The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 5

Wednesday, June 25, 1924 EXPECT LABOR PARTY SWEEP IN AUSTRALIA Four State Governments Already Carried By W. FRANCIS AHERN, (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) SYDNEY, N. S. W., June 24.—The political outlook in Australia suggests that labor will sweep the continent in the national electrons next year. During the last 12 months labor vic- tories in the state elections have been Tit’ short of phenomenal, and this, is rected to be reflested in the nation- a Slections. Twelve months ago there was only one labor government in Australia— that was in the state of Queensland, where there was a majority of one. Today, there is a labor government in Queensland with a majority of 4; one in south Australia with a majority of * and in Tasmania labor is in power gugh with the support of other parties. Coalition About to Smash. In the national parliament, an anti- Labor coalition government is in pow- er but its prestige is shattered and already there are prospects of the coalition ending at any moment and causing a general election. The coali- tion consists of the Conservative party and the Country party—the lat- ter representing, not the dirt farm- ers, but the wealthy ranch owners, Stock-jobbers, and primary market manipulators. The Conservative-Country party coalition faces défeat because the electors now realize they have been tricked. Six years after the ending of the war, the coalition government as failed to produce any of the great ideals” promised at the con- ‘usion of hostilities, such as “a wld made safe for democracy,” a *w world for the workers” and so Workers’ Conditions Worse. .n place of these “great ideals” iere is the same old exploitation—if .nything, more intense than ever be- fore—the same slavery, the same starvation and misery, the same swearing in the industrial slaveshops, and the same vnemployment problem as before the war. Whatever change thare has been is a change for the worst, as far as the workers are con- cerned. Labor needs to win but 12 seats in order to capture the federal parlia- ment. Considering the present wave of labor enthusiasm breaking over the continent, labor expects to win. MOSCOW, June 24.—It is reported that the Southern Mining Trust has old to a big Berlin firm 509,000 tons and 200,000 tons of manganese ‘or the needs of the Polish met- i uaegic works in Upper Silesia. ' A STYLISH “MORNING DRES! IN SLIP-ON STYLE + OUR DAILY PATTERNS “FIGHT STRIKERS,” U. S. IMPERIALISTS ORDER MEXICAN CO. (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY.—The iron heel of United States imperialism is stepping hard and ruthlessly upon the striking oil workers of the “El Aguila” com- pany of Tampico. United States oil has not permitted the El Aguila direc- tors to enter into conference with the strikers, altho such a conference was arranged weeks ago. Hach day the directors promise to come, and each day the committee of workers is wearied by hours of useless waiting. The situation in Tampico has been critical for the workers. It would would have become unbearable were it not for the splendid co-operation of the workers of the other trades. They are giving all they can, not only in Tampico, but in every state of Mexico, and order has been issued by the Mexican Federation of Labor ex- acting a fixed weekly contribution from each worker to the El Aguila strikers. A general strike is threat- ening and may break out any day in Tampico if United) States oil contin- ues its high-and-mighty disregard of the Mexican workers. “Pay Workers Before You Pay U.S.,” Mexican Gov’t Employes Cry, By ELLA G. WOLFE, Federated Press Staff Correspondent. MEXICO CITY.—A gigantic protest meeting was held by the government employes of the capital in the bull fight ring. After three or four speak- ers outlined the critical situation of all these men and women whom the Mexican government owes more than 50 days of pay, three resolutions were adopted—first and most important that the payment of the debt to the United States be suspended at once; secondly, that the government pay all back salaries at once, and thirdly, that the number of generals in the army be reduced and the number of soldiers cut down, now that the revo-| lution is practically dead. As a sop| to this protesting and hungry mass, | the government began paying the first ten days of the month of March. A large public demonstration is being planned if regular payment does not continue. , And if the demonstration doesn’t heip a general strike of all|tions, to tne nation and to the poli- | Republics. government employes will probably! ticians in particular, as to the perma- nent court, the League of Nations, the world’s increasing military pre- pardness, American relations to Mex- ico and other nations of Latin-Amer- ica, the issue of “the flag following the dollar,” and battleships protect- ing bank investments in weak or back- Also our relations result. Striking Plasterers Settle. WASHINGTON, June 24.—Striking plasterers. here have compromised with the building contractors their claim for a $14 wage and a five-day week. They will get $13 and a 5%- day week, Before the strike they got $12 and 5% days. Send in that Subscription Today, AN UP-TO-DATE STYLE FOR THE GROWING GIRL 4779, Plaid alpaca combined with plain alpaca is here shown. This model is also good for linen, flannel, Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. |to a proper fighting mood, and the Sis- THE DAILY WORKE\R CHURCHES CRY CHALLENGE TO WAR SYSTEM Federal Council Can’t See Class Struggle By LAURENCE TODD. Federated Press Staff Correspondent, WASHINGTON, June 24.— Pres. Coolidge, Dawes, Pershing, Gen. Fries of the chemical warfare service and the rest of the super-guardians of pre- paredness are today directly challenged by the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches. Nothing that Jane Addams and the Womens International League said or did, in their recent world congress here, was so cruel in its implicaticas to the military ring as the respectable spokes- men of 22,0000,000 respectable church- goers in these United States have handed to the velvet-salaried generals. “Let the churches challenge the war system,” is the slogan which the exe- cutive committee of the church feder- ation has announced. What Will Dawes Say? Gen. Barnett of the marines, recent- ly discussing this issue here, answered that anybody opposing the national defense on principle should be locked up as a traitor. “Let them refuse, unequivocally,” Says the church committee, “to sup- port pagan international policies or acquiesce in colossal and provocative preparations for super-pagan wars. . The substitution of law, conciliation and arbitration for war in the settle- ment of international disputes is a matter of moral principle.” Gen. Dawes may respond to this challenge by pointing out that the only modern leaders who have relied on turning the left cheek were those fiendish traitors, Lenin and Trotsky, who refused to fight the Germans and waited for the Germans to re- ciprocate their Christian spirit. The result was that Woodrow Wilson had to invade Russia to bring them back son documents had to be forged to put a moral face on the proceeding. Don’t See Class War. How far the dangerous sly-unor- thodox thots of these churchmen have led is suggested by their appeal to all churches to declare their convic- ward countries. with China and Japan. tian lines. idge to set the churchmen right. Helpless-Hopeful “Progressives” in New Political Game (By the Federated Press.) macy and popular control of foreign policy, which were not won by the war, must be won in peace time in the opinion of a nation-wide group who have organized the Emergency For- eign Policy Conference for that pur- pose, The organization which began in the west and Washington, D. C., is becoming active on the Atlantic coast. Information on foreign affairs which the U. 8S. state department is unable or unwilling to impart is fur- nished by the association to its mem- bers with the constructive aim of world co-operation and peace in view. Senators Shipstead of Minnesota, and Wheeler of Montana and Con- gressman John M. Nelson of Wiscon- sin are on the national executive com- mittee. William H. Johnston of the Machin: and Leroy Peterson of the New York Amalgamated Bank are among the labor representatives on the committees. Essential principles of the organiza- tion are listed as follows: Political democracy, economic equality of na- tions, If determination of peoples, international co-operation, internation- al disarmament, candor in foreign re- tions. With Help of U. S. and Dawes’ Plan Labor Govt. Hopes to Slug Germans LONDON, Eng., June 24.—Follow- ing the conferance between Ramsay MacDonald and Premier Herriot yes- , terday MacDonald announced today in ™pho|the House of Commons that he will invite the United States to send rep- resentatives to a conference to dis- It is to be observed that nowhere in this appeal is anything said of the class struggle, nor world-wide pov- erty and exploitation, nor of social reconstruction on fundamental Chris- Yet even within the nar- row limits of its “Thou shalt not kill” Christianity, it is calculated to arouse Dawes and Fries and Weeks and Cool- NEW YORK, June 24—Open diplo- cuss putting the Dawes’ plan i" Short. Items From Soviet Russia Russian Irrigation. MOSCOW, June 24.—Extensive measures are being adopted by the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture for the carrying out of irrigation and other meliorative works throughout fhe Union of Soviet Republics. The main: attention is directed to irriga- tion in Turkestan, for which a sum of over 5 million roubles has been as- signed, Big works will also be under- taken in some Volga districts. Preparing Against Revolution. MOSCOW, June 24.—In an inter- view with Rumanian journalists, Mr. Mardaresou, the War Minister, stated that it was necessary to re-equip the Rumanian army, 80 as to be ready for any emergency. Accordingly, besides the increase of the war office esti- mates this year by 300 million as compared with last year, the Ruma- nian government is going to ask Par- liament for extraordinary supplemen- tafy credits. Aeroplane in Russia. MOSCOW, June 24,—The first di- rect aeroplane flight with passengers from Baku to Teheran, the capital of Persia, was made in May, completing the journey in six hours. The follow- ing day an aeroplane arrived in Te- heran by the other route from. Baku via Enzeli. All the aeroplanes on this route, which now connects Persia-and Russia, were made in Soviet factories -|for the Persian government. Russian Chemists Unite. MOSCOW, June 24.—The founders meeting of a new society called “The Friends of Chemical Defense and Chemical Industry” was held at the Moscow Big Theatre today, with the participation of Trotzky, People’s War Commissary, and the representatives of the economics and scientific public organizations of all the Soviet Union Republics. Reports on the subjects pursued by the Society were made by Trotzky and Academician Ipatieff, representing the initiative group. France Recognizes Trade Marks. MOSCOW, June 24.—(By Mail).—A joint-stock company, “Le Pilots,” has been founded in France for the reg- istration of trade marks and patents in the Union of Socialist & Soviet manager. A number of trade marks. New Earthquake “Feelers.” Leningrad. this summer. Belgium Interested in Russia. MOSCOW, May 19—(By Soviet Socialist Republics. talist organs write about the numer- ous Belgian interests in Russia, French Arming Roumania. government signed a contract 400 French aeroplanes, to Roumania to pay for this order. Investigating Magnetic. mansk district to investigate very powerful one. Swedes to Come to Moscow. moscow, pointed minister to Moscow. Mr. Du Fourceau Lajel- ouso, vice-president of the Banker's Syndicate, has been elected chairman of the board and Mr. Fournier chief industrial plants have already applied to the new company for registration of their MOSCOW, June 24,—Vladivostok is to have a first-class seismographic station, according to a project just ap- proved by the Academy of Science at It has further been de- cided to restore the seismographic station at Petrogravlovsk, Kamtchat- ka; the reconstruction of the latter is to be completed in the course of Mail). — Paris reports show that the Belgian public opinion evinces much interest in the question of the resumption of normal relations with the Union of The capi- MOSCOW, June 24, The Roumanian in April for the delivery to Rumania of The French financial circles have offered a loan MOSCOW, June 24.—Two research parties are starting work in the Mur- the Murmansk magnetic anomaly, which was reported as presumably being a June 24,—It is antici- pated in Stockholm, according to in- formation revealed by the Communist paper, Politiken, that Major Wirsen, formerly Swedish minister at Bukha- rest, Athens and Belgrad, is to be ap- UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS FIVE MEN FOR EVERY JOB IN HARVEST FIELDS Rounding ‘Up Wobblies As Vagrants (Special to The Daily Worker) ENID, Okla., June 24.—Misery is the chief characteristic of several hundred harvest hands assembled here for the wheat harvest which is opening. On-.an average there are about five men to every job, and jonly fighting will keep wages over |$3 a day. Desperate and hungry, scores of the itinerant workers “bum” pedestrians along the street for dimes and nickels with which to purchase sandwiches. O. L. Lineoln, Garfield county sheriff, has announced that all I. W. W. members will be arrested and “vagged.” Recently H. L. McKee, one of his deputies, picked up Jack Mar- tin, H. Carr and Guy Thompson in the Frisco yards after he said he had found wobbly cards on them. Blind Hate. Garfield county is a Ku Klux Klan stronghold, many of the county and city officials being in collusion with or subservient to the Invisible Em- pire. Altho not advanced enough in- tellectually to understand Commun- ism, they “just hate it on general terms.’ Generally speaking, the workers are in a befuddled state and not a third as class conscious as the guiding spirits in the chamber of com merce, Bosses’ United Front Tries to Break Strike of Carpenters in K. C. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 24.—The shipping bosses of this place are co- operating with marine contractors and shipyards in an effort to break the strike of the carpenters on the waterfront here. The Shipping Fed- eration has loaned the “Fink” hall thru which all waterfront workers must pass to obtain employment on the waterfront now for the purpose of recruiting scabs against the car- penters. Bulletins are placed on the boards inside the hall stating that so many men are required and when the put to work as scabs. ers, however, the union. excellent. Smuts, Defeated in Election, Will Take (Special to the Daily Worker.) CAPETOWN, June 24.—Jan Chris- tian Smuts has resigned as premier of South Africa because of his defeat in the recent elections and will accept the offer of Col. G. M. Claasen, Trans- yaal, to contest his seat. Smuts, the leader of the “love-mother-England” imperialists of the South African party, will not be contested in Claa- sen’s place in the assembly. It was suggested shortly after elections that Smuts might come to the United States, but home politics seem to be more attractive to him just now. Soviets Represented in Gree MOSCOW, June 24.—Mr. Ustinoff, formerly counsellor of the Russian Soviet embassy at Berlin, has been appointed plenipotentiary represen- tative of the Union of Soviet Social- ist Republics to Greece and has left for his new post at Athens. He is the first official Soviet representative in Greece. More Sugar Refineries. MOSCOW, June 24.—In view of the enlarged plan of refined sugar pro- duction in the working year, 1924-25, the Sugar Trust has decided to run four more large sugar refineri which are now being repaired put in fitting order, “All to ! all ioggibee men are secured they are herded to some ship where the strike is on and Many work- refused to serve as strikebreakers with the result that several of the largest of the ship- yards and marine contractors have been compelled to come to terms with The strikers are holding out for their demnads for an increase in the scale of wages from $7.50 to $8 and the prospects of victory are Seat from Supporter SWABECK WILL TEACH TRADE UNION METHODS BEGINNING JUNE 26 “How Té Conduct Yourself In The Trade Union” is the subject of an interesting course of lessons which Arne Swabeck, District Or- ganizer of the Workers party, be- gins Thursday evening, June 26, at the Technical School, 1902 West Division Street, at 8 o'clock sharp. The course will consist of four les- sons and will teach the rudiments of trade union procedure, explaining to the students what their individ- ual rights are as members of a trade union, and how to exercise those rights even in the face of re- actionary bureaucratic union offi- cials. Swabeck knows his subject thor- oly. He is a man of many years’ experience in the American Trade Union Movement and has figured in some of the most important labor struggles in recent history. He isa member of the painters’ union and is a delegate from his local to the Chicago Federation of Labor. He is editor of the Progressive Building Trades Worker. The classes will be open to all who wish to attend, free of charge. They are conducted under the aus- pices of the Workers Party, Local Chicago. Free Speech Plank Jab at Democrats Paes * . By Civil Liberties (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, June 24.—Efforts to get the Democratic party to incorpo- fate a “plain and practical free speech plank” in its platform, follow- ing the “vague declaration of devo- tion to liberty in the Republican plat- form,” have been started by the American Civil Liberties union in a letter to Cordell Hull, chairman of the Democratic national committee and to Democratic leaders. Among the abuses of civil rights listed in the plank are the following: (1) Sections of the immigration law authorizing the deportation of aliens for holding forbidden views; (2) re- strictions on political and industrial propaganda thru the United States mails; iting strike activities; as contempt of court language opinion. Send in that Subscription Today. Your Union Meeting Blacksmiths’ $. Throop St Boiler Make' Carpent % Carpents eld nm and EHLING, Rec. 2253 G fit. Irving 759% Carpenters, 6414 S. Halst: Carpenters, 1581 Maple Av ston, Ill, 8901 Escanaba Avi i 1352 W. Div Carpe 505 S. St be CARPENTERS, 1638 _N. HA ST., H. F ri N. © N. A Cicero Ave. W. Monroe St. meetings DP. Send in that Subscription Today. ‘i re (3) sweeping injunctions im- (4) punishing ised outside the presence of the court; (5) restricting picketing to the point of prohibiting it in times of strike; (6) sustaining “yellow dog” contracts by means of which union organization is stopped; (7) criminal syndicalism and sedition laws in 34 states and terri- tories penalizing mere expressions of FOURTH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1924, District Council, 119 e and Racine vd. Lexing- rk S$ shiand Bivd. 'W. 63d St. it. Council, 5445 810 W. Harrison St. way Workers, 914 . Harrison (Note—Unless. ned ie «stated = all re A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN "No! We just, wanted to look at thie other side, BLAMEFASCIST 4 DICTATOR FOR DEPUTY'S LOSS IN. Y. Italians Charge Mussolini Guilty (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, June 24.—Excitement is running high among Italians in New York over the murder in Italy of the Socialist deputy Matteotti by the Fas- cisti. Premier Mussolini, the Fascist chief, is held responsible for the crime. Resolutions of sympathy have been cabled to Matteotti’s widow in Rome, by the Central Trades and Labor coun- cil and Italian clothing workers’ ua- fons. Delegates to the National Wo- men’s Trade Union Léague convention in session here denounced the terror in Rome and expressed solidarity with Ltalian labor in its life and death struggle against the Fascist govern- ment and Black-Shirt army. Mass Meeting June 26, In Italian shops and restaurants the murder is the one topic of conversa- tion, as many Italian leaders in New York were close personal friends of Matteotti. Protest meetings, which are being held in different parts of the city, will culminate in a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall, June 26. Details of this murder and other Fascist crimes, which have been sup- pressed by the Rome censorship, will be revealed at the meeting by speak- ers who are in direct communication with anti-Fascist groups in Italy. The Central Trades and Labor council, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers, Italian Chamber of Labor, United He- brew Trades and the Anti-Fascist Al- liance are among the organizations backing the protest meeting. If Ben Wins, “If Mussolini gets away with this murder there will be a revival of the Fascist movement by his American agents, probably followed by similar black-hand murders in this country,” says Arturo Giovanhitti, secretary Anti-Fascist Alliance. He explained |that Mussolini has sent men and mon- ey to the United States to gain con- trol of the Italian-American popula- tion and duplicate in this country his Fascist suenese- “Settle Strike or Be Responsible,” Miners Order German Govt. BOCHUM, Germany, June 24.—The German Miners’ Federation has ad- dressed a solemn warning to the Ger- man government that, unless steps are taken mighty quickly to settle the conflict and bring the operators to terms, “events will transpire in the Ruhr region that for decades will cast their shadows upon the development of our hard-struggling German nar tion.” Holmes Heads Civil Liberties. NEW YORK, June 24.—During the absence of Prof. Harry F. Ward, abroad for a year, the American Civil Liberties union announces that the chairmanship of that organization will be filled by the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Community church. Dr. Holmes has been iden- tified with the fight for free speech since the early days of the war, serv- ing as a member of the executive committee of the union since its or- ganization. “{ The union also announces the ap- pointment of Wolcott H. Pitkin of New York as counsel in place of Wal- ter Nelles, who is engaged on a year’s work in legal research. 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