Daily Worker
May 25, 1925
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AKRQN, Ohio, Ma 24.—The carmen here have proposed a scale of wages to the orthern Ohio Traction system which will increase the present scale, but they have chosen a decidedly poor way of tryi aerees to arb Bee the ‘proposal into effect, that is, they and named an “exalted aysiope” of the ku ave ux klan to be one of their “arbitrators!” The present scale is is 48, 50 and 53 cents an hour, and the proposal, which cannot be dignified as a “demand’”’ owing spineless nature of the union officials in ex to the ing the wishes of the men, is for the scale to be increased to che and 68 cents an hour, There is also a dispute on the matter of unionizing the bus AS. WE SEE IT By T. J. O7FLAHERTY. two Mowrer boys, Paul and are working overtime giv- ing the world the lowdown on the vile deeds of the wicked Communists. They are getting paid for it. Ihdeed , patriotic saviors of the world from the “menace of Bolshevism” are notori- ously fond of the cashier, and never peck at the typewriter unless given assurance that the eagle will scream on Saturday. Paul Mowrer exposes the Bolsheviks, from Paris, where life can be made agreable provided the sojourner’s. budget is in somewhat better condition than the bank of France. fT Rae UL tells us that the Communist International aims to overthrow the capitalist system all over the world. He has already written eighteen exposurers, and excepting his own editorial comment and the inevitable forgeries, every “discover- ed” document with which he pads his stories, appeared already in the columns of the DAILY WORKER. * - ” DGAR, who writes under a Berlin date line, makes a kick about the new revolutionary pictures made in Russia. The latest film to come out of the workers’ republic, is entitled “His Heritage.” It’s bad stuff. Does it not play up Lenin, as our"eaD- |, ~~protiticers play ttalist up George f Washington? Lenin, to the capitalists | represents all that is wicked. To the intelligent workers, all that Is’ good. The more the workers see of Lenin, his kindly lovable-eyes and the more they understand what he lived and sacrificed for, the more they will sym- pathize with the Communist move- ment for which he did so much. s s 8 HE story is built around the life of a Russian revolutionist who fights on the streets against the cap- VWtalist soldiers. His daughter brings him food, while he fights. Finally he is killed by the capitalists and his daughter and her grandmother leave the city. Later on the daughter is shown as a library worker. Her sweet- heart is a proletarian. Her father’s murderer returns and charms the girl with his airs. But he gets What is coming to him and the girl marries the worker. This is the kind of a hap- py ending we like, when there is a good purpose to be served. Let us hope the yates finds its way here. s ss R. NORMAN THOMAS has joined the international chorus against Trade Union Unity, in his customary slimy fashion. Thomas is one of those preachers who left his pulpit to save the workingclass. Being a preacher, who has not repudiated the preacher's technique, Thomas hopes to win the capitalists over to the idea of pro- \duction for use instead of for profit. He has all the patience of the itchy job, when dealing with the master- class, but his pious heart bursts with yrage when the Communists intrude on ‘his equanimity. ' ‘ * + * ‘(Upppeamens avid on the movement for a united international, spon- sored by the British and Russian trade unions, Thomas, as usual starts out by saying a prayer for a united fsont of all workers, regardless of political differences. But he\ suddenly turns his mud guns on the Communists and rakes them fore and aft with charges of disruption. There is no indictment of the capitalist system in\the rever- end preacher’s fulmination\ against (Continued on page 4) \ men working for the company, the local having once voted not to arbitrate this question. Fakers Rush to Ald Open Shop. However, the union is to be called again to vote on this matter since the local officials, Mike O'Neil, presi- dent and Fred Harper, member of the local executive board, following the usual tactics of labor fakers, have appealed to the chief faker of the union, William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association. of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America and owner of a string of non-union hotels, who promptly decid- ed that, of course,'the local should ar- bitrate the matter of the open shop. The hocus pocus against the plain interest of the union was pulled off by O’Neil and Harper taking a trip from Akron to Detroit to “ask Ma- hon’s advice.” Reports state that Ma- hon told the local officials to drop the dispute on the bus: drivers and to arbitrate any and everything. In addition, Vice-President Shea is to attend Monday’s session to put over the official agreement to the open shop. Net a Sign of Struggle for Demands. The matter is complicated by three other divisions of the N. O. T. sys- tem having already surrendered on the open shop issue of the bus drivers, But these as well as Akron, have yet, to settle the wage. scale altho the usual betrayal by “impartial” arbitra- tion is expected by the company to defeat the demands. Platform men on the Canton inter- rics and A. B expense of ar ation,” Manes it is hardly ee that they. will “bear the expense” of ,striking either. Company Fee is Secure. In the face of. mach timidity on the part of the union, and with the aid of ‘the local and national Officials of the union, there is small wonder that the company, thru A, C. Blinn, vice- (Continued on page 2) ppterar bie are} GARY WORKERS FIRM DESPITE DAVIS’ VISIT “Can't Talk on Open Shop,” Cal’s Aid Sete (Special to The Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., May 24.—The lockout following the strike of plumbers, in- volving 3,000 bullding trades workers remainst in effect today, despite the attempts of a representative of the United States department of labor, sent out by the Coolidge government, to break the resistance of the work- ers and induce the plumbers to return to work at the contractors’ terms. The plumbers, building trade coun- cil officials declared, are steadfast in their demand for $1.00 a day wage in- crease, and the plasterers and other building trades workers refuse to set- tle with the contractors’ association until the plumbers’ demands have been met. Davis Attacks Reds. Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, speaking here at the dedication of a new Moose home, attacked the for- eign-born workers, openly advocated the deportation of Communists born in foreign lands, and urged that ad- mittance of foreign-born workers be further regtricted. Davis made a plea for “American principles and Amer- ican. institutfons.” When asked about the deliberate lockout of the building trades work- ers here, Davis told the DAILY WORKERS, “I know there is a lock- it?” Davis was told that the contractors, backed by the bankers and’: material men, had declared a lockout in order (Continued on page 2) The “Split” in the Ranks of Capital Did Net Get Very Far! WASHINGTOW) ' May 22— The United States chamber of commerce today unanimously passed a resolu- ‘mending the department of agricul- situation. The resolution was heatedly 6p posed in the resolutions committee, it was ascertained, because of belief the exchange officials themselves the measure was presented to the general assembly, it was passed without a dissenting vote. PROGRESSIVE MINERS DEMAND A SPECIAL ILLINOIS CONVENTION TO IMPEACH FAKER FARRINGTON Thompson and Watt have been fought the class collaboration policies expulsion. A spéCial convention to try Haitian: ton must be called at once and for the purpose of reinstating Thompson and Wattinto their office. Starving \Women and Children, The same convention must take up the unemployment question and fight miners, the treasury belongs to the miners and as the officials are getting away with the money the unemployed are demanding aid before the treas- ury is emptied by the fakers. Also at this convention the progres- ive miners are demanding an explana- tion of what is termed padded expense accounts, the officials are drawing every dollar they can get away with, train fare that would take them around the world, padded hotel bills, and enormous miscellaneous, while the miners are starving the officials are rioting in luxury. Lewis Violates Constitution. The convention must demand the tabulated report of the last interna- (Continued on page 2) SOVIET UNION MORE STABLE THAN U. S., SAYS VISCOUNT GOTO; CALLS FOR CLOSE FRIENDSHIP OF JAPAN MOSCOW, May 24.—That chauvinistic influence were still strong in Japanese policies, both the internal and external, was stated by Viscount §. Goto in an intefview with a representative of the Rosta News Agency at Harbin. treaty between the Union of Soviet ~ (Continued The Viscount added that he deeply regretted this fact. Thus, he said, the chauvinistic elements had during the long Russo-Japanese negotiations, to preve ne all in their power. the conclusion of a Socialist Republi on pege 5.) MR Mes Statement of the Progressive Miners Committee on District 12, ; United Mine Workers of America. ‘Freeman Thompson and John Watt are expelled from office by Frank Farrington in violation of his own rulings and the international constitution Art 18, Sec. 1, on a framed charge of election irregularities. Fight Expulsions the militant backbone of the Illinois miners for years and have consistently fought for progressive policies and of the bureucracy and have earned the enmity of the officials for their loyalty to the rank and file, resulting in their for financial aid for the starving | and Japan, And ed States. - ™N STRIKE BATTLE Wis GUNMEN (Special to rer DAILY WOn =R.) SHANGHAI, China, May 24— She Japanese capitalists who own the textile mills of Shanghal, are be- coming discouraged at the solidarity and courage of the textile strikers, whom they and the Chinese authori- ties cannot conquer. A few days ago a group of strik- ers doing picket duty were attack- ed by Japanese company sluggers armed with guns. The strikers put up such a battle that nine persons were wounded and one striker was killed. As a result four Nagai Jap- anese milis were closed down by strike protest and 7,000 more text- ile workers came out. Yesterday the dead striker was buried, and at his coffin the strikers gathered en masse and pledged their support to the continuance of the strike. The Chinese radical pa- pers ‘are bitterly criticising the Jap- anese imperialist exploiters. Czech Bar Foreign Newspapers PRAGUE, May 24.—The Czecho-Slo- vak government issued a decree _to- day prohibiting the entry into the country of about twenty-five foreign newspapers, mostly Austrian and Ger- man, and also several from the Unit- No reason was given for the division. Rae * Sih a a EAR PMR MONDAY, 4 ; _ ' 5 - : ‘ out here, but what can T say about } . ring speculative — uctua- ws a ea “exchanges ~ cong: | “tne ture for its efforts to remedy the could solve the problem, but when /[ *|Benjamin Strong, =” PUBLISHING GO ee —_— LT Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY cami re ALS W. Washington Bivd., Chicage, Ill. Price 3 cra ye Ol =] pub 2 >= - 4 w al . Ban =e TNGREASES 4 , FMAN a, N. J., May 24.— silk mille the Slik com- struck against t in plece work lik company also, t 60 in all, are on and a . eS ) For 16 Associated Silk * ‘directing the d at (Lithuanian) 4 B among the silk ‘appealing to ‘form shop com- im together with and the union ILY WORKER, ily which backs tkers Hold ith Bosses’ * Daily Worker) y 24.—At the cele- anniversary of 8 Federation Bank “labor bank” in William. Green, merican Federation lately following ge from Presi- « & GENEVA, May 24.—The capitalistic world powers, including the United States. again demonstrated their enmity toward the workers’ and peasants’ governments of the,Soviet Union when the arms control conference in effect, declared the Soviet Union an “outlaw nation”. The general commission of the conference, which was called by the league of nations, approved the proposal of the French delegation, dictated | by the Painleve government in which the socialists are participating, empting all nations bordering in the — ex- against the wa hich is an instrument of the large imperia! na “f. (Special to The Dally Werker) DETROIT, Mich., May 24—That conditions In the auto fao- re rotten ripe for organization was demon- arper Ave. Brig 27, Auto Workers’ Union, with Edgar Owens held an orgahization meeting at the entrance plant when Frank Brunton, Briggs plant are allowed from 11:30 till 4 ay being warm and balmy the men stayed out of doors to soak up a bit of sunshine before going back to . The situation was ideal for a meeting and the representa- tives of the union were quick to ~_— STANDARD OIL LOSES FIGHT 10 SELL LEAD GAS Bat Issue Is Not Yet Definitely Settled (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 24.—With nearly one million workers directly exposed to gasoline fumes thru their work and millions more indirectly exposed the labor movement has an enormous stake In the fight to keep tethaethy! iead gasoline off the market, sald Mrs. Grace M. Burham, director of the workers’ health bureau, on her re- turn from Washington where she was one of the three labor delegates at the U. 8. Publle Health Service con- ference on this poisonous fuel. The conference made some dect- sions {In line with recommendations of the labor officials but the perilous issue has not yet been settled. The conference ofdered the surgeon gen- eral to make an exhaustive investiga- tion with the assistance of seven jacientists. At labor's request it was agreed that the cost of the probe be the purses of the corporations affect- .ed, ag was the case in the recent ora- tion, composed of the Standard Oil of New Jersey and General Motors. Re sults of the probe must be reported to a public conference at which trade unions will be represented. Papers Aid Oj! Trust Newspaper reports of the confer- ence obscured issues and softened the facts against the corporations involv- ed in the tetraethyl lead business, said Mrs. Burnham. Thruout the ses- sions there was sharp cleavage be- tween one group representing labor and science, on one side, and the Ethyl Gasoline corporation, Standard Oil, General Motors on the other, Ten seperate industrial corporations were directly represented, in addition to their medical experts, thus sitting in judgement on their own case, Efforts of the corporations to show that the new motor fuel was haerm- less would have been comic had the issues not been so serious. Admis sion was made at the conference that 11 workers had died.and 118 had been poisoned in production planis but Standard Oil and General Motors men insisted production had been made safe. Three hundred million gallons of treated gasoline have already been put on the market and distributed to 20,000 filling stations, they said. As evidence that there had been no cases of poisoning in the latter group corporation physicians submit- ted the story that 30 workers engag- ed in the distribution and sale of the product had been examined and shown to have suffered no harm. Mrs. Burnham replied that at least eps on page 2) TRAITORS BESET WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS (Special to The Daily Worker) SHINNSTON, W. Va., May 24.— The value to the coal operators of having their men inside the United Mine Workers is illustrated by the situation in Shinnston Local No. 4009. Last week the local officers formally turned in its charter and notified C. | F. Davis, international representative, that the men were going back to | work Such was the report broad- cast over the country last week. However, Davis has issued the fol- lowing statement “New spaper reports to the contrary, no request has been received at tHe |mine workers’ office in Fairmont or by any of the officers of the United Mine Workers from the former off- cers of Local Union No. 4009 to the (Continued on page 2) | met from public funds and. not from, . ama a PRR Orne |
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-——o- oe — wm + ewe ee ee ee -_—— — -——-— FLORIDA COURT — SOLD NEGROES INTO PEONAGE | Turpentine Operators Are Found Guilty PENSACOLA, Fla., May 24.—A vVer- dict of guilty was returned in federal court here against five Calhoun coun- ty men charged with peonage and brutally beating Negroes who were sold into slavery in the turpentine camps by county judges. Those found guilty were Charles Land and M. B. Davis, turpentine operators, and Will Proctor, Carey Whitefield and Frank Daniels, commissary clerks in the turpentine camps. Henry Sanders, a Negro, who was the last witness to testify against the turpentine operators, told how he had been brutally beaten with clubs. “Il was told not to run, or I would be Killed,” Sanders said. He told how he was arrested and taken before Calhoun county Judge Chapin, charged with stealing a coat, He was forced to plead guilty, being told by Davis, the owner of the camp, that if he refused to plead guilty he would be given 8 months on the road gang. After Judge Chapin had given Sanders to understand tha, the threat would be carried out, £6 pleaded guilty and was given 90 days under a bond, which was to be worked out in Davis’ camp. But Sanders could not get away, the company chalking up $114.00 debt against him at the end of his ninety day sentence, altho he had been given no pay. He escaped, but was caught by sheriffs and brutally beaten. The sheriffs and Judge Chapin are under indictment. Sanders’ body was examined by the court, and altho the Leating occurred last September, the scars of the beat- ing were still visible. GET A 8UB AND GiV= ONE] THREE FASCISTS ARE KILLED IN STREET FIGHTS (Special to The Daily Worker) ROMHE, Italy, May 24.—Fighting be- tween fascist troops and anti-fascist workers continues in several towns in Italy. At Rovigot one fascist was killed and another seriously wounded in street fighting. At Adria two were killed and one injured. A mob of fascists wrecked the print- ing plant of the anti-fascist newspaper, Popolo Veneto at Padue, and smashed several shops belonging to anti-fas- cists. They set fire to the Concordi theater, and destroyed several head- quarters and private homes of their opponents. Fighting also occurred at Brescia. —_—_—_ Patronize our advertisers. “¢ - Gary Workers Firm Despite Davis —EEEEEe (Continued from page 1) to force the “open shop” on Gary and bring non-union building workers into Gary. “As a union man do you consider the open shop a good American prin- ciple and a good American institu- tion?” the DAILY WORKER reporter asked. Acts As Strikebreaker. “Well, that’s a controversial mat- ter,” Davis replied. “I wouldn’t care to go into that. For eight years be- fore I came into the cabinet the de- partment of labor has had a policy of conciliation. We are conciliators. If I declared myself for the closed shop the employers wouldn’t have me, and if I declared myself against it the unions wouldn’t like it, so I don’t ex- press myself on that subject.” Afraid to Defend Workers. “What can I say about the lockout, what could I say,” Davis continued. “What would you say?” After being told by the DAILY WORKER reporter that a good union man should be for one hundred per cent organization, and _ therefore against the “open shop,” Davis re- plied: “Well, that’s all very well for you to express yourself, but you haven’t got a government job tagged ontg you. If I was free of a govern- ment job I would: commit myself too.” After making this admission that requirements for a cabinet member are cowardice and hypocrisy, Davis continued his handshaking, backslap- ping and baby patting of the local “Moose.” Davis was the honored guest of the United States Steel corporation, which has taken the lead in attacking the union building workers of Gary. He went thru the steel mills with cham- ber of commerce members acting as the reception committee. Steel Trust Ordered Lockout. The men whom Davis praised, after attacking the foreign-born workers, and the Communists, were Gary em- ployers who are assaulting the trade unions. Davis made not a single Mmen- tion of the lockout in his public speeches. The steel trust is directly constructing 103 houses to house workers in the new tube works, and has in addition let building contracts to the Germatta Construction com- pany, the John Larguro company, and several other leading contractors. The next move’ in the lockout will be Monday. night, when a committee of three, Tom McAl- lister, Bert Drake and G. Elkins, re- port to the Plumbers’ Union on the conferences that have been held with represeutatives of the contractors, Bert Stevens, business agent of the Plumbers’ Union, told the DAILY WORKER. No Agreement Reached. Altho building trades council of- ficials told the DAILY WORKER that the union heads are willing to settle independently with the contractors, it is known that the plasterers have al- ready refused to return to work until the contractors meet the plumbers’ demands. The building trades workers were locked out six days ago, when the Gary General Building Contractors’ Association announced that an agres- g Detroit Auto Workers Fight Police (Continued from page 1) would be back next day without ap proaching any inspectior for a permit | to carry on organization work. | Conditions in the Briggs plants are | perhaps more onerous than in any factory in Detroit. For months there has been a steady shoving down of the wage scale. Trimmers who have been getting 90 cents and a dollar an hour are being discharged and the lower scale men are being retained. Girls are replacing men at a wage of from 25 to 35 cents an hour. Experi- enced painters are dropped and their places taken by unskilled workers op- erating the Duco process spray, at | less than half the wages of the skilled | workers. Hundreds of girls are em- | ployed. The factory slogan is “Step | On It!” Local 127 Auto Workers is institut- | ing an organization campaign and the | noon day factery meetings are in line | with the program. Meetings have, been held at the Fisher body plants, Packards, American Motor Body Corp., Briggs, and several other plants. The local meets every Friday night at 55 Adelaide. The Sequel. Friday noon saw the sequel to the disturbance started by the managers of the Briggs Harper Ave. plant when the organizers of Auto Workers Union No. 127 attempted to speak. Reliz- ing from the previous faliure that their own private dicks could not eope with the men who were strong for hearing | what the Auto Workers’ Union organ- | izers had to say, they secured the| ‘at the Briggs plant on a number of | tion from the crowd. The local papers services of the Detroit police, and practically the whole force of the Chene ‘and Canfield station were guarding the plant from a handful of organizers. Frank X. Martel, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor was the first to speak. However, Martel had no more than started than he was placed under arrest. Frank Brunton. secretary of Local 127 Auto Workers was also arrested for protesting against the arrest of Martel. The crowd was quick to express its re- sentment against the police and fol- lowed the car containing police and prisoners for more than a block. 5,000 Cheer Speaker. At this moment, Alfred Goetz mounted the chair. Goetz had spoken former occasions and his mounting the chair was the signal for an ova- stated that fully 5,000 workers were in the crowd. They cheered the speaker when he denounced the po- lice for interferring the right of the workers to organize, and drove home the point that the police are always on the side of the boss when th: workers make demands for improved | conditions or better wages. One of the foremen from the hen | tried to curry favor with his masters by trying to heckle the speaker, but the heckler was quickly squelched by the impatient crowd in a very effec- tive, even tho crude manner. Just when the men were getting ready to| return to work and the speaker was | ‘TTTr,rrfOrerfrrrrrrerrrTr,jfrperrwsewe'tT'TTTgTgTj TT 'vT,'T'%T,',xTxtTxvTxvtTvT}tTT7 7? . i i i i i i hi i i i i ie i i i i i i i i i WANTED: Bound Volumes or Complete Sets of “International Socialist Review” for 1910, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 1915. Published by Kerr & Co. | Address LEWIS, c. o. Labor Defense Council, 19 So. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ml. —— | ad _._ ee ee DEDEDE AAS DDD Db i be i i be i be bh i i ment had been reached by the build- ing trades unions, that if the plum- bers’ demands were met, all of the building trades would strike for a similar increase. The plumbers had been on strike since May 65. Since the lockout the contractors have made several attempts to break the solidarity of the unions by offer- ing separate settlements to various unions. All of these offers were spurn- ed by the strikers. Last Thursday, after prolonged conferences, the plas-, terers refused to negotiate with the contractors until the entire situation was cleared up. The building trades workers have refused to return to work pending “artitration.” The plas- terers are demanding a wage increase from $11.00 to $14.00 per day. Force Independents to Join. In declaring the lockout, the con- tractors’ association officials admitted that the fight “may develop into an effort on our part to declare an open shop.” But the bankers, including the Midcity State bank, which con- structs houses, and the Steel City Construction company, the Deutsch Construction company, and the other larger bankers and contractors, have used the strike and lockout as a club to force the independent, smaller con- tractors to join the association. “We are cleaning our own house, too,” one banker said, at a meeting of the association. On the first day of the strike, 16 indeperdent contractors were forced into the association, In addition, press- ure was brought to bear on the mate rial dealers, who joined with the associ- ation, and refused to deliver material to independent contractors. The real estate board, the chamber of com- merce, the commercial club, and other business organizations, all of which are controlled by the steel corpora- tions, joined with the bankers and contractors in the “open shop” drive on the building workers. The contractors’ association made desperate efforts to induce the plumb- ers to return to work and form a committee to settle the wage contro- versy. Stevens, the business agent, explained, however, that the plumbers have no committee with power to make a settlement. Stevens declared that any action would have to be taken by the union at Monday night’s meeting, when all of the plumbers would be given a chance to rule wHat sort of a settlement should be made. Four meetings were held with the plumbers during the strike and lock- out, and at three of these a “concilia- tor” sent by Secretary of Labor Davis, attended, and tried to induce the strikers to return to work on their old wage scale, pending settlement. Davis Lauds Employers. Davis, im his speech at the Moose Home, glorifed the fact that American business has set up such a gigantic system of exploitation, and gloated over the big profits now being made by the employers. “A magnificent mill,” was the term he used for the Gary slave pens where thousands of steel workers toil at wages of 45 cents an hour. “That mill represents -real patriotism,” Davis said. It represents real Ameri- canism, and we need that kind of Americanism.” making his closing remarks a detail of police came in a Ford touring car. Crowd Battle Cops. The speaker was arrested and thrown into the car whereupon the crowd massed themselves around the car and with shouts of “Don’t let them get him,” and “Take him away,” they kept the car from getting away by holding on to the wheels and fend- ers until the cops forced them to let go by brandishing their guns. The crowd of workers, now thoroly aroused by the vicious treatment ac- corded them, hooted and jeered the cops and treated them to a shower of pop bottles. The cops again had to leave the car and with drawn revolv- ers worked the crowd back and made their escape with the prisoners. Police Reserves Arrive But Retreat. A riot call was sent in and soon the reserves arrived from at least four neighboring precinct stations. The police showed evidence of hysteria and tried to keep the men from the second shift from coming out for their lunches. The men insisted how- ever, and the police decided that dis- cretion was the better part of valor. Briggs employes are very much aroused by the action of the manage- ment and the police and are more de termined than ever that Local 127 shall have a fair chance to deliver the message of unionism. In all seven men were arrested. They were held for about one and one-half hours and then realeased without any charges being preferred against them. This is evidently a tactic which the police will employ in an attempt to discourage the noonday factory meetings. The organizers of | Local 127 are emphatic in declaring that such tactis will fail. An open meeting of the Auto Work- ers’ Union was held Friday evening which was well attended and a large number of those present joined the or- ganization. The men in the factories are beginning to resist the oppressive methods the bosses are using. The resentment expressed by the Briggs employes against the bosses and the police at Friday's meeting is becom- ing general in all the factories in De- troit. Local 127 aims to crystallize this resentment into organisationa! strenth and will give the bosses the scrap of their lives. THE DAI | = 7 " ‘v ae ine ‘ F4oee hoe : 1g ‘et eB “ a A EY . oe nd. 7 + ‘ if . . 2 ae ain EA ~“S"'""" aa es — J iy | , . | , ;‘ " t 5 is ¥ e : be bodice WEST Wf COAL Shinnston Lasal Officials Turn Fihk (Continued from page 1) effect that they desire to surrender their charter and supplies and re- quest C. F. Davis, financial agent to take charge of same.” Operators’ Agents Controlled Local. But Davis goes on to relate cir- cumstances which show that some- BESET f as 6 7 thing lay behind the, or that J. E. Weeks and C. M. Vincent, former president and ry of Local 4009 had turned in the ter. Further- Ve proceeded to te a company union at Shinnstog im’a dastardly at- tempt to break thé @ M. W. of A. from the outside, * ~ Davis says: “J.B. Weeks, the for- mer member of the U. M. W. of A., who, it is claimed, wrote this letter to the Fairmont office, is brother to the general nianager of the Bethle- the U. M. W. of A. in northern West Virginia have enough to realize that, taking all the facts into consideration, action is very much on the order of a brotherly af- fair.” Mass Meetings But No Relief. To offset the discouragement caus- ed by the above finks who had gotten hold of Local 4009, the union officials called a mass meeting of the Shinn- ston miners on a lot across from the Bethlehem mines and reported 2,000 miners and their families attended. In addition, they reported 500 at Cass- ville and 600 at Farmington meet-> ings. However, Murmurs are heard among the strikers at the failure of the union to give any strike relief and criticism of the high salaries be- ing paid the if{nternational officers while women and children of the miners are starving, ., The miners are, mone the less, de- termined to stick,by,.the union and maintain as militant..a fight as the white-livered officialy will permit them to make. The men scoff at the treachery of Weeks and Vincent and say that they will have nothing to do with the company union incorporated by them with the aid of the U. M, W. of A. Attorney John B. Wyatt, under the name of the Mountaineer Coal Miners’ Association, supposed to make an “agreemen . with the Bethle- hem company. “ ~’ The traitor aftomiey, Wyatt, who was lawyer. for 4009, says that the . i epilbabtearter for this ‘scab company union, including Weeks, Vincent, Roy Wilson, L. B. Seckman, B. J. Curry, W. H. Drummond, O. L. Whiteman and R, D. Burnett, all of Shinnston, were all Officers of Local 4009, The memberghip have got the number of these traitors to the union and promise to give them a severe letting alone. Determined to Fight on All Fronts. While the struggle of the miners is bitter, and they have to fight this inner treachery and the spineless and mercenary fakers like Bittner and Lewis who care only for their own high salaries and aré ready to betray the struggle at any “point, as well as continuing their picketing in the fight against the operators; yet the miners are loyal union meh and will stick thru thick and thin, thru hunger and privation, because they know that only by struggle can they win, while surrender now will lead to further and even more bitter hardships. RIFFIANS HOLD GROUND AGAINST FRENCH CANNONS RABAT, Moroccos| May 24—The Moroccan troops are standing their ground against the attacks of the in- vading French army, and despite a severe artillery bombardment, the French have not béen able to drive the Riffiians from French Morocco, The Beni Guil tribe repulsed an at- tack of the French forces. * * a Spanish-French Ract Reached. MADRID, Spain, May 24—An agree- ment has been concluded between the Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera and Louls Malvy, representing the Pain- leve government, whereby the two countries will remark the border line of Spanish and th Morocco if the Riffians are subdu The agreement also stipulates that the Spanish fleet shall enact a ranean to prevent the Riffians from se- curing supplies. To Be Held Tonight. The last meeting of Comrade Alex- ander Chramov will be held in Chi- cago tonight at 1080 West 14th street. All his meetings in Chicago have drawn big crowds. After this meet- ing he goes back to New York where he will participate in the Novy Mir. All who understand*Russian are in- vited to this meeting. Admisison is is free. a Get a “sab” for the ad WORKER. art Cae Pan, Bech ar” eis sd Re Po ‘ : Pie, et | } 2 Ce Ee ee 4 CAN aa ee AL ie eS x ea, gt / Ht asad ot i» ry : Ua fees. sl te ae) ROT te t on - . 1 ha Fo 1 ° " hy ee a — Trees, Not Ch First Care of New Y ork, World’s Richest City By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | Children, hem Coal company, and members of —— stricter blockade along the Mediter- Last Meeting of Alexander Charmov BN deeded all that money and tender care can do to save the trees in Central Park, New York C ing them, is being done. The Davey has been brought in especially to “save them” from death. It is declared they are mortally sick. ark trees are fortunate. congested working class districts are not so fortunate. overnment, thru many investigations, knows children; malnutrition thru improper food, diseases born of overcrowded housing conditions resulting in lack of fresh air, absence of sunlight, and other evils to be found stalking thru every American municipality. But The New York City what troubles the nothing is done. The trees are to “seven a systematic feedin bills. denounced as “Bolshevism.” * 2 It is now declared that there is almost no healthy tree in the park. They are all ailing. But they can all be made healthy. They are not affected by the noxious gases that pour from the automobile traffic that continues unceasingly thru the park. They can battle that. The trees have just received too much artificial atten- They have been too well taken care of. They have been robbed of the correct care that nature always gives them. The soil has been packed down so that no water or air could penetrate it. The trees have been deprived of the decomposing vegetation that develops naturally in the open forest. This condition is now to be remedied by the turning of the soil and the use of fertilizers. thru every artificial means available, to imitate nature in the tion. care of these trees. Similarly, workers are forced to live artificial lives in Human nature rebels at being forced to or even less, under unnatural urs to be spent.in an equally The Dag reaggiew of the streets were never s the great cities. labor 10 and 12 hours mayb conditions; the remaining ho artificial manner. intended as playgrounds for forced to accept them because real playgrownds are scarce and parks almost unknown. cities, for the care of healthy families, bit rather as a means =} high rents from workers forced reported that for workers are steadily getting worse, not better. * - ad ’ of collectin New York has officiall New York City, in the days to come, will proudly pro- claim that it has saved the trees in its parks; that the un- natural conditions that were killing the trees have been over- come by artificial means. But the murder of the children, as well as of the grown- all the attention. The other day, as carefully reported with pictures in the metropolitan press, Khaki-dreasea men climbed into the dead tops of two gigantic elms shading the 72nd street entrance to the Mall ‘and cut their lifeless and infected limbs from them. Today of these and many other trees in the park will continue for a year.” But what of the children of the working class? No such tender care is shown them, Their eyes and teeth may be bad, resulting in many ailments.' Their bodies may be afflicted with many easily curable maladies, But they get no atten- tion if their parents are unable to pay the crushing doctor Any effort to have the municipality look after the children as carefully as it does after the trees in the parks is ( from page 1) 40,000 workers must have been em- ployed in these 20,000 filling stations © handling the fuel and that the exam- inations of 30 gave no proof that large numbers of workers were not suffering from lead poisoning. ' Many Workers Affected. The number of workers who will be directly affected by lead fumes if the new fuel comes into general use, said Mrs. Burnham, can.be gauged by census reports: 286,045 chauffeurs, 81,450 garage workers, 411,182 team- sters and dray men and 40,000 men in the filling stations. A. L, Berres, secretary, Metal Trades department, A. F. of L., took , from a affl ree Expert ompany The children of the = e aroused sentiment, be permitted pend- ing the report of the surgeon general's investigators. Said Barres: “IT can appreciate what it means to take the knock out of a motor, but I may say at this time that we are more con- cerned about keeping the knock out) of the human make up. From that point of view, Mr. chairman, the American Federation of Labor will at- tack the sale of this gas.” F. A. Howard, Standard Oil man, argued for the fuel, which he sald made one gallon take the sent from heaven to conserve supply of the country. cause some animals had died try of the fuel. Eleven Dead, 118 Injured. To which Mrs. Burnham replied- that it was no gift of heaven to the 11 who had died and the 118 who had been poisoned. Miss Harriet Silberman, director of An effort is to be made, | the Workers’ Health Bureau, thes. it was not a matter of the deaths children. Yet° children are j|man pointed out the of this pay forfeit rule from a corporation Homes are not bulit in great | Profiting from the sale of 800,000,000 | tive in them. ousing conditions The testimony of Prof. Flinn of Co- lumbia telling how he and another Co- lumbia investigator had been’ in tetraethyl lead experiments was a factor in passing the resolution against resumption of production. ups of the working class, will continue as before. The profit di system demands it. the capitalists. But the time will come when the workers will demand the same consideration shown the trees in the parks. They will insist that they also enjoy every possible arg to combat the artificiality of the present machine age. ey will never win that chance under capitalism. They will learn that this victory can only be achieved thru the ending of cap- italism and the building of the new social order—Commun- ism—that abolishes profits and holds first the interests of all toiling humanity. An intensely exploited working class, with a low standard of living, results in high dividends for invested capital. That must not be interfered with.. So say to Fight Farrington (Continued from Page 1) tional election as provided by the con- stitution, as John L. Lewis has re- fused to abide by the constitution and have the election returns sent out to each local union. Thousands of miners beHeve Lewis was defeated and is holding office illegaly and taking this method of concealing his defeat and Union Fakers Aid “Open Shop” charges must be made, his removal from office demanded for violation of the international constitution, Art 9, (Continued from page 1) president and general Manager, re fuses to grant anything, but is willing and even quite anxious to “submit it to arbitration.” The company is said to have named a director, Charles Currie, as its arbiter, while the union has ap- proached J. B. Hannan, exalted cy- clops of the Summit county klan and I. 8S. Myers to serve for the union. Union Officials Violate Constiution to, Ald Open Shop. The old contract which expired May l, holds good until another one is made, according to the “gentlemen's agreement.” The situation in Cleve- land, where the carmen were defeated by somewhat similar treachery on the Dunne Will Lecture Tuesday; All Invited At the open meeting of the North- west English branch of the Chicago Workers Party, to be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, Will- iam F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER will lecture upon “The Na- tional and Colonial Questions and Their Relation to the Class Struggle.” This meeting is expected to at- tract all workers interested in this fundamental problem of the working class struggle with imperialism. All are welcome and there is no admis- sion charged. Sinclair Cannot Appeal Case. MOSCOW, May 24.—The supreme court has rejected the appeal of the Sinclair company against the decision of the Moscow district court annuling the Saghalien concession. Tei, | WORKER! 1 | Sec. 36, part_of the union officials, is béing relied upon by the company to infiu- ence the Akron workers. The com- pany feels that it has the open shop fight practically won. However, the Akron carmen point to the fact that the officials of the local and even President Mahon can- not force arbitration upon them on the question of the unionization of the bus men by including them in the agreement, because the union consti- tution plainly states that bus men are eligible for membership. If Mahon and O'Neil insist on the open shop they will be violating the union constitution it is pointed out. No Wage Cut. The operators are attempting to in- fluence the miners to accept a wage cut to be able to compete with the non union mines. The non union mines are working 40 per cent of the time, on an average not much better than the union mines. A reduction of wages in the union field would re- sult in a like reduction in the non- union field and both fields would be relatively worse off. Wage cuts must be fought against and a campaign of education thruout the district mu be started against wage cuts the miners papers and in all oth available ways. An increase in wages & necessary ‘o meet the increased cost of living nd this end the campaign must be started. Subscribe for the DAILY debe Leninism, the application of Marxism | THEORY AND in the present period of imperialism, PRACTICE is splendidly treated here by a close OF co-worker of Lenin, and at present secretary of the Russian Communist By |. Stalin. 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Loe rf Ht i 3 2 pack : Pr wee gE 38 : BF eh8 ay a FF Bee cee 8 g f i AL — a ee Le F jeeF E a & e aa ee Se ——— YOUTH ARME SCHOOLS TO TRAIN Militarize U.S. to Break votes NEW YORK, May 24.—‘Industrial troubles” is one of the reasons Séo- retary of War John Weeks, cites to support compulsory military training in schools, asserts Brent Dow Allison, secretary hational studefts’ forum. Allison is one of an investigating scommittes representing various youth and peace organizations which plans to call a conference next month to seek action on what Allison calls the “conspiracy of the war department ' to put over compulsory military train- ing without having to go to congress for a law.” _ Weeks’ statement that compulsory military training is necessary because ‘of pousible industrial troubles is con- tained in a letter of which the com- Pate ittes has a copy. About 12,000 seo- schools and 675 universities ., Sad oolleges in the country, Allison _ estimates, now have military frain- fg. In many it is compulsory for degrees. In some universities and col- _ leges the second two years, non-com- pulsory, is paid for at soldiers’ wages. Full details of the giant conspiracy to militarize the youth of the coun- try, acoustom them to war psychology and standardise thinking will be made public at the oonference of interested organizations and action against the conspiracy sought. Allison believes that the situation now is worse than before the last war, with the draft law therely suspended and the espionage the deciaion. ! The conferenéde Oh youth and war in which 22 national organisations participated made olear that a large body of the nation’s young people do n6t want war. Conservative, liber- al and radical organisations of all shades joined in the conference in rapping the citizens’ military train ing camps and in resolving to push . peace education in schools. Human Sandhogs | Tie Up Work on Big New York Tunnel Job NEW YORK, (FP)—Sereral hun-| dred members of the Compressed: Air Workers’ Union are carrying on a strike—now in its second month— against Booth & Piynn, contractors, 6n the Hudson Vehicular Tinsel Job. | The men are striking for a continu- ance of the pay rate of §7 to $8.50 a day they received while the com- pressed alr work (samdhogging) was going on. Employers attempted to out them down to laborers’ rate. The ‘finishing work on the tunnel, says Joseph McPartilan, secretary of the re fuse to accept any cut. The union has defeated Booth and Fiynn in three ‘ptrikes, one previous strike on the present job, and strikes on the 14th St, Bast River tunnel and the second Hast River interborough Rapid Tran- sit tunnel, and he is confident of again winning. In addition to the finishing work that is being tied up operations on a new power house on the New Jersey side, with 48 oaissons to be dog, are also at a standstill. Class in Leninism By Max Shachtman Every Monday Night The Douglas Park English branch will conduct a class on Leninism every Monday at 3118 W. Roosevelt Road. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker and member of the national executive committee of the Young Workers League, will conduct this clase. If you are interested and want to keep posted on the most vital subject of the day, you cannot afford to miss this class. Class starts at 8,15 p. m. Get a sub for the DAILY WORKER from your shopmate and you will make another mem: ber for your branch. AA AAA A BDA BABA BAA BAA A AAA AAA ASD AAS D a ae weed MOSCOW TO PEKING, NEXT MONTH MOSOOW, U. S&S. 8. R., May 24—The Soviet Union will conduct the first airplane flight from Moscow to Peking with five of the latest type alrplanes constructed by the Soviet Union. distance ie 6,600 miles. in dune. The flight will be undertaken The The flight Is the first step in closer relations by means of more direct contact between China and the Soviet Union. OLGIN GIVES HIS LAST LECTURE ON THE RUSSIAN “THEATER THIS TUESDAY Moissaye J. Olgin will give his second lecture on Modern Russian Theater and Art on Tuesday, May 26, 8 p. m., at the Workers’ School, 108 East 14tth street. This will conclude the series of lectures on the Russian revolution which Comrade Olgin hae been giv- ing at the school. Great Enthusinem in Pittsburgh- for the World Language PITTSBURGH, Pa.—About seventy comradés @nhjoyed the most unique af- fair ever held in our movement in America, a Communist Ido banquet. On the walls of ‘the Greek Hall several signs were hanging with appropriate text, such as “Workers of the World Unite, said Karl Marx.” “In order to unite we must understand each other,” adds the Communist Ido Fed- eration. “Correspond with comrades in every country by means of Ido. Korespondez kun. kamaradi en omna landi per Ido.” “Read Ido 15 min. every day. Lektez Ido 15 min, omn- adie,” etc. | The chairman, Com. Careathers, op- ened the banquet, with a few words explaining the world language idea, pointing out, that the diversity of lan- guage is one of the props that support the capitalist system and that this movement aims to abolish the same. Thereafter he announced that prob- ably for the. first time in America “The International” was to be sung in Ido by @ group of singers. The audi- ence rose, while the well-known air combined with the clear Ido words filled the hall. The last words of the refrain, Frati, audes la signalo Laste brave kombatar, La Internacionalo Sucesos parvinkar. were followed by, a thundering ap- plause. , e ~The ehairmen then remarked, that among other objections, it is some- times claimét, that an “artificial” lan- guage can not be spoken. In order to give the audience an opportunity to judge for ftwelf, he introduced the Ido speaker, €0m. A. Rostrom. With greatest attention and with an air of surprise the audience listened to the speaker, who for fifteen minutes spoke quite fluently in this so-called “artifi- clal” language. After a talk in English by Careath- ers ten minutes speeches followed in Croatian, Finnish, Greek, Italian and Jewish. The speakers who are all well known party members explained the need of world language movement. A s0ng was given by some Italian comrades, in their mother tongue. Another attractive point on the pro- gram was a song in Greek and “a In- ternacionalo” (In Ido) by a small nine-year old boy. A resolution on the world language question was also adopted. After the banquet the present mem- bers of the Ido group had a picture taken. During the whole evening a wonderful spirit of comradeship pre- valled.—James Sifakis. The Boot and Shoe Is the Same Today, Tomorrow and Always MONTRBAL, Que., Rochester was selected for the next convention of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union at its annual convention here today on motion of Carleton N. Durbin of Ro- chester. All general officers and the metibership of the general executive board were re-elected. in our : INEW YORK REDS TAKE TO HILLS | FOR HOLIDAY NEW YORK, May 24—A Red two- day excursion to the mountains, con- cludes the Red May Feast, according \o the decision of the Central Bureau Russian Section W. P. A. The excursionists will leave New York on the steamer “Aida” (Christo- pher St. and 11th Ave. pler 48) on Triday, May 29, 8 p. m. A concert will be given on the steamer begin- ning 9.80 p. m. in which best artists will participate. After the concert dancing with a first-class orchestra. Flying mail, fireworks, etc. till 2.20 &. m. Each excursionist gets a cabin for retirement. On Saturday, May 30 (Decoration Day) automobile ride up the mountan- ins at 7 a. m. Beautiful views falls, forests, etc. At 10 a. m. they will reach camp “Ottis” (2000 feet above sea-level). Each excursionist gots a ulce separate room at the camp. Hiking, fishing, rowing. At 8 p. m. there will be a show with best thea- trical talent of N. Y. C. In conclu- ments. On Sunday, May 31st, at 8 a..ma general expedition to the mountains. At 5 p. m. the excursionists will go in automobiles to the steamer. They will arrive in New York Monday at 1 a. m. The number of tickets is limited. For tickets apply to the “Novy Mir,” 30 Union Square. Price of ticket $4.25 (round trip, sleeper and camp lodg- ing). ‘Baby Farm’ Infant Was Sold to Woman for $75 NEW YORK, May 24.—The Giesen- Volk baby farm case took a new turn today when it was learned from the district attorney's office that a baby from the infantorium was sold to the wife of a New York clothing manw- facturer for $75. Ths wife, Mrs. Nat Bass, confessed to the police that she took the few days’ old infant beside her in a bed in Mrs. Geisen-Volk’s in- sion dancing, games and other enjoy-, TEEL TRUST : ' HELL TOWN — B Dependent on eel Barons By SANDE, Worker Correspondent. PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 24. — Mo- nessen is Ofe of many steel towns, in western Pennsylvania, which is owned and controlled by the steel trust as all Steel towns are. It is lo cated on t Monongahela, about 45 on ttsburgh. No unions of in this dump for union- ism is a Heresy here. It's principal workshops bli-holes) are a seam- less tube il], a steel mill, a tin mill The three banks in Monessen are owned by the different mills so that even the Workers’ meager savings are used by the bosses. A Gang of Babbits. It has a board of trade, composed of shyster ness men and officials of the Nnills, This body does everything its power to keep the norance by preaching fitalist bunk of “thrift, d@ above all, buy in Mo- the usual work hard nessen.” This gang of Babbitts were taught a@ severe lesson after the 1919 steel strike when thé workers boycotted the stores if Monessen for the part the busines& men played in refusing to let the strikers hold meetings. Look at This Speakers’ List. When this ganz holds a banquet each year they search the country for the biterést enemies of the work- ing class and pay him to speak. At its four batiquets it listened to the vomit of Setretary of Labor Davis, th enemy of the foreign-born work- ers; ex-Governor Allen of Kansas MAnti-Strike’ court “fame,” the man Alex Howat li¢ked: “Bill” Taft, labor hater and @GBief justice of the su- preme court, and ex-President Hard- ing, the trfkebreaking president. The mayor is a former official of the Pittsburgh Steel company and at pres- ent is a réalestate shark. In his elec- tion he wé# supported by the steel bosses and he in return is a very obedient servant in carrying out the anti-labor policy of the steel inter- ests. Coolidge Jealous of Influence of _ Saviet in.Far East a) et heey 3 MOSCOW,—(By Mail).—It is re- ported from London that the situation in the Far Bast is drawing ever keen- fantorium, in the desire to make her husband believe it was their own. Now, eight months since the decep- tion was carried out, with the “baby farm” investigations getting closer to the exposure of her plot and fear- ing the police Mrs. Bass confessed to her husband that their son, Nat Mar- ‘in Bass, was not their own. So far it was not learned whose child it is }and the infant has been put in charge of the Children’s Society since the husband could not be induced to keep the child after learning that it was not his own. U. S. 8. R. Winter Crops Good MOSCOW, May 24.—It is officially announced that certain apprehensions which had existed as to the partial destruction of winter crops have for- tunately proved to be unjustified, it being actually ascertained that, with the exception of a few districts in the lower basin of the Volga, the gen- eral condition of the winter crops is satisfactory thruout the country. — House-Warming Party in Borwneville. NEW YORK.—The Workers Party and Young Workers League branches of Brownsville have arranged a ban- quet for Saturday, June 13, in the new club rooms, 1844 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn. There will be a musical program, and also a journal, The Red Goat. All comrades are invited. Talk it up—your shopmate wil) subscribe! | or attention qmong the official circles (of the United States. It is said that | the British ambassador at Washing- ton has been charged to confer with President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg on the question of So viet-Chinese and Soviet-Japanese rela- tions. It is again: being mentioned, reference, that before leaving London on his way to the United States, Mr. | Kellogg had.an important meeting with Mr. Chamberlain, British foreign se- cretary who.urged the necessity of a common Chinese policy of England and the United States. It appears to be ascertained that in- asmuch as the official reports which have reached the state department from Peking and Tokyo dwelt with emo*asis on the growing influence of the wviet Union in the Far East, such reports have caused a great deal of anxiety in the American administra- tion. ie On the other hand, ever since the conclusion of the recent Soviet-Japan- ese treaty, Senator Borah and his friends have been consistently urging that the best way of solutioning the Far Eastern problems was to recogn- ize the Soviet Union without any fur- ther delay. ia. — South Buries Head In Past DALLAS, Tex. May 24.—The Gray- lad remnants of the armies of Lee and Jackson were assembling here today for the big parade, the feature of all | confederate reunions. ILY WORKER Y f . :' kh COAL INDUSTRY in antrracite. organize soft coal. He could then restrict production un- til high prices made huge profits on the investment of the wealthy owners. Good Time to Clean Up Financiers now consider the soft coal industry ripe for similar consoll- dations. Says Paul Wooton in Coal Age, another trade journal, “Property values in coal have been liquidated to the vanishing point. Sometime during the present depression there will be a low point. ‘Consolidations made at that low point would have an early chance to profit as values recover.” * » The Pittsburgh Coal Co., the largest consolidation in the field, has closed its last union mine. Its union mines normally employ about 12,000 men. These are now idle. Out To Cut Wages This move is avowedly an attempt to starve the miners into submission. Letters sent to the miners and the local nespapers by’ Vice President Dodson, appointed to do the dirty work for the Mellon brothers, state definitely that the company is “endea- voring to bring about a change in con- ditions” and .that it thinks the Nov- ember 1917 wage scale would go a long way towards giving the men steadier work and higher earnings. This would mean a reduction of about one-third in the union scale. Pittsburgh coal men express sur- prise at the way the miners are hold- ing out. For the past 2 months opera- tions in the district have been below one-third full-time. For the past coal year they have been little better than one-third of full-time. “In the circum- stances,” says the Black Diamond cor- respondent, “it seems strange that there has not been more unrest. The operators feel that the miners have had an object lesson that should be convincing as to the impracticability of the high union scale, but just what they do think is another matter.” Cold-Blooded About It Looking into Ohio the secretary of the Pittsburgh Vein Operators Asso- ciation speaks with satisfaction of the progress of the hunger cure in that staté. “Ohio miners,” he says, “are standing with their backs to the wall. When a man grows hungry and his children cry for proper nourishment it is only natural that something must happen. It has been clearly demon- strated that the central competitive field cannot successfully compete with the nonunion fields of West Virginia and Kentucky.” , sh in this Out of 140 mines in Eastern Ohio about 50 are operating, many of them ‘only one or two days a week. Summer | prospects for Central Ohio are that five out of 30 mines will operate. Pro- | duction in Southern Ohio ts estimated at around 13 to 15 per cent of normal. - -— oe - Three Races Strike Against Price Cut of Fish Canneries -— —--— New Westminster, B. C., May’ 24.— ~White, Indian and Japanese fisher- men on the Fraser river numbering upwards of 1,000 are tieing up 700 fishing vessels in protest against a eut in fish prices made by the boss canners. Fish buyers are attempting to cut the price of salmon from l4c to 8c a pound and the fishermen declare they will accept no less than 10c a pound. All the fishermen on the Fraser river have banded together to resist. | Fishing companies of British Col- umbia have been crying poverty. Last scason, however, a number of canner- ies not only paid heavy running ex- penses but showed operating profits, and this yeer, British Columbia fish i | | wil practically be assured the com- plete market of the Antipodes. So ws sd a ) ee MORGAN INVITED TO TRUSTIFY or. a. — . . AS OPERATORS USE HUNGER TO BREAK UNION By LELAND OLDS (Federated Presse Industrial Editor) The attempt to starve out union coal diggers supplements the attempt of the financial interests to squeeze out the many small mine owners and secure their properties for consolidation at bargain prices. orghnize bituminous coal trusts similar to those enforcing monopoly prices Financiers are out to Black Diamond, the coal trade journal, again calls for a Morgan to Morgan, it says “by a systematic procedure or a con- trolling interest in corporations effected the organization of practically 80 oe —s per cent of the anthracite tonnage.” ~ — writing to Abe iT. U. B. L. sports 19 8. Lincoln St. Controversy Blocks Work of Trade Union Educational League The Chicago Trade Union Bduca- tional League is divided over numer- ous controversial matters that are shaking the league to its foundation. This, of course, cannot be allowed to continue, and the local executive com- mittee has decided to liquidate all differences. This will be accomplished on May 80th so that a uhited league can go forward in the fight to make the unions real organs of the class struggle. The controversial matters are not on the question of policy but rather of a physical nature. They arose over the announcement that one of the main features of the annual T. U. B. L. picnic would be “Workers’ Sports.” Workers’ Sport Lead At first the main event of the pic- nic was supposed to be a lecture by Wm. Z. Foster on his recent experi- ence in Russia, with Wm. F. Dunne as chairman. Despite the fact that Foster has just returned after an ex- tended tour thru Soviet Russia, and also the keen interest that all milit- ants have in the first Workers’ Re- public, this event, worth the admis- sion price alone, has become of sec- ondary importance. In fact so keen is the competition in the sports events, that it was found necessary to start them at 10 a. m. This will begin with a Volley Ball game between two teams from the Young Workers League, and will be followed by an indoor ball game be- tween the T. U. E. L. and the Y. W. L. Are You Ready? For an hour the Juniors will held the center of the stage, In a march and demonstration and a series of games. One of the features of the ‘Juniors sports will be an indoor ball game between a team of children from the west side and a colored team of children from the south aside. The losers have to buy the ice cream. Hammer Drill Without Hammersmark Extra events to the general run of picnic sports will be the Hammer Drill! by the Finnish Athletic Association and a wrestling exhibition between J. Paivinen of Chicago, amateur welter champion of the central states, and P. Kohko, of Waukegan. This will be followed by a tug of war between the building trades and. the metal trades groups. Oh, Girls! Not to be out done, the girls are on the job. Billy Ramloff made the bold challenge that her team of ten husky girls can pull any other team that cares to accept the challenge, all over the picnic grounds. Emma Blech- schmidt says that her gang of hefty belles will have something to say be- fore the shouting is over. Both teams are in secret training—ice cream and candies are barred. ‘ Singing—Dancing and Eats Then, there is the Scandinavian Dancing Club in Folk and exhibition dances. The Freiheit Singing Society, foot races, bag, three-legged and pea- nut rolling races. Dancing from 3:45 to 8 p. m. to the music of Lethching- ers’ Union Orchestra. Oh, yes! and SOFT drinks Steve Rubicki wlll serve them with the sandwiches. Any groups or individual who wish to challenge at any sport may do so by Harris, director of We expect everybody from Grand- Pap to Junior to be on hand for the biggest time ever. Don't forget! De- coration Day, May 30th, 1926, at the ALTENHEIM GROVE. Take Madison St. Car and transfer to suburban car | to end of line, or take Forest Park “L” to end of line. 50c. admits you to —~—wrrrrerrrrrrrrrrrrerrrvrererererrerrrrrrvrrrvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreee.rmer eer TT eT Teer Tee eee ~wewrwft''''''T,T'''"-"rrryryeweewwvvvvrvwvwvreweyrereryerererrrfrtgfgfg,tTtTTTTTTTTS ee it F&O deus tisha Page Three d CHILD LABOR FOE GRABBING ~ POWER RICHTS Connecticut Boss in Legislative Clover HARTFORD, Henry Roraback, already known to DAILY WORKER readers as the poli- tical boss of Connecticut Who enge neered the crushing defeat of the child labor amendment in the state legislature, is showing how disinter ested capitalist politicians are, His name is méntioned in senate — bill 587 as one of the three incorpora- tors, of the Connecticut Blectric Ser vice Co., the others being Randal Mor gan, a Philadelphia capitalist, and William P. Putnam, a Hartford se curities broker. The bill is proceed- ing merrily thru the legislative mill, already having received the blessing of the senate committee on incorpora- tion. Electrical Monopoly. The Connecticut Electric Service company, under the proposed bill, would have the right “within afd with- out the state, to purchase, lease oF otherwise acquires electricity and ita products, including light, heat. and power,” and to sell service to other electric companies, street railway companies, individuals, ete. It is a blanket franchise te act ag an electric company, or as an inter- mediary, compelling all other com- panies to pay tribute to it for power coming from outside the state. The company is authorized to start with $50,000 subscribed capital. Our Readers’ Views | Finds Food for Thought To the DAILY WORKER: — The Statement of Harrison George In May 16, special Magasine Supplement about the 129 millions balance of trade in favor of Russia for 10924 speaks volumes. It is my apprehen- sion, that the Saturday Supplement is not studied enough by readers and party members. Am I correct? If so it might be best to have same reprint- ed in some daily issue. It is a wonder ful record. Who would ever think that such a set of dreamers, socalled quarrelers and trouble makers, could run a country with a heterogenous body, a conglomeration of so many nationalities so successfully at @ close of protracted civil: war, and having the whole capitalist world ag its enemy. In 1923 already her railroads were run much better than Poland’s. The latter country was backed by France England and America. At the same time these three countries were try- ing hard to stab Russia in the back. As an instance will say that at War- saw, Poland, no hotel room was ob- tainable without paying a tip or a bribe in advance. This was in 1928. In looking for a room at a hotel op- posite the Vienna Depot, I learned, that the hotel was occupied by the French military. Willany American citizen answer the question what are they doing there. In entering the diner on the way from Warsaw to Prague, one heard mostly French spo ken, hardly any Polish. With all that they could not balance their own bud- |, get. But Russia did. France hag not pr : done it as yet in spite of her loans obtained. Germany is balancing her | budget since she received her loan | (if | am correct). Austria is pest bankrupt and so are most of eapital ist European countries. But Resgia’ like a poor energetic busthess men is. honestly working hard, paying her) debts, sending her children to schools, | feeding and nursing them well, ° | ing how to improve conditions for the , laborer in the factory, giving the | laborer a vacation with pay and build ing up a home for the whole nation. | We Americans have a lot to learn from those ignorant peasants. We progressives can benefit by studying, |her ways of action as have the bialo- 'gists learned by studying the Ants and é Bees. Let us all ald in spreading tras ;~* reports of Russian progress with every means possible at our command. Onward marching workers!—A Steady | - WARE UPI THE Liste . No. 4 —with practical written by the DAILY WORKER. By Wm. F. Dunne. The first American book on this subject of increasing importance suggestions— editor of the No. 3 WORKER CORRESPON- PRINCIPLES OF COM- DENTS MUNISM WHATT WHERE? Engels’ Original Draft of the Communist Manifesto. WHEN? WHY? The first appearance The first formulation ment. Translation and historical notes by Max Bedacht. of a great historical document. ciples that guide a world move- An in English of the prin- 10 CENTS EACH participated closely in this de- schemes, B. & O. plan and work- —4 velopment. ers’ education. = & - > mT . 7 Daily W. ishing Co orker Publis . 12 COPIES FOR ONE DOLLAR 11138 W. 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SS At va oe : : erst +s RRS ae Mee , ie Eth ne + ‘ Tie am od AND OLLARS SENT TO mish SUFFERERS _ The Irish Workers and Peasants’ cee nine Relief Committee has cabled _* the first one thousand dollars for the relief of the famine stricken people of the west of Ireland. This money will be devoted to purchasing food and other necessities for the workers and peasants in the famine region. Distribution will be superviséd by Mrs, Helen Crawfurd and Robert oe ee » ~ WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) the Communists. There is no sugges-| tion as to how the American workers should effectively assist in the diffi- that is revolutionary in aim and in policy. . « 7 HE rubbish written by Dr. Thomas is sent out to hundreds of labor papers twice a month. There is not a spark from the class struggle in any of it. Thomas, like his patron saint Oswald Garrison Villard, is always looking for some opportunity to hand the capitalists a boquet. He praises By G. ZINOVIEV. V. The Fight for Trade Union Unity and the (Continued from last issue.) The Slogan of Trade Union Unity put Forward by Comintern. Nobody, I think, will dispute the correctness of the general policy laid down by the fifth congress on this question. It is true that our oppon- ents in the right wing of the Comin- tern considered that the resolution of the fifth world congress on the trade International ] achieve trade union | un sider that where unions exist, we must every possible worker at the same time we must continu e fight for trade union unity. To dissolve with a to win over formist trade unions, would be a gross mistake. £ The Anglo-Russian committee has not yet been formed, but the latest reports regarding the preparations for its formations are of a favorable na- ture.*) The right Amsterdamers are apparently rather alarmed at the de- cisions of the British summon an official conference in hetion with the Russian trade . We stick trade Aten is closely bound up with the four factors above énumerated. A new breeze is blowing in the British la- bor movement. In my opinion Max Beer is right ‘when, in revelwing the ing affected by the failure of the class- ic tactics of the trade unionists and by the old fighting method of the la- bor party. The failure of the old trade unionist tactics is also not acci- dental. It is not due to the defects of the leaders or to the errors they committed, but to the fact that Great Britain is losing her monopolist posi- tion in the world market and that her influence and the influence of her col- social democrats have made up their minds to go into the rural districts; they are not averse to tasting a piece of “Leninism.” They declare that Lenin was right in insisting upon an alliance with the peasantry. Lenin, the Otto Bauer. For the labor party it would be objectively a step forward to turn its face to the countryside, strike .a blow at the conservatives, and push its roots into the rural pop- ulation. Comintern has Found.the Key to the Problem of the British Labor Movement. Our trade union campaign is a vi- tal campaign; it has a big future be- RESULTS IN BIG STEEL TOWNS ult task of = W | wi “ aig agp pgp sabato British Labor gesture our red trade organiza-| British labor movement of the, past | of course, regarded that alliance some orkers Take Holiday enemy. Nothing but the animus of a Movement setae” pm an import: /fow years, he says that the-situation | what differently from Otto.Bauer. We} tg Plear Whiteman yellow occidlidk dnatust thé only party + ant force in com swith the re-/of the British working class is be-| know the price of the “Leninism” of case (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. (By Mail).— Large audiences of Negro and white workers greeted Lovett Fort- White- man.who is touring the Youngstown sub-districts, speaking in behalf of the American Negro Labor Congress. Large audiences trom Wellsvilie and East Liverpool greeted Whiteman and union question was essentially contra-|to our former policy an@ #hall contin- | onies is meeting with greater and | fore it. because it is-in living, organ- the congress is now on a firm footing sl stewart. The latter is secretary of Stanley Baldwin, British tory premier | ajctory to the other resolutions adopt-|ue to fight for the @hiEP BF the trade | greater opposition, which is acéelerat- ie contact with the processes which | im the steel and pottery section. 7 pe the Irish section of the Workers’ In- | for his action in giving a goodly part out Negro k joined with thefi ternational Relief otis Gentene to th : aft ed by it. They regarded the correct-| union movement without *funning to|ing the pace of the class struggle | are proceeding within the British la- egro workers ed w eir | e . a 9 ” eae cae aner | ness of our position on this question | either of the extremes, “We shall car- | in Britain and is awakening the mass-| bor movement and with the progres-| WHite brothers in applauding the pro- Despite many obstacles the work | the war, in order to help the treasury. | 4. an “accident.” Events have since|ry on the struggle evémywhere, even |es of the British proletariat to a new | sive tendencies developing within it, |®™@m of the congress and the steel i of the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ | And he did this, according to Thomas, proved that the trade union resolu-| in those places where we have our re-| life. For many years Engels sought the workers look to the congress as @ a Famine Relief Committee is showing | without “trying to capitalize his good | tion of the fifth congress is wholly | volutionary trade uvionkt great aid in uniting Negro and white ¥ results. Thousands of leaflets have | deeds for political purposes in an elec- . : gies To tis too, ig to be attributed the | Ker, 10 She: Brent, Seer te k inst all att ts of thei 8 ‘ . in accordance with the general tactics |New Factors in the @ritish Labor|trade union minority movement| bor movement. Marxism could find | ¥°™*®"S eng ei: aa My Sri veal vi been distributed thruout the country | tion. of the Comintern. There is no need M , masters to divide them on racial lines. “aor ee , ovementy* Tt: which has rallied 600,000 workers | no approach to the masses of the Bri- giving the story of the famine in de- therefore, at the present moment to! jprigtori , hile 47 around Communist ideas (and is con-|tish labor moventent, because the ob- In East Liverpool the Negro work- tail. The capitalist press and papers Y should not Stanley Baldwin, | qiscuss this quéstion in principle.| — storically, our whole trade union ; , ; ers laid off work for the day and made ‘i . ‘|campaign arose out of the position | SOlidating the official left wing of the | jective situation at that time did not favorable to the Irish Free State gov whose fortune is estimated at} What we now need is to draw up prac- boeie: wntneat ’ % th favor the sélution. of ths problem. | * holiday of it. In Youngstown a | ernment have followed a policy of | $30,000,000, give one fifth of his in-| tical instructions for our individual which has developed within the prt ‘ go ge Ph thay _| strong committee of action was organ- ps silence in regard to the famine, this forced our committee to: resort to the publication of leaflets on a large scale and also to advertising in the labor lief committee came from Miss Har- riet G. Flagg of Brookline, Mass. Miss famine relief activities thru Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties bureau and member of Our appeal is drawing response from every part of America, contribu- tions are coming even from distant Alaska. Not only have the American workers responded, but we have re- Zealand and reads as follows: “Comrades:—Enclosed please find account, which I use as a savings bank. “T hope that yon will get magnif- Flagg became interested in the Irish : come to his own government? If there is any thanks coming to him, the gratitude should bé expressed by members of his own class. Capitalists sides without regard to the interests of the system as a whole. If Thomas prays long enough he may yet convert Stanley Baldwin, Charlie Schwab and John D. Rockefeller and make them hit the sawdust trail. . . . even tho their erstwhile admirers no longer contribute very generously to the monarchists’ coffers. The poor things are not taken very seriously nowadays, but once in a while an in- who keeps an of- Besides a box of rian and financier” fice on Fifth Ave. wear and lack of jaw exercise on starches, and proteins. + o i does not know that the Czar’s throne fraternal parties. The most popular of all slogans, the slogan of the fight for imvernational on the trade union question in the process of being put into effect, may be liable to the same two dangers to which the tactics of the united front in general are liable. This is particu- larly evident in France and Czecho- these tactics as an unimportant man- euver, as tho the whole affair consist- ed in writing open letters to social democrats and letting everything else take care of itself. The other danger strong or even stronger revolutionary trade unions exist. That is the other ary unions are the easier it will be to tish labor movement. new fac tors which are making theihselves felt fn the international labo? movement originated in England?® The factors being shaken. These two factors alone are of tre- mendous importance. The second fac- tor, in spite of the fact-that is only just becoming apparent, is already making its influence felt upon the whole economic and political position ileged position. It is therefore by no means acciden- tal that a delegation of the British trade unions recently visited Russia Rar a eer RAEN Toe *) Since this speech Was delivered DAILY WORKER.—Editor’s rote. and reported compatatively cape 3 other, facilitated the establishing of Anglo-Russian friendship. The British Labor Party and the Rural Districts. diate future are good. It has designs on the countryside. At present it is solely an urban party. At the’ last elections it obtained 52 seats out of 93 in industrial constituencies, and only 38 out of 230 in rural constitu- cline of the prestige and influence of its inert leaders in the rank§ of the minority movement and even of the Communist Party (especially in work- ing centers and industrial districts) tives, the strengthening of the posi- tion of the labor party in these dis- “Into the countryside.” The Austrian Lenin also sought the key. You re- member how at the second congress a discussion arose as to whether it was advisable to enter the labor party zie not only in the period of Marx and Engels and in the period of the Second International. It seems to me that, thanks to Lenin, the Third In- ternational has found the key. Be- fore our eyes a new situation is de- munist Party into a mass partv. The circulation of the weekly paper which our comrades in England have just begun to issue, has exceeded all our expectations. The young British Com- fact that the British Communists have adopted the right path, along which (To be continwed.) . >. The following is a list of donations to the Irish famine fund received in Mary E. Broughton, Philadelphia... 5.00 A. Planeart, San Francisco, Calif... ized and under its direction the con-*” gress will go ahead. The steel and pottery workers — send a strong delegation to the co trade union unity, was pat forward b thos " or not. That was not a question of and liberal press. of the Stanley Baldwin type are much | the Comintern. With this the Com-| wesitie he Sanne ageonnet A tangled situation is developing | organization; we were pabhing the . aes ge ee ee See A Generous Donation more dangerous to the working class munist International’ made a great [is losing her monopolil#t ‘ position in| @ Britain. The labor party, in its) key to the solution of the problem ae - rs ated The heaviest contribution received |™OVement than common frauds like | stey forward. We must observe that the world market. ©2" The colonial) P'®se"t form, is hardly likely to per-| of the British labor movement. The hie - hp nthe we Saige im to date at the offices of the Irish re- Horatio Bottomley, who rob on all | jy certain countries the correct policy power of Britain is s sist. But its prospects for the imme-| British labor movement was a puz- f Sg ao oe A eee astic about the much needed work being carried on by the congress and the fearless championing of the work- ers’ cause in a section of Ohio where the Kk, K. K. rules supreme, our national committee. These five weer ia - Slovakia, and to a lesser extent in/of Great Britain. 3. The class strug-|°™°!es- |! think that we shall be wit-| vejoping in the British labor meve- Coolidge Machine on hundred dollars were immediately R. ee on Coe | oemee GUmmirene, gle is becoming more acute. 4. The nessing a two-fold phenomenon in the/ ment and the conditions will finally Trade Commission in cabled for use in the famine region. tributing to the gaiety of nations; no frst danger lies in regarding | labor aristocracy is losing its priv-|/#>or Party; firstly, the gradual de-| pe created for transforming our Com- Plot to Wreck it WASHINGTON, May 24.—Dismissal of nearly 100 persons constituting the economics staff of the federal trade quring reporters with a sense of the | jies in going to the other extreme and | on our revolution. Thisfs BY n and secondly, the growth of the influ-| munist Party is “moving forward ceived a check for $25.00 from New | osaicuious, locates a monarchist nest ee Red pers ence of the labor party in the small I : ¥ commission. is the next move Zeeland and a letter which deserves advocating the hurried and uncondi- | to be attributed to the personal quali- apace. It is progressing thanks, first, | which the Coolidge majority in the reproduction here. The letter is from and has a little fun “with ate contents. | tional entrance into the reformist | ties of the representatives of the Bri-| t°W™S8 and rural districts. to the change in the objective condl-| commission is expected to take, to Arthur McCarthy, of Dunedin, New Enter Percy Jay Fuller, “humanit@-|trage unions even - where just as|tish labor movement @#* question, to In the light of historical perspec-| tions of Britain, and second, to the prevent further investigation of methods of big business concerts toward their competitors and the con- at ' dole toward your fund cigars, the other equipment of Mr./ extreme. I have heard that certain | the Anglo-Russian Tradé‘Union Unity| tricts will objectively be a progres-| they will proceed to the conquest of suming public. Commissioners Van Seeneers =O ‘|Fuller’s office are several human etas in Caacho® : ' The check {s drawn from my firm's comrades in Czecho-Slovakia even be-| Committee has been formed end the! sive move. Not so long ago Otto|the majority of the British prole Fleet, Hunt and Humphrey are report- beings, looking much the worse for | jjeve that the weaker red revolution-| results of its work published in the| Bauer in Austria, issued the slogarf} fariat. ed to be preparing to wipe out the personnel on which the work of inves- tigation of business scandals depends. cat Feonee ftom the worker.“ | Facxuem ts enaaged m tne sk ot DONATIONS FOR IRISH RELIEF ness” 114 Snag ls Sm [Rew scenic ats a sympathy from the other classes is preparing for the restoration to Brooklyn, N.Y. scsscssisssesesssveeoceseson 5.00| Max Muns (Br. 299 W. C.), Bronx -6.00| 2662 employed, under civil service se emeduny rar amy sore |g Bt ys corns a COME FROM ALL PARTSIOF U. S.|:--h-3. 8s: sser=gohe= {S| 17 Sttce Sh RL | 8 eer te soc Se that I have regretfully come to the! i) viadimirovitch, -who probably oa oer. Pl. Zilway, Pedro Mivocrcesn 4.85 Thomas Dee, New Brunswick. NJ. 3.05 signed them by the federal trade. act conclusion that only the workers | ~ . lis K. Sandelien, Marquette, Mich.. 4.75 | George Sigmund, Eureka, Calif 10.00| —the gathering of evidence of frauds themselves can remedy their wrongs.” | . Bray eee s001T R. and other means of unfair competi- is now being used by a_ bootblack. Frederick Rammerstein,. Brooklyn.. 3. J. Thurstein, ren K. 1.00 the office 1.00 | F 9| tion and the presenting of this evi- Depend On Heaven This remarkable individual declares from A Pag pone or ee Posstnt (ee ae ieee ae lkeett Obie 5.00 hee Skadae. Kloten. H. D York City RR dence to the ter Laur for its ah It must not be assumed, however, |that he does not need money, that D D g J. F. Kaiser, Bartlesville, Okla........ 5.00 | H. W. Williams, Stateniskind, N.Y. 5600 in disciplining the offender The { “ ; This | ceived since then, which will be published shortly. All contributions to re- | Richard Stiegler, Newark, Le totre 1.00) J. J. Me Dougall, Concrete: Wash... 2.00 D g tne enders. ® in- that there is a unanimous free res- | his own resources are sufficient. is a iat A: Breaman, Thor, M., ¥...... 5.00} A. Bacher, Bronx, N. ¥. 3.00| vestigation of the lawlessness. ban. ponse to our appeal for aid. The | fact alone should clinch the:conviction | eve the distress of the Irish famine victims should be sent i imediately tO | Mary Holliday Mitchell, Fail ‘River. Rs Joseph Mittelmeier, Chicago, Ill...u.... 2.00! aitry and wholesale chushine-ont of following excerpt form the exceptions |that he is insane. The -idea of aj the Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Relief Committee, 19 South Lincoln P o cone cesaesecs 4 | oo e - contributions to 19 8S. Liscoln St., Chicago, Il. Textile ovens Get So Much Profits They Reinvest in in | Germany PATERSON, N. J.—Botany Consoli- Gated Mills, the American textile con- gern which bas been edvancing capital German mills, reports a 1924 profit $1,721,298. This represents 317 a on 100,000 shares of Class A or a return of 34 per cent. The foroign deal was mado possible large surplus profits. It consisted ® loan of $2,000,000 to Kammgarn- i, Stoehr & Co. and the #£l- der Textilowerke, two of the ~ aost important textile concerns in Wurope. Tho loan gives Botany a long- germ option to acquire a 50 per cent interest in a holding company to con- \ @pol those two concerns which in turn 1 dver $0 plants in Germany, ing conditions aboard whaling ves- seis owned by the Consolidated Whal- ing Co. A few hours before the first three vessels of the company’s whal- ing feet set out for the whdling grounds, the crews were informed that the bonus on each whale would be ro- duced from $3 to $2. The men inform- ed the company that new crews would have to be signed and after some har- anguing, the boss agreed to pay all seamen at the old schedule which call- ed for $80 a month wages and no bonus for firemen, and $50 a month and $3 bonus on each whale caught, for sailors. The company claimed that the Sei whales caught were not as profitable as sperm wales but the men pointed | out that the number of whales caught | increased each year. The seamen also | got the right of checking off dues from wages of seamen joining the un. ion for the first time and then signing on as members of whaling crews. for the working class—and will, hold the deep interest o country a book of children’s stories like these. 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atti, Minn, slats. ay, ten TUNION BARBERS MUST TURN OUT THURSDAY EVE Redétion Needs Lick- ing Once More PLUTES GATHER HERE TO FORM WAR AIR FLEET >, | = Commercial Planes to Be i o.. Made on War Lines An casetsliniy ta Nghted airway ex- tending from Chicago to New York "AND PEASANTS ON SIGHT—DEATH LIST APALLING SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 24— For more ro. than one and half years, since Zankoy at the head of 4 military clique conquered the government of Bul- garia, murder has been ruling in fhe country. All followers of the govern- ment of Stambulinski, the peasants and the workers, are brutally perse- outed and murdered. Inhuman tortures must be suffered by all those who fall inte the hands of the authorities. 3 Justice, law and morale—nothing of these exists in Bulgaria for the workers and peasants; there is only one iaw—that of brutal violence against TRO cen HAN U.S. ‘SAYS GOTO _ Jap Vinésont for Close ms with Russ ‘Oo BUILDERS AT. WORK A NEW CHALLENGE HURLED The Progressive Barbers of Chica- tinued from page 1 (Continu page 1) go who have been charged with “con- even after thé convention of January ite and eventually from coast to coast! ali oppenents of the Zankov govern —| 20, 1925, was signed, the Japanese nina ~ perncinsttgre = on cx ta- and from Mexico to Canada over ment. courageous followers of these ideas chauvinists ; and made frantic i a vagina ° it nei eas the mem- “& which scores of planes will fly day} ‘here is no free speech, no right of | .. wel) as their organizations must be| Sfforts to put obstacle in the way of Important Political Battl e Exp e ct e d ah ge sine (eu * 43 and night, carrying consignments of organization, Who wants to live hon- annihilated, Lists of these people practical execution of the agreement. a p at * é Pies nf me he fretght and express for delivery on | egtly, is attacked by falsifications, mal- mwas. be compile 4 es-auietiy as pos However, as they met with a wide- union to take place on May a at 58. . either coast within eight hours, was/ treatment, spies, etc. and if no evi- sible so that in the moment of attack| spread na movement in Japan, E are forced to admit that we have politicians among our builders. The reactionaries prea P . a : nd - predicted today as secrecy surround-| demoe against him can be provided, he against them all leaders can be killed, which ap of the Soviet-Japan- Not hopeful, expectant and budding politicians but real full blown the ae et a genie hee ie AD nd z, ing the organization of the $10,000,000 | ig brutally murdered and his body without consideration whether they| ese conve ust concluded, the si- ones. And now among them, two outstanding figures in recent battles. aed: 4 yisre ey age of chai ng e vieinueee peehirinee® iar) = aden List Appalling are guilty or not. In places where re- erg “gin eae ed not satisfied with challenging capitalism begin to challenge each other. |... na! snatitad sie it was possible > ss ’ . ,| the better, nfluence of the i > es sir Service over this modern speedway| The list of the victims of the bloody Nye ae ne og ee ap ag chauvinists , Ricker Comenee Cyril Lambkin believes in gunning for big game and here to maintain opinions contrary to those as Me a nega Ng Anarene sot | ls his notice: of the officials. rO- will be inaugurated early in the fall| regime of Zankov bombing is appall- hide them, must be ruthlessly killed. A nite’. Bellet s - er when the Chicago-New York lnk will) mg. In February, 1935 slone the fob |The same applies to their femilies.| 4) ss. Ri te oe tee ONE POLITICIAN CHALLENGES ANOTHER hinge Mi spdOrgraintiion thers Ais a be put into operation and within a/ lowing persons were murdered: W. Their houses must be burnt down.” 6, their influence 3 : prove that the progressives have ad- te year, it is thought air contact will be| W. Ivanoff, arrested on Feb, 11, in teat is vacillating. However, it will vanish DETROIT, Mich.—In the recent state elections vocated at any time the disruption of oir : established with every principal city| Sofia by the secret police, strangled - will y hes Tag wy i the | neosether an@-the chauvinistic coun- in Michigan | was a candidate for Justice of the the union, the officials assert that such sei" | im the nation. According to the tenta-| and his body thrown in the street, |™°t" Sle ne for ats OF sebror eee Te cower rapproach- Supreme Court, and received over 7000 votes, is the case. rk- 7 tive program, planes will leave New| T. Strashimiroff, from Warna,'M. P., Pago pe ene the king and the ment between Japan and the Soviet | am sending two subs for the Daily Worker Eight Militants On Trial de York hightly at 9:30 and will arrive lawyer, murdered on Feb. 18 in one of minister of the Zankov government in Republics will, disappear only when thru Comrade Goetz, and challenge Comrade Ema- The progressives under charges are A in Chicago at 56 a.m. No passengers| the most crowded streets of Sofia. ER, the cathetinns Japanese ch, ists (and, for that nuel Levin of Los Angeles who received over 26,000 Joseph Giganti, Isador Eitingon, A. un- © gs will be carried. The planes will be| Gitcheva, Communist woman, com- : matter, the chauvinists of all coun- votes t6 ths. benent elections in hie clew.te bane ina D. Albright, Paul Petras, Amandus ons so constructed as to be easily convert-! mitted suicide according to statements| The Bulgarian workers and peas-| tries) co cease to believe} th ined y |Knoph, Wm. Wolkowski, Ben Polk, ed into war planes. fof the police on Feb. 22. On Feb. 12/ nts are fighting against annihilation. that the Third,({Communist) Interna- in the same proportion. and John Haas. The oficiales wane in No formal announcement concern-|in Harkova the member of the mu-| They are fighting for their life, tional and the Soviet government are Cyril Lambkin. suinmary expulsiol, ‘but it soeme ae m: ing the new organization had been/|nicipal coucil, Dimitri Sacharieff,| At present the Zankov government) one and same@,thing which belief, ad- ° 9 if the rank and file of the union are .s made today, but it became known that |member of the Traders associations, | intensifies its terror in order tomain-|ded the prominent Japanese states. Comrade Levin, Do You Accept: not as anxious as the officials to get > among those interested in it are Will- | was murdered. Treiko, Sgrishowski,| tain itself despite its acts of brutal-| man, was as.umwarranted and absurd ee es nay : : ' id of thelr wilitents. in iam Wrigley, Jr., Marshall Field IlI,; member of the municipal council in|ity. The increase of its army for/as it was, soto speak, superannuated. e e expectant world at large know the answer The trial committee appointed to si Bdsel Ford, the Curtiss Aeroplane and “see my ees uj BA ek Ss ised sco santana As “Until now,’ continues Viscount * «© @ @ investigate the charges held its ses- rk” Metor company and the Wright Aero- | ¥#SXaion, murdered in ppopel, f. -|Goto, “I thought that it was only in sion last Thursday, and is expected to nd nautical Corporation. Gaslaroff, murdered “whilst attempt | tonal bourgeoisie fears the revolt of Japan herself that there still existed ies wpb et ° ee” CAMPAIGN ; . bring in a verdict of not guilty. At rk- Coolidge Man General Manager. ing to escape.” Ch. Boyatchieff, sol-| the Bulgarian people. Some districts these subs were received from builders on May 22—Friday: obdurate chativinists who believed or, perhaps, professed to believe, that relations with the Union of Soviet So- clalist Republics would spell ruin to the Japanese people. Now, my obser- vation among the Japanese population residing in Matichuria have shown to least, that is the opinion of the de fendants, who when interviewed ex- pressed their faith in the fairness of the trial committee. Everybody Turns Out In view of our former experiences in similar cases we would recommend dier, murdered in Sofla on Feb. 18. L. Stroitchoff, died in the prison of Shumler from the tortures suffered. Angeloff, died in prison from maltreat- ment. Daveroff is said to have been poisoned for treason by another pris- oner. An unknown anarchist, mur- were conquered by the “rebels.” The struggle can only end with the com- plete annihilation of the toiling masses in Bulgaria or with the victory of the workers and peasants over the murder gangs of the military clique. Howard BH. Coffin, of the Hudson Mo- tor Oar company, Detroit, will head the new organization as president, ac- cording to reliable information, with Clement E. Keys, of the Curtiss Co., L NeW York, as chairman of the execu- DETROIT, MICH.—A. E. Goetz (10). ST. PAUL, MINN.—O. L. Johnson (4). LAWRENCE, MAS8S.—J. Beal (3). BALTIMORE, MDO.—Philip Chatzky (3). ENDICOTT, N. Y.-J. Golgory; Anthony Korbel. PHILADELPHIA, PA—Lena Rosenberg (2). that each member of the Chicago it tive committees. Col. Paul Hender-| dered Feb. 10, in a street in incur | ‘ me that here too, there are people OAKLAND, CALIF.—P. B. Cowdery. ot at the aaa som, second assistant postmaster gen-|w Pponeff, murdered in Shumlar on Could Not Trick the ; rn aa ‘a ® Union. of official rela- JAMESTOWN, N. Y.—W. Little. yaaa peerpecigy icy ange Rest - eral of the United States, will resign | reb. 16 by police agent, D. Margot.) Union into Scabbing “ dere FREDERICK, 8. D—Emil Nive. app saan lggin ie August 1, it is said, to become gen-/ on Feb. 9, by: an “unknown person.” U d id Cc . Soviets | Stable than VU. 8. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—S8. Globerman. 8 de eral manager. P. Margaroff, murdered in Feb, his} On Underpal hinese “Buch, views are deplorable, and I PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Raiph Komineky. viata’ Shi ed Sie dead boty, was. Spend, nee en ee indignanf;at them,” declared the - MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens. Shanghaied on Ship h Unknown, shot in a fight between po- , B. C., May 24~-When the | viscount emphatically, “the more so fm alm 4 to N. Y. Teaachers and licemen and persecuted workers. On} Chinese crew of the S. 8. Tatjana re-| that Soviet Russia has a stronger and cape ll ge Py Saree. of Sa on P ackers; of Principals Hit at Feb. 13 near the river Strema a/ cruited at $10 a month,in Hongkong| more stable government than Eng- a ee Negro Swims Ashore tin N Pl d Pl corpse was found. The identity| demanded an advance on their wages|iand, the, United States of America, EASTON, PA.—A. Hoffman. 3 on- ew fF iaygroun QM | could not be established. 8S. Raeff,| when the vessel arrived at New West-| or other countries.” NEW YORK, N. Y-—-B. Davidson. By MIRIAM ALLEN deFORD, a oe said to have committed suicide in the} minster, the white captain refused and| There would: be no obstacles to SAN FRANCISCO, May 24—The fight NEW YORK, May 34.—The New| prison of Varna. the Chinese then went on strike. They ‘th all " rt- , . economic co-Operation between Japan | ¢é ? ka “hell ships” of the sal- the ak agg Ne ay Pas eee During a last, week of March fo were arrested and lodged in the immi!-| and the Unfom of Soviet Repablies, MOP R’ ’ F IRST H OME OF RED AID md "be. “wet renewed by | e Principals’ socia Berkovitza 40. persons were arrested,| gration sheds by the port authorities.| ir it were not fo 3 68- : r those unnatural 1 disclosures by Jacob ds. po rage § a con vgoaeen Bis in bone eg Bo p= coring eare Pier The owners of the vessel pretended | fears of would-be Bolshevist danger. TO CARE F OR CH ILD REN OF SLAI N Sonia’ a edie ants who at the yerounds er women), in & 15, in Husse 22, in| that the crew had been arrested for} ve apervisic si owever, stressed the viscount, as all risk of his life dove off the receiving ia: board of education at the suggestion Troops Ordered to Murder. the Federated Seafarers Union white| ang are & y usiwarranted the : (inion Fish Co., in San Francisco bay, act a cae tal sn hea Si tae! tm eam lbbgg 2 wer oo Hae ly rea ibys tl — to act as scabs. The secre-| ensuing suspicious ought to be dis- On Easter Sunday the first workers children’s home of the International | and swam to shore. ids teashiers and the principals the plan ar oa aE leatae page Onis tary of the union revealed the tru¢| missed without..further. ado. Red Aid was opened in Elgersburg (Thuringia) with enthusiastic partici-}| Young told a story of men hell by a was attacked as impractical and in-| be seen from 4 gecret order which saretberl one dee the - ket fn What - as 1h more Ccon-| pation of the workers of the district. Spanish contracts they could not 463 efficient because of the inexperience|has heen published by the Belgrad| navy Jones’ locker before ther woeld ee “wiscount's view, is It is the greatest crime of the ruling classes that they leave the families | ead, of advance wages mulcted . ue and lack of training of volunteers. “Politika” Nr. 6086, It reads in part| scab on Chinese getting $10 a month. - a Leaping gene of the political prisoners to their misery. The class conscious workers are pon ety tg sae from hor ce aa The resolution also points out that as follows: | situation in th Pee, Rocebiin sae murdered or imprisoned for years and nobedy cares for the fate of their 2) rae sae thane tae trivial offenses. ne pry teachers > es yy iter ® het my noggin send ap Fron geie — Teachers Line Up With Scopes. any very deities information an to wives and children. On the contrary, the cxecutors of white terror declare All these evils had been known, but ive after a day of intensive work of ; wma : o the veto Sa B ww The Chicago section of the Amer-|the Soviet laws on trade and industry, | “YDically that also the progency of , two bills aimed at their cure have gi" strenuous nerve-straining type, is not/for a combination of the means of loan Federation of Teachers has of-| “Therein” —he says—“lies one of | ¢ revolution must be annihilated. foreign children could not yet be sent | been killed by Gov. Richardson. § of only unfair to the teacher, but makes | struggle against the members of the fered its assistance to J. T. Scopes,/the main reasOns why the Japanese| “MOPR”, First Home of Red Aid [to the home, so German children were| Young's further stories resulted in of the children bear the brunt of a sys-| peasants’ units and the Communist po Dig ge 8 og Ally or capitalists are still preserving an ex-| In Esthonia together with the class | accomodated in it. The inhabitants| raids by city, county, state and federal cam tem which would tend to undermine| party against whom it must be pro- conn the theory a Fao ihn a Ten- peetant attitude and keeping in the/| fighters their families are murdered.| of Elgersburg received the children| authorities, and may cause the libel- ave the vitality of the teacher for regular} ceeded most severely, particularly the| . . 5.6, sublie sthools limits of pr talk. This gap| Only the children under 10 years are| with great enthusiasm. On the sta-| ling of the barkentine, which holds the classroom work. more intellectual, most capable and : should be filled very soon now. The/ saved. In Bulgaria and Hungary and|tion green gairlands were fastened! 250 men kept in the bay until a full ion barrier of lack of reciprocal know-| Jugoslavia the same brutalities take| with a sign “Long Live International| crew is assured for the Alaska trip. ‘om v7 ‘ - 4. L OUR DAILY PATTERNS : ANOTHER J VePaR STYLE. 5108. In this instance cretonne was used to make the dress, and broad- cloth to make the blouse. Flannel, pongee, taffeta and linen are also at- tractive for this model} The pattern is cut ik 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. To make this model as illus- trated for a 38 inch size will require 3% yards for the dress and 3% ards for the blouse and godets of 32 inch material. The width of the dress at lower edge is 1% yard. NOTICE TO PATTERN SUT EAS po sold thru he ‘ A NEW AND POPULAR STYLE Dyes 5114. Jumper styles are in vogue in every conceivable material. The model here portrayed was developed in the new cotton prints, with rep for the guimpe. Gingham, flannel, tub silk and linen are also attractive. The pattern is cut in four sises: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10-year size will require 2 yards of 36-inch mate- rial for the dress, and 1% yard for the guimpe. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. . s s FASHION BOOK NOTICBI! Se Taare ty * oh “ color ook °@ ashion and antes of Ry pe ‘s patterns, a con- cise and - +A. article on drese poking, pt also rome Piha vario ees simple sitahee), >. sal valuable ta to ;* home He yy nn The DAILY WORKER, 1918 w. Waehingten Bivd., is Chieage, Il. Does your friend subscribe to the DAILY WOREERB? Aak him! Your Union Meeting | Fourth Monday, May 26, 1925. Name of Lecal and Place of Meeting. Bartenders, 123 N. Clark &t., 8:30 P. M. 1 Bridge ‘and Structural Iron Work. ers, 910 W. Menroe St. Boot and Shoe, 1939 Pwautes Av os fa Hebrew, . Re oose- t Rd. Dutehere, Bohemian, 1870 Biue Is- land Ave. Cleaners & Dyers ste 8. Ashland 4 Glove Workers To Winches’r Carennrerts Tao 4, BR. Ave. Carpenters, 180 w. Washington St Cap Makers, 4008 Roosevelt Rd. Carpenters, 2705 W. 38th St. Carpenters, 4039 W. Madison St. Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. serpentere, Ss. C. 9139 Commercial A s. - 505 S&S. State &t. Carpenters, S. C., 1467 Smee carpenters, 222 N. West au- ega Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. 14 Sipe Makers eeeeutive as wear, W. Washington St oP Pe Electricians, 119 &. Thro oop (Lecometive) 7832 337 Engineers, 4643 8 Halsted Street Engineers, 311 Pn Ashland ve. Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. Firemen and Enginémen, 243 Roesevelt Rd., oe a m Last meeting 7: g: m. Firemen and Enginemen, 64th and Ashiand Ave Firemen ane Enginemen, Madison cramento, peeratere. 1710 N. Winches- Hod icbtere. 814 W. errienn St. Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Buren St. Lathers, 725 S&S. Western Ave. Longshoremen, Tug, 355 N. Clark ane inists, 75th St. and Dobson va. Machinists, 1638 N. Halsted St. Maintenance of Way, 1548 W. 108d Street Maintenance of Way, 202 W. 47th Street Painters, 176 W. Washington S8t. be N. Cleero Ave. . North Ave, ainters, 189 W. Adams &t. Poinrere, Madison and 5th Painters, 206 E. 115th St. Ave. Paintere 2432 S$. Kedzie Ave, yar Clerks, 159 WN. State St. Sheet ag Workers, 1638 «ON. Halste Saliors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark Street — 180 W. Washingten St., 11526 Michigan Ave. 220 S. Ashland Bivd., 220 &. Ashland Bivd. oSNS3SS8s 8 3 : Pp. Mm. Teamsters, Teamsters, Pp. Mm. Teameters, SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Fraven-Kranken-Unterstuetzungse Verein Fortsechritt Meets every ist & ird Thursday, ™ i“that I remain, S.| friend of new, Russia.” Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North A ledge about ohe another will certainly fall, so that one is entitled to expect that with a-fairly short time there will disappear ane of the big obstacles to the adequate investment of Japan- ese capital in thé exploitation of na- tural resources. of the Soviet Far Bast.” In reference to the relations be- tween the Chinese Dastern and the South Manchurian railways, Viscount Goto volunteered the opinion that the unfortunate inimical policies of the two enterprises were due mainly to a lack of mutual understanding and even acquaintance, The viscount vo- iced his regret at the present unfriend- ly developments, which, he admitted, were detrimental to both parties con- cerned. True Friend of New) Russia “I wish it to be known” ‘in Moscow” —concluded the eminent statesman— as before, a true The viscount remarked, in this reference, that he appreciated very much the Moscow press, which was far superior to the Harbin papers, as the latter, perhaps with the exception of but one or two, were apt to distort thé true facts about Russia and Japan—thus pre- judicing the cause of rapproachment of the peoples;ef the two great coun- tries, Viscount adl3 made some courte- ous and friendly remarks about the letter he recajyed from Ambassador Karakhan, which had given him much pleasure. The ambassador of the Soviet Union, he said, had—in spite of his being so busy, found a way jto sénd a letter to Viscount Goto, greeting the latter at Harbin and vo- icing regrets at not being able to wel- comé him personally at Peking, where, owing to the call of urgent business, the viscount could not unfortunately go this time. Bryan Again Backs Loser COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 24.—A re- _jalignment of forces was in progress today among commissioners of the presbyterian general assembly which was expected to throw to Dr. Charles R. Erdman, “constitutional conserv- ative,” of Princenton, N. J. liberal sup- port now backing Dr. William O. Thompson, president of Ohio state University and candidate of W. J. tena for maeiurator. place. But even in those countries where the lives of the families are not attacked, they are left to hunger and need. Innumerable orphans populate Finland, Esthonia and the other Baltic states. In all capitalist states the families of the political prisoners de- pend upon the charity of their class comrades. It is therefore in agree- ment with an urgent need that the IRA takes care of the growing gen- eration of the class conscious work- ers and attempts to accomodate them in children’s homes. Hold 35 Children For two years the Red Aid of Ger- many has conducted children’s home in Worpsede near Bremen. A great number of children of German revo- lutionaries have passed several weeks in this home. Despite all attacks by the authorities and reaction this chil- dren’s home has healed many wounds and protected the children against ter- rible misery. With regard to the misery of the children of the political victims in Poland and the Balkans the idea arose to establish in Germany an interna- tional children’s home for children of other countries. With the assistance of the workers of Thuringia the house in Elgersburg was fownd and bought by the Quieta society which rented the house to the IRA. After the build- ings were renovated, there are now a number of light and well aired sleep- ing rooms for 85 children, rooms for the employees, kitchen, bath, etc. and two side bulidings. A great garden offers to the children an opportunity to play in the open air. The building is situated amidst the forest. Reaction attempted to prevent the establishment of the children’s home. In the municipal council of Elgersburg the reactionary elements made an at- tack which was crushed by the com- munist majority. Then the district in- spector prohibited the opening of the children’s home and the intehded cele- bration. As the reason he mentioned a regulation with regard to housing The prohibition caused a great exite- ment among the workers. In a few trours more than 1100 signatures were collected for a protest. A commission under the leadership of the mayor of Elgersburg was sent to the Ministry of Interior of Thuringia and on Bastér Sunday in the forenoon the confisca- tion of the building was finally can- celled. On account of passport difiguities Class Solidarity!” Workers Support Home The population of the surroundings has activily participated in the equip- ment of the home. Every child re- ceived a Russian blouse. The work- ers of the china factory provided the china, other workers provided pic- tures, vases, glasses, and for every child a red tie, and many other things. Although the prohibition of the dis- trict inspector had led to a public announcement that the celebration would not take place, because our comrades wanted to protect the chil- dren against possible violence on the part of the police, more than 2000 workers participated in the celebra- tion. They wanted to welcome the chil- Supplies of liquor, some poisonous, and of* dope were found on board. Young claimed that two women were also on board. They were not foun but there were plenty of their vine ings to prove his story true. Four cun\| who could no longer stand being fined $10 every time they left their bunks at night, eating bad food in rusty tin . dishes’ and paying 50c a pack for cheap cigarets agreed to jump over- board and swim to safety, but only Young, an educated Negro from Chi- cago, formerly a Ford employe in De- troit, finally made the plunge. Two other men asked the authorities to ar- rest them for their own safety. The Union Fish Co. denies charges. all ; “Make Wireless Work for Labor.” dren of their class comrades. On the NEW YORK. May 24.—“A chain of market square in Elgersburg the re- broadcasting stations thruout Aus- presentative of the Internationa] Red Aid made an inspiring speech and pointed out the significance of the! childrens home as an expression of practical solidarity. Then the chair- tralia, owned and controlled by the | U nion Movement,” is urgently recom- |mended in the leading editorial of ithe April 10 issues of The Advocate, | offi ] a f ti Australian all- man of the German Red Aid, Comrade = cia ths nap - nae ~ 5 Wilhelm Pieck spoke. H ted | |Ways Union, received here. Make — 7 e appreciated | Wj -c1ess Work for Labor.” must be the political significance of the demon- é th { > stration, described the political situa- [the slogan of th - esa ‘he advice tion and appealed to the audience to —: = sree vite that the capitalists are permeating continue their fight for final victory. The announcement of the abolition of the prohibition was thusiasm., Workers singing clubs gave the demonstration a solemn character. Then a procession was formed to the children’s home. the ether with mental poison to keep ‘the workers.loyal and that the radio welcomed with en- | is actually used to break strikes. The | Australian movement is urged touse ‘this new and mighty machinery of tn- |Sormation and education. —_—_ 4 The children stood | before the building awaiting the workers. Then the representative of De S: ZIMMERMAN the International Red Aid gave the home to the protection of the workers | of Thuringia. The representative or the workers of Elgersburg made a speech in which | he affirmed that they would defend the | children’s home to the last and see | to it that none of the children would ever suffer any injustice. After the) IDEN TiS T 2752.6 CALIFORNIA AVE. Phone ARMITAG MY NEW LOCATION ecial mass chorus of the International the} spose impressive demonstration came to od end. ) to With the opening of this first Ger.| Workers man children’s home of the IRA a monument of international solidarity has been establish which will be a shining example. ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. 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you! NO be Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES > ey. mail (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago) : 90 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Acdress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ee WILLIAM F. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager "Watered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. | tim 290 - The Lockout in Gary > 04 The conditions in the lumber camps of the Pacific coast have been getting steadily worse since the Industrial Wonkers of the World has become a debating society for declassed proletarians in- stead of a fighting organization. It is quite all right for militant vorking class organizations ot have thei. differences @f Opinion but after all they have some responsibility to the psig they are trying to arouse, organize and lead. It is the irony of fate that it is the working class that suffers when its best elements forget the struggle and spend all their time in senseless bickeriag. A Com- munist Party can stand internal discussion to some extent because it is a disciplined body, but for a decentralized organization like the I. W. W. prolonged difference of opinion is certain suicide. Those hopeful souls who saw in “regulation” of the trusts a sign of progress in the Unietd States and a willingneses of the big capitalists to submit to restrictions demanded by the-smaller fry have had a rude shock. The federal trade commission, the darling of the liberals, has been so thoroly reorganized by Cooldige that its best friends no longer recognize it. It has been deprived of most of its powers and is now ready to be junked. So passes another feeble irritant to American capitalism in its onward March toward unfettered control of industry, government and the ‘tives of the masses. a Get a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for 23 | directed the attention. of your central To All Members of the Communist Party of Sweden! EAR COMRADES, It is in the interest of the devel- opment of the Communist movement in Sweden that you now devote the most serious attention to the inner differences in your party. These dif- ferences have arisen as a result of the non-Communist deviations of the right wing of the leading party com- rades. You must arrive at clearness and give careful thought to these dif- ferences in order, after mature con- sideration, to adopt a decisive atti- tude and thereby secure the Commun- ist line in the central committee of your party. : The Executive Committee of the Comintern thru special instructions committee to its unavoidable tasks. These instructions however were very inadequately carried out in practice. The right majority of the bureau of the party central has neither in the organizatory work nor in the political and economic struggle shown suffi- cient interest for the development of a lively Communist activity. It has never taken the trouble to render all party members in Sweden sufficiently acquainted with the decisions of the Comintern. HE representatives of the right wing have also not always adopt- ed a clear attitude to such remnants of, petty bourgeois ideology as pacifism and religion. During the past year the Enlarged Executive was compelled to correct the standpoint of Comrade Hoeglund regarding such an elemen- tary question as the attitude of Com- munists to religion and to make it clear to him that the Communist) Party must not be indifferent to the religious prejudices of their members, even when they demand neutrality towards religion on the part of the bourgeois state. In addition to this the central com- mittee of the party during the last years has not succeeded in maintain- ing comradely relations with the Communist Youth League, altho the youth league achieved relatively great success. The fact that Comrade Hoeg- lund, in the Norwegian question, in, - ed the opportunists of the “labor| party” in their fraction fight against the Communist. wing and finally, af- ter the open breach of the Tranmae- lites with the kImternational, sharply attacked the Executive and the Nor- wegian Communist . Party, must be characterized as a serious fault. All the representatives of the remaining. parties of the Comintern have revog- nized that the Tranmaelites were on the wrong path when they desired not to abolish collective membership in the Communist Party of Norway, when they permitted the party to be the cockpit for.various anti-Commun- ist tendencies, when they rejected the revolutionary slogan of the workers’ and peasants’ government, etc. HE Norwegian opportunists let their own obstinacy come before the resolutions of the world congres- ses and the unity of international leadership of the movement. Com- rade Hoeglund has also disregarded international party discipline. The Executive Committee however acted in a conciliatory manner and endeav- ored té induce Hoeglund to loyal co- operation with the Comintern and with the left wing of the Swedish party, which upholds the line of the Comintern. After the December Con- ference in Moscow the Executive hoped that the inner conflicts in the Swedish party would’ cease. The ma- jority of the central committee of ence to gain time, on the one hand in order to create trifling disputes, and on the other hand to convene in all haste a party conference at which they intended to remove the represen- tatives of the left wing of the central committee. That could only have led to the splitting of the party in Swe- den. At the session of the Enlarged Executive the representatives of all Communist parties pronounced against Hoeglund apd his followers and supported the standpoint of nu- merous Swedish party organizations, in accordance with which the party conference should notbe held until after the parliamentary elections. In Moscow, Comrade Hoeglund fail- ed to answer the question, whether he would comply with this decision of the International.’ We. still believe that he will do so. In the event of the beginning systematically support- [your party wished after the confer-| Hoeglund and his immediate follow- | ers, in, ‘salts of everything opposing this resolution, then we cajl upon’ you, ° members of the Swedish party, to pA port with the greatest unanimity th efforts of the left wing in the interest rpiatmboscauite 6 of party unity. does not at all wish to’ remove Comrade Hoeglund from the central committee of the ‘party, unless he himhelf desires to de- stroy international fighting unity. He- must be compelled to co-operate with the most prominent representatives of the left wing, as for example; C rades Chilbum, Samuelson, and others. , This effective collabora- tion can however only be based on the decisions of the Fifth World Con- gress. ithout desiring to limft the right of the Swedish comrades freely to elect their central committee, we say it openly that in our opinion: you would best serve the further revolu- tionary development of your party, if next party congress were to correct ‘the tendency of the central commit’ tee of your party in the sense that the majority of the presidium of the central committee should consist not of right but of left leaders, who stand entirely on the standpoint of the Go- mintern, and show a stronger will ‘t6r Communist activity. In addition to this all party organs, from the highest to the lowest, must be supplemented by new active forces from the ranks of the factory workers. EAR Comrades, study the most im- portant decisions of the Fifth World Congress and also the resolt- tion of the Comintern regarding the Swedish question. We hope that you will be in agreement with these decis- ions. That is of decisive importance. On the firm basis of these decisions it, will not be hard for you to overcome rapidly the inner differences of opin- ion in the party, to gather together all revoltuionary forces, and in solidarity with the whole Communist Interna- tional to conduct the fight against the enemies of the Swedish proletariat, against the capitalists and the social democratic leaders. In this fight you will build up your party to a power- ful, victorious, Communist mass party. Long live the Communist Party of Sweden! Long live the Cominuaitet Interna- tional. Moscow, July 22, 1924. the DAILY WORKER. ARTYRS M peting By N. ORLOV Mahecoow) Kosta Jankov. O* April 17th, thé plenary meeting MONG the latest victims to be of the InternattonaPPéasant Coun- claimed by the white terror in Bul-| cf], which met on. April 9, and sat for garia is our Comrade Kosta Jankov,|— week, completed itdi work. — a son of the well-known Macedonian; ‘The International: Peasant Council revolutionary Colonel Jankov, who in|ig still a very young @rganization: it the year 1903, at the head of a divi-| has only existed for a year and a half sion of insurgents fell while fighting During this short it has by “a against the troops of Sultan of Tur- means been i key, Abdul Hamid, for the liberation oy On pee 3 oy See eee de Jankov. on | Vel? its works As yet the I. P. C. is . a sypr? omra Bat cousin |.27 from having its owl organizations § father's side, was a in every country. There are still many of the old leader and founder of the | , |countries in which it has no organ- de | Bulgarian Communist Party, Comrade | in thee telieee, izing groups. Dimitri Blagoyev. | nati a; oo te CREP ae Sra a numerous attendance at the plenary ‘meeting was hardly. tebe reckon kov lived atmidst revolutionary sur-| with. S y. Wrbe oned roundings. Twenty years ago he en- tered the party of the Bulgarian so- cial-democrats (orthodox). During the | war he served as a major on the gen- eral staff of one of the Bulgarian | ‘'0™ 38 countries wer! Present at the armies. After the war he wrote a book | plenary meeting, 49 with power to in which he sharply criticized those | Vote and 29 with only consultative responsible for the military disaster ;POWe?. All the most importaat coun- at Dobro Polje, and exposed the whole tries of Europe were represented (Ger- criminal policy of conquest of the many, France, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Bulgarian bourgeoisie. Poland, Ireland, Roumania, Yugo-Sla- via, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Lithua- /nia, Esthonia and Carpathian Russia). |There were also representatives from |America (United States, Mexico, Can- ada), from Asia (India, Indonesia, Nevertheless the actual attendance lat the plenary meeting surpassed all expectations. Seventy: t delegates During the September events of 1923 the Zankov government had him arrested, but soon set him free. Com- ‘rade Jankov was arrested in connec- tion with the explosion in the cathe- Japan, Turkey, Persia, China, Korea), and from North Africa (Algeria and Egypt). The most important work of the plenary meeting was done in its com- missions. In a series of reports which the delegates laid before these com- missions, they gave one another infor- mation as to the position of the peas- ant movement, and worked out a plat- form for-the demands of the peasant- ry and a series of questions of organ- ization corresponding to the condi- tions in each individual country. The chief merit of the plenary meet- ing consists in the fact that it exactly determines the character of the work which the I. P. C: and its adherents are to carry on among the peasantry. Up to the time of the plenary meeting, there was no unanimity in this ques- tion. There were comrades who want- ed to construct the peasant organiza- tions as a kind of party organizations and to give them a clearly pronounced political character. Other comrades endeavored to group the peasantry chiefly on the basis of economic needs and to give their organizations rather an econo- mic character. The plenary meeting struck out on the only correct middle line: it resolved that the “peasants’ unions” to be called. into being by the I. P. C. should haye no firmly pro- nounced political, gharacter as this would render it more difficult to em- brace in the ranks. the I. P. C. all the fairly manifold groups of the peas- antry which could join.a.more elastic organization after the manner of a non-party peasant union. It was easy enough to come to agreement on this platform; the @riences of a year and a half of \thé’ movement carried enough powers of conviction. Among the resolutions of the ple nary meeting another important one must be noted. The I. P. C. does not lay particular stress on the formation of organizations and associations of its own, but chiefly om encouraging work within the already existing peasant parties and groups. The chief object should be, not to split these organizations nor to create new organ- izations which would necessarily be weak at first, but to capture, if not the whole movement, at least its most important part, and‘ to impart to this section of the movement as revolu- tionary a character as possible. As a young and therefore still weak organization, the I. P. C. did not wish to split up its work into too many dil- rections at first. It has therefore in “of The International Peasants’ Council its early days deliberately refraited from work in the colonial countries, as it was anxious first. of all to con- solidate its position in the European countries, where it can much more easily find co-workers. Now it can al- ready register some success in this fleld of action, some positions have been conquered, and therefore the plenary meeting considered it possi- ble to extend its work to the more distant countries of Asia, Africa and America, On the other hand, because of the necessity of economizing its forces, the I. P. C, did not, during the firat year and & half, concern itself with work among the women in the villagés and among the peasant youth. At its last session, the plenary meeting con- sidered it possible to make a start now on these two kinds of work and to carry them on energetically, and it addressed itself to the peasant women and to the youth of the villages in special proclamations. In general it can be maintained that the plenary meeting achieved some very important work, the results of which will be evident in a very short time in the activities of all the organ- izations affiliated to the I. P. C. dral of Sofia and at once shot by the Zankov fascists. In Comrade Jankov the Bulgarian | Communist Party and the revolution- ary movement have lost one of their _ so Ammunition for the Workers’ Arsenal By MANUEL GOMEZ. Machine rule is all very well—for a while. It has, however, a| best workers. fatal weakness. It never makes any converts, it never wins anyone Minkov. Mortgaged Homes. to its support, it creates the conditions for its own destruction. N the 16th of April, 1925, Comrade | HILE glib salesmen cour the work- This the Amalgamated mountebanks will learn very soon. | Minkov, at the age of 35, fell at} ‘8 class districts’ of America 7 sche i 7 ; his post as a fighting revolutionary. | with ne sounding “fown-your-own- } , home” propositions, wepkers who now (jet a member for the Workers Party and a new subscription for| Comrade Minkov was the son of 4), (technically) their. homes find it the DALLY WORKER. Dulagrian officer wee whom he peoweal difficult to refrain from giving violent 7 ET es ea part in the world war. As an ensig0’ ..yression té their emotions. What ‘ . > BE 111 were rented, whereas only a little 1 America. Actors Strike “His Queen.” over 7,000,000 were owtled, It wlil be Who can doubt but that the Negro masses who suffer such hor NEW YORK, May 24.—The Actors’| clear to all that a bi@®proportion of rible treatment and who see the reverse side of the shield can feel Equity Association (actors’ union),| those who own their pwn homes are | anything but hate for the white ruling class and are destined to —_— its members off the production | capitalists. Thus the great majority play an important part in the battles of the American workers once | of “His Queen” at the Hudson Theater| of working class families lives in| the white workers rid themselves of their ruling class inspired preju- becaiise the management failed to put| homes (or flats, or “fu®ished rooms”) | : wp a financial guarantee for salaries jaic cs. eae after two requests from Equity dele-! lar monthly toll of reng. = gates The union refuses to take a And how about the fh ®4l. 283 home- bvery day get a‘ ‘sub? wal the DAILY WORKER and a member | chance for its members not getting | owners? Of these owned homes, 2, for the Workers Party. their pay. 7, . ' , ae / AC mortgage debt for owned homes not | on farms amounting to over six billion | dollars. It does not take any un- usual imagination to deduce that the mortgaged homes include most of those owned by workers, while unencumbered property is substantia)- ly the property of the idle class. The interest on that 6 billion dollaér debt constitutes a steady drain on the nar. row earnings of the workers. It ia really rent insofar as the family budget is concerned. All this refers to homes not on farms. The volume issued by the census bureau has very little to say about the mortgaged farmers, enough haps there is a reason. No mention is made of the great and growing mass of pauperized tenant farmers. But aobut the mortgaged farmers, enough is said to point out that the estimated mortgage debt of owned mortgaged farms and homes expanded from | $2,133,000,000 in 1890, to $11,314,000,000 in 1920, an increase of 430.6 per cent. | This increase cannot be adequately ex- pleined by the growth of the popula- ‘tion (which has been relatively small in rural districts), nor by increased | value of the property, nor by decline tin the value of the dollar. The fourteenth census was taken in / 1920, on the crest of the prosperity | wave based on post-war inflation. -\wthoritative figures are yet the | were foreclosed overnight, when mort- gage farmers became tenant farmers, when tenant farmers left their farms in despair and migrated to the city to become wage slaves. The condition revealed in the volume on “Mortgages #n Homes in the United States, 1920,” i@ bad enough, but it in no way indl- eae the extent of subjection to lankers and money lenders to which the workers and poor farmers of this vountry have now been reduced. Organize Cigar Makers. NEW YORK, May 24.—The Cigar Makers’ Intrenational Union is con- ducting a drive for new members in New York City. Local representatives say the union must be restored to sufficient power to bring wages and working conditions to former stand- ards. —— Foreign”Exchange NEW YORK, May 23.—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, demand 4.85%; cable 4.86%. France, franc, demand 5.10; cable 5.10%. Belgium, franc; de- mand 4.99%: cable 5.00. Italy, lira, demand 4.03%; cable 4.03%: Sweden, krine, demand 26.72ffi cable 26.75, Nor- way, krone, demand, 16.83; cable 16.85. Denmark, krone, demand 18.82; cable 18.84. Germany, mark unquoted. Shanghai, tael, 75.50. Typos Get Increase pographical local unions report w increases varying from $1 to $6 week- ly on newspaper and job work in Syracuse, Trenton, Newark, Bangor, Manchester, Albany, Lowell and other cities. GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! o demand 75.00; cable NEW YORK, May 24.—Great Br to be for which the landlor@/takes a regu- | compiled which will telk the story of the depression which followed, whens millions of poor farmers were ruined when unencumbered property became | ras.008 were mortgaged, the {otal mortgaged property, when mortgages LEE’S PEACE CONF AB GETS LAUGH | WASHINGTON, May 21.—Among spokesmen of railroad labor in Wash- ington the invitation issued by W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, to the executives of 50 chief railroads and the executives of all national railroad labor organizations to gather in a peace parley under his chairmanship, is not taken seriously. Organized railroad workers look upon Lee as a sick man who has long been an absolute autocrat in his own union, and who has in recent years become erratic in his judgments. He does not co-operate with the other unions in their general policy. They look upon the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen as an organization in which factional differences have made a consistent policy difficlut in recent years. Some of them anticipate Lee’s resignation, should he secure re-election at the convention now in session in Cleveland, and the selection of Vice President W. N. Doak as his successor. Doak would carry on the Lee tradition. — Late reports by Lee claim a membership of 180,000 for his organization— | thie hing gO08 Larger than shed of any af the. other valizend brotherhagde i» “Mas Geis ska ; . } —— ~~ ee —————— exes ee REP Lhe ee “sagt hy tw ce Pe Pe Ee 5] tae ral Shean gates rey WA ys a. he es a ae al ors Magy Sot are ed 5 ~ _ eee