Daily Worker
November 26, 1925
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, Sah i gE ee oN ‘American Press Scored that oem pul pdr te hers is & under « -Aot of March 3, 1878. Article IX. SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 24—The operators’ ultimatum of a five year my ey containing a no strike clause (the provision ‘thet a net nee eet stop while negotiations are in progress and n that the operators shall have the right to san hen a rye at ony time) has been foluwed n this «pigs oti of mario ihe teas It is stated cme miners and sympathetic businessmen that-all the machinery which the coal barons have at their disposal here is being utilized to create sentiment for the terms of the opera- tors’ . Dressed as miners, these agents, some of them beige ony whose enterprises face bankruptcy as a result of eh. 4. tsettlement oh the operators’ terms. Demands for Relief Increase. The breakdown of the local capital- ist enterprises which depend upon miner’s trade is proceeding by geo- metrical progression—each week sees double the amount of business cessa- tion over the previous week. Among the miners the number of appeals for relief is increasing rapidly. There can be little doubt now that the coal barons intend to starve the miners into submission. They hope that as the strike continues there will arise by economic pressure and pro- paganda enough sentiment for their terms to enable them to get support for them from the miners themselves. Officials do Nothing. The union officialdom is doing little if anything to counteract this disrupt- ive campaign. An incident which oc- curred in Local Union 1687 of Wilkes- Barre is illuminating in this respect. The strikers are now attending the local meetings in large numbers, when these are held—in itself evidence that for Fake News _ Indignation is a mild term to ex- press the attitude of Filipinos resi- dent in this country to the fake news stories “which are appearing, in the capitalist dailies, purporting to show that the Philippine people do not want independence and would support Gov- ernor General Wood’s iron heel rule if it not for a handful of on makers.” _is Bec out that this argument is and so contrary to pal- sabioTtact thafit discredits out-of-hand everything else that the. newspaper deep interest in the strike: " At the local meeting in question a the organization of an international strike relief fund, the sending. out of a call for Se SME te all arpa inet energy, jection of all ashitration ‘ptoposaldy the calling out of all maintenance men and a general strike in the whole coal industry. whelmingly in favor of independence that no Philippine candidate can be elected. to any office who does not declare himself. for it unequivocally. Both houses of the national legislat- ure are controlled by the national party from top to bottom. Despite the illegal intrigues of Gen: Wood, the legislature voted almost unani- mously to send the independence mis- sion headed by Senator Osmena to the United States. Moreover, not a single Filipino voice was raised against the demand for independence, the only objection offered to sending the mis- sion was that it might not go about its task energetically enuf. Attention of The DAILY WORKER is called to the big “independence fund” recently: raised in the islands by popular subscription. The fund was greatly oversubscribed, The Fil- ipinos xesponded almost as one man, and within a few months millions of ‘pesos were collected for the purpose of intensifying the struggle for com- ling auditor, J. B. Gallagher, was pres- ent, and after the introduction of the which has 1,600 members, be held. The local officials seem to be eager to discuss everything in the world bat the strike. Do They Pay Organizers for This? large local with about 1,200 members, some 500 were present. The officials Showed up late accompanied by an organizer named Gleason. Gleason spoke in favor of the drive for the “community chest”—a class cdéllabora- tion charity movement—and urged a day’s pay assessment for this fund which is administered by the local parasites, to be taken from the third plete and immediate independence | ??” of the miners after ‘the*strike from American imperialist .domina-| “** °° sie sina. snhee: Porm isaion Hy for the local Officials to attend the banquet which was to wind up the “community chest” campaign. i The Facts edly defeated by the members but the i ° chairman finally declared them i Regarding the carried. } } Economic Life |}; In Local Union 151 some 18 famil- | ies have been given relief and one ot | . of Russia the. coal companies was allowed to employ 30 miners to repair a shaft. The relief committeemen in this loéal who examine each request for strike 'f ty NEXT pay receive $10 per day. i Always the “No Strike” Clause. | S ATURD AY As this strike continues and the f # defeatist propaganda of the operators and their agents is intensifled—many ' ~ jn the of these stoolpigeons even urging a : ° ° 10 year contract with a no strike Magazine Section clause—the fact becomes clearer that f of || the left wing, the Progressive Miners’ | ree ||| Committee, has the responsibility for |. The Daily Worker the. prevention of the loss by the f : union of the gains it has made since h Authentic document pre- (Continued on page 2) propaganda by agents of the operators) — jr Renee See among the workers and urging a}: == 24 id [_, ree .as' the Egyptians are rising against the rank and file are now taking aj resolution was introduced Calling for’ ‘has gene to great excesses. » »: At the last meeting of Local 1052, 4 Both of these motions were repeat-. R 26, 1925 _*" Published Daily ‘by THE DAIL PUBLISHING CO, 1118 W. Washington Bivd., ¥ WORKER Chicago, Ll, WASHINGTON, D, C., Nov. 24.—_ President Coolidge continues to sup- port General Pershing who —— ing the alleged plebiscite commis- sion overseeing the dispute between Chile and Peru concerning the Tacna-Arica dispute over the bound- - ary between the two countries. q Coolidge says he will back -up Pershing regardless of the with- drawal of Chilean representatives from the commission after charging | unfairness in the _Weblecite ar. ‘Some significance is seen in the | Austria departure for Chile from the Ar- {pre gentine of the U. S secretary of | ‘war, John W.. Weeks. Weeks has. been visiting the Argentine, and im- | perialist diplomacy is seén to be | behind these “visits” of the Yankee | : official, : Workers Rally to the Nationalists (Special to The Daily Worker) CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. «o.—Premier re het Ziwar ‘Pasha, who was legally shorn cine the | ¥ of his powers when the parliament blackshirts met last Saturday and passed a vote} 3 Of no-confidence and elected Zaghioul Pasha in his place,’is ready to resign and relinquish all claim to the office. ' As the tool of Britain Ziwar finds his position more and more untenable him and the power he represents, “In its desperation to maintain complete control of the Suez Canal and to lord it over the Sudan British imperialism British agents forbade parliament od. h ie S = ROUMANIAN DEBT [2 ara m= rel with the It#¥an people but that PLAN REJECTED oa the blackshirtso of fascism in case they invade the wountry. After go- Standard Oil Does Not : Like Laws ing into what hesfmagines the politi- cal situation ofithe surrounding na. tions in Europe,..most of which he misinterprets because of political in- experience and ithe political § short- (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24—The ‘Roumanian debt! commission propos- al" was turned down by the American éonimission. Apparetitly the Rouman- (Contiutied on page 2) ians asked for as favorable terms as 9-YEAR OLB BOY LOSES LIFE WHILE PICKING ing of the $46,000,000 debt is sti | | GOALS FUR FAMILY FIRE the air. teat Stindard Oi! Evens Score. ROYALTON, Iil., Nov. 24.—Frank The Mellon counter proposal is| Caldwell, 9, was killed in the Iilinois along the general lines of the British| Central railroad yards here when he debt settlement. Seemingly the Stand-| was picking up coal along the track. ard Oil displeasure with the Rouman-| The boy evidently had crawled be- ian laws as pertaining to oil conces-| neath a car when an engine backed sions has the effect of making Uncle} down on the cars and pinned the Sam a harsh creditor. lad under the wheels. CZECHU- SLOVAK (Special to The Daily Worker) PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, Nov. 24.—Despitei the sianderous attacks on the Communist Party candidates aria the circulation of rumors that the Communists were going to assassinate Masa- ryk, president of Czecho-Slovakia, the Communist Party polled 930,000 votes, according to incomplete returns, casting a larger total vote than any other political party in thesountry. The agrarians, clericals, socialsdemocrats had candidates in the three sections of Czecho-Slovakia,—i. e. in«the first sector Moravia, Silezia and Bohemia, in the second sector, Slovakia, and the third sector, Podkarpatska Russ—their parties in each senting the real situation TODAY in the Union of + soviet. Republics. crops facts? 5,000 JAPANESE TEXTILE WORKERS” Da tai CaF scien STRIKE AGAINST LOW WAGES AND CONDITIONS IN KAWASAKI MILLS *of these sections cannot be considered as units as_ the agrarians of the first sector are opposed to those of the second sector who, are in the movement for the secession of Slovakia from Czecho- (Continued on paye 2) fs Russia advancing? TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 24.—Five thousand Japanese textile workers walked . _ «iow about the workers? out at the Kawasaki textile mills demanding higher wages and more con- F r Pa Tod Air doubts dispelled; all sideration from the bosses. A number of strikers have been arrested fol- ou ges ay a shons answered by lowing a demonstration in which they carried banners protesting against the Owing to tel ae a earlead of rACYS. Do not miss this inhuman conditions they are subjected to. six-page news priek t6 arrive on s3sne if you want to be in- The textile workers of Japan are growing more restless and the govern- time, this issue is being published ayuied oo the ecnd'tions in ment fears that the walkout of these five thousand Japanese workers may|| in, a reduced size: This may con- cue .Griers’ republic. be followed by strikes in other textile mills. tinue for several days. Owing to . The average Japanese worker is forced to work 12 to 16 hours a day,/| Thanksgiving Day coming on IR S C Rr I B E ! 7 days a week for a small wage in the cotton mills and there is but little|]| Thursday, the mext issue will be , organization to protect them from the gen ‘who beat the workers if they |} dated Friday. eee ilies ON fa SANE do not work fast rr chat | # 4 , ia ¥ ie one SGIVING HAT has the world to be thankful for on the day which is sup- posed to be set aside so that we can offer up incantations to the spook in the sky for manifold blessings we are supposed to enjoy? How can the world be thankful when: 4 > . . * N this country 158,000 miners are striking for the right to be recog nized as human beings while the combined infamy of the mine barons, the government and the reactionary officialg are leading them to destruction. Thousands upon thousands of children toil long hours amidst the most ghastly surroundings. Wage cuts are in effect in many industries and new ones are threatened, with the workers’ standard of living constantly falling. The burden of taxation is being piled higher as the capjtalist government lightens the debt of the Italian despot, Mussolini, and places it upon the shoulders of the “working class of this country. in Italy, where the workers suffer under the most savage tyranny, : every day sees new excesses against all who dare challenge the dic- tator. In France the instability of the government is proved by the rapid fall of cabinets and the continuous decline of French currency, while mercenary hordes of French soldiers try to scourge from the face of the earth the natives of Syria and Lebanon. In England unemployment is increasing at an alarming rate and the permanent army of unemployed that has averaged two million since the war is now Increasing every day. British airplanes leer menacingly from the largest air base on earth, ready at a moment’s notice to sweep down upon Turkey to de- fend British domination of Mosul oil, while the American Standard Oil concern withdraws from the Mosul! group preparatory to fighting. American warships traverse the Mediterrenean from Gibraltar to Alexandria, thence to Beirut and from there back toward Sidon, as a threat to British forces mobilized across the Lebanon border. in Palestine. ~~ . In China the diplomats representing American, British, French and Japanese bankers, try to gain diplomatic victories preparatory to the complete subjugation of that nation. Each group strives to gain advantages for itself against the others, with the American House of Morgan in the lead. In Egypt, Britain faces a « s crisis with the parliament meet- ing in defiance of an edict and de,..s1ng the premier selected by British interests. in northwestern Africa, in Morocco, the Riffian soldiers fighting against French and Spanish despotism are taking advantage of the . rainy season to prepare for the battles that will come with the open- ing of spring. In the Philippine islands the natives there suffer under the iron heel of Major General Leonard H. Wood, the agent of Wall Street, while representatives of the people of those isiands come here to im- plore the despot to liberate them. Thanksgiving in the capitalist world is a vacuous jest, a sardonic grimace at the suffering of the millions that-groan in chains. There place on the face of the earth where the masses can be - théir-tot> “That is-im-the Soviet Union, the one ptace in the world where the con The workers of all the w can be thankful for the Soviet Union because it is the outpost o ‘world revolution, a living inspiration to the struggling workers and peasants thruout the world to rise and de- stroy the capitalist despoiler of humanity. ~~ of the worker is constantly improving. But we do not offer thanksgiving to any god in the skies. The victories we gain and will, ‘in the future we owe only to our own strength, our power of organizaiton, and to the invincible leadership of the world revolution; a leadership built up from the best elements of the working class from every country in the world—the Communist international. Thanksgiving for the ruling class means a cheap apology for the decaying structure of capitalist society. We refuse to recognize or celebrate this thing, at the best a survival of the cannibal feasts of savages. Our celebrations commemorate living realities; the victories of the Bolshevik revolution, the eighth anniversary of which has just passed. instead of utilizing capitalist holidays to give thanks to capitalism the revolutionist takes advantage of the rellef granted him | ' | | | strike the blow that will shatter capitalism to its foundations. Judge Busick, Labor Hater, to Preside over Ford’s Trial GITLOW IN JAIL WHILE SMITH AND WALKER SPORT AROUND SOUTHERN CITIES a (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—While Benjamin Gitlow, candidate for mayor of New York City on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket is behind the walls of Sing Sing prison serving the balance of a five to ten year sentence imposed on him in 1920 for his connection with the manifesto published by the left wing of the socialist party, the suc- cessful capitalist candidate Jimmy Walker is breathing the balmy air of Florida and Governor Smith is recuperating from election strain on the board walk of Atlantic City. Gitlow returned to Sing Sing on November 9th, shortly after the United States supreme court hand- ed down a decision upholding the constitutionality of the New York criminal anarchy law. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 24.— | Judge Busick, the bitter labor hater, | was selected by Gov. Friend Richard- | son to preside over the trial of Rich- ard Ford, charged with the ariviier| of a deputy sheriff in the Wheatland hop strike riots in 1913, Ford had al-' ready served twelve years on a charge / of having incited to murder the dis- trict attorney of Yuba county during | the strike. | No sooner had the prison board re- | leased Ford on parole than the re- actionaries had him rearrested. The | present prosecutor is a son of the | county prosecutor who was emong | those killed in 1913. Suhr who was convicted with Ford | is still in prison. Neither of the two'! men were charged with having killed | the prosecutor and the deputy sheriff and even the jury that tried the case | have since signed a petition acknow- | ledging that the verdict was unjust. i ' Shadyside, O., Workers: Will Hear About Labor Defense Sunday, Nov. 29 Federal Prisoners Have Nothing to Be Thankful to U. S. For oct te Toe Buy worry | SHADYSIDE, Ohio, Nov. 24s rAg , . il re a , erna a abor eLense w 10|« WASHINGTON, Nov, 24—Federal & tines Mmesting..at the Miners’ prisoners ,will look in vain for par- dons, this Thanksgiving day. Accord- ing to the White House official spokes- Temple, Sunday afternoon Nov. 2 p. m. where 29 at Bishop William Mont- , gomery Brown and Fred G. Bieden- man, Mr. Coolidge expects to receive _kapp will speak. from the various wardens of federal | Biedenkapp will lecture on “La- prisons a few recommendations for | |bor and Defense.” special clemency just before Christ- mas, but he sees no reason to expect | that he will be asked and advised. to show any mercy by writs of pardon All workers are ‘invited to attend this. mass meeting. If you want to thoroughly un- r i before that time, I. L. D. Needs Funds fe ¢ Zz, of the progressive members of | Zeigier local of the Iilinoie M operators aided by Frank Farrin officials of Governor Small, is sohe- — duled to begin on November 30th, = ry Corbishley, leader of the progre o- sives, is charged with the murder ¢ yi s a radical miner Hf | sary for the workers thruout the coun- | | tion ings. from work on the job in order to prepare himself and his class to | In the hall there were three mem- (|bers who were victims of the slug- — ‘gers on Sunday a week ago, one with Defense L. D. News Service.) ill., Nov. 24.—The (I, ZEIGLER, Union who were framed by the ce reactionary machine and by the oc: es Pye, Ep. > ed ‘Sak! Kiansman Kills Miner. Frank Corbishley, a brother of E who was act killed by a member of the ku klan. The indictment of Cort is an attempt to whitewash the Tho the indictments are a the flimsiest evidence and would stand up in a court that was not um der the thumb of the coal of ors, there is grave danger that the mig may be railroaded to prison Frank Corbishley to the gallows UB- ~ less a vigorous defense is conducted a in their behalf. Need Funds. _ The Farrington machine has placed obstacles in the way of raising funds — : for the defense of those miners a ae the local unions jn Illinois. This © makes it ever so much more teces- Sf nie ye mee é try to contribute generously to the defense of the Zeigler miners who are among the best union men in the United~ States. A. C, W. OFFICER henge By BEN GORDON. Rae (Worker Correspondent) ei" The reactionary machine in the ise Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ ae Union is trying to employ all meth- es ods to suppress the question of who ve Be e is responsible for the slugging of the members at recent meetings. They ~~ 9 know the members are indignant at ae such methods to shut off free discus = ae sion on union problems. <3 Having no defense they are trying to shut off discussion on the quem in the local membership meet This was shown at the meeting of Local 269 held a few days ago. The ‘members felt angry over the whole affair. They put the responsibility ‘squarely upon the officials. A “Ruling.” his head still bandaged. No ‘sooner had the meeting opened than some of the brothers raised the question, The president immediately made a ruling | that this question will be discussed ‘after the nominations take place, be- cause this meeting was both a regu- lar and special meeting. The ruling was accepted. Under discussion of the Joint Board report, the question of the $26 assesment came wp. Those who spoke on it brot forth the manner in |which this matter was handled at the general membership meeting, where no discussion Was permitted and how those who were only suspected of wishing to discuss it were: beaten up | by none othes than the officials and members of the union. The president again objected and — officials had a hard time convine ng the members that the assessment | matter had already been passed by jall other locals and it. would be use- cContinued on page 2) SHACHTMAN TO WRITE NEWS OF ZEIGLER, ILL, FRAME-UP ON MINERS The frame-up to railroad the mi- litant miners of Zeigler, IIL, one of whom was murdered by a ku kiux klansman at a local union meeting some time ago, will proceed with the case being called for trial at Zeigler next Monday. The International Labor Defense Is sending a special publicity re- presentative, Max Schachtman, to cover the news of the trial. Read- ers of The DAILY WORKER are promised comprehensive reports of ethe case in daily dispatches from the court sent out by the lt. L. OD. ’ Peeing derstand Communism-—-study it.| Press Service.
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Oe ired Two Shots ss (Special to The Dally Worker) p RETROIT, Nov. 24. — During the | of the trial of Dr. Ossian H. and 10 co-defendants for the i murder of Leon E. Breiner, —verdlog Clarence Darrow, noted Chi- _ @&go lawyer, brought out that Patrol- Frank Lee Gill had fired two at the Sweet residence on that | The patrolman was forced to admit on cross-examination that he had fired two shots at one of the Negro resi- : ‘= whom he saw on the upper rear “porch. Dr. Sweet admitted that he had a number of pistols in the house - and also a shotgun, in order to defend himself, if it were necessary, since he been threatened by an organ- “ization of white landlords who threat- ened him with death if he did not sell 3 new home to them and leave the ae 2 un? Seu » Wn, pee +! ~*~ 6 ore Alas ee A ae 3 iE ea Rings eit (ae “neighborhood, but that on the night “that Breiner was slain that none of the occupants of the house had fired the shot. | The defense had a photographer come before the trial with a number of protographs to show that Breiner could not have been killed by a shot fired from the house but that the pa- trolman, who admits firing at the _ house, must have slain Breiner. Police Shoot Breiner? The photographer Stephen Tickey, introduced a number of pictures which shows the possibility that the patrolman may have slain Breiner during the rioting. The police that were at the house at the time of the raid attempted to make it appear as tho there had been no trouble at the Sweet residence and that the Sweets had purposely shot Breiner. The state in its attempt to convict the 11 Negroes for the murder was given a setback when, under cross-examination, the police were forced to admit that they had con- siderable trouble in dispersing the mob. Conference on Wastes in Industry to Meet Under Govt. Auspices WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Problems of women in industry will be dis- cussed at a’ conference in Washing- ton, Jan. 18 to 21 next, under the auspices of the women’s bureau of the department of labor. Representa- tives of all national organizations in- terested in this field will be invited by Miss Mary Anderson, chief of the bureau. aie " ee Ae. Rake colonial policy. + Under Herriot the colonial policy of the socialists was brutal suppression of the na- tives of the colonies and mandated areas. It was while the radical socialist, Herriot, was premier that the butcher, General Sar- rail, was dispatched to Syria. Doumer May Succeed. Acting on the sugges- tion of Briand, the president summoned Senator Paul Doumer and invited him to form a cabinet. Doumer asked for 24 hours to consider the matter. That means that within the next twenty-four hours Doumer will con- fer with the various leaders and try to reach an agreement whereby he can be as- sured a majority in the chamber of deputies. Doumer announced that if he accepted he EX-PREMIER BRIAND OF FRANCE FAILS TO GET MAJORITY SUPPORT; QUITS ATTEMPT TO FORM CABINET (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Nov. 24.—Aristide Briand, eight times premier of France, failed to form a cabinet when requested to do so by President Doumergue. Briand endeavored to form a cabinet by securing promises from the various parties that would enable him to have a substantital majority. “I am compelled to give up my attempt to form a cabinet,” Briand said, as he went to the Elysee palace to give his final answer to the president. “I had hoped to form a cabinet of rep- resentatives of all parties, each party conserving its full respon- sibility, but the socialists’ re- fusal to participate made this impossible.” Briand advised that Senator Paul Doumer be asked to under- take the task. The socialists, . who were the mainstay of the Herriot cabinet, resent the at- titude of Briand who tries to ig- nore them and create a bloc with the center and right ele- ments predominating. Briand made an effort to obtain the sup- port of these elements of the bloc nationale, the supporters of former Premier Poincare, but failed. The socialists then refused to participate in the cabinet unless they: had half the portfolios and were permitted to dictate the financial and * r) Painveve ‘ would act as finance minister and keep Briand as foreign minister. Communists Active. With no cabinet in existence and the economic life of France in a chaotic condition, with unemployment threatening :for the first time since the war, the Communists are taking advantage of the upheavals and carrying on in- tense agitation in the proletarian centers. The butchery in Damascus and the resultant war in Syria are utilized to rouse masses of workers, and expose the real character of the government as the enemy of the working class. Prominent Communists flout the notion that any one of the bourgeois parties can create a stable cabinet in Franmee’and assert that elections must soon be held to break the deadlock that has been reached. They state that no matter what sort of artificial agreements may be made to prolong the present chamber, the existing antagonisms are bound to destroy it. | The Hungarian Blood-Hound Has a Friendly Visitor “7 “3 a , ee BME ne 2 he i 8 Ee Sone eer y (oP W “a AS + ae 7 PY id * agealagnd = date FID + aoe ~~ awe = eal “> ae v, ¢ f 3 2 M3 ww, a tani - " + ~ vr _» " ~ ° » v ly ’ al 6 vert ; . Action in Near East LONDON, | E yeucTns Druse rebels have | the French garrison at Rushaya in a sharp battle and have burned. the town, according to an eXchange telegraph message from ‘Beirut. The French - shelled the invaders, - Two thousand Sirota reinforce- ments are enroute ‘to fh aoa (Special to ne oii Worker) BEIRUT, Syria, Nov. 24.—Fighting -is dying down in) Syria and in Le- banon the Druse are slowly crushing the French forcesg ‘The French con- centrated at Rushaya for a drive against the Druse and Syrians in re- volt against foreign.:military despot- ism, but their prepkrations were anti- cipated by the rebels. Last night a fierce. attack was made on the Rushaya gatrison, sheltering the French forces\ and a fierce battle is raging with the invading forces of French mercenaries on the defensive. Censorship Heavy. With each defeat the French forces have increased the censorship and it is exceedingly difficult to get the true facts of the fighting until several days after the events. Meanwhile capitalist reporters are writing lurid stories from their own fertile imaginations in order to satisfy the demands of their newspapers for sensational stories, whether true or not. Reports are current that Commun- ists in Syria and Palestine have creat- ed a committee of action for the pur- | pose of resisting combined French and British attacks which have been threatened, as British forces here are apprehensive lest the upheavals in Syria spread to the British mandates areas, v Comment P arty = C ovakia the : Biggest Vote (Continued a tioln page 1) Slovakia, The 1¢@ is also true of all the other parties with the exception of the Communist. Bohemia, Morayia, Silesia. The following n of votes were cast for the eet parties in the first sector, Moravia and Silesia: a, “an { ; Agrarians, 686, gain 82,000; clericals, 664,000, 201,000; Com- munists, 657,000; 552,000, lost 526,000; "Be ists, 551,000, gain $0,000; cial-democrats, 406,000, Tost 283,000; German agrarians, 97, 000; German clericals, 324,000; zi¥nostnic (party of small bosses), 275; gain 152,000; national democrats, 255,000, lost 132,- lists, 326,000, and (bosses’ labor ted Badly. fq Owers of Bub- d were very German so- party), 84,000. Bubnik Def In this sector th nik put up a tick | badly defeated. All of the Bohemian papers attempted ore it appear that the Bubnik party would poll a larger vote than Communist Par- ty. All attempts were made by oppo- sition parties to get Communist sym- pathizers to vote with the Bubnik followers. In spite of all these expen- ditures of energy, polled less than 5,000 votes as they are not mentioned in the official election returns. Other minority parties that put up tickets were badly hit in this election. _Many received but several thousand votes, Vote in flovaia. In the second sector Slovakia, the returns were as follows: ‘Rev. Hlinka’s ty, 472,000, gain 238,000; agrarians, ,000; Commun- ists 198,000 votes; rman agrarians 106,000; Magyar cléficals 100,000; so- | cial-demccrats 60,0 D, lost 449,000. Vote in Pod ateka Russ. In the third settor, Podkapatska Russ, the Communjst Party polled the largest vote, which was 75,000. The other parties polled such small votes that even the o Gial Czecho-Slovak- ian press bureau has kept silent about the number they polled. In these pariigtildtary elections, which are the first the Communist Party engaged in” the party gained 930,000 votes, acc ¥ding to the official incomplete reports. The social-demo- crats in this eleétion lost 1,258,000 votes. Organized on Shop Resin The Czecho-Slovak Communist Party which was able to make this showing in the recent parliamentary elections was reorganized on the shop nucleus basis prior to this election and due to its activity in the new form of or- ganization was able to gain the sup- port of great masses of workers in Czecho-Slovakia. Tho the party at present polled more votes numerically than any of the other parties, it is not the majority party in the national assembly. NOTE: A pre-election forecast of the elections will be found on page six in which the author ana- lyzes the line-up of the various groups. The DAILY *WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist honor roll. Is your name on it? the Bubnikites|s5 | ai vi? * vty fi i Ge Sgr | ‘ gy + dia Mit Bs on ete od aes: us fee pes pe Startled at Criticism of Coolidge By J. LOUIS Communist ENGDAHL. DAY, the Chicago Daily News considers it of sufficient import- ance to have the viewpoint of the Russian Communist daily, Pravda, on Coolidge’s recent speech, rush- ed by radio from Moscow to Chi- cago. In fact, the big Chicago daily newspaper, that its late owner, Vic- tor F. Lawson, turned over to La Salle street bankers, is quite start- led that the Pravda should give four wr mary and editorial opinion of what “Cautious Cal” had to say to the money men of New York City. To be sure, what the Daily News publishes is just a gasp in ten lines, to the effect that the headline in the Pravda declared, “America is ‘Saving’ Europe from Revolution,” with this short quotation: ~ “Coolidge sings a hymn to the dollar. America is the bulwark of the world ceunt HEN the Pravda puts quotation marks around “saving,” it ridi- cules the idea that American dol- lars can save capitalism in western Europe from the wrath of its op- pressed workers and farmers. All that Coolidge can do is to take the credit for the American dollar, claiming it has so far staved off the inevitable. * . T is interesting to note that the Chicago capitalist daily had to go to a Communist publication to find any disagreement with an at- tack on Coolidge’s utterances. There is no disagreement in the ranks of the profit press. The ap- plause of the harlot dailies differs only in degree. ae Thus the Chicago Journal, a is democratic in politics, decl that what Coolidge said in his_ a. ; dress had been uttered better d more frequently by Woodrow’ Wil- son, even before he became presi- dent. The Journal confesses t the best thing Coolidge said at N York was the following: “While it is true that the govern- ment ought not to be and is not committed to certain methods of acquisition which, while partaking of the nature of unfair practices, | try to masquerade under the guise of business, the government is and ought to be’ thoroly committed to . every endeavor of production and distribution which is entitled to be designated as true business.” oF > * oa ) HE Journal, however, declares that the best that Coolidge did in his New York speech was che buncombe compared with the we —_ columns on its first page to a sum- artifices coined by the president who “kept us out of war,” and then fooled Europe with hig “14 points.” It, therefore, cites the “crystallized English” of Wilson, as follows: “Big business is necessary and natural. The development of busi- ness upon a great scale is inevit- able and desirable. But that is a different matter from the develop- ment of trusts, because trusts have not grown. They have been manu- factured, not by natural processes, but by the deliberate planning will of men more powerful than their | neighbors in the business world. 14 deny, as they claim, that the trusts are inevitable.” we % is difficult to” find the parallel that the Journal editor claims exists between these two utteranc- es. Wilson was still living in the era when the government kept up a sham battle against the trusts. His was the day of the Industrial Relations Commission, that sought to expose the iniquities of “big business.” It was Wilson’s commis- sion that “investigated” the food trust. But that is now past. Coolidge’s administration has put its O. K. on mergers among these same great packing interests. It has refused to investigate the bread monopoly. It is urging the consolidation of the na- tion’s railroad system. The White House recognizes all “big business” as “true business,” especially when it maintains “open shop” conditions and crushes every attempt of the workers to organize and fight against the wiping out of all living standards. Even LaFollette before he died, had to admit that “trusts are inevitable.” No doubt, Wilson also changed his mind ‘in fact, if not on paper. But they dll adhered to the social system that kept these trusts in private hands for private profits. di, BY | heniduates thus established the worship of the dollar at home, and shielding it with prison sen- tences for protesting workers, the way is cleared as effectively as pos- gible for the spread of this dollar worship to other lands. But the Chicago Daily News, in common with other capitalist - dailies, is worried about what Mos- cow thinks of this dollar worship. . And well it may worry. The same | fight against dollar worship that the Russian workers and peasants won | / jn 1917, will be crowned with vic- tory in every land, even in the Unit- ed States. a | Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Official Tricks the Members (Continued from page 1) less to reject it. After long discus- sion it was passed. No More Autocracy. But one point was made clear. In future all assessments must be mitted to a referendum vote. A motion to that effect was passed in- structing the Joint Board delegates to bring this recommendation up to the board. The Joint Board report was accepted and nominations fol- lowed, both for the local and the Joint th Board. The next order of business was the question“®& who was responsible for the sluggings. But no sooner did the local finish nominations, than the president declared the meeting ad- journed. Can’t Stop Their Mouths Forever. There is no doubt that if the offici- als had permitted discussion, they would have had a busy hour explain- ing the fascist tactics and defending the sluggers who beat up the broth- ers and sisters of the local. As it is many are waiting for the certain chance that the time will come when they will speak and be heard. Egyptians Defy the Mercenaries of Great Britain (Continued from page 1) were thrown around the government- al buildings and the important streets. In spite of this terror the parliament met at a hotel in defiance of the au- thorities and passed a vote repudiat- ing the government and electing a new premier. On Monday the British controlled government that exists only by power of bayonets and has no legal existence warned local hotel managers against permitting political meetings within their buildings. Defy British Tools. In spite of this order many hotel managers have volunteered to house the parliament and the members of the opposition who are fighting for complete liberation of Egypt from the yoks of Britain have defied the author- ities a@nd announced that they will | hold the next session of parliament ‘ 4 LEWIS AND CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE CONFER SECRETLY: BOSSES MEET PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 —If John L. Lewis is going to carry on a war against the mine operators, he is choosing a peculiar way to battle. At least the fact that he was closeted for several hours in secret consultation with J. Elvin Markle, chairman of the joint com- mittee of anthracite operators and of the miners, does no more than add to the impression that his sug- gestion that he may call a strike of bituminous miners is only a bluff. The two met and conferred at the Union League Club, and neither would reveal what had been dis- cus¢ed. It was learned, however, that the policy committee of the operators had met during the day and, also in secret, had discussed the strike. The two conferences are seen to have a connection. whenever they deem it necessary to do so. The working masses are rallying be- hind the nationalist movement against Britain and violent outbreaks will certainly follow any attempt on the ‘part of the inyaders to arrest the members of parliament who are try- ing to drive British forces out of the country, Three Oil Workers Blown to Pieces in 1 Ark. Refinery Blast ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., Nov. 24. —Three men were killed and: damage estimated at more than $400,000 was done when the Arkansas City Refin- ery cOmpany, operated under a lease by the Bell Oil Co., exploded here early today. Greece Sends Bill to Bulgaria for Border Violation and Battle ATHENS, Nov. 24.— The Greek government. today dispatched a note to Sofia asking $700,000 for damages, caused by the Bulgarian violation of her frontier. = =— ss Caters : Over His fessage President Coolidge has intimated John L. Lewis’s second hint of a strike in the bituminous mines than he did the first hint given more than two months ago. Lewis’ letter, asking if the miners were not justified in choosing their own measures to enforce the Jack- sonville agreement if the government did not intervene to compel the op- erators to abide by the contract, was Placed on Cal’s desk. He conferred with Hoover, Attorney General Sar- gent and even with William Green, head of the A. F, estar natin: 4 stood. Will Get Refusal. igeoe Evidenly, Coolidge does not view Lewis’ assertions and threats as of any importance, since Lewis makes no move really to call a general strike. His answer has not yet been composed, but it is foretold that Lewis will get a refusal to intervene. This does not mean that Coolidge is opposed on principle to government intervention in strikes. On the con- trary he is gomg to ask congress in his. coming annual message for spe- cific authority to break strikes 1 government intervention. Let the Operators Do It. In this case, tho, he feels that the operators can break the union with- out his assistance. The only possible danger to this program is the de- mands of the progressive miners to call out the maintenance men and let the mines be flooded, or, to extend the strike to the soft coal fields. Coolidge does not think Lewis really wants to make a 100 per cent strike in the anthracite by. with- drawing the maintenance men, any more than he thinks Lewis was ser- iously intending to call out the bi- tumnious miners to enforce the Jacksonville agreement, Nothing was revealed by Coolidge or William Green as to what Green’s position was upon the matter of Coo- lidge asking authority from congress to intervene in all strikes he feels like. Blows for Fascism ~~ Come from Austria and id Jugo-Slavia : beniaenal ei from page 1) sightedness of the class he serves, Radich hit upon one problem in con- nection with the fascist threat that aroused the audience to a storm of ap- proval. He said that in addition to those national forces opposed to fas- cism “there is another whom I will not name, who will overthrow yon as Austrian, Hungarian, Prussian and Russian militarism were overthrown.” Radich referred to the social revolu- tion, but he hestitated to mention the working class by name as the one force capable of crushing the ambi- tious and idiotic dreams of the man- iac, Mussolini. y cs - ” italian Communists Furious. ROME, Italy, Nov. 24—In spite of the heavy censorship that has pre- vailed since the fake attempt at as- sassination of the fascist brigand, Mussolini, was staged in order to de- tract attention from the government’s acquittal of the murderer of Mat- teoti, news of the preparation of fas- cism to attack other countries has infiltrated thru the ranks of the work- ing class and on every side the hope is expressed that the tyrant will pro- voke a war to give the working class at home a chance to stab him in the back. It is certain that the workers of Italy will not follow the braggart into wars of foreign conquest to avenge his “honor” because people in other legislative bodies spe&k the truth about him. Anthracite Victory } Depends on Spread . of the Coal Strike (Continued from page 1) 4 1900. The line of the coal barons is fairly clear, it is to prevent the call- ing out of the maintehance men and the bituminous miners at all costs while working overtime to disrupt the strike, discourage the miners and se- cure an acceptance of terms which will make of the union a mere efij- ciency agency for the bosses. The left wing must make evéry al- fort to overcome this offensive, ac- quaint the miners with the danger and organize the rank and file for the most stubborn kind of resistance. A defeat. for the anthracite miners is a defeat for the whole labor movement and more disastrous than all the other results will be the fact that such a defeat will be administered in the name of a victory for the gospel of the “community of interest” between the operators, business men and min- ers, The incident of the “community chest” already cited is only one sample of the manner in which this | propaganda is carried on. that he will pay no more attention to | > 3 ~ + oss pager aten a ye: p igual ee’, Te Bei Lik Mies A oer $ ay f ’ t \ ’ ‘ ‘ 1 ' 1 ae SS. . a ae
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AS ie! ‘Chemugol’ Will Spend $1,700,000°in America (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 24—Orders for factory amounting to over $1,700,000 will be placed in this coun- try by the president of the First So- viet Combination of Chemical, Glass and Allied tIndustries “Chemugol” Gourvitch who arrived here last week and took up headquarters in the of- fices of the Amtorg Trading corpora- tion which is acting as agent in ef- fecting and carrying out the orders. Part of the orders will be for equip- ment for large glass works which the trust “Chemugol” has under con- struction in the region of the Donetz Basin, and the negotiations for these purchases will be carried on by Mr. Gourvitch in association with Paul Kivkillo, vice-president of the Syndi- cate of the Silicate Industries “Prod- asilicate,” who is at present in this @ountry. Gourvitch is accompanied by a staff of five engineers and tech- nical experts. Places Orders in Europe. -“Prior to his arrival in this country Gourvitch spent some time in Europe where he placed orders for the sum of about $2,000,000, mostly in Germany and Belgium. Here, as in Europe, the trast “Chemugol” intends to purchase machines of the latest patents which have become an urgent necessity in building up the expanding chemical and glass industries in the Soviet Union. According to Gourvitch, the increasing internal demand puts be- fore the “Chemugol,” which is respon- sible for 50 per cent of the output of chemical products in Soviet Russia, the task of doubling its production within the next year. The “Chemugol” controls the chem- ical, glass, and allied industries in the Ukraine and Southern Russia. The 8ross annual output of its factories amounts to $37,500,000.+ The value of the products placed by the “Chemu- gol” on the market is about $25,000,- 000. The program of production for the fiscal year 1925-1926 exceeds ma- terially the pre-war output. This pro- gram provides for an output under - technical conditions as they are at Present. The “Chemugol” is taking immediate steps to increase its pro- duction by re-equipping along modern lines some of the existing factories and the building of a number of new works. “It is in connection with this task that Gourvitch is now in this country. To Study American Industry. Beside making purchases for the immediate technical needs of the “Chemugol” Gourvitch will make a study of the organization and latest achievements of the chemical indus- try in the United States, as well as of the possibilities of the participation of American capital in the rebuilding of the chemical industries in the Soviet Union. ’ If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. his speech—if you can.) morrow Night—at a Put on your best clothes as prizes will be giv en to the . most poverty stricken in- dividuals. You might win. Or come as @ school boy or school girl—there’ll be prizes for these-costumes al- so. “Come with or without —but come with clothes on! Admission Peewee ee (Special to The VOTE AGAINST MILITARY TRAINING|"te "dein -delascistllcetiy By SYLVAN A, POLLACK. Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 24.—By an overwhelming vote bf 2,092 to 345 the students of the College of the City of New York voted against the con- tinuance of military training at the college, ending a three-day referendum that had stirred the institution from cellar to roof. According to Sidney EB. Mezes, president of the college, approximately cent of the students’ body had the continuance spite of the fact that jas it now stands, the vote is deci- sive. The’ agitation against the military training was started by an article in the armistice day issue of The Cam- pus, the undergraduate publication, which was followed by a mass meet- ing in the main college building un- der the auspices of the Social Prob- lems Club. At the meeting a commit- tee was appointed to present a de- mand to the student council for a referendum on the question of con- tinuing the compulsory courses in military training. Text Book Exposed. More of the amazing instructions in the text book used in the mili- tary science course at the college have been brot to light. The book is the 1923 edition of the Manual of Military Training, written by Col. James A, Moss and Major John W. Lang. “Bayonet fighting is possible only because of red-blooded men naturally possess the fighting instinct. This in-, herent desire to fight and kill must be carefully watched for and encour- aged by the instructor.” These in- structions are given on page 1, Chap- ter XXVII, of the manual. “Break His Neck.” On page 24, Apendix I, the manual gives instructions in killing, holding and kicks. It reads:. “Force him (your opponent) to the ground and break his neck by suddenly throwing the feet well to the rear and falling participated in the vote and in his if the rest of them had voted ¢—————____—__—____—__. forward, tightening the arms and’ pressing the shoulder tightly against the back of his head. This hold, when properly executed, will break the op- ponent’s neck, or, failing, is still ef- fective as a strangle hold. “Raise the right knee until the thigh is horizontal, and at the same time slightly bend the left knee. Kick out viciously, then bring the foot back to the original position in order to avoid its being caught in a leg or toe hold. If the opponent is down, attack with the usual type of kick to his vulnerable parts.” Instructions in hand to hand fight- ing on page 23, appendix 1, read: “The principles of sportsmanship and consideration for your opponent have no place in the practical application of this work. In a fight with a big- ger and stronger man, avoid aimless struggle and work deliberately to dis- concert him by butting with the head, kicking his shins, grabbing his gas | mask, etc., so as to make an opening for a disabling hold or blow.” On the first page of the book it is stated: “Everything that you do in military training is done with some immediate object in view, which, in tirn has in view the final object of winning battles. The object of all military training is to win battles.” The pacifist character of this strug- gle must be turned into correct chan- nels thru the unity of the students, young workers, soldiers and sailors in a real struggle against capitalist mili- tarism by fighting for concrete de- ‘mands. Coal Miner Sends in Appreciation of Daily Worker Dear Comrades: I take the pleasure to kindly inform you that I received bundle order of The DAILY WORKER containing splendid declaration on be- half of the eighth anniversary of the workers’ and peasants’ rule in Russia under the leadership of the Commun- ist International. I am sure that this splendid contrib- ution should go a long way in stim- ulating sentiment on our behalf as Communists as in favor of world trade union unity under the Red Interna-| Ité tional of Labor Unions, which meets well the hobnobbing of Billy Green and all of the other big fat boys of the American Federation of Labor con- vention with the exception of a few left’ wingers. Long live The DAILY WORKER and am very sorry that I find myself unable to help in the present financial crisis of the most valuable paper, The DAILY WORKER. Thanking you all on behalf of this good work and with best wishes, I remain, Fraternally yours, TOM RAY, McDonald, Pa. meee ne eee The DAILY AACA Maybe Coolidge Was Right? The country might be in the midst of prosperity. (Read Thanks for all this—not for his speech—will be given on Thanksgiving Night—To- HARD TIMES PARTY a A A Me Ml Le, i, Ml Mn An ln Ml Me, dln Mle Al A, lie Ae de dh dee ti tt te te te th ht he be he be de he be db te th be be be be i be WORKER. There’ll be loads of good fun— good music — good food — all for a good pur- pose — for the Chicago Workers’ School Thursday, Nov. 26 Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted Street, 50 Cents. wD» - + + + + - + + & a» SINGING, PLAYLETTE & GAMES—LOTS OF FUN FOR EVERYBODY Admission 10 Cents. Auspices, Workers Party and Young Workers League. MILWAUKEE, WIS. HELP BUILD THE WORKERS PARTY! BAZAAR AND DANCE Miller’s Hall, 802 State Street (3rd floor) i: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 7 P. M. h SUNDAY, NOV 29, Afternoon 2 P. M. and Evening | a i i i i hi hi i Li i hi hi i hi hi Li hi hi hi Li hi hi i hi hi i i hi hi hi hi hi i hi ha hi hi hi he hi he he he i id * We're simply swamped! office force to do them. are waiting to be done—and we haven’t a big enough Perhaps you want to hely The DAILY WORKER and can spare a day—or a few hours —or maybe only an hour? If you can—come over. You'll be as welcome as a long lost friend. FAVOR? Many little jobs in the office ITALIAN SENATE RATIFIES SOVIET COMMERCE PACT Manufacturers Eager for Russian Trade ROME, Nov. 24—By a vote of 158 to 15 the Italian senate approved the Comthercial treaty between the a of Socialist Soviet Republics and in government. j .-Heads of various manufacturing ubines have been visiting the So- viet. legation’s headquarters here in an attempt to get some Soviet Rus- sia’s trade. Long-term credits have been offered by a number of these combines. Russian Colonel in Czarist Army Now “Guards Gould Estate NEW YORK, Nov. 24— Strike for gher Wages tonite 1@ Dally Worker) ya have been on strike but a short time but they have been able to hopelessly tie up the traffic on the roads The company offi- cials are begintiing to make overtures to the men to come back to work. The men refus@4¢o accept any compro- mise agreements, but demand that the ‘company accedexto their demands of an increase of @.@¢ents per hour and two weeks’ vacation at full pay. The tieup of the roads not only af- fects the road im: North Carolina, but the same is true in South Carolina, Georgia and + Hires Scabs. The company ‘in order to break the strike hired many so-called “operat- ors” that had graduated from tele- graph “¢olleges’: to do the scabbing. The scabs are wnable to do the work and as a result trains are running be- hind schedules and freight is con- gested. Trains are ordered to leave their terminals, they stand on the track for a number of hours, then the orders are to proceed, but mo sooner have the trains started along their way, than they are ordered to stop and wait fur- ther instructions. This has caused trains to run anywhere from four to ten hours late. The other railroad unions are aiding the telegraphers and they see to it the train service laws are strictly en- forced, which ia that train crews and trains work a certain maximum } of hours. its Bus. The co of the freight has caused many ents. Recently a bus with about 30 children was hit by a Coast Line , killing a number and injuring vors. The cross- ing at that poirt, where the accident occurred, was ed to capacity with freight cars w have been stand- ing there | “the strike. The freight train “been “cut” to let traffic pass crossing. The bus this point and un- able to see. ‘Was going one be- hind the freight ars, was struck by a train, * Of eidambiajnaet in Great Britain. LONDON, Noy... 24—The unemploy- ment situation continues to grow worse—as may be seen from the fol- lowing quarterly figures of unemploy- ment. (These es are the aver- ages of the monthly figures published in the Labor Gazette): 1924: Janu- ary-March, 10.8 per cent; April-June, 9.5 per cent; July-September, 10.4 per cent; October-December, 11 per cent; 1925: January- 11.5 per cent; April-June, 11.5 per cent; July-Septem- ber 12.1 per cent, During July, August and September unemployment hag been increasing in & number of the important indus- tries: shipbuilding; the boot and shoe trade; steel melting; pig iron manu- facture; pottery; iron ore mining; ma- rine engineering. | HAGUE COURT PASSES BUCK T0 LEAGUE OF NATIONS ON MOSUL (Special to The Dally Worker) THE HAGUE, Nov. 24.—The per- manent court for international jus- tice decided after ring the report of a commission ne had been ap- pointed to inves te the dispute between England and Turkey over Mosul oil fields, that the decision of the league of nations eouncil, that is to be made on the question of Mosul shall be final and binding. it also decided | at the decision must gain a unan mous vote In the league council and that the votes of Turkey or England will not be con- sidered in determining unanimity. Turks Defy Court. When the court was first in- structed to discuss the issue, the Turks in an emphatic manner showed that they would not abide by the decision of the league of na- tions, which they claim is British- controlled, or the Hague court, if the decision was detrimental to the Angora government and in favor of the British government. England is insistent that Turkey relinquish her claims to Mosul, which she gained in the league of nations mandate for Irak, and thus allow her to exploit the oil fields over which the two ee are now fighting. Passing the Buck. The decision of the permanent court for international justice is a mere passing of the buck to the league of nations as it realizes that its decisions cannot be put into op- eration, due to Turkey’s refusal to submit to any decision, and is an attempt to hide ite Qrestnese. ee MOSCOW, Nov. 24—-An oriental city which flourished thousands of years ago but was lost to history, has been discovered beneath the waters of the Caspian Sea by Captain Atayev, head of the Soviet Caspian merchant marine and has been confirmed by a group of Russian scientists. The captain had his attention called to the submarine city when, having deviated from his usual course, on a voyage from Persia to Baku, his leads- men found that the depth changed rapidly, alternating at irregular inter- vals as tho there were holes in the bottom of the sea. Returning over the same route on a calm sunny day, the captain was able to see on the bottom of the sea the clear outline of streets and houses, stretching for oo along fhe coast, near Cape Shik- FEDERAL TRADE BOARD ‘PROBES’ ELECTRIC TRUST oa * Commission on Another *.,. *,* Whitewash Expedition (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24:—The fed- eral trade commission has now de- clared an “investigation” of the Gen- eral Electric company and its hold- ings. The investigation is being car- ried out much against the will of the administration and will undoubtedly result in no action being taken against the public utilities trust which has been formed in this country. Morgan Controlled. The General Electric company is controlled by J. P. Morgan and con- trols 145 power companies in the United States, Canada and Latin-Am- erica. This company owns large water power rights in all parts of the United States and has at the present time over fifty applications for power sites filed by its subsidiaries before the fed- eral power commission in its attempt to gain the addition of 4,000,000 horse power of electricity from water sites now owned by the government and not as yet under private explo yn. Tried to Grab Muscle Shoals. This company which has gained control of the formerly British-owned Alabama Power company also at- tempted to gain control of the Muscle Shoals project, which could, be de- veloped so that it would supply suffi- cient power for a large section of the southern states. The Underwood bill which the pow- er trust attempted to jam thru would have turned the Muscle Shoal project over the Alabama Power and thus in- to the hands of the Morgan interests. Strangle Industrial Combines. The’ group that has forced the:pres- ent “investigation” of the electric power trust claims that this concen- tration if allowed to develop. will strangle the industrial corporations of the country thru its control of electric power and charge that the trust al- ready has control of the lighting of homes, stores, factories, etc. Austrian Archduke Prepares for Fascist “Revolt” in Hungary (Special to The Daily Worker) BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov. 24.— Archduke Albrecht of Austria is con- tinuing his organization of fascists in Hungary, with the intention of be- coming the Mussolini of Hungary. The Budapest press points out that when the Italian fascist head, Benito Musso- lini, spoke of other countries turning to fascism that he had in mind Hun- gary. _Archduke Albrecht has been in the good graces of the Italian fascist and is engaged to be married to the Japanese - Governimant MPO JAP LABORERS Supplies Brazil Scabs (Special to The Daily Worker) SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 24.—-Un- til recently Brazil has been able to get all the immigrants she wanted from foreign countries—especially European—by the old methods of false representation, lies and decep- tion. As nowadays much more pub- licity is given to the actual state of agairs in Brazil, it is no longer so easy to get immigrants in this way. Urged on by the employers, the Brazilian government is now trying new means to draw foreign workers into the coun- try. The authorities of Sao Paulo par- ticularly are doing all they can to pro- mote state subsidized immigration. They have for instance concluded an agreement with the Japanese govern- ment for the supply of a certain num- ber of workers per year. The first of these contingents, destined for the coffee plantations, arrived at the end of September. The Japanese govern- ment officer in charge stated that “the nen have been carefully selected, and ire frge from all taint of socialism.” fen more contingents are expected during the remaining months of 1925. But before very long—as experience has shown—the inhuman working con- litions on the plantations will un- doubtedly result in these Japanese im- migrants turning to try their luck in the industrial centers. And there, by accepting lower wages, they will force down, the standard of living of the resident workers. Workers—especially Japanese work- ers—who are thinking of emigrating to Brazil, are hereby earnestly warned not to. What the papers say cannot be re- lied upon, as is clear from the fact that many of the Brazilian papers— especially those published for immi- grants, are in the service of the gov- ernment. In O Combate (issue of Sept. 16), e. g., we find a statement to the effect that the national finance de- partment decided at its last meet- ing to grant. 250 milreis to the Ger- man paper of Sao Paulo, and 500 mil- reis to the Hungarian newspaaper as payment for the “information” pub- lished by them in July. It is a well- known fact that these papers suppress all reports showing up cases of swin- dling and frauds in land purchases, immigration, etc., for fear of the for- ‘eiture of these government grants. Workers are therefore warned against ‘he Brazilian papers. Japanese Finance Mission Fails to _ Get English Loan LONDON, Nov. 24.—The Japanese delegation which was sent here by the Nippon government to negotiate a loan for the finance department, was unable to get a loan here except at rates of interest and at such terms that the delegation could not accept them without raising a great protest in Japan. The finance department has recent- ly made large appropriations for na- val construction purposes and for military use against the opposition of the agrarian bloc which demanded money for rice growing, that it feels that a loan at a high rate of inter- est will seriously embarrass it in Japan if it attempts to float such in England. rr ———) ae / Speech of ge Shapurji Saklatvala | in the House of Commons. — ia ch 4 A bitter indictment of Brit- ish imperialist domination, — given by Secretary Kellogg as a reason for barring the © author from the Unite ~d_ States. 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The victory that is taken from the Communists on the electoral field} will be achieved by the lightning strokes of the infuriated proletariat as they meet force with force in the streets. Tan Darty Worker hails the victories of the Communists in these two countries. The increase in the vote against all odds proves that the time is here, or at least not far distant, when the majority of the working class will rally tothe standard of the revolution. Hail Czech and Greek Victories Communists of the whole world have every reason for rejoicing in magnificant showing recently made in the elections in Greece Czecho-Slovakia. Against the incredible savagery of the govern- nts of these two countries and in spite of the fact that Communist 3 are being persecuted wholesale, the gains have astonished the In Czecho- Slovakia the Communists have increased their num- +. Premier Pangalos, of Greece, backed by British imperialism, is urging desperate measures to prevent the Communists takitfg the _ places to which they have been duly elected. Since he failed, thru a eine Communist voters and driving them away from the polls, to prevent a landslide against his minions running for office, he has _ for the democracy he is supposed to uphold. As Communists we expect this. It vindicates our charges. ‘that capitalist democracy is a delusion; that it is only maintained by the capitalist class so long as it can be used against the working class. As that grizzled old warrior in the class struggle, Frederick Engels, said, democracy is merly the barometer that registers the develop- ment of the class struggle and nothing more. He added that when it reached boiling point, we as well as the ruling class would know what to do. And the Greek and Czech workers will know what they United States Patriotic Society Under the banal title “United States Patriotic Society,” a crea- .oture. bearing the symbolical name of Mr. Jacob Cash, is hurling | tupid inanities at the heads of the Bolsheviks. Leon Trotsky’s pre- yee to his masterful book, Whither England?, has provoked this «iety, of which Mr. Cash is the founder, to publish a nice little .dd, white and blue pamphlet, bearing the title, Whither America? This Cash person, whom no Bolshevik ever heard of, displays a most grotesque faith in his ability to,solve the weightiest problems of the capitalist class within the confines of one gaudy pamphlet., He assures them he has discovered the cause of Bolshevism. The ar- gument is original. No one ever thought of it before. Here it is: Our inhabitants are drawn from all corners of the earth, do*not speak the same language and do not readily comprehend the blessings _ bestowed upon them by our sublime nation. The remedy is to combat Comumnistic teachings by exposing the source from which they originate. youngsters. Methods of combatting Communism are algo unique. propose hiring speakers to combat those who revile our glorious re- public. Who ever before thought of speakers for this purpose? Numerous other proposals that might have been innovations before the invention of the phonetic alphabet are recommended. We always enjoy seeing these freak outfits spring up. It con fixms our conviction that the capitalist masters of the nation are of an exceedingly low type in the scale of mental development other- wise such people as the founder of the new patriotic order would have to work for his cash instead of scaring it out of the timid bank- ers and industrial magnates of the country. The booklet is not objectionable to us for the reason that the introduction to Trotsky’s book is reproduced. Workers who obtain it will be impressed with the excerpt from the book and refrain from Treading the other part from sheer ennui because of its dullness. If Mr. Cash can get the capitalists to back him while he circulates our propaganda we cannot strongly object to the incorporation of his own twaddle in a futile effort to offset it. As far as his speakers whom he threatens to send out against us are concerned, when they come in this direction we will select members of the junior group of the Young Workers League to dis- pose of them in public debate. It will be fair practice for the The Advance of Russia Statistics for the past year regarding the increased productivity of Russia are unusually interesting. They show that in spite of the civil war, the blockade, the famine and the sabotage that the Soviet * Union has been forced to overcome, the production of fuel and power has actually exceeded the best years in the history of the old regime. The pre-war years never realized the level of productioy now enjoyed by the Soviet government. _. of under the old regime. ” The economic facts of this development are being peapared - the. magazine section of Saturday’s Datty Worker. _phould keep this magazine section for reference on the question se the economic revival of the Soviet Union. : What particularly interests students of economics is that the in- crease is to be noted in the heavy industries, which means that the industrialization of Russia is rapidly proceeding. In other branches of industry—light industry—productiom is somewhat lower than pre-war days. But within two more years—the tenth year of the dictatorship— it is certain the wounds of the war and revolution will be com- pletely healed and productivity will far exceed anything ever dreamed Order a special bundle .of Saturday’s issue. It will contain an a , excellent article on the economic pean of Soviet Russia. The following article was written prior to the elections in Czecho- Slovakia in which the Communists were able to poll, according to a partial count, approximately a mil- lion votes. The Communist delega- tion in parliament has been increas- ed from 27 to 42, according to latest Official advices. News stary on Czecho-Slovakian elections on first page. * * By A. NEURATH (Prague). HE coalition government is bank- rupt; it has decided upon fresh elections to the national assembly and the senate, which are to take place on the 15th of November. The new elec- tion of these two representative bodfes is taking, place before the ex- piration of the legal term. The coali- tion parties are simply unable to carry oh any longer. Since the last parlia- mentary election they have accompl- ished a great deal—against the inter- ests of all sections of workers in Czecho-Slovakia. The so-called social achievements of the revolutionary | period have all been abolished by the coalition: government, with the excep- tion of the eight-hour day, which in the most important.branches of indus- try only remains on paper. The social- democrats have been the foremost in this work of abolition. Following the notorious example of the German social patriots, the work- ers’ councils, for example, were “em- bodied” in the legislation, that is to say, they were completely deprived of their political content. With the help of the “elastic” tactics of the reform- ist trade union leaders and of those social-democrats who belong to the coalition government, the Czecho-Slo- vakian exploiters were able greatly to reduce wages in all branches of in- dustry and to worsen working condi- tions. For a considerable time the prices of all food stuffs and articles /cannot be against t entire po In the judging ndiahaiaoen of nation- al problems the intompetence of the coalition gov has been re- vealed, so to speak, in its totality. Under such circumstances, it would | appear to have beep best for the coal- ition parties to the elections. as long as )But as a matter of fact the situation, altho it very optimistic int of all the coali- ely the most g reasons: from the stan tion parties, is stil favorable for pew the coalition ae in the first place the ic leaders, anticipate that the next few months still rdens will be placed upon the vakian pro- letariat and the petty, bourgeoisie and peasantry than sal been ™~ case hitherto, To Worsen ‘Condition At the M congress of the Second Interna ‘the Czech social- democrat, Habrmann, who occupied the position of minister for education and also minister for labor in the coal- ition government openly pointed out that the eight-hour day could not be retained in Czecho-Slovakia unless it was re-introduced in Germany. That means, the Czech ts tat socialists, icy, renders impossible any serious and comprehensive economic con- nection with.Soviet Russia. In addition the reactionary tariff. policy adce by the old parliament, | the Czecho-Slovakian bourgeoisie wishes to overcome its economic dif-. ficulties by means of fresh wage re- ductions. The social-democrats. fully. realize that, as hitherto, they have not. only to act as a screen behind which. the bourgeoisie can realize these sin-. ister plans, but that they have to. fight directly on the broadest front as | guard-troops of the Czecho-Slovakian counter-revolution against the econ- omic interests of the entire proletariat | of this state. The Czecho-Slovakian bourgeoisie does not wish to lose. time. The whole economic and pol- itical situation thruout Europe de- mands prompt action, "f If the approaching rigorous meas- ures against the working class carried out with the help of the soc democratic leaders before the new elections, then the social-democrats will lose their last supporters among the working class. And for this reason, in spite of the almost hopeless situation, they are in favor of the new elections being carried out as soon as possible. wrecked, they finally. only served the anda purposes of the Commun- ist Party of Czecho-Slovakia. ‘The situation of the’ Czecho-Slov- akian bourgeoisie can «be judged by the following data: The national as- sembly consists of 19 parties com- prising in all 294 members. The five ‘coalition government parties have al- together 167 mandates, that is, barely only with the heip of the Czech traders’ party that they onteined the three-fifths majority. “-~ Communists Will Gain. The Czech social-democrats — will “| lose a number*of seats, which will go to the Communist Party and partly to the Czech bourgeoisie. The remain- ing Czech parties will just about main- tain their present strength, while the clericals and national socialists will gain a few seats. In addition to the Czech. social-democrats the national democrats will also sustain losses. The German social-democrats will suffer considerable losses, of which fifths of all-the votes. It is ‘It is possible that the coalition Seitios ans whit. it endieh bee | the election campaign as strong as they are at present. But should they not even maintain their present strength, then they will not hesitate ' for a moment to include nhter3 nef atives of the German bourgeoisie their coalition, whereby they | able to throw over the sane | democrats altogether. be forced to beg in order ‘to be in- cluded in the coalition. In this re- spect we shall witness a ver -enter- taining spectacle, x Communist Party Prepared, The Communist Party of Checkes: Slovakia is ready for the contest. AH. preparations have been made for ’ election campaign. On Saturday 17th of October the national asse and the senate were dissolved, and on the following day our newspapers printed the election manifesto of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slovakia and: published the list of our candi- dates in all the constituencies of the republic. In all the other parties a furious quarrel is going on over the candidatures. The German social-de- mocrats have convened a party con- ference, from which the public is to be excluded, in order to decide on the candidates. In four weeks, that is on the 15th of November, the revolution- ary working class of Czecho-Slovakia will show the real strength of the so- the Communist Party of Czecho- called collapsed Communist Party. KAROLY! LAWYERS USE CAL’S OMAHA TALK ON KELLOGG Tolerance ‘Nenebuaes He ‘Said; They Agree WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.— “Nerv- ous Nellie” Kellogg, secretary of state; who made himself the object of world-wide ridicule when he barred the Parsee Communist member of the British -house of commons from com- ing to:this country to attend the meet- ing of the interparliamentary union, has incurred even more serious re- sentment by his refusal to permit the Countess Karolyi to come here to lec- ture. It is altogether likely that the Kar- olyi incident will become a subject of débate in the senate in the next few wéeks, and that demands -that President Coolidge dismiss Kellogg will ,he widely endorsed. The power- ful Ty at vin press is already conduct- ing a systematic expose of the royal- ist,and boot-licking character of the Kellogg policy, with the idea jn mind of causing his removal.. Lawyers After “Nervous Nellie.” In a long letter addressed to Presi- dent Coolidge, in appeal from the re- fusal of Kellogg on Nov. 7, to ex- plain his legal authority for refusing to permit the wife of the former presi- dent of Hungary—a mild democrat but never a_ radical—to enter the United States, her lawyers indict Kel- logg as a violator of the constitu- tional guaranty of freedom of speech and of thought in the American com- monwealth. “He has arrogated to himself,” they say to Qoolidge, “authority not only to make arbitrary decisions against citizens of friendly countries, but also to decline to permit them to present evidence that the unknown accusa- tions against them are false.” Call Hypocrite. With delightful humor the’ lawyers then quote Cal’s Omaha speech, on the necessity of tolerance in order that progress may be served by “the ferment of ideas, the clash of dis- agreeing judgments, the privilege of the individual to develop his own thoughts.” With mock solemnity—for they know that Coolidge never meant it— they appeal to him “to take such ac- tion as will place your’ administra- tion in harmony with these high ideals so nobly expressed.” Sawyer Biscuit Merges with Union Biscuit Co. The Sawyer Biscuit company, which was the basis of the fortune ac- cumulated by the late Roger C. Sulli- van and which was organized in 1901, has merged with the Union Biscuit company of St. Louis, and are arrang- ing to float a sale of nearly $1,500,000 of the new company’s securities thru a stock syndicate. Find Dead Bandit. DETROIT, Nov. 24.— The bullet- riddled body of a man found in an automobile here was identified as that of Jimmie Wright, sought as one of the bandits in the $30,000 holdup of the Brinks Express company, in which Ross Loney, a payroll guard, was_kill- ed and another wounded. X ist RAST 2 : AS . \ i Organization a —— Resolutions be held at 19 This class is for think can develop into ‘efffactive speakers. To attend this class.it is not neces- sary to have had prg¥k experience in public speaking, at many of those who are experi id well efford to attend this d learn how properly to pre es that will be effective. The Smt books to be used will be on book store at 19 South Lincoli : ones cccnnscdsdscne Db sascdsedbberevinbicesecences 58.46 Cotati, Cal. (Soviet meeting), Fin - nish Branch + 12,00 Charlotte Anita Whitney, Oakland, Cal. 50.00 Chas. Cassell, Kalamazoo, Mich..... 1.00 Russian Br. é, W. P., Detroit, Mich. 3.00 Jewish Br., W. P., Newark, a 9.50 Finnish Br., W. 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