Daily Worker
September 10, 1925
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Commitinism stands for auto- 4 aan? ia witch ‘the oxmplopens ‘Wore “PE, Bay WORKER has received the following cable- Skt: he cracy whereas labor is for democracy. iy condemned and labor was urged to gram: Moscow, Soviet Russia: September 8, 1925. - “Communism preaches the over- 4 close its ranks and fight its enemy. - To the Coal Miners of the United States: ea ee ~ throw of the existing order and the + | «se We send fraternal greetings and our warmest desire a aE I ts Oo boas establishment of a dictatorship. Com- 1s NHANK the good lord. say-the cap- pte success of the striking miners in the anthracite | ae ies ie - . ) | 1 i¢ : = om asa Seon ben ge oe beyore ; 3 labor i : : “ Iie -~ } Xe - i as italist wine Segal ssc A reg alias ow? : |? eae mate purpose the overthrow of so- 4 takers, those Csys th : rkg . , ' SS oe called capitalism and capitalistic gov- , +e - ; i . U fae +. day, as pe pena, Peat de iy Follow the lead of the Progressive Miners’ Committee ee ernment. ¥ re eee ni housemaids. Organize the utmost support to the strikers among all 'y a ae “Organized labor believes in collect- $ % their wives, rrots to some pret-| iners, all workers! Demand that the bituminous miners | oot ee ae ive bargaining and wage agreements, ‘oe a geval borne and enjoy the beauty| strike in solidarity with~their brothers inthe anthracite! | 4 ranged for “Labor Defense Day” g secure supreme other several thousahd parasites who dumped their offal on the ether last Monday. Green sayS we ‘must repri- ‘ mand the “autocratic employers” but iB tas So : °° “of Hi ¢ -y fight the Communigts. The Commun- Preliminary eari nh g 7 ae Sunday, Sept. 13th, with speakers, ee fe are as follows: fe. NEW YORK, Webster Hah, Dick oF Brazier, James P. Cannon, Robert F W. Dunn, Benjamin Gitlow, and | ié John R. Brodsky. ° ee control of the trade union movement of America, we, the loyal members and officers of the organized labor ™ movement, will strike pack and strike hard, We will neither’rest nor cease our efforts until Communism and -the ists tell the workers to fight all. em- * re In di ee | » sce Communistic philosophy and scale | ployers. There are no’good ones any Remains ectstve _ CHICAGO, Temple Hall. William ‘a who represent it are driven from the are good bed. bugs. . Wit > 2 Zz. Foster, C. E. Ruthenberg, Duncan " - more than there are g ) er oa Coubaeaae ranks of organized labor. « * * ZEIGLER, Ill, Sept. 8— The pre- McDonald. and enry y. E* won a great victory in New liminary hearing in the cases which BOSTON, Oe ssp Yonn Hall. York when it ‘succeeded in get- are the scandal of the llindis Min-| Ella Reeve Bloor. ie mS ting Al Smith and John F. Hylan OD | org Union, wherein D. B. Cobb, vice- MINNEAPOLIS, J. Louis® rs the ‘same platform without either president of Sub-Dietrict 9, of Dis-| - SAN FRANCISCO, Tom Lewis. gentleman hurling a stink bomb at) -+rict 12, is prosecuting” more than a CINCINNATI, Bishop Wm. Ment- { the other. New York labor counts it-| score of the rank and file members| gomery Brown. . 764 STRIKERS SHOW SOLIDARITY BY Bi ate e See Pd “ars Seem tey re nee W Arie Oe eas + AL ai = UR DA et DAY ist F294 BED “by : Y x 2: sf es a = 1K pe ree) . Pe Naat: igs allie maT . > self by millions but a bare three | of Local 992, in the capitalist courts, | PHILADELPHIA, William W. thousand gathered at Fort Hamilton | opened here this morning with,an In-| Weinstone. | : = to hear the capitalist comedians drool | decisive battle between. contending} NEW HAVEN, William Simons. . 5a ; .| DULUTH, C. A. Hathaway. & Sights gina SS ain oe heir inanities. Perhaps the rest of | forces. * , Bet y 0 hy worktie class population of New There are two charges made by| -BUFFALO. T. R. Sullivan and on ; York was in Bermuda for the holi-|Cobb against the union miners, one of | Max Saltzman, Sie — days assault with intent to murder and one STAMFORD, George Siskind. a aan ays. * * °& of conspiracy to murder. Hearing on CLEVELAND, Ear! R. Browder. deight Cotiducter Killed Ww T Chicago, there was not a squawk | the assault charge will be heard first.| PITTSBURGH, Andrew T. McNa- “ih oe ae eae / ORKERS P ARTY CAMP AIGN MAKES Garment Co. I ncreases ; ‘Ind., Sept. 8.-~+ a the “bona fide labor move: (Continued on page 6) } mara. ALL E , Say ag oP rc is Sap gt ot \. B. Bhasley, 86, of Monipetir. 1nd} BIG HEADWAY IN ANTHRACITE STRIKE} Its Police Guard reigkonductor e Wabash rail’ Jivered a speech in Springfield in ' i : * Sees he thanked Governor Small for GARY SHOP NUCLEUS IN PROMPT he i ee — The campaign of the Workers (Communist) Party In the anthra- A demonstration of mass picketing . . mn he i , | the favors he conferred on the pigs RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR CASH while ‘ever Wa deat i wie ay cite coal strike is making big headway. The Central Executive Com- was successfully conducted by mem: sce: Thats waaeothing said about t . | | pica Ree ner 5 rots gy mittee has decided to have special Lithuanian and Italian organizers in bers of the Amalgamated Clothing rs the workers conferred 0 | hums: a the strike field. The DAILY WORKER i Swell,’ ‘The unemployed miners of! @aRy, ind, Sept, @—It didn't need: long to get the Gary shop nucleus y's body was severed tr two,| (© 0° 0 » Khe Lithuanian organ, Laisve, | Workers’ Union yesterday before the Small. ’ ’ his bt arm cut. off at the shoulder © mungarian organ, Elore, and the italian weekly, Il Lavoratore, are ; Ilinots would like to see the governor | i+, action for the DAILY WORKER drive. At its first meeting following andé lett leg-severed. preparing special anthracite strike issues to be published short! struck plant of the International Tall. ae: tee ares tag ocagrth mi the appeal. for funds ‘to ald our fighting labor daily, the nucteus of the wR The Lithuanian Section Bureau has already responded to ia call oring compnay at 847 Jackson blvd. hat the teartu : : St: a thousands of other. work- party in the Illinois Steel milis ee hy Le 6 Ppt gal Shes pte Andsen Gets italian Dirigible of the Central Executive Committee for active Communist participa- Over 50 striking employes wére on the | ers who work long hours for short | the list of the Workers Pary units which are respo 9 . ME, Sept: &2-The Italien air. tion in the anthracite strike by sending two special field organizers picket IIne. The Internationa? had pay ‘are also curious. They are will-/ WORKER appeal . oa ER Pe, © giblN-1. has been sold by the gov- Into the strike zone. These comrades are experienced organizers and | heard of the plans for the maes ploket- ing to be enlightened. The city organizer of ig - amegay ai ¥ pipes AR eaaphae on ernst to’ Cant: Roald Amundsen have a special knowledge of the anthracite district. The special Issue Ing, and had called in several dezern | * * * just a beginning, and that Gary may double this firet co whdll utilize:it jn his polar explo-| °f the Laisve will contain among many other features, articles by ‘|| eXtra city and private police and de- 1 AMES J. DAVIS, secretary of labor | street nucleus. This is a mark of what nucleus work can do when It really rati, accordimg to an official an- striking miners, telling about the experiences of, and conditions pre- tectives. in strikebreaker Coolidge’s: cabinet | gets about doing things. | notment hereitoday. : vailing among the striking miners. Mike Grady’s detective bureatt ‘ comes out boldly for the trusts and | , — — - , pe squad was present, as well as several favors laws.that would prevent over e 2 ; ~ | fiivver loads of uniformed police and development of industry. He said that eae . * Cadillac squads of detectives. No ar ¢ some of the mines should be shut: down e COnOMIC ac O t e n . }rests were made, however. | and only enough to take care of the Nes ois “ eN rac] e | e The situation in the New York plant ; 3 page industry be allowed to oper- Soe ; of the same company, where 800 em- ‘. re p et suyiet mines interfere with ey tani’ nh: eee he se seat “uhaectnea tea Pimenascbsanee: ‘of Capital in | dustry, can be seen in the report of The great monopoly has long been ployés are also out on strike, is pro- | ‘profits. How about the miners. who y , ; + : Anthracite the Geological Survey (1920) which | the. objeet. of attack by the petty-]gresing favorably for the strikers , HAT are the economic facts sur-|nically, presents the widest variety of Aracite is ‘in the h h h : . ; ' ’ would be thrown out of work by ? Statins dawel ‘ tient i iSite the hands of a/|shows that the anthracite field, east: bourgeois reformists. in and out of }it was announced at the strike meet Yavis’s efficiency plan? What. of runding the present strike of |capitalist development, concentration smBonopolistsgroup. a combination | ern Pennsylvania, consists of 274 congress, and its nature very accur-jing yesterday in the Hod Carriers’ ately described. As long ago as 1894,} Hall, 814 W. Harrison St. The strike. we find one of the great leaders of | breakers have only turned out 175 the middle-class declaring: suits during the strike there, and “Within the last 30 years, 95 per} these were so poorly made that the cent of the anthracite coal of Amer-|company was forced to unload thém ica—practically the entire supply, it} for $3.50 a piece, it was learned. was reported by congress in 1893— The mass picking yesterday was Co. with $45.000,000 |has passed.from the ownership of |carried out in order to show the gar- assets, is owned by the Lehigh Valley private citizens into the possession of }ment bosses that the beginning of Railroad Co., the Lehigh and Wilkes- | the railroads. the busy season, which started Labor them? They are only workers.. So 1 150,000 anthracite miners? Knowledge oe a hee ge! eh, of {s, railroad ‘companies, and coa] | Mines, under 174 producing organiza- thinks Davis and so thinks John L.| of these facts, in their main outline, cose e€ wo 8 @ coa intts.- This combination, dating | tions, of whom eight control more Lewis, president of the miners union. | is essential for the worker who would ee _ |badxty years and a basic unit in | than 70 per cent ofthe entire output. Those who interfere with the making | judge the importance of the struggle Anthracite, on the other hand, on|th@ndation of American capital- These eight monster monopolists of of profit should step aside. A war|and the degree of correctness of the }account of its peculiar favored posi-|isr}a classic example of that pro-| anthracite are organically connected would be a nice way to get rid of| policies being put into effect. In their | tion, has not participated to the full oemcribed by Lenin, in his epoch- | with a combination of great railroads them, but unfortunately wars are cost-| details, these facts are evailable in jin the world’s coal crisis. Employing mg book Imperialism,” when he | and banks. For example, the Lehigh ; ly financially and sometimes politic-| many large printed volumes, beyond | approximately 150,000 miners who pro- sa Valley Coal | ally. If the Czar were alive he would | the access of most workers. But it is | due 80 to 90 million tons annually, it} {s on the one hand we have an testify to the truth of this assertion. | possible to secure, in brief outline, ajis concentrated geographically in a evwore complete fusion, or as N. I. Even the Kaiser would nod. his head | picture of the economic position of | small section of eastern Pennsylvania, | Btin aptly puts it, growing into | Barre Coal Co., with $53,000,000 asse‘s “These railroads have been under-|Day, finds the Amalgamated members affirmatively. anthracite, and the relation of forces | and is practically a monopoly in the eebher of bawk capital and indus-|is owned by the Central Railroad of going a similar process of consolida-| with their forces intact and deter- « * « in the struggle, which will be of value | hands of a small, ‘highly-integrated | trd on the other, the development |N J., the Reading and affiliated com-/tion. and are now the property of §mined to win union conditions LL in all, Labor Day proved that| to the thinking worker. group of capitalists. Thus anthracite ol banks into institutions really | panies; etc. It ig unnecessary to}jeight great corporations.”* The pickets who appeared ri room A the workers of the United States The coal-mining industry in Amer- | presents conditions quite dissimilar to | p@ing an ‘universal character’.”* point out these railroads, and the !- — 1106, city hall, yesterday to answer are rolling in luxury. that there is no| ica clearly divides itself into two sec- | bituminous. While’ the: Situminous physical baste for the monopol- | New York Central, the Pennsylvania, * Imperialism, the Latest Stage in |to charges -of “disorderly conduct” elass struggle, here, that everybody | tions, anthracite and bituminous. The miners, for example, have been suffer-|isharacter of'-the anthracite in- te., which have great bituminous | the Development of Capitalism, by |and assault,” following their has enough to eat and drink and that| bituminous branch, employing some | ing unprecedented vihemployment, the | --—— ) holdings also,.are in.erganic combina-| v. I. arrest ee) | . | Lenin,, Marxian Ed. Society | during the past few weeks picket the poor are just as well off as the| three-quarters of a million workers | anthracite miners Have been working }, ®alth against Commonwealth,” |tion with the great financial institu. edition, Detroit, page 42. were told to come back Sentenehil 10, (Continued on page 2) | whe produce close to 600 milliom tons quite steadily. . pepsi ¥ Demarest Lloyd. 1894. tions of Wall Street. (Continued on page 6) their cases having been continued, ~% \ Kis Mae Oe Sd as
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Strikers Face Prison and Foreign Bayonets The American branch of the Work- International Relief located at 1553 W. Madison St., received a copy of the following telegram transmitted thru the Bertin headquarters: Pekin, August 21, 1925 i i . | F : | ht these facts. The public is led to be- eve that all is well, whpre in reality all is hell. Bullets and bayonets are the answer given to a defenseless people who cry for bread and demand to be free from foreign Invasion. Their blood flows from emaciated bodies. dutions for their relief and support. AS WE SEE IT (Oontinued from page 1) rich and perhaps better because they those widows are now pushing up fhe lilies on “Flanders Field” where they died to make this world a better place to live in—like hell Perhaps not only wifews have a hard .time buying food fer their children. The wives of the working class in general don’t find fhe task easy. - s - HERE ‘4s mo msed to sermonize or curse owar this condition. The bleating of fhe aapitalists and the labor talkers hag fhe right of way for the moment in this country. The labor fakers are buflf@ing cathedrals where supplies of rdiigious opium will be mannfactared for injection into the brains of fhe working class. They are oPTgaimizing banks and insurance com- . But they can no more pre-. vent the social revolntion or nate the class struggle than King Canute cauld holf*back the tide with a broom. Other Labor Days will come when the old militancy of labor will reap- pear guided by a new thought, a new program ie 7 Another feature of International Press Day will be mass press. party or veloped meetings devoted entirely to the interests of ie Thus the Bolshevization of out poems will proceed rapidly. The closest contact with and subord nization will be achieved. ) nto a real mass press. Our worker correspondents’ e Communist nation of the press to the Our press will be de- movement will be strengthened. The Communist press will stand out more than ever as the workers’ press. r Com- munist press, the DAILY WORKER, -will stand forth as the only organ that supports the workers in their daily struggies He needs. This is the meaning of International Press Day, Sept. 21. Every worker must do his best to make it the suc- cess it ought to be, MELLON’S PERSONAL INCOME TAX TAX OF $1,882,609 SHOWS POVERTY PLEA MADE TO MINERS UNFOUNDED NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Tho Andrew Mellon’s personal income tax was listed as $1,882,609 for the last year the miners in his Pittsburgh Coal Co. are expected to believe that their boss is not making any money. A copy of the personal contract that miners must sign before getting jobs at the Mellon pits, furnished the Federated Press office by Pennsylvania labor men, gives the company hard luck story as follows: “T, being an employe of the Pitts- burgh Coal Co. mine, realizing that» it is no longer possible to oper- ate the mine under the Jacksonville scale, request that the company afford me employment at the November 1917 scale. “It is my nope that the coal com- pany will at once make every effort to procure sufficient business that will make possible my request, which I agree to abide by. It being under- stood that when a sufficient number of men at the mine have signed similar petitions so that work may be resumed, an opportunity will be af- forded the representatives of the local union which we may form, to meet with the officials of the company for the purpose of negotiating wage and working conditions,” The local union referred to in this screed is the company union which the company has made a weak start in forming and it is in opposition to the United Mine Workers’ Union. Mellon interests are taking the lead in the war to break the U. M. W. of A. which is gathering head in the’long union- ized Western Pennsylvania district and the offer of work at the starva- tion 1917 scale as an alternative to unemployement is the weapon used. So far the company union is practic- ally a paper affair. STERLING, Ill., Sept. 8—The Shab- bona passenger, on the Burlington route ran into an open switch coming into this city and crashed into a ue “~ String of box cars. Several were in- jured, perc bes BI: A LOMA ON RRR TO tS IIR EEE I 56 66 M0, Mexico Going to Get Paper Money for the First Time Since 1920 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8.—Beginning this month, Mexico is to have a cen- tral bank for the issuance of paper money with the backing of the fed- eral government. Both Mexican and foreign circles here look for improv- ed business conditions under the new plan. It will be known as the Banco de Mexico 8. H., or the Bank of Mexico, Inc. It will begin on a capitalization of 100,000,000 pesos, or nominally $49,- 800,000. The government retains 51 per cent of the stock, offering the re- mainder for general subscription, Perhaps a fortnight will elapse be- fore new paper money is actively placed, in circulation. Bills are held in readiness for issue up to 10,000,000 pesos, in quantities yet to be decid- ed, but the first issues probably will be small. Mexico has had no paper money in general circulation since 1920 and lit- tle since 1916. coins have been used. r Only gold and silver ; - Fool Membership z (Special te The Dally Worker) the International nesday night's and 22. | this m of shop nh iS Beceee a see President Sigman was ¢ a - | i it aT seers te Want Proportional Plan “President Sigman will learn then, he ts still in doubt, exactly what the shop chairmen, as well as the majority of the workers think of a plan which, in place of reorganization of the Joint Board proposes to depetve 8 small of their votes, ex- on..8 occasions; which in: vt . e¥ * i r = : : of ef 5 29th street; front of P..Zimmerman Co.,, at Jefferson Market Court on a charge of disorderly conduct and each work- er was fined $5 Those arrested at the Liberty Cloak Co. were Isadore Wasserman, Adolph Hirsh, Sam Stanton, Yetta Sanly, Fay Novick, Rose Kirsch, Pearl Hissen- schot; and at P. Zimmerman Coa., the girl arrested was Sonia Chaikin. Soviet Union Ships Coal. MOSCOW, (Tass.)— The Russian Black Sea and Azov ports report they are actually despatching large ship- ments of coal to the Near East, Italy and France. Mariupol alone shipped over 3.5 million poods (about 568,000 tons) of Donetz coal in the month of July. AFFAIRS BY RUSS AND UKRAINIANS _ SEPT. 19 AND OCT. 11. The Russian and Ukrainian branches of the Workers Party have arranged jointly a perform- anée ahd dance for Saturday, Oct. 1t, at Emmett Memorial Hall, cor- ner Ogden and Taylor. . All friendly orgagizations are re. quested to keep this date open and not to arrange other affairs. a . & The Workers’ House will give a Russian performance Sat., Sept. 19, at 1902 W. Division St. Friendly organizations are requested to take notice. -Y.W.L MEMBERS, ATTENTION! should be present on time. Young Workers League City Central Committee meets TONIGHT, 7:30 p. m., at 2613 Hirsch Bivd. All delegates pws = + e . m3 —_ . a 4 rae 4 . NEW YORK, Sept. 8—The doom ef President Sigman’s plan for peace In Ladies’ Garment - Workers’ Union was sealed at Wed- meeting in Cooper . Union, In the opinion of the Joint. Committee of Action of Locals 2, 9. =~ if
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\ ‘the demands of the workers would , 764 63h .U. Educational League : North American Section of the _ RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOR UNIONS (RLU. and Interests of the B, L.) THE T. Represents the Left Wing ere’ Government. 4s Purpose Is to Strengthen the Labor Unions by Amalgamation ty of Existing Unions, Organization of the Unorganized, and by Replacing Reactionary and Class Collaboration Policies with |... @ Unified Program for the Transformation of the Unions Into Organs of Revolutionary Clase Struggle for the Oveérthrowal |. of Capitalism and the Establishment of a Workers’ and warm. U.E. L. of the Labor Movemént. its Betrayed by by Tricky Co- Operative Head (Special to The Daily Workers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Local 471 of the Milk Wagon Drivers and Creamery Employes Union, has, just completed its negotiations with the dealers, relative to a new wage and working agréement. This union is the largest in Minne- apolis, numbering 1,000 members. It suffered a defeat all down the line in its agreement with the bosses. It is a sorry fact to record; however, it is the truth. Points Rejected by Bosses. The following demands were the proposals which the dealers -seslaciois (a) The closed shop. (b) Bight-hour day. (c) Straight pay with no soliciting. (4) An increase in wages. The union pulled out of the nego- tiations one thing: A week’s vacation with pay. Im all other respects, the old agreement holds, with an addition- al year added to its duration, making it a two-year agreement instead of = a ptigre M5 year, since tion to fight now, than later.” matter of fact, this was pure bluff on his part. However, Elwell refused to pass up the opportunity that the dis- organized front of the union present- ed, to get his full pound of flesh. And he got it. The Bad Role of The Franklin. The key to the success ‘of the union in those negotiations, was found in the role that the Franklin Co-operat- fve Creamery would play. This firm held the balance of power. Had the Franklin leaned toward the workers have been realized. The Franklin Creamery was built by the working class, as a co-operative enterprise. The union was its organ- dizer, back in 1919, after a strike that the milk wagon drivers lost. Today, it is one of the largest, if- not the largest creamery in Minneapolis. The working class responded splendidly to the Franklin, regarding it as a bul- wark in its struggle against capital- ism. Nordbye Speaks for Dealers. At the first meeting between the dealers and the union, Mr. Harold Wordbye, the manager of the Frank- lin and a member of the union, flab- bergasted the membership by acting as the official spokesman for the deal- ers. The workers confidently expected that Nordbye would be on their side, since the Franklin was a.co-operative and Nordbye a member of their union, But they were disappointed, Nordbye informed the union com- mittee, speaking in the name of the dealers, that the proposed new agree ment wha wholly unacceptable, altho the Franklin pays better wages than the rest. While a few years ago, Nordbye was ed as a red, his careful tutel- e under the shrewd and wily Elwell, } made him a first class, class col- t. He-simply could not re e great honors heaped upon him well, such as presiding at deal- ere’ meetings. Elwell Piants Nordbye. Elwell was fully conscious of the fact that to defeat the new agreement, the Franklin had to be split from the union. Otherwise, had the Franklin played the role of class struggle along with the union, all other dealers would be compelled to sign on the dotted line with the union. This is true because an open fight en the part of the dealers, against the union, would throw most of their busi- mess to the Franklin. This was dem- onstrated when the union launched the building of the Franklin, That lesson is not yet forgotten by Elwell, Therefore, the urgent need to break the Franklin away from the union, if the union is to be licked, And this DECEMBER MEETING OF AMSTERDAM. UNIONS 10 DISCUSS UNITY PLANS AMSTERDAM, Hol Holland, Sept. 8— At the recent meeting of the ex- ecutive of the International Feder- ation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam) at which A. A. Purcell of Great Britain was chairman, it was unan- Imously decided after a short dis- cussion to adopt the proposal of the British Trades Union General Coun- cil. and to postpone the next gen- eral counci|] meeting, which was originally fixed for October, until December. One of the items on the agenda in December will be the Amsterdam-Moscow question. The key to the whole situation was in the position that Nordbye would take; he chose class collaboration. He converted the power of a big co-op- erative into a battering iram to be used by Elwell against the working class. A co-operative playing.this kind of a game, is no different from any stand- ard capitalist affair. When Nordbye pleaded in the interest of the stock- holders, he did the ve same thing that capitalists have been doing since the establishment of ‘Sapitalism, and he knows it. Geo, 8. Leonard atid’ in Picture. Elwell left no stone. unt rned to de- moralize the milk wagol fo be and creamery workers. At | “very out- set of the negotations, ol B. Leon- ard, a so-called “socialist lawyer, was called as attorney for thé Twin City Producers’ .association, to duly} impress the workers with the fact that their demands were unjust. He cited figures to show that the ers were only getting $2.65 per,.hundred for their butter fat, when it was worth $3.40 per hundred pounds. While he did not say so openly, he insinuated that the formers would’ be glad to work under the conditions and for the wages that the workers’ gét, that is to say scab in case of a strika, This is the same Geo: B. Leonard, who, as Van Lear’s lawyer, laid down the legal foundation for. Van Lear’s “star” steal. It was his.‘‘brains” that were back of that notorious steal. It is claimed by those. who know Leonard from Russia, that his orig- inal name is “Abramovich” and that he is a relative: of the white guard qne. At any rate he has got very rich recently, and the organ of the steel trust, the Journal, paid him a high cofapliment recently, for his brilliancy as a legal light. What the Journal had in mind, of course, was the manner in which Leonard uses his legal ability to prostitute working class institutions in the interest of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce. This ig cley- erness, of a kind. A Lesson for The Union. A lesson of tremendous importance emerges out of this defeat for Local 471 of the mlik wagon: drivers. This union lacks an organized jeft wing, which could give intelligent direction to the interests-of the workers. Had such a left wing existed, even the de- fection of the Franklin- could not de- feat the workers. First of all, under an organized left wing, with a clear cut program and a courageous leadership Nordbye would not have dared to side in with the dealers. He would have been handled properly. But above everything else, the union would possess a program ..of action based upon the interests of its mem- bership. There would also exist suit- able tactics and a plan of strategy to fight the bosses. And. that is every- thing, As it is, the dealers possessed all these things in a united front against the union. The dealers won. Let the workers now learn from the bosses and establish a real solidarity, by adopting class struggle tactics. If you want to thoroughly un. derstand Communism—study ;it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. Pimius British Union Leader Warns of War By A. A. PURCELL. (President, Amsterdam, International) That we are witnessing a genuine world-wide capitalist attack on the workers I do not think anyone can doubt for a moment. In our own coun- owners on the already starvation standards of the miners—on which I cannot do better than refer readers to railwaymen, the engineers and the wool textile operatives. Abroad we see everywhere the grav- est crisis in the mining industry, with pits closing down, miners being dis- missed wholesale, and threats of wage reductions; this is true ot France, Belgium, Germany and America. In Belgium also there is a national strike in the metal industry, while over a hundred thousand German builders are either on strike or locked-out. Turning to another side of the same picture, we note that in many coun- tries the methods of murder and ter- ror are still in full swing: in Poland, for instance, and in the Balkan coun- tries, such as Roumania and Bulgar- ia, where the Zankov murder gang continue ruthlessly to send workers, including women, to their deaths. The culminating point of this pro- cess is the development of the at- tack on Soviet Russia, led by the British government. Of this we have had a foretaste in the recent Anglo- Russian crisis, and. tho things are. now quieter it is only because our pastors and masters are not yet quite sure of their ground. ® Much Depends On Unity. If our general council's cam for international trade union unity should not meet with the fullest pos- sible support at the trades union con- gress, then the road will be clear for war against Soviet Russia. It is the danger of war, together with that other great issue of which I wrote last month—the Hight-Hour Day—which literally force interna- tionalism upop us. I know that some comrades in our movement are apt to decry the attention that is now be- ing paid to international questions. But my recent experietices in the For- est of Dean have opened my eyes to the growing healthy demand among the workers themselves for informa- tion about the international move- : mént and about our brothers in Rus- sia in particular. ~ We are in no danger, I hope, of for- getting the events in China and the lesson that they teach. Can one think without horror of little children work- ing for twelve and more hours a day, and striking to secure just one day’s rest in a fortnight? If we wish to end these horrors, and to save our- selves from being dragged down to this level, thén we cannot escape from internationalism. No Class Collaboration. Ig it enough to rely, as some of our friends on the continent rely, on the international labor office—based’ on the co-operation of employers, work- ers and governments? Surely the answer to this is provided by the spectacle of members of the British government, pledged as it is to the I. L. O. and the Washington conven- tion, continually urging the necessity of longer hours and lower wages. There is only one solution to the problem of war, just as there is only one way to secure a universal eight- hour day, to say nothing of the six- hour day that may be possible when industry is controlled by the workers, That way is the positive militant in- ternational unity of the organized working class, consciously directed to the overthrow of capitalism. In that way alone can we defend ourselves against capitalism's present world of- fensive. UPHOLSTERERS GO ON STRIKE IN METROPOLIS} (By A WORKER CORRESPONDENT) NEW YORK. (By Mail)—A general strike of workers in the upholstering industry is on. The strike call was issued by Upholsterers’ International Union, Local 76, A. F. of L. Yesterday was the first day of the strike and workers in over twenty shops responded to the call and many more are rallying to the union call. Many shops where committees did not visit also joined in. Bight shops have settled with the union and negotia- tions are under way in many more. In many of the shops the bosses are resorting to bribery. Big and extra wages are offered to those workers who will refuse to join the unton and go out on strike, 150 COAL DIGGERS DIE IN MINE BLAST AT HEIJO KOREA, IN JAPAN Noe lo gg aaa peed andwon \ eee ' (Special to The Dally Worker) TOKIO, Sept. &-——-One hundred and fifty miners are, reported to have been killed In an explosion gt the Telkaha coal mine at Heljo, Korea, try there is the onslaught of the coal-| the miners and the attacks on the/ LY WORKER : é y ‘ oe ‘ -# “7 es Sy Pr HNE UNION PRESIDENT LES": MINERS OF WOR N INTERNATIONAL UNION UNITY e > ots "ew" HOTEL WORKERS Amalgamation Seen as ~ Py >! Necessity In a recent number of the “Mixer , and Server,” the official journal of the Sis. 6 Employes’ No. 7 is Along as best it can, which he But he did not attempt to tell the workers what is wrong nor did he offer any remedy for the difficulties ander which the union is struggling at this time, and for the past three years or more. Difficulties. It is remarkable ow well the union is poing along,. as {& ia suffering from all the ailments timt a lovcal heir to, and has lost: most all the ele- ments strength. union is which makes for union The organizations: supposed to rep- resent the workers in the catering ndustry have gone out. of the labor and have become «a con- No Unity, f: a The fact of there betnmg some If6 lo- cals in the city all. doing dual work with no pretense’ of a united front, .and no organization activities going on in an industry about two per cent. or- ganized locally. | The dual situatiomw here is very bad for the workers, as.one group is put against the other by the employer who tells the particular’ group from which he books his men that they are. more eficient workmen amd cleaner cut men than those furnished from the other headquartera,. Workers: Divided. So*in this and other-ways the work- ers are kept divided continually to cut each others’ throats in the mad rush for the job, which ig centrolled by the concgssionaira, who expects patronage in return for the job given. The men im our branch.of the: bus- iness have become second hard. boot leggors for the outlaw joint in whieh they work, No Wages—Must. Livé: en" Tipe. These conditions are generally known both to the membership and officials of the many locald, but owing to the fact that they ara-in the same illicit traffle ag the plavers, they would be compell@d to attack, they find themselves im.ne position to make a. stand in on the job. Bunk About Wages. The report hag been made that these men do not want pay, but it is hard to believe that men are willing to work as these men .do without pay from the hotse However there will be an immediate the men who work workers, and the report will -be pub- lished in the DAILY WORKER which is always on the side-of the workers, in every controversy, they enter for better conditions ond more pay. FITTERS DEMAND AMALGAMATION BROOKLYN, N, Ys—In June a con- ference was held {n New York of dele- gates and officials from the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union and the American Shoe Workers’ Protective Union, Inc. At this conference a proposition was unanimously agreed upon a basis for amalgamation, the American union delegates agreeing to place as such before their next joint council meeting, At this meeting ,however, ft was postponed to the next and at the next it was postponed to July 24th. At the neeting of that date the proposition x” amalgamation with the Shoe ‘Vorkers’ Protective Union was voted ‘own twenty to nimeteen. As a re- sult, active members in the different ocals who believe that one arganiza- On on a national geale must be es- ablished in the shoe and leather in- ‘ustry started a campaign among the nembership for amalgamation with ne Shoe Workers” Protective Union. Tuesday night, Ang.. 25. a meeting f the entire membership of the Fit ers’ local of tha American union wag 1eld and voted ih. accepting the fecision of their joint council on July ‘4 by three to ome.. They also voted inanimously to put tie entire ques- ion of amalgamation to. 4 referendum the membership.. It is understood that othar locals: in \merican union will take similar .ction and despite the desire of those who seek to keap the workers from veing a part of ane national indus- rial organization,, amalgamation. will ve accomplished. ’ Communist Memiter- [x Coming. WASHING TON—CFP)—S.. 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y 4 | g? an ©. | } ' a Cc ontinued from Saturday's Daily Worker ) SYNOPSIS.—The official report of the British trade union delegation to Soviet Russia described the workings of foreign trade, transportation, Industry, finance and agriculture in the Soviet Union. The trade union leaders concluded that foreign trade is increasing, and ‘that in agriculture and industry the level of production is being raised. The finances have been placed on a sound basis, the report showed. Harm is being done to Eng- land by the absence of full diplomatic relations, the union leaders stated. Schools and universities, and literature, music and opera and. the theatre were then discussed. Art collections, censorship, newspapers, wall news- ' Papers, and freedom of the press were explained, with the eonglusion that “the results of education are astounding.” The report then took up hospitals, ' welfare work, sanitation, birth control, abortion, cleanliness and housing, rent regulations, family life, and prisons. “The Soviet government is achieving most remarkable results in respect to public health, housing, and the prison system,” says the report. Regarding the trade unions and labor conditions, the report states, “The Dtlegation’ were much impressed by the position and activities of Trade Unions under the Soviet system.” The Feport then described labor regulations, co-operatives, wages, and told of Visits to various industrial works. The general conclusion on labor con- ditions reached by the commission was that, “The U. S. S. R. is a strong and stable state. The government is not only in every way better than anything Russia has ever yet had, but it has done and is doing work in which other older state systems have failed and are failing.” Report of Delegation. The Comintern (Red International). In view of the recent attempts to re-ofganize the united front against Russian Communism—the risk that this will eventually lead to another “Sanitary Cordon” against. Russia and to another armed intervention— and of the results of this new policy in reaction and repression in the minor States bordering on Russia, the Delegation think it advisable to give in the first place a summary of the results of their investigation into activities of the Comintern (Third International) in connection with their inquiry into the authenticty of the “Red Letter.” *» ‘Their inquiries have convinced the Delegation that this organization is fot of such a character that its activities should be allowed to affect the re- Jations between two World Powers such as the British Empire and the U. S. S.R. The Comintern, like other Internationals, is a co-ordinating and con- trolling authority—not a world-wide conspiracy. It enables a central Com- munist organization to discuss and direct a common policy with national or- ganizations; which on the whole, tends rather to prevent local’ ‘extremists from disturbing the peace in futile Intrigues and insurrections... Further, they have good evidence that the influence of the Comintern in, respect of England is at present excersised for moderation and for action on constitu- tiondl lines, They are satisfied that the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs has both a position and a policy that would prevent any action by the Comin- tern in breach of Tréaty engagements; and that the Comintern has not committed or even contemplated any such breach. Finally, that the Comin- tern so far as Great Britain is concerned is not the formidable affair that both its opponents and officials might like it to be thought. These views have been formed partly as the result of the report of the deputation that inspected the archives of the Communist International. Permission was obtained in the course of a convorsation with M; Zinoviov, and no previous notice “was given of the inspection. The doputation con- sisted of Messrs. Tilétt, Grenfell and Young, of whom one had a good know- ledge of Russian and another of both Russian and Gorman—the secrot records being found to be mostly kept in Gorman. The deputation first asked to be shown the file of correspondence with the British Communist Party. This was produeed from a lockod press and ee Pag (Page skeen » of the jonal Pub- rs Co. E rf iz\ ja 2 F OFFICIAL | REP C am UNION DELEGATIG Er a ae Ls Rs Copyright Tt the: United States by the International Puptianers Co, Ali Rights Reserved. ' Copyright by the Trades Union Congress General courelt In Great Britain. Pri po a Pa was a loose file of typewritten duplicates in English. ‘It wos read through and leave was asked to take a copy of one confidenfal document. The deputation then inquired as to the procedure for d Tegistration, etc., in respect of important confidential documents. Soe ewan on this noint was given in the form of sbout 30 typewritten pages of instructions containing the Internal organization of the office and its methods of pro- cedure. This was read through and copies of certain paragraphs were ob- tained. In the lixht of this document the deputation then asked for the daily register of all out-going correspondence. A large ledger was pro- dueed from another locked press and was fully exathincil as from June ist. There were many hundred entries;in Russian and German and where- ever an entry cou!d either directly or indirectly concerm England the com- munication was asked for and produced from its proper place in the ar- chives. lt.was impossible that this record, a large Vvolume;in.many different handwriting bearing every evidence of having been daily written up could have been tampered with. Finally, as the departmental régulations showed that all communications of any importance such as ‘the *Red Letter” could only have been drafted on the basis of a discussion in “the” Executive, the deputation asked to see the minutes of the Executive me ings. After a good deal of consultation and telephoning, the last ‘ff minutes was produced from a safe in the same room. Some 560 pages, were read through and several documents were examined. This gave a very complete know- ledge of the whole recent activities.of the Comintern—between ‘June and October, 1924. It is enough to say in regard to these activities that there was good evidence that in respect of England they conformed to the inter- national agreement as to propaganda and the main operations jof the Comin- tern have of late been given a very different objective. A ‘éppy of a very confidential document was obtained, the result of an Executive discussion concerning England, which showed conclusively what the rea policy of the organization is in respect of Great Britain. Before leaving the deputation satisfied Gutnithini that here was no other channel in the Comintern departments by which a letter signed by * M. Zinoviev would have been either discussed, drafted or issued. Finally, the whole attitude of the officials and the atmosphere in which the inquiry was conducted was such that the deputation, whic. had among its members men accustomed to foreign investigation and /‘intelligence” work, were entirely satisfied that they had penetrated to the most secret archives of the Communist International. Indeed one of their difficulties is to deal with the matter in hand without divulging more than yould be fair. This inspection convinced them, so far as a negative can be proved, that no “Red Letter” cver left the Comintern. And this conclusion that there never was a “Red Letter”. i sspehorated by the little that has been divulged in London as to its origits. Thus Mr. Chamberlain in the House (December 15th) in reply to Mr. MacDonald ad- mitted that the foreign Office had never an original and that it-was “wholly immaterial whether the signature of Mr. McManus was put ‘by "him or not.” While Mr. MacDonald stated: “I never had a particle of evidence.” On the other hand Mr. Chamberlain positively maintains the authencity of the document as a result of his Cabinet inquiry, while Mr. MacDotald considers it “not proven” as a result of his. So that the inference drawn by those who still believe in a Comintern ‘conspiracy is that while, the “Red Letter” may ‘not have been a formal signed despatch yet that its @mntents were communicated in some form or other. And the explanation generally ac- cepted by such believers is that the substance of it was edtained in a speech of which a summary~was s@nt to the British Communis Party. The delegation has, therefore, to deal with the further qrestion as to ‘whether M. Zirfovievy could have said anything like the Substance of the letter in his periodic addresses to the Comititern, which had bepmoraeeeity been sent to Eogland. They found that it was a procedure to circulate information to Committees abroad inthe form 6f 2 speeches made by M. Zinoviev to the Central Committee. ‘But that instrue- tions such as the “Red Letter” purports to bo were never gent in this form (as in Annexe II.) but always In signed despatches (as in Annexe III.) Fur- fher that under date of September 12th, summaries of a speech of M. Zinoviev io the Central Committee wore sent to the British Communist Par- ty in covers marked secret, and sgined ro Mr. McManus. The substance : of this speech was quite unobjectionable and dealt mainly with matters on the Continent. Full notes were made of it during the inspection and a copy obtained of the covering despatches. One of these is ‘appended (An- nexe IL). The original was destroyed after receipt by she Communist Party Office as instructed in,the second coverer. It is worth noting that | Mr. Chamberlain told the House that the original of the “Red Letter” could not be produced for that reason. . Tho opening phrases of the “Letter” read Ike a speech badly translated and clumsily garbled. It will be observed that the most offensive passages are clearly interpolations in defiance of sense and syntax (see Annexe Ib). Moreover in the latter part of the letter the style and substance change. From general and impersonal assertions and advice the letter becomes dc- tailed instructions as to the formation of a “Red Staff,” with tho British as “you” and the Russians as “we.” The advice in the first part is adapted to the political situation. and there seems no sense in tacking these later in- structions as to insurrection on to the earlier advice as to. constitutional action. Moreover the source of the forgers’ material for this second part has probably also been found in one of the popular text-books on militant Communism, while the long paragraph about China in the middle is very much like a passage found in propaganda for the “anther week.” a To those who like the delegation have had evidence of what is the” real policy of the-Comintern in respect of England, this latter part of the letter is an absurdity. The Comintern officials indeed bitterly resented be- ing ascribed the authorship of anything so futile and foolish. But it is these instructions to tamper with our army and navy-that affected British public opinion, and turned the election. In order, therefore, to give some evidence of what the real policy of the Comintern is in respect to the British forces, leave has been obtained to publish a secret despach on the subject, a copy of which was got in the course of the inspection. It seems improb- able, if not impossible, that instructions based on this policy could have been followed in a few days by those in the “Red Letter.” The delegation, therefore, claims to have produced evidence that should satisfy all open-minded opinion that the “Red Letter” was a forgery. It further claims to have exposed the probable sources used by the forger. And finally, that enough of the information in its possession has been pub- lished to convince any reader open to conviction, that if a similar investiga- tion were undertaken in London it would certainly expose who the forger was. (To be continued tomorrow) BRITISH PUTTING INTO EFFECT AMERICAN ANTI-LABOR SCHEME (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 4—London news dispatches tell of the exposure by the Daily Herald (labor) of secret orders by the British war office, for the recruiting of a new constabulary force, to be made up exclusively of non-members of trade unions, and to be under control of the army. Its ob- vious purpose is the crushing of the power of the British labor movement next May, when the crisis between the coal miners, railway and transport workers and their allies, and the big employers, is due. This strikebreaking army scheme the senate committee on military affairs. One of the opposition had asked why Wadsworth was advocating a larger army in time of peace. His reply was that a substantial military force under federal control was always needed. For instance, it was needed for times of strike and “riot.” —— = — 7 * | 3 ' | 7 ' ; HE American edition has been made more valuable by the addition of the report of the British Trade Union Gen- eral Council on the famous Zin- oviev “Red Letter” and a special report on the Red International of Labor Unions. ° * APS of the Soviet Union in ~ both Europe and Asia are included with other special charts. Cover design and art work by Fred Ellis makes this a most attractive edition. $1.25 Duroflex Covers $1.75 Cloth Bound pbs Fi ia , SB c, = ust Off the Press J > This book is simply indispensible for every worker. On every question con- cerning a workers. government, world trade union unity, recognition oviet Russia—here are facts and figurés gath- ered by an official body of British Labor. for use at union meetings, for speakers, writers and : FOR YOUR LIBRARY. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. 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With complete clamness he lis- ies; of “al: People at Killing of Communist (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland (I. .R. A.)—Some weeks ago the young Communist Bot vin killed in Lemburg the “famous” provocateur Cechnovsky. The “Polish terror government placed the young revenger before a court martial and on August 6 he wes sentenced to be hanged. In the Polish bourgeois rene we find the following description of the execution of the death sentence against Botvin and his last moments. This description characterizes on the one hand the furious terror of ‘the Polish bourgeoisie against the stip- pressed labor movement and particu- larly against its advance guard, the Communist Party, and on the other hand the revolutionary determination, devotion and militant spirit with which the best sons of the working class, the members of the Communist Party and the Young Codmmunist League in Poland are carrying on their work. Police Fear Crowds. In the streets leading to the court house immense crowds of workers gathered. Hundreds of thousands of people streamed together in order to see Botvin for the last time. The street leading* to the Brigittki prison was locked up by strong police forces. Lemburg looked like a town under a state of war. As there was no hang- man, the court changed its sentence into death thru being shot. Before the execution of the sentence Botvin was*allowed to say farewell to his family. He remained completely calm towards his family. He consoled his,mother and sisters. When the sisters began to cry, Botvin asked rthem to follow the example of the mother, who remained calm and com- posed. Rejects Rabbi. When his family had left, a rabbi entered Botvin’s cell. Botvin rejected him and declared with sharp, pronun- ciation: “I am an atheist and do not recognize confession. Only those peo- ple are pious who ‘are not énlight- ened.” He demanded that the rabbi should leave his cell immediately. Then Botvin met his mother once . s more who urged him to die as a pious ty 4 see her son again. When the rabbi entered the cell, however, he was act- ually turned out by Botvin. Then Botvin’s lawyer, D. Osker, ar- rived and informed Botvin with a trembling voice that the death sen- tence had been confirmed by the presi- The news does tens to the words of the lawyer and Says: “It was quite superfluous to ask the president to abolish the sen- ‘tence. Why waste words?” Botvin asks for something to eat and for cigarettes. After having eaten and lit a cigarette, he sits down calm- ly and waits for the appearance of the , executors. é Political Prisoners Sing. When he is led into the courtyard, he starts to sing the revolutionary song, “Praise and honor, for your tyrants.” The political prisoners : come to the windows of their cells a opposite to the pole where the ex- ecution will take place, and join the singing with powerful voices. ~ At the sight of the pole they shout with fury. Botvin is led to the pole by one officer and eight soldiers. They try to put a bandage round his eyes, but he rejects this energetically. When the officer gives the com- mand, “fire,” Botvin calls out clearly, “Long live the social revolution!” Shots came from eight rifles and Botvin’s life was ended. During the execution all surrounding streets and the windows of the houses were black with a <== : os ° F ree pene in English advertisement éntit! instruction for a month redhead Rowe. in our 8 apg 4 and Evening c any Morning, Afternoon cuetee cs RATES Fa okey | Afternoon Classes, or both a y wees esas sinsidhiehcanlaaita ae ¥ Pe / 3 Hours Daily .. tiki ‘* 5 Hours wiew, o" saad Las Days a Week) is EVENING CLASSES «J M, $ P. M. 8 Months $30 (A School Month Is Four Weeks) PRIVATE INSTRUCTION 1 Hour . % Ap -Hour Periods . a 2 rs ee 1S 114-Meur Serleds’. ~ $800 Special Rates for Private Instruction of Two or More. 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ue tts Pn A alps Hp! re ae eve ie HI Will Beat America” sl By CARL BRANNIN. (Special to The Daily Worker) ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia—(FP)— There are plenty of people (all too many) in Russia who have’ little un- derstanding of the new order working out under the Soviet government. “Down-the Volga and on .the. trains fore (this.year reduced 40 per cent), autocratic So ‘all we have freedom.” “will be ours— “more than th can say.” i ENSEMBLE STYLE FOR: STOUT *Qptgonne WITH NARROW HIPs: one hears complaints, mostly from the peasants—high taxes last year and. be- officials, etc. come usually from relics of the old system with the background of centuries of ignorance and individ- wal selfishness, To make proper aziow- ance for the wreckage of the czarist order, the havoc of the civil war, the capitalist blockade, the famine and the -searcity of traingd workers is beyond their powers of imagination. They live in their own petty circle. Hearing such a wail from a couple of peasants, a poorly clad miner spoke up: “Yes, it is too bad that progress is not made more swiftly, but after all remember that we who have come up through the old order are to blame. We are all more or less crooked. It is the new generation, the children, who will make the new Russia. It is too bad that we old ones can't be lined up and shot, or herded off to ourselves where we can quietly die without con- the youth and interfering with their work.” However, there are humble men and women gray with years. and struggle who see what is taking place and can, for this reason, forget something of the hardship. Waiting in line to buy a Tallway ticket here one day, we found ourselves in conversation with a non-Oommunist old stone mason. He found that we were from America. “Yes, you have in America many things which we need here. We envy you your machinery, your technical development. Many ot vee your workers are better off. But that is not all to life. We have enough ; we have clothing; there is shelter, But above He smote his breast with a gesture more expresgive than words. “I am past 70 and have known the At oppression of the czars. That is past end now we are building. Two or ror . We -have established 4 ~~ : J S all ave all, Ru: Yesource of natural wealth—ooal,. oil, timber, rich soil and land enough for all, This and our hands and the spirit to build is enough, Give us ‘time and freedom from outside attack and we “will have all that the most highly de- veloped land has produced. And it @ workers’, That is i ake of America 4 , : “ ” : oo we pe tee OO Cae me pe = wu ’ ‘ a+ aie - ieetmaemties oe ee P : ey 9 a \ ; . : od es A JOB ASI NOIS COAL FIELD "TOLD BY PROGRESSIVE UNIONIST V—_—_—_—_—_—_——s “Give Us Time pies We| } “Where did you w hr uaeeh, Aries Mpestids Dept ag EP 5 Oy hol Rated jaca: PU eee 1! ola dng Nae ph rene ; Et hn SB ee ee ee oy; fe ie are ve i 2 os a 5 et tila tt ” ; he | HOWTO a By JACK. WATT. the wa of securing a job are and show the disinte- miners’ union, and ometals in oe words of the the daily press step,” “No*re- janes “No modification | § of the contract” andNo losses of con- No ‘Grey ‘Haire | perintendent or mine manager and ask for a job. J Melish of Thay- er, Illinois, took ‘this to get a job and applied to the mine mine. The management looked at mine in Illinois and it is commonly are refusing to: hire men who are over 45 years of age. At Dowell, IHinois, and other plac- es, the miners and applicants are pre- sented with an application blank to fill out in which they must fill in their name, address, where they worked dren they have, and are they Ameri- can citizens. Have you collected com- | pensation under the laws of the state, have you ever been injured, etc., and in some corporations like what exists at the mines of the Madison Coal Corporation, and at Benton, where an employment agency, so-called, exists, for the Orient Mine, you fill in a blank enumerating all of the above things, but. state in addition thereto, Fk last Farrington )Blackliet Then they write ba to your for- mer employer and ask him. “Was he a trouble maker or an’ agitator?” and “Would you think him to be a desir- able employe at this time?” Frank Farrington had the guts to write to the miners at Dowell, so they told me, ‘that he could see no m in answer- ing and filling out such’ questionaires. ‘Belleville one’ miner had been promised work at a. mine for months and finally the boss at the had to tell hint, *I*cannot hire you,” the man knew. why, because he a progressive further to him, “Do er said yes.. Then the,boss said, “Go to Walter Nesbit and get a note from him and bring it back°aid you will get a job.” This miner was not exactly on good terms with Walter Nesbit as Walter is Farrington’s secretary, so therefore, could not. , Walter, nor did he wish to stoo ‘low to get | “OUR DAILY PATTERNS cd 73. Bengaline or kasha would be good for this design. It consist of a one piece straightline dress that may be finjshed with short or long sleeves and a} tunie with open fronts: The tunic may be omitted, or finished sep- arate from the dress. The Pattern is cut in 7 Sizes: 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 inches bust measure. The width at the foot of the dress is 1% yard. To make this styl- ish model for a 40 inch size will re- quire 5 yards of 54 inch material if made with long sleeves. To make with short sleeves will require 4% yards. The Tunic alone without sleeves requires 1% yard. | Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. KASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send l2Zc in silver or stamps for out up-to-date Fall and Winter, 1925-26, Book of Fashions, showing color plates and containing 500 designs of ladies’, misses’, and children’s patterns, a con- se and comprehensive article on dress. pee Be » aleo some point. for the needle lustrating 30 of the various simple iaubes), ail valuable hints te the home ‘ Ny 5187. This is a season of yokes and flounces. The style here portrayed shows both these features with youth- ful and becoming lines. The pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. A 38 inch size requires 1% yard of 54 inch material for yoke and flouce por- tions and 1% yard of contrasting ma- terial for the dress portions. Width of skirt at the foot is 2 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. NO'rICE TO PATYERN BUYERS—The patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKDER pattern department are fur- nished by a New York firm of pattern manufacturers. ers are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re- ceived, and they are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER does not kheep a mae of patterns on hand. Delivery of terns ordinarily will Kanes at least 10 from the date o the order. Do not become impationt if your pattern is delayed. see tty If you want to thoroughly un- -- Lap Hey a derstand Co 1) —study. it. Send for a cat of all Com- jmunist oS Her ag ‘ “ee management at Albarn, a- Peabody | © heard, the mines like the railroads, last, how old are they, how many chil- , ,over Illinois, but in a a job, but he did» ae :the above _ 4975 { Ty setiiaale to. ‘aval, Freeman Thomp- son and others. He is a most reliable man, The Yellow Dog Pledge At Dowell, the “Yellow dog” as they call dt, was put into effect and some 117 men were discharged for refusing to fill out this yellow dog. At Ben- ton there is the “Employment Agency” so-called, and readers of the DAILY WORKER will remember how just prior to the last miners’ election where Brother Schroeder of West secured money from the istrict and bought a job, and had ihe ones they bousht the job from, arrested, A iloud cry went up from the machine, the election took place, and after it was over, it was discov- ered that it was not the bosses who had been selling jobs, but “an employ- ment agency” and therefore, nothing could be done. The miners around t Frankfort had a feeling all the e, (that the Farrington machin- , which is represented by Lon Fox who is now in a hospitar as a result of his treason to the rank and file), that once Fox got a hold of that case it would be squashed, and it was squashed. ' The latest developments in this re-| markable proven case of job selling, is that the man who caught that com- pany. red-handed with the goods, has heen discharged from the mine on what appears to bé a frame-up similar to the Joe Loda case at Peabody Six, and the frame-up against Henry Cor- bishley at Zeigler. At’ Harrisburg and at Collinsville the writer was inform- ed that all it took to secure a job in these two cities was to “Have a good looking wife for the boss to come and. see.” In Collinsville a miner there told Freeman Thompson and myself before several witnesses that such could be proven in Collinsville. Pretty Wives Get Jobs In Harrisburg I spoke from the court house steps, in the presence of a large group of miners, an ex-United States senator and a coal operators’ commissioner and the sheriff's. son were in the crowd and being previous- ly informed of the immoral transac- tions that was necessary to secure work at Harrisburg, I mentioned that fact in my talk, and it was promptly concurred with by exclamations and remarks verifying my statemént. At Eldorado, one way to secure a job is to go the “Fathers” and secure a note from him. So even we see Teligion playing its class collaboration policy along with the miners’ officials. Much talk is on the streets of Eldorado of how jobs are being bought for money. In fact, it is @ general subject all eld is the “To | place to work the different wires to eerebe secure a job. You know that is where the Len Small machinery holds sway, ‘it is the “steal hall” as Duncan Mc- Donald so ably quotes it. So one way that has been used to a large extent is to go to the “Steal hall,” (state house) | ‘and go up to see Martin Bolt, the-di- ractor of mines and minerals (who ‘just recently passed away, and.made | room for John L. Lewis’ brother) and | motes are dished out to certafn kinds of individuals to go to the mines to se- cure jobs. Failing that of course, there stands the “Miners’ Building,” so-called, and look up Frank or Walter ‘or Har- ry, and if they are not in, look up Joker Young, the board mem- ber and get a note similar to this ori- ginal signed one of his that I have in my possession with his name signed thereto in his own“handwriting which cannot be disputed, it reads as fol- lows: ‘Mr. Harry Snodgrass, Mine Mana- ger, Citizens’ Mine, Springfield, Ill. If it is possible at all, please give Mr. Armstrong a place digging. (Sign- ed) John Young. Fakers and Bosses United. Can you imagine a more treacher- ous kind of leadership than this note proves this scoundrel to be? How could a boss give a friend of mine a job if I was fighting him, as I should be fighting him for the interests of the men I was to serve? And does it not prove that there is a close re- lationship between the officers of the miners’ union and themselves when the coal company such scraps of pa- per? Is a better proof of class- 4 Carmen Gist enroe gt " Ashland Ave. Raliway Carmen, rk St. ive ae Ww. & Main oo. 5448 ee Frqiamen, 420 W. 68rd St., gy EL W. Adams St. etal, 714 W. pith ay aly an 5324 5S. alsted . T fore, , 175 W. Washi TS. Fegan ac: Sans 769 Veneuore (Bone), 6959 &. Halsted 13046 Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrisen St. 924 hg and mar * gd Workers, 914 otherwise stated 7 Waiters, 234 W. Randolph 9. 7 2 SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt ‘Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Halil, 2040 W. North Avenue. Secretary. Philadelphia, Notice! Weber Printing Co. 360 N. FIFTH STREET, Philadelphia, Pa. PAWTUCKET, R. L-—(FP)—Worst- ed workers, dyers and bleachers em- ployed by Hallewell Co. are notified of a 10 per cent wage cut. About 250 are affected. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all Com- munist literature. TWELVE COPIES FOR $1.00 Teri education. “Class Stitaisle vs. Class Collaboration By Earl R. Browder ae er splendid study of the methods of Labor bureau- cracy to divert the workers from militant thru the B. & O. plan, insurance schemes and work- | THE LITTLE RED LIBRARY ? and BE. R. Browder. + % Convenient pocket-size booklets carrying important contrihw ' tions to the literature of the revolutionary movement. ; OTHER NUMBERS READY: ; Trade Unions in America, by W. Z. Foster, Jas. P. Cannon vis les of Communism, by Frederick Engels. } nslated by Max Bedacht.) | Woeker Correspondents, by Wm. F. Dunne. | | READY SOON: Poems for Workers—An Anthology, Edited by M. Gomes, ° PBL PLP PL LL LL LLL LL LE LL LE These papers, in their respecti movement of 50c a Year 50c a Year ~~ - ee % 60c a Year 35c a Year $1 a Year Left Wing Papers are leading the fight of the militant = _~ gr organized labor this country: IN THE METAL TRADES The Amalgamation Bulletin 19 So. Lincoln St. Chicago, Mt. ay PRINTING = . . The Amalgamationist . 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Il. a RAILWAYS . _ The Railway Amalgamation Advocate 411 Dakota Bidg., St. Paul, Minn. The Progressive Building Trades Worker 19 So. Lincoin St., Chicago, Ill. BARBERS The Progressive Barber 1806 So. Racine Ave., Chicago, Il. All these papers, Meat Market 4301 8th nue BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deilveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as Supenmiocs Restaurant Bheokdiyn, | N.Y. to build the American labor movement, are advocating the program of the TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE ' 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. 843 Belmont Ave., We have your New Fall Hats Ready PHILIP FIDLER Manufacturers of Caps and Hats RETAIL STORE: Near Clark Street ALL OUR CAPS—ONE PRICE $1.85 ~——') oS 5 ee ee ea ote cei os, non oem eesieeiiante iasladen tin ee ee aaa ~A Pe ee as oq a - ; as
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y C—O , hee “ a naan Ene oe Tn ESE Pi 6 —s ? 2 , we eae EL Seca) v See own rat ay =e ¥ - =ped . ino % . : x % $ mE ie, Phy ’ %, tees Si "puhtiohed by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. on comely Chicago, ‘Il. Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES - ‘By mall (in Chicago only): By mall (outside of Chicago): 98:00 per year $4.50 six monthe | $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd, Chicago, I!!inols Wittors Business Manager Wntered as second-class mat! September 21, 1923, at =. ,post-office at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 8, 187 Advertising rates om application. Green’s Green Goods William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, read the Communists out of the trade union movement in a speech delivered in Detroit last Monday.. This has been done before, there- fore it is-‘not novel. Driving the Communists out of the unions is a more profitable and less hazardous occupation for the labor fakers than bringing the unorganized ‘workers into them. They will earn the gratitude, and we dare say the dollars of the master class with- out drawing on their reserves of energy. They will rob the labor movement of its brain and backbone, provided they are’ successful. We do not believe they will be successful. In fact we can ——" they will not. Hitched up with the Green tirade against the Communists was an extension of the olive leaf to the capitalist class. Green spurned the idea that there was any conflict between capital and labor. He even hinted that the capitalist system was a myth. Perhaps the strike of 158,000 anthracite miners is only a picnic. Green had noth- ing to say about that. Labor Day should be the last day in the world to mention anything that would bring disharmony into the love feast between the two Siamese Twins, the capital and labor brothers fathered by Green and company. Green ordered all Communists out of the trade union movement. It can’t be done, Bill, not by all the labor fakers and stoolpigeons on the payroll of the capitalist class and the capitalist government. If Green’s drawing account from the, United States Chamber of Com- merce and the department of justice depends on his ability to“expel the Communists from the labor movement, he had better put a few more irons in the fire. : The Communists are in the unions and they are in to stay. If they are kicked out the front.door, they will come in the back. They are in the unions to build them up, not to tear them down. ‘Green and his pirate crew have done that only too well. It is because the Communists are active in the unions, with a constructive program, because they want to build up the organizations of labor.for the struggle against the bosses, because they want to organize the unor- ganized, because they want to give the members of organized ‘labor the message of independent class political action and the message of emancipation from wage slavery—these are the reasons why Green received his orders from Big Business to make war on the Communists. General Sherman of civil war fame once said that “war is hell.” Mr. Green will agree with Sherman before he gets thru with his cam- paign against the Commranists. 290 = - Self-Determination and Oil England is on the edge of war with Turkey over the Mosul oil fields. Of course England does not put the case in this crude (oil) fashion. She never does. What England says is that the Mosulians deserve better than to be saddled with the rule of such a lot ‘of’ bar- barians as the Turks. It’s all in the interest of civilization.. If Mosul had nothing of greater value in the ground than lime- stone or granite, it is hardly likely that England would worry how the downtrodden natives would get along. But five billion barrels of oil are worth fighting for. The fight is not between the English capitalists and the Turks. The real battle is between the English oil kings and American oil magnates. Admiral Chester, the agent of the American oil interests made this quite clear when he stated a few days ago that the natives of Mosul “enjoyed an advanced civilization long before the Angles and Saxons.” This is talking like a real diplomat. The admiral is learning from ‘“our English cousins.” The admiral says the Turkish government is willing to settle the question on the basis of one of Woodrow Wilson’s “fourteen points,” the only one left in anything like good condition. So is the admiral, and the retired sea dog is president of the Ottoman American Development company, which holds concessions for industrial pro- jects in Turkey including the Mosul oil fields. The admiral declares that the people of Mosul have confidence in the good intentions and the honor of the United States, and he hastens to state that they will not be disappointed. Not as long as they have a barrel of oil in their native land or until Chester and his associates succeed in sell- ing their concession for a worthy consideration. They have already been offered over $100,000,000. For the sake of peace the Chester concessionaires are willing to let the British oil men share in the spoils. If the British oil men agree there will be no war to save civilization in Mosul. The United States will not intervene to protect the principle of self-determina- tion. This is the tale unadorned. . Let our readers point the moral. When a War Is Not a War Premier Painleve of France opened the sixth session of the League of Nations with an exhortation against war. He warned the delegates of a new war, unless immediate steps were taken to side- track the menace. Evidently the philosophical Painleve forgot all about his own Moroceamedventure wherevhis government has 200,000 troops, several warships, armored cars, tanks and airplanes en- gaged in the “peaceful” task of robbing the tribesmen of - their country. Perhaps Mr. Painleve does not consider a war of extermination against small nationalities a “menace to civilization.” The only peo- ple who are reasonably safe from civilization nowadays are those who are strong enough to protect themselves or those. who have noth- ing worth stealing. . The bandit powers are. not worrying about punitive expeditions against subject peoples who-refuse to remain subject. This is one of the visible means of support of the imperialist powers. Such ad- ventures are universally agfeeable unless the pirates begin to en- eroach on each other’s preserves. What the rascals. are.really afraid of is a big whopper of a war between the imperialist brigands, a war that is sure to send the whole robber bund into _— wane by a gtiff kick from the revolutionary working class. , - 4 a -——-«~, he eee (Continued from page +1) “The coal commission, headed by John Hays Hammond, reporting to that the industry is completely under road and coal combination,” which levies monopolistic tribute. The 174 anthracite producers are capitalized for the sum of $430,000,- 000, as compared with bituminous capitalization of $1,900,000,000. More then two-thirds of this amount is in the hands of the eight railroad coal companies. When the 174 producers of anthracite are compared with the 6,000 producers of bituminous, one gets a graphic illustration of the ex- tent of concentration of capital in anthracite. Monopolistic Profits in Anthracite Profits for the capitalists, always large in anthracite. have . become fabulous within the pest ten years. Most of the increase of profits can be traced directly to monopoly-prices of anthracite, the’retail price increasing from $6 per ton in 1913, to $14 in 1921. 000.000. In 1921, the control of “a double-headed rail-, During that same period, the yearly net income of the railroad coal com- panies rose from $13,000,000 to $31,- the Pennsylvania RiThe inom congress in 1928, declared frankly in | | eee i. E “er T HE DA "i Uy se Y i ee | a themselves twice. It is. roads which fields yield trem profits over others There are two mors atic profit-takers | $6. report, profits of wh handle two-thirds o the cite production, ran per cent.. Retail usual p All of which is most of the oper- ated by leasehold, nét W the on owners, and that the leases*Average a royalty to the owners # ‘from .$1.to $1.50 per of the tremendous struggles, begin- ning in 1900 when the United M Workers first organized the masses anthracite miners, thru the months and caused the appointment of the first anthracite commission by Roosevelt, down to the struggle of 1922 which Lewis compromised with the small - a * 7 . ce - 4 ~ ¥ wage increases of }|t : . ; RS Gubas « “ : Be | E g & : 1 i ; - 3 $1300 as com |been att / the trom $6500 to j union, and is not being attacked effect- thirds of the ively in the pres evil $1800 per year is the absence of a standard. basic effect at the time of the formation warteses’ eens oe alee | | HILLOUIT AND SCAB CREW GREETED WITH CHEERS FOR SOVIET NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Jeers and ribald shouts from 200 members of the 1. W. W. and Communists greet- ed the arrival today of a_ strike- breaking crew of non-union seamen who manned the liner Majestic af- ter dodging pickets at Southhamp- ton. “Scabs!” shouted. ; Mounted policemen rushed the “wobblies” and Communists from the pier. The workers were waiting for the arrival of Morris Hillquit, former socialist candidate for mayor, and one of the passengers. Their anger was apportioned be- tween Hillquit and the non-union seamen, 152 in number. Their ban- ners read: “Hillquit and a scab crew,” and “Uphold Soviet Russia.” Union Miners Are _ Put on Trial at “Scissor bills!” they (Continued from page 1) assault charge is disposed of. Upon motion of the and ten others be- discharged, later on this motion. Defendants Charged With Yelling. showing with their shooting in the Zeigler union hall. vicinity as any man could well accu malice toward the union. state’s attorney of the union mine prison. suffer by this disgraceful affair. dence. witnesses of its own. Many Schools Must Use Two Shift Plan day. shortage. speed while long lines of ridors. in the last few months, occupancy. to come. 000 school children in the public school system as the 1925 fall term begins. lunch time in your shop tomor-! WORKER says about it. Zeigler, Illinois 7 nell zz“ Shown i by Foster A regular good 4 time was the verdict of the Chicago workers who attended the big picnic given by, the Trade Union -Educational League and the Jewish Daily Freiheit: at Stickney Park on Labor Day. « . The threatening ¢élouds probably kept many from coming early in the day, but the nice afternoon drew a sizeable crowd which rollicked all over the big grounds. and enjoyed every minute with one or more of the many games and entertainments. The Juniors were much inm-evidence every- where and gave life to the sports un- der the guidance of Ijouise Morrison. Negro Speakers Calls for Class | Solidarity In the big dance payillion, Otto Hall of the Negro Lahor Congress briefly spoke of;the aims of the congress which is to be held in €hicago during The other charge, in the opinion of observers, may be postponed inde- | °'S regardiess of race in the struggle Snitely, or delayed at least until the prosecution that sixteen of the defendants be held the court announced that it would rule The prosecution today made a poor witnesses, the chief “crime” testified to by them as attributable to the union miners was the grave offense of yelling “Shut the door!” when the ku klux klan began Cobb, who has gained about a thoro a dislike among the miners of this mulate, has shown the most poison members of his He has not depended on the o do his prosecution s, but has actually hired a special attorney from Marion, Illinois, to help the prosecutor and see that no union miner gets away, if he can help it, from a term at Joliet Cobb has no sense of what his repu- tation as a union leader is going to He and four others were on the stand for the prosecution today, all trying to see that members of the U. M. W. of A. go to prison regardless of evi- The defense attorney cross- examined them, but did not use any as Fall Term Opens With the opening of school yester- day ninety grammar school buildings have been placed on the shift system, two sets of pupils getting 5 hours a Many have also been placed in portable buildings put up in the play- grouds, to help meet the big seating The enrollment desk in each school building was kept working at high mothers with their children crowded the cor- Only one of the new build- ings comprising the board of educa- tion’s extensive building program of which so much has been heard with- is ready for The others are still un- der construction and no promises of completion are held forth for months There are 210 school buildings, 11,- 000 teachers and approximately 465.,- Chicago When that argument begins at| row—show them What the DAILY | - ‘ oe October, and. set forth: the need of working class solidarity of all work- for a better life for the workers. William Z. Foster, the main speak- er of the day, received an ovation when he appeared on’ the rostrum to speak upon the significamee of Labor Day.. He pointed out the difference between the International Labor Day on May the First. amd ‘the sort of Labor Day observed py American la- bor in September. ‘Wherever May First is celebrated by) the workers, it signifies a day on whieh the workers rally for class struggles &m this coun- try, so backward are)'the American unions under reactionary leaders, that the only day they celebrate is used as a symbol of class collaboration. May Day Means Class Struggle In Europe, said Foster, when May Day comes around, the bosses prepare for conflict with the masges of work- ers. Hundreds of thousands are mo- bilized and take part in tremendous demonstrations the whole meaning of which is that labor asserts its cons- ciousness of class, its determination finally to overthrow its exploiters and establish its own political power. But in America we have the sicken- ing spectacle of so-called “labor lead- ers” using this September Labor Day to hobnob with the ¢nemies of labor. to obscure class lines, and to lead the workers into the swamps of class peace and class collaboration. “Labor” Day Meand Class Peace in United States Foster pointed out how even Cool- idge, the generalissimo of govern- ment strike breakers, was also cele- brating “Labor Day ” All over the country bankers and. bosses were speaking, at the invitation of .reac- tionary union officials, to gatherings of workers, preaching. the alleged “‘in- dentity of interests?’ between labor and capital. Such traitorous labor leaders were guilty of poisoning the minds of the workers by this sort, of propaganda, and the signal of labor’s awakening would be when the masses of work- ers. who have little or no voice in such bodies as the A. F. of L. conven- tion soon to convene at Atlentic City, would begin to celebrate May Day as Labor Day and not the occasion for class collaboration in September. Freiheit Has Been in Vanguard The speaker spoke of the difference between European Jabor and Amer- ican unionism and*told of the great movement for world trade union unity which has scarcely yet touched the labor movement of the United States. He accented the aims of the Trade ' Union Educational League, urging all _Tadical workers d up the unions | and to join the T.J% #. L. and take part in its work. The Freiheit had done splendid work in the neegle | trades, he asserted tA |Big Battle Promised As British Trade Union Congress Opens (Continued from Page 1) | Soviet Russia. Two Kinds a Holiday| MacDonald Right Wing Hated. Over 4,000,000 British unionists are represented by the 700 delegates at the congress, and a strong feeling is rising among the labor unionists at the reactionary behavior of the right wing elements, particularly Ramsay MacDonald and Frank Hodges. Mac- ‘Donald gave a slight hint of his scorn for the “base degrees by which he did ascend,” by failing to attend the opening session of the congress and, instead, spending the week end as the guest of King George the Fifth, and Queen Mary, at Balmoral Castle. Fight on Centralization, The trades union congress today discussed a resolution proposed by one of the more extreme sections, seeking to give more centralized power to the general council of the organization, but eventually shelved it for the council’s consideration, Several speakers, including J. R. Clymes, lord privy seal under the Mc- Donald government, urged “caution.” J. H. Thomas, general secretary of the National Union of Railway Men, said nothing could be more fatal than to give power to the council “by the people who had no authority to do so.” Cook Clashes with Thomas. A reference by Mr. Thomas to the miners brot A. J. Cook, secretary of the miners’ federation, to his feet, amidst an uproar. The president or- dered Mr. Cook down and order was restored. The resolution eventually was shelved by acceptance of a proposal that the whole question be referred to the general council. — German Union Congress Reactionary. BERLIN, Sept. 8.—The congress of the German trade unions which is now ending at Breslau, has been completely controlled by the reaction- ary social-democratic leaders. Under the control of the socialists with their policy of class collabora- tion, the unions have suffered terrible defeats and unprecedented loss of membership. In spite of this, the social demo- crats cling to their policy of fighting against any unity of the workers, such as the united front upon particu- lar issues as proposed by the Com- munists. The officialdom continue to carry out expulsions of Communists and disruptions of all efforts of the rank and file to unite upon a policy of class struggle. The Breslau congress has been, therefore, devoid of all contructive activity. It was a jubilee of anti- Soviet Russia, anti-Communist, anti- united front socialist officials. This fact that the German trade union movement is so weakened and pow- erless in contrast to its old position, that the Berlin capitalist papers have even ignored this Breslau congress as being unimportant. Riffians Cut Road LONDON. Sept. 8-—The Tangier- Tetuan road has been closed by the Riffians attacks: Native couriers ar- riving in Tangier still bring word of the hot battle for Beni Karrich, Tan- gier dispatches said today. The Riffians, supported by Anjera tribesmen, have succeeded in stop- ping passenger traffic on the Ceuta- Tetuan railway. The Jeballas were massing for an attack on mega to- day, the dispatches said. Cloud Burst Hits lowa CEDAR RAPIDS. Iowa, Sept. 8.— A cloud burst struck this city turn- ing the streets into rivers flooding the basements and sewers. More than an inch of rain fell in an hour break- ing a heat wave that has gripped this section for the last eight days, during which the temperature reach- ed 105 degrees, shattering all records for September.” “fhe rain is general throuout this seétion of the state and will save late crops and pastures. policy is continued, in spite of the |: _ ‘a debe 1 Se 5.29 ine — Save the Daily Worker! Appeal Brings Militants’ C sh $516.90 Sent in by Speediest Workers. the working class. These donatio of the Workers. Paryt branches and while they relieve to some extent the dificult 9 sma are in- WITH the danger call echoing thruout the ranks of the American Communist movement, spurring thousands to activity to save the DAILY WORKER, results secured up until now have fallen far short of overcoming the emergency situation. Up until Tuesday noon a total of $516.90 had been received from 52 militant fighters for while they indicate the spirit of DAILY WORKER readers adequate in, theextreme to meet+— the DAILY. WORKER emergency needs. The | ‘ainlaian requirements during the ensning two weeks is $10,000 of. which $5,000 must be secured bef the end of this week. Failure ein this effort may mean temporary caomauael of the DAILY WORKER or even worse than that, ‘it, may mean the loss of the DAILY ‘WORKER entirely. Workers Party branches or in- dividual Communists who can contemplate this catastrophe with composure and inactivity — will stand aside And- allow others to make the efforts and the sacri- fices. Others, however, who know that the DAILY WORKER is the most valuable» possession of the American Communist movement, will allow themselves‘no rest un- rr ~“ honor. Delays Are Dangerous. Excuses Are Fatal. ACTION ONLY WILL COUNT. til their name is on the list of | 7 THESE NAMES HEAD THE ROLL OF HONOR | Bishop Wm. M, Selege, Galion, 0.-810090 Helen Pratt Judd, Chicago, Il. Chiacgo, Ill. _— s Nucle Ga hop . ep * cy, Workers Party, Russian Branon, - ne eS . Py. Gary, Ind.w— ¥SW. L'Na, 8, chicago, ft — ae * chicago : Emil Holt, Chicago Wm. J . go, Hil. Switchman, Sighre. il — Sydney Frank, Youngstown, O...... 1. Stamler, oe k Gust Fritz, B "nbliovitie, P. Suvorov, Baltimore tices G. Kenzevich, Highland me Mich. R. Levine, Detroit, Mi F. A. W | Greenberg, Chicago, III => Mary Peterson, S. St. Paul, ch.... ise, Minneapolis, Minn..... award L. Overhulse, Napoleon, Oo. Dan Kili Karl Malstrom, Lester House, Coshocton, O. Sa Sn Mass... Kinlund Pullman, ui., mek, Jr.» Racine, W Moline, BOE. .cracecresiane John Rush, Faribault, Minn.. Hun Gus rian W. P., serene Detroit, Mich... lade, Benton Sarees Mich... ' S. Sirotnik, Youngstown, O . New Philadelphia, Rest he Chicago, tlt Anonymous (watchmaker), Chicago ye Anton Koleski, Geo. J. ecker, Sandenne. Hibbing, Minn... Rockford, Ill... Young, O’Falion, Itil.. Chas. goa Kalamazoo, Mich.. hentia K. min Elizabeth F. Beach, Brooklyn, a sa an es »™M ilwaukee, Wis. inen, New York Milis, A. Was, Chicago N. *84* Seen eens A. T. Harrington, Detroit, Micha Herman Richter, Detroit, Mich... South Slavic Branch, Chicago...... Maria Bender, Columbus, O.......... South Slavic, W. P., Verona, Pa... South Slav, W. P., "West Browns- ville, J. A. Blasutch, Kellogg, ta clei cantieitiaines ee 1. An Your Support ig Save: the Dally Worker —m PUT YOUR NAME ON THE LIST close $ Name: ... To Save THE DAILY WORKER I am sending you my response to your appeal. Street: CPCS eee eee eee City: . Ripa eee BE Blvd., Ch cago, Ill. | I en- 4 Address letters and make checks and money orders payable to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington AsM uch as You Can and as Soon es You Can iin -