The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1924, Page 1

| Mol. Il. No. 221. » Mauseating hypocrisy so typical of the | The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY. ‘ OHN L. LEWIS, Rinaldo Cappellini and other bureaucratic leaders of the United Mine Workers of America are enjoying the sunshine of Mexico,| and being entertained by the Mexican government with Wall Street dollars. But Lewis is not too far away to ren- der @ service to his friends, the coal Operators. For several months the miners in the Scranton, Pa., district ‘were trying to have their officers take up. certain greviances with the coal barons. The leaders refused. Finally the men. took matters into their own hands and shut down thd mines. * ‘28 MRE are twelve thousand of these miners locked in struggle with the bosses. When Lewis re- ceived word from the coal operators | that their slaves were in rebellion,<he | did not inquire if the coal diggers | ld any rights on their side. He as-/ sumed they had not. His first action Was to cancel the charters of ten locals. This relieves John of 12,000 hostile votes, and proves to the oper- ators that his loyalty to them is un- shaken. gout ey Sie 18 union smashing policy is car- tied out by Lewis thruout the un- fon.. He caused considerable damage in’ Nova Scotia, Kansas, West Va., Mlinois and wherever the millitants fought the bosses and refused to act as stoolpigeons for the autocrat who is. paid a salary to direct the union’s affairs for the benefit of the coal dig- gers but is in reality, using his power and position to reduce the miners to a@-state of peonage. All signs point out however that the rank and file of the organization are organizing their strength for a concerted attack on the reactionary forces. i se * RITAIN’S hold on Egypt will not be. relaxed, according to a state- ment made by Col. J. H. Patterson, who built the British railroad from Mombassa to Lake Victoria Nyan- za, in Africa. The colonel is on a lec- ture tour in this country and like all British lecturers outside of the Com- munists, who are not welcome here, he is under the orders of the foreign loses no. opportunity, _ to and ie the empire. He defends. the | it British reign of terror in jt. Col. Patterson, however, de- ‘serves praise for not indulging in the British ruling class. He says bluntly that, England must protect the Suez Canal which he calls the empire’s jugular vein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: MEXICO PUT IN HOCK T0 J. P. MORGAN Morones-Gompers Ca- bal Conquers Mexico By J. W. JOHNSTONE, (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5.—It is the subject of bitter comment by the Mexican workers that at the very hour yesterday when Luis N. Morones, the “Gompers | of Mexico” was—from the pre- sidium of the convention of the Pan-American Federation of Labor—threatening Mexican: Communists with violence and murder and pledging the Mex- ican federation to carry out the class collaboration policies of Gompers and pledging also that the Mexican government would (Continued on Page 2.) RITAIN’S interests in Egypt and the Sudan entirely apart from the. canal’s strategical value in the scheme of imperial defense would im- Pose the duty on the British ruling Class of protecting their loot at all costs. A defeat of the British in Heypt and the Sudan would heighten the morale of England’s colonial slaves and give them confidence in their own power to throw off the yoke. Patter- son's frank admission proves that no Oppressed subject race can ever ac- complish their emancipation from slavery of any kind except by the exercise of their power. Those who Want to be free must. themselves strike the blow, and tyrants are con- winced only by power. a e+ 8 “JAPAN does not take kindly to the Coolidge suggestion of another al conference for further reduc- of armaments. Not that Japan’ ie not just as anxious for relief from the burden of taxation imposed by the necessity for maintaining a large! Bavy, but she knows that the pro- pesed conference is only a ruse on the part of the United States and an- other calculated step in the well con- ed plan to bring the world under he hegemony of Wall Street. The capitalist powers cannot disarm even if they honestly wanted to do so, which is in itself inconceivable. The tendency will be for armaments to in- ase and wars to become more fre- (Gontinued on Page 2.) AN POLICE AID DECENERATE WHO KILLED 27 YOUTHFUL VICTINS ( WANOVER, Germany.—At least two Hanover police officials prob- ably will be indicted charged with negligence of duty in connection with the Haarmann o: A sen- sational scandal is expected to grow out of the fact that the monster gruesome trade two years mployed at the same time “stool pigeon” for the police. Under this guise he lured 27 ul victims to his abode, tor- 1 and murdered them, although diy arrested and oxamined, was invariably released, suppos- “yep the protection of high officials. — SOVIET RUSSIA INTERESTED IN BIG AERO PLAN Trene-Arctic Plight Pro- ject Under Way (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—Russia is vitally interested in the project to bridge the arctic with an aerial transportation system with Rotterdam and San Fran- cisco as its terminals, Professor Vor- linoff declared in an interview today. Vorilnoff is head of the Soviet Trans- Arctic flight commission. The Soviet government, Professor Vorlinoff said, regards the project as a means to shorten Russia’s immense distances and the surest way to edu- cate the semi-savage tribes inhabiting the aretie circle, : To Civilize Big Region, The government plans to conduct a | campaign of civilization in a region as large as the United States where these tribes now live, The foremost scientific authorities have been assembled by the govern- ment and will soon submit data on meteorological conditions along’ the proposed route. The next step will be the erection of radio stations along the course of the flight. see ae NAS Ate ASO ACRE NE NS FB SERENA In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, TRADE BETWEEN U, S, AND RUSSIA CONTINUES DESPITE BANKERS’ BAN NEW YORK, Dec. 6—The warn- ing against trade with Russia, sent out by the American Bankers’ Asso- clation’ publicity machinery, has not stopped a single item of Russian- American commerce, says Vitaly S. Korobkoff, director of the Russian Commercial Bank, who has spent the last six weeks in America on a financial-mission. Korobkoff says that satisfactory contracts have been obtained from the American banks. Butler, Cal’s Manager Gets Ladd’s Place on G.O.P. Steering Body WASHINGTON, Dec, Edwin F. Ladd, of North Dakota, one of the ousted republican insurgents, was deprived of a place on the new republican steering committee named this afternoon by Senator Curtis, the majority leader. Senator William M. Butler, of Mas- sachusetts, was placed on the com-|i mittee in Ladd’s place. IN ESTHONIA YOUNG COMMUNISTS LEAD STUDENTS IN JUGOSLAV STRIKE (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 5.—Over the discharge by retirement of three pro- fessors who stand for a republic, Jugoslavia has a student’s strike on her hands in three universities, the Ljubliana in Slovonia, Zabreb (Ag- ram) in Croatia and Beograd Re, grade) in Serbia. The leaders in the strike movement are Communist youths, connected with the Young Communist International, In Belgrade they led their adherents to the rector’s office with a resolution of protest. Here they were met with mounted police instead of with dis- cussion. A free-for-all fight followed. When the smoke had cleared away it was found that six policemen and ten students had been wounded. New clashes are feared by the authorities. ~ Floods in Asiatic Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 5.—High waters on the Kuweik river have taken 80 lives in Aleppo, Asiatic Turkey, it was learned today. The streets of the inland city were strewn with debris and bodies, according to reports received here, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. WORKERS OF NATION RESPOND TO THE GROWING DRIVE TO INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925 tlt From all over the country the DAILY WORKER is receiving assur- ances from its readers of support in the campaign to build the DAILY WORKER for 1925, A letter just received from Lee Boyd, Portland, Oregon, decla “Sure, we shall build the DAILY WORKER for 1925. As soon as I receive another pay day, | shall apply for a $5.00 policy, tam one of the initial subscribers for stock in the DAILY WORKER as well as the ero. eat) on sk saath 00. Ap. Wy pee the DAILY WORKER active and ere 5.—Senator 'j the Daily Worker) ansas, Dec. nd coal miners in here demanded a special district place the Lewis ho are now run- rict on trial for f action in strik- allot the name of every no e@ who was con- sidered to Have a chance of winning the elections. The ang if the Kansas min- ers is stea Mounting and the action of fakers in remov- ~of Howat and on Page 2.) convention t henchmen. ning the. ESTHONIAN WORKER: “And you'll soon have your chance to complain of the red terror.” WHITE GUARDS BURIED AS ARMY RULES ESTHONIA Soviet Rell Flag Half- Mast for Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) REVAL, Esthonia, Dec. 5.—With the whole of Esthonia under martial law, with troops patrolling the streets and the army commander issuing orders that all retail stores and offices be closed from jl a. m. to 4 p. m., thr Dsthonian white guard carried off the funeral ceremonies of the twenty-one white guardists killed in Monday's up- rising, in the face of a sullen working class. Rigid Suppression of Workers. The workers were forbidden any ceremonies for their dead, even the bodies being denied to the families of the fallen, in most eases. All work- ers with any reputation at all of in- dependence are under surveillance and General Podder has forbidden any workers’ organization, political, eco- nomic, co-operative or athletic, to meet. While the white guards gathered be- hind the bayonets: of soldiers in the protestant lutheran and Greek cath- olie church, the shop-keepers were ordered to close their doors, the fac- tory workers were ordered to work as usual, as the white guards thot it unwise to give the workers a day off to think of their dead. The red flag of the Soviet Republic which floats above the Russian em- bassy, has been at half-mast since the defeat of the uprising. It remained at half-mast today when the flags of other legations were lowered in moarning of the dead white guards, but it remained so in mourning only of the dead workers who had so hero- ically fought against odds and fell in action, It is reported that the Moscow Iz-| CE 290 PUBLIS of the United Mines Workers o! of ten local unions, going on and which threatens soon demonstration of the fact that Lewi Lewis got his hold upon the U. M. barons, he has consistently served t! now he is openly entering the field field just a few days before the union Lewis’ actién is dictated by two set for next week, and this way he members. moved all the progressive candidat: tools. And in Kansas, too, the 10,000 and his gang are disfranchised. miners. Fight against the expulsion, for the ‘redress of the grievances of Vote for the progressive ticket: on Tuesday, Dec. 9, and see that yo CHICAGO QUOTA SET AT $5,000 FOR ‘OUR DAILY’ lan to Call City-Wide Conference Soon Chicago's quota has been set| at $5, in the campaign to in- sure the DAILY WORKER for 1925° and build it into a stronger force to fight Amer- jican capitalism. The Chicago local has set the machinery in motion to bring each branch into the campaign. A city conference on litera- ture and DAILY WORKER mat- ters will soon be called, at which the agent from every branch is expected to attend. Volunteer speakers are to be sent to each branch explaining to the entire membership the campaign to sell insurance poli- cies to insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925, Our Big Job. Quotas are being set for every branch in the country. A letter has been sent to all Chicago branches giving each branch its quota and ex- plaining the progress and purposes of the DAILY WORKER builders’ cam. paign. The quotas of the English branches have been made larger be- cause of the fact that the foreign tranches must also support their own press. Points Way to Gerater Efficiency. “Each branch stands instructed to elect an agent, or if the branch be large a committee to take complete charge of the work of the DAILY WORKER campaign” says the letter sent to the branches by Comrade Ab- ern and Comrade Thurber Lewis, lit- erature director. “It will be the duty of the agent or committee to push the sale of the policies both inside and outside the branch, to keep accounts *o report to the city literature direc tor and see that the matter gets a hearing before the branch: at every meeting until the end of the cam. paign,” The machinery set up during the in- surance campaign will be made prema nent as the machinery to handle lit- erature sales and perform the DAILY WORKER subscription work. The city conference soon to be called will map out an extensive program and the bosses that he is still their willing tool, receive their financial and moral support. way to break up the sweep of the progressive sentiment in the election ruling, leaving no candidates to be vi THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER HING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., CEN:T% Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents Chicago, Ill. (Statement by the Trade Union Educational League.) EWS from the anthracite coal fields that John L. Lewis, president f America, has revoked the charters in order to break the strike of 12,000 miners now to include 20,000 more, is another 8 is an agent of the coal operators. W. of A. with the help of the coal he interests of the coal barons, and as a strikebreaker in the anthracite election. considerations: First, he must show in order to continue to Second, he must find some finds in the wholesale expulsion of This is but another action of the same kind as that in Kansas, Dis- trict 14, where Lewis, in direct violation of the laws of the union, re- es from the ballot by an arbitrary oted for except his own hand-picked miners who will vote against Lewis The Trade Union Educational League calls attention to these latest betrayals of the mine workers by the traitor Lewis, and calls upon all militant and revolutionary miners to ri ly to the cause of the progressive id revocation of charters! Fight the strikers! 8, nationally and in every district, ur votes are counted! CLEVELAND MEETING 10 DISCUSS DAILY WORKER CAMPAIGN THIS SUNDAY CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 5.—The campaign to insure and build the DAILY WORKER for the coming year, is expected to receive a big q Fesrupvedapett 7-pium, when-at-a Special mentbership meeting gathers at 6927 Euclid Ave., to hear the message of Comrade Moritz J. Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER. This is the last large membership meeting to be addressed by Com- rade Loeb on his eastern trip. All party members and sympathizers are urged to attend this meeting, at which plans for building the paper during the coming year will be dis- cussed. es Tonight Comrade Loeb will speak at the general membership meeting In Pittsburgh, Pa., at the Labor Ly- ceum, 35 Miller St. a Philadelphia Pledges $5,000. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 5.—Five thousand dollars was pledged for the campaign to insure the DAILY WORK- ER for 1925 as the minimum amount to be raised by Philadelphia. Com- rade Moritz Loeb, business manager of the DAILY WORKER, spoke at the general membership meeting Thurs- day night. He received an enthusias- \tic greeting when he explained the campaign which will build the DAILY WORKER into a stronger working class paper in 1926, Those present at the membership meeting gave individual pledges total- jing hundreds of dollars. Comrade |Loeb declared after the meeting. “Philadelphia intends to do more than insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925 ~the comrades here mean to build until We double our resources and cir- culation.” MILWAUKEE ROAD SCRAPS LABOR IN More Join in Hunt for Employment (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 5.—The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- way has just laid off an additiona) 189. men in the Milwaukee shops. The men were laid off in the following trades: carmen, 55; carmen helpers, 47; welders, 4; riveters, 5. Other elect an executive committee to assist the literature director in general work. Jap to Speak on Immigration Here. TOKYO, Dec. 5.—Kotaro Mochizuki, Kenseikai momber of parliament and one of the legislators most actively interested in relations with the United States, will leave for America to speak in every state in the union, present: ing Japan's case in the immigration trades also had some lay-offs which included helpers and mechanics. The workers of this city are feeling the effects of keeping “Cool with Coolidge.” The increase in unemploy- ment here is cruelly driving home the truth to them that keeping Cool with Coolidge really means keeping cold and hungry for capitalism, New York Waren School. Register Now—208 E. 12th St. WISCONSIN SHOPS | —: Expulsions in Hard Coal Fields Is Biggest Issue in Miners’ Election Tuesday JOHN L, LEWIS, THE TRAITOR, PLAYS GAME OF THE BOSSES Revokes Charters to Disfranchise Miners in Union Election, and to Break Anthracite Strike! ILEWIS. REVOKED UNION CHARTERS: FEARS ELECTION C appellini Reported to Be in Hiding By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. (Special to the Daily Worker) WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 5, —The twelve thousand miners involved in the strike against the coal barons,who for months refused to pay any attention to their demands for a settlement of their grievances, are not frightened by threats of coer-. cion from the bosses and by the action of John L. Lewis, inter- national president of the union, in revoking the charters of ten locals. It is strongly believed here that the main reason behind the revocation of the charters was the imminence of the elec- tion for district and inter- national .officers of the union. Lewis feared the opposition among the locals affected would endanger his machine in this district and tell heavily against his own presidential vote, Lewis’ instructions to the district officers’ charges strike leaders with saying that “charters cannot dig coal.” The strike was not the result of a “conspiracy.” It was caused by the accumulated effect of a long list of greivances. Miners were refused ‘wotk by the Pennsylvania Coal com- pany and actually removed from the payroll without formal discharge. Strike May Spread. There are also eighteen hundred Lehigh Wilksbarre company miners on strike. A meeting will be held today to decide whether’ the entire staff of that company shall {be called out. Similar action confronts the Lehigh Valley and Hudson Coal companies. The miners say that they have sufficient griev- ances to strike regardless of any ac- tion they might feel like taking in behalf of their striking comrades. The miners have demanded of Lewis that a specialff convention be held. Intense excitement prevails here. It is charged that Cappellini is in hiding, being too yellow to face the wrath of the coal diggers. Vice-presi- dent Isaacs, acting head during Cappel- jlini’s absence, was replaced by Inter- |national Organizer Davis, on orders of Lewis. Isaacs failed to carry out Lewis’ instructions. Nine Miners Dead, Many Missing in Wales Explosion WREXHAM, North Wales, Dec. 5.— Nine miners were killed in a mine ex- plosion here today. Many others were missing. Losure Tee Daily aes fo Ms GOVERNMENT AGENTS HIRE MEN TO VIOLATE LAW; THEN NAB THEM Special to The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 6.—A sen- sation occurred in federal court here today when it developed that Or. lando Horton, branded as “the lone wolf” of the narcotic trade between Chicago and. Indionapolis had been hired by federal operatives to trans- port morphine to this city and then wi rested fot doing it, “Here is a case where a govern- ment deliberately hired a man crim- inally Inclined to viola law for the sole purpose of arresting him for doing it,” declared Judge Albert B. Anderson. The method used by federal oper- atives came to light thru the testi- mony of Dr. Ragabason, agent of the narcotic division, who testified that he and James Williams, an in- former for the service, madé a deal with Horton to go to Chicago and bring back fifteen ounces of mor phine, which was to be disposed of dealer,