Daily Worker
November 5, 1925
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OLE LE Ne ‘ Ne ee % Se ee ene en Fog ert ie, . ; - hi oY | 55 | y - ia ff bb Standard Oil Worker After spending an entire night on a prairie near Whiting, Ind., watching the entrance of a small shack nearby in an attempt to “get” Martin Durkin, who slew the red-baiting prohibition “enforcement” Officer Shanahan and one of the Chicago police sent to “get” him, 40 policemen and federal operat- ives armed with shotguns, bombs and steel shields, realized that the “hot tip” they received was a “dud.” Police Raid Worker’s Home. Another army of police and federal operatives raced in autos thru the south side to 126th and Scharge ave- Tue, home of Herbert Mattingly, a Standard Oil Co. employe, where arm- ed with shotguns, rifles,.tear bombs and carrying thick steel shields, they surrounded the house. All they found in the house was Mattingly’s wife and two small chil- . dren huddled in one corner looking on wondering what had happened and Mattingly, who they claimed has a resemblance to Durkin, fast asleep in his bed. As the police were coming back to the city after their hopeless all-night vigil, the relatives at the funeral of Austin, the stool-pigeon used by the police to trace Durkin, accused the police assigned to “get” Durkin of _ being so scared that in their fear that Durkin would “get” them they shot without letting him have a chance of finding protection. Can’t Use Shotgun, Sergeant Gray who was also killed in the battle with Durkin accused Ser- geant Michael Naughton of not be- ing able to use the shotgun and in his last words said: “O, if Naughton had only known how to use a shotgun, or if he had let me take it.” They’ne Not Handling Pickets. Chicago police are very “brave” when it comes to handling girl strike pickets in the garment trades dis- trict, but when it comes to “getting” gunmen and gangsters, that have been imported by politicians to help them win Chicago elections after some “mix-up,” the heroic policemen de- velop acute chills that make their knees rattle and hands tremble, as thc delirium tremens possessed them, sc that their bullets hit their own stools instead of their quarry. z Gloakmakers’ Ball to Be Held by Local 52 of Los Angeles, Nov. 7 (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 3.—“To dance,” said one of the Greek gods, “if only for the gods and the cloak- makers. But dance in joy, means for the cloakmakers to become like gods themselves.” This rather apt quotation fits in well with the dance of the cloakmakers of Los Angeles I. L. G. W. Local 52, which is to be given at the Co-Oper- aitve Hall on the night of November 7, anniversary of the birth of the first workers’ republic. Also the union’s inner crisis has been put on the road to settlement of the right sort, or the “left” sort—better said, so why shoudn’t the cloakmakers be joyful? It will be a masquerade ball, and all workers are invited. Two Illinois Miners Killed at Pana Mine (Special to The Daily Worker) PANA, Ills., Nov. 3.—The death of Peter Mitchell, 45, today brought the death toll to two in the explosion late Monday in the Pana Coal company’s mine number 1. William Broskey, 47, Was instantly killed. The men set their explosive and re- tired from the room. Mistaking the blast in an adjoining room for their own, they returned just as the dyna- mite ignited. Several tons of coal were hurled upon the two men whose bodies were badly mutilated. | MILWAUKEE WORKERS TO CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION MILWAUKEE, Nov. 3—The work- ers of Milwaukee will celebrate the Cighth Anniversary of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics at the Labor Temple, 8th and Walnut streets, Sunday night, November 8, with Edwards, Zam and a Jewish comrade speaking. CAPI VIOLENCE RULES IN ANTHRACITE TO CRUSH MILITANT. MINERS; LEWIS MACHINE AIDING ‘ (Continued from page 1) miners’ meetings thruout the valley and evéry effort is being made to keep the facts of the strike from the rank and file miners. Capitalist Dictatorship at Work. A campaign of misrepresentation is being carried on thruout the coal district by the capitalist press. Each day in each city in the valley, scream- ing headlines are carried by the kept press denouncing the progressive miners and reds. The yellow papers carry cartoons representing the pro- gressive miners and their leaders as dogs and picture them as only suth degenerated capitalist tools can, while the labor fakers write to the police congratulating them for breaking up the workers’ meeting, and do their utmost to railroad miners to jail, No effort is spared’ to keep the miners in ignorance of the class char- acter of the struggle going on in the hard coal fields. I am conservative in stating that if one-tenth of the ef- fort was made by the officials of the union to teach the miners the real cause of and remedy for the dictator- ag that is being used to keep them in ignorance, the anthracite miners would respond in a manner that would guarantee a brilliant victory in the near future. Mines Filled With Gunmen. Everything is practically “peaceful” in the valley of hard coal at this time. The authorities see to it that it may not be otherwise. In spite of this seemingly peaceful strike, the coal Owners have engaged armies of private guards to surround their property. Some of the owners have engaged as many as 120 private guards, and these are guarding the property, nosing around the cities and making all kinds of inquiries among the miners. are the coal companies employing this provocative force? Whom are they directed against, and why? The miners have ample proof from past experience that this provocative force of guards is placed there for the same reason that guards were placed in every striking district in America when an attempt was to be made to dig coal or load stock coal and ship it to the market during a strike. Prelude to Open Shop Mines, Thruout America—in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Illinois, Nova Scotia and Alberta—we see the crimson stain of human blood of the miners who gave up their lives in protest against the importation of scabs, and against the coal companies’ guards. They know from bitter ex- perience why the guards are there and whom they will be used against. The ‘question ts being asked thru- out the hard coal region, why are the maintenance men not brought out? And in many places the demand is being made to bring them out. Why are no union mass meetings being held thruout the anthracite? Union Officials Don’t Act. Why has the union permitted union men to wash and load coal during the strike? This inferior coal is being sold in Ne wYork City at $25.00 per ton, an increase of 100% since the be- ginning of the strike. The miners are now beginning to feel the pinch of hunger and discontent, and concern is plainly discernable with many miners thruout the valley. A state of mind is developing inthe anthracite miners that brooks: no im- portation of scabs, and the neglect of the miners and their interests is be- ginning to arouse their fighting spirit, hence the stocking of the mine proper- ties with private gunmen sanctioned The question naturally arises, why by the capitalist state. | j oe tees oe weet eee RE ene oie tee ™ 2" - - pre oe 7 peniinasy | carmme, Samar: > - ” ish money and arms were behind the recent coup d’etat by which the former premier of Persia, Riza Kahn, now the new king, overthrew’ the young ghah, backed by the reaction- ary religious element and’ the equally reactionary capitalists" and landlords. It is also openly boasted that this British engineered ‘revolution in Persia is only part of a far greater and more menacing plot to girdle Soviet Russia around With hostile gov- ernments preparatory’ to’a probable armed attack on the Workers’ republic at an opportune time." he British diplomats are greatly pleased with themselves’ over the Persian reactionary revolution which they supported as the next best trick in the anti-Soviet conspiracy since the won Germany to joih ‘the British- built alliance against | the Soviet power. mM The British government are hopeful that Tchitcherin, Soviét commissar of foreign affairs, will even be rebuffed by' France when he visits Paris in a week or two to talk over the old Rus- sian debt. German Ship Uses Canal BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone, Nov. 3.—The first German warship to use the Panama Canal since the war, pas- sed thru today. ' Read—Write—distribute The DAILY WORKER. JOBLESS ARMY FILLS CITY OF SCABHOOD FAME By A. T. Worker Correspondent. KENOSHA, Wis., Nov. 4.—Kenosha which recently won the recognition of being the most prosperous industrial center in Wisconsin, is now over- crowded with an army of unemployed. Many mills are being operated part time, while some are closed down in- definitely. Besides, many jobless are |there from other states, attracted the “prosperity” advertisements. Those shops that are running pay so little that it is hard for éven a single man to exist on the ‘wage. “If you don’t like the wagés; you know what you can do about jt!” This is the reply of the boss when workers complain. ; Kenosha’s “prosperity” has’ been linked up with the fact that it is an “open shop” town. The bosses here have kept the workers from organ- izing for longer than in any other towns in the southern part of Wis- consin. Court-Martial to Let Mitchell ‘Defend’ Self Before Guilty Verdict (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—The army courtmartial that is trying Col. Wm. Mitchell for “conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline,” decided to give the flying colonel op- portunity to present his views be- fore bringing in the verdict. After promptly over-ruling a motion to dismiss the whole case, and indicat- ing a verdict of guilty, the jury of generals granted him an adjournment until Monday in order to obtain the numerous witnesses thru whom Mitchell will endeavor to prove that his charges of “criminal negligence” and “almost treasonable” administra- tion of the army and navy air services were fully justified. The jury of generals felt that to deny Mitchell the privilege of call- ing witnesses in his own behalf might create -an unfavorable impression against the court-martial. Death Toll Reaches 24. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 3.—The death here today of Sid A. Umsted, 49, wealthy oil operator of Camden, Arkansas, from injuries suffered in the wreck of the Sunny Land, Frisco flyer, near here last Tuesday, brought the death toll in the wreck to 24. Twenty persons were killed outright, j and four others have died in Memphis hospitals of injuries. PHILADELPHIA, ATTENTION! CELEBRATION Eighth Anniversary Russian Revolution LABOR LYCEUM, 6th and Brown Streets FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 8 P. M. Speakers: Jay Lovestone of Chicago, Norman H. Tallentire of Seattle, Was ADMISSION h., and Others. 25 CENTS. (Ores . ee ee ee een no Sve erm oe —_—_—_—— ~ | Engineers of the October Revolution The Central Executive Committee of the Russian Communist Party elected by the Sixth Congress of the party in July-August 1917: 1) L. Kameneff. 2) L.Frotsky. 3) I. Stalin. 4) G. Zinoviev. 5) A. Rykov. 6) A. Sverdiov. 7) V. 1, Ulianov (Lenin). 8) Artem (Sergeiev). 9) N. Bucharif: 10) Milutin. 11) M. Uritzky. 12) A. Kolontai. 13) Nogin. 14) Lémov. : Unable to Find Work as Male Stenographer He Dons Woman’s Garb KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 3.—Edgar Landman of Kansas City, 19, was held by police charged with impersonating a woman. He was arrested following a “date” Landman and a girl stenog- rapher had “with two fellows” at a party at which his “fellow” insisted upon a kiss and wanted to “rub cheeks.” “Four years and a half ago,” Land- man told police, “I decided to become a stenographer because I wasn’t physically able to do hard work.” After finding it hard to obtain em- ployment as a male stenographer, young Landman declared he decided to dress as a woman. “Tl had no trouble at all getting work then,” he said. “T have since then associated with girls as a girl.” | “If that fellow I had a date with last night hadn’t tried to kiss me no one would have found out I was a boy,” young Landman lamented. “My fellow insisted on necking. I.guess he must have got suspicious when my beard tickled his face.” Kilkenny Cats Have Agreed on Plan for Amicable Hostility DUBLIN, Nov. 3.—The royal com- mission appointed to fix the boundar- ies between the Irish Free State and Ulster has reached an agreement and will render its report shortly, accord- ing to the Cork Examiner. The Examiner states that Premier Craig of Ulster has agreed not to of- forcement of the boundary commis- sion report. Take this copy of the DAILY WORKER with you to the shop tomorrow fer any organized resistance to the en- Bituminous Miners in High Production Mark Help Break Big Strike WASHINGTON, D.. C., Nov. 3— Proof that the bituminous, miners are, under the Lewis administration, being compelled to go on working and even increase the output to. be used in scab- bing the anthracite miners now on strike out of their well-earned victory, is seen in the fact reported by govern- ment statisticians that during the week ending Oct. 24, _broke all prev- ious weeks’ records, or a_ total of 12,104,000 tons. Anthracite produc- tion for the same time was given as only 13,000 tons. . Wants Money for War ‘ Department, in Spite of All ‘‘Peace’”’ Pacts WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—The war department cannot make further cuts in its budget without seriously crip- pling the military service of the coun- try, President Coolidge was informed today in a letter from Secretary of War Davis. ri Davis’ letter was in*reply to a com- munication from the president asking the war department to attempt great- er reductions in its expenditures. It can be suspected that Davis “reply” was written before Cal’s request. | ENGLISH LABOR PARTY MAKES GAINS IN THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS (Special to The Dhily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 3—Reports from yesterday’s municipal elections show that of the eighty points reported the labor party has. made substan- tial gains, capturing 50 seats in the provinces and 40 ig London from their opponents and _losing 20. Locarno pact was supposed to have | RO PO Ay et : SS RICE HRN ERY OOPS? : ine ~ qretataenea Semper 22a so cone . * ata i (Pape FF ae A ee toy ga Rk) DP CA MONS Paths CE eae : PBS Ri SPS ” ; My! Le ye RA re tt ger '™ fede \ipst 5 x pert, i oh ae Sx rae Pte} Pa & y" oe Sn, % se i WE ere Fae ~ Aree. r +A rw ti Satie. bs at et "ore. fee ah © bit eras t ae Wy ar | AL poh } bod aaa SP he . s ure ss cw ?. | auth he ae é . ; as uy, % EN PNY APU Oat Sites Aaa > * ° . Yet business is not less corrupt: It has not become more honest, even from the bourgeois point of view. William Ran- dolph Hearst himself, in giving some of his views on this week’s muncipal election in New York City, admits this when he declares that: . * * * “The crooked inner workings of Tammany are likely soon to be exposed to public view and-public criticism. The tiger has not changed his stripes, and | imagine the history of machine politics will repeat itself. It has done so at intervals ever since the days of Tweed.” lf Tammany-Hall and the democratic party in New York City and state are corrupt, then big business whose political agents they are must be corrupt. Which should flatten out the hypocrisies ‘of Brisbane and the Bank of America about “honesty in business.” | : 3 The American business man has but one goal and that is to increase his profits. If the weaker or less resourceful business pirate fails in this, then some one else with greater ingenuity will suceeed and crush him to the wall. The government in approving of the era of greater merger aids the biggest business bandits. — , ji i> e “ay Coolidge’s administration has winked an eye at the con- ee. - M. q 4 Greater Labor Unions eng wealth, consolidated in giant STN eve | : | ; - ¥ t x i § 4 ei ¢ q ; 5 . 43 e , . — solidations in the meat packing industry, while it is actually - forcing the me course, to the ment will res wages. id But the g of railroads. The bait held out, of Hlible public is that economy in manage- in cheaper rates, and to the workers’ higher irs in Chicago’s “Packingtown,” for in- stance, know t the $10,000,000 saved annually in over- head expensesialone thru the merging of the Armour and Morris packing organizations, has not resulted in increased wages. It has brought only higher profits to parasite stock- holders. sea oe 7 - . ° Workers must recognize the era of greatér mergers as a capitalist development that cannot be turned back, but as creating a problem that labor alone can meet and solve. | Government endorsed monopolies help solidify the strength of the capitalist class, develops its unity in the “open shop” war against labor’s organizations, and makes victories for the oppressors easy unless the workers realize that they, too, must effect their consolidations, all-inclusive industrial unions thru the amalgamation of the present craft organ- izations. ' * * * e This will of course lead to more aggressive struggles, to the final struggle for all power, when labor must take over the great industries as the property of its Soviet state, dispossessing the capitalist class and abolishing the profit in production. In that day of labor’s triumph, the bigger and more centralized the capitalist monopolies are, the easier it will be to continue industry for the benefit of all, not to maintain it as now for the enrichment of the owning few. TOLEDO MEMEBERSHIP DISCUSSES PARTY REORGANIZATION ISSUES e TOLEDO, Ohio Nov. 2.—A successful membership meeting was held here on Wednesday, Oct. 28, to discuss bolshevization and reorganization of the party. Comrade I. Amter, district secretary, gave a lengthy talk on bolshevization of the party, the primary condition of which is reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei. reoganization will not take us far on the path of bolshevization. As a party of action, however, Comrade Amter pointed out that mere The party members must understand the prin-#— ciples and policies of the Communist International and of the party. With- out membership will be unable to conduct their work. Comrade Amter then analyzed the important tasks before the party at the a labor party, work among women and the Young Workers League, of which there is no branch in Toledo, defense etc. jon trade union work and repeated the | decision of the district executive com- mittee that every comrade eligible for membership in a union must joint in two months or be disciplined. Reorganization of the party on the basis of shop nuclei was presented in minute details. not only gave the comrades the tech- nique of reorganization, but also des- cribed how they would conduct their the party | work. this understanding, Many questions were asked after the talk, which showed that the mem- bership is alive to the question of re- organization The registration will be carried out and Foledo. will enter 100 per cent into the new form of party organization. present time: the campaign for among Negroes, work to build up A resolution was adopted pledging the membership to assist the Central Executive Committee in the important tasks before the party. The resolution was adopted unanimously with the ex- ception of one comrade abstaining “because he had not received instruc- tions. from his branch and did not wish to offend his branch members.” Surely, a remarkable point of view on such a non-factional issue! Comrade Amter dwelt at length Comrade Amter eat - ad ° a y = Se AL * vie - 4 5 tai 28 be reached. Third Largest Debtor. Italy is the third largest debtor of the United States. The theoretical total of the Italian debt is $2,138,548,852, Actually, the ‘negotiations starting. today will re- yolve arouhd a figure considerably less. Of the gross amount $1,647,- 869,198 represents principal, actually borrowed. The rest is accrued inter- est at 5 per cent. Following the prac- tice established in the British, French and other negotiations, this interest charge will be substantially reduced. In Italy’s case it will bring the total amount to below $2,000,00000. : Unlike Joseph Caifllaux, the French finance minister, who airily came to Washington announcing he could stay only ten days, and then departed at the expiration of that pertod without settling, Count Volpi, head of the Ital- ian mission, stated today he was here “to stay until an agreement is reached.” | New York one Preparation for W ar; But Against Whom? NEW YORK, Nov. 3—New York police have borrowed @ page from the great war and are arming for strug- gle against some unnamed foe. Nine high-powered armoured automobiles, each carrying a machine gun and tear gas bombs, will soon be patroling the city, Police Commissioner Richard Enright announced today. The crews will be equipped with ‘rifles, shot guns and special caliber revolvers. Signal rockets will be carried. The rumor that all these pre- parations are to suppress “crime” might be credited more were it not for the reputation of the police them- selves. Who is to guard the guards?” was a question asked by Juvenal in ancient times. It still seems appli- cable. Treasury ¢ lerk Gives Lie to ““Andy’”’ Mellon WASHINGTON; Nov. 3—The senate ways and means committee which has been carrying on investigations as to how to revise/the income tax law, have adjour their public sessions and aré now preparing to draw up a new bill. ‘ In the closing public session of the committee hearings A. W. Gregg of the treasury department gave the lie to Andrew Mellon, head of the treas- ury department who insisted that it did not take any extra effort to audit and care for the accounts of the “small fry who pay income taxes,” when Gregg introduced evidence show- ing that there were 2,100,000 disputed cases before the treasury department demanding settlement and that most of these accounts are from those who filed small income tax returns and whose settlement demands consider- able auditing. ti, Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. | WASHINGTON WORKERS TO CELEBRATE EIGHTH YEAR OF SOVIET RULE MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Nov. 3. —Mount Vernon workers. will join with the .workers of Ehrlich in a mass meeting to celebrate thee&8th anniversary of the Russian revolu- tion at the Community Halli, Sun- day, Nov. 8. TOMORROW! — Not today—as announced—but!l tomorrow, will begin that most im- portant series of articles on China, “The Chinese Customs Conference,” by Jas. Dalsen. — Be Sure to Get To- morrow’s Issue! se “ a ee * ee
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