Daily Worker
August 26, 1925

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vias By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY Messouners publicity agents were a a little bit injudicious in boasting ' fe, : ome cme nee D FOR UNITY ‘ It may not help them any in the nego- | “4 tiations with the United States gov- 4 he oS | > | : primar Wigton “ner tg a Following the adoption of the in iki Communist Seamen's Strike Has ae ne Me Se seer. ee ; International, as given in yesterday's DAIBY WORKER, the con- S d i world that fascism was es Sng lan vention the discussion upori seating the contested dei-| Government Scare ee pri the opposition m4 a a. and Foster spoke 15 minutes each on the ques- : K. injure ussolint dte- | Pa of ' two minority delegates from District 8. peeeret 00 Pe Seen eee \ a ee , “out so hear P eakers { The upon seating Comrade Fisher as fraternal del-| LONDON, Aug. 24-—Charges ot Pia ) -. union hall on August 11 egate began by Comrade Novak speaking 15 minutes in German, | A. J. Cook, labor leader who is ered-¢ . with no following as tran-*— ited with forcing the miners’ strike a : . amounts for for the arrest of 18 of Zelg- slator, and Comrade Fisher in and the Parity Commission had de-| settlement on the government, that | aa rp fami te with on extent that é ler’s most gctive union _— phy sd to ond the at ure nbd ~— ooo defense of his being seated. clared thé greatest danger to our party. | he had been threatened with assassin — ‘ wizard could not make head and the vice-president, D. B. | Comrade Bedacht ‘took ‘the floor : wal wees hopes that the present ; | ; tement eee oauee ma terms, Dunne an w spoke upon con-| crisis w aw over. : workers as his first and only consid: | fight took place. the International ane 2. & ee es | 720K and ‘| tests Comrades Manley and Wicks Last Sunday Cook, miners’ leader, ; , t | street police station for more than six | | altcgagee | n. ” After se | hours they} en h +e te | Pai ‘ | by “the government as an open bid : ' were lined up and everal by certain * 6 @ oh | ‘for’ power thru physical force. persons who apparently tried to iden- e Men The conference passed a resolution ““In May, 1926,” declared the ~ ma , treasurer. d5, athem. After being held from noon which stated that the unions affiliated | ‘ot the British miners’ wa age baste Another Rally Sunday. |e 6 p. m. they were released. ‘with it would not turn over to thé. In-| ing 1,300,000 members, “we ea > *, *>. * # air of optimism which prevaila,.| pap don co to the expected.) bumper crop. This is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels. This will permit} the export of a quarter of a million bushels, while leaving the govern- ment a reserve of about half a mil- lion bushels. The reporter found the children plump and healthy and the number of beggars, which were a pest during the days of czardom, consfder- ably decreased, URANTY says that there are now 1,309,000 members in the Young Communist girls’ organization and that applications for another million were tunrned down owing to the difi- culty of securing teachers and train- prs. Young Russia is growing up and the members of the youth organiza- tions of today will be the revolution- ary leaders of tomorrow. Duranty’s story should bring great joy to the -, 5. hearts of all workers who see.in So- viet Russia the fatherland of the Op- ressed of the world and the nucleus f a Soviet Union of the world. * *s as AwCrEae dispatch states that So- viet Russia states that Soyiet Russia had a total foreign trade busi- ness last year of one billion dollars as compared with half a biflion last year. The trade balance favored the Soviet t by ‘$50,000,000. This a 100 per cent increase over the figures of the previous year and While they only come within one-half bf pre-war figures, they nevertheless are significant and cannot fail to have considerable political effect abroad. * ¢ &@ 1A USTRIAN Communists are plan- ning to stage a counter demon- stration to those made by the fascisti ngainst the delegates to the Zionist congress in Vienna. Like the Ameri- tan ku klux klan, the Austrian fascisti _ Bre anti-Semetic. The ts po- ~ Hee of Vienna, it seems, have dealt fightly with the blackshirts, tho they fave announced their intention »not bo be so benevolently disposed towards the Communists.. This is quite likely true. The fascists and the yellow so- | tialists do not find it hard to agree 4. bn the basis of a united front against the. Communists. ' ‘Tens of thousands of leaflets giving] ‘will be broadcast thruout the cou ity. The corference decided to held an- rother defense rally in Zeigler. nex ‘Sunday. Duncan McDonald, Freeman |: Thompson and John Watt of Spring- meeting. Defense bodies are set up in practically ‘every mine colony in raised in all local unions. cluding Corbishly and Frank Johnson, the check weighman who challenged the company’s scales have been ex- pelled from the mine union by thé sub-district officers against whom the revolt is spreading to all locals. Active Miners Fired. Many men are being imported, most ot work in the mine that has béén shut -down since the trouble over the scales |' presented themselves at the mine} were informed that they were _ charged. The miners insist that the facts bear out their contention that the com- pany and the sub-district officials are combining in a deliberate frame-up to’ get all active union men out of Zeigler’ they want to get. Situation Serious. The prelimin hearing at which the 18 Zeigler miners will appear to to murder Cobb will occur at: Benton on Wednesday. The néimers have tio doubt that the desperation of the sub- district officials will force them to go thru with what is at best a very flimsy frame-up. aS Frameup Fails. ternational union the funds held un- ne facts of the situation in Zeigler] i a) field have been asked to address the} ‘:: the county and the issue is being| A rumor has it that nine men in-: — of these recruited from klan elements, | two weeks ago. Active members who’ They are selecting in advance ' those) answer the grave charge of conspiracy’ fan tol ve thrown the acid. of the strike began. unusually large number of strikers. the hearing -before Judge police court when the 16 granted a change of. judges. ithe audience. i De Rosa on Picket Line. ‘Their picket line or make clothes. tried a new dodge. this strike. But it hasn’t. strikers.” | picket line yesterday. * was only then that they were that they had been viewed by le who claim to have seely men ve threw acid in a clothing shop. 'The people who came to the station Yiew the strikers said they were inot among those who are supposed to Yesterday morning the ninth week The picket line was as well manned as ever and the strike meeting was attended by an Speakers told the strike meeting of Lyle in .. vikers charged with using violence. were “The ‘bomb that the bosses had prepared to blow the Amalgamated out of the city ‘of Chicago turned out to be a boom- lerang,” one Amalgamated official told “Instead of hurting the istrike and the strikers’ union it came wight back and hit them in the eyes. “They were forced to tell the real ‘purpose of the persecution and frame- up of the union nfén in open court. | injunction didn’t break the So they The jailing of 16 of your fellow workers is just an | attempt to use the police to break But that won't stop the bosses from trying new dodges to cripple the morale of the Patsy De Rosa, who was released from jail on bonds following the issu- ance of a writ of habeas corpus early Saturday morning,. was back on the NEW YORK, Ang. 24.—Eight hun- dred baggage transfer men of New York have @etermined to tet the trunks take care of themselves until their bosses back down in- their at- tempt to impose avwage cut and until they are granted an eight-hour day. The strike is directed against the New York Transfer Company and the West- cott Express Company, who together monopolize the terminal baggage busi- ness of the metropolis. Strike Complete. The strike is led by Martin Lacey, president of the Teamsters, Chauffeurs and: Helpers Union, an organization not connected with the A. F. of L. The men in both companies are organ- ized 100 per cent and will prevent scabbing by effective picketing. Transfer work ti# the hardest kind of labor. Trunks have to be wrestled | about like candy boxes at high speed. Rupture is a common ailment among the baggage men: The work day in the transfer trade has been ten hours. The men are insisting in their present demands for an eight-hour day. No class of baggagemen or chauffeurs re- ceives more than +$34 per week. The companies involved ask a wage reduc- tion of a dollar a day. Danger of Scabs. The traditionally scab Yellow Scab Company will endamger the strike by its cheap cab haulimg rates on trunks. The transfer companies move trunks for a dollar, while’eabs will take them aboard for twenty»cents. The union taxi men are expected to unite with the transfer men im their fight for a living wage and a»workable day. Bosses Cry Poverty. The companies are complaining of plied with: 1. Restoration of the popular voting system. 2. Restoration to the old-age pen- sion fund of moneys illegally diverted from it. 3. A sicaietatis report of the finances of the international union based on an audit made by a certified public accountant who has not been previ- ously employed on the books of the union. 4. Resumption of the publication of the secretary-treasurer’s reports quar- terly in the American Pressman. ‘5. Relief.of the death” benefit fund from excessive overhead. charges. 6. Just adjudication of all legal claims against the international union now held by local unions. The following questions were also to be referred to the membership on a referendum vote: (a) Shall we continue to maintain the home? (b) Shalf we continue to maintain the sanatorium? (c) Shall we continue to maintain the technical school? (d) Shall the technical school _be removed to a centrally located city? (e) Shall the administrative head- quarters of the union be removed to a centrally located city? The experience of the pressmen with their capitalistic international officers should -be a warning signal for the membership of other unions whose zation to float business ventures. Unions cannot fight the capitalists and be interested in profit making enter- prises at the same time. Labor banks MINNEAPOLIS FAKERS INVITE A CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBER TO SPEAK AT LABOR DAY CELEBRATION MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., August 24.—The Minneapolis and St. Paul re- actionary trade union officials have invited W. E. McEwen, a member of the Duluth chamber of commerce, to deliver the “principal address on Labor Sunday at the gathering held under the auspices of the central labor bodies. McEwen, besides being a member of the chamber of commerce, is the editor of a so-called labor paper, the Duluth Labor World, which boosts the clase-collaboration policy of William Green, friend of Herbert Hoover and president ef the American Federation of Labor ° yey >A losing money as usual. But the fact is that New York is the greatest pas- (Continued on page 2) senger terminal in the world and the der the laws of the organization until) the following conditions were com- officials use the funds of the drgani- and investment companies are becom- L. and $135,000 Missing (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 24.— The northwest is being combed for Jack Hastings, for alleged embezzie- ment of $135,000, together with four associates, in connection with a bank at New Rockford, N. D. Jack Hast- ings is well known as the financial wizard of the Nonpartisan league “wrecking crew” which organized and wrecked a long string of economie enterprises in North Dakota and some in Minnesota, costing the unsuspect- ing farmers miltiongs of dollars. Long Swindle Record. Hastings was also the promoter of “The Listman Service” and “Federat- ed. Finance Company” of Seattle, Wash. This swindle blew up at Seat- tle, causing many workers to lose their all. Jack Hastings was the confidential secretary to A. C. Townley when the Nonpartisan league was first started. He discovered George T. Webb, who hood Investment company of Cleve- land, Ohio. Henry A, Pallock, who is now general counsel of the Brotherhood ment Company, and with whom he was indicted several years ago for the looting of the Scandinavian-Amer- ican bank of Fargo, N. D. Saved by Statute. The statute of limitations stopped the prosecution of Hastings and Pad- dock, the latter being attorney for the defunct bank. It is thot that Hastings has left the country for Mex- ico. transfer business, as the men well know, is flourishing at all times.. The Public Service Commission attempted to get’ the men to postpone their strike for three weeks. But a strike MUSSOLINI GETS BIG GIFT FROM PAPA MORGAN FOR FASCISM meeting of the union decided unani- mously to stop work at midnight Sun- day. disposal of Mussolini's NORTHBORO, Mass. — (FP) — Northdale Woolen Mills employer | 2*te" 5's own heart. have struck for wage increases. Weav- ers have been given 10 per cent in- creases and are hot out llone borrowed by Rome having a severe attack of delirium tremens. ing the money is his somewhat selfish desiré to recuperate many prior mil- {Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, August 24.—The house of Morgan has placed $200,000,000 at the bankrupt government. This flood of gold for fascism Is Morgan’s contribution to insure the continued existence of a government it will also serve to stabilize the tira which has been Morgan's other reason for loan- Finance Wizard of N. P. is now vice president of the Brother- Hastings also brot out Invest- great struggle between capital and labor. We must prepare the union machinery and the commissariat. I ‘will raise a fund to stock the homes of the workers with food in prepara- tion for the fight. “With other miners I have been dragged in chains by the police. The tools of capitalism will pay for their persecutions of the working class. Those wrongs will be revenged. We will obtain control of the army and navy.” ‘ Red Scares impotent. The British shipowners are blaming the Communists for the seamen’s strike, but since the successful strug- Communist program of a joint strug- gle with the entire labor movement as the key to victory, the red scares are not effective. British shipping is being tied up not only in: British ports but thruout the empire. This has become so effestive in Australia that the cvronial govern- ment has ordered the deportation of the leaders responsible for staring the strike. FRENCH-BRITISK DEBT DICKER IS NOW DEADLOCKED LONDON, Aug. 24.—Except for the expression of the usual diplomatic op timism over the progress of convefsa- tions undertaken today between Win- ston Churchill, chancellor of the ex- chequer, and M. Caillaux, French finance minister, no light whatever was shed upon the probability of a settlement of the question of the French debt to Great Britain. Contrary to expectations, Caillaux ment during the afternoon for a sec- ond conference with Churchill It was believed the French finance minister was waiting for instructions frem» Paris regarding some proposi- tien presented to him by Churchill. Put a copy of the DATLY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting, a, | gle of the miners who accepted the did not return to the treasury depart- etl emtpee tee ne. ee ee ail