Daily Worker
December 1, 1925

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Died From “Overheat.” Dr. C. M. Lentz testified that he had examined the negroes on the evening of their death and denied that these ‘men were beaten and stated that the ‘prison superintendent and the war- dens had told him that the men had died from “overheat.” The judge scored this attempt of the doctor to make light of the death of these two Negroes and asked him whether he had ever heard of any ne- groes dying from “overheat.” ’ It was finally brought out that the men had died as a result of the wounds inflicted by the inhuman beat- ing delivered them much to the dis- comfiture of the jail superintendent. = * = Inquisition Tortures Used. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 29.—Methods approximating the torture devices of the inquisition were revealed to be in operation in Georgia prisons to “dis- cipline” convicts for infringements of jail rules was exposed in a report by the sub-committee of the Georgia house of representatives penitentiary committee on conditions in Georgia prisons. In one camp prisoners were backed up to a post and their arms chained behind it. The arms were then fastened as high as possible and the chains hooked to nails. The pris- oner was left in this suspended posi- tion for several hours. Use “Sweat” Boxes. In anothér camp prisoners were fas- tened to a hollow box so that they \could not move their arms. Molasses was smeared over their exposed faces and they were left powerless to brush away the flies attracted by the mo- lasses. “Stock and sweat boxes” were found in other camps, the report pointed out. ei Leningrad Province Opens 900 Libraries in Rural Districts LENINGRAD, U. 8. 8S. R-—The provincial political education depart- ment is opening 900 new rural district and itinerant libraries in the villages in the Leningrad province. The Lenin- grad State Publishing House is issu- ing more than one million cheap books on agriculture, Soviet legisla- tion, co-operation etc. The price of these books has been fixed 4 to 6 kopeks. ¢ iardiketom’t in the words he tele- i —, : one afternoon and that both’ of} graphed to Orient, i mention from | ~ ve ‘nr _mand\Arming of the Toiling Masses (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKING, China, Nov. 29—~Demand- | ing that Tuan. Chi-jui, provisional | president resign, distributing litera- ture of the left wing section of the Kuomintang or people’s hationalst party, calling for the overthrow of the militarist government which is but the tool of foreign imperialists, the disbanding of the regular armies and| _—s| the arming of the workers, and the dissolution of the so-called “tariff | conference” now being held, thousands |. of revolutionary students filled the streets of Peking today. Students in Action. They concentrated on the officials of the corrupt provisignal govern- ment. They entered and turned in- side out the houses of seven proini- nent government officials, including the home of the chief of police, the Chinese finance. minister and the chief secretary of the cabinet. They pulled out one high dignitary from an automobile and. gave him a beating. The defense commissioner of the metropolitan area, Lu Chung Lin, has declared martial law as an attempt to check the demonstrations by stu- dents. but it is well known that no poWer in China cah*stand against the will of the studenjs, especially when they are joined with the organized proletariat, which wholeheartedly sup- ports the red Kuomintang and the na- tionalist liberation movement to oust all foreign imperialist domination. Mutineers Dig In. ° Kuo Sung-lien, the leader of. 100,000 mutineer trops of Chang Tso- lin, has established headquarters. at Chinwangtao on the Chfilhi coast. A battle is expected between his troops and Chang’s “loyal” white peri at Shanhaikwan. Altho Japan has prothited loudly that she is “neutral” in the matter of Chang being put down and out by mu- tinous troops, the destroyer Tachi- bana has been ordered to sail ffom Port~Arthur to Chinwanto, the heaa- quarters of the mutiny, to “protect Japanese nationals employed there.” Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of ee ee hag My Ndilaatingnes ae yg sels areen ite AEB. Fs an F: fe ie uw, ? ‘th * r ao, munist | International greets Faw race a pose America f | 1.2 Ptr - Sane je" _- dee Di See Ih Ae 4 3 i, 4 “ \ ‘ : 4 ee ate: hy ih f 1 BAS ats witb ge © =~" aoe ‘ ‘~~ “ a. e: we ~~ ~~ s},; ~ “~ ”~ ~~ ‘ ~ > A, Sa ’ \ cae ~ “~ ’ . : X47 ~‘ . & . a, . 4 \ , . . e , ‘\ . a ‘ , 1 } ~ cE x t + © “)3 , ? “] i ¢, . X. i Me v \ 4 tt, } . r ws ; = ? ¢ . .) % t ts, us \ . ys 4 ‘ \ ‘ bye a ‘ ; e. r| ,% i ‘“. 4% 2s -e i i ; \4 aX ee 2 a ’ ; ‘ : “af eh Me, a Ving st + . BA + ages 5 ae ; pak “ (sv i sie, Mek At Vio aba AR Me Sid a Morgan Is Pawnbroker for All the senna Capitalist Nations. the DAILY WORKER, | ZEIGLER MINERS IGHT THIEVING | COAL OPERATORS Bosane Frawmie. Militant Union Leaders By MAX SHACHTMAN. 1. L. D. Press Service. ZEIGLER, I1l., Nov, 29——The struggle of the miners for each ton of coal they send up into the world looms in the background of the frame-up and trial of the twenty Zeigler = pro- gressives. The bitter battle of the United Mine Workers of America to incor- porate into state legislation and- into contracts with the_eoal operators -a} point providing for an accurate weigh- ing of each ton of coal as it comes on the scale has become a victory that depends upon the militancy of the check weighman who is elected and paid by the membership of every local union, Miners Cheated at Scales. For some time, the checkweighman at the Bell and Zoller mine in Ziegler vomplained of the fact-that the miners were not being given correct weights for their loadings. The progressive administration of Localg992 therefore provided him with an assistant che weighman who was able to take tally of the carsias they were run over the scales, The: weigh boss, who had been running the cars over the scales so swiftly tha& the indicator was never ~' S@aonfinued on page 5) .* 9849 7° | MINERS! RALLY T0 THE DEFENSE'@F FRAMED-UP ZEIGLER COALDIGGERS! l. L. D. Rress Service. ZEIGLER, ill., Nov. 29.—The members,of therZeigler Local, 992, of the United Mime Workers of Am- erica who are under indictment and bond upon oneoor more of the four charges in the:trial which opens at Benton Monday, mre as follows: Henry Corbishley, Frank, Cor- bishley, Bert Fasething, Oscar Farth- ing, Pete Blazinj» Steve Meanovich, Matt Crnoeviecn,ita Wise, Ed Mal- eski, John Lakey Frank Skibinski, Stanley Pauraz,,.. William Bartash, Ignatz Simich; Martin Simich, R B. Slivonson, Martian -Soyat, Walter Bielsky and Mike Karadich. The prosecution itself moved in the preliminary hearings that ten of the defendants originally named be discharged. One of tne defendants, Frank Cor- bishley, brother of the deposed pres- ident of the local, is being held un- der all four charges: Assault with intent to murder; conspiracy to murder; murder in the first degree in the case of Mike Sarovich; and intent to murder in the cose of Hez- za Hindman. These charges against young Corbishiey are typi- cal of the entire: Zeigler frame-up: he was not even*present in the hall when the fighting or shooting took place. —— If you wanti to thoroughly un- deistand Communism—-study it. a _ GITLOW PROTEST MEETING ROUSES NEW YORK LABOR Demand lainaiiiiea Re- lease of Fellow Worker (Special to The UOaily Worker) NEW YORK, Nov. 29-——That the masses in New York are awake to the great wrongs imposed upon the active leaders in the movement for working class freedom was shown j a most effective manner at the Gitl@w protest meeting that filled Webs Hall on Tuesday evening. The me@t- ing was arranged by the Internation Labor Defense for the purpose of de- monstrating the outraged feelings caused by the imprisonment of Ben Gitlow, now serving a sentence of five to ten years in Sing Sing. P. Pascall Cosgrove, organizer of the Shoe Workers’ Protectiye Union, acted as chairman and showed in his opening address how the master class is tightening its lines all over the world imprisoning workers who have been prominent in the work of organ- izing or in leading the masses toward bettering their conditions. Jail Workers, Robert Dunn, of International Labor Defense was the first speaker. “Any- body in this country who is affiliated with ideas and expresses them is liable to be taken up tite river an: find himself an inmate ofa’ first clas: American prison. Thq.trouble with (Continued on page 4) + .. This is recognized as a blow at* first Garibaldi who bears an il- (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Nov. 29—Mussolini and his cut-throat fascists are held in such widespread contempt here that more and more stringent laws are passed every session of the chamber in_order to defend the tyrant from the ope n denunciation of all sections of the population. Yesterday a portion of the new fascist legislat- ive program was adopted and the until chamber of deputies adjourned ednésday when the remainder of the program will be adopted. Of the ten articles already adopted one of them In- creases the dictatorship of Mussolini and attempts to protect him from political attacks by providing a penalty of fifteen years’ imprisonment for anyone who “insults” the premier or tries to |injure his reputation in any manner. Another part of the laws adopted reaches beyond the con- ‘fines of Italy and strikes at those property owners who have been driven from the country for anti-fascist activity. This part of the new laws decrees that any person outside Italy critizing the fascist regime will have his property within Italy confiscated. the Garibaldi’s who have not re- nounced the traditions of the lustrous name among certain classes in Italy. Cannot Describe Tyrant. Communists here point out that laws against Iting Mussolini are ludicrous beéatise the series of bestial acts of Mussolini are of such a char- acter that it is not possible to calumn- iate him. Hé‘hias committed all crimes known to maiikind and new words will have to be iffvented to describe some of his despicable acts against the people of Ttaly. It is not possible to describe him, t0 say nothing of revil- ing him, — He has © ment to sit (Ce ged to pervert parlia- a degree that he can- dived on page 2) REFUSE'TO DINE AT UNION ROUS! Chamber. of | Commerce to Be Host By A Worker Correspondent Spokane, Wash.—Despite all efforts of the local Cooks and Waiters Union to get visiting officials of the Interna- tional Typrographical Union to dine at a union house, these labor-fakers will banquet at a soab hotel as guests of the local chamber of commerce. One union restaurant even offered to close its doors to the public for the time being, just to make it especially pleasant for these so-called “union” ‘leaders, so that they could do their feasting for once in their lives, at least, in a fair restaurant. But the chamber of commerce and scab joints are more to the saree of this iat crew. J. Ford White, siestdent, and Aiba Leslie, secretary, of the local I. T. U., are in charge of-the éntertainment of the officials, who ate James M. Lynch, I. T. U, president; J.-W. Hays, secre- tary-treasurer; aiid “Seth R. Brown, vice-president. hee “It promises to be'a red letter day in the history of Lotal 193,” comments : local scab sheet, fn referring to the chamber of commerce banquet for the g ARBITRATION IS PINCHOT’S NEW BETRAYAL Miners’ HeadsC onsider Proposal Today (Special to The Daily Worker) HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 29.—Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania is again try- ing to betray the anthracite miners into arbitration as he did in 1923. mitine of the " peinete inion. wis are to consider it Monday, Pinchot makes the first move for betrayal, the first proposal always made by. an enemy of any strikers—‘“go back to work at existing conditions, and accept the award of arbitration .when it is made later.” Grants no Concessions. Pinchot proposes ‘no: concession to the union and his proposals may well have been written by the mine own- ers. Not only no..concessions are given, but he asks the miners to bind themselves to at least a five-year con- tract in a time when the cost of living is steadily rising. Pinchot’s main bid for the support of his anti-union scheme is his pro- posal that under all circumstances there be no increase in price. He plays up artfully the alleged interests of the “consumers.” But the governor offers very Httle indeed—nothing in fact—to the union. He creates a “board of arbitration” of two from each side, these four to choose three more “impartial” mem- bers, all seven to decide “whether the operators can pay increase in wages without an advance in the price of coal.” The award to be made in six months, retroactive to the resumption of work, Wants Open Shops. Pinchot’s proposal gives no comfort to those who thought that he would agree to sponsor the union check-off of dues and thus get, formally, at least, a closed shop. He says: “Full recognition of the union. the echeck-off, shall not be granted by the operators, but any operator. shall honor the voluntary individual writ- ten request of any member to assign P aein te officials, to be held in the argest scab hotel in the city. the amount of his present union dues. (Continued on paxze 2) VOICE OF FRENCH YOUNG WORKERS AND PEASANTS:IS HEARD AT THE NATIONAL GRESS OF FRENCH TOILING YOUTH FRANCE, Youth of France was held by the va ing the following flaming messages: “In France—the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie: long hours, miserable wages, the worst hygenic conditions the Moroccan and the Syrian wars., oppression and brutality of the boases, no vacations, eighteen months in the barracks! “In Soviet- Russia——-the dictatorship (By Mail)—-The walls of the Paris, where the First National Congress of the the Young Communist League of France, great hall at Grange-aux-Belles, Proletarian and Peasant nguard of the French toiling youth- were covered with banners carry- ~ —\ Azerbaiian Miners Will Build Rest Home (Special to The ,.Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. The Ss. S. R., Noy. 29 Miners’ Unioniin Azerbaijan this of the proletariat: for the youth a vorking day of from two to six hours, he best sanitary measures in the ‘actories, sport and play-grounds | ‘plenty, universities for workers, | workers’ faculties, technical ~educa- » (Continued on page 6) year disiributes the fund to raise the standard of living of the workers as follows: 300,000 rubles to build san- toria and rest. homes, 100,000 rubles J, build hydropathic institutes, 30.000 rubles for co-operatives and 816,000 # rublés to build private dwellings, | | t § wt 4) * is --* <~ ne —