Daily Worker
October 7, 1925

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‘ ~s hight x, oe Pate, ene ,¢ o* ed % ® “. = {tl itereigca ees Farmar Government eakeni £ are ee ee ° , Locerao Meet Directed Against Soviet Union . (Special to The Daily Worker) 2" LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 5 — The foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and Germany are gathering here for the conference they hope will create a solid block of Western imperialism against Soviet Russia. The so-called security pact to be signed by Briand, Chamberlain and world peace while, as a matter of fact, the convention, if it is signed, will pledge Europe’s three largest capitalist powers to united warfare upon the workers’ and peasants’ re- public. — . Britain Is Leader. The “security” proposals came from Germany but no secret is made of the fact that Great BritaYn inspired them. Britain is extremely worried ovey the “swing to the left” of the British working class, her extremely critical colonial situation, and the growing power of the Soviet Union, England, with the support of France, who herself is no better off, is coming to the Locarno conference to forte Germany into a new entente against Russia. Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcher- in’s recent trip to Berlin and Warsaw is being viewed with the greatest fear by Briand of France and particularly Chamberlain of Great Britain. While Stressemann, German foreign minister, who arrived today, reassured the oth- er powers that his talks with Tchit- cherin included no political considera- tions and resulted only ima trade, agreement that has been hanging fire for two years, at the same time he said “Germany is laboring under {| heavy burdens. We must maintain as broad relations as possible with the rest of the world. No nation can ig- before the ‘compact can be signed is Germany’s eastern frontier. France is willing to make a settlement of the Rhine question if her puppet, Poland, is accorded proper consideration in the East. Germany will hold out for, concessions in securing her eastern frontier and will doubtless “use her Russian agreement as a _ persuader. This situation is further complicated by Tchitcherin’s visit to Warsaw where he was well recé@ived. Ger- (Continued on page 2) GERMANY WILL SEND — ENTIRE INDUSTRIES TO UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Emigra- tion not only of skilled workmen but of entire industries from Germany, reported today in cabits to the de- partment of commerce, is becoming a source of worry to the German government. Figures disclosed that for the first six months of the year emigration from Germany was 30,849, a material increase over the same period of 1924. Contracts have been closed be- tween several German corporations and the Bethlehem Steel company and Dupont interests, for the trans- fer of entire German industries to United States, officials said. The Bethlehem company virtually will finance a branch of the German Mortonenwerk ‘Mannhein, which is to manufacture motors in United States under the German esaprnda and with the entire personnel of the home works. Stressemann is being hailéd in the Eu- f ' ropean press as a final guarantee of thru here this ‘me wee 683 | the A are a seeitre per or . 3 Sheds: | ete Soc under the Act of March 8, 1879. $i: f me ,* | 7, 1925. o> ” Pupitenea Dally except a BLISHING CO., 1113 W py THE DAILY cade ashington Blvd», Chicago, IML : Price 3 Cents The National Minority Movement of Great. Britain which set the pace for the Tr wy 7 . Lot ee is See Sad Ur COOLIBGE HOPES TO BOLSTER UP 1926 ELECTION Worried About Fight in Central States , (Special to The Daily Worker) STORRS, ‘Ohio, Oct. Pim “py ph VERSA going thru the Ohio and” valleys for more than just ¢ the trip to Omaha. While the visit to Omaha has its importance, the real purpose of the presidential trip is to lend as- sistance to Coolidge’s partisans in the central states who are up for ro tion in the congressional run:of 19 The Iowa situation is especially complicated by the election contest now going on between’ Broohart and Steck for the corn state senatorship. The administration leaders know that. even if Brookhart is beaten in the present contest he will run against the other old guard Albert S. Cummins who will seek re-election ip 1926, The president hopes to have some -infiu- ence there and in Missouri, always a doubtful state, where republicans face a hard fight to elect a successor to the late Senator Seldon Spencer. Lifting of S-51 Peril to Divers NEW LONDON, Conn., Oct. 5.—A final effort was to be made today to remove additional bodies from the hull of the S-51 in her grave off Block Island. The increasing danger to the divers is expected to cause the im- mediate search for bodies to be halted and lead to the turning over of opéra- tions to a salvage crew. The divers have experienced a’ num- ber of narrow escapes from death. In cutting thru the hatch of the torpedo compartment, “Tug” Wilson, nav¥y diver, Became tangled up in. the radio wires of the wrecked submarine. Wil- liam Reed, another diver, went to his rescue and succeeded in freeing him. When Reed’s suit began leaking he was forced to signal for a quick hoist to the surface. REFUSES TO AID CHINESE ‘4 AMSTERDAM INTERNATIONAL THE STRIKING RAILWAY WORKERS for aid but in one quarter, they can | national Relief. International Federation of Trade Unio | ) B.ARLIN, Oct. 5.—-(W. I. R.)—The workers of China: need not look to the International Federation of Trade Unions for aid in their struggle agains, the imperialist powers that are attempting to shackle China. Interwational Federation of Trade Unions has no aid to offer. out is sympathy to the struggling workers. The All it doles The workers of China can 106k ook for aid from the Workers’ Inter- Attempt to Wake Amsterdam. After many months of sending telegrams and communications to the ns, this is the answer to an appeal to (Continued on page 2 ” ae, basis: of “his in oe tome a HILLQUIT AND THOMAS, “sR ‘ _ ENEMIES OF WORKNG Cli ASS, OPPOSE COMMUNIS! on 1 Congress that met later at Scarborough have looked into. the matter: and .o « rath aS ae "9 we Leet iF lotings twisting and squirming with a ven- feance! More than that, it shows hat Hillquit does nét see the ques- tion from a working class point of view, but as a petty-bourgeois liberal who, if he felt that the workers were justified in their demands he would support them, otherwise he would not. But what can,one expect from a lawyer for large corporations and la- bor bureaucrats, such as the Burns ‘Brothers’ Coal company, and the Sig- man machine of the International .La- dfes’ Garment Workers’ Union. His connection with the Burns Brothers Coal company is enough to brand him for what he is, an enemy and traitor to the working class. Today Burns Brothers is making arrangements: to bring coal from Scotland to help break the anthracite strike in Penn- sylvania and Hillquit is a heavy share- holder as well as the attorney of that corporation. He has just returned form the con- gress of the Second International which was. held at. Marseilles, France, where the League of Nations was in- dorsed, which in 1917 was called by the socialist party, of which he is a member, the black international. What has changed its color in the last eight years that Hillquit now. ac- cepts it? -Endorse League of Nations. | He returns to New York a short time after his colleague, the Rev. Nor- man Thomas, socialist candidate for mayor of New York City, has signed a declaration jointly with such people as Mr. Lamont of the House of Mor- gan, Bishop Manning and others, urg- ing the United States to enter the world court, and instrument. of the League of. Nations and international capitalism. These two men, » Hillquit and Thomas, socialist candidate for mayor in New York,’are two fitting examples }of what the socialist party has degen- erated to—strikebreaking and indorse- ment of the League of Nations. In opposition to this motly crew we find the Workers (Communist) Party candidate for mayor, Ben Gitlow, trade unionist who has served twenty months in Sing Sing for fighting for the working class and is today in the shadow of returning there to finish hig sentence, the United States supreme court having upheld his sentence. For Comunist Party! . Against the socialist party and its (Continued on Page 2) By SYLVAN A. POLLACK NEW YORK, Oct: 5—In the latest issue of the New a letter from Morris Hiliquit trying to “explain” in his trip from Europe on the scab-run ship, the \ th ‘He says that he ia ke nodied tenet ae engine room which would be settled before the of @ strike is raised, he says that if he had Jo ts ‘is’ a fine example’ of pitt | won’ 3 23 ET (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 5.—Great Britain has no legal claim upon the United States for the revision of its debt funding agreement, -because of the light terms granted to France in the temporary Franco-American agree- ment, the foreign office stated today. The foreign office stated that Great Britain did not obtain from Secretary of the Treasury Melion an agreement that the terms for Great Britain would be ltlightertied if the United States granted more favor’ able terms to any other debtor. Britain Has Little Joy. Over Result of French Debt Pow-wow LONDON, Oct. 5.—British diplomats are not altogether happy at the out- come of the French debt negotiations. They feel that Britain has been left holding the sack by the proposal ‘of the United States. Britain is held to the agreement made between Churchill and Joseph ‘Cailaux, which provided that the French debt to England should be payable with $10,000,000 the first year and increasing to $62,500,000 after the fifth year—on the condition that if an agreement less favorable to France was made with American, the British Claims on France would be increased accordingly. Now that no final settlement with America can be made, under the Coo- lidge proposal of a five-year temporary payment of one per cent on the $4,- 000,000,000 French debt to America, the result is that while Great Britain will get only some *%$60,000,000 an- nually from France, England will have to pay $200,000,000 annually to America for money borrowed, a con- siderable amount of which was re- loaned to France. Irish Demonstrate in Capital WASHINGTON. Oct. 5.— Sympath- izers of the Irish republic picketed the interparliamentary union at the capitol today, carrying banners de- nouncing the union’s action in re- fusing to seat Miss Mary McSwiny, -prominent republican advocate. One banner denounced Americe for ad- mitting delegates who: have “done to Jreland what Benedict Arnold tried to do to the United States.” ph ele st |. r OPENS § SESSION Dull Socecties Precede War on Left Wing By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL -2pfepentat to Phe Daily Worker) ad ¥ nid Oct.. 5.— ar Be sherena Co 2 , Ne ’ 2% conti % pc pret we i the phi- . ; ‘T ltrade unionism that Gompers Reach: | [ed, rather than the vague theories that are offered‘as a substitute there- fore, William Green, former secretary- treasurer of United Mine Workers of America, opened his first convention as president of the American Federa- tion of Labor’‘on Steeplechase Pier here today. This attack; »made in Gompers’ me- mory, was the first assault in the con- vention against the progressives in the organ ed labor movement, who have been making big inroads on the reactionaries’ positions in some of the strongest unions since the last con- vention. Green made the attack after a care- ful preliminary tribute to Gompers. concluding with, “He kept the faith, so we will keep the faith.” Green an- nounced that a special day will be set aside for memorial services for Gom- pers. Both Divine and Humane The opening of the convention was more than usually dull, with local and state politicians passing it by. Both the mayor of Atlantic City and the New Jersey governor sent substitutes to address the delegates. President Arthur Quinn of the State Federation of Labor did likewise. Quinn’s substitute welcomed ‘the dele- gates, “because you are a humane in- stitution,” this state labor spokesman also proclaiming that the American Federation of Labor is of divine as well as secular origin and therefore it cannot fail. Loves the Government—But Not Injunctions Im his speech President Green also made a plea for organization and at- tacked those courts that cripple labor activities declaring, we love our gov- ernment! we love America! we love its history and traditions! but we claim the right to criticize the courts that ally themselves on the side of employers. He also said the federa- tion was just beginning to fight for the children of America. Credentials committee report show- ed 389 delegates seated from 99 inter- national and national unions, 4 depart- ments, 25 state federations, 57 central labor unions, 21 local trade and feder- al a and "a fraternal delegates. its ied Credits Are Extended LONDON, _ Oct. 5.—An exchange dispatch from Berlin says the German banking consortium which recently ad- vanced credit to the Stinnes interests has prolonged the credit until the end of 1926. GERMAN LABOR FAKERS VISITING ALF. OF-L. CONVENTION 10 GIVE BACKING TO WAR ON (Special to The featuring them as an attraction as the hotels by this name in the and Europe are known. Sam Gompers may rest easy in his grave. social-democrats who where on the side of the kaiser during the By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Daily Worker) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 5.—Bringing the “delegation of 15” trade union officials of Germany to the United States and at the American Federation of Labor convention that opened here today, was no doubt carefully planned as an anti-Communist move. This is the only conclusion that can be reached after a visit jto the delegation quartered at the Ritz-Carlton, or “The Ritz,” great cities of the United States These are all the Communists now. Coolidge Welcome Socialists The delegation came to Atlantic City direct from Washington, D. C., where these socialists were well re- ceived at.the nation’s capital. There was a reception for them at the head- quarters of the American Federation of Labor. But that wasn’t all. They were received by Cal Coolidge himself, the president declaring that he was glad to meet these spokesmen of Ger- man workers, only a few days after Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist mem- ber 'of the British parliament and spokesmen of British workers, had been barred from landing with Cal’s official sanction. Secretary of Labor Davis went a little farther, The Pittsburgh million- aire was host for these socialists at luncheon, leaving a good impression upon them. The members of the delegation have reached what seems to be an ironclad pact among themselves not to talk for publication. Very little has appeared about them, even in the capitalist press. Tarnov—Anti-Communist Leader There its ScRumann of the transport workers, Scheffl and Johade of the railway men, Huseman of the miners, to mention only a few, who acknow- ledged Tarnoy, of the woodworkers as their chosen spokesman. But Tarnov ig reserving himself for the speech that he will make to the convention of perart of the whole Seeger In war, and they are all against LABOR FAKERS AID TAMMANY INN. Y. ELECTION Also for Injunction Judge Charchill By BERT MILLER , (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—This is the time for clear thinking on the part of the workers of New York. The election campaign with its conflicting forces pulling in many different directions offers fertile soil for confusion in the minds of those who labor. On the one hand we are faced with the possibility of the election of Frank Waterman, a millionaire foun- tain pen manufacturer employing thousands of workers under nor- union conditions at starvation wages. Waterman erdpresents the republican party and the large financial interests of ‘the. city—the most powerful and aggressive enemies of organized la- bor. Notwithstanding these facts he will undoubtedly receive the support of such labor leaders as Ryaa of the ¥ seit stoeias of Communists from the unions. Kurt Heinig, secretary of the Allge- meiner Freier Angestellten Bund, known as the “Afa Bund,” was the only one who would give his views at any length. His organization is a federation of 14 unions, with 600,000 members including municipal workers of every description. He stated truly when he said, “You have nothing like it in the United States.” Heinig is a typical German social- democrat i. e., trade union official. He has read Carl Legien’s book on the latter’s trip thru the United States in 1909 and he will doubtless duplicate this feat by writing a book himself upon his return to Germany. Heinig spoke fluently of the Dawes plan and the proposed “security pact” and of the visit of the delegation of German rank and file workers to the Soviet Union, and in these matters he (Continued on page 2) Indians Take to War Path as Protest KINGMAN, Ariz., ye 5—S wearing vengeance against white men if the penalty of death is carried out, against George Dixon Sujynamie, young member of their tribe, who has been sentenced to be hanged at the military reservation near Prescott on October 10 for murder, a number of the members of the Walapai_ tribe have taken to the mountains in a threat to go on the war path. Sujynamie is a graduate of the Sherman Indian school at Riverside, Cal., and also attended the Haskell In- stitute, starring in athletics at both institutions, strikebreaker | Coolidge last year Labor Reactionaries for Tammany. Another alternative is the election of “Jimmy” Walker, lawyer for the beef trust and the milk trust.. “Jim- my” is the name which is‘ used as a means of giving this representative of big business a proletarian color- ing, and in order to serve as a bait for the deluded workers who still fol- low Tammany Hall. “James” is the proper term for this servile lackey of Wall Street. Walker is now receiving the full support of Tammany’s ma- chine in the Central Trades and Labor Council, This machine, headed by Sullivan, is seeking to fasten the Claws of the Tammany tiger upon the back of the workers for four more years in return for the rich politica! plums which will be handed out after election day. Fakers Sell Out Workers. Utterly disregarding the interests of labor, they drag the workers ruthless- ly, year after year, into the fatal Swamp of “non-partisan” political ac- tion. They raise the outworn slogan ~of “Reward your friends (the demo- crats) and punish your enemies,” in spite of the open contempt for the workers displayed at the entire demo- cratic national convention, in spite of the scrapping of the entire program of even welfare legislation by Gov- (Continued on page 6) Vesuvius Threatens LONDON, Oct., 5.—Mount Vesuvius is again active, according to a Rome dispatch to the Daily Express. The Express says that the Italian sismo- logist Bendani has predicted violent earthquakes in India on {in Italy on Thursday. OPENING SESSION OF THIRD Y. W. L. CONVENTION ACCEPTS CREDENTIALS; ORGANIZES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS The third national convention of the Young Workers (Communist) League in its opening session Sunday, at 1902 W. Division St., showed a decisive majority of the delegates to have been elected in support of the former minority of the National Executive Committee. The orientation of the youth convention at its beginning is in favor of the present majority of the Central Executive Committee of the party by’a count of 29 to 22. On the vote accepting the report of the rhajority of the credentials committee the vote was 29 to 20. Comrade Nat Kaplan, member of the *-—— ee National Executive Committee league, in making the the majority of the credentials report com, of the) of | mittee, stated that the report took into consideration a deep-going crisis (Continued on page) es 2. oe + EDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION IN THE DAILY WORKER! SUBSCRIBE OR RENEW NOW!) ee _— ————a er ee ee, Tas msm Sian td llk aad . oa “who -supperted~ the - a Tuesday and 8 a nes | a ' % a a ad 7 i Ex ad +s 4 \ a wwe ® are PO SP IE ae et Bt, * ete ate