Daily Worker
July 2, 1925
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\ jf | ’ | , ’ * - ; Leg . As p87 fs» ri ‘a * - a ihe GE Ppa all ee eee Ae * iy Oe BETS Ses pb ‘* i Pe oy t Meee! piel, et of er Bae De” Sg, ‘ae ee ke s a. ’ * ih nm Po ; . _ ee a aa id pea Se 7 ae, tt : eS Pe Se UL, hae Toe TASER eee ea tite at Chicago, llinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, LY 2, 1925 — ‘Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKMR PUBLISHING CO», 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, [lL * (Special to The Daily Worker) .% ial committee. y ~NEW YORK CITY, June 30.—How “fair” is the trial being sti by the low comedians of the International Ladies’ Gar- Norkers’ official machine led by Feinberg, Sigman and Perl- ty be seen by the fact that Israel Fein of the Joint Board and maker of the charges against the rg, general man- of Locals 2, 9 and 22, is also the chairman Did Not Want to Entertain a Plea. Another indication of the “open mindedness” of the machine organization is the adjournment accused executives of the three largest locals of the of the “trial commitee” at 12:30 to deliberate among its members whether the defendants’ plea | AS WE SEE. IT. By T. J. O)FLAHERTY PS pao hale hl has reached the “\’ danger point in Britain and the tories who are in power can do noth- ing but twiddle their thumbs. They ‘ean help the unemployed only at the expense of the capitalists and the ita will not stand for that. In tion to unemployment a big coal » threatens, and even Ramsay McDonald js obliged to talk about an “uprising of workers.” unless a cure is found for the industrial woes of the *> + * cure is operation, which must decapitate’ cap- italism “and leave the foad open for the workers to build up a socialist society on the ruins of the robber ‘eg r * * ® Chicago Tribune is in hard luck. Most of its foreign corres- pondents have such a penchant for lying that they cannot keep from get- ting into difficulties with various gov- ernments, for exaggerating the truth. Not only the Soviet government but others have been obliged to kick out the Tribune liars. This does not prev- ent the Trib’s boys from sending home the news. All that glitters is not gold. Neither is everything we see in a cap- italist paper according to the facts. * +. . Suis gai N a Tribune correspondent was ‘kicked out of Soviet Russia, he betook himself to Riga, and from there sent over his observations of how things were going in the workers republic. And they were going—par- don our vocabulary—to hell. It is true that the things the Trib correspond- ent described never happened, but he dréw his pay just the same and the Tribune editorial writers commented sagaciously on his dispatches and drew very logical conclusions from them. \ * a . \/ ESTERDAY’S issue of the Tribune carries a dispatch from some un- known stoolpigeon, dated Moscow, (Continued on page 6.) SAN FRANCISCO GHINESE WANT. AID FOR GHINA Appeal to. American . Working Class SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 30— The Unionist Guild, an organization of Chinese workers in America, has sent to the labor unions of*this region a letter and an oppeal to American labor unionist asking them to pass resolutions of protest at the imper-. jaliat brutality and aggression being practiced upon Chinese workers in China by the foreign imperialist ex- ploiters of the Chinese nation. The appeal, signed by Alice Sum, general executive sceretary, at 1129 Stockton street, reads in part as fol- lows: “T> the Workers of , America:— ! you not pause a moment in a ‘ane ard co-operative spirit, and sContinued On pegs 3) of “not guilty” should be given any consideration at all. This peculiar (to say the least) at- titude of a “trial committee” was based, so they said, upon the commit- tee’s contention that the defendants were atready found guilty before the trial started, and the only thing” the trial was to determine apparently, was whether the defendants should be expelled permanently. The accused members” plea of “not guilty” evident- ly caused the fake “trial committee” to summon their scattered, but col- lective wits to determine what course to pursue. It was indeed aggravating. Here were some seventy-seven loyal union members, leaders of the locals mak- ing up sixty per cent of the IL. L. G. W. in New York, and after the ma- chine had announced them guilty, the culprits had the audacity to dif- fer with the machine even in this matter, and had advanced a plea of “not guilty.” ie — f i : ” . —" x © staten nba . pore BP 4 r ah, © . 4 . . % « ings. It was very rude of these pro- posed victims to fight back. The state- ment said, in part: “We deny that the meeting called by Locals 2 and 9 on May 1, 1925, at the Metropolitan Opera House was anything else but what it purported to be—namely, the usual May Day demonstration such as unions have years past. We deny that anything out of the ordinary vccurred at the meeting. “We declare that the entire charges are nothing but a ‘frame up’ and an attempt to pounce upon some false reports,~which appeared in some of the newspapers, and which we believe to have emanated Arom the very sources from which these charges em- anate, ag a means of destroying the will of the membership of our local union in having elected us to office, and to illegally take possession of the offices and property of the local unions.” To Sell 200 United States Ships for a Song; Ford Keeps Out WASHINGTON, June 30.-—Henry Ford failed to submit a bid today for the 200 ships offered for sale by the United States Emergency Fleet cor- poration, . ’ The largest bid was by the Boston Iron and Metal company, which of- fered $1,370,000 for all the ships with the understanding that some parts would be salvaged for future sale. | FENG GALLS FOR WAR ON FOREIGN DOMINATION: IS DRILLING STUDENTS (Special to The Daily Worker) ~ PEKING, China, June 30—From Kalgan, headquarters of the famous general, Feng Yu-hsiang, comes the report that Feng has issued a circu- lar telegram to all Chinese govern- ors and military leaders calling for a war against foreign imperialist trespassers upon the sovereignty ‘of China. “! would fight to the death,” says the call in part, “rather than be controlled or ill-treated, and, there- fore, | would like to see the militar- ists forget their factional differences and wage a war of avengement upon the imperialist exploiters of the Chinese people. | will not desert un- til.the last man perishes.” Feng has opened an officers’ train- ing camp at Kalgan, and 1,500 év- dents have at once joined his army and are training at the schoel In in- tensive eovrscs. _—— _— been in the habit of holding for many }j. HE’S ON a x - Py + 7 ; re a, ot , 4 ~ Py a. 4 Sal re 4 - inte?Ventionist force at Shameen, the foreign of war with Great Britain from the unofficial spokesmen of the Japanese government. “~*-" Thus the effort of Japanese imperialism totry to shift the mass, indignation of the Chinese people on to the British alone, is cropping out in what amounts to a promise to the Chinese government that in a quarrel with England. Japan will take sides with China. thréat of a devastating national boycott of Japanese goods in China, the ruling class of Japan , Yl yy iy Uy Vy 1 . sa ae yey ete Oe — , Er te ay jen - pened (Special to The! Daily Worker) ‘TOKIO, June 30.—The report received here that the British government has landed an settlement at Canton, has provoked a swift threat on anton Prepares for Battle Soo eatin a oO Ra Rae ritain; — ee a A Pressed with the -~* — = the clothin the officials of the International The shops of the International Tailoring Company at Jack- son Boulevard and Green Street, were picketed yesterday by members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers who struck when company refused to sign an agreement with the unjon and determined to run an open shop, under the camouflage of an agreement with the United Garment Workers’ Union, a notorious strikebreaking agency. When the Amalgamated refused to accept a wage reduction, Tailoring Company got in touch with the United Garment Workers and offered to sign a contract with that body provided it accepted a reduction in, wages. officials of this scab union are always willing to do anything for a price so they willingly accepted. When the company - had The reached an agreement with the U. G. W. U. strikebreakers, they sent a letter to their former em- ployes which is printed here- with: | The Scab Letter. TO OUR FORMER EMPLOYES: Our Contract with the Amalgamat- ed expired May ist. After mature consideration, we de- cided it necessary to make certain ad justments before signing a new agree ment. * The Union cefused to consider our requests, and, as you know, ordered stoppage. Conditions during the past few years have steadily grown worse, and. as there seems to be no let up to the destructive forces, which are sapping the very life out of trade, we find our- selves compelled to end it absolutely, and for good. Many tailoring concerns have al- ready been forced out of business, move to other sections. of the coun- sors pie ass sl Se me intelligent employe that such -condi- tions must, inevitably, lead to their own lasting injury. | Given the opportunity, we will, in time, get our business to its former success, butitcan’t be done with the intolerant conditions, under which we have so long been compelied to work A house divided cannot stand. En couraged, therefore, by the wel wishes and willing advice of many o our employes, we have decided to sever all relations with the Amaiga mated, and, from this day, we wil work under agreement with the United Garment Workers of Americz in affiliation with the American Fed- is finding this report from Canton convenient material in- directly to notify China that Japan will unite with China against any serious war of ag- gression by Britain upon the Chinese nation. The report of a British landing force at Shameen ran like wildfire about Japanese political circles, and the anonymous “unofficial spokesman” at once issued statements saying that such news was “sinister” but that Japanese government officials “did not believe that England would dare to risk occupation of the city of Canton with all that this would imply.” The Japanese foreign office is ex- pecting to confer with rne new Amer- ican minister to China, John, Mac- Murray, before he proceeds to Peking. _.The\second gentle hint of Japan to Britain was the claim advanced by_un- official spokesmen that the Cantonese were remaining quiet in the face of British provocation, only because Gen. Chang Tso-lin, the Chinese militarist who is subsidized by Japan, had ad- vised @ passive attitude. * € * Knocks Gold Market Down HONG KONG, China, June 30.—Al- though the reports from Canton has sent even the gold market at Shan- ghai downward three points, the situa- tion at Canton:j8, so far as news. re- ports get thru, the ‘’ame-as*yesterday. The -growing* ‘seriousness of the crisis is plain, however, in the report that the Canton government, control- led by the militant Kuo Min: Tang (People’s) party, had handed an.-ulti- matum to the British and French to get out of the foreign settlement at Shameen, to makejan apology for the murder of the paraders shot down re- cently, to withdraw their war vessels from the neighboring waters lying along the province of Kwangtung and make compensation for the loss of Chinese lives and property—or face the consequences. - “Bince it was the British and French ‘Marines who opened fire upon the | paraders, the demands are made di- (Continued on page 2) CHINESE RAILWAYMEN SEND APPEAL TO WORLD TRANSPORT WORKERS’ FEDERATION AT LONDON ~ MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 10—(By Mail.)—The Chinese Union of Railwaymen sent the following appeal te the International Transport , Workers’ Federation at London: "HE international imperialists have dropped their masks and are now proceeding openly like vandals and robbers. The success of the na- tional revolutionary movement, the awakening of the Chinese people, the mighty strike movement, and the revival of the Chinese Railwaymen’s or- ganizations—all this sttike terror into the imperialists who imagine they can throttle the @hinese revolutionary brutality. ° New ‘battleships are daily arriving at Japanese and Italian troops who are movement thru hitherto unparalleled Shanghai, landing American, ordered to shoot upon the Chinese people who are struggling for nation- +— al freedom and independence, and for human existence. “We, the Chinese Railwaymen ap- peal to you, transpert workers of the world, with the cry: Hands off China! The imperialists want to crush China with the armed ‘fist! Prevent the transport of troopszand munitions to China! Tell the transport: workers thruout the world what crimes the imperial- ists are committingsin China! “Tell the workers in aH parts of the world that the imperialists who are oppressing and robbing China, are preparing new tortures for the prole- tariat in their own countries! We are convinced that the International Transport .Workers’ Federation will give its utmost moral and material support to the Ciinese proletariat which is carrying on a life and death struggle.— Lod-Shan-Lun, Secretary.” Woman Kills Herself. Mrs. Catherine O’Connor, 75- years old, committed suicide by burniug herself to death. > She stood over a bonfire. Mrs. O’Cannor lived at 690 Alcot St., Edison ark. | PAGE OF AMMUNITION IN ANTI-IMPERIALIST WAR IN TODAY'S ISSUE Turn to page three today and you will find a full page of ammuni- tion for Anti-Imperialist Week pro- paganda. Spread this issue, in your shop or neighborhood, where it will do the most good, Another page will appear in to- morrow’s issue. Saturday’s issue will be an Anti-Imperialist Special. Send in your orders immediately to the DAILY, WORKER, 1113 West Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. outa Franco-German Treaty Halted. PARIS, rance, June 30— The Franco-Gemnan negotiations for a new commercig! treaty are again dead- locked, An agreement over tariff duties seeming impossible, 4 >. 2 : . ¥ o . ne ott ke Meet a ee ore - eit a - oN ? — ae, “ va) "s obs e 4 . ’ : : ; ’ ink Tig ae if uh rt s ae f - - . P % Ge 5 reat eos 4 age Bao my Se ® ‘ ne : aru a ‘ wo os ae , , Agi . Tae ets = h: : oe laa . : ee: ri.” ; Ad , . oe f ae be Lhe ie oth ” . g rare ce eves Gee i My ETE tse Y ase ie € 4 a: " ¥ es ‘ y py bP T Arai Chios . oh nd aT ee ea ee ee era ote oka os Ce tS sae A Ria Bats a LED Fe Rh al 2 eae ed oF RA ae : : » pa fa . i TRS, Cy .. Nae ote Fo rsa eee Fk: f “oo 52 i ei RE Le by E> er WN Bed he ives a <2 a a I A aa ae rn ag at Pe PD eel ae ee Mer <a hy 0 ORS te Pk O9 Sp sata RA ice Spa Sh ae Se ae CURES RR are TRE ee, tis in «dal é re oe we d : : as " ’ eration of Labor. First consideration will be given tc our former employes and we urge al! those who wish to continue in our service to associate themselves with the United Garment Workers and meet the requirements of the employ ers in their establishment. We believe we're in the right, anc we sincerely hope you follow us. Sincerely, INTERNATIONAL TAILORING COMPANY. The International Tailoring Com pany has not heen able to convince its employes thaot they should quit a la- bor union and join up with a scab agency. ‘The picket lines show that the workers remained loyal to the Amalgamated. Working in three shifts, the strik- ers kept up their vigil in front of the International Tailoring Company shops. A few scabs ran into a littl eyclone with excellent results. The (Continued on page 2) Kluxer Charged with Murder Is Seeking to Postpone Trial, Rumor INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 30. With thé trial of D. C, Stephenson, Earl Klinck and Earl Gentry on a murder charge growing out of the death last April of Madge Ober- holtzer following an attack on the girl, scheduled to start at Noblesville, Monday, prosecuting and defense at- torneys held conferences in their respectvie camps today. William H. Remy, Marion county prosecutor and Charles E. Cox, re- tained by the Oberholtzer family to push the case against the accused men, interviewed.a number of wit- nesses who will be called on to testify at the trial. Elph Imman, chief of Stephenson’s counsel, conferred with other defense attorneys, but refused to divulge the nature of the matters discussed. Un- confirmed reports stated the defense was contemplating seeking a contin- puance of the trial and others have been forced to res | WALKOUT OF 400 SILK WORKERS “TIES UP MILL Unorganized Lowell Strikers Out 100 Pct. By TOM BELL (Special to The Daily Worker) LOWELL, Mass, June 30.—Lasi Tuesday 400 workers at the Lowell Silk mills went on strike against cuts in wages. .The workers are uwunor- PGanized, and the waik out was com- plete. Not one worker threatened of the strikers are girls. Mass picket- bing of the mill gates has been kept up since the strike started. , Last Saturday the agent posted notices of the wage cut to take effect the following week. The quillers were cut from 4344 cents down to 28 cents a box, making their wages practically 28 cents an hour as it takes an hour to make a box. Winlers were cut from 90 cents to 60 cents a bundle. Workers Remain United Weavers who were receiving $2.24 per 1,000 picks were cut to $1.49 per 1,000. In a desparate effort to split the forces of the. workers the agent restored the old rate for weavers. In spite of this the weavers went out on strike with the rest of the workers. On Tuesday morning the workers elected a committee to interview the agent, and demand the return of the old rate. This he refused to do. He gave as reason for the savage cut the usual -hypocritical reason of business conditions.” The failure of the negotiations with the agent resulted in every worker quitting the plant. The agent has fil led the local press with threats of moving the plant to some other town. Te this the strikers have replied in their mass meetings that if he did he would have to pay higher wages than he had paid them, as the Lowell silk workers had been lower than in other center, “poor Mass Picketing © At a mass meeting of the strikers held in the Portuguese Club yester- day a strike committee was elected, and instructed to get in touch with the agent and inform him that work would be resumed when he decided to abandon the Wage cuts. ' The spirit of the girls is fine. They turn up in a body in the morning with their lunch under their arms and picket the plant. The threats of the agent does nct worry them as they | have heard all that before. They are — confidect that the agent will be foreed | to forgo the wage cuts in face of the ' solidarity of the strikers. BATTLE AGAINST CHILD LABOR 10 CONTINUE, TEACHERS ARE TOLD; INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., June 30.— The battle to adopt the child labor amendment to the federal constitu- tion has just begun, John F. Sims, chairman of the committee of- 1,000 on child labor, declared in his report today tothe official delegates to the sixty third annual convention of the National Education Association of America. 2 . { her thé wage cuts stayed at work. Mos Be ee ——_—— ei re
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4 4 Capitalist Powers Con- tinue Parley BULLETIN | WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.— The Italian-American debt negotia- tlons today adjourned until] August without any discussion of terms or definite proposals for payment. e * e WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30— The Itallan and American debt nego- tiations held another informal confer ence for two hours today, and it was tentatively decided to hold another meeting on Thursday. The confer ence Je developing into a bargaining match, with Italy endeavoring to ge‘ the debt reduced because of her “in- ability to pay,” and secretaries Mel- lon and Kellogg insisting on terms which include payment in full. The discussion has so far been con- | cerned with Italy’s ability to Mquidate her $2,000,000,000 debt. Mellon, Kel- log and Senator Smoot, representa- tives of the Coolidge government, are waiting for the fascist representa- tives to make a definite proposal. According to the policy of the Coo- lidge government, settlement must be made in full, on the basis of the debt funding arrangement between Great Britain and the United States. The war debt of Italy will not be re- duced, according to Mellon, and the ne, gotiations will determine only the terms of settlement. Kellogg. Tightens Screws Secretary Kellogg has served notice on the Italian debt, commissioners that the United States extpects payments on Italy’s debt to begin at once and that no moratorium will be granted. Kellogge’s statement, made at the opening of the debt conference, has not been mentioned in the. offictal communiques issued wy secretary of the treasury Mellon as chairman of the American debt funding commis- sion, but it was evoked diwespread discussion in. diplomatic circles. The exact words used by the secret- ary of state in communicating his very decided views on the debt situation to Ambassador Martino and Minister Alberti could not be learned, but he is said to have surprised them by stripping his language of diplomatic subterfuge and by telling them plainly that the United States was tired of talking about debt payments and Wanted immediate action. Gold Is Hard To Get When he recovered from his sur- prise at Kellogg’s straight-from-the- shoulder statement, the ambassador replied that if the United States want- ed “Lira” it could have it immediately and no objections would be raised by the Italian government, meaning that it would be easy to pay in paper, but that gold would be harder to get. At this point, secretary Mellon in- tervened to turn the talk into more placid channels and a formal discus- sion was then held of the ability of ‘ Italy to liquidate her debt. Coolidge a Fraud; Elected by Chance, Senator Declares ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 30.—Presi- dent Coolidge is a weak man, who became president by accident, Senator James Reed said in a speech here. The Coolidge of fact is like a bar- ren hole in the ground, whereas the Coolidge of fiction built up by pub- licity would make him out a gusher, Reed said. ee er aye ow ee ee en oe: ™~ + a ooo “Amalgamated” Mans the Picket Lines (Continued from page 1) but scabs are provoking. Under Police Protection. shops were taken to their homes on Monday evening in yellow cabs, under the protection of motorcycle police- men. The city administration is freely giving the clothing firm the use of its socalled law enforcement offic- ers to help them break the strike. This is only a little more proof that capitalist governments always serve the bosses, as the militants on the picket line point out to their fellow workers. , Five piekets were arrested yester- day morning: Herman Reese, presi- dent and organizer of Local 61; Louis Angelino, shop chairman; Hyman Schnied; Sam Matskin and Harry Litin. Sidley Rissman, assistant manager and member of the General Executive Board spoke to an enthusiastic meet- ing of strikes in Hodcarrier’s Hall, yesterday morning. He said that the shops of the International Tailoring Company in New York were shut up tight. He pointed out that the cloth- ing firm could not have a strike in one city and run full blast in another as it used to in the past, because the clothing workers are organized na- tionally. Determined to Win. The strikers are fully determined to win. Every member of the Amalga- mated im this city is awake to the fact that the life of the union is threatened by the action of the Inter- national Tailoring Company, and its scabby ally, the United Garment Workers. Not only the workers in- volved in the strike, but members of |the Amalgamated who have any time strikers are not resorting to violence |to spare are helping the strikers. | It was pointed out today by the }pickets that the windows of the Inter- The few scabs that remained in the | national Tailoring Company shops are painted, so that those inside canhot be seen from the streets. This is a custom in nonunion shops. The bosses do not want to have their em- ployes’ attention distracted by the sunlight. The I. T. C. bosses always wanted to paint their windows but the Amalgamated refused. Of course the United Garment Workers will ac- cede to anything, even to putting balls and chains on the workers’ feet. Speaking to the strikers yesterday morning, Sidney Rissman told of the methods used by the officials of the International Tailoring Company to recruit scabs. Postal cards were sent to girls advising them that jobs in e laundry awaited them. But the ad- dress given was that of the Interna- tional Tailoring Company. Run Out the Scabs. The members of the Amalgamated realize that should they lose this strike it would be a signal for a gen- eral assault on their union thruout the country. They see the purpose in bringing in the scabby United Gar- ment Workers. The company wants to create a division in the ranks of the workers. They will claim that their shop is union, for has it not an agreement with the United Garment Workers Union? But the trade un- jionists of Chicago will not be fooled, and if the sentiment among members of the American Federation of Labor can be judged by the expressions of those interviewed by the DAILY WORKER, the scabby officials of the United Garment Workers will be run out of town. HONG KONG STRIKERS TIE UP CITY; BRITISH CENSORS STIFLE NEWS (Special to The Daily Worker) HONG KONG, China, June 30.— The censorship of all dispatches is most complete. The world is not to be told, if the censors of the Bri- tish government can prevent, that the city of Hong Kong is completely paralyzed by a general strike, the like of which has never been seen in this city before. A limping effort ‘was made today to run some of the tram cars, manned by British and Portuguese scabs. Not a Chinese will touch hand to work for any foreign interest. ICE-BOX TRUST PLEADS GUILTY; GETS LIGHT FINE Monopoly of Trade Con- tinues, However Fifteen refrigerating concerns and one individual pleaded guilty in fed- eral court today to indictments charg- ing them with violating the Sherman anti-trust laws by combining to keep up prices of refrigerators ang were fined in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $5,000. | This is the second batch of furni- ture manufacturers to piead. guilty to wholesale indictments. Two weeks ago chair manufacturers were fined. Later manufacturers of bedroom and dining room furniture will enter pleas. They will now continue their mo- nopoly, and consider the fines a good ttl Pres investment. Give this copy to your shop-mate. ~ N. Y. PRISONERS GET WAGE RAISE WHILE “FREE” LABOR GETS CUTS ALBANY, N. Y., June 30.—Under the revised prison rulee New York state prisoners will now get from 45 to 55 cents gross earnings, out of which 30 cents must be. paid for maintenance. Prisoners make garments, shoes and furniture as well as automobile license plates. All products are for state use, altho there is agitation for the extension of sale into the open market. Organized labor Is against this proposal. The 1924 law requires that prisoners who work are entitled to 70 per cent of the net profits of the industries. basis. They are paid by piece or on hourly Heretofore prison workers have received about a cent and a half a day for their work, but have not paid for their maintenance. UNEMPLOYMENT BRINGS CRISIS TO TORY RULE Baldwin Government Faces Censure Move BULLETIN. Vote of Censure Fails. LONDON, England, June 30.—A mo- tion of censure moved by Ramsay MacDonald, directed against the gov- ernment for failure to solve the un- employment problems was voted down by the tory majority_in the house of commons by a vote of 373 to 143. + * * {Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, June 30.—An uprising of workers unless governmental action found a cure for the industrial woes of Great Britian was predicted today, as_ the laborites prepared to move a vote of censure of the Baldwin cabi- ‘net, based on the labor situation. His motion will precipitate hot de- bate in the house of commons to- night. Liberals are expected to rally to his support. Premier Baldwin's position will not be endangered, back- ed as he is by a strens tory majority. Unemployment Grovvs. The move for a vote of censure comes at a time when vuemployment is steadily increasing the already alarming figures. The average num- ber of unemployed the past week has been 1,250,000. Chairman Swales of the Trades Union Congress, says the unrest has reached the danger point. “Unless something is done before next winter,” Swales predicted, “we shall see a rising of the peple.” Baldwin Has No Program. Premier Baldwin will reply to the laborite attack, but it was not thought today that he has anything definite in the way of a program. The coal and rail troubles which loomed last week with the prospect of a general coal strike as well as cur- tailment of employment of railroad workers seemed no nearer solution. Release Quack “Doctor.” Charles C. Faiman, witness against William Shepherd, who said he had furnished Shepherd with typhoid germs to kill Shepherd’s millionaire ward, was released. Faiman is still running a quack medical school which was licensed by the state, and is selling dope and bodéze, according to Shepherd’s de- fense lawyers. ~** ** *&*% *% %*ee e446 84484 944848 O44 4H O88 OOOH SSS SSH SSS FB BS SSS SSS TSS SSSA AAAWWIAS*F Four Important Books by A. 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WASHINGTON BLWVD., Lenin, the Great Strategist ..............cccccccceeereeeeeeeees 15 Cents CHICAGO, ILL. t i i i i i i i i i i i i i le je Re . rt i is F ¢. ; bd - THE DALY WORKER | i a abate “wes S mow rile Money Pow to Give Its Lackey Thirc Term in the White House| 5 re oA GERMANY FROM USE OF PLANES Note Says Corisent to Fly Must Be Secured (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, June 30.—Drsatic restric- tions against German development of aircraft so stringent in their provi- sions as to prohibit a flight to the North Pole without permission of the allies, are contained in the note of the ambassadarg gpuncil delivered here today. The note besides forbidding one- seaters of more than sixty horse power as “military’’/planes, also pro- hibits the use of all aircraft without a pilot, this latter inhibition presum- ably being directed against machines operated by radio. . The note limita all German airships to thirty thousand cubic meters’ capacity, orders Germany to provide lists of all pilots nd all aviation students and to submit these lists to the allies every quarter. Similarly Germany is required un- der the terms of tke note to hand in to her erstwhile enemies all data which she may have concerning new patterns. patty GIRLS STRIKE AGAINST SPEED-UP, WAGE CUTS IN LOWELL SILK STRIKE (Special to The Daily Worker.) LOWELL, Mass., June 30—(FP) —Fifty giris working in the wind- ing and quilling departments of the Lowell Silk Millis are striking in protest against the additional work given them without additional wa- ges. The workers claim that their wages are actually reduced by the increased amount of work required of them. The girlsiwere made to operate more machines. Officials of the company say that the girls can still make $20 a week, their former wage, with the addi- tional work. The girls say that their rates were rediced from 43 to 28 cents per box Im the winding depart- ment which would enable them to earn only $11 a week. Council Postpones Action on Tile; Aids : Brick Trust | “DL acai The brick makers’ trust won a vic- tory when the, council building committee voted to postpone consider- ation of ndments to the building code to permit use. of hollow tile and concrete masonry, in construction un- til fall. It was broughtout that State’s At- torney Crowe has been told that bribery was used to induce aldermen to change their votes in behalf of the brickmakers. WALKOUT INCREASED PAY y || THREE DA DEMAND INGE The city engiveers this morning begin the second day of their three day walkout, In protest against their low salaries. The engineers absent- ed themselves from work after re- peatediy attempting’ to induce Mayor Dever to instruct the city counse!| to raise their pay. On June 18, Commissioner of public Works Sprague wrote Mayor Dever, “Nothing has been done about the matter. | want to urge upon you the wisdom, and | might almost say the necessity, for taking some action on their request.” 2. Gary on “Controversy.” NEW YORK, June 30.-—One of the fourteen rules of health which Elbert Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation says he learned from the hospital of the company’s Birmingham, Ala.; plant, is “Don’t indulge in cohtrovérsy.” Even Gary’s hospitals give out anti-strike propa- ganda. Fireman (is InJured One fireman w injured and be- tween $100,000 and $150,000 worth of damage was done by a fire which for a time threatened,to destroy a whole block of buildings owned by the Heissler and Junge Bakery company at 3946-58 Princenton Ave. Hang 22 Kurds CONSTANTINOPLE, June 30.— Sheik Said and 21 other Kurds re- cently convicted of participation in the Kurdish insurrection were hanged in the public square at Diarbekir. ITALY 10 NEGOTIATE WAR DEPT SETTLEMENT WITH GREAT BRITAIN LONDON, June 30—Italy has formally notified Great Britain of her willingness to open conversa- tlons for a settlement of her’ war debts. Winston Churohill, chance!- lor of the exchequer, announced In the house of commons today. , te ~7 4 | 2 wel i or Fs ye Ee ats eee. ae mh We ike) he a et / e § “eo 4 : eee 4 J ‘ my ! "4 " it. : itt me cel ¥ 4 . x } ¥ i PR ’ , “aM! fee or Por Le oe rs R At Cae \ Aap, why : : } . | CA Ste geht ae dng: SAB ha . | 74, i | vn vere AR ee PD PE AO ” 7 et Mug : ° ; % : ower, By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. > ene M ca : i. oe A TI se | , . =o Se ODAY, the talk is already started of “third term for Coo- lidge.” The plunderbund is satisfied with his, reign in the White House and wants more of it. ever be hr during the past few days over the prospect of still further réducing the meager taxes on great wealth, while retaining the high tariffs on the necessities of, life. When Wall Street starts the music Cool dances: to any tune that is played. He is gh eigen under the control of the bucaneers of big business. No wandering organ grinder ever leashed his obedient monkey more securely and suc- cessfully. re | 4 aha It is rather significant that the democratic organ, the New York Times, starts this “third term talk” for the repub- lican president, Coolidge. It is equally interesting that the Hearst press, supposed to be “independently democratic,” chimes in approvingly. They’seem to be willing to make it unanimous. ” * * @ #4 This “third term talk” is already becoming a repetition of the discussion that took place during the og | days of the Roosevelt regime. McKinley had died and Roosevelt was called on to serve the greater part of Mark Hanna's president’s second term. hen Roosevelt was elected in 1904, the battle started as to whether it was really Roose- velt’s first or second term. Roosevelt settled that by putting in his friend, Taft, in 1908, and then trying to stage a come- back in 1912. But he failed. Wall Street decided it had had enough of him. } ° ss * @ . So Coolidge got a good slice of Harding’s term, when the latter died. “Third term talk,” therefore, now includes a discussion as to whether this is Coolidge’s second term, to which he was elected last November, or whether his second term wouldn’t really start following re-election in 1928. | All of this twaddle, of course, is not important, except that it shows how the propaganda organs of the great inter- ests like to play with the “voters.” That is “democracy.” If Coolidge is wanted by his sponsors for another term, 1928-1932, he will be kept in the White House. The lead of the N. Y. Times and the Hearst press in this direction is only another symptom of the breakdown of the democratic forces, more evident now than during the presidential nominating convention in Madison Square Garden last year. The “third term for Coolidge” talk will no doubt find running parallel to it the renewed discussion that “one per is enough,” that the two-party shell game should be abolished, and all good “Americans” unite behind-the G. O. P. — *” % = * Little is heard of the congressional elections next It has been more than a4 ear. The feeling grows that if the president is safe, with his “dic- tatorship” thru his cabinet of multi-millionaires, then it mat- ters little how much discussion takes place in the senate and house of representatives. The vote can always be depended on to swing in the right diréction. The Coolidge dictatorship may not be as open and as bloody as that of Mussolini, in Italy; Horthy, in Hungary; and:De Rivera, in Spain, But it is similar in this, that the forms of parliamentarism, as is also promised in Greece since the last revolution, are retained while reaction is in the saddle one hundred per cent. It has not been found necessary, as in Chile, to depose parliament and draw up a new “constitution.” If the stitutional liberties interfere with capitalist interests; then they can be declared unconstitutional, as in the Gitlow case, rs gee the freedom of speech is completely crushed under oot. * * > The “third term for Coolidge” talk is merely a strength- ening of the capitalist dictatorship in the United States. George Washington, after two terms, stepped aside as the first president of the nation, to show that he did not want to be another king, in fact or in name. But that is now con- sidered “old-fashioned” and out-of-date. American capital- ism must not now be disturbed, even by a fraudulent two- party controversy every four years. But the rise of the workers and poor farmers, building a political power of their own, will raise the standards ef the class war, more challenging than ever, within the rotten hulk of capitalist “algae pring nite itself. They will do this under the leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party, disturbing the powerful forces of greed even in this hour when they feel themselves most comfortable. Against the capitalist dictatorship the rising proletarian dictatorship. That is the challenge that America’s oppressed will throw back, with increasing strength, against the best laid plans of the money power to further entrench itself thru the Coo- lidge dynasty in Washington. | promised con- | ANTI-EVOLUTION | [wexneo To spex LAW IS ILLEGAL: MALONE CHARGES Violates State and Fed- AT BELLAIRE MEETING _ AND YORKVILLE PICNIC (Special to The Daily Worker) YORKVILLE, Ohio, Alex Reid, gressive Miners’ eral Constitutions June 30.— secretary of the Pro- Committee, will speak here at the July Fourth pic- The lawyers defending John T. Scopes, charged with violating the Tennessee anti-evolution Jaw, . who goes on trial at Dayton, Tenn., on July 10, will endeavor to prove that the law violates the state and federal constitutions, Dudley Field Malone of defense counsel declared. Malone, who had just left a long conference with Clarence Darrow and John R. Neal, also counsel for Scopes, said that the case will be carried to the highest court, if nectssary, “to expose the provincial psychology, nar- rowness, and selfishness which is try- ing to impose this character of legis- lation upon our educational system.” The law is unconstitutional, Malone said, because it violates the provision im the state constitution which says that the Tennessee legislature must promote science and literature, because it violates the clause in the federal constitution granting free speech. The Tennessee anti-evolution law prohibits the teaching of evolution in Tennessee's public schools, - and. nic. Reid will speak on July fifth at a mass meeting at Bellaire, Ohio. The place of the Yorkville DAILY WORKER picnic has been changed from Doctor Hunter’s farm to the Rayland Car Stop No. 22, Tilton- ville, Ohio. Mortgage Swindler Prosecuted INDIANAPOLIS, June 30.—The gov- ernment today resumed its efforts in federal court here to convict Morton S. Hawkins on charges of using the mails to defraud in an alleged gigantic $6,000,000 swindling scheme while he was head of the ae.unct Hawkins mortgage company. Small Signs Prison Bill. Gov. Small has signed the Krump convict bill, which abolishes time off for good behavior of prisoners, and places the power to make behavior rules in the hands of the parole board. Rush that Sub—Campaign ends July 1! f “| meen, are being mined to Silk . ay. Q 2 ‘ ? ‘ , ; i * SCRANTON, Pa. June 30—About 1,000 workers in the silk mills of the Amalgamated Silk Company at Blake- ly and at Dickson City, small of this region are on 3 with them the girls hae ow ma in ; silk mills of Scranton, all i ey a demand for wage increase of $3 7 week, as they are getting only the miserable wage of $12 at present. “Breaking Up the Home.” Three plants are struck at Dickson > City. All the workers in these mills of the small towns are drawn from the mining camps, and are mostly th wives and daughters of the coal . ers, forced by the unemployment and low earnings of the fathers and broth- ers into wage slavery in the mills, whose astute directors, like birds of prey have gathered around the pov- erty stricken coal camps to fatten on the “by product” of the coal indug- try’s oppression— the otherwise “wasted” labor power of the women and children of the miners. P A general tie-up of the silk mills thruout the valley is not improbable, providing the strike is perfected. Edward F. McGrady, or- ganizer of the A. F. of L. is on the ground, and at least some of the workers are applying for charters in the United Textile Workers Union. . Recently, the burgess (mayor) of Blakely, thot it his duty to terrorize the pickets who came from Dickson City, four miles from Blakely to picket the Amalgamated Silk Com- pany’s mill in order to spread the strike. ~ Pennsylvania “Law and Order.” The honorable burgess, Jack Davis by naine, personally assaulted the girl pickets. He threw a heavy mine sprag at the girls, hitting one on the head and rendering her unconscious. [She is still at Mid-Valley hospital. When this occurred the pickets counter-attacked and Burgess Davis, dignity and all, was mauled and sent home with a scalp wound from stones thrown by the strikers. Another girl striker was also car- ried from the scene unconscious after the melee. (Special to The Daily Worker) © BENTON, Ill, June 30—The case against O. P. Bozarth who is charged with the murder of Boris Popovsky, former Y. W. L. and Workers Party member, was postponed until Sept. 4, 1925. The attorney for the defense asked for the postponement on the ground that he is ill and unable to conduct the case. An affidavit signed by the defense attorney's physician was produced as evidence in the re quest for a continuation. The case had been postponed several times be- fore and now no one doubts that the defense is trying to stall the case off as long as possible to wear out the prosecution witness ane the family of Boris Popovsky. Bogarth is sald to be a member of the K. K. K. and has a reputation for brutality. Boris Popovsky had been arrested several times before by Bozarth, each time on a fake charge of speeding. Before coming to West Frankfort Popovsky lived in Madison, Ill, and was very active in the party. On coming to West Frankfort he became active in the Y. W. L. Japan Hints War on Britain While Canton Prepares for Battle . (Continued from page 1) | rectly upon these two, but so perilous will be the position of other aliens ~ should the Cantonese open war upon the Shameen foreign settlement, that consuls are advising all but British and French residents to flee to Hong Kong. The British and French are ignoring the demands of the Chinese, and going ahead, landing more troops and build- ing sand ‘bag barricades. The French gunboat Algar with Admiral Frochot on board, arrived yesterday. Water- way approaches to the island of Sha- a prevent en- trance. Canton Chinese Silently Prepare On the side of the Cantonese, there seems to be silent preparation. While waiting for time to expire in which the scorn of the British and French for the just demands: of the Chinese can become apparent to the wor)d, Cantonese are working diligently te prepare for struggle. Along the bund passing the foreign settlement, and along which paraders were marching recently when fired upon by British and French marines from Shameen, barricades and tren- ches are being constructed, the expla- nation being that these are to prevent any more Chinese from passing along the bund where their lives are placed in peril by foreign troops ~- “a ——— » -~ 7
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a 1 ‘ | elements as well as a petty bour-‘ 9 big’, é,' 6 a yo a pyar reste’ me ; oer * > PS a cae * , , 2) Fale eh tole Wiha Afiag Te £4 WORKER ployment tn’ 1 Proletariat Will Be t » Grave Digger of World Capi happenings, the growing sreat Britain, the election of Hindenburg, the Bulgarian events, that PPraddes is doomed to death and thai the international proletariat, under the leadership of the Communist President of the Communist International. lee rae International, will — i le th The le Olas peated MOSCOW, June 7.—( By Pravda, official o of the ry Zinov .The movement which a (Special to The Dally Worker) rages A leading article | in ussian Co v, president of the Co oints out the historic significance of the Shanghai occur-| nist Party, is written Sainte International, started with modest economic je se such as the 10-hour day, has now developed into.a demand for the evacuation of China by the foreign troops, and -in'a@ few days was transformed into a political event o world) ‘historical significance. = > The Chinese workers have not only grasped the problem ! of the relation of economics to politics, which the Russian work- Class came to realize in the es—-but also the question “nomics to international politics In spite of mass shootings ‘the British and Japanese im ' spreadin leadership of the Chinese mass- + es. It fequires no prophet to foresee that much blood will be shed yet in Shanghai, and that the cry of the 400 million Chin- ese, “Away with the imperialists ie China!” 7 become ever louder. The ciiienie Alternative. Imperialism which cannot exist ‘without plundering the colonies and semi-colonial lands, is facing the prob- lem, either the greater exploitation of the colonies or acceleration of the proletarian revolution at home. The inténsification of colonial ¢4x- ploitation will accelerate the prog- ress of the national liberation move- ment itn the Dast, thereby facilitating the proletarian revolution in the im- perialist' states like England. The world historical significance of the Shanghai happenings consists in the very clear demonstration of this truth. At a moment when the Chinese workers are passing from very mod- erate economic demands to the slo- gan: “Away with the Imperialists!” they are becoming the most import- ant factor in the international prole- - Rapid Loss of tmperialist Power. The relative revolutionary import- ance of the British proletariat was .for.a long time small because there were in its ranks many imperialistic geois resistance against the idea of proletarian revolutiong The revolu- tionarizing process that has now set in among the British proletariat is organically connected with the de- cline of British imperialism. The growing self-consciousness of the working class in ‘the colonial and semi-colonial countries and the de- cline of the imperialistic spirit among ‘the workers of the imperialist states, are two parallel symptoms of one and the same process. Powerfulness of the Chinese Proletariat. The Chinese proletariat counts only 6,000,000 out of a population of 400,- 000,000. But it becomes obvious that the Chinese working class can be- come the leader of the great national liberation movement when we take the following facts into consideration: 1. The Chinese working class can- not be infected with imperialist ide- ology; on the contrary, it is com- pelled by the objective situation to assume the leadership in the struggle of the Chinese people against im pe- Tialism. .2. The vanguard of the Europ- ean proletariat, led by the Comintern, recognizes the great significance of the Chinese proletariat and. floods its . way with Leninist light. -— 24 ed The first victorious proletarian course of a struggle that lasted of the relation of Chinese eco- and to the policy of bloody im- and in spite of the brutality of ts, the movement is steadily g, and the workers of. Shanghai are rapidly assuming the I vevetubson the Union of Soviet Re- publics, is a mighty support for the pendent countries. . 4. There are in the most important eenters of China considerable groups of the proletariat, 200,000 in Shanghai for instance. 5. The overwhelming majority of the Chinese people are directly in- terested in the overthrow of their im- perialist oppressors, and ever greater masses are taking up the fight against world imperialism. 6. The Chinese peasantry is com- ing to the aid of the working class. Communist International Was Correct These points also apply to India, Java, etc., where the movement will take a course similar to that in Shanghai. The plenum of the Com- intern was perfectly right when, fore- seeing the change of the course of the proletarian ‘revolution, it declar- ed that the revolutionary events in, the Bast would develop more rapidly than was expected and that no partial stabilization of capitalism in the West could halt the victory of the prole- tarian revolution for a long time. The lightning of the darkness of black reaction in all other countries. The demand of the Shang- hai workers that the foreign troops evacuate China will re-echo not only in Moscow and Leningrad, but in »very capital thruout the world. The .3ritish Trade Unions are beginning to fulfill their international prole- edge duties. Proves Stabilization of Capitalism Only Temporary. The more brutally the capitalists exploit the workers of their own country the sooner will the European proletariat break with its “European provincialism” and the more atten- tion will they give to the revolution- ary movement in,the colonial and semi-colonial cointries. © A few weeks ago the plenum of the Comintern ‘gave an analysis of stabilization. The latest events show clearly how relative the political sta- bilization of the present world situa- tion really is. The Moroccan war, the Shanghai happenings, the growing unemploy- ment in Great Britain, the election of Hindenburg, the Bulgarian events, the symptoms of a financial crisis in France, etc., show that capitalism is doomed to death and that the interna- tional proletariat, under the leader- ship of the Comintern will be its grave digger. Your neighbor would like to read this issue of the DAILY | WORKER. Be neighborly—give it to him! revolutionary movement in all de revolutionary” movement in the Hast lights up the (Continued from page 1) listen to the cries of the workers and | students of China at Shanghai and other parts of China? “They are carrying on an unprece- rdented strike. ‘} °“What are they struggling for? ‘They are struggling for their emanci- pation from the yoke of the Janaese mill owners at Tsingtao and Shanghai. The strike has since spread to other factories and other parts of China Where conditions are very bad. . “American workers! Do you know that the bosses in these factories have ‘the right to BEAT UP the workers? The strikers demand that CORPORAL PUNISHMENT in the factories shail | be abolished. “Little children six years old are »employed in these mills. Just think of that, you American fathers and mothers! The strikers demand that this terrible practice be stopped. Horrible Conditions. “The strikers—men, women and children—want a few cents more a day increase in wages. Children are now getting as little as $3.00 a month for 12 hours a day, with only an oc- casional holiday, and no Sundays off. These awful conditions were publicly mitted to prevail by an investigat- ing committee at Shanghai a few months ago. The mill owners them- selves had half of the members of this committee. The manufacturers are making huge profits, “The owners refused to make even these slight ocncessions! instead, they called upon the soldiers and po- lice to arrest and beat up the poor, unfortunate strikers. Many of the | workers were murdered and great nhumbers arrested. Their leaders were courtmartialed and some of them shot in cold blood. ) “The students of Shanghai, aroused by this terrible injustice done to their fellow countrymen, came to their sup- port and demanded their release. For this simple request for justice, the students were fired upon by the po- lice of the foreign concessions and mercilessly slaughtered. ; Cry of the Far East. “On the pretext of restoring order at Shanghai, the governments of the arent. capitalist powers sent their war- rh ‘the Chinese workers. Because of these oppressive measures the workers and students thruout China protested by calling sympathetic - So _@nd landed their marines to| Frisco Drive for Aid to China ANTI-IMPERIALIST | NIGHT OF MEETINGS IN NEW YORK CITY | NEW vial an CITY,—The Work- ers Party in New York has planned an anti-imperiatist night of open air meetings for’ Thursday, July 2, as follows: Ak, Union Square and 14th St. The meeting at Union Square will start at 5:30 p. m. The speakers will be: Oliver Carison, Israel! Amter; Juliet S. Poyntz; William Weinstone; Re- Becca Grecht; Jatk Sitacnel; Charles Krumbein; — Youeph Manly; John Jampolsky; Joseph Brahdy; Benja- min Gitlow and Siskind. Meeting at Harlem, 110th St. and . 5th Ave. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: A. Markoff, J. S. Poyntz; L. Landy; Jos. Brahdy; Benjamin Gitlow; G. Siskind; Sadie mter; J. Codkind, J. Mins; D. Benjamin. Meeting at Harlem. 110th St. and Prospect Avenue. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers; 8S. Darcy; |. Amter; S. A. Pollack; J. Padgug; E. Shafran; Cari Brodsky; E. Elston; J. Zack; J. Chorova. Meeting in Brownsville. Stone and Pitkin: Avenue. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: Fanny Warshefsky; A. Bimba; A. Trachtenderg; E. Mit- nick; Benjamin Liftschitz; Rebecca Grecht; |. Potash; Chas Mitchell. Meeting in Williamsburg. Grand Street Extension. Start at 8 p. m. Speakers: §S. Nesin; Geo. Primoff; B. se 4 Williarh Weinstone; Fish- bein; M. Gorden; J. Stachel; Spar- er; G. "Powers c. Miller; O. Carl- son. strikes. Hund of thousands, even millions, luding all classes, have joined im,this great general strike. “This unprecedented strike voices the outcry of the workers of the Far East for emancipation. These work- ers comprise a Targe section of the world’s working | “Workers of America! Can you re- main untoééhed by -this tremendous demonstration .of solidarity? Your working class brothers ‘and sisters of China are suffering unparalleled ag- onies. Can you #émain cold and indif- ferent? You have often complained that Chinese labor has been willing to accept low wages and bad conditions, | oo of War in North Africa | fi es ee French bankers. The Riffians have captured many nea’ eae il < Cod wept ite Petey aPGih as 3 : cay, 7 P “ v ie ntanetia he as re a & d Fier Lf oe \ HE above map shows the scene of the struggle of the Riffians in North Africa to maintain control of their Republic in the. face of the invasion of the French army, brot about by the Painleve government, tool of the blockhouses from the French, driven the invaders across the Ouergha River, shown above, and are now attacking the French twenty-seven miles north of Fez, the capital of French Morocco. thus shhdpebetae your own standards. Backward China to the Fore! “That period is over! Today these hitherto backward workers are de- manding not only higher wages, but they are asking also a standard of living like that of the workers in other countries. Most important, the movement for the organizaiton of the Chinese working masses is spreading in that country like wildfire. The mili- tant struggle of these Chinese work- ers should get the utmost support of every American union man and wom- an as well as that of the millions who are unorganized, even here in Amer- ica. “We, the Unionist Guild, of Chinese living in America, are deeply concerned with the terrible sufferings of our .fellow-workers in China. On their behalf ‘we most earnestly appeal to you, workers of America, and to yeur organizations, for sympathy and co-operation with the oppressed workers of China, and urge you to give them your utmost support in their struggle for freedom and a better world, a struggle which is equally yours. They Must Not Fail! “Should the workers of China fail in their struggle because of the lack of co-operation and assistance from abroad, then they will be all the more tightly bound with the chains of cap- italism. Then the capitalists of the entire world will quickly take advan- tage of the defeat of these Chinese workers to enlarge their plants in China and by operating them at tre- mendously low wages there, thus use the defeat of the Chinese workers to break down the living standards of the workers everywhere in the world, including America, “The sufferings and struggles of the workers in one country are the con- cern of the workers in every other country. A defeat of the workers in China now would be a térrible blow to the world’s labor mvement. “Workers of America! You are comparatively well off. Your organ- izations are strong. You can do much to help your struggling brothers and sisters across the Pacific. Already the British workers have deménded that their government keep out of China. You must do the same. “Act—and act quickly! Pass reso- lutions demanding that all American soldiers and sailors be withdrawn immediately from China! Send cop- ies of the resolutions to the president at Washington and to the newspapers. Get action from your central bodies on the matter. Time 4s precious! Act at once! “Yours for a strong international labor movement and a better world, “The Unionist Guild, Per Alice Sum, General Executive Secretary.” TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO IN IMPERIALIST ATTACK ON CHINESE The Chicago Tribune, in its “25 composed Years Ago Today” column publishes | the following: “LONDON—The powers are said to have agreed that Russia and Japan shall provide 12,000 soldiers each, Great Britain, 10,000, France, 8,000 and Germany, the United States and other powers 5,000 each to protect foreign rights in the Boxer uprising in China.” But time changes sweeten Russia instead of being one of the worst oppressors of China, as in 1900,, is today under Soviet rule the one great ally of the Chinese peo- ple. Train Wreck in Russia MOSCOW, June 30.—Seven persons were killed and thirty two injured in a train wreck near Novonikolaievsk today. ued a MORE SHANGHAL CHINESE KILLED DISPATCHES SENT VIA MO | + ie (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., June 7.—(By Mail.) —The latest tele- grams from China point to a further sharpening of the situation in Shanghai. eighty-five wounded. The Japanese, British, and literally So far forty-two workers have been killed and ” American volunteer troops are hunting upon Chinese workers, and look upon this chase as upon a peculiar sporting game. Yesterday the Japanese and American troops fired for no reason at all upon the work- ers; the result was eight killed, eleven severely wounded and a large number slightly wounded. Vicious White Guard Nearly Lynched Workers’ Organizer. The limite voi the foreign quarter are guarded by machine guns. The volunteer troops repeatedly attempt- ed to attack the Chinese section, but they retreated before the Chinese po- lice, who only with difficulty managed to save the captured volunteers from lynching. The strike movement is spreading. Not only the workers but all office employes as well as the Chinese busi- nessmen, banks and students are in- volved in the strike. The workers of the. electrical power station had been forced at the point of the gun to stay at their work and were re- tained in the building, but they finally succeeded in disarming the guard and to flee. Four Chinese, twenty Japanese and a number of British textile mills, with a total of 40,000 workers are involved in the strike. With the exception of the Bulletin of-the newly formed Trade Union Cuncil, the entire press is laid still. The whole port is tied up. Strike Spreads to All Elements. The total number of strikers reach- es about 125,000—a number unparal- led in the history of the Chinese la- bor movement. Hundreds of Chinese living in the foreign section have moved to the Chinese quarters. The anti-imperialist movement is spread- ing thruoyt China. Numerous demon- strations took place in Nanking, Han- kow, Hangchu and other towns. In Peking there took place many mass meetings in which tens of thou- sands and workers participated. The student body sent telegrams to the British and Japanese labor organiza- tions with an appeal for support in their struggle against imperialism. ‘The professors of the National Uni- versity of Peking are accusing the Chinese government of a lack of en- ergy, and demand the recall of the British and Japanese consuls from Shanghai, the punishment of the for- eign police, the compensation of the victims’ families, an official expres- sion of regret on the part of the. guilty foreign powers, and the restor- ation of Chinese sovereignty over the concessioned section of Shanghai. ‘Even the Y. M. C. A. Protests. Even the American Y. M. C. A. is- statement stigmatizing the bestiality of the imperialists, and pointing out the need of revising the foreign treatigs that enslave the Chin- ese people. Yesterday being the anniversary of the anti-Japanese strike of 1918, the | occasion was commemorated by a mass meeting comprising some thirty f thousand workers and students, who issued an appeal to the nations of the whole world, and also sent telegrams to the labor party and to the Com- munist Party of Great Britain. Two Notes of China Ask Redress, In answer to the note of protest of | the Chinese government, the foreign diplomatic corps note in which they attribute the guilt for the blood bath to the workers and responded with a) | PEASANTS’ INTERNATIONAL GREETS SPOKESMAN OF CHINESE GOVERNMENT (Special te The Dally Worker.) . MOSCOW, U.8.S. R. —(By Mail) —The Peasants’ International has sent a greeting to the representative of the Chinese government as fol- lows: To his excellency, Mr. Li-Tiao-Ae. Minister plenipotentiary of the Chinese Republic in VU. &, 8. R. Highly esteemed minister pleni- potentiary: On behalf of the Second Plenary Session of the Peasants’ Iinterna- tional the presidium ¥f the Interna- tional Peasants’ Council herewith tenders to you its profound grati- tude for the kind and prompt deliv- ery to the heroic Chinese people and peasantry of the condolence of the Peasants’ International on the oc- casion of the death of the greatest revolutionary and leader of the Chi- nese people in its fight for the com- plete emancipation of China, the immortal Sun Yat Sen. The pre- sidium of the Peasants’ Iinterna- tional at the same time assures al! the Chinese patriots that it will lend. its utmost support to secure the fulfilment of all the just de- mands of the Chinese people in the voice of protest with ali. the Chi-— nese organizations against the re- cent sad events at Shanghai. ~ We are conwinced that hundreds of, millions of the.tolling peasants of China, under the banner of the Peasants’ International, will carry out the behests of the greatest Chi- nese patriot Sun Yat Sen. Long live the free and united , Chinese Republic! On behalf of | the presidium of the International Peasants’ Councile—DOMBAL and GOROV. | students that took part in the demon- stration. The Chinese government thereupon sent a still more energetic note with the categorical demand that all the prisopers be freed; in this note it was also pointed out to the foreign powers that the bullet holes in the backs of. those shot furnish the best evidence against the iets ones, Riffian Drive Pushes French Beyond Ouezzan (Special to The Daily Worker) EL ARAISH, Spanish Morrocco, 'June 30—The Rifflans have pushed the French back before OQuezzan, and! ‘have occupied a portion of the town. | The Moroccans have also broken the’ | French lines south of Ain Maatuf, Bitter fighting continues on the entire Moroccan front, especially in the up per Leben Valley. As heretofore, the French communi- /que makes no mention of the number ‘of French casnalties. By B. BORISOFF. E Chicago Daily News recently . contained the following significant : e in the news cable of its Lon- on Correspondent, John Guntner: . “Additional interest was lent to the Chinese question today by the return to London of Sir Esme How- ard, British ambassador to the United States. He is expected to inform the British cabinet about recent conversations he has had ‘with Secretary Kellogg of the Amer- ican state department, regarding the American attitude toward armed in- tervention in China. “Altho the demand of such jingo Mmewspapers as the Mail and the Express must be discounted, there is no doubt in official British quar- ters that negotiations for some sort of concerted intervention by the powers may soon be necessary. The situation is rendered especially seri- ous in the view of British officials by three distinct factors. The first of these is the responsibility of Soviet Russia for Chinese riots. The 77 @ sécond is the absolute impotence of the Peking central government. The third ise the impossibility of inter- vention without vast ramifying in- ‘ternational complications.” UCH is‘the story—brief, yet elo- quent; important, too, because thru the mouth of the Dialy News corre- spondent speaks the British foreign office. War is in preparation—we are told; war upon the masses of China rising against the oppression of foreign mi- perialism; war against Soviet Rus- sia—the “instigator” of the “riots’’; and in the perspectve—‘“vast ramify- ing complications”—again war, this time among the impefialist interven- tionists unable to agree upon the divi- sion of the booty. Our “owa” bourgeoisie and the American ruling class are deeply in- volved. Without its consent and par- ticipation other imperialist powers will hesitate to take action. It has such vital economic and political in- terests in China that it could not stand idly by while-British and Japa- nese imperialists prepare by armed “Chinese pie.” Therefore the American battle- ships are in the Chinese ports, there- fore the American marines are already upon Chinese soil establishing “or- der” by the invasion of Chinese uni- versities and confiscation of “Bolshe- vik propaganda.” To be sure, this despicable war of American imperial- ism against the Chinese people is rep- resented as necessary “in the inter- ests of peace,” for the protection of American citizens and property in China. To be sure, American impe- rialist power tries to appear as the “friend” of the Chinese people and sympathetic to their legitimate aspi- ‘rations to assert their sovereignty. But it will not be able to hide its true face very long. For it has become the dominant imperialist power of the world. It stretches its golden tenta- cles out to every nook of the globe, eagerly seeking to gain colonies and dependencies—a field of application of its enormous gold reserves. In. China it seeks. to outmaneéuver its rivals, the British’ and Japanese imperial- ists, and it is opposed to the libera- tion of China because it knows that free China will seek its ally in Soviet Russia. No lying declarations of the American capitalist press in favor of the right of thé* subjected people to self-determinatio®#Y can cover up the fact that the American imperialism is the most dangerous enemy of the oppressed millioms of Asia struggling for freedom. T is the historical task of the Workers (Communist) Party to fight and to conquer the giant of American imperialism. In the course of this struggle it is the’ historical mission fo the party to be the cham- pion of the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggle against the world imperialism. It.is the duty of the Workers (Communist) Party of Amer- ica to help the Chinese masses in their struggle against foreign impe- rialism by fighting our “own” impe- rialism, whose hand is stretched out to China. lutionary fight...We must remember what Lenin said concerning the fail- ure of the soci#l democratic oppor- tunist leaders fd carry on a revolu- ’ Our fight must be a revo- tionary struggle against their “ow imperialism: . « One cannot become recon- ciled to this, that in words they (the opportunist leaders, B.) condemn im- perialism but in fact they do not carry on a revolutionary struggle for the liberation of colonies (and de- pendent nations) from their imperial- ist bourgeoisie: this is hypocrisy. This is the policy of the agents of the bourgeoisie in the labor movement (labor) lieutenants of the capitalist class). That—English, French, Hol- land, Belgian, etc.—party which in words is. hostilg to imperialism, but in reality does t carry on a revolu- tionary struggle within the colonies for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, which does mot render help systema- tically everyWhere to the revolution- ary work whith has alreday begun in the colonied, which does not import into them grms and literature for the ry parties in the colonies, is a partg of scoundrels and traitors.” This ig’ the standard by which wil) be nreassired the actions of our party hinese crisis. 3 : The Need of the Hour—Organization of “Hands Off China!” Committees ) intervention to divide the ERE verbal condemnation of the deeds of American imperialism in China is not sufficient. of protest alone will not stop armed intervention. The American imperial- ism will not dare to use its armed forces to crush the Chinese workers and peasants in their struggle for na- tional independence only if it will know that the American workers are ready to oppose such intervention by a revolutionary struggle. * When English imperialism was pre- paring to intervene in Soviet Russia during its struggle against-the Polish bourgeoisie in 1921 the English work- ers formed “Hands Off Soviet Russia” committees and threatened with a gen- eral strike. This stopped the inter- vention. It is. the duty of the Ameri- can workers to act likewise in support of the struggle of the Chinese workers and peasants. It is the duty of our party to urge the formation of “Hands Off China’’ committees in which all working class organizations will unite in order to oppose militantly Ameri- can interyention in China. Will the American workers respond? ; ~ & Resolutions. a We must have faith that they will. To be sure, there will be opposition on the part of the reactionary labor bureaucrats, on the part of the oppor- tunists—the agents of the bourgeoisie in the labor movement. But it is just in the struggle against such opposi- tion that we awaken the class con- | sciousness of the workers and expose the treacherous character of their op- portunist leaders. Qn the other hand, the truly militant leaders of the work- ers will not fail to respond to the call, and this struggle will draw them closer to our party. HE other question is whether it is not premature to propose the crea- tion of “Hands Off China” committees at the present time. There can be no doubt that the im. perialist powers of Britain, Japan and the United States contemplate ‘seri- ously armed intervention in order to crush what they.term as “Chinese riots.” There can be no doubt that these —_— tire Chinese nation. Our party must rise to the situation and acj +S t al } ? th apn ee" ee ee ee nearest future, and that it unites its ae a ¥ . “riots” are in reality the begin- ning of a revolution sweeping the en- | ee Pe me I _— : eee LOL TT
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» A | LLL _ © }sufrect a ; a question unequivocally. MOSCOW, June 5. (By Mail).—To- i - @ay’s article by Gregory Zinoviev, President of the Communist Interna- tional, in Pravda, official organ of the Russian Communist Party, deals with the situation in the Czech Communist - Party, and contains the following: “We can now say with cervainty that the plenum of the Comintern which has dealt with the Czech question with the greatest attention, has actu- ally succeeded in finding the right so- ution on the basis of which the Czech Party is rapidly recovering. “The basic problem of a Right dan- ger, and the fundamental question as to whether Bubnik represented an in- dividual case or a tendency, had to be answered. The Czech bourgeoisie and the Bubnik Group have answered this It cannot be doubted that the anti-Comintern paper published by Bubnik has been created not so much by himself as by the Ozech bourgeoisie and with the aid of its money, or that Bubnik is executing the orders of the bourgeoisie. Roucek and: Co. who have resigned from the Czech Party are undoubtedly the rev- resentatives of a considerable half. social-democratic element still in the Party. “As ordered by the bourgeoisie, Bul- - nik issues instructions to his adher- ents within the Party not to leave the Party but to reamin inside and to un- dermine it thru subterranean: frac- tions. At the present moment “it is not so much the liquidators of tho type of Bubnik, Roucek and Co. who are outside of the Party that are dan- _ gerous,—as those elements remaining within the organization with the con- ecidus aim of disrupting it from with- n. gt The Bloc formed by the Plenum of the Comintern will undoubtedly real- ize the danger and carry the fight to a finish. It were a crime to leave the work half undone. The Central Com- mitte of the Czech Communist Party must carry out thé. will of the Czecho- slovakian workers to free the Party from liquidatory elements once and for all. The declaration contained in the resolution adopted by the Party Conference of the Slovakian districts at the end of May,—to the effect that the Bloc constituted by the Plenum of the Comintern !s made up of two sec- tions of the Czech Party, Is of an op portunist nature; it is at its best a pojemic exageration, and at its worst Seiecnlé. In order to really do away with the liquidatory danger, we must above all avoid all ultra-Left errors. ‘e must express our satisfaction at the fact that the comrades of the Cen- ter who took upon themselves certain Obligations before the Comintern, bave until now fulfilled these obligations, and we hope they will continue to do 80. “We know that the Slovakian com- rades have often before been the sub- . ject of unjust accusations and that they are loyal to the Comintern. It is therefore the more regretfull to sce them committing a political error. lal us hope that this error will be quickly and painlessly corrected; ‘the Jatest reports seem to substa ~~ this hope. The Czech Party will w definitely be cleansed of the ten ing i and will be Bolshevised. “As to Bubnik & Co.,—they will un- doubtedly finish in miserable bank- ruptcy. The elimination of the liquid- aiors will in no wise weaken the Party; on the contrary, it will bo strengthened thereby. The Centra! Committees must be supported in eve- ry way in carrying out the decissions adopted in Moscow. “Simultaneously with its work of cleansing the Party, the Gentral Com- mitieo should intensify its general peliticai work, its agitational, orga2- fzational and trade union activities,— in order to enable the Party, freed from the liquidators, to enhance its role of political leader of the entire working ciass, and of a mass party. ROOMS WANTED! ; “Working couple with 4year-old boy want 2 housekeeping reoma, with a party willing to take care of the ’ child from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. for 5 days a week. Write to C. Christie, 41113 W. Washington Bivd., or tele- phone after 7 p. m. Keystone 3221. Dr. A. Moskalik | DENTIST / 8. W. Corner 7th and Mifflin Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA. weeks full time summer school, to be political error which must be ! - png alae (A bimonibay pectadteat for contro-} versial materialism. Published by — the Communiet International. (No, 1. 1925.) RBVoMPHoNaRy Marxism, found- ed on’ the dialectic materialism of Marx and Engels, is the view of life held by the most advanced sections of the international proletariat, the view of life held by the revolutionary van- guard of this proletariat in its capac- ity of the most determined and most class conscious champion of social- ism. The new theoretical periodical ap- being a scientific fighting organ of revolutionary Marxism; and at gath- ering around it.all those revolutionary forces which are repelled and revolted by that prostitution of Marxism now raising its head more insolently than ever, and by the present general disin- tegration of bourgeois science and philosophy. In the editor’s preface to the first number we read as follows: “The first number of our periodi- cal apears at a time when social- democratic ‘Marxism’ has already drawn the theoretical balance of its treachery. We see the ‘living Marx- ism’ of social democracy emerge from our epoch of tempest upon the turbid waves of reawakened mysticism, of sickly philosophical idealism, subtle pornography, relig- ious mania, decadent ‘rat,’ apocalyp- tic mendacity, sexual saturnalias, and ‘sublime’ slogans. But this ideological nullity, enveloped in the effluvia of a putrid corpse, still contrives to hobhte forward on the crutches lent by delusions of the past. These crutches must be bro- ken; the wretched eclectic con- glomeration named ‘constructive so- cialism’ by such lamentable figures | > — pearing under the above title aims at. ssrs Kautsky, Hilferding, rs hanging to the coat , o. an ¥ giant before the confused it is to be at th ‘of attack agains these, of impertalism the. “Marxists” cilation, inconsequence, own ranks, the natural TH. “Under the Banner of! as “ane and Bernstein (and and the tails of as MacDonald and Bernstein) ist be opposed by true revolution- » ary Marxism. This opposition, in i, its form of theoretical expression of ‘Communism, arises as a threatening and ter- rifled consciousness of the bour- | geoisie and the social reformists.” HE new periodical is thus not mere- ly'a weapon defending the legacies left us by Marx, Engels, and Lenin: same time a weapon every obscurantism, every priesthood, every philosophical idéalism, and will declare war on all under whatever flag they may sail, This implies a threefold strug- gle: firstly, agai that bourgeois sci- ence which seregs for the glorification d the perpetuation of capitalist rule; secondly against the ‘falsification of the scientific princi- ples of the revolutionary socialism based upon the logically inevitable class struggle of the proletariat, a ‘| falsification now being carried on by of that international social patriotic league known as the II, International; thirdly against vac- and devia- tion from Marxist theory within our accom pani- ment of the growth of the interna- tional Communist movement, the in- ereasing acuteness of class antagon- isms, and the increasing complication of the problems to be solved. The task of cfriticsm thus placed in the foreground must be accompanied by the positive work of developing the Marxtst view of life. in the spirit of Vladimir Ilytsch Lenin, the most gifted follower of Marx and Engels. This development is one of the first | premises for the further victorious ad- vance of the international |} Class. ae working —_ DAILY Y th the first ical shows us of the above number of the it to be fully : A gance at inl named tasks. the follow- ing contributions:-----— PREFACE” erizing in suit- able terms the miserable “philos- ophy”; and “ "jot the bour- geoisie, and especially of social de- mocracy, is followed by an essay from the pen of Lenin, pointing out in his own masterly manner the road of struggle for dialectic materialism and atheism. True to the train of thot developed in the preface, N. Bucharin contributes a theogetical essay on the question of the ‘Beory of accumula- tion and imper m, in which he combats the false economic bases forces of imperial cropping up here ere in our own ranks, at the bas f a criticism of Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of accumu- lation. A. Deborin céntributes an ar- ticle on “The 1 wisdom of revis- ionism,” showing thé" complete col- lapse of German ‘social democratic “philosophy” as preached by such ideological parasites of the working class as Max Adler, Albert Kranold, and the Philistine clique of literates using the Sozialististhe Monatshefte as a means for the spread of the new tidings of salvation; “socialization of religion” and “social catholicism.” A somewhat longer essay by V. Jurinetz on “Psychology and Marxism” shows that today bourgeois science is de- voting particularly zealous effort to the counter-revolutionary exploitation of even such departments of science as appear at a first glance to be far removed from the sphere of politics, Jurintez’ article illuminates the dan- gers to which materialism is exposed by an uncritical acceptance of Freud’s \ideas. have to thank the unwearying ' historical research work of D. Rjasanov for two contributions: of ex- miceptions of the Objectixe driving evelopment still ial: Sao ee hoot ‘- : : , " Ste Oe RN oi” ; ~ % st ut _ , Sn £ © ~~ , f * iginal text of the preface. D. Rjas- traordinary importance. The + * present, sky | number contains two contributions by | say Rjasanov, one treating of Engel’s fa- mous introduction .to Marx’s “Class | struggles in France,” ing us Engel’s preface in its original and unfalsified form. The falsifica tion of the real wording of Engel’s introduction, a falsification necessary to Bernstein and his collaborators as a cloak for their revisionism and re- formism, is here finally exposed by the complete reproduction of the real or- anov’s second contribution contains the complete text of a hitherto unpub- lished article by Marx on wages. The manuscript dates from the year 1947, and is closely related to the essays published by Marx on “Wage labor} and capital.” This manuscript affords valuable aid to the formation of a judgment on the trains of economic thot which later found their classic | expression in “Capital.” In connection with these two con- tributions, we draw the special atten- tion of the readers of this new period- ical to M. Jablonsky’s discussion of the “Karl Marx and Frederich Engels Archives” edited by Rjasanov. To all real Marxists the publication of these chives is in fact an event of para-’ nt importance, for it supplies a saiaber of unpublished essays, frag- ments, and letters, whose immense importance cannot be too highly esti- mated. HE first number contains, besides all this, two comprehensive and competenity compiled collective re- ports on Russian Marxist literature on the Kant jubilee and on Marxist peri- odical literature on Einstein’s theory of relativity. The second number will appear at the beginning of May, and will include the following contributions: the con- tinuation of N. Bucharin’s polemics against Rosa Luxemburg’s thedéry_ of dnd at last giv-| | by L. Rudas on Maz Weber, and a compreliensive bibliography. We believe that these brief indica- tions of the contents of the first” two coming the target‘ of the angriest attacks of narrow urgebdis science and of all falsifiers 6f° Marx, and in becoming with this t e friend and guide of all true adherents of the teachings.of Marx, Engels, and Len- in, aiding the still backward workers to rid themselves of their last illus- ions to overcome Lge app sag and discouragement, and to go forward under the leadership of their Marxist vanguard towards that dialectic mater- oe which forms the view of life in’s words—the social-democratic ~ mat heroes and the new catho whine and howl about. social revolu- tion; let them combine with capital and the church to mobilize all the forces of religious darkness and idealistic mysticism against us, we shall pursue our way undeviatingly thru the vapors of decomposing bour- geois ideology, and: shall gather the advanced workers around the banner of controversial materialism and athe- ism. For we alone have proved by historical action that we are the guardians of the inheritance left by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. And it is their inheritance, their banner, which leads the way to the final victory of the world proletariat over all para- ek ie an essay by N. Ossin- | sites and ee fas NI £ a7 é = = ’ im Je ae F/ 714) KHER A c a /, if é . AAY y - Qk > BS be O Ly i & AAA > remolding this nation into a Soviet ,Republic. Tell other hing happens in your shop... Write a’story and send it to the DAILY WORKER. bundle to distribute th ~—™ we Order a rd LENINGRAD A CITY OF WORK AND _ SONG—PROBLEMS BEING SOLVED By LAURA BRANNIN (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD.—(By Mail.) —We came to Leningrad by boat from Stettin. A German boat with about seventy-five passengers, first and third class. This being in the capitalist course of But once we docked at Leningrad w these barriers seemed to dissolve. There was no weary waiting for third class passngers until all the upper Classes were taken care of. First and third class were called for indiscriminately. to about ten, a group of fat, well fed things, no one ‘questinoed the system. e were in charge of the Soviets and When the number had been reduced German business men were stilt ‘wait- |. ing. Let no one assume that Leningrad is an accomplished Utopia. °/The| amount of reconstruction work to be done is almost staggering—work which will be merely catching up on ordinary repairs and bringing the city to a livable state of order and sanita- tion. Are Solving Problems But when you recall that after al- most eight years of warfare and one year of famine, there has been but two years in which to really re-build the city, and that just last September Leningrad suffered a severe flood which caused a property loss alone of eight million roubles, you find a new meaning in the well swept, tho badly worn sidewalks, the orderly piles of brick salvaged from many very old buildings and now used to erect new dwellings for workers; in the great piles of buolders assembled for street repair work; in the tre- mendous amount of water and sewer pipes being laid. You notice that no money has been expended to cut the grass or trim the shrubbery in the parks tho new rude, unpainted benches have been pro- vided for, folks to sit upon. Workers Bow To No One The problem of unemployment here has not yet been solved. But here this fact is not regarded as an essen tial of the system nor, is break down wage standards. It is faced as an element Which must be and will be eliminated as the industry of the country expands: We are stopping at a Soviet hotel; all the big hotels are under Soviet management. The service is not a whit different from that in any Euro- pean city excepting in the lack of servility on the part of maids and waiters. They bow their heads to no one and you don’t dare offer them a tip. Across.the court-from our hotel is a school. All day there is the chatter of children’s voices and in the evening a group of amateur musicians work desperately on horns and cornets and bass viojins, and between group pract- ice some one always manages to run in a piece of the International. City Belongs To Workers On the street there are always chil- dren off on some excursion, usually ac- companied by a teacher or two, but occasionally a group of twenty will be |‘ seen alone, ‘carrying their own red flag and leading their own singing, and dreadfully in earnest. Walking across the huge square facing the Winter Palace, which witnessed many a brutal encounter between cossack and workmen you wml find a band of soldiers, engaged in a singing lesson: their strong bodies swaying back and forth as they repeat verse after verse. These are the things that—‘‘get” you in this new Russia; no end in sight of the hard plodding work to be done, but the workers know that one having built the city it will be theirs to in- habit in peace and comfert, t used to. Schurman Spouts Usual Bunk. | BERLIN, June 30.—Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, newly appointed American ambassador to Berlin, in presenting his credentials to President Von Hindenburg today, declared it is the wish of his government to “Foster mutual friendship between the United States and Germany.” . \. Write the story about your shop— Order a bundle to distribute there. justice, acquitted him of the crime, editor of the catholic paper Il Amendola, head of the Aventine called the fascist ‘the footman of A other comrades the socialist deputy Matteotti a. ago, and sitting as a high court Debono’s accuser, Giuseppe has since fied Italy when the mane threatened to murder him. | The fascist editor Giordana, of Tribuna, has. challenged i sition, to a duel because Amendola. Mussolini government.” F sf rn Overheard in the. Bronx. she NEW YORK CITY,—“Sayw Conn where are you going?” | “y am going up to the library: to 4 some reading.” “Public. library? a 73 “No. Where do you get that stuff? I'm going up to the Bronx Workers’ Library, 1347 Boston road—our Own library—we built it, we contributed to it, we donated our money and our books to it, and its ours—all ours. Gee, but it feels good to have a nice library of your own—hundreds and hundreds of books lined up on’ the shelves—a big room, nice large tables, covered with brown cloth; open win- dows with summer breezes floating in; obliging co des in charge to help you find what you want and sug- gest what to read; the proper silence for concentration—and outside in the main hall comrades everywhere to greet you and talk to you. Gee, put its good to have a home of our own, ra ‘ and a library of our own. Come on ~ over and see for yourself. And what's more, comrade, everybody the - Bronx is enthusiastic about the library; is bringing in books and do- nations and doing his level best to make it go. You know what happened at the Bronx English branch last meeting? In the/first place, let me say that Bronx English branch is not the largest branch; it only has about 80 members. Well, at the last meet- ing, after ‘the library committee gave a report and showed what good work was being done for the library, and how everybody was enthusiastic — about it, etc. etc. one of the comrades, and he is not a millionaire—not’ by a long shot—ups and pledges $25, if 25 will each give a dollar. Well, the branch raised thet extra $25 mighty quick, and the re-_ sult—$50 with which to buy aan furniture and pictures and shelves and things for the library. Now, I guess all the other branches will be “ doing likewise. Well, comrade, I really must run along. Meet me at the Bronx library any night during the week. There’s no better place I can think of to @pend a pleasant hour or two.” MONTANA EARTHQUAKE BLOCKED TRAINS, SHOOK HOUSES; NONE HURT felt in Idaho, Wyoming and Wash BUTTE, Mont., June 30.—Fear continued today to grip residents of Montana as a result of the widespread convulsions of mother earth. By a great miracle not a life was lost during the series of earthquakes but the populations of cities and towns became panic-stricken as the oscil- lating waves caused a rumbling and shaking over the entire state and were ington. Shifting along a main fault -under the Rocky Mountains near the Mis- souri river started the earthquakes that rocked Montana from end to end, according to the belief of geologists. Greatest panic following the quakes was felt by passengers on Northern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee and 3t. “Paul thru trains. Three trains rere blocked by landslides with the racks ahead and behind piled high with rock and debris. that none suffered hundreds safety. Geologists who located the center of the disturbance area predicted to- day that the lower rock strata has settled itself on an even keel and that it will be many. years before another fault can occur. A fisstre in the earth, a few feet deep and varying from four to six inches in width ex- tends from Three Forks to Manhattan with hot water bubbling up in numer- injury and the of travelers walked to Reports today, however, indicate ous places in that district.. ¥ aii BROOKLYN, N. Meat Market 4301 8th Avenue Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Ine. Re (Workers organized as consumers) Restaurant Brooklyn, N. Y, ee Rl i i i i ad i i i i i i i i a a Grand Picnic & SATURDAY, JULY 4th, 1925 at UNITY CAMP, SAUGUS, MASS. PROMINENT SPEAKERS 7 CAAA AABALABBAR ARMA ALLL Lin nn lr Brn Br Or Ln in in ir nL Lia dts Bot a . BOSTON, MASS., ATTENTION! Mass Meeting ¥ i i i i a ee a le te i i ee te te | GOOD Music REFRESHMENTS . SPORTS COME ALI Rain will not interfere—dancing floor under roof. Admission 50 Cents. 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ied pe i _@red skirt portions are joined. One could use nainsook, batiste, Crepe or Gross Teil last year amounted to $224,318,798, of which freight btisi- @ecounted for $130, 179,000. and traffic $29,047,000. . “omen 08 the gener@l’ decline in isine “@ufing 1924,” says the re- ‘revenues of the company were diminished, compared with the peak year of 1923 when the company handled the largest volume of freight traffic in its history. But the loss in revenue in 1924 was overcome to a ble extent by operating ec- onomies, resulting in the largest net railway operating income heretofore earned with the single exception | of the year 1923. “With the exception of products of agriculture; which showed a slight in- crease; the decrease in traffic was gen- eral, Especially notable was the large decrease in bituminous coal, which is the largest single item of traffic hand- led by the company. The explanation of this decrease, however, lies in the fact that the bituminous coal industry in the northern fields has been handi- capped in the eastern markets by the lower mining costs prevailing fm the southern or Pocahontas, New River and other fields. This condition was partly offset by the company handling a larger proportion of coal traffic from. connecting lines and finding a market for it on or via its lines.” Thus the B. & O. joined in promot- ing the transfer of the soft coal in- dustry from the unionized fields in the north to the non-union fields in the south, : Anti-Evolution Bill in Georgia ATLANTA, Ga., June 30.—The anti- evolution bill to be introduced in the Georgia legislature is almost identical with the Tennessee law under which John T. Scopes is being prosecuted. W. H. Stanford will introduce the bill in the lower house. Zionists In Fight WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.— The 28th annual convention of the Zionists opened here with a bitter con- | _ troversy over Feliz Warburg’s plan to 4@ transport 25,000 Russian Jews to the Crimea, in _ Tell other workers what happéns in your shop. Write a story and send it to. the DAILY WORKER. Order a bundle to distribute there. ‘prospect. ne 4) . . — SSES JAIL CLASS FIGHTERS PIES HEI LP THE. nena 0% the workingclass:— so much. worse and ticularly as we know thru the whole of Northern and Cen- “mitra, Gotuidat (By Mail) “tele following letter was written by a German Communist to one of his tell Dear Comrade, We are very ‘worried because your state has become t the strength for mental work has left you, par-+} Want Shop :C ‘;Committee t the whole life of a Communist in a class society is only considered as an eternal accusation. ‘$0 HELPLESS Pull “Slow” Up” Strike; w comrades in prison for his activity ‘As my work leads me now | By MURPHY, idaoeeee Correspondent. | tral Germany, I can see clearly how! the class society tries by all means to annihilate the young generation of the working class, the children. The housnig conditions were the best proof of that. In Hale where there the proletarian. houses can be hardly. described, «abeve all those near the. luxuriots town theatre. Then. another picture—the.«-police attacks. against the children’s Home Barkenhof in police triedato ‘send the children of the politicai:prisoners back to their miserably: homes. — The “Chéka'* trial is also a fine ex: ample of Class justice. How easy is it today for criminals to lead, under} secutors, a #&fé life as spies. are the séme" cénditions as those in Czarist Russia. There was a time when ever the buorgeoisie condemned | these things. ‘* I travel now as before from place to place With my pictures from Rus- sia, I speak on the reality of Russia, The conparisons of the society under under that of the bourgeoisie and cap- ital can be clearly seen so that every- one realizes the parasitic character of our governors. In Russia the police is a part of the working people, by their own shop committees they continue contact with the political and economic life of ' thespresent and defenders of the revo- lutionary acqusitions. The German Safety Police, how- ever, is in barracks like prostitutes, separated from the life of the working masses, mentally castrated, so that they are thoughtless instruments of capital. In the last moment they get a good portion of alcohol, are made drunk with nationalist phrases and suddenly the great . slaughtering among men and women of the work- ing class starts, the campaign against the class which fights for the human rights, 7 - Poverty of the Workers When we look at the judges in whole misery of slavery with their own bodies and now pass judgment upon the misled products of the old society, one can see how the present judges in. Germany exist only as de- fenders.of the parasites. of society. comrade whose husband has been killed in October 1923. From the old srteet through a narrow dark way in which hardly two persons can pass each other, I go to a grey courttyard ; OUR DAILY PATTERNS | A NEW AND PRACTICAL UNDERGARMENT. 5149. This model has short “vest” or “corselet” portions to. which gath- crépe’ de chine for this style, with lace, hemstitching or pram ccnseanl for trimming: The patern is cut in 4 poeta Small, 34-86; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; ex- tra large, 46-48 inches ‘bust measure. A medium size requires % yards of 32 or 36 inch material. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 12c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Spring and Summer 1925 Book of maenions, showing color plates and containin designs of ladies’, mi ’, and c dren's patterns, a con- RC PA. To those who work hard for thels money, 1 will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. A COMFORTABLE HOUSE OR MORNING DRESS WITH REVERSIBLE CLOSING 4989. He a splendid style for the woman mature figure. It has a comfortabfé “closing-slips on and off like a coat. ._ Jt may be closed from percalé; lineé®or cotton rep are suit able for. this.style. The pee cut in 8 sizes: bust measure, 40;°42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 53 and measure, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45 and 47 inches. A 46-inch bust will require 41% yards of 36 inch material, with % yard of contrasting thaterial to face collar, revers, cuffs, vest. and belt, The width at the foot of the dress is 1% yard, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of lzc in silver or stamps. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The patter ng sold thru the DAILY attern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern} manufa turers. Orders are forwarded by the D Y WORK every day as re- cived, - y Bev | yy ye by the —- ufactur o the customer. he aE WORE’ does not keep a stock: of hand. Delivery of t- terns eigen oes will take at least 10 ° be DR. RASNICK from the date of mailing the order. is money «fetva luxurious town hail,: Worpswedésnmear Bremen, where the Crimihals as Spies ies ‘the protection of the judges and pro-| These | the dictatorship of the proletariat and’ Russia who have passed thru the|- - I was in Hamburg and visited aj. 73 Sheet a 714 W. Harrison St. . 723 Teamsters (Soda), 220° S. Ashiand emotions and patriotism of the work Sie rave. . la A at il Ma ers. The latter reply with the force- amsters, shian Vv “ 768 Teamsters, 6359 S. Ashland Aye. ful slogan “Organize Workers Shop 247 Typographical, 5015 N. Clark * 1 Committees.” 8 all paar Crafts, _ Chicago Salk j Western Aves. (Note—Unless stated all left to right or vis versa. Gingham, | = 54 inches, and corresponding waist’ PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 29—Altho unorganized, the workers in the Unit- ed Laundry Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., have, during the last few weeks, proven their ability to fight unitedly and make the bosses back down. On June 4th a potice of a 10 per cent wage reductign, to become effec- tive Monday June, sth, was posted on the time clock. notice blamed dull business for necessity of this cut, and stated §,the bosses could resort to wholesale laying off of the employes. but they wished to be hon- est and the thot, this would be the fairest way to meet the emergency. They were sure every employe could. see that work had. dropped off consid- erably. i> hes Strike on the Job. The workers, daspite their lack of organization, had, to think of some ef- fective means of resistance and a gen- eral discussion,,.took place quietly among them to figd.the proper basis. They finally deci@ed,. that an unorgan- ized strike would,net do, but it woulda be better to slow:down on the work. This was done by. everyone of the workers. They became extremely careful with the customers’ clothes. The bosses would walk thru the plants and look at the workers who were in no pleasant mood, and a fre- quent eursing would be the reply when they demanded greater speed. A Second—And Difterent Notice. Then on Monday, June 16th another notice was posted on the clock read- ing as follows: “On June 8th we notified you all that a 10 per cent re- duction was to. 6 effective un- less business . It did improve during the wee are June 8th to 14th to which the sun never pierces. Here in two rooms with seven chil- dren lives a gomrade. No furnitutre, only two iron beds. On strings, which substitute ithe warddrobes,' their clothes are hanging. One can hardly move in the narrow room. There is also a kitchen, a small place without a window, black and miserable with a little lamp over the stove. - The chairman of the Supreme State Court, Niedner, should change his flat only for six months with this family, then he would be able to pass sen- tences like the Russian judges and he would perhaps no more allow him- self to be an instrument of capital. ' He would realize the fundamental | faults of society and help to abolish them. The complete proletarization of. the judges would be a preliminary condition of this, of course. Enough, dear comrade, of this utopia, while reality is before you. Bosses Rule by Guns Capitalism has only one way out in its troubles,—to keep down the revolt- ing misery by police clubs and ma- chine guns. The greatest of all human bankrupt- cies has begun and the compromised proprietors have succeeded in using the social democrats as their last sup- port We, however, dear comrade, will al- ways remember your call from the prison and we know that your sorrow is our sorrow and that we must fight, man by man, for the opening of the doors of your prison hy our Union Meeting | First Wednesday, July 1, 1925. Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Amaigamated Clothing Workers, 1564 N. Robey St. 179 B. & Ae Stone Derrick, 180 Ww. Washin ton St. Belt Line ederation, 62nd and alsted. 2 Brick and Clay, Village Hall, Lan- 12 Garfield Bivd. Western and Lexing- denendere, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. ee Blacker’s Hall, Lake . Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St. Carpenters, ress S. State St. Carpenters. 1638 N. Halsted St.‘ oarace Bt fhm ok $857" he Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted ale ~ Carpenters, 113 S. Ashiand aes rs (Wood), A sa N. California. Conductors i" R.), 1 N. Fran- ~ elsco Electricians, 427 PN. 'Fednetine Ave. ngineers, $0. Chi., 11406 Michigan ployes. The .w cpt will not there- fore become otk until Monday, June 15th. “But it will become effec- tive on and a ad ree if work don’t continue It should improve, it can infprove aie it must improve. By 2 og rege with the No. customers’ clothes you can make it improve.” One of the workers told me of the discussion that’ Jdllowed and all agreed that this. fi tated , Scheme ng. ea rpenters, — nters, and a direct threat to speed up. They knéw that would mean to increase the bose’s ‘bankroll of nice greenbatks: gotten from the sweat of the underpaid” workers: Shop Committee Wanted, Some of them are now agitating shop committees to, take up the, work- . » Avenue. Firemen and Enginemen, jas “Chicago Ave., men, 7429 S-lers’ grievances andplead their strug- 275 rine one En inemen, Lake andigles against the hypocritical bosses. Hod Carriers | District cil, 914) This will be the starting point. A rrison 10 Janitors” (Mun.), celizle and Bel. (ooo? committee in, each one of the four plants and a joint meeting of the 5 Ladies” Garr are Workers, 328 W.idelegates from each plant to report the activities of each plant’and take 366 478 Machinist W. | $30, achinists, 1182 Miiwaukes Ave, |Joint action for this-is only a begin- 51 prainconance of Way, 5324 S. Hal-|ning and the worst,hasn’t come yet. ai Marine Cooks, $57 N. Clark St. The bosses are only beginning their 0 2800 W. t , 54 Painters, — aad “Main Sts., plunge for aor wapets and ‘eee E vanton, i greed for gain. >: « oe Caintore, ig0 Ww. Washington St. This “honest” stuff the owners talk Painters, Moose Hall, La Gran Odd Fellows Halil, Biue Plasterers, 910 W. Monroe St. Poultry and Game, 200 Water St. oe Clerks, 549 W. Washing- Railroad Trainmen, 812 W. 59tH’Sst. ga 84 on Trainmen, 64th and Uni- is not going over so well. The work- ers are beginning to understand that all hypocrites try ‘to cover war with words of deception. The bosses in these plants are attempting to cover up their steals by appealing to the 972 Painters : Tetand. actions aan ok otherwise Rumor Mellon to Quit. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 30.— Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is to quit the cabinet next saint it is and we wish to be fair to our em-|. the workers | ie [ Our Readers’ Views | “Never the Twain Shall Meet.” To the DAILY WORKER:— The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- way employs thousands of workers in its Southtown repair shops and round- house here. It is said that hundreds of these wage slaves hold member- ship in the Railway Machinists’ Union but evidently such affiliation has done them no good in an educational way, Tumored here. CTLDERY AT WORK MONDAY WAS A VERY GOOD DAY These Will Be Counted in the Totals | These subs listed below, arrived on Monday, June 29. (Just take a look at New York!). Together with those arriv- ing on Tuesday, June 30—all will be counted in THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN NEW YORK, N. Y.—Gera Szepesi (19); John D. Masso (7); H. F. Minne (5); M.,S. Schneider (6); S. A. Pollack (3); Max Schmidt (2); Katterfeld (3); Ethel Shorr; Bessie Bronstein; Lifiain Mich- eals; Levine; W. Elf (2);.W. Zweibon (2); Isaac Feinstein (2); D. Dolnikoff; Einar Peterson; S. Zarchin (2); Yorkville, W. P. (2). BARTON, O.—Louis Elek (2). ’ CHICAGO, ILL—Hammersmark (2); A. Rubin; Wayne Adamson. OAKLAND, CALIF.—A. C. Makutinas (4); John Mulligan, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—Dan W. Stevens (2); A. E: Georgian. WARREN, O.—Waino Elavuark. CINCINNATI, OL. A. Weeks (2). SAN PEDRO, CALIF.—S. J. Jackson (2). ROCHESTER, MINN.—Geo. Patridge. SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Jos. Angelo. BOISE, IDA.—Geo. W Pierce. . SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.—Ella Reeve Bloor. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.—Paul Reiss (10); C. C. Watkins (5). SCHENECTADY, N. Y.—N. Rohats. MILWAUKEE. WIS.—Jasimovich, CLEVELAND, 0O.—A. Roncevich (2). McKEESPORT, PA.—Matt Krellich. ANGORA, MINN.—J. Hittunen (2); M. Mantilla (2). CLOQUET. MINN.—Car! Martin. PHILADELPHIA, PA—J. H. Pallo (4); Lena Rosenberg. PITTSBURGH, PA.—A. Rostrum. DETROIT, MICH.—D. P. Babich. SEATTLE, WASH.—O.Wasar. TACOMA, WAS8H.—M. Radovic. REVERE, MASS.—Chas, Schwartz; |. Karsner; WORCESTER, MASS.—Eteenpain (3). ; SHADYSIDE, 0O.—Steve Sushpie. % _ARE YOU GETTING BUNDLES? If Not—Why Not? “With open-air meetings in full swing—now is the time for a bundle order of the DAILY WORKER! It doesn’t matter who holds the meeting. If it is one where workers gather, that is the place for a Builder with a bundle of the DAILY WORKER and the WORKERS MONTHLY. And picnics are now being held. Excursions and other outdoor affairs are the place for a bundle order—and of course first and foremost —and it’s a habit every local should adopt—take a bundle to your union meetings! a. N. A. A.C. C. Files Protest with Commissioners’ WASHINGTON, ON, | Suns 30— Protest to the District commissioners against issuance of a permit for a of 200,000 members of the ku klux klan ~ in the capital on August 8th has been _ filed by the District of Columbia ~ for Advancemént of Colored People. They aédiare that a klan parade — if for the BOTé Purpose of ‘eniphasizing its “opposition "to and proscription of citizens. dnd of those who’arée entitled © to becOme &@ftizéns, on account of race, * color, réligion ‘and plice of birth.”’ They say that such a éxsonstratiio’’! will tend to° “corrdpt . public’ morals and incite to crime ‘and Meturbaney* of the public’ peace.’ as Young Workers Yeaws":* Students Get C of Capitalist Court. NEW “YORK, June’ 30.— Jérome — Brand apa Selen Freedman, the mem- bers of the Yoting Workers League, who were arrested on’ April 30; for dis- tributing leafiets among the high school students of this city, and who were remanded for sentence on June 26, were given suspended sentences. One of the judges was for putting the two young comrades on probation, but he was overruled by the other judges. One judge warned the young comrades to leave the high school students alone, and not molest’ them with leaflets and talks on political economy. Comrade Joseph Brodsky then remarked that “it is preferable to have students talk political econ omy to hanging around pool rooms.” This silenced the judge. The young comrades will continue — their work in the Y. W. L., knowing that it is the function of the capitalist court to protect not the workers, but the interests of the capitalists. They will talk political economy to the high school students—something that the boards of education of this coun- try try to keep from the curriculum of the schools Sailor Loses Own As He Tries to Save Fifth Life SYDNEY, N. S. W., June 30.—Regl- nald Crayphorne, member of the crew | of the steamer Canberra, gave his life ~ today in the effort to‘rescue passeng- ers of the steamer as it lay Diazing at the docks. here. Forty passengers were aboard when the liner caught fire. Grayphorne — — | made five trips onto the burning ves- L. Bloom. = ° ° lemonstration. sel and four times brought passengers. Unite Organizations The meeting will be held in memory | ashore. He did not return from the of Philadelphia for of Giacomo Matteotti a socialist | afth trip. deputy, murdered by the Fascisti for daring to oppose their ruthless and blood thirsty warfare against the or- ganized workers of Italy. The Italian workers of Philadelphia will again demonstrate their uncompromising opposition to the white guard black shirt government of Mussolini. Matteotti Memorial Tell other workers what hap- pens in your shop. Write a story and send it in to the DAILY WORKER. Order a _ bundle to distribute there. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 30,— | Italian ‘workers of Philadelphia are preparing for a huge united front Mat- teotti Memorial Meeting Friday, July 10 at 8 P. M. at the Public Hall, 7th and Morris Streets. Arturo Giovannitti and H. M. Wicks will be the principal speakers. The following organizations are represen- ted on the arrangements committee: Carpenters Union local 1050, Amal- gamated Clothing Workers local 139, the Artisan Society, the Young Work- ers League and the Workers Party. The arrangements committee meets every Monday evening at 1601 South Camac Street, the headquarters of the .-** eee WORKERS MONTHLY--JULY (Anti-Imperialist Number ) INCLUDES THESE FEATURES: ANTI-IMPERIALIST ARTICLES s Italian branch of the Workers Party. 1. Contradiction of Imperialist Capitalism, Labor organiZations are invited to by Nicholas Bucharin. send delegates and participate in the 2. The Negro as ‘an Oppressed People, by William F. Dunne. 3. The Imperialist Struggle in China, © by Max Shachtman. 4. Labor and Empire, by Manuel Gomez, 5. The New America: the American Empire, aby J. Lovestone. 6. Bayonets in Peace and War, by Wihiam. F, Kruse. | OTHER LEADING ARTICLES — be missed by any passerby, is a huge sign which. says, “We do not invite Negro trade.” Bill does’ not employ union help, but he lays claim to be- _ing a full-fledged 100 per cent Ameri- can—and he hates the Reds, too! The correspondent in conversing with one of the shopmen today was told that all that is needed is for worker For a better understanding of this subject of great and growing importance to the READ: IMPERIALISM, Final Stage of Capitalism By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) STATE AND REVOLUTION... for just a block away from the shops 1. Party Fractions in the Trade Unions, ° - stands a restaurant which openly « “Dy William Z. Foster. } flaunts its hatred of colored workers. 7 “Bill’s Restaurant” is situated at : : 2. Native Sins ofthe Golden Wert, All de Ford. the corner of Minnehaha avenue and a ; y Miriam Allen de 27th . street. Every morning, noon : 3. Left Wing Advances in the Needlq. Trades, : and night this place of business cat- P “Marl R. Browder. ers S Beatvets gg scope tpt of rail- 4. New Uses for Strikes, by “Audifaz.”’ : way-shopmen. In front of the estab- : : etter cca oo ais us Gih ant 5. The Longest Procession in History,,.by Ruth Kennell. SHORT STORIES OF THE WORKSHOPS ° Carbon Cakes, by Franklin R. Timmins. CARTOONS BY Robert Minor, Lydia Gibson, Mauurice Becker and “Hay” Bales. PHOTOGRAPHS ~~ - > > > oo oS &S FS SSS SF BS SSF SS SHSS SVS FS SSSSSsVIsIssssswewwess i i i i i i i i By V. I. Ulianov (Lenin) the DAILY WORKER to call this to the attention of the workers in the IMPERIAL WASHINGTON .... Striking and Timely shops and they would ’raise such a howl that “Bill” would have to tear down his specimen of imbecility damn quick.—Leslie R. Hurt, Minneapolis, Minn. By R. F. Pettigrew. By Scott Nearing. By E. Varga. OIL AND THE GERMS OF WAR...........00::0000:000 J..10 Cents DECLINE OFCAPITALISN ... 25 Cents a Copy $1.25 SIX MONTHS THE WORKERS MONTHLY j $2.00 A YEAR - Your neighbor would like to fread this issue of: the DAILY WORKER. Be “neighborly—give ij THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 111%.W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. Se 1113 W. WASHINGTON BLVD. 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A Horrible Example If you combed the columns of a capitalist paper for twelve months in search of convincing proof that the newspapers of the em- Dloying class twist the,news to suit the interests of that class, you could not find a better piece of evidence than the following item taken from. yesterday’s issue of the Chicago Tribune, concerning the strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers against the Interna- tional Tailoring company. Here it is: Two pickets on duty at a clothing workers’ strike at the plant of the Intrenational Tailoring compnay, 847 West Jackson boulevard, were arrested yesterday on charges of inciting a riot. They were isadore Lipman, 1058 South Avers avenue, and Rudolph Pocascichal, 2849 South Richmond street. About 800 workers in Chicago and 300 in New York are affected by the strike, said to have originated with a refusal of members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers faction among the employes to act with the United Garment Workers, the older tailor orgamiza- tion, with which the employers have an agreement. Now for the facts: The contract between the International Tailoring company and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of Amer- ica expired on May 1. The clothing company refused to renew the contract unless the union agreed to a reduction in wages. This the union would not stand for. Other clothing firms signed up, but the International Tailoring company stood firm. In a letter to its employes, which is printed on another page, the International Tailoring company stated that it had decided to sever all connections with the Amalgamated and would henceforth work “under agreement with the United Garment Workers of Amer- ica in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor.” . Of course, the employes of the International Tailoring company spurned. this “yellow dog” proposal. They struck to preserve the wages and working conditions which they had won thru the power of their collective solidarity. They did not strike against the United Seastent Workers. They struck against the International Tailoring company. But the of- ee 290 ficials of the United Garment Workers—a scabby outfit—came in to}: recruit strikebreakers for the clothing firm after agreeing to accept the bosses’ terms in return for a contract. The United Garment Workers’ Union has not a single local in this city. It is doubtful if it has even a single member, with the ex- ception of the few scabs who are working in the shops of the Inter- national Tailoring company under police protection. It is not true that the “Amalgamated Clothing Workers faction” refused to work with the United Garment Workers, as the lying Tribune states. There was no such problem because there were no members of the United Garment Workers in the struck shops. They were 100 per cent Amalgamated. ™m was The officials of the United Garment Workers are ieabitie on the regular, bonafide fink agencies. The DAILY WORKER again ealls the atention 6f the trade unionists of Chicago to the presence of this pestilent crew of strikebreakers in the city. No member of the American Federation of Labor should hdve an easy conscience unless he or she gives the scabby Rickert crew to understand that there is no place in Chicago for strikebreakers, masquerading as trade unionists. We also wish to point out to the workers of Chicago that the ‘apitalist press outdoes itself in lying when there is a strike on and it always lies in favor of the employers and the scabs. | Japan Is Worried (‘ount Michimasa Soyeshima, member of the Japanese house of peers, who is here to deliver a few lectures, declares that Japan will go to war with the Soviet Union within ten years. Perhaps and perhaps not, most likely not, unless Japan is sure of help.: Japan has other worries besides Soviet Russia. The same page that.carried the above prediction by the count, featured a Tokio news dispatch, telling of the sensation created in Japanese government circles over the landing of British troops in Canton, China. High government officials did not hesitate to brand the British move as “sinister,” tho they ventured to state that Britain would not “dare to risk occupation of the city with all that this would imply.” Yes, Japan has other worries besides Soviet Russia. There are Britain and the United States. same stripe, but Chicagoans need not be taught that burglars some- times shoot each other. Our professional gunmen are good teachers. Japan is. between the devil and the red sea. The devil is repres- ented by the powerful empires of Britain and .the United States. The red sea is Communism. The ruling classes of Japan may make peace with the devil in return for an existence as the devil’s disciples in the Orient. But the red sea will engulf them sooner or later. Th Japanese ruling classes know that their natural enemy is C munism, and that the Soviet Union is the fatherland of Communism. But they don’t want to die just yet. They want to postpone the in- evitable. Therefore they will avoid war with the Soviet Union. They know that the Russia the Mikado licked in 1905 is not the Russia of today. The New Leader is a little bit disappointed because the French socialists voted to support Painleve in his war against the Riffians. But then, the inconsiderate way in which the Communists attacked the goverument, said Mr. Oneal, rendered.it difficult for self-respect- ing socialists to do otherwise.. How could they have voted with the revolutionists? That would be terrible. The American capitalists are now showing considerable interest in the welfare of the Chinese people. Here is a good object lesson for those workers who believe their best interests will be served by not making any trouble for the boss. THe more you kick the more you get, provided you don’t kick your own shins. The International Labor Defense conference was not given wide publicity by the capitalist press. that produced real unity. ignored it. But they That is one reason why the boss press cannot kill it by silence. One of the buildings wrecked in the Santa Barbara earthquake a mission, which was devoted to the use of the Lord, christian deity is sometimes called. mot these days. The christians should hire another janitor. $y Biot It is true, they are burglars of the’ | |SovIET UNION HAS DEFIC eit " “LES " : BUDGET AND STABLE CURRE! oil SPITE OF FINANCIAL B LOCKADE ICY IN .The speaker in his talk pointed out that while at the time of the final currency reform, in 1924, the bulk of monetary circulation in the union did not exceed 319 million gold rubles, it now amounted to 780 millions. As for ‘| the state budget, it had been doubled during the last three years. As com- pared with the pre-war budget, admin- istrative expenses diminished, while those for cultural objects were creased, the military expenses attain- ed 417 million in this year’s esti- mates as against 850 million in the budget of 1913. Development of Trade. The tax revenue was larger, the people’s commissary stressed, not in consequence of an increase of the taxation burden, but owing to the de- velopment of trade. The agricultural tax was lowered about a hundred million rubles, while the taxation of private trade was also being revised with a view to facilitating its further dévelopment. Favorable tax returns from the transport and the light in- dustries enabled the government to readjust industrial credits to an amount of 150 million rubles, of which 41 million have been allotted for the national electrification scheme. Deposits Doubled. The financial blockade — further stated the repdorter—had compelled the government to seek internal re- sources to finance industry whose in- debtedness to the Soviet banks ac- tually reached one milliard rubles; however, the system of credits was in- creased not on account of bank note issues, but thru the growth of bank deposits, which at the present time | exceeded the milliard mark, which was the double of October, “1924, figures. Foreign Credits Not Essential. “The Soviet government, Sokolnikoff declared, fully realized the import- ance of foreign credits and were will- ing to make necessary concessions in- asmuch as the latter did not impair the interests of national-economy. At the same time, while the government was alive to the fact that foreign cre- dits would greatly expedite the eco- nomic recovery of the country, this fahdamental problefi of the revival of ° national. economy could also be solved by means of the union’s own internal forces. (The congress greeted with loud cheers Sokolnikoff’s statement con- cerning the government’s allowance: for ‘the restoration of the former Urk- hardt works, in particular the Ridder arid_the Karabash works, also having belonged to the Urkhardt company, the operating of the latter werks be- ing scheduled to start within the next two or three days. The speaker fur- ther pointed out to the great import- ance for the national economy of the union of concessions like the Lena gold fields. Balanced the Budget. Referring again to the deficitless character of this year’s budget, the people’s commissary of finance em- phasized that the government had suc- ceeded to balance the budget and ab- stain from paper currency issues in spite of a poor harvest and a series of metereological disasters; as_ for the passive trade balance, that was only a means of right adaptation of gold reserves, a means which, in future, would also serve as a fundamental insurance in case of bad crops, at- tempts to recommence ‘financial block- ade, etc. Increase Gold Putput. The bank note circulation was bas- ed on a permanent guarantee amount- ing to 239 millions, including the gold reserves of ,the state bank and the tfeasury. At the same time, all pos- sible measures were taken to increase the gold output, which after attaining 3,296 poods in 1913, had dropped to 1,885 poods in 1917 to fall down to 8° poods only in 1921, but rose again to 1,810 poods at the present time. Mentioning that during the war, 600 million gold rubles were exported to Britain as a guarantee for the czarist debts, while about one hundred mil-. lion rubles were taken by Kolchak and distributed among American, Eng- lish and French banks, Sokolnikoff pointed out that attention should be drawn to this circumstance during the negotiations for the settlement of mutual claims. Withdraw London Deposits. In the past year, the speaker fur- ther remarked, 150 million rubles out of the union state bank’s gold re- serve were deposited in Britain; but now the larger part of this sum has been transferred to other countries with whith economic relations are be- ing most favorably developed. The Soviet government did not want to hamper relations with the London Here was a united front meeting’ as the | The Lord is not Johnny-on-the- | debts without the participation of the market, but they could not do other- wise than to re-distribute their hold- ings of gold abroad in view of the unfavorable turn in Anglo-Soviet -re- ‘lations year’s London treaty had brot about. the non-ratification of last In conclusion, the people’s commis- sary of finance pointed out that it was ‘impossible to settle ,the inter-allied Union of Soviet Sociaiist Republics. « . % sf a MOSCOW. * (By Mail)—In submitting to the Third Gongress of Soviets,. for approval, the budget of the U. S. S. R. for the financial year 1924-1925, amounting to 2,558 million rubles, People’s Commissaf¥ of Finance Sokolni- koff presented a detailed report on the financial situation of the Union, em- phasizing that, contrary to predictions made at Genoa ‘and would-be inevitable financial break-down of the Soviet “Republics, the latter succeeded, under difficult conditions of permanent financial blockade in set- ting up.a sound financial order, a deficitless budget and a stable currency. Hagues as to a | > 3S ee we dipenyleapabtagtnars jchildren, a whole town has been 4 set aside for them and this town quainted with two more children SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 30.— Quake stricken Santa Barbara’s death toll remainde at. of missing was | are injured, Miss Carter, lia was reported alive today. Shé was said to hav: escaped from the hotel and is nov safe but seriously injured. Union Man Killed. Reports that another body had been sighted in the lington debris -were denied by poli Among those killed was William Mathews, member of the Lathers’ Union, « « Workers turhed their attention: to the San Marcos building in an effort to uncover the body of Chappo Mas- tero, chief engineer of the building. Threeyshocks which rocked the city this morning did no damage of con- sequence. The first shock at 1:22 a. m, was the most severe of the three and shook the wrecked buildings and totetring walis violently. Conscript Workers, , Many men have been conscripted as laborers by the. ‘city. They are dig- ging in debris on tate street and are removing piles of pricks from the streets and are ‘picking up shoes, costly furs, dresses and hats heaved to the pavenientS and buried in broken glass, st cco and plaster. Seventy thousand gallons of gas- oline and 35,000” Eton of distillate have formed a great pool in the lum- ber yards. A spark would start a conflagration which might destroy an already crippled city, Eastern Section Flooded. Houses we their foundation, | household effécts carried away and 1,today and the toll wered. Seventy-five East Santa. ta covered }with a two-foot crus’ mud when fifteen | million gallons. q water swept out of {the broken ir at the ae ee time of the Airst quake he water missed the main part of the city. She Sho d Worry. SANTA BARBA A, June 30. — “It was fearful, terrible, fiendish; but it is all past now. For myself, I am happy again and ‘am going horseback riding.” This was the version of the Santa Barbara earthquake given today by the Countess inotto of Chicago, whose son smartiee the daughter of Louis F. Swift. a * “6 _ Earth Movements In Hawaii. HONOLULU, June 30. — Large sulpher patches have developed in the firepit of Kileua, a volcano near here, following the earthquakes which shook Montana and California; accord- ing to a cable from Dr. Thomas Jag- iz AS WE SEE iT | was run by Mellon, Butler and a P ee oe © ol ea ‘(Continued trom page 1) = =} and dispatched by courier to Berlin. The Trib says that since its regu correspondents are not allowed into. Russia, it resorted to the trick ot} hiring a trained newspaperman who} is traveling incognity thru the Soviet | Union. It would show the wily Com- munists that a great American news- paper could not be thwarted, And what does this trained newspaperman tell ys? Nothing except that Zinoviev, Kameneff and Stalin are the “big three” in the Soviet Union. Terrible news! What consternation would be caused in the Soviet Union, for og stance, if a Bolshevik reporter guised as a social democrat, were to send a dispatch to his home paper, to the effect that the United ee Morgan and that the governmen its orders from the Masonic order? . + . tances ig T is no secret that the Communist. Party of Russia is the political party which directs the social and in-' justrial life of the Soviet Union. We we not aware that any Soviet leader. ‘ver went to the trouvle of denying | his. Nobody questions the right he British Tory party to run the Bri- ish empire, except the British work- Ts who feel that they alone are en- itled to that right. And nobody only | che class conscious workers of Amer- ica question the fight of the repuLlic- an party to run this country. * * > HE Tribune’s disguised correspond- - ent is not in Russia for the purpose of sending out the truth. That was done by the British Trade Union dele- gation. And it is not at all unlikely that the new offensive in the newspapers, is another concerted. campaign, de- signed to offset the effect of the Bri- tish report on the working masses in Europe and the United States. - * + . T is significant that the propaganda of “exposures” flooding the Amer- ican press, designed to show the close connection between the Communist International and the Soviet govern: ment, should’ come at a time when the movement for the unification of the world’s workers into one interna | tional trade union is making: rapid headway. This unity drive has: no mere bitter opponents than the re actionary trade union leaders of Amer- ica and the yellow socialists. This is not the first time the socialists and the capitalists joined in a United front against the workers. ¢ * * *& a HE fact that one of the leaders of the world trade union’ unity movement, A. A. Purcell, is coming 6 the United States as a fraternal dele- gate to the next convention of the American Federation of Labor, is ‘an added reason why our capitalist’ pa- pers are so anxious to poison © the minds of the American workers against Soviet Russia. This is‘to be expected. That the capitalist press should lie is just as natural as that a duck should swim. Lying is part of their equipment. with which to keep the workers in slavery. Some day they will stop lymg, but not vol- untarily. In the meantime, if you are a worker and want the kind of: news that is useful to the masses, read the DAILY .WORKER, which is very partial—to the workers. FarmerLabor Summer School Opens ' IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo., June 30.— The third annual Farmer-Labor Sum- mer School of the Colorado labor movement opened in Idaho Sores gar, volcano expert. une 28 for a Week's session. , Activities In “Children’s Town” : In capitalist ¢ountries children | without parents’are kept in insti- tions.. In Soviet Russia, where the best they havé“is given to the is called “Children’s Town.” The other day you read a letter in our column from a little girl who lives in Children’s Town to her foster- parent. Today“*you will get ac- who live in Children’s Town. Here is a letter | rom a little girl to her uncle: : “Dear Uncle: Come to see us in Russia. It il very nice in our little Children’s Town. Our beau- tiful garden is in blossom now and it smells wonderfully nice of flowers. “Uncle, you asked me to write you what lessons we are learning. We have lessons in the Russian language and we study the vega- tative and animal world. Then geography, social science, mathe- matics and culttre.” This one is from a little boy to his aunt: “Dear Auntie: I live in the Rus- sian Children’s Yown No. 2 and ——_—" yur park- is’ in,, foe bloom now. Kazanka is veny)near to us and 2. veh > we go swimming right thru the park. “We study too, and we oc- cupy ourselves with pioneer work: We write slogans, papers, estab- lish Lenin corners, do gymnastics and act plays. We are going to act a play for fun in Trotsky Woods. the red and white army.” | same sources, which has been operating 1 for some time ‘under 1 eteresinesy ee _Aeiiation ot the property by the Tneull interests tt was here TRS eT s The Interstate Public Service Co., parent traction line of the Insulls, op- erating between Louisville and Indian- apolis, recently established limited serives to South Bend. The Chicago, Milwaukee section is said, to be under control. . pee es Mtns ¥: 380 mile union traction co., now op- {erating under a receiver. The asser- ‘tion is made that the Insulls have completed, or are nearing completion, a minute survey of}'the entire Union ‘Traction system, intluding its three trunk lines leading. out, fan-shaped from. Indianapolis, with terminals at Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Bluffton, Portland, Union City:and Newcastle. Biggest “in. World. Addition of the Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend and the Union Traction would give the Insulls the most gi- gantic interurban system in the world, \ of the most populous sections of the United States, including a large part of the northeast quarter of Indiana, regarded by many as the chdicest ter- ritory in the midwest for electrical development. a of incorpation of the me owt ‘almost 800 miles, in the Heart of one’ to Chicago, South Shore &s stipulate the operation ¢ hicles.on highways, the. irs wherein double service hi: sh posed by an incor ” ea: system in Indiana. This, oe is typical of. mp Insulls, ‘w tion’ to.} Inter exclusive bus: e be cities. °The Interstate wan't terurban system to part is ine with busses. . Grabs Power companies. © | Re In connection with propo . ten- sion of Insull traction bi sin diana, it is pointed out. by x perienc ed railway men, invaluable — righ’ way for high power tranamission li are secured, as in the purchase their second traction property acquir re y purchase of the W yésten earlier this year. In addition ing a link in the Milwankee-Laaigtifie line, it serves the purpose of a in supply of current to co using Insull companies’ electricity for light and power. Rights of way ac- quired by purchase of traction prop- erties, it is asserted, eventually, “will prove of tremendous value spread of the Insull electric — in Indiana. — SPIRITS OF ABRAMOVITCH, NOSKE, HOVER OVER F ORWARD’S feast all militants in the unions, workmen circles and other organizations. Have Costly Program. Thus it is fitting that this un- scrupulous bunch should celebrate their achievements, including an en- larged edition of the Forward, with a banquet at the Morrison Hotel and ‘a meeting’at the Ashland Auditorium. Conspicuous at this affair of the enemies of militant labor was the degenerate Siskind, city labor editor; Schlesinger, manager, and his retinue, smirking afd feasting at the expense of unclass conscious ‘workers whose ignorance is responsible for keeping them in power to fool and betray them. Let it also be noted that among the guests of honor was the boss of the New York Forward, infamous bunk socialist, Aby Cahan and his faithful manager, the would-be imitator of Lassalle, B. Viadeck. Labor Fakers There. Hence it is perhaps unnecessary to say that all of the brilliant yellow so- cialists and labor bureaucratic speak- ers, including John Fitzpatrick, highly praised the Forward, an organ so well equipped to camouflage their admiring followers, with their usual keen ana- The play will be rey By JOSEPH R. BOOTH On the 28th of June the traitorous socialists of Chicago had a glorious time at the opening of the new‘home of the yellow Chicago/Jewish Daily Forward, at Kedzie and 13th street, an institution of the blackest reaction where the pen. prostitutes of the yellow socialist international continually manufacture absurd lies against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: This is the same shameless outfit that throws ‘mud at the Comintern and all revolutionaries.engaged in the class struggle. It is in thig Forward i of vipers that they conspire against¢ lysis which brazeningly sounds the! glad prediction that Communism is dying; that Kautsky annuls the real Karl Marx and the only authoritative Marxian is such as set forth in Hiil- quit’s “From Marx to Lenin.” *. No one Will doubt that, on this re- markable occasion there was also felt the spiritual presence of such person, alities as Father Buchkewitz; | Noske, comrade Hindenburg; ..Autoi McDonald; renegade Abramowich and Pes Aa » all the r-r-rebels of the remnants. oct te the S. P. What a file.of the workers that allow this new home of the Forward, with all of its equipment, to be constructed at their expense and then to have it remain in control of this rank gang of reactionaries. But it shall not al- ways be so. The time will come when all of their trickery to remain in power will be exposed, then they will be cleaned out by.the revolutionaries and after a thoro fumigation the place in control of real fighters will be made to serve the workers’ cause. The workers are awakening, slowly but surely, to the disintegration ofthe S. P. The ever increasing number of militants in the labor unions proves that. These are the hopeful signs. better than Mother Bloor. for Communism thruout the “wild and woolly west.” Thru her efforts new subscriptions to the DAILY WORKER have been secured in batches on every stop she has made, new Communist units have been organized -and thousands of workers have heard the message of ‘Communism from this veteran fighter. Mother Bloor on all of her trip has not paid a cent of railroad fare — MOTHER BLOOR REACHES CHICAGO ’ TOMORROW ON HIKE FOR DAILY WORKER; SPEAKS AT JULY 4 PICNIC The first couple of oceans miles are the hardest, but on. a hitch-hike | for the DAILY WORKER they are most interesting and none can tell eS The veteran fighter, who has just held successful meetings in Kangen City and St. Louis after hiking over two thousand miles on a trip begun on June 1 from Oakland California, will tell of her experiences in organizing 7 _ nae ¥ and has niade weiaditiales on schediile : as arranged before starting. Continu- ing her “hitch hiking” Commi cross country tour, Mother Bloor rives in Chicago in time to aise « her interesting experiences at reflection on tthe rank asia July fourth picnic to be held at Savile : Grove, California Ave. and Irving Park Bivd., by Local Chicago of the Workers (Communist) dirs By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. AVINIA PARK, the suburban open air opera house, opened its gates for the fourteenth time last Saturday night. “The Love of Three Kings” was the opera chosen for the opener. The names of the characters in Ben- elli’s libretto are Archibaldo, Man- fredo, Avito and Flora. These are the people who fret their while on the stage. The actual characters are the Same sextet we meet in every opera plot—Love, War, Adultery, Murder, Disease and Poison. And in “The Love of Three Kings” the six are mixed up quite outlandishly enuf for an ideal operatic story. . Italo Montemezzi set. the book some twelve or thirteen years ago. He did a good job of it. The music is rich and “beautiful, at. times thrilling, always entertaining. There is s | is beyond cavil. iz" that is original, but the way in which the voices and instruments are hand- led makes it seem as if the novel twists in the score were legion. So far as performance went it was all between the bass, Virgilio Lazzari, the soprano, Lucrezia Bori, and the conductor, Gennaro Papi... Lazzari, as the old blind king, and Bori is his too: amorous daughter-in-law . put on the most magnificent strangling scene I have ever witnessed in an opera house. Lazzari has been often Sratao’ here before. His art as actor and vocalist There was a thrill of horror in the seepnd act where he picked up the body out. of .which “he had just strangled the life and stag- gered out with it, a thrill that,was not {in the myrsic and can be credited to | ~ ly an orchestral or vocal dint in it. | “sr aT bea CABRAM AT: hesitate seks: icant 2 q. no one but himself and Mme. Bo who played dead realistically, — is hard to do. Lucrezia Bori is one of the e tions to the operatic rule that ‘ade play. a hundred pound part a two hundred and fifty pound woman is-r quired. And she is an exception t another rule that says operatic” ers should not be great actresses. Returning to Ravinia after : ed, except that the pop atane has ee en x replaced by a flower bed. ‘ The and shrubbery are lovely as ever | ‘3 wd an occasional moth still flies up across. — eS the stage, lending naturalness to the - painted scene, and ‘the long hoots o the train whistles on the nearby somehow always seem with the music, as of yo-w |