Daily Worker
December 31, 1925
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3 * eee ger, out that by bribing zuch and British cap- d access to the Soviet frontiers. He further points ae tho they desire greatly to mar R against the Soviet Union, ay dare, not do 80, because of the nary upheavals in their col- i ory semi-colonial possessions es growing militancy of the worker in their own lands. His re- betore one of the Moscow dis- in which he deals with the ot the Locarno ‘peace pact mern: 85 rde past yoar has been as regards policy a year of fairly and contradictory events. é one hand the year has been full ympts on the part of the capi- it countries to come to an under- eee FOL When the Italian Hall, 643 North Ola street, opens up on Thursday night, many well-known militant trades unionists will be seen enter ing the hail. ~ There will be earned tide mili- ‘tants, who bearded Mérris Sigman of the International Ladies“ Gar- ment Workers, then there Will be A ‘Amalgamated members, who have ‘ given Sam Levin many a sleepless night, and then will come many other workers from various trades all determined to see that the New Year is met in a militant manner. They will all come determined to ‘aid the left-wing papers carry on a real fight in the new year. Every worker should come to the Fourth Annual Trade Union Educational ‘League Ball! it will start on New Years’ Eve and end up at 2 in the 2 “morning New Years Day. pons of capitalism from the outside— : cated prone ag that 2 Pre 8 Ve. —.—.—.—.— rr 5 hs 7 8 la * 7 3. 1879. * Ab» 7 oon 7 1 a oo + a Deg 7 > » 5 », ' © Set oe 1 PUBLI Published i er- n N W. . — DAILY Blvd., C 8 * „ a oY 13 n Peasant Fi _ of | French BERLIN, Dec. 29.—Some days ago a peasant in Kamberg in Thuringia found a little | ‘French department The contents of the letter were as follows: “Best greetings from the Strass bourg prison to all comrades who haye the luck of looking at the pris- the political prisoners Georges Eberhart, Emilie Schott, accused for incitement of members of the army to | disobedience.” The comrades whose greetings made such a long journey thru the air, hape since been sente: by the Frencf military justice to several months of imprisonment. . Uncertain Fone (epectat to The The Dally. Vorwer) | NEW YORK CITY, bee. 29.—The | conference between the ‘anthracite. operators and the ‘Qfficials ‘of * * ; 1 , 0 * 7 1925 — N Ww 5 “ 17 1 5 hoi a ae . — « bh be - 4 1 1 * TELLING IT TO COOLIDGE ,. 7% 5 Inis part in the Teapot Dome ofl steal!“ investigation and his exposure of At“ torney General Daugherty and his brother, Banker Mal Daugherty and a number of cabinet officials for th roles in stealing the naval oil pos: " ‘Sessions. After getting an indict-, ment against Wheeler in Montana the department of justice secured af second bill against him here. Then special attorneys were hired to Will Not Appeal. In ne Montana, Wheeler was acdulttedG. prosecute the’ case in Washington. 1 It is not belleveg yes bec depart: * 1 ie move and settlement depetidea on the uinon representatives. Passes 2 . Whether the ke is settled de- pends on the attitude 9 n L. Lewis,” said Inglis, seeking of course to lay the burden for continuance of the strike upon the union: “ at his atttitude is right now, nobody knows for a certainty. At any rate he is the key to the situation.” Inglis said he was “not optimistic nor pessimistic.” Everything in the conjectural stage as it is, the leading guesses as to the outcome ean be given as follows: The possibility that the miners may return to work within two weeks at their old wages. The possibility that the operators will agree to a joint board to in- vestigate their ability to raise wages. This may well turn into a possibility also of lowering wages, and represents a step forward more definite class collaboration than has yet been practiced. The possibility that argument over the check-off may result in a refer- (Continued on page 4) PACKING-HOUSE YOU ANS THE DAILY WORKER AS YET? WORKER! HAVE THE QUESTIONS : \ \ The possi * Asay, January 4 n 1 story. \ . mouthpiece. Ac KING house worker, have you answered that list of questions that appeared in a previous issue of The DAILY WORKER on the con- ~ ‘gitions of the packing plant you work in? Have you mailed it in as yet? AILY WORKER wants you to answer every question that you Wy can and to write in a story of the conditions that you must work under to be used in the special packing-house drive that starte Mon- Are your wages enough to live on? Can you make both ends meet? What are your living conditions? Not only does The DAILY WORKER want letters from the packing house workers themselves, but also et- ters from the wives of the packing house workers. Let THEM tell THEIR The DAILY WORKER fights for the workers at all times. it is their You can and should help it. range for a bundle to be distributed at your factory. will aid greatly in bringing about a better understanding among those hom you Work With and make it easier to win your demands for shorter hours, better pay and better living conditions.’ Get on the job! Send in a story; and then ar- In this way you : 8 as the a 0 a 1 * a wis’ first} 1 155 3 8 „ — ag: lose Wheeler grew out of his relation to Campbell as an attorney. After his election to the senate, Wheeler agreed to handle some Montana oil litigation for Campbell. None of this work, however, took him before fed- eral departments, Wheeler insisted. The government maintained that Wheeler had represented Campbell at the interior, on this charge, Wheeler was acquitted. To Get More Oi Land. In the second indictment, the goy- ernment charged that Wheeler, thru his friendship and influence with Booth, was to get for Campbell more than the legal number of prospecting permits. Money to be derived from the land thus secured was to be split three ways, between Campbell, Wheeler and Booth. To get the land, the government contended that Camp- bell, with Wheeler’s knowledge, sent in “dummy” applications to the in- terior. Because the permits and land in question were the same in both bills, Wheeler submitted a plea of former acquittal as chief basis for. throwing out the second indictment. He in- sisted that the alleged overt acts in (Continued on page 4.) British Imperialism to Export Propaganda by New Radio Station LONDON, Dec. 29.—On New Year's Eve the foreign office will begin the transmission daily of broadcasted Morse code news bulletins, concern- ing British affairs. The bulletins will be transmitted from the powerful new station at Hilmorton, which is said to be capable of communicating with all parts of the world. Everett Plumbers Win Five-Day Week (Special to The Daily Worker) EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 29.—The 5- day week is now in force in Everett in the steamfitting and plumbing trades where union conditions are en- forced. The shortened work week for Local No. 265, United Association of Plumbers & Steamfitters, comes five years after the Seattle unions ute the} ‘3 had won it. PP ge Ls Rh — ey WANT THAT? 1 WIL TELL YOu WHAT OT ee | Hon! Way DO you | WAY TO TURN. Organization Drive on in Dakotas (Special te The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, North Dakota, Dec. 28. —The newly organized farmer-labor party of North Dakota ig now carry- ing on an active organization drive to convince the farmers and workers of the mecessity of a party that will fight for their class interests. The program adopted by the con- ference at which over 100 delegates from farmers’ co-operatives, economic and political organizations and work- ers’ organizationsswere present which calls for the né#tionalization of the mines, abolition ot the use of injunc- tions, repeal of: Esch-Cummins law, nationalization of. water power of the nation, revision wf Versailles treaty, for a foreign policy based upon the unity of nations instead of war, opposing military ‘conscription and de- nouncing the policy of imperialism pursued by the movernment as dan- gerous to the best interests of the na- tion are being made the rallying points for the new party. The committedselected by the con- ference to call asnorthwest confer- ence in Bismarcksor some other point in the northwest for the month of March, 1926, is working hard to bring about this conference at which the farmer-labor candidates in the con- gressionel electionmwill be chosen. Want Nationals Defense Day. The Spanish War Veterans’ nation- al head, in order to show his loyalty to the master class, calls upon con- gress to set aside April 19—the an- niversary. of the battles of Lexington and Concord—as national defense day. He also urges congress to let the veterans’ Organizations turn out“ the civilian mobilization. sta TS A 7 TO STAMPEDE ANTHRACITE STRIKERS TO WORK AND ACCEPT ARBITRATION PLAN By PAT PHILADELPHIA, Pa., and Major Inglis giving their views on miners and operators to settle the strike by “impartial arbitration,” has created a furore in the anthracite field. The letter of these salvation salesmen reads as tho Ivy Lee or Major It is Word for word the position. of the operators. Inglis was its author. (Continued Dec. 29.—The aetion of the sixteen non- English speaking priests who recenti addressed a communication to John L. Lewis TOOHEY, the present shutdown and advising the on Page 4) BRIAND HOLDS HIS CABINET WITH LOGARNO Passes Thru Crisis Over Doumer’s Plan PARIS, Dec. 29—Premier Briand won another political victory today. The premier met his cabinet and suc- cessfully surmounted difficulties with- in the ministry, the reported cleavage between the premier and the radical socialist members of the cabinet fail- ed to develop. J invoked the spirits of Locarno and everything went well,” said the premier as he left. the cabinet meet- ing. The cabinet gave approval to Fi- nance Minister Doumer's projects for balancing the 1920 budget and author- ized him to submit the projects to the chamber of deputies. M. Doumer plans to raise 1,000,000,- 000 francs by an increase in the price of tobacco, 600,000,000 francs by an export tax, 300,000,000 francs by re- pression of fiscal frauds and more ef- ficient collection of taxes, and 100, 000,000 by a one per cent tax on all bourse operations. - a + Ae + + + + + 5 + 4 AA DADA MAMA MAMA AMA MAA BD ASD A A A EP PS PPO Pree eer. OO Oe ST Sree Se pb ha a hb A» . 1 ili anni ar bh bbb bAbs,sAbsbAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS Ab » » » db De LD Le de bb bb i i i, » » » Dp dp dp be be die 7 PERSHING TO BE REMOVED FROM ARICA L Aroused Chileans WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 29— The alleged “alarming symptoms” of General Pershing’s health, have caused hig removal as head of the plebiscitiary commission in the dispute over the Tacna-Arica region between Chile and Peru, is possibly | due to-a diagnosis by political doc- tors who have determined that Persh- ling, whose teeth at reported bad, has bit off more than he could chew in handling South America like con- quered territory. South America Angry. The decision to remove Pershing comes at a moment when all South ests for the Dodge Motor Chemical National tion which |, To Have I 1 300,0 Dollar Res (Special to The The Dally rie NEW YORK, Bec. 29—The Read & company, whieh a months ago outbid the mh es * pany, Is now backing one gest mergers that has evel place in the country. Six gest banks in New York City be consolidated into one con over a bililon dollars. Proceeding at Rapid The consolidation which 4 ceeding at a rapid pace takes Mechanics and Metals — n Chase National, the Chathan Phoenix, the National Park, the ical National and the ntral. Trust company. The this consolidation will more than $1,300,000,000. Rumors are current * Street district that the Na and Trust company may the consolidation and add ma millions to the resources © 5 gantic banking trust. ’ o ‘Take Place in Year, It is expected that the entire cess of consolidation will take. within the next year. It is to first unite the banks =a after a period of re-aé ment fect greater consolidation “of 1 paired banks. 1 ae Pair Off — * tats The pairings are reported 0 follows: aim N ‘<a — als tional: ee sie with the Grane Union pany. . cgi ee When the Ria of 8 16 banks were interviewed ag to. pending. merger all tem ‘ any knowledge of the transac cept at the Mechanics an tional, where the president negotiations were Seana way Dillon, Read & pany prime movers in this 4 When the Dillon outbid the Morgan 1 the Dodge Motor $146,000,000 in cash a profit of $60 a rant gun to seep thru of Following the 8 ing merger the t these companies rose t Underwrite Man The Dillon, Read & 50 past year has been trial projects in J sent millions of dol develop the ele — f its industrial e 4 ad & retest PEt ah America seemed to be awakening with the Pershing and his staff. ‘ ie ‘= 4 resentment at the arbitrary manner aun used in the Tacna-Arica e eae So strong had the protest particularly in Chile peor by Chile, | that American era all . 4 were being e nation of the whole . the (Continued on . 0 2 — ö — — — i! il NEW, YORK 1 Two Halls To Bands De 1 t “arr . ar vvvV77—7V7VT7V"7"7"V"V""V0"V""0"rVVT TVS i a ie le i hh bn hn il i i hp bp be te be be bp bn bn be hb bb DADAAAAAAAAAO OS 2 r e * ‘ ew Year’s Eve Mask Ball “HARLEM CASINO, 116TH AND LENOX AVENUE Doors open at 8 o’clook—Open until dawn. and Ye oung thay . i i i i i i i i i i i n Worker, the Workers’ f Wo the whe a ik
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ä — — —E— ñ 4 — a —— — a ae ieee a ig * ’ 1 N MOTHER ss Birth to Child on Sidewalk 4 Ae (Special to The Daily Worker) | SBATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29.— Mrs. frank Benson, a half-breed Indian 5 seventeen, gave birth to a Dun on a sidewalk here in front of the Frye Packing company with over _ hundred men and women gathered round watching the pains that the . girl was forced to undergo. ‘est, .. Hospital Shuts Door on Girl, ayy SBarlier in the day Mrs. Benson ap- led to the county hospital telling nem that she expected her child to Be born at any moment, and asking m a bed. She was refused admis- dee by the 100 per cent Americans in charge of the county institution, “because there was no room for her. m newspaper reporters inves- i the matter, the matron de 7 they could have found room ‘for her—if they knew she was that > Rad off,” and tried to escape respon- by saying she did not re- that it was an “emergency | a street car and was on her to the city hospital to see if she Sound get a bed there. fet Gives Birth on Street. > The jolting of the street car in- | ereased her pains to such an extent ' + that she was forced to take her suit- due and walk. While walking, she 5 was seized with excruciating pains and sat down on her suitcase and a ‘passing worker put in a call for the ‘city hospital. As she sat there hun- _ @reds of packing house workers gath- ered around and watched her as she ed with the birth. due then left the county hospital, ae , ‘ed, she had given birth to her child. Many of those in the crowd, when tea of the fact that the county had refused her entry, de- that the county hospital ma- always played “dirty tricks” on we class women and especially on those whose skins were darker n theirs. | Union to Hear Opera, ‘Farm Laborer’ 8 — DOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29.— Andrei Khmara has just ben “the ‘Tibretto for an opera, “The Farm Laborer.” The subject of this opera is the October revolu-- tion in the countryside. The music Are you going to give? Make it a book on Communism! » « | ATTEND— The Daily N ta 1 ; | Worker : 5 : Anniversary 1 Coneert 3 January 10 Commencing 2 P. M. a ‘at the | YORKVILLE ms CASINO, . 86th St. and Third Ave. „ ag 1. Freiheit Singing Society Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Etc. yar TICKETS at the door 50c, in advance TWO for 500 e ee eee e ee . Pr ee r ‘ y 4 Pha CSP THOUSANDS OF JOBLESS | SEEK FOOD AND SHELTER IN NEW YORK MISSIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 29. — Three dead in New York and vicinity was the toll resulting from the cold wave due to the cold, were report- ed in other eastern cities. In New York City, thousands of homeless sought food and shelter in missions and lodging houses. NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS WILL FORM COUNCILS Intensive Organization Is Planned BISMARCK, N. D., Dec, 29.—Plans are being laid for an intensive or- ganization drive to form ‘local coun- cils of the Progressive Farmers in North Dakota. William Bouck at a gathering here showed the necessity of having these secret economic or- ganizations of the farmers and out- iined his successes in Montana, where he has made an extensive tour. Bouck met with an enthusiastic response in all parts of Montana. The organization urged by Bouck bars all parasites. In order to belong evidence must be produced that the applicant is an honest-to-goodness working farmer. John G. Saltis, well- konw in farmer-labor circles of North Dakota, will carry on extensive organization campaign in Montana and western North Dakota for the Western Progressive Farmers. Condemns F e But Fails to Condemn Its Ally, the U. S. Gov’t. WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— By au- thority of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, William Green, president, has issued to the American people and to trade untonists especially a warning against the. spread of Mussolini’s dictatorial power to the United States. In a printed circular, planned dur- ing the recent meeting of the coun- cil, Green recites the long story of the crushing out of Italian liberty and the enslavement of the working mass- es in that nation of 40,000,000 souls, by the ruthless brutality of the *black- shirts. 4 eke One point is omitted from the in- dictment as thus presented. .That is the fact that these organizations for persecution of Italians in the United States who wish to become Ameri- cams and open enemies of the tyrant are in high favor. with the state de- partment at Washington. Organiza- tions favorable te the aims of Rus- sian Communism, as the executives of the A. F. of L. have good cause to know, have long been denounced by the state department, which has used all of its powers to cripple them. Tele- grams from the state department have been used in more than one convention of the federation to de- feat resolutions asking recognition of the Soviet republic. Worried Spokesman of Middle Class Tells a Tale of Ruin and Woe WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— “Pros- perity at present,” said Rep. Dickin- son of Iowa, “seems to be confined largely to Florida sunshine, New York stocks and the automobile trade. “Out in the western section of the country I find the economic depres- sion very far-reaching. Men who three years ago thot themselves beyond the reach of economic depression now find the same knocking at their door. Men who a few years ago called others radicals because they propos- ed legislative relief are more pro- nounced in their criticism of farm in- equality than those they formerly criticised Let no one be deceived as to the far-reaching economic and po- tical effect of present conditions. “It is not the new or untried banker or farmer who is losing his all. In many cases it is the old, tried and dependable man, who has made a. go of his job for 40 years, who is now facing ruin. Many of them have seen life savings and homes taken from them.” Dickinson reminded the house that the farmer of Iowa has suffered a comparative loss in buying power of $1,000,000,000 in six years, and de- clared that unless some form of ex- port credit or price-stabilizing legis- lation were enacted the present eco- nomic blight upon agriculture would spread. Consequences both economic and political would be grave. How Will Poor Jesus Live, Reverend Pastor? WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Use of “raffles, roulette wheels and other gambling devices” by episcopal chur- ches was condemned by Bishop James E. Freeman. SWITZERLAND IS IN BAD FIX OVER VOROVSKY DEATH May Lose League of Nations Conference (Special to The Dally Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 29.— The refusal of the Russian Soviet government to take part in the league of nations’ disarmament conference and the league’s economic confer- ence, to which Soviet Russia has been invited, if these take place on Swiss soil has caused a serious pol- itical situation in Switzerland. Refuses to Go to Switzerland. Soviet Russia refuses to attend any conference in Switzerland as Vaslav Vorovsky, one of its envoys was as- sassinated, when he attended the Lausanne conference and that later when his assassin Maurice Conradi was brought to trial, the trial was made an anti-Soviet Russia propa- ganda affair and not a trial of a murderer. The economic situation is such in Switzerland that it depends upon the tourists that enter the country for its maintenance. With the development of the league of nations and the many conferences that are to be held it visualized one of the fattest years that it ever had. But now, Soviet Russia, has pricked their bubble. Need Russian Participation. The league of nations supreme cOmmittee admits that without the participation of the Soviet in many of the conferences that the league is planning, nothing definite can be decided and that all their work would be in vain. The league has appointed a committee to confer with the presi- dent of Switzerland over the Conradi trial, where the Soviet government was Viciously assailed, and over other matters and its is expected that the league committee will try to force action favorable to Russia from the Swiss president. Former Conference Transferred The conference on inland tonnage, t which the Soviet Union had been invited was transferred from Switzer- land to Paris in order ew have the Soviet Union’s representatives pres- ent. Republican Bosses in Big Whiskey Scandal; Gov. Lowden Involved ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.—(FP)—The conviction in federal court at Indian- apolis of leading republicans, who were found guilty of participation in the $2,000,000 Jack Daniel whisky steal at St. Louis, revives echoes of the Lowden slush fund scandal in the republican national convention of 1920. Fred Essens, political boss in St. Louis county, is yet to be tried. Es- sens was the only one openly to ad- mit that he shared in the Lowden money bags which were liberally filled to buy delegates for the former Illinois governor who is being talked of again as a farmer candidate for 1928. Nat Goldstein, one of the men convicted in the big booze case, is a republican politicians of national repute. He got $2,500 of Lowden money. ' The Lowden scandal gave Warren G. Harding the nomination. The late president seems to have felt grateful for every principal in the affair got a handsome job. Goldstein was appoint- ed collector of internal revenue, St. Louis district, but public protest made Goldstein send his resignation to Harding. Arnold J. Helmich, also found guilty in the whisky case, was appointed by Harding to succeed him. Others were also rewarded. Frozen Assets Caused Crash Says Clergyman; Auditors Nail Lie ELGIN, Dec. 29.—Walter C. Rippberger, whose “investments” wrecked the Charles Rippberger Co., of which he was the head, from his cell in the county jail at Geneva de- clared, “frozen assets in the shape of mortgages on property in the north- west caused the crash. Our Florida holdings, I think, will show a profit of $100,000. I have known for two years the company was involved and have tried in vain to save it. It was my head, not my heart, that wag at fault.” Auditors going into affairs of the concern did not agree with his state- ments. Around $500,000, they said, seems to have vanished into thin air. Receipts for that amount have been turned in by investors but neither the books nor the notes on which their payments were intended to apply show such payments. III., Composes Revolutionary Symphony. LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29. — The Russian composer Gnessin is now finishing a symphony with the Russian revolution for its theme, The composer has written a symphony NEW YORK, Dec. 29—On Christ- mas eve, tens of thousands of the city’s poor lined up In front of Lex- ington avenue armory and Madison Square Garden. Ragged, _ half- starved, thousands of children, crip- ples, aged and infirm, a steady pro- cession, marshalled and directed by hundreds of uniformed police, filed into the bulldings to receive baskets of food, a few cheap toys, a few cents worth of Lists published 600,000 poor fam million paupers, iow that about ts or over three eived a square meal. it was positively the most shocking exhibiti ever publicly given in any civi nation. The most pitiful Fart of it was that the hunger of thousands of these compelled the to open the baskets and sac Tromediately 80 that the sight of tens of thousands eating in doorwayt office entrances, on cars, in subw and along the street added to the heart-rending scene. ute LIBERALS NOW ASTONISHED BY THEIR COMPANY Arms Parley Seen as Door to League By LAURENCE TODD, (Federated Press Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.— In Sen. Borah’s agreement with President Coolidge and Secretary Kéllogg that the senate shall be asked to appro- priate funds to send an American delegation to Geneya to take part in, preliminary arrangements for a con- ference or conferences, for reduction of land and naval anmaments, may be seen the turning of the tide of politi- cal opposition in the United States to the league of nations. What Elihu Root and Colonel House and Charles. F. Hughes and is that Morgan & Co, want the Amer- ican government directly represented in every branch of ‘the activities and authority of the league of nations. This arms parley is u first step. The world court is a step, toward frank and full league. We They are d * league shall not create a United States of Europe, which would men- ce American commercial domination Europe. The British government's restriction of rubber output, which aas increased the ost of rubber to American consumers by $700,000,- 000 in excess British, profits in one year, has aroused éerican big busi- ness to the possibilities in a Eu- ropean customs agreement and pool- ing of raw material advantages as against the Amrican commercial em- pire. “American commercial defense, to be effective, must be entrenched in the league as well as in ordinary diplomacy. Ly That is why milHons of pacifists and church members and assorted idealists in this country, praying for American entry into the world court and the league, now are surprised to find themselves brushed aside from leadership of the court crusade while Wall Street takes command. That is why Root in his old age is brot to Washington, and the unctuous Hughes and the oily Col, House. appear. Geneva arms parleys break in” America to league association. Busi- ness is staking its future on its abil- ity, as the ruling element in every modern state outside the Soviet Union, to use the league to protect private property against social discon- tent. 0 Homeless Workers of Mission Demand Less Jesus and More Sleep NEW YORK, Deo, 29.—"Unfair Mis- sion” cried placa borne by pick- ets in front of the Hadley Rescue Mission, No. 293 Bowery. The pick- ets, organized by Urban Ledoux, Mr. Zero” demand an &-hour night, with privilege for mission lodgers of sleep- ing til 6 a. m. They are now turned out at 5 and since guests are ex- pected to attend the mission services till 9:30 p. m., and gan hardly get to sleep before 10 p. m, they have been getting only 7 hours sleep. Counterfeiter Has New Way to Make Money ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 29.—Fol- lowing a raid on his home which, ac- cording to authorities netted a com- plete counterfeiting paraphernalia, in- cluding spurious currency, camer and plates, Frank Wiegan, was ar) rested. Wiegan had boasted that he could ) manufacture $26,000 in bills within three minutes and that the counter- conseofated to the death of Lenin. | banker. J ~ i fieits would defy detection even by a sae it ee eee ae N . re 55 7 an aon? 7 2s t e _ * 1 N ö 3 . Nn Te Ae ‘ * 7 if By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. : orri Kellogg and Coolidge see very clearly | ODAY, the politicians are worried about the “ farmers.” This includes not only the spokesmen of the Coolidge republican administration, but well, Both begin to wriggle more than ever under the thumb land workers. They of increasing mass discontent among the realize that there is much 8 farmer- labor movement sweeping fr tana and Washington, homa and Texas. The farmers are bent class attack on both the Wall Street parties that have made them so many empty promises offering futile remedies. Some of the western states, now the centers of the greatest discontent, were ardent supporters of . last year. In little more than 12 months the balance are on the warpath against Coo- the polls has turned. The farmers lidge. That the republican administration fully aware of this turnover was shown ade by President Coolidge to Chicago to address the Amer- ic 4 Before this gathering of politicians, ican Farm Bureau. bankers, rich farmers and little business the working farm population, Coolid political sympathy for the in the new wave om North Dakota, Mon- down thru the middle west into Okla- farmers further to the west. His only remedy, however, was the coéoperative marketing of farm products. This didn't please the farmers who are more e ka the democrats as of the on an independent at at Washington is in the hurried trip men, Who feed off gushed rivers of concerned about the prices received for their products. Even the reactiona strata represented by the Farm Bureau yelled its disapproval of the remedies offered by the New England farmer, Coolidge, who once had his picture taken pitching hay. He appeared with a stand-up, stiff linen collar that made him look as if he didn't often get — close to the soil. When the picture was published in the kept press, for politi- cal purposes, it had farmers. It was to them a good comic. uite the wrong effect among real dirt The farmers have taken the starch out of Coolidge’s pretensions before the Farm Bureau. Other advances are now in process of initiation. The 1926 elections are coming on and the republican grip on some western states is openly menaced. It is announced that “Silent Cal“ is now ready to appoint a commission to dispose of the sufplus production of the farms. This is supposed to refer r to the corn delt centering in lowa. But again, it would*help little to dis- pose of the surplus if the price is below the cost of produc- tion. So far the president has set his fac of price fixing. 10 Heal One of the home market. e against all forms * assets of American capitalism is its t protects its manufactured goods for the enjoyment of this home market thru high tariffs, shutting out foreign competition. Similarly, one farm offered is hi would only circle. Higher tariffs on farm produ crease in the price of those same mounting cost of living for the protective tariffs for farm panacea now products. But this elp complete the one of a vicious ts, would mean an in- resulting in a workers. This States district court at Little Rock men, would force the city workers into greater struggles to main- tain their living standards. Every inch gained, however, would be seized upon b the private owners of industry to increase the cost of industry’s products, that the farmer must buy, thus in turn raising * „ his cost of living. The drive toward the movement for independent political action shows that increasing numbers of farmers realize the vicious grip in which the system. Western Progressive Farmers: are held under the present social In the words of William Bouck, president of the “WE KNOW THAT THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE FARMERS UNDER THE PRESENT CAPITALIST SOCIAL SYSTEM.” The politicians at Washington are worried. They have great need to be worried. Carpenters’ Union | Joins Woodworkers’ | Section of I. F. T. U. INDIANAPOLIS, — (FP) — Dec. 29 — Frank Duffy, general secretary United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, announces the affiliation of his union with the International Union of Woodworkers effective January 1. 1926. The woodworkers are a consti- tuent section of the International Fed- eration of Trade Unions, the Amster- dam organization with which the Am- erican Federation of Labor was at one time affiliated. The wooeworkers 1924 membership was reported at 711,287. The Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union bring 317,000 additional members. Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Brit- ain, Hungary, Italy, Luxemburg, Nor- way, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia are the other countries re- presented. Boston and Maine R. R. Fires Men As a Gift for Happy New Year”’|! BOSTON, Dec. 29—Hundreds of Boston & Maine railroad employes in all departments are being dischatged as a New Year’s gift from this Sub- sidiary of the New York, New Haven & Hartford ralroad. Locomotive fire- trainmen of passenger and freight divisions, clerical workers and express and mail workers are being hit. The president's office, however, is increasing its staff of assistants.’ | NEW-BORN BABE LEFT TO DIE ON HOSPITAL FLOOR, NURSE CHARGES TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 29. — Allega- tions that a baby born in ‘a local maternity hospital, which is now under investigation, was left to dle on the floor, were contained in an affidavit made by one of the nurses employed at the hospital, “The baby born with its mouth torn and bleeding, was left to cry its life away on the cold floor,” the affidavit said. A prominent local surgeon and two women are under arrest. Capmakers Make Boss Pay Unemployed Wages Unemployed members of Local 5, Cloth Hat Cap & Millinery Workers’ International Union, are getting their first insurance checks from the union during the Christmas holidays. All the money for this fund comes out of the employers’ pockets and amounts to 3% of the payroll. The plan differs in this respect from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers arrangement under which employers and workers each pay 1%% into the fund. The cap- makers also have full control of the fund while the Amalgamated shares it with the bosses. Rail Telegraphers Join Union. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.—The Order of Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 622 new members during November 1925. from striking against building con. “Now, we, the undersigned, differ in this matter and are and anxious to have the Canton decide who is right is wrong. For thie reason we the liberty of challenging you open debate on the issues involved. You may select anyone you desire to represent your point of view, we reserve the same right for our- selves. Time, place and date to arranged upon. f “The only condition we make 18, r TSE SP (J. L. b. Press Service.) — RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., Dec. 99 Will Bramiet, Clifton McCracken and John Wells were charged in in January. ä The coal output from the co mines since the trouble the union has been reduced to 25 per cent and in addition it has company $10,000 to pay state ing the past six months. Philadelphia I. L. DP). Ball Friday, Jan. 15 PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 29—The Phi- ladelphia labor movement is being ia- vited to attend the First Annual La- bor Defense Ball arranged by the In- ternational Labor Defense for Friday evening Jan. 15, at the Moose Hall, Broad and Master Sts. vgn. Special meetings of the Mternation- al Labor Defense confereace are be- | ing every Monday evening at 521 : York Ave. 5 er a All friends and supporters of the class war prisoners are invited to tend this ball as one of the of securing the release and me 25 y the defense of the many class war prisoners now serving time facing capitalist courts of this 1 try. ing e Ainved at Building Trades for Ban on Scab Material NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—An injunc- tion in defense of the open shop has been served on the Building Trades Council of Westchester county and affiliated local unions by supreme court Justice Frank L. Young at the behest of the Wilson-Adams Co. of Mount Vernon and 28 other non-union building materials concerns. The in- junction seeks to stop the unions tractors who buy scab building ma- terials from these companies. Box Factory Destroyed. INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29. — No- thing but smouldering embers remain. ed today of the Commercial] Box @o plant here following a fire that des troyed the structure last night, caus ing an estimated loss of $58,000, . * 2 Wer 7 * rae a * ö e . . On Sale at bay Worker N. V. Agency, N . 5 il 3 108 East 14th Street, a ye N New Vork City. he 5 1 5 if . 5 , Re, ch Ry 125 7 ieee Aa 4 1 e . N . — 7 Rene 0 e “State 1 2 n n 3 fel N l N 5 ih . 8 3 4 5 i . 8 Irrer a * — r * er — —̃ͤ̃ ae a * rr — 7 be er = eu) St RF gy ot YEAR'S EVE IN CHIGAGO FOR THE f i. E l BALE AT ITALIAN HALL, 643 M CLARK ST. Admissio n 75 Cents, Including Dancing Until 2 A. M. Refreshinents. Served. — 1 A Wardre 1 1 14 Pe oe Sdn 1 4 4
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. Bes ws 2 64.100. ae ofl „ Simllarly, the Metal Workers’ Union b ee from 110,627 in 1917 to 618,800 in 1926, and the miners, which ith Serve as an index to the rehabilitation vot e a during these Cultural Activity, Besides their ordinary activity, the Russian unions are carrying on & great cultural work. Workers’ clubs, Mbraries, schools for the illiterate and sSemi-Illiterate, physical culture leagues Etthese are some of the forms of the unions’ cultural activity. In Septem- ‘ber, 1925, there were in the Soviet Republic 3,417 trade union clubs, 6,803 trade union libraries, and 4,220 trade union schools for the illiterate. The membership of — clubs is over 900,000. It is aden to note that women dong titute nearly 50 per cent of the membership; and even in such cul- Turally backward districts as Trans- Caucasia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbeki- stan fleir membhrehty ranges from 17 per oént to over 26 per cent. The union clubs ure not only places of rest and fecreation. They are also educational centers. They conduct Hterary, mustcat, political, scientific and technical eiretes. Besides these ctroles, the clubs arrange dramatic performances, and concerts, ou ut. The record gattendance at ‘club performances | for one month is 1,495,500 people. The unions also obtain theater tickets tor their members at greatly reduced ane nne. and sometimes entirely free. Representatives on School Boards. * The Russian trade tinions contribute toward the maimtenianee of special technical schoo” They have their * yepresentatives on the school boards, and thus take an attive part in direct- ‘ {aig the work? There were 1,223 such sctiools in the’ ‘Month of September, 1928. ö ‘LONDON, Dec. 29. — In a report jsgued by the registrar-general a fur- ther decrease in the birth rate is shown. 4 The number of births, 181,943, were the lowest ever recorded in any third quarter except during the war per- tod, The figure is 5,031 lower than the preceding quarter, and 4,705 lower than the corresponding quarter of 1924. * The rate of infant placed at 62 per 1,000. , Ninety-five thousand one hundred and twenty-seven deaths were report- ed during the quarter under review, F which is 18,140 fewer than in the pre- (U8 ceding quarters but 4,972 more than in the same quarter of 1924. bar The increase of: population in Eng- land and - Wales for the quarter (ex: ess of births over deaths) was 86,- 3816, as against 104,791, 98,812, and „96,493 im the third quarters of 1922, 28 hata and 1924 . mortality is ~~ -_ — „ Tei 8 eee ee Meets in Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 29— More than 2,000 scientists were here for a weék’s convention of the American association for the advancement of science. “Virtualy every branch of 0 N Science will be represented at the ™ “dally meetings which will be open to the public. ‘ DEBAT SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, Workers (Communist) Party = Everybody mone: ue. neee 2 5 IN MILWAUKEE! 7 at Freie Gemeinde Hall, Cor. 8th and Walnut Streets. i SUBJECT: “Resolved that the principles and tactics of the the victory of the. working class.” POSITIVE: Wm. F. Dunne, for the NEGATIVE: R. Koeppel, for the Socialist Labor Party Auspices, Joint ‘Committee. WGP ae A Big Fig, ‘on ; rr x 4 An OF ‘Sw or Sen cans | KANSAS city, 2 Mo., Dec. mars James J. Ragan, a switehman, was ‘sentenced to five years In the pen- tentiary . for robbing Claude Tucker of 70 cents. (Special to The Dally Worker) - SCRANTON, Dec. 29—News writers, unorganized nearly everywhere else, have a live local union in Scranton with a 9 100 per cent mem- dership. president for the coming year 1 de Martin * city hall reporter for the Scranton Repub- Uoan, succeeding E. J. “Alfalfa” Ger- rity with the gavel. The Scranton newswriters are affill- ated with the International Typograph- ical Union and the Central Labor Union. They have a job control agreement with the publishers that keeps wages well’ above the level in unorganized Pennsylvania editorial rooms. The agreement negotiated a year ago jacked up the pay level two to six dollars a week. Reporters with five years’ experi- ence get $52 a week; day copy readers get $54 and night copy desk men $58. Cub reporters, corresponding to ap- prentices, get much smaller rates The agreement provides for some limitation on hours, afternoon news- papermen working from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. With an hour off for lunch. ‘The tollowhig letter ter is. printed as a contribution to of The DAILY ceived enclosed orous column It was re- ha clipping from our issue of Dec. 15, ch told of an injunction applieatién® by the Belle Maid Dress company of New York against striking garment workers. The letter, which may be described as from a mn reads as follows: “Gents: Inclo bleaae find an ar ‘ticle from The ren reference to the ates are several other ane this e ity and there are threé or four detec- tives from police ebener. sta- tioned at each place. There is posi- tively no trouble at any of these places whatever. “Some time ago.I had some labor trouble in my factory, and I asked for protection, and as I did not have one of the honorary badges from police headquarters I received no recogni- tion. I see in today’s paper that Po- lice Commissioner Enrizht has order- ed the return of all» the honorary badges. Why are these officers not doing regular police duty which they are paid for? In order to secure one of those honorary badges for protec- tion you are coerced into taking some insurance, “From a manufacturer in the gar- ment center district.” More Funds Are ] Needed to Aid Zeigler Miners The Chicago local of the Interna- tional Labor Defense has turned over $1,000 to the national office in ful- fillment of its pledge to raise that sum for the defense of the Zeigler miners. The International Labor Defense sent out an emergency call to all its connections asking for $5,000 by De- cember 15. A generous response has been made but is yet far below the required quota. The trial of the Zeigler progressive miners, originally set for November 30, is now scheduled for February 2. All sections of the International Labor Defense are urged to immedi- ately rush in funds for the Zeigler defense. Unless funds are available adequate legal defense is impossible. The Farrington machine has promised to use unlimited cash in sending the progressives to jail. 1 YW Your neighbor will appreciate the favor—give him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. HEAR! Between Workers (Communist) Party = and Socialist-Labor Party 1926, AT 2:30 P. N. offer the correct solution for : Workers (Gorataunist) Party (Member of si for the . “Walls Were grip Wails Owner By ROSE PASTOR STOKES, Executive Committee, United Council Working Class Housewives.) NEW YORK, Dec. 29— When the jtenement fire on East 14th street snuffed out five workers’ lives, the ‘United Council of Working Class Housewives sent a committee to in- vestigate. Comrades Kate Gtilow and Rose Pastor Stokes went to the scene of the fire. They searched in vain for some one who would tell them what they wanted to know. At last they found one—a man—and he hap- pened to be . But that’s the story. *- „* First we went into a store to the right of the brick smoke-covered wall. The little Italian shop-keeper knew nothing. He shrugged his shoulders and sent us to the store on the left of the blackened brick wall. As we en- tered the wretched little grocery, a dapper young man stood before the counter. The woman behind the counter was waiting on another cus- tomer, so we asked the young man if he knew anything about the house next door. “Sure!” he said, “I know.” “How old do you think it was?” “Why, couldn’t have ben more than 35 years old.” “Is that all? They say the halls are dark, the stairways rotten—so rotten that when the fire started, it sucked up the stairs so quickly there was no possible escape for the tenants on the top floor.” “Some drunkard in the house start- ed it, was his irrelevant reply. “But the house—don’t you think the city should have torn down a house like that and erected a safe one in its place?” 8 “Say, lady,“ he came back, “that house was a good house. It had strong] are brick walls. I should know it was a good house,” he said, a little cockily, “because my mother owned it.” Next door, stood the brick shell of what was a fire-trap tenement. The windows were black holes, opening in- to emptiness. To the profiteering landlady, the house is still a good house. No need to go to the expense ot puttying up the walls! They stand. Inside the walls, she can see a new tinder-box arising. A few laths, a lit- tle plaster, cheap labor, some window panes and brick red paint—and she can put up another ‘cheap shingle in place of the one stuck over the char- red dorway “Furnished Rooms for Rent.” What a well-dressed, well-fed young man! And how fortunate that the brick walls stand! For he may con- tinue to be a well-dressed, well-fed young man—so simply, so easily! (Praised be American democracy). No wonder the young man wears a lit- tle gold emblem with the stars and stripes on it in the lapel of his tailor made suit. He’s American? You bet! As we left the well-dressed, well-fed young man and the brick walls that didn’t go down with the lives of the five workers—the strong walls smiled a black smile and winked a black wink at every hole of a window. A clay Mary, mother of Christ stood high in a niche of the church across the street and answered the black smile with a “holy” smile. “Never mind!” she seemed to be saying to the strong brick wall and the landlady's son, Don't worry. I'll keep watch. III see that the workers don't revolt.“ Keep smiling!“ retorted the Com- mittee of the United Council of Work- ing Class Housewives. “Keep smiling! and we'll keep organizing! Soviet Union Plans to Spend Large Sums on New Industrial Plants MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29—~In the current fiscal year the following sums will be allocated by the entire industries of the Soviet Union for the construction of dwellings and new en- terprises: In the metal and electrical indus- tries, 180,000,00 rubles; for the refit- ting id rationalization of existing enterprises, 34,000,000 rubles: for building of new enterprises, 40,000,000 rubles for the contruction of workers’ dwelling houses in the mining indus- tries—14,000,000 rubles for refitting, | 2,000,000 for dwelling construction: in the precious metal industry 11,000,000 for refitting, 2,800,000 for construction of new enterprises, 7,000,000 rubles for building of homes; coal mining—125,- 000,000 rubles, 33,000,000 rubles, and 18,000,000 rubles in the timber and building material industry, 36,000,000 = |rubles, 47,000,000 rubles, and 2,000,000 rubles, in the chemical industry— 23,500,000, 18,000,000 and 2,500,000 rubles, in the textile industry-—100,- = | 000,000, 40,000,000 and 25,000,000, Together with the expenditure in certain smaller industries the total planned expenditures are: 589,100,000 rubles for \refitting, 288,500,000 rubles ding hew enterprises, and 11,400,000 rubles for dwelling con- ALIDRSSION 156 CENTS, NATIVES AS BRAWL 20.—Several ee were killed 28.—Several persone were killed By L HAESSLER, (Fe Press Editor) Blind me women should be glad to get 111 a week to live on and if they wont take that it's because they are, lazy and would rather beg than work. Besides, it is easy to get by on $11 & week for a while, and if you just t make it there is always „some tion—protestant, holic—that can be in- up a little more. 1 Hia Own Salary. This is | tude publicly assum- ed by 8 W. Fremer of the Im- ne sociation for Blind Peo- ple in discussing the plight of the blind in Chicago. When asked what he received for his own activity he became evasive but it is believed to be $75 a week. Fremer’s society runs the Ch “Lighthouse where blind persons to & limited number can find work and get a little training for in- dustrial occupations. Fremer starts them at $11 for a 44- hour week, he says, and tries to place them in factories as they acquire skill. At present there are 37 blind people working in the little sheetiron buildings on the far west side of the city. Tus annual average employed there appéirs to be under 20. There about 2,000 blind persons in Chi- cago. lolta the Sightless. . become interested in n Samuel G. Rowe, the Tegrams, told the Chicago 0 Labor that Fremer's or- g i induced the police to : that it took care of re- ming for the blind. Asa master at fact, Rowe charged, most of, the money solicited by the society, is used to further in the inter- ests of the “scientific sighted beggars” who use the blind as a pretext, paying them $11 a week and failing to give them a training. Rusitin . Stone Trust Increases Output MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., Dec. 29.— Before the revolution the production of precious stones in Russia was con- ducted on handicraft lines. Now this handicraft has become quite a branch of industry, a large trust—Russian Colored Stones has been formed. This new trust does not restrict its work to producing precious stones pays special attention to technical ar- ticles necessary for industry which formerly were imported from abroad. The production of marble required for the building trade, which since 1914, had been abandoned is now be- ing renewed. Agate and sapphire stones are prepared for use in con- nection with industrial products such as hydrometers and electric brushes. Stone cutting and grinding factories are also attathed to the trust. In various workshops belonging to this trust highly artistic stone cutting work is performed. The products of this trust are very popular At the universal ex- hibition at Paris they caused general admiration. 1!) This trust has tremendous import- ance for Soviet Russia as it owns ex- traordinary riches in valuable and colored stones. These include acqua- marines, beryls and topazes. The marble quarries in Soviet Russia are much richer than the famous quar- ries in Colombia and South America. Furthermore, 8 the production ot marble is mitch cheaper in Russia than in other countries. Municipal Engineers Demand Wage Increase NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.—Repres- entatives of municipal engineers asso- ciations of five cities in convention here, representing New York, Phila- delphia, Boston, Baltimore and Chi- cago, demand an increase of compen- sation of 30 per cent for the higher grades of engineers and 60 per cent for lower grades. The convention set the yearly salary of a chief engineer and consulting engineer in cities of over 500,000 population at $20,000. Three Men Freeze to Death in “Steel Town” PITTSBURGH, - Dee. 3 cold here took he lives of three men and is resulting u the worst privation in years eity’s unemployed workers. ; LY WORKER intended for decorative purposes. It ere GERMAN FEAR EXPOSE: 10 ARREST T LAWYER Prisoner Sought for Pub- lishing Book (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 29—The persecution of the German government is no longer confined to active trade union- ists and Communists, but is now used against anyone who dares to criticize the methods of the police in Germany and is readily shown in the following case of Carl Hau, a German lawyer who was sentenced in Karlsruhe in June, 1907 for the alleged murder of his mother-in-law on ‘circumstantial evidence: Sentenced to Death. Carl Hau was found guilty and sen- tenced to death. His death sentence was changed to one of hard labor for life. He continued to protest his inno- cence and his attempt to prove he was not guilty fighting for a retrial of the case. In August, 1924, he was released from prison after serving 17 years at hard labor under certain conditions, one of which were that he would not attack certain individuals who were responsible for his imprisonment on circumstantial evidence, and that he would not make any “sensational” statements on the conduct of his trial. These conditions are absolutely un- heard of when one considers that Hau is still fighting for a retrial of his case. In this fight, criticism of cer- tain persons is unavoidable, particu- larly as among these protected per- sons is his sister-in-law against whom strong suspicions have already been raised in connection with the murder. Writes Book on Prisons. Hau, who has passed thru the 17 years of hard labor, among them four frightful war and starvation years, with an astonishing strength of body and soul, issued after his release a book on his prison life, which draws a true and deeply impressing picture of the barbarism of German prisons. Police Revoke Release. On the basis of this book and the fact that Hau intended to play the leading role in a film which would deal with his case, the prosecutor de- clared the time of probation ended and issued a new warrant against Hau. Even the bourgeois press raises strong protest against this stitution which gives every citizen the right of free expression of his opinion in the frame of the general laws. Hau stated that he would not re- his retrial from abroad. Suppresses All Criticism. This new scandal of German justice shows that the German class justice all possible means. This situation makes it a completely secondary ques- tion whether Hau really committed the murder or not, but makes it a fun- damental question whether German class justice should be permitted to suppress with such methods every criticism. For what happens today to Hau can happen tomorrow to every other person and the proceedings against Hau can become a means to paralyze the political work of active officials of the labor movement for years. Aids Open Shop Coal Operators with Dual Union in Pa. Region PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 29.—Mike Halapy, a discredited ex-leader of the United Mine Workers is organizing a dual union in the mining district here which has been practically open shop and working when when they did work under the 1917 scale. A state- ment of this outfit, which calls itself the Federated Miners’ Association, clearly says that its members disavow all future allegiance to the real union, the United Mine Workers of America. Artificial Silk One of Thriving Products WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.— Despite the enormous increase in pro- duction of rayon, or artificial silk, the manufacturers have been unable to satisfy the demand for rayon and the industry is experiencing a period of rapid development in practically all of the important manufacturing coun- tries of the world, according to the textile division, department of com- merce. In the United States, the production and consumption of rayon continued their steady growth during the cur- rent year. The output of the Ameri- can plants for the first half of 1925 is reported as slightly over 24 mil- lion pounds and, as they have been working at capacity all year, their annual production is estimated by trade sources to be in the nedghbor- hood of 60,000,000 pounds. This fig- ure shows a remarkable increase over the output of recent years. In 1920 the American plants produced 3,000,000 pounds, almost 3 the output in the following year to 15, ‘00,000. The. year 1923 wed a fur- der increase to 24,000, ary to June, shameful act and proves that it is an open infringment of the German con- turn to prison but continue to fight for suppresses undesirable criticism with LONDON, Deo, 29-—Britain’s of- ficial circles are highty pleased over reports from Washington that Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Charies Evane Hughes may be the American delegates to the proposed league of nations disarmament con- ference. Why England should be pleased le not made clear. FRENCH RULERS JAIL ARABIAN LABOR LEADERS Importaticte Crush Workers’ Strike (Special to The Dally Worker) TUNIS, Algeria, Dec. 29— While democratic France is spreading civil- ization in Morocco and Syria by means of guns and tanks, it “rules” in its other colonies with the severe meth- ods of terror. In Tunis, where at present workers were punished for tradé union work with 45 years’ exile, a mining worker receives for one day’s work of ten hours, six—at the best seven francs— and the Arabians, who work at agri- culture, are still worse. Their wages are three to four francs, As a protest against these condi- tions, strikes have occurred and or- ganizations of the Arabian workers were formed. These did not affiliate with the revolutionary C. G. T. U. but with the reformist C. G. T. of France. Yet all the leaders of the new trade unions, the Frenchman, Finidori; the Arabian, Mohamed Ben Ali, general secretary; Mahud Ben-Mohamedel Kauri and two others were arrested, kept in prison for ten months and sen- tenced to a total of 45 years of exile. The only accusation against them was “that they had played a certain role in the Tunisian trade union move- ment.” These shameful class sen- tences have aroused the strongest pro- fast in the French working class. Zankov Terror Still Rules in Bulgaria 7 Moscow. Dec. 29—In a report on the situation in Bulgaria made to the executive committe) of the Interna- tional Red Aid it stated that altho martial law has been formally abol- shed the white terror is still raging. “The political mass trial are still being continued, men are still being eentenced to death. In the immediate fiiture, 73 processes against 1,242 ac- cused will take place. All assistance to political prison- ers is prohibited. Women and chil- @ren of those, who have fallen vic- ‘time of the Zankov terror, are with- out any support. The sending of children abroad to orphan homes is forbidden. The executive of the International Red Aid decided to strengthen its struggle against the terror in Bulga- ria and to appeal to the working mas- ses to continue the stubborn and energetic compaign under the follow- ing slogans: “Abolition of the death sentence!“ “Legalization of aid for the politic- al prisoners and their families, free- dom of collections, etc.” The executive decided to pay spe- cial attention to the Bulgarian chil- dren. Strikebreakers Fired When Shop Is Unionized Forty-five strikebreaking stereo- typers realized that “permanent posi- tions” offered by anti-union employ- ers don’t mean anything when Simp- son & Bevans Co. sold out to two trade unionists. The company had locked out the members of Local 3, International Stereotypers & Electro- typers’ Union in 1923 in defiance of an arbitration clause in the agree- ment and attempted to operate an open shop. After 65 weeks the firm sold its business to John Conway and Max Best, members of the union, who made it 100% organized as soon as they got control. Want Russian Art Exhibit. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29— The Academy of Artistic Sciences has an invitation to transfer to America the entire Soviet theatrical section of the decorative arts exhibition in Paris. The Americans undertake to bear all expenses for transport, insurance, etc. Invitations for the organization of Soviet art exhitions have also been received from Antwerp, Brussels and Stockholm. RHYMES OF EARLY JUNGLE FOLK. By Mary Marcy. A splendid book of inter- esting and educational poems for children with 71 striking wood cuts. $2.00 ports of Novorossisk and C 1 ůĩ ů ber and January, ant will be delivered to the agrk districts in time for the field work. Distributing stations have been ablished § venient centers thruout 5 Union, as well as where the peasants are f the use of the tractor come known fn rural na the past few years as a res extensive government camps Soviet Union, importation t on an approachable scale be in the latter part of the year Since then tractor imports have constantly increasing. vun 10,000 tractors now purchased number of American tractors into the Soviet Union by the A Trading corporation during t dar year 1925 will be brot up t 16,000. The present order, largest single order for placed, is the first of a | ders for tractors and other tural machinery which are pro by the Soviet import prea fiscal year 1925-26. In this connection it m ay pointed out that during the fiseal 5 1924-25, ended Sept. 30, 1925, ¢ turnover between the Unt and the Soviet Union punted — $103,000,000 of which $87,000,000 ® resented exports from t “3 ni States and $16,000,000 @ere mad of imports into the — The turnover of the ntor corporation was about — 2 Ar Pea ee 9 * a. 2 * — N 0 * 4 * > 7 4 ee * 8 8 * KISHENEV. Bessarabia—(By 3 —The French bourgeois lawyer 1 res, who in the beginning of the 3 inev trial took over the defense the peasants and was finally — | from the court, writes as ‘ lov 1 his report of his mission: 5 “The only document on which. 1 accusation was based, ie a yf paper signed by a certain’ which contains the reference to a an existing illegal organization 2 i the general revolutionary spirit 0 . ** population. Platow himself, ho we ps tae has been killed in the suppr 2 the revolt. The person to whor paper was addresse 4, Neuin, wi . killed. Finally the peasant, in y possession the paper was al found, ‘happened’ to be killed * attempting to escape.’ In this mann the prosecution supports — . 1 correspondence between two ghonts found in the possession of one t is dead.” es. « 8 ‘4 BY HENRY BARBU! A dramatic 8 of the subjugation and op of mankind from dawn of history t The whole panorama 8 universal history, with | as pawns in the hands oppressors and | thruout the ag folded inthis
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— eS —ñ—ñ 85 s Army in Best dition of All to The The Daily Worker) PEKI China, Dec. 29—Reports yy that the defeated general of hil, LI Ching-lin, has fled to Shan- mal, while 40,000 of his troops, retir- ie in fairly good order, have escaped : 0 o Shangtung province to the south where Feng Yu-hsiang has no inten- iva be section of his army is in pursuit. s troops are now withdrawing / Mentsin and consolidating in northwestward at Tangshang. | cold weather has added to the of all forces and limits opera- | until spring. The most outstanding political de- 3 is the intense danger aris- all over Chima toward Japan. is accused of saving Chang Tso- bn a deserved annihilation. Jap- to make out that the pro- against all foreigners and a 2 rena of “anti-christianism.” wh say that some of Kuo’s offi- ‘6 induced to desert and a d for the murder of Kuo ) by Chang from money i by Japan, as well as direct y. aid. " Pei-tu, according to wise ob- vers, is not so strong as he is sup- vl ‘be. And he is gaining little one, while the governors of the | provinces are all suspicious b * other and there is no unity in ego China either for or against ‘the national people's army, about 10,000 men altogether, but now with- i } ammunition, commanded by Feng w 1 — Peking and the Tientsin ‘Brery admirer of Tolstoi’s writing ‘will be interested to learn that his ‘at dus work Resurrection“ has been tt into an opera and will be given a 3 first time in America by the 1 poses Civic Opera company, on a : a "s pre with Mary Garden in opera has been with great enthusiasm and in all the countries where it se 7 = In Saturday night, the last present- tion of “Madame Butterfly“ is to made this year. The cast will em- te Mason, Pavloska, Hackett, Ri. nl and Mojica. Polacco will con- 3 Sunday afternoon (Jan. 3) will in- 7 N the second popular priced _ “suburban matinee” of the year with ‘a double bill. The classic of childhood | “Hansel and Gretel” will be sung by 3 Shear. Pavloska, Lenska, Claessens, ot 4 en ; conductor, St. Leger, after ro which an elaborate blalet La Fete 1 3 will be staged by Serge 8 a t ky and the Pavley-Oukrain- Ps ‘Sky ballet. The composer, Gabriel _ Groviez, will conduct. J Mounts Rapidly in Illinois _ SPRINGFIELD, De “eg 29. — In the report of Dr. I. D. Rawlings, | health director, scarlet fever first place with 279 cases. Last | there were 421 cases. Pneu- comes next with 214 and tu- ranks third with 125 cas- a number of dercular s died in the past week. Then — with 85. typhoid 0 smalipox 30, and influenza ~ | if . Daily Worker ‘BIRTHDAY PA R TY “given by the Jewish branches ot Chelsea, Revere, Lynn 1 TO GENEVA Swiss Smart | Under the Soviet Boycott (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, d. C., Dec. 29.— The U. 8. ambassador to England, Alanson 83. Houghton, and Hugh Gibson, minister to Switzerland, will be the U. S. delegation to the pre- liminary “disarmament” conference at Geneva. For the main conference it is expected to have Secretary Kellogg and Secretary Hoover, as well as Charles E. Hughes, ex-secretary of state. The United States is definitely try- ing to have the main conference con- fine itself to land armament, under the idea that any naval armament con- ference should logically be the con- tinuance of the Washington confer- ence and dught to be held separately from the land armament conference. Conditions. The U. S. will “insist” that it can take no part in questions reducing land armaments, and will not agree to economic sanctions or security pacts. There will be an “economic confer- ence” later, and government participa- tion asked after the program for the conference is prepared. Trying to Prevent Participation. The question is still open as to whether the league of nations was merely trying to prevent Soviet Rus- sia from taking part in the confer- ence by calling it at Geneva and send- ing Soviet Russia an invitation to come to Switzerland, which has been under an effective Soviet boycott since the incredibly barbarous manner that the Swiss used in the case of the Soviet ambassador, V. Vorovsky, when his assassin, a Russian white guard monarchist, was given the form of a trial. The occasion was made a white guard capitalist demonstration of ap- proval for the assassin, who was ac- | quitted, feted and made a heroic polit- ical figure, and in addition, the as- sassin was presented with the con- siderable bank account belonging to the Soviet government in the Swiss (banks as a sort of a reward for hav- ing murdered a prominent Bolshevik. Crushing Boycott. ernment refused to make amends for this offense, severed all relations and has caused millions of dollars loss to Switzerland's watch trade with Rus- sia, among other damages it has Wid upon the Swiss. Indications are that the pressure is getting so severe that the Soviet government will have to unbend and make amends, or that Russia, by refusing to participate, will force the whole league of nations to leave the m. General Pershing Is to Be Removed from Arica, So. Am. (Continued from page 1). and their complaints were taken up in other nations. Put on the Screws. Just how heavy the pressure was may be judged by the fact that so | many influential callers have visited the White House in the last few days demanding that something be being Md., Dec. 29 —The | done to placate Chille, that Coolidge Tuesday announced publicly that he “would exert every effort to smooth over the feeling aroused,” but would not propose the withdrawal of the United States as arbiter unless all means fail to end the boundary ques- tion, The long columns in the capitalist press concerning the precarious state of Pershing’s health can be dismissed. so far as it could concern his with- drawal. Elgin Packing Plant Is Razed by Fire ELGIN, III., Dec, 29.—Damage es- timated at $200,000 was done by fire of unknown origin, which razed six of Kerberville, one mile south of here. A water shortage, which necessitated the running of hose lines from the Fox river, prevented the arresting of the flames before heavy losses were inflicted. | WIGKS TOURS EAST: SPEAKS ON LOGARNO . PACT AND RUSSIA H. M. Wicks, editorial writer of The DAILY WORKER, who is now touring the east will speak in the following cities on the Locarno “peace” pact and its relation to So- viet Russia. These dates are in ad- dition to those already announced. PITTSBURGH, Pa. Saturday night, Jan. 2, 8 o'clock at the Labor Lyceum, 36 Miller St., 2nd floor. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sunday aft- ance Center Bidg., 1783 E. 1ith St. * & ! remainder. + Soviet Russia, after the Swiss gov | buildings of the Kerber Packing Co., ernoon, dam 3, at 2 o’clock at Insur- | ROR IAI Bao, ao OT ies N FFV 1 ; 25 ‘ An 3 ree N l * 1 1 * r MURPHYSSORO; fi A. Stevens, iron Louis was shot f. a picket line at ergy Extension job of the outhern | Wiinois Gas * of East St. Louis, police admitting that he shot Stev- ens, but claiming he “only did so” in enen ‘in BEIRUT, Dec. the Syrian rebel Lae today by French sok became internationally, kpown Pee weeks ago when he gest a detach- ment of soldiers with ins ions to capture the French governor general, M. De Jouvenal, dead onjalive. 32 Pct. of Sovie Budget for MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., ‘Dec. 29.— Official figures show that 32 per cent of this year’s budget is devoted to education. The government provides about 40 per cent of the,expenses for education. yo districts supply the The government's ed tional appropriation | is 114,000,000 roubles (57,000,000), which is twice as iarge as last year's eee Will “Investigate” Use of Private Cars WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. —Promis- cuous use of. private cars by persons. who are not connected with the ac- tual operation of railroads will be investigated by the interstate com- merce commission, it was announced. All class one and twosreiiroads, to- gether with switching and terminal railroads, have been made respond- ents to the proceeding.) «'. ares killed killed mmi 7175 Traction Heads Grabs Land Samuel Insull and interests associ- ated with him are purchasing a 150- foot right of way along the west bank of the Chicago sanitary’ district canal from Joliet to Stickneyefor a high power line, and which later may be used for a new interurban electric line over which Joliet: trains may be brought to the downtowar district. OS ; Mexican City Shivers. | : MEXICO CITY, Dee; Monterey. Mexico’s principal iron and steel cen- ter, is reported to be covered with snow and expecting Storm. Owing to the intense d the en- tire absence of the from the the Communist movement, the follow- and divisional labor parties in Lon- closed. streets, the 3 8 were Ne * K 4 > abel ‘ * * * * — * Carte SF — * -P iS 1 +4 SO AT iE eg 1 as N 55 N 199 ö pf 1 ers in England to persecute and 1 Communist leaders. Today, twelve leaders of the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- unist League, are sentenced to e from six months to one year for rene in * Communist or- ganizations. Despite the eus between the leaders of the labor party and reac- tionary capitalist powers to destroy] a ing list of labor party of the borough don refuse to expel the Communists: | DAILY Wonkin 4 Holburn, Putney, Kennington, St. the drive to double the — ot Pancras Trades Council and Labor] The DAILLT are being Party, Bethnal Green Trades Council and Labor Party, Stratford,. Kenning- ton North, Stoke Newington, West- minster, Baling, Finchley, Hanwell, Erith Deptford, and Woolwich. _. This list is growing larger and larg- er daily. A number of labor party branches have elected Communists as delegates to the London labor party conference, The London Trades Council elected three Communists to represent them at the conference. Members Want United Front. As fyet, the executive committee has not taken any action on those labor parties that have refused to follow out the Liverpool decision and ‘expel the Communists. It is doubt- ful whether the executive committee will dare to take action as the work- ers of England are realizirfg more and more the necessity of presenting a united front based on class issues to the master class. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Great Bri- tain pound sterling, demand 4.84 13-16; cable, 4.85 3-16 France, franc de- mand, 3.69 %; cable, 3.70; Belgium, franc, demand, 4.53; cable, 4.53%; Italy, lira, demand, 4.03%: cable, 4.0342;. Sweden, krone, demand, 20.84; demand, 20.87; Norway, krone, de- mand, 20.26; cable, 20.28; Denmark, krone, demand, 24.73; cable, 24.75; Shanghai, tael, demand, 78.00. 1 Pangalos Fears Communists. pa rOREE re January 18, aang tg asked of all workers ready not only service for their paper. Noted Savant Shows He made the de faons have been . 74 age * e 2. The second anniversary of The § ist units of these cities, a dance and celebration an January. 8 to enjoy themselves ‘put also to do e Sex of Creature at Will NEW ‘HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 29— Dr. He Can Chang Robert K. Burns, Jr., of the University of Cincinnati, demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to change the sex of a creature at will. with sa- lamanders at the annual meeting of the American wWelerr ot ‘goologists here. To Restore Historic hae * Repair and — . rh 18 be- ing conducted om the walls of “China Town” which embraces the center of Moscow. This wall was built by Ivan the Terrible in 1536, and the last re- pair work done was in 1822. Deterioration, has. mostly affected ‘he facing; the well itself has become monolithic Levis only be. destroy- od by dyn: In the ot work . five can- evidently 4 Peter the Great behind when eae of the Swedish awaiting th ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 29. — The King Charles on Moscow. government has decided, according to A stock bi Sekar 1 has been piles. One of the the newspapers, to create an under- secretaryship of state for social de- fense, in order to combat the “spread of Communist doctrines.” - Priests Ae to Stampede Strikers (Continued from page 1) They state representing in a pastoral sense at least 85% of thé miners of the anthracite field,” that’ they do not consider the check-off “of ‘sufficient merit for the continuance of the strike. From the ranks of the miners condemnation is heaped upon these priests who have openly shown their colors by attempting to betray the workers who make their soft life pos- sibble. Their letter is praised to the skies in the capitalist press, the mouthpiece of big business, The Religious Front. This action on the part of the six- teen foreign priests was immediately followed the next day with a letter from eight Irish-American bible pound- ers who said “me too“ to the ideas expressed in the anti-uhion letter of their brother fakers. These Jesus jazzers All state they “who are closest to the®miners of this jeld know the miners want to return to work, and refer disputed questions to an impartial board ct arbitration,” by their action openlyalemonstrating their prejudice and ‘hatred of the United Mine Workers, openly. attempt- ing to delude their follpwers,. who are members of the uniom into going back to work at the terms of the oper- ators. at: For months this tniekery of the priests has been going an, For months they have masked behind a veil of friendship to the causéfof: the miners, possibly because the miners are the bulk of their parish and congrega- tion, but at this crueM time in the development of the anthracite strike, well into its eighteenth week, they have no scruples about openly casting their lot with the operators. Why Were They Not Condemned Before? Today, on the streets of many an- thracite communities, one can hear in forceful language the action of these sainted hypocrits condemned. The dis- trict and international] officials have been forced to condemn this action of the priests, not because they wanted to, but because even the sentiments of the rank and file is so great some- times that they must fall in line. Secretary-Treasurer Kennedy, Chris Golden, chairman of the scale commit- tee, and others hay attacked the move of the priests. For four long months now the miners mave faced terrific odds. It is finter now and thousands suffer. Soup a lines have made their appearance in many anthracite mining towns. Many families are in dire want. In this situ- ation the officials of the union are paralyzed. No relief is given, local unions are threatened with disciplin- ary action if they apportion any local funds for relief to the membership. Official Misrule. The miners do not have the oper- ators to fight only, but their own of- ficials who brazenly are conducting the ffairs of this strike in such a man- ner that it is an impossibility for the miners to win any of their demands, or even a substantial part of them. The action of these priests, who pose as friends, advisers and leaders of the workers here, by writing and signing their names to a letter. which definitely states, by its contents, that the miners are willing to agree to the bosses’ terms, conclusively demon- strates to the anthracite mine workere that this agency of the capitalist sys- tem, the church, is bag and baggag. with the operators. Their condemna- tion is justified. Must Now Bolster Up Morale. District officials of the sections where these priests are located, in order to bolster the morale of the membership and counteract the poison influence of the priests’ letter, as they state, will hold mass meetings in the larger centers to explain what “arbi- tration” will mean to the miners’ cause. ; Their action in this respect has been forced by ‘the universal condemnation of the priests’ attitude by the mem- bership thruout the anthracite field. Four months after the strike was call- ed they do this. Rather than hold regular strike meetings to keep the rank and file informed. as to the latest developments of the strike, the officials rarely showed their faces to the union membership, Permitted Systematic Poison. Rather than establish strike head- quarters in the larger centers and hold intact the unity and solidarity of the membership, the officials are busy “fighting” the miners’ battles from the luxurious confines of the Hotel Belle- vue-Stratford. They have permitted to go uncheck- ed this systema poisoning’ of the minds of the union membership by pagandizing campaign of the“ oper ators who utilize every opport rife propagandize the miners | the press, the churches and the pro-“ . Mad | 10 found laid’ towers has been turned into a sta- lactite grotto Owing to water dripping in thru the roof. Great accumulations of earth and ‘buried trees have been cleared away gh the wall. The entire 1 is being painted white as in the time of Ivan the Ter- rible when thestown was named “Mos- cow of the White Stones.” we In the Kremim, restoration work on the patriachal,chambers is being con- tinued. Old gates of the 17th century have been found here and an ancient ruin- ed staircase has been restored, Some extremely interesting colored tiles have been discovered in the Trinity Tower. Cleveland T. U. 11 L. Meets on Sunday CLEVELAND, Dec. 29. — Regular meeting of the Trade Union: Educa- tional ‘League on Sunday, Jan. 3, .at 10:00 a. m., in the Freiheit Hall, 5311 Woodland Ave.,.2nd floor. Every pro- gressive union member invited to at- tend. Election’ of officers for the com- Ing six months. Report of the history- naking conyention of the Interna- ional Ladies“ Garment Wofkérs’ Union just finished in Philadelphia. Excavations in Siberia. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29-——-The excavation work that has been com- pleted this year in Siberia has world- wide signficance. On the Afrontov ° mountain near Krasnoyrarsk bones of paleolithic man have been found for the first time in Asia, and more than 700 remains. of mammoths, huge wolves, and bears be- longing to this period. 5 New weapons have been discovered of a type hitherto quite unknown. Among these are cudgels made out of a mammoth’s tusks. A complete pic- ture of the geological classification of paeolithic culture has been obtained. Russian Gliding Tournament. MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29.— The All-Russian gliding competition was marked by great successes on the part of the Russian. gliders. The pilot Artseulovy reached a height of 300 metres above the start- ing point. The pilot Umashov flew a distance of 4 kilometres without stop- ping. The pilot Yakovchuk remained in the air for 9 hours 45 minutes, This pilot now holds the second place in the world records for length of time in the air. Watch the Saturday Magazine Section for new features ever week. This is a good issue to give in New York City on the E (Continued from page 1) endum vote on it taken among the miners. Searles Smells Something. That the wind is blowing strongly toward the second possibility of a class collaboration mechanism under is seen by the remark of Ellis Searles, editor of the.Mine Workers’ Journal. who said that the willingness of the operators to open their books to joint inspection would “play a vital part“ in the negotiations. 2 Lewis, who arrived at noon, a conference with union of the Cadillac Hotel. “I have no ment to make at this time,” was he would say. a Labor Pantomime 3 : 8 Directed by Emma Blechschmidt with A Cast of 30 People. Costumes and Scenery by Lydia Gibson. Unusual Feature Will Be Part .of the Daily Worker BIRTHDAY PARTY at IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street, Chicago, III. Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 8 P. M | ADMISSION 50 CENTS. * 5 0 * This to your ee ‘worker. the name of an inquiry into profits '
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~* Sergeants Haunt Mi Missions i 2 A Worker ee . Wer YORK ‘CITY; Dec. 28.—Is thore a city institution in New York City that helps the down and out- ers? Yes. housé located at Seah: street and Hast River. Tuis will tell e how 1 found this house. ‘As soon as I came in I was met by a stout a who directed me to an office w! here they asked me my life's his- tory. ‘Where and whom 1 worked for im the last few years, ‘ete. I then went into the dining room and had my sup- per of stew, Risen: ont coffee (with- out sugar). After eatin. 1 had: ra go downstairs and hand all my clothes to be disin- fected. After taking a shower bath, we all were taken up on the elevator. Before we were allowed to sleep a doctor examined us all to see if any- tor’s office. All those the doctor thought could pass the army physical test he sent over to speak to the ser- geant, I didn't care to speak to the . We all were woke up at daybreak and had a brealltast of oatmeal and I was hungry the meal had no taste so I did not eat much. Before going out one has to check out at the office, I. ne office does not give You a slip you can't get out of the » building, as a guard is at the door in 1 could not a. job and was . I was f. LS, ‘to come back to this house for e days, weather was very cold at night. The third. day I was ‘they kept me in- side in the morning ang, made me work tor three hours el and mopping up floors, taking off, s from beds, etc, Of coupe, I dia * get pay for this. * 1 was told Wer ‘low New York state residents five days a month to stay at this‘institiition and out of town people one day a month. I teel sorry for anyone who is down andi out in this syster ot society. Dur- the month I 5 ‘a down and out- er (last pang out when a 4 is down h s@ out. All the missions and ation iy did for me was to prea ohh or but that Peis or a bed to sleep in F The municipal Woaelag house and the missions will be crowded more than ever this y on BSS junemployment is increasing. rhe prisons are also getting filled up because of unemploy- ment, poverty nature following. Workers will have to build more prisons and fill them themselves. As a worker I know that conditions " for the class are gétting worse and Worte. It is only in Communist Rus- sia ‘where the workers’ conditions are the best. Long live Soviet Russia! I know the time will come when we in this country will have, a workers’ gov- ernment like in Russia. When? As soon as all the workers know what Communism is and know that their real enemy is this capitalist system. To those who work hard for thelr money, I will save 50 per cent on all their. Acne work, DR. JRASNICK treet, PA. \ PITTSBURGH, WANTED: _ Furnished Room by Comrade. Humboldt Park district preferred. Address: Box * Daily Workers = The; municipal lodging one had a disease. An army recruit. ing sergeant was on duty in the doc- coffee without milk or sugar. Altho}|. as the ‘There goes the alarm clock! more, minute. want tod sleep some more. manu nern card. Laid 01% next time, that's all. “What, t should be fired. you kgow. Merely a trifle. with Coolidge + ĩ 5 * te % 4 * * a Worker Correspondent. YOUNGSTOWN; Ohio, Dec. 29.—The sun has just risen and the * alr Ts full of ozone. That just makes you hate to leave your bed. Wat if your strained body does need more rest? You are a steel worker and you have got to get up. That damned whistle is going to blow before you know itl. ‘The beas.hired you to make profits for him didn’t he? Yeh, you en, the bed “GET UP and. MAKE iT FAST. don't hurry. Ah, breakfast—coffee, now that will help. . . “ff that damned rule wouldn't hold for ringing another fellow’s “and | could help another fellow out some time, too. Nix, you knox (what awaits the fellébw who rings someone else’s card. fa “week the first time, that’s a special favor, and fired the What you. ask? Sure, stupid, don’t There are so MANY JOBS in the United States. You say you don’t bote it? Ha. „Gee, 'n be dotked a half hour if 1 don’t stop foolin’. Yes, sir, just a few minutes late and out goes half an hour. coffee. Look’ gut;! 93 5 scalding your insides! “Well, here we. ‘are, the bosses’ Whistle is going to blow in a min- ute sg ie is une marae of another toiling day.” ‘None of that: “Just one is not for you. That You'll tose your breakfast if you Just listen, he disagrees Ha, here’s the MASSACHUSETTS WAGE BOARD AIDS THE BOSSES TO EXPLOIT CHILDREN AND WOMEN WORKERS By H. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD, “Worker Correspondent BOSTON, Mass., Des. 29 After @ year’s experience in candy factories, a minimum rate of $13.00 for women and girls is recommended by the re- convened wage. board for the candy industry in Massachusetts. The minimum wage commission has provisionally approved this report and arranged for a-publie~hearing on Tuesday, January 5, at 3 p. m., in the commission’s offi 472, State House. The new — will go into éffect: arp 34926. Te present decree Which has been in effect since Jau. 10 1920, provides a minimum rate of ne tor women and girls after a ‘year and u half em- ployment,” and a* #péeal minimum rate of 88.00 for bégindérs.? his is the terrible exploitation’ the women and girls in the cand} fndustfy bare sub- jected to. There is no Wrgawidéd move- ment in this industry. % o = The new Lr require a learning period | of one y Pana give an cents to} ijcrease of a 2 | experienced employes, .. dy in- dustry is an industry, w * been so highly ua are mere machine not even require a. ‘on ee to be- come an experiencad „gt, in the wheel,” but this 1 nt of a year’s work at $8.00.a we@k,is so much more of the labor. of; the gandx slaves converted into profits, for the. bosses. This is the penalty der being unor- ganized. nt edd 2 J Stationery: Workers. Another example 6f tus brutal ex- ploitation of womem und girl workers is the stationery go66dé°and envelope occupation. A minimum rate of $13.75 for women and girls dver 18 years of age with 12 months experience be- comes effective January 1. The decree has a catch in it, providing special rates below the minimum for minors and inexperienced workers as follows: For those under 18 years of age with 12 months experience in a partic- ular shop, not less than $12 a week; for minors over 16 years of age, not less than $11 a week, and for minors under 16 years of age not less than $9 a week. This wage decree does not cover the manufacture of, paper. itself, but ap- plies to various. products into which. the paper is converted. Like the can- dy industry this is a highly developed industry in Which, automatic ma- chinery vomits out the. various paper products, yet the minimum wage com- mission, which is dominated by the bosses who can easily convince and win over the so-ealled. labor members of the commission, requires a whole year’s slavery of the women and girls at wages below) the minimum rates. The cowardly advantage this “class harmony“ commission takes of minors If you want a certain book and vou can’t come down just call S0 LINCOLN ST. . GOOD BOOKSa WORKERS SEELEY 3563 hihhbhipsnnnnmnnrnrnhrprihrhbhbphihshii bbb i bhp hp hii bpp hihi pAiAbb hh b> | WORKER CORRESPONDENT] AIDS DAILY WORKER REACH NEW REAMERS EAR COMRADE EDITOR—A _comrade just came into the of- fice and told me the following: He As a member of a shop nucleus of | seven comrades working in a shop employing several hundred workers. (At the first meeting of their newly organized unit, in addition to all the other officers, the comrades ‘elected a worker correspondent who took his position quite serious- ly and immediately set to the job of sending correspondence to The DAILY WORKER about the condi- tions of the workers in the shop. When the paper appeared with those articles a good sized bundle of them was taken to.the shop. The workers were all eager to get a copy and read of their own condi- tions written by a fellow worker. The worker correspondent was spurred on to write more about the struggles of the workers. And he did. The result was that after the workers had read the next issue of The DAILY WORKER six of them subscribed for the paper with many promising to subscribe in the very near future. am writing this just to illustrate what the reorganization is accomp- lishing and that perhaps these fine results may help other worker correspondents and newly organiz- ed units in achieving similar re- sults. Comradely yours, Harry Fox, New York City. may be readily understood by the com- mission's fixing of the rate for the and the old, poor girls under 16 years of age at $9 per week. Thus, if a girl who is 14 years of age is employed, she must work two years, until she is 16 years at the same rate of $9 a week, despite the fact that she does the same work as other workers. Organization of the women workers youth in the industries of Massachusetts is the crying need of the hour. Young workers, join the fighting organization of the young workers—the Young Workers League. Donates Books to Leningrad. LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Dec. 29— Several hundred volumes on the his- ‘tory of the praliamentary movement in France have been received by the Leningrad public library from Senator De Monzie. | WORKER CORRESPONDENTS COMPETE AGAIN TO WIN PRIZES FOR STORIES Sell 38 Those Left on By Was. w WHITE. dent) Dec. 29—The Byers Iron compan just installed a Christmas gift for the men who are employed on the big plate mill. It is in the form of i patent charging and drawing mach, which charges and draws the 2,000‘piles out of the heat- ing furnaces Were they are heated for thé rolls. 1 All this work was formerly done by men who made a fair living out of this work. The men can now go out and look master, and that precious th job, for 14 of them are removed the gang by the new machine on each turn. The mill is just now working two turns and 28 men 1 have to seek a job in some other plant, and when the mill works three turns they will be saving the — * 42 men. Small wonder hat t ock which was sold a short time age on the market for $18 per share, for the common stock, is now selling for $38 per share, and that they have been able to pay a divi- dend of $6 per share for the past nine months. . Yet in the Gomis conference they will plead poverty and that they are not able to pay the puddlers and the men who work for them a living wage. During all the time that the stock has been going up and they have been earning $5 on is worth of stock the price per tom for puddling iron has been going down and down. They are Wying to sell stock to the ‘men in thé Hope they will not go out on strike ifothe company refuses to sign the scale this coming year and declares for the open shop in their plants. A bal condition in the mills is that the finishers are all working open shop and have no connection with the memgrho are in the union, and they are thus in this way assist- ing the company in its fight for the open hop. Den the organised workers do not ask any questions on where the coal comes from that they must burn, whether it from union mines or open shops Taking it all in all it is a. case. ‘of. @rganized scabbery all rears . 1 1 FIREMEN’S UNION 18 CONFIDENT OF WAGE: INCREASE Wage boosts or Chicago firemen, whipped, out 2. tax dodging corpora- tions by the efforts of the Fire- men’s Associs -of Chicago (Local No. 2, International Association of Fire Fighters), appear nearer as the finance committee of the city coun- cil gathers. To Boost Valuations. Batteries of keen lawyers bristling with legal points and threats tried tc overawe the .board of review into denying the flremen's plea. The plea was a request that the capital stock of 35 named corporations be assessed at its fair market value, as provided by law. Armour & Co., whose stock is valued in Moody’s Analysis of In- vestments, the standard financial au- thority, at $88,064,342, was taxed at a value of $500,000 or 1-160 of its market value. The $91,396,820 mar- ket value of the stock of the Crane Co., makers of,goliplated lavatories, was taxed at „value of nothing at all. g Threaten to Leave State. The lawyers’ threatened to tie the case up in litigstion for years into e highest coweés. They hinted at moving their corporations out of the state. One or two, however, said they would not try d dodge taxes if all corporations were treated alike. The firemen learned their tax game from the teachers’ union which won a similar case befbre the Illinois board of equalization 2 — ago. Unemployed Worker Begs Police to Send Him to Jail Workhouse ST. LOUIS Dec. 29— Please arrest me, officer. I want to go to the work- house. That will be better than going hungry, unable to get a job.” Thus Joseph Zarcic addressed a policeman who attempted to remove him from n meme e a Tea Pe ine tt aN re * * ee n 0 , ; a Se Sh er ae ; 4 P's 9 a 5 he ‘ th ‘ 1 ty A Os — we ro ae ' * N 1 Wenk? SOVIET LS Take Steps to Cut Down Illiteracy (Special to The Dally Worker) MOSCOW, u. 8. 8. R., Dec. 29— During the scholastic year 1924-25 the number of children in the schools of the Ukraine republic increased by al- most 200,000 as compared with the year 1923-24. During the coming scholastic year 1925-26 it is proposed to open 5.000 new schools for 2,000,000 children. Up to Sept 1925, 15,000 stations for liquidating illiteracy were at work as against 9,500 during the preceding year. During the year 1925-26 the number of these stations will be brot up to 24,000. According to the plan of the peo- ple’s commissariat of education it is intended to liquidate illiteracy during the year 1925-26 among the adults to the extent of 60 per cent and juveniles to the extent of 92.3 per cent. The number of schools where the teaching is conducted in the Ukrain- lan language has now reached 78.2 per- cent of all schools and 95 per cent of the vfllage reading rooms have been Urkainized. The budget of the Urkrainian edu- cational commissariat has increased from 10,100,000 rubles in 1922-23 to 18,900,000 rubles in 1924-25 at the cen- ter and from 7,000,000 to 35,000,000 rubles with regard to the local bud- gets. For the year 1925-26 the educational commissariat is making a budget grant of 30,000,000 rubles at the center and 52,000,000 rubles on local budgets. Profits Not Education Is Goal of Colleges, Declares Professor Professor W. J. Newlin of Amherst charges that.American colleges have become huge football trusts at the ex- pense of scholarship standard. His charges are being warmly discussed by educators attending the convention of the American association of college professors, now in session here. Professor Newlin declared educa- tion is bankrupt, while football is turning over a business of millions a year. “Football,” he said bitterly, “builds stadiyms—and when did math- omatles ever build a residence hall. Scholarship is not a paying proposi- tion. It has to be subsidized. Football makes money.“ The public's acceptance of an econ- omic yardstick as the true guage of success has made them apathetic to- ward education, he declared, and caused them to classify educators as intellectual wet nurses, along with house maids and butlers. Electrical Workers Win Wage Increase; Lose Right to Strike New agreements for a universal 9- hour day and $1 an hour for the high- est paid group will run to June 14, 1926, as signed by Local 713, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers with the Automobile Associated Trades of Illinois, Strikes are out- lawed and any failure to agree will be arbitrated. The dollar wage, for com- bination battery and ignition men, is a 5c. hourly increase. Ignition men will get 90c, and battery men 70c. each a 15% raise.. Work from Satur- day midnight to Sunday night will not be obligatory, and time and a half FOR CORRESPONDENTS’ GLASS ON WEDNESDAY The Chicago clase in Workers’ Correspondence meets tonight this week owing to New Year's eve failing on Thursday, which is our regular class night. Students will bring their outlines for Anniversary edition article to be discussed in class. In addition there is to be a discussion on: Difficulties and problems enoountered in writing; how to begin writing an article; how to collect information and facts and the reading and criticiz- Ing of manuscripts. There will also be a report on the “Living News- paper.” Students are urged to make a special effort to attend this class. It meets as usual in the editorial room of The DAILY WORKER, 1113 Washington Bivd., at 8 p. m. “Lenin” Laboratory Conducts Experiments on Short Wave Radio LENINGRAD, U. 8. S. R., Dec. 29— The Lenin“ Laboratory at Nizhni- Novgorod is conducting radio trans- nission experiments on short waves. Informaiton showing that Russian messages can de very well heard has been received from places even so dis- tant from the Union of Socialist So- viet Russia as South America and Australia. Recent Russian accomplishments in the field of short wave transmission include the invention of a special method of attracting directed antenna and a new kind of antenna with great capacity. Work on short wave transmission has a great future in the Soviet Union, in view of the low cost of equipping transmission, and the low: power of transmitters. Barbusse Nails Lie of Roumanian Boyars BUCHAREST. Roumania—(T. R. A.) —(By.Mail)—Henri Barbusse spent a few days in Roumania to inform him- self abéut the shameful actions of the Romanian terrorists in the Kishina tri ‘His stay was used by the whole bour ag bis press of Europe to print an allegéd ‘statement of Barbusse that “it cannot be denied that the spirit of re- volt penetrated into Bessarabia from ithel#lioré of the Dniestr: (I. e. from [Soviet Russia.)“ Barbusse requested us by telegram to publish the following correction: , “The news spread by some tele- graph agencies according to which I Enea! declared to Bucharest press rep- reséhtatives that it cannot be denied that the spirit of revolt penétrates inté Bessarabia from the other shore of the Dniestr is a senseless and ma- Heſous invention. I have never made such “a ‘statement. My investigations | have in reality had quite different re- sults. The news mentioned above has been ‘apparently inventend abroad by interésted circles, because these is not a single Rowmanian newspaper from which it could have been tak- en.” While Barbusse was in Bucharest he was assaulted by a gang of fascisti in the pay of, the, Roumanian sigur- antsi for declaring that the Bessarab- ian peasants who were accused in the Tatarbounar process did not receive a fair trial. The police that attended Barbusse’s lecture in one of the work- ers’ halls refused to protect him from the mob. The workers themselves protected Barbusse. Later when Bar- busse was on his way to the hotel Athenea Palace, he was attacked and will be paid for all work over 9 hours. — —— — 22 What the capitalist. press says about it: nan j RR ? | i Dictatorship vs. Democracy severely beaten by the fascist gang. BY LEON TROTSKY $1.75 e SURE IROTZKY DOWAALL ¢ 1 3 BRITA fil. 51 4450 i ; f h Other books by Leon Trotsky: PROGR DTU RAIL FIN FL ero 10 | 7 ˙ w —— — wY— WHITHER ENGLAND? * ay . : ; 4 : 8 0 sup D 4 Literature and Revolution MISMANAGEM Bankers det on St. Paul Road By CARL HAESSLER, (Editor, Federated Press) Former president, now Harry Byram of the Chic: kee & St. Paul - ratiroad, curses: the day that his rent single mile ot track in Wi it is the Wisconsin trackage ad t. acl Wisconsin incorporation of the 3 bankrupt system that gave Attor general ‘Herman Ekern of the Badger state his chance to flay the perspiz ing. rail finapgier... . e press own Freed 1 * 4 The leisurely dressing down i ed on receiver..Byram took =a, the crystal. room of the Great, * ern hotel hefore two members. o interstate , commerce comm vestigating the St. Paul which eastern flnanciers ft make over $4,000,000 by a “reorgania- ation.” The. .crystal room once das zled the previous generation | with u old rose crystal cha: fer and innumera le wall and 122 mir - rors. The mirrors are d, now for a. witness like Byram | watch his. lawyer's face without ing directly at him. “When you assumed the pres in 1917 you did not. intend pes the road into bankruptcy?” 1 | slowly asked Byram who said, = and jerked his chin toward the , om ing. Ekern then drew from him ¢ the market value of St, Paul in 1916 was $263,000,000 while in 1 after eight years of Byram 5 tration it was only $32,001 * shrinkage of seven-eighths. 2 a Kuhn, Loeb Acco. Rakeoft.- | The inquiry was giving point to rt mors that the road was deliber driven into bankruptcy to give | financial] house of Kuhn, Loeb & € the fat rakeoff that goes with * * =¥ 8 8 4 * there was an uncom or two when the witness had * mit that not only had he been dent While the road was f and not only had an obliging court made him one of the receivers, but mat in additton, he had bought 1,000 shares of preferred stock of the road * at a nommal sum after he had become receiver This investment has already”: almost doubled. bee Talk. About Acquisitions, wee ern. mercilessly into th Pa ae hy the cit gl u e 041. 3 cago, Terre rn, an Adee Indiafia’ Shel 8 55 2 turned to be a barefaced unload — 8 by Standard Oil baikers on 4 * road with the president Ne paint it as à big boost for his tem. In 1921, when the St. Paul — unable to borrow a cent from oe banker, Ekern brot out, the road was ~ still abl# to add over ‘$22,000,000 its indebtedness by assuming the ligations of the coal road tho it ibe ee. 55 3 10 * - * * hig aes 72 = 5 2 r * a * 4 1355 * 3 * to ob rot an equity of less than $500,000 in ac- 15 tual value. The investigation has adjourned tof resume at a later date. Bachelor Poll Tax Proposed i in Turkey CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 29.—The finance ministry proposes to put a ae poll tax on bachelor Turks between 30 and 45 ‘at rates half as much 2 mae against married men. 1 State monopolies of the sale 2010 e import of oil and sugar are also pro: posed as new ‘sources of ere . — — — — ~ . In which Trotsky explodes the sham pre- tenses of so-called bourgeois democracy, and explains the character of the dictator- ship of the working class. Kautsky and the later social-democratic school come in for warm oriticiem at the hands of the most the front of “a fashionable downtown St. Louis business house. Zarcic admitted he purposely took a position blocking the entrance to the store as a means of getting him- self arrested. In city court he prompt- A brilliant cricism of present-day liter- ; ary groupings in Russia, and a discussion of the relation of art to life. A fearless applica- tion of materialist dialectics in an analysis Start now sending in your stories for the next competition of. worker correspondents. Prizes will be an- nounced, with the winning stories, in the full page of worker corre- spondence to appear in Thursday's BROOKLYN, N. Y., ATTENTION! CO-OPERATIVE BAKERY 1 WV eat Market — * issue.of, The DAILY WORKER next I pleaded guilty zo « charge of va- ' of literature and art. # ioe 5 IN 8 > | ‘ ant SERVICE OF THE consume | “the prizes are as follows: | rancy and renewed his request for pi ig Byam Mi Ly pater Com ‘ : = ™ akery deliveries made to your home. 3 PRIZE.—“The Goose. |® Workhouse term, “where I can get munis men 30 cents—Cloth, SI. 00 2 mo. 265 pp. 8 e 382.50 % CO- OPERATIVE TRADING ASSOCIATION, ino. + „ by ‘Upton Sinclair. shelter and something to eat.” — — — * E PRIZE:—“R t * 5 — ” by ry tte oral He will like iti.Give your union bist THIRD PRIZE:——Original brother @ aubato The DAILY | I | DAILY WORKER carteon, framed, | WORKER, | | : < Workers, organized as 8 2 ein N. Nr. 7 r 8 * unn “ene ey 2 * N 1 * 0 1 * 4 — * 3 Arne DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co. 55 5 8 5 1118 W. Washington Bivd. oo: ’ ee ‘ | „ esc eer : he 1 RA ae * ‘Me — — — —
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n * 7 5 am 75 0 3 8 7 . eis ee 1 3 1 af ee i gars * een 8 ARs N15 — eo 5 . f Ne ! “WORKER ‘PUBLISHING CO.” Lee ee —— ‘Chi a 9 Phone Monroe 1712 ance of the Dawes plan and the wine 85 ä 7 treaty of Locarno. The object of the; 0 only): By mail (outsids of Chicag>): Dawes plan was the economic stab- “This is also. eat $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear 83.50 six months | ilization of Europe, the object of Lo- agreement is to U i three months $2.00 three months carno the political consolidation or one side it — the political coalition as the case may * 12 all mail and make out checks to be of the largest countries of Europe. LY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Iilinois “On the other hand, along with this 4 ral. T is commi 2 t 0 process of coalition and of the appar- t ‘ 4 > ep 8 wis it sd velo 7 LOUIS DUNNE | l 7 Editors ent strengthening of the capitalist future conflicts, © © 3 | the richest, ate the first step in the attack plan d| a re | activity 0 1 « v, is tn . LOEB Business Manager countries, there is proceeding the re- “It might have. 7 ite us, and that all the.cgpitalist | actions and carrying the —— | volutionizing of the broad masses of with the stabiliza : t Thies ; s second-class mail September 21, 192%, at the post-office at Chi-| workers in western Europe and the revolutionary m cago, Ill. under the act of March 3, 1879. revolutionizing of the colonies and | subsided, but Advertising rates on application. semi-colonial countries which is even stantly flaring up 5 — a more prominent feature. It is in tries, The se — >. , * art Ng 1 12 1 1 ‘Hine 1 € ö * T y — on 1 — the midst of these two processes that capital has simply Moral and U nmoral Nations 0 we have had to lead our party and facts as a number , | mt our country onward. (Morocco, Syria) revolutionary | a war which would disturb our further yi 1 . holiday theme ‘the ultra-imperialist New York Times edi “what is the task we set ourselves movement such as we,8ee at present] development is based on the view ' on the morality of the nations that created the Locarno in doing so? This task was already | in China. Silas be that the Soviet Union must be strang- These nations, thru accepting the terms of the various formulated by Lenin and still re. “Thus the struggle etw led before it finally gets on its feet. Pe mains in full force. It is, to gain time forces goes on 4 1 s drawn up at Locarno are in a distinct class, These are moral] % increase our economic and po- fight of the capi : St. they see ; ging) . month lost may groups of the bourgeoisie, increases : prove fa em. for a revival of Turkish morality. our own forces, We have deliberately; “As is well known, the capitalistic “Why do the capitalist countries rkey humbly bows befor the decisions of the epcinell of the carried out and continue to carry out countries hoped that we should not | not try to attack us at once? ¢ of nations and consents to England robbing her of Mosul| this policy of gaining time with, as I succeed in the recotittruction of our| “Mainly because they cannot agree 1 then demonstrate a proper appreciation of morals and prove ee no ae 3 of 3 2 — 2 a should not be equal e ang a ll erg * = “In the international situation re to the task o our econ- m come At ee eee with the:other moral nations. | S a certainly temporary partial stab omics, that our — 54 automat- standing which is to open the way) ln that case Russia, according to the Times editorial, will be itzation ot the capitalist powers. I | ically disintegrate in- consequence of | thru Germany to the frontiers of So- the pale of such eminently moral nations as France, Italy| would be folly not to recognize thir | “he incapability rae in-| viet Russia for English and French in land „ who are signatories to Locarno and old members in| fact. On the other hand however—anc | ustry which they cipated. capitalism. As however Germany, any rate, we have ing of the council of the league. even a blind man can see this—thie] “They cherished — for a er was recently shuttered up by — = tactics ot the “united — tor our 3 F demonstrates its super-morality by bombing defenseless 5 agit if a. N . . N hu 42 0 tthe Moroccans and blasting Damascus in Syria off the map, 2 ali Off. ism 8 ensive in ng in its ruins thousands of defenseless people. Italy suffers American Im 1 berelstl. England’s mercenaries swarm India, Egypt, the | French troops against ‘the Druses, the | American capitalist Otto Kahn, who | turer, acquired id million. acres of chain s and silence under the ferocious despotism of Mussolini and | uth Africa, not to mention Ireland, ready. to again stifle | By F. RASKOENIKOV | NRCC ES Homs, | in April of this year carried out per-| land for rubber all the cap-| extre ever, be able to arreat the re ary movement in the | 1 — „ Sm RE 4 ng es gi 2 “We have then sume that, in the wes E if etd - \ ag : d rr * re a 3 uy ae wy 3 7 3 ee sig : plantations and as- bloc Sth vat indication of a liberation movement. Germany (Moscow.) — Hama and other places in Syria have sonal explorations in Morocco, le at] signed 100 million dollars for the 'TMPERIALIST America: that was attracted America's attention. Two | present working at the creation of an equipment of the plantations. A plan- u during and since the war, was considered an outlaw nation, | ae behind ties “eewhen” At dite’ | American torpedo boats were recently American syndicate which, by agree- tation of 1,000 acres which. belonged “inside the “moral breastworks” of Europe. Her so-called |.) poronc ; of Locarno. succeeded in ent from Gibraltar to Beirut, the chief | ment with Abd-el-Krim, is to exploit to the English and was in full working both avowedly bourgeoisie and social-democratic. rule realizing her program in Western | port and center @ administration ot a territory which stretches for 80 order, has already been bought by grace d Britain and France. Their morality permits them | Europe. In its chase atter new mark- Fa a. 2 peng eee eee eee Sh 3 va . ee pulse to increase its with equal loyalty any power that can use them against ets, American imperiaz-sm is now de- \OROCGO. | The deposits PEON GT 1 nage bt the Breath 00. „ sr 1 1 pene working class. veloping a feverishly active policy in | the territory Ogempied vy the , ne | is not all N ee th n Africa an Asia will 8 the East, it is making convulsive ef- Riffs, attract the capitaligts of all im- The Otto Kahn & Co. will work the Pats ccord © | grow. This ci | to the sermonizing of the imperialist press, there is 0 forts to extend its “sphere of fifiu- | perialist countries, The, French and zinc, iron and antimony deposits in wd 3 eapitalists, 300,000 | ably lead, thing as an abstract national morality that stands above ence” on the Asiatic and African con- | Spanish capitalists whoyruled in this this. district, is preparing to construct Nase 3 on- | conflicts with other nic interests and that can avoid politieal conflicts. The so- tinents. are territory even before: tne. imperialist satipare ane roads, 1s DSGiing 10 Se * years.| bers who bare divided 8 4 7 dertake extensive irrigation-works in building varbors, raſlways and a world “s a morality of Locarno is impelled by a mutual desire te prolong In N dag capitalism ie poss iy gy 1 and to equip some water e works. Whole numberoof towns, in a district 2 ae ‘Far N j 7 > 8 an. Supporting the group wit u 1 5 1 rule of capitalism. At the same time there are irréeon Pei-fu at its head and is exging him maun & Co. whi¢h Was trying to gain American 2 are investing a 5 expansion of —.— * a ble contradictions between the parties to the treaties signed the an to definite acts of war. an economic hold thruout Morocco. | Kapital of 20 es on gold francs in clash with the interes 225 r PF rst of this month at London that will inevitably break forth into] america appears in China under the Atter the War, German imperialism, | n 1 is. nominally the independent Cale willswauKe 4 complete revolu- 8 1 a ai u warfare. When that time comes the Times will then have to] banner of the policy of the “open | Veh had . ya. colonies tion in ‘tif inte national rubber indus- gap Negro republic on the West coast of Bly e 2 codes and mew alignment between moral and; un- ra and professes, in words, to be a 2 al wh eee Africa, has long attracted the atten- try. Whe ay America holds 3% „„ pe, | “friend” of the Chinese people, but in * | sama tte hee le a | ate deme lyst, o Amcor, which |! he soi ingot ratte | an iapr nee the treaty 8 Russia and Turkey neither party äxweO⁰ imperialist policy of öppresston which] the German capital ere are now 1 . pt Sas consolidating | 97% is inctherhands of English (partly | world conflicts, 107 8 about the opinion of the organs of the House of Morgan, aims at ousting America’s competitors active in More „ — of the ond ‘knowing what their plans may be. At a moment when the from the Chinese market and taking arms, the 8 este. 20 at is threatened with war by the tory government | bossession of the natural wealth of | . seses lag 1 but natural that Turkey should turn to the one . n in the ful Triend of oppressed nations on earth—the Union of Soviet |.jine of her own which deviates sharp- lan capitalists. In aa te 8 HE fact is that the gigantic Amer bor plantations in Liberia. The Fire- — ics. If, at any time, the present or any future government of ly from the interests of Japan and the erate ‘mera : om cen rons The ae 8 „ eee — y forgets the debt it owes the great proletarian power that ether competing imperialist powers. 885 8 2 . 0 eee e eee powers is a po : it in its hour of dire need, we can rest assured that the working IN Persia. The American general| |” | hosen. for, this whe, | Viet Union. Locked at tr of the Angora republic will not forget, any more than the: Ger- adminfstrator. of Parten Annen Manatactarer 3 F avor” Wage Increase America pe altem arrived at the Point the increaive df the letariat will forget. whose sphere of activity is Teheran, eoneluste Mat "the Philippines, ins. y ot wht has, since autumn 1922, act i- 2 ism, which i a pro | ually d ico and Ceneral America are unsuit- | oy . rected the finances of Persia. But — P | view of the magnificent services this able in en ot e growth ot their re- Oa "The farmers have Coolidge scared. But the only way to a that is not enuf. American imperial. By EARL R. BROWDER. judiciary renders to the “open shop” martin dune front ö ö volutionary, movement. : Sovie r a t Union and against 8 capitalism is to sign its death warrant and carry it out. Pi 2 N . SN’T it astounding? The National re ee Sg ig akg goes without saying that, asa re- al revolutionary ree Persian parliament, on American ini. Association of Manufacturers (che in these days of high prices. And, unt, or tant American economic pene- | onies and semi. colonial e 4 1 Apo “ 7 tration, Liberia will become a colony be di tiative, passed a law which all head of the “open shep“ movement) | second, th idn’ “earn, become more difficult. — Berger’ 8 Discourse on Taxation 1 e abbetat ete bee is agitating for wages to be increased | ings,“ it ree sale te RP ecto ihe phage eR 5 Never was there a greater opportunity for a working class] American specialists for 3—5 years. | ¥ 35% in order to meet the increased eek tet atid. tine arcadia saiiei aah n ae . tralisation: and now it Im 2 8. 0 ill b ; cost of living. You don’t believe it? Al > we ed ‘Spokesman in the house of congress to expose the fraudulent nature One W e nominated’ director of i gets one-tenth as much in a year, and . ASU Al REV IE 8 sible without centralization to or : > ae the capitalist government than during the debates ch the Mellon agricultural policy, another is to be Then get a copy of its official organ, who must work like the very: dasit- to ize industrially or nee big Rasy IJ expert at the head of the railway de- American Industries for December, eee eee eee By HENRY GEORGE WEISS. untom co fight the Soe lal n reform program. The one member that claims to represent the partment, and thesxest will concern | 24 turn to page 13. Your astonished that the high t of Hi sen d N problem we will leave for the int working class in that body is Victor L. Berger, the Milwaukee so- themselves with directing the affairs ves Will see such * copie as the press upon his 1 3 e W. W. lectuals of the injunctionite mp ei 220 le participated in the debate. informing his colleagues of the country. Agriculture, railways, rahe least ten times as hard as upon the IT TNDRR the caption 8 tement ot ls. 2 a socialist he considered that the measure proposed by Mellon] fnances. foreign trade, tariff policy, in} The rise in the cost of living has $15,000 “wage” of the judges? It has often rep that at a promise of Adee D f one word, the whole economic life of | made it almost impossible for many wink waty oh snes tee) the Case of the I. W. W. in Amer- every mass of Ad $0 Pp sgt raat eg 127 r W 1S system Dy a teal’! Persia is threatened with the fate of [ot the workers to liye upon their ke e K 2 r ica,” there appears in the November | grain of truth. The 5 pier ng good ntration of wealth. falling into the clutches of American | ‘arnings.” C.. ee eee 12 issue of Big Union Bulle-|in respect to the article I am review- N [Uving is a very good argument for] 12 issue o the One Bis ulle- pire | "Here is reformist socialism in its most dogmatic form. Instead | imperialism. There are two inaccuracies in the adding $2,500 to $5,500 to judges’ tin, of Winnipeg, Canada, an article | 8: Thus in its own the wsing the true role of the United States government which has], In Syria. American imperialism has | bove quotation. 25 K hai n nne article vindicates the 2 Sous es ce the surtax of the billi b for a long time been interested in thir | Les, you guessed it tlie 1 rst time. Arles, to bring them up to $10,000 (the | emanating from 186 N. LaSalle street, ger eu surtax of the billionaires from 40 per cent to 20 per country. As early as in 1919, at th | t was not “workers” that were lowest) and $20,500 (the highest), for] Chicago, and signed by one Matt John- by relieving them of the necessity of financing their own| time of the Versailles peace negotie | voken of. It was “judges,” and refer- federal Judges. But for workers at son, putting forth in characteristic . 5 split, namely that there has — f ment Berger indulges in silly talk about the concentration of] tions, an American commission wen | d to those most a gentlemen, | “°8°S only ten per cent ot those! language the “emergencyites” v + | veering in 1 whole body of thi 2 i; —— “breakdown” of the capitalist system. to Syria to study its economic resour | iꝗ federal judiciary, Who receive from amounts, the high cost or living ar. ot the split in the ranks of ‘the I. W. W. trom the practice of rem. Pp y | gument is no good. Did we not hear| W. W. / raw analysis fails utterly to expose the pature of the ca PPP down 8 ty sia the: , : ee e. E Q p- President Coolidge and Secretary of] As might dhe: “expected, “emergency-| that could terminate. no other f Sad p with the National Association of] front with the Chicago Tribune, Daily . . | Manufacturers. That is, with living| News; the Chamber of Commerce, There is the truth in a anutsh k seems pre- Costs so high, all incomes for heads] ste. In fact, . the. “injunctionites”— The emergencyites are N A | * by the way, they don’t mention an evidence before of families should be from $10,000 to DY * u. realism of Marx overboard der it is neces- $20,000 per year. That much is ab- such little thing in their article as preparing to embrace the philosoph things: f Br vera necessary to take care of a| seeking an injunction, in the capital- of anarchism in toto. The a » Of wealth, is surely not indicative of the “breakdown’ _ COMPETENT, EVIDENCE RE [RED beieap —— It means that the power of the nent eentralised and strengthened and the shifting of the tax to the middle class simply means that this cl to b ba saggy the I ‘ ‘ is class is to be By Hy M. WICKS. Jews that ruled oy tribute to the government that exists for the purpose of ABBI Stephen S. Wise, a doctor} time. g the power of Wall Street. A genuine tribune of the work- of delusions of the Jewish faith, All this sort of class een expose the method by which the capitalist finances started a religious conflict Christmas mature. In ordin © government and not indulge in bourgeois nonsense about some by asserting that Jews should accept) one is accused of went: the fact of Jesus Christ's existence sary to establish twg ntag ; f mechanical process that disintegrates the capitalist e as a Hebrew teacher of whom they 1. That there is family properly. But the federal] ist courts in direct violation of work- im to Communism is thus exp e extent that wealth concentrates. 5 should be proud. The rabbi is one of} 2. That the corpse was one time judges should be the last ones to get| ing class principle-gan give the ag being, not objections to Moscow ‘ AT eS e revolutionist would never fail to expose the character 0 oY AS mathe leaders of petty bourgeois liberal-| known to have been alive. it. They are already pretty close to above mentioned papers and organ- but repudiation of Marxism i & , 5 italis state and would emphasize the faet that no matter how); N in New York and is of that ig: In the case of Jgsus Christ both Oe ee oe ee ee 3 e bon more. agel ir t ede ge alen een ee, 1 ar i 1 may exist and how much capitalism may con-“ Mie galaxy of pacifists who contin-| these essentials are fabsent. There ie Workers in the shops, mines and trans damn Communiem. «es eee Soa ite: dat en e i be Ally serve the interests of imperial-] no authentic record. of anyone ever Portation service, who get from $750 The I W. W. 2 Low Worke re. von mem 15 * enn created the em by advocating suchtmeasures as having seen such a yperson. No con- to $1,500 per year, and for a begin- bad members whose revo- 5 sctive condition, the determination of the working class to the adherence of the United States to| temporary historian, mentioned his ning, just to see how it works, double | @tionary- realism has made them in- the rank and file who have fol- the power of the capitalist class thru revolution. The revolu- the world court. Hence when he name. Surely if he had such an in- their wages. They will still be only r or e Off iar: Shei retry me Id use his position in the capitalist congress, not to win speaks his utterances have a certain| fluence upon those around him as is 14 so those starvation “wages” of 3 eee eee 83 r against ne flunkeys of the old parties, but to excoriate th news value tor the capitalist press. described in the holy book that relates the judges, but even that is better attitude ot the ent Long the capitalist system, do yov realize f : ' 8 5 em] Since the principal nations of the| his adventures some historian of the than only 10%. ude e onites. ng : Hed come to be despised by the workers in the factories, world conduct their butcheries in the time would have mentioned it. No one All the labor unions should give a 2 ee e eo you may Tanning md pon the railroads and in the agricultural regions name of Jesus Christ we presume the alleged to have seen him wrote a vote of thanks to the Association of 0. A I. *. W. leaders and Karl Marx for Bakuniniemn? : 7 £ rabbi thought it a wise stroke to align single line about it. So there is no Manufacturers for telling us what is ~~ - - eee vou fellow wor who stand n functions of a union, w i 8 wht atherskite tor ot Tetas prai ined B erger as the 3 3 ~. ee Jesus. ee proof that such a person a living — It is $10,000 to $20,000 4 way for the downfall Ppt} by 3333. Belmont, do you realize that 3 is action infuriated some of the more ever lived. , a year. And since the bosses of in- | ood thing About socialism that my Eno of, in the same speech | orthodox dispensers of the water of| Then there is no one who ever saw dustry say so, it must be true. Let ag ng Pobre ne age oa 4 . * 2 res where he said he had no “prejudice against banks or| everlasting life, who roundly up- his corpse. Surely it is essential to| every union then set itself to reach | che anarcho-syndicalists a would things in the realisti yr against: big business.” braided him as an apostate. Sq@an af establish the fact that Jesus was this goal for its members. inevitably lead to splitting the I. ion? Do you realiz Pats, y of revolution thru mere concentration of wealth hold: conflict ensued not unlike that which] murdered by someone before we ac- “A living wage of $20,000 per year W. W. ; ; i has raged for many moons in theſcuse either the Jews or the Romans. for every worker.“ J N 25 ats A een class that rules by force thru the power protestant churches between modern- There must be a corpse before one For surely the worker earns as FHR whole article is indicative of y defined their position in regardg/to Commun ism. ee a ism and fundamentalism. can be tried for mmrder. much, and is as necessary to society, petty spite and individualistic, ven- ba “Martian 2 enn neu Rabbi 7 M. Gupp, of Prov-] It seems to us that it would be much as a federal judge. And living gosts om that would take too long to enu-| they are. If you too, are Marxtans, 1 10 dollar en strengthen the idence, I, comes to the defense of] more to the point Mr the quarreling; hit him just as hard. And if the 2 merate. It is sufficient to state here you will then altze there can be b labor. ire take notice. Mr W and holds that the Jews rabbis and the hell- ng protestant tional Assedétation of Manutfac-u that deeds count lo — ords. no enmity between the I. W. W and . PF : | ought . laim Jesus for their own.] preachers first to blish the fact sets the figures, who else can com-| The emergencyites ‘2 hered to|the Workers 1 party @ te | . sal ek A Ses BAN . is monstrous that for 2,000 that such a pers as Christ ever plain of them? The unions, and the orkers — a new subscription iene Aron Jews should have been held] lived before they fighting over| workers generally, ought tis: : responsible 0 the death of Christy the manner in whith he died, ae it they can oot that much. —— — + int —— eo ndnstrial unionism is = T must co-oper te 7 to make of real the Anarchist Internatio ; the an- America. 2 didividwaliom: | necessity. individueliem is the deadly n of on- che Commun} ‘ae Se ee ee A le OR Ae SP n 4 * *