Daily Worker
November 19, 1925

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+4 a rg pw eer an ~ — Ge tt per Cane oe Per Sete | "~? Oe : By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Article V.) , MAHANOY CITY, Pa., pont new rock tu iPoenct in-new timbering, con-| ducting, ing exploration work a ral ore as if no strike was in force in man mines tn s section, is the charge made by striking miners. oficiaie te to give I Baty or a ‘ ; - 17.—That the (acl iestiile men that it is the policy of the union as many men as the companies re- quire as long as no coal is actually hoisted. This has a demoralizing effect on. the strikers and as the evil increases. the complaints of bitter but n° open struggle over the rank and file become more this issue has taken place as yet AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'PLAHERTY” AST Sunday one of the capitalist papers devoted a few pages to ro- togravure pictures of present and past events. We see the present leaders of England, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy signing the Locarno “peace” pact. It was to -prevent war, you know. Well, before the’ “ink with; which it was writ was dry” the Greeks and Bulgarians shot it full of holes and a few days afterwards France, leading factor in putting the pact wee | across, slaughtered several thousand | Syrians, men, women and children— in the local unions. Anti-Foreign Feeling. The dissension created in the ranks of the strikers by this policy is ag- gravated by the fact that most of the maintenance men—engineers, oil- ers, electricians, carpenters, black- smiths, machinists, etc—belong to what is called the “American ele- Irish or. American, Pennsylvania ic descent. The gap between the Eng- lish ‘speaking and foreign speaking groups is widened and a rift. made en it seriously if this policy is con- tinued. The miners are completely in the dark as to the line exists—which their officials are fol- _left wing against class collaboration _ers’ education along class lines sim- ment,” that is they are either of Dutch stock while the bulk of the) strikers are of Latin, Polish, or Slav-|, in the union which is bound to weak-|. f strategy, if any ferred to as in the interests of peace, of course. to */- * |lowing. They read eagerly every word in the capitalist press which has ‘to do with the strike, and this, except for the Communist papers whieh T we are driving at just low, is not hypocrisy of those hu- man La pee prey making peace ges- _ er picture on aca - ; re h: Ie apap + al ee gly ‘bik | , way han ever before” re- tiations between lie >inchot, President’ Lewis and Inglis, chairman of the operators’ committee, were in progress. The majority of the miners have a_ mistaken belief that Pinchot can and will do some- ‘hing for them. They counted a good leal on the results of the recent con- ferences and when the anhouncement came that the operators had shown no desire to settle there was consi- jerable disappointment. ._Only among che more conscious elements. was here any criticism of Lewis for his right-about face in the question of arbitration. Speaking to a commit- tee of businessmen in the Altamont Hotel, Hazleton, on August 25, Lewis stated that the United Mine Work- ers would not arbitrate “how much shall a man receive who is doomed to die, how much he shall make be- fore his back is broken or his eyes shot out or the flesh burned from his pones.” Lewis Doublecrosses Miners. The strike has béen on now for two and one-half months, the number. " (Contigued on page 2) ) |NTERSTAT COMMERCE — _ COMMISSION PLANS AID or. in- 5 more hear the Germans re: }< ‘Hans.” Germany, the 5: land of militarism and Hohenz is now the petted child of Wall Street and to a lesser degree of Threadneedle | Street, and France, “glorious France” | of 1917,.is treated like a dead beat by Washington and London in 1925, HIS is not an unusual situation in world po?iics. Nothing is so con- stant as change, yet change, which is ever present, is seen only by the few. 4 féw years ago, a moving picture op tient who did not hiss a picture of Von Hindenburg or applaud the im- becile countenance of.King George. was liable to find himself san tonsils if not worse, by a patriotic citizenry. But eight years afferwards we find German representatives wined and dined by our rulers and General Dawes, who played a prominent part in punishing the kaiser by proxy— that is killing several hundred thous- and German workers in order to make the kaiser sore—going over to Ger- many and arranging German finances so that the German workers can pay} the reparations the allies imposed as their foes as the price of defeat. * 1 * EANWHILE, the kaiser had the pleasure of staging another legat® : marriage, writing a* book, in which?’ T0 BREAK COAL STRIKE he dispassionately dwelt on the mer-9 its of the respective armies whi 1 WASHINGTON, \ Nov. 17.—With |} participated, in the’ great slaught@r{ghe anthracite strike in its twelfth. and no dowbt praised. the American | Py t for.the valo they displ ain sk, the interstate commérce com- EQODS. ae alor they displayed: Inf ion announced today it would - annihilating his own subjects. I would}. omissi y ule “Pesume its inquiry into the “rea like to know the reaction of a wrecked} a quiry son- Ameriean. soldier to those pictures? ness” of freight rates on bitu- min -bi In one of the few hospitals that weal Gee and semi-bituminous from malt thr omen aoororated by ea penitvens Raye ea congress (Or that purpose (arom, of Atlantic and New England destina- he: eee pnd. WAY Pe Met tions on November rr Commission pockets Of Col. Forbes of immortal ‘to John 8. C on- memory, still at large }y the way){¥. ampbell will conduct ‘the investigation, which was begun (Continued on page 5) oe New York last week. NORWEGIAN LABOR DELEGATION LAUDS SOVIET RUSSIA’S PROGRESS MOSCOW, (By Mail.)—Nov. 17.—On the basis of their experiences up to the present in Soviet Russia, the Norwegian workers’ delegates have unanimously adopted a declaration in which they point out with satisfaction that they have had absolute freedom in the: choice of districts, factories, etc., to be visited and a comradely support from the Soviet trade unions in their studies. The allegation that the delegation has no freedom of. move- inent in Soviet Russia is stigmatized as.a direct lie. 7s r ~ is ie & Those members of the celegation who visited Russia in earliere a t Sa « ? ate "oO ¢ *£ my s ’ - i*mes declare that tremendous econ cording t h unic and cultural progress has been S to the route mapped out by themselves, the delegates will go to Rostov on the Don, then to Tiflis and Baku, After this they. wif) spend ten ays in Moscow to study the construc- The de- the Union. particular iede in the Soviet claration stresses in ‘he great. poHtical activity and the in- devoted by the Russian work- tensity ‘tem: s ; 7 ta) 3 . 7 ec © ‘te oh ee cers fc of 5 ra erase Te. ge | toapity.sand- the: poten ta na com AG ing class. to culfural activities. o tion and activity of the labor unions. | BOSTON, Nov. 17.—The left wing resolutions calling for the recognition. of the Union of Soviet ics, amalgamation and organization of the unorganized were passed at the Furriers’ convention in here. The resolution introduced by the and endorsing a program for work- ilar to that in the Workers’ School in New York and Chicago was re- ferred to the incoming general | ex- ecutive board. | | Despite the attempt of Stetsky, one of the vice-presidents of the. ‘union and a lieutenant of President Morris Kaufman, to eliminate the _phrase in the resolution on the rec- ognition of Soviet Russia, which de- clares that Russia has defeated her enemies both inside and outside the * 5 IPS He. erg aad es areca vis ry ~ oe < Pa Soe NS TO Gee — ws Published Daily PUBLISHING CO., 1113. " 7 or YS ee TER po 3 LF is 7 +. See . ‘ se on the counter- lists, the resolu- - without changes be of the left wing . od | Gold asked tsky what kind of » Russian type be he use of armed the Soviets. a progres- } where he drew ne counter-revolu- Koltchak. : Machine did not e resolution on ch calls upon the bration of Labor to x pour the es- ‘union in each in- ‘resolution which falling upon the in- 4 scutive board to » ere + oe Tee association of commerce of the city of Chicago is conducting what) it ca : . —, ~ eee eae 3 ting. tr + ' te tee % 77. vr oe. oe ae “reat hicagorhinterland that the inventory Siktenerdanes upon “truth and ac- curagy,”. At the. opening session yesterday at the Hotel LaSalle the real motive be- hind. the, so-called inventory was re- vealed, when Mr. Harry A. Wheeler of the Union Trust company addressed the members and visitors present. He) reiterated the usual Chicago demand | for,a.waterway to the gulf of Mexico and . another from the Great Lakes tc: the Atlantic ocean as a means of aid- ing. the transportation of the flood of commodities that pass thru the city. Create Monopolies. In addition to the~formal advocacy of this transportation advantage to commerce, Mr. Wheeler revealed the motive behind the five day’s confab. He advocated centralization of indus- tries. “The day has gone,’ said Whee- ler, “when we want to get 2s far away -as possible from our competitor. We must concentrate.” Mr. Wheeler’s connection with the Union Trust banking concern exposes the fine hand of bank capital endea- voring to control the Chicago indus- tries by an elaborate plan of merging the kindred industries under one head, Not merely will a drive be launch- ed to consolidate industries under control of the large Chicago banks, but the small bankers in the outlying communities are to be brought ““@loser” toward the Chicago combines. LaSalle street strives to outdo Wall Street. Mr. George M. Reynolds. “chairman of the board of the Conti- nental and Commercial Bank, advo- cated bringing the banks of the Mis- sissippi valley closer to the Chicago institutions and predicted a future po },pulation of from eight to ten millions for Chicago. In fact Chicago “boosters” hope to outrival New York, after completion of their dream of a waterway thru the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. Open Shop Apostles. Those prominent at the conference were the most notorious scab shop advocates of the city of Chicago. The complexion of the assemblage indi- cates a new open’ shop assault upon the workers of the city of Chicago be: fore the week is over. It is known that several advocates of scabbery in industry are to discuss the advantages of Landis awards such as created havoc in the building trades in 1922, and also the general crushing of the working class in Chicago. Chicago labor is taking no interest in the affafr and is doing nothing to expose and counteract this new men- ace that is organized under the cloak of a cé@lebration of the coming of age of the association of:commerce. Milit- ants in the labor unions wil! launch (Continued emepage 2) | take concrete steps for amalgama- tion in the needle trades was also unanimously adopted. When the resolution to organize the unorganized was in uced by the resolutions committee, carrying the concrete proposal of levying a $5 ment on the membership of the union to build an organization campaign fund, the machine attempt- ed to befuddie the Jeft wing by say- ing that the — ' ip was op- posed to assessments, etc. The ma- chine feared to attack the resolution itself but tried to defeat it by rais- ing the false issue of the member- ship opposing assessments, Delegate Joe Cohen of the progres- sives flayed the machine declaring “you sit pot-bellied and smirk. Re- garding rank and file opposition, the members will support genuine moves rContinued on page 2) Noy. 17.—The league of Mate another move to- ence. The league dagger on to rep- gland, France, Italy, : etinns Brazil, Uru- Czecho-Slovakia to . 3, to make a pre- “the situation and to eue regarding a dis- SYRIANS AND Mercenary Christians Aid Batchers LONDON, Nov. 17. — British troops, according to a Jerusalem dis- patch to the Daily News,;-have been ordéred to check the Ofuse inva- Also Fight Wage Cats and for Conditions (By Worker Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Election of 1ew officers fer Local No. 49, United Automobile, Aircraft and Vehicle Workers of America will take place Nov. 19. All menibers should turn out to the election:'100 per cent in or- der to elect such a staff of officers as is most capable’to carry on a cam- paign against wage cuts for the com- ing year, when wage scales of the present working agreements expire. This local has recently elected a new wage scale committee to answer the attempted wage cuts of the Coach and Motor Manufacturers’ Association of New ‘York: List of Candidates. Following is the list of officers to be voted on: For president, De Frank (machinist); ‘vice-president, Max Smith (metal worker); record- ing secretary, W.;M. Hanlon (trim- mer) ; secretary-treasurer, Karl Schneider (blacksmith) or Joe O’Mara (painter); sergeamat-arms, Lois Sal- ak; parliamentarian, James Powers or Fay Bradt; lecal organizers (two to be elected) W. Greenberg, Joe Madine, Edward Krulich, Chas. Mohl; trustee. Frank Petenz; members of the executive board: (five to be elect- ed) Arthur Mac, ‘Harry Spunt; Chas. Bottinger, Franki/Mazanek, John Os- wald, Paul Reines. Voting will begin at 7 o’clock. Following is the open letter that Local No, 49 has written to all auto- mobile workers of:greater New Yerk, as well as other automobile industrial centers: Wages Determine Life. “Read this over carefully as it means much to you. The time may come and come soon when you will be glad you received this call for ac- tion and acted upon it. The big thing in life that you are interested in is work and wages and good working conditions. The amount of wages you receive determines your standard of living. The number of hours that you work determine how yourself and your family spend their leisure. “Are you working more hours than you should work? Are you receiving the wages you should have? And are you satisfied with the treatment that you are getting:from the bosses and their hirelings: :foremen and su- perintendents? Ifoyou are not, why not make an attenmpt to find (Continued on page 2) | sion on the eastern side of the river _ Jordar This, popes ypomatyeey some a ik fa nto mes : we antl Hale a hy eke: affair cespencinc +a ‘to charg- ing in the league of nattdtis council that France cannot efficiently ad- minister the league mandate in that territory. This will pave the way for Britain to obtain the ‘privilege of administering the mandate as a means of consolidating ‘its’ oi! in- terests. 4 e a (Special to The Daily Worker) BEIRUT, Syria, Nov. 17.—Mercen- }ary droves of former mendicants and others of the very lowest strata of the population of Lebanon have been recruited with the aid of American and other missionaries into auxiliar- ies of the French military occupation and have tried to wage war against (Continued on page 2) ~~ (Special to The body convened for the autumn cess. minutes. cries of ““Mussolini’’ were hurled rapid succession from the erred benches and the demonstration against him was so violent that. he was staggered and could only meek- ly mutter: “The question is under consideration.” This is the usual par- liamentary evasion of cabinet mem- bers when they are hard “Dressed | for an answe? to their in lati Turn. on Baldwin. The. laborites were not satisfied with the evasion:of Hicks so they turned on Premier Baldwin, demand- ing that he state the reasons for the persecution of the Communists and ag Yovernmental support of the fas- cist groups that are arising in Eng- land. Under the pressure of ques- tions Baldwin promised to make a | statement tomorrow on the govern- ment’s stand on the questions in- “yolved in the Communist controver- sy and the alleged encouragement of the fascisti groups being organized. The labor party is holding a spe- cial meeting tonight to discuss. plans for moving a bill of censure against the government of Baldwin for his anti-racial measures. “Cadaver” Question Rises. ae e goxerament was 5 ane forced to the ermy mauicehen departmnt of Britain, who told the falsifying photo- graphs to create the notion among °Al- lied nations and the Germans weré@ boiling in vats the bodies of their dead in ‘order to. @x- tract grease for munitions and} for other purposes: Chartiers admitted that all this was based upon a series of lies and forgeries and seemed to think it a great joke. While preparing for war France, America and other nations threatening its supremacy, Britain can ill afford to have such damning stories of its methods of lying to its own people revealed: Not that they are worse than any other nation uses, but simply because such exposures | are dangerous at this time. LONDON, Nov. 17—Communism loomed large at the very opening moment of the house of commons yesterday, when that — Thirty-six questions were put and aheaorie in twe The only excitement of the session, but quite enou to last for some time, came when Sir William Joynson Hicks rose to reply to a question whether more stringent laws to deal with Communists would be enacted. Ironical cheers and conte Questions were fired at him in such4—— Daily Worker) 7. term after a three months’ re- -~. - uous at him from the labor benches. SCOTLAND YARD: HAS HARD TIME IN BOW STREET British Commanists Rap Frame-up Attempts (Special to The Daily Worker) (Pieture on Page Six). LONDON, Nov. 17.—The prosecu- tion is still presenting evidence in the Case against the twelve members of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League of Great Britain. Chinese ‘that against. | . ‘}who are Sco have wonderfu ‘International Leaflet after leaflet is being read into the record in order to prove that the Communists are guilty of seditious conspiracy. “Dicks Lose “Memories.” The witnesses for the prosecution, nd. Yard . memor when are being examined by the attorney for the crown, but when the attorney for some of the members of the de- fense and members of the defense acting as their own attorneys ques- tion them. they conveniently “forget” about their activities. Attempt to Attack R. I. L. U. Scotland Yard operatives attempted to connect up the acitvities of the Red of Labor Unions in England with the Communist Party by reading a copy of a letter, pur- ported to have been seized during the raid on the Communist Party head- quarters: at.16 North King St., Covent Garden, W. C., and which was sup- posed to have heen sent to Losovsky and the secretary of the Mid-European (Continued on page 2) © ' UNDER THE LAWS OF 1797 By D. Moore, The British Communists are being accused under the laws of 1797 for “breach of peace” against “His Majesty.” Behind the throne are seen the capitalist pulling the strings and Ramsay MacDonald, the late labor premier, pic- tured as a poodle. in Moscow Pravda (The Truth) oe Fe) s BUDAPEST, RAMSAY MacDONALD FRATERNIZES WITH HORTHY HANGMEN DESPITE WORKERS’ BOYCOTT OF HUNGARY — ee Nov. 17.—Despite the fact that workers all over the world are protesting the court-martial trial of Mathias Rakosi and the 100 others who are charged’ with crimes against the safety of the state, whose trial is on at present, J,,;Ramsay MacDonald, of the British labor party and ex-prime (Cantinued on paye 2) ' close Must Have Curtains. MADISON, Wis., Nov. preme court. a ee ae ee eee —— HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! 17—Validity 'of the cab curtain law designed, to in- the engine cab of locomotives | with curtains, so as to protect the én- | gineer and fireman from cold and drip ping snow to which they are exposed, was sustained by the Wisconsin sn-