Daily Worker
November 29, 1925

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= 34 2 ngings | ment, ust we 65 N. iat 1 1 5 ** * r N and — r phe 99 * 3 1 bee 4 „ e . (Speciat to The Dally Worker) | 7 fey M 2 4 mf iali oe 1 1 ae t- 0 0 159 at the 72 9 LIN Germany, Nov. 27.—Chancellor Lister ga 55 Bar. tr n, who recently became the mercenaries ari 1, succeeded in securing the ‘approval of the n of ‘the bill chee pacts. was passed by a eens 3 yesterday and today wes thee 1 — g for a ‘German § By r. de _ OFLAHERTY — ee F.. with murder and sentenced to death after a trial lasting fohr min- utes. This news tiekled the ‘isibles: of Arthur Brisbane, ze | the most ebam political factor the republic, even 3 tuey are ; minority. 2 1 8 | s of ‘hi . trer W of the power of the Communists as the hor- der in the imperialist struggles: of Spey spit i ‘Ainving steadily gained m athetigth: the past few months and tremendous- ly increased their prestige by the successes in the last ry ah 8 orse racing, the other key industry in England is murder. — * * UR smug and complacent scrib- . blers who howl for the blood of the bandits who shoot to kill in order to get money quickly are quite un- moved by the slaughter that takes place in the nation’s industries every year. And those killings are avoid- able. But safety devices cost money and the daughters of our plutocrats must have dollars to spend af the watering places of Europe while they - amuse themselves playing with the broken down kings and dukes of the old world. Before society can even begin to eliminate murder it must hang the capitalist system, the main cause of crime. 0 * „ * DO not know of any greater torture for a person of average intelli- Bence than to be forced to listen to somebody dwell on the blessings to civilization that resulted from Amer- ica’s participation in the world war. A New York reader sent me a clip- pling from the little paper published by the Harlem Evening Hight School. It is the product of a first class rotar- e on page 2) | tot age gone! and limping to the 2 desk upon crutches, Clara Zetkin, the fa- mous German Communist made a dramatic appearance in the reichstag today and launched a bitter protest against the Locarno treaties. “Soviet Russia is sufficiently strong in power and does not need an old woman to represent her,“ said Clara Zetkin denying that she 3 the Soviets in the rei I have come from Russia to give’ my waning strength to the cause of the laboring classes, -who are suffer- ing under the yoke of the Dawes plan. “The Locarno pactsarethe bargain of the western powers in which Ger- many is merely a pawn.” From the reichstag, at the close of the session, Clara Zetkin proceeded to the Lustgarten where a gigantic mass meeting of Communists is now in ses- sion. The announcements of the meeting were distributed thruout all Berlin and environs and the arrival of Clara Zetkin from Moscow is viewed here as the first gun in a campaign that will bring the Communist pro- gram before the whole nation in this critical period, The other political groups are frankly terror-stricken at the sudden turn toward the revolu- (Continued on page 2) Turning Fascism Loose i in n England a — —— — — rom the London Daily Herald (Labor). But the Workers are e Ready. 5 3 * N & * U N t ne : N — ’ * ae Sil . 7 rei 2 2 i ö 0 18 ' 3 8 4 . n 4 * 8 5 ‘ N = ¥ 9 5 — — 5 1 . — 122 1 N a a. * * 3 ke 7. = — me) ‘ 5 1 » ’ 75 rf 4.» a. * is, . * y — a a . 1 y ! „ &, ae Ae ty g a a 9 = = J oh ty ££ a . 7 : a a 11 ye 14 1 1 4 > 7 ¥ We * 2 r 1 4 * , ce. 28 ~ ve * 4 3 8 * 3 Ue al 8 = — oe es 7 „ * 5 9 Paps! - ta 2 — * — 2 5 * re. N > ‘ : b 4 Se sae 2 3 ; „ > 22 0 . x — 8 . i N 5 2 * ‘ 1 5 * 2 2 af : 2 5 >. . N 9 2 W * * * 1 3 7 1 a? N 8 4 0 . 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Eight members of ty and two other workers are arrested a charge growing ) on the Communist headquarters in that city. This second picture of labor’s perse- cution will receive daily atten- tion in special dispatches from ‘= International’ Labor Defense, 23 ding greetings Je re William Z. K on behalf of the at China's Capital SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 27. — ews of continuous defeats of Chang so-Lin’s “loyal” troops by mutineers overshadows all else in the news from the scene of battles in the north. Even the report that the old provisional president, Tuan Chi jui has resigned, packed his baggage and ordered a spe- cial train to take him to Tientsin, is less important than the mening in | Chang’s armies. Kuo-Hung-lin, formerly a command- 5 3 er of one of Chang's armies, is lead- Visié England (Special to «The Daily Worker) LONDON, Now. 27.—Mussolini, fasc- ist dictator of Italy, has changed his mind about visiting England to sign the Locarno treaties in the British foreign office mext Monday. Benito has changed his mind be- cause he was given to understand that British unionists were planning to re- fuse to run trains oh which he would have to ride, to serve him with food and to surround him on all sides with mass demonstrations of angry work- ers. Instead of Mussolini, the treaties will be signed by a nobody in parti- cular, named Sciaoloja, acting as Musso’s agent. Foreign Ministers A sign for Germany and Belgium, and Briand will sign for France—provid- ing France has not removed him as foreign minister by Monday. The British government notified Mussolini in a; polite way that while the government would guard him well, and see that be was not physically mobbed, the British government could not guarantee that British labor would not “insult” the Italian dictator, a: British labor is greatly indignant at Mussolini's suppression of the trade union movement of Italy. TAMMANY BOSS ESTATE VALUED AT $2,170,761.22 NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—The ap- praisal of the estate of the late Chas. F. Murphy, Tammany Hall boss, given out by M. F. O’Laughlin, state tax appraiser, showed it to be value at $2,170,761.22. Steal Jewels. Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 27.—Two band- its held up the jewelry store of S. B. Stein here and escaped with jewels valued at between $100,000 and 3125, 000. Women Rob Bank. RENNER, S. DC Nov. 27.—Two wo- men armed with automatic pistols to- day held up H. S. Wilkerson, cashier | of the First State Bank of Renner, and made their escape in a battered automobile with 8500 in currency and silver, | 1 fore him. ny, marching | the eral Chi Chin-chun, an- other of Chang's divisional command- ers, has surrendered with his whole division, resulting in the taking of the city of Chin Wangtao by mutineers under Kuo. Chang in Desperate Fix. Chang Tso-lin at Mukden has only 10,000 troops at that point, his head- quarters and base of operation. Chang has called for picked troops, mostly cadets, and ordered them to hold the city “to the death.” White guard Russian monarchis refugees, enlisted by Chang, are b ing rushed to Mukden to aid this im perialist hireling who seems to be in grave danger of complete overthrow- al, altho his death, reported Wednes- day, seems unconfirmed. Feng’s Troops in Peking. Feng Yu-hsiang’s troops are already arriving in Peking, and this fact in- dicates that Feng himself will follow. Chang’s elimination as a power at Peking is clearly certain. Two cab- inet ministers favorable to him have resigned, but their resignations were not accepted. Honan troops are ad- vancing from the southwest. LI Ching-lin, governor of the prov- ince of Chilhi, has declared that prov- ince is “neutral.” He was previously an active partisan of Chang Tso-lin. 2 Open School Again. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 27 —Schools were reopened after they 1ad been closed for two days be- cause of cold weather. Writes for ‘the Daily’ TOM MANN. Brilliant spokesman of British labor who will contribute regularly to The DAILY WORKER articles on condi- tions in Great Britain. | | Feng’s Troops Arrive mies certificate law. This By ART SHIELDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Governor Pinchot's key position in the anthracite strike is brought out in the demands of the ene- ‘the miners’ union that he call a special session of the Pennsylvania legislature for the purpose of repealing the miners’ disqualifies any one from doing the skilled work dt a regular anthracite miner who has not served two years as a helper in the same field. The law was passed as a safety measure but it serves the secondary purpose of saving the hard coal men from outside scabs, as long as it is enforced, Hence the drive against the law. The propaganda for repeal was begun by John Hays Hammond, ‘chair- man of the U. S. coal commission at a civic federation meeting in New York earlier in the strike and has been carried on by the Wall Street Journal, most outspoken organ for big money. Repeal the law to break the strike, is the demand. Wants Scabs and Says So. Hammond's speech at the civic fed- eration minced no strikebreaking words! “The effect of this law (the | state ¢ertification law),” said he, to- gethér with the complete unioniza- tion of the mines, gives the United Mine Workers virtually a monopoly of the miners’ labor. The law makes it impossible for other miners to be employed, notwithstanding the fact that they have had many years ex- perience in bituminous mines and are tully competant to do the work of the ite miner. There are many competant miners in the bituminous fields, who, owing to’ the irregularity of operations, would gladly seek employment in t an ite mines. The first step, mf 95. insure regumption Ve- min operation ns is action by 12 commonwealth of Pennslylvania.” Mining engineers have repeatedly shown that the technical problems in the anthracite fields are different from those in the soft coal pits and that a bituminous miner may be a source of danger to himself and others if he tries to direct operations at a hard coal face without special training, but ness to break the strike. Boasts of Using Gunmen and Dicks "or more than a generation. And Sing Pinkertons to send workers to he penitentiary. He tells of such ex- Scribners’ Magazine in an article en- The “strong man” Charles A. Siringo, a Pingerton de- tective and gunmen he employed against the Western Federation of 1892 when Hammond was president mine, still the largest silverlead pro- ducer in the world. He tells how his Pinkerton went to work at Gem. Idaho, became record- ing secretary of the union, mailing regular reports against his fellows. to the mine owners’ association. the union suspected Siringo and the dick barely escaped with his life. Siringo continued his stooling under difficulties, on one occasion using a note book under a sidewalk while a miners’ posse was looking for him. Later he took part in the armed war between the company’s rifle men— armed strikebreakers Hammond had imported—and the unionists, and at the trial of several union leaders his testimony sent them to the peniten- tiary. Not Above It—Maybe Below It. All this suggests that Hammond, as — Sion and old Wall Street man himself, would not be above using private de- tectives and provocateurs in union today. But he is not talking of that. He asks the repeal of the certi- fication law so that the anthracite union strike may be scabbed out. JAPAN GLAIMS THAT IT IS “STRICTLY NEUTRAL’ SINCE CHANG’S DEFEAT (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, Nov. 27—Officialdom of Japan was today inclined to believe that the ousting of Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian war lord, was certain. Chang has been for a long time openly subsidized by Japan. Japan claims it is maintaining the “strictest neutrality” in the present Manchurian situation, : the | The five getting the year’s sentence Hammond has been breaking strikes Hammond ignores this in this eager- | } How | Refuse to Leave Party as Price of Freedom (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 27—Five of the twelve leading members of the British Communist Party, were sentenced Wednesday by Justice Swift to one year’s imprisonment’ in the second division”"—which means imprison- ment but not at labor as a convict— while the other seven were sentenced to six months of such imprisonment. The judge in sentencing the men elicited one of the finest examples of Communist unity and spirit when he declared that he would lay the one year sentence only against the five Neg. have been previously convicted jof “offenses” against the capitalist system. a ——— — * “4 — 4 “| Will Not.” To the other seven he said he was “anxious to avoid sending them to prison” and that he would release on their own word any who would prom- ise to have nothing to do with the Communist Party. He then asked each one of the seven if they would 80 promise. In each case the reply was: not!” J will are as follows: Albert Samuel, Inkpin, age 41, sec- retary of the Communist Party of Jreat Britain. Walter Hanningion, age 30, machin- ploits in the February 1925 issue of | st. titled Strong Men of the Wild West. he lauds most is retary Miners in the Coeur d' Alene strike off six months’ of the huge Bunker Hill & Sullivan lows: | Harry Pollitt, age 34, boilermaker. William Gallagher, a brass finisher. William Charles Rust, age 22, sec- of the Young Communist League of Great Britain. The seven who were sentenced to imprisonment are as fol- John Thomas Murphy, age 36, ma- | chinist. chairman on the U. S. coal commis- | |) of the Coolidge administration | || | ECONOMY | Robert Page Arnott, age 36, jour- nalist and director of the labor re- search department. Arthur McManus, age 35, machinist. Thomas Henry Wintringham, age 27, assistant editor of the Workers’ Weekly, official organ of the Com- munist Party. John Ross Campbell, age 30, editor of the Workers’ Weekly. Ernest Walter Cant, age 33, clerk. Thomas Bell, an iron molder of Glasgow, Scotland, The Three Counts. The jury had found all the prison- ers guilty on three counts: conspir- (Continued on page 2) ee —Eäꝓ—ñ—ä ee _ THE RISE OF SOCIALIST IN RUSSIA | | in the The economic facts on the TODAY Magazine Section development of the Soviet | Union presented for the first time. } READ IT! Set others to read it and SUBSCRIBE! if

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Colombian Joan * — Anti · mperialist league Ranks Increase That opposition to Wall Street is crystallizing on an unprecedented scale thruout the American continent, is plainly indicated in the organiza- tion, reported today, of two new sec- tions of the All-America Anti-imper-4 lallst League—one in Colombia and one In Ecuador, Juah de Dios Romero, well-known leader of the Colombian workers and editor of the weekly, E! Socialista, is secretary of the Colom- bian section. According to reliable in- formation from Bogota, Romero has the support of practically all the labor organizations of the capital city, as well as the Columbian students’ guild. Regarding the establishment of the section, Manuel Gomez, secretary of the All-America Anti-Im- perialist League, declares that the movement in Colombia against Amer- imperialist domination dates from 1903, when President Roosevelt carried out his brazen sequestration of Panama, formerly a province of Colombia, More recently, the maneu- vers of American oll magnates in Colombia, notably the Standard Oil Co., have aroused all sections of the population against the steadily in- creasing menace of American imper- Cuban Section Active. The recently organized Cuban ‘sec- tion of the All-America Anti-Imperial- ist League, is carrying on a systematic campaign for the repeal of the malo- doious “Platt amendment.” The Cu- ban section is now supported by the Havana Labor Federation, the Feder- ation of University Students (with the fortnightly organ, Juventud), the trade unions of Egla and Guanabacoa, and the resident group of the Chinese Kuomintang party. There are regular eub-sections in Havana and Cama- guey. P American imperialism has been showing its teeth in Cuba with parti- cular savagery. Largely thru the in- uence of Gen. Enoch R. Crowder, Am- erican ambassador in Cuba, consider- able numbers of “anti-American” workers—some of them native Cubans have been deported from the coun- try, while many more have been put behind prison bars. | : Hold Demonstration. Such persecution only helps to give pulse to the liberating work of the All-America AntiImperialist League in Cuba. At the big mass meeting of the league in Mars Field, more than 10,000 people were present. Reports from Mexico and Porto Rico indicate that there too the work of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League is taking on impetus. In the United States, the league is redoubl- ing its activity. It is establishing lo- cal sub-sections, arranging meetings and conferences, publishing a regular news service, etc. Activity is now concentrated in the campaign for Philippine independence, in which full co-operation is being established with the powerful national independence movement in the Philippine Islands. Form American Section. ' Officials of the league declare that the big problem in this country is to convince the American working class that its interests demand uncondition- al support of all the national libera- tion movements against Wall Street, and at the same time to draw the Latin-Americans and Filipinos into . closer association with the American workers, The American section of the league has received the full sup- port of the Workers (Communist) Party. Take Wine Cellar. BATH, N. Y., Nov. 27.—Following the seizure from his cellars: of | $90,000 worth of champagne, wine and | brandy, Charles Wheeler, proprietor | of a government bonded winery at Gibson's Landing, said he would file a protest with the federal authori- | ties at Washington. The raiding | party seized the vintages and immedi- ately dumped them into Keuka Lake. The customary practice of holding the beverages for anlysis“ was ignored. See eee eee eer L $2,500 is needed by Dec. 15. HOW? By means of a BAZAA Donations Are Weapons in This Defense Fight! NIL | AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) ian mind, which is several degrees below that of the much-abused moron, The editorial starts by praising the gods for thanksgiving day, with its “anticipated delight of sniffing roast- ed turkey and steaming pumpkin pie, chewing cracked nuts and gulping | home brew.” Get that from our law and order fiend! * 8 8 Ar ER on the imbecile boasts of the Americans “who at all times were ready to fight under freedom’s flag, and culminating in our entering the world war to perpetuate. and spread freedom thrueut the world.” If this person’s mind were capable of receiving impressions, other than from a bottle, I would suggest that he see “What Price Glory?” Not satis- fied with making the world so much more unbearable by the chunks of offal quoted above, he continues: “American: It means heaven thruout the world. A bulwark of freedom, a heaven of rest and safety to the op- pressed of the earth, a land of sun- shine and opportunity for all creeds and conditions of men, a history of accomplishment and glory and unself- ishness.” 2 0 0 O attempt refutation of this twad- dle would be to offer insult to the -eaders of The DAILY WORKER. The quotations are given, frankly for the purpose of exciting those who happen to read this, to a fury against a syst- em that breads such sychophants as the author of the illsmelling editor ial. Go ahead babbits and gulp your home brew even tho you violate the eighteenth amendment! You are the kind that pay your dollars to join the Loyal Order of the Moose; the K. K. K., who enjoy baiting radicals be- cause you are told they are not loyal to the government! 8 2s ®# HE French government suffered wreckage when Andrew Mellon failed to give Wall Street the high sign for a new French loah. Or per- haps Wall Street did the signalling! Washington and Wall Street are one and the same and never more so than now. There is considerable specula- tion whether the parliamentary form of government can exist ce much longer. The big industr ts are talking of a fascist dictatorship, because they fear a workers’ dictator- ship. If it happens that France’s present troubles weaken the govern- ing powers sufficiently to produce panic and chaos a dictatorship is in- evitable and another example of bles- sed capitalist democracy will have gone by the board. — Irish Free State and Ulster Preparing for Boundary Dispute War DUBLIN, Nov. 27.—The Irish Free state is tense today, lowing the failure of President Cosgrave to come to any agreement with Premier Bald- win of Great Britain, relative to the dispute over the Ulster border. Numerous reports are being circul- ated, one of them being to the effect that armed men are being mobilized in Ulster to take over the territory awarded to Ulster under the terms of the boundary commission. There are also unconfirmed reports that the free state is prepared to send forces to the border. Wall Street Employs Sharper Weapon Than Prayers on Filipinos MANILA, Nov. 27.—The Knights of Columbus here are urging that a day of prayer for the independence of the Philippines be observed in the islands. DO US A We're simply swamped! een — K - ~ —7 — — — N . * ».- ——_ League BRITISH CROWN LAYS PLANS FOR TREASON TRIAL To Follow Consiction at old Bailey” (Continued from page one) acy to utter seditious libel; .conspir- acy to incite mutiny, and conspiracy to seduce soldiers and sailors from their “duty.” The attorney general in his closing argument for the crown, said that it did not matter where the prisoners got money from, whether from Soviet Russia or from other sources. What mattered was what they did. He de- clared that the Young Communist “reeked with sedition” and stood for “disruption and breaking up of the armed forces of the state by the creation of revolutionary organ- izations in the army and navy.“ Low Motives of Capitalism Don’t Matter. Judge Swift in stating the position of the court toward the open charge that the case was one of one political party trying to exterminate another, said that this had no bearing on the case, for if the defendants were guilty the motives of the prosecutor did not matter, even if they were low motives. With Justice Swift in en the Communist prisoners got also a taste of “swift justice“ from the jury, who clearly gave no time for deliberation. Altho three counts were charged against twelve prisoners, making thirty-six cases in all to consider sep- arately, the jury was out only twenty minutes. 92 „ „ Hold Out Evidence. LONDON, (By Mail)—All the evi- dence which Scotland Yard was able to gather thru its raids on the head- quarters of the British Communist Party and the Young Communist League, and thru pilfering the mail of the arrested defendants will. not be used in the trial of the twelve Communists who are now on trial un- der the incitement to mutiny act of 1797. In the presentation of the charges to the court, after the prosecutor and the court and a number of Scotland Yard detectives had gone over it, they put the Communists on trial not for “seditious conspiracy” but have charged them with “conspiring to pub- list seditious libels.” This action of the court restricts the testimony to having the defendants prove that they did not conspire to write certain ar- ticles and statements. Plan Second Trial. These lawyers, that represent the crown, intend thru this method to get a conviction of the Communists on this act and then to prosecute them under the defense of the realm act and have them convicted of treason. The prosecution is attempting to make it appear that the Communist Party is an illegal organization and the crown attorney is presenting evi- dence to show that the British Com- munist Party is a section of the Com- munist International and that the British Communists thru their con- nections with the Communist Inter- national want to overthrow the Brit- ish government and establish a So- viet republic and then to become a part of the Soviet Russia. The crown defender also is intro- ducing evidence claiming that at the “secret” conference of the Communist Party in Caxton Hall, Manchester, that the following program was adopted by the defendants which the FAVOR? Many little jobs in the =ffice are waiting to be done—and we haven't a big enough | office force to do them. 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 frientl. ddd dGodoe (>.>). The Framed-up Zeigler Miners! Help Save Them From Prison! Do your utmost to give them the best possible defense. Local Chicago, International Labor Defense, has guaranteed $1,000 which has been advanced already and is out to raise the full amount. DECEMBER Ask your shopmates, your organizations, your 5 006 shops for con- tributions of any kind of article —foodstuffs, coin, clothing, anything and let the local I. L. D. office, 23 So. Lincoln St., know that YOU are on the job— by bringing, sending or reporting what you collect or donate. BE A LABOR DEFENSE BUILDER AND BOOSTER! i DDD at the NORTH-WEST HALL, Corner North and Western Avenues Pieeieisssaeedeeeieeicrereles Their trial begins Dec. 1. 10 to 13, 1925 8 . 4 N the: . 1 i j N ha ee be : a ; —— hy . KN Resent Fixing of Mosal Boundary Line , CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.— The league of natiéns Was openly de- fied and rebuked today when the Turkish cabinet, meeting under the chairmanship of Kemal Pasha, refused compulsory by the league in Mosul bounda ° = The Hague tribunal recently decid- ed that the league had a right to make a unanimous decision on the question of the boundary dispute, which has been a bone of contention here since the Briti#h igreed for oil made it an object ere con- quest. Hague Decision Vielous. The decision of the Hague court boundaries carried with it a revision of the covenant of the league of na- tions which says that such decisjon must be by unanimous vote. The recent decision that the vote must be unanimous h.the exception of the parties to the question in dis- pute. The cabinet decision places the matter where it was before—a direct struggle between. Britain and Turkey. It cannot be settled permanently by conciliation so will eventually be settled by force. crown objects to as being highly se- ditious: © Communist Program. “Nationalization of land, mines, railways, communication, transport, engineering, shipping, cotton and woolen industries and the banks without compensation; disarming of the bourgeois, the arming of the pro- letariat, and the cre * of a prole- tarian army, navy civil guard; abolition of capitalis law courts and the establishment of, orkers’ tri- bunals; state } of foreign trade and of the pres; annulment of state debts, with cont on Allowance to scation of all colonies eld in military and political oP repudiation of the Versailles and the can- celing of war ‘reparations; universal simultaneous disarmament.” Pollitt Pays Charges. . Harry Pollitt, who id a member of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International; lared in an answer to the crown daftorney’s charge that the Communists had conspired in an illegal organization to over- throw: the British créwn before the jury at the Old Bailey: “Our views may be pulsive, they may be distasteful, wrong, but they are our views ah we have the same right to repeat them as the peo- ple opposed to us. The Communist Party is a perfectly legal political party which has been pursuing more or less the even tenor of its way since 1920.” He showed that no secret channels, or secret methods were used and that the party was a legal organization hav- ing a membership of over 5,000 mem- bers of which but ten had ever been in Russia, Scotland Yard Takes Evidence. Much of the evidence which Scot- land Yard was to have introduced before the trial, was material that Scotland Yard had Communists. Scotland Yard had a to use, until it became the public property of the English workers, that this issue of the Prayada had been faked by Scotland Yar Prosecution Becomes Dramatic. A number of huntorous incidents have occurred opened with the crown attorneys making themselves ridiculous telling of the “conspiracies” and the “secret gatherings” and the “foreign emissa- ries” bringing “Moscow gold” to the London Communists, which they had “discovered.” The C@Mmmunist Party of England has always had its meet- ings open to visitors has announc- ed its meetings openly in the Workers Weekly, the organ of the party, which has been sent thru the mails and it was not necessary to have secret and 7 9 9 9 9 4 ‘ 9 4 ; 9 9 4 ; 9 6 1 9 0 ; 4 7 ; 9 ¢ 4 9 7 9 1 . 0 ; * ¢ „ i i i i i i i i that the league had the right to fix small investors; fortunes over £5,000 ;nationalization | of all property except owned by small tenants, and to be paid to the state; aboli of the mon- archy and all heredi itles; libera- tion of the , ed up on the number of Pravda’s that it was going | sincemthe trial had ‘ * e * 3 . d 8 ou ae ask it. 1 Oh F * N oe 7 * 5 = idea basal 5 aaa ee ead ‘By J. Louis ENGDAHL. AA LS Se BaP Re ee Self N as the officials of some trade unions are beginning to recover from the effects of Cal Coolidge’s bald declaration to New York profiteers, that prices were going down while wages were going up, hypocritically declaring that “this is real and solid progress.” This was nothing if not a rallying cry to the great exploiters to continue their wage cutting cam- paigns. Democratic organs, like the New York World, that still have hopes ing an attack on Coolidge’s figures, which will no doubt be repeated very often between now and the 1926 congressional election, to dem- onstrate the great prosperity that it is claimed the republican admin- istration has heaped upon the coun- try ‘ce. pee toe Waa T can hardly be expected that the labor officialdom “will wage an ‘open and energetic struggle against this deliberate falsification by the presidential strikebreaker. President Wililam Gréen and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federa- tion of Labor, have been visiting the White House lately to help Coo- lidge draw up his message that goes to congress next month. They have been so busy talking to Coolidge that they have not had time evi- dently to expose, even if they de- sired, the master class propaganda that “Cautions Cal” spewed forth before the chamber of commerce gathering in the metropolis. It is contrary to the etiquette of class whom one fraternizes. Thus Green *collaboration to criticize those with and Morrison, quite overcome by their own importance, in being called to the White House, are ef- fectively disarmed in so far as they might render any service to the workers they are supposed to rep resent. P * * * * HE eee on the other hand Will lie on their side as much as the republicans perjure themselves to mislead working class voters. The - democrats will claim that every good thing came out of the Wilson administration and that “prosperity” will never again burst in full bloom until another democratic president sits in the executive mansion. The democratic attack on Coolidge’s ut- terances is therefore only part of that general denunciation thru which it is hoped to return the don- key party to the national political pie counter. T remains, therefore, for the mili- tant elements in the labor move- ment to make the fight to show that actual conditions give the lie to all of Coolidge’s pretensions. Every housewife, without consulting the official reports of the United States department of labor, knows that the cost of living has been steadily in- creasing since Mr. Coolidge went into office. Coolidge doesn’t know this. All his household expenses in for the democratic party, are open- ]. Weakingtes they buy retail at the corner grocers, the butchers or the chain tea and coffee” have dropped 30 per cent since 1920, but the most acceptable index of liv- ing costs shows that retail prices have dropped only 16 per cent. * ca * 7 ME slight fall in prices in the Harding dynasty, for which Coolidge is now trying to claim credit, was but a meager readjustment that took place with the ending of the war that was featured by extor- tionate tolls placed on all the neces- sities of life. So much for Coolidge’s “cost of living.” inn O* the question of wages Coolidge also lied. Even the New York World, defender of the rich, con- fesses that “The assumed increase of 20 per cent in wages since 1920 is not borne out by the statistical evidence.” eae Let Coolidge swallow these incon- trovertible facts: “The average per capita wages of factory workers in New York state are below the 1920 level. So are the payroll figures reported by the U. S. department of labor, head- ed by ong of Coolidge’s own cabinet members. “That department also reports the average hourly wage of common la- bor in this country at 38 cents, com- pared with 49 cents in 1920. The rate paid by the steel corporation in ‘that year was 46 cents. it is now 40 cents. Farm labor is now receiv- ing an average of $49 per month, compared r 2 in 1920.“ ‘ 8 * HE e the textile industry in Coolidge’s own New England states has been one wage cut after another. This cutting came into greater evidence than ever follow- ing Coo dge's election last year. ne a e weekly earnings in the textile industry for 1924 was the starvation wage of $18.87. This is according to the government’s own statistics. Figures gathered by the United Textile Workers’ Union indicate that this average should be much lower, probably $15 per week. It is declared the average in Fall River, Mass., is $17.50 per week. . g HUS the Coolidge myth about in- creasing wages and a lowering cost of living is blown sky high, During the coming session of con- gress, and the congressidnal cam- | paign that will follow, many such myths will originate in the White House. They must meet with sim- ilar treatment, not enly by labor militants, but by increasing masses ) of workers and poor farmers. conspiratory meetings as the Com- munist Party was a legal organiza- tion and participated openly in the British municipal and parliamentary elections as a Communist Party for a number of years, explained a number of defendnts. Changes in Classes at Chi. Workers’ School A few changes in the days and loca- tion of some of the classes in the Chi- cago Workers’ School have had to be made, They are as follows: The class in English will meet at 2644 LeMoyne St. every Tuesday and Friday at 8 p. m. The Worker Correspondents class which meets in the editorial room of the “Daily Worker” has been changed to Thursday night at 8 p. m. instead of Friday. The History of the Inter- national Revolutionary Youth Move- ment will meet on Sunday morning at 11 a. m. HELP SAVE THE DAILY WORKER! *.**.°« + ** * 44% 44% © *% *% 44% e e e > Philadelphia Sit Up and Take Notice! There is nothing else to be done on Wednesday, December 2nd, 1925, only to go te the ---BALL--- of the F ruit and Grocery Clerks’ Union NEW TRAYMORE HALL, FRANKLIN ST. AND COLUMBIA AVE: THERE WILL BE DANCING AND GOOD MUSIC. GOOD TIME ASSURED. Don’t Forget the Date—December 2nd. _—* or *se'esr's ee seeeee eee ee eet eee eS SS SS OS SO Oo S&S Communists N Opposition Attack Against Locarno Pacts (Continued from page 1) tion. The proclamation announcing the meeting in the Lustgarten an- nounced: “Clara Zetkin will speak against the war treaties of Locarno, for an alliance of peace with Soviet Russia, against the Dawes plunder pact, for the independent workers of Germany, against the imperialistic league for oppressed nations, against the black front imperialists under the leadership of London and for the red front under the leadership of Mos- cow.” Thus the question of the red international against the black inter- national of imperialist nations is clearly put. Cabinet Will Resign. Chancellor Luther and his cabinet gre expected to resign immediately after the pacts are signed. The res- ignation of his government was the price he has to pay in order to ob- tain sufficient support for the ratifi- cation. So determined was the gov- ernment to play the imperialist game of Britain that they sold their cabi- net to the opposition parties in order to obtain their support. This brazen political trading has aroused the masses and efforts will be made by the Communists to prevent the crea- tion of any government, thereby forc- ing new elections, on the issue of re- pudiation of the ratification of the Locarno pacts, . Woman, Children Burned to Death. HUNTSVILL, Ala., Nov. 27— Three persons, a woman and two of her chil- dren, were burned to death on a farm ten miles south of Huntsville to- day, when fire wrecked the home as they were sleeping. If you want to thoroughly un- EF stores. Wholesale prices | ** {derstand Communiam—study it. — — — 0 U p. U rr . N a wus : 1 R g n de N. r 4 5 * f : 117 i un 2 E 1171 Ps 185 ‘ the administration is pledged to a convicted, republican leaders ignored method could be found to * Lang- federal resort. Now 1 to which he had appealed mee his conviction for conspiring ate the Volstead act, the ee leaders are searching around to find a good tool for the committee, Parents Protest to School Board. With promises of adjustment of their grievances, if possible, twenty five parents of children attending the Murphy school, Central Park Ave. and Grace street, were dismissed by a spe- cial committee of the board of edu- cation. The parents’ complaint is the shifting of the Murphy school to the Henry school, St. Louis and Cullom Aves., which necessiates the children traveling distances and over many dangerous crossings to get to school. 7 Escape From Reformatory. BOONEVILLE, Mo., Nov. 27.— Breaking thru the panel of a dormi: tory door, seven prisoners at the Missouri reform school here, made their way to liberty. ie 1 ig | COZY .: LUNCH... 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall } PHONE DIVERSEY 0791 =} | _HICAGO . Madison Pharmacy INC. | BETTER | DRUGS Light Luncheon Served } 1154 Madison Street, Corner Ann OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Four Phones Chicago — — — — | — „ — To those Who work hard for their money, I will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. 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ey ö wee 1 75 . Werl „ a 9 1 1 . r Be RES ' 1 3 * n 5 “ * oy tr, “ n we 1 wt Cok. Sarton. Re e alt Rae ead me eee 4 e ae " * 8 — n we nav 3 een 4 . The tenth week of the metal polish- ere’ strike against Cribben, Sex- ton 4 company, Sacramento boule- vard and Chicago avenue, reveals the customary co-operation of the police and out in a suspicious manner on the eve of the strike by declaring to the union officials: “We will. have no gunmen in the strike.” N Attack Pickets with Knives. Since then union pickets have been | as attacked with knives, company ag- ents have set fire to a residence to .frame up an arson plot against the strikers, bombs have been planted and well-known gunmen and sluggers are busy for the company inside and outside its premises. The manufacturers of the Universal products first ‘went open shop and then kept their piece work rates so secret that the men did not know what they had coming to them at the end of the week. The organized polishers and buffers threatened to strike and made good on their threat when the company refused to promise fair and stable piece rates and tolerable con- ditions. Thugs Beat Strikers. The pickets were roughed by com- pany thugs almost from the first day and the violence has grown stronger as the company found it impossible. to get the work out in its plant. Some of its polishing has been sent to De- triot and some to the Chicago Plating company, 1351 West Superior St., where the union is also picketing with good. results. Police Protest Gunmen. One of the pickets, who was as- saulted with a knife, attempted to get a warrant against the professional gunman with a prison record who had attacked him but the authorities in their customary conspiracy with the employers refused to issue it. “Danger to life and arrest from overzealous police is only sharpening the fine spirit of fight” declared Busi- ness Agent John Werlik of Local 6, Metal Polishers’ International Union. “No thot but complete victory is in — mind of the striking polishers and „ — F BRUTA Ignazio Florio. She found the Italians being taken aboard the Presi- a huge liner, safe in¢— Ave fé 2 — 7 TIES UPON SAILORS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Memories of the press gangs of the British navy faintly evoked by the stories told by thé shipwrecked sailors of the Nor- the little Elven’s ven- her steering gear, smashed her life boats, swept away the bridge and left her a helpless hulk. She drifted, sink- ‘ling slowly, as the crew manned the hand pumps. t Compulsory Labor. No one had eaten for 48 hours but the storm was over when the Ameri- can Trader, a Yankee fisher steamer, came abaft and took off the crew. No one was fit to work, still less so, few were given fresh clothing— *. had been able to take nothing away — but the captain of the Ameri- can Trader, a certain Hubbard C. Fish, ordered them to turn to, all ex- cept the officers and wireless men. Some of the men refused and Hub- bard threatened that unless they com- plied he would do his best to influence the Norwegian authorities to stop pay- ment of the 450 crowns shipwreck benefit due according to Norwegian law. Union seamen of New York, when the ship came in, said they had never heard of distressed mariners being treated. in that fashion—being con- ‘scripted and kept at work for a thou- sand miles till the boat tied up to the pier. The storm was over when the rescue came and no emergency existed. Held Like Chattel Slaves. Two other stories tell of the use of padlocked forecastles and chain lockers as jails, in New York harbor, in defiance of the immigration laws. The first relates to the S. S. Cedric, White Star liner. Thirty sailors who had taken part in the recent British strike against the one-pound wage cut were shipped out of England, at the end of the strike, because their serv- ices were needed, but penalized by jailing in New York, under guard. The other case is of three Italian seamen on the S. 8. Handicap, a Norwegian boat, in from a Spanish port. These men were imprisoned in the chain locker, under guard, on the theory that they might desert, tho the immigration law supposedly protects seamen in a long period of shore leave and does not compel them to return on the same ship. The captain feared he would have to ship out other men at a higaher rate. French Steel Kings Plan Increased Sales in American Market PARIS, Nov. 27.—French manufac- turers of steel are preparing to un- load vast amounts of steel onto the American market and claim that tho the French steel industry has been more efficiently managed ‘than those of other countries that they have fail- ed to sell more steel beeause of the lack of proper publicity and sales methods. yt yd t The various French companies are pooling together to bufld a fund, which will take care of the selling and advertising of the French manu- factured steel abroad. 1 2 Ship Sins. NEW YORK, Nov. An steam- ship Fall City is reported to be sink- ing at the foot of Huron street, Brook- lyn. Three men were reported in- jured. — — eee el eT SPECIAL! To Daily Worker Readers’ "SPEGIAL! 3 Plain 48-inch Long No. Seal Coats at 3 Squirrel Trim. 48-inch Lo 1 Brown Caracul Jacquette, 1 White Cony Jacquette 1 White Cony Jacquette, Trim. 1 45-inch Used Hudson Seal, 1 36-inch Used Hudson Seal, Including—Made-to-Order, Remodeling, Repairing, Etc. CRAMER, 6722 Sheridan Rd. > +> ** 444444 404 4% 644444 648 444444444848 448888484 CO-OPERATIVE TRADING COMPANY Dairy, Grocery & Meat Market ‘ ) { a $°75.00 } No. Seal Coats at.... 125.00 ? ed Fox Trim. 87.50 } „ 8.00 ft 55.00 Squirrel Trim. 165.00 Mortin Trim. 65.00 Tel. Sheldrake 0515 — MAIN STORE: 665-9 McAllister Avenue . i i i ö > we have the money. involved. National Office, 23 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. WAUKEGAN, »* oe « * « «+e «* ** %*** * 7s 44 rr * * * Zeigler frame- up case of 15 union miners. BRANCH: | 1806 W. Washington St. ILLINOIS sae ******** 4% **%*%*% OOOO OOOO OOS SOS The * . 7 — America Prepares Military Machine WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 27 Figures released by the war depart- ment disclose that 267,904 citizens participated in the summer military training activities held in the vari- ous camps during the summer of 1925. These. figures include all arms of the national guard, both commission- ed and enlisted, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Citizens’ Military Training Corps, and that part of the regular army assigned to summer training camp activities. The figures show that 33,838 citi- zens received military training at the citizens’ military training camps. They also disclosed that 84. 3% of the membership of the national guard at- tended summer camps. Stanielavsky Is Blind. A cable received by Morris Gest carries the information that Constan- tin Stanislavsky, director of the Mos- cow Art Theater, was stricken with blindness .while directing a rehersal the Moscow Art Theater. Morris Gest brot the Moscow Art Theater to this country on two occa- sions, last year they were in Chicago. Tho they played in the Russian lang- uage they drew large audiences who did not understand one word of the language but greatly appreciated the players for their art. Acquit Murder Suspects. WAUKEGAN, III., Nov. 27.—Mrs. Clara Hageq was acquitted tonight of the shake of killing her mother, Mrs. Lillie Holt. Likewise Mrs. Harcq’s husband, Albert, and her stepfather, Arthur Holt, were acquitted by the jury in Judge Claire Edward’s court. : 7 at 1 + yr ae Rett ee we * 8 x PATE 5 ie Promises, expressions of sympathy, had justice on d the cecompanying varieties of stringing ‘em along will satisfy for a time in place of wage boosts but as a permanent proposi- tion the 600 members of the city of Chicago’s engineering staff find them devoid of both nourishment and com- fort. Sympathy, . But No Raise. After waiting since July 1 for the city council to make good on Mayor Dever’s promise ot a rush wage raise ordinance these white collar workers gathered at the, Hotel Sherman (re- cently taken offorgantzed labor's un- fair list) and protested angrily. They had started a spectacular 3- day strike in the entire municipal en- gineering system on June 30, but the wily mayor and, his cabinet vouch- safed fullest sympathy and the en- gineers had trooped back to their blueprints after Joss of one day’s pay. Riſed Up n! They soon discovered that as col- lective ba ers they could learn a good deal from any local of unskilled laborers and för five months the strike feeling has been seething again. The protest mene this week against further delay! ‘the city is expected to lead to a 43 down before Christ- mas. The engineers demonstrate by tables and charts that they are paid less than the average for large cities. City Engineer John Ericson approves the course of his subordinates. Steals Hog; Sent Back to Prison to Finish Suspended Sentence 2 * VINTON, Wheeler st. prison sent 1924 he ple forgery and sentence, wh promise to betitive. hog, so he olg senten Darwin Still Hated By tHe Anthropoids Nov. 27.—Ernest serving a ten-year use of a hog. In suspended on his with But he stole a gent away to serve the Nov. 27.— (FF) — Following by the Science 5 OL- and High School Alumni sdseociation, | e Ala- meda board of education reconsidered its substitution, of the name of Agas- siz for Darwin to be engraved on its new million dellar building. Acknow- ledging that Darwin was objected to because of certain religious preju- dices,” it compromised by deciding to engrave no names at all. Tehitcherin Pays Visit to France uf 1 PARIS, Nov! 27.— Foreign Minister Georges Tchitcherin of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics has arrived in Paris. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism--study it. 419 Tower Avenue able prices. ‘wvvVTv7777V7V7—7—77V7—T7C0VV7V7777 772 A ⁵ ⁵ A A AAA ADA AD ted MILWAUKEE RESTAURANT A good place to eat wholesome food at reason- A trial will convince vou. others like our place, you will like. “A PLACE WHERE THEY SERVE BIG MEALS AT LESS.” { Superior, Wisconsin As 43° A + » » - Lb i i - - - i i ie i i i i i 5 Nee Emergency C 2 To All Members and Friends of — faked International Labor Defense: Two big cases are scheduled to come to trial on November 30th. The Pittsburgh raid case of 10 workers and the The lawyers in each of these cases will not proceed with the defense unless FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED BEFORE DECEMBER 15TH We call upon all members of the I. L. D. to rise to the test and raise this sum. Contribute all you can and get your friends and neighbors to contribute. Much depends on the outcome of these two trials. entire working class is on trial. Rush Your Collection and Make It as Big as Possible. } Fraternally yours, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE, J. P. CANNON, Executive Secretary. HH 7 Not merely the 25 workers 1 — — — { At YY WORKER krone, demand 26.78: cable 26.76. Nor- near Flushing Ave., Brooklyn, with Sylvan A. Pollack giving a lecture on World Trade Union Unity and Amal- gamation. i He traced the negotiations for world trade union unity, strating with the call of the Red In tional of Labor Unions at its second congress which was held November, 1922, to the formation of the Anglo-Russian Unity Committee last year and also ed out the need of amalgamation of the American unions to go hand in hand with world unity. Comrade Riger, the chairman, also made a short speech in Jewish. The Amalgamated Action Commit- tee, of which Sam Liptzen is chair- man, holds lectures at its open forum at eleven o’clock every Tuesday morn- ing at Lorraine Hall, Broadway, near Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, also at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th street, every Monday and Wednesday at 11 a. m. | EDUCATION SHOWS GREAT PROGRESS IN THE UKRAINE Economic ‘Revival Aids School System KHARKOV, Russia— (FP) — Stan- dards of education are advancing rap- idly in the Ukrainian Workers’ Re- public. Five years ago the country was over-run by Yudenich, Denekin, Wrangel and the counter-revolution- ists. Then came the famine of 1921-22. In 1922-23 education in the Ukraine was at its lowest point. Student en- rollment in the elementary schools had been 1,800,000 in 1914 and 2,000,- 000 in 1921. In 1923 it stood at 1,- 300,000. That year the tide turned. Civil war ended. The harvests improved. Industry revived. The enrollment for 1924 was 1,500,000; for 1925, 1,750,000. The enrollment this fall (1925-26) will exceed 2,100,000, topping the highest point of 1921 by 5 per cent. A similar story is told in the growth of educational appropriations. In this year, 1925-1926 fifty per cent of — Ukrainian expenditures are 3 voted to education. The total Budget for 1925-26 is almost exactly five times the budget for 1922-1923. Teachers are sharing largély in this improvement. Their hours of work are less; their housing is improved; their food is far better. As for their wages, the Ukrainian village teacher who received 8 rubles a month (ruble, 50 cents) in addition to house, fuel and food in 1922-23, 18 rubles in 1923-4 and 25 in 1924-5, in the 1925-6 budget is receiving 30 rubles a month. This is still a small amount, but it is near- ly four times four years ago. The whole Ukrainian educational system has been reorganized the past four years. The Dalton plan, the project method and a number of other experimental ideas that have been tried out here and there in other countries are being tried also in the Ukrainian republic on a vast scale. The schools are being reconstructed physically and educationally. All childrem now work in groups. A child incapable of group work is looked upon as abnormal and treated. The normal child is the child who knows how to associate with his fellows. Economic revival has laid the foun- dation for a new educational system that marks great advance steps for the whole educational world. Foreign Exchange. NEW YORK, Nov. 27:—Great Brit- ain, pound sterling, demand 4.84 1-16; cable 4.84 7-16. France, franc, demand mand 4.52; cable 4.52%. Italy, lira, demand, 4.04%; cable 4.05. Sweden, way, krone, demand 20.25; cable 20.27. Denmark, krone, demand 24.84; cable 24.86. Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, taels, 78.00. Arrest Manufacturer. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 27.—Indict- ments charging Murray Carlton, treas- urer, and Forrest Ferguson, president of the defunct Ferguson-McKinney Manufacturing company, with making false financial statements to obtain credit, were returned by the grand jury here. The indictments followed an inquiry into the recent crash of the company which is said to total $3,300,000. Exonerate Rail Engineer. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 27. Thomas J. Carroll, of Jersey City, engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad train wrecked near Plainsboro, N. J., Nov. 12, with a toll of ten persons killed and thirty-two injured, was exonerate by the Middlesex county grand jury. Carroll had been held in $1,000 bail on charges of mans- laughter, The DAILY WORKER sub- scription list is a Communist of the latest developments. He point- 1 3.83%; cable 3.84. Belgium, franc, de- E. G. Funk, Williamsville, III. Al COPS AND DICKS TO STOP FARM STRIKERS Split Milk Adage No Bar to Scab-Herders Dairy farmers near the Spring Grove plants of the Welland Dairy company are getting & taste of what Chicago unionists are up against when they go on strike. Squads of.Chicago detectives, arm- ed with shotguns and revolvers, filled the roads out in the country yester- 1 to stop a milk strike on the part farmers. who refused to sign an agreement with the Wieland Dairy company. The firm alleges that the farmers object to the clause of the agreement which pledges the farmer to have his cows examined and pass- ed according to the Chicago health commissioners’ standard. A large percentage of the farmers went on strike, barricaded the roads, armed themselves and stopped other farmers who tried to bring their milk to the Wieland plants. When the scabs objected, their milk was spilled. Altho there was no use crying over spilt milk, the Wieland company noti- fied Chicago authorities, and the Chicago authorities, and the strike- breakers of Chicago went out in force to see that the embattled farmers get the same treatment as Chicago team- sters do when they strike. ‘Worn-Out’ Wall Street Gambler Will Retire f NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Wall Street is losing “Jakey” Field, who ran a fortune up into the millions from a $10 bill Wsked in a bucketshop. Worn out by nerve-wracking specu- lation, Field has arranged to sell his membership in the stock exchange for $152,000. In 1988, he set a record by paying $25,000 for the same seat. Field has had a spectacular career. In 1909 he made $120,000 in twenty rage Three yk Government Czecho - Slovakia -ersecutes Workers PRAGUE, Crecho-Slovakia, (TRA)— (By . Mail}—The_ persecutions of Czeché-Slovakian workers, and espec- lally the Communists, continues un- abated in the republic dominated by the philosopher, Masaryk. A few of the more recent persecu- tions are made known in the list that follows: Comrade Zapototaky has to serve a sentence of one and a half year of hard labor. District Secretary Filip in Goeding was sentenced to one year hard labor. Comrade Seidler and his wife were both expelled from the republic, the political editor of the Reichenberg Vorwaerts, Comrade Pol- lack, escaped the threatened delivery to Horthy. In Slovakia and in Carpato-Russia the following cases are reported: Comrade Eugen Fried, party secretary. in Kashau was sentenced to two years and the Comrades Jerrelfalusey and Hermann Loewy to one year each, The former was sentenced on account of statements that he has made at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow and the lat- ter on the basis of a frame-up of spies. In Kashau in the course of the last 6 months, 74 officials of the labor movement have been sentenced to a total of 17 years of hard labor. The nearer the parliamentary elections ap- proach, the more the white terror against the workers is increased. There is hardly a Communist editor against whom there are no proceed+ ings of some kind going on. The gov- ernment authorities are attempting to eliminate representatives of the Communist Party from participation in the election campaign in order te save the national coalition from a de feat, Recently Rude Pravo, the organ of the Communist Party of Czecho-Slo- vakia reported that the statistics of the persecutions of the labor move ment in the republic of Masaryk con- tains, since December, 1920, 48 dead and over 150 seriously injured work - ers, In an immense number of trials minutes during a wild flurry in Rock Island stock. more than 7,000 years of hard labor were distributed among the accused. SEND CHEER TO * To The DAILY WORKER. Dear Comrades: $1 from his mother, Regina Rosenson. i Today’s denations are just Chicago; another is from a steel two years’ imprisonment by the of Communists! A. Schlemmer, Minn, W. P. S. Osasto, Red Granite, Wisc. L. D. Calif. Milwaukee, Wis., (collected by James Futach, Sam Rabino- wich and G. Piccoli.) M. George, Columbus, Ohio W. N. Patterson, Zanesville, O. John Auert, Ukiah, Calif. ............ Chisago City, $ 2.00 ‘Ratliff, San Fernardo, J. Friedman, Detroit, Mich Geo. Chukar, Toppenish, Wash. Joe Antos, Warren, Ohio Se ee eee eeree E. G. Hager, Dayton, Ohio 5.00 Workmen’s Circle, Branch 272, New York 7.00 M. Shapovalov, Riverside, Calif. 5.00 VI Th.) what a wealth of friends The DAILY WORKER has. tion is signed, “collected in a paint shop;” another comes — an artist whose works are now on exhibit at the Art Chic Wm. H. Wherry, Phoenix, Ariz. 1.00 Harry Peel; John Augustine, Jr. Thos. Otzwirk, Livingston, III. 2.50 Lewis Hocherin, Chicago, III.. 3.00 Rose Kuntz, New York, N. V. 4.00 CARRY ON THREE BOLSHEVIK GENERATIONS THE DAILY WORKER * x 4 We're three generations of Communiets and we want to do our bit to help save our DAILY WORKER, —eo we send $1 from baby Leon Glan, just seven days old; ie Walday; $1 from his grandmother, With comradely greetings, L. G., 531 W. 124th St., New York, N. v. S. W., R. R., * * small ones, but they indicate worker, who was framed up — Bethlehem Steel Co. at the time of the steel strike. And best of all is one from three generations Altogether, the list for today is as follows: English branch, Workers Party, Hancock, Mich. 8.00 Workers Party, Stamford, Conn. 30.50 H. Richman, J. Richman, A, Paropsky, a friend, Cleveland Ohio 10.00 Anonymous, Oakland, Calif. 1.00 Balance of Rescue Banquet, of Denver, Colo., W. P. 27.00 Denver, Colo., Workers Party.... 20.00 Jacob Bolla, Lebanon, Pa. ........ 2.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Ahmeek, Mich. 7.00 J. B. Carpenter, Holland, Mich. 2.00 Morris Bernstein, Bronx, N. Y. 2.00 Finnish branch, Workers Party, Lanesville, Mass. . 20.00 W. C. Abelson and J. W. Trepp, Drake, N. Dak. 2.00 L. G., S. W., R. R., New York 3.00 Today's Total $208.25 Previously recorded 26,310.54 Total to Date $26,518.79 THE TORCH! DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III. honor roll. Is your name on it? — > | HERE’S MY DONATION: Name N Address: n City: State: — One dona-

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I section of the hall, as the miners were leaving, a fight started supposedly over a remark made by old Bert Farthing, who had supported the Klan up until two or three months prior to a 22 strike. Two Wrison brothers, both knewh to be klansmen, struck him to the floor. Young Farthing, who was at the door, hurried to the aid of his father. A general scrap followed dur- ing which Cobb pulled a blackjack and attempted to use it. He was knock- ed down and the weapon taken from him. | After most of the men had left the hall, Alec Hargis an another well- known klansman and a thoroly we credited member of the local, ap ed in the doorway with a .38 matic in his hand. Looking straight at one of the progressive and best liked mffers, Mike Sarovich, he fired a shot which went thru Mike’s abdom- en and lodged in the hip of Hezza Hindman, a sub-district board mem- ber who was behind Sarovich.. Whitewash Murderer. To Whitewash Hargis and: to frame up the local miners’ officials ig the purpose of the combined forces of re- action. Hargis who was found by the coroner’s jury to have fired the shot that killed Mike Sarovich was completely freed by an obliging grand jury. The charge was instead fasten- ed on Frank Corbishly who was not even in the hall when the shot. was fired. The two Wilson's who started the fight and Cobb who tried to use a blackjack are scot free. But 20 miners are being held for trial on the charges, made by Cobb, of assault with intent to murder, and conspiracy to murder. Sz To Stifle Opposition. The aim of the Farrington-Fox ma- chine in this frame- up is to” kill off all opposition in the miners’ union to the traitorous policies pursued by the machine. Thompson, Watt, Tom Par- ry, Joe Angelo and others are already expelled; more are slated for the same fate. The machine wants no opposi- tion to it in the unions and at the next convention. Farrington uses cun- ning judgement. An honest and milit- ant miner expelled here, another one somewhere else, and so on, with the hope that soon no one will be left to open his mouth against this infamous scoundre] and his clique. honest working class fighters who are struggling against a solid bloc and under great handicaps. Thruout the county the rank and file miners have organized the Franklin County De- fense Committee, with Victor Cernich of Christopher, III., as treasurer. They are appealing for immediate aid in the form of donations. The International Labor Defense and every progressive labor organization is cooperating with the defendants. To “Abolish” Submarines. BERLIN, Nov. 27.—Abolition of sub- marines is now advocated by Admiral Von Tirpitz, the master mind of Ger- many’s great war time submarine campaign against the merchant ships of her enemies. “The inviolability of private proper- ty upon the high seas is an old legal principle, and I therefore favor the abolition of submarines,” said the ad- miral. The endoresement of .abolition of submarines by Admiral von Tirpitz was not without qualifications how- ever, for he demands that with the submarine there must also be abolish- ed naval blockgdes. 778 5 8 > 5 = . * ee * N a 1 « — — „ jf 4 8 oe a : . ban - 1 me: . 4 f . Pa 8 „ * es J : 2 * " — , . 8 i el . a, * 2 ef 2 8 od _ * * 2 es wea page i f 3 % BY, 1 i Be. N 4 — = 4 BN is 1 a 588 . 2 * 2 * nes . * Te. Se. - ai 7 2 ＋ 3 * „ i * f . 7 . : , . N 2 5 : ’ — & 2" 2 ie ee 9 Pp ime - , 20 ay ee { N 1 0 * 8 ‘ * ‘ 1 — 8 3 8 2 * , . = * Pre 1 1 + (= 2 * * — 2 7 — > 4 — * * i 5 4 > Py - ~ 5 N ’ * 4 * 2 . > * 4 Te”, “ 7 - is . 5 8 * % “~ 2 8 , x. * . N 2 — * —— - f trict officials to handle the case in ac-| cordance with the contract. Sane mony: = The Zeigler frame-up is a case of f * 5 122 f ie! 5 * oe 2 ine : B Po The immediate d of the convention is the le which | rallied 35,000 Interna- | tional Ladies’ G into lf E i * convention, and it is movement which NU | ge | ity. But it is one of the most promis-| g. | ing developments in the labor move- ment of this country. It has immense program is as yet incomplete and in- definite. It has yet to come to matur- possibilities before it. At Philadelphia it will meet its first acid test. The task of the organized and con- scious left wing of the T. U. E. L. is be N phia n a e pro- gress N labor move. ment. 1929 CLEV LAND W. P. WINS IN FREE | Clevdland, O. (By Ma) — 33 sev- eral unsuccessful attempts to frame a case that would just the recent ar- rests of party mem in this city, police were to-day forced to dismiss the case against Herbert Benjamin, district organizational secretary and admit that he was justified in resist- ing the arbitrary orders to cease dis- tributing 2 * Jad street. ing the e r 1 the local elections. He was offered a release at the time of the arrest providing he would sign a waiver. This he refused : to do, insisting that if. the: party is to be prevented from distributing our lit- terature it would taBefmore than an arbitrary order by e, which can be enforced or not ag they see fit. In dismissing the case inst Comrade Benjamin, Judge Gor took occasion to express his angerathat it was im- possible for him to und a law that would at the same prevent the dissemination of Communist literature without interfering With those politi- cians whose views he shares, Only Party to Offer Program This is the third time that Comrade Benjamin appeared before the same judge on the charge of distributing leaflets. On the occasion of a prev- iqus appearance Comrade Benjamin pointed out that the program which he distributed and for which he was arrested was the only program that had been offered by any party in this election and that the eandidates in the local elections had sought votes by means of “red fire campaign and hired clowns, who sang silly. songs.” Judge Corlett admitted that’ this was not an intelligent way to appeal to voters. To which Benjamin replied by pointing out that these polificians were not lodged in the jail or dragged into court to be lectured fo, With the discharge of the case against Benjamin an the admission of Police Commissionaf Barry that the arrest of Benjamin while speaking on the public square a adn st the murder- ous Horthy regime was unjustifiéd, the police has been férced to abandon their effort to intimidate and harrass Workers Party members. The outcome of these cases will en- courage party memUers everywhere in the district to resist the attempts to curtail the rights Which they are sup- posed to have according to the boasts lof the champions € American dem- ocracy. The district . committee will now more energetically than be- fore prosecute the fight for the right to meet and speak in the cities like Bellaire where our meetings have been interfered with. Profited ThrusBankruptcy, WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The spe- cial house committde which has#been investigating charges that Federal Judge G. W. English, of the eastern district of Illinois, profited in bank- ruptcy cases before his court, will re- sure sessions here next Tuesday, Rep. Boies of Iowa, ae announced. What do you earn? What are con- ditions in your shop?” How do you live? Write a stony for The DAILY | WORKER “7 * The Workers Party 9 eided to make work among women IL ‘CLEVELAND HOTES | Work Among Women. Cleveland, Nov. 299.—The latzt party convention, acting on the instruction of the Communist International, de- one of the important departments of the party work. With this in view the district ex- ecutive committee of district 6 is call- ing a meeting of women members of Cleveland for discussion of ways and means for starting work among wom- en in this city. Attendance of women comrades is compulsory. But work among women does not signify work only by women among women. They men members of the party are also in- vited to attend the meeting. It will be held at the district office, 5927 Euclid ave. on Sunday, Dec. 6 at 2:30 p. m. r Open Forum Begins Sunday Philadelphia, Pa., Nov, 27.—At last the long awaited Communist Open Fo- rum is here. William F. Dunne, of ‘Chicago, will be here to address the first forum on Sunday 29th at 8 P. M. The subject: “The Swing to the Left in the American Labor Movement”, is quite appropriate as it comes imme- ‘diately after the furriers’ convention and on the eve of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union con- vention which opens on the following day in Philadelphia. The forum will meet regularly every Sunday at Grand Fraternity Hall, 1628 Arch st. at 8 p. m. sharp. Admission free. NEW YORK NOTES Important Meeting Monday. New York, Nov. 27.—Meeting of all party fraction secretaries and branch industrial organizers on Monday, Nov. 30, 108 E. 14th Street. Bert Miller, Industrial Organizer. Read — Write — distribute The DAILY WORKER. was able to take to keep the fact that a black book, containing the names ry all prohibition enforcement offici- alg and e as to whether they N or not, was taken in the the: establishment of J. B. „17 Austin Avenue. n gaz to the anger of the direc 55 In this. book. bert of which is in code, ate the names of the dit eee age officers - and in- formation as be “seen” And by w The book also 8 the dif- ferent traffie routes over which it was “cheapest” and best to send their shipments of booze. In this section the names of the different enforce- 8 officials and their “scale of pri- e eee workers on the $9. whgther they could During ue raid on the warehouse one of. the membe of the local bu- reau was found in the building. A vault, which it is expected will con- tain pre-Volstead spirits bore a seal of the intérnal revenue department and “ imeulties“ kept the hibitio top outing fre | from. opening the gate.| This warehouse, in which thousands of gallons f-spirits of all kinds were found, wag directly across from the Chicago criniinal courts building and has raat r quite some time. esi in Laboratory. Damage ot 3100000 ‘was. caused by fire, fed: by exploding chemicals, to- day in the $1,000,000 plant of the Ab- bott Laboratories, at North Chicago. The flames weré placed under control | after apparatus: from nearby towns had joined the north Chicago firemen and prevented the fire from spreading after two buildings had been attach ed. A checkup. showed all 9 safe. The ouly casualty was Edward Lindgren, a former Waukegan City fireman, who was_overcome by chem- ical gases before gas masks were dis- tributed to the fire. fighters. His con- dition is net serious, ‘The Hanging Question i in the Colonies CHINA MOROCCO 8 * a a 1 Erne abolition ree relation to socialist and oe .| Buages. H. Lawrence, Wilde, etc. Strindberg, Hamsun. tem under which we lire. 2. Imperialism, © ut dominant form of * capitalism. front and the rh th octal revolu- ogee as of capitalism and | the e the workers. i ite : , 6. The dictato tthe proletariat The unavoidable pre-requisite ot the struggle for Comm 6. Proletarian — and the allies of the revo and b the try. 7. International 1 of the proleta- riat—The road to the dictatorship of the proletariat. 8. The party and the masses. 9. Structure and organizational problems of the party—Shop nuclei, ro nuclei, shop committees, etc. | Special campaigns of the party — L campaigns, Soviet Russla. recruiting campaigns, Communist press. 11. The work of the shop nucleus, a, Work of the different officers. b. The shop paper. c. Legal and illegal methods. d. How the nucleus brings the party into the shops. | : e. How the nucleus mobilizes the masses for the party cam- paigns. 12. Problems of Bolshevization, In addition to meeting the needs of our educational work in line with the party’s program of Bolshevization, the “Shop Nucleus Training Course” will also serve to maintain a steady per- sonal cnotact with each of the shop nuclei through its best 2 the nuclei educational work. The pos leus members will therefore have a direct means of bringing any special problems in the shop directly to the, attention of the party higher commit- tees for solution. Thus the shop nuc- leus training course will help in the ‘function: of the nuclei. ¢ Marxian Economics, instructor, 1 Mindel, will take up the different schools of economics and then con- sider the fundamental elements of Marxian economics. This course is. preparatory to.a second course in the Economies of the Era of Financial | Capital and Monopoly. It takes up all the classie concepts of Marxian economics. An interesting feature, seldom or never treated in a course in Marxian economics in the United States, is the study of the concent - tion of capital in agriculture and the general economics of the agrarian problem. 5 The Fundamentals of Communism. instructor, Geo. Siskind, is a course particularly designed for new entrants into the party. and those who may have been in the party for many years but not had the time to get a tunda- mental training. The second section of the course includes such topics. as: ‘| the dictatorship of the proletariat, so- |ciety under Communism, relation to the party, to its leaders and to the zeoisie revolutions, ete. Class in Russian Lelia The Russian Ignguage Course is also announceed. The purpose of the course is to train a selected group to read certain literature in Russian which is not ‘available in other lan- — Finally, there will ben u course entitled: The Social Interpretation of Modérn Literature, ‘instructor, Eli B. Jacobson. This course aims to provide critical survey of the most important works in modern literature, analysing their special significance and attempt- © ing to estimate them from a Com- : munist viewpoint. essay and poetry of America and the major European countries in modern times will be considered. Among * | thors to be taken up are: a. United States: Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Sherwood 2 Theo. Dreiser, Floyd Dell, N b. England: Shaw, Gabs a . Bes Pe “ct. Russia: Tolstoy, Dostoyev Turgenov, Andreyev, Gorki, Checkhov, Alexander Blok, Demyan, Reduy, yakovsky, Lebedinsky, d. Scandinavian: Ibsen, Bio e. France; Anatole France, Rolland, Henri Barbusse. f. Germany; Franz Werfel, E Toller, T. Mann, Wasserman, | ler, Hauptmann, . Sate, * err ae : * * . Ay. * rere The novel, drama, 8