Daily Worker
August 2, 1925
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Pex a, _ % i. et. , DAILY. Wot i ow 9 bi 4 heat aN aoe P « 3 ay = Rie : as “vi & apse ee Pe ~ ae AKERS OF | r Se ae ee et vo ee et WF es te ee ae 2 rey ead bat a ai eb opel & 5 oe ee W | yk = a * > a . ga ‘coat & m* — 4 Apes i. ch AS WE SEE IT By T. 4. O'FLAHERTY 1HE British tories have something @lse to worry about just now be- be not ee now, it cannot be i H | 2, Fs velop out of the present industrial crisis in England. It is different by far to any of those great upheavals that preceded it. There is a purpose behind the movements of the workers ne ‘ha’ i 2 : re ES pom Fd error ve a me " oe + re 2 Ta’ UEP roenngat ”s , ae oe ae : re gt x inly have the way. 6 eo oC - rin ~ surpased that of the Czar’s govern- ment in 1913. It has reached the colos- sal sum of two billion.dollars. And, that money is going to be used to de- velop Soviet agriculture and industry’ to educate the masses to improve their social conditions and to defend their government. No rouble of it will go to forge chains for the producing classes as is the case with the revenue of capitalist countries. a * ILE*the economy of Britain, go conference, | Since the first conference, which also met in Chicago, on December 9-10, 1922, there have been several ) regional amalgamation conferences, all with large"delegations. The official call for this second con- ference issued by the committee reads as follows: “To All Railroad Local Unions the United States and Canada. “Dear Sirs and Brothers: “= “The past four years has been the} most tragic period in the history of railroad unionism in America, Dur ing this time the great strike of the| Shopmen took place. : Its disastrous outcome is known to all railroad work- ers. Some of these unions have been almost entirely destroyed, while others are completely demoralized and beaten ddwn far below their pre-war Status. With the exception of the four transportation brotherhoods, all unions have s d@ immeasurably in with hun- in | SOFIA, July 31—According to the Bulgarian secret police, the whole- factory results.” Four hundred peo- _ ple who could not produce “proper” documents were arrested. In the vicinity of Seiman, mass” arrests have taken place. Three hundred peasants and workers ac- cused of supporting the rebel de- tachment of Mitia Ganev were ar- rested. In the town of Khaskovs 35 Geen | munists and several ‘members .of the peasant party were arrested, — among them is the barrister Keino- shirev. The latter threw himself killed, — sale raids In Sofia had “very satis-- ce Mitiev and his assistant Chem- qT: from the fourth floor and was. » strikers. learned ata standstill. suits were y the few scabs Repudiate Sigman (Speciat to The Daily Warker) | spite of the fact that shop chairmen ‘were told by the watchers of the I. tL. G. W. U. machine not to. attend the meeting called for Tuesday, July than 500 workers came to the eh : France and Germany is on the downgrade, that of the Soviet Union is going up. British capitalism can only continue to exist only if the workers agree to less wages, as well as work longer hours. But the Soviet Union becomes stronger as the stan- dard of living of the workers an peasants rises. And this can onl come about thru increased productio But the workers and peasants having the control of Russian industries are interested in increasing production, the benefits of which they receive. : e * - HEREFORE the present industrial crisis in Britain carries a moré sinister meaning to the capitalists than other strikes that took place be- fore the Soviet Republic was estab- lished, or even after it was estab- ‘ished, and when it was: hanging on (Continued on Page 2) | a ne in ¢ = taint - hal cl as > jeter le and Defeated, - “Taking advantage of the weakened condition of the unions, the railroad on relentless war against wages, hours and working conditions. With the help of the rail- road labor board. reductions amount- ing to millions of dollars a year have been forced on the workers. Not only has the national agreement been lost (Continued on page 3.) MOVE TO OUST | COMMUNIST FROM REICHSTAG FAILS LI Sora y, July 31—An at- tempt of the presiding: officer of the ichstag, Herr Graef, a nationalist, expel the’ Communist Deputy adasch failed when the Reichstag voted that he remain. The monarchist deputies ftoted when Jadasch denounced the éatholic church for its support of the capital- ists and its antagonism to the Soviet Union, Jadasch denounced the attempt of the catholic center party to pass new tariff rates on grain which ‘would. in- crease the cost of bread to the Ger- man workers. ~ we GENERAL STRIKE OF BUILDING TRADES AT EAST LIVERPOOL, 0. EAST LIVERPOOL, July 31.—‘“Mother” Bloor has arrived in this city on her cross-country hike for the DAILY WORKER in the midst of a gen- eral strike of the building trades that hag impaired thé building activities of this city. In addition to the left wing paper, the Progressive Building Trades Worker, being circulatde by a few of the local left wingers; the visit of — (Continued on page 2) ing and. listened. with great onthust: asm to. everything the Br ge Action. rene as acca Tmand of the Cloak Makers’ Joint ‘Board of Phila- delphia and was expelled from the union for belonging to the Trade Union Educational League in spite of the fact that a membership meeting called to decide on this question, voted more than 400 to 8 — ex- pulsion. Rose Wortis was then soared and told in detail of what is happen- ing in New York and went on to point out that the offilials of the In- ternational figured that if they suce- ceeded in lining up the capitalist press and the manufacturers. they would be safe, but they did not con- sider the fact that the I. L. G. ¥”. U. has a membership to reckon with. But what is happening in New York is sufficient proof that the members .of the union are alike and mean busi- ness when there is a militant leader- ship ready to lead and encourage them in the right direction. No Gangsters Needed. in Left Wing. She further showed that the offici- als are trying to create an 1mpres- sion that the workers don’t want to fight, and they are simply carrying out the wishes of. the membership; but to see the picket lines in New York consisting of men and women from the shops, and not paid gang- sters, is sufficient to prove that they are lying. ’ She finished by saying, “We the workers of the I. L. G. W. U. will not get discouraged, for we are fight- ing a just causé and we are sure to win.” At this time a motion by one of the audience was made that since the Joint Board of the Furrters* Union of New York.are installing real lead- ers elected out of the rank and file and by the rank and file, that this meeting send greetings to them. The motion was passed unantmously. Hyman Is Different. Louis Hyman, the chairman ofthe 500 1. L. G. W. Members PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 31—In) 28, the meeting was a success. More) § constitutionality ti-mjunction law panereaye charge scabe at work a wage cut of 20 per cent labor, still the situation of confronts continual crises of class war. | the British mining question is “ins private capitalist ownershi tionalization” is the answer given By ! . Published Daily PUBLISHING re forced to withdraw their Europe The aristocratic “Court of Inquir miners: and sooner or later this b the miners’ union in the face tion. ers is impossible if the miners are to evade mass starvation and incredible oppression—this col- ee of oupiratet production has not led the | | Operators Su Surrender at strike which treatened to assume the proportions of industrial civil war was ere breaker. Give Vouchers At the sirike ampotiog yesterday the vouchers for the strike benefits were distributed, strikers with dependents Treceiving $12,00, and those without $8.00. The strika fund of the Chicago Amalgamated is'safficing to pay these benefits, and the:union has not found it necessary to chill on the New York office for aid. Speaking of the:right of the work- ers to strike H Rothbart, business agent of the pautsmakers, told the strikers that thes International was (Continuedibon Page 2) Slave Act Catches Kliuxer NEWARK, N. J., July 31.—Rev. R. Carl Zeigler, methodist minister and former ku klux klan official, and Miss Margaret Roberts 22, with whom he recently eloped, surrendered to United States Commissioner Frank Sommer here today. They were at once taken into custody on a warrant charging them with violation of the Mann white slave act. STRIKING FRENCH EMPLOYES FIGHT POLICE ON STREETS OF PARIS PARIS, Frances July 31.—Street fighting betweerm the striking bank employes and the:police, who have been called out #y the large insti- tutions thruout France, again has taken place here. Practically all of the large staff of employes at the Credit Lyonnais, totaling 5,000, remained away from work. The Banque Nationale de Credit, and the» Somptoir National d’Escompte are also tied up as the result of the general strike of the (Continued on Page 2) ] ; averted at the eleventh hour today | Mt only temporarily. ou | 35 ay § - lagreement as from midnight tonight, on this basis the miners’ executives telegraphed their district organiza- tions to continue working the mines. was the laconic message which went? out in‘all directions from union head- quarters and marked the end, at least temporarily, of the threatened indus- trial tie-np of England. bank employes tkfuout France. drew their notice suspending the ex- isting wage agreement only on a prom- ise that the coal industry would be subsidized by the government to the extent of $50,000,000 to help main- tain their present profit rate until next spring. late to prevent stoppage of work by miners in the day shift who come up out of the mines at 2 o’clock this afternoon and brought with them.” nounced that a provisional settlement of the coal strike had.been reached. He said the notices suspending the present wage agreement had been withdrawn for two weeks from mid- night tonight subject to confirmation of this agreement by the coal miners’; j district organizations. off, there are 40,000 anthracite miners striking in Wales, and altho little ap- pears in the London papers, the strike is: being waged with unprecedented bitterness. trict of England is completely tied up. Daron, Khos, were raided by miners singing the “Red Flag”, the premises with shotguns and cut all telegraph and telephone wires. of William Wilson, a local leader of the miners, whom the bosses tried to suppress by forcing him to move from - Altho a continued profit taking yosted notices of longer hours of government declares that the coal "—which it is if to continue. ‘“‘Na- mine owners to turn over their mines peaceably and without resistance. It has merely brought and to the brink of civil war. imilar situations face the miners of the whole world—except Soviet Russia. En miners are d an capitalism Dawes Plan, 7 * set up by the British | be forced of ajl opposi- for the own- ing in luxury. ~ GREAT BRITAIN Eleventh Hour sehomies to The Daily Worker) LONDON, July 31.—Britain’s coal owners agreed to with- 9 weeks their notice for a Be cut, longer hours r the i oe 4 a ’ 7 Tit" he “Notices suspended, continue work” $50,000,000 from Government. It is understood mine owners with- Later Cook declared. “It is now too their tools Premier Baldwin’s secretary an- B B While the general strike order is are winning thé union, 70 per cent of the bituminous coal to the union fields 30 per cent. Of the elimination union men from the industry. Strike of threatened on September 1. CONFLICT OF MINE WORKERS OF WORLD TOLD IN SUMMARY The coal operators of Great Brit- ain surrendered a few hours before the strike began—agreeing to with- draw their notices of wage cut of 20 per cent and longer hours of la- bor. 1,200,000 miners. Union halts strike action of Government subsidy of $50,000,- 000 reported to be given to owners in order that their profits may not suffer by continuing present scale. A. J. Cook, Communist secretary of the British Miners’ Federation, says that strike is only postponed. French coal miners, in resent- ment of continued increase of ra of living and continued depreci of the franc, have voted + Se against wage rates of the league of natoins neriberpeFranete administration because of French franc depreciation, struck Monday last 74,000 strong. In Germany, the Ruhr district alone has 70,000 unemployed miners, with. unemployment thruout Ger- many combined with an attack on wages and hours under the Dawes plan. lin announces a policy of struggle against long hours, and full support of the British miners. Miners’ conference at Ber- a in America the non-union mines supplying “200,000 surplus. miners” the is being made of the 150,000 anthracite miners’ is Brookhart-Steck Contest Close WASHINGTON. D C., July 31.—The rookhart-Steck contest for the sen- ate seat now occupied by Senator rookhart of lowa uarrowed down to- day to where it hinges on a decision by the senate elections committee as to the legality of slightly more than 300 votes. These votes have been challenged— about 1,000 of them, claimed by Brook- hart and challenged by Steck, and ap- proximately 300 claimed by Steck and, challenged by Brookhart. of nations in the Saar Basin are on French coal miners have already taken a strike vote, and in American mine districts indescrib- able suffering exists among the coal miners with an anthracite strike in prospect Sept. 1. Symbolic of capitalist contradictions as a whole is the fact that over the whole world the miners, who are among the most necessary, hard worked and underpaid of workers, Teeehy. in dirty and dangerous employment are liter starving with inade employment while the coal mine owners are liv- rate u _— the Be abpensd of the ,000 working under the : aie. uate wages or complete un- UHR REGION Miners’ Union Begins to Plan Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Germany, July 31—The) coal industry of.-all Europe is in a critical condition. Germany is per. haps the worst of all. Wage reduc- jtions are threatened. Unemployment is increasing. ’ Yesterday Union met the “Bertin German — their uttermost ge eri? to the Brit- ish mfners. They protested to the jgovernment ‘against the hign taxes !which keeps the cost of living going up, and they planned to refuse to work—which means to strike— against overtime. Ruhr Paralyzed. The Ruhr is paralyzed. Smal) towns are deserted. Wittennam has lost 92 per cent of its population. Hattingen 52 per cent. “Over-produc- 8,000,000 tons. of coal lie at the pit heads, unable to be ‘sold, tho ‘the rs say they have reduced. prices xport from $3.57 to $3.61 A special commission of inquiry is appointed, but the question is re- garded as “insoluble.” The mine owners want an advance of 10 per cent on mined coal valued at $35,700,000, and a loan of $3,570,000. The Reichsbank opposes the loan. Communists Have Solution. Meanwhile the Communists, the strongest party in the Ruhr, demand a 25 per cent wage increase and na- tionalization of the mines with } warkets’ control of production. The whole anthracite dis- Miners Raid Welsh Collieries. Six collieries at Tirydail, Emlyn, Pantyffon and Wernos who ran the officials off The strike started over the discharge (Continued on page 2) | FRENCH COMMUNISTS INDICTED FOR OPPOSITION TO RIFFIAN CAMPAIGN PARIS, July 31.—Formal charges of sedition were lodged against Com- munist deputy Doriot and the members of the “Committee of Action Against the Moroccan War” by the French government. Doriot and his comrades were specifically charged with Inciting the French soldiers in Morocco to mutiny and to fraternize with Abd tribesmen. -el-Krim’s SPEAKERS: AND OTHERS WILLIAM Z. FOSTER _Auspices, Workers Party } | ourth CHICAGO WORKERS! Annual Workers’ Sunday, August 2nc | RIVERVIEW PICNIC GROVE. Belmont and Western Avenues Rally to the Support Ce a. of Your Press at the Press Picnic Given for the Benefit of the Communist Newspapers and for THE ENTERTAINMENT OF MILITANT WORKERS Tickets on sale at THE DAILY WORKER office and at all other working class newspapers and centers GAMES PBL LM LD LDL LBL LALA A LL aD LD PP? 2? Admission’ 80 — MUSIC CONTESTS DANCING PRIZES REFRESHMENTS MERRIMENT against their wages, the tariff policy ° tion is given as the cause. The in- flation period sent nearly 200,000 new workers into the mines. Nearly ee aap ara Bikers oe ae e hae eee rd kites a cae ore spy ee a5; es NS , PCD A Se DAES am 4 ai. waenpeiie ie wt * <P
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