Daily Worker
November 8, 1925
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DAILY the n [> 7 é > 1 . . 45 — — af 1 ‘ - . ö 8 8 15 a 4 u 10 91 4 1 : 2 N —.— ae 2 * | ty | 1 ing class unity must be a pre-essen- R ere r Nov. 6.— Des- pite the announcement of the Conso- ‘Yidation Coal Co. that it will reopen ‘the Monongah and O’Donnell mines, and replace the strikers, the striking coal miners, Who have been in strike since April 1, in an attempt to force the y to recognize the United Mine Workers’ Union and the Jask- sonville agreement, remain solid and refuse to accept the 1917 wage scales the company offers. ‘company announced that it was cleaning up a number of mines that it intended to re-open and that it had sign an agreement. with a “miners’ ciation.” e union heads point out that o union men have signed an agreement with the company to go back to work/ 2 2 the 1917 wage scales and that “miners’ association” is undoubt- edly some paper organization that the coal company has put up to fool the mine workers into going back into the pits. 2 Monday, Nov. 9 The Movement for World Trade Union Unity 5 By TOM BELL. World Trade Union Unity is one of the burning prob- lems of the world labor movement today. British and Russian labor are holding conferences: A. A. Purcell, a.leading ad- vocate of world labor unity, is touring the United States in its interests; official bodies of labor are sending delegations to Soviet Rus- sia; steps for unity are be- ing taken by the Interna- tional Federation of Trade Unions and the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions. It is at this time that the basis for unity, steps al- ready taken, the outlook for the future—are. all brought to the attention of American workers in. this timely series of articles. Look for this series in future issues of The DAILY WORKER. 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Purcell, 2 In discussing the possibility of fu- ture wars and how they may be stav- ed off, he declared: “If we regard war as the curse, crime and horror of a passing age, then all-inclusive international work- tial of the great and glorious task to secure ourselves against the merest chance or even wartike threat. “It is our duty to determine upon unity of action to definitely prevent war and all the horrors it breeds and spreads in its inhuman trail.” While discussing the necessity of international unity, Purcell decried the attempts made by certain groups to avoid tuis international solidarity of the in behalf of those groups that realize n. 8 wages and! workers and declared 3 2 * 2 * * r 4 wer: — ** é — international working — its goal.“ Purcell pointed out that capitalism is increasing its operations in = called backward lands of Asia, ica, Central and South America and that (Continued on page 2) aft 1 Sawmill Workers Win First Victory in a Long Time in Wash. ABERDEEN, e —(FP Arne strike weapon of workmen and sol- darity has scored another victory in the settlement of the Aberdeen saw- mill strike which lasted nearly four weeks. By a large majority the men of 5 mills accepted the operator proposal, granting the demanded minimum of $3.75 per day. The old rate was $3.25. The employers refused, however, to make a straight 50% per day raise on all wages, but promised to readjust scales of higher paid employes. The companies also granted the right to maintain grievance committees. The lowpaid workers, the bulk of over 1,300 men, are benefitted by this pettlement. Had the workers heeded the advice of smooth-talking federal mediators and returned to work a week earlier, “pending settlement”, the strike would have been lost. In six months at the new rate the lumber barons wih have paid the strikers for their worthwhile vaca- tion. The strike effects may benefit the whole industry, since the Aber- deen minimum is higher than Tacoma, Portland, Seattle and other cities. Oh, Yes! Capitalist. Government Is ‘Friend’ of the Labor Unions DAYTON O.—(FP)—Six union plumbers and one helper have been discharged by U. S. aviation officers and 10 “maintenance men” put in at 90c an hour to do the work at McCook field. The work is botched and the government is not saving a penny. Build the DAILY WORKER. Cleveland Carpenters Give Relief to Miners CLEVELAND — (FP) — Carpenters 105 and other unions are making up bundles of clothing for the families , of the shivering minerg of West Vir- ginia, — N . onage Auditorium, iene River ve . and High St. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 9, at 8 p. m. a die Gas Hall, Feder- al and Ohio Sts. Cleveland, Onio, Nov. 10, at Ss p. m., at the En Anoertun, corner Ontario and St. Clair. Toronto, Canada, Noy. 11, at 8 Lat m. at Central Labor Union. , Canada, Nov. 13, at My p. m, at Central Labor Union. _ New York A? Nov. 17, evening. Fight to Aid Poor ‘ (Special to The. Daily Worker) NEW YORK. CITY, Nov: 6.—The Workers ( ) Party arden issued a statement | on the ‘coal situa- tion in which. board of health "Frank ee, City of N. v., 3 Poor in Distress “Sir:—The situation of the poorer people in the city of New York, with winter approaching and coal profit- eering making it impossible to secure the necessary fuel, is an intolerable one. As the cold weather sets in, health and life are seriously menaced. The measures so far proposed are hopelessly inadequate to so grave and general a crisis. Profiteering must continue and grow worse unless a far- reaching policy is adopted which will make profiteering impossible and break the coal famine. “The Workers (Communist) Party calls upon the board of health to establish a complete city monopoly of the purchase and sale of coal in the city of New York until the crisis is liquidated. It further calls upon the board of health to open stations in convenient parts of the city, with spe- cial reference to the working class quarters, where such coal will be sold directly by the city at cost. Any pro- gram short of this endangers the health and lives of the workers of New York City and the responsibility for this situation will be directly chargeable to the city government. We call for immediate action on this matter. Due to Monopoly “We therefore call to your atten- tion the fact that these recurring coal crises are due to the private mono- poly in coal and the periodic strikes that it provokes, arid that any solu- tion that aims to be permanent and to prevent new crises from oécurring, must base itself upon the nationaliza- tion of the mines. We call upon the city of New York te work in this direction.“ Workers (Communist) Party District No. 2 William W. Weinstone, Gen’l. Sec’y. Canadian Labor Party Keeps Two Men in the New Tory Parliament By JOHN ROBUR. OTTAWA, Can.—(FP)—The Labor party will have the same strength in the new Canadian parliament as in the last. Of the two members in the last house, one was defeated but a new member comes to support J. 8. Woodsworth from Winnipeg. The new member is A. A. Heaps, one of the vi. tims of the prosecutions after the Winnipeg strike of 1919. The defeated member was William Irvine of Cal- gary. The Conservatives will have the largest group in the new house. The Progressives will have about one- third of their previous strength. 8 1 Take Up N at * * . - — , 4 * * . 1 — > . > * 7 ra . „6 sy * f ~ N TTT * y 4. * — 5 pul? : 4 ¢ 10 1 1 ry N "oe equipped with f ibformed circles, as already notified the still remain in Da- | | of the events. No. ‘eriticism of the massacres Of the people of Damascus have appeared. This attitude is mo- tivated by the fact that the situation in Syria constitutes a grave danger to the rule ot Britain in Irak, also held under a league of nations man- date. If the Syrian revolt is success: ful the whole mandate policy of the league of nations will be wrecked, and successful uprisings in Irak will follow. Meanwhile heavy forces are thrown on the Syrian border under the fake pretext of “defending British inter- ests.” Labor Party Fighting for Control in Nov. 14 Australian Elections (Special to The Daily Worker) MELBOURNE—(FP)—The general elections for the Australian federal parliament take place Nov. 14. Labor, which already controls 5 of the 6 Australian states, seems to have the advantage in the federal elections and may get a majority in both the hause of representatives: and the senate. To prevent Labor's rise to power, the Conservatives, are trying to work up the red menace. A prominent ‘issue is the recent repressive legislation, including the deportation act, of the federal government,. The red menace is also dressed up. Matthew Charlton leads the Labor party, while the Comservatives are led by S. M. Bruce, the present prime minister. The Comservatives include the Country partyvrepresenting the wealthy ranch-owners. A few inde- pendents are also up. Left Winger Who Aids in Building Unions Is ) Honored by Reds' ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 6.— A dan- quet arranged by the Jewish branch of the Workers Party, was held at the Labor Lyceum, in honor of Comrade I. Feingold on the occasion of his leaving the city for St. Louis where he will become general organizer for the Cloth, Hat and Cap Makers union. Comrade Feingold, as chairman of the excutive board of the St. Paul local of this union, has been very successful in negotiating several good agreements with the bosses, and the membership of this local showed its appreciation of the good work done by this left winger by the numbers in attendance and by the: speeches made by some of them as Well as by mem- | bers of other organizations, 4 re any office in the elections of Tues- ave set forth with: 2 » of frightfulness | This is.ques-| Mass Meeting Tonight that the working class of America yn- . the achievement of Soviet Russia, is which will be held Hillquit cam- , : to 39,000 in Tuesday's elections, there is jubila- tion in socialist headquarters here. Tho the workers have turned in trict, where the bourgeoisie gave Norman Thomas 712 votes, com- pared with 538 votes last year when 9 ran for governor. Not a single socialist was elected at Temple Hall conelusive and — proof derstands its own class interest in strikers. able to exist. Their y victory is achieved. In the anthracite mining region where 158,000 miners are on strike, the usual evils of capitalism are sharpened and capitalist government rules with an iron hand over the workers whose conditions are explained in the following article by Alex Reid. miner for 29 years and head of the Progressive Miners’ Committee. Reid was recently released from the . Scranton jail where he was sent by a conspiracy of coal operators, cap- . italist courts and reactionary union officials to prevent his speaking to By ALEX REID (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee.) ' (Article V.) The cost of living has steadily risen during the last year and has reached the point where the workers find themselves barely barely enable them to buy the cheap- est foods while many are in a state of semi-starvation. This con- dition was true prior.to the great anthracite strike, and now with | two months loss of work, many miners in the hard coal field find themselves in dire want, but yet determined to strike on until The workers in all industries know that the dollar will not bay as much as it did a year ago. They know prices are still on the up grade, and they know that when they get an increase of wages, and sign a contract, when the cost of living is still rising, that they have in reality signed under cir- cumstances. that mean. their real Living Costs Increase. meetings celebrating the eighth anni | versary of the Russian revolution that are being arranged all over the coun- | try for November 7 and 8. in Chicago, Temple Hall. The monster me corner Van Buren and Ashland today ne ‘at 8 b. m., promises to ba one of the a 8 Sanum of the kind he 7 * Max Bedacht — Martin Abern, mem bers of the central executive commit; | tee of the Workers (Communist! party. A special feature will be revo- lutionary songs by the Freiheit sing- ing society. Tickets are 25 cents, and hall. The unparalleled interest in ed by skilled and unskilled workers alike, constitutes a ringing answer to the whole campaign of lies with which the capitalist press has been trying to poison the workers against Soviet Russia. Asked to explain the unpre- cedent advance sale of tickets for the Chicago meeting, the arrangements’ committee calls attention to the great strides in economic reconstruction made in the Soviet union during the past few years, even capitalist re- porters being forced to admit that the Russian workers are now better off than before the war, whereas in the other countries of Europe the condi- tion of the working class becomes steadily worse. A canvas of the south side shows that Negro workers are taking a spe- cial interests in the meeting. This is no doubt largely due to the way in which Soviet Russia has extended the hand of fellowship to all oppressed races and peoples, as in Africa, China, | India, the Near East and Latin-Amer- ica. It is pointed out that 21 govern- ments have already recognized Soviet Russia, while the United States gov- ernment still refuses to act. Many trade unions and other labor organiza- tions thruout the land have called upon the government to extend re- cognition to the workers’ republic, and the slogan of “Recognition of So- viet Russia” will be again placed on the order of the day at tonight’s meet- ing. NATION SUFFERS POVERTY WORSE THAN EVER BEFORE, SAYS BRITISH LABOR M. P. MANCHESTER, Nov. 6.—At Nei- son to-night, Mr. John Wheatley, British labor member of parliament said, in the industrial situation to- day and the poverty which accrued from it, they had something which was unprecedented in the history of this or any other country. The na- tion was stricken with poverty, not because of a shortage of goods, but because of the superabundance of ‘things required by human beings. Races had been brought into com- petition that were not competitors before the war, and there would be no revival of trade until we al- tered our industrial system of so- ciety. bape ald ate Amore the | meetings thruout the country display- | wages are steadily on the incline. The anthracite miners with their furnished by the hundreds of mass ‘families constitute fifty per cent of the population of that region. and they know what living incréases mean as much if not more so than the work- ers in any other part of America, as the following figures compiled government will show: Last by the April's report shows bacon to have increased flour ‘35 per and higher in the hard coal region k ch Sas aos than it does in any other part of the country. Clothing costs from 25 to 50 per cent more than in New York. Doc- tors’ fees have jumped 50 and cent for every visit of the doct with a vengeance. High Rent for Hovels. The Pennsylvania state commission has recently stated 100 per or since can be secured in advance or at the 1923, While rents have gone skyward housing | that rents have advanced from four to 115 per cent in the last four years. The rents have increased most in the small towns, and that is where most of the coal miners exist. many of those shacks called no wall paper in sight, while t not see how anyone had the to charge any rent at all. The housing commission States that rents are still on grade as a shortage exists, w coal commission comments subject as follows: age and rank fifty per cent facilities.” The United States departme ‘Scranton have to pay about The writer saw houses with daylight shining thru the walls, he plas- ter was hanging in shreds, and I could courage further the up- hile the on the “Housing facilities in the anthra- cite region are far below the aver- in the matter of adequate sanitation and nt of la- bor figures show the inhubitants of ten per cent more for their houses than the people in the United States as a whole pay, and rents are still going up as shown by the Pennsylvania commission. Real Wages Decline. The Afinalyst of July 10 increased 13.3 per cent over la Deport Aliens Who Deportation of all aliens w urged by Congressman Grant housing quotes Bradstreets, “The cost of living has st July,” .(Continued on page 2) Violate the Prohibition Laws, Urges Lawmaker ho dare to take a drink of pre-Volstedian vin- tages or similar fluids or otherwise vi- Olate the prohibition amendment, was M. Hud- son, before the Anti-Saloon League's national convention which is now meeting in Chicago, as a step in the campaign to “dry up” the United States. | He also urged a stricter ‘ment of the prohibition laws. All is not so well at the con There is one group that wants fication of the dry laws while ‘group wants a strict Wnen it comes to apportioni jobs in the organization; many enforce- ' vention. a modi- another enforcement. ing the clashes are expected as quite a number would like to make cozy berths for them- i selves. BRITISH LABOR UNITY FIGHTS OFF WAGE CUTS Live 10 and Wise Policy Wins So Far ssen to The Daily Worker) LONDON -P) — Not only have the miners and the textile workers by their militaney warded off wage re- duotions and patched up a temporary peace in England, but the building workers. have made a truce by which there wil be be no Rate. reductions for The shipyard unions are alec holding their demands in abeyance while an inquiry is made into the industry. Trouble * on the railroads. The demands of the employers are totally itreconcilable with the pro- grams of the unions, and the central wage board has failed to reach any agreement. The matter has been re- ferred to the national wage board, so the railroads will enjoy a truce dur- ing the negotiations. The companies Want a flat rate reduction in wages of $1.50 a week in rural areas and $1 in London. The worker demands are set out in the all-grades program of the National Union of Railwaymen and in the program of the Railway Clerks Association, embracing all- around increases in wages and gener- al improvements. The N. U. R. is also demanding a pension scheme for railroad workers. The locomotive engineers union has begun a campaign to do away with overtime. On the Southern railway all members are refusing to work overtime when arriving at their local depots, if they have completed 8 hours on duty. Electrification is leading to unemployment, and the engineers re- fuse overtime. while fellow-workers are workless. F peer Jury Chosen | to Try. Doctor for Killing Daughter Littleton, Colo., Nov. 6—A jury of Arapahoe county farmers and me- chanics was chosen to decide the fate of Dr. Harold Elmer Blazer, 60 year old country doctor who snuffed out the life of his imbecilic daughter. Hazel Ingrit Blazer, in an Englewood bungalow last February. The jury was completed and sworn in just as court adjourned for the noon recess. When the court reconvenes the at- torney for the state intimates he will try to prove that the imbecilic daugh- ter had a right to live, and that her father was in his right mind when he chloroformed his daughter. The state will not demand that the death pen- alty, but will seek a verdict of first degree murder with a life sentence. Peaceful Transition to Socialism Never Heard of By Police NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 6.—Members of the city police force are receiving daily instructions in the use of fire- arms and a pistol range has been in- stalled. The New Orleans police de- partment is the possessor of riot guns, tear bömbs, saw-off shot guns and is under the control of a city administra- tion which does not care a whoop for | union labor, — a — | 1 ~ — — — _ — r a
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——— — — — 7 * 12 2 4 5 ‘among all civilized N P N. N N * ‘ 89 ; ‘ . , . 2 * e wis 8 \ 8 7 2 N 2 * 8 5 r ‘is 4 * 1 8 * — 1 AKN oa Pet A New Terror Hatched by Tyrant (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Italy, Nov. 6-——Mussolini’s great publicity campaign to rehabili- tate himself In the eyes of the Italian masses who were becoming skeptical of his prestige since his recent cold reception at Locarno and since the open contempt in which he is held people became public, Is asuming malignant charac- bi ow ~ ee Pea Ve 1 70 1 * : ‘ teristics. The loud clamor about his attempt- ed assassination yesterday was total- — * \ANTHRACITE MINERS LIVING IW HOVELS AND HALF-STARVED, BUT DENIED WAGE RAISE BY BOSSES| > Pid hte * . — a, 8 a * * 5 3 * (Continued from page 1) and quotes Dun’s showing 43 price advances.” The course of prices is upwards, and the workers know as prices in- crease, the value of their wages de- crease. dren in the anthracite region, existing in their miserable shacks called home, with no prospect under this rotten eco- nomic system, with the multimillion- aire coal barons demanding a decrease in the wages of their fathers, is piti- ‘able indeed. : This strike will be settled, as they have been in the past and the settle- ment will settle nothing. More strikes will come as this one has and the same fight will be fought over again. As long as the miners are willing to work for a small amount of the social value of their production, just so long will they have to endure this periodic tur- moil. The picture of ragged chil-| the progressive miners’ program but the Lewis machine turned it down. Nationalization of the mines has long been a prominent demand of the min- ers, at every convention for many years they have endorsed it, and in- structed their officials to work for it, but never yet have these officials at- tempted to carry out the demands of the miners in that respect. The suffering of the miners ex- plained above is not the only or worst part of their life, another chapter must be written in connection with the life or death of these unhappy wage slaves that is enuf to draw the blush of shame to the cheek of any normal minded man. The major and minor injuries sus- tained in the underground hell holes tell a tale of suffering and woe not found anywhere else in the annals of history. I will deal with this question in the following article tomorrow. * in the — 3 —— Nationalization Only Cure. up the whole affair, even to carrying Nationalization of the mines with with them the demonstration a to loaded rifle they could later use as against the ex-socialist dep- uty, Zaniboni, who is now either in prison or dead, charged with the plot against the life of the tyrant. Blackshirt hordes in every stage of drunkenness are swarming the streets of Rome in a mad frenzy, demanding death for all lovers of freedom. and darism and @illage, against the labor organizations in the early days of the fascist regime, the masons are now being terrorized, because of their pol- {tical antagonism to Mussolini. The Garibaldi’s in Paris and one of the descendants of the famous Italian patriot m the United States, are in momentary danger of assassination by fascists because the Mussolini or- gans have already paved the way for such action by publishing fiction to the effect that the “plot” against the bandit tyrant was “hatched in Paris, and the Garibaldis were concerned in it.” x It is known that Musscrmi's agents trial his enemies in every country in the world and are preparing a reign of assassination to silence exposure of his methods in maintaining power. The vote which the el 4 N 28 boards credit the Workers Part Farm Labor Unionism with is not the total vote, for in Foreseen by Middle many places where the party did not 3 have watchers the ballots of the Class F arm Leader Workers Party candidates were not (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK—(FP)—Farm worker labor anions, not farm producer co- operatives, are the trend which agri- cultural organization will take in the future, Benjamin O. Marsh, Farmers’ National Council, believes. Address- ing the Civic Club of New York Marsh said:“ The next decade will probably see 65% or more of farmers tenants or hired men, many of them working on large farms. Many will thus have lost any equity in their small holdings and probably will secure the best re- turns for their work if organized, not as competing producers, but as hired men at American wages. Such mer- gers as the Armour-Morris, bakery and milk combines, render the work of farmer cooperatives much more difficult.” | YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE TO HOLD MASQUE BALL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 To raise funds for The Young ‘Worker and the District No. 8 of- fice of the Young Workers’ League which is planning a wide field of ac- tivity, Working Area Branch No. 1 of the Young Workers’ League is holding a masque ball on Saturday, November 14, 1925, at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Bivd. All the Workers Party arid Young Workers’ League members and sympathizers of the Young Workers League and its activities are urged to attend and to come masked as valuable prizes will be given to best single costumes or a group portray- ing some revolutionary event or epoch. Admission to the dance is only 35 cents. I COUNT 3,388 VOTES FON COMMUNISTS IN NEW YORK ELECTION (Special to The Day Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 6—In the re- cent municipal elections held in New York City, the Workers Party can- didate for city controller, William W. Weinstone, was credited by the election officials with 3,388 votes. In the borough of Manhattan he re- ceived 848 votes; in Kings, 1,197; in the Bronx, 1,113; In Queens, 268 and in Richmond, 14. Charles Krumbein, candidate for president of he board of aldermen was credited with 3,296 votes of which 906 were in the borough of Manhattan; 1,293 in Kings; 1,043 in Bronx; 267 in Queens and 17 in Richmond. Gitlow Barred. Benjamin Gitlow was barred from the ballot and the party carried on a campaign to write in Benjamin Gitlow’s name but in the returns no mention is made as to the number of votes he received. Steal Votes. 1 counted. In a number of places, »al- lots were challeriged as improperly made out, etc., and in that Way many votes were negated. Army and Navy Cut Personnel; Will Ask More Appropriations WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—As a pre- lude to ask for larger appropriations for the army and navy, the army and navy departments have announced The navy, to keep within its purse, has cut the enlisted strength of 84,- 289 to 81,700. Motor transport plants are to be closed by the army to cut expenses at Camp Holabird, Md.; Camp Nor- moyle, Tex., and the motor repair section of the San Francisco depot will cease operations by June 30 next. The quartermaster corps motor trans- port school at Camp Holabird will be transferred to the Philadelphia school. Old Time South Knows Run-away Wage Slaves Are Same as Chattels (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS — (FP) — That slavery is not dead in the south is evidenced by Clarksdale, Miss., where the plantation owners are wrought in a frenzy over the disappearance of “human chattels.” A strike caused the arrest of four Mexicans. Hight Mexicans refused to work and left the plantation. S. L. Dodds offers à re- ward for information leading to their capture. In addition he has offered $100 for information leading to the identity of any person found guilty Jof enticing them away. CLEVELAND DISTRICT ARRANGES MANY MEETINGS TO CELEBRATE 8th ANNIVERSARY RUSS SOVIETS : workers understand that he has also curtailments due to “lack of funds.” | CLEVELAND, Nov. 6.—The following meetings have been arranged in District 6 to commemmorat® the eigth anniversary of the Russian revolution: CLEVELAND, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 8, at the Moose Hall, 1000 Walnut St., at 2:30, with Jay Lovestone, Amter, Gordon, and Brahtim as speakers. AKRON, Sunday, Nov. 8, Turner Hall, 524 Grand St., with Fred Bieden- kapp as speaker. CANTON, Sunday evening, Nov. 8, Canton Music Hall, 812 Tusc. St. E., with Jay Lovestone as speaker. TOLEDO, Sunday evening, Nov. 8, Labor Temple, 131 Michigan St., at 7:30, with Sadie Amter as speaker. CINCINNATI, Sunday evening, Nov. 8, Odd Fellows Temple, at 7 o'clock with H. M. Wicks as speaker. ‘YORKVILLE, Saturday evening, Nov. 7, Miner’s Hall, with W. J. White as speaker. EAST LIVERPOOL, Sunday, Nov. 8, with W. J. White as speaker, WARREN, Saturday, Nov. 7, Hippodrome Hall, Herbert Benjamin as speaker. CONNGAUT, Saturday,.Nov. 7, Workers’ Hall, Broad St., Finnish speaker. Kellogg N to Steel Labor Saklatvala Ban WARREN, O., Nov. 6.—Trumbull Lodge No. 73 of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers, recently adopted a resolution against the exclusion of Saklatvala from the country. This resolution was forwarded to Senator Willis of Ohio, who evidently was unacquainted and unconcerned about the non-admittance of Saklatvala. Willis communicated with Secretary of State Kellogg, who did not confine his reply to a statement to Willis, but embodied also a reply to the steel workers. Kellogg uses the usual subterfuges when writing of the case of Saklatvala. He refers to the espionage law of May 1918, which was continued in force by an act of congress in March, 1921. This law is stretched to cover the case of Saklatvala and save the United States government from being overthrown by a lone Communist member of the British parliament. It is most improbable that Kellogg's reply will satisfy the steel workers of Warren. There is one thing that they want: to have Saklatvala come to this country and tell the workers about conditions in England and In- dia—and in Soviet Russia, for the been in that country. Evidently the United States gov- ernment and the capitalists of this country do not want the workers to hear their own, the workers’ side of the question. The capitalist papers tell us enough about conditions in In- dia and in Great Britain. Does Kellogg think that he can keep the workers ignorant of these conditions by exclud- ing Saklatvala? The exclusion of Saklatvala is proof conclusive that Kellogg and his colleagues dare not face facts d are trying to keep the workers in dark. Australi wn W rkers Rous aoe the Deportation Menace SYDNEY, Australia — (FP) — On Sept. 9 representatives of all labor councils throughout Australia held a conference at Sydney to decide what action should be taken if the anti- Labor federal government deported any trade union leaders because of helping the British strikers in their fight against the shipowners. The deportation legislation was taken as a direct challenge to the Labor move- ment. It was recommended that in the attempted deportation of any unionist no worker should in any way assist. The sea-transport workers were called upon to give loyal assist- ance. For the repeal of the legislation the aid of the courts is to be invoked while deportation will be made a burning issue in the November federal elections. Regarding the British seamen’s strike, the conference recommended that “all unions be called upon to pay a levy of 14% per week of the earn- ings of the workers, Cal’s Speech Writer Quits to Get Fat Job Glorifying Oil Trust Ambitious plans for a campaign to glorify the oil industry and its domi- nating personalities in the eyes of the American public—as a counter-attrac- tion to the trial of the Teapot Dome fraud cases—are reported in connec- tion with the hiring of Judson C. Welliver, former journalist and maga- zine “muckraker” as their chief of publicity. The American Petroleum Institute is said to have paid Welliver $35,000 a year to leave his White House job, where he wrote presi- dential speeches and letters and opin- ions. Standard Oil of Indiana is identified as the dominating force in the Insti- tute. Doheny, Sinclair, Stewart and many other men involved in the oil fraud scandals are prominent in its activities. A good book on Communism will make you a better Com- ar munist. THE DAL workers’ control was put forward in | i : lottery booths all over the country by means of which the state will be able to meet its expenses. * 4 NEW YORK, Nov, 6—The French franc dropped to a new low of 4.02% cents. Purcell in Chicago Tour on for World Labor Unity (Continued from page 1) this development of capitalism in these nations would imperil the con- ditions of the trade unionists of all countries and in the following words shows that only one thing can save the workers from this fate. Unless trade unionists of all coun- tries forget their differences and unite in forming a tary cordon of ade- quate wages working conditions about these 6 the workers in the more advanced countries will soon find themselves out of employment, because production will be concen- trated in the backward countries where labor is exploited and material is cheap. We must help unionize the workers of India, China, South Africa and other lands where the machine is penetrating.” ~ In discussing the moves being made for unity by the trade unionists of Russia and England, he stated: “We have joined with the 6,000,000 Russian trade unionists of the all-Rus- sian central executive committee of trade unions to .promote the unity movement. By n s all of the Russian trade unionista are Commun- ists. We hope to také in the 6,000,- 000 catholic trade unionists affiliated with the clerical - rnational and those other millions of European workers who belong to the so-called dissident unions, and of course we de- sire earnestly that the workers of America shall co-operate with us.” The DAILY WORKER is unable to give a report of the two meetings that Purcell will address on world trade union unity at the Wicker Park Hall, and the North Side Turner Hall, due to the fact that The DAILY WORKER went to press too early. Tho a full report. be in the next issue. A aol a est : of Cuban Workers Blame for the ‘deportations and ar- rests which have beén going on in Cuba is laid directly at the door of Wall Street, by the Cuban section of the All-America ‘Anti-Imperialist League, which points out that Presi- dent Machodo is being regularly visit- ed by General E. R. Crowder, the American ambassador. The Cuban section ‘of the All-Am- erica AntiImperialist’ League, esta- blished only a few months ago, has been very active, demanding categor- ically that the United States govern- ment relinquish its “thinly-veiled pro- tectorate“ over Cuba, consent to the abrogation of the Platt amendment and immediately withdraw all milit- ary and naval forces from Gunate- namo Bay. Headquarters of the Cuban section are at Gral. Suarez, 216-218, Havana. A special secretarfat for foreign cor- respondence has been set up, under charge of A. Bernal del Rieszo. Julio A. Mella, arrested during the recent raids, continues as general secretary. Popular Program | Is Scheduled by Chicago Opera The program for the second week of Chicago Civic Opera includes “Ai- da” Tuesday, Noy, 10, with Raisa, Van Gordon, Cortis, Kipnis and Laz- zari, Polacco conducting; Wednesday “Otello”, with Sawyer (debut) Claes- sens, Marshall, Rimini, Kipnis, Mojica and Oliviero, Moranzont conducting; Thursday, “Il Trovatore” with Muzio, Homer, Kerr, Cortis, Bonelli, and Laz- Rosenkavalier” with the samé cast as the premiere performance. Saturday matinee, a second per- formance of “La Traviata” with Muzio, d’Hermanoy, Oorrenti, Hackett, Steel, Beck, and Torti; Moranzoni conduct- ing. Saturday night; at popular prices, “La Tosca” with Sawyer, Ansseau, Formichi; Moranzoni conducting. Sun- day afternoon, Nov. 15, Samson and Delilah” with Homer, Marshall, Cot- reuil, Formichi, Defrere; Weber con- ducting. , Seeks $10,000 Damages. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 6.—Declaring that a rock hurled by the tires of one of its busses last May struck him in the head and made him deaf, Wylie ages from the Inter-City Safety Coach 4 Marion superie court. company in a suit now on file in . 83 | 9 1 * 1 ‘ J AS 9 * 5. 8 2 17 Ga ? * 4 7 0 a“ ithe Home * ; “ae ar “ey 1 N 89 2 for their C 1 veg Ty 9 4 * * * 4 * 4 4 Les * t a i in im ‘ x Baer. AveAL ov Ghee ok 7 ele , 4 * ae 0 . 4 * ‘ ad at. fax i 9 . CS Pa 7 | s * ‘ . an 4 39 8 Pint 7 4 4 a) * 8. 1 1 re oO 2 ‘a * ** e ee een * passes of that state. never read them. ree assembl the form of o a seven be appliont e today. and sent his best servile obedience. ist Pa Party ticket on the ballot. under on Tuesday.” * f he Kind of an alle The allied patriots gave Voorhis, in taking office, no doubt swore to constitution, the declaration of independence, the | a lot of other documents supposedly sacred. Perhaps he had If he had, he was ressed by the declarations for free sp age, and for the right of t vernment whenever they see fi good enough for the colonists in 1776, when they wanted to rid of the king’s rule in this country, and had to resort ears’ revolution to do it. ment that sits on the lid trying that fears the wrath of the people underneath, just as King George the Third feared the colonists in the soldiers to keep them intimidated and in . nares eh ag Gitlow, Communist oa for mayor, off the ee. 4 | Rar: SAG EAE It is easy for Communists to understand that the 96- year-old ion board head is also president of the allied patriots. The political agent of the ist state is also a leader in a non-official organization for the protection That is the case with all outfits. Otherwise they would never be organized. | Voorhis a standing vote endors- | ing his action, In reply Voorhis declared, I only did my wee wor Jingo, red-baiting hold the ible and t very strongly im- 0 h tree — and people to change That was ut It is not held to hen Voorhis did his duty it was on behalf of a govern- to keep down discontent, 8th century Of course the smug organs of capitalist “democracy” seek to conceal this situation. The New York World, mouth- piece of victorious Tammany Hall, in an editorial entitled, Communism East and West,” points out that California is sending a woman to prison for membership in the Commun- ny, while New York City is placing the Communist It says: Since it does not take brains to write along the well- defined rut laid out for capitalist newspaper scribblers, this kept literary machine was no doubt justified in displaying his gross . That is What he pald f “The result will be that California will be torn by a storm of dis- sension and the Communists will get publicity in the newspapers, and in addition will appear as a persecuted underdog, whereas New York goes its peaceful way and the Communist Party will be quietly snowed * 9 or. ad followed events he Would have known that Gitlow was barred from the ballot as the Communist can- didate because a capitalist court convicted him of the same d crime that it is claimed Anita Whitney committed on the other side of the continent; violation of the state 5 th a law. The explo nited | court has actéd similarly in both cases. ‘The loaded dice of employers’ “justice” turn up the same prison sentences for both Ben Gitlow and Anita Whitney, miles may separate New York from California. They could ust as well have been on opposite sides of the earth, Cap- alism everywhere operates in the self-same way. * * ä * iters’ U supreme — ho more than 3,000 * New York City isn't satisfied with ruling Gitlow off the ballot. The allied patriots, with the.Mational urity League * nr ¥, a o te a ; ae Sie 4 1 13 * 9 27 * K. 2 4 = * ie 7 8 yal ante . r * „ ek i a . " Fad . 7 > Fae 2 1 - - 7 ‘ - * co-operating, are starting a drive to put the emblem of the Communist Party, the crossed hammer and sickle, off the ballot. It has hitherto been permitted to go on at the head of the Workers (Communist) Party column, that contained the names of such party candidates as were not under prison sentences. All of which indicates that the home of Wall Street isn't comfortable in the midst of growing numbers of Commun- ists. But to refuse Communist workers the right to vote their opinions at the polls on election day may result in giv- ing the international bankers a little temporary surcease from worry, But it only succeeds in stirring the workers to greater enemies of the revolution. orts to build and organize their revolutionary power. Sleepless nights haunt only the bedsides of the WIN STRIKE WITH HELP (Special to The Daily Worke for reasons of economy. Atlantic wireless communication. which involved about 150 men. . “Via Marconi” OF POSTOFFICE UNION | BRITISH WIRELESS MEN | LONDON, Nov. 6.—The strike of’ the Marconi wireless operators and receiving clerks in London, Liver- pool and Manchester ended today with the reinstatement of the nine operators who had been dismissed The strike crippled transcontinental and trans- The government wireless service was not affected by the walkout, When several messages marked were handed into ithe postoffice to be dispatched as zari, Weber conducting. Friday, Der E telegrams, the postoffice staff pro- tested against handling the messag- es, taking the ground that it would be equivalent to acting as strike breakers, Thereupon official instruc- tions were given by the postoffice _ saa — Prison Management at San Quentin Proven Inhuman to Prisoners (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN QUENTIN, Cal.—(FP)—Open warfare between Warden Frank Smith and chairman of the board of prison directors George Van Smith reveals further deficiencies in San Quentin prison, where nearly 80 polit- ical prisoners are confined, Van Smith charges that four men are shut up in Joells designed for one; the cells are old and have no toilets; several hun- dred convicts are obliged to wait at meal times because of inadequate din- ing facilities; the bathhouse must be kept crowded every hour of the day if the 2,900 convicts are to have even one bath a week; and drugs and liquor are smuggled in, while sex perversion ig rampant. , ae — . n n r n W. 0 05 ’ * MAb ts ie 1 N * 9 0.8. e eee ment at Washington. Prepare New War. local responsibility of self govern- ment,” 7 In another resolution the conven- enter the United States provided 7 association states that we would not even be opposed to admission of Chinese except that the Chinaman has a way of going into business for him- self and thus competing with the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers. We will even W- d factories to China if we fin profitable,” Condemn “Reds,” Thruout the convention there was nothing but ¢ondemnation for those workers who were striving to make the unions fighting organs of the working-class in the struggle against capitalism and praise for those who stood for the antiquated craft union system and resisted all attempts at change, It seemed like a united front between Mr. Green and the National Association of Manufacturers Cleveland to Have a Free Speech Meeting CLEVELAND, Nov. 6—An open air protest against the action of the po- lice barring the Workers Party speak- ers from the streets will be held on the Public Square, Saturday afternoon, Nov. 7, at 4 o’clock. Last Saturday, the police arrested a number of our speakers at the open- air meeting arranged to protest the attempt to murder Mathias Rakosi and 100 other workers in Hungary. Every party member must be on the Public Square withdut fail to protest the action of the Cleveland police. New Zealand Stays Wet. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Nov. 6.—New Zealand has decide to re main wet, The counting of the vote is as yet incomplete, but the results thus far ascertained show approxi- mately that the prohibitionists cast 277,981 votes against 310,596 by their opponents. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study 1 aed . : 7 * . 1 8 ha is Erie, E f : bas bad 2 5 ALY - 7 o” . 1 > a ae r eee pad . * 4 f * “4 4 15 *. ea LEER Ei tie wi MOT AES ANN e ee: og 5 apitalism In Al TAU! of Wall Street UNIONS By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Wer 4a ODAY, the Allied Patriotic Soclety, Ino. of New York meets in the new Army and Navy Building es resolutions commending John R. years old, president of the board of ee for striking the Howard of Peru, state highway com- mission employe, asks $10,000 dam- authorities that such messages should not be accepted for trans- mission during the strike. -help! 4a To Save THE DAILY WORKER WORKER. EDUCATIONAL CIRCUIT ARRANGED BY DISTRICT EIGHT OFFICE Work has elready been started for conducting classes in the “Elements of Communism” “Using the educational outlines prepared’ by the Communist International, in several important centers outside of Chicago. Comrade Oliver Carlson, former director of the Workers’ School in New York, is in charge of the course. The classes will begin the week of Nov. 15. Registration fee for the first semester of eight weeks is $1.50. Classes will be held in Gary on Monday evenings, in South Bend on Tuesday evsnings, in Waukegan on Wednesday evenings, and in Milwaukee on Thursday eve- nings. These classes are open to those sympathizing with and interested in the Communist movement as well as to members of the Workers Party and Young Workers League. | Place of meetings will be published in future issues of The DAILY ~~, Sw. eS 2 a 2 eo 2 oe ee Sl ee eee . — -— seweww sew www ew’! wee er re — 811
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a distance. — FEE ²˙ - / ˙' O = —•wmꝛy ůÄumm .! =-_ - - - 79. nr ö . DESCRIBE T RTUI ES OF WHITE | : . RUSSIAN PEASANTS IN POLAND (Special to The Dally Worker) 8 WARSAW, (I. R. A.) —Nov. 6. —- TWO and prominent White Ru lished an open letter fan workers, Tarashkevitch and Ballin, have pub. 7 discloses the inquisition in southern White Russia. The mothers and children of the arrested White Russian prisoners appealed to Tarashkevitch and Ballin begging them to go and on the spot seq for themselves the unheard of tortures which are being made use of by the police in their inquiries, The members to Bielostok, having in vain appealed + N + . n n ae maar ete aR yo a >ARLIAME! 3 members of the Polish parliamen of parliament immediately went declaration from’ 18 peasants, with a minute description of the tortures undergone. 1 *. who “We went out of the town,” wrote the members of parliament, “in the direction of the barracks, where the ‘enquiries’ took place, in the hope of finding out something at least from The barracks, however, | were surrounded by police. cordons, for a distance of 200 meters. Nobody dared approach the place of torture. “We returned to Bielostok and de- clared to the governor that we were willing to make a written statement refuting the accusations of torture, if We would be allowed to conyince our- selves of the fact. The governor ca- tegorically refused this.” | This letter, published by Tarashkev- itch and Ballin, caused a great sensa- tion in the official cricles. -—_ . - - -— — -—_ --_ —— — Oe ee eer ew ae ae wawwaweenwerrrw ce George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall PHONE DIVERSEY 0791 € P - = —_ —_ DDD DP ̃² T ̃ . BP uu ̃ Ä Utmost Secrecy Veils CHICAGO 2 ae 1 i i tt -_—_ il 3 — GAL STILL WILLING 10 LET LEWIS BREAK MINE WT ST 2 WASHINGTON, Nov, 6.—Despite renewed pleas for federal interven- tion in the anthracite coal strike, now in its tenth week, was little indication to-day that Pres, Coolidge plans change hie “hands OW” pulleys: i VEE The president's prinetpal advisers in the strike situation have advised him that there is no actual suffer- ing for want of anthracite coal. Coolidge also is Inclined to let con- gress wrestie with the problem and allow the union bituminous minere break the strike with soft coal, ry WASHINTON, Nov. 6.—~The labor- ious analysis of facta and figures continued today to mark the Italian- American debt negotiations over the funding of Italy's $2,138,000,000 debt. There will be no talk of terms, it was stated at the treasury, until all of the mass of data submitted by the [taliang has been thoroly digested. An example of the treasury’s watch- fulness to see that secrecy is main- tained was given today when it was learned that a newspaper reporter was ordered out of the building last night. Guards declared treasury offi- cials ordered all reporters barred while the conference was in progress. eee Paradise Restaurant HOME COOKING, Banquets and Weddings our Specialty 3346 W. ROOSEVELT ROAD Phone Nevada 0986 CHICAGO vt Ge 2 eae BAT? a i ali i Bis Be D dee | * . | YES! vou can get them from any League member, . i eee . 1 e 3 fal 1 Masque Ball, Saturday, Nov, 14, 8 P. M. WORKERS’ LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blvd., Chicas Auspices, Young Workers League, Branch No. 1. „* * 1. Tickets to the r —— —— — » » * — — — Labor history. * —B : eee my * * ; - 77 ommunist dag The first American E nglish daily Communist newspaper is making The Daily Worker has become such an important factor, by voic- ing the aspirations of workers in this country—and by leading the fight for the best interests of the working class—at the head of the increasing ranks of revolutionary workers grouped in the Workers (Communist) Party. The Daily Worker is a mine of information on each step in the progress of world Labor—and its interpretation of news, aided by special articles, explain the forces behind each incident of impor- tance to a worker. Such.a paper deserves its increas- ing circulation—and should re- ceive your subscription, K.. — (26 LMICAGO -$ B00 a year F: 7 nt hen S200 9 montis 7 GOO 2a year (oe 8 — — ſit (the DAILY WORKER, not the — Order a bundle for two weeks 2 cents a copy 3½ cents Saturday | to stay for two | weeks. | About Wednes- day, Nov. 11, b e, Enelosed 8 9 [daily stories copies of The DAILY WORK- | will a analyzing the situa- | En to be sent every day for tion this scene of bitter | Struggle, bringing to workers | the true conditions existing | Name there: ee | The strike now in progress; living conditions; the trade unions; the betrayals of the workers by the officialdom; the police and the courts. * two weeks to: This picture of the struggles of | City miners, written by an outstand- ing writer of the American rev- olutionary movement, should re- | State ceive the widest distribution, PASTOR SUCCEEDS IN WINNING CASE AGAINST ETEENPAIN AFTER WAVING RED BUGABOO IN COURT BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 6.—Despite the mass of evidence presented by the Eteenpain proving the “clerical” behavior of Rev. John D. Lillback, the United States district court, after a trial that lasted two weeks, ordered the Eteenpain, a Communist Finnish daily, to pay the minister $15,000. The Eteenpain has appealed the case to a higher court. The Rev. Lillback when confronted by many of the girls of the parish that he had hugged, kissed, fondled and made other advances to, under the guise of religious ceremony, accused + = the witnesses of being Communists, cited e. 2 cnspiacy to deere EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY him and tying to discredit him e-! | BONFERENGE ANNOUNCED FOR DEC, 18 AT PEKING ists and had aided the United States (Special to The Dally Worker) government “to trace down many WASHINGITON, Nov. 6.—All the plots against the government.” In the face of these red scares he was award- ed the verdict. Thruout the entire trial, the law- . powers have accepted December 18 vers for Lillback did not even attempt as the Ge e the conference in Peking on Chinese extra-territorial rights, it was learned at the state department to-day. The conference to prove his innocence of the charges made by young girls and many of the ‘was proposed by Seéretary of State Kellogg. Nine nations will partici- 5 . a married women of his parish which pate, & eB. By were published in the Eteenpain and for which the pastor was brot to trial, but raised the red bugaboo and tried to prove that all of the witnesses| were in league with the Communists — | Wrap your lunch in a copy of ! wer ane as Well the DAILY WORKER and give 4 ut of Business — NEW ORLNAN S, Nov. 6.— Directors of the Gullet Gin Company (cotton gin take note) jocated in Amite, near this city, unanimously voted to liqui- date their affairs before giving into the demands of their employes who lunch) to your shop-mate. Madiso n Pharmacy * „ -_— INC. have been on strike for the past month B ETT ER for better wage conditions, and at the same time adopted a resolution that D R U G S no committees would be recognized the company desiring to deal with Light Luncheon Served their employes as individuals. The employes declined the offer and sug- gested that perhaps liquidation of the corporation would be the best for the interests of the community. ] } ] ] 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones If you want to thoroughly un- 1 derstand Communism— study it. MUTT OED me CO-OPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY Dairy, Grocery & Meat Market Chicago ‘Beatie ee W MAIN STORE: 665-9 McAllister Avenue BRANCH: 1806 W. Washington St. WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS 4 ~tterere SALLE | \| STEEL TRUST GETS $12 ~ MORE PROFIT THAN I OPERATING ONLY 72 PCT. CAPACITY 5 — — 1925 YET By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press A profit of $42,400,412 was the U. S. Steel corporation's reward for buying labor cheap and selling its product dear in the third quarter of 1925. This industrial Editer) at ODD FELLOWS HALW Cor. Albany and 12th St, — exceeds by $12,000,000 the profit of the same period last year and is sufficient A meeting arranged by the youth un- to pay both regular and extra dividends twice over. Siack Times For Labor But Good Profit. An extraordinary thing about these profits is that they were made by a corporation averaging only 72 per cent of capacity production. Bven in der the auspices of the West Side | Freiheit Yugend Club, — — Meeting Begine at 7:30 p. . July when the average fell to 68 per cent U. 8. Steel made a profit of $13, 908,513. The steel trust charges pric- es which produce double dividends while operating less than three fourths capacity. Profits the first nine months of the year amounted to $122,907,625, equal after all interest charges and prefer- red dividends to $9.44 on each $100 share. Indications point to more than $13 a share for the entire year. Finan- cial quarters are full of hints that continuation of such high profits will be found to justify an increase in the seven per cent dividends now being paid regularly on over half a billion dollars of common stock which ort- zinally represented no investment whatsoever. Gary’s Rule of Gold. Only five days before announcing these excessive profits chairman Gary said: “If one should ask whether or not there ig any panacea for the ills that somet' mes appear to the moral, political, social or economic life of the nation, the answer is, ‘Yes, by the general adoption and practice of the golden rule.’ If any one protests that this is impracticable such a one, of course, refers to others and does not include himself. In determining the application of the golden rule, not only individuals but aggregations should become active participants.” Gary also suggests that “all of us must constantly and conscientiously look into our own hearts and strive to overcome what, it anything, is wrong.” Does he find in his own heart the suggestion that such mammoth profits warrant an increase in the 40 cents an hour basic wage of the cor- poration of which he is dictator? Or a reduction in prices of products which affect the price of practically every item in the cost of living to- day? Quite the contrary! He brings out of his heart the proposal that steel magnates once again form a ring to raise prices and wring even larger profits out of the country. That is Gary’s idea—the golden rule inside the employing class—but exploitation for labor. Gary isn’t waiting for pie in the sky. Commissions Fight for “State’s Rights Since the recent decision of the in- terstate commerce commission grant- ing the Chicago & Northwestern the right to increase its suburban com- muter rates 20 per cent, many of the members of the Illinois commission, which claimed jurisdiction over this fare increase as being interstate com- merce, has hopped onto the bandwag- on with Minnesota, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio in the demand that “state's rights“ be respected and are prepar- ing to carry their fight into the next session of congress. The first campaign to be launched aimed to defeat the move being made by the-thirty railroad presidents in the Association of Railroad and Utili- ties Commissioners to pass legisla- tion at the next session of congress to have federal control of motor bus- ses now engaged in interstate traffic, This move of the railroads is an at- tempt to kill off the bus lines that are now eating into the profits of the roads. The state bodies are fighting this move claiming that each state has the right to control the traffic withn its gtate. To those who work hard for their money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK DENTIST 645 Smithfield Street PITTSBURGH, PA. — The Official Report of the Britiah Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia The first publication in England of this most complete report of the British Trade Union Delegation to Seviet Russia, caused @ great stir in the World trade union movement. workers’ Politics other anne * parts ef e world came 9 praise for this his- sections of torical document, Russia. from those workers in it is and out of the organized labor movement 8 working for world trade union unity. This report ., charts and maps) s an impartial study of every phase of life DAILY PUBLISH! 118 W. USLISHING | ai} of Labor Unions. RKER PANY ago - ILL $1.25 Duroflex Cover under the first world’s government. 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FIFTH STREQZT, | be postponed until General Sarrall, deposed commissioner of Syria, re- turns and reports on conditions there. Meanwhile a full fledged revolu- tion is In progress in Syria with the one object of clearing the country of the French. | Genova Restaurant For Workers Edited by Manuel Gomez, ITALIAN-AMERICAN A collection of 1 N class in 1238 Madison Street 2 volume, Should be included i every worker’s library and indispensible for re- citation and all working N. E. Cor, Elizabeth St. Spaghetti and Ravioli Our Speo laity Special Arrangements for Parties on Short Notice Unuunmmmmumunmmmumunm GRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS Union Merchandise 1934 West Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE Union of Socialist Soviet. Repablics . SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1925, 8 P. M. at TEMPLE HALL, (Van Buren and Marshfield, One Block West of Ashland) SPEAKERS: EARL R. BROWDER, Director Research Dept. 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>. ; 4 N g ＋4 2 en Pe . RIPTION RATES) F ‘By mail (outside of Chicago): $6.00 per year ~ $8.50 six months 32.00 three months 3 Address all mail and make out checks . 5 | THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington k Bivd., oe Hiinels — Deen. Bntered as — mall September 21, i923, at t the deten at Sur cago, III., under the act of March 3. 1879. — 190 2 — — — 3 Advertising rates ‘on — 4 \ The Ninth Year Dawns ). The Bolshevik revolution, that eight years ago tomorrow was | hailed by the advanced section of the world proletariat, still marches | from triumph to triumph. Eight years ago the bourgeois world was infuriated at the spectacle of Soviet Russia defiantly raising the crimson banner of world revolution. The kept press was unable then, as now, to find words with which to villify the revolution. Predictions of dire calamity to the revolution echoed ever more feebly until finally the capitalist world had to recognize that it was stay. For the working class of the world during the rising tide of revo- lution after the imperialist war, Bolshevik Russia was the inspira- tion for determined struggle. In the dark days when the revolu- tionary tide subsided it was the ray of hope that enabled us to strug: gle aganist overwhelming odds. Not merely does the working class turn toward this outpost of the world revolution for help and guidance, but the oppressed of the earth, whether they live in New York or Damascus, London or Canton, Persia or the vast stretches of the Asiatic desert, recognize the Soviet Union as their own, the one great bulwark against ‘the frightfulness.of imperialist despotism. November %, 1917, is the outstanding date in the history of the world, the date on which, to use the term of Engels, man began to “emerge from the realm of necessity in the kingdom of freedom.” Instead of reckoning time from the beginning of the christian era, the calendars will eventually be revised and this era, the period of world revolution, will date from the storming of the Winter Palace and the proclaiming of fhe revolutionary dictatorship of the prole- tariat. AF ighting Englishman Chicago labor Kas as its guest today Albert A. Purcell, presidat of the Amsterdam International Federation of Trade Unions, long prominent in the labor movement in Britain, and outstanding ad- vocate of world trade union unity. He does not come with a message of submission or despair for the working class, but with a pr the fulfillment of which will cement the labor movement of the Wördd into a powerful force aiding in the liberation of mankind from the thralldom of wage slavery. His challenge is a call to labor to forge its own means of freedom. Aware of the lesson of history that never at any time in the age- long struggle of oppressed against oppressor has the slave-master sought the liberation of his slave, Purcell knows that if labor would be free it alone must strike the blow. Not being a Communist, Purcell does not emphasize the one in- despensible thing for the revolution, the necessity for the creation of a political party that will lead the working clas to the overthrow of the capitalist system. But as Communists we nevertheless hail his coming, as we recognize that given unity of the trade union forces of the world the struggle for the elementary demands of the working class will take on new forms that will lead to an understanding of |. the necessity for a pater struggle against imperialism in all parts : of the world. Pureell's visit on ne eve of the eighth anniyersary of the Bol- shevik revolution serves also to “emphasize the duty of labor thru- out the capitalist world to overthrow its treacherous leadership and form an alliance with the uniong of the victorious proletarian state. Because of his stand for the fundamental interests of the work- ing class he receives no welcome from the slimy servants of the bour- geoisie masquerading as leaders of labor in this country, his coming is not the subject for servile fawning on the part of the capitalist editors; as is the ease when prominent members of the British ruling class stop here. But thé masses_of conscious labor welcome him as a valiant fighter in the interests of the working class and receive him with acclaim not because he is an Englishman, but beeause he speaks in the interest of labor thruout the world. MOSCOW TRADE UNIONS PROTEST AGAINST RAKOSI COURT-MARTIAL MOSCOW, Nov. 6.~At a protest meeting arranged by the Moscow Trade Union Council against the white terror now prevailing in Horthy-ruled Hun- gary, Mathias Rakosi, Zoltan Weinberger, Kathrina Haman, Goegoes and Oeri were elected as honorary members of the presidium. Comrade Bela Kun made a detailed report upon the situation of ‘the Hun- _.garian working class movement. He pointed out that altho the working class Was once again beginning to mobilize ‘ its force, the aims of the present struggle of the Hungarian working class are to better the economic situ- ation of the exploited workers, to achieve trade union unity and to le- galize the Communist Party. Bela Kun pointed out that Rakosi and his comrades iad also worked for these aims, but that they were far removed from any intention of organ- izing any armed struggle for power. The information of Bela Kun upon the treacherous and provocative role of the Hungarian gocial-democracy in a4 the resistance Of the English Working class. Losovsky of the Red International of Labor Unions, pointed out that the social-democratic trade union bureau- cracy in Hungary and in other coun- to force back the révolutionary trade union movement. Expulsion from the unions and denunciations to the po- lice are equally acceptable methods to the yellow trade. unions in their strug- gle against the revolutionary trade union wing. i. tries was prepared to use all measures 7 7 N ot society. Revolution is the process Lot society act as a dam against this [State Hughes announced that By MAX BEDACHT HE proletarian revolution in Rus- sia ended the short rule of the Russian bourgeoisie. Bourgeois and proletarian revolution were simulta- neous phenomena there. The prole- tariat had grown so strong and 80 conscious in Russia, even under the old regime, that it could no longer be used by the bourgeoisie as an instru- ment of the latter’s revolution. On ‘the contrary; the proletariat very deliberately used the bourgeois revo- lution as the basis for its own im- mediate struggle for power. Revolution is that period of history | in which the social changes that take place gradually but continuously have reached the point where they come in direct conflict with the outward forms ot a fundamental change of these out- ward forms. This change is necessary for the continuity of the progress of ‘society. Without the safety valve of a revolution the inner forces of so- ciety find only one way ot freeing themselves and that is by throwing society back into the throes of un- limited reaction. The process of revélution is not a quiet, orderly phenomena. OCIAL changes are a steady stream of social development and progress. The existing outward forms process and stowe up and hem in tremendous forces, Thus two contra- dicting forces are wrestling for su- premacy. The old social forms act as a break to social development, try- ing to slow it up and to stop it entire- ly. At the same time, this progress is HE proletarian the end of the bourgeois The deginning 2 the political 1 the bourgeosie is at the same s beginning of the preletarian f The rule of the bo ive forces of tion, the means ¢ subjective fore The prole sia is no exc heels (they\ were only the eoisie hammering at the fetters of obsolete to the e a revolution. a social change thru a compromise with the old order. The revolutionary hopes of Karl Marx in those years were based on the expectation that a bourgeois revo- lution could and would be turned, within reasonable time, into a prole- this rule. The tinct reverberation in Russia; but no under which that upheaval resulted. Revolutionary slo- 0 eee pres- | gans and maxims were imported. But international] there was no class to lend revolution- * succeeded | ary energy and force to these slogans. ng. en insists | Russia was a backward country. The ole revolution | class on the back of which the whole closely on the | burden of autocracy rested, the peas- is revolution, | antry, looked backward for its salva- months apart), tion, not forward. It looked upon vil- no chance to de- lage Communism of the past, com- velop the objective and subjective pared to which, speaking from the forces of the proletarian revolution. standpoint. of economy, Therefore, they reason, this revolu-| duction on the basis of serfdom re- tion was out of order. With this ab- presented social progress. stract formula the social democrats | the peasantry was divided into tens cover their very concrete opposition | of thousands of little villages that did even pro- Besides not even know of each other’s exist- | „ b HH 2 * ii 5 83 tween the United States the Caribbean republic. ; By one of these treaties Santo Do- mingo confirms all the acts of the American military occupation, which lasted from 1916 to 1924. Among the acts so confirmed were the levying of taxes, the granting of concessions, and the floating of loans through American bankers. The second treaty rearrang- es the distribution of Dom an funds, which are under Americgn con- trol. It also extends the treaty forced upon Santo Domingo in 1907. The ex- tension is to run until Santo Domingo pays off its debt on the loans floated by American bankers in 1918 and 1922. and Bankers’ Scheme. HE new treaties grant the Amer- ican customs receiver general of Santo Domingo the power to apply ‘revenues for paying interest and amortization on these loans, and in addition opens the way for a new loan of $25,000,000 to be floated in the United States. The bulk of the cus- toms revenues collected by the Amer- ican receiver general is applied to paying off the American bankers; only what is left is turned over to the Dominican government. The purpose of these treaties was to extend American -eontrol over the Dominican republic. America’s excuse in 1904 for invading Santo Domingo was that the native government was having trouble with foreign creditors, chiefly France, which threatened to send warships to collect the debts claimed by its bondholders. In 1922, when Santo Domingo’s bonds were held by American bankers, the state department thought that the Carib- bean republic was paying off its debts too rapidly, and was approaching the point where it could claim complete freedom. In June 1922 Secretary of the United States. would withdraw its troops, if Santo Domingo signed treaties recognizing all the acts of the American military occupation, extend- ing the 1907 treaty until its debts to American bankers were paid off, ex- tending the powers of the American receiver general of customs und open- ing the way for a new loan by Amer- ican bankers. If these treaties were ratified, Secretary Hughes declared, elections could be held for a native government and the United States troops would be withdrawn. Resist Loan. HE treaties were secretly nego- tiated in 1924, after which Amer- Send Protests to Embassies. After the speeches of Dobrogianu and Gera of Roumania and workers from the Moscow factories, the meet- ing adopted a protest resolution in indignation in the thickly packed favor of Rakosi and his comrades by masses. Bela Kun concluded with the | acclamation. The meeting further declaration that the powerful and | elected a delegation to hand the pro- united protest action of the interna- | test to all the embassies in Moscow. the attempts now being made to crush the Hungarian ‘working class once again, in the handing over of Rakosi to the vengeful bourgeoisie of Hun- gary, caused a storm of indescribable tional proletariat could save the Hun- The meeting also dispatched tele- garian comrades from death. grams to various working class or- ganizations in a countries, to the An- England to Lead Reaction. glo-Soviet Trade Union Unity Commit: tee, the general council of the British Trade Union Congress, to the parlia- Brown of England, joined in the protest against the white terror in Hungary and pointed out that the ican troops were withdrawn and the present. native government of Santo Domingo was elected. When the se- crecy surrounding the treaties. was lifted, nationalist Dominican leaders vigorously. protested against what they considered America’s attempt further to enslave their country. Seventeen out of the thirty members of ‘the native chamber of deputies signed a “Pact of Honor” in which they bound themselves not to vote for the treaties. They declared that these treaties involve “a serious danger. for the sovereignity of the nation;” and mentary labor party, etc., in which the international working class was re- quested’ in the name of the 500,000 members of the Moscow Internation- al Reil Aid organisation, to do every- thing, possible to prevent the trial of ¥|Rakogi before an extraordinary court. English bourgeoisie, which was at the moment flinging prominent Eng- lish Communists into prison, was eager to take over the role of leader ol the international reaction, but t 1 this attempt would be defeated — — that the contemplated 25,000,000 loan which is „the basis and the e of the new treaties implies “the prolongation of the state of sub- ordination to the United States for a period of time ranging from 25 years * By JOSEPH FREEMAN. : |: MERICAN control over Santo Do- mingo was strengthened this week by the ratification of two treaties be- as a Wie te 100 years as a maximum.” The deputies who ‘aigoba this pact absented themselves frpm the cham- ber whenever. the. treaties came up. The treaties were finally ratified by a parliamentary. triek, when one of the signers of the pact entered the chamber and the president quickly declared a quorum and pushed the document through. Military Backs Loan, IME significance of the provision in the new treaty that American control is to extend until the debt to sis ; which „ r 3 of the 1922 loan. This circular, sent out to prospective American investors, points out that the American military authorities in Santo Domingo guaran- teed “the acceptance and validation of this bond issue by y government of the Dominican repuBlic as a legal, binding and irrevocabl@ obligation of the Dominican ey pod The 1922 loan runs until 1942. & letter to Lee, Higginson and co y from the United States naval ‘officer in charge of the department of, finance and commerce in Santo Domingo assured the bankers that Domfhican customs duties “shall be collectd and applied by an official appointeck by the presi- dent of the United {States and that the loan now. authorized shall have first lise upön eue customs reve- nues.’ Though the 40 military gov- ernment of Santo Domingo has given way to a native civil government, the treaties ratified this week confirm this and all other acts of the American military gevernment. Rail Union Delegetes to Submit Proposals to Other Conferences The deininds wines by the com- mittee of ten to th western general chairmen's meeting has just closed in the Morrison Hotel for the restoration of the war-time wages will now be submitted to the ern and South- ern General Chaitimen’s Association meetings, where representatives of the eastern and southern railroads of the Brotherhood of ilroad Trainmen and Order of Railrdad Conductors will pass upon the demands made by the Chicago meeting ahd then the union officials will preset them to the em ployers in the oo for a new scale. All details as 10 the demands for working conditions and means to be be kept in secrecy until after the meet ings in the other two sections. Philadelphia Yellow Taxi Sold to Transit Trust for $33, 000,000 (Special to The Daity Worker) NEW YORK, Noy. 6.—- W. E. McGuirk, president of the Yellow Taxi Corporation of New York, to-day con- firmen reports that negotiations are under way by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company to purchase the business of the ¥ellow Cab Company of Philadelphia. The reported price is 333,000, 0. 8 „ ' used to gain the wage increase wil ILABOR DEFENDER TO APPEAR ON DECEMBER 1 Will Voice Needs of the Class War Victims The Labor Defender, an illustrated monthly magazine to voice the fight for release of all class war prisoners will make its appearance on Decem- the International Labor Defense with. offices at 23 South Lincoln Street, ‘| Chicago, Miers ane aide 00 “class struggle in the United States who are now almost unheard of. They are rotting away in the dungeons of cap- italism but almost forgotten. Long and bitter fights to release them have failed and it appears that many have lost courage and hope that those whom the capitalists have succeeded in getting a stranglehold on can ever be freed. Voice of Working Class Martyrs. The Labor Defender will probe the ‘barred cages of the master class and Shed a new light on those working class martyrs who have spent many, years away from their homes and their friends bereft of fresh air and the pleasure of participate in the movement of working class freedom. The story of Ford and Suhr, of Mooney and Billings, of McNamara | and Schmitt and of many others will again be told and the fight for their liberation will be given a fresh urge. Right now Richard Ford who had already spent almost twelve years in Folsom prison, California -is again in the tolls, threatened with death on the scaffold. There is a hardly a state in the union that has not its quota of workers doing penance for not be forgotten. must not rot in jail. The first issue of The Labor De- fender will contain an article by the rebel poet Ralph Chaplin. He will tell the story of Sacco and Vanzett who are sitting in the shadow of the electric chair in Massachusetts. The Zeigler frame-up will be treated by Thurber Lewis who investigated the case on the spot for the Interna- tional Labor Defense. It will be illus- trated with pictures of the defendants, the mine where the defendants sweat- ed for their masters and the union hall where the shooting occured. The story of the Rakosi trial in Hungary and the campaign waged, by the American workers in his behalf: the story of the Ford and Suhr arrest and trial twelve years ago. the Crouch end Trumbull case; the Merrick case Massachusetts and the other Mer- ‘ek. case in Pittsburgh—those and many others will be told in the first ‘ssue of The Labor Defender. Pictures depicting the class struggle in Am- erica and all over the world will be an important feature of the magazine. The Labor Defender will sell for ten cents a copy. Subscription is $1.00 a year. a Furthermore they — > — Admits Drinking at Games MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 6. Prohibition officers and police were asked to stop dirnking at the Minne sota university football games by the university head. | Build the DAILY WORKER. ber Ist next. It will be published by their loyalty to the cause. They must | > 13 * ERS PARTY who together sent in the paper: for. ‘Wednesday's and Thursday’s editions: The ‘Bul Detroit, Mich. ; the Finnish branch of Astoria, ore. ; t of AKFoOR, . Ohio; and the downtown Russian branch of * 5 n 75 Dane ian branch of Slavic. branch York. Other fons 2 tions 2 brought the drive total to $17,638.58. 111711 os hy, 5 Gi 5 “ 5 3 N 2 35 . 85 5 N i ; aii 4 Kenosha, Wis. $ 4.00 Nick Vujnoviel site ‘stipes Joseph Panek, Chicago . 1.00 vich, Chas. 1 Gla- Worcester, Mass., Eng. W. P. 15.00 zesky, 8. Sus N De Truax, Boston, Mass., Eng. W. P. 7.00] Shadyside; 9 2 — 1 Milton Harlan, San Francisco, Bulgarian Br., “Detroit, Mich. 111 California 3.00 E. Wieser, Passaic, N. J. Wm. Schubert. 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