The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1924, Page 2

passe § sake , the part of the miners, we freed our: ' the miners of District 14 must assert Page Two ARE FOR HOWAT, MINERS INSIST ON CONVENTION Ninety Per Cent of the : (Continued from Page 1.) others from the ballot puts their patience to a severe. test. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) quent during the last stages of cap- italist decay. Only the rise of Soviet Republics and the ultimate establish- ment of the world Communist gov- ernment will put an end to the night- mare of war. ee HE UNITED STATES is going to fight Japan one of these days, but there is no love wasted on John Bull by the American ruling class. It is true the Prince of Wales received a royal welcome here and it is also true THE DAILY WORKER KEYMEN ROBBED OF WAGES BY THE SANTE FE ROAD Member of Labor Board Spills the Beans The Sante Fe railroad is re- ceiving money in express com- FALLING OFF OF NEARLY 100,000,000 TONS IN COAL PRODUCTION (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, D. u., Dec. 5— Production of both bitumino! ind anthracite coal has deer this year, and profits of the railroad ‘companies are below the profits of 1923, according to the annual re- port of .the Interstate Commerce Commission made public today. “The bituminous coal production for the year ended October 31, 1924, totals 468,045,000 tons com- pared with 657,641,000 for the same Truth Overtakes Lies As Soviet Rule Advances With Its Giant Strides By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, TODAY: a few paragraphs of! Associated Press correspon- dence seeps thru into the columns of the capitalist press patil = giant strides forward taken by Armenia under oviet Rule. Seca THAIN \ Sie ‘Saturday, December 6, 1924 MEXICO PUT IN HOCK TO 1 P. MORGAN Morones-Gompers Ca- bal Conquers Mexico (Continued from page 1) be subservient to the dictates of Washington, that banking that there exist several organizations | pensation that should go to the| period of 1923,” says the Inter It han. taken: this litle 16 ttteseiia ‘shat Bavies néull As the resolution declares,| whose object is, ostensibly at least | pai state Commerce Commission re- ipo J a em. Gontessing. te 4 circles in Mexico should an- ‘ ; tele, “ ” y practically every concession| |" cement the allesed friendship ox: railroad telegraphers employed) oo," Armenia “is now on its feet,” a full month to reach this /nounce that J. P. Morgan’s gained by the miners while their fighting leader, Howat, was president of the union have been given away by the cowardly lackeys of Lewis who now sit at the payroll. Despite the fact that the demand for a special district convention was made in compliance with the provis- isting between’ the two “Anglo-Saxon countries.” But this is piffle and will be changed over night into rabid Ang- lophobia when the rulers of this coun- try decide that the time is ripe to give the old empire a death blow. a6 HE average reader of the capital- ist press undoubtedly came to the on the road, it is disclosed in a separate opinion written by A. O. Wharton, a member of the railroad labor board. Rail Barons Get Money. “To those familiar with the fixing of compensation for employes in the telegraph department,” said Wharton, writing on the recent decision grant- “The anthracite production for the same period totals 091,508,000 tons for 1924 as against 97,436,000 for 1923.” SADOUL CASE PUTS HERRIOT country. Thus the truth travels slowly in the hands of the big American capitalist news agency. The lies about Soviet Rule, or about Communist activity anywhere, are put hot on the cables, and flashed everywhere as most important news. * * e ° In this instance, however, the, truth will overtake the lie. The news that Soviet Rule has brought “peace and prosperity” to Armenia will gradually counteract all the banks are negotiating a large loan to the Calles government. Guatemala Protests. Even the hand-picked representa- tives of Central American labor chos- en by the Gompers-Morones machine to sit in the so-called “Pan-American” Federation of ‘Labor convention, can- not entirely stifle the cry of the op- fons of the constitution, the officers| conclusion during the war that the|ing a negligible increase to the Sante malicious poison spread during the years since the Russian [pressed Latin-American workers op- failed to heed the demand. In ac-| Allies who fought together to. “crush | Wo telegraphers, “It is common knowl: Bolshevik Revolution. pressed not only by their own capi- cordance with the district constitu-}German militarism” would be friends | edge that express commissions, as IN AWFUL FIX ° bd e hed talists, but literally crushed by the im- tion, when twenty locals demand a/{for evermore, But such is not the|well as other special services, are Most American workers know Armenia only as the vic- | perialism of Wall Strett, and Wash- special district convention, the .dis-| ‘act, Today England and France fear |taken into consideration. and directly tim of the Turks. ington, trict officials are compelled to call it without delay. More Than Fifty Locals. More than fifty locals have made the demand, including all the large locals in the district. Yet they have given no indication that they will call it. In fact they have brazenly defied the will of the rank and file and said they would not call it. But the membership of district 14 is determined to have a special con: and hate each other and the United States is playing one off against the other. Sometimes Wall Street favors affect the rates of pay. “The Sante Fe railroad receives the express commissions now instead of England, again France. Now is seems jthe employes, and evidently considers that Wall Street is catering to France. |that, having changed the basis of pay The présent scheme is to promise the/the employes should be made to suffer latter country more favorable conces-|the loss of the full amount of expresf sions in refunding the war debt. This|commisisons by having their rates makes England hopping mad. Time {fixed on the basis of the hourly rates will tell what the particular game of |paid by the carriers who, in additior the United States is in this diplomatic to hourly rates, pay express commis- play. sions. vention and all the coal operators in Says Sedoul- Must Die But If He Does? (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 5.—The gov- ernment of Herriot has assumed grave responsibility by its statement of yes- terday to the effect that Jacques Sa- doul, altho a naturalized citizen of Soviet Russia and a member of the embassy of Leonid Krassin, the newly While capitalism ruled alike in Turkey and Armenia, the Armenians were the unhappy victims of their more powerful neighbors, This condition is now changed. Capitalism still sits enthroned in Constantinople, but the Bolshevik Red Army stands back of the Soviet State in Armenia, and the Armen- jans are safe, even as the “A. P.” admits, “to live their own lives unmolested.” e * e ° Armenia has a population of 1,100,000. That is about the population of some of our own agricultural states, like Washington or Nebraska; or an industrial state, like Con- The representative of Guatemala has introduced four resolutions which gave the labor lieutenants of Ameri- can imperialism a few uncomfortable minutes while being read. They will go the same path to innocuous desue- tude as did the protest against the oc- cupation of Haiti by American troops passed thru the ‘last Pan-American convention, as long as Gompers and Morones rules, Free Speech for Labor. If any such principle should be|@!rived ambassador to France, must} necticut. : i . The first resolution is one demand: Kansas will not prevent it. The lo- adopted, it would result in a substan. |e executed by order of a court mar- The Associated Press claims to get consolation out of |ing that the United States not recog: cals that nominated Alex Howatt SOUTH SLAVIC tial reduction in the earnings of the | ‘ial hearing at which he was absent comprise 90 per cent of the member- ship of this district. These men will fight until the United Mine Workers of America is vindicated and taken out of the hands of the scurvy crew of payroll leeches and boss tools who are now ruining the district organiza- tion. The resolutions unanimously adopted at the Arma miners’ mass meeting read as follows: Denounce Leaders. Whereas, the workers of the entire country ‘suffered for years under the autocratic rule of the large employers of labor, and Whereas, no class of people suffer- ed more than the coal miners in the great struggle for industrial freedom, and Whereas, the miners of District 14 went thru a 4-year strike for recogni- tion of our union, years ago, and Whereas, after that great indus- trial struggle, we resolved that we would no longer be imposed on by the coal corporations, as we had in the years gone by, and Whereas, after years’ of sacrifice on WORKERS GIVE PLAY SUNDAY | Deals With Revolt of |: Sixteenth Century The “Peasants Revolt” a sixteenth century drama depicting the life and |revolutionary struggles of the poor Peasants of Croatia under the yoke of the Austro-Hingarian feudalism, will be presented tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30 in C. § P. 8. Hall, 18th and May Streets. The play is by Angust Shenoa, a well-known Croatian historian. The affair will be run under the auspices of the-South- Slavic Branch of the Workers Party, and the pro- ceeds are to be divided among Radnick, the South Slavic Communist organ, the DAILY WORKER and the Labor Defense Council, The “Peasants Revolt” is a drama in five acts, with a cast of fifty per- sons. The most powerful scene of the drama is when the reactionary army of feudalism places a red hot iron crown on the head of “Peasant’s King” Matija Gubec, who was the leader of the revolt. It is a play of workingclass struggle with the his: torical background of the sixteent cen- tury. Every South Slavic worker is urged to attend the performance tomorrow. In addition to the play a concert will be enjoyed, also music, singing, danc- ing and speaking. The same drama will be played in South Chicago, on December 14 and in Gary on Dec. 21. z selves thru the power and strength of our organization from the iron rule of the coal corporations, and With Iron Hand. Whereas, today we find the officials of our own union assuming the role of the autocrat, and trying to rule the rank and file of the miners with an iron hand, and ‘Whereas, in the nominations that were just completed for officials of this district, we find our executive board has stricken from the ballot practically every man who was consid- ered a dangerous contender for the positions now held by the district offi- clals, and Whereas, our district officials know just the same as we know that ther: is not one member of the district executive board who can be elected if the names of those who were nomi- nated are placed on the ballot, and Knights of Payroll. Whereas, it is plain to be seen that the chief concern of the present offi Cials of our district is that they are kept on the pay roll. And the welfare of the miners is given no considera tion, and Whereas, all the conditions we fought to establish during the past twenty years have been: given away in the past three years, since former President Howat and the other de- posed officials were removed as offi- cials of this district, and Whereas, the time has come wher Postmaster General Recommends Changes in Clerks’ Salaries (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—The average salary of clerks in the employ of the post office department, which include higher salaried supervisors, is 1,779,61 and the average salary of city carriers is $1,743.88, according to the annual report of Postmaster Gen- eral New, made public this morning, Demand Railroad Bill. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.— Railroad labor organizations renewed demands for immediate passage of the Howel’ Barkley railroad labor bill at a meet: themselves and take a stand against ing here today, the autocratic rule of our officials. Therefore be it resolved, That wo, the miners of District 14 in mass meeting assembled condemn the action of the district officials in keeping the names of our members off the ballot in violation of the con- stitution. And be it further resolved, That charges be preferred against the officials of our district in accord- ance with our constitution, and if found guilty they be immediately re- moved from office, And be it further resolved, That we urge all locals in the dis- trict to unite in a call for a special Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, The Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, anot! employes in the telegraph department and in the transferring of the commis- sions from the pay envelope of the em- ployes to the treasury of the carriers. Got Only Half. “As a matter of fact the evidence in dicates that the employes on the Sante Fe should have received approx: imately twice the amount of the in- crease granted by the board, in order to maintain the same relative former express commissions. As to the other increases granted, they are so meager jand contribute so little toward estab- lishing a just and reasonable wage, considering the training, responsibil- lity and skill of this class as a whole, that no answer is deemed necessary. “The statement as to the rates com- piled by the board’s statistical depart ment is about as misleading as it could be, because these data do not reflect the amount paid in commis- sions by the Burlington, the Rock Is: land, the Union Pacific, or the West- ern Pacific railroads. FARMERS FROM MIDDLEWEST TELL OF HARDSHIPS Cattle and hog raisers of the mid- dle west and west are practically bankrupt; the stockfeeding areas in the corn belt being especially hard hit, the cattlemen are steadily losing mon- ey, so farmers visiting the Interna- tional Live Stock exposition declare. The condition of the average farm- er in Utah is bad, according to farm- ers from that state. Crops including the sugar beet, wheat and hay crops have all been light, and market con- ditions are bad. The cattlemen, thru- out the west in spite of the low con- dition of the market, are being forced to sell. Bankruptcies are _ frequent thruout Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. A shortage of cattlé has resulted in Missouri because the cattle raisers have been forced to sell to keep their farms going, officials of the Missouri state agricultural college declare. Even the youngest of the stock is be- ing shipped to market in larger quan- tities than ever before. Towa, in the corn belt, faces a ruin- ed agriculture, with forty per cent of its crop destroyed jn the face of the long continued agricultural depres- sion. The high price of corn and other grains is somewhat offset by the short- age of these crops in many states, Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FREIHEIT SINGING SOCIETY Tomorrow the Fretheit Singing Society celebrates its tenth anniversary. her cultural organization of the Jewish comrades, a mere ‘baby in years compared with the singing society, takes part and will show itself a lusty infant. The good wishes of every comrade in the party goes to the Freiheit Singing Society on its anniversary celebration. The DAILY WORKER is especialy desirous that its celebration be a earnings, based on wage rates plus! on November 8, 1919. To Show Up Herriot. The case of Sadoul promises to wreck the Herriot government either way it decides. If it keeps its an-|' nounced decision to murder Sadoul— which is practically what it will amount to in the view of the French workers—it will disillusion beyond all question the workers who believe that the Herriot government is a “labor” or “socialist” government. On the other hand, if the government does not execute Sadoul, it will be viciously at- tacked and perhaps overthrown in the chamber of deputies by the right wing reactionaries. A Recipe For’Trouble, The third factor to be considered is, that the execution of a citizen of Sov- iet Russia, one moreover who is an embassy ettache; is an affront which is sure to bring repr! from the powerful republic of Soviets, which will find a million allies behind the factory walls of France. Still, more is the pressure of eco- nomic necessity of’trade with Russia, which is certain to be severed by the Soviet government the instant Sadoul is executed by this ancient order of the French army, which was made be- cause Sadoul became a citizen of Sov iet Russia and left the French army while on a mission to the Kerensky government from the French govern- ment, Carlson Meeting Is . Success in Spite of Police Intimidation (Special to The Daily Worker) WILMINGTON, Del.—Oliver Carl- son, of the Young Workers League, who recently returned from Russia, spoke here to about fifty men and women, under police surveillance, on “Problems Confronting the American Labor Movement.” Carlson explained in detail. the ef- fect of the Dawes plan on the working class of America and pointed out how closely the interests of all workers are interlocked. He stated the only solution of the resultant unemploy- ment was the establishment of a work- ers’ and farmers’ government. He traced the growth of the Com- munist movement in Burope and told how in Czecho-Slovakia 40 per cent of the army vote was cast for Commun- ism and how the French had to dis band six regiments of soldiers in the Ruhr because of Communist propagan- da. Workers who had never heard the Communist message were cheered to learn that their foreign brothers were doing something and expressed a desire that they might learn more of the Communist movement, In addition to literature and DAILY WORKERS sold, a collection of $27.00 was taken to defray expenses in con- nection with the meeting. : Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER, MORE PUNISHMENT IS PROMISED INSURGENTS its own figures that there are only 1,914 active Communist Party members in the country. That is a good percentage even accepting these prejudiced figures. It comes near to equalling the situation in Soviet Russia itself, When the Workers (Communist) Party in this country establishes its strength, equal to that shown by Armenian Communists now, we will have 200,000 active, well discip- lined American Communists in our ranks. *\e ° * It is well, therefore, to present to non-Communists in this country some of the admitted facts coming even from the biased Associated Press about conditions 3 Armenia. Here they are: “The people are better off today than they have been for many years. Officials of the government (Soviet) estimate that within three years the country will be self-supporting, and that within ten years it will be a prosperous community.” “Crops this year have been good and there is an abundant supply of food.” “The tens of thousands of orphan children which. successive wars and massacres (under capitalist rule) left in their wake are especially ‘well off.” “With its limited funds, the government (Soviet) is doing notable work in the way of reconstruction, irrigation, hydraulic and electrifica- tion projects, the removal of marshy malarial lands, the establishment of agricultural and indu: 1 schools, and the cultivation of cotton, silk, tobacco and vineyards.” “The Armenian (Soviet) Government has established a splendid university at Erivan, employing 75 professors and accomodating 900 students.” “In 1922 Armenia had only 1,250 acres of cotton under cultiva- tion, In 1923 It had 12,500, and In 1924 this number increased to 40,000 acres.” 6 ee These are the developing conditions favorable to the Armenian masses that allied imperialism seeks to destroy in its attacks on Soviet Rule. It was in the neighboring state of Soviet Georgia, where, as In Soviet Armenia the workers and peasants are making big strides ahead; that not only the scattered remnants of the czarist regime but the nts of the Second (Socialist) International recently sought to carry out an abortive counter-revolution, * * * * “Peace and tranquility,” favorable to the transition eriod from capitalism to Communism, now prevails in joviet Armenia, in Soviet Georgia, and in all the units of the Union of Soviet Republics. The fist of the workers and peasants under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is all- powerful against all capitalist foes, | What a contrast to conditions in Germany, under the “Socialist” Ebert; or in England under the capitalist-sup- porting labor rule of MacDonald. In these, and in other unhappy lands, the traitor social- democracy aids the a og ists to hold the working masses in subjection, The triumphs already achieved by Workers’ Rule thruout the Union of Soviet Republics must awaken oppressed labor in all capitalist lands to the struggle to sweep aside the capitalist state, establish their own dic- tatorship, and usher in their own Communist social order. Forbes’ Trial Shows How Thieves Cheated Blias Mortimer told in courst yes- terday how Charles Forbes, former head of the veterans’ bureau, had quar- reled with him over the division of the spoils garnered from granting 1l- legal contracts for ex-soldiers’ hospi- tals, and from other forms of govern- ment graft. John Black, formerly Thompson's parther, told Mortimer that Forbe: was withholding Mortimer’s share of the graft. “I told Forbes, ‘You got $15,000 to split fifty-fifty with me, and you only gave me $65,000,'" said Mortimer tended to Mrs. again. ~ OPEN NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 5—Mrs. Margaret Sanger, advocate of birth f control, had addressed 200 students of I oot | the Yale divinity school Tuesday after- Each Other bi noon. After her address, it is stated, steps were taken by graduate students to organize a class for discussion of the subject. An invitation was ex- Sanger to appoar ul eT TTT LULU il f i “EDUCATE YOURSELF FOR THE STRUGGLE { THE WORKERS PARTY 5 (Lecture, Questions “and Discussion) Every Sunday Night at 8 o'clock, Season 1924-25 nize any government of the Central- . | American republics, unless the work- ers in such republic are allowed free speech, free press and the right to or- ganize and to strike. The second resolution asks that the Pan-American Federation of Lebor should send mixed groups of organtz- ers, with those from the A. F. of L. to go together with native organizers, into every Central-American country to organize the workers there. Labor Laws Violated. The third resolution asks that the Pan-American Federation agitate and spread publicity for the enforcement of the eight-hour law and other labor laws which are formally on the sta- tutes of Central-American countries but which are not enforced. . The fourth resolution of Guatemala asks that the Pan-American Federa- tion of Labor demand that the execu- tion of radicals and horrible tortures in prison of labor organizers be abol- ished in all Central-American repub- lies. The resolution tells of radicals’ whose offense was merely that of or- ganizing workers, being hung up by the thumbs in Guatemala. Communist Party Driven Underground. The Communist Party of Central America was formed in Guatemala in the summer of 1923, out of the group called “La Unificacion Obrera Social- ista,” and still is compelled to work il- legally owing to the terrible persecu- tion by the satraps of American im- Perialism. The representatives of Panama have introduced a protest against’ the dis- crimination not only permitted but ad- vocated by Gompers against the Lat- in-American workers in the Panama Canal Zone. Gompers Calls Natives “Allens.” The Canal Zone, it must be recalled, is land absolutely stolen by armed force from Colombia. It was a boast of President Roosevelt that he took the land without legal right by engin- eering a fake revolution and then sending in marines to “restore order” and seize the territory and never give it back. Advocates Race Discrimination. Gompers, in a report made in March, has the gall to term these na- tives of the canal zone “aliens” and he goes on to recommend that they be discriminated against, “all-Ameri- can” workers to be hired for all good jobs, and if hired at all, these “aliens” should be paid from 25 to 35 per cent Jess than the “citizens of the United States” working at the same jobs, It is this discrimination at which the Panama resolution ‘is aimed. te Re rh FORUM WHO DESERTED 6 0 WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Admin- istration leaders planned further steps today to remove insurgents from all positions of power in the senate. , The next step proposed by repub- lican chieftains was the ousting of Senator Ladd, republican of North Dakota, from the republican steer- happy and successful affair because the DAILY WORKER, in company with all Workers Party Institutions, has no more loyal and self-scrificing sup- porters than the Freiheit Singing Society. Its inspiring music has been the feature of almost every affair held for the DAILY WORKER and the Freheit, and the Communist press of the United States owes a debt of grati- tude to these comrades who have directed their artistic abilities into channels that build and sustain the revolutionary movement. 4 May the Freiheit Singing Society live to welcome, on the morning of he revolution, with one of its stirring choruses, the victory of the American oroletariat, May Comrade Shaefer live to compose a dirge for the workers Forbes finally told Mortimer that he was going to Boston and would set- tle up when he returned. Later, Mor- timer wired Forbes at Boston, “If you know what's best for you, you had bet- ter take the first train back from Bos- ton.” “Forbes followed my advise,” said Mortimer. Forbes finally agreed to “come across.” district convention so that we may see that the laws of our union are complied with. And be it further re solved, That we let the officials of this dis trict know that they must respect the rights of every individual member o! our union, and also the laws of thc organization. ; The second resolution demands the SUNDAY, DEC. 7—MARTIN ABERN Member of the Central Bxecutive Committee, Workers Party of Amer: “fea, City Secretary, Local Chicago, W. P. of A., will ‘speak on A Political Party Organized in Factories In the Lodge Room Ashland Auditorium, Ashland Ave, and Van Buren St. ‘Take Metropolitan “L.” to Marshfield Sta., or surface lines on Van Buren. ; cease taiajabdiintepcibepetticade p le admission 250 calling of a special district conven | who fall In the final struggle, and a song of triumph for the dictatorship of| ing committee, which maps out the Forut Tlokets good i) three thon. the working olass that their efforts brought into being legislative program, ‘ § Peas os a pee. ae Ledge jor any three admissions, 500