The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1924, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for ‘a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Nal Il. No. 217. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. To Chicago Daily News corres- pondent in Russia recently sent out a big yarn about persecution of ‘tonCommiunists in Russia, One of the sad facts related by this journal- ist, was that a devoted admirer of , Superstition trod, and for this offense | was thrown into prison. One of the les that he most missed was the privilege of licking the ground. We @¢ not know whether such a man was ever imprisoned or not, but we are in- glined to believe that the health de- " tt of any American city, would put him in a straight jacket. The | meron was ‘@atoh the foot and mouth disease. ee OHRISTLY pose is not the best | -device to escape suspicion nowa- | @ays, as Anton Lang, the famous pas- sien player of Oberammergau, varia, may readily admit. Portrayed the role Jesus Christ in the Play for many years. der suspicion of being a grafter. The ‘trouble began when the players were “induced to come to the United States ‘by wealthy Americans, and the finan- ‘elal. side of the venture was under ‘written by thirty men who put up $1,000 dollars each. “Ta Passion Play and the revenue therefrom appears to be a consi- , Gerable part of the visible means of |inat the British Communist Party is support of the Oberammergau villag erg, so they organized to get what y could out of the American tour. @rs had made at least 6ne hundred New York Times comes to the |yiey. These fake letters come in very defense of British rule in the Su- -@an. Och’s journal tries to take the rough edge. off Britain’s brutal ulti- to Egypt. It says that Eng- was only making a gesture to ss the “oriental mind” which is The orientals have proven that given equa- Mty of bayonets and other weapons of po awed for a gesture of force. war; gestures have no terror for it. Japan is just as “oriental” as Egypt, but force has no more terrors for them than it has for any other race. eee 'NGLAND, in its colonies. ‘Mohammedan ny by the HE ualte eer ee (XRAND Duke Cyril, who now exists the with his presence and the Grand Duke. store y cusatsan ithoriti and coat tic ia of the T. U. BE. L. will be present at he is too reactionary, but |this meeting to give a general outline there is too much com-|of the T, U. EB. L. program and some 'zar Nicholas’ grave. Cy-|specific examples of the application do the best he can now |of the program in various industries put on blinkers when- |Fosier’s talk will be preceded by re the Soviet embassy |ports by industrial organizers in It |industries where a strong T. U. that the American aristo-|group is functioning. All members in Paris are getting a kick out |and sympathizers of the ‘Trade Union “by keeping Grand Duke Nich-|Hducational League are urged to be red flag flies proudly, in hot dogs and coffee. was in 1923, when th SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ‘FINAL KICK T0 Patriarch Tikhon, kissed the ground | on which that bewhiskered prodigy of | | | | lucky that he did not) Ba- Lang has He is now un- ZINOVIEV GIVES STUPID FORGERY Outlines Real Tasks of | British Communists | (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW (By Mail.) —Brand- jing as a stupid forgery the now | famous letter which the British! |tories injected into the closing days of the election campaign, |Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the executive committee of the Communist International, issued a statement in which he ex- poses the objects of the British ruling class in framing such a they got was so little that they “gore and sent an investigator to States. He learned that the play- dollars on their trip, tho - omy handed over a paltry ten to the villagers. jesus, says the Times, en- courages progress towards self ‘What any other imperialist power and name is “Executive Committee of the has always resisted any efforts on the Communist International.” of defense against invasion from the a holiday in Kislovodsk and therefore There is great unrest thruout ‘could not have signed any official let- world today and | ter, ; defeat in Morocco has awak- e spirit of revolt in the Near| All these things are of course ‘Times does not think the |trifes. The clumsiness of the forgery nations should embarrass |can best be seen by examination of yl taking up the question |the contents of the “document.” Egyptian parliament. of a feather stick together, when fs Lay an that their victims may government, that he threaten- country which he had League of Philadelphia will meet on tatoe emch #0 tar | Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 8 p. m. at the for Cyril. The |Fairmount Ave. LAND, Me., Nov. 25.—Textile employes in this state wére sum- notified today that their wages had received a ten per cent cut. The of employes affected is 13,000, The latest wage decrease suffered > nt en In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. plot and expresses astonish- ment that Ramsay MacDonald, the so-called labor premier, should give his sanction to the publication of a White Guardist concoction. Task Is in Workshops. Zinoviev ridicules the suggestion now concerned with perfecting “mili- tary sections” and training leaders of its “Red Army.” The most important task of the British Communists just now is win- ning over the majority of the workers to the idea of the Communist Inter- national thru work in the trade malgne |and the workshops: similar stunt in that country before the coming elections, declared Zino- handy to bourgeois statesmen, like the American, Charles. Evans Hughes, when they are hard put to ‘defend their plots against the Workers’ Re- public, Here Is Zinoviev's Letter. The declaration: of Comrade Greg- ory Zinoviev, chairman of the Com- munist International, on the alleged “Red plot,”*is in full as follows: The letter of Sept. 15, 1924, which has been attributed to me is from the first to the last. word a forgery. Let us first take the heading. The organ- ization of which I am the president, never describes itself officially as the |“Executive Committee of the Third , Communist International;” the official Equally “The chair- The forger Forgery ts Clumsy. “It is time you thot of forming (Continued on Page 2.) Meeting for Foster In Philadelphia on Wednesday, Dec. 3 PHILADELPHIA, Dec, 1. —~ The General Trade Union Educational Slovack Timberman Hall, cor. 8th an¢ ‘Wm. Z. Foster, secretary treasurer ich L present. Communist E <i Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., REVAL WORKERS RISE IN ARMED FIGHT FOR POWER Esthonian While Guard Gets Hot Protests (Special. to The Daily Worker) LONDON, England, Dec. 1.—Reports as yet unconfirmed from Reval, Es- thonia, state that following the sen- tencing by court martial of 138 lead- ing members of the Esthonian Com- munist Party and the execution of a Communist member of parliament by the white guard army, a Communist uprising has occurred in which many police were killed and a government minister shot. Martial Law Rules. The reports inatcate that the Com- munists occupied the railway station, the telegraph and telephone offices and . government buildings. The wiest fighting was at the railroad station. Presumably an attempt was made to releasé the imprisoned Com- munists. Wants to Divert Attention. So severe is the undercurrent of re- sentment among Esthonian workers against the murder of a Communist member of parliament, the trial of others by the white guard army and the sentencing of 138 leading Commu- nists to terms ranging from five years to life, that the Esthonian government is trying to divert attention by rais- ing the question with Soviet Russia us to why it permits the tremendous demonstrations in Russia which have |; aroused the people of Esthonia. Asks Soviets to Suppress Workers. Esthonia is sending a note to Mos- cow, wanting to know why the Soviet government permits workers who are employed in Soviet offices, etc., to join in and lead the immense demonstra- tions held in front of the Esthonian embassy in Moscow. Esthonia thinks that the Soviet government should suppress the Communist Internation- al and forbid workers in Soviet em- ployment from expressing their antag- ‘jonism toward the. murderers of Com- josses slashed their standard of living munist workers in Esthonia. Gigantic Demonstrations Going On. In Moscow and Leningrad great crowds of workers are gathered con- ea The Big Thief He Doesn't See. “TOMORROW THE WORKERS WILL PASS JUDGEMENT ON YOU!” CHALLENGE OF THE ESTHONIAN COMMUNISTS TO COURT ‘|\Massolini Gives His j}Uhroats of the Fascisti TT Woods — APOLOGIES To WALKER (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 1.—Thirty-nine Communists, sentenced to life imprison- ment for revolutionary activity, and eighty-nine others, sentenced to an im- prisonment amounting to 876 years by the Esthonian court at Reval, had this to say to the court: “We remain Communists and consi before @ bourgeois court. Today you workers. will pass sentence on you.""4 The trial of these Communists in the country which has been made a rallying place for the international counter-revolution and which has been used by the capitalist governments as a base of attack on Soviet Russia, was a parody of even the usual pro- ceedings of courts of “justice.” Jan Tromp, one of the defendants, was seized when he attempted to speak in court, dragged from the courtroom, placed before a military tribunal and shot. Others were ex- ecuted before their trial, because they tried to free the prisoners. thonian capitalist government are cheered by tens of thousands, includ- ing the Red Army soldiers posted be- tore-the Esthonian quarters to guard them, In Moscow, after Vorovsky was mur- dered in Switzerland, the Soviet gov- ernment. changed the name of the street where all of the foreign em- bassies are located, to “Vorovsky street.” This is an unpleasant remind- er to the diplomats from capitalist countries, but it pleased the Russian workers to give them such a reminder. LODGING HOUSE FIRE TAKES FOUR LIVES ON NEW YORK’S WEST SIDE NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Trapped by flames while they were stil! sleep- ing, four perso is were burned to death, | and ‘ten others were seri- ously ‘injured in a fire in a four- story lodging house at number 113 west Sixty-third street early today. ‘The body of Mrs. Mary Donnelly, was the only one denti- fied. The bodies of the other vic- tinually, day and night, before the of-| tives, der it’superfluous to defend ourselves pass sentence on us, Tomorrow the MOORS ASSASSINATE. CHIEFTAIN WHO WOULD MAKE PEAGE WITH SPAIN rebel chieftain, Cibara, intimate f id of Abdel Krim, leader of the r ious Riffs, paid with his life for his efforts to bring mediation between Spain and the tribes in conferences with Ro- manos Echevarrieta. Advices from Tetuan confirmed reports that na- tives have assassinated him, WILLIAMSON CO, REPORTS THIRTY MINERS KILLED MARION, Ill, Dec, 1—The murder of workmen in the mines has taken a heavy toll of lives this year in Will- jamson county, according to the final report submitted by Coroner William McCowan to the county board of su- pervisors today, upon his resignation of eight years of service. Deaths re- sulting from insecure working condi- tions in the mines were greater in number than all the others combined. This despite the fact that warfare in Williamson county has been made a by-word thruout the nation during the past year, The mine explosion at Johnson City brought death to thirty miners with sorrow to that number of families and has shoved the total number of in- quests this year higher than ever. Along with McCowan, State's Attor- hey Delos Duty who has prominently figured in recent open klan warfare in Williamson county, taking the side of MADRID— The | the opposition retired with the re- foes eke ReiweM tall” ngs near ANTI-FASCIST CONFERENCE 18 HELD IN MILAN Thugs Sealed Orders (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Dec. 1.—Now that Mussolini has shown in- disputable evidence of weak- ness, the yellow socialist leader Filippo Turati, has assumed leadership of the constitutional opposition. While the Communists ‘were bat tling against the murderous cut- this same Turati was the best ally of Mussol ini_and the most bitter foe of the Comniunists. No better evidence of Mussolini's weakness could be had than that the yellow. socialists have definitely de cided to beard the enemy in the open by- attending a conference -in Milan, at which there were present seventy- four members of the chamber of depu- ties, ninety-nine representatives ot | various opposition committees from towns in northern Italy, hitherto the stronghold of fascism, Many Leaders Present. Turati was chosen chairman of this | conference. Giovanni Amendola, | former minister of war, who repre- national -union, Angelo <aentholie:.deputy apd former minister of agriculture who spoke for the popular party, Giovanni Di Cesaro, former minister of posts, a social dem- ocrat and. other representatives of bourgeois liberal organizations spoke and declared the time had arrived for Italy to assert her inalienable right to discuss her own destiny. Under Secret Orders. Much speculation was caused today by the: action of Mussolini in sending all the fascist members of the cham- ber of deputies home to their respec- tive constituencies with sealed orders, under -instructions not to open the letters until they. were prepared to read them to the local fascisti organi- zations. Whether it means a new declaration of war or another surrender is a mat- ter of conjecture. *|the railway workers are: Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill, AILS IN GERMANY [POSES Tory T rick sii LABOR FIGHTS 10 WIN WAGE INCREASE Prices of Food and Clothing Go Up (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, Dec. 1.—The Dawes plan has failed in Germany. Or- ganized labor in Germany has declared its intention to fight in all trades for increase in wages, following the failure of the gov- ernment to do anything to re- duce the extremely high cost of living. The Dawes plan has made the crisis more acute in Germany rather than otherwise for the tendency of prices for articles of food and clothing continues to rise. en the best organized and most skilled trades are suffering. The rail- way workers, one of the most strongly organized trades, are forced to work four hours for the price of a pound of butter. The average hourly wages of Skilled, 16 cents; semi-skilled, 13 cents; unskill- ed, 12 cents, and women, 9 cents. A skilled metal worker averages 13 cents an hour and a woman metal worker receives 7 cents. The cost of living is meanwhile ex- horbitant. Butter sells at sixty-five cents a pound, eggs five cents each, a loaf of bread 12% cents, and beef 33 cents a pound. The railway workers are expected to be the first to actively inaugurate theixeaiifaign for higher wages. ~ Small’s Counsel Prepare His Alibi For Siate’s Suit SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 1—A mo tion to vacate the report of Master in’ Chancery, C. G. Briggle was the first move of Governor Small’s coun- sel when hearings in the state in terest money suit against Small re opened in circuit court here today. The prosecution replied immediately with a counter affidavit and argument on the motion begun. Small sat with his attorneys as they opened their battle on the report which recommends he be ordered to account for interest earned on state funds while he was state treasurer from 1917 to 1919. The motion to va- cate the report was based on alleged prejudice of the master and asked the MORE BRITISH REGIMENTS ARE SENT TO EGYPT Zaglal Palla. Buys 0 Ticket to France (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 1—A report from Lord Allenby received here announced that “good order prevailed in Egypt” but dispatches from Gibaralter re- ceived at the same time reported the departure of another regiment of reg- ulars~the> First. Buffs—for Pgyptian duty. ee CAIRO, Dec. 1—The students are still on strike and but one or two schools have ben reopened. The arrest of thirty-four national. ists by the British has-been protested by ‘a’ delegation of members of the chamber of deputies and a manifesto, addressed to the masses of the people has been circulated by the thousand, which also denounces the arrests. ‘Zaglul Pasha, former premier of Egypt has obtained a passport for Europe. He is scheduled to visit Italy and France. While his destina- tion is said to be watering places, it is more likely that his health will per mit him to visit the foreign offices of both countries. want ad clippings. Revived, she Unconscious From G. 0. P. Prosperity OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 1.—When Mrs. H. Glotz, a widow, dropped unconscious in a street car nothing was successfully for weeks, and had had nothing to eat for three days, Emergency hospital officials are trying to find her a job. appontment of a new master to re hear the case. Lots Be Las keg DUNNE SPEAKS TONIGHT AT NORTH WEST HALL ON A. F. OF L. CONVENTION The next public meeting of the Chicago section of the Trade Union Educational League will take place on Tuesday evening, Dec. 2, 8 p. my in North West Hall, corner North and Western avenues, These meet- ings are one of the activities of the left wing movement in the local trade unlons and are held for the purpose of unifying the struggle against the labor fakers. The forthcoming meeting of the Trade Union Educational League promises to be of unusual interest as It will be addressed by William F, Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, who was expelled from the Portland convention of the A. F. of L. because of his militant stand against the betrayal of the workers by Gompers. He will speak on the result of the A. F. of L. convention at El Paso. Workers Party mem- bers and left wing trade unionists are urged to attend and bring as many as possible to the meeting. found in her worn purse but had been hunting work un-