The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 17, 1924, Page 2

Page Two mnecrenenae OHIO LABOR TO OPPOSE STATE | COSSHICK RULE Kabor Forces in United| Front‘ on: This Issue By GEORGIE PAPCUN. (Spectal to: The Qaily Worker) CLEVELAND; 0., Dec. 15.— Opposition to: th:» proposed state | constabularly, bill that will be} before the Ohio legistature at its| session January 5, will be pre-| valent thruout tihe state on the part of trade unlions and other working: class: onganizations. =| It is supported. by the cham-} ber of commerce? and all other opem shoppers. There is no demand for passage of @ state police measvire on the part of the farmers. Farmers’ organizations are not subscribing; money to urge passage of a rural police measure. It the list of contrihgors, to the state, cossack movement ‘ware made public, it would. disclose ttre names of open shop, manufacturers and those of a few rich farmers: Nine operators and steel corporations: ire financing the passage of the bill ig it would aid in the open shop drive and help them to police their industry in time of strike. The victory of the “flaming circle” at Niles Ohio, am arsti-Klan organiza- tion, has taught the corporations a lesson. The “flaming cirele,” com- ‘osed in part of foreign-born workers and the youth of foneign-born parents, many who have seep service in the world war, by application of war strat- egy, completely rou#ed the strong Klan forces. The open shoppers who | are pressing the Americanization plan are afraid of the strength shown by these foreign-born workers in their victory over the Klan, and therefore | very desirous of ar extrem police force in the form of armed and mounted state cossacks. Organized labor, Workers Party, Y. W. L. and working class organiza-} tions should combine their forces in a} united front and fight against passage | ef this bill. | Movies.for. Workers Working class motion picture pro- grams will be shown at the following cities on the dates indicated: “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” a five-reel rollicking Red Army romance produced by Proletkino, Moscow, 1924; together with “Russia in Overalls,” a three-reel inspiration ef Soviet indus- trial life: Detroit, Mich., Royale Theater, Dec. 1s. Saginaw, Mich., Scenic Theater, 311 Court St., Dec. 16. Dayton, Ohio, Ideal Theater, Dee. 19. Bentleyville, Pa. Miners Theater Jan. 9. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 10. Omaha, Nebr., Alhambra Theater, Jan. 12. Boston, Mass., Symphony Hall, Jan. | te. Cleveland, O., Jan. 17 and 18. Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. Chicago, Ill, Ashland Aufitorium, Feb. 3 or 5. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. Polukushka, “Polukushka,” a six-reel feature film from Tolstoy's immortal tragedy, played by the Moscow Art Theater, with Ivan Moskvin as. the stat; to gether with “Soldier Ivan’s Miracle,” @ Russian two-reel slapstick that cocks an impudent eye at miracles and other superstitions, also “Russia }litz and C. C. Norman. | strike, complete shutdown of ever two years (Special to The around the coffin ef the defunct labor with his interment, are as follows: Howard (Injunction Bill) Taft, chief United States, which Gompers was supposed to be fighting bitterly for declaring the child labor laws un- constitutional. Expert on Imperialism Attends. Major General R. E. Bullard,, whose efficiency in the handling of imperial. ist oppression on weaker nations is exemplified by the fact that he served in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, then helped suppress the Filip- pines with rifles and the “water cure,” becoming military governer of Lanao Mores, Mindanao in 1902-04, then back| to Cuba to show the Cubans tg rAn “schools and fie arts,” then-—as “Com- rade, Calles” may have forgotten— commanded the mobilization on the Mexican border for the raids which violated Mexican territory in 1925-16. | He also commanded the 2nd army of the A, E. FP. in France. Then there are Rear Admiral C. P. Plunkett, Governor Smith.of New York, Lieutenant Governor Lunn, who is a renegade socialist; Mayor Hylan of New Yorlk: City, U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland, Edward J. Henning, as- sistant secretary of labor, who will assist Henry Curran, commissioner of immigration, to carry out Gompers’ antialien pelicies om foreign-born workers, Wall Street Turns Out. George W, Perkins, the financier, leads a list of his kind, including John H. Finley John R. Alpine, Bernard M Baruch, Will H. Hays, Oscar Strauss: Samuel Untermeyer, George Gordon Battle, Grosvenor Clarkson, Marcus M. Marks, Ralph M. Easley, head of the Civic Federation, V. Everitt Macy, Judge Alton B. Parker, Otte M. Bid- Dawes Plan Sheds Tears. Another battalion of bourgeois is| led by Nicholas Murray Butler, the famous professorial protagonist of capitalism. It imeludes Martin Con- boy, General J. G. Harboard, who} openly announces his scorn for demo- | cratic government; Daniel Willard, head of the “B. & O.” railroad, which is crushing the shopmen’s unions with the help of -Wm. H. Johnston of the Machinists; Elihu Root, the hard- boiled old reactionary of the U. S. senate; Bainbridge Colby; and Owen | D Young, who was the first Wall/ Street ruler of Germany and who| comes to Gompers’ funeral to show the regret felt by the backers of the Dawes plan. Finally a group composed of an as- sortment of corporation lawyers and | big industrial capitalists, among whom | are Geerge W. Wickersham, Henry W. Taft (Bill's brother), John Hays Hammond, Frank Vanderlip, who backed LaFollette im the past elec- tion and Cleveland H. Dodge, head of the copper trust, who is personally responsible for the illegal deporta- tion of 1,200 miners trom Bisbee, Arizona, into the New Mexican desert in July, 1917, because they were on Universal Mine in Indiana Begins Work On Part Time Basis (Special to The Daily Worker) DANVILLE, Ill, Dee. 16,—-After a the Universal mine at Clinton, Ind, has re-opened ou a part-time basis to supply the United States Steel cor- poration with 300 tons of coal a day. THE DAILY WORKER HOT LOT OF SAVAGE PLUTES MOURN FOR “COMRADE GOMPERS” AS HIS HONORARY PALLBEARERS Daily Werkers NEW YORK CITY, Dec, 16.—-The Mexican workers who heard their leaders of the C. R..Q. M. (the Mexican Federation of Labor) imtroduce the head of the Americam Federation of Labor as “Comrade Gompers” will be somewhat astonished at the flock of capitalists and capitalist tools gathered chieftain. The pallbearers of “Comrade Gompers” who assist in am honorary way Charles H. Hughes, secretary of state im the Coolidge cabinet; William justice of the supreme court of the USE SCHOOLS FOR TRAINING CHILDREN TO BECOME WORKERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec, 16.— Declaring that only 25 per cent of America’s children ever reach col lege, W. F. Webster, superintendent of schools here, has recommended that high schools of the city teach more vocational training for those who enter industry as wage work: SPANISH ARMY'S AIR BOMB RAID BROT ON REVOLT Natives Make Reprisal on imperialists (Special to the Daily Worker) TANGIER, Morocco, Dec. 16.--Te- tuan was isolated by land and water, and Tangier endangered today in further gains of the Riffs in the latest outbreak encouraged by the Spanish retreat. France is known to fear am organ- ized attempt by all the oppressed races of Africa, under the leadership of Abdul Krim, to throw off imperial-| ist domination. Wngland is believed watching possible encroachment on British holdings in the Riff triumph. The Anjera rebel tribesmen today cut the Tetuan-Ceuta railroad, which isolates Tetuan, a walled town and a strong Spanish position 32 miles south of Tangier, from supplies by land, Fort Martin, which is Tetuan’s path to the sea, is under fire, and ships ffrom Gibraltar ceased making trips to the Merocean city Sunday. The garrison of Alcazar Kebir, op- posite Gibraltar, is in the hands of the Riffs, whe hold many Spanish of- ficers as prisoners and hostages. Two other Spanish posts between Tetuan and Ceuta have fallen . The Anjera revolt, it was learned today, was provoked by wanton aerial bombardment by a Spanish air- Plane of the home of the Anjera chieftain, Zellal, who formerly was a friend of Spaim and the massacre by air bombs of many defenseless women BRITISH COTTON | Stack Killing Pretext for Brutal Conditions (Special to The Oally Worker) TEXARKANA, Texas, Dec. 16—The British imperialist government has used the killing of Sir Lee Stack to get cheap Egyptian cotton for British mills, produced by slave labor, Benjamin Marsh, managing director for the National Farm- ers’ Council, stated at the con- vention of the Farm-Labor Un- ion. of Texas, in session here. Steal Water from Nile. “The ultimatum which Great Brit ain handed to the Egyptian govern- ment following the killing of Sir Lee Staek, governor general of Sudan, is part of the program of the Britis! financial imperialists to get cotton for British mills, produced by slave labor exploited by British landlords an British fmaneiers,” Mareh said. On hundred and forty-one delegates rep resenting 70,000 members, listened tc March's speech. “A British corporation, in whieh the son of the famous Sir Asquith is in terested, has secured an importan: concession im the Sudam to develop ir rigation projects along the Nile. The British govermment lends this com pany several million pounds to de velop this protect and the Egyptian government has been obliged to let this corporation draw water from the Nile,” Suffer Under British Lash. Mareh then painted the picture of the suffering to the Egyptian natives caused by the British policy of en slaving the Sudanese on the pretext of punishivg them for Stack’s murder. He declared that the basis for the British policy of foree and oppression lis the desire of the British capital ists to make more profits by means of the use of cheap slave labor. MONARCHISTS OF GERMANY WANT EBERT'S HEAD Workers He Betrayed Will Not Mourn (Speciat to The Daity Worker) BERLIN, Dee. 16.--Whether the nationalists are included in the next eabinet or not is one of the most widely discussed possibilities in Ger- man polities today. The centrists who shop.” he said: “Italy soe ahead,” and children. There are hints afoot that British and French interests have secretly aided the natives as against Spain, wishing to accomplish two things. First, they want to oust Spain from Africa arid seize the territory them: selves. Second, the field for capitalist exploitation in Spain itself is crippled by the military dietatorship and has developed from the semifeudal stage as long as the monarchy has lasted. In the first instance, the rivalry be- tween imperialists makes them play with dangerous fire fer their own holdings. But Britain, especially, is known never to have any scruples about wasting lives. If it can oust Spain now by arming the Riffian tribes, it little cares that many Brit- ish workers in its army will be needed to crush these tribesmen later on to lard of living. hold the balance of power are afraid to include the nationalists in the pro- posed coalition cabinet and what is still more important, the American financiers who hold the strings to the German money bag do not trust them. Came Near Victory, But the nationalists came within speaking distance of victory in the recent elections and if they cannot have their own way, they insist on making it uncomforable for others. They are opposed to the Dawes plan, because it puts capitalist Germany in a humiliating position and reduces her to the position of a colony of the other powers. They are not concerned with its effect on the workers’ stand- The nationalists are also gunning for the head of the socialist president of capitalist Germany, Ebert, having Wall Street Banker in KINGS ENSLAVE! Boost for the Fascisti, SUDANESE LABOR| Mussolini and Dawes C\f course, Kahn utters the banker In all this solicitude for the Dawes plan. He is Jook- ing to his “interest,” The Dawes commission showed its “fairness” toward international, and especially American capitalism, But it dealt a vicious blow to the whole German working class. German labor is still struggling against its class enemy supported by foreign capitalist allie When German labor throws off its chains, as it will, Kahn will have more to say ‘about fascist dictators and Dawes schemes, But it will be a confession of their futility in stapping the march of the masses on their way to power, fatal, Bache aichsill Bom isos. reaAlnes Mlvtnmats er, ABbale seed EN RUSSIAN NOTE LAYS DOWN TH LAW TO HUGHES Show America Violated) 4s Russian Authority WASHINGTON, D, ©., Dec, By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL, TTORAY, Benito Mussolini, the bloody dictator over Italy, adds another American capitalist to his list of sup- porters. The name of Otto H, Kahn, Wall Street financier, goes down with that of Elbert H, Gary, head of the steel trust; Julius Barnes, former president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, and other champions of the ‘fopen ___ All the news from Italy indicates that Mussolini's fascism is on its last legs, But this does not prevent the banker, Kahn, from travelling to Ottawa, Ontario, and giving an inspired talk at a luncheon of the Canadian Club, in which + has made extraordinary progress under the clear- sighted and far-visioned guidance of Mussolini, and is steadily forging Mussolini did make some progress when he first assumed power. His gunmen marched over Italy, leaving a trail of arson and murder in their wake, Workers’ organizations were destroyed. The Communist movement was outlawed, The torch was ever busy, setting fire to workers’ co-oper- atives, libraries, labor temples, social clubs and even their homes. Death or prison awaited all who stood in opposition, But this advance has been checked, Mussolini is now on the defensive, something Kahn is evidently ignorant of, Fascism is in retreat before aroused Italian labor. * * * * lt was Elbert Gary who wished for Mussolini rule in the United States. He evidently visioned new struggles of the workers in the steel industry, when the bloody attacks on labor at Homestead and McKees Rocks, in Pennsylvania; Cripple Creek and Ludlow, in Colorado; Cabin Creek and Logan County, in West Virginia; Centralia and Everett, in Washington, and hundreds of other battlefields of the class struggle would have to be repeated successfully if American fascigm is to retain its present rather favorable position, * * * When American capitalism must invoke the spirit of the fascist dictator of Italy, it is a confession that it has no “stvong man,” so-called, to direct its own capitalist state for the suppression of the whole workin, Kal mentions no candidates for the job 4 . * ” * class, At least this country, It is because he is in favor of Mussolini rule in my also in the United States; that Kahn also champions the Dawes plan, not only for Germany, but for all of Western Europe, especially for the Balkans. Kahn suggested to the League of Nations, “in unofficial co- operation with the United States, to set up another ‘Dawes Commission,’ which shall apply to that complex situation and that ‘impasse,’ (in the Belk minded comprehension, tact and resourcefulness that the members of the Dawes commission brought to bear upon the no less involved and difficult problem of reparations,” * * on * At Ottawa, in Canada, ans) the same fairness, broad- ious wish of a Wall Street Hutcheson’s Plot (Continued from page 1) the meantime they should in upion proceedings, Trying to Fool Members, to Drop ¢ Carpenters tionary officiels had the right to ap- peal their case to the general presi- dent within thirty days and that in remain members of the union without how- ever the right to vote or participate the action against the expelled members was taken on the instruc tions of Hutcheson, it is quite obvious that this is only a smooth trick in or- der to railroad them out of the or- \Wednesday, December 17, 1924 ——ese FAKERS SQUIRM WHEN PAMPHLET SHOWS THEM UP Would Keep Members from Reading It By ANDREW YOUNG, (Special to The Daily Worker) O'FALLON, Ill, Dec. 16.—At a meeting of Local No, 705 of the United Mine Workers of America here, | introduced a amphlet entitled, “On a Labor ‘aker’s Trail,” A motion was made and seconded that we order 350 copies of this pamphlet for dis- tribution to our membership, to let them know the real facts about the worst enemies of our organization. Ferrington’s main supporter in de nouncing this pamphlet, was Dave Wilson, who broke the strike for Far- rington in 1919 in this district while he was a board member, On acount of Wilson's drastic action in driving the rank and file back to work, the miners voted him out of office. Ousted by Membership, But Wilson’s loyal friend, Frank Farrington—who at one time said that John L. Lewis had descended to the level of a louse—appointed Wilson back in office to serve the same mem- fee rg voted him out of office. m is now legal tor at the same salary vp eo hoard member, Another member of Local 705 whe voted to keep the rank and file from reading their district president's dirty record, was Dan L. Thomas, president of this sub-district, No, 7. Thomas pleaded that Farrington should have a chance to defend him: self, altho Farrington has his own Paper—the Ilinois Miner, The Mli- nois Miner is edited by Oscar Amer: inger, the man who once wrote a pamphlet called “The Farmer that Farms the Farmer,” and who is him: self, at the present time, the farmer eo farms “ coal digger, course these men all s LaFollette and their me on te accord with those of Gompers, Oland- er, bared Paid ‘ee They are servant the enemies of the Be on poo clase. gd AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) Dosition, as head of the A. F. of L., compelled him to do things at times that would deceive the workers into believing he was a labor Jeader and not a labor traitor. ee NB year ago the author of the Tribune's Line O’Type. column poured ridicule on Gompers because of his hot words—-tho meaningless-~ to the garment workers who were hampered by the injunction issued against them by Judge Carpenter. Gompers is as the white haired boy of the Wilson ad- ministration. He then got accus' State Hughes write a letter to pers explaining why Charlie recognize Soviet Russia. The of this catering to Gompers in opinion of the Tribune writer, Ps aw ret ice BO much so flouted the injunction. i ganization with something like an air Today,” a one-reel educational show- of legality. The moderate tone adopt grab what they have gained from |done the dirty work for the capitalists, & ing the asbestos mining industry. Spain away again for themselves. has almost reached the limit of his The Universal mine is one of the largest and most modernly equipped N view of the Tribune's fulsome eulogies of the dead labor faker, 16.—Indiscriminate and unau- } Detroit, Mich. Medbury Theater.| mines in this territory. The Steel] The fact that Thnez, the purchasable | usefulness to them. At least they be-| thorized roving of United States|°d im the Hutcheson letter was for! the following excerpt from an article i blll tl Caniff Theater, corporation has cancelled contracts in | harlot of the bourgeois literary world, |lieve they can get along without him} war vessels in Soviet Russian rt ped “ ee uetopnc Hrsems Shey met ee neo ; . a ‘jother mines in order to place this|!s writing a book against Alfonso of |now. rs will he: F 3 “AS 8 ch with j Dec. 17 and 18. order for Clinton coal, and Kentucky |Spain and advocating for the over-! He is charged by the nationalists fe ean Piety Pod Per seca gy. ag ea extralegal privileges he (Gompers) is Detroit, Mich., Royale Theater, Dee | mines formerly supplying this coal tc |throwal of the monarchy and Primo|dnd monarehists with being respon- Soviet Russia's foreign minister, Metéhéedt; ard wall known ‘to: the + ihe when he roars out damna- me : the steel corporation will be forced to|de Rivera's military dictatorship, |sible for the munitions workers’ strike | 40014. ae Ae pels Pheri | maembers of Local-181 and they see nosed ae rends his garments like the Rock, Mich., Workers Hall, Dec. 27.| shut down, it is believed. shows that big interests are behind|in January 1918 and ts guilty of high | Goo 2000 °” A nueO bee Y | peneath the velvet. glove the tsom fat| who oell: ine cera tee tare Los Angeles, Cal, Philharmonic the move for a realignment of the rul-|treason. Ludendorff is also after| Secretary of State Hughes, the strikes, make settle ments, work the ‘habeas ba ; ey pg frequently to the of reaction, The sentiment in favor of the expelled members is increasing and the reactionaries will learn that they have bitten off more than they chew when they illegally railroaded loyal union men for standing up for the principles of working class solid avity in fighting scabbery and a ynited Theater, Jan. 19. : Russia and Germany. j “Russia and Germany,” eight reele I ‘ Bankers Ask Big Sum, Tchitcherin protested against In an effort to determine how much the placing of a bronze tablet on Russian soil by the Bear, a United States coast guard ves- sel, threatening punishment to anyone molesting the tablet. “This is a lawless act,” Tchitcherin ing classes in Spain. The defeat in|Ebert's scalp, claiming that the Ger- Morocco will aid this movement.|man revolution which occurred a few the bankers are to charge for turning | Spain is being pressed by imperialist |days before the armistice lost Ger- the stock of the Chicago surface lines | rivals and its oppressed colonials at|many the war, over to the city, the local transporta-|the same time, Proud of His Perfidy, tion committee of the city council a tinepesitiiante But Ebert is fighting hard agains! met yesterday with bankers and trac- Albanians on the Move, the efforts of the monarchists to prove contrasting developments during the sevent year of Soviet Russia and the fifth year of Dawes plan Germany Some very exciting scenes. ati Birminghampton, N. Y., Jan. 9, “The Fifth Year,” eight reels v/ Russian life during the crowded year of 1923. Army, May Day, famine vic- tory, treason trials, war, sport, vic tory! The most popular labor film ever made in America. Frederick, S. Dak., Dec. 22. Life of Lenin. “Lite of Lenin,” one-reel showing #eenes from life and death and undy- ing influence of tho late leader of World's revolutionary masses. Show at memorial meetings: Reading, Pa., Jan. 22. Philadeplphia, Jan. 24. If your town is not in this list it gught to be. For particulars have economic, political or fraternal organization to which you be long, send for details to the Interna: tlonal Workers’ Aid, 19 8. Lincoln St, Chicago, Il. tion officials holding these stocks. induce the traction line representa- mine the value of the surface lin for a sum which the city council has refused to agree upon. Hooper Won't Give Up Job, Ben Hooper, chairman of the United States railroad labor board, does not want to give up his job, according to @ speech he made before the Michigan Alumni association. Hooper spo! against the Howell-Barkley bill, whi Phin hat Tag 0 Clg — ROMB, Dec, 16.-—Dispatches from guerilla bands, ah way befo ed of Montenegrin, Russian, Bul- position of the federal troops was be: lieved critical. Can't Let King Tut Alone. CAIRO, Dec. 16.--Howard Carter, American egyptologist and original that he was loyal to the workers, His armed with bombs and /the trial of the president's libel suit! sponsible obviously was unable to dis- tives to agree on appraisers to deter-|machine guns, as well as artillery, /against a monarchist, written by Von) tinguish where his own territory ends were moving on northern Albanian | Hindenburg, in which the latter gives|and another sovereign country be: To date the bankers havo held out|towns. Governments were reported as credit to Wbert for the “unselfishness| gins.” Tchitcherin added that a repe: the bandits, com-}with which Herr Bbert is working as/tition of such an unauthorised naval Di 4 true German for the salvation of the | visit will be sternly repressed by Mos. garian and Albanian elements and the |nation, forgetting all personal opin-| cow. ° fous and plans.” This letter did much to prove that Ebert was a faithful tool of the capitalist class. Barbaric Treatment For Ingane. AUSTIN, Tex., Deo, 1 7 Sunday N 5 —_———— ae ana Sete ean 88 ae tuna ah ad Ear br wrote, according to information giver An attempt was made by the city to|Tirana, Albania, today stated that|counsel read a letter in court, during|yut in Washinaton, 5 ernment has taken possession was clamped to a rock on the Cokotsk Peninsula, Siberia, It stated) “United States Geodetic Survey-Magnetic sta the workers, ' British Government “The official re (Continued from page 1) ‘The plate of which the Sovi : ne American Relations, in Big League Scrap front with the bosses, the enemies of OOR OLD SAM had with some of his ca They did not realize that show hig teeth once in a whi! employers in order to retain fidence of the workers, The Irish question has been a de cided nuisance to the British govern ment in the past and there is little} pe reason to believe that it will ever be} ang anything else until that country | at secures be rut independence—at least dined together, er, inally--from British rule, eastern republic was definitely | Downing ited with Moscow.