Daily Worker
July 7, 1925
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3 n me hicas By ARNE SWABECK. (Special to The Daily Worker) __ PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5—In response to the pressing needs of the thousands of steel workers strugglit under almost unbearable conditions for a mere existence, the Cor tion within the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel ‘and Tin Workers has become definitely organized and a concrete program of work outlined. Thru the Communists employed in the unorgan- |: ized mills and furnaces it has Epeeme linked up with Wee igreat details of organization w orked ce ehirt 8 0 n were w out. About thirty participated Workers Party units whose m é are employed in the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania and Both district — from the Cleveland and Pittsburgh problems of the unorganized. Last week at a „ representing N AS WE SEE IT. | By T. J. O)PFLAHERTY — ene YROFESSOR WOODHEAD, the British gentleman who essayed to enlighten the students at Chicago University on the situation in China, held r Wagenknecht and Cc were nt together with William i Dunne, repre- senting the central executive. senting the central executive committee of the Workers Far- ty. Past Mistakes iteviowsd: In reviewing the Communist poli- cies in the trade unions as applied in actual life, the mistakes made in ap- * 0 PARIS, 1 „ .. — * Se: r . 5 5 7 * , * 4 0 N a” : > | 7 . ¢ . r 4 47 * 8 n, % ares eT n ied 274 3 N 5 * 7 Rene Ay EDITION ve * 2 * n ~ wh =e on 1 * 44 - * n 1 . — 5 . * Eon — 1 "Price 3 Conte French gover 8 a large loan from ide P. Morgan and company before — making arrange debt to the United States, it was rumored here in official circles. At a fourth of July 3 Premier Painleve declared that France would pay her debt to Ame- rica, “to the extent, of her ability.” 1 ; ments to fund its four billion dollar | “ yar tag (owned by , which are fighting 1 7 + scabs, are expect- Was called by the Pattern Makers’ As- A strike of the Pattern Makers in- hat volving all pattern makers in the Job- cohest bing industry in Chicago and vicinity| — tv. tro ‘the “week-end and with: renewed spirit’ ad eek of. militant and keting Wins. t action, the massing ot tac the and their mte 8 protectors, : firs week's battle, since i ‘ rth can break a strike vun such spirit and Phe all day, morning, igh the streets have 22 establish the open of a fake union |* 3 United Garment | to ye ~ mda frontior. > +4 cz 1 i KK a offle former foe, “perfidious Albion,” and has sent a pereptory note lease of the criminals. France, whose imperialist interests are fiercely at her African colonies, has LONDON, July 5.—All the diplomats of Europe are stirred by the threat of a war upon Russia by an alliance of imperialist powers led by Great Britain, which is launching a prog thruout the world to provoxe a severance of the present relations between England anc Soviet Union. of War spin } Uni Is. Stirring All Eu ) (Special to The Daily Worker) Poland, the creature of British banking interests, is taking the physical offensive by wart: raids of Polish troops across * . — and attacks by arms upon the small Red Army — under Hi to „to ally herself with her Moscow demanding the re- France Discusses Situation. in a crisis, with the Moors slicing | "LRSM PRED pM Fa oR EO (85 8 Press Correspondence.) attitude to the protest movement in China: * Shanghai blood bath is no accident, but the unavoidable conse- quence of the imperialist policy in China, the result of its enslave ment. The history, of China since the Nanking agreement is the. history blamed the Chinese for all their | Plication in certain unions and the ela 1 « Soviet “interference” in China is not of bloody suppression. own troubles. This was to be ex-|Seneral lack of application in the 2 A a — e * the entire reason for Britain's acts, as The Shanghai tragedy has led to consequences which open a new g — * ‘ 6 pected. It is quite believeable, that steel workers’ union, many important r cent effective and Was called to peel den cof b. * pid long before the upheaval in China be- age in the history of the development of Chinese national conscious had the Chinese workers submitted to lessons were drawn. , 1 e nun gan, Austen Chamberlain, British for- the exploitation of the British and Japanese enslavers and took all the indignities heaped upon them without a murmur, John Bull would have let well enough alone. * „„ R some reason that the British 1 can never understand, or ‘any other imperialist for that matter, sub- | labor movement in general, as particu- It was made clear to the delegates present that the tendency often mani- fested to submerge.the left wing is- sues in order to quietly gain offices, could have nothing but serfous conse- quences for the left wing and for the larly the Communist must put for- ward these issues and lead tthe apt enforce the union or closed shop, a the S-hour day and 44-hour week, The strike was first called in the Noback Shop, located at Van Buren and Clinton streets. The Pattern Makers’ Union tried to obtain a con- ference with the bosses to these demands. minimum wage of $1.25 an hour, tor 8 wd a * 5 2 A 9 Le wt Slice and sluggers who 3 nd arrested many pick- n more spirited crowd it line the next day. 5 * fh Between New York and ‘the same firm in New as emptied in 15 minutes eign minister, against the Soviet Union to France under the Herriot government. Soviet Russia, on behalf of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, are indignant that Britain in- sists upon violation of international law 80 flagrantly as to try before a offered an alliance Soviet Indignation Is Rising. ness. All the imperialists oppose the Chinese national movement with equal enmity, but this does not abolish the conflicts between the impe- rialists themselves and at the moment they are engaged in trying t to smitt the blame upon each other’s shoulders. This expresses itself in the attitude of Japan towards England and in the hypocritical sympathy of Germany for the Chinese students. The movement which has developed from the Shanghai strike must set itself wider aims than the punishment of the guilty and the compensation of the families of the victims, it must set itself not judicial but political MOSCOW, June 16.—(By Mail.)—The central committee of the Chinese under the Painleve cabinet's consider- 2 Party has published the following manifesto in which it defines — jon an offer from England to join ts hands with Britain, Germany, Poland and Roumania in a war upon Soviet Russia. It is obvious that the excuse of for more militant policies. Failure to do so can only lenu to serious right wing deviations. How- ever, any general tendency to minimize the impo ‘of Communist. trade union activities and the necessary or- Kanizational basis becomes equally arrived from Chicago ers in New York that ars are fighting to e from destruction. is no qi a if the work- Work C ‘neo the same * 8 and vice — Bosses Refuse to Talk. The bosses’ association called its. ** meeting and flatly turned down a con- re ference with the union. “Thereupon | the union, the Pattern Makers’ Asso- ciation of Chicago and vicinity retall- ated by issuing a cal for a strike foreign mixed court set up in Shang hat, China, a citizen of Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia long ago gave up the extra- territorial privileges in the old treaties forced out of China at the point of bayonets, and in so doing agreed that Soviet citizens should be aims, above all the cancellation of the unfair agreements made between the foreign powers and China and the abolition of the privileges extended to foreigners, as otherwise there is no guarantee for the safety of Chinese lives. 1 * The Communist Party ie faced with the following tasks: 1. ‘development of the present e ee to a permanent one having as its ject peoples never properly appreciate the efforts made by their benefactors to better their condition and lift them up to the pinnacle of civilization oc- cupied by their masters. We have the Hindus, who according to ‘the The r 4 Ng British are yet in a state of political | dangerous. Such mistakes are most : tried before Chinese courts and un- aim the destruction of foreign dominance in China. 2. The bringing which will effect the entre jobbing m- os cultural infancy, aware re often made by. the pong: “eoncep- 4 „ 3 5 me that A oS of all classes fn their participation in the national e their * 6.) 1 Py th New York ution and 2 2 0 widest masses of the people to the 2 U 1 yi i N * 8 2 ‘Party, must warn, the Chinese people ) ins phesent government of Tuan Shi Tehü is the the „ ate and that Chang So Lin is an agent of Japanese imperialism. : Compromise is out of the eit “tt 10 better to suffer a defeat than to use enemies as defenders and go-betweens. The imperialists are attempting to split the movement by declaring that the movement has its beginning from the Communists and the Soviet Union. Should it be true that the Communists are thé originators of the movement, then the Chinese people must attach itself to the Communists all the more as the representatives of the whole Chinese people. If it is true that the Soviet Union supports the movement, then it is but another proof that peaks ne gece coastal ——— in — a force of arms and tried before courts where neither the laws nor the judges are Chinese, but are Britishy British Labor Watchfal.: The labor movement 8 which has lately turned to the left following the sharpening ot we in- dustrial crisis from the depression in production of the Dawes / » and the widespread enlightenment. of British unionists upon conditions in Soviet Russia thru the report of the British Trade Union delegation, is be- pont a pape 4 . between the workers of Chieago and those of New York. Class Viewpoint Seen Essential. Neither can any unionist of Chicago deny that 4 broad class viewpoint is necessary in the labor movement in addition to the narrow trade issues in union oriindustry. The left wing machinists and members of the Trade Union Educational League in Lodge 199, of the International Association of Machinists on Friday night, took The 1 unanimously voted to levy an assessment of $3.00 per member on those on the job in the manufacturing industry. The spirit of the members ‘tof the union and strikers was high. ‘| They are out to win the strike in spite ‘ | of all obstacles and to teach the bosses a lesson. a the 8 0 2 2 7 man aged to hold them down by’ means of guns, etc. An $ is vatirely in harmony 8 the ethics of christianity. The Chin- ese (there are over ‘400,000,000 of them), managed to get along before the British empire was founded. They increased and multiplied at least, in Rooseveltian fashion. Their god was not up to the scratch in the ways of piracy, like the British god, so the Chinese found themselves sucking Come Back Strong. Four years ago, in 1921, the pattern makers of Chicago struck and lost. i th th have been repairin e eee ng ng Union cannot h the Chinese people im 1 1 - — — —— ON ee r=. — — opium, forced on them by John Bull, for the greater glory of god. Out of the profits of the opium trade the British were able to hire missionaries Secalicts I 4 u hie Workers Suffering the damage and today they are com- ing back 100 per cent strong and de- termined to win the strike. Prior to the present strike, attempts at con- up the battle against union scabbery and the lodge passed a resolution con- demning the scabbing of the United coming alarmed at the menace of war in the actions of the British eabinet. Labor unionists are pointing out the Soviet Uniog is the only friend of Chinggsentortunataly, the Soviet 5 ately to throw off the yoke of imperialism. 5 he Shanghai events showed that all sections of social- ism have — the necessity of supporting the workers and peasants against the imperialists. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese are facing the cannon directed against them by the imperialists. Despite the martial law, despite the threats and brutality, the whole population of Shanghai supports the strikers unitedly. The sacrifices will not be in vain, the Chinese people will pursue the cause of its free- (Special to The Daily Workar) Y WARSAW, (By Mail) —At one of the last sessions of the Polish Diet the deputy of the Communist faction, that the hope of remedy for the in- creasing unemployment in England is being destroyed by hostile acts to- wards Soviet Russia which has opened Garment Workers fake union on the Amalgamated: strikers. The Chicago Federation of Labor did not hold ‘a meeting yesterday. A ferences were made by the union but they were unsuccessful. The union therefore girded itself for a deter- mined battle against the attempts of and endow churches. Opium was to the Anglican church what the saloons in America were to the Catholic church. * — — mre — HINESE misrule is caused by the efforts of the Chinese masses to get rid of foreign rule. In other words there would not be any trouble in China if the masses worked sixteen hours a day, suffered the floggings of the brutal factory bosses in silence, and in general allowed the foreigner capitalists to walk over them. In- stead of being a great liberator and revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yat Sen was a great scoundrel, according to Mr. Woodhead. * — 1 the Chinese don't think so, Mr. Woodhead, and when the Chinese give the British taxmasters the tip of the boot or better. still the point of the sword out of their coun- try, they will owe more gratitude to Sun Yat Sen than to any other single individual in the history of China. That Sun’s memory is hated by the British is the best testimony to his character... British propagandists are 33 aay on page 6)) [800 STREET CARMEN STRIKE AGAINST THE ~ OPEN SHOP IN 1OWA (Special to The Daily Worker) DES MOINES, la., July 5.—The 800 employes of the Des Moines street car system are on strike, ef- fecting a complete tie-up of service since Saturday morning. The issue is one of the union to job control and the attempt of the company to force an open shop. The company refused to discharge a con- ductor whose union card had been revoked. This refusal of the com- pany is-a violation of its agreement with fhe union and telegraphic sanc- tion for the strike was obtained from International. City officials are trying to break the strike by issuing bus licenses, | ed having received his signature Thomas Pristupa, discloséd in a speech the activity of the Polish sec- ret service and emphasized the touch- ing care the Ministry of Interior is taking of the police. We shall quote the most interesting part of his speech: “77 per cent of the whole budget the Ministry of Interior 18 assigning to the police. Not only has the per- centage of expenses consumed by the police increased, but the number of this body also increased. In: the year 1924 the internal police-fo con- cisted of 36,953 men, and ch dnt force 10,604 men. That. up a total of 47,557 men. In March 5 the number of police increased to 61,903 men, not counting ‘gangs of spies, secret agents and paid plot- ters, the number of which, acdording to the statement of the officer: wet nek, cam not be fixed.” Socialists Hide With tiere When Pristupa disclosed details of the base assassination of the rs Gaichik and Pilarchik, who. were choked by poisonous gases and point. ed out at the murdering of Ha and Vecherskovitch and others. Polish Socialists interrupted mis speech with mockeiy exclai ons: “Please tell us how many anti ment meetings did you organ . “what do you care about the absassin- ations of workers.” Calles 8 His Loyalty to the xican Landowners MEX CITY, July 5.—The land- owners of the state of Durango have declared their support of the Calles government; after President Calles promised them to “limit lands taken to those absolutely necessary for up- lifting the peasants.” Calles said most of the lands the peasants hold are held illegally, only street. the bosses’ association to smash their union and the conditions they have won thru many years of struggle. Communists On Firing Line, Among the strikers are a number of members of the Workers (Com- munist) Party who are taking promi- net and leading parts in the strike. The headquarters of the striking pattern makers are at 119 Throop The strikers are all on the job picketing and their morale is high. number of delegates . came to the meeting place, the Musicians’ Hall, at Washington and Wells Sts., but none of the officials put in an appearance nor could they be reached over the telephone. Seven Killed on Fourth. Seven were killed and ten were seri- ously injured as a result of Fourth of July explosions and shootings, in Chicago. j Coming Tomorrow: suspended executives of Loc man-Perlstein-Feinberg mac Documents, from the rank and file, and Edition! 2 the DAILY WORKER will publish a great Special Edition, devoted to the struggle between the national Ladies’ Garment Workers” Union, and the Sig- Joint Board and the International. critical articles, news: articles, vincing speech for the defense before the Trial Committee, all will be there—and illustrated with a photo of the membership guarding the headquarters: of Local 22. New York City workers! everywhere! Stand by to distribute the I. L. OG. W. Special als 2, 9 and 22 of the Inter- hine in the New York. City stories Hyman’s eloquent and con- Members of the |. L. G. W. IMPERIALIST SPEAKER ON CHINA GIVEN AN UNCOMFORTABLE TIME BY QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE (By Student C appropriateness of his name. of C. E. B., in China. orrespondent.) H. G. W. Woodhead spoke at the University of Chicago Wednesday after- noon, and thoroly demonstrated to a crowd of fiwé hundred students the H. G. W. Woodhead bears the honorary title is editor of the Peking and Tientsin Times, and of the China Year Book, and 2 advertised as an Englishman of twenty years’ experience | He may hays’ been there that long, but he failed to absorb even enough about five per cent of the lands grant- | (Continued on pegs 3) | up great commercial and trade 2251 (Continued on page 2) a» 1 dom to the end! Leninism vs. Imperialism |
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4 Workers Refuse to Go to War; Recruit Poles —_—— — . ge eS * (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, July 5.—The French posftſons in the upper Leben valtey in Morocco have been pushed back by the severe bayonet attack of the Riffiant troops, a dispatch from Fez states. The fighting near M’Lisa is Violent. The statement of Premier Painleve to the French senate that the French losses in the entire Moroccan cam- paign have been only four hundred killed is believed by no one who is well informed of the Morocean situa- tion. It is well known that the losses have been many times greater. Socialists For Bankers. The senate gave Painleve a vote of confidence in his Moroccan policy of continued attack on the Rifflans, the socialists again lining up with the im- perialists. ‘The French foreign office an- nounced that the Franco-Spanish con- ference at Madrid is drafting peace terms to present to Abd-el-Krim. * * — Workers Refuse to Fight. WARSAW, Poland. July 5.—An in- terpolation in the Polish Sejm (par- liament) by the Communist fraction, with regard to the French invasion of Morocco disclosed that the French government is recruiting Polish im- migrants in France to go to the Mo- rocean front because the French work- ers are refusing to fight the Moroc- ans. There are 750,000 Polish workers and peasants in France. The Polish white terror government sent them in order to get rid of a large unem- ployed army, and to be free of politi- cal opponents. | Would Use Poles. The Polish immigrants were first used to lower the wages of the French workers and to act as non- union help to break up the French unions. They did not succeed be- cause the Communists established two Polish language papers in Paris and informed the Polish workers of the situation. -Now the French government is us- ing the same tactics to try to use the Poles to help win Morrocco for the / Bankers: Workers Party Acts. The Polish section of the Workers (Communist) Party of America is calling on the Polish workers to pro- test against the use of Poles in the interests of bloody French imperial- ism. „ — * Communists Call General Strike. PARIS, France, July 5.— The Com- munist Party of Paris has decided to Call a general twenty-four hour strike of protest against the Moroccan in- , Vasion. In Saint Pierre des Corps, near Tours, the mayor has been arrested : charged with “anti-militaristic propa- ; ganda,” and the municipal council held a meeting and declared their approval ok the mayor’s stand against the Moroc- can war. Searches and arrests of workers’ homes by the Painleve government | continue thruout France. ‘are being held in all the other indust- ral centers, which expose the imper- ‘dalist aims of the French bankers who Meetings are promoting the Moroccan war. Situation “Critical.” Premier Painleve has hinted that army classes will soon be mobolized to be sent to North Africa. The Riffian attack on Taza is push- ing back the French, and premier Painleve has called the cabinet to- gether, admitting to them that the Moroccan situation, from the view- point of the French imperialists, is “serious.” The war will cost at the least $250,0000,000, even if ended very soon, it was estimated by experts here. The Journal des Debats declares the situation inMorocco is “critical.” The Moroccan natives in the region of Ta- za, where the Riffians have battered their way to within a few miles of the town, have deserted the French and gone to the Rifians with their arms. Taza is on the main line of the Ra- bat-Fez railroad. = * * Demonstrations In Tangier TANGIER, Morocco, July 5.-—The workers have stormed the shops here and forced them to close in compli- ance with their organized demonstra~ tion against the statutes of the Tangier international government, of France, Spain and England. They have refus- ed to pay taxes called for in the sta- tutes, and have ordered all shops to close in protest. The Spanish directory has asked Britian and France to send troops, de- claring that “the neighboring tribes no longer intend to observe the neu- trality of Tangler. Cal Takes Jobs From 265,000. NEW YORK, July 5.—~Twenty-five thousand disabled war veterans, now in charge of the rehabilitation depart- ment of the U. S. veterans’ bureau, will be jobless when the department is abandoned next June by the Cool- idge administration. * 0 WAR 1* De (Continued from page 1) sibilities that would relieve the un- employed to a great degree. Moreover, it is pointed out that a rupture in relations and a breaking of the trade agreement would, as Chicherin claims, set England upon the road to war which would involve the whole world. Soviet Union Seeka Peace. That Soviet Russia is seeking peace, and not war, is pointed out from the report of M. W. Frunze, War Com- missar at the ress of the Soviet Union. Frünze pointed out that in four years the Red Army has been reduced from 5,500,000 to 562,000, The ring of imperialist nations and their puppet governments have, Frunze reported, been doing the exact oppo- site, They have been preparing for war—and openly—with Soviet Rus- sia. Frunze said: “The Helsingfors Conference of the Baltic governments, the General Staff Conference at Riga, the Bucharest Conference of the Lit- tle Entente and the flerce agitation which is being carried on in the bour- geois press of the world against the Soviet Union, compels us to most se- riously concern ourselves.” Roumania Increases Army. Roumania has recently increased her army by 25 per cent and bought 40,000 rifles and 62,000,000 rounds of ammunition for them. Poland has or- dered three torpedo boats and six submarines from France. Great Britain has just loaned White guard Esthonia $5,000,000 to arm her troops and pro- vide for increased forces. Frunze, in referring to these developments added; “You will have read that the Es- thonian government is ceding the islands of Oesel and Dagoe to Great Britain. If this report be confirmed, if the English flag is indeed to fly over the Islands of Oesel and Dagoe, it would mean that the English dréad- noughts could appear before the walls of Kronstadt and Leningrad within 24 hours and that the English air-fleet could cruise over the factories of Léningrad within an hour and a half. You will understand that this is by no means a matter of indifference to us. We must regard such a trangaction as a direct challenge to our worker and peasant state. Good Precedent for Sympathy. “You know that the ex-Prime Min- ister Lloyd George and the present French Prime Minister Painleve, as- sured the Ukrainian deputy Wassint- schuk, who had been sentenced to penal servitude by a Polish court, of their sympathy. Now if Painleve and Lloyd George consider it possible to do this, who can forbid the workers and peasants of our Union to call to our oppressed brothers: We know your griefs, your sufferings," we are with you, heart and soul, we send you our warmest fraternal greetings.’ In spite of all this, I declare most emphatically that we have no desire for war and that, in spite of the as- sertions of the foreign bourgeous press, we are not preparing for an attack against either Poland or Rou- mania, Numerical“ Strength. “T will pass over the numerical strength of our Red air fleet. I will only say that it is unfortunately not much stronger than our nearest west- ern neighboring countries together, Poland, Roumania and the Baltics. “The strength of the Red Army without the navy amounts to only 529,000 men. That is 183,000 less than in France and 17,000 less than our nearest western neighboring coun- tries together, Poland, Roumania and the baltics. “These figures show with convinc- ing force that it is nonsense to speak of a ‘Red Imperialism’. Absolutely as well as relatively, we spend much less on armaments than all other, the largest bourgeois states, and relative- ly even much less than the smallest bourgeois states. At the disarma- ment conference at Moscow, it was precisely Poland which frustrated our proposals for giving up the argument of arms.“ a * *s British There With Cold Water LONDON, July 2.—Great Britain to- day threw cold water on Secretary of State Kellogg's proposal for a new conference of the powers to iron out Chinese troubles that have resulted in the present widespread disorders in that country. “China must put her house in order before there can be any conference to discuss matters of extra-territoriality,” said the usual hypocritical statement from the foreign office. Officials Show Surprise British officials were manifestly sur- “prised at Kellogg's move, for no com- munication had been received from Washington, they asserted. In the absence of such official communica- tion, foreign office officials said they believed the United States would con- tinue to cooperate with the other powers interested in China and deal with the issue of extra-territoriality “only after China herself has cleared up the present situation and showed herself able to proteet foreign lives and property.” Foreign Minister Austen Chamber- lain has already stated that Britain sees no reason for considering the question of the extra-territorial rights now held by foreign powers in China. In fact, the British charge d’Affaires at Peking has been instructed to tell the Chimese authorities flatly that o r DN wee lO ener — |BRITISH INSPIRED THREAT 7 SOVIET UNION. STIRRING ALL EUROPE | Great Britain is opposed to consjdera- tion of this question. 1 British Seek Trade Protection The British policy is based ari- ly upon British trade and the need for its protection in China. The Daily Express spoke frankly on this angle today and showed clearly what is in the back of British minds. “Twenty-five per cent of the inhabi- tants of the world live in China,” said the Express. “Its more than 400,000,- 000 people make the country a vast potential market for British manufac- turers—and their rivals.” Fear Stirring of Rivalries Continuing, the editorial pointed out, that China already has signed trade agreements with Japan and with Soviet, Russia. This incident was men- tioned as showing the need for the careful. nursing of British trade pros- pects in the Far East. “Deep rivalries may be stirred up by President Coolidge’s peace move,” concluded the Express. ALBERTA MINERS STRIKE AGAINST WAGE CUT DRIVE Treason of Leaders Is Unavailing (By Worker Correspondent.) - TORONTO, July 5—The whole of the Drumheller Valley in Alberta, Canada, is tied up by the rank and file strike, against a terrific wage cut, which. the operators and the district officers of the U. M. W. of A. are try- ing to put across. The cut was suggested to the oper- ators. by Sherman, the president of the district, sacrificing all-kinds of conditions and concessions won thru years of struggle, and leaving prac- tically nothing but the check-off to | show that it is an organized field. ..» A .Non-Union Agreement. There was no discussion, no vote, no explanation. The first word re- ceived by members, was thru the capitalist press to the effect that the agreement was signed. What kind of agreement, may be judged from the fact that it is considerably worse than these offered by various operators dur- ing the past few months, in the at- tempt to get men to break away from the United Mine Workers. Some classes of work are cut near- ly thirty per cent. The men were given no choice, and in the only mine where any attempt was made to oper- ate with scabs, the men working (29 the first day, about 11 the second AND LAST, day), actually did not know how much they were going to get. Men Strike. The men took a Sub-District ballot and decided by an overwhelming ma- jority to reject the agreement. Sher- man and the operators did their best to hound them back with mounted po- lice and a barrage of newspaper vili- fication, but so far the rank and file are solid. Miner Shot By Cossack. There have been numerous arrests, one young miner has been shot by a Mountie, and tear bombs are being used freely. But the miners have de- cided that this shall be the las time Sherman sells them out, and unless the operators listen to reason, there is every prospect of a long fight. Kenosha Communists Have Fine Picnic and Hope for Shop Nuclei By ALEX TISHON. KENOSHA, Wis., July 5—A most succesful Anti-Imperialist demon- stration and picnic was held yester- day by the Kenosha lo@l of the Workers Party. Several hundred workers attended and cheered Mor- ris Chilofsky, who spoke on “Imper- ialism Today.” A resolution was adopted by unani- mous vote of the assembled workers demanding that American imperial- ism keep its Hands off China.“ Kenosha is a busy industrial city and the membership of the Workers Party has many opportunities before it, once it gets organized on the real Communist basis of shop nuclei, as most of the membership is located in a few large plants. Heretofore this opportunity seems never to have been thot of, but now Kenosha live wires are expecting to see a change as soon as the party is reorganized. Score of Bodies Recovered from Ruins of Building BOSTON, Mass., July 5.—A score of bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Pickwick club building, and from twenty to fifty are reported missing. The building collapsed dur- ing a July 4 ball. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of vou. 4 a! 5 Sie fer 5 * . — 7 N f Al ; * 4 . * . * . „ 5 : 5 e oa — 2 a x 2 Coan «50 1 7 — a — ' 5 8 : „ . and Security Pact Mast Also 7 . Revise Versailles —__ BERLIN, Germany, uae 8.—Foreign Minister Stresemann will lay down among the conditions for Germany's entrance into a ‘pact with the allies that the Rapallo treaty with the Soviet Union must not be broken, according to a passed to- day by the German peoples“ party, which he leads. it is understood the conditions embodied in the resolution would govern his future policy. Condition of Enterifig League Stresemann will also lay down rigid conditions for Germany required en- trance into the league of nations, the resolution shows. we “Entrance to the L e of Nations is out of the question the Ruhr sanction territories and the first rhineland zone are évactiated;” the re- solution set forth, * “Our entering the league must first be preceded by the copelusion of a security pact, Germany, must be exempted from giving military assist- ance to the league. If we enter the league any military control of Ger- many, exceeding the terms of the versailles treaty, shall automotically be abolished. Must Leave Germany Free Hand “The security pact must not exclude the possibility of revising the Versail- les treaty insofar as it deals with Ger- many’s eastern borders, but it must exclude any further sanctions and provide for submission to arbitration of all controversies regarding the de- militarization of the Rhineland. “The security pact must jeave Ger- many a free hand to conclufle similar pacts with her eastern neighbors and not allow France the pri ge of ar- bitration of violation of such pacts. “It must not interfere with the Ra- pallo treaty.” (With the Soviet Union). — * tie IDOE AG aS |: BOSTON, Mass., July,.5<—Altho: retary of War Weeks has, issued a, de- nial from his residence at West Glou- cester that he intends: 40 resign, his Washington house is sold, and it is thought that President Coolidge is looking for his successor, Secretary Weeks represents the Morgan electric trust in, the govern- ment. When it was thought Coolidge would pay his political degt to Henry Ford by leasing him Muscle Shoals, it was Weeks who brought in counter- bids from the subsidiaries pf the Mor- gan General Electric company. Weeks also looked after, the inter- ests of Wall Street in Panama, at- tempting to lease concessions to New York firms. ; * Charge New Mexican Revolt Being Cooked Up in Wall Street MEXICO CITY, July 5— Former Minister of Foreign Relations, Gen. Candido Aguilar, according to the evening Grafico, declares a new revo- lution is being prepared from the American side of the border against Mexico and states he was invited by agents of Wall street and other heavy financial interests to. participate. According to the Grafied} the report- ed revolution has unlimited funds and aims at securing for American finan- ciers concessions denied by the pres- ent Mexican laws. Cal Indorses English-German Scheme. BERLIN, Germany, July 5.—Presi- dent Coolidge’s approval of mutual covenants among European nations,“ was hailed by German capitalists here as an indorsement of their “security pact” offer. 10 The German capitalists are en- deavoring to form an alliance with the English governm nt against France, and thru the pact negotiations extend Germany's easter frontier at Poland’s expense. H Prisons Terribly Overcrowded. WASHINGTON, D. C.,. July 5.—The federal government. is completing a canvass Of available space in penal institutions at which federal prison- ers can be contracted out, as all avail- able space in federal prisons is tak- en. A frightfully overcrowded condi- tion exists. Lay Looting to Americans. ROME, Italy. July 5.-4The looting of St. Peter's, the gre pst Roman catholic edifice, is attributed to crooks with American training by fascist po- lice, at 2 J Another new Sub+Makes other Communist. 4 an- J Who Plunder the W 0 By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. - ad 4 * 9 y _— 1. * = "TODAY. the spokesmen of the imperial awakening to a realization of the fact that “N is not to blame for the growing discontent in Asia, India, Persia, Northern Africa, Mexico and other restless over the —_— The New York Times, for instance, displays a little ntelligence, when it grudgingly admits: _ | “Chinese radicalism is not primarily the creation of Soviet or Com- munist International activity. manifests itself on a larger scale, the tendency is to call it Bolshevism. The late Sun Yat Sen may have been inspired, in part, by the Moscow example, but Bolshevism at Canton and elsewhe has arisen from native conditions and under native leadership. it is the same in Morocco.. .” 38 5 The Times then goes on to argue that the Soviet gov- ernment is the leader of the opposition’ in the family of nations,” and that all discontented nations, therefore, seek its support, until its period of 3 has passed, when they are again supposed to go anti-Sovi ) It is urged that all that is necessary is to appease the nations that have taken to the warpath, It is pointed out that there are many ways to placate China, Morocco, Mexico and other lands into joining the capitalist fold, with Mustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the successful Turkish revolution pointed out as a brilliant example for them all to follow. «„ @ 6 In other words the imperialists would find international nostrums for satisfying the aches of subject peoples and op- pressed nations, much after the fashion in which they offer old age pensions, welfare plang and class-collaboration schemes to ease the pains of wage slavery at home. But all these “good intentions,” set forth in beautiful words, go by the board as imperialist oppression continues in action against its victims. 3 5 4 The American armada tours the Pacific and Hawaii is to be made an “impregnable” fortress, certainly not to ease the burden of U. S. imperialism upon the Chinese, But rather to make the American position in the Orient preeminent among those of other imperialisms. That means, to become the most successful plunderer of the Chinese. No intelligent student of conditions in the United States will contend that the class war here is less bitter now than in the past. The _— strength of the Workers (Com- inant Party testifies glowingly to the growing class con- sciousness of American labor. Capitalism will not surrender its position of exploiter of labor. No more will the workers capitulate in their fight to achieve the final overthrow of the capitalist class. * * 0 9 The victory of the workers and farmers of the Soviet Republics stands as an inspiration to American labor, as it does to oppressed toil jn all other lands. But the victory of the American Soviet Republic grows out of American cap- . = 25 2 ist bandits are a Wherever political and social unrest r | DON AN oti Eig * 1 e ee e W N i = * „ 1 4 F. ar e * © Sus a * 0 * 4 * FN. 1 ae * N 7 a $ ae : . Yar te in * : 4 8 * L 5 * ‘ae SFA Atay SL Pi ahs, alee: i 2 ie CBT POY My N ** e ‘ n 2 * * Re ae ay ¥ - toi * 4 * 5 e * 0 N * 1 iar? | at ee 8 in Southern China pions of that slavery. „ For more than a centur of exploitation. beaten down. own battles is toda and Tokio. * — Calles, the “socialist,” The imperialists, aspirations.’ but one front. — italist conditions, that today seek to hold w less slavery. The New York Times is one of the best cham- sought to improve its stranglehold on labor in end- — developing imperialism has hina, and other fields Chinese resistance in the past has been But the power of the Chinese to fight their greater than ever. fact that troubles the imperialist diplomats, as they ply their games of secret diplomacy in Washington, London, Paris That is the biggest in Mexico, and Mustapha Kemal Pasha, in Turkey, as two examples, may seek to make peace with the imperialist oppressors, may Communists in their own countries, the land, the workers demand the industries, in spite of such betrayals. They continue the fight to the final victory. make war upon the ut the farmers demand é according to the Times, are trying to find the magic formula “for reconciling Chinese nationalist They have hunted long, like the alchemists who have tried down the ages to transmute baser metals into gold. There is, of course, no such formula. stands before an international defeat, of which China offers Imperialism faces complete destruction be- fore onrushing Communism. There is no escape for it. Imperialism KLAN EMPLOYER GOES ON TRIAL TODAY FOR ATTACK AND MURDER NOBLESVILLE, Indiana, July 5. D. C. Stephenson, formerly grand dragon of the ku klux Klan, and a factory owner, and leading Indiana politician, will go on trial here Mon- day for the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer, 28. Stephenson, according to a death- bed confession of the girl, kept her prisoner in a hotel room over night, attacked her, and refused her medi- cal aid after she took poison. Rosenbaum’s Bogus Cooperative Brot Big Stock Crash | The Dean, Onativia and Co. broker- age concern failed with liabilities of over $35,000,000 because the company bought stock of the Grain ‘Marketing corporation. The firm was organized with capi- tal furnished by the Rosenbaum brothers, who also control the Rosen- baum Grain corporation. The Rosen- baum grain corporation formed, with the Armour Co., and other large con- cerns, a bogus “co-operatice,” the Grain Marketing Co., and tried to sell the farmers stock in this concern: The farmers did not buy, however, and the Rosenbaums were forced to buy back 45,000 -shares which had been put on the market, thru the brokerage house. The capital of the brokerage firm was used in buying this stock, and ce ye followed. ö “AG ; Working Class Youth Rushes to Enroll in Vacation High Schools NEW YORK, July 5—The Board of Education here was taken by surprise by an overwhelming number of pupils who made applications for entry into the four vacation high schools opened for the summer months. Hundreds had to be turned away. Recommend- ations will be made to the next meet- ing of the board that more ‘schools be opened. The tremendous number who have applied, shows that boys and girls of the working cl cannot afford vaca- tions. As one of students put it: “After a long winter term of study the youths of the wealthy go off to resorts for vacations but we have to hustle around for a job. Jobs during vacations are at best very poorly paid because of the competition of an army of students who are eager to take anything to help them thru their pe- riod of study. Summer schools offer an opportunity to complete our course sooner.” COMMUNIST ELECTED: TO PARLIAMENT IN HOLLAND CONTEST (Special to The Dally Worker) THE HAGUE, July 5.—One Com- munist, Devisser, was elected to parliament, defeating the socialist candidate, in the Dutch elections. The government lost five seats but the present catholic premier is ex- pected to remain in power. “a 4a Oba i fe ‘ 1 A 4 Bi * s N 42 sib i Against Expl The Anti-Imperialist demonstration at the fourth annual Communist pic- nic, held at Beyer’s Grove, California and Irving Bivd., July 4, was a real ternational affair, with a Chinese, an American Negro, a West African, and American Communists speaking. The speakers were James P, Cannon, Ella Reeve Bloor, C. T. Chi, H. v. Phillips, and a West African worker. James P. Cannon, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party,, assur- ed the representatives of the oppress- ed peoples who were present that the Workers Party fully supported their fight for freedom from foreign imne- rialism. —— Support Chinese. | The Communists, Cannon said, real- ize that world imperialism will never destroyed until not only the col- oppressors, but until the workers of those countries seize power and set up workers’ and farmers’ govern- ments. In the fight of the Chinese workers to drive out the American capitalists, the American Communists are whole- heartedly with the Chinese workers and against American capitalism, Can- non said. The Soviet government. and the-Communists of the entire world fully indorse the fight of the oppress- ed races and natidnalities against im- perialism. j Chinebe Speaker. C. T. Chi, of the Chinese Students' Alliance, who received an ovation, as did the other anti-imperialist speak- ers, related the history of the present fight of the Chinese workers to take possession of their own country and drive out the foreign troops, who are slaughtering Chimese for the foreign capitalists. “This fight of the Chinese workers is different from the Boxer war, or any other Chinese movement,” Chi said. “In this movement, the Chi- nese have intelligent leadership, they know what they want and they will fight on until they are victorious.” An International Struggle. “We Chinese are not only against imperialism in China, but we realise that the fight against imperialism is an international one,” Chi said. “We support the fight of the workers of India, Morocco, and all other oppress- ed peoples against imperialism.” „Ella Reeve Bloor, who has just ar- rived in Chicago from California, en- route on a coast to coast hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER, told of the widespread unemployment which prevails thruout the country. She told of the campaign of the Work- ers Party in Los Angeles which se- cured 26,000 votes, in the recent muni- cipal campaign. Unemployment. “In the western industrial cities,” said Comrade Bloor, “the open shop bosses deliberately created an unem- ployment menace as part of their un- ion smashing drive. They threw thou- sands out of work and then they said, ‘These men, if they wanted to work could go out on the farms and get jobs.’ “But when I got to Kansas, I found the roads choked with workers who couldn’t get jobs on the farms be- cause there were too many of them, and because the Kansas harvest this year is a failure. The crops are very poor and thousands of farmers are penniless.” . Comrade Bloor told of the Chinese workers she met in Denver and in San Francisco, who are supporting the fight against imperialism and who are friendly to the Soviet Union be- cause they realize that Russia is the only nation friendly to the oppressed peoples. 74 Negroes Fight Bosses. H. V. Phillips, representative of the American Negro Labor Congress, spoke on behalf of the seventeen mil- lion Negroes in the United States. I can assure you,” he said, that altho the Negroes are oppressed more than he most exploited white workers, hat the Negroes are taking an ac- tive part in the fight against impe- rialism.” 1 The race problem in America is fundamentally a class problem, Phil- lips said, and the Negroes are taking their places along side the white ane talist exploitation. Africa Uniting. A worker from West Africa spoke, describing conditions in Africa, and declaring that all Africa is uniting against imperialism, and is watching the struggle of the Rifflans against the French bankers with great sympathy. Several thousand people attended. There was dancing, games, sports and refreshments. | Advocates Militarization. PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 5.—In a speech here, Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske declared that there will be an- other war, and advocated increased military preparation. ‘t MS by * test onial countries drive out their foreign i workers in the struggle against capi- “eta Ha
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ie 19 eae ~ of the Chin of the 7 ; of America, England, Japan and France, the ¢ : people. F a America Anti-Imperialist League, the Workers (Comm LY WORKER eee 2 2 Err a 1 — —— or | ed to | Rule Thru Persecution ‘ind Mur hi a! t powers that are holding China in their grip, refuse to acede to the rightful demand ma by sheer force, by jailing, persecution and wholesale murder. From the font Mani. Party and the bade Union Educational League. Si 5 - ec 0 the Communist International has issued the following N Moscow] (By Inprecorr Cable). — The Oriental W 80 of proclama- tion to the workers and peasants, calling upon them to resist the imperialist war in Morocco which, supported by the socialists, is leading to a world conflagration. The statement foll ows! |. Painleve-Briand-Caillaux government has started the Mo- rocco war which for months had been prepared by Herriot in conjunction with General Lyautey, The imperialist Left Bloc which emits so much symbolic peace talk, is just as dangerous as the Nationalist Bloc. and for the acquisition of riches “ which benefit the capitalists on- ly, and for which the workers and peasants have to pay. The negotiation proposals made by Abd-el-Krim were systematically re- jected by Lyautey and Herriot, who organized the blockade of the Riff by swarming the neutral zone with block houses and then alluring Abd-el- Krim into the. ambush on the Ouer- gha. Leads to New World War The Moroccan events between 1907 and 1911 and the Agadir episode were the fore runners of the great slaugh- ter from 1914 to 1918. The plunder- ing expedition now undertaken by France against the Riff contains the elements which may lead to severe international complications. Not only France and Spain, but also England and Italy are interested in the plun- dering of Morocco. France waited for the defeat of Spain in order to acquire the Riff territory at Spain’s costs.. Just as in 1914, so today we hear of the “attack on France's prestige.” Today also we are told that it was the inhdabi- tants of the Riff who first attacked peaceful France. England and Italy are waiting for a favorable chance to demand in the name of their interna- tional prestige their share of the spoils. ’ In this manner French imperialism once more lets the Morocco fire flare up which may lead to heayy interna- ist war directed against an oppressed people; it is the war of French, Bri- tish, Italian and Spanish imperialism against the independence of the op- pressed peoples. By defending them- selves the Riff inhabitants are only defending their independence in the — Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEwris’[ MY NEW LOCATION Workers ESTABLISHED 12 YEAR. My Examination is Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work le Guaranteed Extracting Specialist It is the old unbriddled race tor markets name of the right of einde tion of all peoples. Socialists Again Betray Workers. The democratic left bloc which pre- sented itself to the workers and peas- ants as the angel of peace, has start- ed the Morocco war in order to do justice to the colonial interests of high ‘finance and the Comite des Forges. The socialists who are now part of the bloc, were the accomplices of Herriot in the preparation of the war, and they are now the accomplic- es of Painleve in the starting and the continuation of the war. They are no better than in 1914; they support with their ideology the imperialist adven- tures of the left bloc—those pacifist adventures which contain the ele- ments of international complications. These socialists help spread the lies about the “peaceful and local“ na- ture of the Morocco affair. In order to hide their treachery they simulate ignorance of the truth, and demand “explanations” from the government. At the same time, how- ever, they prepare together with the government, the vote of confidence which demands the continuation of the military campaign and the driving out of Abéd-el-Krim’s troops beyond the limits of the protectorate, which as they know, do not exist. ' Just as in 1914-1918 they are for the prosecution of the war “until the bit- bor end.” The “union sacre” is again concluded. Renaudet and ~ Jouhaux are once more in accord with Lou- cheur and Briand, in order to drive the Riffs out of French Morocco. They are executing the imperialist plans of the reactionary national bloc. English Intrigue. It is only for the purpose of better deluding the workers and peasants who are opposed to the war, it is only from tactical motives that the social- DELAY MEANS DECAY ists and democrats of the left do, not come out so openly for the complete crushing of the Riff inhabitants, And these criminal charlatans dare to speak of pacifism and peace— when the blood of French workers and peas- ants is already mixing with the blood of the Riffs who are only defending their possessions against the on- slaught of the Spanish and French imperialists. The war in Morocco will be long and murderous. It will call forth new conflicts and new international complications among the rival impe- rialists. Great Britain who is oppos- ed to a mighty France based on in- dustry and colonies, will do its utmost to prevent the creation of a French Gibraltar on the coasts of the con- quered Riff. England is intriguing Ann Spain who is also opposed to the French penetration into the Riff. In the meantime Italian imperial- ism is taking advantage of this situ- ation by demanding Tunis. It points to France’s intentions in order to hush up its own plans in Tripolis. Be- cause of the international complica- tions, the government of the left bloc tries to assure the world that it will confine itself to driving Abd-el-Krim out of the protectorate and to the de- fense of the borders. In reality, however, the war will be carried on in the form of a block ade whose goal it is to force the Riff inhabitants into submission and thus to get hold of their land. Workers to Pay. Such is the policy of peace which is supported by the democrats and soctal-democrats of the left bloc. Their colonial policy differs in no way from that of the bloc national. They have prepared the war, they are now prose- cuting the war, and they will the Morocco war to a finish. war may lead to another war yet more frightful than that of 1914-1918 —a war that will cause rivers of blood to flow, and will require thou- sands of corpses and unparalleled de- struction and devastation. French workers and peasants! The horrors of the last war will be as nothing in comparison with those militarists will let loose upon the world. The next war will fequire not only countless victims, but also mil- liards upon milliards of money that will go into the pockets of the war mongers and war profiteers. Reavy burdens of taxation are your inevit- able fate. Workers and peasants of Spain! French imperialism has sent its agent to Spain in erder to drag your coun- try into the bloody war in Moroeco. Spanish soldiers were already fratern- izing with the Fiff, and they will con- tinue to do so. It is your duty to join all your efforts with those of the French workers and peasants in the struggle for peace and for the evacu- ation of Morocco. Down With Imperialism! Workers and peasants of Italy! The to rouse the resistence of the mass- es against the pirate war of their gov- ernment. It is your duty to prevent the further spread of the conflagra- tion, government of Mussolini is inclined to freshen its crumpled laurels thru new conquests, united with the ‘French proletariat, you will prevent your government from committing these new crimes. . Comrades, workers and peasants! The Communist International warns you against the impending danger. Only you can prevent the new mass slaughter. Close your ranks, organize and raise such a mighty protest that your government may be struck with ‘terror and lose no time in making peace with the Riff inhabitants. Work- ers and peasants! Arise, all of you, against the war! Long live the fraternity of the French soldiers with the Riffs for the purpose of effecting a rapid peace. Long live the complete independ- ence of the colonial peoples! Down with the imperialist war in Morocco! The Oriental Bureau of the Com- munist International. Semard, Katayama, Nin, Kolaroff. Write the story about your shop —Order a bundle to distribute there. which the murderous imperialists and |: French proletariat will do its utmost)! Your- government. the fascist.) < || Make It Hot for Imperialist Speaker (Continued from page 1) of Oriental diplomacy to put across his’ reactionary agruments on the middle class 1 of Rockefeller’s universi N Questions Overcome British Propagandist. Hie, speech denouncing the Bolsheviki and defending foreign rule in cially British and Japanese rule, stirred up a storm of questions d, worried, and practically e speaker. One awakening scholar in the au- dience yanted to know why, inasmuch as the Gommunists had brought Rus- rom chaos to order and happi- ‘a tew years, it wouldn't be a good g to invite them into China, in order to restore peace there. This 2 lecturer waved aside 5 answer that,” he said. were others he couldn't answer. “What about the unjust treaties, depriving China of natural resources and controlling her fy ances?” was one. „ Vea—lit Vepends ‘ what you call unjust,” re- Ahead, and he went on to make clear that mere abuse and long hours of hard labor in the foreign capitalist’s factories somehow were not unjust to a Chinaman. “Why do the foreign powers sup- ralized autocratic rule in tame from some person who ot diplomatic intrigue to re- store the monarchy. “But whom would our diplomats have to deal with unless there was some one powerful autocrat in charge of „ responded Woodhead, and then trated that such an auto- erat must of course be willing to listen to reason—financial reasons, if he got any foreign support. All For “Profitable Business” * extra-territoriality?” several students asked. it is absolutely necessary ple if they are to have pro- 6 business in China,” unblushing- . Woodhead. aw literally dozens of ques- ; 77 not one friendly lead- dn the lot. The speaker das eee, his voice 7 weaker, finally he ness, and the chairman his rescue. he d ns weré the best part of it the speech itself was sufficient- izing... ar being introduced by ä tts ice president of the uni- versity, aa adting president, Wood- head proceeded to give one of the trankest pro-capitalist imperialist ver- sions of the Chinese situation ever heard. * Slanders Sun Yat Sen Ales Sun Yat Sen he slandered with the statement that “his mercenaries sup- ported themselves in Canton on the opium, gambling and brothel graft,” and Woodhead's interpretation of the defeat of thé “tiger troops” or Fascisti of Canton Was that “Sun Yat Sen in- cited the proletariat against the mer- chants and massacred them.” Evidently ‘all this might have been forgiven Sun if he had not “become closely allied with the Soviet.” This was his great sin. In horror stricken accents Woodhead referred to Sun and Joffe, the representative of Soviet Russia, as “this precious pair,” and plied “the noisiest trouble-makers in China.” Evidence, But No Proof The whole difficulty in China, ac- cording to Woodhead, is that the Chi- nese are inefficient, and dumb gener- | ally, and that they are being mislead | by the Russian Bolsheviki. There is | no absolute proof,“ said Woodhead, “that the Kuo Min Tang is subsidized by Russian gold, but there is very strong evidence.” One ot the incidents he related as evidence was the case of a Chinese soldier who just would go up on a certain wall in the fortifications of the city. No Chinaman had ever been al- lowed on that wall since the whites came to China. Naturally the whites were not going to begin now to allow Chinese soldiers to mount the forti- fications of their own cities, such a thing would indeed set a bad prece- dent. How Shocking! So the Chinese soldier was chased off once or twice, and then put where he will never bother any of the su- perior” race any more. “And would you believe it, Karakhan, the Soviet ambassador, issued a statement justi- fying the soldier, and all sorts of Rus- sian Bolshevik unions and what not sent messages of consolation and sym- pathy to the soldier's family.” Such a ridiculous thing, in Mr. Woodhead’s opinion. According to the lecturer, the Chi- nese are so stupid, really, you know, they cannot see that the foreign cap- italists are trying to civilize the coun- try, and that foreign mills are much better places to work in than any Chinese workshops. They are so stupid that they cannot tell one kind of white man from an- other, and go on strike against Bri- tish capitalists just like all the rest. Of course they can tell the Bolsheviki. Bad Bolsheviks Are Contagious There is something inherently bad in a Bolshevik that calls out similar badness in the Chinese coolie; wick- edness responds to wickedness, and they treat each other as comrades. Woodhead read excerpts from speech- es of both Chinese and Russian lead- ers to prove this point. Woodhead has the Bolshevik hor- rors all night. So much so that he entirely overlooked the evident sar- casm in one of the questions he tried to answer, which was, “The very real economic interests of England and other powers in China are well known, but what do the Russian Communists expect to gain by their activity?” Why Indeed! Poor Woodhead contented himself with naivety wondering aloud, “Why indeed should the Bolsheviki want to come into China? If they would only stay out!” Previously to this he had stated that red theories were making no headway whatever among the busi- ness mewn China. Woodhead’s speech was part of a series on Far Eastern Affairs, given under the Norman Wait Harris foun- dation. He talks on July 8 on “Extra- territoriality,” and on July 16 on „China's Foreign Relations.” Speeches at 4:30, in Leon Mandell Hall, Univer- sity of Chicago, and public is invited. Count Soyeshima of Japan talks July 9. on “Japan’s Policy in the Far East.” PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS~ 645 Smithfield Street. the shootings. OCCUPATION OF CANTON BY 7m MOSCOW, June 16.—(By Mail)—The occupation of Canton by the Kuo Min Tang army, whic h is to be regarded as an ant victory for the national revolutionary movement, took lac under the following circumstances: Canton, where for some days the armies the provinces of Yunnan and Kwang-Si had risen against the government of the Kuo Min Tang Party, was occupied by revolu- of the e ‘a — eit ae tionary Kuo Min Tang troops. The latter have completely defeated 0 the counter-revolutionary army The commander of the first Lian was murdered by his own Documents were found in the possession of the general an and have made 4,000 prisoners. Yunnan division, Tschao na soldiers. of the Yunnanese troops which “ reveal the existence of a con- spiracy for the formation of a counter-revolutionary govern- ment with the support of the foreign imperialist powers. The coming pub-| lication of the documents will prove sensational. The population opened the Kuo Min Tang troops as a besieged town greets its rescuers. Workers of Can- ton marched as the first into the town. The counter-revolution- ry insurrec- tion took place under the slogan of freeing of Kwangtung from the Bol- sheviks. The Kuo Min Tang issued in opposition to this the slogan of freeing the country from the mili- tarist and imperialist yoke. The insurrectionaries had enormous sums of money at their disposal for the purpose of corrupting the Kurc Min Tang troops. They were, however, unsuccessful, ae aif The Kuo Min Tang troops supported by the workers, students and smaller business mer and by all groups of the national rey olutionary movement ineluding 1. Communist Party. By a decision of the Kuo Min ane Party a new government has formed in Canton of nine The Kuo Min Tang Party has an appeal in which it calls for a ization of the will of the dead and founder of the Party, Sun Ta Sen. In Canton there is a great revo ; lutionary impetus and pewerful anti i imperialist demonstrations have taker place, Liberation Movement Reported Spreading Rapidly June 16th MOSCOW, June 16. (By Mail).— The movement in China is spreading. The Shanghai strike continues un- weakened. The Shanghai chamber of commerce which has previously adopt- ed a conciliatory attitude to the strike tion with the shootings. demands the dispatch of instruction: 1 to all British consuls in China t& prevent the repetition of the ee in Hankow in other places, The not J kurther declares that the English fol lowed the blood-bath in Shanghai with new bloodshed in Hankow. In Pekin Protest meetings against the Hankow shootings have taken place. Expect Nation-Wide Strike. A one-day general protest strike has now decided to support the strik- ers with considerable sums of money. On the 13th of June hundreds of thousands of people took part in a demonstration in Shabghai in which the decision was passed that should the demands be rejected and satis- faction not be made by the foreign | powers, the whole of China is to be | called for a general strike. Indigation Grows. * The growing indignation of the beo over the whole of China is 5 The support of the strikers with : money is considered to be the cond). | — of success. Street col Pekin resulted in a sum of $10,000 ‘The railwaymen have alloted five be cent and the officials 10 to 80 pe cent of their wages and salaries to the help of the strikers. The governmen — nas been requested to form a ern | fund of 80 millions thru special es, and to commence with the b ple expresses itself in all kinds of | ing of railways to oceupy the 4 collisions in various parts. Yester- , day in Tsching-Kiang (Province Ki- ang-Su) crowds forced their way into | the English concession, the Japanese “Formoso” and the English consulate | | being set alight. British and Japanese soldiers who | were landed, forced the masses back. The Japanese naval authorities in China have demanded the dispatch of four further Japanese cruisers. 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4 \ ' . Are Fired for | Talking Union y A Negro Stee! Worker.) | EAST YOUNGSTOWN, O., July 5 —The employes at the East Younge ‘town plant of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, one of the larg est plants in the Youngstown steel district, work under what the com- pany calls the “Employes’ Represen- tation Plan” or a company union. No member of a labor union Is elig- ible to act as a representative. Mem- _ bership in the Workers Party, Indus. trial Workers of ‘the World, or any other revolutionary organization, sub. _jects any employe to immediate dis missal. The rules provide that any employe who feels that an injustice has been done him can appeal to the president ‘of the company and finally to the secretary of the U. S. department of labor. Davie Co.“ Supreme Court. According to this the secretary of labor is the “supreme court” for the company union. Unionism of al) kinds is prohibited by the rules and regulations subscribed to by the workers at this plant and even the chances of appealing to the open shop supreme court of the department of labor are indeed remote when the ap- pealing party happens to be a mili- tant worker in rebellion against the fron heel of capitalism. Five South Slav steel workers who have been employed by this company for many years were recently dis- missed without any reason given. Two are members of the Workers Party of America while the other three are sympathizers. They were simply told by their boss to GO HOMB and STAY THERE. 7 Bribery System. In their cases the company union refused to operate because their plant representatives in the company are immediately promoted when elected to represent the work- srs so they will get out of the way of the workers. Straw bosses and foremen use the bribery system and zue dismissed steel worker tells how a Btraw boss on No. 6 threading floor to “borrow” $30.00 from him because he was discharged. The “borrowing” habit is a fixed of the daily life of the steel ‘workers and in most cases the steel slave must either “loan” his boss the money or face dismissal. These are ‘out a few of the evils resulting from this wonderful employes’ representa- Jon plan or company union. The " time the workers in my depart- ‘ment hear from their representatives around election time which takes ‘lace once each year. Fired For Complaining. Over 5 per cent of the workers rote for their representatives and when they are elected they usually get a better job. We never have seen wy of the minutes of their meetings ‘end their spy system is so well or- _§Jamized that once we complain we are immediately discharged for some rea- on or another. All of my fellow vorkers want to be organized into a union and this we hope to do in the near future. Negroes Demand Union. They feed us a monthly bulletin vith much sop about this and that Worker along with talks by the man- #gement but once we, as our S. Slav m@m@rades did, tried to use our heads iwe were discharged upon the spot Ind the company union STANDS BACK OF IT. It is but a weapon in the hands of The company to club down the work- “rs and the slaves are fast waking hp and demanding REAL unionism. Sve negro steel workers are ready at my time to organize with our white _ Srothers and we hope that the move t started at Gary will come our 1 * 7. . s-ongested Big District Picked for Big Junior High School Project A new junior high school will be Wonstructed on an 8 acre site now abeupied by the Jewish Peoples’ in- south of and adjoining Mc- ti nister Park. The site is bounded u, Taylor, Lytle and Sibley streets, d Gilpin place. It was chosen by 8 16 building and grounds committee t the board of education for the “ection of a junior high because it is Bi district very thickly populated by chorking class families for whose nculdren trade education is advocated try the big business interesta of Chi- 80. 2 Air Joy Ride. th LAKEHURST, N. J., July 5.—The jmaval dirigible Shenandoah left its mooring mast on the naval air’ sta- won fleld at 9:15 this morning for war Harbor, Maine, where a group of idate governors will be taken for a ght tomorrow. It is all chalked up BUILD LABOR DEF ENSE TO AID ALL » CLASS WAR PRISONERS IS LEADING RESOLVE OF CHICAGO COMMUNISTS Every party member should be on organizations to get those bodies to Complete participation of every party member to aid in building a mass membership organisation of the International Labor Defense organisation on a broadest possible basis was stressed at the C. C. C. meeting of Workers (Communist) Party, Local Chicago, by Thurber Lewis, in making the report on the successful National Defense Conference on June 28. the job in his local union and fraternal co-operate with and join this Labor Defense organization which will defend all class war. prisoners, I. W. W., A. F. of L. workers, Communists and any other workers caught by the capi- talist tyrannies- in this country and internationally. Locally, some twenty-five unions and fraternal organizations sent delé gates to the Defense Conference, a good showing for the short period of necessary work. The mass meeting in the evening of the 28th was given full support and resulted in a most enthusiastic mass demonstration and gave a fine send-off to the newly organized In- ternational Labor Defense ora tion. Chicago Industrial Organizers Meet. At the last industrial organizers’ meeting 20 party and Y. W. L. units were present and the matter of tac- tics, resolutions and work in the trade unions was closely discussed and plans of work laid out. Every branch is instructed to make industrial and trade union work a special order of business at each meeting in order to stimulate interest and activity on the part of every member of organizations in this work. Some local elections have taken place in the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union and a number of left wing candidates have been elected to the local union executives and to the joint boards. The machine has contested a few on the usual fake reasons. It was reported that leaf- lets explaining the situation in Locals 2, 9 and 22, had been distributed in the Market.“ The strike of Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers in Chicago at the Inter- national Tailoring company and the role of the United Garment Workers as scabs was reported upon. Party members were urged to give complete support to the Amalgamated strike and to expose and fight the scabbing tactics of the United Garment Work- ers in the midst of this struggle. The progressive painters’ group program -for the coming convention was outlined, among the points being 100 per cent organization; direct elec- tion of general officers, against expul- sions of painters and other delegates. from central labor bodies, for a labor party, for amalgamation, etc. In the machinists’ local, prepara- tions are going on for a complete turn out to the national conference of the left wing in the near future. Trade Union Committee Formed for Negro Work. It is necessary that additional sup- port be given to the work among the Negro workers, especially to the trade union committee working in that field for the American Negro Labor Con- gress to be held on October 25. Hands Off China Meeting. test meeting on Wednesday, June 24, was reported on, despite a continual rainfall. The hall was filled, a num- present. ‘Three Chinese speakers and a number of contacts gotten with them. On July 4, will take place the Anti- Imperialist Week at Beyer’s Grove, end of California Ave. car line. The fourth annual Communist picnic is also held in conjunction with the Hands Off China, Mexico, Haiti, etc., protest demonstration. The following new members were secured into the party: Douglas Park English. . 4 Irving Park English. 1 Douglas Park Jewish 3 South Side English 2 Northwest Jewish 4 South Slav 2 Polish North Side.................... 2 Polish South Side 3 Cicero English 27 German N 2 Russian 1 The following resolution was adopt- ed by the city central committee: “The C. C. C. having considered the resolution on the South Slavic Fed- eration, adopted by the central exe- cutive committee, declares: “It is in thoro harmony with and C. E. C. is correct in calling attention Cleveland Comrades and Fellow-Workers Comrade Emanuel Vajtauer, editor of the Bohemian Workers Party week- ly Obrana, in New York, was denoun- ced by social-democratic spies and held’ four months for deportation at Dllis Island and is now released on $2,000 bail. He is one of the most able speakers of the Third International and until the supreme court decide if he will re- main with us or not, he is on a lecture tour. He will speak in Cleveland, Ohio Saturday July 11, 1925 at 8 p. m. at the Bohemian Sokol Hall (Garden) 4314 Clark Ave. mian er Siovek # are coe te attend.. ——— — . ö U All comrades who understand Bohe- | —k’4-„„ ———U— — q to the violation of discipline, in fail- ing ‘to carry out C. E. C. decigions on the Part. of the majority of the South Sla¥ bureau. “The C. C. C. endorses the action of the C. E. C. in declaring that the Fisher-Mikalachky group is a healthy Communist group and must be given fill opportunity to do work for the South Slav Federation. e attitude of the Novak group in tollo wing a policy of persecution and exclusion of the Fisher-Mikalachky group from responsible work in the federation is to be condemned. “More important yet, is the action of the C. E. C. in calling att@ntion to-aud checking the strong tendency toward federation autonomy on the part of the Novak group. Especially will such an attitude on their part, if continued, tend to prevent reorganiza- tion on an international branch and shop nuclei basis among the South Slavs. “The city central committee will fully support the central executive committee in the fight against the decentralizing and disintegrating tendencies of federation autonomy.” Next meeting of C. C. C., Wednes- day, July 15, 722 Blue Island Ave. Fraternally yours, WORKERS PARTY, Local Chicago, MARTIN AGARN, Secretary. HANDS OFF CHINA!’ MEETING [SBI SUCCESS NEW ‘HAVEN, Conn., July 5. The first open air meeting this season on the Central Green fron the Band- stand condicted by the Workers party took place here Saturday night. Sev- eral hundred workers listened care- fully to the spech of Oliver Carlson on the subject “Hands off China.“ He traced the curse of opium, and the explotation of the Chinese work - ingmen, women and children tor pro- fits of imperialist countries. It was a speech full of facts, presented in an interesting manner. The audience was well satisfied, and was in agree- ment with the views expressed by the speakef. — The question period proved exceed- ingly interesting. Questions on Russia came thick and fast, which Comrade Carlson was able to answer well, be- cause of his several trips to Russia, A successful Hands Off China pro- ber of Chinese workers and students | endorses the C. E. C. resdlution. The and the many years spent there, as well as in other countries of Europe. A sécialist party member, a real es- tate dealer came to grief when he Pecs among other things that there was no free speech in Russia, and then refused to give the speaker za chance to answer his question. He | went off, the audience applauding his exit. Comrade Simons was chairman of the meeting. Arrest Is Made in Collecting for the Irish Famine Victims NEW YORK, July 5.—David Brown member of the Young Workers League, and voluntary collector for the Irish famine suffers, was arrested on Saturday, June 27, and committed to jail without bail. On Tuesday night, he was sentenced to 15 days in the workhouse, ‘ An Irish society, interested in keep- ing information about the famine of the Irish workers and peasants from the United States, prosecuted the case. The young comrade was arrested in the streets, before he had collected any amount of money. But the friends of suppressing the idea of solidarity between the American workers and their Irish brothers was too strong in the breasts of some of the Irish ele- ments of this city. The young com- rade is a Communist and the authori- ties are determined to connect his ac- tivities in behalf of the starving Irish workers with his political concepts. The court went even further. It has ordered an nvestigation of the Irish Workers ‘and Peasants Famine Relief Committee; contending that it is not a bonafiide organization—and is “conducting a bunco game.“ The Irish Workers and Peasants Fam Relief Committee welcomes this vestigation, since it will be proven that this committee is the only one that has made any attempt in the United States to get help to the starv- ing Irish workers and peasants. The Irish Workers and Peasants Famine Relief Committee intends to fight the case. Rush that. Sub—Campaign ends July 1 7 5 2 a Collection Tike Com- munist Picnic 6 (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 6. —At the DAILY WORKER picnic here, which was addressed by Mother ‘Ella Reeve Bloor, who is on a hitch-hiking coast to coast trip for the paper, and C. E. Ruthenberg, Workers Party execu- tive secretary, a collection was taken to give DAILY WORKER ‘subs to the members of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party, coal miners’ shop nuclei of the state. These coal miners are very poor from their long seige of unemployment and hardships brought on by the betrayal of the Lewis ma- chine and the “open shop” drive of the coal operators. The collection went. tor DAILY WORKER subscriptions _ to these min- ers., Thirteen were donated, and the miners filled them out. A large num. ber of miners from the coal fileds were present at the™picnic. Comrade Bloor spoke at the Kan- sas City Workers Party membership meeting on shop nuclei. re Le, Cleveland Y.W.L. Gets Behind the Labor : Defense Campaign CLEVELAND, O., June 30—The Young Workers League of Cleveland at its regular meeting unanimously passed the following ution con- demning the incarceratior of our Comrade Benjamine Gitlow and pledging its support to the Interna- tional Labor Defense. ~- The Resolution, Whereas, the United States su- preme court, the buttress of capital- ism, has decided that e Benja- min Gitlow must serve,the remainder of his ten year sentence for yttering the famous “Left N N of 1919, and Whereas, Com. Gitlon: nas during the past six years held the red banner of Communism,in merica, de- voting himself unfi to the cause of the Conant elan therefore, be, paper Resolved, 4 at. the lish branch 0 _ Your League, ‘Léon! Clevela lates Comrade Gitlow f mined stand Tor the expibited masses, and pledge our support and unremit ting work for Comrade Nee free- dom so that he m Neonſtnue his splendid activities in the Communist movement; and be it Further Resolved that We call upon every member of the party and the league and every membéf of the work- ing class to co-operate’ with the Com- munist movement of this country in the fight for the freedom wt Jomrade Gitlow. Side Eng- AND FURTHER, Whereas, the oppressius-ot workers by the courts, as in the Gitlow case, has now become an established prac- tice by the capitalist Class which must be expected to become more se- vere with the development of, greater intensity in the class struggle, and Whereas we must prepare for the oppression of many valiant. fighters of the working class by the capitalist state, and Whereas the workers need a strong defense organization to fight against these oppressive measures, therefore be it. Resolved that we are in full har- mony with the plans of the Labor De- fense Conference held in Chicago on June 28 for the reorganization and revitalization of the Labor Defense Council by making it a workers’ de- fense organization based upon the support and participation of the broad dom of speech and ot the press is FOR oll TRUST Congratulate for Work in Roumania (Special to The Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, July 5.—Peter Jay, American minister to Roumania, re- turned to Washington to prepare for his new post as ambassador to Argen- tina, has been a complete failure as a debt-collector for the American gov- ernment, but he has scored a brilliant success on behalf of Standard Oil and the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A. C. Bedford of Standard Oil has writ- ten Secretary Kellogg a letter eulog- izing Jay in golden terms. Roumania owes the American treas- ury $45,000,000, on loans made duri and after the war, with accrued serra est. A long series of strong notes demanding payment has failed, thus far, to bring the slightest sign gf in- tention, from Premier Bratiano or the much-advertised royal family, that they will pay a nickel. A large part of this debt is due to “relief” loans made in the period after the armis- tice, when the Roumanians threatened to set up a Soviet government. Oi Trust “Interpretation.” Britain and France and some other countries made smaller loans, and the Bucharest government secretly agreed with them to begin payment. But the American help, which had been more necessary, prompt and extensive was not to he refunded. However, Roumania also enacted a confiscatory law aimed at the Stand- ard Oil Co., and other foreign firms in the oil business in Roumania. Jay persuaded the minister of commerce to ‘interpret” this law, and to grant a long series of “exceptions,” that saved many millions of dollars to Standard Oil. Bedford was delighted. In the same persuasive way, Jay got the slippery Roumanian cabinet to pay the Baldwin firm some millions due for locomotives delivered after he war. ~ Doesn’t Know of Workers. Jay. is one of those happy, rich young diplomats, equipped with in- herited privilege and polo ponies, Who knows nothing of the workers in any country where he serves the state de- partment. He believes that there is no political party in opposition to the reactionary Bratiano ministry in Rou- mania, that the Communists are. not jailed or intimidated; and that free- greater there than in America. OPPOSES GRAFT, JUDGE DENIES CITIZENSHIP Calif. Worker Told to Be More Diplomatic“ (Special te The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, July 5.—In a local paper is a letter from one S. Garborg, in which he tells about some of his experiences trying to ohtain citizen- ship papers in a local court. From his letter it appears there 18 a wate can class with C. C. Kel- so at its head. Garborg attended this class and on being invited to ask questions asked the following: “Can I be naturalized if I affirm loyalty to a government of, by, and for the peo- ple as opposed to a government of, by, and for the profiteers and graft- ers of the country?” Kelso answered, “No.” After class Kelso told Garborg he | had noticed he was given to “theo- rizing” and advised him to Le more diplomatic. The letter goes on: “On May Ist, I appeared before judge Me- masses of workers, and that we renew our energies to work thru this revital- ized defense movement for the de- fense of all workers who are victim- ized by the capitalist state in the class war. Hibbing Protests Bulgarian Terror HIBBING, Minn.—At present, when the bloody hand of Bulgarian fashism writes the gloomest pages in the hist- ory of brutalness, the workers of Hib- bing and vicinity, gatheréd in Dvorani Hall, Morton to demonstrate their class solidarity, rise their voice against the white terror in Bulgaria. In his speech, the principal speaker Comrade Chas. Novak described the cannibalism of Zankov clique and its class on the militant workers and peasants. A resolution in the spirit of the pro-. test was read, and unanimously adopt: ed. Preacher Writes Bogus Checks. WASHINGTON, July 5.— The Rev. Garrett L. Allen, retired army chap- lain, and Judge Myles S. Macon, for- merly of Chicago were ‘under arrest here today charged with ‘passing $600 worth of bogus checks. According to the police, Allen wrote the checks and Macon caghed them. When arrested M said he would make good the 8 f ie Corimck. On my petition for citizen- ship I had asked if the U. S. constitu- tion guaranteed freedom of speech, and, if so, why such questions (as are asked on those i are asked there. At the court I was required to tell why I had asked that question, whether I was an anarchist, whether I sympathized with radical organiza- tions, and whether I thought the pre- sent government was of, by, and for the people. Not being an anarchist, I said so. I said I strongly sympathiz- ed with radical organizations and that I had my doubts as to the govern- ment. Judge McCormick then refused to naturalize me.“ This speaks for itself. Incidental- ly the judge spoken of is the one who ruled against the Doheny oil interests. | LABOR DEFENSE The Labor Defense Council has been merged with the INTERNA- TIONAL LABOR DEFENSE. All remittances should hence- forth be to the |. L. D., 23 South Lincoln St., Chicago, III. Address correspondence to James P. Can- non, Executive Secretary. All organizations, branches, iad individuals that received Defense Coupons are asked to push 1 b sale, and remit wy =, xR — — — : By Ne 0 Pll BRUSSELS (By ee im- portant group of the Belgian lett- wing trade ‘have issued an appeal to the Belgian calling for unity of the international | trades union movement and protest- ing against the non-admittance 110 Communists into the movement. The authors of the manifesto de- clare their solidarity with the new- ly-formed er e 3 of unity of the trade union and call upon t working | weno prevent all interference with the internal affairs of the Union of So- viet Républics, | By LEONARDO (Worker Correspondent) PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 5.—The threat of wage cut in the well-known Monongahela branch of the western Pennsylvania coal mining district has now gone into effect. As usual the district officials are doing nothing to stop it. In the important branch of no less than fourteen mines only two are working. One of them is working three days a week, and the other one only two. This can give the reader an idea of the extent of unemploy- ment with due suffering of the miners and their famities in this region. Besides, the miners often have to return from the mines and lose even these few days, because the com- pamy. prefers to have “dead work” dome by special day men, whose wages it is easier to reduce, than to have it done by the loaders at reg- ular day rate: Operators Violate Agreement. At Stockton, for instance, miners have lately been compelfed to do such work as dismantling mines, tearing down tipples, moving props and ma- chines, etc., for as low wages as 40c per fiour. For inside work they were allowed $5.00 a day tho Spo e clagpena calls for $7.50 a day. Outside work calls for at least $6.10 a day. Walter. Astle, one of the militant miners in Stockdale, was recently of- fered this inside work for $5.00. Altho hard up and badly in need of work, he indignantly refused this as being against his principles as a union man. He reported the incident to the district office of the union, where he was told by the high officials, that they cannot do ‘anything, that thé union “has no power,” etc. Why the Weakness? The question is, then, what is the cause ef this weakness of the union? The policy of the officials has always been carried out, in spite of opposi- tion. The main part of this policy, as often expressed by Pat Fagan, presi- dent of the district, is to peacefully co-operate with the coal operators to produce cheap coal.“ A little study in cause and effect! _ ROME (By Mail).—The Epoca, a Fascist organ, deplores the attitude taken by a part of the Italian press towards the U. S. S. R. and the newly appointed. Soviet ambassador at Rome. The paper scores the critics, | of whom some profess to believe the Soviet government and the “Comin- tern” (Communist International) were one and the same thing, while others assert that trade with the Union does not yield Italy adequate profits. On its own part, the Epoca empha- sizes the fact that neither Yureneff, the departing ambassador, nor the new ambassador, Kerjentzeff, has proved himself disloyal vis-a-vis the Itallan government. ‘ Italian Bosses Lack Pep. As for commercial intercourse be- tween the two countries. the Fascist organ considers that Italian capital- ists themselves have been lacking adequate initiative, as not many of them have been engaged in business with the U. S. S. R. or have applied for concesslons. ad Want More Trade. 7 “What we do want,” the author goes on to say, “is that the Soviet govern- ment should make larger purchases © in Italy and should not neglect the Italian market. We ought, how- ever, to bear in mind that Italy most- ly exports manufactured articles, while she imports raw materials— which means that should our trade balance prove to be unfavorable, we can always straighten matters by in- creasing Italian exports to other coun- tries. “Besides, we must never forget that not only does our commercial flag rank first in the Black Sea, but thru the medium of the Union of Soviet Republics, Italy gains access to the markets of the Near East.” : The Epoca articles. concludes by stating that the development and im- provement of Italo-Soviet relations is desirable and necessary in the inter- ests not only of the U. S. S. R., but Italy, too. White Collar Dubs Easy Prey No pdlice were needed to end the white-collar strike of Chicago's city engineer and his 573 associates who walked out June 30 for an announeed 3-day layoff. The strikers demanded an immediate and long overdue wage raise.. Mayor Dever applied a liberal: - dose of sympathy and persuaded them to go back to work on the second day. Aldermen added a heartfelt expression of the justice of the demands and sent the ordinance for a raise to slumber in committee, presumably until the 1926 appropriations are considered. Soviets Beat Turks at Football. MOSCOW (By Mail).—The. Soviet Union association football team has defeated the Angora-Smyrna team at Angora by 6 goals to 1. Among the numerous public attending the inter- national match were members of the Turkish government, the medjilis (parliament), the diplomatic corps, and others. — NEW MASS TRIALS OF WORKERS IN BULGARIA FILL JAILS OF ZANKOV SOFIA, Bulgaria—(By Mail)—On May 30 the court-martial of Ruscuk passed a verdict over the Plevny Communists Genko, Tachev and Theodor Kolev (Gotkat), tailors who are accused of concealing arms and parts of machine guns. The first of the above mentionad is sentenced to 4 years strict prison confinement and to pay 150,000 lev fine; the second, to 6 months prison confinement. + ‘CARPENTERS WIN. New Trials. It is reported from Plevny that the investigation in connection with dis- closed Communist cells in the city and country is being finished. Thirty-two comrades are accused in this trial; the majority of the apcused persons are students of the Plevny High- School (gymnazia) commercial em- ployes and a few teachers of rural schools. Frank Tomov—a worker in a print- ing shop is considered to be the main leader of these cells; according to ar- ticles 2 and 16 of the Government De- fense law he is threatened with being hanged on a public place or with life- long prison confinement, Trial of C. E. C. It is confirmed that investigation of the case in connection with the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Com- munist Party has been finished long ago and that the hearing of the case will take place soon. According to indictment the members öf the Cen- tral Executive Committee are charged with preparing and bringing about the September insurrection. way evidences and witnesses have been brought forth and the persecuting at- torney will make use of the same in order to prove that the Central Ex- ecutive Committee was working ex- clusively.. with the aim in view of causing a revolution in the country and also to show that the uprising of September 22 was organized by Ae same Committee. The Bulgarian newspapers state that this trial will be of great“histori- cal importance 1 8 W K. 42 WAGE. INCREASE IN WASHINGTON Raise Follows Strike of the Painters WASHINGTON, July 5.—A wage in- crease of 50 cents a day for all mem- bers of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners in the District of Columbia will take effect July 6 and continue until May, 1926. This raise was granted after negotiations which were ignored by the dnti-union Operative Builders’ organization. It follows the defeat of the anti-union forces in the strike of the Painters’ union membership and the signing up of the bosses for increased wages for the Plumbers and Steamfitters. The carpenters’ wage now becomes $9.50. The union agreement provided that the carpenters should get $9 un- til next May unless a raise were meanwhile granted to other building crafts. The carpenters benefited by the painters’ victory. | Poland Host to Baldwinites. MOSCOW (By Mail).—London pa- pers report that eight M. P.s’, repre- sentatives of British industries, are leaving for Poland for an inspection tour in the Galicia oilfields. During. their stay in Poland, the British in- dustrialists will be guests of the Po- lish government. aap — * 1 fie 2 ie ta PBR LL * — ———— 8 a a — — —— ——— — ä: uœ
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Stag BF * 2 l * E e . 0 Pt 1 pea & „ 2 5 on n ea . * 2 Bap . r > Pa an a f ay at — * * a ee ee eee. — SILK WEAVER TELLS OF WORK” > CONDITIONS Rhode Island Mills Sap Vitality of Workers By ALBERT WEISBORD (Worker Correspondent) PAUTUCKET, R. I., July 5—I am a weaver in a silk mill in Pautucket, Rhode Island. The textile workers have been pretty hard hit. We are speeded up, our wages cut and then starved by unemployment. I work nights, 7 p. m. to 5 a. m., Saturdays 5:30 a. m. The work is piece-work and each one works as fast as he can. I am all in when morning comes. The watchman in our place, an old man, near 70 years, who used to be a Weaver till he got too old and was thrown on the scrap heap, works 91 hours a week for $19. He works 13 — ee ee 8 0 hours a day, 7 days or nights a week, never a day off. Women Work All Night. | Here in Rhode Island women are al- lowed to work nights and there are young girls who work with me till five o'clock in the morning. Then there are mothers with children who work such hours too. Many of the workers are women. Our work is very hard on the eyes, especially at night with the bad light given us. Many weavers lose their eyesight or must give up their. work on account of bad eyes. In silk work sometimes there are as many as 18,000 threads covering only 45 to 60 inches on a single machine. Each one of these threads must be watched and fixed when necessary and so you can see how fine the work is. The noise in this mill is not 80 great as in a cotton mill where I worked last. One could not speak be- cause of the noise. Everything was done by signs. Many of us weavers go deaf in time. In the cotton mill, in spite of humidifiers, cotton fills the air and our lungs. Tholisands of tex- tile workers suffer from lung troubles, consumption and tuberculosis. _ Pay is wretched. Good weavers working full time seldom make over $32 weekly anywhere. Many make as low as $14. The average would be between $20 and $25. Gun Toting” Law in Effect. | SPRINGFIELD, III., July 5.--The.so- called “gun toting bill” which repeals the present deadly weapon act and provides for drastic regulations for the sale and carrying of fire. arms, decame a law without the signature K Send 12 in silver or stamps for our of Gov. Len Small today at the expi- ration of the time limit allowed for action on it by the chief executive; Polish-Soviet Trade Mounts. ; MOSCOW (By Mail).—The export and import activities of the Soviet trade mission in Poland in 1925 have so far increased 500 per cent as com- pared with the same period last year. The trade mission is actually assailed with offers from various Polish firms, of which most offer goods on ‘six months’ credit terms. Rush that Sub—Campaign ends 1 - 6 22 ——— —ͤ]ꝓ—ꝓ— —— — ee oe A 57 70 “TRUST USES LE CIS, TO SLASH WAGES AND REDUCE ITS” TAXES, IN HIBBIN U RE IRON TOWN 22 range of. northern Minnesota is known It has been given this title becau the village can raise due to the fact spent by them. - (By Worker Corvsenaadiay “HIBBING, Minn., July 5.—Hibbing, the largest city on the Mesaba iron as the “World’s Richest Village.” se of the large amount of tax money that the village is underlayed with a rich deposit of iron ore, which makes the assessed valuation over 100 mil- lion dollars and this ante the wage officials to raise large sums to be This large amount of tax money coming into the coffers of the village also has an effect on labor conditions. No Work in Winter. Tune principal industry is open-pit mining ‘and the season usually lasts trom about May 1 to Desember 1 and during the winter many’ Workers are unable to secure water in the mines. In the past the villas large part ot tits tax mon these mine workers f the winter months, © Of plan has been fought by Steel Corporation whith largest share of this tex m the village treasury, but they appeal- ed in vain to the local politicians to. stop this practice. For’ the witlage election came in March, and;,they knew that they must keep those! men at work to get their votes.. Of course jobs were plentiful just preceding an election. Steel Trust Limits Taxes.’ Being unable to stop what it called the “extravagant expenditure” ot vil- lage funds the steel corporation man- aged to put a law thru the legislature limiting the tax levy to $100 per cap- ita which cut the amount that could be raised by taxation to about half of what it formerly was. But even this did not bring about the results that the steel trust wanted as the politicians still used the funds to get votes and cut down on the amount spent for permanent eee ments, Steel Trust Wins. Again the steel corporation went to the legislature and secured a law changing the election to December in- stead of March, thinking that as the mines during the summer and fall months it would not be necessary for the office seekers to use the village funds to keep the miners at work to get their votes as they did when sabe election came in the spring. Hundreds Seek Jobe. That the steel corporation got what ter when hundreds of men stormed) the village employment office looking for work and only a few secured work on half time and the “World’s Richest percentage of unemplyoment, thea * city in e country! Wages Slashed. 78 After a winter of hardships and aut fering the workers were ready to ac- cept whatever wages the steel cor poration wished to pay in the spring and conditions are the worst in the history of the community. 3WO Two Labor Haters Run. 147 WASHINGTON, July 5.— (FP) —. Everett Sanders, former Indiana. con- gressman, enemy of railroad labor and now private secretary to Presi- dent Coolidge, is reported to be a can- didate for the senate against Senator, Jim Watson, who is just as much of,a. labor hater, who must face the ‘waters July 1! ante next year. ib A a OUR DAILY PATTERNS s F A VERY ATTRACTIVE NEGLIGEE. Comfortable and with new 5143. features, this popular garment will de- velop attractively in silk, crepe, flan- nel or blanket cloth. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, 34-46; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size will require 4% yards of 32-inch material. Pattern wailed to any address on receipt. of 120 in silver or stamps. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! up-to-date Spring and Summer 1925 Book of Fashions, showing color plates and containing 500 designs of ladies’, misses’, and children's patterns, a con- cise and comprehensive article on dress- making, also some points for the needle A POULAR APRON MODEL, 5145. This style is good in lawn, gingham, percale or cretonne. It may be trimmed with bias ‘banding, rick rack braid or edging and finished with or ‘without a sash. The pattern is cut in four sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 38-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 3% yards of 27-inch material. -e 18 . , 3 Norte TO PATTERN BUY ERS— The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur- nished by 4 New York firm ot pattern tt i ae Orders are forwarded by ‘the .D WO RK ER every day as re- D a a they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not keep a stock of patterns on hand. Delivery ‘of pat- tertis ordinarily will take at least 10 days workers would be employed in the they wanted was evidenced last,.win,; Village“ undoubtedly had a greater.) +- COOLIDGE’S DRIVE FOR DEBT PAYMENTS BRINGS IN NO MONEY WASHINGTON, July 5—The gov- ernment’s new debt-collecting drive, started in April under the direction of President Coolidge, has not brot any money into the treasury to date from European nations. it has brot only assurances that virtually’ all the 812,000, 000 000 owed the United States on account of war loans will be paid. FRENCH CABINET WILL SEND DEBT - DELEGATES HERE PARIS, July 5.ä— The French cabinet today decided to send a debt commis- sion to the United States “as soon as possible” to conduct negotiations by which the French war debt of more than $4,000,000,000 may be adjusted. Announcement of the government's decision was made by Foreign Minis- ter Briand at the close of a cabinet meeting devoted to consideration of France’s fiscal affairs. It was understood the mission would be sent to the United States early in the autumn. Decide in Principle” 5 After the cabinet meeting, Foreign Minister Briand announced to the press: We have decided in principle that we will send a debt mission to Washington.” WORKERS WAGES CUT IN HALF IN | §. BEDDING CO, Sy VICTOR VOLKMANN. _ jority of the workers jn the U. S. Bed- ding Co. of St. Paul, are young men. ) Wages range from 25 to 40 cents an hour, except for a few sample heads who receive more. Many family-men work for 32% cents an hour; that is, they get no more. At present the men 1 ten hours a day. Two years ago the spring makers received one dollar for every spring they made; now they get fifty cents. Two wage cuts occur- red in the mattress department dur- ‘ing the last six months. Sanitary conditions, are terrible. The dirty water from the toilet on the second floor drops on the heads of the workers on the first floor. The place is cleaned only the day before the in- spector comes. There is no steam heat in the factory, except when it is impossible to work even with your overcoat on. Three Accidents In One Week Many accidents happen right along. Three accidents occurred last week— the men lost parts of their fingers. They promise the workers golden treasurers when they start, but once they ask for a raise, out they go. As a result, the workers are unorganized. The boss himself is an Israelite and he boasts of liking Jewish workers. The reason for it is simple, he gets the least protected workers and pays them the lowest wages. A national hatred is set up in the shop between the American and Jew- ish workers; consequently, the work- ers forget their vital interests. The workers are fooled with picnics fand other such affairs. The workers cover the expenses, but the boss gets the advertisement. Spies room about the factory and the workers are not aware of it. Bittner Asks Bosses’ Government to Please Make ’Em Stop Fight WASHINGTON, July 5.—Owing to the absence of Secretary of Labor Davis from the city the department of labor has as yet taken no action on the request of Van A. Bittner, of the United Mine Workers, that the government intervene in the con- test between miners and operators in West Virginia over the continuance of the present wage agreements. Officials said the dispute had been in progress for about 90 days and that the department, thru its concil- iation service, had made a number of ineffectual attempts to bring the warring parties into some sort of agreement.” ‘RR? Bittner’s appeal for government in- tervention was in sat form of a tele- gram. 8 Fos. Write the Dats t ‘about your: shop ST. PAUL, Minn., July 5.ä— The ma- | THE- DAILY n ILL BE Nippot WIDENS FEN JAPAN, GREAT: BRITAIN ers to 3 War Alliance (Special to The Daily Worker) | The outstanding is said to be to get the use of the har- bor of Saigon, in French Indo-China, PARIS, July — To secure a Japan- ese naval base at Saigon, opposite the British base of Singapore, the Japan- ese have, thru Viscount Ishii, offered France an offensive and defensive al- Hance against, Great Britain it is ru- mored here, on, good authority. To pave the way the Japanese gov- ernment has just placed an order for $14,000,000; worth of railway rolling stock with Schneider and other French firma, and also has given or- ders for oo and armaments to France, . The Toko 3 had asked for bids for railway material from ‘English firms,' but suddenly transfer- red the busine#s to. France last month to aid the political negotiations. French bids were no lower than the English, and Krupps offered lower prices than either. The Want ite Isolate Hongkong. Japanese objective which is just opposite Singapore and which has a tremendous value. The establishment of a powerful strategic Japanese naval base at Saigon, which has an excellent harbor, would be a counter balance against the new Brit- ish base at Singapore and would pre- vent the British fleet from passing thru the China sea en route to Hong- kong and Japan. Viscount Ishii also is said to have to proposed a sort of supplementary com- mercial countries, get unlimit China, coul Indo-China ' alliance between the two ider which Japan could food supplies from Indo- send Japanese laborers and dump large amounts of godds in France and the French colonies under extremely low tariffs. , 249 Japan Bargains. In return ft is stated that Japan of- fers to attab Russia in case Russia supports a German attack against France, offers to buy all its war and industrial matérial in France, pledges its diplomatic support and promises low tariffs on French goods. The same Proposal was made to M. Poincare and later to M, Herriot, but the French refused to fear of Ameritan objedti cause of a f Frances with head goods, and Indo- China. with . * en it for ons and be- that Japan would flood Se | Your: Union Meeting 9 nt Second Meeting, June 6, 1928. 706 Note. e meetings are at 20 f Carpenters, I. . Name of Local and Meeting Place Boiler Makers, 5 5324 S. Halsted St. Boot an Workers’ Joint Councilj v4 939 “Milwaukee Ave. ag ge Joint Ex. Board, Brewerw ers 1700 W. 2ist St. Bridge and Structural Iron Work- ers, 910 W. Monroe St. Butchers, . 3420 W. Roose- — = 4003 A N Road. e ee 2705 W. 38th Carpent rs, 4039 W. Madison Bt. Carpenters; 40 W. North Ave. 9139 1 505 8. State St. 1467 C — Ave. 222 N. W. St., Wauke- gan Carpenters, 2040 W. North Ave. Carpenters, 6654 8. Halsted St. Cigar Makers’ Ex. Bd., 8 W. ashington St. 7:30 p. m. t Ex. Ba, 2525 8. W 2 (Marine), 601 Capitol 4643 a. Halsted St. Carpenters, arpenters, Carpenters, ineers, neers, (R. R.), 2433 W. Roose- velt Ro ad. Engineers (Loc.), 3900 W. North Ave., 7 p. 5058 Im. 83883 and Enginemen, Wentworth Ave Firemen. and 3 175 W. Wash. Gardeners and Flo ists, Neidog's Hall, Hinsdale, III. mote ang Restaurant. Empl's 28 Bd., 166 W. Washington, 3 p. 8 W. Van 1 Western Ave. 1 Tan 70 St. — Moulders Conf. Bd. Painters , * nters, Painters, Painters, inters, Painters, Railway rior. Railway Carmen, Railway Kareem mercia Railway Carmen, 119 S. Throop North Ave. 20 Ww Randolph armen, Cicero and Mase: 5252 8. Ashland. 88th and Com- 92d and Balti- pat tay Dis. Council, 165 Railway ; ‘Clerks, 549 W. Washing- t t Railway ‘Clerks, 166 W. Madison St. Railway. Clerks, Madison and Sac- ra mento Railway (Merks, 75th and Drexel. yori 8 8 549 W. Washing ton 1 Trainmen, 2900 W. North A. m. ˖ . e Van “Buren and Sailors’ Union of Great Lakes, 355 N. Clark St. Rallway. Scientific Labora atory Workers, City Hall, Room 713. Signalmen, 2100 W. bist St. Switchmen, 323 Collins t. Joliet. III. Teamsters, 220 S. Ashland Blvd. Trade Union Label oo * W. Washington St., Typographical, 180 9 Washington 4. | stated all Lawyer ‘Heads | Swaraj. NEW YORK, July 5.—J. M. Sen Gupta, chosen leader ot the Bengal Swaraj party to succeed C. R. Das who died, becomes also the leader of the Bengal trade union organization, S. N. Ghose of A Friends ot Freedom tratin 30 of the various simple 22 ail valuable himts te the home | from the date of mailing the order. Do mee become impatient your ae 1 9 Order à bundle k distribute there. | for India states. Gupta is a lawyer. — — — 8 ILDERS AT WORK THE CONTEST IS ON IN FULL SWING! Prize Winner Soon to Be Announced weeks later and every two from among hts and his elp the DAIL worker, his fi You can on which sheet are your stor worker. it by return mail. The first WORKER CORRESPONDENTS | ended Saturday, June 27. The best story sent in by a worker correspondent will soon be announced by the judges and a prize. of the choice of $5.00 worth of books from th ogue of the Daily Worker Publishing Co. will be awarded. The second contest began June 29 and ends on July 11. The third contest begins on Monday, July 13 and ends two weeks a winner will be chosen the best proletarian writers. . Get in on this contest. Write a story—there's no better way to better the DAILY WORKER. The Daily Needs Your Help! Workers will need no urging to subscribe to the DAILY WORKER if “Our Daily” is ever reflecting the life of the irations. WORKER become such a mir- ror in which everyday can be seen the stories that tell of wages, living conditions, trade union activities, etc. , You are the ONLY one who can do it. Send in a story on how you work and live—and order a bundle to distribute among other workers who also live and work that way. The Daily Worker Will Help You to Help! Special worker correspondent paper has been prepared ou can write your story. On the back of each elpful hints that will tell so that it will be a real picture of the life of a hese hints have been prepared by the editors of the DAILY WORKER and will be sent to anyone WITHOUT CHARGE. Simply drop a line saying you want some sheets of the special worker correspondent paper—and you'll . ‘CONTEST e catal- ou how to polish up TOOL OF BLOODY: IMPERIALISTS TALKS OF ‘PEACE Coolidge Speech Amid Military Setting CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July B. Amid a military setting, and following the parade of infantry and cavalry troops President Coolidge; who has sent United Statés soldiers to China, Nica- ragua, Haiti, the Philippines and other oppressed | countries and colonies, prated of “Deace” and “morals,” Coolidge was speaking at the 150th anniversary of the taking command of the revolutionary army by Gen. Wash- ington. He declared America will not make “political committments where it does not haye political interests,” but will give such covenants. moral support.“ f 8 Soviets Erect Wireless. MOSCOW (By Mail).—It is report- ed from Teheran that a powerful wire- less station, constructed with Soviet assistance, is being completed there, and another one will be erected at Kermanshah by mid-June. 8 and Farmers Belong Together; South Dakotans Are Told Why FREDERICK, So. Dak., July 5.— The People's Hall association of Savo, South Dakota, held its 27th annual midsummer celebration for two days. The first day was given to the presen- tation of a play, “The Beggar Act- ress.” Comrades of New York, Mills, Minn., and local comrades participated in the play. It was one of the ‘best plays ever shown in Savo. Principal numbers on the program for the second day were speeches by Comrades Hathaway of Minneapolis, and Mrs. K. E. Heikkinen of New York Mills, Minn. The former stres- sed the necessity of farmers and work- ers to get together to fight the ex- ploiters, their mutual enemy. 5 The latter showed how the inten- sification of the class struggle has brought about the downfall of many great and powerful nations in the past. She pointed out the way for the workers of the world to fight to deter- mine their own destiny. The proceeds of the celebration Hall. Give this copy to your shop- mate. — oe Ae went to the upkeep of the People’s | Page Five 5 — — — — ie PAY OF BOSTON OFFICE WORKERS EXTREMELY LOW Many Get 1 1 Than $15.00 Per Week BOSTON, July 5.—(FP)—Massa- chusetts office workers are not so well paid as many people think, the state department of labor’s division of sta- tistics shows in a survey of white collar workers of, the bay state. More than half of the- 9,897 office workers listed in the canvass earn less than $25 a week. The 9,897 includes 1,798 administrators and supervisors of var- wages “salaries.” The 9,897 also does not include the poorest paid group, messengers and office boys. The workers are employed in 281 establishments, banks, public utility offices, stores, insurance companies and various manufacturing concerns. Added to the 18 per cent in adminis- trative or supervisory jobs are 13 per cent operating usual office appliances; 68 per cent are general office workers, stenographers, typists, bookkeepers, filing, mailing and order clerks and defined. Those who get less than $14 a week are 3.4 per cent of the total; $14 to $16, 8.7 per eent; $16 to $18, 8.5 per cent; $18 to $20, 10.3 per cent; $20 to $20, 21.9 per cent; $25 to $30, 19 per cent; $30 to $35, 11 per cent; $35 to $50, 11 per cent; $50 or over, six per cent. Most of the typists make between $14 and $25: stenographer-typists, $20 to 330; senior stenographers, $20 to $30; secretarial stenographers, $25 to $35. Mailing clerks mostly make less than $16; filing clerks, $14 to $25; general office workers, $20 to $30; senior clerks, $35 up to $50; chief clerks, $35 tö 350 or ‘more; office man- agers, $50 ifp ‘+ WHITE GUARDS C. k. RAILROAD | HARBIN (By Mai) — According to reliable information, it is estimated that there were less than three hun- dred employes left in all the services of the Chinese Eastern railway by J une Soviet or Chinese. citizens—most of them being former white officers who possess no special qualifications for their posts and are but a dead weight for the railway. Their going, there- fore far from unfavorably, affecting the normal working of the enterprise, is expected to yield useful results from the business and the financial viewpoints. The dismissal of such 1 was begun on June 1, all the neces- sary preliminary arrangements having been gone thru. Norwegian Trade With Soviet. 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In the Anthracite Fields The convention of anthracite, miners, members of the United Mine Workers of America, held in Scranton, has been valuable in that it brot the left wing program before the representatives of 150,000 coal diggers and showed as well that these miners have not lost the fighting spirit that made the anthracite district the cradle of the modern American labor movement. The endorsement of a labor party based upon the trade unions and including working class political parties is especially encourag- ing in view of the capitalist politics to which the officialdom has been committing the organization. The demand for the repeal of all crimina] syndicalism laws is a fine precedent for the whole labor movement. Substantial increases in the present wage scale and improve- ments in the working conditions were demanded by the convention which was remarkably free from the attacks on the left wing and the Communists that, under the leadership of the Lewis machine, have featured similar gatherings. The actiyity of the left wing in the grievance strikes, against the traitorous activities of Cappellini, their fighting program and the pressure from the operators, have made many changes since 1922 when Lewis was able with the aid of his “wrecking crew” to have mil- itants thrown out of the Scranton convention. The miners are facing a great struggle. Within the next year will come either a gradual decrease of the strength of the union, if it allows the operators to cut it to pieces with a shutdown policy, or a great influx of miners now 1 if it adopts a fighting policy. The anthracite miners are assured of steadier employment than their fellow-workers in the bituminous industry and it is probably the thot of officialdom that they will continue to work and finance the strike in the bituminous fields if one is called. This is a mistaken policy. The left wing must set its face like flint * this plan, amounting as it does to division of the miners’ forces. The United Mine Workers must, when they strike to save their union, be prepared to deal all the misery possible to the bosses and their supporters without any sentimental regard for the anthracite-using public“ which does nothing for them or any other working group. The anthracite miners must fight any attempt on the part of of- ficials to separate them from the soft coal workers. Only disaster for both sections of the union can come from such a policy. This, as we see it, is the big issue for the anthracite district and the program of the left wing in this regard is clear and plain—all together for a powerful union, all together for the organization of * nonunion fields, all together against a coal capitalists. — Japan and France Japan has proposed, according to Paris dispatches, an alliance with France. The proposals do not mention Great Britain, it is un- derstood, nevertheless one of the terms proposed by Japan is the right to establish a naval base at ere opposite Britain's new Singapore base and drydock. A glance at the map of this part of the world will show Singa- pore far to the south with Saigon so loeated as to threaten effectively the British route to Hongkong thru the China sea. Hongkong is a British port on the southern China coast—the only Chinese port of any importance that Japan does not dominate either by actual hold on contiguous territory or by possession of islands a little way off the coast. The possession of Saigon would close the Japanese line of naval and military bases along the coast of China from Sakhalien island to the China sea and give her full control of the trade routes. The alliance proposal is doubly interesting as confirming the con- clusions drawn by us from recent events in China—where Japan has not only allowed Chinese sentiment to be directed against Great Britain but has actually encouraged such sentiment against the Eu- ropean nation which-was her ally in 1914-18 when Japan seized the German leaseholds and military base in Shangtung. In return for the Saigon naval base and other concessions Japan is understood to have proposed to give France a monopoly of her heavy industry market and assistance in case Germany makes war on France with Russian aid. The latter stipulation evidently is for diplomatic bargaining only as Japan has no desire under present circumstances to directly antagonize Russia; in addition, by the time that Germany is able to think of entering another major war the map of the world will have undergone such striking changes that such an agreement would be either meaningless or unnecessary. : That France looks favorably upon an alliance with Japan can scarcely be doubted. Under present conditions her Indo-Chinese pos- sessions are at the mercy of Great Britain in event of war and the aid of a powerful-naval power would be welcome. But France has to consider her relations with the. United States. mercy of the House of Morgan. Unless American imperialism is Willing to overlook the immediate strengthening of Japan in return for the potential weakening of Great Britain, its other powerful rival in the Far East, France will have to forego the advantageous ar- rangement proposed by Japan. It is evident that diplomatic xelations are in a state of flux at present and that the hard and fast alliances within the framework of the two great imperialisms—-Great Britain and America—have not yet been formed. The task would be easier for the capitalist nations if there was no Soviet Russia foreing consideration. Imperialist wars are fights e big robbers to see who is going to get the biggest share of the wealth the workers and farmers | produce. Why should we fight for one gang of, these robbers simply be- cause they call themselves Americans? next to you what he has in common, with the | ask him what he is doing about it to Ask the worker boss. If he says “nothing,” make. the boss understand it. for the Workers Party „ ( i ye 4 r The franc is at the Re CROUCH DUE PRISON TODAY Commanist 1 Sellers to Be Confined There ALCATRAZ, Cal., July 5. — Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, United States soldiers who were sentenced at Schofield Barracks, near Honolulu, Hawaii, for organizing a Communist Le@gue, are due to arrive here. Crouch and Trumbull, who were at first sen- tencod to forty and 26 years in prison Were scheduled to leave Hawali on June 26, for the United States disci- plinary barracks here, where they will be confined. Following a universal protest, the army authorities reduced the sentences to three years and one Paul Crouch tells the DAILY WORKER, “While in Alcatraz, we will study and prepare ourselves in every possible way for more efficient service to the cause of the working class after our release.” Speaking of an article in the Win- ston—Salem N. C. Journal, entitled: „Merey For Young Crouch,“ Comrade Crouch said just before he sailed, “I do not have a sufficient command of words to describe those who propose ‘mercy’ for one who desires no favors from the capitalist class.” When the worker demands his rights, the ownership of the instru- ments of production and the wealth he has produced, he gets ‘charity.’ When he asks for justice, he gets ‘mercy.”” — Crouch and Trumbull were court martialed and sentenced on the sole evidence of an army spy, whose testi- mopy was proven false by the defense. than half an hours’ deliberation, and the records of the trial were altered by the army authorities. May Hold Scopes Trial on Friday in Spite of Colby DAYTON, Tenn., July 5. — The Scopes trial will probably begin next Friday after all, as the defense law- yers are considering the plea of Day- ton residents that they have spent fifty thousand dollars getting ready for the trial. 7 It was announced that an injunction would be sought in the federal court to restrain the Rhea county authori- ties from prosecuting Scopes on the ground that the anti-evolution law un- der. which he was arrested is uncon- stitutional. John R. Neal, chief counsel for the | defense, is using his influence against | Bainbridge Colby’s attempt to end the Dayton trial before it starts by get- ting an injunction. * No Interest Shown by Workers in U. S. Military Muster WASHINGTON, D. C., July 5.—Less than half the number of persons par- ticipated in this year's mobilization day than last year, the war depart- ment announced. Eight million took part this year, most of them being forced by their employers to listen to speeches, and many being regular troops that were ordered to mobilize. Seventeen million took part last year. Many Women Over Age of 44 Years Employed Of the eight and a half million wo- men in the United States who work for. a living, three-quarters of them are over 24 years of age and two- fifths of these, or nearly one-third of the total number are more than 44 years old. Of the two million mar- ried women at work, three-fifths are between 25 and 44 years of age, while another fifth are over 44 years. These faets concerning working women can de found in the latest pamphlet issued Dy the Women’s Bureau of the U. 8. ‘Department of Labor, Washington, D. G. In regard to women’s wages for ‘any of the states investigated by the Women's Bureau the highest median Was the mere pittance of $16.85. The medians ranged from that sum down to as low as $8.80 a week. The in- ‘vestigation showed that where the wages were higher the hours of work were less and where wages were the owest, hours of labor were longest. ALCATRAZ ARMY The verdict was brot in after less | 8 a the Trail 2 N : — 14 LI «$% ~~ ‘ * 63 . 9 = es Chopping Away at Imperialist Militarism. peesc A 89 2 ‘ r —— 2 —ͤů wae ee INSURANCE CO,’S TO DODGE TAXES Court Ruling. ed by ils | al Licenses t B fire — pired July 1.5 = day pending a ne cob ed States supreme c aS to wheth- er the Illinois insu 1 law is con- stitutional as held by, the state su- preme court. 1 The license renewal were ordered issued following an opinion given by Attorney General Carlstrom which hundred foreign am which ex- ng renewed to- by the Unit- of the Illinois supreme court. The ruling of the came in a test case brought by the ty. The insurance ¢ ny contest- ed against the law taximg them 2 per cent of their net receipts, which has been enforced for years. The state court ruled that the law is constitutional, and that no licens- es should be issued to companies in default. Perhaps ninety per cent of the fire insurance companies’ doing business in the state, with 30,000 agents, are in default. Plan Spitzbergen-Alaska Trip. OSLO, July 5.— Captain Roald Amundsen was reeonpoitering of the possibility of a flight from Spitzber- gen to Alaska as well as attempting to reach the North Pole, it was learned today. 1 ob Publishers of the 4Aftenpost said they had received a sage from the Polar flyer stating tI he had this in mind in his recem flight into the northern wastes. Overnight Airmail Cuts Time. NEW BRUNSWICK, 'N. J., July 5.— Overnight airmail service between New York and Chicago continued to operate smoothly today, with the ar- rival of 226% pounds; of mail at Had- ley Field at 5:52 a. in. J. D. Hill, the pilo&~rom Cleveland reported the trip had required about four hours of flying time, with steady west winds slightly slowing up the flight. | Builders at Work in New York MONG the many Comrades in New York that did good work during the national subscription drive that has just closed the following are some of those that deserve special mention: who is responsible for the acti Comrade Ger Szepsi, + in the Hun- | garian Yorkville Branch, which resulted in securing sixty-five subscriptions. | |The Comrades were instrumental in getting one of the Hungarian Fraternal |” | | Comrade M. S. Schneider, who personally secured fourteen subs, and | sands of unorganized workers, Societies to order 25 subseriptions for their directors. | who will keep up the good work even now that the “campaign” is over. Comrade Leon Litvin, who, altho not Daily Worker Agent in his Branch, | the Jewish Branch Ng. 1, Bronx, nevertheless encouraged forty MEMBERS | Every day get ‘sub” for the DAILY "WORKER and a member ro PLEDGE THEMSELVES TO GET AT LEAST ONE SUBSCRIBER EACH, — — * virtually overrides a recent decision rick J. Carr, treasurer @f Cook coun- | } | various steel districts but subject to | | munist fractions are rigidly main- dort tained and Communist policies applied P in practice, healthy growing left wing movements have already obtained im- Hanover Insurance €o., against. Fat | portant victories and promise good for jo Build Party Strength in Steel Union (Continued from page 1) tion that because the party may not know all the technical details of the requirements of the industry there- fore ‘the union work should be sepa- rated from Party affairs and party policies. Bad Results Either Way. The results are generally the same. Party members fail to become the con- necting link between the masses with- in the unions and the party. They fail completely to put forward Communist policies and, instead of advancing a concrete, militant program, they be- come simply an appendix to whatever opposition movement may exist to the. rule of the reactionary clique in con- trol, or they become the, tools of re- action itself. On the other hand, where the Com- the future. Communist Tactics Not Applied Previously. It was acknowledged that, due to lack of application of Communist poli- cies and definite organization of the Communist fraction in the past with- in the steel workers’ union, the strug- gle for the present progressive group, altho it had given battle to the re- actionary corrupt leadership of the Mike Tighe administration, had be- come confined to purely trade issues and had failed to bring forward in concrete terms the great needs of the union and of the workers. in the in-⸗ dustry. Altho being subject to vicious at- tacks by the Mike Tighe administra- tion and ready to fight back, the prog- ressive group has succeeded in rising no higher than to demand constitu- tional changes on dues payments and improvements of the existing wage scales. Must Live Up to Name. Important as these may be, the Amalgamated Association has no power to enfonce any scale because of the unorganized state of the in- dustry. And any group laying claim to the name “progressive” must not fail to bring forward a practical program of organization of the unorganized in the industry, of real industrial union- ism ahd of the organization of shop committees. It must not fai] to take a stand on the political issues facing. the workers in the industry. The Communist steel workers’ frac- tion, organized at the Youngstown meeting, will consider it a first duty to bring those issues to the fore. It will have its connections thruout the country with a specific form of organ- ization under the direction of a na- tional committee representative of the the regular party jurisdictions. Begin Work on Union Basis. Taking the union as the starting point to reach the hundreds of thou- the fraction will endeavor to crystallize the progressive movement into a defi- nite left wing group struggling mili- | tantly for the building of a real union capable of defending the interests of — — 1 the workers against the repactous steel trust. The following points will be pro- posed to thé progressive elements as basis for a united front program: A Fighting Program. 1. Demanding. the launehing of a national organization drive cov- ering the whole industry to take into the union all workers em- ployed in or about the steel mills, regardless of craft or skill, race or color. 2. The establishment of an organ- ization department with full power to conduct drive, estab- lishment of district committees in each important steel district, each to conduct the drive in the district. 3.. National organizers to be elected at the annual conventions, dis- trict organizers to be elected by the district membership. 4. A uniform initiation fee of $1.00 to be established. 5. Measures to provide necessary finance for the drive to be worked out by the executive board. 6. A period of intensive propaganda to precede the actual organiza- tion and to cover the whole in- dustry. The. propaganda to be based on the live slogans of the needs of the workers in the in- dustry. : Slogans for Drive. The following are some suggested cio 5 ‘The complete establishment of he eight-hour- day with abolition oe double shifts. “No further wage reductions, but „ of present wages. 1 Abolition of the speed-up sys- — ie 1 * scale of wages for all steel workers to expire at the mame time. One day rest in seven, 0 Abolition of company unions. Abolition of black list, physical examination and finger print sys- | tem. Ine industry to support its un- ‘employed. 7. The establishment of an indus- trial form of organization in the “fall sense of the word as adopted by the conventions of 1923 and 1924 to be properly departmen- talized according to the require: ments of the industry» Shop Committees. 8. The establishment of shop com- mittees composed of both organ- ized and unorganized represent- ing all workers thruout the mills and furnaces, the shop commit- tees to be used as the basis of the organization drive and of the union and to be combined with- in each district on the ‘same basis as the local unions, 9. The international unity and support of joint Rus- sian-English trade union» unity committee. 10. For a Labor Party based on trade unions. 11. Demand for recognition of and A WE SEE IT | (Continued from page 1) no loyger able to fool the people of the world about the Chinese situation. * * * TT is reported that Abd-el-Krim broke his leg falling off a mule. Perhaps he has but his brain has not suffered broken his leg, but the French are liable to break their necks. By the way, it is pretty well established now that’ Britain is financing the Rifflans against France. And is also well es- tablished that France was financing the Rifflans against Spain. Watching the capitalists cutting each others’ throats is a sweet oecupation. Good luck to them. * ¢ „ AT a whole souled patriot Mr. Edward L. Doheny is. We sus- pected this right along, but here comes Edward himself and proves it. He would never dream of going to the trouble of bribing Albert Fall with $100,000, but for the fact that Japan was preparing for war with the Unit- ed States and in order to save fair California and Arthur Brisbane’s real estate from the yellow peril, Ed went country. Unfortunately the exigen- cies of politics know no honor and Edward was pitched to the wolves. His millions rendered the wolves toothless however, and he lives to tell the tale. (A por burglar got from ten years to life last week for getting caught in the act of stealing $20.) * * „ ‘ 3 is hard to say what will happen to Doheny, but we expect that if he is involuntarily confined on this side of his voyage across the dark ocean, it will be in a hospital, due to illness. To put a man like Doheny in jail would be to sap the foundations of this republic. I am willing to bet that when the war with Japan comes along, } Doheny will be one of our greatest heroes and those who have opposed his deals will run the risk of being boiled in oil as horrible examples, } a | OW it can be told! Not that it makes the slightest difference, but the information might be useful when the next war comes around. The current issue of Current History, con- tains a verbatim report of a speech delivered by Lloyd George to the Brit- ish war cabinet and a special mission from the United States, sent to Eng- land by the president for the purpose of co-ordinating the war efforts. of the two countries. George admitted that the Germans were on the point of winning the war when the United States butted in. But one could never guess at such a possibility from read- ing the glowing reports of allied vic- tories in the newspapers. Modernists“ Wia. SEATTLE, Wash. July 5. — The trade union modernists won two vietorles in the fight with the fundamentalists at the Baptist church here. By a vote of 742 to 574 they defeated. a resolution ‘of the fundamentalists, outlining * strict set of beliefs deemed essential to the Baptist orthodoxy, and also had establishment of trade relations seated the Fosdick delegates from with Soviet Russia, New York. any material injdry. Krim may have ahead and risked his honor for his _ = *