Daily Worker
July 24, 1925
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vs A ee “ er sad ‘pag’ tnot ee Ws ‘ ies 2a) * NEW YORK | EDITION * > ss * HE latest stunt pulled off by Col- lins is to “shake” down his depart- ment and threaten to force the su- perannuated into retirement. It’s good front page stuff. Some officers are credited with looking the other way when Mr. Volstead’s pet law is get- ting trodden on. Po on the inside of things in city hall claim that captains, lieutenants and ser- (Continued on page 2) - . | ar mers _The Coal. Conference | Tree, UPHOLDS ATTACK OF MURDERERS Amendola Be Badly Hart by Frenzied Mob (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, July 22.—Deputy Giovanni Amendola, leader of the aventine op- position to the fascist party, “got what he deserved” in the attack by a fascisti crowd while fleeing from Mon- tecatini, general secretary Farinacci of the fascisti said in a speech at Naples today. Farinacci has made open threats that Amendola will be murdered. “The opposition must learn that no provocation will be further tolerated,” Farinacei said in upholding the attack on Amtmendola’s life. “The reaction against the principal responsible per- sons already has begun and this re- action the fascist party can not de- plore. mae). “Anybody attemptir to obstruct us will be /treated’ as a traitor.” Amendola probably will be in a hospital for three weeks from the injuries sufferéd at the hands of the fagcist mob. nthe Fifteen Detroit Homes in Fiames DETROIT, Mich., July 22.—Fifteen houses and four apartment buildings were in flames as the result of an ex- plosion here today. FASCIST LEADER JUDAS FARRINGTON GETS THIRTY PIECES OF PEABODY’S SILVER FOR BLACK TREACHERY TO UNION By ALEX REID. (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ARTICLE II. Another example of Farrington’s union bleeding is seen in the follow- fos expense bill before he became the district president of the Ilinois miners. It shows that Frank has always had an affinity for the miners’ fund, in fact all thru Franks’ career runs & mounmental expense account. He charged up the International Union $4,018.00, for one year’s expenses, while he was supposed to be working for the International Union, but these figures would indicate that Frank was working for himself. » That same year the expenses of John P. White and Frank J. Hayes combined were less than Farington’s. Farirngton’s expense for the year was more than four times, the average earnings of the coal miners, and on top of this he had a few thousand dol- lars for salary. His expenses would have taken a large family around the world comfortably in a first. class ‘liner, and this at a time when many of the miners were in semi-starvation, Still More Blood Money. Since that time Farrington bought a beautiful piece of property in Ala- bama, paying $2,600.00 for it, close to. his friends, the coal operators, who had also bought themselves an 0 ehard as far away as possible ffc the prying eyes of the hungry. miner whose money paid the - bill. (Continued on Page 5) Teachers Strike for Back Pay. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, July. 22—The}- teachers of all the schools here are on strike demanding their five months’ back pay due them and which they have been demanding without results. All schools are closed. Van Sweringen Rail Deal Is Scheme of Stock Jobbing, Charge WASHINGTON, July 22.—The “bil- lion dollar’ Nickel Plate railroad mer- ger, involving five big railroad syst- ems, as proposed by the Van Swerin- gen brothers, is not a transportation deal, but is simply a stock-jobbing scheme, Henry W. Anderson, counsel for a group of minority stockholders of the Chesapeake and Ohio who are opposing the merger, charged before the interstate commerce commission today. J. P. Morgan is behind the Van Sweringen. ATLAN a ; . ul _ { | . ' Scene of B Shifted te a Columbus WASHINGT inc 20—The cone flict between refigion and science, ex- emplified in the Stopes anti-evolution trial in Tennesse today came square- ly before the 4 District of Col ere courts of the Declaring thaf_ min the na- tional capital ist ng taught “dis- respect of the } bible,” Loren H. Wittner of Ws bapa F the dis- trict supreme ~ irt to enjoin the city’s fiscal p from paying sala- ries to instructol vie teach the evo- lutionary theory @f the origin of man Sin conflict wit a ‘Ine n. Teaching of 6¥ vol tion, itmer said, was eg Iden Dy congress in the last ¢ perereestion bill, which providec ds “That no fp this sum shall be available for ee of the salary of any’s adent who per- mits the teachir apr or of any teach- er who : Aisrespect of the holy bible.” ae In his bill of Complaints, Wittner cited 13 spe cific es of “disre- pect to the bi rege teaching from the approved t .oks on natural science. The juriction was filed ad- | mittedly as at fest” case, in much the same spirit as the Dayton trial was started, to by law whe ther evolution ers paid from { can ocem “eige teach- iblic funds, Wittner described himself as @ “federal tax- payer,” but - 3 a he was “some what of a libersl —— this r ret be mae a ings ‘of ners eo bnd Sigh iie sail 2. Teach pemey un 5 ial monkeys belong to the same family, and also that: plants-and animals stor, while the) bible says man was made in the ph§pical image of god out of*the dust of: jthe ground, and that woman was made from one of the ribs of man, 3. Teach that after death disinte- gration of organic bodies takes place making impossible for any human to (Continued on page 4) Minnesota’ Bank Fails. REDWOOD FALLS, Minn., July 22 —The First National Bank of Red- wood Falls has failed and is under in- vestigation by a state bank exam- iner. CONVICT WOMAN WHO RAN BABY FARM, IS SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS NEW YORK, July 22—Screaming hysterically and fighting with court attendants, Mrs. Augusta Geisen- “Volk, who operated a “baby farm” here and pleaded guilty to baby substitution, was sentenced to Au- burn prison today for three and one-half to seven years. Sentence was pronounced by Justice Mcintyre in general ses- sions, who branded her as “a fiend inéarnate,” and declared there was not a single extenuating cir- cumstance in her favor. RIFFIANS CONTINUE TO ROUT FRENCH AND SPANISH INVADERS losses from the Riffs in Morocco and the French forces in the Fez sector. several villages of the Beni Ide tribes LONDON, July 22.—French and Spanish forces have suffered additional The arrival of Marshal Petain has failed to have the desired effect on tions of Ain Aicha and Ain Matouff, the French left 200 dead on the field. The,Spanish have suffered heavy losses at Vondak. The Sapnish burned | the general situation remains serious. In the Riffian attack on the key posi- | GLEVELAND PUBLIC SQUARE TO HEAR THE COMMUNIST APPEAL | (Special to The Daily Worker) . CLEVELAN®, Ohio, July 22-—+ Cleveland workers will hold mass meeting ‘and demonstration under the slogans “Hands Off China” “Stand by Soviet Russia,” on Satur- day, at seven o’clock in the evening on the Public Square. The speakers will be William F. Dunne, Alfred Wagenknecht, district organizer, J. A. Hamilton, local organizer, and Weisberg of the Young Workers League. There will also be a Chi- nese. speaker. Picnic on Sunday, July 26, at Willoughbeach Park, will also be in the nature of a demon- stration by the workers of Northern Ohio. The picnic is held by Workers Party. CAPITALIST COURT SEEKS Is Verboten Revolution, not evolution, was on trial yestérday before Judge Orr of the municipal court in Chicago’s city Workers Party and the Young Work- hall, when nineteen members of the ers’ League appeared to answer. the grave charge of speaking without a police permit on the corner of North avenue and .OrcHard street last month. Those appearing were William F. Dunne, William F. Kruse, Thurber come from the: same common ance- | Al, Schaap, Nat Kaplan, Har- t , Kar Pichon: alte 4 erates Welsh, Elsa Block, Ida Beék- els, Catherine Polishuck and Max Miroff. City Attorney the Missing Link. Defender of the agnostics in this case was Attorney Bentall, the city attorney represented the absent Si- 4mian, and the judge in the case, War- ren H. Orr, of Carthage, Illinois, who is county judge of Hancock county, acting as associate judge of the muni- cipal court, played the role of up- holder of fundamentalism. As illuminating the event, it may be said that a similar case against J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, has been judged adversely to the scoffers of Ordinance 3703, and the whole question of the constitution- ality of the act is to be decided on appeal to higher courts as a test case. Hence yesterday’s circus was only a bit of by-play to be staged for the edification of those who have a sense of humor. Others can stop (Continued on page 6.) MISSING LINK Even Soviet. Sympathy George, Barney “Mass,. Kart "Bernard WOOLEN WAGE CUT AFFECTS BOTH BRITISH AND AMERICAN WORKERS; ENGLISH UNION SURE TO STRIKE (Special to The in the textile industry. Dally Worker) BOSTON, July 22.—The timing of the 10 per cent cut for 30,000 employes of the American Woolen Co. and several other large concerns with a five per cent cut for the woolen and wor- sted workers in the Bradford district of England is seen as evi- dence of the international understanding that is gaining ground The New England wage reductions are posted for July 27, two days after the date scheduled by British industrialists for the cuts in the British mills. Strike In England Expected. A general strike of the woolen workers in the mills across the water is expected by textile journals on this side. Such a strike’ would be called by the National Association of Unions in the Textite Trades of Great Britain which has ordered its mem- bers to cease work in affected mills the date the .cut becomes operative. the New England mills were siven without previous warning and made in blunt paragraph notices pasted in the mills. Promise to Workers Broken. Much indignation is_ felt by the American Woolen Co.’s workers be- cause of the declaration of its late president, William M. Wood, last fall, at the time reductions were being made in the cotton industry, that his corporation had no intention of fol- lowing suit. Those better acquainted with Wood discounted his promises because of his bad labor record and the fact that he was director and heavy investor with some of the largest cotton cor- porations profiting by the cuts. Since then Wood has retired from office with American Woolen. Lawrence the Center, % Lawrence, Mass., leading wooley Se on . of the ‘reduced. | th here for ‘| the Wood, Ager; »Shaw- {'sheen; Riverina, sand Ply® mouth mills of the ‘American Woolen Co. and the Arlington, George E. Kun- hardt and Uswoco Mills. -The Arling- ton Co. sets no limit on the reduction, merely informing its employes that a cut will take place on date. Cuts have also been posted, for the American Woolen plants at Lowell, Mass., arid Nofwich, Conn. In other Lawrence mills reductions are in the air while managers sound out em- Announcement of the reduction in | MEXICAN RAIL UNIONS MUST STRIKE OR DIE Calles Would Smash Their Organization (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, July 22.—The “bull. fighters” tactics of the government of Mexico on its attack on the wages and working conditions of the _ rail- waymen employed on the national lines, continue to give successes to the government in its .efforts to de- moralize the railway unions. The term, “bull-fighters tactics” first used in a manifesto of the Mexican Com- | munist Party of the railway situation continues to gain currency as the rail- Waymen begin to comprehend that it accurately and picturesquely des- cribes the situation, * The government must return the railway to’ private hands. That is provided for. by..the Liaamont-De-la- Huerta treaty. It must also “read- just” the salaries and working condi- tions and destroy the railway unions, before returning the lines to private (Continued on page 4.) ee Aviator Gets Off Easy LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 22.- Captain Lowell Smith, head of Ame? ployes’ sentiment. No action has yet been taken by the Rhode Island or New Jersey woolen manufacturers. Unorganized Strike May Develop. Lawrence has been the scene zl > (Continued on page 2) ica’s round the world flyers, pleaded guilty to charges of the automobile speeding here today and was fined $25. Later the sentence was suspend- ed when Smith told the court he was ‘unaware of peerelns any law.” LONDON, July 22.—A quarter mi 250,000 BRITISH TEX TILE WORKERS ARE ORDERED OUT IN GIANT STRIKE —————— Ilion workers in the Rochdale (York shire) textile mills will be called out on strike tomorrow night, union leaders said today. The threat followed an attempt to reduce wages. Mass Picketing in Amalgamated Strike in retaliation for their defeat. Tailoring company, Jackson Blvd. and Peoria St. Striking members of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union, picketing before the plant of the International » which refused to.renew an agreemeftt with the union. Hund- reds of pickets encircle the building constantly, and no strikebreakers can escape the vigilant watch of the cloth. ing w orkers. The strike is now in its fourth week, ¥ New York Workers! Protest Police Attack on ‘Soviet Russia! Hands Off China’ Demonstration! Come in Masses! Friday, July 24, 6 p.m, 17th St. and Broadway Israel Amter oe SPEAKERS: William Weinstone Earl Browder Charles Krumbein ere Joseph Manley Jack Stachel <a ey , t } ee ee ee a a eee 4 . . y 3 | ; : PEEK AER Metta r Sere rn = weeeorr’rTeS
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: ara a en Pe 7S 6 eee Do, ee pts . Lodedibe Rae Ly etl Pe A ape "Te 7 : 4 onl a t oa, Or bigs re. fate Wis geet | ug? Je a ieee cat Raa Taper Og OS PP ee K yy to * . “- , , ’ ¥ MS ..! tp. wey nommenenmers | ASWESEEIT "+i | By T. J. O'Flaherty ||M} tT v6 tee (Continued from page 1) take the side of the British empire} 7 geants are not removed from “wet”] during the war. The news of his re-) eur ‘precincts because they fail to enforce | tirement is taken from the London/ the law, but because the competition | Daily Herald, which quotes Johnson among the captains is too keen. There | #8 saying that his relinquishment of is nothing a captain dreads so much | the leadership has no significance, as to be sent to a “dry” district. Of | that he was merely relieving himself course, it should be understood that | Of some of his responsibilities. the terms “wet” and “dry” are only * * * relative. Chicago is about as dry as IG navy advocates threaten to split - German N ote Does Not the Pacific Ocean. the British cabinet. In Japan + the Jingoes are active. Here in - Look So Good Now ESIGNATIONS from the British America, rear and front admirais are 4 a cabinet over the question of na-| delivering exhortations on the neces- PARIS, July 22.—Gloom today suc: | ya) construction are expected. A cer-| city for more battleships, airships ceeded the optimism expressed yester | tain faction favors a heavy appro-| and other instruments of war. Sena- 4 4 ae Dp t?} ~~ TEUTON sock By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. The garment workers of Chic ec ids are going to hear in person the } ers of the great left wing fight International Ladies Garment ers’ Union in New York, whe | cals 2, 9 and 22, comprising ser ODAY, the Union of Soviet Republics tells the world that it has been invited to stg so in the Commercial- Industrial Exhibition to be held in New Orleans, La., U.S. A., this fall. There is no doubt that the Workers’ Government audience than ever attended cal meeting in Pittsburgh. Many ort- ental workers and a number of Chin- day in the Parisian press on the Ger-| ration for the immediate building | tor Hale visited Coolidge a few days|C®Dt of the New York City m@mber-; i) ao¢ 7 : fo ; eee studente ay Sone: e man security reply. of ships to keep pace with the United | ago and told the president that Do-| *%!P are ranptoacy Ena! the separ so terror must strike the hearts.of the politicians Arne pp ‘district organizer, The changed attitude was taken to| States’ program. Others, including | heny’s tanks in Pearl Harbro, Hono-| ®¢4on of the joint hoard controlled by in the Coolidge regime at W D..C., who steadfastly in opening meeting emphasized ‘express a change in the viewpoint of | Winston Churchill, consider the tax- | lulu, were rusting for want of oil and | ‘he Sigman gangsters and the exe- tend. from. “Silent Cal” and his secr of atates Kel. the fact that not only is the Soviet Foreign Minister Aristide Briand,| payers and their own political for-| that the “Golden West” was in dan- cutives of these lo _removed from contend, he li that the ‘have my ch , their government the only government who first looked on the note as “en-| tunes. The fact is thit the British | ger from Japan unless the United office after a farc trial upon char- logg, on down the line, a y 7 anged | which has shown. itself as a real couraging.” ruling class are no longer able to} States had more battleships and har- | 8° of having held a May Day meeting attitude toward Soviet Rule? . “e, me Oe atietii. friend and defender of the Chinese. Le Matin today warned that France | Compete with their greatest commer-/| bors to accomodate them in. Calvin | at which Communist speakers aged ‘% Where is Kellog’s predecessor, “Charlie” Hughes, who workers and the suppressed colonial -- was not willing to permit the destruc- | ©/al oe x er - of agve con-| is said to have lent a willing ear to| ly talked about a ution. joined “Sammie Gompers in his declining years, in declar- peoples but also the Communist struction. the big naval program On Saturday, July 25th, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Louis Hyman, man- ager of Local 9, Julius Portnoy, man- ager of Local 22, and Sasha Zimmer- man, executive board member of Lo- hood of war.” Peace conferences are | °@! 22 all representing the joint com- always devices to iron out serious | Mittee of action of the suspended differences that make for war: be-|#0c@ls of New York City, will speak tween nations when they are not|*%® the Chicago garment workers at ready for war, and also to maneuver | ‘he Ashland auditorium, west room, at for position. When the United States | 4®2/and and Van Buren streets. called the Washington conference, the| !l garment workers’ are invited to object was to smash the Anglo-Japan-|C°me to hear these able and honest ese alliance as a preliminary in the | “2ionists who have led the revolt United States’ onward imperial against ‘the yellow socialist terror of march. That conference did the trick. | te Sigman machine, one of whose But it did not make for peace. All | S2iming lights is Meyer Perlstein, who the nations that participated in that |™@maged the I. L. G. W, of Chicago conference are building ships and | 80 well that he spent something like a more ships. There cannot be any fortune of six figures with the net re- peace under capitalism. sult of destroying the union by expel- es 6 ling its best members on similar char- HE American fleet is now visiting |®** of being Communists. Australia. ‘The babbits of that British colony are babbling of the Hale’s tale, and unless our guess is awry, Morgan will get more ships. * ¢ ¢@ OMMUNISTS say, “the more peace conferences, the more the likeli- tion of the treaty of Versailles. Perti- max in Echo de Paris advised France to abandon the pact idea if there was still time. “The German reply could not be more unsatisfactory,” he said. ss: ¢: ® Nots Is Unsatisfactory LONDON, July 22.—At the foreign ofice it was said the German note @annot be considered satisfactory in itself because it makes a number of references to fhe allies’ attitude, par- tientariy regarding the Rhineland which are unacceptable. But the German request for acce- lerated discussion of the whole pro- blem is satisfactory and itt is hoped that this discussion will lead to the early conference, which Foreign Mi- nister Chamberlain, has favored all along. ing Soviet Russia to be an “economic vacuum,” useless if not dangerous, to recognize and empty of any trade or com- mercial possibilities? | Party is the only party which taken up the fight. He emphasized that in France while the the yellow trade union leaders, and is adopted, Churchill’s budget will be knocked sky high and if it is defeated there will be resignations from the cabinet with a situation bordering on a split in the tory party. > * *®8 HIS cabinet crisis might loom large, but for other troubles fac- ing the empire. The danger of a coal strike is becoming more and more a probability. Confronted with a like- ly stoppage of work, Cook and his comrades are working hastily to throw up the nucleus of a powerful alliance of trade unions for offensive and defensive purposes. Practically every important section of the Bri- tish trade union movement has now joined this combination. The reac- tionaries like J. H. Thomas and Frank Hodges have been delegated to the rear. British labor is facing a real crisis and to predict the outcome of the present situation would be a risky procedure indeed—for a prophet. * @ | If the Soviet Republics cannot break into Washington : parti with a red avihboiintne, they can and have slipped around to i inee Sma Pe fico ayer ag : the American side door, to the important port at the mouth rowhti peepic Gui the ese of the Mississippi River where it flows into the Gulf of Mexico Pasty hes sescd Ai ra nee —NEW ORLEANS, the capital city of cotton. of these subjected races. - All the attacks that have been made on Soviet Rule by Max Salzman spoke on behalf of the American state department have not bothered with facts. {tne Young Workers League and told They have wandered far and wide in the realms of anti-Com- | about the struggles of the class con- munist propaganda. But here are a few facts: " | scious youth not only to support the FIRST—There are offices in New Orleans of the All-Russian Tex:tie | movement for national Mberation but Syndicate, Inc., a New York corporation with capital stock of $1,000,000 prabigge 05 gps of oe fully paid up in cash. gg 0 sedere papel naive SECOND—The head of the syndicate is Fritz F. Kilevitz, who is drew wholehearted approval from also president of the All-Union Textile Syndicate of Moscow, which is a both colored and white workers whea combination of all textile mills in Soviet Russia. he stated that for a long time it has THIRD—The syndicate purchased 248,698 bales of the 1924-1925 been his conviction that only by American cotton crop, at a value of $36,340,000, Twenty-five steamers making common cause regardless of have been chartered to transport this cotton across the Atlantic. FOURTH—The purchases of America’s 1923-1924 cotton crop total- color of skin or race could the. worr- Give this copy to your shop- ers ever free themselves from imper- friendship between the United States mate. Woolen Wage Cut hes Kit Bis led 189,145 bales, valued at $31,457,000, and required 20 ships to trans- | ialism. | and Australia. It is significant they ’ 1es, ’ Affects Both American OINCIDENT with the evident ap--| point out, that for the first time in port to the Workers’ Republic. Tells of Struggle. and British Workers proach of stirring times in Great | history an Australian loan was plac- H. H. Tseng, member of the loca! Urge Typographical - ‘Union to Join War FIFTH—The first shipment was made on Feb. 8, 1924, and the shipments that now continue constantly are financed thru New York : banks. Neither credits nor recognition has come from Washington, but on Public Printer “the syndicate has satisfactory credit arrangements with the Chase — National Bank and the Equitable Trust Co., of New York,” says the WASHINGTON, D. C..—(FP)— Co- Russian Review, published by the Russian Trade Delegation, at Wash- lumbia Typographical Union No, 101! ington. ; will urge the convention of the lntar- | * @ national Typographical Union to be : held at Kalamazoo, Mich, August 10 to 15, to take up the protest of the local union against further retention of George H. tet int the office of Britain comes increasing activity and (Continueé from page 1) vialence from the fascisti. The black j shirts are now breaking up meetings. great battles in the past and may be’ in Hyde Park, while the police look again there is comparatively lit-| on with unconcern. Hyde Park was tle organization there now. The Unit-| once the sacred open forum for the ed Textile Workers’ Union has a local | expression of opinion. But the empire there and so does the American Fed-{ igs no longer healthy and the nerves eration of Textile Operatives, tho it | of her ruling class are getting jangled. is confined to the cotton mills. The/| The plutes are growing concerned more recently formed united front | over the future, hence the violence on movement is endeavoring to get re-|the part of their tools. sults as a co-ordinating agency. * ¢ 6 Those who are talking of strike pos- efi in Wall Street and not in London. That is significant and very much so. England is fast losing her grip on her colonies and the sight of the good- ly navy of J. P. Morgan, will be ocu- lar proof to the capitalists of Aus- tralia, ‘that if the “mother country” is forced to play with Japan as a mat- ter of self-preservation, Uncle Sam’s navy is at hand. And what is a navy for anyhow, unless to collect loans in case the debtor becomes refrac- tory? Kuomintang party gave a brief analy- sis of the struggles of the Chinese workers stating that the Chinese are very tolerant, very peaceful, had re- mained tolerant for more than 85 years but now had come to a point _ | where they recognized that to even | maintain a human existence to free themselves from imperialist oppres- sion they must fight. He drew a strong applause when he said “we also recognize that we must fight together with the workers of the world.” eo @ Soviet Rule is busy buying the things the workers and peasants need thruout “The Union.” Buying them right here in the United States of Americal — What is more, it is having these goods, great shiploads sibilities point out that former strikes began with little preliminary Organ- | ization and they emphasize that the cut is producing an unbearable con- dition. With wages clustering around HERE is encouraging news, even aS from Ireland, where the labor movement has not been distinguished by any notable accomplishments dur- ing the past few years. This encour- public printer. _ E political clouds are gathering . over the world for another big burst that will make the last war look like a deaf and dumb picnic. The nimously The supp ‘Siti A si ae this effect was una- dopte by’ Columbia union. of the American Federa- this* fight against | of cotton, for instance, shipped into the Soviet Union thru Murmansk, the Red Port on the Arctic Ocean. It was thru Murmansk and Archangel that the United States govern- ment, in common with its capitatist allies, poured troops and munitions, in an effort to crush the Bolshevik Revolution of speech making an analysis and a comparison of the methods of imper- ialism abroad and the methods at Comrade Gitlow made a brilliant ~P home hidden behind phrases of de- mocracy. He stated that many of | foreign sections of the newspapers are devoted to little else except the le diplomatic maneuvers of the rival} the controvers powers. And out of the murky dark-| by Columbia. the 20 dollar mark, for full time oper- atives, a 10 per cent cut is a serious matter for a family whose expenses aging news is the retirement of Tom Johnson as parliamentary leader of| the Irish Labor Party. Johnson is a hide-bound reactionary, and was the = ._ + or in’ 444 ‘i JF, Oe, = pte caf ay “5 ap eS ae ‘ ' . 4h aa ’ gs. es i. s . tS November, 1917. The Americar head of some of the ships that 8 | W nd next month, and the months there- | ers in China are very similar to acts by 3 + a * ! re : 2 wes 4 * : - m are already budgeted to the last cent.! only one of the Irish labor leaders to ie Snoins ° the - tt ited after, but they carry no cargoes f soldiers and arms. In- | performed in the United States ~ ess ght light from inter, e | ) vith s bl Wevies::Musste. whieh becae Gae stead they are loaded to the gunwales with precious cotton j/against the workers in the ‘name of ‘cargoes that will feed the Soviet textile mills, making cloth workers of the world onward to a : democracy and he closed with along oo : > Sadie to clothe the liberated masses of Russia, as part of their | declaration pledging the active sup- a this te ‘cc a beta Bg, Movie “Plot”. Hear! triple struggle to lift their standard of living, thru providing | port in a solid net alliance of the ro es ee Ing Yet over this road the subject peoples pene heya pe themselves with better homes; better clothing and better {clase conscious proletariat of the LOS ANGELES, July 22.—Mary and the exploited masses of the world United States led by the Communist Party with the struggling colonial workers. © papain i bb bbb bt bh bh hh AAAAAAAAAA PICNIC NDAY, JULY 26 RYMACK GROVE, } LYONS, ILL. rranged by the White Russian eople’s Society and Douglas Park ' Russian Children’s School. Russian and American Dances. SPEAKERS. IN RUSSIAN, POLISH AND UKRAINIAN. food than they have ever enjoyed during all the centuries of their enslavement. In time the plundered and landless cotton growers of “The South,” of Oklahoma and Texas especially, will learn where their cotton is going, who is buying it, and how it is being used in the land across the sea, where landlords have been evicted forever and profit rule has been abolished under the Soviet Star. They might, they will take it into their heads to proceed themselves in the same direction. Wash- ington, the political seat of the American imperialist empire, will number this among its fears as the Union of. Soviet Re- publics accepts the invitation to participate in the Commer- cial-Industrial Exhibition at New Orleans this fall. . hours will be selected by each - POST INCOME T AX lector and due publicity to gulations will be given" the col- PAYMENTS SEPT. 1) <== 4 Pickford and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, were summoned to appear to-day in suprerior colft as witnesses against Charles Stevéns, Claude Hol- comb and Adrian Wood, charged with conspiracy to kidnap the actress and hold her for $200,000 *fansom. Miss Pickford was @Xpected to test- ify she knew nothing ‘of the alleged plot until after the trio ‘was arrested. of CHICAGO GARMENT WORKERS Oppose the arbitrary removal of 77 regularly elected officials of Locals 2 9 and 22 of the I. L. G. W. U. of New York! my Oppose the terror of the Peristein, Sigman, the Cloak and Dress Makers of New York! SATURDAY, JULY 25th, at 2 P. M. at s Ashland Auditorium, West Room Ashland and Van Buren Sts. must travel before the golden era of peace thru the emancipation of the last slave class in history will be realized! Fineberg machine against To Retire 161 Policemen. The first twenty-five of the 161 po- lice veterans slated for retirement on pensions have appeared before a medi- cal board appointed by the civil serv- ice commission for examination. They will be tested as to agility, blood pressure and the condition of their hearts. “Stand by Soviet Russia!” Rush that Sub—Campaign ends —— Speakers July 1! LOUIS HYMAN, Mgr. of Local 9 JULIUS PORTNOY, Mgr. of Local 22 SASHA ZIMMERMAN, Executive Board Member of Local 22. JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE, Locals 2, 9, 22, 1. L. G. W. U., New York Come and hear about the struggle of the New York Ladies’ Garment Workers! Admission Free “Bach collector will designate an employe to supervise the inspection | Demand “Hands Off Ghinat” NOVY MIR WASHINGTON, July 22.—Income tax payments will open to public in- spection on and after Sept. 1, it was announced at the treasury department of the lists by the public. It will be the duty of this employe to see that the lists are not torn or mutilated to prevent ahy person from removing them from the collector’s office and Admission with special free tickets 35 cents, at the gate 50 cents. PART OF THE PROCEEDS GOBS FOR THE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN POLAND. DIRECTIONS—Take any car to 22nd St., go West to end of the line. Trans- fer to Berwyn-Lyons car to grove. Mass meetings ‘and demonstrations are being held in every city in. the United States under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party under its slogans of “Stand by Soviet Russia!” and “Hands Off China!” Those to be held within the next few days are as follows: NEW YORK, N. Y.—July 24 at 6 p. m., 17th Street and Broadway. Speakers: Joseph Manley, William Weinstone, Israel Amter, Earl Browder, Jack Stachel and Charles Krum- to see that no one monopolizes the lists to the exclusion of others.” today. The payments which will be made available for publication are those Write the story about your shop— made in 1924 on 1923 incomes. Order a bundle to distribute there. The lists will be posted in the in- Ce ee lar 1 To Understand thruout the country, publication having been approved by the United | The full progress .of the Communist movement in this country in the past year (wh <h will be fully summed up GREATEST SUMMER FESTIVAL Sunday, July 26, from 10 a. m. till Midnight Danceland Garden SURF AVE., NEAR 21st ST., CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. _ » & » & bb bbb A DDAAAAAA DOS Des States supreme court. The amounts shown on the lists open for public inspection are the amounts of tax declared to be due by the tax payers in their returns filed beginning January 1, 1925. And may be subject to adjustments and revi- in. , YONKERS, N. Y.—Saturday, July 25, at 8 p..m., 23 Pali- sade Ave. CLEVELAND, OH10—Open air mass meetine, July 25, Public ‘Square, at 3 p.m. Speakers: William: F. Dunne; Secretary Kuo Min Tang, Wong; John Brahtin, and others. CLEVELAND, OHI Mass picnic at Willough Beach sions by the subsequent audit of the in the coming convention)—get the full reports of the last "= PICNIC --- BATHING --- CONCERTS ePark, July 26. Speakers: William F. Dunne,}Ella Reeve . | returns or by the filing of amended danvertion nc ntatieiiel DANCING | Bloor, Alfred Wagenknecht, J. A. Hamilton fog the party. | returns by the taxpayers. ars. ‘ Max Salzman and Carl Weissberg for the Young Workers Incomes represented are those for The Second Year Contest of bathing beauties with parade and prizes, led League. Take Cleveland, Painsville and Eastern cars from rr pet i i ¥ coon ger gd the by MISS FAWN GRAY. the Public Square. ; Re ee re of the MILWAUKEE, WIS.—Monday, July 27, 8 p. m., Labor Temple, 808 Walnut St. Speaker, J. Louis Engdahl. — Statement by Bureau. of Internal Revenue i The following statement was issued by the bureau of inter=al revenue: “The lists will be opened for public = = = inspection at all times during each : = Ocean Bathing, large swimming pool, steam. rooms, an athletic field, calisthenic exercises, Swimming instructions without extra charge, tennis, handball, basketball. TWO BANDS OF MUSIC. Afternoon Russian String Orchestra, 12 classic numbers. ' Evening Grand Concert under direction of Leo Fedoroff. Workers (Communist) Party of America Report of the Central Executive Committee to the Third National Convention C’mon Over! If you have a day, an hour, or a minute to spare—why, working day for thirty days, begin- ' ning September 1. Thereafter, the héurs they shall be open for inspec- Dance, music and song performances under direction of c’mon over. There is so much work piled up on the tion may be regulated py each col- THESES PROGRAM RESOLUTIONS | -Ri i : : : lector of internal revenue with a view a lag director Metropolitan College of small force in our office that we need your help so very so aravuisiiien Waid teal eueaiod: ail 50 CENTS badly, to insert letters, address, seal and stamp envelopes and ever so many other little jobs that have us swamped. . if you volunteer your services that’s a fine way to help the DAILY WORKER. We'll be glad to see you—so just for fun, c’mon over! the official work of the office. “‘However,.following this thirty-day period the lists must be open for pub- lic inspectiom.at least three days a week and during such days they shall i be available.fo, the public at least te ; J | three hours.a-day: The days and ~ The Daily Worker Publishing Co. 1113 W. 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we” - i > a? PEO PAE ETE IE miracle tricks. ‘resounded with their testimony. By FRAPIESA “LOS ANGELES, July 22.—The sea- son of religious revival is on. As the Mecca of grafting preachers, this city is in a unique position. The au- _thorities put no restraint on the fak- ers who impose on human creduilty. ._ Miracle Tricks. Wonderful feats are performed by “those whose business is to delude. Miracles are made to order. Incurable diseases are cured overnight. The dead might be brot to life, if dupes desired. And the evangelists would say, simply: “No trouble at all, sir.” In the eastern cities the vagrants would not be allowed to operate. Pub- lic indignation would force the police to act. But in this town no religious imposter .is discouraged by the law enforcers. All that the police insist upon is the license money. That helps the taxpayers. Once it is well in hand the faith healers can fleece the gul- libles until the cows come to church. There is absolutely no censorship of Building a Temple. One of the great achievements of the religious traffic is the building of a temple by a female evangelist who began her career of saving souls four years ago. It is claimed that the temple cost was $1,000,000 and it prob- ably does represent on investment of $100,000. The holy lady who built it is of Scotch pedigree. Thomas Carlyle de- clared that all Scotch healers were quacks, That is a clew. This sainted person went from town to town in California perfroming miracles. Children came to her on crutches and went away in perfect physical condition. Grown folks also acted, There was never an exposure of preliminaries. She grew wealthy and decided to build a temple in Los Angeles. Her -¥ultures, male and female, plucked the public. The temple was built. She Reforms. Having arrived, the saintess gave up her healing business. It was too risky. She dedicated hreself to converting horse thieves, pickpockets, etc. Scores testified to their utter depravity and to final salvation by her. The temple It also. re-echoed the,sacred dame’s de- nunciations of Bolsheviks, Commun- -iets, ete:, for those are strictly part of her trade. ’. “After the temple was built, a skeptic visited the lady. Mistaken for one of the gang, the visitor was invited to sit at a table with the saintess and. her mother. There was on the table a bottle of gin, cigarettes, etc. The saintess drank, smoked and conversed in unmistakable Hollywood English. Her mother did likewise and made one remark which removed doubt from the skeptic. Addressing her daughter, she said, in a bantering way: “It is,a shame how you take money from the dubs!” One of Many. There are hundreds like the one in- dicated in this city. They are acces- sories of the game. It is their part to drug the people. Any Communist who has the slight- est doubt that “religion is the opium of the people” might profit by a visit to Los Angeles. The scores of evang- elists’ tents, dwellings in which re- ligious preaching is carried on red- hearted Rosicrucian shrines, etc. etc., will soon testify convincingly that the public is being shot full of mental dope. Psychists, psychologists, spiritual- ists, fortune tellers, clairvoyants, mediums, etc., work without restric- tion so long as they have licenses. Any faker appears to be welcome. Still, there is no reason to despair. A Workers Party is on the job at 204 South Spring street. It will prove an effective antidote for the drug of the paid preachers. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will ‘make a better pommunist of you. | eee dae pete 7 By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, July 22.— The manufacturers’ lobby says the state legis- of this country did what jt asked them to last year for the most part. The lobby organization is known as the National Industrial Council, a fed- | eration of national, state and industrial associations, organized under the leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers in order—its litera- ture states—‘to foster constructive industrial legislation and to oppose en- — of class laws.” “Splendid Opposition to Class Laws.” In a summary and review of state legislation of 1925 distributed to its members, but not to the press, the association boasts that “the 1925 state legislatures were marked with /an;an + ticipated degree of conservative ac- tions. The net results to manyfac- turing. industries, with exception of a few states, were most satisfactory, altho the major reason for this was the splendidly co-ordinated opposition to class laws presented by the officers and members of state industrial bodies affiliated with this council.” Again the report proudly says: ‘‘En- actment on such matters as ‘iberal- izing’ amendments to workmen's com- pensation insurance laws, delimiting hours of labor and fixing minimum wages and maximum hours for ‘wo- men, old age pensions, special indus- trial. regulatory measures, granting | special privileges to labor unions; étc. are conspicuously missing this year, owing, once again, to the effective and intelligent campaigns of opposition conducted by the various state manu- facturers’ asséeiations represented on the advisory committee of this coun- cil.” Labor Politically Weak. “Nevertheless,” the council admits, “the legislative committees of organ- ized labor in the several states did not come away entirely empty-hand- ed. Altho their victories were mighty few, as, for example, the passage in. New Jersey of a law of doubtful con- stitutionality, providing for jury trial in labor dispute injunction contempt cases, the margins of their defeats were uncomfortably close in several important instances, such as the inde- finitely small vote which has tempo- rarily defeated a vicious anti-injunc- tion bill in the Illinois legislature; the narrow escape of New York in dustries from final passage of a 48- hour weekly working law affecting women workers. Legislation that the council is par- ticularly satisfied which includes the state police measures passed in Rhode Island, Illinois and Maine and a “prac- tical and satisfactory” workmen’s compensation insurance law which Missouri industrialists are given cre dit for securing in the Missouri ne lature. Lack of Speed on Job Now a Peacns Summary of the legislation state by.| state shows satisfaction, with. Idaho, for broadening the Idaho syndicalism act to make ‘tere slowing*dowh on the job a form of criminal sabotage; | gratification with California for de- feating 35 out of 37 proposed amend- ments to the Workmen’s Compensa- tion Act, the defeat being credited to’ the California Manufacturers’ Asso<} ciation; praise for Colorado where business’ interests successfully op- posed a 48-hour week for cement and plaster industry workers; regulation of hours for women and drastic amendments to the workmen's com- pensation law-—-these listed by the council as “anti-industrial legislative” bills. ~ A one-day-rest-in-seven bill before the state legislature of Illinois while the report was being prepared is also listed as an “anti-industry” measure, a phrase frequently used by the coun- cil in connection with pro-labor pro- posals. . Prison labor gets the floor in the section on Oklahoma where the coun- cil shows its pleasure with the repeal of the law compelling the labeling of convict made products. Victory Everywhere For Capitalist Class. West Virginia stood safe for the employers, the report telling that “A long list of class legislative proposals, including anti-injunction, regulation repeal of the state constabulary act, of hours of labor of female employes, were all defeated or ‘iost’ in com- mittees,” Wisconsin’s tax legislation doeg not please the lobbyists, but in general, taking state by state, they show how business has won over the worker. Even in Wisconsin an 8-hour law was beaten. It is an interesting report, available for its members but not in- tended for the newspapers. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. | all his CHANG TSO-LIN ACCUSED AS A JAP MERCENARY Soviet Paper ser Points Out Betrayals MOSCOW, June 18.—(By Mail.)-— Commenting upon the situation in, China, the Isvestia points out that General Chang Tso-lin, who is actual- ly the most powerful and influential Chinese militarist, is standing aloof from Shanghai events, which open a period of new development of the na- tional struggle of the Chinese people. Chang Tso-lin, the Moscow paper goes on to say, is by no means a na- tional leader, as the English press is endeavoring to represent him. His present powerful position he acquired thanks to Japan, whose interest he has been and is systematically serv- ing. This is clearly shown by his at- titude towards the Shanghai affair and his stand in the matter of the construction of Japanese railway branches in Manchuria, indeed, these new’ lines, constructed by Japanese engineers with Japanese money, are the greatest blow to the prosperity of the Chinese Eastern Railway, whereby China’s interests are violat- ed while the aims are specially serv- ed of Jupanese immigration in. Man- churia, where the Mukden warlord has already allotted lands to Japan- ese emigrants. To justify his position, General Chang Tso-lin asserts that an agree- ment on railway construction is one of China’s new internal affairs, even tho such kn action did amount to sacrificing the interests of the C. EK. R. and the Chinese people to those of Japan. Thus, concludes the ‘Isvestia, thru conduct, Chang Tso-lin has definitely revealed himself as a politi- cian alien to the national movement Hin China. ae 2 —Order a bundle to distribute | there. SONS OF ITALY TORN IN FIGHT WITH FASCISTS NEW YORK, July 22.—A factional row between the fascist faction in the Sons of Ita*y in America and the faction headed by supreme court Just- ice Salvatore A. Cotillo, head of the New York state branch, threatens to split the organization. Cotillo declared that the head of the supreme council of the organiza- tion, John di Silvestro of Philadel- phia, is a “tool of Mussolini.” He said that di Silvestro is now trying to gain control of the Sons of Italy for his fascist faction. The organ- ization has 200,000 members in this country, 35,000 being in New York state. At the convention on August 5, 6, and 7, in Schenectady, the Cotillo group will endeavor to elect Congress- man La Guardia as grand master of the grand council of the state of New York, the office which Cotillo vacates automatically, having served the limit of two terms. Cotillo opposes the fascist group on the ground that he favors “American- ization.” He is a Tammany politician having been in the democratic party for years. Another new Sub—Makes an- other Communist. Write the story about your shop | | ae. Bake. ihn AD ees DAL Bhd KER a an JAI Officers of N.A. A.C. P. Aid By A. WARRENO (A. N. L. C.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 22. After considerable inquiries, we learn- ed that a strike took place about two months ago affecting several Negro in a woolen mill at are, known as the ler Mills. the N. A. A. C. P. whose name eatns “investigated” x * the case by | 1g the police officials about the ie wr. He reported to his national quarters that the Wil- mington brath of his organization ap- proved Snares was against riot- ing, the cha ed against the vic- tims of the Five men | re held on this charge. Here his inv ation ended. He was certain that had been set. Employer ‘Refused to Pay. The strike was called against an employer who refused to pay the wages he had agreed to pay. It was spontaneous and unorganized. After the strike started the boss hired Ne- gro scabs. The strikers were picket- ing and a melee occurred with some of the scabs getting the worst of it. Five strikers were arrested under a Delaware law against “rioting” which is a felony and punishable by a peni- tentiary sentence. Upon further investigation, the Am- erican Negro Labor Congress received the following letter from the New Castle County workhouse, Wilming- ton, Delaware: Still in Jail. “Replying to your inquiry of the 29th ult., the five men were committed here on April 20, for disorderly con- duct, having.each been given a term of 30 days default of payment of fine and c famounting to $23.50. Three of these paid their fines a few days later and were released; the re- maining two serving out their 30 days. “We understand this disorderly con- duct grew out of a strike at the Kia- mensi Wollen Mills, with the details of which we are not familiar.” Perth Amboy Listens to Manley Speech on | Chinese St Strike Move By snes \ES SZEPESY. a's successful meeting Saturday night, at the corner of Division and Fayette streets, with Comrade Joseph Manley as the speaker. Comrade Manley’s speech dealt with the situation of the workers of { Perth Amboy'‘and he also linked up with that, the national and interna- { tional situations. He explained the situation in China, the part the Kuomintang party and the Communist Party are playing in this struggle. . He also dealt with the Morocco struggles, and the role the socialist parties are playing in this fight as blackhearted traitors. The crowd was very enthusiastic and Comrade Manley was’ stopped many times during the talk by the audience with its cheering and clap- ping. Near the end of the meeting a so- cialist came there and asked the speaker “Why has Soviet Russia po- litical prisoners?” The crowd cheered Comrade Man- ley when he answered this question, and the socialist seeing that the audi- ence was with the speaker, did not bother any more. The audience cheered and clapped wildly every time Comrade Manley mentioned Soviet Russia. All the literature was sold, includ- ing the DAILY WORKERS, Young Workers, and pamphlets. The crowd numbered about one hundred. From now on, open air meetings will be held regularly. Cleveland Y. W. L. Meeting. CLEVELAND, Ohio. — The Young Workers League of the South Slavic Branch. meets every first and third Sunday of each month, at 1:30 o'clock, at 5607 St. Clair Ave.—Anna Kovacic, Secretary of Y.:W. L. Hints‘on the Use of, Out of the Use of, Proletarian Film Propaganda. “a, : | By WILL] MUENZENBERG. eo ed the press as a new major power. The same can be said of the film, which, in some countries, has already achieved a greater sign fic- ance than the press itself. The tstal attendance in the movie theaters of England, France and the United States is perhaps even today greater than ‘the total number of newspaper readers in those countries, Even if the press were granted the greater numerical dissemination, let it not be forgotten that the film, thru the medium of the visual picture, in- fluences its patrons far more satronely and emphatically than does the print- ed word its readers. He then develops the thot of the importance of technical progress in the film world finally convincing the last opponent of its value and perm- anence, : We must develop the tremendous ‘ultural possibilities of the motion picture in a revolutionary sense. . the film must truthfully reflect social conditions instead of the lies and fab- les with which the bourgeois kind be- fuddles the workers, etc. S in many other instances, the working class organizations were the most timid and most tardy in the effort to put this new medium to their use. The time is not so far past when social-democratic leaders,in common with bourgeois ideologists, in all ser- iousness proposed to boycott the films because of their conipetition with the theater, their flattening of public taste and destruction of liter- ary standards. Only after the war were timid attempts made to put the film into the service of working class propaganda. In various countries workers’ organizations arranged “Bet- ter Movie Nights’’ in which, besides the showing of educational and cul- tural films, criticism of current en- tertainment films was given. In 1922 in Germany the A. D. G. B. (All Ger- man Federation of Trade Unions) tried, thru the establishment of a “Peoples Movie,” to produce and ex- hibit socialistic working class _pic- tures. The attempt was unsuccess- ful, but it was later repeated by the A. G. D,_B. in the production and dis- tribution of the film “The Smithy,” which, however, also failed of mass in- fluence. In the main the labor organ- izations and even the Communist Parties and groups have left this most effective means of propaganda and agitation unopposedly in the hands of their enemy. The bourgeoisie, and especially the extreme ‘nationalists and militarists very early recognized the significance of the film as a propaganda weapon, and constantly and most extensively put it to their service. Particularly far-reaching exploitation of the film took place during the world war, par-| ticularly by England &nd France which spent tremendous sums on film propaganda against the Central Pow- ers in allied and neutral countriés. Germany tried in vain to beat the op- ponent at this game, and even created 1 special film center for the purpose of pushing nationalist films to fan ‘he war spirit. These films received iittle distribution outside of Germany and Austria. But it is beyond argu- ment that the war and incitive films contributed very heavily to the crea- tion of the chauvinist insanity in the war, and the post-period showed con- tinued use of the films for the pur- pose. apm v HILE in England and France a whole row of pictures proclaimed the military victory, the German pro- ducers were more concerned with awakening a faith in the possibility of « rebirth of the “good old times” of Germany's “greatness.” A typical ex- ample of this series is the picture “Frederick, The Great,” which was mightily effective along this very line in petit-bourgeois and ‘“spiessbiirger- lichen” circles. In considering the development of the German film industry it is inter- esting to note the reflection of the cur- rent political tendencies. During the mounting wave of the monarchist movement which culminated openly in ‘he election of Hindenberg there was : decided increase in the product on und release of monarchist and militar- st films. -| that, as in Leipsig, ERDINAND LaSALLB characterig-»dier,” “Ash Wednesday,” “Revellie,” “The Tragedy of Major Redl,” etc., are typical examples of this tendency, and it wonld be very interesting to establish statistically in how many theaters, during the few weeks before | the presidential by-elections these and similar films were shown to the pub- lic, OW far film is exploited for defi- nite political ends is shown in the large number of prejudice building films directed by European and Amer- ican producers against Soviet Russia. For example the film “Death Strug- gle” (Todesreigen) produced in Ber- lin, which for months in practically all German cities conjured up on the screen the most unconsciable con- coction of invention and fantasy of terror and horror on the part of the Soviet government against the Rus- sian workers and peasants. In sev- eral industrial centers the workers became so enraged at this calumny they smashed up NEW YORK, July 22.—A report is- sued by the Central Bureau of the So- ciety for Technical Aid to Soviet press sia contains the following interest account of tremendous agricul gains made by Soviet Russia: seeded area in prewar times. It is expected this year that the market will consume 12,000,000 poods of flax. The grain elevators in the ports of the Soviet Union of Moscow are now war figures by more than 2,700,000 poods. The construction of a new grain elevator in Nicholaeff will be completed this year. It will have a capacity of 2,500,000 poods. the projectors and burned the films. The attitude of these workers is en- tirely understandable, but it recalls | its precedent in the early days of cap- | italism when the workers, feeling | their livelihood threatened by the new | set a red cock on the roof of the man- ufacturer. tarians learn that it does no good to destroy machines, but that what con- cerns us in the conquest of those ma- chines and their application in a man- ner useful to the workers. Under- Sstandable tho the action of the Leip- sig workers, it shows no workable remedy with which to meet the evil. Not the destruction of tools and tech- nical equipment, but their conquest | Ukrainia }are constructing 23 new grain eleva- ‘tors, each with a capacity of from 60° 254 | to 100 thousand poods. Only later did the prole-: labor movement, of Communism. One of the most pressing tasks confonting Communist parties on the field of agitation and propaganda is the conquest of this supremely important propaganda weapon until now the monopoly of the ruling class, we must wrest it from them and turn it against them. Predicts Earthquakes. ROME, 22.—Prof. Bendani, some of whose earthquake predictions have been fulfilled, today predicted that July 25 and 26 would see two more shocks of importance. “Two earthquakes are imminent the night of July 25 and 26 in Alaska and dur- July and their turning to the use of the | for the idea-world | Reconstruction of Grain Elevators. and North Caucasia Need 60,000 600 Tractors, 7 So Import Two-thirds _ under the control of the state bank. Their capacity now exceeds the pre — Sas Increases in Flax Area. «ee This year the seeded area of flax in Moscow is twice as large as last year and is now almost equal to the ~~ In the Urals nine elevators are being constructed thousand poods each. The Production of Hemp To date 1,700,000 poods of hemp has An additional 700,000 been prepared. poods will be ready by the end of the present agricultural year. was 939,000 poods. Soviet Russia According to plans of experts the U. S. S. R, will need during the next thre years at least 60,000 tractors: 5,000 in 1925: 8,500 in 1926; 15,500 in 1917; and 31,000 im 1928. Soviet fac- tories will be able to furnish not more than one-third of this, number and two-thirds will be imported. In 1922-23 the U. 8S. S. R. imported 805 tractors; in 1923, 1,375; im 1924-25, over 4,000. But due to the demand # would be possible this year to sell from 10 to 12 thousand tractors. _ The National Commissariat of Agri- culture has called a meeting of all leading officers of the agricultural de- partments thruout Russia. The meet- ing will be held in the last days of July, in Moscow, and it will work out and consider plans for a more profit- able exploitation of the forests thruout all republics of the Soviet Union. ing the day of July 30 in the Japan- ese islands,” he said. ’ Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or you, The pro. duction of hemp in the previous year nig WISCONSIN FEDERATION TRAVELS — AROUND IN SAME OLD CAPITALIST CIRCLE OF POLITICAL IMPOTENCE LAKE GENEVA, Wis., July 22. increase in membership,” ized groups.” Twenty locals have affiliated since the last convention, three withdrew, and one disbanded. Private Dicks Ruled Out. Company unions are condemned in a warning against company-controlled roganizations of workers. A triumph against private detective agencies is recorded in the fight to prevent the notorious Howard Russell detective agency. The Wisconsin industrial commis- sion refused Russell a license as an employment agency on the ground that “the conduct of a private detec- tive agency specializing in industrial work renders the character of the applicant unfit to engage in the busi- ness of an employment agent.” Wisconsin labor, like Minnesota and other states, feels compelled to report that “the 1925 legislature did not prove to be the progressive body that was looked for by many after the elections were announced last fall. Many who were brot forward as pro- gressives during the campaign turned out to be the opposite.” The pictures, ‘The King’s Grens-| (By»The Federated Press) —Increased strength is reported to the delegates by the officials of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor which opened in 33rd annual convention at Lake Geneva, July 21. has taken place, but most of the substantial organizations record a consistent declares the general executive board. “As in past years, efforts of employers to lengthen the work day, reduce wages and impose less favorable conditions have been uniformly unsuccess- ful when directed against well-organ-+-— ' ? “No notable boom were reaped including ratification of the federal child labor amendment, regulation of child labor on farms and in fruit-growing, regulation of private detective agencies, old age pensions at the option of the counties, tax exemption for labor temples not run for individual profit, home rule for cities, increased exemption under State income tax law and taking the shackles off the state-owned life in- surance company. No Labor Party in Sight. In the field of political action, Pres. Henry Ohl, Jr., of the federation, and secy. J. J. Handley, who were sent as delegates to the abortive third party conference in Chicago, Feb. 22, urge that until a labor party is formed that labor pay the “closest attention to the proposed make-up of our legislative and judicial bodies as well as execu- tive offices in nation, state and com- munity, tween those forces which are sincere in the promotion of labor’s program,” The Lake Geneva convention is ex- Nevertheless some legislative fruits | pected to continue for four days, Three German Fascists on Trial Before Soviet Court There is now proceeding in Mos- cow the trial of three German fas- cists (Hackenkreuzler). who, on their own confession, came to Rus- “sia with the express purpose of carrying on espionage and to assas- sinate the most prominent members of the Soviet government, including Stalin, Trotsky, and Kamenev. It should be mentioned by the way, that these assassins are receiving the sympathy and support of the social democratic press of Austria ~ and Germany, which only recently were calling on the workers to com- memorate the anniversity of the death of the socialist martyr and victim of fascism, Matteotti. We give below an extract from the leading article of the Pravda of ae none oe June 26, dealing with thig trial.— Editor. * @ HE declarations made yesterday by one of the three accused German fascists, who have come to Russia in order to murder leading personali- ties of the Soviet power and of the Communist Party, have opened up such a panorama as to the morals of the monarchist conspirators that even the most unbridled Communist phan- tasy could scarcely find better argu- ments against the bourgeoisie. Herr Ditmar who has become peni- tent, has, already before the court be- fore witnesses and in the presence of his fellow prisoners, made damning statements. HE whole bourgeois and social de- ee ee for long endeavored to prove that the Moscow trial is only a frame-up, that the accused are not fascists and white guardists, but noble minded young scholars, young scientists who have journeyel to the barbaric couutry of red disvoveries, red feiry tava and ved miracles and who have been cap- ‘tured and held in prison, that these young scholars are innocent and that only the Moscow Tchekists can as- sert that they are familiar with poi- sons and pistols, rules of conspiracy and other far from innosent things. The accused Ditmar has shown how mendacious and hypocritical this con- cern of the German press, particular- ly of the fascist wing of the counter- revolution, has been. Monarchist con- spiracies in Germany, espionage work | among the working class, penetration a tee ng ET rt = ne Allan sth, into the Communist Party :by agent provocateurs, service in the Berlin po- lice presidium, relations with princes, counts, barons, etc.; fascist organiza- tion “consul,” drowning of the revo- lutionary attempts of the German pro- letariat in blood, unsuccessful provo- catory attempts to. sneak into the Russian Trade Mission in Berlin and, finally, the adventurous journey to Russia for purpose of carrying out murders—these are all links in the chain of crimes of the counter-revo- lutionary cliqués, Who are astained with the blood of the German people and who were about to stain them- selves with the blood of our best men of the Soviet coutitry. HE crimes of'these people against the German proletariat were not judged by our court, this must be the wien lee - RR Shee Ua, affair of the proletarian court of the ‘German Soviet Republic. In spite of the fact that the threads of the crime lead in a most striking manner to the portals of the Berlin police presi- dium and to a whole number of highly placed personalities of the German oligarchy, we will not break out into hysterics over Germany. We shall so- berly weigh everything up and we know that there are firmly rooted eco- nomic and political reasons which in- duce us to value peaceful relations with the German republic. But we must candidly assert that the mon- archist and fascist circles resort to means of warfare which arouse the greatest indignation and abhorence in our country. It would be wrong for our people to tolerate such things, | Just as the proletarian: court could who carrying murder ee overlook these murderers, were only prevented from out their intended acts of thanks to the watchfulness of comrades. And this court will pro- nounce its judgment with no uncer- tain voice, if the course of the pro- ceedings should demand it, not refuted. UR court is not employing forged Zinoviev letters, as is the habit of the civilized forgers of Great Britain, nor false cuotations as did Painleve’s only a few days ago, who brot forward a mass of his own inventions and aft- erwards declared with a genial smile over these same words and inven- tions: “Se nén e vero e’ ben tro vato!” “Ii it is not true then it is a wee... Pe —_——— —— our | if the. ne- | sults of the preliminary investigation | and Ditmar’s credible statements are. ante good invention.” Our court does not need such half-witted provocateurs _as Felix Neumann, but prefers to deal with objective data, with genuine , documents and statements, not of its agents but of people who came here 'on the orders of the fascists. Our authorities do not think of ar ranging raids upon eee em- bassy as did the German police upon the Russian same police who are deeply involved in the affair of the accused fascists —for we are for peace, for peaceful are not given to hysteria, ers of the Berlin police. will "soberly weigh the matter calmly determine the punishment by fostering co-operation be-. mission in Berlin—this | relations and their extension, for wa / like the/ monarchist and sociat cemocratic lead Our court 2 | be borne by each of the accused, ~ “ machines smashed the new tools and freon a capacity of from 100 to 150 ; Needs 60,000 Tractors. ~ ; eas ‘ two will make a better Communist of ~ 4
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—_— — ~— a ee an ec ie Communist Party of Holland, land Impends BERLIN, Germany, July 22-—The ‘workers of Polish Upper Silesia are increasing their demand for a Soviet government, and have struck terror into the Polish government, reports here disclose. ea The Polish government and Ger- many have been carrying on a tariff war, and as a result the steel plants . amd coal mines of Upper Silesia, .. which ordinarily export 350,000 tons a month to Germany, are closing _fown. Thousands are out of work. Then rapid spread of Communist ideas among the workers has prompt- _.ed the Warsaw government to at- tempt negotiations with Germany on the tariff situation. There are 100,- . 000 men out of work in the district of "_ Kattowits alone. The Polish government has increas- ed the intensity of the situation by calling the Silesian reservists to the army despite the convention liberat- ing the inhabitants of the region from military service for eight years. A financial crisis looms in Poland. The government is unable to pay doles to the unemployed. Forty per eent of Poland’s foreign trade is with Germany, and with this cut off, Po- land’s economic and financial condi- . tion is bad. Permits in Chicago Still Break Va Previous Records permits are still breaking records for Chicago and Cook county and those issted for this month wp until last Saturday total more than $13,000,000, according to the citizens’ committee to enforce the Landis scabby open shop. The total value of permits to date for this year exceeds already $210,- 000,000, which is $39,000,000 more than fer the same period of 1924 and $12,000,000 more than for the same period of 1923, the latter being class- | ed as a banner buildifig year in Chi- -cago’s history. The Landis award contractors are “gecuring a goodly percentage of the new construction work and 33 per cent of the value of permits have been awarded to Landis award con since July, asserted the open shop outfit. Control Over Alcohol Will Be Divided So Nlany Can Share Graft WASHINGTON, July 22.—Respon- sibility for control of industrial al- eohol under the new prohibition sys- tem will be divided between the com- missioner of internal revenue and pro- hibition administrators, the treasury anonunced today. ‘Permits to operate industrial al- ‘cohol plants, bonded warehouses, and denaturing plants will be issued by federal prohibition adiminstrators, effective August 1,” the statement said. Learn about RUSSIA TODAY ereuvecribe: Ca . - BU ILDING TRA WING MUS He RULE OF FAKERS ’ MARXISM AND DARWFNISM By Anton Pannekoek (translated by Nathan Weiser), published by Chas. Kerr and company. Order from the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washing- ton Bivd.,. Chicago, Ill. . > Reviewed by Kar! Reeve H® Darwinian theory of evolution is playing its role in the class struggle today, exemplified in the Scopes trial at Dayton, Tennessee, just as it has been used as an instru- ment in the class struggle in the past, as we learn from Anton Pannekoek’s book. In Europe, Darwinism was used by the bourgeoisie in the strug- gle against the feudal lords, and was of inestimable service in smashing the religious tradition and the theory of “divine rights” on which the feudal- istic system leaned. Anton Pannekoek, a Dutch profes- sor of astronomy, is now in the anti- parilamentary group in Holland. He has for many years taken part in the revolutionary movement in Europe. Panneokoek was criticized by Lenin for his extreme left, anti-parliament- ary views. Pannekoek, under the name of Hor- ner, wrote for the German revolution- ary press. He is a friend of Gorter, and with him fought in the left wing | of the Holland social-democratic party. Pannekoek took ‘part in many dis- cussions in the second international, and always was in the left wing, tak- ing the revolutionary position against the mensheviks. He crossed swords with Kautsky several times. Panne- koek was one of the founders of the sf “Darwin’s theory that man is the descendant of the lower animal de- stroyed the entire foundation of chris- tian dogma,” says Pannekoek. UT a new enemy of the bourgeoisie and the remnants of the feudal system alike sprang up out of the capitalist system of production—the industrial proletariat. The’ bour- geois, threatened by the growing pow- er of the workers, took up the same tool which had been used to lull the discontent of the serfs, and issued the slogan that the masses must be brought to religion. Religion has been brought “up to date.” Darwinism is now perverted and “interpreted,” as a means of “saving christianity,” and using it to perpetuate the profit system. In the Scopes case, we see the “modernist” religionist attempting to save the prestige of the church. Clarence Darrow, is acting as the mouthpiece of the ruling class. ‘““We want to prove that the theory of evo- lution is not in conflict with the div- ine origin of man,” Darrow told the court. “While there is not a soul on earth who believes the whole bible literally, we will not attack it, but merely prove that the bible and sci- ehce can be reconciled.” The capitalist buys the brains of the professors and scientists for the two-fold purpose of perfecting the technique of production and of mask- ing the exposure of religion by science with “symbolical” interpretation. HE estimation of science has un- dergone a change,” says Panne- koek. “Mysticiem has gained the up- per hand. All that was solved ap- _—— as very trivial, while all things - Darwinian Theory of Evolution that remained unsolved appear as em- bracing the most important life ques- tion.” “Darwinism has been of inestim- able service to the bourgeoisie in its struggle against the old powers. It was therefore only natural that bour- geoisdom should apply it against its later enemies, the proletartans.” In the Dayton evolution case the antiquated Bryan represents the rem- nants of the old order, which natural- | ly enough, has its stronghold in the backward “solid” south. Bryan ig still fighting the fight of the feudal lords against the capitalistic inter- pretation of Darwinism, and will ac- cept no compromise. “Religion and Science do conflict,” he says, “and science must be suppressed.” It is for this reason that the allies of the capitalists, the middle class lib- erals, the socialists and the “progres- sives,” aré lined up with modern capi- talism, against the remnants of feudal- ism. HE socialist party organ, the Mil- waukee Leader, in an editorial significantly entitled, “Evolutionists Defend Religion,” says, “Anyone who thinks that the Leader opposes relig- ion when it espouses evolution, is en- triely wrong. This paper is not irre- ligious, and it never attacks religion, eithér expressly or impliedly. In tak- ing the side of the defense in the Scopes’ case, The Leader is champion- ing the cause of religion.” And Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, re- cently appointed research associate in zoology at Johns Hopkins university, testified that he believed in evolution | tonal onarel, having uo a | ithe ' - —— “ and was a member of the congrega- |’ Plays an Important Part in Class Struggle class in Boltimore. Metcalf, like all the other goose step professors thru- out the country, who are paid to teach what big business tells them to teach, says that evolution and the bible do not conflict. Class col'aboration’ and ownership of trade union officials have proved more efficient weapons against the workers in the unions. And mystical interpretations. of . bible is. more efficient in doping #§@. workers with religion than a cras tempt to make them believe in miracles. The capi- talists well know this, as is seen by the fact that John D. Rockeféller, Jr., oil king, is about to build a fashion- able church for one of the best known modernist preachers in New York. What Evolution Teaches. Darwinism teaches us that the ani- mal world may be drranged into div- isions and subdivisions. The animal classes were not created individually, but descended one from another. The highest organisms ha descended from primitive beings , ans put one cell. Under certain conditions, some animal kinds will necessarily develop into other animal kind. Parents trans- mit their peculiarities to children, but it the same time the children diverge from their parents in some respects and also differ from each other. ARWIN’S theory of the “struggle for existence,” shows that favor- able variations in animals and plants tend to be preserved and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. Those which are best adapted to existing conditions survive, and new species are produced from the old ones. # What is the relation between Marx- | ism and Darwinism? ings,” says Pannekoek, “the teachings of Darwin and of Marx, the one in the domain of the ORGANIC world, and the other upon the field of HUMAN SOCIETY, raised the theory of evolu- tion to a positive science.” “Marx proved that class distinction were owing to the various functions each played in the productive process. The methods of production have con- tinuously changed with the progress of-time. The manner of labor and’ the productive relationship demand upon the tools with which people work. “Thus the Marxian theory disclosed the propelling force and the mechan-’ ism of social development. In doing this it has proved that history is*not something irregular and that the vari- ous social systems are not the result of chance or haphazard events, but that there is a regular devtopment in a definite direction. that social development does not cease with our develops.” ARXISM is not an abstract theory but a sharp weapon used by the proletarians in their struggle against the capitalist class. And we have al- ready seen how the bourgeolsle made Darwinism a weapon in their struggle to pervert Darwinism es a too! against the workers. In commenting on the Scopes trial, many of the capitalist professors are | belittling the theory of evolution, de- 'claring it “obsolete,” and unimport- ant, serving the master class by at- tempting .to show that additions to the evolution theory, which strength- ened the theory of descent, really de- _ re ad a! ~ the “Both gp | system, because technique Continnanrns: Those professors who use Darwin- ism as a defense of the bouregols sys- tem, Pannekoek tells us, make the er- ror of comparing the social organism with the animal body. ‘The survival of the fittest’ cannot be used as a support of capitalist competition, for, “while it is positively true that in the struggle for existence those animals that are strong, healthy and well sur- vive, yet this does not happen under capitalist competition. Success does not depend upon personal ability, but upon the possession ‘of capital. The competition existing in the capitalist system is something different in requisites and results from the’ ani- | mal struggle for existence.” The workers do not compete with capitalism, Pannekoek points out, but only sell their labor power to them. The poor do not succumb because they are unfit, but because capitalism creates miserable conditions, wrings their very blood out of them,. and de- stroys the bodies and minds of the ealthiest and strongest of the work- ers: “It is the possession of money that determines who shall suryive and who shall perish. HEREFORE, while Darwinism sup- ports and supplements Marxism, the two theories are distinct, one ap- plying to the animal world and one to human society. The bourgeois scien- tists, in attempting to apply the the- ory of Marx, belonging to human so- ciety, demonstrate their inability to reason. Darwinism shows the devel- opment of the animal world up to the entry of man, and the Marxian theory applies after the animal ag ed into man. Darwinism and Marxism are not —_ Ren’ Fioed [directly connected, because anne a A man is an animal, he is also a social animal, who has developed tools, thot and language, three pecularities be- longing to man alone. The animal organs are used just as /the humans use tools. But tools can Whe changed and transformed, allowing the development of production where- as the animal is mainly dependent up- on but one organ. The hare can only run fast, the lion can spring ahd bite, and if conditions change, the animal is lost. But man can wfange his tools while the animal cannot change his organs. The struggle in the animal world is a struggle of these organs, the strug- gle in human society is a strugglé of tools. Darwinism shows that animal shows that tools and the means of production contintially develop. HE jury of backwoods Tennesse- ans may find Scopes guilty,. but before the capitalist worid Bryan has been beaten. Such a trial would. be impossible in the north, where capi- talism is developed. The further development of the Satu ing and steel and other other’ indus- tries, which have already made in- roads into the plantations of Tennes- see will abolish the remnants of feud- alism and “modernist” preachers will replace the evangelists and Bryans who cling to a literal interpreation of the bible. Unless before that time the indus- trial workers overthrow the capitalist system, and throw out the prostitute professors and preachers who are per- verting Darwinism and attempting to use the theory of evolution in addition to the bible, as a means of further ex- 7 ploiting and degrading them. aa a ; ee terrae tetera lg mia Subscribe for the DAILY organs continually develop. Marxism ,
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# j and Employers’ Assoication of Bo- _. ston has appealed to Secretary of La- bor Davis to survey and correct in . the _ dations made by* three federal conci- liators in regard to the demand of the} _ laborers’ union for advance of wages . from 65 and 70 cents and hour to 77%}, and 80 cents an hour. The conciliators had advised that} te be arbitrated, each side to § Hi ment were afterrfive days a’ third arbitrator to be named by Davis. In making their arbitration recom- rope and there is talk in the laborers’ union of going out on strike again un- less the employers agree to arbitra- tion. Fire Depiirtinent Chief Insists on Open Door * (By Worker Correspondent.) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 22.— Chief Ringer of the fire department, called on 86 officers of the fire depart- ment, all of whom are members of the fire fighters’ union, and informed them that “a department cannot run efficiently with dual authority.” This is tantamount to an order for them to. abandon their union cards. A standing vote was taken on the question, which resulted in a 10 to 1 vote in favor of pulling out of the union. en murmurs of dissatis- faction arose today, Chief Ringer an- nounced he will call another meeting for a secret ballot. This is a move to break up the fire fighters’ union. The union is seven years old. J. W. Simcoe, who is secretary of the union, and an unrelenting foe of the left wing, will now have it brot home to him that political treason against the working class is not al- ways appreciated by the capitalist politicians in the way th&t labor fak- ers feel it ought to be. U. &. S. R. at the Stockholm Exhibition, eg of reports about the visa. peng participation in the first Scandinavian-Baltic exhibition. The press comments that the Russian ex- hibits are the best proof that all the stories about the destruction of Rus- — industry and agriculture are not e. Get a bundle for every meet- ing of your trade union local. ~The Scandina-* _ BOSTON, July 22—The eu} : | ‘| tive soil. Will Faker Mouaes” gas — rr - — _— PR th a eat ta a ie: Somer eS Oe ee ‘ . Ki 4 , £ c. ae SUS BD of “ap BS LOB SH 51538. Two piece dresses combine, comfort and style. The design here rtrayed shows the skirt with the new inverted plaits, and the blouse th fulness in front below the yoke xtensions of the back. The collar is also new and smart. This papttern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust meas- ure. A 38 inch size requires 5 yards of 36 inch material. If bodice is made of lining or other contrasting material it will require % yard. The width of the skirt at the foot is 1% yard with plaits extended. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l2c in silver or stamps for out up-to-date Spring and Summer . 1925 Book of a gl showing color plates con wr * 500 designs of ladies’, 8’, and children’s patterns, a con- and comprehensive article on dress- king, also some points for the needle | — | a. llustrating 30. of the various stitches), all valuable ‘hints to the dressmaker. me | pron Defense office, at 23 So. Linooin { —— - A PRETTY DRESS FOR A LITTLE GIRL 5178.. Brown linen embroidered in colored mercerized thread is here por- trayed. This style is very comfortable and simple, Pockets are inserted at the curved slashes in B. ‘The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 4 6, 8 and. 10 years. An 8 year size re- quires 1% yard of 40 inch material. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—The tterns being sold thru the DAILY one te pattern department are. fur- nigshed a New York firm of pattern manufacturers, Orders are towete » AILY WORKER every day of patterns . Delivery of pat- terns ordinarily will take at least 10 days from the date of mailing the order. not pageant impatient if your pattern is delay Pattern mailed to any address won receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. —" ODPL _— 4 —_ VOLUNTEER HELP WANTED ) Volunteer help wanted every afternoon and evening of this ) at the International labor ~men, s. *Chi cago Ave. Tean.sters, Ashland and Van Buren Teamsters, TL: aflenag wWatcrnan yoaden and, Taylor. i Warehouse Em ploy a W. Turners’ Union, Liberty Hall, mag he iz . 3420 W. Washington St. - | (Note—Uniless otherwise stated § all meetings are at 2». m.) Brewery Workers, t st. Brick and Clay, ge vitt and Barry. ck and Chica SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein ; Fortschritt Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secre Defense Day a Failure. PASADENA, Cal., July 21. — The war spirit seems to be dying out in South Pasadena, Cal., and a few 100 percenters have put the blame for this “catastrophe” upon the heads of the “city fathers” who have been critic- ized for their lack of interest in ob- serving patriotic occasions such as defense day, etc. In order to stop criticism and stimulate patriotism, once more the city council has decided to install flag holders and buy flags to decorate lamp posts on main busi- ness streets. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a vedere Communist of you. Be Dow oF freee pot. Y eee Bf ay ape es Cae’ 7 x (Continued from page !) Since that time, the faker has paid $11,900.00 for repairs. to his beauti- ful orange grove, no doubt in prepara- tion for a hasty retreat from the out- raged coal miners whose wrath is ‘ #48 / That Chest of Silver. It is a welk Known fact that Francis Peabody had.a great deal of “respect” for Farringtom, and be it known that Peabody is-oome of the largest coal mine operates in America, and one of the most efficient and treacherous, whose systematic reduction of the miners’ wages,and earning capacity, thru the introduction of so-called effi- ciency methods in violation of his agreement hag practically reduced the miners to rr mechanigal automa- tons. ai This Pg in token of his “deep respect”. for Farrington’s friend- ship and cooperation, presented Mr. and Mrs. Eragk Farrington with a head. 126| beautiful mahogany chest full of sil- ver (perhaps thirty pieces at the usual Judas! rate) a short time ago, which, needless to say, of a@ very use- ful gift indeed? miners of Illinois feel that the gift was not given without payment in return in the form of working con- ditions in the mines at the expense of the miners and which will be proved later on in these articles. (Will Frank be so kind as to go hang himself and save Judas’ reputation?) Other brazen attacks on the miners’ treasury are very interesting, a few of which follow: Farrington used $27,000.00 to crush the ~ progressive miners in Nlindis, when those miners, forced into’ ration, made a march on Springfie a to attempt to compel Farrington, | ‘take up their griev- ances, and, hate them rectified. In- stead of meeting with the men and having a proper understanding with them, Farrington hired thugs and had them beat wp'the miners in front of his hotel, °%°?* Hires’ Bosses as Thugs. Jack Brown, & Peabody Coal com- pany boss, wes, “paid $320.50, for slug- ging the miners in Springfield. You will notive the trinity, here, the Pea- body Coal - and the faker Farrington’ Remember the ¥ ; , | ie ak a's of a copy of a lost check and i, which is in- teresting. >it +t (Copy) . “Pay to.the erder of Jack Brown $150.00 for; value received. FRANK FARRINGTON, HARRY FISHWICK.” At that time a letter was written by Harry Fishwick to a friend, stating that Brown and Fishwick had “not been able t t together yet.” For what purpose Warirngton did Fishwick and Brown wish to “get together’? Perhaps to A}fange for the “value re- ceived” on one hand and your thirty pieces of silver on the other. Tomorrow I will continue the expos- ure of this Judas Farrington who has not repented and whose hanging will not be self inflicted but will occur at the hands of the outraged miners of District 12. Counting Brookhart’s Vote. WASHINGTON, July 22.—A count of the Marion county, Iowa, ballots in the 1924 elections has been concluded by the senate privileges and elections committee and Daniel F. Steck, demo- crat, has gained but one ‘vote in his contest with Senator Smith Brook- hart of Iowa. . revolutionary movement. and others. library. 1113 W. Washington Bivd. ~ 7 MY FLIGHT FROM SIBERIA eT LEON hs. a ‘ The Daily Worker Publishing Co. has just secured from the publishers the complete stock.of this new edition of the thrilling story of escape from Siberian exile written by one of the most brilliant ‘writers in the The edition includes an introduction ot the hgstor- ical days of the Russian Revolution of 1905 dnd the events leading to the imprisonment of Leon Trotzky A map of journey made, an autographed photo of the author and the binding of board covers in two colors make this book a worth-whlie addition to your PRICE $1.00 se The Daily Worker Publishing Co. al, a = RR RS to f ———— Chicago, Il. about to break on his cigs , theothug Brown. BUILDERS AT WORK a Daily Worker Builder Does Most Important Work Have You Ever Even Thought of This? A DAILY WORKER Agent and all Buliders travel with such a full supply of tools that when they talk to a worker they are almost sure of a sub. "Maybe not a DAILY WORKER sub always, but If you are an- xious to do some constructive Communist building just took over this fist of tools that you can use. Granting that you can’t get 'a sub for the DAILY WORKER (and that is your very best tool) there is the WORKERS MONTHLY. But maybe you can’t get a sub to either—the wofker may not speak English well enough. That’s nothing—you are only beginning. There are exactly twenty two different language papers, (daily, weekly, monthly) all fight- ing the same battle for the working class in many languages. Builder or agent has in all these a great means to build our movement. But again you may say, that general magazines do not interest every single worker. interested in their trade—especially in the shop and trade union. is your only argument, then— 7 A good literature, newspapers and Many of them are only if that Here Is the Answer! The Trade Union Educational League thru its different arms of the all workers. Left Wing movement. has just what is needed for that type—and for How can the workers—in fact how can you?—know all the interesting facts of the Left Wing activity in the trades without getting these facts from their official papers. Here they are. Clip them out and paste them in your note book to use whenever you meet a worker... to the DAILY WORKER. You will find the smoke of the workers bat- tles in these (Metal Trades Monthly) and send in the sub directly in LEFT WING PAPERS THE AMALGAMATIONIST (Printing Trades Monthly) THE AMALGAMATIONIST BULLETIN 50Cents a Year . 50Cents a Year PROGRESSIVE BUILDING TRADES WORKER (Building Trades Monthly) RAILWAY AMALGAMATION ADVOCATE (Railway Workers tesa Com THE fe aah MINI All ees publications: 35 Cents a Year 50 Cents a Year _" bain’ waintna, Workers Monthly, Young Worker, Young Comrade, language Communist papers, Left Wing papers —make a full and convincing reason why the DAILY WORKER Agent and Bulider are important and most essential factors in bullding the Amer- ican Communist movement. They are organizers without equal. —— THREE GERMAN FASCISTS ENTERED SOVIET UNION TO PROVOKE BREAK MOSCOW, July 22.—An afticle in the Isvestia points out that the accused members of the organization consul, the three German fascists who entered lying was hopeless. Soviet Russia to promote anti-Soviet plots, fascists in their closing speeches when they clearly recognized that further They then adopted provocation, the most common weapon of fascism. After the completed investigations of the court which exposed at least a part of the crime, it is clear that the alleged scientific only showed themselves as expedition of Kindermann had as its purpose, not merely terrorist acts, not only espionage, but also the provocation of complications in the Russo- German relations. This purpose was revealed by the accused themselves when in their closing speeches they abandoned their previous tactics and openly made threats based on calumny. The definitely fascist closing speeches must convince everyone who has no interest in a calumnious muti- lation of the actual facts of the case, that the sentence of the supreme court was unavoidable. Kindermann and Wolscht them- selves saw to it in the closing session that the accusations raised against them were strengthened. Only ignor- ance of the real course of the process and ignorance of the revelations made by the consul members them- selves can make the campaign of lies of the Vorwarts still possible, for every unprejudiced person must long ago have ‘lost all doubt ;jhat any but experienced and determined terror- ists were sitting in the dock, who at first, as this seemed to them the only path of salvation, simulated stt- pidity. It is just the campaign of calumny carried on by the bourgeois press which provides the most smashing proof for the strength of both forces whose agents were the participators in the alleged scientific expedition, and how real is the danger of provo- cation and how energetically this dan- ger must be fought. Tell other workers what hap- pens in your shop. Write a story and send it in to the DAILY WORKER. Order a bundle to distribute there. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will cave 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIS~ 645 Smithfield Street. E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren (| 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 &. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 6peciaities:: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked Beans and Brown Gread Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee Co is¢ary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton (t. Phore West 2549 — Se $$$ Oil iMicbuates Richer Than Any Monarch By FRAPIESA. (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, July 22.— Today California is producing 630,000 bar rels every 24 hours. The 1925 produc tion of the state will be approximate ly 230,000,000 barrels. Most of the oll is from the Los Angeles basin and is shipped out of this city by rail and sea to every corner of the earth. Enormous Wealth. Output increases constantly. New wells are brot in every day and new districts every year. Estimated at $2 per 42-gallon barrel for crude oil, the annual product is worth half-bil- lion dollars. Converted into gasoline, the value goes to $1,200,000,000. Man- ufactured into parafine, lubricating oil, etc., etc., the duplication of the worth goes stil) higher. More than 50 per cent of this wealth goes to 20 millionaires, more than 75 per cent to 50 millionaires, and more than 90 per cent to 100 persons. How the unidentified “pub- lic” manages to get the remaining 10 per cent is more mystifying by a great deal than how the magnates get the 90 per cent. California oil is a major contribu- tor to the establishment of aristo- cracy in America. ft shows democracy as a‘fake in every way as a social, industrial and proletarian factor. All For Few. When Doheny declared that he con- sidered giving $100,000 to Fall as of no more jmportance than handing a tip to a bellboy, he summarized the situation: The ravagant perversion of the oil industry to serve the ca- prices of a few successful sure-thing gamblers casts into the shade the do- © nation of old Russia to the Romanoffs ~ and Germany to the Hohenzollerns. The czar,. with his 90,000,000 acres of the best land of Russia, never had the income thatthe oil industry of California yields to the plutocracy. Never did he revel in such increases of wealth as the petroleum magnates know as theirs as a matter of privi- lege. Year by year fewer men control this fabulous resource. are ruthlessly crowded out. The mon- opolists have no scrupples in dealing with competitors, proving that the more a hog gets the less he will let another get. Capitalists Produce Nothing. Nobody is as far away from petrole- um..as the oil magnate... This rare bunco artist has nothing to do with production at all. He simply lets oth- ers do all the producing while he con- tends himself with. taking all the pro- fits. For magic his performance out- does Aladin. Of course, the source of the necro- mancy is not the cleyerness or in- genuity of the oil magnate. It is the credulity of the people. That is truly amazing. It answers the question asked relative to the magnates: How do they get away with it? Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. f 7 On Saturday, July 25, the RUSSIA TODAY is not writ- oe Fe goer oo of ery ve ten by Communists. It is the AY will be printed. 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LOEB Business Manager Is Verboten sonally and ask the new reprieve,” f or Hearing Today , Palle / F a ave Being . e t-office at Chi- said Bidwill. “We have been given 7 . | oT oer cage, Lit, wade ine Sak ot ‘Maret 3, 1878. oe (Continued from page 1 new information which we | Four more striking members of the Workers (Special to The rhe Dally Werker) : Fags ‘ sas reading right here. will put before Governor Small, In- Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ he 7 DAYTON,.. Tenn, July % pe 290 Advertising rates on application. Tine in on Capitalist Court P. D. Q., formation which, we belleve, war Union, employes of the International .who uphold the Tefinessee anti. u a broddcasting from Room 915 City | Shed new light to warrant the stay.” | Tailoring company, were arrested pa 14 ston law are araga! g America back 8=——i«s ) W ell Why Not? _ — to disctose the infor "| while walking the ony pom gga pa a ral | }t to the middle Ne Darrow ? 7 Hot Dog! . day, making a total of 117 arrests Party, the ftalian Branch © oy in an. impereiagy hocgt ft oink at i i itorial t | | and “the: : “tHe: d of ‘the wae The above is the title of an editorial that recently appeared in| “Be it remembered, that hereto- the city police, acting as agents of/ and ‘the English : en g } the New York C ial, a capitalist rag edited b "the senile fore, to-wit: on the 22nd day.of July, the garment manufacturers, since the RST PI of Philadelphia: | ane was rane vidal Wotons ye nic oat ihc a Raa co a fa 5 y A. DB, 1925, the same being one of strike began four weeks ago. jE Valley on an Fi stoolpigeon, Fred Maryin. The article is a enlogy of Fascism and of Benito Mussolini in particular. Our capitalist contemporaries never tire of throwing mud at the government of the Soviet, Union, because it is a dictatorship, and the “American people” they tell us, are enamoured of democracy. But ais days of the regular July A. D., 1925. term of said court, the above entitled proceedings came on to be heard before the Honorable Judge Orr, one of the judges of said court, at which time and place the following Thomas Skel, against whom charges $1,500.00 bond. Oscar Novack, charged with carry- of disorderly conduct and assault and battery were placed, was released on ing concealed weapons, was placed | — 2, nings Bryan, who “Té to "remain at Dayton to raise funds ment that he would not debate with Gepense wWarrow or beieieiey else on volution. _. tuk ‘4% named after himself, prt yo I o ay ee gs a ” ¥ as we often point out it is not dictatorship in ‘principle that our] proceedings were had: under $1,000.00 bond, as. was)his After hearing. Clarence arrc : political bawdy sheets object to, but to a dictatorship in particular.| The Court: “Call the case and brother, Harry Novack, who was/ ps py at all ipod te od ta Invite 3 In other words, a dictatorship of the many, the workers and peasants call the defendants by name. | " |charged with assault and battery. ne to Coane: 10:8 MAAS ante Ry 3 ‘ Whereupon the Clerk of the Court ea oie / Isadore was. released on will h religion sneered at,” said af ee ee ee ee ' “Ss + | $400.00 bond charged with disorderly Speech, One Lengthy Bryan. ‘The bible is to be the main’ capitalist country. The Court: “I suppose you are not Win M any eats in icniienk: ae in tthe teaching of evolution ds : & a . . guilty.” at plann teaching evolution ‘ a The New York Commercial says that Mussolini wrenched the | ®t sos. “yes, yes. Not euiity."| Local Governments . Schlossberg Arrives. is to be prohibited. : country out of the hands of the “proletariat” and returned it to its| a. court: “How many of you It was announced at the strike (Special to The Dally Worker) Sees Tide of tareteoenss. . rightful owners, the capitalists. As a matter of fact the proletariat | are working?” DUBLIN,. duly-tcey Mail)—Incom- | meeting that Joseph Schlossberg, gen-|} NEW HAVEN, Conn. July 22—| arrow said in his departing state- re . . ha ” plete re on the local elections | org] | etary ‘t of the Amal- +, unfortunately did not seize the golden movement to take over the| Defendants: “All of us. aa ake be ocr aiaad secretary treasurer An ignorant note was struck at the | ment: “My experience here has tau : country and establish their own government. Had they done so the Double Duty. cenit vg idates chao ae ee ee orate fed rege Ps sic dimen oeengend vp acy Central} me that there is a fearsome tide of in-' “rightful owners” would now be scratching themselves like filea bit-| The Court: “Working day time and | stantigi gi th the \Volce of La pratt get st ‘ etek all Saniatte ey He pana, tolerance deliberately seeking to ten curs in the alley ways of Italy’s big cities, while the proletariat | 8Pea*ing at night, I suppose? bor, official organ of the Irish Trans- hamper thought and learning in Amer- fire of questions from] due to the fact that I candidate as @ scab should be treat- “ hing peak placed him — ak (Clearly disliking the |ed in a strike. Whether this rule is aera a - aPo Prag tnt nista npn, ott ou bes Bryan Soe stand. “How much . a Another Report on Russia vote, offered a third thesis.) “How | soing to bewstrictly enforced or not} iia “They are on the side of the ; opening gun in the| thing preg drys: about the bible or any- would be busy at the task of reconstructing Italy on the basis of a As it is they are living in terror of Communist order of society. Mussolini’s armed cutthroats. — Since Mussolini seized power, writes the fink Marvin, the Fascist government has “maintained itself in a dignified and admirable fashion.” Evidently the murder of Matteotti, not to speak of thous- ands of others, is a quite “dignified and admirable” proceeding in the eyes of this blood-hungry American fascist! Marvin goes on to say that the Italians are not capable of governing themselves, like the American, (they don’t have — trials” in Italy) and need Defendants: “Yes.” The Court (obviously a skeptic on this question). “All those that are working raise your right hand? Those who are working.” The vote being unanimous, His Honor had to choose another tack. The Court: “You are not going to school, some of you?” Attorney Bentall, heavying for the agnostics, olfacted an effort of the fundamentalists to get a change of venue to the Tennessee school sys- port result for them. and General feels that the workers could have done ‘better. Still in view of the gen- eral situation it must be admitted, that the workers’ showed up pretty Workers The anti-treaty party as De Valera’s followers are called appear to be losing out rapidly. Usually they came in at the bottom of the list unless more compléte returns snow a better Union, Isadore Rothbart, business agent of the pantsmakers, addressing yes- terday’s strike meeting at Hod Car- riers’ Hall, 814 West Harrison, de- clared that the desperate attempt of and the J. L. Taylor company to ,se- cure an injunction against the strik- ers shows that the bosses are hang- ing on by a straw. Companies Are Licked. “The companies kre licked,” Roth- the International Tailoring company. After one of those preserved-before- the-war speeches, he was asked by Comrade Kling of the New Haven English branch of the Workers Party, if he was in favor of independence for the Riffians, and if so, why didn’t the French socialists stand for the evacuation of Morocco by the French. He replied that he was in favor of such independence, but as to the French socialiists’ attitude, he was not a member of the chamber of depu- ties, and did not have the necessary | ica. Their effort is the same as the effort of medieval scholastics to seek to test new discovery all science by the bible.” Darrow advocated “liberal christiani- ty,” which he did not clearly define. John Thomas Scopes, who was found guilty and fined $100.00, stays on at Dayton, and spends his time wondering where he is going to get a new teaching job. Bryan Reverts to Type. ee oes to school,” he f tee Union bart said. “Never has there been a| information. A case of the blind lead-| pny oes, eued = after trial, men like Mussolint. he cote aes seuss The great majority of the labor can-|strike when the workers were more/ mg the blind. Bryan. and Darrow gain creased = “That sort of government is best which produces the best results { didates are members of the Irish |joyal to their cause. No one is going} swords over evolution. a The Very Idea | | . The Workers Party had already “Mr. Bryan has done me the h whatever it may be called. The problem with Italy appears to con-| pefendants: (Vigorously) “No.|27@28port and General Workers’ | back to work until the I rnational | held two meetings on the Green, one | to das that 1 ante eae ® roel => sist of discovering a second Mussolini at some future time.” We} No, No!” eR. wn ie rather eon ge Tailoring company signs ‘an “agreeliwith Carlson and the second with] of evolution,” said Darrow. “it T am, . are quoting from the Commercial. According to this line of reason-}| The Court: (Hopefully remember- union it must be admitted. Not only|ment with the Amalgamated Clothing! simons as speaker. The socialist ing the government of Russia would be given a clean bill of health. But Marvin does not mean the best results for the masses, but the best results for the small parasitic group whose boots he is con- stantly licking. And we suggest that the problem before the Italian workers is not to immortalize Mussolini but to “mortalize” him. We venture to predict that Benito will be the last Mussolini as well as the first. T he members of the British Womens Trade Unionists’ delegation ing the Immigration Act) “How many of you are born Americans? Raise your right hand.” Seventeen: hands, accustomed to hovah’s doorstep. The Courts “How many of you are naturalized?” The motion carried with only two many ‘of you are not naturalized?” Alas! None to be Deported. es this sort of thing, pointed toward Je- | the labor party. as he pleases. is it the biggest union:in Ireland but it is also the backbone of ‘the political expression of labor, as represented by The Transport Union does not allow that a member/of the union can vote Recently it had a re- solution passed treating a member who cast his ballot:dor a capitalist Workers.” The strikers loudly applauded the statement that it was the rank and file who had strengthened the Amal- gamated, and who were the backbone of the present strike. Rothbart pointed out that the strike showed] the meaning of a union organization and was an education to the workers. is another question, but)the local. or- ganizers of;the transport.are quick manufacturers, the people who have meeting to open the municipal cam- paign fell flat. The speaker excused the socialists for their betrayal of the of the working class at the outbreak of the world war, by referring to the -war hysteria, etc.; that Ramsay Mac- me had no opportunity to do any- thi e usual humbug. Socialist campaign proveda dud. I am in direct anti-thesis to him, Mr Bryan is not the finest of evolution, but he comes under the classification of those who revert to type. _—/ “Mr, Bryan’s statement shows some light on his-feelings, I fancy no one in need of friends or help would have any uncontrollable impulse to fly him. Mr, Bryan’s convulsiong be indged by Rie. a8: Swers. a ' \ ‘ x ; 4 * * az ss - : Tag My . = —_— wines eRe pias ‘ ae — ’ - " — aS oe Fe! snail ‘ : ¥e, cae Ney ae y - ; Ze ree es ‘=r + e's Nie y ‘ F om net a es) ire » Be Be 4 ; ee Sad SS a - ees rs e ipa fe Te ae Mates oat Bee a Se aa hie . Sa oy ES - es 5 he ar at ae eet a = o Pea Ppa) : Pern ewe OA suas ae | = ot ee ae ee 1 ag Swe Se , PS AE : ‘ ‘ or 3 ¢ ‘ oe Tn ee re Z m5, VD < res ; “ money. We have on our side our or who have spent over two months making an investigation of condi- Complete ‘silence. of temper,and take their duties se- z Pity om Beyaa: 3 tions in Sevixt Russia, particularly as they affect the women, have returned, and a summary of their impressions is given in the London Daily Herald. The women are enthusiastic over what they saw and they confirm the findings of the other delegation of British trade unionists led by A. A. Purcell. The preliminary statement of the report of the women trade unionists will appear in next Saturday’s magazine supplement to It makes good reading for every class con- It will not sound so good to the enemies of Soviet Rus- sia, particularly those who have dragged the once proud flag of socialism in the dust, and made of it a mantle of shame to cover the the DAILY WORKER. scious worker. hideous sore of capitalism. The women trade unionists found that “both workers and peas ants look upon the present government as their own.” ship and or Councils, that rule.” This is a report, not made by ea som of the intelligentsia who sometimes graciously descend from their exalted petty bourgeois pedestals in order to bestow the favor of their enlightened and cul- tured leadership on the working class, but by genuine workers who have toiled in the factories and who have risen to positions of leader- working women}: without any trouble, the main fact that stands out clearly thru ship thru service to their fellow workers. Those saw, every act of the Soviet Union, and that fact is, that the Soviet gov- ernment is a workers’ and, peasants’ government; that the workers Those working women have no fear of a di¢tatorship on the Ahrottle of which. the and peasants are running fhe government machine. their: hands. Shot in the Back students were shot in the back! io eternity! What a horrible, foul, workers hive Some have and barbarous (duite a few already deed! vone Should such an act happen in some savage country or by some known-to-be savage people, it would not be taken so much to heart! Unfortunately, it was committed by some known-to-be civ- ilized people of a known-to-be civilized nation in a civilized cen- ter of the Far East : To be sure,.savages have their moral codes too. Perhaps they would prefer to fight face to face and both when armed. This almsot universally upheld principle of fair play and justice proved an exception in Shanghai. We have an old saving in China, “Gentlemen fight openly, only rascals and curs fight with an underhand.” Supposing this outrageous crime had ‘occurred in the days when knighthood was. in flower on the Europena continent, I am sure many.a knight, rather all the knights, ef old Britain would have drawn swords to fight the common foe as it was their sworn duty to stand by the right. You say, “The students bullied me,” Alas! “The students were shot in the back!’—From the Shanghai Crisis, published by the Students of Tsing Hua College, Peking, China. Get a member for the DAILY WORKER. There is a dictatorship they admit, but it is a workers’ and peasants’ dictator- “it is the workers and peasants thru their elected Soviets for the Workers Party and a new subscription The Court: “You say that this is the fourth .time you appeared in this case?.. Have you been going some- where else to speak?” Comrade Lewis: “Yes. spoken on another corner.” Bentall: “You see, the police head- quarters does not issue permits, but they say you can pick out the corner, and unless there is an objection, you go right ahead, and. if there is ob- jection, you iron it out or go some- where else.” His Honor Becomes Curious. The Court: (Getting a bright idea.) -|“What were you talking about? Re- ligion ?”’ Comrade Lewis: “No, only occa- sionally. We spoke for the Workers Party, a labor organization: We were talking about the subjects pertaining to our party and we were talking about labor topics and appealing to union men.” The Court: Voice: We have “On a religious issue?” (Facetiously.) “No, nor of evolution.” Methinks | Smell Bolshevism. The Court (Bethinking itself of where labor topics and unionism leads.) “Are you connectéd in any way with the Russian Soviet organ- ization?” Comrade Lewis: “No, we are not connected with the Soviet govern- | ment.” The Court: “Are you getting any aid from it?” Comrade Lewis: “No. We are not connected with it, but we are very sympathetic.” Sympathy Verboten, But Bazoos May Blow. The Court “The mere fact that you are sympathetic is enough in my mind to justify sending you to jail. I don’t think the great majority of Ameri- cans are sympathetic. Any meeting that tends to undermine the govern- ment of the United States would be punishable. But I believe a good ‘deal in the English idea of letting them blow their bazoo, letting off steam. It doesn’t hurt anybody. |! suggest that to avoid trouble you ob- tain-some sort of police recognition. There is a law. Don’t break the law, no matter what it has been.” Look Out, Here Come the Cops! Police Officer: (Helpfully.) “It is the business men out there that are complaining to us.” The Court: (Recalled to its duty by the mention of the word “Busi- ness.”) “Just because you are turn- oa loose this morning, don’t think you won't be brot in here again. It is people that don’t respect the laws that cause the trouble. Defendants discharged.” 7 aa, Another new Sub makes another iC ‘ommunist. ; & riously. “sé Have 150 bodies. sponsibilities, labor party. Thomas Johnson, Free State parliament .has resigned the leadership of the’ Irish Labor Party in that body. “mean interview to the press he claimed that his action had no significance other than that he was getting rid of some of his re- and would henceforth take a back seat In the Dail. are others who claim that his decision to take a back seat was due to pres- sure from the younger elerrents in the ye OL Representatives The returfis to datecgive the labor party approximately’ :b80 representa-' tives in county and towm elections. In some instances they have a working majority on the t1ocal’ government ‘deputy Telegram Sender To Insane Ward DETROIT, July 22.—James M. Ball, originator of the fake telegrams which accured a week’s reprieve for Russell T. Scott, was\ taken *o the psycho- pathic ward of receiving hospital to- day for observation. in the There dental drownin rior today. The question appeal from a application for Sarah Rizzo, her son, Lee S. Camp Gren, 624 Chicago, Illinois, f | SOLDIER DROWNED IN CAMP, MOTHER DENIED ~ PENSION BY COOLIDGE WASHINGTON, ly 22.—Acci- g of a,soldier “thru his own carelessness” is not in tine of military duty and does not en- title his heirs to a government, accord) made by the secretapy of the inte- sion from the to a ruling was dec , sented on an n of the com- missioner of pensio—fis in. which an a pension from Mrs. rth May St., ‘the death of Ri was rejected. Rizzo lost his life_by drowning at ganized power.” Pickets are now being regeuaty assigned, and roll call is being taken. Wild Rumors Scotched. Mike De Novi replied to the rumors being spread by the bosses that they | were going to move their business to Rock Island. “We have a good or- ganization there,” he safd, “And the’ struggle would go on. But that is: only a rumor spread to confuse the workers. move they would keep This is more bunk being spread by the hirelings of the company.” injunction Up Today. This morning at ten o’clock the bosses’ bill for an injunction comes before Judge Hugo Pam, of the su- perior court, in room 941, county building. Unless another postpone- ment occurs, the demurrer filed by the defense attorney, William A. Cunnea, will be argued. The demur- rer states that to grant an injunction would be a violation of the Cuth- perior court, in room 941, county | passed by the Illinois legislature.| It ‘ibe brands the charge of the bosses of “violence” on the part of the pick- ets as untrue. Pickets on the Job. There were few scabs in the build- ing yesterday, and these were not clothing workers. The International building, at Jackson Blvd., and Pe oria St., is still surrounded by the city police and private sluggers brot in by the company. As the DAILY WORKER reporter ared the picket line he was ap- proached by a striker and asked if he were “Looking for work,” which shows that the pickets are 100 per cent on the job. Jailor Assaulted Girl Prisoners MARION, Ill, July 22.—Charged with accepting bribes in releasing two murderers and a car thief and accused of assaulting seven girl prisoners, Dick Robinson Williamson county | jailor, was under arrest today. JAPAN OFFICIALLY AGREES WITH . U. S.; BRITAIN REMAINS SILENT ‘ af WASHINGTON, D, C., July 22.—The state department today gave out the statement that Secretary Kellogg “has hopes” for-a conference on Chinese affairs since he received -word that Japan is “in accord” with his, views for an international “discussion” of China’s treaty relations with im- perialist powers. it is said Kellogg got the word of the Tokio government’s attitude from Ambassador Matsudaira of Japan. The state department, evidently for propaganda purposes, at once an- nounced that it understands that Great Britain’s views are the same as’ those of Japan,” but jt cautiously leaves a “hole to’ ‘crawl that of course, enaiiha has “not yet” officiatiy advieg America of it. j 5. ‘ thru by adding If they really intended to it secret.’ a NEEDS Bie a TO FIGHT JAPAN-WILBUR ‘hintieaos 3 tive Not Made Fleet Obsolete a PORTLAND, Ore., July 22.—Secre- | tary ofthe Navy Wilbur was today on | record in predicting that modern na- ‘val engagements will be between great fleets and that airplanes will es a factor in supplementing the eet. - Addressing public officials and citi- zens at a banquet given here last night in his honor, Secretary Wilbur was very emphatic in stating he did not agree with contentions of others that recent bombing tests had spell- ed the death knell of the capital ship. “Whenever the airplane is able to anchor in the air, can maintain its po- sition there for weeks or months and refill with fuel in the air, then it can be said that the capital ship has seen itg, usefulness decline,” he said. e pointed out that bombs and ex- plosives would not harm such modern battleships as the Arkansas, New York and Utah, which he said, were to be equipped with heavy armor and sloping tops. Wilbur stated that the navy pro- grata called for maintenance of a fleet of eighteen capital ships and that the policy .would be to keep the. fleet. of eighteen capital ships in the’ a © a . A eapolis Street _ ting Sunday ‘Eve at Washington Square MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 22.— On Stthday, July 26th at 7 p. mm. John Gabriel Soltis and C. A. Hathaway ‘will “speak at Washington © ‘Square, (seven corners). Soltis will talk on “Trade Unions After The War.” Hathaway on “The Program of the Left Wing.” All workers are asked to be on hand. ~* Cocoanut King. “Gives” Money. NEW YORK, July 22.—Leopold Schepp, 85-year-old capitalist, has an- nounced that he is going to “give away” a few more of the millions of dotlars he made by exploiting his em- ployes. Schepp is in the cocoanut business. ' ie “Of course, I cannot help having some pity for Mr. Bryan for being ob- liged to show his gross ignorance by _| simple afd competent questions asked him on the witness stand. However, I am inclined to think the public would forget it sooner if he stopped reminding them about it. Judge Shielded Bryan’s Ignorance. “He answered my questions in the | presence of the court, and it is rather ‘intéresting that the next morning the court of his own accord struck them from the record. I cannot help won- dering why the court helped Mr. Bryan out of his dilemma, especially in the morning, and before any quest had been made in open court.’ Darrow Answers Bryan. In reply to a series of questions asked him by Bryan, which the poli- tician said he would have asked his opponent on the witness stand, Dar- row said: “I do not believe the bible was written or inspired by god. I believe it should be taken as- every other book. I do not believe in any supernatural christ as foretold in the old testament or revealed in the new testament.” “I do not believe in miracles. I believe the universe acts and always has acted in accord wi immutable laws and that whatever force may be back of the universe has never violated these laws. I have never tried to impose my views of religion upon any human’ being. I have a right to my Own views and would fight as hard to ‘protect any other man’s views ag I would my own,” ; Shepherd in intteinametia:: INDIANAPOLIS, _Ind., July 22.— William Darling Shepherd. principal figure in the recent William Nelson McClintock murder trial, left here _ afternoon for Chicago after a tw days’ visit with his sister, Mrs, A Pedigo. THOUS SATS] DARROW OF CAPITAL SUIT ON TEACHERS (Special to THe Daily Worker) DAYTON, Tenn., July 22.— The religious evolution enmity between William Jennings Bryan and Clar- ence Darrow flamed anew here this afternoon over the filing of a suit in Washington, D. C., to enjoin the payment of salaries to science teachers in the district of Columbia. “It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Dar. row said. “Well, the people are awakened — Give this copy to your shop- | mate. to ‘the conspiracy against Christian. ity,” was Bryan’s comment. °