Daily Worker
June 9, 1925
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_™/, ia re ve . : ae sie Worker ‘Annual cription Drive in Full Bt GET IN. “yt : Vol. Il. No. eS. [Perm 22) be . ke EERE) 2: itn AS WE SEE RTHUR BRISBANE, literary ad- vertising manager for the Hearst|- papers, has been she Po tle ) Major General Amos A. Fries, of the chemical warfare service, .U S. A., for the prophecy that the of real estate in Los Angeles was ¢ beginning to rise and also that chemi- cal warfare carried on from airplahés | would be a vital factor in the next war. Arthur is a big real estate oper- ator in Los Angeles and it looks as if he owned stock in some airplane fac- tories. * * : ENERAL FRIES deprecates the kind of propaganda that would draw a lurid and horrible picture of chemical warfare. In fact, the on- eral tells us that there is no f of murder half. as pleasant as putting the tin hat on an animated piece o protoplasm thru the medium of chemi- cals To quote the mild and kindly general: “Chemical warfare is cheapest, most effective, most hu- mane; it is ignorance and pacifist propaganda which has cast discredit upon it. But while the effect of chemical warfare may be made swift and devastating, paralyzing an enemy with incredible completeness, it is hu- mane and in the end less deadly than shrapne] and machine gun fire.” . > ~ * EFORE we take leave of the gen- eral and heartily apoligize to him for our suspicions of the aims and objects of his humane murder depart- ment, let him dissipate a few other popular fantasies that have found lodgement in the brains of the mass-, es thru the wicked propaganda sent out by “Bolshevists and pacifists” in order to make chemical warfare un- popular with its intended» victims. Listen to Major Fries again: “It is only a popular delusion that a gassed man becomes easy prey to pulmonary diseases. Before a congressional in- vestigating committee recently lead- ing scientists testified, that a soldier gassed is less liable to become a vic- tim of tuberculosis, and if he does because of being gassed, he recovers more quickly.” . 7. 7 HOSE of you who culties about the selection of the lethal weapon : : . . a — b ‘to. Wem ~ ee eel tee : ve — } ~ eae OL EPL from which there is no, return, should be properly grateful to General Fries | and to Arthur Brisbane for giving the general something to talk about. It is not unlikely that, new schools of healing will seize on Major -Fries’ Statement and use it to convince their clients that doses of tear, mustard and laughing gas will nicely supple-. ment spinal manipulations and rectal electricity charges. Before long we “may have a chemical warfare depart- ment in every hospital. . > . ky liquid fire and the other products of the war laboratory are so con- ducive to good health why nob let us have wars often and conveniently lo- cated so that even the poorest work- ers can afford to pay his fare to the scene of carnage. It might be pos- sible to have miniature wars during the noon hour where the tired work- ers and even the tired business men might get either rejuvenation or death. The general did not say that , his pet poisons always cured. Some- times there are accidents and there is a fatality. But people who live in Chicago should not worry over the mortality table of a war. The nice general has taken considerable of the sting out of death. - * zr HE Chinese are still fighting and knocking their pacifist reputa- tions into a row of discarded pigtails. American newspaper correspondents are lying like gentlemen and finding Soviet generals on every corner, and ‘Continued on. page 2) 4 q Vi” ‘ : ? 7 x 4 . “> + J a 2 a i 7 big >-. (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, June 7 (.—Great satisfaction is being expressed in Soviet and Communist quarters with the reports from various parts of the country as to the condition of the crops. By the five-mark system, which is accepted here as the standard scale, the crops in the chief producing districts—the middle Volga, the Ukraine, the lower Volga and the northern Caucasus—have been valued anew at three and a half marks. This raises the hopes that this year’s harvest will be satisfactory and in any case won't be below the average. World’s Largest Harvest. By the official rough estimate the harvest is expected to yield 3,200,000,- 000 poods. Since out of the 1923 har- vest, which was 2,800,000,000 poods, Russia was able to export 200,000,000 poods, the harvest authorities calcu- late to export from this year’s har- vest not less than 300,000,000 poods. Estimating the amount of grain needed for the victualization of the town populations and the Red Army at 600,000,000 poods, for the state fund at 100,000,000 poods and for ex- (Continued on page 2} Anema t over the fourth will make the demon- stration one of weakness rather than strength! Gov. Fulled of Massachu- setts approves completely of admini- stration policy, however, and will call out workers and the military organ- izations in demonstration. A telegram from the War Resisters’ International, U. S. committee head- quarters at 132 W. 12th St., urging governor Al Smith of New York not to co-operate with the war depart- ment in its July 4 defense test plans has been sent out. “Let us preserve that day for the expression of ideals of independence and freedom,” the telegram reads, signed by Jessie Wai- lage Hughes, secretary. EVICT WORKERS FROM TENEMENTS IN EFFORT TO BREAK THREAD STRIKE HARTFORD, Conn., —(FP)—Striking thread workers of the Willimantic plant 6f American Thread Co., are to be evicted from company tenements to make way for the importation of outside labor, Don H. Curtis, agent of the mill, confirms. The company took seniority rights from strikers last week and is now using the eviction threat in a desperate attempt to break the several months’ strike of workers against 10 per cent wage reductions. | The company owns 160 tenements occupied by mill workers. : pores epee plan th a i ie =” Published daily except Sunday by THE PUBLISHING Cco., 1113 W. Washington Blv DAILY. WORKER [pac yw ' : Call for ‘the § Support of bor Slate The Daily Worker.) 1S, Minn., June ie. % rs (Spec he MIN? 7— After the most uninteresting and quietest election campaigns in the coer Minneapolis, city of ficlais will be elected here tomorrow (Monday). . chief interest centers in the B fight because of the su- made by the daily pa- ig the Minneapolis Daily redit the labor group in attack against these und the fact that they carried a resolution preme eioF | calling ess to recognize the Union of ist Soviet Republics Later they in aroused the wrath of the onaries by adopting a resolution. : nding an official city welcome to J. O. Bentall. upon his return to Minheapolis from the Leavenworth prison after serving a sentence for working class activity. The Minneapolis Daily Star, which was started a few years ago by the workers sign y of Minnesota and since n by Thomas Van Lear, has run da editorials for the past week “upon the workers to de- feat the ir members of the council for re-election. Forget Class Struggle. of class consciousness id this group in the coun- ‘these resolutions in their career has unfortunate- ‘'y been absent in the election cam- paign. : Instead of giving militant expression o the n | and desires of the work- campaign speeches, the r aldermen are now trying to excuse 1 periods of emotional of duplbe pe pet following sdilabaset after the defeat of its own candidates in the primary: FOR WORKING CLASS UNITY! Statement of the City Central Commit- tee, Workers (Communist) Party on the Minneapolis City Election to be Held Monday, June 8. COMRADES. AND FELLOW WORKERS:— The working class of Minneapolis must be on guard next Monday! The Citizens’ Alliance, the Civic and Commerce ‘Association, and all the public service corporations are united (Continued on page 6) BUILDING TRADES TO FIGHT LANDIS OPEN SHOP AWARD New Work Must Be All That the building trades unions of Chicago may return to their policy of st'uggle against the open shop, dis- guised as the Landis award, is seen in the reported ultimatum by the | Building Trades Council upon archi- tects and contractors that hereafter the building trades will permit no non-union men to work on building construction jobs in Chicago. | Several hundred million dollars of 'work is in sight, and if the contrac- ‘tors wish to try to fight for the open \shop, they will have a merry time igetting the work done with scabs. The notice was officially sent to the officers of ihe Chicago Building Construction Employers associa- tion, which is much excited over it, and the report is that the executive committee of the association will discuss what they shall do about it Monday. The report is that work now der construction will proceed as fore, but that upon new projects, unions will strike any job where un- be- the the sends nonunion men to work. Con- tractors who hold to the open shop are dismaped. “It is the beginning of a finish fight,” declared one. The principal function of the Lan- dis award committee is to furnish nonunion men to contractors. Some of the building; unions, in agreeing to members work on jobs alongside non- union men furnished by the Landis openshop committee, the institution set up by Judge K. M. Landis, act- ing as arbitrator. Distribute a bundle everyday during 4 ‘acts that may have been}. Union | open shop Landis award committee | the award, agreed to let their ‘union | CANTON, China, June 7.—Civil war was declared here yesterday by the civil government, oe as the mercenary Yunnanese troops, led by Aes and British governments with money and annem? x began an armed attack on the Canton government in an attempt to overthrow it. Yang Hsi Min issued a manifesto declaring war in the Cantonese and ordered hoettien eee be opened on the Kuomintang people’s army under General Li Fook Lum, a major General Yang Hsi Min, subsid controlled by the pe St ee zed by the Frenc Chinese ion Civil War f Against Mercenaries of Anglo-French Capitalists ‘fopestal to The O-ily Worker) (People’s) sad whose forces have fortified themselves on Honan island in the Si Kiang river. Expect Decisive Battle The Kuomintang forces are ready for action. They have thrown barri- cades up at all strategic points and are the superior force from the stand- point of artillery, ammunition and morale, altho the Yunnanese have established themselves in the eastern suburbs and control some of the pub- ‘| lic works and buildings. Battle is expected within a few hours. The Kuomintang has 10,000 thoroly equipped and _ disciplined troops, and in addition the loyal sup- port of the Canton unions and the exploited masses generally. ‘The Kuomintang army includes the cadets from the Whampoa military school, one of the institutions esta- blished by the dead Chinese liberation- ist leader, Sun Yat Sen. Barricades have been erected the entire length of the Bund. The Yun- nanese are controlling the Canton side of the river after capturing the gov- ernor’s headquarters, the telephone and telegraph offices and the lighting plant. However, another army of the Kuomintang is approaching and will endeavor to recapture the Canton side of the river. American Consul General Jenkins has cabled Washington and the gun- boat Pampanga is expected to rein- force the American gunboat Asheville, already here, . Chinese’ Factio s Join in Support hanghal PEKING, China, June 7.—Chinese mewspapers here report that /General ’ army which has up to tow been the main- stay of the Peking pfovisional govern- ment head y° President Tuan Chi- Jui, has sent a Bote to that govern- ment furiously protesting at the mur- der of the Shanghai students by for- eign imperialist troops and demanding that the Chinese government resolute- ly support the students and strikers at Shanghai. What is more, the. papers report that General Chang .Tso-Lin, Fend’s adversary in a military way for the control of Peking, and an agent ape ihe to of Japanese interests, has also tele- graphed President Tuan from Tein- Tsin approving of the attitude and action of the Shanghai students. The foriegn diplomatic corps today in addressing the Chinese foreign of- fice indicates a slight modification of (Continued on page 2) NEW MINISTER TO CHINA | CONFERS WITH OLD ONE ON WAY TO PEKING JOB WASHINGTON, June 7. — The new American minister to China, John Van A. McMurray, will leave Washington for Peking today. He has been engaged in conferences with Jacob Gould Schurman, who recently returned from the Peking post, after receiving an appoint- ment as ambassador to Germany. Recommendation for Military Training in Schools Before Board What promises to be the beginning of establishing military training in the schools of Chicago was brought up as a recommendation to the admin- istration committee of the board of education. A request for funds was made for installing the headquarters for the Reserved Officers’ Training Camp in the Crane Technical High School. Trustee James P. Mullenbach spoke | against the project saying he had seen military training in the schools of Germany and that that experience has made him decidedly opposed to the practice of militarizing school children. A delegation of parents of children attending the Cameron school at 1236 North Monticello avenue, came before ‘the administration committee with a petition signed by 800 citizens of the school district protesting the change ofthe Cameron elementary school in- to a jufilor high. Mrs. Wegner, the spokesman, pointed out that the change would wuecessitate sending small children to distant sfhools. Ac- tion was postponed until the next meeting. Red Weék of Aune 16 to 1. - : BRITISH TRADE UNIONS PROTEST AGAINST USE OF BRITISH ARMED FORCES IN SHANGHAI STRIKE soldiers in Shanghai. workers and employers. Much blood has been shed and many workers shot down, the protest adds, and instead of British troops protect- ing the employers, the workers who are fighting for greater industrial free- dom and against unbearable condi- tions should be supported. Government Ignore Protest, The British government has an- nounced that 2,000 British sailors have been landed at Shanghai and re inforcements in addition will soon arrive. Great Britain also announces that it favors enlarging the scope of the forthcoming conference in regard to Chinese tariffs, so that it would in- clude a general consideration of Chi- na’s “welfare.” “China For Chinese” —Says Trotsky. Cables from Moscow quote the Is- vestia as emphatically denying that ithe uprisiings in China are manufac- tured by Communists. The Chinese people, says the Isvestia, are fighting for self determination, political free- dom, and that only after the Chin: offer as our program for the suggest- ed Chinese conference the following slogan—‘China for Chinese’.” COTTON PLANTER MOURNS LOSS OF NEGRO LABORERS industrial North Takes Southern Negroes (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 7—The Ameri- can Cotton Association thru its secre- tary, Harvie Johnson, is very deeply worried over the grand migration of Negro farm laborers from the south- ern cotton growing country. Declaring that a million of the white planters’ precious “niggers” have deserted their “beloved south- land” of banjos, “massa’s,” “colonels” and the idyllic happiness of the stake and gallows, “Colonel” Johnson states that he is forced to admit that the southern Negroes are gone never to return. Of the million who, he says, have gone north in the past four years, a large portion have been snapped into the industries, adapting themselves to the factory labor. The “colonel” declares that the southern planters will have to get the the importation of European slaves for the southern cotton flelds. -_——— SS — C(O |? iC = + Meet on State Park, INDIANAPOLIS, June 7—Governor Jackson was to hold an executive session at 2 o'clock this afternoon with a representative committee to discuss proposed state acquisition of the dume lands for development into a state park. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 7.—In reply to an appeal from the Shanghai strikers to the British trade unions, the executive of the British Trade Union Congress has sent a formal protest to Premier Baldwin against the use of British The protest urges the immediate withdrawal of British armed forces for the reason that the Shanghai trouble is actually a violent conflict between United States government to permit } PARIS WORKERS CHEER RIFFIANS AT EXPOSITION “International” Angers Painleve Officials {Special te The Dally Worker.) PARIS, France, June 7.—Crowds of workers who listened to speeches by minister of public instruction de Mon- rzie and several French senators, at the inauguration of the Soviet Pavl- lion of the Decorative Arts, staged a demonstration against the Painieve 5 meee and against the Moroccan ha¥@ driven out the foreign impe invasion immediately after the ts cap. .the, real olution occur, | Speeches. : rivieky is quoted sd eying that “wef 7 cries of “Long “Live the “Soviets. - and “Long Live Morocco”, rang from the crowd. The workers assembled at the entrance of the pavillion and sang the Internationale. De Monzie and the senators, who were about to go thru the exposition, withdrew in- dignantly. Leonid Krassin, the Soviet ambas- sador, in his speech pointed out the significance of the art of the Soviet Union, as an expression of the trans- formation that has taken place among the Soviet peoples as a result of the Communist revolution. Finances On Rocks. The statement just issued by the Bank of France reveals that the gov- ernment treasury has borrowed l1,- 350,000,000 francs. The sundry as- sets have decreased 468,000,000 francs the statement reveals, and liabilities have increased 678,000,000 francs. Meanwhile the Moroccans continue to batter the French invaders lines along the Ouergha river. The tremen- dous cost of the foreign war adds to the financial crisis. The protest of the workers of France against the imperialist policy of the Painleve government in invading foreign soil to exploit the natives of North Africa, is growing. Large post- ers condemning the Moroccan inva- sion have appeared along the streets of Nancy, and the police have been tearing them down. A dispatch from Tunis, North Afri- ca, states the several arrests have been made following demonstrations of workers against ae | invasion. ” - Franc in Sharp Slump. NEW YORK, June 7.—After having gradually lost ground at gradually in- creasing speed, the French franc de- clined sharply here, falling twenty points. It was quoted at 4.70% cents, the lowest it has been since March 15, 1924. Don’t you be a campaign shirker—~ get subscriptions for the DAILY WORKER! CHINESE STUDENTS MARINES TO IN AMERICA PROTEST LANDING OF AMERICAN CRUSH MILL STRIKE in a statement Mr. Lung-chi said have occurred. force,” he said. ~—— (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 7.—A protest against the landing of American marines at Shanghai and Tsingtao was made yesterday by Lung-chi Lo, presl- dent-elect of the Chinese Students’ Alliance in America. that had the imperialist powers been true to the spirit and letter of the Washington conference, and had respected China's political and territorial rights, the trouble at Shanghai would not “So-called ‘red’ influence is bound to increase in China lf Europe, America and Japan persist in their present efforts to silence all dissenting voices by “We do not believe that soldiers and sailors. can solve inherently unjust and economically wasteful problem, namely, that of a working conditions in the cotton mills.” ff ’ - fh at ».irdattye “1
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vi ant Workers to Accept | Slash (Continued from page 1.) > %o the manufacturers in return for the privilege of collecting union dues » from the workers. Any worker who refused to pay dues is fired by the boss on the demand of the union dues collector. No union conditions are de- manded by the union officials im re- turn for the label—the union keeps _ the workers in control for the bosses. ; Workers Have No Voice. The local unions of the Boot and Shoe are all under “local O.” This means ihat a commission appointed wy Whe international officials are in charge of the locals. The members are only allowed to attend meetings, but cannot decide any question. “Lo- cal O.” is used by the reactionary officials to stifle any rank and file revolt against their mismanagement of the union, and their collaboration with the bosses which had made out of the union the finest company union in the country. But the conditions of the shoe workers are growing worse. The re- sults of the recent Boot and Shoe convention held in Montreal have stirred the workers up. The conven- tion raised the dues from 25 cents to $5 cents. The assessment limit of $5 a year was abolished and the sky was made the limit. The salaries of the officials were raised $2,500 a year. Every decision of the convention strengthened the control of the offi- cialdom. Rallying to T. U. E. L. Program. The program of the Trade Union BPducational League for the boot and shoe industry has the only solution for the problems of the Brockton shoe workers. This program is being tak- en to the workers by the T. U. E. L. adherents, and there is growing in Brockton a movement of progressive shoe workers which will eventually assume leadership of the thousands of shoe workers here. The wage cuts, and unemployment are constant- ly facing the workers, and this shows them the necessity of making a deter- mined struggle to make of the Boot and Shoe a real union and a weapon for the struggle against their terrible conditions. | GREAT DANISH STRIKE _--}-ENDS IN VIGTORY FOR THE WORKERS’ DEMANDS COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 7—The strike which lasted for eleven weeks and became general with the inclusion of the transport workers, paralyzing the industrial and commercial life of the whole nation, has been settled with a vic- tory for the strikers according to announcement made late yesterday. A proposal! of, government arbi- trators, supposed to be a compro- mise, but Insuring the union’s con- cessions was accepted by both sides. The employers had insited up what amounted to an open shop. Up to the last minute the matter looked insoluble and the king who had gone to a summer resort had returned to the capital by speciel train to be present to endeavor to use his influence against the stike. | roe ——_ ~_- -_— ' a ee a : Ut o » eens 7 Council! of Milwaukee endorsed the resolution introduced by the Molders’ Union to give an active support to the American Negro Labor Congress and Instructed the executive secretary to help in bringing it to the attention of the unions. There appears to be an awakening consciousness among the workers and the understanding that the Negro worker must be admitted Into the unions on the equal scales with the white worker as otherwise the bosses will use colored workers against them. In the unions where the colored. workers are admitted, they prove to be very good and loyal unlon men, a | FALLON, NEVADA, GREETS | MOTHER BLOOR ON TRIP WITH SPLENDID MEETING FALLON, Nevada, June 7, — “Mother” Ella Reeve Bloor, who Is hiking from Los Angeles to New York, speaking at Workers (Com- munist) Party meetings and secur- ing eubscriptions for the DAILY WORKER, had an enthusiastic meet- ing here. Eight new subscriptions and one yearly renewal to the DAILY WORKER were taken at “Mother” Bloor’s meeting. The meeting was held in a large tent donated by Dr. Harrison. Old time German com- rades arranged the meeting. “Mother” Bloor’s next meeting will be held at Salt Lake City. She wires: “Am riding constantly ‘thru the desert now.” Street Carmen Agree to Continue at Old Wage of 75 Cents The Chicago street car men’s union and the Chicago Surface Lines have, thru representatives, agreed upon continuing the present wage scale. an increase from 75 to 80 cents an hour. The company proposed as a counter-demand, a reduction to 70 cents an hour. The scale had been agreed after the 1922 strike, with a maximum wage of 73 cents to be increased to 75 cents the third year. The union has other demands as to working over hours. The contro- versy has been adjusted, according to President Quinlan of Division 241, by the company promising to operate its night cars so that all will be in the barns before 7 in the morning. The present negotiations will be placed before the membership of Di- vision 241 at the next meeting. McAndrew Tries to Put One Over on New Board Superintendent McAndrew is doing some hard pushing to sell his teach- ers’ salary schedule to the new board of education. The other day he sent a letter to the board of education in which he set out to prove that there was no deficit in the school treasury. There has been a new auditing of the books and McAndrew’s claim in this letter was that there is not only no deficit in the school treasury but that there is a surplus of $17,000,000. Investigation of the report, however, shows that the $17,000,000 surplus be- longs to the building fund and can- not be used to take care of deficits in the educational fund. Also that the true conditions of the fund is that it is overdrawn by $19,000,000. U. S. CONSUL AT SHANGHAI, THRU LIPS OF CAPITALIST INTERESTS, TELLS HOW SHANGHAI STRIKE GROWS WASHINGTON, June 7.—Details of the growth of the strike against for- eign mill owners and foreign intimidation in Shanghai, as conducted by Chinese students, are given by the state department in a summary of cabled reports from Consul General Cunningham dated June 3. On June 2, following the landing of American and Italian forces to “protect” public utilities, the students held numerous meetings which adopted “violent” resolutions such as: — 1. That police officers (who had ordered the fatal volleys fired into the atrikers’ ranks) must be “humiliated and intimidated.” 9 to “create disturbances.” 2 ‘Traffic should be interrupted. 4 Deilvery of mail and telegrams should be prevent d. 5 Infliction of damage upon pro perty of “persons opposed to the stu- dents.” 6 Measures be taken to cut off supplies of provisions and materials used for industrial and business pur- poses. 7. Creation of disturbances at various residences, S. Be rigidly § That all schools in Shanghai be requested to join the general strike. Between the lines of this report can be seen a dominant class view of the revolt of the Chinese against foreign mastery, and a fear that the revolt will sweep over China's 400,000,000 people to a degree that may change the status of foreigners in all China henceforth “Hand bills,” says Cunningham, ‘ere circulated denouncing foreign- for murdering Chinese and ad- ing extension of the strike to wublic utilities and to workmen Groups of men should be sent) | force who are indispensable to foreigners.” This latter group included all chauf- feurs, cooks, clerks, policemen and detectives. “Some Chinese,” he adds, “includ- ing officials, make proposterous de- mands for the release of all Chinese arrested, punishment of policemen and indemnity to families” (of the strikers and students shot down in the streets). , The Washington Post warns the Coolidge administration to be very circumspect in the face of the Chinese uprising, and to limit its use of armed to the guarding of American | life and property. The union had at first asked. | Chinese Open Civil War on Anglo-French Mercenary Troops (Continued from page 1) its previous arrogant attitude, by say- ing that it “withholds judgement” of the Shanghai uprising until a commis- sion of foreign legation secretaries re- port on the situation. The commission is to leave Peking for Shanghai Mon- day. E. G. Greene will represent the United States. The present note was in response to the second protest of the Chinese foreign office. Chinese students in-many cities are joining in sympathetic demonstrations in behalf of the Shanghai strikers. The Shanghai Teachers’ Union has addressed a protest to rne diplomatic corps at Peking, sending it thru Sov- iet Ambassador Leo Karakhan, against the murders of Chinese stu- dents by the foreign troops. The Sov- let ambassador is formally the head of the diplomatic corps, but the oth- er foreign representatives ignore him, take separate action and are not ex- pected to reply to him in the matter of the protest. However, his strength with the Chinese teachers is indicated by their action. Shanghai Still an Armed Camp SHANGHAI, China, June 7.—Fully 250,000 Chinese workers are still on strike and the situation as regards food in the foreign settlement is get- ing worse. Little is obtainable there except flour and canned goods, fresh meats and vegetables having been entirely shut off by the strikers. The town hall.has been turned into a food supply .station and is under heavy guard. The foreign population is taking card Of its own needs from the remaining food, leaving the 750,000 Chinese living in the foreign settle- ment to shift for themselves or go out- side, to the Chinése controlled terri- tory for supplies. The Kuomintang party has called for a general strike and boycott against British goods. The American marines, with fixed bayonets still are occupying the Kuomintang party's school, known asthe people’s collége, under the excuse that they are ousting “red influences.” The Soviet Consul General, EB. Osar- nin, denies that the Soviet government is responsible for the riots. In a writ- ten statement he declares statements by other foreign interests as “nothing else but prevarication aiming to dis- credit the Soviet government. The consulate.” he says, “has no connec- tion with the strike, nor does it give instruction to anybody regarding the same.” Soviet Consul Issues Denial of Lies Meanwhile boycotts and strikes against foreign interests are spread- ing up the Yangtsze valley. At Chin- kiang, above Shanghai on the river, rioters stormed the British municipal building and burned the furniture. Chinese Raid British Concession The American gunboats Penguin and Paul Jones are being ordered to Chinkiang by Rear Admiral McVey. The British warship Woodlark is due to arrive there Monday. The rioters tore down the British flag over the building in the concession. In Nanking, capital of Kiangsu pro- vince, the shops are closed, the mark- ets refuse to sell anything to foreign- ers and the Chinese workers employ- ed by American and other foreign firms are on strike. An additional 400 American marines are being landed today at Shanghai. 1925 Russian Crop Larger, [han Biggest Ever Raised in U. S. (Continued from page 1.) port 300,000,000 poods, the govern- ment economic organs are confronted with the greatest difficulty in trying to figure out the state’s distribution of 1,000,000,000 poods of grain. Figuring a pood at one-half bushel (it is actually six pounds in excess of a bushel) the Russian harvest of 3,200,000,000 poods is 1,600,000,000 bushels or more than 600,000,000 bushels over the largest wheat crop ever raised in the United States. soot ot foreign bankers to b¢| ENGDAHL ARRESTED IN PARTY DRIVE FOR COMMUNIST OPEN AIR MEETINGS J. Louis Engdahi, editor of the DAILY WORKER, was arrested Saturday night In the renewal of the drive of the Workers (Communist) Party to hold the corner at W. North Ave. and Orchard St., for party open air meetings. Engdah! was locked up at the Hudson Ave. police station but released on bail furnished by Thurber Lewis, representing the Labor Defense Council. case will come up this morning in the Chicago Ave. police station. The A jury trial will be demanded. This and other cases, involving the arrests of other comrades, will come up for final disposal on June 10, with the Communists fighting to declare the city ordinance demanding permits for open air meet- ings unconstitutional. Open air meetings in other sections of Chicago Satur- day night were not interfered with. e@2 FEDERATED COUNCILOF MILWAUKEE BOOSTS AMERICAN NEGRO LABOR CONGRESS MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 7.—At ite last meeting the Federated Trades ay & THE DAILE.woRKER Coolidge in ta |) To Inaugurate New War and Farmers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ROUSE HAS ROUGH - PRINTERS? UNION 3000 Votes for the Left Wing Program By JOSEPH MANLEY. (Special to The Dally Worker.) The dictatorship of Leon the First is crumbling. This is the outstand- ing afid significant fact resulting from the recent election of Typographical Union N. 6, of New York. Leon Rouse, the president of Big Six, had, for the past ten years, ruled without serious rivalry the affairs of this big and importaft organization. It is particularly significant that an opponent who with only a few short weeks of preparatory campaign rolled up almost 3,000 votes as against the approximate 5,000 votes of Rouse. Darcy Milliken, the candidate for president against Rouse represents the anti-thesis of the policies that Rouse, for the past ten years, has been fastening upon Big Six. Rouse with his high-handed and dictatorial methods has almost completely abol- ished every last vestige of democrat- ic form in Local Union No. 6. Rouse himself has appointed all committees of the union, including the executive committee. Consequently, this ma- chine built by Rouse is fighting sav- agely to prevent its destruction. Rouse Sacrifices Rank and File. Rouse’s attitude towards the em- ployers has been one of collaboration and the avoidance, at the expense of the rank and file, of all militant con- flicts -between the Workers and the employers. This high-salaried execu- tive fights only for his own personal aggrandisement. He never fights for the demands of the rank and file. “Doc” Milliken on the contrary rep- resents the rank and file revolt against Rouse. Milliken is a printer of many long years standing, fore- most in the progressive movement, and recognized widely as a leading left winger in the printing industry. He works daily at his trade and in his spare time edits the Industrialist —advocate of amalgamation in the printing trades industry, and Eastern organ of the left wing in the print- ing trades. The Trade Union Educa- tional League printing trades group has taken a leading part fn the cam- paign. Milliken’s platform, which was dis- tributed thruout the‘entiré New York printing industry, while not a full left wing platform embodies..many pro- gressive policies, w ¢ carriog out by Big Six, would: We nghting trade union. — r The attempt to displace Rouse, was not merely the effort of one or two indivduals, but was the beginning of a real rank and file movement, led by the class conscious elements, to de- velop militant policies in the printing trade unions of New York: Milliken Carries Big Shops. An analysis of the votes cast for Rouse and Milliken is significant, Mil- liken carried almost solid the votes of the printers in the big book and job offices of New York. For instance, the printers in the Federal Printing Shop, the biggest book and periodical shop in the United Statés, voted for Milliken, as did those of McGraw-Hill and others. Milliken carried almost all the newspaper offices. He, for in- stance, carried the American by 96 votes, which two years ago was Car- ried by Rouse. On the other hand, the shops, which gave Rouse the ma- jority were the small—one, two and three men shops. This election struggle has laid the foundation for a crystalized left wing movement in the printing trades of New York. The lesson of this strug- gle is that the rank and file are in open revolt against the class collabor- ation of Rouse. They are demanding and will not rest, short of a militant leadership, and a policy of struggle against the employers rather than Rouse’s policy of collaboration. The Blood in the Coal. HAZELTON, Pa., June 7.— More blood is on the coal mined in this country due to the burying of miner John Yanyack when a rush of tons of coal fell on him at Drifton operations of Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Yanyack was father of 18 children, 14 living. Labor Party In Again. SYDNEY, Australia, June 7.—The labor party has won in the new elec- tions and will hold office in New South Wales. Lunacy Warrant For Russell. HAMILTON, Ohio, June 7. — A lunary warrant is on file here today against Lloyd Russell, 42, who yester- day shot and killed eight of his rela- tives and slightly wounded himself. CLASS IN LENINISM. Will be held Monday, June 8, at 3118 Roosevelt Road, under auspices of Douglas Park English branch. Max Shachtman will conduct the class. HELP WANTED! WANTED—Fifty women and gir! comrades to report at 19 S. Lincoin Street, for work, selling The DAILY WORKER at special meetings every night this coming week. Give at least two nights this week to help push the sale of The DAILY WORKER. Phone Seeley 3542 and ask for Hammersmark. » ' On Workers a Minnesot ae 4 ye a ODAY, “Silent Cal” Coolidge is in Minnesota trying to make a noise for the republican party. . “But why Minnesota?” the millions will ask. Why all this trouble crossin at the so-called Why this long journey in the f e half the continent to present himself orse-American centennial celebration? heat of early June?’ The reason is not hard to find. It is. the same reason that inspired the late Sam Gompers, durin as head of the American Federation of L “red oping 9 war on the Co his final days or, to send his agent, Paul Smith, to Minneapolis, to make mmunists and force the expulsion of Commun- ist delegates from the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assem- bly. it is the same reason that inspired Senator Robert M. LaFollette, with the presidential ba fore him, to issue his declaration denouncin National Farmer-Labor Conference, at St. dangling alluringly be- vane jue 47th aul, last year. All united in the war of the capitalist reaction against the efforts of the Minnesota workers and poor farmers, in harmony with labor thruout class power. the land, to build. their own Three years ago when Cal Coolidge, then vice-presi- dent, tried to peddle some of his New England “open shop” piffle at the Minnesota state fair, the occasion for an annual outpouring of Minnesota worker and farmer masses, he was hooted down. The gathering, tired of his bunk, refused to listen to him, and he had to leave the platform, sticking his typewritten speech in his pocket. That was in the days when: the Farmer-Labor movement was on the upgrade, when the workers and farmers in increased numbers were breakin away from the old political the bankers and the food speculators, Threé years ago the republican party of Wall Street — was slipping fast in Minnesota. parties of the landlords, Not even the reactiona elements from the middle class democratic party, that joined it, could help it very much. Magnus Johnson and Hendrik Shipsted went to the United States senate and the governor- ship was in reach, But instead of consolidating their class power the work- ers and farmers allowed their pene careerists and hungry job hunters. movement to be overrun with Political deals etween the so-called leaders of the farmer-labor movement and the old parties hecame the order of the day. Class action was fought as “Bolshevist.” of the workers and farmers was cloaked Treason to the class interests in the garb of “Americanism” and now. Coolidge comes from Washington to Minneapolis to reap the harvest, and with him comes Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, the corporation lawyer, who was defeated by Johnson as the Farmer-Labor candi- date. a ¢@ ; This “united front” against labor finds its symbol.in the dirigible “Los Angeles,” a all the aa Lakehurst, N. For him it is a triumphant return. tl f J., to take part in the ceremonies at Minneapolis today. This giant weapon of American militarism for t e oppression of labor at home, for the subjugation of Wall Street's colonial slaves, and for making war.on rising Workers’ Rule, as in the Union of Soviet Republics, or the aspiring revolutionary movement in China, becomes a spectacular feature of the “Back to Wall Street” drive. * = On the Coolidge reception committee will be Mayor Leach, supported in his victorious race for re-election by the Van Lear- arthill “socialists.” Leach was an ardent sup- porter of Coolidge’s campaign last year, that helped put a republican standpatter: in the overnor’s chair in the state- house. What a spectacle, therefore, today! From the great- est capitalists to the pinkest “socialists,” they all kneel today to do obeisance to the. strikebreaker president. Alone the Communists call to the workers and poor farmers to enlist on labor's side of the class struggle to break the power of the republican party—of capitalism itself—in the state of Minnesota. Against the republican party of Wall Street, against-the democratic party of the well-to-do farmers, the little bankers and small businessmen, ainst the betrayers who parade as LaFolletteites and “socialists,” against all these the Communist inspired masses are called to struggle. Coolidge’s visit to Minnesota today must mark the drawing of the class lines more clearly, the beginning of greater struggles for the robbed and the oppressed, in the cities and on the land. —— i | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'Flaherty | (Continued from Page 1) of course, the inevitable Soviet gold and “tons of Bolshevik propaganda.” When the thing blows over, those same lying correspondents will write books a la Sir Philip Gibbs, entitled, “Now it can be told.” Gibbs was knighted for lying for the allies dur- ing the war. He is now making money telling the truth about the same events. Had he told the truth dur- ing the war, he would be beheaded instead of knighted. HOSE who are reading General Bullard’s war memoirs could do worse with their time. The general is a typical militarist of the fascist type. Putting a bullet into one of his own soldiers does not bother him any more than treating the enemy to a dose of lead. Several American sol- diers were executed during the war for infractions of discipline he tells us. But more British were shot. The notorious “Hardboiled” Smith de- serves the highest praise, declares Bullard, but when Smith was being made the scapegoat for his crimes of the high army authorities Bullard kept his mouth shut. NE thing you will learn from Bul- lard’s story and that is the lack of heroism about a capitalist war. Desperate men drugged with liquor were sent forward to fight men they - - —se—. o-. Soe eee ti «-- : 4 cause of the German military debacle never saw before for a cause that meant nothing to them. They went forward as condemned men walk to the gallows, some nervous; others Pwith resignation. There was little of the bunk we see in the moving pic- thures to be observed in the trenches. Bullard throws much needed light on the condition of the French armies in 1917 and 1918. ; *> = ¢ TT is quite evident that the allies were beaten to a frazzle in 1917 and 1918 and came within an inch of being decisively defeated even with the addition of the American forces. While the fake peace terms of the hypocrite Wilson were a factor in de- stroying the German morale the real was the Russian revolution. It was the propaganda of Lenin and not the propaganda of Wilson that demoral- ized the great Germany military ma- chine on the western front. a a : e - " fa P * 4 ¥ LA F) a ‘ 4 _ 4% ¢ ao.S 54 : Down by Work- ers and Farmers in 1922 By LAURENCE TODD, WASHINGTON, — (FP) — Three years after he received, at the Minne- sota state fair grounds, the most hu- miliating rebuff ever given a vice- president of the United States by a great gathering of voters, Calvin Cool- idge has gone back to Minnea- polis to deliver a speech. He hopes to get a reception that will seem to be an ovation, and thereby put the stamp of approval—even in Minne- sota—on his achievements as a politic- al agent of super-finance and feder- ated big business. Incidentally, he hopes to kill off the insurgent move- ment. in the nortwest. How bitter must be his recollection of that disastrous day when he ruined the Old Guard’s chances of returning Kellogg to the senate is indicated by the fact that he has since made Kel- logg ambassador and secretary of state, tho the Minnesota Old Guard has never forgiven him for their dis- |comfiture. Last year they sent a Lowden delegation to his renomina- tion convention at Cleveland. Gets An Awful Jolt Twenty thousand Minnesotas were packed into and in front of the grand- stand on that afternoon when Calvin Coolidge, the “simple farmer boy,” vice-president of the natfon, was in- troduced to the Minnesota farmers. For 40 minutes they listened silently to his reading of a speech which in substanc was the same as the advice which drove the North Dakota farm- ers to organize the non-partisan lea- gue. He told them that they could solve all their problems of deflaction and bankruptcy by going home and golag to work. Then some one of his har- sher phrases was met by a round of hand-clapping. Coolidge looked pleas- ed. The clapping continued, and spread out into the crowd. He looked more pleased. Then it spread farther, and slowly Coolidge realized that it was a steady, metholical, disapproving clap-clap-clap-clap a deadly counting out process, in which 20,000 men and women had joined as tho by common inspiration. It kept up, five minutes, ten, twenty, until Coolidge abandoned Ais place, trembling with mortifica- tion, and left the grounds. Next m6rn- ing the Associated Press and the re- publican papers tried to psycho-ana- lyze the crowd, as a preliminary’ to bréaking the news that the vice-pres- ident. had been driven from the fro- strum, by a tremendous mass-rejection. Just Like British Prince The nearest approach to this treat- ment given Coolidge, found in modern fiction, is probably that description given, by D. H. Lawrence in “Kanga- roo,” of the terrible “counting-down” of the British prince by the infuriated Australian troops at the Palestine front during the war. Before the final,. ex-communicating “ten” had been reached by the shouting lines of vete- rans, the prince rushed forward, plead- ing pardon. Coolidge simply took the count and disappeared from Minne- sota. First principles of machine politics require that the Old Guard fill the president’s audience, this time, with thousands of trusty shouters who will toss hats in air and yell themselves hoarse after each paragraph, and then tiy to get near enough to shake the hand that signed the appointments of Kellogg and Humphrey and other antt- farmer stalwarts. And since Norwe- gian settlement of America is being celebrated, Coolidge will presumably pay tribute to the late Knute Nelson, faithful servitor of the steel trust. Steel Trust Snaps Unemployment Whip MONESSEN, Pa.—tThe steel trust is taking good advantage of the unem- ployment situation here. While thous- ands of miners are idle in this dis- trict the steel trust is getting very particular with the men, and is mak- ing them to do a great deal more than they had to do this time last year. The tin mill here, for instance, is getting men to do a great deal of little things that they did not have to do before. This week they sent a/man yrhome for a week because he would not do the “little things” they wanted him to do. There is something lacking with the workers in this town, or they would put up a fight ae did the work- ers in the McKeesport tin mill, which went on strike and abolished the “li*tle things’ they had to do. If it can be done at McKeesport, it can be done here. Distribute a bundle during Red Week. activity of securing subscriptions ~~ + ee = Attention, San Francisco Comrades! A meeting is called of.all DAILY WORKER readers, party mem- bers and branch agents for June 11, 8 p. m., at 225 Valencia. to mobilize all our forces for Red Week and for the permanent San Francisco. Plans are ready for effective work. You must help. —P. B. Cowdery, Pa wpe see Agent This is for the DAILY WORKER, within — — — eee \ -
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~ 4 || NATIONAL DEMOCRAT “A MYSTERY” “ae ee Se. | WASHINGTON, June 7.—Mystery |tlonal Democrat, weekly organ of the Demooratio national committee, pub- j lished In Washington by a& recent “lockout” for the ku klux kian, and edited deepens and haibins around the Na- | by Oscar Underwood's late campaign publicity manager. Oscar Is anti-klan. Labor Disorganized and Living Standard Low By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) A vast population forced by caste to adjust itself to an extremely low standard of living Is revealed by the United States bureau of agricultural economics In a report on the cost of living among colored farm families in the south. The report shows that when the cost of living of the average: white farm family in the same regions was $1,437, colored families were aver } aging only $612 a year. Here is maintained a reservoir: of cheap labor that employers are in- creasingly drawing on to undermine white labor standards. Steel workers feel it whenever they attempt to or- ganize. Coal miners know it thru the competition of the unorganized south- ern mine fields. Northern textile work- ers are feeling it indirectly in their inability to maintain standards and compete with southern mills paying much lower wages. Study Covers Three States The study covers colored and white farm families in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas during the year 1919. The families fell into 3 groups, owners, tenants and croppers. The last group are farmers that take a share of the crop in return for their work. The cost of living for colored fami- lies owning their farms was found to average $682 for the year, contrasting with $1,635 for white families in the same class. For colored farm tenants the .cost was $673 and fcr white ten-~ ants $1,378. Croppers’ living costs averaged $536 for colored families and $947 for white. The bureau shows the average ex- penditures of colored and white fami- lies as follows: Average Family Colored White exp. for 1919 Farmers Farmers Food $327 $632 Clothing 107 255 Rent 41 140 Furnishings 5 29 Health 26 67 Advancement 28 84 Personal 9 17 Insurance ~ 14 37 «/Miseellaneous. _ , 56... 176 Total $612 $1,437 The national industrial conference board, an open shop employer organ- ization, determined the minimum cost of living for a textile worker’s family at this time to be $1,386 and, on a slightly more liberal standard, $1,658. The food item alone in the minimum textile budget was $601. Expenditures for food by the south- ern farm families averaged as low as $284 for colored croppers compared with $500 for white croppers. As these expenditures include not only pur- chased food but the market value of all food produced on the farm for home consumption it is apparent that the colored families are dangerously regtricted in the important item of diet. At that they were spending more than half their entire budget for food. The bureau’s figures show the con- trast between the living standards of actual families. But they imply an issue which labor cannot dodge—the inevitable sapping of higher living standards of the worker by the lower. Pick Leahy as Wheeler Prosecutor. WASHINGTON, June 7.— W. E. Leahy, who was special prosecutor in the Nicky Arnstein case, has been employed by Attorney Gen. Sargent to assist in the prosecution of Senator Wheeler in Washington. Eleven other lawyers have been trying to convict LaFollette’s recent running- mate. Elrod, the newspaper man, sent here from Indiana when Stevenson was running the kian and the republican machine In that state two years ago, Is | publishing the National Demoorat. He says he has cut off his kian connec- tion. Last summer he was klan scout at the republican and democratic national conventions. The Democrat klanish weekly Ie printed. nd prese correspondent for G. Democrat for a time. is printed at the same shop where a Before Elrod took hold, Col. Winfleld Jones, a veteran republican publicity O. P. papers, controlled the National ITALIAN BAKERS MAKE PROGRESS IN BROOKLYN, N. Y, ‘Wages Are o Detertnined by -Volume of Work NEW YORK—(FP) — The Italian bakery workers of Brooklyn, Local 12, Amalgamated Food Workers’ Union, are following the successful example of their brothers in Newark and are gaining better conditions, including an average $5 weekly wage increase, Wages are now determined by the volume of work performed: first hand gets $37 and second hand $32 for a weekly production of 4,000 loaves fig- ured at 14 batches. If more batches are required for the same number of loaves $1 a batch extra must be paid. For 5,000 loaves in 19 batches, first baker gets $45 and second, $40. For 6,000 loaves from 19 batches first bak- er gets $50, second $45. Above 6,000 loaves first baker is paid 70 cents and second 60 cents per hundred loaves. For setting 50 cents, if worker is called’ home, or 25 cents if he is in the shop. Six days constitute the week’s work and work must be done without inter- ruption during the day. The closed shop is to be enforced and the union bread label used. A new employing bakers’ association has already agreed to the union demands. The fight of the Amalgamated Food Workers’ Bakery Local No. 3 against Bohack bakeries continues. The chain store concern failed to get an injunction restraining the union from its organization work. The New York Hotel and Restan- rant Workers’ branch of the Amal- gamated Food Workers is conducting a vigorous organization campaign. TO EXPLOIT THE SOVIET COPPER AND GOLD FIELD MOSCOW, —(By Mail)—An import- ant contract was concluded yesterday when Piatakoff, president of the Su- preme Concessions Committee, in be- half of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Messrs. Brown and Gwinn, representatives of the Lena Gold Fields company, signed a pre- liminary agreement providing for the exploitation by the company of the Leta gold enterprises, the Altai red metal and the Uran copper and iron ores in the Syssersk and Rejinsk re- gions. The contract grants a three months’ term for the ratification of the preli- minary agreement by* the company, whereafter the Soviet government has another month for ratification. The terms are fifty year for the Ural and thirty for the Lena concession. Push Italian-Soviet Trade MOSCOW, —(By Mail)—Odessa re- ports that a representative of the union of Italian farmers’ co-operative societies, Mr. Trimarchi, has arrived there to negotiate the organization of a mixed company for trading withthe Union of Soviet Republics. SPRINGFIELD BOARD OF COMMERCE PAID EXPENSES CONVENTION, OF EX-SOLDIERS BUT NOT ENOUGH » SPRINGFIELD, IL, June 5.—The annual convention of the Disabled Vet- eran& Association was wondering today how and why it had come to Spring- field. Representative Thomas L. Fekete, Jr., of East St. Louis, member of the Mitnois legislature, charged on the floor of the house that Springfield “was not fulfilling her promises to the veterans after sending representatives Strike Against Unit System. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., . June 7.— Weavers of Salt’s Textile Manufac- turing Co. are striking against the introduction of the unit system of productioon in the plant. The work- ers assert that their work has been irregular enough already and the new system has proven equal to a wage cut of one-half. The company manu- factures velvets and plushes, employ- ing 700 workers. Moses Defies Dawes’ Scheme. WASHINGTON—(FP)—Sen. Moses, president pro tem of the senate, again gave warning of a fight to a finish against Vice-President Dawes’ pro- posal of a gag rule for the senate, when Moses addressed a law school -~@of the chamber of commerce person- ally to invite various posts to the capital city.” He specifically cited a visit al-leged to have been made to the Peoria Post, in which “ a representative of the Springfield chamber of commerce promised a great entertainment for the convention.” C. E, Jenks, manager of the local chamber, declared his organization knew nothing of the convention until Commander Trabank, of the Spring- field Post, came to bim for financial assistance. did not know who invited the veter- ans. Jenks said he had advanced what pecuniary assistance the chamber of commerce could give and that he was “very glad” the veterans had come here, but that if the entertainment was less than promised he did not ; Even Trabank, he said, : GERMANY HOUSING WORKERS IN THE WORST HOVELS Families in Rooms and Even Piano Boxes (By The Federated Press) BERLIN, June 56.-—Finding living quarters for her people is one of the most serious questions confronting the German nation. Practically every large city tells the same story of thousands living in attics or cellars; often several families in one room. The same applies in the villages. Everywhere young couples who desire to marry cannot do so because there is no place for them to live. Some are fortunate enuogh to rent a garden plot from the city and erect a piano- box shack but these are few, compara- tively speaking. During the war years there was no \vuilding and since, with the treaty of Versailles and the inflation period, the Ide that has been done is a drop ina ucket. Private capital found richer pickings im industrial enterprises and the funds of savings societies and co- operatives have been largely swept away. The government has been too busy looking out for the big employers and speculators to pay attention to the people. So they crowd in on each other until the laws of health and de- cency have been thrown to the winds. The housing department of Berlin reports that while 258,175 dwellings were required in 1924 only 25,769 were available. Plans call for the construc. tion ’in 1925 of 10,000 new dwellings, the-‘city aiding private and co-opera- tive capital and in. most cases owing ‘the location. To meet the demand thene! should be at least 250,000 new ‘dwellings but this is out of the ques- tion. ,I saw one of these new apart- ment blocks of 300 dwellings. Each | with common bathroom for Satta ‘apartments. The rent will be $15 per month with 20 per cent addi- tional for water, gas, light and taxes. With’ the average workers’ wage about $24 @ month only a small percentage can’take advantage of the new accom- modations. The high rental is ex- plained probably by the high cost of building material, since labor is cheap and ‘the site belongs to the city. In- terest rates for money run from 8 to 10 per cent. In all municipalities dwellings are rationed according to the list of appli- cants. People in better circumstances in apartments are limited in the num- ber of rooms they may use, but.this does not reach the owners of man- sions and the very wealthy. Rents are limited to a 76 per cent increase over pre-war. In Leipsic registrants will have to wait four and five years. In the meantime they are fortunate to get a furnished room from $10 to $12 a month, with linen, light, gas and heat extra. In Dresden only 300 apartments were found last year as against calls for 15,000. San Francisco Cooks and Waiters Stage a Neat Little Strike SAN FRANCISCO, June 7—The en- tire staff of waiters at the fashionable St. Francis hotel, 100 strong, walked out for 24 hours because their union agent was discharged. Guests had to line up at the kitchen and wait on themselves. The waiters - returned next day when the discharged man was reinstated. The Cooks’ Union has a new agree- ment with the St. Francis and the Palace, San Francisco’s two most ex- clusive hotels. It provides for a min- imum wage of $30 instead of $25 for cook’s helpers, and $55 instead of $45 for cooks. The average wage increase is $4 a week. The agreement improves working conditions, runs for two years and provides for monthly conferences between the employers and the union. Coast Guards Quit Service. NEW YORK, June 7.—A number of coast guardsmen employed on Staton Island are planning to leave the ser- vice at the end of their enlistment, charging that they have not had enough shore leave duripg the drive against rum runners. After 21 days at sea, they claim, they had only 48 hours shore leave. They say that their lives are too much in danger from firing by machine guns on rum ships. Officials are whispering that the men have been won over to the bootleggers, where conditions may not be better but returns are greater. The men deny this. Get a sub—make another Com- -apartment contains two rooms and a| AILY WORKE orts out (Special to The Dally Worker) EAST LIVERPPOOL, Ohio, June 7. —The Bast Liverpool branch of the Workers. (Communist) Party has sent the following resolution to the strik- ing carpenters’ local here, this week: WHERDAS, The employers of erica, thru a legalized profit eyude: and also because of an absurd and chaotic method of production and dis- tribution, aré now depriving the work- ers of an average of five-sixths of the wealth which they produce, thus leav- ing them only one-sixth of the result of their labor, upon which to maintain themselves and their families, and Exploited and Robbed WHERBAS, The said profit system results in a waste of life on the part of the workers, who by its means are ‘exploited and robbed, and WHERDAS, The said profit system is unjust. Even tho legalized, fost- ering misery, crime and war, and the said waste of life is deplorable, and Solidarity of Workers WHEREAS, Any attempt on the part of the ~workers to better their condition, and to obtain for themsel- ves a larger part of the product of their labor should be upheld and en- couraged; and WHEREAS, Solidarity of feeling and action, and efforts on the part of all workers to present a united front to their employers, and exploit- ers is not only admirable, but a vital and pressing necessity, if the workers are to win their fight for economic freedom, therefore Indorse the Strike” ; BE IT RESOLVED, That we, the English branch of East Liverpool, O., steel sub-district of District 6, Work- ers Party of America, fully approve of the course taken by the Carpenters’ Union of Bagt Liverpool in their pres- ent strike, to obtain for themselves a living wage; and that we hereby pledge to them our comradely sup- port, influence, and allegiance as Communists, confidently expecting the day to come when all men shall be workers together for the common good living in peace and happiness, without prejudice, without fear, and without exploitation. (Signer) Mary Waters Sec’y, City Central Committee i) ha ican Treaty Bars Against Spokesmen of Labor WASHINGTON,—(FP)—Mystery in official quarters concerning the terms of the frontier-regulation treaty which was discussed in the joint meeting of Mexican and. American government officials at El Paso, May 15-25, has raised suspicions that a new scheme of secret espionage upon persons mov- ing to and from Mexico is involved in the plan proposed by the Washington spokesmen. The proposed treaty, which will not be made public until the senate foreign relations committee shall have looked it over in the event that the Mexican government accepts it, will cover immigration, smuggling of narcotics, liquor, merchandize and aliens, and disputes concerning fish- eries and diplomatic procedure. In the American delegation were L. Cc. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury; H. 8. Creighton, customs agent in San Francisco, W. R. Vallan- ce, assistant solicitor of the state de- partment; L. G. Nutt, chief of the narcotics division; F. J. Henning, | former assistant secretary of labor; H. R. Gamble, federal attorney, and Consuls Merrill and Dye. The joint report has still to be written up as a treaty and signed by the two gov- ernments’ foreign offices before it goes to the respective senates for ap- proval. If there is in the proposed treaty a scheme of espionage that will serve to keep labor’s spokesmen from cros- sing the border, or which leads to their being “tagged” for their indus- trial views, that clause will be fought in the American senate and in the Mexican congress. Machinery to Put Typists on List of the Unemployed NEW YORK June 7—The photo- stat machine, or photographic method of reproducing records, will put an end to typists’ copying of records, Annie Mathews, registrar of New York county, announces after an investiga- tion. Application to the board of esti- mate for immediate purchase of a photostat machine is being made. Miss Mathews estimates’ that $500,000 will be saved by general use of the machine in place of hand typ- ists. The rate for copies of docu- ments is now 15 cents per 100 words. The register of New York paid $54,000 last year for recording work. Print paper on which photographic records would not fade had to be guar- anteed before photostat could suc- ceed, says Migs ‘Mathews. She claims that the recording offices of Cook County, Illinois, Chicago's county, are using photostat. Fear w MIS an - ee eOQrvr—— By LELAND OLDS (Federated Presse Industrial Editor) tion in Illinois may be taken as a GREED OF COAL BARONS CAUSES LOYMENT, WASTE AND ALL ERY IN BLACK DIAMOND FIELDS The social waste accompanying development of basic industry for private profit instead of public service is revealed in a study of the Illinois coal situa- tion by U. 8. Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ethelbert Stewart. He shows that 84 Illinois mines employing 49,206 workers 300 days a year could produce 7,000,000 tons more coal than was actually produced by 338 mines employing 95,499 miners an average of 149 days. Stewart's analysis is based on statistics of the Illinois department of mines for the year ended June 30, 1924. He says the bituminous coal situa- Waste By Bosses unnecessary mines in a single state. fair picture of the industry as a whole. “This means,” he says, “that 254 of the 338 principal mines in the state represent an unnecessary expenditure of money so far as the capital in- vested in the mines themselves is concerned; that they simply prevent the adequate number of mines from producing an adequate amount of coal on a reasonably efficient basis; that the railroads must distribute cars to 254 It means that the industry wastes not only the money actually invested but the time and energy of the officials and clerical help that must be on hand the year round even when not pro- ducing unnecessary coal.” The average number of employes, number of days worked per employ, average daily production per employe and number of men necessary to secure the same production on a 300-day basis for the 338 mines, classified accord- ing to tonnage, was: Number Average Tons per Employes lilinois actually days man-day required on Mines producing employed worked produced 300-day bas. Under 10,000 tons 834 46 2.9 127 10,000 to 24,999 2,437 74 3.5 603 25,000 to 49,999 4,054 85 3.6 1,147 50,000 to 99,999 10,690 98 4.0 3,502 100,000 to 149,999 9,268 129 4.8 3,991 150,000 to 199,999 5,081 152 5.0 2,574 200,000 to 249,999 7,267 160 4.5 3,642 250,000 to 299,999 6,662 147 4.6 3,269 300,000 to 399,999 12,802 150 5.1 6,409 400,000 to 499,999 8,813 175 4.9 5,152 500,000 to 599,999 9,773 159 5.6 5,171 600,000 to 699,999 3,042 216 4.9 2,186 700,000 to 799,999 5,020 200 5.1 3,417 800,000 to 899,999 3,635 198 6.0 2,394 900,000 and over 6,021 189 5.5 3,786 LABOR FAKERS thirds of the 70,328,322 tons of coal. The 84 mines producing 300,000 or more tons in the year ended June 30, 1924, employed more than half of all the miners and produced nearly two- they would have produced 77,743,800 tons in the year. Operated steadily on a 300-day basis BOSS IS HARDBOILED FIGHTING WORKERS BUT AN EASY MARK FOR HIS FELLOW SKINFLINTS in Chicago alone. By CARL HAESSLER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) He may be hardboiled and flintshelled toward the worker but he’s P. T. Barnum’s own easy mark when it comes to extending credit to the confi- dence men in his own line. So he is putting up $2,000,000 td protect himself against the pirates and buzzards of his own kind. He has ponied up $108,500 “He” is the collective American business man and finanaler. gathered together one million from his clan in 12 American ciffes and put it at the disposal of the National Association of Credit men. Bay District of San Francisco, Cal., Picnics on June 21 SAN JOSE, Cal., Jume 7.— Local San Jose, Workers Party, will give a picnic Sunday, June 21, at Congress Springs, near San Jose, (a mile or so from Saratoga). This is a beau- tiful and well-known park. ‘The Eng- lish Local at Palo Alto and the South Slav local at Mountain View will par- ticipate, also the Mexican local at Redwood City, without doubt. Com-f rades with automobilos from the whole Bay District should load up/ to the gun wales with their friends and drive over. Persons arriving in automobiles are charged 26 cents for entering the park. Admission is free \to those who patronize the electric cars from San Jose or elsewhere. Speech making or other program features have not been promised, but doubtless there will be some sur- prises in this line. If the Young Workers League of San Francisco and Oakland should decide to attend with their international chorus and other musical and dramatic features there will be entertainment for all. And who knows but District Organ- izer Tom Lewis and other party spell binde’s may not decide to attend. We are making mo promises, but why not? Let’s all go! Come over Santa Cruz and Felton. That’s a beautiful drive. Come up Watsonville and Morgan Hill and towns down that way. Get acquainted with San Jose. Come down San Francisco, Cotati, Santa Rosa, Napa, Richmond, Ber- keley, Oakland, Alameda, Hayward, Niles. It’s not so impossible. If you have no auto, just hike. Many machines have room for one more, even on Sunday. Mother Bloor is hik- ing somewhere in the sultry east. Keep her company. We'll tell them we had the time of our lives. Let's show them how a little publicity in the DAILY WORKER will get out a crowd. Distribute a bundle everyday during Week? Relief Money Still Needed; Finnish Send $21.59 Thru League The Finnish Federation of the Workers Party, in answer to the call of the T. U. B. L. published in the DAILY WORKBER, for aid for the Nova Scotia miners, sent in a contri- | Distribute * bundle every po bution of $21.59 to the Strike Fund greduating class in the capital | want te be held accountable, munist | during Red Week of June 15 to 31. of the Nove Scotia miners, ; y | aif Boe ag OF se : ‘ : _ | i » @men will employ superdetectives, will . . He has The credit organize card index files df credit criminals and patiently teagh the shrewd American business mak how to take care of his purse where the armor is soft and full of blowhdles. Another million will be raised outshile the 12 cities already touched. The American institute of account- ants, the premier society in its field! in the country, estimates that $160,- 000,000 to $400,000,000 is lost annually by reason of credit frauds. From the investigations of the in- stitute it seems that while the Ame rican employer has to be virtually blasted or dynamited into giving his |workers a raise of a cent or two an hour, this same skinflint will extend almost unlimited credit tao the first greengoods man posing as a fellow exploiter who comes along. It ‘isn’t even necessary to come along. The institute cites instances where unknowns have ordered large consignments of goods by wire or credit and have obtained the stuff, only to sell it and skipp before the collector could make an appearance. But the boob business man, and they are all boobs in the credit line, need not worry. The hundreds of mil- lions lost in credit frauds each year are, as the American institute of ac- countants points out, “ultimately borne by the consuming public.” So are the $2,000,000 raised by the boobs to fight their fellow commercial ban- Page a ee wt QUARREL VER UNION CONTROL Local President Aska) Brindell Be Jailed hs 4 (Special to The Daily heel NEW YORK, June 7.-—An : by Charles Johnson, present presk of Local 1456, Dock and Pier Cary ters’ union, sent by Samuel Un meyer to the New York state pa board formally charges Robert Brindell, former president of & union, with violation of the terms ¢ his parole in seeking to regain hold on New York building activitie Johnson relates how Brindell at tempted to persuade Johnston into ac cepting Brindell’s dictation and ce subsequent threats to use ey arm methods” when Johnson <. the offer to make money by following Brindell’s methods. Johnson states that Brindell received $2,000 from a contractor for ending a strike #@ncs this release from Great Meadow Prison after serving three years, hine months of a five to ten year sentence for ex tortion. The attorney with the Lockwood investigating committee which in quired into building trades activities in New York in 1920, repeats re quest that the parole board an inquiry-and compel attendance of wit nesses to prove charges against Brim dell that he is violating the terms of his parole. Johnson says Brindell fafle@ @ re gain control of his union but formed a social club rival and that Brindell’s son William is receiving $75 a week from the Sandhogs’ union for nego tiations. Brindell promised Johnson $25 weekly salary increase and said that he (Brindell) was reputed to have made $2,000,000 out of the labor more ment, Johnson states. Yellow Cab Driver Victimized by Boss for Talking Union NEW YORK,—Driver Gilmore. Se niority No. 618450 demerits. Agitating. Discharged. That is what the open shop Yellow Taxi corporation had to announce to its drivers on the blackboard im all the garages today. What was driver Gilmore agitating about? Driver Gilmore was agitating for the right to organize a union 80 he and his fellow workers in the job, could get more wages, the abolition of the sweating and commission system, respect from the hands-of thelr ex ploiters and for the hope of a better future. Yellow Taxi drivers, wake up! The only way to get better wages and bet- ter conditions is to organize, Once you are organized you could tell your boss Mr. McGuire to go to hell, Once you are organized you need not fear of having your name on the board for agitating for better conditions, and the club of discharge is no longer used to intimidate you. Taxi drivers, take as an example drivers in Boston, Chicago, 8t, Louis and in your own city who are orga ized. They saw the need of organizae fion and they fought hard and bitter fa their rights—the result was - ng and powerful union. Tullow Taxi drivers you need i union. Why wait? Organize and fight’ and yau will be rewarded the same ag your camrades in other cities, Strike Against Wage Cut, NORWALK, Conn., June %.-— Fit. teen hat finishers employed by F, Berg & Co., are striking against a wage cut. The firm recently absorb ed Pope Hat Co. of Norwalk and re moved its plant from Orange, N, J., te become non-mion. The workers proe test the cut of 20 cents per dozen from the $2.40 rate for finishing hata, GET IT! The June Issue of Sis WORKERS MONTHLY dits. Now On Sale In the June Issue of Anise (Anna Louise Strong) Roger Baldwin Michael Gold T. J. O'Flaherty Jim Waters Robert L. Wolf Gregory Zinoviev William Z. Foster Ear! R. Browder G. Silzer, and others in Stories Articles Book Reviews The Workers Monthly Tom Bell Manual Gomez J. W. 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| “HANDS OFF CHINA!” ssi WILL BE DEMAND OF S RED PICNICKERS HERE (Continued from last tasue) movenveh the wee on wiiheas any rie measare , supanaile vi. Factory Newspapers, . Worker! are active members of the Communist | of support from their big brother, AK TO LIVE Correspondents, and the Commun-| | Party fox the most But the | daily press. An organizatory The Russian, Ukrainian and Pol- ist Party Prese worker . is#hed by the German section of the ish branches of the Workers (Com- would, from the very. commencement munist) Party, local Chicago, will C. I. speaks as follows of the factory HE worker correspondent may be cations “gp Raids sever itself from its. sphere of | nuclei newspapers: F hold-a picnic at Marvell Inn Grove, counted among the best gauges | utility were it not to alm at inducing| “Here the spell has been broken. ; requent on Sunday, June 14. Included In the |.¢ whether a Communist newspaper| precisely the unorganized workers to| The example given by the numerous oomectnape program will be speeches demand- |;, in real organizatory contact with| take part in the movement. The non-| factory newspapers which has appear- “We have our own song, Britannia; woscow—(FP)—One of the many | By CARL BRANNIN. ing “Hands Off China,” protesting | tne masses or not. partisan worker. | and must be ed has broken down all resistance. As| Rules the Waves,” Woodsworth had | measures of the Soviet government to MILAN, Italy—(FP)—Maintaining a| against the murder by American | «1 is a complete misapprehension | given the o ty of expressing | soon as the fears of the factory coun-| said, “and I am not at all sure that it | aid agriculture is to strengthen the ae newspaper may seem a hard| marines of striking Chinese students. | +, suppose that precisely thé literates,| his wishes in the Communist press,|cils have been overcome, we shall|i¢ much preferable to Germany Over | communal or collective farms. Al- Var: lob in the United States but the prob- Comrade James P. Cannon will |and almost exclusively tH6 literates | and-even of bringing any complaints | succeed in the course of time in pro- all. They both exhibit the same spirit, | tnough after the revolution these se- is simple compared to what the Italian workers are up against under Here the prob- speak In English. 8B. K. Gebert in which he may have against the Com- Polish and there will be other epeak- ee Party. The ‘worker corre- dents already contributing to our pot should regard it ‘as one of their most important tasks not only to write themselves, but to urge non- partisan fellow workers, and acquaint- ances sympathizing with the Com- munist Party, to become correspond- ents. , dt bee Cotnninintat daily press has an important and indispensable task before it in the organigation and dis- (in the professional sense of the word) are capable of successful work the rulg of Mussolini. ers In Russian. Come early, bring | upon a newspaper. The reverse is ‘jem is not simply to get out the paper} the family and your friends. To g¢t /the case; the newspaper does not if and pay the bills but, in addition, to to park take any oar to Milwaukee awaken to real life or capacity for oF - gurvive the shock which comes two/ Ave., then Milwaukee-Gale car to | continued life until 500 or 6,000 non- or more times a week of having en-| end of line. A committee will be | jiterates add their contributions to the tire editions of a good many thousand on hand to meet you there. work of five leading and permanently copies confiscated by the local fascist! Pr. active literates.” (Lenin: “How our prefect as “contrary to the pubile BUILD ILLIN ols newspapers are to be made into real viding every large undertaking in Germany with its own newspaper.” HERE is however nothing to be found in the whole report as to whether and how the Communist press is aiding the factory nuclei that | pamper. wr aay Aa x3 is rr ‘boat newspapers. The supply of material that | again rap y re are 0 and Sdibathesl nbuaad is not suffi-| the gon Woodsworth crs with 1,500,000 members. © cient. An uninterrupted organizatory | ¥#s slightly different. ‘The present policy of the govern- contact must be maintained between ment is to draw the ‘whole peasant the editorial staffs of the Communist daily press and the worker editors of the factory newspapers of the corre- sponding town or district. The mutu- Fall eae estates were comparatively flour- Bi number dwindled to about erg th the famine and the | of the new economic policy. the improved situation thie aie ot Oe Raggi Bape ong gs aero ~» health and order of the state.” organs of the labor movement?”) ‘ Sometimes a paper will be undis- But it would be an equally grave turbed in Milan and the oopies sent error to limit the worker correspond- to a neighboring city will be suppress- ents to members of the party. In this ed by that prefect. This policy has on Child Laker pp ne ja ans Pidleomrrogge then ‘tne farms are an important form of soviet — been in active force since early in January and applies to all anti-fascist papers. The Communist and Social- ist press are the hardest hit since their financial support is the most slender. “In spite of all these and other ob- stacles,” says Malatesta, one of the editors of Unita, the Communist daily, “we are not at all discouraged. Every day indicates a growth in Communist sentiment among the workers and peasants. We are unable to crystal- lize this into organized form because we can hold no meetings nor send out organizers. But money is coming in to meet our extra expenses to the amount of 1,200 lira ($48) a day and we manage to get along.” Thus far, according to Malatesta, there has been no interference with the office of the paper. No editors have been arrested and there has been no smashing of machinery (as hap- ROMANS ONCE DID | That Is to Say, with Slave Labor By TOM TIPPETT HILLSBORO, Il., June 7.— Truck drivers on the hardroad construction between Irving and Hillsboro, IIl., have forced a 20 per cent increase in wages. The raise cost a few of the truck men their jobs and was the re- sult of a one day strike. The trucks are owned and kept up by the drivers who are paid on a piece-work basis for hauling gravel and cement from railroad cars to the roadbed. The price paid, before the strike, was 30c for the first mile and 20c for each ad- ditional mile per two ton load. The job has been contracted by the respect there is a lack of clearness among the sections of the C. I. Thus for instance, the resolution passed by the conference of the. worker corre- spondents of the Roten Fahne con- tains no word about inducing non- party worker correspondents to con- tribute to the Roten Fahne. It is understandable that during the activity and preliminary phase of development of cussion of the factory newspapers. The factory newspapers are among the most hopeful signs of proletarian initiative. They fepr sent one of those new forms of revo- lutionary agitation to which the Com- munist Parties.must aecord the great- est attention and support at precisely the present juncture, ly maintained that, hitherto the fac- It may be safe- by Croatian Society TACOMA, Wash., June 7.—The Cro- atian Benefit Society “Istra” at its last regular meeting had a discussion on child labor in which the vicious capitalistic exploitation of the youth of the working class was emphatical- ly attacked. After the discussion the Workers (Communist) Party resolu- al exchange of experiences, the mutu- al discussion of the best methods of agitation and their effect upon the working class, will open out to both new and direct paths to the heart of the great masses. And this is the essential and decis- ive factor in the slogan of “Bolsheviz- ation of the press.” Closer contact with the masses of the readers! e- AMERICAN WORKERS SEND $1 500 TO RELIEF IRISH FAMINE SUFFERERS The Irish Workers’ and Peasants’ Famine Retief Committee has forwarded the sum of $1,500 to the relief of the famine sufferers in the west of Ireland, according to a statement issued today from the national office of that organ- ization, at 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago. “Not only is there terrible distress in the west of Ireland continues the statement” but all over the country theusands of workers are unemployed and the unions are organizing demonstrations and demanding that the goveérn- ment provide work at trade union: » mediate ratification by the state legis- latures of the child labor amendment was unanimously adopted. The resolution demands full educa- tion for children of workers and poor farmers and government support of those children whose parents cannot provide for their support during their period of education. ‘ The Resolution. It says in part: RESOLVED, That the trade unions repeal from their constitutions all discriminatory clauses against equal CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED To help the Workers (Communist) Party carry on its campaigns against wage cuts and the open shop drives; for a Labor Party. To support ite campaign for amalgamation, protec- tion of roeign-born workers, for edu- cational leaflets, etc. Thanks and appreciation is hereby extended to all contributors and the comrades who circulated the lists. rights in the unions of young work- tion on child labor demanding the im- agricultural cooperation. . A cenference of representatives of the Goliective farms from all over the © Seviet Union in Moscow formulated plans for adapting the Communes to the great technical improvements that® must be made. Machinery must be introduced on a larger scale and the cultural level of the members raised. With the coming of the new econ- omic policy the communes, though ad- mirable attempts at the ideal form of communism, tended to become isolat- ed from the surrounding economic system. The conference recognized that these communes must run on a business-like basis corresponding with the new conditions of open market, currency and exchange and must be self-supporting. - One of the problems is land distri ution. Sometimes the lands of these farms are scattered, making efficient communal farming very difficult. The state agricultural organs are to rem- intenance. The »« Irish edy this. These communes still play pened in Florence and i. isa) yn as state of Illinois to,Smith Bros. Con- a Bd Pr seucaunen- dita Union we EG. ¥. -ievaeioa 28-18! Have You Made Your Contribution? | ers; also that the admission fees and | 4 dominant role in soviet agriculture, may take place at any t wa a " tracting Co. of Dallas, Tex. There are organizes the unemployed and gives E. C. Brinker, Easton, Pa................. 10.00| Branches not having turned in: the|dues be made lower for young work-| 4. far ag they embrace the most’ ad- eer sae ny. 3 ry ;, | State inspectors to see that the Proper | them representation on its executive Frethelt Lodge No. 881, @ Renlim. 50 | list, are requested to do so at once.|ers to enable them to become mem-| vanced elements of the peasantry. culation of 40,000 daily. - ©8, | amount of cement is put into the road | & © Great Britain Glorifies Contribution list No. 1393, >> > & «© to a report by the department of com-: “>. ae 00 collec : street, Chicago.” D. Za ky, w. ty worker of Italy with a large circula-| oyt of which feed must be bought for ¥ hay ¢ Sanee Beomneld 3 +2 "19.00 land, "Ohio, Ukrainian 1th Be Sey! Greed and Opp ion merce on Michigan manufacturers in tion. Avanti is now controlled by|the animals. The common laborer The following-ts~a list of contribu-| pagar Owens (Bulgarian Bri W. 5" “""|Shwehuk, 50c; J. Mayerowsky, 2 press 1923 as contrasted with those of 1921. | the Maximalist Socialists (Centrists). | wage is 35¢ an hour which is also the | (°™® received Irish famine relief| Detroit, Mich. 12.05 geo Sg RA he rae 25e* rit Manufacturing establishments whose Its circulation is stated to be 100,000 | rate paid to men who utiload cement | "°™ May 1 to May 1b: C. Cohen (Local No. 44,8 Me Gon) *7? | a5c; ‘8. Kolynchuk. 25e;' W. eee sky. pa pte — (FP) — “On Empire | output during the year was valued at daily. Because of its old tradition of | 4, well as the concrete handlers who Previously acknowledged ................ $1,418.59 | Pittsburen, -. =f 5.00 aoa Bahnuk, 25c; Wysocki, 50c; total, st yond Bape Lansbury in his | $5,000 or more employed 503,492 wage ‘ alt Kraft, Chi 2.00 . Vincent vingston. Til...«........... 1.00 .20. | or ee . revolutionary socialismit is still bought lay the roadbed. Ten hours is sup- Smile. Albana, ate Can 1.00| H. W. Stein, Burley, Wash............... 2.00 Contribution list No. 1274, col rby ser 3 a children (and earners, on the average, in 1923, or an by many workers who also buy Unita.|poseq to be the length of the work | Margaret H. Young, Westwood, | @ Roseon (Br. 431 W. C.) E. Pitts- eas preteh, ot Wewten, aigeer a ae children) will be listening | increase of 65.4 percent over the num- “ t eignts as t - Giusticia, the daily of the Reformist | day, but many of the shifts work 12] p, ype ate St. Eeuis, Mo ~ Paul Malorena, Houston, Texas...... 10:88 imina, 50c; G. Emaskov, 50c; W. Secheoo, Sess Chanh Sotinesd tas sai ere 6 idl s + syne PPPs Py om fag a: Sodialists, has the same story to tell | and 14 hours. And there are some that | E. 8. Murphy (W. S ve D. B. Br. ___| Ernest P. Moors, Boston, Mass......... 50.00 | 25¢; J. Savanovich, 50c; E. Bartosheyich, © Smaps i Some | payments in 1928 wore $765,669,000, or ; . B. B. of L. E., Div. 519 (D: F. 15c; N. Shaks, 25c; M. Doshin, 26c: thing to be proud of. On the contrary |83 per cent more ‘than in 1921 of suppression. It prints 60,000 daily | work 16-hour shifts. All but the con-| 18» New York, N. 1.00 | Baifknecht), Chic 5.00 Pochet, 2c; J. Knish, 26c; F. Kobran, | it is nothing to be proud of. The Em- ‘. ' now and is read by the bourgeois-lib- | crete men work a 7-day week. a A gf eo Seattle, ee “ Caroline L. Co egins, ‘Berkley, Gal. 3.00 Sec; 'T. Hartonovich, Se: J. Griteky, Bc | ire is @ evi 4 od pe Oe ot ‘ind In motor vehicle production, the . .» WM. Broune, New 10Frk CIty........ : a © . 375, } r York | MERE ; a c, &. Fronadcske, Cc; . eral, as well as a certain strata of the| ‘There is much dissatisfaction among ws Volk (U. C. H. & C. Local C.’ Basten White Bear Take, Minn. 3-08 |G Gregas, 25c; T. Greengevich, 15c; K: | greed.” rir tiga gop Ager oe Py e em have|B. M. Whitsitt,Decatur, iii... 500 | iyn, Mass. 1.00 | Budko, 26c: F. Yanchik, 1c; 8. Leshuk,| Smpire day in England roughly cor-| per cent. The value of their produc- ° been unemployed for months and those | W. ©. Br. No = (H. Hoffman) W. Little, Frewsburg, Ne Yoscecsss.: 5.00 | 20e; A. Andruhovich, 10¢; A. Nastirovich,|responds to the Fourth of July in tion rose from $812,379,000 in 1921 to Brandeis Refuses to who accept the work need it so badly | 1,Rocheste™: Wm. Schmidt, Swanton, / Ohilo....... 200 | 50c; J. Shkearevich, 25; total, $7.95, 28 erus that agitation is done with + y wa how Rees W. P. w Solnitzky), Pitts- Harriet .G. Flagg, Brookline, Mase. 500.00 ¢ Contribution. list No, 455, collected by | America in quality of the speeches | $1,551,990,000 in 1923—a rise of 91 caution. r M F. B Asti a ET] 1 ylie Ave., Pittsb h, e Use Power on Supreme The old Roman roads could hardly | w = 4 Murray, Cincinnati, O..... 3.00 wim. Prick, Detrof, Mich. on 5.00 ee gy a: L. Lakros, 500; K. — on ee a ney arty peed . po . : ; owler, Oaklan Sete 88 John Twomi, Proctor, Vt 1.00|Angeérnios, 50c; N. Maurice, $1.00; pioyes an 6 vaiue Of produc © Court to Aid Labor have been laid under Worse labor con- | Isabella Van Couteran, Los Angeles, A. M. Fitz, Watertown, Mass... 1.00} Placas, 50c; N. Maugianis, $1.00; B. Mau- Raids High and Mighty motor vehicle industry is the most tm- ditions. Mary qo ge a 10.09 CR. Avrams, New Yorke City... nis 1.00 elanis. 50c;, Avweuplos, o 0; B. ¥\00:| DETROIT,—(FP)—There is much | portant in the state ‘' ae Bommee De orfis Kalver, New York ccs 1.00 : ntes, OVC; &. an 5%; ‘ "AC 7 . ih _ Sacra Ana M. White, Albany, N. Y............. 1.00; 3. Cardi L. Viores, 25c; A. Mougius, 25c; D. - , . WASHINGTON, (FP).—California’s | : x GO. Wtaketnen tantence. daaen > 406 wea ats & D. B. 136), 2 0 | gantuwanas, boc. J. agius, 2 Sse. = scandal and indignation in Detroit's These figures indicate an almost un , Leeda. ay . | : uisa Powe ancock Bridge, N. J. 2.00 i. , Contribution list " well as that of Arizona which has Better S a Sees U S Louis G. Kezina, Neo York. es. x 5017 (4 Foeetes Ose. -— 5.08 yo Saher — x Ba, ng low places as labor unions. Carey D./|try in time of peace, and a vast re been brought before the federal Su- | rvi . * | Carpenters’ Local No. 1367, Chicago 5.0011, Plat "New York City — 1.00 Pa.: A. Bellotti, 50c; J. Cermel, 50c; Ferguson, collector of the port, raided arrangement of the lives of» bread- ew ee whe ; Mrs. M. W. Hoar, r, sisi ; , | ward working women. capitalistis, like all others of their | Mre § D Schaver Piishroh Pa. £00 English language that adequately inches—with large, clear type. ¢ Justice Brandeis will take no part} class, have no illusions as to what)! lL. Love, Secy. W. C. Br. 533, Du- filled ; ; in the decision of the issue because | their government is for. But how they 2 ee U.BocaéjJj 3.00 illed the need for real working class it is issued in two editions. To enable every worker's . he was counsel in defense of the Ore-|squawk when the Russian working Of CRICAZO cecceeccecseennee. 4 . 25.00 stories for children. } gon minimum wage law which was/| class learn the same lesson—and ap eS ow W. C. Br., 708 200 child to own one, the first is bound in “Duroflex” covers— § ro — \ ; ’ - ‘< : . ; . . . . upheld eda —_ sts, ha = ee ply it! U aad 5 B65 i = 10, J. D. oe The publication of “Fairy Tales durable, leather-like and very attractive in a rich red color. ; ing justices— Southerland, McRey- — —— - ‘ sosenes : : nolds, Butler and Vandevanter, help- FOREIGN EXCHANGE. der 5g Kracher. Kt York Cy... - 2.00 for Workers’ Children” not only fills P } ed to kill the District of Columbia} NEW YORK, June 7.— Great Bri- | #@n* Grass, (A. M. C.), New Hav- ; oo | this urgent demand but supplies at the same time a work of Price 75 Cents ? law. Stone is a new member. Taft,/ tain, pound sterling, demand 4.85144,|H. J. Clougherty, trasburg, Va....... 6.50 | : The cloth bound edition ; Holmes and Sanford upheld the dis-| cable 4.86. France, franc, demand | Re’: Ellett White, New York Cy... 5.00 real merit. g trict legislation to safeguard a mini- 4.76%, cable 4.77%. Belgium, franc wr Paty (Douglas Pk. Br., W. P.( 1.00 is 4 Ww in i “" 7 lta we |M. G ' : os : : ; mum wage for women in industry. demand 4.67, cable 4.67%. Italy, lira, | BO [it ieee Md 1.00 The author, Herminia Zur Mihlen, is a German writer $1.25 ¢ vee ne demand 3.96%, cable 3.97. Sweden, troit, Mich. a a 6.50 . a ’ Don't le littl ¢ Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or | xrone. demand 26.73, cable 26.76. Nor. oa” es of children’s stories of the very highest order—stories of a ont let your ° ? two ill k b , Emma M. Bigg, New York Cit = , ; , Will make a better Communis? | way, krone, demand 16.80, cable 16.82.| Geo. Klane (A. K. & 8. Br. 8)” 109/01 distinctly new character. Her work is a definite promise of boy or girl go without ; of you. Denmark, krone, demand 18.76, cable | _ Camden, N. J. 13.15 this book—and don't } 18.76, Germany, mark, unquoted.|S;2: Blechman. Coataville, Pa... 2.00 |P] the new proletarian literature of the future. ; prose ger? 2 -| Mrs. C. K. Gleason, Kirkwood, Mo. 2.50 overlook another child ; : READY NOW! Shanghai, tael, demand 78.00, cable Garfield Park Lodge No, 478, f k ° y = 5 - 4 ) , 19.00. mM 4 < = The translation by Ida Dailes, brings into bold reli ..3 oe relief the : | ; tna John B. Collins, Pittsburgh, P 5.00 : és know. Send for it on ’ ? D. A. Lewis (P. & D. Uni No. ; j ; : } : po. ee iii lt a i iO ee 0 nion beauty of these stories, breathing so fully the spirit of the the blank on the reverse ae NOMNYMOUS, Paonia, COlO, crcecmcceeeneee j : THE The embalmers of Chicago are be- v. Wendinski, Cristobal. Cc 4. - 3 working class. | side. ; ; WORKERS MONTHLY ing organized, it is reported. The|; W. c:), New” Vorie Glee. | : : : e or =" oR. ; | embaimers who are now gettlng $50 |iul °"tnneey Feacte=----- “1H THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington | 25 CENTS A COPY be: $35 per week are said to be de |i M. wer. ow. wi Pass 1 ieee 27.00 7 : ’ ' 1e8 estow “= . - Z ere. worccccee, manding higher wages. Bridgewater Workers” — — ~
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amt Tr! . = wr~ v » > =. Sfepeeavnwtr tt eearn”” — ~ ore “t - - . , -_ * ‘ +e Ley. 3 + z- ; jaar i. is % * a eis SS eat RS cee aye a ee BS 3, OM. 4 Le we . iat aie & wah he 4. oe ee | ale : ¥ a! . ¥ 3 Py fy ae Rat Pek fat a; ‘ ay | , > nae . . . | " - 7 ; —esigell a" f . ; a ates 2 saeco aaa: oe : Holds Nation in Net From Niagara to the Gulf of Mexico the distribution of the power on which industry and employment will depend ig being rapidly monopolized by tae | General Plectric Oo. Recent tions for purchase of the Sov Pewer & Light Qo. by Blectric P & Light Oo. represent an tmporta: step in the unification of this. sl power General Electric dummy which Jp tut controly a series of electric pon companies serying territory. wi population approaching 10,000,000 properties include part of the 0 of the Power & eH: Oo. & Light, American Gas &. Elect er Securiies and Buffalo, Niagara &. Bastern. The area served by South-, ern Power & Light, which is. being | added to the chain, is bounded, by Little Rock, Ark., Memphis, Muscle. Shoals and Jackson, Miss. The Morgan interests behind Gen- eral Blectrée are creating a dictator ship over what is coming to be the prime esseutial of the mechanical age. They. are establishing themselves. where they can levy a twofold profit, first the profit on the huge quantities of electrical equipment they will man- ufacture in their role of General Elec- tric and sell to themselves in their role of power combine, and second the operating profit from the sale of power. General Electric profits for 1924’ show how large the manufacturing profit will be. With a record busi- ness of $299,261,869 it reported a man- ;’ ufacturing profit of $134,342,331. After adding other income and subtractiig depreciation, federal taxes and inter-} est charges there remained $39,235,-' 548 for the stockholders which meant $21.09 a share for the holders of coni- mon. Genera; Hlectric since 1899 has distributed dividends totaling 380 per cent. It is the third largest holder of cash among the country’s ‘ndustrial corporations with $117,713,797 in this account. Ahead of it stand only U. 8. trust. sg Carolina Power & Light, Lehigh Pow. ‘withstanding these. drawbacks, an. a ace ** - : : femmes , Teh trerowy + : : have been f r | AGRIC LTURE IN SOVIET UI “SHOWS T EM. ENDOUS ‘ADVal ICE SINCE 1922, IN. QUALITY AND OUTPUT WON eS “ MOSCOW; Jute | asthe edpert of the secretary . ‘ot “agriculture of the ‘c Séeialist Republics, shows a tremendous improve- 192%. The crops have increased not only in quan- tity, but have. impor in quality as well. Agricultural experiment stations , and much help was given the drought regidns. Russian agriculture . has made are- markable headway since 1922. The ‘seeded area in 1923-24, in comparison with. that of 1922-23, has been. in- by .18% per cent, the number f cattle increased by.17 per.cent. A cultural. ements. easants -been | all parts.of the R. 8. F. ‘8, R. are to adopt the new.,methods of tivation df their lands. ’ © 'The stabilization of Russian money | ake the development of industry have texas an important part in the si ss of agriculture. At the same , two factors—the lack of ‘horses hin 1924 and the drought of 1924 have gteatly hindered the development in ~ “tthe. agricultural field in accordance “with the plans for 1924-25. But. not- the area will be larger by 3% mil- * dessiatin than that of 1924. + vid: Quality Improved. : Not only the area seeded has heen increased, but also the quality of the cultures has. been improved every- ‘where in R. S. F. 8. R. The area seed- ed with rye was increased by -3.5 per cent; with wheat—by 18 per cent. The following figures afford an inter- esting comparison in. regard to other cultures: the. area seeded with pota- toes. in 1924 was 46.5 per cent of that of 1913; seeded with flax-—84 per cent; seeded -with hemp—106 per cent; feed grass—127 per cent; seeded with sunflower—179 per cent. These fig- ures show that the agriculture has been quickly reaching. the pre-war mark, and in many cases has already. passed it. Crops, Better. The condition of the crops, accord- ing to the latest repil'ts of the depart- ment of agriculture, is as follows: North region—Crop is fair; no dam- jages. North East region—The winter crops are in fair condition; the North West region—The winter crops are developing nicely, recent rains have noticeably helped the growth ‘of crops. Central region—In the most parts the condition is fair, in some parts— poor. Western region—The rye is in g0od condition, the wheat—somewhat Steel and Ford Motor Co. worse. Blacksoil region—Condition fair. Upper Volga region—Condition | P fair. Middle Volga region—aAll over, U. 8. Bars Canadian Indians. - - ve RIA, B..U., Jane 1—Indian, with exception of oa small part, condi- Commissioner “W. ‘R. Ditehburn- has telegraphed a protest to Ottawa. against the ruling of the United States immigration authorities barring Can-' adian Indians from eligibility to American citizenship and from admit- tance to the United States. GET A SUB ANDO GIV= ONEi tions are.fair. . wr Nagler Except Penza Srovined the conditions :},are- fair. North Caucasia regon—The condition is fair. Rotation Crops. . During the last two years, 160,000 farms, with an area of one and one- half million dessiatins, adopted the} method of rotation crops. Experimental aaatrane. OUR DAILY. "PATTERNS | A POPULAR STYLE WITH NEW FEATURES. 5183. Here is a smart Jumper Dress with a Circular Skirt, and a pretty Blouse that may be worn with any other skirt. The sleeve thay be finished -with or without the Peasant portion. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. To make the for an 18 year size will require 3% Dress as illustrated in the large view yards of 32 inch material for the Jumper and Skirt and 2% yards for the Blouse. Without the Peasant sleeves the Blouse requires 1% yar?. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 120 in silver or stamps. A COOL DRESS FOR HOT WEATHER mouse 9126 t*iar 5126-4700. Embroldered volle is here shown. One could have this de- | Signi im crepe or crepe de chine or ‘tn figured silk. rhe Blouse 5126 is cut in 7 Sizes: $4, '36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. The Skirt 4700 is cut in 7 Sizes: 25, 27, 29, 31, 83) 35 and 37, inches waist measure, with corre- sponding hip measure 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45 and 47 inches. To make this charming style as protrayed in the large view, for a 38 inch size, will re- quire 6% yards of 40 inch material. With long sleeves 5% yards are re- quired. The width of the Skirt at the foot is 2% yards. TWO separate Patterns nidiled to any address, on receipt of “ic FOR EACH Pattern.in silver, or. stamps. FASHION BOO™. NOTICE! Bend 12c+in *etiver for our up- to-date niones “and BS 1925 Book of Fashion color — Re designs of wales isi eat Wise on prayed Gieheay th ten Sint ye ay theg. of tral. | camps. | 7 ws The department of agriculture, with & view of introducing in the villages newest methods in agriculture, has been continually increasing the num- ber of agricultural experimental sta- tions. In 1923, there were 1,500 of such stations; in 1924, 1,900; in 1925, 2,101. agricultural experimental asta- tions. There were also 1,300 veterin- ary stations. | The seed fund of the R. 8S. F. S. R. js expressed in 64,000,000 poods. Out of this fund 32 million poods of seeds were sent to the drought regions. 3,200,000 poods of seedg were distrib- uted for re-seeding the winter crops. Over 10 million poods of selected wheatseeds, 800,000 poods of flax and 73,000 poods were distributed among peasants. Except 32 million poods of seeds, eight million rubles for the purchase of cattle and seven and one-half mil- lion rubles to feed the. children were distributed in the drought region. Seven and one-half million rubles for the deyelopment of agriculture and 17 million rublea for melioration work were also sent to drought regions. During the last.year, 7,778,000 dessia- tins have been affected by meliora- tion, JUDGE BUSICK TO DECIDE ON JUDGE BUSICK Incidentally C Connors, I. Ww. W., Is Re-tried ‘ SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 7.—The retrial on appeal of Tom Connors for alleged jury tampering is now on in Satramento before the notorious judge C, 0. Busick who denied a plea by the detente for change of venue. '' Conndirg was arrested in San Fran- cis¢o, April 6, 1928, while acting as detenne, gecretary for his labor un- ion tthe i W. W. A charge of jury tam- perfivé’ Wis brought against him with criminal syndicalism implications, as fense a criminal syndicalism case ‘The first trial of his case resulting in 4 igreement. His second trial, pres ,over by Busick, resulted in a verdict of guilty and Connors was sentenced to five years imprisonment, the maximum penalty. At‘Bhout the same time and in the same Vicinity, a nonunion contractor was ‘tried on the charge of. jury-tam- pering'in a bootleg liquor case. Upon contiusive evidence of guilt in this case, the sentence handed out was five days ijn county jail. No evidence of intention to bribe a juror had been brought forth in the Connors’ case Connor had simply distributed leaflets by mail’and express and no actual juror got one. The California Defense committee says: “The city of Sacramento is the | central point for employing and ship- ping men to construction and lumber It is the distributing point for farm labor. That is why the officials of Sacramento county continue to ar- rést working men and charge them with the alleged crime of having join- ed the labor organization of their choice.” Slight Improvement of Phoenix Brings in Over Supply of Labor PHOENIX, Ar., June 7.—After four years inactivity due to the shutting down of industries, drouth, slump in cotton prices and of building opera- tions in 1920-1921, the Phoenix unions are again coming to life. New un- ions are also being formed, the Cen- tral Labor Union revived. and the Women’ Trade Union Label league re- organized. With the revival of mining and building oldtime union men are drift- ing back and with them hundreds of disillusioned California - prosperity hunters who are willing to work for a small wage to get a atake and pull out of the valley before the heat of sum- mer. As a consequence of this invas- lon of cheap labor many resident me- chanics are jobless. Coal Operators Meet at Banquets in Swell Hotel to “Just Talk” Problems confronting the coal in- dustry of the United States will be thrashed out in open discussion by members of the National Coal asso- ciation in their eigth annual gathering in Chicago June 17, 18 and 19 at the Edgewater Beach hotel. Each discus- sion will follow an address on the sub- lathe ject by an expert. The list of speakers includes W. D. Ord, Landgrafl, Wx W. L. Robin- son, Cleveland; ‘C.- us, New York; Robert K. Cassatt, Philadel- phia, and J. B. le a‘ rewihie!ot his legal efforts toward de- THE DAL WORKER GOLD ry AND HIS THRONE AS IN-WALL ST. “Stabilization” Is Only Temporary But Gold is again acknowledged king and. the workers of the world. will: continue to do homage to this sym- bol of the stability of capitalist in- dustrialism, -This is tae significance of the statement.hy the advisory coun- cil of the fedemal reserve board on England's retury,.to the gold stand- ard. It says: » “This eventimarks an epoch in the financial history #f the post-war peri- od, With the United States, England, the Dominions, Sweden, Holland, Ger- many, Austria, Hungary and other countries now returned to a_ gold basis, the sway'6f gold over the world’s leading @aancial systems once more: has fact. For the Uaited States this de- velopment is one of the vastest im- portance.” ~*~ The councituher confident that in the annals of *hé federal reserve sys- tom the arrafigément ‘by which the Federal Reserv® Bank’ of New York assisted England with a $200,000,000 credit will bée™Writen down fs one of its proudest achievements. The importance to the United States is seen by the councfil, first, because America oWDS .approarmately half of the world’s monétary gold: second, be- cause its prosperity is dependent on exchange stability; and, third, because foreign markets only as long as it con- its huge excess production can find foreign markets onl yas long at it con- tinues to invest heavily abroad. Safe- ty of such foreign investment requires that the credit of its customers be on the strongest basis. Without this~step, the council as- serts, terrible consequences like an- other exchange collapse might have followed with further reductions in wages and lfVing standards abroad and social consequences which the United States. could not have escaped. This is a thinly veiled statement that the entiréworld order, in which the United States is equipped to play a dominant rolé, might have collapsed if England had not restored the gold standard. Through the federal re- serve, its magnates claim, U. S, bank- ers have come to the rescue of world capitalism an , aasisted in restoring the gold mot irchy. Back of King Gold, howeve tand these ‘same bank- ers, for thé Vast profits ot’ the war halt ms $Re. PMR gold “Face to he Village” Is New.:Soviet Slogan to Aid Land Workers moscow—(RP)—Better times for the peasant wéfe among the principal themes before the 14th conference of the Russian Communist party in May. During the;first period of the new economic policy-that of restoring the country’s indtstrial system, the main field of actiot Was the town. Now during the st¢ond stage of further devolopment ofthe country’s resourc- es, the government has to concentrate on the villages;and increase the pro- ductivity of agriculture. The key- stone to this palicy is to furnish the peasantry with manufactured goods and bring their economic standard up to that of the workers. For this the main slogan has been the Smitchka, or link for establishing closer contact between the towns and the villages. The latest party watchword is Face to the Villages. The reduction of the agricultural tax will help the middle and small peas- ants. The recent decree permitting peasants to hire agricultural ljeborers under the labor, Jaws adds in the em- ployment of surplus labor forthe har- vest, but at the same time protects the farm laborercfrom exploitation at the hands of the rich peasant. Greater assistate is*to be given the communal or collective farms. The agricultural cooperatives are given financial assistance through the state agricultural banks... This will increase the purchasing power of the peasants and ‘lessen the ivergence between the purchasing prite of commodities and the selling price of grain. It will take trade in tie stown to 40 000... How About This, You I. W. W. Lumberjacks? PHOENIX, Ariz., June 7.—That Arizona’s forests are to be cut by la- bor imported from the unorganized lumber camps of the south is evident from a report of the state tax com- mission. According to the report’ Mc- Nary, a northern Arizona town of 3,000 to 3,500 is peopled mostly by Ne- groes imported fr Louisiana by the lumber mills. Colored ehildren have their own school taught by a colored teacher. vt te Japanese Construct R. R. HARBIN, June 7.—According to in- formation received from Dnkow, the Japanese have eRMsted there more than 10,000 laborers for the construc- tion of the Tacnanfu-Tsitisikar rail- ee a ee ee ‘become an unchallenged |} BUILDERS AT WORK ; * ‘(i F a ‘ i ote . ———— —) — fe aw) 7 ect ~ ? a Two More Branches Pledge Red Week Support Chicago Units Respond T is ‘in the shop and the factory that the workers most feel the need of the DAILY WORKER. In Detroit, Shop Nucleus No. 1, doing suth splendid work as has already been reported, now has a rival in Chicago Shop Nucleus No. 5. These workers, who responed so generously with funds during the DAILY WORKER Insurance Campaign and did good work thruout the recent Daily Worker Week, propose to duplicate these accomplishments during RED WEEK (June 15 to 21) with a door-to-door distribution of the DAILY WORKER and have already pledged to get at least 15 new subs. With this fine example set, the North Side: Granch of Chicago, also has gone on record with a pledge to get the same number of sube—to add to real accomplishments already turned in during this campaign. These Commanist Units Have Given Red Week Pledges .To get this number of new subscriptions: Monessen, Pa. (Y. W. L.) Shop Nucleus No. 5. Chicago sete eeeete 10 Subs 15 Subs COCR Ree eee eee North Side Branch, an > 16 Subs Politiciens Begin Battle Recently Comrade Cyril Lambkin of Detroit, candidate for State Judicial office on the Communist ticket, challeenged Comrade E. Levin of Los Angelés who in the local elections there polled 26,000 votes for the Communist ticket, to get as many new subs for the DAILY WORKER in the proportion that he got votes in the election. Undaunted, Comrade Levin, who message to Comrade Lambkin: is a man of ener wired back this “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. LET'S GO.” And now watch the fur fly and the subse come in—for Comrade Levin meeting performance with promise—immediately sénds in another new sub to show Comrade Lambkin that he is already on the job. We are holding our breath inrexpectation of further developments and word from Comrade Lambkin who dared to throw this challenge. IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN Thése comrades sent in new subs to “Build the DAILY WORKER,” on Friday, June 5; NEW YORK, N. YomA. Reimer (4); Caplan (3); M. Horwitz; Katter- feld. PORTLAND, ORE—~A. Ozeransky (2). ST. PAUL, MINN.—O, L. Johnson; Fred Linke; 0. B. Hayden. Frank Rabe. OAKLAND, CALIF.—A. C. Makutinas. POCATELLO,"1DAHO.—Mre. O. Ritzman. EAST LIVER OL, O—Balley Hardman. LOS ANGE CALIF.—A. Lyons. TAMARACK; Hten'Tvar Karl, meetings are at 8 ™ wT ”_ Your Union.Meeting "~~ ' Second Monday, Sune 8, 1925. No. Name of Local ahd Meeting Place 625 Boller mw par 5324 &. Halsted St. 14 Boot hoe Workers’ Joint Council, «oat Milwaukee Ave Pret Weceers Joint Ex. Board, t 301 Rs a Workers’ 1700 W. 2ist St. 1 Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910.W. Monroe 593 Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- velt Cap Makers, + pooseres Road. 70 Carpenters, 2706 W. 38th St. 80 Carpenters, 1039 w. Madinon St. 181 Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. 199 Carpenters, 8. C., 9139 Commercial Ave. 505 8S. State St. 416 Carpenters, 419 Carpenters, 1457 Clybourn Ave. 448 Carpenters, 222 N. . St., Wauke- 1367 arpenters, 9040 W. North Ave. 2506 Kerbentere. 6654 S&S. Halsted St. 14 a pl Makers’ Ex. 3 Oe Ww. shington St., 7:30 Coopers’ Joint Ex. BA. 9625 s. Halsted. St. (Marine), 601 Capitol 4 Mngissers x. 400 Engineers, 4643 S. Halsted St. 401 Engineers, 311 8. Ashland Ave. 669 Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. 629 smaspoers, 180 W. Washington St. 646 OE (R. R.), 24338 W. Roose- Velt Road ; 790 ‘Engineers (Loe. ), 3900 W. North Enginemen, 6068 Wentworth Ave. Firemen and Oilers, 175 W. Wash. Gardeners and Florists, Neidog's Halil, Hinsdale, Ll. Hotel and Restaurant Empl's Joint E. Bd., 166 W. Washington, 3 p. m. 59 Ladies’ Garment, 328 W. Van Buren 74 Lathers, 7256 8. Western Ave. 444 Longshoremen, 355 N. Clark St. ae Dis. Council, 113 8. Ash- 119 8. Throop | North Ave. Adams St. Mouiders Conf. Bd., Painters, 3316 W. 147 Painters, 19 W. 194 Painters, Madison and Sth Ave. 266 Patnters, llith and Michigan Ave. 273 Painters, 2432 S. edzie Ave. 830 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. 227 Railway Carmen, Cicero and Supe- rior. Railway Carmen, 5252 S. Ashland. | Railway Carmen, 88th and Com- mercial. Raieey Carmen, 92d and Balti- Rallwe BN ng Dis. Council, 165 276 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing: | 342 Railway Clerks, 165 W. Madison St. | 549 Raliway Clerks, Madison and Sac- | ramenivo. ) 695 Railway Clerks, 75th and Drexel. 781 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washi ng- ton Bivd. 877 Rallway | eg 2900 W. North | Ave., 9:30 a 195 Retail Clerks, evan Buren ens) Ashiand. a py, Union of Great Lakes, 355 | Cc St. 16986 Scientific. Laboratory Workers, | City Hall, Room 713 143 Signalmen, 2100 W. Sist St. 3 Switehmen, 323 Collins St. Joliet. | Ill 206 Teamsters, 220 8. Ashland Biva. | Trade Union Label League, ae w. ! Washington St., 7:30 ical, 180 W. aseinaten otherwise ™m.) stated all 330 araphi (Note—U nless SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranker-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortechritt Meets every ist & ‘Srd Thursday, icker P Hal ped ey all, ‘ av jecretany. Ging Wong, for Whom There'll Be No Tomb, Says, ““Me No Got Job” VANCOUVER, B. C., June 7.—The tragedy of being jobless knows no color line. Ging Wong Lee, aged Chinese laborer of Vancouver, was too old to work so he took poison in his wretched Pender street hovel and left a note which, translated literally, said. “White workmen got unions, 60 got jobs. Which is very good busi- ness. Me, I no got jobs for I am too old to learn special jobs like artisan. Many friends with white man I have before, and now I die with love and friendship for them, my friends. If I born white man, maybe I learn trade when young, and now be honorable mechanic with fine salary and job und house with babies. But I am only Chi- nese, have no job nor trade, so I like to die. No more from Ging Wong Lee, tired man who die now.” —_—_—_— MAKES STEADY. FREIGHT oN HARBIN ,—(By Mail)—The agen stration of the Chinese Basterty Rail- way has published the returns for the firat half of the current working year, which coincides with the assumption of functions by the new board. During this period, namely from October ist, 1924, to March 3i1st, 1926, the railway carried 133,162,000 poods of commercial goods, as against 101,- 665,000 poods during the correspond- | ing period of the preceding year—an improvement of about 31.5 million poods. (The military and service loads are recorded under a special head.) On the mentioned total, grain loads account for 91,393,000 poods, as against 61,842,000 poods last year. The average revenue from the “nood-verst” last year was one twen- ty-sixth kopek (1 kopek equals halt cent gold), while, this year, it is one twenty-oneth part of a kopek. Of all the export goods carried by the C. R. R. during the period under review, there were transported on to the Ussuriisk railway: 30,564,000 poods of grain loads and 1,268,000 poods of bean oil, and to the South Manchurian railway: 54,164,000 poods of grain and 5,000,000 poods of bean oil. The financial results for the men- tioned period were also the most favorable, though their exact est mation is to be made known later. National Guard Is Aid to Businessmen, Says Colonel Conway PHOENIX, Ariz., June 7—The rail purpose of the national guard was made known to the members of the Arizona industrial congress by Col. B. Power Conway, commanding officer of the Arizona national guard. In @ In a speech entitled Protection of In- dustry, he declared the guard an as- set to the state in that it affords protection to industry by supplemen- ing the regular army which {fs too small for an emergency. “They (the business men of the state) do not seem to realize that they are the beneficiaries of a com- petent national guard for the protec- tion of their property. The officers of the national guard are taking every opportunity to explain to the citizens of the state the aims of the guard and it ig vitally necessary that the busi- ness men of the state lend their ac- tive support to the organization if protected,” he stated. Mobilize the Red Army for Red Week. Dre S. ZIMMERMAN DENT IS’ T 2232.N. CALIFORNIA AVI MY NEW LOCATION Special X-Ray rices —_— , to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work is Guarantees Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY iii ~ yen » § Te CUT IT OUT! Attach your remittance and mail it to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. NBYW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD — } THE DAILY WORKER bs ~— ee ma cen i = orks re their property is to be adequately — fee co
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hier ar buats iE DAILY WORKER) _-—s. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. ae yas a= aus sw. “Washington Bivd., Chicago, Til. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES i a, ty vai {in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): . 2 8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months be $2.50 three months $2.00 three months . mares a The ARTICLE lI. MERICAN, British, French, Italian and Japanese warships have sail- ed into Chinese ports, landed armed Bae: forces and have killed workers and students for making peaceful mass protest against foreign robbers. China, a nation of 443,000,000 peo- ple, with a civilization antedating that of the west by 2000 years, ap- parently has no rights that the im- perialist nations are bound to respect. By the capitalist press of the world this state of affairs is accepted as normal. How has it come about? By wha: processes of diplomacy, investment, trickery and force has China been forced into the position of a colony with not one, but a host, of rulers? The relations of China with other nations became critical enough to at- tract world attention in the early 80's when the aggressive policy of Japan, having as its chief objective the seizure of Korea, forced other imper- ialist powers to consider carefully ,j their future course towards China. UT long before then, in the late 30’s and culminating in the “opi- bs Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F,. DUNNE j MORITZ J. LOEB Editors Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, IlL, under the act of March 3, 1879. Ge 250 Ew... — Advertising rates on application. . 3 : . China’s Warning Unity among the Chinese factions is the result of the bloody attacks on students and strikers by foreign troops, and this indica- tion of national solidarity is thé most encouraging feature of the whole situation. Every imperialist. power tries to have at least one tuchun on its payroll and most of the internicene strife in China has been brought about by the intrigues of the foreign governments masked by some factional leader, bribed to betray his people. Dispatches report strong protests made to the embassies by both Feng Yu Hsiang and Chang Tso Lin; and each of these leaders has an army of considerable size. Feng is called the “christian gen- eral,” but his sympathies of late seem to have been with the Soviet ‘Russian policy of uniting the Chinese nation rather than with the American interests who operate under the cover of christian mis- sions. Ohang Tso Lin is, or bad been, under Japanese influence with France as a secOndary backer. That these two military leaders join in a formal protest in support of the students and strikers in Shang- hai is indicative of the new spirit, first evident in the revolution of 1911, in the ascendant during the world war, temporarily halted by the treachery of American diplomacy, but rising steadily since the Russian revolution—a feeling of pride in China and Chinese achieve- ments and resentment translating itself into action against foreign interference in internal affairs. In the south Yunanese troops, under French influenct, are about to begin hostilities against the supporters of the nationalist libera- tion movement led by the Kuo Min Tang. The correspondents of the capitalist press are practically unanimous in admitting that the tools of French imperialism are in for a fine cleaning which means that South China is following the instructions of Sun Yat Sen and waging a disciplined struggle for freedom. The Soviet press always speaks authoritatively on Chinese affairs. After pionting out that American imperialism cannot afford to fight the battles of Japan in China, it remarks that the present upheaval in China is a purely nationalist moyement caused by im- perialist aggression and gives cold comfort to the capitalist. world with the information that the real revolution will come after the robber nations have been forced to withdraw from China.. As for the Japanese rulers they are confronted now with the choice of abandoning their policy of force and establishing one of agreement with China and Russia. Making their textile barons and other exploiters submit to Chinese law or finding themselves in .» conflict with both nations, their own growing labor movement and the imperialist nations of the west. The strike and boycott movement spreading like wildfire over China and in which all but the biggest ‘merchants and landlords are joining, together with the growing tendency toward national mili- tary solidarity, are forcing Japan to a decision. As for Americans and American missionaries and business in- of 1842 and the establishment of Kong Kong as a British port, Great Britain had been putting pressure upon the Chinese nation. France also had ambitions in China and had been designated by the Vati- can as the protector of catholic mis- sionaries in the Far East. Between opium, a British source of revenue and the missionaries, a French field of enterprise, China led a miserable existence. Any resentment of the in- terference of the missionaries and the opium peddlers with the internal affairs of Chita brought French and British gunboats and reprisals. N 1883-84 war broke out between France and China, provoked by the constant and growing arrogance of the missionaries, encouraged by § the French who wanted a pretext to grab some territory and establish a per- manent base in eastern Asia. This war ended by China ceding Annam and Tongking to France. In the meantime Russia had been pushing into China from Turkestan and Manchuria, threatening her from the north and northwest. The United States adopted a “friend- ly” attitude towards China but this did not prevent her, together with Great Britain, from persuading Korea to sign a separate treaty and thus indirectly strengthen the drive Japan was making ..to wrest Korea’ from China. I’ 1882 China nent Yuan Shi Kai with a force of 3,000 men to Korea to check Japane: aggression. The re- lations with da n grew more strain- ed while Russia, also with her eyes on Korea, became more arrogant to- wards both, oriental nations. In 1894 Japan declared war on China, defeated her and took her um war” which ended with the treaty | Yes THE DAILY WORKER Ensl a ‘ | e m * - of —_*s ee selves. other’s throat, one power can be trusted perialist leisure. process thru which millions sary but admirable. war. Introduction to “The Enslavement of China VENTS of-world importance are taking place in China— events that may mark the beginning of another world struggle like that which ostensibly began with the murder of an Austrian grand duke at Sarajevo in 1914. If a world war grows out of the murder of Chinese’ strikers and students by troops of the imperialist nations it will be because these nations have pursued for years a cer- tain line of policy having as its object the subjection of the Chinese people and the partition of China among them- Today they unite to crushahe Chinese indepen- dence movement but tomorrow they may be at one an- JUST as the‘Balkans are the key to the Near East and no states and a constant struggle for supremacy goes on | there, fomented by the imperialist nations, so do the im- Fees neck to divide China and rob her at their nese liberation movement, the New China whose foundations were laid by the life-time labors of Sun Yat Sen and his party, the Kuo Ming Tang, is trying to unite the Chinese people to rule themselves. this spells the defeat of imperialism in the Far East. (THE jackals are snarling and snapping at the Chinese dragon and because the success of the Chinese libera- tion movement means unity with Soviet Russia—an anti- imperialist bloc from the border of Poland to the Pacific Ocean and the resultant weakening of the power of im- perialism all over the world, with all this means to the workingclass, we workers should know something of the made to believe that the armed occupation of China, the breaking of strikes and the murder of workers and peas- ants by soldiers of a half-dozen nations is not only neces- The following articles make no pretense to originality. They contain information compiled from a dozen different sources, a number of which are referred to in the text, and are intended only to give in as concise a form as possible a history’ of the long series of unscrupulous intrigues by which the imperialist nations have entrenched themselves in Chinese territory and sown the-seeds of another world 99 with control of these puppet If successful of white workers have been navy. China was foreed to surrender | unconditionally and accept terms that were a confession of utter helpless- ness. China, by the terms of the treaty recognized “Definitely.the full and complete independence and autonomy of Korea.” This was the occasion for almost delirious rejoicing on the part of the early advocates of self-determ- ination the world over but Japan bound herself to nothing in this con- nection and proceeded, to make the most of her new opportunities Li Korea. 1" addition to abandotiing her sover- eignty of Korea, Cilia was forced to pay an indemnity “6f $200,000,000, cede the Island of Formosa and the Peninsular of Liaotung. Liaotung is in the extreme southern point of Man- churia, which we haye,yalready seen was a section coveted by Russia, and in the acquisition of this peninsular, containing the strong fortress of Port Arthur, was a blow at Russia as well as China. Russia now appears as the fr d of- China, and backed by France, » and Germany, both aroused sl the suc- cess of Japan, demanded Lioa- tung be given back to Ching these three powers said was cotiched in plain terms compared with the usual amiguity of diplomatic’ ‘commu, nications: Such territorial acquisition’ éenetl tutes a menace against the capital of China, renders Korea’s independ- ence merely nominal, and jeopard- ized the perpetual peace in the Far East. wOeuG ‘ig was Li Hung Chang who'erigineer- ed the interference of Russia: in the guise of a friend and thus laid the diplomatic basis for the penetration-of harass and check the advance of Rus- What. | nes e roe ph China by Russia followed. : 5 saat collpety Sank bale Speaking of a Stcune he had nce—a policy that enslaves the with John W. Yoster, an. nese people to this day. diplomat who sided with Li Hung} ‘Russia, as the rival to Japan in the Chang inthe. a ee north, and because of her supposedly tions, H. H. Me : (“The Inter- friendly intentions in.China, succeed- national Relation of th the Chinese Em-]eq in securing by treaty the lease of pire,” Vol. 3, Page 47) Mr. Foster|port Arthur and Dairen—the best. for- declares that he first heard of the de- tified base on the Chinese coast. In mand during his stay in Peking. April) other words, Russia secured the very 24 to May 2, and that “Li Hung Chang |territory that she had forced Japan waited anxiously for some tion |to let go of. ‘ from Russia, but none was ved! All the great powers had, since the by him entil we reached Tientsin on |i: China had been forced to pawn our return.” This disposes Of @NY|horselt to western bankers, worked possibility of any direct assurance | wiceasingly for just: such strategic having been given; but none the less, the viceroy (Li Hung Chang) must [cs as Russia had secured: . 7 hav reas pecta Germany was the initiator of this ade Fg) Me - Pit ti ts policy and in 1897, when two German OHN W. FOSTER had this a say Catholic missionaries were killed, she J of the incident which was the first not only collected the usual punitive direct step towards the Russo-Japan-|™demnity but brought. pressure to ese war that ended so disastrously tor’ bear on the Chinese governm nt to Ta aint bots mse wr fue aed Re | have reason to believe that thé? ee. ree ease was the demand for territory on the maite port of Tsingtao which Germany land of China was contrary to the’ began to develep and fortify. better Judgement of Marquis ito... ANCE was not idle. On May 27, In my conversations with Count 1898, she secured a lease of the Mutsu, | told him that | was satis- ° harbor of Kwangtung; on the southern fied Russia would not permit Japan © oast of the province of Canton, for to occupy the mainiand so threaten- te dadiad: wg . ; ingly close to Peking, and that it’ The astute Britons, egged on by was not good licy to insist upon it. (iDiplomatle Memoirs,” vie ® jealousy of the Russian success and . , enw of France, increased the pres- sur Pagé 153.) J on China and on July 1 of the ee ee same year leased Weihaiwei, Shan- the acquisition of the Chinese navy Pi and Formosa, giving her a strategic | ‘¥2& Province, “for’as so long @ period: position from which to dominate the |** Port Arthur shall remain in the province of Fukien, had also secured j 0CCupation of Russia. (China, Capt: a foothold of major importance on the | /¥¢ °F Free,” Page 7—Gilbert Reid.) Chinese mainland by which she could The acuteness of the imperialist ri- valries resulting in these onslaughts on China’s territorial integrity are best shown by this last move of Great Britain. The port of Weihaiwei is opposite Port Arthur, on the opposite side of the Pehchili Gulf and also op- posite to Tsingtao on the Shantung peninsula. Great Britain thus served notice on both Germany and Russia that she was in China to stay, to protect to the utmost her great financial inter- ests and her favored position as the collector of Chinese customs reve- nues. sia, her most dangerous rival at the time, altho in 1897 under the pressure of Russia, France and Germany she relinquished Liaotung—only to seize it again in 1905. APAN had become a world power. There were other consequences of the war and the peace. The necessity of finding funds for the huge indem. nity provided for in the peace terms forced China to turn to western cap- italists for loans. France and Russia loaned her $80,- 000,000. British and German finan- ciers loaned her $160,000,000. The British government played its usual role of guardian of British investors and took the customs duties collected at sea ports as security with the fur- ther provision an Englishman should be collector of customs as long as British trade was the largest coming thru Chinese ports. The immediate result of this provi- sion was to make it a first order of business for Japan to overtake and pass Great Britain in the race for Chinese markets and thus deprive Great Britain of the favored position which her grip on the Chinese re- venues gave her. HESE loans were the beginning of a policy whigh made China de- HINA was being rapidly cut up into sections dominated by some one great power. The ceding of these fortified bases, with e control of the adjacent seacoagt which they gave, marked the culmination of an- other policy of imperlalism, that of locating socalled “spheres of influ- ence” of which we hear much these days but which was first brought to the attention of China by France after the war of 1883-84, ‘The beginning of the “spheres of influence” policy or as it was first called, the sphere of “interest,” tége- ther with its affect on the Chinese nation, will be dealt with in another article. terests they must get out of China. They will, once the American working class demands and enforces the withdrawal of all troops and warships. Minneapolis Communists Urge Unity | (Continued from page 1.) in a determined effort to regain con- trol of the city council. In order to accomplish this end thousands of dol- lars are being spent in all the labor wards. They are concentrating all of their efforts on ,the aldermanic fights be- cause they already have the mayor— both Leach and Elwell represent the financial interests of this city so it does not matter to the bosses which one is elected. If this “open shop” crowd is success- A Squelching Reply The war against Soviet Russia in England is not confined to the capitalist class. A few British labor leaders and intellectual prosti- tutes claiming to be socialists never miss an opportunity to take But most of the responsible British labor leaders are friends of the Soviet Union, and one of the most sturdy and militant of those is A. J. Cook, secretary of the powerful miners’ federation. Recently the secretary of the Social Democratic Federation is- sued a statement on affairs in Russia. The statement was distributed a shot_at the workers’ and peasants’ government. among the trade unions and other labor bodies. It~-was expected }ful next Monday, they will use their to prove an antidote to the report of the British Trade Union Dele- control of the city government against , , , ar the workers. A renewed effort will be gation, which won such wide unpopularity among the capitalist made to reduce wages in all indus- Class. tries. Hours of labor will be léngthen- Angered by the action of the socialist stoolpigeons of the capi-|ed and working conditions will be worsened. If the workers strike against these attacks the city police force un- der the contro! of the mayor, backed up by an “open shop” city council, talist class, A. J. Cook wrote a scorching letter to hte secretary of the Social Democratic Federation. He says in part: “I note that you seem te-pe delighted with the capitalist press of this country to use every stick possible to attack Soxjet Russia. | will be used to drive you back into the Surely there are plenty of wrongs to right in this country without| shops under the terms ofvthe boss. concentrating your time and energy by attacking the Workers’ Gov- Defeat the “Open Shop” ernment in Russia. [ am sure it would be of far greater interest to} ‘This gang must be defeated in this the working class movement of Great Britain if’ the Social Demo- cratic Federation would concentrate its own energies upon seeking to relieve the terrible conditions existing here, and would help for ward the forming of organizations which would get rid of capital- ism.” The Social Democratic ing the working class from pimping for capitalism. The Riffian Victory Reading between the lines of a Paris dispatch on the hostilities) Federation has lost all interest in free- wage slavery. It feels more at home in Moroceo it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that the} French forces have suffered a severe defeat at the hands of the Riffians. The French government refuses to publish a casualty list but in the usual fashion attributes all the losses to their opponents. That the Riffians are making progress there can be no doubt. It is also obvious that the French losses are very heavy, else there would be no purpose served in keeping them hidden. to take the offensive and have launched an attack on the French posi- tions with the object of capturing Fez. Even French bulletins admit that the.Moroccans have gained ground, tho the claim is made that’ the French have recovered the lost positions. ‘John Peterson: | Voelker: Eleventh Ward, ‘lessor of two evils. | wages, election and the only way they can be defeated is by all workers’ organiza- tions uniting behind the SOCIALIST- LABOR aldermanic candidates for re- election. Your class interests in this election | demand that you vote for the follow- ing socialist-labor aldermanic candi- dates in each of the wards listed: First Ward, Richard Dunleavy; Third Ward, G. T. Lindsten; Sixth Ward, Tenth Ward, George Guider; Louis Beneke; and ithe Twelfth Ward—Theodore Jenson. In urging you to work and vote for | these candidates, the Workers Party \does so merely because they are the During the two years that these have been in office they have not fought for your needs as representatives of labor should. |They have played petty politics with | the It appears that the Riffians have found themselves strong enuf} they should have been out in the open | exposing them. Alliance started their attack against reactionary city officials when When the Citizens the workers with the intention of | destroying your unions, reducing your | lengthening hours and worsen- With a shaky government at home, a financial crisis, and com- ‘ing working conditions, these labor plications with Britain, Germany and the United States, France is not im the best condition to liquidate her trouble in Morocco and the Riffiams have seized a golden moment to rid their country of the} posses. most formidable invader. More power to them. /councilmen should have used time and energy to rally the workers, their for a trade preserving amd building the ——————— Ninth Ward, A. E. | , will counter attack against the| IST) They should have aided in| FIGHT TO REALIZE THE ABOVE union movement. Instead of doing this the socialist-labor aldermen have been and now are concerned only with holding their job. The problems of the workers are not going to be solved. merely by elect- ing a few individuals to office. And individuals elected to office are not going to fight your battles unless you have strong economic and. political organizations that will force them to recognize your needs. The reasons that the present socialist-labor group have not fought for you is because they are not under the control of any labor organization. Build the Labor Party. The most urgent problem confront- ing the working class of this city and nation at the present time is that of organization. The thousands of unorganized work- ers must be brought into the trade unions, these unions must be united into powerful industrial unions and a fight on the basis of the class strug- gle must be waged to regain the wages, hours and working conditions that have been lost during the “open shop” fight: Until-sueh time as the workers organize their forces and fight back, their conditions will con- tinue to get worse. One of the most powerful weapons used by the capitalists is the political power of the state which expresses it- se)f by the use of the police, the mili- tia and the courts in almost every struggle against thé workers. In order to overepme this, the work- ers must organize a labor party that unite all laber organizations, economic and political, for the con- quest of political power. This power when obtained must be used to better and protect the conditions of the work- ers and their interests only. The Workers (Communist) Party pledges itself to the task of uniting in such a party. DEFEAT THE BOSSES! VOTE AND WORK FOR THE SO- “OPEN SHOP” CIALIST-LABOR CANDIDATES FOR RE-ELECTION! JOIN THE TRADE UNION OF YOUR TRADE! AMALGAMATE THE CRAFT UNIONS INTO INDUSTRIAL UN- IONS! BUILD THE LABOR PARTY! JOIN THE WORKERS (COMMUN. PARTY AID IN THE PROGRAM! as. A TEACHERS FIGHT OVERTIME WORK INN. Y, SCHOOLS Superintendent Orders Playground Duty NEW YORK, June 7 The New York Teachers’ Union charge that the “voluntary playground plan” would lead to compulsion of teachers to do duty in school yards before and after school hours is proving correct, ac- cording to the union’s communication to the board of education. In one district the local superintendent calls for 250 volunteers, about 25 per cent of the teaching force, the union claims, and asks principals to bring the names of teachers to the monthly conference. The principal of one school posts an instruction sheet which plainly states that he has not had sufficient volun- teers and “to carry out the directions of the city superintendent I shall be obliged to assign as follows” with a list of teachers’ names. Similar as- signments to playground duty were made in other schools. The Teachers’ Union stand is not against opening school yards for play- grounds but rather that they be ade- quately supervised by playground spe- cialists and that the plan of getting teachers for overtime duty will lead the way to requiring them to work in summer vacations. Now It’s the Alcohol Trust. NEW YORK, June 7.—The synthe- tic alcohol trust is forming in place of the tetra-ethy] lead gasoline com- bine, according to John Collins in the Nation for June 10. “Du Pont mak- ing the fuel alcohol, the Standard Oil }company distributing it, and General Motors controlling the high-compres- sion engines in which to burn it,” he says and adds that it is trade gossip that Du Pont is negotiating with the Germans for American mghts to the new synthetic alcohol motor fuel. He Suggests that this may explain the readiness of the Ethyl Gasoline cor- poration, subsidiary of Standard and General Motors, to drop its tetra-ethyl lead product when its danger to work- ers and publiewas shown. + : Five tho subse for Red Week. Red Week of June 15 to 21 -_ - =~. eee BILL GREEN NOT, SURE NOW THAT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IS GOOD AS IT WAS AT MONTREAL MEETING By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 7.—President Green of the American Federation of Labor, replying to a request from President Coolidge’s advisory Muscle Shoals commission for his opinion as to what should be done with the govern- ment’s. vast power plant, modifies his former attitude—taken when public ownership of railroads was under hot debate in. the Montreal convention of 1920—to the extent that he does not now ratify the policy adopted by the organized workers in the industry affected. He does not approve govern- ment productive power as a general principle. ' ; “So far as ownership is concerned,” MELLON () K S 4 . says Green, “it cannot be determined in advance that any specific type of ownership will under all conditions give invariable results. The decision upon ownership ought to be made with reference to each power undertaking after an examination of conditions and factors to be dealt with.” , When the railway workers asked the A. F. of L. to endorse their pro- gram of. public ownership and demo- cratic operation of railroads, in the 1920 convention, Green made a vigor- ous speech upholding their right to have labor back them up in what seemed best to safeguard their ifidus- trial progress and the progress of the country as to transportation. He point- ed out that the coal miners claimed the same right, and that no govern- ment agency ever had failed to be cal led in to repress the workers under private ownership and operation of railroads or mines. With his own statement to the Mus- cle Shoals commission Green enclosed the resolution adopted at the Portland convention in 14923, endorsing “co- ordinated public development and con- trol of water resources, for the serv- ice of the people at cost.” Movies to Coax Immigrants to Mexico. TAMPICO, Mexico.—The Holland- American Line‘ plans the extensive use of moving pictures to stimulate the emigration of workers from Hol- land and Germany to Mexico This recalls the premiums paid by’ steam- ship compaines to those agents who could lie sost fantastically and thus sell the most tickets to this country —before. the days: of restricted immi- gration. Munchausen would — given” to have been able “say it - movies.” i} hs Approves Go Id Dollar on Italy’s Neck WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.—Sec retary of the treasury, Andrew J. Mel- lon, has approved the foreign loans of the J. P. Morgan and company bank- ers. In a statement today he declared that Morgan’s loan would “astist rT . eign governments in stabilizing ti gr currency, and will place them in t- ter position to pay their official Mébts.” Morgan recently loaned the; Italian will government $50,000,000. A. and P. Reorganize ‘BOSTON, June 7. — Reorganization of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea com- pany, with employes taking the part of suckers, being “permitted” to sub scribe for stock, was announcéd here today. A large holding company was in- corporated jn Baltimore, Md., and five divisions were created. Each division have seperate presidents and /boards of directors. ; Storms in Sweden Kill Ten. STOCKHOLM, June 7. — Violnet storms have been sweeping Sweden for the last twenty-four hours killing ten persons, all in marine disasters. TOPEKA, Kans., June 7.—Applica- TOPEKA, Kans., June 4.—Applica- tion of the knights of the ku klux klan of Atlanta, Ga., for a charter to operate in Kansas was again refused \" the state charter board, —— ewe
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