The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1924, Page 1

e\ | || ; Vol. Il. No. 216. | ers’ Government The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1924 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAIL PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., forced 290 Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents Y WORKER icago, Til. Ch COMMUNISTS FIGHT CHILD LA THE INTERRUPTED LYNCHING AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. RITAIN continues to murder the natives of Sudan, because they want the right of self determination. Woodrow Wilson said that was one of the main issues involved in the world war. England declared she was fighting for the rights of small na- tions. .But not.so that the = Irish, Egyptians or Hindoos could see it. The United States government is not showing as much concern over the rape of Egyptian and Sudanese liber- ties by Britain as it did about the German march thru Belgium in 1914. see ‘x United States government now foguiesces in the British murder campaign in the Sudan,because her in- terests and those of Britain do not happen to clash there. But if Britain hopped onto Honduras or Mexico, the eagle would flap his wings. France does not like what England is doing in Egypt and the Sudan, but France is going thru the pockets of the Mo- roccans and at times thieves must maintain an attitude of involuntary neutrality towards each other. Th« peoples of the exploited eastern Countries are rapidly organizing thei: forces for the purpose of giving thc robber nations the bum’s rush. 2 LOYD GEORGE, the discreditec fimkey of British imperialism, writing for the Hearst syndicate, quotes Theodore Roosevelt's brutal advice to the Britis! ruling clads, in A speech delivered in London by that mountebank in 1910. “Teddy” en dorsed Britain’s occupation of Egyp' on the ground that it was necessary to restore order. For the benefit of those who may still suffer from the delusion ‘that Roosevelt was not one of America’s most notorious and nauseating hypocrites the following quotation from his. speech is given: ; h this primary object of order that. you went into Egypt twenty-cight years ago, and chief and ample justification fot your presence in Egypt was this abso- lite necessity of order being estab- lished from without, coupled with your ability and willingness to estab- lish it. MA POW, either you have the right ‘ to be in Egypt or you have not; either it is or it is not your duty: tc establish and keep order. If you fee” that you have not the right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and/keep order there, why, then, by ell means get out of Egypt. If as I hope, you feel that your duty to civ- ilized ‘mankind and your fealty to yow own great traditions alike bid you tc stay, then make fact and name agre: and show that you are ready to mee’ in /eyery need the responsibility which ‘HIS was the great “freedom-lov ing” American talking! And it is no wonder that the champion hypocrite of England should extol the outstanding American four-flusher. It is worthy of note that Lloyd George is not chargec with the responsibility of running the British empire just now. But he jumps into the fray, with voice anc pen when the interests of the empirc ate in jeopardy. And old Asquith, th« fake liberal, is heavily interested in Sudan cotton and irrigation ventures And the tory government sends troops to protect old Henry's interests just asthe labor party government did, In fact Lloyd George is correct ih saying that the colonial policy of the liberal, labor and tory govern- ments did not differ. “. se 8 1S is a lesson for those Ameri can radicals who still believe that “farmer labor party would figth th& battles of the workers.” havénever done it in any other coun is only one party that wil’ ‘ontinued on Page 2.) eee ~" William F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER will be the prin- pal speaker at the open meeting of the North Side Branch tonight at 8 m, at the Imperial Hall, 2409 N. street. Comrade , Dunne, was a delegate to the Fifth gress of the Communist Inter. onal and to the Third Congress Red International will 5: . of the Com- Meeting They, UNITED FRONT CALL ISSUED BY | WORKERS PARTY Big War onExploitation of Children Starts The Workers Party has issued a call for a united front’ of all workers’ organizations to com- bat the exploitation of. children. It is planned to immediately enlist all labor. organizations, unions, co-operatives, women’s organizations, fraternal organ- izations, and similar bodies in this campaign. Double-Edged Drive. The object of this drive is two-fold, as. follows: 1. Compel the state legislatures to immediately ratify the child labor amendment to the constitution. 2. Compel the state and federal le- gislatures to pass a law providing for ‘ull government maintenance of all school children of workers and poor farmers, without which, the Workers Party declares, a child labor law is useless, The statement on policy, organiza- tion and propaganda for this drive, sent out by the central executive com. mittee of the Workers Party, to all the party’s district organizers, foreign language federation secretaries, the Communist and labor press, is as fol- lows: Statement of Policy. 1. To immediately begin intensive agitation in all labor organizations, un- ions, co-operatives, women's’ organiza- tions, youth organizations, fraternal organizations, cultural organizations, Ach for the tplowing domanant” diately ratify the child labor amend: || ment to the constitution; (b) Conipel the state and federal legislatures. te pass @ law providing for fill govern- ment maintenance of all school chil- ‘hen of work: 1s and poor fa-ners. Thi: funds for this purpose to come from special taxes on high incomes. 2. To begin similar agitation in all organizations of poor farmers 3. The following slogans should serve as initial slogans in the cam- paign, to be supplemented with more and wider political slogans as the campaign progresses and gains in in- tensity; (a) Save from degeneration the youth of the workers and poor farmers; (b) Save the physical and moral well-being of the future gener- ations of the workers and poor farm- ers; (c) Protect your wages, your unions, and your standard of living by stopping the exploitation of child la- bor; (d) Unionize the working class youth. Every labor union, local and national, city and state, must estab- lish special youth departments to or- ganize the young workers and educate them in the class struggle; (e) Make the rich pay for the full maintenance (Continued on Page 2.) NEW OPEN SHOP DRIVE BEGINNING ON RAIL SHOPMEN By J. CHRISTOPHER. The management of the North Western railway shops are courting trouble with the 3,000 shop employes by a deflant attitude of violating the union agreement which provides that no employe shall be laid off without cause after his thirty day probation period has been passed. About forty union men are being discharged because they refused to work with a scab named Turner, an old painter foreman who was given a journeyman painter’s job about two years ago, during the shop crafts strike, but who has stalled off joining the union all this time under one ex- cuse or another. Seab’s Discharge Enforced. The union men, after having had their patience exhausted, called in the business agent of the Carmen's Union, who demanded of the manage ment that the scab painter be either (Continued on Page 2.) Days of Festivity The selections rendered by the Freiheit Singing Society proved among the most popular features of the DAILY WORK- ER and Labor Defense Council bazaar, which ended last night at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Saturday night was the spe- cial night for the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, Scandinavian, Bul- garian, Roumanian and Spanish comrades. The Danish Work- men’s Orchestra furnished splendid dance music to the large crowd which attended. Several thousand dollars was netted the DAILY WORKER and Labor De- fense Council on the admissior. tickets and sales, Articles of real value, sup- plying every need from a shaving out- fit to house furnishings were raffled off. The Young Workers’ League or- chestra played for the closing night of the bazaar, last night. The doorr opened at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon and the bazaar continued thru the evening. The feature of the bazaar last night was a series of prize awards. An auction sale was also hugely enjoyed by the crowd. The comrades and sympathizers who attended the sessions of the bazaar showed by their animated conversation that they had an enjoy- able social time. Those who attended clustered together in ever changing groups, their faces lit up with enjoy: ment of the occasion. 79 Foster Votes in Reading, Pa. READING, Pa., Noy. 30.—The vote tor Foster in Berks county, Pennsyl- vania, of which Reading is the county seat, was 79.——Harold R. John. BAZAAR PROVES + MASSACHUSETTS GIVES 4 WORKERS PARTY CAN- DATE 24,044 VOTES By JAMES J. LACEY. (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass. — Winfield A. Dwyer of Roxbury, Massachusetts, candidate for state secretary on the the Workers Party ticket in the re- cent election, received 4,921 votes in the city of Boston alone, and 24,044 votes in the state of Massachusetts as a whole. Comparing this to the vote of 1,999 and 2,816 for the 8. L. P, and andidates, respectively, me office, it is seen that Increasingly understand workers that Communists are taking the leadership in the everyday struggle, ey, the workers, are more and more ready to follow Communist leadership.. Comrade Dwyer is now leading the unemployed workers of Boston, BRITISH ADMIT SUDAN REVOLT VERY SERIOUS Imperial Mercenaries| Shell Hospital (Special to The Daity Worker) LONDON, Nov. 30.—The for-| eign office admitted today that! the situation in the Sudan was/ very serious. Troop movements towards Egypt still continue. The Gordon -highlanders, on wey to-india, were to Alexandria. ‘ The British artillery shelled the Khartum hospital on the bank of the Blue Nile. While the sick and wounded in the ho- spital raised agonizing screams the shells-of the British rained | down upon them carrying death and destruction. The capitalist correspondents are lying as loyally about the’ British atrocities in Egypt and the Sudan as they lied for pay during the world war. They are playing up the “hero- LOEB 1S ON TOUR IN INTERESTS OF ~ DAILY WORKER Spends Three Days in ~ WOULD MAKE IT WORSE BERLIN.—The pay slip of a metal worker In the factory of Max Levy, ‘German manufacturer of electrical apparatus, for the week reads as follows: Weekly Wages Less sick benefits HUGE SUCCESS Net Big Sum from Four Marks 20 ($4.80) 2.00 “nou COUN COMMUNISTS FORM COUNCIL OF UNEMPLOYED Boston Workers Party Aids Jobless By JAMES J. LACEY. (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Nov. 30.— The brass check press here is filled with accounts of a demonstra- tion staged at the state house and the. city hall by over a thousand unemployed workers under the leadership of Winfield A. Dwyer of the Freight Hand- lers’ Union, who was the Work- ers Party candidate for state secretary (polling 24,044 votes) in the recent elections. The army of jobless invaded the city council chamber and from the gal- lery cheered their spokesman as they challenged every utterance of the councilmen, Declaring that there had been too much passing of the buck, Dwyer said that if needed measures were not passed there would be con- sequences more serious than he would like to predict. Forms Unemployment Council. From the city hall the men marched to the state house where they met acting Governor Cook (Goy. Cox fs in Florida), who refered them to Gen eral Sweetzer who in turn referred (Continued on Page 2.) CASES HANDLED New Policy Has Widened Its Activities In August, 1924, by a decision of the resident executive committee, which was approved by the national com- mittee, the Labor Defense Council adopted a new line of policy, consider- ( ism” of British officers. Another Age and invalid insurance 40 * Lpmeurioneie Jess tg New York City Philip Gibbs may tell the truth about Taxes 50 conditions in Egypt today after he Moritz J. Loeb, business man-/|4tws his last pay check for prosti- Net wages 17 marks | ager of the DAILY WORKER, is tuting himself as Gibbs did in the world war. Answer With Bullets. The rebellion in the Sudanese army broke out after their Egyptian officers were withdrawn and British subal- ters substituted. The native troops remonstrated with the British, but were answered with a shower of lead. The natives fought very bravely despite their lack of ammunition and guns. The British mercenaries were provided with all modern weapons of war. After the open battle was over, the British began to shell the hospital, razing it to the ground and murdering everybody inside of it. Victory For British “Democracy.” The savage hirelings of British im- perialism, after their shells had made it safe for them to approach the hos- pital, captured and shot the wounded This particular worker is skilled, is married and has two children. For 48 hours of labor he is given 17 marks, or 8 cents over $4, This is not exceptional for metal work- ers in Berlin. On the other side of this pay slip is printed the adver- tisement ofa shoe firm stating that 20 marks per pair is a price which cannot be bettered in any other shoe store and that it makes a spe- cialty of shoes for workers. CHANG TSO-LIN “VISITS AGENTS OF BIG POWERS in, the field insuring the Work- ers Party’s English organ for the coming year. Tours are also being arranged for Walt Carmon, circulation manager, Alfred Wagenknecht, campaign director and. other party speakers in the interests of the “insurance policy” cam- paign, It is intended to have the party membership meet their daily thru these speakers, learn from them the needs and. possibilities of the DAILY WORKER, giving the membership to understand that it is upon their shoul- ders that the dafly rests, that it is by them that it must be carried forward. Comrade Loeb will visit the follow- ing cities in this first tour. In those cities where membership meetings - have been arranged, a full attendance | Sudanese, (Special to The Daily Worker) is requested. Tt was another victory for the Brit- PEKING, Nov. 30.—Chang Tso-Lin] mw yoRK CITY—Nov. 29, 30, |ish Empire. paid formal visits to the foreign lega- tions today, spending more time with the British and American capitalis representatives than with the others. Tt is said that the troops of the christian general Feng whose sudder seizure of Peking sent Wu Pei Fu's hopes into thin air, are proving every- thing but amenable to the wishes of their christian leader. Chang Tso-Lin tried to remove as much suspicion from the minds of the British and American legations as he could about his future intentions. He stated that he had no ambition to dominate China. nue at 10 a.m. A meeting of all party The capitalist powers are trying} functionaries will be held at the same hard to diseredit Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the] address in the evening. revolutionary leader and unifier o/| DHTROIT.—Dec. 8. General mem- China, but his standing with the| bership meeting at the House of the masses is 80 good that all attempts to| Masses. Branch secretaries will so- beposte' him politically are doom-| cure details from the district organ- iner, The latest British atrocity is ex- pected to fan the flames of anti- British hatred in Hgypt and the Sudan and thruout the Mohammedan pos sessions of the British Empire, ' Dec, 1. Conferences with party offi- cials and functionaries, BOSTON—Dee. 2. Meeting with C C. 'C. delegates and branch secretaries. PHILADELPHIA,—Dee. 4. General membership meeting. All branch sec- retaries will notify their branch mem- bers. Secure details from your dis- trict organizer. PITTSBURGH.—Dec. 6. General membership meeting. All branch sec- retaries will secure details from the district organizer. CLEVELAND.—Dec. 7. Loeb will address meeting at 6927 Euclid ave- (Special to The SCRANTON, Pa., Noy. 30.—Even the United Mine Workers of Anierica, ers, which has called a strike of 11,000 Coal company. complaints and ignores the commit- tee, feeling sure that Lewis, who, ii ably widening the scope of fts activ- ities, From that time forward, the Labor Defense Council has ceased to be merely an instrument for the de- fense of the Communists indicted in Michigan; it now concerns fiself with the defense of all Workers Party members prosecuted because of their opinions. Michigan Cases Developments in the Michigan eases now wait on the outcome of the Ruth- enberg appeal, which was heard by the Michigan supreme court, early in October. Decision is not expected for several months yet. According to statements given out by the prosecu- tion, an atempt will be made to bring William Z. Foster to trial again, in the event that conviction of Ruthen- berg is upheld. In any case, an ad- verse decision to the appeal will make it necessary to take the case to the United States supreme court. Other important cases which the Labor Defense Council is now hand ling, are the Farrell cases and the Pittsburgh cases. In addition to these, the Labor Defense Council is im terested in the defense of cases in Philadelphia and many other places. Especially worthy of emphasis at this time, we believe, are the numerous de- (Continued on page 5) ANTHRACITE COAL MINERS DEMAND THEIR GRIEVANCES BE ADJUSTED Daily Worker) the threat of John L. Lewis, head of to withdraw the charters of rebellious locals, has failed to impress the grievance committee of the anthracite min- miners employed by the Pennsylvania The grievance committee has repeatedly tried to make the company abide by the terms of its agreement in the settlement of miners’ grievances, but the company openly flouts the¢———————————____ tho at head of the union, is more con- cerned for the operators than for the miners would prevent serious strikes, Lewis has wired the locals to call off the strike by Monday or lose their charters, considered this threat but {t would not ply until all keh sare uni Grievances have The grievance committee