Daily Worker
June 29, 1925
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vd ‘ \, ' ansbaa’ys tks never stand me i. Chinese LONDON aa 26-—Pre ; © t} | . er » int Pilar gO és. joint inquiry into industrial conditions con- presentatives of the Miners’ Federation and the coal mine ow ners, ke up when the operators stated that on wag 30 they would give formal notice that on July 31 they would’ sed by the unemployment result- and with the employers taking every in a sweeping campaign for the te face a crisis of the gravest noes ness > ae the existing agreement with the coal = miners’ union and would insist) : TH revolt of the ‘pinnate in the eolonies of the imperialist powers is causing deep concern among the ruling classes of the world. Every capitalist government is between two fires: that of the most class conscious of the workers at home and their revolting slaves abroad. In China the demand for a war with Great Britain is growing stronger every day. Britain is in ~ no position to crush China. Her own working class would * NOTHER aa is threatened in “*India. The British foreign office is getting ready to unload the blame on Soviet Russia. There are over 300,000,000 of people in India and 400,000,000 or more.in China. Quite a formidable army! With the Chi- nese masses moving and defying the power of the imperialists, the Hin- doos should not hesitate to tackle the job of freeing themselves from the yoke of Britain. John Bull stands to be the biggest loser in the big game now being played in the Orient. ; > * BY 7 northern Africa the Riffians are more than aor ug their own. The rnm guns driven in ~of aid- real Sovernment, was , admittedly French in cahoots vith the German government rhe eritical. period of the war. The munists of France support the Riffian tribesmen in their war for lib- eration, even tho they are fighting against France. Communigts know no cok ER? Gadliit country but the welfare/of the work- ers of all lands. — as * = a N England the class conscious workers are supporting the Chinese even tho the Chinese are demanding War against Great Britain. But the are not demanding war against the British workers. They will fight the British imperialists and their agents. This alliance between the colonial slaves and the industrial workers in the heart of the imperial- ist powers is a very cheering phe- nomenon. NE of the most remarkable meet- ings that I have ever attended Entered a6 Secondclass matter & ret es A os te 29" cago, Dy mall, $8.00 per year. Outside Ch Chicago, by mail, $6.0C per year. + at Chiang, Inet wader tbe Act of March 8 ‘197%. ae eae a On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. 3, 1925 =>” Published Dally except Sunday by THD PUBLISHING co., 1113 W. Washington AILY vd., Chicago, HL ee ae Price 5 Cents _ * an, increase of hours and a lecrease in wages. Want to Break Seven Hour Law. Since the miners’ seven hour day is written by the law of the land, the operators are comfronted with the necessity of forcing the miners to accept a longer day than the law permits—or the alternative of geting it changed. And it is Aoubtful that even the tory government wants to challenge labor so flagrantly as to In- troduce a measure lengthening the miners’ work day. But the menace is real enuf to the (Continued on page 4) assault upon Franklin C. Gowen, FASCIST WHO SLUGGED BOWEN FORGIVEN BY CAL-THOT HIM WORKER WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.-— The state department has informed the Mussolini government that the American vice-consul at Leghorn, by a fascist youth, has been forgiven, and that “this government is highly appreciative of its expressions of concern and regret.” / Gowen was siugged on the head by Fausto di Suolo as he was walk- ing along the streets of Leghorn. “The fascist, who was taking part in a fascist demonstration, stated he did not know that the man hé brutally slugged wae a consular of- ficer. He was laboring under the impression that Gowen was an Italian worker. ; and the All has been forgiven, Coolidge officials highly praise Mussolini’s “forceful rule.” German Nationalists Attacked BERLIN, Germany, June 26.—The nationalist deputies in the German reichstag were attacked today in the lobby of the parliament building, by about 200 former supporters who had obtained admission ticket.. They char- ged the deputies with violating elec- tion pledges to revalorize government war loan securities. Several blows" were struck before the netionalists re- treated. CALL TEXTILE WORKERS OF EAST TO CONFERENCE OF MILITANTS IN NEW YORK CITY, AUGUST 9 The textile Workers of the mills in the east, especially those of New England, have suffered defeat after defeat, owing largely to their ineffective organization. The International Committee “for Amalgamation in the Textile Industry is endeavoring to rally all militant workers for resistance against the wage cuts, speed-up systems and other evils, and has addressed the fol- lowing call to the textile workers: * TO ALL TEXTILE UNIONS, AND ORGANIZED AND. UNORGANIZED WORKERS IN THE TEXTILE MILLS: _The workers in the textile industry have for months been going thru one of the worst crises in their history. that the textile bosses have learned from the militant struggles of the work- ‘nehan, +e etter against FIGHT AGAINST — IMPERIALISM IS IN SWING TODAY Workers Refute Move For Capitalist War Anti- toateiililind inte tase weak, when the mil- itant workers of this country Voice their protest against the exploitation imposed on them and their fellow workers in America’s possessions and dominated countries, begins today. The Coolidge government, taking orders, as always from the United wis held in this city a few evenings | States financiers, are beating the war azo, when workers of all races and, drums. almost all colors gathered together to raise their voices against world im- perialism, and—as the meeting was held in the United States—particular- ly against American imperialism. The thairman of the meeting was a young Negro who showed by his beaming countenance that he appreciated the significance of the “occasion. More than a score of young Chinese at- tended, and three of them took the platform and spoke, one of them speaking in his native tongue. * “s = Was a protest against imperial- ism in China, but not the usual kind of an academic contest. Repre tatives of the most oppressed vic tims cf imperialism were there: Ne- gro and Chinese workers and stu- dents. Many comrades who have at tended thousands of radical meetings Said that a thrill such as they only experienced rarely stirred theif. emo- tions when the voices of white, black and yellow workers were raised against the— “sommes enemy, Be z be Ps AS the meeting was in propread battles were raging in the Orient that will have a very important effect (Continued on page ¢.) The military training camps are being filled, many workers being sent to learn the American goose step under pressure from their employers. Overwork the Radios. The governors and mayors have taken Wall Street’s orders and have repeated Coolidge’s call for a mili- tary demonstration in July 4. Radios are to be overworked. Business men are to be admitted into the schools, along with the army officers. All this is in preparation for the coming imperialist war. The workers of America are to be made ready to go to Mexico, Hawaii or China, and Slaughter other workers whose inter- ests are the same as theirs. : Plan Many Meetings. But then workers of America dur- ing this anti-imperialist week, are protesting against the oppression of the imperiailst exploiters. Meetings are to be held, resolutions have been passed by trade unions condemning the imperialist moves of the Coolidge government, and thousands of copies of the DAILY WORKER will be dis- tributed. The American workers will not will- ingly march to their death merely to make bigger profits for the bankers who control the government. BISHOP MONTGOMERY BROWN WILL SPEAK HERE TOMORROW EVENING Prominent representatiess Se the. N the National Labor Defense Conference will be the principal the mass protest demonstration which will be emple Hall, Van Buren street and Marehfield ak are: Bishop William Montgomery Brown, | itlow, William Z, Foster and a member of way f er wage reductions. ; Pass struggles against the employers. hat a crime, | rence, Paterson, Fall, Rivep, Pawtuxet . Valley, ¢tc., are vivid in. the memory | laux, the ‘effect in such a manner, so as to ndt ‘bers * In this crisis it-can be plainly seen The textile industry is replete with The names of Law- [ic all who follow the history of Amer- ican labor. Putting It Over Smoothly The latest wage-cutting schemes of the textile bosses are being put into arouse mass protest, but to even more effectively enslave the workers. In- stead of as formerly announcing a drastic cut in. wages, the bosses are now engaged in cutting wages by the latest and most scientific methods, namely, making the wage cuts small and frequent, and in certain mills at a time. Along with this goes the other counter part of the wage cutting cam- paign, which is the intro@uction of “efficiency methods.” The Multiple Loom The-efficiency expert as the agent of the textile millionaires is creating almost as great a revolution in the in- dustry, as the introduction of the au- tomatic loom itself. The multiple loom (Continued on Page 4) WRITS ISSUED TO FREE CROUCH FROM PRISON Communist Soldiers to Be Produced HONOLULU, Hawaii, June 26. Writs of habeas corpus against Ma}. Gen. Edward M. Lewis, commanding the army's Hawaiian department, were issued, ordering him to produce Paul Grouch and Walter Trumbull in fed- eral court at 2 p. m. today, to show Cause why they should be held in Schoffield barracks guardhouse. The writs were issued by Federal Judge John T. Debolt. Walter Trum- bull and Paul Crouch were arrested ——— = in Broadway Turnout oe Aaa | (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June The battle between the Sigman/machine in the international Ladies’. Garment Work- ers’ Union and the membership of the three expelled locals continues on two fronts: in the shops and at the trial now. going @n in the Cadillac Hotel. At both Places the workers are demonstrating ‘their determina- tion and fighting spirit, that guaran- tees that the Sigrman machine is fac ing its supreme crisis. Yesterday morming thousands of workers demonst} before — the Wittenberg shop on Broadway against the discharge of Syanzer on order of Perlstein and machine who tried to break up the. demonstration with gangsters and police. Lena Klein was struck by a thug and taken to Roosevelt Hospital with five stitches in her head. At the Frederick shop in 39th St. gangsters tried the same tactics but got the worst of ‘the affair. There were eight arrests: Sonia Chaikin, Pauline Schulmas, Mollie Scherin, William Sumerhouse, Sonia Miller, Hartman, Mollie Rosen, Ida Katz. They are out on bail. All shops whe discharges take place on the fier of the Sigman machine are paralyzed by re- volt of workers. The trial at the Cadillac Hotel is turning into a farce. The questions asked would not even be allowed in a capitalist court. Provocation and clownish stupidity rule. The trial is held behind closed doors. The Sig- man machine” ht they could~con- trol publicity but all workers are en- raged against the star chamber pro- ceedings, so much so that liberal bourgeois joining in de- merece ee When local 41' voted unanimously last week to support the three locals, the reactionary machine thru Leftko- vitz ordered another meeting, to. re- verse action threatening the local with expulsion from international. A spe cial meeting was held last night with international officers present but the local again voted to reiterate its pre- vious stand, only three votes being cast for the Sigman machine. After the vote was taken the members chased the officials from the hall. The Mystery Solved. The Jewish Forward writes about tremendous mass demonstrations, that at great furriers’ meetings only cloak- makers and dressmakers attended, mystery of where furriers were is cleared up by story about shop cheir- man meetings which says: ‘Furriers, fish peddlers, chicken pickers and sim- ilar people by the thousands jammed both halls in Manhattan Lyceum.” MANY DELEGATES TO ATTEND JUNE 28 CONFERENCE Unions Take Part in Workers’ Defense Meet The Labor ‘Detenae Council ipod paring to welcome a large deleg of representatives of workers’ organ- izations at the National Conference for Labor Defense to be held in the Ashland Auditorium here next Sun- day. Workers’ defense bodies, frat- ernal and benefit organizations, Cen. tral Unions and many local trade unions are expected to be represent- ed. The last organizations that were heard from, the Detroit Federation of last March, charged with being mem- of the Hawalian Communist League. im a federal penitentiary. The tences were later reduced to one year and three years, respectively. After a court martial they | were sentenced to 26 and forty years sen-| Labor, the Joliet Central Labor Union land a number of local unions in Iili- nois, all promise to have delegates present. Out of deference to the aims of | the con*erence there will be seated individuals who have distinguished Crouch and Trumbull were held in| themselves by their efforts for Labor a guardhouse for many weeks, without Defense as Well as ex-class war pris- trial, in violation of army law. They/oners, who will take an active part were sentenced on the sole evidence | ji of an army spy, whose testimony was contradicted by defense witnesses. The records of the trial were doctored by the army officials. The Labor Defense Council, ‘19 S. Lincoln St., Chicago, is contributing to the defense of the Communist sol- diers. in the proceedings. For Defense of All Workers. The conference, which will last all day Sunday, will wccupy itself prt- marily with the business of forming a permanent national defense organ- ization pledged to defend the interest of all workers engaged in the class struggle. Thousandbiee Workers Hoping with the other governments re- presented at Peking and to leave the Chinese problem to be handled largely by the diplo- mats in the Far East. “For the Time Being” This polity is being adhered to for the time being chiefly because, ac- cording to officials here, it is the only policy that the United States can have in the circumgtances. Secretary Kel- ‘ogg is now awaiting the arrival of the new American minister, John V. not want to take any new step «atil he has given MacMurray an opportun- ity to survey the situation and report upon the new political conditions growing out of civil war and anti-im- perialist movements in coastal cities. Pressure’ is being brought to bear upon the government, however, to take a@ more aggressive attitude to- ward China, stich as the serving of formal notice on the Peking t-eign office, dirett from Washington, that the United States expects its interests has reached here from the American association of China, the petitioners charging that China is failing to live up to her treaty obligations and that it is up to the United States to make her do it by force of arms if neces- sary. He Wants To—But Dare Not There is no doubt that Secretary Kellogg would be pleased to take any action that would accomplish such a purpose but-im view of present condi- tions in China. he does not feel that much would be accomplished by di- recting a sharp. note to the Peking government. .The difficulty is, accord- ing to official statement, that the Peking government has little or no fauthority outside of the city of Pek- ing and that separate demands from Washington might only stir up more trouble for the diplomats in (Continued on page 2) in the meantime to co-operatef in the orient to be fully protected at, all times. An appeal to this effect WASHINGTON, June 26.—Despite the growing States is not yet ready to adopt an independent attitude toward the Peking government, it was declared officially here today. Disregarding the official reasons, fear of war with Japan is seen behind the hesitancy of the United i American Imperialism in Fear of War with Japan, _Hesitates with Chinese (peciat to The Daily Worker) tates. or ™ ‘* a avity of the Chinese situation, the United — from day to day that order will be restored in China without further Intervention by the foreign imperialist powers, Secretary of State Kellogg says that America plans to one JAPAN REFUSES CHINA REVISION OF TREATY; BUT “SYMPATHIZES” TOKIO, June 26.—The Japanese cabinet met today to consider the Chinese demands for a revision of her foreign treaties and also the thirteen demands made in connection with the Shanghai trouble. It is understood that decision was reached and instructions wired. to Minister Yoshizawa in Peking, but the nature of the decision was not an- nounced. The most reliable of the Japanese papers saya Minister Yoshizawa was instructed to refuse the demands for treaty revision on the grounds that the A. MacMurray, at Peking, and does | time‘and conditions are inopportune, but to assure China of Japan’s sym pathetic attitude toward her aspirations. PLEDGE FIGHT ON MACHINE OF INTERNATIONAL Shop Chairmen Show Faith in Members (Special to The Oaily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, June 26.—The DAILY WORKER gives herewith the text of the resolution carried by the Shop Chairmen of the {nternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Union from over a thousand shops in the city of New York at the meeting held Tuc day night. From the way the hall was packed with shop chairmen ‘and enthuslastic active members participating in the fight to prevent the I L. G..W. from being wrecked by the autocratic Siz- COAL DIGGERS MEET TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY Anthracite Convention Has Many Problems (Special to The Dally Worker) SCRANTON, Pa. June 26—The Tri-District convention of the anthra- cite miners will begin next Monday here. The agreement between the miners and the operators terminates on Sept. ist, and one of the princel- pal problems before the convention will be the formulation of demands on the bosses. operators, the rank and file of the anthracite unions have many bones to, pick with their leaders. A. regu- man machine, it is plain that no mat- the | Cer which: way the, unfair farce of a Chinese capital to deal with. The rea) |“trial” reason, however, is the fear that Jap- | executives of Locals 2; 9 and 22, have may go, the suspended local (Continued on page 4) lar reign of terror has been con- ducted in District 1, by the renegade Capellini. The members. revolted more than once and John Lewis (Continued on page 2) THE COAL MINER TALKS e+ Scranton, Pa Dedicated to the Tri-District Convention of the Anthracite Coal Miners Opening Monday at Aside from the demands on the. —r er nT
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