Daily Worker
July 15, 1925
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| Thomas anti-evolution law as a violation Dorput. 8 by a court martial. No doubt, the Es- thonlan hangmen will prepare another for a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government os "(special to The Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July eat ure kek that the. ‘whut’ 4 are at cake, counsel f a liberties of the American toda tutions. al mn of th to destroy the Te 2 he state and federal conti The weapon of the defense was a moti to quash the indict- ment against Scopes on co | nstitutional grounds. by John R. Neal, chief of defense counsel. It was made A clash between state and defense attorneys immediately followed when Circuit Attorney General A. Thomas Stewart AS WE SEE IT. Dy T. J. O'FLAHERTY IDDEN away in a a, remote corner of one of our big capitalist dailies was a news item telling that the trial of 77,Communists, who were alleged to have participated in last Decem- ber’s revolt against the white guard Esthonian government, was opened in The radicals are being tried | murder feast for themselves as did their Bulgarian cousins. It should not be forgotten that Esthonia is one of "Britain's tools and most of that lit- tle country’s campaigns against the Communists and against Soviet Rus- sia are financed by Britain. 8 ss ®& , HERE are rumors that the defunct Angio-Japanese alliance may be | ) the jury out. moved that the jury be excluded. | Bitterness cropped into the ex- change of arguments, but Judge John T. Raulston finally sent The defense based its fight chiefly on four’ constitutional points. These were that the guarantees: Fight For Four Pointe. ° 1—“It shall be the duty of the gen- eral assembly of ‘the state to cherish literature and science.” 2—“That all men have natural and god according to the dictates of their own conscience.” 3— Every citizen may freely n write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.“ treeholds, liberties or properties by the judgement of his peers and the The defense all contended the law anti-evolution law} violated these state constitutional} — No man shall be disseized ot his law ot the land.” 8 ON DON. July Sees been reached between J States and Great Britain re toward China, it was foreign office today. It was said that disc possibility and scope of a were going on but that no reached. { a must precede the conference toriality, since there would b in discussin — | ritorial privil until China hae to operate the thes British view, would be pie revision. | “In the British view, — 2 5 » ot Ofer at Chicago, * . 3 ' 7 — Nein N . inter the Act of March 2 1879. NEW YORK EDITION DAILY — —.— Blvd., Chicago, Ill WORKER ae” approachi 2 of the | indefeasible right to worship almighty} — Hold Mass 10, roe Tex has as yet been reached, it was 7 — 1 stated here today that the States, Japan and Great Britain are a compromise basis for a solu- hinesé problem. M. Caimusho, a foreign office attache, : a out that there were no differences in far expressed, involving — handling an admittedly d It is believed that recent conferences here between Foreign Minister Shidehara, John V. A. MacMurray, American minister to China, Edgar A. Bancroft, American ambas- sador here, and Sir Charles Eliot, British ambassador, brought a reconciliation of di- vergent viewpoints appreciably nearer. 13.—Altho no definite agree- "RIVALS FOR ROBBERY — JOCKEY FOR peil the method of icult situation. sibility of a new world war. ington arms conference. In the Chinese situation, the executive has before problem of the first magnitude created almost overnight by the receipt of information that Great Britain is planning to play a lone hand in the Orient to the exclusion of the eight other powers that are signatories to the Chinese treaty negotiated at the Wash- (Special to. The Daily Worker) SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 13.—President Coolidge today was facing the most important diplomatic crisis of his White ndamental policy, the divergent views thus | House incumbency. it is a crisis which has within it the pos- him a Secretary of State Kellogg, handling his first big issue on foreign policy, is back in Washington after a week end confer- ence with the president here, FOR PRISONERS under instructions to open in- formal discussions with the British government at once to determine just what Britain plans to do with respect to China. LS HAVE BODY 1 NR America to Challenge Britain. Every possible step will be taken to forestall the English move, which, if carried to fulfillment, would nullify the Washington treaty. The Ameri- eu move to offset any such effort will involve insistance that the Washing- ton agreement be followed to the let- ter. Kellogg, before leaving the summer white house here, announced definite- ly that this conference would be call- * * morning is the time When strikes are lost. Such rience of strike organizers, who confront in some WRIT OF HABEAS — CORPUS GRANTED — 2 RED SOLDIERS ter Labor Defense Sends Funds (Special to The Dally Worker) ed, and it is understood the United States will seek to enlarge it into a general discussion of the whole Chin- ese problem. HONOLULU, T. H., July 13— 4 writ of habeas corpus filed by Attor- ney Fred Patterson for Paul Crouch and Walter Trumbull, Communist sol- . 322 n 3 re 3 * 20 a 8 > Po 3 s a eae 7 and Conferences : — ae was sO vague and indistinct that ire 1 is poor, an inclination to rush * to the The president und his diplomatic ere Was granted by Judge, 33 States is not playing ball with Eng- tor of his ‘alleged violation.” am International 1 Defense, mated Clot Workers — again the | Vout inst Major General B. M. Sos in the present Chin-| motion closed 855 allgestions that non-partisan wer and the J. K. Taj 5 — Laie cine var * Ad g Fs ; a 7 . are. “Zh gu — 12 Bagland and J a their wort ove the coe ‘the United Stas 4. Ae aia I 5 * + Om 8 rern enen u time 2 pe bull to military prison at Alcatraz Is- Jand, San Francisco; which had been préviously assigned as their place of dy * ‘strikers turned ‘out on the picket line —— sure that they get a chance to say “Good | to any one resembling a human being that the and he prefers Chinese | dure. We ö as Se Setar aa Chi Law Makes Shoots Church, 528 John Bull, if there is any t te It is not necessary,” said ese eng September 13, ‘which date | fog — 11 be set aside as “Labor Defense 2 tar the largest of any of the major Day.” done. And there is. “ * * AAN HSE diplomats are now hint- ing that the United States left Eng- land holding the bag when she suc- ceeded in inducing the Downing street statesmen to drop the Japanese al- liance in return for a condition of na- val party between Britain and Ameri- ca. This is partly true. Britain and the United States are today the two fiercest competitors for the spoils that capitalist thieves fight over. This’ is true despite the oceans of ink that are being shed by piffle peddlers, who pretend to see in the close relation- ships between the parasites of New York and London, a guarantee of ever- lasting peace between the two powers. * * — RITAIN would never have given up the Japanese alliance but for pressure from Australia and New Zea- land. And ever since, the United States has missed no opportunity to convince those two antipodean col- onies that the big white uncle in Washington is at least as good a pro- tector as the little white father in London. If Britain finds it necessary to make a deal with Japan over the Chinese crisis, and should it turn out that this deal conflicts with the in- terests of the United States, it is not unlikely that the colonies will de- (Continued on page 6.) sworn duty to pass upon the consti- necessary to know what the law la. “It is our contention,” tinued, “that in this act there is made tend it is unconstitutional because transforms the public schools. of. thé is in violation of every guarantee or religious liberty in the state and fed- feral constitutions.” 75 Arthur Garfleld Hayes ot defense counsel followed Neal. He also at- tacked the law, charging it denied religious liberty sand freedom of thought to-the religious minorities of Tennessee. The court instructed the attorneys to prepare briefs of their arguments. “This is too profound a subject for hasty consideration,” sald Judge Raulston. “I hope you'll prepare briefs.” Fight Constitutionality of Law. A wave of public passion, created a ‘anti-evolution trial was resumed. Armed sheriff's guards and import- thru the courtroom as sembled for the second session. j (Continued on page 2) lopening his argument, to argue updo a} _| your honor that it is your power ane tutionality of a statute of Tennessee? In order to pass upon the law it 16 Neal con- ‘mandatory the teaching of a particular religion in a particular book. We con- state into a church establishment that tense situation today as the Scopes ed uniformed police were scattered crowds as- This element of passion spread» to “5 “Local conferences of delegates from Workers’ organizations will be held ‘im the afternoon of Sept. 48 at which focal organizations of International biabor Defense will be set up. They will be followed by monster mass meetings staged in the evening. These conferences and meetings will occur simultaneously in no less man one hundred cities on “Labor Défense Day” and every available speaker in the labor movement will be asked to give his services. „Freedom for Labor’s Prisoners. This action was decided on at the first monthly meeting of the Nation- al Execuive Committee of the new or- ganizaion for the purpose of reviving labor defense issues in the labor movement genérally on a large scale and to establish a broad united front movement with its roots in the labor unions. James P. Cannon, secretary of the organization said, “We will make the labor movement ring with the slogan ‘Join the fight for the free- dom of labor's prisoners.“ International Labor Defense will be collective membership and the report of the secretary showing preliminary organization work well under way. 30,000 pamphlets containing the mani- festo, resolutions and constitution of the June 28th conference are ready or distribution. Dues stamps ‘anc KUOMINTANG PAPER TELLS ISSUE UPON WHICH PARTY FOUGHT AND WON THE RECENT CANTON BATTLE. | The DAILY Wok nn nas received ‘Siem China a copy of the oust Gazette apparently an organ of the. Kuomintang government, This lusue, books re prepared for prospective in- dividue| membership and a compre- Deng o plan has been drawn up for collective affiliations. ’ Furds for Prisoners and Families. Or the motion of committee mem- Ader red Mann, the National Execu- tive Committee decided to send at east five dollars monthly to all of A erica's more than 128 class war dated June 1, appeared on the eve of the reactionary rebellion of thé n prisoners who are willing to accept it. ese troops financed by British and French imperialists. It is of great historical interest, therefore, to observe the leading article in the Canton Gazette, which gives the gauge of battle between the Ruomin- tang forces of the civli government at Canton, and the reactionary Yunnanh- ese led by the Chinese military tools of foreign clearly the issue upon whcih the Kuomintang fought bravely and won after The article is as follows: once losing, the city of Canton. * THE REAL ISSUE. Government Determined to Get Rid of The Unruly and Lawless Soldiery And Make the Province Safe For the People. The treaty port press, the hirelings of imperialism, have once more begun to sharpen and poison their shafts of malice and slander against the Kuo- Informing | their patrons of the conflict in Kwang- mintang government. imperialism. 4 It shows In order to avoid confifect or friction with other defense organizations di- rectly handling. certain cases, it was decided to send funds thru these spe- cial committees for forwarding to prisoners. A campaign for the raising of a special fund for this purpose is to be- sim at once and to include the giving ar anticipation of the happy event. The wish is father to the thot. The hireling press is possessed with bu! one desire and that is to see new con- would bring an end to the Kuom!: ‘suffering. It is this desire of the u,. tung, they gleefully proclaim the im- perialist press that finds expresso" (Continued on page 3.) „ > oF > pending downfall of the detestable: of material aid to dependent families Kuomintang, smacking their lips in of class war prisoners. Indians To Hold Memorial NEW YORK, July 13—(*P)—To express the sympathy of Americans flicts in Kwangtung, and conflict that and Indians in America with Indian nationalists on the untimely death of tang government, even tho the pro C. R. Das, leader of the Swaraj party ince might thereby undergo. untold and mayor of Caloutta, . mass meet- ing is being held at the International house, New York; July 22 in the even- ing sae 580 f in all the large cities of the country built on the basis of individual and UNEIN FEZ ENCIRCLED Troops Sent from the Ruhr to Repair Loss (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, July 13.—The situ- ation of the French invaders of Mor- occo is still critical, with the Riffian natives attacking Kelaa des Sless, the French outpost nearest the capital of French Morocco, Fez. Abd-el-Krim’s strategy has compell- ed the French to string out their forc- es on a line much longer than they can effectively Bold, and his attacks on the weakest spots im the line have kept the French columns scurrying back and forth over much territory. Send Troops From Ruhr. The French have begun their first large stale movemient of troops from the Ruhr. Tue twenty-ninth infantry has left Bochum, one of the great Ruhr steel and coal centers. The promptness of the evacuation of the Ruhr is due to the need for more troops in Morocco to carry out the de- signs of the Pench bankers. The wheat crop of Morocco will be 19,584,000 biehels; this year, it is forecast. Thee aggregate wheat pro duction forecast for the three North African count#ies of Morocco, Algeria and Tunis amounts to 61,030,000 bu- shels as compared to 47,706,000 har- vested last year. ‘2 * = No Troops to Tangie’. LONDON, England, July 13.—For- eign Secretary Austin Chamberlain announced in the house of commons today that the British government does not propose to send troops to Tangier, Morocco. Spain had asked troops because of the restlessness of the natives living in the Tangier In- ternational zone, Postpone Cunningham Trial. GARY, Ind., uly 13.—tTrial of Mrs. Anna Cunningham in Crownpoint court has beengpostpomed until Thurs- day morning beeause of death of Mrs. Martin Smith,aged mother of Judge Smith, who is presiding over the trial. Mrs. Cunningham is on trial for the e — —— United Garment sdab agency bowers- are protected without regard can dig up. for existing agreements. Two. Scabs Will Henle. A Date According to Houghton’s: report, Elsewhere | Downing street intends to demand frem China complete reassurance that British financial interests there be protected absolutely regardiess of what the newly created customs com- mission shall decree, and further plans to protect such interests, even up to a display of military force. The treaties brought forward out of the Washington arms conference stand as one of the outstanding ac- complishments of the republican post- war administration in aiding Ameri- can imperialism in China at the ex- pense of rival powers, ‘chiefly England and Japan, and both President Coo- lidge and Secretary Kellogg are de- The girl strikers were particularly anxious to interview two girl scabs who had been pretending to be office help and had sneaked past the pickets on that excuse. Monday.morning they were stopped and after the interview it was agreed by the pickets that they probably would not show up to- morrow. : The third week of the strike opens with the strikers in good spirits and determined to fight it out. On the other hand the firms are in no condi- tion to be cheerful. The I. T. C. has only one cutter and a few tailors. No work can be done, for if even the scab confinement for three and one year sentences respectively for Crouch and Trumbull. Labor Movement Aroused. Nation-wide attention has centered around the court martial of these two soldiers fer Communist activities. The original sentences were forty and twenty-six years but were later re- duced by the war department. CHINESE AND HINDUS UNITE tailor could cut, it would mean only nine or ten garments a day, whereas the shop's normal capacity is 350 a day. Welcome Aid From Unions of A. F. of .. All efforts of the concern to get scabs have failed completely. Neither the splashing big ads in the capitalist papers nor the cowardly assistance of the United Garment scab agency has helped things. And now the United Garment is under fire from the rest of the Chicago unions who don’t like to see an A. F. of L. union and the A. F. of L. name to cover up scabbing igainst any strikers. The Amalgamated members are cheered to learn that the Executive zommittee of the Chicago Federation | of Labor took a stand for solidarity and even more glad to know that the A. F. of L. union membership is learn- termined that they be carried out implicitly. Switch to Coal. NEW ORLEANS, July 13—Seven Tundred tons of coal more will be burned in New Orleans every day be- cause of the switch from oil to be made by the American Sugar Refin- jig Co. plant Aug. 1 after 6 years of cil consumption. The Light & Water Co. of Mobile changed to coal from oil recently but ts consumption is less than 1,000 tons month. Took 11 Years to Get Postcard. WASHINGTON, July 13--A post- card has just turned up and, been de- livered to the addressee ‘that has taken 11 years to travel from Man- ing of the justice of their case against chester. N. H., to Oakland! Cal, and the United Garment crew from ‘the then Uncle Sam had the nerve to DAILY WORKER and the members charge the extra half cent that did of the Trade Union Educational bot go into effect until nearly 10 years League and left wing militants. ‘efter the card was mailed. The card A New Trick was mailed by Mrs. F. A. Varney on Yesterday the bosses tried a brand June 19, new trick. A high official of the I. (Continued on Page 2.) 1914, and was delivered to T. Miss Emma Inberg at Oakland, May 14, 1925. PEACE AND JUSTICE’ CLOAK U. S. MOVE T0 WORLD WAR By HARRISON GEORGE. With the full consent of Coolidge, Secretary of State ! to his desk at Washington determined to fight with ever at hand to checkmate the Anglo-Japanese effort to stop tht ment from using the advantage of the nine-power pac! upheaval’ to forward the interests of American imperialism expense of British and Japanese positions already existing logg has returned liplomatic weapon American govern- he present Chinese in China at the Detroit Students in Joint Action Meet By H. S. LIANG (Chairman, Detroit Students’ Council Emergency Committee) (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich.. July 13.—A joint meeting was held here in Detroit Sa- turday evening by the Chinese stu- dents and Hindu students in the city upon the present Chinese situation. tans yg two hundred people were pres- ent. The meeting was initiated by the Detroit Hindu. Students’ Club and fully supported by the Detroit Chinese Students’ Club, Hot speeches were delivered denouncing the inhuman and brutal foreign imperialists and Capitalists who have been for so long and are still crushing the workers and common masses of both India and | China. Resolutions were also adopted by the Hindu students to the effect that the Indian congress will immediately withdraw all the Hindu troops and police’ forces from the Chinese soil, and to the effect that a telegram will be sent by the Hindu residents here in Detroit to all Hindu organizations in U. S. A. urging their immediate taking side with the Chinese all thru- out the states in their actions toward the liberation movement in China A donation was also immediatels raised right there and then to be sent to China to help alone the strikers Bosses’ Protectors Meet. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 13.—The thirty-second annual convention of the international aSsbdtiation of chiefs of police got under way here today to continue for four days with more The. American diplomacy is—like that of other nal jions-—-designed to effect the maximum of imperialist advantage, with propaganda skillful enough | (Continued on page 2) : 4 . V ee — * tet 1 Tape. 2 —— 10 AID CHINA
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3 thax Ph a celia id 4 F R “hye 7 J - * r 3 1 — * n . * ** ~ — eee eae 8 = a Kannasto 4 mder the wartime passport act will 8 be brot to trial at the next session of | accidents and four were drowned. WORKER . UNDER eee Fights Deportstion Action * (Special to The Daily Worker) DULUTH. Minn. July 13—It is * likely that Mrs. Sanna Kau⸗ to, Finnish working woman held district court here. Mrs. was arrested several months ago by the immigration authorities on the advice of an informer who said she was a “red” who had been very active in the Finnish revolution. Mrs. Kannasto was arrested after she had crossed the border from Can- ada without interference: She has proven at several hearings that she has lived in the U. S. and Canada for 20 years and has passed freely back and forth many times. Nevertheless she will be brot to trial. under a war-time act on the grounds that she is not a citizen of the United States. The Internationa}, Labor Defense of Chicago has under- taken the defense of Mrs. Kannasto, who is free on $10,000 bail. Pope’s Quarrel With Czecho-Slovakian Government Unabated ROME, July 13.— The vatican mained adamant today in its contro- versy with the Czecho-Slovakian gov- the U. S. ernment, which resulted in the with- drawal of the papal Nuncio from Prague. Spain Refuses to Attack. MADRID, Spain, July 13.—Dictator Primo de Rivera has rejected the French appeal for Spanish co-opera- tion against the Moroccan troops, it is reported here. The Spanish government insisted that the international zone around Tangier be given to Spain in return for a Spanish offensive, but England rejected this proposal as a danger to her fortifications at Gibraltar. Quake In East Unlikely. NEW YORK, July 13.—The proba- bility of an earthquake on the Atlantic coast is almost negligible, due to the structure of the earth in this region, Professor Emanuel Freidlander, a Ger- — — — — —— SPIONAGE LAW r tHe DAILY | | Hold Anti-Evolation Law Unconstitatio are (Comtines ai Page 1) the ranks of prosecuting counsel who repudiated a gentleman's agreement“ to devote today’s session to arguments over the admissibility of ‘scientific testimony reconciling evolution with the biblical story of the divine crea- tion of man. This change caused a postponement of & much advertised debate between Clarence Darrow, de- fender of evolution, and William Jen- nings Bryan, standard bearer for fun- damentalism. The prosecution’s attitude forced de- fense counsel to launch at once their fight against the constitutionality of the anti-evolution law. Their chief weapon was a motion to dismiss the indictment against Scopes on the ground that the law violates the con- stitutional guarantees of religious liberty, freedom of thought, property rights and for the preservation of science. Throw Out Evolutionist. The smouldering fires of religious intolerance swept one modernist min- ister from his pulpit here and resulted in another preaching his sabbath sermon in the presence of armed sheriffs’ deputies, The situation was such that Sheriff R. B. Harris announced himself pre- pared for trouble.” As a result of the sabbath out- burst, Rev. H. G. Byrd, pastor of the methodist episcopal church north, re- | signed his post and started out today to hunt a new job. He quit when his congregation threatened to “break up his church” if he permitted Dr. Charles Francis Potter, unitarian minister, to occupy his pulpit. Byrd, a lean fighting carpenter by profes- sion, barred his church door to Potter and then locked it on himself. Byrd has a wife and three children. He said he would try to find work either as a carpenter or electrician. Altho barred from the church, Dr. Potter finally delivered his sermon rom a platform on the courthouse grounds, where William Jennings Bryan had spoken earlier. Prayers For Litigant. _ The religious issue leaped to the | fore when counsel for the protested. dptense formally. against opening the trial with a prayer, The protest was voiced to presid- ing Judge John T. Raulston by Clar- ence Darrow just as court convened. Is it customary,” ask Darrow, “to open a case in this court with a prayer for the success of one of the litigants ?” “It is the usual custom,” the court replied, “to have a prayer if there is a minister present.” Bryan Angers Catholic. Bryan faced two new controversies as a result of his sermons to Dayton audiences. On one side he was attacked by Michael Williams, editor of The Com- monwealth, a catholic publication for his alleged purpose to “put god into the constitution.” On the other he was criticised by Dr. Charles France Potter, unitarian of New York, for his “lack of knowledge” of the school- ing of Jesus. Bryan said: “The purpose of this trial is merely to prevent attacks on the Bible and the introduction of ir- religion or forms of religion antagon- istic to the religion of the taxpayers.” “If this,” said Williams, replying, „is not an open and avowed intention to bring about a union between state and one particular form of re- ligious belief (protestant fundamental- ism), then there seems to be no sense in Mr. Bryan’s words.” Bryan Doesn’t Know Bible. The attack on Bryan's biblical knowledge on Jesus’ education came when Dr. Potter spoke from a plat- from occupied earlier by Bryan for an afternoon sermon. “It is perfectly evident to me that he (Bryan) has been too busy doing other things to read his Bible,” Pot- ter said. Twelve Scientists to Testify. Twelve nationally known scientists are here or enroute to Dayton to tesi- fy for the defense in the Scopes anti- evolution trial, it was announced this afternoon by Clarence Darrow of counsel tor the defense. “PEACE AND JUSTICE” CLOAKING U. S. MOVE TOWARD NEW.WAR (Continued from page 1) to justify making war if need be upon highly moral grounds and always “in the interest of the peace of the world.” mamn-Italian geologist, said today on arriyal from Italy. * aks 13— — ties among motorists and swim- around New York totalled ten, according to a police estimate. 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re 7 1 . Seer 1 — = 1 — se ae r — - es ee 1 Wos RPM SAS ter. The reason for this was the saction taken by the meet- i makers.” right after work,” from 5:30 to 10:30 eee manager of Local 22; Rose * ‘auspices _Action of the three locals. gangsters of Czar Nicholas, so we will not pay them one cent.” Want to expell us. makers Union. 11 ae Re ee, a 8 8 gett a * Rey 4 * ö ( 8 N * ee 55 are We ue 5 2 (T. U. (R. I. Ba THIS PAGE 1 is Devoted to the Activity and Interests of the Trade Union Educational League North American Section of the f RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS Z. L.) L. U.) —— — 8 THE T. U. E. L. Represents the Left Wing of the Labor Movement. Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation , Of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with 4 a Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into _ Organs of Revolutionary Clase Struggle for the Overthrowal of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and Farm. Ite ADVOCATE 4 AGAINST BETRAYAL > — — Paes New York labor history. Yankee Stadium located far-up-town and reached only after a long ride on the Subway, was The immense ball park was jamed with Cloak and Dressmakers members of Locals 2, 9 and 22. hone and amplifiers allowed the n every word of the speakers, w of the three suspended executvie boards. _ Nailing the old Fairy Tale In spite of the attacks of the yellow Forward and its l “appeal” to the Cloak and Dressmakers, the gathering was a laughing, jolly but militant mass of men and women Cloak and Dressmakers, who filled thru the turnstile entrances and showed | By JOSEPH MANLEY. NEW YORK CITY, N. Y.—This city has witnessed the great- est open air mass demonstration in the history of the militant the scene of the demonstration. Nothing but the modern micro- age gathering Ifterally to drink o were all members or officers |= their union' books to the Ser- geants-at-Arms who permitted only those having books to en- ing and to hurl back in the teeth of the Sigman crew their stock cry: It was not a meeting of Cloak and Dress- The meeting was held in the typi- cal New York manner, which meant p. m. The chairman was Sasha Zim- merman and the speakers were Julius Wortis, executive board Local 22; 117 Len Ener manager. of Local 2; Louis manager of Local 9, and Morris Rubin, of Local 22. The under which the meeting was held was the Joint Commitee of Hyman’s Call. A great roar of approval from the throats of the assembled Cloak and Dressmakers, that could be heard al- most at Times Square, when Hyman in his native graphic Yiddish said: “Let us give notice to these ‘low lives’ that just as we drove out the be strong enuf to drive out Sigman and his gangsters. To tell Sigman and Co. thru this great gathering: Take your hands off the membership, we warn you and we warn the bosses that you have no right to represent the membership and that we will not pay attention to “your” agreements; that if you will attempt to terrify us we will stop the ‘electric’ in the shops and go on a great strike if necessary.” Chairman Zimmerman, in opening up the meeting declared: “This is a historic meeting even in the history of our union. We gather here this evening to review the events that have led up to the present situa- tion; to restate once more our pur- poses and policies. We are opposed to splitting tactics and want our union for the rank and file. We want to get rid of a few individuals who have fastened themselves upon the back of the rank and file. This great revolt is the result of years of struggle. We are still keeping the ‘barricades’ and we intend to keep them.” Portnoy on Class Collaboration. Portnoy was the first speaker. He told how the new administration of Local 22, had been sabotaged by the Sigman gang. He dealt with the governor's commission pointing out that it was supposed to bring peace in the industry. . Saying that: “Instead Our demands upon the commission, they have War upon us and so negiecting the demands of the workers. The time is not far away when they will have to leave the union. They are not there for idealism. If there is no pay they will not stay for a day, and you have refused to pay your dues to the joint board. As long as these people are at the head of the I. L. G. W. we will (Applause. ) Wortis Tells of Defense. Rose Wortis, the next speaker, de- elared: “You know it is not because we are Communists, but because we fight for the issues of the workers, the Sigman, Feinberg, and Perlstein f pressing vernor's n making ginning our policies and those of the administration have been different. It ig because we hold these views that they have tried to break the Dress- From the very be- we are splitters. I want to say 900 they, and not we, are the real split- ters. We have proven by years ‘of for the interests of the rank and file: We have seen our union press turn agent provacatuers: we have seen our joint board once turned into a po- lice station, where workers were he for arrest, wg have seen our own of- fice Local 22 held by us behind barri- cades, day and night for four weeks. For four weeks we have withstood] their atack and today have real unity in our rapks.” ete Myman’s Great Speech. - is Hyman was od as “The lawyer and our lee uated — Hyman declared “I never studied law in college, but I think I know enuf to and such lawyers.” Hyman went into the Aten of the Cloak and Dressmakers. He told the story of the general attitude of the Sigman gang toward the fundamental. problem in the trade, that of the con- tractors and jobbers. He recalled how Bisno had been ousted from office in the middle of the night by this same gang, just as they had done with Local 2 and 9. And after Bisno, his successor, Professor Hourwich, was treated in almost the same manner. He said “they are used to collecting dues, they cannot. get collaborate with the bosses’ associa- tion, so that it will help them to col- lect.” Demonstration for Hyman. At the close of Hyman’s speech a tremendous demonstration took place, finally when Chairman Zimmerman's voice thru the amplifiers stilled the enthusiastic workers, he read a res- lution which set forth the grievances of the three locals and called for the support of the membership in che struggle of Locals 2, 9 and 22 against protect the workers against Hnaute them voluntarily, now they want to (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 13.— The conference of the left wing elements in the local trade union movement successfully brought out forty members representing differ. ent organizations. This conference laid down a foundation for a permanent organ- ization of the left wing. The weak- nesses of the local labor movement were thoroly discussed, and it was the concensus of opinion among all those present that a fighting pro- gram for reconstruction would have to be adopted. To that end a resolution for a | campaign to “organize the unorgan- ized” was adopted. All those present recognized that the initiative for this work would have to be taken by the left wing. A spirit of work yrevailed among 4 the members present, and a real desire to achieve effective progress in the work of building up the trade unions of the city. Other conferences will follow bi- monthly. The reactionaries made a crude attempt to sabotage this conference. They notified the capitalist press that this was an attempt to set up a dual central body. In their zeal to keep the wet blanket over the labor movement, and thus prevent its growth and progress, they stop at nothing to forestall the efforts of the honest workers to do construc- tive work. This flimsy attempt on their part, failed completely. The rank and file is aware that the left wing element possesses a real pro- “gram of action. unconstitutional manner by preferring fals@*and malicious charges against all of the officers and members of the | executive contrary to the provisions of the con- stitution of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and have by lods illegally obtained possession of the headquarters, records and prop- }erty of Locals 2 and 9 and service, that we work for unity ande A Long Struggle. » “Whereas, these actions were the culmination of a long struggle within the union in whcih the said three ind! Niduals, taking advantage of the un- democratic constititution of the Joint | * Board have attempted to foist upon an anwilling membership of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union of this city policies objectionable to them both in methods of internal or- Jigenization as well as in dealing e hig dues und special I purpose of raising large revenues which were unnecessary for the regu- lar and ordinary business of the union, but which enabled the said in- dividuals to maintain an expensive and corrupt machinery upon which they based their powers in the union, rand the calling of fictitious strikes and stoppages as an excuse for the raising of the said revenues and as an opportunity to illegally squander the same by corrupt and illegal methods; and “Whereas, in order to mask the real struggle going on in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union be- tween the membership and its mis- leaders, the said misleaders have raised the false and fictitious cry of “Communism” 80 as to raise a smoke screen behind which they could pur- sue unpunished their illegal and crim- inal methods of warfare; “We, the members of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union resident in New York assembled in mass meeting at the Yankee Stadium in the City of New York on this 9th day of July, 1925; on the call of Lo- cals 2, 9 and 22, do hereby “We, the Membership.” “Resolve, that we hereby express the misleaders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, The resolution called for the resig- nation of Sigman, Pearlstein and Fein- berg, and asked the membership to re- fuse to pay dues and taxes until these resignations and reforms in the organ- ization have taken effect. The. reso- lution also pledged the membership.to the raising of a defense fund to help carry on the struggle. The vote on the resolution, (given below) from this great assembly of the membership was unanimous, just as was the vote on a motion which quickly followed, registering full con- fidence in the Joint Committee of Ac- tion. This following a flery speech by teh old fighter “Mershe” Rubin. Then the gathering dispersed. The Resolution, “Whereas, a few individuals, ably Morris Sigman, president, Meyer Perlstein, vice-president, and Israel Feinberg, vice-president and manager of the Joint Board, have arrogated to themselves the pawer and misused the name of the General Executive Board of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and of the Joint Board of the Locals of the said union in the City of New York, for the purpose of disrupting the said or- ganization and particularly the New York Local unions; and “Whereas, in the execution of their said nefarious purpose they have em- ployed illegal and vuneonstitutional means and strong-arm: by at- tempting to suspend the three largest not- Ther say in the yellow pret, that ment Workers Union in this city in an locals of the In sper our sympathy and pledged our loyal and devoted co-operation with Locals 2, 9 and 22 in their struggle against the misleaders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and particularly against the individuals named; and we hereby approve the action of Locals 2, 9 and 22 in elect- ing a Joint Committee of Action to ‘take all necessary means for the pro- tection of the officers and executive boards of the said three locals, as well as the entire membership of the said local unions and their property from illegal attacks; and we hereby express our sense of solidarity with them in this struggle, which we be- lieve to be for the benefit of the entire membership of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union thru- out the country and for the protection of their rights as members of the said union. “Resolved, Further, that the said struggle is in our opinion a struggle for true and correct policies of trade unionism, that its origin and develop- ment is purely along questions of in- ternal policy of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, such as dues and other burdens imposed upon the membership, and the proper or improper attitude taken by the leaders in the struggle with employ- ers, and that the issue of “Commun- ism” is faked by Messrs. Sigman, Perlstein and Feinberg and their con- federates for the purpose of obscuring the real issues involved in this strug- gle; and we hereby expressly assert that Messrs, Sigman, Perlstein and Feinberg never hesitated to employ to the spirit of the collective agree- boards of the said locals; force and the use of strong-arm meth- At V work 2 ar CITY, July 13— The port of the governor's commission io whieh “Impartial” swindling the sige | & has betrayed the mem- bership of the I. I. G. W. with the yellow socialist Hiliquit as Sigman’s panes A aa i Has been given out at last. 4 summary of the recommendation Sureau 2 Research. — The com- mission recommends that a bureau of de established under joint auspices and it be partly. financed by contributions from independent manu- Tacturers, submanufacturers and job- 2 as well as by contributions from parties to the collective agree- and ‘from the unemployment in- ry Label—We strongly fullest possible development of the use of the label. The standards adopted by the joint board of sanitary control should be rigidly enforced and gradually proved so that the pub- lic may on the labels guarantee- ing that the garments upon which they appear are manufactured and produced in shops having high stand- ards —— — and modern work- ing tions. Shop Strikes—The commission be- lieves that the shop strike in the in- dustry is harmful to the interests of all concerned and is contrary ments: Energetic steps should be taken to prevent the occurrence of these shop strikes, and it is recom- mended that the union issue explicit ‘and frequent instructions that under all circumstances, shop strikes are to be Ae R tion—We are not pre- d make any definite recom- lat 270 on this subject at present. : t that the industrial coun- ein 5 union confer on this mat- Discounts—The commission wishes turther ‘data on this subject. The recommendation is that the two as- sociations: involved agree to accept a decision of the commission to be rendered during the fall. If any change is then regemmended, it is to become effective im business of the spring ‘@fdage—The sub-manufactur- mid’ be called upon to pay tHe ac yardage receivad. : they should be with the net yardage To charge the sub- with shrinkage it tIna- terials thr le process of sponging is a coustant source of irrita‘ion and gives rise to frequent unnecessary disputes, .. . Unemployment Insurance—The facts brought out by the investigation shows clearly that, the periods of employ- ment are on the average much shorter BUILDING UNIONS OFFICIALS CARRY ON RUINOUS WAR Members Want to Amal- gamate; Officers Don’t NEW YORK CITY, July 13-—-Build- ing trade workers should take notice of the significance of the present inex- cusable jurisdictional quarrel between the Bricklayers’ and the Plasterers’ unions. It is a shining example of not chy the need for ainalgamation io the building industry, but of the fact that the members want amalgamation and the officials block it. This impossible situation will only be remedied by the rank and file of both unicns taking hold of such obstruciionist officers and p..ing them on th» scrap heap. The Bricklavers’ officials do not wien to carry out th. resolution for amulgamation passed ar the 1921 con- ~ention; and the Plasterers’ officials pretend to get insu ed because the Gricklayers’ resclution for amaigama- ion refers in passing to them as bo- ing a “dual” union Both sides are happy to find s»me «‘xcvse to set the membership at swords’ points with ‘ich other. The Progressive Building Trades Worker published at 156 West Wash- ington street, Chicago, has the fol- lowing enlightening remarks to make ih a recent issue: Probably the most stupid and crim- inal jurisdictional fight that has ever taken place in the history of the build- ing trades, is that between the Brick- layers, Masons and Plasterers Inter- national Union and the Operative Plasterers’ and Cement Finishers’ In- ternational Association. Here aretwo organizations covering practically the same field. The only solution is amal- gamation, and yet the officials have decided to fight it out. This means that both unions will be materially weakened, to the detriment of, the members of both organizations. At the last convention of the Brick- layers, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., September, 1924, the rank and file expressed themselves on this matter in the following resolution: “Whereas, Owing to the deplor- able conditions existing in the Plast- ering Industry thruout the country, and such conditions being caused by the existence of a dua! organization known as the O. P, and C. F. |. A., therefore be it “Resolved, That the Executive Board be empowered to Spare no expense to protect the FAMILY 60 10 JAIL 10 KEEP FROM STARVING LOS ANGELES, Calli, July 13.— William Bowman, his wild one their two children voluntarity We to the Los Angeles jail to keep from atarv- ing to death. They are abso destitute, due to the husbands | ability to get work. Bowman has been loking far a job, without success, for four months and there is every reason to believe he is telling the truth. He is a radio worker, young and able bodied, yet he and his family are in jail as a last resort to keep from taking the tong bbs e EE Sere cert —— — Rs em} _ Jurisdictional rights of the B. M. and P. J. U. and to use such efforts as will bring about the amalgamation of the 0. F. |. A. and our interna- tonal Union in order that dual unioniem will forever disappear in so far as our craft is concerned, so that harmony may be established in the industry.” Members for Amalgamation. This is a clear-cut declaration for amalgamation. It comes from the man on the job who is most affected by stupid internal strife. Yet how do the officials of both organizations greet this sensible and practical solution of the problem? At the meeting of the officials of both organizations held last February, in Miami, Fla., to discuss this situa- tion, the representatives of the Brick- layers, according to a circular letter sent out by the O. P. & C. F. I. A., said “that in their opinion there was no way out by conference, that it would be a long drawn out battle and that they had made preparations for same.” Both officialdoms agree to fight it out. The representatives of the Op- erative Plasterers even excuse the Bricklayers when they say, referring to the resolution passed at the Brick- layers’ convention and the declaration of war, “We realize that they were compelled to do so in order to carry out the instructions of their last.con- vention held at Saratoga Springs.” The representatives of the Operat-|* ive Plasterers deliberately misinter- pret the letter and the spirit of. the resolution when they say, again re- ferring to the resolution, “It would seem from the above action taken by the Bricklayers in their convention that we are considered by them as a ‘dual’ union of Plasterers and Cement Finishers.” Both officraidoms find a ready excuse not to bring about unity, but to fight it out. 2 - — — rying into effect any provision ot the until such jobber and (or) mannu- facturer and (or) contractor shall have paid to the association all such charges. 1 (b) The contracts between the union and independent jobbers, manu- facturers and sub-manufacturers shall provide for the deposit in cash or its equivalent with the union of al sum sufficient to cover any damage by reason of any violation committed by such independent sub-manufacturer, in the jobber-manufacturer system than in the inside shops. It is the | employes in this system who make | the heaviest demands upon the insur- | ance fund, Having in mind this situa-| tion the commission recommends that the insurance items to be paid by the jobbers be increased to 50 per cent, as against the schedule now\in force. “No Change” in Wage Scale. The commission does not find it practicable to propose any change at this time. It recommends that in the new contracts the several parties agree to accept a decision on this sub- ject during the fall. This will be on the understanding that if any in- crease will be granted, it will go into effect for the spring season. independent—(a) No contract shall be entered into by the union and a jobber, manufacturer and (or) sub- manufacturer Who was suspended from . membership in Merchants’ Ladies’ Garment Association, or Cloak and Suit Protective Association, or American CMWak and Suit Manufactur- ers’ Associ m because of failure to comply with Award made against him on complgint filed by or thru the union or any other party to the col- lective agr ents, or who has been suspended ‘fof failure to pay his dues, assessments and (or) charges levied | against him for the purpose of car- , sub-manufacturer, tively, and all such individual agree- the association and manufacturer and (or) jobber. (c) Such contracts shall provide that the independent submanufactur- ers, manufacturer or jobber shall con- tribute to a fund for the expenses of the bureau of research in amounts to be approved by the impartial chair- man. é That “Impartial” Chairman. The commisssion does not believe that the expenses of the impartial chairman should be paid in part by the independents. The impartial chair- man and his machinery should be re- served for the adjustment of disputes between the members of associations and the union, who are parties to the collective agreement in the industry, except in so far as controversies in- volving independents may, by consent of the parties to the collective agree- ments, be submitted to the impartial chairman. (a) No contract shall be made be- tween the union and an independent manufacturer and (or) jobber containing any provisions more favorable than the provisions in the contracts executed between the union and the various parties collec- ments shall be open for inspection by their duly ac- credited representatives at the office of the impartial chairman, at such Communists 6r anarchists in their service when ft suited their purposes. Cali to All Labor. “We therefore call upon all the members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in the City of New York and thruout the contry, and upon all organized labor, to disre- gard the smoke screen attempted by Messrs. Sgiman, Perlstein, Feinberg & Co., and the inquiry into and examina- tion of the real issues involved in this struggle, which are of great import- ance not only to all of the members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, but to all organized labor, as all organized labor is inter- ested in honest and democratic man- agement of thé unions and in the sup- pression of . to ally or- ganized labor with the criminal under- world or to in any way use the latter in the struggle between workers and employers, “Resolved, Further, that in our op- inion the ral of the dues of the membership 1 350 to 50c; and the imposition of a special tax of $2.50 were both unjusti- fied and unnecessary, and that the tax was imposed unconstitutionally, | and that the raising of the dues and the imposition of the tax had as their sole purpose the raising of a vast cor- ruption fund so as to enable the mis- leaders of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to maintain themselves in power by illegal and corrupt méans. Demand Resignatinons. “Resolved, Further, that in our op- inion the troubles in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union will | not cease 80 long as the present lead- ers, and particularly Morris Sigman, Meyer Perlstein and Israel Feinberg, stand at its head and are in control of its affairs, and until the compost-| tion of the Joint Board in the City of New York will be changed in ac cordance with the requirements of democracy, so ag to provide for pro- porti répresentation, each local to be entitled to representation accord. OW Yi" collective agreement with the union, 8 designate. — — — Meyer Perlstein and Israel Feinberg, from the offices now held by them; wards the reconstruction of the Joint | Gemacratie principles. tions have been obtained and proper times and under such conditions as he (e) All such contracts shall provide that the books of an independent sob- ber, manufacturer and (or) sub-mant facturer against whom a complaint is made by any party to the collective agreements shall be open for inspec- tion at such times and under such conditions as the impartial chairman may designate. — * * With the union led into a trap by Sigman and company the alleged ob- jections” of Hillquit to the “award” of such a raw deal was as weak and fraudulent as could be expected. Too Many Lawyers to Expect „Justice“ Louis Solomon, attorney for the American Cloak and Suit Manufac- turers’ Association, representing the manufacturers, expressed his disap- poinment because the report did not do away with haggling over prices paid the manufacturers. Sam Blum- beg. attorney for the Merchants’ Ladies’ Garment Association, merely said that the merchants would con- sider the report and report back. Evi- dently the big bosses have litttle to kick about. William Klein, another attorney completing the battery of lawyers who try to dispose of the destiny and lives of the workers, spoke for thé industrial council of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers’ Protective Association opined that things would come out all right thru the research bureau. The expression of opinion of the workers in the shop is yet unformulat- ed, but it will probably be in con- sonance with the individual opinion of the militant rank and filers of the I. L. G. W., that they expected nothing but betrayal from the Sigman gang and the council of lawyers and they are going to fight their own battles for their own interests. Boston C armen Vote N * * for Strike By TOM BELL, street car men employed by the Bos- ton Elev company have von overwhelmingly for a strike to | the company to abandon their on arbitration. The vote was! For strikey 4,988; against 197. This em- powers the date Yor the strike, ta. te call it when advisable. For many weeks the 5 bas been insisting that the method of arbi- tration be changed. The union is in- sisting that the arbitration method laid down in the agreement with the company be carried out. Behind all this juggling with words there is the determination of the company 7 wages if at all possible, It was against any — wage cut that the rank and file 7 This overwhelming vote fora strike is also a demand on the union officials that they cut loose from the 3 conferences with the bosses question of arbitration, The trustees of the company have visited Gov. Fuller to lay the case be- fore him. It is stated that he is deter- mined to take all steps possible to prevent a strike. President Green of the A. F. of L. is in town and stated that the differences between the union and the company are 80 slight that no trouble should be had in finding « common ground for a settlement, John H. Reardon, general executive board member of the union, is in charge of the stiuation. All of these peaple seem to have lost sight of the fact that the: carmen have voted for a strike, and that. a strike would bring the company its knees. But they are all blabbering about a “common ground of ment,” governor and those of Green All of them are afraid strike. The rank and strong action is not the company to terms, and voted: for such action. 85 3,000 WORKERS TO BOSSES’ MUSIC — Western 1 Has Successful Failur By HARRY ALLEN. (Worker Correspondent.) True to their class character, som? 3,000 workers of the Western Hlec- tric Co. refused to take part u a dance given by the company which en gs Friday during unch hour. f * With a week of systematic — ity for an out-deor dance for the em- ployes, to be held at noon hour bring- ing a crowd estimated at about 3,000, yet, despite the popular dance music, no more than 80 to 40 couples ganced at any one time. Not a single worker with ee on was seen to dance, altho there were hundreds there dressed in over- alls, and only two girls were seen with their working dress on. Those who participated were of the sheik and flapper type of office workers. | The workers feel that the dance was put on to make them believe the company is good to them but they cannot forget their low wages, long hours and miserable working condi- tions no matter how good the com: pany appears to be, W It Fools Them Too. PARIS, July 13.—The French cham- ber of deputies has ratified the Wash- ington eight-hour convention. This was one of the draft conventions adopted by the integnattonal labor conference at its first * 1 8 Washington in November, 1919. ing to its membership, thus away with the Rotten Boroughs of pa- per locals. “We therefore demand the immedi- ate resignation of Morris Sigman, and the taking of immediate steps to- Board in the City of New York, in ac-| cordance with the requirements of And we call upon the membership doing that the said leaders have no author- ity to make in our mame any agree- ments with any employers, and that we will not recognize any agreement unless the same are negotiated with our true representatives and submit- ted to the membership for their decis- ion under conditions that will insure an untrammelled vote and an honest count thereof, “We hereby also dedlare that until the constitutional machinery of the local unions of New York City has been restored, the Joint Action Com- of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to refuse to pay any dues or taxes until the said resigna- steps taken towards the institution of the said reforms, and not to recognize the authority of the few individuals now misuring the name of the Inter- national La Germent ‘Workers Union in au iflegal and uconstitutional männer. Have No Authority. “We also hereby declare publicly mittee elected by Locals 2, 9, and 22, is the only authorised body to speak in the name of the Cloak and Dress- makers of New York City. “We hereby also pledged our selveg to the raising of a defense fund to enable the carrying on of this strug- gle, and we hereby call upon all mem- bers of the International Ladies Gar- ment Union in New York and else where and upon all their sympathiz- ers to contribute liberally towards this fund.” (Special to The Daily Worker.) * Sia BOSTON, Mass, July 13—Union W. 2 „ wa + 5 7 * 7 9 7 5 ng 4 5 ee * N * 7 bt the wage committee to set 2 88 REFUSE TO DANCE. * ‘ ’ — — —
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oy —_ ap 4 U. 8. Aluminum company, e . if m Trast Hates s-Smashes Unions By EUGENE GROSS (Worker Correspondent) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 13.—The owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, has a small plant in Fairfield, Conn. It employs about 250 workers, most of them foreigners. The pay for the unskilled workers—and about 75 per cent are unskilled—is from thirty- eight to fifty cents per hour. The plant works 44 hours per week, because the work we are doing is so hard that we are hardly able to do it even for eight hours. “This Is an Open Shop, and Not a Card Shop” If you look at the shop rules, that hang on every wall, you will see the above line that says “not a card shop.” This line wants to tell the worker that this is an open shop and not a union And the conditions in the shop prove to you that it is not a ‘card shop.’ They are afraid of radicalism so much that during the election campaign someone wrote on the walls a few words about radicalism, and when the Manager saw them, he became very frightened and instructed every fore- man to find out who the bolsheviki were, and told him to discharge that worker right away. But they were unlucky and they could not find out who it was. Work Faeter When the whistle blows in the morn- ing, you have to be at your place, and you can’t stop work before 12 o'clock. If you etep a few minutes before, the foreman goes to you and tells you that there ign’t any washing time. They have a “bonus” system. ¥ Every afternoon, the timekeeper goes from one worker to the other and writes up how much work he has done, how many pieces, and the num- ber of the work. The report goes up to the production office, where the white-collar slaves figure out how much—or how litthe— is coming to the worker. Of course the worker is only getting a few per- cent of his over produetion and the big part of it goes into the pocket of the or into the pocket of sp fat trust. thing the company is doing with its bonus system is to separate the workers. One is afraid that the other one might take away his good bonus job and so he gets angry at him. And so one worker becomes the enemy of the other; instead of hating 3 any they hate each other. ‘Se ‘Tolling Like Animals Ne foundry the work is very hard. Especially during the hot sum- mer days when they work in under- ehirts. The shirt gets all wet from the sweat of the slave. I went in their department to get a drink o water and I stood aside and watched how they carried the hot aluminum and they were tired and half dead. i was thinking that if this army of siaves are going to wake up to their present condition, then the Mellons amd the rest of the stockholders are not going to suck the workers’ blood any longer. Coolidge Saves at Workers’ Expense. SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 13.— President Coolidge has brot the me- chanics from the yacht Mayflower to his summer home to repair his plumb ing. He stands and watches them “work, This is part of Coolidge’s economy program.” Soviet Demands Investigation. MOSCOW, July 13.— The Soviet government has demanded of the Pol ish government the formation of a commission to investigate the burn- ing of a Soviet border guard station by Polish soldiers. an) By MAX ENGELS (Berlin) b aayre activity of the central agit prop of the German C. P. has passed thru three epochs since first coming into exisctence each epoch representing a definite stage of de- volopinent. The first epoch comprises the time which the department was founded: Angust, 1923, till December, 1923; the second epoch extends from January until December, 1924; the third from January, 1926 until now. In August, 1923, it was decided to form a special agitprop department for the centralization of the whole of our agitational and propagandist work. At the time of the founding dt the agitprop no definite working plans had however been made; the limits of the fleld of activity had not yet been drawn. The vaguest ideas circulated as to the extent of work, and especial- ly as to the co-ordination of work with the various departments of the party. Questions of method and technics were dealt with solely by means of small discussions on special examples (the organization of a meeting or dem- onstration, debates on the method of educational work in the party). The ganda and agitation was not even clear to the leaders of the party. NE example of the defective organ- ization and deficient knowledge operatives, etc.). lets such as “Civil War,” “Hooked Cross or Soviet Star” were issued in editions of 100,000 each, almost all of which were sold, as the prices had been rendered exceedingly low by the inflation. A systematic use of the ma- terial did however not take place. In the first epoch of agitprop work it was nat yet possible ‘to achieve any substantial progress in the centraliza- tion of otir whole agitation and propa- ganda. The agitprop was affiliated to bureau issued handbills without prev- ious cons with the 9 & published appeals, and carried on HIS lack and the first months of agitprop ac- essential difference between propa- of the essential character of agitprop work may be seen in the fact that al- tho the party publishers were subor- dinate to the agitprop in every branch of their work, the other departments of the party central (trade unions, co- land propaganda, etc.,) were not co-ordinated to the agitprop in any way. And it was not until No- vember, 1923, that the whole of the printing orders received by these agit- prop departments were carried out by the central agitprop. The agitprop was however responsible for the tech- nical side only (make-up, printing, Material for agitation was pro- duced in large numbers. Leaflets ran into editons of millions, and pamph- the organization bureau; the political of system was not changed by the events in October, tivity passed without that more being done than placards and posters being brought out, and attempts being made by the agitprop to create for itself an independent printing apparatus, and to centralize the printing possibilities already offered by the party printing offices all over the reicn. In January, 1924, a member of the central was appointed to lead the agit- prop department. The agitprop was brought into closer contact with the entire work being done by the party central and ita organs. In the course of the epoch lasting until December, 1924, the agitprop had (a) the electoral campaign for the reichstag election on May 4; 1924. (b) the international campaign against war in August, 1924. (c) the electoral campaign for the recihstag election on December 7, 1924. HESE last two campaigns had to be carried on in the midst of the struggles of the German Party against the experts’ report, against the Lon- don conference, and against the Dawes plan. During this year the agitprop . the task of drafting in detail the plans for the campaign, of transmitting correspond- ing instructions to the other depart- ments of the party, of producing the whole of the material, and of control- ling the organization and execution of the campaigns in the party organs (distri@t and local groups). The pol- itical slogans and campaigns leaflets and appeals, were passed on to the agitprop department py the political bureau. The agitprop was affiliated to the organization bureau; the con- tact with the collective work of the party became much closer than dur- ing the first epoch. The best example of more system- atic and concentrated agitation work was furnished by the anti-war cam- palin in August, 1924. This was thoro- ly prepared or weeks beforehand by the whole arty. The central agitprop issued a detailed plan of campaign, at concrete instructions for every sphere of work (trade unions, co-opératives, parliaments, women’s secretariat, Cultural and sporting clubs, etc).° This plan of campaign was introduced by political instruc- tions given by the political bureau, organizatory instructions from the or- ganization bureau, and special instruc- tions from the central agitprop de- os a functionar- ore the campaign — 5 the whole of the party fune- — wih, Se tion ormed every description of this kind of po- on ‘ia po 1 hse ct cam- itical work quite independent of the paign ing the international agitprop. ones, since political instructions issued by ths executive were included in the pamphlet as appendix), but were enabled, to obtain a comprehen- three great tasks to accomplish: tre tian oe of the work 23 Ne tionaries were sled on to This ¢oherent fort — 4 whole plan of the ci 8 the way for the hig nest pc de- gree of coordi co-opera- tion among the ¢ of the party. Special ins ere also given for the most i branches of agitation (press paigns, organization o eey The central tprop publ. following agitation — mater campaign: - organs Material for s * 7 different handbilts, 1 poster — — 7 different ‘pills pac 33 8 pamphlets, for sale, tots 93,000 3 illustrated — 540,000 Total 049280 S a result of this excellent organ- izatory preparation, the cam- paign was exceedingly successful, al- tho we were obliged to state in our final report to the E. C. C. I. “that a serious defect in the organization of the campaign consisted of the fact that co-ordination was still insuffi- ciently developed with respect to the work of the different party organs.” We give below a further table show- ing the material provided for the reichstag election on December 7, 1924: | Copies Instructive material. 122,700 Handbillsss 14,460,500 Leaflets ..... . 1,261,000 Posters 1 tanta .. 1,032,500 Pamphlets ........ 244 ˙ . 910,000 Miscellaneous 214, S ah 500 HE agitprop thus e rged in its second epoch from embryonic state of its first, established the con- fines of its sphere of activity, secured its influence upon every branch of work. Questions relating to the meth- od and technics of agitat and prop- aganda were discussed upon the basis of actual experience. ‘Phe chief de- fects still hampering the work of the department lay in the™%vircumstance that the subordination ot the agitprop under the orgatiiwation bureau forced organizatory and technical questions into the ound so’ thet da (educational work ini the- party) was accorded too little attention. e third period of agitprop work began in January, 1925, with the re- organization of the agitprop depart- ment. The agitprop became the organ carrying out, and controlling the E the political bureau, organizing, whole of the agitation and porpagan- Total f 32,713, * whole party. da conducted by the party in every department of work. This fundamental definition ‘ee the func-| actual sphere of work, and the posi- tion of the agitprop department in the apparatus of the party as a political organ, as an organ of the political bu- reau, was the most important prere- quisite for thoro and systematic agi- tational and propagandist work thru- out the whole party. This form of or- ganization is the only guarantee of a consistent centralization of all agita- tion and propaganda, ensuring their political guidance and bringing the in- dividual tasks of the other depart- ments into correct relations with the plans and principles of the party cen- tral. The work of agitation and prop- aganda within the trade unions, co- operatives, etc., must be subordinated in methods and technics to a central ‘leadership which sees not only the narrow limits of agitprop work. The slogans and aims of this work must co-ordinated with those of the work of the other de part - ments, in accordance with the prin- ciples laid down by the decisions of This centralization is the sole guarantee that the whole of the forces in the party, the whole of our means and possibilties of agi- tation, are concentrated and directed under the consistent leadership of the party central towards our ultimate be consistently the party central. HE work falling to the share of the agitprop may now be classified under two main headings, these being again subdivided inte various minor categories. The chief department of agitation comprises the whole of the general agitation carried on by the party in every sphere, the organizing of inter- national and national. campaigns, the organization of elections, etc., ther comprises it fur- the sub-departments for press and publishing work, and a 1 sub-department for the produc- n of thé whole of the material re- quired for the work of agitation and propaganda. The chief department of propaganda comprises the whole of the education- al work carried on within the party, in related and sympathizing organiz- ations, and in trade unions, co-opera- tives, etc. This department controls the editorship of the theoretical or- gan issued by the party central. possesses a chives and libraries. courses of instruction in Leninism and the educational circles in thé’ A further sub-depart- ment for statisties has recently been added. This last department not only: collects and publishes important pol. itical and economic statistical mate? ial, but compiles statistics on the re- sults of elections, census of the popu lation, etc. Rapin eam central agitprop depart- ment organizes and leads, both the whole of the general agitation It sub-department for ar- It organizes the | : ‘}cordance with a definite plan concen- trating all forces under one consistent | ers, the systematic utilization of all | highest degree of success is ensured. and tho capeeiAl. campe ent: tor the i 5 Het f FEE 8 1 N and after these have by the party central (8,000 copies) to * Be : terial required for the party material needed speakers and debaters, for service, . and the posters, handbills, with the established plan of cam paign. Besides these tasks, the or- and factory cells, is an urgent neces- sity, and centraleagitprop department. The or- ganization plans for the German agit- prop, as also the principles to be pursued in the systematic organisa- tion of international campaigns, are submitted to the international agit- prop ‘conference which will be held in organization must be made to run parallel with the giving of instruction on the method and technics of propa- ganda and agitation within the func- tionary corporations and among the members, by means of instructive pamphlets, conferences, and courses of study. The gigantic apparatus in the hands of our opponents (press, cinema, the- ater, school, family, army) is some- thing with which we cannot in the least compete as far as quantity is concerned. If we are to break the in- fluence of this apparatus, this can only be by enlisting everything and every- body in our service; that is, when every functionary in the party, every member and every person in sympa- thy with the party, ceases to carry on the work of agitation in a merely ac- cidental manner, but pursues it in ac- leadership; when we have learned to make use of, and organize the use of.. every technical auxiliary means avail- able for agitation (leaflets, posters, bills, handbills, pla 8, factory nu- ‘clei newspapers, theaters, wireless) in such a manner that the NAHE success of these efforts towards increasing and deepening the in- i 3 24 the central agitprop, in accordance | ganization of suitable agitprop de- must be carried out by the ne the middle of March. The work of | cinemas, | fluence of the Communist Party 18 i not so much dependent upon the ma- f terial means available, as upon the degree of organization, acme of centralization in the whole of Accident is but a feeble ally. the organiaztion of all available pow- available, forces, and the central lead- ership of agitation, which will enable us to defeat our adversaries. PHILIPPINES RULED OM BEHALF OF AMERICAN CAPITAL, WOOD ADMITS MANILA, P. I., July 18—In a statement here Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, military dictator of the Phil- Ippine Islands, declared that the le- lands should be kept under Amer“ can domination for the U. 8. com- mercial interests. “Our commercial Interests demand that we control the gateway to the orient,” Wood sald. “The Philip- MAINTENANCE OF WAY UNION ASKS SMALL INCREASE B. of R. T. and O. R. C. Demands Forming Submissions have been filed by the maintenance of way employes’ union with the United States Railroad La- bor Board from members of the or- ganization employed on fifteen of the largest railroads asking for an in- creas@ in wages of 5 cents an hour for all classes in the maintenance of way department. The rates paid these men now range from 27 cents an hour for trackmen in southern states to 40 cents an hour in the northwest. The Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men and the Order of Railroad Con- ductors had previously started a movement for wage mcreases, which, pines should be made an advance outpost of American power in the Pacific, which in the future will be the center of the world conflict.” Wood’s statement was suppressed here. N. B. C. Makes Million per Month. NEW YORK, July 13—The National Biscuit company reports a net profit of $3,735,664 after all expenses and taxes were paid, for the quarter ended June 30. 2 — oks present the —4 Rem: The Evolution of Man ö By Wm. Boelsche / Cloth, 60 cents | The Triumph of Man a By Wm. Boelsohe Cloth, 60 cents Savage Survivals In Higher Peoples | By J. Howard Moore Cloth, $1.25 EVOLUTION ifically so that every worker can under- it is said, will ultimately involve every railroad in the country. ‘Among the railroad whose em- ployes are represented in the submis- sion to the rail board are the Penn- sylvannia, New York Central, Michi- gan Central, Wabash and other roads H running out of Chicago. This list will be increased rapidly, it was stated. subject clearly, concisely Evolution, Social and | Organic By Arthur Morrow Lewis Cloth, 60 cents Origin and Evolution of the Idea of the Soul 1 By Paul Lafargue | | | LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 13.—Fi- nal decree confirming revocation of the Elks Hill naval reserve oil leases | by the government to E. L. Doheny || was handed down in the U. S. district || court here by Judge P. J. McCormack. | | | Doheny Lease Is Revoked. The Pan-American petroleum compa- ny, a Standard Oil subsidiary, is or- dered to pay for oil used, and for | court costs. Cloth, 60 cents The Universal Kinship By J. Howard Moore Cloth, $1.25 Arraign 3 In Pickwick Collapse BOSTON, Mass., July 13.—Three of the nine men who have deen indicted in the collapse of the Pickwick Club, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Prompt shipment made on all these books from ’ THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING Co. ~ “Phe Source of All Communist Literature’ here 44 persons were killed, have deen arraigned. They are George H| Funk, an architect, ‘Timothy J. Barry, 1 i president of the club, and Hyman | Bloomberg, lessee of the building. All | pleaded mage guilty. W 1 Chicago, Il. ||| Rush that forms Jul 1 12 | Your Union Meeting | Second Tuesday, July 14, 1925. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeti — 5 133 2 — ae Workers, 1939 Mil- 514 au Calumet Joint Labor Council, Carp Hail, High- land Van cl Buren eet. Engineers (Locomotive), 5058 Went- AV worth n (Locomotive), 2647 W. 1 8 oe os 87 4 Ae nspectors, ar Hed 8 62nd and La Vergne 15441 . ‘Union, 3046 W. 26th St. 12 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 17 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 84 Machinists, 2548 S. Homan Ave. 915 Machinists, 4126 St. /461 ks, Grocery, 59 409 S. Halsted St,, 5:30 p. m. 1 Workers, 175 W. Wash- 21 * Sins ers, 912 W. 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Oa k St. Trumbull * Ogden Ave. 502 Plasterers, Monroe and Peorlg Sts. 2218 Railwa Clerks, 509 W. Wafhing- ton 7 * — 234 W. Randolph #4. 191 P Belgian Capitalists’ Come Here. BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 13.—The Belgium debt. funding commission which will visit the United States in August was named by the cabinet. Those who will makd the trip are former Premier ‘Theunis, Emil Franqui, banker. and Welician Oattier, 275 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, di- ih son St. 108 DistrictsCouncil, 220 8. This 165 umn is F or Cor ommunist Builders the work of agitation and propaganda. | It is By MAX SHACHTMAN A birds eye v of ch 5 1 ees pd re (with phot js ‘the Youn or „ JAY LOVESTONE | “The tenacles of the American 3 1 N Octopus have been fast - on nearly ever 3 of. earth“ says the a + int of "the A into world em- = interesting histor ment of the U. 8. (With, Photographs) Oppressed People By WM. F. DUNNE | Another article on this great American problem from t pen of the editor of the DAILY wide attention. a, seemed Bayonets in War and Peace By WM. F. KRUSE workers in the records of the war . An ure of umen evidence 9 every charge of ers. „(Wien“ photographs of the militia in strike See S st teas" perialist Capitalism By N. . An of le A ee and the greatest 238 1 2 = ng Left Wing 1 in the Needle Trades e EARL R. ROW e of the rank. and nie . reac loyers ae N . — t waged in t Beis ‘of battle. ies Sins a thi’ Golden West By MIRIAM ALLEN De FORD nia—“ the land of honey, fruit and fairly good wine“ —and a striking picture of 100 per cent suppress keen and splendidly written ac- count. Party Trade Union Fractions — By WM. Z. FOSTER | A timely contribution on one ot the most important phases ot present American Communist | development. The Longest Pro- cession in History By RUTH KENNELL Have oa Any Ideas? From letters of active workers thruout the country we are able to show the good work they are doing, practical methods in use and valu- able hints for others Communist Builders. column. But some Builders write very seldom—if at all. newals. The truth is that about it: should know about. And don’t worry about how straight your English may be. methods, ways and means to build the Communist movement thru the DAILY WORKER—THAT’S IS WHAT WE WANT! Send in your letter to the “Builders At Work“ Column-——make it short and snappy and plie > * „ @ ~ Write a Letter! Tell other Communist Builders thru this column just how you go what you do in your shop; how you approach your union mem- bers; what is the easiest way that you have found to get subs for the DAILY WORKER, Workers Monthly, Literature Sales and subs for all foreign language Communist papers; what do you syggest that has never been tried—and any other matter that you feel other workers That is the purpose of this They are content without an additional word they just send in their batch of subs and re- a large percentage of the good work done, is being made in this quiet and simple way. But this is not always the best way. Other workers also want to get the results—they also wish to do their share of promoting Communist activity and THEY DON’T KNOW HOW! So don’t be content with simply doing in your way the work that you feel is so enosntial to the movement. in your suggestions so that other Builders will be at work. PITTSBURGH, PA. 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eae: 4 * aay ts „ ee he idk 338 N — af we * * * 5 ee (By Worker Correspondent.) ASTORIA, L. I., July 13— I have some story, since the circulation of two workers t Sy will not the so-called “Joyal” ones have . their grip on the employes. But the little shrimp who works. is becoming the r champion of all the “suckers.” Yet not be a champion of some he may run into sometime in the near future. The superintendent, the foreman, the bookkeeper, all held by the same guy—a sort of “three in one” man, ‘also proven himself to be an “A-1” 3 Some day he will sure- of rheumatism, and will not see himself. Some tee 9 —— in the shop are due to be exposed in the DAILY WORKDR. Take notice that you — de next unless you play a man's in a man’s place with your fe * workers 5 the wage working class. | Our Daily Patterns . 8 important news to tell in my the r ‘DAILY | 4 justify the conflict? ; other and continue to un 2 eee W 1 e 4 * ve A dy * 74 . n me ay we oy Leek A * ce hd 2 >> 8 * N 4 { - 5 * r . * 4 — ne . mf. es 1 85 wrk g 755 i: Lag preseint conflict tn this: province, "What Are the tesue’, © What are the issues. and do they Is it to replace one m | ince; and higer rentals) more bank | ye ee aS oe BRA yop) iy * Na the oh Cale ee me ee ee 8 ’ ö J 1 J 42 1 , K* 4 * 1 bots } a f iS * N * TE ERS BUSY | CK JACKING CITY.—A group of 30 the 15 merabers 9, while they were picketing the Gotham any at 250 West 39th St., Tiday morning, and beat uhconscious, Alex Ritzer n avenue. mber of Local 2, had his job with the Goth- ny, by order of the and he and his com- rades were urging the workers jn the shop to d that he be allowed to return to job. The gangsters see- — that they outnumbered the work- r ofiered them away from in 83 2. building, and when they resisted, the strong arm squad * Ritzer ran to the ot the street without Another group was wait- 2 immediately tén thugs “gos Knocked him down and ‘kicked him until he was senseless. 1 Vletim ö Hospital Held Illegally. which was summon- — hospital C4 finally comrades took him in a to St. Mark’s hospital, where he is now lying in a serious e hospital authorities have 80 tar refused to let anyone, tat by a physician see Ritzer, stating of the police, he is to ent altho he is Later, ee : o'clock in the after- noon, the gangsters tried some more of their terrorist work along a new line. A private automobile drew up to the curb on West 21st street, just east of, the headquarters of Local 22, at No. dé West 2ist street. Four gang: sters stepped out and immediately a d building. on the sidewalk *. ng A Ne Sort of Crap Game. In a few aninutes they pretended to be quarreling; two of them sprang = and.after;the others had thrown sand into the faces of the workers gathered néar by, four men attacked Harry Offberg, of Local 2. One of the thugs. drew knife from his pocket rg’s face under the Hight eye, then: he dropped the knife ed up and carried off dy ane ‘companions who jump- ed into the and rode away. When the scene, one of the gangsters called out, “Oh, it’s nothing but u ght over a crap game.” A near-riot/ifpllowed” ‘as the workers tried to reach the gangsters, and po- lice finally arrested one of the gang- sters and Offberg. Offberg was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct and released on $500 bail: Ome of the gangsters was also arrested and released under $500 bail. 115 — „ Bronx Vomrades, Attention! NEW YORK.—Have you any books that you can spare? The Bronx Work- ers’ Library Appeals to you, to look over your , pick out all the books you are not using, and bring them over to the library. It's a shame to let them £6 to waste, comrades, when at the library are any number of young Communists gathered night- ly, hungry for knowledge, and anxious to read anything in the line of eco- nomic science or good literature. Look em over, comrades. Surely, you will find a book or two or maybe more, that you have read and can dis- pense with. We need them, we can use them, and many comrades who spend thetr spare time at our library will feel deeply gratéful to you for the gift.—Bronx L brary Sommittee. Water Frigitens New York. NEW YORK, July 13.— A broken water main at Fifth avenue and Forty: second street early today flooded New York’s subway, system in that region and so alarmed police and engineering officials that ‘they closed adjacent streets to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic. For fear the rushing water might have weakened the below sur- face structure of sidewalks and sky- scrapers. . Find Two Sisters Dead. SIOUX FALLB, Ia., July 13.—Police today were searching for a mysteri- ous Chicago man, following the dis- covery late yesterday of the decom- posed bodies of Mrs. Josie Goodwin, 59, former Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police matron, and Mrs. Elizabeth Anthony, 56, formerly of Boise, Idaho, sisters, in a shack which they occupied here. All their jewelry and money was miss- ing. J Two Airmen Ole. MINEOLA, N. V., July 13.—Lieuten- ants Charles K. Hickey and Richard H. Perry, attached to the air service reserve corps at Mitchell Field, were killed today whep their plane crashed in a field _near._.Westbury,._... Negroes Fight for Homes. DETROIT, Mich., July 13.—~A Negro family is intrenched in its home while 500 police guard the district where every night whites. attack the Ne- groes in attempting al force Jim | Crow eee, N @ to take the man to the eee te BeeeBee Ve Ve VVeseseeseseseess* * *- Dre re Begins the Firat American Serial ‘Pablication of a Great His- Arr Wo e - Daily Worker gain! torical Document ements have just been completed by which the DAIL Y K ER secures the first American rights to he sérial pub- lication of Arrangements with THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS make possible its American serial publication in the D AI — — ee m rr é ůͤwꝛin spy | RUSSIA TODAY THE OFFICIAL REPORT British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia Sent by the Trade Union Congress General Council of England WORKER. 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7 07 mail (in Galena only): a by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. nh Blvd., Chicago, III. Phone Monroe 4712 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES = By mail. loutside of Chicago): ‘per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months 32.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THe DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ungole "Entered as second-class mail J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } 2 Editors WILLIAM r. DUNNE { MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager eptember 21, 1923, at “the post-office at Chi- the act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates on application. | The British Coal Crisis According to indications, a general tie- up of the nation’s coal industry will take place in Great Britain shortly. The operators claim that their properties are no longer paying. big profits, so they wanted to restore prosperity for themselves, by, asking the miners to accept a reduction in wages and longer hours. This the miners refused and one of the greatest industrial struggles in the history cago, IIl., und or Great Britain is in the offing. The Trade Union Congress has voted to support the miners, and a fighting alliance of workers in the other basic industries is being urged by men like A. A. Purcell, A. B. Swales and A. J. Cook—all leading figures in the British trade union movement. The British miners have not forgotten the tragedy of Black Friday in 1921, when the Triple Alliance went to pieces thru the treachery of J. H. Thomas. and Frank Hodges, résulting in a defeat for the miners. Fortunately for the British miners the Thomas-Hodges leader- ship is now almost entirely discredited. Those fakers can still in- jure the workers by placing obstacles in the way of trade union unity and by counselling co-operation with the employers as a substitute for struggle. It is hoped that the lesson of Black Friday has not been lost on the British workers, and that they will see the need for a united front against the bosses. The fight of the British miners for a united front against the bosses. The fight of the British miners not only is the fight of every worker in Great Britain, but it should be considered the fight of the workers everywhere. The miners of the United States should be particularly interested in the struggle of their brothers across the ocean. They should see to it that no American scab coal is shipped across the ocean to break the strike and send the miners back to the pits to slave at the mercy of their masters. The industrial crisis in Britain comes at time when the ruling class of that country see on every side of them signs of approaching disaster. They are involved in China; their relations with France are delicate and the American capitalists are everywhere encroaching on their preserves. They are unofficially at war with Soviet Russia, and their slaves in the opprsesed colonies. of India and Egypt are seething with rebellion. Things look dark for the empire. Things look bad for the British working class. But the future belongs to the workers. The British mine strike, if it takes place may have far-reaching consequences. There is no hope for the British 5 under capitalism. That system is no longer able even to fill their stomachs. The road to their salvation lies over the dead body of capitalism and the British Communist Party is pointing out the road, and organizing them for the task of running the country in the interests 5 the producers. Keep Up the Fight The action of the executive committee. of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor and several locals of the International Association of Machinists in condemning the scabbery of the United Garment Work- ers in the present Amalgamated strike against the International Tailoring company and another subsidiary concern, should be fol- lowed by similar action on the part of every local union in this city and vicinity affiliated’with the American Federation of Labor. The DAILY WORKER took the lead in urging the trade union- ists of this city to rebuke the scabby officials of the United Garment Workers for their brazen and treacherous conduct in openly acting as a scab recruiting agency for the clothing manufacturers. We are very glad to note that the labor movement has responded, but the matter is of too great importance to be permitted to remain in the resolutions stage. Not only must the members of the American Fed- eration of Labor condemn scabbery of one union on another, but they must gixe practical aid to the clothing workers who are fighting to retain a standard of living and working conditions that were won after many hard struggles. The fact that the striking tailors are members of a union not affiliated ot the American Federatoin of Labor does not alter the situation. If they lose, every employer in Chicago will see in that defeat a signal for a reduction in wages.and more profits at the ex- pense of his employes. If they are victorious it will be a warning to the employers that the workers are prepared to defend their gains, and that they are learning the needed lesson of solidarity. Moral and Political Bankraptcy The disgraceful and treacherous attitude of the socialist parties thrnout the world is typified by the conduct, of the socialist party of Belgium under the leadership of Emil Vandervelde. The fortunes of an election campaign’ divided the results so evenly between the socialist and other parties that no one party could hold office on its own strength. The socialists, greedy for the spoils of office, agreed to a coalition with the right wing catholics, fused to enter the government with thevsocialists. According to Lansbury’s Labor Weekly, the Belgian socialists placed themselves at the disposition of the king, prepared to do any- | thing he. suggests. Labor Weekly says: May we remind Vandervelde and his col- leagues that once upon a time they were counted as socialists and’ The Belgian socialists are true — as men.” That was some time ago. to type. Like their prototypes in other countries they have sold the working class. Let us hope the workers will soon be in a position to reward them for their treachery. Oscar Ameringer, court jester and footstool to Frank Farring- ton, president of the Illinois Mineys’ Union, is afraid that if the Communists win out in America he will be compelled to read the DAILY WORKER. He would prefer a. daily diet of rusty fish hooks and carbolic acid, he tells us. We are surprised. Actually, Oscar has been feeding on dung so long that we thought he would look on a diet of fishhooks and carbolic acid as a delic acy. ——— The DAIL Y WORKER —. excited the wrath of the editor of a southern new spaper, because of our criticism of the christian deity for his negligence in allowing the Santa Barbara earthquake to topple down a building devoted to religions activities. If this be ‘Communism, snorts our contemporary, to hell With it, of words to , that effect. We still believe god was sleeping at the switeh. | ies — e | quirements of labor could not be filled. | Give this But the catholics re- In an editorial headed The Belgian Shame,“ the |... EASON ‘LURING W WORKERS But More Than Enough Are There Already By FRAPIESA. (Worker Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES, July 13.— The can- ning season is at its heig Cali- fornia. Between 200,000 and 300,000 persons are employed in the can- neries. This is not an Advertisement tor help. On the contrary, it is a warning for workers to keep away from Cali- fornia. The great army of cannery opera- tives is-active only seasonally. When the f harvested it is disbanded. In a state where there is steady em- ployment a canning industry such as Califérnia has could not exist. Re- Labor Supply and Low Wages There are more than 600 canneries in California. A few of them employ less than 100 persons and a few over 1.000. Most fo them require 100 to 1.000. When a cannery is ready to operate for the season announcement is made and in one, two or three days all the workers «needed are on hand and many are turned away. That shows how plentiful labor is. The Wages are uncertain. Under the minimum wage law $16.50 might be considered the lowest for women. But the law is evaded. Vacation time enables the employers to exploit children. Piece * r rt ae r reat 4. i x possible. other H tity of interests *bety 5 ed masses in all lands ; class unity possible. 15 capitalist powers unite; it 2 1 be o doubt, that time in desperation th make common causes _ greatest foe, the worker. But the workers will also have learned some- thing and will unite to get em of 5 robbers. In the meantime, a stu the developments in China: will — interesting and instructive: During the quarrel between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso-Lin, England and the Unit- ed States supported Wu, while Japan and France su A& the DAILY WORKER often pointed out, the policies of the *capitalist powers do not “stay put” very long nowa- days. Today there is a different line up in China, 4 > 9 8s. work is also used to cheapen labor. hard cash. Bunco Advertisements. One of the tricks of cannery m&g- nates is to circulate thru the press stories that certain girls or women operatives earn $20 to $25 a day on piece work. That is on a par with tales of rapid rises of moving picture “actors.” Sometimes an operative, at a kill- ing pace, may make a high wage for piece work, as a rule, the workers make little. at that class of work. Piece work s a task maker and pace- setter to the advantage of the em- ployers. * Workers Unorganized. There is no union among these hun- dreds of thousands of cannery work- ers. Class consciousness is not mani- fest. Yet ali the wealth of the can- ning industry in this state is pro- duced by them and the machines in- |dependently. of the magnates. Great capitalist rog nizations reap the pro- fits. A Workers. Party has certainly an open rene here. on Readers Views | Starvation is Mine Bosses’ Whip. To the DAILY WORKER: My sub- seription expires on July 10th but I am unable to renew on account of unemployment. Since last Septem- ber I had so little work I could hardly make my living but, from April Ist all mines except one have shut down. It is impossible to get work and we miners here struggle with misery and starvation, In this town fifty to sixty families made an application to the county court for aid to feed their children but they were told if they would ac- cept a wage cut the mines will open and that they will get more work than before but the miners replied that this is bunk. If there is to be any gain the operators and not the At the end of the season the opera-| tives can show more experience than RANCE appears to be willing to support Britain and Japan, tho there is a suspicion ‘the French are double crossing their rival across the channel. The United States is playing for the Chinese market and is endeavoring to regain - the friend- ship of the Chinese ee at the ex- pense of the other powers. The United States that friend- ship in the coming war with Japan. The plot thickens. \ e gre 5 HILE this drama is enacted in China, we find England sup- plying the Riffang in. Morocco with munitions to fight the French. Previ- ously the French supplied them with ammunition to . defeat the Spanish. Now the French and Spanish are, trying to patch up An ce so they may be able to beat the Riffs. Should the latter be successful hey may next wage war on. This is how the capitalist powers: play the game ple who e uch 4 ga to establish — 2 can no more stop fro policy than a Bed bug ¢ — the temptation to bite an. unoffending slumberer. 7 17 5 . * * Bhs gee Tennessee . mes are just about as crazy as a meadow full of ten-year old foxes», The Day- ton merchants are lopsided from car- rying the proceeds of their sales to the banks. Thousands of people are crowding into the city te watch the circus. The Daytonians, don’t care whether they are atheistg.or not. They will sell them anything they call for, from bibles to moonshine. A funda- mentalist preacher asked a permit to carry two small eannon. He wanted to lay them on his pulpit while preaching. It is not known whether he feared the devil.or Darwin. The Sheriff refused him the artillery per- mit. Daytonians will stand up under a lot of ridicule provided the visiting agnostics, atheists and modernists spend their money freely. miners would get it. Comrades, please, if you can, send me the paper and when I get employ- | ment I will renew my subscription. | Please put this in the DAILY WORKER so that the workers can acquaint themselves with conditions in this town. Fraternally Mystic, Iowa. yours, Tony Stanfi, copy to your shop mate. Ecuador Government Overthrown. | GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 13— Troops of the Guayquil garrison have captured the government in a mili- tary movement. At the same time the troops set up a military chief at Quito, the eapital 4 dor. Federal Reservis Bank Total. WASHINGTON, Julx 13. — Loans and investments of tbe federal re- serve banks total more than 329,250, 000,000, the federal reserve board an- os Taza Surrounded; Riffians — Fez . the Moroccans’ attack. The nati No. 2, shows how the Fiffians capital of French Morocco, Fez. Th lines in this territory and Taza has No. 3, shows the territory south the revolt of natives against the i brought the Moroccans * a few m 4 — 4 O. 1, in the above map shows Where the French are retreating before the French and joining the Riffian army. — ives of this region arg fast deserting Ve have surrounded Taza, key to the e Riffiang have smashed the French been evacuated of ¢swilians. of Taza and just east®6f Fez, where above schedule is subject to 77 . in The Northwest Side branch of Workers Party will hold a of the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 West Hirsch Blvd. All members of the branch are requested to attend. . V. L. Activities YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE Lo- CAL CHICAGO ACTIVITIES | Tuesday, Wabash avenue. Anti-Militarist Activity. Thursday, July 16—dActivity meet- ing—Area Branch No. Roosevelt Road. i feature, | Anti-Militarist Activity. | Fri risco Party Notes j grim have opened up street meetings in San Francisco, under Workers Party auspices. The schedule is four days a week, as follows: Minna, Tuesdays; 18th and Mission, Saturdays; Vallejo and Grant, Wed- nesdays; Eddy and Fillmore, Sundays. eetings 7:30 p. m. An ence of 400 attended the first meeting. The change as experience determines. It is in- tone to start meetings in Oakland | Miss C. J. Reed will be the speaker at the Sunday night propaganda meet- ing July 19. Subject: June Days in France. Party headquarters, 225 Va- lencia, San Francisco. * ¢ „ Valeptia, San Francisco, night, July 18. party branches, are well attended a very much enjoyed. will be only 25 cents—with, the best of union music. Come out, young people and old people, and give youf- | selves a good time. ¢ 2-2 DAILY WORKER subs, called at the residence of a postman. He found Uncle Sam's employe sore because ot the number of DAILY WORKER ‘sub scribers. appearing on his route. We hope to swell the list until a few more postman will be needed in San Frat cisco. Do not get sore, Brother Let ter Carriers, but take a pride in the number of DAILY WORKER subscri- ers you have to deliver. 5 — * Here's one on the International Workers’ Aid. Comrade Tom Lewis was accosted as he left the party headquarters one day by a man who said he had often seen that aid sign on the door, and wished to know what it was like, that he was international himself and badly in need of aid. He wondered if he could get a little help. But Comrade Lewis had to inform him, of course, that the aid was all income here. That the outgo was to our brothers across the sea where we send so many of our bullets, good whisky and poison gas. ‘MOTHER’ BLOOR SPEAKS ON JULY 15TH IN TOLEDO Reaches S ©)... on Hitch-hiking Tour | COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13— Mother Bloor, going east on her cross coun- try hitch-hiking tour for the DAILY WORKER, arrived in this city today on her way to Toledo, where she will speak on July 15, 16 and 17, at meetings arranged. Arriving in Columbus from a suc- cessful visit to Dayton, Ohio, Ella Reeve Mother“ Bloor, sixty-year old Communist fighter advises: arrived here last night without any trouble. I have not yet paid a single penny for railroad fare since leaving San Francisco over a month ago and I don’t intend to begin now. “The field for the DAILY WORKER and Communist organization is most promising apd I mean to get Ohio subs to make more Communists even more easily than I got those of fifteen other states.“ From Toledo Mother Bloor goes to Cleveland, for meetings to be held previous to a campaign she will stage in the Ohio and eastern Pennsylvania steel and mining districts. Riot at Bull Fight. MEXICO CITY, July 13.— Several persons were under treatment for seri- ous injuries today, some so badly hurt they may die, as the result of a clash between police and spectators at the bull ring Sunday, The patrons of the fight objec hen. the program was nvaders has surrounded Taza, ~ ahd les from the capitale called off iI 8 of rain. businese meeting tonight In the rear ; * 1 7 Stor July 14—Area Branch! No. 3—Activity meeting, 3201 South} aj Special Feature:: R Third and The South Slav local of the Work- ers Party will give a dance at 226 Saturday These dances, heid every Saturday night by the various|~ The “admissfor | One of the comrades while hustling | ar . as f KA Filipine,, William. F. Dunne. 1 Gat Grecht. 580 St. Paul St. NEW YORK, aker | SEA DULUTH, MINN.—Sunda Park, Tist Ave. W. Speaker, ced. S PI of high school. ee ARRON, Of Council Hall. ee to be announced. William F. Dunne. : J. W. NA meeting, Friday, July’ 17. — F . Garrison. Spe 4. 3118 W. rf 5 tee WASHINGTON, D. Cuy 17, 1814 N. . Y—July 17 at 6 p. m. Union 17th and Broadway, ‘open air demonstration. Speaker, Wm. LOS ‘ANGELES, CAL.—July 1 N Kuo Min Tang, Civil Liberties Union, Workers Assotiation, Workers Party, W. FRANKFORT, ILL.—July 18, 7:30 . Stand. er to be announced. LE, WASH. — July 18. Speaker, N. H. Tallentire. = Fon 19, 2 p. m., Fairmont a MINNEAPOLIS, WINN.—Ma 21, 8 p. m., Finnish Hall, 1317 We ST. PAUL, MINN.—Mass meeting, Wednesday, 8. a 55 Deutsche House, 444 Rice St. Speaker, ass meeti enen, N already been 5 2 NSAS CITY, MO.—July 15th, 8 p. m., 12th & Forest. Chinese, and English speakers. BUFFALO, N. Y.—July 15, Labor Lyceum, er William F. Dunne. Me HACA, N. Y.—Cosmopolitan Club, July 16. monn 376 William | * aker, J. Louis En N. W. r ..« ROCHESTER, N. Y¥.—July 17 at 8 p. m. Labor + Lyceum, . F. Dunne. Park, 17. United Front’ at Music Arts Hall. p. m., at Seed thaway. MILWAUKEE, Wis Sunday, July 19, 8 p. m., Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St. Speaker to be announced. BOSTON, MASS.—Sunday July 19, Hall to be announ- ker, Earl R. Browder. SBURGH, PA.—Mass- sale ing 5 ph Bon 19, 2:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Sp en Gitl PORTLAND, ORE.—July 19, at 8 p. m. Workers Party Hall, 227 Yambiell St. Speaker, Stanley J. Clark. CHRISTOPHER, IL —dJuly 19, 9 a. m., 2 blocks north aker to be announced. 5 IAGARA FALLS, N. V. Monday, July 20, 7:30 p. m., eaker Speaker to be announced. ON, OHIO.—July 20, 7:30 p. m., 601 So. Main St. meeting, Tuesday, July ern Ave. No. Speaker, July 22, illiam F. "'YONKERSNN. Ye Sere July 25, at 8 p. m., 23 Pall- | 4 dat sade DOWN WITH THE ROUMANIAN _ WHITE TERROR! SAVE LIVES OFC 500 BESSARABIAN PEASANTS! © against its bloody rule. tion. Roumania. of their lives. manian land aristocracy. the government of Roumania. the: government of Roumania. Roumania. arabia! — F . THE WORKERS AND POOR FARMERS OF AMERICA; The Roumanian capitalists and land aristocracy are running mad. * Having made Bessarabia into a hell of suffering and starvation for the Workers and peasants of that province, the Roumanian government is ruthlessly murdering and exterminating every manifestation of protest In Kishinev, 500 Bessarabian peasants are now saline court martial. These 500 peasants are in danger of losing their lives because, driven to desperation, they dared to rise in protest against the brutal oppression of the Roumanian capitalists and land magnates. The Roumanian government is holding Bessarabia by sheer force against the will of the overwhelming majority of the Roumanian popula- The Roumanian government peasants from their land. The Roumanian land aristocracy had instl- tuted in Bessarabia, as in the rest of Roumania, a system of economic and political oppression which is literally ruining the lives of the work. ers and peasants of that unfortunate province. The so-called “Bessarabian System” has become a word of terror to every worker and peasants of is dispossessing the Bessarabian Driven to desperation by hunger, starvation, and by the merciless whip of the Roumanian forces of occupation, the peasants of Southern Bessarabia have resorted to the last means at their disposal in defense in September of 1924 the peasants of Tatar Bunar rose in revolt to protect themselves against the exterminating rule of the Rou- The rising was drowned in rivers of blood, and now 500 peasants are facing the Roumanlan court martial in Kishinev, in danger of having their lives taken by decision of the court, for the crime of wanting to live and to enjoy peacefully the fruits of their labor. Workers and poor farmers of America! different to the fate of these 500 Bessarabian peasants. permit the bloodhounds of Roumanian reaction to sacrifice hundreds of | lives: of honest toilers of the Bessarabia@ soil, who demand nothing more than the right to their homes and to their land. voices in thunderous protest against the outrageous rule of the Roumani- an, forces of occupation in Bessarabia. government feel that you will not permit the sacrifice of the lives of the 500 peasants now facing court martial in Kishinev. sq The government and the bankers of the United States are behind Millions upon millions of dollars squeezed out from the toil of American workers and farmers have been given by American bankers and by the American government to support the shaky foundation of the Roumanian government. rule;Roumania feel secure in their position because of the ready help „that they receive from the American bankers and their government. The bankers and the government of the United States stand behind Therefore, the workers and poor farmers of the United States must stand behind the workers and peasants of You cannot remain in- You must not You must raise your You must make the Roumanian The bloodthirsty hounds that “Down with the Roumanian White Terror! Down with the ne rule of the Roumanian capitalists in Bese Hail the struggles of the Roumanian workers and peasants! Save the lives of the 500 Bessarabian peasants! WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA WM. Z. FOSTER, Chairman. 43,000 Patents Awaited. 43,000 applications for patents for a wide variety of devicés, were pend- ing at the United States office July 1, according to the annual report of Com- missioner Thomas E. Robertson, sub- mitted to the department of 9 PORE | merce today WASHINGTON, July 13— More than C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary. Hail Destroy vegetable Crop. GALESBURG, III., July 13.— This vicinity was making a check today of the damage done Sunday by a freak hail storm which laid low the vege- table crop in the entire northern part of the city, put hundreds of telephoneg out of service, and beat . scores of window panes