The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 30, 1924, Page 2

Page Two U.S. LAWLESSLY ___DEPORTS ALIENS _ONFAKE VISAES Send Russians on False THE DAILY WORKER HOW THIS YANKEE AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO CAN LIE Warren’s Stuff is the Wednesday, July 30, 1924 CANADA MINERS DEMAND HOWAT'S REINSTATEMENT District 18 Supports MORGAN’S SCAB KENTUCKY MINES GET NEW RAIL CONNECTIONS FOR COMPETITION WITH UNION FIELDS By, LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Capital is preparing with all possible speed to develop in western Kentucky a strong non-union coal field in direct compe- House of Morgan Fears Beating of New Drums of War Passports of Priest (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, July 29.— Deliber- ate defiance of law in the shipping to Europe of Russian aliens charged with tition with the union mines of southern Illinois. New rail @on- nections are being pushed to open up virgin coal land and 15 new operations are in prospect . This field enjoys exception- ally low freight rates into the north and northwest and low cost of production obtained in some instances by cheating the non- Rawest Ever MEXICO CITY, July 29.—The state- ments made by Ambassador Warren before returning to the United States are characteristic of the hypocrisy of By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Today: the beating of war drums is again heard in West- Militant Miners (Special to the DAILY WORKER) CALGARY, Alta., July 29.—In spite of the opposition of the reactionary officialdom of District 18, U. M. W. of being Communists, and without legal) ynion miners, Miners and operators of southern Illinois are|United States imperialism. He said A, the rank and file of the miners passports whereby they may be ad-| seriously affected. that his country never tried to butt ern Europe. On the tenth anniversary of the last great {iyo shown themselves to be whole- Een pabadaaben adhe dha ates Such are the conclusions of a committee of Herrin, IL, busi-| into tie affairs of the Latin-American! war, General Nollet, the French minister of war, makes new |heartedly behind the movement to he artme) 0! zabor y m ny Le t : ., of ican Civil Liberties Union, in a letter|2€88 Men who made a trip ai a beat no tveuldent lag cver bead re| | threats, this time, against Great Britain. suis Hp d oat suman of protest delivered to Secretary of|inspection thru Kentucky coal elected, the tyrant Leguia has been Ten years ago, today, cannonading began along the |inions have demanded that a special Labor Davis, An unfrocked Ukraini-|regions under the lead of H. W. made president for the second term] banks of the Danube, following the declaration of war by an priest named Ivan Ardan, claiming to represent the “Ukrainian People’s Republic (of Petlura) which was sup- pressed four years ago, is the tool employed in the issuance of these fake passports. One recent victim was Grofey Okoletenko, who was sent to Switzerland and has just returned on fhe Leviathan. Another, Michael Bi- lokunsky, deported to Switzerland on May 24, is now “stranded and starv- ing in Vienna.” Ex-Priest Faker. In answer to inquiries by the Civil Liberties Union, the state department some time ago formally declared that it had not recognized the self-styled Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission, which is the name under which Ardan and various confederates have operated. ‘The Canadian government has arrest- ed a representative of this group and stopped his traffic in worthless pass- ports. The address of Ardan was for- merly 1901 Columbia Road, Washing- ton, and has now been changed to 2507 Brentwood Road, where the ex- Priest refuses to see or talk to the press. Immigration Head Insolvent. “When we get a fellow that we want to deport to Russia we send to Ardan for a passport, and we shall keep on doing it so long as we choose” was the belligerent declaration of Inspector Russell, at the Bureati of Immigration in the Department of Labor. Russell claimed to have full authority over deportation of undesirable aliens. “Don’t you know that Ardan is a fraud, that his government has been, dead for four years past, and that no- body with one of his fake papers can get into Ukraine or any other-part of Russia?” he was asked. “I don’t know as I have to answer you anything,” was the reply. “So fong as we can get the Swiss consul general in New York to put a visa on the passport, it is good enough for us. The Russian goes to Switzerland, and that is the lookout of the Swiss He can’t come back here.” at the expense of the American gov- ernment. Ardan pocketed the fee for issuance of a passport. In the same way, a number of victims were sent to Germany, where they were strand- ed. Some were finally permitted to enter Russia; others were returned here. Then the Swiss and Roumani- an consuls were induced to assist in the lawbreaking. The signers of the Civil Liberties protest letter, the Rev. John Haynes Holmes and Roger N. Baldwin, state that hundreds of Russians, under or- der of deportation, are at liberty un- der bonds, awaiting the time when, by diplomatic recognition of Russia, the American government can legally deport them. A. Yazikoff, official Sov- jet representative in Canada, warns all Russian citizens that no passports issued by Ardan, or by his New York representative, Zahajevich, will be recognized at the Soviet borders. I. W. W. Subject of T. Militants Meet Harrison George, writer and in Chicago. 1. W. W. will speak on “The I. W. the next meeting of the T. U. E. L. on Wednesday, July 30, at North- West Hall, corner North and Western avenues. reports by attending delegates, these meetings, and especially the one tonight, should receive the attention of every thinking worker Trovillion, editor of the Herrin News. Morgan’s Scab Mines. They found that non-union mines alone enjoyed anything like steady operation, mentioning especially the West Kentucky Coal Co., which bank- ers assert has ‘the backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. Their report saya, “The statement that this field is going to cut quite a figure in competing with southern Illi- nois was borne out by what the party saw on every hand. In fact the prepar- ations being made for a big tonnage, the opening of new properties, the building of a new coal line by the IIli- nois Central railway and the feeling ‘expressed everywhere that the coun- try was on the treshold of a great boom convinced the party that here is a coal field to be reckoned with and that it would affect southern Illinois more than any other field with which it would come into competition.” Union Region Shut Down. They did not go into Muhlenberg region because it was solid union and shut down. But they reported a gen- eral feeling “that Muhlenberg terri- tory will never operate other than union mines as the unions have the situation there well in hand.” Reports of extremely low non-union production costs were found to be current, coupled with the charge that non-union miners were often cheated on weight, thus getting paid as low as 30c to 40c a ton. Strip mines, frequently with considerable produc- tion, are being opened up all along the railways. Wages at such mines ranged from $3.75 to $4 a day which enabled the operators to get their coal out as cheap as 50c a ton. Wages, In Morgan’s Mines. One part of the report deals with the St. Bernard company which went non-union when it was taken over by J. P, Morgan’s West Kentucky Coal Co. Their miners’ wages are: -loaders, motormen, $5.75; track layers and helpers, 5.28, inside labor, $5.26, out- side labor, $4.86, and trappers, $2.72. The men are represented by a com- pany union with a council of 4 miners and 3 representatives of the company to handle grievances. . New Coal Road Running North, “What gives the greatest promise to this coal field,” the report says, “4s the building of the Illinois Central railway cutoff which will open in Oc- tober. Thé line is constructed with so slight a grade that it will permit the operation of heavy trains.” Con- gested transportation alone prevented Kentucky coal from playing its full strikebreaking roll during the 1922 strike. When the shopmen’s strike plugged up the little neck of the Ken- tucky bottle the victory of the miners was assured. Capital is evidently working to eliminate this weak point in their line of battle. U. E. L. Meeting; Wednesday, Tonight speaker, active for years in the W. in the Labor Movement” at DELAYS ACTION AGAINST UNION Railroad Brotherhoods Gain a Point The United States Railroad Labor Board, after arbitrarily ruling that its former decision that the railroad brotherhoods must submit to the board’s jurisdiction of wage disputes with Western railroad carriers, yes- jterday postponed further action on |the matter until September 8th, ac- | cording to the announcement from the |office of Ben Hooper. Hooper, who is chairman of the Railroad Labor Board, had declared |that court action to force the railroad union representatives to testify would be taken “promptly and with certi- tude.” » But at yesterday's session of the board the matter was postponed. Under the Transportation Act, created in 1920, the railroad unions have the right to negotiate with the individual carriers. This they have not yet done, is their claim, There is a possibility that the railroad unions will challenge the constitution- ality of the Transportation Act. Attorney Donald Richberg an- nounced that the arbitrary ruling of the Labor Board is “a lawless abuse of public authority and denies the employes the undoubted constitutional rights, that of liberty of contract and the right not to be deprived of liberty or property without due process . of law.” Soviet Trade with Denmark Increases Since Recognition LENINGRAD, July 29.—In spite of the fact that the Soviet Trade Mission in Denmark has been established but a short time, the results achieved are quite substantial, says Mr. Stihl, Act- ing Trade Commissioner of the Ussr at Copenhagen. The Soviet has placed big orders for special barrel wood, cement work, machinery and chemicals, the Danish manufacturers having agreed to a six months’ credit. As for Soviet ex- ports, the Danish market is interested in purchasing sunflower, flax and cot- ton oils, as well as Russian rye, whose excellent quality makes it possible for it to compete with American rye which had flooded the Danish market. The results are that about 30 per cent of Denmark's requirements of ‘grain are now covered by Soviet rye. * Stone Age Skeletons : Of Men and Animals Found in Far Siberia MOSCOW, July 29.— Discoveries which may prove to be an important contribution to the cultural history.of mankind, have been made by two archeologists, Professors Auerbach bones of bisons, gigantic deer and mammoths, resembling the American buffalo. 700 different kinds of stone weapons were also discovered. The Significance of August 10th “Most everything has significance these days, so why not August 10?” truculently demanded Sam Ham- mersmark, Advertising Manager of the DAILY WORKER, as he waded into the editorial. staff with nifty verbal biffs over the scanty publi- city hitherto given to what Sam opines will be the biggest event of be season. “June 17 has come and gone and July 4 is dead and gone,” continued Comrade Hammersmark, waxing lyrical as Max Schactman would say “but August 10—say why not write something about it, he cooed finding his bellicosity created a united front of the general staff against him. To allay your well-founded excite- ment we desire to inform you that it is not going to be another politi- eal convention, but it will be a gathering of workers and in the throng will be some politicians, pro- letarian politicians, It is not neces: at this late hour, historically king, to. de- fend the politician, but if you belong to the stone-age section of the work- ing class, in other words, if you have been asleep since the pre- amble of the I, W. W. was improved upon, we Take the liberty of inform- ing you that the working class poll- tician who politicians for the work- ers has come of age and is a highly respectable individual loved by his friends and feared by his enemies. At least let us hope so. More about this later on, This is a first install- ment of the DAILY WORKER Pic- nic publicity—say we almost forgot to tell you what all the shouting wis about. Well, here goes. Facts are usually unpleasant, but this ié am exception nn the that breaks the rule, On August 10, the Workers Party Annual Press Picnic will take place in Riverview Park. This year The DAILY WORKER will be the big gun among the flock of Workers Party papers which will seek aid and comfort from party members and sympathizers. Tickets sell for 35 cents each. By arrangement with other sections of the Workers Party all other party and league af- fairs are off for that day. Workers Party mémbers and sym- pathizers, we are inviting you to Riverview Park on August 10, not only because we know you are the tiger's mustache as far as militancy is concerned, but we are going to give you the time of your lives be- sides. Watch out for the August 10 DAILY WORKER publicity. It will be a picnic in itself, as f \ because he has granted unheard-of concessions to American interests. “The U. 8. has no scruples about changing constitutions where it suits her purpose,” is the statement made by Anibal Secada, well known news- paper man of Peru, who was exiled for leading a successful strike against American interests. Nor does’ she hesitate to uphold’ a constitution where it is.to her advantage, as she is doing in Nicaragua, for example. She is opposed to President Marti- nez, because she has not been able to get as much out of him as she did out of Leguia, and so does not wish to see him re-elected. In Peru a few months before election the constitu- tion was suddenly changed, and all those opposed to the amendment mak- ing re-election legal were either -im- prisoned or exiled. Ambassador Warren goes on pat- ronizingly: “We have helped Presi- dent Obregon put down the de la Huerta revolt.” He says nothing about the fact that the U. S. unloaded a lot of rotten “Enfield” rifles for a fat price, which have caused numer- ous accidents and many deaths among the soldiers who used them. American Farmers’ Co-operatives Do Prosperous Business There are over 10,000 farmers’ co- operative enterprises in the United States, and the 8,313 of them report- ing in 1925 transacted a business of $1,700,000,000. The government ex- perts agree that the busines: of the 2,009 societies which have not yet re- ported will yun the total weli up over $2.000,09 9,000. The farmers’ co-operative activities follow *cur main lines of maiketing besides a large amount of collective there are 2,600 co-operatives for the handling and marketing of grain, 1,841 for dairy products, 1,182 for live stock, and 956 for the growing, grad- ing, and marketing of fruits and vege- tables. The grain co-operatives did almost an even half billion dollars worth of business during the year, while dairy products and fruit and vegetable co-operatives each handled around $300,000,000 for the same period. The farmers are not only learning to get more for their crops thru co- operative producers’ societies, but they are also cutting down their ex- penses by the, co-operative purchase of farm and home supplies. There are about 1,000 such co-operatives now serving the farmers of the country, doing a business of $50,000,000 a year. Virgin Islands Have Too Big Budget But Governor Says O. K. By ROTHSCHILD FRANCIS (Special to the DAILY WORKER) ST. THOMAS, V. L, July 29.—The legislature here, a survival of early Danish Rule, and elected by property S. Navy, remarked at the end of the Budget: “The above Budget is here- by sanctioned and approved in whole. The deficit of Francs, 639,778, is greater than the Government is, at present, able to see its way towards financing, and it is on this basis and with this understanding that this Bud- get is approved.” Eastman, Gold In London. “This is Fleet Street, busiest news- paper row I’ve ever seen,” writes Michael Gold from London. Gold is on the art staff of the “Liberator” and has been writing on the Pacific coast until recently. Gold reports that he has seen Max Hastmhan, former edi- tor of the “Liberater,” who also has just arrived in London, but from a different direction. Eastman has been in Russia for some time, SEY Gi” Ha ee \ Blame Booze or Beef? ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 29.— John Voll, 55, of Philadelphia, and president of the Glass Bottle Blowers’ Association, is dead here of acute indigestion. Voll had been prominent in labor circles for twenty years and for nine years was president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, Austria upon Servia, for the assassination of the Austrian heir apparent and his wife at Sarajevo. But the war spread over all Europe, practically over all the world, drawing in Japan as well as the United States, The struggle finally developed into a great military tug- of-war, between millions upon millions of armed humans, for possession of the coal and iron, for the ownership of the great industfies of the Valley of the Ruhr. * = * * TODAY, the soldiers of France occupy the Ruhr. Great Britain and the House of Morgan, backed by the United States government, ask France and her soldiers to get out of the Ruhr. ‘ The tug-of-war, following the armistice, was shifted thru fifteen separate conferences, until it has now reached the banks of the Thames, in London. It is a desperate diplomatic struggle, under the thumb of the international financier, J. Pierpont Morgan, who is himself hastening ag the Atlantic Ocean, in ah effort to break the dead- lock, . Morgan wants his money. Secretaries Hughes and Mellon, the latter the third richest man in the United States, are in London to help him get it. The British are going to have a hard time paying their debts, if industry is not re- vived and put on a stable basis in Western Europe. * * * When the war drums beat today, they beat for the same reason that they rolled out their ominous portent ten years ago. In 1914 France and Germany faced each other for the supreme position in Europe, for its industrial overlordship. Today, in 1924, France faces Great Britain as she faced Germany, ten years ago. The “labor government” of J. Ramsay MacDonald pre- pares a display of battleships, 40 miles long, for the benefit of the French diplomats in London, just as Kaiser Wilhelm had his regular military maneuvers. In fact, ten years ago, on the eve of the war, the Kaiser had his naval display in the North Sea, just as Premier MacDonald is having his as * * * ae To be sure, it arouses the French. The French minister of war, Nollet, in London, hands in his resignation to Pre- mier Herriot for the fourth time. Minister of War Nollet refused to attend MacDonald's naval maneuver last Saturday at Spithead. Instead, he lost here. * * * * To be sure, both the French and British can agree on placing the blame for most of their troubles on the shoulders of the American bankers. The borrowers are always able to unite against the lender. France and England can form a united front against the Wall Street loan sharks. But if Wall Street cannot force both France and England into sub- mission, it must back either one against the other. And since Morgan is financial agent for England, it is logical that the United States should back the British against the French, with Germany also an ally of British imperialism. Thus the line-up changes in the short period of a decade. . * * * U. S. Secretary of State Hughes, the diplomat of the Standard Oil Trust, rushes across the channel to Paris to warn the French that: “The alternative of success of the (London) conference is so disastrous that | still believe a satisfactory solution can be reached.” He means, of course, “must be reached.” The cables report also that the American Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick, former president of the Amer- ican Bankers’ Association, is trying to get Hughes together with the former French premier, so that Hs soo can urge Poincare not to attack Premier Herriot, and to warn him ‘(Poincare) of the “serious economic and financial results which are inevitable if the experts’ plan is not adopted, ahd an amicable solution for, the reparations problem found.” * * * It is very evident that the House of Morgan does not mobilization of the working m against their own gov- ernments, for the triumph of Workers’ Rule against the capitalist rulers at home. Then the House of Morgan would be compelled to kiss “Good Bye” to all its investments in Europe, jest as it bade farewell to loans made to the czar when the Russian work- ers and farmers came into power. * There is good reason why J. Pierpont Morgan is hasten- ing to Europe. He hears the roll of new war drums on the tenth anniversary of the War of 1914. If war comes, it must be the war that will mean the end of the House of Morgan. French Socialist Treason in 1914 ENAUDEL in “Humanity,” August 4, 1914: “The chamber will hold a session tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, in which it will grant a loan. This loan will be granted unanimously. “German imperialism, which a few days ago revealed itself in an open manifesto of the socialist party, is displaying itself in all its brutality, and It seems to us that the hour has come when Europe, if she does hot wish to bend under the yoke of German imperialism, will pay Germany in her own coin, of the f brute force. | “Germany has arrayed all Europe against her. We await the verdict of battle and hope that it may end victorlously for us.’” Let It Never Be Again! convention be immediately called for the purpose of demanding on behalf of the district that the Lewis admin- istration call a special international convention to take up the question of the reinstatement of the militant miners, including Howat, expelled by the Lewis machine. In spite of this demand by more than half of the local unions of the district, the officialdom led by Sherman, the renegade mili- tant who has lined up with Lewis, a district convention has not been called. The locals that have passed the resolution demanding a district convention haye also endorsed the call for a special convention passed by the Illinois miners in their district convention. Striking Two Months, Since April 1st the miners of this district have been on strike against a reduction of $1.17 a day. For the first two months of the strike no relief funds were available until the workers of Canada started supporting the miners with donations. In this work the Communist Party of Canada has taken a leading part. The offi- cialdom of the district also introduced the policy of signing individual agree- ments with local operators at the old scale of wages. Resentment against the Lewis administration because any funds for relief were refused the miners, combined with the misman- agement of the strike, and the deter- mination to aid the fight to reinstate Alexander Howat led to the demand for the special district convention. The yellow district officialdom refuses to call the convention because it knows that the conventign would sup- port the resolutions introduced by the militants in the union. Don’t Be Misled. The work of lining up the locals for the calling of a special convention is continuing, and in some places the more impatient of the miners are talk- i i ing of the necessity of a “rank and i 60.8¢ per ton, machine men, $5.68 a purchasing, says fhe All-American Co- promised, that when Premier MacDonald next comes to E a Swiss Roumanians Obey U. §. | day, dwens and trip prose es operative (Co jon, Figures com-| Paris, he will prepare a military maneuver of 200,000 French - ee eee cok 2 be held rad el e Nevertheless, Grofey Okoletenko|timbermen and switch layers, $548, (Rostar News) piled by the government show that] soldiers for the British “labor” premier. There is no love habaagraspee ery ts tal oreceints Stage 7 has come back from Switzerland, and Pp Pp vy ‘4 miners, since it would play into the hands of Sherman. They hold that if the “rank and file” convention is held, Sherman will expel the locals par- ticipating in it on the plea that he has to preserve the unity of the union during a strike, and that the conven- tion is called to split from the U. M. W. It is also common knowledge that Sherman would be only too glad to get rid of the militants before the district elections take place in De- cember of this year. Whether the miners are led into a rank and file convention, thus giving Sherman a chance to smash them, will depend upon the leadership of the militants in the local unions. The Canadian coal miners are sol- idly behind the fight of Alexander Howat and the other expelled mili- tants to get reinstated into the union. District 26 is under the “provisional government” of the Lewis machine and is therefore unable to demand ‘that a special international conven- tion be called, but the miners. of District 18 are taking steps to add ‘their forces to those already lined up in the reinstatement of Alexander Howat. | and Sosnowsky, who have been car-| franchise, passed a Budget where the want war right now, between France and Great Britain. 1 Beside this lecture, Earl Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, rying on excavations in Siberia for the| expenditures exceed the revenue Memories of ten years ago among the great masses of 4 will speak on the latest developments of Labor in this country and past two years for the purpose of dis-| twice, as follows: Western European workers, are still too vivid. No matter i] the world over. These summaries have become a fixed feature of covering the remains of the first hu- Francs howe demani the Pivaleiencat Frsiich and British Imperialisms GAINED TENFOLD ql j every general meeting and are increasing in popularity. man settlement in that part of the} Total expenditure 1,263,078 may be, the House of Morgan is trying to hold them. in 4 H Jack Johnstone, A. Overgaard and Erwin Girsch will report on world. Total revenues .. 623,300 check “4 wee the situation in the Building, Metal and Needle Trades, including a The excavations have resulted in Bx paayRnGcY 7 IN THREE YEARS | special report on the situation in the Journeymen Tailors. the discovery of human skeletons of] T0tal defiCit ves 689,778 ahd Pale dicta ogg Bas gyn por ried as oe es For a real view of conditions in the field of organized labor, with the Stone Age, and the unearthing of} The governor, a captain of the U. ' ‘ars, y resu gr ° panes Trade with America Is Growing Fastest NEW YORK, July 29.—A ten-fold in- crease in Russian exports in the first half of the current fiscal year, as com- pared with the year ending Oct. 1, 1921, is reported by the Amtorg Trad- ing Corporation of New York, from figures of the Russian bureau of im- port and export trade, Ru with the United States is tween Russian and foreign. countries, imports from the United States hav- ing grown from 3 per cent of Russia's total import in 1922-23 to 7.6 per cent in the last fiscal year. The four prin- cipal items of Russian import now are metals, fuel, chemicals and textiles. Whereas itussia’s principal group imports at the beginning of the fiscal year 1922-23 were foodstuffs, amount- ing then to about’ 20 per cent of her entire imports, this group comprised only 6 per cent of the total Russian imports in the four months of the cur- rent fiscal year, This wi