The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 5, 1925, Page 3

=! Monday, January 5, 1925 DELEGATES FIGHT _ UNSEATING REDS IN FEDERATION (Continued from page 1) ed stand the Chicago federation had always taken against war. Wants Communists Expelled. A peculiar reason was then ad- vanced by another delegate that the resolution regarding the class collab- oration in recruiting cannon fodder was all right, because “it took the military training camps out of the hands of the militarists.”. How this magic trick was accomplished with. out the militarists knowing it, he failed to state, nor did he make clear why trade unionists should be mor: willing to be led into the trenches by their officials than by militarists, as long as they get killed for imperialism in either case. But this delegate held a, bad opin. ion of Communists. He wanted them expelled. “They ought to be kicked out,” he shouted. .The El Paso con- vention was a fine, peaceful conven- tion. There were no Communists there. Victor Koehler, delegate from the Photo Engravers, took a decidedly dif- ferent view of Communists than Dele- gate Diehl. The Communists had as much right as anyone to express their opinions in the unions. Furthermore, they told the truth. Delegates Praise Communists. Jack Johnstone, so Koehler declar- ed, had taken the floor many times and told the truth. He had stuck by Johnstone and would stick by him. Communists are constructive, and those who want to throw them out are the destructive element, he asserted. Ed Nockels made a wandering speech, the general impression given in it being that the Communists had better be left alone. He claimed that if they were expelled they would only be martyrs. : John Schussler of the Photo En. gravers vigorously defended the Com- munists who, he said, “Had the cour- age to disagree with the dictators and autocrats of the American Federation of Labor.” Jon Fitzpatrick in a long speech de- nouncing the Communists, that they were seize on fundamental issues” which, he said, “fooled the delegates.” is why they picked up militarism. How the delegates were “fooled” he But he disagreed with “Don’t get that sort of stuff into your thinking didn’t say. Diehl on expelling them. machifery,” he said. “We won't ques. tion any man’s right to represent his | organization. The local unions are re- sponsible for their delegates.” Much argument if Communists were wrong, The report carried. An ex-service man spoke, remind- ing the delegates that the delegates criticized had been delegates for a long time and were always welcome as good union men. army man, was also opposed to the military training camps agreed with Delegate Swabeck that it was an issue, vital to trade union- ists, and important to bring before ‘the body. MUSSOLINI TAKES ‘RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING’ ROME, Jan. 5.—Mussolini spoke today before .a packed chamber. He said that he personally would take “normal political and historical re. sponsibility for everything” which had brought on the present “moral ques- tion,” The dfssension shortly would be cleared up, he predicted, but he did not allude to an eventual solution. Mussolini recalled his first speech to the chamber in 1923 when asked whether there was present now any deputy who was wiling to bring him before a high court of justice. Much curiosity was aroused in the chamber by the obscure remark of Mussolini that there “would be a com- plete clarification of the situation within the next 48 hours.” Musolini’s speech was wildly cheered by the fascist deputies. At the conclusion of the speech, former Premier Salandra met with his own followers to decide upon a course of action to continue his opposition to the fascists. Well Informed! Not on Communist History without having read that revolu- tionary classic : “THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY” By Gregory Zinoviev. A second generous installment appears in the January issue of The Workers Monthly claimed “elever enough to That among the dele- gates brought out the comment that they should be met upon the issues, and not expelled for being Communists. He, as an ex- and he ~ THE DAILY WORKER Page Three LAME DUCK DEMOCRAT QUACKS AT PARTY AND PRAISES GAL COOLIDGE (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— The democratic party was flayed as “useless” and» its policies in’ con- gress denounced as “ridiculous,” in a farewell speech to the senate Saturday, by Senator Nathaniel B. Dial, democrat, of South Carolina. With biting invective, Dial charg- ed his party had deteriorated “like sheep gone astray” by coalitions with “Bolshevism and Commun- ism.” He praised President Cool- idge as a “better democrat” than his own colleagues, and paid high tribute to the president’s leader. ship. ‘DEMOCRACY’ IN GERMANY ON (Continued from page 1) have also made gains. Dweedie-Dum Plus Dweedle-Dee. These are the arithmatical results. In reality, however, subtract: Social democrats plus demo do, for it has no effective majority. Then let’s try: center plus democrats plus. democrats equal the so-called coalition”; that would do, social. fought by the “republican” (those loyal to the Weimar constitu- tion) in these elections as arch-reac- +|tionaries. The social-democrats would like to enter such a coalition, (the -|“Vorwaerts” lost no time in saying so), for it offers the only chance of getting a ministerial post or two, but the people’s party insists on getting the nationalists into the new govern- ~ |ment, Moreover, the, so-called “left bloc,” which the social-democrats had so passionately longed for, and is neither left nor a bloc. The clerical center is divided in itself and is being pushed by its heavy industrial wing towards the right. On the democrats we need waste no words; they are simply dem- ocrats and will go anywhere and do everything—in the interests of the republic or the Vaterland, of course. The ‘Social-Democrats. And the social-democrats? They are uterly at sea. They have thirty new seats but nowhere to go. In the elec- tion campaign they went as far as forming a “united front” with the catholic center and the democrats. A joint appeal was issued with the fol- lowing historical slogan: “Vote for Center, Democrats or Social-Demo- crats!” They submerged, we may say drown- ed, their identity as a working class party. They succeeded, as we have seen, in duping the vacillating section of the workers, but for how long? We must bear in mind that the old reichs- tag was in reality one grand coalition, from Von Tirpitz all the way down to and including Breitscheid. The Dawes plan was put over on the Ger- man proletariat with the votes of the nationalists and the social-democrats, It now remains to be put in opera- tion. What the parties are now fight- ing over is the distribution of the ministerial posts. The bankruptcy of parliament and bourgeois democracy is illustrated once more. The Party of the Working Cli é There is only one party which is dis- interested in the squabble—the Com- munist Party, It is a mass party with a solid nucleus of nearly 3,000,000 class conscious workers and peasants, who can be frightened by no terror, and who know what it means to vote for the Communists. ‘The most important fact estab- lished by the recent election is, that the Communist Party has conquered the best and most important sec- tion of the working class, and driven a PERMANENT WEDGE into the body of the capitalist state. This fact is now admitted even by the bourgeois press. What is the attitude of the Com- munist Party towards the new reichs- tag and the new government? A very simple and clear one: To the working class it makes no essential difference which agents of the bourgeoisie sit in the government. Whether the so- cial-democrats receive a job more or @ job less matters and alters nothing whatsoever, Our class enemy, from the extreme right dow: to and in- cluding the social-democrats is agreed and united on its main thesis, which is: (1) To continue the reparations policy on the basis of the Dawes plan. (2) To increase production and aug- ITS LAST LEGS dustry and the junkers (the German nationalists and the people’s party) The fascist party (national social- ists) have suffered a catastrophic de- feat, having lost 18 of their 32 seats. no essential change has been affected, no problem solved. With the announcement of the first election results, the politi- cians of every party, from the extreme right to the extreme “left” of the so- cial-democratic party, took up their pads and pencils and began to add and crats plus center equal so and so much; but such a “left bloc” won't People’s party plus “vig but—the People’s party is in reality but a wing | of the nationalists and was “bitterly” parties Jacques Sadoul is the most pop French workers. army on the western front in the ear Russia and was attached to the Leningrad while Kerensky stil! ruled. of Russia, Sadou!l threw in his lot w He served as an officer in the French Then. in 1917, he was sent on military commission to French embassy at viki overthrew Kerensky and the Soviets became ‘the governmental expression of the workers and peasants revolution and became a citizen of Soviet Russia. The French militarists court-martialed him ular leader of the ly part of the war. — safe. When the Bolshe- ith the proletarian in his absence and sentenced him to death. Soviet Russia and beyond their clutches his life was Recently, however, he voluntarily entered France as a Russian citizen attached to the staff of Leonid Krassin, the first soviet ambassador to France. upon his arrival and in disregard of both his Russian citizenship and diplomatic immunity, he was seized and imprisoned to await execution. All working-class France immediately arose demanding his amnesty. The picture shows Sadoul being dragged thru the streets of Paris. The Arrest of Jacques Sadoul on His Returti to Paris Courtesy of Russky Golos, New York But as he was in At once ment the profits of the exploiters at the sole expense of the working class. - The Communist Declaration. The Communist faction of the new reichstag has met today (Dec 16), and ‘|has issued a “declaration of war” against every capitalist government— with or without the social-democrats, regardless of what parliamentary combination it puts on. The Commun- ist parliamentary fraction will fight for the life interests of the working masses, and demands: 1. Complete amnesty for all po- litical prisoners of the proletariat, and the immediate release of the im- prisoned Communist members of the reichstag. 2. Complete and unconditional restoration of the 8-hour day, and a shorter working day in the mines and other dangerous industries. 3. A living wage for ali workers and effective support for all unem- ployed. i 4. Protection of the poor peas- antry against the effects of the pres- ent crisis and the encroachments of the Junkers. demands. workers’ government. means revolution and civil war. But the demands of the Communists are so elementary, so simple and clear, that every worker will understand It is self-evident that no capitalist government will or can fulfill these To do so woul mean the rejection of the Dawes plan and the establishment of a truly revolutionary That in turn very much here. innocent men on Dee. 24. Smith’s co afternoon and he and Raleigh Parke of Perry County, started up there. “As they were passing Carlisle’s reason at all. When Smith finished firing, he sa’ on Christmas day.” | Tolbert Holiday, at present |sheriff of Perry county has killed 2 number of menduring his term of of. fice. His father-in-law is J. C. Camp bell, a coal operator, owner of the Campbell Coal company Krypton, Ky. been a county judge and is at present a@ representative in the state legi lature. Raleigh Parker, mentioned above, is }down on the counter and served cheese and crackers to the deputies. | |There were six killed around Hazard | high and principal Campbell himself has | PUBLIC OFFICIALS CONTROLLED BY EASTERN KY. COAL BARONS DRENCH SOIL WITH MINERS’ BLOOD (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HAZARD, Ky., Jan. 4.—The eastern Kentucky coal operators’ directly control the public officials, the schools, the stores and elections. shot down like dogs if they displease the coal operators. An account of a typical Christmas—in 1923—by Petty Winstead, who was recently killed by a fall of slate in a mines Miners are , States, “Christmas wasn’t The great and noted John Smith took the lives of three ousin had been killed at Glowmawr that r and Taylor Davidson, deputy sheriffs, ‘store (an independent store and in the | bad graces of the coal company), Smith entered and began firing. for no Two men were killed¢— outright, and a third died the follow- ing day. No. resistance was offered. the coal operators, on his wall. A “mine deputy,” a hired gunman, sup. plied by one of the detective agencies, toré the picture down and warned the ;miner not to repeat the offense. Rufus Roberts, the present circuit | judge of the 36th judicial district of | Ky., elected thru coal operators’ sup- 4|port, was deeply in debt at the time Within a year after Roberts jcosting $30,000. | $5,000 per year. John Langley, congressman from jthe tenth Kentucky district, has been |sentenced to two years’ imprison- t |of his. election. his election, His salary is only built a home) | | MUNICIPAL WORKERS TO BE TAXED FOR SIX YEARS BACK INCOME (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— Em- ployes of states and municipalities, working on public utilities who were previously regarded as ex- empt from federal income taxes, must pay back taxes from 1918, according to a ruling of the intern- al revenue bureau has announced. Employes affected include those working for public water works, street railways and other public utilities. | ITALIAN RIOTS SPREAD; BLACK SHIRTS GO WILD Fascisti tie. Torch in Many Cities Italy, with dead and wounded being / reported from Peretola, Targinnia, | Genzana, Verona, Valle, Giuliana, Naples, Fano, Borrigo, Cremona, Man- tova, Messina, Torino, Livorno, and other towns, in clashes netween the workers and the fascisti. A system- atic campaign of the fascisti to ter- rorize the opposition and the Com- munists is marked by fires which | broke out here and in other cities. | In Rome, mounted police rode thru | the streets, disarming all workers, | and breaking up anti-fascist demon- strations. The police searched many homes. A strict censorship has been | set up by Mussolini on all outgoing news, and it is difficult to judge the gravity of the situation. In Pisa the fascisti attacked the| Messagero printing plant, destroying it and burning the supply of paper. The Communist Italian newspaper | Unite, has been surpressed. EIGHT JURORS IN PARDON PLEA FOR FORD AND SURR New Effort to Free Gol- den State Victims | MARYSVILLE, Cal., Jan. 4.—EKight of the jurors who tried Herman Suhr —all who are still living—have signed @ petition for his pardon. It is rum- ored that Suhr may be pardoned with “Blackie” Ford next May. District |Attorney Manwell, whose father was | killed in the Wheatland riot in 1913, | announces that he will then have both Ford and Suhr rearrested for the |death of Deputy Sheriff Riordan. The WANTS LAW TO PUNISH RISQUE FACTS Mustn’t Tell How Bad __Peck’s Bad Boy Was —— (Special to. tne Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— |Legislation designed to protect the memory of presidents of the United States against “malici- ous defamation” or “slander” was introduced in the house yesterday by Representative Reid, republican of Illinois, Along with it, Reid introduced a resolution calling for a con- gressional investigation to de- termine the “truth or falsity” of }some of the allegations now ap- | pearing in a weekly magazine’s series of articles on Woodrow (Special to The Daily Worker) Wilson, written by a woman ROME, Italy, Jan. 4.—Serious riot- | friend. ing occurred in many towns thruout! The articles Reresentative Reid considered defamatory of Wilson and the republican party as well, were written by Mrs. Mary Allen Hulbert Peck. The passage to which particular ob- jection was found was one in which Mrs. Peck alleged she had been ap- proached in 1916 by a man who “de scribed himself as a representative of the republican party,” and who offered her three hundred thousand dollars te enlist in a “precious enterprise which had as it objective the impeachment of the president of the United States.” Reid’s resolution would have a com mittee of five members of the house conduct the inquiry and examine the papers of Mrs. Peck for evidence of the alleged attempt to bribe her. Patronize our advertisers. DIXIE VICTIMIZES NEGRO MOTHERS IN CHILD BIRTH High Death Rate Is Due WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—How col- ored mothers die at childbirth, while white mothers in the same region— but in a higher economic grade—are saved, is shown by federal census fig- ures for 1923. In 1923 the death rate for white omthers at childbirth in Kentucky and Maryland, was 5.4 per 1,000. In Mississippi it was 6.6, in Virginia 6, in South Carolina, 7.4, and in North Carolina 6.7. But for colored moth- ers the death rate in Kentucky was to Neglect... |ment in a federal court for illegal|trial judge, with fine detachment liquor deals. He was elected because | wants. them both hanged. Neither he had the backing of the coal op | Ford nor Suhr had anything to do |with the killings, which resulted when 15.4 per 1,000, in South Carolina 12.2, in Mississippi 10.9, in” Virginia 10.8, in North Carolina 10.7, and in Mary- land 8.3. The colored mothers ha’? ee them—and draw the logical conclusion the masters they serve to fight against these demands. ANOTHER PROBE OF POWER TRUST IS ABOUT BUE Resolution to Investigate is Introduced WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Sen. Nor- ris has called upon the senate to au- thorize the federal trade commission to investigate the hydro-electric pow: | er trust. Feeling is growing that the | Muscle Shoals debate is a blind on| the part of the power trust to hide the monopoly’s activities elsewhere, particularly in coal power plants. When his resolution, covering every possible phase of interlocking financial powers and control, thru which the trust is maintained, was offered, Sen, Edge of New Jersey ob- jected to its immeditae consideration. Edge declared that such an investi- gation would cost millions of dollars. He said he was not opposed to giving the facts to congress and the publig, but the cost was beyond the means of the treasury just now, Norris answeted that the facts could be secured at very small ex- pense, and they would be of the ut- most importance in guiding public policy with reference to the power situation, He served notice that he would resist Edge’s demand that the resolution be sent to committee, It is this giant trust, which is develop- ing the super-power systems while extorting. double and four-fold rates for electricity, that is presumably to get Muscle Shoals if the Underwood bill becomes law. When you buy, an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. ; Y A] from the, present situation, in which the social-democrats are compelled by those killed by Parker was a Negro within a block of the county court- house. Negro, Parker answered, watch him fall.” “Just He was never ar. is \“in good” with the coal operators, badge. Jim Gilkerson, another Perry Baldwin-Feltz detective agency gun- man, who took part in the warfare against the miners of Mingo ¢ounty, W. Va. as One of the residents of Hazard, Ky. declares, “One or two of these terror- izing deputies are kept in every min. mine officials. They are ordered to be ready to quell any manifestations of discontent on the part of the min- ers.” tells of what happened to him after he was caught addressing a meeting shot down in cold blood on Main St., When asked why he shot the to rested for any of his murders, as he and continues to wear his deputy’s county deputy sheriff, is a notorious ing camp to act as bodyguards for the J. W. Bates, of Harlan, Ky., notorious for his gun’ play in labor disputes. He is known to have| killed at least eight men. One of| The coal operators control every election and political campaign that is conducted in eastern Kentucky. A candidate who is displeasing to the coal barons is not allowed to set foot in the coal camps to talk to the min- jers. The elections are held in com- pany buildings, and the election ,| boards are made up of men picked by the coal operators. The stuffing of ballot boxes is so common it is an ex- pected procedure in each campaign. {n the presidential elections, two thousand more election ballots were seut into Lynch, Ky., than there were county officers tried to break up a |strike meeting Ford and Suhr were leading. No one was ever prose. cuted for the killing of several work ers by the sheriff’s gunmen. Datur0e Re ait, Worker pr fas as a rule no money to secure good medical care. Of all the states, Utah showed the lowest death rate, which was 5, while South Carolina had the highest at 9.7 per 1,000. For the 30 states repre sented in the registration area, the average rate was 6.7 for 1923, com- pared with 6.6 for 1922, 6.8 for 1921 and 6.1 for 1915. A 12-Page Issue registered voters in that mining camp. And all were “voted!” HOUSE OF MORGAN TENDER TOWARDS On the First Birthday of the DAILY WORKER., HE issue of January 13 will be heaped fuil of facts and features—all gaily attired with cartoons to best celebrate the very first birthday of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Bob Minor’s splendid cartoons will be a leading feature. A review of the past year of American labor in general and the Workers of miners. “I was driven out of Fonde, Ky., at the point of a gun,” says Bates. . Lewis Whitehead, an old miner, who has devoted years of his life to organizing work among the miners, was beaten into unconsciousness four years ago by two thugs. He was left lying across a railroad track, and it was only the fact that he was found by some switchmen that saved his life. A few months ago James Deaton, deputy sheriff, died, and on his death- bed confessed that it was he who had tried to kill Whitehead, He declared that Richmond Combs, who was then high sheriff of Perry county, had helped him beat up Whitehead, These gunmen, placed in public of- fice by the influence of the coal op. erators, are used to “elect” men to office, by terrorizing se Who sup- port opposition candi . Luther Watson, of Hardburley, Ky,, was told by the mine superintendent of the Hardburley Coal company that he or any other miner caught with cam- paign literature of a certain candidate who was opposing the candidate of the coal operators, would be fired and run out of town. A miner at Dalna, Ky., had posted the picture of a can- didate who was not in the graces of No Promise Made to Force Debt Account WASHINGTON. Jan, 4—The admi- nistration is avoiding all mention of the fact that Italy is in the same situation as France—unwilling to ac- knowledge her war debt. Tenderness for Italy is not officially explained, but in the past year the Coolidge- Hughes-Mellon regime has shown a warm friendliness for Mussolini that has not yet been withdrawn. Mussolini’s power is now challenged by the old leaders of the middle-class parties in Italy, and any pressure from Washington as to the Italian national finances, indicating their essential bankruptcy, might be the excuse for toppling Mussolini from his dictator- ship. The French government is in the hands of nominal liberals for whom the Mellon group has no appre- ciation. France is warned of a finan- cial boycott. Italy is not worried. he ete both—will be another feature. Special contributions by Wm. Z. Foster, Wm. F. Dunne, J. Louis Engdahl, T. J. O'Flaherty, Manuel Gomez and others among the best writers in the labor movement will add their share to the first birthday celebration. 4 Give this issue to a worker and you assure the DAILY WORKER i a new reader—and your branch of the party a new member. BUNDLE ORDERS MUST BE IN BY SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. PRICE 2 CENTS PER COPY Make your order as large as possible and send it in with your remittance attached to this blank. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ill, Here are my birthday greetings in a remittance of §..... for which you will send me a bundle order of. of the January 13 issue. NAME. STREET CITY.