The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1924, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. Hl. No. 218. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: N. Y. PLEDGES © FIVE MILITANT CARPENTERS ARE SUSPENDED FOR EXPOSING CROOKED DEAL OF OFFICIALS QOutdoing the worst cases of so-called: justice..ever ad- ministered by a capitalist court, five militant, active’ members ‘of the Carpenters’ Local Union No. 181 of Chicago," were sus- he last. Monday thru the connivance of General’ President iiliam L. Hutcheson and president of the district council: of Carpenters, Harry Jensen, for having exposed. the “open shop” serpent signed on behalf of the Chicago carpenters. by this “ " Poleiettution and laws of the union were flagrantly violated fn railroading this case thru to suspension. But then, what is law and constitution amongst crooks and labor fakers! This action comes as a climax of counter-measures taken by the officials of the Carpenters’ Union to subdue the. struggle made by the rank and file workers in opposition to.the infamous Same open shop: agreement entered into by President Hutcheson and Harry Jensen. ‘ Trick Aids Jansen’'s Re-election. This agrement was signed just the day before the last . district: council elections and was heralded by the NLESS religion quickens its pace, | capitalist press as a victory ‘for the civilization will go’on the rocks, Carpenters’ Union. kg senha ip ‘ an effort to line up the votes behind declared John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in Hairy Yenpen Pag had: proved ‘ihm sermon to his Sunday school. What oi such a faithful tool of the’bosses. the wealthy oil can fears most is that] phe trick worked; Harry Jensen the religious bunk which sends those |and his staff were re-elected. severely affected by it into a trance,| The agreement signed is almost will lose its ability to dope the work: | word for word the same as the award ers, and the latter, freed of one more |handed down by Judge Landis in the chain with which capitalism binds |summer of 1921 which the overwhelm: them, will strip the Rockefellers of ing majority of the workers refused the loot they have taken from the toil|to accept and which resulted in a ef labor. Last week we called atten-|mass protest demonstration partici to. the fact that Rockefeller |pated in by 141,000 Chicago ‘workers. added fifty million dollars to his in-| The agreement is based On the fol- come in one day thru a rise in the jlowing principles: (1) ‘Phat there price of of! stock. That amount is|shall be no limitattons as . to u at to keep many ministers amount of work a man In Chicago, by matl, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, | PHILADELPHIA WORKERS | PARTY MEMBERS 10 HEAR LOEB THURSDAY NIGHT PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2.—A membership meeting of Local Phila- delphia has been called for Thurs- day. evening, Dec. 4. The meeting will take place at parity headquar- ters,.521 York Ave. Moritz Loeb, business manager of the DAILY .WORKER, will address the meeting upon the past, present and. future of our English party or- gan. The address will be of high value to every comtade who earnestly de sires to build our movement. Loeb Outlines Plans for Insurance Campaign 5 The Paily Worker) 2.—The istrict of the Work- ers Party, fresh from adding 1,200 new subscribers to the KER in five weeks, d-to the campaign to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1926 with a pledge of ten thousand dollars toward the eting of the DAILY mts held here’ at which , business manager of Matsudaira New Jap Ambassador. © “TOKIO, Dec. 2:—Tsuneo Matsud- aira, former vice minister of foreign affairs and member of the old Daimyo family of Fukui, has been chosen am- bassador to the United States in suc- cession to Masanao Hanihara, who re- turnéd . from. Washington several months ‘ago following the acute situa- tion brot on by passage of the Japan- ese exclusion law thru congress, it is unofficially announced here in today's edition of the Hochi Shimbun, ‘inde- pendent Tokio newspaper. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. was pledged. Only 32 out of the one hundred New York bri 5 oth *ee $0 JONES, of Mlinois, demo- Len Small’s opponent tor fe eheesseutag of this 2.588 in| _Traltor Provision in Agreement. the recent elections. Naturally, Jones | “i other-words there ‘shall be ‘no did not think very much of Small, |objection to handling non-union made being his opponent, but the opposition | material. ‘was more bitter than usual even in| The agreement provided that. the elections. Jones frankly stated that|employers are at liberty to employ if Small was not a crook, he, Jones, |whomsoever -they, . see’ fit. whether was a walking gooseberry. Small got; union or non-union and there should away with two millions of the state’s|be no stoppage or cessation of work funds while he was treasurer. The|for any cause whatever, individually voters elected him, thinking he might |or collectively, even the scabs of other need some more. Jones, who was to|trades may be employed on the same clean things up, got cleaned up in-| pujiding. stead. But there is no hard feeling} An grievances are to be referred to between Jones and Len. They were|/an arbitration board which would just playing the game. have authority to decide the case, im: Ad pose fines or to suspend or. expell FEW days ago Len and Jones met | members of the Carpenters’ Union. in an elevator in the Sangamon sountry court house, Springfield. “By Rega Vane Creer , judge, I believe you are get-| Many locals protested this agree- tat,” remarked Len, as‘he moved|™ment and just prior to the Interna: G0 TO IT, AFRICA! Kis mitt into that of Jones, which was |tional Convention held in Indianapo- cause of the short notice, and it was already on the way to meet Len’s. “I|lis, Ind. this summer, Carpenters’ Lo- FREE STATERS decided to make the $10,000 the very ought not to be,” said Jones, “seeing |cal 181 adopted a protest resolution minimum amount to be raised by the how hard I worked in the elections,” | which stated that the agreement was New York comrades. acting at the same time as if Len|to all intents and purposes the Lan- Ul The new insurance policies, in de- were his favorite affinity, and not the|dis “open shop” agreement and that nominations of ten dollars, five dol champion burglar of the state. Small|the fruits of many hard fought yic- apd Jones jollied each other on the| tories had been given up and the Car- ways of voters and they went their|penters’ Union of Chicago made a separate ways, Jones to try an inno-|part of the “open shop” machinery to e@nt crook, perhaps, and Len to tell| be used to force upon other trades the me other judge that a crook who|so-called American plan and to punish keep: out of jail is the right kind|to the extent of suspension any mem: ,0f a crook. This is a tale to which | pers of the union who refuse to handle anybody can attach his own moral. /non-union made material or to work . SE ee with strikebreakers or under the pro-|8!on set up under the terms of the ICE is not feeling particularly | tection of police or gunmen. Anglo-Irish treaty, was the substance happy over the situation in Egypt.| The resolution resolved that Car-|f @ sensational story published in the It 1s not good for France's imperial | penters’ Local 181 condemns the agree- | Daily Mail today. health to see England putting on more| nent as being detrimental to the.in-| The prestige of the Daily Mail has tes No tasty ees could do! terest of the carpenters, and further |suffered a damaging blow as a result tana would cent ry se girdle condemns the method used inentering |of its part in the “Zinoviev forgery” “ain a tea: bits: BO France iq |the agreement as being the cheapest |and nobody believes that the Jackeys v in Morocco just what England kind of political trickery. It demand |of the British government who now in Egypt. There, the two ed that the delegates to the 21st quad: run the Free State government, would powers must come to an agroe-|'emnial convention of the United |quit thelr fat salaries because of any ‘ou let me soak the Egyp-| Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join-|squabble over a boundary. <I will look the other way|@s of America read. the Chicago) The president of the Irish Free agreement and pass , upon) State receives the rather respectable yesterday, and the same before the adjournment. of|salary of fifty pounds a week, which iu, today, then! the convention, - on ad is almost as much as a second class), 116 to Philadelphia and poesia Hutcheson Gets Busy. ' American labor faker draws for as- ern citien: This resolution was forwared to the| sisting the capitalists in keeping the i convention but not even read before| workers in» submission. To desert that body. nea ene ue such’ a friendly payroll is believed to Shortly thereafter the arch labor|be beyond the capabilities of the faker, William L. Hutcheson, de- natured henchmen of British manded that the local retract the feso-|!mperialism in the Cosgrave cabinet. lars, and one dollar, have been dis- tributed to the branch agents and funds are expected to begin to pour in immediately. Every Workers Party member and sympathizer will be asked to take out an insurance policy and make sure that the only English language daily newspaper published in the interests of the working class will have enough funds to not only keep going, but to grow, Show Excellent Spirit. Comrade Loeb declares, “The spirit of these New York comrades is excel- lent: They have added twelve hun- dred new subscribers to the DAILY WORKER in five weeks and they mean business in the DAILY WORK- ER builders’ drive,” Comrade Loeb is on tour in the in- terests of the campaign to build the ‘ORKER. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, ‘Dec. 2.—That the Free State government may resign as a result of the disagreement over the competence of the boundary commis- YAT SEN, FOE OF IMPERIALISM, STARTS FOR PEKIN (Special to The Daily Worker) Five Rescued from Mine. CARDIFF, Wales, Dec. 2.—Rescuers yesterday brot out alive five men of the eleven who were entombed in the Kilan pit of the coal mine at Dunvant. KOBE, Japan, Dec. 2—After ex- | lution adopted and that charges be The refusal of Cosgrave and his as- tensiv preterred against the ten “members |soclates to carry on the government|One body also was recovered. The Fiaon, both. ik poveremnanee who were signatories to the resolu-|would mean’ turning over Southern|men had been trapped since last public men, both in governmental civil life, and following demon- Ive meetings where he was y acclaimed as the great le: @t the Oriental peoples in opposi- tlon to western imperialism, Sun Sen, with his wife and retinue of close political associates, left Png ea for Tientsin enroute to h capital of China, (Continued Ireland to the DeValera party, thore being no other organized element now with either the necessary numerical strength or ambition to undertake such an effort. Perhaps even the tory government licker with the Free tion and that they be properly pun- ished. bk Hutcheson, charged the with violation of s B and © and Thursday night by a sudden inrush of water. } Earthquake Shocks In Batavia. RATAVIA Three . persons were further” earthquake WORKER. it the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1924 <<” NORTHWESTERN SHOPMEN WIN IN FIGHT AGAINST NEW OPEN SHOP DRIVE By J. CHRISTOPHER. The conflict between the shop craft unions and the Northwestern railroad shops over the discharge of union men by the, management under the pretense that the agree- ment-of 1921 provided for their tak- ing such action, has been settled by the. ‘solidarity of the workers in backing up the shop crafts’ chair man in a conference held Monday. it was agreed that the forty un- jon men who had been notified of dismissal, would be taken back and that the union, which had been try- ing in vain to get a painter to join, should take up the matter with him, his return being also agreed upon, and a little “moral suasion” used to make, him line up. During the election campaign thousands of copies of the DAILY WORKER were distributed at the gates of the Northwestern shops, and the DAILY WORKER'S story of the conditions over which the conflict arose was the subject of much favorable talk among the shopmen. ee. | a} \ SS : LIBERALS LOOK DISCONSOLATE IN NEW PARLIAMENT (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec. 2.—The forlorn look- ing bunch of liberals who escaped the debacle at the last election, looked rather disconsolate in the house of commons today. They occupied the back seats from which the Irish na- tionalists filibustered for many years. The liberals have not even a fight left in them, Conservatives were on hand early to get seats with the government perty. The tory majority is so large that many of their number will be compelled to sit with the opposition, owing to scarcity of seats. - The laborites will occupy most’ of the seats to the left of the speaker. Small Resists All Efforts to Compel Him’ Show. Accounts SPRINGFIELD, IL, Dec. 2,-—Judge Frank Burton this afternoon. donied the motion of Governor Small's attor- neys to vacate the report of Master in Chancery C. G. Briggle, which recom- mended the governor be required to account for interest earned: by state money while he was state treasurer. Attorneys immediately went into conference to determine the next step in the interest money suit against the governor. a a pee Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ing class. On the basis of these de- kee combat the influence of the Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents ARMY DICTATORSHIP DECLARED IN ESTHONIA AS THE NATION IS SHAKEN BY WORKERS’ REVOLT (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Dec. 2.—Advices from Reval, Esthonia, via Copen- hagen, indicate that the armed uprising of Communist workers growing out of the outrageous persecution of the leading party members, including the execution without trial of a prominent Communist member of parliament, nearly succeeded altho engaged’ in by only about 200 workers, part of whom were killed in action, another part shot after surrendering following ex- haustion of munitions, and a third and larger group which escaped by ‘the aid of friendly workers and are supposedly seek- ing refuge beyond the Soviet Russian lines. Military Dictatorship Declared. Altho the white guard government pretends that all is quiet and the revolt is “completely crushed” the fact that the parlia- ment, from which the Communists and even the labor fraction has been unconstitutionally withdrawn by arrest, has voted emergency powers, proclaimed martial law and appointed Gen- eral Laidonner to the position of military dictator, shows that von Rc omg ergianpad ye the “loyalty” ot the workers| | $1,000,000 TO FIGHT LABOR PASSED WHILE LA FOLLETTE 1S SILENT and peasants. How the Fight Began. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2— In 1922 a leading Communist, Kingissepp, was murdered by the With only a brief debate, amounting to nothing in the line of disagree- white guardists who were never even tried for the crime. Then the party headquartérs was raided and destroy- ed by the white guards, this also go- ing unpunished. .The shop nucleus structure of the Communist Party} ment by any of the “progressives” made possible the continuation of the| who raised no objection to the items providing for $500,000 to inspect im- migrants abroad and to supply the State department with $450,000 to pay its secret agents in foreign coun- tries, the senate yesterday passed fight after all raids and reprisals the $186,000,000 deficiency appropria- which have been-unceasing. Following thé 19227dtacks a-united tion-bill. The bili now goes to Cool- idge for signature. BELGIAN MINERS WIN SLIGHT PAY RAISE BY STRIKE Police’ Used Violence; Miners Retaliated (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. 2—The barricades are down and temporary peace has returned to the Borinage basin mining district of Belgium. The strike began many weeks ago with the demand of the miners for an increase in wages. The employers insisted on an 8 per cent reduction. A few of the employers met the work- ers’ demands with small increases, less than the miners required. From time to time, since June mine locals went on strike and finally on Ang. 18 the strike was declared official and general. In September the matter was submitted to a board of arbitra tion, consisting largely of friends of the employers. But the employers re- fused to consider the arbitrators’ mild suggestions, and the workers refused to return. Then begain a police and miner struggle with the erection of bar- ricades and determined fighting by the workers. Eventually the employers offered to the striking miners an increase of 8 per cent which the miners ac- cepted, after many protests, and the strike was ended. There is a strong tendency among the miners to take action unless their conditions are rapidly improved. om with » Tevolutionary labor unions and the left wing, landless peasants, put up a joint ticket of candidates for the elec- tions to parliament, which took place in the 8 As. a-esult the social democrats were defeated and the Communists and groups in sym- pathy with them gained greatly. jommunigts: the , capitalists used ruthless suppression, At the énd of January 1924 over 250 active work- ers were arrested, inclunding all the deputies representing the Communists and the labor fraction in both parlia- ment and. municipal councils, while the legal’ Workers Party, with its 105 locals, and the Workers’ sports clubs together with 124 trade unions were dissolved by police and soldiery re- cruited from white guard bands. A Strange Coincident. After the arrests one man among the prisoners was released and it was understood that he was a police spy who intended to testify at the trials, if the government was going ot prose- cute, This spy was shot dead on the streets shortly afterward, and no one was apprehended for it, The farcical “trial” finally opened about two weeks ago before a military court which had decided the prison- ers’ “guilt” long before. In fact the “court” was composed of the same white guardists who had raided the Communists previously. The Communists, refusing to ac- knowledge the jurisdiction or author- ity of such a “court” or to counten- ance ‘by silence the farce of such a “trial,” began to make speeches against employers and landlords to the crowd in the courtréom, which lis- tened disregarding and drowning out the. solemn palaver of the army offi- (Continued on page 3) BOSSES CONFESS THAT PIECE WORK IS GOOD _ SWEATER OF WORKERS NEW YORK.—The plecework sys- tem gets more work out of the gar- ment maker in the opinion of the Association of Dress Manufacturers, who are conducting negotiations with the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union. The associa- tion hae adopted a resolution to re- sist union efforts to extend the week work system. Week work limits the sped-up system. 42 MINERS IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT ‘LONDON, Dec. 2—There are 42 miners in the new house of commons, compared with 46 In the previous parliament. Sign Anglo-German Treaty Today. LONDON, England, Dec. 2—Shift- ing the 26 per cent reparation tax for later consideration removed the big obstacle in the Anglo-German com- mercial treaty. German delegates have communicated with Berlin and it is expected the treaty will be signed today. Enstein Goes to the Argentine. BERLIN.—Professor Albert B. Bin stein, father of the theory of relativ ity, will go to Buenos Aires in March for a series of lectures, it was an- nounced today,