The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 20, 1924, Page 2

Pace Two MOSCOW SCENE OF CONGRESSES, SHOW PROGRESS Union Membership Has} 100,000 Increase By ANISE, {Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) MOSCOW.—Several trade un- ion congresses have been going on during the past month and a half in Moscow. Most significant was the All-| Russian Congress of Trade un- fons, with the British fraternal delegates present. The sixth Moscow state congress of trade unions showed an increase of almost 100,000 members during the past year, from 819,668 to 900,098. Of these 725,232 are working under col- lective agreements. Wages from Oc- tober, 1923, to June, 1924, increased 15 per cent. In some unions they are now higher than pre-war. This means real wages, not merely money wages, for the unions keep their tables in fig- ures based on living costs. Special attention has been paid to educational activities. In the summer large numbers of physical culture, sport and radio circles were organiz- ed. The Moscow unions also estab- Ushed their own publishing house dur- ing the past year. The Moscow state congress of edu- eational workers was attended by 600 delegates, mostly rural teachers. Their Tesolutions showed the, move of the village workers during the past year towards Communism. Especially marked were the unfriendly relations between the district organizations and “religious” teachers. The congress passed a resolution that teachers with Feligious belicfs should not teach. Land and forest workers of the state of Moscow also held their annual con- gress with 800 delegates. This union has 23,000 workers in Moscow district. Since one-third of them are Illiterate they are maintaining 128 courses for beginners and 165 schools for the half- literate. They received fraternal greet- ings from the United Federation of AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) have turned down their thumbs on the organization of a third party. This leaves the C. P. P, A. without any visible means of support except the socialists and J. A. H. Hopkins who is always in favor of something or other. It is even doubtful if Oswald Garison Villard can sum up sufficient courage to “endorse” the sham. The dazzling adventure of the socialists in quest of a new skin is ending with a strong probability that they will find themselves naked. HE remarkably heavy vote cast fo the progressives in both the car- penters’ and the miners’ union indi- cates two facts. First that there is a decided revival of militancy in the trade union movement following the reaction that broke loose after the Portland convention of the A, F. of L. Secondly that the policy of fighting within the unions, along the lines of the Tradg Union Educational League tactics, under the leadership of Wil- liam Z, Foster has proven correct. The present upsurge of militancy in the unions is no longer the sentimenta kind that scared the reactionaries stiff two years ago. It is now more conscious, as a result of T. U. E. L.| and Communist propaganda, and more dangerous to the reactionaries anc their paymasters, the capitalists. TEXTILE STRIKE AT MIDDLEBORO OUT TO WIN Young Workers League in the Fight By BARNEY MASS, (Special to The Daily Worker) MIDDLEBORO, Mass., Dec. 19—The 200 strikers of the Nemasket Worsted company have entered the fifteenth week in their fight. At a mass meeting Thursday, Com- rades Jim Ried, national committee man of the Amalgamated Textile coun- cil, and Barney Mass, of the Young Workers League, spoke to the solid Land and Forest Workers of France, and elected its secretary an honorary member. Three Coal Miners Killed in Blast Near Tacoma, Washington TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 18—Three men are dead, two injured and three unaccounted for in an explosion at the Pacific Coast Coal company’s mine at Burnett, Wash., near here, ac. cording to a report received here from N. D Moore of Seattle, president of the company. Forty-six men were in the mine at the time of the explos- fon. Peace Time Spies Busy. LONDON, Dec. 19.—British naval circles ridiculed today the report from Washington that an American spy had been able to get aboard a British bat- tleship. The admiralty refused to comment but denied that there would _be any change in the armor plate be- cause of the report. The Scare Is Over. LONDON, Dec. 19.—The special armed police recently appointed to protect the members of the British cabinets in consequence of a reported Egyptian plot have been withdrawn. POSTAL CLERKS’ BILL FOR PAY INCREASE 1S body of strikers. Many of the young workers have indicated a willingness to join the Young Workers League and a meeting is arranged for Sunday at which 1 league nucleus will be formed. Began With the Weavers. Old workers and young, men and women, boys and girls, went on strike Sept. 11. The grievance was against the increase of work in the weave room, as a result of trying to inaugu rate the two kinds of fillings on two loom work. The weavers struck immediately Comrade Reid requested of the men to organize a mass meeting and to spread the strike to the whole mill force. He addressed the meeting and the strike became 100 per cent effec tive. A Magnificent Spirit. This is the first strike that has oc- curred in Middleboro. In spite of no relief until the eighth week the solid- arity of the strikers was superb. After the mass meeting there was mass picketing, and Y. W. L. members from Providence walked the picket line along with the strikers. There is certain to be a strong Young Workers League nucleus organ- ized on Sunday. The league members in Providence, with the leadership of Comrade Reid, of the Workers Party bave contributed largely to the fine conduct and solidarity of the strike so far. Mecca Is Surrounded, JERUSALEM, Dec. 19.—Hedjaz’ Mohammedan troops have surrounded Mecca from three sides and are plan- BLOCKED BY GOOLIDGE WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.—A vote on the bill increasing the pay of postal employes, vetoed by Cool- idge at the last session of congress, was again blocked by Coolidge ad- herents In the senate. Coolidge is determined to deprive the postal employes of their wage increase if possible to do it by delaying and fillbustering. ning a blockade to starve out the Wahabi tribesmen who are holding the holy city. Russian Lecture. This Sunday, Dec. 21, at 2:30 p. m., there will be a Russian lecture at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. Dr. E. Prilla will talk on “The Crime Wave and How to Combat It.” Ad- mission free, FACTS FOR WORKERS By JAY LOVESTONE TARIFF AND THE WORKERS. ‘Annual Protection $ 65,567,695 59,087,838 « 455,755,465 Tinware 65,558,939 Furniture eee wee 146,849,867 Sugar Refined ....nsemrecersee 151,169,688 Tobacco ww 95,345,731 (Chewing and smoking) Cigars and Cig: Food Preparations 4... 124,665,802 Slaughtering and Meat PACKING voresssssersssesnerererevereee 565,073,316 Bread and Other Bakery Products Shirts ... Sete Clothing Cotton Clothing Woolen cccscesee 461,842,153 Total Wages Annual Excess of in Industry Protection over (Annual) Total Wages $ 19,560,371 36,017,324 21,228,063 37,859,775 312,165,870 143,589,695 34,493,399 31,065,640 141,116,316 5,733,551 22,710,464 128,449,224 12,674,736 82,670,995 111,313,348 236,609,381 29,329,209 95,163,593 209,489,263 346,584,063 158,237,059 71,640,916 25,833,856 27,007,884 131,039,276 110,024,994 196,555,912 264,786,241 These figures are instructive in the light of President Coolidge’s speech regarding the biessings of the high tariff tor the workers, HATHAWAY CASE ROUSES LABOR IN MINNEAPOLIS Unionists Watch Fight with Great Interest MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 19. — What may develop into a trade union case rivaling the famous Bradlaugh parila- mentary election test in England al- most 50 years ago is in its second stage before the Minneapolis Trades & Labor assembly. After several years of more or less effective disciplining by the Ameri- can Federation of Labor executive council, the Minneapolis central body, faced by threat of automatic revoca- tion of its charter, got down to bust- ness and started to separate itself from the militant labor elements be- longing to the Workers Party, “Assembling With.” First, it voted under executive coun- cil pressure to exclude from assembly office all delegates belonging to the Workers Party or certain other radi- cal organizations or “associating” with such. Then it voted to conform in all re- spects, directly and indirectly, with A. F. of L. policies, especially prom- | ising not to countenance revolution- ary attitudes. In the third place, it voted on re- commendation of a committee headed by R. D. Cramer, editor Labor Re- view, the assembly organ, to unseat from the assembly itself a trade un- jon delegate who was a Workers Party member. C. A. Hathaway, rep- resenting Machinists’ lodge 91, and known thruout the railroad labor world for his efforts to promote rail- road union amalgamation and a pow- er in the Minnesota farmer-laber fed- eration, was the victim. Re-Elected Hat! ay. It was the machinists’ next move. They made it by unanimously re- electing Hathaway as their delegate to the central body. Charles Bradlaugh was elected to the British house of commons six times before he was allowed to take his seat because he refused to take the customary oath, being a professed atheist who preferred to make affirm- ation. If the Minneapolis assembly again turns Hathaway down, a similar struggle may begin in the American trade union movement. The St. Louis County Independent, indorsed as the official paper of the unions of Hibbing, (Minn.) and the farmers of the district, comments: “Hibbing unionists are watching the outcome of this fight between the offi- cialdom of the A. F, of L.and the mili- tant trade unionists in Minneapolis with much interest and many are of the opinion that the labor movement of the state will suffer if the mili- tants are driven from the organiza- tions.” Wife of Glenn Young, Ku Klux Gunman, Gets Reward While He Lives (Special to The Daily Worker) MARION, Ill, Dec, 19— The Ku Klux Klan presented widows of Klans- men who were slain in attacks on of- ficers of the law in Klan raids con- ducted in Williamson county, with pensions of $2500.00 each. The wife of 8. Glenn Young, Klan gunman, who has engaged in numerous murderous shooting attacks on Southern Illinois miners, was also given a pension, altho Young is still abroad looking for trouble. Mrs. Caesar Cagle, widow of the Klansman who was shot when he tried to ambush an anti-Klans- man, and Mrs. Green Dunning, Mrs. Charles Newbold and Mrs. Charles Wollard, whose husbands were killed by deputy sheriffs after the Klansmen had killed two deputies, were the oth- er women receiving money from the Klan. ' Call Stenographer to Aid Forbes Attack Mortimer’s Testimony Attorneys defending Charles Forbes, charged ‘with corruption, bribery and conspiracy against the government while head of the U. S, veteran's bureau put Edna Breese then Forbes’ stenographer, on the stand to supply Forbes with an alibi. Miss Breese testified that Forbes was not in the Drake hotel on the day @lias Mortimer was said to have given him $5,000 there, Defense attorneys are attempting to show that Mortimer, who made public dealings ot Forbes with contractors in building govern- ment hospitals, is an unreliable wit- ness. Yow! Ball in Revere. REVERE, Mass., Dec, 19.—A fancy costume. ball will be held by the Young Workers League and the Work- ers Party of Revere on Christmas Bve, Dec, 24, at 8 p. m., in the Bagles Hall, Shirley and Walnut Aves. Five prizes will be given for the best costumes. Admission will be fifty cents. Amnesty in Honduras. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 19-— Guarantees of amnesty have been made to all those who fled Honduras during the late recent revolution, the state department is informed. Martial law has been abolished in Honduras by executive decree. THE DAILY WORKER FROM MILWAUKEE 10 TACOMA RAIL WORKERS ARE GETTING THE BOOT MILWAUKEE.— Indefinite layoffs by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road at its West Milwaukee shops are posted on its bulletin board. wn) GREEN BAY, Wis.--The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road announces a 5-day week for yardworkers at Green Bay for an indefinite period. Shop- men will get the same dose before long, yard gossip says, Rail and other workers are flocking to the lumber camps to keep alive, 7. & TACOMA, Wash.—aAfter laying off numbers of shopmen in the mechani- cal department at Tacoma, the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad cut down the working week of the re- mainder to five days. ALBANIA WARNS NEW WORLD WAR VERY IMMINENT Workers’ Revolution Is Only Hope (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Dec, 20.—The Albanian minister to London sounds the alarm of a new world war in a statement today accusing Serbia.of instigating the rebellion in Albania. “Unless some great power intervenes another Balkan was is imminent,” he declared, “followed probably by a new European war. The trouble arises from the deliberate militaristic policy of ag- gression on the part of Serbia against Albania to annex Albania.” The Jugo-Slav legation quite natural- ly denies the charge of Serbian ag- gression. The only apparent deterrent to a new and horrible war appears to be the fear among the great powers of revolution from their own working classes. From Belgrade reports are that the Albanian rebels have followed their | success at Kruya with occupation of all |the territory surrounding that city. Government troops were reported driv- en back or deserting to the rebels Martial law was declared in five border prefectures and general mobilization is going on. Tea Pot Dome Steal Dwarfed by Coolidge Muscle Shoals Bill WASHINGTON.—In a terrific at- tack on the Coolidge-Underwood bill for the leasing of Muscle Shoals to private power interests, Sen. Norris chairman of the senate committee on agriculture, declared that Teapot Dome would be but a pinhead in com- parison to the scandal involved in this deal. In later years, he predicted, the giving away of Muscle Shoals by this congress would be referred to as “the rape of the treasury.” It would be the surrender of untold hundreds of millions of dollars in immediate value. and would enable the power trust to oppress the southern states for half a century to come, Norris called upon President Cool- idge to withdraw his support from so outrageous a betrayal of public trust, so soon after the election. He begged the senate to vote for rejection of the power trust scheme with its hand cuffs for the public. Fake Union Agent Fleeces Girls, ‘TACOMA, Wash.—A number of Ta- coma girls are out $7.50 each thru trusting to a smooth swindler who promised them work as checkers in the railroad sheds at $3.50 a day. The $7.50 was for a supposed initiation fee to a mythical union.’ The cheat had told the girls they couldn’t get work from the railroad unless they belong- ed to his union. The girls showed up for work but found none. BRITISH JUDGE IN STARTLING DECISION AGAINST THE HINDUS (Special to the Oally Worker) LONDON. The Daily H recorded as a “startling deo the verdict of a British judge at Tanhore, India, that Englishmen may pull the kick them in the usual place with- out being subject to legal punish- ment for the assault. Whether In- dians’ may do the same to English- men was not taken up in the Jud; decision. The victim was a clerk at a rall- way station newsstand who was sit- ting in front of the counter when the British district medical officer and kicked him. fendant admitted the acts. The judge dismissed the case finding In court the de- cl argic state into one of activity. Puliing at the ear is to be consider- ed as handling the ear in a friendly way and kicking Is merely a gesture with the leg, intended to make the clerk stand up and le never given to dishonor the man” Winter’s Cold is Here to Make Life More Bitter for Hungry and Jobless By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, the cold comes to make life more bitter for the poor and the jobless. Winter's lash stings the miserable with the agony of its blows. Misery takes on new horrible forms to tantalize its victims. eee eS “lam sure that there will be a lot of suicides this win- ter,” declares Thomas J. Noonan, in charge of the longest bread line on “The Bowery” in New York City. Noonan claims that there are more hungry, jobless men on “The Bowery” this year, than he has seen in 20 years. This black pool of abject poverty is to be found Hg te a stone’s throw from the golden treasure vaults of Wall Street. The offices of J. Pierpont Morgan are but a few minutes walk away. This condition prevails in the richest city in the world. And the alternative that some of these workers choose is suicide. That is the way only of those who have had the last ounce of resistance pounded out of them. Fo ee eas | Turn to another news item. It tells how a large flock of starving wild rabbits made a raid at night on Sterling, lilinois. They had been made desperate by hunger. This mildest of creatures, in his hunger, was ready to fight. In great numbers, these rabbits, usually timid, swarmed thru the storm swept business districts of Sterling, eating the bark off hundreds of Christmas trees placed along the side- walks as holiday decorations, or getting food wherever they could find it. In due course of time, according to the best methods of capitalist civilization, the police arrived on the scene, and according to press reports, “drove the invaders away after killing many.” * * * ” At least the rabbit, with his own primitive weapons of tooth and claw, put up a fight. He did his best to survive. It wouldn't hurt the great army of jobless workers, daily growing in numbers, to imbibe some of that spirit of mili- tancy. But it isn’t enough merely to go out and seize what one needs in the immediate struggle to cover naked limbs against the cold, or to fill an empty stomach. The multi-millionaires are passing out their annual doles to the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America and other charity organizations, to assuage misery where it appears in its most virulent forms. They carry out the age-old custom of crumb throwing, favored by those at the top as a handy palliative. But this does not lift, by the smallest fraction, the real level of misery. 8 (Se That can only be done thru the organized and triumph- ant war of all oppressed against the social system of “The Haves”—the capitalist system. It is this struggle that presses on to victory under Communist leadership, inspiring the great masses with organized aggressiveness, hen the millions of hungry and miserable discover the real cause of their agony, then the capitalist state will totter and fall, and the Workers’ Republic will be raised in its place on the shoulders of the many, to usher in the Communist social order. That is worth fighting for. And dying for! FAKE OFFICIAL IN CHINA ISSUES DEGREE AGAINST COMMUNISTS PEKING, China, Dec. 19.—The new minister of the interior, appoint- ed under the administration of Tuan Chijui, has instructed the po- lice to arrest. any one found circu- lating literature favoring the Soviet form of government. Since Tuan Chijui assumed the presidency of China, no members of the provis- ional cabinet have been appointed who sympathize with the Russian Soviet government, it is reported. The Communists, however, have increased their activity, much of the Soviet sentiment centering around the University of Peking. Negro is Lynched, Officials Start One More “Investigation” (Special to The Daily Worker) CHARLESTON, Mo., Dec. 19.—An- other “investigation” was under way here today into the torturing and lynching of Roosevelt Grigsby, a Negro who was arrested charged with attacking a girl. No proof had been produced as to Grigsby's guilt othe: shan the confused and hysterical ut terances of the 16 year old girl. Two hundred men hanged Grigsby shot him, cut the body down, dragged it thru the Negro section of town be- hind an auto, and eventually burned the body. Grigsby was in custody of Sheriff B. B. Jackson, when the mob seized and murdered him, There have been many “investiga- tions” of the numerous lynchings in this state, but no white man is pun- ished for the murder of a Negro. Motion Picture Operators Demand in Wages Six hundred motion picture oper- ators demanded an increase in wages at a meeting in the Capitol building It. Facts Show Green Fights Against the Workers’ Interests (Continued from page 1) the part of Pascoe or William Green. Pascoe visited the local union at Blackey, Kentucky, which had written to William Green protesting against the lack of organization, and criticis- ing Green and John L. Lewis, and without permission of the local union, confiscated their funds and told the members that their local was disolved. This action, occuring after the local’s letter to Green, showed only too plain- ly that Green and the international board members were in a conspiracy to break up the unions rather than tolerate criticism of their rule. Pascoe, in reply to a letter from Alonzo Walters, protesting against the dissolving of this local, and demand- ing a drive to organize the unorgan- ized miners, replied, to Walters on Dee, 16, of this month. ‘Ashland, Ky. Your most, astounding letter of Dec. 1, reached this office in due time, and in’ reply to your ignorant and ridicu- lous questions, will say that the na- tional executive board map out the policy of our organization, and I ar carrying that out to the letter. W: are not giving any information to suc! gnorant inquiries. I am returning your stamps and I hope that in thc ‘uture you will try and avoid demon strating your total ignorance by not writing or asking such silly questions. Yours truly, (signed) Samuel Pascoe.” Germany Makes Move to Join the (Special to The Daily Worker) man consul this afternoon formally military obligations Germany would assume if it became a member. Make the Plans Anyway. Coolidge today asked congress to ap- propriate $275,000 to complete the Great Lakes water way project. January 10, and the wage scale com- mittee was instructed by the operators to demand the increase. A pre- liminary conference will be held with the theatre owners on Dec. 26. Death for Haarmann. HANOVER, Germany, Dec. 19.— Fritz Haarmann, the “wholesale mur- derer” whose trial for the slaying of twenty-six persons has stirred all Get an “Ad” for the Dally Worker.| many, was sentenced to death’ fi Saturday, December 20, 1924 League | of Nations GENEVA, Dec, 19.—Germany made its first official move toward joining the league of nations when the Ger- asked the league secretariat what WASHINGTON, Dee, 19.—President drafting of plans for the St. Lawrence. |8t4™ {8 called by the Russian branch Telephone Monroe 2284 Genova Restaurant ITALIAN-AMERICAN 1238 Madison Street’ N. E. Cor. 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TAF 1555 West Roosevelt Road Daily 9 to 12 a. m.—2 to 5—6 to m Sundays and Holidays 9 to 12 a.m, TELEPHOND CANAL 3469 Russian Mass Meeting Tonight A mass meeting with a musical pro- W. P. for tonight, Saturday, Dec, 20, at 8 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. Speakers will talk on the situation in the United States and the program of the Work- ers Party. Admission free, Send your friends who speak Russiaa to meeting. | this