Daily Worker
October 29, 1925
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i i | ane zai s 2 So: ee * m ussi deep’ t . ct after __ yet solved. 7 by was the struggle against the counter-revolution and the production under workers’ rule which Anthracite e Operators ‘Aid Use of Soft Coal | NEW Sain CITY, Oct. 27.—How little thé anthracite operators tear the stage thunder of tay by that mythical enity, “the public,” to swear off o anthracite and use soft coal, oll other substitutes from now on, Kedsiatentt ahd forever, is wn 0 ep anthracite operators’ actions confronted with these threats. pee Also“ is shown that the anthracite strikers are being betrayed by Lewis ‘not calling — the bituminous} miners. iin tsh Last We ; the New York and “Operators Don’t Fear Substitutes. “They came to New York to find out just what the situation was here, and they all were told that unless the strike ended soon and -anthracite shipments were resumed, they were in danger of losing part of this great market as a customer of the anthra- cite industry.” But General Berry had to admit that threat had failed to move the anthracite operators, whose hearts seem as hard as their coal. “My impression from talking with them,” he said, “is that they mean to fight it out if it takes all winter.” ‘Not only are the anthracite oper- ators unmoved by the. buncombe propaganda spread far and wide about substitutes for anthracite, but they are taking advantage of the continued working of bituminous mines by the union to urge even that soft coal be Anthracite Operators Aid Soft Coal Use. tuihoate i Eltz, director of the Coal Merchants’ Association in New York, says that the anthracite operators are actually sending out engineers and fuel experts to serve to popularize the use of soft coal jin New York and show consumers how to use soft coal instead of their own anthracite. -Health Officer J. J. Hagan of Jersey City has another bright idea for settling the dispute. He is going to get. a representative conference of health officers in New Jersey, then he figures that this body will recom- mend to Coolidge that an ultimatum be sent to both miners and operators to “reach an agreement by a certain date, or have the soldiers and militia go to work digging coal.” Who is going to clean all the dead soldiers out of the pits after they have killed themselves with accidents due to their norance of the dangers of coal pining, Hagan fails to state. Trance TO STEAL COAL TO KEEP FROM KEEPING TOO COOL WITH CALVIN PARIS, Ill., Oct. 27—Thefts of coal from trains ® giving dealers and officials of the Big Four rail- road a great deal of trouble. It is said that bands of women climb on cars when the trains stop on side tragks or in the yards and throw off and carry away tons of fuel, in some cases losses to dealers amount to several tons per car. It is said the “bandits” declare their families are suffering from cold and that : victory. Glory in Soviet Victory. Every new step forward meant a ew inspiration for the proletariat of the world. Every new problem solved meant a new valuable experience for the proletariat of the world. The workers of the Word glory in the victory of their Russian brotherg. The proletariat of the world thanks their Russian brothers for what they taught them. The anniversary of the Russian re- volution therefore is an event which is commemorated by the workers every where. The American workers, too, will gather in. all the important cen- ters for anniversary ,celebrations of the Russian revolution. Under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party such celebrations have been ar- ranged thruout the country. The most important of these are bein, held in the following cities: Plan Many Meeti Boston, Mass.—At Scenic Auditorium, Berkeley & Tremont, Nov. 8, at 2:30 p. m. C. E. Ruthenberg. Springfield, Mags.—Liberty Hall, 592 North St., Nov. 7, at 7:30 p. m. Alexander Trachtenberg. . Worcester, Mass.—Belmont Hall, 54 raised the banner of their rule over their) ‘decisive defeat of absolutism and capitalism Russia. * But with their victory their biggest problem. was not a nt have passed since the revalanianiiil sooxtiars of | % 1879. Sree: ee mae EE Price 3 Cents By ae * cet ti ey ll ees | fe , eS f Seer Se ie ee A: Delegation of the British a Visited So four hours to their see npat tie ely to eg et Yue i B Sethe ~* te, | CE. mutheaborg, 3 .0 Benjamin Gitlow. Brookiyn, N. Y.—Grand Abotenty Hall, 318 Grand St., Nov. 8 in the evening. C. E. Ruthenberg, Moissaye J. Olgin, Benjamin Gitlow. Newark, N. J.— Newark Labor Lyceum 704 3. 14 St., Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. Joseph Manley. | Jersey City, N. J.—Workers’ Hall, 387 Grand St., Local speaker. Bayonne, N. J.—Workmen’s Circle Hall, 725 W. 25 St., Nov. 8,2 p. m. Local speaker. : Paterson, N. J.—Carpenters’ Hall, 54-56 Van Hauten St., Nov. 7, at 7:30 p. m. Local speaker. Philadelphia, Pa.—Labor Lyceum, 6th &, Brown Sts., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Jay Lovestone, N. H. Tallentiré. Washington, D. C,—Playhouse, 1814 N. Street N.W. Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Bertram D. Wolfe. Baltimore, Md.—Brith Sholom Hall, (Continued .1 page 2) N.Y, UNIONS 10 CONFER SUNDAY ON PURCELL MEET Delegate Coniberamtis to Arrange Meeting Nov. 7, at 8 p. mi. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—The prelim- inary conference for the organization of the mass meeting to welcome A. A. Purcell, who will bring the message of world trade union unity to the thousands of workers in this city, has set the date of the first regular meet- ing of the conferegce for Sunday afternoon, Nov. 1, at 3:;p. m., at Beethoven Hall, 210 E. 6th St., New York City. Hoover Harangues ; : Y. M. C. A. About Illusions of Peace WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The Lo- carno treaty, the Washington arma- ment conference, and other interna- tional agreements aimed at curbing war, were described*by Secretary of Commerce Hoover today as the “most importaft milestones of peace in the history of the world.” Addressing the International Y. M. C. A. conference Noover said that “should a world referendum be taken, an overwhelming sentiment for the abolition of wars would be reflected. owing to lack of employment their husbands have no ead to pur- chase my “The Locarno treaty is a start on Belmont. St., Nov. 7, meta spay a. sissaye I ee ee ih ; an economic blockade would resu Go Into Closed Session. Following the reading of telegrams and communications between the two contending nations, at the open 3ses- sion of the conference, the two repre- sentatives of the contending nations were called to the council] table to participate in the deliberations. When asked whether the two gov- ernments would accept the league de- cisions, both delegates showed re- luctance in replying. Both recited tales of atrocities and blamed each other as the aggressors. Following the arguments of the Greek and Bulgarian representatives, the league of nations commission held a private session. During the private session Hyman of Belgium expressed the fear that not only was the future of the league of nations at stake but also that of the Locarno pact. Hand Decision to Delegates. After the private session was over, the representatives of the two powers fighting each other were handed copies of the league’s decision de- manding that orders be issued for withdrawal of troops within 24 hours to their frontiers and that at the end of 60 hours all troops must be in their respective countries. The league showed its distrust of the pledges made by the two powers by appointing a commission of British, French and Italian officers who are to proceed immediately to the Greco-Bul-| gar frontier and see to it that the league’s orders are carried out. Pian Blockade. Plans are now being laid to blockade Greek ports in which England, France and Italy will participate, in case the league decision is not carried out. England has 20 battleships in the Mediterranean waters waiting orders to be put in action against Greece. +. ” 7 Greek Evacuation Plan. PARIS, Oct. 27.—Greece announced to the league of nations council her willingness to withdraw all of her troops from Bulgaria. M. Caparanos, Greek representative, was instructed to make this announce- (Continued on page 2) (Special to The Daily Worker): PARIS, Oct. 27.—Fears for the future | it the r ‘ and the Locarno peace pact were exp of the league of nations conference decide the Greco-Bulgar controversy, handed the representatives of Greece a decision that Greece and Bulgaria i iar: Wak “s ’ ag, ie 2. ‘ z vie se) do ga SF v & , > Pr ‘ Tr . - » - rs 6 , 7 oi ’ ate . - a ‘4 ) PERE be ~ AT gs nes eee? rs she 4 Zs 5 os a IOV ee Sey SOM ee aoa . : 4s a | 7. ae he owing ad "SY wh es a: Ph ae dail gee eR. ‘8 a Pe? ee Storm Conference to Ask Autonomy . PEKING, China, Oct. ¢ 27.—Within half an hour after the long-heraided tariff conference got under way, China thru its spokesman, Ching Ting-wang, demanded that China be aliowed to exercise its right as a sovereign and autonomous power to set its own tar- iff and to its enforcement by January 1, 1929, by China itself. This demand for self rule of its own tariff by China was backed by a great demonstration of thousands of stu- (Continued on page 2) LOCAL 5 OF THE IL. 6, W, ELECTS LEFT WING SLATE ‘Operators By Sete Third Left Victory — Another local of the IL. Gc. W., this time Local 5, the third one in Chicago to elect delegates to the Phi- ladelphia convention, has followed the popular note set in the first two, Locals 104 and 59, and at the meeting Monday night overwhelmingly elected a left wing slate of delegates and as completely defeated the aspiring re- actionaries. The left wingers elected as dele- gates to Philadelphia from Local 5, which comprise some 700 operators, are B. Soll, E. Navile, H. Metrick and R. Sigle. The four candidates put up by the machine of the decadent Sig- man regime were totally whipped. MASS MEETING AGAINST HORTHY — TERROR FOLLOWS PICKETING OF WASHINGTON HUNGARIAN EMBASSY for the picketing. In spite of the presence of uniformed policemen and a large squad of | the right track. it removes one more barrier against peace,” ~ etree; wre | | detectives ’ ; sei a pi a Ate Bom A ae anne SelRes: ce patna omsegs omena bake WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—(By Mail.)—The picketing of the Hungarian embassy yesterday by the International Labor Defense. @ mass meeting held in the Playhouse on N street last night, audience that crowded the auditorium listened to speakers relate the reason the speakers hurled defiance at the Wall Street tools of capitalism (Continued on page 2). 7 abet Gael ae 2 ee dort rs ‘nue, completed a discussion of the ‘| Negro worker and the trade unions “leré can gain admittance to the un- 1} of the hall: m| step to freedom.” Negro labor, which is : 2 week at the Metropoli- tan Community Center, 3118 Giles ave- $ Meeting on Monday night. ct-of the mass meeting was color préjudice raised by the of the trade unions, with result that very few Negro work- jon’. The speakers discussed ways and means of organizing the colored workers to fight their way into the unions, and stressed the nécessity of a united front of labor, black and white, against the agfessions of" the bosses. Again and again the speakers point- T00 AS CRISIS for France Looms (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, France, Oct. 27.—Less than one week after Caillaux, finance minl- ster of France, submitted without re- commendation the proposals of the United States on the settlement of debts to the cabinet, he went down to ignominous defeat, dragging with him the cabinet itself. Paul Painleve, premier of France, presented the resignation of his cabin- /et today and it was accepted by Presi- dent Doumergue. The crisis was pro- voked by Caillaux, whose efforts to stabilize the French currency, miser- ably failed. As a reaction to the failure of the American debt negotiations the franc Doriot, hailed as the Lieéb- Top: ‘Knecht of France”; bottom, from left to right, Monmoseau and Marcel REID-TOOHEY FREED FROM Caillaux, has been steadily declining. In the chamber of deputies the so- ed out. to. the audience the slogan which was stretched across the front “Organization is the first Otto Huiswood, a colored worker from New York and a delegate to the : the congress to take toward the organiza- “a of the Negroes into labor unions. ‘He pointed out that when color preju- a ‘dice works in such a way as to keep s@| Negroes out of various other organ- | zations, “they do not for this reason remain on the outside of these activi- e Ey, | ties» bat organize their own. The Ne- rE ora . nr ,was followed by where the ers must take the same stand x to the trade union ques- “not to fight the white workers ‘| but to get into the movement of the! whole working class and fight with it in its struggles against the Owners. C. ‘W. Fuip, president of the local union of the United Mine Workers of America in Primrose, Pennsylvania, and Norval Allen, southern organizer of the American Negro Labor Con- gress, told of fights waged by. Negro workers to enter the trade unions, and urged the delegates to adopt con- crete measures of organization. Negro Kept Presse is Silent. The entire capitalist press, includ- ing the race press owned and con- trolled by a few. wealthy Negroes, has been carrying out what Lovett Fort- Whiteman, national organizer of the congress, characterized before the congress as a “conspiracy of silence.” Months before the congress opened, the capitalist newspapers were carry- ing “exposes” of this gathering of Negro labor, branding it as “a tool of Moscow, which will only fool and betray the colored workers.” One and all, they “warned” the colored work- ers to keep away from this congress —to boycott it. And now that their efforts have resulted.in complete fail- ure—now that these servants of the bosses realize that in spite of their lying attacks, the American Negro Labor Congress is successfully work- ing out plans for the solution of the problems of the race; now that they see the Negro thinking of himself as a worker, with aims and_ interests like the aims and interests of the white workers of the United States— now these papers have resorted to the expedient.of ignoring the congress Since the congress opened, only one or two of the capitalist papers have mentioned the gathering. The others have dismisse@ it with a notice, and a lying sentence or two. Of the two large Negro papers in Chicago, neither has up to the pres- ent moment said a word about the congress. The Chicago Defender— {Continued on paxe 2) Rail Head to Appear Before Commerce Body cialist bloc, under former premier Herriot, was prepared to insist upon a capital levy. Caillaux rejécted this proposal but proposed heavy taxes on luxuries. Thus he lost the support of both socialists and conservatives. Facing cepbain defeat in parliament, Painleve requested Caillaux to resign from the cabinet. Caillaux refused. stating that the cabinet would either stand or fall with him. It fell. Assail United States The United States government is held to blame for the crisig in cur- rency today, the charge being based upon the refusal to reach a satisfac- tory debt settlement. Instead of a settlement that would __ stabilize French currency for a time, the Am- erican government proposed a five- year period in which no principal on Progressives Out After Month in Workhouse SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 27.—Alex Reid, secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee and Pat Toohey, progressive leader of the miners in the anthracite region, were released today after a month’s imprisonment following their arrest on September 26th by local police while attempting to address a meeting of miners in Washington Hall, West Scranton. The me a db sohbet a declaration ay pellini, U. M. W. of chat all Communist meetings should be broken up. In Jail for a Month On Monday, Septetaber 28, Reid and Toohey, appearing before Police Magistrate P. J. McNamara, were ordered “held to await the action of federal authorities.” The judge added that, “If the federal authorities will not take care of them, I will decide later what is to done with them.” Evidently the federal authorities decided to let«the policesmagistrate do the dirty work, which he was not at all averse to do, as on September 30, Reid and Toohey were sentenced by McNamara to serve six months in the workhouse on a framed-up charge of “vagrancy.” This was done while their attorney, Isaac Shoor of New York, was not notified of the hearing in court, although he had visited the prisoners early that day and had con- ferred with the U. S. district attorney who was “holding” them as MacNa- mara had prescribed. August Valentine and Alex Vareck, two other progressive miners arrested with Reid and Toohey, were released, Valentine proving that he had a bank account and could not very well be a vagrant. Reid, however, was sent- enced to the workhouse in a vagrancy charge, in spite of the $30 he had in his possession. Were Serving Workhouse Sentence Every since then the two progres- sive leaders have been serving their sentence in the Scranton workhouse. Only yesterday did the machinery of (Continued on page 2) | that interest at the rate of $40,000,000 per year be paid. This is recognized as a move to bankrupt France so that a plan for the complete domination of France by American imperialism on the gen- eral lines of the Dawes plan for Ger- many, may be imposed, thereby re- ducing France to the position of a semi-colony. “I decided to resign last Friday, con- forming to the views of my collea- gues” said Painleve, “nevertheless we wished to see Briand, armed with offi- cial authority in attempting to pre- vent war by pacification in the Greco- Bulgarian incident.” The resignation may seriously af- (Continued on page 2) Unemployment in England Increases WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27—Un- employment was still on the increase in Great Britain at the end of August, reports to the commerce depart- ment showed, and was. especially marked in coal mining, textile manu- facturing and tinplate milling. On Sept. 12 the official figures showed 1,418,000 persons out of work, as com- pared with 1,191,000 on the same date a@ year ago. The figures are taken from English unemployment insurance de- partment, which now calculates that 12.5 per cent of the regular working population of the country is out of employment. the NEW YORK POLICE ARREST LABOR DEFENSE PICKETS BEFORE THE HORTHY EMBASSY THIRD TIME By ROSE BARON. NEW YORK, Oct, 27.—While picketing the signs protesting against the threatened execution and over one hundred independent socialist party the International Labor Defense were arrested, and then released on a suspended sentence. This is the third time the New York police of the finger printing advocate save the face of Horthy, Hungarian consulate, of workers, carry- Mathias Rakosi 38 mambers of held in jail for a few hours ing force under the leadership Commissioner Enright, have stepped in to the hangman ¢@———————---...- EE President Fred Sargent of the Chi- cago & Northwestern railroad was summoned before an interstate com- merce commission hearing here to tell who was the author of the pe- tition asking a 5 per cent increase in freight rates for all western rail- roads whieh now is being argued. The summons was issued at the demand of M. R. Shaunnessey, rail- road commissioner for the state of Nevada, who was conducting the cross-examination, when witnesses | had confessed they did not know the sped of the petition Mi aon Tne $a eee , ats ae Saat cca ORPRL ney OY ed ORE oe on Freight Increase | LA aay Lath of Hungary. ‘ “7 ; | While picketing is perfectly legal UN OWNS AMBUSH the police and courts are endeavoring | TRAIN 0 T to intimidate the workers from con- E AILED 10 tinuing their protests. The demon- | CARRY strations will be continued however, | FASCIST HEAD until there is definite assurance that the gallows erected to kill the flower | of Hungary’s working class will not |~ be glutted with the blood of Mathias | ROME, Oct. 27.—A train in which General Secretary Far'inacci of the fascist party was be..eved to be Rakosi and his comrades. | travelling, was ambushed by un- rhe men and women arrested today) known persons while enroute to carried sandwich signs which read: | Cremona. 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Rose Pastor Stokes. —A general strike for 24 hours as a protest against the fraudulent election engineered by the military dictator ship which acts as a tool of Wall Street imperialism, yesterday tied up the city of Santiago in Chile, while 20,000 wrokers in mass a mass meet- ing demonstrated their refusal to recognize the election as valid and demanded an annullment. Censorship in Chile prevents truthful details from being sent by usual telegrams. The military dictatorship, the like of which it is hard to conceive, brazenly sets aside the popular will of the people, and every effort to ex- préss mass discontent is suppressed with martial law, which not long ago eent a dozen loyal and fine working class leaders of the Nitrate Miners’ Union to the horrible prison exile on the bleak, rocky and storm-swept islands of Terra del Fuego at the southernmost extremity of the con- tinent. Union Leaders Imprisoned. This military dictatorship ignored the civil government to such an ex- tent that its functioning was impos- sible, the case of the Nitrate Miners’ Union leaders being an example, in which, tho acquitted of charges brought against them in the civil courts by the imperialist nitrate mine owners, they were seized by the mili- Jamestown, N. Y.—Swedish Br. Hall, 3rd & Main St., Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Rose Pastor Stokes. Binghamton, N. Y.—Lithuanian Hall, 271 Clinton St. Nov. 8} at 7 p. m. Al Schaap. Pittsburgh, Pa—-Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller Street, Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. William F, Dunne. Cleveland, Ohio.—Moose Temple Hall, 1000 Walnut St., Nov. 8, 2:30 p. m. Jay Lovestone. Canton, Ohio—Canton Music Hall, 812 . Tuse, St. E., Nov. 8, in the evening. Jay Lovestone. Bellaire, Ohio—Bchemian Hall, 41st & Harrison Sts., Nov. 6, at 6 p, m. Wm, J. White. Conneaut, Ohio—Workers’ Hall, Broad Street, Nov. 7. Lwcal speaker. Detroit, Mich.—Finnish Hall, 14 Street, Nov. 7, J. Louis Engdahl. Mass, Mich.—Mass Fire Hall, 8th. Local speaker. Chicago, Iil_—Temple Hall, Van Buren & Marshfield Aves., Nov. 7, at 8 p. m. M. Bedacht, B. R. Browder. Waukegan, til-—Workers’ Hall, 617 Helmholz Ave., Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Max Schachtman. East St. Louls, i!i—Painters’ Hall, Grand & Page Bivds. Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Local speakers. 5969 at 8:00 p .m. Nov. j | Frankfort, til.—Majestic Theater, W Main St., 300 Bik. Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Manuel Gomez, South Bend, Ind.—Hungarian Hall, 316 So. Chopin St. Nov. 8, at 2 p. m. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, Kenosha, Wis.—Schlitz Hall, N. Main St, & Milwaukee, Ave., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Local speaker. Pullman, lil——Strumils Hall, 107 St. & Indiana Ave., Nov, 8 at 6:30 p. m. Martin Abern, Nat Kaplan. Minneapolis, Minn.—Moose Hall, 43 So. 4th Street, Nov. 8, at 8 p, m. James P. Cannon, St. Paul, Minn.—German Place, 444 Rice Street, Nov. 8, at 2:00 p, m. James P. Cannon, Duluth, Minn.—Workers’ Hall, 19 Ave. W. and ist St., Nov. 8, at 8 p. m. Ronn, Angervo. San Francisco, Calif—California Hall, Polk & Turk S8t., Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Tom Lewis. t Berkeley, Calif.—Finnish Hall, 1819— 10th Street, Nov. 8. Local speaker. Hartford, Conn.—Labor Educational Alliance, 287 Windsor Ave. Nov. 6, at 8 p. m. Bertram D. Wolfe, and Sam Darcy. New Haven, Conn,—Hermanson’s Hall 158 Crown St., Nov. 6 at 8 p. m., J. O, Bentall. Waterbury; Conn.—Garden Hall, Hast * Main Street, Nov, ist, at 2:30 p. m. Charles Krumbein, Denver, Colo.—Social Turner Hall, 714 Charlotte St., Nov. 8, at 7:30 p. m. Wm. Dietrich, Rockford, Iil.—Workers’ Hall, 511— 7th Street, Nov. 8, at 3:00 p. m, Max Salzman. Grand Rapids, Mich.—Son’s & Daugh- ters’ Hall, 1057 Hamilton Ave. N. W. Nov. 8, at 2:30 p.m. J. L. Engdahl. tary, given a farcial “trial” by court martial, and sent to the island prison. It is understood here that this af- fair had considerable to do with the resignation from office of the presi- dent of the “Republic” of Chile, Ar turo Alessandri, who would no longer share responsibility for the conduct of affairs. A Queer Election. This resignation naturally resulted in a call for an election, but the mill- tary dictators conspired to defeat any choice by the people, among whom the organized unionists are a decisive factor. Under the astounding excuse that “disorder” might result if eleo- tions were held in the usual manner sanctified by all the normal rules of “democracy,” they decreed that altho there should be an election, all par ties must agree on one candidate, and they obligingly furnished one of their choice, Bmiliano Figueroa-Lar- raine. Soldiery Prevents Fair Voting. As the election day neared, the military dictators called out troops and declared martial law, which re- mained until they had Salas out and they thought, counted Salas out and Larraine in, as president of the “re- public.” The Chilean labor unions demanded that the obviously fraudulent elec- tion be annulled, and to demonstrate their hostility to the regime of im- perialist puppets, they called a 24-hour strike yesterday. General Strike. It intensified as the day advanced, all ordinary manual labor refusing to begin thefr day’s labor. Shortly past noon the hotel servants, the much despised “criados,” “‘mozos” and all,' walked out, leaving the tourists, North American imperialist business agents and all else to shift for them- selves, while the street cars and buses were suddenly stopped and shops and stores closed their doors at the or- ders of the unions, who made known the penalty for non-observance. Street clashes with the military have brought numerous casualties. But no ac curate reports of the number wounded or killed have come thru, A great crowd of 20,000 or more gathered in the public square, where speakers voiced the pent-up discon- tent of the masses with demands for annullment of the election, “vivas” for Salas and denunciation of the mill- tary for “delivering the country into the hands of the money kings of Wall Street.” Great excitement exists, which the military, as usual, an- nounces it will meet with martial law. Britain is Enlarging Singapore Naval Base SINGAPORE, Straits Settlement, Oct. 27—The legislative assembly has authorized the dredging of 613 acres along the shore in furtherance ofthe plan for enlargement of the British naval base here. This is part of the gigantic naval plans of Britain that are being carried on and is consid- ered significant of the realization in London of the struggle that is bound to ensue in Indo-China in the not dis- tant future. Mre. Rhinelander Wine Fees. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.,-Oct. 27.— Supreme Court Justice Morschauser allowed $3,600 extra counsel fees to lawyers for Mrs. Alice Jones Rhine- lunaer, of New Rochelle, wife of Leon- wrd Kip Rhinelander, scion of a woelithy family, in her fight against licr husband's sult for annulment, j.4uice Morschauser stipulated that pplication for additional fees would i) cntertained at the close of the uf. } New York Police Arrest Pickets of the Labor Defense -- (Continued from page 1) roaded to death by the fascist Horthy regime,” and “International Labor De- fense defends all victims of capitalist oppression.” « 7 * Washington Demonstration. Washington papers carried lengthy reports of the demonstration in front of the Hungarian legation in the capi- tol last Saturday when scores of work- ers marched up and down in front of the building carrying signs protest- ing against the Horthy court martal trials. . The demonstration was staged by the International Labor Defense. De- spite a heavy downpour of rain and police interference the pickets stay- ed with their signs until the time al- l6tted by the committee had expired. They refused to quit on demand of the police, insisting they had a per- fect right to picket. The demonstration created a sensa- tion in Washington and the most un- comfortable flunkey in the Teapot Dome balliwick was the Hungarian count who™ married the Vanderbilt millions, the influence of which counts heavily with “Nervous Nell” Kellogg, the secretary of state. After the picketing a mass meet- ing was held which was addressed by Norman Tallentire, who took a prom- inent part in the defense of Tom Mooney and J, O. Bentall, a graduate of Leavenworth, where he served a term as a class war prisoner. Silence Is Broken. Some of the newspapers carried pictures of the pickets which brot out the slogans on the placards very clearly. If the Horthy dictatorship ex- pected to railroad Rakosi and his com- rades to the gallows behind a veil of silence, they reckoned without the workers of the world who have brot the story of the white terror to the masses in all lands. The campaign led by the Interna- tional Labor Defense to save Rakosi, has resulted in mass meetings and demonstrations in Boston, New York, Chicago, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buffalo, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. Telegrams still con- tinue to pour into the Hungarian le- gation in Washington and _ several cables have been forwarded to the Hungarian Foreign Minister Bethlen, demanding an end to the white ter- ror. * €¢ ¢ The Labor Defender. The first issue of The Labor De- fender, official magazine of the Inter- national Labor Defense will make its appearance on next December 1. It will be an illustrated monthly devot- ed to the interests of class war pris- oners containing articles by men,and women prominent in the labor move- ment and particularly those who have been engaged in the work of defend- ing class war prisoners. The first number will contain ar- ticles by Ralph Chaplin, James P. Cannon, and letters from’ prisoners, well-known as victims of capitalist persecution. Pictures of the past and the pres- ent depicting the class war in the United States and all over the world will be a big feature of The Labor Defender. The magazine will sell for ten cents a copy and the subscription price is one dollar a’year. The publishing ad- dress is 23 South Lincoln St., Chicago, Illinois. The friend of the workers is the enemy of the bosses! GARY'S STEEL TRUST PLES UP WEALTH AS WORKERS STARVE (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 27—The United States Steel corporation earned $42,400,412 in the quarterly period ended Sept. 30, according to the statement submitted by E. H. Gary, chairman of the corporation to the board of directors. The directors declared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share, in addition to the re- = gular quarterly dividend of $1.25 a share. ' During this same period many of Gary's. workers were walking the streets looking to enough to feed their families. Reid and Toohey Released from Jail in Strike Field (Continued from page one) legal humbuggery get to moving with a hearing on a writ for habeas corpus before.Judge Newcomb. Ag a result the leaders of the progressive miners were released “on their own recog- nizance” but were ordered to leave town! Reports from all sections of the anthracite show that the period of crisis in the strike is just beginning, with savings exhausted, local treas- uries drained, reserve coal of poor quality sold ‘at exorbitant prices and the operators determined to fight against any wage increase to the strikers, whose leading demands of a ten per cent raise and the check off brought on the struggle. It is expected that the bidding of Wall Street, a leading journal of which advised the anthracite opera- torg to open up the mines with scab labor, will meet the angry resistance of the starving miners, who are al- ready discussing the withdrawal of maintenance men, and who are be- coming increasingly dissatisfied with the leadership of Lewis and Cappelli- ni, whom they suspect of selling out their demand for wage increase for the questionable benefit of the check- off. Negro Labor Congress Gives Session to the Trade Unions (Continued from page one) popularly known among the militant colored workers as the Chicago “Sur- render,”—because it refuses to put up a real fight for the colored workers— ran its usual large edition on the day before the congress Opened, and that edition carried not one word about this nation-wide gathering of workers of the colored race. In this connec- tion, Whiteman pointed out to the congress that just because a paper is edited by colored people does not nec- essarily mean that that paper has the interests of the race at heart. Their interests are as often as not centered in their pocketbooks, for, like the white bosses, their only thot is the thot of profit. % « es Note: Because The DAILY WORK- ER goes to press before the evening sessions of the congress take place, it will be necessary to print the report of the speech of Bishop William Mont- gomery Brown, made at the congre last night, in tomorrow’s issue. - ‘ SSAGRE 25,000 ARABS IN SYRIA Palestine Arabs Expose French LONDON, Oct. 7—According to a telegram sent by the secretary of the Arab Congress in Palestine more than 25,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered by the ruth- less French imperialist troops in Syria. After the French had burned a number of native villages a little to the southeast of Damascus, and mur- dered 700 Arabs at Hama, 24 of the murdered Arabs were strapped to the backs of camela and brought into Damascus to the Musselman quarter as an example to the natives. The sight of the dead bodies on swaying camels and news of the re- prisals disgusted the Arabs and im- mediately demonstrations against the | French began. The French then at- tacked the Arabs. In defending themselves from the brutal French at- tacks, the killed some of the attackers and this was followed by the horrible rey s described by the secretary of the Palestine Arab Congress in the following telegram: “The greater part of the city is demolished, | and thousands of innocent persons have perished... The French armed Armenian immigrants, who committed fearful depradations. “The French are suppressing freli- able news. The fugitives say that more than 26,000, including many wo- men and childr@n, perished in the ruins.” The British press is aghast at this action of the French and many ofthe newspapers are attacking the French imperialist policy and the methods used by General: Sarril in the Syrian campaign to defeat the yearning for independence among the natives of Syria. ve —_—_--—_——-——_—_—_ ---- AMERICANS AID REVOLT AGAINST NICARAGUA HEAD (Special to A, ‘ | 6h of Wall “ ’ ; aid of the American minister here, has succeeded in placing the tool of Wall Street at the head of the gov- ernment here, practically deposing President Solorzano, and putting in his place Gen. Emiliano Chamarro, former president and for two decades or more, one of the most brutal dic- tators in Cen America. At four o’clock on Sunday morning armed forces under the command of Chamarro entered and took charge of LaLoma, the tress commanding this city, without opposition and the garrison joined in the movement. Large reinforcements of conservatives supporting the venture were admitted to the fortress’ and equipped with arms, 4nd a message sent to President Solorzano demanding that he dismiss the liberal members of his cabinet and restore the conservatives to pow- er. They base their demands on the claim that at the election a year ago the liberals won thru _ fraudulent methods. : American | Minister Acts. President Solorzano, thinking that the American minister would use his influence to aid the cause of “democ- racy” received a rude lesson in the mysteries of the imperialist diplo- macy of the United States, when he tried to enlist the aid of that worthy. At a conference with the American minister, the supporters of the gov- ernment insisted they did not intend to retire. This was followed by violent street fighting in which a number on both sides were killed. Soon after this avent information was conveyed to the president of the republic that American troops defending his premis- es would no longer do 80, unlesg he yielded to the demands of Chamarro, to which he acceded. It seems that President Solorzano was suspected of favoring groups op- posed to American imperialism, so the agents of Wall Street contrived to arrange a coup d’etat for the ad- venturer and despot, Chamarro. oy irs .2 NCH TROOPS Imiifick ‘ , Mey » &, . ee 4 “The have continued the bombardment | Damascus for fifty hours. Nf " ds are homeless } a aft) &"s - ~ ik RSA. ‘ ‘ % oe ae » gs Meryl We tele ae Fa a tig AS eee * 4 o Finks. cA 2 See ae " eo poy i Pees Fut PPE We es eg aed ore | ( a a ee te ; A, ou? Set) A fy Mle 3, ior ta te ° Rew Ry. i Me J 43 N ee) ee wp Se. Chien tite ne ek r Og chal Sard tT pede oe! !¥UEM Symptom Showing Rule of Capitalism Is Dying By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the Painleve government at Paris has fallen to its doom, drowned in the blood of its own spilling. ° In the hour that Painleve quit, taking with him his whole cabinet, including the much adverti: Caillaux, the charge comes from the Palestina Arab Congress “financial wizard,” that 25,000 men, women and children were slaughtered in the recent bombardment of the native quarter of Damasmus. War against the Syrians in Asia, was against the Rif- fians in North Africa, war against the workers and farmers at home, to maintain capitalism in France and spread the empire, proved too great a burden even for this government by violence, blessed and supported b the international financiers of Wall Street after the fall of the “radical social- ist,” Herriot. the low figure of 25 for the franc, no more than In spite of the credits extended by the House of Morgan, the franc continued to fall in price the past week until it hit merican dollar, with the Bel- gian franc not far behind. Hundreds of millions loaned in the United States have not been able to stabilize the French eat sums borrowed have been able to bulwark the Belgian franc. French and Belgian money are going down the same chute that saw the decline of the Ger- man mark, with a Dawes plan waiting at the bottom. The Painleve-Caillaux government didn’t harmonize sufficiently toward the end with Wall Street’s ambitions for France; so it had to go. France will no doubt get an even more reactionary gov- ernment that must continue to accept the slave role im- posed by American finance capital. That does not mean that socialists cannot be in the government, or very closely sympathetic to it. - Socialists have proved the best allies of reaction, in Great Britain, in Germany and in France. MacDonald had an policy more to the right than that of Baldwin. Von imperialist inden- burg, deserted by the nationalists on the Locarno “security pact,” looks to the democrats and socialists for support. President Domergue may select a new premier who. will call socialists to his side to wage war against the Syrians and the Riffians and send more Communists to French bastilles. But it will not help. . The colonial peoples will continue to struggle for their liberation. Industrial workers in the great French cities will carry on their fight for emancipation. * * * ” The repeated and rapid changes in governments, in Germany, in France and elsewhere, attest the fact that cap- italism merely jumps from one crisis to another. Already new masses of workers in Germany, given jobs temporarily under the Dawes plan, are being recruited for an increasing army of unemployed. and it ister, ~~ ie ace” The overturn of the Painleve government comes on the tithe Locarno conference with its “pe nee tg its fall a few hours so that its foreign min- istide Briand, could preside over the council of the promises, league of nations in an effort to restore a makeshift peace in the Balkans between Greece and Bulgaria. Capitalism, in the hour that it tries to tell the world that it is strong and whole, breaks forth with another multitude of symptorns proclaiming the fatal disease that is rushing it toward the grave. TURKEY REFUSES TO ATTEND HAGUE COURT ON MOSUL Will Not Submit to Court|: Arbitration THE HAGUE, Oct. 27—Turkey has refused to participate inythe extraor- dinary sessions of the permanent court of international justice. In a telegram to the court, whose sessions have just been opened, Turkey takes the stand that she will not submit the Mosul boundary dis- pute to arbitration before the league of nations. She also tells the court that it has no business to pass upon whether the league of nations have a right to arbitrate or not, as the boundary dispute is a political issue. Court Hears English. Despite the absence of Turkey, the court began to hear the evidence which Sir Douglas Hogg, the British delegate who is living up to his name, is presenting to show why the court should allow the league of na- tions to arbitrate the issue. Turkey refuses to abide by any de- cision to arbitrate the Mosul issue before the league of nations, as it was the league of nations that handed | Mosul and its oil fields to Great Brit- ain in the league mandate for Iraq. Fears for the Future of League : (Continued from page 1) ment when the council: went into ses- sion under the presidency of M. Briand, French foreign minister. “My government is ready to with- draw all troops as soon as the frontier guards have been re-established,” M. Caparanos said. “We are willing that the movement shall be carried out by a Greek and a Bulgarian officer, provided that the Bulgarians do not advance untfl the Greek troops have entirely withdrawn.” * oa Fighting Continues. VIENNA, Oct. 27.—The Greek forces have extended their fighting front. They have occupied Novrikop and have started to bombard Nov- rishovo. Two regiments of infantry and one of cavalry and half a regi- ment of artillery have been received as reinforcements frmo Saloniki, The Bulgarian troops are concen- trating for an offensive at Melnik, which igs about 565 miles northeast of Saloniki. * ss * Forty Lives Lost, SOFIA, Oct. 27.—Fifty dead and wounded is the total cost of life in Bulgaria as the result of the clash with Greece and the Greek bombard- ments of Bulgarian territory. Twenty-six of the casualties were soldiers and the remainder civilans. eRe Bulgarian soldier} are missing. P ats ° ! Painleve Cabinet Falls as French Money Crisis Grows (Continued from page one) fect the Locarno pacts, and its effect ; upon the American debt settlement is quite probable. , Inflation seems to be certain under any new cabinet and it is most pro- bable that concessions will have to be made to the large group in the chamber demanding a capital levy. ‘Caillaux’s flat refusal to treat with the demands for a capital levy has been largely responsible for the pres- ent situation, Painleve said he had no idea who would succeed him. “I haven't any idea who President Doumergue will select as my succes- sor,” said the former premier, “Who- ever succeeds me can count upon my entire support.” Herriot Refuses Call Pres. Doumergue has already re- quested former Premier Herriot, the hero of the social-pacifist era in France, to attempt to form a cabinet, but Herriot refused. There is con- siderable of a movement under way from his supporters, the left bloc, to persuade him to accept the post of premier again. Aristide Briand, foreign minister in the Painleve cabinet and himself pre- mier of France ‘more times than any other living man, may be called upon to form a cabinet, but it is believed ~} here that he will refuse. The tmpression prevails that Pain- leve will be called upon to form an- other cabinet, in which case he will leave Caillaux out and give strong re- presentation to the Herriot group, preliminary to endeavoring to stabil- ize the franc thru a capital levy. Immediate inflation is necessary to save the currency from complete col- lapse, which will unquestionably be followed by further depreciation. A capital levy, as proposed by the radical socialists around Herriot will have the effect of weakening the French bourgeoisie so that they may be forced to yield in the near future to a Dawes plan. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the lunch)* to vour shop-mate, | heavily guarded and with troo Sto > in Codlarnnce to Ask Autonomy ny Bay? (Continued from page one) dents and workers. who blockaded the conference delegates with masses of demonstrators waving flags and ban- ners demanding a China free from im- perialist domination. ‘ead Students Demonstrate. So dense were the crowds that mahy were injured when police tried to block their way from bringing to the attention of the imperialist dele- gates the sense of what they were dealing with in revolutionary nation- alism. - The Chinese foreign minister, She Jui-lin will act as chairman of the conference, while the decrepit old pro- visional president, Tuan Chi-jui came to the conference thru the streets lin- ing both sides of the roadway. Neither Shen nor Tuan, however, had much to say aside from voicing welcome to the delegates and expressing the ex- pected aspirations that China be giv- en equality with other nations. It was Ching Ting-wang who spoke the line of policy. | No Haggling Says Ching. 3 Ching added to his demand for autonomy the following: “China asks only what she expects to receive. She does not believe in asking for ex- cessive concessions and then whit- tling them down. China does not wish to bargain.” The diplomats of the imperialist } powers conferred privately on the sub- stance of China’s demands as voiced by Ching. Then Ambassador Mac- Murray, of the U. 8S., the first foreign delegate to speak, tried to remind everyone that the conference must keep within the limits of the Wash- ington agreements, by saying that he was glad to attend a conference call- ed for carrying out the Washington “treaty.” He added, by way of room to escape into larger flelds, that he was prepured to consider carefully, open-mindedly and generously, any reasonable plan for realizing China's hopes. “Unified” China Very Popular. Sir Ronald MacLeay, British am- bassador, asserted that a united China was as much in the interest of Great Britain as of China herself, without adding the further fact that of course China must be unified only by consent of the British foreign office “un- der the control of imperialist tools. The Japanese delegate, Eki Kioki, who in 1916, tred to put over the in- famous 21 demands upon China, show- ad that he had had a change of tac- tic if not /of principle by suggesting that steps be taken to attain Chinese ‘}autonomy. But he added that of course, “that goal is attainable only thru successive stages and we believe that the powers’ unconditional sur- render of their treaty rights is not contemplated by China herself.” Japan Suggests. Japan suggests, therefore, that two alternatives be considered, first a statutory tariff on a “fair” basis for general application subject to provi- sions of a special tariff on specified articles to be agreed on between China and separate powers, or, sec- ond, a graduated tariff averaging no ‘more than 12% per cent. — Hioki added that “autonomy im- plies the existence of a strong unified government and presupposes the com- plete removal of all restrictions upon freedom of trade between China and other powers.” Big Mass Meeting Against the Horthy Terror in Capital (Continued from. page one) in Washington who support the ex- cesses of the Horthy government. Save Rakosi is Demand. Following up the demands on the banners carried before the Hungar- ian embassy that afternoon, the speakers at the meeting exposed the connection between Wall Street, the government at Washington, and the white terror in Hungary where Mat- thias Rakosi is in momentary danger of being executed, having fallen into the clutches of the Horthy’ govern. ment while on a political visit to that country, from which he wae driven after the fall of the Bela Kun Soviet | regime. ) Norman Tallentire, of Philadelphia, was the principal speaker and his speech was received with enthusiasm, at the conclusion of which a resolu- tion was unanimously adopted protest- ing against the Hungarian terror and against the threatened murder of the leaders of the proletariat who have not already been exiled or executed. J. O. Bentall of New York, long a speaker in the radical wing of the la- bor movement, also addressed the au- dience, assailing Morgan, DuPont and other capitalists for the part they play in European politics and against the American working Glass. It was announced at the conclusion of the meeting that demonstrations would occur in all parts of the world until the working class was rallied in defense of ‘the prisoners ef the Horthy terror, . ‘ ' i] , ‘ CX n : —_—
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i a — r 7) oon GE Bk RL hae et A em et EP SP a wea», eats Sieger ae ge ely Sas Its Leader. Boasts of Secret Arms Supply SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 27.—That imperialist agencies are working sec- rétly in ald to the counter-revolution- ary fascists in trying to overthrow ‘the Kuomintang republic is proven by the interview given out by the reac- tionary Chinese leader, General Chen- Chiung-min, who has found fitting shelter in the British port of Hong Kong. : . The interview given to the British Daily Express reveals by way of infer- ence where Chen draws his pay check from. It says: : Secret Source of Arms, “T have 7,000 troops which, altho less well armed than the Reds, outnumber them. I have the moral support of the national assembly, together with @ warship from the north and secret sources of arms and ammunition sup- plies, and only lack funds to prevent the early accomplishment of my task. “When the Reds are driven out I will not establish a southern govern- ment, but will strive to join the north and south for a unified China. I would welcome the assistance of a foreign legion, but lack of funds pre- vents this.” But Wants More Money. Very clearly General Chen is bidding for more money from Great Britain, in order that he may enlist the large number of Russian white guard mon- archist mercenaries to his standard for attacking the Canton government. That Canton is not wholly tranquil yet, or at pains to conceal its dislike of foreign plotters within its gates, is seen by the anti-British strike which not only cortinues, but which has laid down a boycott against the whole of the foreign settlement on Shameen Is- land, refusing to permit the entry of food stuffs to the island. Hsuchow Fallen to Wu. News from the north indicates that Chang Tsi-lin has thrown four divis- ions southward to Tsinan-fu, capital of Shantung province, to save it from the northern advance of troops of Wu Pei-fu. who are reported to have taken Hsuchow. Wu, so it is reported from Hankow, has declared that he is not connected with Communists and Bolshevists, but wants General Feng, whose rathe known, to join him against Chang and the Peking traitors. Cleveland Wade Park Residents Tax Selves in Move to Bar Negro CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 27.—A number of white landowners in the Wade Park district have joined an association and. are “taxing” them- selves to raise a fund to be used to fight Negroes attempting to buy property and reside in the district, To Buy Up Property. At a recent meeting the White peo- ple assessed a tax of one-half of one per cent of the value of their property, the fund to be used to buy lots that might otherwise go to Negroes. At the meeting, the white property owners fromed a permanent organ- ization. Try to Cut Off Charities. The whites also attempted to put pressure on Negro charities, asking the community fund to withdraw its contributions -to Negro charities if Dr. C. H. Garvin, a colored yhysician, did not agree to sell his newly built house “at a reasonable figure.” This proposition was defeated, it Being shown that Negroes contributed more money to the Cleveland com- munity fund than was received by Negro charities. Blame Earthquakes on Sunspots. SANTA CLARA, Cal., Oct. 27—That earthquakes may be traced back to gunspots was the theory advanced to- day by Ricard, famous seismologist and known as “padre of the rains” because of his monthly weather fore- casts based on observation of the sun’s spots. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. * sme To Save THE DAILY WORKER To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PATTSBURGH, PA. TWO ARTICLES—ARTICLE I. O better test can be had of a labor movement than its attitude toward the workers outside its ranks. If it | strives to organize them, even in un- fons that are structurally out of date and without, any social outlook other than that of the middle class, it is at least trying to strengthen itself for its daily struggles, is taking its du- ties as the organizer of the economic power of the workers seriously. The Atlantic City convention of the American Federation of Labor did not even measure up to this low standard of trade unionism. Its rec- prd on the elementary matter of or- ganization of the unorganized is enuf to make every honest trade unionist weep. BEFORE we take a look at the rec- ords of the convention on this matter it will be of value to examine the numerical strength of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and its prog- ress in the matter of organization, or lack of it, during the years 1923-25 for the reason that this period was one of great activity in industry many times approaching and once or twice exceeding the boom days of the war era, From the peak of its numerical strength of 1920, when the report of Secretary Morrison showed a mem- bership of 4,075,000, the A. F. of L. dropped to 3,200,000 in 1922 as a re- sult of the industrial depression fol lowed by the open shop drive. REVIVAL of industry began in the latter part of 1922 and by the time the 1923 convention rolled around no trace of the’ depression remained —except in the A. F, of L. member- ship rolls. . The report of Secretary Morrison to the 1923 convention showed that, not only had the A. F. of L, failed, dur- ing a year of widespread employment, to recover its previous losses but that thé losses had continued to the ex- tent of 300,000 members, the report showing a total enrollment of but 2,900,000. (No allowances are made in this article for the padding of membership figures by the affiljated unions in order to retain their voting strength in A. F. of L. conventions— the official figures serve our purposes splendidly.—W. F. D.) HE industrial revival continued with the exception of short slumps in isolated industries. Economists have been amazed by the vitality shown by American industry.and the consumption power of the population but the Official membership chart is- sued by the A. F. of L. shows that in fe’ a further loss of 100,000 mem- ? , 1925 finds American industry still following an upward course. A num- ber of basic industries have exceed- ed the 1923 figures and in the build- ing and automobile industry there is a real hoom. Railroad car loadings have passed all previous figures and altho an immense credit structure has been erected which is making the bankers uneasy and whose toppling will bring disaster, employment is still plentiful. 1925 takes its place with the boom years of 1923, and 1924. EC. MORRISON’S report to the At- lantic City convention shows a to- tal membership of 2,878,297, an in- crease of 78,297, over 1924. But the membership total is still, in round numbers, 322,000 below the 3,200,000 total of 1922. These are startling facts and sharp- ly visualize the effect upon the labor movement of the lack of a militant organization policy. Additionally sig- nificant is the fact that an examina- tion of the membership figures by unions shows that the increase has taken place principally in the build- ing trade unions, unions which work under the closed shop for the most part, in whose industry there is and has been abnormal activity and where the influx of membership is almost automatic with the increase in the number of jobs, rT‘O put it concisely: The American Federation of Labor, in three years of great industrial ac- tivity, has, according to its own fig- ures, suffered a loss of some 322,000 members’ besides failing to regain what might be called its normal strength in 1922. Nothing but sabotage of the ordin- ary routine of organization can ac- count for such a miserable showing. Labor officialdom is interested far more in “labor” banking, “labor” in surance companies and in war on the left wing than in organization. HE proceedings of the Atlantic City convention contain a wealth of concrete inormation revealing the mechanical processes by which organ- ization is hampered or made impos- sible. It is true that much lip-service is given to questions of organization and an impressive staff of “organ- izers” is maintained by the A. F. of L. itself and the affiliated national and international unions. In pract- ise, however, these organizers are merely administration boosters who conduct continuous campaigns for the machine in power, Under this system organization has come to mean every- thing but organization of the unor- ganized. By its craft divisions the A. F. of L., fosters a situation in which the unions supporting the machine are allowed to prey on its enemies, resulting in perpetual internecine strife that makes any bona fide or- ganization campaign impossible. O complicated is the A. F. of L. machine that. any resolution on be ccu . the: t radical recenf wutterhaces” are well-| > aio b00. rred, the enrollment being || . THE DAILY. WORKER ie A. F. of L. and the ~~ two instalments. PHS i is the second of a series of articles on of the A. F. of L. convention, which will deal with “The A. F. of L. and International Relations,” “The A. F. of L. and the Unorganized Workers,” “The A. F. of L. and the Class Struggle,” “The A. F. of’ L. and the Left Wing,” “The A. F. of L. and Militarism,” etc. The present article wit appear in a = organization can be referred to any one of a dozen committees or lower units and its purpose smothered. This is the constant practice. So well un- derstood is this procedure that any union desiring organizational assist- ‘ance must ask for the absolute minim- um in order to get its resolution con- requested to have a letter written to all city central labor unions re- questing them to bring to the atten- tion of their organizing committee the possibility of establishing a lo- cal unon of laundry workers in their city. This resolution was concurred in organized in a laundry workers’ union, the Teamsters’ Internationa! Union will put in a jurisdictional de- mand for them in spite of the fact that the Laundry Workers’ Union charter is industrial. HE office workers’ resolution is an- other example of the readiness with which the A. F. of L. grants “or- ganizing” assistance when a pious wish will satisfy the petitioners: RESOLVED, by this 45th annual convention of the A. F. of L. at Atlantic City, that the affiliated unions render all moral assistance in our organizing campaign. This resolution was likewise con- ON THE BOARDWALK The Negro:—“Whew! —Drawing by Gropper It’s Hard to Push These Leaders of Organized Labor!” —' curred in and the minimum is gener- ally meaningless. A typical example of this is a re- solution introduced by the Laundry Workers’ International Union at Atlantic City: That the executive council of the American Federation of Labor be unanimously. The delegate who in- troduced it can report back to his union that their resolution was adopt- ed. This will be all that will happen because the central bodies know that laundry wagon drivers are claimed by the teamsters and that, altho they are key workers, the moment they are He Knows What He Wants One of the Dele Communists. ates: —Drawing by Gropper —“To Hell with the Hot Stuff About the e Want Light Wine and Beer, and That's All!” Guardian Taxi-Cab Co. Drivers Win 5 Pct. Raise in Four-Day Strike A Worker Correspondent NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—All the drivers of the Guardian Taxi corpo- ration have returned to work follow- ing an increase in their commission. The men will receive 40% on the dollar instead of 35%. The strike lasted four days and un- til this morning not a wheel moved in any of the two garages. On the first day of the strike only 300 drivers walked out. These men were from the Bast 18th St. garage. When the other drivers at the 122nd street garage heard the news of their fellow work- ers on strike they also walked out Tuesday morning. 700 men were on strike. Official of the Taxi Limousine Chauffers’ Union Local 643 did noth- ing to help organize these workers. They were asked three different times, to aid in organizing the work- ers. Out to Find Murderer. SUTTON, W. Va., Oct. 27.—Search for the fiend who shot to death Mr. and Mrs. Nimrod Shingleton, both past sixty years of age, and cremated their bodies by burning their home, was startedkby Sheriff A. M. Bailey. Sta PON ee ce ~ “: 2 v OS Lig ailing O19 ered perp eee at Doe Be ae Ch ROR eet ‘ — . : T pati rear Professor Says Idea U.S.S.R. Ils Backward Country Is Erroneous MOSCOW, Oct. 27.—Professor Kru- ger, while on a visit in Moscow, said to a correspondent of Pravda: “People in Europe have a wrong conception of the U. 8. S. R. as a backward country: On the contrary, the Soviet government does not spare efforts to raise the level of education and culture in the republic. This is easily seen when on visits to schools, clubs, children’s houses and libraries. “We must note especially the col- lective education of the younger zeneration. ‘The rapid growth of edu- ‘ation in such a short time is unheard of. The U. S. S. R. is more advanced in. this respect than even Germany.” Prof. Kruger also mentioned the especially friendly relations existing between children and teaching staff all over the Soviet Union. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Court Considers Oil. THE HAGUE, Oct. 27.—The world court opened in the peace palace here today to hear the dispute between Great Britain and Turkey over the boundaries of Mosul. There were no counsel present to represent the Turkish government, ~~ EE Cee AER FEIN a ee et curred in but nothing was done about the complaint contained in a “where- as” that the international union of- fices did not make their employes join the office Workers union. “Moral as- sistance,” however, costs nothing. HE Bank Clerks’ Union offered a resolution that required a little different treatment. It contained a specific request that might have re- sulted, if concurred in, in some of the “organizers” having to do a little real organizing: RESOLVED, That the A. F. of L. | appoint special organizers for the year 1926 in the cities of New York, Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia to give their full time to organizing the bank clerks and that organiza- tion committees be organized of delegates representing the more in- fluential unions in those cities to help in the organizing campaign. Now watch what happens to this resolution in the resolution committee and the convention. The commitee reports: Your committee recommends that the resolve be changed to read that organizers be directed to give spe- cial attention to the organizing of bank clerks WHEREVER POSSI- | Labor. norg wn idweitl = By WilliamF. Dunne BLE and that city central bodies be requested to aid in this work. With this change your committee refers the RESOLUTION TO THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. (Emphasis Mine—W. F. D.) The report of the committee was adopted unanimously, HE machine wielded the club on the organizational aspirations of the Bank Clerks’ Union when it elli- minated the compulsory features of the resolution, when it gave the “or- ganizers” an alibi by stating “when- ever possible,” by substituting a re- quest to central bodies instead of the special organizing committee “of the most influential unions,” and finally when it referred the whole matter to the executive council. The banks clerks were lucky to be allowed to keep what little organiza- | tion they have, r. is very significant that even the few proposals for organization that are made come from federal labor unions, state federations and city cen- tral bodies—the only rank and file representation at A. F. of L. conven- tions. Such a resolution is the one introduced by the delegate from the North Carolina State Feddétation of The wages, living and work- ing conditions of workers, particular- ly in the textile industry of this state are miserably low. Child labor is pre- valent and thousands of women are also employed. The resolution point- ed out that “tens of thousands of workers in all lines of industry are unorganized, particularly textile work- ers,” and then resolved: That the officers and the execut- ive council of the American Federa- tion of Labor use every influence and means possible to bring about the organization of these thousands of industrial workers of North Caro- lina, ERD ie a resolution that any labor organization could adopt without hesitation; at least so it seems to those unitiated in the mysterious ways of A. F. of L. conventions. But the officials do not want organizing instructions from conventions. If they allowed this resolution to pass some honest delegate might arise at the next convention and inquire why they had done nothing to organize these textile slaves. So the committee re- ports: Your committee refers this reso- lution to the executive council. The textile workers of North Caro- lina will remain unorganized and if the delegate from its state federation protests—well, he has only one vote. So far we have seen glaring in- stances of sabotage of organizational resolutions coming from small unions and state bodies and dealing with spe- cific details of organization for these unions and localities. In the fhext article we shall see to what extent the A. F. of L. convention was interested in national organizing campaigns and also how it treats even large international unions which have incurred the displeasure of the officialdom or which the bosses want to put out of business. (To be concluded) CHICAGO MACHINIST LODGE SENDS | PROTEST RESOLUTION TO HORTHY EMBASSY AGAINST WHITE TERROR tion of Machinists of Chicago, Rakosij to the gallows was adopted: “Whereas, Mathias Rakosi and over one hundred other workers in Hun- gary, mostly members of the socialist labor party, have been arrested and submitted to the most terrible forms of torture in prison, and “Whereas, This new regin of ter- ror in the country which has in re- cent years ruthlessly suppressed the workers and murdered thousands un- der Horthy’s bloody dictatorship has been accompanied by the usual police- agent ‘frame-up’ of exposing a ‘Bol- shevik plot,’ in another attempt to crush out the trade unions and other militant workers’ organizations; and, “Whereas, Rakosi and his brother workers are being railroaded thru a court martial and face death sentence and execution ‘any day now, and are denied ordinary civil court procedure, and “Whereas, The workers of the en- tire world must show their solidarity against such an outrage and answer the Horthy dictatorship which is kept in power by foreign capitalists, and which tries to suppress and distort the facts, “Therefore, be it resolved, That Local No. 337 of Machinists’ Union vigorously condemns the torture and imprisonment »of these Hungarian workers and demands that the court martial, further torture, and prison or death sentences be stopped, and “Be it further resolved, That we rush this resolution to the Hungarian legation in Washington and the Hun- garian consul in Chicago with the request that it be sent to their gov- ernment; and to the labor press.” 1,594 Tractors Arrive in Moscow. MOSCOW—A steamer arrived from America to Novorosayisk that brot 1,594 tractors. Wrap your lunch in a copy of the DAILY WORKER and give it (the DAILY WORKER, not the unch) to your shop-mate. At the last meeting of the Freiheit Lodge No. 337, International Associa- the following resolution condemning the Horthy persecution of the Hungarian workers and the attempt to railroad Young Workers Strike Like Veterans By ALBERT WEISBORD PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 27-—The three hundred and eighty strikers of the Passaic Worsted Spinning Co. are conducting a heroic struggle to wipe off the wage cuts that the company has forced upon them. Most of the strikers are young boys and | girls, some in their teens and some just out of their teens. Their fight has completely taken the company by surprise. The company did not ex pect that they would show such fing: spirit and fight. The Second Wage Cut The workers of the Passaic Wome sted Spinning Co., are the most poor- ly paid woolen workers in Passaic, Only last year their wage was cut to $16.80 per week for forty-eight hours and now that is cut to $156.10. ; How the company can expect people to live on that wage, nobody knows, and in sheer desperation the workers have struck. The strikers are fighting not only for themselves but they are really fighting for all of the textile workers of Passaic. The Botany Mills, Consolidated Co. employing about 6,400 workers have just cut wages, the Pitkin Spinning Co. has just cut wages, the large Forstmann and Hoffman Co. plants and the New Jersey Spinning Co. em- ploying about 5,000 more workers are planning to cut wages. In such « situation the fight of the small Passaic Worsted Spinning Co. strikes is a fight of all of the workers ia Passaic. Weisbord On the Ground Albert Weisbord, secretary of the central bureau, United Front Commit- tees of Tetxile Workers has taken charge of the strike. Under his diree- tion order and discipline was esta- blished among the strikers, the lies of the bosses were exposed and some. organization started. Thirty of the strikers were sent to picket the Pit- kin Co. plant and get the workers out there if possible. Weisbord has stated that the United Front Committees of Textile Workers will strive to broaden and deepen this strike as much as possible. All the workers of Passaic, in the Garfield Mills, in the Botany Mills, in the Spinning Mills, all must support this strike and walk out. Workers, fight against the fifty-four hour week, fight against wage cuts, fight against the fake mill unions, fight for real mill committees and a real union in the textile industry. Mass meetings will soon be called to get all the workers in Passaic out. Italian Debt Commission Comes Up. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27. — The American and Italian debt commis- sions will meet at the treasury Mon- day to begin negotiations for funding Italy’s $2,380,000 debt to the United States. Job Harriman Dies. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 27.—Jeb Harriman, 64, socialist candidate for vice-president in 1900, is dead at Sier- ra Madre, after a lingering illness. LITHUANIAN BUREAU HOLDS SPECIAL MEETING TO DRAW PLANS TO AID DAILY WORKER The Lithuanian bureau held a special meeting October 19, to consider the condition of The DAILY WORKER. A strong appeal is being made to all members to stand by and insure The DAILY WORKER. Special collection was made at the bureau meeting, and a total of $36.50 was donated and collected for The DAILY WORKER at the session of the bureau. Reliant MiMi Mi Mati i iy Rn tie te te tt i. th th i th a a on in in ne eae eee > Workers! Join Your Local Co-operative Store. Demand from your co-operative “Co-operators’ Best” Products (Red Star, Blue Star, White Star and Yellow Star Brands) io Hystak ° Op Oo FE ‘Best Sy RN NTA Distributed by the co-operative wholesale. CO-OPERATIVE CENTRAL EXCHANGE, Superior, Wis. ~**s ee ee Fees S44 8444844 S844 O44 44S SHS SS OHSS HE HEH BS _ i i i i i i i i i i ee -_~ ** * 4 eee ee eee eee ee eee oe te Se Se SS : § : 2 a : * . : ¢ ee ae
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. pF _ _ =. . a ~ tes ‘+ A - : P Poe ee ner en is ine re te ag ae 2 ~ st a 2 bie Pee i er ee Ae ™ Lv Se ass Py Get reigns = ae sete ee - ‘ pi a a Se uta: et Fe 4 eS se ie Fe ae ss hv tag i ci lt Atigs, Oe ~ am eg Pa yt fag ee BEDE Shes I A. SO Gp sats Re ee ae FMR i Pe ai as ee ram Sh aa oy : Se BT oe YO Le gee e. > pee + SS : pate~ eA cit Ste he — Lott ws epee. # Py A : arblon (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Rumors circulating thru the capitol at Wash- ington have it that President Calvin Coolidge will make another attempt to name Charles Beecher Warren as member of his cabinet. The present Attorney General Sar- gent is to retire and accept the va- cancy to be znade by Senator Green who is recuperating from injuries re- ceived in a fight with some bootleg- gers and is expected to resign as. senator from Vermont, Expect to Pass Him Now The president feels that Warren's nomination will be accepted this time by the senate as two of those who opposed the administration, Ralston of Indiana and Ladd of’ North Dakota have died. In place of the democrat Ralston, a regular republican machine man has been appointed. No one will be appointed to succeed Ladd of North Dakota. The first time that Warren’s nomi- nation was defeated was a tie vote. General Dawes, organizer of the “Minute Men of the Constitution,” slept a little too long that morning, and after further discussion the vote was against Warren. Whitewash Beet Sugar Trust The second time the nomination ap- peared Warren was defeated. At- tempts will now be made to renomin- ate him. 4 Street Meetings in New York City for Thursday, Oct. 29th NEW YORK, Oct. 7—The street meetings being held every night in New York City under the auspices of the Workers (Communist) Party are attracting big crowds of workers and receiving splendid response. The following meetings and speak- ers are scheduled for Thursday night, Oct. 29: Fifth St. corner Second Ave.— Frankfeld, Suskin, Markoff, Siskind, K. Gitlow, DeLeon, Grecht, Brodsky. 116th St. corner Lenox Ave. and 110 St. corner Fifth Avefi— Pollack, Huiswood, Felshin, Hartman, Jampol- sky, Codkind, Trachtenber, B. Miller, Stachel, Brahdy, Weinstone. BROWNSVILLE: Hopkinson, cor- ner Pitkin Ave.: Erlich, C. Miller, Krumbein, Scherer, Chernenko, Rosen, Katz, Potash, Undjus, Nesin, Lifschitz, Wolfe, Bentall. rib the Horthy While T HE International Red Aid has issu- ed the following appeal to the peasants, workers and intellectuals: From the walls of the Budapest po- lice prison there resounds the cries of pain and agony of the tortured Hun- garian workers and peasants. The worst teftror of Horthy of the years 1919 and 1920 has returned. Hun- dreds of workers and peasants who were condemned six years ago for participation in the Hungarian Soviet republic are still pining in Hungarian prisons, and Horthy and his govern- ment are again seeking for fresh vic- tims from the ranks of the ‘Hungarian proletariat for the dungeon and the ‘gallows. The ‘revolution in ‘Hungary has not slaked its thirst for revenge. Workers and peasants are to be thrown into prison on account of their opinions, and on account of their having participated six years ago in the Soviet republic. RKING men and women! You must not tolerate the employment again of the bloody methods of Horthy. The Hungarian working and peasant proletariat expects your help, expects the support of fellow workers in all countries. The workers, peas- ants and intellectuals must every- where raise their voices in sharpest protest against the brutal regime of violence and torture in Hungary. The Hungarian government must be made | times are past in exercise undisturbed with the aid of bestial officers’ bands and police. Wy ORKERS, peasants and intellectu- als in all countries! Raise your voice in protest against the brutal persecution and the sup- pression of the workers’ and peas- ants’ movement in’ Hungary! Raise your veice in protest against the arrest of workers.and peasants and honest and brave labor leaders! Protest against the special courts and the new blood justice which is be- ing. prepared! — Demand at protest meetings and resolutions, wh should be sent to the Hungarian government and com- rades: The immediate release of the ar- rested- The immediate abandgnment of all trials. The punishment of those responsi- ble for the mishandlings and tortures. The unrestricted right of combina- tion for the Hungarian ~workers and peasants* . amar # ROUMANIAN FEDERATION MEET BACKS PARTY REORGANIZATION. At.a conferencé held on Sunday, October 11, of a group of leading com- rades of the Roumanian section of the Workers (Communist) Party, special steps were taken regarding reorganization. We herewith reprint the resolution which was adopted by the Rouman- ian comrades endorsing reorganization: . “Due to the composition of the+ working class of America, wherein a [ great number of workers are foreign- born and divided in different national- ities, the Workers Party of America is of necessity composed of different federations. Federation Outworn Form “The federation form of organiza- tion, having served the purpose of uniting the class conscious elements, cannot function properly in partici- pating in the politcal struggles. “Based on this experience, the Workers Party of America has deci- ded on its reorganization on the basis of shop nuclei, and has adopted a cen- tralized form of organization, instead of the present form of federations. Realizing however the necessity for propaganda and education bein carried on among workers, provisions formation of workmen’s c place of the present language branch- es. “The representatives of the Rouman- ian Federation of the Workers Party jof America, meeting in special con- Hold Se ’om Leave these dates open so you can attend each of the Dally Worker RESCUE PARTIES | Saturday, Oct. 31— | Rescue Party | St., | Saturday, Oct. 31— | Rescue Party Saturday, Oct. 31— Rescue Party Monday, Nov. 2— | Rescue Party Friday, Nov. .6— Soviet Anniversary Celebrations | Sunday, Nov. 8— ‘Sunday, Nov. 15— | Rescue Party : Friday, Nov. 20— Rescue Party poe f| Wednesday, Nov. 25— Royal Rescue Party co. Sunday, Jan. 16— a a eer Hungarian Workers’ Home, 350 East 81st New York. Admission 50c. Auspices Yorkville Branches. West Side Workers’ Hall, St., New York. Admission 36c. Auspices West Side Branches. Educational Alliance, 76 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn. Admission 50c. Auspices Jew- ish Williamsburg Branch. Finnish Workers’ Hall, Brooklyn. Admission 50c. Auspices South Brooklyn Branches. Central Opera House, 205 East 67th*St., New York and Miller’s Grand Assembly, 318 Grand St., Auspices Workers Party, District Two. Jamaica Woods—Daily Worker Builders’ Club Hike. 108 East 14th St., New York, at 10 a. m. _ Hike or at end of Elevated, Fulton Ave., Ja- | maica, 11 a. m. 4 Bronx Workers’ Hall, 1347 Boston Road, | Saturday, Nov. 1 Bronx. Admission 50c. Auspices Bronx Rescue Party Branches. 7 Finnish Workers’ Home, 15 West 126th St., New York. Admission 50c. Auspices Harlem Branches. Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St., Town New York Branches. Auspices Williamsburg Branches. DAILY WORKER ANNIVERSARY BAN- QUET, Manhattan Lyceum. (ALL 8 P. M. UNLESS NOTED) For tickets or information regarding any of the above affairs apply to L. E. Katterfeid, 108 East 14th Street (Tel. 301 West 29th 764—-40th Street, Brooklyn. Admission 50c. Meet at Daily Worker office, New Admission 50c. Auspices Down Palace Hall, 16 Manhattan Ave. Broadway), Brooklyn. Admission Stuyvesant 8100.) - = —— eer ee ee ee ae In Pittsburgh | | 0 Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Auspices | Friday, Oct. 3 Workers Party and Young Workers | Rescue Party League. VERA NS 2 Tats xa at ference, Sunday, October 11, 1925, approved the program for reorganiza- tion, and decided that: Join Shop of Street Nucleus “1. The members of the federation are to be immediately attached to a shop or street nucleus. The federa- tion shall be considered as attached to the party, and workmen’s clubs shall be organized in place of branch- es. “2. These clubs are to be connect- ed with the administration of the paper Desteptarea for the purpose of supervising their activities. “3. The purpose of these clubs is to promote the interests of the Rou- manian workers of America, to carry educational work on the basis of he class struggle, amongst the Rou- j}manian workers. ‘4. Way and means of carrying out the education among the Roumanian workers is by supporting and widely circulating the official organ of the | Roumani the and by distributing educational] liter-- ature among the Roumanian workers. Carry On All Activities “General activities, such as public meetings, educational lectures, con- ferences, etc., and social gatherings, the arranging of theater plays, sing- ing groups, sports, etc., as a means of recreation, and broadening the gen- eral knowledge of the Roumaniay workers, are to be employed also. “The activities of the clubs will be carried on independent of any politic- al party, and therefore any worker can become a member of the club, re- gardless of his or her political opin- jon, so long as he or she supports and adheres to the class struggle, and is for the emancipation of the work- ing class.” c 2 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Henry Ford applied to the interstate com- merce commission for permission to acquire the Detroit, Toledo & Iron- ton railway, the estimated value of which was $13,022,837 on March 31 last, ' Control! would be acquired by the purchase by Ford of 63,763 shares of common and 59,326 shares of pre- ferred stock in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railway. At the same time, the auto king asked the commission for authority to issue 123,088 shares of common stock, par value $100, and $10,973,- 500 worth of first mortgage, 5 per cent bonds, on the Detroit & Iron- ton railway, which he has owned for several years. The proposed bond issue will be absorbed entirely by the Ford fam- ily—Henry, Edsel and Mrs. Clara J. Ford—at par, : changed for secarities of equal value in the new road, the Detroit, To- ledo & women ; Oct. 27—Great Britain is scrapping some of her out-of-date na- val equipment it was announced by the admiralty. All second clasS submarines, with the exception of one, are to be scrap. LONDON, ped and many auxiliary ships are soon to be ordered into reserve. What do you earn? ditions in your shop? live? WORKER. What are con- How do you Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. TASKS AT PITTSBURGH WORKERS PARTY TAKES UP REORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP MEET the purpose of taking up concretely party was held in Pittsburgh. More than one hundred comrades special committee “wags chosen follow up and secure the registration of all those party members who happened to be absent from this meet- ing. There were some members who failed to come to this meeting, due to the fact that they had been previ- ously excused for other special party work. The meeting was considered an all rqund success and a good beginning for the reorganization of the party in this city. The intention is to complete the reorganization within two weeks time. ' A committee is also at work clasgsi- fying the registration blanks and pre- paring for the organization of shop nuclei. Comrades who cannot be at- tached to shop nuclei will be organ- ized into various street nuclei. Definite meeting dates will be arranged for each of the new party units. No diffi- culty is expected in the process of reorganization. Search for Three Men. BOSTON, Oct. 27.—The coast guard cutter Acushnet, a seaplane and two patrol boats were searching the land, for trace of three men in a dory, while their disabled three masted schooner, the J. D. Webster was being towed into Rockland by the coast guard’ cutter Red Wing, according to an announcement at the coast guard headquarters here, PITTSBURGH, Oct., 26——On October 18, a city membership meeting for the question of reorganization of the ~ were present and were registered, accordance with the provisions of the national organization department. A to+— _and would be ex:— Write a story for The DAILY | PURCELL MESSAGE Realize Need of Unity Among Labor Unions KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 27—Mark- ed interest has been shown by Locals when the committees told them who Purcell was and that hig subject was ‘World Trade Union Unity.” Barney McCoy and R. Eastwood, business re- presentative of the Meat Cutters’ Local, have been canvassing the unions that have met at the Labor Temple and. have had commendable success. A big turn out is expected for the meeting November 4th, when. Bill Green, president of the A. F. of L. spoke here some months ago at a well advertised meeting among union- ist he had an overflowing crowd of some two hundred people. Response in this tity must be gauged from a relative standpoint. The local inter- est is keeping pace with the nearness of the date and workers are looking forth to a threat of their lives. Some trade unionists do not know what it is all about from a world standpoint but they realize the neces- sity of unity from a local standpoint, for the craft disputes are breaking the solidarity that must exist for workers to maintain and advant¢e their posi- tion. They see it from a local stand- point in spite of the false leadership and they will understand it from a world standpoint when they have it presented to them by A. A. Purcell, | next Wednesdy at the Labor Temple. The committees first choice for the chairman jig Frank P. Walsh ational prominent lawyer. JUDGES ASSIST RAIL COMPANY / TO BOOST FARES An injunction was granted to the Chicago & Northwestern railway ‘a straining the Illinois commerce ¢o mission or any other state body from interfering with the collection of the increased suburban passenger fares now effective on the roads. Judges James H. Wilkerson, A. B. Anderson and Adam C. Cliffe granted the. company a temporary injunction upholding the fare increase which the wee had been granted by the In- terstate rnc commission. the road would have a deficit of $12,- 000,000 if an increase in rates was not granted, the Illinois commission after investigating the company’s de- mand decided that the fare increase was uncalled for and refused to grant it. The company then went before the interstate commerce commission, where they received an order allow- ing them to boost fares. The state attorney contended that the judga could not issue the order as the fare increase was not an inter- state problem but an intrastate. The judge waved aside all objections and a temporary injunction was granted. The date for arguing the permanent injunction has not been set. Saw Light on S-51, BOSTON, Oct. 27.—Twenty minutes before the steamship City of Rome rammed and sank the submarine S-51, with a loss of 33 lives, the. captain of the liner and his first officer at the wheel observed the lights of the un- dersea boat. ! This was the gist of the testimony given at the naval inquiry into the disaster by Timothy L. Drier, third officer of the City of Rome, a resi- dent of Savannah, Ga. waters off the Maine coast near Rock- |, RUSSIAN SECTION IS MOBILIZING UNITS TO SAVE DAILY WORKER The central bureau of the Russian section of the Workers (Communist) means of reaching thousands and thousands of workers, with the real news from the trenches of the class struggle, and with the message of Leninism. “In this country we have about 26 such Communist papers. But the most important of all these papers is our DAILY WORKER-—the only Commun- ist daily in the English language in the world. “Comrades, The DAILY WORKER must be supported not only ‘by our English speaking membership. Our Russian comrades, as well as all other with the English speaking comrades, must take the responsibility for the maintenance of our chief organ, The DAILY WORKER which is the main source of Communist propaganda_ in this country, “Comrades, our DAILY WORKER— the weapon that protects the work- ing class against the bosses, is in danger! “Thru our fices, we WORKER. We received with joy the | frst issue of our daily. It is up to great efforts and sacri- Party of America has unanimously adopted the following resolution, as ar appeal to its branches to come to the aid of The DAILY Paieescsariade Ne “The Communit press is a powerful” language sections comrades, together established The DAILY is now to keep the daily going. We nust enlist not only the entire party membership, but also workers who are not yet members of the party to help The DAILY WORKER as the organ of their class. The -DAILY WORKER. belongs to those who toil. It is they, the workers, who will sacrifice their hard earned pennies to keep it alive! “Comrades! Are you ready? The DAILY WORKER depends on you! “The Russian section has design- ated November as the Red Month of agitation and propaganda for the pur- pose of getting new members into the ranks of the party, for the purpose of rallying the Russian workers around the Novy Mir and The DAILY WORKER. “The bureau calls upon its branch- es not to wait until November to get financial support for The DAILY WORKER. Do it now. Our daily needs funds now. “During the coming week, our slo- gan must me: “Every member of the Russian sec- tion to the support of The DAILY glish daily of the Comintern!” The organization departanent We quote in part: from the New York city reorganization ec “Held four out of six eaneuisherith te -majn attended.. The 10% which did not attend the tiny brancehs and we will take care of them. Last night the same atténdance occured. “We gave them the enclosed mate- rial and a copy of the registration card. The committee decided to be- gin registration in branches during the week October 25th to November 8th and to complete tration at the section meetings. We feel that this gives us better success in registration without interfering in any arrange- ment; especially is this so, for if we were to get mobilization of the mem- bership for the meetings, the com- rades who visit them at the homes can at the same time get their re- we asked the financial secretaries fill out the names and addresses of the comrades, This will give us clear- ly the names and addresses. We also asked them to fill out, first of all, the place of employment, as this is the most essential bit of information. “We divided the city into eleven sections. This is an industrial division of the city and insures as nearly as ‘possible good working areas. To these sections we have the comrades as- signed according to the directions contained on form 4, This form is given to functionaries, but we ar going to print it and send it. to every individual. member. We are arrang- ing to have section meetings during the one week of November 16 to 23rd, excluding the 17th which is the date two more sections met and I believe “We believe the ‘divided as to give us about 200 bers per section. We aa 3 : | forty comrades, training nuclei work so that at meetings they can at the form shop nuclei. We have ¢ thé financial secretaries to certified list of mem be a control sheet and in column we have. asked us the standing of the we will be able to p same time.” i li : : F i ra? a5 : £5 i te i gistration, To facilitate Paaarecag « Stage Has Been Set -for Mitchell’s Trial — by U.S. 3. Army Heads WASHINGTON, i. Ook 27—The stage for the court martial of Col. | Mitchell, on. charges of conduct “pre- judicial to good order and military discipline,” has been set. generals who will hold the military future of the “flying colonel” in their hands arrived .in Washington. The four other members of the Build the DAILY WORKER. — $15,000 MARK PASSED IN FIGHT TO PRESERVE LABOR’S NEWSPAPER branch; bureau, Chicago; Russian branch, ver, Colo. hel | ‘$300.00 Saturday, made ake a continuation of 3. Six organizations of the WORKERS PARTY and vone sympathetic organization, in a total of almost ‘six more rolls of print paper: Cleveland, O., Jewish ston, Mass., Lettish branch; Lithuanian Jewish branch, Portland, Philadelphia, Pa.; Workmen’s Circle, Br. 450, Den- To these militant groups, whose present aid is but past __ ER, this. issue is. gratefull y dedicated. possible the purchase of Buffalo, WN. Y.; Ore.; Lettish branch, for THE DAILY WORK- °* - - - Followin | DAILY WORKER, bringing the fall to $15,348.13: : Joseph Campbell, Los Angeles, California he Alex Gould, Palmetto, Fia. ........ N. W. English branch, W. P., Chicago, Ill. (collected by Luba Adelson) sidaphauedl 7 ae 5.00 10.00 H. Schmidt, Elmhurst, L. L, New York 5.00 W. L. Philippus, Grand Rapids, ; Michigan 5.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Marengo, Wis. . 15.00 Lithuanian Society, South Nor- . wood, Mass. 5.75 Jewish Branch, Workers. Party, Cleveland, Ohio 75.00 J. X. Siwozynski, Porterville, ° Lalit. SEL GEN Wea Ce ly Se 2.50 Jewish Branch, Workers Party, New Hayen, Conn. ... 25.00 Howard L. Overhulse, Napoleon Ohio 5.00 Collected by J. H. Wenpier, Mount Vernon, Wash. ............ 4.00 Lettish Branch, Workers Party, Boston, Mass. 50.00 Geo. Rowlyk, Detroit, Mich. 4.00 Collected by John Hillberg ‘of Ashtabula, Ohio 15.00 Lettish Branch, Workers Pasty, Philadelphia, Pa. 25.00 %. Lupa, Philadelphia, Pa TEM 5.00 V. P. S. Osasto, Kalama, Wash. 5.00 ‘rs. C. Cassidy, San Francisco, Calif. 5.00 .ewish Branch, Workers ‘Patty, Buffalo, N. Y. ...... 27.50 Salman Berke, Mitchell Magy- ar, Kalman Balint, Columbus, Ohio ‘ 3.00 Lithuanian Workers’ Literary Society, Bristol, Conn. ............ 10.25 M. Puchacz, Chicago, Ill. ....... 2.00 M. Krinberg, St. Paul, Minn. ... 3.00 Gug Daubeneck, Caspar, Calif..... 10.00 South Slavic Branch, W. P., of Johnston City; Ill. 5.00 Wed Pix: Blea CH Baie vcsecsi cigs ce 5.00 Lithuanian Branch No. 90, of is the list of donations received Monday by THE total amount raised so far this WORKER! Long Live the only ai 5 : a HERE ARE FUNDS TO BUY PAPER we FOR OUR DAILY ? % 2 Wy" u Name: : ek a¥ i Address: AA) ‘ City: ALi i j y] State: } , oa ; “ e 9 SY ies ae green >. | egednenre nent: yee dion eaiaaeeaieaie Carnegie, Pa. . 5.00 Clarence Cross, Fert Myers, Florida 1.00 Geo. Coreni, Arlington, N. J. 1.00 William C. Eggeling, Hoboken, N. J. we «=«:1.00 E. J. Beggs, Portsmouth, Va. 3.00 J. Soos, Richmond, Ind. .............. 2.00 Anna Gaines, Denver, Colo. ...... 1.00 ‘Russian Br., Workers Party, Portland, Ore., . 25.00 F. H. Schuman, Buffalo, N. y. es 1,00 Newark Br., Workers Party, Chatham, N. J. 10.50 Lithuanian Bureau, W. P. ........ 10.00 Lithuanian comrades, Chicago 25.50 Geo. Hoffman, Pine Bluff, Ark. 1.00 B. F. Wilson, Detroit, Mich. ...... 5.00 I, Stamfer, D. D. S. New York 15.00 Davis Haines, Hutchison, Minn. 3.00 J. H. Jensen, Los Angeles, Calif. 4.25 } English Branch, Workers Party pan Pedro, Catt. 4 .2%...-<d...<0 15.00 Russian Br., Workers Party, Hamtramck, Mich. 7.00 Sabino Martinez, Zbor City, Fla. 2.00 N. Goianovich, Pittsburgh, Pa. 5.00 G. Dreuth, San Francisco, Calif. 45 R. A. Martinez, New York ........ 4.50 J. Lapin, Seattle, Wash. .....:...... 1.00 Charlotte Anita Whitney, uae land, Calif. 5.00 S. M. Evans, Aberdeen, Wash. 3.00 Workmen’s Circle, Branch 450, Denver, Colo. 21.75 Leonard Forschler, Denver, Colo. xe 1.00 Alphonse Pailleron, ‘Dowell, Ill. 1.00 E. J. Gayan, Clifton, Arizona 4.00 Max Epstein, New York, N. Y. 1.00 A. C. Barrett, Warspite, Alta, Canada 1.00 M. F. Osteen, Dawson, New Mexico 5.00 | TOTAL...... $ 530.95 Previously Acknowledged ...... 14,817.18 | Total to Date $15,348.13 oo
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dk “MILLION EAT HOUSES LIKE IT ‘But It’s Time to Get. "Em ] insets ae —_ ee By JOHN PERRIDES, Worker Corresponde nt. *“"'In one of the west side restaurants we Greek workers work long hours for scant wages. Almost all of us lave to put in a full day’s work and ” “a hard one, but above all the porter -- the dish washers get the most slaving work I ever saw. “ “ The dish washers get sixteen dollars ‘per. week, and specially the day shift "ig the hardest of all. These poor “slaves have to wash all the dishes, ‘and when through with that, they *have to peel on the average of a “bushel and’a quarter of potatoes "every day. Pile on the Misery. That is a day’s work itself and then a quarter bushel of onions, carrots, celery, then extra pots and cans to be Washed yet. Sometimes they are so tired that "When the chef calls them to eat they are too exhausted, but have to stuff “2004 down or else go without, ed ter dinner (which is only 15 minutes “tO rest while eating, too) most of hese poor devils get some more dishes, pots and so on to wash, some more potatoes to peel, to sweep the kitchen, scrub the floor—this last with all their strength. _. When they get through with this ‘they can start with the busy supper | a“ period until they get off at 6:30 or 8 p. m. according to shift. This place does good business, but. the bosses are still kicking because they are dreaming of the time during the war when they rolled in money. | The Boss Should Worry! Pay day is Tuesday, but last week we had to wait till Thursday night to get our miserable wages, because the boss was out for a good time with a girl, When he came back tothe place he didn’t excuse himself for the delay, although one of the workers was in bad need of money and had to walk home ‘because he didn’t have carfare. Such are the conditions in the Greek restaurants. Why? Because of lack of organization and understanding among Greek workers. I wish once more to seé a mighty union in the Greek restaurants, 80 we can breathe’ liberty and see better conditions and live as human beings—not like slaves. Still Seek K. K, K. Jury. NOBLESVILLE, Ind.; Oct. 27.—The third week of the trial of D. C. Stephenson, former K, K. K. dragon, Earl Gentry and Earl Klinck, accused of murder in connection with the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, last March, opened here today with both defense and state at- torneys trying in vain to agree on the last two jurors. Ten veniremen had been tentative- ly selected when court convened this morning, with the third hundred pros- pective jurymen rapidly being excus- ed. Judge Will M. Sparks, presiding as special magistrate, ordered a fourth venire of 100 today, the first of whom will be summoned into court tomorrow, should the attorneys fail to select the final two during the day. | Pk ——— site. | INTERNATIONAL TAILORING COMPANY per Fs "ee = ae a bat § hy = a Ta wee ass #38 at Liat ; Ae PAL > 4 7 4 or : *~ 7 sa ee we ” { 7 ‘ : Saas at ad a ae ng es Lae + oh hy y . te are re ae “s 8 eg Lt : f Ae ate Te, et" aes ‘ef ke tees —— a ae aes ee ne: us ar pee ah ‘ y ye ie ia : - +” « ‘ a f me ef Se ; P he eee 4 - TH E.. DAILY. WORKER STRIKERS RECEIVE FINANCIAL AID FROM AMALGAMATED UNION MEMBERS NEW YORK, Oct. 27 ~The. ‘aia insaetneshite of the Amaigamated Clothing Workers’ Union thruout the country is mobilizing against the twin International Tailoring Co. and J. L. Tailoring Co. of New York, Chicago, Moline and Rock Island, says a statement from union headquarters here. This national support has already evidenced itself in a $10,000 check from | Rochester, an advance of the $2 per member assessment there; in a $500 advance from Cleveland, where the union members assessed themselves $1 each and in the $2 assessment “ the+ New York cutters. The strikes, now in their aren month, have been featured by an in- juction writ in New York that outdid all but a few previous injunctions in their severity; by scores of arrests by raids in Chicago where police broke into union headquarters drag- ging out officialg and by the moral support of many American Federation of Labor unions. This support, how- ever, has been in part set off by the course taken by the United Garment Workers’ Union, the al men’s clothing union from which. the Amal- gamated sprung, in making an agree- ment in Chicago with the gtruck firm and attempting to have the work done by the members of its own union. Coolidge He Will Be Pennsylvania Senator NORRISTOWN, Pa, Oct. 27.—Ralph Beaver Strassburger, who married the Singer sewing machine millions, is threatening the Coolidge administra- tion that he will run for senator with the intention of making things un- pleasant for Kool Kautious Kal be- cause of the latter’s indorsement of the Secretary of State Kellogg's barr- ing the Countess Catherine Karolyi from the United States. Strassburger had invited the countess._to come to his palatial residence in Norristown for a visit, but the state secretary re- fused to allow her to enter. “I will teach these frightened old chumps a lesson, I will run for sen- ator next year,” declared Strassburger. “Pepper wants to be re-elected. Pin- chot will run against him as a dry. I will run against him.as a wet and a regular. When I ran for delegate at large last year, the Vare organization got behind me and I beat Pinchot hands down.” Boss Vare at present is on the outs with the Pepper-Mellon crowd and is looking around for someone to be can- didate who will be able to spend a goodly sum of money. The efficiency of the Vare machine has just been disclosed in the opening of ballot box- tes in 51 Philadelphia districts, where in a three-cornered fight these dis- tricts reported am identical number of votés for the Vare candidate, identical | totals in all districts for the demo- cratic candidates and zeros for the in- dependent candidates. Strassburger contributed between one and two million dollars to the republican party slush fund in Penn- sylvania during the last presidential elections. — Encourage Young Painters. MOSCOW — Collegium of the peo ple’s commissariat of education de- cided to establish special funds to help young painters. The assistance will be given by lump sums or month- ly payments. | OUR DAILY PATTERNS e «a ‘ @ = > ae: oe f1 “ong (] PRACTICAL UNDERWEAR. 4944. Cut in 4 sizes: Small, 34-36; medium, 388-40; large, 42-44; extra large, 46-48 inches bust measure. A medium size requires 156 yard of 36- inch material. Price 12c. CHILD’S DRESS. 5243. Cut in 5 sizes: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. A 2-year size requires 1% yard of 36-inch material. Price 12c. yr big <2 ee gy B are mailed by the man- ufacturer direct the customer. The Y WORKER i ot keep a stock When that argument begins at lunch time in your shop tomor- row—show them what the DAILY WORKER says about it. ed by | inches wide. LADIES’ HOUSE DRESS, 4990. Cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 48, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure, A 38-inch size made with long sleeves requires 45% yards of 36-inch material. With short sleeves 4% yards wiil be required. The width at the foot is 1% yard. Price 12c. MISSES’ DRESS. 5260. Cut in 3 sizes: 16, 18 and 20 years. A 16-year size made as illue- Y| trated will require 1% yard of plain material and 2% yards of figured 54 Without sleeves 1% yard f oplain is required. The width of dress at lower edge is 2% yards. Price 12c. FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send i%c in silver or stamps for our up-to-date Fall sh aaten’ So Ehes — Book of i ha tea oo A containin s Palen’ and o a. con- cise ane score “pattern on fone rinoeestlng® hot ast stitches), a oe Manat gg Bn . by : 7 S | SPANISH TROOPS FLEE ADJIR AS RIFFS ATTACK Invaders Retreat as City Burns PARIS, Oct. 27.—Spain’s much heralded victory at Alhucemas Bay and the capture of the Riffian strong- hold of Adjir have faded. The oc- cupation of Adjir was over almost as soon as it was started. The Spanish troops in that sector are in desperate straits. This was the information reaching Paris today from Melilla, Spanish Morocco. Military circles admit that the Spanish troops no longer occupy Aj- dir. The only territory which Spain has been able to hold after her domin- ation of the whole Alhucemas Bay sec- tion is a strip five kilometers long and | three kilometers wide, where 16,000 troops are cut off from any provisions and water except those brought them by boat. + The Spanish evacuation of Ajdir started the day ofter the sacking and the burning of the town, which was deserted by the Riffians before the Spanish entered. The Spanish then retired to the heights dominating Aj- dir from the northwest, while the Riffs have retaken the town from the south and east. French Lose Artillery. GIBRALTAR, Oct. 27.—The French lost four complete batteries thru a de- termined Riffan attack near the junc- tion of the Spanish-French forces on the eastern front. The Riffs would have completely defeated the French in this sector if it had not been for the arrival of bombing planes. With the aid of the bombing planes, the French were able to regain three cannon. Before the Riffs retreated leaving the cannon, they were put out ot: - eration. Take Spanish Post. On the same night a Spanish out- rig Be the Alhucemas sector was at- by Riffians dressed in the uni- form of the Spanish native troops. The occupants of the post, belonging to the foreign legion, were holding a concert and were completely sur- prised. The whole garrison of forty-six men were killed, with the exception of the Heutenant in command. The Spanish losses around Alhucemas are officially reported as 1,000. The Riffians are waiting windstorms which will prevent support from the sea, before launching an attack on the Alhucemas. Violent Storms Sweep Spain. MADRID, Oct. 27, — All of west Spain was swept by violent storms over the week-end, according to re- ports reaching the capital today. Prop- erty loss was enormous, but no casula- ties were reported. ‘ty in the means of production upon ‘LABOR’ BANKS GET THE BOOT IN HODCARRIERS Local 113, Milwaukee, Rejects the Plan By GREGORY PRODANICH Worker Correspondent. .MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 27.—The report of delegates from the Federated Trades Council to Local 113, Hod Car- riers, Building and Common Laborers, gave an impetus to hot discussion on the question of a “labor banking sys- tem” which is to be organized im Madi- son, Wis. The minute the delegates reported, one of the militants got the floor and explained to the rest of the fank and file the real meaning of the so-called “labor” banking system. The mili- tant, in his short talk gave a very clear explanation of relations between the West Virginia mines, which are owned by B. of L. E. members, and the U. M. W. of A. ‘The mines that are owned by the Brotherhood are scab mines bought with money from the B. of L. E. Bank, and there is constant friction and struggle with the U. M. W. of A. The U. M. W. tried to organize these mines but without any success. This example showed that the money which is invested in vcs prea from these banks do not help tie workers a single fota, quite the contrary. The labor fakers that are supposed to represent the workers are drawing 10, 15 and 20 thousand dollars a year. These “fat boys” do not represent the interest of rank and file because they are simply parasites on the hides of the workers who are paying their fat salaries. Local Votes Against Labor Banking. After a discussion on labor banking, a motion was made by one of the left wingers to repudiate the labor bank- ing system in toto thruout the coun- try. The motion was carried without any opposition, which proves that the membership is growing tired of class collaboration of vanious kinds, “labor banking systems,” etc. Plain rank and filers are beginning to see that the only solution from wage slavery lies, not in “labor bank: ing,” but in abolition of private proper- which the wage slavery is based. Elect New Chairman. “On new business a motion was made to declare the ‘president's chair vacant ‘and elect a new chairman. The faker that was defeated tried to prove that of the union: all right, but | the leaders of the trade union move ment—Green, Lewis, etc.—are smart people and as long as they are not in favor of amalgamation we can’t do anything.” The militant member asked him in reply: “But suppose the rank and file demands the amalgamation, what would the ‘smart’ leaders do?” Right after the election of a new lo- cal president, the militant was on the job and sold the new chairman a pamphlet “Struggle of the Trade Uni- ons Against Fascism.” At the meet- ing there was sold $1.20 worth of vari- ous kinds of pamphiets issued by the Trade Union Educational League. The field for revolutionary activity is very broad and fertile. Only pa- tience and constant activity will bring results. Get on theijob, comrades! -— Letters from Our Readers To The DAILY WORKER:—To read The DAILY WORKER every day, to see the struggle) that it is carrying every day for the workers and against the capitalists, to see the spirit which it is holding up, to know the reason and the idea for which it stands, and with this all, to know the bitterness and the difficulties which it has to pass in order to reach thé purpose for which it exists, i. e., to know that in order to help us, fight for us, it needs our help, our support, to know all of these and yet to not respond to its call, to not take part in its rescue from dangerous crises, seems to be impossible for me. I see the danger right ahead of me that might come out as the result of the crises that The DAILY WORKER might not be able to overcome unless we believers in it help it to. I see the danger and therefore, I feel too, that I have to do my very best to take part in the action necessary to save The DAILY WORKER. Here I enclose a money order of $3.15. It is my one guccessful week's earning, very little for the purpose, but that is all what I could do for the present. This is my response to one of the three slogans raised by The DAILY WORKER and that one is “Buy a book.” So please, send me the books listed below. I believe that these books will be a great. help to me in the fight that I have to carry. They will be a great pleasure and sat- isfaction for me until the time when I again will be able to send for more books. In connection with this I cali to all our comrades, worker brothers and sympathizers to devote at least one day’s earning for The DAILY WORK- ER, no matter how much it is, tak- ing one of the slogans that they may please. I am making this calh with the 4. x9 hope that all those who have been in- tolerably suffering and still suffer un- der the yoke of the capitalist system, those who like to see The DAILY WORKER in its full strength to fight for the workers and against the capi- talists, who have been living and still are living and enjoying the life on account of the toilers’ biood, will re- spond to it. Comrades, this is a moment that our party press, which has done and is doing its best to fight for us, real- ly needs our help, and that ig to con- tinue the fight more intensively, more energetically until the capitalist sys- tem exists no longer and a workers’ government takes the place. Long live tke fighting spirit of the workers. Down with capitalism. Long live the workers’ and peas- ants’ government. Fraternally yours, V. S. D. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow. a « , » 2 ie Ae fa We é de gt ge ae aA a ”, a a a oa y We ‘ | testing against the wage cut. a en ee; "|PERSECUTION OF WORKING CLASS - ARTISTS AND WRITERS CONTINUES | UNABATED IN GERMAN REPUBLIC SILK WORKERS’ UNIONS SET UP BERLIN, Oct. 27.—The German ruthless censorship and absolutism, a and literature. lotine of justice which is even more secution and arrest of revolutionary artists and writers becomes more and more the daily method of suppressior in Germany. The most extraordinary case: in this respect is that of the actor Rolf Gaertner. He had recited in a cele- bration of the Russian Revolution in November, 1924, poetry of Mackay, Muehsam, Kanehi and others, which one can buy in every bookstore le- gally. Despite this, he was accused before the state supreme court fo) violation of the law for the protection of the republic and was sentenced to one’ year and three months imprison- ment. As this action had been com- mitted after October, 1923, his case Was not included in the amnesty and the actor, who has fallen ill during his imprisonment, has to serve his sentence. This particularly shocking case does not stand alone. The writer Raichle was arrested together with all the actors because he had written an: produced a play “The Red Smiths,’ and the whole furniture was confis cated in Uroch. Raichle remainec some months in prison and was late! released on bail. He is being accuse: of incitement against and violatio: of the law for the protection of th: to bring-about again times like those of Metternich, the times of the most The only modernization of the persecutions is the purely external alteration of the proceedings. literature and works of art, the per ~ UNITED FRONT But Officials Ignore Need - *y*%. of Militancy By ALBERT WEISBORD. PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 27.—Some time ago the Associated Silk Work- : ers’ Union of Paterson established a high treason and violation of the law tempofary united front with the Un- tor the protection of the republic; the | oq Textile Workers’ Union for the first because of his book “The Corpse purpose of maintaining the forty-four on the Throne” and the.latter be-| hour week which is now being threat cause of his collection of poems “Rev- eneq by the bosses. vlution—Songs of Struggle, Mockery | and Marching.” Becher was arrested | Slames the Unorganizes. ; The joint conference set up by the Curing :Rie vacation ip Urach 2 | two unions called a mass meetin Wuertemberg and released only atf- | Thursday, October 15th, where sandal ter large bourgeois circles joined the peisveran talked of thé matateneiel protest of the workers. of the forty-four hour week. The first The managers of the bookstores “Viva” and “Junge. Garde,” boht in | Berlin, were accused of high treason because they had exhibited in their bookstores books which were alleged to incite to high treason, but which, up to the present, are neither con- fiscated nor prohibited. This shameful persecution of art and literature in. Germany, shows how far the white terror dares al. ready to go. The workers of Ger- many and their revolutionary organ!- zations are fighting energetically against these persecutions in order t« prevent the most reactionary period n the history of the German empire ‘o repeat itself in the so-called demo cratic German republic. democratic justice apparently gon, nd to suppress every free move in art Censorship is replaced by the guil- | deadly. The confiscations of radical | republic. The poets Johannes R. Becher and Erich Muehsam are also accused of MacMahon, president of the A. F. of L. union the United Textile Workers. He talked not like a fellow worker but like a banker or cheap politician to his “friends.” Instead of analyzing the true situa- | tion in the textile industry, MacMahon ‘confined himself almost solely to a tirade against the unorganized worker. He said that it is not the capitalist class that is the parasite but the un- organized workers. Nothing was said as to a class struggle against the bosses. All he did was to heap abuse on those who had not come into the organizations of silk workers, calling them simps and parasites. No Fighting Message. AMALGAMATED MEMBERS! HAVE YOU BEEN “READJUSTED” YET? The other speakers, both of the Associated Silk Workers, the inde- pendent union, and of the United Tex- tile Workers, also failed to give the workers present a true picture of the Chicago today, he was very peeved. man, ail he knew was that he had be ing points were uncovered. It seems pretext of a re-adjustment a section of the workers in this firm had re- ceived a very decided wage cut. This so incensed the workers of which there are nearly 200, that in a shop meeting: they passed a resolution pro- This resolution was passed over the deci- sion of the business agent who de- clared it out of order. Shop Chairman Forbidden to Aid Workers. The chairman of the shop remain- 6d netitral in the matter’ The ques- tion arises was his neutrality the cause of his removal. He has been three years chairman, was never con- sidered a progressive, but the state of affairs in the Amalgamated at present is that chairmen, although elected by the workers in the shop, must enter into the class collaboration (co-opera- tion with the employer) or lose his job as chairman. The present wage cut now taking place in Chicago, under the pretense of a re-adjustment, is a well planned out affair. It is a continuous process, This season one section of the trade receives a wage cut, the other section either received it last season or will | Your Union Meeting Fourth Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1925. Name of Local and Place No. of Meeting. a ag nd District Council, 119 op 1 Boiler Makers ‘Monroe and Racine. 10 Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. 21 Carmeptert, Western and Lexing- ae Pe 5443 . Aahignd Ave. 1693 -Carpenters, 505 S. State 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. Halsted St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2263 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple ye lh Evan. ston, Iii. Coopers, 4901 Escanaba Ave H Ww Division St. Jewelry Ladies Van Buren Street Marine Cooks, 357 ‘N. Clark St. Machinists, 113 S. Ashland ntve. Machinists, N. Cicero Maintenance of Way, 426 W. e300 St. Sherman & Main Ste., Evanston, iil. Plasterers, "910 W. Monroe St. Railway Carmen Dist. Council, 5445 S. Ashland Ave. Railway Carmen, 5444 Wentworth 1340 Railway Carmen, 5445 Ashland Ave. wea ay Trainmen, 426 W. 63rd St., p. m. ofers, 777 W. Adams &t. Sheet Metal, 714 W., Harrison St Sheet ser Wiag 5324 &. Haisted St. :30 p. Teameterss 175 W. b= sage eo ont Teamsters (Meat), 220 S&S, nd ivd. Teamsters (Bone), 6959 S&S. Halsted Street. Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel one S a ied Workers, 914 rr Ha Note—Unless BF stated all WILLIMANTIC STRIKERS, EVICTED, VAINLY WAIT FOR AID OF A. F. OF L. (Speciai to The Daily Worker) WILLIMANTIC, Conn., Oct. 27.—The strikers against the American Thread Co. who are in the 34th week of their fight are feeling the cold and wondering where they will live during: the winter. struck and those who were evicted from company houses went into a tent colony erected by the United Textile Workers. The tents are too cold for further occupancy and the strikers are wait- ing for aid to get warmer winter quarters. Some of them have been provided for in houses but many afe in need. They had expected the American Feds eration of Labor to assist them in buliding temporary houses. But nothing has been done at Atlantic City, however, but pass motions to “investigate” and extend “sympathy” to these oe About 2,500 workers (By Worker Correspondent) | was talking to a worker from the Alfred Decker and Cohen company of the crimes committed by the chairman he did not exactly know, as no one from the shop had been called in as witness by the so-called impartial chair- However, on questioning this rather angry rank and filer many interest- state of affairs. None of them spoke in a militant vein, none of carried home the message of fight to the workers. One gave a lecture on why people should be in the union for it means, if all stick together, that they are stronger than if they act individually. Another spoke that the forty- four hour week was “the greatest dream” “the pinnacle” of the workers thoughts and that it would be too bad if it were lost. Not one of the speakers of the un- ions seemed to realize that the work- ers in the audience did not have to be “educated” that the eight-hour day is better than the ten-hour day, that they had come to hear speeches de- nouncing the bosses aad pledging an active militant campaign against those bloodsuckers, the mill owners. The speakers actually insulted the jn- telligence of the audience. Salzman Tells of Left Wing. The only speaker that showed in his talk the spirit of class struggle was the speech of the Communist, Salzman. He pointed out that it was very clear that the eight- -hour day is better than the té@n-hour day that long and dull speeches on this question was foolish. What was ne- cessary was for the worker to under- stand that this fight against the boss for the maintenance of the forty-four hour week was only the first step in the fight to crush the bosses entirely. Salzman showed that in the needle trades a new left wing spirit had come into being and it was this spirit that was forcing the leaders of unions, A. F. of L. and independent to show more fight against the bosses. It was this way that the unorganized would rally to the ranks of the organized. Salzman called for an end of petty fights between small unions and for one united union in the textile indus- try. The shop chairman had been removed, en canned as chairman. that some three weeks ago under the the next. This keeps the workers divided. The section whose wages have not been cut does not feel the same degree of interest as the one who have. It is a merry bosses’ game. - The members of thesunion are, how- ever, beginning to wake up to what is being put over on them. It is hoped that the resolution passed by the workers of the Alfred Decker & Cohen company will be taken up by the local union and a real fight made against the wage cuts that is now being put into effect by the employ- ers and with the approval of the Amalgamated officials. Federal Employes Ask Congress to Raise the Old Age Pension Sums WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Demands by all unions of federal employes for an old age retirement pension of $1,200 a year in place of the $720 now permitted by law, are embodied in a bill approved by a legislative conference of officials of these unions at A. F. of L. headquarters. Get Oil From Caspian Sea. LENINGRAD.— The Technological Institute received a telegram from Baku reporting that the first trial to get oil from the bottom of the Cas- pian Sea was quite successful. ‘ The oil is being pumped by specially con- structed tubes. Build the DAILY WORKER THE CONGRESS IS ON! The American Negro Labor Congress is now in session at the Metropolitan Community Center, 3118 Giles Avenue, near East 31st Street. Business session in the day, nightly mass meetings. Different program each night. Come and hear the best speakers of both races of the American Labor Movement. Elaborate musical program. To close the event, a Grand international Ball and Program Saturday evening, 8 o’clock, October 31. Admission to dance, 35 cents, all else free. Lovett Fort-Whiteman, National Organizer. H. V. Phillips, National Secretary. Kom 4 eh i i i i i i i i i, i i ke BAAD LAA ALLL L LLL ALLA lees BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY Meat Market Restaurant IN THE SERVICE OF THE CONSUMER. Bakery deliveries made to your home. FINNISH CO-OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, Inc. (Workers organized as consumers) } 4301 8th Avenue Brooklyn, N. Y. | wow we we eee "Tj OT 1p”. 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aikiadaamomian eae 5 TEAS PIO EE 4 t?, } el td 2, % ~ A AE AO ey | a the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. "aus w, washing Bivd., Chicago, Ill. Fucne Meares S718 HE line-up in the senate and house aay, SUBSCRIPTION RATES of congress against the foreign . a os malt (in Chicage only): By mail (outside of Chicago): policy of the Coolidge administration $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $3.60 six months | reveals a sharp crisis in the republic- $2.50 three months © $2.00 three months an party. This crisis is due to the fact that the republican party itself is Address all mail and make out checks to Dp tion. The outcome of the election was the peesidene: himself personally Te-] a landslide in repudiation of the| quested Borah to run for vice-presi-. league and the treaty. Industrial cap-;dent. A request for Frank 0. Lowden, 1 ital had won. former governor of Illinois, and one’), T that time the present writer, re- plead pepe rll at to run also} | viewing the results of the election, Every effort was analyzed the defeat of finance-capital, | ™@de to palliate the opposition group. | 5, but added the prediction that the | It is plain that Borah refused because | |) 010. Pa titer coed 7 ee es, : * nk a > ae ~ ea ®& 7 ‘nae we age =, ae. r Pein. in a period of transition. Certainly THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois +. ract that Senator Borah, chairman of th rapid ascendency of finance-capital| he could not agree with the policy cfg 4 eg mea a : ENGDAHL “is of the foreign relations committee, | ©V®r stopped to consider the possibil-| over industrial America would even- being pursued. Charles: S. Paes = still insisting that it is not the beck WILLIAM F. DUNN® f* : _— assails the foreign policies of the ad-| ity of —_ against ratification) tually aoe the republican party into bh i e 4 saan | door to the league. MORITZ J. LOEB. it Business Manager ~ | ministration, and the fact that he has cea at a ages"—the ple * diese ~ Sa a Se ae en + eae These two documents contained the Tn tks eo capital saw a menace from reliable sources, instead of cheap hirelings of the type of silks, cotton, tobacco, bakers, public | the world court. Says Borah: service, electrical, and importers, all were involved in tremendous mergers. And every merger means a reorgan- ization of every unit involved under the domination of bank capital of Wall Street, This movement destroyed i eee “ € nd — Cha! * tee” Arata rs - elt la > - - : i . : a Bee ae 5 ihe Ee ay ate red $2 ne, “aoe ts Nate ian eb wie: a > ee fe Mere baa wer aN. Ny ies a EL ge 5 iY Ste ee foe Seen Saket ae Real S : * ion of a labor party : . hopes and aspirations of the House of in the sch of finance-capital|the old economic base of th not. They agreed in matters of dis- | for the creat that : Bruseaux, who would not be tolerated even in an Ananias club.| Morgan. They represented the am-| to involve this cot as into the affairs|tican party, and as the in Aaa cape pute i pee their..own arbitral ben aoe yi an re snnge | from a Such “news” as he furnishes is polluted at its source. bitious dream of world imperialism| of Europe. If European industry were | backed the + -ennnpblen’ “Sditabt ee = rg es an eee ag = = — ret. 7 As for the congress, tho a first step toward bringing the Negro | Whereby a group of powerful bankers| revived so that the terms of the| Wall Street’s league of nations propo- - pe tat would systematize their predatory ex-| treaty could be carried out it meant) sition in 1920 fell under the control yaa. ig pacity ecagrty Pek ietase wig the aaeet rer Coo peditions and eventually bring the/| serious competition for American in-| of Wall Street the leading group of| of members of the ‘court In thelr |of every effort to improve thal coud earth under their domination. Morgan| dustrial products. The ideological|the republican party changed from| own creature is not so great.” tion and when they realize that Borah, : had invested heavily in the war on) cloak was a harking back to the|the agents of industrial Capital to the} Senator Morris ghevenra of Okla-| altho he opposes Coolidge on foreign bo B k d T d U ' onbaga ok ge rg Fr eertpgnd Locman ae ? ee ne eames ae finance-capital. homa, one of the spokesmen for the/| affairs, is the representative | of ih- La r DanrRers an rade nions The league covenant furnished the! No entangling fiances. THE first result of the pressure of | pro-cqurt a ee cael ae , aikd and ts teak’ . theoretical basis for consolidation of| Defeated in thé senate, Wilson car-| 1 fnance-capital upon the republicah ~ tp Secbth Co PGees WS Aa op - ro rs just as deter- When the late Warren S. Stone, head of the Engineers’ Union| the victory. Henceforth the foreign|rieq the issue into the presidential| administration was the Washington oe be "saste wha te Prenltgy ead Aaa fae yng sm ‘a rage og * and one of the first champions of labor banking in this countr} was ayy rs pirgealsy t's he *y be| elections of 1920. The candidate of|limitation of arms conference, called|crat. sees Locarno thru different | to the standard of the labor party. fighting the United Mine Workers of America in order to operate|, Me. ded aR st ike te pe ‘parte bm fe Sata eed aiiic ak’ Gan by President Harding in November, | spectacles: pe is even now being advocated by fab mines in which he was interested, the officials of the Amal-| worid. mniede’” easiness a gpor op agen 5 yon geng arsenal “The Locarno agreements confirm {thousands of trade unionists in. this gamated Clothing Workers’ Union joined the general denunciation of| Versailles was the goal toward|famous front porch campaign it|1924, In neither of oa anuary,| and strengthen the leadership of | country today. Within a labor party, , 7 which the democratic party had been| Marion, Ohio. The éandidate of Mok of these moves was| the league and show it more than striving for parliamentary success such tactics. 7 n, Ohio. te o thé republican administration chal- 2 : striving since 1910 Avhen the House|gan was James .M. Cox, af obscuré ; al-| ever to be a permanent institution. | they will soon learn the fraudulent Now we have the spectacle of a vice-president of the Amalgam-| |, Morgan rescued it from the stag-| newspaper pu r of Dayton, Onis lehéd by the democrats. The only Arguments against the world court, |nature of capitalist democracy and, ated Bank of Chicago and a member of the general executive board] nant swamp in which it was vege-| who upheld the theMereaition beth nieoabe came from those within} based on its alleged weaknesses and |as the class ro intensifies, as of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union instructing a group| tating as the party of the small busi-| Harding was_nomin 5 8 Ne oa te can party itself, ineffectiveness, are shattered by |it must intensify, be swept toward the 7 "fn a the republican nominating ~con-| this latest development. | feel cer- a of the Communists, prepar- of bank clerks, members of the executive committee of the Bank) ness class. Every act of the leaders|H. Gary and the S| vention in 1924 when question of the democratic since that| y > controll ae the of wae con Came Pr te he atory to storming the final Clerks’ Unien, to expel Joseph Shafir for the “crime” of presenting party | who ec ' x Fokning mate for Coolidge. onan up, , will be only @ matter of time be- |of capitalism. b progressive resolutions at the Atlantic City convention of the Amer- y ; | ceo oetan dae Sas clerks in the bank was resor i to in A Ch isti Se entist Looks dia = | | | | ABD-EL-KRIM RIDICULES SP ANISH pp ” ae ci = en PARTICIPATION IN RIFFIAN WAR masses into the American labor struggle, it is a landmark in the development of the labor movement and of the Negro race. — = ee - “ oe. 2 saga ih esiued ee ate eS ‘ “* - vee ~ be, ¢ * Ni ty Td order to get rid of Shafir. The expulsion of Joseph Shafir, who was president of the union,| “The Present Economic Revolution | the doctrine of terotution thru elite struggle, it becomes even more ¥ Ps ore Sight pee x, and the intimidation of others, is equivalent to wrecking the organ-| jn the United States,’ by Thomas | , ADJIR, Spanish Morocco, Oct. 27.—The eeseiaes attack on Adjir and her ization. Vice-President Mariempetri resents the institution of which| Nixon Carver, B oston, Little, Brown strange to christian aed COURT DECISION: invasion of the Riff country was ridiculed by Abd-el-Krim as nothing but’a he is one of the heads being forced to recognize union conditions.| @ Co., 1925, $2.50. oe Conkt, Be eee , foolish attempt and intimated that France must have brought much pressure © Like the late Mr. Stone, he is an enemy of labor organizations that} Professor Carver is a christian as beautiful ideal" guldtin a nN . - onan to bear on Spain’ to force her to go to war against the Riffs. interfere with the conduct of his business. well as a professor of political econ-|of Judge’Gary, J a's Srarkan Pa a California Workers For Spanish are Idiots. Perhaps the most contemptible incident in connection with the| omy at Harvard University. It is in Rockefeller, Andtew Mellon, and the Anita Whitney “Gee what invincible idiots He Sosnish are,” declared Abd-er-Reim, a0 Re attack on Shafir was the effort to hush up the matter after we had | this sense that the title of this review |Test of the goodly crew of the pirate pointed to the Spanish troops located on the bare rock of Moro Nuevo Brecsines started tp arouse the membership of the Amalgamated against this|should be read, for it has. no direct /Ship “American Capitalism.” AS @ re) san FRANCISCO, Oct. 27—The|which were built during the Rif at | we outrage, @ the vice-president informing Shafir that if he kept quiet|Teference to the church founded by |* t of this: “Degetire) Meet,” 597" | mnternational Labor Defense has ed ; eis ; Mary Baker Eddy. In a larger sense, | Carver, “wealth h not only increasing tack to prevent the landing of the he might remain in the bank until January 1. of course, every one who tries to |&t a rapid rate, but the wages of those ranged in California protest meet-|5,000 Spanish soldiers. A ? OF L, REACTION One question inevitably arises: Is the Amalgamated Bank. 80| combine christianity with science be-|W@ formerly pitied are rising, labor- _ Ra Ehicyeirgeel Setar ore “They abandoned some of the most CONGRATULATED BY eS closely tied up with big banking houses that it must follow the union| comes what is generally known as a|¢rs are becoming capitalists, and Siena winek: ts vache a tes su-| fertile parts of Morocco at a great ic ‘apitalism? And, if how 1 ill it be be-| “christian scientist’—fthat is, one who |Prosperity is being more and more Senet ce | SON 1h. RAE ARE Shem, lenis Dee M ERS’ ASSO smashing policy of capitalism? And, if so, how long wl i asa arog ages ages Y. x Pigg nO diffused” ‘The oustanding ats Whiter, akvieteh ‘Wibe thel nina io ees ds, eee ea ANUFACTUR fore it will be used against-the interests of the very union that méfely the expression of mind or |Signs of this are; Be cavinen State syndicalism law by the Cali-|in war material. Then a year later, created it? “spirit,” and changes to conform /@eposits, insurance and labor banks fornia state courts. at the demand of the French, they ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 27—The The membership would do well to start an investigation of the|with the changing thots of the | These are the signs that capitalism is , Frisco Meeting. return here to occupy the most barren oe ae en ge ool was motive behind this anti-union drive. professors. So it is not too much to |diffusing wealth and well-being to all,| In San Francisco, the protest meet-|T0Ck om the whole continent of| 'auded today by Joh dgerton, say this is a book on “Christian Sci-| Wiping out the antiquated class strug-|ing will be held in the Native Sons| Africa! | President of the National Associa- eane.” gle and composing society into com- sen llth and Clay Sts., Saturday, ranek: Gubrts Deedee. fer ee ae oe eee : : B - o plete harmony, et. 31, at 'g p. m., with Atty. Austin| ,, eee Make the Coal Strike Effective ar but even more than -chrlatianity rae aaa ved thie DooK ‘can't be tir-|Lewis, representing the international |.“ Delleve France must have exer-| vention here for “refusing to ‘26 : . ~ Labor Defense; Prof. A. E. |cised enormous pressure on Spain to} habit with Communism and with The Progressive Miners’ Commparties: Sos seman oe Spee eee foe tock eo ‘sities on tt oo gare ret <M ageing of California atrocity: hue wee induce her to commit such a ridic-| Russian Sovietism.” | . * . . * ~ a er, : ; ” John L. Lewis that, if adopted, will make the strike’in the anthracite) - i, it only in passing pays its re.|of the South, to the 200,000 “superfiu-|ey; John D. Barry, editor of the ulous action. The French. probably Bera goes deplored the = to effective and bring the mine barons to their knees. One of the out-| snects to religion or science. So |ous” coal miners, to the textile work-|5an Francisco Call and William threatenes to. withdraw ‘all of Spain's) “2 om P Ba BY Sogo, thout ing ands i ke the strike effective by bringing out the found is th hor’s fai ers of New England, and to all those | Short, editor of a local labor paper, | so-called ‘rights’ over Morocco. But Ving .carned sham” ang Sealared:: standing demands is to make the strike effective by bringing profound is the author’s faith in cap- : , as ebhthon Tees tact o | what rights are those? The only rights| that much of the discord between maintenance men, whom Lewis now permits to stay in the mines “agony that he gives a ag of ee 7 the ae Saad es otic pn ove gO pe i a Sag - that ‘Fekate cok Beck: Mare. thoy| eebudecs iad cen aie ‘ aie Raia, vom ‘ ’ : , not as a mere “system,” but as : - | ; bse “ge keep ee in iaratayse: so the st tug 3 ty ches ka cee some immutable divine law. Thus he |talism is doing for them! charged. derive from this country’s weakness.| by forces “outside of industry.” He xe damaged thru neglect. Lewis, who in reé Berkeley. Meetin That weakness will not last forever.”| did not include the manufacturers’’ says (page 5): It is also too bad that. Professor y g- .| association, of course, in thi ie- game, places their property above the interest and even the very} «1, tne absence of force, capitalism |Paul H. Douglas, of the University In Berkeley, there will be a protest] I Spekaing of the French view 4 , ree, In nis or. , point, Abd-el-Krim said: gory. lives of the men in the union he is sypposed to defend. In a demagogic | automatically exists.” of Chicago, should not have read par ans au a ere ae te ae ae qs , en he sheds tears over the! This i _| Prof. Carv r’s book, before he so per- : , ear Moroccans. . : ai ns nani yer Aatoypise Hyg dst fF Gala ss tks ee - = Oe is eee vareoly -and Beikestnielite:. Gaunt beng gg Rega list of speakers as is} The French viewpoint I under- F ifteen Killed When slaughter of men in the ‘at, Buses ds --\lthe world are frantically rushing | Several years investigating the course used In San Francisco. stand perfectly. France is devoured Passenger Train Jumps | real fight for the miners, he proves in action that his sympathy is , | . 25 Arrangements are being mad? for a . ; é. £ from conference to conference, of real wages, in the past years. re with imperialistic ambitions. She is a T k : with the bosses. trying to patch up the damage Doubtless it wag by pre-arrangement protest any oe nation of tremendous military power racks Near Memph; a Another demand of first importance is that Lewis appeal to the]o¢ the world war fought between .cap-| With Lenin that Douglas_ disclosed BS ea oe ~tl ig ma ma ee and vast colonial aspirations. The semaenint railroad workers to refuse to haul coal while the strike lasts. italist nations; when 90 per cent of | that real wages are four points lower Feqeen. taer.. Cie: REe “eieye : Benause S, Teun., Oct. 2.—From . today than in the years 1890-1899. land and Berkeley have passed resolu- _ know they are insecure in Moroc-| fifteen to twenty persons were killed ntting : se dems ‘ h Vv lanks | all governmental revenue is expended ‘ Qa Putting forth these de mands and the other progressive pian Se baat: eee ated Braeasatien tar tx. Reivers okt weald: make @. cond tions demanding that Anita Whitney Algeria and Tunis, and they are| When St. Louis and San Francisco has the advantage, not of convincing Lewis, but of proving to. the be pardoned and condemning the Sovuite to see us elevated into a posi-| Passenger train No, 108, Birmingham ture wars; when force and terrorism, | text for a comprehensive exposure of membership of the United Mine Workers’ Union that the official legal and extra-legal, against the|what is really occurring under ¢capi- state criminal syndicalism law. tion of leadership in Islamic Africa. |t© Kansas City, was wrecked hear machine is a tool of the employers and bringing out in bold relief | workers and to uphold capitalism, has |talism in America. Someone must “France believes that she is a colo- ary . / . the difference between the tacties of a leadership representing the |become the order of the day in every | find time to do this work. In the Cable Breaks at nial power of the first rank. She ae pr — pap express, eibaae prey » RE ERT i TP RS capitalist country. It is said by a meantime it is interesting as.an ex- B ak Ri D knows better than any other European ) es left the rails. interests oi the 1 uk a nd file ane e y vy } “professor” of political economy, who ample of the obcurantism that passes er ver am nation how to enslave subject popula- All Pullmans remained on the tracks. italists. ; should at least know that the histori-|for learning, and culture in the seats Killing 2 Workers tions and dominate men’s souls. For|Ambulances and doctots are being " The coal strike can be made effective by the rank and file forcing} cal basis of capitalism is the forcible |of education in America. i. this reason France fears us and has|Sent to the scene-of the wreck from the maintenance men out. If Lewis will not call them out, they|expropriation of the land and natural| The “christian ears” are the ears of} - (By Worker Correspondent) decided to destroy’ us. saat hats should be treated as scabs by the membership and forced out, against |Tesources by a small class, and the/|a jackass—Earl Browder. | MT. VERNON, Wash., Oct. 27—Two Make Peace, or Lose Africa! creation of a landless, propertyless, helpless proletariat. Every page of _ Foreign Exchange. workers, Irvin H. Jones, and Earl} “If France is discreet she will Gelker, were killed and Ernest Lund-|make peace this winter. If she does shurieke aloud that; “inthe abeonce ot| NEW YORK, Oct S]-—Gren, Brit-/ailst aM Howard Willams were Inject make, soups. ste :will igen. ol § The president .of the United States is very liberal with his ‘ “ltain pound sterling, demand 4.8414; jured yesterday at the Baker River | Nors& Africa. a I ; f ag aed 1 ti ¢ th force, capitalism automatically col : - power dam when they were spilled “We can withstand™ten years of | speeches. His latest ¥ as before the interna tone conven -0n o € | lapses.” - But what are facts to a Har-| cable 4.84%. France, franc, demand into the canyon, 110 feet below, by the| such attacks,” said Krim referring to 4 Y. M. C. A. in Washington. He told that eminently patriotic or-|vard professor’ 4.1744; cablé 4.18. Belgium, franc, de-|preaking of a cable from which the|the fierce attack of the France-Span- e € ganization, that seltd for cold cash goods contributed free to boys Carver shudders at the thot of Bol-| mand 4.48%; cable 4.49. Italy, lira,| bucket in which they were riding was | ish forces on Abd-el-Krim’s men, when pe ut the front during the war, that the youth of the country needs shevism. _He- polemizes at great|demand 3.96%; cable 3.97. Sweden,| suspended. Many fatal accidents have |the combined fire of the battleships, } at home thru parental action. From the antics of these length against it. The keynote of his | krone, demand 26.72; cable 26.75. Nor-| occured on this project. It will be re- | fortress on Alcehumas Bay, artillery more contro} at hom wrens, argument lies in the final words of! way, krone; demand 20.36; cable| membered that this is the place where | and airplanes failed to drive the Riffs the mine owners’ pleas and in spite of Lewis. christians during the war their parents must have all been pick- this paragraph (page 18): . 20.38. Denmark, krone, demand 24.73; | the I. W. W. conducted a strike and back on Cape Moro Nuevo. “And we pockets and porch climbers, fit ca ndidates for cabinet posts in the “When Marx’s materialistic inter- cable 24.75. rmany, mark, not! were later forcibly deported by the | are willing to do so in the defense of | Ooplidge government, pretation of history is combined wit! | quoted. Shanghai, taels, demand 79.50. j sheriff and gunmen. r our liberty and homes” j- It | \e | J oF . .