Chinese Army tunity to Russian white guards to masquerade under any foreign right of citizenship, including .the Chinese. Whatever the citizenship adopted by a subject of the former Russian em- pire, he will never cease to be a sub- ject ef the former Russian empire. In other words, one physical person or another having been a subject of the former Russian empire is a fact hav- ing existed in the past, and whatever the status of such a person at the present time, a™“fact which existed eight years ago q@annot be altered by the new judicial tus of that person. Consequently, adopting the right of citizenship of the Republic of China, a white guard cannot thereby abolish the fact that he had formerly been a subject of the Russian empire. And it was precisely that criterion of one’s having been in the past a sub- ject of the Russian empire that both parties were guf@ed by when they agreed about the discontinuance of the services of the above-mentioned category of persons in the Chinese army. a Cannot Twist Agreement. It is but natural that by altering “post-factum,” that is after the signa- ture of the agregment, the status of the Russian white guards, the gov- ernment of the Republic of China can- not free itself from the obligations it took upon itself. In any case, the Chinese government cannot be ex- empted from a loyal execution of the agreement of May 31, 1924, by the fact that generals under whose command is the mentioned detachment of Rus- sian whites, are trying to avoid the execution of this agreement by turn- ing either the law (in fraudem legis) or the agreement itself. 4. As regards the statement made guardist detachment is a sine qua non condition of the liquidation of war in Soochow and Shanghai, just as it is difficult for me to argue that the white guardist detachment is neces- sary for, settling the general situation. White Guards Must Go. However, even if the Chinese army did badly want a white detachment tq restore order (which is open.to strong doubt), I would still object in the most categorical manner against such a justification of. the presence in the Chinese army of a detachment of white guards. In view of the foregoing, I have to protest in the most energetic manner: —first, against the attempt of Chinese military chiefs to “pretend that a white guardist detachment consists of Chinese citizens, which is in contra- diction with the facts and the law; secondly, against an attempt to escape the execution of an obligation without the slightest good reason; and, thirdly, I must insist most resolutely on the immediate liquidation of the ‘white guardist detachment in ques: tion, and I would much appreciate if I were favored with a reply as to the lapse of time during which the said detachment will be liquidated. Future Agreements Doubtful. At the same time, I may be permit- ted to-invite the most serious atten- tion to such an attitude in regard to avery essential part of the agreement signed on May 31, 1924, and stress that, with this attitude of the Chin- ese authorities towards obligations undertaken by them, quite doubtful the expediency conference. ‘to Bulgaria of the allied powers, in- -mittee of the Workers Party, will there become and successful outcome of new , negotia- tions and fresh agreements that it is proposed to conclude at the pending I shall greatly appreciate if you will be good enuf to let me know the duration of the term of liquidation of the above-mentioned white guardist, and I would be glad to have a reply before the opening of the mentioned conference. by you to the effect that as soon as the general situation will have been settled, the military detachment # question will be disbanded, I feel con- strained to statedthat it is a matter of deep surprise to me. Indeed I cannot possibly admit that the pres- MOSCOW, May {3-9 ne" brigands Oziashvili, Maisuradze and Himishvili, active members of a bandit organiza- tion which sprang to life after last year’s abortive plot in the Caucasus, who had long been hiding were killed near the village of Natartary, in Georgia, while they offered armed re- sistance to an attempt at their ar- rest by Georgian authorities. Those bandits were the authors of numerous robberies and arson in the Duszetsk district (Georgia). In par- ticular, it was under their leadership that an attack was organized at the end of last year on the cast of a mov- ing picture troupe of the Georgian State Cinematograph, who were stag- ing a picture in the Caucasusian mountains. BULGAR WHITE TERROR DRAWS LOCAL PROTEST Meeting Sui of All Balkan-Americans Thousands of workers and peas- ants have been summarily slaughtered and jailed in the white terror that has engulfed Bulgaria. The ministers cluding the United States, forced the quarreling Balkan capitalist govern- ments to unite against the workers, and especially to massacre the Com- munists. In America the workers are called by the Balkan speaking workers re- siding in America, to protest the con- tinuance of this wave of barbarous re- action sweeping their native lands. The Balkan federation branches of the Workers (Communist) Party have arranged a mass demonstration meet- ing in Chicago, to take place on Sun- day, May 17, at 2:30 p. m. at Hod Car- riers’ Hall, 914 West Harrison street, near Halsted. Speakers representative of the Bal- kan and American workers will - ad- dress the meeting. Parl R. Browder, editor of the Workers Monthly and member of the Central Executive Com- speak in English. K. Mikalachki will speak in South Slavic, C. Koteff in Bulgarian, and K. Kostis, in Greek. All workers are welcome and admis- . rr « ae, . 4 4s ‘, at aoe at ee ee ee ks - af’ “ - ™ 1. 7” ~~ ma “ - : . —- itwers : : Em : + a we a P& ; * el " ~f ': on - a a r , — s . g ° " é - 7 - , ee RS, " ” HE war had a most ennobling effect on the human race, it seems. Shedding blood became such a popular outdoor sport that it is almost impos- sible to get a jury to hang a mur- derer nowadays unless the killer is broke. This is a crime that brooks no mercy. But a normal murderer stands a good chance of getting away scott free, even with a lawyer who does not snap his suspenders or lave his necktie with tears. Perhaps the disposition on the part of juries to send a man to the gallows for snuff- ing out one life when the Fochs, Haigs, Hindenburgs and Pershings get handsomely rewarded and honored for killing millions. . > . OW the secret document got away from the British foreign office is a secret that may remain under some- body’s hat for a time. The document was not “made in Berlin,” however, ish take good care of their state documents. They are sent to each member of the cabinet in a strong red box, while the foreign office holds an- other. When the minister reads the which he relocks and returns. i . * anything but war had nothing to do with this in- | like the Zinoviev forgeries. The Brit- box. Each minister has a key to the document he returns it to the box UR readers are ready to expect common decency from She socialist party of ‘Aniouttne yet I doubt if the revolutionary work- ers are prepared to hear that the of- ficial organ of the soctalist party of Schenectady is now also the official organ of the General] Electric plant in that city. Schenectady once shared the honor of being a “socialist city” with Milwaukee. It elected the no- torious faker George R. Lunn mayor. Lunn is now a fixture in Tammany Hall. ° > UNN kicked over the _ socialist traces and the party dwindled down to a few dozen. It still kept a little sheet, called the Citizen, going. But evidently the going was not very good, 'so its promoters, being willing to do anything but lie, looked around for a pulmotor. The electric trust stood out like a beacon light to the famished fakers who controlled the Citizen. . - . HE present editor of the Citizen is also state secretary of the so- cialist party in New York. He is actively engaged organizing one of those “yellow” conventions at which Eugene V. Debs, playing the role of a revivalist, is expected to preside. His name is Herbert Merril. He carries a red card. Yet, in a recent issue of the Citizen, Merrill sent out to all subscribers a form letter by the Gen- eral Electric company boosting that trust. In the wrapper with the paper and the form letter was other adver- tising Matter. And the paper itself carried an article with the information that the great trust is fot really owned by the “malefactors of great wealth,” but by its employes. That shameless sheet is liable to wind up as the house organ of the department of justice. Young Spartacus Heard From. Dear Juniors:—We, our example. and miss it now, and when we asked for it again, we find that there is noth- ing to put in it unless we ourselves get it to the “Daily.” So it’s up to us. Are we ready? We'll say so! I would like to tell you why we changed our name. West Side really ence in the Chinese army of @ white (Signed) L. KARAKHAN. Fn doesn’t mean anything mS. we want the members of the Young Spartacus Junior group (formerly West Side) have decided to help revive the Communist Children’s column of the DAILY WORKER. We passed a motion in our branch that we would do this and we hope thattys he joins our group must tell us every other Junior group will follow We liked the column a er SORY REY 2 name so that everyone can tel what we are so we began the search for a name. After a lot of thinking and debat- ing we named our group after Sparta- cus, the great leader of the slaves in the real old days. Every member something about Spartacus. sort of an initiation. We hope to see the column back and once back, we are going to do our This is best to keep it here. Yours for Juniors, Young Spartacus Junior group meets every Sunday, 3:15, 8118 W. Roosevelt Road. Minnie Epstein, Publicity Mgr, cl di at in or bi in A g a m M hd — ~~ <., -— -—- = wh ai“ =o her ae ee eI

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oo ie erica, work- he of- tty of ficial ant in hared city” e no- nayor. many cialist down little But g00d, to do for a stood Lished en. ‘itizen he s0- je is he of which eofa . His arries issue to all > Gen- r that paper adver- itself nation really great That uD as ent of ryone in the debat- parta- slaves ember ell us his is back jlo our s for group ls W, y Mgr, Suffering Thousands in Need of World Sapport MOSCOW, May 12—An appeal of the International Red Ald reads as follows: “The Bulgarian workers and peas- ants are undergoing frightful suffer- Ings» In the land of the Zankov terror and of endless political murder, blood-reeking terror is raging again with renewed force. The workers are undergoing the most frightful tor tures and horrors at the hands of the Zankov gang. Prisons Filled, “The prisons are filled with work- ers, peasants and intellectuals, in- cluding many women and children. Hundreds and thousands of innocent people who have had nothing to do with the Sofia outrage are exposed to the most frightful torture. Bar- tholomew nights are instituted against helpless and unarmed people. “The lives of the best sons of .the Bulgarian people are in danger. Thousands of families are deprived of their supporters, thousands of chil- dren have become orphans and are abandoned to their fate. Thousands of Women and Children Bereft. “The number of thousands of wid- ows and orphans left after the Sep- tember and June blood baths has now enormously increased. “It is the first duty of the workers, peasants and of all people with a epark of humanity in them, to raise their yoice of protest, and to compel the assassins and hangmen in Bul- garia to cease the bloodshed, to save the lives of those arrested and to ef- fect their release. The lives of thousands of innocent people are in- volved here. “The International Red Aid calls upon all to protest against the mur- ders and the white terror in Bulgaria, and for the protection of the masses. “Down with the assassins of Sofia. “Down with Bulgarian fascism. “Hands off the Bulgarian peasants and workers. “Long live international solidarity.” Claims Deepest Mine for America. WASHINGTON, May 12—America’s claim to superlatives was extended to- day in a government publication to still another field. The deepest mine in the world is not in Brazil, as-errone- ously stated in many text books, the bureau of labor statistics asserted, but in the copper seam of Michigan. The American man-made hole in the ground is 8,700 feet deep, or at least a third of a mile deeper than the pre- mier Brazilla shaft, in the state of Minas Geraes. Dr. A.: Moskalik DENTIST 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA, } pote ht tee. i ~ Letters From o Bn Our Re y ders Conditions of the Farmers. They are exploited just as much as the industrial workers, by the same interests, but perhaps in a corte way, the térmerp have the mortaak system to contend with. Not ani mortgages On the farm, but on horses, machine , and every other thing on e tarm of any value. Mort- gages are even taken on crops before the seed is put into the ground. This is dotie by the small country bankers, the willing tools of Wall Street. The interest rates are 8 to 10 per cent, yes, it used to be 12 per cent and a 19 per cent bonus, that means if you made a bargain for a $100.00 loan, you received $90.00, and gave the banker a note on which you prom-| ised to pay him back $100.00 with 12 per cent interest added. This is business, legitimate business. Is it any wonder the farmers are bank- rupt? Then we have grain gambling at the terminal markets. The local grain buyer who buys our grain at the warehouse cheats us on the weight and grade. If the grain is mortgaged the check is made out to the banker and farmer together, and the bank- er as a rule, takes it all. At any rate you are lucky if you get enough out of it to pay your expenses in town. These are some of the problems the farmers are up against. The struggle between the produc- ing and non-producing class is the; same, whether you are a working farmer or ah industrial worker. Therefore,,we must unite-our forces, for a united front of action against the capitalist system, and establish a farmers’ and workers’ system all over the world.—Andrew Omholt, Williston, N. D. May Day in San Quentin. To the DAILY WORKHDR:—On May Day the sun shone down on San Quentin Prison, the home that the lumber barons have prepared for those who try to organize their fellow slaves. Grey prison walls stood like giant guards over the destinies of three thousand énslaved victims of a capitalist system. Amid this mass of human wreckage eighty men are serv- ing time for no other crime than being members of the I. W. W. Grey uniforms of the inmates, heavy with filth fit into the picture of hard stone yards and dirty walls. It is a picture of injustice and shows up our rotten system. Force of the exploiters is symbolized in the many guns in the hands of the guards. Silent death lurks over the whole atmosphere. Amid this scene a smile is seldom seen. Civilization is not represented in California—tregardless of the color- OUR DAILY PATTERNS | A SIMPLE STYLISH FROCK FOR THE GROWING GIRL FF 5059. Wool bengaline or frepp, jersey cloth, gingham or flannel may be used for this model. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 14 year size requires 2% yards of 36 inch mater- ial with % yard of contrasting ma- terial for collar facings. * 2 a NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—Th tterns belng sold thru the DAIL Wo pattern department are fur- aished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are torwarded by the DAILY WORKER rere day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of patterns on hand. | A STYLISH DRESS FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 5120. Printed and plain voile are combined in this pretty model. One could use gingham in any of the new checks or tub silk, piped with a con- trasting solid Colro. The pattern.is cut in 4 sizes: 4, 6, not become impatient if your pattern & delayed | 8 nad 10 years. An 8 year size re- quires 2% yards of 82 inch material, if made of one material. To make as illustrated requires 1% yards of fig- ured material and 1% ards of plain material. With long sleeves 1% yards of figured material is required. Pattern mailed to any address op receipt of 12¢ in silver or stamps. eee FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send i2c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and ae peer A. Book of Fashions,. showing color | pia end ~ ee ° wales’ misses’, and patterns, 7 eon. cse and comprehensive oreo on dress onalcicim also Ss points for the needie pe a simple titches), all >: essmaker™ ~ dress: The DAILY at 1913 W. Washington Bivd., Chicage, iu ed advertisements that greet one from the pages of the capitalist press. ‘May Day in San Quentin prison was @ colorful affair. Not only did the eighty wobblies sport red flowers—but about four hundred and twenty other inmates did likewise. It was truly a sight for sore eyes to see that about five hundred out of the three thous- and realize their true position in so- elety. One conld tell that the officials sensed that the flowers had a deeper significance than that of being a de- coration.—A Wobbly in San Quentin. Parmers’ Colony in U. &. 8. R. (The following is a reply to an edi- torial published in the Oakland Trib- une attacking the American farmers’ colony to be started in Soviet Russia. |—Ed. note.) Berkeley, Cal., May 5, 1925. Editor Oakland Tribune. Dear Sir: Your issue of May 2 contains an editorial, and within three inches of it the small but significant clipping from the Buffalo Bvening News, which is quoted herewith, to- gether with some comments from one of the 60 million “morons”: Editorial, Oakland Tribune, May 2nd. Soviet Invites Farmers. The Soviet government in Moscow north Caucasus and Volga regions are to be thrown open to American farm- ers who have about $1,500 in money, or equipment, and can demonstrate competence in tilling the soil. In all 23,500 Americans can be accommo- dated in this project, it is said, the inducements extended being renew- able leases, cheap railway fares and cheap lumber and credits. The Mos- cow authorities are either singularly ignorant of the reputation they have won for themselves in this country or elsé they grade the intelligence of the American farmer extremely low. Where, in all America, can they find even ten farmers, not fo say 23,500, willing to abandon the stars and stripes for the red flag? Article from Buffalo Evening News. _ Morons and Others. According to “expert” authority quoted by the Illinois Medical Jour- nal, half of the people of the United States are morons, and 30,000,000 more are equipped with intelligence only approximating that of a 12-year-old ‘child... . This leaves only about 30,000,000 of us to indulge in intelligent discussions to just what class we shall assign the “experts,” Local Papers Ignore Workers. To the DAILY WORKER:—Little is known of what is going on in this town from the local papers. JHspe- ‘clally news of what is going on in the mills» Some poor fellow in the mill is rushed to the nearest hospital with a.mashed leg from a falling ob- ject, or he may have been caught in the wire blocks or been burned by hot metal. When the evening papers come out there are screaming headlines about some big stiff being banquetted for having been in the service of the steel trust for many years, was faith- ful and. rose to a high position—and that sort. of bunk. But not one line about~-the poor worker who had lost his life or limbs while on his job. Several years ago when the union miners from surrounding towns invad- ed Monessen to unionize the steel workers; thousands of miners came, more than the town has ever seen at one time. The local daily came out that evening with about one inch space in one corner of the paper say- ing “that several hundred miners came here to parade.” This paper became a laughing stock among the workers, because these workers saw with their own eyes thousands of miners parading. This shows those who are interest- ed who the local paper works for.— A. Worker, Monessen, Pa. WORK AMONG WOMEN many attractive photographs. Report of women’s activities ‘ 0 7 ee geyt » at ev 7% Wave corks os THE DAT announces that 405,000 acres in the'| WOMEN AND SOCIALISM ccccccscscccoscccsccsenssesoeen ipie By AUGUST BEBEL. A study of women’s otatey In society In the past and the future. OS ep ds ea ak ak Lz! ¥ 4 ad ae. Bay bas gaxt KE R POLISH § IEETING ON WHITE TERROR Socialiste Refuse to Aid Jailed Workers — — The ® called by the na- tional committees of the Conference to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland, May 10, at Schoenhofen Hall, with the object of forming a Chicago section of the committee, was a great success, and showed that. when Polish’ work- ers in this country.are brought face to face with the facts of the life and death struggle thgt their comrades in Bae Poland are on against the white terror, very ‘real interest and feelings of solidarity are aroused. 19 Dele _ Present. Nineteen delegates representing the following organizations w present: | Polish mricestyo Local No 830; Polish Carpent 1 No, 841; two branches of the Posh Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Soelety; White Russian People’s Association; the “Sila” Hdu- cational Society, ‘amd three branches ‘of the Polish séotiof of the Workers Party. 0 Ba! Comrade Marek, fs’ temporary sec- retary of the organizing committee, opened the m Comrade Jed- naki was el rman. Comrade B. K. Gebert gaves on ‘the gen- eral aims and aes the Confer- ence to Aid P Prisoners in Poland, and Ouliens George Maurer greeted the delegates in the name of the Labor Defense Council. Discover the Socialists Support White Terror. A committee of three, composed of Janicki of the Machinists’ Union, Marek and Puhacz, was elected to visit the district- convention of the Polish Socialist Alliance, which was holding its meeting"at the same time, in order to ask for co-operation in the work of the Confé¥ence to Aid Poli- tical Prisoners if Pétand. The members ofth# ‘committee were given the floor b¥'the socialists, but the motion not té“participate in the conference got niné Votes as against three for the motiin to participate. One of the wnidn® members of the committee remarked fhat while he had always believed t&@f the socialists represented progrés#he now saw that they represented cétiservatism. A resolution preséitted by Comrade Gebert was passed By} the conference, condemning the present Polish gov- ernment for the facf"that it was hold- ing 8,000 workers “dfid péasants as political prisoners, greeting the prison- ers, and pledging “theni niofat’ and material support. It was moved “that the resolution be sept to the chairman of the sejm, thé r tionary Work- ers’ and peasants” a. in the sejm, and the executive commit- tee of the Trade Upion Alliance of Poland. It was also resol¥ to organize a Chicago section of @ Conference to Aid Political Prisogers in Poland, to co-operate with the. erican section of the Red Aid. The to ollowing organ- ization committee was. elected: Brzowski, of the Machinists’ Union; Puhacz, of the Po Workingmen’s Sick Benefit Association; Podkulsky, of the I. L. G. W._U.; Morowska, of the “Sila” Educational Society, and Marek) of the Polis& branch of the Workers Party. Tiefnext meeting of the conference will be on June 14. The tour of Comrade Radwanski, who has been successful in preparing the ground for the ‘organization of lo- cal sections of the conference to Aid Political Prisoners in Poland is com- ing to an end, The final dates of the tour are as follows: Neffs, Ohio, May 13; Fairpoint, Ohio,'May 14; York- ville, Ohio, May 15;° Warren, Ohio, May 17 (afternoon); Cleveland, Ohio, May 17 (evening); Efie, Pa; May 18, and Rochester, N. Y?'May 19. ie Communist Books | For Women *: COMMUNISM AND THE FAMILY..................... arenes By ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI, one of the most brilbiant writers of the women in the Communist International. MARRIAGE LAWS OF SOVIET RUSSIA........... se Cents 15 Cents 1a0..35 Cents in Soviet Russia—with Siw $1.25 1113 W. 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Y—Katterfeid (2); Anton Foders, Nathan Leibo- witz; C. A. Engstrom. NEW ORLEANS, LA.—J. G. DAS (2). BALTIMORE, MD—Philip Caplan. SUPERIOR, WiS.—Tyomies. CLEVELAND, OHIO—Max Kattles. SOUTH BEND, IND.—N. P. Yoka. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—D. Lipman. | SOINTULA, B. C—W. M, Tynjala. A GENUINE BUILDER FROM MILWAUKEE | SENDS ANOTHER CHALLENGE HOW ABOUT IT, COMRADE LETCHINGER? A real honest-to-goodness Builder with a union card, who hae “heaved” many bricks both of the well known species of “Irish confetti” and the other kind that are subs to build the DAILY WORKER, has for the. second time secured subs that give him the privilege to challenge any Bulider anywhere. Read this letter and see how he does it: Dear Comrades: ‘loam sending thru Comrade Shklar today two subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER and | challenge Anna Letchinger of ‘Chicago to do the same for our paper. d_ like very much the job of being the builder of our paper. | ama builder by trade and a member of a building trades For many years | have helped to put up buildings and aiso carried much mortar and carried many bricks for construc- tion work. So naturally it is nothing new for me to carry the bricks and surely | never enjoyed it as much as when these “bricks” are used for building up our Communist Daily. Altho Comrade Letchinger is not a builder by trade and she cannot join the Building Laborers’ Union, yet | hope she will get budy in getting subs for the paper and in this way qualify to join the Union of DAILY WORKER Builders. | Fraternally yours, unton, HOW ABOUT IT, COMRADE LETCHINGER? it has been rumored that Comrade Anna Letchinger has a ruined hand she is carrying carrying in a sling. get sube with one finger and if we know Comrade Letohinger, she will surely answer this challenge by getting subs with all five fingers in use. GREGORY PRODANICH. . But we have seen comrades -f{Aoo ayear F450 NAME —__—_ PATES ——— Gaoo @ year canna cay pods S200 montis, NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER LD GANG GOES, NEW GANG COMES: BOTH HATE REDS R. R. Clidkes Falcers fx Fight Over Bank By J. E. SNYDER ee (Special to The Dally Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 128—*"All the old gang will go out of office be- fore this convention ends” is the pre- diction of a delegate attending the railway. clerks.convention at Kansas City, Mo. .. Fitagerald, the grand president, has called in the cards of the executive board and the executive board has en- joined and fired Fitzgerald. Result of “Labor Bank” . It’s all @ fight over the “bank.” This organization made bankers out of its officials and now -it is paying the price, for ‘the leaders are capitalists instead of:imbor leaders. Fitegeraid even went so far in a speech as to cite Stone of West Virginia mite fame as @ fine example of success, in the banking business. They are now associating with the capitalist bank- There is one thing- that all these officials ara agreed upon and that is that they-must keep the “Reds” from getting control. They brought in the faker Farrington from the [Illinois Miners’ Union to make a bandstand play against the “Reds.” His speech fell flat, and when he said “Why they even call the hétiorable men you have elected to the office in the labor move- ment of the conntry, labor fakers,” suppressed laughter went thru the atidience and many Were heard to re- mark, “They’re telling the truth.” Green also camé along with his at- tack on the “Reds,” and this man who is too fat to fight, joins the cap- italists in teaching collaboration and has been chosen to lead the three million tradé unionists of the A. F. of L.. into the shambles, the union of lambs and lions. “How Come?” Says Green Green also made a discovery while here. He discovered that there ate machinists, teamsters and other crafts in the Railroad Clerks’ Union and told the delegates that he was going to seperate these folks from the organ- ization, There are fifteen hundred delegates attending the convention. The Way the officials squander money it is estimated that the convention will cost around $220,000. all that has gone on for the week jist past in a fight between the officials to see who will kéep control—not 80 much of the union—as of the banks. At least another week will be used up in the attempt of the officials to “fix it,” and keep their soft places.’ A long conference has just been held by the old guard as the rum- blings of the delegates are threaten- ing a storm. Give your shopmate this copy of the DAILY WORKER—bat sure to wee him the next day to get his subscription. STREET CITY. WANTED A companion to accompany me on a hitch-hike to California and re- turn. SYLVAN A. POLLACK, 966 Kelly St., New York City Phone intervale 6141-W |Your Union Meeting | Second Wednesday, May 13, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Biackemiths’ District Council, 8. Throop St. 1 Boller Makers 10 “Carpenters, 12 G 21 Carpenters, ton 119 menree and Racine. rfieid Bivd. Weotern and Lexing- 242 Garmantere. 5448 S. Ashiand Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, Iii. Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division st. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adame St. Ladies’ Garment tpl S28 WwW. Van ren Street Marine Cooks, 357 N. Clark St. Machinists, 113 S.' Ashiand Bivd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63rd St. 54 Painters, Sherman & Main Sts., Evanston, iM. 5 Plasterers, 910 W. Mo Raitway Carmen Dist. a 5445 S. Ashiand Ave. Rallway Carmen, 5444 Wentworth Railway Carmen, 6445 Ashiand Ave. i op Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., W. Adame &t. . Harrison Sst. Sheet Metal, 5324 S. Haisted St. 7: 753 Toametere, 175 W. Washington St. 759 Teamsters (Meat), 220 S&S. Ashiand Bivd. 769 Vepmetors (Bone), 6059 &. Halsted 13046 Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison &t. 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the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES me By mall: ‘ Pt bis ver ~ $3.50...6 months $2.00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only): ot oe Der year $4.50...6 months —_$2.50..8 ‘months - Aldress all mail and wake out checks to THE DAILY WORKER ume W. Washington Biva. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE? eecoee Chieago, INinele Editors iness Manager —— Mntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. _ Advertising rates on app*catien BiidaediieU.S. _ Those who believe that a permanent united front has been established between Britain and the United States should do well to ponder the follow- ing excerpt from an interview given by Manuel Quezon, leader of the Filipino independence move- ment, to an American reporter. Quezon was dis- cussing the dangér to the Philippines in a war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. Quezon said: “There is no reason to believe that war in the Pacific can only be between the east and the west. Such a war might well split Europe again as in the last war or maybe it might be be- tween the white powers of Europe and the new world. Ninety-nine per cent of all Englishmen and Americans Will laugh at this opinion, but it is not impossible that the war will be in the Atlantic as well as in the Pacific and will be between England and America. “History of the last 500 years shows that Engi land has fought every nation that challenges her supremacy and the United States today is.the only nation that challenges England’s supremacy. The theory that war between England and America is impossible on account of the kindred ties of race, language and political ideals, both being demo- cratic countries, is poorly founded. While these ties would be strong factors toward the prevention of such a war, if the time ever comes when the commercial efforts of both countries conflict, then all other reasons will disappear. Commerce today is the one reason and cause of all wars.” All modern wars are gigantic commercial enter- prises. The theory that the close social relations existing between the financial and industrial mag- ‘nates of the United States and their British “cousins” will prevent war is not tenable. The leading monarchies in Europe were more closely related to each other at the opening of the late war than are the leading elements of the British and American capitalist classes, but that did not prevent them from blowing each other into the ash can of history. | Britain and the United States agree on a divi- sion of the spoils in certain spheres of exploitation but their interests are in fundamental conflict. As Quezon points out, England’s historical policy has been to fight her closest competitor for com- mercial supremacy. All signs point to war be- tween those two mighty rivals, with the workers of both nations doing the suffering, unless in the meantime the workers take matters into their own hands and organize society on the basis of service to all instead of misery for the majority and luxury for a few as is the case under capitalism. “Muster” Day Yesterday’s editorial inadvertently stated that last year’s marshalling of this country’s military November 11, the The correct date is resources took place on an- niversary of the armistice day. September 12. However, that is a small matter. The important thing to consider is that the gov- brnment was able to get away with its militaristic last year and intends to continue it in the future. Last year the secretary of war got under the skin of the pacifists by designating September 12 “mobilization day.” The reserve officers’ associa- test tion has decided that “muster day” is more ap- propriate and less offensive. It’s a rose under an- other name. The militarists were satisfied with their first venture. “It was a good beginning, for it com- pletely silenced the pacifists.” This is what the committee in charge of the next “muster” day had to say. The pacifists are knocked out, even speech less. The labor fakers are elbowing each other on,to the tailboards. The Communists only offer an opposition to capitalist militarism and have a plan which will organize the workers to fight effectively against it, ties of capitalism. Calvin Coolidge smokes ten cent cigars and re fuses to smoke the higher priced brands even when he receives them free of charge. They might spoil his taste, he says, like the fellow who paid fifty cents to attend an ice cream social, but refused to wat the ice cream. It might spoil his taste for prunes. Wall Street seems to have developed a taste for ten cent presidents. WORKER. The stocks.of socialism went up a few more points in Wall Street, when Paul Boncour, French socialist, made red-hot speech demanding guar- antees for France and insisting that in default of such guarantees France would be obliged to arm to the evebrows. This is the language of Poincare and Clemenceau. It is further proof that social ist. parties are no longer parties of labor but par- OS me me ee Shéering Time . Sheep living in the temperate zones are usually shorn of their fleeces in the summer time. The sheep raisers have a lot of consideration for the animals, so they rob 'them of their warm blankets when old Sol is out to act as a substitute. Because sheep get shorn with monotonous reg- ularity, the small fry who dabble in stocks are re- ferred to as lambs. But Wall Street has no partic- \ular shearing season. It is handy with the shears all the year round. Wall Street takes an unholy delight in bringing small businessmen and workers, who have man- aged to save a few dollars, into its parlor. It strings them along for a while before it takes out the clippers and sends its guests home in a barrel. This is what happened to the little fellows who were proud to think they were a part of the great transcontinental ‘railroad system known as the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.Paul, which recently went into the hands of a receiver. Tho this rail- road was privately owned and managed, and tho capitalist apologists tell us that without the man- agement genius of the “bourgeoisie this great in- dustrial workshop would become a desert, the C., M. and St. P. went broke. It is still running, of course, run by the engineers, firemen, con- ductors, brakemen, porters and other categories of labor whose names never figured in the bankruptcy proceedings. The St. Paul road has estimated assets of over $200,000,000 and estimated liabilities of over $500,- (000,000. Most of those liabilities are in the form of common stock, owned by the little fellows. The big fellows own the stock that pays no dues or assessments, but gets the cream of everything that is going. It bears the same relationship to the preferred stock that the rank and file of the re- publican party bear to William M. Butler, “Cal’s” political managers. The common stock does the voting and takes its medicine. It will have to swallow the $500,000,000 liability of the C., M. and St. P. or choke, The common stock of the St. Paul road is today as worthless as the German mark of pre-Dawes Hays. Small investors have lost the savings of a lifetime. Their money went to lay shining rails from the Windy City to the Puget Sound. The rails are still there, but the money is gone. To add insult to injury, the common stock- holders are liable to be called on for an assess- ment. This is a legal way of killing the poor things physically. It is cheaper than hiring a gang of sluggers on a commission basis. Those who survive the ordeal will never be their old selves again. Wall Street is putting the road thru a delousing process. When the job is “finished the Chicago, Milw aukee’and St. Paul will get out new time tables, new stock, bring in a fresh crop of suckers and the shearing will continue. Ain’t | capitalism wonderful? Meat for the D. of J. Not since the Wall Street explosion has any mystery more delightfully baffling come into the web of the department of justice than that pres- ented by a person bearing the name of H. F. Dunn, from the eity of Indianapolis. Dunn may be a disciple of Arthur Canon Doyle, noted spook ex- pert, or of any of the professional Communist baiters in the United States from William Green o “Joe” Wise. If you have never heard of the lat- ter, it will not held against you. He is not known outside the Chicago “loop.” Whoever Dunn may be a disciple of, he is a worthy one. He claims to have discovered the most dastardly Bolshevik plot ever perpetrated on the American capitalist class. possible. The victims of this Dunn to act as their Where they have their broadcasting stations he does not know. But he wants the department of justice to run them down and out. Dunn described experiences with the radio Bol- sheviks as “so terrifying in their strangeness, so vivid in reality and so filled with phenomena of ap- parently supernatural character that my days be- came a nightmare beyond comprehension of the imagination.” This foe of Bolshevism with all its works and pomps claims that “ ‘the human brain and nervous system radiate electro-magnetic records which leave the body in ether waves or magnetic lines.” This may solve the riddle. Perhaps the vibrations from the bodies of the editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER as they pound their typewriters are responsible for the phenomena. It must be dolefully admitted that the depart- ment of justice is not what it used to be when William J. Burns was its chief press agent. Instead of being received with an arching of the eyebrows and a suggestive nod in the general direction of the nearest psychopathic hospital, Dunn would see a k§owing grin blossom on Burn’s face before its owner admitted that he had his eye on those Bol- “physic radio” called on rested “within twenty-four hours.” The mystery is not in Dunn’s pipe dream, but in a large appropriation to run down the psychic Communist broadcasting station. Now that the Jewish Daily Forward has donated $15,000 doMars to the socialist party treasury, per- haps Morris Hillquit will engage Billy Sunday for his revival campaign and sack Debs. Old Gene has many fine qualifications for the job, but he uses the word “socialism” too frequently. Cahan is not going to see his money wasted THE DAIL Chnac B Trotsky did not dersiand the ‘ ment of the a tion into a s ; ‘it, made it tin possible for him “understand the process of the develo pment of the Rus- sian revolution into th tion. 15 Trotsky dealt as follows with the question of the cor- relation between the Russian and the international revolution: “Do we ad- mit that the development of the Rus- sian revolution, and consequently the actual movements Of the Russian pro- letariat, depend on the revolutionary movement of the Russian intelligent- zia, the urban pétt}/bourgeoisie and the peasantry? Or do we subprdi- nate the movemi@nt/ of the Russian proletariat to thé®tasks and aims of the movement of #hp entire European proletariat, making ithe Russian revo- lution dependent*ow the proletarian struggle in the entire capitalist world? _To put it briefly?“igtwe allow our en- ‘tire polic¥ to be iMfuenced by the na- tional bourgeois Meyolution or by the international revelition of the prole- tariat?”* This Statement shows as clearly as possibl@ Trotsky’s failure to understand, withia‘ithe framework of Russia, the corrélation between the national and thé-s@cialist revolution and the process of the development of the Russian rey@lution, into the in- ternational revolution. Metaphysical- ly, Trotsky seta,»the national revolu- tion against the secialist revolution. He judges of this. question as fol- lows: either a national or a socialist revolution, ignoring the question of the development of the. national revolu- tion into the Socialist revolution. This erroneous theoretical interpre- tation of the peculiarities of the Rus- sian revolution found its expression in Comrade Trotsky’s political mis- take at the time of the Brest Litovsk peace negotiations when he issued the slogan “neither peace nor war.” Ac- cording to Trotsky, this slogan was to be a challenge of the Russian prole- tariat to the international proletariat and an indication that the Russian proletariat was Dlacing the fate of the Russian revolutign in the hands of the international proletariat. Trotsky did not understand at that time that the task, as pointed out by Lenin, con- sisted in stre hing and consoli- dating the union, between the Russian working class and. the peasantry, in welding ‘ce a internal driving forces of the ssian revolution and in “sounding” this basis the trend of the international revolution. The Brest Litovsk te had to be signed in the interests of the consolidation of the workers’ peasants’ union. But Trotsky, insteag@ of solving these con- ‘crete tasks of |} special phase of the revolution, limited himself to set- ting the trend Of the national revolu- tion against the trend of the interna- tional revolutio HE mistake under-estimating the peasantry, which has its origin in the theory of permanent revolu- tion, was committed by Trotsky in So startling is this | conspiracy in the novelty of its methods that Dunn | has lost his senses, » granting that such a feat is | spokesman and defender. shevik radio plotters and would have them ar- the failure of the department of justice to demand | 4] the famous discussion on the trade | unions in 1920-21. At the conclusion | of the civil war, certain changes took place in the relations between the working class and the peasantry. On the strength of these changes, the *Trotsky—War . and *Revolution, ‘state publishing department, 1922, Vol. 1, pp. 256 and 257 (Russian edi- tion.) r and Driving Forces of th vot ephiins the4ad. tein Letina ae” y had to adopt the so-called new omic policy. Trotsky just failed to understand that the fundamental peculiarity of the situation consisted in the changes which had token place in the relations between town and country, the working class and the peasantry. He thot that the main thing to do was to tighten the screw of military Communism, to go on mili- tarizitg the industries jn order to raise the productivity of labor within the industries by means of military pressure. The same mistake was made by Trotsky in 1923 in the fa- mous discussion on planning. When the economic crisis was upon us, Trot- sky thot that the remedy was to do away with the disproportion between the various branches of industry, and to make the latter tealize the necessity | of systematization and planning. But this was not at all the crux of the matter, for the crisis had its origin in the definitely abnormal relations be- tween industry and agriculture, :be< tween town and country. In fact the crisis was due to the inadequacy of the internal peasant market. There- fore the economic policy of the ‘Rus- sian Communist Party had to consist in relieving the peasantry of’ the} emission tax by establishing a- stable valuta, and in lowering prices, in- stead of following the path of “maxi- mum profits” as was advocated in the economic proposals of the opposition led by Comrade Trotsky. HE mistakes made by Comrade Trotsky on the field of practical politics with relation to the peasantry had their origin in the theory of permanent revolution. In his article The Fight for Power, Comrade Trot- sky propounded thé fdea that na- tional. revolutions, just like national wars, are impossible in the epoch of imperialism because in the epoch of imperialism, according to Trotsky, it ‘highly developed as well as of back- ‘eral phrases about ‘the epoch’ is tan- is not the bourgeois nation which is letariat against the bourgeoisie. Such an interpretation of the question is an infringement of the A B C of letic materialism. Instead of, a fot crete analysis of the pecularities of the Russian revolution, Trotsky refers | to the general character of the epoch. Concerning question of the possi- bility or impossibility of national} wars in the epoch of imperailism Lenin wrote as follows: “Does the fact that the foremost European (and American) capitalism has entered a new epoch of imperialism imply that henceforth only imperialist wars are possible? This would be an. absurd assertion, an inability to differentiate between a definite phenomenon and the sum total of the various phenom- ena of the epoch. The term epoch is applied because it embraces a num- ber of various phenomena and wars, typical as well as non-typical, great as well as small, characteristic of To brush aside the uestions by means of gen- ward countries. concrete tamount to using the word epoch in vain.” Materialistic dialetics are not 'Trotsky’s strong point, and he is un- able to see the concrete for the gen- eral. He frequently skips over the red] vital phases of .the revolution. Basing himself on such an abstract in- terpretation of the socialist revolu- tion, Trotsky underestimates not only the peasant but also the colonial- liberation and national movements. In his book The Peace Program, he speaks of a simultaneous isolated so0- cialist revolution in the chief and highly developed capitalist countries. In 1923, Trotsky gave a new Com- munist coloring to his old slogan “the united states of Europe,” start- ing from the fact of the “Balkaniza- tion” of Europe, Trotsky deems it necessary to issue in addition to the tional movements. At the preset stage it behooves Communists to use the national movements of the» pressed nations for the purpose. bringing them over to the side of the revolution by insisting on the fPealisa-’ tion of the national self-determination slogan. Oppressed nationalities @is- trust the oppressor nations, and there- fore we cannot raise the question of . the federation of peoples before we'go - separation thru a period of national and individualization, when the pro- letariat by helping the backward na- tions will gain their confidence and will lay the foundation ‘of a hensive European Soviet fedefation. . But to make’ the establishment’ ‘of such a federation -an immediate task is tantamount to'losing opportunities. for the winning over of the ’ movements, in fact it is tantamount to skipping over a definite stage of the revolution. One had to adopt me viewpoint to be able to ini continue the Russian revolution. cae had to understand the importance-ef the peasant, national and -colomial liberation movements for the Russian. revolution. In the same way it is es- sential to accept the Lenin theory ‘of the proletarian revolution to be able to initiate and continue the miove- ment of the proletarian revolution in the other countries. But Trotsky’s theory of revolution does not give us the possibility either to initiate or to continue the proletarian revolution wherever it may be. GENE ' AND MAURICE ON THE GOLDEN ‘SHORE TO SOCIALISM Paes. Press Review by Samuel | §. Shipman, former labor manager of Kuzbas Colony, Siberia.) Commercial Year Book of the Soviet Union, 1925, compiled by Segal and Santalov. B. W. WMuebsch, iInc., 30 Irving Place, New York. $2.50. HE 1925 Commercial Year Book of the Soviet Usion presents for the first time in Egglish a conpact and conveniently agpanged summary of the economic life of Russia since the revolution. q The main sectéons deal with statis- tics and descriptions of the agricul- tural and mineral resources of the So- viet Union andithe extent of their exploitation, théeveutput and condition of the industrie#; the development of the export an@sdmport trades, the financial situati@m, and the transport and communication facilities of the Union. L€ The statistics@and explanations are complete and *have been compiled mainly from official Soviet reports. Most of the fig@res go down to the end of 1924—an/timportant considera- tion in dealing with a country where conditions change as rapidly as they do in Russia today. HE organization, powers and responsibilities of the various gov- ernment departments and institutions of the country are deBcribed as are duct of foreign trade and concessions by private corporations. Other sections’ contain brief discus- sions of the political organization and constitution of the U. 8.’S. R., foreign relations, inclyding summaries of treaties, the co-operative movement and internal trade, labor conditions, ,and the deucatinoal system. HRUOUT the book is maintained a tone of objective, painstaking ac- curacy, controversial matter is avoid- ed and unpleasant facts are. not glossed over. an eee Sp & the regulations relating to the con- | cold figures the efforts being made by the Russian people to rebuild their material destinies and the slow but steady progress in that direction. Here one may learn the details of how the fiscal miracle of balancing the budget and consequent stabilizing of the currency was accomplished. For the business man or student the facts collected offer a-complete and accurate picture of the economic con- ditions of Russia; for the general reader interested in Russian affairs the descriptive sections dealing with other phases of-Russian life should prove illuminating. NE might wish that the co-oper- ative movement were given the fuller treatment it deserves, and that the discussion on interna] trade con- tained more information on retail trading with particular reference to the part played by private business since the introduction of the new economic policy. Especially since on the latter point there seems to be a profound misunderstanding on the part of foreign observers of Russian affairs. book. By A. TIALA. OU can’t find a definition of the word “Gudok” in your dictionary, for wise as the compilers of diction- aries are, they cannot anticipate all the tricks of the “Reds,” who keep on importing other from Russia. None other than Wm. Z. Foster is guilty of this late deviltry against good Americanism; and he has the unspeakable nerve to tell all about it in the Workers’ Monthly for May. S a matter of fact, the issue is - chock full of stuff which reveals that the Tribune’s master minds have yet much to learn about the doings of Cemmunists. For instance, the . ’ But these are only minor de- fects in a valuable and useful hand- one darn thing after an- monthly tells us that there is a “Lenin School” in Chicago; which means that Superintendent of Schools McAndrew is to be replaced by a statue of Lenin —marble for a block of wood. And Communism goes parading on the streets of America. It’s a fact. Earl Browder will swear to it. He proves it by pictures taken by a regu- lar photographer, not a Communistic one, so the pictures must be unbiased. HE forty pages are just crowded with fights, probably inspired by Jack Dempsey passing thru Chicago. Anyway, there’s the story of the “Fight for Unity in Minnesota,” of which an Englishman with the en- phonious name of Hathaway is referee And there’s the story of the election fight in Halle, Germany, which should have been entitled, “Socialists Paint the Fatherland Red,” but wasn’t en- titled that because the stairway broke down and the red blood of the workers was discolored with bruises. ETWEEN the flamboyant covers there’s evidence of immorality, too. A picture on page 297 is evidence in question. Two of the Rugsian girls in the picture have dimpled knees. | Furthermore, what do you think of a poet who starts out like this: “I'm a happy-go-lucky son of a reckless brood— Painter of smoke stacks, steeples, flag poles, and sky-scraping cor- nices. Give me a piece of rope and I'll climb to God-knows-where, and dance a sailor’s hornpipe a’ top of it.” The man hasn't even affixed his signature at the end. He's probably a conceited kind of cuss who thinks that his poetry is known by its quality, like the rare real stuff in bottles, and doesn’t require any labels for adver- tising. _" read the darn thing from be- ws more. It’s the darndest, bewitchingest thing. But to get even with the au- thor, we’re going to tell here who he is. Oh, heck! He's no real poet from Greenwich Village. He’s just a work- ing stiff in Cleveland. His name is Jim Waters. : HERE’S a lot more unmentioned stuff—some perhaps unmention- able—in the May issue of the Work- ers’ Monthly. It’s the kind of stuff that makes the little jackasses who get out Liberty and Saturday Evening Post have nightmares. But a sound old working horse can relish his»bit of wild oats among his firmer intel- lectual grub. RISING WATERS ie you W pro are the Foam on the sea And not the sea— What of the Jagged rocks, And the waves themselves, . And the force of the mounting watere? You are “ But foam on the sea, You rich ones— Not the séa. —Langston Hughes.. In the April iseve ef The Workers Monthly. Plutes Can’t Make Opera Pay. The Chicago Civic Opera company suffered a deficit of $399,276 during the season just closed, according to the annual report of the guarantors issued today. This is the greatest loss since its organization three years ago. Push Kansas Conspiracy. Case, TOPEKA, Kans., May 12-~-.With every indication pointing to a herd, bitterly fought legal battle; attorneys for state and defense in the case of Jonathan M. Davis, former.governer of Kansas, on trial in district court here for—conspiracy and soliciting a bribe, prepared today to get into the ginning to end now a half dozen times and we're going to read it some | veal work of the case. i. “we © @6@ ho © A & OD ee 4 © ULdlC TUl.l ll mo ns Hoaeewrt®: Do = Ss oo aw co i ea eens wmrpeeocaoars ——oo -